alter, kite -- walter cronkite is a wanted to be. i had not been to cbs news long that walter off camera is the exact same way as on camera. i have to say that is not always the case. he is a wonderful guy, a great mentor, a great booster of mind when he did not have to be. he was when it was really important. i just love him and there is no one in journalism i admire more than walter cronkite. host: what do you think that the cbs news, abc news, the other networks will look like 10 years from now? guest: we are in a technological revolution and just try to keep up with the technology. we put a story on television shot on one of these little cameras, and it is only this big. it is about that thick, only the size of your cellular telephone. you can record on that on hd for 60 minutes. just the fact that you can do that, think about and the old days when you saw the national conventions and the cameraman would have this thing that weighed 80 pounds on his back. the sound man to hold the sound equipment. now you can do all that with thi

india, once upon a time, prior to my work with walter, i was the flag lt. to then admiral william j. chorale in the mid- 1980s. for year and a half, i carried my bad shots, so there's hope for all of us who are younger. but those caring the admirals' bags around. we made a visit to india. he was pretty high expectations, and there were largely unfulfilled. the reception we got was a little chilly. the engagement on a policy level were not very forthcoming. the hospitality was cordial but not overflowing, and the old man left less happy than we would have liked him to be. we just went in for the second time a couple weeks ago, much different from a much different country. we got there on the last of their elections. it is an amazing process. some of you may have had the good fortune of watching india's national elections. folks were flocking to their televisions in manner and numbers that were somewhat unusual to us, glued to the big screen televisions the other government today is more willing to talk about engagement and a partnership with the united state

india, once upon a time, prior to my work with walter, i was the flag lt. to then admiral william j. chorale in the mid- 1980s. for year and a half, i carried my bad shots, so there's hope for all of us who are younger. but those caring the admirals' bags around. we made a visit to india. he was pretty high expectations, he was pretty high expectations, and there the reception we got was chilly. we left less happy than we would have liked. we came here for the second time a couple of weeks ago. much different. much different country. we got there on the last day of their elections. it was an amazing process. some of you may have had the good fortune of watching the elections. people were flocking to the televisions in numbers that were somewhat unusual to us, glued to the big screen tvs. they were willing to talk about engagement in partnership with the panetta states. they were exercising with us on a much more robust basis. we just concluded a trilateral exercise which was unthinkable in the 1980's. it was high end technical exercise where we were using d

joining us on the phone is the executive editor, amy walter. let's ask about this story of this dinner, both the remarks by the former speaker of the house, and the on-again off-again appearance of the alaska gov.. guest: so much of this is driven by the ambivalent feelings that a lot of republicans have about sarah palin as a messenger for the party. on the one hand, she is still somebody who i think will be able to raise money and energize the base. there will be candidates running for reelection in 2010 who will watch her on the campaign trail with them. on the other hand, there are lots of republicans who look at the election results from last time, especially those in suburban areas, who say that part of the problem was that she was unable to broaden the message, and we need to find a new messenger for the party, and we need to stop looking backwards, and start looking ahead to who the next leader will be. host: let me share with you one of the clquotes from "the hill" newspaper. host: do some people view sarah palin as a joke? guest: if y

also a young woman from walter reed in rehab from puerto rico. that is where wil is from. >> rob: you want to put it in perspective when we went over to walter reed. i think more people should visit the injured military personnel over there because a lot of them are young kids that defend this great nation. it puts your whole life in perspective. we talk about millions of dollars. it is all meaningless. this is these kids coming back injured from overseas that we should be taking care of. they can appreciate being out here at the ballpark. >> johnny: checked swing and one ball and two strikes to nieves. you talk about wil and what he does when he is away from the ballpark, getting involved in all sorts of charitable activities. there isn't a guy on this ball club who isn't willing and able when he can to do for others. >> rob: yeah. a lot of them are newcomers here like josh willingham. just a fabulous kid. adam dunn's coming over here from cincinnati. they all try the do as much as they can off the field. ryan zimmerman. not going to meet a nice

and third, walter durante refused to report on the famine in the pages of the "new york times." at one point referring to reports of a famine in the pages of other newspapers as, this is his word, bunk. durante was not an american. he was born and educated in england. he was however a rabid stalinist, the fact of which the editors of the "times" back in new york were almost certainly not aware. they trusted durante, an durante repaid their trust with deceit on an epic scale. eventually, knowledge of the famine became so widespread that even durante had to admit it, but in the first article he sent to the "times," that acknowledged the famine, although conceding that soviet soldiers and again, this is his word, might have borrowed, might have borrowed too much food from ukraine, he blamed the ukrainians for not cooperating fully with stalin's objectives. furthermore, he blamed them for faulty agricultural practice, which stalin said is what really led to the famine. it's hard to conceive of the magnitude of this kind of rationalization. ukraine had always been a backward province

amy walter is joining us from the hot line offices. the headline is "state to get a disputed $700 million." >> this long-running battle between south carolina's republican governor and the republican-controlled legislature is finally over. mark sanford had refused -- he argued that it would actually devalue the dollar and run up a deficit in the state. he had refused to implement the legislature's plan. they argued it was to fill gaps in the education funding for the state. the supreme court weighed in yesterday saying that the legislature, not the governor, is the one with the purse strings. the legislature wants to spend the money. it is their right to do that. the governor must help them do that. in other words, he cannot block them from doing this. in some ways, it was a blow to mark sanford, who had made this a very big cause. he even embroiled his attorney general, who is also seeking the governor's seat in 2010. mark sanford is not seeking reelection. the question is what impact it will have on his 2012 ambitions. today, the sta

walter tsou it, and other witnesses that you have been so kind to bring here, i just want to leave you with us what i think it is and i want to extend an opportunity for our discussions to go far beyond the a hearing today and i want to make myself available to all of the members. first of all, we have to discuss it. the first thing that occurs to me, and i can say this to my ranking member friend, there is a notion that this single payer health care is off the table. that raises a very important question. if you take the most popular health care reform measure and taken off the table, heaven knows what it is. i guess what you are left with. the one thing i commended the 44th president about when i met with him first after his election and, he said some things that no sitting president in my experience had ever said, he said, i want you to keep in touch with me and keep me advised. we want to know what is happening and what you are thinking about. and is so i praised him for that. he made a lot of other important statements but he wanted to keep in touch was very important to me. we ha

host: walter let's go to walter on the republican line in indiana. >> caller: thank you for taking my call, i constantly hear i want. america, guess what? and everyone is covered, health insurance is covered by everybody if you don't have the money, no doctor has ever said to somebody in the emergency room, excuse may, if you don't have the money i won't be able to set you're broken leg so that is a fallacy. number two, as far as the whole idea of socialized medicine which really is going to be, if we're going to socialize medicine and i want to make sure that ted kennedy and all of the other rich congressman and rich politicians are under the same system, make sure that everybody is the same and you know that would not be the case. the third issue is sometimes we have to your the word now. sometimes -- this is my question to the cast -- if we eliminated and i am not being facetious, if we eliminated all of these health insurers, all your coverage programs and eliminated them across the country and a person walk into a hospital and needed care, wouldn't the hospital have to lower thei

. >> next week on "q & a," author, walter kirn, is a memoir of his time in princeton university in the 1980's. "q & a" next sunday at 8 p.m. eastern, here on c-span. coming up, british prime minister, gordon brown, speaks of the fate of iraq. later a look at highlights of newly elected speaker of the house of commons and lords. tomorrow on "washington journal" a political roundtable of faiz shakir. >> "washington journal" is live at 7 a.m. eastern, here on c-span. >> how is c-span funded? >> publicly funded. >> donations maybe, i have no idea. >> government. >> c-span gets its funding through taxes. >> sort of a federal funding. >> how is c-span funded? 30 years ago, american cable companies created it as a public service of the a private initiative. >> the prime minister has been caught red-handed. and if he believes in transparency and honesty and truth in public life. he would get up and say, i am sorry, i got it wrong, i gave the wrong figures, here the right ones. now do it. >> now from london, prime minister's questions from the british how the of commons. this week john birduron

walter had this great curiosity. the guy that came closest to that was tim russert. >> every sunday, we invite the american people to share their views with the american public. mr. secretary, you say that people were sent to the convention center. there was no water, no food, no beds, no authorities there. there was no planning. it is fair to say you're thinking about running for president in 2008? >> is fair, yes. >> i felt like i was hitting a home run off the best pitcher in the league. >> i have not had so much since my last interrogation. [laughter] [applause] >> tonight, we dedicate this dinner to the headline, tony snow, and tim russert. these were fine journalists. >> ladies and gentleman, the court later chad program of fox news. >> this is one of the first time to present what to watch somebody from fox for a few minutes. [applause] this is a special part of our program or recognize our colleagues with a the david bloom awards. these honors recognize some of the best reporting in the business. the first aw

host: walter on the republic that linline. caller: everybody is covered. health insurance is covered by everybody. no doctor has ever said to somebody when they walk in, if you don't have the money, i can't set your broken leg. that is a fallacy. as far as this idea of socialized medicine, if we are all going on socialized medicine, and ted kennedy along with the other rich congressmen and politicians are under the same system, make sure that everybody is the same. sometimes in america we have to hear the word no. if we eliminated all of these health insurers, coverage programs. if we eliminated them and a person walk into a hospital and needed care, wouldn't the hospital have to lower care costs to meet the current demand of the consumer as far as, you couldn't charge $20 for an aspirin. you would have to lower it down. these insurance companies, if you walk in with blue cross the doctor's eyes light up like they hit the lottery. but if i wanted to buy a hamburger far -- from a store, and the person so that for $10, nobody would buy it and they would be o

he talked about the trial of sir walter raleigh for treason. they did not want to have trials by affidavit. justice scalia " at some length from that -- quotes at some length from that. i only bring a sub because when we think about the courts, this goes back to something we were talking about at the beginning in transparency in. you do not know what is happening behind closed doors. it is fascinating to see cases where justice thomas -- where we see his powerful dissent. there are cases where he has had an influence in shaping law that we do not normally think about. he made quite a mark on that supreme court after his dissent. he is often alone. there are areas of the law where he has shaped it quite significantly as in the confrontation clause. >> we have to move on. sorry. we would love to see more. could you take into some case procedure? >> yes. this is a case about civil procedure. i'd like to make the case that this is perhaps the most important case of the term practically. it gives us the strongest window into the teachings of the rob

moved by bad began to work on it when the iraq war was going bad and reading about the soldiers at walter reed coming back and i felt that i wanted to learn more about walt whitman i stumbled onto the fact he had a brother he was an ordinary soldier who had written a hundreds of letters to waltz and his mother a very, very faithful correspondent wrote many hundreds of letters. there is a body of correspondence and it opened the door to the family that was a great experience for me. so why whelps that although whitman has been written about, there was a great potential story about this family during the war and experiencing it in many different ways. his brother george, was not just an ordinary soldier but an extremely capable and fierce soldier and described as a friend as a grade and tender mother man. george who adored walt, they were very, very close, a george was a very hard and to a soldier in the effective and a killer. the letters to their mother back in brooklyn is released during me back. he would write saying mom, we were in a scuffle a couple of days ago but it is close to a li

they are cheering for the walter reed army soldiers tonight as the nats do every night. you believe game 6, joe carter. when that ball went over the wall, it was the last time the toronto blue jays have been in the post season. second walk off homerun to win a world series after bill mazeroski did it to the yankees at old forbes field in 1960. and no playoff for the blue jays ever since. they have been in the playoffs '85, '89, '92, '93. a great run then by zito gaston and his blue jays. >> rob: and gaston has been brought back to bring back some of the magic and they have played better this season and part of last season. >> bob: yes, they have. wil nieves up the middle to the shortstop marco scutaro. last year, john gibbons was let go and cito gaston took over. he was let go on june 20th and cito gaston led them to a 51-30 record. he has been a guest manager for the last few years. people forget he is a good ballplayer. he was then known as clarence gaston. ross detwiler gets around late. as a major league hitter, he is 0-for-8 i. still looking for his first win and hi

i was very worried about the soldiers at walter reed. the guys who were coming back and i was -- i felt like there was more and more i wanted to learn what whitman had done. not that i discovered it but i stumbled on the fact that he had a brother who was an ordinary soldier who had written probably hundreds of letters to walt and to their mother in brooklyn and walt was a very, very faithful correspondent. wrote to this brother many hundreds of letters. so there was a body of correspondence. and it opened the door into the family that was a great and exciting discovery for me. so i suddenly felt that although whitman has been written about, there was -- there was this great potential story about this family, this family enduring the war and experienced it in many different ways and now this brother george whitman was not just an ordinary soldier. he was an extremely capable and fierce soldier. walt was described by a friend as a great tender mother man. george, who adored walt -- they were very, very close -- george was a very ardent so

firing line starts in 1966, and walter cronkite and johnny carson, the edgy as things in mainstream television. firing line is like from another galaxy, it starts with the brandenburg concerto, bill's mannerisms and accents' and the content of what he is saying. and one of the interesting anecdotes that came my way, i was in a new school that afterwards, an old man came to me and said do you see mr. buckley? yes, i do. pc dirksen senate office building you thank him for me? i am a man of the left and firing line is the only place in the late 60s were leftwingers could get to say their views at length. bill let them say that so he could do it out with them. the media has changed, it is all a teaser. if jesus came back he would not get an hour of television, he simply one. so bill was suited for his time. what are bills to they going to do? they will be have to be suited for their time and also people are unique. a lot of conservatives are saying where is the next reagan? there will not be a next reagan. there will be somebody else. where is the next buckley? not going to be one. there will be s

the public relations industry was devoted to what walter litman approvingly called a new arc in the practiceof democracy. the manufacturer of consent was called the engineering of consent and the phrase of his contemporary edward berna circumstance s. they had taken part in woodrow wilson's state propaganda agency which the public information in an orwellian term. it was created to kind of -- to try to a pacifist population to fanaticism and hatred of all things german. and it succeeded brilliantly, in fact. and it was hoped that the same techniques could ensure that we're called the intelligent minorities would rule. and that the general public who litman called ignorant and meddle some outsiders would serve their functions as spectators, not participants. these are all very highly respected progressive essays on democracy. and by people who -- by a man who was the leading public intellectual of the 20th century and was a wilson/roosevelt/kennedy progressive as he was. and they capture the thinking of progressive opinion. so president wilson -- he held in an elite of gentlemen with elevated

barbaro walter -- barbara lawson is here. your congressman is here. your own mayor. [applause] milwaukee mayor tom barracket is here as well. i want to thank the tribal leaders who are with us here today. [applause] they couldn't be with us but i want to in knowledge great leadership you're giving in the u.s. senate from herb kohl and russ feingold. give them a big round of applause. [applause] this is a town hall meeting, but if you do not mind, i want to make a few comments at the outset to frame the discussion, and then we will get to the fun part. you guys can bombard me with questions. i want to thank southwest high school for hosting us. [applause] i especially want to thank laura for sharing her story. it takes courage to do that, and it takes more courage to battle the disease like cancer with such grace and determination, and i know her family is here, and they are working and fighting with her every inch of the way. laura's story is incredibly moving, but sadly, it is not unique. every day in this country, more and more americans are forced to worry about n

what i would like to say is that the history of tobacco is that sir walter raleigh brought tobacco to the united states of america and it became a marketable product. of course, that made money. i just want to tell everybody that everybody's body has the gene that allows sleep. you do not have to be a smoker. you do not have to go out and lay in the sun. i have an uncle that is dying of cancer, but he never would wear a short sleeve shirt or go without a shirt in the sunshine, and he would never smoke cigarettes. and yet he is dying of cancer. host: kenny, being from virginia -- phil morris and austri-- phip morris and poultry are there -- there is a concern that this will have a negative economic impact. john is calling us now from the independent line. he is calling from denton, texas. good morning, you are on the air. caller: thanks. yeah, when they came for the spot smokers -- when they came for the pot smokers i did not say anything because i was not a pipe smoker. yet, bend over america, we deserve it. host: we have eight tweet -- we had a tweet. he calls it a no-brainer to our

>> bob: those young guys are clapping for some of their army heroes -- heroes from walter reed hereballgame like thefer they are every night. hope you're having a great night. no score, bottom of the third. guzman, johnson, zimmerman for the -- zimmermann for the nats. some of our great guys fromwalter reed army hospital on georgia avenue. >> rob: i saw a few more of those gentlemen at yankee stadium while we were up there. >> bob: there's cristian guzman. rolen even with the bag at third. guzman jacks one to left and then over to get it lind. cristian guzman has hit the ball in the air twice. get your red on. get a grand slam flex plan. pick four games, get one free. five games to choose from. get a free game. it's that easy. 888-632-nats or nationals.com/grandslam. here is nick johnson. walked his first time.  >> bob: right now, averaging 15 pitches per inning. jordan zimmermann is averaging 20. that didn't feel too good. nick got his foot with that one. the count is 0-2. >> rob: we talked about that with craig stammen that kind of overw

it's walter cronkite and johnny carson, and huntley brinkley are the edgiest things in mainstream television, and firing line is from a different galaxy. it starts with a concerto, and it's the content of what he is saying, and one of the very interesting anecdotes, years ago i was on an panel, and afterwards an old man came up to me and said, do you see mr. buckfully will you thank him for me. i'm a man of the left, but firing line was the only place in the late 60s where left-wingers could get to say their views at length. and i -- there's some truth to that. now, bill let them say that so he could duke it out with them. but he let them say that. and the media has changed. the media has moved on. it's just like, you know, it's like it's all a trailer. it's all a teaser. it's this, this, this. if jesus came back now he would not get an hour of television. he simply wouldn't. so, bill was suited for his time. what are bills today going to do? they will have to be suited to their time, and also people, you know, are unique. a lot of consecutives are saying, where is the next reagan? not going

he talked about the trial of sir walter raleigh, and the framers were concerned we not have these kinds of trials by after the. justice scalia quotes in length from that concurrence. thomas filed a separate concurring opinion this week looking back to that opinion in that 1992 case, white versus illinois. i only bring this up because when we think about the court, and this goes back to some of the stuff we were talking about at the beginning in transparency, but you still don't really know. you don't know what is happening behind those closed doors. you know what these decisions say. i think it is fascinating to see cases where particularly justice thomas has really had -- we see his powerful accident, but in cases where he has had really an influence on shaping law that we don't necessarily normally think about. i think this is is one. he has obviously made quite a mark on the supreme court through his accidents being very powerful and different. he is often alone as he was in the voting rights case and the strip search case. but there are areas of the law, the confrontation clause bei

magistrate judge hears arguments today about whether walter kendall miers and his wife should continue to be held until they go to trial. the former state department employee and his wife, accused of spying for cuba, have been behind bars since there arrested thursday. "the boston globe" is reporting that the new york times co. has hired goldman sachs to manage the possible sale of open code the boston globe." the report says they have begun accepting bids. >> "washington journal" continues. host: gov. howard dean joins us, the author of "howard dean's prescriptions for real healthcare reform." guest: i do not think we are blind to get much agreement between dr. dean and dr. coburn on this one. the idea that we were better off with insurance companies is a crazy idea. there are more bureaucrats telling doctors what to do than there ever were in the united states government. host: as far as prescriptions that the obama administration one for health care, how did they fall in line with what you are prescribing? guest: that is the plan in prescribing. there needs to be a public option. th

. >> johnny: some of our injured servicemen and women from the versus walter reed and bethesda navale fans. zimmerman draws a walk. that is 4th base on balls issued by micah owings. let's take a look back about 8 years ago. 2001 when adam dunn with the reds got his first career homerun. that is where i used to make a living. >> rob: old river front next to where they built great american ballpark. >> johnny: and marty still doing it down to our right. >> rob: down

camp lejeune, camp pendleton, fort campbell, kentucky, and walter reed have rehabilitative programs that includes the therapeutic use of animals to treat these wounded warriors and preliminary results show the programs are particularly effective. in the en bloc amendment, i have an amendment that directs the department of defense working with h.h.s. and the veterans' administration to conduct a study to determine whether the use of therapeutic -- the therapeutic use of animals to treat these wounded warriors should be expanded to other facilities and military installations around the country. i urge support of the en bloc amendment and this amendment and i yield back the balance of my time. the chair: the gentleman yields back. the gentleman from new jersey. >> i yield one minute to mr. cummings of maryland. the chair: the gentleman is recognized. mr. cummings: thank you for yielding. i rise in strong support of a great bill, fiscal year defense of 2010. by including the national guard and reserves, we ensure that d.o.d. does not present quonk an incomplete recommendation regarding the m

walter of pontiac for four of the last five years has been number two in sales for all dealers in minnesota. one set a record with 103 new cars sold beat the record in may with 113 car sales. can a ronse motors service working increased by 75% yet these three dealers received termination notices so understandably they have questions they want answers about how these decisions were made and why they were given so little time and if there's any time that can be extended they feel these decisions were made in the board rooms in detroit but are affecting those in the living rooms of minnesota. senator rockefeller described this throughout the country it's about homegrown locally owned businesses as well as the customers and compleeze who depend on them. the co-owners or fewery dodge chrysler the business been in lake almay for decades with 40 workers the largest employer because of what was going on they had a rally with 400 people show up. i 1200 letters from people in this community who want this dealer to stay open. the things we are most concerned about is first of all, why there isn't some

. >> next week on "q&a," author walter kirn. his book is a mem water of his time at princeton in the 1980's. "q&a," sunday at 8:00 p.m. eastern here on c-span. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2009] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] >> coming up next, british prime minister gordon brown talk about the fate of hostages in iraq and an upcoming house inquiry on the iraq war. then a look at highlights from the newly elected house ceremony . then a documentary on free speech. >> tomorrow on "washington journal," a political round table with faiz shakeer and kyle trykstad. then peter brookes of the heritage foundation. a little later, a role the census plays in redrawing districts with gerald herbert. "washington journal" is live at 7:00 a.m. eastern here on c-span. >> how is c-span funded? >> publicly funded. >> donations maybe? i have no idea. >> government? >> c-span gets its funding through taxes. >> federal funding? >> sort of a public funding thing. >> maybe. i don't know. >> how is c-span

and just last week walter and gwendolynne myers, a long-term state department official and his wife, with access to classified documents, were arrested for spying for their beloved hero, the cuban tyrant. hugo chavez's dependency on castro for every major decision, even for his phrases and gestures in international forums is unprecedented. while the soviet union used to send castro economic aid and also orders and instructions, chavez sends castro billions of dollars and receives orders from him. what the world witnessed first at the april summit of the americas and then at last week's meeting of the o.a.s., was a culmination of years of preparation in the purchase and cultivation of advocates and defenders by fidel castro. castro's defenders know full well that chapter 2, article 3-d of the charter of the organization of american states requires the existence of representative democracy in all of the countries of our hemisphere and that the interamerican democratic charter of 2001 carefully spells out the collective steps to be taken when an american republic's democracy is even thr

caller: first of all, i respect judge walter is a very much for taking this issue on. it is something that disturbs me greatly. i am greatly opposed to putting inmates who are in new therefore misdemeanors -- who are in there for this -- in their for misdemeanors, mixing them with violent criminals, and that happens sometimes. for example, folks who are in there for repeatedly having drug possession, i see that as somewhat of a disease or if you want to see it as a weakness, ok, whatever. i am actually opposed to incarcerating folks for that. that is a big debate. we don't have to get into it right now. but i don't think that those folks should be in their comic incarcerated -- should be in there, mixed in with a violent individuals who are prone to attack them and write them. host: thank you. guest: we totally agree. one thing we indicated in our proposed standards is there is a very aggressive classification system that assesses individuals who are potential predators and individuals who are at risk and to make sure that those individuals are not combing old -- comin

walter buick pontiac for four out of the past five years has been number two in sales for all buick pontiac dodge chrysler had an 85 year record for sales in january with 103 new cars sold in beat the record again in may with 113 new car sales, carona motors increased as new-car sales by 30% last. service work increase by 75%. yet these three dealers received termination notices. so understandably they have questions they want answered today about how these decisions were made, why they were given so little time and if there is any time that can be extended. and they feel that these decisions may have been made in the boardrooms and enshrined but they are affecting people in the living rooms in minnesota. this is about local communities as senator hutchinson described as senator rockefeller described throughout this country, and is about home grown locally owned businesses as well as the employees and customers to depend onç them. gm and tom letter to are here today are co-owners of. josh chrysler, the business unlike, for decades with 40 workers of the largest employer because of what was

it's walter cronkite and johnny carson and, you know, huntley brinkley are sort of the edgiest things in mainstream television and "firing line" is like from another galaxy. it starts with a brand of concerto. it's bill mannerisms and accent and whatnot and also the content of what he's saying. and one of the very interesting anecdotes that came my way, this was years ago, i was on some sort of panel at the new school and afterwards an old man came up to me and he said do you see mr. buckley? i said yes, i do. he said will you thank him from me. i'm a man of the left but "firing line" was the only place in the late '60s where left wingers could get to say their views at length. and, you know, there's some truth to that. now, bill let them say that so he could duke it out with them. but he let them say that. and, you know, the media has changed. the media has moved on. it's just like -- you know, it's like it's all a trailer. it's all a teaser. it's this, this, this. if jesus came back now, he would not get an hour of television. [laughter] >> he simply wouldn't. so, you know, bill was

young pakistani american who is muslim that i had the privilege of meeting during one of my visits to walter reed hospital. i met him when he was in the midst of his physical therapy, therapy that was necessary because he had both lost legs while in combat in iraq. despite his tremendous sacrifice, he was committed to the hard work of rehabilitation in part because he hoped to go back to iraq. he was a patriot of the cause that ought to make us proud. i want to be clear that the concerns i have with care are with the organization and not with the muslim faith. even passing a glance at my record in congress should put the contrary to rest. in sudan, chechnya, china, bosnia and kosovo i have spoken out against the people against the muslim faith. i led the first delegation in darfur where nearly all the victims of the genocide are muslim. i was the only member of congress to visit chechnya during the fighting in 1995. when i returned i condemned the violence against the people, most of whom are muslim, and called for a cease-fire. i was one of the only members to visit muslim men in a serb run

>> my name is amy walter, editor in chief of the hotline, unlike most people i have dreams for what out like to read this summer although i don't know how many will get red but top of my list is john mecham, his new book american lion about into jackson. i love to get at least one good political biography in a summer and believe it or not sitting on the beach with truman one year was quite lovely. it seems odd but it is true. i have started but not yet made its as much of a event in the new book breakthrough and so that is another goal of mine as well. if we are going into the fiction category, although this is non-fiction fiction, quirky, some people don't necessarily appreciate his sense of humor. i personally find him hysterical. when you are engulfed in flames is a book that came out i think probably a couple years ago that has been sitting on my nightstand, that one will get red especially. a good play in a book or a pick me up for those days when i just can't slog through much else. what is also going to get read this summer because i have a two and a half year all the, in a lot o

brought in the dictator of the shaw with his american bodies and they took the throne and in a grand walter cronkite voice you hear "and once again, we'll flows freely to the west." and all my life i've heard that kind of stuff and i thought well, amen. it's vital to our national security interest. actually it's vital to our accustomed lifestyle, that's more honest but it's odd that we don't think very much how odd that is. now we put in the shaw those people lived with the shaw from 53 to 79, and the shaw might have done some good things but he had a lot of enemies and iran and because he was so extreme this way i believe they went to the opposite extreme that we and threw him out and brought something to the other side which was a theocracy from by ayatollah khomeini. to a 70 million iranians are born after the islamic revolution meaning they are products of the islamic revolution and this is really -- you learn the textbooks, the professors, everything is working with that system. so, it shapes people's outlook. the theocracy as everywhere. what on the street on every street corner there

still grappling with a bit, with their 24-hour news cycle there was a time not that long ago when walter cronkite would say, and that's the way it is. that is what we talked about. that group collective understanding of the state of the world until the next news cycle and now is being continuously refreshed. >> you know, there is a mission statement here at the newseum that i think is one of the most important statements anyone has written about america or democracy. it said that a free press must have, and i don't know the wording exactly, but a free press must provide the means for people to be outrageous, but it also has the responsibility to provide fairness, something of that nature. if you go in this newseum-- newseum there is a section of the berlin wall, which tells you all you need to know about societies and how they ought to be run. this section is about as wide as the studio and you walk in there and you walk in on one side, the western side in here on this wall is graffiti. some of it is obscene, some of it is funny, some of that is silly, but it is just covered with all of

william paily didn't care how much money douglas edwards lost, how much money walter concrete lost. it was -- cronkite lost. it was a way to get people in the store, it was a way to give cache to the entire network and this is a network that about to put the "beverly hillbillies" on, so we could have used some cache. one of the worst things that ever happened to the quality of journalism, was that moment or those series of moments when the accountants went down to the editorial offices and said, look, we can tell the "times" for even more than we're selling it for now. the evening news can make money. from that point on, things started to change, and will never change back again, in terms of that principle. that's up to them. i'm happy to sign. it's up to you to you provide them to sign. thank you for the questions. i appreciated them. [applause] >> eric burns is the former host of "fox news watch," the author of several books, including inif a miss scribblers ." >> joseph sohm explores themes of dempsey, through his photography collection, "visions of america," it spans 30 years of

he talked about the trial of sir walter raleigh, and the framers were concerned we not have these kinds of trials by after the. justice scalia quotes in length from that

i would have to go home at night and over here walter cronkite talking about vietnam or watergate. i did not want to do that. and i could have checked out i would have. i could have text message all night, i could have found out what was going on at the party last weekend instead of having to be exposed to adult matters, having to listen to my parents talk about the household of money, current events. i did not like them into not want to talk with them, but i did not have another place to go. and i am better for it for just having to be exposed to adult matters, it helps to grow up. >> what worries you most about this generation getting older? >> i think that we have to remember that high school and college our precious years. this is the only time when you are going to for the most have the opportunity to read a great works, difficult works, to encounter great ideas and great art and have a circumstance where you can talk with people about them, you can talk with experts. and that during those years in your leisure time that is when you go to museums, that is when you go to art ga

he talked about the trial of sir walter raleigh for treason and how the framers were concerned we not have these trials by affidavit. of course, in the decision this week justice scalia quotes from that concurrence in white. thomas files a separate concurring opinion in week as well -- this week as well. i only bring this up because i think when we think about the court and this kind of goes back to some of the stuff we were talking about at the beginning and transparency, but you still don't really know. you know, you don't know what's happening behind those closed doors. you know what these decisions say, and i always think it's passionating so -- fascinating to see cases where particularly justice thomas, we see his powerful dissents, but in cases where he has had influence on shaping law that we don't necessarily think about it, and i think this is one. he's obviously made quite a mark on that supreme court through his dissents being very powerful and different. he's often aloan as he was in the voting rights case, but there are also areas of the law, confrontation clause being on

this bipartisan amendment offered by representatives walter jones, shelly pingree, barbara lee, and me does not demand a timeline for withdrawal or halt to the deployment of the 21,000 additional troops called for by the president. it simply asks the administration to present its plan for the beginning, middle, and end of u.s. military operations in afghanistan. for over eight long years, our uniformed men and women have done all that we have asked them to do in afghanistan. we are now asking them to do more. of and we are giving them more resources and more boots on the ground to accomplish their mission. what we have not told them is how to tell when their contribution to the political solution is done. and they can begin to transition outs of afghanistan. mr. chairman, i want president obama to succeed in afghanistan. i stand by our commitment to provide the necessary resources to help the afghan people take charge of their own future. as congress authorizes and appropriates billions and billions of dollars for a new strategy in afghanistan, is it too much to ask how we will know wh

virginia system knows, and it wasn't too many years back when we all read the resource coming out of walter reed was some of the conditions there. that also is a fact of federally provided health care of. the veterans administration provides health care to our retired military personnel through the mass of civil periderm run health care system. i have 153 medical centers in seven her 55 community-based outpatient clinics. 232 cancelling centers and yet they still can effectively provide a minute routine medical service to all of its clients and in many cases have to rely on the private sector to fill in many of the services. fattah situation and i appreciate that alaska is different because of our geography and lack of providers but we still have situations in my state where for routine care you get to be shipped outside to seattle or other parts for a level of care that ought to be available within our system would and yet it is simply not there and it is not just alaska. and thing from any of several states throughout the country we have a tendency to see this and that medicare would. per

walter on our democrats line. thanks for waiting. go ahead. caller: good morning, representative. guest: good morning. caller: my opinion real quick is, as long as we have the lobbyists up there that can help so much of power with you representatives, you're not going to straighten this health care out. what you need to do is all your lobbyist people be discontinued in washington and you representatives get together and come up with the health care plan that represents the united states. guest: that's a good input. i have a different viewpoint. if a lobbyist can influence me to a decision that's other than what i've taken for an oath, what's in the best long-term interest of this country, i shouldn't be here. i don't defend lobbyists. and don't do earmarks. and i don't do things for lobbyists. but the cheap is not lobbyists. the problem is members of congress. because, in fact, if you can be influenced, if you can be pushed, if can you have an implied tit for tat, what happens is, the best things don't happen. so it's really about integrity and the character of the members of cong