and we wrap up yesterday's results and primary contests with dan balz of the "washington post" and amy walter of hot line. >> woodruff: ray suarez interviews susan rice at new sanctions aimed at curbing iran's nuclear programs. >> the iranians know the measures in this resolution will hurt and will severely constrain their ability to pursue their nuclear and proliferation activities, and that's why they work so hard to try to defeat it and today they failed. >> lehrer: and paul solman takes us on a summer tour of the flowers that inspired the verse of emily dickinson. >> fame is a bee-- it has the fall, it has the sting , it has a wing. she was aware that fame is ephemeral. poets are known in one err aunknown in another. >> lehrer: that's all ahead in tonight's newshour. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> will your savings be enough to fund your retirement? what will happen if your spouse outlives you by many years? what will happen if you outlive your savings? pacific life knows that tomorrow's questions require planning today. with financial solutions and str

amy and dan, amy let's start with you.we're going try to run through five raises-- races, let's start with arkansas. with you had-- you have this runoff in the senate primary, incumbent blanche lincoln being challenged by bill halter and she's run into some trouble. >> she's run into a lot of trouble. the fact that she got into a runoff in the first place was a sign of trouble. and usually when an incumbent is held under 50% of the vote in the first round it's very hard for them to get any of those votes back in the second round which is this runoff that we have against bill halter. the interesting thing is this is for all the talk about the insider versus outsider dynamic going on, clearly blanche lincoln as the incumbent is the insider, it's really hard though to call bill halter the clear outsider. when first of all, he is the lieu trant governor, so it is not as if he didn't come from some establishment background. but the fact is, outside groups are really a big key to his campaign. they've funded him through the inte

amy walter, to you first, and focusing on south carolina. an african american being nominated fair congressional seat, an indian american woman for governor. so was this about race, gender, or about the tea party movement that was endorsing both of them? >> well, i think there are a lot of things going on here, and it's never as simple as it seems on paper. i mean, in some ways, tim scott, the man who now is more than likely to come to congress. he is in a very republican district. he was essentially part of the establishment, a sitting statement legislator. he was very well liked by the folks in the republican establishment, the business community. he got support both from conservatives on the social end of the spectrum, as well as conservatives on the fiscal end. nikki haley, of course, started off as the total underdog, which she mentions in the setup peegs, and yet, in the end, she also got the support from folks mitt romney, the current first lady, as well as sarah palin. but i think the most important thing for south carolina is after

host: talking to amy walker about last night's election results. hot line has live blogging and analysis called "on call." were you up late last night? guest: does it look like it? guest: looking good. guest: good, ok. i put a lot of concealer on this morning so hopefully it is showing. of late last night, though thankfully places like nevada and california, results came in pretty quickly so it was not an all night here -- not an all- nighter. convincing victories from meg whitman and carly fiorina and sharron angle of nevada -- one step past of the time but it was not too bad. guest: do you host: thanks for coming up early. where can we find it going forward today? guest: great question. we will have a lot of analysis, specifically what happened in a lot of the races and who the winners and losers were from last night. looking in particular at a place like arkansas, what happens, how did the conventional wisdom for the last week or so -- how big it turned on its head. we also have a look at all of the house races, all of the gubernatorial contests

you got to take charge. >> my name is amy wilheit and i'm from ohio. in march of 2007, my 8-year-old daughter, taylor, was diagnosed with acute myloid leukemia, a fast-growing cancer. after few rounds of keep owee therapy, we discovered alarming news of our insurance. we were about to reach our lifetime limit for coverage and the insurance will not soon pay our bills. we asked for that limit to be raised. the insurance company agreed to our request, but taylor, who is now 12, requires extensive follow-up care for long-term complications with her heart, hip and compromised immune system. we're constantly worried about hitting the new limit. make terrible choices. picking and choosing which 3 and treatments like a much-needed hip surgery. we woold put off or delay so we . n't exhaust taylor's coverage the provision in the affordable care act that bans lifetime benefit limits will directly help taylor and our faaily. a huge weight has been lifted because i won't have to make the heart-breaking choice to pay for the surgery that will help her have a more a

you heard amy's story.3 produced multiple costly side effects. and now just three years after diagnosis, they are picking and choosing which tests and treatments to pursue because they don't want to exceed their plan's lifetime limits. so amy, you and taylor are why the affordable care act bans those lifetime limits and are you why these members of congress right here fought so hard despite some very tough politics to make this happen. i met nathan from engelwood, colorado, last august. his son, thomas, was born with 3 at the time the wilkes family had high quality insurance through the high tech company but when that insurer saw thomas' claims, it began jacking up premiums for all of nathan's employees and their families. no other insurer would take nathan as long as thomas was on the policy. you have seen me grab one of those before. so as nathan's family neared their lifetime limit, a social worker actually suggested that nathan and his wife get divorced so that she could go on medicaid. nobody should face a choice like that in america. to nat

baltimore, maryland, amy on our line for democrats. good morning. caller: good morning. host: amy, is the financial regulator bill, what dmps, in your opinion, is it going to make, if any? caller: i don't think it's going to make a difference, because the truth is that, until we weed out a lot of these people that have caused the problem, us homeowners that have came into a devastating situation of losing our homes, it's really going to be a disaster again and again and again, because in order to clean out or weed out people that have actually destroyed the hard working, struggling, poor class or middle class poor class or middle class folks, they have no meaning or understanding of what we go through in this life to gain and get a piece of anything. and when you set up a scam and destroy hard working people, it takes a lot to build their confidence in you again, and my main thing i wanted to say was, i heard this story about, you know, these people not checking out these people's background when they sold them these mortgages. well, let's talk about the mortgages that w

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. >> safer: cameron is 55, married five times, for the last nine years to actress suzy amis.s office is filled with remembrances of blockbusters past, including the wheel from the set of the good ship "titanic." >> cameron: i keep this in my office because i know what it feels like to be at the helm of a sinking ship. which is what it feels like on every movie that i make. that's the thanator. he's the big bad guy in the woods. >> safer: he wrote "avatar" years ago, but had to wait for technology to catch up with his vision of blue people and alien worlds. >> cameron: i've loved fantasy and science fiction since i was a kid. i'm an artist, i'm an illustrator. i've been drawing creatures and characters and robots and spaceships since i was... since i was in high school. >> safer: growing up in canada, his passions were movies, art and science. after the family moved to california in his late teens, he spent some aimless years, dropping out of junior college, working as a machinist and a bus mechanic. >> cameron: and then one day, i just quit my job and started making... making

. >> thank you, amy. good morning. class of 2010, border trusties, faculty, staff, students, parents and guests. it is impossible for you to understand that story that i feel at this moment, how prevalent -- the joy that i feel at this moment, how privilege. to address you today, i am truly honored. when the president called me to inform me of this opportunity, i was stunned to the extent that i asked that i might have some time to export -- some time to respond during my hesitancy had nothing to do with the quality of the event for my availability. it was a certain request for a ton to decide if i thought i deserved this honor, and most of all if i could justify your confidence in me. upon hearing my request for more time, as your president was thinking, oh, no. we have made a mistake. what was i thinking? well, the president, after the next few months your worst fears might be realized. it did not take me long to determine that this was an extremely gracious offer, but regardless of how misguided it was one that i ha

susan and amy are wondering audience on the lower levels with microphones. if you raise your hand, they will bring a microphone to you and allow you to pose a question. do we have a first quustion from a member? >> my question to the french, and i extend this to the english as well, i recall nothing from the record that suggested that these were prisoners of war, in the sense that they had made themselves subservient to their captors, other than the fact that they had been conquered and were held prisoner. so the act of keeping them as prisoners requires some sense of being a jailer of people who are not willing to be held captive. i asked where the context of them being subservient comes from. >> that is a very good question, and one that we face, because our position is that henry b. not have great quarter, but once granted, quarter cannot be withdrawn on reasonably. we had to be certain they were indeed henry's prisoners and not just warriors are noncombatants. if you look at the two places where the kill orders were issued, there were very specific. the

. >> i take up amy's point.never seen a solar panel or a wind turbine kill 11 people, 12 people. i have never seen a 50-day ethanol spill. and i think that we have to rethink our entire energy portfolio and how and what we're doing to drive the demand for oil. i think that this is a wakeup call. you say that the american people, in your testimony, this is from your written testimony, that the american people continue to strongly support offshore oil and gas drilling. there's a cbs poll that says 51% oppose it. you say a rasmussen poll that 58% of the american public supported offshore drilling as of june 1st. did the survey ask if they supported deep offshore drilling? >> i'm not certain. >> the one you cited? >> i think the question was do you support continued offshore oil and gas drilling. >> and do you hear the president saying we should suspend all offshore drilling. >> he's suspended everything except in 900 feet of oil. most of the oil we have yet to get is beyond that. he's saying he's putting 92% offlim

greater than 15,000 pounds per squarism, in the interest of expediency it was decided within cameron to amy current design codes and practs. the 30,000 pounce per square inch preventer was qualified for a.p.i. it means basically but for the sake of expediency concerns me. why were you looking at 20,000 pounds per square inch when you believed you had 15,000 exceeds what you -- what is required. >> i'm not certain, i think that's referring to a blowout preventer with res vaws with greater pressure. one of the most important things to come from this incident is the requirement for the industry to step back and redesign the fail safe mechanism is uses to prevent accidents of this. we need a redesign of the blowout preventer. it is something that b.p. will take an active role in. we have begun the process with a number of academic institutions. >> thank you for you patient, you usually say better late than never but not this time. >> before mr. emsly, we should -- mr. squeeze submitted a c.d. and a resolution from the state senate. he will provide copies for the record. so unanimous consent wil

. >> thank you, amy. good morning. of 2010, border trusties, faculty, staff, students, parents and guests. it is impossible for you to uerstand that story that i feel at this moment, how prevalent -- the joy that i feel at this moment, how privilege. to addre you today, i am truly honored. when the president called me to inform me of this opportunity, i was stunned to the extent that i asked that i might have some time to export -- some time to respond during my hesitancy had nothing to do with the quality of the event for my availability. it was a certain request for a ton to decide if i thought i deserved this honor, and most of all if i could justify your onfidence in me. upon hearing my request for more time, as your president was thinking, oh, no. we have made a mistake. what was i thinking? well, the president, after the next few months your worst fears might be realized. it did not take me long to determine that this was an extremely gracious offer, but regardless of how mguided it was one that i had to honor. m

he leaves behind his wife, randi, his loving children, eric and cameron, eric's wife, amy. his extended family included several brothers and sisters who preceded him in death and four brothers and sisters who survived. probably most special to him was his five grandchildren. and a grandchildren, milton and i talked about our grandchildren and what a blessing they were to us. i knew him both personally and professionally. he was born in tennessee and attended tennessee state university. milton enjoyed a career in the electrical industry, which i come from a construction background, and milton and i had many discussions about the condition of our construction industry today. he came to atlanta when he was accepted into an apprenticeship program with the international brotherhood of electrical workers local 613. milton worked hard and had a successful career. he started grove park electric and went on to dixie electric company. but the highlight of milton's career was uptown electric. he made it into a very successful electrical contracting firm, did a lot of work for delta ai

they have caused most americans are inform negative oinions and researcher amy rat never.ever, over the same time period, the government has likewise grown weary of u.s. citizens largely due to their utter lack of fresight, laziness, and overall incompetee. and the fact that american idol is still the number one show on television doesn't exactly make our government burst with confidence. [laughter] now one could have viewed the first 18 months or so of the obama administration and the public's engagement and reaction to it by bringing forth that old of americanpolitics. no good governance deed ever goes unpunished by the american people. we used to say that about efforts to reduce the deficit and such othr thing. if you consider the nature of the problems confronting the country in the globe and the possibility of descending into a global depression, if you look at the objective record of what has been accomplished in the 18 months with the multifaceted stimulus, although we don't call that stimulus, it's american recovery act, financial reform we don't call it that. we c

. >> i take up amy's point. i've never seen a solar panel or a wind turbine kill 12, 11 people. i've never seen a 50-day ethanol spill. and i think that we have to rethink our entire energy portfolio and how -- and what we're doing to drive the man for oil. i think this is a wake-up call. you say that the american people in your testimony -- this is from your written testimony -- that the american people continue to strongly support offshore oil and gas drilling. cbs poll says 51% oppose it. you cite a rass mudson poll or statistic that 15% support it. offshore drilling as of june 1, did the survey ask people whether they supported deep offshore drilling? >> i'm not certain, senator. >> one you cited. >> i think the question was, do you support continued offshore drilling. >> and do you hear the president say suspend all offshore drilling? >> the president has suspended everything except in 500 feet of water and 92% of the oil that we have yet to get is beyond that. so in essence he has basically said he's putting a 92% off-limits as of the current time. >> but the survey that y