candy crowley, david gergen, joe hicks, good to have you with us tonight.ank you. >>> just ahead, more on the school speech flack. you'll hear from a principal and parents about why one school will not let its students listen to the president tomorrow. >>> also, looking for the formula for success. afghanistan possibly at a tipping point right now. >>> more on the growing allegations that the recent election was there rigged. >>> millions of school kids will head back to class tomorrow but not all classrooms will be full. some parents are choosing to keep their kids at home. and it has nothing to do with swine flu. their concern, the president's planned speech to america's school kids. now, some families claim it is an attempt to indoctrinate, their children while others, including one of the most out spoken critics of president obama's planned speech are actually changing their tune. >> after reading the text, seeing the department of education have told teachers they are not to lead students in the direction they would have a week ago, my kids will be wat

there are times i think joe hicks is right, they've gone overboard, as on this school speech. other issues they are digging into and they are causing conniptions for this white house. there's a whole conversation going on in the conservative blogosphere that the mainstream media sometimes just misses and doesn't see the van jones eruption coming. >> and, joe, just to bring it back to what david just mentioned, you mentioned earlier this is sort of on the fringe, but it is still conservativism. many people do associate quote-unquote conservatives with republican. is the republican party playing catch-up at this point? >> clearly the republican party has been the ropes since the election and some would argue way before that. so yeah, there is some catching up to do here. you don't do that -- and i want to make the argument here that the republican party and some mainstream conservatives, even though there are some who oppose this president's speech tomorrow, some are now backing away from that. but if you listen to some of the voices, there are a lot of conservatives from the ve

>> what do we know, adam hicks? >> we have heard reports from an interview with the next-door neighbor that there is maybe a possibility of some mental abuse from the father, the stepfather of the family, but no physical abuse, no reports of that. >> mental abuse on whom, adam hicks? mental abuse on whom? >> we've heard that from the stepfather matthew hess, we have heard from the neighbor that he may have been yinge negative things about his wife, jeanette p jeanette hess. >> if this is talking to a neighbor about your wife -- >> no, no. talking to the children about his wife. >> oh. talking to the two stepdaughters about their mother. dr. patricia saunders, that puts everything in a whole new life. >> yeah, it does. one possible scenario is that he abducted these girls to punish the mother, to deprive her of a potential grandchild that looked like it was planned. the girls were packed up, they went. or maybe she wanted to turn the baby over to the state and he said no way, that the girl wanted to keep the baby and

let's go down to dan hicks. >> thank you very much, jimmy. for the second time, the commissioner of the tour mr. jim finchum will give the fedex cup to tiger woods after sitting out last year with a knee surgery. i'm turn it over for the presentation. >> thank you, dan. tiger, you did everything that the cup design of the program is supposed to make you do. you played really consistent in the regular season. you won five times. you played great in the playoffs with that -- including that incredible win at chicago. and then you did what you had to do this week here at the tour championship. congratulations on your second cup. >> thanks, tim. >> tiger, what does this mean? it represents a body of work during the course of a long, long season. lots of rounds, lots of golf normally at a time when you don't play this much golf. how does it feel to lift this cup for the second time? >> the whole idea is to be consistent. you know, the entire season and try and position yourself the best you possibly can for the playoffs. this year i've played well.

let's go down to dan hicks. >> thank you very much, jimmy. for the second time, the commissioner of the tour mr. jim finchum will give the fedex cup to tiger woods after sitting out last year with a knee surgery. i'm turn it over for the presentation. >> thank you, dan. tiger, you did everything that the cup design of the program is supposed to make you do. you played really consistent in the regular season. you won five times. you played great in the playoffs with that -- including that incredible win at chicago. and then you did what you had to do this week here at the tour championship. congratulations on your second cup. >> thanks, tim. >> tiger, what does this mean? it represents a body of work during the course of a long, long season. lots of rounds, lots of golf normally at a time when you don't play this much golf. how does it feel to lift this cup for the second time? >> the who idea is to be consistent. you know, the entire season and try and position yourself the best you possibly can for the playoffs. this year i've played well. y

here now in a cnbc exclusive interview are tom hicks and more. thanks to both of you for joining us. tom you had until the 29th to get a deal done. were you looking at other companies as well? >> we raised our money back two years ago. we looked at well over 200 opportunities over that time period. my good friend ken hurs called from there in dallas with this idea in dallas. we were able to get together very quickly. and he and nick had a great company. their legacy assets. oil reserves. and we did a good value for the shareholders and we are thrilled that it came together as smoothly as it did. >> 85% of the revenue comes from oil. where do you think the price of oil is headed over the next year? >> if i had the crystal ball on that one i would be very, very rich. but i think it will be stable in this range for sometime. >> do you think we will go back to triple digits? will demand come back? give me color. >> i don't think it will come back to triple digits. a couple years from now that is definitely a possibility. i believe we have reached a p

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>> what do we know, adam hicks?reports from an interview with the next-door neighbor that there is maybe a possibility of some mental abuse from the father, the stepfather of the family, but no physical abuse, no reports of that. >> mental abuse on whom, adam hicks? mental abuse on whom? >> we've heard that from the stepfather matthew hess, we have heard from the neighbor that he may have been saying some negative things about his wife, jeanette hess. from a report we have from the next door neighbor. >> talking to a neighbor about your wife -- >> no, no, talking to the children about his wife. >> oh. talking to the two stepdaughters about their mother. dr. patricia saunders, that puts everything in a whole new life. >> yeah, it does. one possible scenario is that he abducted these girls to punish the mother, to deprive her of a potential grandchild that looked like it was planned. the girls were packed up, they went. or maybe she wanted to turn the baby over to the state and he said no way, that the girl wanted to

i'm dan hicks saying so long from cog hill. we'll see you tomorrow where you've been watching golf's best on nbc sports. >>> baseball bat against a machete, more on that story coming out. >> thousands of people took to the nation's capital to protest out of control spending. >> sunshine is in the forecast. all the details coming [captioning made possible by constellation energy group] >>> the suspect in a domestic assault and up the hospital after fleeing the scene and crashing. the big story this evening, two young men taken to hospital after an early-morning assault. the victim was attacked with a baseball bat. melissa carlson has the latest. >> quite a rude awakening, the woman's ex-boyfriend came in and attacked her new boyfriend. the harford county police say it happened just after 6:00 a.m. this morning. they say the man entered the home through a third story balcony wielding a baseball bat. the current boyfriend confronted the man and the living room, where the police say he was attacked. the new boyfriend fought back. >

joining me now, tim wise and joe hicks national advisory council member of project 21.ll right, gentlemen, let's talk about this. let's first talk about what president carter said. joe, first i want to know do you agree with any of what former president jimmy carter said? >> it's good to see tim again. i don't agree with what jimmy carter said. he's trying to get inside a lot of people's heads, it might be the kind of view he has of the world. he may be reflecting on some old segregation views he once held before he became president. but it's not fair to try to get inside the heads of white people. >> did you just call jimmy carter a racist, joe >> no, i didn't. i said early in jimmy carter's life he was linked to segregation views. i don't claim he's a bigot or a racist. he's clearly not. let's be clear what i'm saying. what i'm arguing he's trying to get inside the heads of a lot of good white americans and claim they are viewing this president and the situation through racist eyes and i think the president was right in diffusing it listen clearly the implication was

i miss him, and there will be moments when we are on stage when i -- you swear -- i feel hick in the you know. there will be a moment when i am turning and i expect -- and i imagine that will become less and less, but i turn and expect to see him there because he is so ingrained in my mind. there are many ways to react, but i think the best is to honor him by carrying on with as much depraved abandon as he would permit. tavis: i lost a dear friend here recently that we talked about here on this program, a long-time producer, 42 years of age, who died of breast cancer. you said something a moment ago that got my attention, and i think i get it, but i want to be sure i get it. you referred to leroy as a tough friend. is that like tough love? >> it is interesting because i am not easy. but he was a very tortured soul. but also, not only was he tortured and sometimes angry and sometimes -- he was almost infuriating and repulsing, but it was because he was tortured by whatever it was in his life. by frustration, maybe the same things we are all frustrated by, maybe not able to say or get

here is fee hicks pie batting second. roberts at first and nobody out. longoria in at third base.pie will take it up high for a ball. pie with the 1-9 in this series over a longer term, though, hitting .301 in his last 26 ballgames. he's had six home runs in those games, 14 rbi's. he did not show bunt on that first pitch. longoria will back up a step now even with the bag. >> jim: he should be. he doesn't hit second that often, but when you hit in this position, you look at longoria who is playing even with the bag and move back and then he comes in, you're looking for a hit in in right field. the pitch, of course strying to run the ball away. hit a ball that you can hit hard. >> gary: pie with two sacrafices, and he has a base hit into the corner. kapler going over to get it. brian roberts on his way to third. kapler will get it in. roberts will be held and the orioles have a threat here in the first inning. >> jim: that's what i'm talking about! you look for a pitch, you get a pitch, and now can the youngster, 24 command it? perfect pitch to hit. right there. aybar who really ha

hicks home six home runs for the os. >>> not sure who the redskins picked off at the nfl headquarters but for the second year in the row the skins will open the season at new york, a killer road game against a team coming off a good last season. led the league in rushing. on defense they give opposing quarterbacks the shakes. somebody has got to play the raiders in week 1. couldn't it be us? >> i guess you could say there is a benefit in facing the team you know well, but on the other hand we are going to new york to play an outstanding football team. so i think there's a lot of other week 1 games that we would have rather had. >> 29 of them maybe. >>> it appears malcolm kelly got the number 2 receiving job. kelly provides the big target jason campbell has been craving. expect and announcement from jim zorn tomorrow. >>> four days to get ready now for james madison. ralph's biggest problem by the end of the week may having to do with the swine flu. there are now 139 cases of h1n1 on the maryland campus including one on the football team and given how much of a petri dish a locker room

a it -- greta: one person that genuine interest in his political philosophy, and he was called a "hickople are insult that washington and politicians have snubeirth noses at them. greta: people were offended that the ceo at a different idea on how to reform health care. >> these people are having a huge impact. this is truly grassroots politics at its very best. this is what america is all about. these hundreds of thousands of people are coming now. please keep shouting. you are being heard in washington, and they are hearing you in washington. greta: nobody would have thought that deep in august, we would still be hearing about this. thank you, steve. the former vice president and takes no prisoners. this time, he is slamming the president about the decision to investigate the cia. and then, liz cheney joins us. later, brand new photographs. an inside look at the unbelievable nightmare, the nightmare that a little jaycee dugard faced, including sound proof buildings. plus, there is mortified. the alleged kidnapping report -- plus, there is more. my two granddaughters are my life. they

hick key has a student intern. >> i love this. we are here to talk about weather. this guy right there, mr. chris cook, is the principal and i love being able to talk about weather when there's a guy named cook in the class. we will have to try to cook up something here. thanks for playing along. >> all right. quickly, let talk about weather and then we will talk about some weather with the students off camera but you are here to look at the berth today. right now we are lookout side with temperature of 58. i was showing you this is the map i showed you on the phone. how cool is that. >> awesome. >> what's the temperature in baltimore. >> 58. >> this had is spoken by dedrick did you guys know there was rain and even a hint of snow flakes in western maryland and western pa this morning. if you look at the image you can see that toward the left side of the screen. there's a winter-type pattern here for eastern canada dragging in northwesterly winds. those showers may give us a sprinkle or so but generally, the cool air dominates in through today. tomorrow l high shou

i have go karts and all the hick stuff. i have it. >> but is it ever strange to live in a community that basically frowns upon what you do? i mean, you can't even buy your movies here. >> you know, i thought it might be a little weird at first, but it's not, because this place, everybody's so nice and they don't judge you. >> and in oklahoma city, her porn alter ego takes a back seat. she is a wife of a former porn star, a mother to a 9-year-old son, who doesn't exactly know what his mom does for a living. >> hi, how are you? >> she's a frequent shopper at this local boutique and a regular at the neighborhood yogurt shop. so what is your real name? >> cindy taylor. >> do people know you around here as cindy taylor? >> yeah. a lot of them know me as jesse. and a lot of people don't. but all of the football moms and baseball moms call me cindy. >> this is no typical path to porn stardom. jane starts as a model, a hooters girl, and even enters hawaiian tropics beauty contest. then the single mom from oklahoma who once wanted t

nobody has yet been convicted we have a guilty plea from david hicks and he served a coue of months. >> host: parsed of the argument is we need to have them and not have access of a lawyer to g what you can out of them. >> that is the argument buthe fbwill say if you want to get good information you have to give them an ientive to talk and tell the truth. if you torture, they will say some fame probably. the most hard-core suspects are the least likely to talk. there are people w were willing to be suicide bombers and kill themselves for this cause. they will not just talk because you put them through waterboarding. but to get actual information? we have got actionable information by doing plea deals, even flown over al qaeda members, a family mber somebody's child was brought over to have a heartperation and he told themverything. the other thing that seemto work is bribing people. i hate to say it but many bought us a lot of great intelligence. >> host: it is such a novel idea. [laughter] ift works well then why not? >> guest: it is what the israelis have learned. i do not speak he

. >> jimmy: yeah, start talking like a real hick. great. well, i'm glad you guys are here playing.label you guys so we know who's who. thanks. thanks, monkus. here you go. you put this one on here. you put this one on here. here you go. you're glenn and you're keith. very good. i can feel the tension already. gosh, you guys -- you haven't met before the show, have you? >> no. >> jimmy: yeah. do you hate each other? >> yeah. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: yeah? she's in character, she's in character. all right. now we got to find out what this beef is all about. i want you guys to face each other. all right? keith, i want you to go first. just read off the card and tell everyone why you're beefing. >> glenn beck, people say you got your start as a comic. which makes sense, because you, sir, are a joke. ere's a reason your show has lost 33 advertisers this year. which, in your case, works out to be one advertiser per every i.q. point. now, please don't start crying. oh, i forgot, that's what you do. [ laughter ] seriously, the only person on tv crying more than you is brett farve in his reti

planes were called in wn militants hicked a pair of fu tankers. the report said that w a mistake. also blamed the taliban for putting civilians risk. to iq now, where vice president biden has anunced that if its government ask american troops toeave earlier than planned, the s. will go along. den today wound up a visit t baghdad. iraqi leads have talked of holding a referend on the ise in january. on theurrent timetable, all american forces wi be out of iraq by the d of 2011. one southeast asia's most wanted al-qaeda leaders was killed in indonesitoday. noordin mohammed t had been implicated in every majoattack there since 2002. police raid his hideout today near solo central java, indonesia's main isld, and a gunfight erupted ter several hours, an explosion blew apart the hou where e suspects were holed up. noordin and three othersere found dead. the u.s. house hasoted to place all stent loans for college under publicontrol. the ll would also greatly expand aid for needytudents. democrats shed the measure today to take prate lenders out the program. republicans complaed about ano

i know you're wants to know who won, joel hicks, 30 years old. he goes by the name of stone cold steve beasto. >> is that person about to hit him with a chair behind him? >> it'sike wwe meets gravy. >> there are certain places you don't want gravy. >> i quickly have to mention this. how annoying it when someone sends an e-mail and it's in all caps? it's so rude. turns out can you get fired for it. vicky walker is suing pro care >> wildfires burning through southern calif >> wildfires burning through southern california remain out of control. this morning a new round of evacuations as flames threaten more homes. >> then health alert. the side effects of cancer screening. studies show patients may be receiving unnecessary treatment. >> and game changer. the professor who says two tennis rackets are better than one. >> i don't think there would be an advantage to that off the top of my head. >> it's tuesday, september 1st. >> announcer: from abc news, this is "world news now." >> it's a novel idea. this guy wants you to use two tennis rabbits, not j

>> well, you know, is he the same wilson that played the basketball on the tom hicks movies? i think he was. i think he is the same wilson. as i said -- wilson! join the wilson ticket. >> great to see you. have a great weekend. thanks for joining us again on a friday. >> thank, ed. >> you bet. >>> earlier in the show i asked you what you thought. how do you think most republicans are feeling about congressman joe wilson's outburst? 32% of you say embarrassed. 68% of you say embolded. dave schultz, 863. way to go, buddy. i'm ed schultz. "hardball" is next with chris matthews. have a great weekend. >>> the president's political health. let's play "hardball." >>> good evening. i'm chuck todd in washington filling in for chris matthews who will be back on monday. leading off tonight, image problem. the outburst by congressman joe wilson has us asking, are we at the point where we can say the intense opposition to barack obama in some parts of the country is about more than health care reform? stimulus plan? is it also about ideology? regional differences and perhaps even race? wh

joining me now, tim wise and joe hicks national advisory council member of project 21.ght, gentlemen, let's talk about this. let's first talk about what president carter said. joe, first i want to know do you agree with any of what former president jimmy carter said? >> it's good to see tim again. i don't agree with what jimmy carter said. he's trying to get inside a lot of people's heads, it might be the kind of view he has of the world. he may be reflecting on some old segregation views he once held before he became president. but it's not fair to try to get inside the heads of white people. >> did you just call jimmy carter a racist, joe? >> no, i didn't. i said early in jimmy carter's life he was linked to segregation views. i don't claim he's a bigot or a racist. he's clearly not. let's be clear what i'm saying. what i'm arguing he's trying to get inside the heads of a lot of good white americans and claim they are viewing this president and the situation through racist eyes and i think the president was right in defusing it, listen, clearly the implication was i w

joining us, joe hicks, a commentator for pa jaj mpajamas. good to see you.ted to play down the scenes from some of the town hall, even as i have been stunned, frankly, by what occurred and what i've seen. >> right. >> is this serious? is this what the next 3 1/2 years will look like, sound like in this country? >> i certainly hope not. i think it's important to differentiate. obviously not all of the opposition to the president or the opposition to him speaking to the school kids, for example, is about racism, the area that i focus on and rush limbaugh in late april saying the obama way you can get a job with this administration is if you hate white people. now they are saying he is going to indoctrine nate the kids and turn them into the youth. it's not all about racism. a few people have stayed on the town to crazy town and the fact is, there's a rags rhetoric that under lies a lot of this and it's dangerous for us to not explore that aspect. >> what's your take on this. >> i wonder if you take pink elephant and on a daily basis, and you know, this isn't n

let's ask two former contestants, taylor hicks who won season five is in houston and bucky covingtonear is in albuquerque. good morning. >> good morning. >> taylor, how are you doing and what do you think of this big move some. >> i definitely believe that ellen's jokes are funnier than simon cowell's jokeses. how about that? yeah, i think it's going to be great. i think she bring as lot of entertainment value to the show. i think that she has a great -- she's a great personality and she might have a little bit of more of a musical chop than we think she does. >> because that's the big rub here because some people in the blobs sfeer are saying hang on a minute, had is not her power alley, we appreciate her comedic relief, but where is the musical background here. >> i think the panel of judges represent the music industry very well. and i think with ellen you you get kind of an all-around entertainer. and i definitely can identify with that. >> bucky, what is your response? when you heard that ellen degeneres was going to be added as a judge, what was your first thought? >> i got to

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and we have legendary deal maker tom hicks. just closed a $582 million deal.and 90% of new jobs come from ent p ent preneuros and they are just not hiring today. let's get to the trading floor. bob, you are first up. >> what is interesting here, is we have a modest little rally. we were down 65 points and in the last half hour, we are heading towards break even for the day. there is a slightly difference sense of what is going on. the important thing here? industrial stocks have had a tough week. take a look. today is your defensive names. coca-cola, mcdonalds and proctor and gamble. cyclicals are notably on the downside. the transport in particular, seven, eight, nine% off of the recent highs. that was about two or three weeks ago. the dollar has rallied and commodity based stocks have notably been hit about 6% on all of the major gold stocks.

with me, i've got a veteran, brian hicks, he's actually here to serve as a mentor, brian was injured in 2003 in iraq, but you lost your leg just a year ago. what is the biggest question you get from the veterans here? >> probably the biggest thing that they ask me is, you know, what drives you to keep going forward and how do you do what you do? and i always tell them the biggest thing is to find out whatever it is that scares you and you know, if that scares you, go after it. like this morning, i was able to do some water skiing. and i was out there because it scared me and i enkurmg the guys just because your life has changed and just because things ar little different, you have to do things a different way now, you just tackle it on. meet it head on and keep your eyes in forward like you can when you were in the military. >> reporter: the other thing is family, a lot of veterans brought their families with them. they feel like this is a chance for them to reconnect sometimes the first time since they were injured. for me in particular, i've got my wife and two boys are here with m

will hick land lost his wife and mother. he formed a company to help healthcare providers.arkest hour, you came up with something positive for a lot of people who may be going through something that you have? >> through the experience we had with my mom and my wife is that we have a lot of great people. the healthcare people are committed but they are burdened by a system that does not care for patients. i have seen that and apply the technology in a way -- so we developed technology to coordinate the people and the resources and the supplies to take care of people at home more efficiently. >> if people need your help, how can they get to you. >> the software tools are telephone based and available through a web browser. they're not intended for the inpatient, but the companies who meet the care. we help them coordinate the better care and have the conversion at home. that seems a more seam less process for the patient. they can spend less time being a patient and waiting for care. >> getting your medicine on time making sure it's there. if you're not getting it on time, on

. >> hick son, tennessee. >> good morning.lease give me time enough to say what i want to say please ma'am. yes, ma'am. are you there? medicare is a government run health thing. it's going broke or is it broke. then you'd have a public option that's run by the government so you'd have two government plans run by the government and what i want to say is, i worked all my life for dupont and they wants the government option, and i called my insurance company at et in n etna. and they want it too. so my wife and i will end up losing our insurance, our private insurance and there's no - that's facts. how could you have medicare run by the government and then the public option run by the government and then all of the sudden your private insurance wants it and you and your wife or family will be out of the private insurance. it needs to be stopped. i know ya'll both up there from the times and post are ya'll definitely for the man in the white house, but come on, be fair and honest with the public because- >> um... the insurance com

. >> hick son, tennessee. >> good morning. please give me time enough to say what i want to say please ma'am. yes, ma'am. are you there? medicare is a government run health thing. it's going broke or is it broke. then you'd have a public option that's run by the government so you'd have two government plans run by the government and what i want to say is, i worked all my life for dupont and they wants the government option, and i called my insurance company at et in n etna. and they want it too. so my wife and i will end up losing our insurance, our private insurance and there's no - that's facts. how could you have medicare run by the government and then the public option run by the government and then all of the sudden your private insurance wants it and you and your wife or family will be out of the private insurance. it needs to be stopped. i know ya'll both up there from the times and post are ya'll definitely for the man in the white house, but come on, be fair and honest with the public because- >> um... the insurance c

joining me now, tim weiss, and joe hicks, from project 21. gentlemen, let's talk about this.first talk about what president carter said. joe, first, i want to know, do you agree with any of what former president jimmy carter said? >> it's good to see tim again. i don't agree with what jimmy carter said. he's trying to get inside of a lot of people's heads. it might be the kind of view he has of the world. you know, he may be reflected on some old segregation views he held before he became president. but it's not fair to try to get inside the heads of white people. >> did you just call jimmy carter a racist, joe? >> no, i didn't. what i said was, early in jimmy carter's life, he was linked to segregationist views. i do not claim he's a bigot or racist now. what i'm arguing is, that he is trying to get inside the heads of a lot of good white americans, and claim that they're viewing this president, and the situation in america through racist eyes. i think the president was right in defusing it by saying, listen, clearly the implication@ was, i was black before the election, a l

debate has created a lot of tension across the country so joining me now tim weiss, author -- and joe hicksgood to see tim again. i don't agree with what jimmy carter said. he's trying to get inside of a lot of people's heads. it might be the kind of view he has of the world. you know, he may be reflecting on some old segregationist views he once held before he became president. but, it's not fair to try to get inside the heads of white people. >> you did just call jimmy carter a racist, joe? >> no, i didn't. what i said -- >> you said -- >> early -- undeniable early in his life he was linked to segregation views. i don't suggest he is a bigot or racist now so let's be clear what i'm saying here. >> okay. >> what i'm arguing is he's trying to get inside the heads of a lot of good white americans and claim they are viewing this president and the situation through racist eyes. i think the president was right in diffusing it by saying clearly the implication was of i was black before the election. a lot of white voters in fact voted for me. so, what does that say? >> tim, your take. >> let's t

we'll stablize hick for those who have it -- health insurance for those who have it and help to secure for those who don't. we'll help to keep the insurance industry honest and lower costs to ensure that every american can stay hlthy and we're determined to pass a good bipartisan bill and do it this year. i listened to hard-working nevadans across the state. they know the difference between the misinformation spread by aopponents of progress and the reality that ourision of reform needs patience and oy doctors should make decisimns about their medical care. that belong to the people, not to the insurance industry. the american people knows that reform means keeping insurance companies honest and not letting them deny you care because of you are a preexisting condition. if you have anything from heart disease to high cholesterol to hay fever, you may be out of luck. that is just not right. they know our vision rf reform means not allowing health insurance companies to drop your coverage if you're seriously ill. if you change or lose your job, you will havffordable options os to cover yo

as colonel bill hicks former commander put it, quote, the u.s.own here, but the afghan force is not growing nearly as fast. we have people who are bleeding and dying, and we need to look hard at how we generate afghan forces, end quote. the marine company commander captain brian put this way, quote, the lack of afghan forces is absolutely our achilles heel, closed quos. -- quote. senator hoffman and i visited earlier this month, our marines outnumbered afghan soldiers by 5 to 1. we've been assured that there's no shortage of volunteers to reach. we will need more trainers to achieve this. we ask general who is in charge of the american effort to train the afghanistan security forces to assess what would be required, including nato and u.s. trainers to meet that timetable. in the mean time, we should also press our nato alliance much harder to provide more trainers. a larger afghan military will require more equipment. to be a major urgent effort to determine these requirements, and to transfer equipment coming out of iraq to afghan security force