bill: i am not dancing with barney frank.argaret is going to be on with me. >> you are walking around doing a poor what -- doing a turn. bill: listen, i used to be a wicked disco guy. but you are big on this "dancing with the stars." >> what are you, a virgin? what do you do, sitting around at night, watching "the factor"? bill: i have never watched "the factor." i read books. i have to read books so i can understand what you are talking about. >> i liked the show because -- where else are you going to get that these days? bill: i know what you mean because i read books. >> it is like a wicked witch of the east. bill: helen thomas, i was mean to her. what do you make of it? >> her rice bowl is the bust on the president. youmine is to help you get off f the hook. so here goes. ♪ you are so beautiful can't you see? you are everything i hoped for you are everything i need helen, you are so beautiful to meeeee ♪ everybody is happy. bill: i am just happy you did not sing it "off to see the wizard." and that is it for "the o'reilly

frank, do you want to start?>> i don't watch enough programs on the food network to do that i have two doubts i don't know the range of programming. i don't hear a lot of issues we're talking about tonight, up, but i think that the food network and a lot of other things like that, even going to stuff on bravo like top shelf, i think it has made everybody much more self-conscious in various ways. and i made -- in a sense if people are eating in a more conscious list heedless fashion it's probably going to end up or down due to the benefit of issues like less reliant on factory farming and more consumers voting with their palates, let's say, and creating a bigger market for alternatives to that. >> do you want to weigh in on that? >> i agree. it's also helping to regenerate this culture of cooking, which has been totally lost. the majority of meals are eaten in cars that. people eat with one hand. it helps to be shift our focus toward other ways that meals could be, namely deliberate. >> i saw on martha stewart dur

barney frank makes marine and trois net look like a store front lawyer doing pro bono work. the ingreats are running the asylum and the people have got to stop showing up on both sides of these things, with hitler side and unless somebody has actively croaked 6 million of their fellow human beings, we've got to stop throwing this hitler thing around, it's a bad discard. here is my theory on barney, i think that barney has to feel intellectually superior to people because there's more primal self is mortified. he finally becomes a u.s. congressman and falls for the braun any paper towel kid. and he goes out like this, i think he likes to feel intellectually superior and i tell you what, he's pretty good about it. and maybe sort of like frederick meechham meets liberace. barney is a guy who has an attitude and the attitude is, he's always right and if you don't know it, you're an idiot. >> edition it, he loves it. >> he loves it. >> he loves the battle there's no doubt. >> he's in such a wired district, barney could literally come dressed in the barney dinosaur outfit to congr

frank >> often ignoredbut we are listening. are bloggerbetter than tradition reporters at bringing us the rld? is this the future? so we oke to ivan sigal, thexecutive director of global voices online. he pos this questn for our guests he. >> my questi would be, are we really--aree best served by having infoation that is american news, or e we served by having information that comes from all over thworld and gives us a varietyf perspectiveshat we might not have considered? >> ann >> i think we' best served by having opportunity to ar from all voices. i think that pple should--in the future, they ll beble to pick and choose what they want to hear. the demma is going to what's accurate and what's not, a i think that's going to be the al issue beuse people have a hard time. there'a lot of mateal out on the internet now that'considered "reportingthat isn't true, that isn't right and acrate. ani think that understanding how to vet information, information that's ven to you ofthe record, that is not sourced--iean, this is a problem.

frank and gillian thorpe.nce and bob poff of the salvation army and disaster services. he was driving when the quake struck. what's the latest vis-a-vis the salvation army, bob? >> well, larry, i'm pleased to tell you our first teams from our international response team have arrived. they're on the ground and doing work already here in port-au-prince. and tomorrow our first planeload of food supplies arrive and feeling pretty good about that tonight. >> larry: boy, i'll bet. everybody working for the army okay? >> everybody is doing fine, yes, sir. we've been able to account for all of our personnel. you describe doctors as practicing civil war-style medicine. what do you mean? >> reporter: that's right, what i mean is that they can't fully anesthetize, i watched a woman have her foot amputated on the side of the road, she had a local anesthetic, she had some sedation but you know horrifying to watch them amputate a foot while she's still awake and watching it. >> larry: how did she -- well, what did she do? >

when i was interviewed by william frank smith and some of the cabinet members in the reagan to administration, i did not believe for a minute that would be asked to serve. i went back to arizona after those interviews and said to my husband, how interesting it was

often, i think it was charles, often he and the chief whip getting very very frank assessments as to what people were saying, what people thought, what their concerns were and the prime minister then having to engage in that but i mean, you will know from your discussions with them as well that i think sometimes it is said that the last labor government used to have cabinet meetings that were went on for over two days as the prime minister would not think that was a very effective form of cabinet government. he would know what his ministers or his colleagues were thinking, concerns they had and the cabinet table was off to where they were fresh out. >> why wasn't the secretary of state for international development included in this inner circle of people given her department was going to be the lead department on questions to do with humanitarian relief and quite a lot of the dealing with the aftermath of the conflict as well as with its humanitarian consequences? >> that is a very good question and in an ideal world the secretary state for international development would come and sh

i completely agree with frank. the more i learn from personal experience and from extensive studies on afghanistan the less i know. so with that in mind i hope you will indulge me and, perhaps, listen to what i have to say. first of all, we are not dealing with a war. we are dealing with two wars. and when nobody really talks about. the one that is probably the most important, and we can't disconnect it. they are independent of each other. the one that nobody really talks about is the war fought right here in washington, d.c. within the beltway. this will have far more impact on whatever is happening in afghanistan than probably what is happening in afghanistan itself. this war is fought under exaggeration and hysteria and terms that actually hide the reality on the ground in afghanistan. it is driven by native political ambition, rather than international interests. and it pleads to very strange bedfellows, as we see right now with the president has far more support with republican than he has with his own party.

frank if he could rerun the tape, what would he have had in place. and he said well, we didn't have the regulate the things that went awry, cause all this. with those things that were lacking for mr. frank's observation, would they be forthcoming? >> well, to some extent. i think what he's referring to probably for various things which were not in place which frank's legislation and the obama legislation to put in place that the abilio wind down big banks, the fdic didn't really have their big commercial banks they could do it, but lehman brothers, or goldman sachs, or morgan stanley. [inaudible] >> those are various ones. they didn't have that capacity. that's why they had to bail them out that there was a special bankruptcy provision which government control bankruptcy. you're right, there were large elements of financial system which were just outside the regular choices to. derivatives being one example, but also mortgages largely were not regulated either because they were regulated at the state level. the state regulators were completely over m

franks observation, will they be forthcoming? >> to some extent. i think what he is referring to probably wear various things which were in in place, which franks legislation in the obama legislation to put in place, the ability to wind down big banks, the fdic didn't really have their big commercial banks that could do it but lehman brothers or goldman sachs or morgan stanley. no, there were various one so they didn't have that capacity. that is why have they had to bail them out. there was a special bankruptcy, a government controlled bankruptcy. in terms of regulatory oversight you are right there were large elements in the financial system outside of the regulation system derivatives being one example but also mortgages because they were regulated at the state level, and the state regulators are completely overmanned. and california i think there were 11 regulators regulating the entire mortgage industry and that is where most of the big mortgage companies like ameriquest and ameritrade-- new century and countrywide, they were enormous and cali

. >> barney and frank. here they are. this is your shovel ready project from florida. did the turtle cross the road? to get to the other side. go ahead. go. look. i'll even, i'll even put our messiah, barack obama. c'mon. dashboard obama. go get him. look, a little baby turtles. go get him. i've got a dove bar. uh-oh. uh-oh. that didn't work out well. 3.5 million for a turtle crossing. >> dead fish. >> this is in the center of the fish is what is called a spine. a spine. it runs generally down the fish's back or our back right here. it keeps us erect. it also helps us make tough decisions. sometimes when it's really tough, like i don't know. maybe i should have a little spine. meet my friend larry, the dead fish. here he is. hello, larry. hello, america. larry is here for, well, for the one reason that larry -- whoo! larry. larry is the dead fish that nobody wanted you to see. he was printing up money last week. that's what he was doing. meanwhile, the government, they decided to do a couple of other things. look, it's barack obama. >> the dog. >> they're watchdogs of

she found the diary of anne frank and preserved it and gave it to otto frank when he was released. it was published. the story of a young girl and her hopes during the nazi occupation of amsterdam and the persecution of jews. there are people today that do not believe that the anne frank diary was real. it was indeed real. this lady saved it. she saved history. and taught us what people can do, ordinary citizens, and acts of heroism to protect others in the faces of injustice. i'm pleased to recognize her in the united states congress. we are lucky she came this way. she had a significant impact on the world. thank you, madam speaker. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from arkansas rise? >> unanimous consent to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. boozman: thank you, madam speaker. more than eight years after the september 11 attacks, our country is still fighting against terrorism. the attempted attack on christmas day has renewed the discussion of how to keep our co

in a private meeting on tuesday with 20 trusted top officials, he was more frank and angrier. "this was a screw up that could have been disastrous. we dodged a bullet but just barely." the stern words of the u.s. commander in chief were caused by quote unquote systemic failure, his language, that prevented officials from gaining the data to stop a christmas day al qaeda terrorist plot. a 23-year-old nigerian citizen named oumar if a huk abdul -- umar farouk abdulmutallab. he carried deadly explosives concealed in his underwear. the plane crossed the atlantic and in the approach to the detroit runway, abdulmutallab tried to detonate the bob, it failed. he was then overpowered by passengers. catastrophe was averted powerful enough to have killed all 300 passengers had it occurred on the plane. abdulmutallab was tried in a civil court, not a military one. question, abdulmutallab could have been detained as an unlawful military combatant where he then could have been interrogated by the fbi and others. instead, he was given a miranda advisory that he need not say anything to anyon

if you look at the illustrations which she was not able to look after the age of 12 you will see frank o'connor, howard york, and john wright of to the place where they roll up their sleeves and then hair hangs over there i. some other the when you think about hank and his response to the response to get him to sign away the patent and their reared in metal, you see the re-enactment corrected of what happened to her father in the russian revolution. this is what should have happened. you should have been able to say no. he couldn't. but in ayn rand world, he does. it is the details of her life i was most interested did and i discovered many things that i hope you ask me questions but i think i believe that that. thank you. [applause] >> they give bracket we will open it up to questions. please wait for the microphones we can get you on the tape and i do not immediately see a hand saw no ask the first question. one of the things that i found interesting in your book and i have spread both of these books and i learned things from both of them and they're both very well put together i kne

and frank n. stein. hated and feared for centuries, they are now determined to make up for their past misbehavings by fighting crime wherever they find it. together, we are the "monster squad." >> >> here she is, the adorable swastika matilda and her lovable nazi navigator, herman the german. >> matilda, herman, do you think that this is your turn to be first and foremost in sunny california? >> today, california. >> tomorrow, the world. >> hiya, herman. i hope your buzz bomb has a little more jews senate this year. -- juice and it this year. >> herman the german? >> those were my own clothes. herman the german in "death race 2000," a movie i made for roger corman back in 1977 or 1978. just to give you a little history about how successful he would be, we shot the movie in three weeks and made the money back in six weeks. they did it at a speedway in pasadena. i think they did all the exteriors and interiors at the pasadena civic center. it was work back then. i never thought i would be mortified publicl

and now allow me to briefly introduce the honorable frank williams, recently retired chief justice of the rhode island supreme court who will deliver a few appropriate remarks about this magnificent young lawyer from illinois. judge frank williams hails from rhode island where he served for seven years chief justice of the rhode island supreme court. while serving and not high position, the president of the united states also asked chief justice williams to serve on the military commissions review panel with the rank of major general. judge williams is acknowledged to be one of america's leading authorities on the life and times of the young prairie lawyer from illinois. he has served as founding chairman of the lincoln form, president of the u.s. france association for 12 years he served as president of the lincoln group of boston. and for nine years, as president of the abraham lincoln association. judge williams is the author or editor of over 11 books on mr. lanky and, the latest of which is lincoln lesson, reflections on america's greatest leaders. co-authored with william peters

if you're tommy franks and he's saying this, one can see that tommy franks would pretty well come to the assumption from that, this is what they're going to do, which may be what had happened? >> well, i can't speak for general franks. but what i can say is that when general pigott was sent to tampa sent with very clear instructions that whatever he said or did, whatever discussions took place, were always subject to a very clear political caveat that we had made no decision whatsoever about our involvement. and that was absolutely clear. in a sense your quotation from general reith rather confirmed that. that the -- those engaged knew full well that this was planning. it was preparation. it was what might have to happen if a certain set of conditions follow. but those conditions were paramount. and the absolute paramount instruction to general pigott that we had not taken any political decision, whatsoever, to be involved. >> we had another in september 2002 and there was a big conference of the military at tampa and we were represented at it. and we had meetings beforehand and at t

congressman frank, your turn. we will continue where mary left off, 9, 10, 11 of subsection "c."ney, if you will, place your right hand on paragraph 9. >> barney cannot pronounce twister, never mind do twister. >> your left hand on paragraph ten. >> there. >> there you go. >> get your fannie mae out of my face. [ laughter ] >> mike: your left foot on paragraph 11. >> easy, barney. >> right foot on subsection "c." >> this is from the 1974 bill. >> ahhh! [ laughter ] >> mike: you guys didn't last very long. i don't know the country will either if we get all convoluted in this. [ applause ] >> mike: another not so brilliant bill that came out of washington last year was the economic stimulus plan. that included tax cut for individuals making up to $75,000 a year. amounting to $35 a week the first year and $8 a week the second year. we wanted to find out how much $13 really is worth. we gave $13 to three members of our staff and we wanted them to see what could they get for that in new york city. ♪ ♪ >> are you selling tickets? >> i am. >> i want to go on a bus tour but i'm on a budg

i completely agree with frank.re i learn from -- from personal scorpse, and from the extent -- extensive studies on affinging a, the -- afghanistan, the less i know. with that in mind, i hope you'll indulge me and perhaps -- listen to -- when i have to say. and first of all, we're not dealing with a war. we're dealing with -- with two wars. and when nobody -- one nobody really talks about. the one that is probably the most important and they cannot disconnect it, and they're independent r independent of each other, the one nobody talks about is the war fought here in washington d.c. within the beltway. and this will have far more impact on whatever is happening in afghanistan than probably what is happening in afghanistan itself. and because this war is fought on the field of exaggeration and hiss steeria and terms that actually hide the reality on the drowned in afghanistan. it is driven by naked political ambition. and that's rather than the national interests. and it lives to -- leads to strange bed folios as we

a woman who helped hide anne frank from the nazis, and then rescued her famous diary, has died. miep gies was an office secretary in amsterdam. for two years, she and others visited the frank family in their secret annex, bringing food, books, and news. she recalled anne in later years. >> what struck me most as ann's friend was always her curiosity. she always asked me every morning when i came in the hiding place about the things, what happened outside. >> sreenivasan: anne frank and her family were found and shipped to death camps in 1944. only her father survived. after the arrests, gies gathered up the girl's diary. it was published in 1947. miep gies was 100 years old. jean finnegan biden, the vice president's mother, was remembered today at a funeral mass in wilmington, delaware. president obama, former president clinton, and house speaker nancy pelosi were among those who attended. vice president biden delivered a eulogy. >> when we triumph, she was quick to remind us that it was because of others. "there's no one better than you. every man is your equal, and every man d

mccotter menard arrived in new york in the fall of 1939 now using the name frank jackson, a canadian businessman. that was his new identity. silvia of new about this as a front and decided to go along with it for her own reasons. she had no idea what she was up to no idea he belonged to the nkvd. he maneuvered sylvia down to mexico city and used her to incinerate himself into trotsky's household. he claimed to be a heavy financial supporter of the french trotskyist in paris. of course by the summer of 1940 there is no way to verify this, there's no way to contact the french trotskyist because they are on the run from the invading germans. the outbreak of the world war which really starts, it was made possible by the nazis soviet pact of august, 1939 struck a big blow against trotsky and his followers in new york city. new york city being at this time the center of the international trotsky movement. certainly wasn't to paris at this point. although i see the center of the movement and this is something else quite shocking the total number of trotsky's in the u.s. is probably never mo

he and jim cook -- frank wolf and jim cooper introduced h.r. 1557, the safe commissions act.nd i want to talk about that in the little bit of time i have. and read from his publication, mr. wolf's publication -- i can't get the word out, i'm sorry. we have amassed unfunded promises to guarantee future unfunded been fits when totalled, $57 trillion. every man, woman and child owes $184,000. i have used this back in my district and woy like to say it this way, mr. speaker. when that beautiful baby is born, the first cry out of his or her mouth is a cry of do i owe $184,000? yes, baby, you do owe $184,000. every american does. this could, according to the information from frank wolf, could skyrocket to $21 trillion by the year 2020. how does frank wolf and jim cooper, in a bipartisan effort, try to deal with this out of-of control spending? they have introduced h.r. 1557, safe commissions act. and the actual title is the security -- securing america's act. this would be made up of 16 bipartisan appointed people to be on this commissions act and it would be their responsibility t

so, let's start with the fact that if i'm going to make a broad generalization, frank, your book made me want the eat, and jonathan your book made me want to stop. and that is an oversimplification because obviously you have done some battles with food, but someone is going to say to you where do you think someone is left in terms of the take-away on food and live. i notice a big question but what you think the take-away is for each of you? >> i was hoping you were going to ask him. >> jonathan don't you-- why don't you start? if you walk away from your book, what you think someone ends up feeling about food or wrestling with in terms of food? >> i imagine most people-- in the book, i hope saying i didn't know that and i wish i had known that sooner. i don't expect people are going to reach the same conclusions. i certainly don't expect most people will close my book and stop eating meat. i hope a lot of people will close my book and stop beating factory farms meet, but maybe they are realistic hope is that people will just pause and that is what everyone wants a book to do. every bri

>> well, the ratings agencies -- and frank raiter was a senior executive at standard & poors. he was in charge of all residential mortgage-backed securities, the rating thereof. they're like -- they were absolutely crucial to the whole system and to the disaster, because they were the ones who said, you know, this investment was, you know, that could be rated triple-a, meaning it's super safe. it's never going to go broke, or double-a or double-b. and what they did was as it emerges -- from what frank is saying and from what the banker, the anonymous banker said -- what their essential function in this whole, what's been going on was to take things that were actually, you know, what sub-prime mortgages -- which are inherently not so credit worthy. and basically through the magic of securitization and everything to say that they were invest, you know, triple-a, which was something we used to only apply to things like general electric and the exxon corporation. so they basically took garbage, and they spray painted it with gold paint and said this is gold. and, you know, trillio

new jersey senator frank lautenberg says his arrest sends a clear message. >> we're pleased that there is a message that goes out there saying don't try it. don't try it. because if you will, we're going to catch you. >> at the time, jiang allegedly slipped through security, the tsa screener who was supposed to be monitoring the checkpoint had stepped away. and while thousands of passengers, as we said, were tied up for hours, security officials say jiang left the airport just 20 minutes after the incident. >>> the christmas bombing suspect has pleaded not guilty to all charges. abdulmutallab appeared in court yesterday. he faces six federal charges including an attempt to blow up a plane and an attempt to use weapons of mass destruction. and that charge could get him life in prison if he's convicted. his defense didn't challenge the government's request to keep him in pretrial custody and his next court date has not yet been set. >>> republicans are pushing for a closer review of how would-be bomber abdulmutallab made it on to the plane. the ranking republican on the house homeland se

frank o'connor, her husband, she wrote this many times. she was a hero like howard work on strike against a corrupt world. the world wasn't good enough for him to participate in it. she said this over and over again. i picture him printing as she talked about this. she misrepresented the real character of frank o'connell who was elegant and gracious to herself and others. she went on -- a successful person in his middle years. she came to america to write with a purpose and a mission and accomplished it and put everything else aside to do that. her marriage had to conform to that pattern. >> a question in the back. a microphone is coming. i am going to ask jennifer a question. one of the things i found interesting in your book was your discussion of a ayn rand s.a. the manifesto of individualism and particularly the changes from the first to second draft. can you talk about that? >> it was something ayn rand road immediately after her first period of political activism in 1940. when this campaign was over she joined the club's which eventu

they were -- they were -- they were very frank. >> very frank and advisory. >> okay. >> and martin. >> you were speaking before the break about the -- about the importance of the rou and indeee primecy with regard to our -- our relation wts united states. and can you tell us what discussions there were in the prime minister circle after camp david about -- about, what the u.k. would do if the u.n. route failed? >> so -- and we're now in september. and -- and -- from my perspective, postcamp david, that was when -- when the -- when the real kind of work on the september dossier really stepped up. i was very much engaged in nap i think again, if you look at the -- if you look at the statement, the prime minister made and in the house and on the day of publication, and i think again the message is very clear, this is -- this is about -- this is about, informing the public about why we're concerned. and why that concern has grown and -- and in relation to when the g.i.c. called a step change. and in iraq's attitudes and activitys in 2001 and obviously, the context of september 11th but al

i know with us, it is true. >> frank, i'm curious.ke talked about commercializing, innovation and a lot of money dedicated towardses research and development. explain to people in the room perhaps who don't understand this and how groundbreaking this can be. how this can help grow the economy? >> when you look at commercialization, you're looking at all of the things you need to engage in. to move an idea to the marketplace. where that is going to become a service or a product. it is not a simple step. there are steps in which you have got to evaluate very early whether there is a market opportunity for the idea, what are indeed the opportunities. who would use it. what you might bring to it and then the different technologies that you will use to achieve that product or the manner in which you go about constructing the service that you're going to get. all of those which we basically put under the term commercialization. >> carl, one of the biggest issues, you and i talked about this at length, sometimes, is there is enormous uncerta

today we retreated to the global off banking industry and barney frank.ll us what you told the bankers this morning and whether what they told you makes any difference. >> yes, and no. one point they are making -- we're talking about financial institutions. coleman sex may decide not to be a bank, but that will not get them out of regulation. to the extent that the large financial institutions tell us we should regulate, we ignore them. to the extent they accept the need and are ready to work with us in order to do it, that will work well. this is evolving today. the question of proprietary trading, which we are going to go ahead with, which they gave the power to go forward. i have spoken to mark karr need of the canadian bank and others. the notion is you get the proprietary trading by a volume because there is a certain amount of have to be done to keep things going. i believe the major financial institutions understand it is in their interest to give us the kind of advice we need to do it in the best way. that includes a tough way but a smart way, and

congressman franks, a lot of stuff there that looks great. question for you is are the american people buying the democrats promises like the one that congressman pointed out? >> the polls show overwhelmingly that they're not because the american people understand that when you replace free enterprise with the socialist system, that it always costs more. in fact, i will just say this, if indeed the democrats lower health care costs under this socialist government-run system, it will be a first in the history of mankind. the only reason they even get some of the cbo numbers is because they rob medicare of a half trillion dollars. people aren't buying it. i hope somehow ben nelson and some of the people in the senate, when this goes back to the senate, i hope it does, will find their conscience again and reject this while there is still time. >> congressman, i'll let you get the final word. you got 20 seconds. >> absolutely. the great things we have is that seniors, or even family members, young men and women no longer have to do co-pays when t

although modern architecture reflected people like frank lloyd wright, who would have done something very different, i think that gilbert and have felt jefferson's idea, better than a school of architecture that might have ended up just being a fad. >> it is a little bit more than $10 million. >> it was actually a deflation. they were able to finish it and turn $100,000 over, so it came in under budget. it might have been the only government building in history that came in under budget. he was thoroughly familiar with the plants, and i think he died quite happy with the building that he knew was going to be built. he and the architect, cass gilbert, they corresponded regularly and calorically -- catholic lay. and when taft was president, he had appointed gilbert to a fine arts commission at the capitol. so gilbert knew what it was about, and he knew what visions jefferson had had. some of the justices did not like it hurt much. some continued to work out of their homes, happy with that arrangement. of course they came to the building for hearing cases the chief justice at that time

>> frank? >> if i may. i think the experience is the education. i will answer it very simply. you have to experience what it is to be an entrepreneur. in many places, stanford, m.i.t., for example, wisconsin, the institute in akron, we're doing the same. we take teams of students and we expose them to problems. in our case we have teams including an m.b.a. student, shadowing orthopedic surgeons, looking at the things they are doing. to determine, where are there opportunities to innovate new products? now, once they do that, they learn things like how do you develop a need statement? what's the need? what's the problem here? how do we develop a need statement? how do you do the analysis in terms of the stakeholders, the surgeons, the nurses, the patients who got to interact with that? the analysis around the commercial assessment, the competitive assessment. what other things are out there? and finally, doing a real business case out of all of that which could then, after you have the business case, position you to launch a small start-up company. so the experience, to have th

i joined chairman frank and others to vote to stop the unfair tarp pay practices unfair recipients. - unfair pay practices of tarp recipients. finally, for firms to have repaid tarp, i do not think the government should go in and set levels. the government does have a role in looking at the structure more broadly to enter risk-taking is properly aligned with rewards and does not pose a systemic risk. i look forward to hearing from our witnesses and i yield back our time -- my time. >> after of said the fees in the state of new jersey, virginia, and a stunning upset defeat in the commonwealth of massachusetts, i would have hoped that this administration and this congress would have gotten down to drop #1, and that is, create jobs. help create jobs for the american people. instead, it really appears that the administration is set upon a venture in a scapegoat-ism. let's see if we can find an entity that is perhaps more unpopular than our administration in the united states of congress. thus, we have this launching of the assault on the investment community. or they're outrageous compen

it wasn't within the discussions to be frank. it wasn't that big of a deal. and you may say well, it was mentioned here in the prime minister mentioned it in his forward and mentioned in the house. that's true. he mention lots and different names. lots of arguments, lots of parts of the dossier. and i've made two points of this. i mean, the original intelligence as eisai says 20 to 45 minutes. if we had been in the sexing up game i think we would've said, on that discussion never took place. i don't think i was even aware of that until quite later on in the process. and likewise when the prime minister's death in the house of commons and i think in terms of the public with david c. out of the dossier i don't know how many people actually read it tonight or another more people would've seen the prime minister standing up in parliament. when he referred to the 45 minutes with the same sentence he talked about including gets his own share of population. so i don't think we would ever say, look, saddam hussein is got these weapons in 45 minutes and put it in the

frank about restructuring, what would you tell him? >> i am a real barney frank van. i feel like i know him reasonably well. recall that i spent a lot of years in boston and ran a financial services company. he chairs the financial-services committee. i had the chance to visit with him in the past. i have gotten to know his staff quite well. i am a real admirer of congressman frank. he is incredibly bright. he is committed. he is a true public servant. he really cares. i admire him greatly. secondly, in my speech, i talked about the fact that freddie mac is not a decision maker. we don't even get to lobby or advocate. that is precluded in our current state. not a decision maker. i totally get that the house financial-services committee chaired by congressman frank is a decision maker. a very important decision maker that will be heavily involved in the decision as to what happens to the gse's. i do have to say that friday was not my best day. either in my life for at freddie mac. because i am an investment person, i do pay attention to a bloomberg. that is a news life

. >> the day that the supreme court got paid for taking frank rickie doing justice to him.irefighters giving him the promotions that these guys earned. >> kers. successful federal program. touched a lot of middle american families. >> this is so much here, i don't know how to untangle it. >> best government dollar spent. the salaries for generals. >> best dollar spent? >> under dollar. they should receive more? >> absolutely. >> the money that they spent for the beer for skip gate and the policeman, because it prompted obama to do another book that follows the audacity of hope. it's going to be the audacity of hops. >> best government dollar spent. the $8,000 first home buyer tax credit. retailers also get new sales, like furniture and appliances, so it has a multiplier effect. okay. boldest political tactic? >> sarah palin intervenes in the 23rd district of new york and sinks the republican candidate and almost elects a conservative party, third party candidate. >> bold. making lemonade out of a lemon. >> and the republicans lose a seat and somehow that's a victory. >> may

frank, you have a new book entitled "never a slow day: adventures a 20th century new reporter." what has it been like? >> it's been as much fun as with your pants off. there's never a day that i watched the clock or wanted to be some place else. sometimes it dramatic, sometimes it's frightening. occasionally we just sat and read the paper. but i always learned something every day. >> you are, of course, with the milwaukee journal; correct? and you covered -- you were here in d.c. during the 1960s. are there any stories that you remember from that period? >> well, i covered civil rights back in the 1960s when i was in milwaukee. and that was the best story i ever covered. the reason for that was that it was -- the issue was so right. and you didn't have to compromise any journalistic principals. you basically had to tell the story. you felt like you were part of the movement. after i came to washington, i covered a lot of other big stories. including the impeachment proceedings against president nixon and clinton, covered those all the way through, went to war in desert seal. >>

frank williams recently retired chief justice of the rhode island supreme court who will deliver a few appropriate remarks about this magnificent young lawyer from illinois. judge frank williams hails from rhode island where he served seven years as chief justice of the rhode island supreme court. while serving in that position the president of the united states also asked chief justice william is to serve on the military commission's review panel with the rank of major general. judge williams has acknowledged to be one of the leading authorities on a life and times of a young perry lawyer from a little like. he served as founding chairman of the lincoln for a president of the u.s. grant association for 12 years serving as president of the lincoln group of boston and for nine years as president of the abraham lincoln association. judge williams is the author or editor of 11 books on mr. lincoln, the latest of which is lincoln lessons people and reflections on america's greatest leader, co are paired with william peterson and published by the southern illinois university press this year

summers were very frank in their discussions. we have frank discussions with them as well. there are some issues that we have to work through, and we also know there is a jobs package. everything is about jobs. what we are here today talking about is the jobs for the people of america. our citizens, our shared constituency, and therefore we need to make sure that the target actions going forth is about jobs for our people. we need to maintain the jobs that we have, we need to create the jobs, and attract new jobs to our metropolitan economies. so throughout our meeting, we have had the opportunity to also hear from the first lady, her initiative on childhood obesity, and we will partner with her on this movement. we will do very well, because this is an area that we have been working on in our cities for seven years in the u.s. conference of mayors. we have also had the opportunity to talk with nine cabinet members, very frank discussions. our meeting was set up in a very different way this time so that we could have a dialogue rather than a monologue. it has been very frui

host: frank on our independent line from colony, new york.gress had hassed along the notion -- i don't know if this is workable -- about letting hospitals issue their own contracts to businesses and individuals to eliminate the insurance middleman which i assume would be lower to a hospital and let them offer their own insurance? guest: it is an intriguing idea. i am not very familiar with that idea. there has been during this process a lot of talk about essentially flattening the health care system. there was at one point a democratic proposal to give everybody access to health care. the democrats at least to those -- to those 55 and older. that ended up dying in the senate when the democrats could not muster the votes. there was talk about issuing the benefits veterans get to everybody. at this point i think we are late in the game. i don't see that specific proposal making it through. host: from texas on our republican line, bill, go ahead. caller: i was calling to say i think most of this is truly about buying votes in any area that may h

>> the diary of anne frank. >> what you think it?>> i'm thinking it's very good and it's how her life was and how difficult it was to be in that situation. >> she was about an seventh grade, too, wasn't she? that kind of weird to think about her in her life and your life, right? >> yes, it is. >> are you a poet? >> yes ibm. i actually have a couple of poems in the book right there. >> in this book here? and would you like about poetry? >> i like poetry because it can express my feelings. it's what my life is going through and held the seed school of maryland as and it also helps me learn something different like i can put different words into my poetry. >> madison, are you ends of the ball so? >> yes, sir. >> where are you from? >> baltimore maryland. >> thank you for spending a few minutes with us. carol beck, if people are interested in donating to the seed school what is the best way to contact you? >> we will provide our address and phone number -- >> you have a website? >> we do, it is seedschoolmd.org petraeus >> carol beck of

frank about restructuring, what would you tell him? >> i am a real barney frank van. i feel like i know him reasonably well. recall that i spent a lot of years in boston and ran a financial services company. he chairs the financial-services committee. i had the chance to visit with him in the past. i have gotten to know his staff quite well. i am a real admirer of congressman frank. he is incredibly bright. he is committed. he is a true public servant. he really cares. i admire him greatly. secondly, in my speech, i talked about the fact that freddie mac is not a decision maker. we don't even get to lobby or advocate. that is precluded in our current state. not a decision maker. i totally get that the house financial-services committee chaired by congressman frank is a decision maker. a very important decision maker that will be heavily involved in the decision as to what happens to the gse's. i do have to say that friday was not my best day. either in my life for at freddie mac. because i am an investment person, i do pay attention to a bloomberg. that is a news life

i agree with frank. i viewed terrorism as crime as well, but everybody is rushing to say i am tougher than my opponent on crime, because it is very popular. the domestic agenda will always drive the for an agenda. if you have -- will always drive before an agenda. if you have foreigners who will always stupidly address what we say, it is going to put as at a disadvantage abroad. >> my answer is yes, it would make a great deal of difference. if the u.s. looks at the motivations and the dynamics lying at the heart of the appeal of al qaeda in the islamic world, the arab-israeli conflict, the sense of alienation over what happens in palestine has always been one of al qaeda's strong this mechanisms for recruiting. if you look at the lives of the leaders of al qaeda, it is all about the arab-israeli conflict. bear in mind something, however. there in that state -- there end state is not a just and lasting peace, there in the state is the elimination of israel. we will never convince them through our actions

sreenivasan: anne frank and her mily were found and shped to death camps in 1944. only her father suived. after the rests, gies gathered up the girl's diary. it was published in 1947. miepies was 100 years old. jean finnegan biden, t vice president's mother, s remembered tod at a funeral mass in wilmington, laware. president oba, former president clinto and house speaker nancy losi were among those who tended. vice presidentiden delivered a eulogy. >> when we triph, she was quick to remind that it was cause of others. "there's no one better thayou. every man isour equal, and every man desees respect." that was herreed. >> sreenivasan: jean biden passed away last fday at the age of 92. those are some othe day's main stories. ll be back at the end of the program with a preew of what you'll find night on the wshour's web site. but for now, bk to jim. lehrer: and still to come o the newshour, the carsf the future, and who will buyhem; an auto rker turned poet; and the tainted records of srts stars. >> brown: that follows our lk at budget woes in states aoss the country

the frank church-river of no return wilderness area that was designated in 1980. predating the existence of these two wilderness areas, private landowners got money to repair the water permits. many of these permits have since expired leaving those unable to improve their water facilities. h.r. 4474 would give the secretary of agriculture the authority to issue special use authorization to owners of these water storage, transport or diversion authorities to allow continued maintenance of their water facilities, ensuring continued access to water. . this bill provides much help to these commupets and residents. i urge passage of the rule and i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves the balance of his time. the gentleman from texas. mr. sessions: goom, mr. speaker. mr. speaker, i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. session: thank you, sir. mr. speaker, i rise in opposition to this closed rule. yet another closed rule before the congress. and i object to the proces

he signd nath king coal, billie holliday, even frank sinatra. >> the summer wind came blowing in. >>paid back every single one of his father's creditors. that was gentleman johnny. of course, there was also his tortured affair with judy garland. the only song of his she ever sang in a movie was this one from the harvey girls. ♪ topeka and santa fe >> he was crazy about her. obsessed with her. >> reporter: his obsession inspired some of his most beautiful and poignant lyrics. ♪ i remember you > here sung by mary cleere harn ♪ you're the one who made my dreams come true ♪ >> reporter: mercer had a dark side that came out when he was drinking. the alcohol-fueled insults always followed in the morning with roses. ♪ the days of wine and roses >> the days of wine and roses, laugh and run away like a child at play. >> reporter: to cabaret singer, his lyrics seem like longings. >> when i looked at all of the writing that he did in the mid and late '60s, do you know how many times he said like a child? like a child at play. was it that he desperately wanted to go home? after seeing savannah,

an abstention, i would like to give special recognition to frank lowe witlobe.[applause] many of you may not know him personally. i have known him personally. frank was the founding president of this organization who first breves life into it many so many leaders across the country -- who first breeds tbrd life in 28 so many years ago. -- who first breathed life intoi t s it so many years ago. his question was how many of you were born after 1954? and a lot of people's hands went up. i would like to pose the question how many of you were born before 1954? and there still willing to raise your hand? [laughter] -- and it are still willing to raise your hand? -- and are still willing to raise your hand? [laughter] during that time, i had to read the back of the best because colored people did not ride in the front of the bus. we did not have the hamburger joints like now. they were not franchises. we had a good deal looks cafe. -- we had the deluxe cafe. i had to go to the colored side. there were people who wanted to make a change, a difference in the way things w