john harris-- just 10 days. new york financier joe cari got no time behind bars. and today, lon monk got 2 years. the disparity alarming to monk's lawyer and to patti blagojevich, too. her husband got 14 years. in court, judge zagel said : >>i think one aspect that cuts against lon monk: he knew what kind of a man the governor was. i think you knew sooner than john harris did and you knew the governor's relentless persistence to get his own way. >>prosecutors contend the close and unique relationship between monk and blagojevich meant monk had the ability to say no. but he didn't. he continued to squeeze his own client, a racetrack owner, for $100,000 campaign donation for blagojevich. a converstation about it captured by the fbi. today lon monk told the judge: >>i'm sorry for what i've done. i regret it. i'm looking forward to coming back a better person, a better husband, a better father, a better friend. >>monk has asked to serve his 2 year sentence at the federal camp in terra haute indiana--the same place former governor george ryan is serving out his time. l

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honestly i don't think people believe half of the things that went on this week john harris is on vacation with his family. where and when he will begin to serve his unusual sentence of 10 days has not been determined. tomorrow-- another player in operation board games is scheduled for sentencing. lon monk-- a personal friend from law school and blagojevich's first chief of staff will stand before a judge. it seems likely he will serve somewhere around 2 years in prison for his crimes. monk also testified against blagojevich in court. some cook county jail cellmates are calling checkmate in a new program that helps teach its medium security prisoners to think before they act. wgn's bob jordan was at the jail this morning and met up with some heavyweights of the world of chess. you make good decisions and refrain from negativity. they have plenty of times on their hands. and idle time is the devil's workshop and so of the sheriff started a new program for detainees at could county jail that schedules time to play chess. i am looking to play better players and become good. on this day the gu

harris died in 1828 wilson and the other harris sued the estate of john r. harris and claimed part of his business as their own. but on this day they're all friends. they're all getting along. and they get on the steamboat. and as they pull away from buffalo mile the mexican advance scouts appeared and started shooting at them. so now you've got the government, which is one battle away from being in exile, chugging down the buffalo bayou, which is now the houston ship channel, escaping the mexicans. it was just -- it was about this close. so now the government is on this steamboat. in the meantime the land speculators arrive back in lynch's ferry. they took a boat all the way to lynch's. gray and triplett get out there. and sterling neblitt who's the one who advanced the money, he gets on his horse and he's riding straight to harrisburg. they said get your signature on that contract, get the government to endorse this land that we just picked out on galveston island. so he is riding as hard as he can, straight toward harrisburg, and he is going to run smack

karen hunter, john harris, thank you both. could be an interesting day today at john edwards corruption trial in north carolina. the defense will get its long awaited chance we believe to cross-examine the prosecution's star witness, andrew young. of course, he is the former aid that wrote a tell all book about the scandal. for two days he has been on the stand telling how edwards used money from wealthy donors to keep his mistress quiet and presidential hopes alive. edwards denies knowing about the money and the defense claims young used a lot of it to build a million and a half dollar home >> cleveland attorney andrew samtoy had an idea to boost small businesses. a call goes out on social media for consumers armed with $20 to did he send on a local small business and it caught on and now they're being organized around the country. ♪ [ male announcer ] 1 in 6. that's how many struggle with hunger in america. ♪ but what if there was a simple way to feed those in need? now there is. just buy select brands at walmart's low p

harris harris president of the tennessee firearms association expressed outrage when republican state officials refused to support a gun bill that would allow people to bring guns to work even if they left them in their car harris said that house republican caucus chaired debra maggart should be quote politically. in the wake of the trayvon martin shooting scharnhorst wants to turn our office places in the scenes of the wild wild west and a mythical one at that and he's invoking the same kind of political hatred that nearly killed representative gabby giffords that is very dear. coming up this week another car with mad cow disease was found in the u.s. what are officials calling to an isolated incident but what if the likes of paul ryan and rand paul got their way with their government facing a madly epidemic of bad code is exactly why i thought i was deluded. is he. new york this last sunday thirty three people were arrested outside a military drone base at hancock airfield more than one hundred fifty activists turned out to protest the ongoing use of unmanned drones running missions

. >> about his life john harris and has worn many hats. as an army infantry officer, he earned a purple heart and a silver star. he then became a successful trial lawyer, teaching part time at georgetown. but he always wanted to be a high school social studies teacher. >> it is hard to describe -- cut the school just fired him. >> the way that i was treated and the way they treated other teachers, it is umbrageous. >> that led to this. >> he was a hero to everyone. >> we are not going to be silent about this. >> more than 150 students came out to protest the firings. facebook pages have gotten thousands of supporters. >> i do not know what to do. >> the school said it could not discuss individual personnel matters. harrison says he planned to file an age discrimination lawsuit. he just wants his job back. the school's president to step down. when asked, he said he did not encourage the uprising. he did not try to quell it. the latter would go against everything he had taught his students. >> the blue crab population is booming. martin o'ma

said dan berman has the rest of the news. >>> thank you, john harris. we'll begin with breaking news. two white men have been arrested in tulsa for randomly shooting five people. all of the victims were black. the 19-year-old and 32-year-old will be charged three counts of murder with intent to kill. >>> pilot of a small airplane was seriously injured after crashing upside-down. they helped stabilize the pilot's head. no one on the ground was hurt. >>> the final round of the masters tees off today. it's a good one. with sweden's peter hanson in the lead but hard-charging phil mickelson is just one stroke back. >>> finally, i worry about this every day. a greek newscaster was pelted in eggs and yogurts during his show. 17 people broke into the studio to protest one of his guest. >> but why yogurt? >> it's greek. i don't know. >>> we're going to go to ginger zee with the weather. >> it's healthy. i would rather have yogurt than some other things, right? >>> let's start with the weather in the northeast, it's going to cool down in the next couple of days.

harris. april 8th. also coming up -- i love this story -- we'll show you how a reporter in an easter bunny suit nearly ruined the holiday for some kids. that and much more in the weekly pageant of the absurd that we call "fixation." >> so if it doesn't work out for both of us as anchors or reporters, we got the easter bunny to fall back on. >>> the famous high school teacher and his teen lover. jordan powers broke up with james hooker after she learned that he's facing charges of sexually abused another young woman more than a decade ago. tonya rivero has the told you so ending to this story. >> reporter: jordan powers wasted no time breaking up with her boyfriend and former teacher james hooker the day police came to their shared apartment to arrest him. >> he was just like, i love you, i'm sorry, i still want to be with you, but i'm not even believing a word he says now. i said, no, don't even bother. >> reporter: therapist bethany marshall, who interviewed the couple during happier times -

and dog, because of the new york time, next to our friend john harris from politico. diane sawyer asked ann romney about the dog. so let's take a look at this on abc. >> you said it was the most wounding thing in the campaign so far. >> crazy. the dog loved it. >> the dog got sick, right? >> once. we traveled all the time. he ate the turkey on the counter. he had the runs. >> you can't make it up. but as we take a look at matt's other political cartoons, this is a campaign that has focused on a lot of the silly and seamus is one of the silly moment. is it going to rise to the level of some of the other iconic moments one things of michael dukakis in the tank, telegraphs something about a candidate and resonates with voters, though it starts out as a silly moment? >> i think that's the hope of democrats, right? i think they're hoping that it sort of portrays mitt romney in a specific way and a lot of people who hear the story say, really? on the other hand i think this is the worst the democrats and come up with about mitt romney, it won't be the only thing, but in ter

. >> john harris is editor-in-chief and co-founder of politico. thanks so much. >> hi, andrea. >> cheney was there with liz cheney in wyoming. boy, did he go after president obama. is that spiesing to you? >> not really except in the context of his health. he's obviously been gravely ill, a heart transplant is among the most dramatic surgeries that anyone could have. if anyone thought the new heart was going to lead to a transformation of his views they're disappointed. he was very strong and forceful in his appearance. he's not out of it post surgery but the mess and was very consistent with one that we've associated with dick chainfully for more than a decade really while he was pressing his views within the bush administration and of course, he's been very vocal throughout the obama years. >> liz cheney has also been very vocal was tweeting recently the best answer to all the challenges we face is let's make barack obama a stay-at-home dad. she has been as tough on this administration as her dad. and i mean, there's even talk in wyoming of a po

garrett senior writer and catholic outreach coordinator at faith in public life john welcome harry to peter thank you thanks for joining us it is always i've always felt that the core of christianity was matthew twenty five it's the only place in the bible where the disciples actually say to jesus how do we get to heaven hang out with you and you says feed the poor. among other things you know feed the poor in water to the thirsty versus those who are in prison you know clothed with the naked which today would defeat you know how's the homeless and heal the sick and they all freak out because they say wait a minute we've never seen you hungry so we're doing and races as you did on the least of these you know the story of how is it that a party is the republican party which panders my word not yours to christian voters and catholic voters in particular. can do the exact opposite of the core teachings of christianity and yet still be you know calling this you know what i'm saying it truly is stunning i mean representative ryan seems to want to have this debate you know he specifically t

john harris is here with all of the details. >> reporter: this is a wild story. debbie stevens is out of a job and out of a kidney. arguing her boss used her and turned around and fired her. >> you know, the crazy thing? is that, actually, i actually feel ashamed. >> reporter: debbie stevens, a divorced mother of two, says she feels ashamed and humiliated for the decision of donating a kidney to help her former boss. stevens worked at the atlantic auto group. in september 2010, she offered to give her kidney to jackie brucia, one of the company's higher-ranking employees, who was sick and needed a kidney to survive. >> it's part of who i am. if i worked with you and thought you needed one, i would offer it to you. >> reporter: it turns out stevens was not a match. if stevens decided to donate her kidney on brucia's behalf, her boss would move up on the list. stevens did it. and both women had their surgeries. when they got back to work, stevens said her boss turned on her. >> it was pretty bad. yelling at me all day, every day, picking on me, scolding me, beratin

truman, john f. kennedy, scoop jackson. in my experience with him, joe lieberman is a statesman who takes positions on every important national issue, because he believes they best serve our country's interests and values. so thank you, joe, for your introduction, and more importantly, thank you for your example. i'm privileged to serve with you. i want to thank brookings for this opportunity. i wanted to contribute today a few thoughts of the current debate over america's role in the world, and in this the 21st century and i wanted to give this speech today to share with you my ompgss of someone who has a longtime interest in foreign policy but now finds him in the role of foreign policymaker. i'm always cautious about generalizations in politics. but until very recently the general perception was that american conservatism believed in robust and muscular foreign policy. that was certainly the hallmark of the foreign policies of both president bushs and of president reagan. but when i arrived in the

you want to know not only about john adams or harry truman but the people they -- who with their contemporaries. and so it drives history publications. >> who would be the third? >> well, i like -- i like the work of robert mann who is at louisiana state university, who wrote a book a few years back called "the walls of jericho" about a fight for civil rights legislation in congress from 1954 on through 1965. and focusing on hubert humphrey, lyndon johnson, and richard russell. robert mann then did a more recent book. he's done an abridgement of that book probably for classroom use and then he did a more recent book on russell lawn of louisiana, nice biography of him. >> anybody else? >> oh, i like -- in terms of institutional history, i like my friend ross baker, no relation, up at rutgers university, who has written two very good books on the senate. one in the 1980s called "friend and foe in the senate" about the nature of friendship in the senate. and he really does a lot of interviews. he doesn't attribute who told him what, but he got into the fiber of the institution. and he's done anoth

john harris has a story saying mitt romney and barack obama are actually an even match in the general election. what's he talking about? >> it's a good anecdote with allen west. for as freaky as politics are. for as dysfunctional, the politics produced two candidates whether you like the candidates or not who are pretty sane. who are fairly moderate inside their party, have functional families, unlikely to see the scandal that we've seen from past presidential candidates and past presidents. it does ply in the face of everything else we're seeing in politics today. which is dysfunction from top to bottom. part of it is, i do think you have to be sane, have tons of self-control and self-discipline to make it through this nasty process. it stands in sharp contrast to the congress that we're producing, which is getting exponentially more dysfunctional and will be worse next year. >> it puts the period at the end of the sentence in terms much your column for politico. i believe the title was crazy never wins. >> what about six months ago, made a lot of people on the far right angry. jim,

robert brookings here and john keynes as well as harry dexter white took the opportunity even in the midst of a crisis to think about the future and beyond the crisis. they seized the day to carpe diem that is known to probably most of you. now, you are characters who decided to embrace that spirit of seizing the day, seizing the moment or carpe diem with the extraordinary work that did you at the time when the soviet union actually fell into pieces and you kamal as a courageous brave minister of economy and finance in turkey when you implemented reforms that actually helped your country to be in a much better following its crisis. now, that expert of seizing the moment has also inspired the g-20 leaders at the time when they all con gre gated in washington, d.c. in 2008 and later in 2009 in london and that was called at the time the london moment they all decided that collectively they should actual -- actually seize the moment address the issues courageously and look a little bit beyond what was the immediate you are general si. -- urgency. i believe that we may be at another one o

truman through john f. kennedy and joop jackson. in my every experience with him, it's been evident that joe leader man is a statesman to takes positions on every important national issue because he believes they best serve our corrupt's interests and values. so thank you, joe, for your introduction and more importantly thank you for your example. i'm privileged to serve with you. i want to thank brooks for this opportunity. i wanted to contribute food a few opportunities on the current debate other ever over america's role in the world in this the 21 century. and i wanted to give this speech today to share with you, my observations of someone who has a long-term interest in foreign pol. >> i'm calls cautious about generallizations in politics but until recently the general perception was that is american conservativism believed in robust and muscular foreign policy. that was certainly the haul the foreign policies of both president bushes and of president reagan. but when i arrived in the senate last year,

senator john grasso goes "on the record." but right now, the television legend, the one and only dick clark. >> welcome to american band stand. this is dick clark. >> ladies and gentlemen, here's chubby checkers. >> dick clark! >> how long have you been making professional records? >> i think about -- about two years. >> do what do your dreeps reflect? >> to rule the world. >> anybody who was anybody appeared on the show, with the exception of elvis pressley, the beatles and the rolling stones. >> this is the coldest new year's we have ever had on a good thing called -- american bandstand! [cheering] >> caller: today, dick clark died from a massive heart attack. he was 82. he will always be remembered as a tireless producer. larry king knew dick very well. larry, always great to see you from los angeles. >> great seeing you, greta. >> caller: larry, why was dick clark so successful, do you think? >> i think he was every man. he was -- he was gentle. he was smart. in fact, he was brilliant in many regards. he understood the bu

john, you first. >> well, harry truman said if you want a friend in washington, get a dog. i think that the likability factor is part of all this. do dogs like you? well, if dogs like you, then the american people will like you so maybe it will have an impact. but i think this whole thing about seamus is overstated. any dog i know likes to have their head out the window. >> what about you? >> yeah, they'd like to be in the car. that's the point. no, but i think that -- you know, look, this is such a bizarre kind of incident. it's like something out of a national lampoon movie. will it have an effect? there are some people who really, really believe their dog is a member of their family so it might impact that vote. i think jackie is right, it's going to come down to an issue of the economy, but the romney folks would be making a mistake if they ignored this. >> jackie, what are your thoughts on dog gate? >> i think it's just that. i think it's fun for a lot of people to talk b it's entertainment. but at the end of the day, yeah, it could -- the obama administration has been

i am harris falkner. now back to john stossel. >> after september 11th politicians said government must take over airline security. >> you get federal law enforcement to do this job. >> he said you can't professionalize if you can't federalize. the senate voted 100 to 0 to take over airport security screening. >> so is it now professional? these people don't think so. fliers complain that they are -- >> subject to disgusting abuse of powers. >> tsa plemployees ordered the woman to remove her soiled diaper because it was preventing a good pat down. >> didn't the tsa keep them safe? >> there haven't been successful attacks since september 11th. you might say that shows it's working. >> every report shows that tsa missed things what saved us is the passenger and crew. >> he helped create the tsa. now he chairs the transportation committee. >> richard reid it wasn't the tsa that saved the day. if you look at the diaper bomber with the passenger and crew that saved the day. the times square bomber called on hi

harry dextyer white, an american man, and in englishmen named john maynard keynes figured that out because they lived through the hardship and devastation of the first half of the century when countries pulled apart and sometimes toward each other apart. and they were determined to have a better world. who were they? there were the founders of the imf. the idea behind the imf was simple -- if countries were together in a common interest and help each other in times a week, everybody would prosper together. now this idea was important in 1944. it is equally important today. so what is the imf? that is a question i asked myself when i decided to join. and i had to keep it simple for myself and for everybody else for that matter. sophistication is a while you try to erect to prevent people from understanding. the irs isn't -- the imf is a giant credit union with 187 members, nations. they cooperate together with one single purpose -- better financial stability. and what we at the imf to, and we are a conduit between them so that in case any of the 187 members is in trouble, then the others ca

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or dean or harry ♪ ♪ let's get in step with the guy that's hep ♪ ♪ get in step with ike >> i like ike became rather iconic. but short of having a name that rhymes with "like" what makes a successful slogan? >> in that particular situation, it was hard not to like ike. he led the invasion of normandy and it worked. so what a slogan has to do is reflect a brand promise. something that people believe that that individual can accomplish and matters to them. a slogan isn't just a catchy phrase to sort of cover up things. a slogan is intended to really reflect in fact what that person can accomplish and those two have to mesh. and if they don't it becomes very apparent. the politics is littered with slogans that didn't work. >> remember, also, that it's not just about a brand promise. it also slogans are about a point of contrast when former president bill clinton talked about putting people first, that was as much a slogan about what he would do, as it was a critique on what was not happening in the country. which is part of why i go back to one of the reasons i like the idea of "yes, we c

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i think that undercuts the attacks on john boehner. i think the public gets that. >> i don't think the public separates the senate from the house. congress's approval rating is 19% or is it 9%? i can't remember what. >> one republican. >> it's a pox on both their houses. the senate doesn't get anything accomplished, in part because of the rules of the senate. you to have 60 votes before you can accomplish anything. >> they're avoiding budgeting. >> that's the thing. the budget includes taxes. the budget includes entitlements. the budget includes spending. the budget includes debt. they won't even take it up. aren't they a target, bob costas? >> you know what is really bigger target, if people say they don't care about the budget, they do care about the scandal like the gsa scandal. when they see government out of control, that's a real tangible example people can say we want to get government, rein it in and pass some better budgets. that's what people really pay attention to. >> this is one of the most tenuous connections i've ever he

harris. >> harris: excellent. i don't want to miss it they played a little music going to you a little while ago. did i not know you had your own intro. very beautiful. >> thanks, harris. [ laughter ] >> harris: i love making him law laugh. thanks, carl. delay expansion of the controversial keystone xl pipeline until after the election. even though one democratic congressman says the president has quote made a very serious mistake here, end quote. this week nearly 70 democrats voting with the g.o.p. to pave the way for the pipeline construction. only 47 democrats approved a similar vote last year. today the white house reminding everyone president obama has promised to veto this new bill. >> partisan efforts to attach it to something and basically to say to the american people it doesn't matter, even though it's coming from a foreign country, even though it's built by a foreign company and crossing our borders let's accept it that's unacceptable to this president. >> harris: other state officials have voiced. poin

this is john. >> is it you? >> i did not win and i'm not dan harris. two mysteries solved. it was the biggest lottery prize ever. but who won it? in kansas, a winner has come forward, sort of. who is this kansas kajillionaire? >> we give the $218 million to the winner. yay. >> reporter: a big happy face atop an average, androgynous body. this is anonymous. the winner of kansas' chunk of last week's jackpot. >> kansas law allows the person to remain anonymous. that person has chosen that option. >> reporter: so, what do we know about him? or her? anonymous called friday morning and showed up a few hours later to collect. anonymous chose the lump sum. that's $157 million. and apparently, anonymous didn't even know he or she had the winning ticket until monday, two days after the drawing. >> the person had good legal counsel, good financial adviser, and the person looks forward to retirement. >> reporter: so, somewhere in the town of ottawa, kansas, population 13,000, where the ticket was sold, someone's a whole lot richer. maybe in a ferrari. maybe in a speedboat. there are g

new photos of prince harry dancing the night away. looks like john travolta on "saturday night live" there. >> happy april fools' to you lester. i was following your tweets. were you there putting the extermination sign -- >> yeah, if you go on my twitter, i put a sign on her dressing room that says closed for insect extermination. i was just rolling with my phone. >> you guys having fun out there. >> that's okay. she's getting me back. >> we will look forward to that. thank you, lester. >>> we didn't do any april fools' jokes. why? >> it's not too late. >> the show is not over yet, right? >> three millionaires don't want anybody to know about their new fortune. so far they have not come forward. we know one of those people stuck it rich in baltimore county. we visited the 7-eleven where they bought their ticket. >> reporter: it's not daren tucker. >> this money was going to change my life, man. >> reporter: if you ask him, his loss was baltimore's loss. >> i was going to give back to the community and do something good to the city of

truman through john f. kennedy and "scoop" jackson. in my every experience with him, it's been evident that joe lieberman is a statesman who takes positions on every important national issue because he believes they best serve our country's interests and values. so, thank you, joe, for your introduction and, more importantly, thank you for your example. i'm privileged to serve with you. i want to thank brookings for this opportunity. i wanted to contribute today a few thoughts on the current debate over america's role in the world in this, the 21st century. and i wanted to give this speech today to share with you my observations of someone who has a long-term interest in foreign policy, but now finds himself in the role of foreign policy-maker. i'm always cautious about generalizations in politics, but until recently the general perception was that american conservatism believed in robust and muscular foreign policy. that was certainly the hallmark of the foreign policies of both president bushes and of pre

so harry reid tells representative john micah that he needs to get a life. reid is not happy with this gsa inquiry. that congressman will join us with his thoughts on why that might be. why would harry reid be so upset about this whole thing and the senate now says that after three years without putting forth a budget, i think they'll wait 'til after the election. we'll talk about that coming up at the top of the hour "america's news room" . hmmm. fohalf the calories plus vgie nutrition. could've had a v8. [ male announcer ] while othe are content to imitate, we'll contin to innovate. the lexus rx. why settle for a copy when you can own the original? see your lexus dealer. i'm more active, i eat right, i'm making changes to whesupport my metabolism.inal? and i switched to one a day women's active metabolism, a complete women's multivitamin, plus more -- for metabolism support. and that's a change i feel good about. [ female announcer ] from one a day. >> gretchen: recent poll revealed that one in five people between the ages of 18 and 34 are still given an a