>> let's get the you that you're in the room with us, bob.n on this. >> i'm not a medical person. what they're talking about is over my head. in our organization we have many, many survivors who belong and tell the same story or basically the same story. i did witness something. i didn't go as far as some members did because they were dead. clinically dead if you want to put that term. much longer period of time. thanks to the medical we have today where they can keep them alive than i was. you hear the stories they tell and before this all happened to me i was not a believer in this. i have to tell you right now, i am now a believer in this. >>> more spirited debate about a very spiritual matter or maybe not right after this. bu is a be. i heard that from consumers digest. it offers better highway mileage than a comparable camry or accord. estimated 33 highway. i saw that on the epa site. so how come the malibu costs so little. it's a chevy. you have cop hair. the award-winning chevy malibu. compare it to anyone and may the best car win. >>

>> let's get to you in the room with us, bob.n on this as we go to break. >> i'm not medical. all i know in our organization we have many, many survivors who belong, and they tell the same story or basically the same story. i did witness something. i didn't go as far as some of our members did because they were dead, clinically dead if you want to put that term much longer period of time thanks to the medical we have today where we can keep them alive like i was. you hear the stories they tell. before this happened to me, i was not a believer in this. i am now a believer in this. >> more spirited debate about a very spiritual matter or maybe not right after this. i crush you like tiny clown car. because you are... ...clown, yes? female valve: come, you hit me again and i break you. male valve: oh, you messed with wrong pipe now, car. ha, ha trust me...i have to live with her. announcer:accidents are bad. but geico's good with guaranteed repairs through auto repair express. >>> welcome back. i'm jeff probst. why can some people di

bob epstein is the chair of it. >> she and bob are just -- lock armed. >> they are. we're motoring along. it's good. >> you're like fully staffed up now. >> finally. yeah. we are. actually, we have a new director. >> is he here? >> i don't know. we have to ask somebody. >> let me know if you need me, i'm happy to sit down with anybody and i offered it to scott because he was calling me asking me, what should i do and i said you should take the job. >> do you know him? >> no. >> we need to meet him. we need to ask somebody. hello, tim, where are you now? >> clean economy network. >> where is that? >> amy christianson? >> to. no. we start add new non-profit about 10 weeks to go. 2 to 10 in three months. >> one of the best interns. >> sam blodgett. he's on full time with us now. >> what's the agenda? >> is there always an agenda? i have no motive. >> what's the mission? >> we represent clean businesses, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and we're creating a 50-state network, so actual businesses don't sign up for us. it's just clean energy professionals in them, busine

and so when you see a leader, a candidate, such as bob maryland put forth -- bob mcdonald say i want to translate the vision -- and i take issue with david, who says we don't talk about ideas. i'll turn it on him. and i know he and i have said this before. we don't think that necessarily it's as sexy of a story for the mainstream media to cover our ideas right now, because it is the incumbent party in power. the presidency is held by the democrats, as well as both houses of congress. it is their agenda, which is now up -- >> up for referendum. >> what is the big idea for -- >> jobs is not an idea, but -- >> well, the big idea is to get -- to produce an environment where we can have job creation again. and see, that's where i think that the obama administration agenda so clearly disadvantages the democrats in this upcoming election in 11 months and advantages us. i mean, and the same was true a month ago in virginia. >> there are some alternative ideas within the agenda, kind of like a defense lawyer arguing against the prosecution. i think there's some discussion within the republica

is it bob mcdonnell and virginia? or is it sarah palin and 2012? there is a process where republicans have to decide what is the way back? >> i know for myself i very much believe is in the role of bob mcdonnell. i don't think it is so clear-cut we could do one or the other. if you look at what he stood for, he was very conservative on all issues. he focused his principles of free market and limited government on the kitchen table issues plaguing virginia voters and began to represent a leader that could deliver some results. >> there is a broader problem that is a trend with a disgruntled oppositionist right -- we have the uk independence party opposed to europe. australia has had the opposition conservative party just allis its leader for supporting climate change. we have one in italy and here we have glenn beck and rush limbaugh. it seems like there is a clear and turmoil on the right -- there is a clear turmoil. >> there are a lot of voices in both parties and there is a different motive in terms of those in the media than those of us who owe

first, bob cusack, the front page of "the hill" a newspaper -- " newspaper. how will the president be defined by what he says tonight? guest: basically he is going to own the afghanistan war. he called this the good war on the campaign trail. he sent 17,000 additional troops to afghanistan. at that time democrats embraced the move. they said that president bush had not paid a lot of attention to afghanistan and that he was focusing too much. just like president bush was defined by his decision to invade iraq, it went well at first and his political capital evaporated as the war went on. this is a key moment in the obama presidency. he spent a lot of time deciding which course to take and he is definitely a war presidents. host: the other had line is that the president must sway doubting democrats. will the president be speaking ahead of this speech? guest: yes, he is going to be meeting with 30 lawmakers before he heads to west point, he will be detailing what he will be saying tonight in the speech. there will be some powerful democrats there, including davi

bob? >> president jefferson, other slightly less notable whites who are here, first of all, i will make a deal with you. no jokes about tiger woods or the salahis'. but they do make a point, in that people are desperate to pay attention to that type of thing. they are encouraged to do so by certainly are medium, television, but there is so much that is probably of much greater consequence these days, and what we have when it comes to financial reporting is the best of times in the worst of times. what we have here are the best of times, people i admire because of their ability to take these very complex principles and explain them in language that people can understand. unfortunately people often do not take the time to understand, and so we have oftentimes is media coverage that is feeding the self-defeating media frenzy. bob, do you feel that you are singing to the death as you were writing? >> y? >> singing to the deatf? >> i feel that i am fading. there is of votes in my house with a r

we have a panel moderated by bob franken. he is an emmy award-winning journalist, syndicated columnist and tv political analyst. he served previously as a correspondent for cnn and msnbc. bob franken, who -- whom i've known for a number of years, was recently inducted into the society for professional journalists in washington's hall of fame. our second panelist is margaret brennan, an anchor and reporter for bloomberg television news in new york. previously she was a contributor to cnbc and nightly news as well as msnbc. she is also a graduate of mr. jefferson's university of virginia. alan murray is executev editor on line for "the wall street journal" and author of the papers weekly business column. he has served as washington bureau chief for snbc and "the wall street journal." we are fortunate to have him on our govern n counsel ill here at the university. next we've robert sam uleson, contributing editor at "newsweek" and "the washington post" where he has written about business and economic issues since 1977. his artic

very grateful for bob for that. the team from select books, they are never going to get enough credit. they work tirelessly behind the scenes. so i want to single out kenji and his son and also nancy who edited the book. all of them who made it much better than i could have done on my own. now we're in the halls tonight and one the reasons that we're here is because a lot of my photographic images are on their walls. the reason is because i support their mission. one the first things i want to do is thank alyssa who's helped organization and bob dunn who you heard earlier. i'm prepared to add a little bit to the photographic images on the wall. i noticed last time that all of the images. [applause] >> for those of you that are watching at home, it's sometimes difficult to single out the images we're talking about. i'm going to hold the image next to me for a minute. i took this picture in a refugee camp near el parker. this is a child who's living there, who's still full of life and passion and compassion for everyo

i am a big fan of bob gates.e has been my boss and more renovations that i can remember, but i think he has been a little misleading. as events in iran? i do not rule out that possibility. -- has he been in iran? we don't know what the relationship between the government in iran and the operational activity was. i would suggest to you that if the iranians want to give us trouble in the world in the next few years, one of the simplest ways for them to do it is to just allow a higher degree of al qaeda operational activity on their territory, since we have virtually no baseline it as to what they allowed. the relationship between al qaeda and iran is a black hole. >> i have a question about the syndicate of terrorist organizations you were referring to. there was not a single afghan on board the planes on 9/11. mullah omar is allowing [unintelligible] he is sending out messages which say come and talk to me. why don't we give it a chance? >> there are several questions buried in that one question. first of all, tho

bob became a university professor. he teaches at loyola. helen worked at is an artist for a while and art administrator, consulting for another organization like the los angeles county museum of art and other states organizations in california. here's another one of my favorite images. and this is another good tennessee state student, katherine brooks. she was originally from birmingham. but she was a student here in the early 60's, unlike rip, very much involved in the sit-in movement. non-violence is the key to the civil rights movement and most of the people who were involved understood the idea and readily embraced it even though for some people it was a struggle. and catherine like several of the black southern freedom riders i interviewed talked about getting her start as a protester almost instinctively as a child and just sort of acting out and just sort of natural and i want to read an excerpt from our interview in the book. it might have been around fifth or sixth grade when i began to protest the way things were. i refuse to step

first, bob cusack, the front page of "the hill" a newspaper -- " newspaper. how will the president be defined by what he says tonight? guest: basically he is going to own the afghanistan war. he called this the good war on the campaign trail. he sent 17,000 additional troops to afghanistan. at that time democrats embraced the move. they said that president bush had not paid a lot of attention to afghanistan and that he was focusing too much. just like president bush was defined by his decision to invade iraq, it went well at first and his political capital evaporated as the war went on. this is a key moment in the obama presidency. he spent a lot of time deciding which course to take and he is definitely a war presidents. host: the other had line is that the president must sway doubting democrats. will the president be speaking ahead of this speech? guest: yes, he is going to be meeting with 30 lawmakers before he heads to west point, he will be detailing what he will be saying tonight in the speech. there will be some powerful democrats there, including davi

bob did it again last night in his comments.ey talked about gorbechov of course had been talking about a common european home. chole started talking about two germanies under a european roof. baker reading a text was talking about a trance atlantic security architecture. so i decided to follow the lead of the historical actors and use that as the organizing metaphor for the book. and this is also the way that i addressed the question of how do policy makers respond in the aftermath of these dramatic events. so what i decided to do was think about what happened after november 1989 as an architectural competition, where you had different ark teshts proposing different blueprints in a highly competitive fashion to try to succeed, to try to be the one who could put down the blueprint for post cold war europe the fastest. and i found that worked well because as you know if you win an architectural competition, that doesn't mean you get to build anything. because immediately the people who lost sue you. they say the contest was unfair

is it bob macdonald in virginia? is it the new jersey race or is it new york and sarah palin? there's a process that has to be gone through where republicans decide and the voters decide what is the way back. i don't know that is inside it. >> let me respond to that. i know clearly for myself, do i very mch believe it is in the mode of bob mcdonald and i don't necessarily think it is so clear-cut that we can be one or the other because if you look at bob mcdonald and what he stood for and his record in our screnl assembly, he was extraordinarily conservative on all issues. and it wasn't that he shot -- shied away from any conservative principles he believed in. he focused the pins of lower government and he focused those on --ed kitchen table issues that were playinging virginia voters. and began to -- to represent a leader that could actually deliver results and get people back to work. >> i brought a problem which again i think is a trend not just in this country that there is now -- a kind of, of a disgruntled, a businessed off if you like oppositionist right which in some

can you think of an individual better positioned than bob bauer? mr. von spakovsky? >> well, no. and in particular because of one very specific fact. and that is that if you look at the testimony again that anita moncrief gave about receiving this list of maxed out donors from the obama campaign and then using that at project vote and acorn to do basically further work for the campaign, you have potentially not only an evasion of federal campaign donation limits, you have potentially illegal coordination going on between the obama campaign and acorn. those are violations of the federal campaign law that the f.e.c. could engage in civil penalty against the campaign, and it's something that if it was done knowingly and intentionally would be a criminal violation of the federal election campaign act which would be normally investigated and prosecuted by the public integrity section at the department of justice. the leading campaign finance lawyer on the democratic side in this city is in fact bob bauer. >> thank you very much. and i would turn to ms. moncrief. this is courageous tes

von spakovsky made the statement about the now white house counsel bob bauer as and i would ask to the two parts of to the question, have you reviewed the letter he wrote to the justice department a year ago that i referenced in my opening statement. you may recall in the last paragraph of that letter -- you may recall in the last paragraph of that letter that he requests a private, personal meeting between himself and the attorney general, the attorney general mull casey at the time. i never did find out whether that meeting took place or what might have been discussed that would have accelerated the fierceness of this. but i pose that question if you have some answers to that or any indication. then the other component is, is it a stretch to speculate that mr. bauer was hired at least in part to help scrub the links between the obama campaign, the obama white house, and acorn? >> i have read his letter. i don't know the answer to the question of whether there ever was a meeting between mucasey and bob bauer. i mean, i don't know the answer to the other question. i mean, that would be

david drucker, speak about the bob casey part. we read we"cq"that he was given a special task regarding abortion. guest: bob casey is a pro-life democrat from pennsylvania and he would also prefer to vote for a health-care bill that had stronger abortion language and make sure those procedures could not be paid for as a part of health care reform legislation. he has not gone as far as ben nelson of nebraska was said he would filibuster. ben nelson's and then to do so last week failed. his was mirrored after the amendment put into the house built by part -- bart stupak, pro-life from michigan what they're doing is having to bob casey, who probably has the some credibility with the pro-choice liberals and the caucus because bob casey himself as a liberal, trying to put a compromise language that harry reid would wrap into the amendment at the very end that would make ben helson -- ben nelson happy, and make bob casey happy but still not anger the pro-choice democrats and calls any of them to drop off the bill. then nelson told me ye

should i ask bob zoellick this, but i didn't get a chance to.for the people in here i'll ask for any comments. should that date symbolizing that the aps along the lines of the berlin wall, 9/11, that have affected our nation in that way. because it looks like a trend that's going to happen for a wild. >> sure, well i think it's important for us -- this goes back to john owens first question. how do we know when were in one these transformative moments? and they think is important if you're an analyst to consistently set yourself benchmarks and say look, if i see this come about in the other thing than i think i'm in one of these moments and start rethinking fundamentalist associations. if you want my own answer to your question i would answer that in a negative that i don't see the financial crisis of such a moment. and the reason is perhaps a pretty old-fashioned way of thinking about things and they may be no victim to the very same scholarly cognitive problems that i just talked about. namely, you know, if we are counting these moments don't

bob neil and sanderson and sonny smith with the call of the coors classic live from mobile alabama. that's coming up following this game right here. right here, the kentucky wildcats now enjoy their largest lead of the afternoon. 36-24. several records on the line today. we told you how coach calipari trying to break adolph rupp's record for first year head coach. dave loos standing in the way and his austin peay governors. >> kyle: dave loos was outstanding athlete himself and in four hall of fames, which i thought was amazing. >> matt: one of the hall of fames he was in is the st. louis amateur baseball hall of fame. >> kyle: yeah. >> matt: dave loos was an all-conference short stop for the memphis tigers. memphis state when he was there. he was also the starting point guard for the tigers 40 years ago. back at rupp arena, one of the last time he was here was spectator for final four, where final four upset georgetown. and roberson. perfect. again, the austin peay big men stepping out on the floor, showing range on the jump-shot. kentucky big men slow to defend. wall gives it up.

bob and i talked about that. is leader boehner here?ey have more work to do, better than what they did yesterday. [laughter] i don't know if bob dole is here and elizabeth, but thank you to my colleagues for being here. and elizabeth? thank you for being there. dianne feinstein, chris dodd, i appreciate you. my colleagues from mississippi, i did not know they had to be white hair -- and had have white-haired be a senator from mississippi. [laughter] my dad always accuse me of putting something on my here anyway. you mentioned hillary, my colleague. i see chuck schumer sitting back there. after 9/11, we went to new york. we are all new yorkers, and we're going to do our part. we will do what it takes to make new york city recover. it was way over the top, but i said, it sounded like a good idea to me. we got it done. he knows what i am talking about. [laughter] sometimes, it is better you don't know the details. but then, after katrina, in many ways our hearts were broken. it was such a devastating experience. we lost our home. it was to

and so when you see a leader, a candidate, such as bob maryland put forth -- bob mcdonald say i wanto translate the vision -- and i take issue with david, who says we don't talk about ideas. i'll turn it on him. and i know he and i have said this before. we don't think that necessarily it's as sexy of a story for the mainstream media to cover our ideas right now, because it is the incumbent party in power. the presidency is held by the democrats, as well as both houses of congress. it is their agenda, which is now up -- >> up for referendum. >> what is the big idea for -- >> jobs is not an idea, but -- >> well, the big idea is to get -- to produce an environment where we can have job creation again. and see, that's where i think that the obama administration agenda so clearly disadvantages the democrats in this upcoming election in 11 months and advantages us. i mean, and the same was true a month ago in virginia. >> there are some alternative ideas within the agenda, kind of like a defense lawyer arguing against the prosecution. i think there's some discussion within the republican

is it bob macdonald in virginia? is it the new jersey race or is it new york and sarah palin? there's a process that has to be gone through where republicans decide and the voters decide what is the way back. i don't know that is inside it. >> let me respond to that. i know clearly for myself, do i very mch believe it is in the mode of bob mcdonald and i don't necessarily think it is so clear-cut that we can be one or the other because if you look at bob mcdonald and what he stood for and his record in our screnl assembly, he was extraordinarily conservative on all issues. and it wasn't that he shot -- shied away from any conservative principles he believed in. he focused the pins of lower government and he focused those on --ed kitchen table issues that were playinging virginia voters. and began to -- to represent a leader that could actually deliver results and get people back to work. >> i brought a problem which again i think is a trend not just in this country that there is now -- a kind of, of a disgruntled, a businessed off if you like oppositionist right which in some

he's a very nice guy -- bob bauer. but he is a fierce opponent. and he was the acting general counsel for the d.n.c. and he's willing to do just about anything to win. and i mean, his letter last year in which he tried to get the justice department do a criminal investigation of anybody who really who talked about voter fraud -- i mean, his claim was if you talk about voter fraud you're trying to intimidate voters. and you know, with him now being the white house counsel, that gives me a lot of worries. i mean, i guess i should be looking in the mail for a grand jury subpoena because i write about voter fraud, you know, quite a bit. but that concerns me greatly so far there's been absolutely no movement, no information whatsoever that the justice department or the f.b.i. are doing any kind of investigation. and look, you and i, we all know in this room that if for example a national real estate company, realtor, if there were five undercover videos of a realtor in five of their different offices around the country telling people how to engage in m

bob gates reiterated that several times in his statements last week on the hill. it is not yet lost. we do not face in afghanistan nationalist uprising. what we face in afghanistan is a postulant insurgency which is confined to the ethnic community. the soviets face a national uprising. virtually the entire country was in the opposition to soviet occupation. soviet behavior reinforced that opposition. we face an insurgency which is, for the most part, confined to the postulant community. by definition, that means the majority of afghans do not favor of them. we know from reliable polling that the majority of them do not want to see a return. no one in their right mind would want to go back to living in a medieval hell that omar created in the 1900 -- 1990's. thirdly, let me talk about pakistan. there are today the strategic prize in this part of the world as well as the most dangerous country in the world. why do i say that? all of the things that should worry americans about the future of the world in the 21st century come together in pakistan in a unique and com

he's a very nice guy -- bob bauer. but he is a fierce opponent. and he was the acting general counsel for the d.n.c. and he's willing to do just about anything to win. and i mean, his letter last year in which he tried to get the justice department do a criminal investigation of anybody who really who talked about voter fraud -- i mean, his claim was if you talk about voter fraud you're trying to intimidate voters. and you know, with him now being the white house counsel, that gives me a lot of worries. i mean, i guess i should be looking in the mail for a grand jury subpoena because i write about voter fraud, you know, quite a bit. but that concerns me greatly so far there's been absolutely no movement, no information whatsoever that the justice department or the f.b.i. are doing any kind of investigation. and look, you and i, we all know in this room that if for example a national real estate company, realtor, if there were five undercover videos of a realtor in five of their different offices around the country telling people how to engage in m

a vice president j bid, secrary of state hillary clinton, jim jones, national security adviser, bob gates. talkbout that a little bit. >> theice president argued fo minimalist strategy. it was the generals, mccystal and betray us, fresh fro iraq, -- mcchstal and petraeus, fresh from iraq, who argd for troops on the groun mcchstal may have one of the troops, but joe biden may have onwon theresident's mind. ving the withdwal in 18 mohs is a very strange, unusual ent. he is saying to his generals, "i willive you a year-and-a-half, show me we canin this, otherwise we are ait." >> wonder if its even a year and a half. , maand june, with the congressiol elections giving up, if they areot making measurable progress in the southern pronces in helmand, kaahar, if we don'tee real results on the gund, there will be a real amor to get t. it would shock me if we start to pull thelug. >> o troops will on be in by the enaugust. >> but thelamor -- to clamor our you are talking to schedules. >> he has put a rush on this. the army is going t have problems. >> there i only one figure tt counts, and that is

bob gates reiterated that several times in his statements last week on the hill. faced a national uprising. virtually the entire country was in opposition to soviet occupation. soviet behavior reinforced that opposition. r>we face an insurgency which , for the most part, confined to pashtun community. by definition, the majority of we know from reliable polling that the majority pashtuns do not want to see a return to the islamic emirate of afghanistan. no one in their right mind would want to go back to the medieval held from the 1990's. it is this self-constraining factor that offers us the most hope to be able to turn this around thirdly, let me talk about pakistan. it is today the strategic prize in this part of the world as well as the most dangerous country in the world. why do i say that? because all of the things that should worry americans about the future of the world in the 21st century come together in pakistan in a unique and combustible way. nuclear war and peace. proliferation of nuclear technology. terrorism. the,uáure of islam. the future of demo

bob gates reiterated that several times in his statements last week on the hill.t is not yet lost, because we do not face an afghanistan, a national uprising. what we face in afghanistan is a pashtun insurgency, which is confined to the pashtun ethnic community. the soviets faced a national uprising, virtually the entire country was in opposition to soviet occupation. and soviet behavior reinforced that opposition. we face an insurgency which is, for the most part, confined to the pashtun community. by definition, that means the majority of afghans do not favor the taliban. and more than that, we know from reliable polling that the majority of pashtuns don't want to see a return to the islamic return of afghanistan. no one in their right mind would want to go back to living that omar created in the 1990's. it is the self-constraining factor on the taliban which offers us the most hope to be able to turn this around. thirdly, let me talk about pakistan. pakistan is today the strategic prize in this part of the world as well as the most dangerous country in the worl

. >> dan has one more question about your bobbing. -- book. >> before i hassle you about your book, andhe issue of ghost writing and is that possible to have ghost writing? >> i was shocked by that revelation that people would allow their articles to be shown. we need to be careful if we want to have the integrity of science preserved. that's not the way to do it. and that message needs to be put forward by n.i.h. and the grantees. >> if i could, could you talk about the new book, it's coming out in january. 10 years ago and how many billions for human genomes and now talking about it's just dollars. and what are we looking towards? >> the era of personalized medicine where we have a chance to use the information derived from our study of genomes is coming quick low. -- quickly.

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i agree with bob. not the media -- the whole concept of the mainstream media which may have had been 25 years ago when you had three networks and a couple news services and papers that mattered has no meaning today. you have so many different sources of information. the problem is not that there isn't good information, the problem is what people are choosing to consume. i don't know what to do with that that is a matter of consumer choice. a lot of people for whatever reason seem to prefer to consume news, information that supports their own predilections and by s.es and they create little bubbles around themselves. technology makes it an easy thing to do. you can do that. >> people are exploiting that. the journalistic model. >> and doing very well. you can find enough stuff on washington post to read all day long. or the other direction, you can go to half a dozen blocks and never read anything that challenges your view of the world. that is a problem for society. maybe this is self justification. th

i agree with what was said about bob mcdonald.t partisaf+ñpart is scary to me, that the people will take common sense and emphasize the speech. and you have that in 2003, where the republicans had it won and then because part of the party believes that practical common sense doesn't make sense, you have to be on the far right. and that struggle will play out over the next year. your group may win or may lose too. it will be an advantage for democrats. >> i want to escape from an exclusive-american perspective. we have had the most extraordinary global recession, you may think there are trends around the world. whether antiincumbency or a swing to the left or right. it's quite hard to detect global trends it seems to me. some economies have got back in, and voted back in , in germany. and if anything the voters have tend to swing in the british sense of the word, to play it safe. adam, you see politics around the world, what do you see? >> there are other trends and taxes have gone up in britain and the united states. deficit again

. >> this was a ground tour of san francisco with bob schiller and a nobel laureate bob ackeroff taking a break from some 10,000 colleagues in town for the yearly economics convention to which we had come to ask one question. why didn't you, the economics profession, warn us? why didn't the fed tell us? >> why didn't we warn you. >> yes. >> we collectively or me personally. >> well, either one. >> reporter: many said they had sounded the alarm but that in good times no one listened. especially if there is a good story on the other side. >> the idea is because of the population growth which would go on forever, the economy is growing because china and india are showing the way. capitalism is exploding, that seems like well maybe that is a reason that prices are just going to go up, up and up. >> and they forgot about the fact that they might go down and down and down. >> the convention itself was packed with top flight economists, holding the newly minted ph.ds. but many didn't warn us. so why? alan blinder was vice chairman -- vice chairman of the fed in the 1990s. >> i think the fair a

is it bob mcdonnell and virginia? or is it sarah palin and 2012? there is a process where republicans have to decide what is the way back? >> i know for myself i very much believe is in the role of bob mcdonnell. i don't think it is so clear-cut we could do one or the other. if you look at what he stood for, he was very conservative on all issues. he focused his principles of free market and limited government on the kitchen table issues plaguing virginia voters and began to represent a leader that could deliver some results. >> there is a broader problem that is a trend with a disgruntled oppositionist right -- we have the uk independence party opposed to europe. australia has had the opposition conservative party just allis its leader for supporting climate change. we have one in italy and here we have glenn beck and rush limbaugh. it seems like there is a clear and turmoil on the right -- there is a clear turmoil. >> there are a lot of voices in both parties and there is a different motive in terms of those in the media than those of us who owe

host: bob mcdobbled -- headline "cane to force tough choices.orced to have a balanced page. so he's looking at tough choices," for the republican governor, and yet on the federal level, we continue to raise the debt limit. explain the differences between virginia, new jersey, most other states, and what we see here in washington. many guest: right. most states have policies where they balance their budget on a regular basis. that's one of the reasons that we give money to the states. when they are unable to borrow, you want a little flexibility. that is why at the federal level, we don't have an annual balanced budget requirement, because what you really want is flexibility, where your government is borrowing during the downturns, or bad times, and saving when the money is good. so when the budget is good, we should be running government surpluses. in is no annual restriction at the federal level. unfortunately many of us are starting to think that it has been so abused in the way we are borrowing during the downturn. right now the federal gover

. >> pennsylvania senator bob casey said he will continue to negotiate with nebraska democrat ben nelson on abortion language for the senate health care bills. those remarks came during a news conference on the 2010 defense spending bill which the house passed on wednesday. this is about 35 minutes. >> good afternoon i'm delighted to be joined by senator stabenow and senator casey. we are in very difficult and challenging times for our economy after the failed policies of the bush administration. yesterday the house passed a 2010 defense appropriations bill. we are here to call for quick passage of this without delay. we could've passed a bill yesterday. we could've passed it today. we should pass it as quickly as possible. first and foremost, this bill provides the funding for our military forces across the globe and ensure they have the proper equipment, proper quality of life, to ensure that they continue to do their job as they face the threats better posed against the united states. but it also assists countless americans who are hit hardest by these difficult times. people love lov

the idea of people like bob dole or tom daschle, folks like that.ple who served, maybe who chaired the budget committee in the past, who have a whole lot of knowledge here and trust and confidence and understand the politics as well as the policy. your thoughts, please. i again want to thank joining voinovich for yielding. thank you. >> i think it's less important toÑi who the individual members are than the process of the deliberations and how it ultimately is constructed into a report and eventually into legislation. there are certain critical things which my experience indicate suggests have to be done, namely you cannot drop a whole report after a secretive deliberative discussions by some private group. it will go nowhere. and the reason basically is that when you have a commission, especially in controversial areas, the ideas and notions of change have to be absorbed gradually by the congress. if you force them to react immediately, they will take positions which they may be sorry about but they will not be able to reverse having taken a commi

senator bob dole, who is a good friend of mine, i have a lot of admiration for senator dole, i just don't agree with him. he said, "i was there, fighting the fight, voting against medicare, one of 12, because we knew it wouldn't work in 1965." he said that in 1995 when he was running for president. he was proud of the fact that republicans and he had opposed the establishment of the medicare system. i said, well, that was then. but what -- what about recentrily? -- recently? former speaker newt gingrich, quote, we believe it's going to wither on the vine." speaking of medicare. you would think my friends on the other side of the aisle were the biggest supporters of medicare when they opposed it from the very beginning. now we hear all of the stuff about medicare advantage. medicare advantage. well, they like to tell you that if, in fact, we're going to be cutting a little bit out of medicare advantage, that somehow this is going to ruin -- this is going to ruin medicare. well, if that were true, why would the national committee to preserve social security and medicare, aarp, the alliance

bob did it again last night in his comments.bout gorbechov of course had been talking about a common european home. chole started talking about two germanies under a european roof. baker reading a text was talking about a trance atlantic security architecture. so i decided to follow the lead of the historical actors and use that as the organizing metaphor for the book. and this is also the way that i addressed the question of how do policy makers respond in the aftermath of these dramatic events. so what i decided to do was think about what happened after november 1989 as an architectural competition, where you had different ark teshts proposing different blueprints in a highly competitive fashion to try to succeed, to try to be the one who could put down the blueprint for post cold war europe the fastest. and i found that worked well because as you know if you win an architectural competition, that doesn't mean you get to build anything. because immediately the people who lost sue you. they say the contest was unfair. they say

the causality probably happens i do not think the bob is trying to enrich ge even though they still own msnbc prayer even though they seeing the but hall in new york at obama's som. [laughter] i don't think he is trying to enrich them but they just see the way the two make money in the world of obamanomics is to line up with government and what does that do? it sacks of entrepreneurs and that means you don't have jobs when you get out of college and thus one of the chosen few that it could go, microsoft, general electric, they will increasingly control more of the economy but that has a nazi fact of being bad on the whole economy. >> i don't know if the microphone can reach that far. [laughter] >> you mentioned earlier you felt the american people a being left out in favor of big government and big business. however believe specifically in terms of the ballet and the stimulus package of fire remember correctly were policies that the times of 40 of the majority of the american public. had the feel the government should address those issues when the majority of the people are supporting a

host: back on the phone bob on the line. caller: i wanted to ask you about hillary clinton's july 14th speech. he referred to the offices in new york as the mothership. she said we get a lot of information from the council and they had just opened an office in washington, d.c. that's where she gos to find out what we should be doing and how we should think about the future. i'm wandering how much influnes the council on foreign relations has? . guest: sure they are just one of many think tanks in washington. there are a lot of conspiracy theories when that video was posted, that video was left out of the speech. i wonder if that shows the efforts to sort of sheild these people. guest: i would say they wanted to get to the heart of her speech. caller: my list would include people like fiddle cast yo and al gore. a lot of european leaders and president obama. host: why would you put those people on the list? caller: these are people that want to bring the u.s.a. into a global government. he believes the constitution is very fl

senators bob this, dodd and harkin -- bacchu >> our bill is fully paid for.de billions in tax cuts to help working families and small businesses afford quality health insurance. it is the largest tax cut since the year 2001. it will extend insurance coverage to more than 30 million americans. no small item. it will drive down premium costs for all of us. an amendment produced today makes this good bill even better. it will provide even more consumer protections against harmful insurance industry practices. it will hold companies accountable for excessive increases in premium rates. it will impose tighter restrictions on annual benefits and ensure that companies cannot discriminate against children. that does into effect right away. it will provide tax credits to small businesses right away. that is a big improvement. it will provide more health insurance choices for a nubile by state option double offer the same health insurance that congress has today and insure even more access to quality health care for america's children and seniors. we look forward to a

the idea of people like bob dole or tom daschle, folks like that.ple who served, maybe who chaired the budget committee in the past, who have a whole lot of knowledge here and trust and confidence and understand the politics as well as the policy. your thoughts, please. i again want to thank joining voinovich for yielding. thank you. >> i think it's less important toÑi who the individual members are than the process of the deliberations and how it ultimately is constructed into a report and eventually into legislation. there are certain critical things which my experience indicate suggests have to be done, namely you cannot drop a whole report after a secretive deliberative discussions by some private group. it will go nowhere. and the reason basically is that when you have a commission, especially in controversial areas, the ideas and notions of change have to be absorbed gradually by the congress. if you force them to react immediately, they will take positions which they may be sorry about but they will not be able to reverse having taken a commi

bob gates reiterated that several times in his statements last week on the hill.t is not yet lost. because we do not face in afghanistan a nationalist uprising. what we face in afghanistan is a pashtun insurgency, which is confined to that ethnic community. the soviets faced a national uprising. virtually the entire country was in opposition to soviet occupation. soviet behavior reinforced that opposition. we face an insurgency which is, for the most part, confined to the pashtun community. by definition, the majority of afghans do not favor taliban. we know from reliable polling that the majority of pashtuns do not want to see a return to the islamic emirate of afghanistan. no one in their right mind would want to go back to the medieval hell of mullah omar from the 1990's. it is this self-constraining factor that offers us the most hope to be able to turn this around. thirdly, let me talk about pakistan. it is today the strategic prize in this part of the world as well as the most dangerous country in the world. why do i say that? because all the things that sho

bob from the current university nyu. they've set for decades you can't teach improvement in sat. they've had a running battle with stanley s. you all know. now during this time stanley capital and sell them learning how supposedly educated millions of kids on how to improve their test scores on the s.a.t. obviously to new avail. let me put one more piece on the table that as people like charles murray have said, the s.a.t. is heavily related to iq. the conclusion you can draw given a downward turn that americans have gotten stupidly and all the effort is just like etf says that for whatever reason it just simply gives you an alternative interpretation of the data that the cognitive storehouse and ability in the united states has declined and that is stanley kaplan gives you a money back guarantee as you well know. if your test scores do not go up it gives you your money back. now he is apparently not succeeding. now what do you say to that? >> you say he has not? >> well, the score problem which is stanley kaplan's high school version and sell them learning and many other lending

he's a very nice guy -- bob bauer. but he is a fierce opponent. and he was the acting general counsel for the d.n.c. and he's willing to do just about anything to win. and i mean, his letter last year in which he tried to get the justice department do a criminal investigation of anybody who really who talked about voter fraud -- i mean, his claim was if you talk about voter fraud you're trying to intimidate voters. and you know, with him now being the white house counsel, that gives me a lot of worries. i mean, i guess i should be looking in the mail for a grand jury subpoena because i write about voter fraud, you know, quite a bit. but that concerns me greatly so far there's been absolutely no movement, no information whatsoever that the justice department or the f.b.i. are doing any kind of investigation. and look, you and i, we all know in this room that if for example a national real estate company, realtor, if there were five undercover videos of a realtor in five of their different offices around the country telling people how to engage in m

. >> of mary, in your book, -- bob merry, you talk about a senator named tibetan. -- named benton. why? >> he was a big man at the time. he was so representing in missouri in the senate forced 30 years. he was a powerful figure. he wrote a massive memoir after that, which historians have been using for a century and a half. he was very powerful during that time. ñr>> the story about the dual audience and do jackson never ceases to amaze me. what was the story? >> they were very close. there were a lot of tools and tennessee in those days when jackson was relatively young girl. he consented to be the second of a friend of his. jesse took a bullet to the buttocks, which proved embarrassing. as a result of that, they were trashing jackson's name all over national. jackson did not like that. he took himself quite seriously. he went after the two of them with a riding with. jackson was wounded in the soldier. he was lying in the street of national bleeding profusely. and realize that given the fact that jackson was the hero of tennessee, that he better get out of dodge. he left national

in the book section of "usa today" looking and authors who passed away in the last year, including bobcdonnedominick dunne and j. bill, good morning. caller: i am reading "the forgotten," a book about the korean war. it includes stories in veteran'' own words. host: who is the author? caller: it is me. the book is not about me. i put the stories of the korean war together around these stories about the war. the subtitle is called "the forgotten flaccg." "the forgotten war" and "the forgotten her pro it has been out since june. i gave the first boat to the president of korea. i had three brothers in the war. one newspaper called it "for domino more -- forgotten no more," which was a tremendous lift for me. on the date the war started 59 years later. it has done a great reviews. host: thank you for calling. we can tell you about january and february. january 3, from noon until 3:00 p.m., three hours with michelle malkin. our february guest is paul johnson and his caucus on churchill. the will be on sunday, february 7. this is carol on our independence linemen. caller: my favorite book, i

i would elaborate what bob said. there is a huge debate about whether we should preemptively breakup institutions. should we arbitrarily set of some size and say above it will break you up? i can tell you there are no antitrust principles to make that decision there a. is nothing to tell you the magic threshold above which your too big to fail. we debated that extensively. we came down where bob said, which is we would not across the board eliminate all big institutions because there are benefits to size of a global market, but what we do say is all large institutions ought to file this plan with the regulators, and the regulators would have the ability if they are on have been with the plan and see it would not go forth in a way that would protect the financial system, they would have the authority to chop the institution of or order it to be chopped up only in that circumstance. we are against above the board's size limits, but otherwise i would stand where bond left his remarks. >> i want to thank you all very muc