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Nearly 80% of the prison population. >> i come in here and see all the addicts and seeing all -- how screwed up lives get because of the drugs makes me ashamed to even say that i was a drug dealer. really. i was trying to raise money for my latest movie. >> what does it take to make art? >> i made some bad choices. this was going to be my biggest project ever. this was going to be the movie. the full-length feature, 90 minutes. i wanted to shoot on super 16 instead of digital. film cost a little...

>> it is gone. this is a whole different game for him. he should be the underdog. >> reporter: with fight night fast approaching, the war of words was intensifying. >> going to beat me. >> victor ortiz is 24. im old enough to be your boys father. so im going to son him. >> i am 24 but i have been through a whole lot more than our good friend floyd. >> somebodys in trouble ♪ . ♪ >> its labor day at the mayweather boxing club, but there are no days off for the boxer in training. floy...

down by a man dressed as a police officer. also developing today in washington d.c., we have now just over a week until the government wont be able to pay all of its bills and president obama says he has been left at the altar. yesterday was an extraordinary day in washington d.c. the president and the house speaker in the day by calling each other out in news conferences. also in washington d.c., congress failed to authorize funding for the federal aviation administration. you kno...

The -- whats going on right now, anderson, is, i have to tell you, the politics you would expect of each side this early. theyre both posturing. theyre both jockeying for position trying to get the public to understand. this is one of the few moments that if youre the out party and you want to shake up the status quo as republicans do, this is one of the few opportunities you have to do that in the legislative year. so of course theyre going push it to the hilt. whereas the democrats are going t...

Now in the coming weeks were going to fight over the "titanic" itself. i do think this is likely to be a huge battle. the -- whats going on right now, anderson, is, i have to tell you, the politics you would expect of each side this early. theyre both posturing. theyre both jockeying for position trying to get the public to understand. this is one of the few moments that if youre the out party and you want to shake up the status quo as republicans do, this is one of the few opportunities you hav...

Now in the coming weeks were going to fight over the "titanic" itself. i do think this is likely to be a huge battle. the -- whats going on right now, anderson, is, i have to tell you, the politics you would expect of each side this early. theyre both posturing. theyre both jockeying for position trying to get the public to understand. this is one of the few moments that if youre the out party and you want to shake up the status quo as republicans do, this is one of the few opportunities you hav...

Have to do that in the legislative year. so of course theyre going push it to the hilt. whereas the democrats are going to try to scare the hell out of the country, saying if they shut down the government over the debt ceiling or they dont allow this debt ceiling to increase, you know, its going to be catastrophic. so i think its sort of a natural politics. the real issue is are they going to be adults and mature and actually try to come to grips with the program? we will not know that. lets hea...

Crashes up in alaska, its a real problem. >> bad weather, lots of planes and a lot of people flying planes not the most experienced pilots. >> not qualified to do it. the former -- the senator now who took ted stevens place lost his father in a plane crash. >> ted stevens was in a plane crash previous to this. >> washington politics. boggs also. look at that. lets go back to the politicians, quickly. the politicians have tied. hale boggs was an absolute giant in washington. mel carnahan during t...

Said push it as hard as you can and they sold it through the summer and they sold it and lost 80% of its value and the question for the layman on the outside and in this case senator levin was why would you do that? >> thats why it was somewhat disingenuous when blankfein was testifying and saying they werent smart enough to know wall street was going to crumble. >> the fabulous fab. >> his testimony was that he could smell it was going south so they bet against it so what america got a good -- ...

Your radio show. i think that hes going to have to be very vocal about this issue, ed. the congress is going to take it up. theres going to be hearings. both on the senate, on the house side into what went wrong. i think theyre going to have to take a very hard look at what is clogging up this appeals process and allowing unsafe mines to remain open and operate and threaten lives of workers. i think president obama just taking sort of using the spotlight to highlight the dangers that these worke...