its quite often inner cy african-ericans.on comes fro inner city detroi or hispanic americans and i can now go to those neighborhoods and thanks to a grant, our educatnal outreach hasent me there to ny, many cities and i think show these kids anthese schools anthese folks, in these communities, aces that heroes that look and sound like them. nationalarks that are as portant as anybody else. that is the great bottom-up democratic sto, that the bier arc of the national parks entail. tavis: there are a number of great markshe california and l.a. where i live and worevery day. work outside. i get my workout at a park called kenny hawn. work out two or three days a week. work outdoors. i my workout on at a park called kenny hawn. they tend not to be white but oftentimes hisnic and african-erican. i did my informalesearch praring for my conversation with you. you don't have to spend a whole lot of money to get i wheryou're next to god. where there is nature and kids can runround. rangers are going torotect you and you know your kid

at was a promise thatany of us who were running made to the erican people. we want deliver onealth care and make it mo affoable. help cover the uniured. progre is slow but i'm nfident we'll be able to get there by the end of the year >> ifill: it media focused or are people as divided as it look like when we watch footage of these town hall meings and the debates about the key iues like afghanistan and healthare? >> in wyoming i have found that people are verytrongly opsed to a goverent option or govnment-run health care. there's great ccern that there wl increased bureaucracies, that the costs will not dp, and that we will actually have bureaucracs between ourselveand our physicians. i've also hed physicians say that they're reimbursed at what are now medicare rates, a lot of themhat are my age, their 50s, wilust rire instead of accept below-cost compensation for wh they do. so i think in a state like wyominwhere rural health care is a big iss because of th availability of physicians, making se that physians are adequately compensated is huge issue. >> ill:

>> you know, i think he needs to do two things, really, he has to reenerze the debate with th erican public. i think he s to remind people about what' in itor them. thatealth care reform passed by congress will add security to their les, pduce a system ere th know that ty have access to affordable quality healthoverage that they can't lose it at the whim of an insurance company,they can't be diriminated against if they have a pre-existing condition. buhe needs the aobe specific with theongress. he's reall probably speaking to two audienc, one for the general public but also he's speaking to those members themselves a he has to tell th "which is what i want to see in the bill." >> rose: that's bee missing. is it... shoul he have don that earlier? >> well, u know, i think that he's beenperating at a level of principle and 's... you know, he'sndicated what he prers, but i thi he arned, i think, a lesson from president clinton and our unsuccessful efforts to pass comprehensive health care reformthat if you start with a very detailed bill at the begiingometimes it's harder to get congres

. >> susie: one of the biggest worriefor american consumers and erican businesses is th the world isoing to r out of oil. wh is your responseo that? the world has 9-10 triion barrels of oi conventional and unconventional, that need tbe --hat are available for science and technolog and industry and global society to exploit in a responsible way ov a long period of time. >> susie: the fear is discoveries are not gog to keep up with production. it's just a matter of time tt the supplies are just going to -- >> if we only look at history. if we look at history, the indust has been able to replace all of the oil produced, andmore. recoveble oil as oilof the world has bee growing. we recently at aramco, altugh we are the largest producer,e have been more than replacing our prucon, and our expectationsrom technology, both in discoverynd recovery oil are very, ver bullh. >> susie: asou know, president obama is pushing really hard for the u.s. to become ss dependent on oil and comep th alternativenergy solutions. if tt happens, what ds it mean for saudiarabia? i think realistically it's ing to ta

. >> did thatave anything to do with the embrace you have had of african ericans on the sho not just in the band, bu leading the band >> to me, thiis a problem. i doot get what ople do not get along. it is an importan part of america. the show should look like america. when we staed "e tonight show" he handled the music and i kendall the comedy. we neer had a setup where i was e boss. we were always eal on the show. thfunniest thing to me was th whenever wdo jaywaing, when there is an afcan american guy i see him go like this. nowe represents all african americans. when we watched tv and "the untouchables" were o the italan guy was eating the sali. whdo they aays havto have that? turn it off. my grandther would do that. my grandfath was italy and hardlspoke english. he was always amed that people would eat out of their ethnic group. look a tt, black guy eatg spaghetti a chinese guy eatng a hot dog. he wasmazed that blk america -black people woul eat afcan-american food. he would aways comment when someone was eing out of their ethnic group. this ways strucke even as a little kid. >>

the erican federal emergency management ancy says tens of ousands need help.eports of flattened cstal villages and tourist rorts; bodies swept far outo sea. the pacific a floor dropped at 17:48 g.m.t., elve minutes to seven in theorning local time. the tremors lasted seral minutes. took the u.s. pacific tsuna warning centern hawaii 16 mites to receive the seismic data, calculate the rameters anissue an alert, but by then, the sewas already being sucked out in the cital american samoa and 07:30 a four-meter- gh wall of water crashed in; followed by anotheand another. pago pago, the cital of americanamoa, sits at the head of an inlet, which funneleand amplified the wave. the early warning syst didn't fail; it was jt that the quake was so closeo the islands and the waves aveled fast. >> an ent like this where the sour is very close to the island, there's ten very little possibity for official warnin our center did issue warning abt 15 minutes after earthquake. those counties in americanamoa would have received that wning antranslated to evacuation in 10 or 15 min

says most 1.5 million erican taxpayers have already cashed in on theeal. experts say that's abo what had been eected. whenhe credit was made part of the stimulus packageassed by congressarlier this year. >> susie: meanile federal agenes and state attorneys general are sounding t alarm about an epidemic mortgage modification fra. to fight it, the feral trade mmission may ban upfront fee for companies at modify mortgas. the probm? scam artis are preying on at- risk borrowers with gus offers of help in exchangfor thousands ofollars upfront. the fbi has more than 2,0 open ses where homeowners have lo over a million dlars. >> susie: if you plan to te out a college loan next ye. you'll probablapplying to unclsam. today, the hse of represtatives approved a sweeping studentoan overhaul. the legislation re-directs billions of doars away from ivate banks and into the arm of the us educatn department. thcongressional budget office estimatethe move could save taxpayers a minimum of $47 billion overen years. all colleges would have til july to convert to t federal dict

. >> we're gng to trace back the major reads that led to the collapse of the erican financial systemthat brought us tthe precipice. >> susie: me the man inveigating the whys behind the financial crisis. we tk with phil angelides as we contie our special series "lessons from hman." >> paul: i'm paul kangas. >> sus: and i'm susie gharib. thiss "nightly business report" for wednesday, sepmber 16. "nightly business report is made possle by: this program wasade possible by contributions to your p station from viewers like yo thank you. >> susie: od evening everyone. finally it's her the "gang of six" unveiled toy its long- awaited health care bill this $856 billion propos from three democrats and three republicans on theenate finance committee calls for insurance coverage forll americans. it does t include a public health insurance option. but spite the group effort and months of negotiations, the ll has no repubcan support. stephanie dhue rorts. >> rorter: senator baucus called his hlth care reform plan a good beginng. the proposal wouldequire most indivials to buy health insurancor pay a fi

an important devopment tonight for millions of ericans who invest imoney market mutual funds. after today, t funds will not havehe backing of the government. the u.s. treasury created th guarantee a yeargo to reassure instors their money was safe after the sharesf one of the tion's largest funds broke t buck, falling below e sacred one doll level. erika miller takes a look how the expiration of is program could fect investors. >> reporter: if you ha money invested in a money mark mutu fund, chances are you are earning next tnothing. the average annual tot return for these funds isust six tenths of a percent,ccording to imoneynet. and after today, the tasury department will end its ar- long grantee of eligible money market mutual funds. financial planner acy francis says most peop have better invement options, anyway. >> for theverage investor, money market funds don'tffer any additionalenefit than necessarily putting your mon instead in an f.d.i.c.-insur cd or f.d.i.c.-insur bank account. and some of those bankccounts, escially the online bank accountsare actually yielding qui

erican depository receipts of ab inbev began tradi today under the ticker symbol "b." the world's largest ewer by revenuestressed today's move is a seconda listing. and paul, while itecently annoced plans for an office in new york cy, the company says itheadquarters will remain in belgium. >>aul: susie, bud shares rose 70 cents to $46.95 let's see what else was bring on wall street as we take look at our stocks in the news tonight. >>aul: tonight's "street critique" est thinks the markets ve priced in a "v" shaped rovery. he's paularson, equities rategist at morningstar and editorf "morningstar stock investor." paul, welcome back tn.b.r. >> thanks for havi me again. >> pau if the markets are looking for v recovery, at happens if that lette changes? >> well, if the letter cnges to something like a w, ande get an economy that doesn't recover immediately an sort of recovers in fits and starts i think tt stocks lo like they're mildly overvalued today. itoes indeed look le the maet is expecting the v-shaped recovery, given the prices tt are out there at the ment. >> paul: w

. ♪ nducted by sir neville marriner and recoed for the milkenrchive of erican jewishusic, the "yizkorequiem" was composed by beveridge not jt to remind listeners of what beverie says "really matters," but ao to combine, musically, two iths. >> i realized at i could put together a piece that ki of stands on the idge between the tw religions, the christian religion andhe jewish religion, d takes a look at, multaneously, at the ritu for the ad. >> reporter: beveridge says was inspired compose this piece after the 91 death of his father, aepiscopal priest and scholar who iersed himself in both faiths. it was, says beverie, "a quest for spirituaroots." >>y quest and my father's quest. father inspired me to lo at therigins of christian liturgy in the synagogue. i mean, that's bacally what we're talking about he. >> porter: was it an attempt to co to terms with his death, or to memorialize him, or th? >> i think both. i fd it a very cathartic experience make this effort in his mory, and in the procesi learned a lot. >> reporter: what bevidge, a chch organist, choir director, ancomposer of mo

what does ts means well for lino voters, for african erican voters when ty are heari that sort of reaction? >> this was a doub whammy annsult from the publican party, to go through lge blocks o minority voters. this came when the predent was addressing immigration. excuse me n addressing immigration but whether not migrants would be able to recee health care. he said they woul not ifhey were in the country illelly. everyone knows that was a direct rerence to --everyone knows they are going on about illegal immigrants, primarily latino immigrants w bore the bruntf that the second thingas the total disrespect of the president'. it was an sult to the african- amican community. thihas never happened before on the house floor. this type of bavior was unseem. the ticket as a slight of the commander in chief and they obably thought it was acceptable because of his race. >> is the any chance of bipartisan refm? is tre anyhance, do you thk, that he canwin over moderate repuicans? >> i think there's a chce he can win some modere reblicans that were already with him. i do not kw. that is probably a l

i think we ought toig in and do whaisright for the erican people.understand that we hve to do something to lor thecost of heth inrance and lower the cost of health care. ultimate, evenhe coressional budget office has identified plants that are bng moved through congress -- that th pls at a movi through congress would not lower e cost. weeed do what is right. i think the midterm elections wi be less about political posturinand more about whether the american people feel that congress has got e message, not just on this ise, tavis, but i was in washington for the taxpayer march on washington. i didown hall meetings all acrossastern indian out over the month of august,raveled the couny. the ameran pplere frustred with washington, c., and with the political class in both parties that have seen runaway feral spending o their repubcan and demrat spending, baouts, takvers boowing spending, bailouts, takeover if washington do not gethe message,lection day is usuallthe day that they get it. tavis is it your sens that whatever hlth care cos forth will be with

that byeople like limbaugh and otherpokesmen of e party that in fact this is acceptableehavior, so ericans, when it passed a bill with democtic votes -- >> obama made a partisan speech in absence of perssion. itas a hyper partisan speech netheless. >> campaign finance, ee- speech -- d hillary, the movie. >> does anyone belve that the rights of average tizens to be heard in washington would no be orridden by massive campaign unlimited can b ontributions>> they will disable the people this countr fm ever fixing the campaign finance stem. >> senatorohn mccain and russ feingold, co-sponsors ofhe law that regulates financing of political campaigns,t begins with last ye's movie abou hillary clton for this by citizensnited time for release during the 20 primary. therwas some corporate money volved. is that why it is at the supreme court? >> that is actly why. it wt up to the supreme court. this is the st interesting aspect. it went up on a relative minor point, to see this group had an exceptionnder the law. instea after words, they hed arguments in march at ju ar't -- justices ordered a re-argum

the presidt has reached out to cu by easing travel and financial restrictions on ericans with families on the island. >>>inally tonight our origina signature story, the first of three rorts thiseek on preserng history and the challenges involved in dng so. this summere went to geece to take a look at theong dispute over some of e orld's most famous sculptures. the problem, as t greeks s it, issimple, the slptures were stolen fr the parthon almost200 years ago and brought to britain. but e british say the ritful place is just where they are in ndon. "worldfocus" special correspondent lynnherr take us to one of history's gre battlegrounds. >> reporter: you cant take a bad shot of the parthenon, from any anglein any light, a temple of marble commissionebyhe statesman pier ocallies during the gold days aient greece. 2500 ars ago embodied the peak of artistry. today it remains a symbol of modern grece, still rening over athens from the acropolis. but centuries of wars and neglect have left their mark. somethg is missing from this picture. some things. they belong here, a pade of sculptures

in four monthst one base, the ericans have evacuated 1,500 wounded. their own ritish, afghan, dutch, a canadian. a dozen aday. >> i thinkrobably ne or july wee seen an increase probably about 30% of combat casualties. >> reporter: president obama's surge has brght nearly 20,000 amican troops to souther afghanistan and much more. the 00 helipters have just one igade, the 82nd airborne, dwarf britain's totalleet arou 20. two of which crashed andere destroyed last month. these aircraft alone will not win this war. but it's certainly wasn't being won witht them. afans are bilding new american ses. but outside them, afghanistan is not being rebut. the war is faltering, afghan are losing patience. coalition casualties ar rising fast. the amerins promi a new dawn with their troop surge. it's too early to judge if it heralds a dawn or the sunset of their hopes andthe faire britain, t, fears. >> w thought weould lo how the eighth annivsary of 9/11 is resonating amonguslims aroundhe world. for that we turn to the executive director the gallup center for musli s

whether it has be the african- erican experience in this country, the issue that i work on, the civ-rightsmovement peop with disabilies, refuge. my father was always for the underdog. he always stood up. he honestly felt like had moral obligation to stand up in theace of injuice in this worl i think that african-americans know who their politil friends art. e experience it it isfresh in our country's memory. l's fa it, 1964, it w not that long ago, tavis. he was so proud, so proudf where our untry had recently, as a nation, being able to -- so prd of where our country had come as a nation. i think he could have died at the moment that barack obama was elected and the happiest man alive. he saw the potentl. i am not ting to say there are not proems that stilexist, tavis,there ae, but i think he s really pro of that a lot ofrogress has been made. obviously, is not just my dad. my uncle bobby and uncle jack, longstanding -- in fact, m father'first speech in e senatwas on civil rights, the voting rights act and the pl tax. fighting for all of those things th a lot of african-amerins who were bor today

calling on the government to rae the eligibility age for soal security benefi to help convince more ericans work longer. >> so untilbout 1990, the trend was for an earlier retiremnt. since th, we really haveeen a reversalor both men and women, and it's due to chaing incentives within social security, a moveme away from the old-fashioned define befit plan, towas 401k plans which he no retirement incentives. i think things like how expensive health heah care has bome means that pele want to stay with their employers at lea until they're igible for medicare. so the incentives now have changed to keepeople in the laboforce longer. >> bonnie: retirement secuty especially imrtant for men, because even today near 30% of single won who represent a majority of households at older ages are clasfied as poor or ne-poor. this is a producof several factors. women tend to work part time more often than men and go in and out of t workforce more during their lives. they also, on average, arn less than men t after culling through tome of government dataprofessor munnell found that women who contind to work u

othersre fighting and dyi ere, too, and yo the ericans, need toecognize that.ertainly president obama, en they met, thisas a message that he clearly understood an he repeated. and i think it waslso worth noting tt mr. rsmussen very much steered clear of getting involved in th heate debate in america abouthether or not to send more troops. we know that general mcchstal, the american general on the ground, who, of course is a nato general, too, has put in his ruest for more trps, anhing up to 30,000 to 40,000 more troops. but the u.s administration, the obama administration, has only begunow to hold a whole series of high-level meetings, which are going t play out over the nexcouple of weeks to decid what their revid strategy is and thenhat st ofresources theyneed tothrow at it. >> two days before crucial multi-part tks in geva, th head of iran's atomic ener association has insist tehran will not discuss its nuclear rights nor uranium enrichment. otheofficials suggest they won't low discussion of the new plantither. the government has said it will soon announce a

this was 13 years ago, she was a leer sexual, married roffingsal african-erican woman d got hiv.we were ahead of our time. e.r., the first few years was ahead of itsime in a number of fferent ways. but for the issue of hiv tha storylin was complety ahead of its time. it is now -- it is 10, 13 years later at we find that professional heterexual, afican-american women are bng infected at astouing rates and that indee because of reruns people -- maybet is in their mind a little more that i play this character on television but as a socie, we have dropped the balon the iue. hence my, about five yrs ago, feeling a strongeed and desire to pick up that ball and -try be out there in the world spifically in the united states, inhe african-american and latino communities,etting e message back out there, cause we forgotten about i it is like i doesn't exist anymore. meanwhi, the man dem i think ntinues to -- to spread here mounta united states and i'm very thankful for - for the numerous reasons that barack obama is our psident. ght. and when it mes to this issue ofiv, you know, finallye ha

the ousted honduran present manuel senya, the organization of erican states announced 's sding a delegationo seek a solution to the crisis where he was expelled from military coup. fr the street of the capital, wenow have this. >> there is somethinof a nse of normalcy returning to the streets here, the curfew has been lifted anthe tional air board has reopened as business as usual. the interim government is telling people here to get back to worand saying theirsafety n be granteed by theolice an army her their prence is still heavy on the streets and of course there is still a standoff the a the brazilian embassy. manuel zaleya is still trapped inside the building claimi 10 of his supporters have been lled since mondaynd police say since mony'siots one person hasied but seems a diplomatic solutn is no closer in priiple, he has agreedo meet the interim leader here. aso when that happens, nobody knows. meanwhile, the onlpeople to really suffer through ts are the people ofonduras. for every day there's been a curfew imposed here ad cost th country $50million. d for those tha really lead a poor

[laughter] so every erican should be concerned about the possibility i would argue the probabili of that in the next three to five years. >> one of the things i don't think we want is a long-term creditor. because you don't want to load and long when you don't know how i inflation or how low the value of the dollar is. that undermined the ability of the country to make long-term investments because everybody, if they are low and they are loading very short-term, a decision instead of a strategic capil since looking out, they are our decisions that people are happy to make just in the moment and it undermined the ability to invest in future and be productive in the future. so along with all the other chaos that inflation causes, it undermines the ability to be productive in the future. >> first, australian dollar, swiss franc, there are several countries i think are more safe in the long run. but i think this is one of these teachable moment. ronald reagan took a lot of political pain to do the right thing by weaning inflation out of the system in the early 1980s. a lot of republicans los

. >> reporter: and for the first time, the erican public has turned against the afghanistan war. a recent poll, 51% saidhe war is not worth fighting. public support eroded as the situation in afghanistan is rapidly deteriorating. in the past two months, a record number of american forcehave be killed in thear, while the talin has been gaining ground. a new study showthe taliban now has control over 80% of afghanistan, up from 54% only o years ag tourn that around, the top commander in afghanistan, general stan mcchrtal's new sttegy is to undermine the taban by providing more protection forhe ahan ople but thatou take large numbers of combat foes and mcchrystal is expected to as for 25 to 40,000 additional troops, starting next year. >> the increase in u.s. forces we arealki about he is really meant to be a bridge. this is a strategy that is desied to reduce the power of the insurgency while we build up the afghan national security rces. >> reporter: president oma has saidfghanistan is a war th u.s. mt win, but he may caught between his mitary commanders and growi opposition to th

. >> reporter: erican tennis is desperate for fres faces to follow in the foot steps of the williamsting for the fans, the players and great for the future of tennis in america. >> reporter: today she'll take on another highly ranked russian. to win the tournament, she might even have to face off again serena. >> i'm playing how i wanted to play, how i knew i could play. >> reporter: her naekers have the word "believe" stamped on the heel. andrea canning, abc news, flushing meadows, new york. >> she is all the buzz on the women's side. on the men's side, a guy by the name of john eisner who has beaten andy roddick. i love it when it's new faces.c. petedon't you ve itt whenc

but athe end of the day, we all share a common purpose: that is to make t lives of ericans better tomorrow tha they are tod and to t heah care reform done. ich means the te to come for action is now, and we willct. we will act and pass health reform legislation this year. >> this probably one ofhe largest pies of social legiation in history since the depression. it affects everybody i our country. it affects erybody in my different ways. >> ros the bill was afted after mont of negotiations among a bipartisan group dbed "the gang of six." many in washington conser it the only proposal with a chance of gainiepublican support, but so far no republicans have endorsed it. joining me now are washingto is one member of e gang o six, senato jeff bingaman, a democratrom new mexico. he has indicated that he will support the bill proposed by setor baucus today. i am pleas this evening to ve him on this program welcome. >>ice to be here. thank u. >> rose: give meour assessment of this. at in the end does the compromise do and not do that you favor? >> well, i think it does the main this that the presi

it was the apopriate word to use when talking abouafrican ericans.f you u negro now in polite conversation, not historial coersation, it's considered a te of racism. and that gets redefined by ack people themselves. so i think we have listen to racially marginaliz people tell us whathese expressions mean for them as citins. >> ifill: ohn mcwhorter, what do you me of the theor sne i'm urious about whether jimmy carter having saidhis counts more than your havingaid this, if you had said whahe said? >> my audio went out. > i actually think that it ia very important thing hat jimmy cart has mentioned this. don't think there's any har in poinng out the fact that racism maor even does play a part in what'soing on. but it just seems toe that it used to be we we talking about how e racism out there might keep bara obama from the white house. i und that to be a very urge issue. this time, we're saying at the racismell, what? we're real just describing mething that's not going to away any te soon, and i don't think reallyas that much effect upothe way our live

so when sam recommends that erican conservatives should be more burkean. i say we shoullook at the way woodrow wilson falkenberg, no source a all. birk proved to be no work against ever-expanding liberalism. i think the second sign might be the idea that david brooks advanced in which they briefly refers to in his book which is that behold, barac obama has some affinity for burke. or so david brooks rorted. it easy to accuse hegel andfound berg, i'm loong for to a future memoir from obama what he gives a burkean to tunes and union views. well, the sort of stiff foremothers of history of progress have receded into literally anymore what was thought of 100 years ago but the sentimental ridue i argue lingers on. and the underlying attitude of history as an intelligible process has become so embedded in the furnishing of the liberal mind that its pedigree is no longer be called. it explains why liberalism presumes the illegitimacy of conservative orthodoxy without having to argue the matter. the ideological terms if you reallyee this among the so-cled progress

we started abo 20 years ago and reach about 5 million ericans. people from newsmax.com, t we also plished newsmax magazine and a number of health and financial newsletters money to stop, online. we are dedicated to thedea the american public needs to hear both sides of the stories which we see definitely during this period of the obama presidency that the mia isiving the public a one-sided view on important public policy issues. joining today are a number of people that are involved with not only republican politics, conservative politics, but the media as well and i would use the word powerhouses to describe the people onhe panel people today. some of them are not household names but they are nam that rry significant weight and the conservative movement. on the far lef is richard viguerie, considered the godfather of conservative dt mail. and has created the modern conservative movement by helping dozens and dozens of many of the leading cservative groups in the nation bypass the media and reach out to get donors to support callshishat advocate

have periods of high polarization in erican history. thealexander hamilton w ot by a political opponent that is recently polarizing. abraham linco polarizi peri. th we have had a hh polarizing period, i think we have bifurcateded where a lot of the country has lost some of the polarizing feel but there are minoritiesn each side wh are watching fox or msnbcho are still in that high polarizing mode and they --. lehrer: quickly before we go. whato you make of paul evans speech on the floor of e senate about afanistan and let's hold off sendi more troops. >> ihink it reects, first of all not to be cynical, but the pitical reality that you are not going to have bttle er trp numbers in afghanistan at aime when you are trying to pass health care. i think that's -- i thi that's the adnistration does to the wnt the reqst to be made formally. so byeneral mcchrystal for increased numbers, according to my own reporting. condly, m evan is an enormously respect man. hasn't given to che ots, he is a ve rious leslator. when he ys reflects not only his

his wife, michele was a flight attendant on erican airlines flight 77the one that crashed into the pentagonfirst responders from the d.c. region were recognized. >>> coming up on the news edge at 11:00, d.c. police ordered to give up all hands on deck. why the crime crackdown might cost the department big money. >>> plus, some thought she was really a he but this world track champ may be both. the twist to the gender bender controversy. >>> karl rove in the studios. not to talk politics but to work on his new gig on family guy. need a lift? hey buddy, i appreciate the ride, you know. no problem. ♪ mind if i take a shortcut? yeah, sure. ♪ i knew the subaru legacy was the smart choice... ♪ what i didn't expect... was the fun. the all-new subaru legacy. feel the love. if you get sick, or change jobs. eight ways reform matters to you. a cap on deductibles and out-of-pocket costs. no annual or lifetime limits on coverage. preventive care. covered. pre-existing conditions. covered. no higher rates due to gender. tended coverage for young adults. no more coverage denied if you get sick. and guaran

nnot address one sixth of our economy and a matter of su personal and financial significan to every erican on the legislative fa track. >> reporter: snowe has offer an amendnt making government- run puic insurance an emergency option icoverage reins too expensive for some americans. the so-cald "trigger" option would set up a government-ru plan in any ate where affordable coveragwas not avaible to 95% of residents. >> she'sery much engaged and board with where they are. >> reporr: health care econist len nichols, who heads the healtholicy program at the new americfoundation, says senator snowe could be the lynchpin for me republican suppt. >> i think senator snowe'sdea of a trigger--hat is to say, a possible competing plabe brought intoome markets, not all, but some markets, if the ar't two competing plans that offer afrdable premiums to people. i think that'sn idea that might find traction onoth des of the aisle. >> reporter: thiafternoon, baucus announced mifications to his draft designeto keep liberademocrats happy and appease fiscally conservate meers of his own party who've worried ab

hadashington enged iran, this would not have hapned to me andoday we woul't have se other iranian-erican and americans sitting in jail. really think thereashis misunderstanding and lk of change between the two countries. >> ros one program ne. our conversation with valley nasser will be seent another date. tonight we lookt afghanistan and iran next. captioni sponsored by rose communications from our studiosn new york ci, this is charlie rose. >>ose: we begin tonight with the "washington post" and the story abt general stanley chrystal's assessment of the u.s. mission in afghastan. an unclassified version of the report tt the "washington post" got, the top u. commando warns that the mission wil likely rest in failure unless troops are increased whin the year. in stark language, h called coalition forces "poorly coigured and inexperienced in cal languages and culture he propod a robus counrinsurgency strategy that emasizes protecting afghan civilians and building up the afgh government and the army. president obamis currently reviewing the report and other approach to ahanistan, appearing

the question is what's at stake for average ericans, workg class people, middl class people who haveurance today but are often dromd from the inrance when they get sick orave a preexisting condition and soone in eir family can't get have out--pocket expenses that ave them broke becaus thers no cap. or people who don'thave insurance today and n't get it becse they don ge it throu their employer, and it's too pensive to get. they have a lot at stake in is debate, and those are the people whohe president is speakg fortonight. >>oodruff: the president id today he had let this deba get away from m in august, that he let e-- left lot of biguity out there, that the opponents have fild the airwaves. is tt why this spee was necessary? >> thispeech was always anned. ok, we had a strate, and that strategy was informed by hisry that don't bring a ready-made bill at the ont end and try to foreclose debate. we made out some broad princies and challenged the congress tmeade them. four of the five committees finish work before august the fifth commtee of jurisdtion, the senate finance committee, iso

and said well, for you ericans i think you ought to start with the bible and shakespeare and work your way up from there. likewise, i think we need to start with the bible her. it seems to me fundamental to read the bible. aside fm whatever divine nature we might attribute to it, you cant be a literatperson in western civilization without having rd the bible. and i'm not overly concerned with what translation you might choose. personally, i think it is important to read the king jam james, but the revised standard, they are all good. i ink it is fundamental to start with the bible. [applause] >> i also think the most important subject is history. history is the extent of politics. we need to study actual factual histor rand who wrote that multi-volume history of the world, i think he once said that western civilization is caesar and christ. since we have covered christ i suppose we should go to caesar. and will again i think you could read virtually any roman historian, plutarch, you could also start witcaesar's commentaries especially for those people who like action. there is somethi

houseoted today to block increases in mecare premiums for seral million ericans next year. lawmakers rejected a seduled hike under medicare part b whch covers doctors visits. theyaid it would have come at a time whenenior citizens are lely to miss a cost of living raise in social secity benefits. the senate plans to take uphe bill soon. on wall streetoday, stocks fell onews that sales of exting homes were down in august. the dow jones indurial average los41 points to close at 9,707. t nasdaq fell more than 23 points to close at 107. and the pri of oil tumbled harply for a second day, in new york trading. it was off more than 4% to settle below $66 aarrel. e low point was $33 last december. a federal juryas rejected clai that hurricane victi we exposed to hazardous fumes inovernment trailers. the rdict came latetoday in w orleans. it washe first trial involving alleged health dangers in the trailers after hurcane katrina. a new orleans woan claimed fum from formaldehyde i the trailer aggravated her son's asthma. > lehrer: and still to come the newshoutonight, the pitturgh su

me want the president to take a more forceful std inlaying outhe case for war to the erican people. butpassing healthcare rorm d questions about afghan president hamid karzai's reeltion may slow the pcess. joining me now from waington senator car levin. he is the senior sator from michig and chairman of the senaterms services comttee. welcome, senator. >> chaie, great being with you. >> rose: tell me, was there anything important about t ming of what you said over the weekend? >> well, we just t back from a trip and we've been spending a lot of tim on ts issue a wh i becameconvinced soft that before we send additiol combat troo-- and those ar words which i selectery carefull- before we comt to additional combat tros, that we should spen some real effort to strengthen th afghan my and e police. and we he got to do a numbe ofhings that we have not yet donen order to do tt. but we shod put the focus the afghan army and police as the bestay to sceed in afghanistan. we ould continue, obviously, to send e troops that are already committed the in terms ofombat tros, but we've got todo thre

. >> rose: don't we assume that these cotrieshold a l of erican securities, debt, are going to act prudent in tir own breast intert? >> we ha been assuming that and i thi they will act prudentlunless we really give them... don'give themny basis for confidencen the dollar, if we really have a disruptive polic they'r not going to like that. >> rose: you travel aund the world and youe respected in all the capitals of the wod. is the confidence in the way we're handlithis crisis? >> it's not with the dree wd like that e it. >> rose: what's the difference? what do they think we're not doing? you know,here's a history here and there's great respect for the powers and influence of the united stateand the adership of the united state this may n be representative but, y know, you hear these commentsrom people in ina or elsewhere in asia, they're actually managintheir curncy anthey are expressing a ceain degree of nervousss and ising questio about the role of the dollar in an academic way. they're not ing much. i find when i... i don't nt to generalize too far, b i think it's probablytrue. when you

> well, first of all, at the core the issue of health scare about the factthat just ten years ago erican famili were paying $5,0 a year f health care day on average they're paying $13,000. it more than double. kaer permanente just did a study a week ago showing it's going to double inhe next ten years. now, the avere american fily nnot continue to see thr incomes grow if health ce costs are doubling every ten ars. it is sapng the economic opportity of... that's basically. that ubling of the health ce expees in the last ten yea explainshy median houhold income in the last tenyears shrunkin america. >> rose: and that's the reason so many people have tried to do sothing about health care reform and this administrion at this time, according to the o.m.b. cef, may very wel hav it passed by congress by november. >> rose: right. well, here's the goal. you've got to solve this for america's economic competitiveness and the peacof mind for amerin families that they can always have health re they can afford. the president made a fdamental decision, the right decision, we're going to build on the s

despitehe presence of one of the most succsful third party candidates, h.oss perot, another texan, in ericanistory. but that's not the mt importanfact. the mostmportant fact is that george h.wbush got less of the popular vote i1992 than herbert hooverot in 1932. at was really the end. but what happed was the right was so institutional successful that it conolled many of the levers, as y say. so, whatappened in the year 2000? well, the coervatives on the supre court stopped the democric process, put their guy into office. then september 11th came and thright got its full first blanslate. they could do really whaver they wanted. and what we w were those eight years. anthat is the end of idlogical conservatism as a vital formative and contbutive aspect of our politics. >> moyers: why? >> because ifailed so badly. it wn't conservative. it was rical. it's interesting. manyn the right say, "george bush brayed us." they weren't sing that in 2002 and 2003 he was seen as someo who would colete the reagan revolution. i think a t of it was iraq. w, i quote in the book a remarkablyrescient thing. the ve

or because they've bn forced or crced into fighting the ericans. so taliban are people who have no ties the ideological taliban at all, but arjust angry that occation forces, in their mind, are in their cotry. some are people who are ideologilly driven, who want an islamic staten afghanistan, who want to work with al qda. 's a very, varied enemy. and think that's what part of what makes a straty so hard and at makes it so difficult for the troops. because everyonehey're fiting could be a farmer the next day, uld be a local. therare no borders. thers no uniform. ere's no way to distinguish one fromhe other. so, think that's what makes it so hard. the taliban that iaw, and i was in kandahawere people who... >> moyers: that's the soutrn rt of the country right near the pakistan border. >> that'right. d it's one of the most important ovinces historically. and yogo there and the taliban ishis bullying organization that is a form of der that at least the afghans are miliar with. and they control the communi. the local governme that we've establisd does n

. >> no, my grandrents on my father's side were from italy so i gre up in that sprawling erican family that made italy el like home. rose: and went to school at the univeity of north carolina where you were a moreheadcholar which down there you sort of bow down to moreheadcholars. >> it was a nice honor. >> rose: so ey come to you. uh-huh. >> rose:ou have had these varied experience athe "new york time. been to columbia journalism schools well so you had an interestincareer veloping. and th say we wa you to be the food critic. and what did you s? >> well, i did whatever the equivalent of double take is o the telephone. i was sort of surpsed. i mean i knew that the times liked thway i wrote and trusteme with a wide variety of things but i didn't expect themo come to me withhat offer. it was surprisg because i hadn written a lot about food. but what not all of them knew thai knew is thait was also a really ironic offer because of my lg histy with food. i'm someone who really ruggled a lot to forge a healthy relationship >> rose:o that made it more likely would you cept it or not accept i

. >> also when i was am i writer and officers a baghdad make it clear they don't want to use erican forcesso if americaf forces are essentially on the periphery in baghdad does that mean you can withdraw more of themuicker? >> now, we @re happy with our current schedule. we think that the straty is sound. we think our tactics are appropriate. think iraqi security forces ardoing their work in the city's. we are annealing and assisting thems they ask. they don't need our combat cities. the kind of things we help them with our intelligence rveillance, reconnaissance, medevac, some logistics'. but i think in the past we have seen them do a credible job. i would point to some of the high-pfile events like the pilgrimage where they were able to provide almost complete security throughout very difficult times where millions of pilgrims have entered a very important shrines and were throughout the city. so i think they've demonstrated some greatapability. i think we have got a good balance in things we are doing outside of the city's to partner with iraqi secitforces putting pressure on the networ

this is because they tend to be younger an nativeborn ericans, and so health care costs and generally rise with age. the illegals are built to the young so they tend to cost less than uninsured natives. they are just much more likely to be uninsured in the first place. also, although this stereotype is that illegal immigrants go to the emergency rooms all the time, very often. this is not really correct. the problems of illegal immigrants create for emergency rooms is not so much that they go more often than the rest of the population. rather, it is that when they go they are much more likely not to pay. and that's why it's a problem. remember, 13% of nativeborn americans are uninsured. so they pay the vast majority of the time. but more than 60% of illegal immigrants are uninsured. so they often don't pay. whenllegal immigrants use emergency health care, there is often no corresponding stream of revenue going to the emergency room to offset costs they create. this is the reason emergency rooms gets overcrowded in areas with lots of illegal immigrants. illegal immigrants are using the

american constutional compliance announces, then at least in prinple a program of this kind would pass a erican constitutional muster, even if employed anywhere in the uned states. on american citizens. we will reflect on that for a moment. so i distributed my memo analyzing the legal issues two other deputies at one of our meetings in february 2006. i then took off his abilities on other work. when i came back i heard the memo was not considered appropriate for further discussion. and that cops of my memo should be collected and destroyed. that particular request passed along in formally addressing proper, and i ignored it. this particular memo has evidently been located in states filed and is being reviewed for declassification. the broader arguments are what the future of the cia program went on for months that even though the old program had effectively been discontinued. internal debate continued into ju 2006 at city hall and a decision by president bush. accepting positions that secretary rice had urged again and again the president set the goal of closing the guantguantÁnamo facility des

professor sunstein had clearly aocated a number of positions that are outside, well outside, the erican mainstream while much of the criticism of his nomination, rightly, has focused on his animal rights advocacy where he, in effect, and plainly said, that he thought animals should be able to have lawyers appointed to defend their interests. these are controversial matters. but he has other legal writings that are controversial, also. and don't just deal with the question of animal rights. professor sunstein has taken, for example, a number of legal and public policy positions that are troubling. especially for an office that sits at the vo vortex of the gulatory engine of america. i would like to highlight a few of those positions. in 28 book titled "nudge, improving decisions about health, wealth, and happiness," professor sunstn advocates an approach for law based on economic and behavioral principles which he dubs "libertarian paternalism," and the government can take steps to "nudge" individuals toward making what he wld say are better decisions. and at least what the government co

require many resources to achieve positive results, the fbi will not be deterred from protecting the erican public through continuing to insure that pharmaceutical companies conduct business in a lawful manner. thank you very much. >> thanks very much to everybody. we will take a few questions. >> y've made very clear how pfizer violated the law and violated its agreements with you all. did you additionally find any evidence that pfizer's conduct actually harmed any patients? >> whether or not it harmed patients was not a focus of the investigation, so it wasn't something that was simply part of ournquiry. >> why is pfizer not maing the guilty plea in the criminal matter as opposed to -- [inaudible] is there concern that that would affect pfizer's ability to -- [inaudible] or is it -- >> it may have to do with the particular history of the acquisition of the company. >> sure. the pharmacy is the one that had the mda for the drug. they had struck a marketing arrangement with pfizer before pfizer acquired the pharmacy division. so in many respects and while pfizer's marketing machine was the