caller: sarah palin all the way. what happened with the republican party this last eight years is president bush was a social conservative, but we need a fiscal conservative in the white house. host: sarah palin on the fox news channel last night with strong hannity -- sean hannity. here's what the two talked about with regard to the rhetoric in american politics today. >> we are hearing a lot of good rhetoric. but we are not seeing those actions. this many months into the new administration -- quite disappointed, quite frustrated with not seen those actions to rein in spending and slow down the growth of government. instead, it is the complete opposite. it is expanding at such a large degree. unfortunately, our country could evolve into something that we do not even recognize. that is so far from what the founders of our country had in mind for us. that is where we're headed. you have to be blunt about the candidate and honest with the americans to let them know. if we keep going down these roads, nationalizing many

whether you like sarah palin or not and i understand there are some people who think she's great and some people who aren't too hot of her, whether you like her are not there is nothing that she did and that deserved the viciousness with which she was attacked. i want to give some examples -- a female professor at the university of chicago wrote on the washington post website that's their opinions greatest hypocrisy is her pretense that she is a woman. you see, just as liberals, not all but many believe the liberals, just as they don't see black conservatives as black people at all but simply as conservatives, they don't see women conservatives as women. they didn't see sarah pillar and as a woman, i saw her only as a conservative, at least that writer did. in other professor from the university of michigan running peace force on which is the liberal online magazine, very influential in some liberal circles. the writer asked, was the difference between it palin and a moslem fundamentalist? lipstick. be all that the job, except if you think about that muslim fundamentalists to bury ba

one thing i noticed with sarah palin being talked about marginalized basis. i believe that happened to sarah in this election. they doubted her education. they doubted her background. when, in fact, she was a very accomplished young woman that i thought for the first time in a long time got me excited about the presidential election. and i felt like what do you have to say how she was treated by the media and what happened to her on a personal level by putting herself out there in a national race? >> you know, and i appreciate so very much the fact that we had governor sarah palin on the national ticket. i just appreciate her value system and what she stands for. and the fact that she was willing to put herself out there. you know, you can get upset about it or you can realize it's there. that the media has a bias. and i have always just accepted the fact that it was there. and determined that i was not going to leave the playing field. that i was going to be a trailblazer and help to change it. what an important lesson for all of us is that you have the abil

a good example of this is the treatment that sarah palin got. now, the mainstream media took a lot of hits for the unfair coverage of sarah palin and all of that. the fact of the matter is, we did not broadcast one word about these rumors that were circulating that were all over the internet about sarah palin until the mccain campaign put out a written press statement that said you know, that her 17-year-old daughter was pregnant and so on and so forth. obviously when a campaign makes a statement he put out something like it. but, it was all over the place. everybody knew about it. weech readed that information just like we would when somebody would call cbs and say here is a new step. we never did any of that. we never put any of that on the air but a lot of people took a big whack at the media for saying, we put that on. we didn't but that is what we are all dealing with. politicians don't know how to deal with that. we are dealing with it as best we can but it has really changed the way campaigns are now. >> it is that collective word media,

sarah palin, of quebec? i'm so worried about my country, i'm sorry about it -- but i love the response that was well, i love glen back's mind, but i'm worried about. host: today is flag day which was first observed in 1877 on the 100th anniversary of the continental congress' adoption of the stars and stripes as our official national flag. all public buildings should fly the flag on july 14 and the idea quickly caught on in many wanted to participate in the waving of the flood. one early supporter was bj, a schoolteacher who wanted june 14 to be known as the day. in 1916 president woodrow wilson proclaimed it as a national celebration, however, the holiday was not officially recognized until 1949 when harry truman signed the national flag day bill. back to the phones. we have one more from miami, on our republican line. caller: i have a comment about the connecting the dots, and you made earlier from the miami herald. you said that long time homers

[cheers and applause] >> i came in with sarah and todd.o the bottom of the steps over here. john mccain was there very gracious,ly welcoming us. i have to tell you. despite every effort of the elite media to prop up joe biden and pretend he actually knows what he's doing, i felt looking at john mccain and sarah pail lynn this country would have been amazingly better off had they been in the white house. [cheers and applause] >> i also want to say that i think on behalf of both campaign committees that john voice has given you your battle cry for the next year and a half. and i say this having once with haley barber and bob doll crisscrossed the country when we've been out of power for 40 years and people thought we were absolutely out of our minds to suggest we could actually win a majority. i think the phrase "do not tell me it can't be done" is about as good a way to start thinking about 2010 and 2012 as you could imagine. [applause] >> and i think our goal should be to reach out to the american people in every possible way, to make sure

he was one of the board members suing me and sarah mclendon. when you listen to his testimony, he knows about the museum. he knows about the hidden agendas. he thinks it is enhanced interrogation, and it is fine with him. it appeared to me that the enhanced to judicial proceedings were also okay with him this is something that i think should concern all of us. when asked me to host this panel, i was so delighted. i am letting the holy ghost do the heavy lifting here to get me to host to this panel. this is exactly what we're talking about, this business about a hidden agenda by different agents of the government that nobody knows anything about. this is what this is about. the man really put this together is my friend who is a journalist, a premier investigative reporter, and he has really got on this issue and is responsible for it. i want you to meet him, so please come up here and introduced the guest, andy. >> thank you, john. your passion for history, fair proceedings, and journalism has really enabled this group to continue through the ye

david letterman -- every -- the you hear about sarah palin is about her daughter's or a fight with david letterman or she is on some websites attacking someone else. she is not going to rise to international leadership that way. some governors -- >> it is okay to have a sigh of relief. [laughter] not that i have any political prejudice. >> if the republican primaries were held 6 months from now, my guess is mitt romney would win. >> then you have the genius of barack obama in appointing the governor of utah to be ambassador to china and thus removing one of his, perhaps, main rivals. >> someone from the west who was calling for a different kind of republican party. john mccue, secretary of the army, jim leach, republican congressman from iowa, national endowment for the -- congressman from illinois, secretary of transportation, this is from the same thing i am thinking of. our friend rahm emanuel -- >> mid ronny running the campaign around the country, the same candidates to learn, this was his pride and joy, finding the right person to unseat the wrong person. [talking over each other]

host: sarah, have you ever been a smoker yourself? caller: know, in fact, i have never been a smoker, cannot stand secondhand smoke. my family calls me the smoke police. the past 20, i would say 20, 25 i years, it seems like when you walk in a room, it is just so horrible. host: thank you for recall. it is interesting to see how the culture has shifted when it comes to approval of smoking in public. let's look at this article from "the new york times." some of the measures that this would allow would be approved or ban proposed new tobacco product. prohibit use of terms like light, mild, and low tar. it is not co as far as eliminating menthol, but it comes close to that. do you think the bill goes far enough? would you like to see it go farther? the house will be taking a vote today follow-up -- the house will be taking a vote today to follow up on yesterday's action. patty is on the republican line. good morning. what do you think about this? caller: i do not think the government should control tobacco. they are already controlling e

caller: take chris matthews, he hammers sarah palin and leslie, day after day. you know why?ecause they are afraid of this conservative woman. another thing, this david letterman comment about sarah palin is the daughter be knocked up a ball game. if it had been obama's daughter he would have been fired the next day. i guarantee you that letterman would have been out there the following day. host: here is another message from twitter about the media. the supreme court watch this week, we take the final release coming out this week. the washington post has this photo of a judge sotomayor meeting with senators. the headline says that most americans want her on the court. the poll indicates that 62% think that the federal judge should be confirmed by the senate. this is an abc news poll in conjunction with "the washington post." in the philadelphia paper, sotomayor role feels interest in a court battle. it concerns the new haven connecticut firefighters. it says that new haven through out a set of it 2003 promotion exams because not enough minority candidates qualify. a group of

but then you also have to set aside the absolute fascination for sarah palin because for the initial week or two of her rollout, she was a superstar and in candidates obama made jokes about fact she was getting more magazine coverage than he was. there were, let me scale this back a little bit and say when you are winning things generally the coverage gets a lot better. you know, it's true in sports and politics. obama won more than he lost but when he was losing that coverage was bad and painful and negative and the negative period lasted a very, very long time. >> host: the speech in philadelphia on march 18th as a result of the reverend jeremiah wright, what led durham giving that address? >> guest: he always wanted a grace speech, this is something he thought about a lot and he knew what he wanted to say. his campaign advisers never thought it was the right time. they didn't want him to touch, but when jeremiah wright can along with his sermons, which shouldn't have been an expected, when that came that was his moment and by the way the reason they shouldn't have been unexpected

low carbon sarah them. [laughter] but i know it was the car that got me to wear a i'm.randfather jacob all work, he was born in 1877 on a farm about the size of his podium. in line city, ohio which was not a city in did not even have any line. he was one of 10 kids, grandpa was one of 10 who grew up in a one-room unpainted shacks. i have a photograph of them lined up by age staring at the photographer amazed to see someone issues. [laughter] my great-grandfather, barney, he was a woodcutter in the midwest where there are no trees. [laughter] unemployed quite a lot. also drunk and also aliterate been i've got a copy of bernie's marriage certificate with his axe right there. party is only accomplishment the side of the 10 prizes that he won on the corn shuck staffing of the poor man's roulette wheel there, the only thing that he ever accomplished in his life was a trained a pair of old nags to haul him home dead drug. he would fall at the tavern, pass out in the wagon and the horses would bring him home. that is what he accomplished in his life. grab by jake, he left home

women like sarah palin, who was attacked and ridiculed mercilessly often for the very fact that she's a woman. how often did leftist criticize her for working while she had small children. can you believe it? they actually stood up there after years of saying women should be able to do whatever they want, they criticized her for making the decision to have a career or for her daughter's pregnancy. these are feminists out there criticizing her or worse the most galling criticism of all was the criticism that she decided to have her youngest son despite the fact that she knew he would be born with down syndrome. did they cite as the governor of alaska where she cut the budget increases under the previous administration. i didn't hear any of them talk about her or her diplomatic skills when she was able to forge this bipartisan agreement when it come to the pipeline in alaska. none of that. i didn't see a single feminist come out defending her or praising her for her accomplishments or saying what a great day it was when the republican party nominated a woman to be vice president. instea

. >> arizona and sarah on our line for independents. >> good morning. let me share a quick story. my sister in-law, she did her thesis on a woman that needed a kidney transplant. the insurance company did not want to pay it. she had to go to court and fight it. she finally won and then they rejected her needing the medication that would keep her body from rejecting the kidney. she lost that battle and she died. i'm really disgusted when i hear people saying single payer and we'll have to pay it. this is about people's lives. not about money. our system does not work. i'm tired of the greed. i'm going to attend one of those meetings obama is having on saturday. i'm disgusted. our insurance companies are not going to win w. he need the good insurance companies to stick around. we need the one that's don't care about the people, they are not helping america. >> we'll be talking about the jobless rate. in an interview, hilda solis was asked how high the ray could get. here is her response. my message to you, in hard times unprecedented, we always see the lagging of workers. that's goi

they are really losing their touch, and then another movement, and i think it might have been sarah palin's speech, remember the panacea, we were going to save all -- solve all our problems by drilling. it was if it was scripted. the whole audience in the convention hall breaks into a chant, "drill, baby, drill, drill, baby, drill," and i know americans had no idea what that was about, because it is only because -- and i was born in 1969. it is only because i am a student of the 1960's that i know that when rioters rioted in the 1960's, the yells, "burn, baby, burn, burn, baby, burn to -- they yelled that. -- burn, baby, burn." insurgency for themselves in the form of calling for more offshore drilling for mobil and exxon. it speaks to one of the themes in my book, that the conservatives have enormous capital from the social struggles of the '60s. americans have reasonable doubts about what those struggles meant. that might have made sense in 1970. these gestures all have a half life. every year, half of their efficacy passes away. they are not speaking american. once the nomination happen,

another movement and the command convention, sarah palin speech, we were going to solve all our energy problems by drilling on the continental shelf. one of the speakers mentioned that and suddenly, the entire audience in the convention hall breaks into a chance, drill, baby drill. i know americans had no idea what that was about. it is only because i was born in 1969 -- i know that supposedly or if it did happen, when writers rioted. they yelled burn, burn -- baby burn. a symbol of insurgency out of control. they were claiming this kind of insurgency for themselves in the form of calling for more offshore drilling for mobil and exxon. it speaks to one of the themes in my book, that the conservatives have enormous capital from the social struggles of the '60s. americans have reasonable doubts about what those struggles meant. that might have made sense in 1970. these gestures all have a half life. every year, half of their efficacy passes away. they are not speaking american. once the nomination happen, and john mccain got it, republicans like to say the only win elections by being con

thank you, ginger and sarah and jenny and mark. and thank you, elizabeth. this is really all for you, after all. i would like to thank those who, like me, had the benefit of serving as chair of the dlc. they're all here, and have all been introduced. it is a club by want to be a part of. we were really breasts -- blessed in those early years. there is a really magnificent person who is going to speak after me that proves the dlc program. rachel, i am so proud of you. i'm glad you're representing the state and local officials. that was a really good movie. it had the virtue of being at least except for the stuff about me, true. i think secretary sebelius may be here. we were together at a previous event, and i'll have more to say about that in a minute. i loved getting involved with the dlc. for one thing, i was tired of getting beat. i am old enough now to remember what it was like to get beat over and over and over again. essentially, here is what happens to us. national elections and the standing of national political parties are determined by three thing

continent rich in natural materials with always provide for abundance, but of course we know that even if sarah palin had a witch and we drill, baby, drill, the whole of alaska, maybe we get 18 months more of oil for our reserves. so i think it wasn't just the -- at least one hopes it wasn't just the five dollar a gallon gas crisis of last summer and autumn which made americans wean them off suvs and seal the doom of some redundant departments of detroit and michigan, but the sort of general, it's up to the educator in chief in the white house, he has certainly been out there doing, just yesterday in fact actually in laying down tougher rules about emission. it's necessary to educate the public that really that our economic future in some sense depends how much short-term pain -- and there will be an awful lot of pain especially in the collapse of the automobile industry in transitioning to a greener future for us all. we have no choice. i mean, it's extraordinarily ironic -- doesn't quite answer your question. i was in shanghai and you would think the chinese would be in gloat mode really. our

patient, how you interact with patients, how your staff interacts with patients, there are a number of sarah goods. one of the things we have to do is educate people in the role of culture. we have a large and growing student population in my part of the state, as well as the mexican population, there is no question that language, understanding the impact of the culture, making sure that simply writing a prescription or telling them what to do is going to have them follow through, that is not even upon the physician and health-care provider. to communicate in family structure in order to adhere -- >> isn't that true of low income whites as well? i know a physician who was running a clinic in a low income area, finding exactly the same problem. >> that is why i go back to understanding and respecting those differences. >> that is a class difference. >> it might be a social class difference, but it is much more broad if you look at it. my point was it is an education that needs to be given to the whole issue of one's culture and cultural confidence and good care. recent reports show less than

sarah palin was told saturday night should not be allowed to redress the thousands there after all. the event begins tonight at 7:30 p.m. eastern. finally, former first lady laura bush says she is pleased that president barack obama nominated a woman for the supreme court, saying it judge sonya soda sounds like a winner and a good nominee. she made the remarks in an interview broadcast earlier on " good morning america." "washington journal" continues. host: healthcare is the issue for the next 25 minutes or so. what should the administration's plan look like? from the u.s. news section in this morning's "the wall street journal," this piece about a link senator kennedy. in the newspaper, if the liberal mr. kennedy takes a lesser role that could make it easier for the more conservative mr. baucus, the senator from montana to push the health care legislation into a centrist direction. mr. kennedy is a major proponent of including a publicly run health insurance option. his committee last week began circulating the first draft of the proposal for sweeping changes, starting the maneuve

because we know even if sarah palen had a wish and we drilled, baby, drilled, the home of alaska we may be able to get 18 months more of oil for our reserves. so i think it wasn't just the $5 a gallon gas prices of last summer and autumn which made americans wean them off suvs and seal the doom of some redundant departments of the droid and dearborn, michigan. it's up to the educators in the white house as he is certainly been out there doing. laying down tougher rules about initiative. it's too sort of educate the public that our economic future in some sense, depends how much short-term pain and it will be an awful lot of pain, mostly in a climate service, the automobile industry, and transitioning to a greener future for us all. we really sort of have no choice. i mean, as extraordinary irony to answer your question, but i hope it's not completely irrelevant. i was in shanghai quite recently and you think the chinese would all be in global mode quite recently. ones are better now are creditor, as they turn in their bond, the bottom falls out of what left of the american economy. but

we now stopped briefly to contemplate that possibility that there were even worse options then sarah palin. now he has become the second gop hopeful in the week to do a swan dive off the adultery cliff. if they do not drop it, pretty soon the youngest contender will be 75. can this joins us from riverdale, maryland, on the independent line. caller: good morning, mr. sculley. i believe that public officials private lives should be just that, private. however, when you have politicians like mr. sanford and senator bentsensign, who were so vehement in public against senator clinton -- against president clinton and his problems, there is something very hypocritical about their actions in the public stance that they took. you take this type of positions and it comes back to blow up in your face, then you are fodder for comedians, you are fodder for the public, and you are fodder and you deserve the criticism and the comments that you get. people are looking for politicians to be true blue, not hypocritical. what the walk, talk the talk, and these two individuals have fallen short. host: t

movement and worked with on the war on poverty, the patron saint of the d.l.c., mother of jenny and sarah and love of his life, ginger from. [applause] >> as the rabbi said, al spent the last quarter century willing the democratic party back from the dead and he earned the right to spend the next quarter century of willing the cubs back to the world series. but tonight all of us pledge to honor his legacy and carry on the battle he began with a new wave of new democrats on the rise, new majorities in congress and a new president in the white house eager to forge a new politics this will remain a place where ideas matter. the mission of the democratic party has always been to enable every generation to build a better, brighter future for the next generation that comes lo along. in the end, that is what al from has done for us. because of al from democrats are far better off than we were 24 years ago and so is our country as a result. mrau [applause] >> our party's map is bigger, our civic ethic is stronger and our children's future is brighter thanks to the great cause he has left us to ca

caller: good morning, first, let me sarah on vacation and i do not want everyone to -- let me say i amon vacation and i do not want everyone to think that federal employees are the only ones on the phone. my question is, what does what does the government think it has the right to pay for health care when they cannot even do it for their own federal employees? every year for the past 10 years or more, federal employees insurance costs, including copays and premiums, have gone up by 10% or more. secondly, if the american public thinks that the federal government can run a federal health system, just look at our military health care. when the government can show the public that it can take care of its own employees' health care and cost and its own military health-care in a more efficient manner, then i think they can propose a before the public to buy. host: thanks for the call. two things that we want to point out from this piece about iran this morning, first, mr. mousavi did not appear in public this morning, but he did publish a statement saying "the country belongs to you. protesti

underlie, say particularly if we use a bundle payment approach, a per episode approach, will underlie, to sarah palin operate what the bundled payment rates will be, but also realistically, for years, i suspect, our efforts to pursue broader units of payments are going to be blends of fee for service with the broader payment unit, rather than going cold turkey and eliminating fee for service. so some of the early experience using broad every payment units, sometimes puts providers if a bind. because the incentives to reduce the cost per episode may involve disproportionate reduction of the most profitable services and that really undermines provider's interest or ability to pursue these changes. so there are initial steps being discussed by congress now as part of health reef form, such as incentives to reduce hospital readmissions, bund i willing post-acute care into the inpatient drg's, post acute care would be care in nursing homes, home care, rehabilitation facilities. and using a supplemental capitation payment for medical home services. you know, the medical home idea is really a payment

. >> thank you sarah. senator mccaskill. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i think you're start it's starting to hit all of us in the face what government-managed economies feel like. if this was a normal bankruptcy situation it would be none of our business what you did with your union contracts or whatever but this is a political bankruptcy and the government has been a part of picking winners and losers. so we're concerned. but also strotch blame for the process that's taken place if we want to look at who to blame as far as how we ended up in bankrupt sifment certainly we have to look at management, maybe the government policies, high levels of taxation and at federal and state levels, regulation that is we put on our companies. certainly union contracts have to be in with that mix because some of it got way over board as far as what was affordable. we can see those are some of the mix that maybe caused some of the problems, but we can't blame the stock holders, the ones who believeed in your company and put money in it and we can't blame the customers w

the 2000 and 24 campaigns she managed vice presidential debate preparation and served as national sarah get for the bush-cheney campaign. she's currently collaborating with her father, vice president cheney on his memoirs covering 40 years of his career in washington. she earned her degree from university of chicago and bachelor's degree from colorado college. like our organizations namesake, clare boothe luce, liz cheney is a very accomplished woman, expert in the area of foreign affairs and middle eastern affairs but she has one other important role on her resonate. she is also a wife and the mother of five children one of whom is with us today. liz cheney has the qualities that make great conservative women leaders love of country commitment to family and brave defenders of conservative principles. and you know, buy standing still firmly, liz, you inspire all conservatives to be courageous and feisty and not to back off when we know we are right but it might be easier to back down. many liberals do all they can to silence women like liz jeannie but at the clare boothe luce policy ins

thank you, will marshall, thank you gyinger and sarah and jenny. and mark. and thank you, elizabeth. this is really all for you, after all. i would like to thank those who, like me, had the benefit of serving as chair of the d.l.c. they are all here and they have all been introduced. but it was a club i wanted to be part of. and world championship really blessed in those early years by chuck robb and sam nunn and dick gephardt, later joe lieberman, ev evan bayh. by senator carper, and there is a really, i think, magnificent person that will speak after me that proves the d.l.c. fellows program, rachel storch i'm glad you are hear representing the state and local representatives affiliated with the d.l.c. that was a really good movie. it had the virtue of being at least except for the stuff about me, true. i think secretary sebelius may be here. we were together at a previous event and i have a little more to say about that in a minute. but i loved getting involved in the d.l.c. for one thing, i was just tired of getting beat. and i'm old enough now to know w

. >> my name is sarah. i am from nebraska. my question is what issue news media concerns to the most? >> right now is how are newspapers going to find some sort of a business model to allow them to continue to exist? it is very expensive to plant and operate a newspaper. bill keller, who was the editor of "the new york times" told me that, when the iraq war was at its height to the times were spending $2 million a year just for the security to keep its baghdad bureau opened and to be able to report the news. at one point during the war the times had 100 reporters in iraq. one blogger, one blogger is not going to be able to go to our bracken spend that kind of money, and nor can one blogger b of the kind of information coming at that bureau. >> whether papers are printed on paper or whether we are going to read them on the internet is almost beside the point. if it is going to be on the internet, as yet, no news organization has found out how you can develop a business model where you can make enough money off of display ads on

kosciuszko gave all of his plans and put them in a suitcase and gave them to sarah for safekeeping. when benedict arnold's plot was uncovered mrs. morin who is terrified this might fall into enemy hands took it outside, put it on the lawn and set it on fire. but this, this was recreated and this is exactly what the benedick donald was caught with when he was trying to go to the british. in the south kosciuszko now salles slavery up and close for the first time to such extent as it was. here's a map of virginia and you see the areas there were large populations of slaves and hear kosciuszko at thomas jefferson for the first time. thomas jefferson, the man that wrote all men are created equal on slaves. and kosciuszko thought he was a hypocrite. kosciuszko end of serving the rest of the war in the carolinas where he developed the report with slaves and the sovereign states. he brought grippy and the friendship helped him out and kosciuszko was drawn to other continental soldiers were also abolitionists. one of them was colonel lawrence, outspoken opponent of slavery but when he was ki

sarah. good morning. caller: hello. host: hi there. caller: yes. long-time watcher, first-time caller. i have a brief comment and then just a couple of questions. for the comments, i personally feel that it's not really responsible for c-span to show, to talk about a documentary that we haven't seen yet. i think that it's -- i'm going to watch it but i'm really going to be watching it with skepticism. host: why? caller: because i really think that she really didn't put her political views out before she was -- before a caller called in. and now we know what her political view is. but, you know. i really think that we should have seen the documentary first and then have her come on and then we could have made comment. caller: z is that your question? caller: my question is, with this documentary, i really would like to know her opinion on the reaction of the media and the liberal progressive democrats. and you, ma'am, how you all reacted and how it was so great and wonderful. yet, a couple months ago when there were protests, peaceful protests for t

the enduring and achievements of our on forces so i can also tell the house that they, of this year sarah commemoration will be held and westminster abbey. mr. speaker, we salute our forces today, to their work, the work of the american coalition comrades and the iraqi security forces and supported by the courage and vision of those within iraq the by the prime minister maliki, iraq is emerging from the shadow of 30 years of brutal dictatorship and conflict and today prime minister rao and his government can work together for a peaceful and prosperous future. that they can do so is the old man to read to all who served in iraq to the skills, commitment and sheer professionalism, to their great manager encouraging conflict and a measurable contribution to reconstruction and peace and i commend the statement to the house. >> thank you mr. speaker, to enjoin the prime minister enclave to bid to the private killed in afghanistan and the last few days. in the course of the iraq conflict, hundred 79 british a service men and women lost their lives, they came from all three services, the army, n

[laughter] >> the past year has driven the press crazy because hillary clinton, sarah palin, michelle obama. do you think of tear should have done more to defend her during the harry bridges raucus? i was always disappointed he let her get beaten up. >> that is true. there is no question that he did let her be used as a punching bag. he deflected the things we consider the new deal, that fdr did it. he let her be the one that got criticized for it and then he would sort of hold back during the satel strikes that were so controversial. you would see him and his press conferences when reporters when asked, wasn't he going to drag those workers out of there? he would say what and you asked ms. perkins about it? so, she did play the role for him. but, they both understood the importance of the world that she play. she kept trying to resign after the late 1930's. she tried to resign every year. he would never let her resign and once when she said, she boxed up her stuff, she was going to give up for lease, and was about to leave the seat. he put his arms around her and said and reached up

the sarah mcclinton group is hosting discussions of allegations of justice department misconduct during the bush administration. representative john con years and nan aaron, president of the alliance for justice. that's on c-span 3 and 8:00 eastern. at 9:00 eastern on c-span 2, a discussion on the future of healthcare. panelists include robert reishauer, and mark mclen lon, former head of medicare and medicaid. >> as this year's supreme court term comes to an end, hear chief justice roberts talk about the court's work. then a panel of experienced court watchers, including linda greenhouse, jan crawford greenburg and ted olsen review the decisions handed down this past year. live coverage on chinese span saturday morning at 9:00 eastern. >> now president obama on the energy bill that's scheduled in the house tomorrow. the bill would cap greenhouse gas emissions and establish a market for emissions credit. this is five minutes. >> hey, guys. good afternoon. right now the house of representatives is moving towards a vote of historic proportions on a piece of legislation that will open the

speaking will be jim phillips who is our senior research fellow here at heritage in the douglas and sarah allison center. he's written extensively on security issues and international terrorism. he was a research fellow at the congressional research service, and he is a member of the committee of the present danger as well. and also on the board of editors of middle east quarterly. and so i'll then turn it over to ken. >> thank you, james. thank you for inviting me, it's good to be back at heritage. as was noted, i'm speaking in a personal capacity, i'm not reflecting any committee or member of congress. my brief remarks today, i wish to offer condolences to the family of michael jackson. first, let me say that i want to, i'm going to talk a little about the current unrest in iran to set the stage for the discussion of the nuclear issue and the report which i was generously heritage asked me to comment on although not as a formal member of the working group. what has struck me, though, in a lot of the press reporting of the recent events in iran particularly in tehran is the idea that maj

and sarah sitting next to her worked so hard on all of our office projects. thanks to all the great staff work on this bill. mr. speaker, as has been pointed out the bill before us today honors the special sisterhood of women. most of them in their 80's, who share unique place in american history. these women have been mothers and grandmothers, teachers and office workers, nurses, business owners, photographers, and dancers. one was even a nun. but before that they were pilots for the united states army corps during world war ii. they are heroins, women air force service pilots, or wasps, were the first women in history to fly america's military aircraft. between the years of 1942 to 1944 these courageous women volunteered to fly noncombat missions so that every available male pilot could be deployed into combat. more than 25,000 women applied for the program, but only 1,830 qualified women pilots were accepted. unlike their male counterparts, women applicants were required to be qualified pilots before they could even apply for the army and air force militar

if john muir is the create or of the sarah club. roosevelt felt there was an obligation to save efficient and animals and plants and trees and the president has an obligation to make sure that we put aside for generations unborn natural wonders like roosevelt did like the grant canyon or mount olympus or the petrified forest. this turned this training center for conservation into a museum for theodore roosevelt. >> when did you get interested in theodore roosevelt? i loved him since childhood. i enjoyed lead reading about him. i loved the buy graph i-s. i really got interested in him in 1992 when i had a program, "the magic bus" that brings students across the country. i went to the badlands of north dakota. it's the western edge. that's where t.r. spent his ranching days as a cowboy and did some hunting. he wrote incredible books, particularly called "the wilderness hunter." the in-between was an incredibly informed writing by the biology, the ecosystem as we call it today of the badlands. roosevelt knew more about the badlands tha

sarah warren for safekeeping. and when benedict arnold's plan was uncovered mrs.warren was terrified this might fall outside enemy hands and put it on the lawn and set it on fire but this -- this -- so this was recreated by the frenchman and this is exactly what major andre, benedict arnold's spy was caught with when he was trying to go over to the british. now, in the south, kosciuszko now saw slavery up and close for the first time to such an extent as it was. here's a map of virginia, and you see the areas where there were large populations of slaves. and here kosciuszko met thomas jefferson for the first time. thomas jefferson, the man who wrote "all men are created equal" owned slaves and kosciuszko thought he was a hypocrite. kosciuszko ended up serving the rest of the war in the carolinas where he developed a rapport with slaves in the southern states and he brought grippy with him. and it helped to other continental soldiers who were abolitionists. one of they say colonel lawrence who was an outspoken opponent of slavery but when the colonel was killed, th

sarah palin again is an excellent example of that. she was a busy wife and mother, pta mother, co-owner of a small business. it wasn't like she was sitting around twiddling her thumbs just wanting some attention. she realized some things weren't working in her local government so she decided nobody else is going to do it. she stepped up to take responsibility to make her community a better place for her family. to her, there's no point in being involved if she weren't going for it with her whole heart, her whole being standing firmly upon what she believed everyday. the demand for conservative women speakers on college campuses and for the programs of clare boothe luce have only confirmed that there is a need and a demand for leadership training opportunities for women. i know because of the efforts of clare boothe luce that conservative women will play a significant role in shaping our movement in the future. now, at every event at which i speak, young women come up to me afterwards and they ask, how i got involved in the conservativ

named villefrench and kosciuszko gave all of his plans and put them into a suitcase and gave them to sarah warren for safekeeping and when benedict are the old's plot was uncovered, mrs. warren who was terrified that it might fall into enemy hands took it outside and put it on the lan and set it on fire -- lawn and set it on fire and this was recreated by villefrench and what major andre, benedict arnold's spy was caught with when he tried go to the british. in the south, kosciuszko now, now saw slavery up and close for the first time, to such an extent as it was. here's a map of virginia, and you see, the areas where there were large populations of slaves and here kosciuszko met thomas jefferson for the first time. thomas jefferson, the man who wrote "all men are created equal" owned slaves. and kosciuszko thought he was a hypocrite. kosciuszko ended up serving the rest of the war in the carolinas, where he developed the rapport with slaves in the southern states and brought grimy with him and the friendship helped him out a lot an kosciuszko was drawn to other continental soldiers, who w