>> >> what do you think of when you see a tree? a treatment focancer? alternative fuel for our cars? you think of hope for the environment, or food, clothing, shelter? we do. weyerhaeuser, growing ideas. >> if you don't set deadline in this town, things don't happ. >> th week on "inside washington," thesenate this is the president's health car deadline. in the hou, the blue dogs have their day.

>> we are speaking for a silent majority within t democratic ucus. the erican people want us to slow down and get it rht. >> the cambridge poce acted stuplyn arresting somebody when there waslready proof at they were in their own home. >> a distinguished harrd scholar arrested his own home. s it stupidity, race, or a righteous bust? also, a controver of concealed weaponsill misses in the senate. >> t 58-voteajority in the senate is a pitive step d we will be ck to takit 60. i prome you that. >> the journalist was once the most trusted man america dies >> gd evening from the cbs evening news center in new yk. captioned by the national captioning stitute --wwncicap.org--

despite a the president's very definite wishes he a health-care bill by august 7, senate majority leader hry reidsays it is not going to happen. he says it is better to get a product bed on quality and thoughtfulness and to just g something thugh. speaker pelosi says she's not afraid of aust. it is just month. in an interview with abc, the president trieto put the bes face on it >> ven the progress that i am seeing a, as long as erybody is working steady, as ft as they can, particularly the nate finance committ, which i think is the cmittee that a lot of folks are waiting for -- that gets done before the august recs, i feel pret good. >> the president says that if you doot set deadlines in this town, things don't happen. but even if you do se deadlines, things d't hapn. whe does health care go from here? >> aust isotatal by any ans.

e idea that bill clinton passed his tax bil bore augu, ronald reagan passed his. athe end of this august, b every estimate, there ll be 433,000 americans who have lost their surance in that month, d probably anothe600,000 amerans who have lost their jobs, too. theense of urgenc will still be with u buti don't think there's any question at the wtehouse, the ainistration, supporters feel that time gives the opposition a chance snipe the presidendid notave a great week. the press conference took all the air out of t room. encyclopedic answers, too ng, like this one -- [laughter] at no engy. >> i don't think it was as bad a week as a lot of people think. i tnk winning the-22ote was signicant.

i think it is unfortunate that they could not get a bill done, at least out of the house and th senate, by august. you mig lay se of the blame at the feet of the chairma of the senate finance cmittee as we as thepresident. buihink the president, when they come back, ven over the break, is going to have to knock me heads together so that come september, there is a bill. >> the pblem is not aactical issu ishat this wk, rhetoric met reality. the president hds a press coerence in whichhe speaks for an hour a he promises us more covera, expanded coverage, secure coverage, lifetime of coverage, cannot everdeny you covere, at no cost. yes, aouple of milliaires will p an extraurtax. it is obviousl impossible. the numbers don't add up. the cbo had a fal blow what it saidt would ct $1 trillion. th is a problem that no one ca solve, and until i is soft,

there will t be anything ar a bill. >> far be it for me to ke all the joy outof what charles just said,ut for announcinhealth care rorm dead is pmature by the end of the ar you'll get something. you have a five committee chairmentill working to produce a bill. it is thenature of things that all the key issues start come to a he. now they have come to grips with the hard pt, the cost. evening out the ct curve is going be difficult, but erybody knows that. e thing that wille a huge backlash -- ththing is that there will ba huge backlash against congrs if they fail to do something aut health care this yr, and they know tha that why they are working. even theajor industry groups are behi some for of health care reform. >> but he i having trouble not only with republica, but democrats. >> but the blue do are right

that if you do not do something about cost, a about the way be structured medical care,o hav guidelines so that thedoctors cannot prescribe tests d leslie a repeatests and buy new equipment all the te -- if you don't do something abo the way wetricter medicalare, theris not enough mone in the united states of america to pay for it as t years go out. >> two quick point -- five out of sixmericans have health insuranc. the out of four of them, cording to surveyfter svey, are satisfied rathe than dissatiied with their health coverage. what you haveo do is convince those ople not only that we have to cover the uninsured, but at is going to be an improved system,nd that they are not going to be brokeny it. i think wre the psident -- i think he has been traed, quite honestly, i did cbo numbers.

he has tmake the case that this is not just lookingat t green eyeshade members of t govnment's, it is e economy. health care isilling the economy is not just knocking t budget. that is the case he has to make. quite honestly, it is up the president to do it, and i think he missed a golden opportunity this past week. >> buthe presidentrgues tt healthca isilling the economy, the costs are, and he is right absolutely right. and then he proposes hlth care reform that thcbo is tellin us is ing to add $1 trillion. you do not cut cos by aing $1 trillion. th is the central contradictn. all t tacticaltaff is irrevant. at the problem ishat in order do that, en if you make it revenue neutral, as obama has spoken about, it does t solve the oblem. if heth care today is destroyg the economy because of the cost,evenue neutrity les us on the same trajecty

to insolvency and ruin that obama himself has said is going on. >>nly the know nothings are arguing for the stus quo. what you have now -- >> i have got ideas. >> evenhe fiscally conservative blue dots are trying to get their piece, too. they want medicare reimbursement cost to be handled forheir role cstituents by the congress. everybody has a piece of the action that they wante the president ought to ce in and reconcile all of this, and it will ppen by the end of the year. it has to. >> the problemith just looki at the budt is thait is the clsic example of knowing the price of everything and the value of nothing. if you look at what we spend on public education, he would say that it is a loser but it is an investment in our onomy and our people and it pays handsome dividends. >> let me give youn index of

how unserio all this reform is. the esident spo for an hour. did you hear one word on tort reform? everybody herenows that we are payi exorbitant amounts because of a completely insane malpractice stem. a neurosurgeon whopens an offi in philadelphia has paybout200,000 per year on insurance alone, and who pays you pay and i pay. md -- every doct knows how mu testing and procedures are a way to prevent a lossy. why don't democrats thk about it? -- why don't democrs speak abouit? because tal lawyers around them -- own them. >> if the patient -- if the neosurgeon screws up, doesn't a patient's family have legal recourse? >> there is no diffence between states that hava cap,

like texas, d states that do not. >> when jay rockefeller, a democrat, says he is being priced out of the democratic process, you have oblems with ur own party, don't u? >> he was quitecritical of the chairman. >> of max bcus. >> he is the chairman of the health subcommittee he says the democrats including hielf, and systetically cluded by in max baucus inn effort to entice repuicans and ma this a bipartisan. it wld be ne ifit was bipartisan, but in the final analysis, they havto come up wi a bill. >>he reblicans, ifou listen to jim mint and james in half -- james inhofe, are saying that belong to the stes, the better it is for 2010. >> chles grassley d max

baucus have establish a relationsh. but part of the relationship i that max baucus fold like a house of cards at some point, i do think, and i've said this before,hat obama s to get the key ayers in, includingome of s own guys, and say,here are some things we have too, we will sit around a table, i will be back i half an hour." it will be ke t middle east gotiations. >> i don' think they e at that poi yet. right noit is very impornt for max baucuand charles grassley to come to terms on somessues that they c agree on. rockefeller has a right to feel piqued cassies a member of the committee andnot involved in that. they will haveto bring him i as well. but this is part of the legislative ocess. you ha to be able to establish what is going to be the critical massround this bill a lot of a very dficult issues a going to have to be

reconciled. you have toign off on cost controls. yohave to - >> you t hints of this in the obama press conference where he already, if you listen carelly, is lking to a fall back. he used the term veimes, " health insurce reform," not " health carreform." that means he may not be able to agree t the whole 1/6 of the american economy with a huge experiment in socia engineering, which was pnned a. is not goi to happen. prepare for a bill at the end what will be hea regulion of insurance companies so tt you d not the pre-esting insurance -- pre-exting conditn requirements and all that. one other thing -- he said he would not impose a tax in which the burden fl primarily on the middle class. up until now, he said he would but nothing on the ddle class. i think that was a hit to max baucus ttperhaps he will go

along with some kind of taxing -- the health benefit you get in your employmt, a $300 billion per year tax shelter if u go aft that he will have a al source of money. >>ou will have to control medicare paents, out of the hands of the congress come into the hands of professnals. >> y have to do sothing to ensu that at commissioner-- at that commission is apolitical. >> i have seen congress reluctantly gi up that kinof power befo. going ck to jim demi- he has a gifto presidentobama and ose whoant health care, because he has reduced th to a question of "let's get obam." ando are allhe journalists were talking about "let's kill

this" and using that kind of language. th showed their hand. they're notnterested in the pack at 47 million aricans to not have health insurance or that because it is tripli. at they are interested in scoring politil points. they thi they have an issue d they are wrong. >> we are makin sausages. it is not pretty the predent invves himself a local police matter. >> i do not believe his actns in any way were cially motivad. >> there is a long hiory in th country of afric- americanand latinos being stoppe by w enforcement disproportionaly. that does not leen the incrible progres that has been made. i am standing here as teimony to the progress that has been made. >> y can but-shirts in cambridge, maschusettsthat adsthe world's most opinionated d zip code." everybody seemsto have an opinion about what happenedn

t cambridge, ofhe nation's most famous black schor as he was trying to get through his frt door. t it is a rareevent wh an americanresident takes time off from an important news conferce to expss an opinion on an arrest tt occurred 440 miles from the wte house nevertless, he did it. >> iwasprobably stupid to use the word "studly." apparently at the white hse hey aicipated this question. i don't que know why he did that. i don't quite to this day, ving read the police report even, understd why the officer lt compelled to arrest professor gates even if he was doing everythi that the police reports saide was doing. you have the right to act like a jerk in your own home. when they found ouhe was not breaking in, i did -- why di't theyust leave? >> thedrop the charges against him. they dropped the charges

against him becaus they cannot prove it. i read theolice report, and e state issued by professor dates -- pfessor gates' lawyer, charles oglete, and it seems that it was stupid on the part of the police, once ty establish at professor gates was the occupant ofhe hom it was timeor the police offirs to say "thank you" and leave t emises. whatappened? professor gates, in my view, committed the s that affected african-erican males since they arrived othese shores -- he made the mistake ogetting uppity wit that ite man. when you get uppity th punish you r it. if he had said, "sir, may i please have your badge, nber and yourame, please," height have gten it. i beeve that professor gates

did ask fo it and he sd the thingso th police officer about the poli officer's mama that upsehim. >> but the police officer has a good record. >> does n have to be a racist to have hself act like a jerk . >> i am not applng e r-word. you have a right to act like a fool, as nina said,n your own ho. why do i have to behave in front of a police oicerin my own ho? how do you become disorderlin your own he? >> i have been sorderly in my home. everything that lby saiis prefaced with "i believe that this happened at everybody believes x or y happen

but nobody knows. three people were in the room it was a hispanic officerho seems to sport the evidencef the whe officer. >> the blue code. >> well, tt is what u think, but you don't ow it. >> if wead to say what we know on thehow, we wod be unempled. [lghter] we offer opinions. >> on like us, whoet cash f opinionsithout knowledge, e preside's speech and it has an effect on the cotry. that is e difference. we can go off stuff thatwe d't know. he cannot and he shoulnot. >> i think t president stepped on his own story. he went for 57 minutes on health care, this urgt and primary issue, and whatominates the ws? theates affair. i wod submit that,irst of all,he police officer's na is james crowley, and heoes teach cial ofiling to black

and white officers and haseen retaed by black officers to teach racial profiling theambridge police department, according to northeastern criminologists known for racial profiling, as one the best records in dealing he is not sheriff jim crk. this is not bowl conor. --ull connor. did he lose his temper when pushed and berated? i think that ia distinct possility. i woulsuggest that less than race, this is aboutower. this ia powerful perso taking on -- >> which one is the powerful person? >>ates ithe powerful person. >> i thought the person with the gone on as it wathe powerful person. this little short guy meltoff at him -- >> anyonwas in a night watchman -

he gets uppity -- >> >> have you have anybody said you "do you know w i am?" that would set anybody off. >> so why i've bn called up when i had the temity to act like i have me sense. -- so what i've beencalled uppity what i have the temity to act le i have some sense it added in a black oicer this would never have happened. theay the officer walked into the house, the way he asserted himsel itegs for the kind of response he got, andwe kn it. i knowt. as bob dole said, "y know it, know it, e american ople ow it." >> police haveenormous power d they usually do not like tting challenged, but they should be trained enough t deal with it >> there was a report two

people trying to knock a or dowwithout a key and the police officers shot >> but when they establi that he liv there, he should leave. >> but th he follows him out and berates him -- >> thiseans time out thank you. the national riflessociation isnly two votes away from americans being able to carry weaps from state to state. >> someone able -- someone convicted of assault or drk driving wi be able to carry a gun toalmost any place of america, except, should point out, the halls of congress, which ba fire arms from deral buildings. if you wt an example of a congressional hypocrisy, i would beough to beat this. >> new york mayor michael bloomberg. the senate came within two votes of passing senar john thune's billllowing gun owners to carry weapons across state lines. the bill was 58-39.

20 democrats voted for it. this camen the heels of the national rifle assoation victorthat allows gun owners to carry concealedweapons in national parks, major change in gun laws in the nation's capital. according to the bradyampaign, in 2004, handguns murdered 64 people in the unitingdom and ,300 peoplen the united states. we have more people in the united states. >> in britain, th all die of bad teeth. [lauter] is wi surprise you, but i would have ted againsthis. ourun culture is totally o of control. have gun, don't tvel. if you want hangut in a bar in texas and usit, that is ok. but each state has its own conditions. rural states, i can derstand you nt to have a gun that isk. you can be attacked by a moose, you ver know.

but it is not going to happen in manhattan let's respect states' rights, federali, and not impose on them a unified syste >> if you are inongress and you have a g and you don't want to travel, do't mess with the nra if you want to stay in congress. this was a pretty craven a vote this was a set up. senator thunewas reduced to arguing forhe rights of truckers. was set up to be used in campais so that democrats are rced to walk the plank, and i'm glad that so of them were willing to bed the sotomayor code is a bit the same -- of them we willing to. the sotomayor vote is bit the me. the nra did not inially come ouagainst her. theysaid they were concerned. there was nothing new in the hearings. but it was gettg pushed by its former psident and the gun owners of america, who did come out agast her,nd there were getting pushed hard for not ing aggressive enough.

now theyre opposing her, and they are storing t vote, meang they are using it as a key vote in telling voters at this i a guy you should suppo or woman you shld support or not. >> indna is the most revealing the vote in this entire gun bate. evan bayh, erstwhile democratic presidential candidate, voted with the gun folks, and richard lugar, aormer chairman of t foreign lations committee, one of the two republicans who opposed it. michaelloomberg, the mayor of new york, put his finger on it. if you reay want to do it d you reallyelieve in this that anybody ought to rry a gun and let th carry one in the disen senate office building. see how they react to that one when some loonyhows uwith a pistol under his knapsack.

after hearing all this, i think i ought to be onhe other side. keep it up, guys. >> the n is going to come ba agai with something else. they look athe vote that they want. -- they will get the vote that they want. th areike the air. ey are always with us. >> walter cronkite is gone. hard to believe th. >> i feel so terrible about walter's death that i can hardly sa anythg. he has bn such a good friend over the yea. >>ndy rooney of " minutes." they metnondon, reporters going on bombing raids in world war ii. he seed like such anrdinary guy. why was he such a powful factor iamerican journalism? >> i think because he preside er and connected us in the greatraumatic and glorious moments of that time. in the first timin american story, beginning with the kennedy assassinati, the moon shot as a ntrast, he had a

sense of community in the continental nation. he was the one whoid it and that is why he remas strongly inur memory. >> he had a prramalled "you ar there," aboubig htorical ents. thats what he did for all of us. in real fe, we were there for him. >> he put us tre. >> he put ushere, but he did not do it as an advocate. he did it rit. >> he was the go standard,nd i salute h for that. he w aeporter fir, and it was ways in him. >> we will miss him. that is the way it is. thanks. see you next wee or a transcript of this broadcast, log on insidewashinon.tv. c