senators, bill nelson of for more and more.l nelson is sorry to try to run from his record, but if i am the nominee, he can run, but he cannot hide. there is no guarantee america will continue to be great. america is our responsibility. each of those really each of us has the responsibility to insure the american dream continues. every generation has been called on to fight for something, and now it is our term. the challenge of our generation is a federal government that is out of control and a debt that could across this country and leave us diminished. i do not want to live in that kind of america. that is why i am running for the senate. we need to make sure america continues to be a place where any person can achieve their dreams and that they are only limited by their imagination and hard work. but as the america we must restore. but as the america we must have for your children and my children. do we have the enthusiasm and determination to be great again? i say we do. [applause] remember my friends, as challenging as ti

. >> greta: bill nelson said something today. >> president's fiscal commission proposed this. this is what i think we have a shot at working together on a bipartisan basis to fix this. both democrats and republicans acknowledge this is a problem and ought to be fixed. get great is the push-back? >> the in-- industrieses and businesses care about those and fight hard for these things. and the general public that generally wants a fairer, simpler system not fight as haven'tly. it is a sense of concentrated special interests at the expense of the greater good. that's what we have to overcome. we have a good-bye partisan consensus this is not the way we should be doing things. the fear i have with the president's economic policies, promises new tax increase, another stimulus spending which is the last stimulus bill divided by to half as much with new tax increases on top it is missing the boat on passing ideas that have proven to work and repeating the mistakes of moving ideas that have prove event to fail this is an area where a lot of democrat agree i would love to see if we can

senate candidates, running against incumbent bill nelson. >> tomorrow on "washington journal," a look at the foreign- policy views of gop presidential candidates. after that, "the lean start up," how entrepreneurs a

bill nelson out of florida. no senate democrat can hand the republicans a victory on ending the bush tax cuts for the rich and ending the wars. president obama today threw a brick through the window and woke a sleeping giant. his own base, that's who he's waking up today. this is so black and white, it is all about the math. >> either we ask the wealthiest americans to pay their fair share in texas or we'll have to ask seniors to pay more for medicare. we can't afford to do both. either we gut education and medical research or we've got to reform the tax codes so that the most profitable corporations have to give up tax loopholes that other companies don't get. we can't afford to do both. this is not class warfare. it's math. >> the numbers clearly show president obama's plan. it's not a liberal idea. not at all. it's what america wants, no question about it. just look at the numbers. over two dozen polls taken this year, 64% of americans want tax increases to be part of any deficit reduction package. democrats

in washington today, senator bill nelson of florida-- chair of the science and space subcommittee-- said program will cost $18 billion over the next five years. >> we are in an era in which have to do more with less. all across the board. and the competition for the available dollars will be fierce. but what we have here now are the realistic costs that have been scrubbed by an outside independent third party in their study of nasa. >> sreenivasan: nasa hopes to start unmanned test flights of the new rocket in 2017, with the first crew in space by 2021. the summer-long texas heat wave has reached another milestone. on tuesday, it was over 100 degrees in wichita falls for the 100th day this year. the old record was 79 days, set back in 1980. and laredo reached 100 again today, for the 115th time this year. just last week texas officially recorded the hottest june, july and august in the country ever. there was bad news today in the latest s.a.t. results for american high schoolers. reading scores for the class of 2011 were the lowest on record. and the combined reading and math scores wer

private industry could do it better and cheaper and kay bailey hutchinson and bill nelson the senators, are trying to keep jobs in their home states. nasa says it's watching every penny very closely, megyn. megyn: it has a lot of pennies to watch. thank you. a bizarre murder trial getting started in florida right now. a millio millionaire's wife shot dead. he is accused of killing her. there is much more to this case than meets the eye. we'll show you why and go in-depth on the story behind this bizarre jailhouse dance by the defendant. look at this. what is he doing? and get your dance shoes ready, the hit show "dancing with the stars" set to premiere a few days from now. one doctor says you should not let your children watch. we will be our guest today. there are serious questions about why the government length half a billion dollars to a company that went bust. >> true companies will always be companies like solyndra. companies like solyndra are leadth way toward a better and brighter future. at bayer, we've been relieving pain for over 100 years. and today, we're re-inventing aspi

charlie bolden, nasa administrator, kay bailey hutchison, and bill nelson, two senators instrumentaldo this. in fact, the much-awaited, perhaps some would say overdue announcement of the next generation rocket, the one that will replace space shuttle and take astronauts to steroimars. $18 billion spread out over five years until the first vehicle flies. they did unveil an image, a sketch of it. and it will look to some degree very much like a space shuttle. it's going to have a giant elk attorney general tank in the -- external tank in the middle, liquid fuel. on the side, there will be two boosters like a space shuttle. they may be solid. they may be liquid boosters. so in essence they may go back more to an apollo era kind of technology. and an orion capsule which they are working on would be on the top of this rocket. so, you know, ultimately, kyra, this announcement could be, could be as big as the announcement of the shuttle program's creation or perhaps the announcement of humans going to the moon back, you know, when kennedy made his announcement. but we're going to have to wa

they were joined by kay bailey hutchison and bill nelson for this half-hour briefing. >> the administration is coming forth with the plan to flush out what was passed in the nasa authorization bill one year ago. the plan forward, that keeping the international space station alive until at least 2020, with a series of commercial rockets taking crew and cargo to and from the space station then allows nasa to get out beyond low-earth orbit, and start to explore the heavens, which is the job at nasa has always been tasked to do. this rocket is coming in at the cost of what -- not only what we estimated in the nasa authorization act, but less. the cost of the rocket over a five-to 6 year period was to be no less than a $11 billion, and this cost is $10 billion. the projected cost for the multi purpose crew vehicle in that timeframe is $6 billion, and then the reworking of the ground support to launch the new rocket and its facilities in the modernization of those facilities as above two billion dollars over that time, or a total of $18 billion in the period of time. that is up to 2017. i would l

but the bills' offense couldn't be stopped. 16 seconds left on fourth down. david nelson the touchdown. five touchdowns for the bills in the second half. it comes down to this. one last chance. thirsty seems to intercept the ball but denarius moore tried timousment it away. -- to muscle it away. it appeared he had the game ending interception. 38-351 the final. the final play -- is the final. the final play left the raiders upset. >> man, we -- we ain't going to get that kyle. you know? i mean, it's [ bleep ] with the patriots or the falcons or somebody, probably reverse it but no, they ain't going to reverse that call for us even if he did catch it. i don't know, i didn't see it but it was bang bang. but i always -- i always thought when it's bang bang you went to the receiver but they went straight to the db. >>> baseball, the giants began the month dead last in runs scored but they have erupted for 55 runs during the eight game win streak now. pablo sandoval had plenty to smile about this weekend at coors field. the giants hit four home runs in the 4th inning. then pab

by january of this year, and we kept getting delays and delays and delays, and finally senator bill nelson and i just got frustrated about that time line, and we have had meetings, and as recently as yesterday, i wanted to meet with the director of o.m.b., mr. jack lew, who did come to my office to meet with senator nelson and myself, and general bolden who is the nasa administrator to get his commitment that we would be on a robust time line, that it would be as much a priority of nasa to go beyond low earth orbit as the ferry to the space station, which is the interim vehicle would be for nasa, and we got those assurances. and mr. lew, the nasa administrators, senator rockefeller was represented, senator boozman, we had all the relevant people in the loop on this issue because we want to make sure that congress and the administration are on the same goal with a time line to achieve that goal. what worried us about the delays were the loss of cost efficiencies and the loss of the experienced personnel to design that new heavy launch vehicle. we want to have the most experienced engineers

then ryan, he is almost too smart to be playing football out of harvard through it to david nelson. the bills five of their second-half possession became close to the end, campbell reached the end zone but it was intercepted by buffalo 30 to 35, the raiders are now one and one. >> i'm not making excuses man, or ladies about happening today the second half did not turn out how we wanted it buffalo won the game, i said close to them, we did not get it done. we have the opportunity to, we did not finish as a football team. >> the nfl was clean up the dirty violent hits. last night game, keep wincing at home watching jeremy of philadelphia get cold cut by dante robinson he was penalized 15 yds today the league said 15 yds is not enough he was fined $40,000 and that is one thing you have to agree with that helmet to helmet, that is old football today they want to keep people out right. and stanford now no. 5 in the country, college football but they lost shame, their no. 1 defense of player he was carted off of the field, they beat arizona 37 to 10. and he led the team last year in tackles again t

let me just say to my partner here, bill nelson. he gave me credit, and i don't know if queen bee is how i would like to be referred to. your highness is not what i was looking for, but with great support senator bozeman and rockefeller have been relentless in assuring that america's place in space would be continued. and i couldn't ask for better partners and these senators on our side, they have backed us all the way, and i will also mention, because we're going in this week to the appropriations process, senator mikulski also has bought in 100%. she and i are the chairman and ranking member on the appropriations committee. we're going to markup tomorrow, and we're going to do what i think everyone will applaud and that is assure america's rightful place in both science and space exploration. thank you. >> we get double the pleasure with kay, because she's not only the ranking on the senator commerce committee, but the senate ranking on the c.j.s. appropriations committee. we want to hear from the other members of congress that ar

bill nelson chairs the senate finance committee.> if this congress does not get serious, then the structural budget imbalances facing this economy could permanently reduce the labor productivity and economic growth for years to come. a launching point for getting our fiscal house in order should haul of the federal income tax code. if that means lowering tax rates, eliminating tax expenditures, and other loopholes, and simplifying the tax code, then so be it. we hear a lot about entitlement programs, so security and medicare in particular. -- social security and medicare in particular. we do not hear about that 250 entitlement programs put into the tax code. the various tax credits, deductions, and exclusions grafted on to the tax code are entitlement programs, pure and simple. and if you are eligible, you can claim the benefit. and it is in the expenditure. and there is no application process in order to get this benefit. and there is no annual or even periodic review of those expenditures' efficiencies by the congress. so tax expe

nelson new zealand. i wanted was for bill now almost in either to continue their impressive run of the start of the new scenes and the devil's latest success coming in the league cup against leeds michael owen instrumental in what was his first appearance for the team this season the striker open skilfully with a smooth finish following a pass in the fifteen for minutes. and the spine is bench player status recently owen showed this class again in a different style crossing my mind i did two up with the last from just in siberia in thirty seconds ryan giggs then added this would be so afeard still in the opening hole for three meals how it sounded up at elland road sending man united into the fourth stage. in the meantime chelsea whoever asked by united in sunday's league game taken full on later on when stage manager bush also planning to fill the younger lineup while the clash while complaining over the referees job that united defeat in the pros is very very unhappy with the performance from. which india and. in the result

but the bills' o feint couldn't be stopped. patrick to david nelson. they take a 38-35 lead.ne last chance, campbell. hail mary, searsy seems to intercept the football but moore tried to muscle it away. it was ruled that searsy had the football and the game ending interception to go with it. 38-35 is the final if that final play left the raider locker room upset. >> man, we the raiders, we ain't going to get that all you know? i mean, if [ bleep ] were the patriots or the falcons they'd probably reverse it but no they ain't going to reverse that call for us. i didn't see it but it was bang bang. but i always -- i always thought when it's bang bang you go to the receiver but in that instance they went straight to the db. >> tommy kelly was great and goes on for five minutes more. >>> baseball, the giants began the month dead last in runs scored. they have erupted for 55 runs during their season best eight game-winning streak. pablo had plenty to smile about this weekend at coors field. the giants hit four home runs in the 4th inning. pablo, bell, big daddy cain the pitcher and

i think willie nelson ought to get off the cannibus and -- >> bill: this is how i envision it, burgerms, franchises all over the place, haveit

nelson he zealand. let's move on to english for bill now where manchester united continue their impressive run of the start of the new season the bills later success coming in the league cup against leeds on tuesday evening michael owen instrumental in his first appearance for the team this season striker open skillfully with a smooth finish following a jason park pass in the fifteenth minutes. and this time he spent players status recently a win showed his class again in a different style putting man united two up with the last one just in siberia the second ryan giggs out of the third with a sold out for and still in the opening half so three zero how it ended up at elland road sending manchester united into this stage. now everybody is a food in tennis rafael nadal and him are in the other top players demanding that be cracked scanty only the eight bits who are has to change their townson becoming clear during the recent davis cup semifinals the dull particularly vocal about having to play his cup tie for spain against france just days after the u.s. open final while world number one noble georgia was f

bills would not die. fourth and one. 14 seconds left. fitzpatrick finds nelson for the score. then jayson campbell.for the win. whose got it? picked off in the end zone. raiders lose, 38-35, falling to 1-1. >> the giants lumber has come out of their slumber and they could end up back in the postseason the way they're playing. looking for a sweep at coors field, and welcome to home run derby. the panda gets it started. opposite field and gone. two batters later, baby giraffe, brandon bell to left. see ya. matt cain's turn. are you kidding me? and it doesn't stop. the panda again. a two-run shot. an eight-run fourth. and they got brian wilson back today. two ks and a perfect eight. giants are four back in the wild card with nine to play. >> promoting money ball in oakland. austin jackson put a stop to the no-hitter. 1 or tigers and that's all verlander needed. he goes eight strong. striking out six. tigers leave town with a series flip. >> this birdie chip on 17. good. he wins. final round 71. two-stroke win. field cut from 70 to 30 for the final event of the tour championship. >> we hear from the 49

bill hayward, who was the aide. >> good evening, my name is alan nelson. i'm the president of the neighborhood association. i was here in july and spoke to you. i actually wrote the conditions of use for trigger. i worked with greg braunstein and i worked with his representative to come up with agreeable conditions of use that would be good for the neighborhood. greg agreed to them. he loved them. he was reaching out to the community. it was fabulous. unfortunately, right after he opened, everything that we talked about in the conditions of use he started violating. lots of the conditions he was not adhering to. we had numerous complaints. i called greg, i talked to greg. i talked to bev and dufty, i talked to beau hayward. it got so bad that we were engaging enforcement. enforcement was doing sound checks repeatedly. i think at least nine times the sound checks were done, and he was in violation of his conditions of use. the noise was so lloyd and so pervasive across the street -- loud and so pervasive across the street. it was closer to a bar across the street, you could actually hear trigger, and you co

bills wouldn't die. fourth and one. 14 second left. fitzpatrick to david nelson.ell with 23-33, 233 yards, reduced to this hail mary for the win. picked off in the end zone and the raiders lose a heartbreaker, 38-35. falling to 1-1. >> meanwhile, down in carolina, cam newton continues to tear it up. the top pick out of auburn with the rookie regard 432 passing yards. 854 on the season. most ever for a player in his first two games. but the packers get the win, 30-23, in charlotte. >> giants' lumber has come out of their slum enter -- slumber. looking for a four-game sweep at coors field and welcome to home run derby. the panda gets it started. opposite field and gone. two batters later, belt to left. see ya. 4-1. matt cain's turn. are you kidding me? dead center. fourth of his career. and it doesn't stop. the panda again, two-run shot giants hit four home runs in an inning for the first time in 50 years in an eight-run fourth, and they got brian wilson back today two ks and a perfect eighth. giants are four back with nine to play. >> the promoting money ball in oa

bills, fourth and one from the six. this guy is too wide open. david nelson touchdown. >> rolando mclean. never leave the middle like that. >> one second left. hail mary, last chance. who will get it here? >> the tie goes to the -- >> it should have been offense. >> to the defense. >> let's see it again. the bill winter 38-35 for the silver and black. jason campbell. did he all he could in this one to get the win but it wasn't enough. the breakout star was the wide . this go on the raiders. >> my players got to dig down and finish the game. this is the national football league. we pay guys and they have to make plays. we've got to find a way at the toned make plays and finish games. >> you never want to give a home team momentum. like i said, they came out, a different team. a different mindset in the second half. and like i say, you're on the roixd can't give a team that kind of life. they have the crowd behind them. they can put every one in the statement behind them and they can still make more plays. >> hugh jackson takes responsibility on this one after the ball game. you look at the

lord nelson never spent more than $400,000 and bills than $200,000 and shook every hand in wisconsin. personal money put pressure on the member to take outside money. that is that point remember and also the most precious commodity member has is time. you can go home and shake hands or take money. you can never shaking of hands to overcome a millionaire with no personal money. if you have your usual group of supporters it won't be enough. if someone wants to take you out or you are convening the same district. personal wealth is on the mind of a member. think about these as you put together a package. i coauthored state legislative races -- when i ran for congress by was very lucky. i only had to win the primary. with open season and eight people jumped in. and knocked on 20,000 doors and won the primary. i was an economics professor. it is contingent -- it is different. money has a huge role in some districts. those issues are very much personalized to the member. your time constraint puts tremendous pressure and taking money. >> you tried to accommodate other legislation. the courts

the bills scored on all five of their second half possessions, including the game winning touchdown. look at how wide open dave nelsonas on fourth down with 15 seconds left. defensive lineman tom kelly called out his teammates. >> just do your job. whatever it is, man, if you got that guy, follow him to the bathroom. and for a man to score on the last play of the game, man, wide open? come on, man. come on. do your job. >> yeah, he was clearly frustrated. but head coach hue jackson made it clear today that those types of comments are not the raider way. >> there will be no more addressing players, names, positions, any of that, as long as i'm the head coach here because here is the deal. we lost as a football team. all that crap about "well this guy, that guy," you got to look in the mirror first. okay. as a football player. and, umm, last time i checked i'm the head coach of this team and they are the players. >> message sent. >>> the giants are off but keeping close tabs on the diamondbacks. sixth inning justin upton broke his bat and still hit it out. he hits it out and that was the only run of the game. arizona b

back to saturday's game and if they can keep bill strains down to one to fifty points that will feel like a massive moral victory for the bears. don't see nelsonnew zealand. i'll be back with a couple of hours but don't forget to check out our youtube channel which is an artsy sport use your comments are more than welcome thanks for watching. home. very first verses of the bible is that all human beings are created but sentimental came in god's image and it doesn't say just jews or non jews. sixty to seventy percent of what i did as a combat soldier new territories was to do with deterrence doing what we call making our presence felt we go out should some bozo they hear a knock on some doors run to the other corner and they don't know how religion and nationalism not just judaism have been a part of the problem they've been part of what leads to. bloodshed a few one. thousand four hundred people in a month and you want to expect that this will have no effect until feet you have to be either extremely naive or extremely stupid as you think you are a religious jew calling another joe and not the way they really did not. think. it will. bring you

bills came back. in the second half, wayne, start the clock. 18 seconds to go, 4th down, ryan fitzpatrick finds a wide open david nelson for the game winning play. they come back to beat the raiders despite over 300 yards passing from jason campbell. they were up 24-14 in the 4th, but the cowboys fought back and they sent the game to overtime. tony romo goes deep and they get all the way down to the 2- yard line, but that set up bailey for the field goal to win it, the cowboys beat the 49ers, 27-24. baseball and the giants have their own home rounder biin the fourth inning against the rockies. he fell, and again, right here, they finish with six home runs this the game, beating the rockies, 12-5 to sweep that series. the giants have now won eight straight games. finally, tigers, justin verlander, approved to the league's best. austin jackson breaks it up here. and the no hitter in the 6th with the solo shot to the center field. and they beat the a's, 3-0. that's a league high for the year. an amazing story how he had a broken rib. and he got back into the football game here against the 49ers today. and they lead the co

sunday's game and if they can keep bill strains down to run to fifty points that will feel like a massive moral victory for the bears which we don't see nelsonnew zealand. and that is all the sport for this our world whether it's up next in just a takes you shortly. well the british sign the sun it's time to. market. find out what's really happening to the global economy for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune in to the reports. and they say reportedly. been. enforcing a shoot to kill policy the disputed checkpoint which precedes. the going to bed of instead of hooting would have stood for the saying go for the presidency but who. makes him the better candidate. and the never ending story. breaks themselves to get more. time but the debt written nation trying to prove its fit for a new. attempt to reclaim the revolution the gypsum is once again. this time to protect again one of the minute treatment took place in the.

some of these game and if they can keep bill strains down to run to fifty points that will feel like a massive moral victory for the baz which they don't see nelsonnew zealand. and that is all the sport for this our world weather is up next in just a tick see shortly. we'll. review the latest science and technology from the realms of. the future covered. top stories on our team nato troops bulldoze a serbian road block on the border with northern cossotto operate forcing a shoot to kill policy of the disputed checkpoint which seems to weeks ago. dimitri medvedev has said both he and the dealer putin would have stood for the same goals if running for the presidency that put its popularity among brush translates them the better town today. the never ending story of a sturdy greeks brace themselves for yet more pots and higher taxes as a government of the debt ridden nation tries to prove its fit for a new bailout stop a lot of medicine. and an attempt to reclaim the revolution egyptians once again gather in square this time to protest against a room of the military with replaceable bottled water retained his office.

bills would not go away. fourth and one and 14 seconds left and he finds a wide open david nelson for the score. he was hoping the hail mary would land in a raider's hand and interception. they lose a heartbreaker 38-35 falling to one and one. michael vick back in atlanta for the first time as a starter. the third quarter and vic gets hit and bangs helmets with his own teammate. spiting bled -- spiting blood he is carted out and he points to the scoreboard. the former cal star and two of the career high four td passes. gonzalez passes terrell owens at number five on the all time receiving list. the giants lumber have come out of their slump and they could end up in the post season with the way they are playing. welcome to homerun derby. the panda gets his start to the opposite field and hit two in the inning. and matt cain, are you kidding me? a bomb to dead center, his first of the year. giants hit four home runs in the inning for the first time in 50 years and an eight-run fourth winning their eighth straight. 12-5 the final. only four back in the wild card. they are promoting money ball in oa

the bills scored on all five of their second half possessions including the game-winning touchdown to a wide open david nelsondown with just 15 seconds left. one raider defender was not very happy about the raiders blown coverage. >> just do your job, whatever it is, man. if you got that guy, follow him to the bathroom. for a man to score on the last play of the game, man, wide open? come on, man. come on. do your job. that's what the man pays you for, do your job, man. >> now while tommy kelly did not rip any of his teammates by name i can tell you that hue jackson, today, was upset about tommy kelly's comments. >> there will be no more addressing players, names, positions, any of that, as long as i'm the head coach here because here's the keel. we lost as a football team. all that crap about "well this guy, that guy," you got to look in the mirror first, okay, as a football player. and, umm, last time i checked i'm the head coach of this team and they are the players. >>> bad news for stanford linebacker willie coal. he will miss the rest of the game. skow was if leader of the team which allowed 23 points i

nelson to vote on anybody will be impossible. >> if you look at the fact that republicans, their priority. they future up in the house nine abortion bills. showing you the priorities. nine bills on abortion, not one on jobs, shows you where they're all. when democrats are kind of fluctuating in the senate, maybe that's why the president said we need to be marching again. maybe that's what hi wall street saying. i don't know, but i'm going to do it anyway. thank you for your time tonight. >>> ahead, the tea part is trying to get school kids to read the u.s. constitution. great. but why do they include plugs for a glenn beck political group? is he a founding father? >>> and as health care laws heads to the supreme court, lawmakers are calling for an investigation into clarence thomas', quote, suspicious actions. does justice thomas have a serious conflict of interest on health care decision? it's a hot one, and it's next. you're watching "politics nation" on msnbc. [ boy ] hey, i thought these were electric? uh, it is, yeah, it's a chevy volt. so what are you doing at a gas station? well it still takes gas to go farther. but you're not ge

bill. look at these quotes from john tester for re-election. this plan isn't the one i would have written nor is it one that will pass congress. ben nelson the jobs plan isn't the final word. let's see what emerges from the debate. and mark begich, him saying, hey, just picking out one industry is not acceptable. he's upset about the oil things. all politics is local there. but this goes to this point where democrats, they don't rally around publicly, the lawmakers do. republican lawmakers bite their tongue. and even if they don't like policies coming out of their white houses. >> absolutely. and democrats have never marched behind this president. this is the same problem the president had on health care where his instincts were more progressive but he had this firewall of conservative democrats, and joe lieberman saying we're not doing the public option. even when you look at the stimulus, you always had pushback from within the democratic party on more progressive things the president wanted to do. closing gitmo. that was democrats who sided with republicans, trying ksm, in the u.s. that was democrats again who undermined the president

nelson. bob casey, kay hagen. they are from swing states. that does say a lot. can the president keep going out there, keep going on the road, sell this whole bill while democrats back home sort of take a pause, try to take a step back. even harry reid while he said he's going to schedule a vote doesn't seem to be ready to own it. not good right now for the white house. today we get the first clues of how house republicans are going to respond to the president's bill when speaker john boehner delivers his own jobs speech to the economic club of washington. according to his office, boehner will focus on streamlining and reforming the tax code, limiting regulations and cutting washington spending. he'll also present a path forward for the supercommittee. among those with advice for the speaker, a guy who once held his job. nbc embed jamie novagrad caught up with newt gingrich and asked if he should bring up the bill for a vote. >> what he should do is pass a series of bills designed to help the economy. if they don't like obama's approach, then they ought to show us their approach. >> interesting there, as far as speaker gingrich is concerned. he's saying, hey, i

nelson: mr. president, i wanted to call 0 the attention of the senate in the aftermath of having passed the health care reform bill, there was a great deal of consternation at the time while we were deliberating that medicare was going to be cut. you'll recall that $500 million was cut out of medicare over the course of a ten-year period. it was actually much more than that, but the amount that was being cut was considered to be a threat to medicare. as a matter of fact, the fact is that when we passed it, the medicare cuts came from providers, often providers that stepped up and offered to have greater efficiencies and therefore medicare savings over the decade. and for example, the hospitals of america came forth and said that we will save $150 billion. it was actually -- i said $500 million. i meant $500 billion, mr. president. so one of the considerations in medicare was that we were going to have to lean out the medicare h.m.o. program called medicare advantage. if you'll recall, back in 2003 when we passed what was then called the prescription drug bill, medicare advantage, the medicare h.m.o., was actually

nelson mandela. mark, who has been here before is the vice chairman in berlin. he has devised countless people are around the world. of course he was adviser to billal campaign. previously he had at discovery communications, he has been a senior adviser, not just to leading political figures, including bill clinton, but to many corporate figures as well. we will set the stage for the survey that we conducted. he will present the key findings. there will be a few overall remarks and observations. then i will ask a few questions and it will be over to you. >> i am delighted to be here. it is fantastic, such a cornucopia of great ideas. it feels like your head is bursting. what we are going to talk about today will be very sobering. we decided to do this pull together, because the last 10 years is a signature moment in american history. the beginning of the decade with the horrible tragedy has, in some ways, shifted the ark of american history. and in the largest possible sense, that is what we're going to talk about today. every other journalistic organization will be doing something and we wanted to get out ahead of the pack into if this summer. of