host: decatur, alabama, on the line. caller: the word is out yesterday that since the first of the year the insurance folks are spending $1 million a day to keep us from getting healthcare. i think from now on when anyone gets on your program or tv they should all be asked how much money they are getting from insuran insurance. guest: we take no money from anybody for the polls. it is self-funded by the university. so in answer to that concern we are getting nothing. host: do you want to respond, caller? caller: i'm not speaking to you. i'm talking about the senators and stuff that they are buying up this at $106,000 apiece. we've got to come out with what is holding up on the healthcare. i thank you. host: anything else? saint talk steen, florida. jill on the independent line. caller: great. you could almost bet right now rasmuss rasmussen will put together a poll that will dispute your poll entirely and it would only be run on fox news because everybody else knows the polling is so dishonest. it has been proven. when t

and this september in george ayou can go to the decatur book festival. celebrate local culture and literary history in st. have youingstein at the florida heritage book festival. >> let us know about book fairs and festivals in your area and we'll add them to our list. e-mail us at booktv@cspan.org. >> this summer book tv is asking, what are you reading? >> i just finished recently a pretty big book, called "liberal fascism" and had to read a lot of stuff for that, and stuff i will confess i have been reading most have been graphic novels, essentially, comic books for grown-ups. but, i am right now reading a book called "rebirth of a nation" by jackson lears, i think that is the title, i hope it. >> guest: it is pretty good so far and ideologically i have some problems with it but it is a good read about the sort of intellectual currents that lead to the progressive era, in effect and i have been reading stuff by the academic -- social scientists, sherry burnham about social democracy which is pretty good, and i picked up a copy of a book called "methlan

we are in decatur, georgia.is is one of eight sites selected for the trial. >> they are looking to see if the scenes are eight or affective, but they are trying to determine the proper dosage. the last outbreak, they were never exposed. so they are having a lot of thoughts that they may require not one but two of doses. jane: what if there is not enough vaccine? >> there are five manufacturers working on various vaccines, said they hope they do not run into the same shortages. nevertheless, the advisor report is meeting tomorrow to come up with recommendations on who gets first priority. the first party would be health care workers -- you want them to be healthy in the event of an outbreak. but another is pregnant women, proportionally affected when this disease was discovered in the spring outbreak. about 6% of fatalities from swine flu involved pregnant women. even though they comprised only 1% of the u.s. population. jane: has a hit other countries? >> it has, indeed. particularly in the southern hemisphere f

decatur, georgia. john on the republican my beard of a cut he lived to be 93.that is fine lifetimes of 18 or 19 year-old who died in vietnam. kennedy, johnson, mcnamara all live, bush lied and now obama -- seven soldiers died yesterday in that nothing war in afghanistan just like vietnam. are we going down the same path again? host: he also writes that mcnamara was devoted to the kennedys. when the president was assassinated and robert kennedy picked the grave site back in merced, "joe, i want to tie up that land for president kennedy so that no one can ever take away. i want to make damn sure we own it." is in the middle of arlington cemetery -- i once a legal opinion nailing the title down. i want to sign the deed that sets the land aside forever. ramsey clark, then head of the justice department's lands division, did the title search. texas. good morning. marcel, you are on the independent line. caller: at least he apologized for the vietnam war. he gave an apology. i think we have to credit him with that. there may have been a little small threat of communi

steve: huddle house got started down in decatur, georgia, 45 years ago because the people in the townhe big sporting events, and they started that, and it has spread, and we are delighted that they would join us to celebrate 45 years in business. gretchen: let's talk about the confirmation hearings for sonia sotomayor because they're going to get under way in 90 minutes on capitol hill. today is day three, and joining us from washington with what to expect caroline shively who's made her way inside to the building where the hearings will take place. good morning, caroline. >> good morning to you, gretchen, things get fired up an hour and a half from now. we expect another long grueling day of questioning just like we saw yesterday. about half the panel here didn't get time to ask sotomayor some questions. each senator gets about 30 minutes with her. it was a long day yesterday. it was pretty rough for sotomayor. at some points. we expect more of the same today. they'll go behind closed doors to talk about national security and some other things they don't want the public privy to and

. >> right now i'm standing in front of the emory vaccine center in decatur, a suburb of atlanta.teers in august for preliminary trials to see whether this h1n1 vaccine is safe. if it is, they will then move on to pediatric and geriatric clients here and at approximately seven other locations throughout the country. the trials will help public health officials not only determine whether these vaccines are effective, but also the proper dosage. the results of these preliminary tests are expected in a matter of weeks, hopefully in time for wide scale distribution of a vaccine in time for flu season beginning in october. the first human trials of a swine flu vaccine are already under way in australia. two biotech companies have started injecting 540 adult volunteers. researchers hope to have a vaccine ready in that country for has distribution also by mid-october. of course it's winter south of the equator, so australia's already full blown in flu season, and there are reports of heavy transmission rates of h1n1, no sign that the disease has mutated into a more dangerous form. nevert

this september in georgia, you can go to the decatur book festival. celebrate local culture and literary history in st. augustine at the florida heritage book festival. at the brooklyn book festival look for authors jonathan and ed. let us know about book fairs and festivals in your area and we will lead them to our list. e-mail us at bookstv@c-span.org. >> books tv is asking what are you reading? >> i've the co owner of politics bookstore in washington d.c.. i got into the business because i love to read more than anything. i don't do too much exercise. i lie on my sofa and read instead. this is an incredible year for reading and books. i am happy to have a chance to talk about this on c-span because i think c-span doesn't bring enough fiction to you. and fiction can be more true than books about policy or history. my two themes this year i immigration and south asia. i am not going to talk about three paperbacks that are so popular, they don't really need me to support them but i will tell you what they are. one is netherland by joseph o e o/neill w

these articles could have been written about all -- places all across the country, from detroit to decatur, davenport, to denver where investment if it happens at all really hasn't been invested in the way that is will create the most jobs. going out in some suburban area and building a new job -- new road in newly developed areas rather than fixing decayed existing infrastructure does not create as many jobs as fixing it first. fixing it first is a winner because it will help restore damaged communities. it will not add an inventory of more and more roads that will have to be maintained when we can't even maintain our roads and bridges and transit system right now. and fixing it first is much more labor intensive. there are more jobs to be created fixing existing infrastructure that's falling apart than making new infrastructure that will have to be maintained in the future. it also strengthens mature cities. many in america are concerned about the vitality of their inner cities. and it's not just older industrial cities that one thinks of like detroit or buffalo. but cities around the co