what david said is right.eeds to come to a place like this, where he's going to get a fair hearing, put himself out there, and be sincere and remorseful. what i have to teach my clients there's a secret ingredient and that's called time. over time, we forgive an awful lot of things. >> larry: do you teach remorse? do you guys teach it? >> teach him how to show it. >> larry: the old george burns thing, the secret of sincerity, if you can fake it, you got it made. >> you know what, it does make them stop, and then they go wait. i'll tell you a true story. michael vick on friday. i wasn't involved with dogfig dogfighting, i had nothing to do with it. on monday, he apologized, he found jesus on monday. >> i'll tell you one thing, i think a lot of people are looking at their pda and pushing delete button. >> i say give me your phone records. i want to know it immediately because i want to know what's going to pop up. >> larry: does it always come out, david? >> it certainly seems that way, that's why you do have a

i agree with david.the ceo has to deal with letters from women's groups and what not and have thick skin about that. any time something like this comes out, there will be letters i will not buy your product. in reality, the marketplace will speak and it will have no effect. >> larry: chicago, hello. hello. >> caller: hi. hello. >> larry: go ahead. >> caller: two part question for the panel. why are americans so fascinated by celebrity sex scandals. christine brennan criticized tiger's statement at the start of your show. isn't tiger correct he is dealing with a personal private matter? >> larry: technically, why is it our business? >> i think it is because, a, he wants a hundred million dollar a year in endorsement, $90 million a year. he says i'm a good guy. pitches the family guy. he runs a school, we're supposed to believe he's a terrific guy and he's messed up here. >> larry: we're short on time. if gillette has a commercial to run tomorrow, do they run it, with tiger shaving? >> absolutely. i disagr

>> camp david was february 22- 24. iraq was not dramatically on their agenda. one of the best things ever, a fantastic job assembling this, i have not been able to find to refresh my memory the four or five telegrams that i sent from the inaugural visit to refresh my memory of the wisdom or otherwise of this. but before the meetings, this is what diplomats do, rice and i decided to clear away as much of the foreign policy as possible in advance so that the president and the prime minister could concentrate on creating a strong personal relationship. condoleezza rice said to me, the main purpose of this meeting is bonding. it we want the president and prime minister to bond well, because she was saying at the time that the united kingdom, they were at the united states most important friend and ally and it was important to get along. so the two foreign policy issues at that moment that or at the top of the agenda were at north korea and the anti-nuclear missile defense, that was their concern, and we and our part were developing the initiative between france and

david buckley had a surgery followed by chemotherapy radiation. he managed to rid his body of cancer. but that battle ended and another battle began. david's insurance company agreed to cover his cancer treatment but only after three solid months of investigations of his application for health insurance to determine whether they could find in that application a pre-existing condition, which would eliminate any responsibility to pay for david's bills. they couldn't. after covering his cancer treatment costs, they did the next thing that insurance companies do, they raised his premiums and they didn't just raise them a little bit. in the year following his cancer diagnosis, dave its insurance rates went up 80%, and that was just the beginning. within seven years david was paying $28,000 a year in premiums. he had gone from roughly $400 a month to more than $2,000 a month in seven years, and he had a $2,500 deductible, not to mention out of pocket expenses. he's self-employed, makes a decent living about $75,000 in year. but imagine taking $2,000 out

david cameron. >> thank you, mr. speaker. can i join the prime minister and everyone in this house in paying tribute to acting sergeant john amer who died this week in afghanistan. he gave his life to protect our country. we should honor his memory. we should care for his family. before i go on to other subjects can i ask a couple questions about afghanistan. following president obama's very welcome speech last night the british people will want to know what the u.s. surge means for british forces. i think we all accept that one of the problems has been that british troops have been spread too thinly over too much ground. will the u.s. reinforcement mean we will be able to have more of our forces concentrated in fewer places so they can protect the population more effectively and turn the tide against the taliban? >> mr. speaker, i think first of all, the whole house will welcome the announcement by president obama. both of the objectives of the mission in relation to the taliban and in relation to al-qaeda but also the numbe

>> david sutor and david briar are frequently mixed up with each other. it happens to both of them all the time. >> and the guy says to sutor. you're on the supreme court, right? your steven briar. so he said, yes, i'm steven briar. and they chatted for a little while. but then the guy said. now let me ask you a question, what's the best thing about being on the supreme court? he paused for a moment and said, i have to say it's the privilege of serving with david sutor. now how can you not love an institution where it's suitable. one thing they almost always say is, you know, it's too partisan. it focuses on the political differences between the justices. it focuses on who's a democratic appointee and who's a republican appointee. and it doesn't focus enough on the law. now if you would to ask me what's wrong with supreme court coverage, i would say is that it doesn't focus enough on the politics o a situation. and it doesn't focus enough on who's a democratic appointee and who's a republican appointee. the way i see the court, much of the time. not alway

. >> mark shields and david brooks look forward on health care and back on the decade. >> warner: efforts to reform washington, d.c.'s public schools. then tells us what's ahead. >> we have been totally disrespected. we have been treated like we don't matter. >> reporter: that's all coming on tonight's "pbs newshour." major funding for the pbs newshour is provided by: monsanto. producing more. conserving more. improving farmers' lives. that's sustainable agriculture. more at producemoreconservemore.com. >> chevron. this is the power of human energy. and by toyota. and the william and flora hewlett foundation, working to solve social and environmental problems at home and around the world. and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> brown: this christmas day with all the christmas festivities and observances but it was also marked by questions about the pope's security and by misery in the american midwest. >

president obama's senior adviser david axelrod, mr. axelrod was conspicuously carrying a copy of edmund burke's reflections on the revolution in france. sam tanenhaus has taken the burke revival even further. in the death of conservatism he distinguishes between what he calls burkean realist, the good guys in his formulation, committed he says to flexible adjustments to changing conditions and those he excoriates as revanchists. ideologue seeking a destructive counterrevolution. according to him, the american conservative movement is dominated by extremists prevention this-- three vanishes two the prayed for a politics of stabilizing intemperance. tanenhaus's book has been criticized by conservative reviewers as a tendentious misreading of american conservatism. what tanenhaus nonstate charge is a passive, defeatist, accommodationist conservatism that politely as just in the name of burke to a political and social order created and controlled by the american left. and the arrangement as one conservative has put it, in which conservativ

i'm david shuster in for keith olbermann. she was for alaska's bridge to nowhere before she was against it. she had to pay for her own vetting to be the republican vice presidential nominee, ex-except of course she didn't. and she opposed aerial wolf hunting except if you count the fact she passed the bill to make it easier to gun down defenseless wolves from an airplane in the alaskan state. the lies are too numerous to cover in a single hour. the latest falsehood, however, is so outrageous, it needs to be added to the list. she implied that president obama might not be a natural born citizen of the united states, then denied the very same kay that she had ever done so. put another way, she can see kenya from her house. governor palin has joined the ranks of the birthers, telling a right wing radio host that the conspiracy theorists are correct to question the citizenship of the president. she even seemed to suggest that the mccain campaign should have raised it as an issue during the 2008 campaign. >> by nightfall on her fa

. >> david cameron. >> thank you, mr. speaker. can i join the prime minister in paying tribute to lance corporal adam drane, who was killed in afghanistan on monday? the 100th military casualty this year is a very sad milestone. we should honor his memory. we should help his family. as the prime minister and i have both seen, when you speak to our troops in afghanistan, it is not sympathy and pity that they are after, but support -- not just for what they are doing, but for the mission in which they are engaged. in my view, they are every bit the equal of those men who stormed the beaches of normandy or who fought their way across africa in the second world war, and we should be proud of what they are doing. the new counter-insurgency strategy and the extra troops announced by america last week do show that we have the last best chance to get this issue right. does the prime minister agree that we simply cannot waste any time in getting every element of the strategy in place, including troops, helicopters, equipment, development a

david followed the great rule of legislating and this is .no politician ever got in trouble by voting against a bill that passes. or voting for a bill that fails. and the argument is you can always make the case, i was trying to improve it. >> okay. >> so you know, that's it and ronald reagan, medicare, he was all out against medicare. he became its greatest cham pine. he was just trying to improve medicare is what he was trying to do. so it is a very safe political move. it sounds like -- >> i'm not runing for office, i don't care. >> it really is. >> he's runing for pundit. >> it's a craven political position. >> how do you feel about the filibuster and using it for an issue like this, is that -- the democrat does it, everybody does it. is it getting -- is it just my imagination or is the divide between republicans and democrats down the line more rigid now than it has been. >> i think the divide is and i think this is -- this bill has been out there too long. i mean it really has. this is like a couple -- married couple arguing about weath

david llowed the great rule of legisling and this is .no pitician ever got in trouble by votinagainst a bill that passes. voting for a bill that fails. and the arment is you can always makthe case, i was trng to improve it. >> oy. >> so you know, that's it and rold reagan, medicare, he was allut against medicare. he becamits greatest cham pine. he was jt trying to imove medicare is what he was ying to do. so it is very safe politil move. itounds like -- i'm not runing for office, i don't ca. >>t really is. >> he'runing for pundit. >> it's a craven pitical position. >> how do you feel abouthe filibuster and using it fo an issue le this, is that -- the democrat ds it, everyby does it. is it getting -- is it jt my imaginaon or is the divide between repubcans and democrats downhe line more rigid now thait has been. i think the divide is and i think is is -- this bill has been out tre too long. i mean it really has this is like a couple -- married couple arguing aut weather, about the same thing for 12 months. >> . >> lehrer: and we' been talk

. ♪ just like the ones i used to know ♪ >> david david. ♪ angels' wings ♪ newborn king >> katherine mcphee be home for christmas >> kenny roernlgs. ♪ joy to the world ♪ let earth receive her king >> larry: the harlem alumni ensemble. ♪ >> larry: and shawn king. the night before christmas as only queen latifah can read it. it's a special holiday celebration on "larry king live." >>> good evening. happy holidays. we have a great hour of beautiful music for you tonight. we will start it off with something special. sting, amazing artist. put him in an amazing setting and you have something to remember. so we kick off tonight with sting. accompanied by the terrific chris on trumpet, the old bass carol, gabriel's message. the setting, the beautiful cathedral church of st. john, the divine in manhattan. ♪ ♪ the angel came from heaven ♪ his wings drifted ♪ his eyes ♪ mary ♪ most highly feared ♪ gloria ♪ gloria ♪ the blessed ♪ generations ♪ emanuel ♪ gloria ♪ gloria ♪ ♪ the gentle mayory bowed her head ♪ ♪ to me it pleases god ♪ she said ♪ may soul shall defy us ♪ most highly favored ♪ gloria ♪ glo

. >> thank you, david jackson. beautiful animal. >> larry: the next is a spider monkey. >> this is anita jackson. this lady here is terrific, what they rescue. someone had this in a dumpster, larry. tried to have it as a pet. what happens? you can see the legs ar crumpled up. they took this animal. no one wanted it. obviously. it was almost dying. no one took care of it. they thought it was dying. people say a monkey is a pet. that's the worst thing you can possible do. they carry disease, they bite and it's against the law. most places. >> larry: why the term "spider?" >> look at these hands and legs here. this is deformed, okay but a real spider monkey, his arms are like a big spider. he goes around, larry, like this, see this, he can swing, they are in beautiful big families. they can swing, larry, like 30, 40 feet from tree to tree, like big black spider in the air. don't have one as a pet. they're not good. >> larry: we're with jack hanna. animals from the desert are in the city. we'll be back with a porcupine

and david schanzer. he's the director of the triangleenter on terrorism and holand security at duke university and the univeity of north calina. i want to start by asking yo what the preside had to say toda he saithere was a systemic failure, a mix of human and systemic failure. what does that meato yo >> well, that means that there's more than one il. obviously first an foremost that peoplfollowed the screeninthat failed, but obviously the various tch list. the watch listwere targeted and revealed to be a probl in the summ of this year. there waa special report done by the office ofnspector general, coness has addressed these issues, ey knew that the screening wasn't good as well, so many things failed. thus his calling it a systemic failure. >> david schanzer is the a technology in place that cld have aided this kind of failure? >> well, the full body sca machines can do a betterob and they c improve the likelihood of finding something like at, but there's no 100screening device that'going to be able t

as david said, we've got to do something. we can't have the uncertainty of card check, the uncertainty of cap and trade, the uncertainty of health care, the uncertainty of the tax hikes that are embeded in the code that businesses don't know how that will play out. that is inhibiting investment. if you talk to main-street concerns, small ises across this country, what they're saying is we don't have access to capital. we need credit. if we're going to create jobs, we have to be able to grow and we can't do that without credit. all of this, i think, will play out over the year. how lobbyists intermingle with that, i think lobbyists are much more in tune with their specific client's interest, and right now i think what we're talking about is an environment that has been grossly unfavorable towards risk-based job creation. >> yes. don't know where to start. lot of questions. here first, and then -- >> hello. i'm roland. "the economist" predicted that nato might lose in afghanistan in

david barges in. he was a chain smoker so he immediately collapsed and starts wheezing and this poor guy, who is a television repairman, there is in the room and scatters out with the tv still all in parts. but david taught me the notion of just getting out in the world. how important it was as a story-tell tore be there and meet people. was with him in belfast once at the europa hotel. it was a tuesday and there was a demonstration going on, street parade. the sunday times comes out once a week, on sunday. there's no reason to be covering a demonstration on a tuesday. but david said we had to get out there. i said, looked kind of dangerous. he said. no. no. he showed me, you get there and there's violence, bit but if you're a block or half block away, you're standing there watching, and you get the story. while we were out, bomb actually went off in the hotel near the bar where i was going to be content in signature. he said, let that -- where i was going to be sitting. he said, let that be a lesson

david, clearly more people are playing attention to golf now than ever before. do you think he's hurt the sport? and hurt it indefinite? >> i don't think he's hurt the sport indefinitely. especially in the short run, his absence will hurt the sport, television ratings and you can make the argument, potentially it's going to hurt some of his sponsors without tiger being out in front. then the brand that are associated with him. don't get the exposure they would hope to get. if he's able to come back at some point in the future, six months or a year from now, we certainly don't know at this point. to win again and get something positive going in his life, certainly have brands associated with that, they'll get the benefit from that. in short run, the game of golf will see lower television numbers. and general buzz around the sport will be down. >> jim: david, what do you make of this statement? he had to say something. he waited a long time. did he wait too long in your view? >> i think he may have waited too long. i agree it would have been beneficial to get out

in his biography on truman, david mccullough wrote about the president's temporary quarters. "the house itself, even with the quick cosmetics applied the year before, was not only nothing very grand, but a bit dowdy. it creeked and groaned, trembled noticeably when streetcars passed by outside. its dark old cellar was full of rats, as was well known by the seet hated ever to go down there. of all the presidents they had known, some of the secret servicemen would later say, only harry truman would have been willing to live in the place." but not everyone felt that way. margaret truman remembered it this way in her biography. "i fell in love with the place the moment i walked into it. every room, especially on the first floor, was a little

it's a winnable war, but we have a long way to go. >> larry: david, do you have any optimism?well, larry, i am an optimist. and i think good, committed people making this a priority, we can continue to make our world safer. i'm chagrinned by, you know, some of the sort of kneejerk reaction, or something to gain a little favor and help us to think more positively in that if the enemy has a sense of humor, then they must be chuckling about our response that says, okay, all americans are going to have to stay in their seats like third graders for the last hour of the flight. which i see as ridiculous and really having nothing to do with solving the problems. >> larry: you agree with that, debra? >> yes. and i think that the -- talk about kneejerk. the tsa, really they're abusing passengers at this point. and that's part of jihood. they love to see us go through these shenanigans, jumping through hoops. janet napolitano pointed to how everything ran so smoothly afterwards the tsa stepped up their security measures. they were doing patdowns on people. these explosives were kept in

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truman biographer david mccullough wrote about it.upper alone, truman summoned another emergency session, a second war cabinet meeting at blair house, and decided to provide american air and may haval support to the forces of south korea and to press for immediate united nations support." >> i don't want to go to war, truman said, with a force they would all remember. everything i have done in the past five years, he remarked sadly, as the meeting ended, has been to try to avoid making a decision such as i had to make tonight." ♪ >> for president truman, this is the temporary cabinet room. many of his meetings were here, even not west wing was not affected by the renovation work, and he did have use of the cabinet room at the white house. this became a convenient cabinet room for him because it was just 20 feet away from where he was sleeping. historically and especially for european guests, this room is incredibly significant, because in this room, at this table, the first concept and the first draft of the marshall plan were created

governor david patterson. he made major news when takes office.irst african-american governor and the first legally blind governor. how has it been? do you enjoy this job? >> i enjoy it. it took a while to get used to it. the first day i was worn in was the day the federal government saved bear sterns. in the first couple months i realized this country would probably see a recession, the likes of which we haven't seen in 80 years. it's been very difficult to deal with it. in the 20 months i've been governor, i have cut over $31 billion of deficit from new york state. that is higher than the largest four deficits that we'd faced in one year. >> larry: that also brings pain, does at any time? >> it brings a lot of pain, issues i worked on for 20 years i've had to curtailed. i actually vetoed a bill i sponsored when in the state senate. you should have heard what the co-sponsor said to me that day. >> larry: do you feel beleaguered? >> no. it's very exciting. it's a challenge. these are not the kinds of circumstances in which i would haveme wanted to

david axelro welcome. is hlth care reform now in rious jeopardy in the senate >> no, i think we are where were, jim . we've got strong suppo for heal insurance reform. we've got a minori of senators who want to keep that from coming up for a te on the senateloor. anwe're working to put together 60 vote wes need tout it together on t floor and i'm confident we'll t them. lehrer: senator ben nelson says he has newed reservations in that bill because othe abortion iss. he's one of the you're countingn. what do u think about that? >> loo there are many issues that have been rsed by him and many others. we'll work our way through tse issues. again, i'm condent we'll get this done in in a wathat will hold theoalition together. >> lehrer: what you make this rising oppotion among liberal decrats, particularly led by former democrathairman howard dn? >> look, i think that lot of people hava great deal of passion about the issu i have a great deal of psion about it mysf. i have someone in my familwith a chronic illn

and governor david paterson and his rift with obama. is the president trying to push him out of office? then joel and victoria osteen. that's next on "larry king live." strange doingings. susan powell's husband, joshua took their two sons camping at around mid night on december 6. when he returned the next afternoon, 28-year-old susan was gone, nowhere to be found. her keys, purse and cell phone still at home. police say they're not ruling out foul play. with us are chuck cox, susan powell's father and mike, susan's best friend. she's known susan since she was 8 years old. how are you holding up? >> well, larry, it's a struggle and just day to day basically. >> larry: now, you're in seattle. do they live in utah? >> yes, they live in west valley city, utah. >> larry: is that where she went missing? >> yes, it is. >> larry: when was the last time you spoke with your daughter? >> it's been two weeks ago on thursday. >> larry: was that shortly before she left or was taken? >> yeah, the thursday before she went missing. >> larry: now, your

dana bash, david gergen, april ryan, and also joins us, let me start with a quick question here. the democrats truly seem to be putting an awful lot of chips into this kitty and saying, we believe this will really work and for all of the republican anger that we saw from john mccain here, we also see republicans saying to quote john cornyn earlier from texas, there will be a day of accounting for this. they believe that the democrats are making a big mistake that is going to eat them alive next fall. what do you think? >> well, this is definitely political, politics of politics. but at issue, they are fighting among themselves about this. and tonight this is something that we've seen scene before, many presidents have tried, seven presidents have tried and if he indeed does get some type of health care reform, it may not be the original mandate that he started out with when he was a candidate for president. but if he gets some type of health care reform, within the next few months, this is definitely a big win for him, for his party, and it also translates into the elections, the

this week new terrorism related charges were filed in the case against david hadley, a u.s. citizen who was originally rested for conspiring to commit terrorist attacks in denmark. but now he has been charged with helping to plan the didley mumbai attacks in india last year. darrah binnun number brass within the united states.

no question about it. >> jim: david, what do you make of this statement? the fact is he would have never made this statement had the incident on thanksgiving night happened and all these other women came out of the woodwork and he got caught, i suppose. he had to say something. he waited a long time. did he wait too long in your view? >> i think he may have waited too long. i agree it would have been beneficial to get out in front of the story if possible. one thing that we're losing sight of is just how big the story is. i think we all presumed when the first reports of infidelity came out, we're talking about one case or two cases. we don't know all of the facts. now it's being reported 10, 11 people involved in the case. the magnitude of this story is staggering. when you step back and think about it. it would be very difficult, very unlike tiger woods and the way his people and his inner circle have worked throughout his career to go out and invite the press onto his front lawn or to hold a press conference someplace and open himself out to all types o

. >> thank you, david jackson. beautiful animal. >> larry: the next is a spider monkey. >> this is anita jackson. this lady here is tremendous. what they rescue. this was found in los angeles in a dumpster. someone had this in a dumpster, larry. >> larry: in a dumpster. >> yeah. tried to have it as a pet. what happens, you can see how the legs are all crumpled up. and anita now, they took this little animal and raised it. no one wanted it, obviously. it was almost dying. because no one took care of it. people say oh, the monkey's a pet. that's the worst thing you could possibly do. they carry disease-a nita will tell you they bite, and it's against the law in some places. >> larry: why the term spider? >> because look at these hands and legs here. this is deformed okay? but a real spider monkey his arms are like a big spider. and he goes around like this. they can swing. they're beautiful big families, too. they can swing 30, 40 feet tree to tree. like a big black spider in the air. >> larry: and they're intelligen

david axelrod is the president's senior adviser. i spoke with him late this afternoon from the white house briefing room. david axelrod, welcome. is health care reform now in serious jeopardy in the senate? >> no, i think we are where we were, jim . we've got strong support for health insurance reform. we've got a minority of senators who want to keep that from coming up for a vote on the senate floor. and we're working to put together 60 vote wes need to put it together on the floor and i'm confident we'll get them. >> lehrer: senator ben nelson says he has renewed reservations in that bill because of the abortion issue. he's one of the 60 you're counting on. what do you think about that? >> look, there are many issues that have been raised by him and many others. we'll work our way through those issues. again, i'm confident we'll get this done in in a way that will hold the coalition together. >> lehrer: what do you make of this rising opposition among liberal democrats, particularly led by former democrat chairman howard dean? >>

i will take an issue with david his says we don't talk about issues. we don't think it is a sexy of a story to cover our ideas now. the president [inaudible] it is their agenda which is now -- >> what is the big idea ? >> the big idea is to produce an environment where we can have job creation. that is where the obama administration policy agenda disadvantages democrats in the upcoming election and advantages us. the same was true in virginia. >> they're all are to nevitt ideas -- there are alternative ideas. there is discussion about a need for a second contract with america. maybe they wait until 2012, but right now the republican party wants to say, did the prosecution prove its case? away from the substance is the sheer politics. what is it that republicans want to be? i don't think they have worked that out. is it bob mcdonnell and virginia? or is it sarah palin and 2012? there is a process where republicans have to decide what is the way back? >> i know for myself i very much believe is in the role of bob mcdonnell. i don't think it is so clear-c

the famous composer, david foster, is on piano. and the man who wrote it, irving berlin.istmas ♪ ♪ just like the ones i used to know ♪ where the treetops glisten and children listen to hear sleigh bells in the snow ♪ ♪ [ singing in a foreign language ] ♪ ♪ i'm dreaming of a white christmas just like the ones i used to know ♪ ♪ where the treetops glisten and children listen to hear sleigh bells in the snow ♪ ♪ i'm dreaming of a white christmas with every christmas card i write ♪ ♪ may your days be merry and bright ♪ ♪ and may all your christmases and may all your christmases and may all your christmases be white ♪ >> larry: kenny rogers has been bringing joy to the world for decades with his music. kenny's current tour is scheduled to go until june of 2010. to see if he's coming, by the way, to a venue near you, check out his schedule on our web page, cnn.com/larryking. he's here tonight from the fox theater in detroit. he will sing the beautiful christmas standard "joy to the world." >> the interesting thing about all of these songs, some of them written hundreds of years

general david petraeus now leads the u.s. central command. he told a senate hearing he expects to see progress, albeit slowly, as 30,000 additional u.s. troops deploy. >> afghanistan is no more hopeless than iraq was when i took command there in february 2007. indeed, the level of violence and number of violent civilian deaths in iraq were vastly higher than we have seen in afghanistan. but achieving progress in afghanistan will be hard, and the progress there likely will be slower in developing than was the progress achieved in iraq. >> sreenivasan: petraeus would not estimate how many years it might take afghan security forces to assume control. in iraq, prime minister nouri al-maliki appealed to his countrymen to be patient, after the latest bombings. at least 127 iraqis died yesterday in a string of suicide attacks on government sites in baghdad. more than 500 others were wounded. maliki gave a nationwide address on iraqi state television. he said all security strategies would come under review. >> ( translated ): i call on the iraqi peop

within seven years david was paying $28,000 a year in premiums.one from roughly $400 a month to more than $2,000 a month in seven years. and he had a $2,500 deductible, not to mention out-of-pocket expenses. much he's self-played, makes a decent living, about $75,000 a year. imagine taking $2,000 a month out of your paycheck to pay for health insurance. 2 1/2 months after being in the hospital, david flew into a war zone, he was wearing a chemo pump. he's been pushing himself to pay his bills. it's been a losing battle. what started as a $5,000 debt in the year 2000 grew to a $70,000 debt by 2007, and a large portion came from medical bills. david said i thought the point of having insurance was to keep you out of bankruptcy, not to put you in it. it is meant to be a promise of protection, but for too many people, it hasn't. it has led david to drop his health insurance last year. think about that. he battled cancer an won, and you know, once you've been through that life experience, you are always vigilant, you need the best care to make certain

high point* north carolina this is david kennedy's project he is a john j. now we were together at the kennedy school. we were thinking about cracking down on the drug markets and it turns out that from a pressure point* of new york that if you put enough cops in a flagrant job market area and make enough arrest you can break the market and when it is broken, it stays broken because it only exists because people expect me to come and buy and sell and you can put the market out of business it is ferociously expansive. operation pressure point* 1,000 copps, a six months and the convictions did not go up with somebody not being convicted of a burglary so david and i was sitting around trying to figure out how you can shorten the time it took the drug dealers to figure out you cannot deal here anymore and david said what if you put up posters? would you just put up posters saying the market is closed as of november 1st? nobody would be here dealing because you will be arrested. who will show up to deal that day? if the answer is only a few people than you can re

david has devoted his career to public service. after five years of working in my office, he moved across the capitol as chief of staff to another member of the massachusetts delegation, representative joe kennedy. he later became special counsel at the commodities futures trading commission before returning home to the senate as deputy chief counsel at the government affairs committee and staff director of the permanent subcommittee on investigations. i failed to mention that before going to the permanent subcommittee, he worked with my staff early in his career in helping to develop one of the great investigative efforts, i think, here in the senate in recent memory, which was the bcci investigation and wound up on the cover of "time" magazine and as a seminal report, one of the best reports i have seen in the 26 years i have been here. in 1999, i was lucky to entice him to come back to my office as chief of staff. it turned out to be his longest tenure in any of those public jobs so far. earlier this year when i became chairman

host: david is joining us for nashville. caller: good morning. mr.omon, you and i are living in very different worlds. the last time i checked the democrats had 60 votes in the senate and the overwhelming majority in the house. republicans, all we can do is play four-cornered defense. we have not had control of congress sent 2006. what over gotten? we have gone from 4.4% unemployment up to something like 17.5%. i am over 60 years old and i have never seen the economy in such disarray. it is because a democrat. they are going to vote for democrats because it does not matter. host: here is a twitter from john. guest: well, under fdr the new deal was to announce the socialist all the time. the economy went into a tailspin under the administration of george w. bush. the official rate of just around 10% right now does masked the deeper and wider unemployment. i would say that we are now looking at a situation where the stimulus package from the obama administration as has been ward by others to be inadequate. there has been a bailout of wall street, not r

but david got me the notion of just getting out in the world. how important it was as a storyteller to be there and meeting people. i was in belfast with him once. we were at the europa hotel. it was a tuesday and there was a demonstration going on. now, the sunday times as you can probably figure out comes out only once a week am on sunday. there's really no reason to be covering the demonstration on a tuesday. david said we had to get out there. i said well, it looked kind of changers and he says no, no. he shows me that you get there and there's a lot of violence, but after a block away or half a block away that people just standing there watching and you really get the story. and while we were out, a bomb actually went off in the europa hotel near the bar where i was sitting. he said the appeal lesson to you. it was always sort of a lesson to me and tell david, and some few may know, got shot by snipers bullets while covering el salvador. so i never quite figured out the full import of what that lesson was supposed to be. they stand on the s

[inaudible conversations] steve david steinberger as the president of the purse is publishing group. if you could explain your business model, a lot of different publishers, under perseus. >> you deserve thoughtful motion to table and have published to reach their potential so it is different from the traditional model of the the conglomerate controlled. and is their bidding huge amounts on trying that this dollars. our approach is independent publishing teams the hurt creative and entrepreneurial, focusing on the books that work in specific leashes and we provide the platform to enable kemal to succeed. >> whitter some of the group's undenied purse this? >> for the other publishing agreement with the weinstein company, a publishing the the conversion skeet's book. we have an arrangement with "the daily beast," and if we are doing a book called the attack of the wingnuts, halvey ouellette sick is undermining for hijacking america, and a big range of publishers. >> the public affairs basic books, and what is your influence? how you interact with them? >> it is really interesting becau

david mccullough wrote about it. "i do not want to go to war.verything i've done in the past five years has been to try to avoid making decisions such as i had to make tonight's." >> this is the temporary cabinet room. meetings were here even though the west's reco wing was not af. this became a convenient cabinet room for him because it was 20 feet away from where he was sleeping. hispatorically, this firm is incredibly significant because in this room at this table, but the first draft of the marshall plant were created. but this is also where the truman doctrine originated. we know that this is where the president signed documents committed american troops to the korean war. it's also where he made the final decision to fire mccarthy. it was the scene of many famous midnight poker games. there was a time president truman and this was the primary and dining room. this is where they had dinner with princess elizabeth and stritch tolchurchill and countl. >> sometimes, i would have dinner alone. i walked into the dining room. necktie. would pull

>> david sutor and david briar are frequently mixed up with each other. it happens to both of them all the time. >> and the guy says to sutor. you're on the supreme court, right? your steven briar. so he said, yes, i'm steven briar. and they chatted for a little while. but then the guy said. now let me ask you a question, what's the best thing about being on the supreme court? he paused for a moment and said, i have to say it's the privilege of serving with david sutor. now how can you not love an institution where it's suitable. one thing they almost always say is, you know, it's too partisan. it focuses on the political differences between the justices. it focuses on who's a democratic appointee and who's a republican appointee. and it doesn't focus enough on the law. now if you would to ask me what's wrong with supreme court coverage, i would say is that it doesn't focus enough on the politics o a situation. and it doesn't focus enough on who's a democratic appointee and who's a republican appointee. the way i see the court, much of the time. not alway

as david said, we've got to do something. we can't have the uncertainty of card check, the uncertainty of cap and trade, the uncertainty of health care, the uncertainty of the tax hikes that are embeded in the code that businesses don't know how that will play out. that is inhibiting investment. if you talk to main-street concerns, small ises across this country, what they're saying is we don't have access to capital. we need credit. if we're going to create jobs, we have to be able to grow and we can't do that without credit. all of this, i think, will play out over the year. how lobbyists intermingle with that, i think lobbyists are much more in tune with their specific client's interest, and right now i think what we're talking about is an environment that has been grossly unfavorable towards risk-based job creation. >> yes. don't know where to start. lot of questions. here first, and then -- >> hello. i'm roland. "the economist" predicted that nato might lose in afghanistan in 2010. however, representative cantor did not

it's a winnable war, but we have a long way to go. >> larry: david, do you have of nism?> i am an optimist and i think good, committed people, making this a priority, we can continue to make sure world safer. i'm chag grin by the knee jerk reaction to help us think positively. and that if the enemy has a sense of humor, they must be chuckling about the response that all americans have to stay in their seats, like third graders, for the last hour of their flight. which i dhi is ridiculous. >> larry: do you agree with that, debra? >> yes, and you talk about knee jerk, the tsa is really abusing passengers at this point. and that is part of jihad. they love to see how go through these shenanigans, jumping through hoops. janet napolitano referred to the security measures. they were going patdowns on people. patdowns. these explosives were kept in the groin area, the crotch. nobody is being patted down in that area. that is all for show and they have to stop doing that. the american people understand that is a dog and pony know and it has to stop. >> larry: three victims speaki