amy trailing behind me. the young mother slept on her bed, her boyfriend attentively by her head although they looked more like prom dates than parents it was an enduring image. where's the baby, i whispered to amy who still followed. there, amy answered. her voice flat as she pointed across the room to a small bundle on the other cot. not going to make it, she said. what, i said? i put on gloves and gently unwrapped the blanket. i found lifeless flesh that unleashed from my hand just like the cadaver in medical school. i scooped up the baby cradling my thumb and index finger while his limbs flopped loosely to both sides. consistent with my previous estimates of now 34 weeks, the child was about twice as large as the palm of my hand. it should have been enough time to survive. i inspected the baby with a growing sense of remorse. the wrinkled flesh that rested on my arm had no obvious deformities. his body although minute appeared properly formed. had my use of the medicine to treat his mother caused this aw

conte was away so i waited for amy and zuri to respond. although short seizures are not really emergencies if they last too long they can lead to permanent disability and death but the nurse's lack of reaction became increasingly worrying. were they waiting for me to do something? [laughter] >> i'd made it clear i was just a medical student doing research. although i'd helped out with leila's malaria episode my position was in the far back corner of the room during any hospital emergency. so, i said? trying to spur them into action. [laughter] >> what do you guys think? my heart pounded in for my chest and the adrenaline now coursing through my veins had wiped my mind blank. i tried to remember the standard medical regiments used for seizures in the states but i'd been doing public health work for the last year. my past clinical work suddenly seemed a vague memory. well, sometimes we give valium, zuri said. should i get some? [laughter] >> yeah, that's right, i said. feeling stupid that i had not remembered the name of the drug. go get som

joining us on the phone is the executive editor, amy walter. let's ask about this story of this dinner, both the remarks by the former speaker of the house, and the on-again off-again appearance of the alaska gov.. guest: so much of this is driven by the ambivalent feelings that a lot of republicans have about sarah palin as a messenger for the party. on the one hand, she is still somebody who i think will be able to raise money and energize the base. there will be candidates running for reelection in 2010 who will watch her on the campaign trail with them. on the other hand, there are lots of republicans who look at the election results from last time, especially those in suburban areas, who say that part of the problem was that she was unable to broaden the message, and we need to find a new messenger for the party, and we need to stop looking backwards, and start looking ahead to who the next leader will be. host: let me share with you one of the clquotes from "the hill" newspaper. host: do some people view sarah palin as a joke? guest: if y

when amy's going through tests and i'm sitting in a hospital for ten hours, i would take a break andnk about my goal swing. i would talk to butch, and i think that even though we didn't hit any balls, i actually got my swing to where we wanted it and i'm very optimistic about my ball striking this week. i think the key for me will be on the greens. i putted these greens very well in '02. if i can have a good putting week, i expect to be in contention on sunday. i feel like my game is ready, but you just never know. i feel like emotionally i'm better, but you just never know. >> well, mickelson's wife amy, who almost always accompanies him to the u.s. open, will not be here this week. when i asked him this morning what she said to him before he left, he said she'd made it clear she'd like a certain silver cup in her hospital room as she begins her treatment. scott? >> thank you, wendy. golf can be a cruel, cold business, and tiger woods is standing between amy mickelson and phil and that trophy. didn't play wednesday. got his work done monday and tuesday, nine holes each, and as we we

why, of sure. >> amy bolten. >> amy is to go to prison for all things chicago-related. chris matthews is supposed to be here but there's other programs -- [inaudible] >> that is what people remember. >> yeah, i do. be careful. all i am a lawyer. -- wired. thanks for coming. it's been interesting, right? >> it's been a great experience. >> how long have you been with marino? >> two years and i worked for a trade magazine. >> what was the trade magazine? >> it was treed manufacturing. >> what's that? >> fiberglass, airplanes and stuff. interesting. i got because i can be passionate about anything and it's true. >> good, good. thanks for the efforts on the book. i hope it's been fun. >> it's been a lot of fun. >> good. a lot of interesting moments, that's for sure. >> definitely. [inaudible conversations] >> danny lavina. >> nice to meet you. >> dear friends of ours politically and socially and very concerned. they are very good citizens. [inaudible] >> came from argentina and number of years ago. >> we have made very important friends. >> what do you do? >> that is a good

>> thanks, is really exciting to watch amy a couple days ago when she was interviewing today. it is quite an amazing achievement, not going to the whole story, but she took a lot of courage in a effort to win a completely unprecedented case. i don't think there has ever been a case of a settlement like that that was where the evidence which had been, in fact, gathered in nigeria. it was so strong that the corporation not only settled, but even allow the settlement to be public. indicating their concern that they might be exposed in trial. well, let me say a couple of words about the title which has always is short-handed. there is too much sand a variety to make a sharp distinction between us and them. and, of course, neither i nor anyone else can presume who

amy walter is joining us from the hot line offices. the headline is "state to get a disputed $700 million." >> this long-running battle between south carolina's republican governor and the republican-controlled legislature is finally over. mark sanford had refused -- he argued that it would actually devalue the dollar and run up a deficit in the state. he had refused to implement the legislature's plan. they argued it was to fill gaps in the education funding for the state. the supreme court weighed in yesterday saying that the legislature, not the governor, is the one with the purse strings. the legislature wants to spend the money. it is their right to do that. the governor must help them do that. in other words, he cannot block them from doing this. in some ways, it was a blow to mark sanford, who had made this a very big cause. he even embroiled his attorney general, who is also seeking the governor's seat in 2010. mark sanford is not seeking reelection. the question is what impact it will have on his 2012 ambitions. today, the sta

and amy will not be there with her husband, she will not be at next week's u.s.but never far from her husband's mind. >> i never felt this emotional. i never have been this emotional where i am driving alone or something i will start crying, it is kind of a weird thing. i am looking forward to having a four or five hour mental break, if you will, where i force myself to focus on something else and i am looking forward to that. i am not playing just to play. i think that the golf course that suits my game and i love playing on that course and in the new york area, and i am playing here because i believe i can win next week. i don't know when i'll be able to -- when i will play again. i mean i just don't know what our treatment schedule will be like after surgery. i don't know really when that will happen. i don't think it's going to be for awhile, but i don't know exactly what we're facing yet. >> john daly also makes his return to the pga tour this week. the six month suspension is over. playing in a place he call home, daly says i can still salvage a great caree

phil mickelson makes an emotional return to the pga tour weeks after he and his wife, amy, discovered she has breast cancer. cñgÑ >> back on "espnews" updating you as to what's going on in the national league, the pirates have beat the braves 3-2 after a late garrett anderson home run in the bottom of the ninth, they held atlanta off at turner field, reds with a 2-0 lead over the nats, and they're three outs away, but there's a rain delay in that one, and going into the bottom of the ninth, 4-4, the phils and the mets, cole hamels gave up those four runs, and the cardinals pummelling the marlins, 13-4, in the bottom of the ninth, just outs away, rick ankiel with a homer, and he scored three runs, and the rockies and brewers in the bottom of the sixth inning, brad hawpe had an rbi double in the fifth breaking the tie, astros tied at one, geoff blum an rbi groundout. >> angels and rays just finished up, lackey looking for a win, but he got bounced around. pena, opposite field, it's going to go. 18th home run of the season, rays up 6-3. bottom five, runner-up for willy aybar, and that is

greg dean and amy milberg. we thank you immensely from senator enzi's staff. worked very, very hard on this. and i want to thank jim fenton in my office and rachel holt and jeremy sharpe, who's sitting next to me here, for picking up a lot on this effort, along with senator kennedy's staff and senator enzi's staff and making this moment happen. there are members of the majority leader's staff as well that we always have to thank that -- lula and tim and others who really made this possible, the floor staff as well. we thank you all very much for what you do in making these moments possible. and again, as senator durbin has said and senator enzi and others have said, this is an historic moment for our chamber to be able to do something that 50 years ago -- monica fife, i should have mentioned, and i apologize, as w.30 years ago the surgeon general warned us of tobacco use and a half a century later, we're about to insist that the agency in charge of food and drugs and cosmetics and pet food be also be allowed to include tobacco. and so we're about to do that. a

press, miami tammy amy jeep dodge. he told me his dealership was perhaps the top seller in the south florida area and top in the country seems like the kind of dealership you would want to see continueed the other is in central florida holler chevrolet. i've grown up in central florida, holler is synonymous with chevrolet in the central florida region until bill hurt chevrolet ceased to exist, they were number two. presumed now since they are no longer around they would be the number one dealer in the central florida region how in the world does it make sense for a dealership like that to also be on the the list for close yures and in addition to the top seller they also have excellent customer service they know how to do this business, they've been in it all their lives so the specifics of this is what rhyme or reason is it because of this? because it is people's lifely hoods and businesses so we need to understand that this so we can understand these questions. i think they deserve to understand the rational why a de

half of his head is in golf, and half of his head and maybe a lot more is thinking about his wife, amy, and the treatments they're going to start shortly after july 1st. so it's pretty clear to me. he's here, he's giving it his best. he's trying. but understandably so, i'm not sure his heart is 100% into golf this week. >> he's here to tune-up to play at beth page black next week. do you think there's anyway that he can go to the u.s. open and win with the state of mind he's in right now? >> well, sure. he's still phil mickelson, he still has that splend did game, he could get drafted behind the fans in new york, and get drafted behind all that excitement and his play. but it, you know, it's going to be really hard, i would think. he's phil, but these are extraordinary circumstances. it would be a fantastic story, but i'm not sure even he could pull this off. >> it would be a wonderful scene if he could be in contention next week. the other biggest name or biggest story at the st. jude classic, the return of john daley after a six-month suspension. he's lost all that weight. seems to b

. >> phil mickelson is returning to the pga tour for the first time since he and his wife, amy, has discovered that she has breast cancer. mickelson who expects to play at bethpage next week is making his emotional speech in memphis. >> we're going through a tough time right now. we won't get started on our treatment until july 1, and in the meantime, we're fortunate that we believe we caught it early enough to where we don't have to rush into decisions and we can make some good long-term decisions, decisions that will hopefully prevent this from recurring as well as decisions that will hopefully beat this quickly, and we're getting ready to get started. in the meantime, i'm going to play these two weeks -- these last three weeks have been -- kind of an interesting thing is that i've never felt this emotional. i've never been that -- this emotional where if i'm driving alone or what have you, i'll just start crying. it's kind of a weird thing. but i'm looking forward to having a four or five-hour mental break, if you will, where i kind of force myself to focus on something else, and i'm lookin

and finally we have amy, an original member of the n.p.c. softball team. [applause] >> of the old washington senators it was often said washington, first in war, first in peace, and last in the american league. substitute nationals for senators, and national league for american, and you can describe the situation for our local major league team today and today's speaker. in fact, it is hard to think of anyone that has had a worse season than the nationals except for perhaps the republicans. [laughter] >> today's speaker, stan kasten formerly served as president of the atlanta braves, who ran off an unprecedented 14 straight division titles. the braves haven't won since he brought his baseball expertise to the nationals. so far, however, a success on the ball field has eluded the nation's capital, despite a new stadium, attendance is down unless you count the red sox fans, so is the nats as won-loss record. still, they did beat the yankees two out of three earlier this month. [applause] >> by the way, that is the team that mr. kasten rooted for as a kid. wh

. >> amy argetsinger a columnist from "the washington post", a lot of people think this summer is the time of light reading but i think that is the time to read the big bucks last year i tackled the fountainhead comments this year i am looking forward to read -- i tried 15 years ago and could not do it i started a new translation i have been chipping away but i am halfway through and probably on vacation i can finish most of it. when new pulitzer prize winning book high book talk about one, i will finally read manhunt, the lincoln history which has been out for a few years now. and a couple of other things. the story of edgar saw tell everyone in my family has read. , some light reading is called for a double by too finally tackled "twilight" i liked the movie better than expected and everyone says the books are even better. . . . >>host: joan catapano what new books as university have coming out this year? >> all of the posters on the table top display are all brand-new books. as you can see we have a series of new books coming out with african-american history including this biograp

speaking of which, i think we should take a moment to thank senator amy klobuchar for the incredible work that she and her staff have done. they have done a great job over the past six months carrying the burden of two united states senators. she is an extraordinary public servant. i do not reach this point with any big regrets. i have always believed you do the best you can and you leave the results of to a higher authority. i am at peace with that. as for my future plans, that is a subject for another day. we live in a great country and a great state. by some path we do not know yet, one which we can all come together to lay out, we will arrive at a better future that we all seek. thank you and may god bless minnesota and continue to bless the united states of america. [applause] >> this obviously means that we're ruling out any appeals? >> i have congratulated al franken. the election of november is over. we will work together to support our new united states senator. >> was it money? was it in english? -- was it anguish? >> it was a long progress. we had a chance to enfranchise p

[applause] [applause] [applause] >> thanks, is really exciting to watch amy a couple days ago when she was interviewing today. it is quite an amazing achievement, not going to the whole story, but she took a lot of courage in a effort to win a completely unprecedented case. i don't think there has ever been a case of a settlement like that that was where the evidence which had been, in fact, gathered in nigeria. it was so strong that the corporation not only settled, but even allow the settlement to be public. indicating their concern that they might be exposed in trial. well, let me say a couple of words about the title which has always is short-handed. there is too much sand a variety to make a sharp distinction between us and them. and, of course, neither i nor anyone else can presume who speaks for us, but i will pretend it is possible. it is also a problem about the word crisis, which 13 have in mind? there are numerous very severe crises, many of them will be under discussion here, in a couple we said the united nations and their confidence on the world financial and economic

those courses were amy at. maybe it is not true in medicine. i know it is true in education. >> let me help answer that question. i think we're getting some good feedback. i would harkin this group and this commission to take a good look at why the institute of medicine is and what it does. they pulled together national experts. there were able to publish an unbiased, non partisan view. one thing that it highlighted was confidence and health care. i certainly have a tremendous amount of respect for teachers. one of the other pieces of data that you can certainly read from is the report and the importance of concordance between groups in terms of understanding particular patients. here is where we get to the heart of cultural competency. understanding the patient and being able to understand the patient. that could be a hispanic patient or a russian patient. it is about understanding the cultural background of that patient. when we are talking about cultural compensate, i think we are focused on race and ethnicity. this is about understanding th

greg curl replaced amy brinkley as boa's chief risk officer. given the fact that mr. curl fwaled to unless $12 billion of merrill lynch's losses, it is wise to have mr. curl be your chief risk officer? and did you approve of that decision? >> mr. curl didn't miss the instruments which caused the loss. what happened is we did not anticipate the meltdown of such a significant proportions in the fourth quarter. so we -- he identified everything properly. no one thought things would get as bad as it did in the fourth quarter. and i made that decision. >> you made the decision that mr. kerl should go ahead and become the coo. >> i made the decision for him to become the cro. >> let me announce that we have two votes on the floor and that we will recess for until 12:30, we will be returning at 12:30 and of course continue the questions. so the committee is in recess until 12:30. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2009] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] >> the meeting will resume. may i remind the witness he is still under oath. we will

that should be amy any harvard education in my mind are we getting that? in washington d.c. it's 17 thousand. we i don't think the answer is throwing more taxes into that system. how we start figuring why aren't we getting 12 thousand dollars of education for each child in school? >> our guest founded 19 schools internationally. why did you do that? >> well i'm a bachelor and i don't have much to do, society is rewarded me far in access of anita lent or me right so i use my money to build schools overseas and i have a wonderful partner from the, mgo community. a guy that grew cynical about some of the things we saw over zoos and he and his wife build schools. many are schools for just girls. some are both have wonderful business model as attached so it's a school and or fan age and they raise boiler check ins and they sell a crop and that supports the schools on-going. there's actually about 21 now and 10 to 12 thousand children in them. cross afghanistan, in the pal and africa. we're starting to move to latin america up and i name them all dorothy burn after my mom. >> repu

democratic senators amy klobuchar, jean chretien, barry blanchett encorps mccaskill spoke about the nomination on the senate floor. this is about 20 minutes. >> mr. president, i will be joined on the floor by some of my fellow women senators to talk about the president's nominee for the supreme court. aldus some of my colleagues on the other side of the aisle came to the floor yesterday and went to as one news report described it to kick off their campaign and against her. so we want to take this opportunity to get the tax out, to correct any misconceptions and to set the record straight. the supreme court confirmation hearing for judge sotomayor will begin on july 13th. , but my consideration of her will not begin then. i began considering her the day she was announced because of the member of judiciary committee, i want to learn as much as i can and will be about president thomas was to fill one of the most important jobs in our country. even though there are many questions that will be asked in many areas we want to focus on i would like to speak today in about how judge sotomayor appears t

. >> i am amy crowley from southern mississippi. my question is i work a lot with, specifically the baptist church at methodist church and politics, and one of the trends i am noticing is a push towards their saying that in politics, especially in the conservative movement, there is so much talk, they're wanting to go to we will just do this action and we don't have to worry about politics, how can we explain to people who have that view that talking gets you nowhere, we need to work with people, our voices are still very important because i agree with you that our voices are powerful, how can we talk with them and tell them if you shut up, no matter what work you are going to do, there are going to be people making it harder and harder. >> excellent point. excellent point. i am doing a lot of thinking about that recently because as i speak to young people, you have to start speaking out. people across the country have to start speaking out. when they start talking about issues, in several races, peter king, the new york congressman

it's now time for amy of patients first to make an introduction. >> thank you, grofere. i wanted to tell you quickly about two efforts that we are undertaking with americans for prosperity and the americans for prosperity foundation. first of all, we have a petition that is online now under patients first and the website is joinpatientsfirst.com. this petition is basically protesting against everything that you've heard here today, saying we do not want to have ration care, saying we don't want to have delayed care, denied care, or any more government control over health care than we already have now. in fact, we'd like to see less. we'd like to see real reforms focused on patients. i encourage you to join patients first, join patientsfirst.com and check that out. i also have the privilege of introducing today someone who has been very helpful to all of us americans in sharing her own experience and telling her story. and i'd like to give her a couple minutes to introduce herself to you. hopefully she can do any interviews with anyone else who would like to speak with he

with his wife amy's breast cancer treatment set to begin soon. >> i have never been this emotional wheref i am driving alone, i will just start crying. it's a weird thing. i am looking forward to have a 4 or 5 hour mental break where i can force myself to focus on something else. i am looking forward to that. i am not playing just to play. i think that bethpage is a golf course that suits my game. i love playing on that course. i love playing in the new york area. i am playing here because i believe i can win next week. i don't know when i will be able to play again. i don't know what our treatment schedule will be like after surgery. i don't know when that will happen. i don't think it's going to be for a while. but i don't know exactly what we are facing yet. >> because of his wife's illness, phil mickelson has been away from the tour for about a month. get this: since 2004 after layoffs of 28 days, mickelson averages 3 and a half shots more in the 1st round of tournaments than he did when he has shorter time off. he finishes 2 shots worse with a month off than with less time away. >>

on june 3, amy brown, who is a lawyer for the affected chrysler dealers, had the opportunity to cross examined the aforementioned mr. nardelli , and was asked why it was necessary to eliminate the franchises when neither the government or fiat, the group that's buying chrysler out of bankruptcy, asked for it to happen. mr. nardelli said the 789 dealers represent a host of expenses. then he was asked to quantify how much those things cost the automaker, and mr. nardelli said he couldn't. he wasn't sure if his company had ever determined those exact costs. at a hearing last week in bankruptcy court they had a number of dealers in, and there are a number of dealers here on capitol hill today testifying in front of the energy and commerce committee. just three quotes from car dealers who testified up in new york and the bankruptcy court. leo jerome who owns a car dealership in lansing. i just want my day in court and give me a fair hearing. after hi a 10-month supply of cars, they gave me three weeks to sell them all. i think the white house mafia is trying to run this thing through. tony

>> my name is amy walter, editor in chief of the hotline, unlike most people i have dreams for what out like to read this summer although i don't know how many will get red but top of my list is john mecham, his new book american lion about into jackson. i love to get at least one good political biography in a summer and believe it or not sitting on the beach with truman one year was quite lovely. it seems odd but it is true. i have started but not yet made its as much of a event in the new book breakthrough and so that is another goal of mine as well. if we are going into the fiction category, although this is non-fiction fiction, quirky, some people don't necessarily appreciate his sense of humor. i personally find him hysterical. when you are engulfed in flames is a book that came out i think probably a couple years ago that has been sitting on my nightstand, that one will get red especially. a good play in a book or a pick me up for those days when i just can't slog through much else. what is also going to get read this summer because i have a two and a half year all the, in a lot o

so there are other incentives besides preme amy reductions. >> can we vote on harkin 4? >> a voice vote. >> all nose in favor of harkin number 4, say aye. >> aye. >> those opposed say no. >> the ayes appear to have it. >> i have an additional amendment i want to offer. >> all right. then we'll go back. >> i didn't actually offer an amendment. i was -- >> that's true. >> go ahead with senator binghaman. >> i have one i hope doesn't take very long. this is amendment number one. it provides for modernization of our national disease surveillance system. amendment was developed in close collaboration with the council of state and territorial epidemiologists. it's been endorsed as standalone legislation by a lot of different health ground, incl e including the american public health association, american society of microbiology, infectious diseases society of america, the center for infectious disease research and policy. the national public health information coalition and the society for health care epidemiology of america. at the current time, many parts of the local, state

>> i am amy, a reliable source, is for the washington post and i'm looking for to my summer reading list. a lot of people think that summer is the time for light reading and as far as i'm concerned is the time for reading the heavy books. last year i tackled the fountainhead of a ricin vacation. it this year i am looking forward to pushing anna carona, i tried to read it 15 years ago and could not do it and came up with a new translation would just aren't on vacation in february from a chipping away at it but i'm half way through and probably on vacation will be able to finish most of it. with the new pulitzer prize-winning novel by elizabeth strauss the, i will take a look at that, and i will finally read the manhunt, the lincoln history by jim swanson which has been up for a few years now, and a couple other things a the story of address i tell which everyone else in my family has read and raved about or america by, and some light reading is called for and i hope to finally tackle twilight. i love the movie more than nine expected and everybody said the books are even better. >> to sey

freshmen who have come to congress in john boccieri of ohio and glenn nye of virginia and especially to amy o'donnell of my staff and jackie sheltree. we refer to this bill in the short form just, frankly, as providing an independent inspector general for the financial services committee that are in such desperate need of this oversight. i thank the -- i think the chairman outlined it well. the genesis of this bill took place from conducting a public forum back in my district and listening to former republican mayor of south windsor, connecticut, john mitchell, and our attorney general of the state of connecticut, richard blumen thall. the idea, when -- richard blumenthal. the idea, when we were looking at commodities and the market, we realized the more and closer we looked at who was regulating these agencies, it was somewhat a case of the foxes guarding the hen house. many have asked, and when they went home over the break and since the financial collapse on wall street, people have been astounded in trying to answer the question of how could it be that bernie may dauf was scamming thous