dupuy says the relief efforts in brooklyn have been slow to get started. >> the haitian community istill in shock, and that shock has interfered with the proper organization of the relief effort. >> reporter: as civic, church, and government forces link up and get organized, mathieu eugene is likely to be in the middle of it all. he's the first haitian-born member elected to new york's city council. >> it is my moral obligation not only to serve as the new york city council but also to use everything in my power to empower the community. >> suarez: while brooklyn's haitians anxiously wait for word to trickle out and pull together the aid to head in, another major american haitian community is waiting for word and getting to work 1,100 miles to the south in florida. more than 200,000 haitians and haitian americans live in florida. many call the orlando area home. >> reporter: one of the point- men for coordinating a response is laurent prosper, the chief of mission at the haitian consulate in orlando. >> to have the central area destroyed, it's going to be very difficult. >> reporter:

brooklyn-born lipe doussou hasn't been able tfind out anhing about family members its beenough on hisaitian- born pents. >> it's been very diicult for my parents. my parents have stayed up fo24 hours waing for some feedback. >> reporter: today, dio soleil has been broadsting the signal from a sister statn in haiti bringingour after hour of news from the seets of port au prince ta brooklyn hungry for information. sitting calmly in thcenter of the chs is radio soleils ricot dupuy-- his ll phone ringing constantly. duy says the relief efforts in brooklyn have be slow to get started. >> the haitian communitys still in shock, and that sck has interfer with the proper organizationf the relief effort. >> reporter: as civic, churc and government forces link u and get organized, mathieu eugene is kely to be in the middle of it all. he's the first htian-born member elected to w york's city council. >> iis my moral obligation not only to see as the new york city council but ao to use everythi in my power to empor the community. >> srez: while brooklyn's haitians anxiously waifor word torickle ou

this is the 9/11 chapter which we express in the skin of a catholic priest in brooklyn. but we don't just a within that community because it is brooklyn and its new york and everyone is in new york. he is a great lens to sort of show everything that happens. it's a parish that loses several people in 9/11. within the towers and in the fields and in the plains and then there's this very startled discovery in the world trade center that connects this church and connects to the history of the very first arab colony in the united states which was known as little syria, which the remains of which are buried under the entrance of the battery park to. in the last chapter is come and i will read into that come is about the second invasion of iraq in 2003. i feel like fort hood is so important that we realize that both muslim and arab-americans have been part of the service for better or worse. because we never know about their experiences are we never hear about them, there's this massive vacuum into which the actions of one person can sort of come to speak for everybody and we

he's running through the streets of brooklyn looking for his wife and he can't find her. all of the debris from the centers is falling on top of him and she decides she wants to enlist because he wants to fight whoever did this to his city and instead he finds himself in iraq and like many other soldiers who don't know why they are in iraq and the not afghanistan he decides to focus on seeing to it that everybody knows and that he tried with comes alive in one piece and where he can doing things to help iraqi civilians so this is from his tractor, the second scene. he leaves for iraq without telling his wife, she thinks that he's just reporting for his regular sort of training duties and because he can't bear to say goodbye to her, you know, with a knowing he's leaving and maybe never coming back. in the early sun rise hours of april 11th, 2003, 3 weeks after the americans had invaded iraq and are being shot out abraham and his partner and counter intelligence quote, something happened on the bridge with the platoon." abraham is also declining to the passenger side of the

she was a brooklyn trotskyist -- she was visiting paris -- bidinotto sylvia. mccotter menard arrived in new york in the fall of 1939 now using the name frank jackson, a canadian businessman. that was his new identity. silvia of new about this as a front and decided to go along with it for her own reasons. she had no idea what she was up to no idea he belonged to the nkvd. he maneuvered sylvia down to mexico city and used her to incinerate himself into trotsky's household. he claimed to be a heavy financial supporter of the french trotskyist in paris. of course by the summer of 1940 there is no way to verify this, there's no way to contact the french trotskyist because they are on the run from the invading germans. the outbreak of the world war which really starts, it was made possible by the nazis soviet pact of august, 1939 struck a big blow against trotsky and his followers in new york city. new york city being at this time the center of the international trotsky movement. certainly wasn't to paris at this point. although i see the center of the movement and

they got him in another predawn raid in the case that became known as the brooklyn college 19. he was the young man. cops came in for the windows come up with the door down early in the morning. these kids with no record were sent to rockers island and there were all trumped up charges, bsc lindh in fact another target like the panthers and another target of black student unions across the country. a lot of them had police informants. some of this was a result of the panther connection but not all of that. this was seen as another source of charismatic leadership that could be very profitable and have a lot of potential so this was 69, 1968 and 1969 was the heyday for panthers and also the beginning of the blacks did movement in high schools and colleges around the country, not the beginning of another phase that was very influential and connected. >> prexy, of given two of the most powerful international influences on the panthers at this time. >> do you want to go first? [laughter] >> prexy, you go first. >> i think that was a very important one, and that was the vietnam war

back to you. >> david lee miller, live in brooklyn, new york. thanks. the job market is stabilizing. still the labor department today released some sobering numbers for last month. coming up we'll get a live report on the response. bottom of the hour headlines straight away. >>> i'm shepard smith. this is the fox report. it's the bottom of the hour. time for the top of the news. a new dilemma for the united states in the war on al-qaeda. the radical imam linked to the christmas day airline bombing attempt happens to be an american citizen. he's also been tied to the fort hood massacre in one way or another, and two 9-11 hijackers. now fox news has learned that the united states has targeted him with at least one air strike. at the same time, it's putting the confessed 9-11 mastermind who is not a citizen, on trial. katherine was the top story at the bottom of the hour live in washington tonight. >> reporter: the operation targeting the american cleric is one the white house is reluctant to discuss publicly. >> complicated by intelligence matters. >> rep

host: next in brooklyn. go ahead. caller: susie, i bet -- host: ok.ight behind you is union station. guest: as you know, the american red cross was founded by clara barton who brought together women from the north and south. we have a long history we have a long line of women in the battlefields during the civil war. obama noted that the first winner of the nobel peace prize was the found shall of the red cross. host: and your mother? guest: my mother was a vol untier during world war ii. she drove the ambulance and took soldiers to the various hospitals. host: this twitter question. how slt red cross helping in haiti prior to the earth earthquake? guest: that's a good question. we had workers there prior to the earth earthquake doing hiv and aides work. many are there who have left their homes still working and helping the people of haiti. host: next from chicago. caller: good morning. listen, my understanding of people's aggression toward the lady here, people don't understand the anger towards washington is about money never getting where it needs

authorities nabbed a man after a car accident yesterday he is set to appear in a brooklyn court todayhis former classmate pled not guilty to lying to the fbi. if you ever needed proof that the u.s. is in a war against terrorism there's a video tape from the grave from the man believed to have killed seven cia employees in a suicide bomb attack. the jordanian doctor who was operating as a double agent called on other jihaddists to follow his lead. could the see the once held by senator kennedy be filled by a one day? there's a poll showing the race is tightening. more on these stories in 10 miss. >> to the closed door health care huddle the president and democrats scrambling to get a bill one weeks. meanwhile, are lawyering up to kill it. jonathan, you usually don't like lawyers but you are loving them now, what is going on? >> because what they keep calling health reform has disintegrated into mob rule. this country is anything goes as long as you can get votes. powers are government are supposed to be limited. by the fact they are requiring to you buy health insurance not because you

work as an academic was on a white backlash, and i found it much harder dealing with vigilante's in brooklyn who firebombed the homes of black people moving in. i'm working with antibossing people and i would be interviewing people who would say after i've been vetted they thought i was a "new york times" reporter or fbi once they figured out i was a stand-up guy, there's a stand-up guy, you can talk to him even if he is some ivy league jerk you can trust him. he doesn't talk. he's a stand-up guy and then people stop me and say you want to find out -- last before we thought about the negro's. and i had done a whole interview with this guy. come back, and i will tell you what i think about the niggers, we can open a bottle of liquor and talk about the women. you talk about the politics and complexity comes house somehow sitting down with sophisticated people who've told their life stories like joseph lowery, andrew young, it wasn't so hard because i had a sort of -- i just felt as a student of race i've studied caribbean black conflict in brooklyn. i just think -- i never felt light mist as a

>> precisely, if you're in borough park or brooklyn -- >> because of what's happening in the middle east this could change, very interestingly, yes yet. >> i am measured because the "rabbit" books to a degree because people came to love him -- some did, not everybody but people look at me sadly and say "how could you have killed him?" it is my duty as a novelist to see him through. i thought that kind of man might well come to an early end -- a lot of ex-athletes i have known develop heart trouble. it's a penalty. you use your body hard at one point of your life. i had to see him to -- not quite the grave but the terminal hospital bed to makea saga of a man's life. this is a man's life. a life ends. rabbit's life had to end and i wanted to be there as a writer. >> charlie: was it sad for you when you wrote that? >> kind of a relief actually. i had been having heart pangs, and when i gave him the heart ailments they lifted off of me -- he carried them away for me. and toward the end there when he goes down to florida kind of half wanting to die, i felt, oddly, free. i felt myself getting

like, yo, this kid brought brooklyn to brazil and back to jersey. wasn't for this kid, this part of the world wouldn't know this side of the world. jazz would have never been around the world if the guys that started jazz never thought like that. i want to leave a legacy of culture, you know, musically. >> you're on the road to that. always good to see you brother. >> you, too. yes, sir. >>> wycliff's latest project is due out sometime in 2010. >>> feel like the dating pool is getting smaller? up next in our roundtable discussion, we'll talk about the rise of internet dating. back in a moment. >> we're not settling these days. so it's not just about us looking for men. it's about us lookg of person t to date, whether we choose to make you a friend or a partner. but this malibu is a best buy. 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. com

they got him on another predawn case the brooklyn college 19.again he was a young man and the cops came this window in the early morning, these kids were sent to rikers island for five days and there was trumped up charges. and, in fact, another target like the panthers, and other targets were black student unions across the country and very little is written about that. some of it was a result of the panther connection but not all of it. .. >> i can tell you one. that was a very important one. that was the vietnam one. and the relationship and clarity of resisting the vietnam war. the other one very briefly, i don't think a lot of people know how deep it really went. since i was involved in that, it was a very close relationship with the mozambique liberation front. the current president of mozambique talks to this day about meeting the leadership of the panther party over on the west side on madison avenue. he said to me not long ago, is there a monument on the west side of chicago? and i said there is no monument. i am just thinking one of th

you have to do what we like to say in brooklyn, scrapple at the apple. absolutely. you look at ways to go out there and hustle and make that money and one more very trite saying there should be no shame in your game. about if you have to be a baby-sitter though an executive, if you have to sell newspapers on the streets whatever you do to survive have pride if that because it is about survival making that money. >> jeff is right. there's a lot of project work out there today. people are holding out for the same job they had at same salary. you may have to attack a job at a lower salary but there's a lot of temporary work out there, too. >> that's right. >> take advantage of that stuff and think outside the box especially if you're not working. >> bottom line is if you give me $50, you take $10, go to amazon.com read how to start a weatherization company and take $40 and go to home depot and get a caulk gun you, can have one of the fastest growing companies for 50 bucks or less. these are the ideas to come up with me we have to be brave enough to dare to get into the

. >> reporter: a native of brooklyn, new york, he's amazed to see so much life returning to a bazaar that only months ago was empty of all but taliban fighters and drug smugglers. this was garmsir when u.s. marines we were embedded with tried to take the town in the spring of 2008. the marines say they have spotted the source of fire, now about 800 yards away and there are many have it with machine fire and hellfire missiles. heavily armed and dug into tunnels, the taliban resisted fiercely. we advanced no more than 100 or 150 yards over a four-day period. today the marines are in a much more mundane mission. they're here to check up on the progress of this irrigation canal. because garmsir has since become for many u.s. commanders a model of counterinsurgency success. what's worked? first, withering attacks by u.s. and british forces eventually drove out the taliban, creating a security bubble of some 50 square miles. >> that fighting is very important to establish what we have here today. if that hadn't happened, there's no way we would have the bazaars as busy as it is now. >> rep

he's made all three field goals with some excellent chances tonight for the freshman from brooklyn.2-81. this is the sixth of seven games on the road for r the lancers. they'll be at savannah state saturday, and then home against washington at venice on january 30th. good basket, and swecker finally gets one. their wins have come over florida gulf coast, virginia wise, campbell and cal state bakersfield. padgett inside, nice pass. and he'll try it again from the free throw line. but again, they look inside for the open opportunity. >> ron: exactly. you can tell it's something obviously, there is a height differential. something that coach williams said going into this game, we want to work on and put an emphasis on. that's where i said that you see the maturation process in the terrapins. even though they had the advantage inside. they passed up some jump shots to make a concentrated effort to do what coach williams has been asking them to do. that is the progression you want to see as a team when you are a coach. >> steve: the reserves doing a nice job and gary will get vasquez and

>> jon: david lee miller outside the brooklyn courthouse, thanks. jane: want to get to the breaking news desk, harris is watching something at logan airport in boston. >> it was critical enough to shut down the entire airport but i'm just now getting a late word now it was temporarily shut down, the faa shows that it is open now, with some pretty lengthy delays. take a look at this picture out of boston logan international airport where a plane was evacuated after smoke was reported inside the cabin. this was a delta connector flight, a commuter flight, and it stopped on runway 33l. you'll notice that's like the only runway that got plowed there, because they got a lot of bad weather, as we're getting hit badly in the east with cold and ice and snow as everybody is, and that's part of the reason the runway was shut down. they didn't have a lot of options, passengers backed off that flight because of a light haze or smoke in the cabin. no injuries reported in this, and we're still trying to clarify if the plane got off the ground, because it either g

. >> i am from city university of york, brooklyn college. i am a computer science major and the president of my undergraduate student body. i came out here to learn more about politics and explore my interest more. i'm a computer science major and was not interested in politics until i ran for student government at my school and became more interested in passionate about it. >> how big is your school? >> about 17,000 students altogether. >> why did you run for student body president? >> i was paying attention to the interests of the students and clubs and different things that were going on on campus and is always to make improvements. the only way to make improvements was to get involved in government. >> how is it going? >> so far, so good. my permanent concern is continuity what is the next guy going to do end how could we make it more streamlined for one year to the next. >> what do you expect to be in 10 years? >> with computer science, i am more passionate about being in politics which is why i am here and why ran for student governmen

sophomore from brooklyn, new york, and christ the king high school. goes 0 for 2. comes nc state for the first time on offense. javy gonzalez at the point. >> larry: florida in two-three zone. they've been playing a lot of that this year. >> bob: and it will be a challenging defense for nc state to attack. the strength, as we mentioned, is in the middle and tracy smith. they look to get him the basketball. florida's got it pretty good. horner's shot is blocked by macklin. tyus opens the scoring for florida. >> larry: how about tyus bringing the ball back? he was determined to get that shot off. florida right back into their press. they will do a lot of this, too. man-to-man trap right now. nice job by gonzalez to get through it. >> bob: the gators fall back into that zone afternoon the gonzalez penetration. loose ball, smith hits the deck. and the gators come up with it. boynton with horner trailing. the follow is good by macklin. >> larry: not a good start for north carolina state. they have to handle this press, otherwise, florida will keep coming at them. >> bob

. >>> and in connection way new york city terror plot, set to appear in a brooklyn courtroom this hour driver zarein ahmedzay pleaded guilty to lying to federal agents. a bosnian immigrant adis ma jung nin is also scheduled to go before the court today. they were accused of planning to detonate a bomb last zpt 11th. >>> and a deadly arctic blast gripping much of the country is blamed for at least nine deaths including a tennessee man with alzheimer's who wandered out of his home in his bathrobe. overnight temperatures in nashville plunged as low as 12 degrees. >>> and if you have to travel in this harsh weather, here's one more thing to worry about. taking your shoes off at the airport might be a good security idea, but it might not be so good for your feet. we have tips on protecting your feet when you are on the go. >> reporter: you know the drill. before going through security at the airport you have to remove your shoes, but it may be risking. >> i certainly have concerns about being barefoot at security terminals at airport. >> reporter: this podiatrist says some foot problems can

enough, he interrted me, and colonel eamon, who was the chief prosecutor ocrime incorporad re in brooklyn to me, "don't let this turkey interpt you." so he put me on t spot, and he madee disciine goering, a ving grown up ingermany, i remember an old joke and i id to him, "herr goering," misprouncing his name. theame in german means"little nothg, a trifle." >>harlie: you mispronounced his name on purpose. >> on purpose. i said, "when i speak, you don't interrupt . you wait until i'm nished. then when you have to say mething, i will liste to you and decide whether it's necessary to trslate ." an he said tme, "my name is not goering,my name i not goering, myame is oering" and i sd to him, "i'll tl you what. i' make a deal with you. if you won't interrupt me again, i won't call you go-rink ain" and after th we becamereat friends. >> charlie: great friends? >> he insisted tospeak only througme and i finally figured out why. he saw himself, certainly, as a fure chief defendant in these trials. he knew that colonel eamon was the chf interrogator and he ew i was the chief interpreter and that put

city of university, new york, brooklyn college. >> tell us about yourself. >> i'm the president of my undergraduate student body. i came out here to learn more about politics and explore my interests more. i'm a computer science major. i never was interested in politics until i ran for student government at my school and became more and more interested and passionate about it. >> how big is your school? >> there are about 17,000 altogether. >> and why did you run -- student body, did you say? what challenged you to do that? >> i was just paying attention to the interests of the students and clubs and the things that were going on on campus and i saw some ways to make some improvements and i realized the only real way to make improvements was to get involved with government. >> how's it going? >> so far, so good, but my current challenge is continuity. >> as a computer science major where do you expect to be in 10 years? >> i'm more passionate about being in politics, which is why i'm here and why i ran for student government but i see computer science being a big help no matter where

but it originated with people i knew from brooklyn who are antiwar activists who happen to be in wheelchairsnd like the idea of civil rights, skipped across constituencies to them until they said, what about us? then they went to washington, and they sat in and took over buildings in the health department and so on, and locked themselves in like it was civil rights movement. and they refused to leave, and they were arrested and thrown out. a lot of them were injured badly that you don't know what it's like to be turned over by a horse or a policeman when you're in a wheelchair. but the one. now, who remembers? now they have a curb ramp. right? and we step over it or we'll update and are completely unaware that people took great risks and probably risks to their health, risks to their career, may have shortened their allies in fighting for that ramp. and there are many, many examples of this. another favorite of mine is the idea of a vacation. now, this may be a disappearing dream in america. i understand that, but the idea of a vacation, the idea of a 40 hour week, no child labor, these were

he interrupted me, and colonel eamon, who was the chief prosecutor of crime incorporated here in brooklynsaid to me, "don't let this turkey interrupt you." so he put me on the spot, and he made me discipline goering, and having grown up in germany, i remembered an old joke and i said to him, "herr goering," mispronouncing his name. the name in german means "little nothing, a trifle." >> charlie: you mispronounced his name on purpose. >> on purpose. i said, "when i speak, you don't interrupt me. you wait until i'm finished. then when you have to say something, i will listen to you and decide whether it's necessary to translate it." and he said to me, "my name is not goering, my name is not goering, my name is goering" and i said to him, "i'll tel you what. i'll make a deal with you. if you won't interrupt me again, i won't call you go-rink again" and after that we became great friends. >> charlie: great friends? >> he insisted to speak only through me and i finally figured out why. he saw himself, certainly, as a future chief defendant in these trials. he knew that colonel eamon was the ch

which would've been between manhattan and brooklyn bridge. but they didn't do that.so what they did is they ran the ship aground and they told all the passengers to jump out because if they could make it to land they would get asylum and they could stay in the u.s. everybody jumped off the ship. 10 of them ended up dying trying to swim to shore. one of the strange and the stores about these people, they were, why they left china, the trips that they took to get here, the experience on the golden venture. and then what happened to them when they got to. so this is the last will but i will read you to give you a little bit of background. part of the reason sony people coming and had become very easy for chinese people to get asylum to the u.s. we essentially said if you're here and your are a democracy protester or for a post the one child policy, then we'll make it easier for you to get asylum. in a weird perverse way bistro people to pay the state gets to bring her to undertake users because the deal with assamese you have to be here in order to have support so peopl

volunteers has arrived as varied as the colors on their backs-- norwegian red cross, e.m.t.s from brooklyn, international medical corps, to name a few, all working under the watchful eye of the 82nd airborne division of the u.s. army. >> suarez: walton stressed that he works for general hospitals director dr. alix lassegue, who took me through the darkened streets of his hospital's complex to juvenile wards where exhausted amputees lie awake in stifling heat. i ask him when there'll be room for these patients indoors. he says there already is. this building has been inspected by engineers, and they've decided that its perfectly usable and occupiable. and the patients, after the aftershocks, are too nervous to be treated inside, so they are out here in these tents. that's just one of a mountain of challenges for dr. lassegue. many of his staff died; others are scattered, attending to injured and dead family members in the ruins of their homes. he's providing care for a patient population that is also largely homeless, and he can hardly send amputees to live on the sidewalk in front of the r

. >> reporter: sunday morning visited levine nine years ago in brooklyn. >> i'm a very political personn a household where the arguments were for breakfast, lunch and supper. and i'm a red-diaper baby. >> reporter: his family was steeped in the socialist politics. new york city garment trade which was the center piece of levine's other body of work. paintings of ordinary work a day new yorkers struggling through each long day with dignity and purpose while taking a weekend pleasures at coney island, an urban beach scene levine knew well. >> there they are with all their relations, old age with young, men and women putting out their little territorial napkin to sit on and so on. it's exotic. it's chaotic in color but it's also exotic. >> osgood: sadly david levine was diagnosed with mack lar degeneration an eye disease back in 2006. eventually ending his active career. but the drawings he left behind stand as a record of our times. revealing more about their subjects than any camera ever could. just ahead... ♪ a summer wind came blowing in ♪ >> osgood: lyrics by johnny mercer. everyday w

alvin wants everyone this section of brooklyn to know about it.n the spring he'll be pounding the pavement and helping with the headcount. when the census work gets under way in earnest. >> i got to do a lot of walking, a lot of knocking on doors. >> reporter: for years he was a stay at home dad care for his two children and unable to find a job. he's now a census office manager, with employment guaranteed until october. >> moneywise, this job means for me that i can get rid of some extra bills that i incurred while i was unemployed. i have also buy my children an extra doughnut or an extra cookie. it helps tremendously. >> reporter: aviles is 1 1/2 million workers that will be hired to conduct this nation's census. the employment boost will only be temporary, but many economists say it will make a difference across the united states. >> the timing couldn't have been better. what the census hiring is going to do is all but guarantee that we have a half a percent decline in unemployment, or more. it's going to take an upswing in employment that's a

haitian immigrants from brooklyn to south florida are hard-working and productive neighbors. we know that. the problem is in their homeland their brothers and sisters are not given half a chance to prosper. as i have said many times before, one cannot pay anyone less than you can pay haitian for an honest day's work in this hemisphere. but we have not seen foreign capital rushing into haiti in recent decades, because corruption and a predatory state have made it extraordinarily difficult to do business there in the past decades. what a difference the rule of law makes. haitians, who domestic gpa-- i am sorry, gdp per capita is one sixth of their dominican neighbors. the haitians state share the blame brinkley for keeping the poor country men trapped in an exploited economic model and self-destructive political system. the sad fact is life in haiti was virtually unsustainable even before port-au-prince tumble to the ground. as my agi colleague tom donnelly has observe the haitian catastrophe is more than a natural disaster. it is a political one indications in the internationa

. >> good morning from brooklyn college in new york.i want some clarification on whether or not you were suggesting the u.s. government should detain persons suspected to be threat indefinitely or until they can prove they are a legitimate party. >> there are certain individuals who are tied directly to al qaeda, trained by al qaeda and continue to be a threat should be detained. we need to find a way of doing that legally and transparently. there has been a lot of debate about this. some have argued for a national security court. some argued for modification of the foreign surveillance court. i am not sure what the right framework is but i do think there has to be a way of holding such individuals even in the current context if we don't have evidence to present in a criminal context but where the executive has made a determination that there are risks. this is not just a bush administration thing but something president obama has recognized and something we have to have transparency on. something that has regular review process to it.

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we're joined from brooklyn, new york on the democratic line. your reaction. caller: i just wanted to say that i did not get on the phone with you guys . obama is not doing anything to help anyone. there is not a big deal when he became president. everyone was screaming through the windows and was jumping on cars and going crazy. everyone was happy. we have a black president. there are many people out there with no jobs. >> your comments, please. caller: president obama is a good president. he has a positive view. the he was talking about the war going on, stuff in haiti. he has a hard job. it is a hard job and it takes time. >> allen from los angeles. caller: you cannot talk the talk, you can walk the walk. it is not enough that you say you will work with the republicans and create jobs that does not get people with jobs. if you tax the banks, what happens to their interest rates that they charge on credit cards? . . . caller: the funny part that i got out a bit i turned it to msnbc and listen to chris matthews and it is funny how both sides see it so differe

guest: in brooklyn and went to prep in upstate new york and went to haverford college in halferford,pennsylvania. host: on the republican like from new orleans, william. go ahead, please. we will get a question from one of the students. go ahead. >> hi, i'm ka buhlly. do you think the middle class will benefit from healthcare reform? guest: that's a great question. there are levels of benefits. if you are thinking purely in terms of taxes, let's say. i would say probably not. there is all sorts of different definitions about who is rich and who is not rich if you start to take the mini millionaire tax of $200,000, et cetera, so there will be additional taxes in there. as you know, the unions were at the white house yesterday complaining about the so-called cadillac healthcare plan tax because if you're an individual, i think it's $8,000, and a family $24,000, there would be additional taxes on those healthcare plans and it is something like 40% of union members of this would be subject to higher taxes because they get some of those plans as benefits often times in lieu of pay hikes,

brooklyhost: brooklyn, new york. caller: it is a good idea. the journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. i have believed him and the rest of the government of good taste in their mouths. host: lots of events of this week. here's a photo of president obama meeting with his middle- class task force. they unveiled several proposals are designed to help middle- class families. as far as the budget freeze goes, they write that it is likely to be met with a mixed reaction on capitol hill. conservative democrats and members of the house of blue dog coalition have been calling for a spending freeze backed by the threat of a presidential veto. liberals have resisted freezing spending, particularly on social programs, and are likely to call on obama to extend any freeze to military programs. st. louis, mich., a democratic caller. caller: hi. i believe it this deal with the spending freeze is good, but he ought to extend it more to pork- barrel spending. host: like what? caller: it didn't matter which one -- any state. the government cannot

in brooklyn, there are mobilizing goods to help their sisters and brothers in haiti.e have seen the same response from this communities and others across this nation. nurses and first responses -- responders have reached out, offering help. thanks to the assistance of the american red cross, we are able to mobilize a group of translators to help with recovery efforts. volunteers will assist and translate to medical professionals. there is an amazing sense of family across this entire nation. the one issue i have been asked is the growing concern as we continue a recovery effort in haiti in our most vulnerable population, the children. the children's fund reports that haiti has an estimated 380,000 children living in orphanages and may anticipate the never will become higher due to the devastation brought on by the earthquake. we are getting estimates as high as over 1 million children. that is why i applaud the department of homeland security secretary in announcing a parole policy which will allow already adopted orphaned children and those in the pipeline to be adop

host: patricia from brooklyn. on the republican line. caller: thank you for taking my call.ers, and they own obama. host: i just want to stop you. what are you calling all bankersçó do wish? that is certainly not the case. caller: you have the federal reserve, all those bankers. ben bernanke. host: you do not have to respond if you do not want. baltimore is next. darren on the independent line. caller: thank you. this is my first time. i really hope that you do your best to find out what really happened. this country cannot take much more. and i am a young person. our future is at stake. i know so many people that have been affected by this. it makes me mad that regular people do not have a say. host: what would you like to ask, if you could? caller: i heard tim geithner will also be testifying. i would like to know what he knew about a.i.g. there was a story that he knew more than people thought about the a.i.g. crisis when he was the head of the new york fed. i just hope that congress will follow through with a real financial reform. guest: mr. gardner when not be testifyi

brooklyn, the haitian-american community has shown a strong united force in mobilizing services and volunteers to help their brothers and sisters in haiti. we have seen the same response across this nation and every one of our districts. churches, doctors, nurses, and concerned citizens have reached out to our offices, offering help. thanks to the assistance of the american red cross, my office was able to mobilize a group of creole translators to help with recovery efforts down in haiti, and i am proud to say that volunteers will assist and translate for medical professionals aboard the hospital ship the usns comfort. there is an amazing sense of family in the community that can be felt across this entire nation. the one issue i have been asked to highlight is the growing concern as we continue with recovery efforts in haiti, with the most vulnerable population, the children. haiti has an estimated 380,000 children living in orphanages and group homes, and they anticipate the number will come -- become significantly higher due to the devastation brought on by the earthquake. we are beating es

host: first phone call, brooklyn, new york, the line for democrats. nelson, good morning.aller: my question is, why are the united states and the western world, bickering in congress as well as the digging about things that are personal, trying to bring down the present government. the chinese are spending billions of dollars building roads and infrastructure all over africa. that is the only way al qaeda can be kept out of africa. not through weapons. there are a lot of frustrated people in africa, unemployed, exploded -- exploited for the gold and valuables and whenever natural resources. it paid very little. so you will find a great deal of frustrated people on that continent. some of them frustrated in south africa with the rise -- the united states and the western world should compete with china for the natural resources and spend more time dealing with uplifting government and communities in these areas. this doesn't mean you have to put in a lot of money. most people talk about africa being poor. africa is not poor. africans are not poor. africa has most of the weal

haitians from south brooklyn to south florida are hard working neighbors.the problem is in their homeland, their brothers and sisters aren't given half a chance to prosper. as i have said many times before, one cannot pay anyone less than you can pay a haitian for an honest day's work but we have not seen foreign capital rushing into haiti because corruption and the predatory state have made it difficult to do business there in past decades. what a difference the rule of law makes. haitians domestic g.p.a. -- g.d.p. per capita is 1/6 of their dominican neighbors. the haitian state share the blame for keeping their countrymen trapped in a poor model in a self-destructive political system. the sad fact is that life in haiti was virtually unsustainable even before port-au-prince tumbled to the ground. the haitian catastrophe is more than a natural disaster. it is a political one. and if they fail to respond to l effectively now it will compound haiti's misery and present problems for the united states will continue for decades to come. this afternoon, a panel

guest: in brooklyn and went to prep in upstate new york and went to haverford college in halferford, pennsylvania. host: on the republican like from new orleans, william. go ahead, please. we will get a question from one of the students. go ahead. >> hi, i'm ka buhlly. do you think the middle class will benefit from healthcare reform? guest: that's a great question. there are levels of benefits. if you are thinking purely in terms of taxes, let's say. i would say probably not. there is all sorts of different definitions about who is rich and who is not rich if you start to take the mini millionaire tax of $200,000, et cetera, so there will be additional taxes in there. as you know, the unions were at the white house yesterday complaining about the so-called cadillac healthcare plan tax because if you're an individual, i think it's $8,000, and a family $24,000, there would be additional taxes on those healthcare plans and it is something like 40% of union members of this would be subject to higher taxes because they get some of those plans as benefits often times in lieu of pay hikes,

i am a senior from brooklyn, new york. i am a democrat. no campaign experience. i have heard nothing but good things about c.m.i. >> tim murphy. i am from massachusetts, a senior at a.u. i have very little campaign experience, mostly volunteering for small local stuff. i heard the class is great deal. i am a d. >> whereabouts? >> in wheaton. >> i am martha, and i am a senior at a.u. i am a democrat from buffalo, new york. i interneded -- interned at a firm and they suggested i get some experience. >> i worked on the warner campaign in virginia. >> i am jackie. i am from morris, minnesota. i am a democrat. i don't have a lot of campaign experience, just a little volunteer. but i have heard great things about this class. >> i am very vienna, austria, and i am a grad student over at s.o.c., focusing on political communications. that is why i am here, and i am a d in american terms. >> i am derrick. i am a graduate student in the public policy program, and the last campaign i worked on was romney for president. i am taking this class because i hope to make a career o

they are fully loaded with fuel and you don't put a plan that size in the stream of the brooklyn or manhattan. he did the calculation and figured he would be daunting and about 40, 45 seconds, and in the moment the whole of his life with flashing by. he said so before he had the natural fear that we do of deaf and the moment he wasn't afraid of death because it was so near. what he did think about was the time that he had wasted, the time he spent arguing about petty things about things that mattered with people who needed, the tiny little things get to him. he said was the amazing process of letting go of those things in that 45 seconds in a sense she dieted to himself and some of those previous aggravations in the short window of time that he had left on earth. but he didn't die and he now light and life to playing on a bonus, playing a video game on bonus time that he shouldn't be here but he was and therefore he was going to fully live each day and profoundly positive ways he would try to make a difference in the lives of those around him and the world of large. he would invest in the thi

host: patricia from brooklyn. on the republican line. caller: thank you for taking my call.ers, and they own obama. host: i just want to stop you. what are you calling all bankersçó do wish? that is certainly not the case. caller: you have the federal reserve, all those bankers. ben bernanke. host: you do not have to respond if you do not want. baltimore is next. darren on the independent line. caller: thank you. this is my first time. i really hope that you do your best to find out what really happened. this country cannot take much more. and i am a young person. our future is at stake. i know so many people that have been affected by this. it makes me mad that regular people do not have a say. host: what would you like to ask, if you could? caller: i heard tim geithner will also be testifying. i would like to know what he knew about a.i.g. there was a story that he knew more than people thought about the a.i.g. crisis when he was the head of the new york fed. i just hope that congress will follow through with a real financial reform. guest: mr. gardner when not be testifyi

they are fully loaded with fuel and you don't put a plan that size in the stream of the brooklyn or manhattan. he did the calculation and figured he would be daunting and about 40, 45 seconds, and in the moment the whole of his life with flashing by. he said so before he had the natural fear that we do of deaf and the moment he wasn't afraid of death because it was so near. what he did think about was the time that he had wasted, the time he spent arguing about petty things about things that mattered with people who needed, the tiny little things get to him. he said was the amazing process of letting go of those things in that 45 seconds in a sense she dieted to himself and some of those previous aggravations in the short window of time that he had left on earth. but he didn't die and he now light and life to playing on a bonus, playing a video game on bonus time that he shouldn't be here but he was and therefore he was going to fully live each day and profoundly positive ways he would try to make a difference in the lives of those around him and the world of large. he would invest in the thi

this legislation introduced by the chairman of the oversight committee, representative ed towns of brooklyn, will increets the effectiveness of the g.a.o. by clarifying and strengthening the g.a.o.'s authority in several areas, including access to records. congress relies on the g.a.o. in carrying out the investigative and oversight functions vested in the legislative branch. the g.a.o. helps inform the congress and the public about areas and programs within the federal government that are performing well and those that are -- that need to be improved and are vulnerable to waste, fraud, and abuse. the general accounting office provide reliable assessments as to whether the taxpayers are receiving full value from important programs this legislation is necessary to ensure that g.a.o. can successfully carry out all these important functions for the congress. specifically, the g.a.o. improvement act addresses a 2002 federal court decision that limited the g.a.o.'s ability to question agency access determinations in court. the bill explicitly provides the comptroller general with standing to pur

. >> host: let's hear from bernard on the republican line from brooklyn, new york. your reaction to this announcement? >> caller: i think it is a good idea. journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step. the first step and i hope it is, leaves the, leaves him and rest of the government bad taste in their mouth. thanks very much. >> host: lots of economic news and events this week coming out. white house. here is a photo in "the washington post" today. president obama meeting with his middle class task force. they unveiled several proposals designed to help middle class families. as far as the budget freeze goes, on a portion of the budget they write in the post, that the freeze is likely to be met with mixed reaction on capitol hill. conservative democrats including senator evan bye of indiana and members of the house blue dog coalition have been calling for a spending freeze backed by the threat of a presidential veto. but liberals resisted freezing spending particularly on social programs and likely to call on obama to extend any freeze to military program

we have bishopric gregory from brooklyn. bishop george murray from youngstown, ohio.m springfield, missouri. across the way, the ship -- the bishop of arlington. bishop kevin rhodes, from fort wayne. and with him today, bishop john darcy, the retired bishop from fort wayne. bishop david from pittsburgh. and bishop phelippe de jesus, the archbishop of florida. is there anyone i missed? everybody here? thank you very much. long live the beauty of human life. long live the human person. may we enjoy in charity and in great conviction, continued to march and lived for the victory of human life in our country. god bless you all. and thank you very much. . . >> i am privileged to introduce a young man who was thinking about coming down to the march, and he will be here to introduce a delegation of the eastern orthodox clergy. father john will be here to introduce that delegation. >> thank you, nellie gray. hello, pro-life america. the orthodox church of america has become today a permanent part of the march for life. thousands of orthodox christians today are with you are a