they come and they go. just feel that it is like the statement -- we cannot afford it at this time. i just feel it is not the right thing. host: republican line. charlotte, north carolina. is there any evidence of stimulus spending in your area? caller: not of great magnitude. some are still going out of business. it is minimal to none. in this area, i know people that have been out of work for well over a year. some are going out of business every day. and -- i should say every week not every day. we have gone way down the wrong track. i am 73 years old. they have taken all of this money away. congress does not seem to have any problem spending money and sending it overseas and growing our governments. they should care more about the american citizens. i see the country going down hill for a very long time. now is on a mad rush to crash. host: he said we are on the wrong road in the stimulus spending. what would be the right road for you? caller: the right road would have been to allow businesses and banks

they are young, strong, and they do not want to admit they have a problem. later down the road when they realize they do, we have to be there for them, but actually screened them earlier. it will cost less, and we will bring them back sooner. that is something i am fully engaged in. small-business -- many of the know the story, i started when i was 19 in my first business. i applied for a summer internship program with matt local congressman, and he turned down. today i have a job i could not get an intern for. 70% of all jobs are created for small business. that is what we have to focus on. that will bring people back. we have to knock away this regulation. you brought of taxes. just think in your own life. just think for a moment what we pay. when we get up in the morning i take a shower. i pay tax on the water. you stop to buy water or coffee, you pay tax. stop to get gas in your car, you pay state and federal highway tax. the first two hours to work, you pay a tax. you pick up the phone to call your family, you pay tax on that too. i've paid in airplane

can to say that they did not feel they were doing anything wrong when they were dealing with blagojevich and what ever was or was not in the president's head was certainly normal when he was thinking about dealing with chicago and trying to get blagojevich to appoint someone that he favored to his old seat. they want that to look as normal as possible for the jury. we will probably see political characters called to the stand who will say that they did not think there was anything that they did wrong. host: the former governor, has he already announced he will speak in his own defense? guest: he definitely will. he said he was eager to testify on his own behalf. another part of what the defense is trying to do is play a lot of the undercover recordings that they say show he was not doing anything that was abnormal. the only way they could accomplish that is to give rod blagojevich on the witness stand and to have him try to explain his state of mind, and then to corroborate that, played tapes that the government does not have, to maybe show he was doing more normal political things. host

they did not manage to do that before they left town. expect the senate to come back in and pass a bill to renew them, retroactively. host: according to some reports coming in the house bill that passed last week, -- it is expected that four men and women benefit for those that expire this week, when the senate takes up his final bill, they will try to retroactively adjust those benefits which they lost the this week. guest: that is right. house democrats also decided to drop in the cobra health benefits. she mentioned she lost her job in a foreign trade tras-related thing. the house decided they did not have the stomach to pass a renewal of those in mind of the deficits that the country is facing. host: what about the senate? is there no support to renew a covert health-care subsidies? guest: i expect the senate to push back pretty strongly. they would like to see those cobra, expanded benefits, extended. host: next phone call. caller: good morning. john paulson's and fund made $33 billion on the decline of housing and he is estimated t

they did not use the money for what they told us they would use the money for. i am not happy about that. the stimulus package was $780 billion. that was money spent out into communities that was supposed to provide 3 million jobs. we have lost jobs since then. the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. host: let's not spend money on the war in afghanistan and iraq. guest: the important thing is to understand why we are there. it has gotten mixed up -- some people think we're fighting for afghan freedom. we are fighting for a national security. it would be better to fight there than in the streets of new york. people have to look get that and say, is that real or not? then you move forward with it. but you have to understand the price of success and you have to measure against the price of failure. host: walter in atlanta. caller: thank you. there are a few examples of how you have failed to service me. the survey 4000 soldiers in afghanistan. 84% disagreed with the strategy. 84%. you are giving them t

said they wanted to find out if they had issued enough. not only if employees were paying out of pocket, but maybe if the city was paying too much for excessive personal use. so they looked at two officers' pagers and messages. these officers had had o *ef rajs in the past. but they felt they had an expectation of privacy in their messages because superiors had said "if you pay for the overages, it would be okay." and these officers did. when the city decided to see if it needed to change the allotment of characters, they aud ted these two... audited these two officer's messages, found on the one there were a large number of personal and sexually explicit messages. he was disciplined. he went to federal court, sued saying his privacy right was violated and the city had engaged in an unreasonable search and seizure under the fourth amendment of the constitution . >> suarez: on that fourth amendment argument, how did the justices rule? is there any right to privacy on an office-owned communications device? >> well, in a way, like the florida

but they more like -- they are into film and they love behind the scenes, directors and producers, they tell you just about anything about a film and who produced it. >> larry: really? >> yes. they love that. >> larry: how are they doing in school? >> they are doing very, very well. there have been some announcements i think that they are going to take a private school next year. but they are doing very, very well. they are all ahead and so are my two. so we're very happy about that. >> larry: are you -- is everybody fathering everybody? is it like it takes a village? >> yes, well, we have to. we're the adults, and they are children, so if we see them doing something wrong, we're going to say something. not -- it's not up to the nanny or the housekeepers or whoever to reprimand them. it's up to us as adults. >> larry: kids come here often? >> no, no. >> larry: do they get along well? the kids? >> oh, yeah. >> larry: because kids always fight. >> they get along very, very well, they -- it's the video games and all that stuff, and having the little fights and just -- and then they get bor

they lost capital. they raised capital which was very useful. they are still deleveraging and reducing the size of their balance sheets and being relatively cautious in terms of the. that is not so much a problem for big firms but small firms that can be difficult. >> people said the banks using government money to help shore .xe(qáhp'd help their stockholders, but are not lending and why don't they use the government money to lend? >> the government money was critical in preventing the collapse of the system in the fall of 2008. it did do that. that was the first and foremost important thing because we have takeskated very close to a globl collapse. i don't want to overstate the case. banks have stabilized quite a bit and they are earning profits. they are making loans, but not at the level we would like to say. part of the reason that the government money has not gone into lending as much besides the caution in deleveraging bay have done, is that for political reasons, banks have decided they don't want to have government money. they want to g

they if they need to enforce our border. lo and behold, there is one place they can't and that's on federally owned property like the national park in arizona. where apparently by 32 miles of border with mexico that's a park that has now been announced to be closed to american citizens because there are too many illegals going across that land and tearing it up and some have gotten violent and killed even border patrol, even law enforcement people in that area. we can go on private property to protect our border but we can't go on federal land? that's outrageous. and rob bishop has a bill to deal with that and so do i and rob has really done great research on this, has really been a leader in the area of bringing this stuff out. we got to do something. that is outrageous. we need defense and we need to give a 25-mile, at least, area for the border patrol to patrol and say, that's not going to be national park wilderness area because our border means too much. we got people wanting to come in here and destroy our way of life.

if they want, they kept it. if they lost it, they came to us for help. that game is over, everybody. [applause] we are cracking down on those playing with our money. they -- we want to make sure it that the policies will be reformed. i'm confident that this week we will improve the conference report and pass it very early. we're bringing accountability to wall street. we are all accountable to the people of this country. we need to see what these people on wall street are doing. from now on.be able to see that just a brief word on health care. health care. anyone that says, how could you afford to do health care? we cannot afford to walk away from it. it was bankrupting our country. 16 of every dollar spent was for health care. it would be thirty-five cents of every dollar. people complaining about not being able to afford this, during the first 20 years of our health care reform bill, we will reduce the deficit by $1.5 trillion. and we did not get a lot of credit for the wellness programs and other things. it is wonderful. we've extended the life of med

they could do it good they want. we want the american people to understand that flow rates are developed under models. that's governmental with third parties. i think there's a lot of talk about transparency. you need to be assured we're doing this and we're -- >> we talked about here, chip, the amount of oil that heaks will help determine the -- the fine that b.p. incurs. while our interest relies on capping the well, we would never ask b.p. to tell us how much oil they think has leaked in order for us to determine the compensation and penalty that is to be derived from it. understanding that again the flow-rate technical group was stood up and as the admiral said countless times, a response was not dictated upon a flow mechanism. but the group was set up because when he a -- hold on. we had a better idea and could use better equipment, nasa equipment. equipment from all over to get as best an estimate as we could for an event that is happening five -- 5,000 feet below the surface of the water. the analogy somebody

once they see it then they deploy.ight now they have deployed where they need to or feeling they need to apnd policing it because we have to continue the integrity of the boom and it will be an ongoing process. as long as that thing is pumping oil who knows how long it will go? >> what do you tell your constituents on a daily basis? >> the only thing i can do is keep your chin up. if you are out there working laying boom i don't have to tell you anything. i know you are doing it because your heart is in it and not because there is a check in it although the check is important with people out of work. this is about saving an area that we love. as i told people, i grew up hunting and fishing town here. all my life i fished out of the marina. i tphknow his politics, one thi we agree on is he the saltwater marshes, preservation of the coastal wetlands and conservation for the fisheries. we don't differ on that. >> thank you. >> see you. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2010] [captioning performed by natio

they are professionals. they are scientists. they are committed.get into difficult challenges -- host: they are committed to the company first? guest: they could go anywhere -pbut they believe they are beig honored and respected. when environmentalism moves from protecting the by a spear into ideology and we get a political ideology driving behavior of certain environmental groups, that kind of ideology is phallenging many different aspects of the way america operates. is it truly science or is it just an attempt to be a barrier to what they don't like? the image of polar bears -- the question of should there be arctic drilling and the notion of the polar bears being threatened. the polar bear population is the largest it has been in this country since polar bears began making a comeback in the 1950's. polar bears are very dangerous beast and the eskimos, the inuit people of the arctic region are worried about that population because people died when polar bears attack them. i am not suggesting for a moment that we should not protect polar )qbear

they say that they hadn't heard a word about this. nobody is denying that the russians have been up to stuff like this. it's just that this particular operation seems to have been very closely and well held. >> brown: had you heard of something like this in the works? >> yes, for the past couple... not in the works now but for the past couple of years there have been these types of reports. the key thing here is to bear in mind after 9/11 the united states, president bush and president putin at the time had a gentleman's agreement that they would not conduct using their diplomats, they would be using spying inside the united states. the key thing that so far they've adhered to this gentleman's agreement. they've been using the lower levels and the plants that these people in these communities they have been using that network flagrantly. it has been brought to the attention several times before and only now have they decided to act on it. and to break up these networks because they've been flying under the radar in these communities.

s so that they could have a portion. they could get a sense of their portion before they eat it. that would also slow the process down. so we're asking people to change their eating behavior a little bit, a tiny little bit. >> suarez: the dramatic increase in obesity here has been followed by a similar jump in the number of type 2 diabetics. in fact china is now home to the most cases of diabetes worldwide. experts worry about the implications that has on the country's fragile health care system. >> the problem with obesity is once people are fat, they are prone to certain diseases. those diseases will work themselves out in the health care system. it's the fragility of china's health care system that is the big worry. >> suarez: bigger portions of higher fat foods are not the only culprit. not long ago china's streets, even in the big cities, were full of bicyclists. now that people have money, cars and motor bikes have taken the place of bicycles. there are 20 million cars on the road. that number has tripled in just ten years. the tradition of morning exercise in the park stil

they should not be regulated like they did. i encourage my fellow conferees to keep one thing in mind as we start our deliberations. do not forget that new opportunities, innovative products and services, and economic growth are born from people willing and able to take risks and invest. we should not attempt to regulate risk out of exissence. thank you, mr. chairman. >> the gentleman from new york. >> thank you very much, chairman frank and chairman dodd and all my fellow conferees. especially thank you, barney frank, for pledging to make this the most open aad transparent conference process in the history of our country. certainly our goal of protecting consumers and stabilizing the financial system is among the most critical challenges this country faces. as we work to combine the house and senate versions of this financial regulatory reform bill, our goal should be to strengthen consumer protections and market integrity of permitting legitimate financial innovation. the financial sector employs millions of our citizens and

. >> they get the respect that they believe they deserve more in russia, syria, iran, in china. and therefore, they are looking for alternatives, and they are not willing to put all their eggs into the western basket. >> woodruff: ray suarez gets a rundown of day one of soccer's world cup from sports writers christine brennan and david hirshey. >> they call it the beautiful game and i think that if you just sit down and pay attention to it you really understand the skill level and appreciate that. it really is a beautiful game is . >> an mark >> lehrer: and mark shields and david brooks offer their weekly analysis. that's all ahead on tonight's newshour. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> woodruff: the numbers out of the gulf of mexico painted an even darker picture of the oil disaster today. and they raised new questions about how l

they are pd by the issuers they rate. managing this conflict requires that moody's balance competing interests of two group the investors and moody's schairers and the investors and the debt that moody's rate. during my time at moody's management did focus on maet share and ofit margin. so a question that i often ask myself is this, did the competition among rating agencies in the securization markets lead moody's management to overemphasize the short-term interests of shareholders? i don't know. i can say that it isxtremely difficult to know where the line shou be drawn between these two competing interests. while short-term profits are easy to measure, bond holders interests are served by e zealous pursuit of an illusive but distant goal, the right rating. in my opinion, addressing the conflict between these two asymmetricgoals is e most important task the sec fes in its regulation of the credit rating industry. i've described my ideas on addressing this issue in a published article that i included in my testimony. than

they need to know what they need.knew. -- they note i knew. >> we went to high school together. he went off to be a movie star and left us here on the west bank. [laughter] >> are you feeling better today? >> better. i am dragging. i'm not going to stay long. i wanted to tell you so you could stay with us. early on, we saw right after the accident, we knew that we were going to have problems. they said that the dispersants would make it sink and it is not coming ashore. so we had asked for, because businesses right here, and we knew we had to stop the oil here. we have asked that jacked up votes -- we have asked that jack-up boats, the president did not hear about a plan so he said put that in the plan. we've gotten one placed here. one on this side. and at the or kamen, we send additional boats. they sent does no more additional boats. we go by the coast every morning and night looking for oil. the first oil that came ashore came ashore in a storm. the next morning at 6:00 it was there. it was over in this area. thre

they knew it and believed it. if they could not make it in the east, they might go west. they might hacked out a piece of the wilderness and get rich, you know, in the boonies. there is some truth to that. there was no equivalent -- not even those boston people -- it was a permanent authentication of status. >> we have video from a series we did on the chateau. you can see what it looks like. it is in normandy, not far away from omaha beach. we did not go to the beaumont village. you can see it there. the ancestry -- we have not been in touch with them for 13 years, but another count live there. it came down to him through his wife, who was a descendant of one of the brothers of tocqueville. >> he had no children. that is why it went to his brother. >> why is that? did they decide not to have children? >> they wanted to. he is very dynastic. he wanted his name to be inherited. who knows why? health problems, perhaps. >> back to the beaumont comments, "the americans are a nation of merchants, devoured by a hunger for wealth that brings many far from honorable passions alon

they were...was like they were part of the american military command. >> kroft: lewis believes it was done by foreign spies who left corrupted thumbnail drives or memory sticks lying around in places where u.s. military personnel were likely to pick them up. as soon as someone inserted one into a centcom computer, a malicious code opened a backdoor for the foreign power to get into the system. so, presumably, nobody at the pentagon is plugging in... >> lewis: they've banned them. >> kroft: my impression is most people understand that there is a threat out there. i don't think most people understand that there are incidents that are happening. >> lewis: you know, i've been trying to figure out why that is. and some of it is the previous administration didn't want to admit that they had been rolled in 2007. there's a disincentive to tell people, "hey, things are going badly." but it doesn't seem to be sinking in. and some of us call it "the death of a thousand cuts." every day, a little bit more of

they tried, they tried to recover, they tried to recoup their dignity but they didn't. i even had victims after years after those cases were over with call me and try to get another bearing in their life. and some unfortunately even committed suicide based upon that sexual crime committed against them by some sexual predator. society needs to understand that. that these real people have real emotional problems. madam speaker, there's a rogue judge loose that is out of touch with victims and he seems to be a judge that is very sympathetic to the criminal who commits sexual predator crimes. let me give you some examples. in the state of connecticut, that state passed a version of megan's law which requires sexual offenders to register after they're convicted. this federal judge said, eh, that's unconstitutional. because, as he said, quote, it stigmatizes the sex offenders. in other words, it hurts their little feelings that they have to register on a sexual database. seems to me that he was a criminal sympathizer. but, the united states supreme court unanimously overruled

they have the duty. they are the responsible party. we have a duty to oversee them and we are doing that very aggressively. >> [inaudible] >> based on what they know, they are going to be drilling through. they anticipate it will be harder to drill through rock and other sediments. we are getting a daily update on that. they are slightly ahead of schedule right now. we stopped -- it is mid august for the first well. regarding the deep driller 2 that was taken off station, one that was being deployed and we thought there was an opportunity to cap the well, when the one option was to put a blowout preventer over the one that is on there. they deployed one. they went out and started a relief well. when they started the top kill option, they thought they might be able to stop the well with mud, to put a plug in. there were going to put another emitter on top of it. they stopped drilling operations for that time to deploy if that was needed. it was not. they went back and resume drilling. they are still on schedule to complete their portion

they cannot over leverage. they cannot go from 12 to 12321. better oversight. -- they cannot go from 12 to 1230 to one.+ this is just like with the bp oil's bill. we had an agency that was supposed to take care of that. we had an agency who said there was things they need to do that they were not doing. they were just suggestions. why did they not require this? there was a lack of effective oversight. i think the american people before we create more bureaucracy, they want to know that thh bureaacracy that is here, the sec and others, are doing their job. i think mary schapiro is doing her job. for markets and capitalism do not work if it is abused. i am not sure that capitalism, free enterprise, and all of these thingssi believe in -- look at what happened. maybe we ought to let the government protect us and come in and doing more management. they may not say thaa and they may ot know what they are advocating, but we need strong consumer protection. >> you expect your republicans -pto support thii bill if it remains on the same path. do you w

people think that they understand what they are going to do and what they want. some of the people just wanted a democrat and not a republican. once the agenda really came forward in light of current events with the economy, clearly the president was saddled with a mess. they want leadership. they wanted someone to fix the economy, not necessarily everything depth he said he would do. george bush sometimes misunderstood his mandate. so did bill clinton. this is nothing unique to president obama. i think that he is just dealing with the strains of government in a time of crisis. host: the financial regulations bill, there is word that the white house wants to get it done before upcoming g-20 meanings -- meetings. what is the timeline that the white house is looking at? the spokeswoman said that the president was looking forward to discussing the financial overhaul. is that at all practical? guest: democrats really want to get this done. they have got the votes and they feel that this is the one big thing, speaking of big things on the president's agenda, they can

they just said they did not support it. at that point, it looks like the bill was going to come up for a vote this week. host: we want to get you involved. we are talking about campaign finance loans. -- campaign finance funds. the numbers are on the screen. please allow 30 days between your calls. john bresnahan of politico is our guest. what about unions? do they fall into this language as well? guest: there would be covered by that. they would not be exempted. host: who is for it? who is again ist it? guest: the chamber of commerce and a number of other organizations feel this#ua is n infringement on their activity. they are opposing this bill. also, other progressive groups such as sierra club. what happened is that during the week, there were complaints about the exemption given for the nra. the democratic leadership decided to lower the limit on a number of -- and lower the limit on a group. but the sierra club does not like the bill anyway and is opposed to it. they're going to oppose the bill anyway. it and differe

they want to come want but they are not on.h as thank you and keep up the good work. >> thank you very much. i know you all are used to it. [unintelligible] you got to keep going in some ways. thank you. we will try to do everything that we can. thank you all very much. [unintelligible] >> oh, my goodness. ok, take care. >> it met a lot. -- it meant a lot for you to see what they were doing. [unintelligible] where is it? it was going to be a long dam hall. people don't know the direction and the scope. >> they are good people. >> i am standing on top of it. this is the hard boom. no, this is 18 inches. >> the plans approved so far to not address all this paris. 30% of shellfish produced in louisiana, and this entire estuary here. the beach runs along here, with thick oil running for the passes beginning at 3:00 this morning. a lot of that oil is out in the barataria bay. there was sheen that they were not able to get. we don't expect they will be able to get all this time either. where scattering them out in this parish. >> peo

who they hire is who they say they will hire. we will enhance our immigration laws with some common sense additional things like what they did in arizona. we can implement a plan where we train our local and state law-enforcement officers on how to enforce immigration law in south carolina. we are doing it in charleston and buford. it is actually working. destiny. >> you say that workers earn $86 -- $186 million a year. say that we did for all of thee. all of these illegal immigrants, who will fill these jobs? a lot of them are hard labor jobs. >> i hope that they would the south carolinian. the last i checked, it was 11.6% unemployment. we are looking to put people back to work in south carolina. bless them. this nation is a nation of immigrants. we have laws to do that. if you want to come into this nation and do it legally, god bless you. if you or knowingly and wantonly -- if your knowingly and wantonly breaking the law, then we will do what needs to be done and that is to enforce the law of this land and get you out of this

they said they were both. the categories i am using are not indigenous to the region of the world i am trying to describe. because they mean something to us, they help us get our minds around things. on the issues of culture wars, abortion, gay riggts, gender roles, the family, there is a meat and potatoes social consensus in the catholic church that by our standards will come across as remarkably traditional and conservative. if you want to see how that plays out and a christian context, look at what is happening in the anglican community. you have liberal churches that are pressing ahead with the blessing of same-sex unions and the ordination of openly gay bishops. all of that is being ferociously resisted by an anglican constituency in the south. 41 million anglicans are in africa. there are more practicing anglicans in the nation of nigeria alone than there are in great britain. that is a clear indication of which way the winds are blowing. once you change the subject away from the culture wars to other is

the argument they always use for what -- for why they had to do what they did is that they need leverage against the consolidated delivery system. i think if you look at what we need in this reform, we probably will see, through accountable care organizations, more integrated delivery systems, and generally, and increase the amount of consolidation on that side. that will give a push for the insurers to consolidate as well. i do think it is a challenge. some consolidation is good, but we have to be careful that it does not becomm too much consolidation. >> cherries, if an insurance company walks into the door -- shares, if an insurance company walks into the door, what kind of reception are they going to get at the justice department? >> they will certainly speak to anyone that wants to talk to us, and we will look at every transaction on its merits. we look at facts. without the markets. everyone knows, health care is a fairly localized market. i agree with your characterization of the blue cross, blue shield of michigan case. i believe that was a case to let folks know she is serious.

they have been trained and our exports and what they do. they can describe in ways that can be replicated consistently so we all understand what we are looking at. -pthen they put it altogether in documentation and put it into a data base so we can generate reports, and every day we come up with things like this. this is a shoreline map. it is a cumulative maps showing areas of heavy pollution, medium, and light pollution. the blue areas showed no oil. we know exactly where the oil is, what is there, and what it consists of. that is essentially how we generate things. then we go and work with the guys in the main room with the red jackets on. they are out there in the field organizing. one of the other things i should say, we have people from noaa and polaris who essentially were the architects of this process 20 years ago. you need to be experts at what you are doing. plus all the local folks, louisiana state representatives, who are critical in making sure that what we are doing is absolutely the right thing to do. we do it right and did

they know what they need. we explain to them this has a possibility of collapsing if we do not put reinforcement up. would you like to be a part of reinforcing this ball -- reinforcing this wall, building channels in the camp, clearing areas that need to be set aside for drainage? all of a sudden, people are owning their own protection. >> they are cleaning. i cannot say that. they are making some area for food there. >> are you worried about the rain? is that why? are you worried? >> exactly. about the rain -- you are very worried. maybe in may it will start. the rains will be beginning in may. >> ok. >> some will go back into their homes when the rain starts. others will go to live with friends or close family. others will probably move to other areas, what we call proximity sites, which are areas that will be cleared of rubble where people can set up their own shelters or tarps or structures that are going to be better than tents. >> there is a kindness, i think, to haitians, and a willingness to work toget

they want to be for the american dream. they have been told what they can achieve. jobs will still be a big issue for them. i also think that we are all about issues. that's why we got involved in politics. that's why we worked on campaigns. that is why we do weird things like knocking on doors in cold temperatures. that is not normal. we are not normal people. when we take ourselves out of this bubble, it is a little bit odd but there are people who vote on flexibility and personality. it is something i call the beer factor. you might want to have a beer with ronald reagan rather than jimmy carter. you would rather have a beer with george bush or senator kerry. that personality factor in the political world is overlooked because we are motivated by issues. with the scott brown campaign and how we used on-line video is to make a personal connection, is possible for all types of voters. that is something that cannot be overlooked, flexibility is a huge. >> i will ask you the same question. we will take q &a from the audience and a couple of seconds. something we have

they say they have their own plan, but over the last 14 months of debate, they never advanced it. when you look at it, you can see why. they roll back the rebate that helps to pay for prescription medicines, they brought by the doughnut hole, they took away the insurance provisions that major insurance companies are not cheating folks who are paying their premiums. their plan would continue to allow companies to allow not giving coverage when they are sick. >guest: 1 in 10 senior citizens are going to get a check. you have to show that you want to help folks, but who is going to pay for that? the nine other people. if someone does not get a check, you have just paid for someone who it is. i watched the president's meeting. i do not doubt his sincerity, but i look through this bill, and plot of times there is a disconnect between what he is saying and what in hell lot. he talked about fraud and abuse pn medicare, well, we need to do with the waste and abuse in medicare. his office says the amount of money we will save a is minimal compared to the amount of waste, fraud, and abuse t

they wonderhy they only foc on the mos narr view. mrtko: i had ump nch with the other side of the chamber and shake things up. but we have been joined by our colleague from oohio, mr. bo cherrr who is doing a fan tass particular job and a real fighter. mr. boccieri: thank you for taking on the challenge of setting the record straiggt. just as an aside, a few years ago as a state legislator, i was watching c-span and you and congressman ryan were talling a few years ago and i thought wow, how neat would it be to stand beside each other. so it's an honor to share this stage with you to talk about how we get our country back on track and getting our economy moving again. i agree thht america has to be the producer of wealth, not just the movers of wealth. we have to invest n our work force. we have to invest in things that are going to make us different than the rest of the world. and we have that here. you know, you look at the computer, our space program, you look at things that have been invented here. things don't happen by accident

they got on the stick and i got on the pawn and they started to work all the different ways they couldtimulate recruitment. recruitment jumped dramatically in the afghan army. we pressed general caldwell -- are you saying that these young men in the countryside were listening to the speech in west point? he said that was not the point for the point was that the leaders of afghanistan got the point. that the bad get moving and they did. it has had an impact in terms of recruitment. to is very, very important number one that we have a long-term committed to afghanistan and i very much support that, but that it not be that the principal source of their security is the continuing large presence of american troops. that is what that th -- that is why that july 2011 date is an important part of that policy. you have general mcchrystal and general petraeus who agree that -- oh agree with that. i asked general mcchrystal if he agreed with that. gol>general thpetraeus also agrees with that. what happened to down the road they think our troops are needed. general petraeus said it would be his o

they felt strongly that they did on theirs. and they felt strongly with the language covering part of the language covering part of the language on this extension. so a group had to be in business for at least 10 years. had to be around for at least 10 years. so they've brought in other advocate groups that also fell into it. so the idea was, dump $10 million into it and then use that to run ads against congressman joe shmoe. i'm not sure that in doing that they -- on the rights of other individuals, but disclosure, as a journalist, disclosure is a good thing. the more, the better. so i think there's a lot of folks in the press who would like to see at leleast some >> tomorrow on "washington journal," are retired general -- a bat and retired general talks about the response of the gulf coast oil spill -- a retired general talks about the response to the gulf coast oil spill. ylan mui talks about new credit- card rules. joan lowy talks about a new request to open up their space to unmanned drones. "washington journal," is live a

they weren't w. >> larry: did the parents testify? >> yes, they did. >> larry: they weren't there.t did they have to say? >> they -- well, tonya has filed a federal lawsuit in which she says, quite clearly, that they perjured themselves. lied about what had occurred. >> larry: parents other than the ones manipulated? you say parents, she is one of the parents. >> that is correct. the parents of the two little -- the two main accusing parents. >> larry: the father? >> yes. the people that were involved in repeatedly questioning and manipulating the children are all the subject of the lawsuit that tonya filed to try to put a stop to this business. >> larry: did, in your opinion, the prosecution jump the gun? in other words should they have prosecuted this case? would you? that is hard to be objective? >> i testified as an expert for the prosecution for a decade. i quit being a psychologist and went to law school to try to put a stop to this business. not only did they jump the gun, it is our sense that they fraudulently created evidence that they did terrible things to the families a

they are still there and intimidating and they recognize that, but they are fundamentally, they have been displaced, but they certainly haven't been defeated in that particular area. we see an increase in the number of teachers who are there. there are some 80 plus teachers they are and squirrels are open where they were no this is a very tough fight, but we see steady progress. an increase in the number of local government of afghanistan employees from in the 40s a few weeks ago to over 60 now. so we recognize the significance of it. we wreck denies the challenge of it and it is going to take some time. we see an expanded rule of law taking place there. it is very gradual. this is a very very tough undertaking and it is going to take some time and i would not ask routinely, when will it be-- when will we be successful in marjah specifically and it is hard to say that, but all e indicators are moving in the right direction as tough as it is. >> i have another question for secretary gates. i think all of us are watching this very closely and especially those of us that are seeing this

when they do, they consider equity as of way out. -- they consider bankruptcy as a way out. host: what kind of timetable to you look at as a way to get back into the housing market with a good credit rating? guest: it depends. there are 1.7 million projected bankruptcy is this year, and every case has its own story. chapter 7, the debt or is that go from most unsecured obligations that are not secured by property. the law promises a fresh economic start. in chapter 13, the debtor pays some of the debt pursuant to the repayment plan by the court. that takes anywhere from three to five years. after that, the individual is generally able to re-enter the credit market place. we are an economy, for better or worse, that runs on consumer credit, so access to affordable credit is very important to exist in our society. but it does take time. people have been through a bankruptcy typically have problems accessing the kind of affordable credit that is important to our being on -- in to carrying on in our economy. individuals, as i said, have two basic options -- chapter 7 bankruptcy,

>> i think they would have a better way of reading of what they did and why they did this. i think the president's objectives in this were clear. this provides certainty in peace of mind for those in the gulf. if there was any wonder or concern that they would not be made whole from the disaster, they did not call it. i think carol mentioned this briefly, that the story that the president spoke of with the chair at the end of the meeting in the oval office, the president as the chairman when they were talking about what is happening in the gulf, and they are discussing the parameters with the board and other executives, it is the people he has met in these four trips, the people in grand isle, pensacola, dolphin island, who for four generations have fished on these waters to make a living, who have invested their hard earned money and their sweat in building their business. those are the people that the president has been bogus: throughout this process, and he believes that is what bp should be focused on as they are discussing this. >> is there a danger president obama is

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when they come here, they take when they stay home, they take our jobs. apart from floating suspended over the rio grand, it's hard to know what they should do. that trend really created the modern united states even after implementing the law that was supposed to get us out of this mess. regularizing the status of those here and meant to slam the door on the rest. you get the idea we have reached a pique for the number of foreign born. just over 10%. >> what would you guess is the number one birth country for americans in 1950? ireland. then germany, great britain, canada, france switzerland, norway and italy. switzerland ahead of mexico of course by a tremendous margin, mexico. china, the philippines, cuba, el salvador, cuba, the domincan republic also more likely than average to have more children. this also require a more degree of social services tend to live in a house that has a low enough assessed value to not pay much into local municipal value to fund public schools. all three are vying for a top as someone who is trying to be a close observer o

and they can do whatever they want and they have. and the solution is always more taxes, more government and more government control. and so on the one hand, you have the rule of the big brother government taking care of things anyou are guaranteed that you can't fail because the government will always be there to bail you out, not just as a big corporation but an individual. the big government will bail you out. but it doesn't work that way. all of human history shows us is that one of the most dangerous things to human beings is big government because big government has killed more human beings than all the wars of history combined. just take communism alone, it has killed more people than all the wars since the time of christ. so this faith in big government is a very, very unlikely thing to put your faith in. the other choice is freedom, the bright light and fresh air saying go out and do the best you can, you may fall on your face, but get up and try again. we protect life, liberty and pursuit of happiness. mr. broun: whave one

they are spending money. they have had along time to establish intelligence networks and they are alive and well and very tive. >> president karzai has made a point that he is at least open to the notion of reiterating the were modern elements of the taliban into the new system. can that wor or can that strategy be viable while at the same time we are experiencing the systems building that you have been describing, and at the same time also pursuing the more extreme elements on the battlefield as other options? >> it would be very 92 say that we repeat it would be very naive to say we can eliminate those two can identify with the taliban. in many ways is a troubled country. most pashtun areas that are insecure or have lacking securit are not taliban. because of the geography where they go to their sanctuaries, to pakistan and iran, their training camps, naturally that area has become t most sensitive area. we have taliban who belong to the northern parts of the country, but nobody talks about that. the intern

or what -- when they want to make it sound greenist, they say they have an organic constitution. so they can do it like, what do they call it when the japanese shape the trees and tie them? bonsai, they sort of bonsai the constitution so we make it provide shade and protection in one area. never mind. i'd like to just run through as we get toward events that are so current they are now pending, i would like to run through a series of cases just of habeas corpus thing will help you sort of put in a frame of reference what's happened in the united states over the course of the last century. we'll take a big jump from andrew jackson in 1816 to get up into the world war ii area but perhaps one of the most interesting habeas corpus cases of all times was the quirin case. it's part of history that somehow escaped my junior year in high school where i thought they told me all there was to know about the second world war but either they missed this or i missed it. but there were eight individuals, saboteurs, released from submarines off the coast of long island in new york and florida, o

they can raise capital. they can shrink lending. you also have to point out that the programs we designed from the beginning are only available for banks that we believe would be viable. these are important programs because they will help the banks face less need for shrinking balance sheet. >> i am over. i just want to make sure that there is no reason to change anything, we will stay steady on the same course? >> i am a very careful, pragmatic person, and i am open to any ideas, but, at this stage, i believe that the programs we have within the tarp, and the existing programs with the fdic and the new small- business lending initiative is the best mix of solutions that we have found. >> thank you, mr. secretary. mr. mcwatters. >> i will start with an easy question. a soft ball over the plate. does the administration plan to test congress to extend tarp beyond october, 2010? >> no. this hearing should be a eulogy for tarp. we're working very hard to put this program to rest, put it out of its misery. it will not solve all of the pr

although they thought they could. they lose jobs or their income goes down.they were really the banking system and not just the banking system but all the mortgage lender that were not even bank the shadow banking system that we call it. they really stopped sticking the standards that had been around for decades for. hundreds of years off good banking and that's why this all happened. congress did play a role by pushing them to make more loans but still, it >> before heading off to canada this morning for the gathering of g-8 and g-20 leaders this weekend, president obama took a moment to speak about the financial regulations built it up house and senate negotiators work through the night to work out a compromise. the vote was along party lines, and the full house and senate could vote on the bill next week. . to work to pursue a balanced pattern of global growth and repair our financial systems. this weekend in toronto, i hope we can build on this progress by coordinating our efforts to promote economic growth, pursue financial reform, and to strengthen the