i mean, he write this brilliant book, jack henry abbott.s in jail almost from childhood, and he write in the belly of the beast, which takes you inside the american inferno of the worst jails. mailer champions him, gets him freed. he turns around and stabs richard adan, the waiter in the village. how do you feel about that? have you ever defended somebody successfully who went out and committed a capital crime? - it's never happened. it's my terrible nightmare. i've never had a client who i've gotten acquitted who has gone and done it--or done it again if he did it previously. it's never happened to me. but, boy, it really gives me nightmares. i don't take cases involving people who are ongoing criminals--at least, if i know that. but the abbott case, what happened is much more interesting. i don't believe that normal mailer actually freed him from prison. when i met with him, i had done a lot of research, and i came to the conclusion, the reason he was freed from prison was because he was a fink, because he was an undercover guy, because h

really tell these youngsters when i go out certainly i have an opportunity to say that they have an abbott because i've had this opportunity doesn't mean. he wanted to shift the terms of the discussing away from individual achievement to structural barriers to individual achievement. what if instead of plucking out the most talented individuals from the negro leagues major league baseball and chosen to incorporate entire teams entire organizations bringing along all the african-american owners and management as well how will history have been different if black athletes had more power and independence from the start rather than having to adapt themselves to the existing power structure and sports and in turn how might our view of ourselves as americans have been different if we'd grown up learning about the triumph of black teams and organizations rather than the triumph of jackie robinson alone. le bron james is the kind of go lactic talent that holds the potential to redefine basketball. but he's also declare that he has aspirations beyond sports games a seven he has two goals in his lif

expertise could be being used to shape the future political landscape of a vulnerable region nor abbott's r.t. london. is news ing of a war of words to new players are being one of them us tons of money into the house laments that foreign english language media is putting homegrown news networks to shame she's asked congress for more castro's americans and broadwell while he came forward investigates where the money is actually growing. since one thousand nine hundred forty two the us has broadcasted its closure and politics around the world . how about the full weight. transmitting in over fifty languages to the tune of seven hundred forty five point five million dollars per year but what happens when people. start tuning out more and more u.s. funded media outlets designed to promote america's image abroad are channels in search of an audience but taxpayers are still footing the bill and. america has sunk one billion dollars into al who are an arabic language news network author and professor bill see that says the networks model is stuck in the past when american news was welcomed by s

expertise could be being used to shape the future political landscape for the vulnerable region nor abbott's r.t. . stay with us here on r t still plenty more to come including losing ground and see the carbon emissions are part of arms for us media to up its game we assess why it may be losing out for and how. we three hundred kilometers north of moscow to show you one of russia's all those towns keeping up with the twenty first century. first though there may soon be going where few have gone before but for now the only place they're heading is back to school the next crew to the international space station is today sitting down for exams to make sure they're fully prepared. as more of a star sitting you're much jeff. the examinations will take place over the next two days as the team will have to pick out a special examination ticket in x. out according to the instructions in their ticket and they will be graded not just on their performance in usual circumstances but also they will be able he will have to be able to perform well in emergency situations essentially they will have to be pr

expertise could be being used to shape the future political landscape of a vulnerable region nor abbott's r.t. london. now when gadhafi began trying to improve his image in the west here announced weapons of mass destruction and over suspects in the lockerbie bombing and hired us spend afters to lobby congress and sway american opinion and that office wax on k. street had included the livingston group and also the law firm white and case but should we really be surprised km equitorial guinea to saudi arabia k. street lobbyists are unbuffed tarnished reputations with saudi p.r. so does money really trump morals when it comes to political relations earlier i posed this question to graham wizner attorney with the firm patton boggs. there are certain people out there who do seek help in washington from lobbyists and oftentimes their human rights record is so tawdry that it is impossible to cleanse them and no one wants to get involved in that game as well if you go into the state department and make a case for a human rights abuse or and don't fully revealed the depths of those problems you w

abbott and to remove a price on carbon if they were ever, ever to return to this side of the chamber. part of us used to understand, mr. president, the importance of businesses that used to understand -- that used to understand the importance of market mechanisms. >> time's expired. time has expired, senator wong. can she outline any alternative approaches to putting a price on carbon and what risks these alternative proposals may epgender? -- engender? >> wait a minute. when there is silence -- the minister. >> mr. president, really there are no real alternatives from that side. the only alternative is more risk, more uncertainty, more fluxing. they brought an action on climate change, they brought a no to reform but they do not how to do it. perhaps they should take some heed of what what was said in recent times and on the record as saying first their policy to deliver fossil reductions is a recipe for fiscal recklessly. and it's a recipe for fiscal recklessness. but we also -- >> senator wong just resume your seat. when there's silence -- when there's silence, we'll proceed. senat

it's unrealistic to report the same composition at every single time that abbott. -- that i have that. i do not want have to have report every time i send an e- mail either. but every quarter, it i think that misses the point in that this really is an effort to record a dialogue. maybe it is too late. maybe i can i get my message heard. in real time -- i cannot get my message heard. in real time. >> it is not my job to help you do your job. i am a lobbyist. i have a strategy. i am meeting with people. if i am doing my job correctly, i am meeting with everyone on the committee. it is not my job to do my job for you. if you want to attract to buy and meeting with so you can go in behind me, that is not what transparency is for. it is not to help you do your job. it is the helps people see him we're meeting with. can i invoice and get a paycheck at the end of the month? i would be happy to do that. >> is about the integrity of the process. that is why when a more realistic reporting. >> me doing your job so you can go in and asked me to send your message, that is not transparency. >> par

research done by abbott laboratories at the advance photon source at the argon national laboratory were crucial to the development of an aids drug which is now the world's most prescribed drug for fighting aids and h.i.v. virus. cutting back on the funds for argon national laboratory, dismissing one-third of their scientists and engineers as the house republican budget calls for, cutting back their research by 40% to 50% for the remainder of the year slows down the use of the advance photon source which is utilized by virtually every major pharmaceutical company. and does it work? here's living proof. coletra, the most widely prescribed drug for fighting aids developed at the argon national laboratory. the house republicans say slow down, stop, we'll get back to you later. can we really say that in world that demands innovation and research, that is looking for solutions to problems? if we cut $1.1 billion from this account as the house republican budget suggests, facilities at the national laboratories in my state and across the country will shut down and workers will be laid off. that

host: north carolina, abbott on the line for democrats. good morning. caller: good morning.ould like to say this about the tea party. i do not even recognize the tea party. they are a distraction. if they wanted to save money and stuff, why don't they go back and pull out all those contractors from iraq and use that money? that would save billions of dollars. let people do their own thing. they want to talk about saving money? all these confederate states have insurance with the state. the state employees have insurance with blue shield blue cross and they let them raise the prices and still from the people. medicare and medicaid take care of the crimes. host: cincinnati, ohio. ron on the line for republicans. caller: good morning. thank you very much for the forum, c-span. before michelle bachmann was a tea party member, she was a republican. it seems to me that the tea party is more about fiscal responsibility than trying to create their own party. here's a point that i would make. when you cover michelle bachmann and the tea party's influence in the budget this morning, i

governors all across this country right now including my state of texas, and i know attorney general greg abbott is very concerned about, you know, what do we do now because we don't know? >> there isn't anything now done -- >> i look forward to your written response to the letter i spent you a month ago, and i hope you will provide that for us. we heard some of the questions have already centered around some of the issues of mandatory funding within the law that was signed last year. and i'm particularly concerned about section 4101 both a and b, 4101a provides mandatory spending for the or construction and only the construction of school clinics. 4101b creates new discretionary funding for paying the doctors and nurses who are going to work in those school clinics. i guess the question is, why is the construction mandatory and paying the staff discretionary? >> that's the way the bill was constructed by members of congress. >> by members of the senate finance committee staff. and to take up where chairman upton was talking just a moment ago, i would draw your anticipation in the law to -- atte

include the illinois tool works, caterpillar, the largest manufacturer in my state, motorola, monsanto, abbotti.b.m. and pepsico. right now there is a backlog of over 700,000 patent applications which they are struggling to clear. buy -- think about that, 700,000 inventions and ideas that are waiting to be legally recognized so they can go forward in production. this bill will streamline the operations and adjust the user fees to make sure the agency clears the backlog. the bill takes steps to improve submission of information to the p.t.o. pong pending applications, and i want to know it keeps user fees low for small start-ups and individual investors. in past years, there were some parts of the bill that generated controversy, including provisions relating to damages and venue and patent infringement lawsuits. the good efforts in this bill that have been negotiated have resulted in these provisions no longer being a subject of controversy. i know we'll have some amendments offered to the bill, and i expect we'll have a good debate on it. i expect at the end of the day, we're going to have a