the augustine report will come forward and i hope that will not be a challenge. for it will be in essence an abandonment of a future that helps to employ people and create jobs. we know that in johnson space center alone, 11 million visitors have gone through in houston, texas, and as a 12-year former member of the science committee, having worked on safety issues dealing with the international space station, i know the value of human space flight and that space station. i also would have added language to restore the president's authority to close guantanamo bay. i know that we are looking at that in a way that some agree with and some don't. i believe the language that prohibits that is language that hopefully we will consider as we make it through and the president provides all the information that congress wants them to have. and then i want to at least place in the record the interests of continuing it to work with our juveniles that are engaged in violent juvenile crimes. we have seen the loss of life in many of our major cities and i had an amendment that

augustine and palm beach. and dean darling, a young cartoonist that roosevelt adopted for conservation. and he was spectacular. and roosevelt created the national forest in florida that links the atlantic to the gulf. if you look on the map, you see a green swatch of national forest and that's an area he reserved. >> i have been interviewing you, and how do you know about all of this? >> i love history, and you know brian, i have micromemory. >> photographic? >> i don't know if it's that, but my enthusiasm is high, and i incorporate that. this opened my eyes and i wrote the book to the parks, and not thinking of the back story of how we got the system. we are looking for good news in america, i will give you a good news story. look at park system, and national parks and forest. and we did that right and now have an obligation to maintain it properly. >> how do you when do you your research keep track of it all? what is your system? >> well, latest historian steve ambrose told me abandon knowledge on your own p

augustine said the purpose of a war is to build a better peace, and that is what we return to do in iraq. the plan was admittedly a imperforate and there were many mistakes made. there were too few troops involved. there were not enough troops to secure iraq after war. there was terrific looting. it has taken a long time to rebuild the military in iraq which we disbanded, one of our most critical mistakes. we almost immediately began to rebuild it again. to the second cholera ,bill, iraq absolutely did not invite american invasion in march 2003, unless you believe it it did by its unwillingness to live up to the terms of u.n. resolutions and disclose its weapons of mass destruction program. that said, they are no increasingly developing a government and security system that can stand on its own. . . host: if you go online you will be able to download this report that we have a hard copy of -- shaping the future of u.s. relationship with iraq. our guest is john nagl. our last call is from philip, hartford, conn. caller: good morning. i'm glad i got through. just quickly, i know you are go

augustine said the purpose of a war is to build a better peace, and that is what we return to do in iraq. the plan was admittedly a imperforate and there were many mistakes made. there were too few troops involved. there were not enough troops to secure iraq after war. there was terrific looting. it has taken a long time to rebuild the military in iraq which we disbanded, one of our most critical mistakes. we almost immediately began to rebuild it again. to the second cholera ,bill,

augustine and palm beach on the atlantic coast. also, the darling national wildlife refuge, he was a cartoonist, but the national wildlife refuge is spectacular. roosevelt created the national forest in florida that links the atlantic to the gulf. if you look on a map you will see the big green swath of natural forest. that is a heavy manatee area he preserved. >> i've been interviewing you 15 years. how do you remember all this? >> i love history. you know that about me. i have a good memory, i guess, for things when i get into something. >> photographic memory? >> i don't know. but my enthusiasm is so high that when i find documents, i'm very excited about it and i'm able to incorporate all that because i like this. this really opened my eyes. before i wrote this book i was going to parks and i was not thinking about the back story of how we got this system. we're always looking for good news in america. i will give you a good news story. look at our incredible park system we have in this country of wildlife refuges, national par

augustine, florida. fred on the independent mind. caller: let me try to make a point and then a question -- the last republican collor will help me make the point of because he got his talking points straight off the fox news, that is all they have been saying. they just have the ticker running wild and hollering and screaming about rule in favor of -- host: what is your point? caller: my point is this, the way i understand it, most of the dealers, they all seem to donate, i think 10 to one to the republicans, and when are you guys going to wise up? the democrats are the ones supporting you. fox news live is making a cottage industry out of attacking you. the republicans hate the unions. they despise the unions. i have a brother who is a dealer and he has been a republican his life and he realized this and he went down and switched its registration just last week. host: fred, thank you for the call. do you want to respond? guest: as a former democratic congressman, i will not respond. host: allen on our democrats line. caller: i will

augustine, if you like, and palm beach, on that atlantic coast. but also, ding darling, who roosevelt adopted for preservation. roosevelt also created the national forest in florida that links the atlantic to the gulf. if you look on map, you'll see the big green swatch of national forests. that's a heavy manatee area that he preserved also. >> i've been interviewing you for 15 years at a minimum. how do you remember all this? >> i love history. you know that, brian, about me. i just love it. i have a good memory, i guess, for things -- i have a micromemory. when i get into something. >> photographic memory? >> i don't know if it's that. but my enthusiasm is so high that when i find do you means, i'm very excited about it and i'm able to incorporate all that. i like being -- this really opened my eyes. i had been going before i wrote this book to these parks. though i wasn't thinking about the back story of how we got the system. we're always looking for good news in america. i'll give you a good news story. look at our incredible park system we'v

primmest kidnaper augustin, go ahead. >> i am gabrielle and i'm from blue fallin north high school. i was actually wondering, you are talking in your recent blog seven ways that health reform will affect the. you said that the new health reform is going to be focusing on wellness and not sickness and i was wondering if you wanted to elaborate on that? >> guest: i think there is always been the concern that madison answered my eye go back a long way in my own education as a doctor, let doctors learn about how to treat people who are sick and most of the money that we spend in the healthcare system is for sickness, not wellness. 80% in that general range, and there is increasingly, over years, if we could only prevent this. loan cancer when it is related to smoking, coronary artery disease, and i make cardiologists by training, when it is related to having high cholesterol and fat diet and exercise. we must be able to prevent as much disease as possible. weir i have concern that i kind of alluded to in that piece is that it is not either/or. most of what we do when we prevent disease

taken to human space flight, albeit we're doing that in the short-term because we're waiting for the augustine report to come forward and the administration to come forward with its vision with regard to human space flight. but just that concern, that angst, protectioned about the impact that that would have on the economy of those communities who are deeply involved in human space flight. the national science foundation, another example. this drop in government sport for -- support for research and development on top of the falloff in corporate research investment and private foundation support would stress the nation's research universities right at the time that this country needs to invest in research, needs to invest in development, so that we are at the cutting edge of the new economy as we go forward, which is at the very heart of president obama's new economic recovery plan and strategy. so, just to begin with, an across the board cut, an indiscriminate cut of any kind, 1%, 2%, 5%, i consider it to be mindless. it's not a careful consideration of fashioning fiscal policy, mr. chairman.

augustine. well, their school system, they were going to be laying off teachers and staff, and now they're going to get an infusion of an additional 9 million this year and another 9 million next year so that those teachers and staff won't have to be laid off. go over to the west coast of florida, tampa. the tampa international airport, it's going to create 250 new jobs using the $8 million from the stimulus bill to go out there and to improve a taxiway on one of the major runways. a job that would not have been done had it not been for this bill. and i'll give just one final example: go back to north florida. we have a huge forestry industry in florida, but, as we have seen, mother nature has not been kind in bringing us droughts, and when a drought occurs, the forest becomes a tinder box, and when a match is struck or a lightning bolt strikes, the forest erupts into an enormous fire that becomes a contagion that can rage out of control and impinge on urbanized areas. well, the florida departme