i think i can. i think i can. i think i can. we have to keep telling ourself that we can never give up hope. we tell cancer patients the minute they give up hope, all of a sudden things start quickening, things move in on them and the disease becomes far more difficult to remove. glenn: have we reached a place, a dangerous place to where -- because, as i spoke to this swom, she said, you know, where is mine? where is mine? i said, you have never -- i remember my mother teaching me life isn't fair. nobody has promised you wealth or anything else, but you are meant to be happy. >> that's right. glenn: it's easy for you, a billionaire, to be -- for people to say, well, it's easy for him to be happy. you're a billionaire. what is the secret here, jon? >> well, i don't know that i can give a secret, but i will say this. you said life isn't fair, and you're right. life isn't fair, but we must be fair, and we must tell ourselves within our hearts and our minds and our bodies, our souls, that life isn't fair, that we're going to have tr

i am a cuban refugee. i came here i raft. i can exercise my freedom of speech and freedom of everything. this seminar has given an opportunity to learn about law and the media and out affects everyone. it affects me, my parents, everyone. >> if you make a living asking questions like i do, you do not let somebody say that they can hear on a raft without going into detail. tell us that story. >> i was four years old. it was august 16, 1994. we left that night. we spent four nights and three days at sea, lost. we had no water, no food but luckily, the coast guard came and saved us. we're going to be sent to guantanamo bay but i was very sick. we were given permission by the white house, the government, so i could be taken to the nearest hospital which was key west. from there, we did not have anyone here, no relatives, we were alone. a few months later, we were released and my parents established themselves. they made a living. >> how did they decide to leave cuba? >> things were getting very bad. money was difficult to be made

i thought, well, i would have heard by now, i guess i didn't get it.ut a week later i got a call from harvey, and i screamed. >> larry: harvey weinstein. >> yes, yes. >> larry: nicole, you, how did they get you for "nine"? >> actually, rob told me -- i think we had lunch or coffee or something. and he said that anthony magilla had written the role for me. >> larry: he wrote it for you? >> yeah. >> larry: so you had to do it because he wrote it for you. >> i had to because i wanted to work with rob and anthony was one of my dearest friends. so yeah. >> larry: marion, how did they get you? >> well, i auditioned, too. >> larry: you had to audition? >> first audition was singing. >> for judi's role. >> yeah. it was for judi's role actually. i sang claudia's song. >> exactly. we cast -- we were casting before we started writing so we weren't sure exactly who was going to play what. >> lilli is french. >> lili sings a french song. so we thought maybe that. we weren't sure. >> larry: the star had to audition? >> i didn't know she could really sing or dance. >

when i was a little child i would say this is how i like to draw up. people say you were talented as a child. not necessarily. no television or computer sell sometimes if they want a child to be quiet if they would give them a pencil. i don't think it happened like that but i needed to start a book so that is the reason. [laughter] i was surrounded by a living family by assuring a contrast to a public life and private life because both parents are artist and encouraged us to drop and reducing its with the situation has come to our mind because looking at the harmony at least as i remember. my father was drafted in the army because he was a filmmaker he was sent to china because the chinese government and the time is country how to teach a documentary film sell i thought the 70 year-old man who went to china now he knows where china is a little is happening but at that time it was so far away it took many, many weeks and we all the new the chinese people eat with chopsticks and i thought he was gone for many years and as an adult wireless discovered he

i was 18 years when i started the course. did well, and was commissioned in 1945, august of 1945, second lieutenant of infantry and sent to join the 93rd division. at that time i was 19 years old. i joined the 369th infantry regiment just north of north guinea after the end of world war ii. now, some of you old time, and i use that term very politely, can appreciate the anomaly that the 93rd division and the 31s 31st division nicknamed dixie division were a signed to the same outfit throughout the war. i have yet to find anyone who can tell me why that happened that way. i was separated from active-duty a year later, in november of 1946, but stayed in the reserves. i interviewed college in february of 1947. memuelle berg -- i entered as te first black student as a premed major. i lost my football scholarship by which i got in to college. a couple months later, due to an injury. in july of 1948, some 18 month after, i arrived to mullenberg, i was at aberdeen proving ground as an army reservist as an active-duty for training, e

i learned -- i lrned the ste, i ink, from teaching. >> charlie: that's what i want to ask you. did you learn to write? >> i leard -- i learned -- i ve a granddauger -- she was about two when shevisited me when i was beginning -- and i reized, i was watchinger learn how she would take word anput it away in her -- "chair," ara, and that word was in her memy bank, and how when you talk to enagers, when you're a teacher, you have to be clear andirect andsimple beuse they have no patience, and for 27 yrs i hato be clear andirect. >> it's not about a gre career it's the facthat i have be able to continue doi something thatnterests me and that keeps being interesting regardls of my particular infirmities. >> charlie: and whats it that kes it interesting for you? >> because i keep finding things about life and people that i didn't know about. >> crlie: like what? i mean -- in -- you mean- like at? >> likthrough working wit -- well, working with dancers, as i have done all my lif of course but in way to not only have a situatioin which we can do o work but the y we work together -- that

>> i would like to get a bit more into detail in a minute but before i do that, if i could come back to the question of sanctions and containment. from 1991 onwards we have a policy of containment beyond sanctions, in number of different elements, trade sanctions were part of that which you were talking about earlier. another part of it was the un embargo on the export of defense material to iraq, no-fly zones are another part, and the stationing of coalition forces including british forces in neighboring countries. it was all part of this policy of containment. by 2001, what had that achieved? was it the same? >> yes. it had certainly stopped him from acquiring material. he had an ambition earlier to have nuclear weapons. we were pretty confident that his ambitions had been constrained. they certainly weren't eliminated. there were many aspects of things he was engaged upon that were contrary to the sanctions. he was trying to extend the range of one of his existing missiles. he was trying to develop long-range missiles. inspectors found casings and engines that were larger than was

i thought -- when i finished i cried and then i said, gayle haggard is a combination of mother teresa and margaret thatcher and golda meir. she's a strong woman with compassion and love. >> larry: we're going to ask gayle when we come back what was the hardest thing to forgive. "why i stayed: the choices i made in my darkest hour." the author is gayle haggard here with her husband, ted. [ male announcer ] welcome to the now network, population 49 million. right now 1.2 million people are on sprint mobile broadband. 31 are streaming a sales conference from the road. 154 are tracking shipments on a train. 33 are iming on a ferry. and 1300 are secretly checking email on vacation. that's happening now. america's most dependable 3g network. bringing you the first and only wireless 4g network. right now get a free 3g/4g device for your laptop. sprint. the now network. deaf, hard-of-hearing and people with speech disabilitie. diarrhea, constipation, gas, bloating. that's me! can i tell you what a difference phillips' colon health has made? it's the probiotics. the good bacteria. that gets yo

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>> i thought it was a movie really. i thought i was trying to get kurt up. when kurt got up and we turned the deck lights on, i mean, one motor was half underwater and, i mean, there wasn't -- there wasn't a whole lot we could do. it just flipped over. >> so who had the presence of mind to grab the gum, the chakers, the chips, the beer so you would have something to eat? >> we didn't really grab that stuff. if we had grabbed some more, we probably could have lasted a few more days. but everything that we had was locked in the boat. i mean, it was in compartments in the boat that was locked down. >> so how did you guys get do it? >> kurt swam underneath the boat and got it out. >> okay. so let's talk about that. so, obviously, the night -- you're living a nightmare at this point. you're capsized in the middle of the gulf. and you're going to live on gum, crackers, beer. what about water? what did you guys do for water? you're living in it at this point but what did you do about drinking it? >> we had two gallons of water and we found three cases of beer but t

you know, as i think about what i saw a year ago and what i hope to see in a few days when i go back gaza, a reporter asked me a year later, keith, what has been done? it seems to me, speaking from the reporter's perspective, that nothing has changed. my response to the reporter was, we'd be fortunate if nothing had changed. it's gotten worse.mk> the fact is that since operation cass led, the factories that we toured that were bombed out and destroyed clearly have not opened again the hundreds of people that were working in a particular biscuit factory are still unemployed. a group of men that i walked up and i was talking to had constructed like a little hut from a cinder blocks. i wouldn't be surprised if those same fellows were about the same age as i am, you know, they got kids to think about, wives to care for. and families to think about. they're probably still not working at this very moment. i went into a grocery store. and i was told there was a shortage of shekells in the economy, just paper notes. they just did not have enough so i decided, you know -- you know, to buy so

i know once i start listing everyone, i know i will forget someone. so i will stop right there.another opportunity for you to ask questions. senator merkely will be in corvallis on friday the 15th, 11:00 a.m. at the fair grounds. commissioner j. dixon will go over the format for asking questions. jay, what do come for? >> i will do from here. you should have received a ticket. then we would ask the questions in that order. if he did not receive a ticket, we will come by and make sure you have one. keep your questions as concise as possible. we would like to have the senator to have the opportunity to speak about as many issues as possible. if someone before you has asked the same question that you have, there is no need to repeat it. one of these questions is probably sufficient. so, i am going to call the first two numbers. when i call your number, raise your hand. the first number is 784. >> this is to get ready. and then it will introduce the senator. >> and then 775. >> thank you. i would like to introduce senator ron wyden. he serves on the energy and national resources com

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i travel all over the country. i have a motor home and i am retired and i talk to people.ngry people out there. in any event, thank you for answering my letters. i wrote you a letter asking how many federal prisons you think we will have to have when people do not pay the premium if the health care gets passed and go to jail. there will be a lot of people in jail. on a humorous note, i wrote you a letter asking you to run nancy pelosi out of town on a rail. how come you have not done that? [applause] i do not expect an answer to that. that is just a little humorous note. >> just so you'll know, i read every letter we get. it takes a lot of time. that is why it takes time to get back to you. i have people reading letters every day, but i want to read them. they did not get elected, i did. when you don't get a response, it is not because one is not coming. it is slow because i am slow. i am going to read them and make sure that the answer is what i think and not some 24-year-old. [applause] i want to address the issue he raised. our country is worried today. we should be. we

i hope i never have to write about myself again.would you want to sit down and write about your self day after day? >> not particularly. >> no. i wanted to have my voice heard on so many of the questions asked of me the last year. people saying why you do that? i heard through the press that you did this? i'm like no i'll tell you the truth. here's how things unfolded unfiltered i to put words on paper and let people know the true story. >> up next governor palin gets personal. she gives you the inside story about that three week period when she knew her son trigg had down syndrome and couldn't tell her husband. a tough time. does governor palin thinks she is victim of sexism? what does she say about that red special about sarah palin. >> greta: governor palin seems to have found her favorite way to express herself. not traditional. facebook you are now speaking to people on facebook are you actually doing this? do you have a staff? >> i have a small staff. no, i'm actually doing it. >> you have a very small staff. >> this morning i

i thought i had a grasp on it. i know longer do. and the reason that i don't is that the craft has changed so dramatically in recent years that it's impossible to know exactly what it was, what it is, and where it is going. and i admit to my difficulty upfront with you. when steve and i worked in this business, i think we each knew who we were and what hour responsibilities were. -- our responsibilities were. but today i find it very difficult when i watch cable news difficulty, to find out who the journalists are. for example, can i say with both candor and certainty that larry king is a journalist? i cannot. and yet news is committed on his program. there are people who come on to his program and actually make news. so you can say, well, if news is made there, why isn't he a news man? and in a way he is, but is that the same thing as ted koppel or steve bell working as reporters covering wars, covering political campaigns and the answer has to be no. there is a very marked difference. so then what is the difference? how is one to

>> i am a real barney frank van. i feel like i know him reasonably well. recall that i spent a lot of years in boston and ran a financial services company. he chairs the financial-services committee. i had the chance to visit with him in the past. i have gotten to know his staff quite well. i am a real admirer of congressman frank. he is incredibly bright. he is committed. he is a true public servant. he really cares. i admire him greatly. secondly, in my speech, i talked about the fact that freddie mac is not a decision maker. we don't even get to lobby or advocate. that is precluded in our current state. not a decision maker. i totally get that the house financial-services committee chaired by congressman frank is a decision maker. a very important decision maker that will be heavily involved in the decision as to what happens to the gse's. i do have to say that friday was not my best day. either in my life for at freddie mac. because i am an investment person, i do pay attention to a bloomberg. that is a news lifeline for those in the investment busines

♪ ♪ i know i know i know i shoulda gone to ♪ ♪ free credit report dot com!da gone! coulda got my knowledge on! ♪ ♪ vo: free credit score and report with enrollment in triple advantage. (announcer) we understand. you want to grow internationally. who's not answering. announcer: there's a better way. intuit quickbooks online p9 organizes your business in one place, and helps you stay on top of your business anytime, anywhere. get a 30-day free trial at intuit.com. >>> already an established film director. everybody knew him. >> he was the roman polanski. >> the future was his. we thought. then everything just collapsed. >> we didn't perceive having intercourse with a 13-year-old girl as against the law. >> the fact of polanski leaving the country seems to have eclipsed what actually happened to the system of justice. >> larry: that was a clip from the hbo documentary "roman polans polanski." still a wanted man. he pled guilty in august of 1977 to having unlawful sex with a then-13-year-old girl. he was 43 at the time. prosecutor in l.a. dropped all the charges

i mean, i could have used one of dozens.but the one i chose it from was the address of the general assembly, in which you can see his priorities. and to speak of the cold war divisions, sort of arbitrary and not to see how rooted they were in the fundamental values of the united states and the west, as cleavages of some obsolete conflict, is simply staggering. but it tells you a lot about his worldview. and i thought the berlin event was very, very telling. particularly, as you say, leaving out the great figures that reagan, thatcher, pope john paul, sharansky, sakharov, and others. gorbachev was the hapless caretaker. to his credit come he didn't shoot people in the streets. that's the only -- and i give him credit, because you have to make a choice. but the unraveling was our doing. and it was the pressure that was applied relentlessly. and i would remind people who don't remember then, everyone now is a post-cold war cold war your. like in france, the ones who are underground after the war. people forget in the 1980s, the

>> i feel that i have changed. i will be honest with you. have changed because as you correctly said, this is a special kind of responsibility. even before this position, i felt some -- i have held some very responsible positions. even those positions are held before, when you have the maximum responsibility, it changes your nature, your world view, and many other things. as a human being, i have not changed that much. >> you have repeatedly demonstrated your affection for british rock. you have even attended a concert by legendary band. do you like any music that your son likes? >> he will listen to classical rock as well. he is 14 now. he is a fan of alternative rock. i understand very little about it. certain bands i do know. there is a band called linkin park. he also listens to a time machine. -- he also listens to a time machine. >> how are you going to spend the new year? >> airtime on the air is contracting vigorously. -- our time on the air is contracting vigorously. >> the time is running out. i would like to ask you who the person

i am and -- i am focusing on this and i am not -- i do not have an unpaid -- i do not have an opinion on where he should be charged. >> the christmas bombing was providing information that was necessary to try to crack this case. when he got a lawyer, he immediately stopped that information. that is according to public documents. i do not have any classified information. if that is the case, i think it is a terrible mistake. i think it is a terrible, terrible mistake when it is pretty clear that this individual did not act alone. admiral bellalair, in your testimony before the committee, you said that he would withhold judgment on whether the intelligence reform act provided that the nai with sufficient authority. -- the dni had sufficient authority. >> senator mccain, has this job continues, it has been five years now cents the director of national intelligence was established. i find that you discover new things that you have to fix as you go along. this incident is exposing some of those. the authorities of the dni heretofore were to be able to make the big pieces happen. there was

i think, i like to build. this is a square building go into a dome, done by my friend and neighbor, greg smith. >> i don't like to write in the evening, and less i have to do something for england. of course, you know, england is eight hours from here forward. if you're going to get something onto someone's desk by eight in the morning, then you can't do it in till late at night. but that's the shape of my day. it's not particularly my flightn the telephone to three or four people up in olympia, washington, who also does the editing on the books. our business operations are run right here by becky grant and dana wheeler. counterpunch books, we started b that we wanted to keep. our web stuff on the counterpunch site doesn't go et al. about the backside of mars or somewhere in the vast set of black gold, old internety all up in some government archive. god help the people have to go through it. but we felt we wanted to put them in hardcovers which began with a book about politics. we felt it important to have co

>> i have not done that. i could if i wanted to. on very few occasions have i said i would like that case probabl. probably three times i may have done that. i take what i am given. both of the chiefs i have served under try to be fair in giving you both good ones and dogs. sometimes what they think is a good opinion is not what you think is a good opinion. she justice rehnquist used to love for the men in cases involving searches and seizures. i just hate those. it is almost a jury question whether this variation is an unreasonable search and seizure. i will write the opinion, but i do not consider it a plum. >> you are a writer. you have written three books now, is that correct? >> no, two. >you do not want to be an appellate judge if you are no good at writing. >> do you enjoy the riding of opinions in the exchange of precise words? >> i do not enjoy writing, i enjoy having written. i find writing a very difficult process. i sweat over it. i write and write and write again. i will read it one last time, and i and my grasp and sit

>> i think in retrospect i wish i had known, frankly. but after november 24th i appropriately removed myself from decisions about a whole range of policy issues the fed was dealing with, but the people that were making those decisions in close consultation with people in washington and with legal counsel, are people of great judgment and enormous integrity and i have enormous trust and confidence, not just in their judgment, but in the quality of the decisions they made throughout that period of time. >> do you feel today that at the time they made the decision to do the cover-up, the disclosure issue, that they felt you did not want to know about it at the time? do you think they made a decision that -- >> i do not -- in my entire time there i was never aware of a situation in which my colleagues sought to shield me from something. i was president of the new york fed. i was going to be accountable for decisions made on my watch. but after the 24th, for reasons that i think are fair and right for the institution, i could no longer run th

i lose track how much i fly because i have to work out of town. there are things that i see really need to be cracked down on. i am very much in agreement with the scanner. >> host: thanks for your call. >> guest: i think she's, the caller is pointing out something a lot of people are saying which is the system is very imperfect and there's a lot of, there's a lot of, lapses that happen. it is clear also that, you know, i talked to, for example, a former senior official in the government who told me that, he and his family were detained at the airport, searched, simply because they found he had traveled to afghanistan. now that person is searched and, scrutinized but then other people are not. so there is clearly some ways to improve the system. >> host: we're talking with evan perez of "the wall street journal" about terrorism and homeland security. and also the president's meeting this afternoon as well as his announcement later today from the white house. our next call comes from bryson city, north carolina, on our line for independents. justin

>> i made that decision, and i am going to stick with it. primary voters are going to be the one to choose. the fact is some people have understood what an endorsement means. else. some have misunderstood what our endorsement means. it does not mean we will claw money into a contested primary there -- ploughing money into a contested primary. iguest: could that set up rubio to run as an independent or third-party? guest: no. rubio is going to be running in the republican primary. i think his chances are better now than they have been at any point earlier. and i hope that all of our candidates when they run and the primary will commit to supporting the republican nominee whether they win or lose. we will see, but certainly, i think that is where they can have the biggest impact in the primary. and in the general election as a nominee. guest: i want to switch gears to the supreme court decision which had tremendous impact on you and your canada. -- your candidate. by letting unions directly contribute, it takes party committees like yours of t

i have to go there. i will go there. and it was another story that we are talking about that you mentioned, remember what my father discussion with -- i think it was the director of the cia when he offered him to exchange least of our spies. >> guest: he said they share the same spies and they should probably pay them once for the same information. he was a very funnyman i gather. >> host: but he believed, no trust there to say in human intelligence, as he told me, americans doing the same as our spies. so why do we pay them twice? and it was all these stories about khrushchev promise, you know when nixon went to the soviet union in 59 to open the exhibition in july 24, he wrote especially looks through all these problems of khrushchev choosing and trying to find a sense. and he -- he was good as it was translated, because one of the translations was show you, that mean nothing. but in russia some joking, and he's looking to translator how he'd look at this. when they adjusted to this, he used a nether joke that each sni

i am delighted to hear that. i did not know it. i think we hear a lot about how government does not work very well today, how dysfunctional it is. this is been an area where the legislative branch and the executive branch have failed, flat out failed. we have had this challenge now for a good part of a decade or maybe more. neither president, bush nor obama, has dealt with it, and the congress is not dealt with it. i am delighted to know that you're doing this. i think it is a very tough bill draft. the important characteristic that is needed in the bill, however the details are any of got to look to lawyers who know a lot more about it than i do for the details, but the law has to be perceived as being fair. perceived by americans is being fair, whatever that may mean, perceived by the foreign and international community as being fair. i think that is what you have to strive for. that does not mean you give them all the rights of the american citizen. i am not arguing that. but senator, i applaud the initiative. i think this is be

i tried to be as balanced as i can

because when i look at the taxes that i pay at the -- when i look at the taxes that i pay at the endhe day, i see that they have to be cut because i support a family. and everybody else here does too. >> mr. brown? >> thank you very much. and i want to thank you both for participating. i want to thank you for having this as well and being here, david. i'm hopeful that people will get to know me more than the globe and the other media outlets have portrayed me. they've done a pretty good job but there's a lot more. and it's kind of hard to talk about but this race has made me reflect -- i didn't come from a lot of money. my parents have divorced a few times. my mom was on welfare for a period of time and i really came from nothing and i worked my way up and i have two beautiful daughters, a loving wife of 23 years. and i've been serving this state, the state that i love. i was raised here and i will probably die here and the thing that i have loved about this race is the fact that i've been able to travel all around the state and meet some great people, see some great businesses and k

a lot of times i go to the doctor and i just do what i am told i don't know what he is doing. i don't know whether this test was necessary, or whether we could have had the test that i took six months ago e-mailed to the doctors said that i would not have to take another test and pay for another test. there are all of these methods of trying to reduce costs. that is what we have been trying to do. i guess what is a, as i said in my opening remarks, -- i just want to say, as i said in my opening remarks, that the process has been less than pretty. when you are dealing with 535 members of congress, it will be a somewhat ugly process, not necessarily because any individual member of congress is trying to do something wrong. it is just that they may have different ideas, different interests, have a particular issue of the hospital in their district that they want to make sure that they can get dealt with, and this may be the best vehicle for doing it. they are looking out for their constituents a lot of times. but when you put it all together, it looks like this monstrosity. and m

i am calling -- good morning. host: good morning, sir. in a what, at work, you need to turn the phone down -- a reminder to everybody is to turn the television down, excuse me, or else you will have a hard time hearing me. we will return to your phone call in a minute. reaction at capitol hill. we will begin with the minority leader in the house, john boehner. here is what he had to say. >> i think the supreme court decisions today are a big win for the first amendment and a step in the right direction. i have always believed that sunshine was the best disinfectant. when you look at our campaign finance system and what happened under mccain fine gold -- feingold we put money out of the light into the dark. the money was still being spent but no one could see where it was coming from. i think what they do in virginia is the most sensible way to have a real campaign finance reform. have no limits, but allow every dime spent on behalf of a candidate or issue to be published so that the americ

i i i i i i i i i i i constitutionality of the healthcare bill wednesday at the national press club. this runs about an hour. we'll show you what we can until the state department briefing on haiti gets underway scheduled now for 11:30 eastern. >> thank you all for joining us at the national press club today. my name is mark. i'm the washington correspondent for work force management, a business magazine published by crane communications. and i am chair of the national news -- national press club newsmakers committee. however, one time coming near the end of my tenure. and in three days the new chair who is with us today. he's a member of the club, of course. he's going to be the newsmakers chair for 2010. he writes for india today group and i also want to thank matt of advocatus group, a press club member who's helped us put together today's timely newsmaker. and today we are going to address the healthcare reform bill that is the subject of negotiations right now between the house and senate. we are pleased to welcome to the national press club south carolina attorney general henry

engine so i can do proximity, so i can do adjacency, so i can do many more things that i can't do right now. all i can do is put in some words. i want this word in the title, this word in the first paragraph and maybe these two words together in the third paragraph. that's what i want. i don't care what sally is reading. [laughter] i can look on her facebook page. that isn't what i use google books four. >> those are good suggestions and it comes down to the different use case -- >> it comes back to the previous speaker with usability, like where you get this input from? i'm sure you see the popularity of facebook and go that's great that's do that with google books but i don't know that is what many people want google books for. they wanted more 40 research database i think. and even if -- or use it like an index. i can fight a snippet of i think i can get that book for interim library and then use that to answer the question. >> definitely a scholars are power users and we need to continue to meet those needs. there's a difference if users the would be nice just you want to find a fro

i don't know who i will vote for.he one thing i did not like about scott brown during the debate -- he seemed a little condescending. maybe a little overbearing. i did not personally like it. other than that he has run a great campaign. he deserves to win, but coakley does not. come to find other issues from north adams and i did not even know that. host: ok. guest: i were to some notes here. i think that the caller makes a good point. it is always troubling and karen would agree -- going into the last 72 hours contending that enthusiasm gap. the last few days and this week and have shown that the republican campaign scott brown's campaign, is very confident, aggressive, going on the offense. coakley's campaign has been flailing. it is never a good sign. what mark saw in massachusetts is an enthusiasm gap which is hard to overcome in the last few days. as an independent voter, that is one of the things as republicans we do seek. an incredible opportunity that many independents lining with republican sentiment against

i will revere the post i have taken.e the new city council members and the city comptroller. having served in both of those positions, i know the challenges and opportunities that they face. i salute their service to our city. this is a good counsel. truly representative of our city. and its diversity. so, please honor them again. [applause] there will be times when we disagree on how to view success. but understand each of us is here because we cared deeply about this city and we will bring our best forward. i look forward to working with you. this is an opportunity for me to welcome my extended family and acknowledged the family members that i have here down on the front row. starting with my mother, kay parker. [applause] i cannot quite see them, but i know they are there. our children. please stand. [applause] yes, our family also looks a bit like houston. [laughter] my sister, allison, in from georgia, and three of her four children, please rise. [applause] my sister-in-law, her husband, and their son as well. pleas

i thought i had a grasp on its. and no longer do and the reason that i don't is that the craft has changed so dramatically. the in recent years that it's impossible to know exactly what it was, what is, and where is going. and i admit to my difficulty up front with you with. when steve and i worked in this business, i think we each knew who we were and what our responsibilities were a. today i find it very difficult when i watch cable news particularly to find out who's a journalist arm. for example of can i say with both candor and certainty that larry king is a journalist? and i cannot. and yet news is committed on his program. they're people who come onto his program and actually make news so you can say, if news is made in their then why isn't he a newsman in in a way he is. it is that the same thing as ted koppel or steve bell of working as reporters covering wars, covering political campaigns and the answer has to be known. there is a very marked difference. so then what is the difference? how is one to define

i thought i very elegantly done.but the issue of course is whether a very gradual improvement is tolerable and is not what is to be done about it. and skip over a few things but i can't post on subjects without congratulating him in his final remarks invoking the spirit of making a crucial point that. the stability of the two instability and also for her, i think, making the point that monetary policy is a blunt instrument in this matter. as my old boss, henry burris coming is to say is what we need is the rifle shot of regulation, not the blunderbuss of higher interest rates to deal with these questions. alan krueger stated the economy is not good enough albeit better than it would have then without the three pillars of financial stabilization, the housing program, and particularly the ara. those are all important but i would argue that they are perhaps even secondary to a fact or not gets mentioned on the panel, which is the effect of the overwhelming importance of the automatic stabilizers. we only live the stable

>> i said i don't personally.t i understand that he's being tried now in federal court because he wasn't tried in a military tribunal. i said the attorney's general decision on where. we've done it successfully many times. we made the decision where to go. if he is found guilty, he's not going to be walking down the streets ofman hat a tan. we will face the death penalty. that is the law of the land. i support it, but i do not agree it. >> he was treats as -- >> why didn't they bring him? >> he was interrogated and of found valuable information. by lawyering him up at our expense, knock that all off. and it's problematic. that's another difference. >> let's move on to the next round. i'm going to come back and ask the candidates a couple more rounds of questions. then we're going to have time for closing statements. i would like to ask each of you this time to be directed individually to you. and i'd like to raise some concerns that have been out there on the campaign trail. but if you could answer a couple of que

i have a way i think is the best. it's supported by, you know, many in the environmental community, many in the business community. i have here a letter signed -- which i would ask to place in the record -- of 80 businesses that just took outer an ad and said, let's get on with it. and they want to set up the type of system that i do, wilds give maximum flexibility to business. and i will like to put that in the record, mr. president. the presiding officer: without objection. it is so ordered. mrs. boxer: and we have many mayors. we had our 1,000th mayor say, get won it. let's get the job done. and senator murkowski laid out various ways that we have people working. she left out one way -- the house-passed bill, the senate environment and public works had an overwhelming majority for our approach. we have senators kerry, grawrnlings and lieberman -- and i support qula they're doing -- trying to find the 60 votes so we can have the kind of bipartisanship that senator murkowski lauds. we have senators cantwell and colli

i asked mr. frank of he could run the tape, what would he have had in place and he said well we didn't have the ability to regulate the things that by the rye and costello this. no, well those things which were lacking for mr. franks observation, will they be forthcoming? >> to some extent. i think what he is referring to probably wear various things which were in in place, which franks legislation in the obama legislation to put in place, the ability to wind down big banks, the fdic didn't really have their big commercial banks that could do it but lehman brothers or goldman sachs or morgan stanley. no, there were various one so they didn't have that capacity. that is why have they had to bail them out. there was a special bankruptcy, a government controlled bankruptcy. in terms of regulatory oversight you are right there were large elements in the financial system outside of the regulation system derivatives being one example but also mortgages because they were regulated at the state level, an

, and i know i lost my parents when i was young.i got so security that helped me go to college. so i understand its importance in people's lives. i understand the importance of medicare in people's lives. i have seen in my own family. . . @ @ @ ,b number of people who are eligible for these programs, you're going to have to do something on the revenue side as well. so i again welcome you to the committee. and again, thank you for you and your team's extraordinary work your team's extraordinary work during t many months. >> thank you, mr. chairman and senator gregg for your very kind words about our work at cbo. exactly one year today i testified before this committee for the first time. as the newly-minted director of the congressional budget office. and on behalf of all of us at cbo, i want to express the appreciation for the support that senator conrad and senator gregg have shown for our work over the past year, it means a great deal to us. to you and all the members of the committee, i appreciate the invitation to testify today

i saw it where i voted.he african american community come out and supported him because they were prideful. after that, they went home. they are not going to get involved in the 2010 elections. the democrat also take a hit and the rich will keep on doing what they are doing. they browbeat everything down. i don't see anything around it. i'd like to see the way the fellow gets up there. host: a twitter message on all of this. one viewer writes tone is not the problem. people seem to be entitled to their own facts unchallenged by the media. that tone is moot. we'll go to the telephone. caller: good morning. happy new year. the tone has changed but not for the positive. the problem is they are running out of things to blame on bush. obama and his appearance to do what he cares about. the democrat controlled congress rahming it down the american people's throats. i think democrats in this next election will take it on the chin probably as badly as they did in 1994. >> happy new year. pictures of two democrats. h

i have a comment i want to say.iate the work you do and would like to know if there is any legislation but says the bill cannot be changed or amended. is that constitutional? where does the stand? >> you are talking about the language of legislation? >> right, where nothing can be changed, and i think that this kind of scary. >> when congress may not find another congress. if people's representatives want to do something different, they can do it kerrigan are have read reports about this. let me say there is a practical part of this. i believe that while there would be much that could be done, there would be legal challenges. if republicans took the house in 2010 and came back into power, much that could be done. there is much that would be hard to undo. the truth is the reason this bill passed tuesday stopped now is because once you've set of these exchanges, once businesses began canceling their health insurance for employees, and these have of premium support and everybody is starting to be frustrated because sca

i said, that is fine. i campaigned for her. i knew her well. and dick had sure -- and we knew where she came from. that is how that all happened. if i could add one other, our discussion. first of all, i would like to think the doctor from the woodrow wilson center for being here throughout this entire hearing. i know she has a lot of events here, and this is very impressive to me. let's give her a round of applause. [applause] you know, we have done some excellent calls to rihanna address ourselves, motivate ourselves -- to reenergize ourselves and motivate ourselves. in the last three speakers made me make this suggestion to you. and that is that king is one of the most unusually gifted people of all time. here was a person that began as the minister, but it was his philosophy, his politics, his understanding of economics and legal justice that really superseded his original calling. his father was a minister, and he was naturally destined to be a minister. but dr. king had an insight that transcended his religious convictions, although it is

can i make two points if i may. of all but the chicago speech to chicago speech was important and what the prime minister was seeking to do in chicago in that speech was to alert the world to the fact that we had been too tolerant of situations which are posing a threat to international peace sensitivity through internal repression and humanitarian disaster and it is fair to say it took iraq and what amounted to the catharsis and system that followed that that we had the high level working groups set up by kofi annan and that has led not to the change in the charter but it leads to a broad agreement about what is now called the responsibility to protect it in a wider sense of the responsibilities of the security council and 20 blair needs to be credited with getting that going. the second thing to has been a context will analysis of speech tony blair made at crawford that if you read the speech he talks about regime change in general and there's a couple of paragraphs later he goes on to talk about iraq and when he'

i was not sure i would get a visa. i found this archive with great difficulty. was freezing cold, there. there were nine folders of material. >> do you speak russian? >> i do. >> where did that start? >> that started in the british army. while i was in the british army, i had done rather well in languages at school. it is rather like the courses that were taught in monterey. the absurd thing is that i spent almost the entire time of my national service studying russian. i never used it in any practical way, but it changed my life. i then went to university and got my first degree in russian. >> where? >> at nottingham university. >> you were born in britain? >> yes. after working in the former yugoslavia, i came to graduate school at columbia and studied russian at columbia. although i went back to the u.k. after four years, it planted a seed. i published papers on censorship and came here to get circulation and to raise money for foundations. after writing one of my books, it was such a huge success that i began to get job offers and so i moved. in fact, none o

>> well, i realized that i was always hoping for a rescue, but i realized that i may not have that opportunity, that might not be god's plan for me at that time. so i had a camera with me and i was able to use the light from the focus on the camera to shine on a page and write a couple lines and move my finger down and write a couple more lines. i wanted to say to my wife and kids the things i would want them to carry with them if i wasn't able to get out. >> larry: christy, have you seen those notes? >> i've seen some of them. yes. >> larry: what were you going through -- what did you say, dan? >> i'm not ready to share them all yet. we're still working through some of that. >> larry: all right. christy, what was it like for you? did you give up hope? >> i did in the end. i did give up hope because -- oh, gosh, i just kept crying out to god. i didn't know if dan was in heaven or in haiti and i went from times of despair to times of hope, but it was hard to go back and forth and then we have two young sons and hard to stay strong for them and say daddy's coming home, daddy's coming home and th

i think i can be helpful.hat's why i'm here. >> larry: giles, how is your family and how is your residence? >> my family is fine. actually, the kids are here. they're lying here on the floor. there's a lot of periodic aftershocks as was mentioned earlier by watson and, i think, mr. anderson cooper. so far, the house hasn't been as damaged as others. i've been fortunate and blessed. but i cannot say the same for others. a lot of people have been hurt. i took the liberty of going down through the middle of town today, through delma. there are a lot of corpses all over the streets and sidewalks. i think it's unfortunate. this disaster is of cataclysmic proportions. it has been 200 years since we've had a major earthquake like this one. so i think the response has not been swift and prompt as it should have been even at the local level. we should have had basic coordination, cohesion and coherence of what needed to be done to assist the people. shelters and at least basic information on what to do, getting basic c