unfortunately, you see, doug has a problem. he was diagnosed many years ago -- 30 years ago, in fact -- with congenital heart valve defect. he has no symptoms. without regular health care, he runs the risk of developing serious problems. in the year 2001, doug, in springfield, illinois, paid $200 a month for health insurance. 2001. by 2005, even though he had not turned in any claims, his cost of health insurance was up to $400 a month. the next year, when he turned 50 years of age, the rate nearly doubled to $750 a month. he made some changes in coverage so he'd pay more out of pocket, choose a small network of providers, have a higher deductible, got his premium down to $650 a month. this man owns a small shop. he sells greeting cards. he was up to $650 a month. two years later his deductible jumped over $1,000 a month. again he made some changes by opgt for the highest possible deductible, he was able to bring his premiums down to $880 a month. he's paying 300% more than he paid for health coverage eight years ago and gettin

>> it took about three years. >> what can a book like doug wrote can do for you? >> it can do a lot, for the employees to realize their own heritage, and like any other artifact, these parks and resources are heritage. and explains to others what we do, to give talks that last an hour, it's useful to turn them over to a history book like dougs. >> your background, you graduated from harvard in what year? >> in 1989 with a degree in science. >> how long have you been here? >> i have worked here for years and i feel like i am doing history in the field. >> steve chase, your background? >> i have background from the bernie school in hartford and worked in outside business and department government and came in the fish and wildlife service in 1990. and started in d.c., and this project came along, and i was able to jump along at the very start of it. i was on the planning team, did a lot of the operational planning as well. and was privileged enough to watch this place rise from an old farm from west virginia to probably one of the greatest conservation training locat

included his deputy, paul wolfowitz, the chief of the top civilian policy official at the pentagon, doug feith but rumsfeld himself is not a new conservative. many of his views may overlap. they do depart one critical area which is the notion of spreading democracy and around the world. rumsfeld is always very uncomfortable with that notion particularly as a rationale going to war against iraq and argued to try to keep it out of some of the rhetoric justifying the invasion. he wasn't particularly successful. the white house embraced that notion along with other rationale they offered involving weapons of mass destruction and so on but when i press rumsfeld and why it was he ended up so surrounded by neocons and he didn't have a very convincing answer to that but he didn't seem to me as if it was exactly a strategy on his part. he tended to explain it as a result of him taking the advice of white house officials in the choice of wolfowitz and then wolfowitz in turn bringing doug feith on board and so on. >> host: how acted mr. wolfowitz and donald rumsfeld go back? >> guest: they went bac

. >> jim p.: doug, i think he's still -- how do you not call that pitch a strike? wow. >> bob: if you can't get that, it's tough to pitch up here. >> jim p.: if bard was hitting low and away and had to reach back across the plate, but it was right to the glove. >> bob: he gets him low. had the left-hander reaching, aubrey huff 0 for 1 with a walk in the first inning. for martis, his third strikeout. the hitter will be nolan reimold with two outs. >> rob: i spoke with bob boone the other day, the vice president in charge of player development for the nationals, caught over 2,000 games. there you see that great change- up to huff. he said, you can no longer throw to a catcher and hit the glove and get the called strike. you can't put the catcher's body out away from the plate any longer. they're not calling that. that's because of this evaluation zone camera in every ballpark, so they're having to reteach the catchers in the minor league systems to move the glove away from the plate, leave their bodies behind home plate. >> jim p.: that's why giving a target is so im

host: our next call comes from doug in virginia on the line for republicans. are you there, doug?caller: good morning. mr. connection connection, it is hard

s back to doug brinkley, when did you start writing the first chapter? i started writing my proloug and how we started saving. >> i have been collecting my files i had people take me to watch sea turtles. at night with the great turtle expedition it will get like the birth of mankind. it was like biblical. i was trying to experience some of the wild life there wouldn't be manete in florida today if it wasn't for roosevelt. gerald ford is a very small book. this book was the book i was going to live and die by. i was putting everything i had as for my childhood experience at national parks to my knowledge of theodore roosevelt. many women have written great books recently on t.r. kathleen dalton. there's great literature out there. i've been going to t.r. conferences really since the 1980s. my hobby was less t.r. than the sites that he saved. when happened with the reagan diaries is i wasn't expecting it. about our rangers and d. day. peat wilson, the former governor of california. there was a stiplation. one with mrs. reagan that ended it up quickly. i h

so these historic things that doug brinkley has written about, were in garages and attics and suffering from deteriator. and once we opened an archive, it was filled in 10 years, so researchers can use them. >> the thing that motivates us is that rachel carlson and much of her materials went into the insenerator. and we will never let that happen again. >> who put them in the incinerator? >> they saw no value back then. >> put rachelcarlson in history? >> she plays with the american environmental movement. which has different concerns than roosevelt. more holistic concerns of toxins and pollutants. concerns about species, past and predators. and she's the touch point of the environmental movement. and when that begins, 1901 with theodore's conservation moves. >> you told me earlier you have a son named theodore. >> yeah, no coincidence, he's name in honor of theodore roosevelt. he's had so many qualities, and he loves nature, and so does my four-year-old. and he made a difference. >> chase, you have a facility with rooms to rent. a facility that people can come in and put on a conferenc

health care doug -- they were chew toys. everything goes as planned. pickens screwed up. for years -- the clintons' screwed up. guest: well, the issue of that illness is legitimate. it is something every medical student learns about. it is basically an illness that is associated with treatment. sometimes in the world of cancer, these illnesses can wipe out your bone marrow and they're virtually inevitable. sometimes it is totally unexplained or unexpected. and sometimes it is an error that has been made. so it sounds like the caller has had a difficult time with a particular drug. i think that is something that hasted be dealt with and it sounds like they have done so. the broader issue you're bringing up is that drugs are dangerous. doctors are dealing with the enormous medical powers. it is important to focus on this issue of over treatment and under treatment. host: another student on the bus. go ahead. caller: hello. i am from new york. some have discussed how obama refuses to acknowledge the things that would overhaul the entire system. the clinton administration say

kit, you know, hank aaron was right there in atlanta and the things he accomplished and he endured doughich set me apart from, i think, other players. but to add on to that, people like willie mcgee, rickey henderson, her eric davis, andy van slyke. i wanted to to carry myself that way. i really respected those gees. when i see those guys playing baseball, they had a lot of fun, a lot of enthusiasm and they love what they are doing. >> johnny: when you look at the people in the major league, guys give back to the community. no question about it. but nothing has done it the way you have and the way you have done it here in washington, d.c. it takes funds, takes money to back up when you are trying to do. >> definitely. that's the most important thing. to give a kid that opportunity to go out and excel, they have to get the proper education and that's where i fall into problems where i get into the proper people, proper coaching, things that they need as far as equipment and the management on the field. i really didn't know how important or how costly baseball was once i started redoing p

i didn't realize how both doug and chip had as soon as the check came, they had this kind of a coughing attack when they both had to leave the table, leave the room. and someone else got stuck with the check. >> rob: you know bob has alligator arms when it comes to the check. >> johnny: short? >> rob: yeah. i can't get to the table. >> johnny: but you love those guys. let me take care of that, after it has been paid. john lannan working in the 5th inning here. the reds have got two runs and 5 hits. the nationals only two base hits in this ballgame. and taveras up for the third time. you see what kind of support john has had this year. >> rob: maybe he has to buy a few more dinners for his teammates. zito must never really pick up the check. [laughter]. >> johnny: you can't get a better outing than john against the mets. that is the last win the nationals had. >> rob: this is another well-pitched ballgame by the starter. you have to add some runs up there. you can't win if you don't score. >> johnny: elijah dukes drifting back. >> rob: these guys with the 8 e.r.a.s have been sticking it

these historic things that doug brinkley has written about, they were in garages, basements, attics, suffering from all sorts of environmental deterioration. once the open and archived, we filled up the archive in 10 years of historic artifacts so the public could see them and we could teach from them. >> the thing that motivated us is rachel carson is our most of famous employee. when she retired from the fish and wildlife much of her papers went into the incinerator. we will never let that happen again. >> who put them in the incinerator? >> they saw no value back then. >> put rachel carson in historic perspective. >> it's easy. theodore roosevelt was the starting point for the american conservation movement. rachel carson plays the same role with the american environmental movement. it has different concerns than roosevelt had. a little more holistic concerns, concerns about toxins and pollutants, endangered species, preserving all species, things that even might have been predators or pests. beginning in 1962 with the environmental movement for her. that began. in 1901 with the r

doug was in the case -- perhaps you are familiar with it.the maloney versus cuomo case where she basically held that it did not apply to cities and states but merely to the federal government. it limited it in a way that is really impossible and, i would say for any law student much less if federal judge of 18 years, to take that kind of cramped and restrictive view of basic civil liberty in our bill of rights is troubling, indeed. again, i agree with senator hatch, in fairness to the nominee, we are highlighting issues of concern to us to give her the time to prepare for the questions that we expect to ask her. we look forward to the hearing on the 13th and her candid responses to these questions about important issues. >> on the maloney case, wasn't that opinion that was pure -- that was on the side not by any judge. the heller case, [inaudible] because in heller they had not specifically said they were doing that, this court was just following supreme court precedent. >> i would say that if, in fact, the rights of the stegeman and apply t

now, the union leadership had refused to understand it was only in 1978 that uaw president doug frasierecognized what was happening and criticized the leaders on the business community and i'm quoting him for waging for waging a one side class, the unemployed, the poor, the minorities, the very young and the very old and even many in the middle class of our society and for having broken and discarded the fragile unwritten compact previously existing during a period of growth and progress. that was 1979 and placing one face in a compact with owners and managers is a suicide pact. the uaw is discovering that right now. as the state corporate leadership eliminates the hard-fought gains of working people while dismantling the core of the economy and sending the transportation secretary to spain to get them to do what and it highlights the long-term strategies to build impart and resurrect the foundations of the functioning democratic society. one short-term goal is to revive a strong, independent labor movement. in its heyday it was a critical base for advancing democracy and human and civi

we have this letter that doug endorsed, the director wrote to senator conrad on the 16th of june a few days ago and he talks about -- says policy options that could produce budget tri savings in the long run. a number of specific reforms show great promise for reducing federal spending on health care overtime without harming people's health. then he goes on to say, however, experts do not know exactly how best to structure those reforms to achieve that goal. they will need to learn through experimentation. some of what we have in here is going to inform our judgment about what works and what doesn't in reducing health care costs and reducing the budget deficit. for us to say until -- saying until the experts can tell us that it will, we will not proceed means we will never do the experimentation that's needed to inform the judgment of experts in these areas. i think it would be a michigsta- >> this bill is not an experiment. the health care delivery system of this country is virtually nothing experimental about the bill. it is a massive re-write. >> i disagree entirely. i think this is

face of the nation's worst recession but our profit driven system kicks millions of americans and doug got and leaves them jobless and uninsured. we have saddled our nation with the inefficient and exorbitant health-care system that drives jobs overseas with health benefit costs are low and is versus -- discourages on to burn doers from striking on their own for losing insurance coverage. we need an investment of preventive medicine and clothing -- including home visitation for newborns and chronic disease management in the community. where do we get the funds? singled there is the only reform that can control health care costs. it does by cutting insurance profs

. >> we talk about the eagle's nest and our discussion with doug brinkley about his book on conservation. it's over your shoulder. >> that was five years ago we had a bald eagles that started trying to build a nest. first season they did not do a good job, but the second season they came back and tried again. they succeeded in building their nest. they had two eaglets back here. one of them died and the other one went out. >> what does this have to do with the business you are in? >> until recently the american bald eagle was endangered. it is because of work by the fish and wildlife service and many other conservation groups that it was taken off the endangered species list a year ago. so it is a good model for us to aspire to where crowder is almost gone off the face of the earth have come back. >> why do you do this job here as a historian? >> i am an environmental historian. the dream for me was to work at history job where you could make a difference. i help teach a lot of biologists that go to work in the field, display is seen by 15,000 students a year ago grow up and carry on con

. >> host: our guest for the last half-hour have been fawn johnson with doug jones newswires and andrew feinberg of broadband census.com. we have been discussing the nomination of julius genachowski to be the next year of the fcc. when will the vote happen? if it hasn't already? >> guest: it could happen before the july 4th recess. there are things that could stop it obviously. it only takes one senator. that is in the plan. we will have to wait and see. we expect other nominees to go forward a lot more quickly and then they have got held up so we are still waiting on that one. >> host: you can watch the full herring if you want at c-span.org. thank you both for being on the communicators. >> guest: you are welcome. steve opnet veering gain reregulating oh mcandrew this. witnesses include mary schapiro, a securities and exchange commission, officials from regulatory agencies have had read that trading organizations for zilpha this is celestin 2-1/2 hours. >> let me call the hearing to order. i want to thank all of our witnesses for joining us this afternoon, and i am particularly happy

rumsfeld did resist it, and then he had long discussions with doug fyfe, his policy cheat on this about exactly the wording and statements to try to, not make that one of the rationales. >> host: here is weatherford texas, richard on our independents line. no, to a ardmore oklahoma. good morning. oklahoma, make sure you turn down your television or radio before you ask a question and then go ahead. >> caller: hi, yes, it seems to me like this fellow should be writing a book about adolf hitler if he wants to white something over. this rumsfeld was the biggest crack that was ever in government, especially with his old bush bed buddies the ball. this is shame that someone can't write something about someone could up in congress. thank you. >> host: you write that he was the most influential secretary of defense sends robert mcnamara. how did it to compare? >> guest: i talk a little bit about the comparison between the two. there are a lot of similarities. they both came into the job, the top pentagon job from business, eager to try to make change at the pentagon. they both quickly made a l

congressman for the fifth district of texas, i'm honored an frankly humbled to recognize my good friend, doug mccarty. on behalf of all the constituents of the fifth district of texas, and a grateful nation, i would like to extend our heartfelt condolences and prayers to jo ann and the family. dove will be greatly missed but i take solace in knowing that his contributions will live on and that the people who had their lives touched by him will never forget. madam speaker, i am one of those people. godspeed to dove mccarty. he has left us but he has gone on to now hear those words in a different place, well-done, good and faithful servant. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. mr. schiff. for what purpose does the gentleman from california rise? >> claim my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. smith: madam speaker, yesterday as ranking member of the africa subcommittee, i joined several colleagues at an important foreign affairs committee meeting with prime minister morgueian of zimbabwe. it w

boozman: i'd like to thank john hall and ranking leb doug lamb born on these issues and committee chairman bob filner and ranking member buyer for moving this forward for consideration. i urge my colleagues to support s. 407 and yield back the balance of of -- of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from california. mr. filner: i ask unanimous consent in which all members have -- for all members to have five legislative days to revise and extend. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. filner: i urge support of s. 407 and yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. the question is will the house suspend the rules and pass senate 407. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. in the opinion of the chair, 2/3 being in the affirmative, the bill is passed and without objection, the motion to reconsider is laid upon the disable. -- is laid upon the table. mr. boozman: i ask for the yeas and nays. the speaker pro tempore: the yeas and nays are requested. those favoring taking this vote by the yeas and nays will rise and remain standing until counted. a suf

guest: for the iraq war point it was the altar of the iraq war was thrown out the window at the time doug u.s. started planning the invasion. there was very little planning for the afghan war and in fact it was a cia plan that the president first embraced to link up with the afghan militias and the alliance against the taliban. >> host: here is cleveland. good morning to cindy on the republican line. >> caller: i was curious if you would be able to determine whether rumsfeld political philosophy and big picture outlook what influenced him in any way by having been surrounded by so many people just to name a few like mr. perle wolfowitz, elliott abrams, people influence by philosophers and military strategists that would be considered by conservatives did he agree in large part that they were correct? thank you. >> that is a very interesting question, and rumsfeld to relationship with the neocons i think is a very important part of his time as the secretary because he ended up surrounded by a number of prominent members of the neoconservatives committee. they included his deputy, paul wolf

really useful if we can turn it into a substantive history book like doug's. >> your background. i know you graduated from harvard -- what year? >> i graduated from harvard? 199 with a ph.d. in history and science. >> how long have you been here? >> 10 years. this is my 10th anniversary. the best place i've ever worked. i worked as a professor in harvard and australia, but here i feel like i'm doing history in the field. it's a great place. >> steve chase, your background? >> i have a masters in public administration from the barney school in hartford and worked on a lot of different jobs in environmental education, the outdoor business, and public government. and came in to the fish & wildlife service as presidential management intern in 1990. and started in d.c. and then this project came along and i was able to jump in right at the very start of it. i was on the plane and did a lot of the operational planning as well and was privileged enough to be able to watch this place rise from an old farm in west virginia to probably one of the greatest conservation training locations on

and chief executive officer, doug black, and are vice president of economics told this committee last october that increased transportation infrastructure investment from economic stimulus package would be put to work quickly and produce meaningful economic benefits. today is my pleasure to report on how these commitments are being fulfilled. says of obligated 14.7 billion other recovery act, highway funds as of june 16. this amount is about five and a half billion more than required to be obligated by the june 30th deadline. we expect outlays to continue to increase as a move into the summer and fall construction seasons. furthermore, the value of new contract awards for highway bridge projects outpace 2008 levels. for the first time this year in the month of may, that's exactly what we hold them wanted to see the state and local transportation agencies began awarding recovery and projects. let me share with do a few examples of how the recovery and stimulating our economy -- one oldcastle companies by industries in northern new england has been awarded $105 million worth of projects

came out a certain way it's, therefore, had to be fraud i don't particularly find a convincing method doug. for me to say this was a complete fraud, i would need to hear it from some people who organized the fraud, and i think if there was that fraud, we will hear from them eventually. >> [inaudible] >> yeah. nobody can hear you, though, because you don't have a microphone, so just make a quick comment and we'll get a quick response. >> the 7 million increase despite the fact you mentioned his economic policy was disaster, i mean, how could that happen? >> we're extrapolating that since certain things happened, the vote should have come out a certain way, and i just don't mind that methodology convincing. some would say that george w. bush might have lost the 2004 election because iraq wasn't going too well, and he won. i just don't think we can say that iranians should have voted the way we think they should have voted. i think we have to look more at hard evidence of the actual voting process itself. >> well, we only have about 5 minutes left, so we're going to go through the lightning r

." >> doug brinkley, why did you want to start our conversation about your book at this center. well, this is the national conservation training center. this is where biologists get trained and make sure that our rivers and that our marshlands are taken care of that manage endangered species, it's the headquarters of fish and wild life but conservationist leaders come all over the world for seminars and learn proper methods and techniques. here on the side like walking pasture, are pictures of caribou in alaska, roosevelt was very interested in all big game including caribou. and what interests me is writing a book like "the wilderness warrior" is roosevelt really is the father of u.s. fish and wild life. if john muir is the create or of the sarah club. roosevelt felt there was an obligation to save efficient and animals and plants and trees and the president has an obligation to make sure that we put aside for generations unborn natural wonders like roosevelt did like the grant canyon or mount olympus or the petrified forest. this turned this training center for conservation in

and it's a division of our chairman, doug morris, and i think it's going to be potentially really an exciting development. >> host: besides apple and itunes is music, digital music economically successful? can it be? and how do you, how do you prevent the leakage? >> guest: i think itunes has proved that digital music is hugely successful. i think they've surpassed a billion could downloads or someg like that. certainly it's been successful, also, in selling ipods. you know, but digital music online is certainly successful and, you know, there's experimentation going on as well, pricing experimentation, you know, should premium new releases be priced perhaps a little higher price point and older back catalog releases perhaps at a slightly lower price point. i think, you know, it's been an interesting evolution, you know, and it'll continue to evolve. there's so many different models, and we get approached every week by companies that, you know, have a new concept that are launching. we've, you know, there's the purely ad-supported model where, you know, it's free, but it's ad support

. >> go back to doug brinkley for a moment. this book, when did you start writing it? when did you write the first chapter? >> boy, i started writing my pro log about four years ago on pelican island, florida, and about how he started saving wild florida -- >> that would have been in 2005? >> yeah, even before that. i started actually writing, but i have been collecting on this for my files and going to these places since the 1990's. >> so you wrote the prologue there on pelican island? >> i did. i visited with a guy that works for u.s. fish and wild life that took me on the boat. one of the neat things with u.s. efficient and wildlife, when i visit places, they were so excited that i was interested in that national wildlife refuge, they would take me to say -- i have people take me to watch sea turtles on the beach. i went at night with the great turtle expert and watch the turtles lay eggs on the beach. after they lay their eggs they move into the ocean. it felt like the birth of mankind. it was like biblical to watch these turtles interact. when i go there, i wasn't

. >> it's time to zone in with doug gottlieb. pacific time. >> let's head to the west coast.hat is shaking in los angeles and get reaction in l.a. after last night's loss to the orlando magic. 2 games to 1. lakers still up in the series. beto duran works in los angeles and joins us now. beto, how about losing game 3? was that expected or do the lakers fans say we will get the next 2? what is the reaction today? >> well, i am in orlando. i can give you the reaction players. they are like we lost last night. no big deal. nobody is thinking the sky is falling. areisa said at this morning's practice, they looked at a lot of film and saw improvements to make in their defense. now the theme is for the lakers players, they saw the film and know they can make adjustments on their defense. they lost to a magic team that was hot last night. they set shooting records. this morning in practice you would not think the lakers are down on themselves right now. >> kobe bryant did not have his finest game. is he confident he will be kobe bryant again in game 4? >> as a couple of his teammates

the waldorf must have been pins on needles all week trying to keep these two apart not to mention doug mcarthur was six floors up. they ate at all the trendy restaurants and they went to the 21 club and shortly after they got there, another diner came in. it was the governor of new york thomas dewey. [laughter] >> which presented a problem for the maitre d' and they were lucky, they were able to seat dewey and truman far apart. everywhere they went in new york by the way they took cabs. harry parked the car at the waldorf and they took cabs everywhere they went unlike most tourists they didn't have trouble getting a cab because as soon as a cabbie would recognize that harry truman was trying to wave him down they would pull over in droves. they had no trouble getting a cab. incidentally my wife and i did stay at the waldorf two days and we were not comped. we were upgraded, though. we did get upgraded. they gave me that at least. on the drive home, a state trooper named manly stampler, a great name for a cop, a state cop in pennsylvania, manly stampler -- he pulled harry over on the pe

tennessee, doug on our independent line. you are up first. caller: good morning. i really -- what bothers me about this whole mads and science thing is i think -- math and science thing is you have to realize that american students don't see a big incentive to get into it because my son wants to get into computer science and he goes over to the college to register and he sees lines of foreign students who see a way to get into the job market here in this country. and they just don't have the incentive. i think american students are the brightest in the world but they just don't see the incentive to go to school. it's there for the foreign students who want to get out of their villages in third world countries. could you comment on that, please? guest: certainly. i think american students need to see a pathway much earlier than they are now. so i understand when your son is at the point of college and looking at computer science that he may or may not have had the opportunity to take the kind of mathematics that some other countries are requiring now. and he's in h

chairman, i would like to thank captain eb before s -- ebbs, heath pope, doug bush for putting together this portion of the bill. i recommend it to the full house for its passage. i yield back the balance of my time. the chair: the gentleman from mississippi has 12 minutes remaining. the gentleman from california has 18 minutes remaining. the gentleman from california. . the chair: the gentleman from florida is recognized for three minutes. mr. miller: i rise in support of the national authorization of the defense act for fiscal year 2010. as ranking member of the terrorism and unconventional threats and capabilities subcommittee, i think we have put together a good and excellent mark and i would like to thank the chairman of the subcommittee for all of his cooperation in putting this together. the members of the subcommittee have worked hard to address the many issues that face special operations, information technology and science and technology investments just to name a few of the areas that our subcommittee has handled. we have provided important support to enhance nato capabilitie

doug rice, the president of u.a.w. local 122, which covers pittsburgh, -- covers twinsburg, indicated, his quote was, i don't know if i was told the whole truth on everything. i don't feel like i was. it would be a shame if this was something known for some time if they kept this back from people, that's wrong, that's wrong. he was then asked, what do you think would have happened if you'd known you were going to be out of a job by approving this contract? he said, needless to say, people ain't going to vote to eliminate their jobs. i think that's right. i don't think any of these 9,000 people who worked at the eight plants would have said, hey, let's approve this new contract and vote ourselves out of a job. i ask unanimous consent to put mr. rice's quotes from the "cleveland plain dealer" into the record. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. latourette: and then, the mayor of twinsburg, ohio, if you haven't been to twinsburg, come this summer, it's famous for its twins festival, twins from cradle to very e

. -- here is doug from lincoln, nebraska. caller: during the civil rights movement, several groups popped up. the panthers came out of that in the 1960's and 1970's. i am wondering why. colder dropped the charges against the black panthers -- i am wondering why the charges were dropped against the black panthers in pennsylvania. guest: i have no idea what the black panthers are doing in pennsylvania. i have not heard about that intimidation case. i know about the black panthers in the days that they were organized. we talk about some of the altercations with the police in the book and some later things. but i am not aware of that. host: what is your current view of the civil rights commission and how they are performing? how are they different? what should they be doing? guest: since the reagan years, the civil rights commission legislation was changed after a fight with the administration. i ended up suing president reagan in federal district court because he fired commissioners for criticizing his policies. in any case, und