i have a non elliott 28 years. when he was sworn in as governor we have been close friends and colleagues for around a quarter of a century. he was my intern and i was the attorney general's office. we were law partners for almost four years and a law firm that we were founding partners called constantine and partners so he was a named partner in the firm. in 1991 elected attorney general i ran his transition to help hire his executive staff and organize the office then i went back to my law firm at. but i was named one of the cochairs of the governor transition and i thought at that moment that i will leave the practice of law and july and elliott and serve him in albany eight or 12 years then go to washington with him when he became president of the united states then i would be dying a peaceful and virtual death after serving the last 27 years of my life and government and that was the operative assumption on that day. what obviously it did not work out that way. during the administration i was his senior policy

elliott, your article today all process, no peace. i guess we are afraid no process means more war so we want to get back to the negotiations. >> the thank you. my question to ambassador feltman is director controversy all decision from the electoral commission by disqualifying more than 500 some of them sunni heavyweights. is there any american plan to rectify the situation and maybe lee can, and how the united states can provide any system will eckert if the u.s. has to go back every time for an election over the president or to please the iraqi elections. >> who's singing that we believe that the iraqi elections should be conclusive that there shouldn't be some sort of a trumped up political process the disqualify candidates we believe the voters themselves should have the right to pick them. some candidates haven't met the criteria for inclusion but we support the collections. the iraqi vice president abdullah was your last week and heard this from the obama administration officials of the very top and the inclusive elections that

let me talk about some of the individual issues that lee and elliott have mentioned. middle east peace. i said her goal was to achieve a comprehensive peace in the middle east. that means peace agreements, between israel and the palestinians, between israel and syria and israel and lebanon, but the two-state solution to the israelis and palestinians we believe is key. and we are working on this in three different areas right now. one is the negotiating track. elliott has mentioned why he questioned whether there should be our priority right now. it is one of our priorities. it has not been easy, in part we did not really have a full year. netanyahu government was not prepared to start talking to us. there have been elections in israel. netanyahu government needed to come together so it was in may when the netanyahu government was ready to start talking to us about this and the palestinians waited until after august, when after the five top party congress in bethlehem so it has not been a full year we have been able to engage in both parties but do remember a year ago

. >> gary elliott. you spoke of the doctrine of using knowledgeable people on the periphery to deal with real time issues in a proactive, innovative, and risk-taking manner, and you talk about centralize management for you had to have high knowledge verses making decisions. you basically transitioned into a knowledge management organization. with the information sharing agencies we have, there is a lot of problem with the fact that they do not have the same model you have, and they do not understand the need to make the decision, to make decisions quickly in real terms. this is the front we are on now. intelligence sharing is process management, and we are doing decision making on policy, but we have to bake decision but the speed of knowledge. how are we going to transform from this legacy -- we have to make decisions at the speed of knowledge. how are we going to transform from this legacy? >> we allow it to be achieved through new management. >> i am an intern. my question is what is your position on

stephanie elliott to is here tonight and to is just a tireless and boy and person who helped bring the world, bring the book out into the world and push it out there. i did not, i really didn't expect when i was writing, at least the second half that i will be standing anywhere in 2010, let alone up here. this is extra sweet. thank you, again. [applauding] >> i'm david ulin. it was my pleasure to chair the fiction and this year and to sea full house. so the finalists sets for the fiction prize are bonnie joe campbell for american salvage from when state university press. michele huneven. hillary mantel and jayne anne phillips. linda wolfe is going to announce the winner and present the citation. >> i am so happy that we are giving the award to hillary mantel. i read rationing myself to a score or so of pages a day to prolong the pleasure the book was given me. then to my surprise from 60 pages to the end i did something i had not done since i was a teenager. this time i finished it. i have wanted this book of galloping with an invention to go on forever. the story of the rise to power

elliott spitzer was the best game in the country for a progressive. with several years before the formation of the democratic national government, and we could have had the best and brightest from entire country and indeed the entire world. instead, we settle on some good and some poor and some very good local prospects, people like me, instead of going out there and getting the very, very, very best to run the various agencies in the state and to people the executive staff. so we talk about that failed opportunity, and i write about that. the inauguration. remember that? remember when eliot, 45 seconds after taking the oath of office, attacked joe bruno and shelly silver and george pataki. but especially bruno and silver. people he would need within the next two weeks to do virtually everything that he had to do some and in particular to replace controller alan. so the next thing the book goes through is that whole thing where elliott essentially picks a fight that he can only win, that he can only win if people that get just insulted were willing to

there has to be what professor elliott cohen has called this unequal dialog between civilian leaders and military leaders. it's very important for military leaders to help maybe crystallize the policy by helping -- helping civilian leadership understand the potential costs and consequences. help sharpen whatever the objectives are. george marshall said at one point that if you get the objectives right, a lieutenant can write the strategy. i think a lot of the -- you know, a lot of the debate has to be about that. i mean, george bundy by contrast, who helped, i think, set conditions for the disaster of vietnam and the way we got into vietnam, said that the lack of an objective was really an advantage. because that would give the president more flexibility in the domestic political realm. so if things went bad in vietnam, the administration could just say well, it wasn't really our objective to win this war anyway. and it was that ambiguity that prehaven't the development of an effective strategy. the problem with the joint chiefs in this period of time is the joint chiefs of staff fai

. >> host: scott elliott, of valentine, pennsylvania, what was your most memorable moment during your tenure in the nixon presidency. >> guest: there were more good days than bad days. watergate was a surprisingly small part of it. the most memorable days -- it would be hard to say days because it was such a unique position. the council's office was high enough that you could see over everything virtually that happened in the white house as well as the government itself. so it was a wonderful perch from which to understand government. the overall job experience was very rewarding. i often thought -- in looking particularly going back and looking at our papers, my files are one of the larger of the nixon white house collections. i have -- i'm not ashamed of anything we did in 99% of our work. they're good opinions. they were well-handled. the processing was good lawyering. we blew watergate totally but that was me. i didn't even tell my staff about what was happening. 'cause it never occurred to me when i went over there that one needed to be a criminal lawyer. i realized in that parti

americans are slowly catching on businessman like jeff elliott are banking on it. >> it's a start and the big start is not having the car being the default all of the time. >> his company green pedals in annapolis, maryland specializes for all sorts of cargo if you're aat the beach. beach chairs, coolers. really you can get a whole week's worth of groceries in there. >> reporter: as the green revolution changes our habit it's hoped all electric vehicles will be a part ofit. and when is the last time you said that on your commute to work? melanie alnwick, fox 5 news. >> you know, the electric bike sounded appealing. it's a little pricey though right now. >> once you get over the st there's convenience. like that bucket bike for grocery shopping. >> you would do that. >> no, i wouldn't. i live across from the street from a grocery store. >> big changes, huh. >> at least showers coming back in the forecast. from time to time you have one day with some rain. it's not a bad thing out there but we have -- nice evening. temperatures are reflective of that in the 50s for just about everybody.

government people like paul wolfowitz elliott abrams of the national security council let me ask you first. were they shaping the debate in a way favor limiting what president bush knew and understood or pandering to a pre-existing world view? to you have any insight? >> i don't think that george bush had a pre-existing rule i think when he came into office he meant to be a president and said dig u.s. military should not be nation builders. he believed it but i think that abrams and local wits the political current but being with the mayor can enterprise institute a will the new conservative i said you really have been funds and he said yes. price and blended that happen? he said september 12th. think of it from the george bush point* of view. crashing in pennsylvania who do turn to? here is a pre-existing philosophy about the middle east and they are right down the hall so you go talk to them. its became the real impetus and philosophy of u.s. government until it failed i think the turning point* was george bush decision to put the defense department up against bob gates and look at

in 2008, steve elliott decided it was time to take it to a whole new level. at that time, he decided it was time to launch a new web site that would be a social networking site that would take the people that were connected to grassfire and began to provide a forum for them to be connected to one another. we recognize that, in this fight that we are in for our country, the only way that we can succeed is by connecting one to another at the very local level. we cannot do it separated by distance. we have to be able to connect locally. the only way to truly take their country back is to begin at that local level -- take our country back is to begin at the local level, in their town, our state, and finally our federal government. regardless of how i may feel on certain social issues, what unites us in this purpose and gives us a voice for this movement is the fact that we all agree on those principles that are outlined on the side of airbus, -- of our bus, the tea party express bus. when it affects our pocketbooks, then you start getting people fighting in a bit

it cleans better than a broom or your money back. [ slurping ] ♪ >>> elliott was a finalist in season part of "idol gives back." there were a bunch of tweets to kings things who want to know if there's any chance paula will come back to "idol" with him going. >> let's ask the boss. >> larry: are you still the boss? >> you have been doing this longer than any of us. >> larry: would she come back? >> no i don't think so she will. >> larry: because she wouldn't be asked or she wouldn't accept? >> i think she's moved on. you know, i know a few things and you'll hear something fairly soon. >> how about now? >> it's not my business to say it. it's her business. >> larry: you never worked with paula, right? >> no, no. >> larry: when you watched the show, did you like her? >> yeah. i mean, i was a fan of the show and i watched and enjoyed -- i enjoyed her as much as everybody pels . >> larry: randy, do you miss her? >> yeah. i think she's mad cool. she's very interesting. she was great for the show, because she was so unpredictable. >> larry: kara? >> yeah. paula was a big part of my career e

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he's president of the elliott wave international. robert, good evening to you. the greatest shorting opportunity for a generation. >> well, it's the third best. i think the best was in 2000, the next one was '07. and now we're getting a third opportunity in ten years with everyone lined up. >> what would you short exactly? >> well, the main thing i would like to say is most people aren't short sellers who listen to financial television. most are few kuhle fund omutual. there's no reason to be investigated in stocks right now. there's every reason to be in cash. it's not a scary thing to do. you can wait far better buying opportunity down the road. >> where is that level, rob snert. >> it's going to be a lot low per we have mutual fund cash at 3.5%. that was in february. forget bringing march in the picture. we're going to see an all-time record low mutual fund cash percentage in the next report. that's even lower than october '07. >> can you give me a target, though? any kind of target? 10%, 20%, 50%? saying it's going lower doesn't help me. . >> it does help yo

. >> federal agents swarmed junction city, kansas, and talked to the owner of elliott's body shop, wherecveigh rented the truck. they emerged with a description of robert clink, down the street of a tall man. down the street, the manager tells agents that the description resembles a man who had just stayed there, a guest registered under the name tim mcveigh. the question remains, why would he use his real name? it's turning out mcveigh has left clues everywhere. >> you have to realize that inside that marquis was a big thick brown envelope with all kinds of antigovernment literature, espousing his viewpoints. and he's wearing a t-shirt that has a quote from john wilkes booth when he shot lincoln, sic simper tyrannis. tyrants thus forever. and on the back there's the words of thomas jefferson that "the tree of liberty must be watered from time to time with the blood of tyrants and patriots. >> i left the trail on purpose. just a few pieces in my car, i was wearing it on my back. even if i wouldn't have been apprehended, i still would have gained the benefit of being identified. i already

elliott in 1939 said. "the fact that a problem will require the attention of the greatest minds and challenge a generation to solve it is no excuse for postponing addressing it." i like one point in the movie. it's slightly humorous if you'll pardon me for recounting it. but the founder of ground zero, roger molander, was worried, he was told at a meeting at the pentagon years ago about, quote, getting too excited about nuclear war that would end the world when, in fact, he was told only 500 million would die. only 500 million would be killed. i reached for my hat, he said, knowing how woody allen felt in "annie hall" when he excused himself from a conversation by saying that he had an appointment back on planet earth. on behalf of all of planet earth and all of mankind, i say we have this vision. it's a vision for a world without nuclear weapons, a vision, i say often, without a strategy is a hallucination. believe me, friends and colleagues, we know we are not hallucinating. this is possible. this strate

check out our interview with elliott at cnn.com/larryking.f there's any chance paula abdul will come back to "idol" with him going. >> we should ask the boss. >> where is he? >> larry: are you still the boss of the show, even after you leave? >> no, no, no. >> larry: any chance paula -- >> you've been doing this longer than any of us. >> larry: would she come back? >> no, i don't think she will. >> larry: because she won't be asked or she wouldn't accept? >> i think she's moved on. and i know a few things, what paula's up to, and you'll hear something fairly soon. >> how about now? >> it's not my business to say it. it's her business. >> larry: you never worked with paula, right? >> no, no. paula left before -- >> larry: when you watched the show, did you like her? >> yeah, i mean, i was a fan of the show, so i watched and enjoyed her as much as everybody else. >> larry: randy, do you miss her? >> yeah, i think she's mad cool, she's very interesting, and i think she's great. she was great for the show because she was so unpredictable which i

different outlets that are reporting on the real scandals that are out there, the tiger woods, the elliott spitsers, the john edwards. >> this is a life story of the most powerful woman in our society. >> it's a life re-invented who has done so much good. >> she has done immense good and that is outlined in this book. but she is -- she has impacted our culture more than anybody. this is a woman of immense power. nobody in the communications industry has the power that oprah winfrey does. so i think that people are entitled to get a better understanding of a woman who's impacted their life so much. >> so what are the secrets -- you talk about the sexual abuse reportedly by her uncle. but you say that some of her family members actually question whether or not that is really what happened. >> that is true. i do think that oprah's family is in denial about the sexual abuse. >> so how do you know that your sources are accurate if some of those family members are the ones that are talking to you, from her father first to aunt katherine? >> because her father and aunt katherine are like the fami

i think, by the way that elliott is correct.within on the employment picture, which that 9.7% number will get up closer to 10% this year any way, where whether we get real growth, that's a real question. to flip your question around what worries me most is all this money we pumped into the system has to be pumped out. and there is -- has to be a moment of reckoning. that's the real question over the next 12, 18 months, what happens then. >> you used to write in the new republic when you were attorney general about a democratic party that had a different approach to economic growth. the obama administration seems to be adopting what you were saying and what mart season saying, focusing on exports, manufacturing, trying to say we're getting out of the businesses of selling each other our houses. is it on the right track. >> it's on the right track, the question is can it succeed. it's very difficult to reformulate an entire economy. i'm curious to see where are investment dollars going? all the money we have given the investment b

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it's called the neoconservative influence in the government people like paul wolfowitz, douglas, elliott abrams over the national security council. let me ask you first with a shape the debate in a way they would be limited with president bush knew and understood or were they pandering to a pre-existing world view of george w. bush or to the have any insight? >> guest: i don't think that george bush had a pre-existing world view. when he came into office he intended to be a domestic president and when he was running he said the u.s. military shouldn't be nation builders. he believed i think that the fight wolfowitz that current, but political current and the u.s. government had enormous influence. i was talking to joshua used to be with the american enterprise institute and i said you guys have an influence and i said when did that happen and he he said september 12th. think for president bush's point of view. the planes have gone into the tower was and pentagon and crashed in pennsylvania. who do you turn to? there is a pre-existing philosophy of the new conservatives about the middle e

elliott's big sur's idea of a four sum was golf.ut despite the gains we have paid in the last 25 years, it is not always easy being a woman and a mother in the public and -- 5. since earth day is tomorrow, i'll recycle 9 -- a story. we all know the gridiron is a much bigger deal, anyway. i and many stories about my children, as i am sir speaker pelosi could tell, adding a mom -- being a mom and having children. but this is true. when my 22-year-old son was 7, he was told that he had to write a paper about what his mom did during the day. as we are all likely to do in this line of work, i sat him down and explain what a big deal i was very son, i am the elected prosecutor in kansas city. i am in charge of the entire prosecutor's office. i have hundreds of lawyers that work for me and we put all the bad guys and jailed. you can talk about how busy your mother is because she is the best prosecutor in kansas city. a couple of weeks later, i get a note from the teacher. sealed -- never a good sign. it said, i thought you might want to ke

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i want to be the elliott ness and guess what? and lawyer and their business has a great reputation for creating jobs and stealing wealth. i think you're right. you can get the right people into regulation, but not in a washington where for 15 years there's been a culture of deregulation. a culture of get out of the way and let business do anything they want. business can succeed with rules. >> cultural crooks. >> robbers of the american people. >> ali, thanks. we'll be talking to you more and we'll be following the president's speech live. >>> her retirement totally snatched away and she says that's when her trust was really betrayed by wall street. her story later in the "newsroom". >>> rnc chair michael steele taking the party to task. during a speech, he said the people need to embrace and work with the tea party followers, but here's where the headline comes from. steele also said he doesn't know why african-americans would vote republican. the republican party had a hand in forming the naacp and yet we've mistreated that rel

edward gineen is at the elliott school at george washington.and he was an ambassador to kuwait, australia, and jordan. he held other positions widely throughout the region. the president and ceo of a company here and has served in many posts throughout the region. with that a brief introduction, i turn it over to you. each panelists will speak no more than 10 minutes. i will ask a question of the two and we will go directly to your questions. thank you. >> good morning. i just want to clarify that the 100 years of experience is not individual. it is cumulative. i would like to say hello to joe and thank him for all he has done and for those who organized this. let me start out with just a short tail. i arrived yesterday from paris. it was a tough conference but somebody had to do it. what was interesting about the experience is barack obama retains all of the potential that many of us saw in him one year ago and none of the criticism that some of us now have for what happened over the past year. he is extraordinarily a superstar in rep. if you'

a grass fire was started in 2001 by steve elliott and it was an opportunity for him to start an organizationhalf of the american people through the senate and house. just before the health care bill was passed people from all over the great nation signed petitions and we delivered over 1 million petitions telling them we don't want. but they didn't listen. and today as a matter of fact that the capitol, your message again opposing, giving your outrage, expressing your of rage 6,000 letters of your messages were delivered today. [cheering] we are not going away. [cheering] we are here to stay. this is our country. this is our coury, folks. , chris, can you hear us our co? [cheering] so last year the day before the march on d.c. i happened to have the pleasure of being one of the national coordinators on march. we've let this house and you see some being flown on out here. they say flat this house 2010. [cheering] because we have got to flip of the radicals and the rhinos in the party. it is time for them to go. they are not listening to us, they don't represent us. we want them out. simple as

in 2008, steve elliott decided it was time to take it to a whole new level.rass fire steve said that it was time to launch a new web site. a social networking site that would take the people that were connected to grassfire and provide a forum to be connected to one another. we realize that the fight we are in is that the only way we can succeed is connecting one to another at a local level. we cannot separate debt. we have to be able to connect locally. the only way to take our country back is to begin at that local level in our towns, cities, our states, and our federal government. it has to be a plan that we work together and we come together and we recognize that regardless how i may feel on certain social issues, which gives us a voice for this movement is the fact that we all agree on those principles that are outlined on the side of our vus. fiscal writ -- our bus. fiscal responsibility is our number one issue. when it starts to affect your pocketbook, then you get people fighting. when resistancenet was launched, it was close to the inauguration. they

because it is sometimes as elliott put human kind cannot bear very much reality.y that neuroscience is opening up, the possibility of seeing as we found with darwin, you know, a revolution in thinking, which i think is coming again. may instead of opening the human mind provoke a response the way that emancipation created jim crow. people can't handle it. we have to remember that a galileo -- what happened to him? i mean, the people that stumble upon the truth are the people most dangerous. and they are the most -- and the reaction to them is sometimes the most ferocious. that the reformation in a way, which discovered the scriptures, which removed the authority of certain people to tell people what was in the bible, the printing press, gave us witch hunts, witch trials, burnings at the stake, the inquisition. the most horrifying period of religious power and fundamentalist reaction in which -- you know, once -- i took my husband back to my hometown. it's a beautiful little town in england, well, not that beautiful. parts of it are beautiful. it goes right back to

a grass fire was started in 2001 by steve elliott and it was an opportunity for him to start an organizationf of the american people through the senate and house. just before the health care bill was passed people from all over the great nation signed petitions and we delivered over 1 million petitions telling them we don't want. but they didn't listen. and today as a matter of fact that the capitol, your message again opposing, giving your outrage, expressing your of rage 6,000 letters of your messages were delivered today. [cheering] we are not going away. [cheering] we are here to stay. this is our country. this is our country, folks. , chris, can you hearis is our ? [cheering] so last year the day before the march on d.c. i happened to have the pleasure of being one of the national coordinators on march. we've let this house and you see some being flown on out here. they say flat this house 2010. [cheering] because we have got to flip of the radicals and the rhinos in the party. it is time for them to go. they are not listening to us, they don't represent us. we want them out. simple as

it's the gift that keeps giving because when we shot the pilot, it was elliott spitser and then one guyes. >> brian: we have. >> actually spitser is going to be getting back in the game, apparently. that's what next season is about. >> the show is also dealing with the recession. >> it deals with a lot of things that are going on. the health insurance industry, politics. it's a pertinent show. >> you're one of these actresses who i see new everything. i see everything you did with the bird cage. you're also in the bounty hunter that comes out. we got to ask you what it's like with jennifer aniston. >> oldie was talk to her on the phone. i have never met her. i never got to meet her. we did phone scenes. she shot her phone scene and i shot mine. i can't wait to meet her. >> brian: something we have in common. i also have not met her, but i call her on the phone, she doesn't pick up. so weird. >> steve: check out "the good wife" on cbs and it airs tonight at 10:00 o'clock eastern. >> brian: for that contest to win a free trip, "fox & friends" web site. >> thank you. >> brian: she said on

. >> the audacity of elliott. >> an ad campaign maybe for gold toe socks.that document tritt i think. >> all right. thank you so much. greatly appreciate it. willie geist, hey, that would be quite an interesting red carpet. you, of course, everybody wants willie geist on the red carpet at the tribeca film festival but eliot spitzer may be showing up to a story. this is my life starring elliio spitzer could get interesting. >> i wonder if he's seen the film. he might not be quite as excited once he gets inside the theater but it's in a lot of the new york papers this morning, people wondering if he will show up to his own film. >> according to politico's reporting friends of spitzer say he's counting on his public embrace of the book and documentary to be as the last word on the sex scandal that ended his career and as proof that he has nothing left to hide. the book and the movie are a great stepping stone. >> yeah. you know, it's so interesting these scandals and pat, you can talk about this, not the sex can scandal part. look how people handle scandals. i

edward gineen is at the elliott school at george washington. and he was an ambassador to kuwait, australia, and jordan. he held other positions widely throughout the region. the president and ceo of a company here and has served in many posts throughout the region. with that a brief introduction, i turn it over to you. each panelists will speak no more than 10 minutes. i will ask a question of the two and we will go directly to your questions. thank you. >> good morning. i just want to clarify that the 100 years of experience is not individual. it is cumulative. i would like to say hello to joe and thank him for all he has done and for those who organized this. let me start out with just a short tail. i arrived yesterday from paris. it was a tough conference but somebody had to do it. what was interesting about the experience is barack obama retains all of the potential that many of us saw in him one year ago and none of the criticism that some of us now have for what happened over the past year. he is extraordinarily a superstar in rep. if you

a grass fire was started in 2001 by steve elliott and it was an opportunity for him to start an organizationbeen delivered by our organization on behalf of the american people through the senate and house. just before the health care bill was passed people from all over the great nation signed petitions and we delivered over 1 million petitions telling them we don't want. but they didn't listen. and today as a matter of fact that the capitol, your message again opposing, giving your outrage, expressing your of rage 6,000 letters of your messages were delivered today. [cheering] we are not going away. [cheering] we are here to stay. this is our country. this is our country, folks. , chris, can you hear us? this is our country? [cheering] so last year the day before the march on d.c. i happened to have the pleasure of being one of the national coordinators on march. we've let this house and you see some being flown on out here. they say flat this house 2010. [cheering] because we have got to flip of the radicals and the rhinos in the party. it is time for them to go. they are not listening to

. >> gary elliott. you spoke of the doctrine of using knowledgeable people on the periphery to deal with real time issues in a proactive, innovative, and risk-taking manner, and you talk about centralize management for you had to have high knowledge verses making decisions. you basically transitioned into a knowledge management organization. with the information sharing agencies we have, there is a lot of problem with the fact that they do not have the same model you have, and they do not understand the need to make the decision, to make decisions quickly in real terms. this is the front we are on now. intelligence sharing is process management, and we are doing decision making on policy, but we have to bake decision but the speed of knowledge. how are we going to transform from this legacy -- we have to make decisions at the speed of knowledge. how are we going to transform from this legacy? >> we allow it to be achieved through new management. >> i am an intern. my question is what is your position on

our magazine is illustrated by one brilliant illustrator from new york city, elliott stanfield, in asort of 18th century, early 19th century sort of style, which is deliberately neoclassical and meant to remind us of our ancestors, of the newspaper and all of the literary review and all that is meant to the culture of america and of the west. >> host: two was angelo kota via, why we don't win. >> guest: he is an analyst of international-- who taught at boston university until his retirement recently, and he is almost sui generis. he is a critic of the bush administration's foreign policy from the right. >> host: the next call for charles kesler comes from fort myers, florida. >> caller: good afternoon peter and mr. kesler. i want you to join his first-time caller. mr. kesler i want to ask what, abortion is an issue in the conservative movement. how did that come about? when was that co-opted into the movement? i am a catholic myself as mr. buckley was an that maybe you are, and went to prep school and i was in school and catholic high school in 1973, when roe v. wade came down the pi