going to be that confused. in fact, let's just say hypothetically c-span, they wouldn't go to c-span.org anymore, they would go to c-span, so peter at c-span, okay? and so arguably, there could be a high-level -- my gut sense is there will be because of the quality control mechanisms, but at the same time all these issues are complex, you know, thieves and criminals will try to figure out how to use any system to create harm. and so we're going to have to keep an eye on it and possibly evolve the practices and policies as well. >> host: mr. beckstrom, how did you get into this work? >> guest: how did i get into this work? well, it's a long story. i was a high-tech ceo historically and started a company, took it public and sold that when i was fairly young. and then i did different social service projects mostly. i was in new york on 9/11, and my life changed that day. and i stopped all my business work, and for three-and-a-half years i worked on building a network of ceos to work on peace across the middle east and around the world. that work led to insights about how decentralized human and technical networks

in fact, by going directly to the name with a habit that akeley feedback got a domain. they wouldn't go to c-span.org anymore they would just go to c-span. so teeter at the end. so arguably there could be a high level of security. my gut sense is they will be because of the quality control mechanisms. all these issues are complex, there multivariate. you know, these, criminals who try to figure out any system to create harm and so we're going to have to keep an eye on it and possibly evolve the practices and policies as well. >> host: mr. beckstrom, how did you get into this work? >> guest: i was a high-tech ceo historically and started a company, took a public and sold it when i was fairly done. and i did different social service projects mostly. i was in new york on 9/11 and my life changed that day. and i stopped on my business work and for three and a half years i worked on building a network of ceos to work on peace across the middle east at around the world. that work led to insights about how decentralized human and technical networks work here we were studying al qaeda into building our new decentralized network that led to a bo

. >> for the latest on health care debates go to c-span's health care hub. . >> this week on to win a, a look back at the life of a writer arthur koestler. >> michael scammell arthur of "koestler: the literary & political odyssey of a twentieth-century skeptic." why did you choose to open your prologue the way you did? >> partly for dramatic effect. partly to achieve my favorite form of literature which is a circle. and partly because i did not see it as symbolic. that is to say, that he had tried in vain to exercise control over what he was doing. he constantly thought about where he was going, what he was thinking, what he was writing. there were three or four attempts at suicide earlier. it seemed to me to have great symbolic effect. >> let me read the first sentence. on tuesday, march 1, 1983, arthur koestler and his wife, cynthia entered their home and sat down facing each other. he in his favorite leather armchair and she on the couch and poured themselves their usual drink before dinner. then what? >> that drink was laced with something else. obviously, it was a drink designed

c-span programming and show varying points of view. winning entries will be shown on c-span. don't wait another minute. go to-span dot org for more information. >> our guest today on book t.v. in the author of four books including the best-selling, culture of corruption takes your calls and tweets. three hours with michelle mallkin on book t.v. >> "washington journal" continues. host: for the next hour. midterm election politics and nobody better to talk to than our two guests. rothenberg the editor of the rothenberg political report and charlie cook of the cook political report. thanks to you both for being with us. what are you looking at in 2010? guest: i think when you look at a national election you look and say what's the historical average. then you say what may deviate from that. we know from history in a first term midterm election the average result is the president's party losing about 16 seats in the house. breaking even in the senate and losing about five governorships. you look at the current situation and say, well we're in a recession and a situation where president's job approval rating is o

you can go to our c-span site for a link to that as well.>> here is what is on tomorrow. political roundtable to talk about the events of this weekend going forward. >> o'neal will talk about the role women play in peace building experts. then we will have a segment featuring rolf larsenn. he looks at al qaeda's determination to require weapons of mass destruction. all of that on "washington journalism" starting at 7:00 a.m. we will see you then. .

for those of us listening in this morning to c-span, go back 30 years. m the beginning of the country until the end of the carter administration, this country only had 950 something billion dollars in national debt and but from 1918 to the end -- from ronald reagan to end of the first administration this country had ran up $4 trillion worth of debt. after clinton -- when clinton left, after eight years of clinton we had a surplus, and what happened? in 2001. we had a mass of another tax cut, two of them and the country went into recession. when george bush left office we had $10 trillion built up in national debt. if the country -- in 200 years did not build up $1 trillion worth of national debt but in the last 30 years it built up almost $9 trillion in national debt and only thing that happened was massive tax cut and increased spending. you can't keep cutting taxes and putting everything on the credit card. host: members of congress listening into tonight's speech in the house of representatives chamber may not have a pen and pencil but some may be twit

[applause]y thway, on questions, everyone needs to go to the microphone and -- c-span is taping this so please go to the microphone. sir? >> the first question is -- [inaudible] >> well, i think -- when i was writing at the "orange county register," just coming across a lot of these stories -- especially, some of the way these deals got through, it really started to infuriate me watching city councils just quietly push through deals that are so costly and so troublesome in the long run. and then reading about the pension liabilities and watching the unions. and some of the power and their power play is very disturbing. definitely not for the public's interest and that's what got me interested in that. thanks. [inaudible] >> you pointed out a lot of the problems that was exposed and you started to address the potential solutions. will those solutions ever happen before we go bankrupt? >> i mean, that's good question. i think in california -- there's enough interest, i believe, that there's initiative that can pass. i don't know -- i just don't know as far as politically what will happe

to do historically. my gut sense is that consumers will not be that confused. let's say hypothetically that c- span not a high level name. they would not go to c-span.org anymore. arguably, all the issues are complex and varied. criminals will try to figure out how to use any system to create harm, so we will have to keep an eye on it and possibly involve practices and policies as well. >> how did you get into this work? >> i was a high-tech ceo historically and started a company and sold it when i was young. i did different social-service projects mostly. i was in new york on 9/11, and my life changed that day. for 3.5 years, i worked on building a network of ceo's to work on peace in the middle east and around the world. that led to insights on how these human and technical networks worked. it led to a book called a goat the starfish and spider." it got led by senior -- a book called "the starfish and spider." i did my job in the u.s. government for a while. icann gave me a call and said they had the perfect job for me, and all i had to do was moved to los angeles. fortunately, we came up with an understanding and they allow me to work

to the future. those are spielberg -- i mean, spielberg was by far their greatest director, and really, the driving force of their movie business, i would say. c-span: but you go back to 1960. you say that lew wasserman really didn't like jack kennedy that much. >> guest: right. c-span: how much was that due to the fact that his brother, bobby, was an investigator in congress with the mob? >> guest: it was due, i think, to a considerable degree because bobby kennedy was going after -- he was very focused on las vegas. and vegas was a place where mca did a lot of business and where wasserman had personal relationships, as well -- mo dailes, wasserman had known from cleveland. he was very close to him. and mo dailes was really the -- he was called the "godfather of las vegas. he had the desert inn. so -- and dailes was on bobby kennedy's top 40 hoodlums list. i mean, dailes hated kennedy. so i think that it -- i think it's true that wasserman didn't like the kennedys because -- in part, at least, because bobby kennedy was going after people like dailes, and also sidney korshak. c-span: there's a picture at the beginning of this chapter three, and at our back is

going to have serious discussions about a second stimulus likely to happen. >> sean: are they really going to follow up this health care bill with all the bribes and broken promises of c-spane going to follow it up with stimulus two? >> yes. they need to be seen as doing something on jobs. you heard it all day today the key word was pivoting to the economy. that's what he is going to talk about in the state of the union. >> sean: either he's going to spend more money and all the things he said about the first stimulus is going to come back to haunt him. >> you didn't use the november numbers in which we gained jobs. that being said it is alarming. >> sean: four million jobs since he's been alarming. >> we need to drive the focus, that's what was doing today -- >> sean: he said he's going to create 3 1/2 million jobs, we are down 4 million. >> do we have a long way to go. we are not losing as much. >> sean: is that what he promised? >> we have to stabilize the economy. we have a long way to go, absolutely. >> sean: you democrats will make any excuse. say this, his stimulus failed. >> no, we haven't failed. it is taking a longer time than they expected and anticipated. >> se

forcing business owners it to pay more fines, all of this thanks to c-span is here for millions of americans to see. except that's not going to be the case for health care reform in our country. mr. speaker, it's no secret that the ma -- majority plans to negotiate the final 1,000-page health care bill without c-span cameras present. president obama promised when he was running for president that he was going to change washington. he vowed at least eight times that the american people would get to see the negotiations of the health care bill on c-span. but speaker pelosi promised that the democratic-led congress would be the most transparent congress in history. she went on to say that the work on the health care bill being displayed has -- while simultaneously denying c-span cameras access to capture the ongoing negotiations. in fact, those negotiations have been going on somewhere in this building, none of us, very few of us know where, and very few people are in the room making decisions that are going to impact the american people not for this generation, but generations to come. and all of this talk about transparency

i know some day we're going to have all those negotiations on c-span. i have been trying to find out where the negotiations are going on so that we can have some true transparency and just -- and it was a great idea when the president said it. so that people all over the country can see who's negotiating for them and who's negotiating for the pharmaceuticals, who's negotiating for the insurance companies, who's negotiating for the plaintiffs' lawyers and aarp and standing on the side of the retired folks. we work able to see all of that. it would be transparent. the president, when i heard him saying that over and over again on television throughout the presidential campaign, i thought that's not a bad idea, that's a good idea. we'll make this totally transparent. even though i'm a republican, the president had a good idea. we have to give him fault, too. once he got elected, we need him to follow through and the american people like those ideas. if you go back and look at the exit polling data from 2008, november when the president won, indications are

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to heart. if you go over to the computer c-span state of the union held, we have twitter reactions from the worst. if you scroll down a little bit, we have aggregated tweets from members of the house in a blue box. in the red box, we have tweaked from the u.s. centers. there were not a whole lot -- u.s. senators. there were not a whole lot. chris dodd after the speech said that the president outlined clear, cummins said steps that we should use to put middle- class families -- common sense steps that we should use to put middle-class families back on the road to prosperity. >> i think we must hit -- cut taxes, scaled-back bureaucracy, out of control spending and government control if we want to achieve real change. this is from arlen specter. i agree, mr. president. it is time to end do not ask, do not tell. sexual orientation has nothing to do with patriotism. after the speech, the congressman shorthands and thanked the president. a lot of people have been pleading -- tweeting us. for example, we have joanne, noted during the speech that military and supreme court do not cloud or react at the sp

[applause] >> and by the way, on questions, everyone needs to go to the microphone, and it is -- c-span is taking this, and so please go to the microphone. >> first question, what really inspired you, deep down, interest in politics and what's going on in our country? >> i think when i was writing at the orange county register, just coming across a lot of the stories, especially some of the way these deals got through it really started to infuriate me, watching city councils, just quietly push through deals that are so costly and troublesome in the long run. and then reading about the pension liabilities, and watching the unions in action. and some of the power, their power plays, very disturbing. definitely not for the publics interest. and that's what got me interested in that. thanks. [inaudible] >> thanks, lay. >> you pointed out a lot of the problems, exposing, sort of address some of these solutions. will go solutions happen before we go bankrupt? >> that's a good question. i think in california, there's enough interest i believe that there's a initiatives can pass. i don't know -

going to hard decisions. i worry about this decision. >> we could not have gone the constitution if it had been negotiated on c-span. >> corporations do for the most part. they have many ways to pour more money into the political process if they wanted to and they have chosen not to. to cross that line and suddenly decide that, as a corporation, i want to defeat lindsay gramm of north carolina and those corporations are in sentences co, boston, and new york city, that is -- are in san francisco, boston, and in new york city, that is the favor you can give lindsay gramm because he can make an issue of that. both lindsay gramm and barney frank might ultimately agree on knowing where that money is coming from into north carolina# massachusetts. you can take all thaqi money you want. Ñithe more you take it, the more they tried to influence the election, and the more you're going to deal with a modest amount of money. this could be a reverse takedown aspect. corporations have to be careful about it. they could end up with black guys that will haunt them on many of their issues as they go for -- black eyes that will haunt them on many of the

go to your calls for open funds. sacramento, margaret, go ahead. caller: good morning, susan. i want to let you know that i watch c-span every day. e sure to get my c-span fixed in before going to work. with that being said, i wanted to talk about the new senator that just got elected in massachusetts. it seems like we kind of got blindsided with him. i did not hear much about him until it was almost time for the election, and when i did, you know, i was like, ok, once he got elected, let me check this guy out. i want you to think about these people that bring these nominee politicians entered we have went out here in california, schwarzenegger. he is the terminator, we know. we have $700 or more, 50% of our income, being taken away from us that we have no say in. now we have this person, scott brown, who is basically a joke anybody could have a goat -- who is basically a joke. anybody could have booed him that could have googled him before the election and found that out. he was in a high-school gymnasium assembly, cursing out the students and naming them by name. what a joke. it costs us when they put these type of people in off

going to vote party. if this happens again, the democrats already are wobbling. but i just think it's hugely embarrassing. c-span doesn't carry too many -- >> next time if you don't look at me, i'm going to slap you. >> you're not that good looking. >> can i look at lesley. >> everybody looks at lesley. this evening, glenn beck spend ago lot of time on his program answering his critics. he'll tell us why he's doing that. then, more cheap shots leveled at sarah palin by her biggest an tag mist, joy behar. we hope you'll stay tuned for those reports. an tag mist >>> friday, breaking news, the ap is reporting michael jackson's doctor will be charged with involuntary manslaughter. also, where does the aarp lost 150,000 members since the health care debate began. check out the new beard and all the gray. he's here to comment. let's go to the jackson doctor situation first. involuntary manslaughter. is that enough? the third, murder, murder second and then involuntary manslaughter against dr. conrad murry. they said, wait a second, this guy was living in his house. he wasn't a concierge doctor. michael jackson died in

this president was going to have everything above board and open on c-span, and he was going to have no pork, and to me, the pork that is in every bill, i don't care what bill it is, that's passed, has a lot of pork in it. do you think that if the republicans get back in there and we'll make sure that they're conservative and have morals, will do away with some of this pork? would we have more money if we don't have pork to save little fish here and build a golf course where they don't need a golf course? i mean, that's absolutely ridiculous. guest: a couple of points. one is, like i said, i think that republicans, rightly, are learning lessons from the electorate from the losses in 2006, 2008. i have to take exception with the notion that we were as bad on spending as the current congress or the current administration. the fact is under president bush, we brought non-defense, non-homeland security discretionary spending down from i believe it was around 11% in the last budget of president clinton to under 2% under president bush. the attacks of september 11 did require the governmen

going to be that confused. by going directly to the name let's say c-span got a top level domain, they wouldn't go to c spanch, peter at c-span. so arguely there could be a high level security. at the same time, all these issues are complex and thieves and criminals will try to figure out any system to create harm. so we will keep an eye on it. >> how did you get into this work? >> it's a long story. i was a high tech c.e.o. historically and started a company, took it public and sold it when i was fairly young and did different social service projects. i was in new york on 9/11 and my life changed that day and i stopped all my business. for three and a half years i built a network of c.e.o.'s to work on peace around middle east and that work led to insites of how networks worked we were studying al qaeda that led to a book called the starfish and spider." that got read by government leaders and got recrewsed to help the u.s. government. did my job at the u.s. government for a while, missed my family and icann called me and they gave me a call and said, we got the perfect vob for you and all you have to do is mo

going to say i can't believe we believed that? >> about technology? >> yeah. >> now you want us to go back while c-spans here. >> well, i don't know. we have to look at how quickly technology is advancing, too. the things that took two years to create a year ago will take half the time today. i mean, it's moving, but murphy's law says that technology is advancing so rapidly, and so this concept of convergence, this concept of everything will be touch sexreen you tpwhalk your house, and there will be no more televisions, no more exoorts, everything will be touch screen. we're seeing some of that already. microsoft came out with a table a couple of years ago. skype has become the jetsons, talk online. but still, it's a little bit funky. i don't know if it's going to be 10 years from now, but it will be sfwog see. i remember this concept of convergence was pitched, you know, years ago. leo helped are you at the time with t.c.i. cable was asked about, you know, pulling on to the information superhighway, and his response was i feel like we're still sitting in the driveway. that was about 120 seo years ago

, we don't really want to tell you the truly by -- telling the truth on c-span and not allow the substantive amendments that the republicans presented. we will not allow them to go i have been here for 20 years and have never seen anything like this. the obama white house their m.o. is to say we do this, we won the election and have big majorities in congress, and we do this and pass it and implement it. just because congress passed it it doesn't mean it sits there, no reform goes through perfect the first time. i think that the white house could see those poll numbers going down, but their feeling that we have the supermajorities and their original plan for the state of the union was to sell the health care reform they had passed. well, they didn't work out. the massachusetts election was a huge canary in the white house, and they believe they can lose majority in the house, in particular. so i think their lock-step movement may be a little less sure thing. 3ççmost in çw3w320 ççg#çóqyears, çt ñrççcongressional quarterly, we measure this every year. and you are right, we calculate how often most republicans vote against most democrats and how often are m

to know what is happening. they should allow c-span to go to this hearing. host: how much love back do think there will be in november 2010 when the elections come up, even if it is just a perfunctory exercise if they do all this negotiation behind closed doors? guest: it is really hard to say and will depend on a wide number of factors. despite the fact that this is done behind closed doors if it is a relatively open process resulting in a product people can understand, then the blood that would be minimized. -- the blowback would be minimized. i think it would be minimized. on the other hand, if they cannot with a totally rewritten bill that people are shocked by, then the reaction will be that it was negotiated behind closed doors with no idea what would be in there -- then, yes, there'll be reaction to obama's promise about having c-span in the room. it will be decided by the context. more so than by the actual process. host: john, glenview, ill. caller: i would like to discuss two issues. the first to do with a cadillac @@@@@@@ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @a

going to see what's going on. the american people understand. c-span is sunshine. c-span represents good government.-span was the foil that the american people had against the excesses of a presidential administration that overstepped its bounds and brought us the spectacle of watergate. and the crumb bling of the presidency. c-span is the preventive medicine of what keeps that from happening in the future. the first president bush went back on a pledge he made one time, one time and was dealt very severely by the american people and didn't win a second term and people feel that going back on that pledge of no new taxes, it wasn't that he raised taxes but he told us he wouldn't. and now we have a president that says it will be out in the open, trust me. you'll know that. guess what, now you don't. i will tell you since there are no republicans in the room, there are no republicans standing with the special interest as the health care is being written because we aren't allowed in the room. we don't know what democrats are defending the insurance companies. we don't know what democrats are defending t

there is a link there to pass c- span request. -- on c-span's frontpage at the website we have the letter. there is also c-span's health care have you can goo show in the coverage we have had over the past nine months of this debate. the town hall meetings, the committee's' work on this, and also press conferences. it is all on our web page, c- span.org. the republican line, you are next. caller: yes, ma'am. thank you for taking my call. i am an elected official in north carolina and week unanimously voted 6-0 to televise our local board meetings on our local television channel. the reason being is the taxpayers of our town -- our budget is over $70 million per year and we felt the public who is paying the bill should have access. in order to have the trust of our constituents and citizens as to how they're spending the money, transparency and good ethics is imperative. i am very glad to see this is being brought to the forefront by c-span to get more access to the government where our money is being spent. it is our money. i hope both parties allow this to be televised and would encourage you to request more tv access as well. host: let m

you saw it with obama who made this pledge that everything is going to be open to c-span.-span. there is a reason why my fights with my girlfriend is not open to c-span. [laughter] if you open it to c-span, you have a meeting and then a back room meeting where people make decisions. if we put the age ban two-one, young people will get screwed year. but if -- these are hard trade- offs. the way the media works -- obama challenges republicans to provide answers. the whole point is to get out of that one line sound bite. it is very hard to say what i am about to say from the view of a politician. transparency is a way people on the other side of the debate deal with issues. there is something called transparency that you can help people's understanding of it. when the senate releases a bill, it is called the chairman's mark. it is in english. people who can read a novel can read that bill. and to get an idea of what is going on. i ensure all of your legislative people are ecstatic when there is a chairman's mark up. real transparency would be saying everybody has to release a

to the c- span facebook page. if you become our fan, we post to videos, scheduling information, and just open comments. right now, we have one going in advance of the president's speech. i will read a couple of the responses that we have so far. "i really hope that he knocks this speech out of the park. i hope that we can get things done. >> a homea home run will be nic. what will be proposed will not be enough to get this country out of debt." going back to the state of the union hub, i will look at twitter. there are a number of pieces to our coverage. anyone who is on twitter, please follow us. the post a lot of links to video, news items, scheduling information. you will get a lot out of it. >> we are watching the president's motorcade. for people who want to part with 8, what can they do? >> i will make this very quick. you can send your comments @c span. we are abrogating a lot of these on a website. there are many from members of congress. -- we are aggregating a lot of these. one republican wrote, "joe wilson is sitting in the same seat, i brought some duct tape." a congressman wrote, "i hope that candidate obama shows up

going in the dumper. so if it was time to go back to school it was the right time. >> where do you go for your number one news source? >> oh, c-span. nothing but c-span. >> right. >> i knew what you were waiting for. >> you don't know me very well. what is your number one news source? >> right now -- i hate to admit, a little bit of comedy central here and there, but cnn, fox, local news, internet. >> the comedy central thing baffles a lot of adults. they don't understand why it's so -- i watch it all the time but they don't -- people don't understand why young people watch jon stewart and stephen colbert so much and like it. can you help us? >> i think it's a situation where every one of these sources almost try to go over the top and outscoop the other. comedy central can put a spin on it to where they're making fun of it. everybody realizes it's pretty much the same story depending on which spin you want to put out. they're making fun of everything across the board. you're saying something stupid, they're going to report on it but it's funny. >> who in this audience -- i'm going to ask you whether you're a colbert fan first or

you know a year-and-a-half, two years ago during the campaign we were expecting weaver going to see all this on c-span were hoping we for going to be seeing it on c-span the that is not the direction we-- the in the house and senate will be moving or the president will be doing. we will end up with a partisan approach. i'm disappointed by that perhaps as much if not more than you are. >> host: bud, republican. you are on the air. >> caller: it morning. representative hoekstra i have a question as to why we continue to be on the defensive in screening people to get on airplanes. i think we need to go on the offensive. >> host: what do you mean by that caller? >> caller: i have a specific idea. all the people who are training to be suicide bombers are sent to mecca and medina during the hajj and that ask a high-ranking intelligence officer one time, i bet there are a lot of bad actors at the hodge every year. i think that is where we need to attack. i think we ought to bomb mecca and medina. >> host: mr. hoekstra? >> guest: i think bombing mecca and medina you up to recognize the vast majority and i'm n

for the complete schedule, go to booktv.org. c->> c-span radio, c-span 2, and links to podcasts are free and available from the app store. >> earlier today, president biden talked to political leaders about commitment to rebuild haiti. she was joined by janet napolitano and bill nelson. -- he was joined by john and paula, and bill nelson. >> earlier today, all of us met with a very impressive group in little haiti of asian-american leaders are elected officials, state representatives, and others, as well as members of the business community, medical community, nurses, doctors. then we went to haiti to meet with the archbishop and pastor and a number of other priests and parishioners engaged in getting things moving. at the outset, i would like to point it to you that i have been, we have been absolutely out its -- stunned by the respons. the pastor of the church, a meeting us at the recreation center and trying to give comfort to the community. he just lost family himself, and he found out this morning. one of the priests who was there, he

to see the attachment between al qaeda and israel. host: don, go ahead. caller: yes. i wanted to thank c-span. mr.as reving up about the talks of yemen. lope and behold christmas day that guy was allowed to be on that plane. if it wasn't for american passengers stopping him, he would have gone through with his plan. another thing is all i see every time this goes on, we get moore rules against and the bottom line is do you believe in the u.s. constitution and bill of rights because all i see is the moral stripping of our rights and bottom line this very popular in this country. host: thanks for your call, don. guest: well, i guess one of the points that i might extract from that call is this sort of increasing, the ripple effect that these terrorist attacks have on the ability of americans, particularly when it comes to air travel, those who travel frequently know how rigorous the security checks have been. so in that sense, it's fortunate look these attempted attacks not only targeted or having an affect directly on those it might harm, but also the sort of ripple effect it has. host: our last ca

to cut in your most welcome. now, i am being advised because c-span's taking. they are going to need to get a microphone close to use of this gentleman here. i'm sorry. if you could give me one minute to switch glasses i will be able to see. there you go. >> some of the things you're saying about king sounded like jeremiah wright. but what king say the jeremiah wright today do you think? >> well, ig might want to separate jeremiah wright. i don't want to call that a performance but whatever it was yesterday by the pounding around, placing the dozens, sabotaging obama the father angry at the son who surpassed it, whatever, many people speculated. but if you go back and look at the sermons that have gotten the most attention, right sermons that have gotten the most attention, almost all of them are these little snippets redoubt of complicated context so if you look at the goddamn america, wright wasn't making a secular statement, he was in the middle of what would have been a biblical prophecy he was reflecting on the casualty of innocent children in the war. and he had gone ba

to 20 minute video on challenges this country faces or a strength of the country. winning entries will be shown on c-span. do not wait another minute. c 02 studentsam.org for more information -- go hillary clinton is going to speak to the press shortly, we will have live coverage in about 10 minutes. until then, a look at this morning's washington journal. host: the fed chief defends his role in the housing crisis in atlanta. he blamed soft regulations. what are your thoughts on financial regulations, the role of the fed, and more. curtis, democratic line. go ahead. curtis, you are on the air. go ahead. curtis, you will have to turn down your television, you your television, or you will feed back on us. caller: good morning. we have got regulations on the books, but bushie poo and cheney would not enforce them. i wish all of these republicans that love war so much would have their sons and granddaughters and list in the marine corps and army. thank you. host: thank you for the call. marion, illinois. here is the inside of "the washington post" this morning. neil r. wynn, writing about the speech. we will show you some of the summit from sunday. "he laid out a case policy was "po

going to the white house. we don't know when. we're going. all of the people heard us and you folks on c-span heard us. somebody tell michele. [laughter] because we want to go. [laughter] >> the black women's network is really something because you can go to our blogs at the hotel michelle blogs bought.com and people who write to us and say what is this facebook saying? and it is a thing. and we say go for it be cut as if anybody can do it you should try it they went to the web page but yet we still did not understand or appreciate the breasts or scope of their networks. beginning with the black church and we just left the black church today. by the way the publishers say it is two months before you can get a reading or presentation set up. do not believe it. because would widen the black woman calls the minister of her church, but you have got to read it and if it is baseball saturday night you ever reading saturday morning prepared to go to a black church of sending you have a reading on monday thru wednesday. it is absolutely fantastic because we worked as selling a book by virtue of people hearing about it and understandi

going up in communist czechoslovakia. on c-span 2. for the complete schedule, go to book tv.org. >> now a debate for the candidates for the fom nation for texas governor, we'll hear from rick perry, kay bailey hutchison and debra medina. this debate held in the dallas suburb of denton, texas is an hour. >> good evening and welcome. this is the first time all republican candidates for governor will debate. we're airing live throughout texas on television, radio and online. i'm kera news director shelly kaufler, and i will be the moderator for this debate. we have asked the audience to hold the applause put right now put your hands together. you're invited to welcome our candidates. [applause] >> our candidates are. >> our candidates are, senator kay bailey hutchison. senator hutchison is 66 years old and grew up near houston. debra medina former republican county chair and rick perry, he's been governor since 2000 and a former -- a native of paint creek near abilene. for the next hour i'll be joined in questioning the candidates by marie renee a reporter with kvun cha

to the fire. >> host: next call comes from ho sound, florida i think it is safe. i cannot quite see the screen. >> caller: its me. >> host: go ahead, hi, dave. >> caller: thank you to c-span first an observation. one of the perhaps one of the reasons the state department is so lax on visas from muslim countries is that the state department bureaucracy has historically been prodir and. they've been pro-era of ever since the 40's under roy harrison and robert kaplan has written a terrific book, the arabs are all about this. now the question on a call on. one of the few tax chiefs who did not get through the senate confirmation process with former senate democrat leader tom daschle. recently about in the past week some pundit has actually said he might replace rahm emanuel as white house chief of staff and that is a job that doesn't have to go through senate confirmation. i would like your thoughts on that one. >> guest: i like and tom daschle to tools on this. he is one of those washington fixtures that never goes away. and even after his senate nomination for hhs had been withdrawn he didn't go away. in fact i point out in "culture of corruption" he was behind the scenes p

going to get the investment. and then, you know, we could have a totally open internet that's a 20th century internet, so we've got to have a balance between the two. >> host: this is c-span's communicators program. our guest is larry cohen, cwa-union.org is the e-mail address the. lynn stanton is a senior editor with telecommunications reports, tr.com is the web address. could you tell us what telecommunications reports is briefly? >> host: well, we've been publishing since 1934 covering mainly the fcc and also congre states on telecom policy, everything that affects carriers that are now becoming broadband service providers. >> host: and, mr. cohen, you mentioned right before we did that little interlude that you were concerned about the concentration of power, in effect you've already raised red flags, i guess, from your perspective on the comcast/nbc potential merger. >> guest: right. yes, we're very concerned particularly about the linkage of content and network together. so, again, it's not our world. we get that, so we get to be in the world we're in, and we have respect for others, but, you know, we would say the ideal world would distinguish between the content ask

go to the national security council. host: juan zarate former deputy national security adviser for the bush administration, thank you for being our guest on "washington journal." the whole weekend of activities going on on c-span and on c- span2. book tv on the weekends. if you want to find out what is on a 48 hours of nonfiction books, go to booktv.org. i will point out that david wessel will be interviewed by alice rivlin talking about the fed. that will be on book tv this week and did you can watch it all live online at a booktv.org. enjoy your weekend. thanks for being with us. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2010] . >> just after 10:00 a.m. we plan to bring you a discussion on afghanistan's election. we will record that program at the u.s. institute of peace and show it to you later. negotiations are underway on a health-care bill on capitol hill. if the house and senate proposed a different ways to increase access to health insurance. the alliance for health reform will hold a discussion of the insurance exchanges. we will have live coverage on c- span. hillary clinton will be commemorating the 50th anniversary of the un agreement

you're going to see prime minister margaret thatcher as well as an interview that c-span cameras did that day with british tv producer, michael cockeral. >> i have always pledged against the televising of the proceedings of this house. i expect i always will. and the speech did nothing to alter my view. despite the -- despite the family -- firmly held opinion which i have on these matters, i received a letter three weeks ago -- i believe that a copy was accept to each of us and possibly even to you, mr. speaker. which made the following preposterous assertion. i quote. the impression you make on television depends mainly on your image, 55%. and with your voice and body language. and that's accounting for 38%. [laughter] of your impact. only 7% depends on what you were actually saying. i thought i should enlist the sympathy of the opposition with the last proposition. the letter went on -- and you play think that this is an extravagant claim, sfoors myself is concerned, but the letter went on, we could guarantee to improve your appearance. through a personal and confidential image con

it must incorporate c-span programming and include different points of view. do not wait another minute, go tom.org to upload your project today. >> the juno that your number one news application for york ipod is c-span? -- application for your ipod is c-span? you can find links to our programming and it is free, available from the app store. >> "washington journal" continues. host: our guest now at the table, rep jan schakowsky from illinois. we woke up congresswom, congreso this story. charlie rangel, health care talks had stalled, not likely to have a final bill until february. what are the serious problems? >> we are at a moment right now where we stand on the press of this of being able to offer to americans, finally, affordable quality health care. getting there has not been easy. there is a lot of interest involved that wants to stolid and those that want to pass it. here we are, at this moment, where we have difficult questions about how to pay for the bill. as well as affordability. are people really going to, when they inevitably go to those online calculators and put in their income

. >> i have a question on behalf of south carolina, they are going to watch it on c-span taping. what message do you have for the south carolina and ordinary folks, you are talking this is on behalf of south carolina. the local media, what are they going to the vote with your methods? >> i'm sorry. >> why are you doing this? what benefit is this going to give south carolina? >> well, the benefits that the effort will have his it will save the people of south carolina money. that is it will not be called upon to bear our own burden for the extension of medicare -- medicaid, but also the costs associated with nebraska. we believe it's unconstitutional and for that reason as i say in south carolina we can barely keep the lights on now with the budget cuts we've had and to have this imposed on us is again speaking constitutionally not only the burden that we would bear under the bill of it becomes law, butine on behalf of the state. >> we are nearing the one hour mark that we allocate our newsmaker so if there are no further questions i want to thank mr. mcmaster for joining us today

to an f.h.s. statement. belsen, missouri, up next we're talking about ben bernanke this morning, if he should receive another term on our democrats line. go ahead. caller: hi. thank you for c-span. get refused all of them up here. people are just not going to do right, just get rid of them all. when election time comes, we do need new faces, and we need people that's going to do right by the american people. people coming up for elections, you take like senator mccain, he's old. get refused him. just get rid of everybody. this is crazy. host: well, as far as bernanke, specifically why do you want to get rid of him? caller: i concur with all the rest of the callers that's been coming in. he was back in bush, so just get rid of them all. we just tired of this kind of stuff like this. i mean, they just hurting the whole american people. it's ridiculous. host: a couple of stories about unions this morning. chris mayer writing in "the wall street journal," union membership declined by 10% o. friday, the labor department reported private sector unions lost 834,000 members, bringing membership down to 7.2% of the previous to sector workforce from 7.6% the year before. that says manufa

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to phone calls. steve in louisiana. go ahead. caller: what a great, great day for america. steve, i want you to answer this for me. he keep bringing up c-spaneorge soros is a communist, and he filtered money to acorn, right? my last point is, there is something going on in this country, and you people that do not see what is taking place in new jersey, virginia, and now in massachusetts, i feel sorry for you. >> you mentioned the c-span an example. c-span is not a citizen, it is true. c-span does not vote in our elections, that is absolutely true. but c-span is a person under the laws of the united states. here is why. the fcc and the fbi were to blow through these doors, turn off the cameras, and supino your files, it would be c-span. it cannot vote, it is not a citizen, and yet everybody would recognize that is a fundamental violation of rights of c-span. why? because at the end of the day, c-span, like any other association of individuals, is an association of the people who make up the entity. this is important. we cannot skip past the idea that the suspicions of individuals are having their rights given short shrift. it has to be respe

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