lawrence probably thought he was the most likely one and probably in fact the story is told that lawrence and arthur compton went to groves and told him that if and when oppenheimer doesn't work out, we expect you will come to us and when the laboratory. but in the case of groves, he knew the important thing was if you could find somebody like oppenheimer who could recruit the scientists what he called the group of prima donnas assembled in one place that was the important thing. that is necessary they could administer themselves but the important thing is to find somebody that had the charisma and the attraction that oppenheimer did. the red lead after pearl harbor and as lewis had said it was a security consisted of a law student who was chosen by lawrence and equipped with a shotgun put at the base of the cyclotron told to stop anybody he didn't recognize. i came from livermore the 50th anniversary today and have a new appreciation. lawrence was the man that organized the effort in oak ridge to separate the uranium. next slide, please. oppenheimer, this is his badge at los alamos. dire

so hopefully we'll get lawrence in here soon. but right now we do know the san francisco giants will be right here on nbc bay area at 7:00 p.m. after our 6:00 show, of course. they're playing down in los angeles. temperatures in the low 70s at the start of the game and then we'll find things cooling off. a little cloud cover by around 9:00 p.m. again, san francisco giants and the dodgers going at it down in l.a. otherwise we have a lot of marine layer and fog out here across the bay for that world cup -- america's cup world series going on this afternoon. that fog is building right now throughout the san francisco and golden gate gap. it will have an easy time pushing across the peninsula as we continue throughout tonight and that's why temperatures are dropping most notably at the coastline and also across the bay with widespread 60s. let's take you out to san francisco and we are fogged in. we had drizzle this morning, airport delays, and it looks like a repeat performance here over the next 24 hours. if you have any flights le

the ship was the uss lawrence may not easily captain lawrence had been sown with his favorite phrase, which subsequently became the model of the u.s. navy, don't give up the ship. ironically, and horrific loss both of an american hero and a rallying cry of american forces. now, i don't have any video of lawrence from the war of 1812. in my minds eye, i can envision a movie trailer that hollywood sells us on upcoming defeat and the highlights would have to include the battle of baltimore, a crucial conflict with the citizens of the city existed at the land and sea force. the bombardment of the royal navy was observed by the sun-times poet who was held captive on the ship in the harbor. he recorded what he saw in a poem titled but his first publication at fort mchenry was someone else put it to music and renamed it the star-spangled banner. on the horseback we have to jump cut to the president's house dolly is awaiting james return. which is the only time the president has been at the front during a war. only mr. madison did not return. instead, retreating soldiers can cream through the

>> lawrence, they have a solution for a problem that doesn't exist. and quite frankly, they are willing to deprive hundreds of thousands of people of their legitimate right to vote in order to solve a nonexistent problem. that's why, i think, most americans understand this for what it is. it is a shameful, planful attempt to deprive poor people and minority folks and students and older people from their legitimate right to vote. that is shameful behavior. >> pennsylvania senator vincent hughes and former ohio governor, ted strickland, thank you both very much for joining me tonight. >> thank you, lawrence. >> thank you, lawrence. >>> coming up, the futile war america keeps fighting, the endless war on drugs. that's in tonight's "rewrite." g. one is for a clean, domestic energy future that puts us in control. our abundant natural gas is already saving us money, producing cleaner electricity, putting us to work here in america and supporting wind and solar. though all energy development comes with some risk, we're committed to safely and responsibly pro

disagree with lawrence. i think he's done an okay job on this overall i'm a fixer and i know how to do the economy, but he would have done a much better job if he had been specific about his plans to fix the economy and to get rid of the debt and how he's going to get people back working. if i ask the average american citizen, even someone who has been watching how does mitt romney intend to get you back to work, i don't think they could say anything other than he wants to cut taxes and get rid of a few regulations. do you believe that will work? no, not really. >> but there is polling that shows that americans also don't think the president necessarily has a prescription for creating jobs. >> right. because the president hasn't connected in terms of communication. but what i read, 82% of the american people want that type of program. that is in essence that program. >> i sort of teased this in the last block as we were talking about your moment with diane sawyer which is something probably worth getting int

>> lawrence, they have a solution for a problem that doesn't exist. and quite frankly, they are willing to deprive hundreds of thousands of people of their legitimate right to vote in order to solve a nonexistent problem. that's why i think most americans understand this for what it is. it is a shameful, planful attempt to deprive poor people and minority folks and students and older people from their legitimate right to vote. that is shameful behavior. >> pennsylvania senator vincent hughes and former ohio governor ted strickland, thank you both very much for joining me tonight. >> thank you, lawrence. >> thank you, lawrence. >>> coming up, the futile war america keeps fighting. the endless war on drugs. that's in tonight's "rewrite." (jet engines roaring) era detergent once laid a hurt on a mud stain. it was so legendary that hollywood made a movie about it. ah-h-h-h! so much fight, it's chuck norris approved. era detergent once head-butted a tea stain so hard... (shrieking) ...a cup of tea on the other side of the world felt it. (moaning in distres

it looked cold out on the bay when lawrence was out there. what are we talking about in. >> it's unbelievable. the winds going up against him and that drizzle probably felt like 40s out there. take a live look at marina green. lawrence, of course, on the boat. i'm going to be out there tomorrow. but i need to get my sea legs first. i think i will be on land, you guys. even on land, it's dangerous for me. we're coming back with the full sear seven-day forecast in a few minutes. >>> usually the only people likely to see the yellow bell i had march mats are hikers. when a rogue march mat dropped in, residents were wondering what the heck is that thing? instead of digging a tunnel, she navigated the mean streets of willow glenn. the sewer system. green lawns provided her dinner. she ultimately led city workers and a team from wildlife rescue on a five-hour chase before they herded her into a net. she's now staying at the wildlife center at silicon valley. >> so cute. >> they believe she got here by hitching a ride with a resident who just returne

now it's time for "the last word with lawrence o'donnell." have a great evening. >>> tonight, mitt romney is running away from paul ryan's record, but not as fast as paul ryan is running away from his record. and in his desperate pursuit of the vice presidency, paul ryan is running away from a woman he's been devoted to for most of his life. >> every now and then, i'm known to make a mistake. i did not make a mistake with this guy. >> after four days of pomp and circumstance -- >> i did not make a mistake with this guy. >> -- his selection is already creating problems for the campaign. >> this may be the worst merger since aol bought time warner. >> there were safer choices. >> this conversation has now shifted. it shifts the debate from a referendum to a choice election. >> i did not make a mistake with this guy. >> in college, paul ryan, one of his jobs was he drove the oscar mayer weinermobile. >>> he's going to be held accountable for all the other things that he's done. >> it's medicare that dominated the day. >> paul ryan's budget. >> r

i'm joined by my esteemed nbc colleague, lawrence o'donnell, host of "the last word," who joins us from tampa. i see a number of ten-gallon hats and i'm wondering why you didn't decide to drop your sartorial elegance and buy one from costco to feel more at home. >> that's the texas delegation you're seeing over there. they're having a lot of fun. the ban decided to start playing "for your show. i don't know if it was a conspiracy follow your show started up, then the music went wild. >> now, given chris christie is more pugnacious than romney and his wife ann far more sympathetic, is it fair to say that these two may well steal romney's thunder as they deliver speeches this evening? and do you think that's partly chris christie's intention? >> well, it's absolutely chris christie's mission. he wants to run for president four years from now, after mitt romney loses, and the republican nom nation's wide open. and christie's the best public speaker that the republicans have when he's on his name, when he's not busy insulting someone in the audience. remember, the romney campaign controls w

the kinder version of lawrence scott. take it away, lawrence. >> i really loved it, raj. it was a great experience and wonderful lead-in to all the racing we saw today. let's show you some of the boats docked at marina green. they just came off the water. a couple different competitions just wrapped up. here, take a look. the america's cup world series hosting two racing on the bay, match racing and fleet racing. as regatta director ian murray explains it's a dogfight. >> you have two boats one on one against each other. how fast they go doesn't matter. it's about beating the other guy. >> thursday's action saw oracle team usa advance to semifinals and element moving forward as both teams were eliminated brz two afternoon fleet races were all 11 skippers led their team in an opening day battle. >> when you have 11 boats on a short course the long way around is around the outside of the other competitors. so, you know, when you go around the mark, you're going around another mark, you have to start thinking about how i am going to get to the inside. >> reporter: speaking o

to watch and another thing to do oh my gosh >>> that is why it lawrence would do it. we have some overnight roadwork on at some connector ramp. everything is now open. everything is nice and light heading into services go. no major hot spots this morning. these changes eastbound 580 looks pretty good as well. our traffic sensors are still picking up top speeds through antioch. no delays yet on your high way for drive time. that will likely change in a little bit. note changes so far up the guadalupe parkway or 101 pe. but this is northbound traffic pass the coliseum and toward downtown. 60 minutes between 238 and the maze. we continue to check in with the bart folks. more and more on your diver extraordinary here is a lawrence with your weather check >>> low clouds extending well on shore. it looks like we have some different weather heading our way as we begin to heat things up. we will be back into the upper 80s and note nineties inland '60s and around the bay and '50s and '60s out toward the coast parade this is just the beginning of some much warmer temperature ah

it's early lawrence, but come on. you better turn that frown youp side down. >> where else is he going to go? he's not going to come to any place where they'll ask a tougher place than that. people like brit hume who have no idea when these things balance. why didn't brit hume say the ryan plan doesn't go to balance until 2040. >> i mean do we want to go there? why didn't you do a story on joe biden that everybody was talking about in the white house last night is this. >> because it was much more important news to cover, joe. what are you talking about? >> that's the easiest interview -- >> here's what i did instead. i did paul ryan's lies about the stimulus plan instead. that's what i did. >> very good. >> did you know that paul ryan put in writing in the letter that the stimulus plan did, indeed, in his community, stimulate the local economy by creating new jobs. >> that is -- >> paul ryan wrote a letter saying exactly that after claiming it would never -- >> praise of brit hume. i thought he handled it well. he as

now it's time for "the last word with lawrence o'donnell." have a great night. now it's time for "the last word with lawrence o'donnell." have a great night. >>> big surprise. bat-crap crazy republican senate candidate todd akin refuses to abort his candidacy. >> nicole wallace, when he was talking to nicole six months ago, and he was like, it's about -- you know, do i want to be in the conservative party, do i want to be a moderate, but i'm just tired of it being the stupid party. >> and the clock is ticking for congressman todd akin. >> todd akin is not leaving his race for the u.s. senate. >> he's digging in. >> stop digging. >> and now running a new ad -- >> asking for forgimpbs. >> i ask for your forgiveness. >> forgiveness? unlikely. >> todd akin is really inconvenient. >> he is thumbing his nose. >> the timing couldn't be worse for this. >> republican party leaders are calling for his ouster. >> i'm tired of us being stupid! >> there's just one issue for the gop. >> mainstream is really extreme. >> this problem goes all the way to the heart of their party

it mystifies me, lawrence, because they had to have known. romney and ryan had to have known that the ryan budget plan, especially the medicare part of it would be at the center of democratic response to the pick. and yet when they announced down in norfolk, virginia, there were only couple of lines about it. ryan didn't even mention it. what romney said was dm demonstrably hypocrite cat also best because the ryan plan assumes the same amount of cuts in waste and fraud and inefficiency that obama plan does. and just because obamacare, quote, unquote, is not universally unpopular doesn't mean that americans want to dismantle medicare. most americans don't. while they prepared in great secrecy to unveil paul ryan off the u.s.s. wisconsin, they were kind of unprepared for the natural questions that were going to follow and you summarized the results of. >> let's listen to paul ryan speaking today about president obama's cuts in medicare and what they think they're trying to do. >> so krys a l, he's asked, why are you criticizing the obama medica

thank you, and go giants. >> hi, i'm lawrence lee -- >> hold on, it's actually mr. nolty first. >> oh, i'm sorry. >> can you do everything at once? all right, thank you very much. my name's michael nolty, i'm the executive vice president for district six, a planning organization formed in 1999 to deal with district batteries and concerns. here today, i'm here today to talk about holiday plaza and the block from mason to market street. and this is this block here. this block is a part of the tenderloin, not union square. it is a part of the district, if you look at your maps, you'll see these are the boundaries of the central market c.b.d. and, this block contains the bristol hotel at 56 mason and many social services organizations at 944 market, which is right here. which i have to be a volunteer at one of those offices. please, so please place this block back into district six where it belongs. again for the audience out there in never, neverland, here again is another map of the market c.b.d. and the block that we're talking about. and here is the actual descripti

send your comments and or talk to us on facebook or twitter >> how is lawrence beating the heat? >> he is listening to this move sounds of jazz. >> we are with max kabbalah jr. and the breakdown who have been kind enough to join us. it is all about the temperatures the last couple of days and into the weekend. hot weather is coming our way and the temperatures will be sizzling outside. numbers in the '60s in the san jose area but poochie's, '50s with patchy fog out at the coastline. temperatures expected to soar again into the triple digits, very hot weather, 89 degrees in san jose, 60s out towards the coastline. if you want to experience some great music and have a great time, come out and check it out. >> let's go out live towards the golden gate bridge. there is a spare the air day in effect so you can use mass transit and that is very encouraged this morning. across the golden gate bridge traffic is moving fine so far. a word is starting to see delays coming out of the altamont pass. brake lights through livermore and all the way out to the dublin pleasanton area. no major ho

now it's time for "the last word with lawrence o'donnell." have a great night. >> crazy republican todd akin refuses to take orders from rush limbaugh. but mitt romney is not a crazy republican, so he follows limbaugh's orders. >> the republican national convention is set to kick off in tampa. >> the talk of the town is not the economy but rape. >> if it's a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down. >> he didn't say he was wrong. >> i ask for your forgiveness. this is not about me. this is not about my ego. >> all of a sudden, that hurricane isn't looking so bad after all. >> the republican party has created a monster. >> we've been hearing a lot about ryan's position on abortion. >> there's no splitting hairs over rape. >> basically the same as todd akin. >> the vice presidential candidate has co-sponsored 38 anti-abortion bills. >> the romney-ryan economic plan. >> we have to cut spending. >> little information on the plan. >> we have a long debate about this. >> they don't offer any specifics. >> the n

i'm lawrence scott. back to you in the studio. >> what a spectacular scene behind him, as well. >>> coming up next, with the busy weekend in san francisco, not just america's cup, but the giants, caltrans officials have tips on how to beat the crowds and make it to your event on time. >>> also, the chp conducts some surprise searches of tour buses in fisherman's wharf. what they were looking for and what they found. >>> we're tied! unbelievable. >> unbelievable is right. the all-stars stage an incredible comeback in the little league world series. but extra innings turn the table again. >>> and the weekend starting off with some very cool temperatures for this time of year. as you can see right now, the warmest places inland, mid 70s and the culprit for the cool temperatures, a super size marine layer. wait till you see sunday's forecast if you thought today was cool. we'll be right back. >>> with giants games and the america's cup in san francisco this weekend, and sunday's streets tomorrow, it's a litt

at >> lawrence, i am jealous! >> wait to take a swim. you're the man. ok, moving on, the award winning documentarian that directed willie wong, and the chocolate factory has died. his family said that he lost his battle with cancer at his los angeles home last night. he was 83 years old, everyone knows this movie, the 1971 musical fantasy in response to his daughter, asked her father to make a movie about a book that she loved. the film starred gene wilder as willie want to and it still remains a family favorite. >> painful migraines are a fact of life for millions of americans. but not everyone wants to take medication every day. today new details about specific vitamins and minerals that can help, and the foods to watch out for. >> you can't really function or to your job, you don't want to get out of bed. >> not long ago migraine's stopped her in her tracks several days per week. >> it feels like someone is pushing a brick intthe back of my head. >> but she did not want to take daily medication to prevent her migraines. >> my goal was something more

as lawrence and after the late captain lawrence and the instance had been sewn up with his famous phrase which subsequently became the battle of the u.s. navy. don't give up the ship. the harvick law had begun an american hero. joe eastman are figuring out how to do that for many decades to come but in my mind is why i can envision a movie trailer how hollywood does to sell an upcoming movie and the highlights of have to include the battle of baltimore, the crucial conflict for the citizens of the city resisted both the land and sea force, the lombard and of the navy was observed by merrill lynch. he recorded what he saw in title that its first publication of the defense of fort mchenry, but someone else soon put it to music and renamed the star spangled banner. we would have to see hazard perry with the smoke of the battle of lake erie still in the air, joining a note to the secretary of the war in pencil on a used envelope that he pulled from his pocket. .. >> only mr. madison and his cabinet do not return. instead, retreating soldiers stream through the town. so i suppose we're going

now it's time for "the last word with lawrence o'donnell." have a great night. >>> and so tonight, a crazy republican congressman has made it even more difficult for mitt romney to have a crazy republican congressman as his running mate. >> the punishment ought to be in the rapist and not attacking the child. >> todd akin throws the missouri senate race into chaos. >> the republican party now has a todd akin problem. >> with incendiary comments about rape and abortion. >> so-called legitimate rain. >> legitimate rape. >> if it's a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to shut this thing down. >> this caveman view of the sexes. >> his views expressed were offensive. rape is rape. >> this created a huge problem for the romney campaign. >> paul ryan is being forced to defend his own record. >> there is no daylight between paul ryan's views and todd akin's views. >> last year paul ryan -- >> this personhood amendment. >> no taxpayer funding for abortion act. >> paul ryan was a cosponsor of that. >> he joined with mr. akin. >> their ticket suf

there it is. >> i love it, lawrence. i love it, and i love having the ambassador here, a little sampling of what you can get for three hours a day if you want it. the problem is that rush limbaugh doesn't know what he's talking about. you know, you've worked in the upper echelon of politics. there is swearing, there is stuff that goes on, where people use, you know, bad words. i've been chewed out by democrats as well as republicans when reporting. that's not the problem. the problem is, they're shutting down access to, as you mentioned, fox news's greta van susteren, even those they're spending tens of thousands of dollars to go and report on the trip. dylan myers looked at president obama's trip, he took 25 questions during his trip from the traveling press corps on a battery of issue. i've traveled and seen him scream, trying to get a question in, the same thing that rush limbaugh says is bad. i've seen it happen to both candidates. the difference is that then senator obama took those questions. the count in compariso

>> thankyou lawrence. well, we have heard a lot about the dangers of second-hand smoke from cigarettes. but what about a third hand smoke? scientists are finding that third hand smoke, which is the fumes that come off of someone who has smoked elsewhere, they can be a big problem. there is evidence that can be at particular risk factor in children like chronic respiratory infections and ear infections. >> when your clothing weeks of smoke in your hair reeks of smoke, your little child with asthma is going to get an asthma attack more than likely. >> the american lung association recommends that if you have to smoke, do so outside where the air is less concentrated and the smoke seems are not quite as heavy. well, one of the great composers of all time has died at the age of 68. >> he wrote some of the most well-known stage and screen music of the last 40 years. theresa garcia looks back at his life, and his work. >> few composers have left behind a bigger musical legacy in hollywood, and on broadway, then

edward lawrence reports. >>> it's the biggest and most complex mars rover ever built. it's called "curiosity." nasa launched it last november. now scientists are anxiously awaiting its touchdown late sunday night pacific time. the risky procedure requires the spacecraft to zig and zag as it goes from 13,000 miles per hour to zero in seven minutes. >> is this going to work? >> we have a lot of confidence it's going to work. there are certainly a lot of new elements. our entry descent and landing, because of the size of the rover, was a new type of entry descent and landing. >> one wrong move could doom the project. nasa has to wait 14 minutes before radio transmissions reach the earth signaling success or failure. >> we're about to land a small compact car on the surface with a trunk load of instruments. >> the lander weighs a total of 1 ton and it cost $2.5 billion to build. once on the ground, the research starts immediately. >> roughly, the first two weeks will be spent putting up the mast, using the instruments that are associated with the mast, doing remote sensing

lawrence scott at marina green with the latest. hello, lawrence. >> hey, die naane. the racing is over. the experience continues here. and a fantastic experience overall throughout the america's cup world series. especially here on the championship sunday. take a look. round one of the america cup world series is in the books. super sunday, the match racing final was a thriller between oracle teams. battling to the finish. where kutz takes victory. >> the old dog has still got old tricks. the young guys have forgotten them. >> and in a thrilling fleet racing final, the dramatic ending. while fending off team korea, jimmy spithill's second place finish gave oracle team usa just enough in the points standings to win the week. >> fantastic. i've mean for oracle. nice result to win the match. the fleet racing. and overall of the first world series. the first time in front of our home fans. and just exciting to be able to reward them with that. >> the day saw two men with eight olympic gold medals between them, sailing together as resident, track great, michael johnson, j

but once you look at the plan, is that so, lawrence? >> paul ryan has a plan to abolish medicare. he's abandoned the complete abolish medicare plan and morphed it into something that partially abolishes medicare and sends it on the road to being an inadequate program. by making it an inadequate program, what he hopes to do is diminish medicare's popularity. the reason there's a cheer in this building of republicans and any building you talk about medicare it gets a cheer is because it's a popular, very effective, and well run program. people are staying alive on that program. they can afford to stay alive because of that program. if ryan gets his way, he'll make it an unpopular program over time. the more unpopular he makes it, the easier it will be for them to abolish it. that is the final place they expect to go. but first of all, they have to weaken it substantially as they would under paul ryan's design so it can then become unpopular and no longer get cheers when you mention it in a convention hall. the important thing last night, medicare got -- preserving, strengthening med

. >> lawrence, actually, i love this debate. because the truth of the matter is, the conservative base of the republican party, particularly the evangelical base, has been getting rolled by the polls and by the party hacks in that party for 20 or 30 years. they promise them they agree with their conservative beliefs and if given the opportunity and given political power, they will give those beliefs the force of law. but the minute actual movement conservatives say anything, the pals and the hacks, and that includes the elected people like paul ryan and the media hacks like rush limbaugh, run away from them like they have ti typhoid. this is what happens, election cycle after election cycle. we're just getting to watch it in realtime. >> richard wolffe, you've spent realtime over the years tracking down candidates and getting these questions in front of them. it's a crazy dream of rush limbaugh's that he actually thinks republican candidates can just refuse to go near this question. >> there's so many things that are crazy about

i want to bring in the msnbc host of "the last word" lawrence o'donnell. good to see you. let me play for you, lawrence, what you saw last night, which is some clips from some of the speeches who dealt out a lot of red meat. here it is. >> good evening, everyone. and welcome to barack obama's retirement party. >> for four years we've drifted away from our proudest traditions of global leadership. >> those small differences among us in our party approximate the vast differences between the liberty limiting radek's left wing anti-business reckless spending tax hiking party of barack obama. >> with all their attack ads, the president is just throwing away money. and he's pretty experienced at that. >> lawrence, did you think that all was pretty effective and does it relieve mitt romney of that duty as jonathan just suggested, of, you know, being the one going after barack obama and making tonight more biographic, more positive? >> well, chris, there's only one speech that mattered last night and that was the candidate's speech, only one candidate up on the stage, that was pau