. >> well, there are cuts, in fact, from prior-year banalitys. but it is really important to point out that the agency itself, 40% of our dollars heading straight out the door to the tribal grant programs were preserving those. so we're doing that at the expense of other agency operations. >> right. and, you know, again, when you look at -- when your agency started, your second year, i guess, with a 35% increase, that came at a time when many states and businesses were cutting back their budget. so you just want to keep that in perspective. on the hydraulic fracturing issue, i know my colleague from texas has brought this up with you, i would strongly encourage your agency to allow the states to do what they've been doing so well for decades. and that is to do state regulation of hydraulic fracturing. i know it's worked very well in louisiana in protecting not only audiocassette way fers, but allowing for dramatic increase with this new technology in the amount of natural gas that our country can provide, not only to our states, which we're prett

jamie's getting into the banal fever already. 60 on wednesday. 67 on thursday. i think d.c.ould hit 70 on thursday, talking about snow in d.c. last night. 70 a few days later. >> great winter. >> been that scribed of february. >> -- kind of february. >> they're having a skate-a-thon march the 4th from 12:30 to 3:30. they raise their money with the skate-a-thon. very proud. way to go. >>> hey, there's another restaurant week coming up. it's the fourth annual restaurant week in annapolis. it runs through sunday. 41 restaurants are going to be in it. east port, west annapolis along with others. two course lunch specials $15.95. two restaurants, mills shirley's cafe and metropolitan kitchen and lounge are offering breakfast special. it's geared at locals. >> it's a great time for the locals to revisit downtown annapolis. i think a lot of folks who live in the area are always scared of this because of parking issues. there's plenty of parking, plenty of garages and lots of great restaurants to visit. >> if you go for dinner you'll get a free day of parking and coupons in annapoli

. >> louisiana dpov nor is scheduled to reveal his proposal for balancing the next fiscal banality. a budget $900 million in the red. now, it's mostly cloudy and 37 degrees at the airport. 38 at marksdale. you're listening to sri port news and weather station, news radio. >> next weekend, book tv and american history tv explore the history and literary culture of shreveport, louisiana. saturday, starting at noon eastern on c-span2, author gary joiner. >> the entire globe is today the sight of a moe mentous conflict. as each side atrekkeds to prove to the world the superiority of its position, the conflict is fought with the words of diplomats, with gestures of friendship and help to uncommitted countries. even with cultural demonstrations. it is fought indeed on every level of man's experience. for the stakes are high. as one of the adversaries in the conflict, we see a challenge as great as any in our historic past. a challenge not we hope to be met and joined in battle, but to be faced in the hearts and hopes of men. it is the challenge of ideas. >> i'm edward r.meryl. for a littl

. ♪ banality would represent the north. it was. -- the melody would represent the north. we had some great percussionists from south carolina. that is how i created african cookbook. we had such a great saxophonist, we would say, cook book, cook. >> randy weston, a legendary pianist coming here on democracy now! -- , here on democracy now! ♪ this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. we continue with randy weston. percent down on stage at the tribeca performing arts center. >> you go to africa in 1961. where did you go? >> nigeria. there were 29 of us. the first pilgrimage to go home to the motherland. some of these people were geoffrey holder, myself, eight members of while hampton's band. this was with an organization called the american society of african culture. they used to bring african artists to new york. ethiopian painters, singers from nigeria. they already have the organization. we had two great dancers with us. nina simone was there. >> nina simone? >> yes. we spent 10 wonderful days to

rose: the banality of evil. >> it's a way of pushing it away from us. so you go "that's evil."an never undersnd it, it's come politely inhuman. >> we shouldn't lookat it and observe it but we should what? >> that's probably why i came out the closet about thinking of kill mig brother when i was four and half. the whe dance with empathy is that you know it's available to all of us, how much'm pa think we have and there are moments when the vat is dry but i think the idea of talking about evil, whether demonizing someone because you don't believe what they believe or they're from a different country or whatever is not useful. >> i asked about children to tell me how you went to school on this character. what is it you want us to feel from this performance that you have playing eva? >> i think what it is is the film is a portal into someone's consciousness and i think that's a very particular thing. a very particular kind of cinema. this is a very particular filmmaker. she's made three features now. this is only her third but already one can see this is a specialty of her. this fe

jet what the internet dijet whar banally gave his speech, i was encouraged once the event was published on-line a lot of people started to subscribe to it. so it created this snowball needed for everyone to go on january 25th. >> charlie: so what about your life now. where do you go, what do you do? what's going to be the life change for you that this has produced? >> i'm missing my privacy. >> charlie: are you really. >> of course. as someone, i did not really -- >> charlie: you don't necessarily desire privacy. i mean you desire some attention to see what you have said about your experiences. >> i think there are two sides of me. one is i wanted really to share the story because i believe it benefits what is important but aside from the book, all of a sudden a lot of life, the media was overblown my role was overblown as well i have to say and that is because media likes to create nice stories. and the story awe mairnltly was nice. currently i'm working with a group of egyptian that just formed a political lobbying group. basically we are trying to connect all people from different po

>>> in a few moments, energy secretary speaks on capitol hill about the banality request. and, in about an hour and a half, from the recent world economic forum, a panel of ceos and what their companies need to do to compete globally. rick santorum in public life on sunday appealing to the social conservatives who revived his presidential campaign. on the talk shows this weekend and in speeches, mr. santorum responded to comments made by president john f. kennedy. >> i believe in an america where the separation of church and state is absolute. where no catholic prowess can tell the president should he be catholic, how to act. and no protestant minister would tell his parishioners for whom to vote. where no church or church school is granted any public funds or political preference. and where no man is denied public office merely because his religion differs from the president who might appoint him or the people who might elect him. >> you can watch more of president kennedy's speech at our web site on our video library. go to c-span.org and you can find that in our archive