we start with a camel? >> yeah. >> larry: we have never started with a camel. >> i like your jacket. you are hip. >> larry: tell us about this camel. >> this is a dromedary camel. it's the oldest animal in the world. thousands and thousands of years. they raise them. this use them for christmas pageants and educational shows. the camel can survive in deserts, several weeks without water. the fat is stored in its hump. some people think it's water. the sandstorms in the desert get real bad. animals' eyes, two eyelids so the sand can't get in their e s eyes. for a person that have camels in the middle east or australia -- by the way, all camels are mostly domesticated. this is one hump for a dromedary camel and two humps for the back camel. the camel is used for everything. it's used for transportation. it's used for food if the camel dies. people eat camel meat. that fur is used for coats. the bones in the camels are used for knitting needles, weapons. even the dung, the poop, how are you going to cook a ste

we start with a camel? >> yeah. >> larry: we have never started with a camel. >> i like your jacket there, though. >> larry: i'm hip, huh. >> you are hip. >> larry: tell us about this camel. >> this is a dromedary camel. the camel's the oldest domesticated animal in the world, they say. in the world. which is thousands and thousands of years. the jacksons here have raised this camel. they use it a lot pour christmas pageants as well as obviously educational shows. but the camel, larry, can survive in deserts. it can survive for several weeks without water. the fat is stored in its hump. some people think it's water. the sandstorms in the desert get real bad. the animals' eyes have two eyelids so the sand can't get inside their eyes. look at the little ears. nature made the little ears. that way the sand doesn't blast their eardrums or get inside their ears as well. remember one thing. for a person to have camels in the middle east or australia -- by the way, most camels in the world are domesticated. this i

the conclusions that he did, and he said it may elect to some people like it would be easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a kennedy to go to liberty university. by the end of it, even the people at the university realized there was an organic link between his catholic faith and how to approach to public life. there was a sunday in 1994, and we went to the same church for a while. there is a wonderful priest there who is very close to them. we were at a mass where there were tons of kids. there he was with vicki, and my mom was visiting us. it was before the election. after mask she goes up and greet him and says she is voting for him again. she turns to the kennedys and said to be good to each other. >> in the course of his campaign and his almost daily visits back to this state, the element of compassion and forgiveness, the element of the belief and redemption -- can you speak to that? >> i think it had more to do with his catholic faith then i realized during his lifetime. the first hint i had was a letter he wrote to the pope at the very end, which essenti

the conclusions that he did, and he said it may elect to some people like it would be easier for a camelto pass through the eye of a needle than for a kennedy to go to liberty university. by the end of it, even the people at the university realized there was an organic link between his catholic faith and how to approach to public life. there was a sunday in 1994, and we went to the same church for a while. there is a wonderful priest there who is very close to them. we were at a mass where there were tons of kids. there he was with vicki, and my mom was visiting us. it was before the election. after mask she goes up and greet him and says she is voting for him again. he turns to the kennedy -- she turns to the kennedys and said to be good to each other. >> in the course of his campaign and his almost daily visits back to this state, the element of compassion and forgiveness, the element of the belief and redemption -- can you speak to that? >> i think it had more to do with his catholic faith then i realized during his lifetime. the first hint i had was a letter he wrote to the pope at t

the conclusions that he did, and he said it may elect to some people like it would be easier for a camelto pass through the eye of a needle than for a kennedy to go to liberty university. by the end of it, even the people at the university realized there was an organic link between his catholic faith and how to approach to public life. there was a sunday in 1994, and we went to the same church for a while. there is a wonderful priest there who is very close to them. we were at a mass where there were tons of kids. there he was with vicki, and my mom was visiting us. it was before the election. after mask she goes up and greet him and says she is voting for him again. he turns to the kennedy -- she turns to the kennedys and said to be good to each other. >> in the course of his campaign and his almost daily visits back to this state, the element of compassion and forgiveness, the element of the belief and redemption -- can you speak to that? >> i think it had more to do with his catholic faith then i realized during his lifetime. the first hint i had was a letter he wrote to the pope at t

riding camels and stuff like that. we have moved on in america. against christians. jihad really is a complex term, which means defense, it also means self reflection, self improvement. when it is used in a military sense, pin means basically the defense of the homeland -- it means basically the defense of the homeland, and for some extremists, striking at the enemy. at this point for al qaeda, the enemy happens to be christian, but a jihad is a much broader term. most muslims do not think of this necessarily as a war against christianity. nor do i think -- i think if you were to visit a muslim lands that i live in, he would find that muslims nieither ride camels nor are they -- at least the educated ones cap-- as retrograde as you describe them. we have to think about them in a much broader sense and complicated cents. -- sense. host: jack on the independents' line. caller: good morning, gentlemen. good morning, lovely miss libby. but the way, i was also an officer in vietnam in 1967, and i'm not a pacifist. but i agree completely with my figure

and i thinthis now is kind of the straw that bke the camel's back.because we've h other concerns a incidentwith respect to yemn. i think this is the one that will garner the attention of s. offials re than any to date and i ink we're going to see more intensive focus on yemen as we have seen over the last couple of weeks with rds in yemen agnst qaeda sa houses and cpounds. >>fill: i want to ask each of you ifou can givess a sensetarting with yo larry johnson, howfraid is our safety -- how freyed is our safety security netwok. >> it has some gaps, they haven't been closed but we have known for 20 ars. we made so improvements since/11 but there are still significant eas of gapshat we need tolose. >>fill: douglas laird, h freyed. >> one of the thin that ju-carlos said that caught my attention was when i w at nthwest we designed a program cald caps, cputer assisted prepasseng screening. that program was mdated by the faa to all u.s. carrrs. on9/11 theaps program we developed at northwest identified ten of the 19 hijackers. this is on 9/11,. whafailed on

remember the camel trying to put their nose in the tent the example? that is where the director of brand -- direct investors are. i totally understand the issues. this is very -- with the indirect investor, they are not going to get any benefit, anyway. i think that this is not so much a legal issue as it is an issue of fairness. your distinguishing between the direct investor on one hand and the indirect investor on the other hand and now there is a further definition and that is the pension fund investors. everybody lost their money that the same way, with the same fraud. i cannot speak about the wealth of the direct investors. i can really only speak about the wealth of the directors and our particular had fund. these are people that have worked all their lives and accumulated enough money to invest in hedge fund in a level that was over the minimum required. they are not rich by any means, to the extent that they might have more investable -- invested in liquid assets. that may well be right. from the standpoint of this discussion in, to distinguis

if the bird flew or something camel long that would be the end of that. so that is why they needed to start a second group but they had to teach them to my great because they learned from their parents and this was a new route, an agent one that no bert news of a trained them to follow the ultralight, like bill train the egyptian geese. black footed ferrets extinct in the weigel, california condor extant in the wild, the pygmy rabbit extinct in a while, so many of them. >> host: but all of the species do have in common one thing. it seems to me that they all were to the point where we could have written them off. we could have said forget it, let's pull the plug and go away but it didn't happen and some of the incredibly invented things such as using ultralight to teach migratory routes. >> guest: and my favorite story of the whooping cranes is george all troubled who has gone so much for the cranes. there was one female and they wanted captive gene but they've been hand raised so she wouldn't meet with a crane. so george mid-court ship toensing with her

riding camels and stuff like that. we have moved on in america.uld find that muslims nieither ride camels nor are they -- at least the educated ones cap-- as retrograde as you describe them. we have to think about them in a much broader sense and complicated cents. -- sense. host: jack on the independents' line. caller: good morning, gentlemen. good morning, lovely miss libby. but the way, i was also an officer in vietnam in 1967, and i'm not a pacifist. but i agree completely with my figure to brothers in louisiana -- figurative brothers in louisiana, pennsylvania, and i forgot where the other guy called from. there has been a huge number of us in the united states that take real outrage at these wars, especially a criminal war in iraq. but i want to ask a question -- i am going to make an analogy. you used a couple of words here. you used the word "national security," you have used the word "important." if i have to have an expensive house and i consider that important, it is important for me to pay for it. i think of living in a dangerous neigh

>> congressman, camels are very sturdy animals. they are patient and maybe plotting but they eventually get to where you hope they will arrive. i think that this -- this policy is the result of a, a very intense discussion that questioned every assumption that put everything on the table that invited the most vigorous debate. i think as admiral mullen said, for those of us who participated in, i think it was ten meetings with the president and probably three times that many among ourselves, it was an exhausting and thorough process that led us to the decision that the president announced last night. i don't think any of us believe that there were any easy or simple or quick options that we thought responsibly could be adopted. this is the best result of all of our efforts, and i'm sure that there are many who can, you know, pick at it, but i think that it reflects an extraordinarily honest assessment, and i think the time frame which is often at the core of the concerns people reflect, is intended to do two things, because there ar

it would be for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than a kennedy to go at a university.at the end of it, there was his catholic faith and how he approached public life. there was a sunday in 1994, we went to the same church for a while, and there was a wonderful priest there. we were at a bass with tons of kids, and there he was with vicki. my mom was visiting us, and her last vote was for ted kennedy. so she goes up, and he turns to her, she looks at him, and he says, this woman has been very good for you. to be very good for her. >> one of the elements of his faith that you can see quite often in politics, almost daily visits back here to this stage, the element of compassion, of forgiveness, of the deep belief in redemption. can you speak to that? can everyone here? >> i think it had more to do with faith. the first hint i had was a letter he wrote to the pope that explained his career within the context of his catholic faith. i thought that was so moving. and there are other things to pick out about a politician, what is religious views are like. usually political fi

"never mind the camel's nose. we've got his head and his neck in the tent." now, mr. president, i think that's clear. trying to expand medicare will almost assuredly drive all the private plans out of the market. why? medicare pays 80% of the costs of hospitals and less for doctors, and they have to make up the rest of their costs by charging private care patients, private covered patients more money. and it will raise the costs so that private employee -- that private health care can no longer -- can no longer succeed. mr. president, i thank the chair and i yield the floor. mr. burris: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from illinois is recognized. mr. burris: thank you, mr. president. over the past several months, mr. president, i've come to the floor of this body many times to speak about the urgent need for comprehensive health care reform. i have said that our bill must accomplish three goals in order to be effective. it must bring competition to the insurance market. competition to the insurance market. it must provide significant cost savings to

he went on to say, "never mind the camel's nose.we have his head and neck in the tent on the way to a single-payer system." obviously there are some people here who really want to be to* see a single-payer system. they want to see government-run health care. we don't happen to believe that is the solution for america's health care system. the amazing thing about this proposal is that it takes a program that is destined to be bankrupt in a few short years, cuts $1 trillion out of it over ten years when it is fully implemented and then adds a whole, millions of new people into that program. it's hard to come up with any rational explanation for what's going on here other than they are left with, in desperation trying to throw something to the wall hoping it will stick. so i would say to my colleague from arizona, is this typically what happens around here when one party tries to go on its own on something that is this consequential to america? one-sixth of our economy is represented by health care in this country, and essentially what

in and of itself was what people came out for but health care was kind of the straw that broke the camel's back and brought attention to everything else, the debt and things that weren't working. and at the same time, they saw the auto industry going into bankruptcy and of course, being bail out or nationalized, as it is. they've seen banks go under. then they wondered about the health care being nationalized as well. so we've seen our federal debt scwie rocket by $1.4 trillion since this president took offi office. i say "since this president took office," because i acknowledge that there was a trillion-dollar debt in last year's budget. and just this addition comes out to $11,500 per household. so our federal debt now exceeds $12 trillion for the first time in history. already, foreign holdings of u.s. treasuries stand at $3.5 trillion, or 45% of the -- 46% of the federal debt held by the public. and there doesn't appear to be light at the end of this tunnel. i don't want you to take this senator's word for it because we have the nonpartisan congressional budget office and the white hous

. >> do you remember the camel trying to put their nose in the tent? that is with the indirect investors are. -- where the indirect investors are. i understand the issues of net equity. a number of things are valid. for the injured investor, unless they are in the customer definition, none of the things are relevant. they are not going to get any benefit. i think this is not a legal issue as much as it is an issue of fairness. your distinguishing between the direct investors on one hand in the indirect investors on the other hand. now there is a further definition. that is the pension fund has separated from the other indirect investors. everybody lost their money in the same way with the same fraud. i cannot speak about the wealth of the direct investors. i can really only speak about the wealth of the in directors in our particular hedge funds. these are people who have worked all their lives, played by the rules, saved diligently, and accumulated enough money to invest in hedge funds at a level that was over the minimum requirement. they are not ric

the conclusions that he did, and he said it may elect to some people like it would be easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a kennedy to go to liberty university. by the end of it, even the people at the university realized there was an organic link between his catholic faith and how to approach to public life. there was a sunday in 1994, and we went to the same church for a while. there is a wonderful priest there who is very close to them. we were at a mass where there were tons of kids. there he was with vicki, and my mom was visiting us. it was before the election. after mask she goes up and greet him and says she is voting for him again. she turns to the kennedys and said to be good to each other. >> in the course of his campaign and his almost daily visits back to this state, the element of compassion and forgiveness, the element of the belief and redemption -- can you speak to that? >> i think it had more to do with his catholic faith then i realized during his lifetime. the first hint i had was a letter he wrote to the pope at the very end, which essenti

by the way my father, smoking two packs a camels a day, used to basically say to my brothers and my mother and i, don't worry about my smoking, two packs a day won't kill me. until little spots showed up on his lungs and took my father. that didn't convince the tobacco industry or those people in deknill that the fumes being inhaled would lead to the death of people, any more than the science that is overwhelming that the glaciers are melting, that the arctic ice cover is being destroyed, the tundra, the per ma frost being exposed up in alaska, the villages falling into the ocean, beginning with a village up in alaska because of that. it has nothing to do with the science. sounds like the american tobacco industry. but the overwhelming consensus, not only of our scientists, but the world, is that these fumes that are being inhaled by our planet, are making our planet sick. so that's our choice. it's to make them explain why the arctic has lost an ice cover three times the size of texas, compared to just a couple of decades ago. why alaska winters are 6.3 degrees warmer now than they were 6

. >> do you remember the camel trying to put their nose in the tent?that is with the indirect investors are. -- where the indirect investors are. i understand the issues of net equity. a number of things are valid. for the injured investor, unless they are in the customer definition, none of the things are relevant. they are not going to get any benefit. i think this is not a legal issue as much as it is an issue of fairness. your distinguishing between the direct investors on one hand in the indirect investors on the other hand. now there is a further definition. that is the pension fund has separated from the other indirect investors. everybody lost their money in the same way with the same fraud. i cannot speak about the wealth of the direct investors. i can really only speak about the wealth of the in directors in our particular hedge funds. these are people who have worked all their lives, played by the rules, saved diligently, and accumulated enough money to invest in hedge funds at a level that was over the minimum requirement. they are not rich

and certainly what happened in september, which was the final straw that broke the camel's back, that wasn't the first occasion that we knew we were going to run into and were running into a financial disaster. we'd actually had it occur almost a year before in august. so when there was a failure in august of some of the securities, it was anticipated that worse had been case scenarios could occur. i wouldn't be surprised if the secretary ordered a study what we could do under existing law if we needed greater authority if certain conditions occurred that they take those steps and later on they were brought out. but i participated to a large extent in drafting the rescue plan which became tarp. we started out with a very small bill from treasury. i think it was 3 1/2 pages and ultimately the congress, both the house and the senate, wrote it up to where eventually probably 400 pages. so a great deal was added to it. numerous changes. and as a matter of fact, a lot of the powers that were ultimately used and methods were not in the original bill but were inserted by the legislators in t

other body who said that this is the mother of all public options he went on to say never mind, the camel's know we have his head and neck in the tent on the way to a single payer system. and so, obviously there are some people here who want to see a single payer system and government-run health care. we don't believe that is the best solution for america's health care system. but the amazing thing about this proposal is that it takes it come a program destined to be bankrupt in a few short years, cuts a trillion dollars over ten years when it is fully implemented and adds a whole millions of people into that program. it's hard to come up with any rational explanation for what's going on here other than they are left with in this operation trying to throw something in the wall hoping it will stick so i would say to my colleague from arizona this is what happens around here when one party tries to go on its own on something fed is this consequential to america. one-sixth of our economy is represented by health care in this country and essentially what they are saying is we want to expand the

remember the camel trying to put their nose in the tent example? that is where the indirect investors are. i totally understand the issues of neck equity and clawbacks and other things that are valid. for the indirect investor, unless they are in the sipc customer definition, none of those things are relevant. they will not get any benefit anyway. i think that this is not so much a legal issue as it is an issue of fairness, because you are distinguishing between direct investors on one hand and in direct investors on the other hand. now there is a further definition here. that is the pension fund investors has separated from the other in direct investors. everybody lost their money in the same way with the same fraud. i cannot speak about the wealth of the direct investors. i can only speak about the wealth of the indirect investors in our particular hedge fund. these are people who have worked all their lives, save it diligently, and accumulated enough money to invest in a hedge fund at a level that was over the minimum requirement. they are not r

the conclusions that he did, and he said it may elect to some people like it would be easier for a camelo pass through the eye of a needle than for a kennedy to go to liberty university. by the end of it, even the people at the university realized there was an organic link between his catholic faith and how to approach to public life. there was a sunday in 1994, and we went to the same church for a while. there is a wonderful priest there who is very close to them. we were at a mass where there were tons of kids. there he was with vicki, and my mom was visiting us. it was before the election. after mask she goes up and greet him and says she is voting for him again. he turns to the kennedy -- she turns to the kennedys and said to be good to each other. >> in the course of his campaign and his almost daily visits back to this state, the element of compassion and forgiveness, the element of the belief and redemption -- can you speak to that? >> i think it had more to do with his catholic faith then i realized during his lifetime. the first hint i had was a letter he wrote to the pope at th

. >> c-span's 2010 to do and camel contest this year. -- c-span's 2010 student camera contest is here. the deadline is january 28. winning entries will be shown on c-span. get a camera and start filling. >> this is a house hearing with secret service director, mark sullivan, on last week's security breach at a white house state dinner . three secret service agents have been put on leave. >> some people have asked me why we are having this hearing. this hearing is not about crashing a party at the white house. neither is it about one of these celebrities or reality television. on the contrary, this hearing is about real world threats to the nation. we cannot afford it all the hullabaloo and uproar. the indisputable fact is that a couple gained unauthorized access to the white house grounds because no one from the secret service prevented them from entering. the remain at the white house because no one from the secret service required them to leave. we are not concerned about agency embarrassment, discomfort, or shame cannot serve as a substitute for performance. the security get at iss