. >> host: diane who is one of the regular viewers said president karzai announceed. who are they fighting in afghanistan? >> in my view there's good taliban and bad taliban. i think that the idea trying to split just like we saw in iraq, insurgents where they were split to a degree of some that were there for different reasons. you have taliban that are there for many different reasons than other taliban. and how do you try to get those are willing to work and talk to the government, i think it would be a worthwhile thing to do. so i think it's a good move. you need to talk. i remember in el salvador to talk to the effort. i'll add sort of that brought about a peace treaty in 1992. >> rex is joining us from ohio. good morning, rex. >> caller: good morning. i can't believe that went through on the first ring. >> host: we're glad to hear from you. buy a lottery ticket. >> caller: i can't imagine that obama is watching television over there, wanting to believe that, you know, the bush administration and mccain talked about 9/11, since the 9/11 attacks. but that was befo

her name is diane badgett and she writes a column regularly. she begins by saying my dad used to play this silly game. we'd hear thump coming from the kitchen. one of us would ask dad what are you doing? he would reply beating my head against the wall. at that time one of us would ask dutifully why? then we'd wait. "because it feels so good when i quick." has the bickering in washington sickened you to the point that you almost don't care what they do shropbg they shut up? be careful. they hope if we beat our heads against the wall long enough, we realize how much better we'd feel if we just quit. she goes on to talk about copenhagen, the plans for building safe, clean nuclear power plants to provide electricity evaporated when a secure place to store spent nuclear fuel ended. yet, this same administration has decried coal-fired plants as ecological disasters and large-scale wind and solar energy as too expensive to build yet. nothing has been done to utilize the vast resources of alaska. okay, if you can't use coal plants, can't afford wind or

going to take part in the freedom ride and he called john seigenthaler and said would you mind colin diane negative? first of all he said to in the hell is ghanian? who is this donner mandel i'm hearing about? [laughter] you need to talk to that young lady and tell her that it is too dangerous. as you have heard, our president was on his way to a conference with nikita khrushchev and they didn't want all this in the news. they didn't want it on the front pages of the paper. what we decided here in nashville to continue the freedom ride, knowing that we might be killed. we had a meeting of that sunday night. we had i don't know how many volunteers. everyone me out there will, they wrote letters, they made phone calls and said we are going to continue the freedom ride, but we know that we may not come back. so that's why we are sending letters and making out our will. 11 people were designated to go on the first flight from nashville to birmingham. one young lady missed the bus. that was a white female i think she was from scout. on that bus there was one white male from fiscal fisk, and thr

guest: it should be treated we just had two garrido -- journalist diane the last month, bill safire and robert novak. these two were icons and understood how washington works. it is ironic that most people who write about washington and the media do not really un >> guest: you know, i believe that i do understand that. i spent time in government at the justice department, the international trade commissioner private practice. i've, unfortunately, learned the seedy underbelly of washington, and this book is really my life story. it's what i learned along the way, how we got into the crisis that we're in today. it's a combination of three successive administrations that have failed the american people, and we're now in a severe economic depression, i believe it is a depression, and internationally, the world's in chaos. so it's clear that something's gone wrong, and what's gone wrong is the club in washington has not served the american people. it's, it's served itself. and that's what this book is about. >> host: why hasn't the club in washington, to use your term, changed through electi

senate republican whip john kyle and senate intelligence committee chair diane feinstein. we are at 90.1 f.m. here in washington, d.c. nationwide on xm satellite radio and on the web at c-spanradio.org, and you can follow us on facebook and twit tesm r. -- at which timer -- twitter. host: good morning. thank you for joining us. guest: good morning. host: should we pay for this war? if so, how? guest: i think we should pay for this war because it is a way to help our economy, it is a way to do fairness, and it is what i think we used to do historically. i wrote this book to look at how congress has handled military operations over the last 200 years. not what lawyers say they should do but what congress actually has done. in terms of financing, it turns out we did a pretty good job of paying for most of our wars up until vietnam and since then we haven't. i think with the surge or with military conflict we ought to pay for what's important for us. host: you point out in the vietnam war, congress did not fund that conflict. guest: in 1968 and 1969 they did pass a 10% surtax.

here's a letter we just received the other day from a woman named diane in minneapolis. she said i have been unemployed for more than a year, and all my unemployment benefits have expired. i have a masters degree, 25 years of experience and as of today, i have submitted more than 288 applications for jobs, made countless telephone calls, did all the appropriate networking and went to every job fair that came to town and i cannot get a job. any influence you can bring will be greatly appreciated by me and the millions of people like me. well, parts of our economy are clearly stabilizing with the dow jones over 10,000 again, it is clear that other parts of the economy are still struggling. we need to make sure that all americans, not just the folks who happen to work on wall street, feel that we are digging ourselves out of the hole. and i am glad that the president held this jobs summit yesterday, and i'm hopeful that as we go ahead, there's going to be a newfound focus on small businesses. the numbers quite staggering. over the past 15 years, small businesses created 64%

senator cornin and diane reintroduced this year.se i am a mayor, i am -- and i reintroduce it this year. i have been tracking outlays. the entitlement outlays run between 50% and 56% of everything the federal government spends in a given year. the august 2009 figures are 50%. there would have been higher except for the financial crisis numbers, which are 11% so far of everything we spend. interest is 5%, discretionary defense 18%. everything else, everything that senator sessions talked about, transportation, interior, education, just 16% of white is actually outlaid. so the intimate picture looms use. of course, it is medicare, medicaid, social security, veterans' benefits. it is those things they you can control that just keep going year in and year out. what we have put together is an entitlement commission. this commission would be an authority. this commission would handle social security and medicare. it would do so in the mode of the greenspan commission. we took a that model, 15 members, some professional outside members and

sorry, diane. all under the direction of the majority leader, harry reid.a long way, back to the house. when we came to the senate, i wound up being majority leader and he was the whip. 100 amendments would appear for a bill, miraculously. usually 100. i would go to harry that was working with tom daschle, ken lanier this down a little bit? -- tan lee narrow this down a little bit? in a few hours -- can we narrow this down a little bit? in a few hours, we would get a product. he would work the floor, and have the confidence from tom daschle. at the time that you were the with and i was the leader -- toward the end of my time here, we wound up on one vote in 2007, we are in the well. john collins is down there. i want to mention the bill, because it might cause a little stir -- i won't mention the bill, because it might cause a little stir. finally, carey said it, i don't think we will make it. his troops were going at one or, our troops were going out the other. there we stood, the two leaders of the parties working together and losing. [laughter] one of my

from muhammad ali's success to diane sawyer's groundbreaking work in journalism. there's evidence of their legacies throughout our community. it's in the stories we tell, it's in the history embeded in our neighborhoods, and it's seen on the banners hung in their honor throughout town. we are proud that our city has been home to people who have changed the world in the realms of athletics, literature, art, music, business, and in the case of the man we are celebrating today, law. louis d. bran sighs was born in louisville, kentucky, in 1856. the son of immigrants. it was to louisville he would return throughout his life. it was the cradle of a burgeoning immigrant communities of 19th century louisville that brandeis began his distinguished career. he excelled first in louisville's male high school and then harvard law before beginning a successful career as a lawyer and academic and laettner 1916 to the bench of the united states supreme court. when he was dominate -- nominated by woodrow wilson as the first jewish justice. the achievements of justice brandeis go

host: diane saying president karzai announced he was willing to meet with the taliban for peace negotiations. if this is so, who is the u.s. fighting? guest: in my view, there is good taliban and bad taliban. the idea of trying to split the insurgents -- the insurgents were split to a degree of some that were there for different reasons. you have talent and therefore much different reasons than other elements -- you have taliban there for much different reasons. i think it would be a worthwhile thing to do. i think you need to talk. in el salvador we talked with those insurgents, and that brought about a peace treaty. host: rex is joining us from ohio. caller: i cannot believe i got through. host: it is your lucky morning. caller: i am concerned that i cannot -- i can't imagine osama bin laden and his boys are wallowing in glee. the bush of ministration said -- the bush administration said we have not been attacked since 9/11. they were trying to bring our nation to an economic collapse. they have done more than that. the nation is completely polarized. we are going to be in a civil war of o

they also criticized dan rather not, walter cranky, diane sour, and pox news. it became a thing. we got blogs and letters. we went on bill o'reilly's show. he did a great job, and bill was good about the whole thing. >> how do we get grover comeback? >> maybe he is somewhere. >> asked rover a question. >> do you feel 40? >> let me see. gary, can you touch my back? does that feel 42 you? -- forty to you? i am older than a breadbox, but young enough to live at home with my mommy. >> ok. sara price who is five wants to know how long it will be on tv. >> we plan to be around for another 40 years. >> that is good year. -- tohear. -- to hear. >> were you worried? >> not at all, but it is nice to hear from the big cheese himself. keep me employed, i will keep going to the gym. >> one of your fans wants to know how much food as cookie monster eat? >> it is not just to heat. -- food he eats. he doesn't eat cookies just a -- just eat cookies anymore. he eats everything. >> he ate the lifetime achievement emmy on prime-time television. >> quite costly, too. it came out of his paycheck. >> a

they also criticized dan rather not, walter cranky, diane sour, and pox news. it became a thing. we got blogs and letters. we went on bill o'reilly's show. he did a great job, and bill was good about the whole thing. >> how do we get grover comeback? >> maybe he is somewhere. >> asked rover a question. >> do you feel 40? >> let me see. gary, can you touch my back? does that feel 42 you? -- forty to you? i am older than a breadbox, but young enough to live at home with my mommy. >> ok. sara price who is five wants to know how long it will be on tv. >> we plan to be around for another 40 years. >> that is good year. -- tohear. -- to hear. >> were you worried? >> not at all, but it is nice to hear from the big cheese himself. keep me employed, i will keep going to the gym. >> one of your fans wants to know how much food as cookie monster eat? >> it is not just to heat. -- food he eats. he doesn't eat cookies just a -- just eat cookies anymore. he eats everything. >> he ate the lifetime achievement emmy on prime-time television. >> quite costly, too. it came out of his paycheck. >> a

this is diane, independent line. caller: this is in reference to the nobel peace prize.he is in good company. the lady that called before, the republican, she is right, it is not about democrat or republican. because everybody was mad at bush because he supposedly gave all of these tax credits to the rich. well, the democrats are stealing from our children and great- grandchildren they bought these industries with our money and we are paying for it. host: dallas will be our last comment on this thursday morning, alan, democrats line. caller: i am an immigrant from iran and i have been watching the politics in the past 20 the politics in the past 20 years and i watched the

diverse group of our colleagues, including democrat senators, such as -- democratic senators such as diane feinstein, christopher dodd, ron by deny, frank lautenberg, patty murray, arlen specter, mary landrieu, and maria cantwell. now, mr. president, here's a letter dated 30 september, 2003. and it says, "dear medicare conferee:" it says united states senate, and it's signed by a number of senators, including my colleague, senator kerry. "we're asking" addition -- "we're writing to ask you as a member of the medicare conference committee to ensure that the final medicare bill includes a meaningful increase in medicare choice funding in fiscal years 2004-2005." so i guess that my friend and colleague, senator kerry, was against cuts in funding before he was for it. he was against them before he was for them. so anyway, it goes on to say, "you strongly support additional medicare choice funding for two very important reasons. one, to protect the health care choices and benefits of the nearly 5 million medicare beneficiaries who are currently enrolled in private-sector health plans. and, two,

time ago with something called a expanding horizons and there is a classic article on that written by diane who tells what happened to the social studies. it kind of destroyed -- we don't teach history will and often not tall to our kids, but back i think it was during -- after the depression. history used to be every child's favorite and we would teach greek myths and everybody in world history was part of school and then somebody came along during the depression, i think it was a professor at the university of virginia and said life is tough, why are these children having fun with history? we've got to be serious about it and so they did something called expanding horizons, which says you start with your neighborhood and expand in first grade or kindergarten and expand to the greater neighborhood in the county and the state and in the united states and the world and that's kind of what we do. so kids coming to first grade, like i have a first great-grandson, he is a big thinker. he thinks in terms of dinosaurs, big trucks, a big space. that's where he sat, and most of the curriculum have

they also criticized dan rather not, walter cranky, diane sour, and pox news. it became a thing. we got blogs and letters. we went on bill o'reilly's show. he did a great job, and bill was good about the whole thing. >> how do we get grover comeback? >> maybe he is somewhere. >> asked rover a question. >> do you feel 40? >> let me see. gary, can you touch my back? does that feel 42 you? -- forty to you? i am older than a breadbox, but young enough to live at home with my mommy. >> ok. sara price who is five wants to know how long it will be on tv. >> we plan to be around for another 40 years. >> that is good year. -- tohear. -- to hear. >> were you worried? >> not at all, but it is nice to hear from the big cheese himself. keep me employed, i will keep going to the gym. >> one of your fans wants to know how much food as cookie monster eat? >> it is not just to heat. -- food he eats. he doesn't eat cookies just a -- just eat cookies anymore. he eats everything. >> he ate the lifetime achievement emmy on prime-time television. >> quite costly, too. it came out of his paycheck. >> a

. >> if you want to know more i'm sure he'll tell you but some of the big names diane feldman, petereally some of the basic names in democratic politics. the fun things he graduated at university of mass. she said in a rugby player. i thought that was cool. i recently sat to visit with morgan freeman. i don't understand rugby so maybe you can explain. >> thanks for the very kind introduction. so, as lids aside my name is transfixed. i've been doing polling for ten years now. everything from presidential level. i worked for obama and kerry in 04. senate races, gubernatorial, down two states alleged racist. so pretty much everything from top to bottom. i just recently started my own firm about six months ago, something like that. and i am happy to walk you to the very fun and exciting world of polling today. so as a sort of go through this if you have any questions, just growing and that. i know some of this is going to a little dry in the beginning but i just want to give everyone a little bit of a background. i don't really know how much knowledge everyone in the room has a polling,