out of the wrong but the money's still flowing and washington plans a hundred million dollars worth of upgrades to it but it does and they say despite accounting a set of its diplomacy. right now he brings you the news that the world's a big bang's would rather you didn't hear today he's very angry his mocks where the latest report. i am max kaiser this is the kaiser report it's official the shadow banking system is now bigger than the non shadow banking system that's right it's bigger the stuff you don't see the stuff that's on regulated the stuff that's destroying the planet is now bigger many hundreds of trillions of dollars bigger than the so-called real economy this is causing huge problems and other stuff they say herbert max keiser guess what live for is back in the news this is the global benchmark interest rate upon which all interest rates are set from their credit card interest rates mortgage rate interest rates and it's in the news max just as we predicted see f.t.c. orders barclays to pay two hundred million dollars penalty for attempted manipulation of and false report

>>> from washington, "the mclaughlin group," the american original. for over three decades, the sharpest minds, best sources, hardest talk. "the mclaughlin group" is brought to you by at&t. issue o obamacare scores. individual mandate upheld, so ruled the u.s. supreme court on thursday. the individual mandate is the core provision of president obama's overhaul of the healthcare system. the mandate requires that americans must buy health insurance. if they do not, they must pay a tax penalty. in a 5-4 decision with chief justice john roberts writing the majority opinion the court reasoned that congress has the right to impose taxes, and the health mandate can be construed as a tax. quote, because the constitution permits such a tax, it is not our role to forbid it or to pass upon its wisdom or fairness, unquote, so wrote chief justice john roberts. >> question. 26 states have sued the federal government over the healthcare law called the affordable care act. how will this ruling go over with those states and the american people at large in those states? pat buchanan. >> overall,

the university in washington, d.c., you find out that over the last 150 years, the yououtput of gol annually on average has been approximately 1.5% to 2% per year. i'm talking about over the full century and a half. now, the growth rate of population has been approximately 1.5% to 2%, and the growth rate of output in the developed world has been 1.5% to 2% of output per capita. this is the hidden equation, which established a proportio l proportionality and the stable price level between the gold monetary standard, the population growth, and the general output in the developed world. so it seems to be -- rather, it's a hidden equation because it's never made explicit by the apostles of central banking. but the monetary standard established in gold created a stable price level and conditions for economic growth that were no accident. they were -- it's kind of a product of proportionality between the production of gold output and population. >> i'm going to ask one more question and then open it up a tiny bit for people to come and ask their own questions at the microphones in the ais

and no radio, unless they have battery operated radios. and, also, the washington suburban sanitary commission which provides water to 100,000 -- hundreds of thousands of people in this area announced it is imposing mandatory outdoor water restrictions on people because they're trying to hold off a boil-water alert and they, too, have no power. >> it will be tough to boil water if you don't have any power and i'm noticing a couple of things and one is the traffic moving behind you and that is a fairly new development and i'm watching reports and the damage behind you is great, too, at least people are starting to get around and to give people an idea of what happened, though, you had a moving experience with one family. tell us about that. >> reporter: yes, you can see that big tree, that yanked down the power line, you see that all over and that tree landed on top of a man's car, 11:00 last night an crushed him and he died, took hours for rescue workers to get the body out of the car because of the hot wires and the extent of the damage of the vehicle itself but during one of the l

still flowing in washington plans a hundred million dollars worth of other grades to baghdad and the sea despite accounting it's sad all the diplomatic stuff. you saw russia and iran the world this is with me thanks for joining it's the world's major powers have agreed on a transitional road map for syria which they say will allow syrians to determine their own future without outside interference following a crisis meeting in geneva russia's foreign ministers the document contains no ultimatums and includes representatives from all sides of the political divide and that's exactly what russia was pushing for. they didn't manage to agree on a new plan of the transition plan as it's called the powers which do include the united states and russia wish that in principle we consider it of the utmost importance that this document does not seek to dictate to the syrian side how the transitional process should happen politically how exactly this process will take place is up to the syrian people this document is very precise and. there are no more preconditions and no all to mesdames voice here a

washington, d.c. now. we go to athena jones in rockville, maryland. we're hearing president obama getting updates on the storm damage. what else are you learning? >> reporter: that's right, don. the president has gotten an update from the fema director on the response activities by several of the states that suffered from the severe storms that rolled through. he's spoken with four governors in the area, ohio, maryland, virginia and west virginia. and in fact, it was caught on tape the moment that he called virginia governor bob mcdonnell. let's take a listen to what happened there. >> i'm going to -- i've got a call, the president is calling to see what he can do for us. the president was very kind as he did during several of the recent weather events. he's called me personally and asked if the federal officials were on the ground and doing the things that needed to be done and gave a direct offer of assistance, told me to call him personally if there's anything that we need. >> reporter: and, you know, of course president obama was also calling to offer his condolences to the go

efforts to repeal it. "washington journal" live at 7:00 a.m. on c-span. >> this is the conversation we need to have in this country that nobody is willing to have. what role should the government play in housing finance? >> in "reckless endangerment," gretchen morgensen the tells they subprime financial collapse. >> if you want to subsidize housing in this country and we want to talk about it and the populace agrees that it is something we should subsidize, then put it on the balance sheet and make it clear and make it evident and make everybody aware of how much it is costing. but when you deliver it through these third party enterprises, fannie mae and freddie mark, when you deliver the subsidies to a public company through private shareholders and the executives can extract the private subsidies for the -- the public subsidies for themselves, that is not the way for subsidizing home ownership. i think we have seen the end of that movie in 2008. >> sunday at 8 on c-span "q&a." >> hall on tuesday, the defense department posted its first-ever event hosting a lesbian, gay, bisexual and

lecture in washington, the bank of england was established to finance the fisk of the united kingdom. the first central banks of germany, the reich bank of prussia, was established to finance the prussian army. napoleon's establishment of the bank of france was not -- but it was established to finance napoleon's campaigns. so central banks themselves have a very checkered history, both from their origin to this very day, as jim grant was saying, of financing certain political priorities established by either ruling classes, monarchingies or even democratic majorities. what a currency established by law as a weight unit of gold, without any exorbitant privileges given to the british pound or the united states dollar, as was the case under bretton woods in 1944 to 1971, or in the inner war period, 1918 to 1941, to the pound and the dollar alike, without any privileges given to any currencies to substitute for gold, you could then measure the purchasing power of gold itself over the long period, and the great professor roy jastron did the great work, which i would recommend, called "the

trying to deliver the mail and dodge the wires here. this was the scene throughout northwest washington, where you got these big, old, gorgeous trees, when they're standing up right. but they always seem to come down, when they get this kind of weather. fortunately, we can say, in these areas, nobody was injured. and certainly nobody killed. >> right as the storm was starting, the electricity went out. >> right. and never came back on. it flickered a couple of times and that was it. >> she says, you're never really prepared for a power outage. but she says she'll survive. and i think a lot of people are saying that tonight. >>> joining us right now, by phone, dan genes, from dominion power. are you there? >> yes, i am. thank you. >> bring us an update. how many people in the dark and what does it look like in terms of people getting along without electricity. >> the numbers are bouncing around now. we have to sometimes cut people off to turn more people back on. and folks are coming home, finding they don't have power and calling up. so the number is right now about 376,000. it was down

washington and what it means for you. on "washington week." >> if you are one of the more than 250 million americans who already have health insurance, you will keep your health insurance. gwen: a huge day for the supreme court yields a big reprieve for the obama administration. the surprise man in the middle: chief justice john roberts. but is his the last word? >> when we return the week of july 9th, i've scheduled a vote for total repeal of the obamacare bill to occur on wednesday, july 11. >> our mission is clear -- if we want to get rid of obamacare, we're going to have replace president obama. gwen: a week full of hot-button action includes a critical immigration ruling and a vote to find the attorney general in contempt of congress. >> in fact, what they're doing is covering up their own false statements. >> shame on you! shame on you! gwen: high drama in washington. covering the week, joan biskupic of reuters, pete williams of nbc news, john dickerson of "slate magazine" and cbs news and naftali bendavid of "the wall street journal." >> award winning reporting and analysis covering

washington naval yard. he also went up to west pointe in june of 1862 and watched the test of parent rifle cannon at the cold spring army, which is just across the hudson river from west pointe. so lincoln was very much open and on top of the changing technology of warfare, and did, in fact, play a creative role in getting more advanced weaponry for the union army and navy. >> what about davis? >> davis is less hands-on than lincoln but i think every bit as interested in the potential of technology, and innovation and indeed in almost any conflict in history the underdog is the one who is most likely to be willing to try anything new, because what did they have to lose? so yes indeed, the confederacy inconveniently invents the ironclad with "css virginia" they more or less invent the torpedo which we call today a landmine, they were experimenting with a movable torpedo that could go out and strike a very willing, the first submarine to sink an enemy vessel as a confederate submarine. the confederates if you want to make the argument had the first aircraft carrier because they used balloons

thunderstorms popping up south of washington over the last, oh, about an hour, hour and a half or so. you can see the areas in orange. those are the severe thunderstorm warning areas, and i'll zoom in and show you. these are the zones being affected right now. the nearest counties are in orange and into spotsylvania county, storms moving east at about 35 miles an hour. these are the towns that are affected. these towns are -- bowling green, arcadia, spotsylvania itself. bells crossroad. granite springs. all of these are in the path of this storm that's moving east at about the 35 miles an hour. you can see these dark colors in here and this pink zone. this is the strongest storm right here. this is north of charlottesville and these are tracking just about due east. fredericksbu fredericksburg. rolling right as would spotsylvania county over the next half hour or so. expect strong, gusty wind and heavy rain briefly as they come through. this is a severe risk zone, and it includes all of virginia, all of maryland, all of west virginia. so we're not done yet. this is a sthooorm we do get sts ar

begin with nbc's mike va khaira in washington. good evening. >> reporter: kate f-that wasn't enough, this heat is expected to last well into next week in this region as well as the midwest and the south. the local utility company is making robocalls this afternoon telling residents they may not have power until late next week. it could be a week before the power comes back on, kate. the violent storms struck just before midnight. by morning its power and devastation were clear. homes and cars destroyed, power lines downed, millions in the washington, d.c. region without power. >> the word that comes to mind is horrific. >> reporter: triggered by record heat, the storms moved from illinois to the mid-atlantic in a phenomenon the experts call a wind storm with a fast-moving band of severe thunderstorms packing winds as high as 91 miles per hour, well above hurricane force, leaving a wide swath of destruction. crews worked throughout the day to restore power as homeowners banlded together to clean up debris and assess the damage. in virginia he called it the largest non-hurricane power

power. and record heat still grips a wide area. johnson in washington tonight has more. >> the overnight storms were sudden and violent. >> bat ferring the dc metro area with lightning, driving rain and wind gusts above 75 miles per hour. terrible. i am still very sad. >> in silver spring, maryland, i willly goldsmith withhold up to learn her friend across the street, died when a tree came crashing through her bedroom. >> horrible. >> the extreme conditions impacted millions in nine states from the northeast to the midwest. >> monster storms in ohio tossed trampolines into trees, power lines on to streets, leaving people trapped in their cars. >> parts of this 200-year-old church in somer ton were ripped to shreds. >> took the roof off the church, damaged a couple of houses. >> the damage so severe, ohio, virginia, west virginia and washington, d.c. declared states of emergency, all this on top of the sweltering heat, with temperatures across the region again today nearing 100 degrees. >> around the nation's capitol, 1.5 million people were without power, hotels are filling up, amanda at

still flowing in washington plans a hundred million dollars worth of upgrades to his baghdad embassy despite canceling a third of its diplomatic stop. it's no easy task to build an efficient railway network to solve the world's biggest country to find out just how it's done stay with us for technology update. hello and welcome to technology update geographically massive countries like russia their advantages in efficiency the braille based transit or as big as the states themselves ever since man first tars the power of the locomotive engine has been a prime mover of both people and goods and that's something still very true today railway system is currently the second largest in the world each year nearly one billion passengers combined are shipped to and fro on the country's long distance trains there are more than eighty five thousand kilometers of track and it's rolling stock consists of more than twelve thousand locomotives given that massive network and the monumental task of keeping things running smoothly it's no wonder that russian companies are teaming up with some

people in va are a, one in washington, d.c., it could be a week before power is restored in the washington region. pepco says the storms left a total of 443,000 customers in the region without power. >> the search is continuing for one person off the coast of southern maryland after fishing boat capsized during last night's storm. the coast guard rescued two people who had been onboard while the crew of a fishing boat rescued two others near prezzie point. state police maryland natural resources police in calvert county fire and rescue crews are using boats and helicopters to search to the missing slick victims. also a result of the storms. baltimore fire crews are on the scene of several collapsed buildings in the city including one in the 1900 block of east 31st treat. officials say, high winds caused the back facade of the building to collapse, the building is being taken down now. >> it was very powerful. very powerful storm. we have about seven buildings down around the city. we are fortunate with regard to that. this one is probably the most serious of them all. >> the bui

, one of whom admits assaulting ten trainees. molly henneberg live in washington with more. molly? >> arthel, at least one female member of congress is not convinced that the military is doing enough to prevent examine combat sexual assault of women in the military. and she points to this sex scandal in the air force as evidence of that. but top leaders in the defense department say the pentagon is taking this very seriously. 12 basic training instructors at lackland air force base in san antonio, texas, where every air force recruit reports for basic training, are being investigated for sexual misconduct. six of the 12 face charges ranging from rape to adultery. defense secretary leon panetta says there is, quote, no tolerance for this kind of behavior. and has ordered a full investigation. >> we have no place in the military for sexual assault. we've reached out to bring women into the military. i'm very proud of what we've been able to do. i'm very proud of what women have been able to do in the military. but we have to maintain strict discipline here to insure that sexual assa

. >> january 3, 2011, moses lake, washington. corporal thomas tufty is on the lookout for a woman wanted by police on forgery charges. >> she had multiple warrants for her arrest. i'd gotten a phone call from our dispatch center to let me know that she was on the move in her car. >> that woman is jonah zeigler. tufty has a description of zeigler and her vehicle, and it isn't long before he spots her. >> when i looked over to the left, i saw a pink vest and her head behind the steering wheel. i pulled in behind her truck. >> corporal tufty approaches the vehicle and confronts ziegler. >> i let her know who i was and why i was there. she said she wasn't jonah zeigler. that's not me. i finally convinced her i knew who she was and that she was under arrest because she had warrants. >> he orders zeigler out of her truck, but she has other plans. >> she stopped and said i'm not going. hit the gas, and the truck basically goes in reverse. and i put my hand out to keep the truck from basically pushing me over. >> he tries to reach for his taser and his gun, but there is no time. zeigler i

, washington d.c. and virginia. more people have been killed from the storms in those regions. danielle nottingham reports from hard-hit washington, d.c. >> reporter: powerful storms downed trees and ripped roofs across buildings across the mid- atlantic united states. >> the wind came in from the southwest. >> reporter: forecasters say storms with hurricane-force winds left a path of destruction. the wind ripped the siding off buildings and took down power lines, leaving more than three million people without electricity. officials have declared a state of emergency in virginia and here in washington, d.c. power may not be restored for days in some areas and temperatures could hit triple digits sunday. trees are blocking roads throughout the district of columbia, making travel difficult. and nearby, falls church, virginia, residents woke up to trees on their cars and homes. >> crash, boom. house shook. and came outside, and this is it. >> reporter: in bethesda, there is damage all around the golf course at congressional country club. tiger woods and other pga players are in t

washington in reputation. as an american soldier. he had been general in chief of the united states army for more than a decade. as you say, he was old and infirmed. he weighed 300 pounds and he was 75 years old and couldn't mount a house. he needed long naps every afternoon and he was taking a nap on the afternoon of july does that mean our men are being pushed back, and scott said no, no, it's just the direction of the wind. doesn't matter, and he went back to sleep. >> he went back to sleep. >> that gives you some idea of scott, and it is quite true scott came up with the anaconda plan which was basically an idea of trying to isolate the confederacy, so that it would just run out of gas, as it were, by imposing a blockade on its coasts, and sending a task force down the mississippi river to seal it off from the outside world, and then just sit and wait until the confederates cried uncle, and indeed, those two aspects of union strategy, the blockade and gaining control of the mississippi river were essential parts of union strategy during the course of the entire war, but that alo

. >> let's get more now with cnn contributor, ryan lizza, washington correspondent for "the new yorker." so just some truth squadding, first of all, the white house thought this would be a popular law, with what the president says. and despite what mitt romney says, it's not like he could walk it off and says, i repeal this law. doesn't work that way. what's behind that rhetoric? >> i think the scenario by which he can repeal this, he has to win the senate. remember, the senate's controlled by democrats. the republicans need to retain the house, and obviously has to win the presidency. if he wins the presidency, a better possibility that the republicans did well in congress. but then, he has to -- he's got his republican's best friend, the filibuster, to deal with in the senate. and repealing obama care would be almost as difficult as passing obama care, right? >> 60 votes. >> 60 votes. so then you move to this very complicated procedure called reconciliation. there is a device where you can get things through the senate with a simple majority, 50 votes. and within hours of the

week on "inside washington" -- the supreme court upholds president obama's health care law. >> opposite supreme court did not do on its last day in session i will do on my first day if elected president of the that states, and that is, i will act to repeal obamacare. >> the court hands down a split decision on immigration. >> it is a victory for the rule of law, a victory for the people of arizona, and for america, and for the 10th amendment. >> and where does mitt romney stand on that one? >> we are left with a bit of a model. >> and the house votes to hold attorney general holder in civil and criminal contempt. that is a first. and in northern ireland, the handshake that made history. >> 26 states challenged it, republicans hate it, mitt romney says he will get rid of it. the patient protection and a portable care act is president obama signature legislative achievement, but is it constitutional? according to chief justice roberts, who wrote the majority opinion upholding the law, yes and no. so much to talk about, so little time. that begin with you, nina. did anybody ex

45 minutes or so. south of washington. there's the wide view. there's also a cluster of other storms that have been developing and look like they would get stronger, that were in illinois and indiana. now those look to be diminishing, but right now, south of washington, those areas you see in the red and the orange, those are some strong storms, and they are now just pulling out of culpepper county and heading into orange county and they're advancing to the east. these are the cities that are going to be affected by this. it's heading off to the south and east moving at about 35 miles an hour. and you can see all of these towns are going to be affected by this over the next hour. we do have about three different very strong cells here. separate ones. unlike last evening when we had a wide area. this is fairly small comparatively. another cell here that is developing farther to the north. that may be getting a little closer towards fredericksburg, maybe in the next, looks like half hour or so. they're moving at about 35 miles an hour, and the only real threat with these may be some br

talking anywhere from southeastern minnesota to washington, d.c. again down into the carolinas. this is tonight into tomorrow so, hours. >> all of this, the other major weather story tonight, the record-breaking heat across much of this country. >> fun in the sun for a little bit but day two, day three, all-time record highs beat, yesterday nashville. today hotlanta or atlanta and this is going to be the last week seeing 1500 record highs, that number will soar as we go into the end of the weekend. today, the numbers were record breaking. the feeling, record baking. atlanta, georgia, broke their all-time hottest temperature ever. the number, 106. scary heat across the southeast. >> people could really be dying and don't understand. the impact the heat has on the body especially if you're over 55. >> reporter: and this is day two of the sultry heat wave. columbia, south carolina, and nashville, tennessee, both hit 109. their hottest ever. from birmingham to kansas city, memphis and more that triple-digit heat wave is remarkable. no records in nyc but it's still uncomfortable. oven-like p

ac temperatures are 95 degrees in washington and that is better than yesterday when we were 104. 93 in frederick and dulles and ocean city, 85 degrees and that heat index approaching 100 here and that is until 9:00 and we'll do this again tomorrow as the temperatures are expected to get to 100 degrees and that is the forecast. i'll come back with more details. evening storms likely across the area, warm and muggy tonight, 75 degrees is the overnight low and more details on the weather in just a moment. >> thank you, tucker. see you in a bit. >>> the storm was deadly leaving at least 12 people dead in the region and one was in northwest d.c. the damage in the victim's neighbor is -- neighborhood is astonishing. paul, bring us up to date. >> reporter: this is the source of all of the trouble here and this is that huge tree that came down and hit power lines across the street and knocked them down on the tot ground and impacted a car in front of a house across the street and that car caught fire and then the fatality. after 11:00 p.m. as the storm's powerful winds were terrifying resid

american troops might be out of iraq but the money is flowing in washington plans upgrades worth one hundred million dollars to its baghdad embassy despite cutting a third of its diplomatic staff. and that's it for me and the news team they'll be more. of a joins you in half an hour from now and meantime the man with all the news of the world's big banks would rather you didn't know his mechs with the latest kaiser report. i am max kaiser this is the kaiser report it's official the shadow banking system is now bigger than the non shadow banking system that's right it's bigger the stuff you don't see the stuff that's on regulated the stuff that's destroying the planet is now bigger many hundreds of trillions of dollars bigger than the so-called real economy this is causing huge problems and other stuff they say herbert max keiser guess what live for is back in the news this is the global benchmark interest rate upon which all interest rates are set from their credit card interest rates mortgage rate interest rates and it's in the news max just as we predicted see f.t.c. orders bar

prudential. they came from all over the united states to be honored in washington, d.c. -- teens who have already made a difference in their communities and the world. >> please join me in officially saluting the 2012 prudential spirit of community state honorees. >> for 17 years, prudential, along with the national association of secondary school principals, has been saluting teens who lead volunteer efforts. middle and high school students are chosen from each state and the district of columbia. state honorees were awarded silver medallions and $1,000. the 10 students named national honorees received gold medallions and a $5,000 grant for the charity of their choice. and all the honorees received praise from a winning super bowl quarterback. >> what i know is if "elite" means "best in class," this year's winners of the prudential spirit of community award clearly fit the definition. >> national honoree gracie schram is from kansas. the 13-year-old performer sold cds to help communities in africa and haiti. another top honoree is 17-year-old candonino agusen of hawaii. he raised money fo

very much and welcome to washington. that was an interesting thing, barney frank, a good friend of mine, he said that was the only half ass thing i did when i was there, but i'm not sure that's true. i figure he didn't know about the other things i was doing. well then, i had been very interested in women in the military. young women wanted to participate and they were in. at the air force in particular was letting more women in and stuff. i'm home one weekend and these wonderful young women air force officers come to see me and said, it's just terrible at loury. i said what? we're supposed to go to the officers club because we're officers and it's -- but they have these topless go go dancers in there. i said, what? so i go back to washington and i call antonio shaz, the first woman under secretary of the air force. i tell her, that's outrageous, that can't happen. trust me, it's happening. she says, never worry, i'm putting out an order right away to stop all of that. she said she did. i'm back a couple weeks later and women said, can't you do anything about it? i said, what do you mea

the worst damage we have seen in the washington, d.c. metro area. athena jones is in rockville, maryland for us now. i hear president obama has been making calls. >> that's right. the president spoke with the governors of virginia, west virginia, ohio, and maryland. he wanted to get an update on the impact of the severe storms on each of these states and also offer his condolences for the loss of life. as you mentioned lots of people have been killed in just this area alone, there have been eight deaths. one man was electrocuted late last night in washington, d.c. when trees and then power lines fell on his home and he and his wife decided to go outside and check it out. they were both electrocuted. he was killed. she's in the hospital in critical condition expected to survive. seven other people between virginia and maryland have been killed by falling trees so just one example of how dangerous these storms can be. the president also got an update from fema administrator craig fugate about the response activities in not just those states but in pennsylvania and in vienna and k

washington, she was one of only 14 women in the u.s. house. in this speech at the history of colorado center in denver, she talks about the obstacles that women and other min orts faced in the 1970s and her work at the height of women's movement. this is about an hour. >> thank you. thank you so much. so sweet of you. thank you, how wonderful. how nice to see so many of you. you're all marvelous, thank you. it is great to be here and i can't tell you how honored i am to be the inaugural history lecturer here. i'm glad it's not the natural history museum. i'm feeling a little bit like an artifact because exactly three weeks ago i got a pace maker put in. i'm feeling more like a historical artifact as it goes. it is marvelous to be here. i must say, ed, i have retired from the book publishers, i should have updated you on that but it was a very nice thing. yeah, right, okay, so i finally have decided that i'm going to take life a little easier. but this is absolutely a delight to get to talk about life in the '70s, not my '70s which i'm but the 70s which we all went through. and to do t

business has to be getting beyond the divisiveness that is there toda in washington d.c. hodo wdo t riouabte eat' sad that mr. murdoch, i think, who defeated richard lugar ran on the platform of noome prsed n. ncom ae w matyay suspect it doesn't really. i think people do not like the status quo. we'll know better after this election, if that's true. but i think most americans would like to get things done, and you n't aomplisf se ta fs t i , ar o politics, to coin an old-fashioned -- reuse an old-fashioned phrase is the art of compromise. d, you know, that's what do in vermont more or less much better thanin core cossu tbee in mega m ways should be considered a hero because he worked with democrats on the nuclear arms control treaty. instea he is villainized for that. i think the public has to speak up a say ha thikind o in nnd ttis r of money in politics. these super pacs, that's all they do is purchase negative ads. ree czeunwe findwa haot these super pacs. but, again, the public has to speak up. and with or without money, i still believe that individual voices can have an impact.

. she was a person who spent her whole life in the countryside and had moved -- just moved to washington so she could eke out a living. this is the kind of man to use his mother's boarding house, her hospitality and her friendship with others to serve his own purpose. john surratt jr. we know would not come back to save his mother. and when you looked at that chart up there, you had john surratt jr. on the side there. well, john surratt jr. is the one that dropped off the guns. john surratt jr. was the one that brought john wilkes booth to the house. he was his friend. john surratt jr. was the one that brought atzerodt to the house. john surratt jr. was the one that was friendly with payne. we heard and talked about weichman and lloyd in this case, weichman being the person who was the boarder in the house. weichman being a man who in fact did not, while he was in the house, remember anything about talking about a conspiracy. weichman was friendly with john surratt. they shared a room on both times when he was there. weichman was friendly with atzerodt and payne and engaged in meetings w

iraq but the money is flowing in washington plans upgrades one hundred million dollars to its baghdad embassy despite cutting a third of its diplomatic staff. so that brings up today for the moment i'll be back with a news team with more fully in half an hour from now in the mean time limits a former front runner for the egyptian presidency asking what he thinks the future holds for the country. with me i have a moose a presidential candidate in egypt's recent elections and also before me he'd of the arab league so thank you very much for joining us here on r.t. many people were surprised that you did not make it through to the second round of the recent presidential elections why do you think you did not do as well as expected i was among those who were astonished that i didn't make it but this is the most prosy. old. that is a guarantee that never again. but i'm glad that the democratic process has started. and the elections would also by the international arab and the civil society organizations in egypt i have my own reasons to be i understand what happened. how things wer

personally. as many of you know, i recently returned from washington, d.c., to work for the obama administration and the department of education, and we know that education for all of us in this audience and the communities we represent is the key for us. these three individuals have spent their entire personal and professional lives dedicated to ensuring those youth do not end up in the system. and if we had more of the three people we have here, jeff would not have a job. he does a great job with what he does, but marlene it is a woman i met many years ago when i was working at the city college of san francisco, and she was a staunch advocate for immigrants who did not have any voice, and she gave them a voice. and she continues to do that today. when i was elected to the school board, should continue to advocate for immigrant rights, esl classes, and i tip my cat. rejected my cap. she was a teacher, principal, deputy superintendent, and the first asian-american superintendent and san francisco public schools. [applause] and elaine, who took me as a freshman many years ago, 19-,

husband owned slaves. we know she had property in surrattsville, maryland, two hours outside washington. we also know she had a home which she turned into a boarding home in washington, d.c. we know that several of the members of this conspiracy were at her home regularly and often. the men who lived in her home, the men to whom she served supper were members of this conspiracy. what about her credibility? three points about her credibility. one, on april 17th, three days after the assassination, when the military police came to her home looking for her son and john wilkes booth, and they questioned her, a man came to the door, lewis powell. lewis powell had come to her door that night seeking refuge. we know that powell had been a boarder several days at her house. we know she served him supper. we also know she remarked how handsome he was. and he was a handsome man. but when asked in her home on april 17th, do you know this man, she raised her hand in sort of a dramatic gesture and said, i swear by god i have never seen this man. her excuse to you today is that she has poor eyesight

, i'm gregg jarrett. >> heather: i'm heather childers. washington, d.c. now under a state of emergency, water use is being restricted after filtration plants and other facilities lost power, all of this creating a dangerous situation for firefighters and nearly everyone else in the city. check out the scene in ft. wayne indiana, folks there still under a severe thunderstorm warning. things not much better in parts of ohio. damage so bad. several motorists had to be rescued from live power lines. doug mckelway is live in springfield, virginia with more. >> reporter: this is the location where last night a man died. it's across the street in springfield, virginia. a man was driving down this road. a tree came tumbling down across the road drag go high tension power lines. it was several hours before authorities were able to extract his body from the car. just up the street a 90-year-old woman asleep in her bed had a tree crashed through the house crushed her to death. the governor of virginia, bob mcdonald has declared a state of emergency. he calls it the worst non-hurricane damage in t

. that gibes frankly with what we're seeing in washington where the washington power establishment has been blowing kisses from the muslim brotherhood. >> gregg: things that they are moderate. they have a long and distinguished history of lies and deception. most recent of which when mubarak was ousted from power, well, we're not going to run a candidate for president. don't worry about that. they, did they ran morsi. they have an 84-year existence of adopting anti-american, anti-israeli policies. will that continued? >> i think it will. you have to ask why would a group that has strived for this for so long that has put up with mubarak's prison, why would they change. moderate islam is have clare catholic rule. it didn't originate from iran in 1979 or saudi arabia or al-qaeda it more or less came in the modern sense from egypt from the muslim brotherhood. there has been saying in english in the western press but what they stand for, it's scary and we're seeing that with morsi's first move here. >> gregg: thank you very much. >> heather: 12 confirmed deaths and rash of violent stor

weekend when the storms that had raged through from washington, maryland, and up hit south jersey. the storms, the winds came through, heavy rains. the family told our police that they were a bit afraid. one family went and huddled together with the other family in their tent. tragically this is right under a tree that broke due to extremely severe winds. a pine tree that literally snapped in a pretty severe gust and literally fell directly from that, from above them right on to their camp and killed the two boys. >> what can you tell us, larry, about the other family members? was anyone else injured? this is not that far outside of new york city. this is a popular site for fishing, for boating, for camping. i assume a lot of people were there this holiday weekend. what about the rest of the people and the family members? >> well, the rest of the family members miraculously were virtually unscathed. a couple scratches but nothing to them. all they -- what they have is the horror of what happened to the two boys. they were able to -- rescuers tried to get to the site as quickly as they

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city. he was very close with john ford, the owner of ford's theater in washington. booth made the final appearance of his acting career on march 18th, 1865, at ford's theater, one month before president lincoln's assassination. the military tribunal was held, conventional rules of evidence were not followed. at the trial the prosecution was allowed to introduce evidence about the mistreatment of union soldiers in confederate prisons. the lawyers for mary surratt requested that the trial be held in a civil court where there were rules in place to protect defendants charged in criminal cases, but that request was denied. under the rules of the military tribunal, mary surratt was not allowed to testify in her own behalf. we have brought you into the courtroom tonight where mary surratt will now be granted that civilian retrial she wanted. she can testify on her own behalf. we now await judge zagel and the attorneys. >> all rise. hear yes, hear ye, this district court is now in session. god save the united states and this honorable court. you may be seated. >> call your witness. >> th