. >> larry: they've got a museum for him now in gary, indiana.gested that michael's death involved foul play. your sister, la toya, voiced a similar opinion. here was la toya on "the view" back in september. >> i thought it was homicide. that he had been murdered. yes, absolutely. michael, continuously told me, latoya, if i die i'm going to be killed, they'll kill me over my publishing. and he was afraid of that. >> larry: what do you make of that, marlon? >> well, i think if you ask each one of the brothers or the sisters their opinion, you might get a different answer for everybody. >> larry: what's yours? >> i want to sit back and let them do the investigation and let them come out exactly what took place. i don't want to form an opinion. and one of the other brothers might have an -- >> larry: do you think la toya may have made an opinion too soon? >> she may have, yes. >> larry: is that the way the family feels about it? and joe, too, then spoke too soon? >> yes. >> larry: was there jealousy of michael? >> no. >> larry: well, it's logical to

>> gary, do you see that right there?ht through it because i am on the cutting edge of new technology. >> okay, i guess, i get that. i did not know that. >> i can help teach the children of the world using nine technologies, using iphone apps. >> that is terrific. there are a lot that can be used to teach kids. >> no, not apps. everybody is doing the apps. i am talking about the iphone napps. it is simple. you have to take a nap with your i found right next to your head, and all that information in your phone goes directly into your tiny little brain. >> i don't think that is going to work. >> but once we get it working, it will work like gangbusters. gary, it is for the children. come on. >> let's just move on. what else do you have? >> tweaking. >> you're saying that twitter can be an effective tool. >> note like birds between. had you ever heard of little bird say, tweet, tweet, tweet, tweet? >> what is your point? >> she is to we need the answer to quantum mechanics. >> we need to get on with this. we have some great

secretary gary locke embraced the list.old us he would be taking it to president obama and vice president joe biden. this is an opportunity. we started this process three years ago. at the time we started this, michigan was in a one-state recession. we really felt that it was not about michigan, but it was about leadership coming together in the early months of a new presidentialçó administration ia way to be helpful. that is what we have done. we have an opportunity to go back to artourÑi speakers, moderator's, and participantsçó. we are unveiling the findingsñrs we speak. secretary gary locke is taking them to go administration. in the early months of 2010, we will figure out where we go from here. host: what does the secretary tell you about the administration's efforts going forward? guest: he said that the list was very aligned with president obama's priorities. health care is certainly front and center these days, and manufacturing is very important. we're all very pleased that this administration is embracing the not

general gary patton joining us from kabul this morning.reciate your time this morning, general. guest: thank you for having me on the show. thanks for bringing my family into the show. it was great to talk to the american public out there. again, mary christmas, happy new year to you all. we're going to get back to our information, but thank you for talking me -- talking to me this morning. happy holidays. host: we will continue our conversations with u.s. service members from afghanistan

they get it to gary fisher. he scores! gary fisher scores at the buzzer! have to be reviewed. they will review it. >> it was very close. the ball has to be out of his hands. yeah, it's out of his hands. it's out of his hands. >> wow. it's good. >> just an unbleblable game. >> one lucky shot deserves another. >> that was the cruellest loss i have ever been involved with. >> fans are used to fights breaking out at hockey games but in 1979 the fans at madison square garden were a little too eager to join in on the action. >> the fans are now getting involved. as the rally is out into the stands. this is going to be something. o'reilly is at the stands fighting with ranger fan. all the bruins are going over. they are all into the stands. going up to grab somebody. about seven or eight rows up. >> you have to worry about a spectator. >> the bruins are at quite a disadvantage with those stakes out there. somebody can get seriously hurt. >> take another look at mike milbury removes the fan's shoes proceeds to feed him with it. after never before finishing higher

general gary patton joining us from kabul this morning. we appreciate your time this morning, general. guest: thank you for having me on the show. thanks for bringing my family into the show. it was great to talk to the american public out there. again, mary christmas, happy new year to you all. we're going to get back to our information, but thank you for talking me -- talking to me this morning. happy holidays. host: we will continue our conversations with u.s. service members from afghanistan a half- hour with a number of different u.s. service members here this christmas morning. we will be right back. >> c-span, christmas day, a look ahead to 2010 politics, including republican congressman eric cantor, an nbc's david gregory. buzz aldrin and fellow astronauts on the legacy of apollo 11. a discussion on the role of muslim americans in the world. later, a discussion on u.s. strategy against al qaeda in afghanistan. and starting at 8:00 p.m. eastern, remembering the lives of william f. buckley jr. and senator ted kennedy. >> in the mid-1

you'll see beautiful slides from gary nabel of the h.a.tting on top of the cells that has a component of it so the ha exists as a bold and as a stem. it has a component to it that just doesn't change much at all from virus to virus. and if we can get this in an immunogenic form, which isn't ease yes, then you have the first step towards what we're calling a universal vaccine. and there's a lot of work going on in that. so i'll close with this last slide. even though this has been prompted by the need to respond better to threats like pandemic influenza, it should have been clear that everything that i'm talking about and that you'll hear from my colleagues relates not only from pandemic influenza but for something that is highly predictable, seasonal flu. so if we get the platform advances that we hope to get from the research that's going on now, we will have solved the problem that's unpredictable as well as one that's imminently predictable. thank you. >> thank you, dr. fauci. we'll hear from our next two speakers thunder we'll take q a

in the case of dna vaccines gary mentioned efforts going on, there are efforts as gary mentioned aboutsmall areas. whether you are talking about things within h as that are common across or looking to separately or in combination put them in with the others. deron lot of efforts to figure out the best combination for the antigen that we would like to do. there is efforts in terms of how to increase the immune response. in this particular dna segment people are modifying and putting in genes that may target or illicit broader immune responses. they're putting in receptors targeting certain tissue. there is a lot of increasing immune response. with optimizing delivery methods this is going on broadly with all the technologies you are going to be hearing about. but in this case, people that are looking at new deliveries, there are also people that are putting these dna segments into something called bacterial ghosts, essentially just a membrane of the bacteria. the reason they do that is 2fold. you can use salmonella as a ghost, put the guarantee in. the dna because it has salmonella prot

that is head coach, gary williams. back to you. >> thank you very much. mike green played the role at hero last night. he might step up and play that role in toronto as sports night role in toronto as sports night rolls on. i touched the ball before it went out, coach. team! alex. alex, good call. alex. alex, good call. in 1977, in johannesburg, south africa, an 8-year-old boy picked up the game of golf from his father. by the age of 9, he was already outplaying him. the odds of this gentle lad winning the junior world golf championships at the age of 14? 1 in 16 million. the odds of that same boy then making it to the u.s. and european pro-golf tours? 1 in 7 million. the odds of the "big easy" winning the open championship once and the u.s. open championship twice? 1 in 780 million. the odds of this professional golfer having a child diagnosed with autism? 1 in 150. ernie els encourages you to learn the signs of autism at autismspeaks.org. early diagnosis can make a lifetime of difference. >>> well, we are just moments away from the caps in toronto, taki

çç gary cheek.ogram. guest: we have soldiers from three basic areas, about 40% isolated from theater, 20% are soldiers who have had injuries in mobilization or demobilization, mostly reserve components soldiers, and the other 40% are soldiers, mostly active duty soldiers, who have become wounded or injured, things that just happened in every life or part of the training, etc. for the nine dozen soldiers, we have 29 units across the united -- 9000 soldiers, we have 29 units across the united states. the other part of the program, which looks after the most severely injured soldiers that are part of that, about 1000 of them are on active duty, and about 4700 are retired and have gone back to the community. we have a program that cares for them following active duty and for the most seriously injured looks after the active duty of the army as well. host: why was it necessary to create this wounded warrior program for medical treatment beyond what they receive at places like walter reed or after they se

gary now, can we start with you? -- mr. gary knell, can we start with you?street was created 40 years ago, it was about trying to harness the power of the educational role of the media. with the act focused on was limiting the negative impacts of our children paused help that the media sometimes walks into. since 20 years ago, as you pointed out earlier, the entire idea of the act promoting better media on a broadcast station or limiting commercial -- the meeting commercials was very well-intended. but in a 2010 context, it is almost irrelevant today as we look at a world where you're down children -- with your grandchildren will not know a world before videogames or cell phones. everything is changed. but the needs are the same. the needs are about education for our children. we have 30% of our children in this country dropping out of high school. we know by the fourth grade that if they are not readers at inappropriate grade level, the chances of them dropping out of high school are great. today, which did not have as big as need for preschool programming.

host: joining us now at the c- span cable is brigadier-general gary cheek.lcome to the program did tell us about the army would warriors program. guest: we have soldiers from three basic areas, about 40% isolated from theater, 20% are soldiers who have had injuries in mobilization or demobilization, mostly reserve components soldiers, and the other 40% are soldiers, mostly active duty soldiers, who have become wounded or injured, things that just happened in every life or part of the training, etc. for the nine dozen soldiers, we have 29 units across the united -- 9000 soldiers, we have 29 units across the united states. the other part of the program, which looks after the most severely injured soldiers that are part of that, about 1000 of them are on active duty, and about 4700 are retired and have gone back to the community. we have a program that cares for them following active duty and for the most seriously injured looks after the active duty of the army as well. host: why was it necessary to create this wounded warrior program for medical treatment bey

as you heard from general gary patton, it is about 5:00 p.m. or 6:00 p.m. there in afghanistan. we will get to our service members, marines, soldiers and sailors in just a bit. here is a commentary in the philadelphia inquirer. we're joined by a marine joined bylyle stiffarm. we appreciate you joining us this morning. tell us a bit about yourself, your machine, and how long you have been in afghanistan. guest: good morning to you, mary christmas. i am from foreground, montana. i am a native american. i have been in afghanistan for four and a half months. i have 45 days and counting. host: there'll be a little bit of satellite delay, as we had with general patton this morning. our first guest this morning is sergeant lyle stiffarm. you have been in the marine corps for a number of years. and you have experience as well in iraq? guest: yes, i was in iraq for two years. this is my first time in afghanistan. i have been in the marine corps about 10 years now. host: tell us about what a typical day is like for you in your duties there and afghanistan and what did -- to this day is li

gary on the line for republicans. caller: how are you today?host: good, how are things in the south? cocoa is cold, but we are blessed. -- caller: it is called, but we are blessed. barack obama is one of the greatest things that has happened to the country. i believe if people wake up and understand what is best for the country, a lot of people are stuck in the past. i do not agree with everything he does, but i agree with what he inherited -- he is doing a lot better job than what the polls give him. i wish everyone would understand it is not just about one person, but america as a whole. he is doing the best he can. i will take your comments off the air. thank you for what you are doing. keep c-span going. host: thank you. robert? thus, the mention of the polls is interesting. -- guest: the mention of the polls is interesting. they are often looked at in washington. i more or less support the president. i hope you are right, that he turned out to be one of the greatest things to happen to this country, but it is important, especially in this

lisa and i were in gary, indiana, with the teleworkers. i went to cleveland. when go to that part of the country, you feel the loss of jobs. you want to do everything in your power to make sure that these jobs are real, and we unleash them as quickly as possible, so that gets us to the competitiveness issue. it's not only in the united states where there's a lot of eagerness to unleash the clean energy economy hand for those who have been to china recently, you can see that it's happening there and i want it to happen here, so that we are the leaders around the world and we really set the pace for how we move to a low carbon economy, that takes us down a very different road and that protects the planet, and all the planet systems and all the planets people in the process. so i want to thank you all for being here. i'm happy to sign any books, if anybody witness me to, but more than anything, want to thank hall of you for the work that you are doing on behalf of the planet, because the point about this issue is, it is so broad, it crosses all sectors, and it wi

hagertown, hi there, gary, in hagerstown, sorry i had to hang up so fast. i had to do the weather.uds moving in. don't have rain or snow attached but will be filtering the sunshine and especially by 5:00. without gusty winds it will feel like 38 and we will be talking about tomorrow's smooth and the new eeriest eve, new year's day plans with respect to the

gary reback is a silicon valy torney who represents the op book alliance, whose members include microsoft d amazon.com. he predicts that google ll starwithout charging for what it digitizes, t eventually will iose hefty fees. >>hat google is proposing here is not likany library you've ever been to. it's not aublic library, it's a privatlibrary. and it's being run for prot. big prits. google igoing to charge universitycholars, ordinary peop, even school children to get acce to books that google copied withouthe permission of the puisher or the author. >> repter: current books, whose copyrights are in ct, and thcopyright holders are known are not inispute. publishe must give permission for those books, or portns of them, to be t on line. books inhe public domain, whose copyghts have expired, are fa game for any digitizer, and currtly you can download many of them forree. the problems arisever so- called "orphanooks"-- out of print, but still in coright, wherthe current holder of that copyrighis unknown. while there are a loof them, theyon't get read very often. >> whahappens when you digize

the first -- the first one is to me from president gary c. richter, the president of the georgia medical association -- medical association of georgia, who writes in great detail about the difficulties and the problems that they have with this legislation, beginning with its stonewall against tort reform by only putting in a demonstration project. and the senator from texas is aware of what tort reform can do because his state has made a great improvement in medical malpractice costs because of tort reform and we in georgia have tried to experience the same type of thing. but many other reasons are in here as well. and the interesting thing about the letter from the 92,000 physicians represented by their medical associations, they talk not only about what's in the bill but what's not in the bill, and i want to read, if i can, one paragraph to demonstrate that point. our concerns about this legislation also extend to what is not in the bill. the right to privacy contract is a touchstone of american freedom and liberty. patients should have the

gary reback is a silicon valley attorney who represents the open book alliance, whose members include microsoft and amazon.com. he predicts that google will start without charging for what it digitizes, but eventually will impose hefty fees. >> what google is proposing here is not like any library you've ever been to. it's not a public library, it's a private library. and it's being run for profit. big profits. google is going to charge university scholars, ordinary people, even school children to get access to books that google copied without the permission of the publisher or the author. >> reporter: current books, whose copyrights are in tact, and the copyright holders are known are not in dispute. publishers must give permission for those books, or portions of them, to be put on line. books in the public domain, whose copyrights have expired, are fair game for any digitizer, and currently you can download many of them for free. the problems arise over so- called "orphan books"-- out of print, but still in copyright, where the current holder of that copyright is unknown. while ther

gary on the line for republicans. caller: how are you today?host: good, how are things in the south? cocoa is cold, but we are blessed. -- caller: it is called, but we are blessed. barack obama is one of the greatest things that has happened to the country. i believe if people wake up and understand what is best for the country, a lot of people are stuck in the past. i do not agree with everything he does, but i agree with what he inherited -- he is doing a lot better job than what the polls give him. i wish everyone would understand it is not just about one person, but america as a whole. he is doing the best he can. i will take your comments off the air. thank you for what you are doing. keep c-span going. host: thank you. robert? thus, the mention of the polls is interesting. -- guest: the mention of the polls is interesting. they are often looked at in washington. i more or less support the president. i hope you are right, that he turned out to be one of the greatest things to happen to this country, but it is important, especially in this

this is gary stafford from world wildlife zoo down in phoenix, arz. you can have some water. >> larry: hey, it's a set. >> i'm sorry. >> larry: it's okay, jack. it's a penguin. what's the story with the penguins, and why do we love them so much? >> what is it about a penguin, they're black and white. you've seen "march of the penguins." remember the ones in the antarctic. >> larry: great movie. >> this is a blackfooted penguin. some people don't know this. out of 17 species of penguins, only five live in cold weather. only 5 out of 17. this blackfooted penguin out of south africa if it was in cold weather it wouldn't last several days. but the ones in the "march of the penguins," the emperor penguin, those can go in 50 to 100 below zero. by the way, they're monogamous. they mate for life. the female lays the egg. immediately, the male comes and sits on it. the female leaves and goes out to sea. she leaves him there for 40 days. he loses over half his body weight while she goes out and screws -- goes out and mess as round in the ocean and eats fish and

here is your delaware, and gary on the democratic slate. go ahead. >> caller: yeah, thanks for correcting that newark. we don't get that very often. >> host: that's all right. >> caller: my favorite book of this year happened to come out this year to be it's called long, obstinate and bloody and it is the battle of the guilford courthouse written by laurence babich and joshua how word and i'd love to see them on book tv. i haven't. if they've been on i haven't watched them. this book is about one of the critical battles of the american revolution and it is a wonderful read in narrative history. >> host: why was a critical battle? >> caller: while, the war for independence had reached the point where the americans were pretty much down to their last draw and a wonderful general by the name of nathaniel greene went south and developed a strategy that lord the british away from charleston and other supplies and when he finally had brought them far enough away he turned and delivered to a series of blows by which the guilford courthouse was one

he was born in9150 in gary, inana. went to the univerty of chicago when it s still a big 10 fooall power, in 341. graduate -- 193 graduated 1935, he already pubshed a paper technical economics in 23ee and went tharvard for graduate school and published another ten inhe years he was in graduate school. and each one was more form and math met call th the last. it really chged the whole discourse of economics in a fair short period of time. >> lehr: discourse -- i'm sorry. no, no. diourse meaning the way that they described the economy, the way they thght of it as a system, the way they behav. and basically he tk the ynesian insights and trslated them into a mathematical form that permitted the asurement and manipulati of things. >> lehrer: you callehim a mixed economwelfare state liral. what is that >> wel that's the opposite of milton eedman which is a nd of entrepreneurial capitalism, libearian. the guys were remarkable. freedman was bn in 1912, samuelsson 15. samusson had life easy. his fatheras a pharmacist, a all bu

he was born in 19150 in gary, indiana. went to the university of chicago when it was still a big 10 football power, in 19341. graduate -- 193 -- graduated 1935, he already published a paper in technical economics in 23ee and went to harvard for graduate school and published another ten in the years he was in graduate school. and each one was more formal and math met call than the last. it really changed the whole discourse of economics in a fairly short period of time. >> lehrer: discourse -- i'm sorry. >> no, no. discourse meaning the way that they described the economy, the way they thought of it as a system, the way they behaved. and basically he took the keynesian insights and translated them into a mathematical form that permitted the measurement and manipulation of things. >> lehrer: you called him a mixed economy welfare state liberal. what is that? >> well, that's the opposite of milton freedman which is a kind of entrepreneurial capitalism, libertarian. these guys were remarkable. freedman was born in 1912, samuel

gary, can you touch my back? does that feel 42 you? -- forty to you? i am older than a breadbox, but young enough to live at home with my mommy. >> ok. sara price who is five wants to know how long it will be on tv. >> we plan to be around for another 40 years. >> that is good year. -- tohear. -- to hear. >> were you worried? >> not at all, but it is nice to hear from the big cheese himself. keep me employed, i will keep going to the gym. >> one of your fans wants to know how much food as cookie monster eat? >> it is not just to heat. -- food he eats. he doesn't eat cookies just a -- just eat cookies anymore. he eats everything. >> he ate the lifetime achievement emmy on prime-time television. >> quite costly, too. it came out of his paycheck. >> are all the characters monsters? >> no, no, no. sesame street has lots of different monsters and people and creatures. i am a monster, yes. >> how can you tell. >> monsters are for real over -- furry all over. robin williams was mistaken for a monster when he came on the show. [laughter] >> bert and ernie were

gary, can you touch my back? does that feel 42 you? -- forty to you? i am older than a breadbox, but young enough to live at home with my mommy. >> ok. sara price who is five wants to know how long it will be on tv. >> we plan to be around for another 40 years. >> that is good year. -- tohear. -- to hear. >> were you worried? >> not at all, but it is nice to hear from the big cheese himself. keep me employed, i will keep going to the gym. >> one of your fans wants to know how much food as cookie monster eat? >> it is not just to heat. -- food he eats. he doesn't eat cookies just a -- just eat cookies anymore. he eats everything. >> he ate the lifetime achievement emmy on prime-time television. >> quite costly, too. it came out of his paycheck. >> are all the characters monsters? >> no, no, no. sesame street has lots of different monsters and people and creatures. i am a monster, yes. >> how can you tell. >> monsters are for real over -- furry all over. robin williams was mistaken for a monster when he came on the show. [laughter] >> bert and ernie were

host: thank you for the call, next is gary from st. louis.e wrong people and shows from the president, and no one can dispute him. as far as i am concerned he's doing more for this country than the president or any other administration. host: thank you, next we have sam. caller: i don't agree with that gentleman with glenn beck, he's disinforming the country, and god help with someone with that echo chamber. i am a muslim and it should definitely be ron paul. i applaud your network because it has some gumption to stay true to the principles. for ron paul, he understands foreign policy and understands the nature of the relationship between intervening in =ññ countries and occupying them. but unfortunately he's regarded as a bit of a nut job with the news media, but i applause you and your staff for having him in your studio. host: we love having him and always welcome. caller: i appreciate that, but i was disappointed as you cut off an earlier caller for the journalalists that wanted to elaborate his point of the nature of his israeli nature.

part of this organization called the open book alliance, and they formed one of the co-founders is gary' back who, ironically, once of the big antitrust busters of microsoft in the late '90s, and now he's on their side in this case. they are very much on the other side saying there's so much wrong with this and not to mention the exclusive legal protection that google has, but also there is, there is a big concern that they have that, that the default is that with the settlement is that every book can be included, every out-of-print, copyright-protected book would be included in this settlement. so if you're an author of one of these books and you don't want to be part of it, you have to proactively go in to, and inform the companies that you want to opt out. and that is something that a lot of public interest groups say is always a difficult clause because it takes a certain amount of onus on a person to do that. what if people don't even know? it could be a confusing process, so for them to proactively opt out is an issue of concern, and it was a concern also with the justice departme

host: gary, you need to explain your question. the way we can get an appropriate response.ler: the question is, did he think it was dereliction of duty not to have every mp the time when we went into iraq? and ordinance disposal unit on standby, or alert so that we could deal with what obviously we were going to have to deal with? a lot of men lost their lives because we just very the explosives and ordinance. to make hay ied out of an artillery shell all you need is a hole-digger. guest: i'm not sure of the specific situation the caller is referring to with regard to the open i would point out that most of the explosive devices now and in the past several years have been produced in iran and shipped into our iraq specifically for the purpose of killing american soldiers. and they are not products of leftover ordnance from u.s. action, the ordinance designed specifically in iran for americans. host: you can join in the conversation on one. let's go to new york city. caller: i'm loving the debate. i won a point out a couple of things. i love your intelligence. i find you to

host: joining us now at the c- span cable is brigadier-general gary cheek. walton to the program. -- welcome to the program did tell us about the army would warriors program. guest: we have soldiers from three basic areas, about 40% isolated from theater, 20% are soldiers who have had injuries in mobilization or demobilization, mostly reserve components soldiers, and the other 40% are soldiers, mostly active duty soldiers, who have become wounded or injured, things that just happened in every life or part of the training, etc. for the nine dozen soldiers, we have 29 units across the united -- 9000 soldiers, we have 29 units across the united states. the other part of the program, which looks after the most severely injured soldiers that are part of that, about 1000 of them are on active duty, and about 4700 are retired and have gone back to the community. we have a program that cares for them following active duty and for the most seriously injured looks after the active duty of the army as well. host: why was it necessary to create this wounded warrior prog

he could have played against florida atlantic and i think that implicitly tells you what gary williams thinks about this game. that's how important it is. he will play. >> talking about those squall wins so far and, as you know, you played, when you get into your conference season, you hope to have a nice body of work there for you. before the committee looks at what you have done in conference because, sometimes, there are some bumps in the road. what they have been able to accomplish so far this season, how impressive is that? >> well, very. the win at wake forrest is one thing. they played connecticut very tough up in storrs. they have done a great job and this kind of underscores the value of any close wins on the road. they won at radford by 2, won by a handful of points in manhattan, a very difficult place to play. it's steeled them. they are feeling very good about them thefts. >> chris from the comcast center. chris will have sot nice analyst report on cs n washington.com. looking forward to your work after the game to see what they are going to be like in a few weeks in the co

i have a gary quick story about when i went to iraq and was being shown in kuwait, as you rightly put it. that is where everything jumps off. the transportation program of how they were shipping material from kuwait to iraq, a very competent lieutenant chernow was in charge of this and he was obviously very much on top of the whole thing, and i asked him, are you regular army or reserve? esad reimers sir. i said what to do in civilian life? he said i'm a distribution manager for walmart. for once the army has the right choice in the civilian experience in the military side. that may be a jumping off to pick up on where you have led us with their opening statement. the challenge in afghanistan, where as you correctly note-- mentioned, we have as many contracts in personnel as we have military personnel in that ratio is going to stay the same if in fact we may not end up with more contracting personnel than we have military personnel. they are both engaged in exactly the same thing, which is a counterinsurgency kind of battle, which means the contractor cannot sit back and say well i ha

gary, can you touch my back? does that feel 42 you? -- forty to you? i am older than a breadbox, but young enough to live at home with my mommy. >> ok. sara price who is five wants to know how long it will be on tv. >> we plan to be around for another 40 years. >> that is good year. -- tohear. -- to hear. >> were you worried? >> not at all, but it is nice to hear from the big cheese himself. keep me employed, i will keep going to the gym. >> one of your fans wants to know how much food as cookie monster eat? >> it is not just to heat. -- food he eats. he doesn't eat cookies just a -- just eat cookies anymore. he eats everything. >> he ate the lifetime achievement emmy on prime-time television. >> quite costly, too. it came out of his paycheck. >> are all the characters monsters? >> no, no, no. sesame street has lots of different monsters and people and creatures. i am a monster, yes. >> how can you tell. >> monsters are for real over -- furry all over. robin williams was mistaken for a monster when he came on the show. [laughter] >> bert and ernie were

gary for democrats on the line. what's this story mean to you? caller: i tell you what. this may not have too much to do with what we're talking about. this president is actually ruining our country. that's all i got to say. host: how so. caller: thank you. how so? every way around. he's taking us down the road to socialism and everything else. everybody knows that. host: baltimore. ron? independent caller. caller: my reaction this morning is more of a question. when the obama administration makes the projections on, you know what our deficit is going to be from the bail out, and then months later it comes in lower, that's, you know on the surface it appears to be good news, but who is it that watches and regulates the people that make these projections. i mean can they make a high projection and then when it comes in lower, appear, make everything appear we're doing well and it's all good news? >> thanks for your thoughts and questions. maybe somebody else can share they're opinion on that. here's the headlines in the "new york times". story on the web. late last night.

throughout the state about fraudulent voter registration activities and the acorn chapter located in gary. they dropped approximately 5000 voter registration applications at the office during the last few days and the hours of the voter registration period. apart from the chaos that this causes for election administrators to process all of that, and we are required to process those under law to make sure that no one is inadvertently disenfranchised. but many of these turned out to be suspicious, incomplete, or unverifiable. at that point i ask the lake county board to secure those applications, all the evidence associated with them, and sent as examples of what they were talking about. they did, and my office ended up sending copies of 1438 border registration application that had been flagged by the lake county board. evidence of a pattern of voter registration fraud was striking. for example, 61% of the applications had one or more critical defect observable on the face of the application, rendering them in balladur useless 388% of that 1438 application number could not be verified the

in very brief order because we have full biographies in your package to my immediate left we have garyhe consultant cos. we have faz from the american progress that in these days needs no introduction in this town. we have duane and amy davidson from the climate group. let me start by putting forward a thesis, and i welcome dissent on this but i would argue that we are entering a new age of unprecedented global threats. you may say welcome to the party, paul, we've been there since 9/11. but in this new century i would argue the global threats we have the most focused on, the most urgent global concerns of course terrorism geopolitical threats and the financial crisis and response in the developing a new economic order are not the ones principally judged on with the perspective of 2050 or 2100. they are essential to do with these problems but in nature they are not unprecedented. terrorism has been with us as long as history books have been with us. and if you talk about financial crisis it goes hand-in-hand with capitalism. just need to look back at the tulip bubble centuries ago to k

and of course gary flowers is here with the black leadership forum. i, too, want to say i left the meeting very impressed with the tone of the meeting and the fact that secretary locke was wanting to sit through the meeting and to consider seriously the kind of concerns that are being raised. a very impressive plan was laid out in many respects that reflected their having received recommendations about how to improve the census. i, again, want to join everyone in offering commendations in that regard. i have to say, however, that the context which has been laid out is there is a state of emergency in the black community. in some communities, unemployment is as high as 50% when you take into account those who no longer are in the active job market. the subprime lending crisis, all of those things fit into the equation. therefore, we have a concern that a fair count, accurate count, fair count will end up in a fair share of resources. and it is somehow a cruel irony to some degree that the conditions that have propelled many people into the prison jail

why is there room the resistance, at some junctures, and why is there resistance to gary hart or howard dean. there are a lot of different explanations, but would boil them down to four. there is classical organizational fairly and there is a battle between the party elite network verses more or less and outgrew that is trying to bring new groups to the coalition. we talk a little bit about allen wears work. the party that has been able to keep the coalition together better has tended to win in the general election. we have some disputes where we basically think that he ends up minimizing the issue. there is also legitimate disagreement which could throw away any advantage that we have. they could end up accepting entrepreneurs at that time. the third explanation looks the disconnect -- there is that clash. he also looks at the nature of the nominations. that is what i will look at for the next couple of minutes. why are some successful and others are not? for some, it is the aspirants themselves and the characteristics they embody and the groups they are trying to lure into their coali

and i would just close by saying, i always found the moot court experience like gary player said of the game of golf, umbling and i have always deeply appreciated and promised from the most rigorous moot court you hopefully will have been fully prepared before you go in, but you will get as paul just indicated, that question in a moot court and you want it in a moot court as opposed to justice kennedy. [laughter] >> now that we've explored all the various aspects of being solicitor general, i'd like to ask you all but your white light is on so you've got to answer these quickly, all right? what was the most difficult part of being the solicitor general and what was the most fun part and what part would you like to see changed? paul? [laughter] >> well, i think the -- probably the most difficult part were those situations where there was a disagreement within the executive branch that you just couldn't really make it go away. you know, we've talked about this -- all of us have alluded to this but you do have situations where two parts of the executive branch weigh in on an issue and they

he already dunked on gary stackhouse over the summer, thus already making a name for himself.e is expected to be a tough playmaker who helped the wild cattrano driving past his opponents. >>> henry is known for his offensive game. henry not only has range but punch. in addition to his offensive tex tarity henry was expected to use his size and athletic ability to be a great defender. he could make an enormous impact. number two overall recruit and number one power forward, derek favors is one of six new recruits at georgia tech where he already stands out from the crowd. he has incredible national athletic ability. he is is expected to be tough not only on the offensive end but also as a defensive player. look for georgia tech to be favored this season. espn u number one overall recruit and shooting guard, avery bradley landed in texas. bradley's three-point shooting should make up for the loss of a.j. abrams but it is not just bradley's shooting skills that separate him from the pack. his defensive expertise will make it tough for any team facing texas. expected to combine hi

staff will be here to follow your testimony and we will have a chance to review with gary we appreciate you coming in and you have our schurz's that we will do everything we can on this very important matter. thank you, mr. chairman. >> thank you, senator specter. now, we will go to mr. cobbs. if i remember right, you are from ottawa? near sioux city? -- you are from iowa? your wife is with you? >> she is in the audience for ? >> yes. you weren't you here at our last year? >> i was. >> you have been ball than the tele-health program with your young boy, noah? >> that's right. >> i am interested in what is happening last couple of years, please proceed. >> good morning mr. chairman. my name is josh cobbs. i'm a parent of a child with autism for it it has been over seven years trying to better the lives of individuals and families affected by autism through insurance and education reforms. when i was left in front of this distinguished committee, i spoke of the successful and cost efficient services myself received using tele-health technology. this came from professionals in florida whic

florida, gary, republican? caller: first thing is we forgot who works for who in this congress. or country. the congress is supposed to be by the people for the people. a lot of people in this country are suffering as a result of the health policies in place throughout the country. i believe if the senate and house of representatives had to have the same coverage they would pass for the people. if they had no coverage like the average person in this country, we see the healthcare problem reconciled fast and there would be some sort of coverage for all people in this country and that's all i have to say. host: new orleans now. line for democrats. caller: sir, is it still time in the end of the this bill to use the nuclear option. i remember vaguely in the bush administration they never had 60 votes in republicans and i remember, dick cheney taking the seat and casting the vote to let the republicans pass several things. also i'd like to apologize for billy toezan from louisiana that has single-handedly destroyed far farm suitle. guest: nuclear option is come up in a series of deb

beijing in the program we will talk to general gary e.ut the wounded warrior program for disabled veterans. >> next on c-span, and a house hearing examines a treasury department program to encourage mortgage modification for homeowners facing foreclosure. the former ambassador to the end -- you in. washington journal is live at an earlier time for cover for the senate helped -- senate health care boat. >> c-span, christmas day, a look ahead to 2010 politics. buzz aldrin and the legacy and of apollo 11. later, a former cia intelligence officer on the u.s. strategy against al qaeda in afghanistan. starting at 8:00 p.m. eastern, remembering the lives of william f. buckley jr.. -- and kennedy. but now a hearing on the efforts to cut the rate of form -- of foreclosures. we will hear about the modification program. steve cohen chairs the subcommittee. this is about two hours. >> thank you for your attendance. this hearing will now come to burgle -- order. and i will recognize myself for a short statement. today's hearing is part dostwo f the mo

and gary, you were in that lunch. remember, i asked him, what is happening in terms of education policy in korea? he said, well, you know my biggest problem is, korean parents are too demanding. and they are insisting for example, that i import -- and i have had to import, thousands of foreign english teachers because they all feel that first graders should be learning english already. now you think about that mentality which is pervasive throughout asia, you saw the same thing in china. and it gives you a sense of what we're up against in terms of global competition. so, as tough as this recession is, as tough as the job market play be, we need to double down on our education investment. we have to be more demanding of our schools, of -- of our -- ourselves, as pirpts and young people will have to be more demanding in terms of our ability to compete. and i -- i don't want the -- the last thing i want and this relates to the previous question, the last thing i want is us to essentially use up our seed corn here, to no

later we will talk to general gary cheek of the army's wounded warrior program for soldiers. it begins at 6:30 a.m. eastern on c-span. >> now senate hearing on body building supplements containing steroids. witnesses included student athlete who experience liver failure after taking a supplement laced with steroids. arlen specter chairs the subcommittee. this is 1.5 hours. for the committee will now proceed with this hearing. it is on the body building supplement and the possibility of their contain steroids or steroid like substances. the federal laws which govern the subject our complex. if the substance is a drug with in the food and drug act, it is subject to clearance by the fda and failure to comply may result in criminal penalties. if the item comes with in a controlled substance act, it is one to defy steroids. the legislation provides that substances before 1994, which are body building are not subject to the rules of the food and drug administration. rules of the food and drug administration. but experience has shown that there are many of these body building supple