states want to do more. they are happy to have federal government's set standards and they want to innovate beyond it. the experience states have had with the enhanced drivers license show the commitments of states and governors-let's take security standards and moving beyond that because they share your interest in security and integrity. lastly, to address policy concerns and reduce unnecessary costs. that we focus on privacy. -- let me focus on privacy. privacy was a key driver in a lot of the states that ultimately have said no. privacy was a concern that there were data base is being set up that actually threatened personal identity and encouraged by the theft by providing databases that could be hacked. that was a concern that was followed by one of implementation, questions about whether this could actually be done, and then certainly cost. this was an unfunded mandate. it was washington d.c. setting the rules and "sending the bills to the states." we have 13 states and 11 others pass resolutions sayi

similarly the state department, state department, issues visas so the state department, is obviously there in the meeting in embassy in yemen when father was there and his father was warning about his son. they had an active visa for the young man to come to the united states which was not pulled. you would think, why not pull the visa? that would have stopped him from getting on the plane if he didn't have an active visa. there are human errors, potentially, are some human errors maybe systemic errors. maybe rules prohibited both of those things. there will be i suspect accountability here. >> host: gail from river, maryland on the democratic line. good morning. >> caller: good morning. i have a question about dick cheney that i'd like to lead into. i feel that our former vice president has made statements that have been, in a way, an absolute invitation for more vigorous attempts to attack our country. now, after the bush administration made a huge bureaucracy out of our counterterrorism effort, i think it is going to take some time for president obama to streamline them. but i'm w

nc state's biggest lead was eight.d, but they finished the half by missing 11 of their last 15. let's find out what the coaches had to say, and for that, we go to debbie antonelli. >> debbie: i was able to catch up with billy donovan at the end of the half, and he feels like his team needs to come to helm on tracy smith on the bounce. he does not want to give up any threes, though nc state has only hit two. the other thing is, he feels like they have to make shots. they're 0 for 9 outside the arc. if they can take better care of the basketball, get in their transition game, billy thinks they can get back in the game. >> bob: and the first half numbers, thank you, debbie. there's the story outside the arc. 0 for 9. and interesting to note, larry the offensive rebounding. nine of them for florida, but only four second chance points. >> larry: you have to do something with those rebounds once you get them. they've done a nice job on the offensive glass. haven't been able to translate that into points. state opens up in th

georgia state is blue. panthers great defensively but they have struggled offensively at times. >> look at their last game. barely got over the half century mark. when they settle for outside shots they don't really have a second answer. >> driving inline. get ups help. jumped him opposite. rodriquez for three. rebound sanders. that's what he can do. given the shot. bizzel takes it right wing. nearly stripped clean by rodriquez. ball pressure a key amount. >> watch how he's all over the floor on both sides. >> hampton back rim and miss. falls away. rebound goes to bcu. >> you have to bring that down and go straight up. >> bizzel goes baseline. changes hands midair. now a 4-2 margin. tripped up. we'll bet a whistle after the inbound. >> i thought it was a good one. fans don't like the call. he beat him to the spot that time. really, almost helter selter end. neither team able to finish at high rate. bcu had their way with the panthers. >> dukes falling away. inbound buries it. wake forest transfer out of geo

by it to the states are reserved to the states respectively or to the people. the founders did enumerate certain things that the house should do, that the senate should do, that the president should do, and those things that are not enumerated by the constitution are left to the people and left to the states. and nowhere in the constitution do we read the words, the government shall provide for health care. nowhere. in fact, the words health care are nowhere in the constitution. in fact, the constitution says that -- in the preamble -- that the united states -- that the people are to provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare. well the main goal, the main job of the federal government is to provide for the common defense. unfortunately, we've gotten far, far away from that notion. some of the things that have been done, most of the things that have been done by the federal government that are unconstitutional in my opinion have been done for good reasons, they're not malevolent reasons, but they're wrong. we should not be funding education, for

look at any maps of states still in the black, states preferred new jobs, states adding to their publice, states where taxes have gone down, not up. a single bold patch of color below lake michigan, like a peony in a parking lot, is the common feature of all such maps. let's conduct ourselves so that a year from tonight america sees in its fullness what it now sees in part: that there is a special place in our land where hard times are met with resolve, where government is the people's servant, not a privileged class, where bucks are not passed, decisions are not ducked, and where scarce dollars are allocated as adults do, to first things first. by then america will see that same place leading the nation out of its decline, its traditional industries rebounding and a host of new businesses blossoming. a place applying the highest standards of conduct and accountability in its public arenas. a special place called indiana, to which the bright, the enterprising, the young, the creative are gravitating. it's not enough to stay off the reef. it's our duty, and our golden opportunity, to set

but at any map of states still in the black. states preferred for new jobs. states adding to their infrastructure where taxes have gone down and not up. a single batch of color below lake michigan like a penny and a parking lot is the common feature of all such maps. let's conduct ourselves so that the year from tonight america sees in its fullness what it now sees in part. there's a special place in our land where hard times are met with resolve. where government is the people's 7, not a privileged class. web bucks are not passed and decisions on not dumped and scarce dollars are allocated as adults do to first things first. by then, america will see the same place leading the nation out of its decline. the industry is rebounding and new business is blossoming. of place applying the highest standards of conduct and accountability in its public arena. especial place called indiana to which the bright enterprising young creative are gravitating. it is not enough to stay off the reef. it is our duty and our golden opportunity to set ourselves and man the helmet

from state to state. plans are often difficult to understand. large amounts of premium dollars go to insurance like. and lack of competition is based on avoiding risk rather than enhancing value. the exchanges can be designed to provide structure and oversight to ensure its markets with goals of improving consumer protections, enhancing transparency of the benefit packages on lowering premium growth, changing the competition dynamic from risk to value. the key provisions of the exchanges in terms of their viability over time and their viability to provide comprehensive in -- coverage include broad risk pooling and individual requirement to health coverage, benefits standards to ensure comprehensive coverage and informed choice, sliding scale premium and subsidies that should only be available through the health insurance exchanges, the authority to negotiate premiums, a choice of high value plans. tim jost is going to provide much more detail on the similarities and differences between the senate and hous

can you imagine if congress had to sort out the state laws coming in from 50 states? it was impractical. the convention in its wisdom has article i section x which is a series of prohibitions on what the states can do. madison had to be satisfied with that. he was not satisfied. his letter to jefferson in october of 1787 is full of despair. they killed my veto power. it is not just not going to work. that is how much he feared the state. that was his image of the government. hamilton has a very different image. washington buys into hamilton's vision that we are a european tight state. it will take a while but we will build up, we will be as strong eventually as england and france and then we can take iman. in the meantime, let's just lay low. let's not create premature conflict with them until we get strong enough to take the lawn on their own terms. we will have a strong army and bureaucracy and debt and we will extract money and material wealth from our people without impoverishing them which is the english genius. that is what they have done in the eighteenth centu

we made state government leaner. in one year, i will have reduced the state workforce by nearly 1,800 positions. we used technology to make government more efficient and effective. we cut costs by renegotiating contracts. i ordered state department heads to conserve energy, and we reduced our utility bill by six percent. i had to cut $600 million out of the state budget, but did so without losing sight of priorities like education and public safety. and in terms of efficiencies, we're not finished yet. for years, state government has been creating boards and commissions for this centennial or that special interest. some do good work, while others don't do much of anything. nobody paid much attention to them, and they just kept growing and growing until they turned into bureaucratic kudzu. in an effort to root out government waste and inefficiency, i have already eliminated 13 of these boards and 227 positions. and i call on the legislature to haul out the brush hog, and get rid of 18 more boards and 246 more position

our state in many other states -- every other state -- has received help from the federal government during this very difficult recession. we will continue to do that. i want to thank the general assembly yesterday for understanding that having $250 million, an opportunity to borrow that money, so that we can spend on our healthcare and medicaid, that we can bring back from the federal government and enhanced medicaid match under the federal stimulus. we tried to do this in december and was blocked. i am thankful to the general assembly that you saw the wisdom of doing this and yesterday passed a law that i will sign that will get us more federal money under this enhanced match for healthcare. part of managing our budget right now is getting as many federal resources as we can. i'm going to be at the governors association meeting next month in washington where the governors across our country will come together and work with the president and the federal congress to help our states navigate through this perilous economic time. my mom and dad, as i said, grew up in the great depressio

tries to win their first in the conference and will state on mississippi state.with us. >>> conference news and notes. tim tebow is playing in the senior bowl today despite strep throat. dun maniland plead nothing contest to dui. and florida one of three teams including alabama and auburn expected to have five top recruiting classes this year. directly ahead, l.s.u. and mississippi state. ravern johnson trying to keep l.s.u. winless in league play. barry and i are back at halftime on the s.e.c. network. enjoy the game in starkville. ú >> dave: welcome in to another great saturday of basketball here on the s.e.c. network! at the hump in starkville, where mississippi state and l.s.u. in a western division battle, both teams badly in need of a win. you see l.s.u., they're 0-6 for the first time in conference since the 1960s. not all that long ago, mississippi state was in the top spot in the west. but two straight road losses have the bulldogs looking for answers as they return home. hi, again, everybody, i'm dave baker alongside a man who played and coached in th

mark sanford delivers his state of the state address.rs and apologized again for his extramarital affairs. from columbia, this is close to an hour. >> sergeant. >> the joint assembly will please come to order. let us stand and welcome our esteemed governor, governor marshall sanford. [applause] >> good to see you. how are you? how are you feeling? nice to see you. good to see you. how are you? >> we were worried you weren't coming. >> i wouldn't miss it. you all right? see you in charleston. doing all right. how are you? good to see you, sir. happy birthday, indeed. doing all right? nice to see you. how are you? good to see you, sir. doing all right? how are you? good to see you. yes, sir. >> how are you doing? >> good to see you. >> good to see you. >> good luck to you sir. >> thank you. appreciate it. >> good to see you, sir. how are you? good to see you? >> how are you doing? hi, y'all. >> well, hey guys. >> how are you? good to see you, sir. yes, sir. how are you? good to see you. how are you? >> members and guests, please be seated.

nc state doing the job on the boards. show for it on the scoreboard. >> nc state's getting second-chanc

it is not just that in the united states, is it? -- the debt in the united states, is it? i am not persuaded that the domestic demand is going to rise in china and brazil and, thus, sustain this. if the u.s. is going to grow at a new level, aren't we going to see commodity prices declined? -- commodity prices decline from these current levels? >> do you want to go first, hans? >> why is it happening? let me first say why it is not happening. many people think that this was happening because of export growth, because of peter manipulation of currencies or through other -- because of peter manipulation of currencies or to other factors, such as stimulation in china, for example, these economies were igrowing by exporting. that is a mystery of the data, in my opinion. -- a miss reread of the data coe out in my opinion. i would say that line of thinking is another danger because the trading system as we know it. we talk about protectionism and we talk about limiting the imports. there's a lot of discussion about rethinking export growth, which could also be against the trading

not state dollars.e the federal government not administering the health insurance exchanges, not doing the oversight of how the markets are working and how the money is being spent on insurance plans as director, then you have a situation where somebody who is doing oversight is not really the one hand the on money and there is a bit of disconnect in terms of incentives for the states and being aggressive in containing costs and making sure the federal dollars are being used efficiently. host: that is it for our time. thank you >> tomorrow morning, we will talk with a great from the economist magazine, greg burns on the council of domestic affairs will discuss haiti, and we will look at cia operations in afghanistan and pakistan. >> wants his bentonite, interior secretary can salazar speaks at a town hall meeting -- on c-span tonight, interior secretary ken salazar speaks at a town hall meeting. >> this weekend, to neil joseph on the 1965 voting rights act and how it paved the way for african american l

the gdl laws is where a lot of the states are falling down.ving the age of permit back in maryland from 15 to 16 as part of the graduated driver's license is where many states can improve their status with regard to this report. >> thank you. we will take two more questions. >> there's a lot of talk of distracted drivers and preventing individuals from using devices. as automakers' move to put internet access in cars and that sort of thing, what kind of pressure are you putting on that industry? >> good question. i'll take a crack at it. you are right. it has been astounding to see the speed with which some of these devices are being proposed. we're very concerned. we have been concerned for years as some of the devices have been coming in slowly. they seem to be coming in much faster. we have spoken to the federal government on several occasions. in all cases, this is a federal government issue, not a state government issue. i think the national highway safety administration and others need to get on top of this. it will go crazy. it already

they're not going to have state information or state secrets.anuel to explain what they did and why they did it and what the basis for it was. why, after 50 or 20 years of one policy was suddenly changed for this? that is the underlying issue which is not being addressed. i know that we can ask questions and they will take the fifth amendment. that continues disarrayed. so long as the rogers -- so long as miss rogers does this, they should be attending to secure the president of the united states. this implies a refusal to cooperate. i believe that the policy is wrong. we should not allow it. it is a lot easier today. if i ever get in trouble, i hope i have him as a lawyer, this is other than going through the motions. i just hope that this committee and the public does not believe that we have effectively completed our investigation because we have not. ms. rodgers can come up here in this investigation is open. i yelled back. opening statements to be submitted for the record. i now welcome our witnesses today. as you know, the witnesses are pr

states. and on this morning's "washington journal," topics include irs regulation, financial market oversight, and health care. "washington journal begins at the top of the hour at 7:00 eastern. president barack obama will be at the capitol this afternoon to attend a jobs summit with house democrats. live coverage begins at 4: 45 eastern. later today on c-span 2, we will produce a debate with the republican candidates for governor is -- governor of texas. the incumbent.cx governor will e involved. live coverage begins at 8:00 eastern. a group of state attorneys general said they may file a lawsuit of for a particular provision in the senate version of a health-care legislation. henry mcmaster of south carolina is part of the effort. he talked about the constitutionality of the health care bill at the national press club. this is about one hour. i am a washington correspondent for work-force management which is a magazine. ñri am sure of that national nes national press club news makers commit

of the state address. before i begin my remarks, i would like to ask for a moment of silence in honor of a gentleman from the department of transportation emergency services who died yesterday afternoon while keeping our highways safe for the public. >> thank you. our heart goes out to his family and the families of all the men and women who have given their lives protecting the public. i have been to a lot of masses celebrating how people laid down their lives for all of us. i am proud of them. i also want us to remember the men and women in uniform that protect us at home and abroad and are doing so today in afghanistan and iraq and around the globe. if we are blessed by their service. senate president, speaker roberts, i know i speak for all of us and i mean this from the heart, we want to express our gratitude to you for your service to new jersey and the people. your leadership will be missed but your contributions will be long recognized. [applause] >> i will say this planet. i had hoped to they woul

this state. service providers less refined efficiencies, some beneficiaries will have to accept reductions in order to reserve an effect for the most foldable. still some programs and grants will be significantly reduced or eliminated. but we will lessen these impacts by redesigning how we deliver services, to assure that vermont safety is found even in the most challenging economic times we must reform. our redesign system will be easy to navigate with a single point of entry on flexible options, catering to individual needs. will work with service providers to these their administrative burden. our focus will be on outcomes for vermonters, providing a clear and direct path back to health, employment, and independence. success will be measured not by how much we get, but by how well we help her munter's move from the systems to self-sufficiency. while our budget deficits are daunting, we must always keep in mind that they are a symptom, not the cause of the everyday challenges of the people of o

and i am just hearing, reading this state department, how they laughing at me. the u2 fly pushed these arms race, development of all these antiaircraft weapons. but americans knew, i hope the new that the soviets was able to shoot it. maybe they saying that these two old men went too far, because my father knows he was ready to sign the treaty. and again, eisenhower also wanted to do it in the last encore of his term. maybe someone would want it to be some. i know it was many people who thought that he was not in soviet interest. >> guest: you mentioned earlier the incident where mayor paulson insulted khrushchev in los angeles. then khrushchev got mad and threaten to go home. the dinner ended in a moment of anxiety. and then khrushchev went upstairs to his hotel room and gathered his aides and you around him, and went into kind of a tantrum about the mayor and about this incident, hoping that he was being overheard on a blog. could you tell us that story? >> host: you can tell this story. >> guest: you are their. >> host: before you ask a question, i tell you t

states. and diverse group of palace produce what they call a consensus statements, that aims to clarify what the law says about public displays of religion. they talk about areas such as religion in politics and the workplace, religious gatherings on government property, and the legislative bodies in the military. this to our forum was hosted by the brookings institution. >> and so i want to introduce our very distinguished panel, and will introduce the other members later on. i want to start by introducing my friend and colleague and the person for whom i have a boundless respect and admiration , melissa rogers. i'm proud to say that melissa is a non resident senior fellow with the governance studies department at brookings and she also serves as director of a wake forest university divinity school center for religion and public affairs. melissa teaches classes on christianity and public policy and on church-state relations in the united states. in 2008 baylor university press published a ca

is a very big state. i have been to every corner. >> reporter: in colorado, lieutenant governor barbara o'brien is leading the race to the top team. >> we are a local-control state. so, you cant just mandate, you have to persuade other districts that they want to be involved. we're only given 60 days to do this. so, the outreach to 178 school districts to explain why we hope they will want to participate is just, for us, a very labor- intensive effort. do most people at least know what the race to the top refers to? >> reporter: o'brien has met with students, principals, superintendents, politicians, union representatives and teachers, seeking buy-in for the state's plan, which includes new ways to evaluate teachers based on student performance data. some, like these teachers in rural pueblo, remain skeptical. >> i understand it better than i did before today, but there are some definite concerns for me, still. making performance pay, or alternative compensation, strictly tied to test scores such a big pa

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wade, some states were legalizing abortion, some states have banned it. was being hashed out at the state level just like this issue is. this state -- the supreme court that -- the supreme court cleared the landscape, saying there's a constitutional right for abortion up to a certain point in a woman's pregnancy, which was the field liability. that change everything overnight. some people are looking for something like that, a kind of magic bullet in a sense that would vary dramatically change everything. will that happen? obviously nobody knows right now. host: let's go to our call on memphis -- from and this, tenn.. caller: i'm not sure that the state constitutional amendments actually run afoul of the 10th amendment and the equal protection clause in that marriage is sanctioned by the state not by the federal government. so the ability to marry to people should rest with the state and i don't think it runs afoul of the protection clause because it's not just telling gay people a man can marry a man or woman can marry a woman, it is telling everybody th

of the state address with gov. nixon. he took office last year. >> thank you. thank you. thank you, speaker richard, president pro-tem shields, judges of the supreme court, lt. governor kinder, state officials, members of the general assembly, and members of my cabinet. welcome, honored guests and my fellow missourians. it is a pleasure to be here and i am blessed to have with me my wife, georgia ann. [applause] and our two sons, and jeremiah and will. [applause] one year ago, as we gathered in this very room, and massive ice storm struck southern missouri. miles of power lines went down, plunging tens of thousands of people into bitter cold and darkness. i will never forget what i saw in the days and weeks following. everywhere i went, people of every color and creed were joining hands to help their neighbors. they brought blankets and home cooked meals. they came with chain saws and pickup trucks. they turned school gyms and church basements into havens of warmth and safety. they did not ask how anybody vote it.

that very from state to state. so i guess my response is that number one, we're going to see more uniforms, more uniformity between state law and federal health law once this law is adopted. and number two, that in any event the federal law, the house bill at least has this attitude of cooperation and coordination that i think is going to help work through those problems. but that will be an issue. the fear that i have a sort of the reverse of that, if you go in the senate approach, a lot of states frankly are pretty weak on insurance regulation. and they're going to stay that way and they are going to be responsible and a number of states have already indicated they don't like the law and they don't want to have anything to do with it. but i'm not sure they're all going to opt out that i think some of them may well just sort of sit there, and then see if the federal government will call the bluff. i think that's going to be a real disaster. >> i agree with some other things that are going to come together, they gu

where the state can't.i tried to tell the people in california, when you have $85 billion in revenues available that's all you can spend. that's end. even though they want to spend 104 or $105 billion. so you have to make the cuts because we have to live within our means. we cannot print more money, we cannot run up the deficit as the federal government does. >> you called some of the cuts you put forward in your budget draconian. one of the things you said the federal government has got too come to california's aid. what do you need? >> well, it's not so much coming to our aid, the federal government owes us billions of dollars. you see, there is a difference, in california one's got 94 cents to the dollar that we're putting in on federal taxes. now we only get 78 cents. but you have places like, for instance, alaska gets 1.86. you have new mexicoçó gets 2.03. so we are subsidizing those states. and that is the thing that is unfair so. what we're saying to the federal government, look, you're responsible f

since the earthquake, president obama has clearly stated how much help the united states and other countries should give to haiti. the last initiative of putting the two last proceeding presidents together to form a fund is, again, a sign of great support. the u.s. aid is already on the territory. i just visited a victim who has been, since five days, taken care of by the military and american medical support in haiti. mrs. clinton's visit really warms our heart today, but especially to reassure the priorities and needs and the coordination and needs to be done since the earthquake. i will not talk on behalf of mrs. clinton, i will let her express what the american government wants to do towards haiti. >> first, -- where is the haitian press? first, let me -- [in distant chatter] -- [indistinct chatter] >> first, let me express -- that is a good sound. that means good things are coming to help the people of haiti. i want to express once again the deep sympathy that president and mrs. obama and our entire country feel for the terrible tragedy that has affected the people of haiti. but i want

of the state address.e'll bring you live coverage from the state capitol in trenton, at 2:30 eastern on our companion network, c-span. later emergency first-responders from around the country come together for a news conference on reallocating the broadband spectrum for public safety. live coverage at 5:00 p.m. also on c-span >> next, capitalism and the role of government regulation of the economy. the economy is yuval levin, editor of the journal national affairs, hosted by american enterprise institute. this is hour and 15 minutes >> good evening. my name is lee on cass. fellow at aei. and it is my pleasure to well come you to this bradley lecture, the first of the new year and extend a special well come for those joining us through the wonderful efforts of c-span. the next bradley lecture will take place on monday, february 8th, when professor gerard alexander of the university of virginia will speak on the topic, do liberals know best? intellectual self-confidence and claims to monopoly of knowledge. i

>> now to california where governor arnold schwarzenegger's state of the state address at the state capitol in sacramento for 30 minutes. >> thank you very much. thank you. thank you. thank you very much. thank you, speaker, senator, attorney general brown, treasure, secretary of state bowen, insurance commissioner, superintendent of public instructions, members of the board of equalization, all my cabinet secretaries, my chief of staff, and numbers of the legislature. it's good to see everyone together again. i would like to just introduce a few guest i have up in the gallery. first of all, my wife and first lady, maria shriver, and our four children. [applause] >> my friend, secretary george shultz and his wonderful wife, charlotte. [applause] >> and another friend, mayor willie brown, who is also speaker willie brown at one point. [applause] >> and then alice, president of the california naacp. [applause] >> then speaker hertzberg, vice president right over here. [applause] >> and also we have chancellor jack scott, community college chancellor, big hand to him also. [applause] >> and th

we also have the absolute freedom to move from state to state and city to city.le to go where they want to go. i think the secret is whether we can balance the cost of growth with the opportunities that growth provides. that is what the problem has been. it is a big country. we can accommodate a lot of things. i think people will go where they see opportunities and where they experience quality of life. that is the big challenge we have, to maintain the quality of life while still growing. arizona is equally guilty on that. mesa group to fast. -- may set grew -- mesa grew faster than it should have. i think you will see sustainable things that will keep the quality of life. caller: good morning. thank you for c-span and the impact it has had on our great country. mayor, i want to get your opinion on what may be a bright spot to the financial meltdown in our country. country. ever since the industrial revolution, i believe citizens have been raped financially by the government bureaucracies growing bigger and bigger and our government agencies like the securities

croix in the united states virgin islands. the lands to be included in this new historic site represent the largest undeveloped natural area remaining on the island. and there is very strong local support for protecting it as park land for future generations. the new park, mr. speaker, encompasses about 11,500 acres, 3/4 of which are submerged lands containing one of the largest and healthiest coral reef systems in the region. the national park service has studied this site and testified that it meets the criteria for additional -- addition to the system. congresswoman christensen is to be commended for her commitment to preserving the unique history and the culture of the beautiful island of st. croix. so we urge our colleagues to support passage of h.r. 3726, and i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from utah rise? mr. bishop: mr. speaker, i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. bishop: thank you, mr. speaker. we have

of state bank supervisors. formed in the summer of 2007, this group met early on with representatives of the 20th largest loan servicers in the united states. since that time the working group has been collecting data from 13 of these companies in an effort to verify the performance of their foreclosure avoidance programs. i'd indicate you that the majority of the seven who are not disclosing the information are claiming several preemption, and no requirement to do so. this data collection effort has led to publication of three reports during 2008 with a fourth report covering 2009, to be released shortly. unfortunately, each of the first three reports revealed a wide and effective loss mitigation efforts with as many as seven or eight out of 10 stories we delinquent borrowers are not in any loss mitigation process. those number are believed to improve over the last year, there are still far too many delinquent answers we delinquent borrowers who either are not aware of loss medication alternatives to foreclosu

nc state a tough loss in their last game against florida state. and you talked about it a lit bit earlier, the depth of wake forest. >> coach petersen is so excited. six of the players are freshmen or sophomores. so, there's a learning curve there. he has some options. you think about his senior class, they should, could be playing more minutes. but they understand the talent of the freshmen and sophomores. at the end of the day, they're selfless. they love to play. they have the experience but they also understand talent. >> a couple of extra steps there by thomas for the turnover. six for the demon deacons but nc state is in control so far in this one with just under 4 minutes to go. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >>>, this c state wolfpack lead by five here in the first half from raleigh and one of the big story lines so far has been the rebounding just completely dominated by nc state, 19 rebounds to just 8 for wake forest. and equally a big discrepancy there on the offensive boards. 9 for nc state and 2 for wake forest. but the wolfpack really not getting a lot of

states. all 15 laws are backed by scientific research and studies and supported by the major public health and safety organizations, business groups and numerous elected officials from around the country and in congress both democrats and republicans. the states in the report are only rated on whether not they have a particular law and not on how it is enforced or how well the public is educated about the law. the major finding of this year's report is that there is no state that has all 15 loss. for the mark, too many states lack of fundamental basic traffic safety laws to reduce deaths and injuries on our highways into few elected officials are making these priorities in their state capitols. meanwhile, millions of americans are at risk every single day come a serious risk of death and injury because states don't have these safety measures. as chairwoman hersman said, many more people are dying in motor vehicle crashes than some of the major public health initiatives that we are promoting o

state so it is up to the texas of the up state legislature and people of this state to set gunÑi ownershwe'veÑi made every other law-abiding citizen to these and prohibited them from we cannot deny man the right to life, liberty and property. we must restore true gun ownership in texas.çóçó >> do you take your handgun into grocery stores? >> i do not. >> i observe the law. i do not take my handgun into grocery stores. >> just wanted to check. >> i'd like to but i don't. >> thank you. next question for governor perry. i have that honor. governor the farm bureau says the gigÑi -- biggest reason it opposing youçóñr is eminent dom 2007 you vetoed legislation that would have compensated property openers for the value of their land or business drops because of a new roadway or project that cut off access. some people feel they lost their shirt over this and that it hasn't been share. explain to the landowners of texas why they shouldn't be upset with you. >> well, having been the only candidate here that really has a rural background and grew up an farm and spent the bigger part of my time on

the president of the united states and the secretary of state from the beginning of 2009 expressed a sense of urgency and said peace in the middle east is a priority. time is not on our side. yes about time frames and setting deadlines -- you asked about time frames treated the secretary of state has said it before and senator mitchell has said it before. some deadlines have to be put on the table. these deadlines have to serve the parties rather than present obstacles. the zero parties put things in the right time frame and perspective. we have said this in the pots -- in the past we have had to which process and not enough peace. we do not need another open- ended process to leave loose ends. it is important. the issues are known to everyone. if you soak the borders -- sew up borders, you identifying the nature -- you identify the nature of the two state solution. i hope with the many difficulties we saw in 2009, and this is not the first year we have seen them but the sixth year of the conflict, our results should not be effected. let 2010 hopefully be the year of negotiations and

it was the state. and so what i want to be real clear about is the licensing was clued within the state domain, but were the preemptions from either the 96 law or the consul of the currency, 2004 action, that inhibited your ability to prosecute and generally oversee mortgage brokers conduct in your state's? >> let me do two things. let me give you some statistics, and then let me also respond maybe more directly. because we obviously hear this all the time. the contention from chairman dugan at occ, that this wasn't a problem with the national banks. and in fact, national banks funded 21 ashman of the 25 largest subprime issuers, that were doing business in the lead up to the crisis, and it was national banks and federal thrifts and other of their subsidiaries that were responsible for almost 32 percent of subprime mortgage loans. 41 percent of the alt-a loans and 51 percent of the pay option in interest only arms that were sold. and that's for 2006. and i believe that information comes from -- i will

a great state-by-state creation. in this out, traditionally, food stamp -- in the south, traditionally, a food stamp use it has been higher. host: robert on the republican line. caller: i'm a first-time caller. thanks for having me. i agree somewhat with th fir -- the last caller that there should be some regulation on what it is. but i think it is like -- as your children get older, if you continue to enable your children and give them and give them, it will never find out how to do it on their own. i have seen it firsthand, because i talked with middle-to- low-income people in my business before what i'm doing now, and in philadelphia, where i did was my work, many people are making middle-to-low-income. pc -- he would go to their home and you see a nice tv in the home but you have a hole in the roof and cigarettes on the table. you guys, or the government, should find a way to investigate some of these people come and go around and do spot checks, something of that ager to help them get off, because they are takin

and that's why i stated that in the united states we are moving forward. and we're moving forward with a collaborative to employ body scanners. we believe some of the privacy issues that have been raised are dealt with with effectively by the newer it rations of the technologies. and we believe always in this balance one strikes between privacy and safety and security that that balance here with the current it ration of the technologies and improving forward. that balance mitigates in favor of the deploying the scanners. so the united states government is investing in them. we are deploys them in our domestic airports. but these meetings today were not about the united states requiring anything. indeed, what they were premised upon was that this is something that the united states, the uk, ireland, france, other countries represented in the press corp here today. that good european p. and our brave private data exploitation would be just as a fact that. >> to question to secretary napolitano from financial times germany. you told us a little bit -- you tol

state.pecifically does he want changed? guest: he's right in a lot of aspects that a lot of things 20th century and we need to think about them in the 20th century. placed like california need to look at the proposition system. you vote for initiatives in isolation that you might like more spending or no new taxes but what happens is then the budget is kind of ham strung and it's difficult to have the flexibility when revenues go down under the other problem is you have to have a 2/3 vote in california in the legislature to pass the budget. it's hard to get there and please that many people in the legislature to get a budget out that structurely balanced. hosá: in arizona, the unseen pain in the cuts to the budgets and other states feeling the same impact. will taxes be raised? will services be cut? what are you looking at? guest: i think both in those states. very interesting on a per capita basis. arizona is about the worse. we hear about california, but unfortunately places like nevada an

the relations of the united states. already results suggested there was a tectonic shift in russian in terms of the arab world view of the united states of barack obama. obama's initiative to close guantanamo and drawdown the presence in iraq resulted in a surge of the approval rating across the arab world. in such different come these countries as syria qatar and egypt where approval ratings had fell in single digits public opinion polls showed a marked increase in approval of that 15% and syria, 22% qatar, a 25% egypt. these are not a huge approval ratings but when you deal in double digits that response is a positive trend. the most dramatic of approval came in north africa in about syria and to be sure when they were up by 22% eight zogby poll found more support for the administration and saudi arabia, united arab emirates more than 50 percent of respondents claimed to have a more positive view of the usa since the election of barack obama between the gallup poll and the sabia but obama's still clearly faces a real

it would create exchanges to offer insurance plans state-by-state.least one plan would have to offer abortion unless the state's opt out, which isn't easy. >> each state if they want out of the abortion mandates that are in the senate plan would have to pass their own laws to get out of funding abortion. >> reporter: so will house members vote for the stupak amendment accept anything less? >> the exclusion has to remain in place that no federal taxpayer dollars can be used directly or indirectly to fund abortions. >> but the pro choice forces are also angry so can the house and senate find middle ground that won't lose votes for one group or the other? house democrats who voted for stupak concede the senate won't accept his language, which it voted down already. >> it was 45-54. we know that can be done and what cannot be done in the senate. >> analysts say some of the stupak democrats would consider other language, depending on the rest of the bill. >> not all of them are going to be stupak or bust. a lot of the folks are, they want to see, make sur

host: as far as states, how are these states handling school budgets? are the cuts coming from? guest: teachers are getting laid off. i mentioned that the race to the top fund was part of the stimulus bill and that was $4.35 billion. but the stimulus bill provided over $80 million most to k-12 schools, it was designed to keep teachers from being laid off as part of the government's effort to kind of stop the bleeding during the economic crisis we had a year ago. but there are still teachers being laid off. a lot of states continue to be in siver budget crisis. and we know, even though it seems we've turned the corner on the economy, state andÑi loc finances are going to be in bad shape for the next several years. host: go ahead. you're on. caller: good morning. i guess i'm a product of the first no child left behind which really occurred back in 1957 when the russians launched sput nick, there seemed to be an impetus on education in the math and sciences. and it seems that no child could be wasted. so there was a lot of money and a lot of push put in to

i think that will require a new level of cooperation from the state department but not just the state department but homeland security, fbi, justice and the military. i believe the events of 12-25 at least give us the impetus to do that. >> thank you for that. secretary napolitano, the public, of course, has been very concerned about what has been happening. we're trying to put different things in place. in your testimony you state that as an interim measure you will deploy law enforcement officers from across dhs to serve as federal air marshals to increase security aboard some international flights. which will these officers be deployed? and what training they receive to ensure that they are fully prepared? -- prepare to provide security inside an aircraft? >> senator akaka, if i might reserve the details of the deployment for the classified brief. with respect to training, there is specialized training indeed. we have an enlarged group -- a new group who started training this week that will begin deployment on february 1. but it includes things, for example, about how to take down

state department requires u.s.mbassies abroad to require individuals they are tracking to require visas and start tracking a person if their visa has been revoke. sandra endo, cnn, washington. >>> it was one of the most popular spots for weddings in new york city. you even saw it in the movie "ghost busters," if you remember that. now the tavern on the green is closed. the new year's party that rang in the new year and closed down the restaurant. #ñ#ñ#ñ#ñññññ >>> the florida man accused of killing four members of his family including his 6-year-old cousin has been captured. how a popular tv show played a role in his arrest. >>> al qaeda threats close a u.s. embassy as washington moves to battle extremism with talks and with force. >>> and it looks like new york's tavern on the green restaurant has gone out of business after all that time. a look at the party that ended it all and how people are remembering one of the city's most famous landmarks. >>> you are watching "hln news and views" on this first sunday o

his state of the state address. he won reelection in 206. he is not el gibble to run for office again. it is about half an hour. thank you senate president pro tem steinberg, speaker bass, senator hollingsworth, assemblyman blakeslee, attorney general brown, treasurer lockyer, secretary of state bowen, controller chung, insurance commissioner poizner, superintendent of public instruction o'connell, members of the board of equalization, all my cabinet secretaries, my chief of staff susan kennedy, and members of the legislature. it's good to see everyone together again. i would like to just introduce a few guest i have in the gallery first of all my wife maria shriver my wife with our four children. [applause] >> and my friend secretary george shultz and his wonderful wife charlotte. [applause] >> and another friend mayor willie brown, he also was speaker willie brown at one point. [applause] alice huffman, president of the california naacp, [applause] speaker hertzberg, right over here. [applause] also hone assie com

being failed states. you have a full spectrum of countries that are in many ways on able to deal with some of the threats and issues. in some cases, either willfully blind or complicity in the threats. finally, there are issues of resources and demographics which i think become increasingly more important over the coming years, if not decades. there is the rushed for resources. you see this in china's attempts to acquire access to oil and other precious resources around the world. we see this in the question of water resources in the middle east. another key question in the context of the game in which has -- of yemen which has diminishing water supplies. a study was put up called the grain of the great powers. it talks about the aging western powers, in particular, western europe. questions of demographics with the effects on the economy,, national security, will continue to be important. i think that we are witnessing in new era in which albert national security is tied intimately with the international