brian: william la jeunesse joins us from outside the capitol building in sacramento, calif.

out in alameda, calif., they have decided that they want to address the issue of bulying. they have combined that with the sexual orientation and they're starting these discussions as early as to an arde tinder gard? >> that is right. Ñiis one thing to say, we are more to teach your children that certain lifestyles are ok. they are not as straightforward. they have said there's a problem with violence, and we need to combat that by telling your children that gay families are ok. kids will read about gay penguin'sÑi raising a child together. in fifth grade, they will learn the definition of transport underÑi -- the definition of transgendered, and bisexual. making value judgments about a very controversial subject and doing it in the name of protecting children. we checked with the fbi. there are no reported incidents of violence based on essentiallsexual orientation ine grades. steve: when i was in third grade, we study the books like "little house on the prairie." we did not have a penguigay , as -- gay penguin books. >> it has nothing to do with having your children unde

shepard: breaking news at of antioch, calif., were a grisly scene has been discovered. kidnapped where she was a girl, 18 years ago. there is your picture. she was 11 at the time, and now she has been freed. at the age of 14, she gave birth to a child and then another child and she was being held. cops just got to the scene, and they have declared another crime scene. this is part of it. this is the shed in the back of the house where police say that this girl, now a woman, was kept 18 years as a sex slave. she and her children, the children of the kidnapper and this woman. they have been held there and rarely let out at all. the children had never seen a doctor, and neither have the mother. how she had the baby, we do not know. is it possible that they were in the shed the whole time? those are the suspects. we do not have all the pieces filled in, but we can tell you that police to arrive at the scene and let us know that they have declared another crime scene. claudia is with us from antioch. what do we know? >> you can see the yellow crime take is up again. we're do

in burbank, calif., the two journalists were reunited with their families. with them, former president bill clinton who went to north korea to negotiate for their release. >> we could feel your love all the way in north korea. it is what kept us going in the darkest of hours. >> more details are emerging about their captivity. they were kept apart and poorly fed. >> she is really anxious to have fresh fruit and food. she was telling us about how there were rocks in her race. >> president obama think bill clinton and former vice president al gore. >> all american should be grateful to both former president clinton and vice president al gore for their extraordinary work. >> we have always considered that a totally separate issue. >> the secretary of state's -- the state department insisted that the high-profile visit does not set a precedent for dealing with difficult regimes. >> the state department says the north koreans made it clear that former president clinton was the one person that could get them out and president obama asked to go, but officials maint

her daughter, calif.'s first lady stood behind her and spoke about her at the church today. >> she was strong and vulnerable, tired, tireless, determined, and ready to surrender to god. >> maria shriver's uncle is battling brain cancer and did not attend the services. special olympians were also there. >>> a woman at the center of the abu grabe prison scandal was scheduled to talk about her new book as part of a forum in d.c. today. the event was caedel because of threats of violence and protests. she was convicted for her role in the picture scandal. she is now appealing that conviction. >>> conflicting statements could result in a kidnapping charge against a former astronaut being dropped. the statement was thatshe sprayed her with pepper spray during the 2007 confrontation. she is accused of driving from houston to orlando to kidnap her romantic rival. >>> next, a young journalist scores a one-on-one with a president -- with the president. >> and a beautiful day around the metro area. >> michael vick in

that is in glendale calif. on saturday, august 49, at 10:00 a.m.. it is what would have been his 51st birthday. and then the public goes on to say the ceremony would be limited to family and friends. it rounds out that the jackson family wants to reserve the funeral for all of the fans. the last thing i want to tell you about, in wisconsin, remember how bret favre said he was ready to play football -- we just have confirmed that he is on his way, on a flight to the minnesota vikings. if all goes well in a perfect world, his agent says, he will sign. can you imagine having to walk across the border in viking country and see him where a viking uniform? where has the world on? jon: some pretty troubling passport camera from minneapolis. it is leading to an investigation. the tape shows daryl dinkins being pulled over for a traffic stop. a whole bunch of cops are punching and kicking him and even pulled out eight taser at one point. the police chief and minneapolis says there is a cause for concern, but they stopped short of saying what they did. he was

. >>> hundreds of firefighters are battling flames and calif., northeast of los angeles.he flames are burning at the edge of the angeles national forest. the rough terrain and sizzling temperatures are making it difficult. >>> if all goes as planned, the space shuttle discovery will lift off in just about 40 minutes. nasa hopes the third time is the charm. they had to scrub wednesday's launch because of a faulty fuel sensor. tuesday's launch was scrubbed because of a thunderstorm. if it does not watch by sunday, it will have to wait until october because japan and russia have missions that could be in the way. >>> millions of people are feeling lucky, holding tickets for the mega millions jackpot. john gonzalez spoke to some of them. >> here are the tickets, we did not win this time, my friend. bosworth against us. deport -- dogs were against us. -- the odds were against us. >> why are you so sure? >> $332 million. what would you do? >> not pay off my mortgage. >> good question. >> that is the jackpot for the mega millions multistate lottery in these believers are feeling

in stockton, calif., adam housley has what cures that. >> minor league baseball is continuing to thrive of four can go to a minor league game and spend less than $50 on tickets and food combined. it is revitalizing a lot of downtown areas. you are seeing good baseball. six players already in the big leagues. trace: brand new information. jamie: there is new video of that just came into fox news of the violent clashes going on in the west bank. take a look. israeli police firing tear gas as palestinian protesters run for cover. some of them are firing back with slingshots. the demonstration to protest a barrier that has been built by israel near west bank towns. protesters say that it cuts farmers off from hundreds of acres of farm fields. china shutting down a factory after 300 children in the area are poisoned. the children nearby were believed to be sickened by police and from the factory. all of the children hospitalized had lead levels more than 2.5 times what was safe. this -- there is growing anger in china over public safety scandals, many were children have been the main victims

host: hercules, calif., next.aller: good morning, i just rolled the up out of bed and it is very early out here, about 4:00 a.m. i happened to have the tv on and saw you guys talk about this and dick cheney making these comments again. i cannot believe they are allowed to spin this over and over again. it is so clear that they violated so many laws, the real the our constitution and hijacked the country, get rich off of it, got richer. how could anybody believe anything they say? they need all to go to jail. if you go from the top down, not from the bottom up. host: viewers are weighing in on twitter. this is the story from the paper this morning. a lack of translators is still hampering intelligence. the congress warned about weakness in the war and terror. he writes that the u.s. national security agencies remain woefully short of foreign- language speakers and translators nearly eight years after the 9/11 attacks. the enemy often communicates in relatively obscure dialects. the necessary cadre of u.s. intellige

she spoke at the ninth circuit court judicial conference in monterey, calif., last month. >> thank you, judge fisher, and welcome. it is an enormous honor and privilege to be with you here at the ninth circuit and with so many friends and admirers colleagues. my task is to talk about the last term the supreme court. i thought we would get the morning started with fleeting excellence. i do not just mean what you said on the golf course the other day. although that is not just a joke. justice stevens, in his concurrence -- his dissent in the decision in fcc versus fox says broadcast and expletives, according to the fcc, in violation of fcc broadcast policy, are not always in the center -- in decent. as he said, as any golfer who has watched a shanked short approach go, it does not mean that the profanity uttered is in decent under fcc rules for describing sex or excrement. but i will return to the first amendment, a first topic. just a few overall observations about the past term. number one, it was not a term for making constitutional law. the only real strict constitutional case in thi

it happened in santa clara, calif.. a lot of people running scared.t was dennis espinoza, and he is with us now. i read that you said you thought you were going to die. >> yes, sir. i was pretty scared. shepard: so it is going along like usual, and then what? >> nothing seemed wrong until we got up there, and it was shaking, and we saw sparks from the top, and we saw pieces flying off, and the ride just stop. shepard: you saw sparks and pieces flying off. was it going very fast at the moment? are you noticing this? >> it was in front of me, but we were slowing down. shepard: did they make an announcement or something? >> no, they did not. shepard: how old are you? >> 14. shepard: you are up there with friends or somebody? >> there were six of us. shepard: what are you guys saying to each other? >> we were just asking each other if we were ok. then they told us that firefighters were coming. shepard: and it took awhile. all the folks on a building were saying they did not know they could stay on a roller coaster for four hours without visiting the men'

in orange county, calif. to a muslim skull.n the first five minutes of the mother lied to me. -- in a muslim school. they said i would teach in the new building, but i was put it behind the building in in illegal room with about 30 children and the second grade. i could not teach every friday morning for the noise in the mosque. there was a loud speaker for women who could not go inside on those days, but had to sit outside. host: could you please route this out? caller: i will try, darling. the muslim people feel, the men feel that they really respect women and they do not at all. but they do not even know the meaning of it. it is a terrible problem. host: any reaction? guest: the muslim world it is as the verse as the rest of america. we have millions ofmuslims here in this state who have adopted pretty well to our local norms. norm's across those other worlds it differ from country to country. oftentimes these traditions that you see a real pre-islamic tribal traditions that have imposed themselves on islam. so, the problem

host: laguna woods, calif., on the independent line.ler: like most libertarians i have the operating assumption that our political class is filled with power-hundred control freaks, and that the press corps are their faithful cronies. in afghanistan a principal factor of corruption is drug prohibition. we have tried crop substitution, eradication in colombia and it has failed to work. what is the administration's response to that? how do they think it will work in afghanistan after failing for decades in colombia? have you ever heard any journalists ask the administration that question? guest: mike has faithfully said the libertarian line. there are important debate about how important counter-narcotics are there and whether they advance our agenda. there is a bigger debate within the administration. i am not sure it has been covered well by the press corps, but it may be because of access issues, not for lack of reporting. in washington things are a bit more opaque. host: finally, this message from twitter. guest: in afghanistan, histo

citrus heights, calif. where he took the question of belt citizens receiving the same health care as people on the hill. >> in consideration of the bill before various committees on my republican side of the aisle we tried to do with the question by saying that if the public option were part of the program all members of congress would be required to be in the public option. [applause] interestingly enough in one committee it was adopted and in another it was voted down. i do not know whether it will be in the final package. it seems that the mechanism where people have options to make choices that we have as federal employees is one that american people ought to have, but i will expand it beyond the four or six options by allowing americans to have access to the different options available in all states. so that people can decide brother then my deciding among four which you can choose from. guest: what you heard from dan lungren was this conservative idea of the government tried to force something on you.

host: stockton, calif.? caller: good morning.irst of like to start by offering my condolences to the first lady of california as well as the entire. kennedy entire -- the entire kennedy family. we have lost a great man and i wish americans would take a moment to reflect on his tireless and devoted service to this country, and as well as the entire families devotion to service. i wish we had more politicians like him. thank you for taking the call. please, people, let's have a little respect. the man just died. let's have some respect for his family. host: john on our independent line. shreveport, louisiana. caller: good morning, i would like to give my condolences to the kennedy family. i grew up in massachusetts. my parents dr.octor was the anesthesiologist and probably delivered john and teddy kennedy. i have long been a republican but feel that ted kennedy has shown an ability to go across the aisle and work respectfully. i think there is a comparison between ted kennedy and our recent presidents -- both were not great student

jon: breaking ellyn calif., a mass of wildfire that is raging out of control. see this fire burning north and east of los angeles. it has doubled in size in the past 24 hours. two firefighters are dead after their truck rolled down into a canyon. the fire is only 5% contained. the flames scorched more than 85,000 acres. that is roughly the size of philadelphia. it is threatening 12,000 more homes. we will keep you updated on this fire as firefighters are trying to get the upper hand on it. they apparently lost sight of the road on which they were traveling. their vehicle rolled down into a canyon. they'll both been confirmed as the first to fatalities as a result of this fire. heather: all of the brush that is out there not only be around people's home, but also in the forest, as well. fox news viewers are sending us lots of photos of the southern california fires. do you recognize that sign in the foreground? that is the rose bowl. this one from joshua. he sends a in and those are fire trucks lined up along the road. this is what the fire looks like in the sun

citrus heights, calif. was where he took the question of belt citizens receiving the same health care as people on the hill. >> in consideration of the bill before various committees on my republican side of the aisle we tried to do with the question by saying that if the public option were part of the program all members of congress would be required to be in the public option. [applause] interestingly enough in one committee it was adopted and in another it was voted down. i do not know whether it will be in the final package. it seems that the mechanism where people have options to make choices that we have as federal employees is one that american people ought to have, but i will expand it beyond the four or six options by allowing americans to have access to the different options available in all states. so that people can decide brother then my deciding among four which you can choose from. guest: what you heard from dan lungren was this conservative idea of the government tried to force something on

the fire department in long beach, calif.rking to rescue these window washers when there's scaffolding collapsed. i am being told both have been rescued. can you imagine them live off of that building? -- dangling off that building? jane: more on a horrific crash on a highway that claimed eight lives. police say dianne schuler was driving the wrong way when she crashed her minivan in new york. the family denies she had a drinking problem. she killed seven people, including herself. tests show blood alcohol level was more than twice the state's legal limit. there is a disturbing trend about women and alcohol. they are actually drinking more. according to the fbi, the number of women arrested for dui has shot up in the last decade. the numbers are up almost 29%. we have the chief operating officer at madd. you could say easily that women are more dangerous in this case as drunk drivers because so often they have kids in the car. >> yes, our hearts go out to these families involved. eight people have lost their lives in a crash

who knew that just outside of bridgeport, calif.? >> good morning.it off. pack animals that in some war zones do some of the heavy lifting. morning wake-up call at the warfare training center in sierra nevada. crucial members of this marine unit, complete with furry ears and a strong back, perfect for hauling a heavy load long distance through heavy terrain. precisely the forces from the mountains of afghanistan. >> i do not want to haul all of this on my back, for one. >> marines headed to the war zone learned how to get hundreds of gear back and on to donkeys and mules. these animals are not just strong, they are short-footed. when they cannot see their feet or choose to be stubborn, they will not budge, so that is when they become donkey whispers. >> it is like a five or six- year-old child you're trying to teach something. you have to give them ideas. >> it is rather hostile territory. it took us what or a tug on the chain to get them going. this is not the only pack animal the marines have. they will be prepared to bring the fight straight to th

poll local district attorney in orange county, calif., has not made this a special circumstance case,he death penalty. the warrant is for homicide, but not with special circumstances at this time. that is something that our government will negotiate, along with the orange county district attorney's office after he is apprehended. jane: the u.s. marshals service is on the hunt. they will keep us updated. please let us know if anything develops. >> sure. we have issued a $25,000 reward for information leading to his arrest. jon: lawyers of the largest lutheran denomination of our -- are deciding whether or not to let homosexuals become pastors. they have already approved a statement on homosexuality. what is going on today? >> it is an emotional day this morning among delegates, whether to allow gays and lesbians to lead in churches. conservatives say at the heart of this, is about the authority of the scripture stating that homosexual behavior is a sin. the sides have agreed to disagree, but it is the most contentious debate of modern protestantism, and both sides claim a moral high gr

they will begin their journey in sacramento, calif., and go to the nation's capital.is group and where they are going and the whole deal. >> 16 days, 15 states, 34 cities. they start here in sacramento and will end in washington, d.c., with a taxpayer march on the capital. generally speaking, these people want lower taxes, less regulation, less government, but on joint by mark williams, was one of the groups that is putting this thing on. what do these people want from washington? >> basically, to be heard. we are taking our government back. we are watching irresponsible spending, and regis interest, a government out of control, and we want to grab the reins. >> the house speaker is saying it basically parties like yours with one goal in mind, to unseen democrats. >> the republican party right now is in a coma. i wish they were helping. this is democracy. these are working stiff, taxpaying citizens, who are being abused by their government. you will see that here in sacramento where the emphasis will be on cents -- central rights. >> another thing will say is that the

a salmonella scare is sparking the recall of thousands of ground beef products produced in fresno, calif between the june and the 23rd of june. the beef was distributed in arizona, california, colorado, and utah. jon: the dow is down about 20 points, with news on the housing front. the percentage of folks could double in the next two years. a whopping 48% of americans might wind up in that situation. say it is not so. >> it means being under water, when you owe more on your home than it is worse -- worse. deutsche bank is saying that it does not matter what kind of loan you have, what kind of mortgage. it will get worse for all of that. and one of the reasons why so many of us are under water is because prices have declined severely. but some things point to stabilization. we're seeing a refinancing and modification, and some index is telling us that prices are stable in certain parts of the country and improving in certain areas. so we are talking about this, and it is said to come back to jobs. we can modify mortgages, and a lot of government grants are working right now. our fate is n

in the middle box, a lock down near the bank of america in sherman oaks, calif. after the bank manager heard noises in the vault. and in the bottom box, in hollywood florida, a whale is trying to beach itself. we will keep an eye on that. he is getting some help. trace: a note to bank robbers, break in during off hours. juliet: that was my joke. trace: u.s. border patrol agents reporting increased activity. they are catching seven times the amount of people. now a new tool is helping them bust the bad guys. casey stegall is with us in san diego. >> good to see you. right now customs and border protection has high-speed boats in its fleet patrolling the waters around the country, but the problem is some of them are nearly 10 years old and the technology is outdated, but that is soon all about to change. this new interceptor is loaded with technology. the infrared camera allows agents to see things in the middle of the night with no light at all. we are tracking this sailboat that is about 1 mile and a half away. you cannot even see it with the naked eye, but is cl

this is acton, calif., near what they are calling the station on fire.ating you throughout the day. in the meantime, remember all those school closures because of the swine flu? the cdc has a new strategy on how you can protect your kids. patti ann: and what is the real story of the government's use of the terror alert just before the 2004 elections? tom ridge speaking out over whether or not this was a political ploy. quality and reliability... are more than words here. it's personal. i have diabetes. rodney's kid too. so we're so proud to manufacture... the accu-chek® aviva meters and test strips... here in the u.s.a. plus, we've proven you'll waste 50% fewer strips... when you use our meter, which means greater savings... for people with diabetes, like me. patti ann: former homeland secretary to secretary -- homeland security secretary tom ridge says that he did not use the terror level for political reasons. he said members of the administration urged him to raise the tariff levels just before the election. he also noted that president bush's approva

teams of police and fbi agents are frantically pushing in oakland, calif.s boy is especially vulnerable, because he has cerebral palsy. he disappeared from a parking lot, and the father fears he may be kidnapped. he is pleading for his safe return. take a listen. >> people have come in and out of his life of his life, dropping him off, letting him go. i will leave it like that. just go. jane: the foster father has taken a polygraph. we do not know the results. police have been in touch with the boy possibly biological parents, who live separately in san francisco. if you have informations, please call the number on the screen. gregg: keeping an eye on northern california. fires continued to rage, and thousands have been forced to flee. but they are getting some help. are you receiving a payout from a legal settlement or annuity over 10 or even 20 years? call imperial structured settlements. the experts at imperial can convert your long-term payout into a lump sum of cash today. and added a little fiber? sweet! sweet! (together) sweet! (announcer) now for th

this is a dolphin's stuck in a creek near san jose, calif..e's a dolphin that is wandering around. someone is going to try to get that thing focused back to the ocean where it belongs. once behind bars, and now working on the links. former gitmo detainees. they're spending their days on the bermuda bowl golf course preparing the landscape for the upcoming pga grand slam of golf. the high rate of four chinese muslims known as uighurs is raising more than a few eyebrows. they may be working there longer than the two-day tournament through their attorneys said the uighurs were looking to find jobs and be productive citizens. the pentagon determined they did not pose a threat, but their release was delayed because they cannot go back to china where they face persecution. many other countries did not want them. just 200 days into the his presidency, mr. obama is feeling the heat of our summer this content to that is what the polls are showing. americans speaking out. how they feel our commander-in- chief is handling his job. these are numbers. we w

there is no reason that we should be able to buy a health care plan -- one not sure what calif. -- from another state if it works. pharmaceuticals have to be competitive as well. there is no reason that we should not be able to buy pharmaceuticals from other countries like canada. if it will drive the prices down for people in the united states of america. the pharmaceuticals the company is now on board with obama because there is something in the health care bill that says the government will not be allowed to negotiate prices. follow the money. consumers also have to be more responsible about our health care costs. we expect everything to be paid for in this day and age. when anything goes up out of our pocket we know. the moment healthcare costs go up, we moan again. we used to pay the doctor went to see the doctor. now a junior $50 if i go to the emergency. -- now i paid $250 if i go to the emergency room. do you want to use the emergency rooms for colds? do it. it will cost $250. better yet, where 20 cents a packet -- we are going to send you a package. we are going to send you hom

this is west chester, calif.. there's a standoff involving that red volkswagen.some capacity, the secret service is involved. harris faulkner has an update. >> this started off as a freeway chase. it can to stop outside the federal building. there are two suspects inside the red volkswagen. a robot has fired a laser into the car. i have been listening to the helicopter reporter. it is some kind of like to see if somebody is sitting in the car. a law enforcement source says one of the two people inside this car made an unspecified threats against the white house. that is why the secret service wants to talk to the people inside this car. the freeway chase began after some kind of conversation at having to do with a traffic misdemeanor. there are reports of the federal building is getting about collided as they try to work to get the people out of that card. -- there are reports of the federal building is getting evacuate as they try to get the people out of the car. i have been watching the scene for about an hour. this freeway chase came to a screeching halt. it

. >> we are learning in that bank situation, bank of america in sherman oaks, calif., that they haveown. a manager heard noises from inside the vault as he opened the bank this morning, and they decided to shut the whole thing down. what we are hearing from our crew there -- this is in los angeles, about 16 miles north of los angeles -- what we are learning is they have shut down major thoroughfares. ventura boulevard in both directions. that affects a lot of people in this section of los angeles as they try to figure out what might have happened inside that bank vault. we are working to confirm exactly who went in and what section of the bank they are focusing on. they are keeping everybody in the neighborhood and media back quite a ways from this bank of america. jane: thanks very much. take a look at this -- it is the state of the art g-5, very nice. the house of representatives wants to buy eight brand new planes to fly lawmakers around the globe. they set aside $550 million in the latest pentagon spending bill for the purchase, but that, as you can imagine, is causing a bit of c

trace: the sheriff here in contra costa, calif., talking about the case of jaycee dugard.were observing children and tenths in the backyard, and that phillip garrido was a sexual addict. so a deputy went to the scene, but he did not pick up on or investigate the situation. now he is saying it was a missed opportunity. he went on to say that he is not pointing fingers, but there is a lot of focus on why this was not fully investigated. the car was also found on that property that abducted jaycee dugard. more breaking news on that case as it comes in. more breaking news out of southern california on the death of michael jackson. his death was in fact caused by an overdose of drugs. the cause of death has been ruled a homicide. it does not change the scope of the investigation. it's simply confirms what has been in the media for a while. michael jackson did die from an overdose of drugs. it was ruled a homicide, michael jackson dead at 50 in june. let's go back to the jfk library, and martha. martha: as you see over my shoulder, bobby kennedy, jr., the active environmentalist

rick: also today, calif. fire crews are working overtime and battling a fast-moving wildfire as we speak. this video is coming in from the santa cruz mountains, where flames have forced more than 2000 people from their homes. the wildfire first sparked wednesday night. s -- it has engulfed more than six square miles. right now, it is only 5% contained. that is not a whole lot. what is the latest? >> the latest is that this fire is growing. it has grown to 4,100 acres. that is about five times as big as central park. we understand two buildings have been destroyed. we are here on the western edge of the fire. four hundred people from this area remain out of their homes. however, there appear to be fewer homes in danger today. fire officials say that the number of threaten structures have dropped from 1000 to about 750 today. that indicates some progress. we still have no reports of any injuries here. rick: we mentioned that terrain being very rugged. that has to make it tough for firefighters. >> it really doe

there is no reason that we should be able to buy a health care plan -- one not sure what calif. -- fromnother state if it works. pharmaceuticals have to be competitive as well. there is no reason that we should not be able to buy pharmaceuticals from other countries like canada. if it will drive the prices down for people in the united states of america. the pharmaceuticals the company is now on board with obama because there is something in the health care bill that says the government will not be allowed to negotiate prices. follow the money. consumers also have to be more responsible about our health care costs. we expect everything to be paid for in this day and age. when anything goes up out of our pocket we know. the moment healthcare costs go up, we moan again. we used to pay the doctor went to see the doctor. now a junior $50 if i go to the emergency. -- now i paid $250 if i go to the emergency room. do you want to use the emergency rooms for colds? do it. it will cost $250. better yet, where 20 cents a packet -- we are going to send you a package. we are going to send you home

there is no reason that we should be able to buy a health care plan -- one not sure what calif. -- from another state if it works. pharmaceuticals have to be competitive as well. there is no reason that we should not be able to buy pharmaceuticals from other countries like canada. if it will drive the prices down for people in the united states of america. the pharmaceuticals the company is now on board with obama because there is something in the health care bill that says the government will not be allowed to negotiate prices. follow the money. consumers also have to be more responsible about our health care costs. we expect everything to be paid for in this day and age. when anything goes up out of our pocket we know. the moment healthcare costs go up, we moan again. we used to pay the doctor went to see the doctor. now a junior $50 if i go to the emergency. -- now i paid $250 if i go to the emergency room. do you want to use the emergency rooms for colds? do it. it will cost $250. better yet, where 20 cents a packet -- we are going to send you a package. we are going to send you hom

james joins us from carlsbad, calif. caller: i know that it is tough to get information from the government through the freedom act, but we have always had a history dealing with terrorists and how we treat them since world war i. we get into this quagmire of the cia. if there was something done wrong -- and i guess mr. dick cheney is turned to look at it as if we made the mistake, not the guy in the trenches. he followed orders. as a reporter i would ask you and your colleagues if you're going to do a story, dig into the fact, look at the administrations, the history we have now. look at who was giving the actual mandates to the people down there. no matter what you or anybody says, 90% of the people in the cia are in the military, in uniform. guest: i will happily look into that. that has been a target for reporters for the past eight years and i have no doubt that more information will become available. what people knew in meetings at the white house, and the like will become numb. we know that there many meetings of

the next call is from stockton, calif., on the line for democrats.aller: good morning, i think it is terrific that president clinton was able to go to korea to help with the release of the hostages, the prisoners. i do believe if john mccain had been elected there would get 12 years of hard labor because he follows the standard bush method of not talking to anyone and thinking that all work out. i do appreciate your taking my call. one more quick thing. as you are reading something from the small town of a car, indiana this morning, you read a quotation from a woman commenting that president obama was giving money to the car companies and to the banks. president obama did not give a dime to the banks -- that was the tarp program under the bush administration, correct? host: correct. caller: i see this happen too often on c-span for people are quoted as saying something false and no one ever says anything about it. these are serious times and we're dealing with serious problems and it is the responsibility of the specially people at c-span. we're gonn

oakland, calif. on the line for democrats. caller: hello, i really enjoy your program.s americans we have to give it our head out of the sand. as for the cia and leon panetta, basically, since world war ii we have been getting it wrong. we got wrong in korea through the bay of pigs. in the 1970's and 1980's the intelligence agencies the a lot of dumb operations. we are currently in a war because they got it all wrong. for people to say that we should just move on and not know why we continually get our intelligence wrong -- as for the caller who took the bell bush keeping us save, you know how you really keep a person say? you want them to find out ahead of time, not after the building has tumbled. at the point when the building tumbled, the military is involved. if we will wait around to have intelligence and let terrorists run in and out of our progracous the terrorist did before 9/11, what is the point of having the cia? we could just say billions of dollars. i do maintenance by trade. i can easily go to a place and fix something, but to really serve my client i need

you can compare kids from concord, calif. to kids from concord mass. -- concord, massachusetts. if you go to a local assessment, as some people have talked about, i think we have moved in another direction since last year, that is what you're going to wind up with. i think we need to build support for everybody to do these things. there are $3 billion going out now for school improvement and states under title 1 are allowed to set aside 4% of their funds for school improvement. there is a cat in federal law of $500,000 per intervention. there may be a need to raise that cap. we think that growth models and the value-added are great, but we think there are problems with it. i think we are doing a disservice to the debate by saying that the goal really is 2014 -- 100% by 2014. i think that everybody looking at the accountability system knows that it is not. that is the rhetorical goal, but it is mathematically impossible to have your annual measurement objectives met by 100%. you'd have to reduce the number of students that are not proficient by 10%. you'd have to get to 46% by ne

she spoke in monterey, calif.t month. >> thank you judge fisher, and good morning, ladies and gentlemen. it is an enormous honor and privilege to be here at the ninth circuit with some many friends and admired colleagues. my task is to talk about the last term the supreme court. i thought we would get the morning started with fleeting excellence. i do not just mean what you said on the golf course the other day. although that is not just a joke. justice stevens, in his concurrence -- his dissent in the decision in fcc versus fox says broadcast and expletives, according to the fcc, in violation of fcc broadcast policy, are not always in the center -- in decent. as he said, as any golfer who has watched a shanked short approach go, it does not mean that the profanity uttered is in decent under fcc rules for describing sex or excrement. but i will return to the first amendment, a first topic. just a few overall observations about the past term. number one, it was not a term for making constitutional law. the only rea

next, -- next phone call from davis, calif.aller: regarding cash for clunkers, a lot of baby boomers, they turned away from domestic auto manufacturers because of the history of high handed tactics they used in sales. the previous guest you had, when given the opportunity to say which manufacturers were benefiting from this, she said toyota. my generation turned away from domestic auto manufacturers because of the tactics they used in selling their vehicles. also, the quality of the automobiles. i used to be in the car business, selling. i got so sick of it. one of the tactics they used was if you got a customer, you got them into the finance office. that woman who said that she called for her mother and said that they were not interested in money, that is right. they want them in the finance office so they can benefit from the higher interest and then sell it right back to them. i do not know what is going to happen to the american automobile industry. the boomers have turned their back on that, and that is my point. host: tha

brian: william la jeunesse joins us from outside the capitol building in sacramento, calif.es, less regulation, and they do not want healthcare run out of washington by bureaucrats. they start in sacramento. then they both go to reno, las vegas, flagstaff, and beyond. who are they? groups and individuals. libertarians and conservatives. not necessarily all republicans. one group says 30% of their members are democrats. some groups you probably know like the national taxpayers union and its citizens against government waste are here. there are some more. a lot of people you're coming for personal reasons. farmers in california and will have lost all of their water. 40% unemployment in those towns. you have truckers who feel they are being driven out of business by diesel air regulations. they hope to gain momentum. people will come out for their own reasons. by a large, they are upset. they feel washington is out of control with the debt and the spending and corporate takeovers and the bank bailouts. we're expecting several thousand people here starting in about three hours.

host: our next caller is from palmdale, calif., on the independent line.ler: good morning to you and your guest. i really loved c-span. i watch it all the time. it is such an educational channel and i recommend it to all of my friends. i'm really happy your guests are on today. i'm reading a book that does talk about president reagan's willingness to talk to his soviet adversaries and his genuine desire to eliminate nuclear weapons. this is a book called "teardown this mess." i wanted your guests to comment. one of the things the book says is that george h. w. bush and bill clinton wrote about reaganomics during the 1990's with peace and prosperity -- coming back to reaganomics they feel the last eight years led to war, bankrupt energy policies, and coming generations of debt. please comment on that. guest: wel, you know -- well, you know, i think the reagan economic program was followed by 25 years of sustained economic growth. i hope that obama can achieve the same. are we going to wait 25 years to find out whether the obama economic program is successfu

press release that i want immunity only if a district civilian judges -- i think his name was wagoner, calif district judge -- who had consolidated all of the cases, if he was given the opportunity to determine yes or no. and in fact, that is what happened. in fact, as you know now, the case by the a.c. yellow -- aclu is going to appeal. >> that is not exactly what happened. >> true, what did happen is that the attorney general, the real misstep, if there is one, giving permission to make the first judgment upon whether he fell they had done it by the law or not. then it was given to the judge. the law did read some of the legislation, that the judge could on his own anybody before him, and the cases may be for him and over will that decision. >> there may not be enough coffee and a room for us to spend some much time -- >> it is an intricate issue. >> but many but at netroots were upset that many people in congress, including barack obama, said they would have accountability and ultimately, as you know, the legislation that emerges clearly tilted toward immunity and had other certifications

there is no reason that we should be able to buy a health care plan -- one not sure what calif. -- from another state if it works. pharmaceuticals have to be competitive as well. there is no reason that we should not be able to buy pharmaceuticals from other countries like canada. if it will drive the prices down for people in the united states of america. the pharmaceuticals the company is now on board with obama because there is something in the health care bill that says the government will not be allowed to negotiate prices. follow the money. consumers also have to be more responsible about our health care costs. we expect everything to be paid for in this day and age. when anything goes up out of our pocket we know. the moment healthcare costs go up, we moan again. we used to pay the doctor went to see the doctor. now a junior $50 if i go to the emergency. -- now i paid $250 if i go to the emergency room. do you want to use the emergency rooms for colds? do it. it will cost $250. better yet, where 20 cents a packet -- we are going to send you a package. we are going to send you hom

and let me say this, and we get and 50 or 70 other names, the man begging for his life in oakland, calif., i have a child, please don't kill me. a police without provocation raised up and dislodged a bullet in his back and murdered him and brought light where everybody saw it. the history of brutal relationships between police people and black communities is what is the predicate. i think a professor wells said, we cannot miss the structural reality here. it is not gates versus crowley. i am saying that the reality is that the atmosphere that has been set in this country should be known by a man who teaches racial profiling as a cop. is it not that black people stand to be sensitive to to the assertion of police power in the face of obvious innocence. professor gates is at his crib. he says that i am here. this man is affiliated with harvard. send harvard police. intellectually, so really, it is the illogically, if you know that he is connected to harvard. but you call this cane-wielding black man -- it is a professor gates to broke the silence, that you do not speak back to police peopl

and that is why i launch this study a year and a half ago after attending a symposium in monterey, calif where i learned california was attempting, through some state legislatures, to abolish the sentence of life without parole for juvenile killers, abolish it. understand this, these artifacts. 43 states, through their elected representatives, the voice of the people, have authorized life without the possibility of parole for juvenile killers and violent scenes. that is well over 90% of thetee. that is well over 90% of the population of this country. stick of columbia has authorized life without parole for juvenile killers. our federal government, 43 states, one of the most liberal district in the country in d.c. has authorized that sentence. those are facts. yet when you listen to the incarceration activists button, you would think the society is not there and that is not where this country is. they are wrong. .. every federal court who has looked at this broad question, has found that this is constitutional. this is not grossly disproportionate to the crime. and you will notice that wh

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james joins us from carlsbad, calif.ler: i know that it is tough to get information from the government through the freedom act, but we have always had a history dealing with terrorists and how we treat them since world war i. we get into this quagmire of the cia. if there was something done wrong -- and i guess mr. dick cheney is turned to look at it as if we made the mistake, not the guy in the trenches. he followed orders. as a reporter i would ask you and your colleagues if you're going to do a story, dig into the fact, look at the administrations, the history we have now. look at who was giving the actual mandates to the people down there. no matter what you or anybody says, 90% of the people in the cia are in the military, in uniform. guest: i will happily look into that. that has been a target for reporters for the past eight years and i have no doubt that more information will become available. what people knew in meetings at the white house, and the like will become numb. we know that there many meetings of the

next, -- next phone call from davis, calif. caller: regarding cash for clunkers, a lot of baby boomers, they turned away from domestic auto manufacturers because of the history of high handed tactics they used in sales. the previous guest you had, when given the opportunity to say which manufacturers were benefiting from this, she said toyota. my generation turned away from domestic auto manufacturers because of the tactics they used in selling their vehicles. also, the quality of the automobiles. i used to be in the car business, selling. i got so sick of it. one of the tactics they used was if you got a customer, you got them into the finance office. that woman who said that she called for her mother and said that they were not interested in money, that is right. they want them in the finance office so they can benefit from the higher interest and then sell it right back to them. i do not know what is going to happen to the >> we will take you live to the white house. he press briefing should get under way more into early --

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