c-span: yes. guest: and it's a letter telling her what he expects out of her, and also to have faith in herself, and that he expects her to be a wonderful woman. it's a terrific letter. c-span: and the letter was written to her -- where was she? guest: she was 14 years old, and she had just gone to england to go to a boarding school. it was a privilege for her to attend. c-span: it says, "above all, remember, dear, that you have a great opportunity. you are in one of the world's best schools in one of the world's greatest modern empires. millions of boys and girls all over this world would give almost anything that they possessed to be where you are. you are there by no desert or merit of yours, but only by lucky chance." why would he say that to her? guest: because of her -- her family and that she was able to -- he was able to provide her with this opportunity. but he does -- he goes on to tell her what he expects her to do, to take herself in hand and do hard things while she's there, read for

c-span: where?> guest: in dc. it's a -- northeast. it's about two miles on the other side of the capitol, down on maryland avenue. c-span: and what do you find when you go there? what kind of folks are in the methadone clinic? >> guest: well, our clinic is mainly for working poor. we do have maybe a 25-percent medicaid population. but mainly, it's people who pay for their methadone and who hold down jobs. c-span: what's the racial mix? >> guest: i -- i want to say about 50-50. c-span: ok. >> guest: the staff is almost all african-american, but the -- and the doctor who owns it is african-american. c-span: because you write a lot about race in your book and -- and what's going on in "pc, m.d. medicine and all this, do you see much racismin your clinic? >> guest: no. i see -- no, i don't see much racism. c-span: do you si -- see much racial politics in your clinic? >> guest: not as it -- not as far as the relationship between the -- the counselors and -- and me and the patients go. c-span: do you see

c-span: let me read it again. >> guest: yes. c-span: ok?stablish a framework within which people can create nested, competing frameworks of more specific rules. >> guest: right. let me start with an example. you can have a dynamic -- dynamist society with all this kind of competition and feedback and variety and innovation. but within that society, let's say you want to run a company that is very consistent. you want to run -- you have a mcdonald -- you want to have mcdonald's french fries be the same everywhere. you don't want to encourage people to -- your franchisees to have trial and error with the french fries. and so you have i -- within the broader dynamic system, where people are trying new things, you have these more specific rigid rules that are designed to meet some more specific goals and that incorporate your local knowledge, getting back to the rule number one, of what those goals should be. so again and again, i came to this conclusion that nesting of rules is very important, and that within the -- you have simple rules at th

caller: thank you for c-span.ng an independent, i hope the democrats and republicans find a solution because the country needs it and it needs to move on from this issue and focus on jobs. own. i just hope for both parties that they come to an amicable solutionçççi] toç resolve te once and forççç all. çççó on c-n radio can with your iphone app listen on your ipod -- the address for the radius station is 91.1 fm in washington. keefe, virginia. the caller: thank you, c-span. i just think with the help summit and the proposal the white house came out a couple of days ago, it is a solid bill that no one can truly disagree with. it covers fraud and waste. it exempts the cadillac plans. it proves obama was not trying to go after the public option but it covers the doughnut hole and pretty much it is setting congress up to transform this be billed to an a. host: specter says 51 votes enough. the pennsylvania senator saying he will support a parliamentary maneuver to push a revised health care bill through the sen

spontoon by c-span and the white house -- sponsored by c-span and the white house presidential electionthe author of the book "a question of command." he is also a national security professor at the marine corps university. you are in afghanistan for 10 days, returned, were invited by the military. why? guest: they wanted me to speak as part of a new leadership initiative set up by william caldwell who has been in charge of training. they are focusing on the leadership side of the afghan to cure the forces. that is one piece that we have sort of neglected. we have focused more on producing afghan to cure the forces, and they are looking at ways to fix the leadership problem. although we produce big numbers, we have not had a performance that we would like the general is looking at ways that we can fix these leadership problems. since i had just written a book on counterinsurgency leadership, they thought it would be useful for me to see what was going on and to speak to the afghans about their leadership issues. host: what did you find? guest: on the afghan side, the military is doing w

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go through that again because c-span is there, and c-span will keep the lights on and c-span will keep the sunshine in on the legislative process and if what we are doing here in the people's house is not to the people's liking, they shall be aware of it and they shall be able to register their displeasure and change some of our faces -- faces if they can't change our hearts, such is the ideal in the american democracy system of c-span is important. c-span is equivalent with good governance. c-span is equivalent with open governance. and that's why many of us, toward the end of the year, all of the things that were happening the end of december, beginning of january, were somewhat taken aback by the fact that brian lam, chief executive officer of c-span, wrote a letter to the white house and said, hey, let's bring the cameras in to all these health care negotiations that are going on in the capitol and the white house and points in between, we'll provide the camera, you provide the discussion and the american people can tune in if they like and see if they like what they see or not. an

eastern on c-span. >> now for educators, c-span offers the new c-span.org. we resigned the web site to make it more convenient for teachers. you can find the most-watched video clips. the latest in education news. plus, the clans to connect with other c-span classroom teachers, and it is all free. sign up at the new c-span classroom.org. watch c-span's "washington journal" for conversations, comments, and your calls about the day's public affairs live daily from 7:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. eastern. >> members of the tea party are holding their first national session in washington, d.c. the discussion begins with a fox news contributor. they talk about issues being discussed among party actists and where they see the movement headed. this is about 50 minutes. year to meet so many incredible people. as we started planning this event, there was one really special person i have the privilege of talking to on the bone, exchanging e-mails. i finally got to meet yher. she is amazing. i'm not a believer in long introductions. please welcome angela mcglowan. [cheers and

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eastern here on c-span.he only collection of american presidential portraits painted by one artist. american presidents, like portraits. see the entire collection on- line at c-span's website. this week on "the communicators ," a discussion about the future of what is called cloud computing with brad smith of microsoft. his company is asking for new rules to protect business information. this program was recorded in january. >> our guest became general counsel of microsoft in 2002 and serves as the head of the department of legal and corporate affairs. welcome to c-span and welcome to "the communicators. çómr. smith, you are in town to talk about a topic i do not know if a lot of people know about, cloud computing. how would you describe it to the average person? >> it is about connecting a smart computing device with the ability to run data remotely. if anyone has ever used a web based email like yahoo!, you have used cloud computing, because you have been storing your e-mail of in a data center. >> here yo

it already was on c-span. he said he was going to do that, his stuff. even if he never run on that campaign and may the promise we still would have had c-span on the congressional hearings so we got zippo from that >> that's true. his claims of transparency are probably unfulfillable. i think the white house has done a lot wrong and there's a lot of criticism for how it mishandled a lot in the first year. however, total transparency means no deals. let's be honest. >> greta: that's fine then don't keep telling us c-span. tell us, i didn't realize that was a dumb thing to say and we saul say dumb things . now to -- and we all say dumb things from time to time. now to tell us all the hearings in congress were on c-span they were before he was elected. and he says my meetings were open except for the legislative leaders not true because it didn't include the unions and -- it is not so. >> it is false, okay. he goes on to say that we are at the five yard line in the process of getting this health care bill to become law. i don't think factually speaking, th

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live coverage here on c-span. c-span radio, c-span.org.n and our coverage of it over the weekend lowry on the democrats' line, good morning. caller: well, hello there. the tea party people are going to take over this country. that is a fact. host: is that a good thing? caller: no, it will be very bad. they will take over the sheriffs, the congress, and this happened one other time. but the time people can to their senses, it did a lot of damage -- by the time people came to their senses, it did a lot of damage. in the 1920's, up 5 million strong, white pith and sheets on -- white hoods and sheets on, and people could not get elected if they did not belong to this group. host: here is robert reich's piece this morning. "mad as hellers on the right hate government, mad as hellers on the left hate big business. but share a growing sense that the economic game is rigged against them. the two are united by how much they detest wall street and its bailout, and their contempt for any cozy relationship between big business and government. mad as h

just about c-span. i've been watching c-span for quite a while now.tion, this should take about 30 seconds. i would really like to see spent what but the time of the -- like c-span2 put the time of the people calling in. i feel like you give some people more time than other people but it would be lnice to have one minute so people go on and on and you do not give them enough time. and if you could give time limits, so if people keep talking -- we don't just want them to go on for 10 minutes or 15 minutes. we're not really interested in their biographies. the second thing and want to mention is it is nice to have two people on opposite if they agree and disagree on some things. when someone is making an accusation -- it would be nice to have two people with opposing views on your program so that we can no somebody is telling the truth and fact check what they're talking about -- host: you know what -- gcaller: i agree with that -- host: if you are worried that there will not be enough questions asked, with two, there will be even fewer. caller: i think

live coverage begins at 8:30 eastern on c-span 2. day, president barack obama will hold a town hall meeting in las vegas. that will take place at green valley high school. 3wjrjr(kátp' 2. a series of accidents. it is like a pile up of cars in a snowstorm. >> how did the u.s. end up in vietnam? sunday, pulitzer prize winning offer ted morgan. q&a, sunday night on c-span. >> attorney general are colder spoke at a conference yesterday on the public defender system. [applause] >> thank you. i would like to say it is good to see you but i cannot see you with all these bright lights. these bright lights. [laughter] i was in detroit yesterday, and we have substantially more snow here than in the midwest, and if you know anything about washington, d.c., 2 or 3 inches is something we can handle. we've got 2 or 3 feet, so it's ap amazing thing -- an amazing thing you were all able to get here, so i thank you for joining us for this very important conference. i want to thank you, laurie. it's an honor to join with you and my old friend, tree, i

if it still happens, c-span will be covering its.ng on a skeleton staff. yesterday we talked to some of it skelton staff people who are here, including our engineering people who keep us up on the satellite. here's a little from that. we're here with kirk who is about to brush off the satellite dish. why do we have to clean off the dish? >>ç water absorbs microwaves. it is the same principle as your microwave oven. it gets trapped inside the water droplets. in trying to transmit a microwave signal from a satellite, there's not much energy to begin with. it gets caught in the water droplets of the snow and palooza our signal level and it will drop far enough and will not get a clean -- and we will lose our signal level. i have been up there twice today. i understand some other folks cleaned it off this weekend. >> there is a contraption here you use. >> this is the improved device. itit is ready to go. we needed the extra height to get to the top. >> any significance of the different pressures? >> it is all we could scrounge. to get

caller: i wholeheartedly believe, i have been a c-span addict and i am glued to c-span 24/7.as a health care worker i compare this financial situation to a health care problem. the patient now is our economy. and we are in critical level requirements. and i am really very disappointed in the republican party. for thinking this is the same old, same old and sending the patient to the doctor's office and saying, take two aspirin and drink plenty of water. when we have a multisystem failure going on, and any nurse worth her weight in gold understands the critical care treatment. the petty politics has hurt our country severely. when you are in critical care you have to look at the multisystem simultaneously. the congress should have fired off four different bills in 2009 to help our economy survive. and they did nothing but chitchat about they wanted all sorts of debates to go on. while the patient was dying. and we will see the effects in this 2012 as well. host: thank you for calling, keith is on the call from louisiana. hello, keith. caller: hey, how are you doing, hope i can

to be on c-span. >> sean: where was it? far cry from what we her on the campaign trail. joining us nicole wallace, sandra smith. good to see you that is a big deal. big deal they wouldn't have been able to be honest. >> how does that change from when he campaigned saying he was going to have c-span cameras in the room this is going to haunt him for a long time. he's going to wish he put one camera in one of those health care meetings. the moderator at the town hall meeting in new hampshire said the number one health care question fielded was pertaining to c-span cameras not being in the meetings. this is a huge problem for the american people. >> sean: it is like a read my lips moment. >> yeah. you know what it reminds me of, john kerry, i voted for it, before i voted against it. barack obama was for putting health care negotiations on tv before he went to new hampshire and was against it because he wasn't sure how people would act when they though they are on tv this guy is the first ever made for television president. he

in fact, check out our c-span -- on our c-span site, if you go there, if you go to our healthcare hub it's called, you will see a listing of everything we've done in relation to healthcare and within that, you will find segments and interviews and other information specifically looking at the health industry, specifically looking at insurance as well. again, it's c-span.org. at least until regardser to the insurance industry, it's there as well. buffalo, new york, good morning. rick on our republican line. caller: good morning. how are you doing? host: fine, thank you. caller: it's interesting that that guy was just talking about with the doctors. health insurance for their employees, it's ironic. as for the congress person, i have louise slaughter who, in my opinion, has been around way too long. most politicians are in washington, and in my case, new york state. they have dysfunctional state government, the whole land as far as i'm concerned. y been pushing for term limits. people are supposeded to be in and out of office, but the people get comfortable. guys are coming home with bi

offers of a new c-span classroom.org.e redesigned the website to make it more useful for teachers with current and timely c-span videos. you can find the most watched video clips organized by subject and topics, the latest in education is, and the chance to connect with other c-span classroom teachers. it is all free. signup for the new c-span classroom.org. >> the u.s. senate returns at 2:00 p.m. eastern with more work on the nominations for the judge on the third u.s. circuit court of appeals and the national labor relations board. senate leaders decided to push a boats back until tuesday after the weekend snowstorm. the senate this week may also pick up a jobs bill. the house returns tuesday for legislative speeches. legislative work at 2:00 p.m.. later in the week they will vote on intelligence program and to repeal antitrust exemptions for health insurance companies. live coverage of c-span, the senate on c-span2. >> this week on "the communicators" the proposed merger of comcast and nbc universal with analysis from

the new c-span video library is a digital archive of c-span programming, from barack obama and ronaldveryone in between. over 150,000 hours of c-span video now available to you. it is fast and free. try it out at c-spanvideo.org. >> "washington journal" continues. host: micheline maynard is sr. business correspondent for "the new york times." you are covering the hearings going on right now. tell us about the most compelling moments of the testimony. guest: there were two things that stood out. first is the testimony of ron smith, the owner of a lexus vehicle and four years ago she was involved in one of the incidents -- rhonda smith. she was going down the highway merging into traffic and hurt car suddenly accelerated to 100 miles an hour. she called her husband. eventually the car slowed itself down but during her testimony she cried, and it was a very emotional moment in the the hearing room. the second thing that stood out was told all along had said the repairs they prescribed for these recalls were proper, that this is going to work. jim lentz, president of toyota motors usa was

on c-span.g sarah palin and the tinñr foil hat, mark skoda, are these same people upset when they see pictures of president obama charicatured as the joker from batman? guest: we have 600 paid delegates attending the convention, and it will be just over 1,100 at the banquet tonight. i would suggest this. i think the movement is maturing. while i don't appreciate those kinds of views, the fact of the matter is, people's sensibilities, if you will, and the political czar chasm we see and some. signage that we see going around is just that. we have gotten to that level, because the left sees the right one way and vice-versa. so we tend to degrade the dialogue so quickly. having said that, political discourse takes all forms. i think sarcasm and even some of the signage we saw is not bullets. i spoke yesterday at the opening session about tiananmen square and the great picture of a man standing before the tanks. boris yeltsin who stood on the tanks in moscow as he began to open up that country. you

c-span: what's your goal in life? where do you go after -- i mean, when's -- when is your aei fellowship over? >> guest: it's over in the s -- the fall of 2002. c-span: so what then? what do you want to do? >> guest: well, i'd like to do i think what i'm doing now, but at higher levels of visibility and -- and influence. i -- i have thought about returning, at the same, though, i -- i have thought about working with schizophrenic patients again and devoting more of my time to clinical work. i'm -- i -- maybe you've once interviewed someone named fuller torrey. he's a psychiatrist. actually, he's local. and a schizophrenia researcher, has a lot of influence on policies, written some wonderful books and he has started a group called the treatment advocacy center. it's located in arlington, and its efforts are directed towards reforming these commitment laws. but -- but with that background, i -- i have thought of working with that group to perhaps developing a -- a model kind of -- of asylum. i realize that's a word now

. >> the new c-span video library is a digital archive of c-span programming, from barack obama to ronald reagan and everyone in between. over 100 duties 7000 hours of c- span video, now available to you. -- 157,000 hours of c-span video, now available to you. . . >> there is no prospect of a big bipartisan deal, but democrats can coalesce around a big package, on messy process of passing the senate bill and using reconciliation to fix it. with your pulse on the democratic caucus, the you have the stomach to go through some of the messy process that is hard to explain to people, how you do all of this? do you have the stomach to get it done? some members told me on friday that they do not think that members are ultimately will be willing to vote for this. >> i think the members will vote for this. i think they understand the historical position that they are and, that this country has struggled with its health care system over the last years, some people get very good coverage and some others don't get any at all. you've halt -- you've heard all of these discourages -- descriptions of bed

that will be alive here on c- span also.elections. host: we have reporter for politico and john kornacki from george washington university joining us to talk about the role of independent voters. i wanted to show some of the swing in independent voters and where they are. here are the numbers, the latest gallup numbers on the percentage of independence. 36%. which way these independents are leaning. this is 2010. 43% leaning republican. 48% leaning democratic per take you back to the middle of the bush administration towards the end of the first term. 2004, january, republican, 40%. leading democrat, 46% corporate the recent election in virginia, new jersey, republican governors one there. then scott brown in massachusetts. it seems more democrats are leaning republican. guest: this is a global. is about the entire united states. if you went by states, it would be a little bit different. alex was up there before. virginia, a larger group of republican-leaning independents moved dramatically toward bob mcdonnell. it seems to

. >> now for educators, c-span offers the new c-span classroom.org. we have designed the web site to make it useful for teachers for use in your classroom. find the most watched video clips organized by subjects and topics, latest in education news, plus the chance to connect with other c-span classroom teachers and it's all free. sign up at the new c span classroom.org. >> president obama talked about his meeting with congressional democrats and republicans and health care legislation and iran sanctions. press secretary robert gibbs continued speaking with reporters after the president. this is about an hour. >> you know, we're trying to bring some change that you can believe in. hello everybody. i'm glad to see that all of you braved the weather to be here. a little while ago, i had a meeting with the democratic and republican congressional leaders and it went very well. in fact, i understand that mcconnell and reid are doing snow angels on the south lawn together -- can you picture that, chuck? not really. the meeting did go well. and i appreciate

we will have live coverage in about half an hour here on c- span. >> this weekend on c-span, first lady michelle obama on preventing childhood obesity and secretary arne duncan on education policy, part of our color -- coverage on this year's annual meeting on the national governors association. livecopter of the weekend. >> sometimes i think history is a series of accidents, like a pileup of cars in a snowstorm. >> how did the u.s. and up in vietnam? sunday, pulitzer prize-winning author ted mark -- ted morgan on the valley of death and the battle that ended french colonial rule in indochina, sunday night on q&a, c-span. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2010] >> the white house plans to hold a health care summit next week inviting republicans to take part. the associated group -- a sensitive press shows a new study out today that show premiums for prescription drug coverage has gone up an average of 14% last year. president obama is in las vegas today to unveil a $100 million plan to help some home mortgages. las

eastern on c-span. >> these c-span video library is an archive of c-span programming from barack obamaours of c-span video is now available to you. it is fast and free. check it out. >> next, a couple programs from last week's and a -- annual conservative political action conference. first, is rick santorum and then former u.s. ambassador to the united nations with john bolton. this is about 50 minutes. administration. this is about 50 minutes. >> thank you very much. thank you very much. thanks for getting up. i know you guys were partying you late last night. it's great to see you all here this morning. thank the focus at the american conservative union for giving me the opportunity to be here with you this morning. when i was here last year, i spent a lot of time how this consent political action conference was great but we needed to do more to reach out to the culture that if we were going to win ultimately and keep the values of america that our founders instilled in us that we needed to engage in the culture. i see the next two speakers after me are two examples of how you can su

caller: good morning, thank you for c-span. i have a couple of questions, one is the failure of homeland security in the christmas bomber when he actually boarded the plane i think in the netherlands. and now we will have body scanners in the united states. what are we doing about the foreign countries that are letting these people get through to come through. and then of course the trials of the 9/11 folks i called the senator's office and fly everyone to impanel a jury to gitmo and go there. host: let me stop you there, the caller mentions other countries, what is happening there? guest: that's a great question. in fact no matter how good our security is at domestic airports, we would not have stopped that christmas bomber. that's an important part and the secretary said it was not there fault but that's an easy way out. it's important that we reach out to our allies and that they have security support. after all the terrorist will approach the weakest link, and if that's a foreign partner, that's where they will go. european

eastern on c-span.rts say democratic senator al evan bayh of indiana has decided not to seek reelection. he attributes his decision to excessive partisanship, as the motivation for the decision. he scheduled an afternoon news conference in indianapolis. former secretary of state madeleine albright recently joined economic leaders to talk about developing the next generation of leaders for international affairs diplomacy. see that conversation beginning at 4:40 eastern on c-span. tonight at 8:00, the future of guantanamo bay and its detention facility. army intelligence corps lieutenant-colonel steven abraham will join legal experts and members of the september 11 families. also, tonight, brad smith of microsoft on the future of what is called a cloud computing, dealing with for access of data over the internet instead of local computer service. that is tonight at 8:00 eastern on c-span to. --c-span 2. >> shopping for everything on c- span is at c-span.org/store. there's nearly every c-span program plus

documentary producer tonight on c-span's "q&a." washington journal continues.senior editor of blume's business week. thank you for being with us. guest: thank you for allow having me. host: how has the feds intervened. if it does end, what impact will that have o interest rates and the economy and over all. the federal reserve hasn't been in the united states history. not like it is caul caught up in the constitution.Ñiçó guest: these are securities that the entire bnchinging system just binged on. there was very much new thinking when the fed slashed interest rates. you saw rates kept so low that you had a getty real estate market. out of site, out of mind, not your problem. some other institution or investor's problem. there were so many of these property values plummeting that really there was no fail safe. let me ask you from two fronts. you can get one year adjustable loans for 3-3.5%.Ñi what willÑi we be seeing maybe year from now? >> very much up to the markets. >> interest rates are kept way too low. people are saying the rates are way too low. back in

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thank you for c-span.r obama of? and when was the last time that a country managed to tax and spend itself into prosperity? i'm pretty sure it never happened. thank you. host: thank you for the call. a tweet right here -- our handle is c-spanwj if you want to send your thoughts. the president's day to day -- he is expected to talk about the budget this morning and later today hold a news conference on youtube appeared to field questions by youtube users. the headline in "the new york times" this morning. we will have it to you live, of the scheduled for 1:45 p.m. eastern and you can follow it on our website, c-span.org. norman on our independent line. what about the budget? caller: i think this spending is out of control right now. he has to do something. but i have a few suggestions. i think if we scale back on some of the war on drug funding, i think we can definitely get money back off of that. maybe if we scaled-back on some of the support for israel, we may be able to get some money from israel. that'

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eastern, on c-span 2.we continue coverage of the president's fiscal year 2011 budget request today. the senate finance committee holds a hearing on the health and human services budget which is requested to go up 3.9% in 2011. secretary kathleen sebelius will testify. live coverage is at 3:30 p.m. eastern, on c-span to parry a budget hearing this more on c- span 3, treasury secretary tim geithner testifies on the budget on tax and medicare proposals, live at 10:00 a.m., eastern. in the afternoon, the house armed services subcommittee will hear a report from the defense task force on sexual assault and the military services. that includes some specific recommendations and the report. that hearing is live at 3:00 p.m., eastern on cspan 3. "in depth" welcomes paul johnson, author of over 40 books, his latest i churchill. join our three-hour conversation, live from london, sunday at noon, eastern, on c- span 2. for educators, cspan offers the new cspanclassroom.org. we have the most current and timely videos f

but c-span still tries to do the best they can.t: we will go back to your comments for david corn. guest: i can't sit here and argue with you in your depiction of the media and your critique of the media and my own critique of the media which may not match your critique of the media, but putting that all a side -- that is the point of demandquestiontime.com -- putting aside the of the debates, if you really believe that the media does not do this job in questioning democrats or republicans, presidents or leaders of congress, and there are key matters out there that need to be addressed, here is a form where if you are an opposition leader and you believed that the president has hired someone who should not have been hired or doing some that should not have been done, and if the media is not covering it, that is not stop you from asking him very directly about it. that actually would probably bring media attention to the issue. and if you don't have your facts straight it would bring negative media attention to yourself. this is jus

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it will begin at 11:15 on c- span. a quick look at some of the people attending the gathering. >> what is your name? >> and jeff mclean. >> how many people have signed end? >> about 200 people. >> are you part of the organization? >> i am the designer of the flag. it is this flag here. a couple of weeks ago, it was the flight that you saw at scott rounds rally in boston, massachusetts. it was snuck into the rally and we had about 200 of them there. >> what role do you think that the movement played in his election? >> it was very significant so that people across america could see the significant contribution of the tea party. >> you will have more coverage from natural tomorrow night, a speech by sarah palin. she will be the keynote address. that will begin at 9:00 p.m. eastern. up next, nancy pelosi at the democratic national committee winter meeting. after that, remarks on northern ireland by secretary of state hillary clinton. then president obama on job creation and small business initiatives. >> we welcome paul j

eastern call today on c-span. -- 8:00 p.m. eastern, all day today on c-span.mes alan fox is a professor at boston university. the fbi has reported the latest this is diggs on violent crime from january to june 2009 cannot murder, forcible rape, robbery and aggravated assault are the categories. murder declined nationwide 10%. robbery fell 6%. for shebaa rate declined 3.3% and robbery -- forceable rape declined 3.3% and robbery also declined. it was behind the statistics? guest: the decline would have to be due to more than one factor. you can look at issues such as smart policing, policing that relies on data and information, on strategy. you can look at how many americans we have behind bars, keeping them off the streets. you can even look at the fact that the fastest growing population of our senior -- of our citizenry is the senior citizens. they have the lowest involvement in violent crime. the crime is coming down on the because the population is aging. those are just some of the factors. i'm sure we have 45 minutes to talk about the others. host: the rep

. >> sunday on c-span, a replay of the entire white house health care summit. we'll hear opening comments from the president and congressional leaders followed by discussions on health care costs, insurance reforms, deficit reduction, and expanding coverage. it all starts at 10:30 a.m. eafltern -- eastern here on c-span. >> over 1,000 middle and high school students entered this year's c-span student video on one of our country's greatest strengths or a challenge the country is facing. we'll announce the 75 winners on march 10 and show you their winning videos at student cam.org >> which four presidents lived passed 70 years old? find these and other facts in "who's buried in grant's tomb?" >> a mini history work of biography of each of these presidents. let's face is it, you can tell a lot about people at the end of their lives. >> a visit to their grave satellite, a story of their lives. get a 25% discount at the publisher's web site. type in "grant's tomb" at checkout. >> nancy pelosi talk bd jobs legislation and the health care debate. this news conference

caller: i cannot thank c-span enough.law across -- from selling insurance across state lines. this is the first time i've heard that is the 10th amendment. thank you so much for letting the people know that there is no democratic law that makes this happen. thank you for bringing that to our attention. i do not understand why small- business is not on board with reforming the system? -- with reforming the system. i have never come across anyone who said, i do not want to pay for health care. all i want to have happen is that the $163 and i spent a month on my premium, like i did two months ago and i go to the doctor for the stomach flu, it cost me $1,200 for tests. after paying $163 for two years after never going to the doctor, i still have to pay $1,200. guest: the caller just emphasizes that health insurance is the way repair -- the way we pay for health care. and as a health care costs go up, the ability to pay for it just becomes more difficult and more of the cost of health care is being shifted back to the individu

live coverage here on c-span. c-span radio, c-span.org.and our coverage of it over the weekend lowry on the democrats' line, good morning. caller: well, hello there. the tea party people are going to take over this country. that is a fact. host: is that a good thing? caller: no, it will be very bad. they will take over the sheriffs, the congress, and this happened one other time. but the time people can to their senses, it did a lot of damage -- by the time people came to their senses, it did a lot of damage. in the 1920's, up 5 million strong, white pith and sheets on -- white hoods and sheets on, and people could not get elected if they did not belong to this group. host: here is robert reich's piece this morning. "mad as hellers on the right hate government, mad as hellers on the left hate big business. but share a growing sense that the economic game is rigged against them. the two are united by how much they detest wall street and its bailout, and their contempt for any cozy relationship between big business and government. mad as hel

[applause] this is being broadcast by c- span. this is the first time television in america is going to hear about some of this stuff. this is going to be shocking. it is going to be more radical than into law -- than angela's piece. my dream is that barack obama, if he even seeks reelection in 2012, that he will not be able to go to any city, town, and let in america -- hamlet in america without seeing signs that say, where is the birth certificate. it is a simple question and has not been answered, despite what bill reilly -- bill o'reilly will tell you. the media thinks it's ridiculous. it is one of the most important questions we can be asking. [applause] it really hits the target. polls now show in california -- 33% of californians either believe obama was born outside the country or have doubts about his alleged the whole wide and birth. nationwide, it is closer to 50%. even significant numbers of democrats have their doubts. the media and politicians keep pretending it has been settled. it has all been proven. i say if it h

one of the tricky things is trying to figure out, well, if it's on c-span, are people actually going to get the bill done or is everybody going to be posturing to say things that sound good for the camera. having -- but i think it is a legitimate criticism to say if you say that all of it is going ton on c-span, all of it should be on c-span which is why at this point it's important for me to say that when the republicans put forward their proposals for what they want to do on health care and we put forward what we want to do on health care, i very much want that on c-span and i want everybody here to watch. i want everybody here to watch. because i think -- i think it will be a good educational process, you know, for people to weigh the arguments about the relative merits of the bill instead of listening to millions of dollars worth of insurance industry ads that have been put out there or whatever pundit on the left or the right is saying about these different issues, so we're going to keep on doing it. have we gotten it perfect? no. have we done better than any administration in r

is that c- span -- is at c-span.org/store. and presidential libraries. a collection of books, coffee mugs, and other c-span assessors. look for these and other gift- giving ideas at c-span.org /store. >> from new york now, this is an issue of the nation's economy and health care. this includes former state lieutenant government and appointees of the health care plan. this is about 90 minutes. >> from the time of the inauguration, we swam against the tsunami moving so quickly that it quite frankly took away much of the function of the way the american political system works. just as an example, if a bill is introduced in congress at midnight with 2000 pages, and you will be voting on it at 10:00 in the morning, you're not going to read it or analyze it. most particularly, it cannot figure out how you want to change it, how you can conduct coalitions with your friends and allies to try to make it better or to kill it. things moved too fast, and as a result we have seen some fundamental changes to the united states that i think a