host: everett, republican line. caller: i have to disagree with the guest today. i think that the nuclear weapons are a vital part of america's national security armaments. i think that if the united states were subject to a dirty bomb attack, we should reserve the right to use nuclear weapons to protect the country. secondly, if israel were attacked, we should reserve the right as well. we have a longstanding policy of not giving up the right to use nuclear weapons. obama's policy is a radical departure. i disagree with your attitude about the cold war. the cold war was a legitimate defense against a tyrannical power and i do not understand why you do not have a belief that the united states was doing the right thing. guest: on the first question, but i do not think that there is any reason to retain a role for nuclear weapons to potentially respond to chemical or biological weapons threats. they are not nearly on the order of magnitude of the threat posed by nuclear weapons. what does this say to the rest of the world that the united states, the most dominant co

. >> hastings going labor, selfgate, labor and everett won or dreamed of it before that historic election. >> in 2005 the way we voted last time around, it is often said that this election will be fought and the won on a few small areas. i will show you how vulnerable particular seats actually are. this is a patchwork map. it looks confusing but i will talk you through it. the dark blue and red, those represent the safest seats. look at the pale colors, this little primrose color for the s&p in scotland, slightly lighter green in wales. this gives you a sense of more vulnerable seats. we are going to look at labor in particular to give you a sense of one example. these risky pinks compared to the dark red, be safe seats and possibly the most interesting battleground seats. >> these of the seats the tories need to gain for an outright majority of the house of commons. the suburban seats and the south, a couple interesting speaks. xs in the cultural secretary. two cabinet ministers could lose their seats to the conservancy's if they really do win an outright majority. >> a couple of key num

the army began its transition everett's conducting fair opportunity opportunities for the requirements we awarded all three of the kuwait task orders by 2008 but we were delayed by moving to transition of the work by serious protests. the government accountability office dismissed the protests, allowing us to proceed and transition was completed in june, 2009.

would europe be open to that question of should we anticipate that after what everett the security council does or does not come up with? lastly, almost every tree of this nature has been a conversation of the numbers. we have not talked numbers at all. are they not impressive or is it about something else? that is a lot so i will stop there. >> on the iran question, i am operating under the assumption that the meeting in prague is very important to us to get sign-off and the following week there will be a meeting with the chinese. that may be overly ambitious but that looks to be the case of sequencing from my standpoint. the russians are closer to us on this. the hope has always been that you get the russians which will help bring the chinese along. i have always been intrigued by the idea of let's see because the chinese traditionally have been quite happy to hide behind russian opposition to sanctions and russian vocal opposition on a lot of issues that the chinese are not particularly enthusiastic about it. on the iran sanctions, it will be interesting with the obama administration, t

everett was then who does your taxes. do it yourself, too -- what's the hope of anyone doing it themselves? >> i have a parent i have had for 15 years to does my taxes with my health -- i have a preparer i had for 15 years who does might taxes with my help. i just got a good service from him for the last 15 years. i will not give you a name. >> thank you for coming today. >> thank you. [applause] >> we would like to thank the national press club staff including its library and broadcast operations center for of today's event. for more information about joining the national press club and how to acquire a copy of today's program go to our web site. thank you very much for attendance and thank you to our speaker. this meeting is adjourned. [applause] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2010] g, >> consequences of the type of fiscal behavior that we see today. it is depressing sometimes in the movement to see what appears to be a lack of listening to the

lincoln spoke, but before him, edward everett, a former president of harvard spoke. and it was a self-educated frontiers and president, abraham lincoln, and not the supreme late well-pedigreed former president of harvard and the first american to receive a ph.d., it was lincoln who gave the speech whose accents of rain down through the ages. -- ring down through the ages. by celebrating the 50th anniversary of alaskan statehood and the 200th anniversary of lincoln's birth, we were celebrating the same thing. -- the and during frontier spirit of america, which ought to be celebrated and nurtured. we are celebrating the ability of this country to give unprecedented scope to the amazing and unpredictable depths of human potentiality, which cannot be produced a factory like by the right schools or the right social arrangements, but he emerged from the unpredictable and often surprising potential in the hearts and minds and spirits of ordinary people who are left free to pursue their potential. the example of lincoln the frontiers men, and of the state of alaska that call

wyatt everett is here with our forecast. >> the direction is right at us. we're had another day in the mid-80s but temperatures will begin to drop off as we go into the overnight period. take a look at what's coming our way. the radar, look all the way to the very left of your screen, you see a line of thunderstorms just beginning to push into the hagerstown area. that is headed in our direction. in the meantime it will be warm and windy. wind gusts up to 30 to 40 miles per hour. temperatures in the low 80s, still way above average. the rest of the overnight period will look like this: showers and storms moving our way, windy conditions in the evening, and we'll be cooling down rapidly as we push toward friday. much more about friday, weekend, and opening day, what that looks like, all coming up. >>> tonight baltimore city police are investigating the murder of a 72-year-old man, charles bowman was shot to death inside this yow brother's carryout. he was getting food on his way to his job where he worked as a security guard. two people came in to rob it and

at cousin everett's blueberry farm to talk about our blueberry juice inks.th my sweet, ripe blueberries, packed with th-those antioxidants that are good for ya. tastes real good, too! to give you an idea, let's whip up a quick sample. or you could just try this. [ chuckles ] yeah. ocean spray blueberry juice drinks. real blueberries, real good. >>> beginning their journey to the international space station. >> up and away. a rocket with a nasa astronaut and two russian cosmonauts aboard blasted off shortly after midnight eastern time. california native tracy coldwell dyson and the two cosmonauts will join the crew on board the international space station. they'll dock with the space station on sunday. >>> it has been a bad week for the republican national committee. first, there was the embarrassment over that $2,000 tab at a sex theme hollywood night club. and now the rnc admits it accidentally put the phone number of a sex line on a fund-raising letter. callers are offered, quote, talk with a nasty girl. >>> sarah palin's first television special aired las

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at cousin everett's blueberry farm to talk about our blueberry juice drinks. they're made with my sweet, ripe blueberries, packed with th-those antioxidants that are good for ya. tastes real good, too! to give you an idea, let's whip up a quick sample. or you could just try this. [ chuckles ] yeah. ocean spray blueberry juice drinks. real blueberries, real good. >>> in los angeles, the hollywood sign has been rescued again. the big sign overlooking the city was threatened by construction of near account by estate homes, but "playboy" magazine founder hugh hefner donated $900,000 to complete a $12.5 million fund-raising drive that will keep the land free of development. >>> the supreme court has decided to hear a case concerning the sale of violent video games with free speech implications. the case involves a california law that banned the sale or rental of violent video games, including killing, maiming or sexual assault to minors. of it struck down by an appeals court on the grounds that it violated miner minors oo constitutional rights. >>> on moech been th

with respect to everett core, i look the financial group, but there may be better opportunities in that category. >> tom: and you brought along some of those stocks you think are better opportunities. including the on-line retailers, amazon.com. and the stock price around $140 per share. which it has not really be able to pierce lately. >> no, it hasn't. it has been consolidating some of its recent big gains. but we think that is just what it is doing, consolidating the gains and we look for another move up. >> flow serve, f.l.s., is another one you brought with you. it operates in the flow control systems. nice strong rally of 77%, but volume has been lighter as we've been at some new highs here. >> it has been a little lighter. it could pull back here a little bit. like other leadership stocks, they're a little extended here near term. but not greatly so, when you look at the intermediate term foundation of this bottom. i think that the risk to reward, even at these levels, is very attractive. taking a 12 to 18 month perspective forward. >> the next one is crm, the kind of software th

lyndon johnson had everett dirkson on that civil rights bill. obama has had nobody.nd the radical right or conservative right of today has been operating as a leg fist of no. and the fact that obama survived that fist with health care is really his big political accomplishment of his presidency thus far. >> i agree with what you all have been saying about, and i have written that he should find a way to speak more cogently and more, to endorse his point about the poster, more briefly about what all this adds up to. this adds up to a secure middle class. find something to say. because sometimes he, it is almost as though he is running the brookings institution and not the country. and there is nothing wrong with sound bites. ask not, the certificate month-- sermon on the mount was pretty brief. gettysberg address. the most memorable speechs in history are very short. we not talking about edward everett, you know, so a kind of pittiness, i think he needs to get over a kind of intellectual potential snobery about being pithy. but all of that is commentary. he passed a h

everett on the record, everything will be used with your name attached to them at this, or so taken aback or on background, this is an important one because the description that you as a source for whistleblower and you're not use your name, but you're providing information you just afford at the beginning with the journalist and make sure he could the identity come your description i because i describe you to accurately or to precisely communicate in trouble. if i describe you to inaccurately, going to get the public and trouble to serve the public. what a great example when scooter libby tried to be called a congressional source because it worked for 20 years before and went to the judy miller case. it's important for me to be accurate getting the description of an anonymous source and background is essential. there's a thing called the background which is in a more vague description of u.n. off the record, this is an important one in understanding. between this and another record, i can't use it because it came to me, but don't the get of them for my reporting. i'm going to find a webs

my father-in-law was everett dirksen, who in my view was a great senator. lyndon johnson had been majority leader when he was minority leader and they got to be very close and when the president got to be the president, president johnson was elected president, dirksen was leader of the -- republican leader, and they continued their friendship. i remember one day, this is terrible, i shouldn't tell it. one day, i was waiting in his office, to catch a plane back to nashville. and a person came in and said, the president is on the phone, meaning president johnson, and, nobody asked me to leave and i didn't. and, i heard the conversation go like this, no, mr. president, i'm sorry. i'm sorry, i can't come down to have a drink after work. pause. i'll tell you why. i came home late last night and lou well la was mad. and i thought this is remarkable. republican leader, democratic president, on such cordial and informal terms and 15 minutes later i heard a terrible clatter in the reception room, and the first thing i saw were two beagle dogs tied onto one leather l

[laughter] >> my father-in-law was everett dirksen who in my view who was a great senator. lyndon johnson had been the majority leader but he was minority leader and they got to be very close. but when the president -- when president johnson was elected president, dirksen was leader, republican leader. and they continued their friendship. in one day -- this is terrible. i shouldn't tell it. one day i was waiting in his office to catch a plane back to nashville. lee goldman and his secretary came in. >> we're going to leave the remainder of this recorded event and take you live now to state department coordinator of counterterrorism daniel benjamin. he's going to be speaking at the woodrow wilson center in washington. it's just getting underway. live coverage on c-span2. >> within the wilson center. today's meeting is cosponsored by the international security studies program and by our middle east program. the coseries of georgetown professor bruce hoffman sends regrets. he's unfortunately enable to be with us today. i'd like to extend a particular welcome to those who is vi

he carries every county in new england and he is the last republican president to everett carey new york city. coolidge's off of the lines administration provided a wide variety of constructive measures and witnessed unprecedented economic growth. the coolidge prosperity. his policies boasted on still unequal accomplishment triggering a wide lead based economic goal. on a plan it averaged 3.3%. the gross national product increase annually by 7%. per-capita income grew 30%. real earnings for employee wage earners increased 22%. industrial production shot up 70%, the average workweek decreased 4%, consumer prices rose just 0.4%, no inflation at all. national wealth rose 17.5%. total education spending rose fourfold and in the decade of self automobile ownership rose threefold and literacy by half. historian paul ducks in sum it up, quote come under harding and still under coolidge the usa enjoy the general prosperity that is historic week unique in its experience or of that of any other society. coolidge was the last president to write his own speeches and he delivered more of them than an

. >> and in number one sports anchor sitting down with jim everett but actually jim rome. >> we haveay it again. >> i bet i do. >> chris. >> why can't he all just be friends? that's our show for monday. i'll be back this week at 3:00 p.m. eastern looking at america the angry. up neck, not an angry man. a fine man. dylan ratigan. "the dylan ratigan show" is next with the latest on the goldman sachs pullout. is it the tip of the iceberg? dylan, take it away. will everyone with constipation please report to gate 17? thank you so much. constipation's uncomfortable enough, so why take a harsh laxative? phillips' caplets work naturally with your colon... for overnight relief without cramps. phillips' caplets. >>> good afternoon. today goldman sachs hitting back planning a war against our government over accusations of fraud even as countries and companies around the world lineup to investigate the financial giant for its potential war on the rest of us. and new debate about the tea party. tim mcveigh and the legacy of the oklahoma city bombing on the 15th anniversary and also kicking off g

. >> her name is edna everett.screen for more than 50 years now. her bbc talk show the dame edna experience had eight million viewers glued on saturday night to watch her flirt with -- >> looking at my red sea now. you won't be parting that. >> and insult. >> in this light who do you look like your mother or dad? >> who do you think? >> i think you're your father's boy. you're not a nancy boy. >> and occasionally eject her guests. >> i was born in 1930 in edinborough. >> and less interesting and less glamorous than she is. >> when dame edna's first broadway show opened a decade ago, americans fell in love with her too. irrepressible, opinionated and wickedly funny. >> it looks like you tried to put your makeup on in the car. >> and she shares the stage with singer michael reinstein. in fact it's closing today after oath a two-week run. it's a subject that most performers would prefer not to talk about but as you probably know by now, dame edna is not like most performers. >> how do you do? >> you look lovely. >> la

more money has been lost investing in on why is crazy investment schemes everett the point of the gun people will do it to themselves. you're not going to be all to stop bubbles. think they will get rich and they want to believe so fervently that the end up running off a cliff and i think in the industry bad money drives out good money. for the supply of a book advance for writing this book. we have a choice of where to put the money. we chose citigroup because it was the most insolvent bank in the nation. it's owned by all of us taxpayers, 34% owned by the united states government so we felt they were not at risk of going down. they were in the west bank of the united states and we put our money there. we also consider the bank of america which wasn't quite as insolvent as citigroup so we didn't put our money there. where things were functioning normally we should have put our money in the local community bank that was solvent. >> host: and i always joke about all i invest my money in the short term cds of failing banks. after the crisis started banks to offer the highest interest ra

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president and watching mike mansfield and everett dirksen, listening to debates on civil rights in the 1960's when this chamber in difficult moments worked together for the achievements of our country. i have great reverence for this institution and i want to see it work as our founding fathers intended it to that where you have important debate that, we work together. and that's what i intend to do as the manager of this bill, to make sure that each and every one of my colleagues, whether they sit on this aisle or that side of the aisle, we're fall this chamber together to try to improve the quality of life for the people who have been so badly hurt, the homes lost, the jobs that have evaporated, the retirement accounts that have disappeared from people. they want to see us work together to get a job done to make a difference for our country. and i firmly believe that we can do that. and i will do my very, very best, i say to my friend from alabama, i say to the minority leader as i said to the majority leader, to act with fairness, to work together to try to resolve matters so we can

that she should convert herself into the everett coop. he knew he knew more about cigarettes than anybody else. -- you knew that he knew more about cigarettes than anyone else. the accountability is different for each spokesperson. >> questions from the floor. yes? >> i like the clarification from mr. townshend -- from this towns and -- mis. -- ms. town shend. i would like to get that clarification. i point goes to the politicization of intelligence. he made the point that the intelligence community is getting thrown into the politics or policies of the administration. that is something that happens of the foreign intelligence side, not on the domestic side. who and what swears allegiance to the constitution? >> i am happy to do that, because a greater misunderstanding you could hardly have had. there is no question that both foreign intelligence officers and fbi agents uphold and defend -- and for a whole host of legal and policy reasons. there have been great concerns by privacy and civil liberties advocates about the roles of the fbi c

president and watching mike mansfield and everett dirksen, listening to debates on civil rights in the 1960's when this chamber in difficult moments worked together for the achievements of our country. i have great reverence for this institution and i want to see it work as our founding fathers intended it to that where you have important debate that, we work together. and that's what i intend to do as the manager of this bill, to make sure that each and every one of my colleagues, whether they sit on this aisle or that side of the aisle, we're fall this chamber together to try to improve the quality of life for the people who have been so badly hurt, the homes lost, the jobs that have evaporated, the retirement accounts that have disappeared from people. they want to see us work together to get a job done to make a difference for our country. and i firmly believe that we can do that. and i will do my very, very best, i say to my friend from alabama, i say to the minority leader as i said to the majority leader, to act with fairness, to work together to try to resolve matters so we can

that my other government agencies to make the governmengovernment has created a task force which the everett mall it was just thinking about is now part of. where the entire government across a dozen agencies, the irs, sec, citf, d.o.j., hhs, it's a very large undertaking. is working on financial fraud across the whole economy. so what we start as procurement fraud training has now been subsumed into a much larger government wide effort on fraud in the state is spending, and other kinds of potential fraud in government spending. >> about a month ago, the section had a brown bag with, is that jim? >> john, and also debbie majoris and john thornton the private sector. talking about the partnership that we can form in going out to detect fraud. and basically when you look at businesses, they are major consumers and the justice department is really, although this was supposed to be only about several matters, i want to make one play. there are wonderful mentors on the justice department website for who you can contact and what you can do. they will more than welcome your phone calls if you, as a

everett coupe says drugs stop working when people stop taking them.ell, if we really want to do something about complex disease we need to manage compliance on the part of the patient. the other piece, which is more surprising to people is that when you're managing chronic and complex disease, 33% of physicians are not practicing to current evidence-based protocols. the knowledge domains in medicine are getting so deep so fast they can't keep up. they just cannot keep up. right now today from the time landmark evidence is produced in medicine, it takes 17 years before it comes -- becomes standard of practice. and so medco is actually playing a role here. the one part of the health care system that's wired today is pharmacy. all of our 66 million members no matter where they go to get their drugs, whether it's our pharmacies or retail pharmacies, we know what they're taking. and we know whether they're compliant and whether the physician is prescribing what the evidence protocol is saying what to prescribe. we're wired -- our specialist pharmacists are

everett koop said drugs to work for the patient to do not take them. it is very true. [laughter] if we really want to do something about chronic and complex disease, we need to manage compliance on the part of the patience. the other piece would choose more surprising to people when you manage complex disease, a 33% depositions are not practicing current protocol and the reason is the knowledge domains are getting so deep so fast they cannot keep up. they cannot keep up record today from the time milan market evidence is produced it is 17 years to become standard practice. medco is playing a role. the one part of the health care system that is right is pharmacy her call 66 million members no matter where they go to get our drug's retail pharmacies, pharmacies reno with caretaking and a fair compliant or if the -- they are prescribing what is prescribed. know they are looking at the gaps of care and it is important to point* out drugs are the first line of defense for 88% of all chronic and complex diseases. if you manage a patient properly on the drugs, the ability to

everett. he said, throughout his life and career, the reverend dr. hooks never flinched in the face of enormous challenges and his expansive dreams were always grounded in the concerns ands a separations of the least fortunate -- and as separations of the least fortunate -- and as pirations of the least fortunate. it affords opportunity to all, we all have dr. benjamin hooks' shining example to keep us on the right path. dr. edleman wrote of dr. height on her passing, she said, she started with a quote from dr. dorothy height which reads, we african-american women seldom do just what we want to do but always what we have to do. i'm grateful to have been in a time and place where i could be a part of what was needed and we are really grateful that she was in a time and a place where she was needed. dr. edleman says, and i quote again, when she passed away on april 20 at age 98 we all lost a treasure, a wise counselor and a rock we could always lean upon or lean against for support in tough times. at this time i'm joined by the chairwoman of the congre

we cannot run the committee with people talking when everett -- whenever they want without regard to time. i will recognize myself to five minutes to add to my procedural dismay. i am disappointed at the partisan tone here. let's be very clear -- the premier response ability was in the securities and exchange commission. we believe it was clear that the sec was lehman brothers private regulator. mr. cox was a republican member of this committee, appointed by the president to head the sec, because he thought that his predecessor was too interventionist. this effort to put it all on the fed and diminished the role of the sec is a transparent partisan effort. we are here to make sure this does not happen again. that is our major role. the other thing i have to respond to it is a blatant as characterization that we are trying to put capital into these companies. the gentleman from alabama began by saying he disagrees with us, the democrats, because we want to put capital in the companies. he imputed that statement to the gentleman of pennsylvania who made it clear he never said. he then

but, you know, and create knowledge that doesn't mean one has to subscribe to the everett letter in every dotted i. had the theology in the church. >> you know about these big issues i think were proven ourselves to be tolerant and understanding nation. we introduce civil partnerships and therefore we change the laws on homosexuality and said to people if you're gay or straight to the place in british society and i think for many people that was a great liberation and i'm pleased that it does happen in britain in these last few years. i'm human embryology i disagreed with the catholic church because i believe if you can treat a disease by using embryos that are enabling us to make sure that people can be free for some of the conditions that afflict their lives, we should do so under the rifles and i'm sorry that in principle there is a decrease in it with a church on that. on the question of contraception i think we know that in africa, we know around the world that it's important to give women access and choice so that they can make their own decisions and i regret the fact that the cath

expect to see the network involves in offering our things and it may be different than the best everett'sat was a standard before. the free-speech interests is by the content providers that want to speak in a different way that can't find from the status quo as existed in the past. >> we are going to give you the last word. we are indulging and let's have a hand for the panel. [applause] [inaudible conversations] >> and look at the white house were earlier president obama love to visit new england today, stopping in portland's to talk about health care reform after legislation he signed last month. see those remarks live at 3:25 p.m. eastern on c-span. and some other news, the obama administration is setting new gas mileage standards for cars and trucks and the transportation department and the epa said the final rules will require 2016 model year vehicles to reach solutions the targets of 34.1 mpg combined for cars and truck that's an increase of nearly 10 miles per gallon over current standards. now a house hearing on infrastructure spending in the $787 billion economic stimulus package

president and watching mike mansfield and everett dirksen, listening to debates on civil rights in the 1960's when this chamber in difficult moments worked together for the achievements of our country. i have great reverence for this institution and i want to see it work as our founding fathers intended it to that where you have important debate that, we work together. and that's what i intend to do as the manager of this bill, to make sure that each and every one of my colleagues, whether they sit on this aisle or that side of the aisle, we're fall this chamber together to try to improve the quality of life for the people who have been so badly hurt, the homes lost, the jobs that have evaporated, the retirement accounts that have disappeared from people. they want to see us work together to get a job done to make a difference for our country. and i firmly believe that we can do that. and i will do my very, very best, i say to my friend from alabama, i say to the minority leader as i said to the majority leader, to act with fairness, to work together to try to resolve matters so we can