and said, i believe them over my own intelligence agencies. katty kay, over my lifetime, which has been considerable, i have never seen a front page headline as i saw in the new york times on friday that absolutely staggered me and brought home so etch, so many events all-in-one story the president of the united states under investigation by the fbi for perhaps being suspicious that he was an asset of the soviet union, russia. today, we have government by paralysis here in the united states. the government of great britain collapsing. the president of the united states implying he would like to withdraw from nato. all you can think of is this is the greatest gift vladamir putin has ever been given in his life, the collapse of western political societies he sought to
says all of their savings are now gone, jon. jon: there is a new report about a blanket of oil across the floor of the gulf now? reporter: yeah, really calling into question those government reports a month or more ago about all of the oil apparently dissipating and gone. a university of florida researcher has been dropping a pipeline a mile down into the murky muddy bottom of the gulf of mexico bringing up oil samples and they are finding a 2-inch think layer of oil, 80 miles away from the deep horizon site itself. it s like a snowstorm comes in, drops a blanket of snow over a wide area, they are seeing that in ten out of 14 samples they ve taken. jon: that sounds awful. phil keating reporting live for us, tp eu, thank you. jenna: now to another story that has garnered international attention. american hiker sarah shourd reuniting with her mom after spending more than a year in
in the polls than o donnell is against democrat chris coons. today the chairman of that committee, john cornyn of texas, and his aides, having spent the last one # hours getting peppered with phone calls, they will give the maximum donation to o donnell s campaign of $42,000. that is a big development in o donnell s favor. this morning when i spoke to her, she hadn t yet from cornyn and was at that time expecting no help at all. here s what she said, despite the lack of help: i m very convinced that we can win, because before all this republican cannibalism, i was ahead in the polls, and you know, if we can put this behind us and do some damage repair, you know, then we can turn that two-point lead into a ten-point lead. reporter: now, here s the thing to understand. the $42,000 donation to christine o donnell s campaign is the maximum the committee can actually give her in cash but it s not
jon. jon: shannon bream live in washington, keep an eye on it, thanks. will do. jenna: right now a lawsuit years in the making is about to go to trial. at issue, whether tax dollars should fund a school s controversial educational program. critics say it s based on new age religion, but the demand for it is actually growing. adam housely is live in sacramento with this story. sacramento, california, i should say. adam, what makes this school so different and so controversial? well, first of all, jen kwrarbgs let s explain, it s a high school in sacramento, a charter school, which have become rather popular no matter what district you go and they follow the same standards, they use the same texts. the controversy surrounds that it s based on a 19th century philosopher, rudolph steiner and it s a holistic approach to education, it involves arts, music, and some people say while his education ideas were okay, some of his religious and science ideas are not and that s where the
country. is there any sort of reason for the fact that they re booming in popularity now? well, first of all, this one here, the test scores have gone up significantly. you look at the numbers, i can list them off but for people in the country, they don t understand testing methods but the numbers have gone up significantly since this school came into being, and a lot of parents like the fact, the way arts are brought into it, and certain teaching methods. so it s become popular, there are 43 schools in the country, this is the only high school in the country. that s where some of the parents are upset, because the two parents that filed lawsuits or leading the lawsuit, i should say, they believe their kid went to public schools in and they brought home one idea, the son was told you can basically formulate your own god. so that s where this controversy arises. and there are successes. so it s really a situation in california where education is a difficult not doing well in a lot