he is smart, but he had a mentor.es have somebody that teaches them auto maybe mechanics. i think it's a shame the schools have taken out the hands-on classes. music, art, auto mechanics. and i have another book called developing talents. that's my career book. i talk about the new beginning -- getting people, teaching them job skills before the graduate from college. i saw a 23-year-old graduate from college, never even mowed a lawn, never delivered a paper. that's ridiculous. >> host: next call, karen in greenville, north carolina. you're on. are you with us? >> caller: yes. can you hear me? >> host: mess go ahead. >> i have a son who is eight years old, named jack, who was diagnosed at the age of two with autism. since that time he has become a very socialable little bit but -- but he still struggles with language. and he will script entire movies and it's like a record that is scratched and keeps repeating itself. the brain is short-circuiting. my question for you, is was thinking about musical training for him. >

mentoring is extremely important.talent does make a difference because he has a chapter in every tax about bill gates having access to this wonderful computer in 1968, the teletype computer terminal. it did not require a punch card. it was having access to that computer that was so important. i access to the same computer and i couldn't do it. and no matter how hard i tried, i couldn't ski with my skis close together. i think any talent does make a difference. i do agree you have to develop talent and nurture talent. just being smart isn't enough. you have to have mentors. you need to get nurturing. i think innate ability does make some difference. i've had students with problems in my class. they absolutely cannot draw. and my livestock handling class they have to draw a line like this, we intersect team half circles like this just a free handout. they can't do it. >> host: is a visual person, how do you approach reading? >> guest: well, i see pictures. like red water for elephants. i thought that was a wonderful boo

and as much as folks like to talk about fashion, she wants to change the subject and talk about mentoringnot, washington is not reputed as the style center of the world in fashion. how are the obamas affecting it? >> well, it's still not reputed as the fashion center of the world. people in washington have to dress carefully because most people who work here are working in the government or something to do with the government and a lot of them are politicians who go and travel outside the country. and so you really can't sort of dress over the top here or at least most people who are in official situations. michelle obama has taken her style just to the right edge, i think. she's a little bit different, a little quirky sometimes. always very stylish. always looks very glamorous in her clothes. she takes risks which i like. and she dresses very youthfully and she dresses in american designer clothes which i also think is a great idea. but she's more informal than a lot of first ladies. she's not wearing the sort of little buttoned up st. john's suits, she's wearing skirts and sweaters and

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my mentor is the coach at iowa. he said when you leave me, it would be okay to do what we do, but be yourself and that's sort of what you see is basically what you get. >> i hear you were a manager. >> right. >> what was that experience like? did you see a whole different side of the game? >> i was more connected with the players than i was the coaches, but there was no task that was too big or too small whether it be the laundry or doing the floor or being on the scout team or hosting patrick youing on his visit to boston college. you did it all and that's what i've tried to do as a coach. whatever needs to be done, that's what i'm going to do. >> do you feel like a lot of guys come in and i'm sure at every level, and everybody -- >> how did you shape ego when they first come in and try to teach them, all right. we'll do this thing together. >> first of all, if anybody's going, when we as a team are successful. you as an individual will benefit far more than as you as an individual are successful. we were a good ba

at 5:00 p.m., the hip-hop artist and actor on youth mentoring. later, howard dean and another on the economy and capitalism. >> this thanksgiving holiday we have four days of book to be on c-span2. on thursday morning we will feature books on history, public policy, and politics. watch the authors discuss their new book, and about government contractors. you will also see the author from the recent miami book festival. right through monday morning watch the tv on c-span2. to get the full schedule go to booktv.org. you can also follow us on twitter. happy thanksgiving. "washington journal" host: continues david beckmann is president of bread for the world institute as well as bread for the world. there is a new report out from the institute. let's talk about the first. you put it out on monday. it found that more $1 than 1 billion people are hungry every day, it is an increase of more than 1 million from one year ago. guest: the economy is hurting here and all over the world. also, in developing countries there hit by relatively high prices for ri

you want to have a training, mentoring partnering with the afghans. but it's got to be a much larger number of afghan soldiers for each of our marines or soldiers that is in that partnership relationship. >> what would it describe, in short terms a success in afghanistan? at what point do you think the mission will be successful? >> when the afghans are able to secure most of their population and when they -- from the taliban and when they have a government which is a lot less corrupt and a lot cleaner than the curent one -- current one in terms of its activities and a government that's able to deliver services to the afghan people. >> senator, in your opening comments, you -- several times referenced the nato by nato force. i'm wondering considering the pressures that some of the nato allies are feeling at home, what your message to them would be about the level of commitment they should put to this efforts. >> i thought the prime minister of england came without a very sound, solid speech on this subject, a couple of weeks ago that i call the britis

at 5:00, a hip-hop artist and actor on youth mentoring. and later, howard dean and dick armey on the economy and capitalism. as giving day on c-span. >> now, a forum on how to reduce political partisanship. this panel of republican and democratic strategists met recently at tulane university in new orleans for little more than an hour. >> we are proud to honor and host this summit today. we have had a number of the colorful politicians here. i can add a lot more to the list. in fact, politics is one of our favorite pastimes in this great state. we talk about i can -- we talk about it continuously and usually from partisan viewpoints. another reason why am particularly happy that we are having a bipartisan policy center here today. in new orleans, there are many hot political topics and sometimes there are so many that sometimes it is hard to fit into any one subject. whether it is paris, state, our national politics, we will have opinions in be more than happy to share the money issue. today our program is called a what is fair and politic

they needed to mentor women filmmakers. the films that they made were films that were consciousness raising films. this was the second wave of feminism. it happened with books and then it happened with films. i learned a lot growing up around that. seeing how books and films could be parts of movements. any powerful movement has culture deeply imbedded in it. i think that was a counterbalance for me. i got more traditional journalism training. my mother told me that when people say that i lack objectivity, it means that i object to your activity. she always thought that you could be fair, but the most honest thing you could do is admit that you had a point of view. a passion for the subject deals your work. in grade six, i had a mother that was out there on controversial subjects like pornography. it was not ideal from the perspective of a preteen. >> why did she feel so strongly about pornography? >> you would have to ask her. i was so young when she made the film. she made lots of films. it was not an obsession. she would

to be good friends with terrance roberts, who wrote the introduction to the book and served as my mentor to make sure that i had it right, and the man hue script was actually -- manuscript and was actually read by four others of the little rock 9. minnie jean read it and i interviewed her for many hours and that was really fun and gloria ray carlmark and i wrote e-mails back and forth to sweden and she was very, very helpful, including she sent me a pdf of a note that was left on her desk and it's in the book, first time it's ever been published, remember the pape famous, one dn eight to go, and i had never seen that and i'm honored to be the first person to be able to publish that, so being close with some of the little rock 9 was wonderful. i also got to be close with a number of the white students, including particularly the handful of white students who really laid their own lives on the line to support the little rock nine, and i'd like to honor one of them, who happens to be here today. what's your name? no. robin wood, who is on the back cover, with a wonderful quote and she befri

at 5:00 p.m., ludacris on youth mentoring. >> on this vote, the yays are 60, nays are 59.he motion is agreed to. >> said the moves the health care bill to the floor, live starting monday. public option, taxes, abortion, and medicare on the only network that brings to the said that gavel-to-gavel. >host: sheila krumholz, executie director at center for responsive politics here in washington, d.c., and they monitor campaign contributions. this year, what are you finding in the aggregate? guest: $422 million has been spent on lobbying by the health care and insurance sector. phar-mor is given in campaign contributions. host: there are others who seem to be very active and involved in this, including labor unions, organizations representing seniors. when you tally up all of that, what does the picture looks like? guest: you are right. it is far broader than just the health sector. so far, there has been $2.5 billion spent on lobbying. not all of that is geared to the health-care debate, but much of it is. this is the seminal piece of legislation coming up in many years. the in

and then to lose my best friend and mentor.t it -- >> larry: when does the movie come out? >> i think march. they are talking about -- called "heathens and thieves." they will circulate it. >> spoken like a good actor. uses the pain for something constructive. >> larry: that's what you do. >> i did. maybe some of the crew members wished i was easier to deal with on the set. >> larry: john kennedy said life isn't fair. obviously it isn't. are you bitter? why did it happen to us? >> you know -- someone asked me am i angry yet. i said, no, but it is a coming. i can feel it. i have -- i have since then touched on that. there's been cynicism that's definitely come up. >> larry: what about you, donny? >> i just miss him terribly. you know, i -- everything i do, i mean, we did so many things that were similar. >> larry: i speak for all of us when i say we all do. >> >> thank you. >> thank you. >> larry: the book is patrick swayze and lisa niemi, "the time of my life." if you want more information about pancreatic cancer or want to mak

. >> joe: that's similar of one of his mentors. sanchez.eing the atlantic 10 player of the year as a senior without averaging double figures that's how well he controlled the game with passing and defense. could not shoot a lick but was the dominate player on the floor. >> michael: segment has to get it stopped. >> joe: the largest lead, which we saw right at the outset of the second half played hard but guzman shut him down. with that tech has been silent. >> michael: coming off the 20- point win over ball state the other night. the center on north broad street, the beautiful facility on the campus. and raving about today. and shoot around 3 and bodies were moving, the and outbursts. >> joe: in the win. 21 assists. >> michael: how about that. >> joe: and a key of sharing and sharing it. and represented in that game. that's just the way that he coaches offense. >> michael: and thompson came to work. swatted by allen. and basketball on the deck. a number out of here for allen. >> joe: probably had up to two blocks. i got him with three, part

in many cases he ticket and in some cases he did not take it but his primary political mentor within the catholic church was bishop john wright then the pitch burt dies seas. he was a priest in the boston diocese and got to know john kennedy after world war ii. wright's career takes off within the church as kennedy's takes off within politics and eventually wright came the highest ranking member in the vatican but they maintain their relationship or offering id pison how to run as a catholic for the presidency and in the book i discovered archival material no one else has found that goes into great detail about the relationship ended fis kennedy had, so kennedy applied what i called a technical rationality to this problem. he did not fully understand why his catholocism was a problem in places like texas, alabama or mississippi but employed the resources to understand it and try to address the issues as he talked to advisers ouc a dexterity of policy in action in kennedy's mind when he found the problem. he said were the best people we can bring to help us with the problem and then h

we were mentored by the best. we were expected the only one of us would be offered a position. in the end, the majority of us were selected to return. a few of those shows to pursue other options. i enter the profession to help people and then became convinced that to help them i had to have the greatest impact on their lives. to have the greatest impact, i needed to work with one of the best newspapers. i became convinced that i needed to have the best stories to have the most impact. somewhere along the way, i've lost sight of the very reason that i entered journalism. once that was lost, i was a grievous -- anchorless and climbing aimlessly. no one came to my door with a gun and asked whether i wanted to shoot journalism. it was not simple. at the core, i am to blame for my choices. there are a number of profound and factors that contributed to creating an environment for my ethical transgressions. we had the new editor who put a greater emphasis on speed and impact. i am sure this editor did not intentionally decide to sacrifice accuracy. he said that he believed the week t

he was sort of my musical mentor in a lot of ways.ry: do you have a hero now? >> yeah, i do. i've got some new heroes after the last year and a half. last time we were together we talked about billy graham. of course, he's a great man, reached out to us in our time of loss. a lot of dear friends that reached out to us. but, you know, my family, my wife has become an amazing hero of mine, watching her take this journey. my son, all of my kids, but my son will franklin, he's the bravest, most courageous guy on the planet as far as i'm concerned. >> larry: what do you tell people who think you're a hero? you help individuals in communities. you care for orphans around the world. are you humbled by that a little? >> absolutely. very humbled. it's crazy. the things that i guess have made me a hero, you know, in some people's eyes, music, it's a gift. something that god kind of gave me. and i just did what came most natural. doing something like show hope, opening a special needs orphanage in china. helping families adopt kids. we are the o

extremely, so they had an argument that they needed to mentor women filmmakers. the films that they made were films that were consciousness raising raising films. they were films that were watched in living rooms, and people would watch them, and it would change their lives. this was the second wave of feminism. it happened with books and then it happened with films. but, yes. i learned a lot growing up around that. seeing how books and films could be parts of movements. and should be part of movements. any powerful movement has culture deeply imbedded in it. i think that was a counterbalance for me. i got more traditional journalism training. my mother told me that when i got my first job at a fairly conservative paper in canada, where i in turn and got my first job, she told me that when people say that i lack objectivity, it means that i object to your activity. she always thought that you could be fair, but the most honest thing you could do is admit that you had a point of view. you can tell both sides of the story. a passion for the subject deals your work.

his primary political mentor within the catholic church was bishop john wright of the pittsburgh diocese. he had gotten to know john kennedy immediately after world war ii. wright's career takes off within the church, kennedy's takes off within politics, and eventually wright became the highest-ranking american in the vatican. he was named a cardinal and brought to rome, but they maintained a relationship where wright was offering him advice on how to run as a catholic for the presidency. and in the book i discovered archival material no one else has found that goes into great detail about the kind of advice that kennedy had. so kennedy applied what i call a kind of technical rationality to this problem. he didn't fully understand why his catholicism was a problem. he employed the resources he could find to understand it and then he tried to address the issues that got identified as he talked to these advisers. and so you see a kind of dexterity of policy in action in kennedy's mind. when he found the problem, he said, well, who are the best people in the world we can bring to help us wi

but his primary political mentor within the catholic church was bishop john wright of in the pittsburgh diocese. he was asked a diocesan priest and the boston diocesan and he got to know john tierney immediately after world war ii. his career then takes off within the church just as kennedy's takes off in politics. eventually right became the highest-ranking american in the vatican. he was named cardinal and brought to rome. wright was offering him advice about how to run, and in the book i discovered archival material else has found that goes into great detail with what that relationship and the kind of advice that kennedy had. kennedy applied what i call that kind of technical rationality to this problem. he didn't fully understand why his catholicism was a problem in places like texas or tennessee or alabama or mississippi, but he employed the resources to understand and then try to address the issues that got identified as he had talked to these advisers. you see dexterity of policy and action in kennedy's mind. when he found the problem he said to her the best people we can bring t

there is this mentoring relationship.n troops go out on patrol they bring along a bunch of afghans and a group into the organization in a pretty seamless way. they do not have the same capability or training as u.s. troops but they are there. a lot of the coalition activities that were divided among national lines -- the french have a forward operating base. >> what does the logistical side look like? >> i did. i flew along with a crew on a resupply mission to the south. what happened was some shipments of food and water and supplies came in. we were offloaded and broken into batches. this particular crew was carrying food and water mostly to a marine corps contingent in the south. we flew 100 couple miles. we did a pass over the marines location. we flew backed. operations like that happen every day, probably half a dozen to a dozen of them. it is one of the major ways of getting supplies. >> those operations are fairly safe. they do not encounter too much enemy fire? >> the taliban do not have an air defense network. th

in fact, i had quite an experience going to visit a very good student, someone whom i had mentored very closely in may 2007 when he was commanding a company in southern baghdad. and i have to say, to see him in command, was as i said, one of the most humbling experiences. it really is unusual for a civilian to be able to see the fruits of teaching officership. >> host: right in the heart of it, southern baghdad. we will get to that. i think in reading this book, if i was a casual observer, i would still have no idea the extent to which you yourself were involved in the surge. you detach yourself well within the book. probably because you're a humble person. if you would explain for future readers, what was your roll in putting this together. it's more than just an academic exercise. you didn't build this in an ivory tower. share your experience. >> i was an early supporter of the surge. as i began to watch the politics here in d.c. and understand that a lot of the military that were overgoing in the surge were not well understand here in d.c. i began to write ongoing operational narrati

the resources that are distributed to kids, the inventions in young people, with cultivation, the mentoring, equalized across all groups, not that you don't prepare achievers to do wonderful things. you could and should do that. it is a good thing to do. you also prepare those who stay for the opportunities that are out there. let me give you a couple for instances and explain them. how that can be accomplished. although manufacturing has lost 130,000 jobs in the current recession in the state of iowa, there are opportunities in some fields. there are growth fields in nursing and biotech and wind energy. these are the kinds of opportunities young people should be prepared for. what are some of the ways we can prepare them? one of the things we think is an institution that is underutilized in terms of preparing young people who are not destined for a four year degree for these kinds of jobs are community colleges. community colleges do have programs but many of the programs they link up with high school are college prep programs. you are going to go on to a four year degree. why not be imagi

there is a mentoring relationship. often, they bring along a bunch of afghans and they will go into the u.s. organization in a seamless way. they are there tagging along a lot of the time. at a lot of the coalition activities that are divided among national lines. the french have a forward operating base. >> that is exclusively theirs? >> no, but french operations are mostly french, dutch operations are mostly french, american are mostly american. -- dutch operations are mostly dutch. >> did you get to see the supply operation coming out? >> yes, i did. i flew in a c-130 airlifter on a resupply mission to the south. "happened his that some shipments of food and water and other supplies came in, , was offloaded, broken in two batches, then loaded onto c- 130's for combat troops. taking off, we flew a couple of hundred miles through the mountains down to the south of afghanistan. the c-130 did it passover. -- did a passover. operations like that happen every day. it is one of the major ways of getting supplies to the com

we bring back john's mentor rabbi shmuley boteach. he authored the book "the broken american male and how to fix him." rabbi, good to have you back. let me read one facebook comment. publicity stunt. why doesn't he get a job to pay for the child support. jon is nothing but a deadbeat dad. shmuley, are you sure he is sincere not just using you for publicity sway here? >> let's be honest, when someone does something immoral they should be condemned and when they do something morally courageous they should be applauded. jon gosselin taking responsibility for his actions was morally courageous. we need more husbands to do the same thing. we have a 50% divorce rate and simply condemning people is not going get us tr. he was sincere. a man and woman should not be judged by their words. you need to be judged by his actions. his actions will tell us what he wants to do with his life. i do believe that jon took one message from last night to heart which is his audience is not this show. his audience is his eight children. >> that's right. >> y

to be good friends with terrence roberts who wrote the introduction to the book and served as my mentor to make sure that i had it right, and the manuscript was read by four others of the "little rock nine," carlotta rabbids, chorus green read it, minnijean reddick and i interviewed her for many hours and that was really fun and gloria ray road e-mails back-and-forth to sweden and back and she was very helpful with many things including she gave me, she sent me the pdf of a note that was left on her desk and it is in the book, first time it has ever been published in remember the famous one of one down, a to go? this one was gloria ray out of the way and i have never seen that and i'm honored to be the first person to be able to publish that. being close with some of the "little rock nine" was wonderful. i also got to be close to the number of the white students including particularly when a handful of white students that lay their own lives on the line to support the "little rock nine" head and i would like to honor one of them who happens to be here today. what is your name? no. [laug

got to be good friends with terrence roberts wrote the introduction to the book, and to serve as my mentor to make sure that i had it right. and the manuscript was actually read by four others of the little rock nine. carlotta read it. ernest greene. many g-man also i interviewed her for many hours, and that was really fun. and gloria ray and i wrote e-mails back and forth to sweden and back. and she was very, very helpful with many things, including, she gave me a note that was left on her desk, it's in the book, the first time it's ever been published. remember the famous one of, one down, eight to go. this one was get gloria ray out of the way. and i had never seen that and i am honored to be the first person to be able to publish that. so being close with some of the "little rock nine" was wonderful. i also got to be close with a number of the white students, including particularly the handful of ways to do really laid their own lives on the lie to support the "little rock nine." and i would like to honor one of them who happens to be here today. what's your name? no. [laughter] >> rob

represent very much kind of the modern model of management and, and their managers were andrew carnegie's mentors, tom essays got to us superintendent and vice president and president the railroad and j. edgar thompson. vanderbilt was someone who purchased a controlling share of the stock in the corporation, moved into management and then what he would do is he would not take a salary. he would take only for enumeration through dividends of his stocks and this is of course a model we have moved away from. now we expect shares to grow in value, but that is not the primary interest. at that time he was the primary thing investors look four, a steady return every year in dividends of vanderbilt had to make his railroads pay. yet to make it profitable year in and year out for him to get any money out of them. by contrast the pennsylvania railroad, they also paid dividends fairly successful up to a point. >> by the way this is how mostly, house stocks were to the time, you must pay dividends. investors weren't so concerned with the stock going up in the on as much as it paid. >> prizes tended to fluct

out well for hundred 40 days in the hostage crisis that ended the presidency has been one of the mentors to get barack obama ready for the presidency and persians the has been riding and i document for years seeing the united nations should control u.s. foreign policy. here comes president obama of the united nations speaks to the general assembly. noss part of american exceptional as some and he's the first president to cherish a security council meeting. what does this mean? security council going to dictate u.s. foreign policy? or more khaddafi and mahmoud ahmadinejad have equal vote? so i think these are the issues and raising in fighting "america for sale." thank you. good question. next question? don't be shy. yes? >> i heard one of the senators read that actually said that the federal government has the right to enforce such things as the health care, virtually anything if they say is for the general welfare and i am sure it is by no means the only one that feels that way. how do we get past that kind of madness? >> i spent a section of "america for sale" addressing the issue and

but the person that people saw on the sideline in the nfl was the direct result of my dad mentoring me when i was 13, 14 years old. >> so not even in private, you may not go home after the super bowl, roll the dice? there's nothing like that with the cameras off? >> i think about it at times but i would never do it. >> he doesn't need to brag about it, because what tony dungy brought to the game and the men he coached speaks for him. he made history and set league records. but everyone who knows him says tony dungy will not be remembered for winning, but for how he won. if someone from the hall of fame came to you and said, after 27 years of coaching, we want you to give us one thing that symbolizes you. we want to put something in here that says this is tony dungy. what item would you give them? >> i'd give them the fine from our locker room, the only sign we had up for 1 years in indy and tampa -- expectation and execution. no excuses, no explanations. >> you don't even have to think about this. >> no. that to me was what we were all about. >> 50 years from now, a father's walking hi

at 5:00, ludicrous on mentoring. things getting day on c-span. -- the thanksgiving day on c- span. thursday night and that 8:00, we revealed the supreme court in vivid detail. on friday, the white house, inside the most famous home in america. our visit shows the grand public places as well as those rarely seen as basis. saturday, the capital. the history, art, and architecture of one of america's most symbolic structures. three memorable night spir ands. ts. the your own copy. order online at c-span.org /store. >> now a discussion on the 2010 congressional elections and what lies ahead for the 2012 presidential race. we will hear from six panelists. this is one hour 15 minutes. >> i -- i like to give everyone an insight into what is going on here. i give credit to julia reed who deck of this quote for book she wrote which is an excellent book. she is quoting from 1877. "the city has been buried under taxes and fraud and mal administration. when i write about it as i intend to do soon, no one will believe i am telling the truth. it is better to live here in sackcloth and ashes than

very personal friend who over the course of a professional lifetime has meant the world to me as a mentor, a attempt to, a business associate. after 10 years in the nfl season as highly successful running back. he retired to be the picture of health. he diligently maintained a rigorous regiment of athletic activities while playing competitive tennis for at least three days a week. he also maintained a healthy diet and he never varied 5 pounds above or below his optimum. and he has fast food franchises. business travel both domestically and internationally was a necessity and frequent occurrence. to say that he maintained an active lifestyle would have been an understatement. there were no overt signs of diminished capacity in his lifestyle except for one fateful day after returning from a business trip he simply forgot where he parked his car. upon sharing the story with his friends, we all had an amusing laugh at his experience and naively chalked it up to happenstance. he said george i think i got hit in the head. within the span of 24 months this once vibrant, hyperactive individual ha

at five, hip hop artist and actor ludicrous on youth mentoring. and howard dean on the economy and capitalism. thanksgiving day on c-span. >> the national football league announced recently that it would require teams to seek out independent neurologist when evaluating concussion injuries. a shift from recent policy which allowed team doctors to make the diagnosis. the announcement comes as roger goodell appeared earlier this year. at the beginning, they compared the league to tobacco companies when it came to the conflict of interest issue. join us tonight for the second part. it starts at 9:05 eastern on c-span. the main topic in washington is health care. the senate debate on the proposal is set. you can watch all of it live on c-span 2. many groups are running ads supporting or opposing health care legislation. here's a look at a couple of them. >> a year from now, i'll break my leg. and my parents will have to sell our house because we couldn't afford health care. three months from now, i'll need surgery. and my parents will go bankrupt. >> t

. >> the practice of therapy -- >> if you're working with very sick people day to day, mentoring themand working with them, you are in a practice -- >> what does the leader of an a.a. group do or a peer-to-peer support group do, depression, bipolar -- >> they've gotten trained to do that. >> it's peer-to-peer training. in a.a., they don't do training. in n.a., they don't do training. it's based on your own experience. so there's this concept that -- and national institutes of mental health and also the national substitutes of health support bringing in more peer specialists, people who based on their own experiences and recovery, can augment treatment by clinical professionals who don't have life experiences in these areas. i mean, you can quibble or battle with it -- >> well, i've got a lot of quibbles with it, sorry. [inaudible] >> i think the best way to answer that question is i think that there are areas where those character flaws certainly team like they're gone. i'll never say that they're completely gone. there are other areas where i clearly can identify in my mind -- and i'

the hip-hop artist on youth mentoring. >> a look at the audience at the brookings institution. >> thank you all so much for coming out this afternoon despite the miserable weather. my name is homi i'm a senior fellow at brookings. i will moderate this discussion today. let me begin by asking any of you who have not already done so to please turn off your cell phones, pagers. while you are doing that i will introduce a tremendously distinguished panel. we have three people who are the real global leaders in this fight against a global food crisis today. so, starting from my right is rob zelik, the 11th president of the world food bank in 2007. it is an institution that runs about $4 billion per year for agriculture, and the president has announced plans to may be double that by 2012. i think the bank will be an important player. before that he has worked in the private sector, was of the u.s. trade representative, and is well known as a champion of free trade. he described malnutrition as the forgotten being and has been a very strong advocate to pay more attention to nutrition. welcome,

>> it was an expeditionary trading group that mentors the afghan national army air corps. in other words, americans that are trying to build an afghan air force on the u.s. air force model. in addition, they spent some time with the sixty second expeditionary reconnaissance squadron, a drone unit. predators and reaper drones. >> this is a big part of the push for the afghans to take on the security role in the country. how do u.s. military officials think the afghans are coming along? >> slowly. i am not going to call them pessimists, but it is hard to be optimistic. they do their job. they're dedicated to it. the americans, that is. you won't hear them speak badly about afghans. from my point of view, it is very frustrating. to see almost no progress in the two years. i did not see major signs of progress on almost any front. >> why you think that is? >> is a cultural issue. i am not even going to use the word reform, because that implies that they need to be like us. the initial goal was to disrupt al qaeda, and do what it took to make that happen. that meant eradicating

>> it was an expeditionary trading group that mentors the afghan national army air corps. in other words, americans that are trying to build an afghan air force on the u.s. air force model. in addition, they spent some time with the sixty second expeditionary reconnaissance squadron, a drone unit. predators and reaper drones. >> this is a big part of the push for the afghans to take on the security role in the country. how do u.s. military officials think the afghans are coming along? >> slowly. i am not going to call them pessimists, but it is hard to be optimistic. they do their job. they're dedicated to it. the americans, that is. you won't hear them speak badly about afghans. from my point of view, it is very frustrating. to see almost no progress in the two years. i did not see major signs of progress on almost any front. >> why you think that is? >> is a cultural issue. i am not even going to use the word reform, because that implies that they need to be like us. the initial goal was to disrupt al qaeda, and do what it took to make that happen. that meant eradicating

and youth mentoring. and later, the economy and capitalism. thanksgiving day on c-span. >> the prime minister is in the nation's capital this week. it discussed issues on his agenda earlier including climate change, the global economy, afghanistan, and nuclear technology. this is about one hour. the council on foreign relations. i would like to welcome you all to today's event. i apologize for one or two pieces of housekeeping. if people would please completely turned off your soul phones and wireless devices so that it does not interfere with our sound system. it just a friendly warning to the prime minister. at today's meeting is on the record. -- today's meeting is on the record. there will be council on foreign relations members around the world that will be listening and we have some cameras here today. let me say a few things in a way of introduction. i believe it was july 24th, 1991 that the finance minister presented a budget to india's parliament. when he concluded his remarks, he quoted victor hugo. no power on earth can stop an idea

loved math, physics and mentoring programs. favorite album is "top gun" sound track.on. steven wahlberg, american hero. thanks to our guests and especially to you for being with us. see you tomorrow night 8:00 sharp eastern. until then, good night, friend. >>> tonight, many catholics are furious with larry david because of a joke he made on his show "curb your enthusiasm" involving jesus. did the joke go too far? >>> then michael jackson may be gone from the world, but he's very much alive at the box office. his new movie opened yesterday, and we're going to find out what's up with "this is it." >>> plus, wanda sykes is on stage, on screen, on television and tonight on my show. is she just on a roll or is she on speed? she'll be here joining me in the studio. all this and more starts now. >>> now, some people call this clip from larry david's hbo series comedy and others blasphemy. you be the judge. here's the scene from "curb your enthusiasm" on sunday, god's day off, that started the controversy. ♪ >> some people say why is there a picture of jesus in the bathroom?

know, these girls are a part of our young women who participate in the white house leadership and mentoringgram. we are really thrilled to have you guys here. because this is your white house, and sheep -- we wanted to be a part of what we do here. how do we get this stuff done? the president and i are going to host this really neat dinner outside in the tent. we described it -- it is like a swan. we are calm and serene above water, but we are paddling like mad underneath. there is a lot of work that goes into making this happen. we have a lot of people putting this together. it takes everyone at the white house, the state department, and the military officer who worked so hard to put all of the advance together. the guest list, the invitations, the place settings. you have to figure out who sits where. it takes all the folks in the kitchen. we have our incredible white house chap -- chef, whom some of you have met. and the rest of our kitchen staff. tonight, we're going to include a guest chef tonight. marcus samuelsson. he is one of the finest chefs in the country. chris markets in our ki

at 5:00, on ludicris on a youth mentoring. and howard dean on -- and dick armey. >> more now all about fraud and abuse in the medicare and medicaid systems. from "washington journal," this is 45 minutes. host: lewis morris, department of health and human services deputy inspector general. one of his responsibilities is investigating fraud in the medicare and medicaid programs. what kind of fraud are we talking about? guest: it ranges from organized criminals setting up sham medical equipment companies to regrettably some of the large fortune 500 companies in this country. every place we look we're finding evidence of fraud. host: how pervasive? guest: it is hard to say. fraud is a crime of deception. the most effective frauds are those that go undetected. the the news is that we're using high-tech screening devices. we're using tebaldi to get a jump on these crimes faster and faster -- we are using technology to get a jump on these crimes faster and faster. host: could you go back to what you said. what kind of tools are using

he listed out the things he's read and his mentors and his influences from academia. i think they wouldn't ask him that because it's very clear he's a cultured -- >> it's a legitimate question. >> bill clinton used to love to read mystery novels and talked about -- >> and sex novels, too. he was a reader. >> they were written by lynne cheney. >> you know, she said that the campaign aide, this is another interesting thing, nicolle wallace, she said that she made her do the interview with katie couric because katie couric has low self-esteem. did you read that? >> yeah. >> like a pity interview. >> like a pity interview. >> katie couric, didn't she do her colonoscopy on television? don't you think you need high self-esteem for that? >> i feel bad for the mailmen that month. what do they do with the envelopes you're supposed to send in? >> what are you talking about? >> the stool samples. >> my people only told me to come here today because you had really low self-esteem. >> there's another example of some crazy talk. nicolle wallace says the opposite. when she -- levi j

at 5:00, hip-hop artist and actor, ludicrous, on youth mentoring.hat is a thanksgiving day on c- span. >> the studentcam road contest this year. top prize is $5,000. just create a short video on a challenge the the country is facing. winning entries will be shown on c-span. that a camera and get started. don't to our website for more information. >> "washington journal" continues. host: we want to welcome clea benson. her piece last month was about the myth of rural america. you began about writing -- he began with writing about joe biden traveling to rural pennsylvania. host: the administration this summer went out to rural -- caller: -- guest: the administration this summer went out to rural america. joe biden said to the crowd that used to be very excited, we are going to fund a rule broadband for you. -- royal broadband. all of you farmers will be able to log on to check the prices. the surprising thing is that most people out there are not farmers. might look like farmland. there are rolling fields and crops in cows, but the economy, like a lot

we were mentored by the best. we were expected the only one of us would be offered a position.e end, the majority of us were selected to return. a few of those shows to pursue other options. i enter the profession to help people and then became convinced that to help them i had to have the greatest impact on their lives. to have the greatest impact, i needed to work with one of the best newspapers. i became convinced that i needed to have the best stories to have the most impact. somewhere along the way, i've lost sight of the very reason that i entered journalism. once that was lost, i was a grievous -- anchorless and climbing aimlessly. no one came to my door with a gun and asked whether i wanted to shoot journalism. it was not simple. at the core, i am to blame for my choices. there are a number of profound and factors that contributed to creating an environment for my ethical transgressions. we had the new editor who put a greater emphasis on speed and impact. i am sure this editor did not intentionally decide to sacrifice accuracy. he said that he believed the week to do t

he listed out the things he's read and his mentors and his influences from academia. i think they wouldn't ask him that because it's very clear he's a cultured -- >> it's a legitimate question. >> bill clinton used to love to read mystery novels and talked about -- >> and sex novels, too. he was a reader. >> they were written by lynne cheney. >> you know, she said that the campaign aide, this is another interesting thing, nicolle wallace, she said that she made her do the interview with katie couric because katie couric has low self-esteem. did you read that? >> yeah. >> like a pity interview. >> like a pity interview. >> katie couric, didn't she do her colonoscopy on television? don't you think you need high self-esteem for that? >> i feel bad for the mailmen that month. what do they do with the envelopes you're supposed to send in? >> what are you talking about? >> the stool samples. >> my people only told me to come here today because you had really low self-esteem. >> there's another example of some kpraez talk. nicolle wallace says the opposite. when she -- levi