i believe i'll go to heaven, but i suppose i could go either way, couldn't i?n outspoken advocate of gay rights. why do you think there is such an appeal between you and the gay community? you for them, they for you. why? >> well, i can speak for myself in that my admiration for the gay community comes from an incredibly steadfast and joyful courage and bravery that they have for one another, for their community. to be gay and to live openly in this society is something that requires a tremendous amount of strength and steadfastness. and i admire that, and i envy it in so many ways because it's something that i as a woman do not always wholeheartedly possess. and i think that my connection to them has also been just symbiotic and mutual. they know how much i love them. and my music in so many ways, my friends since i was very young, they were all gay. and they were always my closest friends, my purest friendships. gay men never wanted anything from me. but my love and my friendship. it's very different than your relationships with straight men. so i suppose it'

i love what i do. it was time. >> as long as it is coming from meal and not dictated by "the new york times." >> i did the 25th anniversary week. plus mac i am flying home from a week, and i'm thinking to myself. i have done a 50,000 interviews. i am never going to talk this. i want to go out on new horizons and try other things. i would like to stay in some way with cnn. this will thing was put together an four or five days. and i am here and ready to carry on. i will be on tomorrow night. >> he did not understand her. who understands her? >> i liked her. >> who else gets her to come on the show? i never saw or anywhere else. >> we got you a lot. >> i saw her wearing an aquarium on her head. i never saw our state to another human being. i have no idea what she was like before she talked with you. >> i want the staff to retain their jobs, but more time with the wife, more time with the kids and more time to do other things. and other words, i can do things now i was not able to do before. it is nice, t

i am not sure i have an answer. if your read teaming another event, how quickly you get the question of whether you need an inquiry to find out what went wrong and who's head needs to roll. maybe the question should be -- would we have taken this bet years ago? there is an informal network of services that have helped to decimate this adversary. i think you would have set i will take that back in a heartbeat. if you would have given me that wager, i would have wanted to odds in las vegas. keep cool and say, we would have taken this baet nine years ago. creates another acronym. role some warheads. i don't care anymore. i'm not given an answer -- world some more heads. you have to be mature in the face of anniversary. stand-up. realize that sometimes when you're playing defense for nine years, somebody may slip through. man up and move on. and mourn the dead. these are victims of murder. the families that are destroyed by a 17-year-old kid, like a kid from georgia. that kid is a plodder. his life is destroyed now, too

and i did what i did for them, but i can say that i always wondered if i really ought to come to this beach because i was only here for nine hours. true, i did get five purple hearts while i was here, but i was worried to come back and say i landed here because i had to be evacuated. that special something that makes up the united states army can't be described to us in detail. but when you walk among those 10,000 crosses in that cemetery, crosses of the star of david, and you realize that those heroes laying beneath that ground are exactly like those heroes who stand on the wall in the defense of liberty in iraq and afghanistan today, our soldiers today are exactly like those in the greatest generation. they sacrifice everything. i'm proud to represent the 31st congressional district, which is the home of fort hood. every soldier at fort hood has been deployed multiple times, and they never complain. they just do the job. we americans, wherever we are, in this house where we're so blessed to be able to serve, or around the world should every day stop to -- and say thank you to the un

i mean -- >> i think i have more. >> larry: he has more? >> i think i have more. like a drug for me. love what i do. >> larry: so you would work, if they booked you more, you'd work more? >> oh, yeah. when i could put two thoughts together as a child, i knew that's what i wanted to do. there was never a question. and i say in the documentary, well, maybe i'll be this, maybe i'll be that. always, that's where i'm going. didn't know how i was going to get there, but that's where i was going. >> larry: we're back with joan rivers in a moment, the book -- the book, she's done everything. the movie is "a piece of work" and you'll love it. heel pressure. high arches. (announcer) people everywhere are discovering what's going on with their feet. dr. scholl's custom fit orthotic center. backed by foot care scientists, its foot mapping technology identifies the areas you put pressure on then recommends the right orthotic. for locations see drscholls.com. i know who works differently than many other allergy medications. hoo? omnaris. [ men ] omnaris -- to the nose! [ man ]

i did not check, i did not check, but i think we made it.er] but i'm also here as a californian that is disgusted with the awful mess in sacramento and the politicians and the wall street bankers that got us there. rather than give an election night speech, i am going to speak from my heart about the serious problems that we're really facing. honestly, the last thing on my mind in this age of my life was running for governor of california. i thought about what was the right path. i looked at the parties and the truth is, i believe that i can fix it. not overnight, it took too long to get here, but i believe that if we pull together, we can fix things and fix it we will. without -- with your help, that is what we're going to do. i know how sacramento works and how it should work. i have the preparation, the know-how, and the independence to challenge the status quo and get our legislators to work together as californians first and as members of of political party said it. i did that as governor, i did it as mayor, and god willing, i will do i

i wish i knew who was. i don't think it is been a systemic failure. >> have you looked at the sec public reports? >> no, i have not. >> mr. mcdaniel, much can be said about the tone at the top. can you just tell me what outcomes and results you value most from your company? >> similar to our markets and made a few minutes ago, viously i want to have a very successful business. and i believe the way to have a successful businesseto have high-quality products and services, in this case, ratings and related research. it does nothing for our business to focus on the short run and cut corners. and as i said, that is whyt is so deeply disappointing to of had the experience that we've had in the mortgage related securities areas. >> part the product and service, what one value would youbuy a the most pt mark >> it relates to the long-term value of the firm. first of all, i think that it is. and we have adjusted our compensation program over tim in order to try and high-quality products and service with compensatio

i do not think i hear it -- is that on it? i do not think i hear it. let's do this. you figure it out. we will go over here and come back to the spirit -- come back to you. >> my name is jay. an oil tax? that is too big. you're looking for trouble. let the u.s. navy go in there and fix it. i think that the environment down in that area, people are starting to get sick. in a security needs to be dealt with. -- internet security needs to be dealt with. we have a big problem with identity theft in this country. i guess that is it. >> thank you. different points. the difficulty with the oil is on two fronts right now. one, you have to cap it. second, we have known for about 40 days that this oil is coming to the coast. we have to be able to protect that. hurricanes are coming. this is where the government has faltered. i have a couple of friends who represent new orleans. they have been working for quite some time to get waivers to put barriers in the ocean. that would give them protection. my friend was telling me a story where he has continued to talk to local and fede

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i was stunned. i didn't know. i went back and pulled the book out to see if he was right, and he was right. he probably hadn't read that book in 35, 40 years but he knew that. what a -- what a mind. it was really stunning, the man's memory. the head of the political science department, andy tuttle, university of nevada at las vegas, taught a course, a graduate course, based on senator byrd's lectures on the roman empire. he gave two lectures here on the senate floor on the roman empire, the fall of the roman empire. he gave the lecture because he was concerned because of the line-item veto. and he felt that the line-item veto would be the beginning of the end of the united states senate and he proceeded to give ten lectures on that on the senate floor. every one of them from memory. every one of them from memory. timed jjst perfect. they ended in one hour. that's how much time he had been given -- how much he had been given. now, mr. president, the original roman emperors served for one year. he could do it from m

i indeed have had -- i have fears sick -- i have four sonss in the military. and i have a nephew who just completed his service in iraq with the air force. in afghanistan, i have been there nine times. i have been there in particular visiting my former national guard unit, 218th brigade, so i know from personal serving their, led by general bob livingston, we have 1500 troops from south carolina who helped train the afghan police and army units. so, i'm very, very optimistic. host: what specifically makes you optimistic? senators yesterday were questioning all the press reports about, that being more intense than we anticipated and taking longer in some regions. guest: those are all legitimate concerns. i followed testimony and concerns expressed. but specifically, we are training the afghan police and army units. we are ahead -- for the army, 105,000 -- actually 125,000 troops. we are on the way this year to have 135,000 troops. this is the testimony of the under secretary yesterday. in training the police, there are 105,000, and by the end of this year, we w

>> i apologize, i am -- i was off last week. prior to leaving last week, everything was in there. >> as you know, the senate armed services committee has built issues and that they are focused on things that deserve our focus. my time has expired. >> mr. commissioner? >> thank you mr. co-chairman. you guys deserve credit. if you midday statement -- you made a statement that is on page 4. you would agree that you get what you pay for, correct? >> that is correct. >> then why do you continue with contracts that are lowest priced technical is acceptable? >> thanks to the city commission today, -- of the sitting commission today, we will be awarding a new contract. it will combine our existing static guard contract. >> let me ask you point blank. can you guarantee this commission that the next one will be the best value? i would want a guarantee. you have kids getting killed out there. can i get that guarantee? >> i can guarantee that the process is on track -- >> no, i want a guarantee that the next contract will not be the lowest

now i can do anything i want. i like making speeches. i like doing comedy.e do comedy. >> you're very funny. lair like making people laugh. >> you are not going to be standing in the gulf with hip wards, like anderson cooper, not scrubbing off an egret? lair would do a comedy special like you. >> i will see what i can do. >> larry: let's get to day 70 of the oil disaster. >> that what it is, 70? my lord. >> larry: what do you make of this? >> i was at a bp station today and when i finished filling my tank, i left the pump running. and i think everyone should do that until this ends. after you fill up, leave the pump running. >> larry: that's your call. poetic justice, larry. i mean, honestly, i have never been as depressed about a story. i haven't been at this quite as long as you. >> larry: animal lover. >> a television show for 18 years, yes i'm an animal lover and i'm an earth lover. i know lot of people like senator inhoff think the earth is a hose, i happen to think it's real and i like to keep it. but it just depresses the hell out of me. i think what

>> i don't. i live in 88th street. i live in upper manhattan. >> if you've never been to harlem, where does it start and finish? >> it's a good question. it depends who you ask, because there's different neighborhoods in upper manhattan like sugar hill and that's on 145th street and some people consider that's harlem. but it's basically above central park. >> later on it becomes a controversy as to where eva mossco wits list. >> yeah. >> let's see her some more talking to some of the parents. >> i wanted to make sure to tell you personally the good, the bad, and the ugly about our school design. we don't have any kind of magic formula here. it's basically establishing a very strong school culture of high expectation. so we have a longer school day and we have a longer school year, and we're pretty relentless. what happens if your child doesn't, if you don't show up on time? what do you think we do? what would really crazy people who do who are just totally focused on you getting your kid to school? we do wakeup calls.

i am not saying -- i could argue that i could probably use a little bit more than i have today, but ieel the risk has been negated. >> there is an e-mail scam going out purportedly from the command sergeant major, but some people may actually take it seriously. have you put out any guidance telling people not to trusttthis e-mail? >> yes, and people have been skimming money using my name as well. i have seven had several people use my face on the facebook -- i have had several people use my face on facebook to try to get money. we are going after these scam artists. we are very aware of all of the things going on. we are very aware of the capability and the attempt to take money. on my facebook page it's as if anybody asks you for money in my name, do not believe it. it is a problem. since you brought that subject up, i will just say, one of the things that we have to really continue to work on hard is the change that has occurred in terms of global communications and access to global communications. it impacts symmetric warfare and counterinsurgency. we just put up a cyber-command wh

i wish i knew who was. i don't think it is been a systemic failure. >> have you looked at the sec public reports? >> no, i have not. >> mr. mcdaniel, much can be said about the tone at the top. can you just tell me what outcomes and results you value most from your company? >> similar to our markets and made a few minutes ago, obviously i want to have a very successful business. and i believe the way to have a successful businesses to have high-quality products and services, in this case, ratings and related research. it does nothing for our business to focus on the short run and cut corners. and as i said, that is why it is so deeply disappointing to of had the experience that we've had in the mortgage related securities areas. >> part the product and service, what one value would you buy a the most part mark >> it relates to the long-term value of the firm. first of all, i think that it is. and we have adjusted our compensation program over time in order to try and high-quality products and service with c

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i think that we are making headway but the thing that i would say, two other points i would make senator. one is, people need to remember we have only been out this new strategy for about four and a half months. we don't even have all the surge troops in afghanistan. >> could i ask you, before my time runs out, is that leahy lobbied implemented in both afghanistan and pakistan? >> we are working to ensure that the leahy law is being implemented in both places and we could discuss it further with you in a closed session. >> i suspect it will require a closed session but i just think that because, i discussed it with you privately as well as with the admiral and it is something that-- it is more than just a talking point with me. >> we understand that fully senator and it is with us as well. and i would just add one more point to the earlier point you made. there is no doubt that these wars have cost the american taxpayers a lot of money. as the chairman said at the outset, close to reach billion dollars. that said in terms of our international competitiveness, in terms of our overall econ

but i have regrets -- and i will say ttis. roy blunt and i were able to advocate for dividends and warrants. and that art of the bill was the part they found was practical and could do. they were never able to pull off the toxic assets thing, which i think would have been a bad deal for the taxpayers. you noticc with the provision that roy and i put in the bill, that has made money. that is the only thing the government has done. we said, we are going to pay a 5% differ denied, and you have to do the warrant. paulson said we wouldn't do the warrant. i was faced with a situation that maybe all of us have been faced with at some point, where those who are superior or in authority over us, whether our parents, a boss, the secretary of the treasury, the chairman of the federal reserve said you have to act. we did act. i don't know what would have happened if we hadn't, but i imagine most economists say it needed to be done. i think most of those same economists say now if you continue to do this, you're going to create hazard by t

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>> i -- you know, i had this -- i thit admit this but i had this, well, i was almost -- >> larry: told petulent. i knew that was wrong but there was human nature in me. i couldn't believe -- i totally believed what was happening but i just -- i had to reengage and i know, you know, i'm the actor with the magic machine. i know that that's how it was going to read so i was prepared to have my neck cut off and watch my head roll into the street by intellectuals, by cynics, but i had to reengage because, you know, i -- it was a fight worth fighting and it's -- and i didn't want this machine to be silent and so i had to speak for it. >> larry: what reaction did you get in congress? >> well, i think, you know, people are surprised. you know, sometimes i feel like a little bit of this is -- is a little bit -- i don't want to say my fault because i don't want to take too much but it's like maybe i didn't yell loud enough. you know? i'm looking at my own participation in this. $24 million later, maybe i didn't yell loud enough but what i was faced with was an apathy. i brought this to foreign g

guest: i do, i think everybody agrees with this. of course, i talked to a lot of analysts and because we really, we had the big reform after the great depression, which kept the financial system pretty healthy for 40 or 50 years, and then we started deregulating and the 1980's. since then, it has really been in the other direction. this is 30 years later, the first attempts to er-regulate -- re-regulate. host: what is the volcker rule and what was the finer -- final outcome? guest: named after paul volcker, we used to be the fed chairman in the 1970's and 1980's, who beat inflation that was the big problem in those years, that whole had several goals. one of them was to scale down a risky trading activities of banks. and the other one was to sort of stop them from running and investing in hedge funds and private equity firms, which are also riskier activities. at the end, there was a lot of compromise because that was a very contentious rule. so, a lot of this, the strength of the role has been weakened. it is still there. the restr

as long as i am president, i will.iors and their familiesives%- greater savings, better benefits, and hire -- higher quality health care. it ensures accountability throughout the system so that seniors have greater control over the care they receive. that is why it keeps medicare strong today and tomorrow. you have just heard her story. she was diagnosed with breast cancer and the cost of medication surpassed the medicare part b plan. it did not reach the catastrophic threshold. so she found herself in the doughnut hole where she is forced to pay the entire cost of the medicine she needed out of pocket. that came to thousands of dollars forcing her and her husband to cut back everywhere else. i think everybody understands her, which occur story is not uncommon. i have heard others like it all across the country. i read about it when i read letters from some many of you late at night. those stories, your stories are why we passed this law in the first place, to ensure that we do not have to keep telling the same story.

i said, yeah, i think so. so we get up there, and i said, sir, they'd like you to get down in the ditch and throw some of those sandbags to these guys for a photo op, and he said ok. he walks up there, and he said, hey, guys, i'm going to help you. he goes in in that ditch, secret service goes crazy. one of them hangs his toe on a sandbag and flips, nearly breaks his leg. and the vice president gore is down there throwing sandbags to these guys, and they're up there taking pictures. he gets back out and he said, what was the matter with the secret service? and i said, well, i just found out all those guys are convicts down there in that ditch. he said, that's why that guy asked me for a pardon? it was so funny. but there was a lot of times like that that humor helped you get through some of those tough times. and we had a lot of those moments. and i can't ever thank president clinton enough for what he did for us and our family. i have to tell you a story. last october, he called me, and he said, james lee, ca

and i said can i do a song for him, i asked my mother?o whatever you can for your brother. and some of the music was going in and out of my ear, and i said, yuh-oh, here comes a trai wreck. there was no music, but i kept singing. it was emotional for me, because i knew it was his favorite song and we had visited the chaplain family before. we showed up in switzerland, and he didn't know i was friends with charlie chaplain's sons as well. >> larry: smile one of the great songs ever written. >> it's a great song. >> larry: great, great songs ever written. were you shocked at the coverage? surprised at how immense the story was? >> not really. you know why, larry? because michael's success is not his talent. it was his message. people cried because they knew what his message was, the one he was trying to get through his music and we're very appreciative as a family and we will stay strong and united and stay strong as a family, but the world cried, because they knew they had lost someone who really cared about them. who cared about the plane

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i will see if i could check it out. -- if i can track it down. i always think of ourselves as an agent of immigrants. -- not nation of immigrants. we need to figure out how to make a -- i always think of ourselves as a nation of immigrants. we need to figure out how to make it work for all americans. make it work for all americans. host: sylvia in philly. caller: good morning. my name is sylvia, and it is a name that launched my great- grandmother -- that belonged to my great-grandmother, who is full blooded cherokee indian. i hear you talk about an invasion from the mexican s -- from the mexicans. do you remember that california belonged to mexico, and parts of the touch it along to the charity and the suit and so on and so hundred -- cheorkee and sioux and so on and so on. this is not your country. this is our country did you want to talk about legalizing other people who were here before you invaded this country and stole our land. none of you are legal immigrants due to the fact that my people and the mexicans never handed out legal citizensh

>> i think it needs to be. i see politics. but i see it on both sides. i hate to say that. but i see it on both sides. this is an american problem now. let's forget about democrat, republican for a while. let's get this hole plugged, take care of those people down in southwest, south louisiana. on the gulf. those people are hurting. they're dying down there. i'm telling you those people are starving. they don't know what they're going to do. their stress level is probably so high it has just gone through the roof. but i just think it needs to, to quit being a democrat/republican thing. and become an american thing. this is a disaster. when there is disasters that happen around the world, america is always first to go and help those folks out. i think americans are good, strong people. and they, they care about, we care about our own. i think i see america going to, fixing to come together and help all those folks, those fishermen and help the gulf coast. because, in the long run, i think it will help all of america. >> larry: james, do you think, do you agree with john king

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>> i don't know that. i -- i believe that's the case. and i think it is -- probably the right thing to do until such time as we have greater clarity. i agree with that. >> i don't agree with the moratorium. as i expressed to my friends, it is really difficult for us in louisiana to stand in oil and say, we'll take more oil but it is because of the economy, it is because of the jobs, we have supported, i have supported the industry. i support the people. but it makes sense that -- that b.p. bear the responsibility of the economic hardship associated with this moratorium. i think y'all put 100 million aside for lost jobs. i'm told that in a given month -- i don't know if this is just louisiana or offshore louisiana or offshore -- but it is about $350 million a month in wages. are you and your company going to take responsibility and make sure that these companies that fold up are -- or these companies that have financial hardships and particular my their employees that they're going to lay off will be compensated in some way? >> we have ma

i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady is recognized. %% mrs. mcmorris rodgers: i rise in strong support of house concurrent resolution 285, recognizing the important role fathers play in their family and recognizing this year as the year of the father. father's day has an especially significant meaning to the people of spokane, washington. this past sunday, the city celebrated the 100th anniversary of father's day. it was started by sonora dodd. she recognized her father in 1909. a civil war veteean who raised six children on his own after the death of his wife. from there, the city of spokane established the first celebration of father's day at the local ymca in 1910 and in the year's following the celebration spread around the nation. the resolution that we are considering today is a way to demonstration our appreciation to fathers everywhere and to recognize the critical role that they play in our lives. research in the field confirms that children whose fathers play a significan

i wish i could read this entire article, but i can't because of time. but i want to read the close of george will's column and george will is a conservative. president obama has counted on his 2011 runup to re-election being smooth by three developments in 2010, the health care legislation becoming popular after enactment, job creation acceleration briskly and afghanistan conditions improving significantly. i further read, the first two are not happening. he can decisively influence

guest: i am not the head of the p and i am glad i am not. -- not the head of the key and i am glad im not -- not the head of bp and i am glad that i am not. ultimately this very large costs is their responsibility. i know that there are other parties involved but ultimately they design and stand on the legal agreements, they are the party most responsible and they will have to pay for it. personally i do not understand why dividends would be paid out to shareholders now. host: one last share -- one last call for you on the republican live from new jersey. -- on the republican line from new jersey. caller: one of my favorite arguments on the floor was when marion barry got down there and call that you and adam putnam. i will not repeat what he said. [laughter] i remember that very clearly. i remember those arguments. that is why i thought that how it pertains to now how the democrats were screaming at republicans for what they were cutting at that time, many bureaucrats from agencies that when needed. anyways, to move on, i love it. my favorite. i will miss marion barry for that very

i remember that i i remember thatn the past and today, i am telling you, the missiles and rockets thatran is smuggling into gaza hurt tel aviv, jerusalem and even beyond. some of it is already within gaza. this is why it is our duty and our right, according to the international law, to prevent this weapons from g weaponsaza through the air or sea. this duty, the previous government understood. the last few days was an attempt to break this blockade. we allow merchandise to come into gaza. it was to break the blockade. if this would have been broken, it the result of this flotilla, would've come hundreds of ships. the weapons you can bring on a ship is different from what you can bring back through the tunnels. on each ship, you can smuggle 10 tons of [inaudible] one ship was stopped in d.c. last year, there were hundreds of tons of weapons that iran was sending to the hezbollah. we caught tons of weapons that iran sent to gaza. it is our duty to inspect each ship that is trying to get into gaza to take out their weapons and to allow the other merchandise to enter. i need to clarify to

country that i grew up and read what can i do? >> what can you do? you are doing part of their right down. we're having a great, respectful conversation. and all have differences of opinion. but that is what the founding fathers devised for our government. you should be able to have helped the debate, but at the end of the day, find a solution. i think we have to hold our elected officials accountable not for rhetoric but for solutions. we should reward people for creating solutions not for punishing one side or the other. and i am thankful that we've got all different spectrums here on idea if ideals is what we decide at the end of the day should be our strength, we will have a much better form. because a lot of challenges in this country. remember that n' it is the second one free it started being built in the civil war not even knowing that this country would stay together. but they made big so that all could see. i believe that our best days are in front of us. is a common message from a common man and that is what we're doing

caller: i must say that i missed you on cnn. i watched you for years. i cannot agree with you more with what you were saying about the advent of the tea party movement and sarah palin as a leader. i like to ask, where do see the movement of some of the going? guest: i will predict something. that i see t fading away. the story after the midterm elections will be that the tea party does not do well as expected. it is because, for several reasons -- the cardinal rule is that this story must change. secondly, the tea party benefits from enormous publicity now just because it is sort of a good story. it is almost surely true that the story is being overplayed. even if it only does as ll as you would have expected, the fact that it has gotten so much hype will make it seem otherwise. host: here is that this new book that points to polls that say that 70% of americs do not like the government getting involved and want more of a free enterprise-type government, which is what the tea party members argue as well. according to arthur brooks they do not want the g

i -- i am -- i just want to make sure, you know. i don't know.e, this is why i didn't want to talk about football. this issue of primary care physicians is absolutely critical. and it has the promise of making such a big difference in the overall health of everybody. from children to seniors. you know, it used to be that most of us had a family doctor, you would consult with that family doctor, think knew your history, they knew your children. they helped deliver babies. they -- and as a consequence what happened was that everybody got regular checkups and could anticipate a lot of the problems that are out there. now in these big medical systems so often what happens is you're shoveled around from specialist to specialist, oftentimes people don't have a primary care physician that they're comfortable with so they don't get regular checkups, they don't get regular consultations, preventable diseases and maintenance and you don't have the kind of coordination that's necessary between all these different specialists, right, so you go to one doctor,

wherever i go in this country, i hear people say, i want my country back. they have seen this administration, and yes, some of it started in the previous administration, but it had everything that i'm about to list had the 100% suuport of barack obama, whether he was a united states senator, whether he was a senator-elect -- excuse me, whether he was president-elect, or whether he was president of the united states and most of it, under his guidance as president of the united states. here's what happened this federal government took over, nationalized, and when i say nationalized, i mean ownership, management, or control of three large investment banks, a.i.g., fannie mae, freddie mac, general motors, chrysler, where am i going? there's more to this. the entire student loan, all the student loan program in america, all of that, swallowed up by the obama administration and that's 1/3 of the private sector activity according to prfsor boyles at arizona state university, 1/3, then along came obamacare which passed. the gentleman earlier talked about that being

i know i have and i need the work and i need money but if they freeze it, what are we supposed to do? we thingg go down to everything, they want everybody to come out to washington and sit outside the door and beg for food or what are we going to do? 1234. laura, what kind of work do you do caller: i was in recycling. host: what is your basic skill set? caller: i'm a sorter and have worked in many factories. our family and i like you said they do whatever line work you do, you never say anything back to your employer, i worked several years straight on this job 2001 to 2008 and went to work every day. the older people will go to work every day. but the younger people if the boss says something they don't want to hear they leave off the job and it's more work on the older workers. host: thank you for your call. good luck in your job search. deborah, that callers gives us a couple of different options. first of all the older worker's approach to the job versus younger employees. she commented they're reliable, don't talk back, that sort of thing. guest: yes. and i'm loathe to make those

i thought it would when i started, i thought it would when i went to law school, when i graduated fromaw school, when i started this in 1989. i thought in the end that the court system would give alaskans the full measure of justice, and it did not. with regard to the militarand its ability t, i just don't kno. host: fal call is from san dio. republican line. caller:r. o'neill, thank you for your service. well, the caller basically took my question. can the military plug the hole? i heard a couple of days into this that the military had the possibility of imploding it and capping it, and that bp would not have the opportunity to rein drill, and they would lose billions of dollars. you can see from the appearance of the ceo that it just goes to prov-- the ignoran of the ceo tt it just goes to prove that this was just about money. they d notllow any outside, independent contractors in, because they wanted to save the well. do you think this will back up to be be? -- do you think this will bankrupt bp? i heard they went back over $1 a share yesterday. how is that? guest: two good question

i am so proud, and when i see you working hard, i tell you something. >> i will be brief.ng other things. there is no better people to be out here working. and though it may come every dare we are in meeting, i could go on and on. we want to make sure that we use at our local assets. we saw about a week ago it's about three of four times bad and it is heading this way. wha we had last week is about to get worse. please don't hesitate to call on us. we got a great team that is out here. the senator will be pushing to get more boom for us. i know we are short supply right now. and that the mayor said, they are talking about the contingency and other parts of the state that they had a plan like year. we have to continue to push please don't hesitate to let us know a betr way to fight this battle. jud>> we did not want this to ce to our family so we have to stop it. we do not want it to get to our families. and that is why we're here. the people were outside from here and did not know that this is our livelihood. that is what is making the difference. >> i want to support what

hamas is not yet part of the solution. >> i am grateful, i never thought i was supposed course, but iam grateful -- [laughter] i hope i made that point in my statement referring to the ideological motives of hamas and reminding the house that there is another dimension to this whole problem. they have refused to forswear violence and recognize international agreements. they do not recognize the right for israel to exist. until they start making movements toward this, it is difficult to discuss the future with them. >> everyone who wants to control it was given the opportunity to do so. we will proceed to read the orders of the day. >> this weekend, a noted feminist author from the university of chicago has written or contributed to more than 20 books on liberal education on sexism in legal justice. join us live on sunday at 2:00 on c-span 2. >> in about 45 minutes, a look at the efforts to secure the u.s.-mexico border with the former chief of staff for customs patrol. customs patrol.

and so i agree with dr. nagl and i think dr. avant as well in terms of looking at the totality of the services, and then making a judgment based on that situation as opposed to making an all encompassing position across the brd saying this is or is not inherently governmental. >> what about the specificrea that dr. stranger raised in moving security in that specific circumstance, concerning all the circumstances, should that deemed to be inherently governmental? >> in my judgment in a war time set field goal you have the staff to be able to perform that function i think it would be advisable to use government employees to do that. again, you have to deal with the practical question about the ability to, in fact, have the people to do the job and somebody needs to perform the mission and i think stan soloway raised some of those concerns as well. >> just to close with you on that point, certainly there are two issue here's, one is whether there's the organic in house government capacity to provide private security contractors. th

i had five amendments i asked to present. several of them would require the unions to be treated the same as corporations. that was denied. they don't want you to have a chance to level the playing field. look, in alice in wonderland it is said, if i had a world of my own everything would be nonsense. nothing would be what it is because everything would be what it isn't. and contrarywise what is it wouldn't be and what it wouldn't be it would. you see that basically sums up the speaker's statement. they want you to think -- if i had the chance under the house rules to speak to the public this is what i'd say, this is your first amendment. it's not my first amendment. it's not the democratic leadership's first amendment. and yet they are auctioning off parts of this first amendment by this bill. why do i say that? some people are more equal than others. if you happen to be a special interest that's existed for 10 years, if you happen to have a certain amount of money in your coffer that comes from corporations, if you happen t

i lived in america. i am an american citizen. i know, i am not on the field. but we still have family and friends there. there is no real change. thank you. >> i will take the last few questions since we are out of time. i do not know if there are any more. >> actually, mine will just be an observation, picking up on what ms. will board -- and this wellborn -- ms. wellborn said. i arrived in 1969. i was three years in the country and i never met a single libyan woman, not one, that did not go out of the home. when i went back to libya, one change that i noticed which was clearly a change for the better, was the presence of women in government offices, businesses. i spoke twice before public groups, once at the university and once at the green book center. when men got up and ask questions. they were very assertive. they seemed to be accepted as equals in the political/public marketplace. when i was at the university, about 40% of the people in the audience were either women faculty or when students. -- four women students. -- or women students. to me, it seeme

i am fearful. i see how this is working out. i see the attempt to are making. i also see that 434,000 people who were kicked out of the hamp trial program because you could not verify income. . . >> and the homeowners are not being held in a significant way. i understand the dynamic that is out there now. it is just different. it is all these people who are unemployed and in some cases you cannot modify that because there's nothing to support it, no income strain. -- no income stream. you think this program should be wrapped up? in a few months there have been very few people helped by this program. but the folks that are administering this and are seeing how many people are being held and how much money is being spent here, do you think this program should be extended until oct. given the fact that we still have streams and streams of foreclosures coming down the pike? >> i believe the short answer is that i believe this program should be continued as i have said before. provided a great bass line, and a uniform base line. if we did not have all of the gst's a

i quote. the first amendment protects political speech and disclosure permits citizens and shareholders to react to the speech of corporate entities in a proper way. this transparency enables the electorate to make informed decisions and give proper wait to different speakers and messages. that's what this bill does. it does exactly what the supreme court says that we could do and should do, and that is to require disclosure, to require transparency. in the past transparency has been a bipartisan issue. senator mitch mcconnell was quoted in april saying we need to have real disclosure. why wod a little disclosure be better than a lot of disclosure? republican leader john boehner in twetch said, i think we ought -- what we ought to do, we ought to have full disclosure and went on to say i think that sunlight is the best disinfectant. this measure, the disclose act, has been supported by government reform groups including common cause, league ofomen voters, and public citizens. senate majority l

i am a vietnam veteran. i can no longer walk. i am on a pension from the va. i get less than $1,000 per month. month.

as a child i always knew i would have a kid.i realized i was gay, i didn't really know how that was going to work out. and through a series of meeting the right man and a friend passing away, leaving us the money, it enabled us to have a surrogate and have our child. >> larry: soledad, in covering this as a documentarian, in a sense, what puzzled you about it? what intrigued you about this? >> once we really got commitment that we would be able to follow this story organically, we would go with the highs and we would go with the lows. we talk about the struggles. we talk about the good times. we would tell the story of the journey. then i knew as long as we were really being authentic that that would be a great story, regardless of how it went. there were great highs and tough, tough times. there's a lot of crying in this documentary. so, for me, i knew that they were both good talkers. we get into their back stories, where gary and tony came out to their families, how challenging that was and their activism and now this new pha

i thought i knew the history. saw the history of the suffragettes and i was so embarrassed i did not know about that earlier. people died for the right to vote. women of this country have not had the right to vote for 100 years. and it really bothers me when neighbors, "i do not want to vote. i might have to be on jury duty." it's so awful. so i vote very probably in the whatever little election. local is where you can it matter. if you just do one thing. it is something we do for community. it may be sad when i went to work and there was a lot of visa nurses, lived here 20 years, have not become citizens, do not want to vote, have scored about our country. you cannot change things unless you get involved. i encourage everyone. it is a good feeling. people have died for. they have died down south. as a woman, i would never not vote as long as i can get to the polls are fill out a check mark. thank you. host: let's go to jack in westchester county, new york. good morning. caller: good morning. this is an easy one f