linda gasparello, take the floor. >> take the floor. ok. by high note is for today, we finally have sensible guidelines for stem cell research and we will have a new head of the national institutes of health will be great. one of the founding fathers, really encouraged. we're back on track. >> i try to be positive this week. i want to give you a high point i had to go live on air for the resignation of sarah palin, and it has been so good for us. >> i want to mention a high point. a personal friend of mine has this organization called ecclesia. they are foundation who has dinner's fort soldiers coming back from iraq. so this friday, we will have a dinner and give them an opportunity to talk to other soldiers and get them back in society. there is a web site, elythia.org. there is a site and a way to contribute. >> he sort of stole mind. [laughter] all we can talk about this week is palin and jackson. >> she is gone, isn't she? >> i do not know. it is hard to tell. you talk about her communications strategy and supporters not using any faith

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captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- >> hello, i'm linda gasparello, co-host of "white house chronicle, " which is coming right up. just a few thoughts of my own. you may have noticed i am wearing a hat today. everybody used to wear hats, had sworn at church, to go to cocktail parties, hats were worn a lot in washington, they say until president kennedy came along. then they were worn because he never wore one to his inauguration. haps used to be worn in the white house by reporters. there was one special reporter who worked for gannett who used to wear the crazy hats. she was a tiny woman running around. she used to ask president kennedy in center questions which he used to like to answer. he liked to diffuse some of the tensions in the white house press corps, and as a matter of fact, she used them to great effect. perhaps had flowers all over them, so i'm thinking maybe this is some way i could get a question to president obama. i will wear this hat, put a lot of flowers on it and make my questions is centered and maybe i will get one in. what do you think?

and now the program, hoed by nation columnist lleweyn ng and co-host linda gasparello. ng and co-host linda gasparello. >> we are back, and i'm happy to be joined by phil brstein, one of ameri's great journalists, knownll around the cotry and eecially no to thpublic on the wt coast. he has been a journast in the bay ar, san francisco, and an editor f many years. would you like to run or what you dohese days? >> i think running or is a great phrase f my career. i started out at kqehere in the 70's, and ty had an interesting nightly news sw, a semiprofessional operation made up of old newsper reporters, and went to the examer in 1980, became an investigativ reporter, a really the first full-time foreig correspondent maybe ever when i was in the philippines, and then i went to el salvado central america, peru anthe middleast. in 1981 i beme the editor of the "examir," and in the merg in 2000, i became edito of t "chronicle." i am now editor at large, encompassing many things, incling figuring out this inrnet phenomenon. >> one thing you are doing i to try to bring thdiscip

and now, the program host, nationally syndicated columnist llewellyn king, and co-host, linda gasparello. >> i am joined by john easton from the edison electric institute for international affairs. in my book, maybe the best job in the organization. wellcome. >> good to be with you. >> there are two buzzwords around here. one is cap and trade. the other is alternative energy. in europe, these things are rather more advanced in some ways. germany has more alternative energy. of course, they are on their second version of cap and trade, which is the idea that cold -- coal other emissions will be tapped and there is the ability to buy credits. what happened in europe the first time? >> the first time that europe had the cap and trade, it was called the emissions trading scheme. it was meant to be a trial period. it is probably a good thing that it was. they found that they over- allocated the allowances. at one point, after it was discovered, the companies had far more allowances that they needed, the system collapsed and they learned a lot from that situation. one of the reasons that happe

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