we continued the conversation with david kdavid clarke abd ana edney. after the sotomayor hearings, this is now front and center. >> the house may need to start over, and given what the cbo has said about the cost of health care. he was talking about amendments but not having any specifics right now. they may be looking to the senate finance committee for this issue. they're the only bipartisan hope for health-care reform bill. they're still working and have i come out with anything. they were delayed slightly by the sotomayor hearings, it seemed. the war on a number of negotiators on the republican side who worked -- there were a number of negotiators on the republican sides to work on this. it looks like they're the last best hope for anybody to get a bill that will actually do something to reduce the risk of health care spending. i think everyone has their eye on them, including the blue dots. >> david clarke, you kept going back to that issue. he kept going back to waste, fraud, and abuse. >> how do you pay for it? it seems difficult to do that out

joining us to look ahead is david clark, chair of the russia foundation on the phone from oxford. david, thanks for zoibing us. although this meeting is there to agree to a new nuclear arms deal. what is the most important part? what are we trying to see or get achieved here? >> well, president obama, shortly after he was inaugurated, said he wanted to press the reset button with relations on russia which is to say that he wanted to overcome all of the tensions that had built up between the bush add mip administration and russia and make a new state based on common interests that they could work towards and one that would be free of tensions that had man faftd themselves in the previous eight years. and i guess the summit really is an attempt to try and set out an agenda and a framework in which that new agenda and that fresh start can be built. >> mr. putin has said mr. obama knows very little, really, about russia. that's not very helpful, is it, ahead of this meeting? >> well, i think it's not an issue that president obama has dealt with in his previous political career. preside

for being an inspiration to the lunch we had on capitol hill with congressman bartlett along with david clark, as you know is a democratic congressman, congressman from brooklyn who is co-sponsored with benny thompson, home and security committee, piece of legislation to harden their electric circuits every year the next five years at a cost of four or $5 billion trying to urge the administration to take that money out of the stimulus package and spend it on something we desperately need as a smart agreed because actually if you do the smart grade and as you know you will make the situation worse. but i want to thank you and being inspirational within primus' that accompanied sponsored the lunch we had. there is a bill in the house. we are trying to get a senate companion bill done. , to people that are not soulmates, yvette clark, and also bartlett, the congressman from maryland as basically the inspiration is to go to bennie thompson and try to get him as chairman of the homeland security committee that bill, you've been the inspiration to do this and i want to thank you. there is a bill if

we continue the conversation with david clark of c.q. politics.com. and anna edney. now that the sotomayor hearings have concluded, that the front and center. where is this going? >> the congressman said this may all need to start over based on what c.b.o. is saying about the cost of health care. he's talking about amendments but not having anything specific quite yet. it looks like they may be looking to the senate finance committee to sort of solve the issue. they're the only bipartisan hope for a health care reform bill. they're still working, haven't come out with anything, they were delayed slightly, it seemed, by the sotomayor hearings, there were a number of negotiators, particularly on the republican side, involved in those. so now they've all been able to come back to the table and it looks like they're sort of the last best hope for anybody to get a bill that will actually do something to reduce the growth of health care spending. i think everyone will have their eye on them, and it seems including the blue dogs. >> you kept going back to, how do you pay th

>> david clarke covers health- care issues for "congressional quarterly." anna edney is a reporter for "congressdaily." thank you for joining us. >> tonight spend time with walt mossberg. >> this week on prime minister's question, and gordon brown discusses afghanistan, focusing on the number of helicopters and current operations, the financial crisis, local scandals. prime minister's questions tonight at 9:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. >> tomorrow on "washington journal," judy feder examines the debate on health care reform. from the national governors association meetings in mississippi to, we will talk with jack markell and others. washington journal live on c- span at 7:00 a.m. eastern. president obama spoke thursday and and and and market in the 100th anniversary of the naacp. it was found on february 12, 1909, and claims more than 500,000 members and supporters today. this event took place in new york city. it is about 40 minutes. >> hello, and double say cp -- naacp. thank you, everybody. please, everybody, have a seat. thank you. what an extraordinary

joining us is david clarke. let me begin with an open-ended question. it take for you to support a health-care bill as it moves from the house and on to the senate? >> that is a good question. let me be clear. the conservative democrats known as the blue dog coalition

when we did the film, me and david wilson film, we replicated dr. kenneth clark'stook 3-year-old kids and showed them a white doll and black doll and asked him which was the good doll and the bad doll. this is in 2005. the young kids -- >> 3 years old? >> yes. >> were the kids of any particular racial? >> they were black kids. almost straight down the line, maybe -- the kids preferred the white doll. >> black kids? >> hold on, you guys. karen, i'll get new here. this is an article written by rina kelly who writes for "newsweek" and talks about a study done out of hard verdict, i believe, called the implicit association test. which is what you're talking about. i see a black face a white face, i see whatever i see, i have a differently emotional and psychological response before i even have a thought, whether i'm a police officer. here is what they say, this is implicit association test. the iat, which that test, made a lot of news last year which the results showed that 70% of those who took it lasher harbor unconscious preference for white people over black people

clark. >> we did her. >> oh, we did her. >> we're done. >> that's number four. >> we're done. >> all right. >> can i just show you? this is a bit of willard's -- >> put it on ebay. >> you know, davidlast half hour. i admired his suit. he came down in jeans and gave me the suit off his back. >> wow. >> are you going to wear it? >> sell it on ebay. >> with the gum. >> all right. >> how about that. >> that's in the dressing room. >> leigh and nick getting married on the plaza after your local news and weather. >> live, local, latebreaking. this is wbal-tv 11 news today in baltimore. >> good morning. i am mindy basara. two frederick county softball coaches are out of a job after officials discovered alcohol was present at a party involving students from all high-school. the coaches say that some parents brought beer to the function but it was not intended for the players. players have dedicated a facebook page to the coaches highlighting their hard work and dedication. so far>>> let's check on the mog commute with sarah caldwell. >> is down 32 at parksville, and we have a crash on the harrisburg expressway at warren road. at dulaney valley, a speed sensor at 11 miles per hour. among l

clark. >> we did her. >> oh, we did her. >> we're done. >> that's number four. >> we're done. >> all right. >> can i just show you? this is a bit of willard's -- >> put it on ebay. >> you know, davidhalf hour. i admired his suit. he came down in jeans and gave me the suit off his back. >> wow. >> are you going to wear it? >> sell it on ebay. >> with the gum. >> all right. >> how about that. >> that's in the dressing room.e >> leigh and nick getting married on the plaza after your local news and weather. >>> time now is 8:26, 72 degrees out there. there's the way to spend the day. get a chair, sit along side the river and watch the world go by. it's wednesday, the 15th of july. i'm joe krebs. in the news, three weeks since that deadly metro rail crash. investigators can't figure out how to fix a problem with circuits. investigators told congress they replace parts but have not been able to figure out why the system cannot recognize stopped trains. metro says it will continue to run trains manually until the cause of the crash is determined. metro says it will follow ntsb regulations and put new systems in place to improve safety. we'll look at weather and our traffic. stay wit if w