george mason as 3-7. it's northeastern by two. >> mark: george mason is going to have to pay close attention to allen and janning because they're very food long ball shooters. >> mike: here is hancock. thought about the three. double-teaming put on by thehuskies. 1020 shoot for george mason. cornelius got the careen screen. he miss as three. the rebound by adako. >> mark: northeastern is doing a very good job limiting george mason just to one shot. that's what you want to be able to do. >> mike: huskies firing from long trieng start. that's their first miss from beyond the arc. that's 3-4. we'll see a lot of that tonight, right? >> mark: you win by the three, but you also can diep by the three. >> mike: morrison doesn't get this jumper inside. northeastern's allen will take it up now with a 2 two-point lead and almost 6:00 gone by here in the first half. >> mike: adako against morrison. good matchup there. adako got hit. he'll have a couple of free throws when he returns -- when we return. northeastern ha

2-5 for george mason. that's a long one there by tate. [ whistle ] >> mike: long rebound, ojougboh. hancock the freshman picks up his second. >> mark: freshmen tebd to think they can get it back in one to po session. they have to chip at it at a time a back at a time. there's no 12-point shot in this game. >> mike: i want to till the first half, it's very early on. nobody is going quietly in any caa contest. i mean, you've seen northeastern be in close ballgames this year. george mason had very tight ones as well. >> mark: both this the experience because they have played a tough preseason schedule and been in enough games where they've been down and fought back to try to get victory. >> mike: bigby, shot clock at seven. it's another three in the corner and that one is no good by muo and rebounded by the patriots. here they come. >> mark: what mason needs to do the last 2:00 of the game, try goat quality possession, -- possessions, gets goods shot and -- good shots and try to go out on a high note. >> mike

he is the president of george mason.reat to see him. >> al: he enjoys the broadcast and look forward to seeing him back here soon. well, misses the shot. byrdsong ter other end to stretch the lead to 6. , great defense by james is madison. i'll say james mason and george all game. >> al: wells for the board. louis on the run with a pretty finish. he is coming off the bench. a nice first step. he has to get to the basket the prior play and finish, that time he is under control. >> al: one under bowles scores for jmu. on wright. wright throws it away. good anticipation by curtis. nice shot. behind the arc. and pulled a trigger there. he know what he is thinking. and on the bench. and hancock. was not easy. and impressive finishes nicely. when does he grow that beard, last night? [ laughter ] >> al: a 12 o'clock shadow. >> glenn: like curt gibson. he would grow a beer in two innings. clean shaven and then look like zz top. >> al: a foul here that will be the third on the patriots. hancock part of the great class giving geor

george mason by 8. battling that. and despite the contact pearson will convert. >> glenn: pearson passed up the jump shot and in. >> al: and hitting 2 3 pointers. back from bowles. off the left hand portion of the window. that's great work for bowles. four assists now. he is a great offensive. >> glenn: well parker saw limb lead him. you have to do because you have to expect to double team his partner bowles. >> al: hancock. and johnny williams. >> glenn: he has impressed me this year, hancock. he has something that's unusual for a freshman. a great off financessive feel to the game. and he has a knack of the game. >> al: and that's a long, long for wells. >> glenn: not going away, al. >> al: not going away. you look at this james madison team they are 10-11 record. 3-7 in the caa. most of the losses have been at the buzzer. and wright answers. , watching them. mason is better defending the perimeter than madison. you can see it. it is ease is i for madison to get to the rim. >> bowles called for traveling. that takes

george mason trying to stay undefeated. they have work to in the second half to see if they can stay that way. they're 3-0 in league play huskies on their tail. >> mark: they have work to do. it has to start on the defensive enend. it's not danger zone here. you need to -- they need to take care of the ball, but they need to push northeastern from the three-point line because they're shooting well from the three-point line and they have nine turnovers. you look at the three- pointdifference thearks where the lead is right there. >> mike: you heard coach jim larranaga talk about it when we talked to him before the beginning of the half, they have to get to outsite shooters. we'll hear from head coach bill coen has to say for northeastern when we come back. >> mike: welcome back to the start of the second half from northeastern. the huskies with a 12-point lead over george mason. moments oskars we caught up with the northeastern -- moments ago, we caught up with the northeastern head coach bill coen. coach, good first half to

>> good morning, george. president obama is on his way back from hawaii, cutting his vacation a day short, as you mentioned, the same day that security restrictions take effect, extra screening from afghanistan, algeria, iraq, lebanon, nigeria, pakistan, saudi arabia, somalia or yemen, as well as other countries, cuba and sedan. >> reporter: the president's top counterterrorism adviser john brennan took to the airwaves to acknowledge the system did not work in connecting the dots but also to insist that there was no obvious plot missed. >> there was no single piece of intelligence, a smoking gun, if will you, that said that mr. abdulmutallab was going to carry out the attack. >> reporter: republicans were less charitable. >> with all of the leads out there, somebody screwed up in not reporting and clearly the screening was a disaster. >> reporter: one lead, sources tell us that the christmas day attack against prince muhammad, head of saudi security. the same hard to detect underwear bomb and the same petn ex

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and george's mothered washington was almost as big as he was. she was a tall woman and had the most tremendous temper you could possibly imagine and her husband died when george was 11 and spent most of her time trying to get george to be a sort of surrogate husband, substantive for him and george was so thrilled he tried to join the british navy at the age of 14. >> host: to get away from her. >> guest: but then intervening was a wonderful man, lawrence washington, his half-brother who was at that time the master of mount vernon and fellows mojo miles away from washington and lawrence realized it was time to start in fighting this big, tall teenager up to mount vernon and he was about 60 when he started coming there and that's when he met sarah deily pacelli fairfax, this very flirtatious wife of the man in the house on the road and so for a dozen years sally flirted with him and tormented him and so forth and after he married and became engaged to martha she wrote him a letter saying are too impatient to see the campaign over so he could embra

george washington who he helped promote as commander in chief. guess the commander of the army, dak. host kosoff he goes of and fights the war come famous george washington and he's adams is being ignored. >> guest: i have an explanation that comes in a leader in the book but that might be worth saying now john was a potbellied by about 5-foot seven or so and he had been prepossessing and here he was against these paul virginians like washington, 6 feet two and he just felt i can't compete. >> host: and he didn't compete and as a manic, probably was a manic depression. the description as such. >> guest: i can't be too hard on him because he was such an ardent patriot at the same time that he paid such a price for it. do we want to talk about that, too, barbara? >> host: between the two of them that is the kind of intrigued i found. he called her portion of which is a very 18th-century portia from the merchant of venice they had these literary names for each other during the time as they would read these letters. he absolutely adored her. >> guest

past odu, 71-55. >> taking on george washington. the drive, extends for the lay- in and foul. misses the free-throw. the bison down, 38-34 and inside to airplane wade and draws the foul and the colonials led. gw pulls away with this one. damion holes a into the lane, banks home 18 points, george washington defeats howard, 81- 63 and improving to 10-3. the others, american beat brown, 76-58. >>> else where virginia tick facing, the governor's cup and jeff all own the steal here. with 23 points, the game went into overtime, even at 80. in o.t., a wild sequence. this is great. to hudson, hits the game- pointer and here comes seton hall, pushes it up the court and kick it out. uses all the rim for this one and getting the 3-pointer to fall. you better pay attention. jeff allen throws it down court for the dunk. virginia tech outruns seton hall, 103-94 in overtime. what a good pace. >>> it's break time, folks. don't go away. when we come back, can the caps avoid the third straight loss and the redskins brace for the changes to come. the

and her husband had died when george was 11 and she spends most of her time trying to get george to be a surrogate husband, substitute for him. in georgia so thrilled by the city try tried to join the british navy at the age of 14. >> host: to get away from her. >> guest: but then, intervening was a wonderful man. laura washington's half-brother was at that time the master of mount remained. and that was mutual miles away from very bold washington and lawrence realize there was time for this big tall teenager after mount vernon. and he was about 16 when he started coming there and that's where he met sally fairfax, this very flirtatious wife of the man who had the house down the road. and so, for a dozen years, sally flirted with him and tormented him and so forth. so after he married and became engaged to martha, she brought them a letter saying, you have to today campaign overseas can embrace mrs. custis. and it just treaded in this blazing letter because he was about to march into the wilderness to fight the french and the indians. and you thought there may be a bullet out there wit

i disagree with george. i don't think that the briefings have begun to give americans comfort. >> does the president have to do more? >> i think neither the bush administration or, so far, the obama administration has geared up the groups to take account of what is not a single al qaeda. it's a hydra-headed monster. the strategic direction is centralized. maybe some training. that's difficult to get at all of this. yemen, who really thought about yemen? why yemen is on the map at all. yemeis running o of oil, water. i mean, i'm reminded of what small countries used to do in the colder war. if nay wanted attention and aid, they would say there's a communist insurrection here. yemen has an al qaeda branch. yemen is not fighting that al qaeda branch all that hard because it's way of getting international aid and attention to yemen. >> and what i think is stark is that we're now talking about yemen. the u.s. is spending i think $63 million in yen this year compared to $2.6 billion in afghanistan. $1.4-something

george to be a surrogate husband, a substitute and george was so thrilled he went to join their british navy at the age of 14 to get away. [laughter] but then intervening was a wonderful man, lawrence washington, his half-brother who was the master of mount vernon. that was the miles away from washington and lawrence said it was time to invite to this big tall teenager up to mount vernon. he was 16 when he started to come there and that is where he met sally fairfax and a very flirtatious wife of the man of the house down the road. for about one dozen years, sally flirted with him and tormented him. after he became a engaged to martha, she wrote him a letter saying are you inpatient to see the campaign over so you can embrace her? [laughter] he wrote her a pleasing letter because he is about to fight the indians and there may be a bullet with my name on it and they're probably will be but he could not resist. he wrote a blazing four page letter in which he simply said to you love me as much as i love you? i just want to know that before i march off to get shot. it was that letter that s

george mason cruises back old dominion 71-55. >>> howard in blue taking on george washington. he misses the free throw. bias on downy 4. lazon croma draws the foul. the cloelans led by 8. then gw pulls away. hol i wills banks home two of the 18 points. george washington defeats howard 81-63 improving to 10-3. the buy son 1-13. the one other local score, american beats brown 76-68. tomorrow afternoon marks the end of the of season for the redskins. changes are expected around redskins park following the season finale tomorrow. players like jason campbell, carlos rogers, may be wearing the burgundy and gold for the tienl time along with jim zorn. it's hard not to think about the future. >> you can't control it so i'm not going to stress myself about it. if it's meant for me to be here, i'll be here, if it's not, then i won't. all you can do is, you put good stuff out there on sunday. >> a lot of guys haven't been talking that much about it. a lot of guys are like okay, let's get to san diego and play as hard as we can and wherever the chips fall after that, there are sure to be

low 20s in montgomery and fairfax, prince george's, arlington counties.maryland around the northern neck and chesapeake bay, weather watchers reporting low to mid-20s. central virginia and blue ridge and shenandoah valley only reporting the upper teens to near 20 degrees. look at the wind chills. feels like 10 degrees around much of the region. the winds, though, have diminished from yesterday's gusts that were over 40 mile-per-hour. this morning's gusts are around 20 to 25. one peak gust in winchester, 29. the highest we've seen in the last hour. peak gusts are generally 20 to 25. still uncomfortably cold. we have a few clouds racing through coming in out of the northwest. getting a few snow showers in the mountains now and we might have a passing flur later on this afternoon. highs reaching the low 30s. partly cloudy dye. past full moon in and out with clouds passing through. partly cloudy tomorrow highs mid-30s and more of the same on wednesday. winds will diminish gradually by wednesday afternoon. light snow lay it onthursday. how is the traffic? >> w

george washington, slicing into the lane, the hard way. he had 18. the colonials turn back howard. >>> virginia tech hokies had to go into overtime tonight to beat seton hall. that is sports. >> old dominion asked george mason telling everyone to wake up. mason telling everyone to wake up. [ drill whirring ] thank you. excuse me, sir! can you tell me which coffee tastes better? "a," definitely. this one. thank you. in a national taste test, more hard-working americans preferred the taste of dunkin' donuts over starbucks. try the coffee that won. excuse me, sir! thank you. start your morning off at dunkin' donuts with a freshly brewed hot coffee. it will clean so deep, she'll never go back to you again. sorry. ♪ love stinks ♪ love stinks, yeah, yeah [ laughs ] [ female announcer ] new swiffer wetjet is redesigned. it cleans deep in corners. its solution penetrates layers of dirt, and its absorbent pad locks it away to clean better than a mop. the newly redesigned swiffer wetjet. who's next? ♪ love stinks have you gotten your seasonal flu vaccination?

george mason ended the decade with with a stale performance. a new year off ears fresh start and that's what the patriots need playing in their first game of 2010 yesterday afternoon against old dominion. the coach, faiths looking for their seventh win of the season. one five seconds to play in the first half. check it out. george mason leads 31-28 at the break. second half off the monarch miss. back to morrison for the dunk, remember kids sharing is cing. later in the second half, patriots turn in defense into offense. wright and morrison force the bad shot then wright leads the break, check this out, nice bounce pass to ryan pearson. george mason cruises, 71-55. all right. seth greenburg and the hokies playing seton hall in cancun. harvey drives. lays it up and ties it at 80. we go to overtime. less than a minute to play in o. t. allen throws the pass to ad kins, out front. throws it down. the hokies win it 103-94 in overtime. their ninth win in a row. that's your morning sports. i'm hakem dermish, have a great day. >>> and that does it for u

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. >>> prince george's county stop installing speed cameras in dozens of school zones. breanne carter has the details. >> instead of putting in permit cameras, the county executive has decided to use mobile cameras. he says this will be better for the county and residents. 30 years, mary has lived in prince george's county. she said she knew it was a matter of time before speed cameras came here. >> i think big brother is watching it again. >> the county plans to put 46 camera around at school zones, generating over 120,000 tickets per year. now county executive jack johnson said it will work with the police department to use mobile cameras, rotating them through school zones. while not all driver give the plan a green light -- >> probably not a good idea, but i guess whenever they think. >> others think it is the best way to get people to slow down. >> i think if you move them around and you don't give a heads up to people that they are likely to use one of those cameras. >> the county executive said the original plan would take too much money at of people's pockets, a

is the author of impostor, how george w. bush bankru reagan legacy. >> coming up next, book tv presents, after word, an hour-lon interview program where we invite a guest host to interview the author of a new book. this week, historian thomas fleming profiles the women who played a central partner lives of the founding fathers. in his book, "the book, the intimate lives of the founding partners" to the prominent role that dolly madison employed in encouraging her husband james. e book with barbara mitnick. [applause] >> host: first of all, i want to say what a delight it is to be here this evening with tom fledge fledge -- fleming who needs hardly an introduction, he has authored more than 40 books. he is to me and to many americans america's greatest story telar, particularly of history. he has been enormously successful, a win over major awards for his back and his lifetime devotion to american history. i think we could spend the entire evening here, all the time we have allotted to us, just reviewing the numerous books an

working against georges. a high slot.haone morrisonn play its off backstrom. >> craig: the capitals have to keep the pressure. finally a forward gives him a stick. >> joe: green walks in and fires. blocked by georges. green yields it to backstrom. green. price. verizon center is alive now with the capitals scoring those two goals lickity split. down by neuvirth and he'll hold. >> craig: it's electric. it's amazing. the highest scoring team in the nhl. when they arrive, you can't stop the momentum they can build in a hockey game. a lot of four on four remaining. this is a great battle. alexander semin on the board. just a wicked shot through the screen of their big defender. >> joe: all four goals locker in this 1st period. and you are all caught up. three-1, dc with 2 and a half to go in the second. roman hamrik accellerates through center. the that deflection off josh gorges. play its straight away from spacek. 23 seconds. 2 on 2 with quality. on the criss-cross, softly to knuble. knocked away by georges. >> craig: camma

check on the thermometer, from lynn in virginia, george sent this in.p in the blue ridge. 9 or 8 degrees. i guess if you're an optimist, that's 9, if a pessimist, that's 8 outside. winds are still gusting to between 25 and 40 miles per hour, all across the area. these are wind gusts, 28 miles per hour in annapolis, 38 in frerick, maryland. windchills, single digits above and below zero. it will be a cold day outside today. hot chocolate is the drink of chike for your sunday afternoon. no snow around here, but you can see a few snow flurries now backing down into northeastern pennsylvania. that's part of big piece of energy going around the major low pressure area in the gulf of maine that's drawing all that cold air down. the windchills are 15 below zero in chicago right now. and the combination of low pressure east of maine and high pressure out here to the west of chicago is going to keep those day long today. so windchills will stay very, very chilly indeed. cold air will be the rule. and as that big storm pulls away, a lite piece of energy is going

i disagree with george. i don't think that the briefings have begun to give americans comfort. >> does the president have to do more? >> i think neither the bush administration or, so far, the obama administration hat fired up the groups to take account of what is not a single al qaeda. it's a hydra-headed monster. the strategic direction is centralized. that's difficult to get at all of this. yemen who really thought about yemen? why yem season on the map at all. yem season running out of oil, water. i mean, i'm reminded of what countries did in the cold war. they would say, there's a communist resurrection here. yemen has an yaed braal qaeda b. it's not fighting them hard because of way of getting aid and attention. >> and what i think is stark is that we're now talking about yemen. the u.s. is spending i think $63 million in yemen this year compared to $2.6 billion in afghanistan. $1.4-something billion in pack tan. where we have been told is the head quarters, the beating heard of al qaeda. so, clearly,

now let's talk with anita who was an assistant to president george w. bush and laura who served as director of events. how could this happen? >> this is just unbelievable, and i'm sorry to hear that this has happened. again, we're talking about this, since november, another person that was able to breach the security at the white house. we all need to be concerned about this, about protecting the president, the first family, and protecting the white house. i think -- obviously, this was turned up in the investigation, that the secret service was doing, and identified that someone was able to get on a bus from the willard hotel with the indian delegation, and i think this is a question, too, for the state department and the office of protocol. was there a visits officer there going through the list, matching up the list from the white house with the protocol office to see that the people getting on that bus with the official delegation coming to the white house, which, by the way, go to another entrance, not the entrance where all the other guests were c

around until it came to ronald reagan right next to george washington. and he and i talked about the drama that he experienced on the wheel right next to president washington. on that particular week, we had the confirmation hearings of judge bork for the supreme court of the united states, and september 17 when i traveled to philadelphia with the president, it was a thursday and i missed my opportunity to question judge bork. and i got that opportunity on saturday morning, and i was the only one there and had -- at least there were only a few people there and had an opportunity to question judge bork for an hour and a half. and ultimately, played a key role in the rejection of the nomination of judge bork who believed in original intent and had a very, very different view of the constitution. did not believe in due process of law. that was not part of the constitution, and he disagreed with the incorporation of the ten amendments through the due process clause to apply to the states. and that was a momentous supreme court hearing. during the years of pr

he said, george, you can't. there is a thin red line you will cross. as hard as you try, you will be on the other side when you realize it. we have been watching closely. we look at recruiting and retention which is importanttive. it is i -- positive. it's a mixed bag. recruiting and retention are positive. >> the economy has been helping you out on that front. >> absolutely. >> the lead in mentioned suicides. there is no question that the suicide rates have continued to increase. we lost an average of about 18 soldiers more every year since 2004 to suicide. we have an active program to deal with that and we have another active program called comprehensive soldier fitness that we started in october for soldiers families and civilians to give them the skills and advance to deal with the challenges of these repeated deployments. so, we look at it very hard. we are stretched. i have just come back from a trip around the world visiting soldiers families, deployed, not deployed. i am amazed at the continued resilience and commitment of these soldiers. we wa

how would you -- how would george marshall define leadership? >> george marshall would probably do it rather than define it. he was a man of action. but he would certainly -- he would certainly tell you that the essence of leadership is finding good people and getting as much room to operate as possible and freeing himself up to think about the longer-term and think about the future and what to do next looking down the road. >> what role does ethics played? >> i think it plays a very large role. the leadership literature is all over the lot. most of the business leadership for instance takes the view that efficiency and planning as the base of it however at the public sector there is a stronger strain of ethics in our belief system. and so marshall appealed to me because she was of sterling character. he was a man of great virtue and here he was one of the most successful administrators in the history of the country probably the most successful since george washington and he must have done something right. so it struck me here was a great subjec

and then, george washington vanderbilt is mysterious.e goes to west point and is in the union army, but is goes awol? >> yes, something that i founded the national archives with the help of the stop the debt the youngest son, george washington vanderbilt, was by all accounts vanderbilts pride and joy because of the three sons he was the only one who liked vanderbilt himself was athletic. vanderbilt was someone of just immense personal capabilities. 6 feet tall, 200 pounds, straight as an indian was the description. and this is a guy who got involved and one fistfights into his 50's. you know, he was not -- you know, he was not just good business. he was also a good card player, excellent horse racer, somebody who was just always out to compete and win under all circumstances. and here his sons were, one of the put it cornel is a gambling addict and epileptic. william -- >> may have been. >> it is possible. and his son william was very good in business but he was kind of pudgy and unathletic and kind of a sad talk personally in his demean

george mason led 30-18 at the break. second half it's the freshman corn kneel just -- cornelius strong. a couple other scores uva wins at nc state 70-62. howard loses to morgan state 90- 58. >>> this week the capitals have a prime opportunity to pad their lead in the southeast division. they currently hold a 14-point lead and have the thrashers on tap tonight followed by tampa bay and florida. the capitals entered tonight's road game at 8-1 against southeast division teams. we start in the first period. no score. the caps in the thrashers zone. they win the faceoff. 1-0 capitals early on. still in the first, the thrashers on a power play but the caps are attacking shorthanded. alexander semi ne is denied but he sticks with t. lenot be denied a second time. that is the first of two goals for semin. he now has 18 for the season. that would be more enough for the goaltender. 39 saves in all, including this beautiful stab in mid air. from there the capitals would just pour it on. nicholas backstrom adds one. 8-1 making a big

he was george magazine. >> host: earlier in your career, and, you came to washington and you apply tojournalism center. and i have a little inside information actually because i have some relations who are involved there. >> guest: can we get back to the book? i don't know what you're going to say but i get very uncomfortable when the subject is a sub one ideas. >> host: a year ago -- >> guest: it was not tongue-in-cheek. >> host: what do you think of her secretary? >> guest: no, i'll say one thing that sort of surprised me since the election that john mccain oddly enough seems to have actually been won over taxcutting because he voted against both of bush's tax-cut. he was a big opponent of amnesty. he wanted to shut down gitmo. a forgetting of the democratic party had rather have them get the blame rather than us. and it's just something about republicans. they go for the next guy in line. it's been a disaster. they will not learn. i think michael steele needs to punish the early primary states. that allows them to vote in the primaries. if john mccain is a nominee and this was befo

. >>> prince george's county is making changes to speed camera plans. county executive jack johnson is scrapping a plan to install 46 cameras in school zones. he says 10 mobile cameras will be located in school zones around the county. residents have mixed feelings. >> probably not a good idea to get rid of the permanent ones, but whatever works best. >> i think if you move them around, and you don't give a heads up to people, they will be likely to meet those cameras had gone. >> it could be in place next month. they will get a $40 ticket for speeding from the cameras. >>> leesburg today reports loudoun county is considering a plan to raise the property tax on hybrid cars. the board of supervisors wants to raise it from $1 to $4.20 per $100 assessed value. that will not happen if the final budget is approved. that calls for the car tax to be scrapped in favor of an income tax increase. >>> governor kaine held his final meeting with students and faculty and family of those killed or injured at virginia tech. they were angry over new revisions to the off

he adopted george w. bush as a political acolyte.e learned from those three people how to address texas. regrettably to flash forward, molly passed away in january of 2007. i will read the last paragraph. molly died in her bed at her tree-lined home in the last jen -- when they of january 2007. message boards went up around the country in different cities. flowers were placed outside her home. it was the anniversary of congress passing an amendment to the u.s. constitution to abolish slavery. molly's life was a testimony to knocking people off their high horse for good end and protecting civil liberties which seems to be a word that gets bandied about as if it was a negative. her life was devoted to practicing good journalism in the spirit of protecting your right to know things, to hold people accountable and protect us from social injustice. i talked too much. i know i did. if you have any questions and you still have patience with us, if you want to add anything? >> i was crazy about molly but i was disappointed in her response to

he raised it in his first meeting with george bush.s is going to be the number-one issue of your time. that was before september the 11th so i think good things have been done differently? almost certainly. any decision you can go back over it but i think on the big picture, on the leadership he showed, the leadership the government showed, i was privileged to be there and i am very proud of the part that i was able to play. >> final question then. >> yes, can i just ask a couple of questions and reflections from you? the first question, you described to us before the break about the shock in discovering there may not be any wmd. when did you first realize how difficult the aftermath might be ended the strike even the same way? >> early, seven days, i think seven days after the invasion, there was a meeting in which john scarlett talked about sort of the real difficulties, the sense of the americans really not knowing, not appearing to have a plan that we thought they did, really serious questions starting quite early. >> and what was

i found some things of commonality in george bush's speeches. i think the fact that you can argue with what ever you want to argue with what george bush but nobody attacked this country. he made us safe. i think he really responded to that and i think the history books are going to treat him, and on that. i think the tax cuts or something that strategically needed to be done. i think also we should have found a way to pay for those as we go far because they hurt us there but again there are some things i found very moving and george bush's administration and things i worked with him on. i am a democrat who's worked with republicans to it i think i can be one who can turn that around and get some republicans to work with us. we've got to do it together. >> david scott, democrat of georgia. >> thank you. >> we are here live in statuary hall and i will be the end of the live coverage following the president's state of the union speech. you can watch this online at some point in the evening. you will be all to watch all the interviews we just did wi

sore less is coming to your basement department, or i mean your office. >> i love george. i want to have george's baby. >> all right. they're going to come after you, man. >> i hope so. i love these guys because i just imagine them spending all their -- >> that's all they do. >> watching tv. they watch something that upsets them and then they have to blog about it and it's got to be a horrible, pathetic life. that's why they don't anger me, they just make me laugh. >> the david in play, david brock, he runs that outfit. now, here is a serious question. media matters dumb or are they damaging the nation? >> i think that they are babies because -- every media network is in line with what they believe in except for fox news and they can't handle it and that makes them infantile. >> do you think they have influence or are they just stupid. >> i think if they were more moderate or went after other networks they would be taken more serious. i get e-mails every single day from them, i have marveled at their dedication to watching the fox news channel. >> the talk radio thing, too

bernard klilack, mary cloaker, allen cunningham, george ellisson, yesterday furman, daniel lisson camp, dr. jeff holdclaw, dr. richard krasdoff, dr. levine, dr. litiker, dr. lindsey, dr. mese, dr. maldrick, dr. poser, doctor rosenberger, dr. sodder, dr. smith, dr. stewart, dr. sage, dr. field, dr. weiss, dr. weiss. those are all doctors from my home state of california who said: do not support the murkowski attempt to repeal an endangerment and health finding.

president george w. bush begins his second term.ope john paul ii, the world' pope dies and 17 days later german cardinal rahsinger elected to the papacy and taking the name the 16th. and michael jackson found not guilty. and suicide bombers underground. hurricane katrina hits new orleans and the gulf coast, elliss we've got to start with you on that one you're a louisiana native. your memories of the coverage of it. >> two categories, in the early days, marvelous, early print and television that did ensure even though the government responded so ineptly to it that eventually americans would need to respond to it. of course, we have a short attention span in the media coverage and years later gosh, i wish we could get people interested in it again. >> jon: jim. >> i agree the initial story was compelling and astonishing to people things could go this wrong and a story line that was all george w. bush's fault and satisfied them completely for the years after that. >> jon: 2006, the sago mine disaster in west virginia, 13 miners trappe

george w. bush wanted to go to st. john's but they wouldn't let him and so he went to kincaid which isn't a bad school, another very prominent powerful school but they were in the same orbit. just down the block from each other in the river oaks area and they mingled with the country clubs and they were in the nexus of the high energy and political world in texas. senator john tower drop by the house. just the kind of environment, she grow extremely conservative and began resisting -- back on track should begin looking at things i think she felt were seditious, something the was going to bug the crap out of her father, and she began reading a little publication that a friend of hers had in her house that clearly was not welcome at the speed delete the ivins house also would was called the texas observer, 32nd sales pitch, if you believe molly ivins and fierce journalism by a copy of it, subscribe, go on line, told them you love them. the observers defined by many ways molly's sensibility or ethos or her view of moralit

. >> since you brought up history, look at george w. bush, 2001 approval rating, 86%. >> around the same time. clinton '93, approval rating 54%. george h.w. bush, '89, 17%. reagan, back in '81, approval rating of 49%. all gallup polls i think. cnn "usa today" gallup polls. it's got to be causing some, some pand wringing in the wus? >> the only one that's relevant. because with george bush -- >> reagan number opinion 49%. >> yeah. dealing with, he's dealing with the fallout from the carter years. you have 18 1/2% interest rates. so that's a relevant number. clinton's number completely irrelevant. he inherited george bush's bull market. the economy's booming. the george bush number is completely irrelevant because of 9/11. none of the numbers vaguely comparable. the only one comparable, herbert hoover what obama's dealing with. obama dealt one of the worst hands in the history of the countries. go back and look at abraham lincoln's approval ratings which were terribly low and that's what's relevant. the other things are, those number, com

general george washington and his army faced seemingly insurmountable odds. it was cold, his men were ill equipped and outmatched. it was then on december the 23rd, 1776, only two days before that pivotal battle of trenton that washington sought to inspire his small volunteer army by reading aloud from thomas paine's powerful work, the pamphlet "crisis." today we can read the words that ragged band of revolutionaries heard that day in 1776. these are the times that try men's souls, but he that stands it now deserves the love and thanks of man and woman, and we have this consolation with us that the heart of the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. sure of their cause, they pressed on to victory, and thus began the long, rich history of our nation. those early days, however, were not the darkest and most uncurve kern days our -- uncertain days our nation would see. years later, as we all know, the descendants of those revolutionary heros would face each other, sometimes brother against brother, fighting over the future and direction of our growing nation.

bush and the second george bush it kroez agarose ag government -- >> you got it, he grew government, hold on, hold on -- >> it different pay -- >> increased when tax rates were cut under reagan and revenues, amount of money that came in, increased -- >> but david. >> hold on, victoria. go ahead, vickie. >> go ahead, vickie. >> increases in capital gains tax typically lead to lower revenues of capital gains. so you don't see the increase that you want because that -- those investment dollars go elsewhere. so these tax hikes -- >> but vick it increases at the level george bush was okay with, in 2001. >> quentin you complain about other people overtalk and you do it all the time. >> there we go, quiet. go ahead. >> and we take -- back to the '90s level and that was the decade of capital gains and the decade we had, nothing and capital gains and your s&p 500 index, nothing. so the '90s was higher capital gains, taxes had higher capital gains. >> goodness, we writing of history, soviet style and under clinton, thanks to a republican congress we cut the capital gains levy from 28 to 20% an

you know, the george w. bush that i saw every single day in the white house, in the oval office, in the roosevelt room, talking to troops on airs force one, there was a gap between what i saw and what the public perception was. i think people will get a better sense of who this man is. host: question in the back, go ahead, please. caller: as counselor to the bush administration, you said that you helped oversee the surge in iraq. what advice would you have for president obama for afghanistan an possible future involvement in pakistan? guest: my point is that i was there at the time that the surge was taking effect and we were seeing the positive benefits of it, and so i was involved in, you know, how are we talking about it, how are we conveying the information about what is going on with the surge, but the president, as commander in chief, made the decision to oversee the surge in iraq along with, obviously, general petraeus and general odierno, and others who did a spectacular job in that regard. i think i

, george bush sr. said well, we have now buried the vietnam syndrome in this sands of the arabian peninsula. where poetic statement out of the white house. [laughter] but, the fact is we have not buried the vietnam war govea thumb is coming back to haunt us and people are thinking about that more and more everyday. if people remembered vietnam they would remember how the calls for withdrawal that came early on, i must say in 1967, two years after we were escalating the war. in 1967 i wrote a book, i love to advertise my books-- i will try to resist it later on, but i can't resist this one. in 1967 i wrote a book called vietnam, the logic of withdrawal and i must say the first book, there have been a number of books on the war in vietnam and mine was the first book that called simply for the united states to get out, not equivocating, not setting timetables, not saying we will get out if and when, we are not going to go to paris to negotiate for five years and six years. leagis tett to get out. and the

i am pleased president george w. bush and president bill clinton had agreed to lead a major fund-raising effort for relief. the clinton-bush haiti fund. i went to thank both of you for returning to service and leading this urgent mission. this is a model that works. after the terrible tsunami in asia president bush turned to president clinton to lead a similar fund. that effort raced resources for the victims of that disaster -- that effort raised resources that helped rebuild communities. that is exactly what the people of haiti need right now. every day that goes by we learn more about the scope of this catastrophe any. the suffering that defies comprehension, families sleeping in the streets, injured and desperate for care. many thousands feared dead. that is why thousands of american personnel are on the scene working to distribute clean drinking water and food and medicine, and tons of emergency food supplies are arriving every day. it will be difficult, it is an enormous challenge to distribute this ate quickly

george mason hosting unc wilmington pick it up in the second half. brian pearson.for the dunk. morrison had a team high of 15 points. understand five minutes to go. pearson knocks the ball loose. tate gives it back to pearson. george mason go on to win it 59-46. 14th straight conference victory at the patriot center. that's your morning sports. i'm hakem dermish. have a great day. >>> whoever said you shouldn't play with your food forgot to tell that to some folks in colorado. they threw up their fruitcakes. in the 15th annual great fruitcake toss. not a mere exhibition, it was a competition. the fruitcake slingers were judged on distance, accuracy and even catching. they had to bring their own fruitcakes which had to contain which is fantastic. we'll have them over for a friday night pizza. it's just our way of entertaining without going out. this is where all the magic happens. this is where i knead the dough, make the pizza. by using my card, i get the specials, the real deals, and it saves me money. the win-win is that we get to visit with our friends, the kids

i was extremely upset, being a disabled veteran, 1 george w.sh -- host: let me jump in here, because we're running out of time. what is your question or comment? guest: this is a question i have recently started asking my friends about voter fraud. which of the three largest cities in the u.s. have a reputation, whether it is deserved or not, for having corrupt elections? host: i am not sureç of this cn answer that we want to take a stab at it? guest: never be wrong picking cities in louisiana and new jersey. host: let me get to some criticism of the book from howard kurtz's column. he is referring to the quotation that came out about what harry reid said in private about barack obama toç john holliman, why don't you take that? -- john heilemann, why don't you take that? guest: in our author's note,ç we mentioned that we conducted the interview on deep background, basically what howie writes in the peace. it is not complete, the description of all the conversations we had with our sources to talk any great detail about how the interview we d