doug brinkley from rice university. intention of learning from brinkley's expertise. the congressman didn't even get the professor's name right. listen to this. >> i will tell you, if you ever want to see an exercise in futility, it's this hearing. that side has already made up its mind. this side has already made up its mind, and the -- i call it garbage, dr. rice. >> it's dr. brinkley. rice is a june vaersity. you went to yuba college and couldn't graduate. >> you just be quiet. >> why? >> you be quiet. >> you don't own me. i pay your salary. >>> joining me is dr. doug brinkley, presidential historian, author and professor at rice university. dr. brinkley, great to have you with us tonight. i think that's an exchange that a lot of americans appreciate. here is an arrogant congressman who wants to run over the environment. all you wanted to do is go there and give the expertise about what drilling would do at anwar. i think i've got this right. you tell us more. did you know what you were getting into with the congress

exchange between alaska republican congressman don young and the witness, the historian and author doug brinkley of rice university. it goes very haywire very quickly. the two men don't agree, they don't like each other, pay special attention, by the way, to the young female aide sitting behind the congressman. >> that side already made up his mind. this side already made up his mind. and the -- i call it garbage, dr. rice -- that comes from -- >> dr. brinkley, rice is a university. you know -- >> i will call you anything i want to call you when you sit in that chair. >> pardon? >> you be quiet. >> you don't own me. i pay your salary. >> i'll tell you -- >> the gentleman will suspend and i'll remind members -- >> i work for the private sector, you work for the taxpayer. >> mr. brinkley. >> nice to see everyone getting along. it is rare to hear a witness talk back to a member of congress. and that's pretty much how the rest of the hearing went. >>> we'll take a break. when we come back, a recipe for disaster. two little boys, one bag of flour. >>> finally tonight, with folks gathering for the hol

if you type in don young, in the video library, or doug brinkley, you can watch this. n is an independent. caller: good morning. happy thanksgiving. brinkley can add 5001. he has my support. congressman don, i hate to share hsi first name. he epitomizes the reason there is a 9% favorable rating for congressmen. has the journal considered invited him on to defend himself? 3:15 in alaska. we've invited him. caller: i i will not keep you any longer. i did not hear any unfavorable comments and i do not expect to. host: congress returns next week. the caller mentioned the unfavorable rate of congress. it is at 13% according to the latest gallup poll. the 2% -- 82% approve -- 13% disapprove, i'm going to get this right. 13% approve of congress, 82% disapproved of congress. there we go. richard in north carolina. caller: the problem with congress is career politicians. they get in there and they think they run the country and owned the country when it is our country. they should be listening to the people of the country. this is a big reason why we need term limits. that is al

. >> doug brinkley, you're nowlying since katrina in austin, since you left new orles. what's your day .. >> i'm a professor of history at rice university. i'm teaching three classes right now -- >> which is in houston. >> and i teach just fall, and then i have nine months off to work, and i've been working on a biography of walter cronkite who went to school here in austin at ut, and all his papers are at the briscoe center here, so i've been meticulously going through those. i'm coming out in may of '12, simply could "cronkite." >> we've been talking about "the quiet world: saving alaska's wilderness kingdom, good evening. my name is paul holdengraber, direct herbalife and the new york public library is all of you know my goal at the library simply to make the lions roar, jamaica had the institution levitate and when successful, jamaica dance. i would like to thank tonight sponsors, proud sponsor of the new europe public library and have been at the new york public library for seven years now and they were also members of the new york public library lawyers for the li

let's take a look at this exchange of doug brown of alaska and historian don brinkley last week. >> this side has already made up its mind. and -- i call it garbage dr. rice. >> dr. brinkley, rice is a university. >> i'll call it anything you want while you sit in that chair. you just be quiet. >> you don't own me. i pay your salary. >> the gentleman will suspend and i'll remind members and i'll remember -- >> i work for the private sector. you work for the tax -- >> mr. brinkley. >> matt that kind of behavior has become commonplace. that's what we're accustomed to seeing. >> you've got more and more of that. there used to be social compacts, that you wouldn't use the debt ceiling to put a gun to the head of the country. you wouldn't filibuster judicial nominees en masse. both parties have crossed the line. i think republicans have taken a step further in the past few years by being much more promiscuous by the use of filibusters in the senate. that has driven this partisan wedge. >> you used the word social. i think that's part of the problem. it used to be they'd lift a glass with one

doug brinkley, you've written about t.r., you've written about james forestall, you've written about katrina, jimmy carter, why alaska? >> i'm, right now i'm writing the whole history of the u.s. conservation movement, and my first volume was called the wilderness warrior. this is the second installment, and can it's the whole campaign. it begins in 1879 with john mover, co-founder of the sierra club, going up and seeing those incredible glaciers up the inside passage of alaska and writing about it and how a whole group of what i call, really, wilderness lawyers have worked to safe wild alaska including theodore roosevelt and people like walt disney, william o. douglas, on and on. so i'm now working on "silent spring revolution." in the 1960s. this is not just a history book. i end it in 1960 when eisenhower saved the arctic refuge, anwr that you hear about in the news all the time. >> well, this really is a story about personalities, and let's talk about some of them. let's begin with president teddy roosevelt. his involvement in alaska. >> well, t.r. saved the whole grid of modern