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Very distinguishing visiting professor who has covered the supreme court for over two decades. thats where ive learned a lot about what i know about the court from you, tim. thanks so much for being with us. >> as a follower of the court, this is something thats interesting and i want to get your take on it. that in and of itself is controversial. >> theres very little that we know about her. shes not said her views on a wide arange of issues. theres no disqualifiers we see, youre right. its her...

Keep this kind of thing from happening again. >> you mentioned senator lindsey graham, the republican who had been working on an energy bill. he has now abandoned that effort. where is he on this? it doesnt sound like he wants to go to bat and try to bring other republicans along on energy. if hes not there, nothing is getting done. >> lets quickly run through. its still the senate. you cant do anything democrats cant without republican support. who are the republicans to watch in this debate? f...

>> wow, who knew this would be so hot button, but thanks for bringing it, both of you. thank you so much. >> thank you for having us. a developing story, a highly unstable situation this thailand. thai troops are clashing with antigovernment protesters for a third day. at last 22 people have died and almost 106 wounded in the clashes. joining us by phone is ian williams. good morning. what can you tell us? >> reporter: its well after dark now, alex, and those violent clashes are continuing acr...

There and were tapping into it. molly henneberg. >> congressman mollohan failed no challengers in the 2008 primary, his district voted republican in the last three presidential races and according to our research team, mollohan voted yes on several hot button issues, including health care, the stimulus bill, and the big bank bill, also out, known as tarp. martha: we have some very interesting new fox news polls that just came out this morning into "americas newsroom". we want to share these with...

Court nominee elena kagan is making the rounds meeting with influential members of the senate who will vote on her nomination. starting with the majority leader harry reid. you are looking at live pictures of mitch mcconnell, the minority leader in the senate. then thee goes on to meet with various members of the judiciary committee. all part of the meet and greet scheduled today for the presidents newest nominee to the supreme court. if confirmed shell be in a position to help reshape the court...

That direction. so everyone just bracing, hoping it doesnt get worse than it already is. so theyring looking at this new solution that bp has to at least slow down that flow of oil and perhaps be able to salvage some part of this fishing season. >> david, thanks very much. we understand were going to hear from the governor of louisiana with an update a little later on. well check in with you to see what he says. all right. there hasnt been much of a paper trail of supreme court nominee kagan. ...

>> the finance minister says, quote, weve done what was necessary not what was easy. as you point out, these protesters knew of the vote. we had the breaking news when the vote was taking place of the austerity cuts that would take place but again, explain to us, stephanie, what reignite d the clash now. weve been watching these images since 11:00 this morning. it seems as you pointed out that a hot button was hit. >> what appeared to have happened from our vantage point, standing back in the cr...

All right welcome back. a u.s. citizen allegedly tries to blow up fellow americans, not to mention a symbol of our country in this case times square. should he still be counted as a u.s. citizen? that just one of the hot-button political questions asked and spurring political backfighting to say the least. today less than 48 hours after the arrest of confessed times square attacker and connecticut resident faisal shahzad, senator joe lieberman introducing a bill that would amend an existing law ...

Saturday where the storm prediction center high risk for severe weather and where you see the white bulls eye, a lot of the state of arkansas, parts of tennessee, kentucky, the boot heel of missouri and parts of mississippi and where we saw the severe weather last week and looking for this this afternoon and evening and heads into the overnight hour when thats so dangerous and we have talked a lot about the noaa weather radio yost, we could be dealing with large, long-lived tornados, extremely d...

Done. she said when you look back to 9/11, the president didnt show up to ground zero at least a few days until after everything happened because he also didnt want to be in the way. i think a lot of people will think thats kind of a stretch. >> one of the things i found interesting, she talked about the hot button, gay marriage. she wrote, i talked to george about not making gay marriage a significant issue. we have a number of close friends who are gay or whose children are gay, perhaps a refe...