i like that and the direct line that my friend, bob dole, takes.it's been one of the joyce in my professional life to work with this man in different contexts and it has been a terrific experience. and i care for him deeply. judy, thank you for your introduction and delighted to be part of this panel. i remember it was -- i think it was mark train had to follow somebody like i'm just following now and he came to the podium and said, the previous speaker and i before this program started exchanged speeches. you just heard my speech and i forgot what he was going to say. there is no word that bob dole just has shared with all of you that i disagree with. i start with that. over the course of the last 18 months, the bipartisan policy center, through theen rossity and support of the robert wood johnson foundation worked on an idea. and the idea was simply can four former leaders come together and reach conclusions about this complicated lay of the land on health policy in a way that might offer some blueprint, some approach that might be helpful to con

we hope senator dole spent six days and joins us. that'll be his decision. -- senator dole stays and joins us. that'll be his decision. i am going to be asking questions. we will have a conversation among this group for about another 45 minutes or so. then we will open it up to you in the audience be making notes about what you hear and be ready to engage. as senator dole believes, give him one final round of applause and thank him. we go with your blessing. we heard the we are focusing too much of what separates us, and yet we know we need to talk about that. for the sake of this discussion, let's stop. start by talking about where the agreement is. this is a diverse group. they represent industry and labor and the left and right. let's hear from all of you what you think the most important point of agreement are. let's begin with the committee for economic development. from your perspective, what is the most important element of agreement that something can be built from? >> i think there are three things that most people would agr

is this one of these last minute pr campaigns, bob dole? >> perhaps the case. the headline just read certainly not negative for the dollar. we'll see if it makes any difference. we've got a long way to go to rescue the dollar, which has had a problem as you well know. of course, to not like the dollar, you have to like either the yen or the euro and i think that's tough arguments. >> how about the bric argument that president lula made to maria bartiromo? >> you've got to love their spunk. there's no question about it. look, we know that the reserve currency overtime is going to broaden but i don't think it's going to happen that fast and i don't think the bric countries will be on the action anytime soon. >> what do you think of a steadier dollar? >> steadier will be fine. larry, i think from what i recall, you prefer to see a stronger dollar. i was just in cleveland, i was in akron and the reality is, in the midwest and the industrial heartland a weaker dollar is welcome, as long as it doesn't bring inflation back or push bond yields higher. and so far so goo

c-span: there is anvolution in your book two, bob dole and dwayne andrea and david brinkley all getting together in a certain placin florida. >> guest: a hotel own by dwayne andrea. he gain control of it many years ago and became something for lack of a better term a local realtor for the political powerful and started but finding apartments, helping people get inside the old run apartments, and for his friends among the powerful in washington both in e political sphere like bob dole, like bob strau andn the journalistic speier white david brinkley. c-span: david brinkley does the ad setter seen on the morning shows on sunday morning. what is that all about? >> guest: atm, if anybody has heard of them outside of washington usually and watching the programs that are most viewed i washington, this week with david brinkley was sponred by adm for man years. they purposefully advertised on the programs that thought, that ar very widely watched among the people in the halls of the power in washington and so after innumerable years of sponsoring this week with davidrinkley, david brinkley reti

and bob dole, those were votes put up by democrats -- >> bob dole signed the bill and voted against ithey killed the bill in '93 and '94, because they were worried about the republican alternative. if they had done what the republicans wanted to do in '93 and '94, we would not be in the problem that we are in today. >> the town you are in, is -- are they just playing fun with america's future? >> i hope they are not playing with america's future. but when you listen to the senator's comment from july, you hear all of the comments about how republicans have plans, they have plans and the president doesn't want to negotiate with them. but we only hear criticisms of what the democrats have proposed. yet no solutions from the republican -- wait, wait, wait. >> that's not accurate. >> wait. it would be great once there is a criticism specifically the democrats want to do, the republicans would come back and say we have a better idea and here it is. >> just because you don't listen to them doesn't mean they don't do it. >> that's not true. i have on a number of times. >> john, go ahead. >> c

bob dole is this a market-moving issue? >> yeah, trillions do make a difference, larry. as you point out, i think we have to be concerned about it. beyond that, what's the president going to do for other things? cap and trade? what's he going to do for financial reform? getting health care doin done will have a lot to do if he has the political muscle to get those things done. >> i need you to respond to those market issues. you know, sometimes the road to fiscal ruin is paved by good intentions, david. >> look at the growth in medicare and health care costs. what do you think killed gm and chrysler. part of it was the health care expenditures that they could not match. >> what do we do about that? >> tell you what you do about it. a couple of things. first of all, whenever the finance committee proposal has by and large gotten the blessing from the congressional budget office that it would not add to the deficit, and secondly, that it has elements within it, including the kerry plan to attack high-value insurance plans that the cbo believes would have the effect of bend

. >> here's the dole. am going to show at the beginning and fast at the end. >>> and bush would get to the end of the sentence and couldn't think of the last word and you find yourself rooting for him to get it you can do it. president obama is like the teleprompter gets ahere's the dole. could you move it back. i will wing it, it works better. >> i don't continuing did. >> did george bush comment on his your impression . >> i had karl come up to me . he said similar to when i met you. karl rove i wanted meet him . it is cool to meet these guys and i went and i was going to go up to him. he told me to roll down the window. what do you think i am in a model t? he was like hi, frank. what is this the patriotic act. what is going on rove. red rover, let karl rover come over. i think he is generally very nice. >> has anybody got mad at you. >> i don't want to say. bom. letterman and leno have been great. i went to david letterman show if you don't know. >> explain things you don't have to. stipes that's okay.

it is terrible that all of this money is doled out, money that could have helped so many americans, including the people this was targeted for. shame on the government for keeping the money out and saying, "do what you want" -- for kicking the money out. >> i think what these films show is that there is a real pattern that is interested in nature, and as a consequence, i think it meets the standard of a recall investigation. greta: what about senator durban, -- a standard of a rico investigation. he voted about cutting off funding. >> i think it is shameful. there is no better way to describe it. there is a passage in the bible that says "those who want to do evil of the darkness." i really do believe that members of the congress, senator durbin and all, have a responsibility, a moral responsibility, to the population in general, but to poor people in general to shine the light on them. gregg: they are being taken advantage of. while they are doling out the money, they are being cheated by the crooks, and the government -- is reprehensible. it is reprehensible. >> absolutely. again, i think t

when bob dole was majority leader at the time of the bicentennial of the senate in 1987 and 1988, heegan each day's session with a senate historical minutes. we worked with him very closely on those. there were 200 words, at the most. then, in 1979, senator tom-ol daschle, i had a conversation with him about the history of his office and he said he did not know a lot of that. he said that he thought his colleagues would like to hear some of that in the democratic caucus. he said to try out for a couple of weeks and he had no idea what i might do to embarrass myself and everyone else. for the next wellpoint five years, thanks to senator-a daschle, there were brief. we get people's attention. you could not imagine a harder audience than a roomful of united states senators that have 15 things on their minds and so forth. over the years, i made them longer, in the tradition of the senate, you needed a few more words got up to 450 words. over the last 12 years, i have written them myself. i was the guy that was or to stand up and speak them so you had to have your own pacing and tempo. i

. >> we would take a look at the level of dole's and -- the level of tolls and the amount of work that needs to be done, and make the appropriate adjustments. >> the board may not discuss toll increases for another year, and if they do happen, that would not go into effect until 2011 or 2012. >> starting tomorrow, if you think and text and drive at the same time, don't be surprised when you get a ticket. you are being urged to keep your eyes on the road and your hands on the wheel. the department of presentation says it saves lives. they announced today distracted drivers accounted for almost 6000 deaths last year. >> some students at anne arundel community college got to see up close and personal just how dangerous it is to text while driving. when they had been driving simulator to show the danger of texting while driving, i had one strike against me. how do you text? as i fumble with the keyboard while i tried to drive, you can see i had issues. >> testing and driving the texting and driving is extremely dangerous. the purpose of this demonstration at anne arundel community college

you have the biggest champion of at program for many years was bob dole and dole was again close friends with dwayne andreas and you have a federal program whic has certainly been heavily question in thicity as to its sociaan societal values that ultimately is benefiting a major corporation that in turn is giving huge sums of money to politicians but it does reek. c-span: as you know millions of dollars are spent by adm, the television station to find news programs. any evidence there that by trng to favor that they get softer treatment >> guest: they are not in the book. there were certainly instances where, i am going to be very oblique here, where people in the media expressed discomfort to me when they learned that my book was about 8:00 p.m.. and i found that a little bit surprising. c-span: whyere they discomfort it? >> guest: because they had relationships or closed ties on some levels with adm. it is a book, it is a book that is not written-- adm comes out in this book looki pretty horrible and is their own words that hang them and the whole system of political contributions and

we will get into that more tomorrow will have you and studio wisc-r sheridan cost think or swim the dole amigo speaking ellis from the lynn group over at the cme group. still to come some u.s industries get the green light to expand to cuba...now that rules that once kept them out are being lifted. but first..the changes the coming year could bring to your retirement savings...that's ahead after the break. it's no secret that americans are not saving enough money for retirementand the bear market over the past two years has hurt most 401-ks. and now low inflation may mean you can sock away less into your 401-k next year. david wray heads up the profit sharing 401-k council of america. course ecstasy welcome back. a maximum contribution $16,500 into a 401k that threatens to possibly dropped if we continue to see deflationary doesn't it? impossible but there is uncertainty about whether there would actually ever reduce the threshold limit. even if there were to make the reduction they do with insteps of $500 which means we have to have almost 3% decline in net debt we have a half percent d

do we have bob dole who's going to stay with us?tsy mccoy, top player on health policy and david goodfriend, former clinton white house official and co-host of sirius radio's left jab. hello, everybody. let me go to mr. harwood first. have you learned any more about the speech itself? >> i think the seech comes at a good time

, and under just unbelievable essure from ny in his own party and ultimately his own leer, senator dole, to abandon the effort and to hand president clinton a real political setback. john chafee fought and wked till the last possible day. the other person, a man i did not know at all well, was bob reischau, who waat the time this battle was going on the director of the congressional dcet office, a classic, professional civil servant. and reischauer, because the cbo scoring s so critical to what was going to happen to the health-care proposals from all camps, reischauer was just beat about the head and shoulders constantly by politicians to on his estimates of the cost of their programs, the workability of their programs. and we tell the story the bookbout a meeting that he had after one particularly tough sessn withenator ted kennedy, who called him on the phone and really chewed him out for what he thought -- kennedy thought reischauer was going to do to damage the prospects of the clinton plan being aepted. and reisauer meets with the aders, the other top professionals in the congress

. >> the traditional leaders, the bob doles of the world, those voices have been, i think, shouted down on that side. i hope that the republican party can re-discover that voice. >> reporter: the president says under his plan people would pay premiums 10% to 20% less than private insurance. you can see more of that interview on "good morning america" on abc2 starting at 7:00. in the studio, linda so, abc2 news. >>> we've been out there on the town hall meetings. we've heard from you. we know it's a hot issue. we really want to hear from you this morning. drop us a line at abc2news.com. leave us a message on how you feel about president obama's push to overhaul health care. you can befriend us on facebook and also twitter. you can write us, drop us a line, comment now, we'll put it on the air, that's abc2news.com. >>> 5:01. the baltimore county council has approved speed cameras and council members say they will be placed in school zones around the county. sherrie johnson joins us live in rogers forge with more. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. pretty soon there will be speed cam

tim pawlenty might be running for president, who we had earlier, but bob dole, the former presidentialcandidate, has another idea when it comes to 2012. general david petraeus. >> he has always impressed me as being very candid with the american people, laying it it all out there, kind of an eisenhower. he may not be versed in all the different things that we do in congress and the

why these halls will be doled up in pink. >>> good morning.y -- in case you missed it, jamie had a big birthday. >> thank you for making it so. >>> here we go, wednesday weather, here's justin berk. cooling down? >> good morning. the cloud cover that moved in kept us from falling into the 40s, but we have a mostly cloudy sky, a breeze and temperature in the mid-50s. on our storm center weathernet, it's 54 joppa. and monkton. 56 arnold. we talked about the clouds that rolled in, showers back towards the mountains up to our north. you see pink in there? is there a hint of snowflakes back there? the radar is indicating that. i don't think it's reaching the ground but we have cloudy skies this morning. mid-50s. we'll get to 67, mostly cloudy and breezy this afternoon. >>> let's check the roads with kim brown. >> thank you. if you look at the northeast corner of the beltway at harford road you see traffic is pretty much very light and running smoothly. we have some overnight

how are you going to dole with this administration i understand the emotion and great hope that is at heart of your question. i want to make several points. first, this president started on the very first day with a commitment to pursue a peace agreement to pursue. i can guarantee you that president obama and i are very patient and determined. we know this is not an easy road for anyone to travel i have personal experience. i remember that brilliant, sunny afternoon on the lawn of the wout when two leaders shook hands. i remember the disappointment at camp david despite enormous efforts when trying to forge that peace agreement when it was not successful. expecting both sides to be ready to pursue that peace agreement is the best way for america to demonstrate our absolute belief that this issue is at the core of so many other challenges we face and there for we are going to do all we can to persuade parties to make that agreement. it is up to the palestinians. to that end, it's up to both sides, not just one side, to be actively engaged and willing to work toward that resolution. i t

now more than $2 billion in recovery act money have been doled out to states weeks before anticipated shovel-ready projects. the secretary for housing and urban development says an infusion of cash in targeted neighborhoods is part of the strategy for growth. >> it sends a real signal to the surrounding community, hey, i'm going to keep my house up, i'm going to keep investing. it's that ripple effect that we're trying to make sure is happening. >> reporter: turning dilapidated community eyesores into economic engines. >> it will create jobs for plumbers, carpenters, electricians and get money flowing back into the economy again. which is critical. >> reporter: a dream of bishop myles and a promise of new life coming back to communities like this one. in baltimore, sandra endo, abc2 news. >>> obama administration officials predict the money being spent for construction projects like this one will create thousands of jobs nationwide including some permanent jobs in these communities. the projects should be finished in the next two years. >>> 5:46 now. first came gallons upon gallons of

now, more than $2 billion in recovery act money have been doled out to states weeks before anticipated for shovel-ready projects. the secretary for housing and urban development says an infusion of cash in targeted neighborhoods is part of the strategy for growth. >> it sends a real signal to the surrounding community, hey, i'm going to keep my house up, i'm going to keep investing. it's that kind of ripple effect that we're trying to make sure is happening. >> reporter: turning dilapidated community eyesource into economic engines. >> it would create jobs for plumbers, carpenters, electricians and get money flowing back into the economy again. which is critical. >> reporter: a dream of bishop myles and promise of new life, coming back to communities like this one. in baltimore, sandra endo, abc2 news. >> obama administration officials predict the money being spent for construction projects like this one will create thousands of jobs nationwide including some permanent jobs in these communities. the projects should be completed in the next two years. >>> we have a little bit of rain. w

. >> the traditional leaders, the bob doles of the world, those voices have been -- i think shouted down, on that side and i hope that the republican party can rediscover that voice. >> reporter: the president says under his plan people would pay premiums 10% to 20% less than private insurance. you can see more of that interview on "good morning america" right here on abc2 starting at 7:00. in the studio, linda so, abc2 news. >> you think this story is big? it's even bigger on-line. crop on to abc2news.com and leave us a message on how you feel about president obama's push to overhaul health care. you can friend us on facebook or twitter. we've already done all the work for you. all you have to do is write us. head to abc2news.com. >>> his health care speech comes a day after the controversial speech to students across the country. while some schools didn't allow the address to be shown. walter johnson high school in bethesda actually had class schedule so the 2,100 students could watch the president. he encouraged them to stay in school and try their hardest. >> i first heard about it,

bob dole is a fan of that idea. we've seen a lot more activated in this debate. >>> ach rrd, yet another possible compromise was tossed in the ring. there's so much going on it does make your head ring. this would tax insurers with expensive health care plans. tell us about that and the price tag. >> this is a more recent idea. this comes from senate finance chairman max baucus. everyone would be required to get health insurance, cost around $880 billion over the course of ten years. $6 billion in fees. $4 billion in fees on makers of medical devices. our ed henry of cnn explains for us. >> could be very controversial, it would impose fees on individuals who do not step off to get health insurance f. you're a single person and you don't get health insurance you could pay a fine of $750. if you're a fan up to $3,800 a year in terms of a fine. that could be very, very controversial and, of course, most important of all, the baucus bill does not have a public option. instead it has a co-op. >> ed henry with that. so in

. >> a different take on the issue from former republican senator bob dole in an op-ed piece, he suggesteda fresh start when lawmakers return in september. >> meanwhile, today president obama got an update on u.s. preparations to combat the spread of the h1n1 flu virus. it is expected that up to 50% of americans will come down with these fine flu and thousands could die. -- with the swine flu and thousands could die. >> this wine flu outbreak did not wait until fall in some places. 80 cases are reported. >> i wash my hands before everything i do and i'm using him sanitizer, too. >> president obama said his swine flu team is ready. job one -- >> developing an h1n1 flu vaccine and we expect that the shots will begin soon. >> actually, not until mid october. that is when the first doses will be ready. a study done on ferrets like these found that those infected with the flu found out that most ended up with h1n1, showing that the swine flu is stronger. that is what most people will catch this straw -- this fall. >> unlike the seasonal flu, we think it will be much more prevalent among the you

you are mentioned some of the names dole and danforth. having the press call chuck grassley or mike enzi a moderate republican, it's interesting. if you look at it, and this is why i think it's so challenging in the senate, you sort of figure out beyond the three republicans in the group of six who are at the table and maybe one or two others, there are just not the centrists out there. you look at folks in the republican party in the senate have been willing to cross the aisle and work on major reforms with democrats. you think about people like george voinovich. you think about senator grassley. you think about people like judd gregg or john mccain. a lot of those people also happen to be economic conservatives, budge hawks and others. i think the it's going to be very, very difficult to find more than one or two or three, perhaps, republicans in the senate willing to do this. it makes it politically necessary for it to be a democratic-only enterprise in a way i don't think was quite there at the start in '93 and '94. also, i think, frn

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bob dole had indicated that he was going to be here. again, thank you to my colleagues for being here. elizabeth, tell bob thanks for the flowers. my colleague from mississippi, i did not know that you had to have white hair to be a senator from mississippi. [laughter] thad always accuse me of putting something on my hair anyway. after 9/11, we went to new york and said we are all new yorkers now, and we are going to do our part to help new york city recover. chuck schumer had one request that was way over the top, but i said it sounded like a good idea to meet, and we got it done. chubb will know what i am talking about. -- chuck will know what i am talking about. sometimes it is better you do not know the details on these things. [laughter] after katrina, in many ways our hearts were broken. it was such a devastating experience. it was tough to go down there and see what had happened. thad was working on appropriations and getting things done that the rest of us took credit for. thad and i were on the floor, trying to get a small amou

19-- $19.5 million seemed like so much money that and bob dole stopped him fo times in a filibuer which was a precedent breaking maneuvered of another kind, but in the end clinton wated down bill, i think it was 4 billion in unemployment insurance and the republicans were right. the economy recoved in clinton quite amazingly and we will see this and robert samuelson's book the eight years he was president unemployment decreased every single year and you will note, and i should've put this in my bookin the agenda bob woodward described clinton as being the president to more than any other was obsess with the wall street ticker-tape. in other words he adjusted to the conservative period. he saw that the forces unleashed by reagan were powerful and strong and it was not his place to resist the so fourears early to dwight eisenhower who also takes office following the period this time of the democratic agenda and it is remarkable to think republicans did not win a single presidential election in the entire 1930's or 1940's. five elections in a row from 1932 to 1948 or some of the massive la

[laughter] and bob dole stopped him, stopped him four times with a filibuster which was a precedent-breaking maneuver of another kind that gets us into a different territory. but in the end clinton got a very watered-down bill. i think it was 4 billion simply unemployment insurance, and the republicans were right: the economy recovered. and clinton, quite amazingly you will see this in robert samuelson's book, the eight years he was president unemployment decreased every single year. and you'll know -- i should have put this in the book -- that in the agenda bob woodward describes clinton as being the president who more than any other was obsessed with the wall street ticker tape. in other words, he adjusted to a conservative period. he saw that the forces unleashed by reagan were powerful and strong, and it was not his place to resistt. so go four years earlier to dwight eisenhower who also takes office following a period this time of democratic agenda. quite remarkable to think that republicans did not win a single presidential election in the entire 1930s or 1940s. five elections in a row

bypassing so much, by getting so many people on to the doles that we could never afford it. so, in this group of radicals, there were a few names that we have now heard before. theres was wade ath i wade rath. he said cloward and piven are right, but we should accomplish that through peaceful means. william ayers, here is william ayers, and jeff jones, they decided no, we've got to be radicals. we've got to blow our way up to the top, ok? but they both set off at the same time. he decided that he was going to try acorn and gts legitimate peaceful route, and these two were going to go blow everything up, but the goal was the same. it was marxist revolution. ok, so, now people say why are you going on about all of this stuff? why are we still talking about people in the 1960's? because all of these people, all of these people are still solved. they're still doing it. wade rathke was acorn. his brother dale, where is dale? here is his brother dale at seiu -- we think. we're not sure. he was with acorn, but nobody will give us a straight answer on where he went after embezzling

riley dole an, assistant director for financial practices at the federal trade commission, sayses thaturprise. >> a lot of these companies are trying to lead people to believe they are part of the official administering program. >> reporr: the federal trade commission has filed a formal complaint against the company for misrepresenting itself as a government agency. they face new charges of false claims. the ftc has filed 2 # cases against these types of companies since the housing crisis began. >> if the company is asking for an advance fee, if it is guaranteeing you that it will be able to modify your loan and if it is telling you don't pay them, pay us, it is not likely to be a legitimate enterprise. >>> the ftc advises home own ares to work with hud certified counselors. if you've been victimized, you should file a complaint with the ftc. >>> it is not even basketball seen yet but gilbert arenas is back on the court and fired up. the man they call agent zero is taking verbal shots at his own team. we'll hear why he is ripping into the wizards. >>> and the redskin are ready for thei

how the vaccine is doled out is raising some questions. >> i have spoken to many doctors here in the tri-state area in new york city and they still be very cob fused ads to where they get the vaccine from and who is eligible to get it so far as being a physician or health center. >> reporter: the centers for disease control and prevention say the distribution process complicated. each state will tea side how to distribute the vaccine rough doctors, clinics and other providers. in new york, laura ingall, fox news. >>> straight ahead, a debacle in detroit for the redskins. >> is it time to throw in the towel? stacy cohan chewing that one over this morning. >> reporter: hello, throw in the towel, i don't know. but it may be time to drown your sorrows and where better to do that than in a cup of of coffee and maybe a pot of chili. i'm at ben's chili bowl where we're sit setting up to breakfast and the misery in michigan. i'll have that story right after the break. we'll be right back. >>> welcome back. beautiful shot of the washington monument this morning. very clear out there. kind of

. >>> coming up next hour, dole out the dolna as and slaghtder on the tzatziki sauce. >> and than youthat great food with a little dancing. we'll get live to all of that. >>> don't forget to vote for our high school game of the eek. we'll have winning highlights on myfoxdc.com. just go to the web site and click on the sports tab and cast your vote. >>> good morning, everybody. on this thus can i get an opah. we are live at the local greek orthodox church where they are set for the greek festival. this morning we are going to get you set and ready to come out and enjoy the party this weekend. can't have a greek festival without dancing so we'll get a dance lesson this morning. so we thought we could take a few steps so you could know what you're doing. and we're going to have a cooking lesson. and we'll learn how to make fried goodness. and where does the money go that they make for this festival. we'll tell you what it takes to pull this festival off. i think 80 dozen legs and pounds of butter, and i'm not embellishing. we'll give you the information to put on your weekend calendar. >

. >> suarezin fact, at this crowded district hospital in tanzania where patients dole and even tripleup on beds, there's onlyne fully trained physician for a population of 800,000. he's dr. leonrd suby, and he workmainly as an administrator. >> suarez: more tan 40 million peop. the governmentas been working hd to get trned medical personnel even in the smalst communities. but with this town's vast population base, the hospital must ma due by relying on assisnt medical officers likehis one to fill the gap. >> this i shifting. meone who is not aoctor doing job of a doctor. that is what has kept us alive >> suaz: tanzania's minister of health explains h his country struggled meet its health care needs. >> in the u. if you fell ill and youe taken to hospital, you are going to get a doctor. in my country a lot people have gone t their graves without meeting a ctor. so weeed doctors. but we reallydon't dependon them only. >> suarez: instead tanzania looks to its clinical workers. so with theequivalent of a 7th grade educationn the uned states and senthem back tochool. >we designed a system wh

there are wonderful people whose voices i think are tamped down, the traditional leaders, the bob doles of the world, those voices have been i think shouted down. >> a challenge from the president, but will he be able to quiet the loud voices in his own party? and how do we get past all the arranger and invective, we're going to tackle that later tonight. >>> meantime the president today delivering what in a normal universe would be a pretty unremarkable speech, a back to school message to america's children, but even that becomes fodder for partisan attacks. last week, the chairman of the florida republican party accused the president of trying to indoctrinate our kids. and it only got worse from there. hand wringing on the right, parents pulling their kids out of class, urging their principals not to play the president's address. today the president spoke, no socialists read this. here are the cliff notes. >> we can have the most dedicated teachers, the most supportive parents, the best schools in the world and none of it will make a difference, none of it will matter unless all of yo

if you take a look back at history, bob dole, nixon, ronald reagan, they all ran for president beforef sarah palin is going to be in the mix, being a no-show doesn't really help, does it? >> this is a strange strategy of sarah palin. she doesn't show up at these events. i think she would have broken far more than 12%. if she had been there and given a speech i think she would have done much better. a lot of people in these crowds get excited by sarah palin. i think she would have done better. again, like you said, you really have to show up. interesting thing about mike huckabee is this. he won the straw poll at value voters summit in 2007. he also won iowa. doesn't get you far enough. he did win by double digits. >> those are the numbers. huckabee, romney, sarah palin at 12%. ron, i want to bring up a conversation we had on friday. we did go back and check on this. we did cover the story you and i were talking about on august 11th. we looked for the videotape. ron, the guy was a faker. come on, now, you know that. right wing story, there's a good lefty story. i'm taking the lefty sto

proceed patients become dole and pity if you are oa ll it is time for big ideas, bold decisions and hartwick leaps of faith. it is about that danger, danger and fantasy and why was i ready for that. i think honestly as we look back of the borrowers who got in trouble my gut feeling is from having talked toany such people most of em would admi to you they had a feeling -- they had a sense that what they were doing was a problem, that it wn't wise. that they we running very hh risks. and forhatever reason they decid to sort oernight their sense of caution and plunge ahead anyhow. and they will be debated for years if not decades why so many people took the plunge. but i would argue at the end of the day that it wasn human nature that changed in 200 it was a financial system that the financial system had -- was channeling an absolute massive lot of money from around the world. it was cheap money and they were looking for slightly higher yield whatever way they could, riskier borrowers or more profitable borrowers and this was the last game in town. so, what we had was a financial system encoura

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we know or at least it's been talked about by former senator bob dole that general petraeus may haveolitical ambitions. here he is calling for more troops. doesn't this box president obama in if that's the case? >> you know, the worst thing that could box him in, ed, would be to take what the generals say and run with it. that's what george bush said. didn't think it out, didn't see whether the strategy was working. he kept sending young men and women to their deaths. barack obama is stepping back and saying, wait a minute, before we go anywhere, is this strategy working? it's not working. he's got to see that and shut it down. >> what do -- you're not agreeing with that, jack rice? >> i absolutely agree. the bottom line is you add 1 10,000, 50,000 more troops this is going to be a failed policy. >> the president should have spoken about that in the campaign. you become president and take sponlts responsibility. part of taking responsibility, we heard a few weeks ago all the confidence in had in general mcchrystal. i think it will be a disaster for this president -- >> we had a presi

that package is something bob dole and tom daschle supported 20 years ago.gotten that done 20 years ago. the democrats have to give up on the public option. if they agree to do that, we have to get a consensus. >> i don't know if that's true. but i'll ponder that for a second and i'll humor you on that one. john, richard, pleasure speaking with you. >> thank you. >>> rod blagojevich is dropping a white house bombshell in his new book. he says ron emaneul plans to escape the white house after just two years and he wanted blago's help. blago claims that he wanted him to "appoint a placeholder to his congressional seat, according to blagojevich. the plan was for him to run in 2010 once he was done with the obama administration. the white house's take on this is -- >> i barely covered with raum what will hap on the rest of the week, i have not talked to him about that and i have not seen the book. >> well, we'll all see it because the book "the governor" hits shelves next week. a lot of blame in the book where blago blames everyone, but as one writer said, himse

we have set a clear and focused dole to work with all members of this somebody to disrupt, dismantle, and it beat al qaeda and its extremist allies, a network that has killed many thousands of people, with a plot to blow up this very building. in afghanistan and pakistan, we and many nations here are helping these governments to develop the capacity to take the lead in this effort while working to advance opportunity and security for their people. in iraq, we are arrest -- we are responsibly ending on the war. we have seven timeline of next august to remove all of our combat brigades from iraqi territory. and i have made clear that we will help iraqi transition to full responsibility for their future and keep our commitment to remove all american troops by the end of 2011. i have outlined a comprehensive agenda to seek the goal of a world without nuclear weapons. in moscow, the united states and russia announced that we would pursue a substantial reductions in our strategic warheads. at the conference on disarmament, we agreed on of war plan to end the production of fissile material f

the republican national committee of a brand-new one, that health care reform was a secret plot to dolealth carom to democrats. it's a secret plot to kill off people registered to vote by republicans by preventing republicans from getting any health care. that one was so bad, the republicans even had to apologize for it. but now it's another i can't believe it scare tactic. the new target, not old people or veterans or republicans. this time, it's women with breast cancer. no, i am not kidding. >> if you find a lump, you could wait months for treatment and potentially life-saving drugs could be restricted. government control of health care here could have meant that 300,000 american women with breast cancer might have died. my odds of surviving cancer was high because my care was the best. what are your odds if the government takes over your health care? a. >> go to independent women's forum to share your story. >> health reform, it's a secret plot to kill hundreds of thousands of american women with breast cancer. that ad is being broadcast in a multimillion dollar ad in eight states d

. >> shannon: new information on how the h1n1 vaccine about le doled out beginning late next month, distributed from four regional warehouses around the country. they are expected to reach 20 million doses a week among the end of october and will be dispursed mention health departments, hospitals and doctors offices. a nasal spray vaccine will become available starting in early october. knowing that the h1n1 virus is out there or excuse me, the vaccine and the virus will soon be out there, the question surfaces has there been enough time and testing to make sure that a vaccine a safe? joining us for a fair and balanced debate, two doctors. we thank you both for joining us. let fee start wit me start wit. this is a live vaccine. explain what that means. >> a little crash course in immunology. we have two types of vaccines we are giving to people. one is a live a-1 attenuated vaccine and that has many of the complications and side effects. there is a lot of debate about possible connections with autism with the mumps and rubella and then we have the usual influenza vaccine we are used to giving e

. >> you've got to remember that's what bob dole called his dog. >> all right. so this is not specifically about health care, the march. >> no. this is the largest gathering of fiscal conservatives trying to make a point about the need to bring in the excesses of big government and get some insanity in washington. obviously the health care is the issue of the day but you've got cap and trade right around the corner. i just saw an ad haass night where they are continuing to push the notion that they got to save the working men and women of america from vagrancies of secret ballots and protect their rights. there are so many big government plans for this administration that our folks gathered from all over the country come in here, by the way, each and every one of them on their own hoof, their own dime. nobody is bringing busloads of people with government money like they do with acorn. they are making a point. we need the government to get responsible with taxpayer's money. >> let's talk health care for a while. you saw the president's speech the other night, ri

. >> he got together with former senator dole and former senator howard baker. what they proposed was leave it to the states. let governors trigger in a state-based public option. you know, so i'm not sure exactly where that compromise lies. but i know that in order to get health reform passed, we have to have at least a majority and probably 60 votes in the senate to get legislation passed. so i think there's going to be... again, i think the president has a role to play here and to say here's the bounds of the debate, here's what i want to see in this bill and then let's see where at least we get a majority and hopefully 60 votes and with some republican support. and i think the reason i think this trigger option has become so critical is because it's been put forward by senator snowe who is a republican, people do respect her. i think they think she wants to get to yes. i don't think she thinks... you know, some of the other moves and... by members on the republican caw kux, putting forward amendments that even after they were accepted didn't she any sign of

you know, the traditional leaders, the bob doles of the world, those voices have been i think shoutede that the republican party can rediscover that voice. >> the president met with top congressional democrats at the white house yesterday to discuss health care strategy. we're told the message that was reform bills must be passed soon. meanwhile some of the president's allies were wavering over a public health care option to compete with private insurers. our george stephanopoulos says tonight is the president's chance to lay out the details he wants. >> i think he will be more specific than he's ever been in the past. i think he will actually identify many of the ideas he's talking about that are republican ideas and may come up with new ideas supported largely by republicans like malpractice reform showing he is working hard to make the system work. if he ends up having to go with democrats alone, he tried his best to get republicans on board. >> democrats say they believe 90% of what will be in the final reform bill is agreed upon. the other 10% remains to be seen. you can see pres

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