. >> caroline flint just resigned yet last night she came out and gave you her full support. what does that say about the support for other ministers, are they going to resign now? >> she was and has been a very good minister. >> caroline flint is a very close friend of the former communities secretary who resigned wednesday. the pair shared the view that

caroline flint given extremely supportive interview. it seemed like she was expecting promotion. her resignation letter was devastating. she wrote, you have a two-tier government, your inner circle and the remainder of cabinets. she said that several of the women attending cabinet have been treated by u.s. little more than female window dressing. she went on, i am a natural party loyalists. you have strained every sinew of that loyalty. the prime minister have told -- said that he was told by his father to always tell the truth. they came very close to accusing him of lying. >> you said you're going to be candid, you are not being candid. everyone in this room knows that you wanted -- that that is what you wanted to do. all of your closest aides said you wanted to sack the chancellor. at the last minute, you have not been able to do it. >> the fact is, many journalists in the room will tell you that they had received such a briefing from #10 sources that alistair darling was finished. gordon brown has a reputation for giving somewhat boring press conferences. not this one. this i

. >> caroline flint just resigned yet last night she came out and gave you her full support. what does that say about the support for other ministers, are they going to resign now? >> she was and has been a very good minister. >> caroline flint is a very close friend of the former communities secretary who resigned wednesday. the pair shared the view that she had been very harshly treated by the prime minister. >> but under we understand extreme pressure from downing street, carolines let last night getting very supported interview effectively killing off speculation she was about to resign. it seemed like she was expecting promotion. a resignation letter was devastating. she wrote to the prime minister you have a two-tier government. your inner circle and then the remainder of cabinet. several other women she said attending cabinet, myself included, have been treated by you as little more than female windowdressing. she went on, i am a natural party loyalist. you have strained every sinew of that loyalty. meanwhile, back at a press conference the prime minister told reporter

next week we will travel to flint, mich. to look at the economy there and all next week we will focus on the economy. university of maryland economist peter morici will join us next sunday at 9:00 to give us a broad overview. in a couple of minutes john taylor will join us. if you want to send a tweet to talk about the federal reserve you can do so at c-spanwj. some political stories here in washington, senator john ensign, republican of nevada, returning to washington but the headline, questions on the affair linder. also this morning of "roll call, " mensign to face the music. pointing out he is expected to address his gop colleagues at a weekly luncheon today to try to turn the page on a high-profile sex scandal that is the real is rising political career -- career. while no one knows exactly what he will say to its fellow senators the move is increasingly familiar one for about of republicans, including senator david vitter and former senator ted stevens and larry craig, while facing scandals of their own, going before t

host: what do you do in flint? caller: i work for a water pollution plant. people are struggling. people in the car industry. everybody i know is unemployed. eight years ago, people were working and still building cars and doing well. now people are struggling. it is due to the poor management of the last president. host: we will be back shortly. we will be looking at the status of health care reform next. we will be right back. them every weekend booktv has the latest nonfiction books and authors on the cspan2. saturday on afterwards, writers and artists from the garden of eden to today. the history of the world through a collection of 600 short stories. afterwards also airs sunday night at 9 eastern. books on the economy, a former investment banker exposes the mess of the recession and what it will take to recover. and why capitalism is the way to ease poverty.

of those improprieties and folks like caroline flint and others, including the former defense secretary, margaret beckett, i believe, has had some issues and tax reimbursements. both cameron and gordon brown have had to come up and it has hurt him. >> this is what part -- record and brown said. "to be honest, i'm not interested in what companies being in power. i would worry if i never returned to those places, down the street, checkers, and it probably be good for my children." he went on to say that labour could win the next election. >> he has to say that last statement. it does not say that, he would be justified in getting a new leader. it is very hard to be at the tail end of a long issue like this. it is now brown after blair. the party is exhausted. there tends to be more corruption at the pet to a level. they have been in power too long. it is very hard to be a leader showing bigger to the nation at that point. der that shows vigor to the nation at that point. brown has played his hand remarkably badly, including that line about fighting on. obviously much less heroic in church

ok, caroline foot, but she was not in the -- carolyn flint, but she was not in the cabinet. >> she says, with her arm on her back. >> yes. what is clear from this is that we are not going to get a coup from within the cabinet. on the other side of the coin, will there be some kind of coup from the back benches of? it seems clearer and clearer that there is a lack of coordination among the backbench rebels. they are less confident now that aaron johnson is an alternative waiting in the wings now that he has been promoted. if gordon brown goes, that means an earlier election and that will lose their seats. i think that borden is in a stronger position than he was last night. -- i think that gordon brown is in a stronger position now that he was last night. >> there are a few other problems for gordon brown. >> yes, the daily telegraph is back on the expenses trail again. it is said that he claimed expenses on two different properties simultaneously. downing street says that these expenses have gone into and have been cleared by the house of commons and checked by the fis office. for any a

two members of congress, dave camp of michigan and brad sherman of california and flint leverett discusses whether ahmadinejad really one iran's election. -- really won iran's election. friday night is the annual radio and tv correspondents dinner, and we will bring it to you live from washington. this year's eve and will be hosted by actor and humorous john hodgeman. you can watch it live at 9:45 p.m. eastern on c-span. today, patrick leahy talked- about dozen nomination of judge sotomayer to the supreme court and the confirmation hearing. senator leahy is introduced by the president of the leadership conference of civil rights. this is 35 minutes. [applause] >> good morning. it is indeed a good morning. i am privileged to be the professor of public interest kalashnikov year at the university of the district of columbia -- of public interest here at the university of the district of columbia. for those of you who do not know, the leadership conference is the premier civil and human rights coalition with over 200 national organizations working to build an america as good as its ideas, so t

what should the work rules be at the flint plant? what should the salaries be in the executive offices? where can conferences be held? someone will want to know why the gm volt is by a battery made in south korea instead of in the congressman's congressional district. there will be lengthy questions about the number of holidays. thousands of written questions demanding thousands of written answers, all of it under oath, so lots of lawyers will need to be involved. and it's not just the congress we have to worry about. the president has already called the mayor of detroit and assured him that he is on his side keeping out of the company's hair and give them a chance to succeed, and it will create an investor fan base of 120 million or so americans who are now stockholders in those companies who may be a little more interested in what the next model of chevy might be. think the fan base of the green bay packers whose ownership is distributed among the people of green bay. this is the fastest way to get back to the wise principal. if yo

flint from the new america foundation. i would like to take back to the part of the remarks which you identified some of the

-arab relations, to add to flint's line of questioning and your response, about ethnic divisions and mujahedeen, et cetera, where would you put the u.s.-funded broadcast into iran from the clinton administration, on wards, allegedly to drive a wedge between the government and the populous, on one hand, and, the los angeles-based broadcast as well. could this in any way be a game-breaker, game-changer, if the iranians said we want both of those stopped as well bass we don't do that to you and we are trying to -- because we don't do that to you and trying to discuss and have diplomatic debates on an equal footing. >> i will not dodge your question, by pleading ignorance, but, i have to plead ignorance, i really don't know what these outfits do. i don't know what our official broadcasts say to the iranians, whether or news or whether more politically oriented ac nal sees and -- analyses, i have no idea what the people in l.a. are doing, there is one simple pointed, however we cannot do anything that restricts or freedom of expression and i'm not quite sure whether that freedom of expres