telecom think tank at columbia university. and what they are pointed out, and it is a big task, there will be two major investments involved in the networks over the next few years. one is to appeal seconds ago, cable company upgrades. the second is large phone companies upgrading the wireless networks to provide broad band of wireless. we know those things are going to happen. that is a profound change, probably the biggest change in the last five years. what we do not know is, number one, how consumers respond. we pointed out in september, they are suddenly saying, hey, we released but the speed and we are going to move up to higher levels. cable is going to be a fabulous position. and then we will be the only provider of the generally expected broadbent. -- broadband. but it is just as possible that they will say we do not need higher speeds. we want mobility. so just will buy the slightly more expensive wireless level, but we are not that interested in the fix because we only need for megabits or five megabits. we do not k

. >> i'm from columbia, tennessee, and i'm reading diana gabaldon's book. >> and what is that about? >> it's from the outlander series about scottish time travel. >> i'm looking for more richard russo books to read. >> can you tell me what it's about? >> it's about a man growing up and sort of his -- the only child and can some of the trials and tribulations of his childhood with some parents who are less than stellar, let's say. [laughter] >> i'm graham mccauley from the bronx, new york, i'm here in nashville, and i've just finished reading david

i went to columbia in 1946 under 17% quota. nobody admitted the quota existed. harvard had a big one but it wasn't as afraid of being overridden by jews as columbia was. and in those days, the affect that the sociologist i am referring to ascribed to college education did actually occur. i mean, i was totally transformed by my four years at columbia, having come from a slum in brooklyn. but i don't see that columbia itself, for most of the major universities, have that character any longer. i find them conformists, slavishly conformist. and tolerant, incapable of entertaining positions on the other side, and dogmatic about their beliefs rather than critical. and i think that has been well documented by studies of the contemporary university's. >> how are you doing, sir? i have two questions for you. i believe abraham lincoln once told us that a house divided will not stand. that was recently displayed in black and white in new york with the psychopolitical division between the republicans rep and the conservative rep. and in the end, two of them became -- >> who

tank up at columbia university. and what they're pointing out -- and it's a really big fact -- that there's going to be two very major investments in broadband networks in the united states over the next few years. one is we talked about it just a few seconds ago, the cable industry is updating. the second is two large phone companies are upgrading the wireless networks to really for the first time provide broadband on a wireless mobile basis, so-called lte or 4g, fourth generation. we know those things are going to happen. those are baked in. that's a profound change in market. that's probably the biggest change in the last five years. what we don't know is, number one, how will consumers respond to that? we pointed out in the september meeting that if consumers respond to those changes by suddenly saying, hey, we really love the greater speed and we're going to move up to higher levels of speed, cable's going to be in a fabulous position. and, in fact, they'll actually be the only provider of what will then be the

do you think we will ever have a representative from the district of columbia? >> yes. she is trying to shepherd through congress a bill that would grant the district delegate full voting representation. what we have had and is where a special rule is created so that the delegate of the district of columbia and the delegates of the territories can vote on the floor, but if their vote constitutes a margin of victory, then there has to be an automatic revoked in which they cannot participate. that was something that was first created when the democrats were in control in the early '90s but done away with when the republicans took control. >> this book, "home rule or house rule." when did you publish this? >> i did it because it is near and dear to my heart. if you are of a certain age, you understand congressional interference. >> any other capital city in the world where citizens can vote? >> i did some research on this. no, to my recollection. even in havana and caracas, they have some voting representation. many of them have complete autonomy and in some, there is a sp

luminaries' born and raised in the district of columbia from dr.scovered the method used today to preserve and store blood plasma for blood banks, to duke ellington, whose genius was nurtured in home town d.c. before he gave his music as a gift to the world. the country recognized your breakthrough achievements when, in 2004, president george w. bush awarded to presidential medal of freedom which are the highest honors our country can give. the congress of the united states today gives you honor wherw you served. awards even to the least among us too often are characterized as a historic in the hyperbole of the moment today. but when senator ted kennedy asked the senate to vote overwhelmingly to award you the congressional gold medal, the senate and house together demonstrated that we know a historic figure when we see one. however, senator brooke, the highest awards our country can offer are not given for being historic. they are given for service. in your case, service to the united states of america and a service to the people of the state of ma

after park, another similar case, mills versus board of education of the district of columbia was brought on behalf of seven school-aged children who had been excluded from the d.c. public schools. their children had no alternative education placement and no due process hearings before they were excluded. and the court in mills noted the d.c. statute and the regulation and the language from brown versus board of education or the supreme court had found that education was one of the most important functions of state and localities, and that such an education opportunity where the state has undertaken to provide it is a right which must be made available on equal terms. the mills court emphasized this language holding the nile of education to these children with disabilities violated d.c. statute and regulation as well as constitutional due process. so congress responded to the increased awareness of the educational needs of children with disabilities, the long-term benefits that are biting each other within education, and these judicial decisions establishing a right to education for child

luminaries' born and raised in the district of columbia from dr.method used today to preserve and store blood plasma for blood banks, to duke ellington, whose genius was nurtured in home town d.c. before he gave his music as a gift to the world. the country recognized your breakthrough achievements when, in 2004, president george w. bush awarded to presidential medal of freedom which are the highest honors our country can give. the congress of the united states today gives you honor wherw you served. awards even to the least among us too often are characterized as a historic in the hyperbole of the moment today. but when senator ted kennedy asked the senate to vote overwhelmingly to award you the congressional gold medal, the senate and house together demonstrated that we know a historic figure when we see one. however, senator brooke, the highest awards our country can offer are not given for being historic. they are given for service. in your case, service to the united states of america and a service to the people of the state of massachusetts.

so why are we talking about needle exchange program in the district of columbia? for one simple reason -- the aids infection rate in the district of columbia, washington, d.c., the nation's capital, is the highest in the nation. we are living in a city with the highest incidence of needle-related hiv-aids and meningitis and other things that follow. now, a needle exchange program says to those who are addicted, come to a place where we can at least put you in touch with someone who can counsel you, move you off your addiction and give you a clean needle instead of a dirty one. i hate it. i wish we didn't need t. i don't like it. but in states across the nation, they make the decision that this is the humane and thoughtful thing to do to finally bring addicts in before they infect other people and spread this epidemic. the doctors are the one who tell us that this works. and states make decisions on it. i think the district of columb columbia, facing the highest incidence of infection from hiv-aids, should also make that same decision in terms of the money they spe

to pay the premium, you have to pay the deductible, and the long run, it is more expensive host: columbia, tennessee is next. if you want to find more about this and other health-care related issues, and our health care hub the place to go at c- span.org/healthcare. caller: good morning, cspan. it is nice that the cable companies provide this service to the american people. this gentleman has given us an opportunity to express our views and tell all america what is going on. i want you to know that if the government, all three branches, if they would just listen to the cry of their people here in america, the people have lost their jobs, they have lost their homes, they have lost their medical insurance, people they love are dying. the senators in a congress are sitting in their seats, saying to themselves that their constituents are more important. does not the people in my state. they are saying about the lobbyists and people who are paying their bonus checks, about this time of year and all this money is coming in. if you look at teddy roosevelt, he did several things to get everything

. >> you went to the university of washington and the university of columbia.for something called -- you wrote for something called "the national observer." it was a weekly newspaper. >> most people thought the writing was sparkling. i loved working for it. on the last date of june, 1977, the chairman of dow jones took a helicopter down from new york to tell us they were closing it down. >> what did you do after that? >> i ended up congressional quarterly as managing editor. i spent 2.5 years at that job and seven years as executive editor in 12 years as ceo and president and turned cheap at congressional quarterly. >> it was owned by the newspaper. it was sold recently to what organization? >> the economist group of london. they focus on congress. the economist emerge tod and hao ceo's for one news organization i was the one standing when the v-6 stopped. on august 4, at 4:15 my dad came to an end -- my job came to an end. >> polk promise somewhere she would be only there for one term. >>-- promised he would Ñionly be there for one term. >> he did not believe

telecom think tank at columbia university. and what they are pointed out, and it is a big task, there will be two major investments involved in the networks over the next few years. one is to appeal seconds ago, cable company upgrades. the second is large phone companies upgrading the wireless networks to provide broad band of wireless. we know those things are going to happen. that is a profound change, probably the biggest change in the last five years. what we do not know is, number one, how consumers respond. we pointed out in september, they are suddenly saying, hey, we released but the speed and we are going to move up to higher levels. cable is going to be a fabulous position. and then we will be the only provider of the generally expected broadbent. -- broadband. but it is just as possible that they will say we do not need higher speeds. we want mobility. so just will buy the slightly more expensive wireless level, but we are not that interested in the fix because we only need for megabits or five megabits. we do not k

this goes to the other study we asked for which is the study done by the columbia telecom think tankolumbia university, and what they are pointing out, and it is a really big fact, that there is going to be two major investments in broadband networks in the united states over the next few years. one is, we talked about it just a few seconds ago, the cable industry is updating docsys 3 and two phone companies are upgrading wireless networks for the first time to provide broadband on a wireless mobile basis, so-called lte or 4g, fourth generation. we know those things are going to happen. those are baked in. that's a profound change in market. that is probably the biggest change in the last five years. what we don't know is how consumers will respond to that. we pointed out in the september meeting that if consumers respond to those changes by suddenly saying hey, we really love the greater speed, and we're going to move up to higher levels of speed, cable is going to be in a fabulous position, and in fact, they will actually be the only provider of what will then be the generally acce

it was true when i lived here and it is still true the district of columbia has no movie theater south of capital streak. those are jobs. those are jobs not available to people so when you grow up in a crime neighborhood your opportunity to earn a legitimate wage, the security of what ever you earned your personal security is diminished and it is not surprising that people turn to crime. one of the lessons that crime is -- those offenders that we have been president and several billion more on probation or bail or used to be in that status, those people are a subset of victims. not as if the world was divided into criminals and victims may be pretty madoff was never victimize before we he is unusual most people who turned into long term is serious offenders were abused as children, beaten up on the schoolyard or and victimization in a myriad of ways. as with crime we have an enormous disproportion by race a wish that was true due to racism or decisions within the criminal justice system to publish black and latinos were heavily but if it were true you could fix that can fix the crimina

for whoever wins the popular vote nationally, popular built it all 50 states in the district of columbia. it took me awhile to get my head around this idea. but what it would do, the affect of it would be we would have a truly national election which we've never had a history of the united states. all presidential elections have been 50 or however many of the time separate elections. we would have a truly national election. it would solve the so-called rahm winner problem. but that's not the most important thing it would do because after all of you don't get the wrong when are all that often. it's only happened four times i guess in the nation's history. only once since the united states became a relatively modern democracy with an elected senate and women allowed to vote and so on. now, it happens too often for that of -- for out of 44 that small -- that's not an error rate you want in heart surgery and it's not such a great error rate in presidential elections and it's worse if you look at the close elections that are not landslides the nets one and seven error rate that means six time

nt to prison aer coming back to tiananmen to prote in 1989 -- >> warner: when he cou have stayedt columbia. >> could have stayed at the iversity and been under american protection but he's brave rson. he's taken on the state in t mo direct way that an intellectu can, and he presents a big threat to the state as an dividual and as a representativef this movement. >> warner: pfessor, what does this ia, do you think, about the ofn-advanced theo that the re that china experiences prosperity, thmore it gets integrated into the global ecomy, the more that will lead inexorably to greatepolitical freedom? is that just not goingo be operative in cna's case? or do you think that t chinese vernment is trying to hold back wave here? >>learly, there has been -- in terms of macroeconomic gwth, there has be progress in china, butt what cost? and the costas been the sustainability of the environment. there is massive envonmental degredion. anreally at the cost of cracng down on an independent media, on immediate civil soety, so there has been economic developmentut it has al been at the cost of resource e

the term "state" includes the district of columbia, any commonwealth, possession, or other territory of the united states, and any indian tribe or reservation. (8) supportive social services. the term "supportive social services" means transitional and permanent housing, vocational counseling, and individual and group counseling aimed at preventing domestic violence, sexual violence, sexual assault, or stalking. (9) violence. the term "violence" means actual violence and the risk or threat of violence. sec. 10212. establishment of pregnancy assistance fund. (a) in general. the secretary, in collaboration and coordination with the secretary of education (as appropriate), shall establish a pregnancy assistance fund to be administered by the secretary, for the purpose of awarding competitive grants to states to assist pregnant and parenting teens and women. (b) use of fund. a state may apply for a grant under subsection (a) to carry out any activities provided for in section 10213. (c) applications. to be eligible to receive a grant under subsection (a), a state shall submit to the secr

prison after coming back to tiananmen to protest in 1989 -- >> warner: when he could have stayed at columbia. >> could have stayed at the university and been under american protection but he's a brave person. he's taken on the state in the most direct way that an intellectual can, and he represents a big threat to the state as an individual and as a representative of this movement. >> warner: professor, what does this is a, do you think, about the often-advanced theory that the more that china experiences prosperity, the more it gets integrated into the global economy, the more that will lead inexorably to greater political freedom? is that just not going to be operative in china's case? or do you think that the chinese government is trying to hold back a wave here? >> clearly, there has been -- in terms of macroeconomic growth, there has been progress in china, but at what cost? and the cost has been the sustainability of the environment. there is massive environmental degredation. and really at the cost of cracking down on an independent media, on an immediate civil society, so there has b

britton returned as a professor of law at the university of the district of columbia.ior to that, he served as chief counsel and senior deputy director of the lawyers committee for civil rights under law in washington, d.c. he's a former law school dean, la professor and public interest civil rights lawyer with a career of over 40 years. veronica rivera is a legislative staff attorney with the mexican-american legal defense and education fund where she focuses on education policy. a former schoolteacher and worked in the state of texas, office of the governor of critical justice division. robert -- bob carr, the international bar association, the oldest and largest national association of attorneys. earlier in his career he practiced law with an atlanta-based firm and served in government and staff positions in the united states house of representatives. and u.s. department of labor. cynthia robins currently serves as a consultant. and along with edward kohn is co-founder, director of racial justice initiatives. initiative was launched earlier this year to address the

at columbia and romance languages and become a professor of romance languages at brooklyn college. very brief any sort. family members said he was always known to have his nose and a book, really couldn't abide silliness, set high standards for his son, the future justice. his mother's side was much more -- they were the ones who were all there. a family of storytellers, family of jokesters and showman, and there was actually tension between the two parents in terms of kind of where they came from and he picked up a little bit of both in his mother's family they always had a piano. he learned to play the piano when he was young and as you know to this day he loves to sit down and played piano so here he is, his parents actually were married about six or seven years before he came along, so he was very much a wanted child and very much a vote on child of not just his parents, but all of his aunts and uncles, which i think not only made him believe that he should always be the center of attention, but also put quite a burden on him to perform, and his father was quite a demanding ind

you were originally from the state of washington, went to the university of washington, and also columbia, got a masters degree, but you wrote for something called the "national observer," which only people my age remember, a dow jones publication and then the "wall street journal." how long were you with the "national observer?" >> i got in on the last two- and-a-half years of the "observer." dow jones started it in 1962. never made a dime for dow jones, but they had great hopes for it. it was a weekly newspaper, and it was journalistically a great success. most people thought the writing was really particularly sparkling, and i loved working for it. but on the last day of june, 1977 warren phillips, the chairman of dow jones, took his helicopter down from new york to tell us that they were closing it down. so at that point i went into the washington bureau of the wall street journal. i had 10 glorious years covering politics and congress and the white house. >> and what'd you do after that? >> after that i ended up at "congressional quarterly" as managing editor. i spent two-and-a-half

court of appeals for the district of columbia circuit before had been elevated. >> did he teach law? >> guest: yes. he topmost at the university of chicago, but he also had ties up at georgetown university and also at -- you're talking about the justice? >> host: yes. >> guest: because his father was a professor. he taught at stanford for a semester, for a full calendar year and also at georgetown. he liked it but he did not get into it as much as you would expect it because he is so brainy and intellectual. you would have thought he would have been drawn much more into teaching, but it was easy enough for him to leave it, frankly. he was excited about something that you enjoy. he liked being in the executive branch. >> host: what was his job and what did he do? >> guest: sure, sure. he started in the nixon administration, and he started with a new office created while he was there, the office of telecommunications policy. and he was general counsel for that. and then he moved into more of an administrative position where he was in charge of sort of ideas to streamline the bureaucrac

the district of columbia even has 7,976. how about florida? 946,836.almost a million people on medicare advantage. good reason -- it works. georgia, 176,090. hawaii, 79,386. idaho, 60,676. illinois, 176,395. indiana, 148,174. iowa, 63,902. people enrolled in medicare advantage. let's proceed further. kansas, 43,867 people enrolled in medicare advantage. kentucky, 110,814. louisiana, 151,954. maine, 26,984. maryland, 56,812. massachusetts, 199,727. michigan, 406,124. minnesota, 284,101. mississippi, 44,772. missouri, 195,036. montana, 27,592. nebraska, 30,571. nevada, 104,043. new hampshire, 13,200. new jersey, 156,607. new mexico, 73,567. look at new york, 853,387. north carolina, 251,738. people enrolled in medicare advantage, who love the program. north dakota, 7,633. ohio, 499,819. goo geewhiz, that's a lot of people who are satisfied with medicare advantage. oklahoma, 84,980. oregon, one of the most liberal states in the union, 249,993. pennsylvania, 864,040. puerto rico even, 400,991. rhode island, 65,108. south carolina, 110,949. these are senior

is the worst of all worlds, really, what has resulted. 45 years ago richard hofstadter, the great columbia historian, wrote in his book, quote kofi antiintellectualism in american life," warning that our education schools believe in a preestablished harmony between the good of the child and the good of society. this, she said, was a tender mind myth. the primary on a legal responsibility of the schools in a democracy is to prepare students for participation in the public's sphere. that means arming them with what they need to stand equal with fellow citizens and prosper economically. to explain the failure of the child centered tradition, a lot of sociological explanations have been offered. but if we insist on externals explanations but stressed that teachers, the influx of minorities, the overuse of tv and the ipod, lousy parenting, heartless social policies, and yet not explain the intellectual because it is a fragmented courses watered-down schoolbooks, that is if we don't examine the guiding idea is tha have dominated and despoil our schooling and rejecting those ideas root and branc

obviously and less than two years after landing in new york, he was enrolled as an undergraduate at columbia university. i was struck by the story the first time i heard it, struck by its various remarkable features, by its strum of course. among other things, it opened up for me a sense of wonder. having heard what deo winthrop i felt there anyway hoped i would never again look at the anonymous faces in quite the same way particularly the faces of people with foreign accents in places like new york, janitors, taxi drivers, and young men delivering groceries. who are they really? what memories and dreams to they carry? what abilities that they never get to use? but but jeremy two deo's story first of all, what made me think i might want to try to write about this was something rather small. telling me about this time of homelessness he mentioned before he headed for bed in central park he would look all around to make sure that no strangers were watching because anyone who saw him entering the park it that late hour would guess that he was homeless. when he told me this i thought of my daugh

in the following decade he was a visiting professor at yale, columbia university, and at the university of texas at austin. in 1998 he was distinguished visiting fellow at the kellogg institute of international studies at the university of notre dame. i am personally indebted to doctor brown and more than $0.01. in the early 1970s, i spent two years as a visiting fellow at saint anthony's where i was in exile writing my dissertation for columbia university. and that's where i met archie. in addition to our intellectual exchanges, one encounter was especially beneficial for me. in the spring of 1974, archie stop me near the library and asked, are you going to apply for the job at johns hopkins university? to which i responded in my most urbane manner, what job at johns hopkins university? [laughter] >> frg hadn't asked me that question, my own career probably would have followed a different and less happy path. i'm also intended to doctor brown and a more general scholarly sense. his major publications include the gorbachev factor published by oxford in 1996, seven years that changed the

and less than two years after landing in new york, he was enrolled as undergraduate in columbia university. the story i first time i heard it, it instruct the remarkable features by its dramas. among others, it opened up for me to wonder having heard what they felt or any way i hoped that i were again to look at enormous faces in the way. the faces with people with foreign accents in places like new york, janitors, motel maids, young men delivering groceries. who are they, really, what memories and dreams. what abilities they may never get to use. what drew me to the story, first of all, what made me think i might want to try to write about this was something rather small. telling me about his time of homeless ness. he mentioned before he headed for bed in central park he'd look all around to make sure that no strangers were watching. because anyone who saw him entering the park at that late hour would guess that he was homeless. when he told me this, i thought of my daughter. who once years ago when she was a young teenager on the trip to new york. she started across the busy street. my w

district of columbia had not appointed conferees. the foreign operations bill had appointed conferees but never reported a conference report, a report had never been agreed to. labor-h, the conferees had been appointed but then the conference -- the conferees discharged from their appointment and brought it back to the full committee. and so va-hud had never appointed conferees, and so it goes. the conferees in these instances included a series of members from the majority side, from the variety of the committees in each case. at that time mr. young of florida was the chairman of the appropriations committee, and i could go on here. 2003, the consolidated appropriations resolution that completed the 2003 budgetary events included agriculture, commerce, district of columbia. those were still part of -- it was still a separate subcommittee. energy and water development, foreign operations, interior, labor-h, legislative branch, transportation, treasury and postal service. we're now getting back at least two different reorganizations of

the have one friend who was stopped on columbia's campus because the guard thought he looked iraqi. that thing we have to fight. what we do have to do is intelligent intervention. i know, in my community, who the nets are could i know who's about to go off. i know who is off their medication. i can tell who is about to get violent. in domestic violence, we have profiles where men are building themselves up to where it could lead to family annihilation. we need the civil rights community to identify the legitimate tools of intervention and interception. as i said before, i can do it in my community, but we have got to get -- we have to help law- enforcement come to a more intelligent approach to this. [unintelligible] this is exactly the one community that will help us underground and alienate them. the very people we need to keep us safe, you are using tactics that will alienate them and drive away. it does not get any dumber than that. you also had another dynamic in fort hood. we're talking about doctors could i have two brothers who are doctors -- were talking much doctors. i hav

we base that partly, of course, one of our neighbors, doctor sally ride was a member of that columbia and also the challenger failure evaluations, but it is our belief that that could be done. >> okay. on the issue of the commercial development, i have been certainly a supporter of the c.o.t.s., commercial orbital transportation services, i think that is a viable area for private investment, and also for kind of a fallback provision where we need it. but i do want to ask you, if we had that private capability but not the orion or the ares ready to go, and we still have a gap in our own nasa capabilities, do you think that exclusive reliance on the commercial development is justifiable, in the face of the need to utilize the space station? or does that concern you? >> the reason we offered options that depend heavily on commercial development, are that we are trying to free nasa's money and talent to tackle the tough problems of going beyond earth orbit. we think we were in a situation a little like the airlines were when the government stepped in and awarded contracts to carry the mai

. >> you went to the university of washington and also columbia, that master's degree. you wrote for the "national observer," which a lot of people do not remember. and then the "wall street journal quoted >> dow jones started "the desert -- all the good the observer" in 1962. most people thought the writing was particularly sparkly. i loved working for them. the last day of june, 1977, the chairman of the dow jones took a helicopter down to tell us that there were closing as them. at that point i went to the washington bureau of the "wall street journal quoted >> what did you do after that? >> i ended up at congressional quarterly as managing editor. i spent 2.5 years in that job, and seven years as executive editor, and 12 years as ceo and chief of congressional quarterly. >> it was sold recently to what organization? >> the economist group, which also owns "roll call." ruckuses on congress at did "congressional quarterly quality -- as did "congressional quarterly qu." i was the one standing when the music stopped. my job came to an end and at 6:00 the next morning, i

behalf of the economic club of washington, we want to give you this antique maps of the district of columbiand we know it might violate the $20 limit on gifts that you have but not by much. [laughter] [applause] >> we are adjourned. thank you very much. [no audio] c-span3 c-span[captioning perfoy national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2009] >> more than $300 billion has been committed to states from the stimulus package. more than one a reported $5 billion has been paid out for state projects. for more information, go to c- span.org/stimulus. that is all that." /stimulus. american icons, three original documentaries from cspan are now available on dvd. that is a unique journey to the icons of the three branches of american government. see the exquisite detail of the supreme court through the eyes of the justices. go beyond the belt ropes of public tours into the rarely seen spaces of the white house. , america's most famous home and explore the history of the capital, one of america's most symbolic structures. american icons, a three-disc dvd set. i

with not just a book of best of district columbia. we're looking at the defining change in america's leadership. we have tareq and michaele. we have d.c. for divas in charge in which michaele is featured there on the green. and i'm proud and privileged and pleased she was featured with me at my book launch at the national press club where she emceed along with three other miss d.c.s. >> larry: did you think they thought they were invited? >> this is not a nightclub at a country ranch. what we're talking about is the white house. you don't just get waved in without the proper clearance. i come from three generations of law enforcement, proudly served my country with the u.s. army, the southern european task force in italy and have been in such places as rwanda during the genocide in 1994. i'm a strong believer that our nation has a front line, a first line of defense that will protect our leader, our commander in chief by all means necessary. >> larry: are you saying they were invited? what are you saying? >> i have to believe they are

but i managed to get out of high school in three years and went to columbia university and graduated school. this is just another challenge and just another opportunity for me to demonstrate in my life what on other frequencies so many, not only blind people but disabled people can do if given the opportunity. i don't know if you know this, larry, but 71% of bliebd people in this country aren't working and nearly 90% of deaf people don't have jobs. and some of the ridiculing and the sort of adverse humor that's directed at the disabled really gives a lot of credence to those who actually transmit that into believing that there is an ability. we have a great work force that we're not using in this country. >> we'll be back with more of governor paterson of new york. don't go away. (announcer) some people just know how to build things well. give you and your loved ones an expertly engineered mercedes benz at the winter event going on now. but hurry - the offer ends january 4th. >> another transit authority has had to cancel the free sboi service for new york's children who always previ

from new york, mark hill, associate professor at columbia university and nationally syndicated columnist. finally, joining me here in d.c., peter beinart, senior political writer for the daily beast and professor for the city university of new york and author of "the good fight, why liberals and only liberals can win the war on terror and make america great again." we're out of time because you are all way too well credentialed. moving along you've written a book that sounds just right for this time. what do you make of what's happened today and the news that a report was at the cia about this suspect? >> well, clearly, this problem of sharing intelligence continues to be a major issue but i think the larger context here is that as we move further and further away from september 11, concerns about terrorism receded on both sides of the aisle. the balance between privacy and security tipped back toward privacy. that vote in the house on not allowing these body scan machines was a totally bipartisan vote. democrats and republicans didn't want to. now that we've seen the threat again is qui

but i managed to get out of high school in three years and went to columbia university and graduatedaw school. this is just another challenge and just another opportunity for me to demonstrate in my life what on other frequencies so many, not only blind people but disabled people can do if given the opportunity. i don't know if you know this, larry, but 71% of blind people in this country aren't works, and nearly 90% of deaf people don't have jobs. and some of the ridiculing and the sort of adverse humor directed at the disabled really gives a lot of credence to those who actually transmit that into believing that there is an ability. we have a great work force that we're not using in this country. >> larry: we'll be back with more of governor paterson in new york. don't go away. i always thought calcium, and vitamin d, and exercise would keep my bones healthy. but i got osteoporosis anyway, so my doctor started me on once-monthly boniva. and he told me something important. boniva works with your body to help stop and reverse bone loss. my test results proved i was able to stop and r

have hundreds of thousands of people who drive in from maryland or virginia into the district of columbia. just put a roadblock on every single one of the bridges and the roads coming in here. and i can guarantee you you'll get hundreds of people. now, there may be a bit of an outcry for those going to work because you would have a traffic jam that would take a week to unravel. and i think you and i quickly agree that for the number of arrests you'd get, it's not a very effective thing to do. we're just a little state. but there are some of us who love it and we're born there and we're concerned about it and wonder if this is overkill. >> mr. chairman, i think it is not. and we have the same question in arizona in which the state i'm familiar with and the new mexico the state i grew in. we need to look at the border as an entire region and have some facilities that are not permanent in nature that are off of the border that move around. that surprise people. that they can't depend upon as part of our overall strategic look. now, how we conduct those checkpoints and whether they cause undu

. >> i'm from columbia, tennessee, and i'm reading diana gabaldon's book. >> and what is that about? >> it's from the outlander series about scottish time travel. >> i'm looking for more richard russo books to read. >> can you tell me what it's about? >> it's about a man growing up and sort of his -- the only child and can some of the trials and tribulations of his childhood with some parents who are less than stellar, let's say. [laughter] >> i'm graham mccauley from the bronx, new york, i'm here in nashville, and i've just finished reading david halberstam's the children which is about the freedom ride, and i'm a big fan of c-span2. and i watch it whenever i get a chance. >> for schedule information and descriptions of our programs, log on to booktv.org. you can click on the viewer input tab and e-mail us, tell us what you're reading and what you think of our programs. >> richard wolffi covered the obama campaign in 2008, he has a book called renegade, the making of a president. tell us about your following of the president during the 2008 campaign. >> well, i was one of the few wh

columbia maryland nancy, good morning you were on the air. >> good morning, thank you for c-span. i'm going to put this at the top of my list this year the unforgiving, education by craig it is one of a number of books i've been using over the years. >> host: what was about? >> guest: >> caller: people on the ground. excuse me? >> host: do you want to tell more about it? >> caller: he is a remarkable young man and this account of his life is a graduate of west point, rhodes scholar, served in afghanistan and was a leader who's come back to this country to read he's still serving his country in civilian capacity on balance, the girls come marching home. it is part of a series of reading and in beijing over the last number of years people who served over there and who are serving. that is my sales pitch for everything i hear in the news on c-span everybody's experiences and thoughts and courage is the filter for which i give. >> host: thanks for the call this morning as we ask for the best nonfiction book of 2009 and often on booktv on c-span2 we will bring a look at the list of the

mark lamont hill is at columbia university.everend al sharpton, the activist and former presidential candidate himself. and jeff johnson, b.e.t. news correspondent. okay, professor hill, is obama failing african-americans? >> i think failing is kind of a bold word. he is definitely not doing enough. >> larry: disappointing. >> certainly. i think plenty of reason to be disappointed. when you look at the public policies that are developed and not developed, he's falling short of bill clinton and jimmy carter in that regard. >> larry: what do you think, al? >> i think the overwhelming majority of the people i talked to think that president obama's doing exactly what he promised. he was given a terrible economy. he was given a world that was at war. and he's really dealt in a way that most african-americans, even pollsters are proud of. he was elected the president of the united states, not the president of the civil rights organization. he's doing exactly what he said. this morning, the chairman of congressional black caucus, barb

those exonerated served time on death row. 27 states, the federal government and the district of columbiacompensate individuals who were wrongfully incarcerated. joining me for an update is barry sheck, co-founder and co-director of the "innocence project". mr. sheck, james bain was held longer than anyone now exonerated by dna testing. but is his case unusual in any other way? >> no, as a matter of fact, what's remarkable about his case is that it's a single perpetrator, sexual assault case with a mistaken identification. and the single greatest cause of the conviction of the innocent has been eye witness misidentificationing. >> reporter: eye witness, in most of the cases you still find that that's what lead to the wrongful conviction. >> yes, i mean we know the causes of what wrongful conviction. eye witness misidentification, false confessions, invalid or improper forensic science, prosecutorial police misconduct or inadequate lawyering. jailhouse snitchs, those are the causes but the one that has caused more miscarriages of justice, eye witness identification, we now know after 30 ye

but when you're out in the neighborhoods of the district of columbia talking to regular people, they're saying, "you know, go faster. fix things. do more. >> reporter: the city council, saying, "slow down." >> mm-hm. >> reporter: the union saying, "hey! slow down." >> mm-hm. >> reporter: certainly have some parents, not all, maybe, but some parents, saying, "slow down." you have mayor adrian fenty saying, "faster. faster." >> hundred miles an hour. that's what he likes to say. >> reporter: and its the speed rhee prefers. >> i'm living what i think education reformers and parents throughout this country have long hoped for, which is, somebody will just come in and do the things that they felt was right, and everything else be damned. >> so far, so good. but there are storm clouds gathering. and they ought to be cognizant of those storm clouds, and not underestimate them. >> reporter: the storm is brewing. have you done anything that you regret? >> you know, i'm a very unusual person in that, in my entire life, i don't have any regrets. >> reporter: recently, rhee announced that six of th

that's from linda billman's of harvard and george stiglitz of columbia. for afghanistan, i haven't seen any estimates but it also undoubtedly would have to be at least in the hundreds of billions. and if it goes much longer it could very well be in the trillions just like iraq. the question would be, is there anything of humanitarian nature we could do with that kind of money? let's not forget if we spend the money on intervention there'll be less money available for such things as disease eradication or efforts to combat global warming. there are many easy, inexpensive things that can be done. that will have tremendous humanitarian impact that are easy to do and carry little risk, for example. increasing aids program to protect people against aids in africa. which is chronically underfunded. but gets relatively little attention and little funding when compared with military intervention and my question is why? if there's such an urgent need for intervention in darfur, why isn't there an urgent need to increase spending on aids prevention in africa? i thi

long-standing policy provisionsen contained in the financial services bill and specifically the district of columbia section dealing with abortion, medical marijuana, needle exchange, domestic partners, and the d.c. opportunity scholarships. the bill also contains 5,224 earmarks that total $3.8 billion. well, let me go into the definition of an earmark. according to the champion of it form years, senator mccain, it's not an earmark if you take a specific project to the committee of jurisdiction where they can debate it and decide whether that's a valid project and how it might fit in with other formulas and things that they're already working on. if the committee that actually works that issue approves it, it is not an earmark. but, of course, it has to be put in the authorization process, not dropped in by airmail when the conference committee is meeting at the end of the bill. an earmark that is just sent to conference and nobody got to debate it here and vote on it here that's shoved into the bill is considered an earmark. so there are ways that special projects can be done and be approved by sev

it led columbia records to declare 1959 as jazz's greatest year. today, "kind of blue" is recognized as the best-selling jazz album of all time. its influence on music, beyond jazz alone, has led music writers to view it as one of the most influential albums ever. in 2002, it was one of 50 recordings chosen by the library of congress to be added to the recording registry. in 2003, "kind of blue" was ranked number 12 on "rolling stones" magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. the author of the book "kind of blue: the making of a miles davis masterpiece" called it the premier album of its era, jazz or otherwise. pianist chet corea said it's one thing to just play a tune or play a program of music, but it's another thing to practically create a new language of music which is what "kind of blue" did. as a distinctly american language of music, jazz is rightfully honored by chairman conyers' resolution today. it is with great pleasure i join him in supporting this resolution and i urge our colleagues to support the resolution as well. we