joe clementi. it s great to have you both here to talk about what you are doing now as a family. jane, i want to start with you. did you think at this point and it s hard to believe that two years has already gone by but that you would be here at this point with a new mission to keep tyler s memory and legacy alive in a positive direction? hi. thank you, thomas. no, i did not ever think that this would be where my life would have taken me, but we do need to keep i do see that there s a conversation that has been started. and as i m waking up from my grief and all my sadness, i feel that it s imperative to keep that conversation going and to make it a safe place for our youth, all youth, but especially the lgbt community. joe, certainly your family is inspirational, one that has been empowered by what so many families would beheartbreaking and trangic loss that many might not recover from. i know that the foundation has become certainly a personal and passionate mission for al
somebody is cracking down on big bird. elmo has been seen in a white suburban. he s driving for the border. and also, in a new ad that s all the talk on the trail. bernie madoff, ken lay, dennis kozlowski, criminals, glutens of greed and the evil genius who towered over them? one man has the guts to speak his name. big bird. big bird. big bird. it s me, big bird. did you see the new ad put out by the president, the re-elect obama campaign? big bird. big bird. what is that all about? we get straight to it now with our tuesday political power panel. msnbc contributor jonathan capehart, also an opinion writer for the washington post. msnbc analyst karen finney, also a columnist for the hill. and republican strategist john brae bender. karen, i want to start with you. that pew poll for swing states and likely voters has to be a real wake-up call to president obama and his re-election team. what really caught our eye here is about the gender cap. according to the p
confidence that, finally, somebody is cracking down on big bird. elmo has been seen in a white suburban. he s driving for the border. and also, in a new ad that s all the talk on the trail. bernie madoff, ken lay, dennis kozlowski, criminals, glutens of greed and the evil genius who towered over them? one man has the guts to speak his name. big bird. big bird. big bird. it s me, big bird. did you see the new ad put out by the president, the re-elect obama campaign? big bird. big bird. what is that all about? we get straight to it now with our tuesday political power panel. msnbc contributor jonathan capehart, also an opinion writer for the washington post. msnbc analyst karen finney, also a columnist for the hill. and republican strategist john brae bender. karen, i want to start with you. that pew poll for swing states and likely voters has to be a real wake-up call to president obama and his re-election team. what really caught our eye here is about the gend
it wasn t a prank call. they said that they had found ç tyler s phone and wallet on the gw bridge. reporter: by now the story of what happened to jane and joe clementi s son, tyler, is well known. how almost two years ago, the 18-year-old college freshman had walked onto the george washington bridge spanning the hudson river, climbed the barrier and jumped to his death. tyler s older brother, james, remembers the night vividly. my mom couldn t even talk. she was just screaming. i think i knew before they even said. i think i knew it was tyler. reporter: but the clementis were in for another blow. if tyler wasn t gay, this thing never happened. reporter: what they learned was that something terrible had been done to their son just before his death. tyler s roommate at rutgers university in new jersey had used a webcam to spy on tyler during an intimate moment with another man.
man. the last thing that tyler looked at before he left the dorm room before the bridge was the twitter page where ravi was announcing tyler s activities. but there s also tyler s own description of his mom s reaction when he told her he was gay. my mother rejected me. those words had to really hurt. they did. it just was like a dagger. and the story of the tomb raiders of egypt. a genuine egyptian tragedy in this post-arab spring era. richard engel has the story. can anyone have any idea how many sites have been looted or encroached upon? it s hundreds. hundreds? hundreds of sites. they are destroying history. that and more as rock center gets under way. 3 f2 todo ello en rock center to some real soul-searching about what should constitute the proper bedside manner. reporter: it was 5:00 a.m. when mary drove herself to the e.r. with severe stomach pains. in the middle of the night i spiked a fever and i knew the symptoms and i knew that i had i