etc., etc., etc. and, of course, as you do that, you start bumping into traditional media companies, and they get very upset. and the truth be told, you were very late to understand as a company that you were upsetting these people. you were pushing the envelope of, say, copyright. you were pushing the issue of fair use, and youn't whatted -- wanted to be able to do a search, and a search is wonderful. i love the idea that the now 11 books i've written could be searched and people could have access to a book that didn't sell so well of mine can be brought back because of google. that's terrific. on the other hand, i'd like to be consulted as an author before someone puts my book online and makes it available. and at one point i tell the story in my book of my second interview with sergei, and he comes in the room, and he says to me, ken, let me ask you a question. he said, why don't you just publish your book for free online? just put it out there. many more people will read it. i said, well, that may

etc. etc. we are not a dying town. in fact that all feel we are even six.hank you. >> amen to that. [applause] just to reiterate,-- just to reiterate i was in colby, kansas this summer. we might have a little sniffle, but they have pneumonia. >> exactly. >> it is really sad and i think things have happened here that have had to make us look inward, the potential closing of rockwell. you can't just say well it won't make any difference. it will. it is part of the unraveling. >> right and again, let me just share a little further tidbit about colby and i feel like i am harsh on called the kansas but it is, it is so much further down that line and this woman sarah, she shared with us i think while she was doing her part she went back to colby and it was christmas of 2007. she stood in main st. colby on a saturday afternoon for three hours and she met one person in three hours. she said the bank had piped christmas music coming out on the loudspeaker and it was at going off of this emptied town and she said it was the erie is the thing she ever saw. again it wa

etc., is basically getting what she wants in life without following that difficult path. thank you very much. guest: great questions. first, the resignation, i do not feel that she has adequately explained it yet, but the situation that she returned to when she came back was untenable at best. there were plenty of people on both sides of the political spectrum the told me that they did not think that she would run for a second term. no one told me that they thought she could rock -- resign at a time. it speaks to her impulsiveness as a political figure. the reason that she did it, as the caller mentioned, were these mounting complaints against her, most of which have been dismissed, frivolous, mostly ethics complaints. there were two other reported reasons. we tend to forget, as this was not covered when she appeared on the national stage, but the bulk of her support in the legislature in alaska came from democrats. she had run on a campaign of reform and had overturned the the republican power structure in alaska. as a result, not many republicans in alaska like her, to

., etc. basically is getting what she wants in life without following that typically have. thank you very much. first, the resignation, i do not feel that she has adequately explained it yet, but the situation that she returned to when she came back was untenable at best. there were plenty of people on both sides of the political spectrum the told me that they did not think that she would run for a second term. no one told me that they thought she could rock -- resign at a time. it speaks to her impulsiveness as a political figure. the reason that she did it, as the caller mentioned, were these mounting complaints against her, most of which have been most of which have been dismissed and are really kind of fictional errs in some cases. i just really think the more important issue that had to do with it. one was that we tend to forget, because of course this wasn't covered when she appeared on the national stage. the bulk of their appeal and support in the alaska state legislature came from de

., etc. so his own moral qualms developed while harry truman maintained right through his life that he did not have regrets about the decision. that it was a decision that has saved not only american lives, but saved literally thousands and thousands of japanese lives. so he held firmly to that in his public stance. i think he felt the responsibility of the action. i want to suggest that he had his own sort of moral wrestling with the irresponsibility that he carried on his shoulders. any american president, i think, would have made the decision he made, but the burden had come to him. he had taken it, and he had to live with that decision, which i think he still believed was the right one, but it was a morally complex one. >> there was a navy officer on the interim committee that was deciding about these issues, who was quite adamant that this was not a weapon of war, but this was a weapon of mass destruction that had no place whatsoever in the american arsenal. and truman -- and i can say t

., etc.. why do they allow these mergers to take place from financial collapse? >> the repeal of glass-steagall was the catalyst for what became one decade later the collapse in what became a few years later enron and worldcom scandals because there we're predicated on the idea of merging and acquiring and banking institutions becoming not just bigger which they were doing, the leading into other repeal of glass-steagall which happened almost one years ago today. november 12, 1999. >> host: i voted against it. >> guest: you also said all of the things that would happen to consumers and lenders and all of that. it did happen. although warning signs when banks merged and concentrates sen changes in the moorpark ones have deposits in a controlled loans and capital, they can turn it and traded and speculate because it is there. that is what ultimately cause a crisis that you had extra capital and access to consumers you could use real money and loan and asset and turn them into something that ulti

you know, post 9/11, etc., etc., etc., a lot of people had been on very extended assignments. so expenses weren't getting turned in on a monthly basis. >> but by expenses, i just mean that's kind of a sign, an indication of a culture. so i'd rather have you speak as a broader culture, if possible. >> a sign of what? >> a sign of, shall we say, lax culture, corporate culture. in other words, the reporters, i assume, really were more in control than -- i guess my question is more -- >> that's not so much the truth. it's not that there was a standard policy that said, hey, you have to have your expenses in. it was worked out with individual editors on the desk for individuals. certain bureaus did have to do their expenses at certain times. but i guess if you're trying to get at the more general question, were the reporters running "the times" -- >> well, no, not that at all. in retrospect of where you are today looking back, what lessons have you learned that could be, shall we say, shared, as a lot of these folks are going into the corporate world about what to look for in terms

more about what they were thinking, their movement, what their grievances were with the pakistani, etc. so this individual, he was very close with osama. he was a former pilot in the pakistani air force. he was to be the introduction to ghazi. and then at lunch one day, he had a little bit of a checkered past and that he had been the person who daniel pearl have gone to to try to be introduced to shake a lot of. shake along was that had mass the head honcho of this jihadi group that daniel pearl was time to be when he was robbed of the. he said to perl, i've talked to him and he says he will not be too. end of this year. finds out that perl as he says to me, i'm going to go talk to ghazi. of i.t. that ghazi is off limits, i don't want to hear that you're going behind my back tried to find another way to meet ozzy. because i told daniel pearl this and you saw what happened. and i thought, check please. so this was introduction to it i thought for sure guys he is going to be weighed nastier and scary but it turned out that ghazi looked and behaved in many ways like jerry garcia. traveled

., etc., we are not a dying town. in fact, i don't feel we are even sick. thank you. >> amen to that. [applause] >> just to reiterate i was in colby kansas this summer. we might have a little sniffle, but they have pneumonia. >> you're absolutely right. >> it's really sad, and i think things have happened here that have had a loss of looking inward, the potential closing of rockwell. you can't just say well, it won't make any difference. it will. it's part of the unraveling. >> right. and that, again is -- let me just share a fervor tidbit about colby. i feel like i am harsh on colby kansas but it is so much further down that line. and this woman, sarah, she shared with us while she was doing her project she went back to colby and it was christmas of 2007. and she stood on the main street on a saturday afternoon for three hours and she met one person in three hours. she said the bank had piped christmas music coming out on a loudspeaker and it was just kind of a cooling off the town. she said it was the curious thing

they didn't take into account assets that they didn't take into account credit history, job stability, etc. this is the problem with a lot these days is they can typical choose one factor and say that these things are failing to make these loans on racial grounds of. >> there is a differentiation between income and credit worthiness. >> exactly. the other reality is if you think about it, banks make money by loaning money to people that will pay them back. so to argue that a bank is going to reject people have good credit history because they don't like the color of the skin or they don't like their religion, just doesn't make sense. this is how they make money. they make money by making loans. >> and that that takes us to the architects. so the people that we are pushing to pass the law, from what i have read, we had platinum level lending standards in the united states. -the law was changed. what was that while? >> the first thing that happened to have something called community reinvestment act, cra, which was passed in 1977 by jimmy carter. and activist groups like acorn were in suppor

etc., what is your favorite? >> i'm in a distinct minority. the question is what is my favorite conspiracy theory, and my answer is none of them. i am among -- [inaudible] >> i am one of those crazy people -- he liked me until just then. my personal feeling that the warren commission, lee harvey oswald assassinate president kennedy. for the purposes of this book, my own view is really irrelevant. i am really looking at what lyndon johnson do in the 12 hours after the assassination. at all lyndon johnson, and when he is flying back to washington on air force one, he hears the name lee harvey oswald for the first time. the first time he hears it is in connection with the shooting of the officer. and what's passing about looking at this issue of who shot jfk in the first 24 hours, what i was taught by, long theories that whether oswald did it, is how worried lyndon johnston is. the information about oswald coming out pretty quickly. lyndon johnson find that this man lived in the soviet union, that he was somehow connected with the cubans. so john

the mom did, etc. etc.. what is your favorite? >> i am distinct minority. the question is what is my favorite conspiracy theory and the answer is none of them. i am of long -- i am one of those crazy people -- quote. [laughter] he liked me until just then. my personal feeling is the warren commission that lee harvey all small assassinated president kennedy. for the purposes of this book my own view is irrelevant because i am looking at what lyndon johnson the 24 hours after the assassination, and all lyndon johnson knew, while peacefully in back to washington on the air force one she hears the name of lee harvey also called for the first time. the first time that he hears it is in connection with the shooting of the officer. and what is fascinating about looking at this issue who shot jfk in the first 24 hours when i was struck by separate from the furious about whether all's what did or not is how worried lyndon johnson is. the information about austal coming out pretty quickly. and lyndon johnson finds out this man lived in the soviet union. he was someho

as you know the question of whether we will have water plants versus quote plants etc we are in the middlethe discussions and throwing to the mix not only the question of the water needs for the communities cannot writing to mentes cyclist adis, los angeles and phoenix but also the need of native species and affects on native americans etc. and to get a complex mix. finally an example and going to reference in terms of our department interest in water deals with a science side we are a major science agency, united states geological survey is part of department of interior and we threw the usgs have the longest and most comprehensive analysis of water supply in the united states. we've run thousands of stream engages in rivers and lakes and waterways throughout the country in half for years. this water database is supplying the guts of our analysis of water impact due to climate change. likewise, terrific not water analytical capabilities to the usgs. many of your scientists know that. so we are a bit of a laboratory i would argue at the department of interior for this intersection between

they should not be allowed to do that, etc. i would be curious in designing systems, what are the one are two things that you think we could do that would fundamentally health organization's realign themselves, beyond making things illegal. if there's something structural that we could do to the system. and maybe quarterdeck, you spent a lot of time -- and maybe corps to that, he spent of time looking at companies. i'm wondering if there's something different about the ones that you thought maybe there was going to be something wrong, but it turns out they were operating just fine. >> that is a great question. i'm not sure if i can give you the latter part of the answer. the ones that were operating properly. but is an important question that should be answered. i could answer in platitudes, but nothing that i have thought about in terms of the specific answers. again, i think is scale. i would come back to too big to fail. this is not a lawyer analysis. this is in -- a baking analysis. -- this is a banking analysis. we have no

could then swap for the book and then when they bought the book they would get a line letter, abc, etc.. so we called people live in groups of 50. they would line up, that allows people to browse the store, where they are comfortable and only actually stand in line a short period of time. we bring them up in groups, 50 by letter. they go through, get the book signed, shake her hand and then free to shop or go home. this is certainly a unique situation as far as the national media. we are fairly familiar with all of our cincinnati media partners but the national media network media we have quite a bit but we are thrilled to welcome -- german tv, a canadian tv, some of the network entertainment programs that have been following is palin on the tour and of course good friends of c-span. >> finally for people who don't know joseph beth booksellers how can you describe it? >> we are eight regional bell company. we began in lexington and are in lexington and cincinnati and then after the first couple of years they restarted in memphis and nashville and decided to retire and the succession pl

there are many things they can do for us, training capacity etc., etc.. >> is there a template that is other examples of oil companies and other -- >> yes, no shortage of templates. have looked at retro crass and stock will and we crafted the bill and the structures we think we put in place on the experience of the other countries but of course we cannot create 100% from what malaysia did or petro, brazil because our own not quite the same as these countries but within the limits of the ability to borrow from other people's experience we have and also to benchmark fiscal so it isn't too harsh or generous. timeframe i feel we need a better part of minimum 12 months, maximum 83, 36 months to put all the reform and the structures moving along nicely as we have to give a result enough time to put things right and also put in place procedures and practices and we are talking [inaudible] to draw modus operandi what are we going to do, what procedures do we need to follow when the bill is passed and then with a time frame on the critical part of the areas of the stages, what period of time. >

i think maybe because if you think about it, the agenda has been driven largely by physical science etc. have said what is the problem in terms of emission targets and various things. what also needs to happen is okay, that's one characterization. why is that important, and taking that next step to say the reason why it's important is because it has these profound effects on public health and we've got to get that message back to the forefront because it once was there in the u.s. ec initial documentation and it somehow has been sidelined. i felt the papers were extremely useful. i mentioned the low carbon trans world plant. i have to say no where in that document does it say there are health benefits to these particularly strategies but looking at some of the papers that have been produced clearly some would have significant health benefits and it is worth while reflecting on what we are doing at the moment when we are looking at mitigation strategies and costing them all out of the costs are about reducing damages from climate change but also costs of taking the mitigation actions. bu

our school system, hospital, local industry, parks and trails, ambulance service and fire department, etc. we are not a dying town. i don't feel we are even sec. thank you.ick. thank you. >> amen to that. >> just to reiterate. just to reiterate i was in colby, kansas, this summer. we might have a little sniffle but they have pneumonia. >> you are absolutely right. >> things have happened here that had to make us look inward. the potential closing of rockwell. you can't just say it won't make any difference. it will. it is part of the unraveling. >> let me just share a little further tidbit about colby. it is so much further down that line. this woman sarah shared with us, she went back to colby and it was christmas of 2007. she stood in the main street on saturday afternoon for three hours. and she met one person in three hours. she said to -- the bank had hiked christmas music over the loudspeaker and it was just echoing off of this empty town. it was the eeriest thing she ever saw. a very poignant way of giving you a window on what can happen when you don't think about what the future c

so the question is what is your favorite -- there are so many, the mob did it, etc. etc. what is your favorite? >> i am in a distinct minority. the question is what is my favorite conspiracy theory and the answer is none of them. i am among one of those crazy people -- he like me until just then. my personal feeling is that the warren commission, that lee harvey oswald assassinate president kennedy. for the purposes of this book, my own view is really irrelevant because i am really looking at what lyndon johnson do within the 12 hours after the assassination. and all lyndon johnson -- while lyndon johnson is flying back he hears the name of the harvey oswald for the first time the first time he hears it is in the connection with the shooting of officer headed. was passing about looking at this issue of who shot jfk in the first 12 hours, what i was struck by separate from all the theories about whether oswald did it or not is how worried lyndon johnson is. informatithe information about oswald coming out and lyndon johnson finds out this man was in the soviet union, that

and so i wrote back and basically said, you know, if you could provide a letter from the president etc. and i'll analyze it, otherwise it'll think so. those would be the unsavory or bizarre. i don't do those. >> if your equation use inputs from analysts, how can they ultimately predict better than analyst in general? how about garbage in garbage out? >> wonderful question. and several answers. first, i teach an undergraduate course called solving foreign crises. my students generally don't have access to analysts or experts, so they told the web, which their mother back than i am. they generate the information of websites. you don't have to have the analyst are the expert. why would the model be better than the analyst? well it would be for exactly what i talk about the d'amato keeps track of more nuanced information. what about garbage in garbage out? there's a wonderful check on whether the data coming in are garbage. so remember the model is dynamic, is predicting change through time, but the first-place is just a reflection of what the data for the current state of the world is. if

been the recent history going back 21994 and every significant case weren't jpmorgan, goldman sachs etc. had got into financial difficulty from speculation the federal government had stepped in and bail them out so they came to accept the fact the government was going to do that. >> host: that was 94 when the big inducements came in. why didn't we see a meltdown in the '90s? >> guest: there were complaints that this was dangerous and going to encourage more risk but the problem is that the cra started to the. >> host: community reinvestment act and in the '90s and until that point the commitments under the cra had been $400 billion which for the overall economy is a large. >> host: if there were excess of the falls of 400 million we could . >> guest: the banks could absorb it and the problem is in eight years running up to the subprime crisis in 2008, around 2000 the cr a commitments in a year's numbered $4.2 trillion. >> host: 2000, there is complicity on both sides of the aisle. you're talking republicans and democrats because people want to know who did this, who made a foolish decis

. -- more staff, etc.?uest: yes, it will make sure that the fda has the muscle and authority to step in and deal with these problems. it is important, we think, that we are in striking distance to get this enacted. it is bipartisan support it. we did some polling at a few terrible trusts -- at duke charitable trusts that nine out of 10 believe this is important legislation. host: we have a link to the food borne illness report at our web c-span.org site. you issued this report ahead of this law, or sort of in conjunction with this bill being developed. guest: yes, the pew charitable trust is part of a larger coalition called the make our food save coalition. at one of our organizations, called the food borne illness protection, actually reviewed the literature and put it away -- put it together in a way that those of us that are not doctors can understand it. if you go to makeourfoodsafe.org you can see that and several other reports on food safety. host: next we go to california. caller: what can we do to

in this case tattoos, specific dress and racial rhetoric and nazi symbols, etc.as a result racial extremists were allowed to exist in our units, 21 soldiers were removed from the service for exhibiting this behavior, but unfortunately after the murders were committed. two soldiers were tried and convicted for these murders. the army determined that we need to update our policy and educate army soldiers and leaders on the patterns of behavior and those policies that require soldiers and leaders to identify such behavior and report it. so that commanders can take appropriate action. commanders options are numerous from counseling, efficiency reporting, ucmj actions and involuntary separation. our commanders then and now, have full authority by army policy to quote prohibit military personnel from engaging in or participating in activities that the commander determines will adversely affect good order and discipline, end quote. i expect strongly after we conduct these investigations, we will find that our policies will need revision again to account for the specific

., etc. -- similar to anyone caring for someone with dementia. but there are nuances when caring for an nfl player. i also learned that our current infrastructure is based on providing services for your grandmother, not for a very large man. the staff at these facilities are afraid and intimidated. i had to buy a full-sized bed because the facilities provided a twin bed much too small for him. my husband was lucky in one way. he has a wife who is educated, who works in health care, the one who fell out the forms and has a good job with the company that offers excellent health care benefits and also happens to be one very pushy broad. he appeared well because he has a strong advocate. but there are many in the same situation and they need help. i speak with family members readily -- regularly and help them find doctors and other services. i simply sometimes just talk to distraught women and help them get through it. they turned to me because they have no place to go and they are finding they will -- finding their way. what do i want to see come ou

which requires that we declare a recess lunch, etc. and we will resume after a series of votes. as early as we can. which will be about an hour? half-an-hour? probably 45 minutes to an hour. committee stands in recess. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> the chair recognizes the bill hunt, distinguished gentleman from massachusetts to continuing the discussion. >> i have made a note, and now i am fumbling for them. this has been a very informative hearing i thought i saw doctor canton, is he still with us? i take it he has left. maybe somebody on the panel can answer this question, and obviously it is a medical question. the term cte, and what i have read it has the information, the research done has come from a result of autopsies. is there a technology now that exists that allows for the diagnosis on determination of cte in a young male that is alive? i don't see anyone that knows the answer. >> i'm not qualified. >> everybody is looking at me. i'm not a neurosurgeon or a neuropathologist, so doctor mckee, doctor maroon, doctor morgan lander will be able to

., etc. and the opponent was an honest guy, but he was a ford dealer from a small town. he said he wanted to say about his opponent that he was a really honest guy, a deacon of the church, in the rotary club, and if he had to buy a ford, he said he wanted them to know that he would buy it from him because he was the kind of guy that would give you a good deal and something happens to your car, you take it in, he would fix it for you, give you a loner, let you use it, and that is just the kind of guy fred is. he said if he had about two, he would have to go somewhere else because he was not big enough to handle the deal -- if he had to buy two, he would have to go somewhere else because fred was not big enough to handle the deal. in that i think is a lesson that sometimes the scalpel can be very effective. i want to introduce the moderator of this next panel and let him go through it. i say this in all sincerity -- if you ask people to name the three best political journalists of the last 20 y

., etc., etc. the technology breakthroughs will happen in our country's. but we didn't have to create a mechanism that funds the transfer of the technologies in a way that while protecting intellectual property, also ensures that we move quickly to ensure that these countries as they develop with her four to 5 billion people who are going to come into this new economy in the 21st century don't repeat the same mistakes we made in contributing to this problem that has warmed the planet to dangerous levels. i think we can do that and you're right. it is the kind of partnership that we should have. carbon capture and sequestration is a good example. i bizet, china, india, russia, other countries are going to continue to burn coal. at rapid rate. so we have a responsibility to find the smartest ways of sequestering that co2 and then moving that technology to other parts of the world. so there is no option in other words, to try to go down clean coal agenda. and talking about it like it is an oxymoron, l

., etc. -- similar to anyone caring for someone with dementia. but there are nuances when caring for an nfl player. i also learned that our current infrastructure is based on providing services for your grandmother, not for a very large man. the staff at these facilities are afraid and intimidated. i had to buy a full-sized bed because the facilities provided a twin bed much too small for him. my husband was lucky in one way. he has a wife who is educated, who works in health care, the one who fell out the forms and has a good job with the company that offers excellent health care benefits and also happens to be one very pushy broad. he appeared well because he has a strong advocate. but there are many in the same situation and they need help. i speak with family members readily -- regularly and help them find doctors and other services. i simply sometimes just talk to distraught women and help them get through it. they turned to me because they have no place to go and they are finding they will -- finding their way. what do i want to see come ou

in the allow me to really be creative with and then i would send out a hand on my e-mail via e-mail etc. and they would get back with information. that process went back and forth after i finish the book on election day. then after that i was able to go through an editing process with my editor pour another month so all in all i was able to get the book out by late january early february online at amazon.com. slowly there has been this growing momentum for the book and people are very interested in the book. is in some local bookstores in l.a. but the more i hear people of the festival here i realize this is a hot-button issue, people really remember the specific case like i remember that, i remember that. so it's a history book and it's fantastic because years from now people will look back and say, you know what, maybe i shouldn't have said that. maybe tom brokaw should have said that. no one has ever taken on the media. i'm not a member of the media and if i work for cnn i doubt i would have written about them but i don't work for anyone so i wrote about anyone from the l.a. times wr

participate in a better way, and a lot of the measurements measure information gained, better reasoning, etc. i would like to see the role of communication is largely figured as information exchange or the information aspect of communication. this is not just a simple, i give you information, you give me some. it is seen as a better way to expand reasoning and thinking. information exchange is important. as is the question about how communication technologies to better distribute technology. but communication and scholarship and media scholarship tell us that there are other aspects of communication that are really important to pay attention to. issues of recognition, the construction of shared her wry sense of expectation, and simple rituals of establishing community are incredibly important at any moment of communication. this seems to me a lot of what is happening in the delivery of that poll. i wonder whether deliberation is as much about community as it is about information and rational thinking. the importance of the role of community formation is shown in the design of the polls. that

the girls will blurt out names, etc. that's all fun. the girls love meeting me and i loved meeting them and i don't know what cary is talking about. >> sheer misinterpreted the situation? >> sadly because i have a good heart and i'm nice to people. the pageants have become so successful not because i'm a bad person. i'm really nice to people. i will go further. the ones that i know can't win, i'm nicer to them. i actually go out of my way. i don't say i feel sorry for you, but i go out of my way to be nicer to the girls that i know can't win. >> make them feel comfortable. you are a very, very friendly guy and i want to ask you about this, donald. larry asked care be the comments about her regarding the sex tape. you told extra she is trying to act like a nun. maybe she should release the tape and see whether or not she is a nun. here's what carrie told larry king. >> i have so much respect for him. i think he was thrown into the middle of this and i respect him as a business man and i know at the end of the day, he has to listen to the

health professionals, doctors, health insurance, hospitals, etc.n the past, finance, wall street is typically the top source for lobbying spending. now, the writing has been on the wall. healthcare has been ramping up for this debate. that has been the no. 1 broadest sector for spending. host: looking at the balance, it's not so much that there's not as much money in the financial sector because of the collapse of a number of companies, but it indicates the ramp up of the debate in washington. guest: yes, health care became the no. one sector in 2006. at that point, it was clear that something would be done. some legislation would be passed. at that time, health-care ramped up and leapfrogged over wall street. host: for sheila krumholz, let's get to some phone calls as we discussed monday and its role in the debate over health-care. let's begin with a phone call from colorado. casey on the democrats line, good morning. caller: why is it that only one democratic senator is being paid off for their vote when there are fiv50 states and 100 senato. it

this is the government's fault because of the community reinvestment act, etc.hose things were in place for decades. this never happened before. with community reinvestment act, for example, it only applies to banks and two-thirds of the subprime mortgages, including most of the worst parts of it that were made by non-banks. it is money and apply. i think we should be little more careful in trying to target what it is. your broader point is super- important. the leveraging of the consumer balance sheet had to happen. -- the leveragdeleveraging of tr balance sheet had to happen. consumption growgrowth got to be equal to income. >> your question, sir. >> thank you for your remarks. i am a little concerned about the use and misuse of " economic forecasts into the future by the administration. the self-fulfilling prophecy aspect of it, if you say that it is a long, hard road to recovery, perhaps you're worth and make that a reality. what businessman is when to rush out and hire workers when you see the 8% unemployment rate eight years from now? >> if the alternative

my question is, is the indian government trying to get together the new technologies in agriculture, etc ensure the well-being of its people? host: thanks for the call, david. ashley tellis you have been in the u.s. since 1985, born and raised in india. guest: that is correct. the good news is that indian -- india has sufficient food production. the bad news is that the border supply -- the water supply that we take for granted is something that we will have to do much better to maintain the performance of the agriculture production over the long term. part of it is that there is climate change. the water table in india is dropping quite precipitously and the use of water in indian agriculture has not been very efficient. one of the things that will come out of this visit is a very big program between the u.s. and india with respect to a joint research and agriculture and development -- in agriculture and development, particularly with high-yield seeds. we will see much more cooperation in the future. host: richard is joining us in silver spring, md., good morning. caller: good morning,

included infrastructure solutions to the distracted driving problems such as rumble strips, soft barriers, etc.? >> go we don't know that yet. we are in the process of just really starting putting together the sort of conceptual stage, the dot reauthorization, the highway bill. right now, everybody knows, we are distracted in the senate by health care. and even though i'm not on the two health care committees, i mean, it's just living out there and it is hard to get other people to focus on anything. but will happen i think, late this year and early next year is it you will see start to gear up. there will be, let's see, three i think different committees that will deal with the bill. the commerce committee is one. and we have a pretty good piece of it. we will be looking at those types of things to see if they should be included. of course, we will be working very close with transportation, state highway departments and various safety groups, and just people from around the country to talk about what should be included in this. so it is a good suggestion, and my sense is there will be somethi

democratic party interacts, works with, runs, cooperates with, or doesn't work with, cooperates with, etc, with the democratic presidential campaign that's going on in that particular year, take up paul's question. i think we're talking about statutory -- local state statutory in ohio, the statutory laws, i'm sure most states have the party organization that we look at in terms of doing the leadership and members and how they interact. we have a variety of cooks, and you know the story about the cooks so. there were some issues that are yet unresolved in this paper about how things worked out. we did take the view, however -- let me introduce some of the co-authors. dr. bloomberg is here, and actually, we started with her, because she was recruited by the local party to be the coordinator of the campaign for clinton's second election in 1996, and so it was through her eyes that we watched this unfold and got the sense of how the coordinated campaign worked and what its characteristics were in 1996. and then if we fast forward to this 2008 obama campaign, which many of you have talked abou

they want to check into their lifestyles to see who they were, what they did for a living, etc. there's a lot of work to be done. a lot of these questions will not be answered until the investigation is at a close. >> any suggestion that drugs may be involved here? >> that's a possibility. you know, these individuals that certainly, you know, have contact with other individuals who get involved with drug activity but i tell you something that wasn't mentioned that i'm curious about. did this suspect videotape some of the murders? this guy is a serial killer and i'm sure the police are going to be looking for evidence like a videotape. >> i hope they succeed in i.d.'ing all of the victims. people are worried about missing people. thanks for your expertise. we appreciate it. thank you. >> you're welcome. >>> breaking news as this investigation continues and they turn anthony sowell's house inside out looking for still more victims, nancy grace will have the late breaking developments. don't miss nancy tonight 8:00 and 10:00 eastern here on hln. the parents of missing virginia tech

was there an insufficient focus on non-state actors, terrorism, the growth of islamic fundamentalism, etc you are talking about the whole time in the '90s? >> as you have written and eric edelman has written in a wonderful paper we will discuss later, there is a lot of planning and the entire clinton administration -- i totally agree with that -- taking it together, conflating it, do you think that planning did not give sufficient attention to looming threats that were emerging and to areas of the world that merited much more focused than you gave it? >> first of all, we did give it a lot of focus. [unintelligible] i will repeat what i said a few minutes ago. i'm not claiming to much prescience, we did not predict the invasion of kuwait, but we did say this is a potential source of enormous instability. here you have not only huge riches in the gulf, but the lifeline of the western world in the hands of six very weak countries with a northern neighbor that as the fourth largest army in the world. it is dangerous and we need to think about how to deal with it. we did not expect to be deali

it turns out the public subsidizes their workers with food stamps, insurance, etc. will with the true cost of their product to be? thank you -- what would the true cost of the product be? thank you. guest: i've never heard a whisper that wal-mart has made any effort to buy all kenyans. the unions have taken a number of due -- to buy off all unions. the unions have taken a number of a vigorous runs at walnut creek two unions and the country set up anti-wal-mart groups. a lot of the criticism in the last three or four years has been pointed and driven by data, the criticism not coming from a good journalism coming from those two groups. the unions develop a slightly different strategy to attack wal-mart's practices publicly rather than continue to try to organize them. i don't think the unions are being bought off. as i said, i am not an expert at all on unions in america. the largest industries in the country are no longer unionized. the cost of a particular product -- there have been all kinds of studies about wal- mart's tax subsidies, always looking for a realisti

in this case tattoos, specific dress and racial rhetoric and nazi symbols, etc.as a result racial extremists were allowed to exist in our units, 21 soldiers were removed from the service for exhibiting this behavior, but unfortunately after the murders were committed. two soldiers were tried and convicted for these murders. the army determined that we need to update our policy and educate army soldiers and leaders on the patterns of behavior and those policies that require soldiers and leaders to identify such behavior and report it. so that commanders can take appropriate action. commanders options are numerous from counseling, efficiency reporting, ucmj actions and involuntary separation. our commanders then and now, have full authority by army policy to quote prohibit military personnel from engaging in or participating in activities that the commander determines will adversely affect good order and discipline, end quote. i expect strongly after we conduct these investigations, we will find that our policies will need revision again to account for the specific

terrorists and wires and promoting a sexual abuse of women and use the n-word, verbal pornography, etc., and they are the owners of the dolphins. it is ironic that they were approved as an honored on the day that you made your statement against rush limbaugh. i would point add to the committee that the statement that rush limbaugh seems to be the one that survives the criticism. "we had a little social concern in the nfl. the minute -- the nfl has been very desirous that a black quarterback do well. they are interested in black quarterbacks doing well. i have scoured this to find something that could be applied as racism on the part of rush limbaugh. i cannot find it. there's an implication of racism on the part of the media. that is the only " that has survived as britain -- the scrutiny. there were at least nine quotes and eight were complete his fabrications. they are complete fabrications and the one that remains stands true and shined the light against the media, not against rush limbaugh. if you're concerned about this, mr. dell -- mr. goodell, are you prepared to put the same ch

to identify and report to the chain of command any of this type of the extremist behavior, rhetoric, etc. that was clearly one of the problems we had at fort bragg inside our unit. it was being tolerated by the soldiers and also being tolerated by the immediate chain of command to a certain degree. it is unclear in my mind that we have in the military today and in our army units clear, specific guidelines as to what is jihadist extremist behavior. >> right. >> how do you identify this behavior? how does it manifests itself? i think that is one of the things that this investigation will probably determine, as i said in my remarks. i believe the department of defense will more than likely have to issue some very specific guidelines, as we had to do after the racially-motivated murders and the skinhead extremism we had enormous in the '90's. >> we will definitely pursue that. that may be an area of recommendation for us. so the best of your knowledge now existing army policy about extremism is general or is it more focused based on the fort bragg case on white supremist activity? >> the arm

world's second richest nation, or germany, the third richest or britain, france, italy, spain, canada, etc. the health care systems would have given her the standard treatment for lupus and she could have lived a normal life span, but nicky white was a citizen of the world's richest country, the united states of america. once she was sick she couldn't get health insurance. like tens of millions of her fellow americans, she had too much money to qualify for health care under welfare but to little money to pay for the drugs and doctors she needed to stay alive. she spent the last months of her life frantically writing letters filling out forms, mr. president, pleading for help. when she died, nicky white was 32-years-old. that is the story that should move everyone of us, but everyone of us to action. we have spent years studying and analyzing what is working in our health care system and what's not working. what it comes down to is this, too many of our fellow citizens are suffering because the broken promises of a health insurance system that abandoned them when they need the most. too man

it is in the brains of the people, not the corporations, etc. that's a very important thing. over their own interest. thank you very much. >> that was a useful comment. i will not put it to the panel. i think it speaks for itself. thank you very much for that. could you tell us who you are? >> gas. mr. wyden from switzerland, working for the swiss government. you ought not make comments, but one comment. let me commend you, let me commend you all having written this report and taking opposition, this as a comment, and thank you to accomplish to israel, my father-in-law. you was involved in attribute to water. so this is a common. now my question is, for you, the multilateral financial institutions, not only of the world bank but also of the regional bank, where should the league, where should they follow, and where should they just quit and not stay in the way? >> that's a good question. maybe you want to kick off on that. >> i think returning to the position that it held in the first, it should be helping the developing countries to invest in infrastructure. for many years t

think about the whole situation, one of the reasons why it when people talk about national security, etc it was initially the alliance between cuba and russia, and yet, we never put a ban on travel into russia, and we always had a conversation with the russian government -- had conversation with the russian government, now in the g-20 and other places, and it seems that when cuba was a threat to the united states, it was only because of russia and the missile crisis and not because of cuba in and of itself, so i do not see where cuba is a threat to the united states of america at all at this particular point. that being said, let me just ask ms. antunez that recently the president of the united states ended all restrictions to cuba by cuban americans, and i was wondering whether you believe such travel should be prohibited or whether the cubans should be free to go to cuba. >> i am sorry. could you repeat the last part of your question? >> whether or not such trouble -- travel by cubans to cuba be allowed? cuban-americans. >> [speaking spanish] >> in the first place, any terrorism -- tou

if you count people who are sort of look alliance, maybe al qaeda types, etc., the amount of damage of these terrorists have done consists of two -- 200, 300 and possibly four hundred deaths per year they have committed. those are too many, but it is not exactly a cataclysmic as a tuition. nonetheless, the threat that has come from this group has been massively inflated. and so that we have gone this idea that it is world war iii or islamo-fascism is all over the place. the most extreme case with george bush after 9/11 in which she said we now must rid the world of evil. i checked to see if a newspaper picked that up and none did the previous week except for a paper in new orleans which said george bush perhaps over promised. my ideas strength to -- his idea was to outdo his father's by getting saddam the same. at any rate, it was massive extrapolation of one is a relatively minor problem. it is a problem and something to deal with. i do not even think it is a threat, but it is out there. i thought it may have gone away with the obama administration but just last week, a major adviser

the use of small print to hide and pharmaceutical secrets, does this mix with that, etc., all of this is in the fine print. they say you should have read the fine print. that infuriates me. i think this is a huge problem, main street problem, american problem. it is classic creed. the sad part is these big companies are getting $10 per month, $19.95 per month, and these web companies can raise it to whatever they want. there is nothing stopping them, right? they can raise it to whatever they want. they try to figure out what the break point is where you go bananas and you suddenly realize, and then you close it down. at fine arts, beware if you are a consumer. i worry about this, frankly, because the holiday shopping season is just beginning, were all over the country people and economic distress will be spending a few dollars they have on holiday shopping because they have children and grandchildren and that is what parents and grandparents tend to do. my second thought is, my message for the companies to profit from tracking consumers into joining their clubs, and then they say what

processes in place for emergency use authorization so that if this pandemic were to become much more severe etce would be able to shift to other products under emergency use authorization and aspen part of our planning since 2005. >> if something kids that we don't know about and look at this time than i guess we identified it and then isolate people until we can roll out -- >> absolutely -- there are several mitigation steps and one of the things we did this summer was up a guidance for mitigation. when what to do with the current level of severity and what we might do it a virus mutated and was much more severe so no automatic school closures and the setting but as things change substantially we would go too much more disruptive intervention and so we do have things we are available having knowing the vaccine supply might not come soon enough. >> dr. goodman and. >> i really appreciate your comments and we want to have a very agile public-health response especially in emergency. i do want to mention in that respect it took us about adair two when there was a need for anti-viral, not approved

this week the house is going to vote on the democrats' late etc. plan for pelosi's government-run health insurance. the bill is ,000 pages long, weighs 20 pounds and costs more than $1 trillion with over 400,000 words in it that comes out to $2.5 million a word. the bill creates 111 new bureaucracies that will decide what kind of government-approved health care is best for your family and you. speaker pelosi wants america to believe this is the only way to reform health care. but i know there's a better solution. that's why i introduced the small business health fairness act my bill, h.r. 2607, allows small businesses to band together to purchase health insurance so they can enjoy the same bargaining power large corporations and labor unions have at the purchasing table. we know that buying in bulk reduces the price tag and health care is no different. government health care is not the way to solve the problem. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. for what purpose does the gentleman from kentucky rise? >> request permission to addres

., etc..ared bernstein. [applause] how come he didn't have to wear a tie. [laughter] it's an honor to be back here at brookings. thank you, bruce at the metropolitan policy program for hosting this defense. i see many old friends. it's great to have the chance to address this high caliber audience about the economic challenges we face tall levels of government, national, state, local. i am especially happy to be here local elected officials, and i bring the mayor's greetings from my boss, sheriff joe biden. he wanted me to tell you he will be calling soon to catch up on how the recovery act is working out. i want to give a special shout out to major ara from philadelphia who played a key role in our first middle class task force meeting in philadelphia. on reading job opportunities in major metropolitan areas and do you realize that was only nine months ago? it feels like ten years. i don't know if that means time is going slowly or quickly. it seems like a long time. by the way, just to bring