to david, this is not big enough. >> we purchase another home, slightly bigger. >> david and i looked at the model home. i love this house. >> i love it too. >> the next day, we had put in an offer. not only we are working on paying off our current debt situation. we're also working on saving up a down payment for the new house. >> when we were both working, we both had pretty good disposable income. as soon as i went on mat. leave that changed. >> i owe about $30,000-- $25,000 to 30,000 i don't even know the set amount. >> when it comes to money, i'm totally the stressor. that money will pay this bill. >> what bill? >> this one. what i do is i get really-- david, are you even paying attention? david's attitude is, "we'll always have some debt." >> i can buy absolutely anything as long as i work hard. >> the debt is stressful that i am leaving mat. leave early to go back to work. it's really tough, because it's obviously less time that i get so spend with my son. >> i'm not afraid debt. do i need gail? ah, no, because i wanna get rid of it anyways. >> this month, i'll help this couple

i don't have to go after david. all i have to do is go after someone who is sponsoring david's legislation. supporting david's legislation and i go in and spent $3 million and beat him. i hanged that person. my lobbyist says we're going to stop this one way or the other. we'll spend whatever we have. i don't want to hurt you, david, but i'm sorry, shields just had to sacrifice his seat. that is the implications of this are absolutely unfathomable and they are terrifying. >> i think it is a bad decision. i think it will have a poisonous affect on political atmosphere. but for different reasons than most people that i have read and heard from. first i'm not convinced it will totally change landscape because i'm not convinced a lot of corporations are withing to want to have a political profile. >> lehrer: why not. >> because you are a corporation, you want-- everybody. so why stick your neck out. but i do think it will have this affect. what do corporation when they go to washington what do they want. one, they want s

david cameron. >> i wish we were. [laughter] >> i wish this prime minister had the courage to call the election and we could get on with it. i have to say, mr. speaker, what a lot of desperate rubbish. i thought he might mention marriage so let me say this to him. the difference between me and the prime minister is this. when i lean across and say, i love you, darling, i really mean it. [laughter] >> the only -- the only divorce that's taken place is between this prime minister and reality. let's take his claim -- let's take his claim that spending is going up by not .8%. is the only way he's able to make that is to include -- is to exclude capital spending which he's actually cutting in half. isn't that completely disingenuous? >> for himw6 to talk about lov and marriage today, when he is a person who cannot give a straight answer on the marriage couple's allowance. whether you got to say i do or i don't when it comes to the marriage couple's allowance. and mr. speaker, as for other public -- as for the public, will

>> very much so, david.tter of fact, this had been an eight-year silence on petp,eon of the most powerful strong explosive, can be disguised to look like coffee grounds. literally about a quarter of an ounce can blow a hole in the side of an airplane. the last time it had been used was in december of 2001 when the shoe bomber richard reid tried to ignite his sneakers that he had burned in to explosive bombs and failed to get the detonator off. it was eight years ago. now all of a sudden we pick up chatter about it over the summer. we see it used here on christmas day. the difficult part, the reason terrorists haven't been using it widely, it is very difficult to get a hold of and manufacture correctly. so now that he that they have one, i can guarantee you this, whoever made the underwear bomb that was used on christmas day did not make one set. that's what intelligence is worried about, that they had enough to make more than one bomb because so little is effective. and that we may have just seen the first f

no indication, david. it could also be that this is an upshot of the renewed scrutiny after that warted airline bombing attempt. remember the president ordered that review of the human and systemic failures, as he terms it, that led to that young man being allowed on that air flight from amsterdam into detroit. he has got the preliminary results of that review, he's called a big meeting for tuesday at the white house. he's returning on monday from his hawaiian vacation. he's been there since christmas eve. the heads of all these agencies, the nsa, tsa, the cia, the state department, the fbi, the whole alphabet soup of national security and military institutions and agencies here in washington, is going to be meeting in the situation room and, perhaps, it was a result of that renewed scrutiny. of course the president did reveal that detail that we have learned since the thwarted attack, that al qaeda in yemen played a very large role in it. perhaps that was part of the upshot, some of the new information we

i'm david chuter in today for alex witt. we'll have all those stories. >>> plus, the big changes coming to your credit card account. >>> first up, this sunday morning we're following breaking news. an active threat by al qaeda has forced a closure of the u.s. embassy in yemen. the suspect in the christmas day plane bombing attempts as he got his marching orders from al qaeda in yemen. an emerging front in the war on terror. all 500 u.s. embassy employees in yemen have been instructed to stay away from their job until further notice and to remain inside their homes as much as possible. >> there are indications that al qaeda's planning to carry out an attack in the capital of yemen. >> we know they're tarpthing our embassy personnel and we want to safeguard our diplomats and others down there. it was the prudent step to take. >> nbc's mike viqueira joins us now live from the white house. mike, fill in some of the gaps about what the administration is saying. >> reporter: david, it was the president himself who yesterday in his

>> reporter: good evening to you, david. farmers are doing everything they can to save all of these crops. ironically enough, they're spraying water on them. it actually freezes around the plants and provides some protection from the even harsher temperatures headed this way later tonight. some of this country's most valuable and vulnerable crops are in for another rough night and farmers aren't sure how many more they can take. >> it's our livelihood. it's how we make our money. we lose the crop, we'll lose our farm. >> reporter: he's been pulling all-nighters all night. checking the temperatures on his strawberries outside of tampa. >> 32 degrees. >> reporter: experts say $300 million in crops are threatened by this weekend's cold snap. orange and other citrus fruits are especially sensitive. three hours of temperatures below 28 degrees and they're gone. if it happens, experts say we'll all pay the price on store shelves. in ft. lauderdale, consumers are seeing a shortage of something else -- space heaters. almost no store

and david ignatius is a "washington post" columnist. first up, president obama reminded the country this week that enemies of america are still very much a threat. >> we are at war. we are at war against al qaeda. a far-reaching network of violence and hatred that attacked us on 9-11, that killed nearly 3,000 innocent people, and that is plotting to strike us again. chris: today we examine that threat with these four reporters who cover national security. we'll look at how al qaeda threatens us abroad as that new year's attack on our c.i.a. headquarters in afghanistan so tragically showe but first let's look at the threat of the next al qaeda attack here at home. david, if you're in charge of intelligence in this country and looking out at the world, what's the threat coming here? >> the threat is that this is a resourceful, adaptable enemy that learns from us. they study us. so if we start to block one avenue of entry, one kind of weapon, they turn to another. they come a us in different faces from the ones we're expecting. i'll give y

i wish to pay my personal tribute to david taylor.i draw my right honorable friend's attention to my concern about apprentices aged over 26 at stoke on trent college, which is conducting urgent talks with the aim of securing the funds that are needed for them to continue their training? in the light of the recent national audit office report on former coal mining areas, will my right honorable friend use his good offices to do all that he can to ensure that the learning and skills council, the department for business, innovation and skills, the regional development agency, and the department for work and pensions work closely with the college to find a solution, so that all apprentices can receive full funding? >> it is our intention, even in these difficult times when companies may not be in a position to keep apprentices on, to find alternative sources of employment for them and ensure that the colleges can continue to train them. however, i will examine the specific issue that she has raised. as for the coalfields regeneration prog

you mentioned a couple of them, david. as far as market impact, what are the risks that we face. >> i think you're absolutely right. commercial real estate is a huge one. big banks seem to be in better shapes than the medium-sized and regional banks. there's a lot to worry about there. we know the history of financial crises followed by recessions, there's a lot of head winds blowing at us. a lot have to do with credit. the economy is growing again. it's growing so slowly we're only hoping next year we'll begin to create jobs again. we have millions of jobs that haven't come back yet. that could mean depressed consumer spending, bad for consumer marketers. it also could mean a lot of political populism, hostility to business and trade that could hurt us going forward. >> andy, we're coming into the midterm election year. with the public perceptions about the economy where they are, where do you think the economic talking points will be for this campaign? >> i think the economy, jobs, jobs in particular, is going to be the

. >> hi david. it was finally a tip from the public after watching "america's most wanted" as so many cases are solved around the country. someone sees something, they call police. this is a case that has had people on edge from here up to michigan and beyond for weeks because police had said paul merhige was armed and dangerous, that he had his passport, a lot of cash and several guns, including a sniper rifle and they didn't know where he was. the man that his family said sat pleasantly through thanksgiving dinner, went to his car and came back with a gun and opened fire, killing his twin sisters, one of whom was pregnant, el elderly aunt and 6-year-old cousin why i while she slept. police say he planned this out carefully including his escape and his family has lived in fear he would come back. last night after watching "america's most wanted" someone called the police and led them to a florida keys motel room. >> this is a weight lifted off of our shoulders obviously by making this apprehension.

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he did not ask ike at camp david. he could have said, mr. president, will you stop flying over my country. why did he not do that? >> host: when i was hit by you i buy eye, and you know that time by time, brought in my apartment, and i will ask you, peter, why are you rubbing my apartment? maybe you will not rob it a second time. my father felt humiliating when they ask him to send protest to the united states. he told them, my presence, to the foreign minister, we cannot shot because it is too high, flying to hi. and i am just hearing, reading this state department, how they laughing at me. the u2 fly pushed these arms race, development of all these antiaircraft weapons. but americans knew, i hope the new that the soviets was able to shoot it. maybe they saying that these two old men went too far, because my father knows he was ready to sign the treaty. and again, eisenhower also wanted to do it in the last encore of his term. maybe someone would want it to be some. i know it was many people who thought that he was not in soviet interest. >

david -- >> i can get bigger. >> i was going to say. i was going talk about chris dodd and byron dorgan, two senators. >> lehrer: what did i ask? >> let's talk about those two guys. >> okay. i know them both and i like them both. and mi going to miss them both. and they are both been good public servants. chris dodd's leaving with refreshing candor. he talked about his political problems. he didn't pretend i want to go home and spend more time with the family and do that. he did, in fact, level that he had problems, that he had a better chance of keeping the state democratic by his leaving and dick blumenthal, the attorney general running in his place. byron dorgan and kent conrad, sort of the touchdown twins, the two democratic senators, they've been winning elections in that state since 1980 in a state that ronald reagan won 2- -- solidly republican, north dakota, and somehow they have managed to survive, a populist, fiscally responsible national democrats. and byron dorgan i think decided that he had spent enough time, energy and eff

>> david pitts: no.was not any type of priority at the time. >> byron pitts: in recent years, pitts says he tried to find his former commanding officer from korea, plus a hometown friend he says he ran into while in vietnam, but both had died. without corroboration or records, pitts never applied for the benefit. then, in november of 2008-- out of the blue- the v.a. sent him this letter. it says, "according to records with the department of veterans affairs, you were stationed in the republic of vietnam during your military service." >> david pitts: right. >> byron pitts: and you got this letter, you thought what? >> david pitts: well, somebody has found something. >> byron pitts: based on the letter, pitts filed a claim. it took the v.a. ten months to review it before denying it. it's an example of the complexity that both the v.a. and veterans face in establishing what happened, years, sometimes decades, after events have taken place. the v.a. says it needs evidence to grant a claim, and it could not f

general david petraeus in the promotion board. they were not given a fair shake to the more intuitive thinking types. with those heavyweights behind you you would think they would be fixed. there they large constituency in the military that is averse to making the changes. if you go into iraq and afghanistan a lot of people were not in villages, a lot of them have not bought into this idea. we will see an ongoing battle, this book will be used as fire support in this battle. thank you very much. [applause] >> can you all hear me? i am going to provide a lot of comments. i will ask mark to interrupt me. it is a pleasure to be back where i did write fiasco five years above here in 2005. lot of people say you are going to call that book what? are you sure? a year later a guy said to me fiasco, where were you when i needed you? i want to begin by saluting several friends. from here and iraq and afghanistan. would you put up your hand if you are a veteran of iraq or afghanistan? keep those hands up. put up your hand if you are a vetera

i'm like david, it's okay.et you to the hospital. >> you did say now that i know you're okay, don't worry, you're number one on the board. >> congratulations. >> thank you. >> i will cherish this always. i will let it wobble. >> the very high budget show. and very coveted award. maybe you can win it next year. and the bolt that holds it in place. maybe not. >> don't go away. the count down continues next. continues next. >> glenn: we might as well all go to crazy town. think it over. yeah, baby. nasa released the refurbished video of the first ever moon landing. this makes sense in upside down world. have you noticed or is it just me we seem to be marching down the road to socialism? >> oh, no, it's socialism. stop, stop. comrades, today, i bring you the news from the western front. our fearless leader of the american swine say their country will never recover if the stimulus doesn't pass quickly. how right he is. but comrades, you must not listen to the foolish propaganda from the pig who says that their leade

david stevenson was also a co-author on that. but we're going to have one of his co-authors on the piece, mark cohen, who is president of long-term care insurance provider life plans speak about that. we'll then hear from rachel warner, assistant professor of medicine at the university of pennsylvania on how to use the markets to incentivize for quality improvements and finally we'll hear from marian who as i mentioned earlier was our thematic issue advisor on this issue. but who also is on her other life the marian professor of gerontology at the pennsylvania school of nursing who will be speaking about the very important announcement today which is about the formation of the new long-term quality alliance. and in our journal there is a people and places column that provides some more information about the formation of this alliance and the exciting opportunities it will afford to continue to improvement long-term quality care. in the interest of time, i'm not going to go spoke your terrific bio s and they are in your packets. m

tom borrow cause, david brooks, e.j. dionne and doris kearns goodwin here on "meet the press." >>> our political round table weighs in on the year ahead for the obama agenda. >>> we're back joined by presidential historian doris kearns goodwin, nbc news tom brokaw and david brooks of "the new york times." welcome to all of you. happy new year. tom brokaw, this christmas day plot, this this was the 3:00 a.m. wake-up call that hillary clinton talked about in the campaign. >> i think they have been more responsive. it dmen straights the vulnerability of great powers like the united states against an enemy that really is very nimble, cunning, and suicidal. and for all of the technology that we have in the world, all of the coordination that goes on with security apparatus in europe and the rest of the world one piece is not in place, somebody can slip through and have a devastating effect as that bomber might have had on that northwest flight that day. the administration certainly has now been responding in a much more robus

maybe not yours, david. >> i wasn't going to say it.oks, what then becomes narrative of this decade? >> who are the passionate outsiders who are going to come in. the people with passion can control the decade, the feminists in the 1970s. the evangelicals in the 1980s. who are the real passionate outsiders, the protesters in iran but two, i have to say i'm not a huge fan but the tea party people. they have real passion, now on the outside. if they can merge with responsible leadership and become a real movement there is real disgust at government, about fiscal issues, they could become maybe a destructive force in the republican party, maybe a positive force. those are people with real passion who may play a much larger role. >> e.j., you talk about the squandered decade and how politically the fight in this first year of the obama presidency were carryovers from the previous decade and bush administration. how do we get government to work better? >> i think that is a core question. tom mentioned the 60s and there were certain decades t

plus mark shieldand david brooks. that followsour economic look back and ahead wch ray conducteon new year's eve. >> 2009 ben with fears ever a second eat depression. mpanies on the brink of collapse and unprecedented government interntion. home forecloseures evtually topped 4 million. unemploynt soared too. as of november 10% of americans were jobless. in march, the stocmarket slumped to 12-year low onlyo rise 61% by the end of the year amid hints of economic recover here ttake stock of it all e david wessel, economics editor of "the wall reet journal," he's author the book "in fed we trust" i whiche tracked the federal reserve's response to th financial crisis. jim ellis, assistant naging editor of blockberg "busins week" magazine and cathy chsoff, bloger for cbs moneywatchlso author the book "investing 101"men and cathy, giv where we started the year, how do things look to you now? >> well, things are lookin better, given how bad they were. that's prey easy to say. i actually think that is will be a slow recover ye

and with me toalk through the latest jobs picte is david leonhardt, economics writefor "the new york time"/a- ir, today's numberas worse than expected. >>. >> yesit was. the were definitely hopes as you pointed out thawe would get a positive numr. it tur out revisions gave us a very slight positive numberor november. buthen we got this gative number for december. it's fun, the negative positiveine is actually not as important as it oen ses because it we really ed more than 100,000 jobs each month just to ecould up with populati growthment but this gives a sense really for how f we are from getting the b rket healthy again. >> reporter: i want pars the expeation games a ttle more here. because you say this revision in november actually shows we had one month where weained jobs. >> yh. >> reporr: and as i said in the introductn, recent numbers are not as bad, rtainly, as what we saw. >> exactly. it is a question of ping, expecting, allround a amework of numbers. >> that's right. onof the ways to pars it in aay that doesn't get you too dizzy a month-toonth stuff is take a three moh movi

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david kerley joins us with more. david? >> reporter: good morning, josh. this morning, it's the cia director on the attack. against those suggesting that the dead agents may have somehow brought day tack on themselves. and new details about the bomber's motives and actions. the double agent suicide bomber was out for revenge. >> against americans and their drone teams outside the border. >> reporter: committed to avenging the pakistani man killed in a drone attack. a taliban leader. the jordanian doctor convinced official that he was their agent. as he got out of the car, the bomber's hand was in his pocket. security guards were about to search him with the intelligence personnel standing 50 feet back. he detonated the bomb then. >> you can't sacrifice trade craft under ordered from headquarters. he pretended to be tied in with the top al qaeda leadership. all sorts of short cuts were made. >> reporter: the director of the cia is attacking critics this morning. saying no one ignored the hazards. the cia's efforts in afghanistan and pakistan will be more di

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as is king david, as is crazy or is. in the picture, david outgrow it would be a stick figure in period costume. without he is wild haired. with happy eyes and dressed in a suit pulled from a dumpster on skid row. he stands in the streets screaming, your fathers or to attribute the mr. t. said he would attack the garrison, dried out the errors and purify the town then leave his ragged army to palestine. in old books his story builds, then soon after he sounds a battle cry, his arm is gone, he is gone. it's a story without the finish. according to most dollars, this probably means the rebellion was crushed and outright execute. over the years, ms. were invented to us by what might happen or should happen. in other words, people wrote their own ending. in sum, david alroy is go. and some he is captured. in sum, he flees to jerusalem. in some he wanders the streets weeping and crying, absalom, and sunday vanishes into the hills that in some he falls in love with a group of highwayman. in some he falls in love but his love i

david manning -- >> okay, so david manning. >> certainly myself and jonathan.we would probably see the prime minister first thing every morning. we'd probably see him last thing at night and we'd see him plenty of times if between. i would say then -- david manning's team was important in the context of the structure and meetings as they developed over time. and jonathan scarlet was important and david taylor was important. i would say in this particular context jack straw he would have seen as often with the exception of john prescott and at different times gordon brown. and then the team beyond thatwñ sally morgan was very important in relation to the prime minister's relations with the political system and the parliamentary labour party and so forth. but he's somebody -- and i sometimes talk about his decision-making style what i call a circular conversation where he's talking different people over a time frame and absorbing different thoughts and influences. and in terms of policymaking, i've never been a policy person and never claimed to be a policy perso

david martin, what have you been able to find out about this? >> usually when you close an embassy it's because there's been chatter on the internet and on cell phones about some sort of vague attack against western interests. that's different from what almost happened on christmas day in yemen. there was a specific plot to attack the american embassy on christmas day, and the u.s. preempted that attack with an air strike of its own. it launched jets off a carrier and cruise missiles from ships off shore. it hit two training camps in yemen. general david petraeus has said that they intercepted four suicide bombers who were on their way to the capitol. and they also killed some senior al qaeda in yemen operators. so when you look at that and you remember what else happened on christmas day, namely the near-miss on the bombing of the airliner in-bound to detroit, yemen... al qaeda in yemen really was planning a christmas surprise. >> schieffer: what you're telling us here is these were u.s. aircraft flying off a u.s. carrier that carried out the s

the implicit message, david letterman has admitted to the affair. the implicit message in a situation like this, is letterman saying, not explicitly, he's never met halderman. is david letterman saying, you better not say anything. you better keep this confidential. you better keep this quiet. that's the message. don't go out there with this story. halderman said, wrong. i am going to go out there with this story. i've been hurt, i've been destroyed. my relationship with a woman that i loved has been, has been totally, totally destroyed. i'm going to go out there. i'm going to go out there with a book, a screenplay, a treatment, whatever form i choose. but if you, david letterman, want this to remain confidential, i am willing to enter into a contract with you. >> capitalism, not criminality. >> go ahead, mr. horowitz. >> i would say what jerry has just done is stood the facts directly on their head. it was not mr. letterman that approached mr. halderman. it was mr. halderman who threatened dave and his family and said, for a price, i will remain si

in washington, david digs, cofounder and director of beyond borders. david lived and worked in haiti for a decade, still visits there regularly. ending child slavery in haiti is a beyond borders priority. and here in l.a., aaron cohen, head of abolishslavery.org. he's the author of "slave hunter: one of man's global quest to free victims of human trafficking." how much, aaron, is going on -- how much of this is going on in haiti? >> you know, larry, it's an incredible phenomenon in haiti. they have a cultural norm of slavery that's leftover from -- >> larry: how's it work? >> well, there's -- essentially, it goes back to male privilege. women have been debased to a level where they don't have the same social value as men, so they can't be there to protect their children. over 250,000 slaves end up in domestic servitude. >> larry: where people are taken from their homes and made slaves in other places? >> what happens is, essentially, the poverty is such a problem that they end up leaving the rural areas for the cities to work as domestic servants. at t

david paterson of new york, gov. arnold schwarzenegger of california. tillman, we feel your pain unemployment, the latest figures at -- gentleman, we feel your pain. and a plymouth, the latest figures at 10%. >> this is an amendment in california that the state will not spend more on prisons than it does on higher education, which it does now. the jewel of public education in the united states come from k-12 to by the university college system, is now a basket case. it is a tragedy. we have a political ethic in this country that has operated for the past 25 years, and that is tax cut, tax cut, tax cut, i will never ask you to be a citizen and pick up the burden. >> in the case of california, it is hard to have sympathy for a state was spending recklessly in the good years. i will give you one example they decided was -- they decided it was in the interest of its own stanzel policy to get $3 billion for a referendum on the stem cells, which is not a state issue, but a national issue, and it is 8a slush font whose research has produced almost nothing to i

david, is john avalon right? >> well, john has emerged as one of the leading voices of his generation. so i respect that. but i do disagree about his analysis about scott brown. he was embraced by the social conservatives. he did not necessarily embrace their full agenda. he did say he was for roe v. wade, but he wants to put a lot of restrictions on the way abortions are done. he's against gay marriage. he was a right-to-life candidate in this election. i don't think it was a major thing that drove the election. i think he was very much against deficit spending, very much against the health care bill. but to go back to the question you put to mary matalin. when scott brown took off in december and very large part when he began campaigning, larry, to become the 41st senator, he nationalized the race. and when he did that along with his sort of populism and his real authenticity, he reminds me a lot of sarah palin in some ways because he's real, authentic and of the people. i don't think he's sarah palin in pants

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host: david, next caller. caller: on my part i am identified as no party affiliation.ian preaches the corrupt year, -- when the politicians it reaches the crop year, i will not vote for them. with clinton into york -- if i was a resident of new york, i would not have voted for her, because she moved in. and many voters in southwest florida thought they were voting for his father and they were very upset that they had voted for his son. i was extremely upset, being a disabled veteran, 1 george w. bush -- host: let me jump in here, because we're running out of time. what is your question or comment? guest: this is a question i have recently started asking my friends about voter fraud. which of the three largest cities in the u.s. have a reputation, whether it is deserved or not, for having corrupt elections? host: i am not sureç of this cn answer that we want to take a stab at it? guest: never be wrong picking cities in louisiana and new cities in louisiana and new jersey. he says, deep background means you can describe someone's thinking or reconstruct verbatim dialogu

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central command general david pe tray yas, and yemen's president offered his thanks for the help in the battle against the extremists. ed henry is traveling with the president. i want to start with the president's remarks tying the christmas day attack with yemen. >> well, he had not gone there yet, don, in remarks throughout the past week or, so and that is important to note, but what you just mentioned about the president being briefed about general david pe trtraeuspetraeo yemen, and there are more potential strikes in from yemen. before the christmas day incident, regardless of who pulled the trigger, there were air strikes against al qaeda in yemen and this is clear from what the president said and the fact that general petraeus is there on the ground and the u.s. is weighing options about potentially issuing more air strikes in the days ahead. so it is clear that there is an intense focus right now on al qaeda in yemen, don. >> he says he will hold people accountable, ed, for the security mistakes that he calls here in the united states. explain to us what he is talking about. wha

host: david, you touched on technology earlier. guest: that is one of the few areas where they tend to agree. you need to make it easier to get the medical records online. so you don't carry a folder from physician to physician. host: maurya from washington, d.c. caller: [unintelligible] we need is universal health care. they're negotiating with the different industries behind closed doors. we the public deserves to know what it is going on. i don't want watered down healthcare. that is what is happening. the unions sometimes get no increase because we get a better package of health care. i support the administration. we need to know what is happening. they should allow c-span to go to this hearing. host: how much love back do think there will be in november 2010 when the elections come up, even if it is just a perfunctory exercise if they do all this negotiation behind closed doors? guest: it is really hard to say and will depend on a wide number of factors. despite the fact that this is done behind closed doors if it is a relativ

host: david, next caller. caller: on my part i am identified as no party affiliation.always -- when the politician preaches the corrupt year, -- when the politicians it reaches the crop year, i will not vote for them. with clinton into york -- if i was a resident of new york, i would not have voted for her, because she moved in. and many voters in southwest florida thought they were voting for his father and they were very upset that they had voted for his son. i was extremely upset, being a disabled veteran, 1 george w. bush -- host: let me jump in here, because we're running out of time. what is your question or comment? guest: this is a question i have recently started asking my friends about voter fraud. which of the three largest cities in the u.s. have a reputation, whether it is deserved or not, for having corrupt elections? host: i am not sureç of this cn answer that we want to take a stab at it? guest: never be wrong picking cities in louisiana and new jersey. host: let me get to some criticism of the book from howard kurtz's column. he is referring to the qu

but david gergen is exactly right. this is a big walk back. and people came to appreciate it and they don't want the baby thrown out with the bath water. >> larry: what wr are you? >> that's behind you? >> i am standing in front of and trying not to listen to -- though he has been spectacular. rollan is entertaining a crowd here. he is better than us right now. >> larry: he is fighting you. let's go to new york. john avalon. that wasn't the lunatic fringe yesterday, was it? >> no, it wasn't. larry, i am an immediate, 44% of voters born after 1977 are independents. what is happening is a consistent message. democrats need to understand they are overspending. and what's happened with unified control of government, the base of approach seems to come outs of nancy pelosi's congress alienated them big time. and they are in denial what this is about as well. you don't hear it a lot but scott brown is a pro-choice republican. and fiscal conserve tifr, and liberal libertarian. that is where the message is it. got to get the message in washington. the