they didn't know anything about him that he was born in 1872 in dayton, ohio, graduated. so the learned the first lesson every write er must learn, you'll learn it the hard way or start from the beginning. don't be with afraid, tear it up, start over again. or go in and say i have got to move this, i have got to change this. the formal word gets revision. you'll revise and revise until you figure, i can't revise anymore and send it to the editor, we have lots of revision with this. revising is 90 percent of writing. i wrote that very first book in 1971. it didn't get published until 1982. no i don't have to work on books that long anymore. but that first one, learn how to rewrite, restructure, move things. i have written many more biographies. i have learned the most important thing, you must tell a good story, character, setting, action, and idea. you have it in fiction as well as non fiction. some where along the line we were taught that non fiction is simply facts. it is not truth.

opening dayton the bay tomorrow -- opening day on the bay tomorrow, the parade of boats, 1 other of themll begin on the bay at noontime, and for mariners, northwest winds inside the gate 5-15 knots. here's a look at the highs. warm things up a few more degrees. half moon bay, pacifica, with breezy conditions, sunshine, and temperatures in the mid-60s there. mid-to-upper 70s, even san francisco, 74 degrees. north bay locations, clothdale, 81. 79 for novato. 79 for napa. east bay, oakland, 78. 77 for hercules, interior east bay, the temperatures quite mild with a string of 80s. concord, pittsburg, 81 for liver oh, 79 for santa cruz, and 80 for watsonville. we're going to drop temperatures a few degrees, a little system will get very close to the bay area on monday, so temperatures come down maybe two to four degrees, and then we warm things back up into tuesday. wednesday, inland temperatures near 90 degrees expected, and then temperatures kind of mild. it will moderate thursday, friday, and saturday, and a terrific work week ahead. >> alan: amazing change. the nfl draft ended today. let's

dayton mcconnle was back from afghanistan and asked to throw the pitch to injured a's pitcher who appeared in head to toe camoflage. mcconnel has been back in california for a month. >> you have baseball experience? >> i played when i was younger. hopefully i am good enough to throw out the ball. >> are you nervous? >> a little bit. after afghanistan you are a marine you can't be nervous. >> it is a different nervous. >>> and his pitch was high and outside. >> thank you sergeant for your service to our country. >> and fans could help support the troops by donating to a san ramon base troop which every month sends two tons was supplies to troops over seas. >> there is a need over there and sometimes we can get it there faster than a branch of service can for the front line guys. no red tape and no change much command. >> the 10 year old wrote a note to go alongg with the shipment. >> what is memorial day for you? >> that, too, and also in remembrance of the troop that is served our country. >> memorial day was not forgotten at this game. heather ishimaru, abc 7 news. >> and if you would lik

the second storm you can see dayton 6:19 the rain picks mup earlier we had reports about a possible tornado. the big story, across the country, more tornado warnings. 7 states under tornado warnings from chicago towards louisiana, you see this line of severe weather. this is many nights and days of bad, bad, bad weathers out there and it continues tonight. severe thunderstorm and a tornado warning across 5-6 states. lots of weather going on and even here in the state. 80 in the lake tahoe area closed. we will talk about when the weather will get out of the area. >>> people in oklahoma are bracing for more violent storms. the death toll from three tornadoes that tore through the oklahoma city area yesterday rose to 9. the governor toured some of the hardest hit areas and declared a state of emergency. >> terrible day yesterday. we are saddened by the loss of life. so far we have 8 or 9 -- >> 135 people have been killed since tuesday in storms in oklahoma, missouri, arkansas, and kansas. more than 100 tornadoes have been recorded this month in the u.s. the national weather service says the av

of rationale, there's no activity to be regulated by government because everything you do here in dayton affects bookstores in other states. you're violates interstate trade. it's outrageous. don't get me started on trust and antitrust because the whole thing is impossible to come up with a reasonable loming call way to approach this. if you undercut your opponent's prices, you're guilty of predatory pricing. if your goods and services are too high, then you are guilty of price gouging, and if your goods and services are priced like everybody else's, then you're guilty of collusion. what do you do? that should do it. if everybody's happy, i'll be happy to sign books for you. thanks again for coming out on this cold and blustery night. thank you. >> for more information visit patriotshistoryusa.com. >> habe -- habe yous corpus is not only script ordering that jailer to bring a named prisoner into his court and along with it was a return on parchment explaning why it was that jailer was holding that prisoner, but more than a scrap of parchment 300 years ago and certainly today, habeas corp

not of the dayton agreements because the dayton agreements called for their arrests-- and others-- but of the nato implementation. as long and karadzic andladic are at large he will be actively trying to create separatism in a country as it mixes together. rose: they probably knew where he was for a while? >> yes. a couple colleagues of mine knew about this. heas probably getting pro frex the serbian military. active duty officers until 2002 and i think th weren't looking for him hard and it's only in the last couple years tadic has tried to move forward. i may be overstating this and i'm not a serb but this is a great day as well for serbia. this has hung or that that country and all serbs and held them back and i think that will allow them to move forward. there's a new generation of serbs th don't want any part of this ultra nationalism, they want to be part of europe and the world and it's a relief for them. >> rose: there's a feeling they can join the community of nations now that they have this past them. >> this has been a great source of shame. >> rose: and it's a point you mad

aes was buying a company in dayton. and so the march goes on. if you want to stay wealthy, if you want to increase your wealth over the next 20 or 30 years, and even over the next ten years, just buy good businesses at a discount. >> great advice as always. mario, it's wonderful to have you on a program. thank you so much. >> what a pleasure and privilege. >> mario gabelli there with terrific insights as always. up next, the debate of the debt celling. the impact our bill should pay as the debate stretches from washington to wall street. >>> later on, funding and finding a cure for a debilitating disease. actor michael j. fox will be with us, turning his celebrity into one of science's most successful money-raising efforts. as we take a break, a look at how the stock market ended the week. back in a moment. >>> using those market-based principles of choice and competition where the power comes to the senior, not to a government bureaucracy helps us improve this system and lower costs. almost any analysis shows we have $500 billion a year, $500 b

but my heart -- i taught for a long time in a private school and i've taught at the university of dayton almost all my college career and my heart is with home-schoolers and the private schoolers, the founders are going to be right with me. they were all in favor of public education. and they all favored public education, grades 1 through 6, paid for by the taxpayers. the difference is, they favored the state and local taxpayers paying for it, not the federal government. the federal government was to have no role in public education. now, here's the kicker before all the public school unions go, yeah, popping the champagne cork. here's the second part of that. what were they to teach? all the founders, and this is mostly by benjamin rush, who's kind of the early father of american public education -- all of them believed that what should be taught was math, grammar and english, history. but what kind of history? a patriotic history. i'm sure they would like a patriots history in the united states. [laughter] >> a patriotic history. and they were very explicit about this. you don't just t

at launching a rotary wing aircraft started in earnest in the first half of the last century the dayton footage me look a bit goofy in hindsight but there was a decades long debate among designers before the ideal layout was settled on among the very first to get it right was alex it should be all new kit with his saudi one be a helicopter. but it stands out as. the first russian helicopter that was able to take off successfully. plus it's basically become the prototype for ninety five percent of the helicopters that have been designed in the world ever since. i think the rotor model with the tail rotor. and also it shattered the world out that you record in one hundred thirty two reaching six hundred five meters. one more than thirty times higher than the previous mark or with. the italian machine before it could barely reach the roof of a five story building your movements helicopter flew as high as today's tallest skyscrapers but with the secrecy that surrounded his work at the central aero hydrodynamic institute sunday the soviet record went long unrecognized despite increasing agre

going to do it though daniel pollack co-director of government relations for the dinosaur going to dayton of america and norman finkelstein political scientist and our.

starting when he was eight and still living in dayton, ohio. >> my mother took me to a local production was like a cliched moment of like the light hitting me and i literally saw what i wanted to do with my life. it changed my life. >> reporter: he got cast so much in dayton that when his parents divorceded and his mom moved him and his brother chad to california, lowe was devastated. >> i mean look at this. this is not what i was used to coming from the midwest at all. >> reporter: to say the least. >> no. it was overwhelming. i mean just sensorally, culturally. >> reporter: so lowe found refuge with that neighborhood gang of fellow film freaks. what a day it was. >> i'm talking 13-, 14-year-old kids led by chris penn and his brother sean penn and of course charlie sheen. >> reporter: charlie sheen and emilio, the sons of actor martin sheen. >> we would get martin sometimes. it's amazing to me now to think how gracious he was. here he is an amazingly accomplished actor. he would come and play the captain in our little ridiculous 8 millimetre movie. >> reporter: what about charlie sheen

the mild air is here. 55 down at dayton, ohio. 49 in chicago.omething is going on here out to the west of us and it is a cold front. very light activity through pennsylvania. that is coming in on this warmer air. here's the cold front bacchant ohio. it will be a slow-mover and it will not move in until wednesday morning. high pressure u.s. great weather on saturday. clouds stock in yesterday. as the front stalls to the west, we will be a no man's land today as far as the weather. the range threat is there. not a lot of sunshine. the greatest chance of thunderstorm activity will be to the west. with me take a rest from severe weather. the chance is there for some damaging wind. no major outbreaks like we have seen over the past week. mostly cloudy today. we could see some sunshine breaks. a few scattered showers in the forecast and perhaps a rumble of thunder plates in the day. 68 to 73 with wind 10 to 15 miles per hour. most of the rain is off to the north, nw. the rain chances are not that high. but they are there. it isn't until tuesday into w

brits are breaking the law you have to deal with those people as law breakers but let's let's bring dayton into this i think we may have engaged and i have you yes oh great ok so do you agree with which is the problem not the patriot act the problem is just tinkering with it so that it's not meant. absolutely not a large force in the constitution and bill of rights were completely of this aerated out in the open with the patriot act section eight zero two says that we can charge with pre-crime in preterit without defining it in any way shape or form it's broadly defined and with the apparatus of homeland security coming out after nine eleven with our cell phone tracking tracing and database seeing each one of us whether it's an i phone and android or a microsoft or. civil liberties have gone by the wayside in this country and we need to take them back and prosecute large corporations that abuse their power let's have the generations a little bit days and i want to know you know we thought microsoft by skype for eight point five billion dollars something that some are skeptical as to the va

in 1995 -- this happened in dayton, ohio, known as the dayton accords, the united states brought thereement eventually ending the violence. a u.n. tribune nall indicted mladic and others on several charges including war crimes, genocide and crimes against humanity. in 2006, former yuv slav president milosevic died in his cell awaiting trial at the hague. what else happened, another man extradited into the netherlands and is there. let's go to 2011 and what happened. yesterday, serbian president boris tadic announced the capture and arrest of mladic in serbia. he will be extradited and face trial before the international tribunal at the hague. >> the 69-year-old mladic spent last night in a jail cell in belgrade, serbia. he looked frail in court yesterday. he was reportedly unable to address the judge. his lawyers claim that he's a ruin of a man after two heart attacks and three stroke. serbia's president says he expects the ex-general to be transferred to the u.n. war tribunal in the hague in the next couple days. >> the next guest is the war crimes [ inaudible ] david shepard joinin

i come up mostly educated in public schools but i taught in a private school, a university of dayton and almost all of my college career and my heart is a private school and home schoolers figure the founders will be with me but all in favor of public education and favor that through grades one through six paid for buy the taxpayers. the difference is that they favor the state and local tax payers, not the federal government. the federal government would have no role with public education. here is the kicker before the union's start popping champagne, here is the second part, what were they to teach? mostly by benjamin rush, the yearly father of american education, all of them believe what should be taught was math, a grammar, english, a history history, what kind of history? unpatriotic history burst . and they were very explicit about this for you don't just teach all nations are equal and i am paraphrasing. all nations are fine but we are special. you need to show why. they all believed in a patriotic history and lastly, they all believe you should teach religion in the public sch

causing clouds and believe it or not, that was a snowflake from dayton, ohio.ht now, a couple of sprinkles moving through the area, with this cold air aloft. it reacts with this may sun. creates clouds. and we get sprinkles. that will clear out later this evening. and during the day tomorrow, high pressure builds in. should be a pretty nice day. on friday, another weak system passing pretty much to our north. could bring us an afternoon shower. maybe a brief shower. looks like the weekend could get up. there is warming coming. winds on the bay, still kind of breezy. and an advisory for small craft tomorrow afternoon. bay temp, around 62 now. warmer than the air. 42 tonight. colder than some subur ban areas. some neighborhoods get to 38 degrees. downtown, probably closer to about the upper 40s. tomorrow, sunshine. breezy. tomorrow night, down near 40. but tomorrow afternoon, in the mid-60s. it's about 5 or 6 degrees below average for this time of year. so chilly air here in the first week of may. >> enough of this. >> i'm with you. >>> still to come tonight on e

big storm very close to dayton, ohio, and cleveland, ohio, to the west of you, between you and sandusky. this stretches almost from texas to ohio. i've not seen wide spread events like this i'm not sure in my career as the weather moves through, storms are all rotating. every single storm today has had some type of rotation. and the red boxes those are all tornado watch boxes. they stretch from south texas to cleveland, ohio and all the way up just west of chicago. more tornadoes on the ground today. at least 48 separate reports of tornado damage already and more coming in as we speak. john. >> chad myers, 48 reports of damage already, 20 tornado watches in effect. we're going to stay in touch with chad throughout the hour. also tonight, there's grow anger and frustration here among the families still searching for loved ones 72 hours after the record setting tornado ripped open a wound here. this couple was told by a neighbor he saw their 12-year-old son's body taken from the rubble of their apa apartment but they say they can't get a straight answer and aren't allowed to visit the mor

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this is an answer to a lecher who is actually an employee of the dayton, ohio asylum for the insane. probably i guard, but could be an administrator and wrote his letter using asylum stationery. he is tipped off to where it is to learn from. this is what he tells the story. suddenly i will read you an autograph letter for your collection. what is more, please do not help the offices that i said such a thing. i believe that you are wickedly and unjustly confined there. that is, if they are real -- proportions are quite rational, and i am satisfied that if you were put under mild and judicious treatment he would get over it. then, of course, nice signature. if the whole theory behind this is that when he gets this letter and read it he may change his mind and not showing it to his friends. there are dozens of such letters, one i did not put into this lines. listen carefully. i am all long time answering your letter. you must remember that it is an equally long time since i received it. so that makes us even with no one to blame on either side. [laughter] i think you would like to know

in 2002, the dayton daily news produced a seven part series entitled, casualties of peace. former dayton daily news editor, jeffrey pers stated quote, the extent of the safety problem has been disguised for decades, partly because they're thousands of miles away, partly because peace corps has made little effort to publicize them and partly because the agency delivery kept people from finding out while emphasizing the positive aspect of the peace corps, and quote. earlier this year, i'd shoot a 14th at abc television news program, 2020 expose the peace corps failures regarding the reporting of its assault and rape for many victims to come forward about the mishandling of their cases. according to dozens of disturbing affidavits by her committee, the peace corps is mishandling of rape and associates are for decades. several of the affidavits are from volunteers currently serving in the peace corps. the affidavits received by the committee were obtained by first response action, a support group of volunteers who were the terms of rape or sold. the affidavit established five b

in fact he got within arm's reach of carter at a rally in dayton ohio in october but he left his gun at the bus depot. he had stopped with reagan during the translation and at some point transfer to reagan realizing was a -- reagan was a bigger figure. so here he is 2:27 p.m. as reagan is emerging from the vip entrance and in hinckley's right pocket is a 22 caliber revolver meant to explode on impact. he left 37 rounds of of reagan ammunition in his bag to collect the six bullets that are supposed to explode on impact or collect 2:27 p.m. he pulls out the gun. the fur shop pitts jim brady and ahead. he falls to the ground in the second shot hits tom callahan and he falls to the ground. jerry parr, 50 rolled secret service agent is are they reacting. he is shoving reagan towards the open limousine door. the third shot goes high. and my surprise that third shot went high? hinckley took it tone of target practice but not at moving targets and jerry parr had 4/10 of a second, that was as close as i could time it, not a scientific time. close as i could get it because it is happening real

. >> i'm living in dayton, ohio. there's no celebrities in ohio. she's the biggest phenomenon in the business. and i'm in a lobby. and i see her luggage going by that says liza minnelli. i'm 8 years old. i want to be an actor. and i figure, i'm going to meet her. so, i go to the front desk. i can't see over the front desk. but, excuse me? and i say, what's liza minnelli's room? and for some reason, they gave me the room number. >> an 8-year-old? >> an 8-year-old. god knows what was going on in liza's room. here's the latest 8-year-old. i made it a go. and she was kind to me. and it made a mark on me that celebrities can really make a difference in people's lives. just by being nice. be nice. how hard is it to be nice? >> we had a really good twitter question that i want to ask you about because she put it really, really well. jennifer. and she writes, what advice can you give me as the mother of an 11-year-old musical theater actress, with hopes of a future in film? when i look at lindsay lohan, charlie sheen and even what drew barrymore went throu

mike in dayton, ohio wrote, i'm sick of hearing about the next generation inheriting a deficit.urvived a world war and they succeeded. if the next generation is willing to put down their smart phones, remove their headphones they might just realize the american dream. >> as long as they understand that achieving the american dream is based on ambition, personal hard work and accountability. if you're -- the government's on gaited to provide with all your wants and needs and some rich guy should pay for them, you should reach for some other country's dream. >>> i just graduated from law school with student loans, i cannot find a job, nor can the majority of my classmates. most of my generation is not getting married just out of school like our parents did so there is no one to split the bills with either. i fear the answer to your question is no. layne in illinois writes, you're in the news business, look around, anybody who's being totally honest these days knows that this country is headed for third world status. future generations won't have time for dreams, it will be all the

it bombarded military targets and finally put holbrooke in charge of leading the dayton peace accordsgreement that leads to this day. i went back with holbrooke, and i remember him so clearly being greeted by people in the streets of sarajevo who just wanted to thank him for bringing peace and ending that war. so it was very emotional. and i think right now what holbrooke must be thinking. >> i was thinking about that, holbrooke was a mutual friend of both of ours. tragically he died suddenly a few months ago. if he were alive right now, it would have been a moment i would like to have shared with him as well. it would have been a special moment. >> absolutely. absolutely. it is special. and all this work that went into crafting that piece and finally catching this man, who don't forget has been indicted on the most serious crimes under international law, genocide and crimes against humanity. >> all right. we'll watch the trial. christiane amanpour, thanks for coming back to cnn. >> thank you. >> we'll have you back. >>> a popular television news personality suspended for using an ugl

>> well, when he -- when he was under the protection of slobodan milosevic, shortly after the dayton protected him. officially, through his office of the presidency, and through mladic's wide circle of acquaintances. mladic was a regular officer of the yugoslav national army. throughout all this he was paid by the serb government to lead the republic of serbska forces. he was simply a general until milosevic brought him home and he was somewhat lionized by these right wing leaders. milosevic was taken to the hague and gradually mladic's support fell away. the nations much the west never gave up on pursuing ratko mladic and the serb government itself was constantly pressured to turn him over to justice. and eventually the pins lined up in such a way that his support had fallen away, he was identified and they took this step. it's an historic step and a very positive step for serbia, and the west. >> and serbia's ambassador to the u.s., vladimir petrovic, is with us as well this morning. sir, how significant is this to both the people of your country, and to the global community? >> we

host: dayton, ohio. steve. good morning. caller: i keep hearing about corruption and medicare. i know there is corruption in social security as well. isave a neighbor of ththat diagnosed with bipolar, and has never suffered a manic episode. now we have the russian mafia coming in. why can't something be done about the corruption, then cutting everyone social security and medicare? guest: that is a good point. there is a lot of fraud, and it is done not only by the patients, but the doctors and hospitals. earlier calller was talking about the need for more oversight, and i could not agree host: more about the debt ceiling now. joining us at the table is a senior fellow at the peterson institute for international economics. we are also joined by a senior fellow at the george mason university. let's begin with the immediate debt ceiling. the immediate implications of today. tons of headlines reaching the debt limit. what does this mean to you? guest: i do not think it is a big deal today, but it is emblematic of a big problem. treasury secretary governor has said there are quite a

dayton, ohio, kathleen, you are on "washington journal."aller: i love, love, love c- span and washington journal. thank you for existing. you had the former head of the cia on. just last week. the focus was pakistan. you talked a lot about, so much, of course, but the duplicitous relationship between the u.s. and pakistan. about how we ship our arms into afghanistan from pakistan. i would like you to have him on again, but here is the question i asked myself, the president, and the american people. most of us are happy that he is long gone. if the reason he was killed was cut -- crimes against humanity, killing americans, innocent people, why is our president, congress, and the american people, sheltering bush, cheney, and the people responsible for hundreds of thousands of dead in iraq? when are we going to value innocent human life in the same way i am not in any way saying that an international navies sealed team should go after bush and cheney, but trials and hearings should suffice. yet we are talking about innocent human life. when we

one step is take away the tax subsidies where middle-class families in dayton and akron and canton and youngstown and charleston and beckley are taking -- take being away -- they're reaching into their pocket and giving to the oil company. at the same time, the administration needs to crack down on wall street speculators who are gaming the system as they manipulate prices with opec nations through collusion and price-fixing. by taking these necessary steps, we show our spending and our tax code and our budget can reflect how we can fuelly these the priorities. mr. president, the time to act is is now. i ask my colleagues, my more conservative colleagues here, to join us. we can -- it is a pretty easy step to move forwards a better fiscal situation, a more coherent budget policy that we eliminate these tax subsidies that have gone to america's five largest oil companies, some of the most profitable companies frankly in the history of the world. mr. president, i yield the floor. i suggest the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: quorum c

you giving me a moment to say a little something host: let's take a look at a tweet -- let's go to daytonohio, democratic caller. good morning. caller: good morning. i think gas prices are $3.89 per gallon. if we drill here we'll have to worry about exporting and we need to stop giving the gas companies tax breaks. host: what do you think that would do? caller: i think that would force them to lower the prices. they will keep raising the prices at the keep getting tax breaks. host: with the price of gas for you. ? caller: $3.89 per gallon. host: do you think a lot about this? caller: yes, i don't just want to give away my money on gas to go on vacation. we will just find something closer to the house. host: this is similar -- mt. carmel, ill., a republican line, good morning. caller: gas prices are not affected me because i do not -- i will not go with this summer. they are affecting a lot of people. i think it is bad. i think it is not right. gas prices in illinois are high for high test. host: what did you think should be done if it is a problem? caller: i think they should lower the pr

let's go to dayton, ohio. tom, an independent. go ahead. caller: with all the outrage we have over ge not paying taxes, how can anybody say that taxes are too high? if we were going to a war or something, democrats and republicans would get together and take care of it. why can't the democrats and republicans, who are both goting -- why can't they into the house and go in and take half of their money and do that to every corporation? host: "the new york times" editorial weighs in on rail funds. he claimed he was doing a huge favor for the national treasury. let's go to seattle. david, a democrat. what did you make of speaker boehner's speech last night? david? caller: i would like to make a comment. i think we should rescind the bush tax cuts. i think that has really hurt this economy. $700 billion a thing in the caribbean. people are not touching that at all. 1.5% or 2% is not enough. we need to start going after these people who do not pay any taxes -- in the caribbean or somewhere else. host: steve, a republican in phoenix. go ahead. cal

one lady found in have to do something that happened in 1979 from this series run by the dayton news. and it was going to be reaction, we were going to deal with it. in 2001. and in 2004, senator dodd had legislation that was going to go to correct some of these and it passed the house but it died in the senate. 2007 where the same thing. so, you know, when we look at the problems and its, there's probably others who might want to see, you know, the program ended, might've been a hidden agenda because we are having tough times at home so we can't afford to spend a single penny a broad philosophy that i've are a lot from some newcomers. but i certainly commend you all for your support of the peace corps. first of all, to be in the peace corps you have to be unique in the first place. so i'm not surprised how you feel about it. but i guess my own point is that if we're really going to do something, then the congress has to act. i mean, you can't just blame it on an agency that would probably like to have somebody -- some of these enforcement. they could do things on their own but it is

host: dayton, ohio. steve. good morning. caller: i keep hearing about corruption and medicare. i know there is corruption in social security as well. isave a neighbor of ththat diagnosed with bipolar, and has never suffered a manic episode. now we have the russian mafia coming in. why can't something be done about the corruption, then cutting everyone social security and medicare? guest: that is a good point. there is a lot of fraud, and it is done not only by the patients, but the doctors and hospitals. earlier calller was talking about the need for more oversight, and i could not agree with her more. host: washington editor of "the fiscal times." we're going to take a deeper look at the debt ceiling today. hasay is the date the u.s. o officially reached its debt limit. this is another live look at the u.s. debt clock. an interesting website. it makes your head spin looking at the numbers. we will talk more about the underlying issues in a couple of moments. in in the meantime, updated news from c-span radio. >> senator john kerry, the chairman of the senate foreign relations

dayton, ohio. james, democratic line. good morning. hello, go right ahead.aller: i think that if congress is going to do away but medicare, taking care of poor people, they may need to do something with their own health care. they make enough money. i think that they are the biggest part of the problem. host: do you see a voucher system as destroying medicare? republicans say that they have solutions to keep the program alive. caller: a program like that will not be productive. host: matt, republican line, virginia. caller: i never thought that i would say something nice about bill clinton, but he hit it on the nail with paul ryan the other day. they have got to do something in congress on medicare. i turned 50 in march. unless the democrats and republicans come together, bill clinton is right. medicare is going to go bankrupt and we are going to be in deep trouble. kudos to clinton for stepping up to the plate. host: jackie, independent caller, pittsburgh, pennsylvania. caller: we really need to do something. i like to control my own stuff. i would love a v