bet on it. i don't know if that book is accurate. it has quotes in it. honestly, general, there is a disconnect between the comment that you just made in response to the chairmen and what is being depicted here. the president's repeated statements thaa in july of 2011, we will begin withdrawal. this obviously sends a message to our enemies that we are leaving, and our friends that we are leaving. and then there is accommodation in the region. i guess maybe, could you clarify the difference between what you just said and what is quoted in the book that are direct quotes? i am confident we can train and hand over in that timeframe. if we can't do the things you say, no one is going to suggest that we stay, right? that is a quote from the president of the united states. >> senator, i am not sure it is productive to comment on conversations that took place. >> i understand that. >> i would come back to what the president said at west point. that is something that i support. that is that july 2011 is

republicans have obviously made a bet, and that bet is that the concern, public concern about the debt trumps teacher salaries firefighter salaries and unemployment insurance. >> we should cut deficit. on the other hand, we should not be cutting off unemployment benefits with no jobs out there. i hope what olympickia snowe is subtling goes through, they separate that out. >> woodruff: and vote on that alone. >> right. i do think the larger concern about the debt the right concern. the debate is should we be stimulating more or is it now time for a little austeritiy? that's a legitimate intellectual debate. i'm a little more on the austerity but on the specific matter of unemployment insurance we need that. >> woodruff: we need both of you every friday and we thank you for being here. david brooks, mark shields. >> brown : now on the mental health of the citizens still coping with the impact of hurricane katrina. betty ann bowser has two reports tonight from new orleans east. it is a partnership with the jeffrey johns foundation-- robert woodses johnson foundation. >> reporter: most mor

this was little more than the bets and they do not serve as a source of luidity andhey do not create real economic growth. we have to get wall stre awaa from the casino mentality. this is what wall street rerm is ultimately about. the economy will continue to be -- we have to make certain tt we do this in a ceful and the libey of way. under the bush of illustration and the republican congress -- under the bush administration and republican congress, we had issues with thisnd we cannot let this affect the fragile economic recovery that is happening. we have to let the marts create long-term wealth and spur innovation. the increased standardization and the use of exchange trading is desperately needed. we musalso recognize that derivatives are used by companies in theanufacturing sector to heads the business risks and the fluctuation of the exchange rate. we have to make certain that mainstream employers -- we have to get this righ we have to make cerin that we will help these firms. th were faced wh the choice that no president should ever have to face. they are risking going into aa

i will bet -- i don't make a pay check anymore. i will bet rob lloyd's paycheck. he's leaving now. that we will lose people in this country because we have continued al qaeda plotting, we have i think way late in the game the presence of affiliates in this country and we have like-minded people who are intent on coming after us. they are not intent on attacking, they want to carry out this revolutionary ideology. the half-life of an ideology should be measured in a decade or two decades or three decades. it is an idea, it is not an attack. the attack is a manifestation that someone has absorbed the idea. his ideas have a long half-life, maybe we have another 10 or 20 years to go. as this adversary eats its young, these bits of the tale of the comet will hit us and the question that we will have as we grieve for people who were murdered that were not jihaddists, that were not terrorist, that were murdered. as we grieve for people who were murdered, we have to ask ourselves how we are going to react against an organization that is already declining. theapt victory. my message is that

you, if i may sound like a former governor of alaska, i bet you, i bet you that the pubic with as the oil company, are you ready with a worst-case e-mail? and many experts who have come together, and we might not be we are today. so expertise and democracy are not at odds. good government is not at odds with participation. another one very popular now, the free market versus socialism. socialism is under so much attack, i am inclined to endorse it periodically. [laughter] >> but i think most americans believe, in fact, in reward for creativity, for hard work, and for entrepreneurship and i'm paraphrasing a letter writer recently to the "washington post." but they also believe in rules and regulations to protect consumers and workers and the environment. they also believe in social insurance probe trams, to protect individuals and families from bad luck and hard times. now, does this make and capitalist or socialist? think we're all capitalist into capitalism stops working, and then we sound a little bit like socialists that never admit it. and we just say w endorse the social protecti

northbound charles is a better bet. route 30 elrich 27 has now reopened in manchester. we're looking at a nice ride around the area. a bit of a sluggish spot on southbound 95. 11 minutes to get through that stretch. 11 minutes on the west side. let the mets south on 95 from the beltway down to 32. here is a live look outside. it looks great in both loops. we switch over to a live view of traffic at the key bridge. east side looks good. no problems at the bay bridge. that is the latest on traffic pulse 11. . >> thank you. a second wildfire in arizona has now grown forcing residents to leave their homes. is the second fire to hit flagstaff in the past week. homes north of flagstaff are threatened. police have arrested a man in connection with the first wildfire. they say he was negligent in disposing of some hot coals. 19 people were injured after a fire on a subway. most injuries were related to smoke inhalation. last july, means materials in the subway station caught fire. 20 people are dead, over 50,000 are homeless after the was flooding in brazil. the region has rece

it's very tempting for people to take the other side of the bet. tempting for them to say all i havedo is offer a guarantee that will lose value if the reistic market collapses and i will get premium paid up front, i will get a bonus paid up front sohat is aig and the others. of couse it di't work out very well and the bubble did collapse and john paulson made a lot of money and the people who ha insured against the defense had been bailed out by the government. so, how do you,again, going back to theway to design these in donner dustin dampers, how do you avoid that problem? becae yocould have hada number of the things that have en suggested here in place and it's still difficult to avoid the ingenuity of the financial sector in designing other instruments. i like congressman foster's desi which is a very simple one r the using market, which says less leverage as the price goes up. that seems to me to be very sensible. here again, the political problem as you know better than i come is the people like to dream about the value of te housing triplin

how are they -- >> many times. >> how are you -- i'll bet. i'll bet. as have i. and i guarantee you every single member of this committee. >> you know what? they've been read to me many times too. >> and probably will again. how will you live up to that standard? >> senator leahy, before i answer that question, may i say a little bit more about what you started with, about constitutional changes, just to show my commitment to being open, all right. >> okay. go ahead. >> you said something that sort of triggered a thought in me. i just wanted to -- as you said, there are all these many changes that have happened to the constitution. and i think it's important to realize that those changes do come in sort of two varieties. one is the formal amendment process. and i think it was senator cornyn yesterday who had talked about the formal amendment process. that's tremendously important. when thurgood marshall said this was the constitution. they counted slaves at 3/5 of a human beinging, didn't do anything about that original sin of our country, and the 14th amendment

each member of this body will have a choice, we can place our bet on the side of those on wall street who have gambled with our savings and lost, or we can stand with main street and the middle class. will we preserve a status quo and if this bill were to fail we would be preserving a status quo that has left our economy in a wretched state? or will we guarantee the american people strong reforms and effective vigilance to prevent another financial crisis? how can we possibly resist the change that must happen? how can we forget that the chairman of the fed said if we do not act we will not have an economy by monday? four days from when we were having the conversation. how can we let the status quo that created that condition to continue? i urge my colleagues to choose on the side of main street, i urge you to build a future of stability and security for america's families, consumers and small businesses. i urge you to vote aye on the dodd-frank wall street reform and consumer protection act. thank you, mr. speaker. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from alabama. mr. bachus: mr.

>> i think it would be a mistake for them to hedge their bets forever. that is what we want to demonstrate by our operations on the ground, by our development of afghan national security fooces it in takeover these tasks and showed that that is not just possible but will happen. and also to demonstrate to the taliban that they should not consider what they are doing either. they're not only incentives for reintegration but enormous penalties for not reintegration. >> with the potential withdrawal of some of the nato forces, will that be a bump in the road in terms of that perception, or will that be something that simply emboldens the taliban? >> i will not say that it would embolden them. it will perhaps give them a little cause for optimism. what we have to do is compensate. whenever there is a ship or a reduction, obviously you have to redo your battlefield geometry. and we have done that already to compensate for the expected departure of one nations forces. and we will do that as we have to. and we are also accommodating the additional forces that a

. >> six months ago, people were betting that you would raise the rates and now people are betting atthe end of the year or towards the beginning of next year. do you think the criteria you outlined helps? >> my colleague used to read the paper and try to predict? [laughter] >> several questions have been raised and people have said to abolish the fed. ron paul was one of the early ones. what would happen if in fact we abolish the federal reserve system? >> that would make us the only country in the world without a central bank. the question would be what would you put in place? >> i would let the money grow at about 3% at the rate of the increase in population. >> there are serious alternatives. milton friedman gave that particular idea and there is a gold standard and other things. i don't know if i can test your patience but for various reasons, my own research was on the great depression. one of the contributions that i and others made was that the malfunctioning of the gold standard which tied together the monetary policy of every country was one of the major causes of the depres

not guaranteed but they were betting on their reputation. the hedge fund billionaire made another $1 billion. it destroyed wealth. what does that do to the american people? legitimately, understandably, it erodes their confidence. 10 my eweview, we have a lot of reasons to be justifiably furious at wall street practices with a, where they strayed from what would be done in main street. ski any one of you in your state of ohio, in your -- i ask any one of ou in your state of ohioo in your state of connecttcut, mr. murphy, or anyone from around the country, can you imagine your local banker saying, -- having one neighbor, saying i want you to design something to fail, and then selling it to another neighbor as something that woulddsucceed. it would never happen. another failure is the government failure. the federal reserve. this explosion in asset values and real estate values and subprime mortgages where people who are permiited who had no iicome, no job, no proof of assets, no proof of ability to pay for given loans of $400,000 or $550,000

>> well, you bet. the nato coalition is frag, and the intemperate remarks about some of our nato partners that were attributed to general mcchrystal's staff certainly aren't helpful. the other question is the one person in the af-pak account that had a decent relationship with president karzai was, in fact, general mcchrystal. and it will be interesting to see what approach general petraeus takes to dealing with karzai. one could argue that karzai's been more of a problem than the solution. and so it seems to me that what we ought to hope for is not a continuation or better implementation of the counter-insurgency strategy but, rather, some fundamental changes. and i think one of them has to do with our relationship with the karzai government. >> suarez: gurg, you just heard professor desch, can things happen quickly? you were on the inside in both this and the last administration. were there very high-profile personnel changes, but changing one person's portfolio sometimes means months of adjustment a

i've been there. >> ifill: i bet you do. but let me ask you about another set of relationships, and that's with karzai. >> he is the legitimately elected president of the country. it was a messy election, as the president said, but it's long in the past. secretary clinton went to kabul i went with her-- on november 19 for his inauguration. he made certain commitments. he went to london and repeated them. yesterday he signed one of the key announcements-- reintegration, which opens up the door from the taliban coming into from the cold. an international trust fund is going to be set up. i've been working directly with the japanese who are leading this effort, and the japanese, by the way, don't get enough credit for what they're doing in afghanistan. and throughout all of this, we're working closely with president car as a. i met with president karzai eight times this year, in london munich, in washington, in kabul, and in these meetings, we have covered all these issues . now, let's not try to personify the country in one pe

i will bet -- i don't make a pay check anymore. i was or to get a paycheck. -- i was formed to get a paycheck. -- i was going to bet a paycheck. we have the presence of affiliate's in this country and we have like-minded people who are intent on coming apterous. they are not intent on attacking, they want to carry out this revolutionary ideology. the half-life of an ideology should be measured in a decade or two decades or three decades. it is an idea, it is not an attack. the attack is a manifestation that someone has absorbed the idea. his ideas have a long half-life , maybe we have another 10 or 20 years to go. as this adversary eats its young, these bits of the tale of the comet will hit us and the question that we will have as we brief -- as we grieve for people who were murdered that more not jobless for terrorists. there are murderers. as we grieve for people who were murdered, we have to ask ourselves how we are going to react against an organization that is already declining. they won a victory. my message is that they sho

i bet when this is over it will be back on it. we've lost hundreds of pelican, their eggs are covered with young -- with oil. someone needs to step up and do absolutely everything physically possible to keep this oil from destroying our eye. it is unthinkable. >> billy, when you start talking about the problems that we're dealing with, you've been very articulate in expressing to not just those in louisiana but around the country. we are truly fighting an enemy that we cannot see because of the dispersants sprayed in the gulf of mexico. normally the blooms would be of a texas oil for reaches are estuaries and wetlands. but because the dispersants have been sprayed, the oil is coming under the boom and it hits the land. and that that is one of the reasons why we need this sand berm belt now. >> absolutely. bp said it would not come ashore. we knew that that was not true. the president of bp yesterday visited and said he does not believe the large firm underneath the water would do anything. we would like to take him off shore, dunc

i bet when th is over it will be back on it.ve lost hundreds of pelican, their eggs are covered with young -- with oil. someone needs to step up and do absolutely everything physically possible to keep this oil from destroying our eye. it is unthinkable. >> billy, en you start talking about the problems that we're dealing with, you've been very articulate in expressing to no just those in louisiana but around the country. we are truly fighting an enemy that we cannot see because of the dispersants sprayed in the gulf of mexico. normally the blooms would be of texas oil for reaches are estuaries and wetlds. but because the dispersants have been sprayed, the oil is coming under the boom and it hits the land. and that that is one of the reasons why we need this sand bermbelt now. >> absolutely. bp said it would not come ashore. we knew that that was not true. the president of bp yesterday visited and said he does not believe the large firm underneath the water would do anything. we would like to take him off shore, duncan down, and

on that journey he will see a proliferation of betting shops. will he give local authorities the power to deal with the saturation of betting shops, which are preying on working and poor people? >> that is another great invitation that i've received this afternoon. i say to the honorable gentleman that there is a balance to strike. on the one hand, we do want to see -- some of the deregulation that took place was necessary in order not to have over- regulation of these sectors, but, yes, i think that there is a case for allowing local authorities greater latitude to decide over some of these things. we made that point in opposition, particularly on the issue of lap-dancing clubs, where we think local authorities should be given more power and influence. and it seems to be an issue being taken up more broadly on the other side. >> order. >> each week that the house of commons is in session, we air prime minister's questions. it is live on c-span2 at 7:00 a.m. eastern and then again on sunday at 9:00 p.m. eastern. you can find a video archive of p

too big to fail, and those who deliberately or irresponsibly traded the product so that they could bet against this, jeopardize an american pension funds and life savings, and the value of their houses. i want to thank you for making this a public process so that americans can see that we are working on the interests of main street. with lobbying for the lax regulations and continue to do this today. two years ago, the weight of predatory lending and credit defaults swaps, and the risky bets have finally get -- given way, sending us into the worst financial crisis since the great depression. i made a commitment to central high that i would be reforming wall street. and over the past 17 months i have attended countless hearings and meetings to help craft the wall street reform and consumer protection act of 2009, to restore and strengthen the nation's financial system, to provide america with the confidence that rules are in place. i applaud the senate in moving the nation closer to this reform of the financial service industry. during this conference, it is important to say that the fi

we were able to be in the bets anvils every day we go through story after story.i want to thank media matters for helping sspply some of tte footage. we wanted to show the extremists. what i was struckkby during the primary and then on the day of the election was a historic moment. here we have the first african- american president elected to the united states and most people were stunned but excited. what was interesting to me is that immediately thereewas a whiplashed politics. that is what i am calling it. e election where when obama is getting sworn in, chris wallace is on thh fox ews saying ii don't even think he is president because they must at the swearing-in ceremony. immediately during the ceremony, there's marry him and trying to say he is illegitimate. -- they are swearing him in trying to say he is illegitimate. understand because we have -- for a lot havebloggers, we interest and because weesee it daily. ddiby talked about the tea party movement. it is an extension of 1980 and the reagan regolith -- the reagan revolution. researching this book was fa

they are placing their bets which i should not have to do. >> what is the hardest part of a documentarythink the whole thing it's hard. there is a pretty serious responsibility that i had not had before which is to tell someone else's story. i did not show any of the families the film until it was completely finished. they are the only ones that i care about. we showed some very difficult moments in their lives and relationships. they all liked the film. it is weird to watch yourself and your family on a big screen. they all responded very positively and came to the big screen at the apollo theater a few weeks ago. i was really happy about that. >> you are a duke graduate, grew up in greenwich, conn. and you live in new york city. my guest is about 27 years old. >> i am. >> we are out of time. "the lottery" is the name of the documentary. !u♪ ♪ [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2010] "road to the white hous coming coming up next, "washington journal." we will then have house majority leader steny hoyer @ @ help --

commit more crime and go back to prison, almost 12,000 of them, than any other state except -- and i bet you can guess what i am going to say it -- california. in california, it is the same endless cycle. catch them, cut them loose, and pick up the pieces when they commit more crimes. politicians out there pander with pointless anti-gun laws. behind the scenes right now, they plan on and are going to do it releasing up to one of every four inmates from their presence in that state. that state already has the highest recidivism rate in the nation. last year, they passed a law to release felons with no parole, no supervision, and a 50% reduction in the sentences they serve. everything is cool, everything is copacetic, no problem here, lawmakers promised only to release so-called non-violent offenders. the minor detail they failed to mentor to the public is they define non-violent to include child abusers, certain sex criminals, and even those convicted of manslaughter. so in february, when they're released back to the streets kevin eugene peterson after conviction for assault with a deadly

what should be the rules for making the bets? should there be a market where everybody can see the price of these derivatives? and to make it very clear, when investors are investing in a bank, for example, that they know what that bank's position the with regards to derivatives. it's a huge issue and congress really just took the first step. and there was an attempt to keep banks out of the derivativesal market, and -- host: in the new york times, here's the president's signature and we'll start the countdown for -- including the federal deserve and securities and exchange commission and the federal deposit insurance corporation. when the bankers convened there was still plenty of time to lobby kong, but the group's president and its board board of directors told the group that they should shift its focus on the rule making process and the lobbying gets underway. >> i think that's right. i think all of the parties who were interested in this legislation understood in the last few weeks. especially when once they got into confere

-- i'll bet we get that extended for another three months. so anyone at that talks about the stimulus not working, remind them, was it perfect? was it extremely helpful? the answer is absolutely yes. so when my republican friends criticize me for doing programs like the stimulus bill and then after it passes, then they criticize me for not getting more, it's a little strange. >> but you know, i've learned that whether it's in athletics, in someone's personal life, or in government, no one roots for someone that wants failure, and that's what my friends on the other side of the aisle are going. they want barack obama and us to fail, and we're not going to fail. why did we have to do something about wall street? we had to do something about wall streets, because if you draw a street line from the unchecked greed on wall street, to the layoff and foreclosures on main street,, i remember i had to go to mr. gallinger who taught geometry, you've got to give me a passing grade, i won't be able to play football. i dent learn much about geometry, but

they are placing their bets, which they did not have to do. >> what is the hardest part of doing a documentaryis? >> the whole thing. i think that there is a serious responsibility that i have not had before, to tell someone else's story. and i did not show any that families the film until it was completely finished, and they were the ones that i cared about. and we showed some very difficult moments in their lives and relationships. cheated anyone get mad?

i wouldn't put money on it, if i were a betting man. >> all right, joe, thanks very much. we'll be in the gulf tomorrow, thanks for watching. "larry king" starts now. >> larry: tonight, supreme court nominee elena kagan on the hot seat. highly partisan highly political hearings under way. >> i will do my best to consider every case impartially. >> larry: plus a landmark decision from the high court. gun owners win it. then, a 7 year old vanishes from school three weeks and thousands of it tips later his disappearance still a mystery. does the second grader's stepmom know something that could help find him? next on "larry king live." good evening. today's confirmation hearings were devoted to opening statements by committee members and nominee elena kagan herself, if confirmed, kagan will succeed justice john paul stevens retiring after 35 years on the court. here to talk about it is james carville, cnn political contributor and democratic strategist and a conservative talk show host and organizer with the tea party coalition and back in l.a., stephanie miller, host of her

how much do you want to bet that they won't? anyone want to hedge a bet with a credit default swap or a synthetic collateralized debt obligation? i bet goldman would be willing to sell you one. but you know? what they're really doing is they're trying to send their lobbyists to try to meet with members of the commission that he heads. "the new york times" reports that lobbyists representing goldman in washington try to arrange one-on-one meetings with a handle of those commissioners including him but he declined to meet with them. congratulations, guess what? they do the same thing to the members of congress, they wait for us in the hallways, they get on the elevators with us if we refuse to meet with them. they pay their lobbyists here lots of money. so you keep doing what you're doing, you keep digging. i'm glad you declined to meet with them. and, you know, according to the same people who spoke with the "the new york times," many of them said they spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discus

. >> larry: control knell schafer, what would you bet will happen tomorrow?> well, i think clearly there's going to be a meeting with the president and i think the general mcchrystal will have a chance to lay out what happened, why it happened and what he'd be able to do to essentially regain favor. i think there's going to be a great deal of crow eaten by the general if he survives. there's competent officers in the wings. i know the names of several of them. they're very competent. but the question becomes, do you change horses in the middle of the race? right now we're walking up on kandahar and, frankly, we have huge problems in waziristan and talking about trying to get to december with major benchmarks to be looked at and do you want to cause a disruption, a replacement of a key commander that influences the entire battle space? >> larry: we'll know more tomorrow and we'll do a lot more on it tomorrow night. >>> kevin costner is here next. he's a new father, too. he'll show us how he might be able to make things better in the gulf. stick around. how can

you get rid of the hydrocarbons through the microorganisms, you're hedging your bets. days for them to eat and turn it into enzyme's. >> we can take the spoil from the sediment on the bottom of the gulf to go into these islands and mix it with microorganisms and the microorganisms and will start the process of eating the hydrocarbons which will make the sand burn non-toxic? >> more suitable for plants to grow. >> the company in the state of alabama manufactures these microorganisms. talk about that. >> i met with a company here. they are producing these microorganisms and they harvested these markets or organisms from the exxon valdez. these companies have been in business for quite some time. they told me that they can inject it into the soil for the sediment. you can treated at is is coming through and it will penetrate approximately 24 inches. it will work for 21 days. you can also injected up to 20 feet under where you can get a massive amount of the microorganisms eating a hydrocarbons. after 21 days when the soil is suitable, you come back and plants. planting th

and i would be willing to bet at least 60% of my parish -- and i have 120,000 people -- or directly orndirectly affected by the oil field. >> 60%? >> that is what i would think. >> employed. >> directly or indirectly. understand they have oil field people that work on the rig, they have boat companies, catering companies, fabrication yards that build the rigs. all of this is going to come to a screeching halt and this is the critical thing. with b.p. or the spill they have a resource to go to. on this moratorium it is not compensable by anybody. so, this is a lost that we are going to have and the oil field drilling is without question such a significant problem that it will affect my community and my parish more at this time than the oil spill will. >> we just left houma and we are over here in terrebonne parish. we are going south on highway 56 to the end of the road in terrebonne parish in the coastal washland. there are a couple of marinas and jump-off points for oil and gas industry services. also down here we have louisiana university marine consortium facility right before you g

you bet on it a few days? and what they pay you today? [inaudible] that's something. different post. is it adequate for you? no feelings from the fumes are the oil? you're putting down boom. well, good. you're doing a good job and thank you. we told bp today that they're going to pay people hopefully for a whole year and advance because this is what they make their money in the summer. they have to show last year that my operation grows to $200,000, and so give me $200,000. bp is going to have to do it and have to do it for their own reputation. it's not going to work anywhere else in the world. no other country will have them if they don't do the right thing now. and they cannot wait for litigation. right. >> it takes four years. >> we need to focus on the claims process, and that is what i am one of focus on, streamlining the claims process. >> they are going to do another one. an automatic send out of the second checks, but they are averaging $3,100, because it wanted to get money out quickly to people. there overpaying some people and underpaying others. but this

according to a recent book, the vice president of united states, people are coming out in 2011, you can beton it. that is not based on conditions. that is an assertion by the vice-president. that is what concerns us. >> the secretary of defense said, "no way." when you have two leaders of the ministration saying two different things that is difficult. >> are we looking at insubordination on the part of anyone involved? when you say it is time to start over, is a time for eikenberry to go? >> this is a pivotal moment. the karzai government is in place. it is the government of afghanistan with all its imperfections. from my observations, not just from the article, there is a lot of tension on the civilian side that makes it very hard to move forward in a coherent fashion when it comes to why the president had to act, the statements of the general, not only were outside the norm, they really put in question military subordination to civilian control. to have "rolling stone"follow you around for a month as a judgment question. [laughter] >> to these officers who were on named -- understand lawy

shanghai has bet big on the fair but it's not alone. china's trading partners have built elaborate pavilions, going to great lengths to boost their image in china. ted fishman is an author specializing on the chinese economy. he says by creating expensive exhibits, countries wishing to court china's strong export economy and huge consumer market have followed the long-standing tradition of bringing gifts and bowing to the emperor. why did countries feel like they had to be here? >> they had to be here both because china wants them here and if they're not here, it's an insult to china but they also feel they need to be here because they have an international demand. china is buying more of everything at every company in the expo . so you need to be there to show your own country that you're engaged in china, and you need to be there to show china that you're endpajed at the very highest level with the superpower has to come. >> reporter: the spokesperson for the expo said it's not just about trade relations. >> ( translated ): the expo w

and so they're placing their bets, which they shouldn't have to do. >> so what's the hardest part ofng a documentary like this? i think the whole thing. i mean, i think really there's a pretty serious responsibility that i hadn't had before, which is to tell someone else's that i hadn't had before, which is to tell someone else's

i bet you then it's as much that's escaping as they're collecting. now, can they get all of that? i certainly hope so. jim. and that we don't have to wait all the way, as admiral allen says, until september. but that's the final date tathey can cement the well. >> lehrer: but at this point, nobody really knows how far or how long this disaster is -- has got ahead of it. >> and we don't know how much oil is in the gulf because we've had all of these different estimates, and we don't know about the underwater plumes. we could be seeing the effects of this for years and years. >> lehrer: do you agree senator barrasso? absolutely, i think he's absolutely right. >> lehrer: gentlemen, thank you both very much. >> thanks. >> woodruff: still to come on the newshour, primary wins and losses. new sanctions on iran. and emily dickinson's garden. but first, the other news of the day. here's hari sreenivasan in our newsroom. >> sreenivasan: dozens more people died in afghanistan today. a provincial official reported at least 39 afghans were killed by an explosion in kandahar province. the vict

you can bet on it. i do not know if that book is adequate. it does have quotations in it. -- i do not know of the book is accurate. it does have quotations in it. there is a disconnect between the comment you just made in response to the chairman and what is being depicted here in the president's repeated statements that in july of 2011, we will begin withdrawal. this obviously since a message to our enemies that we are leaving and to our friends that we are leaving. there is accommodation in the region. could you clarify the difference between what you just said and what is quoted in the book? these are direct quotes. it says the recall did weaken train and hand over to the a.n.a. in that timeframe. if you cannot do it, no one is going to suggest that we stay. that is apparently a direct quotation from the president of the united states. >> i am not sure it is productive to comment on conversations that took place in the oval office. >> i and stand up. >-- i understand that. >> i would come back to what the president said at west point. that

tonight, a factory town bets on a green future. our story was produced with wnet-new york. the reporter is special correspondent miles o'brien. >> good saturday morning, michael kay at farmer's market, iowa's oldest open-fair farmers' market. 165 years . >> suarez: dubuque is one of the oldest cities in iowa. home to 60,000 people. >> hi, mr. mayor. >> good morning, michael. >> good to see you again. >> great to be here. beautiful day. >> reporter: the people in this old factory town along the mississippi have signed on the a unique experiment. they're attempting to turn dubuque into one of the nation's most sustainable cities. the man leading the charge is mayor roy buol. he spent decades working at the factory floor of john deere. five years ago he ran for mayor on a green platform and won. how does a guy who works with his hands at john deere all those years become a mayor so interested in the other kind of green-- green issues. >> well, i can tell you, it really started for me when my wife and i started being blessed with grandchildren. i just started thinking, you know

you can bet on it. is his view of the policy correct? >> secretary gates has said, i believe in testimony, that he never heard vice president biden say that remark either. for what it's worth. >> well, it's worth a lot because he's saying one thing to one person allegedly and he's saying another thing to you. they don't reconcile themselves. that is exactly my point. it depends on who you seem to be talking to. because a lot of liberal people in this country are being told directly and indirectly we're getting out beginning july 2011. how fast, i don't know, but we're beginning to leave. somebody needs to get it straight without doubt what the hell we're going to do come july because i think it determines whether or not someone in afghanistan is going to stay in the fight. (gun fire). >> ifill: for now that fight is still a struggle. control of the southern district of ... remains uncertain despite a u.s.-afghan offensive there months ago and the planned offensive in the taliban stronghold of kandahar has been delayed. even in kabul secu

. >> i bet it does. >> it feels a lot different when you're the nominee, too, doesn't it? and if it didn't, i'd really be worried about it. do you know greg craig? >> i do. >> who is he? >> he was previously the will counsel to the president. >> do you know him well, pretty well? >> you know, okay, yeah. >> he's a good guy. i'm not trying to trick you. >> pretty well. >> i don't have anything against greg. i like him fine. he said may 16th that you -- that you're largely a progressive in the mold o obama himself. do you agree with that? >> senator graham, you know, in terms of my political view, i've been a democrat all my life i've worked for two democratic presidents, and those are, you know, that's -- that's what my political views are. >> and would you consider them -- your political views progressive? >> my political views are generally progressive, generally -- >> compared to mine for sure. okay. that's fine. there's no harm in that, and that makes the hearings a little more interesting. i would be shocked if president obama did not pick someone that shared his gener

i bet every member on my panel would say the same thing. i would ask you to create a legislative liaison individual with in each of your companies that we can call and i would like for you to contemplate that. if you are going to do it, i would like for you to identify who is and present that to the committee. if you are not going to do that, i want you to explain to the committee why you will not do that. if we're going to get to the bottom of this and keep people in their homes we have to have more accountability everywhere. i guess, mr. chairman, i really do not have a question. i just have a series of statements i wanted to make. >> and they should not have the 800 number, right? [laughter] thank you. i now yield to the gentleman -- just a moment. my staff is saying it is ms. norton? mr. davis, ok, i'm sorry. >> i will try to be brief so my colleague has a chance to get his question in. it has been suggested that minority homeowners have been disproportionately affected by the crisis. and i think many people agree with that. secondly, t