one last shot for brian lamb. he gets the last word, as always! good. [laughter] >> all right. . [laughter] i'll listen to it later. he thinks, i mean, we don't tell anybody -- are we still going on here? >> no. i think we're off at -- >> all right, look. at some point, they've got to turn the cameras off, right? [laughter] anyhow, this is brian lamb, he said that we don't tell people, he's reading e-mails. people think that that's the way he always talks. >> well, it is. [laughter] >> brian lamb's a vulgar man! no, no,

hey, that was brian lamb. he was not watching at the top of the show.will go back and watch it on tape. how many times do we need him -- needle him? i think that he was afraid to watch the top of the show. >what is the update? illinois? right? we can use both of those in washington state. >> yes. host: ok. alaska. >> we did not get the audio. host: i like that. >> let's do it. host: yes. >> we could probably sneak some calls and. host: i would like to do elvis. >> let's do it. three minutes and we are back. host: 21 to get into -- do we want to get into -- what time do we want to get out? >> at the 20. host: we need to do a little more than just an update. >> i think you can probably sneak some calls in. host: yes, yes. we could probably take two calls. host: i want to get in that -- for outside, we're focused on the comment, right? >> yes, i think so. >host: and whether you can negotiate with this guy? >> thanks for holding, your first name? >> you already have some calls holding. host: ok, all right. let's stick with those in the first segment. the ot

caller: brian lamb wrote a letter to congress, not to president obama, regarding transparency. citizens united, we can forget about transparency. tom scully was on c-span and stated that medadvantage was a failure and no politician would ever admit it. president obama did. third, the hhs secretary under bush came from the leavitt's grew out of utah, the 12th largest -- levvit's group out of utah. -- 12th largest insurance company. if you look at your health insurance in 2000 and looked at your insurance in 2008, yet in your market-driven economy, market-driven health care, he wants a price now. i would like to know the price of a gallon of gasoline -- what to know the price of a gallon of gasoline would be next year. could you tell me? guest: i have no way to respond to that. host: richmond, va., on our democratic line. caller: good morning. that lady before me hit every point absolutely correctly. the gentleman you had on earlier talked about health care. the republicans have spent the last two years schering older people. the country -- schering older people. the country is a

this is a letter signed by brian lamb, written sued john boehner and a copy was sent to nancy pelosi, steny lawyer, eric cantor, and greg walden, chairing the transition team. the next zero call goes to florida on the democratic line. we are talking about transparency. if caller: first of all, that is an excellent letter you all are sending. i hope they respond to it. my suggestion for transparency is to do the same thing we did in florida. we enacted the sunshine act. that sunshine act requires when two or more officials made and speak about any government business, that they have to be out and opened. it has to be recorded. it works very well in florida. they should consider it in washington. host: we will go back to the l'enfant plaza hotel. busy. people are starting to gather and coming out with books and other pamphlets as they head to capitol hill. freshman orientation against around 9:00 a.m.. there will be meeting in the capital of visitors center, the new section of congress. this hotel is a few blocks from where we are here, as new members of congress come to washington for

caller: if brian lamb were catholic, i think we would make him a state. i voted the straight democratic ticket in the recent election. it is the first time in my life i have done that. prior to this time, i have been a republican throughout my life. i think the two take away messages from this election are, number one, attack ads work. number 2, there are enormous for sale signs over our white house and over our congress in washington. it is a shame. i changed because of guys like mitch mcconnell who, for 30 years, has been representing the tobacco industry in congress. now we have equally sinister special interests like the banking industry wants to avoid any kind of reform. the insurance companies and the health-care industry want to avoid any kind of change in obamacare, and it is just really pathetic that hundreds of millions of dollars are being spent by corporations to remain anonymous and who, the amount of their contributions are unknown to us. guest: there was a big debate after the citizens united ruling from the supreme court, and the republica

where is brian lamb? >> five minutes. go keep this going. >> well, two things.i take pride in the fact that we are a nation that is a diverse culturally, politically, and in every way. i think that is wonderful. i grew up in a cable television age along with the new york times and "wall street journal" and all that. yes. corrupt also. some of the early, you know, brilliant articles. >> question. >> question is first of all, the biggest -- my biggest complaint or my biggest not the -- question. >> is, and as to this, why do we -- why do we call -- think of the tea party as an organization that has any fundamental belief or issues? as far as i can tell that to party is just a radical group of people who are very, very unhappy and range from moderate. >> we get the question. simple answer, bill and john should speak to it. they have three or four core principles they articulated. large numbers of people responded to reducing the debt or reducing spending or returning to what they call core principles. that's what politics is about. >> the idea, we don't want to jus