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katie couric. >> couric: good evening, everyone. if movie stars are america's royalty, elizabeth taylor was queen. and her long reign has come to an end. as you've likely heard elizabeth taylor died today in a los angeles hospital, surrounded by her four children. the cause was congestive heart failure. as soon as the news broke, some of her many fans placed flowers on her star along the hollywood walk of fame. honoring a woman whose work and life were part of our culture for seven decades. >> are you going to continue making movies or just be a housewife? >> i couldn't really care l...

Finally tonight on "the ed show," as promised, or exclusive interview now with one of the people on the front lines with the battle between wall street and working americans. bart chilton of the commodities futures trading commission, or cftc as it's known, good to have you here on "the ed show." i know our audience appreciates your time. let's start with the basics if we can. your office gave us a chart that shows the number of oil futures contracts rose from 617,000 back in the summer of 2008 to more than 1 million last month. i'm curious, can you prove that that's the cause of high gas pric...

there's breaking news from wisconsin tonight, just as it appeared that the republican governor was about to compromise with the 14 senate democrats who remain across state lines. state republicans have just used a new legislative procedure to pass the governor's union busting bill without any democrats present. the vote was 18-1, with one republican voting no, and all 14 democrats recorded as not voting. nbc's john yang has been covering the story and is live in chicago. john, how did the republicans vote on this without the democrats being back in the state to have the quorum we tho...

what's their next move. and can the republicans get away with this? we'll discuss the legal ramifications of scott walker's war on the middle class in wisconsin. democratic lawmakers are calling what their republican counterparts tonight an affront to democracy. the wisconsin senate passed a bill stripping collective bargaining rights from over 175,000 state employees. senate republicans voted 18-1. in what is being considered a bold political move, republicans took collective bargaining out of the budget bill, and voted without the democrats, before the votes were cast democratic as...

war on the middle class in wisconsin. democratic lawmakers are calling what their republican counterparts tonight an affront to democracy. the wisconsin senate passed a bill stripping collective bargaining rights from over 175,000 state employees. senate republicans voted 18-1. in what is being considered a bold political move, republicans took collective bargaining out of the budget bill, and voted without the democrats, before the votes were cast democratic assemblyman peter barka made a last-ditch appeal to senate republicans, and of course, they ignored him. now the bill heads to...