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>> molly: ready for home cooking. >> dave: your derby champ, got off to a slow start. opening the door for shackleford down the stretch. >> shackleford, at the wire, shackleford, holds on to the preakness, and animal kingdom second, and then-- >> drama there. animal kingdom made a charge and finished second. shackleford won by half a length. this, the 33rd straight year without a triple crown winner and more than 100,000 people at the race and the first time the attendance at the preakness toppe...

Because it sort of served its purpose. there were a lot of attacks coming out of the korengal to the pesh river valley and they put an american base there while they paved the road up the pesh and i think the commanders decide the benefit isnt worth the cost. >> lets look at the movie that was based on your writings that you and tim hetherington did that is gripping, the sense of interplay between the u.s. soldiers and the real afghan people. lets take a look at this. i think it shows folks what...

joint chiefs chairmen mike mullen and defense secretary bob gates expressed strong concern for safety of the s.e.a.l.s. each of them gave a stark warning. >> from my perspective, it is time to stop talking. and we have talked far too much about this. we need to move on. its a story that if we dont stop talking, it will never end. and it needs to. >> im very concerned about this. because we -- we wont to retain the capability to carry out these kinds of operations in the future. and whe...

Comedy "your highness." >> that will be fun. >> yes. but first, we want to talk about whats going on in the capital. democrats and republicans must agree on a new funding plan by midnight tonight or the federal government in fact shuts down. >> its hard to believe its come right up here to the wire. president obama summoned leaders to the white house again last night but no breakthrough. john hendren is monitoring events in washington. good morning, john. >> reporter: good morning, mike and pe...

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I give the remainder of this "rewrite" space tonight to david simon, the brilliant creator of "the wire." he issued a statement in response to the charges against this most talented actress whose work moved us so deeply. his heart felt response serves as a rewrite of the standard reaction to news of another victory for justice in a war on drugs where victory and justice are not possible. first of all, felicia is entitled to the presumption of innocence, and i would note that a previous but recen...

>> whos the one on the big fat morning show. >> give up that show any day. >> snoop. [ shots fired ] >> time for tonights "rewrite." a baltimore circuit court judge today ordered actress felicia pierson held without bail on charges she conspired to deal heroin as part of a major drug distribution network targeted by city police and federal authorities. felicia pierson delivered the unforgettable performance as snoop on hbos extraordinary series "the wire." no other drama in television history ha...

>> lets go back to the clip. were not done. >> sometimes you got to trust the bad guy to help you. >> absolutely. absolutely. that was dominick who plays my partner, a lot of people know him from "the wire" and "entourage" and we have this love/hate relationship but at the end of the day, we work good together. >> some people think the bad guys in our society are wall street as of late and what we topped off your segment with is you actually worked on wall street for a couple of years. >> that w...

And theres always an excuse for it. and theres the confidentiality issue of it. these are very sensitive things. you know, you call bernie madoff and say i dont understand the money in-out, he pulls the wire. or he says the sec was just in here, which is what i understand he said constantly. you can question me, but the sec gave me a clean bill of health. >> well, a high-level risk management officer for jpmorgan chase sent an e-mail to colleagues that said, i am sitting at lunch with a bank exe...

Original depositors. this is the best investment in history. >> no, you cant see. i have both been on the buy side -- i ran a hedge fund, and the sell side. i worked as a broker at goldman. it would be almost impossible to detect the in-out like that. and theres always an excuse for it. and theres the confidentiality issue of it. these are very sensitive things. you know, you call bernie madoff and say i dont understand the money in-out, he pulls the wire. or he says the sec was just in here, wh...