thank you for your help. [applause] most of all, of thank you to you for being here today. come back and see us next thursday when we will put america under the spotlight. the hhs mandate and religious freedom. thank you for coming. >> this morning on "washington journal," susan feachyo of the washington example anywhere and npr's ken ruden join us and president obama's campaign documentary released this past week. then a look at the latest developments in the u.s. war in

afghanistan. and erica newland joins us to talk about recent claims that google bipe passed settings. "washington journal" airs at 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. >> on "newsmakers" this week, virginia ds attorney general discussing the importance of the 2012 presidential race.

>> rick santorum spent the afternoon campaigning in illinois. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2012] >> i am overwhelmed by the number of folks here. this is just awesome. it is great to be here in southern illinois where the heartland really begins here in

the state of illinois. thank you very much for coming out. thank you. what are we going to do on tuesday? are we going to have a big win on tuesday? what do you think? [cheers and applause] >> thank you so so much for being here. i appreciate the hospitality of the company making this -- we need to get closer. is that better? ok. just let me know what i need to do. beat obama something you guys are saying? well, let me tell you, the best chance to beat barack obama is to nominate somebody who can actually take it to barack obama on his horrible record as president of the united states and the best way to do that is to make sure we don't have

someone who agrees with that horrible record as president of the united states. that's why i decided to get into this race. karen and i, she's not here with me, i know. i know you getting the short end of the stick here getting me not my wife. but karen and i have been married 21 years, we have seven children, we are very blessed. [applause] and as you know, at the age of 53 and with seven children age 20 to 3, it's not exactly the best time to be going out and deciding to run for president of the united states. but we just felt like as we thought about it, prayed about it, that we had no choice. because this country is in a very difficult position right now. this country is facing one of

those critical junctures in our history. i always tell folks this is the most important election in your lifetime and maybe since the election of 1860. this is an election where big things are at stake and we can't have candidates talking about little things, we can't have candidates out there talking about this vote or that vote, little minor things that aren't really tat core of the problems of this country. you'll be getting lots of ro bo calls. have you gotten any yet? they'll all be negative. they'll all be tearing the other candidate down, all about little issues that aren't at the heart of the problem that face this country. we're going out across this country. and the reason we're standing up in the face of 10-1 or more spending against us is we are out there talking about thing that is americans are talking about. we are out there talking about issues that are of concern to them because they know that big things are at stake not just

here at home but around the world. and we need a presidential candidate to take on this president. who can talk about those big things, who can paint a vision for this country. not just tear down the other side. but paint a positive and hopeful and optimistic vision about where this country has been and where it needs to go if we are going to be successful in the future. [applause] that's what i've been trying to do in this campaign. out, crossing the plains, we drove through illinois several times, back and forth to iowa. and we talked to the folks all over this country. about that positive hopeful and optimistic vision believing in what made america great. and of course what makes america great is not a big

powerful central government. what makes america great is a limited government that believes in the unlimited potential in each and every one of you all across this country. that's why we've gone out and we've talked about the issues that -- well, really the fundamental issue that is at stake in this election. i always talk about my grandfather when he came to this country in 1925. he came because he was being ruled by a facist dictator by the name of muse lini in italy and he was ruled by that dictator and having fought as he did in world war one he understood the tyranny of those people in power, those authoritarian figures. and he didn't want his children to grow up there. he wanted his children to have something that he never had.

and so he went to the only place where they had it. that place that was a beaken for the rest of the world. he didn't go come to the united states, he didn't go to the coal fields of southwestern pennsylvania. he could have come to the coal fields of southern illinois. -- give an applause for the coal fields of southern illinois. the same kind of people came to the coal fields. people who wanted not government benefits. they were looking for hand -- weren't looking for handouts from the government. they were walking away from a government that was handing out things and then of course making them do what the government wanted to do in exchange for the gifts that the government was giving them. no, he didn't come here for any benefits except one. freedom. [applause]

what is at stake in this election is that torch that has shone so brightly here in america and around the world lighting, lighting a path for those who wanted to be able to pursue their dreams, raise their family and live their faith. pursue their dreams to start businesses and employ people and work and participate in community activities and participate in church and practice their faith. that's what america has always been all about. it's a very simple concept. but one that transformed the world. that is what is at stake, that beacon, that torch of freedom. it's at risk because we now have a group of people in washington who have been trying

for years but finally succeeded in taking fundamental freedoms from you and making you less and less free and more dependent upon them. i'll never forget when i was still doing some work at fox news that this was the time obama care, which is public enemy number one against the freedom of this country -- [applause] [cheers and applause] i remember going into the green room at fox shortly after president obama decided to ignore the results from the senate race in massachusetts where scott brown won and decided to shove the senate health care bill, the obama health care bill to through the senate, the house of representatives where a vast majority of americans were opposing it.

the tea party was out in the street thankfully voicing their concern about government taking away their freedom. and yet, the president pushed on, broke every rule you can think of to get this bill through the house of representatives, and about two days before there i was in the green room at fox and in walks ron williams. and i looked at juan and i said you folks are commiting political suicide. you're going to get creemed in the next election. you're doing everything that the public doesn't want you to do. you're ignoring the rules, you're breaking the rules, you're shoving it down the throats of the american people. you're not allowing any amendment. you're acting like tyrants. and [applause] and you will pay for it dearly in november. [cheers and applause] well, of course they did pay

for it dearly last november. but what he said to me in response was very telling. he said he just talk to the people at the white house and this is what they said. we believe americans love entitlements. well, you can see evidence of that with the explosion of food stamps and housing programs and senior citizen si and all of these medicaid all at highest ever in useage in our country. and the president continuing to push them. but he continued. he said we believe americans love entitlements. and then he went on and said this. he said, once we get them hooked on this entitlement, they will never let it go. see, that's what they believe.

they believe in seeing each and every american not as a free person, not as someone who can provide for themselves or even wants to provide for themselves and their family, not as someone who sees their responsibility to care for their neighbor, to form groups and associations here at the local community, to build strong communities and families and churches and schools and businesses where everybody looked out for everybody else because that's now how they see the world. they see the world as that type of free association and bottom up solution to problems as a broken model, a model in their mind that never worked and that the only thing that did work is for those, the elites in society, to be able to pass laws that take -- [inaudible]

ok. we're back. ok. to take the freedom and my microphone away temporarily. to take your freedom away because they are better able to govern you and to tell you what's best than you are, to help yourself. that's what they believe. now, i'm not saying they're evil people. i'm not saying they're bad people. but they have a fuppedmently different view of what's best for america and for americans. and that's what this race has to be about. it has to be about that big issue, those big issues. as to who we are and who we will be as an american people. [applause]

every one of my speeches i go out and talk about these big issues of government control of our lives. you want to try to bring people together that one of the things they hear all the time, we're so divided. this country is so divided. how can we possibly come back together? how can we possibly get a consensus? well, i think it's important that we talk about those big things and we talk about who we are. ronald reagan in his fair well 50d dress the last thing he said to america was he said -- fair well address he said he was concerned about the future of america, he was concerned because through our civic institutions through our media through our culture through our schools we were not being taught about who we are as americans, what made us the greatest country in the history of the world. and if we have a version of

history taught to ourselves that is out of step with what really heaped here, what really made us great, if they reeducate us as to what the greatness of america is all about, then we will lose our way and lose the freedom that we have. winston churchill said the debate is not about the future, the debate is about the past. how we defined what worked in america, who we are, will decide what vision we will cast in the future. and one of the great concerns that i have and that we see is this attempt by this president to redefine america. when he goes out to kansas and talks about how capitalism and free markets don't work and never worked. that it created great inequality in this country and that this inequality is the scurege of our nation, it is

america is economically unfair, individualism doesn't work, free enterprise doesn't work, we need a heavier hand of the government. and when government comes in things work better. that's his vision of what happened. that's him telling a new story to you here in america. his story. his story. not the truth but his story. if you remember the old soviet union every time the new leader would come into power they would tear up old history books and write new once. that's what they did. they would rewrite the history depending on who was in favor and who was not. think about that. as we think about who america really is. president obama about a year ago is responding to a budget

that was put out -- paul ryan by the way is putting out his budget next week. [applause] when he put it out last year i immediately supported it. i've already talked to paul this year and he told me what's in store and i have no doubt that as soon as i see all the details i will support what he wants to do again this year. but president obama would have none of this. he stood up and cast gated paul ryan for trying to cut entitlement programs. entitlement programs like food stamps and medicaid and unemployment insurance and yes medicare and social security. although he didn't touch social security in his bill. but he cast gathed paul ryan and said this. he said america is a better country because of these programs. i will go one step further he read. america was not a great country

until these programs were put in place. that is his story. that is barack obama's history. that's how he sees america. through the eyes of someone who believes that america is great when the government is powerful takes money from some redistributes to the other based upon what he believes is fair. that does not make america the greatest country in the history of the world, that does not make america different than any other country in the world. that makes america like the countries your ancestors left to come here for the freedom not to be given those choices by the government. [cheers and applause] we need someone who understands that what barack obama has done

and what frankly republicans and democrats together have done over the past six or eight years threaten the very foundation of our country. when you go out and talk about them first and foremost we need to talk about obama care. every speech by the way next week is the anniversary of the passage of obama care. and the week after there will be a debate three days historic debate in the united states supreme court about whether the federal government can force every person in america to buy a product from a private sector vendor that the government says you must buy. so obama care will be front and center over the next week. and just a couple of days ago -- i know this is going to shock you when you hear this -- but the congressional budget office came out with a new cost

for obama care. i know you're going to be surprised to hear this. if there's anybody around that's weak and faint of heart please catch them if i say this. but obama care is not going to cost $900 billion. as the president said it would. obama care is not going to dramatically lower health care costs as he said he would. but believe it or not, and i know you're going to have trouble believese believing this, it's going to cost almost twice as much as president obama said it would over the next 10 years. i know you're shocked to hear this. twice as much, almost $2 trillion over the next 10 years. $2 trillion. of taxing you and then telling you how to spend the money that they took from you. and that's what they're going to do. you see, with these regulations

not only are they going to tell you what product to buy, how much you're going to be taxed and the businesses you are going to be taxed. but then they're going to tell you what benefits you're going to get and if you don't like them, if you have a religious objection to them, too bad. when the government says they give you a right, they can tell you how to exercise that right whether you like it or not and you had better like it. that's barack obama's view of freedom in america. we need -- we needed someone who can go out and take president obama on. someone -- someone throughout the time that i've been in public life have stood for free markets. anybody familiar with health savings accounts? well, i was the author of health savings accounts 20

years ago when i was in the house of representatives. it's a system that believes in bottom up, believes in free people having their own resources being able to make health care choices themselves having the flexibility and the freedom because they control the money not insurance companies and not the government. that's what works in america, 300 million consumers controlling costs not one 15-member board put together by barack obama to ration care to everybody. i believe, i believe in the american people. barack obama and unfortunately -- well, bless you. thank you. unfortunately, barack obama and the other person competing against us here in illinois does not believe in free people

making their health care choices. as governor of massachusetts, he instituted romney care which mandated every person in massachusetts buy health care. which mandated an insurance policy that everyone has to have to get four choices. which mandated fines if you didn't buy insurance. which taxed businesses. and of course used your taxpayer dollars through medicaid to pay for half of it. it was the model that barack obama used. how do we know that? just look at the two bills and listen to president obama. he said he listened and watched what went on in massachusetts. with the romney kennedy health care bill. and, yes, ted kennedy when mitt romney signed that bill was standing right behind him applauding. now, any time you have ted kennedy standing behind you applauding something, you know this is not a freedom bill.

[applause] there's governor romney in the health care debate advocated not for the other states but for the federal government to adopt. and then during the debates he said i never did it. until we found out yes he did do it again and again. why? why would the republican party even contemplate on this most central issue of the day the issue that got the tea party and millions of americans off their couches and out into the streets, helped us win the 2010 election is the central issue a constitutional issue whether the federal government can force you to do something? and yet we would possibly here in the state of illinois put forward a candidate who was for

that unconstitutional authority. when he was asked the question by fred thompson in the 2008 debates about mandates of health care in massachusetts governor romney responded, i love mandates. mandates work. he defended mandates. why would we give that issue away? why would we take an issue that is at the heart of what's going on in america robbing you of your freedom making you dependent upon government for your lives and for your health and nominate someone who would not only not be able to talk about that issue and listen to governor romney's speeches. how long does he talk about obama care and the fact that he will repeal it? he puts out that one-liner. but does he really get into the core issues? no. because he can't.

we take away the biggest issue in this race with someone who is uniquely disqualified to nake the case against barack obama and it's not just health care. on the issue of energy. we all know about energy and how the prices are sky rocketing. it's sky rocketing because we have a president who sees coal and oil and gas, those fossil fuels in the grounds as liabilities not assets. as things that will harm the environment. will make the oceans rise. remember the president said he was going to have the oceans recede. [cheers and applause] and he says i try to put my faith out into the public square.

no, president obama's going to have the oceans recede because he was going to be the one to wave his hand and stop all of the carbon pollution in this country. you saw it here in southern illinois with the coal fields like we have in western pennsylvania and ohio and west virginia and kentucky. the pulling of permits for coal , for oil, for gas. the only place we're drilling any more right now or mining is on private lands, not on federal lands. this president won't allow it. this president is delaying and denying permits in the gulf. causing unemployment in the gulf coast states and unemployment in the coal fields and gas fields of this country. of course, part of his two-letter energy policy is n-o. he is has denied permits,

denied opening up offshore out in the outer continental shelf in alaska everywhere, federal lands, and of course building that pipeline from canada, the president said no. we need a president who will say yes to energy development in this country. you see, i've always been for energy and for drilling and for mining. i've always been for producing more fuel in this country because i know as the grandson of a coal minor that have a better standard of living the more available and the cheaper the energy is look at the cost of living here in the last couple of months. you're feeling it at the grocery store. you're seeing it at the gas pump. but it's going to ripple through as prices stay high for energy. you're going to see the consumer price index now hit a

ten-month high and you're going to see it even more with the the president's cheap dollar continuing. we're going to pay more and more. when you go to the gas pump now you see those figures go flipping by and you go instead of paying two digit dollars you're now paying three digits and when you see that zero come up when that when it gets into the hundred dollar range. when you see that zero think of o for obama because that's why you're paying that extra amount of money. [applause] but believe it or not, the same man who gave us romney care and advocated for obama care also was the person who was not for mining and drilling. who bought into the climate

change, the climate science of man-made global warming. who advocated for cap and trade. and as governor of massachusetts put the first co2 cap on coal fired power plants in the state of massachusetts. and crowed about how this was a great advance for society. what is a climate was favorable for democrats and even some republicans some moderate to liberal republicans i might add, to buy into the climate science of man-made demrobal warming, mitt romney led the charge. saying no we have to worry about fossil fuel development, we have to have clean energy alternatives, but as the climate changed so did mitt romney change.

ladies and gentlemen, we need someone who is going to stand tall, whose not going to be a well-oiled weather vain but is going to point true north and stand up for what is true, what is right and that's energy security for our country. why at a time when sky rocketing energy prices would we nox nate someone who had the same position as president obama with respect to the use

olve fossil fuels? why would we give that issue away in this election? people ask me why i'm the best candidate to run against barack obama. it's because i feel like in many respects i am running against barack obama here in this primary because mitt romney has the same positions as barack obama in this primary. there are more wall street bailouts. he was for them like obama. another almost trillion dollar bailout. i could go on with a long laundry list of the support of planned parenthood. he wrote perm checks. he said he has a conversion all well and good. but after his conversion he provided tax-free financing for a planned parenthood clinic in massachusetts. the list is long of his

policies that are out of step not just with the republican party but with america. and provide no clear contract cl trast. we're not going to win this election in the fall. like governor romney has tried to win every race and every state like he is trying to win illinois, we are not going to win this race by outspending barack obama ten to one, by running non-stop tv adds and robo calls. imagine a campaign that's just about negativity. where there is no vision. we need to have someone who can paint that positive vision, that can rally people to get off their couches and out there and working for us. we don't have all the money for billionaires giving to super

packs but what we have is something more important and i'm looking at it. my secret weapon here in illinois and across this country. this campaign will be about freedom, it will be about economic opportunity, energy, manufacturing jobs, i'm tonl person out there that talks about a plan that will get this economy turned around, not just by lowering energy costs but by taking a one-two punch to try to bring the jobs that allow people of all skill levels to rise in our society. i grew up in a -- [applause] i grew up in a steel town of western pennsylvania. i know the opportunities that manufacturing can create. created here

and i will do what the entitlement programs what we did with welfare when i was the author of that bill and i managed that bill as a freshman senator against ted kennedy and daniel patrick moynihan two lions of the senate and a

36-year-old freshman senator from pennsylvania and we won. we won because our ideas were better, because it coin sided with the vision of our country. which is these welfare programs have no business at the federal level. none. most of them are run by the states anyway. and so what we need to do is what paul ryan has suggested and i suggested and did when i was in the senate and take all of these means tested programs, 47 -- 40-something of them and cut them. block grant them, send the money to the states with two conditions. time limits and a work requirement. we're not doing that, we're not doing that because we're mean. we're not doing it because we don't care.

welfare reform wasn't about hurting people, it was about understanding that long-term government dependency doesn't help people. believing in the dignity and value of every person and the ability to go out and provide for every person helps people and turns lives around and makes this country a better country. the last issue and this is one i don't know what the situation is going to look like come november of this year. everyone says it's going to a about jobs tand economy. it may be. but it also may be about something just as anxiety creating. and that is the potential for a nuclear iran. we have had a president who will make chamber lynne look like an aggressive confrontor of evil. when it comes to iran, no one

has appeased more than this president. he has fought and kicked and screamed about opposing even the most minor of sanctions. he had an opportunity to join the green revolution in 2009 to overthrow the radical theocracy that is killing our troops and was killing our troops. that was building a nuclear weapon and threaten our ally israel and the president said no let's negotiate with ahmadinejad and the mullas. and then we see just recently the prime minister of israel coming to the united states and speaking in washington, d.c.. the day before president obama says i've got your back. the prime minister stood up and said, time is running out. we have been patient, mr.

president, with all the games that uff been playing but time is running out. we cannot as the state of israel, allow a nuclear iran that has repeatedly threatened to wipe out not just israel but all jewish people. we have been down this road before. and we will not let this happen again. [applause] [cheers and applause] and i spoke from that same podium the next day and i said president obama does not have israel's back, president obama has turned his back on israel. and that very day the president announced that they would begin negotiations with iran. you say what's the big deal? a series of old u.n. resolutions says thereby no negotiations with iran until

they cease developing and enriching uranium. president obama says no you don't have to do that, we'll still talk to you. we'll still give you time, as we talk you enrich. as we talk, you build your blistic capability, as we talk, you weaponize that nuclear material into a weapon. as we talk. we need a president who stops talking to evil and tries to negotiate with evil, and stands up and says we will stand with the people of israel and iran will not get a nuclear weapon on our watch. [cheers and applause] so i laid out a concrete proposal that said if i was president today i would give an ultimatumium to the iranians an ultimatumium that said you either open up these facilities

for us to inspect them begin to shut down these processing, close down these 40 facilities, or we will shut them down for you. it's the radicals who the killing and tort turg the people. we need to enbrace and engage them. we need to stand for what america has always stood for. we're a country that doesn't invade or conquer or grab land and resources. america has always been a

country that has stood for liberty, that has stood for the values of freing people. of creating prosperity and by that safety and security for our country. we should not have a president who travels rooped the world apologizing for america and what we've done in helping the world be a freer and safer place. [cheers and applause] my final plea to you is to understand what is at stake and do your duty. that this generation is called to do. you know, our tea party folks have had a wonderful influence on the discourse in america over the past couple of years. they've resurrected a document -- they've resurrected a

document that has become somewhat of a dead letter, the constitution of the united states. [applause] that constitution is the operator's manual of america. it is how the government is to function. but it must be read in context with another very important document, one that it is tetsrd to, it is the anchor for the constitution. and that of course is the declaration of independence. if you look at barack obama and the left, they always try to dismiss the declaration. they try to say oh that's not important, it's not a legal document. it was just, you know, the sentiments of people at the time. but it doesn't have any legal

standing in american juris prudence or in american law. but you cannot understand this document unless you read it in the context of these words that you all know so well but i'm not even sure we recognize how revolutionary they truly were. we hold these trutes to be self-evident that all men are created equal and endowed by their -- >> creator -- >> we certain unalianable rights. [cheers and applause] our constitution does not give us rights. the constitution recognizes the rights that god have already given us.

the reason this country has done so well is because we understand that the job of the government under this constitution is limited to one thing. protecting the rights that god has given us, trusting the people to go out and take those liberties, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness to go out and pursue real happiness as our founders understood it. and that was not the freed tom go and do what you want to do but the freedom to do what you should do, what you ought to do, what's best for you and your family and your community. that's what america does and did. that's what created the greatness of this country wasn't some semi-god or demi god or divine prophet that is king or emperor who imposed their will on all of us. no. it was believing in good and decent faith-filled people. going out and building a good

and just society. that's the history, the true history of america. [applause] and don't ever forget we changed the world. at the time of our founders life expectancy in america was 35. as it had been for 2,000 years. we were an egrarian society as societies have been for 2,000 years. and then america happened. america happened. it didn't happen anywhere else. it didn't happen in the islamic world or the third world or china, russia. no. america liberate it had human spirit believed in the dignity of every person, gave them the room to be able to reach for

the stars, succeed greatly, build, prosper and provide for each other because we actually had relationships and cared for each other and we knew we had an obligation to do so. and in 235 years life expectancy has doubled. we went from an agricultural society to an industrial society to a technology society. wealth beyond comp hencetion even 50 years ago all because we had government that believed in you. ladies and gentlemen, that is what's at stake. you want to bring americans together? remind them of who we preally are. [applause] we have great and serious problems that face this country but nothing, nothing that can

stand in the way of free people. we can fix every one of these problems not from washington but by giving you the tools and the wherewithal, the opportunity to go out and make things right across this country. trusting you. at the end of that delerk ration of independence, our founders wrote these words. they signed this document knowing they were probably signing their death warrants going up against a far tougher foe against freedom than we are going up against. but nevertheless they signed this document and they pledged to each other as i'm asking you to do here today. pledged to each other that you will step forward.

our founders said they pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor. no one is asking to pledge your life over these next 48 hours. no one is even asking you to pledge your for tune, although if you go to rick santorum.com -- i promise i won't use it to buy a robo call. i promise. a little bit of your for tune. go on there and sign up to be a volunteer, make phone calls. you can make phone calls from home. we have lists of people here in illinois that you can call. people say how have wep been able to win? people across this country. people all over the nation calling because they know what's at stake. and what is at stake is your sacred honor. because you are stewards of a

great inheritance. you are stewards of a great country. you are stewards of your family name. [applause] and in fact, your honor will either be uphe would or diminished as to whether you can uphold that gift that you've been given from your community, from your family, from your state and from your country. your honor, the honor of every american is at stake in this election. and let me assure you, just like in 1980 when people said we have to nominate a moderate because that's the only way we're going to win votes is by appealing to moderates, and conservatives across this land said no. no, we want an election that's not about the difference between twiddle dumb and

dwiddle de. we want an election about a real choice, about where america is to go. we want a choice about whether we have a president who believes that he can rule and should rule or whether we want a president who doesn't want to be the most powerful man in the world but wants to return the power to you the american people. [cheers and applause] i pledge you this. i pledge you this. in the next 48 hours if you go out and spend your days tomorrow -- tonight, tomorrow, monday, and you call your friends, you put our pictures up on facebook, i'll be working here and shaking hands and

taking pictures. we need you. i need you. your country needs you. and if you go out, if you go out and do your part, i'm doing this 24/7. since i started to run for president i've had five days off the campaign trail, two for thanksgiving and three for christmas. i've been on the campaign trail every single day doing as many as 10 events in a day. and they'll back me up. [applause] i'm asking for three days the if you give me those three days here, you turn it out here in southern illinois, i know you don't get a chance to outvote your friends up in the chicagoland area very often. but this is a primary and turnout is everything. you do your job, you do your

job and this is the pledge. if we're able to come out of illinois with a huger surprise win i guarantee you, i guarantee you that we will win this nomination, we will nominate a conservative. and if we nominate a conservative we will beat barack obama in the fall election. thank you, illinois. god bless you. thank you. [cheers and applause] >> mitt romney is campaigning in illinois today ahead of the state's primary elections on tuesday. the former massachusetts governor will make remarks and speak with voters tat machine shed rockford at about 5:00 eastern this afternoon. you can watch live coverage right here on c-span.

coming up on c-span in a moment, "washington journal" with a look at the top stories, guests, and your calls. at 10:00 eastern it's "newsmakers." this week's guest, attorney general ken cuccinelli. then at 10:30 actor and activist george clooney's testimony about the humanitarian crisis in southern sudan. here's a look at guests coming up on "washington journal." at 7:45, susan if a rich yo and npr's ken ruden join us to talk about the republican presidential race and president obama's campaign documentary released this last week. then overseas for the latest developments on the war on afghanistan. at 9:15