even holbrook acknowledged that. the second question was the interesting thing was to juxtapose this, he was very well-respected and they named a street after him. iraqis would give up their children, their riches, anything to thank them for what they did for the country. but afghans, not so much. it was a much more complex terrain in a complex area he had visited. he didn't have the depth of knowledge or the networks, but the enemies of the architecture there that he would have to work with. i think that he found a way to prove himself. a lot of people felt like he talked about iraq all the time. and they are thinking this is not a rat. but in his mind, there were still many principles. he really never gain the reporter with karzai. the afghan ministers respected him, but it was not the same level of respect they had with the iraqi government. the third thing is that he is such a driven individual. that can be strength, too. obviously he channels that drive and ambition to serve the country. i think his ego is in li

i'm squareeled holbrooke, fox -- jared hole brooke. fox news. >>> who will win the white house? hopefully tonight we will know. we will get insight when we come back. come back. you're on timeout leo! some things won't last 25 years. ah! woof! some things will. save up to 15% on an ikea kitchen. some things won't last 25 years. ah! woof! some things will. save up to 15% on an ikea kitchen. . >>> it's a waiting game for the race to the white house. 270 is the magic number both candidates need for victory. the paths could take many different directions. how's it shaping up? hill reporter niles stanich. thank you for coming in on this election night. i am sure you have seen the early exit polls. are you able to glean information from that? >> i think it's dangerous to glean or extrapolate too much. there is something showing this is a fraction of the republican than 2008. it would not be determinative and it's wise to be cautious. >> is that what we're hearing, the turnout is much heavier than in 2008? are you seeing that perhaps there are more republicans turning out? >> i think t

karen holbrook couldn't be here. i work in the emergency preparedness section and our section is responsible for medical surge events in the city. yesterday's exchange was really helpful in forwarding that planning ?oo ?a i'm greg jones, i'm the fourth surgeon for the marine expeditionary brigedand i'm representing the excellent sailors who were responsible for setting up and operating the shock trauma platoon. >> controls ingels, california national guard. i'm one of the airmen and soldiers, almost 21,000 strong, that answers the governor's mission. it's available to all civil providers out there and emergency responders and it is in california the substantial or the equal of many third world countries in terms of military force that can be applied to a disaster. >> i'm lynn wilder, i'm the emergency management coordinate roar at san francisco general trauma center and i'm also representing the san francisco council of emergency partnership which is the group of emergency management coordinators from each of the hos

the special envoy to afghanistan and pakistan, mark grossman, the man that took over after richard holbrookeied. he too is stepping down from that onvy to afghanistan and pakistan. hillary clinton may be replaced by susan rice or somebody else. hillary clinton says she, herself, will not be staying on for the second term. so if you just want to focus on the war for a second, it is all change in terms of the leadership for the top officials in year 12 of america's longest war. all change for everybody in top roles there except for the president and the vice president and the 66,000 americans who are still in afghanistan fighting that war. america's war in afghanistan is not due to end this year or next year. it is not due to end until the end of the year after that, at the end of 2014. that's the date by which president obama says the u.s. combat mission in afghanistan will end. it seems important to note that that is the latest possible date by which the president says the combat mission will end. it doesn't mean it has to go on that long. even with negotiations under way about the size of s

. >> she's accused of giving the bird to richard holbrook in a meeting. >> that's not disqualifying.kes it more interesting. she may be disqualified on other grounds, but she's not going to play nice necessarily like many other cabinet secretaries do and like they're kind of expected to do with congress. >> well, i mean, if she were nominated, there's going to be a serious continuing investigation about this because we still don't know what happened. i mean, we've not gotten the explanation from her about these talking points. we have some really tantalizing information from the cia that came out in the hearings or the closed testimony, and so this is going to be an actual fact finding investigation, masquerading as coon firmation hearing. >> what a great question. did you talk to the president between september 11th and september 16th before she went on tv. >> one of many great questions. there's a charitable view of why she was put out on september 16th. that rue is it was basically a tryout as secretary of state to see if she could handle it. on that front, she failed. the less ch

more importantly, in 1862, frederick holbrook went to the federal government and said as governor, we think we can cure our sick sick and wounded soldiers better if he would send them to us in vermont where loved ones will heal them, and after a long bureaucratic fight, he got permission to open three hospitals in vermont. one of them stood right here. the center was in the middle of this field. these long wings awards extended from the center. bigotry about 600 soldiers here once. right or prior to run the hospital was a man named henry james from nearby waterbury who had been the town doctor and enlisted for the civil war with a great position for most of the writing major. after the battle of gettysburg, the war department sent him to gettysburg and put him in charge of all of the 25,000 wounded at gettysburg. he did a magnificent job and when that was finished, he came here to run this hospital. before he left gettysburg, he was afforded a great honor for his performance. he was allowed to sit near the president while lincoln gave the gettysburg address. here in this hospital duri

think of lincoln they think of the, depending on their ages, raymond massey or henry fonda or hal holbrook or gregory peck or others who have played lincoln in the movies. >> furthermore, it's well known that the more a man speaks, the less he's understood. ( laughter ) >> lincoln has in fact been used almost from days of his assassination to sell products. we have lincoln logs. for a younger generation, "ted and bill's excellent adventure" includes lincoln. he is just one of those figures if you're selling a product that's synonymous with integrity, whether it's an automobile or insurance or a remedy for sleep deprivation. >> sreenivasan: honest abe. >> absolutely. honest abe. everyone wants lincoln on their side. almost everyone can devise a rationale to justify that. we go on debating who he is, what he really believed, and how it influences our politics and our culture to this day. >> sreenivasan: and that story is not over. >> that story is far from over. we deliberately wanted an unfinished quality about this museum, about the story that we're telling here. because the one thing we k

holbrooke was right. the home cooking and treatments works and many, many vermonters lived on because this hospital was here and did a wonderful job. it is only one building that still stands in its original position. but after the war, the long wings were chopped up into short sections and folders houses. all around the neighborhood are houses that would just about identical and you can identify them as parts of the old hospital. there's about 3500 civil war sites. almost all of them have no historic marker to identify that. so you're going to need something to find these places. when you get there, you may be amazed. we're in the hills of her land to vermont, which is the town just south of montpelier at a cellar hole of a farmhouse that long since fell down. but back here in the 1820s and 30s, two gunmen grip, two brothers who served in the civil war. richard crandall, the older brother went from here to dartmouth college and then enlisted in the six vermont regiment and became a combat officer. his yo

. >> none of these actors maybe with the exception of holbrooke ever really worked on the accent. >>hing are equal to each other. >> reporter: in steven spielberg new film "lincoln," daniel day-lewis takes on lincoln's character. >> the most frequent things we read are that he had a nasal voice, a high voice but that somehow floated over large crowds. >> fear stepped out on the world stage now. >> reporter: the oscar-winning actor settled on a high pitch almost scratchy tone very different from the deep booming quality that audiences expected from pop culture. >> four score and seven minutes ago. >> reporter: no one expected daniel lewis to channel bill and ted but some audiences are surprised by his voice. at a "time" magazine panel discussion last month he tried to explain where it came from. >> you look for the clues as within any aspect of the work you search for the clues and there were plenty of them. for me if i'm very lucky, i begin to hear a voice. not in the supernatural sense but my inner ear and then the work begins to reproduce that sound. >> i think it's extraordinary.

. >> none of these actors maybe with the exception of holbrook ever really worked on the accent. >> reporterin stephen spielberg's new film "lincoln," daniel day lewis takes on the larger-than-life character who according to historians had a smaller-than-expected voice. >> the most frequent things we read is that he had a nasal voice, a high voice, but that somehow miraculously it floated over large crowds. >> reporter: the oscar-wink actor settled on a high-pitched almost scratchy tone very different from the deep booming quality audience haves come to expect from pop culture. >> four score and seven minutes ago. >> reporter: no one expected day lewis to channel bill and ted, but some early audiences are still surprised by his voice. at a "time" magazine panel discussion last month, he tried to explain where it came from. >> well, you look for the clues as within any aspect you search for clues and there are plenty of them. for me if i'm very lucky at a given moment i begin to hear a voice, not in the supernatural sense, but my inner ear, and then the work begins to try to reproduce that so

more importantly in 1862, frederick holbrook went to the federal government and said that we think we can cure our wounded soldiers better if you send us to loved ones. after a long bureaucratic fight, he had permission to open three hospitals in vermont. one of them stood right here. these long wings extended. they could treat about 600 soldiers here at once. he had run the hospital with a man named henry james from waterbury, who had been the town doctor and waterbury and enlisted in the civil war with the great physician to the blink of major. he did a magnificent job. when i was finished, he came here to bonus hospital. before he left gettysburg, he was afforded a great honor for his performance. he was allowed to sit on the speaker's platform the day that lincoln gave the gettysburg address. here in this hospital, the overland campaign of 1864, it it was filled with sick and wounded soldiers. it was running at full capacity. but the cure rates were astonishingly good. the home cooking and treatments work. many vermonters lived on. the long wings were chopped up into short section

he had -- even holbrook acknowledged that. your second question was the afghans. the interesting thing to juxtapose is david petraeus' experience in iraq where they call him king david. maybe he gave himself the name, i do not know. he is very well respected. they have named a street after him. there are iraqis who would give up their children or riches to thank him for what he did for their country. afghans, not so much. this was much more complex terrain, counterinsurgency or insurgency. a very complex area. he had visited but he did not have the depth of knowledge, the networks, the architecture there that he uld have to work with, and not all -- and green forces. he felt he had to prove himself. people are thinking this is not iraq. there are many principles and things we can transfer. i do not think he gained the report that mcchrystal had with karzai. the afghan ministers respected him but it was not the same level of respect he had with the iraqi government. the third question -- some of his weaknesses. he is such a driven individual. that can be a strength

she famously flipped richard holbrooke the bird in a meeting years ago and is known to have sharp elbowsading she might -- one of her favorite words is a word i cannot repeat on television. she seems tough. that could be a good thing, jay, especially in politics, but you say in diplomacy not so much, why? >> diplomacy is saying polite things in front of the public. when you go on cameras and on television as she did on the sunday shows after the benghazi attacks, the less you say, the better. it is about saying the really harsh things behind the scenes but then in the front of the cameras, not so much. it is the opposite of politics. politics you say the really harsh things in front of the cameras and then say, okay, i'll compromise here or there and everywhere behind off the scenes. and so in that sense she is pretty political. and but we have had had political secretaries of state before, james bakker comes to mind, like a bull in a china shop but yet incredibly effective. >> jay newton small, "time" magazi magazine, good to see you. >>> crane catches fire just before collapsing. look

to facilitate this process, i ask that deputy inspector general holbrooke to answer all of my outstanding questions promptly. in other words, i'm getting tired of being jerked around. i yield the floor. and i suggest the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: quorum call: mr. reid: mr. president? the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. reid: first of all, we must be in a quorum call, right? the presiding officer: the majority leader is correct. mr. reid: i'm learning how this place works. mr. president, i ask unanimous consent the call of the quorum be terminated. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: i ask unanimous consent that the senate proceed to a period of morning business with senators allowed to speak for up to ten minutes each. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: i now ask unanimous consent the senate proceed to h.r. 6118. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: h.r. 6118, an act to amend section 353 of the public health service act and so forth. the presiding officer: is there

holbrooke was good. the whole treatment were and many, many vermonters lived on because of this hospital here and did a wonderful job. it is only one building that still stands in its original position and give us a card house. after the war, the long wings were chalked up into short sections and folders houses. and all around this neighborhood are houses that looked just about identical and you can identify them as part of field hospital. there's about 500 civil war sites in my book. almost all of them have no historic marker to identify them. say you are going to need some thing to find these places. but when you get there come, you may be amazed. we are in the hills of ireland, vermont, which is a town just south of montpelier at a cellar hole of a farmhouse that long since fell down. but back here in the 1820s and 30s, two young men grew up, two brothers who had served in the civil war. richard crandall, the older brother, went from here to dartmouth college and then enlisted the six vermont regiment

she's had notorious spats with hillary clinton, richard holbrook when he was ambassador to the unitedand she also had tough criticism for hillary clinton, inflammatory language for john mccain running against president obama. and twitter lately talking about syria and talking about china and russia saying she's disgusted. but her supporters say, listen, she is a tough talker. but you know where you stand with susan rice. and she doesn't mess around. but they also say she's surprisingly down to earth. and she they say has taken the high road with this whole issue with benghazi. she isn't using inflammatory language that's been used with her and others. >> there's a question if the president does nominate her to be the next secretary of state, can she be confirmed? >> many people think that the obama administration has enough votes in the senate to confirm her. the question is, if she does get confirmed, what kind of shape will she be in? it's likely to be a very bruising confirmation process. ambassador rice if she becomes secretary would be leading the state department which has tens

ambassador mentioned, the issue -- i was not in favor of the beginning, and i totally told ambassador holbrooke back then i'm fine renaming it as part of or whatever or even if it's -- >> [inaudible] >> or even like, fine with me. [laughter] i was fine with it completely. [laughter] >> very good. thank you. let me just say, you know, we could probably have the panel go on for another hour, raising each question with each of the panelists and get interesting and useful answers, but at the request of the sponsors, what i want to do is open it up to questions from the floor so that they can field your questions and comments, please. >> hi, maria, world affairs council of hampton roads, and i direct it at the ambassador at the invitation, i was privileged to lead a group of six world affairs council leaders in afghanistan in march meeting with president karzai and potential presidential candidates. my question is one of the issue brought up with us over and over among the different members of afghan society we met with is a fear and concern of what happens after president karzai, and whatever one t