gore hopes to lead. few people have been as vocal about the urgency of global warming and the needs to reinvent the way the world produces and consumes energy. and few have put -- i'm reading now. this part is from "the new york times." "and few have put as much money behind their advocacy as mr. gore and are as well positioned to profit from this green transformation if and when it comes. critics, mostly on the phreut right and -- political right and among global warming skeptics, say mr. gore is poised to become the world's first carbon billionaire profiteering from government policies he supports that would direct billions of dollars to the business ventures that he has invested in. representative marcia blackburn, republican from tennessee, as sertd at a hearing this year -- this is a hearing over in the house -- that mr. gore stood to benefit personally from the energy and climate policies that he was urging congress to adopt. mr. gore says that he is simply putting his money where his mouth is. do

his former supreme court rival, the man he beat in bush versus gore. director loved it. >> when he suggested that we get david boise to be his co-counsel, i thought, wow, to get the two guys who opposed each other on bush v gore to team up was saying that this is a nonpartisan issue. >> they share an abiding belief. >> reporter: not to mention irresistible public relations. >> i think ted recognized that this odd bed fellows combination would get a lot of attention. >> some people called them the odd couple. >> it is a very odd couple, isn't it? >> reporter: or is it? judge for yourself. >> as we were getting ready to argue bush versus gore, we said some day someone is going to come to us who will want to get married and they will be gay. and we'll do this together. >> we actually talked about that. >> that second part, i don't remember. >> next, these former supreme court rivals are more than colleagues in an inside look at a very surprising friendship right after this. it can happen anytime, when you least expect it... a regular moment can become rom

we found out we got our hands on it and sent it to help prepare tom gore for debate. this sounds like rove. and quotes a number of people who say it sounds like rove. he then puts in there, there's no evidence for this. simply repeating the charge a lot. i put it in the book. he took coverage with it and said i didn't say rove did it. i said he didn't do it. he goes on to say i was looking for a peg to write this about rove's style. that's my point. people write about this. if there's no evidence rove did it, that's proof enough for me. by god he is that good. he doesn't -- we can't get his fingerprints on it. >> host: brian in michigan you're on with karl rove who's book is "courage and consequence." >> caller: hi, karl. lots of respect for you and former president bush. we do have differences. i've spent time in the middle east. don't claim to know everything. especially after -- well, not -- me get confused. not the department of homeland security, i was totally against that because in effect what we've done is obviously we've got another layer of bureaucracy. we'r

. >> al gore gives the impression that the sea level will rise in the near future.statement of the science. >> 20th century is not the warmest in a thousand years. we also have scientific data to control this. >> that was from the film "not evil, just wrong" which is not a documentary about my pecs. it should be though. it explores the meeting tiff impact of green policy and the questions made by global warming proponents including the king himself, al gore. felum, are you in town to debate a global warming pro pone nebt. any vent posted by sara silverman. are you looking forward to this? >> yes. with the global warming pro pone nnt like sair -- proponent like sara silverman. >> i'm pretty sure she is a commi pinky. do you think she will be fair to you? >> of course. of course. i have great faith. >> how did this debate come about? >> it is sponsored by lexus who were launching a luxury hybrid car, automobile as you guys say. it is great they are sponsoring the debate. i don't know if i will ever drive a hybrid. but six months ago my fellow journalists were cutting

sheriff gore in san diego did a tremendous job of comforting us and helping us search.just want to thank everybody and ask that you help us continue to keep chelsea alive and chelsea's worth so much more than one convict. she's worth so much more than that, and at some point in time we need to make changes in this world and chelsea's going to help us do that. >> larry: thank you both, very much. our best wishes to you. our deepest condolences and our best wishes. >> thanks, larry. >> larry: thank you. brent and kelly king. it started out as a fishing trip for fun. turned into something else. this fishing trip for fun turned into something else. our next guest lived to tell about what it's like to be lost at sea and to watch your friends die right in front of you. next. 20 minutes later, she'll bring one into the world in seattle. later today, she'll help an accident victim in kansas. how can one nurse be in all these places? through the nurses she taught in this place. johnson & johnson knows, behind every nurse who touches a life... there's a nurse educator... who firs

sheriff gore in san diego did a tremendous job of comforting us and helping us search.ant to thank everybody and ask that you help us continue to keep chelsea alive and chelsea's worth so much more than one convict. she's worth so much more than that, and at some point in time we need to make changes in this world and chelsea's going to help us do that. >> larry: thank you both, very much. our best wishes to you. our deepest condolences and our best wishes. >> thanks, larry. >> larry: thank you. brent and kelly king. it started out as a fishing trip for fun. turned into something else. our next guest lived to tell about what it's like to be lost at sea and to watch your friends die right in front of you. next. >> larry: on march 28th last year nick schuyler and three pals including two nfl players left on a deep sea fishing trip in the gulf of mexico. nick was the only one to return. the sole survivor of a harrowing 43-hour ordeal at sea. he tells his story in a gripping new book, "not without hope." there you see its cover. nick joins us now from new york. how are you

bush lied, then he got to deal with the fact that it's large number of democrats, bill clinton, al gore, hillary clinton, the four or five people i names. rob graham, democrat chairman, jay rockefeller, the ranking member of the committee and a member of the committee at the time. even opponents of the war like barbara boxer all said that iraq had wmd. this was a consensus of the intelligence community shared broadly throughout the government, sure probably to the government under clinton and bush and shared widely to western intelligence communities. and the preponderance of the evidence was that he had wmd. so in fact their 110 democrats who vote for the war resolution. 149 who oppose it. 110, 67%% on the 4000 senate and say saddam had wmd. if you want to say bush lied to have to say everyone of those people lied including people like that kennedy and barbara boxer who oppose the resolution. we now know that he didn't have it. we found he had 500 times uranium yellowcake. we found tens of thousands of artillery shells and other delivery vehicles that had contained biological and chemi

jake tapper who suggested that i had taken the bush campaign debate materials and sent them to the gore campaign in 2000. we later found out there was a disgruntled employee who got her hands on it and send it to tom downing to prepare for debate. he said this sounds like rove a number of people who say it sounds like rove. that was in there, there is no evidence for this but i mean simply repeating the charge a lot-- out put it in the book and he took umbrage with it. i didn't really say that rove did it. then he goes onto say i was looking for a peg paid to write this about being rove's style. that is my point. people write about this and if there is no evidence of rove did it that is proof enough for me. we can't get his fingerprints on it. >> host: brian in michigan, you are on with karl rove whose book is "courage and consequence." >> caller: hi karl. we do have differences. i spent time in the middle east. i don't claim to know everything the department of homeland security, i was totally against that because in effect what we have done is obviously we have got another layer of he

by jake tamper who suggested i had taken the bush campaign debate material and sent them to the al gore campaign in 2000. we later found it was a disgruntled employee of the media advisory who got her hands on it and send it to tom downey but he said this sounds like roads and then quotes a number of people to say it sounds like rove trey there is no evidence that simply repeating the charge. now i put it in the book that he took umbrage and said i didn't really say that he did, in fact i said he didn't do it and then he goes on and says but i was looking for the paid to write this about be the style. that's my point. people write about this and assume if there's no evidence he did it that is proof enough for me by god he is that good we can't get his fingerprints. >> host: brough tannin michigan you are on with karl rove, whose book is "courage and consequence". >> caller: lots of respect for you and president bush. we do have differences. i spent time in the middle east and don't plan to know everything but especially after -- let's not get confused, me get confused. the department of

sheriff gore, finally, where does the investigation stand now?t can be done to help further? >> well, i think the more that we can publicize the disappearance, get chelsea's picture out there. get a picture of the suspect out, that helps the investigation. we're not stopping. we're going to be continuing our search. and covering every tip and lead that comes in. so we're not going to rest until we consider this successfully resolved. and that's bringing chelsea back home. >> sheriff gore, thank you for the work that you're doing, brent and kelly, know that you're in our thoughts and prayers. thank you also this morning. >> thank you very much. >> thank you, robin. >> take care. for more, go to our website at abcnews.com. it's 37 minutes after the hour. and time again for the weather with sam. >>> we're going to start with a live picture of downdown manhattan, new york, robin. 21 inches of snow on friday, by the way, the fourth biggest snowfall ever in new york history, since they've been keeping records since 1800s. and if you break it down month

gore is invested heavily in green technology. he was proclaimed to be the first green technology billionaire, that's a billionaire with a b. al gore has made a fortune off of global warming. he should back up his claims with hard data, not the data that has been profede to be false. and other scientists should have to defend these claims as well. global warming is not a fact. the jury is still out. and it's just the way it is. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from pennsylvania is recognized for five minutes. ms. schwartz: earlier today, unfortunately, i missed a vote on legislation called hiring incentives to restore employment act, the hire act, because i, along with several of my colleagues were meeting with president obama in the white house. and i apologize for not getting back to the floor on time. i would have liked to, but i did want to speak on the legislation, because this is important. it is a jobs bill that i hope is one of a series of bills we will pass in the house and senate and get to the president's desk t

you mentioned john kerry and al gore.hich hillary clinton handled her defeat in the primaries. it's -- it does tell us an awful lot about a politician's character to watch them deal with disappointment and john mccain is not dealing with it well now. and again, i think it's going to hurt him. i think it's going to hurt him in his primary battle. >> and in history. eugene robinson, of the "washington post" and msnbc, thank you for your time tonight. >> good to be here, lawrence. >>> john mccain's running mate crossing the line yet again. the half governor tweets it is time to reload in the health care fight. melissa harris-lacewell on the dangerous path we are going down among the tea party followers. is the law president obama signed today constitutional? when rachel joins you at the top of the hour, she will be a guest on her own show responding to fears from senate scott brown she will be his opponent in 2012. outside. i can stream the movie "airplane" to my cell phone... at the airport. i can have a crystal-clear video

reason why democratic congressman who i have a great deal of respect for and several of his colleagues goringin the party grain. that is the end of it for us tonight th=mÑ is more to talk

he pushed al gore a little bit to the left.frankly al gore had an equally good claim to the center so the election came down to the wire. i think bush re-held that in 2004 against kerry and pushed over to the left. he lost it in 2006. i think, after the 2004 election bush seemed to be dominated completely by cheney and the right wing and the center said, this is not what we bargained for it doll it all and they dramatically shifted. i think obama held the center going into the election and i think as you can see with the growth of independence, it is the center that is really at stake and the media continually makes it look like it is the extremes or the other thing that i notice that is out there is that they try to depict all voters as angry, so it is all about who can tap into the anger better. my point is a lot of the voters are distressed and rational. and they may have anger, but their actions are really rational. they are upset with the conditions of the country. they are upset with the deficit. they are upset with unemp

. >> so it depends whose objection is getting gored, that's quentin's point. >> i don't agree with it. it was enacted in '74. it's been used since 1980. yes, legislation has been loaded up with all sorts of deficit increases, spending increases for medicare and the like. but to use it to change one seventh of the economy is a very, very big deal. even senator robert byrd said that is a big -- abuse of power at a time when stimulus spending, that plan is being treated as a rounding error in washington, d.c. >> there are a lot of democrats who are against reconciliation right now for the reasons that it won't lower the deficit, they're worried about that. >> i got to agree with quentin. this was used in 2001, 2003, four -- >> that doesn't mean it's right. >> no, it doesn't make it right. but to say this is the time that's going to put us over the edge is like saying an alcoholic's latest sip of whiskey is the one that's going to do it. both parties have been doing it a long time. >> victoria, we've never had it done in such a massive scale with only one party voting for it. >> exactly.

david bois represented al gore. now, wolf, they are on the same side of a case that's likely to go to the supreme court. they want to overturn proposition 8. they are fighting for the right to same-sex marriage. a case that's right now pending in san francisco, and so it's fascinating look at the two of them and their relationship, and how it that has developed in the decade since bush versus gore. >> i remember being down in tallahassee to cover that debate. we look faorward to your report on campbell brown. >> thanks, wolf. >> are antismoking advocates going too far? it may soon be illegal to smoke in cars. find out what's happening. we have information for you. plus reaching out to the younger generation of veterans. how new technology is now actually saving lives. uy? first they drive it in the real world. and put it through its paces. they rate its fit and finish. and the amenities inside. they factor in purchase price and operating costs, fuel economy and resale value. in short, they do what you do to test its

al gore to in with a setback. they tied the game, with four lead changes.he bobcat owned that extra set p. the wizards lose 95-86. hear this. west virginia'stars jing point guard broke his foot. he is out for the rest. he will probably be replaced. chuck broke his foot. he is done for the rest of the tournament. here is a look at this morning sports. >> it will be a long rest of the season. 5:25 right now. the news continues with "good morning washington" >> and atm skimming theme. details you need to hear. >> there is more controversy surrounding gilbert iriarenas. up and down temperatures. here's to the believers. the risk-takers. the visionaries. the entrepreneurs... who put it all on the line to build and run their own businesses. at at&t, we know something about that. our company started out in a small lab, with not much more than a dream. and today, we know it's small businesses that can create the jobs america needs. that's why at&t is investing billions to upgrade and build out our wired and wireless networks. making them faster, smarter, and more s

all the errors in al gore's movie. even the ippc had 20 inches on the high end. megyn: you don't require us to just take your record -- your word for it. you decided to prove how gullible americans can be. >> i'm at times square to see if i can fool people into signing a petition to ban water. ban ox month. within ban dihydrogen monoxide. >> i never knew. it caused you more and severe burns. >> the printout said it had been found in tumors. these football players signed, too. almost every one we asked signed. >> it's odorless, tasteless. >> we support a ban on that. you took chemistry, right. what is dihydrogen monoxide? >> water. >> we are talking about water here. >> urbanning water? >> it's h20. >> do not ban water. >> let's not. but think about the dumb things we do in the name science. congress got me this golf cart totally free. >> free for me. you taxpayers paid for it. megyn: the problem is when you put the al gore stamp of approval on it and make a movie about it and they give you an academy award, people tend to be trusting, they tend to believe it. >>

he pushed al gore a little bit to the left. frankly, al gore had an equally good claim to the center. so the election came down to the wire. i think bush reheld that in 2004 against kerry whom he pushed to the left. he lost it after 2006. bush seemed to be dominated completely by cheney and the right wing and the center said, you know, this is not what we bargained for at all. and they shifted. i think obama held the center going into the election, and i think as you can see what the growth of independents, it's the center that's really at stake. and the media makes it look like it's the extremes. i notice they tried to depict all voters are angry. it's all about who can tap into the anger better. my point is a lot of the voters are distressed and rational. they may have anger. but they their actions are really irrational. they are upset with the conditions of the country. they are upset with the definite and unemployment. and so they are going to vote on the bases of that, who they think offers them not a more extreme picture

i would add the left wing media and put al gore in it. i am healthy, but i would say if you are going to cast this movie i would say hayden panitier. >> penitier i think. and mclovin as the pimp. if they look at that kid, they look exactly alike. >> good interest po. you should be a casting director. god knows you have the couch. >> have it directed by roman polanski. >> very good. i think we will end at that note. >>> from the acorn investigation to the situation to the situation translation. yet another sign that america is going to hell in a tube of gel. mtv will start to air their oily and only hit "the jersey shore" and more than 30 -- in more than 30 grief stricken countries. they are preparing other cultures for our awesomely abed ambassadors with a print campaign stating success medicals mrs. gel plus tanning plus tanning bed equals sex. i screwed that one up. you are welcome slow -- slovakii and the idea of snookie appealing to people is not so bad. "jersey shore" is easier to promote overseas because it has a more human element.

. >> reporter: the prize was shared by former vice president al gore, who'd given the issue a major publicvoice. and little-known u.n. group charged with pulling together the science: the intergovernmental panel on climate change, or i.p.c.c. it was a heady moment. and two years later, on the eve of the copenhagen talks, expectations were high. >> the science has never been clearer. the solutions have never been more abundant. political will has never been stronger. and let me warn you, political >> reporter: but that's not how it turned out. instead, copenhagen concluded without a binding framework, leaving climate policy in limbo. >> an impressive accord, but not an accord that is legally binding, not an accord that, at this moment, pins down industrialized countries to individual targets. >> reporter: and there was more: as the u.n. panel and scientists have found themselves on the defensive. in november came the revelations known as climate-gate, when illegally hacked emails sent by several prominent british researchers opened them to charges they were concealing contrary data and evad

doubt that at least one of them, by this fall, will release a report that includes proposals that will gorex. ox. at that moment, steny hoyer will be one of the most important congressional leaders in the nation's history and will undoubtedly be the most steadfast voice in congress for fiscal responsibility and tough decisions. i pray every night that republicans will join him. the topic today is building momentum for fiscal responsibility. [applause] >> mr. haskins is in charge of hyperbole at brookings. thank you so much. i am pleased to be here. brookings' does such extraordinary work. i want to thank my good friend alice rivlin for being here. i m on opposite sides of the political aisle but not on opposite sides of this issue. t,m mann, thank you for being here and helping people understand the body of congress that sometimes is difficult to understand even from the inside, much less the outside. thank you all for giving me some of your time this afternoon. never in my decades in congress have seen a public so outraged by deficits and debt. at this moment, this is a moment of historic

i remember al gore, senator gore at that time made the statement prior to that that we -- the recession actually started in march of the previous year before the second bush administration started. now, it's kind of an interesting thing. people forget this, that for every 1% drop in economic activity, that translates into about $40 billion of revenue or of lost revenue. turning it around, for every 1% increase in economic activity, that increases revenues about $40 billion when that happens. and, of course, so we started out with a reduced military fighting, negotiating two wars and with the recession at the same time. and obviously that had to have very adverse effects. i just want to, before we get carried away with the senator making the statement that he voted against the iraq war going into the iraq war, let me just remind my fellow senators that i happen to have been privileged right after the first gulf war, and that was when saddam hussein, all these atrocities had taken place. we had what they called the first freedom flight. that is when we went back into kuwait to see what th

they are weighted equally if you know, statistics we use those gore's so we're a country is this the average position affected as much by homicides as social mobility. and here you see how that index is related to income in a quality that measure that i just showed you so along the bottom the right-hand side of the more equal countries, u.s.a., portugal, britain and austria doing much worse on all of these problems on the more equal end you have the nordic countries and japan which is a continuous ingredient right across them if you put that same index exactly the same figures up the side in relation to national income per person, no relationship. you may think it would suggest another downward slope but forget about portugal and remember usa is up there. there was no relationship between the two. so although all of those problems are more common in the poorest areas it doesn't make a difference to people get richer to gather. we wondered if this was politically explosive stuff if people would dismiss it as an international dissipation differences of international culture so we look

more interesting on the stump than al gore or a lot of people we've watched over the years.he's very good at the connecting part of politics, not very strong on the substance part. all you see on this stage is the connection stuff, so when it comes to standing at a rally, she's the one you want there with you, but john mccain knows what he's talking about on all these issues like immigration and climate change and health care. he's an expert on so many issues and he's a legislator who tries to get things done. sarah palin is not even in the government, not even interested in being in the government, really, but she's got all the star power. it's a very uneven situation. >> is there any way that she's out there drawing -- i mean, 4,000 people in tucson, put that in perspective, this is not a huge city. that's a lot of people to show up for a primary campaign stop. and they're showing up, nora just told us, to see sarah palin. is she testing the political waters here? >> it's hard to say. the "new york times" reported very much what nora reported, was that five out of the 6,00

thank al gore. >> during my service in the united states of congress, i took the initiative and creating the internet. >> thanks for watching "state of the union." we'll be back next sunday and every sunday at 9:00 a.m. eastern. i'm candy crowley in washington. have a great night. >> larry: tonight, ryan seacrest and jamie oliver, taking aim at the unhealthiest city in america. >> i'm here to start a revolution, a food revolution. >> larry: waging a war on fat, hoping to shape up an entire town a kid at a time like it or not. >> how's your pizza for breakfast? >> larry: ryan knows what he's talking about. he was fat -- >> wouldn't say i was obese but i was embarrassed as a teenager. >> larry: really? next on "larry king live." >> larry: ryan seacrest is here. he's executive producer of "jamie oliver's food revolution." the man on the front lines of the food revolution, jamie oliver from new york. he's the superstar and best-selling cookbook author. the two-hour premiere of "jamie oliver's food revolution" airs friday, tomorrow night on abc. how did this come about, ryan? >> two reasons,

they felt they allowed the ox to be gored with the stupak amendment last fall and they were upset laste. they thought it was a bridge too far. so we're unclear how they are going to resolve the abortion issue here. neil, one thing we might note is they might have the votes and might not have to worry about the pro-life democrats, the stupaks of the world, especially if they are getting people like barron hill and brad elsworth and folks like that to say they are going to vote for the bill. >> neil: part of the concern about overdealing, if you will, chad, with the pro-life crowd is you lose a lot of the pro-choice crowd. so, you seem to be i intimating they could with the newest congressman in the column they could afford to roll the dice maybe. >> it might be. if you think you're within two or three votes, you bring it to the floor. smart majority has a couple of people in their hip pocket. it was interesting last night a number of members saying they were undecided. that's in case of emergency break glass scenario. they don't weigh in and tell the leadership and the leadership tells

al gore beat him by half a million people, but because we got this annoquated electoral college which we should get rid of, bush won. even though five -- >> larry: that'sen a conspiracy but that's a law we have. >> that's a law. i'm not saying it's a conspiracy. when you check these voting machines -- let's get back to them -- you have no idea when you push that machine if your vote was actually recorded to the candidate of your choice. you don't know. then in the case of a recount, if you have a close election, there's no way that they can count ballots with these things. all they can do is count the numbers. >> larry: did you know it when you pulled the lever? >> no, because in minnesota we don't have that. >> larry: what do you do in minnesota? >> 17 states have these machines. they need to get rid of them, and states that don't have them don't get them. in minnesota you still have to mark a ballot, and it goes into the machine then, and so that if it's a he close election, like we had between senator franken and senator coleman, well, then, they can pull them all out and hand-coun

al gore who went on to become vice president, and this totally unknown figure, admiral james stockdale, a great man i was privileged to know. the famous line that came from that debate, madam speaker, was from not vice president quayle or vice president to be gore but from admiral stockdale who looked into the camera and said, i'm sure you're asking who am i and why am i here? and that term went on to be used throughout the decade plus in our vernacular. i was reminded of that as we look at what it is we are doing right here, madam speaker. one can't help but ask, who am i and why are we here? and i would like to, having listened to the very thoughtful statement on the alagel blooms and hypoxia research from my friend from north haven, i would like to yield to her to see if she could give us a really good description of why it is that we are here at this moment at 9:25, friday morning, when this was a measure that had been considered under suspension of the rules and we have mid afternoon yesterday completed the work. i know many of our colleagues have gone into their districts. i woul

two books i recently read read gore vidal's flanagan because a new york there is an exhibit on lincoln in new york at this historical society said that was an incredible way to look at that exit, and i also read the

starting to have a little more confidence to deploy the cash to get back to -- >> well, bertha, you ooet gore out to buy a company and we have seen it, an increase in the m&a activity or give it back to the shareholders. simon, are you trying to jump in? >> yes, this is cryingly positive, it is not? you have excess of half a trillion sitting on the balance sheets, and con coe phillips today talking about raising dividends a and this is exactly why the market is so relaxed, because actually for the moment as we look to the next employment report, things are looking fairly good and people are looking upbeat about the no double-dip. >> so, over to liesman, about it? >> well, trish, it was one of the weaker ones, but there were 2.5 more bids than supply for and yesterday it was 3.0. simon makes a good point. at 285 right now, the 10-year yield is relatively low and still held for economic growth and not without worry and trying to issue a lot of debt. there is not necessarily a plan from the government about how to resolve the deficit problem long-term. we just did a big health care bill, and the

balance the terrorist us to go through before an attack begins perk up morale will fly into new york and gore down one-way tickets and come back two weeks later and then have something suspicious. these other patterns they were talking about people coming into this country doing things that might look suspicious. could we go back into a database and make sense of that? the second part besides arguably a somewhat scary is a technological component that i had never heard that no one had ever proposed was good reaction the bill in a system of encryption such that an analyst sitting at a total informational room is access to the universe of information could not see a single name or identifying feature underneath it? just love and scripted series of dots and patterns and never know who was underneath? only if the government could convince a judge there was probable cause to believe that the people attached to those dots were bad actors, only than with a warrant could you on lock but cryptographic show and pull the names out and see who the people were. it's a check and balance. that is a bold and

most of the 21st century, people fled the ghosts of communist dictators and now you're bringing the gores back in to this chamber. with passage of this bill, they will haunt americans for generations. the multi-trillion health care bill the soviets failed the soviet socialistic experiment. it gives the federal government absolute control over health care in america. my friends, that is what this debate is really about. today democrats in this house will finally lay the cornerstone of their socialist utopia on the backs of the american people. say no to socialism, say no to totalitarianism, say no to this bill. >> time is expired. gentleman from michigan. >> all right. he's got some -- he's very, very forceful. you heard that republican congressman from california, congressman nunez. you know what? there was a very, very different assessment from john lewis, the democratic congressman from georgia, one of the great civil rights pioneers. listen to what he said. >> we have a moral obligation today, tonight, to make health care a right and not a privilege. there are those who have told us to

clinton and gore hardly ended as a due wet. all joe biden's overenthusiasms, for all his wish i hadn't said thats, he balances well the president's coolness and they both know it. he's barack obama's liaison with regular people. people like joe bide. when he picked biden that summer day, i was taken with a fact a regular guy with his heart on his sleeve had risen so high. joe biden, bless his heart, hasn't changed a bit. i was fortunate to travel with the vice pren

have one for each of you and i'm going to go back to the vietnam era first, cara because i think what gore is describing in terms of women be much more involved in combat than ever before has to do with the kind of wars we're fighting now. but i also think it probably has to do with cultural changes. so the vietnam war hip in the 1950's, 1960's, 1970's. this is a time when women's lives here were changing a great deal. any type little bit about how the military had to adapt to accommodate those changes here? >> sure, when you think -- or when i think about nursing in the military, sort of the iconic demeanor from world war ii. and in my mind i always cemented this ad was to recruit women and it has this white partners leaning over a bad i'm a wounded soldier and it says save his life. it is very romanticized po. you might kill the boy and then go home and marry him. and in the early 1960's when the army started to recruit for vietnam, that kind of image wasn't going to cut it entirely. they tried a little bit of that, but they also needed to say, if you become a nurse, will help you specia

kristin gore jogging is in the footnotes and was dramatic. >> guest: it certainly wasn't self-serving. >> host: it's well done in here. as a talk-radio host now, you've watched the change in american media from being the days of walter cronkite to be much more fragmented and ideological. is this generally a good thing or bad thing? >> guest: it is generally a good thing. there are some bucks out there and people who want to just stir people up and i can't stand it. i'm not a screamer. our show is and yelling at people. we talk about issues. you've been on my show talking for an hour about einstein, partly pitchforks and torch's. one of the reasons i try to do that is to show some in the media there is the word fossil conservative isn't an oxymoron. it's not a phrase that's oxymoronic. but jack, what you have is a spectrum, a whole spectrum of opinions and style and approach. information and journalistic authority is now radically decentralized and it makes it harder, harder to sort out the truth is because you've got all these different things going on. we deal with a rumor or an urba

it wasn't brought up much in the campaign between bush and gore. i think 9/11 did change that. i think after 9/11 this country kind of panicked and the chief pan i canners were president bush and vice president cheney. the proper leadership would be to calm things down. to step back and take a more reasoned approach. instead, for reasons i don't understand, bush and cheney led the panic. i'm not sure they lied. i think they believed what they were saying. why, is kind of inexrepublicable. remember that vice president cheney in august of 2002 said, there is no doubt that iraq has weapons of mass destruction. i remember people in the military saying, i have lots of doubts but the vice president must know something that i don't know. so i think they persuaded themselves, they really did believe these things and were kind of stunned in 2003 to find out that iraq did not have weapons of mass destruction. now, this wasn't because the evidence was persuasive, it was because they were very selective in their use of evidence. they believed the tiny grains of things that supported them a

too, it's about being democratic with a little "d." >> and having a good conversation. >> like al goreo have you back among friends, harold. >> absolutely. glad to be home. >> i love it. >> i've got to give her the last word here. do you get my -- do you understand my point, though? >> i believe in big tent politics in our parties. and i also believe that the issues of leadership go beyond ideology. but i also think we cannot divide issues like reproductive health and marriage equality from, for example, jobs -- >> or a health bill. >> or a health bill. it is what i spend my time doing, is pressing back against -- >> let me just say, melissa, afterwards we're going to go to the side and we're going to have a prayer, because i want to pray with you -- >> we're going to thank god that a.c.o.r.n. was cleared. >> and also, thank god that a.c.o.r.n. was cleared. we're going to pray you'll be a bit more progressive on reproductive rights. very concerned. >> yes, i know, i can tell. >> you're from tennessee. can we bow our heads? >> as my good episcopalian friend said, that is the next step r

history, whether it was vietnam, whether it was the 2000 election of president george bush versus al gorewhen we look at the iraq war, i think there are timeness the history of our nation when people get very excited, very animated about issues. i think today we have the culmination of not only the problems with jobs and the economy itself, which breeds a lot of fear and, frankly, a lot of concern with what i think people believe their government not listening to them. i think we saw that in terms of even this health care legislation. we can be vociferous and anxious about legislation and issues, and there's what we'd prefer to be attacking, not individuals, not people. >> this is the beauty of this country and a movement like yours, that it can start, and you can go to the ballot box and you can vote people out. i mean, don't we as americans realize that that can happen? why would there be a need to resort to violence, because no matter how powerless you feel, you go to the ballot box. we don't do that as much as we should, do we? >> indeed. it's something i cover with my group and parti

peter marajenin joins me, he was advising to the clinton campaigns in 1992 and '96, and the gore campaign, jennifer miller dykes joins us as well. good to have you with us. >> good to be here. martha: this is an interesting situation. first of all it sort of popped into this situation and student loans, what does that have to do with health care, peter? why is it in there? >> the way the reconciliation worked is that they were able to put in the education piece as something that the committee and senate committee is working on. the fact of the matter is, what this does is it fixes a loophole, it saves us $68 billion over ten years, it increases the number of pell grants that students get t. lowers the interest rates, it extends the payouts for how long it takes to pay the loans back, 8.5 million more students getting these loans. i don't see what the big deal is here. i think it actually is a win-win, and i find it curious that republicans have an issue with it. martha: what is your issue with it, then, jennifer, if you have one? >> well, the issue is that we're spending more time debatin

how rich is al gore? how many millions does president clinton have? they are multimillionaires. two senators in california. guest: i think you will find if you look at the u.s. senate, the reason there are so many millionaires is because they were millionaires before they got to the senate. the question on the table was whether they were using their office to enrich themselves. i think the answer to that question, by and large, is no, with a few exceptions. but that raises an additional question. why is it that so many wealthy people run for office and win? there is an answer. namely, it costs a lot of money to run in contemporary politics. the supreme court unfortunately is making it harder and harder to reign the costs of politics in. that means people who are wealthy to begin with, and have connections with other wealthy individuals enjoy a an advantage at the beginning of the race. that does not mean people of ordinary means cannot win. they do all the time. but there are advantages to being rich in the united states, and having a leg up in the political process is one of th

nice, but probably going to break records for the date. 75 in new york city, 72 in boston. 68 in ban gore rest of the country shaping up like this for your day. a little bit cool in across parts of the plains, only 30 points, kansas city, and for your day, you see 70 in memphis, tomorrow you're dropping about 20, 25 degrees, for that area. all right, guys, we'll send it back to you inside. >> rick, i just want you to see and the rest of america, and the world, to see what i deal with during much of the morning. these guys on their twitter sites, their facebook sites, while we're doing a show and you guys are part of this national survey that has just shown people are doing social media during highly inappropriate times. >> i blame this guy 'cause i was not into any of it before i met him. >> i know. >> and the other day someone asked me in the hallway, do you twitter? >> i was the first person here to twitter unfortunately. >> my middle name is twitter! >> where are most people using social immediate yacht worse. turns out you'd sit down to dinner and have a nice covering with people at d

and we find that so often that it depends on whose ox is being gored as to who takes the position.f the objections on reconciliation on comprehensive health care reform have filled the congressional record with statements in favor of using reconciliation in analogous circumstances that would help their cause. in the year 2000, it was the democrats stymieing republican judicial nominees. during the clinton administration, it was exactly reversed. it was the republicans stymieing the clinton nominees. in 2005 we were able to work out the controversy. we were able to confirm some of the judges. some of the judges were withdrawn and we did not move what was called the nuclear option which would have confirmed judges by 51 votes. and the procedural integrity of the senate is really important. without going into great detail, it was the senate which saved the independence of the federal judiciary when the senate acquitted the supreme court justice chase in 1805. it was the senate which preserved the power of the presidency on the impeachment proceeding of andrew johnson in 1868. congress