[applause] >> thank you, harvey cox. you are listening to the westminster townhall forum broadcast live from westminster presbyterian church in downtown minneapolis. i am the senior minister of the westminster presbyterian church, and moderator of the four. our speaker today is theologian and author, harvey cox. while the ushers collect questions from in house audience at westminster, i would like to invite you to join us for our next forum in two weeks on thursday, november 19, when activist and entrepreneur sarah chase will offer an in depth look inside afghanistan. further information is available online at westminster townhall forum.org. that's one word, westminster townhall forum.org. and now harvey cox, if you would return to the pulpit, i will present questions from our audience. professor cox, in your book you describe and name three great ages of religion. and i wonder if you might apply those -- named as an discuss those busy but apply them to other faith traditions. as well as christianity. >> i make a distinc

in new york harvey custom ner. finally in washington jack rice.ow is a practicing toernl and journalist as well. janet napolitano was interviewed earlier on cnn's "state of the union." this was her bottom line. watch. >> one thing i'd like to point out is that the system worked. everybody played an important role here. the passengers and crew of the flight took appropriate action. within literally an hour to 90 minutes of the incident occurring, all 128 flights in the air had been notified to take some special measures in a lot of what had occurred on the northwest airlines flight. we instituted new measures on the ground and at screening areas both here in the united states and in europe where this flight originated. so the whole process of making sure that we respond properly, correctly and effectually went very smoothly. >> larry: tom, has she been taken out of context a little here? >> well, i think possibly, larry. you know, she's referring to what happened after the individual started the fire, and the response that was made on the aircraft

harvey wasn't incorrected. we're talking 15 years.remember it was december 1994 when the bomber of the first world trade center boarded a plane in the southern philippines, he built a device in the air that was made of tatp, gun cotton, cotton balls, left it on the plane and got off and it blew up. this was a precursor for their plan to blow up 12 jumbo jets over the pacific. we've been dealing with this now for 15 years, and the reality, the sad reality is we still have not taken any firm measures to protect passengers in terms of installing detection systems at passenger screening check pointses. second ridge, when he was in place, he did an excellent job of professionalizing tsa, putting screeners there. he did an excellent job of requiring explosive detection systems for checked baggage. but they did not address the issue of how do you screen passengers and prevent them from carrying explosives on board. >> larry: well said. what's the story with yemen. how do you read this? how deeply rooted? >> i take the samt that they're behin

we need to correct one statement, and my friend harvey wasn't incorrect. we're not talking about eight years, larry, but 15 years. it was december 1994 when usef the bomber of the first world trade center boarded a plane in the southern philippines and built a device in the air that was made of tatp, gun cotton, cotton balls, and left it on the plane and got off and it blew up. it was a precursor for the plan to blow up 12 jumbo jets over the pacific. we deal with it for 15 years, anded sad reality is we have not taken any firm members to protect passengers in terms of installing detection systems at paengs screening checkpoints. secretary ridge when he was in place, he did an excellent job of professionalizing tsa and putting screeners there, he did an excellent job of requires explosive detection systems for check bag kaj. they did not arrest the issue of how to screen passengers to prevent them from carrying explosives on board. >> what's the story with yemen? highway do you read this? now deeply rooted. >> it's completely at face value. they try to kil

about a week later i got a call from harvey, and i screamed. >> larry: harvey weinstein.ole, how did they get you for "nine"? >> rob told me -- i think we had lunch or coffee or something and he said anthony magilla had written the role for me. >> larry: he wrote it for you? >> yeah. >> larry: you had to. >> i had to because i wanted to work with rob and anthony was one of my dearest friends. >> larry: marion, how did they get you? >> i auditioned, too. >> larry: you had to audition. >> first audition was singing. >> for judi's role. >> yeah. it was for judi's role actually. i sang claudia's song. >> exactly. we cast -- we were casting before we started writing so we weren't sure exactly who was going to play what. >> lilli is french. >> we thought maybe that. >> larry: the star had to audition? >> i didn't know she had to sing or dance. >> it was such before. >> larry: wait a minute. kate auditioned. >> they wouldn't have, but i didn't know if they could sing or dance. nicole did not because i knew her work. judi i didn't addition either. >> larry: penelope, how did you

. >> in "the future of faith", theologian harvey cox analyzes why he believes christian beliefs and dogma appear to be inspiring grass-roots movements in social justice. the westminster presbyterian church in minneapolis hosts the 50 minute event. ..

host: harvey, missouri. caller: hello? congress has never made out to their promises made to the veterans in the 1960's, how host: ok last phone call this morning on what you want from a health care bill. >> at 8:00 p.m. eastern, president obama will deliver a national address from the u.s. military academy at west point. the president will lay out his plan for u.s. troop levels and american involvement in afghanistan. he's expected to announce an order to deploy 30,000 more troops and detail the afghan government's changing role in the war. we'll air the president's speech on one of the three c-span networks, along with c-span.org and c-span radio. a live picture on c-span2 of the -- of senator orrin hatch debating and the rest of the senate tonight continuing a second day of floor debate on h.r. 4590, on the $848 billion plan to expand health insurance coverage. among amendments debated today, one by senator barbara mccullskey of maryland to include preventive kir for women. we spoke earlier today with a capitol hill rep

host: harvey, missouri. caller: hello? congress has never made out to their promises made to the veterans in the 1960's, how can we expect them to live up to their promises now? host: ok, last phone call this morning and what he wants for a health care bill. after this we will head over to the national archives. a nonprofit program has brought children together -- educating young people to become involved citizens. our first guest is chuck grassley. guest: i have already used twitter this morning, if you wanted to put questions in to me i do a web cast once per week. host: if you are just joining us, we are just now beginning the conversation. welcome to the national archives. just a moment ago charles grassley was speaking to the students here. as a way of introduction, charles grassley, ranking republican and member of the agriculture committee, thank you for your time. brandon has the very first question. caller: good morning. my question is -- what are the primary reasons for the health care debate? guest: there are tw

stephanie harvey and janet allen do a great job.t there is money coming into professional development and a lot of services out there. but mainly people need to talk to each other. we have great teachers, and most of them are believers. if we can work with great teachers and let them teach each other, we will not have problems. caller: good afternoon. a guest on c-span called that style chair time. he claims schools should be palaces of learning. my son is at the university of delaware, and he could not navigate through the university without a laptop. i was eight teacher -- a teacher for years. why would you go back to an older style, instead of linking it to a more dynamic process on the internet? guest: there is a lot of discussion out there that textbooks are acting of the past. garbage in, garbage out. a lot of the same people are lining up to put things on disk. it is only better if it is better. it is not the issue to me. the issue is ideas. putting them on a screen does not necessarily make it better. host: how many of your

harvey. independent caller. your thoughts this morning? caller: yeah. several years before the crash actually occurred, i did several spreadsheets and that sort of thing anticipating the economic down attor turn because of the . consumer spending goes down. i read a lot of things for the house senate and financial services et cetera. exan a profit margins million, if you loan someone $100 at ten percent but then the mortgage value goes down and you want to get rid of that. why not sell it to par to the government that's willing to pay except like three or 4%? so they can pay you full value back. recapitalize use so you can lope the money out and get the economy spurred. it's not a bad thing and we just have to realize now that the government is holding a whole lot of valuable mortgages. it's just at a little lower rate and there's tons of money out there that small businesses and other cans use to revitalize the economy. we're just looking at this all bad and everybody has bought into all the - sky's falling kind of thing to the point where our confiden

host: we have a tweet from harvey. bob is a republican caller. caller: of like someone to explain in detail at least 20 points with what the federal reserve does. it is too powerful. is a non-elected position. the other point is that we have been listening to mr. greenspan for many years before mr. bernanke. mr. greenspan has admitted that he talked gibber jabber for many years. what i would think the new gentleman will do any differently? -- what do we think the gentleman will do any differently. he will not do anything differently. this is a non-elected position. we do not know what the federal reserve does. this is where they want us to be. host: this is a story from over the weekend. it writes that greenspan was the first fed chief to become a celebrity. he was nominated by the post by four president. he was portrayed as a near genius for much of his record long run at the fed. his stark dimmed since the economic dry ride -- his star dimmed after the joy ride. he helped to encourage the house in bubble by prompting bad loans to unqualified bu

[applause] >> i had an old friend in the wisconsin legislature by the anymore of harvey duholm and at getting a little deep in here. i want to say thank you to harry truman of the -- to the harry truman of the democratic party, our speaker. we would not have had this package without here, we would not have passed it without her. on virtually every issue known to the country over the past year, we would not even have been in the ballgame without her. she is one of the most incredibly determined and conscience-ridden persons i have ever known and i thank god every day that she has the steel and determination to lead this caucus, which can sometimes be a very difficult problem. as you know, i'm not a touchy-feely person, but i think -- i think we came -- that's my staff laughing there. but we all have to ask why we came here. why did we run for this job in the first place? and i think the famous religious leader john wesley summed it up when he said this -- do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can to a