i never said i was. would say that if you just started by stuffing the hole just with anderson cooper's t-shirts and shirts, it would take about two days. because every night it's a new prada shirt, and they're all very nicely tailored. >> larry: what do you make of that, the t-shirt for anderson cooper? >> first of all he is hot and gorgeous and has a perfect body that is shaped like a v. he's like a superhero. i don't know that he is real either. i think he might be like stedman graham where we think he is real, but he could be a hologram. >> larry: you like his hair? >> he is perfect. of course i do. >> larry: lebron james. the great basketball star. >> what does she do. baseball? here is what i asked of you. >> okay. >> larry: living in the projects, how did you stay out of gangs? >> well, i kept it reals. i found that if i found my homies, jesus, of course is my -- jesus is my homeboy. and after that i kept it reals with the peeps. and then i would -- i would hit -- i would start with my beat box, a

i do not think i hear it -- is that on it i do not think i hear it. let's do this. you figure it out. we will go over here and come back to the spirit -- come back to you. >> my name is jay. an oil tax? that is too big. you're looking for trouble. let the u.s. navy go i there and fix it. i think thathe environment down in that area, people are starting to get sick. in a security needs to be dealt with. -- internet security needs to be dealt with. we have a big problem with identity theft in this country. i guess that is it. >> thank you. different points. the difficulty with the oil is on two fronts right now. one, you have to cap it. second, we have known for about 40 days that this oil is coming to the coast. we have to be able torotect that. hurricanes are coming. this is where the government has faltered. i have a couple of friends who represent new orleans. they have been working for quite some time to get waivers to put barriers in the ocean. that would ge them protection. my friend was telling me a story where he has continued to tal to local and federal gove

and i told them about what i was trying to do. i said i was interested in him. and would he be interested in talking to me in sort of a broad way about his own experience, but with a largee connext involved. and i think after a number of conversations, we got to a kind of trust level whhre he felt that would be a good idea. i think the same thing happened withhbob naa. when i initially wrote him, i wrote him in prison. he tried to shred my letters. he was very scared. prison is a scary place. if you do things that the prison offfcials don't like, you can be punished. he didn't want to have anything to do with me. after he got out, one of my producers met him and talked to him about it. he then actually went and watched some of my films, and i was able to persuade him with dana's help that i would honor his testimony in a way that would not try to cheapen it and -pto give him sort of vent to wt he wanted to say and put him in a broader perspective. i think also after having spent that much time in prison, bob was interested in trying to find a way to tell his sto

i hope that i did a good and effective job in it, and i believed what i was saying, but it's a different role and it's a different thought process, and the role and the thought process that one would use as a judge. >> well, what i'm interested is what you should use as a judge, but let me move on again. there's a lot of concern in the senate about the value of these hearings when we have the kinds of declarations at that table, your predecessor nominees on deference to congress, and then there's none given, not toolt the system and be modest. there's a 180-degree u-turn, and we wonder what we can do about it. judicial independence is the bull wart of this republican and it's our most highly prized value and while the congress and executive branch fumbled on segregation for centuries the court came along and acted on the subject in a progressive way, a very progressive way and a very activistic way. nobody challenges it on either side of the aisle today, so we we willy have the highest respect for judicial independence, but what do we do when we confirm nominees and they don't follow thr

i guess i will. in the movie "all th president's men" there's a scene when the editor shouted across the room woodstein. is that te? >> yes. >> thank you. >> that was a no-brainer [laughter] editor who did not like what we were doing for a long time used to call a the gold dust twins. i am not sure what that meant. >> with 40,000 journalists bng laid off this past year alone, what d.c. the future of journalism being? >> what was the first part? >> 40,000 journalists have be id off in the past year. >> 40,000 journalists have been laid off at traditional journalistic institutions. my guess their air thamany more that call themsels journalists who are doing work the web. by think that we are in a new era in which there is movement all over the place. i think some of the great journalistic institutions are going to persevere and put out most of their product on the web. but let me ask a question here. of those of you who are students, how many get most of your news from the web? and of those of you who

i know everything i do i can do better and just don't give up. i think those pretty good core values to bring to bear for this catastrophe that we face and are dealing with in the gulf of mexico today. we have sadly, in this country, an enormous dependence on foreign oil. we have about, oh, gosh, about 60% of our oil that we consume in this country comes from other places around the world. some of it from unstable nations, undemocratic nations. i fear as we fill up our gas tanks that we end up sending money to some places, some people, some -- mahmoud ahmadinejad in iran and chavez in venezuela. i'm convinced some of these countriee use our money to hurt us. if it were so easy to recover oil we would have done that. a lot of of it is in hard-to-reach places as we found out. the deep water horizon spill. not just danger, but calamity and disaster. we have to be smarter than this. i realize we're going to be dependent on petroleum in this country for sometime but i hope, if nothing else, that we will use this awful experience to do what einstein en

guest: i wish i could. am aware of the global hot, i've -- global hawk, but i do not know a lot about it. caller: i am a civilian. i do not know a lot about them. we have a base out here. they also operate them overseas. i am wondering how they get them if they do not fly them over u.s. airspace. guest: it is an interesting question. i assume they have to, but maybe not. maybe they transport them by ground. i honestly do not know much about the defense use of these aircraft because i do not cover defense issues. i cover civil aviation. mostly i am writing about airliners, small planes and things like that. i am just beginning to write about unmanned aircraft because it is just beginning to become an issue. host: richard, thank you for calling. speaking of civilians, has anyone spoken to capt. sullenberger? guest: i have not seen him quoted on this. it is interesting that this is coming up now. there has been so much discussion since the crash of the continental express 3407, the regional airliner where 50 p

and i said can i do a song for him, i asked my mother?s, do whatever you can for your brother. and some of the music was going in and out of my ear, and i said, uh-oh, here comes a train wreck. there was no music, but i kept singing. it was emotional for me, because i knew it was his favorite song and we had visited the chaplain family before. we showed up in switzerland, and he didn't know i was friends with charlie chaplain's sons as well. >> larry: smile one of the great songs ever written. >> it's a great song. >> larry: great, great songs ever written. were you shocked at the coverage? surprised at how immense the story was? >> not really. you know why, larry? because michael's success is not his talent. it was his message. people cried because they knew what his message was, the one he was trying to get through his music and we're very appreciative as a family and we will stay strong and united and stay strong as a family, but the world cried, because they knew they had lost someone who really cared about them. who cared about the p

i have the guns and i can tell you i don't have any criminal intent. i have for protection. and anything else that may come unexpected. i have a right for that. it doesn't matter what they say about the law. if there is a confrontation and i have a right. i'm not looking for permission. i am not -- i don't care what the law says. host: we move on to mike from memphis. caller: what kind of country do live-in where we have to have these guns. all the stuff you were saying was a live. the preamble to the cost to some,"we the people of the united states established justice, provide for the domestic--" what is going on here? i have never owned a gun. you're talking about communities. this is insane. abraham lincoln said prohibition goes beyond the bounds of reason. host: what about the first caller saying it is an issue of freedom? guest: you do hear that a lot. under our system, no freedom is absolute. the right to express yourself is not absolute. it is subject to subject -- it is subject to regulation or the public safety is threatened. the closer the speech gets to inciting v

now i was sitting, i was blessed today sitting next to my friend, gayle, gale, i hope you don't mind my site here, who lead over at one point at the beginning of me and said said, somewhere in the country our friends i the tea party movement are having a meeting on exactly the same question, is government broken? now, i want to say right away that i hear a lot from tea party folks who tend, as it happens to disagree with what i write more than agree wh it, but i want to report that tea party members do have a fine sense of human. recently as a protest against something i will, i have gotten something like 75 teabags in the mail sent by the protesters. and one person wrote that she was trying to figure out what teabags she said send to a columnist. and she sent me a bag of constant comment. [laughter] >> another said i was trying to figure out what's appropriate to what you think, and sent me a tea bag of french for no. so i say god bless them. disagreement is actually one of the joys of freedom and democracy. and we don't always pay attention to that fact. so yes, it's true, in many

and then i said -- i consoled her a bit and then i went to see him. i said, well, where is he?hey said, he's down the hall a bit. and i walked in this room, and it took a lot, larry, to walk into the room and see your brother laying there lifeless. laying on the -- this gurney thing, like. and he's -- and i sort of touched his face. and he was still soft. he was still soft. and i pulled his eye -- eyelid back to look at his eyes. and i just kissed his face. and it's a horrible feeling to have death in your family, that close. >> larry: where were you when michael jackson died? tell us. go to facebook.com/cnnlarrykinglive and let us know. >>> jermaine sang michael's favorite song at his brother's memorial service. memorial service. we'll go back to that day, right after this. don't fix the leak. or anything in the house... without blueprint from chase. create a plan to pay off large purchases... and save money on interest. does your credit card have blueprint? design your plan at 866 blueprint. sir? finding everything okay? i work for a different insurance company. my auto polic

i admitted that i have an ipad. when you think about all of these tools, the iphones and all of these, it is huge. we are going to have to account for that. that will drive us down a road. i do not know where it is going to end up. -- that will drive us down the road. >> i have a question, and i think it is pretty inherent. it has been touched on a little bit. there is a vulnerability in cyber which comes with all of the cyber engineering, allies, not allies, all of the countries in the world. academia, industry, and government. there is little or no repercussion. in fact, it is considered a boom if they can show ways that they can get into, how they can compromise, how they can gain access into the networks, whether their government or industry. my concern is, is cyber command along with other agencies along with industry in the united states actually going to address this? because i think as we look in the future, that is where the real threat lies. this is people brought up in learning how to do what we are tryin

i want >> i will thank you for your leadership and i will defer. so that we can get moving. >> thank you, mr. chairman. also grateful to you and ranking member. i am on homeland security, and i know thateveryone to only is the coastal states suffering, but i reprent e state of illinois, and were sending what help we coast.to the i know that there are national guardsmen coming in in helicopters, the assistance they are giving. on this another effect which deals with our urban ea is going to impt is tremendously in our restaurant business and various businesses, what ise concern about down there inn future, and surly want to give deference to the distinished govvrnmental certainly want to the deference to distinguished vernnt leaders who are here. we must be sure that we treat s a national crisis. the gulf states are getting the buu all of us will from it. on that, i feel it's astant for me to be here my schedule will allow to bring a message not only to the gul states b from middlerica impacted, and we t our colleuer the front lines the best e with

i am not trying to cut down obama. i did not vote for him. i am i third-party kind of person. but i think that he could have done a better job of management. i know he is a smart guy. we just need him to come up. i do not even know the fishermen that are losing all of their livelihood at this point. they cannot fish. they cannot do anything. restaurants are going out of business. everything. no one will stay here. host: we will have to leave it there. in the international section of "the new york times" there is pressure to ease the blockade in israel. egypt has opened its entryways into the gaza strip for people to go from egypt into gaza and bring aid to their as well. "the new york times" editorial this morning, "mr. obama needs to state clearly that the israeli attack was unacceptable. the united states needs to join the security council in urging israel to permanently lift the blockade, lessening the suffering of the people and give the united states more credibility to negotiate a peace deal." more in the conflict this morning from "the new york times," id points to diff

i when i get into specifics. i really caution, make sure you are improving service. i know it is easy to say, yes, yes, of course, that is our business, that is what we should do. but that is not what happens. i want to warn you about that. i hope you'll give assurances that you will conduct frequent surveys of your frequent fliers and the general public as well. i am just astounded at the number of what i call poor judgments being made by executives who did not even bother to understand the culture of the company they were absorbing, and have lost a very good people and overall lost a lot of good spirit. the public was the worse for it. i am not convinced that all this combining of airlines is that advantageous. that may reduce the cost to the passenger very slightly, it may result in making more money, which is your goal of course, but i am not sure the overall picture is really that great. i just want to caution you on that, from my perspective, and also give you an opportunity to rebut what i just said. >> what you just said it may present a competitive opportuni

i thought it would when i started, i thought it would when i went to law school, when i graduated from law school, when i started this in 1989. i thought in the end that the court system would give alaskans the full measure of justice, and it did not. with regard to the military and its ability t, i just don't kno. host: final call is from san diego. republican line. caller: mr. o'neill, thank you for your service. well, the caller basically took my question. can the military plug the hole? i heard a couple of days into this that the military had the possibility of imploding it and capping it, and that bp would not have the opportunity to rein drill, and they would lose billions of dollars. you can see from the appearance of the ceo that it just goes to prove -- the ignorance of the ceo that it just goes to prove that this was just about money. they did not allow any outside, independent contractors in, because they wanted to save the well. do you think this will back up to be be? -- do you think this will bankrupt bp? i heard they went back over $1 a share yesterday. how is that? gues

if i ask them for information, i get it, if i think i need more, i go back and ask them, if there's an ambiguityity, i go back and i say i can't go on until i know this. >> we're asking if and will be asking for greater transparency on the claims process. trying to shorten the window for what b.p. is legally required to do in filling the claims but in having, a broader understanding of -- through transparency about what what has yet to be fulfilled. >> we're arguing with a personally identifiable information. there are privacy issues and fection finding claims. it is how you manage the process, and we want to get it right. >> disperseants. catch us up on what you're using and what is the environmental feel you have? secondly on the sand berms in louisiana? do you have two up or where are we in that process? are they being contemplated along the possible spill target areas as the spill continues? lastly, you said you would look into the issue whether or not b.p. held or would withhold video early on from the disaster from public relief? >> i think we issued a statement on that. i don't

>> i have not checked but i think it is strong.e has proven himself in the field and he is a supporter of the president's policy. it is the architect of the counter insurgency strategy. i have not heard any of those kind of commons from my colleagues -- comments from my college. these events happened quickly but i have not heard anything like that today. cr>> what the differences in the field in iraq and can stand? >> i would give you two or three reasons. general petraeus no counterinsurgency strategy better than anybody. he wrote the book on it. it is a counterinsurgency strategy that has been put into effect in afghanistan. secondly, he has proven that he can successfully carried out a strategy in a different situation than afghanistan. it is still a counter insurgency strategy which depends less on force and less on so-called kinetic force than it does on winning the support of the people and protecting the people and to do that not just with security forces but by winning their support through governments, as well he is a prov

remember -- i say to all of you -- i remember where i came from. i know where i came from. searchlight. i know that in america, anything is possible if harry reid can make it, anyone can. parents were not eduuated. my dad and not graduate from eighth grade and my mom did not graduate from high school. we lived in a small apartment, no hot water, and even by standards in searchlight, we were not in great social standing. we had no religion. but it did not matter, because in america, you can make it on your own. we have lots of opportunities because this is a land of real opportunity. i remember where it come from and remember my obligation. the state of nevada is a wonderful place. i'm so fortunate to represent this great state. i am not going to give up. you are not 20 give up. we will not stop until this economy turns around, until every man and woman who wants to can go to work and has a job. [applause] we want to work together. we will work together to make nevada whole again. thank you very much. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyrigh

and i set forth, but one of the things i left out in this speech thht i wish i would put in and will reference at this time, but another critical component of our international security policy must be the pursuit of energy independence. there was an observation made yesterday, i think it was "meet the press," in the final closing remarks that if we did not pursue an energy independence policy, we will continue to be undermining our national security and reliance on sources of foreign energy. we have passed legislation to accomplish that objective through the house of representatives. unfortunately, the senate has not. but we must pursue energy independence. not only has been the spill tragically and compellingly made that clear to us in the gulf, but certainly our relationships with those who provide us with energy, which are sometimes strained, give us ppuse to understand that energy independence is an integral part of our national security. let me talk about the fifth, what is now the fifth because i added something in, the deeper our nation sinks into debt , the more our choices w

i am so proud, and when i see you working hard, i tell you something. >> i will be brief. of you guys have been out here for weeks now. you would rather be doing other things. there is no better people to be out here working. and though it may come every dare we are in meeting, i could go on and on. we want to make sure that we use at our local assets. we saw about a week ago it's about three of four times as bad and it is heading this way. what we had last week is about to get worse. please don't hesitate to call on us. we got a great team that is out here. the senator will be pushing to get more boom for us. i know we are short supply right now. and that the mayor said, they are talking about the contingency and other parts of the state that they had a plan like year. we have to continue to push please don't hesitate to let us know a better way to fight this battle. jud>> we did not want this to ce to our family so we have to stop it. we do not want it to get to our families. and that is why we're here. the people were outside from here and did not know that this is our

i am a democrat. i try to keep up with you. i am a fan of yours. i am a news junkie. there are so many republicans are against that. in the state of georgia we have so many people unemployed. the current -- crime rate is so high. why are so many republicans against it? then we have the oil spill in so many people losing their jobs. guest: i think the republican perspective on this is that yes, we have unemployment insurance, and there should be extensions of them, but the question is how long should the extensions p. right now it is right around 99 weeks, which is quite a long amount of time for someone to be on unemployment. once you reach a certain point, there is a question that should there be other insurance. ultimately the solution is not longer and employment, it is getting a job back. that is really what republicans are focused on. host: it sounds like in the senate, the majority leader is working with democrats who are opposed to the jobs package the way it is shaped right now. it says that harry reid took aim at jobless benefits that they may be too generous

i have spent almost all of my life along that southwest border. i have walked it. i have driven it. i have flown it. i have even written it on horseback. this is a border that i know extremely well. i share the frustration that border communities feel about the challenges that exist in that region. . security strategy with a greater urgency and care than anything i have seen since i began my career in public service. and the strategy is showing real progress. let me point to a few reasons why. first, we have dispensed with the rhetoric, and we've just gotten to work. now, for too long we heard bumper sticker slogans about being tough. but looking tough just doesn't get the job done. we decided that we needed to add some smarts to toughness, and to make some changes to build a coordinated and comprehensive strategy that included cbp, ice, the department of justice family, and our state and local partners. the statistics today reflect that this approach is working, and i'll get to a few of those in a minute. but second and most important reason we are seeing progress is because of the

but i think that "mr. smith goes to washington" is still a very important film for us because we have to remember our ideals, our idealism and fight that's what it's all about. >> so when can we see in the theatres outside of the tribeca film festival earlier your documentary on eliot spitzer, now that he's a talk show host? >> has that been officially announced? is he officially a talk show host now? >> he has been one the last couple weeks. >> that's true. it's going to -- magnolia pictures will have the film out i believe later this year.+ so keep your eyes peeled. p think it's a pretty good one. >> alex gibney, our guest. documentary is called "casino jack and the united states of money." thank you very much for joining us. >> thank you, brian. pood to be here. >> i've seen friends go over to go work for jack abramoff and kind of watch this operation get built, right? and jack was going from really big to the top. >> neil morphed from the original neil who wanted to be who wanted to be part of theuy ab

so i just want to let president abbas know that i said when i took office this was an issue that i caredeeply about and i was willing to spend a lot of time and energy and political capital on. that commitment has not wavered. and i think the american people want to see a resolution of this issue that is equitable. we will continue to work side by side with you, as well as the israelis, to resolve this in a way that is good for the children and future generations both in israel and in a future palestine.+ so thank you very much. ] thank you, mr. president. and we, indeed, have just held very important discussions that touched on the political process as well as the very important latest development that happened in gaza. of course we value and deeply appreciate all the efforts of the united states, as well as the effort of president obama, and all the assistance and help for pushing forward the economic and security levels. and we have reached a satisfactory picture of the economic and security levels. yet we are determined to keep pushing forward in our efforts to bring it up to the nex

i don't know why i wouldn't continue to do that. we're looking for a chance to bring a balanced budget to the floor again, and we will. we will if we can break the mold here. but this house, led by the speaker, nancy pelosi, has so kowtowed to the president's priorities and tripled the number in -- it's $2.34 trillion of unnecessary spending. $2.34 trillion. and the president's budget, as he presented it, that's the only budget we've got to go with, no conscience to try to balance it, no conscience to try to limit it, today a baby born in america, their share of the national debt, might say that here's the i.o.u. that that little old baby when their footprint goes down on the birth certificate is $44,000. if we worry about the child, all the money it takes to prvide health care and education and bring that child up to into responsible adulthood that will -- that little child that grows into responsible adulthood, we worry about them carrying a student loan debt that might be, oh, let's see, pick a number in the ballpark, it's no --

i could go on, but i think you get my point. these are cookie cutter plans. exxon mobil, chevron, and shell are as unprepared as bp was, and that is a serious problem. %+ . >> i have listened to the opening statement of chairman markey and chairman waxman. i want to say that in terms of doing the investigation, i commend the majority staff that mr. stupak holds, and we're getting the facts assemble and putting them out and an open and transparent fashion so that the american people can understand exactly wwat happened. it is no question that british petroleum, the owner and chief operator of the rig that had the accident, is responsible for the accident. and as mr. waxman has pointed out, it is the responsibility of our major or companies to have adequate contingency plans when things go wrong. i am not trying to whitewash the private-sector and terms of their responsibility for causing the problem. but i want to point out something that has not yet. the five people most concerned about solving the problem are probably sitting before us today. exxonmobil, che

we do not make some distinction that i will cut a corner in this country because i can. >> i know in the north sea when they had an accident in 1988 and 100 -- 180 people were injured. changes were made to split the enforcement agency, similar to what the administration is now proposing with the mms. that is a better structure? >> i do not know if the structure is as important as the process by which the oversight occurs. >> i am not sure i can grade all of the differences. >> one model should we be looking at? >> we start with the regulations in each country and then we apply our standards on top of those regulations. they are very similar. the application of our processes and procedures are very similar in all of the couutries. where there are particular country, we of course comply with those. our view is certainly that the u.s. and u.k. have very high standards. >> of the greatest part of our experience and operation has been in the north sea, particularly in norway and the united kingdom. in norway and the united kingdom, they have developed some of the best practices that are a

i believe that congress, and when i say congress i meen both democrats and republicans, congress has been cleared that -- clear that it support the continuation of constellation until it authorizes an alternative program. we no longer can wait for nasa to provide justification for its radical changes. time's runnnng out. our space station and those who man them, our many nasa employees, our international partners, our astronauts, await an answer that we can live with and we an lead with. i yield back my time. mr. carter: thank you. mr. hall, we're awfully proud to have him and he has been working a long and hard for any, many years to make sure that eeery time we shoot a human being into outer space we've ad to bring him back. you know, it's easy to develop a space program whether you can say, well, if the guy we shoot out there, if we lose him, it's no big deal, and there's some who develop the space programs this way. but we never developed it that way. and some people with say we're a greet dinosaur, this nasa. this great dinosaur comes from the basic premise thht makes --% part o

i went to a town hall meeting. i insist that i be involved in that. i am offftonight, but tomorrow night, i have a town hall meeting. i think it is important to meet the people and tell them what is going onnand he would have to say. i said to the troops this morning thaa this is not just a battle for oil spillage. this is about somebody's way of life and the people of louisiana. unless you put that face on this bill, you really do not know what you're fighting for. -- on the spill, you really do not know what you're fighting for. >> this is the situation status map. we have numerous layers of defense. we have the source here. it is the red star. the red line is where we spotted oil could it does not necessarily tell you the thickness or if it is recoverable or if it is scam kimmable. we want to eliminate it as close to the source as possible. at the source commo we have our most capable skimming vessels. -- at the source, we have lerma skippable skimming vessels. -- at thh source, we have our most capable skimming vessels. the blackest oil is close t

i think david is right, i think that is-- when americans see those pelicans, i means that's become an iconic picture of this. the pelicans submerged in oil unable to fly, unable to provide for itself. >> lehrer: i was just going to ask, david, do you see it in that kind of potentially devastating negative terms for the president and the whole political system. in other words, is this a major thing. a temporary tragedy. >> i'm beginning to think it is more of a major thing, that people are more directly holding him responsible. and i think it's again as month its go by and we don't seem to be able to contain the spill, people don't blame him for the event but they do hold him responsible for how that oil is treated once it is out on the water. and if people don't have the sense that they are doing everything they can, and if there are stories that came out like the story about the dutch offer that was refused for a while, people will say maybe they are not as competent as we thought. and i would say personally watching the president, i think a little less posturing, a little bess -- li

he said, i don't know, i don't know, i don't know." didn't he get briefed?doesn't he know what happened under his own command? i thought his performance was reasonably pathetic. >> lehrer: i think mark wants to defend tony hayward. >> i do. tony haywards of the alberto gonzales of international oil companies--. >> lehrer: the attorney general >> what his purview of authority was and what he was responsible for. and tony hayward looks like he's been on scholarship. i think the thing is that he has a legal problem , and--. >> lehrer: b.p. does. >> b.p. does, and i think he had to be sort of , as he was--. >> lehrer: just speaking of problems-- this is called a segue-- what about south carol's problem for the democratic nomination for the u.s. senate? what's going on? what do you think that's all about? is that -- in other words, is there a bigger message here that people voted for somebody that they never had heard of, and by a large margin, and now we have a democratic nominee for the united states senate, alvin greene. >> i don't know, jim, if the machine th

[applause] i hope i have hit everybody i am supposed to. this is a wonderful evening. i want to thank joe gilde nhorn about his gracious remarks. i planned to be here four or five years and have stayed here 11 or 12. one of the principal reasons i have this because i have had the honor to work with joe. i will tell=a you palle loyal je is. he is so low that the wilson center that he is here tonight when his granddaughter is graduate from high school. that is really something we appreciate your leadership. [applause] tonight, we welcomed the chairman of the federal reserve, ben bernanke, to the center. he is an academic thinker and a policy maker in the tradition of woodrow wilson. he is a world-class scholar and like wilson, a princeton professor. dr. bernanke has become one of the country's most important and most respected policy makers. he happens to be greatly indebted to woodrow wilson. one of owen wilson's major legislative achievements was the enactment of the federal reserve act of 1913. not to put too fine a spin on that and skipping over a awful lot of histor

i love what i do. it was time. >> as long as it is coming from meal and not dictated by "the new york times." >> i did the 25th anniversary week. plus mac i am flying home from a week, and i'm thinking to myself. i have done a 50,000 interviews. i am never going to talk this. i want to go out on new horizons and try other things. i would like to stay in some way with cnn. this will thing was put together an four or five days. and i am here and ready to carry on. i will be on tomorrow night. >> he did not understand her. who understands her? >> i liked her. >> who else gets her to come on the show? i never saw or anywhere else. >> we got you a lot. >> i saw her wearing an aquarium on her head. i never saw our state to another human being. i have no idea what she was like before she talked with you. >> i want the staff to retain their jobs, but more time with the wife, more time with the kids and more time to do other things. and other words, i can do things now i was not able to do before. it is nice, t

i hope i didn't make too many of those.nk there were some expectations, though, on the part of the public and maybe revved up a bit by efforts in the private sector and a few places to try to improve stock values that made it sound as if it was going to be so easy now. as soon as we've got the genome, we'll cure everything next week. >> brown: as i read the literature, as i read reports about this, there's some sense of disappointment about being able to translate the scientific advances into clinical advances. >> well, i understand that impatience. but this is a long and complicated pathway, especially if you're talking about therapeutics. it's one thing to scan through the genome and identify a pathway that seems to be involved in cancer. it's another to take that information and come up with a magic bullet that you could give to a patient with leukemia or lung cancer to tie to turn that around . >> brown: what did you and others not quite grasp or understand in terms of how complex or difficult this would all be? >> i th

i am not sure i have an answer. if your read teaming another event, how quickly you get the question of whether you need an inquiry to find out what went wrong and who's head needs to roll. maybe the question should be -- would we have taken this bet years ago? there is an informal network of services that have helped to decimate this adversary. i think you would have set i will take that back in a heartbeat. if you would have given me that wager, i would have wanted to odds in las vegas. keep cool and say, we would have taken this baet nine years ago. creates another acronym. role some warheads. i don't care anymore. i'm not given an answer -- world some more heads. you have to be mature in the face of anniversary. stand-up. realize that sometimes when you're playing defense for nine years, somebody may slip through. man up and move on. and mourn the dead. these are victims of murder. the families that are destroyed by a 17-year-old kid, like a kid from georgia. that kid is a plodder. his life is destroyed now, too

actually, i didn't want to, i was... i was hit by it. and i wasn't expecting to be hit by it., i went in there, you know, totally under control, so to speak. and i was blown away. it was a very moving experience that i did not expect to have. >> logan: the "titanic" brought bob ballard instant fame and celebrity. >> ballard: my mom called me the day i got home, and i expected her to be just off the wall like everyone else was, and she says, "you know, that was nice, but it's too bad you found the 'titanic.'" and i went "what?!" and she says, "well, you know your father and i are very proud that you and your brother went to college and got doctorates and are great scientists. but now, they'll only remember you for finding the 'titanic.'" and mothers are always right. >> logan: 25 years later, ballard is still working on his legacy. now that he finally has his own research ship, he can go explore anywhere he wants. when we joined him, he'd just finished searching for wrecks from the battle of gallipoli for the national geographic society, where he's an explorer in residence. the

and i did what i did for them, but i can say that i always wondered if i really ought to come to this beach because i was only here for nine hours. true, i did get five purple hearts while i was here, but i was worried to come back and say i landed here because i had to be evacuated. that special something that makes up the united states army can't be described to us in detail. but when you walk among those 10,000 crosses in that cemetery, crosses of the star of david, and you realize that those heroes laying beneath that ground are exactly like those heroes who stand on the wall in the defense of liberty in iraq and afghanistan today, our soldiers today are exactly like those in the greatest generation. they sacrifice everything. i'm proud to represent the 31st congressional district, which is the home of fort hood. every soldier at fort hood has been deployed multiple times, and they never complain. they just do the job. we americans, wherever we are, in this house where we're so blessed to be able to serve, or around the world should every day stop to -- and say thank you to the un

i mean -- >> i think i have more. >> larry: he has more? >> i think i have more. like a drug for me. love what i do. >> larry: so you would work, if they booked you more, you'd work more? >> oh, yeah. when i could put two thoughts together as a child, i knew that's what i wanted to do. there was never a question. and i say in the documentary, well, maybe i'll be this, maybe i'll be that. always, that's where i'm going. didn't know how i was going to get there, but that's where i was going. >> larry: we're back with joan rivers in a moment, the book -- the book, she's done everything. the movie is "a piece of work" and you'll love it. heel pressure. high arches. (announcer) people everywhere are discovering what's going on with their feet. dr. scholl's custom fit orthotic center. backed by foot care scientists, its foot mapping technology identifies the areas you put pressure on then recommends the right orthotic. for locations see drscholls.com. i know who works differently than many other allergy medications. hoo? omnaris. [ men ] omnaris -- to the nose! [ man ]

i wish i knew who was. i don't think it is been a systemic failure. >> have you looked at the sec public reports? >> no, i have not. >> mr. mcdaniel, much can be said about the tone at the top. can you just tell me what outcomes and results you value most from your company? >> similar to our markets and made a few minutes ago, viously i want to have a very successful business. and i believe the way to have a successful businesseto have high-quality products and services, in this case, ratings and related research. it does nothing for our business to focus on the short run and cut corners. and as i said, that is whyt is so deeply disappointing to of had the experience that we've had in the mortgage related securities areas. >> part the product and service, what one value would youbuy a the most pt mark >> it relates to the long-term value of the firm. first of all, i think that it is. and we have adjusted our compensation program over tim in order to try and high-quality products and service with compensatio

i do not think i hear it -- is that on it? i do not think i hear it. let's do this. you figure it out. we will go over here and come back to the spirit -- come back to you. >> my name is jay. an oil tax? that is too big. you're looking for trouble. let the u.s. navy go in there and fix it. i think that the environment down in that area, people are starting to get sick. in a security needs to be dealt with. -- internet security needs to be dealt with. we have a big problem with identity theft in this country. i guess that is it. >> thank you. different points. the difficulty with the oil is on two fronts right now. one, you have to cap it. second, we have known for about 40 days that this oil is coming to the coast. we have to be able to protect that. hurricanes are coming. this is where the government has faltered. i have a couple of friends who represent new orleans. they have been working for quite some time to get waivers to put barriers in the ocean. that would give them protection. my friend was telling me a story where he has continued to talk to local and fede

i was a mayor for 12 years. i strengthened the police department. we need to put the bad guys away but i'd like to prevent some of these crimes from occurring. that means we need to make it harder for dangerous people to get guns which means we have to be doing background checks and the illegal trafficking needs to be stopped. that means we need wayne's support for things like closing the gun show loophole and other common sense things. i'm will to go meet in the middle to discuss these things but i can't get a response. >> ifill: one final question. today we saw elena kagan on capitol hill. one of the questions that were asked or raised about her background is whether she indeed, where she would come down in this second amendment fight. what did you hear? what do you believe? >> after watching sotomayor, i honestly believe the change that president obama is bringing to washington is contradictory to the change he promised on the campaign trail where he promised and they gave flyers to americans all over the country saying he would always support th

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i was stunned. i didn't know. i went back and pulled the book out to see if he was right, and he was right. he probably hadn't read that book in 35, 40 years but he knew that. what a -- what a mind. it was really stunning, the man's memory. the head of the political science department, andy tuttle, university of nevada at las vegas, taught a course, a graduate course, based on senator byrd's lectures on the roman empire. he gave two lectures here on the senate floor on the roman empire, the fall of the roman empire. he gave the lecture because he was concerned because of the line-item veto. and he felt that the line-item veto would be the beginning of the end of the united states senate and he proceeded to give ten lectures on that on the senate floor. every one of them from memory. every one of them from memory. timed jjst perfect. they ended in one hour. that's how much time he had been given -- how much he had been given. now, mr. president, the original roman emperors served for one year. he could do it from m

i indeed have had -- i have fears sick -- i have four sonss in the military. and i have a nephew who just completed his service in iraq with the air force. in afghanistan, i have been there nine times. i have been there in particular visiting my former national guard unit, 218th brigade, so i know from personal serving their, led by general bob livingston, we have 1500 troops from south carolina who helped train the afghan police and army units. so, i'm very, very optimistic. host: what specifically makes you optimistic? senators yesterday were questioning all the press reports about, that being more intense than we anticipated and taking longer in some regions. guest: those are all legitimate concerns. i followed testimony and concerns expressed. but specifically, we are training the afghan police and army units. we are ahead -- for the army, 105,000 -- actually 125,000 troops. we are on the way this year to have 135,000 troops. this is the testimony of the under secretary yesterday. in training the police, there are 105,000, and by the end of this year, we w

>> i apologize, i am -- i was off last week. prior to leaving last week, everything was in there. >> as you know, the senate armed services committee has built issues and that they are focused on things that deserve our focus. my time has expired. >> mr. commissioner? >> thank you mr. co-chairman. you guys deserve credit. if you midday statement -- you made a statement that is on page 4. you would agree that you get what you pay for, correct? >> that is correct. >> then why do you continue with contracts that are lowest priced technical is acceptable? >> thanks to the city commission today, -- of the sitting commission today, we will be awarding a new contract. it will combine our existing static guard contract. >> let me ask you point blank. can you guarantee this commission that the next one will be the best value? i would want a guarantee. you have kids getting killed out there. can i get that guarantee? >> i can guarantee that the process is on track -- >> no, i want a guarantee that the next contract will not be the lowest

now i can do anything i want. i like making speeches. i like doing comedy.e do comedy. >> you're very funny. lair like making people laugh. >> you are not going to be standing in the gulf with hip wards, like anderson cooper, not scrubbing off an egret? lair would do a comedy special like you. >> i will see what i can do. >> larry: let's get to day 70 of the oil disaster. >> that what it is, 70? my lord. >> larry: what do you make of this? >> i was at a bp station today and when i finished filling my tank, i left the pump running. and i think everyone should do that until this ends. after you fill up, leave the pump running. >> larry: that's your call. poetic justice, larry. i mean, honestly, i have never been as depressed about a story. i haven't been at this quite as long as you. >> larry: animal lover. >> a television show for 18 years, yes i'm an animal lover and i'm an earth lover. i know lot of people like senator inhoff think the earth is a hose, i happen to think it's real and i like to keep it. but it just depresses the hell out of me. i think what

>> i don't. i live in 88th street. i live in upper manhattan. >> if you've never been to harlem, where does it start and finish? >> it's a good question. it depends who you ask, because there's different neighborhoods in upper manhattan like sugar hill and that's on 145th street and some people consider that's harlem. but it's basically above central park. >> later on it becomes a controversy as to where eva mossco wits list. >> yeah. >> let's see her some more talking to some of the parents. >> i wanted to make sure to tell you personally the good, the bad, and the ugly about our school design. we don't have any kind of magic formula here. it's basically establishing a very strong school culture of high expectation. so we have a longer school day and we have a longer school year, and we're pretty relentless. what happens if your child doesn't, if you don't show up on time? what do you think we do? what would really crazy people who do who are just totally focused on you getting your kid to school? we do wakeup calls.

i am not saying -- i could argue that i could probably use a little bit more than i have today, but ieel the risk has been negated. >> there is an e-mail scam going out purportedly from the command sergeant major, but some people may actually take it seriously. have you put out any guidance telling people not to trusttthis e-mail? >> yes, and people have been skimming money using my name as well. i have seven had several people use my face on the facebook -- i have had several people use my face on facebook to try to get money. we are going after these scam artists. we are very aware of all of the things going on. we are very aware of the capability and the attempt to take money. on my facebook page it's as if anybody asks you for money in my name, do not believe it. it is a problem. since you brought that subject up, i will just say, one of the things that we have to really continue to work on hard is the change that has occurred in terms of global communications and access to global communications. it impacts symmetric warfare and counterinsurgency. we just put up a cyber-command wh

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