on both sides andic that s something that he can count on on. and i think the earlier part of that story that you read in which pretty well described the strategy. we don t have a new obama, it s a new strategy. and it s one in which he ll press the case and press it in public. and i think so far it s working. you wrote about the more visionary obama and a sort of return to liberalism, if you will, or at least it s now okay to say liberal in a way that maybe it hasn t been in a while. what do you make of john s comment that this isn t a new obama, it s a new strategy? if you read obama s books which is why i fell for the guy, reading him will, it s no surprise that he is essentially a liberal. he s essentially in that tradition. and it s a proud tradition. he doesn t use the word himself. but the fact that the new york times a banner headline and all
featured today in headlines like this that did appear in a few of today s papers. congressman kevin yoder s nude swim yields an apology. representative yoder apologizes for skinny dipping in sea of galilee. gop colleagues, yoder s nude swim breaches trust. politico had the story first, posting this banner headline that s, exclusive:fbi probed gop trip with drinking, nudity in israel. it apparently happened during a congressional delegation to israel last summer. a group of republican congressmen brought to israel by a foundation connected to a pro-israel lobbying group. and one night, some members of the delegation went to this restaurant that is right on the sea of galilee. you know, the one you read about in the bible. not the restaurant, but the sea. the restaurant is called decks. and you can apparently jump right off one of the decks into the water, into the sea. and reportedly about 20 members of this delegation did just that. and all of the swimmers can kept at least some of t
one town being described as an island. we ll talk with the mayor of duluth straight ahead. sandusky bombshell. an adopted son of the penn state coach claims he too was molested by his father, and he s offering to testify. will new charges be filed? we re live at the courthouse. plus oh, my god. you re so fat. karen, you re fat. southwest airlines reached out to us today. they d like to send you and nine people to disneyland in california. you ve got to be kidding me. the bullies who taunted and teased karen klein humbled today after the jokers fess up and say we re sorry. karen is stunned by all the support. happy friday. newsroom begins right now. good morning to you. i m carol costello. we begin this morning with your money. less than 30 minutes from now, wall street tries to rebound from a double whammy. one of its worst days in months. major american banks slammed by ratings agency moody s. bank of america, goldman sachs, jp morgan chase, morgan stanley,
parade editor-in-chief maggie murphy came up with the idea for a cover, and there it is. this week s sunday parade magazine features andy and his wonderful mom, evelyn, talking about their special mother-son relationship, just in time for mother s day this sunday and for the release of andy s book, most talkative out this week. look who s in new york this week. mike allen, the chief white house correspondent from politico with a look at the playbook. good morning, guys. happy friday. there it is. b, great mother s day gift, mika s book. look at you? is she paying you for these plugs? knowing your worth. that s very, very little. that s a lost cause for jon meacham. so there s a banner headline. armageddon in wisconsin. what do you remember? well, we do do subtlety very well. just four weeks from now, the recall election of the governor scott walker is turning into a dress rehearsal for the general election.
he calls his new york girlfriend, some of those events, in fact, were not things in which genevieve cook took part. what s the explanation for that? well, according to a politico.com reporter today, it s obviously a scandal. the president made something up in his memoir. the president lied! obama admits new york girlfriend was composite, a fact not noted in dreams from my father. and then that tweet links to a politico.com article making the same claim, president obama lied in his memoir. and that of course was picked right up by the drudge report, which gave the scandal the banner headline, obama admits fabricating girlfriend in memoir. this new york girlfriend in the book is actually multiple people, it s a composite, and he never says that in the book! except, uh, look at that, he does say that, right in the book. it s right there in the introduction of the book.