presidential historian doris kearns goodwin, and last but not least, my hometown mayor, and i just pronounced your name wrong, which is really embarrassing. the mayor of los angeles, antonio villaraigosa, for his first appearance here on meet the press. villaraigosa was elected in may of 2005 after serving in the california state assembly and l.a. city council. now in his second term. he ll be sworn in tomorrow as president of the u.s. conference of mayors in baltimore. and that role, you will represent an organization of more than 1,200 mayors and speak out on policy issues impacting cities across the country, and indeed, some of the big national issues as well. mr. mayor, welcome to meet the press. and of course, i may pin you down on what is going to happen to our los angeles dodgers in terms of future ownership, because there s more than a few very interted parties here at the table. but we are going to get to that in a few minutes. welcome to everybody. let s talk politics. le
least, my hometown mayor, and i just pronounced your name wrong, which is really embarrassing. the mayor of los angeles, antonio villaraigosa, for his first appearance here on meet the press. villaraigosa was elected in may of 2005 after serving in the california state assembly and l.a. city council. now in his second term. he ll be sworn in tomorrow as president of the u.s. conference of mayors in baltimore. and that role, you will represent an organization of more than 1,200 mayors and speak out on policy issues impacting cities across the country, and indeed, some of the big national issues as well. mr. mayor, welcome to meet the press. and of course, i may pin you down on what is going to happen to our los angeles dodgers in terms of future ownership, because there s more than a few very interted parties here at the table. but we are going to get to that in a few minutes. welcome to everybody. let s talk politics. let s talk about the race for 2012 and the republican field. her
holloway family, john q. kelly, he said, quote, we have been through this so many times, harris, we don t have a statement about this but we knew about it two days ago and we re waiting to see what this will bring as well. so they ve known about this, they ve gotten natalie s dental records, he says it shouldn t take too long to determine if this jawbone which he says they re being told is that of a young caucasian woman, has anything to do with natalee holloway, her disappearance, what happened with her in may of 2005. so that s according to the family s attorney that i ve just gotten off the phone w as i learn more, i ve got calls out to the police department in aruba, have pretty good contacts with them, so hopefully we ll hear something soon, but really, this is in the hands of those forensic specialists. her doctor, michael baden, on the program saying this could take a few days, this could take less than that. it s in their hands now. we ve just got to wait and see if this is aga
so let s take stock of this for a second. she is a white blonde suburbanite, allegedly a home-grown terrorist. prosecutors unseal an indictment against a philadelphia area woman who calls herself jihad jane. homeland security correspondent jeanne meserve joins us now. share with us some of the new information you re getting. reporter: well, my colleague is up in pennsylvania and came across a police report from the police department indicating that in may of 2005 they responded to a call from the sister of colleen larose who called from texas to say that colleen larose was attempting suicide. they went to her apartment. they found her, according to the police report, highly intoxicat intoxicated, on a prescription drug. she told police she did not want to die.
listen to this. when i recovered from my heart surgery i wanted to do something to help others avoid the same fate or worse. in may of 2005 my foundation launched the alliance for a healthier generation to halt the alarming rise of childhood obesity by 2010 and reverse it. thanks for coming.