baltimore and oakland now shaping up as a big one.nver loses then the ravens would need that win at oakland to get in. it all begins with j.b., dan, shannon, boomer and coach cowher on "the nfl today" next sunday, january 3. phil: here's what i wonder. still plenty of time left in the game. you have two time-outs, :40 to go. you look at it, third and 2. run the football. if you run it and you're just short, i think it changes your thought process where you might go for it on fourth down. jim: so you're thinking four-down territory? phil: if you run it here that's what your thinking is. if you don't get it you're hoping to get it close enough where you feel comfortable going for it on fourth down. jim: orton steps up, completes it. gaffney. he is having some afternoon with two touchdown catches and that was a tough grab across the middle, outreaching quinton michael for 18 yards. phil: it was a good job. the pressure. orton steps up and just allows gaffney that extra time. i thought maybe he'd run for the first down. how about that the

it is chilly 24 here. 19 baltimore. cumberland, downtown on baltimore street you have 14. it is 19 manassas. 22 andrews air force base. here's the satellite loop. these are high clouds made of ice crystals streaming by. the high clouds get here first because they are higher up or the winds are faster and they usually give us a heads up about our weather and what's next. when you see high clouds you have to say there is probably going to be a storm in the next 24 to 36 hours and wouldn't you know it that's what we have plotted on the three-day map. the first icon. the stuff here is icing. sleet or freezing rain will be possible tomorrow morning on your commute. should be changing over to run rain during the day as we reach for 42 and there you go, new year's eve maybe a rain/snow mix with 38 on friday, new year's day. this is how we are shaping up with the weather. we will fly down to the gulf coast and take a look at louisiana. eastern texas, the piney woods, getting rain. this is one fragment of our storm. and there will be a couple more fragments that all cruise by our a

they were heavy underdogs to the powerful baltimore orioles. york was up for the challenge. >> the 2-1 pitch. there's a fly ball out to left. the mets are the world champions! gary is being mobbed. look at this scene! >> we must not forget all of the beautiful fans that we had in shea stadium all year long. it's just been a great year and thank god it's over now. >> i thought he was here. >> oh, i just can't believe it! it's been a year of miracles and it's marvelous. >>> coming up -- a wild finish on the gridiron. a bizarre brawl. and the biggest upset in (announcer) pizza hut knows you've been good. so here's a great holiday meal deal. right now get two medium one topping pizzas and five breadsticks for just $14.99. that's enough to feed the whole family. carryout and we'll throw in a free two liter pepsi. happy holideal from pizza hut. happy holideal in 1977, in johannesburg, south africa, an 8-year-old boy picked up the game of golf from his father. by the age of 9, he was already outplaying him. the odds of this gentle lad winning the juni

congress fled to baltimore and began debating terms of capitulation to the british. the war was over. unless washington could come up with a miracle, and he chose a young college student, lieutenant general james monroe, to help make a miracle happened. they all crossed the delaware during a blinding snowstorm on christmas night only six months after we had declared independence. in trenton 3,000 haitian mercenaries had spent the evening celebrating, and because the snow storm they went to sleep without posting centuries. at dawn the next morning monroe and his squad sneak up to the cannon emplacements at king street in trenton, the main street washington would have to come up with his troops to capture the town. a haitian soldier happened to step outside to do you know what and spotted them. he shouted. the enemy. the haitians poured out into the snow storm in their fought in -- my clothes. monroe felt wounded by the cannons. he and his men fought them off until washington and his troops could fight their way up king street and forced the haitians to surrender. it w

he was a teacher, baltimore police officer. his f.b.i. agent colleagues described him as brave and courage and anchor, when they were going through their training at the f.b.i. academy, they said this is the guy you wanted to go in the door with. he's the guy that would anchor and teach them how to safely get in and safely get out of homes in very dangerous situations. and the agents and tall were interviewed were certainly by press reports tearing up and reliving the memories of of what was a great american who was absolutely committed to the ideals of the f.b.i. fidelity and bravery and integrity. and in that pursuit, in his pursuit to live up to the standards of the f.b.i., he risked and ultimately gave his life for his community and his country. so what this bill does with the help of mr. lynch and mr. towns and so many others, mr. cao, thank you is it says we will respect what you have given your country and we will help those families move back to where they call home. in that final rest and trip in remembrance of someone who did so

this is from "the baltimore sun."article, they " a woman what the university of pennsylvania saying i think this will be marginally slightly better next year, she says. she is with career services at the university of pennsylvania. host: this is according to the woman here at the university of pennsylvania. about 20% of the class of 2009 reported going to graduate or professional schools, many of today's college students go on to advance betting that this recession intensified the trend as students sought a haven. peoria, illinois, michael, democratic collar. caller: i think the situation is actually worse. if i remember correctly in your earlier segment you mentioned about unemployment has not been high since pre-reagan administration. i think currently sense of the reagan ministration we embraced trickle-down economic theory and it hasn't shown to be -- as of right now if you look at what is happening with wall street and the bankers, we really need to worry about with that theory and increase in the future. host: m

host: baltimore, maryland. kenny, you think jobs. why jobs? caller: we need jobs, we need states to go straight to the unemployment line, get the people of the unemployment line. corporations are hiring people who do not pay taxes. we could use a stock tax to pay our debt down because if we don't pay our debt down china will hold us by our throat and we will -- you know, everything, if we pay our debt of we could tell china to go somewhere else. it is important we get the stock tax passed and we get people straight off the unemployment line. i'm a democrat and i have been trying to call obama's office -- everybody who is working, the corporations are hiring people from this country and they need -- not from this country and the need to do something about that. host: if you want to send comments via twitter, c-spanwj. you think we should pay down the debt? caller: absolutely. i will tell you why. this administration and the administration before has spent more money combine from world war ii up until now, and if you notice something through his

i had a chance to talk to one of the leaders of johns hopkins hospital in baltimore.ccess to health insurance. he told me if we do not do something to produce more primary care professionals, and if we do not provide more community health center capacity, we are not going to be able to provide care in the most cost-effective way. the bill that we had on the floor of the united states senate needed to be improved, and senator sanders needed to accomplish that. -- has accomplished that. i know that was a focus on major issues, but our objective was to find that every american have affordable have access to health care, and the initiative will help 25 more million americans reject all. congratulations on that. -- reach that goal. congratulations on that. >> they talked about certain special favors and the bill. >> i did not have all the details. but vermont has been very aggressive in making sure that all of our low-income kids and others have access to health care. we were there, doing the right thing. with many of us in vermont and around the country, we felt it was wr

as the "baltimore sun" said, tracy kidder is a master of nonfiction narrative. please welcome tracy kidder. [applause] >> thank you. it is nice to be here. i am going to talk a while and readed little and then i'm going to show you some pictures. i am afraid that this story has already been told but i'm going to tell it again. a young medical student named deogratis merely survives the onset of civil war in his native country, this mali's central african nation of burgundy. he survived because he left the door to his room open and the men who would have killed him assumed he had already fled. he made a six month long escape from burundi, and then from the genocide in rwanda and back to burundi and by accident he got transported to new york city. he arrived at jfk with $200 in his pocket, no english, and these the obtained under false pretenses although that has been long since fix, no friends or relations and memories of course so fresh that he sometimes confused past and present. his first trip on a subway, he got lost for most of the day. at night deese lupton

host: in baltimore. you are supportive of the bill. >> at this point on the senate floor, the vote passes here. host: the senate moves on to other business with a 60-39 vote for the healthcare legislation vote. we'll return to the phone with a call from baltimore. caller: hello. i wanted to say that i feel like everybody who opposes the bill should really have compassion for the rest of the country. i think what the democrats are trying to do is at least provide access so people can stop dying because of healthcare. if those really were to get out and really hear people's stories. there's so many stories of people that die every year from not having enough money from healthcare. i think people should be more compassion gnat. we are all in it together. 45,000 people who die every year from healthcare, that's american. it's all american. i think that should be taken care of. the second thing i wanted to say. i think everybody is down on the president right now for a lot of the things he's trying to do. peo

host: in baltimore. are supportive of the bill. >> at this point on the senate floor, the vote passes here. host: the senate moves on to other business with a 60-39 vote for the healthcare legislation vote. we'll return to the phone with a call from baltimore. caller: hello. i wanted to say that i feel like everybody who opposes the bill should really have compassion for the rest of the country. i think what the democrats are trying to do is at least provide access so people can stop dying because of healthcare. if those really were to get out and really hear people's stories. there's so many stories of people that die every year from not having enough money from healthcare. i think people should be more compassion gnat. we are all in it together. 45,000 people who die every year from healthcare, that's american. it's all american. i think that should be taken care of. the second thing i wanted to say. i think everybody is down on the president right now for a lot of the things he's trying to do. people

even though many of your Ñidemocrats, but the district or in baltimore this is wonderful for the process love teaching new and potentially big new in the future but, seriously, the fact that you're involved in this process is great writ my son is also involved in this kind of stuff and he wants to do can pay as part of which she was here today with you guys. this will be a tremendous learning experience for the next couple of weeks. ask questions of the guys and produce. ask questions and get their e- mail addresses. stay in touch with these people you want to follow up with barry we all have jobs. we are all hiring people and recommended people for campaigns. stay in touch with people you like and people you want to get to know. in another 10 or 15 years, you could be here teaching this class to the next generation. congratulations on being here. work your butt off in this class. good luck in 2010. i would be glad to take the questions. yes? >> can you talk about the fox news factor and how that affects the environment and if you saw anything similar in 2000-2001 and the opposite side a

. >>> in baltimore, it's pretty simple. win and they are in. the ravens head to oakland this weekend with a trip to the post- season on the line. after dropping the ball in pittsburgh, their season comes down to this: west coast game. brent harris has a preview now from baltimore. >> it's come down to this game, so, yeah, that's a playoff game. >> reporter: for the ravens, their playoffs begin now with a trip to oakland. >> beautiful part about it is that we control our own destiny. we are not worried about this, worried about that. the importance of this game is simple for us. >> now we know what we are up against and what we have to do to get to the playoffs. now, it's -- we have to go balls out and get this win and, you know, hopefully we do. >> the raiders have just five wins all season. however, four of those have come against teams with winning records. eagles, ben gals, steelers and broncos. despite being a double digit favorite, the ravens are well aware of the challenge that the raiders can present. >> you know, they are coming in tryi

joe from baltimore for greg stohr. good morning. go ahead. caller: yeah, i'd like to talk about immigration t. has to do with the supreme court justice version. i think that the way you could, you know, not the immigration, but the people coming in, i think a good way to stop them is if you put about 5,000 marines down at the border a half a mile part from each other with machine guns, you'll stop everything that u need to stop. host: well, the court doesn't have any immigration cases, but they do have a case coming up on guantanamo do, they not? guest: they do have a case on guantanamo that actually touches on the immigration laws. the question there is whether inmates who have been there for seven years or so, whether in the case of some who have been cleared for release, who everybody agrees are not dangerous, whether they can be released into the united states. this is a case of a number of uighurs, muslims from an area in china who say that if they get sent back to china, they would be tortured there. so far the united states has not bee

polk became the compromise candidate at the democratic convention in baltimore in 1844. >> what ballot did he win on? >> ninth. >> van buren had been president. >> after jackson, elected in 19 -- 1836. he wants to get the presidency back. >> he was not for the annexation for taxes. any party today wanting to put tariffs into the mix? >> not so much. they are a big issue today. free trade bs died those who are called protectionist. they do not like that term. rigid free-trade versus those recall protectionist. they do not like that term. republicans are always in favor in reducing their rates, democrats are less in favor that. in those days away largely wanted higher tariff rates. the democrats, not so much. there was a geographical component, so in pennsylvania, a lot of industrialization, that one of high tariffs to protect themselves against imports. and the south, it did not matter whether you are a quick or democrat, you wanted low tariffs because you did not want the complications and trade regarding sending agricultural goods overseas. >> a lot of people talk about -- you can see

the fear of crime ships everybody's life when i was 13 i lived in baltimore i was a baseball fan and i was cheap and the most cost-effective way was the "twilight" night doubleheader they knew only paid one admission soap ads 6:00 would take a bus changing in a rough parts of a rough town. watch the games and come back at midnight and a change in the same rough neighborhood and my parents who were not by any means negligent, never thought twice it was considered perfectly normal behavior. many kids do not have the freedom that i have them unless they live in a different kind of freedom. crime avoidance has a different set to on poor people if you think about the economic geography of any city in the united states it is shaped by the fear of crime. huge neighborhoods with well-developed utilities, roads, and factories the mismatch between job opportunities is something everybody knows about a few people who write about that writes about why they move in the first place. it was true when i lived here and it is still true the district of columbia has no movie theater south of capital st

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i teach at the university of baltimore law school and i would not let the quality upper teaching to goew it in to pressure to get too high numbers was placed on the beat. get them on the beat regardless of quality. program of instruction with shortened to some of the number. >> thank you. i think one of the considerations and it is a debate that is ongoing for some years is, what are the responsibilities of the police? if you define them to beat civil policing and the need to conduct themselves appropriately, defend themselves at a minimum if not the population in some respects against taliban extremists and al qaeda, the half to have trading that includes creating the technical capability similar to what basic army recruits we see. so i think that is a pretty densely packed program as it is. cutting it i think would be probably -- this is just my gut feeling -- may be ill advised. maybe compromising a capability that is core to their being able to perform effectively, perform their roles both in terms of law enforcement and maintaining civil order and also in the counterinsurgency sen

host: baltimore, marlede on the line for inds. go ahead. caller: this has been the perfect decade of reaping what you sew. bush, i don't blame him for being an idiot. i think he's a product of what the ivey league schools are teaching you. i really don't blame him. he's a paun in the whole system that has been created. host: do you think there has been any lessoned learned we carry into the next decade? caller: i hope it is being good on the golf course doesn't make you a good executive. you have to actually take the test yourself. that's why i like obama and why i voted for him not because he's black but i think he can think. >> thanks for your call. >> terror attacks at finle changed our nation. host: back to the phones. maryland on the republican line. caller: my comment. please let me make it. in this decade, hurricane katrinaa and the misery and denial and response give tonet people who needed it the most. it is a shame that still continues. you have a brown skinned hindu and now he's a chatholic. is louisiana any different with him be

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a couple of otr supentendents -- andre zalanso in baltimore, robert bennettn denver bore he became u.s. senator, they both have be achieving remaable things under e radar, quietly and without all the furoand without all the alienaon, so michelle rhehas paid a price for what she hasccomplished. >> ifill: it seems like, asi from h personal price there is always a tradeoff in these ings. chter schools some say weaken otheschools, some say teachers y the idea of nking performance to tenure doest encouragteachers to stay and ow. these debates arstill going on. >> reporter: these dates are going . for a journalist, it's a fascating story. as a nional policy issue it's important, we need stronpublic schools and she's one of t people trying figure out if we will get ere. she may wion the big issues but on the other hand shhas made an awl lot of enemies and ople waiting for her to fall so if she fall she will fall rd. >> ifill: john merw, thanks for all your good rk. >> reporter: thank you, gw. >> brown: the major velopments of the day. a man allegey tried and failed to set o a homemade bomb on

and i now call on the gentleman from baltimore, mr. cummings, who is a very active member of this committee. >> thank you very much, mr. chairman. and mr. khuzami, i got to tell you, as i listen to my good friend and colleague congressman kucinich he said our work is done, and i don't think our work is done. and let me tell you why. as you know the s.e.c. in the case of the s.e.c. versus bank of america, there was a settlement that was submitted to the federal court in new york on august 3rd, 2009. the settlement agreement provided for the bank of america to pay $33 million in fines for making false and misleading statements in proxy statements to shareholders. bank of america, of course, told shareholders that no year end bonuses would be paid to merrill lynch executives when in fact it had been agreed that bank of america would pay up to $5.8 billion in bonuses to merrill executives. putting aside the fact that $5.8 billion was to be paid to the executives of a company that was hemorrhaging money at the time, the decision to settle t

a couple of other superintendents -- andre zalanso in baltimore, robert bennett in denver before he became u.s. senator, they both have been achieving remarkable things under the radar, quietly and without all the furor and without all the alienation, so michelle rhee has paid a price for what she has accomplished. >> ifill: it seems like, aside from her personal price there is always a tradeoff in these things. charter schools some say weaken other schools, some say teachers say the idea of linking performance to tenure doesn't encourage teachers to stay and grow. these debates are still going on. >> reporter: these debates are going on. for a journalist, it's a fascinating story. as a national policy issue it's important, we need strong public schools and she's one of the people trying to figure out if we will get there. she may win on the big issues but on the other hand she has made an awful lot of enemies and people waiting for her to fall, so if she falls, she will fall hard. >> ifill: john merrow, thanks for all your good work. >> reporter: thank you, gwen. >> brown: the major devel

most of them did chips out of baltimore. -- did trips out of baltimore.it was bad weather, i was looking at a couple of hours to get there. was i a commuter? i was here. this was my domicile. as opposed the number of ways somebody can show of fatigued, it said a key issue or is there is -- or is there a rule that says you have to be here 12 hours. we do not have any assurance that the 12 hours were could rest. where did not have a way to measure the quality of rest any more than we have a way to measure that i lived here and had a child at midnight and i took him to the emergency room and i was due out on a flight at 8:00. i have no business flying that flight. but i am not a commuter. the burden would be on the pilots, not the carriers. on the broader role, you mentioned some concern that the carriers could say this would cost more money. if it is uniform to everybody, it does not make any money. if the price of fuel goes up for all of them, it goes up for all of them. they will not like that but it is not an unfair burden. if you are not asking someone

host: another call from baltimore. sam on the independent line. support for ron paul and support for dennis kucinich and all of these independent voices starting to be heard around the country. but think the most impressive political figure has to be sarah palin for making the recovery she had from 2008 until now. she took a beating in the election cycle in 2008, and it seems like us people in this country have a short memory -- host: allentown, pennsylvania. caller: barack obama came through allentown, all the places that i go to and it seems like he is trying to help us. my friend chris is in the army here in pennsylvania and he is leaving today for afghanistan and want to give a shout out to maine airforce engine. he is gone to afghanistan, please look out for chris peters, a soldier going to afghanistan. protect him, get up there with my planes and help him. host: chester, west virginia, louis on the line for democrats. caller: i think dennis kucinich, and the senator from west virginia robert byrd, they voted against the war in afghanistan. t

i teach at the university of baltimore law school and i would not let the quality upper teaching to godown. how would you view it in to pressure to get too high numbers was placed on the beat. get them on the beat regardless of quality. program of instruction with shortened to some of the number. >> thank you. i think one of the considerations and it is a debate that is ongoing for some years is, what are the responsibilities of the police? if you define them to beat civil policing and the need to conduct themselves appropriately, defend themselves at a minimum if not the population in some respects against taliban extremists and al qaeda, the half to have trading that includes creating the technical capability similar to what basic army recruits we see. so i think that is a pretty densely packed program as it is. cutting it i think would be probably -- this is just my gut feeling -- may be ill advised. maybe compromising a capability that is core to their being able to perform effectively, perform their roles both in terms of law enforcement and maintaining civil order and also in the

both van buren and clay, and polk became the compromise candidate of the democratic convention in baltimore in 1844. >> what ballot did he win on? >> ninth. >> and van buren had been president, what years? >> he was elected after jackson, so that would have been -- well, he was elected in 1836 and defeated in 1840. >> and he was trying to run again? >> he wanted to get the presidency back. >> he was a democrat? >> he was a democrat. >> that wasn't for the annexation of texas? >> he was against it. >> you mentioned tariffs earlier, any party today want to put tariffs into the mix? >> not so much, i mean tariffs are a big issue today, it's the free trader position versus people who are called protectionists, they don't like that term. so that continues with us today, but bear in mind that that was the primary source of revenue for our country in those days. we didn't have an income tax. so in some ways the tariff issue was a little bit like our income tax issue today with regard to rates, so the republicans are always in favor of reducing the rates, democrats are less in favor of that. and in

host: david on the democrats' line in baltimore.er: all right, i want to try to correct the last caller that if this plan were to go through as of now, if you are 55 years old you will be able to go in as soon as june next year. the question to find out -- if you are 55 and older and working can you leave your job insurance and go over to the medicare? that would save a lot of small businesses a lot of money. this plan does not have everything i want because i am a progresses. but if this plan can save one american life, then i'm for. we need to get what we can get now and work on some stuff later. we have to stop acting like selfish babies. host: david, we will have a guest from cq, drew armstrong, a little later in the hour. we will ask that question of him. let's go to chicago where which is on the republican side. caller: i think this this is a lose/lose for the country. they are all former communists -- not former, but they are progressive communists. they read these books by -- one guy who was in jail, she is -- and she is mar

here is the headline in the "baltimore sun" this morning, democrats look to 2010 vote.ratic leaders in congress are compiling lists of immediate benefits that will spring from passage of the bill. which is up for a vote in the senate on christmas eve. one such measure of the small business tax credit aimed at helping employers pay for coverage. another immediate deliverable added by senator jay rockefeller, democrat, west virginia, includes a ban on denying coverage to children based on pre-existing conditions another bars insurance companies from setting lifetime benefits caps or rescinding insurance because a person is filing claims. that's the "baltimore sun" this morning. democrats line, good morning. caller: good morning. host: go ahead, ma'am. caller: i am glad that they did the deal because i live in florida and, the democrat, gota deal that anybody on the plan, which i am in florida, they will not change us. we are going to keep it the way it is. host: what does that mean for you? how does your medicare advantage plan work, caroline? caller: it pays for everyth

theç "baltimore sun," for many decade to forget in baltimore moments to remember.ection of the "philadelphia inquirer" of decade of despair, debt, details illusionment. default. downsizing and dazzle. the washington sun times this from the aftermath of the september 11 attack as president bush traveled to ground dear. it is called a heck of a decade. this is the last sunday edition of the washington times. the newspaper announcing on the front page it will be a monday through friday edition with e-versions. the final sunday edition. barbara slayden will join us in about 15 or 20 minutes but now going to monday through friday paper delivery and e-versions throughout the weekend and during the week. randy joins us from michigan. welcome to the "washington journal". caller: thank you for c-span and i know it looked ugly in the senate, i think the 60 votes needs to stay there just to show if we keep it at 60 then maybe they will come around and -- well, what i wanted to say is the terminate limits. here in michigan we have the term limits. and we just had at our school

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that is " the baltimore sun" this morning. st. petersburg, florida.aroline on the democrats' line. caller: i'm glad they did the bill because i live in florida -- a democrat got a deal that anybody on the veterans plan, which i m on florida, it will not change as, we will keep the way it is. host: what does it mean for you? how does your medicare advantage plan work? caller: a place for everything. it pays for the doctor, no coal pay. there is no pay for it specialist. i am with wellcare -- and i don't have to pay for anything but my medicines and the co-pay for generics is nothing and name-brand, not that much, either. host: how do you get into medicare advantage? caller: you go to a company that has appeared there are so many. they advertise all over in the paper so you can get any other. mine is with wellcare. host: you think it is fair florida gets that perk over other states? caller: very fair. you get what you deal for. it helps me, so, yes. host: this is the opinion section of "the wall street journal." he writes of a rahm emanuel, chief of sta

this morning in the "baltimore sun" they also look at the story from a distance -- different aspect.estion for you, though, this half hour is your favorite political story of the year. we will go to our first call from manhattan, and as we do, the year in cartoons. instead, democrats line, go ahead, you are first. caller: their christmas. host: thank you. caller: this health care story, we got no moderate votes. i think the republicans are to have their heads handed to them politically when all was said and done. there was no public option. if we would've had more bipartisan support -- this bill nelson from nebraska cost a fortune, his negotiation for this date -- for his stake, the medicare expenses being picked up by the government. i blame republicans for not being more bipartisan. i do not understand the idea of lowering the age of medicare would have been made by in program. -- would have been a body in program. host: do you think the idea will come back when they go to conference? caller: i do not think it will. my final point is that is a buy in program. it was not going to co

joe from baltimore for greg stohr. good morning. go ahead. caller: yeah, i'd like to talk about immigration t. has to do with the supreme court justice version. i think that the way you could, you know, not the immigration, but the people coming in, i think a good way to stop them is if you put about 5,000 marines down at the border a half a mile part from each other with machine guns, you'll stop everything that u need to stop. host: well, the court doesn't have any immigration cases, but they do have a case coming up on guantanamo do, they not? guest: they do have a case on guantanamo that actually touches on the immigration laws. the question there is whether inmates who have been there for seven years or so, whether in the case of some who have been cleared for release, who everybody agrees are not dangerous, whether they can be released into the united states. this is a case of a number of uighurs, muslims from an area in china who say that if they get sent back to china, they would be tortured there. so far the united states has not bee

host: baltimore, marlede on the line for inds. go ahead. caller: this has been the perfect decade of reaping what you sew. bush, i don't blame him for being an idiot. i think he's a product of what the ivey league schools are teaching you. i really don't blame him. he's a paun in the whole system that has been created. host: do you think there has been any lessoned learned we carry into the next decade? caller: i hope it is being good on the golf course doesn't make you a good executive. you have to actually take the test yourself. that's why i like obama and why i voted for him not because he's black but i think he can think. >> thanks for your call. >> terror attacks at finle changed our nation. host: back to the phones. maryland on the republican line. caller: my comment. please let me make it. in this decade, hurricane katrinaa and the misery and denial and response give tonet peopho most. it is a shame that still continues. you have a brown skinned hindu and now he's a chatholic. is louisiana any different with him being in the white h

i teach at the university of baltimore law school and i would not let the quality upper teaching to goo get too high numbers was placed on the beat. get them on the beat regardless of quality. program of instruction with shortened to some of the number. >> thank you. i think one of the considerations and it is a debate that is ongoing for some years is, what are the responsibilities of the police? if you define them to beat civil policing and the need to conduct themselves appropriately, defend themselves at a minimum if not the population in some respects against taliban extremists and al qaeda, the half to have trading that includes creating the technical capability similar to what basic army recruits we see. so i think that is a pretty densely packed program as it is. cutting it i think would be probably -- this is just my gut feeling -- may be ill advised. maybe compromising a capability that is core to their being able to perform effectively, perform their roles both in terms of law enforcement and maintaining civil order and also in the counterinsurgency sense. correct my time ha

host: next up, baltimore, peggy on the democrats' line. caller: good morning.i called to say that i do not understand when we worked we put taxes in. we never got a raise, but we stepped up to the plate when we did not have enough taxes. when it comes to the banks either we don't have enough money to even ask for a raise or loan. i don't understand why this is president obama's fault. we as americans have supplied the necessary taxes. we have never used anything, but then you find out that your bills at the white house before the president got there were not even pay. what does that say about the past president? @@@@@@@ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Å guest: that is a point that the democrats make fairly often, the president has been a bit more overt in his recent speeches to talk about some of the deficits that or run up by his predecessor, george w. bush. the white house is eager to say, wait a second of all those republicans on capitol that are complaining about deficit spending now, most of them voted for eight years of deficit spending under the previous president

be counted as living in baltimore and therefore not utilized in how many seats or allocated.tant enough for us to press on. understanding the numbers. if you put it to decide and say that we cannot deal with it, we are not going to deal with it, then what we have done is acknowledged that no matter how successful we are, there will be a 3% or so undercount. we will press forward. >> there are some people were getting meals every week. the families have not been given the resources to survive while they're in prison. it might take some legislative action to change that and tel. the everyone and their families must be counted. the resources must be allocated. that is compounded by the issue of those who are living triple and double the cost could tel. many of them would get free money and then they would not honor the civil rights law for housing. and mom jones university, you cannot get the money with federal law, you cannot say that it applies to bob jones and then another standard for other companies. >> let me say this, i don't want us to give the wrong message. i think it

this morning in the "baltimore sun" they also look at the story from a distance -- different aspect. our question for you, though, this half hour is your favorite political story of the year. we will go to our first call from manhattan, and as we do, the year in cartoons. instead, democrats line, go ahead, you are first. caller: their christmas. host: thank you. caller: this health care story, we got no moderate votes. i think the republicans are to have their heads handed to them politically when all was said and done. there was no public option. if we would've had more bipartisan support -- this bill nelson from nebraska cost a fortune, his negotiation for this date -- for his stake, the medicare expenses being picked up by the government. i blame republicans for not being more bipartisan. i do not understand the idea of lowering the age of medicare would have been made by in program. -- would have been a body in program. host: do you think the idea will come back when they go to conference? caller: i do not think it will. my final point is that is a buy in program. it was not goin

i had a chance to talk to one of the leaders of johns hopkins hospital in baltimore. ñra colleague believesdo not provide more community health center capacity, we are not going to be able to provide care in the most cost-effective way. the bill that we had on the floor of the united states senate needed to be improved, and senator sanders has accomplished that. i know that was a focus on major issues, but our objective was to find that every american have affordable have access to health care, and the initiative will help 25 more million americans reach that goal. congratulations on that. >> they talked about certain special favors and the bill. >> i did not have all the details. but vermont has been very aggressive in making sure that all of our low-income kids and others have access to health care. we were there, doing the right thing. with many of us in vermont and around the country, we felt it was wrong to penalize a state that had done a better job than perhaps all of us. massachusetts was up there as well. you do not penalize states because they come up with money to do the right th

host: next up is charles on our democrats led from baltimore, maryland.caller: i have a couple of comments. one, we all know that president obama was an activist and he often said that he was running for president but he could not do it himself, that he would need week, the people, to help paul. -- he would need we, the people, to help out. so we as citizens have to be community activists. also, i was wondering, i am a doctor of education. i teach at the university. but i live in the ghetto, the hood, or whatever, and i have never been polled on anything. so when you say 30% of the population has been -- that does not include the people around me. can you speak to that? host: anybody want to take a crack at that? guest: pollsters have the formula of trying to make sure that the group their sampling is representative of the country as a whole. but it may not be you, but they tried to make sure that they cover all, get all the demographic roots so that everyone is factored in. now, you can argue, 1500 people across the country is not a big enough sample of

washington for his first inauguration in 1861 there was a plot to assassinate him as he came to baltimore and it was smuggled into washington and head of his thunder and then i found new sources to corroborate that. >> you talk about the beginning, you talk about the middle, the execution and the assassination. can you talk about the conviction of these men? can you talk a little bit about their imprisonment and the result of the verdict? >> i found the great granddaughter and we became friends. she shared with me his original daily journal and private letters written to him and by him, and much of what i write about his brand new. the torture of the conspirators. they were headed, shackled, iron in cells 3 feet

this is from "the baltimore sun."n this article, they " a woman what the university of pennsylvania saying i think this will be marginally slightly better next year, she says. she is with career services at the university of pennsylvania. host: this is according to the woman here at the university of pennsylvania. about 20% of the class of 2009 reported going to graduate or professional schools, many of today's college students go on to advance betting that this recession intensified the trend as students sought a haven. peoria, illinois, michael, democratic collar. caller: i think the situation is actually worse. if i remember correctly in your earlier segment you mentioned about unemployment has not been high since pre-reagan administration. i think currently sense of the reagan ministration we embraced trickle-down economic theory and it hasn't shown to be -- as of right now if you look at what is happening with wall street and the bankers, we really need to worry about with that theory and increase in the future.

and baltimore. the subject of this hearing is text messaging. i think we can relate to the story of appearance shocked -- of a parent's shock as they see a $600 charge when their child has discovered text messaging and goes into a frenzy. we have also heard of consumers that are concerned that they're receiving unsolicited text messages called spam. .. you stated that you were concerned regarding "consolidation and increase market power by the major carriers." the concern was market power and medicate carriers the ability to engage in anti-competitive practices. no wireless carrier has ubiquitous coverage. we have to provide seamless coverage to consumers. cricket's experience is that the rolling minutes is directly correlated to the size of market power. one anticompetitive practice is that one large carrier prohibits customers from roaming at all. with all the consolidations' such as it being purchased by for rising, creek as you are roaming partners available. in many cases, they are stranded without service. how can that be allowed to happen

baltimore sun, what's happening right behind us in the senate.l clock ticks is the headline. story in the tribune by janet hook and leavey write with a critical vote looming. harry reed struggled friday to convince alone democrat hold out to back the bill. ben nelson over the sensitive issue of abortion. the article goes on to say nelson emerged from reid's office friday night wráhout a deal saying he needed to review a new propose toll ensure no federal funding could be used to pay for elective abortions. this is a discussion on-going. there's a lu of different moving parts. san diego, california on the line for democrats. go ahead. caller: how you doing? host: what do you think about the proposal and what it'j going to accomplish? caller: well i would like to say most of the american public is educated through propaganda and why do i say that? we have people that are incarcerated at guantanamo yet we don't know who these people are or what they've done. everyone assumes because of the immediate dwlat these people are so-called terrorists, and i

you've historiccally hi been able to hear people like art blakely, i was able to see max roach in baltimore once as a jazz festival. i'm a fan of charlie parker and miles davis, great jazz musicians. i think all musicians respect miles davis, as maybe of the greatest influence on their lives regardless of whether they're rockersed on blues musicians or jazz performers. i thank the chairman for his appreciation of what's a uniquely american cultural achievement and with that the world holds dear and respects america for its appreciation of jazz, an art form that's being lost to our students that needs to be taught in our schools and maintained as a living and breathing expression of american artistry. thank you for the time, i yield back the remainder and thank the chairman for bringing this resolution. . the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from texas has yielded the balance of his time. the gentleman from michigan. mr. conyers: i yield myself one minute merely to say that i appreciate the gentleman from tennessee because an earlier jazz started in his state in memphis in nashville, and t

. $500,000 to upgrade the baltimore county courthouse security. 900,000 owlish for the operational costs supporting the alien species action plan cargo inspection facility and maui. $2 million to st.-scape the city of tuscaloosa alabama. $100,000 for the engineering study of the bite connector. 400,000 less for a pedestrian i up at -- $400,000 for a pedestrian overpass in des moines, iowa. monterey bay, california, another deprived area of america. $750,000 for the philadelphia museum of art transportation improvement program in brady, pennsylvania. $500,000 for park and ride lots at broward county, florida. $487,000 to restore walkways in new port cliff, rhode island, another low-income area up there in new port, rhode island. $974,000 for regional east-west trail and bikeway in albuquerque. the list goes on and on and on and on. up to nearly $4 billion. and, you know, the problem is, mr. president, among other problems, is that in the last campaign, the president of the united states campaigned for change, change you can believe in. there's no change here. it's worse. it's worse becaus