[inaudible] >> michael myers civil rights coalition to follow the rules. why did you leave out on one of your charts where black, latino, and white. why did you leave out the category asian with respect to americans? and with respect to the need, i should say for commonality of instruction, what do you think would be the impact of bilingual education and new schools for new americans, which seek to reinforce the culture of the original culture of the students from another land. whatever impact would that be in terms of fluency in relation to fluency and americanization. a >> the only reason any ethnic or racial group is locked out of my account is because i didn't find a mate any charts for those groups. and to the extent that the gap was there. but you have to understand that the principle to my mind and the founding principle was precisely because this is a cosmopolitan racial country and always was from the start. that's exactly why we need common school. and the idea of the common school was not to say well we've got to be sure there is representation

is algeria but it turns out in 1983 they contract with the chinese to build a plutonium producer 90 myers sell the belch years. then the intelligence world we did not learn about that until 1991 and that is only because at that time algeria went through at the internal political war between the militants and fundamentalist we got to see what was going on and a government that emerged decided the reactor was not worthwhile therefore the new government decided to put their reactor under iaea supervision. but it is a very big chinese design plutonium producer or at least is idle in the desert but perfectly capable of producing plutonium if they wanted to do so. another embryonic state is saudi arabia. it doesn't have a weapons lab by the notion of stuff that is better. the saudis in 1985 brought some intermediate range ballistic missiles and they made the deal and were delivered in the saudis are supposed to be our friend but did not tell us until 1988 and now they have the supply of several cs2 missiles. it is interesting because it is not very good with accuracy that means it is only suita

myers, hello. >> caller: larry, great show. to ask your panel if they think that the advertisers like nike and gillette and music mix usa will all be negatively affected by supporting tiger. >> larry: that's a good question. will they be hurt by supporting him? >> no, hasn't gone far enough yet. but if it gets worse, maybe a little. >> larry: david? >> i don't think so. maybe some women's groups may come out against him, but i don't think there will be a substantial impact from the purchasers of the products he endorses. >> larry: john, that's your business, though. >> to david's point -- >> larry: do you think people will buy less gillette razors? >> no, the ceos will have to deal with letters from women's groups and stuff that say i'm not going to buy your product, but in reality it will have no effect. >> larry: chicago, hello. hello? >> caller: hi, hello. two-part question for the panel. why are americans so fascinated by celebrity sex scandals? christine brennan criticized tiger's statement, but isn't tiger correct that he

. >> larry: do you play against you, or do you play against myers or funk? are you playing against -- >> you always play against yourself. you try to beat yourself and the golf course. there are two opponents in the game, yourself and the golf course. if you can somehow combat those two, you'll do all right. >> larry: the age old question, ken haroldson was a great baseball player and terrific golfer. he's shoot in the 60s and played doral great, so he decides on the pro tour and gets wiped out. what happened? it's still the same club, the same ball. what happened? >> sometimes there's a mental block up there. if you can't get over the fact of where you are now and still relax and go ahead and let it flow from you, then sometimes you're going to have some problems. >> larry: so in other words, it's easy when the competition is just a baseball player playing golf, but it affects you if its nicklaus? >> exactly. sometimes people get caught up on who they're playing rather than playing the golf course. >> larry: what's it feel like to play with legends? >> it's

fort myers, hello. >> caller: larry, great show. >> larry: thank you. >> caller: like to ask your panelif they think the advertisers like nike and gillette will all be negatively affected by supporting tiger. >> larry: that's a good question. will they be hurt by supporting him? >> no, it hasn't gone far enough. if it gets worse, they could be. >> larry: david? >> i don't think so. maybe some women's groups will come out against him. i don't think there will be a substantial impact against the purchasers. >> the cadillac? you can't get out of it? >> larry: john, it's your business, though, people will buy less gillette razors? >> no. i agree with david. the ceo has to deal with letters from women's groups and what not and have thick skin about that. any time something like this comes out, there will be letters i will not buy your product. in reality, the marketplace will speak and it will have no effect. >> larry: chicago, hello. hello. >> caller: hi. hello. >> larry: go ahead. >> caller: two part question for the panel. why are americans so fascinated by celebrity sex scandals. christi

chad myers is in the severe weather center.e joins us with that news. >> a couple of things, ali, blizzard warnings all over the upper midwest. seven states with blizzard warnings posted. you might be asking yourself, what's going on in the air space? are planes flying? are they grounded? no. 3,000 planes still in the sky at this hour. and for this hour of the night, that's a pretty high number. i'm thinking some planes probably got a little bit delayed, tsa lines were a little bit long today as all of the extra security, going into probably place. i have a 6:30 flight tomorrow morning. i can imagine what my line is going to be like already. that's the snow from minnesota back into kansas. that's the entire area with the blizzard warning. so flying might be your best bet tonight considering what visibility is like in here, basically zero. winds are 40 miles per hour. heavy snow coming down. and it's not going to get better until at least morning. and for the most part, i wouldn't say travel would be at least until the noon hour

believe me, there is only one reason that michael myers would not be here. recovering from surgery and he is with him in the hospital. but he is going to be ok, so i am told it is going to be fine. he is there. michael is a consummate professional. he was senator kennedy's right- hand man on the committee for more than a decade. no one has been more loyal and dedicated to carrying on senator kennedy's addition, so michael meyers in absentia, we want to thank you. one other person i want a fight. she has not been here involved in the intricacies. she has always been on the phone and available to call people and talk to people. it was wonderful when we had that 1:00 a.m. but on monday morning to look up in the gallery and see vicki kennedy. she has been wonderful. and we just thank you, vicki, so much for helping us out through this long endeavor. well, this is a great achievement. with all the talk in the debate and the charts and all of this and all of that, and all the people -- those on the senate floor, it comes down to this. we've had one dividing line i

. >> that's ann myers, hall of fame beauty women's players. they are still trying to figure out what exactly is going on over there. >> derek: while they were street the game clock, five seconds had expired off the game clock. we'll reset >> mike: old dominion missed consecutive threes. they trailed by three. in bounds, out of bounds. it's going to be off marcus johnson. old dominion will keep it. in bounds, it comes to gerald lee. he will set it up for de lancey. he gets it back now. one on one with josh benson >> derek: he is creating the offense. count lane >> mike: loose on it the floor, stolen away. marcus johnson to mickey perry. >> derek: a nice take to the basket by mickey perry. transition offense by these flyers. they came up with the steal and able to get out into the open court for the nice, easy lay-in the lee backs out now, 18- footer on the way, nails it. >> that's the connect shot that lee has made in this game. very personal player. low post core. >> paul williams maces the three and the rebound comes out, old dominion. that's

bristol myer qib make makes $12 million, c.e.o. of. mr. johnsonofjohnson and johnson makes $29 million. the c.e.o. of merck makes $25 million. the c.e.o. of fiezer makes -- pfizer make $15 million. and wyeth pharmaceuticals, the c.e.o. makes $25 million. why would we want to leave these c.e.o.'s out of the formula? are they taking the side of passing the bill as opposed to the side of informing the people. i'm sorry that the senator from minnesota finished his presiding in the chair, and i will still address the question to him. i did not expect him to give me an answer at the moment any way. he said that there was a 428% increase in profits for the insurance company and i didn't quite get what the dates were. but he was talking percentages and as the accountant, i like to talk dollars. so i'd like to know what those dollars were from that first year to the final year. because -- for example, if a person makes $1 in the first year and in the last year side they make $5.28, that's 428% increase. it -- it -- if you start with a really low nu

failed system, exacerbate the cost-shift problem by forcing people in the private payer market to pay myerand higher premiums. it just seems like this creates all sorts of problems that make matters even worse. i would say to my colleague from arizona, i appreciate his leadership on this issue in pointing out what inevitably is going to happen. and when you have, as you noted, "the washington post" editorial this morning even acknowledging the terrible problems that this creates for health care and the way that this is being conducted, the sausage being made here in washington, d.c. that i would say again, even by washington's twisted standards, this process has become so dysfunctional, i don't know how they can recover. one thing that they could do is decide to sit down with republicans and actually figure out some things that we could do that would drive health care costs down in this country rather than make them go up, i would say to my colleague from arizona. mr. mccain: i thank the senator from south dakota. i have to say that i have never, in the years that i've been here, seen a pr

host: fort myers, florida, republican line, chris. caller: hope y'all had a great christmas and a very happy new year. guest: thank you. host: go ahead. caller: they are talking about obama making this a police action, everything has to go through the federal courts and everything. well, isn't that -- isn't that defensive? i mean, if i walk into a bank and i don't rob a bank or if osama walks into a bank and doesn't rob it they can't do nothing to you. if he goes in there and robs it then we can come and find you. isn't that the same thing that's going on here? isn't when you have to read miranda rights to terrorists, isn't that the same thing? you have to do a crime before you do the time. they let this guy on the plane and he didn't do anything until he was over the ocean and then everyone jumped on him. isn't that what obama once, to bring everything to federal court? guest: you have two points there -- i think what you are getting at is we want to have a strategy which is pre-emptive. we have to identify people or extremist groups

host: fort myers, florida.alleged that boys still like to read but the harry potter cedars has proved they will if you give them the right books. it -- have you found that boys and girls have responded differently to your books on science? guest: the first teacher for use my books in virginia beach. i went to the school board. i had been a reporter. i knew all the people. i want to try this with kids in a classroom. i assumed there would ask for a volunteer and i would have a teacher that was eager to work with me. they assign me to a teacher. she was very unhappy. the picture with good reason because she had to be out social study classes. a fifth grade teachers. one was going to use a standard textbook and the other was going to use my manuscript. i made two preparations for her. she was unhappy. she was also at first. when i came back a few weeks later, she had totally change. and she said, if she gave the kids in the classroom with a standard textbooks three pages to read, they usually did not read it. she

: charlie hoye, nicole duresta, kate fitzpatrick katie hagan, kate coffer, ellen maldonado, rachel myers eric raven, gary reece reden snowden, robbery stkepb ski stewart holmes, brian clark brian wilson and tom austinhoff. mr. president, it is my pleasure and privilege to be chairman of the committee. it is a great honor and i wish to make s-rpb -- make certain that we express our gratitude to all these staff people. without them, i would not be standing here at this moment. i yield the floor. a senator: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from mississippi. mr. cochran: mr. president thank you very much. i'm glad i was here to hear the remarks of the distinguished senator from hawaii. i serve on that subcommittee of defense appropriations with him and get to observe at close range the skill and effort and courtesy that is reflected in his service as chairman of our committee. it's a pleasure to serve with him and an honor to serve with him. he's provided leadership and cooperation, working with all senators -- not just members of our committee -- to move forward the carryin

host: fort myers, florida, republican line, chris.aller: hope y'all had a great christmas and a very happy new year. guest: thank you. host: go ahead. caller: they are talking about obama making this a police action, everything has to go through the federal courts and everything. well, isn't that -- isn't that defensive? i mean, if i walk into a bank and i don't rob a bank or if osama walks into a bank and doesn't rob it they can't do nothing to you. if he goes in there and robs it then we can come and find you. isn't that the same thing that's going on here? isn't that what obama wants? if you have to read a miranda rights to terrorists, isn't that the same thing? you have to do a crime before you can do the time? i mean, they let this guy on the plane, he didn't do nothing before he got on the plane. he didn't do nothing until he got out in the middle of the ocean and when that happened everybody jumped on him, isn't that what obama wants is to bring everything to a federal court? guest: well, i think you have two points there. the

you have bristol-myers squibb, which reported $128 million of its money that's being used for political its trade associations. this is the first time that we know share holders know and the public p what these companies are giving to their trade associations and what the trade associations are using for political spending. host: before we get to calls, you know, a lot of money being spent for lobbying. when they say that term lobbying, what does that entail? guest: that's quite broad. when companies make a payment to trade association, it's really divided into two parts. there's one part that's deductible, that's used for a variety of purposes, services provided by the association, but lobbying and political spending by the trade association, that portion of a company's payment is nondeductible, so we're talking about that type of spending. that could be lobbying that you have on capitol hill right now, where you have lobbyists going door-to-door, meeting with their members and meeting with their staffs, but there's a great deal of what is known as grass roots lobbying, political spend

host: fort myers, florida. it is an alleged that boys still like to read but the harry potter cedars has proved they will if you give them the right books. it -- have you found that boys and girls have responded differently to your books on science? guest: the first teacher for use my books in virginia beach. i went to the school board. i had been a reporter. i knew all the people. i want to try this with kids in a classroom. i assumed there would ask for a volunteer and i would have a teacher that was eager to work with me. they assign me to a teacher. she was very unhappy. the picture with good reason because she had to be out social study classes. a fifth grade teachers. one was going to use a standard textbook and the other was going to use my manuscript. i made two preparations for her. she was unhappy. she was also at first. when i came back a few weeks later, she had totally change. and she said, if she gave the kids in the classroom with a standard textbooks three pages to read, they usually did not rea

you have bristol-myers squibb, which reported $128 million of its money that's being used for politicalrposes by its trade associations. this is the first time that we know share holders know and the public p what these companies are giving to their trade associations and what the trade associations are using for political spending. host: before we get to calls, you know, a lot of money being spent for lobbying. when they say that term lobbying, what does that entail? guest: that's quite broad. when companies make a payment to trade association, it's really divided into two parts. there's one part that's deductible, that's used for a variety of purposes, services provided by the association, but lobbying and political spending by the trade association, that portion of a company's payment is nondeductible, so we're talking about that type of spending. that could be lobbying that you have on capitol hill right now, where you have lobbyists going door-to-door, meeting with their members and meeting with their staffs, but there's a great deal of what is known as grass roots lobbying, politi