>> it was at the house of a politician in boston. the politician is notorious for droning on for two hours at gettysburg where lincoln gave his historic address. according to tocqueville, adams had willingly lost the presidency in 1828, rather than compromise his principles. he had been elected to the house of representatives, which seems like an extraordinary choice for a politician to make, having been president. in addition, adams thought deeply about american history. he was the son of one of the founders, spoke perfect french, had a great diplomatic career. tocqueville was deeply impressed by his wisdom. >> tocqueville lived for how many years? >> a total of 53. he had tuberculosis. later, he would have repeated breakdowns and recoveries. >> how long was he married and who did he marry? >> that is interesting, too. he fell in love with a middle- class englishwoman. he kept his engagement secret from his family for several years. he was secretly engaged when he was in this country, though intensely flirtatious. i might regress on

joe joins us on the republican line from boston. caller: you can google what i'm about to say to verify it.3 the article it is part o-- a cen amount of money for black farmers. also, there was money for historically black colleges and a prior bill. that is $3.70 billion of obama bucks we just do not have. host: doug says that america needs a conservative congress that will say no to the nutty professor and the white house. consolidating her power, a look at nancy pelosi. this book is by two authors, one of which is ron peters. the conclusion concerning nancy pelosi's gender -- their conclusion is that she is different from her predecessors and her path to power. she has amassed in used power for political and policy in some ways that clearly parallel those used by the most powerful speakers before her. next is steve from boston. caller: good morning. i want to remind people that these are real families they are talking about who are unemployed. these are mothers and children who will not have an income if they take away the unemploy

of a 500 physician multispecialty group practice in boston. and our physicians were all paid on the salary. we are largely at that point a prepaid group practice. if you look at the difference between a primary care physician and a cardologyist or some specialist within a group like mine, or you do the same with kaiser permanent today, the range is much narrower. what we're suggesting is not that specialists be paid appropriately for their additional training in the like, but we do think that that gap needs to be smaller. >> thank you. let me try to get one other question in. my time is fast escaping. when c.m.s. is the least costly policy, provided financial laws, each time they describe a product that is not a product. sunlight to the policy or product that is more costly than the blended reimbursement rate. what safe guards does medpack recommend to insure that patient access them important therapies is appropriately preserved? and what kind of clinical evidence should c.m.s. be required to consider before instituting that policy or bundlin

and the prince and why do you want to be buried in boston? and he replied, i see no reason why my death should deprive me of my right to participate in the democratic process. now i want to make very clear, no one involved in this event believes in that approach to democracy, but i also want to make clear, t is seen as a door and humorless lot and yes, reformers to have a sense of humor, even about democracy if so. i want to salute miles and demos and all the groups involved here. i'm going to say this at the end as well. for aking democracy a centerpiece of what they're up to four try to make democracy itself a centerpiece of our national debate. and that's why we at brookin are very hppy to join in with this effort. i do want to thank brookings christine jacobs o did so much work on this, john, emily, darrell west, and tom mann. and i think when we think about democracy, it's important to remember, john to his famous stement that democracy isn't simply a system. it is assembly a set of formal practices. democracy is a wy of life. democracy

and law enforcement and clergy and others and tried to tackle violence in boston. it was not, "well, we need to do something about violence." it started that way, but it was really a problem of youth committing homicides, and they and had a declineesse in youth homicide. the solution must be focused and the assessments on going. we can apply all these bandits to counterfeiting -- we can apply all of these tenets to counterfeiting. the goal is to use these established tenets to do the analysis. we started compiling information on all the u.s.-related cases from 2000, drawing on the open source literature. we don't claim that is the only database out there. you have already heard today about several other databases that are collected. these are usually done by organizations based on their own collection, and for their own use. [laughter] what makes this unique is that it is based on open source information and it allows us to have a set of data that we can use to analyze for the public good. as an example of linking this together, and one of the cases in our database

this was an wednesday pose a boston globe. the british, the conservative british government as just be thus to the punch by a few days in setting up an independent consumer protection agency. the have dissolve the financial services authority. contrary to what our republican colleagues were arguing about, they did exactly that. yes, there is a great deal of convergence. we put it in the hands of the president, a very powerful set of tools. remember, we are trying to get other countries not to contracted their economy, to stipulate and help us with unemployment. i think we have helped the president make it very clear that he is a world leader here. and you will see continued convergence. >> are you confident in the derivatives language? some of the other folks were concerned. >> and i confident i am not going to lose any of them? of course not. there were some people who voted against it from the left. yes, i sympathize with a lot of my democratic colleagues that are very thoughtful people. i understood their concerns. the amen

i am delighted to be at boston college once again. i subject tonight is the future of the catholic church in the 21st century. before i come to that, john and the other organizers of this event had asked that i say a few words at the outset, not about the church's peter, but its in particular, -- not about the church bezique future, but its present. sexual abuse scandals are swirling dramaturge and all around the papacy of benedictio xvi. although i find speculation about the future to be intensely interesting, it really is not my day job. i day job is functioning as what the vatican called a vatican ista. in this case, because of scrutiny on the record of pope benedictxvi. it is impossible to do justice to that subject in just a few words. i am going to try to do this in about 3.5 minutes. it will be inevitably superficial. instead of trying to give you a comprehensive perspective on the crisis that we have lived through for the last two months, i will make three brief points. the third of which i hope will serve as a natural bridge

this is in wednesday's "boston globe."conservative british government has begun to the punch by a few days in setting up an independent consumer protection agency. they have dissolved their financial oversight unit. as the senator said, we put in my hands of the president a very powerful set of tools to reassert american leadership and the world. we are trying to get other countries to stimulate and help us all the feed unemployment. i think you will see continued conversion. >> the compromise on the derivatives language, was that a concern? >> i believe there will be a majority. there were some people, five or six, who voted from left. i sympathize with many of our democratic colleagues who are thoughtful people. the amendment as adopted moves in that direction. one concern i have with the amendment of senator lincoln was what we called inappropriate application for advisability. we heard complaints and have modified that. we have a strong code of conduct. there are some other things that some will vote no against but i a

will often do is higher an outside group like acorn, a community-based organization, and they will bostoned gun, protesters, who will protest charter schools in general at a particular school. they make a number of arguments about charter school. as a charter schools only succeed because the house small class sizes, even though we have classes of 29 children, or the was a charter schools do not educate special education kids. that will say that a charter school goes into a building, at that class size would triple, even though the schools are incredibly under unrolled. it is a national chronicle. if you're a charter school operator in in the state, you will find that the opposition comes from unions and from democratic local officials. >> what is the reason the unions do not want charter schools? >> there is a turf war going on. the public education system has existed the way that it does now since just after world war i. and that is a lot of time. and the union has had a monopoly over for that amount of time. if you become a teacher and a public school system in new york city, you're aut

. >> larry: but a friend of mine saw you in boston the night they found that the balloon boy thing was a hoax and the kid didn't go up, and he said you did 20 minutes on the balloon boy. >> yeah. >> larry: you couldn't have planned that. >> no, no, i come out of second city, i ad lib.. my whole show, the first 10, 15 minutes is just -- i can't wait to get on now and talk about helen thomas, because i'm so angry, as a jew. last time i saw her, she was dating hitler, i figured she would be -- >> larry: you just said she did the answer voice for mel gibson. >> i wrote that already on my twitter. >> larry: hey, the movie is "a piece of work." it opens wide today. after so many years of success, joan still cares what critics think. we're going to ask about why they matter, next. oh, phillips' colon health probiotic plus fiber. how's it work? ok, she's gas. he's constipation... why am i constipation? ...he's diarrhea. and our special fiber helps our probiotics so that you can show those symptoms who's in charge. this isn't even my floor. [ elevator bell dings ] once we were dreamers. adventu

host: boston, mass., and the pan . caller: -- independent line.ler: [unintelligible] guest: i think the caller for the question. i am not a lawyer. there are many people that are not lawyers that have been pronounced in an international law. i cannot tell you regarding the deportation regarding citizens -- it is best that they reported. the caller said that they looked at this in international waters. this has become this was a violation of international law. i do not believe, based on the conversation that the location is the issue. it is whether israel is at war with hamas. the israelis believe that they are and they are well within national law to interject this flotilla. others believe that the gaza strip, despite the israeli withdrawal remains under occupatioo. this flotilla, as a result, was there illegally in the blockade. the problem is that everybody has a point. it depends on which international lawyer and you are talking to where you will get one opinion or another. host: the here is what our twitter comment is. guest: i think the israe

terms of how close you have to be to the damage, say, an example i read today where a travel agent in boston might say, well, wait a minute, i'm losing money because i had some tourists who were going to go to louisiana who now can't go because of the oil spill. give us some feel for that. >> i think it's going to be a question of proximity. professor hall is right. it's going to have to be sorted out in litigation. it's going to be fairly straightforward and easy to have claims processed for people who are geographically chres to the spill, who can show a direct nexus to how the spill has affected the way that they make their livelihood or personal injury. as you spread out further in time and location, that ripple is going to get harder and harder to prove. that's where a lot of litigation will probably be the most fierce. unfortunately it's not something that we've had a lot of case law on yet to give us a bright line on. >> lehrer: what about the record from the exxon valdez spill ? what happened then? >> kpan valdez, we actually had litigation on the tort claim that stretched on for up

1811, ran the mississippi rivers -- mississippi river backwards for at least races, rang bells in a boston church. i'll never forget when i was in arkansas, governor clinton and i were talking and we need to pass some seismic building legislation for arkansas. and, you know, we worked with the legislators and got that legislation passed for seismic building codes for eastern arkansas. and i thought one day, arkansas highway department, we were over in eastern arkansas and they were building a lot of bridges, you know? i came back, and i said, you know, we need to have seismic building codes for those new buildings, the highway department building, because if all those bridges collapse, how are we going to get relief supplies to those people when something happens? and so i recommended to the highway commission and them to talk to california and get their building codes for the highways and bridges and so forth, and they did that. but from northridge earthquake, we spent just fema, spent $20 billion in that recovery effort in california. then in 1995, we had the oklahoma city bombing. which

per student than they do any place or in boston. >> i think the money is really important in some respects i think it's sort of a red herring. balk, like you say, if you break it down per pupil it doesn't seem to lead to higher or lower outcomes. i mean, of course like i think teachers should be paid more, particularly the best ones and i think there's always room for more spending, but i think it's more about effective spending than about needing more money. >> who gets the most upset about eva and why? >> i don't know if i could answer that question. i mean, we saw a lot of people that were upset by her. i think she has a long-standing relationship with randy wine garten who is the president of the united federation of teachers at the time when eva was chairing the education committee. and it sounds like the uft was hearing's that eva was holding with regards to school performance. and all the contracts related to teachers and custodians and principals. and so my understanding is that the union actually ran somebody against eva when she ran for borough president and ended up losing. >> a

they beat the boston celtics in game seven last night.portuguese novelist jose saramago died today at his home in the canary islands. he published his first works in 1997. one of his best known booked, "blindness" was made into a movie. he was 87. those are some of the day's major stories. now back to jim. >> lehrer: we return to central asia now where the violence in krygyzstan is abating. judy woodruff has our story. >> woodruff: the intermim president of krygyzstan made her first visit today to the stricken city of osh since violence erupted. roza otunbayeva said 2,000 people may have been killed. 10 times earlier estimates. >> ( translated ): by all means, we have to give hope that we shall restore the city, return all the refugees and create all the conditions for that. i think the entire world will be helping us because we have the good will to live in peace and friendship together. >> woodruff: osh sits near the border with uzbekistan. gangs of kyrgyz men stormed minority uzbek neighborhoods. 400,000 people fled the violence taking

frances jensen at children's hospital in boston. and she's making significant progress.er team is developing the first medicines designed specifically for newborns, whose growing brains are particularly susceptible to seizures. >> jensen: some of the epilepsies that affect babies, they don't respond to adult drugs, so the seizures don't get corrected. the brain development, in the more severe cases, gets affected. >> couric: dr. jensen's method for developing new drugs involves actual epileptic brain tissue, which she can keep alive for several hours, enough time for her to experiment with different medications. >> jensen: this cell coming out of a human patient, you can see, is having an epileptic seizure. >> couric: she's testing a new anti-convulsant drug and, at least in the lab, it worked. >> jensen: we can see that we've stopped brain activity in this case. >> couric: this seems like a eureka drug. is it? >> jensen: well, it is a prototype drug. so, in this case, it worked. >> couric: but no one medication will ever treat the more than 25 different types of seizure

he's a former boston globe recorder, on the "the huffington post," which you've also wwitten forr >> prior to that says that manye are so disappointing things -- he says you're both hardcore libeeall. put all thht into context for us. >> i'm not sure hhw to put it into context. gary and i had long arguments about this. gary wrote a book about this called "the perfect villain" in which he tried to make the argument that jack abramoff was wrongly accused, shouldn't have gone to jail, and fundamentally didn't do anything terribly wrong. and i just disagree. in terms of was it objective or balanced, i think you have to say that, you know, a lot of sides were represented in this. tom delay is interviewed for the film. bob ney is interviewed for the film. neil volz is interviewed for the film. i went out to the marianas. pue schmidt, who helped to break the whole monica lewinsky scandal is interviewed for the film. this is not like a packet of liberals ganging up on republicans. it's just the opposite. it's actually more or less from the inside-out of the republican party. and i did i thin

montclair, new jersey, yonkers, new york, manhattan, boston and further south to arlington, virginia. one defendant remains at large. the case is a result of a multiyear investigation by numerous government agencies, including the f.b.i. and to take a closer look, we turn to mark hosenball, investigative correspondent for "newsweek" magazine and glen howard the president of the jamestown foundation which focuses on terrorism and intelligence issues in russia and other countries. welcome to both of you. mark, what can you tell us about the people involved and what they were doing? >> these are a set of apparently four apparently married couples, long-term russian , illegal, penetration agents who came to the united states literally pretending... very well schooled, very well trained in espionage. their russians. their job was to infiltrate the united states and establish themselves as americans essentially or fake americans. and then to go around not actually stealing american secrets but rather looking for people that they could refer to moscow who then would be recruiteded to steal s

greaterpossibility, and from spicious activity behavior perspective as opposed to having a larger gro flying from boston logan on the two hts they decided to have four go fromportland, maine, to look less suspicious screening is a key pt of this. >> let m ask you about scening and special the issue of bod imaging. >> s. >> have you seen the examples of the most sophisticated body imaging? and give me ur evaluion of that in the context of being husband, a fatr, a citizen, d also in the conte o being someone who wants to see everything about anybody that goes on an airplane in order to keep a weaponffer that plane. >> you've hit on tha nsion, the dynamic thetsa and government is dealing with. i have had a demonstration of the screening equipment, and the privacyteps that are currently employed obviously hav a screener who never seeserson reviewing the image in a separate room. th person who is physically engaging the passeng never sees that image and thatmage is deleted immediately after that pson is cleared. so there are privacyish -- privacy safeguards built in that being said, some people are concerned

she is a graduate -- attended smith college, and finished at boston university. this is a message with the question -- guest: i think they're quite different situations. the cuban blockade happened at a different point in history. our cuban politics of very complicated because they are emotional, have strong domestic constituencies here in the u.s. who believe that our embargo of cuba is essential to take down the castro government. during the clinton administration we tried to allow more humanitarian business, more remittances to go back, to allow people to go and visit were steady in an effort to help the cuban people understand there was a wider world. that everything caster was telling them was not true. the bush administration closed that capability. president obama tried to open it more, but right now we have an embargo that is part of law, was said during the clinton administration with legislation from the congress. host: our next guest is from tucson, arizona. caller: good morning. i wanted you to say -- the biggest thing i see concerning north korea and

brian bender is a staff writer for "the boston globe." mr. bender, how big was this file on senator kennedy and what was the most surprising thing? >> what they released yesterday was about 2200 pages. that covers primarily 1961 through 1985. it is not the whole file. there is more to come. this was just the first release. i guess the biggest surprise is probably just the sheer number and constant flurry of death threats against them, basically from the 1960's, from what we understand, until he died. lots of them were from anonymous people who wrote threatening letters but many of them or also considered more serious plots. for example, the fbi investigated reports that serb hands sir hand -- sirhan sirhan tried to hire someone to kill ted kennedy. the constant flurry. the guy who lived under the threat of violent death for most of his violent life. host: what other areas that the file talk about what to say? politics, if you could? guest: certainly you get a little bit more of a peek into the relationship within that kennedy family, this pol

icc had a forum in boston. i really am impressed with low of engagement and given competing priorities, i think it's terrific. we have had a terrific partner. >> is it right to have these type of discussions? is the devotion -- is it evolution? >> i think we are seeing that than i am pleased with that. they will pass and it was funded this year so there are dedicated resources given to federal agencies including fbi and ice. there is funding through the justice department through assistance for state and local i.p. task forces. all that suggests very positive for the future in improving our collective efforts. it takes some time to get people educated and to focus their resources on it. we have to do the same thing with judges in the courts. this is not something that should be treated lightly. >> is there an awareness campaign that has been launched to let the public know that counterfeiting on the internet, fragrances, hair-care products, that that is directly linked to organized crime and terrorism? >> one o

. >> boston but very much, mr. klein. -- >> thank you very much, mr. klein. you have been summarizing in your statement about taking the schools and turning them into smaller schools. i want to come back to that. please proceed. >> thank you for this opportunity to appear before you. at new visions for public schools, we have focused on school reform work in new york city for the last 20 years. for the last 10 years, we have been closely engaged in turnaround work. i will go into a little bit of detail. our experience has led us to think in terms of a continuance of school transformation possibilities. for the consistently low was performing in schools in new york, the only approach that has been successful was school closure and phase out over time. this approach was pioneered in the late 1990's, and it has been continued under mayoral control since then. since 2002, we'll try to reform the two large feeling i schools -- large failing high-school, and that turnaround effort ended in failure. i think it is important to note the history of turnaround efforts n

boston globe: filibuster halts bill-boosting jobless benefits, aid to states. mcclatchy newspaper: g.o.p. blocks jobless extension. "usa today" senate bill again blocks job extension and tax breaks. those tax breaks were for middle-class americans. seattle times: republicans continue blocking a federal aid bill. the republicans in the senate have made the decision to do everything they can to turn the country upside down to, do everything they can to stop any economic recovery because they think it may help barack obama. it may help some of their people trying to run for senate seats around the country. so they fure as bad as they can make the economy, the better off they will be. that's a pretty difficult view for people who are united states senators. the presiding officer is a senator from the state of oregon, and that is your prime responbility, is to take care of their state. but also as a united states senator have toe concerned with what goes on in the other 49 states. that's our job, our role. that's the way we were cotitutionally designated. the bill t

he is a graduate of boston university.l receive the patriot award from the vietnam veterans memorial fund, and we will ask admiral mullen and i to hold it as we get a tooth dwanye -- as we get it -- give it to dwayne jackson. [applause] >> good afternoon, fellow veterans, and the many friends of veterans. freedom is not free. freedom is not free. we have our man in women overseas today -- our men and women overseas today for our freedoms. i want to take a moment to reflect about my mother who was a wac in world war ii. [applause] fort bragg, 1941 -- although she is not with me here today, i know she is looking down and saying, thank you, dwanye, thank you america for what we hold dear and our country today. what i did that day was nothing unusual. i saw something, i said something, and fortunately i am here today to talk about it. [applause] we dodged a bullet that day, may 1, many people from the new york city police department and the fire department. new york has been ground zero for the last 10 or 15 years. unfortunate

some of the best speeches that i have ever listened to and/or read come from the legendary mayor of boston, james michael curly. curly spoke with great empathy about the forgotten man. those individuals who for whatever reason have found them steffs outside of the mainstream of economic life. he also would suggest that in simplestity that the great anal identicaler of civilization is a full stomach. we need to be reminded of that with the grim statistics that america is currently witnessing. also another big important reminder here i think we all ought to recall. in october of 2008, in record time, this house voted to come to the aid of wall street. it didn't take us long with the troubled asset relief program to keep standing many of those institutions that helped create the job that we find ourselves currently in. why is that relevant? there are millions of people across this country who have simply found themselves without work. what does that do to an individual who has spent a career and after 30 years finds the job is gone? and we treat them as though they are simply a statistic afte

about the project where we developed a working group of -- working group to try to tackle violence in boston. it became a problem of homicides. they attacked that more specific problem. that reduced youth homicide. we need to specifically define problems, the profits must be dated driven, the solutions must be focused and assessments on going. we can't apply all of these tenants to product counterfeiting. our approach to developing the database is to use those established tenants to build a data set that we can use to conduct analysis. we started compiling information on u.s. related cases back to 2000 drawing on the open-source literature. we do not claim that this is the only database out there. we learned today about other databases that are collected. these are usually done by organizations based on their own collections and for their own use. what makes this unique, it is based on open-source information and allows us to have a set of data we can analyze for the public good. as an example of linking this together, one of the cases in our database involves a sophisticated pharmaceutical

host: the next call comes to us from boston on the republican line, good morning.aller: i was a soldier in africa and what i have learned is that you can never win. our soldiers killed in the battle there were being killed by the people [unintelligible] therefore, who are we fighting for? [unintelligible] the trend is that the and men unemployed in the united states [unintelligible] when are we going to count our losses and get out? host: which is one of the questions that general patraeus will get today. guest: there is a lot in your question. i welcome you as a new citizen. what you have described in the first part of your question was an insurgency, and what has to happen, as mao said, to fight an insurgency, you must separate the fish from the sea in which it swims. in other words, the people. those farmers that are normal in the day and playing ied's at night, we have to convince them that is the wrong way. and that is a hard slog. karzai, i believe, because of the withdrawal of discussion is attempting to get the best deal he can with the pakistanis and with

including merit-based pay for teachers, incentivizing and mentors, we will have to think outside of boston and understand is all our communities get involved. we have to reform education if we want to see any changes in the inequities in this state -- as a substitute teacher, the money ought to be in the classrooms. but do not be fooled. we continue to hear about money for it if you don't put discipline back in the classroom and give parents in these struggles back engage in their child behavior and their child's education, you never fix the education system. we have schools that are great. their schools better filled with parents that are engaged -- go to other schools and they cannot make you work no matter how much money you pour into them. my right hand man graduate from the worst schools in the country. like me, he came from what could -- a poor home. his mother decided that education was first and foremost and he got it done. >> congressman and first graders at a lot and common. no child should leave the third grade hatter about third grade education. that is a long-term goal and we

i was a boston globe reporter in the washington bureau and ken was working for senator edward kennedy and his legislative staff in the 1970's. can is here for a very different reason. his career in the last two decades really this bruce the assumption that lawyers go into law because they cannot do math. in fact, it can has done the opposite and made a career out of working with a rather important numbers. most visibly, i think the administration of the september 11 claims fund, but he has had numerous other experiences with similar kinds of funds. he was the administrator for the virginia tech fund and even before september 11, have been involved in other funds . he was able to figure route how to administer all of that in a fair handed an even-handed way. that has led to his two most recent assignments. one prior to a couple weeks ago, he came to be known as the executive pay is our -- czar. he was the secretary for special compensation in which he was looking at the issues related to executive compensation of various institutions being bailed out and whether there was a need to lim

. >> chicago, new york, boston where my kids go to school in washington, d.c. we worship at the alter of the alter of equity and fairness deep deen down, we know a classroom of 25 kids in a high poverty neighborhood has different needs from a classroom of 25 kids who have two college educated parents, their own internet and a house hold of books. except for special needs children, you could argueablely give that higher economically level classroom even fewer resources and the standardized test scores won't change much at all. by third grade, better off kids are three years ahead of minority kids. i can't tell you the number of education conferences i've been to where this data is reported instead of everybody saying, stop for a second. third grade, how are they three years ahead? instead of that being sort of a stop the music moment -- well, i won't call it what i it's a stunning moment. instead, it's reported as another data set and we move on. the more household ib come, the homework, and they get read to and encouraged to read. the higher an income, the more

host: boston, democratic line. caller: good morning. i wanted to ask about the stimulus package. was something not put in their about them having an energy proposal? also, obama was elected to do big things. that is why people voted for him. i think that you have downplayed the other things he has not accomplished. health care, education, and energy. i think that people get the wrong idea about the stimulus package. much of that money went to the states. they did whatever they wanted without money. that is the fault of the state, not the federal government. host: she talked about money in the stimulus for alternative energy. guest: i do not recall an amendment. there was a weather is asian motion -- weatherization lotion. the administration's problem with the stimulus bill is that it was sold as keeping unemployment from rising above 8%. unemployment quickly went to 10%. not necessarily the president's fault. presidents get blamed for this all the time, but this has been his problem there. the media has clearly not downplayed education, but so far the american people are not sold

larger school districts that contained a great extremes of poverty and wealth, chicago, new york, boston, washington d.c., we worship at the altar of the god of equity and fairness by the finding all the kids in signed an urban system the same way, even though deep down, we know that it cost of 25 kids in a high poverty neighborhood has very different needs from a cost of 25 who have to college- educated parents, their own internet equipped computer, a house full of books, magazine subscriptions, and so on. except for special needs children, you could arguably give that higher socioeconomic level of classroom in an urban public school even fewer resources and the standardized test scores would not change very much at all. talk to receive your to conclude that by third grade, better off kids are three years ahead of minority kids. i cannot tell you the number of education congress is i have been to where this daaa is reported seriously and moved on instead of everybody saying, stop for a second. third grade? how are they three years ahead by third grade? instead of that being a stopped th

he fought really hard for the state's street and a couple of custodial banks based in boston and that was related to the volcker rule. when he was doing that, i heard that some new york senators, senator gillbran was looking at the issue and sort of involved in the discussion but she wasn't really such a strong voice in the debate. so i haven't really, not that much. host: what a custodian bank? guess guess great question. i've asked that myself after couple of times. but a kus doed ya'll bank is not the type of banking we understand typically. the commercial banks that lend out loans or not a message bank that under writes security. custodian banks keep the securities assets of mutual funds and other institutional investors like pension funds that deposit that managg our savings and that you know, they do the back office for those funds, so they really, it's not their own deposit or their own assets they hold, but the pension funds and other institutional investors. that's what they do. host: doug. republican, virginia. please go ahead. caller: guess my question was answered about fa

however, after i wrote a story that ran on a wire monday, i did get a call from someone up in the bostonrea who mentioned the same thing. i do not know if that means anything. host: brunswick, maine, on our independent line. jack, go ahead. caller: i have a question. to in the government will be responsible for overseeing what they are using the drums for? will be -- will we leave -- will we be looking out our windows in the interest of nafta -- national security? guest: there are privacy concerns. i do not think that any of the permissions for the aircraft that are flying so far have generated those kinds of concerns. most of them are being limited in their activities to areas that do not have a lot of air traffic for population. people are raising concerns that in the future when you have some of these other kinds of activities with drones and unmanned aircraft, law enforcement, where do you draw the line? will they have infrared cameras? there are so many useful and possible societal benefits that you can see and people are really excited about them. at the same time, there are all ki

host: boston, independent line. matt, good morning. caller: good morning. my call, and thank you for c-span. i guess i'm calling just to vent my frustrations, because i look up to your guest and get her feedback. i graduated with a degree in biology with the intent to go into wildlife ecology and conservation. but, you know, it's really hard to get a job in that field. and i pretty much had to go into biotech, even though that's not really where my heart lies. and i don't know, that's one aspect of it. i'm just calling to, you know, express my frustration, mainly with the government in terms of response. it's kind of, you know, knowing that all these conservation jobs, where the vast majority are shared between nonprofits and government, it's really and government, it's really disheartening to see the response of the government, the lack of response, and, you know, the lack of urgency, and it really puts a bad taste in my mouth, in my mind on, you know, do people care about this? is there urgency in this? there really doesn't seem to be. there doesn't seem

that is why we travelled from portland to boston to florida to ask people, whether they were in recovery or treatment or prevention programs, what should be in there. we think some of the very smart collaboration's, not trying to start out brand new building on federally qualified health centers that already exist, to help and do a better job when it comes to prevention. we will work through it. host: this is a telephone call from oliver on the independent line. caller: good morning. actually, it is from yarmouth, massachusetts. my comment is on the prescription drug problem. the drug problem in this country, at a number of decades, i considered it a big problem. but as of late, i would say in the last decade, the prescription drugs have really become a huge problem. i mean, i see all sorts of people that have had problems with oxycontin, oxycodone. these are opiates. i cannot believe that our government is not taking greater steps because this is not a drug gang war criminal enterprise selling these things, this is doctors releasing them onto the streets. how can it be allowed? we have

i was listening to sports radio in boston, and i feel that there is some fair criticism that the standardrts fan in america can make. for example, i read an article in the "new york times. it said cheers in the world. my response was, you cannot hear the cheers. if i am a sports fan, and i am thinkinggabout the nba finals and the stanley cup playoffs, and i'd turn it over to uruguay- france, and i see the lack of scoring. guest: thank you. please. i am tivo-ing the argentine he mentioned the horns. they give you an amazing headache. this is an issue where there is political subtext. these courts are blown by south african masses. the world governing body of soccer has been reluctant to intervene. they are worried about it seemed like they are colonialist it or that they are being condescending to the south african fans that made this an integral part of their culture of fandom. they give me a headache, to be quite honest. he mentioned the year why-france game, -- the iroquois-france game, which was a snooze there. when you play 63 games over the course of a tournament, you will get bad ga

present obama's owe -- she les in public housing in boston. she came to the united states in 2000 we don't know necsarily how she got intthe ines whether it was some type of va, tourist orhat it might have been, but she stayed. and alonabout the year 202, she became the focus of the immigration law enforcement personnel. by 2004, she had -- his aunt had been adjudicated fo deportation by an imgration judge. well, she defied the deimportanttion order, stayed in the united states reportedly on publ benefits and don't ow h she did that that's what thne has reported. but not at long ago, after her nephew becameresident, she received asylum. now, asylum in this case, is the equivalent of amnesty for an individual, mr. speaker. so zatuni, president obama's aunt, if sheonored the deportation order, stuckund here and couldn't be deported and was not forcibly taken out ofhe united stes, she defied the orr and rerded with the objtive of her crime. remember when i said the deinition of amnesty is to pardon imgracious law brkers and reward them. coming in

i was a boston globe reporter in the washington bureau and ken was working for senator edward kennedyand his legislative staff in the 1970's. can is here for a very different reason. his career in the last two decades really this bruce the -- disproves the assumption that lawyers go into law because they cannot do math. in fact, it can has done the -- can has done the doneken -- ken has done the opposite and made a career out of working with a rather important numbers. most visibly, i think the administration of the september 11 claims fund, but he has had numerous other experiences with similar kinds of funds. he was the administrator for the virginia tech fund and even before september 11, have been involved in other funds. he was able to figure route how to take a complex litigation and compensation money and figure out how to administer all of that in a fair handed an even- handed way. that has led to his two most recent assignments. one prior to a couple weeks ago, he came to be known as the executive pay is our -- czar. he was the secretary for special compensation in which he w

that money paid for advertisements making the case that putting a boston -- businesswomen in the offices the only solution to their fiscal problems. then came the attack ads that painted her as a liberal on immigration. let's go to texas where canada is on our democrats line. on our- where anna is democrats lines. caller: what motivates me to vote? the fact that i lost two nephews in iraq and who will be going to afghanistan. i feel like if you have a criminal -- if you have a criminal mind, especially minorities when you do not get out and vote when you have the right to vote. if we deny ourselves the right to vote one day it that will be taken from us. and nobody can complain. thank you. host: let's go to kansas. john, republicans line. hi, john, are you with us? welcome. go ahead. what motivates you to vote in primaries? caller: hopefully they find the right person to run in the general election. i was curious. i've a question about your programming. host: ok. caller: why do you almost always start with democrats, followed by independents, followed by republicans? host: it is to get