and we talk about this particular moment a lot because had we gone through the area that is when dillinger was going through that critical area when there was unexpected amounts of forces fighting against the unit and basically the units became entrenched in that area and there was a lot more combat than the expected so we were initially supposed push through that area and go north to in the area and to launch so we could look as the ground forces came forward so we would be in advance of them and be able to see what the facts were. but we were hearing strange enough on bbc radio that that area was being lit up and -- >> host: what does that mean? [laughter] >> guest: sorry. >> host: i know what it means but what does it mean? >> guest: they were just being attacked by the iraqi forces. they were being met with armored units and a very strong resistance and unexpected amounts of really iraq armored unit forces entrenched in that position. >> host: so you could have been there and instead what happened? >> guest: they require a certain kind of fuel and so before we were able to go forward,

we talked today about big business and its involvement with government and the government dillinger out or the amount of money to big business has in campaigns. at this point in his life, james was a real road president and in 1853 the taxpayers in this country spent millions of dollars to acquire land so that the railroads could build a railroad that they could draw great profits from. but that was not his nightmare. it was the fact we didn't need the land to create the southern continental railroad, transcontinental railroad. the white line that you see is the route he showed the senate could be built without making this purchase and it ended at san francisco which is a great port. this one he was talking about in the death scene diego which was at that point in time a military base and went through the land whether it was no commerce, no agriculture or future for agriculture. why were they making a purchase way down there? he suspected there was a hidden agenda. that suspicion was fed by the fact that he tried to purchase all that land in orange and it wasn't $50 million as he sat in

about us based on guilt by association but it's the society as a whole if we understand you the dillingerof this is really about what happens to the larger social group. >> what if we get better and better at relevance. >> guest: one is just the very basic thing of being able to empathize with, understand what's going on and someone else's life for what a different perspective might look like. and if you are exposed to lots of different flavors kind of pieces of information, if you are seeing stories that really to not that relevant but other people calls your attention to certain problems. the thing i think about a lot as homelessness, it's very easy to pretend that problem doesn't exist at all. if you live in certain neighborhoods, you can imagine nobody's ever homeless. that's not a very good situation and at a sort of conference from well-off entrepreneurs and venture capital people and and decided there was a crisis lots of people didn't have jobs in america that wasn't the crisis for them because they don't know anyone who doesn't have jobs, and frankly i don't know of that many peo

for the company's and to the best of my knowledge we have a company that takes tax compliance for dillinger compliance, financial and regulatory transparency seriously and -- >> you are aware of the situation put out by the former miss led. your company [inaudible] why is that? >> i don't have direct knowledge of that. i apologize. but certainly if you have additional questions on that in the future i'm happy to supply written answers, but i don't have direct knowledge and i'm not in the position to answer those questions. >> just a couple more questions mr. chairman. in the news corporation company is the subject of an investigation? >> i have no knowledge of that. i have no knowledge of that at this point. >> are there any news corporation companies of the subject of an investigation by the financial service? >> i don't believe so, not to my knowledge. >> finally, any news corporation company as the subject of an investigation? >> not to my knowledge. we have an ongoing relationship with subsidiaries here but as far as investigations i have no knowledge of one. >> thank you. >> mr. murdoc

but i want to do is separate the concept of fema responding frisch's training and exercising and dillinger those of the state and local government learn how to do it. i think fema has a great role in that response -- in that respect. i started of this whole discussion about some of the people in this room. there is a lot of expertise of the federal level that the state and locals don't reach out to because we have taken and this is an editorial column because we have taken the whole concept of response and recovery of how we deal with disasters both natural and man-made and natural and terrorism, and we've allowed terrorism to permeate all of that and so it has become a clash of cultures in my opinion a culture that says we have to stop, stop terrorists at all costs we will stop any active terrorism. that's well and good. it won't fail. it will fail because you cannot come even if you have a police sting, you cannot stop acts of terrorism. ask the chinese and the malaysians and anybody. i don't care what form of government we cannot stop it so we have to somehow get over the idea, this kin

up joining the team and said i want to read this story so was my first true story, so i can give dillinger nonfiction book i wrote like a thriller because that's what i had been writing so it wasn't like i'm going to sit down and write nonfiction. it's just i was writing fiction then ran into a true story and that's been the way accidental billionaire, same thing. sitting at home and i get an e-mail that to in the morning and it's a harvard senior actually from houston, and he said - best friend co-founded facebook and no one has ever heard of him. so i got for the drink -- this all involves drinking -- and and walks eduardo and he's angry and furious that marked zuckerberg screwed him and wanted to tell his story. so i was in another true story. it's been a weird stumbling my way for nonfiction. estimate there's been an experience for you for example in bringing down the house, you actually were part of that culture and that's what brought -- because i think most -- i want to stay with us for a minute because it think it's interesting in terms of what readers expect when they sit down wit

for the company's and to the best of my knowledge we have a company that takes tax compliance for dillinger compliance, financial and regulatory transparency seriously and -- >> you are aware of the situation put out by the former miss led. your company [inaudible] why is that? >> i don't have direct knowledge of that. i apologize. but certainly if you have additional questions on that in the future i'm happy to supply written answers, but i don't have direct knowledge and i'm not in the position to answer those questions. >> just a couple more questions mr. chairman. in the news corporation company is the subject of an investigation? >> i have no knowledge of that. i have no knowledge of that at this point. >> are there any news corporation companies of the subject of an investigation by the financial service? >> i don't believe so, not to my knowledge. >> finally, any news corporation company as the subject of an investigation? >> not to my knowledge. we have an ongoing relationship with subsidiaries here but as far as investigations i have no knowledge of one. >> thank you. >> mr. murdoc

estimate by dillinger this episode of the revolution at some length on the number of questions because every mexican child and american student has always heard about the million who died during the revolution. first of all, didn't have a million people who died. it didn't happen. we had maybe 300 or 400,000 people die at most, but with one small minor matter. of that amount, roughly 80% died or 90% dhaka from the spanish influenza which had absolutely nothing to do with the revolution. the revolution itself more distinguished historians say people who were actually killed in the ten years or eight years of the revolution probably not more than 30,000 which is not bad, but still it is nowhere near that famous million. >> people like adamite, all of these people have always questioned, but it's become part of the folklore. i give the other a sample which is less serious but more emblematic. it's been given for 45 years now almost that more than 600 students were massacred by the army square of the three cultures on october 2nd, 1968. we are now 43 years away. we have had truth commissio

so many people here and we have a panel with lots to say that you don't go to the microphone and dillinger the ten or 15 minute discourse. we have with us speak of ifill, assistant professor at the university school of law, author of -- [laughter] >> thanks to her michael eric dyson professor of sociology at georgetown university and known across the nation. [applause] the professor of political science and african studies at johns hopkins university. [applause] >> melissa peery associate politics african-american studies princeton but now tulane university. [applause] let's jump in the heat of the battle and talk about the sect of chickens of this book and is the argument about the significance of this book. clearly it's adding something huge to the discussion. i wrestle this book and reading it twice but before those ideas to see if you agree or disagree i'm just curious starting with sherrilyn ifill, what is for you a strong significance of malcolm xa life of reinventions? >> thank you, marc. first the sycophants of courses that manning marable wrote this and that himself represents an

my sincere condolences to the family, and while the investigation to the tragic murder remains on dillingernd because of this i may not be able to comment on that investigation please notify honor his great sacrifice and i am truly sorry for his family's loss. with that in mind, i appear before you today on my own free will to answer to the best of my ability questions you have regarding this operation and my role in it. thank you. >> thank you all. before we begin, i've been made aware that all of you, presumably all of you received from the department of justice council a letter that speaks specifically to your testimony here today. and it's from barry s. orlo to read all of you receive that letter? no, you did not? >> dever issued to people under subpoena and that's normal for any case we have agents under subpoena by defense or others. >> okay. i want to make some clarifications. the letter inverse that you may not be able to answer certain questions here today, and i want to make sure that it's clear that where it says, for a simple, you may not reveal any information covered by a rule

would like to introduce we have a number of young people who are students at princeton university dillinger internships on the hill, my all modern and across all different parts of the government and they are observing the fault making process and learning about it here today. i will yield to the gentleman from massachusetts. >> i guess my question is -- >> welcome to the students. >> let me just thank my friend, and my grandfather who was a princeton alumni coming and i know that there is a wonderful institution. i've had the opportunity to visit, and i have including mr. mr. polis many great friends who are alumni so welcome, i hope you'll have enjoyed your internship, and i guess now that i've gone through all that i get to hear from mr. mcgovern. [applause] one of them is interning in the office of the committee, so i want to highlight that. i will yield to the gentleman from massachusetts. >> thank you. welcome. >> mr. chairman, since you're claiming authorship. estimate what the gentleman yield briefly i would remind my staff that senator leahy is the author of this bill that we have

in the 2007 had diminished significantly as a result of the supreme court's decision last term in dillinger versus united states. in that case the court affirmed the commission's view as expressed in section 1.103582 proceedings are not fulfilled full-scale sentencing. as judge made clear in his testimony on behalf of criminal law committee of the federal judiciary, judges, officers and litigants implemented the 2007 amendment, notwithstanding the considerable resources expended. the commission estimates the number of crack offenders will be eligible for a potential reduction in sentencing will be substantially less than the number who are eligible in 2007. and as in 2007, the commission anticipates a vast majority of the anticipated 3582 motions can be handled on the papers without the need for the hearings or the presence of the defendants. however to minimize the need for the findings, the commission votes today to limit retroactive applications of amendment 750 to part eight ansi in addition the commission amends section 1b1.10 to preclude sentencing reductions below the amended guideli

attorney general bin ladens in dillinger california and he knows firsthand the impact of the mortgageisis because his district has one of the highest rates in the country. to give you an idea of a multi agency approach of the task force he chairs the group with a present if from the civil division here in washington, d.c., the fbi, hud and the national association of attorneys general's. the task force also has developed a comprehensive network establishing financial fraud coordinators and every united states attorney's office. the task force has equipped this network with more tools and better trained personnel by compiling and distributing the guide of the financial databases and information as important, holding the training conferences, launching a website with fraud reporting and distributing information about emerging fraud trends. i know the value of having this kind of individual in the office because all of the civil and criminal listed u.s. attorneys that were quickly can rely on the coordinator to wider than nationally that has never occurred before with all of the best pra

if i am confirmed i will dillinger that more obviously. and work with the committee as required to see what the options are. >> can i ask a question? there was an associated press report about a man who was a senior hezbollah operatives who has been held by the united states in baghdad as a top threat to american troops. he's been accused of working with the iranian agents to basically with their shiite militia to fight americans. and the article noted that he mulcaire dress hezbollah terrorist could be turned over to the iraqi authorities within days and they are within the article if it is reported to be true, the u.s. security officials are worrying that he could escapes or even be freed from the iraqi sit. admiral, are you familiar with the situation? >> no man i'm not familiar with that specific situation. >> i would ask you to follow-up either here or in a classified setting and answer to what is the situation with this individual. and it brings to mind to me the concern with the lack of the long-term detention facility for individua

indeed increase the gross debt of the united states bytrillion $14 trillion dillinger the entire debt of d the united states again in the next ten years.lan and if there is a secret plan that does exist somewhere itade should be made public thisternoon. afternoon let's see it. millions i'd like to. i think many americans would feel the same way.on't summary's just don't work. the president summarized his budget the idea subscriber to thin else calling on americans to live within our means and will not add more to the debt.y now that sounds pretty good. because this year our deficit is be projected to be $1,500,000,000,000. so we would like to be living livg within our means again. we would like to not add more toe the debt, but even by their own analysis the plan didn't do itur and the congressional budget the office analyzed the president's budget and found that in tenlowest sine years the lowest single annual deficit that would occur would be $740 billion. the highest budget deficit president bush had lost 450. the lowest that would be accrued and i would be $740 billion. and it goe

my sincere condolences to the family, and while the investigation to the tragic murder remains on dillingerecause of this i may not be able to comment on that investigation please notify honor his great sacrifice and i am truly sorry for his family's loss. with that in mind, i appear before you today on my own free will to answer to the best of my ability questions you have regarding this operation and my role in it. thank you. >> thank you all. before we begin, i've been made aware that all of you, presumably all of you received from the department of justice council a letter that speaks specifically to your testimony here today. and it's from barry s. orlo to read all of you receive that letter? no, you did not? >> dever issued to people under subpoena and that's normal for any case we have agents under subpoena by defense or others. >> okay. i want to make some clarifications. the letter inverse that you may not be able to answer certain questions here today, and i want to make sure that it's clear that where it says, for a simple, you may not reveal any information covered by a rule 60