baker? >> guest: i don't think immigration changes the story. i think your numbers are a little high. mini emigrants, accounting undocumented workers and illegal immigrants but many of those are not workers. some of those are families, kids and parents of people who work here but in any case that has some medpac that would say on wages that there is a lot of research showing wages of less educated people tend, there is downward pressure but in terms of that total employment picture that is a relative drop in the bucket in the scheme of things so i think we should be talking about immigration policy because they think the current policy is a complete disaster, having millions of people work off the books is that for them in bad for workers and i would like to see those people in a situation where they can work on the books. they actually did not break the law. the people that hired them for of the lahsa we could throw people in jail for hiring undocumented workers and we could talk about that

i have the pleasure of working where secretary baker. jim baker is one of the finest secretaries of state this country has ever had. it is nice to be here. i succeeded ed during the reagan administration. he is a true patriot. it was a great pleasure working with him. so nice to see what he has done with the baker institute. congratulations on a job well done, ed. the three of us, baker, ed, and i all worked for george bush in one capacity or another. i would like to outline some perspectives of my relationship with president bush and how george bush managed the world. it is 20 years since he was president of the united states. time flies by. to remind you, some of the accomplishments that took place on his watch -- the end of communism, the soviet union fell apart, all new independent states in the former soviet union, noriega was overthrown, the end of -- the restoration of democracy in nicaragua with free elections. when you look back at it, there was quite a bit of accomplishments. at the time the president was undertaking these, he

baker? >> guest: i don't think immigration changes the story. i think your numbers are a little high. mini emigrants, accounting undocumented workers and illegal immigrants but many of those are not workers. some of those are families, kids and parents of people who work here but in any case that has some medpac that would say on wages that there is a lot of research showing wages of less educated people tend, there is downward pressure but in terms of that total employment picture that is a relative drop in the bucket in the scheme of things so i think we should be talking about immigration policy because they think the current policy is a complete disaster, having millions of people work off the books is that for them in bad for workers and i would like to see those people in a situation where they can work on the books. they actually did not break the law. the people that hired them for of the lahsa we could throw people in jail for hiring undocumented workers and we could talk about that

a lot of the stuff as a matter of fact was playing footsie with other candidates including howard baker and john connally and all those others who ended up taking on ronald reagan for the nomination and compounding that was the fact that a lot of the staff from 76 fought that 76 was reagan's's last shot and he would not run again in 1980. he would in fact be too old to run again in 1980. >> i think around 1978 it seems to me that president reagan, not even candidate reagan at the time happened upon an issue i'm sure he had been watching for years, but it seemed to be the issue in that timeframe that really helped vault him back into the dialogue and i would be the panama canal. was that an extremely important issue >> it was for those old enough to remember enormously huge issue in this country. it was so huge in this country that president carter fighting for the panama canal treaties in 1977 he is lobbying the senate and trying to muster their grassroots support for the trees. he does something for president of the united states and a national television address advocating the passage

baker?there are different measures of the budget surplus or deficit as the case may be. if you want to blame someone hear you really should blame the media because every single budget document that i know what includes the deficit both with and without the social security surplus. so, you know, if anyone wants to find a new can look at the economic report of the president, the congressional budget office reports, the official budget, every document i know includes the budget both with and without the social security surplus. i'm happy to use either, you know, it depends on the purpose i would use one or the other. there's some occasions you would want to use it with counting the surplus and other occasions you wouldn't. but there's not any great mystery here and if we think that the better number to report is the number that doesn't include the surplus and in fact the gross government debt. that's fine and that is all available. you can get it on the web, it's not a hidden think anyone who w

host: nick baker? guest: certainly we saw the subprime crisis.that was all about residential real estate. that started unraveling in 2007, and that was through the proximate cause of the financial crisis. people were not paying off their mortgages, people could not afford them. that trickled into the banks, and that caused major problems in markets. there is a feeling out there among some analysts and people have been talking about this for a while now, this is not something brand new right now, at least a year people have talked about commercial real estate. again, residential real estate caused the original financial crisis, but commercial real estate. and is that going to -- are losses going to unleash another massive set of problems for the economy? so far that hasn't occurred, that there has been anything approaching the residential real estate crisis. that is a concern. the caller mentioned, who are the banks? let's go back to the government and let's say we're getting killed on commercial real estate. we need help. i have to note, the poli

and howard baker what early opposed the assertion of the next six words, mr.gorbachev, tear down this wall, heard reagan deliver them, he knew at once he had been wrong to oppose it. he later told me that i was glad not to be right about this. it would take another two years for the wall to come down. so what was the ultimate significance of reagan's berlin wall speech? very few presidential speeches, even the most famous one in our history, produce immediate change or inspired listeners to take action. but the ones that stand the test of time do so because of the ideas they represent. and that explains why the words tear down this wall remained so resonant today. the speech was on the right side of history. it expressed reagan's core belief that people could overcome their differences, that the world need not remain divided and that change was possible. that's the vision he was working with gorbachev to realize during all those years when he was president. and my book, i quoted george shultz, who told me and reflecting on the speech that there are people who

baker and others. -- mr.oehner and others. >> it was an unusual format. >> i thought it was a very good afternoon. we want to have a dialogue and we're glad that the president accepted. i thought our members were honest and i thought the president was honest. i don't think that we agree on everything but the american people sent us there to do what we can to solve the problems for our country. >> it was quite an afternoon -- an extraordinary meeting between the president and house gop leaders. it was an unscripted session for the public. most of the discussion was about partisanship. my question to you -- in this town at this time, is bipartisanship possible? or have we reached the point where the parties are so divided? >> i do not -- i hope not. i invited them to come to meetings foreign issues conference here in town. we had a good exchange. it was respectful and the way that we should do things. president obama decided to go to the republican caucus and i did not get a chance to see all of it, but i think

baker who did a tremendous amount of work in floyd's defense.other means to try to make floyd look bad. particularly in light of the fact that their star witness this week was convicted of drug trafficking. the star witness that they used to testify against floyd in his hearing was convicted in federal court this week of drug trafficking. this is the person that they used, you know, to say that floyd utilized these different products during the tour de france. >> larry: simply put, floyd, why don't you go to paris, answer the warrant? have you zefr received the warrant? you haven't received anything? >> no. >> larry: if you received it would you go? >> i'd have to see what it says. from what i can figure out by reading what i see in the press, it's a warrant for a failure to appear in the first place. i was never told to appear in the first place. i would be glad to answer questions. >> larry: tonight you flatly deny one, ever doping, right, and two ever tapping into a computer. which you would not know how to do. >> sorry, i shouldn't laugh. >>

take this, baker street, 56 shops are empty, the market's just do not believe that the plan will work, despite the greek prime minister's insistence. >> we are ready to take any necessary measure to make sure that the goal of cutting the deficit by 4% in 2010 to the percentage of 8.7 of our gdp -- >> there are intense discussions going on tonight amongst european officials about whether or not to bailout greece. these talks are likely to continue tomorrow at an informal economic summit in brussels. if there is a rescue it will be controversial, prompting questions about who was going to pay and what the conditions will be. >> the united states is expressing deep disappointment in a london court ruling that has forced the disclosure of intelligence reports about a way that a british man was treated by the cia while in american custody in pakistan. the document sho that british officials knew that he was subjected to cruel, inhumane, and degrading treatment. >> at the heart of the case was the intelligence sharing relationship between the u.k. and the united states. while the judge's co

you know, the baker crawl example was we are still not allowed into the inner sanctum of secrets so it's difficult for the citizenry to do that. now, what you are talking about the democratization of america i totally agree with and have argued about in other ways. mainly that has been a matter of bottom-up activity. for instance, never in history as a government in so aware of human rights as ours, women's rights, civil rights, black rights, native american rights, gay rights, disabled rights, etc.. that has been a bottom-up education and democratization. but the policy controlled the top doesn't seem to have the same dynamic. >> host: i remember a quote from h.r. haldeman in response to the pentagon papers and you describe the pentagon papers case in your book where he says the problem out of all of this gobbledygook, it is the end of the idea of the infallibility of the president. [laughter] it is a fascinating idea. but to me, it says that was in many respects the problem of presidential power. and i look at something like the clinton experience, and you wrote about this quite active

secretary of state jim baker came back to the same can be the next day or after and said well, admiral crounse no longer has clearance to read the cables so his opinion is not with anything. >> host: he's not in the open and more. >> guest: meter are you or neither am i or anybody so we all have to depend on this priesthood of secrets. they are the only ones qualified to judge our fate and that is where the secrecy has taken. >> host: dena patrick moynihan would say and he wrote this on his book of secrecy, not that secrecy was born of the bombing power but was born from the universal laws of bureaucratic power and that you look around at the states for more secret than ours that don't have the bomb and yet they've seized on secrecy as the tool for the control of the population of their debates etc.. so how do you make that connection? >> guest: he quotes the democratization. sure, that is a universal tendency and that certainly prolong it. but what happened after world war ii is this was a secret on such a different scale from anything but a week in invented the nsa, cia and these a l

james baker was for it, but baker and bush were alone the power of the administration. that was a great constitutional test team, he passed it, he predicted that he would win, it wasn't an easy fight but in the end he got a majority support going to war. and guess what he did was in the sense he recognized the consequences of the 1970's. bush's of that generation, they were really stunned and, maybe started as a better way of putting it by vietnam and watergate. sama of the politicians of that era responded to those two events by becoming the shell is a imperil president advocates were the unitary theory of the presidency. bush did not. bush, in fact, took the lessons he took that will make a mistake if you do not involve the people and the congress in this season's of great national moment and that is the great constitutional test that he passed and all better for it. >> these guys are looking better and better. [laughter] with one exception may be. but it's true, getting onto bush again, it was politics. if you're going to war you better make sure there are some democ

. >> dave baker, hardy county, west virginia said it is snowing hard and the wind is blowing hard. he's got 14 inches on the ground right now. six in the district. further south in spots like miller'sville, only an inch. annapolis five and six inches of snowfall. those high amounts, 14 inches steven city. west maryland with 15 inches of snowfall already on the ground. we've got so many hours to get through here during the overnight period. getting reports of a handful of power outages as the winds pick up throughout the east. already they are up to 30 and 35 and could go as high as 40. >> the regional radar is showing the snow. here is the drier air trying to come in. the storm beginning to reform. by morning it will be around the norfolk area, a vortex that will slowly drift out. unfortunately this snow and pattern will be continuing for a number of hours into the early morning hours. because of what we see already and because of what was yet to come throughout the night at one to two inches an hour in some areas, we updated t accumulations, even in the washington area, 20 inches

i developed the art of diplomatic kissing you cannot envision henry kissinger or jim baker. [laughter] but some kiss on the right cheek some kiss on the left and i could never keep track. there were a lot of bond and noses then the french to kiss on both cheeks and good dutch to kiss three times and then yasser arafat and it just the thought. right? [laughter] >> i would arrive somewhere and there'd be a big embrace. so i got to south korea and i had a great treaty with the foreign minister i came home and then i get a phone call and the brass says a south korean foreign minister will be asked to resign over what he said. he was with a journalist and said of the bill was secretary albright comes. you're about the same age. i am a tired old man and she is full of zuma and vigor and when i hugged with hershey has threefold brass. were you saying to back? i said no. i have to put something to put those pins on. [laughter] thank you very much. the. [applause] >> thank you for coming and we're here to talk that a splendid to book by david walker, come back america. i will say it

secretary of state jim baker came back to the same is said the adderall no longer has clearance so his opinion is not worth anything. so we all have to defend on the priesthood of the secrets they are the only ones that are qualified to judge and that is where secrecy has taken us. >> host: patrick moynihan would say in his book on secrecy, not that it was the bomb power but the universal laws of bureaucratic power. look at states far more secret than dollars that don't have bombs viet they have seized guns secrecy for control of the population. how do you make that connection? >> guest: that this the universe of the stand prolonged it. but what happens after world war ii is this was a secret on such a different scale from anything that we invented the nsa and the cia and the some leverage classification loyalty traps and they were all round the adm on something i will deploy and find out what everybody else knew about. after the mobilization of world war ii there would be a concentration of power which is true. >> host: because of the study -- state and the size? >> guest: that often

this morning, we will talk with nick baker and then the founder and chair of the memphis tea party talks about the

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the baltimore symphony ork kids program and they received $1 million from robert meier hoff and rita bakerfunding teachers, instruments, and another administrator now for or kids. >> a woman from haiti riding out the snow storm in a baltimore hospital. but she is not alone. find out why she feels so blessed, straight ahead. >> and maryland still under a state of emergency. we continue our team coverage of the major snowing event. stay with us. >> and the snow is coming down 2-inch he is perhour. how much can you expect? fu try one today. subway. eat fresh. >>meteorologists are watching the storm closely. >> jessica starr has a look at the snow totals so far. bifirst, chief meteorologist vytas reid has a look at where the storm is right now. hi vytas. >> hi karen. talking about heavy snowfall coming down over the state. heavy wet snow that will continue to pound the state. through the overnight, into tomorrow morning. and it will take time to get out of here. we're looking at hd radar showing heavy precipitation coming down over the i-95 corridor stretching down to d.c.. i-70 westbound, up

>> roger baker will enter the first part. >> the goal for the new software would go a long term solution -- solution for chapter 33 would introduce first functionality on april 1. full functionality would be on june 30 so we go to a fallÑi wih a new or -- more automated system for processing benefit. i was not clear and the question from the medical claims side. on the medical side, are you talking about the paperless system? we are currently working a number of pilots on the paperless system in 2010. in 2011, we have substantial dollars in the budget, i believe it is $45 million to seal the new system in a number offices. we have a commitment to congress to have all the paperless software in the field by 2012 and we're currently on the plan. >> mike, do you want to address the hiring of 4000? >> yes, it is important to remember that 1870 of that 4000 are already on board. these are corporate -- these are employees that we hope to train. that is relatively easyn hr stempel. -- ec from an hr standpoint. we want to train them quickly. we have hired a similar amount of people over the last

arthur is a psychiatrist at the judge baker children's center and harvard medical school in boston.yes, i am. i have rebutted that. >> larry: okay. we just talked to michelle obama about childhood obesity. how serious a topic is this for you? >> it's very, very serious, because there's things happening in the school system i don't understand and i don't like. whatever happened to recess? okay, so you put the teachers' cars in the yard so the kids can't run around anymore. what else is left? if you have a three-story school, all you have to do is pretend that you have a track team. take time out, you walk the children down three flights, you walk them up three flights, you walk them down three flights, you walk them up three flights. you do that three times, and then let's go back into the classroom twice a day. >> larry: doctor, you can get in on this, too. why would schools have non-healthy food programs? that seems contradictiary to th purpose of being at school? >> that's one of the problems. they serve poor food sometimes. some are doing better, and they aren't serving the right

secretary roger baker, the assistant secretary, and the c.i.o.me turn it over to todd. >> good afternoon, everyone. first, let me thank the secretary and deputy secretary and chief of staff for taking time this afternoon to kickoff our rollout of the budget, and thank you for spending this next 45 minutes with us where you can be informed of the president's budget for our nation's veterans. our format today is i've got 17 slides that i will present to you to walk you through the highlights of the numbers in the budget as well as the policies that are included in the budget. i will save some time at the end for questions and answers, and that is why we have the assistant secretaries and the undersecretaries joining us so that they can answer your questions in this much detail as they need to so that you can get the answers that you expect today. let's go to the first slide in the presentation. as deputy secretary has said, the 2011 budget supports president obama's vision to transform the department of veterans affairs into a 21st century organiza

it's similar to a proposal that howard baker, a former republican, wanted. this is why so many liberals are frustrated, because it includes so many republican ideas. >> but larry, let me ask you, why is it, then, that the democrats have control of the house, control of the senate, control of the white house and they can't get the bill through? >> because they need 58% of votes. >> one of the leaders over there in the house says he does not think this is going to get through, and i tell you now there is a lot of democrats anxious to have a chance to vote it down because they voted for it the first time and they're hanging loosely by that noose over there and they're hoping to get out of it by a vote saying, i got the message, folks. i'm voting it down. >> the reason it hasn't been able to pass anything is because the republicans have been, up until yesterday, the party of no. and one of the reasons that, you know, democrats, you know, are constantly up against a wall is because liberal democrats in this country strongly believe the republicans just want a fai

current economic authors on to talk about the current economic situation, and the shlaes and dean baker from eight to 9 p.m. to take calls and e-mails and then on thursday night we will be talking about the afghanistan war that the to afghanistan authors, said the jones and mark moyer will be here to take calls and tweets. but two more hours of prime time this congressional week. coming up next is henry paulson in conversation with warren buffett, just this past week on his new book on the brink and after that is an after words we taped with joseph, national editor, kevin mer of the, but now here is henry paulson and warren buffett. >>> first full i want to thank you for coming and i should to clear off the bad that i am a friend of hank's and have been so for some years. i admire him before he took the job. i add my durham a lot more after the job he's done as the secretary of treasury. the name of the book is on the brink and that is exactly where we were in september and october 2008. at that time, our economy, our financial world went into cardiac arrest and we had four people in th

the senate labor committee reported out craig baker, union friendly, worker friendly nominee and he's going to be voted upon and mitch mcconnell in the chamber of commerce said scott come on down and down he came. i can tell you this -- >> lehrer: are there other ramifications. >> the ramifications i think are apparent already. there's panic in the democratic rank. first of all they lost massachusetts, and that just makes everybody vulnerable. everybody who is up facing re-election. secondly the panic is there's a loss of confidence in the whitehouse political operation but they didn't see it coming. they in no way anticipated what was coming didn't act upon it. so there's an anxiety. are we all in trouble of vulnerability. i think that's the principal emotion that's dominated the democratic side. >> lehrer: david, some say this is a good thing because it's going to cause everybody on both sides to kind of get together because if they don't get together, there isn't going to be any governing. >> yes, right. well some people say it's a good thing and some people are spinning you, it's

he said he's looking for ideas from republicans, that daschle, dole and howard baker, none of them could get a similar plan through. he was playing both sides of the aisle, and he was playing to the middle. but this is a crowd that's been burned many times before. this is a president who's been burned, as you said, very aptly, by the left of his own party. even harder by the left than by the right is this president suffering. >> jennifer, good to have you on tonight. thanks for the insight. >> my pleasure. >>> president obama promised -- he promised to end don't ask don't tell but john mccain is standing in the way again. >>> sean hannity teams up with an alleged felon in psycho talk. alories. v8 juice gives you 3 of your 5 daily servings. it's a tasty, nutritious way to make this number go up... and help this one go down. v8. what's your number? i'm nervous about her going away. (sunny) the bayer meter helps me become more independent. (announcer) only bayer's contour meter has programmable personal high low settings. i want you to be happy. don't cry. (announcer) the contour meter, onl

most of the people that you referred to, peter baker wrote primarily about the impeachment. jim stewart wrote about whitewater. there are books about monica. no one had the whole story and shows how it was interconnected. no one really get access to both sides. that is what i wanted to be able to do. this was something that really, you know, you lived through it. it is consumed the country like nothing other than in our lifetime. watergate and nixon's ultimate resignation in disgrace. the assassination of john f. kennedy. everyone was fixated on this. everyone had a strong opinion in the country. the country was divided. i wanted to write the definitive neutral historical account that people would look at 100 years from now and say this person get it right. >> host: interesting that you mention the various stories and parts of narratives. i mean this as a compliment. the book seems to be structured very much as very easy to read, very much like an international spy thriller. on the one we start off with the impeachment, and then we go back to the beginning of watergate. then

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secretary roger baker assistant secretary for i.t. and cio.nd glenn hagstrum office of construction and logistic construction. secretary tommy duckworth for public and intergovernmental affairs. now, without further ado, let me turn it over to todd. todd, thanks. >> well, good afternoon, everyone. first, let me thank the secretary, deputy secretary and chief of staff for taking the time this afternoon to kick off our rollout of the budget. and second to thank you for spending this next 45 minutes with us so that you can be informed of the president's budget for our nation's veterans. our format today is -- i've got 17 slides that i'll present to you that will walk you through the highlights of the numbers in the budget as well as the policies that are included in the budget. we'll save some time at the end for questions and answers. and that's why we have the assistant secretaries and the undersecretaries joining us so they can answer your questions in as much detail as they need to so that you can get the answers that you expect today. let's

my name is amy baker and i'm here with organization called lift. we train hundreds of college students to provide services to low-income people. part of it is personal budgeting. i'm also here is a young person who's a future bearer of a lot of this way. what is my role in all of this and what can i do to organize some of my age coworker? the >> well, a couple things. first, young people should be very, very, very involved in this debate. because they will pay the price and they will bear the burden disproportionately if others fail to act. there are three things that are happening in the fed government. their futures are being mortgaged. relative investments in their futures because of mandatory spending growing like discretionary basic research are being squeezed at a time when will face increasing competition. in the south we call that a triple whammy. and that's not okay. and the sad thing is young people have not been a feast in this. the other thing i think is going on right now is with massive taxation without representation going on right n

first undersecretary jim baker. lloyd bentsen it be my first job at treasury. i left the treasury, we de la hoya bensen gave me my first job at treasury. -- first under secretary jim baker. lloyd bentsen gave me my first job at treasury. there was nothing good for business and that swing. -- in that swing. we are trying to dig out of it. we are willing to work with you on how best to do that, but our priorities, again, are to fix what is broken, people are back to work. if we do that well, then we will be in a better position to help dig ourselves a lot of that fiscal hole. >> where i come from, when you're in a whole, you stop digging. -- when you are in ta hole. we want to see where we can find ways to move ahead and get jobs started again in this country. thank you. >> we can start the clock over for mr. lwevin. -- levin. >> i just want to be clear about the numbers. there is a new category now called the democrats' control budgets, -- democrats control budgets. [gavel] >> mr. levin will proceed. >> i think we need to find common ground, but it will not work

first undersecretary jim baker. lloyd bentsen it be my first job at treasury.hen i left the treasury, we de la hoya bensen gave me my first job at treasury. -- first under secretary jim baker. lloyd bentsen gave me my first job at treasury. there was nothing good for business and that swing. -- in that swing. we are trying to dig out of it. we are willing to work with you on how best to do that, but our priorities, again, are to fix what is broken, people are back to work. if we do that well, then we will be in a better position to help dig ourselves a lot of that fiscal hole. >> where i come from, when you're in a whole, you stop digging. -- when you are in ta hole. we want to see where we can find ways to move ahead and get jobs started again in this country. thank you. >> we can start the clock over for mr. lwevin. -- levin. >> i just want to be clear about the numbers. there is a new category now called the democrats' control budgets, -- democrats control budgets. [gavel] >> mr. levin will proceed. >> i think we need to find common ground, but it will not w

most of the people you refer to, peter baker wrote primarily about the impeachment. jim stewart wrote about whitewater. there are books about politics. there are books about monica. no one had the whole story and showed how it was all interconnected. and no one really got access to both sides. that's what i wanted to do. i wanted to be able to talk to both sides. this was something that really, as you know because you lived through it, consume the country like nothing other than in our lifetimes perhaps, watergate and nixon's ultimate resignation in disgrace. and the assassination of john f. kennedy. everyone was fixated on this. everyone had a strong opinion in the country. the country was divided. and i wanted to write the definitive neutralist oracle account that people would look at 100 years from now and say, this person got it right. >> host: it's interesting you mentioned the very stories and parts in their kids. and i mean this as a conflict. the book seems to be structured very much, really easy to read, very much like an international spy thriller. on the o

they don't want to nationalize the butcher, the baker and the candle stick maker, but when you read theirwebsite, they say we want to nationalize the national corporations in america, the for fortune 500 companies. and they can do it incrementally. and they want to nationalize the oil refinery business so they can control the energy in america and want to nationalize the utilities in america so they can control the energy in america. and this could happen incrementally and don't have to do it all at once, socialist website. and they say, we don't elect candidates on our banner and get their names on the ballot under the socialist ballot. we advance these candidates as progressives, because progressives doesn't have quite the harsh connotation of the hard core left, so they hide under that banner and advance the socialist aagenda averra and i wondered when i heard maxine waters say i think we should nationalize the oil refinery business. i had to catch my breath for a minute because nobody would say that in a society where i live. they don't want to nationalize the private sector. they bel

today's job of the way is at federal bakers incorporated in virginia. an accounts payable. pay is negotiable. for more on the job and many others gorkys to myfoxdc.com and click on the tab near the top of the home page. >>> one guy came up with an old school tactic of getting a job. >> hello. i've been unemployeed for a year. if you happen to know of anybody that's hiring, would you let me know. > this chicago man is walking the streets wearing a sandwich board handing out his card. he says he decide it was time to do something different. and turned to this tact trick the depression. he tells people that he's willing to accept any job that will help him pay his bills. >> got to do what you got to do. credit for being out there. >>> all right. the super bowl just two daysway. we forget about that with the storm coming. >> if you can get out of your house, there are a on the of options for places to go. and we have the dish when we come back. >>> good morning. after you're done being stuck inside because of the weather, you can come outside and learn abou

bob dole and howard baker. two republican senate leaders. so it can't be that radical.t's a fairly straightforward principle that says we are going to set up an exchange, a pool where people who don't have health insurance, small businesses who can't afford it can buy into the pool. even after we have driven premiums down because of increased competition and choice, you still can't afford it we'll give you a sun a subsi, depending on your income. we ask that everybody get health insurance. but if you still can't afford it, we'll help you. we'll insist the insurance companies abide by certain practices like making sure you take people with preexisting conditions, that you don't drop people just because they get sick. we then say we have to control the cost of medicine so we are going to set up a panel of experts, doctors, and healthcare economists, we are going to scrutinize how we reup burst things like immediate -- how we reimburse things like medicare. don't order five tests if you can do one test and email it to five different doctors. pretty straightforward. now, wh

the same error was made with very tragic consequences in yugoslavia, where james baker went on the 21st of june, 1991, toward the leaders of the six republics of these in yugoslavia, that if they broke up the country, that those who broke away could expect no sympathy from the u.s. but at that point in time, the people of slovenia and croatia had already voted, overwhelmingly, or for independent. the leaders were, their whole being was about independence. the date was set for the 25th, four days later, and of course they went ahead. and it was not possible at that time, or indeed, many months in advance, to have saved in yugoslavia. and there was no point in trying to save yugoslavia. the world is not worse off. in fact, i think it's better off that there is no soviet union. it's not worse off that there is no yugoslavia. but the tragedy of the yugoslav situation is was not the breakup of the country, but the violence. and the violence was definitely preventable in the spring and early summer of 1991. the holding yugoslavia together was not a possibility. and we continued with this comm

[laughter] one was ella baker, and the other was howard zinn.and risking my life? i think it is required of us if we actually have a chance to consider that we are daily, often, being called out of our name. and we are the only people who can do something about that. and it's an individual thing, but it is also an organizational thing. and i was blessed to be a part of an organized fierce, fierce, fierce force in this country, and howard zinn was also one of the troopers. not leaders, recorders. not designers, he was in the midst contributing what he could. it is required of us all. thank you. [cheers and applause] >> amy. uh-huh. of course. right on schedule. right on schedule. do we have another round of applause in us for bernice johnson reagan? [cheers and applause] and for those of you who couldn't see the people singing outside along with bernice, what do you guys think, should we send out some coffee and hot cocoa to the folks outside? [cheers and applause] that needs to happen. now -- [laughter] yeah, i forgot for a second, i don't actua

although as i think john jenkins and frank baker said to you, and there are really signs. and just do say some of the things that i think have taken place in iraq today. if you look, for example, as the electricity, you look at income ahead which is several times ahead under sedan, you look at now the money that's being spent on infrastructure. i think yes, it was very, very difficult fight in deed. it was always going to be difficult once these extra factors came into play. i think and iran. but when you go into a nationbuilding situation in the future, i think we will be far better prepared and better educated than we were then. i would just give one -- if we are talking about, unicom was it worth in terms of the iraqis themselves, if you look at the latest information from the brookings institute and the polls they are doing about the right direction, wrong direction to their country, they're actually upbeat about the future. you know, if you look at whether they believed that security and services are getting better, a majority of them think they are, despite all the t

. >>> hummer goes the way of pontiac, and stud baker. the deal to sell the brand to a chinese company fell through. rising gas prices really killed them. gm already has pontiac and saturn as their cost cutting. >>> and what should we be on the lookout for? >> that's a great way to put it. even after credit card reform, some lawmakers are calling this gaping holes in the legislation. with the interest rates you might not be able to believe this. let me give you an example. premiere bank is offering a card with 59.9% interest rate. they can still do it. here in new york, they are capped at 18% interest rate by law. and that infewer rates some lawmakers that banks don't have a cap. here is one lawmaker. take a listen. >> what we have right now are millions of americans who are paying 20, 25 or 30% and more on interest rates on credit cards, and frankly that is immoral, and that's something that we have to end. the middle class is hurting and it's unfair to ask people to pay the outrageous interest rates. >> why is this? we did digging. you

baker claimed in a 1993 in a minnesota law review article that the court defect and union election laws an employer status as a party to labor representation proceedings. mr. becker is -- has asserted views that the nrlb should rewrite union election rules in favor of union organizer. should policy decisions should only be determined by congress. the n.a.m. is particularly concerned if confirmed mr. becker would seek to advance aspects of the jobs killing employee free choice act through actions of the nrlb. and from the u.s. chamber of commerce, who has only opposed three nominees in the last 30 years. i quote from the u.s. chamber's statement, "this is only the third time in more than 30 years that the chamber has opposed the nominee to the board most recently the 1993 nomination of william b.gould. mr. becker has written prolifically about the national labor relations act, the law he would be charged with interpreting and enforcing should he be firmed. many of the positions taken in his writing are well outside the mainstream and would disrupt years of precedent and the delicate bal

i ironically remember it because i was with secretary baker at the time so i got the other book end fromin i think tells you a changing nature of the bretton woods institutions. we zined this request as part -- designed this request as a part of a larger financing package. what is most striking if you think. developing world area where there is a question of liberalization in the growing markets or if you think about the meeting in copenhagen where there is a question of sharing low carbon growth, we're putting together a package where 50% to 2/3 of this will come from the developing world. so this is really emphasizing the muletity of this institution. now a.part is we raise prices once and we are looking at another price change related to maturities, but another aspect is we're combining this with a change in the voice. we're moving up some of the shares for some of the developing countries though we'll have to pay for those shares. one other aspect where i'm appreciative of the willingness of the developing countries to work with us is the history of the bank was if you were a develop

was put forward by tom daschle, the former senate democratic majority leader, bob dole and howard baker't be that radical. it's a very straightforward principle that says we're going to set up an exchange, a pool, where people who don't have health insurance and small businesses who can't afford it right now can buy into the pool. if -- if even after we've driven premiums down because of increased competition and choice, you still can't afford, it we're going to give you a subsidy depending on your income. we're going ask that everybody get health insurance, but if you still can't afford it, we'll exempt you. we'll give you a hardship exemption because there's some folks that it's just too tough. we are going to insist that the insurance companies all abide by certain practices like making sure that you take people with pre-existing conditions, that you don't drop people just because they get sick. we then say that we have to control the costs of med cane so we're going to set up a panel of experts, doctors and health care economists who are going to scrutinize how we reimburse things l

[laughter] one was À law baker and the other was howard zinn.t we are daily, often being called out of our names. and, we are the only people who can do something about that. it is an individual thing but it is also an organizational thing. i was blessed to be a part of an organized, fierce, fierce, fierce force in this country and howard zinn was also one of the recorders, not designers. he was in the midst contributing what he could. it is required of us all. thank you. [applause] [applause] right on schedule. do we have another round of applause for bernice johnson reagon. [applause] and for those of you who couldn't see the people singing outside along with bernice, what do you guys think, should we send out some coffee and hot cocoa to the guys outside? [applause] that needs to happen. [laughter] i forgot for a second, i don't actually run this place. i shouldn't speak like i do. [laughter] howard cost great respect was not for fame. it was not for academic honors. it was for people who did the work and our next speaker exemplifies this as

the auspices of the bipartisan policy center, which was founded by senate leaders like daschle and bakers mitchell. , we have an effort that we hope will profoundly show that crafting bipartisan deficit reduction plans is not an impossible task. we have recruited an impressive group of citizens, former elected officials, and budget experts. we will report by the end of the year. we hope to support the efforts of an official commission, statutory or created by executive order, or what ever, in any case to make our recommendations available to the public and congress for further discussion and debate. we will be happy to assist this committee in any way we can. thank you, mr. chairman. >> thank you for the effort. the clock is ticking. this is the time. one of the things i would like to emphasize, senator gregg and i joined together after two years, working together on a proposal, delighted to get 53 votes in the senate. that was the majority. but it does take a supermajority to pass. we would ask that everyone who had been an original cosponsor stuck with us, but a number of them did not.