as well as my friend and fellow -- colleague from new york, joe crowley, for his leadership on this issue. this is an important matter. the obama administration is bringing new and positive tone to american foreign policy in the middle east. yet despite the president's desire to seek new beginning between the united states and muslims around the world, there still lies fanatical anti-american and anti-semitic efforts that continue to excite -- insight -- incite people around the world through broadcasts in the middle east that are broadcast in television stations for those muslim viewers. without a doubt freedom of the press and freedom of expression are the foundations of a free and prosperous society throughout the world, yet with this important freedom comes the great responsibility to reject and repudiate that incitement to violence. this resolution attempts to remind us of that fact. for years certain media outlets in the middle east, particularly those associated with terrorist groups, have repeatedly published or broadcast incitement to violence against the united states and our al

answer that question but i would rather beat the "new york times" and the st. louis post dispatch for the detroit news or san diego union or a lot of other newspapers. the times has some advantages. the particular problem like a lot of papers they have a huge debt loads and that's a coming to and they have to pay them and can they? >> in an interview u.k. fun and pr you said google culture is one that is full of contradiction. what are those contradictions you experienced in your time here? >> some of them are benign and some of them are less benign but one of them is, if i come here and ask anyone if you, if i put my pad out and i say, how much does an engineer make, or how many people from india, how many indian citizens or indian descent working at google or u.s. in the factual question, i may as well be talking to a cia agent. i don't gaetan answer, so the notion of transparency has its limits add google about that, and some of that i know comes from-- to all his life he read a book early in his life about-- to arguably invented electricity but because he wa

certainly for new york.e have a very generous -- we have a very generous medicaid plan, and if the only way states can recruit resources is through adding additional medicaid patients, new york's going to come out on the short end. overall like the health care plan in the house, and i only wish we could have the public option or age 55 medicare requirement. but it's very difficult. it's in negotiation, and we've got to lower the costs of health care. it will be 10% of our gdp before long. >> larry: i look forward to many more visits with you. one or thing. do you agree with the decision to hold those accused of being responsible for 9/11, hold those trials here? >> if i were making the decisidecisio decision -- a very dear friend of mine, we went to college together. i would not have held it in new york. new yorkers have taken a real beating ever since september 11th. traffic problems. new yorkers that lived and worked near ground zero were assured by the epa it was safe and it wasn't. people have diseases n

i would not have held it in new york. yorkers have taken a real beating, ever since september 11. traffic problems. remember, new yorkers who lived and worked near ground zero were asewered by the epa that it was safe and it wasn't. people suffered diseases they shouldn't have suffered because they got the wrong information from washington. but the decision was made. we're fully in support of the decision. we will do everything possible to make sure that trial runs as smoothly and safely as -- >> but you would not have made that decision? >> no, i wouldn't have done that. >> larry: even though the crime was committed sneer. >> well, i agree with the fact that this case is being handled by our civilian courts and not a military trial. but i just think because of the impact that the attack on our country, on september 11, 2001, had on that region, still struggling to get away from it. we still haven't been able to rebuild the area at ground zero. i would have picked another venue. but it's not something that we cannot cooper

he resigns his position in the legislature and he says goodbye toe wealth and new york and he moves out he moves to the dakota territory and he becomes a new man, a different man. a transformed man. he sets up shop -- i was going to -- i hope there was a stage up here. but in a little cabin which i saw about 400 square feet. and he hangs his bearskin rugs up next to the fireplace and he brings all his books in by train. and he puts a rocking chair next to the fire and he becomes a cowboy. and he becomes a man who lives and tries to get rid of his grief from the west. and he spends the next two years as not a attitude rancher. -- a dude rancher. someone calls him four eyes. he spent three days chasing the guy who stole his horse. he was a tough s.o.b. as they say but he was a lover of literature and nature. he's restored, the grief that happens to him from losing his life and his mother is somewhat mitigated by the outdoors. it makes him a little whole again. but he sees something, he sees the west which he's mythologists and all this buffalo and wild animals is almost gone. he sees that

in new york. khalid sheikh mohammad, the blind sheik was tried there, and we were able a handle that. yauns why we can't show the world that we can handle terrorism. and my next point is ted kennedy was turned away on a no-fly list about five tiles. now how can you -- the problem is with credibility. i'm sure most of the people in that airport knew who ted kennedy was. and i just -- you know, the credibility and also of the orange alerts and we had a discussion about that. host: well, the caller has raised a number of issues. guest: to take the ted kennedy example that underscores the point i made earlier. there are people who are on the list who shouldn't be and those who are and -- not on the list and should be. obviously there was a man named ted kennedy probably connected to -- there's a world of difference between the blinet sheik and khalid sheikh mohammad. he was the latter was the master mind of 9/11 and therefore an iconic figure, so for the reasons i said trying him in new york host: nex

this is mostly deo speaking. >> king at a fund-raiser in new york, deo told this story. this past summer we needed some help to make a road that goes to our side possible. a friend of mine told me, deo there's a great belgian construction company that builds roads in burundi and rawandan the congo and i was so excited sigh went to talk to the representative of the company. he sent some of the look of the road and estimated the cost at least 50,000 u.s. dollars. not to pave the road buchass to widen it and make it possible. i went back frustrated, wondering how to sell the hutu community this bad news. as i was explaining this one woman with a baby crying on her back said to me, you will not pay a penny for this road. we have become-- because we are poor but we are not poor because we are lazy. we will work on this road with their own hands. the next 166 people showed up with pickaxes, machetes and other tools for the one of the volunteers was a woman who came to volunteer with a sick child. when we lifted the baby we saw the baby was sweating. i have the mother why she c

because in new york there's an exhibit on lincoln in new york at the new york historical society. so that was an incredible way to look at that exhibit. and i also read "ida." the book of idab. wells. right now i just started the help. which is totally different. it's fiction. i don't normally read fiction. but it's a good read. >> the author, she's the editor of "letters from black america." thank you so much. >> thank you. >> author robert, give us an update? >> well, i'm doing the fourth one. third one i got the international book award here. and well, this is a long book. and i'm sort of in the middle of it now. you know, lyndon johnson, president, civil rights, vietnam, turning points in american history. that's an interesting book to do. interesting for me to try to do it. when do you see it being finished? >> i think i have two more years. >> how many years have been devoted to lincoln -- lyndon johnson? >> well, i started, "power broker" came a out in 1974. i started in '76 on lyndon johnson. i want to add it up, 33 years. >> what first sparked your interest in lbj? >> goo

host: we will listen to read from new york city. on twitter. we will listen to greg from new york city. caller: i love the debate we're having here. mr. solomon, i love your intentions and intelligence. mr. tapscott, i find you are skirting any solid question with any value towards the american public. i have three questions for you. first, the beginning of the u.s. when the boat came over and basically was welcomed by the natives of there in new england. and talked how to live on this land. yet the result of that kind this was turned back them with murder and mayhem. the country moves toward. you brought up barry goldwater and want brown points for the civil-rights movement. the white democrats did not want to pass it down south. we wanted to do it.

his book was a "new york times" best seller. richard brookhiser wrote his first story in 1969 when he was 13. he became the youngest senior editor at age 23. in his recent book, "right place, right time", richard brookhiser tells the story of his friendship with william f. buckley jr. he offers an eyewitness account of the conservative intellectual and political ferment that he their chirred and lead. before we began, please make sure that your cell phone are switched off and placed in me in welcoming our guest. [applause] >> it is a pleasure for me to be invited to this event. as a guy who works in this liberal city i am sincere because it is a pleasure for me to be invited anywhere. it does not happen very often. [laughter] [applause] to give you an idea of the strange existence a conservative has in the city, for the longest time, the offices of "national review" was located above a rap music studio. the most interesting part of this juxtaposition is when the weather would get warmer and we would open up the windows, this unm

i was able to get an agent in new york. he looked at the various entries and said you really have to do a lot of research. my father wrote them helter-skelter. so jim and i had already started off working together. i said would you be interested in and joining me in this endeavor. thank goodness he said yes. it started to work together. we were very happy when a we got a particular publishing house. we have a great group. this is the end result, and these only came on the market last tuesday. it's already receiving national attention. we are thrilled to say the least. >> there was another question. >> we thought the greed of wall street's was behind us. then we came along with the bailouts and stimuluses. now all of a sudden we read that the executives of many of the large financial concerns and manufacturing concerns are making more money no than they made before. your father certainly was not a greedy man. in those days i guess we did not know much about the ponzi schemes. i don't think that was in existence. we do not kn

he ran for mayor of new york but he never won an office. intellectuals in office have a very mixed track record. thomas jefferson's presidency is a mixed bag and so is james madison's. woodrow wilson's was a disaster. they are different skill sets. we would not expect our politicians and mostly they do not perform at the level of discourse of our and intellectuals. glenn beck is another thing. the media always changes. when i started off, it was three networks and pbs. daily newspapers were important things. i remember "lief"anfe" and "loo magazine. "time" magazine had content which it does not have any more. "the economist" is still recognizably what it was like in 99 -- 1976 and 1977. "time" and "newsweek" are going donw. th-- going down. the world of media changes. you do not have to track its every mutation. it is an attractive to wring your hands and say woe is us. the answer to the political thing is do the right thing yourself. build it and they will come. >> another question. >> whichi havdo you agree with e will when he said [unint

i think "the new york times" got it right. is a convergence of two unique forces of nature that the republican minority here in the senate and "the new york times" should be on the exact same page on this issue and both be right. mr. alexander: i wonder if the senator from new hampshire would characterize this discussion this way: in order to -- as i'm hearing it, in order to protect medica medicare, the senator wouldn't want to say, i voted for the bennet amendment and then i voted against the gregg amendment when it really counted? mr. gregg: it would be virtually impossible to make that argument with a straight face -- i think. mr. barrasso: i had a question for my senate colleague from south dakota who is here. we heard the majority leader, senator reid, come to the floor just a few minutes ago, and talk about how this bill was going to get premiums under control, keep the cost of people who have insurance -- keep their premiums under control. now, i saw a chart from the senator from south dakota yesterday that said, for 9

and you can get the image of the idealism that expired particularly new york state at the turn of the century and how successful it was then. some of the themes of this new book, the making americans are new to my riding and i will connect some of them with the more familiar ones of low student achievement, and equality of result, disturbingly low level of civic commitment. now the historical context for what i'm going to say is a less beautiful picture. it's that one of this is the pattern of favorable sat scores from the late 1960's to the present. i would like you to remember it. i'm going to leave it up for quite awhile. the s.a.t. goes back further. it was started in the 1970's. the s.a.t. is more than a college entrance exam. it's also a kind of referendum or final report card on what our schools have been doing. and before i outline why the fall of s.a.t. verbal scores is so urgently important i want to

i don't know if doctor brasso has seen "the new york times", another one of my favorite sources of newsand entertainment. on the front page this morm morning, home health care worries over proposed cuts. the purpose of reform, i understand by the other side, is to reduce health care costs. is there a way to reduce health care costs better than treating people at home than instead of in a hospital. i'm curious about your experience. >> as the senator from arizona knows, i've treated patients in wyoming for 25 years, and the story in the "the new york times" was a wonderful picture of bertha milliard, a 94-year-old woman who is very similar to the patients i've taken care of and the families in wyoming who depend on this. there is a picture of bertha greeting her nurse. her nurse is coming to check the medications she takes for chronic pain and heart failure and stroke. mrs. milliar says those visits have been effective in keeping her out of the hospital. but the home care that she receives could be altered according to the front page of "the new york times" under the legislation passed b

from new york, mr. king. you know, this bill is really pretty simple and it's really just about transparency, disclosure, and sunshine. $700 billion of taxpayer money was made available last year in order to provide a rescue plan for the financial system, which was troubled at that time. we all know that much of this money has gone out, but what we don't really know is what it has gone to do, what it is being used for, where it is being employed. there are those who will say that, well, because they are dollars if you put dollars into a given financial institution, they're fungible and you don't know which dollar went to what. i understand that that has some legitimacy. but the point of this bill is, let's disclose and make available what we do know. there's a lot of information out there, as the gentlelady from new york suggested, which is in multiple agencies and multiple placesing -- places, and it's not available to members of the house or members of the congress so we can make an effective determin

i also thank my colleague from new york, mr. ackerman, for the energy that he is shown on this matter. the first time i heard the name bernard madoff was a year ago tomorrow night, december 10. i was stopping by a holiday event on the north shore to meet with constituents. the person hosting it told me that shot was going through the room because they had just learned that day that there life fortunes, handled by mr. madoff who i had never heard of before, had been lost in a ponzi scheme. the arrests were made the next day in the story broke. i could see the shot in people's faces. since then, the situation has only got the wrong -- gotten worse. i have a number of questions regarding what has happened over the course of the past year. like mr. ackerman, you see a tragedy like this unfold in the news see over the course of the next year the victims being victimized again. i know there are no easy answers, but if there is an imputation of fraud to the victim's itself, it seems. somehow implying or imputing madoff's offenses to th

he served as a for an editor at the new york herald tribune overseas service and as a foreign correspondentfor the times and sunday times of london. get more at harlowunger.com. >>> i am here with professor of international studies. author of the new book forces of the fortune, the rise of the new muslim middle class and what it will mean for the world. who are the new muslim middle class? >> why if the kids are connected to private sector, integrated into the world economy, they're businessmen, finance years, also professionals but they are people who are like middle class is in asia, latin america, people we identify as part of the new globalization forces, new economic forces, and we often don't see them in the middle class. we often think about extremists or authoritarian government of fundamentalists. we don't think about social class is in the mostly -- the way they connect to economics and why do they matter in terms of all the things we think about the muslim world. >> to focus on iran in this book. helpless first or the social class is of iran? >> again when we think about iran we

to new york city, to add insult to injury. to give them a bully pulpit, [unintelligible] let us first honor those brave men and women in far off afghanistan and iraq who are pouring hot lead into the valleys of death because these jihadists bill warship a religion, they worship the cult of death. it is death they want, then death we should give them. let them go straight to hell. to those men and women, those cia operatives in pakistan and other countries, often times anonymous, killed in action, never to be recognized, we universally salute them as they follow the enemies until the end of time, until every last one is killed and extinguished. ladies and gentleman, as we see, [unintelligible] if they want to jump on the paradise express' and go on thea up tollah's side, let's speed up the process. to the brave men and women of the nypd, the new york fire department, the court officers, the federal marshals, the best deep -- the fbi agents, all of those who will be charged with our public safety when they are brought here, they

district court in new york. so it looks like this may be resolved between two private parties, and actually that's why, that's actually the crux of the concern by create ijs is that -- critics is that this case could be precedent-setting, and it's between private parties. this should not, that's what critics would say, between private parties that would set the rules of the road for how you says a book online -- access a book online, how you read a book online be it on your mobile phone or whatever in the future, how much you pay for it. these are big questions that arise that are being revolve inside this one case, and that's a good way to think about b the criticism. >> host: are we in the comment period right now? >> guest: not yet. we haven't heard from the judge yet unless he's commented while you and i are taping, but he will -- what's going to happen next is he will open up for public comment, and then justice has a chance to sound in, chime in on their own reaction to the revised settlement -- >> host: a

others say because john messed up in new york. and in ohio and in new jersey and other primaries. there wasn't a good, acceptable backup which is why it took so long to fire john in 1980 because there wasn't anybody of john's stature. and the other thing weighing on reagan and actually mrs. reagan as well was the fact that john had had all these friends in the national media and reagan's campaign in all of '1979 and '80, bad press, the age issue is still there. and he doesn't need another spat of bad political stories, you know, by firing his campaign manager because if he fires john, that means john's two top aids, charlie black and jim lake are going to go with him. so they arrive at this strategy to fire him of the day of the new hampshire primary, believing they will win the primary and it would minimize the story and because they found an acceptable alternative. it's a very long question to -- a very long answer to a good question. >> when you read craig's book you get to this roughly 100-page section where almost every page you're saying, why isn't he firing him? why isn't h

headlines from the two new york tabloids. "new york daily news." bomber's package.wear and goc tcgotcha. he sewed bomb into terrorist's clothes. caller: good morning, steve. how are you? host: good. >> about the senators reforming themselves, i feel that the 60-vote threshold to cut off debate or stop the filibuster, i think we should leave it because as a result it results in much more chance of compromise instead of rash decisions being made. i think because of that debate, the american people get to hear it before something is passed. host: do you think it slows down the process or is good for the process? stpwhrao i thi caller: i think it is good for the process. you could say it is better just to have s1 51-vote majority butu would have less thapchance othe things getting in there. the founding fathers wanted the senate to be a place where debate and compromise works. it works with the democracy. if you don't have that you would have a dictatorship. host: "new york times" sunday magazine looking back at those who passed away there past year including former whi

mccourt taught in staten island and at new york city technical college and at the university of new york it was in his 60's that he sat done and chronicled his childhood memories. despite his insistence that it was a modest book, modestly written, "angela's ashes" became an overnight word of mouth success. it became a motion picture. he received an award for his work. he passed away this past july 19 and today we honor the contributions he made not only to the educational system but to american culture and literature. with that, mr. speaker, i'd like to reserve the balance of our time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from utah reserves the balance of his time. the gentleman from massachusetts. mr. lynch: thank you, mr. speaker. the measure before us, as eloquently reported by the gentleman from connecticut, mr. courtney, and also co-sponsored by chris murphy, honors francis "frank" mccourt, who was born on august 13, 1930 in brooklyn, where his irish immigrant parents had hoped to make a better life in the midst of the great depression. mr. mccourt and his family relocated to lime

in new york.halid sheikh mohammad, the blind sheik was tried there, and we were able a handle that. yauns why we can't show the world that we can handle terrorism. and my next point is ted kennedy was turned away on a no-fly list about five tiles. now how can you -- the problem is with credibility. i'm sure most of the people in that airport knew who ted kennedy was. and i just -- you know, the credibility and also of the orange alerts and we had a discussion about that. host: well, the caller has raised a number of issues. guest: to take the ted kennedy example that underscores the point i made earlier. there are people who are on the list who shouldn't be and those who are and -- not on the list and should be. obviously there was a man named ted kennedy probably connected to -- there's a world of difference between the blinet sheik and khalid sheikh mohammad. he was the latter was the master mind of 9/11 and therefore an iconic figure, so for the reasons i said trying him in new york host: next

new york city to buffalo. essence, what we have been hearing is that the pilots may be were ill-prepared to fly the plane. guest: thet( safety board looked at that accident with 50 fatalities, and within three months of the accident, we held a three-day public hearing, and there were a lot of issues that came out during that hearing with respect to training, with respect to the flight history of the pilot, with respect to their experience in certain conditions. also, the commuting. these pilots were based on the east coast and the captain was commuting from florida and the first officer was commuting from seattle. i think there has been a lot of attention since the public hearing focused on some of these issues. i think we think that that is very important. the captain was older, the first officer was fairly young. we are looking very closely at their experience. we are beginning to wrap up that investigation and we will be holding our board meeting on february 2 to release the probable cause an additional rec

pat's was one of the glass tables in new york that had monogrammed matchbooks. this will soon be a crime. she had these. she did not blow a puff of smoke into the mayor's face but was pretty close to the mayor's face and, mr. mayor, man spoke in my own house? that is a mild example of what she could do. >> talk about bill as a writer. you have surprisingly mixed things to say about him as a writer. >> i never liked his fiction particularly. i just never did. it was john r. fiction -- genre fiction. i think some genre fiction is wonderful. certain things i love. bill's spy novels ever did that for me. bill was a mster o master of th syndicated column. he wrote a lot of them. if you get the best of those, that is a murderer's row and they are so varied. they can be analytical or appreciative or on the attack, they can be melancholic, he had a lot of different voices that he could summon. he could also do lager essays very well. but i remember one -- it was about the effective end of the latin mass in the catholic church and how that paid him. it was a very moving

and here in new york, s.e. cupp the conservative columnist of "the "new york daily news". obama pressed wall street bankers urging them to help rebuild the economy. listen to what he said. >> my main message in today's meeting was very simple. that america's banks received extraordinary assistance from american taxpayers to rebuild their industry and now that they're back on their feet, we expect an inordinate -- extraordinary commitment from them to help rebuild our economy. >> larry: let's start with miss cupp. what do you make of it? >> well, there's a couple of problems. tough talk is great, larry, but a little disingenuous when we're looking at a health care bill that's going to strangle small businesses. that's one. two, you know, i -- i -- i think this is a bit of a dog and pony show. these bankers are in a really tough spot, getting pressure from regulators not to lend, and now obama is coming in and saying lend or else. you know, the lend or else is what got us here in the first place. lending to unqualified borrowers. >> larry: what does he do with all of the peo

king from new york. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from new york is recognized for four minutes. mr. engel: i thank the gentleman, my good friend from texas, for yielding to me. i appreciate the comments made by mr. rogers as well. mr. speaker, this bill rights a wrong. it's a very technical bill, but the bottom line is that 35 loyal and hardworking federal employees stationed overseas working for america are being treated unfairly and the bill corrects this. when i was in ireland at the customs post, hi a chance to speak with some of these employees and i became convinced that they were not being treated fairly. so i rise today in support of my legislation, h.r. 1517, the conversion of certain overseas customs and border protection employees. i would also like to give special recognition to my colleague and friend, representative peter king of new york, for the hard work that he has put into this legislation as well. h.r. 1517 would grant the commissioner of the u.s. customs and border protectio

for what purpose does the gentlelady from new york rise? >> i rise and request permission to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered. mrs. maloney: mr. speaker, while one month saw job losses does not show success, it certainly shows we are trend trending in the right direction. this blue is since president obama took office. the red is the time under former president bush. you see back in january of 2008 we started losing jobs. here is when the presidential candidate for the republicans claimed that the fundamentals of our economy were sound. and in the last month that president bush was in office, this country lost over 740,000 jobs. the blue shows the direction under the obama administration where we are trending in the right direction. it's not success but it certainly shows we are trending in the right direction from over 700,000 jobs to 11,000 jobs. it's a tragedy for any family that has lost a job, but it does show that one election has truly made a difference in our economy. the speak

the chair: the gentleman from new york, mr. murphy, and a member opposed, each will control five minutes. mr. murphy: i yield myself one minute. the chair: the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. murphy: this amendment would change the definition of a major swap that came out of committee. they worked with the committee to come up with the one in the ag committee. it's more restrictive than the one on the floor now, in terms of allowing companies to be exempt from being classified as a major swap participant. more companies would be held to a higher standard. it's less restrictive with manufacturing companies being classified as a major swap participant. i think that's important. we want people who are systemically risky to be held to a higher standard of accountability, but we don't want to capture our manufacturing company, those represented by the national association of manufacturers, to be captured in that regulation. we want them to be able to do their business and use that to hedge their risk. that's why there wa

or $578,000 to fight homelessness in union new york, a town that's reported no homeless citizens. h.u.d. official said we hope to encourage these new grauntees to develop a quote, creative strategy for this funding. now, remember, the bureau of public debt says we must borrow $160 billion per week for the united states to service our current debt and add new i.o.u.'s. 46 cents of every dollar spent by this congress is borrowed, and most of it from abroad. this bill has 5,000 earmarks, over several00 -- several hundred pages in this 2,500 pages. the press reports indicate that the congressional leaders will soon approve $1.8 trillion to our national debt next year. they need to do this to fund 10,000 earmarks they already approved, 500 just in this legislation -- 5,000 just in this legislation, accelerating spending by $50 billion over last year alone. i think we should turn away from this kind of spending and enact a more frugal set of spending priorities. and i yield back to my chairman. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. the gentleman from massachusetts. mr. mcgo

but with paul, he actually went to new york when he was in new york after his death. he visited with the widow. and he expressed his sympathy. and what does this -- what does this tell me? and what it tells one that the culture of death is bigger than putin. it's even bigger than putin. >> joining us now on book tv is morgan. you are here at the national book awards. do you have any finalist? >> i don't. but i'm on the board of the national book foundation. so i'm very excited that we are celebrating our 60th. we had our contest to name the book. i have the honor of announcing that tonight. so it's an exciting night. >> well, let's talk economies. what's the economic situation for grove atlantic right now? >> grove atlantic consistents of two old, grove press founded in 1951 and atlantic founded in 1917. we are privately owned. myself and a couple others of my fames. -- families. we don't have the pressures. we also do about 50% of our business off of our old list. henry miller, samuel bucket, that gives us a kind of stability. it's tough out there. i was just saying

if you live in new york. if you live in texas or mississippi or california or in fact 38 or 40 of the 50 states it just doesn't happen. there is no -- there might as well -- you might as well be disenfranchised in the presidential election, and it's wrong that grass-roots politics should not be worth doing in all those parts of the country. if this national popular vote plan goes through, and it has been adopted, by i guess five states now so far been quietly kind of under the radar, if it reaches its goal of 270 and we do have either the next election or reelection after that a real popular vote, presidential election this would really energized american politics in an extraordinary way and trickled down to all levels of political involvement, and it will reduce the power of money. right now money is a huge determinant of elections and that is partly -- that's not because well, this would not change the amount of money candidates and campaigns would raise. right now they are raising every dollar they can and

why are you doing that for nevada and new york? and some of the influential people around here from nevada and new york said, well, this economy is in a real downturn and we're being hit harder than anybody else. and i said, well, that's -- that's a nice gesture, but this bill -- this part of this bill isn't going to go into effect for four years. how do we know that in four years nevada and new york are the ones that are going to be hard hit? we ought to have some provisions for whoever is hard hit. but those are the kinds of things that we were trying to -- trying to take care of in committee with inadequate numbers. understand a as we worked through -- the president wanted to do a speech to the nation, a joint speech to the nation, the joint -- we do those over in the house building. the house and the senate show up for t and it was on health care. and following that health care meeting, the next morning we went to our gang of six meeting, and i had kept notes on what the president had said. and i had about 12 areas that we had

we're in new york tonight and all this week. tomorrow night the whole cast of "nine" will be with us. tonight, penn gillette, author and producer, libertarian, a new web cast called "we've got a country to save.com and robert rice, good to see robert again, professor of public policy university of california, berkeley, former labor secretary in the clinton administration. and here in new york, s.e. cupp of new york daily news. president obama urged bankers to help rebuild the economy. >> my main message in today's meeting was very simple. that america's banks received extraordinary assistance from american taxpayers to rebuild their industry and now that they're back on their feet, we expect an inordinate -- extraordinary commitment from them to help rebuild our economy. >> larry: let's start with miss cupp. what do you make of it? >> well, there's a couple of problems. tough talk is great, larry, but a little disingenuous when we're looking at a health care bill that's going to strangle small businesses. that's one. two, you kno

in new york.ny benefit for the deduction. i think 529 plans are but excellent planning opportunities because the earnings in the plan are not subject to current tax and when the money is withdrawn, if you spend it for education, there is no tax on any of the withdrawal as long as it is spent for education. i think they are absolutely phenomenal planning opportunities. if you are in a state that has a prepaid tuition plan because there are different kinds of 529 plans, they are broken down into savings plans and prepaid tuition plans. if you can do the prepaid tuition plan and your child will go to school in the state where you reside, which would be to your in your case, that is a really good deal. the 529 prepaid plans are disappearing and the states are getting killed on this because you are contributing now on an actuarial assumption and they are guessing as to what the tuition will abate when that child gets in there. given the financial difficulties that the states are in, aides to the higher

my final story is a new york story. if i may new york died.go back to new york and i'm walking of one of the great avenues, usually park, and i'm admiring all of the buildings and watching the humanity go by and i always stopped at one of the crosstrees to buy a hot dog from the hot dog peddler, one of those new york dirty water dogs that some of you are familiar with. but it has to have the mustard and relish. that is what makes a new york hot dog. and i do it all the time. and not too long ago i was walking up park avenue and i was going to crawl -- follow my traditional pattern of going over to the hot dog peddler and i did and i walked up to him and i ordered my hot dog, mustard, and in and relish. and as he handed it to me he said, i know you. the u.n. general powell purified -- you are general powell. if and he handed me the hot dog and i handed him the money and he said, no, general, you cannot have to pay me. if you cannot pay me. i have already been paid. america has paid me. i am here purif. i never forget where i come from, but i am

i am a new york times junkie, said that is always the first place i look. i am also fond of google news, and i have keywords there so i can track things i want to follow. the roof is a great news and opinion site covering african- american issues. that is owned by the "washington post," and i do some work for them, also, so i follow them partly for personal reasons, partly for professional reasons. and throughout the day, not with any particular structure, but helping -- the huffington post, looking at blogs by professors. >> do you go to a conservative website? >> there is one called the next right, a blood, and it feels like people who are here. people in the 30's and 40's who are simultaneously very committed to this excess of republicans, but to my mind, i am quite moderate, so there is a lot of overlap. republican rhetoric is among the most divisive stories, so going back to the last election, what was most alienating in the election were these moments where palin in particular was talking are real americans, and i think of myself, to going in kenya, a

but we also thought -- thank my colleague from new york, mr. ackerman, for the energy he has shown in this matter. the first time i heard the name bernard madoff was a year ago tomorrow night, december 10, i was stopping by a holiday event on the north share to speak with constituents. the person hosting the event told me that shot was through the room because they had just learned that day that they're like it's fortunes -- they're like fortune's handled by mr. madoff had been part of a ponzi scheme. the next day, the story broke. i could see the shock on people's faces. and since then, the situation has only gotten worse. i have a number request since regarding what has happened over the course of the last year. like mr. ackerman, you see a tragedy like this unfold and did you see over the course of the next year the victims being victimized again. i know that there are no easy answers, but jimmy there has been imputation of fraud to the victims themselves. -- but to meet there has been imputation of fraud to the victims themselves. somehow t

but we also thought -- thank my colleague from new york, mr. ackerman, for the energy he has shown in this matter. the first time i heard the name bernard madoff was a year ago tomorrow night, december 10, i was stopping by a holiday event on the north share to speak with constituents. the person hosting the event told me that shot was through the room because they had just learned that day that they're like it's fortunes -- they're like fortune's handled by mr. madoff had been part of a ponzi scheme. the next day, the story broke. i could see the shock on people's faces. and since then, the situation has only gotten worse. i have a number request since regarding what has happened over the course of the last year. like mr. ackerman, you see a tragedy like this unfold and did you see over the course of the next year the victims being victimized again. i know that there are no easy answers, but jimmy there has been imputation of fraud to the victims themselves. -- but to meet there has been imputation of fraud to the victims themselves. somehow t

i'm james brown in new york with scores from the nfl.s clinched the nfc south and remain unbeaten. the patriots lead over the dolphins and jets is just one game while cinci have afully game lead over the steelers. san diego wrapped up its 7th straight victory while the bough -- cowboyed drops into a tie with the eagles in the east. log on to cbssports.com. >> pelley: now a few minutes with andy rooney. >> rooney: the letters i get come in four general categories. it may be more or less, but say four. one-- i get a lot of good letters. they're the best kind; they're from people who liked something i said. i can always take that. two-- i get letters from someone trying to get me to promote something on "60 minutes." i never do that. never have. three-- i get letters from people who are mad about something i said. they usually think i was wrong. four-- i get a lot of letters about what i look like, letters pointing out something about my appearance. recently, i made some remarks about our mail and the u.s. postal service. a lot of people th

a guy by the name of silas wright of new york, who died young, and therefore we don't know much about him, but he was a real giant of his time. john c. calhoun wanted the democratic nomination. and polk's fear was that if these guys all thought that he was going to be in the presidency for eight years there was no way in the world that they were going to get behind him in the election of 1844 and he needed them because he knew he was going to have a very close election against henry clay, which he did. >> how many political jobs did he have before he became president? >> elected to congress at age 25, spent 14 years in the congress. he rose up to the chairman of the ways and means committee, which interested me of course because during my "wall street journal" days i covered tax policy in ways and means, spent a lot of time hanging out there. never thought about james polk during those years. served as speaker for two terms. then he was importuned to go back to tennessee and run for governor. didn't really want to do it. loved the house, liked washington, but the democrats were losing

is a fixture in the new york publishing world. steers riders for concepts that will strike riders says gladwellian. there's that phrase again. the go to publishing parties? >> i am somewhat reclusive. when you are setting someone up, you pretend they are a fixture of publishing parties. >> what about someone calling you in india? >> -- calling you an idiot? >> that was some and i wrote four years ago. it is of that he would now call me an idiot. i think he meant that facetiously. >> stephen pionker, you have answered him in "the new york times review of books." you say his comments say he is unhappy with your spelling and with the fact i have not joined him on the lonely eyes glow of light of fundamentalism -- lonely vce loe of -- the lonely ice floe of iq fundamentalism. >> some of his criticism of my riding comes from a very particular scientific and ideological perspective at all clear to people who think about intelligence and i do as well, we are somewhere along the continuum. how much of a major guide are you and how much of

senator schumer in new york thinks things are moving along well. we talk to moderates and they are not so sure. most importantly on the public option. >> how is it looking on getting this done by credit by christmas? >> it looks iffy. reid is trying to pull together and the men and, if final changes to a final package of changes for the bill. his boat people have told us we his spokespeople have told us they hope to in the debate on the bill and filing those by the end of the week. >> we thank you. >> sure. thank you. >> what new rules of the internet needed to govern the way information travels over networks? this week, two years on neutrality and the future of the internet. that is tonight on c-span3 -- c-

host: not one interview in "the new york times"? caller: not one.ost: what made you pick up the book? caller: i saw it on the "the new york times" list. host: thank you for all of your calls. there is more online. we have a great lineup this weekend. every weekend from 8:00 a.m. saturday until 8:00 a.m., on monday morning. 48 hours of "book tv." double about doing for us. we fullbacks tomorrow morning. -- that will about do it for us. have a wonderful day and emory christmas. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2009] " coming up today, michelle obama presents the white house's christmas decorations. there is a forum on the political landscape. later, our look inside blair house. in the mid 1990's, "newsweek" named omar wasow one of the people to watch in cyberspace. he helped found a charter school in brooklyn. sunday, he talks about his career studies at harvard and what is ahead. and now, first lady michelle obama and the ceo of toys for tots. the first lady

it got easier at that time in new york. and then, of course, you know, i only went on-line, my god, it must have been 2,000 bit. no, 1998 ward or '09. i was late. what are our work have is now? i thought i put the typewriter way. i'll have you at the end of the bit. that kind of treacherous about it. and then here i am. a laptop. i am a hunt and peck guy. 2-to the figures. no rippling arpeggios with all ten fingers for me hammering away at the keys. people used to laugh at me because i would wear the imagery -- where the characters of the keys because i hit hit them har. ♪ >> coming up next book tv presents after words, and our log book discussion between a guest host and the book's author. this week jane goodall talks about her book "hope for animals and their world." she discusses her book with him john nielsen. ♪ >> host: welcome, jane goodall. >> guest: thank you. >> host: just to list the things you have accomplished would probably take most of this interview. we will go through an abbreviated version of that. founder

what the majority wants is these trials out of new york federal court. tell your congressman, go to your local offices, get your friends to do it all so. let's change this decision now. [applause] >> ladies and gentlemen, i direct your attention to the jumbo tron. we have a video montage of eric holder. [boos] >> can you give me a case in u.s. history where an enemy combatant caught on a battlefield was tried in civilian court? >> i don't know. i would have to look at that. i think that the determination we are making -- >> i will answer it. the answer is no. why would you take something different with k.s.m.? >> i don't know. >> does it matter about the law enforcement component? if we captured bin laden tomorrow would he be entitled to the miranda warning? >> that depends. >> if you are going to prosecute anyone in civilian courts, the law is clear, the moment until custodial interrogation begins, the criminal gets a lawyer and is informed of their right to remain silent. if we got bin laden tomorrow, we could not turn him over to the cia, the fbi, or

manhattan borough president and, for more than a decade, the highest ranking black elected official in new york. coming up next, we're going take a look at the supreme court midterm here with greg stohr, who joins us from bloomberg news, to talk about cases the court is considering, ones they've already reviewed, and what's ahead. that's ahead. we'll take a break here and be back with your calls, too, here on "washington journal." >> unprecedented, on the record conversation with 10 supreme court justices. >> quite often in many of our most famous decisions are ones that the court took that were quite unpopular, and the idea that we should yield to what the public protest is is quite foreign to what it means to have a country under the rule of law. >> tonight, chief justice john roberts and associate justice john paul stevens, interviews with supreme court justices, 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. and get your own copy of our original documentary on the supreme court on d.v.d. it's part of c-span's "american icons" collection, a three-disc set, including programs on the white house and the capitol

host: joining us from new york is the father of judicial watch and freedom watch, larry klayman who has a new book out called "whores: how and why i came to fight the establishment." thanks for joining us this morning in new york at our studios. we will read a couple of quotes from this book this morning. starting off, you write that i am never engaged in the services of a prostitute, but i encountered a lot of course in my career. why isn't the media a watchdog on the three branches of government, in your view? guest: it should be treated we just had two garrido -- journalist diane the last month, bill safire and robert novak. these two were icons and understood how washington works. it is ironic that most people who write about washington and the media do not really un >> guest: you know, i believe that i do understand that. i spent time in government at the justice department, the international trade commissioner private practice. i've, unfortunately, learned the seedy underbelly of washington, and this book is really my life story. it's what i learned along the way, how we got into