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Isnt "saturday night live,"? >> he went up to him afterward. not on a microphone. he went up to him privately. you do have to point out, though, that franken has avoided this kind of thing. remember when he was elect, were throwing a comedian into the senate. he has laid low and been beneath the radar for the most part. >> i know when he went in we all said he needs to keep his head down. mike, hes had a couple of outbursts regarding his -- >> havent heard from him. >> as far as for anger. for a...

Show a cultural phenomenon with kids. john donvan looks behind the scenes of the ratings blockbuster. >> reporter: a quick look at some tv numbers. "60 minutes," 7.8 million vau viewers. "the bachelorette," 10 million viewers. "americas got talented" 10.5. how does this little show pull in 12.4 million viewers? ♪ i know ♪ >> reporter: "icarly." the story of a 16-year-old girl in seattle who makes web shows with her friends, sam and freddie. a show within a show. with a lot of the zany, of co...

And dear to my heart. they have nowhere to go. they struggle in their homes and reach out to the schools. the schools have no resources for them because they dont want to tackle this particular issue and we feel like we need to help these girls and to provide them with resources of where to go. its critical they have help. >> tell us whats exactly going on. the honour killings are done for what or the honor, not necessarily always a killing, too. its an embarrassment. >> its a perceived sexual i...

Bow at the feet of their corporate masters. wyoming senator john borasso even wants to use stimulus money to pay for extending the bush tax cuts and spoke to norah odonnell earlier today on msnbc. >> are you for adding to the deficit in order to continue the tax cuts? >> there is so much unspent stimulus money that we ought to use that in a responsible way which is to help keep taxes low. people arent hiring right now because theres so much uncertainty in the economy, nora. theres uncertainty ab...

Killed. in july, 50 died. 38 of them americans. joining me now from baltimore is james philip, senior research fellow for the middle eastern affairs. james, good to see you. thank you for joining us. >> thank you. >> of course, theres been this uptick in violence just as there are more troops on the ground in afghanistan. and we begin this kandahar offensive. what does this mean for the future the effort there? >> well, it is true there are more casualties on the u.s. and western side. but there...

Maybe. you still dont threat tone kill somebody or burn down their house. so maybe theyre both wrong. you know what? the people being hurt here is going to be the daughter. and its going to be the children that have to be exposed to this because as we know, the other son, her other son who is 12 years old whos the son of 007 star, he actually was present during one of the tirades, allegedly. the police now want to talk to him. so, again, nora, kids are the ones who are going to suffer here. they...

All the way down to where you are in d.c., nora, one quite a summer already, not over yet. >> oh, my gosh. so super hot. all right. bill karins. i was talking about the weather. >> right back at you. >> all right, bill. thanks so much. all right. for the latest weather advisories in the forecast where you, are be sure to head to weather.com. and now for the first third straight day, turning to more serious news, the busted oil well does not appear to be gushing oil into the gulf. at a technica...

Throughout the day. nora? >> and, charles, what about that super duper skimmer? why did they beach that thing? >> reporter: everybody had such high hopes for this giant skimmer, could hold 100,000 barrels of oil if it had to. it is used to sucking up heavy oil. and this is a more dispersed oil, a lighter oil than what this thing is capable of doing. so it was sucking up more water than oil. so its been beached for now. >> all right. thank you, charles. and for the latest updates and analysis o...

>> do either of you have concerns about the authenticity of these tapes? >> yeah. it appears that mel gibsons attorneys have come out and said that they believe that these have been edited. and, yeah, that goes to oksanas credibility if she was baiting him. listen, you should never tell somebody theyre going to kill them or burn down their house. obviously she took the bait. did she goat him? probably. but he still threatened to kill her. and there are children involved. that is something you ne...

Only three republicans for it, the democrats are going to hold this over their head and say who stands up for wall street? who stands up for us. >> you think the small and medium sized businesses are not hoarding businesses? >> look, the best thing for them in the long run is to have a health care bill. their health care costs are going crazy. i think that what you got to do is give people encouragement to hire workers to spend money. even wealthy folks are saying im pulling back. im not spendin...