this is charlie cook! but what was so wonderful about it, you actually stopped for almost 10 minutes, and you just let me talk to you about my feelings about politics. and i won't remind you who the person was that i had voted for, but what i thought was just so wonderful was you actually listened to what i had to say and asked me questions, so i just want to say i think that's why you are and have been as successful as you are. because truly more than posters, i care about what you do and the opinions. as best you can, you really do try to base it on what people are actually thinking as opposed to, this is my opinion. guest: well, thank you. i will have a spring in my step the rest of the day and no, this isn't my wife calling in. thank you very much. host: james tweeting in, sticking to charlie cook is a pretty big deal. he's a big star. guest: well these people are the most scrupe lousely down the middle eptty in american politics and i've never noted any tilt here whatsoever. so that's why i love going

vote the p >> host: charlie cook as always we appreciate your time available at c-span.org and that cook political.com. have you back any time to read >> guest: thank you for the nice comments everyone. >>> coming up next on c-span2, a world economic forum discussion about economic growth. then at new ideas and financing health care and charlie cook of the cook political report gives an overview of the 2012 political landscape. [inaudible conversations] >> ladies and gentlemen, let me welcome you to the united states institute of peace. this might be the last event that the united states institute of peace does in this building. we will be moving sometime next month if everything goes -- if everything goes well, which i expect it will. we are very pleased this morning to welcome the latest in a series of afghan officials who have agreed to come speak to you here at the institute of peace. you may remember that president karzai was year less than a year ago. we are very pleased we have got this arrangement with the ministries and officials in afghanistan. before i introduce the panel, let

this is charlie cook! but what was so wonderful about it, you actually stopped for almost 10 minutes, and you just let me talk to you about my feelings about politics. and i won't remind you who the person was that i had voted for, but what i thought was just so wonderful was you actually listened to what i had to say and asked me questions, so i just want to say i think that's why you are and have been as successful as you are. because truly more than posters, i care about what you do and the opinions. as best you can, you really do try to base it on what people are actually thinking as opposed to, this is my opinion. guest: well, thank you. i will have a spring in my step the rest of the day and no, this isn't my wife calling in. thank you very much. host: james tweeting in, sticking to charlie cook is a pretty big deal. he's a big star. guest: well these people are the most scrupe lousely down the middle eptty in american politics and i've never noted any tilt here whatsoever. so that's why i love going

this is charlie cook! but what was so wonderful about it, you actually stopped for almost 10 minutes, and you just let me talk to you about my feelings about politics. and i won't remind you who the person was that i had voted for, but what i thought was just so wonderful was you actually listened to what i had to say and asked me questions, so i just want to say i think that's why you are and have been as successful as you are. because truly more than posters, i care about what you do and the opinions. as best you can, you really do try to base it on what people are actually thinking as opposed to, this is my opinion. guest: well, thank you. i will have a spring in my step the rest of the day and no, this isn't my wife calling in. thank you very much. host: james tweeting in, sticking to charlie cook is a pretty big deal. he's a big star. guest: well these people are the most scrupe lousely down the middle eptty in american politics and i've never noted any tilt here whatsoever. so that's why i love going

host: we are talking with charlie cooke. writes for the "national journal" group, also the editor of the "cook political report." guest: i am not an economist or an energy expert. my hunch is you will see energy prices coming down a good bit. i do not think the situation in libya is going to remain where it is today. that is my hunch. we see oils bikes that economists will tell you that will has remained high for about a year before it starts having a severe economic impact. it will have a political impact. before that. in terms of unemployment, my role found, and the last report was 9%, the one before -- and it was squirrelly -- right now is night with 4% -- 9.4%. if it is above 9%, it is hard for obama to get reelected. if it is near 8%, it will be very hard for republicans to beat him here. an appointment had been up 10.8% at the time of the 1982 republican midterm collections. it dropped all the way down to 7.4%, and he won a landslide. this will not drop to 7.4%, we will not see a landslide, but it is 8.2%, his chance o

host: how would you respond to charlie cook's sentiment? guest: the outcomes of what's going to happen remain to be seen. there have been a number of changes and reforms and there's a different process now. we have to remember that there is greater technology that is available to the public to participate. i mean, right now people can get electric notices of upcoming hearings of redistricting. people can join with other people via facebook, other social networking sites to talk about redistricting and what's the important value and people can draw their own map. and i think all of these many different things, and the ability for the public to participate in the process are going to produce an outcome that may surprise some or it may not. one of the thing that is really we as a country need to decide is how much of the redistricting process are we comfortable with having happen in back rooms or in hallways versus how much do we want in open sunlight with the public there understanding exactly what is going on. and the ability for political m

we will also talk with charlie cook of the cook political report. >> with congress in recess and a march 4 deadline, see what house members said about h.r. 1. spread over four days and 61 hours with 162 amendments considered, it is on line with complete time lines and transcripts of a recession. c-span.org/commerce. . >> we provide information about public affairs and american history. it is available to you on television, radio, online, and on social networking media sites. find our content in our c-span video library. and we take c-span on the road with our local bus and video content vehicle. it is washington your way, the c-span network. it is now available in more than 100 million homes, created by cable and provided as a public- service. >> now, former president clinton and others look back at the 1995 dayton peace accords that ended the three and a half year war in bosnia. they discuss with the agreement is meant for global them -- global diplomacy. we will hear from madeleine albright and retired general wesley clark. he was the chief military negotiator. former national security

host: how would you respond to charlie cook's sentiment? guest: the outcomes of what's going to happen remain to be seen. there have been a number of changes and reforms and there's a different process now. we have to remember that there is greater technology that is available to the public to participate. i mean, right now people can get electric notices of upcoming hearings of redistricting. people can join with other people via facebook, other social networking sites to talk about redistricting and what's the important value and people can draw their own map. and i think all of these many different things, and the ability for the public to participate in the process are going to produce an outcome that may surprise some or it may not. one of the thing that is really we as a country need to decide is how much of the redistricting process are we comfortable with having happen in back rooms or in hallways versus how much do we want in open sunlight with the public there understanding exactly what is going on. and the ability for political m

we will wrap up the program with charlie cook and his latest views -- his views on the latest gallup poll on party affiliation in the u.s. next up, from this morning's post a washington journal -- this morning's "washington journal." our presence is so expensive and what is keeping it that way? guest: corrections costs have been going up significantly over the last several years. frankly because we keep incarcerating more and more people. today, for example, can the state of michigan, one out of every the people -- one out of every three people that works for the state worked for the department of corrections. these are institutions that are a secure and we need to protect the public. we need to make sure there is a severe remembered h -- we need to make sure there is a secure perimeter. they are expensive to build and expensive to operate. host: beyond the basic infrastructure of keeping prisoners inside and keeping them out of the public, what are the other costs? we are talking about caring for people and benefits. guest: corrections has done a fantastic job over the years of limi

we will talk with charlie cook of the political report. "washington journal" begins at 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. >> this week and onbooktv, the former chief of the cia's osama bin laden unit on the war against the u.s. they think the liberal has tarnished the reputation as a trusted news source. later, susan jacoby discusses culture and "never say die." >> executives recently discussed health care policy at the university of miami. panelists include hospital administrators and government officials in charge of medicare and medicaid. they focus unaccountable care organizations which are new models for providing health care that can buy insurance companies, physicians and hospitals. this is 1.5 hours. >> this session will focus on accountable care organizations which many are touting as a model for health-care reform. although the legislation passed last year encourages the establishment of these bigalke -- aco's it does not gotten a lot of attention. i want to thank them for sponsoring this panel and extend a warm welcome to john kirsner he will leave the discussion. he is an a

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