i was bad. i like my heels. i refuse -- i had to give up a lot of things. i am not giving up the shoes. [talking over each other] >> you where your high heels. >> i did. >> trey instructed you not to put more items in the book? >> there are certain things that i can talk about and that is just the way is. we have servicemen -- my sister is making faces at me. i am going to call you out. we have servicemen in afghanistan and iraq horse still fighting the complex and i have no problem beating certain things back. i don't think it affects the story at all. i don't think it makes a big difference if i say that or if i don't say that. is about how i feel about how i dealt with the situation. i don't think those facts make a big deal. [talking over each other] >> this talk about being on a veterans board? >> i sit on the advisory committee for minority affairs. we meet twice a year and we do site visits and things like that and make recommendations to the secretary. >> are your plans to consider that in definitely? >> until they kick me out. i will be there until

i mean, i decided in my 30's that i was going to try that. so i didn't have a lot of prerequizite training. so, you know, i think i squeezed it pretty good. tavis: what does starting so late, to your point about people starting to sing when they are kids, michael jackson started at 5, bill withers started at 30. coming in at that age, allowed you to have what viewpoint you might not have had if you were a kid in this business? >> well, i was able to discern that it was a business and that sometimes the people weren't the nicest people in the world who ran that business. if you think about it, you know. all of those horror stories about people, you know, somebody got to take up a collection when they die and things like that. i made some mistakes. you know, i made some social mistakes. so, you know, you -- we all look at the world through the window of our own eyes. and we have assets and liabilities, you know. some people understand things quicker than other people so based on what i knew and who i was, i did the best i could, you know? so, y

i did know that at the time that i thought i was special.she reached out to young people all the time. but i got a letter. i got a handwritten letter from her saying this is real nice that you need to continue this. so that's what i was looking for so called my mother long distance and i confess to her. i said mom, i don't want to be over. and there was this very long pause. >> sheet and say this is your moment it was no, she didn't get very long pause to find she said you know, baby, medicine is a perfectly good profession. [laughter] >> i had never even discussed medicine. it was an odd moment. >> so then you left, you left with an english degree at northwestern. then what happens to? i went back to saint louis where my family was. and i was determined to be a poet, poetry was my concentration. and little bitter and magazines, and i took a job at a weekly newspaper in saint louis. it's called saint louis america. and i work there and that's when i began to see -- black paper, yesterday venture is a long story but eventually i went from the

what i am hoping that the book will do, not one, i promised robert -- one, i promised robert i wouldte the book. the day before he died, i promised him i would write our story. i wrote it for robert, but i also wrote it for the reader. sometimes when you write poetry or are doing something obscure, you are not so concerned with the listener or the reader. i was really hoping that this boat -- that this book might inspire people, give them hope. it is about two young people who started with nothing, believed in each other. all of the evolution robert had to go through, his late awakening of homosexuality and how we had to deal with that as lovers and friends, and creating without money, struggling, not having enough to eat. i am just hoping that it will be helpful to new generations, and maybe nice memories bring out a nice memories for older generations. tavis: you answered both questions in one that explanation, thank you. tell me how you navigate id the nature of their relationship. he started as friends, you become lovers, he discovers he is homosexual. tell me about that. >> we s

i mean, i cover bad news, that's what i do for a living. and certainly, there are difficult moments, you'll read about in the book, from my struggles with literacy, the bouts of domestic violence basically between my parents, other issues that i experienced, the awful effects of war, the awful things that happened with human beings clash around the world and do violent things. those things are in there, but the mayly, the book talks about -- the mayly the book talks about my journey, the people in my life and the power of encouragement. the people who planted seeds of goodness in my life, who intervened, the title, "step out on nothing" comes from st. paul. there was a woman's day service here several years ago and the pastor was talking about women's sore feet and pedicures and manicures and i'm thinking, my lord, what time is it, what time do we get to go home today. there is nothing in it sermon for me and then she said something that summed up my life. step out on nothing. because sometimes for people of faith, that in difficult moments

>> i don't think i am. i don't think either of us are. you wake up in the morning and it's like a rebirth. there is not enough time to -- your dreams, be they good or bad when they wake up, and i reach out to touch or hold my wife. and she's not there. >> larry: were you surprised at the public outpouring? >> yes. >> larry: the reaction to her death was enormous. >> it was unbelievable. i think brittany would have been more surprised than anybody. i think it was her career by her own omission in the last few years, five or six, had taken a downturn. >> larry: do you know why? >> it's funny, brittany and i spoke about this often. she had her theories. >> larry: what was the theory? >> the theory was that she had upset the wrong people at the wrong time and there was, you know -- >> larry: is she the kind of person that said what she thought? >> oh, yeah. >> larry: that can rub people the wrong way in hollywood. >> but she was the kindest, sweetest person. i think she was too kind, too sweet, too. she was this bubble that existed in a plane

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i was 16 at the time, i think. and i remember it.and everyone was deeply shocked or most people were. but it was a good thing. as his wife said, a blessing in disguise. and if churchill had tried to continue british rule in india, there would have been a mess. it would have been a horrible mess. it could have ended in the same kind of mess which the french contrived in vietnam. ere they tried to hang on and drag the united states. the british people spoke in 45, kicked out the conservatives and gave indiana its freedom. china would have rejoiced that india's position today because it is becoming a great power. he always thought he could. churchill always believed for a tremendous economic potential. the first person to rejoice in that would be winston churchill. it would have been constant life for him to see that more and more indians were being brought out a basis distance economy into western type living standards. he would love to see indians creating high tech industry, it leading the world in many products. he loved the indians

i assured her the i would not go because i had no intent. but then when i reversed myself and decided very suddenly it was the right thing to do not to say no to my country, i was then illinois with my primary residence and on memorial day weekend because the president would make the announcement on the tuesday after. i was going to see my mom but unfortunately i was at church with a longtime friend asked me about what i was doing next day and i told her. of course, she went up to my mom and said isn't this great? she did not think it was a great. with knight arrived to tell my mom she already knew about it. she was sobbing and very angry. angry and crying. and said to me i started with nixon and i ended up with bush and i deserve everything i got. [laughter] and i was jumping on a sinking ship. but i will say this in the end, the time i finished and washington, another had a different opinion of george w. bush. but it is not a good way to start off and wendy was not much happier with me. [laughter] >> host: one of the most interesting thing

>> i wanted to make sure i got in and i get a place.ere? >> because i wanted to meet sarah palin or at least see her in person. i think she's an up and comer. and i agree with her politics. i voted for her. [laughter] >> what do you like about her politics? >> she really follows what most of the people that i know -- middle class, mid-america is about. and it's my kind of candidate. >> what are the most of the people you know -- what are their politics? >> most of the people that i know want a smaller government. we don't want the government interfering with our lives to the extent that it is. we don't feel we need a nanny state. people in my family go back for generations in the united states and we do not believe that we need to be taken care of. we take care of ourselves. the government should be very limited. and i think that's more her style than the current president. unfortunately. >> so you're not in favor of any kind of healthcare reform? >> i think there's some things about healthcare that needs to be changed but i don't think

i wish i could see it. he knows the weakness of his friends heart, and that nothing flatters it more than praises bestowed upon a certain lady. in the midst of infinite noise hurting and also, i lead a lonely melancholy life. mourning the loss of all the charms of life, which are my family, and all the amusement that i ever had in life, which is my farm. however, i will neither wind nor grow. the moment our affairs are in a prosperous way and a little more out of doubt, that moment i become a private gentleman, the respectful husband of the amiable mrs. a of a braintree, and the affectionate father of her children. >> braintree, july 9, 1777. i sit down to write you this post and from my present feelings i shall be able to write for some time if i should do well. i have been very unwell for this past week with some complaints that have been new to me, though i hope not dangerous. i was last night taken with a shaking fit, and am very apprehensive that a life was lost. as i have no reason today to think othe

if i had known then what i know now, i would not have. giving the president of the united states to agree to the road map, think of how that would've done to the middle east, and i had the prime minister of britain promising may death he was pushed to agree, so although i thought it was wrong to rush, if i stayed because i thought if we did those things we could avoid what would otherwise take place three of ice filigree. if we had done those things, it would have been a disaster. >> you still have the view that if we had more time and resources it would have been better? >> i still think we should have done what they want. we should have said, you cannot keep going forever. we're willing to use military action. there rose -- there were all sorts of ways that would have been better, but i agreed with the par-3 did the policy. i just did not think that was the policy. blair's policy was, i am going to go through the un. i am going with the americans come what may. >> what about resources 72 thing more resources would have made a difference

thanks for coming back on. >> i know, it's always so fun to be here. >> jimmy: i know, i know, i love look at you. >> come on. >> jimmy: you do anything cool for the holidays, anything fun? i didn't hear from you. >> i hung -- i know, i'm sorry. >> jimmy: no problem. >> a little hungover. >> jimmy: that's all right, yeah. [ laughter ] >> i hung out in miami. i got a house in miami on the bayside. >> jimmy: yeah, you got a cool house, man. >> yeah. >> jimmy: is that the one with the studio? do you have a studio in your house? >> no, not in this one. i do in l.a., but no, this is just like a house i rented for a couple weeks just to chill out. and i was like fishing off the dock. >> jimmy: fishing? >> right there. like, in the backyard. it was not good fishing like, you know -- >> jimmy: giant -- >> yeah, no big fish. it was all just a bunch of little fish and catch them, pull them up, take a picture and throw them back in the water. >> jimmy: really? yeah, there's something fun about it. >> it is, i love fishing. >> jimmy: something relaxing about it. yeah, i just went -- weirdly enoug

and i played the first moment when i realized i had a book. i traveled up to mcgill university for a magazine piece on a different topic with my manager set a meeting with professor larry and he was the department of cross-cultural studies there. and he was a very big man in this field and it took a couple hours of time to talk to me. internet talk you begin to tell me a remarkable story about how his invited to an academic conference in japan in 2001. andy accepted the invitation. it's not uncommon for drug companies to sponsor academic sponsors. this wasn't a run-of-the-mill academic event, something else is out. on the first clue he had was the fact that he got a first-class plane ticket to japan, to kyoto for this academic experience. he got the hotel was one that was a very exclusive hotel, you know, his bath was strong, is the presidential suite. the bath was strewn with rose petals. it was a platter of fruit on the contents of that was so exotic that it could only identify the mangoes. and he told me, this was sort of the word and gecko

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>> i was. fortunately i was in an air-conditioned car. i was watching. >> i don't blame you.ld have been, too. >> larry: the powers that be in jordan cooperated then? >> very much so. it was a very generous place to shoot. >> larry: there's nothing political in this, right? it does not take a stand pro-war or against war? >> you're asking me? >> larry: yeah. >> i don't think so at all. i don't personally see there's a -- it's a cinema. we're telling a story of three characters doing a he really interesting job. it happens to touch on something that's relevant. i think this is why the movie succeeds. it allows the audience to feel and think what they want to think and feel. >> larry: did you learn anything about explosives? >> a lot. >> larry: do you think you could disarm one? >> i wouldn't even try to. if your microphone was an ied i would say run, larry, run. i mean -- >> i would, too. >> he would, too. >> larry: do you wonder why people like jim did what he did? >> that was the first question i had to ask. always to get to the truth of what fuels a human being to want to d

and i deserved everything i got. [laughter] and i was jumping on a sinking ship but i will say this at the and i say that time i finished in washington my mother had a different opinion of george w. bush. but it was -- it's not a good way to start off and when he wasn't much happier with me. >> one of the interesting things i found in the book and i've not heard a word about this before was your account how some top russian officials had gone to some top chinese officials with the suggestion essentially that the start dumping the bombs of probably freddie and fannie at that time and that almost sounds like a rage. something the evil guys of wall street bid but tell me about that >> it never happened. but barry concerned about stabilizing freddie and fannie because there was $5.4 trillion of securities that were either insured or issued directly by these institutions and highly leveraged institutions and these securities were held about 1.7 outside the u.s., the biggest portion was inside the u.s. and i had been tryin

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i think you will find it as sobering as i have i think you will find it as sobering as i have.t it really takes, in 10 years to get the balance, on a very modest downward trajectory of deficits and debt to gdp. it is very sobering. when we go to the question of political will, what is going to be necessary to get this under control. that means to get back down to 60% of gdp. by publicly held basis. -- on a publicly held basis. it is very sobering. senator sessions. >> that is an insightful challenge to us, mr. chairman. i think you are correct. i would just share a few thoughts that -- i think we have to light a treatment to the wasteful spending now. contain spending now that is not producing much for the economy. the $800 billion for medicaid, welfare, many things that need to be strengthened, but the extent of it was so great that we have not had enough emphasis on job creation to pull out of this. i would just ask you to think about how will we pay back $800 billion? the president proposed at the state of the union, saving $15 billion this year and that might amount to two

>> yes. >> i tried to answer then if i knew then what i know now, i would have. i had the prime minister getting the president of the united states to agree to the publication of the roadmap which should have meant a palestinian state by the the end of 2005. think about how it would transform the middle east and i had the prime minister promise to me that bush agreed there would be a u.n. lead on reconstruction. so although i thought it was wrong to rush and wrong to go, i stayed because i thought if we did those things we could avoid the disaster that would otherwise take place. i still agree with myself. if we'd done those things it wouldn't have been such a disaster but i was conned. >> are you still of the view that if we had more time and more resources it would have been better? >> i still think we should have done what the policy was. i think we should have said saddam hussein you can't go on forever. you can't keep fooling the00 we got blix back in. we got to mean it. we've got to -- you know, we're willing to use military action if you obstruct. i think

when i was running for congress, i came up to view congress, i wasn't sure if i wanted to run and i looked at the floor and whether or not i wanted to run. coming up, i was in reburn and walked up by the train that runs from rayburn to the capitol, this man came up, put his arm around me, he said, young man, this is going to be like 1974, it's going to be a great year for democrats. and we got up the elevator and i was so proud to be in this building and we got to the top and he went to the left where you enter the speak ears lobby to enter the floor, he said, next time you come up here, i hope you can come up here with me. it was the next time irk got to come in there with him. i was so proud, i read about murtha's corner in "the new york times" and find myself over there, mostly with folks from pennsylvania also but also different people fond of mr. murtha and i was standing there and i say, i remember reading about murtha's corner and now i'm in murtha's corner. i was in his corner, he was in mine. when i needed help in the community and learning about defense appropriations and how the

but i don't think i am prepared for it yet. i am a senior. i am graduating.and still, i think i need more of professional experience to be able to do that. although, i have gained a lot of, you know, leadership skills. so my question is that for the albright fellows who are getting great leadership skills and are finding solutions for the problems, the goal that is -- my country faces them. my advice on how they can put these skills they are learning into action in the real world. thank you. >> i think that's a really rich series of questions which we just said. our panelist would like to make any comments about any of them, all of them. by way of conclusion. >> well, i can just start. i can't resist about the women's college. i think madelyn would start before me. i would just say that it's not a level playing field for women out there. not only is it not level here in the united states, but it's not level out there in the world. so i think that there is a great need to educate women as leaders to go out and help to think about issues of women, but also them

when i sign a contract, i do what i contractor to do.o buy a $100,000 bond for $2,000 and the personable -- personally liable and the bonding company would pay the voters back? >> york too late. bondedtermlimits.com is online. they were at the same town hall. about was one of the men that responded. you put up a bond for $200,000. you say that if you do not lose -- if you do not do these things, you lose your money. >> thank you for being here. i am from shenandoah valley, virginia. to reference back to the supposed of divisiveness, may i suggest to everyone that when someone comes up to you and is ugly or unpleasant or talking about divisiveness, why don't you simply look at them and ask them what our goal is. it is very simple. what is our goal? everyone of us has a singular goal. we want good government and constitutional governments. that is overriding all of the divisiveness. they may get their noses bit out of joint -- a bent out of joint. when you look at them say that you were angry about paying something, it is time to look at w

i was 16 at the time, i think. and i remember it. was deeply shocked or most people were. but it was a good thing. as his wife said, a blessing in disguise. and if churchill had tried to continue british rule in india, there would have been a mess. it would have been a horrible mess. it could have ended in the same kind of mess which the french contrived in vietnam. where they tried hang on there and then dragged the united states into it, too. fortunately, the british people spoke in 45, they kick out the conservatives, they put in labor, and labor gave india its freedom. so, it all ended happily. but churchill would have rejoiced at indias position today because india is rapidly becoming a great economic power. he always thought it could. and like gandhi, who wanted yeah to remain just with a domesticated economy, hand weaving and so on, churchill always believed india had tremendous economic potential, and he thought are in british guidance they could realize that potential. well, it has begun to realize its under its own guidance

i don't think i did. i think i still wrestle with that. the impact of that time period. i grew up with people who, very good friends of mine. i still have great friends from that time period, but who held many stereotypes about african-americans. i was fortunate, both my parents were, which was unusual for the time period. i came from a dual income family. 10th grade rolled around and i opted out of the public school system, went to a private school. and i had my first contact with african-americans actually. my first girlfriend was in 10th grade and she was african-american. so i had to leave that situation and go someplace else, i think to really work on my identity. >> what do you think it means to be -- what is an african-american identity? >> today or -- >> either today or what you felt growing up, what it would mean to be. >> you know, that is an interesting question. big question. i think we have stereotypes of each other, and i subscribe to something called group position three. i kind of look at groups of people in our society and i look at their overall place i

i mean, i talked to lots of people who say "i voted for him because i believed things were possible and i thought history was on our side and the narrative was right and now they are not only questioning, they're saying... >> rose: there's a period of disillusion. he has great skill, he has a great team and he had 70% or 80% national approval. but what else did she in? he had nancy pelosi and john boehner running congress. when you have hyperpartisans running congress, it's going to be hard to change things all at once. you had the culture of washington which is a team culture, you're on my team, you're on the other team, that's deeply entrenched now. so there were barriers. then you had this public distrust and then the spinoff from the economic crisis which seemed like it was goingo create the avenue for change but actually closed off. >> rose: some people are beginning to say and from this question raised. are... is there something... is there some kind of gridlock in washington that says something about the nature of our system? not the constitution and the filibuster, but just the

i do it, too. i have to admit. i have got to be fair. i think these cos people are insane. i don't think there is anything fair about them. i think they are dangerous. i don't respect them. so i traffic in that a little bit, too. but to say democrats are that way, i would never do that. >> let me defend you. you don't spend your time obsessing over them. >> bill: no. i don't care with -- about them. >> some in the democratic party are obsessing over the protests that they are seeing coming from people though ho they would like to have sit down and shut up. and those are these people who are looked over the last year. i mean, this has not happened because of the president's personality. many of these people like him personally. what people are being driven into politics and being driven into this movement by is a concern over spending, debt, and the power of the government and seemingly the unwillingness of our leaders in washington to be responsive to the people. >> bill: all right. mr. rove, thanks as always. next on the run down mr. morris will take a look at obama and th

>> i don't think i broke the law. when i spent the night in jail i was trying to figure out what i did wrong. we had a plane to catch the following morning. i really did not think we broke any laws am i was -- i think this is sort of a misunderstanding. >> sean: i looked at the reporting of this, louisiana watergate. there was a gag order on you, not true? >> that's false. >> sean: that you broke into the office? >> how do you break into a public office. >> sean: that was open? >> yeah. >> sean: were you any time asked to leave? >> no. >> sean: you didn't answer the question about whether you went into the telephone main control area? >> yeah, i just can't get that detailed, because there's an investigation, but the truth will come out in the end. >> sean: there has been some retractions by the media. are you calling on the rest of the media you feel is wrongly reported this because they didn't have facts and ran with this do you think it was because of your acorn work number one? >> probably willing to bet it was. i

i am sorry i don't know if i] every penny is spent, i have anç update on the latest figure.complicated because the stock transactions took place when they took over general motors. but most analysts think that it's not only paid back but ahead because of dividends. host: if it is paid back, will this increase confidence? guest: it could, i think the dilemma, the bailout of the banks on some levels has worked. and that you are not seeing the big banks spiral downward as in the fall of 2008. but we haven't seen credit, it's not easier for small businesses to get credit. that's what people on main street wanted. they were sold the idea that that would happen through the tarp. and i think that's why the anger is out there. that the economy still continues to be horrible. the workers can't get jobs and can't get the help and then read about the bonuses. and when you don't see it trickle down to main street. until that happens i think that people will stay anger about tarp. and the last thing the budget deficit. the money paid back means that the deficit wouldn't expand because of

i get the part of it. i really do. but today, in this hour what complex us is not the ups and downs but the very nature of conservatism in the post reagan era. what complex us is the version -- mission of the movement and the radical nature and unique challenges and opportunities that come from conflict and victory. and you have seen that played out in small measure over the last few years, certainly the elections of 2006, 2008 and virginia, new jersey and massachusetts. but no great thing has ever been achieved without overcoming obstacles and no -- nine is more important than to press on through adversity or persevere. so we have these interesting times where we have to confront conflict in order to obtain victory. we must persevere. we must find a way to make all of this fit and all of this work. the first thing i noticed about perseverance is it comes more easily to the optimistic as a young man i was struck by ronald reagan signed wavering optimism and a sense of hope. for in the that sense of the best days lie be

i mean, i hate being here, of course, i do. -- trying to bail me out right now. he's trying to get me out. there's nothing i can do about it. >>> good evening. i'm nancy grace. i want to thank you for being with us. as we go to air, we obtain more jailhouse tapes. secretly recorded video and audio. hours of misty croslin yakking, including hours of visits with mommy, daddy, grandmother, brother, all caught on video. at this hour, investigators combing the tapes for evidence >> hopefully we'll get our taxes on our card tomorrow. we'll send you 100. >> i'm starving. >> hello? >> hey, bubba. >> hey, sis. how are you doing? >> i'm hungry. we get to eat at 4:00 in the morning, we eat at 11:30 and then at 4:00 in the afternoon. and that's all we get to eat. yeah, i'll be eating it because i'm hungry. >> you got to do what you got to do. >> i just want some [ bleep ] good food. >> i might not even be going to prison. i don't even have a felony record. they're just trying to scare us. >> i'm not talking to nobody. >> don't talk to nobody. >> we're not. >> i'm telling you

and as i say, i don't everything that i don't know, i would hope we can get the republican votes. but it doesn't matter if they have a good idea that works to the american people, we should try to incorporate it. quite frankly, largely what we heard from republicans yesterday was about process and let's start all over. but for those who are making suggestions, they talked about selling insurance across state lines, talked about the nature of the exchanges. wasn't even a question. whether they would be an exchange. what are some other changes we could make in the exchanges. and that gives me good opportunity to say, we've come a long way since last march 5. on this legislation. i don't know if all of you recall, but senator grassley at that question the merits of a public auction, which as you know what still remains very popular in the public. the president said at that time, i believe the public option is a good way to keep the insurance companies honest and to create competition. if you have a better idea, put it on the table. well, whether it is -- i don't think it's a better i

>> i do. and we have abided by that prohibition since 1992. >> there was a statement by -- by steve burke during our program carriage dispute between comcast and the nfl, and mr. burke was comcast's chief operating officer, stated that comcast treats its own programming services as siblings as opposed to strangers. do you agree with mr. burke's statement? does comcast treat its own programming services differently than those outside of the comcast family? >> i'm not familiar with the context of that remark, so if i may, mr. burke is -- >> but his statement aside, do you treat your programming services differently than those outside of the comcast family? >> i think that what he may have been referring to is as employees of the company and just how as chief operating officer he's concerned with with both parts of the company and the welfare of the assets and the people. but specifically to -- we have six out of every seven channels that comcast carries, we do not have any financial interest in.

i have a question. if i came to you and you said, do i have your vote? can i count on your support? do you want me to say, i do not know, i have to think about it and research more, or do you want me to say yes? when you can fill out the questionnaire telling me who you are, then i will tell you if you have my vote. you'll get a straight yes or no from me. i thought that was beautiful. it was the perfect example. if you want my support, tell me who you are. candidate participation -- this is the beauty of this. the abigail adams project is overseen by homemakers of america. it is a project we came up with it -- actually, god came up with it. it is a beautiful plan. the members of the central committee -- it is made up of people who have specific talents that we need for the project, media, strategy, technology. it is overseen by the seven members of the homemakers or for america executive board. every state has a coordinator. all of the corners are women. this is not because we're sexist. we love men. when you get on the web sisite and see all these women as executive committee memb

it is part of who i am a part of what i do so when i wake up in the morning i no longer think am i goingto write today? i think about what i'm going to write and they do it a little bit every day, usually early in the morning and i work all weekend. when i'm working on a novel it is like having of low-grade fever, it is with me all the time and as they say it is just crucial to who i am and what i do. i get edgy when i'm not writing. >> laptop? longhand? >> always laptop. i was a newspaper man in been in the newspaper business for many years. i think with my fingers. people will tell me, i think with my fingers instead of my mind sometimes but i do everything on a laptop or on a computer. i take notes and stuff obviously unreal people but i really do think with my fingers now. >> when you are writing, does your professional life come into your characters? >> guessed, it does but in sudden ways. hemingway said years and years ago that if you want to be a writer get a job on a newspaper because it will force you to deal with the english language and some semi-coherent way every day but mor

>> i think i can do that. who come back first. the amount of people we are adding on a weekly basis, and the additional people that are out on assignment, says this is clearly a recovery. the majority of jobs are in manufacturing, spread across the entire u.s. we have not seen a growth rate like this since 1993. yes, it is happening. we, like you, have questions about whether it is sustainable. i would say right now our field of 800 offices in the u.s. are feeling like it might be over. we are on our way. >> could you tell us some of the things we could do for people who have been unemployed or underemployed for a long time? >> if it is something we have worked on. we have programs for the underemployed and the unemployed. we spend a lot of time on training and development to put them in jobs. what we have found is that worker readiness is becoming more and more of a difficult issue for the longer and long- term unemployed. >> that is important. 40% of the unemployed have been unemployed for over a year, and t

so i was worried because i thought i would be drafted. they went to eisenhower and said take care of us, they are taking the canal, and eisenhower said, i will have no part of it. [applause] back 100 years ago, speaking of woodrow wilson, what happened in this country is we took freedom and chop it into pieces. there is only one kind of freedom. liberty comes from our creator. it has nothing to do with government. you want small government to protect liberty, that is good, that is what the founders believed and what the constitution was written for. but if we have some group over here saying that economic liberty as good, we are all the keynesian snout -- dickensians now. [applause] if liberties come to us as individuals, freedom does not come in groups. you have freedom because you're an individual, and that should be protected. [applause] but i do not believe freedom can survive and we as conservatives who can contribute if we still think freedom only comes in pieces, that you can protect economic liberty but not personal liberty. i ima

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>> i hope so, and i believe so. when i talked to my colleagues, many of them have said we voted for, we passed this, we have lost a couple of members so that we will have to gain those three members back in other votes, but the fact is that this bill does what many of the members, including those who were concerned about the first vote, in making sure that it is a very centrist bill, it builds on the way health care works in this country, it has new consumer protects and some rules and regulations for the insurance industry, and it does bring all americans in, 30 million more americans, having access to buy private insurance. megyn: how do you get the moderates like bart stupak on board? he was critical, he and his contingent in the house, if you will, were critical. nancy pelosi did not have the votes to get this passed until bart stupak signed on, once he got a satisfactory amendment ensuring there would be no public money used for abortions of any kind. that's the only reason he and his compadres signed on and no

i wonder if i could get mr.e patent reform going through congress and patents playing a critical role in the i.t. industry, there is a lot of talk of how it's hurting or harming, depending which side you're on, high-tech innovation. i wonder if you're in the field and get your thoughts on how that is affecting your company. >> i agree, if it isn't broken, it's pretty darn close to broken. there is at least two layers of things that i think need to be addressed. one is the process itself. the technology as gotten, in terms of what is being patented in our industry or biotechnical and so forth to have examiners understand the invention and the narrowness and the breadth of it in a timely fashion is something which is simply problematic and underfunded. to me, the patent office needs a substantial change in its funding mechanisms to be able to get proper review in a timely fashion. so that's one end of the spectrum. the other end of the spectrum is once something gets through that process and becomes a patent, it i

>> i don't know if i like her.on't like the whole there's a real america and the coastal america. >> you don't think there's a difference between san francisco and whistle, alaska, in terms of mentality and how you look at life? >> i think there are individuals -- let me put it this way. i don't say that where you live is the factor in deciding who you are. >> amen. >> that got deep. >> that was good. mika, a beautiful shot of washington, d.c., also going to get pound ed there. you talk about real america all the time. >> not all the way. >> and people like me -- >> bring on the e-mails. >> that was an absolutist. >> here is the problem with joe. he's an absolutist with no filter. >> yeah. >> you know? >> that's how you get cable shows. >> exactly. >> speaking of which, you are saying when you walk around new york city, people ask you two things. >> i've gotten in new york city, i've had two people ask me, kind of jokingly, hey, john, how come you hate white people so much? >> why do you? >> i don't hate anyone. i

when i set out with this task in mind, i said i thought i should take a look at how people have dones in the past, predicting the future. and it is a lesson in humility if you study how wrong -- even at someone as intelligent and successful as lindsay, there are so many messages, the way i came to see ed is what looked like a limitation turns out to be a challenge to the artist. when you go back even the 1925 or after sound movies have been introduced, the vast majority of critics are saying sound will not work and motion pictures are better off silent. the actual people making motion pictures were taking up that challenge, making sound work and incorporating it into motion pictures. they were actually looking to the past and not to the future, the prophets. i would be hesitant to make culture predictions. >> i'm glad that he touched on the same thing. if i may, i would like to extend that invitation to humility to people in political science and the social sciences. [laughter] [applause] because they're too they have these models with great certainty about the future of american pol

i think -- i know -- that you're aware of that.nd they really want to see a fighting spirit in us -- that we are committed, even though we've had some political setbacks, to get the job done. and i just want to tell you, as i watched you during the state of the union, listened to you, what you are doing now is really important to the folks that i represent, because you're showing that fighting spirit no matter what the adversity is, and you're coming up with specific proposals. so i want to ask you about small business. we all know they're the job creators; 64 percent of new jobs over the last 15 years came from small business. your new proposal, which does mirror a couple of people -- i look at senator merkley, i know senator warner and others, we've worked hard on this. for community banks to lend, can you do that by executive order? because my understanding is you can use some of the tarp funds that were paid back and use that -- or those funds that have not been used -- can you use that and get this going by executive order, or

guest: i guess i think so.rlie rangel is beloved in the house and has done a lot of fares for a lot of people for a long time on lots of different legislative issues especially since he's become chairman of the house ways and means committee. and i suspect, unless the house ethics committee suggests that there's criminal conduct, which i don't think thrizz going to do, i suspect that he will hang on to his chairmanship. host: that's assuming that the democrats maintain control of the house, which could change. guest: tom hit on something. they're saying the same thing. they're saying that he is going to win. but the issue is they're concerned about his stamina, his emotional stamina. will he say i'm just done. so that's a concern after what he's been going through. host: let me go back to what your competitors at the new york post write. they have a picture of a yawning david patsen. gove's final days. the cover saying that the crumbling of dave patsen's accidental governorship comes as no surprise who say pats

i said i would vote for her because she is a woman.d then i heard barack obama speak and when he got on the news and started talking, my tv went out -- host: we are goingxd down a different road here so we will leave it there. curtis on independent line from baltimore. caller: i give the stimulus an a. a lot of people out there who don't even know -- for the people getting unemployment right now, president obama, he tacked extra money on the end of that so when it ran out he would still be pumping out a couple of checks. he is trying his best. this guy is actually trying his best but anybody who has been watching what is going on, the republicans are blocking him. if you voted, if you need health care or something going on wrong and you wanted change, you should turn on your tv and see that the republican guys are stopping getting health care. çhe is trying to say give money back because the bank aren't -- bank guys do a pretty good. host: all right, joe on the republican line. give his current program an f. and the previous caller l

i see that as a major problem. i have always paid my bills, i relocated.ened is, exactly that. i know a lot of people want to get a house, the seller and buyer agree on a price, then the paper comes back less. so the whole deal falls through. everyone is in this position because the appraiser did not have the right information. host: what is the difference between the selling price? the difference. host: what was the difference? caller: $10,000. ultimately, i see this is a big problem with people that want purges a home. bad. -- people that want to purchase a home. i know that this is one that the realtors have opinions about. host: we will get a response. guest: new appraisal rules went into effect in the middle of last year. we have been flooded, our members with problems related to appraisals. host: are these federal rules? guest: there was a lawsuit in which the federal government agreed to apply these tools around the country. it is called a home valuation code of conduct, the intent is to remove it from from the system. on justifiable appraisals. --