back with an action plan, ryan mack, donna risato and jeff gardere. ryan the unemployment rate 10% a tragedy. it's taken 27 months for people to find a new job, a long time indeed. what is your advice to people out there pounding the pavement looking for a job? >> first of all we have to be optimistic. i want to remind everybody what does microsoft, i-hop, facebook and cnn have in common? all started -- >> that's a good question. >> all started in recession. and over half of the s&p 500 are companies that were formed during recession. we need good idea for individual whose have jobs save their money in case they get laid off. we have to make sure going to local community colleges get retrained and certified we need to be expanding social networking losing facebook, myspace, black planet, start advertising. >> reach out, reach out. >> exactly. >> donna people still have their job but forced to scale back, working less hours, making less. tell me there's going to be more. >> the good news in 2009 people were getting furloughs, pay cuts pay freezes. pict

that's the difference. >> donna, very quickly. we're out of time. >> you have to remove all the existing barriers that prevent every american from having a head start as well as a healthy start. that's what the president is trying to do. but we need more than just a president at the table, we need the congress and the private sector as well. >> a good discussion, donna brazile and roland martin, thanks very much. >>> president obama is promising to bring justice for the man who allegedly tried and failed to blow up northwest flight 253. does the suspect deserve his day in a civilian court or a military one? >>> and later what is really go on inside iran? on the heel of a bloody new crackdown on opposition protester, is the government beginning to crack? i needed to make a change in my life and make a change for the better. now re-growing their hair and turning back the clock. we're talking about taking you back to the past and letting you stay there. all rebuilding their confidence and regaining their edge. more hair, more confide

and donna, i think the republican senate is mainly this. barack obama and his team seemed to gotten their cart caught in a ditch and it's up to them to get it out. they may help here in afghanistan but i don't think mump early. and we are a long way away from that. >> larry: mary do you think the republicans can get a little too cocky over this? because it appear no, sir party is popular? >> no, no. this is -- no there is no chest beating. few watched what senator-elect brown said, the democrats are going to mid read again as they misread the man date and misread the response by thinks that the republicans are obstructing on bus they don want to play will with democrats. they object -- they object to this agenda. they do not believe in the kind of economic takeover that would be wrougt with this energy plan. they don't believe in that gover nance. yeah, they all ran good campaigns but a good campaign doesn't make up for a bad message. and democrats need to come and work with republicans, not the other way around if we want to have progress

in new york, donna brazile, our democratic strategist, and in new york, the columnist for "the daily beast" and author of "wingnuts, how the lunatic fringe is hijacking america." president obama was asked about the election last night. here's what he said to abc's george stephanopoulos. >> the same thing that swept scott brown into office swept me into office. people are angry and they're fraus rated. >> what's the strategy going forward. a lot of people talked about getting the house to pass the senate bill. >> here's one thing i know. i just want to make sure this is off the table. the senate certainly shouldn't try to jam anything through until scott brown is seated. the people of massachusetts spoke. he's got to be part of that process. i would advise that we try to move quickly to coalesce around those elements of the package that people agree on. >> larry: david gergen, what's your reaction to that? >> larry, first of all, it's hard to go from that 5-year-old child in haiti back to politics. isn't it? but i think the interpretation is being placed on it by a number of people is

those who are here.la we have laurie and betty, and donna. [applause] >> and we're going to invite them a little later in the program to say something about what this experience has meant to them and what motivated them to write to us because what we have found over the course of the last two months since this book was published that we developed a network, a sisterhood hood which we call the gtm sisterhood network and it's comprised of these 100 women who contributed to this outstanding work and to this historic work as peggy mentioned. and so we want you to know them a little bit better as well and so we will have them say something as we go through the program. but we wanted to tell you what motivated us on this book. we'll talk about the uncrowned queens a little bit later in the q & a because this has been a passion of ours for 10 years. the uncrowned queens institute. and maybe i'll just say a word about our mission. the mission of the institute is to identify, collect, preserve and disseminate the histories of african-american women wh

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born chicago 61 years of age, daughter donna. one daughter. jewish. democrat. university of chicago, b.s. chemistry. massachusetts institute of technology, ph.d., micro biology. center for science in the public interest, a nonprofit public health advocacy association with over 8,000 members. cofounder and executive director 33 years and currently. author, numerous books, including "restaurant confidential," "marketing madness," and "what are we feeding our kids?" hobbies, photography, biking, michael faraday jacobsson. >> what is the current thinking on alcohol? >> in small amounts can be ok. >> can be or will be? >> can be. not necessarily will be. and people shouldn't start drinking to reduce the risk of heart disease. >> how about two four-ounce glasses much wine a day? sound about right? >> to me it sounds like a lot. but -- >> i'm giving you what comes right out of the literature. two beers a day, four ounces of hard liquor. >> it could be ok. >> unless you've got active liver disease or pang key i tights. >> tendency to alcoholism. people should not -- >>

he has my eternal gratitude for his skill and courage and the same for the three flight attendants, donna, sheila and doreen and the passenger behaved admirably. they were a seasoned group of mostly business travelers and worked well together to get everybody safely out of the airplane. there was a lot of cooperative behavior throughout the episode. >> you put it in perspective when you say 208 seconds. i want us to listen to one of the passengers at that time talking about the feelings and appreciation for you. let's listen. >> i would say i don't know what the survival rate is of plane crashes but i can't imagine it's too high. for everyone to get off that plane and no one dying, that was -- that pilot, as far as i'm concerned probably saved us all. if you want to talk to a hero, get ahold of him, because that's the hero on this whole deal. >> to hear that to this day, how do you take that hero label? >> well, you know, i very much appreciate those words that the passengers have for us. those are the words that clearly have meant the most to me and my crew, the words of gratitude from o

howdy doody" show and in the '80s he was portrayed on "saturday night live" as a cigar chomping, prima donna. >>> bank failures are common last year and still turning up in 2010. horizon bank of bellingham, washington, was the first bank to fail this year. all its deposits and assets will be taken over by washington savings and federal loan association in seattle. that means the fdic will have to cover more than $500 million in insurance costs. 140 banks failed last year, the highest number since 1992. the fdic chairwoman says the number could be even higher this year in 2010. >>> this weekend, las vegas is a high tech haven. firms are showing off their trendiest smart books, laptops and lots of other devices. hln's joe carter is there and takes a look at something that soon you may not be able to do without. >> reporter: we're in las vegas. it's not just gambling this week. it's all about the gadgets. the technological world has come here to unveil their hottest projects for 2010, the smartphones, the pcs. the gaming. let's go check it out. so what is this? >> it's a k-3 wind and solar char

chairman, thank you very much for introducing my wife, donna, who joins me today. she's been a military spouse for 36 years, in addition to being a mom and a grandmother, and she's now very much a joint spouse, of the pacific command with oversight of the needs of army, navy, air force, marine corps and coast guard families. as well as families of our civilian workers within a com. i'm pleased to have her here as well. thank you, sir. i've now been in command of the united states pacific command for about three months, and although i may be new to pay, i commanded extensively in the asia-pacific region. consequently during my 36 years of service, i developed a great respect for this part of the world. in that time i've come to believe that now, more than ever, it's vital to our nation's security interest and economic prosperity. in previous tours as now, the emergence of china and its military has been a routine topic of discussion and my interactions with regional leaders that i have concerns of most reconciling china's declared desire for a peaceful and stable en

and in the '80s, portrayed on "saturday night live" as a cigar-chomping, show business prima donna, and he enjoyed that act. >>> bank failures are still turning up in 2010. horizon bank in bellingham, washington, was the first bank to fail this year. all of its assets will be taken over by the washington federal loan association of seattle. that means the fdic will have to cover more than half a billion dollars in insurance costs. 140 banks failed last year. that's the highest number since 1992. the fdic chairwoman says the number could be even higher this year in 2010. >>> have you seen the national debt clock lately? here it is, a staggering 12-plus trillion dollars and it's climbing. a teenager in rhode island decided to do something about it. she got the idea as part of a high school class project. the assignment was, find a social issue and take some action. 16-year-old katherine young wanted to help pay down the national debt so she held a bake sale. >> at first i wasn't serious about it but then when i thought about it, i realized that it was -- it would be a powerful statement t

donna christensen. the pending legislation establishes the castle nugent national historic site on the island of st. croix in the u.s. virgin islands. the castle nugent area possess as wide range of historic resources, including the remnants of small danish cotton, sugar, and cattle plantations. pre-colombia archaeological sites also exist on the property. the cattle ranch there is one of the oldest in the west indies. the proposed part -- the diverse and undisturbed natural resources of the site include the most substantial black mangrove stand left in the virgin islands. sea turtle northwesting areas, large and healthy coral reefs, and a lagoon that is home to many different species of birds and other wildlife. congress authorized the special resource study for this area in 26. the national park service has completed all the work for that study and found that the area meets all applicable criteria for significance, suitability, and feasibility for designation as a national park service unit. the propo

barbara lee, wade henderson and donna brazil even, she's one of our contributors, she'll be on statethe union tomorrow. perhaps we'll get an inside look at these calls. not only is he making these calls, i just got an e-mail from me showing me that a local politician, a steve forsberg is saying is he understands this is not great, this is not the right choice of words for reid, but he accepts his apology, and the reason why he says he accepts senator reid's apology, and many of these african-american leaders are saying the same,because he does have a good record when it comes to civil rights historically, despite what everybody agrees is a very bad choice of words and a very bad situation for senator reid politically. >> how much trouble would you say harry reid is in in the senate. how much hot water does this put him in? >> judging by the immediate reaction, which is, you sometimes -- it's very difficult to do, it looks like for now, in terms of his position as the top democrat in the senate, it looks like he's okay. the biggest problem for senator reid is his own 1r50i8 viability

chairman, thank you for introducing my wife, donna, who joins me today. she's been a military spouse for 36 years in addition to being a mother and grandmother and she is now very much a joint spouse at pacific command with oversight of the needs of army, navy, air force, marine corps and coast guard families as well as families of our civilian workers within pay -- pacific command. i'm pleased to have her. thank you, sir,. i've been in command of the u.s. pacific command for about three months. and although i may be new to this i commanded extensively in the asia-pacific region. consequently during my 36 years of service developed a great respect for this part of the world. in that time i have come to believe that now more than ever it's vital to our nation's security interests and economic prosperity. in previous taurus as now the emergence of china and its military has been a routine topic of discussion in my interactions with the regional leaders. of concern to most, reconciling china's declared desire for a peaceful and stable environment for economi

donna rosata from "money" magazine is here to help. i want to put on the screen from the get-go, your plan for dealing with the debt hangover. it's this. assess the damage, stop charging and make a payment plan. that's it? >> it sounds simple. >> stuart: it does. >> here is the action steps you need. assess the damage. figure out how much, don't wait for your bills to come in. the interest rates -- the interest starts accumulating on the debt immediately. the grace periods have shrunk if you use your credit card. go online and check your credit card statement, get your bills and figure out what the damage is. then, again, it sounds simple. stop using your credit cards. we all lean on our credit cards these days. if you already put extra debt on your credit cards for the holidays, we all do. going out, shopping, it's the holiday season. stop using it. it should be easier now because the holiday season is over. you can stay home instead of going out and buying gifts. >> how much do you owe? find it out, assess the damage, as you say. you

in the '80s eddie murphy port y portrayed him as a showbiz prim donna, an act clokey said he enjoyed.>> if you want to see what the future looks like, head to vegas. that is the place to be. it is where the big consumer electronics show is going on with a load of high-tech gadgets on display. and hln's joe carter found out that some of them are going green. >> reporter: i've been hearing a lot about green products at this year's ces, and i found one. it's called an electric bike. it's the entaloop. tell me about it, david. >> one of the things that we've done over our 15 years of developing electric bikes in japan is we've made an electric bike that feels like riding a regular bicycle. >> reporter: where's the motor, david? >> the motor is in the front wheel, the battery pack is here. and the electronics that manage it are on the bottom bracket. so there's no throttle, all you do is get on the bike and start pedaling and the motor takes off. >> reporter: how fast can you go one the motor kicks into gear? >> it goes 15 miles per hour is max speed. but the harder you pedal, the faster y

i hereby appoint the honorable donna f. edwards to act as speaker protemp on this day.igned, nancy pelosi, speaker of the house of representatives. the speaker pro tempore: the prayer will be offered by the guest chaplain, reverend dr. allen keer unanimous of the allen keer unanimous of the office of the senate chaplain. the chaplain: would you bow your heads in prayer. almighty god, loving father, prince of peace, the star-studded heavens declare your glory and the is a fire skies the works of your hands. we are gathered here today, lord, because we have committed ourselves to the service of our nation. we are grateful for the many freedoms and opportunities we enjoy yet mindful of the brevity of human life. as we look to the future, help us to know and do your will your way for your glory. lord, you have blessed our land with fertile soil, years of plenty, hope for the bright future. you have raised up our nation's representatives for a season of fruitful service. may you grant them the opportunity to plant good seeds in good soil and see across this land the tangible

[applause] >> first of all, let me thank you donna for those very kind and generous words. i like to know that i'm delighted to be here at the national press club. i also want to thank the officers of the press club for the invitation to be here with you today, especially due and bob carden speakers chairman committee member who actually arranged this thing. thank you, bob here it ten days into the decade and one year into the obama administration our nation remains poised between the failed policies of the past in the hopes for a better future. this is a moment that cries out for political courage and were not seen enough of it. i spent the first week of this year traveling on the west coast. in san francisco, i was arrested with low-wage hotel workers fighting to protect their health care and their pension from leveraged buyouts that it gone bad. in los angeles and san diego, i talked with working americans moved to tears by foreclosures and unemployment, by outsourcing and benefit cuts. ever where i went, people said to me, why do so many of the people we elect the seem

who had no patience for pri madon pri -- prima donnas in the league. >> there are players i hate, evenchris: which makes what happened last week more stunning. after missing most of the last two seasons with knee injuries but still signing a contract worth $107 million, arenas got in an argument with a teammate over a gambling debt. arenas pulled out four unloaded guns, he says as a joke. >> i bring them to my locker and, you know, put all my teammates -- >> chris: then before a game this week he pretended to shoot all his teammates, while they all laughed. back in 2006, arenas certainly didn't act like a spoiled superstar. he spent more than $20,000 at the start of the season to buy his own jersey. >> why do you throw your jersey into the stands after every home game? >> just to give back. maybe one day if i make the nba, that's what i'm going to do, that will be my trademark and i kept to that promise. >> chris: just before christmas in 2004, arenas read about a 10-year-old boy andre mcallister, who survived a fire that killed most of his family. arenas took the boy under his wing, b

we have laurie and didier and donna and we are going to invite them a little later in the program to say something about what this experience has meant to them and what motivated them to write to us because what we have found over the course of the last two months since the book was published that we've developed a network, sisterhood we call the dtm sisterhood network and its comprised of these 100 women who contributed to this outstanding work and historic work as peggy mentioned, and so we want you to know them a little bit better as well and so we will have them say something has you go through the program. but we want to tell you a little bit about what motivated us to write this book and how we got started on it. we will talk perhaps about the leader in the q&a because this has been a passion of hours for ten years, the uncrowned queen is institute and maybe i will say a word about the mission. the mission of the institute is to identify, collect, preserve and disseminate the history of african-american women that we call community builders. we've been doing this work for ten y

we heard a lot about toppling donna mose in the vietnam era, how we had to prevent that from happening, but in the modern era they want to topple the domino of saddam and hoped that could undermine all of the other authoritarian regimes in the area, and this is one of the results of the iraq war that absoly did not happen. >> i think we have time for a couple more questions. yes, sir. >> i have a question concerning the relationship between the neocons in corporate america especially the oil industry. how important was that? how much of an influence was that on their theories and how they went about designing the policy, etc. at etc. and also if you can distill this for you world-- war into a take-home message, what would that be to you think? would that open up your eyes as he said earlier or is there something else you would like to say? >> i think when you ask this about the power and the relationship of oil, i don't think that is an ideology. i think there is a relationship between our foreign policy in the united states's foreign policy and the need for oil. and what they are not

. >> thank you, donna. >> sorry about that. it is good to be back at the wilson center. i wanted to come and give some brief comments on the meaning of of the subject and this day, but let me thank the prior presenters, chairman conyers, chelsea and bemis have covered a lot of ground -- chelsea -- elsie and denise covered a lot of ground. i do not think that we should take for granted the hard, legislative work that was required in the success of the bill. we definitely a zero another round of applause to congressman conyers and all the people who were involved. i am familiar from his dealing with the commerce committee under the leadership. i am originally from south carolina. i note chairman conyers is familiar with that. we are supportive of the king holiday bill. when i joined the commerce committee in 1989, he was a member of that commission and i have the opportunity to join a couple of meetings on his behalf. even though the bill was passed, the commission was there to continue the work in promoting the celebration because it still took a lot of work to educate pe

bordallo: i yield to the gentlelady from the virgin islands, donna christensen, such time as she may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady from the virgin islands, dr. christensen, is recognized for as much time as she may consume. mrs. christensen: thank you, madam chair, for yielding. thank you, mr. speaker. today i rise to speak on behalf of h.r. 3726, a bill that i introduced to establish the castle nugent national historic site on st. croix in my district in the u.s. virgin islands. the introduction of this bill continues as was started in 2006 to build upon that great precedent set by our forefathers when yellowstone in wyoming became the first national park. this will provide an excellent opportunity to preserve a very special and unique landscape for the people of st. croix and visitors to the island for generations to come. h.r. 3726 calls for the preservation of 2,900 lakers which include a caribbean dry forest, pristine coastal barrier coral reef system, and pre-colombian and posteuropean settlement. the property has a long agricultural history dating back to th

he was sort of eigha preening prima donna. they would malkin behind his back, and that he would rocked -- would mock him behind his back, and he would walk into the room and it would be kind of a hushed. host: could you tell us about the difference between rudy giuliani on the campaign trail and in private? guest: the book is about politics and the sense that we write about presidential candidates and their spouses, but our goal was to write about the personalities and the high human drama. we knew all the time that we had an interesting set of characters. pretty giuliani is the seventh--- we knew we had an interesting set of characters went rudy giuliani was the seventh-the most interesting candidate. a clean up new york city and stood up to terrorists after 9/11. but on the campaign trail, he was not a tiger, but a pussycat. when he was shown at negative ads point out against him, he would laugh at them and said that all of those were silly. in debates, when he was challenged by opponents, he laughed. he never showed the tou

donna emerged from an era of good cause -- gahna emerged from and era of coups. exchange a dictatorship for democracy. there is no better example in the progress made in central and eastern europe since the fall of the berlin wall 20 years ago, an event that was privileged to help celebrate last month at the brandenburg gate. while the work in front of us is daunting, we face the future together with partners in every continent. from india, the world's largest democracy and one that continues to use democratic process is and principals to perfect its union of 1.1 billion people to botswana where the president has promised to govern by democracy, dignity, development, discipline, and delivery, providing a recipe for responsible governance that contrasts starkly with the unnecessary and man made a tragedy in neighboring zimbabwe. in the end, this is not just about what we do. it is about who we are. we can be the people we are, people who believe in human rights, if we opt out of this fight. believing in human rights means committing ourselves to action. when we si

i also want to say things in particular to donna abraham who is the lead editor on this issue. university of pennsylvania who be speaking later today for serving as are out urging our outside adviser. i want to say thanks to barry wheeler who helped to engineer the publication of this issue without whom we would not be here. thank you very much. i want to thank the foundation once again for making this issue possible. i am going to introduce to you the ceo of that foundation. he will make some brief remarks. he comes to us from california. that is where the foundation is headquartered. the mission is to advance the development of a sustainable continuum of care for seniors. it is the second largest foundation in the u.s. focused entirely on improving the quality of health and lives for seniors. before hand, he served as the director and chief medical officer for the los angeles county department of health services. that is after serving for the department's senior all medical director. in earlier he had served as the regional medical director for california health programs for

he was sort of eigha preening prima donna.back, and that he would rocked -- would mock him behind his back, and he would walk into the room and it would be kind of a hushed. host: could you tell us about the difference between rudy giuliani on the campaign trail and in private? guest: the book is about politics and the sense that we write about presidential candidates and their spouses, but our goal was to write about the personalities and the high human drama. we knew all the time that we had an interesting set of characters. pretty giuliani is the seventh--- we knew we had an interesting set of characters went rudy giuliani was the seventh-the most interesting candidate. a clean up new york city and stood up to terrorists after 9/11. but on the campaign trail, he was not a tiger, but a pussycat. when he was shown at negative ads point out against him, he would laugh at them and said that all of those were silly. in debates, when he was challenged by opponents, he laughed. he never showed the toughness and hunger to win. rinc

the issue i have no disagreement with donna kohn is very realistic and a very bleak forecast for a slowand gradual recovery. i thought i very elegantly done. but the issue of course is whether a very gradual improvement is tolerable and is not what is to be done about it. and skip over a few things but i can't post on subjects without congratulating him in his final remarks invoking the spirit of making a crucial point that. the stability of the two instability and also for her, i think, making the point that monetary policy is a blunt instrument in this matter. as my old boss, henry burris coming is to say is what we need is the rifle shot of regulation, not the blunderbuss of higher interest rates to deal with these questions. alan krueger stated the economy is not good enough albeit better than it would have then without the three pillars of financial stabilization, the housing program, and particularly the ara. those are all important but i would argue that they are perhaps even secondary to a fact or not gets mentioned on the panel, which is the effect of the overwhelming importanc

i also want to say things in particular to donna abraham who is the lead editor on this issue.ersity of pennsylvania who be speaking later today for serving as are out urging our outside adviser. i want to say thanks to barry wheeler who helped to engineer the publication of this issue without whom we would not be here. thank you very much. i want to thank the foundation once again for making this issue possible. i am going to introduce to you the ceo of that foundation. he will make some brief remarks. he comes to us from california. that is where the foundation is headquartered. the mission is to advance the development of a sustainable continuum of care for seniors. it is the second largest foundation in the u.s. focused entirely on improving the quality of health and lives for seniors. before hand, he served as the director and chief medical officer for the los angeles county department of health services. that is after serving for the department's senior all medical director. in earlier he had served as the regional medical director for california health programs for the l

i hereby appoint the honorable donna f. edwards to act as speaker pro tempore on this day.ned, nancy pelosi, speaker of the house of representatives. the speaker pro tempore: the chair lays before the -- the prayer will be offered by our guest chaplain, reverend kiley of washington, d.c. the chaplain: loving god by whose grace our land has been blessed with such bounty and by whose guidance our nation has been formed, be with us even now as we open this second session of the 111th congress. grant us a fuller share and the gift of your spirit which is strong, loving and wise. give us strength to face the challenges before this congress with courage and patience. give us a loving spirit so that compassion for our fellow citizens and for their deepest concerns may find a first place in our deliberations. give us wisdom, discernment and good judgment so that we may serve what is to the best interest and common good of the nation and to the general welfare of all people. do bless us now as we begin the important work ahead of us and may you who begin this good work in us bring i

i hereby appoint the honorable donna s.e wards to act as speaker pro tempore on this day.signed, nancy pelosi, speaker of the house of representatives. the speaker pro tempore: the prayer will be offered by our chaplain, father coughlin. cough cough the chaplain: the chaplain: be with our members of government as they work in action. may haiti be a paraable of your redeeming love, lifting your people from slavery to freedom from death to new life. when the media has tired of its story, lord, allow the commitment of liberation and justice to go that the good news of your faithful presence will overcome the shadowy image of death and destruction. so may your people rejoice, lord, in finding the treasure of your kingdom. here, even on earth. for your gospel story will last, forever and ever. amen. the speaker pro tempore: the chair has examined the journal of the last day's proceedings and announces to the house her approval thereof. pursuant to clause 1 of rule 1, the journal stands approved. the chair will lead the house in the pledge of allegiance. i pledge allegiance to t

guest: donna, what would we do different? i think what we would do different first and foremost is acknowledge that we've learned the lesson, >> we have made the mistakes that put this on the opposite track of the american people. we will now step forward with a bold vision and bold colors as reagan used to say that reflects the concerns of the american people that are addressed to the policies and programs that we think will empower you and uplift you. government should not be in the business of managing and controlling and deciding. it should be in the business of creating pathways to you can have the american dream however you define it for yourself. our party or the leadership elected on the hill the government around the country, and the political leadership wants to create a pathway to empower families of community is to achieve the american dream. we will fight for that but we will start by listening and stay true to those principles that have been around for generations. >> host: chairman of our north carolina and aut

[applause] i also want to thank donna abraham who was the lead editor in the thematic issue on long-termvices and supports. thank you very much. [applause] i want to thank mary naylor who will be speaking later today for serving as our outside adviser. thank you. [applause] and i want to thank larry wheeler who helped to engineer the publication of this issue, without whom we would not be here. thank you very much. [applause] finally, i want to thank the s.c.a.n. foundation for making the issue possible. we are going to introduce the ceo of that foundation the digital dr. bruce turn chernoff california where the s.c.a.n. foundation is headquartered and the foundation's mission is to advance sustainable continue of tears. s.c.a.n. is the second largest foundation in the u.s. focused entirely on improving the quality of health for seniors. before heading s.c.a.n. dr. c r chernooff was chief medical officer for the department of health services after it serving as senior medical director for clinical affairs. earlier he served as the regional medical director for california health programs,

my name is donna leinwand, president of the national press club and reporter for usa today. we are the world's leading professional organization for journalists and committed to in the future of journalism by providing informative programming and journalism education and fostering free press worldwide. for more information on the national press club, please visit our web site at www.press.org. on behalf of the 3,500 members worldwide i would like to welcome the speaker and guest in the audience today. i would also like to welcome those of you who are watching on c-span. we are looking forward to today's speech and afterwards i will last as many questions from the audience as time permits. please, hold your applause during the speech so we have time for as many questions as possible. for those in the broadcast audience, i would like to explain if you hear applause it may be from the guests and the members of the general public who it in our luncheons and not necessarily from the working press. [laughter] i would now like to introduce the head table guests and ask them to stan

>> donna. >> i'm curious as the strategy is taking place in afghanistan and the search troops going inwhat are the implications of two other important pieces to this whole picture? the stelle made a few well within the afghan government and also the slowness of the civilian volunteers to be that civilian surge that needs to go in. >> i don't think i would characterize it as the slowness in the civilian surge. i think as you have heard from secretary clinton as recently as testimony from secretary gates last month they anticipate having 1,000 additional 1,000 total since president obama came to office and announced the way ahead in afghanistan back in march by i think this month i hope to have 1,000 total civilians in support of our operations in afghanistan. talk to the state department to get the specific date by which they would. one thing that is obviously appeals in comparison to the roughly 100,000 forces we will eventually have in afghanistan but one thing she and secretary gates have noted quite often is that it is a bit of comparison of apples to oranges because the civilian co

guest: donna, what would we do different? think what we would do different first and foremost is acknowledge that we've learned the lesson, that we have -- we have made the mistakes that have put us on the outs, if you will, with the american people and that we will now step forward with a bold vision in bold colors, as reagan used to say, that reflects the concerns of the american people and that are addressed through the policies and the programs that we think will empower you and uplift you. the government is not -- should not be in the business of managing and controlling and deciding. the government should be in the business of creating pathways so that you can access the american dream however you define it for yourselves. and so our party, the leadership of our party, elected on the hill, our governors around the country and certainly the political leadership in the states wants to create those pathways to empower families and communities to achieve the american dream. and we're going to fight for that but we're going

i'd like now to turn the floor over to congresswoman donna kristenson from the virgin islands who has led on many efforts as it relates to the caribbean, who knows haiti very, very well, who knows what natural disasters mean in terms of the dislocation and the tragic deaths that occur and what we have to do as a country to help respond to such a tragedy of this magnitude. thank you, congresswoman christensen. mrs. christensen: thank you, congresswoman and chairwoman lee, for your leadership of the caucus. through every event that we've had to deal with but especially for the way you have answered the call to action for the people of haiti and have called us to action as well within the caucus and within the congress. and, mr. speaker, i rise this evening with my colleagues, to express our deep sense of concern for the flight of the haitian people after the most devastating, people observed, in 200 or more years. i want to again thank our chair lady and the past chairs of the congressional black caucus for the leadership that they have given other the years on behalf of the nation of h

[applause] >> first of all, let me thank you donna for those very kind and generous words. like to know that i'm delighted to be here at the national press club. i also want to thank the officers of the press club for the invitation to be here with you today, especially due and bob carden speakers chairman committee member who actually arranged this thing. thank you, bob here it ten days into the decade and one year into the obama administration our nation remains poised between the failed policies of the past in the hopes for a better future. this is a moment that cries out for political courage and were not seen enough of it. i spent the first week of this year traveling on the west coast. in san francisco, i was arrested with low-wage hotel workers fighting to protect their health care and their pension from leveraged buyouts that it gone bad. in los angeles and san diego, i talked with working americans moved to tears by foreclosures and unemployment, by outsourcing and benefit cuts. ever where i went, people said to me, why do so many of the people we elect the seem to

and that we could put more resources behind that that was then the clinton administration when donnawas the secretary she put a lot of effort into the fraud and payoffs and then it slipped behind it makes doctors very uncomfortable but it's quite important. >> 60 minutes dustin work on that important topic in the public space. but i think we are coming off on just about one hour here. i think we are done. thank you so much. [applause] ladies and gentlemen over the last two days we have commented on the fact over the past year the global financial crisis has generated consensus here and abroad to increase government spending of the last year or so was quite necessary to deal with some very severe long-term consequences government responses and so the point was too little attention was given to the long-term fiscal consequences of programs to deal with them all down of the last year or so, so i hope we have dealt with some of those questions about providing more attention to the impact and the long-term consequences of debt and deficits and how this country and others can govern in tho

i also want to say things in particular to donna abraham who is the lead editor on this issue. thank you very much. i went to thank mary of the university of pennsylvania who be speaking later today for serving as are out urging our outside adviser. i want to say thanks to barry wheeler who helped to engineer the publication of this issue without whom we would not be here. thank you very much. i want to thank the foundation once again for making this issue possible. i am going to introduce to you the ceo of that foundation. he will make some brief remarks. he comes to us from california. that is where the foundation is headquartered. the mission is to advance the development of a sustainable continuum of care for seniors. it is the second largest foundation in the u.s. focused entirely on improving the quality of health and lives for seniors. before hand, he served as the director and chief medical officer for the los angeles county department of health services. that is after serving for the department's senior all medical director. in earlier he had served as the regional med

he was sort of eigha preening prima donna.would mock him behind his back, and he would walk into the room and it would be kind of a hushed. host: could you tell us about the difference between rudy giuliani on the campaign trail and in private? guest: the book is about politics and the sense that we write about presidential candidates and their spouses, but our goal was to write about the personalities and the high human drama. we knew all the time that we had an interesting set of characters. pretty giuliani is the seventh--- we knew we had an interesting set of characters went rudy giuliani was the seventh-the most interesting candidate. a clean up new york city and stood up to terrorists after 9/11. but on the campaign trail, he was not a tiger, but a pussycat. when he was shown at negative ads point out against him, he would laugh at them and said that all of those were silly. in debates, when he was challenged by opponents, he laughed. he never showed the toughness and hunger to win. rinceau counter to his image. -- it ra

i also want to say things in particular to donna abraham who is the lead editor on this issue. thank you very much. i went to thank mary of the university of pennsylvania who be speaking later today for serving as are out urging our outside adviser. i want to say thanks to barry wheeler who helped to engineer the publication of this issue without whom we would not be here. thank you very much. i want to thank the foundation once again for making this issue possible. i am going to introduce to you the ceo of that foundation. he will make some brief remarks. he comes to us from california. that is where the foundation is headquartered. the mission is to advance the development of a sustainable continuum of care for seniors. it is the second largest foundation in the u.s. focused entirely on improving the quality of health and lives for seniors. before hand, he served as the director and chief medical officer for the los angeles county department of health services. that is after serving for the department's senior all medical director. in earlier he had served as the regional med

guest: donna, what would we do different? i think what we would do different first and foremost is acknowledge that we've learned the lesson, that we have -- we have made the mistakes that have put us on the outs, if you will, with the american people and that we will now step forward with a bold vision in bold colors, as reagan used to say, that reflects the concerns of the american people and that are addressed through the policies and the programs that we think will empower you and uplift you. the government is not -- should not be in the business of managing and controlling and deciding. the government should be in the business of creating pathways so that you can access the american dream however you define it for yourselves. and so our party, the leadership of our party, elected on the hill, our governors around the country and certainly the political leadership in the states wants to create those pathways to empower families and communities to achieve the american dream. and we're going to fight for that but we're goin

guest: donna, what would we do different? i think what we would do different first and foremost is acknowledge that we've learned the lesson, that we have -- we have made the mistakes that have put us on the outs, if you will, with the american people and that we will now step forward with a bold vision in bold colors, as reagan used to say, that reflects the concerns of the american people and that are addressed through the policies and the programs that we think will empower you and uplift you. the government is not -- should not be in the business of managing and controlling and deciding. the government should be in the business of creating pathways so that you can access the american dream however you define it for yourselves. and so our party, the leadership of our party, elected on the hill, our governors around the country and certainly the political leadership in the states wants to create those pathways to empower families and communities to achieve the american dream. and we're going to fight for that but we're goin