gramm has seen that up front which is what really shaped his opinions about as long. so he said, mr. president, i have a hospital in the south. he said the one and only sentence he added in english during the whole time. he turned to his aid. isn't that the hospital we bond? and graeme leaned forward and said twice come into mist. with that most of us were ushered out into the driveway. what happened next was even more fascinating. gramm told me later that he remembered that in the pocket of his blue blazer he had a george he leaned forward and took the pen from his pocket and give it to him and said, mr. president, i understand you'll be speaking to my president later today, why don't you tell him. so what does that mean? is sincerely that means that watch out. i've got to hear the president. i found that particularly interesting at the time because of the relationship between faith and foreign policy which goes so unexplored. we don't really know. .. history books, life. our guest. this is her first nonfiction book. the tenth parallel. 202 is the area could you woul

one is the former mayor, willie gramm, who deserves a tremendous amount of credit for envisioning the bonds that brought us here. i want to thank in particular the leadership of the city attorney, who in some ways is responsible for us being here because she created that impetus to initiate a federal lawsuit against a tobacco company back when few people thought there was any hope and that there should not be much expectation of success. she carried that torch. she succeeded in that effort. she moved on, but she did not move away. she not only created the framework that allowed us to generate, all told, $141 million that contributed to this project today because of that tobacco settlement, but she said it is one thing to have a bond and another thing to have a settlement. minutes and equipment. we need new things to provide dignity that this building's physical architecture can supply. that is louise gray. thank you, louise, for your extraordinary leadership. when mitch was referencing -- it is interesting. i was elected mayor and one of the first stops i had was, literally, within 7

senator would be about but once again sort of the gramm has proven that we have spoiled selfish babies that are trying to run this country. now the british government has a plan to block internet porn and set of using parental controls allowing people to opt out pornography sites will now be completely blocked if all goes as the government desires in order to access porn sites will have to opt in that is specifically request access from your i is p.c. for the specific website the you wish to visit because everybody loves sharing information like that right now this proposition has opened web advocates up in arms saying not only should this be something that parents manage rather than eyes because but also raising questions as to what will count as explicit content for the british government says that the entire plan is based on combating the sexualization of children as surveys have shown that one in three children aged ten in britain have viewed pornography on the internet but is this really the only way to protect kids out of the brits do it could america be next well joining me to d

our moderator the saving is gramm allyson, founding dean of the kennedy school of government and theirector of the schools science international affairs. he's also the douglas dillon professor of government. his book nuclear terrorism the ultimate catastrophe is now in its first printing and was selected by "the new york times" was one of the 100 most notable books of 2004. please join me in welcoming her majesty, queen noor, jonathan schell and gran allyson. thank you. [applause] >> i got lost on the sequencing of things today. it is an enormous privilege and pleasure to be here tonight, and i done thank though library for inviting me to visit and choose a topic of -- that i thought would be of interest to all of you, and then for enabling me to participate with to such articulate and passionate and knowledgeable experts on the subject that brings us here together tonight. that is a particular privilege and i am very humble actually to be in their presence. i have come to this issue -- well, actually not entirely knott -- i mean in part by way of president kennedy, and the spirit of

this means that the arnold sports and a gramm administration cannot move for reversal of the state properties. arnold sforza makegovernor arnold schwarzenegger cannot move forward with this sale of california 11 state office complexes to private investors. >> and this just in, people are expecting that this have a public official would not run and he has several opponents. >> and with most of the rainfall, missing us to the north. the stormtracker 4 reader, it is pushing through sacramento. stormtracker 4 radar, with a storm approaching approaching, and with cloudy, cool, this evening and no rain in just yet. how it will push in, and through the afternoon, and by 3:00 p.m., it will pushed through two ssouth bay, and it will possibly impact your at tomorrows afternoon commute. removed a beer can abroad a siegel. >> animal activists have successfully removed. canon's all around. can the beer can around the neck of area they siegel's. >> and 150 dogs with unwanted pets at a local animal shelters. thicken no longer afford them and the numbers of dogs is overrun in these facilities. they can no lo

the gramm sleeper serial killing.tives are hoping that some of these people are recognized from the - 'grim sleeper' serial killing >> and hooters is marketing towards children with sexual entertainment. this jane feels to comply with regulations for providers of social entertainment that-chain--minimum wage will get a late christmas gift. a raise! january 01, employers will have to increase their hourly rate. and the city wide-minimum wage is $9.92 that is up from $9.79 >> and a look at our forecast the common theme is rainfall! more and how much we can expect coming up in just a bit. harcourt peoplebehavingbadly@kron4.c om lightning fast. lightning strong. verizon 4g lte. rule the air on the most advanced 4g network in the world. >> president obama said the u.s. is on track to reduce triples in afghanistan, and how deep those cuts will go. -reduce troops. and this fighting will last least another four years. >> nine years for a country that has never surrendered to eight foreign power. 2000 american lives, billion o

phil gramm with his shenanigans during the clinton administration, he's not in the legislation at the end of the clinton administration which he was unable to for the months and years prior that enabled the banks, the legislation that enabled the banks to deregulate. with a man like you at the helm, we are in a lot of trouble. host: a quick comment? guest: i think he is talking about the pact signed by president clinton and endorsed by president kate -- clinton, endorsed by the secretary of the treasury, robert rubin. i think there is a lot of misinformation there. there is information about this that everyone should read host: this question came from twitter. can you ask why goldman sachs is still open and no banker is in prison? guest: i can't explain that except that goldman sachs has been investigated by the sec and they are currently probably being investigated by the justice department. it has never been determined that they did anything that was of a criminal nature. that is also true, it seems to me, of the bankers. i know many people are angry about what happened but that doe

. >> senator gramm. >> thank you. thank you for what you're trying to do for the country. there are some strong opinions in the study. the numbers are pretty astounding to me in terms of the people who say they would feel comfortable with the policy change. when you look at combat units, the numbers are pretty strong that the policy might be disrupted. we have to balance what we would do. could you explain how the system actually works in the army, navy, air force, and marine corps? what kind of evidence is used to discharge someone? what would lead it to discharge? i think that there has been some substantial regulatory changes. we are pretty impressed with the air force decision. it would help to know exactly what kind of events would lead to discharge. the changes have cleaned up some of the abuses in the past. >> i would be happy to do that. as we noted in the report, possibly 85% of separation where a member himself makes a statement. the law is repealed, obviously. someone says, i am gay and that is irrelevant. >> in general, this is not a situation where people are

lindsey gramm -- we need to celebrate people like lindsey gramm. we need and intellectual agenda. to a conservative titter come there are a lot of scholars. if you go to a centrist dinner, it is a bunch of lobbyists. no offense, but that is where the ideas will come from. we have a tradition in this country which is a moderate- centrist tradition. it went on to abraham lincoln and the whig party. to give poor boys and girls a chance to succeed. it created the railroad act. earl warren created the greatest school system in this country. they credit water projects. that is a vibrant tradition that has been dropped from american life. we need an intellectual revival, as well. [applause] we need institutions. politicians -- president need outside institutions. when the do the orthodox thing, institutions will support them. when they do something on orthodox, there is nobody at their back. we need a social movement. we had move on, we have the obama movement. this is a country that fears national decline. change what is acceptable behavior. this movement needs to be based on a revived

meanwhile server pailin is going to haiti this weekend she will be traveling with franklin gramm and his relief organization the group is scheduled to visit a call rock clinic and other stops as well. it was devastated by an earthquake earlier this year and had a brush with her cane to moss this past month. we will take another break much more straight ahead as we go more live pictures of atlanta up a better look at this building was on fire its the school can't wait academy and major fire three later trucks tried put flames out there still flames visible on sure if anybody was inside at this time. we'll be right back. we are up to 60 in mountain view and hayward 57 san francisco san rafael 58 through oakland. your afternoon highs into the 60s in many locations 62 santa rosa and napa 63 of fairfield. devon to san jose 64 degrees. 7 day around the bay and it shows today's the last day of the wet weather. saturday should stay dry and then sunday losing all the cloud cover so we will see lots of sunshine blue skies warming temperatures and low 70's sunday and monday as well. tuesday bri

oh, i remember the senator from texas, senator phil gramm an economist, got up and said this is going to cause a depression. this will be the worst thing that ever happened to this country. we're going to rue the day we ever did this. well we passed it. of course it didn't get one republican vote. and we did raise some taxes. 1993. and what happened then for the next seven years eight years -- we had we had unprecedented growth in this country. and, quite frankly we did balance the budget by 2000. not only did we balance it, but we had a surplus and we had a surplus going into 2001. that's when george bush came to the presidency and said we've got this big surplus. alan greenspan was warning us we had too much of a surplus and it might not be wise to pay down the debt. we were on course to pay down the national debt. and then the bush administration pushed through some tax cuts. pushed through tax cuts. they said we're going to do it temporarily, just until 2010. and we'll keep them in until 2010 and then we'll have to revisit it or we'll go back to what we had before in 2001. they ma

obama, my first hearing was also with the commissioner, and the news he presented the day was whether gramm. -- was rather grim. the economy had shed a staggering number of jobs. today's news is a little better. we are heading in the right direction, but not as strongly as we wanted. today's employment report showed that the economy added 50,000 private sector jobs last month, making november the 11th straight month of employment gains in the private sector. we can see that in the charge over there. since the beginning of the year, the economy has added 1.2 million jobs in the private sector, private payrolls grew by an average of seven 9,000 t per month in the first quarter of 2010 -- 79,000 jobs per month in the first quarter of 2010, 124,000 jobs in the third quarter. while job creation has picked up, the unemployment rate remains unacceptably high. this morning's employment report shows that the employment rate -- the unemployment rate edged up to 9.8% in november. in addition to overall private- sector job gains, gdp grew by 2.5% in the third quarter of 2010 due to stronger consumer sp

when they are making hard choices, it usually does not include cutting off the insulin for gramm operetta we believe any crisis america faces will require shared sacrifice. this is the standard i use. i understand when you talk about lower tax rates, we have times of economic expansion. i believe those who have been blessed paying more. there are several things that concern me. thank you for what you did on these tax expenditures. i had been in congress for 20 years. we have never had this conversation. legists make modifications and the tax code them as people never read or understand they think it doesn't have an impact. it does. it is fair for us to step back and saying if you eliminated all of them, would america's or families better off? i think that is a fair question we have to make a choice. we need to save money in the process. i was around from the reform social security in 1983. we had 50 years a solvency with some painful choices. what you have suggested this acceptable to me. to raise it two years over 60 years is not a radical. providing for those in manual labor and those i

. >> i appreciate that answer, senator mccain and senator gramm and senator gereed and i visited that unit. they are doing a remarkable work initial in progress on the ground in afghanistan. so, my conclusion is that really in the and all six of you favor the repeal of "don't ask, don't tell." i don't mean to put words in your mouth with the questions that of the three of you have to do with timing. yesterday secretary gates -- let me step back and sure you know what i want to state for the record that the provision in come national defense authorization act before us that repeals "don't ask, don't tell" does not implement repeal and so the president of the united states considered a defense and chairman of joint chiefs of staff certified through a series of affects or non-affects on military effectiveness, unit cohesion morrell, etc.. i was part of drafting that and we intentionally did not get a time limit in that. we didn't say they had to do it by 90 days after the law secretary gates said that he would not certify until he had engaged in full conversation with the chiefs of the s

gramm has written eloquently about the senate think the movie picks up this story, too. it is just picking its nose up out of the water and people beginning to see this and react. we have to encompass and grasp with this new shape is. we cannot just go along with the old cold war rhetoric. we need to see what it is today and how it is approaching this with new avenues and new directions. >> i struggle with this. during the cold war, it was such a day vivid reality of that it could be a war to kill us all. as i grew up in college and i work for the defense department and otherwise, and you could genuinely feel the possibility. president kennedy would go back to the cuban missile crisis in 1962 there was a fight about a one in three chance of going to a nuclear war. the people who lived experience in the american and soviet governments never got over it. the scent of nuclear burning in the year, as one had said. i spoke to dick lugar about this recently. how did things look? we were going back-and-forth. i good indiana, i am there for three weeks, no one asks me about star

phil gramm with his shenanigans during the clinton administration, he's not in the legislation at the end of the clinton administration which he was unable to for the months and years prior that enabled the banks, the legislation that enabled the banks to deregulate. with a man like you at the helm, we are in a lot of trouble. host: a quick comment? guest: i think he is talking about the pact signed by president clinton and endorsed by president kate -- clinton, endorsed by the secretary of the treasury, robert rubin. i think there is a lot of misinformation there. there is information about this that everyone should read host: this question came from twitter. can you ask why goldman sachs is still open and no banker is in prison? guest: i can't explain that except that goldman sachs has been investigated by the sec and they are currently probably being investigated by the justice department. it has never been determined that they did anything that was of a criminal nature. that is also true, it seems to me, of the bankers. i know many people are angry about what happened but that doe

senator mccain prepared the way many senators prepared and that he and lindsay gramm and joe lieberman were debating each other the whole time. it was actually quite typical ask doctors to get in and focus. -- it was actually quite difficult for staffers to get in and focus. >> it is fun watching that whole preparation before the debate began because none of this as a result of this experience in 1960, which was so consequential, first of all several things happened. there are not another televised debate for 16 years. did anyone have the courage to go up and do it in again because of the transformative nature of that event that we just watched. among many other things, the idea that you would walz into their room and start looking around and say here are the rules. itt clearly walz and into the room and making up their roles as he went. we even debate when is the walk through when you see the stage for the first time, which is what we witnessed earlier in the clip. that is all heavily litigated by the campaigns because it is so consequential. yes, we have not reached 70 million people

there's another thing we could do, though, that would be to modernize the gramm-ruddman-hollings act which called for deficit reduction targets. i think it would be better to have a spending cap tied into g.d.p. tied into 18% which would give congress year after year a target and if we failed to meet that target it would have an automatic trigger so that we could get in the right level of spending because we do not want to have the same problems as greece, ireland, and spain. thank you, mr. speaker. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from california rise? without objection. >> as chair of the asian american conference i urge support of the dream act. it would support students in our country. mr. honda: students have overcome numerous barriers in their lives and are on track to finish college. these students already contribute to our country and we owe them a chance at the dream -- the american dream. we must act and we must make the dream act a reality for students like them. it's a good investment and let's get return on the investment. thank you. the speak

when they are making hard choices, it usually does not include cutting off the insulin for gramm operetta we believe any crisis america faces will require shared sacrifice. this is the standard i use. i understand when you talk about lower tax rates, we have times of economic expansion. i believe those who have been blessed paying more. there are several things that concern me. thank you for what you did on these tax expenditures. i had been in congress for 20 years. we have never had this conversation. legists make modifications and the tax code them as people never read or understand they think it doesn't have an impact. it does. it is fair for us to step back and saying if you eliminated all of them, would america's or families better off? i think that is a fair question we have to make a choice. we need to save money in the process. i was around from the reform social security in 1983. we had 50 years a solvency with some painful choices. what you have suggested this acceptable to me. to raise it two years over 60 years is not a radical. providing for those in manual labor and those i

finally, we appointed ted kennedy, john kerry's esteemed colleague, a liberal democrat, and phil gramm, a conservative republican, to hammer out a compromise, and they did. their proposal was adopted unanimously. the trial of our chief magistrate, even in the midst of a political crucible, was conducted in accordance with the highest principles of due process and the rule of law. the constitutional balance of powers was preserved, and the presidency saved. the senate rose above the passions of the moment and did its duty. three years later, the senate was once more summoned to respond in a moment of crisis. the country had been attacked and thousands killed in an act of suicidal terror. this building had been targeted for destruction and death, and that would have occurred but for the uncommon heroism of ordinary citizens. i was told not to return to my home for fear that assassins might be lying in wait, so i picked up my sons from their school, and we spent the night with a neighbor. two days later, those senators who could make it back to washington gathered in the senate dining roo

. >> i appreciate that answer, senator mccain and senator gramm and senator gereed and i visited that unit. they are doing a remarkable work initial in progress on the ground in afghanistan. so, my conclusion is that really in the and all six of you favor the repeal of "don't ask, don't tell." i don't mean to put words in your mouth with the questions that of the three of you have to do with timing. yesterday secretary gates -- let me step back and sure you know what i want to state for the record that the provision in come national defense authorization act before us that repeals "don't ask, don't tell" does not implement repeal and so the president of the united states considered a defense and chairman of joint chiefs of staff certified through a series of affects or non-affects on military effectiveness, unit cohesion morrell, etc.. i was part of drafting that and we intentionally did not get a time limit in that. we didn't say they had to do it by 90 days after the law secretary gates said that he would not certify until he had engaged in full conversation with the chiefs of the s

former senator bob gramm and former epa administrator william reilly are the co-chairman. >> thank you and your colleagues for the excellent support you have given to this commission. we are very appreciative of the oil and gas off our shores is an american asset. the american government is not just a regulator of offshore oil, it is also close to word for the american people of this asset. in a real sense, we have a landlord and an obligation to respond with a public trust has been abused. president john adams said facts are a hard thing. there are some facts that i believe we have uncovered. one, our investigation would determine there are fundamental weaknesses in the u.s. government's regulatory approach. most americans would be surprised and disappointed as i was to learn that america lags behind other countries and how we regulate and overseas oil and gas exploration and production. this points toward the need for alternative strategies, such as a commitment to safety procedures as a condition of drilling on seabeds which belong to the people of america. the wheel and gas industr

also the collection and maintenance of comprehensive and verifiable incident databases as senator gramm just brought up. we certainly don't have comprehensive incident databases that we can rely upon. and international standards we need an effort now to identify best standards and apply them internationally and these can't be the lowest common denominators which is a lot of people as to the standards we have today and these can't really be options peepers we need to know how to do things best for the industry knows how to do things. some ways are best, some ways are better and some ways just aren't okay. to be having options papers on these and pure auditing programs should be considered for with regulators and operators and this is part of our recommendations. as bill mentioned earlier this another inherently risky activities or industries in areas that have made the decisions leadership made the decision they are going to become safer and the civil aviation comes to mind in the fifties there were not a lot of passengers from airplanes to read this can out of the airline, the airplane

finally teddy kennedy on the left and phil gramm on the right said to hammer this out. number two, three days after 9/11, the senators when they got back to washington gathered in the senate dining room. nobody was thinking like a democrat or republican. we wanted to protect the country. that lasted for about a month or a month and a half, and in the mid-term elections came along. the third time was immediately following the financial panic and collapse. i remember we were called down -- bernanke and paulson were sitting there. bernanke said we are 48 hours from a complete meltdown in the financial system. it will take trillions of dollars in savings. we looked at each other, and the only question was, what do we need to do? it should not take a constitutional crisis, an attack on the nation, or a financial panic to have our government function the way the american people think it should. [applause] >> there are obviously a couple of reasons why we got to this point. joe, give incoming senator joe advice because you wrote a piece in "politico" -- >> i do not need to giv

obama, my first hearing was also with the commissioner, and the news he presented the day was whether grammbs. today's news is a little better. we are heading in the right direction, but not as strongly as we wanted. today's employment report showed that the economy added 50,000 private sector jobs last month, making november the 11th straight month of employment gains in the private sector. we can see that in the charge over there. since the beginning of the year, the economy has added 1.2 million jobs in the private sector, private payrolls grew by an average of seven 9,000 t per month in the first quarter of 2010 -- 79,000 jobs per month in the first quarter of 2010, 124,000 jobs in the third quarter. while job creation has picked up, the unemployment rate remains unacceptably high. this morning's employment report shows that the employment rate -- the unemployment rate edged up to 9.8% in november. in addition to overall private- sector job gains, gdp grew by 2.5% in the third quarter of 2010 due to stronger consumer spending. this the fifth consecutive quarter of growth picked retail s

. >> i appreciate that answer, senator mccain and senator gramm and senator gereed and i visited that unit. they are doing a remarkable work initial in progress on the ground in afghanistan. so, my conclusion is that really in the and all six of you favor the repeal of "don't ask, don't tell." i don't mean to put words in your mouth with the questions that of the three of you have to do with timing. yesterday secretary gates -- let me step back and sure you know what i want to state for the record that the provision in come national defense authorization act before us that repeals "don't ask, don't tell" does not implement repeal and so the president of the united states considered a defense and chairman of joint chiefs of staff certified through a series of affects or non-affects on military effectiveness, unit cohesion morrell, etc.. i was part of drafting that and we intentionally did not get a time limit in that. we didn't say they had to do it by 90 days after the law secretary gates said that he would not certify until he had engaged in full conversation with the chiefs of the s

the quotes you're writing about the law that changed our banking and investment banking structure, gramm-leach-bliley from 1999, you say it repealed the glass-steagall act and allowed commercial and investment banks to merge. this policy was meant to strictly benefit the elite. it benefited some of the elite. we can clearly see that. was there an intention there? was it, when you say meant to benefit the elite, that sound not to benefit other people. do you see a motive in there? or do you just see out comes? >> guest: you know, first of all i think most people see motive. >> host: do you see motive? >> guest: some of the time, yes. >> guest: he sees motive. i see out come. >> host: there is one of these famous --. >> guest: yes. >> host: divides? >> guest: yes. we quickly reached an accord how we would analyze it but it was perfectly clear to me that repeal of glass-steagall did very little for ordinary people and a lot for some very, very wealthy bankers. scott, when he critiqued my views, said, doug, look at the process that got here and look how people think about that. you have to do that if you

senator phil gramm, august 5, 1993, i want to predict here tonight that if we adopt this bill the american economy is going to get weaker and not stronger. the deficit four years from today will be higher than it is today and know lower. when all is said and done, people will pay more taxes, the economy will create fewer jobs, government will spend more money and the american people will be worse off. that's what he said in 1993. want me to go on? my friend from -- my colleague from iowa, senator grassley, said i do not think it takes a rocket scientist to know that this bill will cost jobs, august 6, 1993. so here they were all predicting -- i had a couple of more i wanted to get in the record here. just -- just put an emphasis on. it -- on it. representative newt gingrich, republican of georgia. he said on 8593, he said i believe this will lead to a recession next year. this is a democrat machine recession and each of them will be held personally responsible. representative john kasich from ohio -- i like this one -- he says, this plan will not work. if it was to work then i'd have to be

i think senator gramm is going to talk about the plight we've been trying to make from the beginning which is we've predicted three or four weeks ago that it's virtually impossible for all the things the leader put on the agenda toe and constructive opportunity to review, the date and amend the treaty and the resolution of ratification. the was my prediction then, and unfortunately it is coming true. let me turn to my colleague lindsey graham and then we will go through each of us up here to make a brief statement. >> thank you, john. a couple weeks ago it was my desire to make sure that the s.t.a.r.t. treaty if it were brought up in the lame-duck was giving the time and attention of the seriousness i think it deserves i have since learned there has never been a treaty ratified in the lame-duck session in the history of the country and now i know why. i wouldn't recommend we do this again. this has been a very uneven process where one moment we are talking about political votes come serious policy in a kind of draconian fashion and now trying to debate the treaty. i think they unders

finally, we appointed ted kennedy, john kerry's esteemed colleague, a liberal democrat, and phil gramm, a conservative republican, to hammer out a compromise, and they did. their proposal was adopted unanimously. the trial of our chief magistrate, even in the midst of a political crucible, was conducted in accordance with the highest principles of due process and the rule of law. the constitutional balance of powers was preserved, and the presidency saved. the senate rose above the passions of the moment and did its duty. three years later, the senate was once more summoned to respond in a moment of crisis. the country had been attacked and thousands killed in an act of suicidal terror. this building had been targeted for destruction and death, and that would have occurred but for the uncommon heroism of ordinary citizens. i was told not to return to my home for fear that assassins might be lying in wait, so i picked up my sons from their school, and we spent the night with a neighbor. two days later, those senators who could make it back to washington gathered in the senate dining roo