top prize. best in show, of course. for seven wonderful and worthy contenders tonight. i have but one ribbon. best in show at the 136th annual westminster kennel club, america s dog show is the pekingese. and the crowd went wild, taking home the prize, a 4-year-old pekingese by the name of malachy. david fry, kind of rhymes is the voice of westminster and with him is the winner of the best in show, malachy the pekingese. what is it about that dog that wowed the crowd? i think he s a wonderful specimen of his breed, of course. but he just sat there and exuded type the way the judge put it. he s everything that the peek should be. he wipes it up. he certainly wiped up the floor of competition, david
and myself, we were all there at the westminster kennel club to see who would take home the coveted title best in show. best in show at the 136th annual westminster kennel club america s dog show is the picinese. that s not a dust mop. named malachi. and the dog was the favorite in vegas. it was given six to one odds. that dog has won, joe, guess how many? do you think joe dimaggio was great? he s expected to head into retirement, like me, but not before stopping here at morning joe a little later this morning. they re not going to put him out to stud, huh? it s a little different. as my grandmother would say, woof, this world is not my home. what is it about that dog?
middle class tax cut that has been given to us for by name, to reduce the amount that we re paying into social security. what we should be talking about the real tax reform, what it s going to take to increase our revenues by broadening our economic base, by growing our economy. we aren t doing that. we need to be talking about what the american people want to hear. that s where the jobs are going to come from. that would be congressman dennis ross speaking there. christine romans is in atlanta this morning breaking down the details on this. i think, soledad, in an election year this is a no brainer for republicans and democrats. you ve got 160 million people who are getting a tax benefit e6 ry paycheck they get. it s $1,000 over the course of a year. $40 per paycheck, that s if you make $50,000 a year or so. so this was something in an election year you just, you know, the feeling in washington you just can t be raising taxes on people, on working people in an election
lin-sanity. that s some excitement, leading the niknicks to a 17-point comeback. that wonderful three-pointer, look at this place going bananas. we ll talk about what lin-sanity means coming up. even toronto loves him, that s where they were playing. new details on whitney houston, a report on a drug investigation now. folks really want to say their good-byes but they re saying, the family is saying there s no michael jackson-like farewell scheduled for her. they will have a small service at her childhood church. also, it was such a big story, amanda knox being cleared and heaving italy after having spent several years in prison. guess what. story may not be over, the prosecutors want a second crack and they are appealing that conviction being overturned. could she be headed back to italy? could she be going back to jail? we ll let you know all about that. up first here, congress on the verge of allowing you to keep more of your money. negotiators reached a tentative
the doctors who wrote the prescriptions for those pills could be subpoenaed. in syria, artillery and machine gun fire echo aross crosse the city of homs while a thick smoke from a pipeline explosion hangs overhead e opposition activists say government forces are set on planting every neighborhood that might hold disdent. our arwa damon is in the besieged city. reporter: around 7:30 in the morning began the sustained bombardment, various sounds of artillery being fired, impacting here as well as sporadic, heavy automatic machine gun fire has been heard and this has been the status quo in homs for over a week now. just hours ago, iran began loading what it calls its first home-built nuclear fuel rods. president mahmoud ahmadinejad helped insert the rods into a reactor at a research center in tehran. it is broadcast live. his government insists the technology is needed for medical purposes. western nations believe the iranians are focused on building a bomb. today s move i