other] >> johnson, kennedy, johnson, i don't want to be put in a position -- johnson did say that in his retirement. he said to the reporter the cantonese were running murder incorporated in the caribbean. exactly in what documentation he had a we don't know, i don't know. >> he had a hand in killing him and it is happening here. >> that was a quote in the book. >> we have time for only one more question. thank you. thank you. >> thank you for reporting on lyndon johnson. [applause] [applause] >> could elaborate a little bit on his stance on civil rights before he was president and how he passed landmark legislation and what the differences were in his outlook on that issue? >> elaborate on lyndon johnson's stance on civil rights and how he -- his stance on civil rights, glad you asked me that because people are always asking me how sincere he was. i always felt lyndon johnson always wanted to help poor people of color. i will tell you why i think i know that. when johnson was in college between his sophomore and junior years he had to drop out of college to teach and he taught in a

to keep johnson happy. don't let him go off the reservation, don't get him talking about what he knew. >> my favorite thing is that this man named don kendall told me a story -- he was the head of pepsi cola -- when nixon first came into office he needed to have somebody talk to johnson about some sensitive mat sore he sends kendall down there as his friend. johnson's working on his memoirs and hating it and says i don't remember anything that happened in these days and these days. the only chapter are any good at all is went wh i had a tape machine, pressed a button, verbatim conversations. you go back and tell your good friend nixon as he starts his presidency there's nothing more important than a taping system so that johnson could torpedo nixon in the end. >> john meacham, to follow up on something we've talked about before, i had no idea until i read this book how harry truman used herbert hoover to do some of the most important things hoover did in his entire life. his post presidency. he saved -- my

johnson? maxwell named johnson the new ceo end-1991 maxwell retired and took home a retirement package that was more than $20 million. even charles schumer who was normally a big fan of fannie mae was taken aback. schumer, and i think maxwell did a good job but that is enough. under johnson any perfected its lobbying. went around the country financing housing project in the district of any congressman who might prove useful. the congressman loved posing for pictures in front of those projects and taking credit for bringing money into their districts. fannie mae was going to need a lot of friends because there was a political problem to be dealt with. in the 1980s thousands of savings and loan institutions had gone bust largely because they made a lot of crazy loans on real-estate. the deposits of those were insured by uncle sam so the government ended up with the bill for $124 billion and congress felt obliged to see what else might go wrong and lead to more bailouts. hud was still regulating

kennedy followed by lyndon johnson being sworn in a border force one in dallas. he was sworn in by federal district judge sarah hughes, the only woman to ever square and a president. gerald r. ford being sworn in in the white house in 1974 after richard nixon resigned in disgrace. here's a picture of -- and it's my final story for the day. this story actually inspired me more than any other to write this book. this is calvin coolidge's 1923, president after the death of warren harding. at the time of harding's death coolidge was staying with his father in a very, very small cottage in vermont, a place that had no running water, no electricity, no telephone, no and in that, that did not have any of those things. and so a courier came my to present the news that harding had died and then everybody wanted coolidge to be sworn in as soon as possible the question was who would do it, swear in the president. the answer turned out to be his own father. his own father, john coolidge was a local justice of the piece and another republic. and so by the light of an old kero

and that pass is caught by a sliding johnson. and he's out of bounds at the 18 yard line. >> cris: i think you got to kick it here now. yep. and they're going to send it on. i agree with this one. because whatever time you have left at the end of the onside kick, you hope to take one big throw into the end zone and get the hail mary. but you have to have both. >> al: as simple as that. they need the field goal, then onside kick, then hail mary. besides that, not much. and he makes it. and they get a 7-point gain. 27-20. you have seven seconds. clock will start when the ball is touched. >> cris: exactly. al, i think the key here is for jim schwartz is you've got to do an onside kick that is going to take you close enough to do the hail mary. so instead of being right at ten yards, you might have to bounce it a little farther down the field so that hopefully you get it around the 50 and have that shot. >> al: but you don't want a packer to touch it and not recover it and then have it bounce around and the clock run out on you. >> c

johnson has been fined $37,500. the mayor has raised more than $4 million from national organization's local companies and individual donors for his city and this is an the nonprofit he supports. >> and oakland medical marijuana dispensary has won the first round in its legal fight to stay open amid a federal crackdown. a judge ruled last week that the landlord for harborside health centers cannot evict the shop despite the u.s. attorney's threat to seize the property. the landlord claims she has costa kick

and johnson already received six hundred thirty dollars to speak with the johnson and johnson executives back in two thousand and two the supporting to legit store so that lives fowler to the revolving door list and if you want to thank her for the health care bill make sure to address that letter to johnson and johnson's office in d.c. . and we're going to leave it off there but the capital account is up next on our to let's check in with lauren lister to see what is on today's agenda lauren is the fiscal cliff we hear so much about we hear the comings and goings of obama and boehner on tax policy as though this was the issue that was going to solve the u.s. economy's problems or the u.s. government's budget deficit problems and does it i mean is really such a small part of the iceberg. of economic crisis that this country has been dealing with for the past four years and lo and behold when you talk to people that have been in the game for a while like the former republican strategist has been that we spoke to they say no it's very minimally addressing the problems of the u.s. and to pu

johnson insisted he learned english. he brought a textbook and every day before and after school he and coronado would sit on the steps of a school and coronado says -- johnson would pronouns, i would repeat, johnson would spell and i would repeat. i think lyndon johnson cared about civil-rights. the second part of your question, how did he get kennedy -- it takes a lot of pages in this book to talk about all the things he does but the thing he does on the instant, this bill appears to be totally dead. he says didn't someone file a discharge petition? discharge petition had been filed -- this bill was in a committee that was never going to let it out. wasn't even the senate. still in the house rules committee which was shared by judge howard w. smith and would even give a date. the bill was going nowhere. johnson remembers someone filed a discharge petition to take away from that committee. that was -- a discharge petition ever -- never passed. violation of house rules and no president had ever gotten behind one before.

it's not with johnson. it's with another person. >> reporter: the defense team watched the recording which is from her cell phone and says phylicia barnes was involved in sex acts. barnes died from asphyxiation, but -- >> there's no choking. there's no rough housing. no horse play, anything that's masochistic, how you would look at it. >> reporter: the defense has to respond to the state's request to close the courtroom for 16 minutes. they don't know why a sex tape with minors is worth playing in court. >> i think exposure to sex tapes at this period of time is appalling. it is basically about character assassination. >> reporter: there will witnessing twoidaries -- there will four months later her remains were found. her death was ruled a homicide a day later but it took another year to make an arrest. the defense won't tell us all their attacks, but one an is a witness -- is a witness that claims he saw her alive. >> otherwise, if the state believed that she was murdered in cecil county then it would be

and johnson feller already received six hundred and thirty dollars to speak to johnson and johnson executives back in two thousand and two that's according to legit store so you can add liz fowler to the revolving door list and if you want to thank her for the health care bill make sure to address that letter to johnson and johnson's office here in d.c. . the internet surveillance will have no borders if the united nations gets its way members of the united nations international telecommunications union have agreed to work toward putting in place standards for the internet that would allow ease dropping worldwide the u.n. says allowing spying on a global scale what allow authorities to the tech when copyrighted material is transferred all this is now raising concerns in the u.s. house of representatives members say they don't feel right about having the u.n. or allowing them giving them the power to eavesdrop but this is the same congress remember that has made cyber security a top priority attempting to pass legislation like sopa pipa and most recently fice which allows the government to wir

and that pass is caught by a sliding johnson. and he's out of bounds at the 18 yard line. >> cris: i think you got to kick it here now. yep. and they're going to send it on. i agree with this one. because whatever time you have left at the end of the onside kick, you hope to take one big throw into the end zone and get the hail mary. but you have to have both. >> al: as simple as that. they need the field goal, then onside kick, then hail mary. besides that, not much. and he makes it. and they get a 7-point gain. 27-20. you have seven seconds. clock will start when the ball is touched. >> cris: exactly. al, i think the key here is for jim schwartz is you've got to do an onside kick that is going to take you close enough to do the hail mary. so instead of being right at ten yards, you might have to bounce it a little farther down the field so that hopefully you get it around the 50 and have that shot. >> al: but you don't want a packer to touch it and not recover it and then have it bounce around and the clock run out on you. >> c

i'm sure you got more on that coming up. >>> veronica johnson, thanks. we'll check back in a few minutes. >>> still ahead, an all-star lineup. cast members from the hit musical "million dollar quartet join us next." >>> and it's a huge weekend for redskins fans. all the info you need for the biggest game the town has seen in years. >>> ♪ it's one for the money ♪ three to get ready well go cat go ♪ >>> some of rock n' roll's biggest hit get the broadway treatment in "million dollar quartet." this brought together icons elvis presley, john, lee cash, jerry lee lewis and carl perkins. and now you can see the remeeting on the kennedy center stage in the show. go of the show's stars are here. guys, how can you describe that first supergroup coming together? >> i think it's a malange of wildness and abandon and rock n' roll. >> for those that don't know the story, they call came together in this spontaneous jam session in memphis, tennessee? >> yeah. >> in 1956? >> yeah. it was a recording session, actually and jerry lieu lewis was hired to play the pian

the knives are out between a ackman and johnson. it's likelier to get nastier tomorrow at a conference at 9:30 in the morning. ackman has been spent a year researching herbalife and the short case may be the most powerful he's ever seen. meanwhile, chief johnson argues that other short sellers are effectively gaining up on his company in effects of pushing it down. ackman denies those charges, telling me he has no option strategy and hasn't spoken to other shorts, including david einhorn, who raised questions earlier this year but has never said publicly whether or not he holds the position of any sort in the name. einhorn isn't commenting today if he's had any discussions with ackman, but this options chart lends some potential credence to the more general point that johnson is making, namely, that bearish traders have piled into herbalife of late through the options market. this shoefls the increase of put activity, so, basically, it shows an increase in a bearish bet. one day in particular stands out. on november 29th, there was

years ago, they tested it a few yearser later and found that johnson & johnson has taken it out of their products in china and other countries but not in the united states, well, if you can do it in one country, why can't you do it in all of them, doesn't everybody deserve safer baby shampoo no matter where they live? that put a lot of pressure on them because the consumers said we don't want those things in our products and the change happened and now they have a plan with timelines and clear transparent goals to get those chemicals out of their products. it might be a little slower than we'd all like as consumers but it's moving in the right direction and getting one major company to move put a lot of pressure on those other companies if they want to maintain their credibility, so we're seeing safer shampoo products, we want to pass laws. >> radiation is the longest and best studied exposure link to breast cancer and what can we do about that, some radiation is naturally occurring, but we know that since 1980, radiation exposures for the average person have doubled and most of that is

meteorologist veronica johnson. >> that's right. this whole weekend will be cold and the first part of the weekend will be nasty and wet and cold. at least it's dry. 32 degrees up to the north from frederick county into montgomery county. you folks in falls church, 34 degrees right now. green belt, your current temperature at 34 degrees. then you've got 28 culpeper toward fredericksburg, virginia. hometown forecast, we go to rockville, maryland. good morning to you folks. 32 by 7:00 a.m. this morning. then as we get toward the noon hour, 39. clouds will be on the increase. we'll have high clouds moving in today. we'll top out at about 41 to 44. watch the snow coming in at 2:00 and 3:00 a.m. tomorrow morning. we'll talk more about that. now traffic. >> thank you, veronica. news after 123. still activity on the left shoulder but the tow truck is gone. still slow traffic. looks like it is easing up a little bit. 25 minutes from the prince william parkway to the beltway on northbound 95 at 30 miles per hour. southbound 270 is worry-free

& johnson. bp has paid overthe people of bp twenty-threeitment to the gulf. billion dollars to help those affected and to cover cleanup costs. today, the beaches and gulf are open, and many areas are reporting their best tourism seasons in years. and bp's also committed to america. we support nearly 250,000 jobs and invest more here than anywhere else. we're working to fuel america for generations to come. our commitment has never been stronger. >>> back now with mike tyson. mike, ready for the main event. when was the last time you put on a pair of boxing gloves? >> the last time i got my ass kicked. >> we've got about 30 seconds. i want a click master class. if i really wanted to knock somebody out, what is the absolutely best way to do it? >> knocking out is not necessarily a hard punch. the objective is to hit the guy with the punch and not allow him to see it. >> how do you hide it? >> jab like this. >> easy, tiger. i've got it. on the run. even being near you wearing boxing gloves is intim

in johnson's bail review. we don't know how they believe the tape will support their case against john son. the state wants to close the courtroom when the tape is played but the defense will argue it should romaine hope because that is michael johnson's constitutional right. the trial date is still scheduled for january 22nd this issue will have to be ironed out before then. we'll have are on abc2news.com and abc2 news at 11 as the attorneys speak to us about their defense. cheryl conner, abc2 news. >> baltimore is bracing for a snowstorm. more than 2700 people are getting ready for tomorrow's big storm. they were clearing drains and checking equipment. many plow drivers will go on the clock right at midnight tonight. >> one step ahead of mother nature. crews are out. this is a proactive strategy to put a salt brine down. it gives our crews more time. >> drivers can prepare themselves by getting their own vehicles ready. check the fluids and your wiper blades right now. >>> abc2 will be with you bringing you

johnson johnson -- mr. johnson: into social security. ms. schakowsky: i am not talking about children. the poorest adults are the people over 65 years of age and persons with disabilities. their median income is $22,000 a year. median income for older americans, $22,000 a year. really? some this is a fair balance, to ask the wealthiest americans, top 2% to pay a little bit more but, darn it, we're not going to do it unless we get those poorest people through their social security, through their medicaid, through their medicare to pay a bit more. doesn't seem right to me. mr. johnson: representative schakowsky, i think it's wrong we would ask people who have paid into the social security system thout their lives and now you're going to move the goal post and put a couple of years more for eligibility. you are going to up the age of eligibility. ms. schakowsky: actually for medicare they are talking about. mr. johnson: and they want to do that for medicare as well. that paul ryan budget would actually decimate the medicaid system. you just wan

d johnson. why do you like these stocks is in a unified theme here. >> there is it.each one of thess an above average track record of raising their earnings and give difficuldividends in the past te years. high quality stocks that are offering a dividend should not be avoided and they have recommendations by analysts. mcdonalds here is a company with a increase in sales expect the for their value meals that could expand their market share. in terms of norfolk southern. they have added an investment in their knel knelt knel network ae increased their capacity. and healthcare in a category that ask trading to the market. johnson and johnson is a company that we would see would benefit from a recent acquisition and new product contributions. >> lots of good information.i'mt there. we are going to coupl count on u coming back in the new year. before we leave you any disclosures to make about these stock recommendations? >> no disclosures i do not only. >> happehappy new year s. >> susie: tonight's w

of johnson and john f. kennedy intubated their victory in the 1960s election with robert byrd does he help -- robert byrd's help in north carolina and texas. the second objective -- i is a legend.uyyrd outside of washington, d.c., he is little loan, much less respected. that is something i want to correct across the country. i knew history biography would not serve the purpose. there is an effort being made to portray byrd who gave nice species -- speeches about the constitution. there is so much more to the guy. throughout his career, he was a fighter. he had to fight for everything he got. there are some who say he never faced a tough opponent. that is ridiculous. despite opposition, he takes on say that two most powerful machines and he wins every election. he gets to the u.s. senate, he climbs the leadership ladder and defeats prominent liberal senators. he selected the senate whip by ousting ted kennedy. he defeated former vice president of the united states, hubert. it is always a fight for byrd. had

but before that, would you think of lyndon johnson? >> -- what do you think of lyndon johnson? >> i was never a fan of lyndon johnson. i don't think that his legacy is terrific. he was obviously a very capable man. in the number of ways, he was like nixon. he was suspicious of everybody. he will not be remembered as what he would like to be remembered as. obviously, he was capable and did some things as nixon did some things. johnson -- there will not put up a statue of lyndon johnson next to washington for jefferson. >> the legacy of gerald ford? >> jerry ford was a likable guy who was not one of the world's great talents. and i think there are different reasons for why nixon chose him. i think you as a caretaker president. i don't think he would be regarded as anything more than that? >> jimmy carter? >> he was a nice man, but what happened to the democrats when the whole party was pulled apart during the 1960's and then when they backed away from the mcgovern type results and you end up going to a bible belt peanut farmer and that was not the answer either. >> you remember w

johnson? a friend of mine had been at fannie in one of the regional office for long times it was very simple. fanny had a near-death expense in the early '80s in interest rate risk, and they risk, and they thought they had sold it through hedging. they had a near-death experience in credit risks, and ed, you change the underlying in 1985. they thought it fixed that. they were left with one risk. political. who do you bring in to deal with political risk? you bring in a politician, and that described while the qualifications that jim johnson had. i want to spend the rest of the time that i have just focusing on a couple of threads. one was the press release that fannie mae, jim johnson announced in 1994, the trillion dollar commitment. a couple thousand words but they went into great detail about what they're going to do. and then the national homeownership strategy, both which are discussed in bob's book. i started with lenders, this is a statement by a community activist, testimony before the

[ female announcer ] to nurses everywhere, thank you, from johnson & johnson. >>> back now with mike tyson. mike, ready for the main event. when was the last time you put on a pair of boxing gloves? >> the last time i got my ass kicked. >> we've got about 30 seconds. i want a click master class. if i really wanted to knock somebody out, what is the absolutely best way to do it? >> knocking out is not necessarily a hard punch. the objective is to hit the guy with the punch and not allow him to see it. >> how do you hide it? >> jab like this. >> easy, tiger. i've got it. on the run. even being near you wearing boxing gloves is intimidating. you're mike tyson. >> i don't have the same stuff no more. >> mike, one quick jab and then we're done, okay? all over. pacquiao, tyson, i'm back. "a.c. 360," you can't do this. . "ac 360," you can't do this. >>> from cnn world heads quarters in atlanta, this is "early start weekend." a murder-suicide stuns the nfl. >>> women in war. only a few country ace low women on the battle lines and now some servicewomen here are suing for that right. our lega

flight delays, all of that going on right now. >> i tell you, let's turn to veronica johnson. not even a little bit. >> this guy is not a snow lover, not a dusting, not an inch, not flurries that are pretty. i don't like it at all. >> you'll be inside saturday? >> i'll be as much out of it as i possibly can. >> is it going to get that bad? >> it's really not going to be a major storm for us. but it will be in new england. it will be a nor'easter for new england. for them, of course, that means more coastal flooding with high winds and snowfall. right now, around here, your temperatures hit 38 degrees. we've got a partly sunny or partly cloudy sky. partly cloudy sky out there. breaks in the cloud cover. your wind at 12 miles per hour producing a windchill at 30 degrees right now. so bundle up. we're going to start by taking a look at the radar. it is dry over us. it's dry back in to much of the ohio valley. we've got snow coming through minnesota and into wisconsin. even areas of northern illinois. that's part of our system that will be coming together. the other part of it dow

officials and james johnson, baltimore county police chief. first we go for an immediate update to my msnbc colleague, michelle franzen. michelle, thank you for staying with us tonight. >> well, hi, chris, we're here in the newtown area of connecticut, just nearby a couple of miles from sandy hook elementary where the shooting, tragic shooting, took place earlier today. at this hour, hundreds of rez dents are gathering at a nearby catholic church for a vigil. holding a prayer for those who have lost their lives today, those youngest lives, anywhere between kind eergarten and four grade where those student were shot today. they're holding a prayer vigil and trying to comfort the families that they were told lost their loved ones in this town. it's a small new england town in this area. a very rural area in the central part of connecticut here. and the school, certainly k through 4 that with mentioned, we don't have the identifications or the ages of the school children and their names that are being released. what we are being told is that inve

-they'rethink johnson - not going to put up a statue of lyndon johnson next to washington. " the legacy of gerald ford? >> ford was a likable guy who was not one of the world's great talents. i always thought that probably some different reasons why nixon depict him as not totally splattering. he was a caretaker president and fairly successful as that. i don't think he will be regarded as anything more than that in history. >> jimmy carter? >> was a nice man. what happened to the democrats when their whole party was pulled apart during the 1960's. and then when they back away from the mcgovern-type results, you wind up going to a bible belt. farmer. that was not the answer either. >> do you remember what you felt about him back then? >> i did not support him. i voted for ford, i guess. i did not think much of ford. it's unfortunate the democrats have gone through a sequence of presidents from the south who youngerbarrassing and brother brothers, scandals and so forth. a look at johnson. carter in terms of billy carter with the beer and every thing. then you go to the ozark cazenove. so