and we were having discussions about things that were not heretofore unimagined a few months ago or even a few years ago. and as we transition into this discussion about guantanamo bay. the discussion will go on. if there are a few of them that could potentially be facing the death sentence. a few. i guess i should pass my request over to the gitmo closing czar and ask him how many are facing a death sentence. let's look at it in this fashion and that is, looks like -- they are going to close guantanamo bay. they will disburse these people. some of them are likely to be released in the free world. some into the united states of america. these are the worst of the worst. we have about a one out of seven residism rate. the least dangerous is the most accurate way to describe them. out of those 558, we see a rate where they turned around and attacked american people, one out of seven we know. i don't know what percentage we don't know. if one out of seven will come back and attack americans when you pick the best of the worst, what will be the attack rate on free people when you release the

. >> bob: it's amazing how things can change in the game of baseball from a week ago or a week ands amazing, i was talking to some of our bloggers, it's amazing how we are watching almost two different teams. >> rob: well, yes and no. the talent has always been there. for a while, the steps was unbelievable, getting 10 runs a game, 10 hits a game. now, when you have to play close games, the pitchers are up for the effort, guys are scoring the quality runs you need to win some of these ball games and the bullpen is holding the lead. with this team, the one thing that has changed is a lot who are veterans down there fight to keep their jobs at the major league that's getting quality outings out of the bullpen. >> bob: jose bautista bats for brett cecil. ross detwiler in the 8th inning and getting a well deserved strike call from james hoye. there is b. j. ryan, the only member of the toronto bullpen that did not perform last night. and you don't want to walk the leadoff guy in a situation like this, much less everitt. you know, basically, your manager has rewarded you by saying go ou

when i first contacted tony probably three or four years ago now, he was very receptive and tried to know that his story was being told and we had an amazing conversation but then i talked to him a week later after the first conversation and he said i'm glad you are recording my story but i have to let you know when i realize you're putting my name on the web and broadcasting and publishing it in books and papers i had motion sensors installed in my house and i bought a gun. i really hope is my real name. in the other activists and away thought tony was betraying his past, that he had become a coward but then i went to visit tony on his remote spread near delores, colorado and when i actually saw the motion sensors he had, indeed, install and i did see the gun as i entered into his house right there. i realized how these people have become and so it's kind of interesting bit as people were open and aware and very glad to put this aside and other people were open to begin with in the '50s as they become older and isolated they actually retreated once again back behind a pseudonym.

i don't know that -- as you have said all i am not sure that anybody even a week ago or so would have expected to see the courageous images that we are seeing now. i will say that i think that there are those in iran and of those throughout the middle east that have noticed a different way of operating by this country and that they have seen and i think we have seen -- we have seen improved, some of improved relations and i think we have also seen improvement at the end the way this country is thought of by many countries in the region of the world and i think that is tremendously important not because we all have to feel better but because there are very important foreign policy and strategic interests that we have discussed a lot in that region of the world. i do think that -- negative keillor seeing in iran -- i think you are definitely witnessing something extraordinary. i did you are witnessing something many people might not have presumed or imagined. like i said even just a few weeks or a few days ago, and i think part of that is sort of what we discussed earlier and that is i

a decade ago or more it was almost unheard of for a trainer of a good horse to run in the kentucky derbyip the preakness, and come back in the belmont stakes. this makes six belmont winners in the last 11 years that fit exactly that pattern. you can say something for fresh legs. >> 2004 belmont winner birdstone has sired two triple-crown race winners. summer bird today -- kent desormeaux gets the victory in the belmont. >> gentlemen, thank you. as randy moss explained, an unusual trend here. coming into the race rested seems to be a popular method of victory at the belmont. six of the last 11 belmont winners have come by horses who raced in the kentucky derby and skipped the preakness. summer bird followed the same path to victory has his father, birdstone, 2004 belmont winner. >> the red wings were halfway to getting their names engraved on the stanley cup and the penguins had an inscription on their tombstone. we're not ready to make funeral arrangements for pittsburgh and not ready to crown detroit. after two straight wins on their home ice, the pens evened the stanley cup final at 2-

three weeks ago -- or three weeks after i called for president obama and the senate colleagues to go see firsthand the facility at gitmo, attorney general eric holder -- he's our new attorney general, appointed by president obama -- went down there. he came back with a glowing report and the facility is well-run by its current military officers. this affirms what i've been saying all along and that is gitmo is a state-of-the-art facility that provides humane treatment for all detainees. it is fully compliant with the geneva convention. now, when the war supplemental came to the floor in the senate, i was extremely pleased that democrats and republicans in the senate joined together and announced that they would not include the $80 million in the war supplemental to close gitmo. sadly, this bipartisan initiative has fallen victim to partisan politics without any regard for our national security or the wishes of the american people. senator reid, harry reid, declared -- and i agreed with him -- in a press conference after my bipartisan senate amendment was passed that -- quote -- "we w

trying to make earlier for a team on the last day of the year whether it's injuries or two years ago orther they played very poorly, he's going to help not the fact we talk about gary sheffield that he can still play it appears at 40, ng to give them the stuff that winning teams need. i mean, he's been through the wars. he is a warrior. >> gary: he has done that. he really was going to be done. he was ready to retire at the end of the year. i talked with him early in the season. sheffield said the only reason i came back was the mets and the fact that i have some friends here and they really were on me all winter and said you've got to come. you've got to come play. he said, so i agreed. boy, are they happy did he. with all the injuries they've had, they've really needed his bat in the lineup. a two strike count on brian schneider who is 1-2 and has picked up an rbi. this has been a very tough night for the orioles so far. had a chance in the fourth inning to get out of it maybe. four runs were scored by the mets. an error on the ground ball that -- ground ball that brian roberts had th

things is your insurance company should be able to deny treatment because you're sick five years ago or your child has asthma and so i think hitting does your friends when messaging to the public is something that resonates and people understand both from this makes sense without having taken into the number of dollars that goes to health care management and highlighting the potential both in terms of unwellness and out comes as well as prostrating. >> is an example of the approach to have which is it is not just about this condition that the swing to diabetes and expanding greatly and giving people does m.r. publicly discuss and quicker to understand the idea don't think everyone knows and is a chronic care and understanding and the more it sounds like on care management system at the more their eyes are glazing over and sing whenever. if you can say people have conditions that are treatable but can't be cured by a blank, blank, blank and i don't know about the way you interact with a different group but the message to other people the more you have of those examples the more is inclus

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another argument they've made, you might know tell similar some of the arguments made 50 years ago or similar to what you hear today the jews had no ancient history, the jews had no connection at all. and they said it is based on the desire to live in undisturbed possession of the country where the arabs continually existed in which they become inextricably interwoven. the jews were not defendants of ancient palesti the declaration was a violation of the league of nations in determination lot and not legitimate and as far as they were concerned the zionist goal was to prepare a jewish invasion to take palestine from the arab inhabitants. the fifth point* where this thing we could figure between bed jewish head of the agency in new york that would become israel's first ambassador to the u.s. he changed his name later, editor of the magazine and her associates believe schultz, now if you know, "the nation" magazine today if you know, how important it was to the zionist cause it was the single major influential media organ fighting on a regular basis on behalf of the jewish state. and ep

or three days ago. or a patient of mine who i was visiting, and they said they now have the primary care physician has the ability to see the hospital records while their patient is in the hospital. they don't have to wait three weeks for the specialist who saw them in the hospital to write them a summary, have it dictated, and mail it to the primary care physician three weeks later or four weeks later. turns out those three or four weeks are incredibly important after discharge for the patient to be following again advice of the physician. it's a very uncertain time. to be able to have contact with your primary care physician during that time and for the primary care physician to know firsthand what happened to you because of an electronic medical record is extremely important to helping them be able to provide the right care for you. and preventing the readmission which is a huge cost for all of us. we have talked a lot about that in terms of infections. there are a lot of reasons why people get readmitt

bush, even while all of the economy was going down, i remember specifically two years ago or 2 1/2 years ago, it was reported that -- there was a debate at one time whether or not we were in a recession because we have not had two consecutive quarters of being in the downturn and all the way up until the time it crashed -- and one point, if i could. because andrea mitchell -- i'm a fan of hers -- but because, i think, andrea mitchell is though related by marriage to mr. greenspan, he is not being covered. not only on msnbc but fox are anybody, they are showing the courtesy because he was married to her, but this gentleman was a big reason, in my opinion, why the economy full of the way it did. host: i will ask a question to john taylor for served in the bush administration is here to talk about the fed. thank you for your call and your observations. two other headlines from another tweet your phone call. the newspaper -- dams ignore obama cut. congressional democrats are largely ignoring president obama's $19.8 billion in budget cuts. the present proposed axing dozens of programs that is

[inaudible] >> it was only i think seven hours ago, or eight hours ago. i have said before that i have deep concerns about the election. and i think that the world has deep concerns about the election. you've seen in iran some initial reaction from the supreme leader that in a case he understands the iranian people have deep concerns about the election. it's not productive given the history of u.s. iranian relations to be seen as meddling, the u.s. president meddling in iranian elections. what i will repeat and what i said yesterday is that when i see violent directed at peaceful protesters, when i see peaceful dissent being suppressed, wherever that takes place, it is of concern to me and it is of concern to the american people. that is not how government should interact with are people were and my hope is that the ironic aniranian people will mee steps in order for them to be able to express their voices, to express their aspirations. i do believe that something has happened in iran where there is, where there is a questioning of the kinds of antagonist

she goss out of prison five years ago or so. since shep got out of prison -- i get this is genetic, another high achiever. she has gotten a master degree, doctorate, works two or three jobs, just got -- is writing a book. an extraordinarily talented person, and did 22 years in prison for a terrible crime, served her sentence, did her dish did what was required of her and now she is out and being a productive citizen. >> host: his father? >> guest: david gilbert. he is in prison near the canadian border, and i saw him a couple weeks ago and i hope he can get out, too. >> host: where did the name said and malik come from. >> guest: named after a belong panther. malik was named after malcom x. those are arabic names. >> host: if you would, bill aayers, walk us through the year 1970 for us. >> guest: 1970. oh, of course. 1970, i was an officer of sds. >> host: students for -- >> guest: students for democratic societies. a major student antiwar organization, and in march of 1970 there was a terrible explosion at a townhouse in greenw

i guess with the cubans back 45 years ago or whenever, we called it then in 1961/628 quarantine. it's not necessarily what many people when say would be a blockade but are we and other countries willing to go much further? >> i mean, we want to work with what we have with the resolution that we have which is targeted the. we don't want to have any -- we didn't want to have any kind of resolution that would harm necessarily the korean people. that is what we're focused on right now, it's only been a couple of days since we have this resolution and we need to work out the details of implementation. but we're going to work with what we have right now. >> isn't the the family, kim jong-il and his younger son, are they, in fact, operating a thugocracy? >> operating --? >> thugocracy. >> that is a new one, it is not the most transparent and and a cattle government derrin in the world and. >> with north korea now fellas belligerent activity and threatening nuclear attack in nuclear war, sell-through rhianna seems to want to extend the nuclear umbrella deterrence written some agreement.

read this guy's novels about new york because they are just -- "the new york times" asked me a year ago or something for my best book the last 25 years and i said "st mant." that's not -- the guy at "new york times" laughed and i said no, i'm serious. to me the first thing an awful should do is to entertain. and that's mostly and entertaining book ever written as far as i'm concerned. [applause] it can still bring tears to my eyes. and if strangely enough life find myself of here with gail collins. now there's another columnist for the times named maureen dowd. i've got that right, right? okay. maureen dowd you know, when she started a column i was still doing a little of that myself. i was up in this island where we lived writing a syndicated column and i didn't have very many papers but among them was one of the seattle papers so i heard about maureen dowd and then forgot her name and picked up the paper and read a column by gail collins and then wrote my column that week and said maureen dowd is the best columnist in the country. [laughter] and then i can't remember the name but the p.i

c-span: i saw an article about him a couple of months ago, or maybe a year ago, about george marshall. >> guest: he did a four-volume "life of george marshall," which is one of the classic american biographies. forrest had exclusive interviews with marshall that stretched over a 10-year period, and that's awfully good. c-span: go back to general eisenhower. what was he like to know? >> guest: he was without any question the most impressive man i've ever met. monty once said of eisenhower, "he has but to smile at you and you trust him at once," and i certainly had that experience of eisenhower. monty said, "he has the power of drawing the hearts of men toward him as the magnet attracts the bits of metal." he was wonderfully concerned; he was marvelously concentrated. i was just a kid. i was 30 years old when i was interviewing him. i'd walk in to interview him, and his eyes would lock on mine and i would be there for three hours and they never left my eyes. and he talked about what i wanted to talk about. there weren't any coughs and there wasn't any shifting of position and there wasn

we had proper to them earlier, a couple weeks ago or a week ago when we were going through this and we had some suggestions back in a few areas. but then mommy started the process here of amendments, we got 171 amendments filed. i did not think this section would incur that many quite frankly. so far, ours staffs worked diligently over the weekend on sunday and saturday. i think we are at the point now where, these are rough figures and don't hold me to an exact number, but we can except around 50 that they worked out. there's about another 30 that they are working on language. if you get the right comma and the right period of the right place, maybe it will work and then there are about 90 left. as i understand from my staff that the republicans that this said well, there's some kind of themes here and you referred to that earlier, the themes and maybe we can group some. there are a lot of different amendments to different people that speak the same thing sold were trying to group those together and see if but for a couple of nuances they can all these sort of offered at maybe as one

pearlstein in the "washington post" pointed out in an article, if nine months ago, if six months ago, or even three months ago back in the middle of march when the stock market was at its all-time low, in terms of reacting to this crisis, if any economist would have said by the end of june, by the end of june, would you be willing to look at a circumstance where the market was up 25% or 30% although it was down today, if many of the banks that we had invested in tarp funds were actually trying to repay those tarp funds, and if we had soon the housing market at least in maybe communities start to substantiallyize, would we view that as a good outcome? well, that is basically where we are. while we have enormous problems we are seeing progress. but, however, one only needs to look at the number of tarp-related amendments filed in the senate this past month. the leader was speaking about the number of tarp amendments that could potentially be on the travel bill, to know, mr. president, this is becoming a lightning rod. some of the reasons for this concern are truly, truly relevant and they

right now and actually consists of a and it is a much more broad base party than it was 20 years ago or so. the state of virginia is a good example. the party is expanding greatly throughout the mid-atlantic and parts of the south and all the west and midwest and has completely basically wiped republicans of the new england landscape so that is the created different things emmet -- dynamic within the party and it makes it easier for president obama to play to the middle and disappointed liberals as he has already and will continue to i am sure on some of the, you know, both issues and national security issues but important domestic issues like climate change legislation moving toward now. certainly the last 45 months have been enormously is a but also a very successful months for congress and the president. and they have worked together on some enormous bills that have come to, that have passed in a very short amount of time. this is a congress that has done very little over the last four or five years and was a lot of pent-up desire for action on different fronts so you saw a lot of bi

this is an example from pakistan of a year ago, or two years ago, we went to the leadership, to the prime minister of pakistan and said we need your help to hold people accountable in the eradication program and get the job finished. and he asked for a map showing where the problem was. someone handed him a map. it was like this, a district map, but it was all green. what it showed, it was over 95% of children were getting vaccinated in every district of pakistan and he said i don't understand what is a problem, what am i supposed to do with this? so we obviously were not properly managing the program. we went back and we said it doesn't count if you say you are vaccinated. you have to have a mark, a purple mark on your finger, every single campaign we marked the fingers of the children and then we look at that to see whether or not they are truly being vaccinated. and a very different picture, as you can see here. were brought in and put in place to objective measures as to whether or not children were being vaccinated. by february of this year, the prime minister had announced his actio

she got out of prison, as i say, five years ago or so. since she got out of prison, i guess this is genetic, she's gotten a masters degree, a doctorate, works two or three jobs, just got a -- is writing a book. an extraordinarily talented person and did 22 years in prison for a terrible crime, served her sentence, did her, did what was required of her and now she's out and being a productive citizen. >> host: and his father? >> guest: yeah, david gilbert. he's in prison up near the canadian border, and the name of the prison just escaped me. i saw him a couple of weeks ago, and i hope he can get out too. >> host: where did the names come from? >> guest: zade was named after a black panther, malik was named after malcolm x. those are arabic names. >> host: if you would, bill ayers, walk us through the year 1970 for you. >> guest: 1970. you mean the year -- i'm trying to remember. 1968, '69, '70, oh, of course. i was an officer of sds -- >> host: students for democratic society. >> guest: major student antiwar operation, and in march of 197

it means you no longer will be denied coverage or charged more because you were sick years ago or you might be sick five years from now. real health reform guarantees that all americans can choose their doctor and their health plan. the president said yesterday real reform will give every american access to the insurance exchange where they can choose to keep the care they have or pick a better plan that meets their family's needs. that means if you like the care you have, you can keep it. but it also means if you don't like the care you have, you can reject it. you can reject it and choose a better plan. real reform would not only cover the uninsured but it would make the lives of all of those who have insurance coverage better. right now the majority of americans, mr. president, who are lucky enough to have employer coverage get no choice. i believe -- and the president said it yesterday -- those americans deserve choice too. now, some might say that this undermines the employer-based system. no, it doesn't. rather, it makes the employer-based system more accountable at the same tim

it would have been nice if they had got a five years ago or even longer, but we are where we are. and that is the only hope i have left. now, the scary part i think is this: if the times and the post with long enough eventually you're going to see national newspapers like in britain and you're going to see washington post st. louis addition, washington post baltimore addition, new york times then addition and they're going to hire tenet of people to create a sort of advanced usa today version of a local zoning paper or usa today gives a couple paragraphs of what your local news is. and they will give you a page and a half of the local mental coverage and because there are offering the times or the post international and national coverage and because you can get that on-line anymore for free because they're going to finally back on the aggregate is like google and yahoo! and return to a combination of this as yet press and reuters, you are going to see this sort of a modern version of the zone in addition, replaced were previously substantive full blooded metro dailies. that is the

months or so ago. many months or so ago i think in a determination made that given what the telecom companies had done, the reasons why they had done it, their interaction with the government, that the immunity provision was appropriate, we have been conducting ourselves on the basis of what i consider to be at this point settled law and as i said, i think the debate one -- >> this debate within the department of justice? >> no, i meant in congress and more generally. >> oh, i know about that debate. i wouldn't say it was robust. i would say it was fallacious. how about the attorney general's position, the position of the department of justice? why not do that? >> well -- >> have a substitution. >> we're dealing with existing law and we're proceeding in that way. >> on the -- on the issue of the substitution. this is obviously not determinative but then-senator obama voted in favor of the substitution. >> if there were something the president wanted to revisit, i would certainly listen to where he is no

. >> which is why the president again, a week ago -- remember a week ago we were a day or so, maybe two days away from the election and the president was asked and responded to images on television that warned against increased violence. we saw that ratchet up over the course of several days. >> last week when i asked you, maybe tuesday or wednesday, if this administration was still open to negotiation with the ruling regime, you said yes. now a moment ago a very similar question was asked, it's hard to say what's going to happen. are you less certain about whether it is fruitful for this admin to consider negotiating with them now? >> i'm not less certain about whether it's fruitful because i understand the fruit that was not borne as a result of not engaging the islamic republic of iran, right? we've gone from zero spinning centrifuges to several thousand. i think that. >> that was true a week ago. what i'm saying is has what happened in the injustice this administration has taken note of changed its attitude about whether it would be worthwhile to pursue negotiations with a regime th

. >> our governor just a week or so ago said we were going to forego a week or so of projects becausee don't have the match. i don't know if i'm saying you for a response. i did want to mention this. our motorists are already paying this at the gas pump. if there is some way to get a waiver from the match. it appears as though we are now going to loose almost $800,000 because we don't have the match. i realize i sound like i'm groff eling here i don't know if i can have anyone comment on that. jo just one comment. the depide answer we issue for the high-speed rail grants. no grant also be required. the time for the gentle lady has passed. >> i guess there's a statement. i'm going to ask for a quick response. in terms of the records kept here. it doesn't sound like we have a red tape problem. do we? >> no, the most resent information we had is that as of last friday, all 50 states managed to meet that test. 15 states have obligated more than 15%. >> it doesn't sound like we have a red tape problem. >> the f.t.a. has a slightly longer period. we have until september 1. currently, we are

i strongly recommended against buying real-estate three or four years ago. i knew it was overpriced come overvalued and lo and behold the prices have dropped 40 or 50%. people who jump in four or five years ago said this is a great investment have lost half of their money and furthermore they cannot get out. we have nobody that will buy them that is a very unpleasant feeling. but this is why one must me cautious in terms of real estate but again in terms of refinancing real-estate cbn is on our crew be said i lowered my monthly expenses by $800 to refinance the mortgage and got an extraordinarily good rate and a nice package that worked well for him. he is not going anywhere for the rest of his life he will not sell the house and for him it is wonderful. if somebody is going to move in one month or one year or two years and may not be a good deal. all of this is here in the book "right on the money" and some of the chapters i would like to read to you just to show you what is here but first it says why aren't i rich. [laughter] and the second one says why do

rise, albeit very belatedly, a transmission system but should have been done three years ago instead of seven or eight months ago. there are solutions for most of these problems. we will be working with them. these are local situations. tip o'neill said all politics are local. this digital television transition is local as well. >> are analog repeaters an issue? i was told that albuquerque was not as prepared because they have so many repeaters. >> only poll broadcast companies were to transition to more. low-power stations are not yet transitioned. some of them are transition and some are not. it could be years before all of the transmission facilities in the united states are operating in digital. that is going to be a long-term transition on top of what we did for full power stations to date. >> we thank you very much. we appreciate it. >> thank you. >> tomorrow on "washington journal," michael f. linder and john lot -- michael ettlinger and john lott. the nathan guttman washington journal, a lot at 7:00 p.m. eastern here on c-span. this week, on "newsmakers," senator jon kyl prepares for sen

100 or more years ago this country decided every young person, regardless of income, is going to get a primary and secondary education because that is the right thing to do and good for the country. but unlike every other major industrialized nation we have not come to that same conclusion that health care is a right. second, if we are to provide quality health care to all, the next question is: how do we accomplish that in the most cost-effective way possible? you can provide health care to all people in a lot f ways, but some of those -- of ways, but some of those ways will eventually bankrupt this country. what is the most cost-effective way to provide quality health care for every man, woman, and child in this country? in terms of the first question that i asked: should all americans be entitled to health care as a right? i think that the answer to that question is pretty clear, and, is, in fact, one of the reasons that barak obama was elected president of the united states. most americans do believe that all of us should have health care coverage and that nobody should be left o

years ago, this was probably 12 years or so ago.d in the "wall street journal" which was -- i thought it was wonderful, it says we're not looking for people who have never failed. we're looking for people who never give up trying. and doesn't that say a lot about the american spirit? and our way of approaching and solving problems. we don't have that aversion to risk. we say that there is a risk that is out there and we know that. and we recognize that. and we take responsibility for moving forward on whatever that project is knowing that there is a risk but then when we finish it, we expect to reap the reward. and that is the way we have -- we have always approached things so not being afraid of -- not being afraid of failure is one of the primary reasons that i think that we're going to be able to work our way to new solutions and being able to address that risk, realize there's responsibility with it and then reap those rewards will help our innovators to find solutions to all the myriad of problems that we have right now. anyone

and then this year if i had told people two or three years ago that we would have a budget this year of $3,600,000,000,000 , nobody would believe that. they would have thought i was ridiculous or crazy in saying that. i used to say, my colleagues, that it was terrible what we were doing to our children and grandchildren. now i'm saying it's terrible what we're doing to ourselves because it's not going to be five or 10 years if that long before we're not able to pay all of our social security and veterans' pensions and all of the things we promised our own people. we have to stop trying to run the whole world. it's not isolationist to say that because i believe in trade and tourism and cultural and educational exchanges and i believe we should help out during humanitarian crisis but we can't keep spending hundreds of billions of dollars in other countries, whether it's done by the defense department and of course it's also being done by every other department and agency in the entire federal government because the liberals found out -- the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has

we started two or three weeks ago and that should be salable early or late next week, see these, we markedy to. when you read these letters out loud, you hear them and see them differently and feel them differently and we think it is an extraordinary collection and you can listen to while you are driving or sitting doing nothing but just want to listen for croaky been right out fourth dose and he looks silly sell what i said we will let you know, . >> hello i am with a youth group called code paint and together with the number of women's groups we're doing a mother's day gathering in front of the white house 24 hours from may 9 through june 10 and it would be the perfect place for us to read together and we would love to have contributors come and read from the book for us. we have three generations of obama women have been invited to come we hope they will join us be cut as the book sounds marvelous. i cannot wait to read about why a better placen

thirty-eight years ago we were here. roughly 13 or 14 years ago we were here. if we miss it again there is no more room demographically or financially to go another 10 years, another 30 years before do something. so i hope that at least until late today after opening statements become back with the notion we're going to dig in for everyone leaves and move a bill to the floor. thank you. >> thank you. senator isakson. >> thank you very much chairman don and i now want to be repetitive it except to say that i join with other members who have complemented senator kennedy and express our regret he is not here and in my 11 years the congress, the two most significant pieces of legislation worked on was the pension protection act and the riding of no gile love behind and senator kennedy was the senate leader of the committee in both cases and led the conference committee in both cases and in the end result came out which benefit of the people of the and states and used to be commended and we all wish him the very best and i thank you at mr. chairman for opening this u

now, i think we do feel differently because just a few weeks ago, we authorized or instructed our own ethics committee to reveal whether or not they were conducting an investigation. that essentially looks into the relationship between earmarks and campaign contributions. they have sense indicated -- they have since indicated that they are. we have the justice department looking into the relationship between earmarks and campaign contributions. we have our own ethics committee looking into that relationship. yet we have, mr. speaker, our own ethics committee still issuing guidance to the members of this body that campaign contributions do not necessarily reflect -- i'm sorry, do not constitute financial interest. in other words, whether or not you can contribute -- give an earmark to a company that company's executives and their lobbyists can turn around and give you campaign contributions the next day or the day before, that's ok, according to guidance coming from our own ethics committee. the same ethics committee that is investigating the relationship between earmarks and campaign

i also agree with you that as little as three or four or five years ago, gm's quality by a lot of measures was up at toyota's, up at anybody. the problem is as you know, consumer sentiment lags reality because for a long time, when the transplant cars were better, gm was living on reputation, then it flips. so these are problems that are not addressed overnight. and i think that -- and so you're right, this is going to take some time to evolve. the government is not going to insist that general motors make good cars. that's not something a government can insist. what we can do and i believe what we have done is help the company to rethink its business model and to restructure its balance sheet. so i think -- >> let me just quickly because i don't want to take too much more time, but isn't the government going to focus on north america and -- >> let me -- let me answer that question. i don't think it's accurate to say we're castrating general motors overseas. i would just observe to you for instance that their european operation in fact is also deeply troubled and provisions are being made

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back in the '50's, 50 or so years ago, especially back in the new deal days before that, confirmations were fairly unexciting. it was not until 1953 that justices -- that nominees regularly appeared before the senate judiciary committee. now we know especially since the board hearings in 1987, it is a passion of political contests, guerilla theater between contending forces that. has politicized the process of nomination confirmation. i think today we know a great deal more about what goes on in a court than we did in 1969. i mean in my clerking days of the '60's that justices rarely talked to the press. they didn't go on cam rax they didn't make a lot of speeches. today there is increasing transparency. it looks like the closed chambers or the benign justices i think do more traveling and make more appearances in general, so the court is more, i think, available in effect to the general public. sixth, changes in the court he's internal process, something that one is not necessary hi aware of that was touched on again in the conversation this morning, that i think the court is a very d

conservatives a generation or two ago are wary as we have been of health care recently, and we've got to think creatively how our ideas that can solve a very real problem. >> the health care and the iraq war and policy exhaustion stemming partly from our successes as you pointed out but another huge thing we can't ignore is the financial crisis. you know, for a lot of people, that's the most discrediting event for free market capitalism, you know, in a generation. or perhaps more, so a huge part of our chore in coming back is -- it has to be explaining the true roots of that crisis and how every instrument of government policy was applied to make the bubble much, much worse than it should have been. but that's going to be the work of years i think. >> that bull's-eye. everything you just said. a lot of it is so circumstantial. i mean, don't misdiagnosis the patient. there's basic world view the picture is still favorable. it's the republican party that's in the drink and the republican party discredited itself to a large extent. and the rich just gave the reason why, but i think let's

i think that's what we saw a couple weeks ago in three or four of the quality hitters. base. nick markakis has struggled. still struggled. melvin mora was struggling. that's three of the first five guys you're going to see in our order that weren't getting on base. weren't getting those business hits or driving the runs in from second base. the other guys will have their days here and there. luke scott was doing outstanding. nolan reimold was doing very good. players like that were trying to pickup the pace. just not enough to overcome some of the pitching performances we were seeing. >> new york mets in town. interleague baseball continues. pitching matchup tonight. it will be mike pelfrey on the mound for the new york mets and jeremy guthrie looking for a win. he's trying to get his fifth on the year. he will go for the orioles. it's the 0s-mets, it's -- o's- mets, it's interleague play at camden yards. getting set for the new york mets. and this is your movies on demand screen. oh cool. (cable guy) so what are you going to do next? who are you? who is he? it's okay.

i could have made a pretty compelling case two and a half or three years ago. is it pacific command? you bet. is it european command? and what about canada? is it their water? how do we work through the policy challenges attended to military operations of here, as is certain will be more than less involved in the out years in operations, or at least guaranteeing freedom of access in the maritime domain, so it is an issue that we are studying more closely. the classics that responses we will take that lesson, but we are working on with european command, through the joint staff. it is complicated. it is challenging. it is important. we talk about the trade, that $1 trillion of trade that our countries do with the united states. the decrease in transit time is startling between the far eastern countries and the u.k. and our nato allies. we can cut a for your 05 steaming days off. an issue of significant strategic and economic importance. we are working in concert with -- not been contest to northern command from a european command, our friends and allies, and the

this disease that struck the washington area a year or two ago, it's bailout fever and we got into this idea that we will bail everybody out. if you're a small business, you will go bankrupt. if you are a car dealership, you go bankrupt and lose $15 million but we're going to nationalize all of this. and what's going on in unemployment is this nationalizing of business. i think there are a lot of people that are having some very extreme second thoughts. this was not going to happen if we voted for that great big porkulous bill. when you say $787 billion, that's more than my paycheck. how much is that? how much money is that? and the biggest thing we deal with on my committee is aircraft carriers. they are big things. you could play a game of football on the deck. they are really big and cost a ton of money. we have 11 in our total fleet and cost about $3 billion a piece. if you look what happened to us in the first five weeks after we have been told that president bush is spending way too much money, we put this bill in place, this was the trimmed down version. on this floor we voted fo

five or six hours ago at 7. the nationals got down 0-2 early on.hen a crazy top of the 12th inning to wind things down. >> it's been crazy season. we've had so many rain delays. it's very difficult. cordera has to come back to the mound and that's tough to do. it's a big part of every athletic event. the momentum changed. >> the 12th inning he got that. there's so many innings. so many rain delays. let's look at what happened. >> it's slippery out there. then like the wheel play. he break and the shortstop doesn't go to third. that tacked another run to make it 4-2. not a lot of offense tonight from either ball club. the reds got out ahead in the second inning. >> they had three hits through nine innings. you really felt like that 9th inning was the best chance for the nats to win the game. because of the way the offense had not been able to function during the game, that was they're best chance to win the gay. >> it really is. you're going to have two or three chances to win minimally. we always call situational hitting. we're hitting less than 20

or advice to help the country along. >> host: a few more calls here, a look at the president from just a new minutes ago in his 55-minute or so news conference. of course, we'll give you a chance to see it again later in our program schedule and online as well, c-span.org. miami, florida, next and this is marie -- excuse me, marie is here on our independents' line. welcome. >> caller: hi. first of all, i wanted to say that i have never been as involved in politic as i am right now during this administration, and i think it's a great thing that president obama is always keeping the people informed by his new, his news conferences. and i think if we just gave him a little bit more support because we have to remember that he's only been in office for a little less than six months, and rome was not built in one day. and there is a lot of issues, and i think it's great that he is trying his best to address every single issue important to americans and all around the world. >> host: lots of questions in this news conference about iran, the associated press reporting today protesters staying off the streets of tehran as troops

growth of multiple opinions, chief justice commented a moment ago about a minute -- and difficulty of lawyers getting guidance from courts or you have splintering of opinions. i think the multiple opinions are more common now than there were 40 years ago. number seven, a phenomenon that i can't explain in some people, the great shrinking dockets. the supreme court, there was a time when they would decide after an argument something like 100 and two cases, this term to read and 80 cases will have been decided in that fashion. why that is so is certainly not something that anybody can be sure about. and those i think you're just a few of the differences. i want to suggest is a completely different tribunal, organic supreme court tradition is very important, but the court operates and things and does its work and wages would not be recognized by the warren court. finally to set it up for my panel, and we're blessed with some of the best and i think most reticulate commentators and the country as you will find out shortly, and i thought i would just put on that in the table several questions of a thematic kind. i am not saying