there s a difference between cynicism and skepticism. i m glad he s a healthy skeptic. cynicism is a risk factor for sudden death from premature heart disease. thanks to larry for letting me sit in the chair tonight. it was a pleasure. ac 360 starts right flow. good evening, again, i m erica hill. a 360 exclusive in the case of the american father trying to get his son home from brazil for the last five years. only on 360 the boy s grandfather is speaking out. the latest on today s court ruling that could finally bring this heart wrenching story to a close. also ahead, the raw politics of health care reform and especially your bottom line. just what you ll pay, how much you ll save, and how much money was spent trying to influence lawmakers. we ve got it all. a bit later why anderson really wanted to be out of the office tonight. or better yet out of the country. we ve made a list, we ve checked it twice and we have it for you. awkward, embarrassing, down right stra
wrote memos trying to legally justify torture? you won t believe what somebody did while he was teaching a law class. all that and more this hour on msnbc. good afternoon, everyone. i m tamron hall. i m david shuster. we ll begin this hour with a market alert. the dow just topped the 9000 mark for the first time since january with strong corporate prafts a profits and rebounding home sales leading the way. the nasdaq at 1973. a great rally today. the dow is above 9000 for the first time since january. now, the big picture, president obama is changing his time line for health care reform. just a short time ago at a town hall meeting in ohio, the president said it s okay if he doesn t get a bill on his desk by next month. i just want people to keep on working. just keep working. i want the bill to get out of the committees and then i want that bill to go to the floor, and then i want that bill to be reconciled between the house and senate, and then i want earlier to
the asbury park press. and he s the author of the become chris christie. thanks for coming by on a saturday. bob, let me start with you. how far does this report go in clearing the governor? well, if you re the governor, you think it s 150%. okay. however, the rest of us who looked at it said, what s the rush? there are so many unanswered questions. why did he rush this out? and there s a couple of interesting theories about that. among them? one is that he wanted something to carry to las vegas because the word was that adelson was having questions about whether he could be elected. so here he goes. he brings in this big report. he throws it on his desk and says, here, i m innocent, see there. that s what this report says. and the other is, when you had samson resigning as chairman of
we ll bring chris christie s speech when it happens live here on nbc. as governor christie gets set to speak in vegas this hour, he continues to beat back criticism that the internal review that his own administration commissioned is a whitewash, as the editorial boards called it. this is what christie called megan kelly last night. why should the people trust this report? first of all, there are six former federal prosecutors who have worked a long time in their lives to develop reputation. i don t think they throw away that reputation for me or anybody else by doing some slipslod job. we got these pictures on september 11th of last year. the day david wildstein alleged that he told governor christie about those bridge lane closures. something christie says he has no recollection of. bob engel is a columnist for