and again, there are two key watchwords -- and we talked to him about this, when ambassador holbrooke and i and the ambassador and general mcchrystal were there after the concept drill we did a couple weekends ago and discussed the importance of these two qualities -- these two components of the approach, and they are inclusivity, ensuring that everyone feels as if there is opportunity for them, they're not shut out by this or that, and then transparency, that all can see what's going on. and that is very important. again, those two components are critical to the way ahead. >> charlie: his brother, whether he on the other hand has some relationship with on our own c.i.a. d. >> you don't find blacks and whites in afghanistan, you find gradations of gray. we've achieved a variety of role in a variety of different business enterprises. i've asked as general mcchrystal has, challenged various elements of our government to lay out what we have, and there has been nothing there that you could take to someone and say "look at this," so again, don't want to judge that but what has to happen,

holbrooke said to me then that aids was not just a health issue but a diplomatic and a security issue. this is true today, not only for hiv aids, but malaria, tb, child and maternal health and more. our global health assistance plays an important role but only in saving lives but also in advancing our overarching national-security goals. i believe you both spoke about building strong help them restructure earlier. many doctors and nurses in the developing world emigrate to europe or north america for better pay and better working conditions. the so-called brain drain continues to put a strain on health systems in many developing areas, especially africa. i would like to get both of your views on how the u.s. can help governments address this problem, or at least ensure we are not contributing to it. what is the role of private foundations in this regard? >> thank you, senator. i worry about this a lot. i would like to say first of all, i don't think you can eliminate it completely, because people will make personal judgments about where they want to live and what they want to do. i do

carter is survived by her husband, actor hal holbrook and two daughters. >>> a fee for your carry-on luggage? it's not going to happen if one lawmaker gets his way. last week spirit airlines announced it would be the first to charge for carry-on bags and we're talking up to 45 bucks a bag. senator charles schumer from new york calls that a slap in the face to travelers and he wants the feds to step in to prevent any airlines for charging that kind of fee. schumer says carry-s on a necessity and he's appealing to the treasury department which can rule on the issue to do something about it. >>> it is the final round of the masters and of course, the attention's been on tiger woods, of course. rafer weigel is in augusta, rafer, what kind of reception has tiger been getting? >> reporter: well, natasha, the heckling planes have been grounded and the critics and the naysayers have been largely silenced. whether he wins this tournament or not this return has been better than expected. the fans, as you can see behind me filing in here in august a some of whom got three hours before the gates

her actor, hal holbrook said it was a terrible blow for the family. >>> good morning, i'm steve weissmanhis espn news update. final round of the masters would be a dandy. tiger woods started the day four shots off the lead. now, after beginning his final round, 3 over par, he would get two back on one hole. from the fairway. sometimes golf will humble you. other times it will take you to unbelievable heights. this ball dropping for eagle. third in the tournament for tiger woods. he's back to 7 under par. 14th hole, tiger, 9 under. tying a birdie. can't get it. but then, oh, just tap this in for par. or not. he would make bogey. drop to 8 under, finished tied for fourth overall. meanwhile, overnight leader lee westwood trying to hold off some of the world's best players. looking for his first major championship. 9th hole, par 4. westwood missing the putt. he would finish in second place. phil mickelson from the trees. oh, he's going to like it. might just punch out from there. he'll punch is about five feet from the pin on the green. moves to 14 under par. and phil walking up the 18th fai

president, one of my most moving trips to africa was with your united nations ambassador richard holbrooke. i saw first hand the devastating and destabilizing impact of h.i.v.-aids then. he said then it was thought just a health issue, but a diplomatic and a security issue. this is true today not only of aids, but ma larry ya, t.b., child and maternal health and more. our global health plays an important role in advancing our over-arching national security goals. you both talked about building strong health infrastructure earlier. as you obviously both know, many doctors and nurses in the developing world emigrate to europe and north america for better pay and working conditions. this so-called brain drain continues to put a real strain on health systems in developing areas, especially in africa where i have spent a lot of 34i work on this committee. i would like to get your views on how the united states government can help in this problem or to make sure we are not contributing to it, and what is the role of n.g.o.'s in this regard? >> thank you, senator. i worry about this a lot. i woul

beside her husband hal holbrook, dictiony carter leaves behind two daughters. >>> we'll tell you why you won't need to dig for change in some sports the city for the parking meters but may want to whip out your cell phone. >>> high me eee motion as phil mickelson captures another green jacket. >> we had temperatures in the mid-70s and a few chances for rain. julie wright will be in with a look at your on-time traffic right after the break. lots of discounts on car insurance. can i get in on that? are you a safe driver? yes. discount! do you own a home? yes. discount! are you going to buy online? yes! discount! isn't getting discounts great? yes! there's no discount for agreeing with me. yeah, i got carried away. happens to me all the time. helping you save money -- now, that's progressive. call or click today. >>> welcome back n sports, tiger woods fell short of winning the masters for his highly anticipated comeback. he bogeyed three of his first five holes and had an eagle on seven. the 14th hole is where he ran into the most trouble. it took him three tries to putt from six feet a

carter is survived by her husband, actor hal holbrooke and two daughters. >>> it is the final round of the masters. of course the attention has been on tiger woods. of course. rafer is in augusta. what kind of reception has tiger been getting? >> reporter: the heckling planes have been grounded and the critics and the naysayers have been largely silenced. whether he wins this tournament or not this return has gone better than expected. the fans as you can see behind me filing in here at augusta, some of whom got here three hours before the gates opened and paid as much as 1,500 bucks for a scalped ticket. many of them, of course, here to see tiger woods. the crowds, they've been mobs that have been following tiger. nine and ten people deep cheering him like they've never cheered him in the past. and he has rewarded them. right there in the hunt starting the fourth and final round. battling his biggest rival, phil mickelson. tiger's wife and kids are not here but his mom is here. meanwhile, phil's wife, amy, is here. that is significant. she has been battling breast cancer. so the perso

later, richard holbrooke on afghanistan and pakistan.the proposed banking regulations bill from senator christopher dodd. >> a couple of live events to tell you about tomorrow morning. the senate judiciary committee holds an oversight hearing of the civil rights division of the justice department. that is on c-span at 10:00. at 11:00 on c-span3, the house financial-services committee listened to the bankruptcy of lehman brothers. witnesses include timothy geithner, ben bernanke, the head of the securities and exchange commission and former executives. >> all this month, see the winners ofca c-span winners studentsm documentary competition. students submitted videos on one of the greatest strengths of the country or a challenge the country is facing. which the top of videos every morning at 6:50 eastern, just before "washington journal." meet the students who made them and for a preview of all the winners,ca,m.org. -- visit studentcam.org. >> we are the world's leading professional organization for journalists and we are committed to fost

general petraeus and ambassador holbrooke travel to the region periodically.richard holbrooke is the chief overseer of the civilian component of the president's strategy for afghanistan and pakistan and he will be going to converse with senior officials in both countries. as to particular meetings, i cannot project. [inaudible] do you have any comments? >> no. >> an online magazine is a warning that the north african al qaeda it is threatening to attack the world cup games in africa this summer. are you aware of these threats and is anything being done to protect u.s. interests? >> for any major sporting event, the world cup, the olympics, the super bowl, we are aware and other countries are aware of the ongoing threat to those games. collectively, we are taking appropriate precautions. >> we are leaving the last few minutes of the briefing to go live to the southern republican leadership conference. we have liz cheney, newt gingrich and others. right now, the louisiana republican party chairman is speaking. in a few minutes, remarks by mary matalin >> new orl

. >> husband hal holbrook, of course, who often played her boyfriend on designing women. >>> still aheadyour census forms just yet if would youable a lot of people stilt haven't. >> why haven't you? >> it is just busy and it is staring at us every day. >> take a good 10 seconds to fill it out. we are tracking the progress. >>> we'll check out your monday morning commute. could be kind of tricky because of all the world leaders in town. jewel way will get us around all of that. tucker is taking a look at the weather for us today. we'll be right back. úñúúp >>> want you to take a look at this. this is a house made of beer coasters. it took more than a quart are million coasters to build the home which includes dining table and chairs. >> there you can see he proved that he did not use any glue by knocking it all down. got what he wanted. the feat put him in the guiness book of world words. >> all of that work gone in a few seconds. >> the things that people do to get their fame. wonder where he elected all of those beer coasters. >> they are all the same. must have worked a deal with someb

the feeling that the administration, particularly vice president biden, holbrooke and national securityim jones, have said very critical things about president karzai in public. other members of the administration such as secretary clinton have been more -- though in private conversations, they have really pushed him to crack down on corruption, to be a leader, to work to bring afghanistan together. and they haven't seen many results. the question is, how do you handle them. >> and he's a problem. he was coming under fire during the election for electoral fraud. now, he's blaming that on the united states for that. he's even made comments that if the united states and other allies don't shape up, he might go to the taliban. we need someone to be in afghanistan, a troubled region. >> right. karzai has the ultimate trump card, which is that there is no one else. the obama administration looked into other possibleties before the election, to see if there was someone there to mount a credible challenge to karzai and be a credible leader. they couldn't find anyone. even with the electoral fr

. >> of course her famous husband hall holbrook said, this has been a terrible blow to our family. dixie carter was 70 years old. >>> this week's "insomniac theater," we both wanted a good laugh like all the other people out there who went and saw this movie. we followed the crowds to see the number one movie at the box office. >> i was very excited to see this one because i like the main characters, steven ka relevant, tina fey. they play the characters phil and clair foster, the suburban couple busy with kids and jobs and everyday life. one of their friends, a couple, are splitting up so they realize they need to reconnect. they go on a date in the big city, they can't get into manhattan's hottest restaurant so they steal someone else's reservation, the triplehorns. little do they know the triplehorns stole something very important. some bad guys want it back. and they're not buying the fosters' story. >> my husband, very sweetly but delusionally, thought that we could make it here early enough to get a table. and we didn't. we were late. >> we were so rude, that one guy. >> we h

special representative richard holbrooke will visit for high- level meetings. he spoke with reporters for a half-hour on afghanistan and pakistan >> good afternoon, and welcome to the department of state. actually, richard and i, along with a former colleague and friend of ours, marc grossman, were just down the hall doing a 30-minute new program called "conversations with america," where we're going to try to do interviews that are web-based, go out, in this case with marc grossman as the chairman of the world affairs councils, to his membership but also to people around the world. so i thought that with richard right around the corner, we might bring him down here just to pay -- have one of his periodic visits to talk to you all about where we are in terms of the broad strategy that we have for afghanistan and pakistan. over the weekend, i think, richard talked to foreign minister rassoul in new york on saturday, and this morning talked with director general popal, who oversees local governance on behalf of the afghan government. we thought -- richard, you al

he met with sri lankan president and multi-vm president not sheep also richard holbrooke is travelingthis week. he is in germany for meetings that are part of our regular consultations with partners and allies. he met today with german national foreign-policy and security adviser, the german s. rep michael steiner and german state minister, warner hoyer in addition to his counterpart from italy. our team, our interagency team has arrived in moscow. it is a seven-member delegation including representatives from the state department and u.s. citizenship and immigration services, also are consular affairs section, european affairs and the legal adviser's office and look forward to meetings tomorrow on friday in moscow. with that, i will take your questions. >> on the families of the hikers, you said that she's going to review with them all that they are doing to secure their release? apart from asking the swiss to check in on them and making the appeals, the public appeals that have been made, what exactly is all that you are doing? >> well, we have made many public declarations going ba

she was married to hal holbrook.d. >>> did he do it snornt we will learn today if pittsburgh steelers quarterback, ben roethlisberger, will face sexual assault charges in georgia. they will hold a news conference about 2:00 eastern. a 20-year-old college student says the two-time super bowl champ sexually assaulted her last month at a club in a city south of atlanta. >>> information that not everyone is out for the all mighty dollar. meet california's betty ratcliff, who for six months searched unsec sesfully for a missed placed $240. in all of her usually hiding places, she went through everything. a call came from katherine who went online to buy a purse she had previously returned. inside that purse, betty's i.d. and that missing $240. then came the phone call. >> i love the purse. it wasn't cheap, was it? it was an expensive purse. >> i have to tell you, though, you are not going to be too happy. i got it on sale. >> not only honest but a bargain hunter too. >> new airline fee to use the overhead bin? what's next

hands meeting for the civilian military leadership go over with general petraeus and ambassador holbrooke chairing. all of the major regional and functional activities in afghanistan. i must say that it was an overwhelming sense that we've made tremendous progress in the last year putting together a truly integrated, coordinated civilian military plans. and truly coordinated means not just between the u.s. civilians in the u.s. military, but with their international partners and most importantly with the government of afghanistan participating in this rock drill, where the afghan ministers are the most important insights we got from the session were from their interaction. as with any exercise like this come in the real reason is to make sure everything is aligned and make course corrections and they will submit course corrections were things we learned at the rock drill will help us to accomplish the goal. in addition to the rock drill, and extensive meetings our team in kabul and what the ministers they are to make sure that our systems program, though it's quite a large one, is being i

. >> during today's state department briefing, richard holbrooke said that afghan president karzai would have meetings in mid may. we spoke with reporters for about 25 minutes. and then, an update on the effect of the volcano in iceland and how it could affect travel plans around the world. >> good afternoon and welcome to the department of state. richard and i, along with a former colleague and friend of ours were just down the hall doing a 30 minutes new program called "recessions with america." it is web based. i thought that with richard right around the corner, we might bring him down here to have one of his periodic visits to meet with you, where we are in terms of the broad strategy. over the weekend, we talked with the prime minister and on behalf of the afghan government. richard when to call last week. -- went to kabul last week. >> i know that you saw them on friday and when i was in new york. i will just take us all to come will on the weekend before last. i will be happy to answer your questions. i will focus on the future. we have been laying out, as we did with the preside

she is survived by her husband, actor, hal holbrook, and two daughters. >>> the walth of the world ons on his tail, that didn't stop phil mickelson from winning yesterday. his wife and mom, mary, both battling breast cancer and both of them right there with him behind the 18th green cheering him home. >> i really want to recognize my family. my wife, we have been through a lot this year and it means a lot to share some joy together. >>> tiger woods also making his first appearance since the sex scandal sidelined him four months ago. he finished five shots back in fourth place. >>> coming up at ten minutes aft hour, rob marciano tracking the forecast across the country. >> there was something going on in augusta? i wasn't aware of that. gorgeous stuff over the weekend. beautiful morning today for sure. one problem that this has all created, an unusual amount of pollen across much of the country. if you are suffering, you are not alone. no relief in sight across much of the eastern half of the country. it is going to be pretty dry. the only exception would be western great lakes, northe

guest: i met with ambassador holbrooke and we talked about the situation in afghanistan.st came back from afghanistan, about five days ago. we just exchanged views with regard to what the situation was in afghanistan. my discussions with afghan officials, including president karzai. we had a good chat. host: democratic caller, new york, new york. caller: hello, everybody agreed hello, mr. ambassador. guest: hello. caller: i have been listening to you for about half the time you have been on people want a greater sense of security -- it struck me when you talk about people wanting a greater sense of security. how do you have greater sense of security if you do not know what will get you killed? you literally do not know if you'll get killed for wearing the wrong clothes, flying a kite in the ave. you just don't know. but you have is a sense of insecurity. guest: right. caller: it struck me also that this goes back to the times that people like stalin and mao zedong. you still have that frame of mind that they are going to give us security and they promised us security and

guest: i met with ambassador holbrooke and we talked about the situation in afghanistan. i just came back from afghanistan, about five days ago. we just exchanged views with regard to what the situation was in afghanistan. my discussions with afghan officials, including president karzai. we had a good chat. host: democratic caller, new york, new york. caller: hello, everybody agreed hello, mr. ambassador. guest: hello. caller: i have been listening to you for about half the time you have been on people want a greater sense of security -- it struck me when you talk about people wanting a greater sense of security. how do you have greater sense of security if you do not know what will get you killed? you literally do not know if you'll get killed for wearing the wrong clothes, flying a kite in the ave. you just don't know. but you have is a sense of insecurity. guest: right. caller: it struck me also that this goes back to the times that people like stalin and mao zedong. you still have that frame of mind that they are going to give us security and they promised us security

year we reached an agreement with the government of kyrgyzstan and if you'll recall, ambassador holbrooke was in kyrgyzstan not too long ago and he said that the government at that time continue to to agree to those arrangements. we welcome that, of course. they have said that it will continue to abide by those agreements. and of course, we will talk any time with her and the members of the provisional government about these arrangements. >> as far as i know, it was one year, a one-year agreement with the possibility of renewal. and it will expire in the summer, is that correct? >> correct. and there are my number of other things that they will have to -- and there are a number of other things that it will have to sort out. again, they will have elections. when they are prepared to talk about that, we will have that discussion > 1. >> when does that expire? >> yudof to ask the pen -- you would have to ask the pentagon about that. >> can you comment on reports that he might have been skimming off money from -- fuel money from veterans a base? >> first of all, i think he was here in the uni

meeting for the civilian and military leadership to go over with general patraeus and ambassador holbrookering. all of the major regional and functional entities in afghanistan. it left one with an overwhelming sense that we have made tremendous progress in the last year putting together a truly coordinated civilian military plan. and to record needed means not just between the u.s. civilians and the u.s. military, but with our international partners, and most importantly, with the government of afghanistan. participating in this drill were the afghan ministers and some of the most important insights begot from the sessions were from their direct actions. -- we got from their sessions where the direct actions -- their direct actions. in addition to the iraq drill we had extensive meetings with our team in kabul and with the ministers there to make sure our assistance program which as you all know is quite a large one is being implemented effectively, and to make sure that is really driving the priorities of the government of afghanistan to strengthen the capacity of the government of afgha