oscar and big bird and snuffy. but, then, later came the sort of second class of muppet characters, kermit and miss piggy, fozzie bear, et al. can you talk about how henson and company came to the, you know, let's create a new class of characters, are there similarities that you can draw back to, personalities, similarities you can draw back to the original "sesame street" characters, does miss piggy represent a more evolved big bird, something zany like that, but always was the core "sesame street" and then came the muppet show crowd, a totally different class. >> okay. okay way back, when jim henson joined "sesame street" in 1969 and long before that, jim henson had an idea for a variety show, starting puppets. and had sketches of it in his sketch book and he talked to a lot of people about it and, in fact, on the day that carol spinney interviewed for big bird and oscar jim told him about the idea for a network show involving a cast of "muppets" and the show was in development in his head for a very, very long t

and a lot of these tv cables are behind you and you can fall down and people will reach down and catch you. in that respect i would say humanity is present. >> in capturing democracy, do you ever get frustrated by how your images or used? i think as being a photographer and shooting icons, do you ever get -- want to see the beverly hills and the homeless man's photograph more out there than, say the shot of the capitol? >> well, that's a great question. one way to answer it is, would john lennon be irritated in the way he has heard his songs to -- "imagine" to sell new cars. and i would say this same. when i actually have statistical data of what image of mine is the biggest seller of them all, the absolute biggest, now that is a big seller but not the biggest seller. the biggest seller, is right to my right. it is the american flag in a blue sky. go figure, consequently, in -- when i published a catalogue of my images and we started putting little dots, like when you travel on a giant map, and you go, okay. this shot sold three times, this sold nine times, this sold 12, this sold 187

right on defense and offense he would wait and wait and in atlanta that and retreated and retreated until they had inspired him he would have treated all the way to key west and then cuba. [laughter] they selected general mingei e. johnson to have an army of a relief and this sends him 30,000 people and johnson sent them away. they were scared of sherman and the ideal thing was to get pendleton and johnson took up. they're outnumbered grant. they would have done a good deal with it did not happen and the result was the competitors and the union fought a battle very vicious battle at shipping hill not very well-known, and if the participants said it was one of the hardest battles and worst slaughter. notñ problem with civil war -- the more dead the six year the battle. in but pendleton was forced to retreat within the defense's of expert on the backside which were just as formidable as the riverside because the terrain is so cut up. it is like bamboo and swamp. is furbearers live. as a matter of fact, a little story allied to tell, teddy roosevelt when he was president went down there on a

and dr. burgess i don't think any of us and should support a condom only program either. i think what makes sense is to let the buyer language work and then support what the evidence tells us to support including abstinence programs if the evidence tells us that they work and so i would urge a no vote on this amendment and thank you for yielding to me. >> we all agree programs -- would you yield >> no one is disagreeing with that, but if you only talk about abstinence and don't educate teenagers about the fact that they ought to be knowledgeable about public health information and that condoms to work most time and if they're going to be sexually active and we would discourage a but if they are going to be sexually active there are some steps they could take to minimize their risk again the point mr. buyer made. look for risk reductions. that is at least an honest approach but emphasize abstinence but don't make that the only requirement. >> with the gentleman yield. >> who wants me to yield?

books signings and storytelling and analysis with the whole of the black world and print and in writing. as we say here we are the of black review and this is a public platform from which we do that. again i would like to thank you all founder of the harlem book fair thank you once again. we will begin our program >> good morning i was like to welcome you to the schomburg center for research in black culture i am troy johnson the president and founder of the african american literature book club aalbc.com is dedicated to the books by and about black people today it is indeed my honor to introduce the author talks the zero will be taking place we have another one scheduled at 12:10 p.m. with the author who will be discussing the non fiction work a journal for jordan and the third author talk that will take place will be this afternoon with grigory walker. of the african expedition into the trojan war that begins at. >> but now we have the of 35 who is the author of the book "they lived before adam". in 2001 after more than 11 years of research catherine discovered a library of ancient st

they all laughed and talked and cried and drank. at the end of the night, after everyone had gone, ted went back to arlington cemetery to visit his brother's grave. the two brothers continued to mourn in their own distinct ways in the coming months. bobby bruted questioning everything and drawing into depression. ted chose motion and velocity. bobby would sit staring out the window at hickory hill. he refused to say the words november 22nd or dallas. he questioned his faith and his own culpability in jack's death. behind closed doors friends could hear him sob and ask why, god? he could bear no reminders of dallas or of the day turning pictures of jack against the wall in his house and in his relatives' houses and in his friends' houses. ted on the other hand, tried to emblazon and perpetuate jack's name and works everywhere, parks, boulevards, and airports. he attended every memorial and tribute he could schedule smothering his grief in activity. he helped unveil the letters jfk on the new renamed airport. he took a nine nation tou

and the wheels kick and the winds saw and the white sail shaking, and a gray mist on the sea's face andg. you must go down to the sea again for the call of the running tide is a wild call and a clear call that may not be denied. and all ask you for is a windy day with a white clouds flying. excuse me. i'm getting a little rough here with me. oh, yes, and the flung spray and the bloom spew and the seagulls crying. you must go down to the sea again to the vagrant gypsy's life and the whale's way. and the wind's like a wetted knife, and all you ask for is a merry yarn from a laughing fellow rover and a quiet sleep and a sweet dream when the long trip is over. good sail to you, walter. slice the main brace. >> this next hymn is a family favorite. it is a hymn that expresses someone who knows and loves his own country, but is also a citizen of the world. i think you'll recognize the tune, "finlandia," the words are printed in the bulletin. >> ♪ this is my song, oh god of all nations a song of peace for lands afar and mine this is my home the country where my heart is here are my hopes my dre

and public funds and public support. i was talking to somebody by a quote in this book who said she saw better contraceptive access at clinics in the 70's and cities she knew in sub-saharan africa and now. i think between 1995 and maybe it was 2007 or something around there a and for family planning dropped by something like $100 million. so this was a real falloff. some of it was because scarce resources were diverted to hiv/aids which is understandable but absolutely that is yes dealing with birth control is the key to the problem is absolutely crucial. in terms of how to make this relevant, part of it i wonder -- i sometimes think part of it is because it's become so controversial and fall while there is something of a desire among people who work in the field to speak about it in purely technocratic terms. to speak in terms of programs and supplies and in this kind of jargon of ever multiplying acronyms. we have to get this hrh into the mpg which means sexual reproductive health and to the developmental millennium go

and i started reading it and couldn't put it down. and was that your intention?didn't have a plan per se, i knew i wanted to write a mystery, and i wanted to write a different kind of character in the mystery. so i thought it would be fun to see an 18-year-old go through a mystery story-line. but i was writing a young adult, novel, i came at it backwards. and young adult novels are sophisticated. you don't have to dumb down the story line at all. so i think that adults are finding that a lot of young adult novels are fun it read. and if mine is considered as one, i am thrilled. >> and john quit his job as an attorney, in d.c., to write this book. you took a chance in the shaky times, and you prevailed. are you going to keep writing or go back to law? >> no immediate plans to go back to law. i am thrilled that it worked out. it may not have been the as a matter -- smartest thing in the world, and not sure how my parents feel. but it was a great thrill. >> this is a book for everyone, and john thanks for coming in and for a great read. >> thank you. >> we will take

and they did that and nasa is 100% confident, everything is ready to go and the countdown resumes, andthe astronauts get inside and strapped down into the seats are about to get out of there as well and shortly thereafter the hatch will be closed. >> quebec, we are finding out these astronauts may not have much time to rest on this flight or this mission, they have a lot of work to do? >> reporter: a very, very important mission, installing the last aspect of the japanese laboratory and this first installation was a big module which has a lot of space for astronauts and cosmonauts to do what they do up there and the last season, the big -- the last thing is a big porch, a porch in space and will be attached to the outside of the international space station and on board, is a small module the big robotic arm will take out of the cargo bay of the shuttle endeavor and install that over on the international space station, within it, right now, are pallets of scientific experiments, ready to -- to be assembled onto the front porch and will determine how those are affected by the atmosphere

drink, and gambling and pornography and don't eat pork and stuff like that. part of it is stunning women for adultery, part of it is in the take lives for people caught stealing, all kinds of horrible things like that. literally men have all the rights and women have absolutely none. so there are every major financial institution in the world in the western world have set up a share rya compliance funded, dow jones was the first one, citicorp has it, aig has said, morgan stanley, painewebber -- all of them, merrill lynch, bankamerica, all of them have sharia law compliance funds. and this means that if you are a muslim woman to make an investment you can put your money in that fund and a confident that none of it will go to activities prohibited by sure real law which makes some sense. the problem is that these financial institutions have put in place to ensure free of all complaints boards which are staffed by the most reactionary right-wing islamofascist and the world. we site in our book five or six of them who had to be removed from the boards because the

she learned th and watched it and been in leadehip and becomes speaker and applieall of that and putshe other ople who shenows have the samenderstanding and passion around her a it worked for her. >> charlie: wh is the most interesting question you'dlike to see answered and what's the most interestinghing about president obam >> most interesting thin from president obama fro my point of view how he has transformed re relations in the country simply by him being in office. i had somebody turn to me saying if this is the quality of the first african-american president in the united stes then race relations, wle they have a long way t go, have come further than ey have t go for there fob a level of harmony in the united states. question i would like answered, que frankly, when will thi paper wind up winning a pulzer prize. the thini want to kn i guess about thebama white house stly is you never really kno hothese things work in real time. there was a myth about the bush white house and how darn confident werend dick chen andkarl rove and they loved it each and karen and kl were rking all

and and on the moon. yet all these cataclysms' spring of from the impulses or ideals of the baby boom generation but rather the revolts and revelations of 1959 and many of the instigators were well aware and took inspiration from their predecessors. the pivotal moments of history are those whose legacies and were and as the mid 40's receded to abstract nostalgia in the late 60's evoked puzzled shoppers it is the defense of 1959 that continue to does it make in our own time. the dynamics of least 50 years ago that continue to and make life today, but when prospect of infinite expansion and total destruction seem to be shifting to a new phase crossing another frontier. a dramatic in some ways coincidental parallel is the emergence of a young outsiders elected on the promise of hope and change the barack obama board and the year of john kennedy's inauguration pushes the concept of outsider to extremes. yet the more it can parallels are the conditions surrounding the to yondah presidents. global power dispers

and tried to explore and again and be a little more critical and reflective about it. the easiest way to think about the speech is as a critique of consumerism and abundance, getting in the way americans understanding the real problems of the energy crisis. there is an argument that we have become so reliant upon also feels and and to rely upon them and that we really need to confront the issue but until we understand our civic crisis we want to offend the energy crisis and there's also the thing we need to call upon citizens to embark upon a project of civic sacrifice, understand the limits placed upon the americans at this point in time in history, and to only doing that when we get off reliance of one oil. now, here's the way and tell the story. when ever you commit to writing a book like this you are of purity that you may have an open yourself up to doing a lot of research that aren't very interesting, i have found this to be the exact opposite. this time that i focus on which is really april of 1979 to july of 1979 and carrying through to the election of november

and then also up for the western great lakes and colorado and and seeing some bubble up and 30 minutes, boston, cincinnati seeing delays as well. and near record breaking heat in places like portland, oregon. temperatures will reach 100 deargs. typically it's dry because the flow is not as humid but they have humid and many folks have air conditioner. >> yes. >> 84 degrees in dallas but it's going to rain today. look at that. the coldest winter i ever had was in san francisco. kgo. the fog has moved in this time of year. you and i are always on television. this is the birthday week. >> thank you. >> a big number but i celebrated in a big way. rob, appreciate it. >> all right z golf this week. you know that's only -- >> yes. >> still to come, the critics say that the cash for clunkers program is environmentally counterproductive but still shifting into high gear today, gerri willis has details that you need to thththththththththth. sfloo prices stumbled to $2.55 a gallon. it's getting close to the bottom, too. so if your car is on empty jerry, good monday to you. finally, finally are we

oftentimes they were malnourished and ill housed and ill clad and it was a formula for disaster. so that the greatest single cause of mortality was disease. but, in addition to that, the mortality among american soldiers who were taken prisoner was absolutely catastrophic as well. 47% of the american soldiers who were taken prisoner by the british perished in captivity. to put that in some context, at the infamous andersonville prison their camp in georgia in the civil war, about 37% of the prisoners perich. the 47% from the revolutionary war is just about the same percentage as was true of the americans who were held captive by the japanese during world war ii. life was tough for american soldiers, even when they were not on the battlefield or for those who warned taken captive. oftentimes, as i think everybody remembers, there were shortages of food, lack of clothing, only rudimentary housing existed for those soldiers. we usually think of the valley forge winter. that is the one that is the most famous as being a bad winter, but the soldiers themselves spoke of the winter two

wonderful and i had this nervousness about it my all and tomorrow and that could have into it and she said to me you took a bad night have to take the good and so that is what i am doing. any more questions? >> what advice which you give to an aspiring novelist? >> well, i would tell you or anybody who is aspiring to rise to be is a novelist or a nonfiction, that you must be passionate about it because of this can be a difficult job here and if it is a job. i don't look at this as a job, and look for to each day, this is something impassive about and i think to be a successful novelist you have to have a story that only you can tell and a half to be so bothered, your life becomes confused because you i'm writing this story. inouye simply have to tell it and have to go into its thinking that uav the only one who ever read that novel and simply wish for the bass. >> i really like to ask what is next on your list but you seem to flow well and have such an inside here broken developments. have you ever considered a children's book? >> you know, i am writing a young adults both in the kind

and before long, whole neighbors in places like phoenix and las vegas and miami and places like that where there had been such a property boom were flooded were foreclosed properties. now, these properties were backing up the paper that had been sold by investment banking houses all over the world. and they were held in bank as their own core capital. but as people began to look at them, they said, well, we don't foe what these papers are worth. they seem to be worthless. we're not sure. is this house worth $20,000, is it worth $50,000, is it worth $100,000? we don't know what it is. of course, it's in default and we can't assess a value to it. the banks therefore were unable to get additional capital because they didn't have enough money to back up another loan from another bank, so nobody would loan to them. and the credit markets, they used the term, seized it it up. so to be could get a loan. and because businesses couldn't renew their lines of credit, and others couldn't buy -- get money to buy houses, startup businesses couldn't get financed for startups, the whole economy froz

vargas done and what frank ricci has done and take home the book and he studied them and you never is what you need to know so that you can pass the test like i did when i took our grammar books and learn how to write standard english, that that should be the story, not that she should be on racial quotas were. >> and think the story for life is one of achievement, overcoming on some people never faced in family life and personal life. mr. morgan though. when you're talking about her skills and law school did they tell you that the had an opportunity for you to hire a wise latino lawyer, is now which you're in the market for? >> definitely not what. >> i took one look at her resume summa cum laude at prisons and launch journal on and i talked to her and i thought she was common sense and common judgment and willingness to work. the fact that she was latina had absolutely nothing to do with it and they can just use this opportunity to say that i was one of the running directors of porter rican legal defense fund. and the reason i did that i thought it was important way and a representa

into get votes and if we start from the center and build out with conservatives and moderates and build a health care proposal that would be suitable to the vast majority of americans i think that would be a wonderful step in the process. >> eric: they are trying to push a vote later on this week before it happens and we'll see how that will pan out. certainly, will not get to the senate will september, thaddeus mccotter, good to see you. >> nice see you. >> jamie: police number four suspects they believe are connected in a killing of a agent robert rosas gunned down while investigating a border breach on thursday night, near san diego, shot multiple times inned the and body, the first border agent to die in a shooting in more than a decade and his murder is raising fears that mexico drug cartels and human traffickers could now be targeting u.s. law enforcement. coming up we'll talk to a former fbi commander, that is later in the hour. >> eric: meanwhile the search for a missing hiker in arizona, may be over. park rangers recovered a body, in grand canyon. they believe it is that of the

and he did it over and over again. my favorite instance of combining both, i tell this story in the book is also in one of his posthumous books cancel your own by dm subscription. him and arthur schlesinger was arguing by mail and in one of his feet male passenger refused -- referred to a national review or national require order you call your magazine. bill let him have it and said how would you like it if i said dear arthur or deere barfer or whatever you call yourself? [laughter] if you ever need to slap down a pulitzer prize-winning story that is the way to do with. [laughter] you are a five and this is what it is like and cut it out. just a beautiful arabesque in one sentence. another thing to recover is his passion for talent. he looked for it everywhere, literally everywhere. he would go to the big names he offered $5,000 per year to be a columnist for "national review" it started out and said unless i get you get much richer or i get much poor then i can take you up on this offer. but he also grabbed it when he

the supremes and on and on. memphis and detroit both are proud of our musical traditions and histories and we support those. memphis in particular, where elvis presley was a transformative individual that took an african-american musical heritage and combined it with some memphis, tennessee, country or rockabilly and made it rock &roll. he and michael -- rock and roll. he and michael jackson were crossover figure, showed that music got beyond race. one thing elvis presley did is, it told a lot of young white people it was cool to shake your leg and like music and show emotion and expression and michael jackson showed a lot of people that what he produced was fine in different cultures and it wasn't necessarily one race that liked that particular music or another. it was a transformative effect. the reason we celebrate black music month is because of the tremendous contribution this is country has received from musicians that are african-american. whether it's jazz, or blues or cost gospel with mahalia jackson an

started thrusting south and tanks -- attacking the taliban and that came about and from sanctuaries and when the u.s. started a policy of doing away with the sanctuaries and drone attacks and so on, retaliation came on pakistan and that led to pakistan's push into the tribal of fatah, where t areas where t sanctuaries were and led to the insurgent movement within pakistan which is loosely operating on what it calls the tariq taliban and there is a leader there and the 26-odd groupings of small and big organizations, which have informally or formally come under his influence and banner. the danger here is in the present environment, that this insurgency along the western border has established linkages with the earlier organizations, deeper in the country, and we have seen that ever since we have been making a response to this insurgency, in the west, there have been suicide bombings, attacks, gun fights, taking place, in our urban areas. so, they have developed a retaliatory capability, linkage of sorts, which is dangerous for pakistan. and, i think, i might also mention, that from the

wife and children and editors and fans. thats@@@@ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ evidence of his ongoingness. the computer started chirping again, and there were editors that led me to write something about him. a long time ago, i published a book that was about him. i guess i thought of it -- i guess i was taught as an expert on updike. i was just a mourner like anyone else. so i said, no, i am sorry. i am just sad. that's all i have to offer. just my own sadness. what i think of now though, is a time when i saw him in the garden. rden more than 20 years ago. it was a cold, overcast late afternoon in the '80s, and there was a man walking toward me on the path. it was a narrow path, and i knew who it was. it was the famous john updike. we were over past the statue of george washington in the part of the garden that has fewer trees. it is always colder and when you are than other parts, and i had to figure out what to do. he was wearing a tweed jacket, button up tightly, and a scarf and hat. he obviously had somewhere to go, as i did not

less and less science and government policy making. in the age of ron reagan we call these people reds, but today green has become the new red. from the end of world war i to the end of the cold war the, the social political agenda was an ethical to what america was that communists had to be secretive and lie to people about what they were doing and what they wanted and i can recommend whitaker chambers 1952 book with us on this point. it to ronald reagan's mind for the communists want was a terrific, why not come out and open it openly advocating work for the goal, be honest about it. today with the true greens want with the nothing less than total karma control of our lives, and as it is still entitled to most americans so secrecy and a cedar was again in the order of the day. the greens say they are for the environment, they say that mostly do with a what our plan will be destroyed, aided and abetted by the fanatics into gutters and profiteers and power is all useful idiots, the greens are using the concern for the environment parti

and so over the next 36 hours, you see the blue and green, and that's a chance of rain.and then that will pull away. we will still have unsettled conditions for the next couple days with the front that will be lurking to the south. the chance of a passing shower, or maybe a thundershower this afternoon. and otherwise, postally cloudy and cooler than average. highs in the low 80s. s.d averaghigh is 90 eedegr and tonight you might have a ssginthundershower. otherwise, mostly cloudy and maybe a little shower activity around tomorrow morning, too. and temperatures tg hemid-60s as we start off tuesday. and then tomorrow, should be mostly cloudy again. looks like an increased chance of showers mainly in the afternoon, with highs around 80. and then we hit the mid-80s around wednesday. erfton ernce of an ano thundershower. and highs will be in the low 80s on thursday, and tnhe getting hotter by the weekend, and who are humid, 90 for saturday and sunday. more like july. >>> we will check in with jerry once again to get an update on the roadways. >> well, it's slow on the beltway

and rapes and aggravated assaults fell by five and 7%.in the 1990's they found that guns were used for self protection about 2.5 a million times yearly. and that number of cars doris these tiny numbers and amoco evidence of a limited very tiny numbers of improper use of guns by folks with concealed carry permits. responding to the study is robert self-described as strong a gun-control advocate as can be found among the criminologists in this country than he could not dispute the methodology and the soundness of the senate. it it was clear he could not disputed and he agreed with it and sell our amendment will simply allow law-abiding americans to exercise their of and so right to self-defense by using the full faith and credit clause in our u.s. constitution. and as we do this, as we protect that fundamental individual right, we also protect states' rights and think it's very important to address some of the arguments with regards to states' rights may buy the other side. we do not mandate the right to conceal kerry in any say that do not

and a thing massachusetts and maryland also have a good job and summarize that is why the chairman and us. there are other states a little behind the curve but they are getting there in the second thing i'm going to try to do is to debunk the idea that the stimulus hasn't worked because not enough of the money has been spent yet. one for the reason i explain to you who want to do with some level of care obviously in and because the three short run goals the administration had they have met one was to provide relief to people in trouble here with an unemployment compensation already have 50,000 pennsylvanians are getting benefits, more benefits for a long time and almost a million pennsylvania families are getting food stamp benefits and that leaves a huge difference. over 3.7 million pennsylvania families have gotten making work pay tax cut already. cobra, a couple of the 30 or 40,000 tons of it is up on the cover health benefits in stimulus. the second thing they want to do was give aid to hardheads states and without we have a budget deficit and are arguing over in harrisburg been wi

you are pleased to be leaders and academia and industry and finance and government.ut before you move forward, it's worth reflecting on what has already taken place during your lives. like president medvedev and myself, you are not old enough to have witnessed the darkest hours of the cold war. when hydrogen bombs were tested in the atmosphere and children drilled in fallout shelters and we reached the quote brink of nuclear catastrophe. but you are the last generation born when the world was divided. at that time, the american and soviet armies were still masked in europe, trained and ready to fight. the ideological trenches of the last century were roughly in place. competition in everything from astrophysics to athletics was treated as a zero sum game. if one person one, then the other person had to lose. and then within a few short years, the world as it was ceased to be. now make no mistake, this change didn't come from any one nation. the cold war reached a conclusion because of the actions of many nations over many years and because the people of russia and ea

and walk them and in the loss to the cubs and 10 days ago.nd cabrera, a definite running threat and he has doubled today. and ball ball one. >> rob: this is a grounds ball. get out of this. >> rob: always have to think we are one pitch for getting out the inning. and some fireworks up in philadelphia, the phils now have another home run. ryan howard's 25th. and jason bergmann. mike macdougal. >> rob: might throw bergmann out there to get one out. and get pinched hit for. and venable's stuff. hitters step out on lannan. he is too fast. they st. peter's ended out on gaudin. because he was slowing things down. it is a 1-1 pitch from john. i thought you deserved something when you are pitching like this. big lannan expression and body language tells you how he is feeling about it. >> he throws 14 balls and the first seven innings of the ball game. >> bob: screamer into the seats. and the nats dugout. >> rob: his last walk was 10 day it is ago. >> bob: yes. >> rob: he has been a strike throwing machine. >> bob: they got him. and cabrera was leanin

plan that they want and their family needs and not have to go in and purchase and have the government subsidize plans that are even richer than what people would choose on their own, so bedwin to bring down prices in that way. >> congressman, if you have all these ideas and you have different bills put together, why hasn't the republican leadership on the hill take all these ideas to bring down costs and put it one bill and put an alternative because i remember the bush years and time after time the bush white house and republicans on the hill like you would say the democrats have no alternative to the president bush's social security reform plan. it was just, no, no, no. you're throwing stones at the president, but where is your plan. >> >> we have a plan out there, we have legislation out there, this is just sort of a false argument here. >> pardon me one second, i don't want to be rude, roy blunt yesterday said the republican leadership will not present, i know individual bills out there, but you're not going to present one leadership. >> we will have a bill and we have bills. i me

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and resilience and safe. in a macro credential context, you want to look at the individual but how they relate to each other and how they relate to the system as a whole. it is not so much the size of the institution, but is interconnectedness. whether it is at the center of a web of relationships -- i think the job of the systemic risk regulator would be to take account of those interrelationships. the market, and how they are developing, the institutions and how they fit into the market and look at the overall risk to the system as well as the risk of the in this -- individual institution. i think the federal reserve is well-positioned to play a role in that. we not only have our supervisory authority of our bank holding companies which now include all the major investment banks, but we have people who are familiar with the economy, and we have acted -- we have responsibility for financial and responsibility through our system. i think it requires a little different perspective than we are used to exercisin

tomorrow, 78 and muggy and showers and thunderstorms and then, again into friday. not all day rain, but the summertime pattern. >> well, it sounds like a broken record. >> dan is here with the sports. >>> well, the orioles have a win today, finally. kansas city is in town form starting for four and then guess who they play again? >>> hello, was it team pride or a change order that found nick in the clean up spot. whatever, it all clicked, all good. as the birds avoided a sweep. first inning, kevin got the sweet part of the bat. he was reminds, defense wins games. well, melvin, great concentration with a smile on the end. mark, well, he enjoyed a three rbi and nick -- pardon me, this is in the 5th. and you know, he's starting to warm up offensively. david hernandez, out standing. he allowed one run and struck out two. the girds win it, 6-2. here's mark viviano after the game with the winning pitcher, david hernandez. >> well, it seemed like it got hotter and hotter. i was getting tired and that's when i had to pitch my best. >> also, status for two of the game's bes

research questions and unmet prevention and wellness needs and this report is to be submitted to congress no later than one year after enactment of this provision. what difference is your amendment which would require a study which we also have a but then authorizes the secretary to terminate programs as she deems appropriate without further action by the congress. and i feel that the congress ought to be able to use its own judgment before programs that we've authorized are terminated by anybody in the executive branch. i am ready to terminate any program that is unnecessary and redundant and not cost-effective, but i want the congress to do it. i don't think it's a proper to delegate that authority to the secretary and for that reason i would oppose the amendment. mr. barton. >> mr. chairman, i rise in support of the soul of an amendment. we thought this was the single most innocuous good government amendment that we could offer in good faith to show we were going to try to work to improve the bill without destroying any of the underlying principles that the majority is embedded in a. t

and oil and fish and game.ka is indeed a great land. alaskans are a great people. our native elders to ensure the preservation of the rich history and bridge the gap between young and old, passing their culture from one generation to the next. from the earliest days when alaskas first people settled -- alaska's first people settled land to the gold rush of the late 1800's, to statehood, and even today, our people have sacrificed much and contributed much to our state and our nation. alaskans are a great people. alaska's still has much more to offer. -- alaska still has much. and given today's economicyou have my commitment to work alaskas economy for growth and our children in families for opportunity in the future. on december 4, 2006, governor sarah palin and i swore an oath of alaska. we did it over at the carlson center. i placed my hand on the bible just moments ago and pledged once again to uphold the constitution. to be here in fairbanks today brings us back full circle. just over 50 years ago, on a hill

and he explained, you know, quickly to me after my father and he and the jesuit seminarian had picked up the struggles about contract. with that eagan got off the phone. i never spoke to him again. he passed away later that spring. now, a few days after that morning's discussion and i called jack mcnamara. he told me in 1967 he had helped launch a group called the contract buyers league. he said that the group, which was based in my father's old neighborhood of lawndale, grew to encompass 3,000 african-american families that had purchased homes on contract. led by several african-american buyers and also four migrants and -- migrants in the south and that's significant because one of the -- one of the excuses that people used when they talked by why the neighborhoods went bad oh, these migrants, they're rural people. they don't know how to maintain a house, you know, they blamed them for the problems. and, you know, those people who had mygranted north and saved money and put down their money on houses, they had to face people mocking them and putting them down who didn't know anythin

yet it went on and on and on and on. and then they talked about the fact that no one had read the bill. as they searched the chamber, as they searched the chamber for an amendment that sat right in front of them. their leader came to the floor with the very amendment and went through page by page that he had earmarked, clearly having had time to read the bill. the fact of the matter is we have been discussing our reliance upon foreign oil. we have been discussing energy for years. mr. king: you made an allegation i would be happy to respond to that. mr. dry house -- mr. driehaus: i am talking about the integrity. mr. king: i wonder if he would kindly yield. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from ohio, mr. boccieri, controls the time. mr. boccieri: it is up to the gentleman from cincinnati if he would yield. mr. dehouse chon -- mr. driehaus: i have heard misinformation to misinformation. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from ohio will suspend. the gentleman will state his parliamentary inquiry. mr. king: mr. sp

and the interest is 2.4%, and we are paying 5%. and almost doubled. the borrowings of the united states government by way of the federal reserve or the u.s. treasury have never seen such levels. with us for the hour, eliot spitzer, and james hogue is here, and you know the former governor, maria theresa kumar. jim, i will start with you, what is china's thinking? when they come in the room, and they are aware of the yields moving up, and we are borrowing tons of money, and what are they thinking? >> short term and long term, short term what they want to hear from geithner is more evidence the asset value of their huge set up dollar reserves is not going to deappreciate too much. they don't expect they can put their money somewhere else short term. and long term, they want to diversify. and they will have $170 billion overseas assets. and that's the direction they are headed. beyond that, they want to create another reserve currency. they want it for the future. >> we actually prepared a version of what we think the secretary's pitch will be to chinese

and what our -- what we do is advocate and support. educate the public and as well as trying to services in the improvement and research. that takes money. our emphasis is going to the government and asking them and showing them the statistics and demanding from them that this is a condition that's reached epidemic proportions in the u.s. and this country has a marvelous history of responding to ep demics and crisis in the past. and this is one that is of no less value and has become a national health crisis and the government needs to respond to it. >> most parents of autistic kids are exhausted. because it's a 24-7 requirement. and the fact that they have to see so much -- their love for their children, they have to see how they could be but they are not is painful for them. so we ought to do something about that and give it the kind of providence is deserves. and some who are connected to means of communication are able to eist the services of the ad council and it declaredarticles that hae 5 major concerns and it's all over the air

and reenlisted and served in london and white plains and joined washington's forces, and went to trenton, and he was in battle there and went to princeton in battle there and reenlisted under the israel angels who i dropped were at those locations and -- documented were at those locations and those individuals corroborated hawkins' service. >> host: what this is question about him, sir. >> caller: my question is, i am able to corroborate through secondary sources the locations of those units, are there primary sources that you could recommend to me where i can do further corroboration? >> host: thank you so much for your questions. the first was, washington's meeting with rochambeau. >> guest: right, he met with him. >> host: who you explain who he is. >> guest: he is the commander of the french army. france allied with the united states, in 1778. and initially, the french sent a navy over to america, thinking that that would do the trick, and the american army in conjunction with the french navy, could win the war. and 1778 and 1779 went by and things looked worse that and tide wasn't t

make sure they comply with contracts and conditions and such and it's a very large role. at the present, there's such a large role for a contractor, a security contractor to support that, that raises issues of conflicts of interest. the post of deputy director, the number two person, the person that briefed us when we were there, is occupied by a senior aegis private security official. the director position, an 06 military-level equivalent to a colonel -- while it's been approved to date, it has not been filled, identified and authorized and so even in contractor terms, for example, sir, if there's a use of force incident and there's mandatory coordination with the government of afghanistan, it's identified that the contractor, aegis will do that representative for the united states government. that's the current process. the commission's trip to afghanistan in 2009 underlined already acute contracting problems in reconstruction, another area where we're going to be focused intensely during the next year. serious shortages of u.s. government civilians are all too likely t

policies and you go on and on.bennett says we have greatly expanded the size of the fed balance sheet to the purchase of long-term security through targeted lending programs aimed at restarting the flow of credit. what do you mean by this? >> congressmen, our policy is using our balance sheet to try to improve the functioning of credit markets which been disrupted by the financial crisis over example we have been purchasing mortgage-backed securities which has lowered mortgage rates for every day american down to 5%. we have opened up a program that is called the talf, which has helped increase funding in reduced rates on consumer loans like ata loans, steve loans and small business loans. we have taken actions to improve the function of the commercial paper markets of these various steps have tried to address the fact that during the crisis many markets have become disrupted and our actions have been trying to stimulate improvements and we have been fairly successful what doing that. >> in the second paragraph , y

a full gym, theater room, and a 20-car garage where he and his family could load into and out of cars of view. what was he most interested in when he'd come into a house like this? >> michael's biggest concern in my opinion was always the safety of his children. >> reporter: at the time just back from his self-exile in bahrain and ireland, jackson simply couldn't afford the $22 million to $25 million price tag. but he says he believes the concert tour would have been michael jackson's pathway back to this house, a permanent show in las vegas, and a new retreat he would have called wa eed won. drew griffin, cnn, las vegas. >> it sounds amazing. >> a secret cave in a rock fountain, how cool if you are a kid? >> that's where so many stars go and they can make a lot of money in vegas. >> he needed to make some money. >> eparentally he needed on to. he never got a chance. that's it for brooke and i. thanks for being here. be back tomorrow morning. >> bright and early. >>> "cnn newsroom" continues next -- >> you sound so enthusiastic, brooke. >> i love being here, t.j., thank you. >> all ri

and injuries that we can actually treat and fix and correct.hey can't -- they don't have access to the health care that they would need to, you know, get better. that's immoral. that's not our american way. this is somebody who would jump in and help a 4-year-old without thought to their own safety. when we talk about the health care reform, let's bring it back down to the human level and remember that a lot of people in the country are suffering. >> what frustrates folks, or what frustrates me, as i totally agree with you with the emotional aspect of that, but when politicians exploit the aspect to waste piles of money, and deliver the new york knicks, right -- >> i will get at-shirt, dylan, come on. health care is the knicks. we need to make the playoffs on this one. to capture our moral center, and then add to it rational thought, and maybe we can get it done. i have to take a break. we will come back, all four of us, we would jump in. even if we would not, we would tell you that we would. what kind of person is that? that's a liar. >> we wo

and it's great chairman. and also with me and the democrats. we are handling this bill the way it should be handled. proper bipartisan fashion. i want to commend him. mr. barton: i want to inquire of the chair with his yielding i have four minutes s. that correct? the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman now has four minutes, yes. mr. barton: thank you. the speaker pro tempore: without objection to the unanimous consent. mr. barton: thank you, mr. speaker. thank you, chairman dingell. first i want to acknowledge the strong staff work on both sides on this legislation. it's been a debate whether we would get the bill to the floor or whether rachele would have her baby first. i'm proud to report we have gotten the bill to the floor. we are birthing the food safety bill before she gives birth to another lovely human being. what our minority leader said just a minute ago is absolutely true in the technical sense. about different versions of the bill being introduced at different times. but that's not all of the story, as paul harvey used to say on hi

and everyone was not somber, but respectful. and patient. and waiting.up, nobody spoke really. i think that it was exactly the kind of tribute -- it was a surprising tribute. think about the staples center. this is where the lakers play. you've seen fans go crazy there. >> absolutely. >> but for today, for today it was really almost transformed into a house of worship. and it was very much a memorial service befeting the family. befitting katherine jackson's wishes. >> kara finnstrom joins us outside the staples center. kara, tell us about the mood of the fans as they're leaving and what's happening now. >> reporter: you know, thousands of fans filing out from staples center, and also the nokia theater. really just kind of quiet, reflectful. just a very orderly type of, you know, exodus from here. lots of fans going down the street behind me. some gathered right behind me here. we've actually pulled a few of them aside to get their thoughts. this is victor and victoria, a father and daughter who got the chance to see the service today. victor used to dri

and do equal right to the poor and to the rich, and i will faithfully and impartially discharge and perform all duties incumbent upon me under the constitution and the laws of the united states." end of quote. now, during her confirmation hearings, madam president, judge sotomayor expressly rejected then-senator obama's view that a certain percentage of judicial decisions -- that in a certain percentage of judicial decisions -- quote -- "the critical ingredient is supplied by what's in a judge's heart and in the depth and breadth of one's empathy." unwoaunquote. in answer to a senator from senator kyl she said in her confirmation hearing, and i will quote that as well, "i can only explain what i think judges should do, which is judges can't rely on what's in their heart." this is judges sotomayor speaking. "they don't determine the law. congress makes the laws. the job of a judge is to apply the law. and so it's not the heart that compels conclusions in cases, it's the law, and the judge applies the law to the facts before that judge." that was judge sotomayor's answer to senator ky

a chance to go and dine with mayors and senators and congressmen and with a fireman and nurses and membersi did have a baptism by fire by an man that large his political skills that texas state university. he recognized that his young daughter had a chance to learn and grow and have an experience that would forever mold her life and in bridgett. he needed to make sure that i got the homework that i would -- so that i would get a lesson i needed. >> you both talk about some historic times. you were at the signing of one of the most important pieces of legislation. >> i was present for the signing of the 1965 voting rights act. i was a young girl. i was on daddy duty. if mother was not able to be with my father and there was a significant event taking place, either lynda or i would accompany him and be that family support. ism i would be going down to the east room in the white house were so many of these events took place. i would be an eye witness to a great moment in the history of america. about a told me that i would meet him in the diplomatic reception room because we were going up to