we have to begin tonight s show with breaking news out of washington state. from a city of to cane, the fbi reveals today an abandoned backpack discovered yesterday along the intended route of spokane s martin luther king day parade, the fbi thinks today that backpack was not just a suspicious package. it was the real deal. the fbi saying that that backpack contained, quote, a potentially deadly destructive device. likely cape bible of inflicting multiple casualties. now, importantly, this device did not detonate at the spokane, washington, mlk day parade. the convention center workers who found the backpack, these three people saw it and recognized that wire sticking out of the unattended backpack could be a bad thing, those three city workers saw the backpack, they thought it was suspicious, and they told police about it. thank god they did. when the police saw what it was, they notified the bomb squad. the bomb squad moved in. the parade, which was due to pass right by thi
there we go. there s the connection. indeed. later on today, the republicans as they promised during the campaign will go ahead and vote in the u.s. house to repeal barack obama s health care reform bill. then what they re gonna do later on is figure out how to replace it. they know there s a lot of parts of it that don t work. there are some parts they do like. they have to figure out a plan. so, let s hear from paul ryan. he s one of those young gun guys. he s a conservative from wisconsin who is considered the up and comer in the republican party. here s what he had to say. we re here because we heard the american people in the last election. we are here because we believe it s really important to do in office what you said you would do. we said we would have a straight up or down voted to repeal this health care law and that s precisely what we re doing here today. the most vociferous against was congressman weiner who is going to be paying for everybody that ne
first of all, it s good for humanitarian reasons. the united states has an interest in seeing hundreds of millions of people lifted out of poverty. we believe part of justice and part of human rights is people being able to make a living and having enough to eat and having shelter and having electricity and the development of china has brought unprecedented economic growth to more people, more quickly than just about anytime in history, and that s a positive good for the world and it s something that the united states very much appreciates and respects. we also think that china s rise offers enormous economic opportunity. we want to sell you all kinds of stuff. we want to sell you planes, we want to sell you cars. we want to sell su software, and as president hu and his government refocuses theze[ñ as standards of living rise, they have more purchasing power. it s something i think we have to remind ourselves is that the united states is economy is still three times large
we begin this morning with tragedy averted. this week, americans marked the martin luther king holiday, a day supposed to be championing nonviolence. but we re now learning that someone may have had a very sinister plan for one tribute to dr. king. authority say a potentially authorities say a potentially lethal bomb was planted on the parade route of a martin luther king jr. holiday celebration in spokane, washington, on monday. city employees spotted the device just about an hour before the parade which was re-routed. a bomb disposal unit safely disposed of the bomb. so far there are no suspects and no clear motive. for the first time, arizona officials are publicly describing the chilling surveillance video that shows a tucson gunman shooting congressman gabrielle giffords at close range before unleashing fire on the crowd. according to the pima county sheriff s department, the footage reveals that judge john roll appears to have died while trying to save the life of o
in response. i m going to talk to stevie wonder about how he helped turn martin luther king, jr. day into a reality. and what he thinks dr. king would say about the state of this country today. we begin, though, as we do every night, keeping them honest, with a colorado school board member who seems intent on attacking martin luther king, jr. on this, the very day we all pause to honor him and his achievements. it s happening in the town of greeley, colorado. an elected official, school board member who also owns a small radio station has been broadcasting a tax on martin luther king, jr., calling him everything from a deagagdegener a we re not going to play you all the rambling details of what this letter says, some of it is true, but a lot of it is unsubstantiated claims and charges. we re going to play you a few sentences to give you an idea what he s broadcasting about martin luther king, jr. he s not a legitimate reverend or bona fide ph.d. his name is not really m