religion will be with us, one way or another, for as long as we will be around, as long as humans being have to cope with the great mystery. when we came from, where we're going, what we are doing. as long as there is a vision of a possible different world, what martin luther king called the beloved community in which healing and a quality and peace, tenderness woodgrain. as long as that vision is still there, will -- religion will continue. religions will continue. that with the underlying nature, what it means to be religious is changing, and will continue to change, still anchored to that core. in the case of christianity, to jesus christ. still anchored to that core, flowering and all different kinds of directions. and that will continue as well. but what we call fundamentalism is on the way out, not -- but i think it is declining. it is a currently fractious. people fight with each other over very minor points. it has a very hard time coping with the kind of pluralism of religious and ideological worldviews that we have to cope with now every day. and so i think the sun is setting.

as long as this dead is rising as a percentage of -- as long as this debt is rising as a percentage of gdp, we are in trouble. we've got to get that down. >> that are a couple of other causes. the cost of interest itself is growing quite rapidly. once interest rates move up, that is going to be significant. there are other generational issues there. there is also the other issue i worry about. because of entitlements, all of us are basically cutting discretionary. which means we're cutting infrastructure, research and development, and we're cutting education and trading. from the long run competitive standpoint, that number should be a lot lower. we are eating our seed corn here right now. that is not good long run. >> when you're just talking there, and i want to get back and ask alice about the interest rates going up. talk about reducing greatly are stopping the rise -- however we want to praise it. slowing the rate of growth. when we talk about changing entitlements, i remember at the time, going to the white house and interviewing president bush about changing the social security

we will make these available as long as we have the protective capability of it. we want to make sure we are sharing information leading to full understanding and an end to this practice in every state. at the same time, both to the judiciary committee and the government oversight committee are not law enforcement. we understand that once we shed light, it is really for the various states in the u.s. attorney's office to do what is right path. . we will hopefully get additional whistle blowers to help us understand the scope and see that this practice ends. on behalf of the government oversight committee, we are the committee of whistle-blowers, not just when it appears to be an organization doing something partisan. our job is to look at waste, fraud, and abuse in government, misuse of government agenciey's funds and when we look at the private sector, we look at it in relation to the government. our whistle blower lines are available all the time. we would hope that our committee does far more far reaching activities related to the growth of government and the w

traveling over that line and make decisions whether to discriminate and favors certain content over other as long as it is lawful. that is actually the norm and telecommunications policy for decades and decades. it started most recently in the 1970's when there was only one phone company and someone went up to someone and invented a mickey mouse on the phone and wanted to attach it to an at&t line, and at&t said, no, you cannot do anything like that, you need to have one seamless network that we control. and then they said, no, you can attach any device at the fcc. and that resulted in fax machines, modems, and the things that we know today that really resulted in the kind of internet we had today that had modems and i speak -- isps. >> let me answer your question. i think that basically what the rules do would say it is ok for content providers to innovate, but broadband writers cannot innovate on their own. they have to seek permission from the fcc before they can manage their networks in a new way in order to encounter a new threat or opportunity. i would like to go back and correct a record o

as long as he wins, he'll continue to make money. >> jim: as long as he continues to win. do you agree with stephen a. smith that tiger came off as a phony, jim grey? >> you have to understand his perspective. a guy who's been in total control his whole life. when he shows up at a tournament, it's success. when he does not, it's not a success. there's a crisis right now on the pga tour with sponsors. now it's a bigger crisis. tiger missed most of last year with his knee, came back and it was a huge success again. he's in total control of absolu absolutely of everything that goes in on in professional and personal life. what's the next step? how do you go about things now? his wife has a bigger say. everything has changed for him. so, the card and the hands that he was dealt overnight, because of his behavior, all of this self-induced, changed the playing field. >> i would to interject there. the fact is, we don't have to understand where he's coming from. he never extended any level of effort to make us to try understand him. the reason i feel so passiona passionately abou

as long as he wins, he'll continue to make money. >> jim: as long as he continues to win. gray from the golf channel. do you agree with stooech stephen a. smith that tiger woods came off as a phony or hypocrite in some way? >> you have to understand his perspective. a guy who's been in total control his whole life. when he shows up at a tournament, it's success. when he does not, it's not a success. when he's on television, the ratings are through the roof. whether he doesn't show up, they struggle for sponsors. there's a crisis right now on the pga tour with sponsors. now it's a bigger crisis. tiger missed most of last year with his knee, came back and it was a huge success again. he's in total control of absolutely everything that goes on in his professional and probably personal life he. for the first time ever, he's no longer at the switches. everybody else is telling him what to do, how to handle it, what's the next step? how do you go about things now? his wife has a bigger say now. everything has changed for him. so, the card and the hands that he was dealt overnigh

so as long as it does, why is it a bad thing that it applies those rules to the wireless effort? >> guest: that's a great point that i first made with the chairman and his staff, and i'm glad he recognizes it. what it says to me is that we should be thoughtful about how we apply them to wireless. it is different, spectrum is limited in wireless, and we should be thoughtful about putting rules in place that encourage people to conserve this very valuable resource which is what spectrum is. and so those kind of details, you know, it's always the devil is in the details, but just the fact that there's that recognition is encouraging on part of the commission. but i think until we see the final rulings, we won't be able to tell whether we have any concerns about them or not. >> host: on another topic that's gotten a lot of attention, and the chairman talked about this in his speech, and that's spectrum allocation. ctia has said that the government should allocate an additional 800 megahertz of spectrum over the next six years. some have questioned whether you need that much. can you

for as long as space indoors and for as long as living beings remain, until then may i, too, abide torson is measured by how faithfully we serve a cause greater than our self-interest, a cause which encompasses us but is not defined by our existence alone. the same holds true for the conduct of nations. whenever people are imprisoned, brutalized, or murdered for demanded liberty and justice for themselves and their people or for peacefully exercising their faith, it is not simply another tragedy in an imperfect in cruel world. it is a call for action, one worthy of a country founded on the principles that every person possesses inalienable rights deserves to be free. should we be tempted to look away to ignore the trials of those deprived of the rights we so safely in joy, let us look to the example of the dalai lama and his good and rich as a friend, tom lantos. and accept the moral responsibility that can dignify our own life. let us heed the words of the great poet, john dunne, who offered a 17th century echo of his holiness is prayer. any man's death diminishes shows me because i

because we can still do cut and run as long as we are covering this with proper psychological tacticsgive them the feel of defeat. >> it's a clever idea. nothing springs to mind immediately as to how we can turn retreat into victory. i mean, there are various levels of cut and run. we don't have to completely give up. we can say we're afghanizing the war more quickly. we can hope that the afghan government that we leave survives as long as the previous government survived. after all, the communist government in the afghanistan outlived the soviet union, but only barely. it's not a parallel i think we want to spend a lot of time thinking about. i don't think there is a downsizing the mission alternative. i know there's a view out there let's go to pure counterterrorism. it won't work. as an intelligence professional who spent a great deal of time trying to persuade people to commit treason, they won't do it if they don't think you'll be around to give them a check after you complete your mission. it doesn't work that way. >> this morning, ambassador benjamin gave an interesting talk an

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and the fcc said, no, of course -- as long as it's a lawful device, you can attach any sort of device to the end of the network. and that really results in the flurry of innovation we have today. it resulted in fax machines and modems and the things we know today and in the kind of internet that we have today because it allowed for modems and many, many isps to run over those same lines. >> host: well, mr. cleland, a lot of the talk on your side of the issue is this will stifle technology, the and how do you respond to that? because mr. erickson was just talking about technology. >> guest: well, let me answer your question. i think basically what the roles would say, it's okay for applications and content providers to innovate, but broadband providers can't innovate on their own, they have to then seek permission of the fcc before they introduce new services or before they can manage their network in a new way in order to encounter maybe a new threat or a new opportunity. so i'd also like to go back to correct the record on a couple of things. mr. erickson said it was only one page. w

we will stay as long as it takes to finish our job. and our mission in afghanistan will end when the afghans are capable to secure and run the country themselves. but people want to see progress. the afghan people, and people in troop-contributing countries. and we will ensure progress. i find it realistic to start the afghan this -- the transition to afghan lead in some districts already next year. tomorrow and the next day we will discuss all of this at the foreign ministers meeting here in brussels. but we will not just discuss the military operation. we will also focus on the broader political strategy, and that includes what we expect from the new afghan government. good governance is the best way to suck the oxygen away from the taliban. and after all that we have committed to this mission, we have the right to insist on it. president karzai has made some very clear and welcome statements. i am pleased to see that corruption investigations are already under way. it is a good start, and it will help to establish the credibility th

they can just sit on it, sit on it for the entire season and put off a decision for as long as -- as long as they please which i think is so unfair for the program of mississippi state and for renardo sidney jarvis. >> steve: dragovic. he is now 0 for 9. 0 for 9 is nikola dragovic. rebound tyler honeycutt. >> marcus: you know, that possession right there, honeycutt is bringing the basketball and trying to create something on his own and what's going to make him a special ballplayer for ucla once he gets his timing and his conditioning in order jarvis. >> steve: next saturday, east meets west in a powerful s.e.c. pac-10 doubleheader. first the women hit the court as two teams with national title dreams around then the men take center court when number 9 tennessee looks to shut down c usc. the action tips off at 2:30 eastern and 11:30 pacific. at the free-throw line reeves nelson, a bundle of energy. i think he has a terrific future because he brings the attack. he bring he brings the high energy and emotion that ben howland likes so much. >> marcus: he's not going to be 20 points, 9, 1

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i guess, you know water boarding has been determined as torture. longfore obama declared that it was torture. we have cheney running around the country saying we should be torturing and doing more of this. we don't want other countries or people doing it to us. yet, here we are doing it knowingly that we shouldn't be didding it. my question is why didn't anything ever come about on cheney even today still advocating at the top of his lungs? guest: before i came into government. i've been in this position a little over three months. i worked for many years with a private human rights organization. i probably spent the last sim or seven years working on the issue of human rights national security. i believe we turned a page on that. this president won't allow that. we made terrible mistakes. they hurt us in the world by engaging in cruel practicesb we have gun to look back in several ways. the attorney general has appointed a special prosecutor to look at some abuses by the cia in the previous administration. over time there are going to be other ways to

you have a congress run by john boehner and nancy pelosi you're going to have a partisan congress, as long as you promote your leadership on the basis of fund-raising you're going to have this. i don't necessarily blame him but it hasn't worked out. >> brown: bad year, indifferent year? >> it was not a happy year -- the pledge of the campaign to be transparent -- obviously couldn't be fulfilled on health care -- to the degree it was, it was a problem, and to bring a new era had in washington. i think that's the biggest disappointment. i do not fault the president for that. i think that is a decision that has been made on the other side -- the house has never been a place of great collegiality, nancy pelosi did, i think, a remarkable job in passing climate change and passing health care but the senate is -- is really a far more brutal place than it's ever been. they have used the filibuster more in this session of congress, than they did in the entire decade of the 1960's when it was changing the civil rights law. >> brown: really? >> yeah. that is really, i think, a commentary -- when ever

very, very, very importantly there could be -- they would be free to make other budgetary changes as longby the rule and clearly if they didn't like the savings being generated by the rule, which it is set up so they won't, then they are completely free to offset the saveings with the others but it all must be here's element number three, and this is the one that encourages parties to work together and sets the default on the federal government. the first element is to abollic reconciliation. it has been massively abused and it is -- it encourages terrible behavior by both parties. the majority party tries to steam roll the majority or melts down. the minority sits on the sidelines and tries to make the majority meltdown. under square one, budget decisions would not be part of any privileged bill as they are today. members of the two parties could work together to allocate the fiscal dividend as well as make other budget decisions, or they could disagree, fail to pass a bill and invoke the filibuster in the senate if they so desire. but in the event of a political meltdown in the budget b

as long as the banks can borrow from the government and as long as they can into cannot borrow m you, it is safer to borrow it from the government, number one. i say it's safer, at least in the short term. they're not going to have to borrow from you. i tell you, senior citizens and people that save are really being penalized by this easy money. i think the easy money got us into the housing crisis. it got us into the credit bubble we saw in this country. i think that's what is happening right now is the government continues to take money out of the real economy, and they continue to deploy it in ways that drive down the savings. host: what should consumers do who get letters in the mail from credit card companies saying they will be charged 26, 29% interest rates? >> part of that was as a result of legislation we passed recently that said credit card companies, if someone's credit starting dpee tear rating, that they still could not -- they could not take certain certain steps to proprotect themselves. you know, there again, i think if you make a deal with credit card companies and t

and as long as they keep people poor, they will continue to get that money to fix the same problems in the neighborhoods. >> so it's essentially a perpetual motion machine that swallows up taxpayer dollars and dollars from charitable donations through foundations that empowers and strengthens acorn and their affiliates for political purposes and that strengthens democratic candidates in the places where there are swing districts in particular across america. would that be a fair analysis? >> yes, it would. >> thank you, ms. moncrief. i very much appreciate all your testimony. i yield back. >> the gentleman from end. >> i'm just going to make a real short statement. that is i was chairman of the government oversight committee for six years. and i watched as the justice department was manipulated in many cases by the attorney general for political purposes. and now we have a justice department that's not looking into these things. and it really, really concerns me. not just about acorn but about justice and the freedom that is we enjoy. liberty and freedom. if our justice department does

bottom line, the effect on abortion funding and mandates is exactly the same as the long distinguished tradition of the hyde amendment with this amendment and it would be exactly the same as the stupak language on the house side. now, i also agree with the distinguished senator from utah when he said this should not be of any great controversy. abortion is a deeply divisive issue in this country. but taxpayer dollars being used to pay for abortion is not. there is a broad and a wide and a deep consensus against using any taxpayer dollars to pay for abortion. the senator from utah mentioned polls. that's why the hyde amendment has been longstanding since 1977. that's why it's been voted and supported and passed again and again and again. in congressing with democratic majorities and republican majorities. it is a solid consensus. it does represent the commonsense of the american people. -- common sense of the american people. i will follow in a similar proud tradition of louisiana senators supporting that consensus. every u.s. senator from louisiana since the hyde amendment was original

as long as the banks can borrow from the government and as long as they can into cannot borrow m you,fer to borrow it from the government, number one. i say it's safer, at least in the short term. they're not going to have to borrow from you. i tell you, senior citizens and people that save are really being penalized by this easy money. i think the easy money got us into the housing crisis. it got us into the credit bubble we saw in this country. i think that's what is happening right now is the government continues to take money out of the real economy, and they continue to deploy it in ways that drive down the savings. host: what should consumers do who get letters in the mail from credit card companies saying they will be charged 26, 29% interest rates? >> part of that was as a result of legislation we passed recently that said credit card companies, if someone's credit starting dpee tear rating, that they still could not -- they could not take certain certain steps to proprotect themselves. you know, there again, i think if you make a deal with credit card companies and they chang

>> as long asee -- as long as the individual required. >> i think that is a great idea because -- you know, we focus on the wupeded warrior and their family member and they have to drop most of their hopes and dreements. that's the way it is and we want to help them where we can. and finally, dr., mr. dims tale, you were talking about standardized definitions. and you know, mental health services available through the department of defense. and it should be the same as -- as the veteran's administration when somebody falls into the programs. whatever rehabilitative services, whatever definitions we have, are we moving down the road to getting standardization? >> yes, sir but it is not easy. >> i know it would be hard. >> there would be like -- this is -- this is anecdotal. it was like 45 definitions we were working on and i think we got agreement on about 35 out of the 45. and there are policies as far as benefits are concerned based on the definitions. and we are continuing to wicker this thing down. but we have got a way to go. >> and the category of -- of somebody who is medically

as long as the u.s.deeply involved in the affairs of the third world we are going to face attacks and terrorism. this event in detroit is the opening salvo of deeper u.s. involvement in yemen as peter mentioned in the beginning. we have u.s. special forces, u.s. aircraft involved in combat operations in yemen. a three or four way civil war there. yemen is fast becoming the afghanistan of the arabian peninsula. we are right there entering into this. so as long as we do this, we are exposing ourselves. we need better security as they found in europe. they have been facing this problem a lot longer particularly in france. one of osama bin laden's objectives is to give us in the united states a national nervous breakdown. we musn't let him do this by overreacting to these events however ugly and nasty they are. >> larry: harry, how do you get petn? >> it is a military explosive. it has to be derived through a group -- >> larry: al qaeda could get it? >> al qaeda. it is clearly a strong indicator this guy had

i cannot support it as long as it is in there. that was a matter of principle for him. they took it out. he, therefore, said he would cast his vote for it. senator nelson also has matters of importance him as well. as long as it does not have the stupak abortion language in it, i cannot hava vote on it. they got his vote not as a matter of principle, but the medicaid expansion should be taken out of the bill? just that nebraskans be exempt from it. it is not that the burdens on the insurance companies across the country would be very difficult for them to satisfy, but that a couple of companies in nebraska would be exempt from them. that is not a matter of principle. that is a matter of trying to do something just for your state and the head with the rest of the people in the united states of america. >> senator mccain said today that you can block this bill if the votes to not come together for the democrats. >> we are going to do that. you have substantial differences between the house version of the bill and the senate version of the bill. i think the american people

even though it's not a big offensive day for him, again, he doesn't mind as long as they win the basketball game. great defense. great hustle on the block of the attempted dunk by reeves nelson. he gets on the floor like ucla stars do and then nice job on the inside. great position leading to the easy bucket. >> steve: kansas, one of many unbeaten teams. but they are on the top because of the two guys, collins and aldrich returned but the first five are all unbeaten. >> marques: purdue, their custom tough defense. kentucky has my favorite player in the country in john wahle running the point guard position for them as they beat north carolina by two yesterday. >> steve: duke has that one loss this year. >> marques: wisconsin. >> steve: yeah. yesterday kyle singler scored one he needed to. >> marques: talk about great point guards wisconsin has one in hughes. a nice job kind of putting the locks on john scheuer. >> steve: who's your top point guard collins will battle with this year? >> marques: again, john wahl from kentucky is just a freshman, out of raleigh, north carolina. but watching h

as long as they're talking about health care they're talking a lot less by jobs. after january they feel like they need to turn to jobs as soon as they can. the schedule is very important to them. that's why they're pushing so hard right now. >> exactly right. >> lehrer: you agree? >> absolutely. >> lehrer: thank you both very much. >> thanks. >> lehrer: now for the other >> brown: now, for some of the day's other stories, over to hari sreenivasan in our newsroom. hari? >> sreenivasan: it was a deadly day in both pakistan and afghanistan, as suicide car bombings rocked both countries. in central pakistan, an explosion ripped apart a market. the blast killed at least 33 people and wounded 60 more. and in kabul, afghanistan, a car bomber blew himself up outside the home of a former vice president. at least eight people died there. they did not specify the money be spent on rape kit testing. the law was named for debbie smith, a rape victim who waited years until her attacker was found. >> each box holds within it vital evidence that is crucial to the safety of women

twice as long as world war ii. we defeated hitler and tojo and mussolini in half the time it's taken us to find osama bin laden. if he came on tonight and said we're going in with special forces to try and capture the killer, that's a good idea. that's not what he's talking about. he says we'll have 100,000 troops there to find these killers that aren't even there. absolutely insane. >> larry: he didn't make any kind of case to your satisfaction of the dangers, the differences between vietnam and iraq and afghanistan? he was opposed to vietnam, he was opposed to iraq. he pointed out the dangers in afghanistan and what could happen if we do leave? he didn't make any effect on you with that? >> none whatsoever. absolutely not. in fact, this is going to be his vietnam if he doesn't change his mind here. this isn't going to work. larry, think of the logic of what we heard him say. he said that we're going to send more troops over there so we can withdraw in 18 months. seriously, let me just say that again. we're going

as long as it is a stafford act event and we haven't fcl coordinating the activity and not this confusion about is a pfo or the fco then i think you find the locals are much more likely to accept that because that's a system we're familiar with and it's a system that we trust and we believe the stafford has brought enough that it will cover a lot of those events if the transit was simply given the authority to do his or her job without worry about -- >> if there was a huge catastrophe that struck los angeles, are you confident that we would be able to categorically -- categorize it as a katrina like catastrophe? are you satisfied that would have been instantly or in kind of fashion? because we have seen anything like that in our lifetime on the west coast whatever it says it's coming. >> i think that's, to find the catastrophe will be the toughest part of this, because once catastrophic, i mean, if you take out the entire state of ohio, it's certainly catastrophic to us. other states, the impact on the rest of the country will be really -- i think whether it defines -- >> do you think it

for as long as space indoors and for as long as living beings remain, until then may i, too, abide topel the mystery of the world. i have long believed that the true worth of the person is measured by how faithfully we serve a cause greater than our self-interest, a cause which encompasses us but is not defined by our existence alone. the same holds true for the conduct of nations. whenever people are imprisoned, brutalized, or murdered for demanded liberty and justice for themselves and their people or for peacefully exercising their faith, it is not simply another tragedy in an imperfect in cruel world. it is a call for action, one worthy of a country founded on the principles that every person possesses inalienable rights deserves to be free. should we be tempted to look away to ignore the trials of those deprived of the rights we so safely in joy, let us look to the example of the dalai lama and his good and rich as a friend, tom lantos. and accept the moral responsibility that can dignify our own life. let us heed the words of the great poet, john dunne, who offered a 17th centur

now he makes money as long as dell's stock falls by more than what he spent. but mike, can't we do this on the cheap? >> i'm going to sell two 14. >> take the 60 cents he paid for one put and subtract the 55 cents he collected from selling the other two puts and mike only spent a nickel. but it gets better. because making money on this trade just got a whole lot easier. why? he could only make money if the stock fell by 60 cents by expiration. now he can make money if the stock falls by five pennies. >> make money all the way down to $14. >> this is a trade that is going to make the most money if the stock drops down to about the 14 level. >> but just as mike capped his cost, he also capped his profits by selling those puts, mike has limited the money he can make to 95 cents. that's a difference between the put that he bought and the one that he sold, minus the cost of the trade. but there is another trade-off. remember, mike sold two of those 14 stripe puts, not just one, and that means he could be forced to buy dell stock if it falls below $14. but fear not.

bottom line, the effect on abortion funding and mandates is exactly the same as the long distinguished tradition of the hyde amendment with this amendment and it would be exactly the same as the stupak language on the house side. now, i also agree with the distinguished senator from utah when he said this should not be of any great controversy. abortion is a deeply divisive issue in this country. but taxpayer dollars being used to pay for abortion is not. there is a broad and a wide and a deep consensus against using any taxpayer dollars to pay for abortion. the senator from utah mentioned polls. that's why the hyde amendment has been longstanding since 1977. that's why it's been voted and supported and passed again and again and again. in congressing with democratic majorities and republican majorities. it is a solid consensus. it does represent the commonsense of the american people. -- common sense of the american people. i will follow in a similar proud tradition of louisiana senators supporting that consensus. every u.s. senator from louisiana since the hyde amendment was original

.. .. >> as long as there is an ability to protect the information that was thrown out, so security, information could lead to identity theft. i want to go on record explaining that the tens of thousands of pages we took from california, we made sure that a full, complete copy was given to the attorney-general's office and that the originals are here in washington and available to anyone else who wants to go through them. as i said, we will make a secretary, also your department, we will make these available as long as the protective capability of this. we have this so you can receive them digitally. -- we have discs so you can receive them digitally. we want to see an end to this practice in every state. at the same time, wheat, both the judiciary committee and this committee, -- we are not law enforcement. it is for the various states in u.s. attorneys' offices to do what is right. hopefully today's forum, thanks to mr. smith and mr. commit -- our committee, we are shedding light. we are hopefully going to get additional whistle-blowers to help us understand the scope to see that t

and even the international currency as long as it's a commodity like gold. but this is typical of the moment, not only monetary policy, but in the area of nutritional products. so they want the regulations to be put under the wto. and once again, i believe that's all motivated by the drug companies and they don't want competition. they want to control it and that's why i take a very firm position. i don't like the sacrifice of any of our sovereignty and therefore not only what i challenged the wto in regulating your access to nutritional products, i'd probably just get rid of the whole bunch of the united nations and the world bank. [cheers and applause] >> you said that you don't believe -- you would say that you don't quite believe that the congress should control the money supply so my question is, should it be controlled in some fashion and if so by whom? >> yes, he was asking that since i don't want the congress control the money supply, who showed? and my answer is the market. milton friedman and i are friends and we debated the monetary issue and she

and i told them, it's all fine, as long as they don't catch me coming in and out of the shower. >> larryyou glad you did it, marlon? >> yes, i'm glad. but, as you know, a little bit apprehensive about doing something of this nature, because there's a private side of your life that i strongly feel that the public is not entitled to. and that's not just with our family, that's with any family. so you let them inside your life, but there's a private, private side that -- >> larry: you have control of the edit? >> yes. >> absolutely. >> larry: we'll take a break and come back. lots to talk about. and don't forget, this show will premiere on sunday night, december 13th, on a&e. we'll be right back. medicare. it doesn't cover everything. >>> happy birthday, jaept janet -- >> i just got a dog for my birthday -- i got a french bulldog, a female. >> you did? >> yeah. and i'm getting ready to go to the movies with austin. >> oh, okay. well, happy birthday. >> we just wanted to say happy birthday. we love you. >> happy birthday. >> take care. >> love you, janet. >> love you, bye-bye. >> larry: who

as long as the blogers are an elite, the cuban government has always allowed the intellectual elite somefreedom. if this is beginning to spread to the wider public, and i believe that it is, that is when you begin to see a crack down most likely, so i was wondering if you could comment on the diasporas's role. my impression, if you agree with my impression on that? >> i want to be quick so everyone can get a chance. let me just address that. i have heard from cuban diplomats and others that we were content to ignore these as long as they stayed on line. then we can block them from cuba and consumption, and besides blocked are filtered, is the word probably better, because sometimes you can access them, but sometimes you cannot. they have increasingly been more provocative, more confrontational. you can even say that they are starting to act like citizens, and they are taking this complaint to the street. the thing you mentioned about renaldo, he said he wanted to have a verbal dual with the man who beat up his wife, and he said to meet him at 5:00. "i do not believe in violence, but i wa

i would see no reason, as long as we kept the information proprietary. if we said, how many people called in sick last month and how many said they could not fly because of fatigue, i am very comfortable the carriers would share that with us. >> you are an example of when you posted on the web site, people were not paid their bills. it is amazing the collection rate spiked dramatically. i think it is a good idea. i was glad to hear about it today. >> thank you, sir. >> thank you, mr. chairman. thank you, administrator babbitt. let me say first of all that we must take knowledge in the overall house save our aviation system is. we extend our highest priority. we will always do that. as it all know, the colgan flight 3407 is waiting on airlines and we learned a lot from the investigation but now we must act -- excuse eighing oit is weighing on our minds. it drags out. let me ask you, and know that we sent you a letter led by senator dorgan and senator rockefeller. we also signed a along with other members of this committee, senator snowe. really bipartisan

as long as parents are willing to tell their stories, that's the best motivator. have a child and it's an thinkable home and i'm going home to check my smoke alarms and carbon monoxide detectors because of this story. >> i agree. thank you very much. plaintiff andr -- mr. andres ask you a question about kidde. what makes a good carbon monoxide alarm and, you know, what makes one better than others? >> well, to start with what makes a good alarm. i mean, what you really want with an alarm you want selectivity to carbon monoxide gas only. you don't want this a alarm that's going to react or sense other gases that are commonly found in a home. and you don't want that to be viewed by the alarm as carbon monoxide. so selectivity just to carbon monoxide is an important attribute. also, long-term stability. if we think about what we're doing with a carbon monoxide alarm and the technology, we're trying to detect parts per million of the molecule that cannot be seen, smelled, or tasted. so, you know, long-term accuracy of technology so that over time it's just as good as

as we remain open and touch the rest of the world and as long as we believe in our value system ando the rest of the world. every time i have any slight doubt, i use two little stories to remind me of what this country is about. the first has to do with the japanese businessman, very successful it is -- a billionaire. he was being interviewed on japanese television one afternoon and the interviewer said to him, of all the cities in the world, which is your favorite? and he immediately said new york. and i was surprised and said, why not rome, london, paris? he said, because new york is the only city in the world where when i walk down the street people, to me and ask for directions. [laughter] new york, washington, chicago los angeles that is who we are that is what we are. that is our destiny and let's and paying tribute to a man that taught everybody about the game. >> and then a dream comes true for one high school baseball player a story that will warm your heart holiday season. >> hello and welcome to this special edition of net impact. i'm art fa nel. this is the best of 2009

host: but stay over there for as long as it takes? caller: as long as it takes. host: all right, thanks very much for your call. when we come back, we will talk to gov. brian schweitzer, a democrat from montana, in town for a committee of the democratic governors association. he will talk about democratic priorities for 2010. >> the senate has started a debate on the health care bill. majority leader harry reid has warned senators to expect weekend and evening sessions. you can get live on our companion network, c-span2, the only network with the full debate on edited and commercial free. to get the senate and house version and the video on demand, good to c-span's healthcare hub . >> this weekend, we will tour arlington national cemetery and get the history of the cemetery. we will get comparisons and similarities between seemingly unrelated situations, with the authors of "superfreakonomics." joy hakim, with multi-volume works on history of science. >> "washington journal" continues. host: the democratic governors association is meeting in washington today, and

as long as the afghan/pakistan border areas is the location of choice for al qaeda and the epic centerfor global terrorism, we must work at its source. and the threats of great britain are linked at those border areas, we are failing in our duty not to work with the allies where it starts. a more stable afghanistan will help ensure a safer britain. >> gordon brown talked about this and david cameron talked about afghan. >> we want our troops to come home as soon as possible and when the job is done. but does the prime minister agree with me, we don't want to say anything to show that we won't see this through. nor raise false hope among the families of the british forces that would later be dashed. can he support that any suggestions on timetables will be provided by a situation on the ground. isn't the case that the british public want us to do what is right. it's finally mainstream to talk about the need for a big shift in our strategy in afghanistan. when i first questioned the effectiveness of our action there six months ago and called for this step change i was told -- i was told

, as long as we're at war there will be more people unemployed. instead of unemployment benefits people need work. instead of war people needs work. war takes money away from job creation. war results from unemployment. war is a weapons of mass destruction. -- war is a weapon of mass destruction. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from texas rise? mr. poe: i ask permission to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. poe: mr. speaker, in the aftermath of the climate gate scandal we now learned that prominent scientists were so determined to advance human-made global warming that they worked to hide contradictory temperature data, black ball scientists and manipulate the peer review process. "the new york times" says that climate gate is not a big deal. "the times" editor responded to criticism that the newspaper had downplayed the story predictly hoyt, a warmer, disagreed. it is not a three-alarm story. he defending the newspaper's decision evidence that doesn't support global warmi

we will take as long as it takes to fully discuss this bill, and it's going to take some time, as youcan imagine with that big pile of paper. i've heard several members from the other side of the aisle characterize the medicare advantage program as a giveaway to the insurance industry. now, let me say a few words for a minute about the creation of medicare advantage. i served, as i said, as a member of the house-senate conference committee which wrote the medicare modernization act of 2003. so did the distinguished senator from montana, senator baucus. among other things, this law created the medicare advantage program. when conference committee members were negotiating the conference report, several of us insisted that the medicare advantage program was necessary in order to provide health care coverage choices to medicare beneficiaries. at that time, there were many parts of the country where medicare beneficiaries did not have adequate choices in coverage. in fact, the only choice offered to them was traditional fee-for-service medicare, a one-size-fits-all government-run health pr

as long as it has the public option in. it doesn't have the stupac abortion language in it." those were matters of principle that he laid out. so how did they get his vote? did they get his vote by adopting the stupac language? no. they got his vote -- i won't say because of but it's a strange coincidence indeed not as a matter of principle that the medicaid expansion should be taken out of the bill. no. just that nebraskaens should should be except from it. not that specialty hospital provisions were wrong all across the country but that a hospital in nebraska could be exempted from it. not that burdens on the insurance companies throughout the country would be very difficult for them to satisfy but that a couple of companies in nebraska would be exempted from them. that's not a matter of principle. that's just a matter of trying to do something just for your state and to heck with the rest of the people of the united states of america. >> senator mcconnell, senator mccain said today he doesn't see much more that you guy c