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0 to do okay. they had no idea what was going on. >> you have to be careful what he said at 6:15 in the morning. >> 9 or 12 or 2:00 in the afternoon. >> its time for chuck todd and "the daily rundown." >> take it away, chuck. >> five years after the crash, five years after an enormous push by washington to change the ways of wall street. with the marks soring and the banks cashing in, has anything changed to prevent it from happening again. a special discussion with the major player who is tried...

You have. president bush was continually accused for acting unilaterally, when in fact in the case of ove overthrowing saddam hussein he had a coalition of between two and three dozen nations at any given time. so far in this episode, it looks like we have france. president bush was criticized for not getting express authorization from the united nations security council. here, were not going to have express authorization from the u.n. security council. let me just say, personally, as somebody w...

0 accordingly we have taken unpres depted steps to declassify and make facts available to people that can judge for themselves but still in order to protect sours and methods, some of what we know will only be released to members was congress and representatives of the american people. that means that some things we do know, we cant talk about publicly. and so what do we really know that we can talk about? well, we know that the assad regime has the largest chemical weapons program in the entire...

Made the news. you have to be careful. there have been some single senators through the years. for a while, chris dodd was single and you just have to be careful, new jersey, however, i think hes a known quantity, i think from this point guard hes certainly under a lot of scrutiny and whoever he is with will be, too. >> lin sweet, thanks so much for your time this morning. we appreciate >> it thank you. coming up, bill karins and richard lui will be here for "first look." stories that were tal...

0 the bottom line is we dont know the exact whereabouts of the governors former rolex or any of these gifts, were taking his word for it. when do we stop doing that?. good wednesday morning. right now on "first look" -- overnight unrest. dozens of protesters killed in egypt as security forces clamp down on cairo protests. a hostage standoff at a louisiana bank ends in gunfire just hours ago. billionaire carl icahn shakes up the apple cart with a huge buy. plus, jesse jackson jr. is sentenc...

Lawmakers had forgotten things. somebody said of the kings of france after the revolution when they were restored, they have forgotten nothing because they learned nothing. they didnt forget anything -- they were against regulation during the period when they ran the congress, when they wont do anything about fannie mae and freddie mac or subprime loans despite their rhetoric now that says they were so upset. they overwhelmingly opposed any financial reform during the period. chris got three rep...

First, let me underline what chris said. in 2008 when the economy was about to melt down, it took the combined efforts of george bush and his administration, barack obama, the democratic nominee, the democratic and republican congressional leaderships of both houses to barely get that loan to the banks. i dont know where people think there is going to be this political demand to bail out any big bank. it is exactly the opposite. by the way, as chris pointed oud, every mechanism that was used, wh...

Comiccon over the weekend. he says he hopes young folks will be able to feel, almost taste what happened, to the illustrated book that goes on sale next month. and something stinks in the napgss c nations capital. no, it is not a joke about congress. the plant known as the corpse flower is apparently blooming next to the capitol at the d.c. botanical garden. so head on over for a whiff of a flower thats said to smell something like rotting flesh. thats a good spot to end it, we think. im see y...

Cars. that happens to me, at least before i was a senator. >> but the evidence is not just anecdotal, it is born out by statistics. a s a study by the aclu, blacks are nearly four times as likely to be arrested. while blacks make up one-quarter of the citys population they are targeted more than hafr the time under the citys stop and frisk policy. while african-americans make up 13% of this country, they make up 41% of death row inmates. ultimately the president was not simply responding to the ...

Principle ashth tekrchitects of financial reform, senators chris dodd and barney frank. id like to talk about the increasing distance between wall street and washington, d.c., what some folks have called the revolving door. ill read a quote -- one of the oft repeated justifications for while wall street must be regulated by wall streeters is that what goes on there is both so complex and so essential that only those who have been part of it can be trusted to oversee it. this argument is bunk, of...