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>> thank you. >> cofounder of the project. tell me your thinking. mostly millionaires, right? >> sure. weve got 75 millionaires to date that signed the tax pledge. >> whats the plan? >> basically what they have done is theyve calculated what their tax savings were from the bush tax cuts and theyve pledged to give those away. the point is to call attention to the bush tax cuts that were past ten years ago, the same argument sarah palin is giving, that its going to unleash a trickle down. >> shepa...

Than it is here. officials there threatened to suspend all adoptions by people from the united states, affecting 3,000 cases until moscow and washington sign an agreement to prevent this from happening again. the council general is with us, thank you for being here. whats the situation now? >> well, shep, adoptions are continuing here in russia. every day we issue more advice is visas to go to america. theres no frees or moratorium. >> shepard: is this story headlines in the paper? is it -- desc...

After president obama expressed that confidence, republicans came out of that meeting and said the bill was essentially a disaster, would institutionalize big banks and. others said it was ludicrous. it looked like the same parted san bickering. its hard to know how much of this is theater, how much -- how many differences remain. we heard from treasury secretary geithner after that who said hes confident there will be a bill this year. but its -- this is what investors are worried about. there ...

Theyre putting pressure on congress from both sides, largely funding campaigns on both sides. theyve made record profit as a result of the bailout and the last thing they wanted are regulation. theyll fight this tooth and nail. >> thats right. and we heard that again from the administration today. be prepared. this is -- the fight is far from over. there will be in army of lobbyist opening loopholes and exemptions and as geithner says, the money goes where the rules are weakest to the loopholes ...

Decision to send the trial to new york city is circling the drain. as the senator said, just come out and say that its not going there but the public response from the attorney jeb before the senate judiciary committee is its still on the table though he gave no timeline as to when they would make a decision. for context, that original decision to send it to a federal court informs november. later this year we will be ten years -- almost ten years away from the attacks themself with no trial mil...

People are saying president obama is not doing enough. >> shepard: jonathan, thank you very much. its time for a bear alert. boom, bear alert. bear alert. a new jersey family sharing their porch with a big bear family. but it took them a few months to realize it. a female black bear sneaked under the porch, it says snuck but thats wrong. it turned it into a winter den. the bear hibernated and gave birth to two cubs. the family called the wildlife officials to sedated the mom, took they say pictu...

Recurrent reports, that i got from people in minor matters where they complain about the way they were treated by the police officers. generally speaking, the police officers in those instances failed to show up. >> shepard: how is your grandson? >> he is -- i hope hes okay. i dont know about the psychological impact this is going to have on him. i think its going to be with him his entire life. you dont forget something like this. what impact that will have on him in his relationships with indi...

Men -- mckennas grandfather. >> was my telling of this story accurate? was that how it went down and is it your sense the police are acting to rectify what went wrong? >> judges call that a compound question but i can tell you this, it was accurate. whether or not the police are actually doing anything to rectify it i think is -- the future will tell us whether they are or not. it strikes me at a little bit odd they have yet to believe able to produce the name of the third officer? thats odd to ...

Jonathan hunt is with us. 12 months to get a bomb isnt long if theyre right about the estimates. the question i suppose is, is the west running out of time or is mccain pushing this as campaign issue? >> yes and no in terms of running out of time. yes, iran, every day is moving ahead with its nuclear technology and its nuclear ambitions. that 12 months confirmed by generals on the hill confirming what we reported on monday. no time is not absolutely critical at this stage because it takes far lo...

They can. its unfortunate this one horrible episode, in the minds of some, called into questioned the process. in the past year 1500 russian orphans were brought to new homes in the united states and theyre in loving, caring homes. its terrible we have this one all of situation but it cant take away from the fact that this is a good thing. >> shepard: the process, of course, i cant think of many people that would argue that. im curious about the boy, already in a situation where he had to be ado...