and, the people in the district attorney s office, said, this will be handled professionally, this will be handled skillfully and appropriately. well, the matter was resolved today. and they were exactly right. it was handled professionally, skillfully, and appropriately. bill: for his part, halderman received 6 months in jail and a thousand hours of community service. and at this point, that case is now closed. martha: a sad story out of los angeles, a coroner s office there saying actor corie haim is said at the age of 38. reflection in the mirror. creature of the night, michael. just like out of a comic book. you are a vampire, michael, my little brother, a vampire. reporter: best known for his starring role in that movie, the lost boys and most recently appeared on an a and e
people within the intelligence community one of the complaints they have, is that there is an emphasis, sometimes on hearing this information which is one of the problems before 9/11, and the people aren t necessarily stepping up and taking ownership for specific pieces of intelligence, that they feel could be critical, for example, in this case, some of the red flags, about the suspect, umar farouk abdulmutallab, has traveled to yemen his travels to yemen and warnings by his father, he had extremist ties and that is the crux of the hearing today. what is it the system needs to do now to analyze the information, so they can prevent the next umar farouk abdulmutallab from getting on a flight into the u.s. in the future. martha: hugely frustrating, to average folks out there. who listen to this and say why on earth was the person able to get on a plane and what do we expect later today on these hearings. reporter: it is frustrating to people, i want to address this first point but i
the high court for a decision the week before that allowed corporations and unions to freely spend money on political ads. democrats delighted in that presidential dig and we ve got reaction this morning at the white house can caroline shively who is covering this. what did chief justice roberts tell those law students in alabama, caroline? he said basically the states have turned into a the speech turned into a pep rally and he didn t like it. the point was in that video you were talking about, when the president slammed the recent decision on campaign finance laws and democrats, right behind the justices, jumped to their feet and started clapping. here s what roberts told the students: the image of having the members of one branch of government standing up, literally surrounding the supreme court, cheering and hollering, while the court, according to the requirement for protocol, has to sit there, expressionless, i think, is very tough. reporter: roberts went
public funding for abortion and keep the hydro language languag been around 33 years and most americans agree with that. reporter: a lot of polls suggest, 60% of the american people think federal american taxpayer dollars shouldn t go to abortion services and what the senate version does is essentially say there would be one videos of programs, one series of products, available, in the national insurance exchange, wherein there would be a guarantee no taxpayer dollars would go to insurance abortion services. but, there wouldn t be an explicit prohibition elsewhere, in the so-called insurance exchange, and, it would require women to buy a separate insurance policy if they wanted an abortion services and you can imagine mothers and daughters contemplating that at a very young age or you may not be able to imagine contemplating it and see a bunch of objections on both sides of the issue developing. in the house, they passed a version that said no tax dollars, and the senate they lef
brian. these are big decision, and tell us why. reporter: well, this is important stuff. i mean, if you care about what is in your kids backpack and what kind of textbooks they are taking to school and learning from, you should care a great deal about what is happening in this building behind me in austin, texas and you laid it out, bill, the state of texas, buys so many textbooks, what they want in a textbook has an undue influence and what ends up in texas textbooks, ends up in textbooks that go all over the country and the state board of education is meeting today to decide what they should put in social studies text today. it is controversial, you have a group of conservatives, against a group of liberals on the board. there s a lot of contentious in the room and, really is a battle of cultures, a culture war, taking place, inside the hearing room, bill. bill: will we get final decisions later today, brian? does that come today? or does it depend on how the debate goes, that you