>> hello. i am llewellyn king, host of "white house chronicle," coming right up. rst, se thought of my own. i have taken the trole for years to tell pple about the virtue of a good idea as opposed to a new iention. we have reacd a point in ciety where the inventionsre solentiful, so many of them, particularly in telephony, that we need billns of dollars t take the next ste in anytng.

i am here explaino you that sometimes, allou need is to get a better idea. present, forxample, this a sml radio. it has this peace that go like that. r yrs, you ndedouble radios on your head so you looked like someone from mar and the the genius at sy. its comfoable. it goes with many things take this cup. people have beenrinking out of them f thousands of years. th haveeen driving for

years. gobl's for wine? . who would have thought the great characters of europe -- it took convience stor t me a funny plasc tng that you put on the window oyour c and it tips into the most sensitive part of your body. detroiand the other aut centers of the world japan, for example, realize this little inntation, you p the cup in the and you are away with cars. now, if you buy a car or anything else, there are cup holders. finally, the masterpce of human invention -- the wheel. is is a wheel on luggage. wheels have been around thounds of years, and it took

us thousands of years to realiz that if we put wings on everhing, we couldut it ound. so be caful. you do notlways need millions of dollars to inventthings to sehow you can apply to what you have. the radio, theup, the wheel on luggage. there are many otr such things. if you get it right, you might make a lot of money, as well. i do not know wh people have invent, buthey have iented e art of absorbing conversation. can vouch for that. >> "white hous chronicle is produced in collabation with whut, our university television. and now, nationalyndicated columnt llewellyn king and co- host linda gparello.

>> hello aga, and thank you so much for coming along. the inventors i pmised you are here. lia gaspareo, co-host of the program, michelle jamrisko, joe mathieu, posting th program -- coasting on sirius xm satelli radio. joe and i have a conversation on fridays sometime i alsam happy to welcome wamara mwine of the "nation examiner is out but she wtes on many subcts -- othe ashington examiner." she writes on mantopics. d i'm glad we have backe

michelle jamrisko. nda gasparello, your president has been in youhomeland generaons back. ther is some awkrdness with the libertian prime minister. or libertine. [laughter] he is accuse of and on slavery fection for younger women -- on slavery --nsavory affection for younger women. >> this group issually lackluster. unless the happen toe hosted by the one silo berlusconi, the richestan in ily and think the best lover as well. [applae] i think am too old forim. buthe fact is, his privae

life has been hijacked in amusing way. buin aay that is really bothering italia. , they elected him. but there a point where the say, "enou's." >> they gorid ofim, then theyere bored, so th brought him back >> hu hefner or sanova as your prime minisr. scandal aft scandal. they are very workmanlike, b without th flamboyanthat can be brought to em by somebody li berlusconi.

>> andecome better known for the protest around them. but are you sing tha an international agreement to maintain eart's temrature is not progress? hat are you suggesting, linda? >> for columnists - so unachievable and unlikel other things the prident did in rusa, joe? >> apparently he did well. i do not thinkeople works up at:00 in the morning east coast time twatch it live. i not think aot of nes generated. the president himself complaine the past week betweenetwork interviews about the ft that everyone wantehim to talk about michael and sarah, and here his eliminating nuclear weaponryy a third. all knew w those people were doing without hring their

names. but it is difficult to make ne whenou're talking about nuclear disarmament. i decid not to talkbout michael. in satellite radio, we are about niche. i think we we the only channel for ur hours during e memori service talking about something other than him, and think we ha all h it with that love fair. >> it is just resetting, a the white house likes to y. relaons with russia -- they needed to be reset. we need to work with them on many important this coming up. in, first and foremost. and th supy ofur troops in afghanistan, you'll need russian cooperation on that and this trip was quite successful in that resct, and what azed me wa that the obama charmhis

ability peak so supbly -- many do not make that much of an impressi in russia. but also,ou are working wi translators. anyone who h spoken to transtors knows that u have very smooth avowals. i find specifically, it is devastatin >> it worked perfectly well in cairo. perfectly well. >> different languages translate differently. they are trying toind the idiom.

one coming trips aica, and we went to you gotta. i am getting youre african countrs -- he went to uganda. i'm getting mcountries could e. what they think y could hieve, and how will yo be receiv? >> so much on thplate right noin terms of domestic issues. the eatest hope is to focusn growth versus just trying to slow money to actually grow initutions within the countries to work on medical systems, education. >> what is rlly needed is a

strong, indendent instituon fothe politicians come. >> you have term limits, african leaders in pla for four years or more and they leave the country and have an acunt on switzernd and are drawg money that should hav been spent at he. so there psent efforts are insignificant at thatime. >>ell us, how is uganda doing? >> the corruption h been ther for many of thos lears. it ia lot more stable.

but there is urgency there. >>t pnts out the difficulties of rica. >> he went back to the commerci bank and opened up 11 printers and provided loans but there were a bunch of governnt people for loans and they were trying to t money to buy cars. so when my dad started rucing those loa, they decided not to do them at all. it was after you, because they want -- they feel entitd t a piece the natural resources.

housing and education >> it not confined. i oe knew a very wealthy family. there was a trendous amount o cial work with women, but with premier li ri people. and i aed somebod, how did they bome so rich. and heooked at me and said i was really stupid. he was the financeinister, wasn't he? very littlebout that kind of corrtion in japan. >> i wouldot s there was one. >> im not the best judge of

the street lev, but ty do have a certain dignied manr out politics sometimes. so if you are comparing a japan to africa, there's a difference in howhey deal with finances, but they are going pre-world one rht now and their economic situation is there. >> you get the japanese qustions. how yr colleague feel about your career? >> it is a big question. we have talked about it before -- have often gone to a poi where they a not even as concerned athey are he. there are threa every day of noh korea. it is ki of the threat. th do continu to report on every new development.

but here is another threat. en does it e? sot is an ongoi situation where they are tempered by the lack of devepment, either from the international side, a much as the administration wld say they made pgress. it is hardto say that any of hese thingsake a distinction, that any of th have done anythi in any degree against north korea. i wl rntroduce our panel. linda gasparello of this progra "white house chronicle ." myself, llewellyning. joe mhieu, host of potusn siriusm satellite radio. and joe mathieu -- michle jamrisko of kyodo newnew

the president wilbe back next week. he has problems wh all of h big-ticket programs h has. health care does not seem to be ing awhere,nd health care in the senate. >> what was agreed in t house does not necessarily spl over to the sene. there's be more lk since the president has beenrought about folks and e white house wishinhe were home right now. you have gone on the presence, and undetand the value inteationally. thesere sentive times here ates side as we get ready for the confirmation hearis for sotomayor,ho are set to get under way. the health care situation yo bring up, 're still trying to figure out how to payor it,

and it looks le it will result in the combination of higher tas somewhere or cuts to medicare or medicaid. the preside will be a bus guy en he comes back. >>here waslso the announcement with kathleen belius. there we multiple nouncements about wre to me, a reminder. it almost seems lik they were tryi to make more interest in this. >> the white house stregy h been toake side deals. whatas happened is that they have made these announcements, an we do not have to be abiding by these.

it is at a point now where if the presidenis going to. they need toet rahm emanuel and there. they say this is what we want, th is what we' going to do, and you had better fly into line. >> thejust got it, and it uld be time tgo nucle and stopped atnding this will be a bipartisan love fest. >> obama is a great communator, but is he a great uned? [inaudble] >> do you think would go for

what they wanted? this is a strange strategy. weant reform. >> it will take long time. i have stayed away with a lot of predictions on smulus because the white houseays 25% of these resoces right now, individual states to cut big medicaid bills. the'reosing their homes, they have an unemployment issu. a of these thingsre weighing heavily on the state's to create situation where health careto back seat ande should be reaching out to make ne jobs. when you are not proessing, your regressing.

whatappens is the white house has got another stimulu and what they ha to do is get all this money to e state. they've got to get sources out ther. >> i havbeen talki to republicans,nd they are appaed with the idea of anotr stimulus. democrats are appald. >> no tangible progre, and i'm no sure the white house wants to go that way. you look at new polls, and a lot of it has doith the money being spent. >> people are rried about ficit.

the jobs wilbe created, and all the other this in the presidential back justo by the wayside. he was talking about the deficit, but i thoug he was talking about politics. but we know one of thehings the deficit a handled is inflation. it is a terrible wato do it, becaehere are incomand asset questis, but we nev seek inftion. if you gett, other pple look at it because iteals th long-term debt and a cruel way. it deals with everye in a crueway. what would be the good ns? first of all, republicans have to come up with a plan.

they can not just iticized mocrats. i spoke to someone at a while ago and he said thate should do this. well, put youpoint together, make a text file, and putt on your web site. in terms of health care, they ave to spread this out. this will take a lot me time to achieve tse goals, and it will take me time, clely. >> what do y think of the obama style? it has captivated mu of the rld and the media. it has been quite captivating. you mean commication? >> just a way of living. families, the loveyub dinrs,

the ing set. this is out of a painting somewhere. >> you have people ouof the gate be enamored with that lifestyle, especially seeing someone go out in the town, gog to date night and that sort of thing. but it comes with it when people realize how much moneys being spent. the family is awful differen thing. you talk about comparing exposure of obama with something like sarah palin -- these are two people who have placed emphasis and found aay to get it rough the credit, versus palin's's complaining about having too mh exposure. so i tnk there are posives and negatives.

>> i thi in russia, he had date nht with his wife -- there are only soany hou th leaders can meet, and i thk those international meetings ought to be left to a lot of th businesses instead of familyravel. >> it cannot be a good thing to have an ime of his dghters playing uin europe when a lot of familieat home are thinking abou their kids. i want to ask you, what is it in our natiol psyche that we ne to grieve, from other tertainment figures. incessiana had enteainment. what ishis desire to geve? >> mbe because we're not allowed to dato-day le?

i was happy about the number of peoe listening to the radio who wanted to ll a story that attached to him so way. it mns me to me that it does to you, and let m tell you why. th period ofrieving is a caartic experience, getting people to cry bause they are no allowed to in daily life. it is catharc for people to d it. >> i am olr. i have been grieving for da. >> we'reut of time. lind gasparello, te the floor. >> takthe floor. ok. by high note isor today, we

finally have sensible guidelines for stem cell research and we will he a new head of the national ititutes of health will be great. one of t founding fathers, really encouraged. we're back on track. >> i try to be positive this week. iant to give you a high point i had to go live on r for the signation of sah pal, and it has been so goodor us. >> i wt to mention a high point. a personal friend of mineas this organation called ecclia. ey are foundation who has dinn's fort soldiers comin back from iraq. so this friday, weill have a

dinner and giv them an opportity to talk to other soldiers and get them bacin societ there is a web site, elythia.org. there is aite and a way to ntribute. >> he sort of stole mind. [laughter] all we can tal about this week is palin and jacks. shes gone, isn't e? >> io not know. it ihard to tell. you talk aut h mmunications strategy and supporte not using any faith in her -- inact, they are ramping up. it is hard to tell. >> that i our program today. thank you souch for coming along. we wil see you nexweek. in the meaime.

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