republican legislators and newly elected republican governor rick snyder took an existing michigan law concerning something called emergency managers. they took that existing law and they dramatically changed it. they changed it into a way to override local democracy. michigan republicans gave their governor the right to void local elections, to overrule what people vote for in their cities and towns in michigan. it's democracy begone. before this happened this year, i would have never thought somebody could get away with this in the united states of america. >> one of the signature policies of governor snyder has been his emergency manager law whereby the state government can declare any town or school district to be in an emergency situation. and then the state can install somebody to replace all locally elected officials. under rick snyder's law, the state government can even abolish whole michigan towns, take them over and declare them no more. dolgd mad tub doesn't matter who you elected to run your town, who you elected for mayor, governor snyder reserves the right to take it ove

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police say that teresa snyder pointed a shotgun at a little girl and her father, snyder's boyfriend. court documents say snyder started yelling at her boyfriend and went in the bedroom and locked the door. she kicked the door open and aimed the weapon. she's been charged with assault and reckless endangerment. she's being held right now on a $15,000 bail. >>> leslie johnson, the wife of former p.g. county executive jack johnson will be in court this morning. she's going to be sentenced for her role in the obstruction and investigation into her husband's corruption. leslie johnson has admitted to flushing a $100,000 bribe check from the fbi, flushing it down the toilet while the agents were outside her door. she could get a year to 18 months in jail. >>> new for you this morning, a report that a 12th officer has pleaded guilty to a towing extortion scheme. baltimore city officer rafael feliciano pleaded guilty and taking vehicles to a majestic shop. a court document says the brothers who own the shop agreed with an officer in 2008 that he would contact them when visiting the scene of

he's the person who introduced the emergency state takeover bill that governor rick snyder signed. this is their ceremonial reenacting of the signing there. until last year, he served on the board of directors for a nonprofit that wonts to build a half billion dollar, 530 acre lake front jack nicklaus designed golf course and luxury real estate development that would span both rementively wealthy st. joseph and benton harbor. a development that eats the one collective asset that benton harbor had, the beautiful beach front park. it would turn it into a place where caddies carry bags for whirlpool executives and rich folks that drive in from chicago at their new lovely signature home. they're very expensive and part of the whole golf course deal. the park was deeded as a gift to the town. one of the poorest towns in michigan. deeded to the town in perpetuity in 1917. perpetuity i guess is not as long as it used to be. benton harbor residents are looking at a golf course where the cost of an annual pass for a family to play there is $5,000. $5,000 is after the average annual income o

snyder's daughter attends the same school as mine. they get upset when he attends school functions and brings his bodyguards. all these kids are looking at these big guys. >> he's one the most disliked people in washington. >> he may be the most disliked person. the redskins are so important and he has failed so spectacularly. >> fein-steen versus fein-stine. >> the way my parents explained it, my father's family is from the ukraine. if you're from that background, it is said "steen." a germanic background says "stine." >> it has been a pleasure. thank you for joining us. >> thank you for having me. >> for a dvd, call-877-622-7726. for free transcripts are to give you comments, visit www.q- and-a.org. programs are also available at c-span podcasts. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2011] cable satellite corp. 2011]

dan snyder, give us 10 or $15 million. pimthese are all people with hue dollars. you have to think out of the box. you have to try to do something. california did that with their baseball program. they made the world series last year. >> that is only a couple of weeks ago. >> the university of maryland like many schools is in a financial crunch. a lot of them had many failures in football. football is a big-ticket item. if the kids want to continue to compete, and they will have to transfer to another college. if they stay, they still have their scholarships but they cannot compete in sports. what i was talking about was that in ideal world, those big money people i am talking about, and dan snyder and larry davis, would give money for a new library or give money for the more important cause than sports team. in the real world, and they do not. >> for those bodyguard's? >> they were. >> why does an owner of a football team need bodyguards? >> he does not. it is an ego thing. one of the new things for sports people in the last 15 years is the body guards. it is a s

time for bonnie snyder and a check of the weather. i have to tell you donna on my facebook page in colorado said i'm going to see it. >> california, anywhere in the pacific northwest, that's where you will see the lunar eclipse. on the east coast, not so much. let's take a look and i'll explain why. it has to do with timing. timing is everything really. as you can see, the lunar eclipse is likely to pass between the sun and the moon for about 51 minutes. that will occur the best time would be 6:06 to 6:57 pacific standard time. areas west will have the best chance for seeing it. in the northeast it's a cold morning but not as cold as it typically is this time of year. the temperatures are in the 40s at this hour. in new york city, 41, philadelphia, 41. not bad. brisk and colder in the south. 30 in birmingham, alabama. the temperature in nashville is at 28 degrees at this hour. 47 in new orleans and 35 in sh reef port. as you head further off to the north and west you'll find we're looking at a light glaze of ice. that's freezing fog o

republican voters don't give a damn about the unemployed meanwhile these are going to governor rick snyder and his republican legislature just slashed unemployment benefits in the state that i was born in my home state from twenty six weeks down to twenty weeks and at the same time he passed out literally the same week he passed out a one point seven billion dollars tax cut to millionaires and corporations at the same time that he's cutting unemployment benefits in twenty six down twenty weeks in fact in the last year snyder has dished out thirty dollars in corporate tax cuts for every one dollar he's slashed in helping poor people in that state he hasn't spent anything you know and there's no positive we have no one a half million michiganders living in poverty right now and john boehner as republicans in the u.s. house of representatives are you know they want to drug test people who are you know who are out of a job chris van hollen had this to say about he's pretty upset about. the drug testing thing is a red herring we can talk about it that the reality is that people are not out of w

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scott snyder is from the council on foreign relations and you wrote about the situation and point out an unstable north korea is a hot potato. no one wants to own it, but effective cooperation wlt neighbors. talk about china. we saw the foreign minster with hillary clinton. i will ask you, what are you watching for at this hour? >> well, i think we are all watching to see the succession plan that had been put into place before kim jung ilpassed away. >> i wanted to talk about concerns in your article that the worst case to be anarchy and kim jong un, we know very little about him and his age is even disputed. >> that's correct. >> we know very little about him and it's important to know that we knew even less about kim jung il when he came to power. it was when he came out and engaged with other international leaders that we began to see him. the issue for ginning jong un is his youth that is oriented towards a culture that respects seniority. this is a big challenge as relates to military authority. it's a point for the succession process. >> what are is next for the united states he

we talked to a woman from the zoo this morning, a scientist, rebecca snyder. we asked her what does it do? why do zoos fight to have pandas. here is what she had to say. >> like a stuffed animal, so cute. >> for our zoo, it was just a decision that this was a species we really wanted to commit to. they are an attraction. people are excited about them. our attendance did increase first year we had them. >> the attendance increases. the scottish zoo is expecting attendance to double first year. it goes back, until there is a baby, once there is a baby, attendance shoots up again. >> off the charts. >> absolutely. >> the marketing madness will begin if it hasn't already. >> expecting to boost the tourism, the economy, even the wildlife advocates are not happy. they say this is an exploitation, the pandas are not happy in those habitats. but the woman we spoke to, rebecca snyder, claims they adjust very well and that helps them in their survival. >> interesting. all right. i love that. thanks so much for bringing us that. >> my pleasure. >>> this week, we'll remem

snyder -- nixon was basically to answer your question ike's political surrogate. when eisenhower quit campaigning which he did once the crisis broke out, nixon went out and substituted for him and took on adlai stevenson. nixon provided support in congress. i have not looked carefully at what he did but the eisenhower doctrine--a major role presided over the senate. i am sure he was deeply involved behind-the-scenes but he with a political operative for eisenhower and a skilled one. the way nixon -- people forget what else he did. somebody else? yes? >> what was the affect of these events on nasser? >> the affect on nasser. eisenhower saved nasser's tied. eisenhower decided to join with the allies. nasser would have been toast. would you would have done was an interesting thing to speculate but there isn't any question. got to remember in those days nasser and arab nationalists were considered pretty progressive. they were getting rid of royal thrones and colonial powers. they were pretty progressive. what happens is nasser stays in power followed by anwar sadat w

republican governor rick snyder is encouraging the city to take a consent agreement. >> a consent agreement is where basically they design a plan that we have confidence in that they should have the opportunity to execute, and i'm happy to be very supportive of helping them execute it but give them the chance for success. >> so how heavy-handed is it? joining me tonight is reverend david bullock. he's the pastor of the greater st. matthew baptist church of highland park, michigan, and president of the rainbow push in detroit. reverend, good to have you with us tonight. i met you sunday night in detroit, where i spoke at a church there. and this is all the people we're talking about. they told me that they refer to this as the dictator law. how oppressive is this, and how are the people responding? >> that's right, ed. thank you for having me on the show tonight. it was so good to see you in detroit. the greatest threat to democracy in america is found in michigan. and they are michigan's emergency dictators. i mean managers. while we were worried about wisconsin and worried about laws that

howard snyder, the president's physician, who rushed to the white house. snyder initially put out the word that this was a digestive upset when he knew it was a massive heart attack. he waited until midafternoon that day before transporting the president's president to a hospital and even then had him walk to his cart instead of calling an ambulance. now if you want more detail on the mismanagement of this situation you've got to read the book. don't have time tonight. eisenhower was in the hospital for six weeks in those days the gold standard treatment for heart attack patients was total bed rest. his doctors would not permit him to read the newspaper kawlija movie, listen to a football game on the radio, but alone do much serious presidential business. he did not take a step across his room for a month in this incredibly active man felt like a caged animal. so at the very moment the union attempted to change the balance of power in the middle east. eisenhower was out of commission. and secretary of state john foster dulles was on his own anÍbal to cons

they gathered here at the lutheran place memorial church near the headstone of rick snyder, a homeless advocate and hunger striker. they are beginning a new hunger strike phase. they want to have a voice in congress. they are asking for three key rights for d. c. residents. >> not just a delegate whose yes or no votes don't even count anymore and where the local laws and budget of the district are not under the review of congress. in recent years the -- not even just recently, through the history of the district, the district's own budget and laws have been hampered by congressional interference. >> reporter: the protestors will begin a 51 day strike of 24 hours and 51 the number 51, that represents washington, d.c. being the 51st state hopefully that's what they want and that's what they're protesting. the they also invite -- they also invited the mayor but he was a no show. back to you mike. >>> authorities say speed and booze were contributing factors in a deadly motorcycle crash this early morning in silver spring. 24-year-old kevin hinnant of laurel was i woulded. he crashed -- ki

snyder is happy that russia's a disparate opposition movements that finally come together, at least on this day. ultimately, the all share the same goal, a russia without vladimir putin. >> we spoke earlier with a german politician, a member of the green party, specializing in eastern european policy. she traveled to russia to serve as an observer the parliamentary elections earlier this month. we began by asking her what she thought about the russian opposition movement. >> well, it is a very, very various people coming together. the communist party on the one side. you have the nationalists on the other side. but in between, you have a big, big number of young, well- educated people. they are linked to internet, and what they want is freedom and democracy, and they do not want to be cheated anymore. i think this is one of the main points. the disappointment and the anger started september 24 when vladimir putin and medvedev, public, showed that they treat the state as if it were theirs. telling the public, well, one is going to be president again and the other prime minister. it is o

. >> reporter: germantown resident gary snyder talked to his son gary moments after the shooting happened. >> he'd been moved down to the basement which i didn't know and he had no signal down there. so there was about a half hour period of time i was not able to communicate with him which was getting necessity a little nervous. >> reporter: gary jr. was a -- me a little nervous. >> reporter: gary jr. was a baseball player at virginia tech and said he and their friends were on a way to a sports lunch when their crew saw the cop car. >> when we pulled in, we saw the unmarked cop car with its light flashing and we didn't see anybody inside. when we saw the cop car, we just drove right past. >> reporter: a few minutes later during lunch it unran in and told the players there was a shoot -- lunch someone ran in and told the players there was a shooting in the lot they just drove through and the school was on lockdown. the car they had drove past minutes earlier was where the officer had been shot. >> it's amazing how we didn't even realize. it if we had just turned around, we probably would h

planet forward gw students sara snyder and bridgett lynn were given a close-up view of the new vw plant in chattanooga, which is the first leed platinum auto plant in the world. leed is a rating system for sustainable building. the two students uploaded their work to planet forward, and here's just one innovation they found at the plant. >> vw now has a four-coat paint process. they eliminated the primer coat to save energy and paint. >> reporter: another way vw saves energy and money? >> the chattanooga plant loads 550 to 600 cars out of the facility daily. 85% of the cars use rail instead of trucks, which cuts down on environmental costs. on average, trains are four times more fuel efficient than trucks. >> reporter: volkswagen isn't alone in building an environmentally friendly auto plant. at a subaru plant in indiana, nothing goes into a landfill. general motors opened their gold leed certified plant in 2006. toyota, honda and bmw all have multiple plants that are leed certified. why all this green activity? it helps with the bottom line since efficiency equals savings, and going gr

planet forward gw students sara snyder and bridgett lynn were given a close-up view of the new vw plant in chattanooga, which is the first leed platinum auto plant in the world. leed is a rating system for sustainable building. the two students uploaded their work to planet forward, and here's just one innovation they found at the plant. >> vw now has a four-coat paint process. they eliminated the primer coat to save energy and paint. >> reporter: another way vw saves energy and money? >> the chattanooga plant loads 550 to 600 cars out of the facility daily. 85% of the cars use rail instead of trucks, which cuts down on environmental costs. on average, trains are four times more fuel efficient than trucks. >> reporter: volkswagen isn't alone in building an environmentally friendly auto plant. at a subaru plant in indiana, nothing goes into a landfill. general motors opened their gold leed certified plant in 2006. toyota, honda and bmw all have multiple plants that are leed certified. why all this green activity? it helps with the bottom line since efficiency equals savings, and going gr

howard snyder, the president's physician, who rushed to the white house. snyder initially put out the word that this was a digestive upset when he knew it was a massive heart attack. he waited until midafternoon that day before transporting the president's president to a hospital and even then had him walk to his cart instead of calling an ambulance. now if you want more detail on the mismanagement of this situation you've got to read the book. don't have time tonight. eisenhower was in the hospital for six weeks in those days the gold standard treatment for heart attack patients was total bed rest. his doctors would not permit him to read the newspaper kawlija movie, listen to a football game on the radio, but alone do much serious presidential business. he did not take a step across his room for a month in this incredibly active man felt like a caged animal. so at the very moment the union attempted to change the balance of power in the middle east. eisenhower was out of commission. and secretary of state john foster dulles was on his own anÍbal to cons

planet forward gw students sara snyder and bridgett lynn were given a close-up view of the new vw plant in chattanooga, which is the first leed platinum auto plant in the world. leed is a rating system for sustainable building. the two students uploaded their work to planet forward, and here's just one innovation they found at the plant. >> vw now has a four-coat paint process. they eliminated the primer coat to save energy and paint. >> reporter: another way vw saves energy and money? >> the chattanooga plant loads 550 to 600 cars out of the facility daily. 85% of the cars use rail instead of trucks, which cuts down on environmental costs. on average, trains are four times more fuel efficient than trks. >> reporter: volkswagen isn't ale ldin buiing an environmentally friendly auto plant. at a subaru plant in i biana, nothing goes into a landfill. general motors opened their gold leed certified plant in 2006. toyota, honda and bmw all have multiple plants that are leed certified. why all this green activity? it helps with the bottom line since efficiency equals savings, and going green

lany handson joins us and justin snyder is also an advising dean at columbia university. we saw a classroom with one student. this is an extreme example of undercrowding, quite frankly. this is rare. my colleague recently visited a new york high school right there that was built for 1400 students and has 3900 students. they're putting kids in the attic in the basement. that's what you're seeing in the big cities. you get away from the rural schools, that's what you're seeing. do the big class sizes hurt education? >> they absolutely hurt the kids in those schools. even the best schools, for example, the one that you talked about yesterday only 37% of the high school graduates are college ready when they graduate. and that means they have to take remedial courses and often don't get through college because they're not accumulating credits along the way. for younger kids, the costs are even much more damaging. and economists such as allen kruger who is the head of the council for economic advisors has estimated that the economic benefits of class size reduction are worth tw

snyder made himself were available. mike shanahan stands up there every wednesday and thursday and speaks to us. >> let me ask you quickly, obviously no matter what we think, there's a game that's going to be played on sunday. >> yep. >> if you look at this as a game that the redskins have to win, what do you see going up against philadelphia? because you don't know who they are going to play. mccoy has been gimpy. >> they said they are going for the rushing record. the redskins get ready for a lot of mccoy on sunday. he's 120 yards back but the eagles say they want to try to get him the record which is an odd thing to say. >> i don't think i would do that to risk hurting him. >> you're televising the game plan. >> look at adrian. >> i think we are going to see a lot of evan royster again for the redskins. his office is all time high. he wants to be back here. we will find out if sunday's last resume is enough. >> is helu healthy enough to play? >> i don't think so. one guy, lorenzo alexander. he got a good guys award.

look at all these republican governors across the midwest, walker, snyder, christy-- every one of these guys in blue states came through very difficult primaries. guess what. they won. look at the president in the white house. he and hillary clinton nearly gouged each other's eyes out in a primary before june, before their convention, before they had a nominee. guess what? the president won pretty easily. he took a super majority in congress with him. 60 votes in the senate. guess what? we're all living with the policies of that crowd. it's not going so well. >> schieffer: why is it if all those people are so popular-- and i don't-- why didn't one of them run for president? >> they have other things on their mind. you've been in office for a year, some of these guys want to wait a little while before they run for president. you can't have the whole world running for president. i think our field is very strong. and i think what we're going to have is a very intelligent, articulate alternative to a president who woke up this morning and wished that his poll numbers were as good as jimmy c

howard snyder, the president's physician, who rushed to the white house. snyder initially put out the word that this was a digestive upset when he knew it was a massive heart attack. he waited until midafternoon that day before transporting the president's president to a hospital and even then had him walk to his cart instead of calling an ambulance. now if you want more detail on the mismanagement of this situation you've got to read the book. don't have time tonight. eisenhower was in the hospital for six weeks in those days the gold standard treatment for heart attack patients was total bed rest. his doctors would not permit him to read the newspaper kawlija movie, listen to a football game on the radio, but alone do much serious presidential business. he did not take a step across his room for a month in this incredibly active man felt like a caged animal. so at the very moment the union attempted to change the balance of power in the middle east. eisenhower was out of commission. and secretary of state john foster dulles was on his own anÍbal to cons

>> absolutely when you work back here with bill snyder you need a helping hand. just to take bill steiger is great. looking at small numbers of indianapolis 43 degrees. snow levels. 200 mi. per hour jet stream aimed at the west coast along those clouds there is the jet eight buckle comes in here tomorrow night and early friday could set up a light rain perhaps ice pellets and we go into a bottle of the jet warmer air coming in here by the time we get to new year's eve on saturday in the short term the area of rainfall se word across iowa and minnesota expected to move as follows add to the area the forecast at three in the morning and by morning rush hour rainfall sleep or freezing rain in the area will be like cutting out the pier by mid morning the rest of the day partly sunny and much warmer across the boundary between the arctic air and the pacific air will make us up tomorrow snowfall like to the north bringing warmer air passing to the north streaming to the north but a second system developing right there the one that comes through late tomorrow night and

. >> i'll give props to dan snyder who put a bid out there to get the game to the nation's capital for the first time. this is a veteran stadium in philadelphia is great as well. >> very well received. >> is huge armed forces community around here could fill fedex field two times over easily. tons of fun. great game out there yesterday. the weather, everybody had their winter blacks and navys on. no doubt about it, you needed them yesterday. dress in layers again if you're going to be spending a lot of time in the great outdoors on your sunday. plenty of winter sunshine but temperatures will will struggle to get into the low 40s. outside we go on a beautiful sunday morning. sunshine streaming through a clear sky into downtown washington. there's the view of the u.s. capitol building right smack in the middle of the city. temperatures have been slowly inching their way up. we dropped back down to 29, 30 degrees. we're up to 34 now. that will be the biggest difference between yesterday and today. yesterday we had a windchill factor today. winds light today. not much of a chill factor tod

. >> so you are a phone call away from dan snyder. there you go. i'm always in form. >> tell me about the patriots coming in on sunday. you know them well, tom brady, a sure fire hall of famer. we are seeing some highlights from that 2007 game that he played in. didn't go so well for the skins that day. how do you contain a guy like that? you have to stick to it. you have to stick to it all through the game. he is the type of guy who does make play, you know what i mean? you have to go through a rough patch. you have to tackle well. down the stretch, you have to make the plays. >> he is so good at it, you know. >> could lead to attack. you don't want to sit pack and be too comfortable. >> your m o would be hit number 12 as often as you can? >> i always looked at this redskins as more of a bully than just a great tactic type. you know, we little bit. not a scheme team. you want to go of a team. we want to go after people. not be a dirty team but, you know, we always want to be there. we want to knock the quake. >> there is nothing wrong with knockin

he reportedly told team owner dan snyder, if you don't plan on me coaching here five years, you're hiring the wrong guy. it's going to take some time to do it right. the skins finish up the 2011 season on sunday against the philadelphia eagles. >> let's hope they can pull out a win. >> especially against the lowly eagles. they're 7-8. they've got nothing to be happy about. >> no. >>> it is just about 6:21. you know what we are happy about is this fabulous forecast for the weekend. our meteorologist veronica johnson's in with more. veronica, good morning. >> good morning. that's right. you have to be committed, and that's one thing for sure we are. we're committed to this weekend's weather because it's going to be awfully nice for getting outdoors, maybe doing some of your last raking of those leaves that have been around your house that you keep looking at and going, okay, i'm eventually going to get to that. before the cold sets in, you'll want to get to it. it was cold enough to the upper reaches of the atmosphere yesterday to squeeze out with just enough vigor that little disturbance t