george w. bush, tom delay, dick armey, guys with texas twang. >> host: what is wrong with that? >> guest: well, ronald reagan and barack obama both have been able to find in the middle of american political liability -- life and maybe it is a western sensibility. i'm not exactly sure what it is, but we just can't be confined in the south. you know, why did ronald reagan at venice summit people in europe? because of the time even though he was right and was proven right and i think he freed about 100 million europeans, there was that cowboys swagger that scare them. even reagan who i ever not saw that in him, but george w. bush had that swagger. the same with delay and it just doesn't translate well in new england. >> host: let's get to the book. i have a million questions. let me process that with this, when you were a young one coming up, a young man living in florida, at some point you became political and added decision to be a conservative and a decision to be a republican or started yourse

what's your question for george will. caller: george will, i'm one of your fans down here. guest: i appreciate that. caller: a few years ago you wrote an article about what you essentially thought of colin powell and you took him apart. it was so good to see that, it was everything he had done wrong, i'd like you to comment on that, please. guest: i don't frankly remember the particular column. i do remember having a distinct difference with mr. powell on the subject of israel and the middle east. colin powell just now is engaged in a robust argument about the future of the republican party and i think colin powell is someone obviously the republicans should have in their party. he's a man of enormous distinction and achievement and strong feelings. i'm much more conservative republican than he is. but i'm, i guess what they call a big tent republican. you might say with regard to wilmington, wilmington before michael jordan became the most famous export from wilmington, the most famous one was my former colleague and much-missed friend david brinkley. host: also the city t

last year as we look at the orioles closer george sherrill getting ready to protect this two-run lead then last year stokes pitched down at their triple-a affiliate, and had a terrific year. >> gary: he earned himself a spot in this bullpen. andino has had an 0 for 3 in the ballgame. batting at .241 now in the ballgame. that was big home run by huff. that one shot up the middle, andino is on. he's got a one out single here in the 8th. both teams have 11 hits in the ballgame. >> jim: a little page right out of gary sheffield's book right there. >> gary: the top of the order, brian roberts. brian still looking for his first hit against the mets. he's had an 0 for 4 in this game, 0 for 9 in the first two. orioles love to get something here in the bottom of the 8th to increase that 6-4 lead. stokes however would like to get a new baseball first. stokes's 23rd appearance. opponents hitting .284 off him on the year. he's pitched with base runners on. andino back into the bag. >> jim: this mets bullpen reminds me of what davey johnson used to say. we had benitez and myers to finish the game.

george tiller in strongest condemnation of his murder. murder in any setting is horrific, it's unconscionable. but to commit a heinous crime of violence inside a place of worship that teaches a message of tolerance and nonviolence is especially reprehensible. dr. tiller was guiding worshipers to their seats. his wife was singing in the choir when he was gunned down. this is so precisely the opposite of where humanity should be in 2009. violence, especially murder, should never be a recourse for differences in beliefs. so i ask my colleagues to join me in condemning acts of violence and intolerence and i ask that we resolve to honor the memory of dr. george tiller, a physician and man of god, by working harder than ever to promote tolerence, to promote nonviolence. i urge all our colleagues to stand unanimously in voting in favor of this resolution. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady yields back. the gentleman from north carolina. mr. coble: continue to reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from north carolina

. >> thanks, george. i must say i'm intrigued by the idea of germany being ruled by the indian parliament. >> the u.s. congress. >> well, thank you very much. i find myself in agreement in both respects with george, actually. i just want to say i'm not going to use this too much, but i actually want to go through -- i want to move this through pretty quickly and focus everyone on the map. i want to kind of bring everyone's attention to what it would be like to be an indian security plan because i agree with george that india is going to do in what's in india's national security interests. .. from internal instability and terrorism, although obviously future concerns, as well as from just pakistan, and also tried to get out of this straitjacket, felt that china had put it under with china's support to pakistan over the last half century and chinese deployment in tibet. it had to look c word -- seaward and protect its oil and gas coming from afric and the middle east all the way back to india. the indian oc

this is what george w. bush said that in 2000. >> host: you keep looking at it and i will cover with these words. it seems to me i have found the years 2001 and 2009 intensely painful politically because as a conservative because i saw a great coalition and a great movement director job like a pane of glass and splintered by keeping those that did not have that coalition in the '60s and '70s and '80s. i saw how hard it was to bring together. it broke my heart to see it broken and it broke my heart to see that you're not allowed to say that it was breaking. it was a terrible lie. >> guest: this is george w. bush in 2000. we must be judicious in our use of the military. we will find only one is in the vital interest of the united states, when our mission is clear and when the eggs in strategy is obvious. that is what we said every day in the clinton appointees that and come up to the armed services committee in congress when house on the armed service committee in congress and the center of the '90s what is t

i think he was born 14 years after george washington who was born in 1732. and kosciuszko, if i'm pronouncing that correctly, was born in 1746, the same year as pilaski and he arrived in philadelphia as you said after a shipwreck in the indies. you didn't mention much about his encounters with george washington, who i read several places and also in the beautiful book that was given commemorating the 400 years of poland in america, which was rendered to all of us had the celebration on the 2nd of october of last year where they commemorated poland in my native state of virginia in georgetown of 1608 but george washington is purported in that book, celebrating the great poles in american history, to have given kosciuszko two pistols. they weren't by chance the two pistols he gave to little turtle, were they? [laughter] >> i don't think so. i think those pistols are now in the military museum in warsaw. >> oh, really? >> in addition to that, he gave him a sword with an inscription on it and kosciuszko was actually at france's tavern when george washington said

[laughter] >> well, i want to thank george for being here. it's nice to have a conversation without various children running around causing havoc. [laughter] and thank the mha for allowing us to come together to do this. it's quite a crowd here and appreciate you being here. let me start with the simple question, how's obama doing? [laughter] >> in 20 words or less. listen, you look back at it, and i think, you know, this is the very beginning. we're not even six months in, but he's had the best start, i think, of any president since lyndon johnson who came in under very different circumstances, obviously. if you just look at the big things that president obama's done politically, first of all, you know, we're more than five months in, he's got the support of almost two-thirds of the public, probably even more important when he came in, as you all know, the country was very pessimistic. about where we were going. and he's turned that around. i mean, back in october of last year the number of people who thawlg the country was going in the righ

george bush did not get a whole lot of respect and that man should have. as seems now that the obama craze -- what happened with the american indians? the man was talking about his a can-kicker? american indians do not get anything and now they're talking about slaves getting reparations? i do not quite understand why. why would they go back to -- they should go back to the beginning, do not start in the middle. i think it is very unfair that iit is obama, obama, obama. host: let's go on to the next caller. caller: i don't think there is a love affair with obama. he is basically what is news. the media is going to chase wherever the story is going to get them the most attention from the most people. most people are paying the most attention to obama. his most famous present we have had in 12 years. what was shocking to america and the world to see the presidential seat for so long taking a couple of elections -- all the terrible things that occurred as a result of the republicans running the entire country. as a result of so many bad decisions for so many

in fact later on when kosciuszko arrived in the united states for the second time, george washington invited him to mount vernon and rather than travel down to virginia he went to sea hero she'll gates, who now had a number of black people working for him in new york and they were freed black people and kosciuszko identified with that more than with going to a slave plantations. >> and the lady who had the box or the trump with all the plants that was laid out and then burn them for fear they would fall into the hands of the british. was there any evidence or anything written that showed kosciuszko and benedict arnold ever crossed paths or spoke to each other? >> they did know each other, in fact because kosciuszko was so close to general gates they were all together at the battle of saratoga and kosciuszko had much more respect for the command of authority and gates and benedict arnold were constantly at each other's throats. dietz was at the top of the hill and the british were marching up the hill, and benedict arnold wanted to run down the hill and gates kept saying we are fine w

speaking third will be george perkovich who's the v.p. for studies at the carnegie endowment and also runs carnegie's nonproliferation program. george has written a very fine book on india's nuclear weapons program and his most recent book is abolishing nuclear weapons which i just think just came out. and for cleanup is dan blumenthal who's a resident fellow here in aei in asian studies. dan was the senior director in the office of secretary of defense for the office handling china, taiwan and mongolian affairs and is a long time serving member on the u.s.-china economic and security commission. since we only have about an hour, i've asked our panelists to speak for about eight minutes, which should leave us plenty of time for follow-up questions and discussion. but again, as danny said when we do turn to questions, please identify yourself and try to make it a question. so if that is an introduction, susan, you're up. >> good morning. i'm pleased to be here with a distinguished panel and certainly with the american enterprise institute,

independent line, you are on for george will. >> caller: good morning, george. my name is john and i am from maryland. but i agree with you on the fact that mr. brinkley was a good man and i am from north carolina, and i read your articles every day when i am going to get the washington post. president obama -- i want to know what you're take on him getting a good speech in cairo and then, you know, the people critiquing him the way they do. he is trying to set up a new type of relationships in the middle east and as we all know the middle east is controlled by the desire and i would like to know your take on that. >> guest: what worries me about the president's approach to the dispute is it seems to me on historical and unworthy of the united states to try to position itself as a so-called honest broker above the fray. brokering the differences between israel, a member nation of the united nations, and the forces, hamas and all the rest, who want to destroy israel. because israel is a salient of our values and an hospitable neighborhood it seems to me the unite

a conversation with the then chairman of the republican party, george herbert walker bush. >> george. >> mr. president and the >>. >> i noticed a very -- a couple of very attractive women and republicans in the legislature. i spoke to harry dent about it when he came in to see me the other day. i said, you know, i was rather surprised that they were there. i do not want to go through -- i want you to be sure to emphasize to our people, let's look for some because i think a woman might win in some places that a man might not. >> i will keep it in mind, sir. >> these are to the bureau in the state legislature. they are good-looking and bright, and they are said to be two of the best members in the house. >> that is terrific. host: that is george herbert walker bush. guest: what was the date on that? host: february of 1973. guest: it is there a plan to release that to the nixon library? host: there are another 1400 hours to be released over the next couple of years. guest: there is an abiding fascination because this enigma of richard nixon went from one extreme to the other. there will

caller: ok, george will, i am one of your fans down here . a few years ago you wrote an article what you thought of colin powell, and you took him apart. it was so good to see that and everything he had done wrong. i would like you to comment on that. guest: i don't remember the column, but i remember having a distinct difference with mr. powell and the middle east. and colin powell is someone that the republicans should have in their party. an enormous distinction and achievement and strong feelings. i am a much more conservative republican than he is. but i am what they call a big-tent republican. and wil'mton where my favorite is from. host: where the government contested distention. you wrote a strong column about the president's speech in cairo, would you tell them of your concerns of what he said? guest: the concern, all presidents but particularly this one, tend to think their personality is an irresistable force, and there are a lot of immovable things out there that won't find it irresistible. the president had a theme in the 40's, i

in fact, later on when kosciuszko arrived in the united states for the second time george washington invited him to mount vernon and rather then traveled down to virginia he went to see horatio gates bill now had a number of black people working for him in new york and they were free black people. shoes go identified that would go into a slave plantation. >> all the plans for fortified in west point that kosciuszko had laid out, and burned them for fear that they would fall into the hands of the british. was there any evidence, anything written that showed that kosciuszko had ever cross paths or personally spoken? >> they did know each other. in fact, because kosciuszko was so close with general gates, they were all together at the battle of saratoga, and kosciuszko had much more respect for the command of authority and gates and benedict arnold were constantly at each other's throats. gates was at the top of the hill and the british were marching up the hill. and, benedict arnold wanted to run down the hill and gates kept saying no, no we are shared-- fine where we are. in fact that

iii had captured george washington he would have been justified in hang him as a rebellious subject, and harry started in before he even sat down. bill, if he is in -- and before the salad came he had bill saying, you're right, harry, i was wrong to say that. that's harries relentlessness, and also his grasp of a very important point about american history, which was dramaized in the civil war where of course lincoln embraces jefferson and the confederacy specifically repudiates him, and so the issue -- this is the vice president of the confederacy. gives a speech where he says the founders were wrong because their cornerstone was human equality but we know men are not equal. they're unequal. some men are fit to be slaves and our cornerstone would be human inequality. and it does not get clearer than that. and bill always loved a good argument well made, and harry certainly did that, and i think that was part of the process of bill changing his views on that issue. yes, sir. >> as one of the 20 people who wrote to you when you were in high school in rochester in 1970, i thought i wou

george bush said this, the i.m.f. and the world bank, given their central role in the world economy are key to hoping -- helping all of us through this situation by providing a combination of policy advice and financial assistance. george bush said that on september 25, 1990, a time economic stress internationally. for the same reason president obama and the 19 other industrialized nations of the world agreed that this was an appropriate step to take. i would hope the gentleman would urge his party to support this consistent with the principles of ronald reagan and george bush. i yield back. mr. cantor: i thank the gentleman. i think as the gentleman knows, we're probably going to have to leave this topic and just agree to disagree. it's very concerning, given the new times we are in and frankly the facts and information has come forward about the special drawing rights about the fact and knowledge that we have at this point knowing u.s. taxpayer dollars will help facilitate countries like iran, venezuela, burma, and

george who adored walt, they were very, very close, a george was a very hard and to a soldier in the effective and a killer. the letters to their mother back in brooklyn is released during me back. he would write saying mom, we were in a scuffle a couple of days ago but it is close to a little creek called antietam then a brilliant very real creation of the battle and george's in the thick of it and afterwards walk to the grounds of the battle to really understood the forces that had come to bear. i thought these different kinds of man could bring interesting. >> did you ever consider just riding on walt whitman and the war or did you expand use family through the research? >> it was his parents when i realized they had written so much to each other there are so many different parts of it. >> that was part of the genesis? >> richard we know you're political work but this latest technical, scientific, what special challenges did that pose and what are your thoughts of history and biography? >> it is the least well told story of a 20th-century you almost have to do it much of the mater

independent line. >> caller: good morning, george. i am trying to get a little more understanding of our economic downturn problem and i know is get to the accountability problem with wall street but i don't ever seem to addressing the accountability of the ims procedures and actually move is our world financial broker and you are we really intended to and who have the party had to pay back which i feel like the first t.a.r.p. and stuff that bush was and was really all about. thank you. >> guest: well, the caller is a good point. call the problem of transparency and there's an awful lot of money including the money from people in nashville and north on a sloshing around in the system and we are not sure who is in charge of it and is was giving people a sense a high sense of anxiety that will sooner or later when a political advent. >> host: last question from joe, republican line is a less. >> caller: how are you? how do you factor in medical tort reform and why is it discussed in the bill proposed? >> guest: you're right, a defensive

george w. bush. and what he said about the iraq war and the president's plan and the second inaugural address, due in journey across the globe. there's a conservative restraint concept. two in journey across the globe. buckley said sadly we conservatives are supposed to be restrained by reality and we haven't been conservatives are supposed to conserve. whether it's a taxpayer dollars whether it's military power. my god, the military fincher is a. the belief that you can export democracy to four corners of the globe. that you can send our troops everywhere. and again, president bush's words, and journey across the globe. that is not a conservative concept. that is a radical concept the type of spending that occurred over the past eight years. nonconservative. radical. entitlement spending. medicare and medicaid are going to go bankrupt. they are going to collapse. they are going to destroy its economy if we don't do something about it. george w. bush's solution, but at a $7 trillion medicare dr

on george washington. join our three-hour conversation, sunday, july 5, live on in depth d on c-span's book tv. >> now to the white house where earlier today president obama held his fourth news conference since taking office. he makes remarks about the protests in iran before taking questions from reporters. it's just under an hour. >> hello, everybody. good afternoon, everybody. today i want to start by addressing three issues and then i'll take your questions. first i'd like to say a few words about the situation in iran. the united states and the international community have been appalled and outraged by the threats, the beatings and imprisonments of the last few days. i strongly condemn these unjust actions and i join with the american people in mourning each and every innocent life that is lost. i've made it clear that the united states respects the sovereignty of the islamic republic of iran and is not interfering with iran's affairs. but we must also bear witness to the courage and dignity of the i

my question is for dan and george, that border issue with japan and india.i wonder if you could comment on how that is shaping in the's security environment and the decisions going forward? >> i would put this in the larger context of latent and dormant indian concerns about china's rise and what it means within south asia as well as in the at's desire to play a greater role in southeast asia in particular, it is shaving regional institutions, and the economic activity as it, quote, looks east. there has been a long time suspension -- suspicion within india that china has been trying to way it down with -- continuing to keep the border issue, not as heightened in tension but festering and not resolved with incursions' in what india claims as its own borders and to keep speak to that issue sensitive and put pressure on the indians in terms of how much tibetans and the dollar llama can speak out. we saw this in the tibetan uprising, how much pressure was put on india to try -- it is hard to do this, to try to indians to put some claims on pakistan and south as

george, who adored walt -- they were very, very close -- george was a very ardent soldier, a very effective soldier and a killer. and his letters to their'ia mot back in brooklyn are kind of really threw me back. he would write to his mother saying, mom, we were a little dust-up a couple days ago. i don't know what they're going to call it but it was close to a little creek called antietam and then would follow a brilliant five-page description, a very careful recreation of the battle. george is in the thick of the fighting and afterwards would walk the grounds of the battle to really understand the forces that had come to bear. so anyway i thought these different kinds of manhood were very interesting and i thought there was a book there. >> did you ever consider writing just on walt whitman in the war or is it in the course of the research that you expanded it to include his family? >> no, it was the parent -- when i realized they had written so much to each other and taken -- had such different experiences of the war that i thought there's something here. >> so that was part of the genes

i urge you think of ronald reagan and george bush and the second george bush in the new gingrich and some of the other republican leaders that i will not take the time to ". they have said that this is a critical component of our security apparatus. we all know how the legislative process works. the other body, it does so by 2/3 vote. it as legislation. the president believes it is good legislation, and many in this house do as well. what we have added it? we did not. but it is here. do not use this addition by the united states senate as a reason to say i cannot go -- votes for what 80% of this bill does. it supports this -- it supports the men and women deployed abroad in the defense of freedom in the furtherance of our security. i will tell you, my friends, on numerous occasions, as most of you know who have served with me, i put my card in the slot, i come to this well, or raise my voice on behalf of republican presidents who sought to further the security of this country. i am proud of those votes. i asked you to join me today to support our troops, support our national security

bill had said in passing that if george iii had captured george washington he would have been justified in hanging him. he strutted before he sat down, how can it be just to hang him? before the salad chain he had bill saying have you are right, i was wrong. it was his grasp of a very important point about american history which was dramatized in the civil war, lincoln embraces jefferson and the confederacy explicitly repudiates him. the issue, this was the vice-president of the confederacy, says the founders were wrong because it is human equality. they are not equal. some men are not fit to the slaves and our cornerstone would be human inequality. bill always loved a good argument. harry certainly did that. that was part of the process of bill changing his views on that issue. yes, sir? >> as one of the 20 people who wrote to you when you were in high school in 1970, i thought i would ask a euphoriant in question. i could picture bill buckley graduating this month -- >> that is an excellent question ended the question about people's talents and opportunities. bill had brilliant skills

direction of a still the imperial presidency is his style, that he is not threatening, that when george bush got out there and it all that tough talk i think it turned democrats just rapidly against them by one obama says i screwed up or when he has that kind of self-deprecating way about him i think it allows people even republicans. >> off a little bet coming even though he is very privately accumulating enormous amount of power because of a lack of accountability because of the crisis and because people love him and because of his style. so is this temporary? will the pendulum swing back? my guess is, yes, and there are a number of good reasons for that and, of course, we can't predict what will happen in the future but i'm looking at a very black and white world, but if he solves these problems and the crises go way and without crisis congress will gradually begin to assert itself more. if he does not solve these problems and crises worsened, then what happens is that the republicans get a chance of the next elections and may be the presidential elections after that so i think the p

in july george w. bush said plainly that the geneva conventions would not be extended to the detainees and no one spoke against it, not even nancy pelosi. she is now against the techniques that were used. i think of it as advanced course in. host: did you say it advanced coercion? caller: yes, we're not breaking their fingers are doing physical harm to them. host: how much of a say should congress have compared to executive authority? caller: if obama was look for advice that might be wise, but to have them make decisions for him -- there is a difference between the two branches, but to have congress decide what should be done, i did not agree with that. host: here is a story on the iraq as u.s. troops began to move out by tuesday. this is our reuters report. tennessee, good morning on the independence line. caller: good morning, and thank you to all of the cable companies for providing c-span. it is the only form other than the internet where we can hear both sides. that editorial on "the washington p

then we will bring you a conversation with columnist george will. after that, president obama's remarks at the radio and television correspondents dinner. >> tomorrow on "washington journal," tony blankley on iran, health care, and u.s. politics. former virginia congressman tom davis will talk about the republican party and issues like health care, and kevin baker, contributing ever be the editor for harper's magazine discusses his recent cover story about barack obama. "washington

when he was playing, his nickname was silent george. he never said a word to anybody, especially the media. he just didn't have time for such nonsense. four in a row for stammen to start the game. here is the second baseman ben zobrist. >> rob: i used to love to watch him. wasn't he the original, he used to pull his pants all the way down to the ground. he was a trend setter. >> bob: and what great hitter. >> rob: i was just kidding. >> reporter: when he was on that team that won the '822 world series, he was the only player on that team that had double figures in homeruns. and legend had it that, after they won game 7 against milwaukee, without taking off his uniform, he was in his car and halfway to california by the time they poured the last bottle of champagne [ laughter ]. silent george, 1-2 now. and it's over but low from stammen to zobrist. this guy has become an interesting player at the age of 28. a .222 coming in, he is hitting .316 with 35 rbis. >> rob: darryl porter had 12. >> bob: he was the world series m.v.p. >> rob: geor

host: next call is george from logan, west virginia. george, you are a grandson of a world war ii d-day vet, correct? caller: yes, sir, i am. host: what did your grandfather tell you about landing on the beach on d-day? caller: he said it was one of the most scare yes, sir, one of the most exhilarating, he said you had to keep it, you had to keep your emotions in check if you were going to stay alive. he said there were people getting left right and left next to him and we lost him last year around he lived with it up to the day he died. and i just wanted to say to all the d-day vets that i'm praying for you, thinking about you and respect you. i'm a veteran also. i went through bosnia and iraq. i respect all of you guys and today is your day for memorial. host: george, when he talked about it, the feeling you got from him that he was so terrified and that terror stayed with him throughout his life? caller: it did. i don't know if it really scared him, but he would get that -- he had ptsd really bad and he never believed in medicines be

think of ronald reagan and george bush and the second george bush and newt gingrich, and so many otherrepublican leaders who have said this is a critical component of of security. we know how the legislative system works. i believe it is good legislation and many in this house do as well. tonight use this addition by the united states senate as a reason to say i cannot vote for what 80% of this bill does supports those young men and women and some not so young deployed abroad in the defense of freedom and the furtherance of bausch security. on numerous occasions as most of you know who have served with me, i have put my car in the slot or raise my voice on behalf of republican presidents besought the security of this country. i am proud of those voices and boats. i ask you to join me today for our troops. support our troops and national security. we do not want is a poor countries who support terrorists

george bush blocked 10 billion bar. of oil after we invaded iraq, take the oil reserves -- war reserves, put it out on the open market and sell it. host: next from arkansas. caller: i am very wary about inflation. of all of the bank bail outs and auto bailouts. this president has created the hugest deficit in history, that our children and grandchildren will never be able to pay for. he should return to the bush tax cuts that created jobs, and put money in many american pockets. host: the bush tax cuts are still active. they have not been repealed. caller: great. this president needs to continue them. host: virginia on the independent line. caller: this is worse than inflation. if they don't extend the bills again, they are worried about obama putting debt on their children, but they do it themselves. with their credit card, if you over extend yourself, and you are worried about 5%, maybe you should cut back on your spending. host: do you have credit card debt? caller: i have one credit card. i am paying it down, and i

for many years incidently president george w. bush said he wanted to close guantanamo. there weren't any complaints from the republican side of the arnall then. george w. bush couldn't get the job done. president obama said he will try to finish the job. i hope some of these two are critical of president obama and his position will not make a political issue out of guantanamo if president george w. bush and obama agree it should be closed it's pretty clear to me at the highest level of government there is a bipartisan consensus. our colleagues on the other side of the aisle are criticizing president obama when it comes to guantanamo but the fact is they have no plan but to leave the facility open and continue to see it being used around the world against the united states as a recruiting tool for terrorists. i urge my republican colleagues to join with general colin powell and joined those on their side of the aisle who understand the closing guantanamo will make america safer. madam president, i yield the floor. >> the senator from delaware. >> i ask unanimous consent

we heard one under george bush and we now hear one under barack obama. both these guys have told us they are going to be looking out for our money over here. but we got mr. tarp czar is doing that. a stimulus exhibit -- accountability czar. accountable to who? what does that mean? but i'll tell you, there's no doubt about it now, this is true. the american people are sure worried about how this money's being spent and where it's going. and is there any waste, fraud, and abuse involved in it as it comes out? because when you start throwing around billions and billions and billions of dollars until you reach trillions of dollars, it doesn't take a rocket scientist back home to figure out that much money is just a target for somebody to abuse the system. so maybe that's a good thing. nonproliferation czar. i assume that's nuclear proliferation. that's what you always hear connected to the proliferation word. but the question is, -- terrorism czar. you know, when 9/11 happened and the -- this is before i came to congress, when 9/11 happened the members of co

hurting and george mcgovern said, i will let you know.st: i stopped hurting about a day after words. you get back in the arena and get to work. i am so grateful to have been -- for the soverereignty to serve d >> on thursday, washington journal talks with common security secretary, tom ridge beginning and 9:00 a.m.. the program, of course, begins at 7:00 a.m. eastern. the health-care legislation committee is going through the bill line by line during the president's health care plan is making its way through several committees on capitol hill. the various committees have oversight of different sections of the legislation. today, a house health committees are reviewing it. tomorrow, the house commerce committee reviews it. you can follow committee coverage on line as well at c- span.org. president obama is holding a news conference today. it was originally going to be in the rose garden. warm temperatures have moved in doors to the british press briefing room. you can follow it live on c- span2 and also at c-span.org at 12:30 p.m. eastern.

and be consistent with the principles enunciated by ronald reagan and george bush in the 1990's. mr. cantor: mr. speaker, i thank the gentleman. first of all there is obviously a delay in this bill. we were expecting it to see the bill and the war splemental for our troops to come tomorrow and i'd ask the gentleman, number one, does he know the amount of support given to the i.m.f. back when ronald reagan made those quotes? and is it -- mr. hoyer: would the gentleman yield on that question? mr. cantor: i will. let me finish, mr. speaker. that's number one. is it appropriate in the war spending bill for the taxpayers of this country to be guaranteeing $108 billion to the i.m.f. when we are only providing our troops $80-some billion? that's more than we are providing our troops for a global bailout. and that's the first line of questioning, mr. speaker, i'd ask the gentleman. secondly, does he expect to produce more than the 200 votes that the gentleman's side produced on the first go-round on this supplemental bill because if not, then he would need to have some support from this

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this constitution was so amazing that jefferson commented, george washington commented on it, thomas paine was so pleased with the new constitution that even he considered quitting for the polish citizenship. however, catherine the great said if the physiocracy poles free them liable to be freed so they got together and attacked poland at once. now, kosciuszko who fought in the american revolution and was impressed with the notion of minuteman and militias explained to the poles we need groups that are ready with different areas so we will have a regular army but when the war goes to the different regions we should have local people ready and at that time in poland 8% of the population were serfs, the% portability and 10% were jews. he wrote we need a regular army recruited by force made up if we had a regular army regretted by force made up of peasants with no legal rights for government protection of persons and property they won't feel ties to the country to her. if we have this militia of glasses, he rose, especially the nobles should be represented in the same proportion of peas

and eventually, george washington said, i think i agree with the polish guy. let's put forts up there. and so, they built fort hut putnam which you see here, which stands today at west point and this is fort putnam from the other side. and kosciuszko essentially built the series of forts at west point, 13 different readouts and heavy forts, that became an impenetrable fortification the british couldn't attack and around this time there was someone else who noticed this. benedict arnold. he was making a secret plot with the british to sell kosciuszko's plans for west point, to the british. now, kosciuszko warned, all the time, the vantage point which you saw, we need 200 money up there to be stationed at all times. after serving two-and-a-half years at west point, kosciuszko wanted to get back into battle and george washington said, okay. go down to the south, we need your skills down there. and on the same day he went to the south, george washington butt put benedict arnold in charge of west point and he wrote an order to all of his men, saying, we don't need

and joining us is one of the legislatures from the state george runner. thanks for being was. >> good morning. >> first, what is the situation with the budget deficit? how much are you looking at and how do you cut costs? >> we've been trying to close the gap on a growing budget deficit over the last number of months, back in february there was a budget passed that tried to close the budget gap. it also increased taxes for a short duration of time and then went to the voters to ask them fef they wanted to extend that amount of time. and of course the voters turned that down. and as a result of that, and the ongoing deficit, less revenues coming in, we are currently now looking at a deficit here in the next 12, 13 months as somewhere around $22 billion. it's a staggering number even for a state as large as california. >> the governor has proposed a flat tax, possibly 15% across the board. your reaction? >> well, i think simplifying the tax system is a great idea. i think that trying to bring everybody on board, trying to make sure it's an understandable ta

>> as george mitchell said, we want to get back into formal negotiations. we are working harder in a decree the conditions that will allow that to happen. we recognize that positions held today and those held by the palestinians today may be at odds. all we're asking israel to do and the palestinians to do is to live up to the obligations that they themselves have committed to. >> there was a report today that said secretary clinton would like a stronger stand. this administration should be coming out more strongly in favor of their activities. >> i do not think there is any daylight between the position of the daylighpresident and the pon of the secretary. >> does she think they should be putting more public support? >> clearly, we are watching what is unfolding here. this is not a static situation. what is clear is our interest. about the election itself, this is really about the iranians and the relationship with the iranian people and its government. this is not about the united states. what is clear also is why we are focused on iran, why the president

this started actually ander george bush. if you look at what happened under the bush presidency one of the reasons he will be regarded with-- is a failure, the federal budget when george bush entered office was $1.9 trillion. when he left office it was close to $4 trillion so we saw a doubling in spending over the last eight years. one of the themes of the book is simply that policy really does matter and it is interesting last night i was on the larry kudlow show on cnbc and i was debating someone on the other side and he was basically saying the reason the economy has collapsed and we are in this freefall of their recession right now is that the republicans listen to people like art laffer and peter tanous in you and larry kudlow. i smiled and said i wish they had listened to us because i don't think we would be in the trouble we are in. i really think that over the last six months, and i am speaking for myself now, i think everything we have done on the economy, every single measure that congress and the president have ta

he said thomas made him want to vote for george bush. -- i said on this may be what to vote for george bush. at another time, it almost made me want to vote for george bush, because i wanted a beautiful, free, multicultural america, too. in 2008, it is really no different. it looked like a different group of people, and i remember the speaker say, "dadadadada," and i thought to myself, "i know what he means. i have studied the right. i know trial lawyers, and gila monsters who hate hard-working entrepreneurs." the people in america know why these people are giving trial lawyers standing ovations. if they know anything about about trial lawyers, they noted these are the people the, you know, protect us from corporate malfeasance, so i thought that these guys really do not know how to speak american any more. they are really losing their touch, and then another movement, and i think it might have been sarah palin's speech, remember the panacea, we were going to save all -- solve all our problems by drilling. it was if it was scripted. the whole audience in the convention hall breaks into

"president obama sounded like he was channeling president george w. bush during his cairo speech yesterday. much of the substance of his address, titled "a new beginning, some of like the same old song. one could easily remove the biographical references, redact a few sentences that were clearly critical of specific bush administration policies, and pass it off as old republican talking points." caller: i find that hard to believe, particularly because the response to what he has said is entirely different. if it were the same rhetoric or the same intent wrapped in slightly different language, delivered by something who looks a little different than george w. bush, i am certain that the reaction to it would have been identical. but, in fact, it was polarly opposite. so i think that editorial view may be a little out of the realm. . guest: we shall see. on the democracy issue, is he different than what president -- with the previous president, george bush, advocated? i think there might have been and difference in emphasis. the last president focused,

they make it a bit easier for george sherrill. >> rob: mcdougal is going to come right at you.asionally throw a breaking baugh. but mostly i'd say 90% fastballs. >> jim p.: doesn't he have a big curveball? >> rob: got a big curveball, but i think guys are probably not going to react too much to the curveball. they'll go after the fastball. >> jim h.: mora on deck, then zaun in the 8th inning. the nationals will have the lower third of their line-up coming up in the ninth. this is an amazing game. the orioles had gone three straight games without a home run, had hit only one home run over the last five games. tonight they've hit three accounting for all five of the runs. zaun and huff with so low -- solo home runs, and nolan reimold's shot which gave the orioles the lead. >> jim p.: if you're a nationals fan, you know what mike mcdougal's job is, keep it right there. if you keep it within two runs, then george sherrill, first man that gets on, tying run comes to the plate. >> jim h.: there's the dreaded lead-off walk when you're trying to do just that. so the orioles now can pla

in this case, i still think that is george bush. george bush era defines republicans, which is why republicans still find themselves with low approval ratings. even congressional republicans. they seem to be capturing a lot of the blame for whatever frustration voters have. there are a lot of people trying to get the message out there of people the party is and what it needs to stand for. i think it is too early to speculate about who is going to be the leader that brings republicans back into power. in lot of it is going to depend on how barack obama does. his success or failure will determine how successful republicans will be in the next election. it is from there that they can start to define themselves. fundamentally, it is not really until 2012, when there is a nominee for the republican party, where republicans will start to say this is the person who speaks for our party and here's the message we have going forward. host: thank you for joining us. we are going to speculate a little bit with some of you. we want to hear from

next -- brazil, is now -- president obama is now george bush, redux. liberals may have more to complain about with this president. the president has inherent powers to conduct wireless surveillance. the president has said that no supreme court decision has ever said that. that is different from saying what he thinks on the issue. it is a very careful response. it reserves for another day his own pronouncement in which she will affirm that authority. there is an obscure federal court called duff eisa -- called the 5fisa review court. there is a case that goes back to 1978. the court held that there were these inherent presidential authorities and that they could not encroach on the power of the president. we will see what happens with president obama on this issue. in a recent press conference on april 29, the president was asked a question concerning whether in an extreme case he might be able to consider a technique like torture. it was a multi-part question. this was the second of the two. maybe we can pull out the transcript later and look at the ex