i watched him, i combed his hair. i can barely hold back the tears i am so sad about this.he would write back, she would talk about mountain is 32 cents a pound, and then there would be a paragraph saying, you can write me about the soldiers. i understand that you love them and it becomes a fascination. there is nothing wrong with that. i understand. she would not say i know what you are going through but she would encourage him and hearing that from his mother really bucked him up. she would do the same thing with george the would write to her very frankly about what he was going through and the war. so, this mother, i had no idea i would come upon her and that i would lead-- read her letters which have been ignored by many, many scholars. not only ignored but irrigated. in a way i felt that family, the subject shows me in a way and i was lucky. >> you mentioned earlier that you had written a history of ida wells before you read the biography. it is that typical of your work? do you circle brown the subject like that or how you typically find a topic to write about? >> wel

>> guest: when i said i railed against it, i was partly being goofy. but the fact is i think it's very important, and i know that we're sitting in a room full of readers, and i think most of you would agree that as a reader it's your responsibility to object and to fight back. it's not your responsibility to read something and then drink it in as if it's the truth. so i find myself with the new yorker, with "the new york times" always with national public radio constantly and with the nation arguing against them. why? because i, you know, you've set something down in print, and it takes on the spirit of truth and orthodoxy, and i think that it's our responsibility -- all of us as thinking people -- to fight against orthodoxy. you know what i mean by that, that there's a -- and, frankly, i don't think it's the orthodoxy of the repalin house -- republican house members that i have to worry about. in some sense their dog mattism is too obvious. it's the orthodoxy of the left, of the good people. when i talked earlier about education and i talked about the

i was very naive when i took books with me trying to kill time and i think also i was naive when i took only two boxes of paint balls, which is about 1,000 around. we ran out of that within a matter of hours. on the and the project i was shocked at 65,000 times from 168 countries and 80 million hits on the side. and also, one of the most remarkable things is the 3,000 pages of chat room i collected from iraq with each other. the book was born after the project. i end up with so many wonderful stories and also so much material and i wanted the project to live in other people's mind. i don't just want it to be varied right away after it is dawn. so, i -- we started writing, and the right to the joint me on the book and we face a challenge how to eliminate this, we had so much material, how to eliminate and luckily within a short amount of time we were able to finish the book but what came out of the book or what happened at the end of the process of writing i wasn't expecting at all because i wanted the book to be focused on the project but might collaborate and publisher said there was a

so to say i drifted, yeah, i drifted, and then i made choices, and then i drifted and made choices. some people have argued that our new president drifted into the presidency, but actually he made some choices too, didn't he? >> host: we are in chicago, and this is our in depth program, and i'm going to tell the studio audience, if you would like to ask a question, if three or four of you would get lined up, the microphone is right over here, and we'll get to y'all as we take calls and some e-mails that came in during the last week. we cannot take new e-mails because we are remote here in chicago, but we do have some that have come in the last week that we'll add into the program. our first call comes from california from a caller who's identifying him or herself as q. please go ahead. >> caller: hi, thank you for taking my call. thank you, mr. ayers, you know, for opening this forum up. i have nothing but the greatest respect and preeshes for the sacrifices that you've made. i wanted to also i'm a retired special operations disabled vet who was poisoned in iraq due to depleted uran

i was flabbergasted. i mean, i was thrilled. but i was -- i was also stunned.e plan seemed to be going according to plan. and then nine years later, 1987, i come back to my desk and there's a letter addressed to me. bill was out of his town, part of his m.o. in certain situations and i open the letter and it said, you will not succeed me. [laughter] >> you have -- you have -- and i quote it in the book, but it said you have no executive ability. i have not documented this but it is the case. and time to make new plans and that was that. so at age 32 i went from being very precocious to being retarded in the sense that i now had to get another career. at the age of 32. and there were many other bumps and twists and turns along the way. and it took time. and it took effort on both our parts to re-establish a relationship. robert frost said, we love the things we love for what they are. but to do that you have to know what they are. and that can take a lot of work to figure it out. when you work with someone periodically, when you see them regularly, there's a lot

so i did admire that, and i do admire that. so, yeah, i, i don't find that objectionable. >> host: we have another question from the audience. name and location of where you're from. >> guest: my name is jessica, and i'm from cleveland, ohio. my question is an educational one which piggybacks on the question the gentleman asked earlier. given the importance of teachers and schools are only as good as teachers, what are your thoughts on how we can recruit, retain, and support good teachers and the other side of the coin, teachers who don't believe children can learn or who are discouraging and tend to maintain a system that we have, what are your thoughts about how you handle that? >> guest: are you a teacher? >> no, but i'm a former school board member, and i had to deal with no child left behind, and if i could just put in one other comment, what we can do to enrich our curriculum to we can get history, culture and arts, i think it's reading and arithmetic and not much else, and it just kills students' interest in learning. >>

and now when i go to the stores, i see clothes and books. and that's what i see everywhere i go. i believe that being a father is a good thing and i am proud to be a father. i am really proud. [applause] all i can say to give you advice, if you have children, please dedicate time to them. that's the most beautiful thing for a man to be a father. thank you. [applause] >> thank you. thank you juan carlos. next, let's hear from eton thomas. he plays basketball for the washington wizards, but more importantly, he's active in his community and a wonderful dad. come up here. >> it's definitely a pleasure to be here. i want to thank president obama for leading this initiative. it's definitely something that's greatly needed now. i do a lot of work with young people, and now i doing a lot of work in the d.c. prison with young people not quite 18. they are not -- they are in the youth section, it's not juve, because they are not tried as adults. and i poll them and say, how many of you grew up with your fathers. and this time there were 30 and i said, how many grew up with your fathers. a

i forgot i was in a tv studio. i was nice talking conversation with a friend in a cav cafe. >> oo thank you. i enjoyed it. >> john talbot described as the oracle of the financial world exposes what he says are the biggest myths about the current recession. wall street's role it in and how to get out of it. barnes & noble in new york hosted this event. it's an hour. >> thank you all for coming. it's a rainy flight out there as i found out the hard way. i'm going to give you short opening remarks remarks remarksy of time for questions i would like to thank the folks at c-span for being here today and filming us. i just returned from an economics conference in italy. one of the sessions was a mock trial in which the economists of the world were put on trial, accused of completely missing the warning signs of the current crisis, not predicting it, doing nothing to prevent it, and thus far, doing little to help enact smart reforms to end it. i had to give a talk on my book at the same time as the mock trial across town

i know that i do not, and i know the distinguished doctor does not. cms, and i went into it into a long -- probably way too long remarks indicating we have a long track record of misusing date to deny patients access to new treatments, and i gave the example of the former head of cms and actually coming to my office since i had a hold on him, and he actually talked to a great many providers and cleaned up a letter that we sent, and i thought we got along fine and then within months cms was doing precisely the opposite of what he indicated. and then later when we had a chance to visit on an airplane, why i let him know about that, and he expressed shock and amazement. so i think we really have to take that extra step of using the word prohibit. i just think we should have a flat prohibition that cms would not be allowed to set information for payment, coverage and treatment. that doesn't mean they can't inform and disseminate. after all, that's exactly what we want them to do to better educate and to better help doctors across the country. let me just

five received calls from upmc more than twice a day so when i thought i had to hear i thought i would ask. >> i thought the presentation was very impressive and certainly the motion we should have a facility dedicated to production of a variety of vaccine lions is also incredibly timely and something i think should be part of our preparedness arsenal. i think that the dish you we are facing right now as you well know is whether we can adequately prepare for the uncertainties that still may be confronting us in the near future with of unlawful h1n1 stream and vaccination program and production costs and preparedness under way and add an additional factor to that, but you all are -- i don't think that there is any doubt about the importance of that being part of the strategy moving forward but how quickly that could be implemented by can't tell you right now. >> well, we would appreciate your informing us the earliest date you can. >> thank you, mr. chairman. >> senator, may i respond briefly to the research questions? because i just want to tell you why share both the concern we contin

if i had time i could tell you details.specially when i was offered in shun the job -- i was told there are certain procedures that they expected me to deny the first time around. -- when i was offered and showed the job. host: would they have had to raise your taxes? caller: yes, within reason. people should remember that we have cost overruns everywhere, especially in this war we did not need to fight. audit the government. host: let's listen to some good economic news this morning. the ap reports that retail sales rose by the largest amount in four months in may. a rebound in demand helped to offset weakness in department stores. jobless claims had dropped more than expected. the tally of the newly-laid off americans fell for the third -- the third time in six weeks. let's go to the republican line from california. caller: good morning. this is my first time in and the election. host: first-time voter? caller: yes, my parents were republicans, but we all voted for obama. i am kind of confused. i believe healthcare is a r

i share the view that i understand the frustration, folks who care about these issues feel, i care about these issues, the president cares about these issues, the vice-president has about these issues and i hope that next year when we have this conference, that question gets asked, it is going to get the same kind of applause. we have more progress, more things to show for it and hopefully the applause a year from now is applause about the accomplishments we have made. .. legal policy, where do you think we need to be going? >> >> i think overall this is, as you watch how he approaches the nas interrogation techniques, the military commission, though set of issues, this is somebody, i don't know how many of you heard his speech on national archives, he believes very deeply in this document and he gets it. he understands what it means for people in this country. and i think as with the choice of the supreme court justice because of who he is and where he comes from, you're going to come, you have rac more of a decision-making that's happening in the administration are i think as we come i

i really want to see i hesitate to prejudge. i don't think he's kind and up being a hero for political independence but he certainly could end up helping him and the bush administration with the republican base. and these memos will come out. it is impossible something that significant quality eventually come out. it is the rule of washington. >> it has to i think in terms of that these documents are hung up in this current litigation. so once that ends presumably they can be made available if you get >> questioned? >> thank you. you guys started touching on this but i am curious on your thoughts of the future of the republican party. there's been talk recently who is going to be the new face whether possibly eric cantor would take the place of, you know, the leader of the republican party and the you see 2010 being the time they are able to capture more seats for the democratic party or are they going to become more or less, quote on quote permanent minority for a while? >> having worked for the republican party and house of re

i am sure she is aware of the confusion i went through. there were charges but they never went after the drug pusher who is now pushing for even idf symptoms, because we can make money. liford doctors prescribing it even for football injuries. anyhow, it made up my bank, so that became another class-action which is the halprin which you know is tainted from where we can say yet. the klute would have been when they were having the fda go to the counties in china and saw pigs without years, that they cast of thought that they were to become to toys really. the thing that is likely within health care, does the perform but when we look at hatch-waxman, soon to be the bachus waxman act, everything deals and plants, the clintons screwed up with-- for years and years they are not going to give back-- >> guest: the issue of iatrogenic illness is legitimate. the reader brings up something every medical student learns about and it is basically an illness that is associated with a treatment. sometimes for example in the world of cancer therapies, the

i will never forget the day. i was in high school. my dad and i were on the college trip to boston. i remember him leading me into the mit library and showing me engineering plans he drafted as an undergraduate student. designed someday to help people read words on paper to translate text into physical signals. the formulas and drawings didn't make much sense to me then and dad, confess they still don't. but the core lesson has remained with me. communications technology has the power to transform lives for the better. we've all seen and lived and many of the members spoke about it in their heap oeping statements. the i wemplications of the communications revolution. we saw the world reshaped by communications technology. the telephone, radio, television, satellite, computers and the birth of the internet. now in 91st century, communications has a potential to unwave newlea new waves s nh innovati innovation. the federal communications commission has important roles to play in pursuing these goals and doing so on behalf of all americans. if confirmed i look toward to learning from a

i hear to what i said then and when i am saying now is consistent with what i said in a speech. >> that may well be, but i would hope you use the word is illegal now. i sent a letter to the president on monday that the attrition withdraw the 2006 white paper and other classified memos providing legal justification of the program. i know you have started a review of these memos and sort mimosa pauperized torture which have been withdrawn and you discuss this already today. what is the status of your review concerning the wireless -- the war was wiretapping program? >> i've asked the office to review these programs, including those dealing with surveillance and making them public consistent with our national security interests and consistent with ensuring robust debate can happen within the executive branch. it is my hope that process which is ongoing will lead to the release of several opinions in a relatively short time. >> i want to reiterate how important it is for a legal justification for this program to be withdrawn. i am concerned these memos that make unsupportable claims of exe

am i not beautiful enough? am i stupid? i am not stupid. i want to be there. yes of course, i know that but i am sorry. i cannot be there. this is a problem with the motorcycles which i love to ride. so many little and short pieces but i am in love with each one of them. but he creates a whole world or some business i am sorry. >> host: you wrote another book called memory of fire. >> guest: of three books. >> host: it is a trilogy. i read that in the '80s and you do similar things it is more historical epic but the narrative structure is similar, you start off with the genesis is it is all about latin america at the wind quote it is about america including north america, it is the america is because we are americans in the south. >> host: of some of the. >> guest: the languages suppress but we are american and also. i am using the collective memory of the americas in the three volumes. this is much more ambitious. because it is the entire world 87 the entire world and the entire history. i have been a fan but i think people associate you with the great latin

as i said i am eager to get to the dialogue with eric so i will wind this up by saying i think for most this in this room when we hear or think about the dalai lama we probably see that beaming face looking down at us from a billboard or the person often on larry king live or the person on our neighbors computer as a screen saver riding he is used more as a screen saver than any living being and always is great and it's easy to forget of course 90% of his life and his mission are really concerned with his people in tibet and in exile mostly in india so i spent three recent springs living just across the road from him going to see him a lot and also going to talk to the increasingly impatient tibetans whose voices we've heard more and more of infil last 18 months raising that completely understandable human cry, which is how can we be asked to practice for parents and nonviolence when the country is being raised to the grout and parents are being in prison and cousins are being killed and the dalai lama hears that as acutely as painfully as anyone but remembers his first mission is to pr

i think it's potentially a very hopeful time and i think certainly iranians feel that way, and i think we'll have a fascinating year ahead to see where and how it all unfolds. thank you very much. [applause] >> there's a microphone right here. by these books, by this shelf. >> from all accounts there's a sustained economic problem in iran, and i'm wondering with the decline in the oil prices, it's put more strain on it. and who do the iranian people hold responsible for this? for their economic -- because it has been a very prosperous place. >> that's a great question because certainly the issue of who is to blame for this economic decline is a very sensitive and politicized one. i think the government certainly does try to divert some of the blame to the west because, of course, right now iran is surfing from sanctions because of its position on the nuclear program. and the government does make the case that our economy is suffering because we refuse to buckle under all of this pressure from the west to give up our sovereign right to nuclear power. i think for the most part people are

and so i think we're on that path for sure, but i just want to make sure that i understand when mergers are going up, buyouts have taken place, the purchases are being forced to do by anybody. i want to understand that better and i'll continue to pursue that. >> i don't want to -- chairman. >> quickly. >> i think as the chairman was a on the pay legislation there is often different proposals eight separate but on the golden parachutes and exactly that merger transfer -- transaction. in. >> the gentleman from texas. >> thank you mr. chairman. mr. sperling, in your testimony you said that you all were going to put the president's working group and provide an annual review for compensation practices of the government can monitor whether they are trading excess risk. how will that work? how will you determine compensation is actually creating excess risk? >> i think the reason secretary geithner felt it was good to put this on the agenda and the same reason you hear mr. alvarez talking about from the federal reserve perspective that we have all learned painfully the compensation is closely

i am not an historian, i am an anthropologist to the corporate [laughter] what makes i think for the anthropology comes out in this book while i spend a lot of time and archives i spend as much time as possible interviewing the people who had survived and participating in their lives. they became friends of mine. they took care of the organization's and helps. >> i took an active role in helping them further their goals and their mission and that was something that we apply to an apology especially in to me it is an active imagination not always but we try to put ourselves into the mindset of the people we're standing so rather than try to put myself in the mines that other tribes person or a person in different nation is taking direct language, i was trying to imagine the look in the world to the perspective of a homosexual person living in 1950's los angeles. and that was like visiting a foreign land. and i try to recapture that in the book and try to capture a sense of perspective. i also being a linguist for the power of narrative so it is improper for me even though i was dealin

and i don't intend to answer any questions, but i want you to know that i enjoyed the 58 minutes i spent with her. thank you all very much. much. >> senator grassley, healthcare? >> healthcare? >> supreme court nominee sonia sotomayor's confirmation hearing is set to begin on july 13th. friday, justice ruth bader ginsburg reviewed supreme court cases from this term at the second circuit judicial conference in bolton landing, new york. the second circuit court is the one that supreme court nominee judge sonia sotomayor currently serves on. [applause] >> i'm very glad to be with you, and wish i could stay longer. but monday is d. day at the court, the day that all dissenting opinions must be in circulation. so sadly i will leave this afternoon and go right back to my work table. i wanted to start by mentioning that beyond our business as usual, there were at least three extraordinary events at the court this term. can you hear me in the back? ok. the first was that in january the country welcomed a new president and vice-president. and just days before the inauguration president obama and

[laughter] i have to let it seep in. i am sorry. i am sorry i lost control. i am sorry, mr. president. it is my fault. you are clearly not the person we thought it would be. perhaps, it was wrong and impractical and unrealistic for us to lay such hopes up on new. the reality is, we are geeks. we are defined by our passions and by our open mindedness. i am nervous. i am nervous because this is a beginning. a beginning is a delicate time, and it is unsettling to realize that at the time that we are in is not a triumph. this is not the end of something happening. this is the beginning of a long journey. many of the categories we have used to define ourselves are evaporation. while that is exciting, it is also unsettling and scary. in many ways, talk-show radio hosts are correct. the president is a complete mystery to me, but no more so than the future itself. i am obliged to embrace the future. i am happy to turn to the president and extent what i consider to be the most american of greetings. although we might not always agree, i will always be your friend. live long and prosp

i said i would take what i could get. i like the articles. they are good. >> we like to make connections here. go back to claremount institute. what is that and who funds it? >> is a think tank in southern california. it was started by a bunch of graduate students. of whom i happen to be one. it still goes. we had the idea, we were studying at an exciting time in our lives. we were studying with very great teachers. led by a man named harry jaffa. we got into the american revolution through lincoln. he actually wrote a very good book. the implication in the book is that lincoln saved and corrected things in the american revolution. that it was flawed when it was put together. later, working backwards from lincoln, he came to see that lincoln never said that. lincoln was right in what he said. an abstract truth to all men in all times to be a stumbling block. to the harbingers of reappearing tyranny. lincoln said that and it is a paraphrase of what he said. it is close. we thought, read this stuff. the united states of america had a beautiful

i want to be there. yes, i said i know what i'm sorry, i can't. this is a problem with these -- allowed to write that there are so many little and short pieces and i am in love with each one of them, but they must appreciate a whole world and some of little pieces i'm sorry but -- >> host: the new wrote another book called the memory of fire. >> guest: three books. >> host: i read that in the 1980's and you do similar things. it's more overtly historical. but the narrative structure is similar. you start out with a kind of genesis. it is all about latin america. >> guest: about america including north america. the americas, because we are americans in the south. >> host: absolutely. >> guest: we are american also and yes, i was trying in to rescue the collective memory of the americas in three volumes. this was something like 1,000 short stories and this is a mad project because it is the entire world. >> host: the entire world and the entire history. i thought of kafka as i was reading this because i have been a fan but i think people associate y

i just want to make sure i was clear on the stats. to the two gentlemen from chrysler and general motors, did you ever have any inclination as you developed, i will turn to both in regards to the documents that are required by dealers to sign, did you ever have any inclination to work with the association to figure out what's a decent agreement that the dealerships could sign? >> let me see if i can't deal with both of the agreements. in the case of the wind-down agreement, as i said, we had done a similar exercise in canada just recently and our early returns from our dealers who are going to be wound down and with the appeal process, we think we have a workable approach for those dealers. >> if i can interrupt, it's kind of a no choice deal. >> it is, but in our judgment, the benefits that are provided in this agreement are vastly superior to the alternatives. >> which is death versus life support? >> the alternative is -- well, no, sir. in this case, what we're going to provide them is the ability to wind down their franchise throu

>> i yield back. >> i yield the gentleman from utah. >> thank you, mr. lewis. i appreciate you being here. looking at some notes here, dated december 31, and these are your notes, also looking at some notes taken by joe price, the cfo at bank of america, that were taken on december 21, two dozen 8, about the attempt to use the mac costs. in those notes id says fire board of directors -- directors, is responsible for country. timg would agree. >> this are mr. price's notes? >> yes sir. >> i would have to assume with you because they are his notes. >> based on your recollection of what was going on and based on the notes we see from the cfo that was there, fire board of directors if you do it, was that your understanding? >> the -- that was is probably a reference to the conversation i mentioned that i had with secretary paulson. but, again, those are his notes. >> based on your personal recollection, is that your understanding that the board of directors would be let go if directors would be let go if this mac claus invoked? >> i mentioned that i need a license

i love you. a levee to death. >> you are killing me. >> i love you to death. >> you are killing me. >> the where the ides of cms > -- the where we did beware the ides of cms. it is going to be a blueprint for rationing health care. maybe i'm wrong. maybe i've been there all of these experiences and think that there are things there that are not there. i do not think so. i do not see any problem if it is duplicative. where has it been said that they cannot do this? i hope people would vote for the amendment. i appreciate the comments from my friend from maryland. >> all right. no further debate on the amendment. all those in favor -- >> i would like a roll call vote. >> know. >> no by proxy. >> know. >> no by proxy. >> no by proxy. >>no. >> no by proxy. >> no. >> aye. >>aye by proxy. >> aye by proxy. >> aye by proxy. >> aye. >> aye by proxy. >> aye by proxy. . >> aye. >> no by proxy. >> thanks our colleagues. -- i thank our colleagues. >> could i inquire -- senator mikulski was very straightforwar

i already felt i was a public servant as a teacher and i felt i was taking it to the next level of servingmy community and i really felt that as i was out campaigning leading my constituents and people in the communities that i visited that i really fell for and wanted to help. >> host: it turns out you didn't start out to be a teacher. i was very interested to read about your early life. for the daughter of an engineer and a father who didn't try to keep you from professions like his but taught you how to do years and how to be an athlete and work on cars, be an athlete, woodworking, the kind of things guys do. it seems that you're father perhaps at times your mother had done the feminist work on you. describe how you came to be a teacher rather than something you had also weighed with being, a civil rights lawyer. >> guest: yes. i was dead set on becoming a civil rights lawyer actually. i had taken a class at the university of new mexico, african-american history. it was african-american history wan and i was addicted because i always loved history, left political science, and i remember

and what i think i can characterize a commitment.t's a high priority for you. >> yes. >> maximum commitment. >> yes, sir. >> or effort to make this program succeed. thank you. >> thank you. >> thank you very much, >> senator reid has joined us. i'm going to have to slip out in a minute. will take the gavel to finish the hearing, i've been told you are anyway. the issue was raised by senator shelby about aig. and on may 20th the issue came up dealing with creditors and counterparties. and obviously a lot of the attention was focused on bonuses and so forth. and at the same time there were announcements about the creditors and counterparties that didn't get anywhere near the same attention. while the value of aig stock has declined, obviously, creditors and counterparty were getting paid 100% of value. the issue that many of us raised here is who is doing the negotiating? we're an 80% owner and here counterparties are getting 100 cents on the dollar. doesn't sound like a great negotiating position it seems to me, given the exposure of

i voted for him twice and i want you to understand that i thought he was a disgusting person but i thought he was a great president. mike was that the had been elected he still probably would have been a disgusting for some but we would have lost all the benefits of its leadership of president of the united states. i mean that seriously. especially in this administration, this man, barack obama is one of the most impressive human beings i have ever seen in my life and politics. i am awestruck. he is an awesome man. he represents so much that is wonderful about our country. a black african father, a white american mother, if that is not the melting pot i don't know what it is. raised in a very nurturing wonderful environment. he went to columbians university, did extraordinarily well. he then went to harvard law school where he was head of law review. you don't get that by affirmative action. you have got to be really good. he then taught at the university of chicago where i taught for most of my life and i can assure you only geniuses are on the faculty there. [laughter] just having fun bu

if i had thought that it was a mac i would have called a mac. >> i see my time is up, mr. chairman. >> thank you, gentleman from maryland. as we come to the conclusion of this hearing. it's important to remember that we have heard only one side of the story today. the committee needs to hear from mr. paulson and mr. bernanke before we draw any hard and fast conclusions. i do believe in fairness. however, i do think it is fair to observe that a flawed financial regulatory process was at work in this case. we see closed doors, meetings, coded messages. motives questions and private e-mails. basically the regulators and the financial institutions seems to be making up the rules as they went along. as congress considers financial regulatory reform, one of the lessons from this case is that we need much more transparency and accountability in the financial regulatory and oversight process. the american taxpayers and corporate shareholders deserve no less. they need to know what's going on. let me again, thank you mr. lewis, for being here today. before we adds adjourn let me st

i am on c-span. i cannot. i was going there, but i won't. >> it is cable. >> it is not my cable. in a way, i have come to believe that i do not right for those people if they exist. i wanted to write stories for the people who had intimate knowledge about what i was writing about, they would say, yes, that guy caught it. it was a detective -- not that he would like everything, he would be mad about stuff. he would not like it if i went on a cop that he thought i did not deserve to win gun. if i got it right for him and if he was able to get through the story and not be disgusted, then the readers would follow. i have proceeded on that basis since i began writing longer articles. at some point, that became what i actually thought newspapers should do. i really against journalists. the idea that you can cover something well enough to explain it to the set -- mythical seventh grade reader -- that is what they told us in journalism school. your reader will have a seventh grader -- seventh grade education. to hell with that guy. i do not want to write for that. they have a whole newsp

i was fast asleep i have no other house. i live in a rural area. i own land. i have been a forarmer and a casual rancher. my house looks directly onto the streets of my home. surely after 5:00 in the morning, i was awoken by shouts, by hammering against the door below. there were screams. i awoke, still in mind night's close. -- still in my night clothes. i was pushed out into the street. these are moments i do not wish to remember. it breaks my heart to see humanity slide backwards. i wondered if this is what it is like to be pushed once again against barbarity. there were rifles pointed out to me. that is when i heard the rifle shots begin. i saw all 10 or 15 individuals who work for me, the watch men who had been overcome. they began to break down the doors of my house. my 21-year-old daughter lives in my house. the domestic workers below ran downstairs. i sought to hide from the bullets that i could hear being fired. i could hear rifle shots. once the engines on the door gave way and the injured, i still had my mobile phone in my hand. i was trying to call

i thank the chair and i think that leads us to the mccain amendment. >> if i could, i appreciate that very much. as i understand it here, these are -- obviously, i'll have the staff take a look at these proposals. as i said earlier in the week when the issue was raised by i think it was senator coburn raised the issue, we wanted to proceed by doing title of title by this legislation so we have a manageable way by which to proceed. we still have remaining obviously to deal with the long-term care issues because of the scoring problems and we still have title i to come back to, as well. those matters will be left open until the following week, the week we come back from independence day recess. i also made it clear that i wasn't going to be so insist event upon that closing out titles that i wouldn't consider because of circumstances of matters that come up. i intend to live by that promise, as well. i would ask colleagues again, and i respect the fact we all have conflicting obligations around here as evidenced by several of our colleagues that are off doing other things this morning a

so that's not a hypothetical in that sense, i would submit. >> well, i think i was focused really more on the attorney general not necessarily agreeing with what an olc opinion -- an olc position might be. olc plays an important role, a vital role in saying what the justice department's view is on the constitutionality of a statute and a whole variety of  things. the president in front formulating policy takes into account a wide range of things -- things that come from the justice department, opinions that come from other places. there are policy determinations that go into it. and -- i don't know -- i'm not -- i'm not as bothered as you are apparently by the notion that a president in taking into account the wide range of advice and opinions that he or she gets comes up with a determination that might be different from what the justice department has recommended. >> would that have to be based on a legal argument or would that -- could that be based purely on political considerations? >> usually the experience that i've had is that we're talking about legal arguments. the justice de

i don't consider the reason i was -- whatever the reason, i don't consider one of the reasons i was appointed was because i was a federal judge. i was only that for a couple of years. david souter was a federal judge for about five minutes before he was elevated from the first circuit, so it's a little misleading. it's important to recognize that in terms of legal experience, we're pretty diverse bunch. i consider myself a practicing lawyer. that's a member of the bar. that's what i brought. we have a couple of justices who bring really careers primarily as academics. justice souter brought his experience in the state court system. justice thomas, the only one among us, i think, who ran an agency. justice briar, extensive experience on the hill. justice kennedy, again, is a practicing lawyer in sacremento. justice ginsburg, both as an academic, and as a practicing lawyer before the court in the area of equal protection. justice alito, the most experienced, i think, on the bench before coming to the court, and also experience as a federal prosecutor, so we have the same label of being federal

i think so.it was a statement in the form of a question. and i think he responded to it very deftly and didn't raise any hackles with it. >> host: and speaking of senators attending, it did not seem that the full committee was there to attend this hearing. >> guest: i would say maybe half of the members were there for some of the time. in fact, i don't know if you have this on your clips, but senator rockefeller actually got a little angry about senators showing up and asking their questions and leeing. leaving. to be fair, this hearing has been a long time in the making, there's a lot going on in the senate, but still it was not particularly well attended by the -- it was well attended by the immediate ya and lobbyists but not so much the members. >> host: why? >> guest: you know, it's the problems surrounding the delay for genachowski's confirmation have not had anything to do with him. everything likes him. any problems anyone would have we don't know about yet. it's been about the rest of the

i answer the race because i feel the danger in fact i am on gwen to touch of the area of mr. khatami. during the four years he is talking about when i was in power during the lifetime of ali khamenei and if necessary get answer to his plans. i've always loved iran and i think this lot is inherent in all of us. i cannot find any iranian not to be honored to be an iranian who wasn't concerned that the future of iran or the difficulties and problems. we want to create an dayron that is prosperous. the revolution was in fact launched in order to have a great islamic iran and influential iran to be able to lead the pack to and important message to the world but in solving the problems of the country and in order to achieve the proper place i think there are two ways there can be to managements in this regard. one is on the basis of adventurism and instability and raising the slogans, imaginative moves and also superstition on the basis of selfishness, self-centered miss and not abiding by the rule of law and also on the basis of going to the extremes i am going to forward my discu

>> i wish i could give you a year. having said that, as i said during my remarks, once we get a consistent, mature and ready to go rotation of pitchers, anything is possible. once you get that, you do not have to wait one year or five years. i assure you, we will fill in any missing pieces that we need. >> well you were president of the atlanta braves, you put together one of the greatest pitching staff, consisting of great maddux, tom lange, others. you have often stated that putting together a strong starting rotation is the key to the long term success of the ballclub. on your current roster, the seven highest-paid players are not pictures. for example, to give a $20 million contract to an outfielder who has led the league in strikeouts three times and it is, a defensive liability. are you going against the blueprint that made the braves the team of the '90s? >> no. i am following that blueprint. by the way, we are not the only team that is succeeding on the backs of a young group. let me say, really soon, you'll al

i think that's like chips notion of a stop president because and i quoted a couple of examples i think of that to illustrate how obama really reserved judgment on some questions, i don't think he has proposed the notion of authorizing one of these interrogation techniques he has thoroughly condemned because of the circumstances may arise going back to the point about version necessity, that is what presidents can't. it could happen. >> i just want to make an observation about the bush presidency often portrayed, bush and cheney both overplay their hands and national security front. but from the perspective of congress, they were basically invisible and an argument could be made in that they were almost irresponsibly hands off of in terms of how they manage congress or interactive with congress to the extent i think it really damaged or republican party. all bush had to do was via a spending bill every now and then and it might have realigned conservatives, empower them coming given to the republican party is something briscoe to stand in favor of it the last election cycles. instead th

secondly, i did and i am singing this without question, i did abuse the power i had as president. and third, i put the american people through two years of meatless agony and i apologize. and i know how difficult it is for anyone and most of all, you, but i think people need to hear it and i think unless you're going to be haunted for the rest of your life. >> david frost? >> guest: that was one of the most dramatic moments of our life because i had said to him once you go further than mistakes it is not enough for people to understand and i was expecting him obviously to decline. he wasn't -- any time he would ever be again. and so i knew when he said well what would you express that was when i knew i had to phrase because he was vulnerable as well to get three points clearly on the table as we saw and before i did that in order to indicate to him this wasn't a sort of prepared thing, this was absolutely a moment i chucked the clipboard on the floor to indicate this is especially between us and the amazing thing was the next 20 minutes he responded to all of those questions in th

and i have a car that i am breathing life into. it is 11 years old, it is hobbling along and i desperately wanted a very fuel efficient hybrid station wagon gone and they don't make one. >> you lived in southern california, lived in northern california and now live in charlottesville, virginia. are you able to get around on public transportation. >> i am able -- not to get around here, this is a very rural county and i was able to get around in public transportation in san francisco and oakland and also in l.a., i walked a lot. where i lived. here, it is very rural, i mean, really is not, you know, it is gorgeous but not to my mind the look of the most sustainable development patterns with large lots, we have a beautiful large lot with trees but it is far away and i try to combine my trips and i try -- do telecommute. i don't deputy my job and spend a lot of my time in front of my computer at my desk which saves my daily commute but i would like to be more on foot and be closer invent chilly. >> do you know where the picture on the

guestcaller: yes i am a democrat myself. i voted for obama. tjust like cheney and bush, that was theirs to start it. if i had any way that obama could get by with it, i would send obama -- we need to seek cheney and bush building a sand castle over there. they need to take care of business over there on their own since they got it started. guest: sounds good to me. i think obama is doing the best job he can, i will agree with you. he is trying to pass a lot of things, and keep a lot of people happy said that he can keep moving. i think it is a job of progressives to make our argument. this allows him to choose between the three. it progresses are sitting there and saying what ever you want. -- he has not heard from us. we have to have the space for hand to do progressive things. the way we do these things is to making -- is to make the progress of argument. i think we need to do that, and i think that actually helps him. host: how are you getting the message across to other progressives? guest: we had really son together as a network that coul

and i won't have to do it face-to-face when i see them on the floor. [laughter] >> but last night mike doyle who is the manager of the team, bart stupak who is on this committee, played an amazing game. it wasn't their usual democratic bum blinker error game. [laughter] they actually played very well. and as a team. and as a result, they beat the stall wart republicans 15-10. john chimkus who is our starting pitcher played an excellent game. and we had a number of energy and commerce republicans, mr. gingrich, dr. gingrich who is here, walked at a key time and later scored. mr. skalise who is here played second base some. and also did some base running and scored. so mr. pitts who he came out and watched the game. [laughter] >> and luckily didn't try to play. although we could have used his bombing skills from the vietnam war. so any way, we raised quite a bit of money for charity and had a good time. and we now see mike doyle and you see that he's grinning from ear to ear, just congratulate him and tell him to take pity on the downtrodden republicans

>> i think as i said before we've already done all lot and i think because the reasons i went out before i'm not mrs. early -- i don't think we need to get into the kind of washington pteron polemic. i think we need to coordinate and i think that this is petraeus doing that with our allies. i think we need to do these together. i don't think it is necessarily productive for the u.s., for the u.s. to be out in front. i think we need to do these together. >> sebelius and any element of engagement, the nuclear issue direct bilateral relation -- to allow these -- iranian protesters would to be able to express their views, to be able to assemble peacefully. these are all very strong statements. >> on the broad level and the trend with iran, the approach toward the nuclear issue on the block level these things are undisturbed by the defense the last few days, correct? >> as i said before right now we are not really focused on the bilateral relationship so much. what we are focused on is what is going on inside iran >> -- what appears to be among the members of the bureaucracy inside iran the?

but as i said earlier, i don't want to mislead you. we're not going to get in and kind of arbitrate disputes between the company and its stake holders. we're going to insist these companies manage themselves in a commercial fashion. >> mr. chairman, of course my time is it is the taxpayers' money they your l

i will tell you right now, i think i am a better political director than my political director.hat is a high level of self- confidence. when you look at what the obama administration has done, they have taken on issue after issue, and each individual issue, they have done it intelligently. i was in afghanistan a few weeks ago. what struck me was that at issue that the people on the ground and afghanistan, the policy they wanted was the policy obama adopted, and very aggressive policy. he has just taken over general motors. he has created an $800 billion stimulus package. he is in the process of remaking the health-care sector, the housing sector, taking over the bank's, very impressive educational reforms. one thing after another, he is doing it all. i am a guy who leans on the cautious side of life. i am a temperamental conservative. i grew up and left wing household. my parents took me to a be-in in the 1960's were hippies would go just to beat. one of the things they did was put a garbage can and this set it on fire and threw their wallets in to demonstrate their liberation f

i firmly believe. >> i appreciate the lecture on jury trials. this does not interfere with jury trials. so that issue is not on the table. senator bachus wouldn't have signed on to this if it was going to eliminate jury trials. so the jury trial issue is not there. in order for any person to even participate in this, both the patient and doctor have to agree to going through this process and on page 4 they can opt out and voluntarily withdraw from participating in the alternative, that's a requirement of it. so that's a false stocking horse there. trial by jury can happen under this bill. we're not going to eliminate trial by you're if they want a trial by jury. now, what i tried to do when i worked with the senator bachus on this bill and what i'm trying to to do now is point out that there is a problem of medical liability driving up costs, otherwise i don't think the president would have made that comment to the american medical association this week. you know, he doesn't just make a lot of extra statements. and that's something they were def

i have a few other things i would like to say that i know everyone will want to read. thank you, mr. chairman. >> thank you, chairman dingell. the gym and from illinois. >> thank you, mr. chairman. doctor hibbert, welcome. i have seen chairman waxman has left the room. i appreciate his comments about there being some discussions. i do have to admit that the discussions that we have had when we point out a point that is correct, they accept. when there is a db of a point, mr. chairman, there does not seem to be any movement in compromiser i would encourage more discussion on some of these issues if we really want this to be a bipartisan bill. you know, the other thing i have trouble with is draft hearings. if we're going to have a legislative hearing let's have the legislation. this is draft legislation. if we had the great draft legislation hearing on climate change and then when the bill came before us, it at 300 additional pages in it. there is fear on our part that this is a sneaky way to say that, we had a legislative hearing, but you really don't have a legislatio