now to howie kurtz. >> gloria, before you go, let me get you in on this.told you the last hour the system didn't work. j janet napolitano seven days ago said the system did work. do you think journalists rejected napolitano's spin as being ludicrous? >> i think she probably rejected it herself the minute after she said it. it was clear to everyone the system did not work. as you saw today, the first thing practically that john brennan said to us was, look, the system did not work. the system failed. so it was one of those cases of spin that she probably wishes she could take back. >> changed the tune within about 24 hours. gloria, thanks very much. >>> as we look back at the press's performance in 2009, there were times when the news business was swept away by strange and sensational stories. these range from the death of world famous celebritys to run-away reality shows to high-profile hoaxes. they all became category five media storms. >> michael jackson had an extraordinary career and a troubled life marked by incredible highs and terrible low lows. >>

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the last phone call here, howie. caller: congratulations to scott brown. freezing spending started under jimmy carter in 1978. ronald reagan repeal the federal housing act which reads almost epidemic of the 1980's and beyond. that is why we lost 20 seats in the senate. [unintelligible] host: virginia, on the republican line. the last word on the proposed spending freeze. caller: thank you for taking my call. we are very thankful for c-span. i was calling to say that i as opposed the spending freeze. i support senator copeland's proposal for spending cuts. i think the government ought to look to government spending on the [inaudible] -- i thought it was appropriate for social security benefits not to increase the because the country does not have the money. it was outrageous that congress voted themselves a raise, and also other federal employees. host: virginia, thanks for your thoughts. we will talk more about the economy with our guest, victoria mcgrane, a staff reporter for politico. we will focus on the auto industry at 8:00 a.m. eastern. we are at the

our author's note,ç we mentioned that we conducted the interview on deep background, basically what howies in the peace. it is not complete, the description of all the conversations we had with our sources to talk any great detail about how the interview we did conduct would be used in -- we talked in great detail about how the interview that he would conduct would be used in the book. i can say that there is no case in which the way that we explained we are going to that in the and we did not live up to that agreement with any source we talked to in the book. it is important that people understand that a deep background, as many people have written, is not a concept that is etched in stone. every journalist has rules of the road. host: you don't think that concrete come on-the-record -- guest: with new ones, you can describe different things. we did not violate the agreement with anybody that we made for the book. unlike a lot of exchanges and washington and journalism generally, between reporters and sources, with the terms are not defined but there is assumed to be commonality, or they

howie?rily have many of the characteristics of the majority of the members, for instance, if you wanted to form a bipartisan coalition of, for instance, of organizations which would normally be proenvironment, p proconservation and wildlife and then you have another organization that isn't so much on that on your ground, what are some of the extra strategies that you would use or employ to keep those members who aren't necessarily -- that don't necessarily have the characteristics of the majority of your members with you and how much extra time do you devote to them? >> the answer is a lot of extra time. i would say most of the time i spend during the day is talking to either coalition members or talking to my clients. less so with the individual members of congress, although, at certain times during the year that becomes my priority. i mean, the legislative cycle is such when we got hearings and markups, when we got floor votes -- that all of a sudden becomes the focus and there are always

we have an answer the question about howie going to make reductions necessary to achieve the goals set in the declarations we signed. there are so many alternative configurations of how you would work in cap-and-trade bill to satisfy some of the concerns that i don't really want to answer that question because i would be speculating. but it is very clear that the troika is going to search around for the formulation and could attract 60 poets-- votes. we just went through this on health care. they have to invent something that attracts the right number and it is likely that it has to attract five or six republicans. yes, the gentleman here. stand up. >> i was an ex-platts reporter too so hopefully we will get a lot of attention here. my question is if you can put your spin hadron again expectations for blanche lincoln for example. she seems to be under a lot of pressure to vote against cap-and-trade obviously. she is behind in the polls. leshy going to follow byron dorgan's lead and perhaps announce that she is not going to run again which frees her up to both her conscience and then to

let me highlight howie atia tr addressing this problem. first for presidential action. through executive order on september 30th president obama directed federal employees not to engage in texting while driving a government owned vehicles when using government supplied electronic equipment or while driving privately owned vehicles on official government business. the department transportation and other federal agencies have taken the leadership roles as well. the department transportation secretary lahood sponsor the first national distracted driving summit on september 30 of which brought together federal state and local government policymakers, researchers, at the kids in private industry. the secretary has also issued an order complying with the president corner banning any and all text messaging by employees. that basically says we may not use government issued phones or blackberries while driving, even off duty. also i held a conference call last week at the 50 state d.o.t. secretaries highway representatives of law enforcement representatives encouraging them to d

our author's note,ç we mentioned that we conducted the interview on deep background, basically what howie the conversations we had with our sources to talk any great detail about how the interview we did conduct would be used in -- we talked in great detail about how the interview that he would conduct would be used in the book. i can say that there is no case in which the way that we explained we are going to that in the and we did not live up to that agreement with any source we talked to in the book. it is important that people understand that a deep background, as many people have written, is not a concept that is etched in stone. every journalist has rules of the road. host: you don't think that concrete come on-the-record -- guest: with new ones, you can describe different things. we did not violate the agreement with anybody that we made for the book. unlike a lot of exchanges and washington and journalism generally, between reporters and sources, with the terms are not defined but there is assumed to be commonality, or they are defined on the fly, we have meticulously and carefull

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howie? >> with regards to members of the coalition, which don't necessarily have many of the characteristics of the majority of the members, for instance, if you wanted to form a bipartisan coalition of, for instance, of organizations which would normally be proenvironment, p proconservation and wildlife and then you have another organization that isn't so much on that on your ground, what are some of the extra strategies that you would use or employ to keep those members who aren't necessarily -- that don't necessarily have the characteristics of the majority of your members with you and how much extra time do you devote to them? >> the answer is a lot of extra time. i would say most of the time i spend during the day is talking to either coalition members or talking to my clients. less so with the individual members of congress, although, at certain times during the year that becomes my priority. i mean, the legislative cycle is such when we got hearings and markups, when we got floor vote

howie push the data out and say these are the things that we really need to look at?, the hope and expectation and in reference to this caller, i hope that we start declassifying more information and make more information to the american people. the recidivism rate, how many people have left gitmo? that is import information as we think about moving this president to the united states. and as we think about releasing more. i think there's a lot more information that would enable the american people to better understand this threat and be part of the debate, indeed more constructive p debate. [applause] representative pete hoekstra ranking member on the intelligence committee, we appreciate your time this morning. >> guest: thank you. >> live coverage of today's financial crisis inquiry commission hearing is continuing right now on a web site, c-span.org. and tomorrow is day two of the hearing with testimony from federal, state and local officials on current investigations with attorney general eric holder fdic chairman sheila bair and sec chief mary schapiro. we will