appleby indicates there is some bias. that's very clear as you listen to the reporting. >> warner: let me ask you before we finish because you were in rome last week and saw the pope. what is your sense of how he's responding to this? >> well, my meeting with the pope was for a different purpose . he looked tired to me. he looked like he's aged significantly since the last time i saw him when he visited catholic university in 2008. and some of his collaborators said to me that they thought the pope was feeling the burden of this very deeply and very.... >> warner: of this scandal? >> of this scandal and the news of it. >> warner: briefly from you, professor appleby, what do you think the pope should do now? >> i think the pope needs to continue in the vein of comments he's made throughout his pontificate acknowledging remorse for the scandal, again as he did in the letter to the irish bishops, calling on the hierarchy to also acknowledge their role and focusing on the victims. on their suffering. >> warner: do you think t

host: julie appleby, do you have any questions from what he said? guest: do you know if your wife's insurance plan, how much of a percentage of income? you don't have to answer that on the air. but under the law -- an excellent this will not take effect until 2014 -- she made a bold -- may be able to buy insurance on the exchange but it has to being as buying the policy through her employer would cost more than, i believe, at 8% or 9% of income. it is more than a certain percentage of the income she may be able to go on the exchange. and may qualify for subsidies. if not, she does have to stick with her employer policy. for you, it sounds like a of a small business so you might want to look like how much this would cost and whether the tax credit will help you. that starts this year. guest: how -- the line caller: how will i find out? guest: the president said within a month it will put out information on how to apply for the credit. if you need to look at the company right now and look at restrictions. you have 12 employees, so you will have to loo

. >> julie appleby. when does the health care bill take effect? a very good question. parts of it take effect this year. the majority of it is a little bit further off in 2014. you buy coverage, the exchanges where you will go to buy coverage, the in -- requirement insurers not -- people who have pre consisting conditions. host: pre-existing does not take effect until then? guest: there is one area where it does, that is children under 19 with a pre-existing medical condition. remember, there was a bit of a flap about that last week. does the law say you can't reject children under 19 or you just can't exclude coverage of their condition? there was some back and forth and the law was not real clear, according to a lot of the policy wonks. but at the end of the day, the health and human services secretary has written to the insurer's and said we want you to coverage kids under -- kids under 19, with pre-existing conditions, you can reject it and said they will follow what the law says. that is one of the changes that take effect this year. host: wh

morning's "washington journal," a conversation on the implementation of the health care bill with julie appleby of kaiser health news. after that, rayola dougher on the offshore drilling announcement by the obama administration this week. then an update on the economy including the latest jobs numbers with greg robb of "market watch." "washington journal" every day at 7:00 a.m.. later in the day, president obama travels to north carolina to deliver a message on the economy. live coverage begins in charlotte at 11:30 a.m. eastern. >> now president obama in portland, maine talking about the new health care law. he is introduced by karen mills, a native of the state of maine. this is 30 minutes. >> ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the administrator of the u.s. small business administration, karen mills. [applause] >> i'm karen mills. i live in brunswick. can we hear it for brunswick? but i work in washington. i'm the head of the small business administration. [applause] now this is a special day for me. because a year ago today, it was my first day on the job. [applause] one year. and there is

. >> tomorrow morning, a conversation with the implementation of the health- care bill with julie appleby and then rayola dougher of the american petroleum institute. an update on the economy including the latest job numbers with greg robb. later, president obama of cal -- travels to north carolina to deliver remarks on the economy. live coverage from charlotte began as an old and 30 a.m. eastern. >> c-span, our public affairs content is available on television, radio, and online. you can connect with us on twitter, facebook, and youtube. sign up for our scheduled alert e-mails @ c-spaat c-span.org. >> the president is introduced by karen mills, who is a native of the state of maine. this is 30 minutes. >> please welcome karen mills. [applause] >> good afternoon, fellow mainers. [applause] i am karen mills. i live in brunswick . can we hear it for brunswick and the midtown? i worked in washington. i am the head of the small business administration. this is a special day for me. one year ago today, was my first day on the job. [applause] one year. and there is no place that i would rather

throughout the day we will have a panel, including does the american economy have a future, joyce appleby will be on that panel and another panel is current interest, what we don't know can hurt us, and those are two of the panels that we will be covering tomorrow along with the middle east, facing the realities is another panel so another five and have hours of live coverage from los angeles tomorrow. enjoy the rest of your afternoon. now we want to throw to dorothy height. dorothy height civil rights activist passed away last week at the age of 98. in 2003, she wrote her autobiography, "open wide the freedom gates" and she was 91 years old at the time. here she is on booknotes from 2003. c-span: dorothy height, who got you to write a memoir? >> guest: many people for a long time have been after me to write my story. but really, it was dr. camille cosby who finally sat me down with some people and said, this is something that you really should do. and then my good friend, maya angelou, who has such a distinguished career, when i talked to her about it, she said to me, well -- she helped

joyce appleby, roger farmer, steven hill and matt miller are the authors on that first panel and then about two hours of college with three south lawn, author of young fundamentalism. following that in about two and a half hours, live coverage of another panel entitled what we'd don't know hurt us. as selling author charles bowden will then join us to talk about porter violence in his latest book murder city. and about 5:00 p.m. eastern time, another author panel, this woman middle east politics. and finally, roxana spirit will join us on our site to talk about her captivity in iran. so that's our lineup for today. you can watch the tv on c-span 2 or you can watch our coverage live on line at booktv.board. either way, you can also follow schedule updates from "the los angeles times" festival of books and get the tv updates on twitter. twitter.com/booktv is our address and i would add that if you're in the l.a. area, the c-span bus is here and were handing out the next. so stop down at the ucla and say hi. joining us here and are sent from outside of himself on the campus of ucla is ra

each step along the way where there is a change in our nuclear policy isnal r what the next appleby.s will have some concerns that we should, that we should address. one of which the unilateral nature. we have got nothing for this. i mean, the administration prospectively indicating how they believe others will respond to it. without any real historical basis for. we have not seen the united states has decreased its arsenal, russia has decreased its arsenal. we have not seen an abandonment by foreign nations to seek nuclear weapons and nuclear capability. so there's not a historical basis for the president saying this type of change that we would undertake will result in a safer world for us. the other issue is what this means that i think the president doesn't necessarily mean that he would not defend the united states with every available system that we have to the extent it would be necessary. to that extent, the foreign audience may find that the statement is received by them as meaningless, nations that don't know threat for the fact that we had a deterrence before and are not g