preparing for the 1964 elections. and here come the president now. in fact, he s not in his limo seen. he departed the limousine and reaching across the fence shaking hands. in those days, everybody could get a lot closer to the president. i was standing behind mrs. kennedy and i saw a hand reach through the chain link fence and break off one of the red roses. thousands of children swarming trying to get over the fence. the dallas police trying to keep them back. this is great for the people and make the eggshells thinner for the secret service. the trip had gone terrifically well in texas. pretty hard to write a script for going any better. thousands are on hand for that motorcade now which will be downtown dallas. a number of my classmates were gone. they were at the parade. my father had been invited to have lunch with kennedy at the trade center. it was a mood, a climate of
0 continues now with jake tapper a brooke baldwin, here in boston. half a world away from boston, the parents the parents of the bombing suspects lash out. they say their lives are now in danger and their sons are victims of an elaborate hoax. good morning. welcome to a special edition of i news room live from boston. i m jake tapper. i m brooke baldwin. busy morning of developments. let s begin with investigators looking into a bizarre and fascinating possibility that his older brother, a devout muslim, with fundamental beliefs may have funded attacks by peddling illegal drugs. the father of dzhokhar and tamerlan say terrorists are threatening the family in southern russia. both his sons are innocent and that they were somehow framed. their mother takes it one step farther, she believes this bloody crime scene here in boston was no more than a lot of smoke. actors, she says, played the main victims, and the blood was nothing more than paint. this from the suspected bombers he
senate, they just go ahead and named the rule for him. so the and i said, you know, you really ought to suspect suspend this, because the budget is going to be bankrupt if we don t quit spending so much money on health care, and we can t do it if we offer health care to everybody. and he looked at me and he said, that argument might have worked when you were a professor in law school. but you know as well as i do, it is substantively wrong. he wouldn t do it. then in his defense, he turned right around, and he worked his heart out to break that filibuster, and he was trying to the very end not to get me to give up the fight, because he thought if we just tried, we could find some errant republican who would make a mistake and vote with us. he would never give it up. the point i want to make is, he made a decision against his own interest. his own conviction. his own fight. and that s one reason i thank god that he could go in his wheelchair in his most significant vote at
responsibility for a common good. in this way, inadvertently perhaps, i think that the texas board not only launched in the culture wars but also brought the curriculum in line with the states unequal social order. with its flaws a very corporate climate and endemic human services, texas simultaneity leads the nation in carbon emissions and children without health insurance. texas may be wide open for business as the governor s economic developer office proclaims, but it has always had an uneasy relationship with lady justice. this is clearest of all in the criminal justice system. which in texas has tended to struggle to privilege de rossi over fairness, revenge over rehabilitation. according to a new survey by the pew center on the states, texas that has the largest penal system largest penal system in the united states with 171,000 inmates, having outstripped california that draws from a third larger population. weak protection for indigent defendants, hard driving prosecu
good morning. chaos and confusion. desperate residents turn to looting in the wake of that devastating earthquake in chile, as much-needed aid trickles in, authorities are struggling to maintain order. this morning, ann curry reports live from one of the hardest hit areas. repeat offender? san diego police step up the search for missing 17-year-old chelsea king, and now investigators believe a man held in connection with her case may be responsible for another girl s disappearance. and he s back! i thought you were leaving us. but i did leave! i went away to the strangest place. jay leno returns to the tonight show and finds there s no place like home, today, tuesday, march 2nd, 2010. captions paid for by nbc-universal television and welcome to today on this tuesday morning. i m meredith vieira. and i m matt lauer. secretary of state hillary clinton is in quake-ravaged chile today, and she s bringing with her the first wave of u.s. aid to that region. th