disclosure forms to congress, when she was a congressional staffer, in 2005 and 2006 they ran up bills of between $250,000 and $500,000 at tiffany s. an unpaid liability ascribed to her spouse, newt gingrich. he wouldn t explain that. let s play a little bit of that exchange. i m not commenting on stuff like that. i am perfectly happy to talk about what we need to do for america and what we need to do to help americans, but i frankly don t want to play the gotcha games in washington. he said it would be playing trivial pursuit. is this a political issue or is this gotcha? well, it is not a political issue on the scale, his comments about paul ryan s plans certainly are. does it create an image problem for him? it does create an image problem for him. i don t know whether he ll be forced to answer the questions about whether he s paid that bill off or what it was for. but nonenonetheless, it adds to
request to pray for osama bin laden. the church says it never turns down a prayer request. but what should they do this time? it is today s newsnation gut check. we ll see you at 2:00 p.m. eastern. we re talking college debt today in our ongoing network commitment to education nation. on average, college students graduate with $24,000 in debt. a new pew report says nine in ten grads say college has been a good investment, 57% of americans say college fails to provide good value for the money. nbc s chief education correspondent rehema ellis joining with us what some students are doing. how are they managing this debt load? some students are talking about maybe they need to not go to that high priced four-year college right out of graduation from high school. maybe they need to go to a community college for two years, get an associated degree even transfer. they lessen the cost of that bill of getting that degree and
janis hahn, a democrat in a july 12th runoff. four journalists held by the libyan government for several weeks have been released and moved to a tripoli thoelhotel. senate democrats lost their attempt last night to cut subsidies to the oil industry. an effort that was more symbolic than real because they knew they didn t have the votes to start with. republicans play a similar game of symbolism with a bill today to increase offshore drilling, also expected to go nowhere. our next guest says both sides are missing the boat. the answer lies in natural gas. t. boone pickens joins us from houston. let s talk about natural gas, the pluses, the minuses, you talk about the pluses. how real could this be and i know we have lots of resources here. this is an american resource, but how could you get at it quickly enough to do something about energy prices? how quick? we got the gas available to us.
essential for our national interests. he was all over that issue. i don t think that we ever had a day, you know, we never had a walk in the park without richard being on the phone to a member of the pakistani leadership. he just felt that we could not walk away, however frustrating and complex this pakistani story is, we had to stay on top of it. and he would be very pleased to see that senator kerry, his great friend and colleague with whom he crafted the kerry/luger bill which gives five years of civilian and democracy building aid to pakistan, he would be so happy to see senator kerry in the field, carrying on where richard left off. kati what about afghanistan and the negotiations, karen young wrote about it and came on the program the other day, negotiations with the taliban. and the possibility of
best bill i can get for the votes i have. i think that s where the action is going to be. the luger bill. let s look at history. we re going to look at something right now that will educate us all. this is from the miller center. they do the great collection of archives on presidents. here they are showing president ford and president carter in the oval office more than 30 years ago trying to do what president obama did tonight. let s listen. foreign oil suppliers are considering another price increase. i could go on and on, but you know the facts. this country needs to regain its independence from foreign sources of energy. and the sooner, the better. we will feel mounting pressure to plunder the environment. we ll have to have a crash program to build more nuclear plants, strip mine and burn more coal and drill more offshore wells.