. >> john: why? >> because this is a regulated industry. >> john: how much do you get paid lobby for this. >> my right is $775 an hour. >> i can't blame him, but don't husband 80 me. >> john: so you are paid by the taxi king, jerry schaffer. >> i'm being paid not him. >> john: keep the little guys out. >> kings, queens and jacks. >> poor folks pay lobbyists. if he gets his regulation, poor people won't be taxi entrepreneurs. >> only a few will be able to afford it. >> john: washington has been an open place for taxi to become a taxi driver so why monkey with it. >> folks have different legislation, our charge is to implement it. >> john: how many laws have you gotten past? >> very active. >> john: ever repeal any. >> no, we haven't appealed any. >> john: it makes it much harder ♪ [ male announcer ] want your weeds to hit the road? hit 'em, with roundup extended control. one application kills weeds, and stops new ones for up to four months. roundup extended control. gettsometimes what you needpoint

>> it's a great book, john. there are stories in there that people are fairly well read if they haven't been watching all your shows will find new. the chart that you have on osha and how workplace accidents were falling before we had the osha law and you can't tell any difference. >> look, osha saved all these workers. then a researcher looks a line before osha, slope of the line is about the same. >> so there is a lot of interesting facts and pieces of analysis in there like that. also your theme as sarah palin was just talking about intuition. our intuition leads us a as stray about thinking about economics and politics. >> john: big one is planning. it's intuitive that life is a plan. president obama is so smart all the people in d.c. seem to be so smart. they should plan for us. >> that is right there. is a general sense in our own lives we need to plan. you can't put together a tv show without a lot of planning. you can't put together the apple computer company without a lot of planning. yet when the gover

in the same vein john gads by took out a runaway advertisement for john how and his mother. john how is about 25 years old. his free mother, sarah howe was about 40 to 50. john gads by offered reward for both of their captures. again, the evidence slows to a crawl in about 1818 just before gads by sells his indian queen hotel. in 1819 he announced his retirement from the public life and sells his lands, livestock, coaches from his passenger and mail line and states 20 or 30 enslaved people were to be hired out. it is highly likely he sold many of the people he had in 1810 and may have purchased while he had the hotel in baltimore. the census record for 1820 states he only had 15 people, about a third of the people he had in 1810. there are no records that he freed anyone. and even accounting for deaths and runaways it is very likely he sold at least 30 since he wouldn't have even had a place to house them. john gads by stated he was retiring from the public life. it's clear that upon arriving in d.c. he did anything but. he purchased franklin house in 1823 and later in 1827

members of john's unit were told he committed suicide after receiving a dear john letter from elizabeth it was alleged that the letter of been found with his body. i think me personally handling. one more thing while i wouldn't ever proven there for him or anything would happen as and i'm right you're right i don't think i would ever do that rumors continued to reach the family from soldiers returning from afghanistan in the weeks following john's funeral talk of a dear john letter gave way to speculation that he may have been killed for speaking out about here when you said bag room john had told his father months before that heroin was everywhere on base and the two members of his unit had been sent home for using the drug war the ploy after his death the family learned he was openly critical of the army's lack of response to the heroin issue bolstering john's accusations was an article by investigative journalist seymour hersh in april of two thousand and four person reported that retired military and cia officials had told them there were increasing reports of heroin use by american

>> john: is everything illegal in america today? >> i go to six or seven cans, enough to scare the crap out 6 you. >> they thought we this cocaine in tires. >> how can you tell me what i should or shouldn't eat. most americans support laws against prostitution but what if it were legal? what if drugs were legal. one country tried that. >> i think it's working. >> john: but not in america. americans keep passing more rules. >> what are we going to find illegal tomorrow? >> show me in the man and i'll show you the crime. you followed me around you would find three felonies? >> that is under statement. >> john: in america these days everything is illegal. what is more american than opening an lemonade stand? who is first? thank you very much. >> for years, kids that set up stands like this but today watch out. the police may bust you. >> i was like really scared because i didn't know what was going to happen. we had lemonade in front yard for three days and third day they shut us down. >> i could hear them from inside at my house, girl

today is the first day of the trial of john edwards. you remember john edwards. once one of the brightest rising stars of the democratic party. ran for president. john kerry's running mate. ran for president again. and then he started getting in trouble. he was cheating on his wife, elizabeth who has since passed away of breast cancer. and so what john edwards -- this trial, if you ask me is a total colossal waste of money. and you talk about the federal government out of control. this is a prime example, i believe. so, here's what the facts in this case are. edwards is charged with six counts of abuse of campaign funds. okay? and he's being pursued by the obama justice department and by the federal attorney down in north carolina. the facts of the case are back in 2007-2008 when he was running for president, he was having this affair with this woman rielle hunter, had a kid by her if you recall. and he knew this could blow up and destroy his chances. so, he asked a couple of friends to -- who were supporters of his campaign to help him out. and to give this woma

online that that can be the residue itself and that's very interesting what do you think about that john because it's like the media is the message we go back to the very beginning of television. well first of all i don't think of the internet generally speaking as a medium it's more like an environment and i think that matters ok because part of what's going on here is people who are otherwise isolated in opinion and are fearful of that opinion being divulged in their context are suddenly made aware of the fact that many other people share that opinion they have a place that they can gather and find out that they're not alone that makes a huge difference now if they're also sharing it with a whole bunch of armchair revolutionaries and i've been one in some of these cases but it's an interesting case where the armchair revolutionaries can actually make a difference in the sense that ok john just you know i would be contrary you know is what is the difference ok just to be contrarian what is the difference a difference but the difference is that the aware of what's going on on the ground

he talks about john brown at length. so i think it contributes to getting the other nomination and the other effect it has is that it begins the furry in the south. we can't trust any northerner, so that steven douglas, who has sort of seemed the likely democratic nominee, who could unite north and south, the party is split. douglas is one nominee, and then another democratic nominee, breckenridge. and then a whole other party forms. when you have the november election, no for candidates in the field and lincoln wins with less than 40% of the vote. if i had to guess i would say if you hadn't had the raid, probably douglas would have become president who was a northerner who was very conciliatory towards the south, and this whole war would have been deferred for at least another four years. and who knows. i mean, then any number of other scenarios could have unfolded. so that's just a guess. i mean, but it's a significant -- >> it's more than significant, and it's so compelling. because that, of course, you just unrolled

we were protesting. >> john: why? it's just common sense to do it that way. >> it's common sense to you and me but it was counter to what the district had always done. it's the way that unions operate. >> john: but it cheats the good young teachers. >> forget the young teachers. how about the kids? >> john: test scores went up when she was chancellor, but in the end the unions won. >> we're going to fight. we have to be here all day and all night. >> the mayor appointed her was out and rhee quit before she was fired. so she lost in d.c. but elsewhere in america, all sorts of new schools are succeeding and exciting things are happening. e announcer ] want your weeds to hit the road? hit 'em, with roundup extended control. one application kills weeds, and stops new ones for up to four months. roundup extended control. align can help. only align has bifantis, a pantented probiotic that naturally helps maintain your digestive balance. ♪ ooh baby, (what) can i do for you today? ♪ try align today. chocolate lemonade ? s

i'm john king. tonight, arizona's crackdown on illegal immigration gets a surprisingly sympathetic hearing at the u.s. supreme court. we'll ask the state's republican governor, jan brewer, about the political fallout with latino voters if the court uphold her get-tough policy. >>> also, mitt romney follows up on his 5 for 5 primary sweep by asking newt gingrich for an endorsement and it looks like he'll get it. >>> plus, syria cease-fire in shambles. why the world's leading powers seem so powerless. >>> let's start this evening with today's high-stakes showdown at the u.s. supreme court, where arizona's controversial crackdown on illegal immigration seemed to get quite a sympathetic reception from the justices. the obama administration contends the law steps on powers that are exclusive to the federal government, but as cnn's kate balduan reports here, there may be a majority of justices who see things differently. >> reporter: inside the courtroom, the conservative majority appeared to lean toward

that money was spent for the benefit of the john edwards for president campaign, not just for john it edwards the man. and $900,000 being spent on that is way over the limit. for how much you can legally donate to a campaign. remember when we thought there were limits on how much money you could give to a campaign? the john edwards trial is unprecedented, nobody has been indicted on charges like this before, let alone in the wild, wild west world of campaign finance no rules that the supreme court has created with citizens united and all the other campaign finance laws they have killed in the last few years. just for some perspective, sheldon allison, the casino billionaire and his family, they have spent more than 16 times as much money as implicated in the john edwards scandal on newt gingrich in the 2012 republican presidential primary. at least there eticly this case is not about whether or not john edwards is a bad guy. it is not about whether john edwards was a bad candidate. for all the salacious detail here, ultimately this whole sex scandal now boils down to whether he took c

>> eight years a month. >> john: maybe he was a repeat offender. >> john: any trouble allow the before this? >> worst thing i had a speeding ticket. >> john: what happened to aware business? >> i went broke. >> john: your family? >> they broke up. my kids are back home with their mother. that is the story. >> john: i assume these attorneys general they are not evil people. they are ambitious and want to make a name for themselves but they don't want to hurt people that didn't do nasty things. most are not evil but there are a lot of fanatics. >> prosecutors have noticed that other prosecutors like eliot spitzer, senator richard bloom an that will won high office with conviction records. >> they will comb the books and find something. >> this could happen to you. they can take any law they think you broke and take you to trial. whether you win or lose you are going to lose. by the way you done fighting, you are broke. >> john: the government never goes broke. they must have spent million dollars. >> i heard they spent five millions. >> the amount of money bankrupts. >> i have clients th

in the same vein john gadsby took out a runaway advertisement for john howe and his mother. john howe is about 25 years old. his free mother, sarah howe was about 40 to 50. john gadsby offered reward for both of their captures. again, the evidence slows to a crawl in about 1818 just before gadsby sells his indian queen hotel. in 1819 he announced his retirement from the public life and sells his lands, livestock, coaches from his passenger and mail line and states 20 or 30 enslaved people were to be hired out. it is highly likely he sold many of the people he had in 1810 and may have purchased while he had the hotel in baltimore. the census record for 1820 states he only had 15 people, about a third of the people he had in 1810. there are no records that he freed anyone.aneven accounting and runaways it is very likely he sold at least 30 since he wouldn't have even had a place to house them. john gadsby stated he was retiring from the public life. it's clear that upon arriving in d.c. he did anything but. he purchased franklin house in 1823 and later in 1827 opened the natio

helped john edwards hide the affairs and had john edwards mistress history with him. and he admitted he spent "substantial amount of money," from the two john edwards supporters on building his own $1.5 million house and today that former aide said he thought someone was going to kill him during the back road meeting where he asked john edwards to go public. the jury must decide whether the money from the donors was campaign money and if so, whether the former presidential candidate knew about them. now defense lawyers are grilling that former aide who admitted to lie about much of the details of john edwards' affair and personally profit from hit. it is the top story and jonathan is on it this afternoon in north carolina. why did andrew young say he was so frightened on the back road meeting? >>jonathan: well the meeting took place inside john edwards' s.u.v., and young says john edwards was driving the s.u.v. himself which was a rarity, he seems flustered, and young said john edwards was driving erratically and this is the meeting where he confronted john edwards an

he and john edwards had it out. john edwards would not clear his name and say rielle hunter had had his baby, and the rest is history, of course. andrew young wrote a tell-all book about it and here we are, john? >> a lot of sordid details as we get to the key question, whether campaign finance violations. joe johns tracking that. >>> and tonight the presidential race enters a new phase. as president obama prepares to take on mitt romney, we're focusing on the issues that will decide the election, starting with jobs. >>> and later, the arizona governor jan brewer explains why she feels very confident after today's big supreme court hearing on her state's immigration law. see life in the best light. [music] transitions® lenses automatically filter just the right amount of light. so you see everything the way it's meant to be seen. experience life well lit, ask for transitions adaptive lenses. according to the signs, ford is having some sort of big tire event. i just want to confirm a w things with fiona. how would y

he talks about john brown at length. so, one, i think it contributes thim o getting the other nomination and the other effect it has is that it begins the fury in the south. we can't trust any northerner, so that steven douglas, who has sort of seemed the likely democratic nominee, who could unite north and south, the party is split. douglas is one nominee. there is another democratic nominee, breckenridge. and then a whole other party forms. when you have the november election, no for candidates in the field and lincoln wins with less than 40% of the vote. if i had to guess, i would say if you hadn't had the raid, probably douglas would have become president who was a northerner who was very conciliatory towards the south, and this whole war would have been deferred for at least another four years. and who knows. i mean, then any number of other scenarios could have unfolded. so that's just a guess. i mean, but it's a significant -- >> it's more than significant, and it's so compelling. because that, of course, you just

ok john i'd like to go back to you and me be this i'm always the cynic on my own program here this is all about marketing it's about selling stuff it's selling bracelets and it's making yourself feel good about yourself that you made a contribution to something and you where if it's white or pink or blue and you wear it on your wrist and it shows that you're a real activist ok but some people call that slacktivism as well. you know the problem is that it's both. people need to feel some sense of engagement i actually think that it matters if you wear something like that on your wrist it matters if you have it in addition to wearing it on your wrist you're writing letters you're trying to become informed you're actually taking an interest in the overall pov political dynamic all those things can count if all you're doing is tweeting about it from afar. but i wouldn't say that it makes a big difference but i do believe that one of the things that came out of that film was the realization for many people that if they really think about marketing in a dynamic way for political causes that

and then obviously there is going-- john? john? john oliver. i -- >> good evening, jon, this is john oliver. reporting. (applause) john, i'm reporting live outside the seminole county courthouse in florida. >> jon: how-- you're there already. >> of course i'm [bleep] here already, jon. if this is going to be a real media [bleep] storm you need me reporting right from the middle of it, up to my waste in judicial excrement. i'm going to be front row center, jon, right in the seat. >> jon: you don't have to stake the courthouse out. >> right, right, should i come back to new york and cede my court front property to tubing or even wired for that matter, no way-- wyatt, when did you get down there. >> i left as soon as i saw oliver fly outdoor. when the stampede starts you're either part of the herd or you get trampled under foot. this going to be the trial of the millennium. >> he's right. people are already calling it the trial of the mill enyum. >> jon: who's calling it that way. >> wyatt cinac just did. >> yup, i did. >> good job. >> jon: we nee

john kennedy was wealthy. and people all over the world, when john kerry was killed, put his picture up. and it stayed there for years in their homes. that's because they felt he cared about them. he knew them. he knew what they were going through. you know, romney's problem is, he can't answer those people's questions. the president was talking about retraining today and about jobs. romney's endorsed a budget that would shred retraining and destroy 4.1 million jobs in the next two years while also shredding medicare. so he can't really answer the questions. he wants to take the department of education and reduce it to, i guess, nothing more than a kind of inquisition against teachers' unions. i mean, this guy can't answer the concerns of ordinary people. that's going to become clearer and clearer as this campaign goes on. >> here's the president on the republican budget proposals today. >> they decided to double down. instead of monitoring their views even slightly, you now have republicans in washington, the

john, thank you. thank you, gaye for sharing him a 2009 case, district number one versus holder, peyton -- that led to the house's 8-1 decision upholding the ruling. he was our firewall on the section 2 and section 5. he was the arbiter, the outside partner to the department of justice that wanted and needed to do right. finally the local attorney for the plaintiff in 2010, lewis v. city of chicago, in which a group of african-americans seeking tore firefighters, so that truth would be the call of the day. it is important to hold him up as the minnesota of armor who was nonviolent and he held as his victory call the constitution and laws that were passed to help the unempowered. the voting rights act is not the black voting rights act, it's the voting rights act to have one vote, one person for every single american. my hat goes off to john payton, i salute him as a soldier on the battlefield for justice, never wavering with his quiet demeanor but strength in the courthouse. i ask the naacp legal defe

joe johns is in greensboro. tell us what to expect over the next few weeks including the big names on the witness list. >> probably the biggest name of all on the witness list, john, is andrew young, the guy who was the north carolina advance man for john edwards, held a variety of other functions, very close to senator john edwards, and worked with him very closely. also, wrote a book about his experiences. he is the guy who in fact falsely took credit for fathering the child of rielle hunter, of course that child eventually turned out to be the child of senator john edwards. a big day in court here, of course, with andrew young taking the stand. he is probably going to be on for a couple more days. we also had opening statements here in greensboro, north carolina, the former senator being described by the government as a master manipulator while the defense said, sure, he lied about the affair, he lied about the baby, but he is not a criminal, and that of course is the novel question that the prosecution is ta

>>> stunning testimony in the john edwards trial. a former top aide details tens of thousands in hush money language and the nasty language he used when told his mistress was pregnant. >>> and less drama, but still a turning point in the presidential campaign. mitt romney banking on five more wins and newt gingrich the latest challenger to talk about packing it in. let's begin tonight with the breaking public health scare. a confirmed case of mad cow disease in california has the agriculture department here in washington on full alert. the fatal brain disease not only can be passed among cattle, scientists think an equally deadly variation can be transmitted to humans who eat contaminated beef or dairy products. the first confirmed case here in the united states in six years. elizabeth cohen joins us from the cnn center in atlanta. elizabeth, one of the reasons people get so scared is the potential. what does this mean for the food supply? >> you know, for this one cow that really -- this one cow doesn't have that much importance for

know john for it's very. well the dynamics of the writing are very consistent he has a print script we can see it in his samples we have some. looks like school notes or chapter notes it's called chapter twelve i don't know. but there are notes that he wrote and then we have some other. government looks like government related. documents to compare and i have a significant number of times so i was able to nail down some of the key ingredients in his own handwriting to compare so these are some of the characteristics that were true which is not as important as this because this is clearly. his kind of identifier. and so we've got the word doctors if we take his known writing we've got the word doctors in his known writing. right on the money. we've got the word writing. to which are connected. and we've got pain. which i can find. here's this pain here. yeah so we have it here and here and we have a terence well we always have to keep in mind the idea that writing is never exact every time you write there's a

john's church on the opposite edge of the common. the first episcopal service was celebrated there six months before the madison household returned to virginia. on jennings' return to washington, he counted about half a dozen homes facing the square. the one to which he attended was a colonial-style dwelling, two-stories plus attic high with cellar below. sitting on the square's northeast angle catty-corner to the church, the house was originally built for dolley's sister's family in 1820. dolley never had the opportunity to visit over the 20 years she was back in virginia, as much as she would have liked to, musing how happy i should be if montpelier joined washington. now she would alternate her living arrangements by season. winters in the city house, and summers at montpelier. as for jennings himself, his young manhood was behind him and he was still a slave. nevertheless, he applied his intelligence, experience and motivation over the intervening years, taking advantage of opportunities to pursue that most american of promises,

john: and these are all your kids. >> yes. hello, john. to hear their stories, it is like -- john: 8. your heart. >> it breaks my heart. she arrived in cambodia. john: nice to meet you. >> she had been sold in the brothel, a knife in her eyes. john: did they catch who did that to her? will the police get that man? >> no. john: now you have found a home and a mom. >> sister, sister. john: as somaly and her beautiful kids probably gave me a tour of the center, i could see she has created something very special, a place that gives these young survivors a chance for a brighter future. this is the library. >> yes. john: look at him. >> they make their own clothing. john: and their survivors and teach the girls how to sew, take care of themselves. they give other girls hope. there is a way to get out of this life. >> yes. john: what a good place for these kids to land. i loved meeting you. i know you have been through a lot, but you are in a good place. you have touched my heart. one of the best days i have spent in my life, in my life. thank yo

we begin with the trial of john edward, however. melinda henenberger is down there covering the trial. i want to start with melinda. this is a sad story. a sad story of a marriage coming apart, of deception, of infidelity, of cheating, also of money laundering. of all kinds of things allegedly. what happened today in the testimony? what did you hear in the testimony of andrew young, the star witness for the prosecution? >> well, when you say it's in many ways a sad story, that's so true. just to see john edwards' elderly parents sitting behind him, supporting him even now as they always have throughout his life, you can't not feel it for the family. andrew young as a witness today just seemed to me like a nightmare witness. i mean, so many inconsistencies, internal inconsistencies even in what he was saying. for example, saying john edwards did not want to know a thing about the scheme to keep the money flowing to his pregnant mistress. and yet because he wanted to preserve his viability, because he allegedly thought he was sure to

what did john edwards know? three, it belies common sense to think we will spend this money to hide the girlfriend but it is only to do that to benefit the wife and their marriage not to benefit his campaign. that just ... it defies common sense. >>shepard: it doesn't matter if he hid it from the wife but only if he hid it from the people. >>randy: here is the problem. arthur has done a fine job in, really, skirting the ultimate issue. >>shepard: the government is the real, real, terrible entity. >>randy: no, no. the government cannot prove their case beyond a reasonable doubt. if it were a crime to hold this pen in my left but not to hold knit my right and i hold it like this, do i commit the crime? the answer is, no. >>shepard: one with owe the other does not hold. >>randy: the fundamental problem, it is not a crime to give your money, give money to a mistress to be quiet. it is a crime to give the money to save an election were how can this jury figure out? >>arthur: common sense. ladies and gentleman of the

john? >> that leaves us just shy of a dozen members of the military. 11 secret service members involved. it sounds like at least for now the white house is standing by director mark sullivan. is that fair? >> reporter: yes. it's absolutely more than fair. jay carney says that the president has confidence in mark sullivan that he acted swiftly and appropriately in starting an investigation and keeping the president informed of what's going on, that the white house would like the secret service to handle the investigation and that it is their responsibility to do it sort of separately and on their own and that the white house respects the secret service for what it does every day. basically, it's their job and let them do it. and the way -- what i hear and sense, john, is that the white house really doesn't want to have to get involved in this one, more than they already are. and that they don't sense political fallout from this, at least not yet. john? >> at least not yet. our chief white ho

but andrew young helped john edwards in three key ways. one, he made clear that bunny mellon wanted nothing in return. two, he made sure mellon was told that these expenses were for personal matters, not political. and, three, andrew young said john edwards told him time and time again this was perfectly lawful. so andrew young may have made out the government's case, but he also helped john edwards. >> that's what i'm wondering about. it sounds like he made the case against the prosecution by saying this isn't a political expenditure. and this wasn't intended to be such by the one who gave the money, bunny mellon, the wealthy heiress. more was it described as such. it was simply a way to pay a family expenditure to keep a family problem secret. >> yes, i think it's all going to turn on how much you believe the part of andrew young's all over the map statements that says, you know, this was in john's mind a way to keep his campaign viable. that this was very crucial to his campaign because he had even after he suspended his campaign some k

ok john i'd like to go back to you i mean be this i'm always the cynic on my own program here this is all about marketing it's about selling stuff it's selling bracelets and it's making yourself feel good about yourself that you made a contribution to something and you wear every it's white or pink or blue and you wear it on your wrist and it shows that you're a real activist ok but some people call that slacktivism as well. you know the problem is that it's both. people need to feel some sense of engagement i actually think that it matters if you wear something like that on your wrist it matters if you have it in addition to wear you know on your wrist your writing letters you're trying to become informed you're actually taking an interest in the overall pov and the political dynamic all those things can count if all you're doing is tweeting about it from a foreign but i wouldn't say that it makes a big difference but i do believe that one of the things that came out of that film was the realization for many people that if they really think about marketing in a dynamic way for politi

john's absolutely right it wasn't a fairy tale it was a story and we always tell stories that's what we do in the media and that's true of social media as well as kind of the traditional mainstream media i mean i know i went into a classroom two nights ago to talk to undergraduates and and most of the people in the room had never heard of the l. or a connie before the video and i know that's that's kind of scary but with one hundred million people viewing it i suspect it's a large proportion of that hundred million and so again it's a small slice of attention but they're attending to it and most of them have not only had heard of it also have heard of the controversy over the over the video and so i think that more discussion is a good thing ok john do you think we'll see a repeat of invisible children because you think the next group of people who try to do something like this could be a lot more careful. well you know i think that was actually such a triumph i mean propaganda not just anybody is capable of doing such a thing and also i think we're you know that was one of the last

so you have john lawrence and tyrone garner sitting there -- according to john lawrence, when the police came in, he was sitting on the couch and tyrone garner was back in a kitchen area, which was visible from the front door, at the back of a dining room table as much as 15 feet apart. they were not having sex, never had sex, and so the police burst in and start questioning them about who has a gun. and for them, it comes out of noy where and he reacted quite angrily. he had been drinking a bit. he acknowledged that. so he was engaged in his own form of civil disobedience, and as i say in an interview about -- about six months before he died, he told me about what happened and said the police had told bald-faced lies about these two men having sex. he was very upset about it. and that's part of what drove him and, i think, tyrone garner -- it's part of what drove them to challenge the arrest, which they ultimately decided to do after some persuasion. >> host: yes. the story gets more interesting as it goes along. it's the case, isn't it, that john lawrence and tyrone garner 's preferenc

it is a real social and political problem, because people don't like the disparity. >> john, i am john -- i am james. i'd like to say that people are always reaching out something that they want, but without thought. we have changed from an opportunity country to an entitlement country. as an example, and i will be critical of both parties, they just keep getting into the system. i was speaking to a teacher in new york who is speaking to young ladies that are in high school and one is telling the other one, i'm going to become pregnant. in the process why? and she says because it will get me an apartment. they will give me $310 per month. she says if you ever do, and we get married, because they will stop you. [inaudible] the coverage keeps increasing and increasing -- >> t. want to let that woman starve on the street? >> why not? maybe it will stop her from having children. i don't know what i want, but you can't have parents out there with four or five children and expect the people around you should support you. let it be loud and clear by both political parties. i saw in the politi

you have john lawrence and tyron gardner, according to john lawrence when the police came, he was sitting on the couch, and tyron gardner was back in the kitchen area, which was visible from the front door at the back of the dining room table. as much as 15 feet apart. they were not having sex. they had never had sex. the police burst in and start questioning them about who has a gun. for them, it comes out of nowhere. he reacted to quite -- quite angrily. he had been drinking, heat knowledge that. he was engaged in his own form of civil disobedience. as i say in the interview, it was about six months before he died, he told me about what happened. the police had bald-faced lied about these two men having sex. that is part of what drove him and i think tyron gardner -- that's part of what drove them to challenge the rest, which they ultimately decided to do after some persuasion efforts. >> yes. the story gets more interesting as it goes along. it is the case, isn't it -- john lawrence and tyron gardner was to prefer to plead not guilty and say this was a totally false report. we were not

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i'm john seigenthaler, and this is "msnbc reports." when young girls disappear, it often becomes a huge national story. elizabeth smart, polly klaas, the heart-breaking case of carlie brucia, the florida sixth-grader who was kidnapped and killed while on her way home from a friend's house. in that investigation the amber alert system combined with media attention to help police find a suspect within days of carlie's disappearance. but sometimes young women disappear and no one notices. that's exactly what happened in this story. a string of women missing, and no one suspected a thing. it wasn't until years later that police were stunned to learn what had really been happening in their community, and who had been to blame. here's rob stafford. >> i heard the doors clanging open, and i heard "i'm back." >> i didn't know who it was going to be or what. >> the manicured suburbs of syracuse, new york, are an unlikely setting for the tale we're about to tell. a story of rape, bondage and victims whose screams no

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members of john's unit were told he committed suicide after receiving a dear john letter from elizabeth it was alleged that the letter of been found with his body parts to me personally. but i don't know one more thing why i wouldn't every group in there for him or anything would have his and i'm right here a lot of i don't think i would ever do that rumors continue to reach the family from soldiers returning from afghanistan in the weeks following john's funeral talk of a dear john letter gave way to speculation that he may have been killed for speaking out about heroin use of bag room jonna told his father months before that heroin was everywhere on days and the two members of his unit had been sent home for using the drug was a ploy after his death the family learned he was openly critical of the army's lack of response to the heroin issue bolstering john's accusations was an article by investigative journalist seymour hersh in april of two thousand and four person reported that retired military and cia officials had told him there were increasing reports of heroin use by american mi

to separate john edwards, the individual, and john edwards, the defendant if this criminal case. and if you are successful in doing that, this prosecution can safely go away. >>shepard: if you prosecute this you have a lot to work with. >>guest: as he listed one by one by one why he will not be liked. but you step back and look at it the prosecution and the 20 both have a hard time finding a fair jury. both sides have deficits. someone who, they are trying to apply a federal finance campaign laws. they are complicated. brad. it is hard to apply. and hard to say here are the facts. here is the law the convict this guy. and keep your emotions of what you think of the department, that is difficult. so, for the prosecution to stand up and the defense attorney to stand up and say, tell me, are you telling me the truth and i am trying to find a fair jury it will be really difficult. >>shepard: at key is what the money was. was this money a campaign donation? or was this money a personal gift? the defense wants the court to believe it was a personal gift. >>guest: you look at statute an

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him soon and will it be just john adams or john and abigal or john quincy adams or the entire family. >> this is open to discussion. the congress has passed the bill making it possible and the president has signed the bill. now we have to work out a location. i say we because i'm part of a group that's trying to see this happen. and it has to be a location that's in keeping with his importance. it's really a disgrace. there is no monument, no statue, nothing to john adams. in my opinion and the opinion of others, except for george washington, he is the most important american of that time, of that revolutionary, founding time. but if you want to know where i think it should be, i think it should not be another marble tomb and i don't think it should try to rival either the washington monument or the lincoln memorial or jefferson memorial in scale. i think it ought to be 18th century in scale. in other words, it should be modest in size. and i am promoting the best i can the idea that it will be the adams library of american letters and it will be a library open to visitors in a garde

. >> it is day two of damaging testimony against john edwards. testimony from the star witness' one-time best friend, could put edwards in prison for years. >>> also on the stand, superstar jennifer hudson. tearful testimony against the man accused of killing three members of her family. >>> donor fired. the worker canned after donating a kidney for her boss is demanding she give the organ back. >>> and just in time for the 11:00 news, bears taking over the weatherman's outdoor perch. >> that will get your attention. >>> good tuesday morning, everybody. i'm rob nelson. >> and i'm john muller, in for paula faris. she's on assignment. more of john edwards' sordid personal life will be made public today in his trial. >> his attorney even committed major sins. but she's out to prove he is not a criminal. abc's tahman bradley has more on the unfolding courtroom drama this morning. tahman? >> reporter: good morning. john edwards' attorney said while the former senator's actions may have been deplorable, they were not illegal. this is day two of the tri