and celebrity. >> jason killian, authority of hollywood -- author of hollywood on the potomac. thanks so much. >> senators are continuing their debate of the health care bill through the weekend. our regular booktv schedule will be preempted during these rare senate sessions with booktv programs resuming after the debate. watch the senate debate on health care live gavel to gavel here on c-span2. the only network with the full debate unedited and commercial-free. to read the senate bill and the house version plus watch video on demand, go online to c-span's health care hub. >> booktv's in depth will air live on our companion network, c-span, on sunday. c-span2 will cover the senate session live to continue debate on health care. you can see the full three-hour interview and call-in with author joy hakim live at noon sunday on c-span. >> richard wolf covered the obama campaign in 2008, he has a book out called renegade, the making of a president. want to tell us a little bit about your following of the president during the 2008 campaign? >> well, i was one of the few who was the

washington and hollywood have a love affair going. it's been a long time love affair between the two cities. one has fame, one has power, and one wants what the other one has. and, you know, when i went into this book, there's a lot of talk about president obama coming to washington and really attracting lots of celebrity attention and having all sorts of people from everyone from j.lo to george clooney to the white house and i found out through this book that really this has been going on for a very long time. i have the first photo in the book actually is of charlie chaplin stumping for world war i bonds. so if you start with charlie chaplin our first film star and go all the way up until oprah winfrey and obama, you'll find that hollywood and washington have always been involved with one another. in some way, shape or form. >> we're lucky enough to have a couple of photos from the book right here. and it looks like this crosses party lines. this goes republican and democrat. and we'll start with richard nixon here and sammy davis,

washington and hollywood have a love affair going. it's been a longtime love affair between the two cities. one has fame, one has power and one wants with the other one has come and when i went into this book there's a lot of talk about president obama coming to washington and attracting lots of celebrity attention and having all sorts of people from everyone from j-lo to george clooney to the white house, and i found through this book that really this has been going on for a very long time. i have the first photograph in the book actually is of charlie chaplin from 1918 standing on pennsylvania avenue stomping for a world war i box, so if you start with charlie chaplin, first from starch and go all the way up and told oprah winfrey and obama you will find hollywood and washington have always been involved with one another in one way, shape or form. >> we are lucky to have a couple photographs of from the book and it looks like it crosses party lines, it goes republican and democrat, and we will start with richard nixon and sammy davi

. >> but hollywood has had a pretty good year even in this recession right now. your box office receipts are unusually strong. it doesn't seem like people are not going to the movies. yourself has said in the past, it's unique to go to the theater and watch a movie with a group of people. although it seems that your agenda is more oppositional, more aggressive, more like the courting industry has been for the past few weeks. would you see threats that aren't visible at the moment? is there some merit to people stating how endanger you are. >> the experience is still the heart of our business, and we've had a pretty good year this year. part of it is because they have been good movies. part of it is in tough economic times, people tend to go to the movies. it's a great escape. it's a lot cheaper than a psychiatrist. you leave with a smile, usually. part of the business are not doing as well, the dvd business is slipping. the online world is new. and it's difficult to know how that's going to monetize. and the online world is were digital piracy threatens us. there

. >> host: but hollywood has had a pretty good year even in this recession right now. your box office receipts are unusually strong. it doesn't seem like people are not going to the movies. you yourself have said in the past it's a unique experience to go to a theater and watch a movie with a group of people, although it seems your agenda right now is almost more oppositional, more aggressive, more like the recording industry has been for the past few years. would you say you see threats on the horizon that maybe aren't visible at the moment, or is there some merit to people saying you're overstating the danger you're in? >> guest: the cinema is still the heart of our business, and we've had a pretty good year this year. part of it's because there's been pretty good movies, part of it is it's a great escape. it's a lot cheaper than a psychiatrist, and you leave there with a smile on your face usually. but other parts of our business are not doing as well. the dvd business is slipping. and the online world is new, and it's difficult to know how that's going to monetize.

when i was growing up there were three hollywood films about the flag raising.int east would's is the fourth so i don't feel clan least wood mate movie about-- it is not like i am stephen king and came up with an original idea and they made a movie. they made a movie about the flag raising and i provided a little information and there will be a fifth movie and a sixth movie and future generations so unless there was something really wrong with the movie, i was prepared to support it and i thought clint eastwood did a very good job. but do you know what? let me tell you what i think about authors criticizing films. if you don't want someone to pay your garage fink, don't sell your house. [laughter] [applause] the author takes the money in cells that to another artist who is going to reinterpreted and then the author keeps the money, and criticizes the movie maker. you know, i wrote the book, he did the movie and we both like each other. >> the last question is a little complex here because it deals with post-traumatic stress, which is a big issue with our veteran

in one of them madam was standing next to a doorway carefully posed in the old hollywood style with then he bent. the diplomat put a note on the photo for his editor do not crop that a coal. -- angola she was in fact, famous for her legs which were lovely. in "the last empress" i cannot resist telling the story of the cairo conference of which she was the only woman president -- present with roosevelt and her husband chang kai-shek natalee did to take over the conversations but knowing how ltd. and an articulate u.s. madam and who wore along chinese stress sat there crossing and uncrossing and recross sing her legs while he was speaking. and in order to get the gentleman's attention off of him and onto something far more amusing. [laughter] it is also said there were some young british diplomats in the back who were watching. i guess i should add that my late husband once commented that i always read my books about women who are smarter than their husbands. [laughter] madam was in fact, extremely bright, educated in america she knew just what would appeal to the senators and representati

president obama's birth certificate by now, the announcement so many years ago that was issued in the hollywood newspapers that went along with that and the obama campaign of course released this, this birth certificate. but have we ever seen sarah palin's birth certificate? if you want to follow her logic, couldn't she be a citizen of russia for all we know? >> you know, that is a very interesting point of view. i hadn't considered the similarities between putin and palin, now that you mention it. when she said she was keeping an eye on russia, she may have just been keeping an eye on herself. >> finally, richard, how much damage does this do to those who still see sarah palin as their savior in 2012? >> the more she gets out and has to face these kinds of problems of her own making, the more she's going to be exposed to the kinds of questions about can she be a credible candidate, should she -- is she fg to represent the party in the way it wants to be represented. and i think there's a reason why the handlers in the mccain campaign were so terrified about putting her out there unvarnished. t

his career included a number of roles on broadway and in hollywood. but he gained fame on tv as "bat masterson" in the 1950's western program. later, he starred in other tv series "burke's law" and "the name of the game". gene barry was 90 years old. those are some of the day's main stories. i'll be back at the end of the broadcast with a look at what you'll find tonight on our website. but for now, back to jim. >> lehrer: and still to come on the newshour, german views on afghanistan and shields and brooks. that's after the final report in our "patchwork nation" series, an on-air and online collaboration with the christian science monitor. ray suarez has been reporting this week on how the recession has affected different kinds of communities. tonight, a town that depends on seasonal economic activity: lincoln city, oregon. >> suarez: seven miles of beaches, surrounded by piney hills lure tourists to lincoln city, a picturesque town on oregon's northern coast. and if fishing and surf aren't your things... there's a fresh water lake for sailing... a c

didn't prepare you guys for, and that is the images toward the end of the book are a lot of lack hollywood images, and you do see the images there, and the response to them, toni morrison talked about, you know, if enjoying kingfish was shameful as a child enjoying sambo was nothing short of treason. how those images of black folks that seem to caricatures, if we look at them now, people actually enjoyed. and i see a parallel and entertainment now. i mean, some people will say tyler perry is a caricature, but other people, you know what, we are there, we are in films. he can greenlight himself. i like that conversation. do you and how to participate? everyone. >> well, it's hard to judge the previous generations and became a choices with our lands, right? it's hard to do that, and i think we've made great mistakes in history doing that. ralph ellison being called a tom in the '60s because the mood had changed toward what your father was giving us, and not that he uses that, which is obviously completely wrong. ralph ellison was never a tom. lee armstrong, encountered some of the same thing

. $75,000 for art projects in hollywood, los angeles park. $100,000 for performing arts training programat the new freedom theater in philadelphia. $100,000 to teach tennis at the new york junior tennis league in woodside, new york. $2.8 million to study the health effects of space radiation on humans at the loma linda university, loma linda, california. $200,000 for the aquatic adventurers science education foundation in san diego. $100,000 to archive newspaper and digital media at the mississippi gulf coast community college in perkinston, mississippi. $3.9 million on researching weaving and knitting at the following places -- clemson university, raleigh, north carolina, philadelphia university, and california. u.c.-davis in davis, california. $90,000 for a commercial kitchen business incubator at the el pejera community development corporation in watsonville, california. a commercial kitchen business incubator? $500,000 to study vapor mercury in the atmosphere at florida state. $1 million to examine sea scallop fisheries in massachusetts marine fisheries in bedford, massachusetts. $50

. >> there comes a time when -- when -- >> wayne gretzky was now in hollywood and the nhl would neversame. he was the heart and soul of the yankees team that was the two-time defending world series champions. >> the new york yankees and sports fans everywhere suffered a great loss tonight. that of star catcher thurmond munson, who was killed this afternoon in an airplane catch. >> we pause to pray for thurmond munson, our brother and your faithful son. >>> he won the kentucky derby by the largest margin in 60 years. at the preakness, all eyes were on barbaro as he tried to move one step closer to the triple crown. but fans were shocked as the horse pulled up shortly after the race began. the colt had suffered a freak accident, breaking several bones in his right rear leg. his career was over and barbaro's injuries led to near complications that ultimately proved fatal. >>> nancy kerrigan was america's best skater heading into the 1994 winter olympics, until a vicious attack. >> why? why? >> we have more now on a breaking story. figure skating champion nancy kerrigan was attacked. >> i

hollywood, milwaukee, and recently here in new york city. when you think about, it's not civilian. taliban is not civilians. so book goes out of his way distinguish from the real people from those who are armed or intended to cause problems. i know many of you who are in the room, you know that i value not just the strength by many gifts as my role models and applications for my ins ration. i spent hours with me sharing my own. and tonight i would like to do is what the book does best. which is talk not about my journey, but also the people who live in these great countries, afghanistan, pakistan, darfur. it's their story that has changed me. it's their story that i hope will change you. dealing with everyday hardship that i can't imagine. even having witnessed it myself. and we have to continue to value the same things that we have done. compassion, generosity, gratefulness. the journey started in ethiopia. i was making a film there for pbs. i visited with with sick children in southern ethiopia. i was there to document the work with the children. after several days on the road wi

hollywood was not amused. >> baldwin: they kind of look at you like, "we don't ask just anybody to do know?" and when you don't do it, they are appalled. they think you're just... you're a moron. and they went and got somebody else to do the movie. >> safer: harrison ford. >> baldwin: that's what they tell me, yeah. >> safer: harrison ford as jack ryan became a multibillion- dollar franchise, and the smart money thought baldwin had blown it. but he claims he has no regrets. you said that many of those action movies could be done by your doorman. >> baldwin: did i say that? >> safer: yeah, you did. >> baldwin: how rude of you to bring that up, morley. >> safer: his decision to play broadway brought him a reputation as "talented but cantankerous." things got worse when he starred with kim basinger in "the marrying man." they actually got married. both the movie and the marriage were certified turkeys. nevertheless, he managed to become one of the more interesting actors of his generation. >> baldwin: i have an m.d. from harvard. >> safer: in good movies and bad, his scenes have been mem

and one of them, madam was standing next to a doorway, carefully -- carefully posed in the old hollywood style, you remember the knee bent. the diplomat had put a note on the photo for his editor. .com he said, crop the ankles. [laughter] >> madame chang was, in fact, famous for her legs, which were lovely. in the last empress i could not resist telling the story of the cairo conference, at which she was the only woman present with roosevelt, churchill, and her husband. not only did she take over the translation and the conversations when chang was to speak but knowing how later can articulate he was, madame who had worn a long dress sat there crossing, i'm crossing, and re- crossing her legs are while he was speaking. in order to get the gentleman's attention off of him and on to something more amusing. it is also said that there were some young british diplomats in the back. i guess i should add here that my late husband once commented that i always write my books about women who are smarter than her husband. [laughter] >> madame was, in fact, extremely bright, educated in america she

even after all of his career in hollywood and the g and the lecture circuit is 3,000 models is a long way, a telephone call. he didn't of the internet, cable television, talk radio, cell phones. it is a big country and most of those guys 3,000 miles away. so the guy that they do know, john sears call this national political experience, he's going to run reagan's campaign. well, that really impresses the national media. but the reagan comes close as we all know in 1976. some say because john got him close and others say because john s. tuck and new york and ohio and new jersey and other primaries. but there wasn't a good acceptable back up, which is why it took so long to fire john in 1980 because there wasn't anybody of his stature and the other thing weighing on reagan and actually mrs. reagan as well was the fact that john had all of his friends in the national media and freakin''s campaign in all 79 early 80 is in very bad condition. it's losing money, running a huge deficit, about stories are coming out into the press, the staff fighting, then you've got of course the age issue is

her hollywood career soared in the 1940s and 1950s. in 1943, she won the oscar for best actress in "the song of bernadette"-- her first major film. she was nominated four more times, including in 1946, for "duel in the sun" opposite gregory peck. jennifer jones was 90 years old. those are some of the day's main stories. i'll be back at the end of the program with a preview of what you'll find tonight on the "newshour's" web site. but for now, back to jim. >> lehrer: and still to come on the "newshour": cooking stoves and the environment in india; improving public schools in tucson; and fighting drugs in mexico. that follows an update on getting health care reform done in the senate. "newshour" health correspondent betty ann bowser has our report. >> we are going to finish this health care bill before we leave for the holidays here. >> reporter: a self-imposed christmas deadline loomed over senate majority leader harry reid and his democratic ranks today. but despite his insistence, it was not clear they'll make it. that's partly becaus

the folks have been basically bombarded with requests from hollywood to do movies of the week, and they don't feel real comfortable about it, and they don't really feel like their story will be told truthfully if they allow that to happen. and i told them about you, and they want to meet you. so i met a few folks from shelter now international. we had coffee, and i guess things worked out because six years later, here we are with a story. [laughter] but that was 2002, november of 2002. by 2003, august, sernghts i was in afghanistan starting the initial interviews for this documentary. and it's been a long process. it's one of those documentaries that kind of had to fold on its own -- unfold on its own as opposed to you've got x amount of dollars, go shoot it, it's due in three months. i purposely throughout the interviews staggered them so time could bring back memories for people. i saved the australians for the last interview session because i knew they would bring a whole new color to the film, especially with their wonderful accents. but that's kind of how it all started. henry o.,

i'm talking about my district now, which is los angeles, culver city, hollywood, people have lost their jobs in droves, lost their investments. talent is available, believe me. and so it is a phony, phony excuse. but in putting this all together, i feel there were tremendous failures on all sides. would you agree to that? >> i think there is a lot of -- there is a lot of blame to go around. >> yeah. and my colleague, miss speier, said it was just downright lies that were given, and possibly it was done so that government could support b of a and give them more support in the merger. i'm really thoroughly disappointed that the people who were in place, particularly at the s.e.c. looked the other way. thank you. i yield back, mr. chairman. >> thank you very much. the gentlewoman's time expired. i yield five minutes to the gentleman from missouri, congressman clay. >> thank you very much, mr. chairman. and thank you, mr. khuzami, for being here. let me -- just a couple of questions. at what point should action have been taken to curb some of the activities of the big banks' involvement in

because they didn't know much about this guy reagan from california even after all his careers in hollywoodand the ge lecture circuit is, you know, 3,000 miles is a long way, a long distance telephone call. you don't have the internet or cable television or talk radio, you didn't have cell phones. so it's a big country. and most of those guys are 3,000 miles away. so the guy they do know, john sears who has got all this national political experience, he's going to run reagan's campaign. well, that really impresses the national media. but reagan comes close as we all know he in 1976. some say because john got him close. some say because john messed up in new york and in ohio and in new jersey and other primaries. but there wasn't a good acceptable backup, which is why it took so long to fire john in 1980 because there wasn't anybody of john's stature. and the other thing weighing on reagan and actually mrs. reagan as well was the fact that john had all these friends in the national media. and if reagan's campaign in all of '79 or early '80 is in very bad condition. it's running -- it's losin

didn't prepare you guys for and that is the images toward the end of the book are a lot of black hollywood images, and you do see ma'am -- mammy images there. toni morrisson said enjoying king fish was enjoyable, how those images of black folks that seems caricatures if we look at them now, people actually enjoy. and i see a parallel in entertainment now. i mean, some people will say tyler perry is caricature, but other people are like, hey, you know what? we're there, we're in films, he can green light himself. i like that conversation. do you and how do you participate, everyone? >> well, it's hard to judge the previous generation's entertainment choices with our lens, right? it's hard to do that, and i think we've made great mistakes in history doing that. ralph ellison being called a tom in the '60s because the mood had changed toward what your father was giving us -- not that he used that -- which was obviously completely wrong, you know, ralph ellison was never a tom. louis armstrong encountered some of the same things. no, farther from the truth. but, you know, we can't misunderstan

. >> reporter: the met's reaching out includes looking to new hollywood and broadway talent for fresh ideas. hiring directors like bart sheer who we caught up with on the first day of rehearsals for a new production of tales of hoffman. sheer has great success in the theatre, but until recently, little experience with opera. >> when i'm in the middle of working on opera and people singing to me in very strange rhythms in another language and i'm actually trying to work out what they are doing, i often is a toy myself this is the weirdest art form i have ever been a part of. >> reporter: right in the middle. >> because i will stop and go what is going on, this is so strange. bus because it is a very strange way to communicate an idea. >> reporter: sheer can't read music and doesn't know italian. but his first production for the met, the remake of a long time favorite, the barber of seville was filled with comedic and theatrical touches and became a big hit. but that was only after overcoming some obstacles, sheer says, like when he wanted to build a catwalk to bring singers closer to t

hollywood encourages that. here is an interesting statistic. if you take away the metric that has to do with single-parent -- primarily the mother families -- correlate that with incarceration, the difference between white and black incarceration disappears. when you look at that statistic and say that society is broken do to racism, no, it is broken because of single parents in the black community. guest: we're members of congress. we're public policy makers, not members of the clergy. when you talk about life style and morality -- those are dollars we must have, but as members of congress it is our job and responsibility to make sure all of the livthe legislate efforts provide opportunity for all. that is why we have to make sure that health care passes and health care passes with disparity provisions. when you get infant mortality rates of the african-american community, much greater. our jobs as members of congress is to make sure we have public policies to address these disparities and moral gaps in our country. host: ohio, jeff, on the in

nobody would turn down christopher reeve so anybody you ever heard of in hollywood is in this series. and they all did it free. astonishingly. and they had a choice. big names. they had a choice and they turned down astonishing people. that is available for teachers and schools. >> host: it is a dvd but you told me the book? >> guest: the book is out of print and that is awful and that is because of the war between texting and trade it was called a trade book so folks -- schools could not buy it. i said in west virginia with the state school board and they wanted to buy the books for all of the students in west virginia. that is a lot of students they would not sell that to them because this salesperson did not have it in his list. what ever. it was a lose louis. the school people were furious and they have a chip on their shoulders. we are not good enough? that is one of the frustrations of trying to bring through a new idea to have real books in the schools. i got an e-mail from an administrative it wanted to buy 1,000 copies price said i am sorry there out of print and last i heard

hollywood saw this wasn't advantageous to have botox tax, so when they dropped that they had to find something else. and poor tanning salons, small communities across the country, we're going to tax the majority of americans the president said he wouldn't tax, those under $200,000. the ones that don't have a beach house, they're going to pay a 10% tax when they go to get a tan. if we do that, how far are we from fining parents because we don't put high enough s.p.f. on our children? or are we going to start charging when we go to the beach because we get exposure to the sun? that's what happens when the government becomes a more dominant role in health care. and i might add no doctor fix, something many of us have highlighted. in the bill there was a one-year fix. doctors are going to be faced with a 21% cut in their reimbursments after this next two months. there was a one-year fix to it, didn't do away with the problem, didn't fix the whole problem. but now there's no one-year fix. we've said in 60 days doctors will be on their own. yeah, there was some special deals. the corn husk

he called all of his friends in hollywood and ask them to be voices. everyone that you have ever heard of in hollywood is in this series. it is astonishing. they all did it free. the klan harklenharts produced . they turned down an astonishing people. that is available for teachers and schools. host: the dvd is, but the book is out of print. guest: that is because of the wall between a tax and trade. -- betwen text and trade. i sat in virginia with the state school board and they wanted to buy the books for all of the students. that is a lot of students. they would not sell to them because it was not -- the school sales person did not have it in his what ever. this was just a lose/lose. the people were furious. they had a chip on their soldiers -- shoulders. this is one of the frustrations of trying to break through with a new idea that you should have real books and schools. not too long ago i got an e-mail from an administrator who wanted to buy 1000 copies of it. the last i heard she had found 500 copies on ebay. she said there was no readable u.s.

. $75,000 for art projects in hollywood, los angeles park. $100,000 for performing arts training program at the new freedom theater in philadelphia. $100,000 to teach tennis at the new york junior tennis league in woodside, new york. $2.8 million to study the health effects of space radiation on humans at the loma linda university, loma linda, california. $200,000 for the aquatic adventurers science education foundation in san diego. $100,000 to archive newspaper and digital media at the mississippi gulf coast community college in perkinston, mississippi. $3.9 million on researching weaving and knitting at the following places -- clemson university, raleigh, north carolina, philadelphia university, and california. u.c.-davis in davis, california. $90,000 for a commercial kitchen business incubator at the el pejera community development corporation in watsonville, california. a commercial kitchen business incubator? $500,000 to study vapor mercury in the atmosphere at florida state. $1 million to examine sea scallop fisheries in massachusetts marine fisheries in bedford, massachusetts. $5

hollywood really spoke out about this tax on one of their health care tools. and what did we replace it with? we've now put a 10% tax on tanning salons. how in the hell does that affect health care? explain that to me. are we going to tax everything in this country? i can make a tremendous case that the 10% tanning salon tax gets exactly the person that the president said he wasn't going to effect: people that made under $200,000. or are we income testing the tanning tax too? mr. coburn: would the gentleman yield for a question? mr. burr: happy to yield. mr. coburn: if we're going to tax tanning salons, why aren't we taxing anybody that goes to the beach because true sunlight is much worse for your skin than the tanning salon. so if the intention was to prevent disease, why wouldn't we tax it where most of the diseases occurred. or how about kids' sports in the summer? let's tax kids' baseball. or swimming. let's tax all the swimming pools because we all have exposure to u.v. light. i mean, it shows you the precariousness and the silliness of a large portion o

president reagan's travels from illinois to hollywood to washington, berlin, and beyond, left an enduringhe people of nevada have always been proud to call ronald reagan our neighbor, our leader, and our friend. [applause] >> ladies and gentlemen, the speaker of the of united states house of representatives, the hon. nancy pelosi. >> it is a distinct honor. i know from my colleagues as well as myself to welcome so many distinguished guests on this very special day in the capital. the unveiling of a statue in the capital is always exciting. rarely are we able to do it in the presence of an immediate family member. it is usually about history. today it is a great privilege for all of us to be joined by former first lady mrs. ronald reagan, nancy reagan. we're honored by your presence. [applause] president reagan and mrs. reagan had one of the great love stories of all time, and the american people benefited from that. the support, the love that mrs. reagan gave the president for a slice of joy -- a source of joy for the american people. mrs. reagan, with your presence here today, i hope you

guest: the tab is still running, but not large in hollywood dollars. a distributor will help me -- host: defray the cost. how much have you put into it so far? guest: over the last year and a half, -- without, -- host: under a million? guest: well under a million. the other point i wanted to make is that even though i did most of the production along the way, i certainly had a lot of help. when you look at this particular film, one of the things you see in the "apollo 13" felt as a lot of computer graphics and special effects. this film has a lot of interviews and footage. the reporters were magnificent. they were not only available for stories and sharing their thoughts, but they open up and let me this some other photographs -- and photographs -- let me use a lot of their photographs and documents. nasa was fabulous. the gaps i had -- i have an archivist in washington, d.c., anomalous -- enormously helpful. and a person -- you see a lot of photographs and the film, photographs of reporters not so much in the actual reporting, but private lives, downt

. >> you are going hollywood on me now. >> one of the big issues that was highlighted was the inadequaciesook nine months for them to figure out your legs were not going to grow back? >> i went through the medical evaluation board. is the evaluation of your fitness to continue penn tele. they decide you're not fit to serve and then they take you to the board and they compensate you for the injuries. they prepare the materials. if there's anything wrong, it gets set back. >> it is that still the case today? >> it is. i hate to say that every case is nine months but i think i fell within an average amount of time within the system. >> senator, if i can make a comment. my situation is different. i was retired 100% from the military. i was a civilian engineer. i was medically retired. we have seen significantly reduced to income. as the way the lot is currently written, if i had 20 years, i would receive from both. i did not choose to get blown up before i made sure to have 20 years of active duty. we have to wait. we had 16. >> if you were injured when you were a guard member? >> the reserve.

hollywood, fla., what do is think of the latest on the negotiations? caller: i am absolutely opposed. i think it is capitulation. i think it is false bravado on the part of the democrats. they failed miserably. i studied in europe many years ago. in t envied their health-care system 40 years ago. we probably have one of the worst health care systems in the world. i did it is a tragedy. -- i think it is a tragedy. i think this is a disaster. the republicans are probably celebrating. they have brought down a president who have all the capital in the world. i think it is a tragedy. host: north adams, mass., wrrick on the independent line. what are your thoughts? caller: good morning. i hope not. are really do. host: why? caller: i am 59, but i am disabled. i have had parkinson's. that is the only thing that is keeping me from bankruptcy. host: charleston, indiana on the democrats line. caller: good morning. i am so angry about this. i do not understand how anyone who is a christian can be opposed to health care for everyone. i do not know. i agree totally

. $75,000 for art projects in hollywood, los angeles park. $100,000 for performing arts training programfreedom theater in philadelphia. $100,000 to teach tennis at the new york junior tennis league in woodside, new york. $2.8 million to study the health effects of space radiation on humans at the loma linda university, loma linda, california. $200,000 for the aquatic adventurers science education foundation in san diego. $100,000 to archive newspaper and digital media at the mississippi gulf coast community college in perkinston, mississippi. $3.9 million on researching weaving and knitting at the following places -- clemson university, raleigh, north carolina, philadelphia university, and california. u.c.-davis in davis, california. $90,000 for a commercial kitchen business incubator at the el pejera community development corporation in watsonville, california. a commercial kitchen business incubator? $500,000 to study vapor mercury in the $1 million to examine sea scallops and marine fisheries in bedford, massachusetts. $500,000 -- $300,000 for sea lion biological research. it $300,00

host: that's from mississippi and next from hollywood, florida. john, on the air. caller: good morning. how you doing? sure it's cold up there. it's nice and warm in florida, but i'd just like to say, you know, people keep talking about all the hypotheticals. they make an arguments in hy(otheticals that this is going to happen as a result of that and that's going to happen as a result. nobody knows what will happen until this thing is implemented and mechanisms are put in place and we can see where we're at and where we're going so. all the hypotheticals are meaningless. i'd rather pay for surgical procedures than a strike in a war that's immoral than illegal. >> if you'd like to talk about the fact the senate has now passed healthcare response. the numbers are listed on the screen and there has to be reconciliation still on the house that passed it's bill on december 7th. >> hometown newspaper of big city of insurance companies has a front paper column by dan har. double dose joe and insurers and he writes, connect cult will play a be fining role through very diff

guest: the tab is still running, but not large in hollywood dollars. i'm hoping that a distributor will help me -- host: defray the cost. how much have you put into it so far? guest: over the last year and a half, -- without, -- host: under a million? guest: well under a million. the other point i wanted to make is that even though i did most of the production along the way, i certainly had a lot of help. when you look at this particular film, one of the things you see in the "apollo 13" felt as a lot of computer graphics and special effects. this film has a lot of interviews and footage. the reporters were magnificent. they were not only available for stories and sharing their thoughts, but they open up and let me this some other photographs -- and photographs -- let me use a lot of their photographs and documents. nasa was fabulous. the gaps i had -- i have an archivist in washington, d.c., anomalous -- enormously helpful. and a person -- you see a lot of photographs and the film, photographs of reporters not so much in the actual reporting, but priv

host: that's from mississippi and next from hollywood, florida. john, on the air.ler: good morning. how you doing? sure it's cold up there. it's nice and warm in florida, but i'd just like to say, you know, people keep talking about all the hypotheticals. they make an arguments in hy(otheticals that this is going to happen as a result of that and that's going to happen as a result. nobody knows what will happen until this thing is implemented and mechanisms are put in place and we can see where we're at and where we're going so. all the hypotheticals are meaningless. i'd rather pay for surgical procedures than a strike in a war that's immoral than illegal. >> if you'd like to talk about the fact the senate has now passed healthcare response. the numbers are listed on the screen and there has to be reconciliation still on the house that passed it's bill on december 7th. >> hometown newspaper of big city of insurance companies has a front paper column by dan har. double dose joe and insurers and he writes, connect cult will play a be fining role through very differen

host: for maria freese, sandy is joining from hollywood, florida. early, from 55 to 64 retiring because now they can afford their medical coverage because these people are not paying into the medicare, how does that work? guest: that's a consideration and at the fact there could be a spillover into the program. at this point when you look at the overall program, and that's another reason why we are interested in what cbo says this week. but the overall program, now the life expectancy of the part "a" trust fund that is financed by people that are working, is expected to almost double its solvency as a result of the health care bills in the house and science. -- senate. whatever the numbers and how they shake out, the overall impact of the numbers are good, because you got another five years of solvency out of the medicare fund that is to pay benefits of coverage for about another seven years. after that it will only have enough to pay half of the seniors health i]care cost. getting that extended by another five or more years is a good outcome for se

first, the basketball, and the hollywood lakers, wfor the firs time all year out on the road. games so far have been played away from home. and only once before wednesday had the lakers played back-to-backs on the road. and this one is unlike most roadies. they played saturday in utah. then the lakers went home for a day before heading to chicago. then after the lakers beat the bulls, they stayed in chicago before bussing to milwaukee for our opening act. kobe bryant, bad finger and all, not pictured, had 42 on thursday. michael redd, nice move to the baseline, laid it in. bucks up four. re redd's seventh game of the year, that's it. andrew bynum dunks. tight game at the half. jam of the night belongs to hakeem warrick. he went to syracuse. thought i'd get that in there. going to overtime now. 95-95. >>> sixers trying to win back-to-backs for the first time since october. cavs in town. cavs up three. lebron james. get out of his way please. and then go the other way. lebron can do that. he swats sam dalembert. actually, his shot. third quarter, tied at 72. andre iguodala, from

we have to figure out how we can have the best of hollywood and the best of silicon valley to focus ongramming that is going to move the needle on the educational side. let us focus on those kids. >> cyma zarghami, four children that are not preschool, the morning is important. it is important for also that age group. could you address and then i call it the working family and single parents which highlighted,xd that 3:00 to 7:00 period when a caregiver maybe there. my mother-in-law tells us she is strict, but i know that based on his comments, what he is watching. >> nickelodeon, and the very early days, did a lot of research with children to find out what it was that they were çinterested in getting from television. we are primarily in and a tenant brand for kids. we feel very strongly that we want to do right by them, as well. mentioned how it is difficult for a kid to be in an adult world, we want to know how to navigate through the world at school. they're going to school to get their academic education but what they do not necessarily have is this tool that they need to navigate

muslim community and said they should not be seen as the enemy, and we have an avalanche of people in hollywood, in various forms of media and politics, this house and senate passed resolutions, people begin to have meetings in the committees talking about. my committee, i will take the measure of our country is that my community, the arab community and the muslim commute as well never felt as protected and redacted even when we are witnessing hate crimes as we never had before because of the support we were receding from institutions around this country. it all started with the president doing it. and i think we have an opportunity to do that again on many levels today, and not be afraid to encourage a re-examination and he recommitment to what it means to be a american. what it means to be a diverse country of many strands, woven into a fabric that has made us great if we allow that map to define us, and to take those -- and i maintain isolated events because each of them, many of them are different but some of them are criminal activity, convert to islam. some of them who are recruited fight

president reagan's travels from illinois to hollywood to washington, berlin, and beyond, left an enduringada have always been proud to call ronald reagan our neighbor, our leader, and our friend. [applause] >> ladies and gentlemen, the speaker of the of united states house of representatives, the hon. nancy pelosi. >> it is a distinct honor. i know from my colleagues as well as myself to welcome so many distinguished guests on this very special day in the capital. the unveiling of a statue in the capital is always exciting. rarely are we able to do it in the presence of an immediate family member. it is usually about history. today it is a great privilege for all of us to be joined by former first lady mrs. ronald reagan, nancy reagan. we're honored by your presence. [applause] president reagan and mrs. reagan had one of the great love stories of all time, and the american people benefited from that. the support, the love that mrs. reagan gave the president for a slice of joy -- a source of joy for the american people. mrs. reagan, with your presence here today, i hope you know that we ho

we had an avalanche of people in hollywood and in various forms of the media and politics and this housend the senate. people began having meetings and talking about it. my community, i will tell you the measure of our country is my community, the arab and muslim community as well never felt as respected even in that most vulnerable of times even with hate crimes because of the support we were receive for example institutions around this country. it all started with the president doing it. i think we have an opportunity to do that again on many levels and not be afraid to encourage a reexamination and recommitment to what it means to be american and what it means to be a diverse country of many strands woven into a fabric that made us great. if we allow that to define us and take those and i maintain isolated events because each of them and many of them are different. some of them are criminal converted to islam and some are people who went postal and some are recruited to fight foreign engagement not to attack our country despite that that is wrong and should be dealt with. they are wro

guest: the tab is still running, but not large in hollywood dollars. a distributor will help me -- host: defray the cost. how much have you put into it so far? guest: over the last year and a half, -- without, -- host: under a million? guest: well under a million. the other point i wanted to make is that even though i did most of the production along the way, i certainly had a lot of help. when you look at this particular film, one of the things you see in the "apollo 13" felt as a lot of computer graphics and special effects. this film has a lot of interviews and footage. the reporters were magnificent. they were not only available for stories and sharing their thoughts, but they open up and let me this some other photographs -- and photographs -- let me use a lot of their photographs and documents. nasa was fabulous. the gaps i had -- i have an archivist in washington, d.c., anomalous -- enormously helpful. and a person -- you see a lot of photographs and the film, photographs of reporters not so much in the actual reporting, but private lives, downt

hollywood, florida. reed on the democrats line . what do you i this of this latest on the negotiations. >> caller:? hello? >> host: reed, what do you think. >> i am absolutely opposed. i think it case pitlation. it is false bravado on part of democrats. they failed miserably. i think it's, i studied in europe many years ago. and i was, i envoyed their -- envied their health care system 40 years ago. it is bound to be better now. i think we have one of the worst health care systems in the world. i think it is a tragedy. i think many more people are going to die. i don't think health care costs are going to be held down. i think this is disaster. and the republicans are probably, celebrating. and, they have brought a president down who, has, who had all the capital in the world and, i think it is a tragedy. >> host: north adams maine, or massachusetts. rick on the independent line. good morning. >> caller: good morning. >> host: go ahead, rick, what are your thoughts on democrats likely to drop the medication provision, expanding it?