my man don new berger. >> that was a tip, for us doing 120 miles per hour going into that first turn, you feel it. you feel it. and that was fun. that was fun. >> i can't wait to do it myself just to see what it will feel like being on the left side of it and being on the right side of it, that was a rush. that was a rush, man. that was a rush. wow! >> all right, man. let's do this. >> it will be all right. it will be all right. >> we are ready. i am ready. all of the teachings that don gave me for the past year-and-a-half i get to a my it and go around the monster mile, they don't call it that for a reason. that's it. let's go race. [ revving ] >> donnie, how did i do? >> what do you think hot rod. >> that was awesome. >> you look good. >> turns all right. >> not bad, for a rookie you did a great job. >> the hat man, call the hat man. >> all right. >> this is one of the toughest tracks, called the monster mile for a reason and it is a track you have to drive, you did all right for your first time out. >> we appreciate it. >> i don't know if you are my >> i don't know if you are my ba

my man don new berger. >> that was a tip, for us doing 120 miles per hour going into that first turn, you feel it. you feel it. and that was fun. that was fun. >> i can't wait to do it myself just to see what it will feel like being on the left side of it and being on the right side of it, that was a rush. that was a rush, man. that was a rush. wow! >> all right, man. let's do this. >> it will be all right. it will be all right. >> we are ready. i am ready. all of the teachings that don gave me for the past year-and-a-half i get to a my it and go around the monster mile, they don't call it that for a reason. that's it. let's go race. [ revving ] >> donnie, how did i do? >> what do you think hot rod. >> that was

. >> this is what i don' understand, in oer to get thmoderates they propose something which is furth to the left an what is theralready. so who a we fooling here? i mean it is -- it movesou tord a single payor, it is a government pn. and the concern that a lot people have, it will -- willou have a lot of cost shifting going on that the mecare is paid for by shting costs under the private plans. you get more medicare, that mas it harder for the doctors and providers toay for the stuff becae there is less undethe private plan so the idea th we've solved our problem wh the modetes, i don't think so. >> getting to 60, that is ally what it is. lehrer: that is all about. >> it isn't ing over 60, it is geto 60. an that's sabut we don't have majority rule in the united states. it actually has to work. 're putting together a policy that actually has t work and it seems li they are throwing things there tory to get to 60. >> that is absolutely true. but what we have n does not work is not work. we've got a couple more people, and 've got to improve the coveragef those to do itnd we've got to c

my man don new berger. >> that was a tip, for us doing 120 miles per hour going into that first turn,. you feel it. and that was fun. that was fun. >> i can't wait to do it myself just to see what it will feel like being on the left side of it and being on the right side of it, that was a rush. that was a rush, man. that was a rush. wow! >> all right, man. let's do this. >> it will be all right. it will be all right. >> we are ready. i am ready. all of the teachings that don gave me for the past year-and-a-half i get to a my it and go around the monster mile, they don't call it that for a reason. that's it. let's go race. [ revving ] >> donnie, how did i do? >> what do you think hot rod. >> that was awesome. >> you look good. >> turns all right. >> not bad, for a rookie you did a great job. >> the hat man, call the hat man. >> all right. >> this is one of the toughest tracks called the monster mile for a reason and it is a track you have to drive, you did all right for your first time out. >> we appreciate it. >> i don't know if you are my backup yet but >>> nc state has played unc gr

don zimmer and pedro martinez --oh. that's awful.mer, a 72-year-old man, went into pedro martinez's face and med pedro martinez threw him down. >> he was the best hockey player in history, and canada's most famous citizen. and then rumors of a trade began to swirl. what, they traded who? >> they got traded? no way. >> they traded him? >> we think he lacks the most in house. >> there comes a time when -- when -- >> wayne gretzky was now in hollywood and the nhl would never be the same. he was the heart and soul of the yankees team that was the two-time defending world series champions. >> the new york yankees and sports fans everywhere suffered a great loss tonight. that of star catcher thurmond munson, who was killed this afternoon in an airplane catch. >> we pause to pray for thurmond munson, our brother and your faithful son. >>> he won the kentucky derby by the largest margin in 60 years. at the preakness, all eyes were on barbaro as he tried to move one step closer to the triple crown. but fans were shocked as the horse pulled up

i'm don lemon, keeping you informed.he most trusted name in news. >> larry: now, welcome one of my favorite people, queen latifah. grammy award winning artist, and arthur, and look at this beautiful girl. she is also the centennial ambassador for the milton hershey school established in 1909 by the hershey magnate. it's a cost-free home and school for children for families with low income and limited resource and social need, structured home life he year-round, prekindergarten through 12th and queen latifah is their centennial ambassador. how did this hook up for you? >> i had the fantastic opportunity of going up to visit the milton hershey school, and i was just blown away. i was amazed. they have 1,800 students. when you meet these kids, there's so smart, so articulate, so kind and not afraid to speak. they shake your hand. they're so talented and supportive of one another. they have a wonderful campus, incredible classrooms, high technology and arts and music. i'm like, wow, i want to go to this school. i got to see

more than a don western diplomats were dend entry to the proceedings; but u.s. embassy spesman denounced the verdict outside the cot. >> thenited states government is deeply concerned by t sentence of years of prison announced today the case of prominent chinese mocracy actist liu xiaobo under the charge of inciting subrsion of state power. persecution of indiduals for thpeaceful expression of political ews is inconsistent with internaonally recognized norms ofuman rights. >> warner: tt "peaceful exprsion" included "charter 08", aopen letter co-authored by liu and signed by morthan 30top chinese thinkers. released on the inrnet last decemb, it called for open electis, free spch and rule of law. the 53-year-old liu was deined that same month, n the first time he's run afouof chinese authorities. in 1989, while a viting scholar in the u.s., he turned to china ttake part in the tiananmen squareprising. he was jailed for months afr the government cracked down. his wife, u xia, spoke today after briey meeting with her husband. >> ( translated ): he hopes th he is the

>> i don think so at this point.ey're ry grate to feel the families for helping but ihink they're glad thecaught this at the stage ey have but i don't think they wld call a success story. >>rown: josh meyer, nihad awad, thank you very muc >> lehrer: next tonit, excerpts from charlie rose's convertion about going to the people, th u.s. army general stanley mcrystal head of allied forces in afghanistan >> the core your philosophy is you have to convince e afghan pple that they have a reason to lieve that they can live in peacwith some security and some manner of governce that procts them. >> absolely. at the end of the day, the people who jge success or ilure will be the afghan people, who will make cisions on how ty go forward, who they support. so it's critical that convince them that tir government canrotect them and ll protect them, and then me their basic eds. >> what's the metr? how do youeasure that? >> there are a numr of ways, chare. one, of courseis polling; you ask them. but therare a number of other ways, a

don graham in that review we talked about, called him i think cowardly face-to-face. and i think that was not an unfair characterization. but nevertheless he -- oh, i don't recall what we were. >> well, let me go to the point i wanted you to make on -- or talk about, is the diary, itself, what did -- i mean the four years of his presidency how much did he do every day? and did you get any sense of what time of day that he wrote the diary? >> he wrote it late at night. and i remember what i was going to say, he started the diary because he was upset with the confrontation he had in a cabinet meeting with buchanan. and so he goes home and goes back to his office that night, and he writes the whole thing out. and then he sort of says, "well, now that i've done this, i think i'm going to continue to do it." so sometimes it would be a very brief entry. other times it would be three, four, five pages, including extensive depictions of conversations that he had with various members of congress and others, diplomats and others. and it was a tremendous undertaking because obvi

the only time don comes home from work is when he's going to a phillies game. otherwiseny stays the rig rather time >> if it wasn't for me going to watch the phillies game that night, she would. >> reporter: be here for this interview. >> reporter: a speech and language therapist by trade, she's had to deal with the harsh irony of struggling with basic communication. under normal circumstances, degrees may have completely ravaged their lives, but a phillies title drive proved to have therapeutic powers. >> she followed the phillies games through the playoffs, light late in the year, and he was able in the hospital bed to to watch that, the world series. her sister came down and watched her for game four, which i winter up to see, and she weighed in the hospital bed in our house, and she watched the whole game there, and it just played out that the phillies won that world series that year, and it was almost like, you know, somebody was watching up above there. >> one of the things that they would do is every day they would come in asking what day it was, you kno

over to bren don morrison.. >> greg: i don't think we have seen a better passing period from this caps team all season long, joe. >> greg: 2-0 washington. and kaberle turn. 8 seconds to go. bradley there jumping in. that is where the 1st period coming to a conclusion. washington, well, this you go. otherwise on the power play. backstrom following him and the top line leading the way for washington off to the dressing room after 20 minutes, leading by 2. next, our intermission live is coming up soon. a feature on one of versus new television shows, "sports jobs", stats and highlights coming your way. oh, you do have a telestrator. you sneaky little devil. >> greg: i just put it in the corner. [ laughing ] >> greg: stay with us. interlive is next. (announcer) we call it the american renewal. because we believe in the strength of american businesses. ge capital understands what small businesses need to grow and create jobs. today, over 300,000 businesses rely on ge capital for the critical financing they need to h

the only time don comes home from work is when he's going to a phillies game. otherwiseny stays the rig rather time >> if it wasn't for me going to watch the phillies game that night, she would. >> reporter: be here for this interview. >> reporter: a speech and language therapist by trade, she's had to deal with the harsh irony of struggling with basic communication. under normal circumstances, degrees may have completely ravaged their lives, but a phillies title drive proved to have therapeutic powers. >> she followed the phillies games through the playoffs, light late in the year, and he was able in the hospital bed to to watch that, the world series. her sister came down and watched her for game four, which i winter up to see, and she weighed in the hospital bed in our house, and she watched the whole game there, and it just played out that the phillies won that world series that year, and it was almost like, you know, somebody was watching up above there. >> one of the things that they would do is every day they would come in asking what day it was, you kno

extending the life for almost a decade, taking the first step to close notorious loophole known as the don not hole that costs seniors thousands of dollars each year for the prescription drugs. and these are some of the reasons that aarp, the american association for the advancement of -- american association of retired people, not the naacp -- i'm sorry about that, mr. president. these are some of the reasons that aarp and 4 million americans are supporting this bill. premiums are reduced for this, mr. president, by 93% of people who will have reduced premiums. this strengthens our fump by cutting our deficit by as much as $1.3 trillion over the next two deck it's a. that's trillion with a t we want to help shape the deliver resystem in our count try. that right in america has 750,000 bankruptcy as year. and it advances the first time in the country that good health will not depend on great wealth. good health should not depend on how much money you have. it acknowledges finally the health care is a fundamental right, that my friend, senator harkin spoke about so clearly. not just a privi

don's story is not unique. take tim wolfe.he's cobra subsidy is scheduled to expire at the end of december, he will owe $1,400 a month. when tim started shopping around in the individual market, knowing he would be forced out of cobra, everything he found had either exorbitant premiums or bare bones coverage. two years ago tim suffered a heart attack. these preexisting conditions made him a liability for private insurance companies. tim's confident he can find a job once the economy picks up. but in the mean time he can't and needs the cobra subsidy. carole williams from dayton, ohio. she's 63, employed at r.j. reynolds for 16 years before being laid off. he started to receive a cobra subsidy in march, but is responsible for the entire premium this month. cobra is what you pay when you're employed. you lose your job, you pay cobra to keep your insurance, and you have to pay your employer contribution. almost nobody can do that after they lost their job for very long. that's why the subsidy that we nut the stimulus package back

don sproles has taken a knee. palmer's pick. led to a touchdown. how about the rest of this. >> phil: that interception by keith rivers got them back in the game. the pressure fieldgoal, really. forgetting how they played against minnesota and lost. now rivers. carson palmer coming back home, if you will, he lives in the san diego area. during the off season, you ready for this, he actually lives directly next door to norv turner. can you imagine that? i might just go next dorsey if the doors are unlocked see if the extra play book is lying around the turner household. having some fun with it. >> phil: i would say the bengals are doing it, don't let them get down the field too fast. >> jim: that's pretty fast, jackson. 21 yards picked up. we've got another charger down. another charger injured. they don't have a time out so they're going to lose ten seconds off the clock. >> phil: the clock will start when the official blows it. spike the ball again. it's -- >> phil: he was raising his hand right away. it wasn't like he couldn't get off the field.

i mean, even today we had john mccain on the don imus show saying, i'm madder than i've ever been and basically equating himself with the tea-baggers, in terms of that incredible rage that is fueling that movement. so that is the greatest danger. the impact it's having on incumbents. we've seen that in the senator. we've seen senator coburn talking about seniors dying sooner than they would have died without the health care bill. we've seen it with charles grassley. seen it with senator demint who said he wished he had told the president, you lied. that's the greatest danger. >> governor k he hadane mentioned at the federal level in 2009 they won 5 of 5 elections and gained two senators with specter and al franken. are the republicans, though, are any of the republicans scared about this or are all of them regretting that they won't the joe wilson, as you said? >> well, david, unfortunately, what governor keene said is half the story. the other half the bad news for the democrats which is losing virginia, losing new jersey, losing the enthusiasm quosh enlt which is so important in ele

don graham is up that tradition, not a partisan press. >> you went to the university of washington and also columbia, that master's degree. you wrote for the "national observer," which a lot of people do not remember. and then the "wall street journal quoted >> dow jones started "the desert -- all the good the observer" in 1962. most people thought the writing was particularly sparkly. i loved working for them. the last day of june, 1977, the chairman of the dow jones took a helicopter down to tell us that there were closing as them. at that point i went to the washington bureau of the "wall street journal quoted >> what did you do after that? >> i ended up at congressional quarterly as managing editor. i spent 2.5 years in that job, and seven years as executive editor, and 12 years as ceo and chief of congressional quarterly. >> it was sold recently to what organization? >> the economist group, which also owns "roll call." ruckuses on congress at did "congressional quarterly quality -- as did "congressional quarterly qu." i was the one standing when the music stopped. my job came to a

and are blacks adan donning obama? an article out today says yes. we will talk about it. plus, tiger woods named athlete of the decade in spite of a public scandal that rocks his personal life. we debate it next on "larry king live." good evening. skbloining us, barney frank, he chairs the house financial services committee and ron paul, a member of the house financial services in committee as well. ron is also a medical doctor. congressman frank we start was. is this dead on arrival in the senate? >> larry, one of the things that is the most troublesome to me is the lack of interaction between the house and the senate. there is an institutional barrier. you have to say i have been preoccupied with the reform. i haven't looked at it. but i don't think it's dead. there is a great need to do something. we have people who are going to say, if it can't be perfect, i'm against its. that is not the way a democracy wrks. i believe we are going see a pretty good bill. >> larry: what do you believe, ron paul? >> i'm afraid he is right. i take the approach that we don't need more g

. >> i don know what the esident will say, so i'm making my positi known, and i think that is coistent with the american pple. that i that we will not be paing any climate change bill. >> suarez: as arguments rad over emission mits, costs, and onomic growth, the world heth organization raised one of the less-talked-aboutspects of climate change: that a waer planet wilbe a sicker one, o. >> we already deal with ssive impas on global health of imate sensitive diseases. 2.2 million people die fm diarrheal disease whh are highly sentive to climate sensitive. 1.1 milliodie from infectable disease that's hhly sensitive tolimate. 5 million die from under nutrition th's entirely depeent on under nutrition whh is agricultural an climate dependent. by the end of the summerwe'd had a record-baking heat wave across western europe. 70,000 more pele died during that sumr than we would have expected to die in an ornary summer. that changed everything, i wld say, within the discsion with the... within western europe because we realed that we were noonger immune to the effects of weather and cmate. >>

if not, if they don' achieve that threshold, ey haveo give rebates to their poliholders. so they will bsubject to a very lge array of changes. >> woouff: okay a lot for us to digestver the holiday seon. indeed. >> woodruff: susan dentz, thanks very mu. >> great to be wh you, ju, thanks. >> bro: and still to come on the newshour: obal warming's impact on alth; al qaeda in yemen; and teacher standards in washinon, d.c. but first, for t other news of the day, here's ha sreenivasan inur newsroom. hari. >> sreenivasan: huge snow and ice storm spread acrs more of the midwest day on one of the most heavily traveled days o the year. the slow-moving system left me people hangingn this christmas eve. they faced a duge of rain, sleet, and forecast of uto two feetf snow in some parts of thcountry by christmas day. the nation weather service sued blizzd warnings from texas up to minnesota. state police warned of danrous conditions, and urged driverto rry water and flashlights. >> if you're on a ad and you see red lights, treat like a school zone-- puthe cell phone down, put your coffe

. >> lehrer: but you don believe -- you d't buy professor galbraith's ptain of the ship analog-- rightth it happened to his watch so he suld go? no, i don't. i n't have a good explanation of why so many people who watched thfed carefully and who watched the maets carefully ssed this crisis, but almost all of did, and i don't thk bernanke, who came in rathelate in the development -- he took over e fed in 2006 -- nowthey might have acted more ickly in 2006 and 2007before the crash, but nobody s this coming, and i don't thk it's fair to say bernanke should ha seen it when nobody el did. >> lehrer: what about th, pressor galbraith? nobody else saw it. why shld bernanke have seen it? >> iight go to court and change my name t"nobody." there we people who saw it. very well spected people. warren buffett warned that derivatives re weapons of financial mass dtruction. there re warnings from within the feral reserve board about the dangerthat were emerging in the mortge market and the subprime sector. there were warnings. i think -- it is t job of the federal serve to be on top of financl danger

components together with the military, just one quick note, for example, a great aid official named don laberry, the equivalent of the division commander of the great 82nd airborne division regional command east, and they are partners and we have tried to establish what is not necessarily a civilian chain f command, if you will, but what do you call it? it is a line of -- >> a unity of civilian effort. >> that helps to achieve unity of overall effort. that's the effort in the reintegration arena and then separate from that is this community defense initiative where we put small special forces units literally in the villages and helping to develop conditions that enable the local individuals to defend themselves and be linked to a district or subdistrict, quick reaction force and then on up the line. >> thank you very much. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i want to echo everybody else's comments about thanking you for your service. and i've been to iraq and afghanistan twice this year. and i'm totally inarticulate to express the courage, the intelligence and the motivation of the troops over

don tial, an economist at credit swiss was -- suise, -- to get them to pay the bills. in other words, to get them to keep buying our treasury bills. so we can keep borrowing money. small manufacturers all over the country, including alabama, have suffered from china's undervalued currency. we continue -- they not only have a wage advantage over us to a significant degree, they also don't have the environmental laws we have. and they also devalue their currency, all of which makes them more able to undercut american companies manufacturing and adversely compete against them. i'm constantly hearing about it from my state. i know others are hearing the same thing. however, china and other countries may not be able to keep financing -- to keep financing our debt in the future. professor allen meltzer, a well-known scholar on the federal reserve -- federal reserve, and monetary policy scholar noted in a column in "the wall street journal," that our current and projected deficits are too large relative to current and perspective world saving to rely on other countries being

don gieogio at unid northern mortga bankers in levittown, new york, says business uld be even worseithout the intervention. we are now ableo lend becausthrates are low so it is helping to make up for l the other peop that we cant le to because they have to repair their credit. so those low rates a helping to keep open. >>oodruff: in brighton, lorado, donna petrocco's family has been in banng for 40 years. and like many in her busess, she argues t real problem is red tape. >> things ha changed, the economic conditionhave changed, rulatory burden has changed, requiments for reporting have made nking a whole lomore difficult than it used to be. >> woodruff: petrocco ys the prident is urging banks to lend more, but regulats are holding th back from finding new customers. >> i can't loan to thebecause field examiners, ourocal government, has said i can't make them loans. >> reporter: what do thetell you why you nt make those loans? >> becse i have too much real tate secured loa. i have too much in land developmt and construction loans. >> woodruff: at today'meeting, mr.obama acknowlged some re

. >> i donned -- i want to make this less partisan, although it may come out as partisan and talk a little about history. because i am listening carefully to what you say, and my history doesn't go back very long. i remember the 1990's under a democratic president where we took a budget deficit and created 23 million jobs. we gave that to the republicans. we lost the surplus. and under president bush, if we created a lot of jobs, i don't know where they were. the unemployment rate didn't start at zero in january of this year and go to 10%. this was financial mismanagement that went on for a decade. and you know what? the president is doing his best to try to turn that around. now, that's my partisan speech. elections aren't about history. elections are about the moment. and you know what? one of the reasons barack obama was elected was people thought, yeah, he seems to be young and promising, but, boy, is he different than that bum we want to throw out. and one of the reasons why bill clinton was elected, and the same with jimmy carter. so it's a bipartisan feeling that we do this. i think

existed to that kind of tool so it was a hit and miss, let's try to hatch the eggs in incubators like don experimenting with the last of the black robins to try and increase the number of eggs laid by what is now commonly done as double or trouble clutching. you destroy a nest and raise -- normally put the eggs in an incubator and then they make another nest and you take the second day this and have them hatched and leave them with their third nest. >> how do i say this, the a satiric skill set that they have, the ability to sit for days on end in the blazing sun and watch a bird in a cave to count as one early i believe one early biologists counted the number of lives that it picked off of its wings in the course of a day. [laughter] and were there any particular skill sets that you were impressed by in your travels? >> guest: i was absolutely impressed by some of the rock climbing ability. the story, one of the stories i love is the real discovery of the islands stick insect which is this thought to be extinct for 80 years and then rediscovered and was surviving on a pinnacle of rock mi

facing a very, ry nasty economy by the me we finally get around to doing something >> woodruff: you donagree with that? >> i don't tnk there's a consens by any means that we're goininto a double-dip or anything likehat. the lastime i checked the consensus foreca, economists were lookingt 2.7% real growth next year wch is pretty good. i'm just... one of t things that concerns me is the idea th the adminiration always sa the stimulus is going to ke care of itself as far as the buet is concerned. if we ma these things kind of sempermanent, i worry about thdeficit. >> woodruff:aul krugman let me come ck to you on this ice tag for this jobs plan. i mentioned earlier the associated press through o a number omaybe $170 billion roughly matchinghat congress considering. if that's how much mon it is and if iis what the president described today, infrastrture, spending, tax edits, businesses, what do you think? >>ell, it's way short of what i would like to see. i meanf i could do it. if i thought it could be passed through congress, would call for mucmore. i meane are looking, bruce mentioned cons

don childears is theead of the colorado bankers association >> lenders theelves have their own financial uhestrictions. we'vsuffered bigger loan losses than we're typicallused to thataturally depletes the capital of the bank whicmeans it basical can lend less in a mmunity. now we have to have record catal levels because we're so conservative wh the stashing catal into the bank as fast as can. >> repter: while banks say they need to hold to more capital to prevent a fure collapse, presidenbarak obama is asking them to loosen up. that'shy he invited bank executives to the whithouse today to dcuss how they can better help small business lookinfor loans. lee prenjak could have used that help not long ago. 's co-owner of the cherry creek dance studio nr downtown denver. each week some 1800 studen, ages to 64, come here for lessons in ballet, jazz,ip- hop, a tap. e studio has been profitable for 16 years last summeprosenjak went shping for a $1 million loan to expand to larger udio space. he says hibusiness is so good that the smallusiness adminiration, a federal agency that guarantees small b

don childears is the head of the colorado bankers association. >> lenders themselves have their own financial uh restrictions. we've suffered bigger loan losses than we're typically used to. that naturally depletes the capital of the bank which means it basically can lend less in a community. now we have to have record capital levels because we're so conservative with the stashing capital into the bank as fast as we can. >> reporter: while banks say they need to hold on to more capital to prevent a future collapse, president barak obama is asking them to loosen up. that's why he invited bank executives to the white house today to discuss how they can better help small businesses looking for loans. lee prosenjak could have used that help not long ago. he's co-owner of the cherry creek dance studio near downtown denver. each week some 1800 students, ages 4 to 64, come here for lessons in ballet, jazz, hip- hop, and tap. the studio has been profitable for 16 years. last summer prosenjak went shopping for a $1 million loan to expand to larger studio space. he says his business is so good that the

just saw the it and see coming from the democrats we'vbeen watching st closely the ones saying they don know. was the something for them in this? >> isounds like, at least that they are saying that they'ret least open to the ospect to have a mary landreuand blanch lincoln still willing to te a look and see. remember allf them are going to hold these beuse they know they're the 60th vote. so w do you want to give away the store ght now when you have all the cards me sure you learn how to play them ver well. there's a reason theve been doing th quite well. the other piece that ihink is really important, the nger this stays out and the lger th we're all sitting around talking about e sausage making e more frustrated americans become in th process both with congress andith the bill. if you look at where t prident's approval rating is right now the handling of hethcare, this is a bloomberg poll thacame out today tually dropped 7 points sinc september terms of his handling thepproval on this issue. so wtever is going on, i think that the nber one issue for the majorityeader harry reid is to r

kyle and then don. >> i like your point. you call them punctuational moments. i like to suggest that one of the big punctuation al moments the united states missed was the reaction of the government after the taking of the hostages in iran in 1979. when you look back, that was a transformationnal moment we did so little in that time just wandering what explanation you provide if any why any particular blue print won out versus the others. from your research, if you have anything to say on what can explain what types of blue prints are likely to win out. one possibility dismissed that one possibility behind but there's certainly a viable alternative to that. >> we use that as a framework to try to reestablish the order. that basically identifies what the book is about. i tried to imagine scenarios under which the other models could have succeeded the idea of restoring the status of 1945 that becomes more likely if there's a serious out break of violence. which starts to look a lot more possible. there's even a brush with the stage of terror in the 1990s there is

it into the bank and get your savings and everything else, march of dimes during the depression, the don imus to collect or savings bonds and savings stamps, get kids threw it at 6, 7, 8, and 9 and you have savers in 20 40, and 50. >> i am going to stand here. >> i would like to say because if anybody knows here, in 1999 iowa was the woman was was the . the reason was i was against direct deposit. it was not good for my community because we could not borrow. i could not see at that time black people and spanish people putting their money in the bank which would not loan us any credit. racial discrimination is very much in the banking field. therefore, i am deeply concerned to see my money that i can't borrow that goes to other communities to build them up in our community and i will say look at that right now in housing. i related it, i was given recognition in 1991 and that was the reason. until racism on every level in our society is knocked out, some people will feel -- i am 90 years old. probably in the next 90 years it will change. that is all. i didn't want you to run because i kno

it's tough to use those words come mild to moderate when you see children donning but in the big picture of numbers, the members of material in cases where people died has been relatively small and fortunately in the younger people. >> host: what is the expectation? you talked about the rest of the winter. what is the expectation into the summer and next year where there will be new vaccines needing to be developed to deal with h1n1 in the coming years? >> guest: one of the things we should make clear is a very important point that even right now and from the very beginning the vaccine that we made for this virus was an excellent almost perfect match to the circulating virus, and we know from clinical trials that the vaccine induces a very robust immune response that you would predict would be protected. so the people that have gotten vaccinated would almost certainly be protected at a very high level. that's the first thing. so your question about what is going to happen now, we are seeing a big decrease in the number of cases. what we want to make sure doesn't happen which we've seen i

don righter, vice-president of police civilian programs dime corps international.fred writes, executive company z company formerly known as blackwater, and nick nickerson, program manager afghan national security sector development and field development program division of l-3 communications. although the contractor panel is last on our schedule, contractors are not last in our thoughts. as a member of congress i have travelled to iraq many times and returned 10 days ago with other commissioners from afghanistan. we are aware of the challenges in the u.s. contracting process and have previously highlighted instances of ways to fraud and abuse by some contractors. but we have also observed that contractors supporting american military and reconstruction efforts in both iraq and afghanistan gets high marks from our troops in the field, and that contractor employees include large number of experienced, hard-working and patriot americans -- patriotic americans. their work is vital. we have met contractors who have been in theater five years or more providing continuity

there is very low don this -- there is very little done on this. >> how great is the threat here? great britain seems to be a growing threat in the united states. . . >> if you have more people thinking bad thoughts, it is more likely someone will do something about that. as we uncover these plots, it is hard, because the complaints that are released cannot always tell you if there is jihadist motivation or personal or a combination. nidal hasan, we know he was having interaction. we don't know the content of those. they were dismissed as innocuous. what if he was talking about concepts that most of us know, but if you know it, you know it is the court doctrine of al qaeda. iyou might see it and you say, that is not too bad, but it basically means, if you are not with us, you are against us and it is the premise on which everything that al qaeda is founded. we'd get more granular in terms of knowing threats when we see them and knowing what are not threats when we see them. but i think it is a bad situation right now. >> thank you very much. >> thank you, mr. chairman. to follow u

what's the congressman has been talking -- >> -- don >> -- >> again, the president is working intenselyon the afghanistan issue in the health- care issue. i am not sure at this point that the media is still giving the kind of attention to this issue that it deserves. i still think that the media is covering it like it is he said/she said. after my father died from lung cancer, somebody presented me a fax that said that 300 adolescents in america started smoking today and most of them will die from lung cancer. of course, from the competitive enterprise institute, we ask why the other ones are going to die. maybe it really isn't the reason why they are dying. otherwise, everyone would die, wouldn't they? even though every single piece of science, medical opinion said that it was the tobacco. not just my father, but 7 million other americans. there is a responsibility to keep this in balance. i think the president has done an excellent job in doing so. when he makes his address to the world, they will see that he is committed to the united states being the leader in the world. >> i wanted

the final bill we've both don is not what we have had on the floor, the one the leaders have tried to work out in private they will try to force and then they tried to force is really a charade. well let's just compare the process here is a snapshot of what we have done and where we stand on this bill. majority leader intends to bring this debate to a close as early as this weekend, four days from now, the 2.5 trillion dollar mistake.ñr nobody knows what will be in the bill besides the majority leader that is in his conference room. it has been pending business more than four weeks ago in november, but we have only starting the business just two weeks ago on the amendment process but we have had 21 month -- amendments, less than two per day. so let's look at how the senate has dealt no child left behind, 21 session-- or seven weeks 44 roll-call votes, 137 amendments offered. 9/11 commission, who led the security act of 200220 roll-call votes, seven weeks come up 30 amendments offered. the energy bill, a 21 session days over eight weeks? >> 36 roll-call votes. 158 amendments offered. t

and don cunningham, lehigh valley executive.o, it has been about a year and a half since i last visited allentown and bethlehem when i was running for office. while it was a pleasure to be here as a candidate, it is an honor to be here as your president. it really is. [cheers] pennsylvania helped pull me into office, but -- thank you. but even on the most trying days, i want you to know that i am grateful for the opportunity to serve you in these zero challenging times for america. i am grateful for this chance to get out of washington. [laughter] and spent the day in the lehigh valley talking with people about this very tough economy. i just came from allentown metal works or had a tense to visit with workers there. there forging the heavy machinery. one of their projects is related to the rebuilding of the world trade center and the twin towers down there. you can just felt the extraordinary pride the workers take in this project. like so many others, these workers have been doing the best they can to stay afloat in a brutal r

we don not -- we do not have enough troops to do everything we wanted but it does not like the army is imploding, some kind of psychic collapse going on where people are so demoralized that they are going to quit. >> you are in afghanistan at the start of this debate on how many additional troops the u.s. might send. what was your sense from talking to the more senior officers about what is needed there? >> there is a growing sense of realism that nobody is going to get everything that they want. mcchrystal seems to have set a pretty high bar for what he considers adequate resources. what is the number is growing around? another 40,000 troops are more? there's an understanding that that is not necessarily going to happen, and if it does happen, it will not happen fast. what is happening is that officers are making do, to make do with fewer troops. a lot of senior guys embrace this idea of the population- centric counterinsurgency, where your goal is to protect the entire afghan population from extremist aphis, and by protecting them, you win them a new excise whatever extremist element

. >>> don nelson back after missing five games with pneumonia. he's back with the spurs in town.ors down one. they are the ones in yellow. maggette. popovich calls a time-out. first quarter still. curry. knocks that one down. 14-12, it is early. >>> back to the hockey, canucks trying to win four straight. the ducks in town. first period no score. bobby ryan goes the other way, and he goes what's called five hole. it is ryan's 15th of the year. . . brothers, not the movie but daniel and henrik sedin tie it up at one the other way. . >>> wig and liv. your long centering pass. >> the header was enough, and how they needed that! >> right! 2-1, liverpool is a winner. >>> that is it, we're out of here. i'm andrew siciliano. thank you for for watching. we showed it to you like five minutes ago. your las vegas "big moment" is kobe bryant at the buzzer. >> there's a move. two, one -- >> kobe bryant. >> unbelievable. >> yes! >> he does it. >> it's over. >> was there ever a doubt? >> kobe wins it for the i'll have one of those. you know every time you order a captain and cola a holiday fair

it's not -- there's no don is sometime in the future.riggering point will be the bottom line, and we do not yet see that, but when we begin to see that, that is the canary in the coal mine. >> can i just say, what would we see in the bond market that would sound the alarm? >> it would show up as i indicated earlier, but it would show up in the longer end of the market, meaning 30-year treasurys and 10-Ñiyear notes. yields would start to move up relative to one-year treasury bills. what we call the yield curve would tilt up very significantly. thatçó is the first sign something is the merging, similar to what happened in the city of new york -- the first sign something is emerging, similar to what have been in the city of new york. >> this is very important. you cannot inflate your way out of this problem. you can inflate your way out of the burden associated with the 12 trillion dollars in current debt, but the problem is thknot that. it is the unfunded medicare and social security, that grow faster than inflation, and in the case of hea

caller: i'm calling in reference -- i'm an independent and i don think the senate needs reformed definitelycivility. i have been voting since i was 18 and i will be 50 on tuesday. this is embarrassing. i have been watching them bickering and it is enough already. and they need to stop this 60 nonsense. just go back to basic math ç10. if there are 100 of them and 50 is the majority, that is what it is. top the party nonsense. sometimes i feel like the democrats don't represent me, the republicans don't either. it is a bunch of old white men. host: how do you do that? you have politicians that are innately looking at getting re-election and need to raise money to get re-elected.ç caller: exactly. and what is it with the tons of money you need to get re-elected. th elected and what happens to the money? everything can't be all money. enough already.ç host: should there be public financing of all campaigns? caller: not necessarily. i don't have a problem with raising money. but i think we are just focused too much on money. some things should be basic common sense. and everything is not abou

host: don from oklahoma, independent line. caller: good morning.ion is do they really think that moving these people from guantanamo to the united states for trial -- what either one of you guys want to serve on the jury? with the terrorist problems we have in the united states, that we know are out there, would you want to put your families in that kind of peril over the coming years, if you were to be on the jury to convict them? i mean, to me that is probably the silliest thing i've ever is moving up here. leave them down there and try them in a military tribunal and get them over with, were you don't know all the tourists are and that kind of stuff. -- who all the jurors are and that kind of stuff but i don't know anybody with the people i talk to in my home town, this area -- i cannot find anybody who would say, "i would like to be on that jury." guest: since september 2011, we have had success prosecuting terrorists here in the best gues -- in the u.s. guest: we have proven that our system can deal with the terrorist threat. i've been an expe

but i also think arguably in moscow and don were quicker to realize that the verities comedy assumptionse contingent predictions that would offend you for the last four years were not true under these circumstances. the scholars, the outsiders were slower to update. and i think that's part of the result of information. the guys in government have better information, but i also think the scholars were more formally wedded to a way of thinking of developed over the last 40 years. to answer your question, how do you know? you know, when one thing happens that outside of the expectations , that is perfectly readable to accept that's an anomaly. but as the event continued to pile up that are not consistent with the paradigm that you have in your head, that's when you should start to update. i have to say in hindsight, looking back i planned community of international relations scholars i am struck at how long it took them to realize that much of the stuff they thought they knew based on the cold war bipolar experience did simply not apply to the great power politics anymore. a quick comment o

don, especially in the immediate future -- in this area done, especially in the immediate future forestion is, what ever happened to or is there any consideration about taxing wall street transactions? we have a congressman here in colorado saying they're used to be one and it was ended in the late 1960's and he made an effort to try to do that. i think that would be extremely popular with people in the united states, especially main street, to get immediate help and relief for people -- so many people are suffering right now. i, again, would like to see as many green and immediate jobs put into place. guest: jared bernstein -- host: jared bernstein, on the timing. guest: the recovery act, of which green jobs is a component, was signed less than four weeks after we got here. we were very keyed into the urgency i hear and kathy's question. i have been working extremely hard -- vice-president and team recovery has been doing exemplary and very transparent job in terms of implementation. thus far, according to the congressional budget office, and by the way, they are in the same ballpar

host: go ahead, don. this capitalism that we try to spread through microloans, whatever -- in america, we have a totally screwed up -- if you look at athletes, entertainers, they have no obligations politically. all they do is make their money. there is no age restrictions, the note certain levels -- no certain levels, gatekeepers -- if you are an athlete, basketball, baseball, you can turn professional an early age. but academics -- we are not funding our most gifted students, and they have a rigorous bureaucracy to have to go through to be accepted. guest: i think the caller makes a couple of good points. access to education is a key part of economic empowerment. grameen foundation has put together educational scholarship for the children of the clients. in terms of entertainers and various types -- certainly, you cannot generalize, but i would say that last year, i traveled to haiti with the actress yeardley smith, the voice of lisa simpson. she grew up in the washington area, and her father was a jour

chris hunter instead of modovich. 69-year-old don nelson, second winningest coach in nba history. needs just 17 more to surpass wilkins as the all time leader. he's in his 4th year of his second stint as head coach with the warriors. our toyota ones to watch tonight has been terrific. stephen curry, tremendous player from davidson, and he's playing well in the nba also. >> he is. >> taking after his dad, beautiful shot, interested in watching him first hard. this will be my first time. of course davidson put up great numbers. there now he's in the starting lineup. gilbert, i mean he's still putting up good numbers, shooting the ball well, we just haven't seen him with the old opposing games, and we were looking for that in the sacramento game. >> it was very frustrating for gilbert. he had the ball stolen away beautifully by evans. in the game before that boykins with earl unfortunately committing the turnover. as you said in the open, they never even got the chance to tie or take the lead in the game. >> that's what you want, give yourself a chance to get the shot out. if gilbert