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when does your agreement with apple end, and would you like that agreement to continue? >> guest: we, we don't comment on when the agreement ends. we're under nda not to do that, but we're very happy with the agreement. apple is a great company, the iphone is just the best device out there, and we're glad for it to continue as long as possible. so we're very happy with our relationship, and it's bore fruit for both apple and at&t. >> host: verizon and at&t recently dropped lawsuits against each other other advertising. can you tell us why the two companies decided to do that? >> guest: yeah. i think that rather than fight the issues in the courts, i think we'd rather fight in the court of public opinion. so i think it was a good idea to put the legal weapons down and just talk to our customers, get them the facts and in the end let the customers make the choice. >> host: mr. de la vega, the broadband deployment plan is due in february of next year. a, the ask, the -- at&t is running commercials saying they support be broadband deployment. are you supporting what the gove

than 20 apples traveling by truck 20 miles. i mean, the important calculation here is a mile per apple and, of course, it is going to be the same for both of them. i have very little love in my heart for industrial agriculture and i don't believe us a good word about it in my book. unfortunately, i think a lot of people who read my book think that i'm somehow embedded industrial agriculture because i'm critical of these ideas. it's simply not true, but one area where i would give industry higher culture a complement is when they need to move something efficiently and cheaply can and so they can take it vanish of scale economies when there is an incentive for them to do so. so this is again something that i think emphasis on the food miles needs to take into consideration. distance is not always the problem that a lot of the, i don't want to say propaganda, but a lot of the food miles rhetoric would lead you to think. i think more important than the other two and a final point i want to mention about food miles and live critical

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nokia is taking its legal case against apple to a higher level. it says almost all of the companies other products violate nokia's patents and they want apple to write a big royalty check. apple says it hasn't done anything wrong. >> getting ugly. >>> what is coming up. >> money saving tip of the day. we are looking at tax moves you can make right now to reduce your tax bill come april 15th. looking forward to it. >>> there's some good news for your commute if you use champlain streets in adams morgan. it reopened. city officials celebrated the occasion during a ceremony on tuesday which marked the end of the road construction project in that area. >>> another construction project is taking shape. the district started what it calls the largest bridge construction project in its history. the city is building three bridges to replace the two that span the anacostia river and 11th street including the separation of local and freeway traffic. the $300 million price -- >> they are opposite of what they should be and you have a lot of local and intersta

the first as it is going to be possible for consumers to make apples to apples comparisons of various health care plans. consumers will be able to see one plan will cost them $20 co-payments for a physician visit but perhaps another plan will cost them $30. it will be much like you can do a store, kosko, grocery store where consumers look at products on a shelf, look at a price, look at the various offerings and choose the best product for themselves. the second feature in the bill the democrats and republicans alike should appreciate is it will be possible to keep low quality plans out of the marketplace. this is especially important at the outset, mr. president and i learned this in the days i was the co-director of the organ panders senior citizens group. one of the things the country learned in the early days of medicare is a lot of the policies sold to supplement medicare for junk. they were not worth the paper they were written on and people with light tan, 12, 15 policies literally wasting money the seniors could have used for food and fuel and paying rent and it took until the

apple is a great company.t buys out there, and we are very happy with it. >> verizon and at&t recently dropped lawsuits recently over advertising. why did the two companies decide to do that? >> rather than fight the issues in the courts, i think we would rather fight it in the court of public opinion. i think it was a good idea to put illegal weapons down and just talk to our customers and get them the facts. in the end, that the customers make the choice. >> the broadband deployment plan is due in february of next year. at&t is running commercials saying they support broadband deployment. are you supporting what the government is doing right now to roll out broadband nationwide? >> we have seen some of the early work that the task force has done, and has been excellent. i have seen the presentations and looked at them. it is very detailed, very well thought out. we are encouraged by the early efforts. it may seem like a long time, but february is right around the corner. we are very encouraged about the grea

i think linking that to what we believe is not apples to apples. >> larry: the article questions whatt calls a strain of the christian faith that promises to make-believers rich in the here and now. pretty strong promise. >> sure. i don't necessarily believe that. i believe god wants us to be blessed and rise higher, just like my father came out of deep, deep poverty. he said i can make something with my life. when you believe that god is in control and wants you to rise higher, that's when you can see god's goodness in new ways. we never tell people if you believe you'll be rich. >> larry: it's not a material stick preaching? >>, it's not, larry. >> larry: how did that happen? you dress great and sell books. >> we believe god wants you to be blessed, but being blessed is not just so i can have nice cars and homes. we're blessed to be a blessing to other people. so i think the image comes because we don't believe god wants you to be defeated and be depressed and go through life poor old me. >> larry: this is the hardest thing to explain. i don't think i've asked it of you. i know it's

and by the way, i think even apple itself didn't anticipate it because when they originally came out with the iphone, they weren't really creating a platform for the applications. that kind of developed later, and that's really a stunning and very important development. so, yes, we are focused on trying to see what we can do to make sure there's a better competitive the dynamic between existing providers, but we're also trying to make sure there's kind of healthy competition within the ecosystem, that's one of the reasons why we focused on the settop the boxes. that's one device that hasn't seen the kind of innovation that you seen with computers, laptops, notebooks, etc., nor mobile devices. so that's one of the reasons we're looking at that. >> host: what about the national broadcasters worried about their spectrum being taken away? what do you say to them? >> guest: yes. look, it's not that, first of all, we're not taking away anybody's spectrum. here's what we are saying, number one, we believe the record is very clear on this. in three or four years, our country will have a very

than 20 apples traveling by truck 20 miles, i mean the important calculation here is mile per apple and of course it is going to be the same for both of them. i have very little love in my heart for industrial agriculture and i believe i don't say good word about it in my book. fortunately, i think a lot of people who read my work think i am somehow out in bed with industrial agriculture because i am critical of some of these ideas. it just simply is not true but one area where i would give industrial agriculture a complement is, when they need to move something efficiently and cheaply they can, so they can't take advantage of the scale of economy when there is an incentive for them to do so. this is again something that i think an emphasis on food miles knaves to take into consideration. distance is not always a problem that a lot of, i don't want to say propaganda but a lot of the food miles rhetoric would lead you to think. i think more important than the other two and the final point that want to mention about food miles and why i am critical of food miles in the book is if you

it is not an accident that apple and google and facebook are here. this is a tremendous opportunity. but if we do not have the spectrum necessary to build that platform, all of that is going to go elsewhere and the great countries -- companies of the next decade will be somewhere else. that is the problem. so if you accept that, it seems clear, the question is, what do you do about it? you have the spectrum that is well-suited to alleviate the problem. we are not talking about taking away from broadcasters. we're talking about asking the question, can we create a mechanism so that as the importance of this becomes clear, we can have those broadcasters. they are using their spectrum infrequently, if at all. almost 01 is using the entire 19.4 million bit of information stream. it is not happening. so it is an interesting debate. we're trying to figure out solutions. if they think it is worthwhile to keep all of theirs and are making a market-based decision, that is ok. others feel that it is not created over the air stream. 80% to 90% is being greeted

a new marketplace in american health care where that concept has been foreign, to let people make apples to apples comparisons, keep crummy products out of the exchange, to make sure people can get information about loss ratios. that's a real foundation. then we seek to go further, and we have had the counsel of some of the country's leading thinkers about american health care. let's get more healthy people into the exchanges. let's make sure that we have these big pools. let's make sure that the insurers can't try to steer the marketplace because we know that they are going to try an ingenious ways through advertising and market promotion strategies to still find the best risks. let's build on what senator reid has laid out with respect to the exchanges in the days ahead. we're going to be at this a long time, mr. president. you aren't going to fix a dysfunctional american health care marketplace in a matter of weeks. we are going to be at this the rest of this week, next week, well into 2010. i have been part of this debate since i was codirector of the oregon gray panthers going back

it's not an accident that apple is here. it is not an accident that google is here.ot an accident that facebook is here. this is a tremendous opportunity that if we don't have the spectrum necessary to build that platform, all of that is going to go elsewhere and the great companies of the next decade will be somewhere else, and so that's the problem. so if you accept that as a problem and you can argue about that, but it seems off the record it is pretty clear, then the question is what do you do about it? now, interestingly, the broadcasters have the spectrums are that is well suited to help alleviate this problem. we're not talking about taking away from broadcasters. rather, what we're talking about is asking the question, can we create a market mechanism so that as the importance of this becomes clear, and as the cost of not having it becomes clearer, we can have those broadcasters who don't need all the spectrum, and by the way, most broadcasters, not all, but most broadcasters are using all of their spectrum very infrequently, if at all. some broadcasters want

to apples. we're talking apples to oranges. perhaps both numbers are correct in their context. the senator from tennessee used the number $2.5 trillion when the program is fully implemented. that is a very important statement because the other side will argue it is only $1.5 trillion for the first ten years of the program. that is a correct statement. but it's $2.5 trillion for the first ten years of total implementation of the program. and what is the reason for the difference? well, for the first four years, money is being collected but very few benefits are going out. the benefits really start in after year number four. if you just take the first ten years of the program, you're collecting money to pay for it over the entire ten years, but almost all of the benefits only occur during the last six years. and so naturally you have collected more money than you've paid out. but when you take the first full -- first ten years of full implementation, it is exactly as my colleague from tennessee no

to go about this is by using positive advertising messages about the candidate with his family and appleseball, showing he is a good all-american and the good things he has done for the district for it we felt the challenger could have potential to rise up. because so few people in the district of him, we feel it would be best if we do not bring him up any operate any attention drawn to him could only help him. since he does have room to grow, we need to have some negative ads ready but we do not run on less the republican challenger starts to get momentum. on the congressional ballot, it has 46% while the generic ballot has only 42%. the big difference is the republican going from 36% to 45%. there would like to have a republican but that just don't know enough about him and i don't like agree we need to keep him as low down as possible. the discrepancy between the democrats' approval rating at 54% but the generic in terms of the approval, we think that is because they likened it as a person opposed to the candidate as their policy. we think it is a biographical ad that will highlight o

apple is a great company. the iphone is just the best device out there and we're glad for it to continue as long as possible. so we're very happy with our relationship and it bore fruit for both apple and at&t. >> guest: verizon and at&t recently dropped lawsuits for each other over advertising. can you tell us why the two companies decided to do that? >> guest: i think that's rather than fight the issues in the courts i think we'd rather fight them in the court of public opinion. so i think it was a good idea to put the legal weapons down and just talk to her customers, get them the facts. and in the end let the customers make the choice. >> host: mr. de la vega, the broadband deployment plan is due in february of next year. at&t is running commercials saying they support broadband deployment. are you supporting what the government is doing right now to roll out broadband nationwide? >> guest: i tell you, we have seen some of the work time of the early work that the task force has done and it has been excelle

does not quite comparing apples and apples when you look at this change over time. the research has been focused on vaccines has association with autism and has been epidemiological research. up until this point, i believe there has been a total of 16 studies involving hundreds of thousands of children literally, and there is no evidence at this point of any association between vaccines, the number of vaccines, the kind of vaccines and the increase or the particular vulnerability to autism. >> what i don't understand is how you could have a study involving hundreds of thousands of children because they are all getting the same number of vaccines. i have a different charge from the center of disease control and prevention. it shows that in 1983 the maximum number of vaccine doses administered before age two was eight. in 2009, there is a minimum of 21, maximum of 29, and from everything i can ascertain, it is more closer to 29. we have gone from eight in 1983 to 29 this year. before the age of 12. most pediatricians do that. how would you find a group that does not g

not quite comparing apples and apples looking at this change over time. the research focused on vaccines has a potential association with autism has been epidemiological research. there have been a total of 16 studies involving hundreds of thousands of children, literally. there's no evidence at this point of any association between the number of vaccines and kind of vaccines we are showing here and increase or particular fulmer ability to autism. >> what i don't understand is how you can have a study involving hundreds of thousands of children and the number of vaccines because they all get the same number before the age of 2. go back to the first chart. i have a little bit different chart from the center of disease control and prevention that shows that in 1983 the maximum number of vaccine doses administered before age 2 was eight. in 2009 it is a minimum of 21, maximum of 29. from what i can ascertain it is closer to 29. we have gone from eight in 1983 to 29 this year before the age of 2. most pediatricians do that. how would you find a group of kids

compare apples and oranges.hey different or how are they alike, particularly if you get into his drink. tory. host: what about liberal arts education? guest: i am all for it? it makes you think. it gives you access to the great minds of the past. you need some much vocational education. i think we need a national discussion on what we mean by educating. but what i am hearing from this administration and others is we need to do something about education because we are not providing workers for our industry. is that the purpose of education, to turn out employees? or is it the purpose to and rich individuals who will then that become thinking employees? host: philip in brisbane, california. caller: thank you very much. as i have studied the history of my state, as an adult, it seems to me that what i was taught as a child, particularly about the native tribes in my area, was this informational -- disinformation. how do i go about finding a textbook that was in use 50 years ago? and if you were to try to do a searc

the big apple got off relatively easy. many places in the northeast received more than twice as much, setting one-day records. airports are slowly getting back to service. and you tillty companies are hard at work in the carolinas trying to get the lights back on for about 46,000 customers there. one thing the massive storm did not slow down is the u.s. senate which is in session right now. democrats are intensifying efforts to pass a health care reform bill before christmas, the first of several key votes is scheduled to take place about 3 1/2 hours from now at 1:00 a.m. eastern. cnn will have live coverage of that vote. join me and our chief medical correspondent, dr. sanjay gupta, for our special at midnight eastern. we'll look at what's in the bill, what's out, and what it could mean to you. you can go to i-report.com and leave us your thoughts on this senate bill on health care, what it might mean to you, and frankly whether or not you even understand it. share your thoughts and questions at i-report.com. we'll try to

when i go to the store and i want to buy oranges or apples, they cost me $0.50 on the margin. i decide how many i want to buy. if i want to buy a car i pay for. i think that ultimately if we want to rationalize the health care system, the stronger we can make the connections between what people are buying and what they are paying for that, is going to be the answer. that's number one, not a very politically viable answer. . . >> and cut costs was by harnesses information, gathering it better, storing it better, analyzing it better and using it better both in a treatment and in a financial sense. and the good news is that their system has caught on and is being distributed because the cost savings that come from just very, very, very simple fixes like manipulating and handling information better can go a long way to providing better treatment medically and financially. >> well, thank you both so much. authors of the new book, super freakonomics. >> jeremiah denton appeared on g. gordon liddy's radio program to talk about his book, "when hell was in session." it's about his year

if you compare apples with apples, premiums under senate plan will fall in the individual market by 14% to 20%. these savings come from lower administrative costs, from increased competition and better pooling of risk to include healthier people. so, again, in the individual market, premiums will fall 14% to 20%, you know, comparing apples to apples. let me be clear, the c.b.o. does say that those buying health care in the individual market will pay 14% to 20% less under this bill than they would for the same plan under current law. i've said that three times now. if you currently have coverage that you like, you can keep it. and you will pay 14% to 20% less for that coverage than you would pay under current law. if, on the other hand, people in the individual market are unhappy with their coverage, what can they do? they can choose to purchase the more comprehensive coverage available in the exchange. you can keep what you have, but if you don't like it, you can choose to buy something else in the exchange. but unlike most of the coverage available in the individual market today, the c

the mortgage industry have had multiple lights at the apple to have the refinancing working. -- multipleilable to have the refinancing working. there is a voluntary service for needed for request -- success. for a variety of reasons including skewed incentives, contractual restrictions, where orders services are unable or unwilling to perform sustainable modifications in sufficient volume. i would urge congress to explore possibilities that cannot rely on servicer modification. this program is not working. >> our second witness is miss swartz, the executive director of the hope now alliance. a coalition of counselors and other mortgage market participants. >> good morning. i am the executive director of the hope now lines. i appreciate the opportunity to speak for you today to discuss the mitigation efforts on the lake. we are a nonprofit alliance working to reach an help as many homeowners as possible stay in their homes. many servicers are participating in the program and the alliance is working with the administration in implementing and improving the program. this is an important too

whose apples grew... on a branch in eden. if you don't make it, there's always tomorrow. >> larry: nobody can speak more about tragedy than victims of it. joining me is david beamer, his son died on 9/11, todd was one of the passengers that fought back against the hijackers before the plane crashed in pennsylvania. also debra burlingame, he was the pilot of flight 77 which crashed into the pentagon. she's the co-founder of 9/11 families for a strong and safe america and is a former flight attendant. alice hoaglung, her son mark bingham died on flight 93. alice as well is a former flight attendant. what's your reaction, david, to what happened christmas day? >> larry, it was a terrible event. i'm certainly pleased that the mission was not successful. i'm very thankful for the fellow has been referred to as the flying dutchman for leaping to action and preventing that plane from being blown up. so i'm very pleased with the outcome. and of course, disheartened about the fact that it happened at all. and it clearly points out fro

. - apple or cherry? cherry. oil or cream? oil or cream? cream... please. when other toppings are made with hydrogenated oil, the real dairy cream in reddi-wip's sure an easy choice. nothing's more real than reddi-wip. fork or... spoon? >> larry: let's discuss airport security. we'll check in with detroit. let's go to the l.a. international airport at the tom bradley international terminal at lax. cara finnstrom is there reporting for cnn. what's the security measures like at lax? >> reporter: well, larry, as you can see, huge crowds. this big crowd behind me, the line stretches out the door and down to the next terminal. these folks are having an extra wait today. this is normal during the holidays. when you pair it with all the extra screenings, these people have to wait a little longer. look behind me here, larry. you see these huge boxes. international travelers toting big pieces of luggage and big boxes of gifts to take home. i spoke with one woman going home to the philippines tonight, and she brought six large boxes. she says she just got her two hou

he was not an engineer or john scully of apple in late '80s and early '90s, and he was an engineer and is that why these two companies for instance who fell behind as engineers because the people of the top on my eric and larry and sergei could understand the language that their engineers were speaking. as they listened to the engineers in those meetings and as they listened to larry and sergei and eric asked provocative questions and saying wait a second i heard what you said but that doesn't make any sense because of xyz, i kept on thinking that the engineers would be content creators that the company. you don't think of engineers as content creators but in fact i came to think of many engineers at places like google as the martin scorsese's of this world. the applications you create become content and if i spent two hours doing research on google maps or one of your other products, if i spent two hours on that i'm not spending two hours on cbs or with a book and if i spend time-- facebook is content. anything that occupies a retention i would argue is content including houck content

of america yesterday for throwing tomatoes at sarah palin, or as sarah palin calls them, italian apples[ laughter ] the man stood up at her book signing in minneapolis. he threw two tomatoes, neither came close to hitting her. instead hit a cop. and now might be charged with hitting a police officer. they released his mug shot today. he looks familiar. i cannot figure out where from. >> larry: palin's memoir "going rogue" a blockbuster hit. she's attracting huge crowds. her popularity seems to go up. it is not at 50% where obama is, but she's lieding a little. >> she's an amazingly charismatic figure to some. i cannot take her seriously. her position on many issues are extremely correct, to me, at least, probably not to others. but she just doesn't sound like a serious person and i don't take her seriously. >> larry: how big a threat is she? >> she's not a threat. >> larry: they said that about ronald reagan. >> sarah palin, that's the other side of the aisle. sarah palin is no ronald reagan. i don't think i'm alone in thinking that. sure, she's got increasing poll numbers now. but she'

. - apple or cherry? - cherry. oil or cream? oil or cream? cream. some use hydrogenated oil.eddi-wip uses real dairy cream. nothing's more real than reddi-wip. >> larry: before we discuss health care, let's get the panel's reaction to the record card? what grade do you give the president? >> he said b plus. that's the only possible answer you can give. any president, any time in history, any human being. if you ask me how i am as a husband, a driver, a juggler, a magician, i will answer b plus. higher than that, you're an ass. lower than that, you're pathologically honest. the only possible answer is b plus. i would go to a minus if i checked my rear view mirror and that's for all of those. >> larry elder, what grade do you give? >> i would point out the american people had him at 43%, 44% in the latest rasmussen poll. if he were run again today, he would not be elected. >> larry: depending who ran against him, wouldn't it? >> that's true. if i ran, he probably would get elected. i would give him a d minus on the economy. i like what he's doing in afghanistan. don't like the

even the massive offensive currently under way in helman province is one small bite of a very big applese extra troop which is will bring the american presence to roughly 100,000, that's not enough to defeat the taliban. you have no hope of beating them on their home soil. what you want to do is put enough pressure on them to bring about a political solution. and to do that, you're also going to need afghan allies in the government and in the villages, the tribes and among the warlords. i thought the speeches with a bit hollow to be honest. >> larry: all right. nic robertson, 36,000 plus injured and/or killed in iraq and afghanistan since all of this started. is it going to get worse before it gets better? >> if you put more troops into afghanistan which is exactly what's happening, then more are going to get injured and killed. one of the saving graces, if you will, in iraq was this golden hour whereby any troops that were injured you could get them to a proper medical facility within an hour. and that meant most people who were brought in there alive could be saved. in afghanistan it'

. >> it basically gets two bites at the apple.roblem is as they've indicated is she sits there in a prison that something by all accounts she didn't do. as john says, the injustice here is something that is shared in america. there are many cases in america where you ever this similar prot could you tellal technique of character assassination. it's the she doesn't act right evidence, or you get any rumor or anybody with an ax to ground and get up there and say anything they want. that inflames juries and gets jurors to focus on things that were not evidence and instead to get passionate or prejudice shall. >> why do you think the prosecution was so heavy-handed apparently out after her. >> first of all, there's a lot of pressure on them to sell this case quickly. it's a small college town, and it's very sedate there and all of a sudden they had this sa lose yus senseless killing of a beautiful young woman, a wonderful wong won. they needed suspects and arrested these two individuals based on groundless speculation before they ever

to apples comparisons of various health services. there are requirements that you keep the lousy products out of the exchange, and chairman baucus and i got interested in the need for consumer protection, particularly early on in programs back in the days after medicare got established when seniors were buying 15, 16 private policies to supplement their medicare and most of them weren't worth the paper they were written on. so with these exchanges now, that's not going to happen. people are going to get value for their dollar on day one. and there are also some important consumer protection requirements, and i particularly want to commend the president of the senate. i have been following his work to ensure that now when a consumer pays a dollar in a premium, they're going to get a lot more back in benefits for their dollar. called loss ratios. people are going to hear a lot about that concept. it's new, but it essentially means that the insurance companies can't walk off with their premium dollar, use it on administrative expenses,

when i go to the store and i want to buy it oranges are apples, they cost me $0.50 on the margin. if i want to buy a car, i pay for it. if we want to rationalize the health care system, the stronger we can make the connection between what people buy and what they pay will be the answer. and a #2 it competes with the insurance component of health care. if you pay on the margin you don't have insurance. i am not saying you should let the economist run the world but it will be one where they had insurance but more or less people paid on the margin and the least popular set up you can have it we would have more rational items. >> host: one storey read and write about -- right about is one commodity that is sin short supply which is information. we tell the story of two people from washington hospital center the realize the scarcity was damaging not just to their health but cost. they decided the best way to improve health care and cut costs was gather information better, using it, analyzing it, a treatment and in a financial sense and a good news the system has caught on being distrib

and we see it in apples. we see it in dary. -- dairy. we see it in pears and row crops. and some of the other economic stressors for the first time in my lifetime i have seen farmers in bread lines in the central valley. and you add to this your i-9 audits which send a chilling effect over the rest of agriculture, respectfully i do not agree with the ranking member. i think we're destroying agriculture because like it or not, agriculture depends on a nondomestic work force to the greatest extent. virtually all of the big ag states do. and i think we have to recognize it. and so i have been increasingly concerned by the inability to move any legislation that would give some protections to workers who are committed to work agriculture for a period of years. and that, namely, is ag jobs. h2a will not do it. if you're 24/7, h2a 365 days a year will not do it. and i am increasingly concerned by what's happening. and, of course, the product of this is that we import more food produce from outside our country. and, therefore, there's more salmonella concerns as there were with

. - apple or cherry? cherry. oil or cream? oil or cream? cream... please.her toppings are made with hydrogenated oil, the real dairy cream in reddi-wip's sure an easy choice. nothing's more real than reddi-wip. fork or... spoon? nothing's more real than reddi-wip. [audio: gavel hits the desk] this bill will let americans keep the coverage they have now. ...and guarantee no one is denied coverage for getting sick... ...or for a pre-existing condition. this bill keeps all medical decisions between doctors... ...and their patients. it'll lower the cost of health insurance, and still lower the deficit. this bill... this is the bill. this is the health reform bill we've been waiting for. >>> bob says he died and was revived. we're talking about what happened to him when he went into cardiac arrest and came back from the dead. he's the co-founder of the sudden cardiac arrest foundation. what do you remember of that? >> not much. when it happened to me, i was just following the quarterback on a rollout, and i took two or three steps and took half a step and starte

when sherman returned he found everything in apple pie order. the city was functioning fine. the only thing he had to do is find a hit quarter for himself. a hotel and wanted to take over the hotel but the hotelkeeper insisted on rent and sherman knew him from the past because sherman served in the military in the south before and he said he wouldn't pay rent. but in a blocked several gentlemen one of whom was an english merchant who'd been living in savannah for a long time. he said why don't you take over my house. just leave me to rooms for myself. i'm a bachelor. take over my house while you are in savannah. i don't need all that space, and besides, he said, then you won't be an enemy to any of the southerners because you won't have taken any overt -- over any of their homes, so that house is beautiful. i pass by about two weeks ago. it's still in fine shape and has a big plaque saying sherman's headquarters was here. where would the troops go? what do you do with 62,000 troops? this was christmas. you had to put them somewhere. they wanted to celebrate christmas. some of

the first is it's going to be possible for consumers to make apples to apples comparisons of varioushealth care plans. consumers will be able to see that one plan will cost them $20 in co-pays for a physician visit, but perhaps another plan will cost them $30. it will be much like you can do in a store, a costco, a grocery store where consumers look at products on a shelf, look at the price, look at the various offerings and choose the best product for themselves. the second feature in the merged bill that democrats and republicans alike should appreciate is it will be possible to keep low quality plans out of the marketplace. this is especially important at the outset, prpt, and i learned this back in the days when i was codirector of the oregon gray panthers, the senior citizens group. one of the things the country learned in the early days of medicare is a lot of the policies that were sold to supplement medical were just junk. they weren't worth the paper they were written on, and people would buy 10, 12, 15 policies, literally wasting money that the seniors could have used for f

does the government get another bite at the apple, a way to take another run at this? or are these men now out of any legal danger. >> well, the government can appeal. and there is a legal argument to be made that you know maybe the state department doesn't have the authority to give blanket immunity protection to these guards. but at this point, the hurdle there is a really high hurdle for the justice department to clear, to make this case come back to life. this is a big win for the security guards. and they had felt like they were going to be able to prove their innocence at trial regardless of the evidenceary issues. they felt like this was a legitimate fire fight. they were acting in self-defense. but at this point, we'll never know. it appears we'll never know whether this was a self-defense. whether they were ambushed or whether this was a massacre. >> is this case being followed closely, back in iraq, two years later? >> well, you know, when the indictment came down, people in iraq were talking about the death penalty, as sort of, you know, to many people in ir

. >> he's a wig apple guy now up from florida now that his att career is over. native of dade county 23 career titles. four grand slam titleses. >> you have to watch a little bit further down the line. he play this had ball crosscourt from your forehand corner, yet he hadn't really come back too far and he found the winner. >> there is an intensity in the stadium that i'm not sure we felt all week. these fans we talked about how satisfactory the carolina tennis fans are and they're hungry for tennis here having never had a regular tour stop and they like this. >> quick serves out of the gate for courier. >> he'd lake toike to challenge it. >> so the lead for jim courier. >> jim, take you on an old flend, an old rival in pete sampras. what's it going to take today? >> it will take great returns, going up against probably the best server of all-time. first and second serve. so no rest for the weary. my second match i'll have to be ready to go. >> do you feel that you have the stuff to get it done and when you take on sam prats, do you look for anything in the serv

of partisanship and american politics, bill is a good indiana farm boy who believes in america and appleon has been traumatic for him. >> or washington has been trau matic for him, but take the situation as it is and we have more partisan society and geographically we have lined up more with the parties and the question is what are realistic ways forward in this drastic situation rather than the almost kind of momence that you hear in the air. and the question is whether you need something that works forever or only for a while. usually in life things only work for a while. graham redman hollings and the budget deal that came it from and it is one of the reasons republicans will not do those deals again is they lost a presidented over it, but we have a good period. president clinton uses a lot of capital and raises tax and a 1997 budget deal and all that goes wit and we have a surplus and we can in a sense possibly do it here in america f i think john with the default has an idea and i would not rule out reconciliation because the american people voted in 2008 to give is report overwhelm

the mortgage industry have had multiple lights at the apple to have the refinancing working. -- multiple lines available to have the refinancing working. there is a voluntary service for needed for request -- success. for a variety of reasons including skewed incentives, contractual restrictions, where orders services are unable or unwilling to perform sustainable modifications in sufficient volume. i would urge congress to explore possibilities that cannot rely on servicer modification. this program is not working. >> our second witness is miss swartz, the executive director of the hope now alliance. a coalition of counselors and other mortgage market participants. >> good morning. i am the executive director of the hope now lines. i appreciate the opportunity to speak for you today to discuss the mitigation efforts on the lake. we are a nonprofit alliance working to reach an help as many homeowners as possible stay in their homes. many servicers are participating in the program and the alliance is working with the administration in implementing and improving the program. this is an imp

compare apples and oranges. how are they different or how are they alike, particularly if you get into his drink. tory. host: what about liberal arts education? guest: i am all for it? it makes you think. it gives you access to the great minds of the past. you need some much vocational education. i think we need a national discussion on what we mean by educating. but what i am hearing from this administration and others is we need to do something about education because we are not providing workers for our industry. is that the purpose of education, to turn out employees? or is it the purpose to and rich individuals who will then that become thinking employees? host: philip in brisbane, california. caller: thank you very much. as i have studied the history of my state, as an adult, it seems to me that what i was taught as a child, particularly about the native tribes in my area, was this informational -- disinformation. how do i go about finding a textbook that was in use 50 years ago? and if you were to try to

it is not an accident that apple and google and facebook are here. this is a tremendous opportunity. but if we do not have the spectrum necessary to build that platform, all of that is going to go elsewhere and the great countries -- companies of the next decade will be somewhere else. that is the problem. so if you accept that, it seems clear, the question is, what do you do about it? you have the spectrum that is well-suited to alleviate the problem. we are not talking about taking away from broadcasters. we're talking about asking the question, can we create a mechanism so that as the importance of this becomes clear, we can have those broadcasters. they are using their spectrum infrequently, if at all. almost 01 is using the entire 19.4 million bit of information stream. it is not happening. so it is an interesting debate. we're trying to figure out solutions. if they think it is worthwhile to keep all of theirs and are making a market-based decision, that is ok. others feel that it is not created over the air stream. 80% to 90% is being greeted

we can do an apples to apples comparison about the local salary and if we are cutting off our noses tospite our face. let me go to the state department for some questions about that. i know there is a reason we have six ambassadors in afghanistan. but it is not clear to me who is doing what. who is the ambassador? who is in charge? what is the difference between eikenberry and holbrook? and who is answerable to them? can you help me with that? mr. feldman? >> i would be happy to. we do have six ambassadors in kabul, but we feel extremely well served by having them there given the critical nature of our mission and the talent that they bring. ambassador eikenberry is charged with all of our work coming out of the embassy. i'm just looking for the actual organizational chart that i brought with me and i am happy to share. >> that is fine, you can get it to us for the record. the reason i ask the question is not to try to -- i am sure that there is a valid, substantial reason for all of the work that all of them are doing. i'm trying to focus on this just because i have learned the hard w

a couple of bad apples comes out and tars and fetters everybody. i've been following the polls on attitudes. it keeps going down and down. almost as low as the attitudes on congress. it is an easy target. except, you like your lobbyists for the boy scouts. for the church, for the local city hall. you need roads, schools, whatever. you do not like all the other stuff, but you like what you want. what happens is, these bad apples do that. contingency lobbying is a very specific thing. it is not done very often, but some people do it. what do you think? . . >> it looks so bad that it outweighs whatever benefits it would give to either a lobbyist or client to say i want a specific focus. i don't know why you just couldn't pay a monthly fee and say i have some goals for you to do. the quid pro quo is a little iffy on that. >> for a variety of our speakers, -- [unintelligible] >> i think the contract that can be construed that way -- it is similar to tell a client attorney relationship is. you do not pay an attorney if he or she wins your case. >> if you

so basically, if you compare amples to ample -- apples to apples, what insurance will be in the year 2016, premiums will go down for -- for those in the nongroup market, down by 14% to 20% because of those with better benefits will find that their premiums might go up by 10% to 13%. adding the tax credits, which one has to do, because that's in the legislation, on a net basis for two-thirds of those folks, their premiums will be lower by a large amount. by large i mean 56% to 59%. who knows what will happen in 2016. c.b.o.'s giving its best shot based on this legislation. that is what they say. that's what the letter says. i have the letter right in front of me. i might also say that c.b.o. says, i don't know if it's in this letter or another letter, that the bill is deficit-neutral and basically over 10 years, i think it is, or 20-year period too, the net effect is not much -- or less government. it's about the same as today. there are wild assertionings, oh, it's extra government. the c.b.o. said that the government's involvement in people's lives will be basically no more or less

so when i go to the store and i want to buy oranges or apples, you know, the cost me 50 cents on the march and i decide how many to buy. if i want to buy a car, yp4 it. i think that ultimately if we want to rationalize the health care system, the stronger that we can make the connection between what people are buying and what they are paying for it is going to be the answer. that is number one, not politically very viable. number two, what it

what do they make and what do they make in the police department locally so we can do an apples to apples comparison about the level of salary and if we're cutting off our nose to spite our face. let me go to aid and state department now for some questions about that. i know there's a reason we have six ambassadors in afghanistan, but it's not clear to me who's doing what. who is the ambassador? who's in charge? where is the orcs charge? what is the difference between eikenberry and holbrooke and who is answerable to them? can you help me with that? mr. feldman? >> i'd be happy to. we do have six ambassadors in couple, but we feel extremely well certified having them there to given the critical nature of our mission and the talent that they bring. so, ambassador eikenberry is charged with all of our work coming out of the embassy and just looking for the actual board chart which i brought with me and him happy to share. >> that's fine. you can give it to us for the record. the reason i asked the question is i'm sure there is a valid, substantial reason for all of the work that all of them