brooke. among those attending was president obama, john boehner. from the capitol rotunda, this is one and a half hours. >> president of the united states. [applause] xd[applause] >> latest angela merkel, majority leader of the united states senate, -- ladies and salomon, harry reid. -- the ladies and gentlemen, harry reid. >> please be seated. november 6, 1962 was a special day for president john kennedy. it was the day his brother ted won his old seat in the united states senate, the seat he would hold for the next 46 years, until just two months ago. a seed from which he would really improve the lives of his -- a seat from which he would improve the lives of his fellow americans. the people of the home state had collected edward brooke to be its eattorney general and the first african-american to serve as any state's attorney general. john kennedy exclaimed, "that is the biggest news in the country purpl." we gather under this dome to present senator brooke with the congressional gold meda

brooke.attending was president obama, john boehner. from the capitol rotunda, this is one and a half hours. >> president of the united states. [applause] xd[applause] >> latest angela merkel, majority leader of the united states senate, -- ladies and salomon, harry reid. -- the ladies and gentlemen, harry reid. >> please be seated. november 6, 1962 was a special day for president john kennedy. it was the day his brother ted won his old seat in the united states senate, the seat he would hold for the next 46 years, until just two months ago. a seed from which he would really improve the lives of his -- a seat from which he would improve the lives of his fellow americans. the people of the home state had collected edward brooke to be its eattorney general and the first african-american to serve as any state's attorney general. john kennedy exclaimed, "that is the biggest news in the country purpl." we gather under this dome to present senator brooke with the congressional gold medal, the highes

i can tell that you brooke loves charlie very much. i know that charlie loves brooke very much.hey want to raise their children together and they really do want to continue with their marriage and have things go along as they should. in terms of the statements to the police, i really can't speak to that i wasn't there i know what the documents say. hopefully it won't get to that. >> larry: you think it's going to be all settled? >> we are very hopeful that there is a nonlitigation resolution to this. charlie's arraignment is february 8th. i'm, of course in contact with charlie's lawyers all the time. we really are hopeful for an amicable resolution to this. >> yale, as the attorney for one of the parties, you sound awfully sympathetic to the other. >> it is not that i'm sympathetic. i think the fact that they are both celebrities, there is a media spotlight on them, i really think we need to give them a break. they need time to work out their differences. maybe they need to go to counseling. maybe they need some kind of guidance. but the truth of the matter is, they have been ma

why biodiversity matters, and shields and brooks.that follows an update on dna exonerations. >> brown: james bain is a free man tonight. yesterday, he was released from a florida prison where he'd spent 35 years for a crime he didn't commit. a court-mandated dna test proved bain was wrongly convicted of sexual assault in 1974. >> i am going to see my mom, the one i just got off the phone to. that's the most important thing in my life at this moment besides god. one thing i have to say about this dna, ladies and gentleman, it's gonna do one of the two... free you or lock you. >> brown: bain's release was in fact the third of its kind just this week, all the result of work by the "innocence project" based at the benjamin cardozo school of law at yeshiva university. according to the project, since 1989, there have been 248 post-conviction exonerations based on dna evidence. seventeen of those exonerated served time on death row. 27 states, the federal government and the district of columbia compensate individuals who were wrongfully inc

. >> lehrer: and mark shields and david brooks analyze the week's news. that's coming, on tonight's pbs newshour. major funding for the pbs newshour is provided by: monsanto. producing more. conserving more. improving farmers' lives. that's sustainable agriculture. more at producemoreconservemore.com. >> chevron. this is the power of human energy. intel. supporting coverage of innovation and the economy. and by toyota. and the william and flora hewlett foundation, working to solve social and environmental problems at home and around the world. and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> lehrer: the u.s. house today approved the most sweeping overhaul of financial regulation since the great depression. and pay limits were extended deeper into executive ranks at companies the government rescued. newshour congressional correspondent kwame holman begins our coverage. >> holman:

why biodiversity mters, and shlds and brooks.that folws an update on dna exonerions. >> brown: mes bain is a free man night. sterday, he was released fro a florida prison wheree'd spent 35 years f a crime he didn'tommit. a urt-mandated dna test proved bain was wrongly cvicted of sexual asslt in 1974. >> i am going to see my mo the one i st got off the phone to. that's theost important thing in my life at is moment besides god. one thing i ve to say about this dna, dies and gentleman, it'sonna do one of the two... free you or lock you. >> brown: bain's release w in fact the third of its kind jt is week, all the result of work by the "innocence pject" based at t benjamin cardozo school of law at yeshiva university. according to the project, since 1989, there ha been 248 post-cviction exonerations based on dna evidence. seventeen those exonerated served time on death row. 27 states, the fedal government and the disict of columbia compensate indivials who were wrofully incarcerated. joining me for an update i barrsheck, co-founder an

horcoff, challenged by brooks laich. he says get out of here. >> craig: good job by brooks. the pk, get that puck down, and make them go the full 200. >> joe: the capitals trying to end the four-game road swing in style after a loss last night in vancouver. gilbert closing in. one minute on the power play for edmonton. bombs away. rebound is loose. quick whistle comes. sheldon souray with the bionic wrist. can he ever bring it. >> craig: he has the record here of 106.7 miles an hour. it doesn't register with the nhl when they have their superskills, but that's the mark right now. this is how he can bring it on the thompson creek window of opportunity. a lot of traffic in front as you can see there. and he just brings the puck at over 10 20 miles an hour. how are you going to stop that? great stop through traffic. >> the window was apparently closed? >> craig: yes. >> joe: gilbert forced back to center on the regroup. >> craig: it was so fast, he went high. >> joe: shattered the window. deslauriers. >> craig: adventurous out there, isn't it? >> joe: he's not martie apparently

i am with the brookings institute of washington. i just want to get a sense of during the early days of protest, with the government essentially controlling communication, how much of the protest movement was planned? how did people get the word around as to where to meet, what to do, what to say, particularly after the second and third day? i am very much interested on how much of that was planned. >> great. that is one of the few things i can talk about because that is one of the things is that most of my time doing when i was there. basically running around the streets with friends and trying to figure out what is going on. that was also one of the main accusations against me, i was an agent and influence and i had engaged in espionage. but i was very confused. i had no idea what was going on. i did give the key to my facebook to a close friend of mine, who would then just sort of copy/paste -- she does not speak farsi much -- and less tweets and messages and e-mail them to this -- and list -- endless tweets and messages and e-ma

on behalf of the foreign policy program here to brookings. this morning's event is part of a series of joint research and periodic updates on developments in china. sponsored by the australian national university, the chinese academy of social sciences and the john l. -- china center here at brookings it is particularly timely in light of the high-level presidential level diplomacy taking place these days involving all three countries the abc countries we call them. president obama's recently returned from his first state visit to china. prime minister of australia is in washington today. to discuss preparations for the copenhagen meeting on climate change and both president obama and i believe premiere went jiabao are to travel next week to personally express their commitment to reducing carbon emissions. very fitting today we take up two of the most important issues facing china. first the issue of clean energy and climate change. as you know the u.s. and china are the most important countries in the world in terms of carbon emissions. and

the analysis of shies and brooks. d the conclusion of our seri on attempts reform public hools in the nation'sapital. that follows covage of the sentencing today oone of china's most promint dissiden. u helps been convicted of th crime of subversion in a tri that lasted ju two hours. >> warner: outde the number 1 termediate people's court in beijing this morni, police kept a few protesters at bay as inside, the sentence agnst liu was handed down,ne supporter said it caied a clear messe for would-be political reformers. >> ( translat ): this shows at the government has destyed the spirit of legal society and harmonus society that ihas been claiming to advocate. >> warner: officiall liu was convicted of "inciting to subvert state power" a bad char often used by chinese communist authorities toail opponents. more than a don western diplomats were dend entry to the proceedings; but u.s. embassy spesman denounced the verdict outside the cot. >> thenited states government is deeply concerned by t sentence of years of prison

observersç steven hessç senio fellow at brookings institution. a-must binus but a b-plu. guest: if he went back to being professor obama he would give him an incomplete. he never turned in the exams. i am the whole quality of the first year has a sense of incompleteness that i find very interesting. however, i would give him a b-plus if he worked under the old rules which is all you needed is 51 votes. when i got here that is what it was. now you can't have a major piece of legislation without needing 60 votes. if he could have gotten by with 51 he would have had a brilliant year. host: ezra khraoeufrpb says it is time to reform the senate. guest: he does, and it is. and 60 votes as steve said we we got here, youç just worried abt a majority and you got a bill passed. if i had a problem with obama's approach to some of this is his turning offense all of this stuff to willy-nilly saying i want to do this, now you do t. i think there was guidance somewhere but i don't think it was the guidance that could have avoided some of this. i think what hap

brooks is that -- and i quote -- "according to the chief actuary for medicare, it will cause national health care spending to increase faster." that's right, mr. president, we're going to raise taxes, cut medicare, send the big bill to the state. all for what? quote -- "according to the chief actuary for medicare, it will cause national health care spending to increase faster." so if you're paying x for premiums, you're going to be paying more as a result of this bill. health care spending goes -- continues david brooks, "is already zooming past 17% of our gross domestic product to 22% and beyond." then it's going to be hard to explain to the 9 million people that the congressional budget office letter said would lose their employer insurance under this bill why that will happen. of course, it will happen because under the bill as a whole, as employers look at the mandates and the costs, many will decide not to offer health insurance and so those employees will find themselves either in medicaid, the program for low-income americans into which 15 million americans are going, a program

the cbo was a brookings scholar and still is. alice rivlin right there. in greenberg of the current director also came from brookings. so did his immediate predecessor peter orszag who is here with us as director of the omb pricing goal them now because of their contributions as dollars and public servants are pertinent to what the president will be speaking about shortly. but i could just as easily cite their experts who have worked here and in the government to education and health care, infrastructure, innova tion, a smart growth, our power, a climate change, non-proliferation, a piece. those subjects of course, are all on the president's agenda. today and every day. but no matter what else he is dealing with, he is always thinking about the troubles that the sapped the american economy and what it will take to fix them. for us, that is what he might call the all hands on deck challenge. the week before last thomas dollars from four of the research programs joined the business committee for a two day brainstorming session bene

brooks was being tough. we wanted him to be tough. it was good. notice how chase acknowledged that but he stayed strong. he was like agree, but you need me there to do this. what if this happens? what about obama grains momentum? going back to the supreme court. i'm showing my time is up here. until we have time for a few questions? >> we have time if you have time. >> absolutely have time. yeah, of course. >> let's go back to the some of the -- if you run into this sort of situation where we have a donor where it's not their number one choice candidate to give to. we have that back and forth, would it be more beneficial to candidate to ask brooks, hey, i might not agree with you on this issue, what else is important to you. and sort of go into that. and maybe see. >> absolutely. that's actually a great tool to use. because what you're doing is you're finding out what's important to brooks. that is incredibly coronet to brooks being conservative and pro life. there could be other things. finding out more information in general is a good thing. esp

i am speaking as a senior fellow at the brookings institution.not here as a spokesman for the united states government or president obama. please do not interpret any of my words as reflecting the views of the united states government in any way whatsoever. i will start with the bottom line right upfront. president obama inherited in january a disaster in afghanistan and pakistan. a war that had begun with a brilliant military success at virtually no cost was squandered. for seven years, the previous administration dithered and did not act. the insurgency, which should never have been allowed to grow, now threatens the survival of the karzai government in afghanistan and threatens to defeat the north atlantic treaty organization's first ground operation ever. worse than that, a disaster in afghanistan is destabilizing south and central asia as a whole. most particularly, next door in pakistan. the situation the president inherited is bad and it has gotten worse in the 10 months since then. but we have no time machine. we cannot go back and do it

the congressional budget office, was a brookings scholar. she still is. alice rivlin, right there, in green. the current director of the cbo, doug elmendorf, also came from brookings. so did his immediate predecessor, peter orszag, who is here with us today in his capacity as the director of omb. i single them out because their contributions, both as scholars, and as public servants, are pertinent to what the president will be speaking about shortly. but i could just as easily cite our experts who have worked here, and in government, on education and health care, infrastructure, and innovation, smart growth, and smart power, climate change, and non-proliferation, war and peace. those subjects of course are all on the president's agenda today and every day. but no matter what else he's dealing with, he is always, always, thinking about the troubles that beset the american economy, and what it will take to fix them. for us, as for him, that is what he might call, an all hands on deck challenge. week before last scholars from four of our resear

hln law enforcement analyst mike brooks has new information on that and joins us on the phone. >> good to be with you. i'm hearing from my federal law enforcement and airline security sources that apparently this man got on this northwest flight off of a flight that originated in nigerian but it was a clm flight. i used to travel from washington, d.c. to africa through the airport. and very, very good security there. when you get to the gate, you go through additional screening. they put you in a holding area. what a patdown search most likely would not have found, whatever it was -- i don't know exactly what kind of device this was. they said they're not sure if it was on the body, on his body, or maybe secreted in his clothes. he apparently suffered second and third-degree burns to his thigh area. he was hospitalized but is not in life-threatening condition. they don't know if the device was a black powder, flash powder or as peter just pointed out, could be like richard reid used, a hydrogen peroxide-based explosive. they're taking the evidence overnight to the fbi lab in quantico w

mike brooks mentioned to me he believes whatever it is is on its way to the fbi lab in quantico to get some analysis of what it was, at least to term what of our major question, how did something get on a flight with all the security we have there today? how do you get something you can set fire to onto a plane? another one of the unanswered questions you're continuing to track down for us. kate, thanks for your great work. >> richard griffith was on the plane in question sitting in seat 36b. that was -- we think the suspect was in 19a. this is what you're looking at on your screen. on the left side of the plane as you are facing the front of the plane, this passenger was some distance back in another cabin. but he spoke at length to the gentleman who was sitting next to him. richard joins us by phone. richard, you spoke to the man who was sitting next to the suspect, is that what the story is? >> i was talking to the guy that was sitting next to him, yes, sir. >> and you believe he was in row 19. does that information make sense? >> yes, sir. that seems right. >> tell me what you hear

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brooks is that -- and i quote -- "according to the chief actuary for medicare, it will cause nationale spending to increase faster." that's right, mr. president, we're going to raise taxes, cut medicare, send the big bill to the state. all for what? quote -- "according to the chief actuary for medicare, it will cause national health care spending to increase faster." so if you're paying x for premiums, you're going to be paying more as a result of this bill. health care spending goes -- continues david brooks, "is already zooming past 17% of our gross domestic product to 22% and beyond." then it's going to be hard to explain to the 9 million people that the congressional budget office letter said would lose their employer insurance under this bill why that will happen. of course, it will happen because under the bill as a whole, as employers look at the mandates and the costs, many will decide not to offer health insurance and so those employees will find themselves either in medicaid, the program for low-income americans into which 15 million americans are going, a program which 50%

right on target for brooks laich who leads the team to the power play goals. challenge by primeau.takes it on the hop. and ready for that. up high in the air. site it, backstrom come to get it. walks in, back to green. fires, deflected by white. good speed on the corner. 2-1 play. save it is game. oh, a save! and to the end we go. ovechkin on the white pattern. green kept it in. washington still in the pour play. 34 more seconds. brendan morrison there. serves it for green. he will distribute it, offer the blade of alex ovechkin. love it is gun much along the wall. great plays like that, you have to bring that mean streak to each and every game if he is going to stay on the back line. >> greg: just to goish 16 minute to go in the opening period. >> greg: and ovechkin there. fehr looking for another one. leads it, 3-3. magman. one more to mare in the -- metro area in the -- metro area in the penalty box. may year. -- mayer. early on he struggled. and ovechkin had a hold on to bradley. and hagman take it is ricochet. gets the fingers crossed, recovers and says enough of this. wilson

, as well as a member of the bipartisan fiscal seminar convened under the joint auspices of brookings and the heritage foundation, i am here i am a personal capacity, and unless otherwise noted, the views i expressed are mine alone. i will not spend a lot of time discussing circumstances that form the backdrop to these proceedings. regardless of partisan ideology or branch of government, almost no one in possession of the facts believes that our current fiscal course is sustainable. the level of deficits, debt, and borrowing from abroad projected for the next decade alone threatens not only our economic prosperity but also our currency, our global leadership, and our national independence. as soon as our economy he emerges from recession and the job market improves, we must adopt a new fiscal strategy, and the planning needed to craft and implement it should begin without delay. it's these facts are clear -- if these facts are clear, which i believe they are, then why have so many past efforts failed to yield changes and why is there so little evidence that we are preparing to make no

. >> craig: brooke has been playing wing this year and with that faceoff loss, pat quinn will make a change with his forwards. didn't like how clean that was won by the caps in his zone. >> joe: he will try stortini. n. >> edmonton can thank the net minder. >> craig: the number one guy, the lineup injured, nice catching glove save there. bradley up the gut. the best of the period between both net minders. semin on the split save with his leg. >> joe: the live action continuing in the oilers defensive zone. staals around for neilson. the loss here on home ice. >> craig: his dad was one of the best ever. >> joe: magic man. struggling playing the wing. tried to send it in. look out on the washington bench. >> craig: pretty big catch from or would be from behind the bench, former detroit red wing. nice catch of the puck as it hit the bench. the caps starting off well in this game. a lot of the guys had a meeting this morning, joe, a few of them taking the ice of the loss last night in vancouver. >> joe: the game in which the 2- 1 lead evaporated. here, the fans are packed in to see the w

. >> reporter: the tribute to mel brooks kicked off by carl reiner who called his colleague. >> a geniusin and brilliantly unsensorrable tongue. >> a great drummer, but comedy paid more. so here i am. >> reporter: the trip down memory lane featured scenes from memorable works like "the producers." ♪ [ music ] the obamas presided over the gala for the first time, showing enthusiasm from the upper balcony. when the honors started in 1978 they would barely fill the house and the tickets were free. today it is one of the hottest tickets in town. especially with a-listers like aretha franklin. >> a voice that was a gift from god ♪ [ music ] >> today is an affirmation for all that i was striving for. & born in the usa ♪ [ music ] ♪ >> the grand finale was devoted to the boss ♪ [ music ] >> it is fantastic. i will never forget it. >> reporter: springsteen never dreamed he'd come this far. >> i wanted to play rhythm, initially in a local bands and hoped that may work out for me, but, you know, you don't quite figure out, going to end up in this spot, you know. >> reporter: from the kennedy cente

speaker, we mourn with ashley, brooke, and carol. the loss of specialist cote. let us celebrate the patriotism, the dedication to country, and sacrifice on behalf of our security. we are forever indebted to the men and women of our armed services, soldiers like michael cote who put themselves in harm's way so we may have freedom and peace. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: mr. deal of georgia. mr. defazio of oregon. for what purpose does the gentlelady of texas rise? >> mr. speaker, i'd like to address the house for five minutes and speak out of order. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. you have five minutes. ms. jackson lee: mr. speaker in the rush of the debate earlier, it's not -- the earlier one-minute is not able to capture the somberness of the moment. as our colleagues have finished their work and have in fact recognized the need of this nation and think it is important to summarize how important it is to keep our minds focused as we return back in the new year. we know that this country is a resilient country. people are tough. and they've

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that, a look at president obama's achievements in his first year in office with stephen hess of the brookingsve at 7:00 a.m. eastern here on c-span. >> in the mid 1990's, "newsweek" named him one of the 50 most influential people to watch in cyberspace. since then, he's created the social networking site blackplanet.com, helped found a charter school in brooklyn and explained new technologies on oprah. sunday night he talks about his current studies at harvard and what's ahead on c-span's q&a. >> former british ambassador christopher meyer testified before a committee examining the circumstances which led to the 2003 invasion of iraq. mr. meyer served as ambassador from 1997 through 2003 and authored the book "d.c. confidential," which received criticism from the british government. the former ambassador talked about his relationship with members of the bush administration and 10 downing street. in his testimony, he told members it was pointless to resist the u.s. charge to war. >> well, welcome, everyone. just a few opening remarks. the purpose of this session is to examine developments in t

. >> larry: we're back and we have an e-mail question from brooke in west palm beach, florida.hink best defines the jackson five as a group, what would it be and why? we'll start with marlon. >> i would pick "2300 jackson street." >> come on. >> come on. that's not what you would pick, jackie? because it tells the whole story, what really took place and the camaraderie between family members. things of that nature. >> larry: tito? >> i was going to agree with him, but i'm going to go with "can you feel it." actually it speaks about what we are about, about love and peace and harmony for the world. all these things. >> larry: jackie? >> "2300 jackson street" because we had the whole family in on the record. it shows family harmony. >> larry: ever get back there? >> yes, we get back -- no, i didn't go back. jermaine went back. >> it's tito and i that went back to gary. >> larry: jermaine, what's your favorite song? >> probably, "never can say good-bye." the lyrical content has nothing to do with what we're speaking about, but it was just those -- during that time when that song w

bruce is a senior fellow at the brookings institution and retired in 2006 after 30 years of service at central intelligence agency with many postings overseas. senior adviser in asian middle east and on the staff of four presidents. he was negotiator in several peace sum myths. he was at the present timey assistant secretary of defense in nearest and south asian senior adviser at nato. in can january 2009, president obama asked bruce to chair a review of american policy towards afghanistan and pakistan, the results of which the president announced in his speech on march 27, 2009. more importantly, he is the author of this book "the search for al qaeda, its leadership, and i'dology." bruce will be available for book signing in the back and if you purchase the book, he will say a few words to you and will sign the book. it is coming out in paperback. your last chance to get one in hard copy. bruce will be available for that briefly. after his talk, he will take a few questions and answers, which will address the audience and i would like to turn the floor over to bruce and we are delight

, a look at president obama's achievements in his first year in office would stephen hess of the brookings institute. that is live at 7:00 a.m. eastern here on c-span. >> in the mid-1990s, "newsweek named him one of the most 50 most influential people to watch in cyberspace. he has helped found a charter school in brooklyn and explained new technologies on "oprah." >> next, encore presentations from the supreme court week's special. >> by and large, the people that cover us like their worked. as you indicate, they know our traditions and they do a very good job. the news cycle, the interest, the attention span being what it is, they have 24 or 48 hours to make the point. we write for a different time dimension than that. it is not just the result, it is what the principle is. the press does a very good job of reporting what we do. it is a little more difficult to report why we did it. i can understand that problem, because they have that 24 or 48 hour news cycle. so they have a tough job. >> this is the supreme court pressroom. on a day when several opinions have been released from the ben

. >> google is in the process of digitizing 40 million brookes. not everyone believes one company should control that much knowledge. >> brown: and margaret warner talks to author kati marton about her parents-- hungarian journalists targeted by the secret police in the 1950s. >> i think it's really important for us in our country to understand the human cost of the cold war before all the witnesses to it disappear. >> ifill: that's all ahead on tonight's "pbs newshour." major funding for the pbs newshour is provided by: >> what the world needs now is energy. the energy to get the economy humming again. the energy to tackle challenges like climate change. what if that energy came from an energy company? everyday, chevron invests $62 million in people, in ideas-- seeking, teaching, building. fueling growth around the world to move us all ahead. this is the power of human energy. chevron. >> what makes us an engine for the economy? plants across america. nearly 200,000 jobs created. we see beyond cars. >> this is the engine that bnsf, the engine tha

host: david on the line for republicans out of chester brook. go ahead. caller: thank you. i think president obama is creating some kind of high expectation from people because of his capacity to speak well. and his i had yomatic expressions are quite impressive, and he's bringing high expectations to those who bought this for him. so high expectations under the muslim world, and i don't think to which match his actions, and this can create a situation, because some stations are very high. and it tomas seems that he is more inspired than things on pace with cooperation with everyone. and i think in the short run, he will win, obviously a lot of issues. but in the long run, i think it will maybe boomer rang against him. and i wish him if best. he is my president. but i think that we will see the result definitely until 2010. and i am predicting that it will be one -- he will be a one-term president. host: specifically, david, what should his priorities be in 2010? >> his president would be to find a realistic way to work with the republicans and great and for him to surnt hi

charged ceos, cfos, or other senior executives in new century, countrywide, american home mortgage, brook street securities, we charged hank greenburg and another official at aig. just in the recent past we have gone vigorously after those individuals who we believe were heading in company that engaged in one form or another of fraud or wrong doing particularly with respect to mortgage and mortgage related products. we're working on streamlining the processes and making ourselves more responsive. but we are reinvigorated and rededicated to that effort. >> but you do feel that you have the tools to be able to do the job that needs to be done? no legislation or anything is required in order to be able to move forward with this aggressive approach that -- you know, the word around here is robust approach. >> robust, yes. well, we have a number of legislative proposals that we have presented, particularly involving hedge fund registration, the creation of essential clearing party for derivatives transactions. more and better information on exactly the kind of trading and activity that goes on

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meanwhile, david brooks of "the new york times" has reported that when he had a meeting last spring with president obama's senior adviser, david off the iraq, mr. axelrod was conspicuously carrying a copy of edmund burke's reflections on the revolution in france. sam tanenhaus has taken it further. in the death of conservatism, he distinguishes between what he calls burkey and realists, the good guys in his formulation, committed he says to flexible adjustments, to changing conditions are and knows he excoriates as revanchists. ideologues seeking a destructive counterrevolution. according to him, the american conservative movement is dominated by extremist revanchists who have betrayed burkeians moderation for a politics of the stabilizing into grants. and houses book has been criticized by conservative reviewers as a contentious miss reading of american conservatism. what cannon house wants, they charge, is a passive, defeatist accommodationist conservatism that politely adjusts in the name of burke to a political and social order created and controlled by the american left. and arrange

the trustees of medicare but instead would spend that money on some other program, would what david brooks in "the new york times" column yesterday call a huge -- create a huge tax, $1.42 trillion in the second decade of its operation to help pay for this, which the director of the congressional budget office has said would inevitably be passed along to consumers and cause premium costs to go up, not down, and which would expand medicaid, the other large government program that we already have for low-income americans, sending a bill of $25 billion to the states that has been roundly denounced by almost every governor in the country, democrat and republican, because at a time when the states are strulg ling, more than they have since the great depression with their budgets, when they can't print money, when they have to balance their budgets, we're expanding health care and sending them a huge bill to help pay for it, which inevitably will raise taxes, raise college tuitions, and in my state, the governor's considering releasing up to 4,000 nonviolent offenders from the prisons as a result

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alice from the brookings institution and bill from cigna. to lead us through these questions, we will be led by margaret brennan, a reporter and anchor for bloomberg television. i am especially happy to introduce margaret, she is a graduate of foreign affairs, my home department and she received her b.a. in 2002. all of you u.v.a. students out there, when you wonder -- when you contemplate what you can do with a major in foreign affairs, here is your answer. margaret. >> thank you so much. i'm still trying to explain to my parents that i'm doing my b.a. in foreign affairs and minor in arabic. i'm having fun doing it. to talk to smart accomplished people like we have today. right before this session i was readinglines on my blackberry and i saw that house majority steny hoyer has said they're going to vote next week on rages the debt level to either $1.8 trillion or $1.9 trillion. as we have been talking, the can has been kicked further down the road, the fourth time in 18 months. the debt ceiling has been talked at least and effectively chan

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and this is another good tennessee state student, katherine brooks. she was originally from birmingham. but she was a student here in the early 60's, unlike rip, very much involved in the sit-in movement. non-violence is the key to the civil rights movement and most of the people who were involved understood the idea and readily embraced it even though for some people it was a struggle. and catherine like several of the black southern freedom riders i interviewed talked about getting her start as a protester almost instinctively as a child and just sort of acting out and just sort of natural and i want to read an excerpt from our interview in the book. it might have been around fifth or sixth grade when i began to protest the way things were. i refuse to step aside walking downtown when a white person would approach me. in high school we've road city buses to school and one day my friends and i through the colored sign out the window. leader during the sittings and picketing in 1960 and now of course we are in asheville it was tough to have someone pu

she's now at the brookings institution. and james galbraith is a long- time observer of the fed.e's a professor of government and business relations at the university of texas at austin. professor galbraith, you do not believe bernanke should be confirmed. why not? >> well, i have a great deal of respect for chairman bernanke, both as a civil servant and as a professional economist, but this was an institutional failure of the first magnitude. he was chairman of the fed in advance of the crisis. he failed to heed the warnings that were being offered about the dangers in the housing market, about the dangers in derivatives. the fed was lax in its approach to the regulation of the financial system at that time. and, the crisis happened on his watch. in a sense, he was the admiral of the fleet. it went aground. it seems to me that, in the principle of command responsibility, the institution should get new leadership at this time. >> lehrer: alice rivlin, you see it differently. >> i do. >> lehrer: tell us why. >> i think the whole financial community bears a lot of responsibility, a

brooks is that -- and i quote -- "according to the chief actuary for medicare, it will cause national spending to increase faster." that's right, mr. president, we're going to raise taxes, cut medicare, send the big bill to the state. all for what? quote -- "according to the chief actuary for medicare, it will cause national health care spending to increase faster." so if you're paying x for premiums, you're going to be paying more as a result of this bill. health care spending goes -- continues david brooks, "is already zooming past 17% of our gross domestic product to 22% and beyond." then it's going to be hard to explain to the 9 million people that the congressional budget office letter said would lose their employer insurance under this bill why that will happen. of course, it will happen because under the bill as a whole, as employers look at the mandates and the costs, many will decide not to offer health insurance and so those employees will find themselves either in medicaid, the program for low-income americans into which 15 million americans are going, a program which 50% o