the cost for air force one to fly to hawaii is higher.le have to understand that this is president barack obama's longtime home. whether the costs are too high, early people to judge for themselves. it is very expensive to fly air force one and to provide security out there. at the same time, it is genuinely his home for many years. there is another reason why he should go there in his own mind. host: lyndon johnson had a ranch. ronald reagan had a ranch. george bush i and ii had them and kennedy had no england. how much of the cost of going to this $4,000 per night condominium is picked up by them and how much is picked up by the government? guest: they have not clarified how this funding question will work. certainly, i think we all expect in the press corps that obama will pay for his own brand. either he will least the house of his own pocket and pay for the family at whatever rate they have. the communications and transportation will be picked up by the taxpayer. i don't think that people can argue that the taxpayer should pay for th

and should there be one for hawaii? mr. milbank goes on to say, "hawaii, with two democratic senators, would get richer payments to hospitals that treat many uninsured." and should there be a sticker there for michigan -- quote -- "home" -- and i'm quoting from the milbank article -- "home of two other democrats would earn higher medicare payments for some reduced fees for bluecross blueshield." vermont -- vermont, senator bernie sanders held out for larger medicaid payments for his state. neighboring massachusetts would get one too. i guess there's a number of maybe states that should have stickers on them so that the american people can see where these special deals were cut o

when i went to hawaii, i had been going in and out of hawaii since 1974 when i went to university ofapan, but i never realized the hidden history there. i realize that hawaii was the first example of american regime change. in 1893-- you know why he was not some unsophisticated pacific islands. hawaii was a separate country. at wasik kingdom. the palace in downtown honolulu had electric lights and indoor toilets before the white house did in washington. in 1893, in 1893 the american ambassador to the country of hawaii ordered the united states marines off the navy ship. they marched into downtown honolulu. they surrounded the palace and invited the queen to leave. the first example of american regime change. when i went there in 2005 it was than that i realized why in 1905 when the americans on this imperial cruise sale than to honolulu harbor, novated hawiians came to greet them. you can imagine my surprise when i was out there in china. i am walking the streets of china and a stumble upon, i stumble upon the origins of the fortune that supported the life of franklin delano roosevel

he was born in mambasa kenya not hawaii.ost: all right. lee, we're going to leave it there. in "the washington post" this morning this item regarding govern mark warner. his quest to achieve in the senate, amy gardner writes a hugely popular former govern who came to politics after earning a fortune in the cell phone business, warner entered the the taking the national stage. taking to the national change of conservativetism and business know how that helped him win over virginia independents and republicans. but the freshman senator has found himself mainly on the sidelines as congress and president obama have pushed health care reform, spending, and energy measures, without much attention to building a center-based coalition. jeannine go ahead. caller: good morning. host: what's on your mind this morning? caller: i wanted to make two points before actually asking the question about domestic and foreign policy for 2010. actually i'm going to criticize i guess the nearest post where they keep referring to our president as mr

he and the first family are spending the christmas in hawaii. ed hen vi traveling with the president. he joins us with more. ed, the president has been informed? >> reporter: that's right. the president has been informed. he was here early this morning hawaiian time quickly after this happened in detroit. the news from here is a senior administration official is telling cnn the white house now believes this was an attempted terrorist attack. i pressed the senior administration official who told us that does the who's believe there were more people involved or was this a lone person, i got no comment on that. on part because it's still so early in this investigation and the white house is still trying to gather the facts. the president was briefed by his military aid early this morning here hon christmas morning. he convened to secure a conference call with his homeland security adviser, who is a top aide on the national security counsel. he's been here traveling with the president. the president then subsequently had another secured call which h

it's always, always hawaii.nine projects throughout the islands, ranging from funding big eye tuna quotas, marine education and training, and coral research. $2.7 million -- this may be my favorite. up there, a certain one of them. $2.7 million to support surgical operations in outer space. $2.7 million to support surgical operations in outer space, guess where? at the university of nebraska. as i have said many times, a common theme, you will always have a location designated for these projects. that's why some of them may be worthwhile, but we'll never know because they don't compete them. they always earmark them for the particular place that they want to help. unfortunately, that shuts out other people. there may be other places besides the university of nebraska that can support surgical operations in outer space. i -- i suggest bones and get dr. spock here and bones and get them out there and help them at the university. i don't know if they live in omaha or not, but i'm sure that to them and all the other

with respect to fiscal year 2013, and each fiscal year thereafter, the dsh allotment for hawaii shall be increased in the same manner as allotments for low dsh states are increased for such fiscal year under clause (iii) of paragraph (5)(b). "(iii) certain hospital payments.-the secretary may not impose a limitation on the total amount of payments made to hospitals under the quest section 1115 demonstration project except to the extent that such limitation is necessary to ensure that a hospital does not receive payments in excess of the amounts described in subsection (g), or as necessary to ensure that such payments under the waiver and such payments pursuant to the allotment provided in this clause do not, in the aggregate in any year, exceed the amount that the secretary determines is equal to the federal medical assistance percentage component attributable to disproportionate share hospital payment adjustments for such year that is reflected in the budget neutrality provision of the quest demonstration project."; and (b) in paragraph (7)- (i) in subparagraph (a), in the matter pre

it's always, always hawaii. nine projects throughout the islands, ranging from funding big eye tuna quotas, marine education and training, and coral research. $2.7 million -- this may be my favorite. up there, a certain one of them. $2.7 million to support surgical operations in outer space. $2.7 million to support surgical operations in outer space, guess where? at the university of nebraska. as i have said many times, a common theme, you will always have a location designated for these projects. that's why some of them may be worthwhile, but we'll never know because they don't compete them. they always earmark them for the particular place that they want to help. unfortunately, that shuts out other people. there may be other places besides the university of nebraska that can support surgical operations in outer space. i -- i suggest bones and get dr. spock here and bones and get them out there and help them at the university. i don't know if they live in omaha or not, but i'm sure that to them and all the othe

ed henry is traveling with the president who is in hawaii. ed joins us now with what the president knows and what he's instructed his staff to do. ed? >> reporter: ali, good evening. the president early this morning, we're told, convened a secure conference call with two of his top aides, john brennan, his chief homeland security adviser, as well as dennis mcdonough. basically he was briefed on the situation and then ordered federal officials to take all means necessary, all appropriate measures to increase aviation security all across the united states. officials stressing that the president is not raising the color-coded level beyond orange where it is already. but that there will be other measure, some visible, some perhaps not to flyers around the country to show that it's beefed up at key airports all around the country. white house knows that this is obviously a peak time for holiday travel. people moving all around the country and around the world. and they do not want a repeat of the situation. that's why i'm told the president since

the president and his family are now in hawaii. and ed is there, too. ed, what do you know about what the president knows and has said? >> reporter: we've just gotten a little bit of new information in the last couple of moments. i reported earlier this president had a secure conference call with top aides. he instructed federal officials to beef up aviation security. the president has been updated a couple of more times by top aides john brennan and dennis mcdonough. they're giving the president paper updates about the situation on the ground. we're told the president has gotten some sort of document briefing him from the situation room sending it here to hawaii so the president can then stay abreast of the situation. we're also told sometime around dinnertime, the president is going to get another update from the situation room back at the white house, a paper document to brief him on what federal authorities know up to the minute. and important to note what do those authorities know? what are they telling the president? we're told by a senior adminis

bob mann is leading in hawaii. admiral crist developed several programs for recruiting recent graduates in forensic anthropology for compensation for education. what i know is in my many trips to talk with the anthropologist's including the younger generation, new recruited anthropologist on the field, that we talked to on this one trip when we went to the field, they love their jobs, they love deeply in to the field and they shouldn't deploy as much as they do and we need more anthropologist's and other -- different kinds of scientists to participate in these things. this new j-pac academy, including exchanges with a tie university, they're going to be getting constructive credit and developing all kinds of imaginative solutions for getting more anthropologist's into the program for advancement within the program to expand their numbers. that sounds very positive and that is absolutely crucial to the identification process. the league supports additional laboratories that would be devoted solely to -- some of thos

it started early this morning, 6:20 hawaii time, five hours back from the east coast. the president got a secured briefing from his top aides, giving him the latest of the investigation, a lot of the inside information. authorities beef up security around the country. he has been listening to these briefings. one thing he has not done is come out publicly and said anything. some criticism like congressman peter king saying the president should be out there. i put that to a senior administration official who said, look, this is not this president's style. like president bush, when there was a terrorist event president bush would be out there front and center. he was out golfing today, he has a different style. he can move forward with his vacation, get the briefings in private, let others handle the public side of the investigation. his homeland security secretary is going on the sunday talk shows but he believes he should stay behind the scenes. >> larry: no plan for him to cut that vacation short? >> reporter: no. he is planning to stay here a couple of days past new

we have ed henry cnn's senior white house correspondent with us from hawaii, and nic robertson senior international correspondent in london to talk about the latest development. cnn has obtained photos of underwear bomb the terror suspect alleged used to bring down flight 253. nic, what are these interesting to say the least photos tell us? >> they tell us this is the way the bombs were hidden, and i he spent a good part of today with a bomb-making expert who showed us the explosives, the petn, powdered or pastelike explosive and it's destructive force. what's interesting is that this is a very, very stable substance. you can bang it quite hard, wear it in underwear for thousands of air miles and don't have to worry about something bumping into you. we watched a test today with enough explosive toil the cap of my pen here and it blue a huge dent in a tiny piece of alum yum about double thickness of an aircraft skin. the amount of explosives is enough to smash a hole in the side of an aircraft, larry. >> larry: would all those people would have been killed, you think? >> several things

up to a half-dozen briefings a day on this in the broader terror threat even while on vacation in hawaii. we picked that up in the last few moments. that tells you they realize this is one of this president's first real tests as commander in chief as he closes his first year, to protect the american homeland. i think they had a little issue that you noted at the top about the fact the president didn't speak for a few days, and instead was content to put out his homeland security chief janet napolitano. instead she said the system worked, and obviously it doesn't appear that the system worked. that may have been one of the factors in getting the president out there to try to calm the american public, larry. >> larry: nic, prior to obama's statement al qaeda in the arabian peninsula issues a statement taking credit for all this. what's the reaction to that? >> reporter: you have to look at it, larry, with a little bit of scynicism and say this is al qaeda taking opportunity out of someone else's success? are they boosting their own support because they need more recruits and getting a hard

number one and led by player of the year ralph sanchez. >> basketball players a tiny college in hawaiig high and with good reasons. >> chaminade actually pulled off one of the upsets of the entry, handling the nation's top ranked and previously undefeated virginia team. >>> legendary ohio state football coach woody hayes was famous for his temper. and in 1978 that temper proved costly. >> woody hayes has been fired as coach of ohio state because of what happened in the gator bowl last night. woody hayes punches clemson's charlesy bauman because bauman had the audacity of setting off an reefer pack. so eddie hayes is out after 28 years of coach of ohio state. >>> in 1982, the cal bears proved why teams should always keep fighting until the final whistle. >> the bears have to get out of bounds. roth areas long the sideline. another one. they are still in trouble midfield. the ball is still loose as they get it to rogers. they get it to the 30, down to the 20. all of the band is out on the field! he's going to go into the end zone! he's going into the end zone! the bears have scored. the

president obama is in vacation in hawaii. what kind of briefings has he gotten about the terror incident and what is he saying? ed henry joins us. what is he saying and getting? >> reporter: larry, behind the scenes this president is getting a lot of information. it started very early this morning, about 6:20 hawaii time, about five hours back from the east coast of the united states. the president got a secured briefing from his top aides, giving him the latest on the investigation, a lot of the inside information. the president yesterday ordered that security officials beef up security at airports around the country so he's been listening to these briefings, acting. one thing he has not done is come out publicly and said anything. there's been some criticism now, some republicans like congressman peter king of new york saying the president should be out there, reassuring the public. i put that to a senior administration official who said, look, this is not this president's style. it it's a sort of contrast to former preside

he was born in mambasa kenya not hawaii. host: all right. lee, we're going to leave it there. in "the washington post" this morning this item regarding govern mark warner. his quest to achieve in the senate, amy gardner writes a hugely popular former govern who came to politics after earning a fortune in the cell phone business, warner entered the the taking the national stage. taking to the national change of conservativetism and business know how that helped him win over virginia independents and republicans. but the freshman senator has found himself mainly on the sidelines as congress and president obama have pushed health care reform, spending, and energy measures, without much attention to building a center-based coalition. jeannine go ahead. caller: good morning. host: what's on your mind this morning? caller: i wanted to make two points before actually asking the question about domestic and foreign policy for 2010. actually i'm going to criticize i guess the nearest post where they keep referring to our president as

hawaii is a state. where did the word immigrant come from? and fiber, his father wasn't even an immigrant it he was an exchange student that he wasn't an immigrant. so it's the words that are used back in form to be the assault, you know. it's not in your face like fox news. that's an assault. that sing in your face barack obama is this, this and this. it's the casual subtle thing like maybe showing a republican ad that shows obama with a photo of children behind him about a sex and, some concept that went on behind the election and then cnn actually ran that ad, the republican party had a right to put a. i don't think a cnn or the other networks had a right that it's not responsible journalism. that had to me showed obama looking like a pedophile. he standing there like this, their children behind them and its barack obama wants to teach children about sex education. well, fine. show that. if you're the republican party, but cnn, msnbc, fox, no. don't show that. i think that was very damaging. >> mr. overstreet, you self publish this book. >

i imagine, probably february, hawaii, what's that going to be like, david? february, hawaii? >> i thought it was going to be at torrey pines at the end of the january. but wherever it is, it's going to be a zoo. >> larry: you may be right. it may be torrey pines. >> he better be well prepared. he will bin the public eye. this is not a circumstance where he's going to be able to stay in the clubhouse and issue statements through the website. he has to be well prepared. and frankly, i think it would be smart for him to make himself available before the golf tournament to get this out of the way because he doesn't want this distraction hanging over him for the next two months. as soon as his face is cleared up, i would advise him to find a way to get out into the public eye and address this. and i'm not sure -- >> larry: on "larry king live," right? >> i think it's a great place to start. but i'm not sure he needs to have his wife standing next to him because that's such a cliche. and as i mentioned earlier, sincerity and authenticity is what's important in rebuilding his trust

recognizable emma knitting from a man that ca necked with fans throughout his career that took him from hawaii to houston to philadelphia. >> harry always had time to sign an you to graph, he always had time to take a picture with a fan. fans could would come up and hand him his cell phone and ask if he would record his outgoing message. >> you have reached kathy and kevin and they are not in writing now. >> it is out of here! >> it is a voice that provided the sound track for nfl films for 34 years. >> whatever we asked for harry delivered and he did it on the spot, he would would hand him the script and we expected perfection and got it. >> we got the ball back in 57 seconds, a chance for both teams. >> upon the news of his passing, fans in philadelphia create add make-shift memorial outside of citizen's park with candles pile out. the phillies flag flew at half-staff. >> i literally grew up only listening and knowing the voice of harry callus for the phillies. >> the thing about it is that he probably passed up in the booth the way -- being in the place that he would have loved. >> thankful

hawaii. $1.2 million for the model for green laboratories and clean rooms project. again i want to point out, as my colleague from oklahoma has, that these may be very worthwhile projects. they may be projects that may be help america. maybe spending our defense dollars, $5.8 million of it, for the rock island arsenal roof replacement in rock island, illinois, is something badly needed. maybe the $800,000 for the natural gas fire tube boiler demonstration at the rock island arsenal is also very necessary. but how are we to know? how are we to know? so, it's -- the senator from i will tphoeup and the democratic leader have come to the floor -- the senator from illinois and the democratic leader have come to the floor and saying the republicans have blocked passage of vitally needed funding for the men and women in the military who are defending our nation as we speak. my response is: where were you for the last two months after the senate passed this bill, the senate and the house could have had a conference and we could have had this bill long ago. and the fact is t

hawaii, 79,386. idaho, 60,676. illinois, 176,395. indiana, 148,174. iowa, 63,902.people enrolled in medicare advantage. let's proceed further. kansas, 43,867 people enrolled in medicare advantage. kentucky, 110,814. louisiana, 151,954. maine, 26,984. maryland, 56,812. massachusetts, 199,727. michigan, 406,124. minnesota, 284,101. mississippi, 44,772. missouri, 195,036. montana, 27,592. nebraska, 30,571. nevada, 104,043. new hampshire, 13,200. new jersey, 156,607. new mexico, 73,567. look at new york, 853,387. north carolina, 251,738. people enrolled in medicare advantage, who love the program. north dakota, 7,633. ohio, 499,819. goo geewhiz, that's a lot of people who are satisfied with medicare advantage. oklahoma, 84,980. oregon, one of the most liberal states in the union, 249,993. pennsylvania, 864,040. puerto rico even, 400,991. rhode island, 65,108. south carolina, 110,949. these are senior citizens. south dakota, 8,973. tennessee, 233,024. texas, 532,242. my own state of utah, 85,588. vermont, only 3,966, but 3,000 people -- 4,000 people in vermont. virginia

it's always, always hawaii.nine projects throughout the islands, ranging from funding big eye tuna quotas, marine education and training, and coral research. $2.7 million -- this may be my favorite. up there, a certain one of them. $2.7 million to support surgical operations in outer space. $2.7 million to support surgical operations in outer space, guess where? at the university of nebraska. as i have said many times, a common theme, you will always have a location designated for these projects. that's why some of them may be worthwhile, but we'll never know because they don't compete them. they always earmark them for the particular place that they want to help. unfortunately, that shuts out other people. there may be other places besides the university of nebraska that can support surgical operations in outer space. i -- i suggest bones and get dr. spock here and bones and get them out there and help them at the university. i don't know if they live in omaha or not, but i'm sure that to them and all the other

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," we will speak with clark kent ervin, henry farrell, and a look at the president vacationing in hawaii with ken walsh. >> a rare clips into america's highest court threw unprecedented conversation with 10 supreme court justices about the accord, their work. five days of interviews with supreme court justices starting on monday on c-span. get your own copy of the supreme court on dvd as part of c-span's american icon program. one of the many items available as c-span do.org/store. >> the center section. it is the primary entrance. it is where presidents arrive and depart from. blair house is on the inside block. 1 we 109 room, 70,000 square feet. to put into perspective, we have 5000 square feet larger in the white house is. >> the primary mission is to be a guest home for world leaders to come here. it is used for that purpose. it has never failed. >> since 1942, just about any world leader you can think of has a walk through this door. this is the same marble floor the have walked across. -- they have walked across. >> it is easy to look at it and say this is a wonderful home or beaut

i am jealous of my friends back in hawaii right now. caller: hello. this is her father. her brother is with other family members in puget sound. we're wishing her the best of luck and to say safe. just be safe. we leviable -- we love you. host: thank you for that. meghan, go ahead with your final thoughts. guest: thank you. i want to thank everybody for your service. i hope to have a great christmas and new year's. host: lieutenant potter, we thank you and all of the service members who joined us this morning. next guest is with the institute for policy studies, looking at american armed forces' presence across the world. that is coming up on "washington journal." >> in the mid-90's, newsweek named him one of the people to watch on the internet. since then, he has founded a social networking site, helped start a charter school in brooklyn, and been on oprah. he talks about what is ahead. >> beginning monday, are rare glimpse into america's highest court threw unprecedented conversations with 10 supreme court justices about their work and the history of the iconic buildin

recognizable emma knitting from a man that ca necked with fans throughout his career that took him from hawaii to houston to philadelphia. >> harry always had time to sign an you to graph, he always had time to take a picture with a fan. fans could would come up and hand him his cell phone and ask if he would record his outgoing message. >> you have reached kathy and kevin and they are not in writing now. >> it is out of here! >> it is a voice that provided the sound track for nfl films for 34 years. >> whatever we asked for harry delivered and he did it on the spot, he would would hand him the script and we expected perfection and got it. >> we got the ball back in 57 seconds, a chance for both teams. >> upon the news of his passing, fans in philadelphia create add make-shift memorial outside of citizen's park with candles pile out. the phillies flag flew at half-staff. >> i literally grew up only listening and knowing the voice of harry callus for the phillies. >> the thing about it is that he probably passed up in the booth the way -- being in the place that he would have loved. >> thankful

. >> larry: as you might imagine is president is keeping up with all of this while in vacation on hawaii. ed henry, what a tough job you have, but somebody has to do it. >> reporter: that's what a always say, larry. it's a tough job on the beach. they're saying today -- obviously, you know, they were very concerned initially, and what was happening behind the scenes is quite fascinating because initially reporters were calling the white house has the scene played out in detroit. some saying we hear there's a northwest flight that is having some trouble, could be a terror incident. others call reporters say we hear there's a delta flight having a terror scare. initially the white house thought there were two planes having a problem. it turned out that delta and northwestern in the process of merging there was only one flight. it was apparently a sick passenger. so all they did was get the president once they established the facts, they gave the president a secure briefing. he understood that it really wasn't a major scare, and they moved on. we hear the president in the next couple of day

talk to people on intelligen with t president in hawaii now. he doesn't he to be in washington to ben top of. this we ed quick answers. the president willet answers tomoow on who dropped the ball. support our intelligence agenci but we haven't gone over the bump or the hurdlto get them to talk with e another. obvisly someone dropped the ball here. point fingers at the cretary i think is short ange. if she blew this i would be e first tosk for her signation. we can not have seco chances. i'm glad jason said what he id out profiling. the on thing we should do with priling is beha i don't havior profiling. i believe behavior profing is acceptd and ould be followed in every sense of the term. >> gwen: congressman, m curious wh you think about what the administratiois doing. you maybe aware of fmer vice vi president eney's criticism that the administration s inform slow. >> the day aft the event the home land director of secuty saidverything worked okay. >> gwen: wt about now. >> have a estions. i don't wa to take a chea shot at them i want them to

was -- he was monitoring the situation and has received regular updates from his vacation spot in hawaiiwe will continue this discussion not only through this telephone segment but also at 7:45 eastern, we will talk with clark kent irvin, the former inspector general with, and security during the former bush administration and we will get his thoughts on what happened with the flight flying into detroit yesterday. lander, wyoming, you are next. >> this is wyoming. caller: i used to work for homeland security with tea s.a. and the airports. -- with tsa and airports. some of your callers said we should beat up internal security and secure ourselves in the united states instead of sending many of our troops to other countries to fight the battle offshore. i was a vietnam veteran. i see both sides of it. host: specifically, what kind of work to do for tsa? caller: i was a screener at the gate in utah, a screening bags with x-ray. host: without breaking confidentiality, what kind of things do they tell you to look for that might tip you off that something bad will happen? caller: i cannot rea

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veterans, i recall two christmases that my father spent in vietnam while i was in elementary school in hawaii. an enlisted soldier and member of the 25th infantry division, my dad was assigned in 1965 and came in in 1969. like the other holidays of the special season, christmas is a time when americans cherish per as it enables more focus on our families and friends. being a nation at war, we can also dwelt on the soldiers, marines, sailors, airmen, and coastguardsman who served in harm's way throughout the special season. this moral speech to us and as a tangible reminder of traditional body is like serving a greater good, remained steadfast, and caring for one another. as we look at this noble wall we see the names of those americans who fought in battle far from home. the over 58,000 names whose testament are at the marble tells a story and the count of selfless service and the ultimate sacrifice. from the early battles in 1965, the tet offensive in 1968, the vietnam veterans served as heroically and this nation can never forget. a america could not believe more proud of you. >> our nation

white house, president obama reacted having the latest departure -- having delayed his departure for hawaii until the senate passed the health-care package. >> members of the senate joined their colleagues in the house of representatives passed a landmark reform package. legislation that brings us toward the end of the nearly century long struggle to reform america's health-care system. ever since teddy roosevelt first called for reform in 1912, seven presidents, democrats and republicans alike, have taken up the cause of reform. time and time again, those efforts have been blocked by special interest lobbyists who have perpetuated the status quo that works better for the insurance industry than it does for the american people. with passage of reform bills in both the house and the senate, we are now finally poised to deliver on the promise of real, meaningful health insurance reform that would bring additional security and stability to the american people. the reform bill that passed the senate this morning, like the house bill, includes the toughest measures ever taken to hold the insuran

i talk to people on intelligence with the president in hawaii now. he doesn't have to be in washington to be on top of. this we need quick answers. the president will get answers tomorrow on who dropped the ball. i support our intelligence agencies but we haven't gone over the bump or the hurdle to get them to talk with one another. obviously someone dropped the ball here. to point fingers at the secretary i think is short change. if she blew this i would be the first to ask for her resignation. we can not have second chances. i'm glad jason said what he said about profiling. the only thing we should do with profiling is behave i don't behavior profiling. i believe behavior profiling is acceptd and should be followed in every sense of the term. >> gwen: congressman, i'm curious what you think about what the administration is doing. you maybe aware of former vice vice president cheney's criticism that the administration was inform slow. >> the day after the event the home land director of security said everything worked okay. >> gwen: what about now.

troops abroad, as he beg a holiy stay in hawaii. he spoke in a pre-record message, joined the first lady. >> to all oumen and women in uniform spendi the holidays fafrom home-whether its at a base here the states, a mess hall in iraqr a remote outpost in afghanistan, know that u are in our thohts and our prayers. and this holidayeason-and everholiday season-know that we areoing everything in our power to make re you can succeed in your missions and come home fe to your families. >> brown: britissoldiers receiv a similar tribute from queen elizabeth in hernnual christmaspeech. 106 brith troops died in afghantan this year, >> i asure that we have all been affecd by events in afghanistan, and saddened the casuties suffered by our forces servinghere. our thghts go out to their relations and friendwho have shown imnse dignity in the face ogreat personal loss. >> brown: in rome, pe benedict xvi al spoke of war and peace and hopes for the worlin his annualhristmas blessings. >> ( anslated ): today, to the man family, deeply affected a seri

the president spoke briefly from a marine corps base in hawaii where he and his family are on vacation good morning. yesterday i updated the american people on the immediate steps we took to the increased screening and security of air travel to keep our country safe in the wake of the attempted terrorist attack on christmas day. and i announce two reviews. a review of the terrorist watch list system and a review of our air travel screening, so we can find out what went wrong, fix it, and prevent future attacks. those reviews began on sunday, and are now underway. earlier today i issued the formal guidelines for those reviews and directed the preliminary findings be provided to the white house by this thursday. it's essential we diagnose the problems quickly and deal with them immediately. the more comprehensive, formal reviews and recommendations for improvement will be completed in the coming weeks, and i'm committed to working with congress and our intelligence, law enforcement, and homeland security communities to take all necessary steps to protect the country. i wanted to speak to

and then, of course, we always get back to hawaii, $13.1 million on fisheries in hawaii, nine projectshroughout the islandsgi

. $3.4 million for a rural bus program in hawaii. apparently the $1.9 million in the 2009 omnibus was not enough. we gave $1.9 million for this rural bus program in hawaii, so we got to now give them $3.4 million more. custer county, idaho, population 4,342 as of the year 2000. i'm sure they've grown since. $500,000 for development of a community center in custer county, idaho. the list goes on. the list goes on. and then, of course, it's loaded with controversial policy riders that should have been debated in the senate. the department of labor bill, the conference rescinds $50 million from unobligated immigration enforcement funds under section 286 of the immigration and nationally act. this will result in a decrease in the enforcement of immigration law. i guarantee you that if that provision had been debated here on the floor of the senate, that $50 million would never have been removed. the conference agreement includes new language providing authority to international labor affairs bureau, the agency charged with carrying out t

in a written statement issued in hawaii, where he's on vacation, the president said he plans to hold white house meetings next tuesday to discuss improved intelligence-sharing between government agencies. and he repeated that "human and systemic failures" had occurred in the run-up to the attempted attack. last night we talked to former members of the 9/11 commission about all this. tonight i'm joined by veterans of the intelligence community. charles allen served in the cia and as undersecretary for intelligence at the department of homeland security. tyler drumheller was director of cia operations for europe, among other posts. and paul pillar served in a variety of intelligence analysis and management positions. mr. allen, i will start with you. after 9/11 there was a lot of reorganization in the intelligence community. has it worked? what do we now know? >> i think it's worked very well overall. obviously there's still more work to be done based on this event that occurred on christmas day. but the intelligence reform and terrorism prevention act said we should establish a nation

reporr: at the white house this aftnoon, president obama said he's delaying his plaed holiday in hawaii, as he aits nate action. >> i will not leavuntil my friends in the senate have mpleted their work. my attitude is if they're king thessacrifices to provide healthare to all americans, the least i can do is pride enuragement and last minute help in the meantime, democrs >>eporter: in the meantime, democrats defended the dealmang they had to use to coral the 60 voteshey needed, for passage, the chaman of the health committ iowa senator m harkin said: "the principl of this bill oveides everything." >> sreenivan: tomorrow night on the newshour jilehrer will have an ierview. republicans have picd up another voten the u.s. house. freshman democrat parker griffith of alabama anunced today he iswitching sides. he opped the economic stimulus package and health car legislation, andad one of the mo conservative voting records of any houseemocrat. democrats still contl the house by a subantial margin. in enomic news, re-sales of existing homes soared in november to the higheslevel in nearly three

," we will speak with clark kent ervin, henry farrell, and a look at the president vacationing in hawaii with ken walsh. >> a rare clips into america's highest court threw unprecedented conversation with 10 supreme court justices about the accord, their work. five days of interviews with supreme court justices starting on monday on c-span. get your own copy of the supreme court on dvd as part of c-span's american icon program. one of the many items available as c-span do.org/store. >> the center section. it is the primary entrance. it is where presidents arrive and depart from. blair house is on the inside block. 1 we 109 room, 70,000 square feet. to put into perspective, we have 5000 square feet larger in the white house is. >> the primary mission is to be a guest home for world leaders to come here. it is used for that purpose. it has never failed. >> since 1942, just about any world leader you can think of has a walk through this door. this is the same marble floor the have walked across. -- they have walked across. >> it is easy to look at it and say this is a wonderful home or beaut

it will be like the hawaii insurance for kids in hawaii.off of their employment insurance and put them on the freebie and the program sunk. they had to pull it. i just need to know how they are going to take 55 and some billion away from medicare, and add all of these people on there and think it will function. and as for glenn beck, those who are bad mouthing them, they are hard core democrats, and i used to be democrat. their aim is to get us and they are doing a good job. host: marilyn thank you for the call, and that was a spill-over for the person of the year, and to her earlier point. guest: sure i will try to answer, she had many elements that are actually very important for seniors to know. we have spent a lot of our time walking to our members and seniors. there is a lot of misinformation about this bill and they are concerned and rightfully so. many are so dependent on the medicare program and if something were to happen to it, they would be in bad shape. we would not support a bill that we thought would hurt the medicare program.

for what purpose does the gentlewoman from hawaii rise? ms.ono: i seek unanimous consent to remove my name from h.res. 648. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. the chair will now entertain one-minute requests. for what purpose does the gentleman from washington rise? >> i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute and to revise and extends my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. >> madam speaker, america's workers and america's industries have never shied away from competition. our readiness to compete is a part of who we are. it is a driver that has been fundamental to our nation's success. however competition must be fair if it is to serve us well. this evening i rise to draw attention to a fundamentally unfair competition in our department -- that our department of defense seems intent on pursuing. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is correct. the house is not in order. the gentleman may proceed. >> the competition for air force's k.c.s. tanker program is unfair. one of the proposals for this soli

guest: it is headquartered in hawaii. have a tremendous lineage that goes back to world war ii and the korean war. they also participated in haiti, the work in haiti. host: in 1994? guest: wright, 1994, 1995. they are involved in the global war on terrorism. they have had two rotations in iraq and one in afghanistan. they are scheduled to go back to iraq. based on the last mission, it will be changing. a very honorable division. my memories are fantastic. host: lincoln, nebraska. go ahead. caller: i salute your service to the nation, general. my question, the prime minister of iraq has said that most of the slaughter occuring in iraq is because of the neighboring countries supporting those terrorists. how long will the united states continued dialogue with countries that are small -- slaughtering civilians in iraq? before they take some action to put a stop to these terrorists? guest: thank you for your question. did there have been recent discussions about what has caused these recent attacks. the prime minister, as did

the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman hawaii is recognized for one minute. ms. hirono: our peck slayings on wall street contributed to the deep economic hole we are in today. taxpayers have paid the price, risking around $3 trillion to stabilize the financial system. astonishingly the top three bailed out firms are reportedly on track to pay $30 billion in bonuses to top executives this year. in the meantime, furloughs, unemployment, and foreclosures are weighing on american families. limited access to lending is still a problem for many small businesses. it's time for us to institute a modest transaction tax on trades of stocks, options, and swaps. even a small tax of a quarter percent on these securities could raise up to $150 billion a year. part of this revenue should be used to invest in our nation's infrastructure, creating jobs, and putting americans back to work again. i ask my colleagues to support the let wall street pay for the restoration of main street act. wall street needs to be part of the solution not an ongoing part of the problem. i yield back