mhat did you cose to pu on there? ardoll parton, mary bld tim o'brien,, the great blue dressing. therwere some songs that i wrotes instrumentals. me of these - i sat downnd give it a go. igot vince gill and dolly parton to sing. "threelowers", it is called. it is thrilling when you ha eat artists like them sger music and know theare not singing ibecause it ismade but beuse they actually like it. tavis: what do you me of your work songwriter? >> i tnk theongs -- i do not want to brag. i thinkhe songsare new for the five-stng banjo. i like most that they a melodic. a lot of banjo pying can be extremely fast and extmely shy away. extremely complicad. i wanted to ing it back to the o melodies i grew uwith. >>taviswho is the audience in 2009? >>bsolutely no o. there is a huge country -- this is a different kindof music han that. for tritional music or end -- in-amplified musi it is a full audience and bluegrass. there are ftivals. you go t aluegrass festival and there a 25,000 people therbut they do not make news. theare n

the chinese, of cose, are the biggesholders of that debt, their stake topping mo than $800 billi. economist uri dadu says that means ina doesn't want to see either too much inflation oroo little growth the u.s. >> so look at ina as now being a significant stakeholr in how the u.s.conomy performs. >> reporter: the.s. too has a prrietary interest in china, ich is on its way to becomin the largeseconomy in the world, a is already one of the largest markets for u.s. exports. st recent figures show the u.s. trade dicit with china wn 18%. with china shiftg from export- led growth to growtht home, treasury secreta timothy geithner wts to see the trend continue. china's success in shifting structure of econo will be huge contrution to bringing about more rapid glol recovery >> reporter: but china has fueled the shift wh large increases in bank lendg, a trend th worries some servers, says the u.s. cha business council's john frisbie. >> so thu.s. will have its own questions abt china's exit strate from that to avoid inflation down the road,ust as china is going to be talng about our own it

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and that of cose, that ndulum has swung in the othe direction where now even ver soliconsumers with good jobs n't get the kind of credit thathey would like to buy a home or purchase a car >> reporr: so what's the new normal? now the te of increase in credit card delinquencies appears to have peed. but coumers have less credit. and opnheimer's brian levitt does not expect to see tm running back tstores. >>art of the new normal is less consumer spending i me, we're at a picture now where employment is trending higher. it remai to be seen whether we have a big recovery in jobs consumerface further pressure but not only that, the availability of crit is not going be what its been. >> reporte the so-called shadow bankingystem, that nned the flames of the credi bubble has virtuallyhut down. without th extra supply of money from hedgeunds, endowments and investment bas, coronado says can expect the new normal will an tighter standas all around. >> 20% down on home, maybe 10%. but certainly not no moneyown on a home. you are gointo have to show eviden of income to get credit. things that that se

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and, of cose, they go on now to italy. the obama girls are getting what mrs. obama calls camp obama. she thought about sending them to summer camp this year. but decided, instead, that she would take them with the president around the world. it's quite an international education. >> much more thrilling than summer camp. abc's yunji de nies in moscow, thank you. >>> while the president is overseas, there's been a major development in his health care reform efforts. reports say that the nation's hospitals have agreed to contribute $155 billion to help the uninsured get coverage. an announcement on the deal could come as early as tomorrow, from vice president biden. president obama has said he wanted to sign a reform bill by october. >>> alaska governor, sarah palin, is speaking out for the first time since her surprise resignation last week. palin tells our kate snow, she didn't think stepping down would be, quote, such a darn big deal. when asked about her future, palin said she's not going to shut any friends. longtime family friend, kristen kohl, said nothing

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>> you will be sitting on a city street with a lot of other people but won't won't be even close cosing it. >> lawyers for family are also due in court today for a hearing over the singer's estate. i they will swear off with attorneys for two coexecutors named in his 2002 will. but the pop icon's family is looking to delay the hearing and want to see if another will surfaces and more time to say good-bye to the king of pop. cbs news, los angeles. >>> police in nashville ruled the death of nfl quarterback steve mcnair a homicide. the 36-year-old was shot four times on saturday. his 20-year-old girlfriend was found dead by his side. she had been shot once in the head. authorities say the pistol was found under her body. the married mcnair had been in a relationship with her for several months but they say they cannot confirm if he died as a result of a murder- suicide. >>> president obama is in russia for the first summit between the united states and russia in seven years. the first family arrived just before six this morning. they will focus on international relations. we have learned t

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i think the mediwod would be better talking about whether the cose he set for the country is working. >> we're gng to that right now. is sarah palin the most talented potician in alaska? >> say that again. >> is sarah palin the mo talented and ablpolitician in alas? >> i think sheertainly one tm, obviously. >> so you think it's a gd idea for that most talented and able litician in alaska to walk away from governing alas, when it is in this ecic crisis along with the rest of the 4 states? you think that's a gd idea? >> what i sa was, a, she was one of the most talented, not the most tented. >> who is more talted than sarah palin in your ew in alaska? who would be a better vernor? >> i'm notoing to go down the list. >>hen shquits the job, soone else becomes governor. do you think the lieutent goor is going to be a better governor than her? do you thi that will be an upgrade? >> i think hs going to be far more equipped to deal th the ecomic issues for th ste of alaska without the distraction the media come into e state trying to mu rake against the vernor. so much of this fascinatn, so m

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number staying behin in thecities, adsers with iraq unit a trainers for the iaqi armed forces and of cosecall on american air power or american forc indeed on the ground, sould they get in trouble against the insurgents butheice president's trip here alsoook in talks wh iri leaders where he urged them to go aad with political reconciliation but the iraqis dn't real want to hear that. they saidhat was an internal matter and nothing t do with the united states. they had t assuran american troops are on standby to help them i they get into a trouble ding the witrawal process over the next yearnd a half. >> thank you, tom aspell from wag dad. >>> the soldiermade famousor fighting in his pink boxer shorts. zachary yd was pictured on the front page of the "new york times" fending off an enemy attack in s boxeanswer tee shirt. while on leave this holiday weekend, specialist boydtopped by willy's ice cream parlor with the t-irt was wearing in the photograph. he took it to ahanistan hoping his picture would end up a special display the store. got more than that. that display features customers wea

is kind of-- of cose after what's happened in the past ye, y mentioned that's not very surprising.heless, when you put it in the global perspective, it's interesting to see. >> there were a lot of chinese companies on the list, and they were state-owned for the most part. >> yes. >> which is an interesting commentary in and of itself. just the sheer size and force ancan they keep i up with statmoney backing it. >> very true. there's only 37 chinese companiebut ni of them are newcoms and all of those companies,ll of tse 37 are -- the rest are climbing. that's where the mov is happening. as you mentioned, it's mostly state companies. and a t of these companies of course have gotten enormous infusions from the goverent in china and there's not much transparency. so it's hard to see wherereal innovati is happing and where there is just size and scale. but that's definitely a big headline from the list this year. >> what s unexpec to you out this list? >> well, i would say the growth of china. i mean, of course, that's expected. but the degree to which probably was a surprise even to us

. >> of cose we do. anybody has to do that who haa private pl. i have a blue cross/be shield plan.mak the decisns on what type of cverage i get. a practical matte what you don't want is a situation wre the governments the single payer ofealth iurance where you d upike england or canada. >> or the u.s. military the u.s. military is a sgle payer system. should they t be unde a single payer system? >> there's a massive difference between having the military have their own health care plan and having the whole country heal care plan controlled by the federal government. you don't have to go vy far. you just have to go across our bords places like canada or to england where you see that at least a significant delay goes to rationing andou don't g the rationing we have. >> the cost incanada and the uk is two-thirds as much as it is in the united states for the thirds. procedure, two >>el that's because you don't get theprocedure. in england, f example, they have a 78% survival rate breast cce n this country you have a 92% surval rate. the difference isthat we, because we have a systemwhi

the administration, of cose, as you may know, has y a more ambitiouplan.hey want to create a sarate consumer nancial protection agency that will havets only mission otecting consumers. so wheth the federal reserve does it or another ancy does it, i hope that we learn some lessonsrom this episode and make sure the consumers canake goochoices buthat the choices ey have are clear, transparent, so that they ca shop and not be oled or deceivedn terms of the kinds of financial products thathey use. >> lehrer: ericahackelford has a lated question. >> good afternoonmr. chairn. erica shackelford. i'm affiliated with the uan league of greater kansas cy and i'm so a full-time stent. thinking abo the mortgage crisispredatory lenders allowed people to get themlves into los that they could not afford. what des the federal reserve plan to do to educate e public in the future so that thitype of crisis do not reoccur? and also, would y support a mandato education component as part of the mortga lending process? >> well, you ow, first, as i mentioned, we have donthe regulat

but since the book came out,f cose, barack obama has swept back into power and...wept into power andfor a lot of people on the right and increasingly for lot of people in the country as a whole, it looks like we'r aually going to have a reay of the debates of the late '70s and early '80s. in a way this is, though, a problem forepublicans because it means that in a sense they could potentially win elections in 2010 and 2012 simply by rerunning the messages of the early '80s becse they'll ve barack oma as a foil. the trouble is once happens to republicanonce they get back into government? they'll be back in the same posion they were in in 2004 and 2005 wre voters willay "okay,e voted for you because barack obama spent o much money, raised r taxes a so on." but thes problems that we elected barack obamao deal with still exist. the problem of health care acss in america, the pblem ofealth care affordability >> rose:o what happens if barack obama pses health care reform? what hpens if theconomy turns around? what happens if, fact, the ending of the money ows down because the stimulus gets

i wnt to read you quicy a quote from congressman charlie rang who is of cose influential comttee chairmann the hou who said this afternoon overheard by reporters to s no one want to tell e speaker she's moving too fast. and they, quote, damned sure don't wa to tell the president. > you have to keeporking at this. hope we can get sething moving the next feweeks. might even consider maybe slowing dow the august recess. 14,00people aday have lost health care. before we all finish our work here, eve day 14,000 people do along wi the 20,000 w lose their jobs ad 10,000 sing their homes. i mentned the bankruptcy and the foreclosure issued relaed toealthare crisis. lamar is correct. we're spending today d . congressman ryan we're spending.5 trillion on health care. we rank 37th the unitedtates in theorld at outcoe. we're at the bottom of industrialed of infant morlity. a studyut ofennessee dicates that this generion of young ople will be the irst generation of american who don't live as we or possibly as longs their parents. that's nce the founding the replic. ts issue demands our attention and t

of cose, here mr. scher is correct. one in theirlite is dock their job. .ued a call for aqaeda toetonate aajor weaponn the united states, and yet for some reason, to my knowledge at least, th department of homelandecurity has not yet be to see him, nor been to see mr. beck norox news for havi provided him a plfo and passive asst, for pring ofot just a terrorist attack which cou kill americans, but approving of one that might eve kill fox ewers. if we're going to continue to prevent terrorism in th country, international or domestic, we have to legally stop the pple whoiew terrm as acceptable means of affecting political change in this country, people like michael cheuer, and we ha to legally stop theople like glenbeck be enablers and simply nod gvely as if the idea and the speaker were not treasonists. auth michael scheuer and glenn beck of x news, today's "worst perss in the world." i'm peter jacobsen, and i'veve st 31 pounds on nutrisystem. dan marino influenced and helly pushed me to g onutrisystem. yeah, , i'llake credit fofor petejacobsen. introducing

. >> well, it's phony, of cose. >> moyers: phony? >> it's ony, in the sense that medicare is a single per system, embedded whin our larger market-bad system. you have totally free chce of physician in medicare. you don't in mosemployer- sponsoreprivate plans. canada, totally free choicof doctors. so, th is simply not true. >> moyers: let me show you bh a couple of clips from theouse floor recently. and get ur comments on them. these are two ngressmen who are opposeto any kind of tional insurance or general coverage. lo at this. >> they're going to save mey byationing care, getting you in long line, places like canada and the united kidom and europe peopleie when they're in line. >> onen five people have to die because they went to socializ medicine! now,'ve got three daughters and a wife. i would hate to think thatmong five women, e of them is going to d because we go to socialized care and we he to have these long lis to get a mammogra once youind it to get trtment. it's insane. >> we've heard these argents since 1948. and what amaz

. >> reporter: it was, of cose, everyere-- the coverage of michael jackson's death the playing of his videosthe memorial svice carried live by multiple networksthe reports on his career and problem but was all that a problem f the media andedia consumers? how are such desions made at news organizatios? here's how one organization, cbs, end its evening news earlier this week. >> michael jacksons sden death and the mystery urrounding it captivated the orld, or much of it, eclipsng other news. jeff glonow tells us some of the storiethat happened in the last two weekshat are definity worth noting. >> rerter: among those other-h stories cbs theneported: the president's trip to rusa; the riots in chi; and the ongoi debate over health care reform. we talk about jacksoand other stori now with kathleen hall amieson, director of the unversity of pennsylvania's annenberg public poly center; v smith, who hosts her o nightly lk show on the erican urban radio networks; d andrew leckey, director o the donald reynolds national center for busins journalism at arizona statuniversity. kateen hall jamies

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washington biographer john ferling, and this question comes from david in cose that mesa, california. >> caller: good afternoon. thank you for taking my call. washington was elected as president first in 1789 and then in 1792 which, curiously, was only three years. but what was the political process, and who was actually able to vote among the public to choose eventually the electoral college which then chose washington as the president? thank you very much. >> guest: well, it depended on the state. >> it depended on the state. in some states, the state assembly chose, the electors, in other states the electors were chosen popularly and devolved through the 1790s. virginia did it one way in one election and then changed and did it another way at another time. in washington's case, > a very afternoon at mount vernon, va.

unless, of cose you're meredith or me.o told us women catch on to this sport faster than men do. >> yes, they pick it up real quk. >> why is that? >> i think they can't use their strength. they have to use technique. >> let's try it. >> oh yeah. oh, yeah. john, such a pleasure. >> it was really fun. >> matt you could use a lesson. >>> coming up we'll have some camping and also what could be a rather amuseing race. we'll be right back after these messages. >>> still ahead, what are cankles and how do you deal with them, meredith? >>> 7:56 is the time. it's 72 degrees in washington and good morning, i'm barbara harrison. it's monday july 27 2009. >>> in the news drivers using 14th street should expect delays today. 14th street will be closed between constitution and pennsylvania avenues until 6:00 tonight, actually it will not be closed all of the time intermittent is what they say. the closures are due to a high level government meeting at the reagan building. ddot suggests ninth or 12th street. >>> a public hearing will be

of cose, the big music story of the last several weeks has been the death of michael jackson, and nowte, is your dishwasher not doing what it's supposed to do, like washing dishes? or maybe the washing machine is on the fritz? maybe you're going to figure out what do you do? do you buy a new one? do you get it mixed? you might be interested to find out. >> i'll call al roker. >> that's right. >> to be your dishwasher? >> oh, yeah. >> i'm the maytag repairman. >> he'll come over and help us out. also coming up, you know today is, of course, day before the big day, tomorrow. big wedding. the 10th anniversary of our "today throws a wedding." and you know, mos brushing grooms on the day before are really, really nervous. we're going to check in with nick and leigh to see how they're doing 24 hours before they say their i dos on the plaza. >> they were both just rocking out to daughtry. >> nice to hear. >> we'll go inside with ann and a look at the headlines. >> good morning once again, everybody. in the news, southwest airlines says flights scheduled will not be disrupted today because of