. >> guest: it is perfectly possible the book tried to recall or discover the memory of less this bayh -- the spies. the united states now has been black or a half black president. and in the book there are a lot of stories about blacks not only in the united states, even one of the first stories here began asking adam and eve were blacks because of the experts coinciding the fact that we all came from africa. we are all african immigrants because human beings began existing in africa so perhaps adam and eve were black and i tell in the book some stories for me especially because they happened 15 minutes ago. obama is now the president and these are very recent for instance 1942, the pentagon prohibited, forbade the transfusions of black blood. when the united states was entering the second world war and at that time the director of the red cross -- who had not invented it was possible to save millions of lives in the second world war so he was the director of this part of the red cross and he said i will not obey the order because black blood doesn't exist. there is not such a thing l

bayh it -- i quote from an abc news story. she sinks to the ground and minutes later she is dead. a video that has been repeatedly posted on the internet shows the last moments of a young iranian woman shot in the heart by government sharpshooters. overnight, she has become a symbol -- symbol of the opposition. blurry images of a woman who collapses on the pavement and a pool of blood expands under her body. it two men kneel on her chest screaming. the cameraman zoom in -- zooms in on her face. her eyes roll to the side and the bloodstream's out of her nose and mouth. do not be afraid. stay with me, stay with me cries at one man. another man beseeches someone to take her in a car. the footage stops. the video footage appeared on facebook and twitter on saturday evening. it immediately became a viral sensation, being forwarded repeatedly. user groups were determined to get around youtube's attempts to block the film. it became impossible for youtube to remove it. mr. president, we have seen, as in cases of other brutal suppression throughout history, a living example or the dying e

to the chairs of the d.l.c., dick gephardt, chuck, sam nunn, president clinton, joe lieberman, ever,bayh, tom vilsack, harold ford jr., thank you for all you have done and for those still here thank you for your perseverance. i appreciate it very much. so many people and so many of you have supported the d.l.c. and p.p.i. over the years. and, believe me, i appreciate it very much. i appreciate every hard-earned dollar you gave us and i thank you one and all. and thanks as well to the hundreds of people who worked or interned for the d.l.c. your service has made an incredible difference and i hope you are proud of it. i'm very proud of what you contributed. and i just want to say a special word about bruce reed and thank him, the next leader of the d.l.c. the d.l.c. could not be in better hands. bruce reed is an idea man's idea man. he possesses a rare blend of brilliance, humor and humility. to be honest, after his eight years in the white house, i never thought i could lure him back to the d.l.c. he was harder to recruit than bill clinton. but i always believed bruce was the person who

senator evan bayh, fatherhood's dad's inc. dr.obert franklin as well as mike straunmanneis and we also want to thank bobby flay with these unbelievably good-looking grub over here. i don't want to talk long. i want to say hello to everybody. i just want to thank everybody for participating for the young people. i just hope that the message we're accepteding out about how important fathers are is something that you will internalize because all of you are probably going end up being fathers. and the time is now to start thinking about what that means in terms of responsibilities, what it means to be a man. and the men who are -- you're going be sitting with today, i think exemplify whether their famous or not famous, rich or not so rich, they imbody that spirit of love and dedication and commitment that fatherhood's all about. so we appreciate all of you. i don't want to get in the way of the food. thank you for participating. hope you zpwrice a good time. and to all the father's out there, happy father's day. all right? [applause]

not that i drive a cadillacs, ayman oldsmobile bayh and could took that away, too.white is the distance as we have to travel. i will have to follow that up because looking at the map and thinks that have been closed just doesn't make sense and there's district and miles between so they could say it could hurt you in rural areas where there's still loyal customer base i agree plus federal government's guarantee warranties. >> i just want to add one thing, mr. chairman, because of the concerns we've raised today, about one of the other critical aspects of these bankruptcies, that is the responsibility when forward for any products that may be defective and the implications for u.s. taxpayers and the dealers in this room i would strongly urge the committee to take up that issue as well and flush about in more detail. i think it has enormous economic consequences even for people lost their franchise and i would like to explore that in further detail. >> i continue to hear from dealers and also to reiterate i know dr. burgess had to leave, but i know he entered into that

blessed in those early years by chuck robb and sam nunn and dick gephardt, later joe lieberman, ev evan bayh. by senator carper, and there is a really, i think, magnificent person that will speak after me that proves the d.l.c. fellows program, rachel storch i'm glad you are hear representing the state and local representatives affiliated with the d.l.c. that was a really good movie. it had the virtue of being at least except for the stuff about me, true. i think secretary sebelius may be here. we were together at a previous event and i have a little more to say about that in a minute. but i loved getting involved in the d.l.c. for one thing, i was just tired of getting beat. and i'm old enough now to know what it was like to get beat over and over and over again. essentially, here is what happened to us. national elections and the standing of national political parties are determined by they things. the political culture. the conditions at election time. and the quality of the candidates. for much of the 20th century the political culture of america kept us coming together and looking for c

talking about as i see it, and i think -- i think that there is room for us to do something to try aig bayh but like to see it done in a bipartisan way by i can work with folks on the other side to come with a sensible center on this so that we can have bipartisan legislation, but i still contend that those workers who took a cut at gm and to our taking cuts, they didn't get bonuses cut. they got bread and butter cut and there's a difference and there's not a big to do about what's happening to them. thank, mr. chairman. i yield back the balance of my time after having the opportunity to speak for those who are not here to speak for themselves. thank. >> let the chair say amen. [laughter] >> we want thank the panel for the extraordinary time that you've given. and on less something -- unless additional members come in, the gentleman from florida will be the last questioner, or mr. sherman if he shall return. the gentleman from florida is recognized. >> thank, mr. chairman. we are trying to make policy on the basis of recent memory. for the past few months we've seen banks get abroad themsel

that we thank the chairman for his time and at the outset of this hearing, bayh said that it's time to shine some light on the events surrounding bank of america's acquisition of merrill lynch. at this point i would say we have got a peek, not much, but we don't have full sunshine yet. i would make three observations before we close. number one. there are significant inconsistencies between what we have been told today, what we were told to weeks ago by ken lewis, and what the fed's internal e-mails seem to say. it is still unclear whether bankamerica will forced by the federal government to go through with the merrill deal or whether the ken lewis's pool what might have been the greatest shakedown in a long, long time. as a result of this hearing, we have learned the sec and the fdic played a role in this transaction as well. but as i indicated, we are going wherever the road leads us. so therefore let me say that we are going to talk to the sec and we are going to talk to the fdic. we are going to talk to former treasury, secretary hank paulson. he has agreed to appear before the com

you have touched on that in response to questions from senator corker and senator bayh and others.compare concessions in last year's legislation to those in the current restructuring plans being considered in bankruptcy court in both cases. >> i think in all cases, the stake holders and certainly including the uaw, the concessions wrested from them were in excess of those that had been contained in the legislation that didn't pass but were largely embodied in the loan agreements. so in fact, and i think that is appropriate because as it worked out from december until april, the market got worse. the economy got worse. car sales were even lower than they had been projected to be. so in light of that, we did insist that everybody give more and that certainly includes the uaw. it does include the bond holders but it includes all the key stake holders. >> understanding your response on questions on decisions that gm makes on whether it's a plant closing, whether it's downsizing of a plant, whether it's assembly plant or stamping plant or whatever, engine plant, whether it's -- what hap

of us more than others, our colleagues from detroit and michigan and ohio, senator brown, senator bayh. i assume all of us here are being adversely affected by job losses. obviously we want to help our communities during times of readjustment like this. so what additional tools are you going to be asking of us in congress to be helpful for you to have do your job. holding town meetings are great, but i suspect the people who show up at these meetings want to know what if any kind of help is going to be there for them as they try to find a new economic path for themselves and their families in the midst of this economic hardship. what are you going to be asking of us and how we can help minimize the kind of economic blows these communities are going to be facing. response to the questions. >> thank you, senator. let me try to address your three questions if i can. in terms of equity stake, let me answer that this way. the size of the stake and the determination was done through the following process. the first thing that happened was the companies put forward a business plan which we vi

children baked alive in a couple of cases and al anbar bayh al qaeda trying to impose barbaric control measures on the tribes. people beheaded. you can go on and on. we talked to many young men who felt that they were falling legitimate jihadi or muslim principles and would get the messages from the sheik by e-mail and think they are falling a holy warrior and one of the most effective things we did when we detained people and wanted to break them from falling al qaeda was to introduce them to other al qaeda prisoners and they would realize the guy they thought was a holy warrior was a common criminal covered in tattoos in some cases smuggling drugs, a guy who wasn't worthy of the sacrifice that these guys were putting forward and certainly not in the bar parity with the work carried out. al qaeda was easy and defeat. we had to show the population was light and make the population feel safe turning against them. as soon as we did that the house of cards collapsed which is why i'm reasonably confident with regard to al qaeda in the long term. i think the ideologies of basically attracti

it was a case you have to have the local bayh, sayed, say these guys are safe, you can take them on the right and won't get in trouble with the government and we couldn't have done that with our local minder guide to explain to the taxi driver was going on, so i get shot weaving through traffic and then to do a good tv show i get off the motorcycle and the camera man gets on the motorcycle and does the point of view as i weaved through and avoided the losses and you get a good bit. when the camera man got on the motorcycle our guide had to get on and follow the cab kind of thing. so sayed gets busted, plainclothes policemen coming up looking society of bureaucrats and it's kind of a cumbersome situation but we were free to go through the city and check out what life was like in tehran. i will never forget standing on the balcony of my high rise hotel looking at the city and hearing of the home of 10 million people doing their thing. one reason i wanted to go to iran, incidently somebody had sent me a year ago, one of those internet slide shows and i watched it and it was a slide show li

bayh chose to focus in the gl pt community because of one to make sure they had a voice and were recognized having served the country and served well and they are human beings and they get laid down their lives to make sure that we live, have our normal why if we like to live in this country. so yes i just wanted to mention that as well. >> thanks everyone for coming this evening and we will all be around for further discussion and purchasing. [applause] >> aaron glantz covered the web iraq war as an independent journalist and is the author of how america loss iraq into the co-author of winter soldier, iraq and afghanistan. he's currently a rosalynn carter fellow for mental health journalism at the carter center. for more on author aaron glantz and his latest book, "the war comes home," visit aaronglantz.com. >>> financial times reporter gillian tett's new book, "fool's gold" gives the insider how the team at jpmorgan and feist the new financial instruments that produced the, quote, revolution and banking posted this event at the headquarters in new york city. it's about 50 minutes. >> than