this week, wall street journal columnist and deputy editor dan henninger, editorial board members, dorothy, and jason riley and column mary anastasia o'grady and senior economics writer steve moore. steve, starting with you, the president's approval rating has fall faster and farther than modern president. how much trouble are the democrats in? >> they're certainly lucky the mid term elections aren't tomorrow. right now they're looking in really deep, deep water. a lot can change in the last year but i do think there are amazing parallels between the situation the democrats are in today versus they were, remember, paul, back in 1993 after bill clinton's first year in office and anybody with a d next to their name lost elections in that following year so i think that democrats are facing a big problem. the one thing that could bail them out would be an economic recovery. >> well, but there's one difference between now and 1994, jason, that is that it looks like they're going to pass health care this time around and they failed in 1994. and rahm emanuel's argument, the white house chief of s

>> arthur koestler and dorothy could barely scrape to penny's together.as better off than he because she had a regular job with an agency doing social work. they lived in one room for quite a long time and then they went off to switzerland because her brother had moved to the soviet union. he ended up being jailed. they were offered his apartment. they weall those with children s extremely neutral, there were a lot -- although switzerland was extremely neutral, they were not supposed to practice their ideology. Ñii knew that he had met the italian novelist theirÑi. it was a communist circle -- novelist there. it was a communist circle. >> arthur koestler and his second wife were married how long and where did they live? >> they got married fairly soon after world war two. they live in wales -- live in wales in a place i can still not pronounced -- lived in wales in a prospectus, pronounce. while he was with dorothy, he had gone too hungry for a while and he was in spain. with his second wife, he rushed off to palestine to write a novel about the struggle

dorothy is right. no matter how many times the white house talks about how wonderful things are and the expansion, the we don't see resumption of jobs the democrats are in big trouble. the president keeps saying he averted us from 1930 style depression. that might be the case. but what i'm seeing -- i agree with dan -- i see the policy of the 1970s, the second worst decade of the last 100 years with the high unemployment, high stagflation. nothing that the white house is doing to promote the growth. if you raise taxes on businesses it doesn't get employers to hire workers. >> paul: what could be a problem economically in 2010? >> what worries me is we have a bubble in the stock market. people are putting money in the stock market because of the low interest rate. you are getting .012%. >> paul: i understand. >> this is putting people in the market but it's artificial move in many ways. >> paul: correction coming. >> i think could come happen. i have don't think this is the peak. but i think in this yea

he was constantly on the move with dorothy. while he was with dorothy, he had gone too hungary for a while and he was in spain. with his second wife, he rushed off to palestine to write a novel about the struggle between the jews and arabs that was already beginning and they went together into the war. it became the war for israeli independence in 1948. they lived in wales, for a brief while in london, and also lived in paris. after 1948, they lived in paris for about three years. they lived together for a year in the united states. >> how long did he live in the united states? >> he had intended to settle in the united states. he had decided that europe was finished. he came in 1951 and his second wife came afterwards. they lived together for just over a year and he was here for just over two years. >> was there an announcement -- pronouncement -- renouncement about communism or was that the "darkness at noon" book? >> in 1938, he wrote to the communist caucus to resign from the party. new ei discovered these in archives. i pu

professor dorothy roberts from northwestern law school.to distinguish to introduce of the author of two books, shattered bonds and killing the body. and a journalist in chicago, long distinguished career, editor back in the day of mohammed speaks, currently a journalist with the mideast times and wbon. deborah rans, northwestern university school of chicago. african-american studies, just about everything. doing just about everything and author of a wonderful book called ella baker in the black freedom movement. again election in chicago, long time activist around labor rights come around human rights and civil rights and longtime representative of freedom movements of southern africa. somebody who represented the governments of mozambique, mungle and south africa in the apartheid era and remains one of the amazing people speaking for internationalism and the relationship between the struggles there in the struggles here. so each of the u.s. you can see is capable of eliminating the complex three-hour lecture on multiple issues raised by j

professor dorothy roberts from northwestern law school, also to distinguish two possible to introduce and many of you know, i think, a journalist and chicago's longest thing was career, editor back in the day of mohammed speaks there currently a journalist. barber rants become a history at the university of illinois chicago, history department and african-american studies, everything? just about everything. chair and just about everything. doing just about anything. author of a wonderful book. next, a legend in chicago, longtime activists around labor rights. around human rights and civil rights, and longtime representative of the freedom movement of southern africa. somebody who represented the government of mozambique and south africa act in the apartheid and remains one of the amazing people speaking for internationalism. a relationship for the struggles there and struggles here. so each of you, as you can see, is capable of illuminating and complex three-hour lecture. [laughter] >> and life and death of fred hampton, and the story of the heroism of his family pic but assuming that

people just don't see out on display and one of the things that we have, as you said is this is dorothy's costume. we hear that her mother made this costume for us which gives a little more import. but it has never been on display before. this is from 1976. right behind me, this is also a real nice feature. when the orioles won the world series in 1983, they went to japan to play some games there. the japanese gave them the samurai trophy which was owned by emperor hero heat toe. that makes it a very special piece. very significant to the japanese. we have -- let's go over here and take a look at this emmy award. a lot of people have never got up close and personal with an emmy. this is from jim mckay in 1972, he broadcast the munich olympics. that was when the israeli athletes were killed by terrorists and jim had to go on the air and say they were all gone and he got the emmy award for that. so, it is a very special thing the mckay family has brought us. let's go over here. >> let's talk about the lacrosse sticks that we teased. they're really really fascinating. 1780. who would have kn

i guess, dorothy, from eb media. challenging one, you sold imf gold to india recently. what will you do with the billions? >> you want part of it? well, the imf is a funny institution. our jobs is certainly to provide resources to countries having troubles in crises. that is what you see on the headlines. it happens. but, our job day-to-day is to try to provide technical assistance, policy advice, to avoid the crisis. so, in some respects we could say, when we fail... not only -- the best we work the work the less crises we have but in this institution has been building away which looked like a financial institution. we don't have payments by countries like u.n., and others to finance our ventures and we have to live on income coming from our lending and the less crisis, the less we lend, the less we lend, the less money and the better we do our job, the less money we have which is not rewarding and it is not like we can look for new customers and cannot go to countries, telling you, you are in rather good shape but it would help me if you take some of my loan. doesn't

former governor walter peterson and his wife dorothy are with us today in the balcony. let's thank them for all they have done. [applause] [applause] we all mourn the lives lost in the haitian eric flake ander said by the suffering that so many of that country's residents are enduring, and for some new hampshire residents, the tragedy is very personal as they greet and wait news of family and friends. they are in our thoughts and they are in our prayers. in the coming days members of the new hampshire air national guard will deploy tee'd to provide assistance. arnn national guard faces an even bigger mission in the next year. more than 1100 members of the new hampshire national guard will be deployed to iraq, afghanistan and kuwait. they will leave behind their families, their jobs, and their communities. let us commit that we will be there for these brave men and women and their families during the next year. [applause] [applause] let us pray for their safe return. and let us think of them, all of our citizens serving in the armed forces and all of our veterans for the

host: thanks for the call, we have dorothy joining us. caller: dorothy from michigan, right.head, quickly. caller: i want to say that barack obama won because all the truth was not told by the mainstream media. fox news is winning because they tried to inform people of the agenda. host: dorothy, thanks for the call. we are out of time, the "washington journal" continues tomorrow. and we have our guests, brian jenkins to talk about the

. >> my name is dorothy burkett and i'm sort of coming behind major bruce and i'm sort of concerned in that i've been here 11 years and i've never had a good supervisor. i've always had -- >> should we give equal time to your supervisor? [laughter] >> i am concerned, because they are not accountable to anyone. in fact, in the two bureaus i've worked in here, they particular supervisor is always supported by management all the way up to the assistant secretary. and whatever they do is one assistant secretary told me, we don't ever tell any supervisor what they can do in their office. and so that is a very poor environment to work in. and i have speerps that had. i've been, every office i've been in, i've been discriminated against. in my present office, one low-lying supervisor came in, a young 30-something with people in my age group, and with a hard hand. and decided to tell all of the supervisorry people up to the assistant secretary that i was a terrible person. they accepted it. i had no redress. none of my rights were acknowledged and i was never give analyst of all charges agains

host: thanks, dorothy. guest: your caller is referring to a few things.ne issue is giving money to foreign nations because that is really an important part of the debate over what kind of global agreement you get. basically a lot of developing countries are saying the industrialized world, the rich nations, emitted these greenhouse gases, and they need to pony up billions of dollars in order to help the developing world cope with the impact of climate change. that's absolutely is to be part of any global deal. it is the tentative accord that was reached in copenhagen. there was a commitment to provide $30 billion over the next three years that industrialized nations would provide. europe would give a small part of that, the european union and japan would provide the bulk of that. and that is something where the u.s. is counting on passing a kind of climate bill that would allow private carbon market to generate a lot of it. it is a huge financial commitment and something to stir up a lot of domestic debate here in the coming year. host: the next call come

again from dorothy from the media. a challenging one. you sold gold to india recently. what will you do with the billions? [laughter] >> you want part of it. well, the imf is a funny institution. our job is certainly to provide resources to countries having trouble in crisis. that's what you see on the headlines when it happens. but our job today is to try to provide technical assistance, policy advice to avoid the crisis comes of in some respects we can say it is when we fail the crisis, but the more, the best we work the less crisis we have. but this institution has been building away which looks like any financial institution. we don't have countries like the u.n. or the cd or others to finance the institution budget. we have to live on our own and come from our lending so the less crisis the less we land, the less the land of the less money. so the better we do our job the more we have which is a system that is rewarding. [laughter] and we are not like any kind of commercial bank where we can look for new customers. i cannot go to countries telling you you are in ra

dorothy on the republican line. >> caller: good morning. i get on tight and nervous sometimes but what i would like to ask the ambassador is the united states government's job is to protect us, the homeland. and coming from the department of homeland security and the number one terrorist threat to america is the right-wing extremist, the conservative party or anybody who opposes the war or anything like that. and what did you think our country would be better served if our military was here to protect us and not spread throughout the world and the middle east like you said intervening all of this things and dropping drones on yemen and pakistan and innocent people and what ever. >> host: ambassador crocker? >> guest: you're absolutely right the primary duty of any administration is the security of america and the american people. that was true in the bush administration just as it is true in the obama administration. the challenge comes in figuring out how that is best done. in the will of the 21st century, where our threats come from non-s

dorothy on the republican line. >> my question is, it's wonderful we go over and help all of these countriesith the issues they have. we obviously have the power and the financial able >> yemen presents a unique sense of challenges. there are a lot of countries like yemen around the world. places where we see central government authority slowly receding and weakening. if it is terrorism or drug smulling, the international community needs to see how to figure out more and more all of this crisis. >> our guest has been an associate with the middle east program. thank you for the update on yemen this morning. >> take another short break and we'll turn to the topic of mental health in america more of your calls. we'll be right back. >> top prize, $5,000. create a 5-8 minute video about our country's strength. it musten corporate c-span programming. enter before midnight january 20. don't wait another minute. go to studentcam .org for information. host: first time guest to washington journal, dr. david shern, we understand pretty significant federal laws taking affect this week. guest: we have be

will serve aboard the new cutter that i am proud to sponsor, the stratton which honors commander dorothyatton which commanded the spars in world war ii. got mac and i can never forget our marines who are part of our daily lives at the white house in a very special way. and we see them displayed the same professionalism in our home every single day that defines their service around the world hear that they are a joy to have in our lives. and then we can never forget our wounded warriors. the inspirational men and women that the president and i have welcome to the white house and those we have met all around the country. unfortunately, for too many of them, the battle continues even after they come home. they are the servicemen that i met at a va hospital in the bronx, working so hard to get back on their feet. and in some cases, to get back to their units. that's all they care about. they're the future it's like the young navy seal who joined us at the joint chiefs dinner last week at the white house. this young man attended the dinner with his little sister. i got to sit next to them. sh

dorothy on the republican line. caller: one of the things they need to do with children is they need to have more time spent visiting colleges thereof high- school years. it does not matter what the president offers. there is so much intimidation. there are children who do not even know how to go to college because the families with money are always the ones that are looked upon. it seems that they are always the one that the school counselors and teachers get their eyes on. i think kids should be assigned at least, once a month through high school years, to either observed a different college, see where it is unable to go. then they can sit down in the ninth grade, what all of these things mean. then the president is right about giving these families a break. guest: you are right. when he said youngsters need to be exposed to college campuses, what goes on in higher education, post high-school -- i remember back when i graduated. i went to a catholic university and i did not have much of a link in what happened the

dorothy, democrats line.ller: i want to point out that when congressman ryan was saying our health care decisions should be made between the patient and the doctor -- mainly, they are made by the insurance companies now. the doctors are completely beholden to the insurance companies, and i do not see how the government or insurance, either one, is not made by the patient. thank you. host: next up is kalamazoo, michigan. independent line. caller: yes, i would like to say that it is funny how people forget who is responsible on either party. we are all responsible as a country for the health care of everyone. somewhere inadvertently as a taxpayer, we end up paying for each other's care. i think we need to band together and try to come out with a peaceful solution. we also need to remember, obama has only been in the office for one year. i believe it was yesterday he was inaugurated. one year. everything that he has tried to place has been opposed, fought against. it is just ridiculous. i wish that as a nation w

. >> my name is dorothy burkette and i'm coming behind walter bruce in the sense that i am concernedi have been here 11 years and i've never had a good supervisor. i've always had -- >> should we give equal time to your supervisor? [laughter] >> i am concerned because they are not accountable to anyone. in fact, in the two bureaus i've worked in here, that particular supervisor has always supported by management all the way up to the assistant secretary. and whatever they do as one assistant secretary told me, we don't ever tell any supervisor what they can do in their office. and so that is a very poor environment to work in and i have experienced that. every office i've been in i've been discriminated against. in my present office, one low-lying supervisor came in, a young 30 something your world, with people in my age group, and with a hard hand and decided to tell all of the supervisory people up to the assistant secretary that i was a terrible person. they accepted. i had no redress. none of my rights were acknowledged. i was never able to give -- i was never given a list of cha

on our democrats line, dorothy. >> yes, i have a comment and a question. host: yes. caller: i have read a lot about schools and am a retired teacher from inner city schools in bridge port credit bad. i read them fast and better, you are since the hurn have blood drawn vicious days and a longer year. ethink that can be helpful. involved in the schools, although i'm retired for a long time, i'm a volunteer in a new school in a niche city. and in a nearby city, and i see some wonderful teachers, amazingly good teachers at work. and i think -- the teachers within them, one question i have is this -- cheater schools like the kip schools, are they profit or non-profit schools? >> non-profit schools. >> all of the charter schools are run by -- fmple you mean hailing a cab, right? >> first of all, almost all charter scools in the country are non-profit organizations. a small percentage of charter schools then contract with what we call education service providers. may be kip or a company for profit. but all that together is about 25% of all qualify sprufse. almost like the s

will serve aboard the new cutter that i am proud to sponsor, the straten, which honors commander dorothy straten who led the spard during world war ii. and i can never forget our marines who are a part of our daily lives at the white house in a very special way. and we see them display the same professionalism in our home every single day that defines their service around the world. they are a joy to have in our lives. and then we can never forget our wounded warriors. the inspirational men and women that the president and i have welcomed to the white house and those we have met all around the country. unfortunately for too many of them, the battle continues even after they come home. they are the servicemen that i met at a v.a. hospital in the bronx working so hard to get back on their feet. and in some cases to get back to their units. that's all they cared about. they are the patriots like the young navy seal who joined us at the joint chiefs dinner last week at the white house. this young man attended the dinner with his little sister. i got to sit next to them. she was a nurse who m