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caution, you are about to enter the no spin zone, the factor begins right now. >> bill: hi, im bill oreilly. thanks forever watching us tonight. why liberals oppose helping the people of afghanistan. that is the subject of this evenings talking points memo. last week the house voted 308 to 114 to continue funding the war in afghanistan. 102 democratic congress people said no, including uner liberals like barney frank, maxine waters and dennis kucinich. 12 republicans joined them. this ...

we have a long way to go, but when i look back on what weve accomplished in the last 18 months, preventing the country sinking into a great depression, stabilizing the financial markets, saving the u.s. auto industry, oh, by the way, passing health care, id say thats a pretty good track record. >> good morning. happy monday, august the 2nd. im joe scarborough. we are here live in los angeles. of course, covering -- well, were covering the president and, of course were covering alan gre...

this is a concern of the entire family. it is crazy. >> with temperatures in the mid- 90s by noon, and the heat index well beyond that, this is not limited to just them. >> i keep a sweat tell and i have a hat over there to keep the sun off my head. >> metro is keeping an eye on equipment and crews have been patching up cracks on i-95, warning motorcyclist to keep an eye out. more of this is what we are in store for as people rely on shade and russian water just to cope. >> the only pr...

And last week he was admitted to the hospital first believed to be suffering from heat exhaustion and severe dehydration but other medical conditions developed. senator robert byrd was 92 years old. >> former house speaker jim wright and democrat of texas once said of robert byrd, bob is a living encyclopedia and legislative grave yards are filled with the bones of those who underestimated him and andrew taylor with the associated press puts it correctly when he said in, obit this morning, byrd ...

back in 1958, after spending six years in the house. senate majority leader also. now senator byrd became more frail after the death of his wife erma in 2006. apparently last week, he was admitted to a hospital potentially suffering from heat exhaustion and dehydration. >> he was a very interesting man whose wife and covered so many events. 1958, elected to the senate. just the transformation in robert byrd over the years. it was very interesting to watch. i know, im sure you do, mark,...

about how far away their food is coming from, and so there is a group of people in the food movement that are thinking beyond just how cheap it is. and yeah, they also have more disposable income. but i think theres room to start thinking about adding those concerns to -- if im going to pay a little more for organic, do i want to pay a little more for a company thats providing health care? for farm workers or that is paying a sustainable wage? and i think thats -- theres a promise in t...

>> congressman david obey on his decision to leave the house of representatives after his term is over. he spoke to reporters on capitol hill for 40 minutes. >> before i start, i want to introduce the happiest woman in wisconsin at this point. my wife, joan. [applause] >> i deeply resent that that is more applause than i usually get. next, my son, the dog. -- my son, doug. my son, craig. dougs wife, kate. and craigs wife, kirsten. [applause] >> this is going to be a long statement, lon...

the first priority in this district is always job. my priority will be to work on my proposal to create jobs, and the most favored nation status for china, him maybe useful by american workers who are the best workers in the world, if they create a livable jobs -- jobs that pay a livable wage, because the time -- it is time to start building the middle class of the weakened live the american dream, and unless you are -- it we have the coal industry here and solar power companies down a...

60s who were diagnosed only 3% 12 dae. three out of the 26. that is the indication of the over treatment there was actually a vote in the integration committee earlier in the decade that said more money for the defense department ought to go to seeing how to take the money away from the studies of the biologic behavior of the prostate cancer so we lead to our emotions i am very emotional because i want men to get the right thing and i know i am hearing that men are not getting the righ...

both to go across the aisle on things that were at odds with his party at the time. but his endorsement of the sort of bouncy night for an appropriate and important role for government denial and sort of the right way. >> one of his other great accomplishments that he remains to this day very, very proud of was his salvaging social security. >> i often hear today the notion we need to put together a commission like the greenspan commission that solve social security. but the greenspan ...