. >> she was now living in aspen, colorado.relationship wasn't the best and the divorce was a little sticky over money issues, primarily. . >> reporter: it seemed like a good match back in 1986, an expensive black-tie wedding on a yacht at sunset off the coast of san diego. at the time, the couple made a very pretty picture. they did look happy and at least one of them was. >> i know gary was mad abou her. i was positive that he was madly in love with her. >> reporter: it was love for the real estate developer and the real estate agent turned astrologer. it's hard to believe pam didn't know that her beloved astrology foretells trouble in the matching of an aries woman and a scorpio man. but at the time, they seemed compatible. according to the wedding photographer, a friend of gary's named davies bean. >> they looked like they really did love each other and cared about each other. >> reporter: at first, brian and heather, gary's kids from his first marriage, were less than thrilled about their father remarrying. but that soon c

. >> the future of news was a focus of a panel at the aspen of ideas festival. two bloggers spoke with jeff jarvis about the viability of newspapers. this is an hour. >> so i'm jeff jarvis. i wrote a book what would google do. and i blog at buzz machine.com and i teach journalism. to my right is nick dent john a long time friend who founded gawker media and to my left is jesse almost a long time friend who founded web blogs, inc. which is -- we do? i normally bring around an accompaniment. jason found a web blogs, inc. and then went on to found a human power search engine but the real reason these two are here is because they go back and i happened to moderate a session with them in 2005 when they were at each other's throats competing at the start of web blogs. and they were competing heartily and i think it improved web blogs as a result. so that was -- the whole thing. small w. as a business. so that's where they come from as a history. unfortunately, for you they're very friendly now. [laughter] >> and not as contentious and angry but we'll see what comes ou

going forward, and if you are a ski buff, frontier airlin is there right now, $260 round trip and aspenr january and 15th, even a week in january available, june or january 7 through the 12th if you are thinking about skiing, look for the deal to aspen. >> is that your wild card? >> wild card is buffalo. a lot of people may look at me and scratch their heads. $81 round trip. buffalo is the closest airport to the niagara falls. what a great september, you know, october weekend to get away and see the falls and take your kids and cheap destination once you get there as well. >> right. before the 12 feet of snow comes. thks. >>> hundreds of thousands of fans made their way to los angeles for today's memorial service for the king of pop. coming up, how those without a ticket got a littlereative to get inside. plus, did you know your age determines how you should save? an expert shares money tips for women in their 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s, and beyond. and the owner of an unusual window display that's causing a lot of controversy heads to court. >> as long as we remember our time with him, the tru

the answer is a, aspen. in the 25,000 square foot mansion comes with 11 bad rooms, 15 bathrooms a wine cellular and pool. and it is on 4 1/2 acres in the rockies. what a deal. >>> in sports the last night the national league won bill clinton was president. for rat was playing for the redskins and we never heard of twitter. tied in the second last night. one on for milwaukee's fielder. he hits a double to left. the national league is ahead 3- 2. it was tied at three in the seventh. a blast to left but the rays crawford with an amazing catch steals a home run so it stays tied. to the top of the 8th, look at that. one up, adam jones flying out to right. the tigers curtis comes in to score. the american league wins 4-3. president obama threw the first pitch and it was probably called the ball. later on the president was in the broadcast booth and said fans of every team can have hope this year, well, except for one. >> maybe the exemption who for the nationals who are young and have a new ballpark. >> just fired

. >> i used to be involved with an aspen institute study on th. at a much ler level, and they had a growth rate of 23%. tota economic, collapse is very close to i >> one assum that the israelis wi attack iran. what a you looking at that will lead to that concsion? >> they are going through an existential crisis. byirtuehat they have nuclear weapons ambionsor the last 25 years, they have been hped by the famous black marketee the bomng of iran, ift takes place by israel, it is six-nine monthsway. >> this is inspiredy the success, is it not, that israel had bn bombing iraq in 1982? 1981, where th struck two actors? >> the fous reactor in baghdad. the israeli air fce pulverize it, andut the iraqi nuclear program totally o of business. despite the weapons of mass destrucon, i don't think the iraqi clear proam ever recovered from that. >> isn't there another way? is it you let tm do it orou bombed them? yoused to work in the agenc the cia. are the other ways of interrupting the eleric suply, causing the enrichment process -- >> what alternative what ta

. >> i used to be involved with an aspen institute study on this. at a much lower level, and they had a growth rate of 23%. total, economic, collapse is very close to it. >> one assumes that the israelis will attack iran. what are you looking at that will lead to to that conclusion? >> they are going through an existential crisis. by virtue that they have nuclear weapons ambitions for the last 25 years, they have been helped by the famous black marketeer. the bombing of iran, if it takes place by israel, it is six-nine months away. >> this is inspired by the success, is it not, that israel had been bombing iraq in 1982? 1981, where they struck two reactors? >> the famous reactor in baghdad. the israeli air force pulverize it, and put the iraqi nuclear program totally out of business. despite the weapons of mass destruction, i don't think the iraqi nuclear program ever recovered from that. >> isn't there another way? is it you let them do it or you bombed them? you used to work in the agency, the cia. are there other ways of interrupting the electric

and the 300 block of aspen northwest.eren't told of the raid before it happened last wednesday. to make things worse, the officers were from montgomery county which further bew dered the folks in d.c. montgomery konty police say the production company didn't realize the officers were outside their jurisdiction. the crew was filming a cable tv series, called prison wives. >>> with gas prices falling, watching the numbers at the pump can be painful. it won't be an issue for hundreds tomorrow morning. derek ward is live with details of a big gas give away. >>> but alexandria's motorists are improving, at a better rate than motorists in any city in the country over the last few years. >> the average driver in alexandria will go 7.2 years between accidents compared to national average. >> four years ago it was 5.4 years between collisions. all-state says drivers here deserve a pat on the back or accurately, a few free gallons in the tank. >> tomorrow, with the free gas give away. starting at 6:00, the signs roll back to 0. >>

nancy snyderman, live today in denver, colorado, on my way to the aspen health forum at the aspen institutee country's medical and political leaders will be gathering. we'll be talking about everything from health care reform to swine flu and also reporting on that and much more today. any minute now, we expect to be hearing from the police officer in the middle of the national controversy over the arrest of that harvard professor, professor gates, because it has erupted into a debate over race relations in this country and we will bring that to you, live. >>> plus, new developments in the michael jackson investigation. we now know what was taken from his personal physician's office, including a drug that we haven't talked about before that could have played a role in his overall health. >>> and an illegal organ-selling ring busted in new jersey is leading to a provocative question. we'll be exploring that today when we make rounds. >>> and should you be allowed to sell your organs to the highest bidder? it's your kidney, so why does the government care if you cash in on it? we're going to

we node to know the aspen institute met this past week and supposed to solve some of the twratest problemshey have done is complicate it by talking about financial services being gretchen: good morning. monday, july 6,2009. we hope had you a great holiday weekend. we begin with a fox news alert. just 20 minutes ago barack obama aarrived in are you sure. should he be meeting with vladimir putin instead? peter: more than 1 million people expected to flood the city for jackson's memorial. we are in l.a. where police are begging people to stay home. brian: and watch us, perhaps. here he goes again. vice president joe biden admitting the administration messed up. >> we misread how bad the economy was but we are now only

. >>> a record real estate purchase in colorado in aspen was sold for $43 million. it is the largest single home sale in the united states this year. for $43 million, you get nine bedrooms, 13 bathrooms, a pool of course and a guest house. the one thing the buyer won't get is a mortgage. the house was bought with cash. >>> next on the late show with da

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you'll see what people are twitting about the ski conditions in aspen and there will be a ski resortwith some special for you to click on. >> i, too, don't want to sound like a dinosaur but what is a tumbler? >> it's a lightweight blog software. >> it's a real easy way to click quotes. >> thank you. hi, i'm nancy rye land. what do you say to the argument, why be on these social sites beyond connecting? following someone -- i can barely be uber productive in my own life rather than watching everyone else be productive? my father is asking in his 70's, why would i do that? i can barrel get through my day and accomplish what you -- i choose to accomplish. so why would i do it? it's like watching tv about other people doing great things. why don't i do something great today? i'm not saying it's not a good place to get news, but this social networking bit -- >> it's probably a waste of time. i agree. there are probably better things to do. i concur. >> it saves me time. reporters i know who use it go out and ask the public questions and the answers come back. it's pretty magical that way.

. >> it's no aspen. it's a down on its heals railroad town. a lot of hippy, intellectual artists settled there. it was an easy life and sort of misbehave out of the limelight. it has attracted a few celebrities. a lot of these places out west, they come in on their private jets, take a car to their ranch and get out. that's not true of brokaw. some other folks, you'll never see their face. it gives the place a representation. it's a low-earning, hard earning town. your ex-wife was margo kiter's daughter. >> yes. we have now divorced. we have two kids. 10 and 7. where are they now? >> they are in livingston. charlie is in the hospital for having broken his arm last night. i'm at a loss forewords. i feel sad for him today. go back to the story of your father and being kind of lost. where you lived and where you went. >> my father ended up going to princeton. afterward and before, he was not, what you call princeton material. he was a football play under akron, ohio. he was recruited for the football team by several ivey league schools. he said h

they are joined by a law professor from the aspen institute in colorado. this is about an hour and 15 minutes. >> i am eric motley and i am here at the aspen institute and wanted to welcome you to another provocative session in our series on justice in society. a couple housekeeping points, we are filming, we are taking this session. if you could silence your phones and blackberries that would be much appreciated. the last 20 minutes of this program will be reserved for q&a. we will have stationary bikes. if you could make yourselves to those stationary bikes and introduce yourself speak for proceeding to ask your questions, questions, a few statements, that would help us considerably in meeting all the needs of our taping technicians. my honor is to introduce you to the monitor, sandy levenson, a professor of law at the university of texas, has by nos in the back of your program, has had a distinguished life of letters. among the vehicle at the aspen institute tied for first among people who do not broker introduction, former associate justice sandra day

the aspen justice system last month look at flaws in the justice system and the high number of african-american men in prison. >> thank you very much. we're going to have a discussion about the american criminal justice system, so there are obviously a lot of things we will talk about. some of the questions the people appear on this panel think are important, and then we will want to spend some time the end of the discussion finding out whether we talked about all the things you think are important. so there will be a time for questions and answers. not speeches, we hope, but -- questions. we have a distinguished group of people here today to help us with this effort, and i am going to go first to justice sandra day 0 conner. she replaced justice stewart and then was replaced in 2006 by justice samuel alito. she's a stanford graduate. we have a couple of those out here. we also have her husband, a future chief justice, william rehnquist. it is worth mentioning that arizona state changed the name of its law school to the sandra day o'connor school of law, and the other thing we know about her fr

some fresh air out there in aspen. well, you are welcome, sally. well, i appreciate that, phil. am glad the book to review a little bit, -- i am glad the book diverted you a little bit, pat. things will get better. how about our website. www.foxnews.com/o'reilly. there are two separate and distinct websites. either way, if you have a poll question, what is that in my ear here while i am reading this? oreilly@foxnews.com is the email address. oreilly@foxnews.com is the email address. now, the poll on o'reilly.com is did you respect walter cronkite? and when writing to us, here is the word of the day. please do not be prissy, especially when writing to "the factor." we continue 24/7 on billoreilly.com. "hannity" is next.

nancy snyderman in aspen for us, thank you, dr. nancy. >>> officials in paris say french president nicolas sarkozy is doing well following a health care on sunday. he collapsed while jogging in hot weather and was hospitalized for tests, then was released this morning. all tests were reportedly normal. the 54-year-old sarkozy is an avid jogger and cyclist. >>> alberto contador of spain won the tour de france on sunday, his second win in three years. seven-time champion lance armstrong finished with an impressive third place. it is now 7:14. you're up to date right now. >>> after 3 1/2 years of retirement, that's the way to do it. he'll do better next year, i'm sure. >>> meredith and ann are enjoying a vacation up on new york's lake george. tomorrow al and i will team up down in key west, florida. al is there already getting a head start on the umbrella drinks. al, good morning. >> that's right. i've got a maitai for you, my friend. first let's look at your weather. there has been some severe weather going on but we've also got heat

. >> a mansion in aspen sold for $43 million. the most expensive single home sale this year. >> the purchase was made in cash. and the new owner now has a nine-bedroom, 13-bathroom home, complete with pool and guest house. the buyer is unidentified. but we have reason to believe that marcia, jan, cindy greg, peter and bobby, finally have bedrooms to themselves. >> they're degree to need -- going to need a housekeeper. alice. >> eyewitness sports is next. >>> this is mark viviano. we'll hear from the ravens' terrell suggs about how it feels to be one of the highest paid players in nfl history. >>> plus, an update on derrick mason. and we'll hear on the orioles' adam jones on his night at the all- >>> sky eye chopper 13 is live. >> reporter: this is an mta bus. and two other vehicles involved. we have multiple patients injured here. baltimore county police do have daisy avenue closed between arbutus avenue and tulip avenue. as transit police and mta try to sort this out. but hat least three or four people-- at least three or four p

in montgomery county, eastbound viers mill road after aspen hill, we did have reports of an accidentt's acheck of your fox 5 e onimaf-ttrfic. >> thank you. >>> now, to a developing story out of the district where police are vehicling a double shooting that happened around midnight in the 400 block of elvins road in southeast d.c. police say two men were standing ouide of an apartment where they were shot. right now, one is in critical condition. another expected to be okay. no word on suspects or a motive in this shooting. >>> could there be more track trouble on metro? that is what the "washington post" is reporting which is sparking now a heated response from metro. the post says that metro has a widespread problem with its circuits designed to protect rashes. metro accused the post of fearmongerring saying the report misstated facts. metro did admit to some trouble though. sarah simmons joins us live with more on that. we joined metro to join us this morning and they declined. >> that's right. metro's general manager it speak last night calling a news conference after this initial

some fresh air out there in aspen. well, you are welcome, sally. well, i appreciate that, phil.ell, i am glad the book to review a little bit, -- i am glad the book diverted you a little bit, pat. things will get better. how about our website. www.foxnews.com/o'reilly. there are two separate and distinct websites. either way, if you have a poll question, what is that in my ear here while i am reading this? oreilly@foxnews.com is the email address. oreilly@foxnews.com is the email address. now, the poll on o'reilly.com is did you respect walter cronkite? and when writing to us, here is the word of the day. please do not be prissy, especially when writing to "the factor." we continue 24/7 on billoreilly.com. "hannity" is next.

some fresh air out there in aspen. well, you are welcome, sally. well, i appreciate that, phil. well, i am glad the book to review a little bit, -- i am glad the book diverted you a little bit, pat. things will get better. how about our website. www.foxnews.com/o'reilly. there are two separate and distinct websites. either way, if you have a poll question, what is that in my ear here while i am reading this? oreilly@foxnews.com is the email address. oreilly@foxnews.com is the email address. now, the poll on o'reilly.com is did you respect walter cronkite? and when writing to us, here is the word of the day. please do not be prissy, especially when writing to "the factor." we continue 24/7 on billoreilly.com. "hannity" is next. we will see all of you premium members on the post-game show. i am bill o'reilly. we dodo alisyn: good morning, everyone. it's thursday, july 23rd. it was a news conference about health care, so why did president obama tackle the issue of race. >> if i was trying to jigger -- i guess this is my house now, it probably wouldn't happen. but let's say my old h

and also, that area of rain moved now up into aspen hill but the thunderstorms themselveses have diminishedearlier winds were up to 13 miles an hour. look at huntingtown, maryland. about a half inch of rain, cambridge had wind gusts to 40 to 50 miles an hour. and this in western maryland where there was that one report of damage where there was some -- also some pretty heavy rain. so overnight tonight, that area of showers, thundershowers, and moves off. tomorrow we will get into west to northwesterly winds. with more hot weather coming in. temperatures might, might get into the low 90s as we go into tomorrow. maybe an n a few spots into the mid 90s, then as we get into friday, another weather front comes out way. weak one but could be the focus once again by later in the afternoon and of some nasty storms. temperatures tomorrow, 91 to maybe as high as 95 degrees. so for the remainder of the evening, from here on in, look for those showers and thundershowers. some of the showers around washington. i think after we get through about 7:00, it will be just plain old rain showers. those clouds

. >> rose: i interviewed last week in aspen, colorado, former secretary of state james baker who said the following. he gives very high marks to president obama on foreign policy, has serious differences about his economic policy. and you? >> well, i suspect i would track along much the same trail. i think that the amount of expenditure represented not only in the stimulus package, in the so-called tarp program, the rescue of the banks and so forth but even in the budget that we now have and the one we are considering, a budget that some estimate will have a $1.6 trillion deficit, or maybe even $1.8 trillion for that matter. every one of those dollars has to be borrowed from somebody. if you try to borrow that much money in the united states, interest rates would spike and that would be very bad with regard to our economic recovery and our jobs. so we have become very dependent upon china and its reserves, pan russia, for that matter. large treasury bond buyer. quite apart from european and japanese sources, which have been regulars. trillions of dollars now held by these countries. a

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>> you know, we had roger ferguson on last week, actually-w when we were at the aspen ideas festival, former chairman of the federal reserve. and he said he was disappointed in some of the ideas on the table because felt some of the government agencies should have been merged. he said the ftc and cftc should have been merged, it's too much bureaucracy. where do you come down on that? >> it's about priorities right now. i think most people do agree that those two institutions should be merged, we should be talking about harmonization, we should be talking about more collaboration, at least between the two, and a similar approach to regulation. i think we've got, frankly, other things to take care of first and we should put that on the agenda. but i don't think it should be on the near-term agenda. >> do you think investors have started to raek to some of these new proposals? here we are friday in the summertime, summer doldrums have begun in terms of volume come in on the light side, certainly on fridays if not all week in the summer time. what do you think's going on in terms of inves

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i've talked and work with jeff jarvis and also some folks at aspen and the berkeley journalism school on the theme of what are the business models that will help journalism survive to. i am an outsider. i discussed this in a casual way, it focused way, since i used to be an engineer. how do we make the news business thrives because we need a vital news business asking difficult questions so that we can prevent problems like government is going off on foreign misadventures or governments allowing major financial crisis to occur. you ask questions, other people in the news are backing up people like helen to get the job done. i am a dilettante in this. there's a lot of government action going on right now. ha i am the forest gump of the internet. i know enough to see when something is going on that is good and then i will stand up for those activities. today, a new transparency initiative was announced. i will tell people about it. i don't think i'm being a journalist while doing this kind of thing, i am just trying to be a stand-up guy with all of my faults. >> please identify yourself

the director for a plant media, which is proud to be a co-sponsor of this event this week with the aspen institute. we have a great and multitudinous panel with us here tonight. we ended up in the brady bunch size range at one point today. it look like we were moving toward the john and cake + 8, but we have managed to stop at a more manageable number. we would like to give assent of what we are talking about tonight and then plunge right in. on my far right, fred wertheimer, founder of democracy 21 and before that, the longtime president of common cause. beside him, professor charles o. whitley, a professor of law at harvard law school, was a student have included a a one barack obama. laura carlson is the editor ed bloomberg news. linda wertheimer -- and yes, there is a relation -- senior and national correspondent for npr and before that, the longtime host for all things considered. david brooks, to her left, is a columnist for the "new york times" and those of you on the quad will note each of their two sons working on their curveballs. we are what you try to work through with this p

the first five months of the obama presidency was the subject of this panel discussion at the aspen ideas festival. charles ogle three joined journalist david brooks, margaret carlson and others. this last just over an hour. >> all right. good evening. and welcome to obama and the challenge of expectations, a look at the president's first six months. i am the political director for atlantic media, which is proud to be a co-sponsor of this event this week with the aspen institute's. and we have a great and multitudinous panel with us tonight. we ended up in the brady bunch size range. at one point today it looks like we were heading more toward the neighborhood of john and kate, plus 8, but we stopped at a more manageable number. i want to introduce everybody real quick and give you a sense of what we're going to talk about, the order of battle, and plunge in. on my floor right, the longtime president of common cause. beside him, professor charles ogletree of harvard law school, whose students have included 1 barack obama whom we have heard of since. margaret carlson is the editor of bloom

. >> the first five months of the obama presidency is the subject of this panel at the aspen ideas festival. charles ogle tree, one of president obama's law school professors spoke. this lasts about an hour and 10 minutes. >> good evening, welcome to our festival. i represent atlantic media, proud to be a co-spon or of this event. we have a great and multitudes now panel with us tonight. we ended up in the brady bunch size range at one point today it looked like we were heading more to the neighborhood of "jon and kate plus eight" but we managed to stop at a more manageable number. i want to introduce everybody real quick and then kind of give you a sense of what we're going to talk about tonight, kind of an order of battle, and then plunge in. on my far right, fred worth himmer, founder of democracy 21 and long manufacture time president of common cause. beside him, professor choorls ogle tree, whose students have included one barack obama, who we've heard more of since. margaret carlson is a columnist at bloomberg news. linda worthheimer, senior correspondent at npr and long-time host of

the cdc held a conference on obesity in aspen this week and top officials determined we're never goingng under control without getting americans to trim their waistlines. look at some of these numbers. according to the cdc, $147 billion a year in health care spending can be tied to obesity. if you do the math, it means that an obese person spends an average of $1,500 more per year than someone at a healthy weight. get this -- the american cancer society says it costs $93 billion a year to treat cancer. imagine, if you took that money, it would go to the more important fight if we could get the obesity epidemic under control. >> indeed. >> big money. >> is it too much corn? is it too little sleep? too much sugar? we don't know exactly why obesity has exploded the way that it has in this country but we'll try and find out. here to talk about it, a harvard-trained doctor who specializes in sleep medicine at uhk's medical center in cleveland, san jay patel. doctor, what is the tie between sleep and obesity? >> there's been a number of studies that have demonstrated people who tend to sleep

: well, they tried to burn it down, tried to burn my house down in aspen. what i would say ... c-span: what year was that, by the way? >> guest: it was august of '67. c-span: and what did you do about it when you got there? >> guest: i inspected the damage, which wasn't very great, and just went on. but to go back, i respect demonstrators. my children have been part of demonstrations. my son was at stanford at the time. he participated in demonstrations. he also said he would not accept an educational deferment, [that] he was privileged when his peers were being killed. he was going to expose himself. but in any event, regarding demonstrations, i believe in demonstrations, but i believe in peaceful demonstrations. i believe in effective demonstrations. the demonstration on the pentagon was not effective. it's a long story, and it's described in the book. but they lost public support because of the way they behaved. i say in the book, if they had been gandhi-like, they would have shut us down. there were 20,000 or so. all they had to do was lie down on the s

and from takoma park to mitchellville, chantilly, aspen hill, low humidity in place with temperaturesthe low to mid-60s. a few clouds in and out as the day progresses. afternoon highs should climb in the low 80s with low humidity. tomorrow, more humid, partly sunny. afternoon highs mid-80s, a small chance of a late afternoon or evening thundershower. a greater chance of maybe some afternoon showers and thundershowers on sunday. still humid. then monday, into next week, looks like we'll be seeing some low humidity moving back in monday and tuesday, highs in the 80s, but getting more humid wednesday into thursday. could get some thundershowers wednesday. jerry, good morning. how's the traffic? >> good morning, everyone, happy friday. head south to fredericksburg, take a live look along i-95 northbound and southbound. there's southbound, there's northbound. about a 50/50 flow of traffic this morning. those folks might be going away, a little vacation. other than that, looking good so far. on 395, to and across the 14th street bridge, nothing to worry about. the lanes remain open for you.

the aspen institute holds that a discussion looking at flaws in the criminal justice system and the high number of african- american men in prison. >> thank you all very much. i am going -- we're going to have a discussion about the american criminal-justice system. there are obviously a lot of things will be talking about. we will want to spend some time at the end of the session to find out what you have learned. there will be a time for questions and answers. not speeches, we hope, but questions. we have a very distinguished group of people here today and to help us with this effort. i'm going to go first to justice sandra day o'connor who has retired and -- retired in 2006. she was appointed by president ronald reagan to keep a campaign promise and she replaced justice potter stewart and was replaced by justice san alito. she is a stanford grad. that is where she met her husband in the future chief justice. i think it is certainly worth mentioning that arizona state change the name of its long school to the saturday o'connor school of law. the other thing that we know about her is th

. >> this took place in aspen, colorado on june 30. you can see this program again at c-span.org. in to join us next week for "america and the court's." saturday evenings at 7:00 eastern on c-span. on "newsmakers" this week, james clyburn gave his thoughts on the arrested at harvard professor. >> he can be no more or less of what our experiences have a blessed to be. i think the police officer in this was responding to a call. the question to me was, if this was a neighbor calling, what was a neighbor's role at all of this? did the police officer take into account that the neighbor may have overreacted? there are so many variables and all of this that i think nobody is indicting the police department in cambridge. certainly, the police officer has a record that seems to be admirable. i have watched him on the tv, and he seems to be a good guy. i think i am a pretty good guy. there have been times when i have overreacted. that is human nature. >> you can see the entire interview on "newsmakers." sunday at 10:00 a.m. at 6:00 p.m. eastern. >> the house returns monday at 12:30 eastern

. >> i am here at the aspen institute, i am here to speak about justice and society. you can silence or telephones and blackberries, it would be appreciated. the last 20 minutes of this program, will be reserved for questions and answer. if you can take yourself to the stationary microphone, with a few statements this will help us to consider this in meeting all of the needs of our technicians. i want to introduce you to the moderator, his biography is on the back of the program. we are very happy to have him to moderate this session. >> among the people who tied for first among the people who do not need an introduction, is the former assistant justice, o'connor and justice breyer. i want to add one part to their biography for the theme of selecting justices. they have actually been selected twice. she was among the first -- the last elected judges in arizona. justice breyer was a distinguished member of the office in boston. he was the last person not confirmed during the carter administration. and i do hope and i assume that we are talking about the judicial select

the first five months of the obama presidency was a subject of this panel discussion at the aspen ideas that will. charles oakley -- ogilvy joined. this last an hour. i am the political director. i'm the co-sponsor of this event. we have a great and multitude in thof a panel tonight. we've wound up in the brady bunch range. at one time today look like we are heading more to the area of jon and kate plus 8. we manage to stop at a more manageable number. i want to introduce everybody real quick. then we will plunge right in. on my far right, the longtime president. beside him, a professor of law at harvard law school whose students have included one of barack obama who we have heard more of since. margaret is the editor for bloomberg news. linda, a senior national correspondent at npr. david brooks, is a columnist for the "new york times." what we are going to do tonight is we are going to talk. i'm going to try to work through this panel some of the different aspects of the early stages of the obama presidency in what we have learned about him and water may be some of the successes that

he told the "aspen daily news" in an interview, quote, a truly free and independent press is the red beating heart of democracy and freedom, unquote. he says it's not just journalists who should worry about the fate of the press in this country, but, rather, every citizen. you also talked about the dumbing down and sleazing up of what we see on the news, and he blames that on the blurry line between news and entertainment, along with corporate and political influence in newsrooms. he claims that about 80% of the media is controlled by just a handful of large corporations. dan rather also talks about the decline in investigative and international reporting, says the loss of reporters covering the two wars that we're involved in hurts our nation. the bottom line is dan rather sees it, if somebody doesn't step in and take action, this country will eventually lose its independent news media. so, here's the question. should the federal government be involved in saving the news media? go to cnn.com/caffertyfile and post a comment on my blog. >> i know the way you think. probably the same w

and then make an even more remote than they are and take away aspen and vail and all the rest of that. [laughter] >> we have a series of questions here related to an s. and military goals. talking about, you mentioned the natural resources so times in both iraq and afghanistan. are u.s. troops protecting these resources or is it u.s. is two x. point them? how do you respond? >> this is actually a great question because we use to get in iraq all the time. the enemy is pretty skillful at propagating conspiracy theories in particular. frankly, these are parts of the world that aren't very given into believing conspiracy theories. it's part of the topic that we share with our soldiers. and my response to speak, look, we could have bought all the iraqi oil for the next, i forget how many years it was that i figured out it was, it was at least 20 or 50 years. in fact, i could do the math pretty quickly. they export about 1.8, 1.9 million barrels a day. you can do the mouth. we could have bought all of that for about a year's worth of our operational expenses in iraq. and that actually did

dick understood the needs of everyone, from farmers like me in rural colorado, to those in towns like aspen, carbon dale and telluride, aurora and colorado springs. with his guidance, i helped craft a piece of legislation, the basin origin protection, which i am very proud of. although this bill was never enacted into law, the lessons that dick taught me during this experience were invaluable. i will always consider dick a great mentor and a friend. dick's dedication to protecting water and serving colorado started long before his involvement with the colorado water congress. he served three years as executive director to the council of governments and seven years as executive director of the colorado municipal league. while at c.o.g., dick guided the well 2008 water quality management planning effort. in 1970, dick served as chairman of the colorado good government committee for the promotion of state constitutional amendments, one, governors cabinet, two, state civil service re-organization, and, three, local government modernization. all three amendments were approved overwhelmingly by t

and make them more remote than they are, and take away aspen and vail. >> we have a series of questionso military goals. talking about, you mentioned the natural resources in iraq and afghanistan. are u.s. troops protecting the resources or would they exploit them? how do you respond to those questions? >> this is actually a great question, we used to get it in iraq all the time. the enemy is skillful of believing conspiracy theories, and an awareness topic we share with our soldiers. my response was hey, look, we could have bought all the iraqi oil, for at least 20 or 15 years, they export about 1.8 million barrels a day. you can do the math, we could have bought all of that for a year of operational services in iraq. this is not about minerals. it's not about pipeline wars, or trying to corner the market. in fact china is the one that got the first contract for oil in iraq, in part because the iraqi pricing scheme was not that advantageous to the countries. in fact china and india are active in afghanistan. trying to get iron ore and minerals out of there. >> we got a series of questi

and then make it even more remote than they are and take away aspen and vail on all the rest of that. [laughter] >> we have a series of questions you're related to -- question here of related to, in essence, military goals. you have mentioned natural resources several times in both iraq and afghanistan. are u.s. troops protecting these resources or if the u.s. at work to exploit them? how you respond to those kinds of questions? >> this is actually a great question because we use to get it in iraq of the time. the enemy is pretty skillful at propagating conspiracy theories in particular, and frankly, these are part of the world that are very given to believing in conspiracy theories. it is one of the cultural awareness topics that we share with our restored -- are soldiers. my response is to become a look, we could have bought all the iraqi oil for the next, i forget how many years that it was that i figured out -- it was at least 20 or 50 years. they export about 1.9 billion barrels a day. you could do the math. we could have bought all of that for about a year's worth of our operati