. >> i just talked to leader daschle. his office received a letter, and it had anthrax in it. they will not take this country down. >> narrator: a massive fbi criminal investigation would soon be underway. >> the letter arrived in senator daschle's office on friday, and was opened and handled by an intern this morning. >> as an eager senate intern, the first thing that they needed us to do was open the mail. >> narrator: the envelope was on the top of the stack. >> i remember looking at it, and it looked like children's handwriting, and the return address was the fourth grade class. so i took the scissors and cut into the corner of the letter, just about an inch, and white powder immediately fell out all over me. >> she sees spores, and immediately puts her finger bravely on the ripped bit of the envelope to protect everybody from more spores coming out. >> it looked like baby powder. i was wearing a dark gray skirt and black shoes, and you could see it just vividly on the dark colors. >> narrator: the powder was anthrax, a deadly bacteria. >> it was a crime in progress becaus

visitors coming to the temple housing the imperishable body has since been limited now access to daschle go to show it is restricted to eight trying to say year. visitors are allowed to enter the temple during major buddhist holiday. all the participants have gathered for the festival. for the first time boris is going to pray together with revered shamans. on the behalf of all good reacts twenty men will plead to local spirits and their own ancestors to grant them good luck and wealth. like all shamans orus has gone through the hardships of the shaman's life he suffered from disease he found no place for himself either in society or in his inner self when he found out that powerful shamans had been in his clan he turned to a teacher. when his spiritual and human elements merged into harmony. every shaman must wear a special ritual robe each element of it is charged with particular symbolism. because i want to take this cap for example. is underneath the shamans crown. this thing over sarah says oh it's. because the spirits descending from above are not supposed to see humanoids joy can

he leaves tom daschle, like where they? tom daschle doesn't get the big job but he is still an adviser. he says i can't get a call and for two months. it is a black hole in there. he is losing in march and april and in today the most important two months and 15 years on health care after he steps up saying this is my priority with all of this promethean power obama nothing happens. and he forgets that and gives it to baucus in the senate and the tea party is taking up in the summer. obama says i need to give a speech. the biggest speech of his first year. and rahm says you have to wait till the end because you only get one shot. he makes a decision and again he doesn't make a lot of these but this is one he makes. he calls it the brilliant speechwriter. the guy is 14 to 15 years old. it's unbelievable. how did that happen? the guy says he is brilliant and they have this bond. it is kind of the fusion of the youth movement that follows obama and they are ripping off of each other. is a great speech and the ted kennedy letter

the envelope addressed to senator daschle, however, was opened on october 15 in the hart senate office building in the mail room of the office i use today. emergency responders rushed to join capitol police to evacuate -- evaluate the situation and determine the extent of contamination. ten years ago this week, on october 17, 2001, the capitol was evacuated. at that time, i was a member of the house of representatives. i remember the fear and trepidation all americans felt in the days and weeks following september 11 i -- september 11. i take this time to honor the courage of our nation's federal employees. two made the ultimate sacrifice, dying from the exposure of the deadly anthrax toxins at the postal facility that handled all the mail that came to the senate and the house offices. the united states postal workers thomas l. morris jr. and joseph p.corzine jr. gave the ultimate sacrifice after being exposed to the infected senate mail while they worked in the brentwood post office facility here in washington, d.c. mr. morris and mr. corzine were maryland residents. like so many othe

government speaking out on to the end of you he tells me if people were truly happy about the end of daschle and the way he was killed there would be millions not thousands on the streets to get their free movies i'm sure some sixty to seventy percent of the country does not approve of the way gadhafi was killed we expected them to be tried as a prisoner of war not killed like not only are told in new libya that would be justice when he was the head of this country and there was no justice in the way he was killed i have no hope for the future but it's just the beginning don't you think that it could get better with time that things will take time to change in the country. i think there will be a lot of fighting in the future right now and tomorrow and one of the there is fighting going on between triumphs and anyone with a went on as power who can do what they want. so many celebrate this new hour libya's history people like me are quietly bracing for the worst. and he's now artsy tipperary. and as any so now is continuing coverage from libya online on personal twitter feed having a lot her

investigators said the 17-year daschle lost control of for car and rammed into an abandoned house. police tell us they are rated their investigation continues. >> police are trying to figure out what send a car crashed into a pizza shop late this afternoon. [no audio] >> two men are behind bars after a road rage and involving a gun. there were called by a man who had told them after a traffic incident, the other driver pulled a gun. authorities say it happened and the central avenue area of edge water. the white jetta drove by the officers and the victim as they were talking. the officer said the dentist job, but its celebrated, nearly hitting one of the officers. they were both arrested after officers stopped the jeddah. -- jetta. a 15-year-old girl was struck by a car this morning while walking in baltimore. we do not know how badly she was hurt. it happened just after 8:00 this morning. investigators are trying to determine exactly what happened, including new is at fault. they're not releasing any names. a robbery suspect cocked in his tracks, literally. the man tried to break

. >> the letter is addressed to tom daschle. it's open. the white powder spills out. >> we don't know how many people came in contact with the letter. there were 40 people in my office at the time. >> a preliminary testing says it's anthrax. it was game on. >> i was covering the hill back then, and i can tell you, it felt surreal. congress and the supreme court shut down, and mail delivery to the white house was cut off. all three branches of government. >> you can't overstate the drama, the shock and awe power of that event. >> a massive multi-agency investigation called amerithrax goes to full force. another anthrax letter addressed to senator patrick leahy of vermont found unopened. >> no one thought, whoa, any letter in congress has to come through the brentwood mail handling facility just a few blocks away in northeast washington. so none of the postal worker were given the benefit of immediate nasal swabs or preemptive doses of an antibiotic. >> two poes sal workers, joseph curseen and thomas morris jr. will die. >> letters but we co

october 15th, then senate majority leader tom daschle reports anthrax found in his office. 23rd, two postal workers in washington, d.c. die after anthrax poisoning. october 31st, a hospital worker in new york city becomes the fourth victim. november 21st, a 94-year-old woman in connecticut becomes the fifth victim in the anthrax attacks. years later, in july 2008, bruce ivans, a government scientists suspected in the attacks commits suicide. so how much have we learned about biodefense over the last decade and are we any safer? jonathan moreno, a senior fellow at the center for american progress. also author, of the body politic, the battle over science in america. jonathan, you know we take that whole episode pretty seriously. there were anthrax spores mailed to this building where fox news channel sits. >> yeah. jon: obviously or thankfully nobody here was infected but it hit very close to home. so answer the question, are we better prepared? >> it is a mixed answer, jon. we're better prepared than we were in october of 2001. at that time some public health departments di

then i heard that time-so wanted to offer that amendment -- tom daschle and he wanted a promise that he could offer it. i checked and found out he was right and i was wrong. we did what we call it vitiating all of the proceedings -- voiding all of the proceedings. we watched it out and he offered it and everything was fine. it seems to me that some of that is missing today, some of the trust and some of the friendship. i do not want to criticize the place that i was all parts of for 30-something years. i think we can do better and i believe we will. people are going to rise up on the democratic and republican side. there are going to be leaders on both sides who will say, i can i get it all, but i will take x. the other side will say, i do not want to give all of that, but i will take xy. have a meeting with all of the people working on the bill. i would say, work it out. when you get it worked out, come to see me. it worked pretty well. we got a lot of things worked out. [laughter] i cannot read this. i know it is a great honor to be in the senate. i remember that. [laughter] oh, ye

then she says daschle tell you what, i can run a lot faster and further than i could a couple years agose of all this trying. margaret says, you may never make your dreams come true all the way you are your dreams may change over time. but anyway, as long as you have the freedom to pursue them, whatever they may be at any moment and as long as you have not only the inspiration, but also some of the basic means to do so in the drive, that in itself is a big part of them come true. she says, my parents were unable to do so whenever my age. my granddaddy was injured in a coal mining accident, for my daddy 14 years old had to quit school and start working in the mines. my daddy is that a city work right now. i'm not a leftist a while back in the dead of night. et cetera and how to retrieve the zero. he doesn't complain. he does all sorts of odd jobs to make sure i can stay in school. he's making sure my life is a lot more about the right to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness than his ever could be. a student named desiree who has been listening intently now says, we need the right to li

take a guy like tom daschle, mike, tom daschle, pushed aside during the stupidity of a process that weedss to be secretary of the treasury. about the you mentioned obama was quick to fire. who did he fire? >> actually -- they're not senior people, but the people like assistant secretary of labor, there were some questions about contracting. gone in a day. remember shirley sherrod? now, that wasn't obama himself, i'm saying, it's a double-edged sword. they did not want to let anything fester. so, there are many examples of stories that surfaced for less than a full news cycle, the person was gone. none of us got a chance to really talk about it. there's also -- but there are a lot of other explanations, too, there's been really pretty impressive oversight of the -- of the stimulus money. you know, $787 billion and you would think -- i certainly expected that there would be a lot more scandals with the way that money was spent. you can say, well, they didn't spend it well. some people might argue that. but that's not the same thing as saying that it was stolen or somehow abused. >> right. >

and then i heard that tom daschle had wanted to offer that amendment and thought he was going to have that promise that he could offer, and i checked and found out that he was right and i was wrong. so we did what we call the sheeting of the proceedings and this sort of white it out and tom daschle got up and passed his amendment and everything was fine. tom was a good friend of mine coming and i think -- i don't know, it just seems to me some of that is missing today. some of the trust and some of the friendship, and i don't say -- i don't want to criticize the place i was a part of for 30 some years, but i think we can do better and i think we will. people are going to rise up on the democratic and republican side and there are going to be leaders on both sides who are going to say i can't get it all but i will take x and the other side says i don't want to give all that but i will take xy or something like that, how it works. my family -- i would have a meeting with all the people working on the bill, and i would just say work it out. you get it worked out, come and see me. and wor

is now our national initiative of the world affairs council to engage america in the most pressing daschle security issues facing our country. here at the world affairs council of new hampshire we hope that by offering a platform for the public to discuss foreign policy, voters will be better educated on how local issues affect their lives heading to the ballot box next year. to find out more about our local .org.amming, visit wacnh i am honored to welcome governor tom ridge. please join me in welcoming governor tom ridge. [applause] >> thank you very much for that very warm and gracious reception on such a beautiful day in this beautiful state. thank you very, very much. i spend most of my life and public service and i look back on the years that iwa was getting a government paycheck. i remember the 12 years i spent in washington d.c. as a congressman, and six of those 12 years occurred when ronald reagan was president. and i remember america in 1981 and 1982, the economy was suffering, and the notion was that we still have to cut taxes and stay the course. and from that pivotal moment, t

we remember those days miller of your because one of the letters were sent to senator daschle's officein the part building where my office was and is located. the building was evacuated and closed for months while the team secured it and we were fortunate no additional anthrax was found and no anthrax occurred since the that was likely to remain the case. three years ago the grand talent commission on the prevention of weapons of mass destruction proliferation and terrorism concluded that a biological weapon is more likely than any other weapon of mass destruction to be used in an attack against our country. the commission predicted such an attack would probably occur somewhere in the world within five years after its report which was three years ago and concluded then that the federal government was not prepared to. just last week the bipartisan wmd research center which was a follow-on to that grand talent wmd commission that the threat of a body of terror attack remains as strong as ever we have no specific credible evidence of what to make clear terrorists are now ploting such a sp

i'm not saying daschle really came to grips with this in the talk of 1998 when we begin to say, you know we have to transform the way they look at each other. the reason it worked in the '70s in terms of transformation is because there was one leader who said after no circumstances am i going to finish my tenure as president of my country without me getting my hands back on bought the sinai. i'm going to do whatever it takes to make that happen. if i have to recognize them in order to keep the israelis to negotiate with the palestinians, that's what i will do. he was the engine of the 73 war. when carter got all hung up on comprehensive peace, he was the engine that said, i don't want to get lost in these papers, i'm going to go to jerusalem. and he knew what he is going to get it into the israelis were willing to change cyanide for strategic change in its relationship with israel. you have to have leaders that understand transformations. you have to have a palestinian leader that says, i want to see my people in the state, in 10 years, that is going to be maybe one-eighth or one-tenth o

then i heard that time-so wanted to offer that amendment -- tom daschle and he wanted a promise thatund out he was right and i was wrong. we did what we call it vitiating all of the proceedings -- ev voiding all of the proceedings. we watched it out and he offered it and everything was fine. it seems to me that some of that is missing today, some of the trust and some of the friendship. i do not want to criticize the place that i was all parts of for 30-something years. i think we can do better and i believe we will. people are going to rise up on the democratic and republican side. there are going to be leaders on both sides who will say, i can i get it all, but i will take x. the other side will say, i do not want to give all of that, but i will take xy. have a meeting with all of the people working on the bill. i would say, work it out. when you get it worked out, come to see me. it worked pretty well. we got a lot of things worked out. [laughter] i cannot read this. i know it is a great honor to be in the senate. i remember that. [laughter] oh, yeah. this old institute is a great