in fact, let's segue to california. we have fires in california, mr. gore said in his response. senator reid chimed in a little bit later, by the way, not in the show. one reason we have the fires in california is global warming. let me tell you about forest fires and range fires in california. they occur because÷8hrá rains a lot in a previous winter. you've all been to california. by the time april 1st rolls around in southern california, there's not a cloud in the sky except for the morning fog if the marine layer is thick. and it does not rain until next october and next december if you're lucky. and so it dries out every year to the point that normally you can support decent fires but the fires become enhanced if the previous winter or the winter before thatÑlñ was very wet. the reason they become wet is because of el nino that causes excessive rain in southern california. so one could have checked gore's statement to see if indeed the frequency of rainy winters in california has been increasing. this is about five mouse clicks away from the united statess÷ national climatic

in his remarkable.june 16th, 2009, citizens against government waste wrote a memo to the members of seven sitting that this provision quote, is really another bailout for the auto industry. american taxpayers have already spent $85 billion and leaned out on to automotive companies, we and the unions. wide we need another bailout for the auto industry? the cash for clunkers provision has no place in the bill that provides emergency were funds. mr. president, i couldn't agree with the citizens more. wall street journal wrote on a june 11th 2009 editorial congress wants to pay you to destroy your car economic policy this is dodging. and it encourages americans to needlessly destroyed still use will cars and then miss allocate scarce resources from another perhaps more productive uses in order to subsidize replacement. by the same logic we can revive the housing market by paying everyone to burn down their houses to collect insurance money and build new ones. known with this is all about is really intended

in fact, even more recently, if you look at what happened in the issue of northern ireland in recent decades, one thing that always raises my concern -- that is how the issue of israel /palestine has fed into a discourse that basically goes to say that you have jews and you have christians on the one hand and then you have muslims on the other hand. president obama did talk about this in his speech yesterday. there are a lot of christian minorities. throughout islamic history, the jews played a very important part in muslim culture and civilization that tends to be discarded. especially when we talk about israel and palestine. all we hear within that discourse is that muslims hate jews and judeo-christian heritage forces muslim heritage. the reality of it is much more complex than that. the reality is that is long, at various point in history, was a lot more accommodating to jews than christianity was, certainly in the 19th and the 20th century in europe, given the holocaust that actually took place there. host: our guest is the washington bureau chief for al jazeera arabic, abderrah

the orioles stabbed in april. .371 in april in may went up to .5.08.une they're at .184 e.r.a so far in june. >> buck: were a bunch of kid pitchers. only by age they pitch with a lot of savvy. cahill 21 years old, then ben who will pitch tomorrow he is 22. will be 23 until september. >> gary: 1-2 delivery. kennedy over. a's are doing what the orioles are doing only their rookies are younge

tied up in the second, took a lead in the bottom of the second, tied up in the fourth, took a lead in the bottom of the fifth, tied up in the 6th. wieters takes it. it's a strike. showers are in and out. >> jim: we go back to the fastball up and away. then walked him the next time. >> gary: a lot of base runners, seven left on by the mets, five for the o's so far. reimold off first base. long look and the 1-1 delivery. wieters will take that one away. it will stay at 2-1. tim redding has stayed away or at least tried to, in the inside part of the plate. anything on the inner half to matt wieters in the ballgame. >> jim: most of the hits left- handed have been middle in. and he took it the other way. >> gary: redding is going to be close to the end as wieters gets the three ball one strike count. wieters, limited at-bats so far. bear in mind it is only his 14th game, and just closing in on the 50 at-bat figure since being called up. reimold off first base. tim redding with the 3-1, runner goes. center field, adam, just picked up now by reimold. he'll make his way back to first. having

in other words what you can get in what you can't. when former u.s. senator and at one point candidates for hhs secretary talked about, he had knowledge in a book that erupted doctors and patients might resent any encroachment on their ability to use certain treatments but he called for the same kind of body in his book that would in effect allocate treatments based upon this kind of cost research. there are many others who have spoken about it as well. we know from experience that this hasn't worked out so well in countries that have tried it like great britain and canada. but, and in fact i will just quote one other individual who has talked about this, a professor at the harvard business school. he said that the stimulus, the comparative effectiveness research in the stimulus bill could easily morph into what, and i'm quoting, which called an instrument of healthcare rationing by the federal government and as they said there are comparisons to what is being done in great britain, and other european countries and canada. ironically at a time when th

hispanics in the u.s. are 50 percent more likely than whites to suffer from diabetes, and in native americans that number, as well, is twice as likely. asian-americans are much more likely to suffer from liver cancer as compare odd the general populations, so we have seen over the past many, many decades of health disparities reporting an emergence and reconfirming of data in terms of morbidity and mortality on minority populations across the board. i want to mention that one of the significant challenges we face in documenting health disparities are data gaps when we look at specific subpopulations, so we face collecting data on native american and specific asian-american and pacific eye rander subpopulations as well as some hispanic populations across the board, but from the data we have seen over the past two or three decades, we have seen a continued confirmation of the existence of health disparities in minority populations. so what is the cause of these disparities? well, it's certainly multifact tom

was in 1983.t was just a little below the line, about.7%. let me give you some numbers. state spending is estimated to decline 2.2% this fiscal year, which everyone knows ends on june 30th. we are projecting state expenditures will have an actual outright decline of 2.5%. that is very significant, both because this is 2 years in a row for the first time, also because these numbers are much more significant in terms of decline than the only other decline which was 1983. thirty states estimate their fiscal year 2009 budgets will be negative. only 6 were negative in 2008, to give you a little bit of perspective in comparison. in 2010, we expect 30 states will have negative budgets. year over year they will be spending less than they did the year before, they did in 2008. one indicator of fiscal stress that is very good is the actual cuts made to budget after passage. after the governor has signed the budget, there is a chart here that shows these. we actually have a record for the first time ever, fo

in that regard. and we will certainly continue to report to you how that is going. but i'm encouraged by what we've seen here just in the last few months. with respect to the dod-ig report that was not an acquisition contracting issue. that was a contract that we led with a single provider of many services to the special operations community. modify equipment. they maintain equipment. they repair equipment and refurbish it. they store equipment for us. they do build sort of small one-off items for us and design and build those. it's a -- it's a comprehensive set of activities that they -- that they perform for us. and the dod-ig report highlighte three findings two of which we concurred mostly with and have taken several internal actions to resolve working with ig and i think to their satisfaction. the third one actually had to do with a potential antideficiency act violation which it was our responsibility to conduct a preliminary review of. we did that. our preliminary review identified that the --

they've given up ten runs in the first three innings. >> jim: the oriole have not had a lead in any of the three games. fell behind 6-0 on friday night. 1-0, and then eventually 9-0 last night. and 3-0 here today. and scooped up by salazar. three up and three down. we'll head to the 9th. scott, mora and salazar up and the birds down by 3.  >>> beautiful day in the oakland bay area. as the athletics try to complete a sweep with a 3-0 lead going to the 9th. aaron cunningham will take over for jack cust and andrew bailey has come out, trying to earn the save. >> buck: bailey worked an inning and a third in last night's game and had a couple of strikeouts and a walk: >> jim: and a fastball by scott, leading off. luke scott didn't face bailey, but he saw, he's got a big fastball. a fastball and a very hard breaking pitch. a little bit low, 1-1 the count. and buck was talking earlier about the rapid rise of these young pitchers in the oakland system. bailey last year spent the year in double-a baseball and here he is now closing out games. a breaking ball. 1-2. >> buck: his

first in terms of our coverage of rural areas and smaller towns in the u.s., when we're done with this process, we'll have between 1500 and 1600 dealers in those towns. we will be by far and away still the broadest distribution system for general motor vehicles in small towns. >> i guess it is all relative, but that's not going to be true in maine, okay? you've got, you know, loyal customers and you got loyal dealers. so the fact that it is relative broadly speaking isn't going to help the situation in maine looking at the map. and that's what this is all about. >> sure. >> and looking at where you're doing it, some of, you know, even the more prosperous counties, that you're concentrating one dealer and, you know, the most populated area, and city, largest city, and some don't have any -- some of the counties don't have any, and that's a wide stretch of geography just in that part of maine, let alone in the more rural parts of maine. >> yes, ma'am. >> there is not going to be any service for these vehicles. that's the bottom line here. and therefore, i don't -- i don't understand how

even though we're only in the 5th inning. the unwritten rules of the game have come into play early. off speed is in there for a strike. >> generally in the american league you get into the 59 inning and this kind of league you pretty much play respect the other team and don't run up the score. >> here's the 0-2 pitch. did he go? check at 3rd. no. garyly darling. hannahan looking to pick up a hit and get involved here. everybody else in the line up has either had a hit or scored a run. hannahan will take the offspeed delivery. where's he going? he thought it was strike three. >> he walks all the way around the home plate umpire. he said that looks like a good breaking ball and -- >> let me clean my cleats here. i think i better swing on this one. here's the 2-2 delivery and he does. tough to play. >> you get into a ballpark for the first time and over into the left center power ally. not sure how much room you have. got a piece but wasn't comfortable going into that corner for the first time. game on defensively. got the bull

happening in our country. so we have millions of people who are being put out of their [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2009] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute] so that takes me to our second task, which is to build a bold new era for change. i will confess, i thought in terms of those gameshow contests where you would get 10 minutes to put anything into a grocery cart that you could take home, so maybe we could get health care and put that in the basket, maybe we could put immigration reform in the pass ket, but sooner or later that 10 minutes would be up. i think that is the wrong way to think of the moment we are in. us cycle winning progressive policy change allows us to win more progressive policy change. and to date we have been really dealing with rightly and fighting for policy ideas that in some ways are off the shelf. these are things that we've been fighting for for a long time but these are issues that have been blocked by the conservative dominance of thi

in fact, the sergeant-major carter, who was in charge of the prison at fort sill, said why in the world would they close a place like gitmo? it's an ideal place to keep these people. and currently, and even though they're talking about putting them in supermax prisons, the only supermax facilities -- facility located in colorado, florence, colorado. according to the bureau of prisons, as of may 21, only one bed has not been filled at supermax. obviously this isn't going to work. there are some -- the b.o.p. facilities at the end of this month was 13,414 inmates while the total prison population of those facilities was far more than that, 20 -- exceeding 20,000. now, despite claims by senator durbin for the supermax prisons in the united states are ready to receive detainees, the supermax prisons in the united states are at or above their maximum capacity. additionally, the -- these civilian prisoners do not meet the same standard as currently exists at gitmo. in 2002, an entire wing of a jail in alexandria, virginia, was cleared out for the 9/11 20th hijacker, zac zacarias moussaoui, to

cole in yemen in 2009. i'm also --ed about the danger these individuals would pose were they placed in u.s. prisons are jails. these individuals are responsible for planning the deaths of thousands of americans. in the case of nociere, court tapes show that conspirators provided assurances that in the event some were captured, others would work to free them. in addition, in the 2000 trial of salim, one of the terrorists accused of the 1990 bombing of the u.s. embassy in kenya, he stabbed a u.s. prison guard in the eye in a prison escape attempt. al qaeda saw the rights given to its members to meet with counsel as an opportunity to carry out violent escape attempts. mr. salim was one of the original followers of osama bin laden and the highest ranking al qaeda member held in the u.s. at the time. in addition to trying to escape from prison, al qaeda members communicated with confederates while in prison. it's my understanding that one was involved in plotting the 1993 world trade center bombing while in cust

markakis getting it in to the cutoff man, to three hits in the inning, all singles. that put runners at first and second with two down for ryan church. >> jim: have you ever seen a high fastball that gary sheffield didn't like? so again, young pitcher, rick kranitz is going to come out and talk to him. nobody is up in the oriole bullpen. pitch count at 88. but again, it's up with of the nights where you better be in shape. just hot and humid, maybe ns hot as it's going to get, but the humidity is way, way up. >> gary: and he'll try to work through the 6th inning with ryan church who grounded tout twice coming up. there's the pitch count. second time up to the 18 mark. he has the 7 strikeouts and just one walk in the ballgame. jason berken with the game on the line, trying to get his second win of the season. and the mets threatening here as ryan church stands in. >> jim: he's a little away frm his changeup. [ indiscernible ] if you throw it, boy, is it great when you're getting it over. >> gary: church is 3 for 9 in this se

partly because you asked, in the at held back in a remarkable display of self retrained which was in indiana's interest. often states do things for political reasons that may not be in their interest, but it was the smart thing to do. but it becomes a convenient and very understandable politically to blame somebody else that you have been counting on if something like this happens. on the indian side, that could cause a problem. i don't think the iran issue will be a problem for reason that we may be heading towards a confrontation with iran. the stakes that would be more important are russia and china, the u.s. will be more angry at them, the expectations of india are relatively lower. >> i would add one note to that, what they're writing about is the kind of strike and air force capabilities they want, this is not about striking china, they want the capability to strike back and retaliate if they i hit again, i am not talking about next year but 5, 6, 7, 8 years from now, india with strike capabilities and more strength conlan and independence, we can see some divergences that woul

in healthcare. answering this very simple question carefully poses an enormous and formidable empirical challenge. we would need to observe the same provider treating two patients with the same economic and social resources, physiology, clinical history, severity, preferences, compliance and future prognosis. these variables are routinely observed by providers treating patients but not by social scientists observing providers. the fact that multiple studies note minority patients get less care is often interpreted of pervasive bias in the clinical encounter it could just as well be interpreted as one of the shortcomings in all observational studies that focus on the clinical encounter. second, because of patterns of neighborhood segregation, the same provider is rarely observed treating both black and white patients. and so what we have been calling prejudice in the clinical encounter is often a difference in neighborhoods referral patterns and the resources of providers that serve in these neighbor

in in short, mr. chairman, diplomatic outreach will remain possible if north korea shows an interest in abiding by its international obligations and improving his relations with the outside world. if not, the speak -- to the united states will do it must to provide for our own security and that our allies. we will work with the international community to take defensive measures and to bring pressure on north korea to abandon its nuclear and missile programs. the choices for the future art north korea's. thank you again and for inviting me to testify today. before i respond to any questions you might have i would like to mention an important humanitarian matter that is unrelated to the political and security issues i have just addressed. and the conviction and sentencing this past monday at two american journalists in p'yongyang. as secretary clinton has said, we appeal to north korean authorities on humanitarian grounds to release these two women and return them to their families. do to privacy act co

creativity in human relationships, in friendship, in love. some people think creativity is a right or freedom is just freedom to write. in fact, i cannot see you and this is -- you can see me but i cannot see each other. can we see each other. this is one of the major problems of conferences. that we are up and you are down. we are in the light. you are in the darkness. and it is very difficult for me to speak when i don't see the eyes of people. when they don't see their faces because i am inspired by you. by your presence. so now i cannot -- can you see them? >> i think -- >> can you all diminish the light a little bit or is it the television? >> no, i think we can raise the lights a little bit. >> okay. okay. oh, that's too much -- that's too much. [laughter] >> no, it's okay. >> it's too close. is it okay like that? okay. i like to be comfortable when i talk. i am i was invited to california in one of the big universities, and they were supposed to speak about democracy. and the situation was very undemocratic. [laughter] because we were

how many know in this country, not in this room, there are more women in iranian universities than men? and a lot of professions, such as law, or medicine, doctors, and lawyers, are very heavily permeated by women, not to mention the nobel prize in literature was also won by a woman recently, she is iranian. this is not the sort of stereotyped country of medieval islam. it is a very complicated mixture. in which nationalism plays a very important role. and a sense of imperial tradition, plays a very important role. and a sense of the country's own worth and also a country which for more than 8 years, maybe longer than that, for more than 80 years, almost 100 years has heavily focused its own sense of internal change, on western europe and its model, specifically the germans. german universities, german education, and all of that, has had very high standing and major impact on the -- on iran, very much like turkey. and the country with which most iranians have most frequent contact including vacations, is turkey. and every time they go to turkey they must notice some significant differe

troops are left in the cities, specifically, how many in baghdad? >> again, i would ask that you direct that question to the pentagon. there are roughly 135,000 u.s. troops in the country. but as for their particular deployment, i'd direct that the to the pentagon. >> can i just make sure i got this straight. when you were asked about the syrian fighters coming into iraq, have you actually seen a diminishing of that number or is it not yet clear? >> i think it's too soon to gauge the numbers except to assure you that we track this issue very closely. and compared to say a year ago, there is a substantial -- there are fewer such people coming over. now, whether there are fewer coming over because they understand the consequence of unlawful crossing of the border is greater now than it might have been in the past, that's hard to say. but the specific question had to do with the recent discussions with syrian authorities and whether there is a change in the flow at this point and i think in that case it's a little too soon to say. >> that was since las

in this particular administration, this president is famously known for being wonky, in a good sense. he cares about the nuance and details of policy administration. to go and be and the kind of a traditional sense of it as a bunch of the traditional sense of a bunch of policy monger's implementing policy is an important part of this president's vision, how do you institutionalize change? how do you make it happen? the washington post talked-about the memorandum sent to all agency heads about transforming the federal personnel process. this is the management side of omb, making it different and transforming government. we are at a unique moment in the public/private sector, the boundaries of public/private sector, the power of government to solve human problems. now we have the opportunity to make government transparent. omb is a center of a lot of the transparency efforts, the recovery effort, the vice president's office implementing a lot of stuff in the recovery act. in 4 months i tell people it has been 4-1/2 months, we have had 2 budget cycles in the 2010 budget. it has been an e

in many ways we have made progress and been more successful in the this about in the past but there are still in number of it chasms that need to be bridged, and number of obstacles amended to be relieved. let us remind of a complex between turkey en three's and things don't always run smoothly and integration of of defense policy and nato policy. we need to work on this because it is an obstacle to us and we're also facing enormous challenges looking at the nuclear program of north korea, iran and also the challenges in afghanistan and pakistan. fighting piracy on the horn of africa. addressing the issue of failing states, all for example, the share one suffering of people seemingly encouraging both dictators, the one who is a ruling in darfur. let us remind ourselves also the situation in iran. i think we are saying be it. america and europe or in germany that we are deeply moved by the fact and also dismayed by the fact how this regime treats peaceful demonstrators. we are for peaceful demonstrations, for freedom of expression, we think is necessary to respect the will of the people

investor regular laggetselations in terms of safety and soundness are in my view important in regulatory reform. the goals should be in working with a close bond in sound reporting with investors are not suborder nated in the objectives of the regulation and on the other hand that the regulators are not inappropriately hand cuth cuffed by the requirements that they perform the treatment to gap. i would support the treatment of decoup ling. my next concern is that this be perceived by the public as valid. they must not stifel innovation. i believe that the reports needs to convince the american public that we need to take the steps necessary to move beyond the capitol practices and mind sets that have sparked widespread outrage. while the taxpayer funded bail outs of major institutions and major companies were necessary to avert deeper harm to the ee condition my to our society, the phenomenon is frout with danger and perceived as downright unfair. current reforms must have an eye of reducing this in the future. there's been similar issues associated with executive excess compensation. th

we saw in the bjork hearings in the 1980's, but then we had a period in the 1990's, in terms of the two clinton appointees to the supreme court where a lot of sectors were -- senators were able to put partisanship aside. when president clinton nominated justice ginsburg, here was a woman, clearly qualified, a distinguished background, she was at the time a judge on the d.c. circuit and even though many senators no doubt disagreed with her philosophically, there was no question she's on the liberal end of the spectrum she said, look, elections have consequences, presidents are entitled to appoint a judicial nominee who share theirs views and at the end of the day, the confirmation vote was 97-3 in favor of confirmation. justice breyer, another judge who clearly by any standard has a distinguished track record, he had served as an aide in the u.s. senate and went on to be a judge on the first circuit, he was confirmed by a vote of 87-9. then we look at what happened during the bush era, where president bush apinted two -- appointed two people to the supreme court, first, chief justice rob

in the -- please join me in a round of appreciation. [applause] >>ly turn the program over now to the chief justice and i'll to the chief justice and i'll see you all chicago. [applause] >> you're watching c-span's america and the courts. next u.s. district judge royce lambert on salaries of federal judges and the confirm, process. he spoke at the u.s. district courthouse in washington, d.c. last march. this is a portion of the discussion. >> i really do want to talk about -- what i really want to talk about today is how we get more judges like tom flannery. and i don't mean just judge flannery. i mean judges like judge william bryant for whom our annex is named and joyce green and colleen fatelli. appointed by district judges as -- foreign intelligence veins court by chief justice rehnquist. judge flannery and the other judges i have named all share the view that federal judges should be neutral and should strive to apply neutral principles in their decision making. their personal views had to be and were set aside. they applied the co

make this in a way more cohesive in that sense. so many places to start. let me start with this. since t.a.r.p.'s inception the program's scope, size and complexity have dramatically increased. i made note of this in my opening comments when i noted the 12 separate initiatives under t.a.r.p. today. some of these interact with the federal reserve, some with the fdic, some obviously with private investors as we discussed as well. i wonder if you could begin, i think some of this you mentioned in your steps, the initial steps, you intend to take, but i would like you to expand on this and how you would assure this committee and the public at large the effective management of such a complex program that involves already interaction with almost every other federal agency that's direct or indirectly involved with economic recovery in the country. and i wonder if you might share those thoughts. and i've been joined by my colleague from alabama and let me interrupt myself and ask my friend and colleague if he'd like to make opening comment

in my vision of peace, in this small land of ours, two peoples live freely, side-by-side, in amity and mutual respect. each will have its own flag, its own national anthem, its own government. neither will threaten the security or survival of the other. these two realities - our connection to the land of israel, and the palestinian population living within it - have created deep divisions in israeli society. but the truth is that we have much more that unites us than divides us. i have come tonight to give expression to that unity, and to the principles of peace and security on which there is broad agreement within israeli society. these are the principles that guide our policy. this policy must take into account the international situation that has recently developed. we must recognise this reality and at the same time stand firmly on those principles essential for israel. i have already stressed the first principle - recognition. palestinians must clearly and unambiguously recognise israel as the state of the jewish people. the second principle is: demilitarisation. the territory und

policy in the middle east. she practiced law in the area of international project finance for three years and then served on assignment with the international finance corporation where she provided legal advisor on investments in the middle east and central asia. from 1989 to 1993, she served at the department of state at the agency for international development. during the 2000 and 2004 presidential campaigns, she managed vice presidential debate preparations and served as a national service for the bush-cheney campaign. she is currently collaborating with the father, vice president cheney, on his memoirs, covering four years of his career in washington. she earned her law degree from the university of chicago and her bachelor's degree from colorado college. like our organizations namesake, clare boothe luce, ms. cheney is a very accomplished woman an expert in the area of foreign affairs and especially middle eastern affairs. she has one other important role on a resume. she is also a wife and mother of five

in other times in our political history in our history since 9/11 may be written in terms of this contention between energy and discretion on one hand and the rule of law on the other. court cases have been filed and adjudicated. there have been hearings in congress in discussions back and forth from 2006 until last fall. i want to make one point for each of the presidents we will be talking about. regarding president bush, some supporters have criticized his presidency as preoccupied with executive power. it might be that of the vice president. this preoccupation was imprudent because it ironically led to the weakening of the power itself through adverse decisions. the results of a political weakening of the president. -- there was also a political weakening of the president. jack goldbergesmith wrote "that terror presidency." he served in the office of legal counsel. he wrote a book in which he made some of these criticisms as did others. there is merit to much of what he says in his book. goldsmith would say it is better not to talk so much about executive power, but nonetheless hold a ro

in the pain project itself, there were so many times when i lost faith in myself in continuing the project. but, others reminded me, one man can become a symbol for others and i think that is what i remembered throughout the project, it is the project was in my name and if i stopped, i would disappoint so many people because they put all of their hope in it. any other questions? >> did the project generate any sort of response from the people such as humanitarian response, the political response. did they start donating to charities for iraq? what were some of the responses of the results that came out of the project? >> that is a tough question because i don't think it generates a response on that level. i think-- the response i was hoping for is very personal, is raising awareness and connecting people to each other. one organization state for a long time, the virtual human shield. that continue to be, to be active for a while. against the war in iraq. but, i think the reward that came out of the project is so many people from so many different countries become aware of what is going on

there has been a 79% drop in the number of women majoring in computer science in the last eight years. there are a number of factors including a long hours, travel, the glass ceiling, lack of mentors and role models, and a lack of the parity in pay especially in the lower ranks. despite these challenges, the information technology industry offers a tremendous opportunity to women and women are entering into the top ranks of our business. it considers xerox, a company that engaged in the first woman to woman ceo in the fortune 500. that makes this so spectacular. ursula burns become the first african-american female ceo in the fortune 500. women own almost 40% of all privately held businesses in the united states. this number will grow as unemployment climbs to over 9% and people are forced to dustoff their business plans and ideas. during this economic crisis, many women might become technological entrepreneurs. as i to professionals, we can imagine and build solutions to make our lives more productive and prosperous while using emerging technologies and cutting edge tools. in fact, w

>> in a word, scale. jpmorgan use aig a bit but not much partly because they have internal lines of women. so yes back in 1998 the cut first on aig as discovered this super senior was back in 1998 when they went to see this wacky weird thing called super senior, are you interested in the san yes brianna on because due to regulatory arbitrage they basically do whatever they wanted and angie was super senior and had the capital. so yes jpmorgan did deal with aig quite a bit and the very beginning and, yes, it dealt with them throughout the decade, but two or three years ago far less impact jpmorgan did not lose a lot of money? >> not to the skill of many of the investors and you can see that in the figures. if you look at the breakdown of who aig was exposed to it is pretty stark. jpmorgan is really not up there in the top half-dozen from memory. you can actually see the breakdown of who benefited most from the rescue but i think jpmorgan was somewhere around 10 or 11 but i can get those to you if you want.

in arkansas? >> if there were a determination made that the killing was based on the race of the victim, yes, i think there's at least arguable that is but if the motivation was because his mailtary status, i don't think that would be under the hate crime status. >> regardless of what his stated motivations might have been. >> well, that would be one of the things we'd have to consider. what's the motivation of the person. >> should we consider legislating proposals to protect u.s. soldiers at recruiting offices? >> well, i mean i guess we have to look at the ex department of the problem -- extent of the problem. that's not to minimize the seriousness of what happened there. what happened there was deplorable. and not something that should in any way be tolerated. but i think we want to get -- look at what is the nature of and the extent of the hate crime that we are trying to legislate, the categories that we have now, i think we can certainly show that there are substantial numbers of crimes tha

perhaps sit end in mosquessit- ins in m -- sit ins in mosques. the protesters have to figure out how to get one step ahead of the regime. i think you are right that this is like the civil rights movement. but the civil rights movement in the united states was much more open country which took years to reach fruition. host: next call, england. caller: i just wanted to say i was in iran as a tourist. we used to go there quite often to see the country. it was a beautiful place with a wonderful culture. i can only go by my own experience. we went to teheran. it is a lovely country. i do not necessarily agree that [unintelligible] i think the government may be restricting things in some ways. some people were not allowed weregaza. -- allow ited in gaza. they're not allowed to report. i do not think we should interfere in other countries. we would not like it if they told us what to do. guest: i do not think we should interfere either. we should recognize that the regime has really shut down all kinds of expression. if it really was the case the electi

of my political heroes in life. the abolitionists in america looked to him and his example of how to get rid of slavery in the united states. so almost anything i can read about wilberforce i try to get my hands on. and the book i want to book this summer and it's a tremendous book about his life and how he brought people together to eliminate the slave trade in great britain. another book that i'm going to read this summer is called the longest day. it's about that terribly long day when we invaded europe at normandy that eventually led to the end of world war ii. and a friend of mine recommended it and it's an amazing book and i'm excited about reading that. some recent books that i read that i would recommend to people, one, written by a navy seal. about his experiences in afghanistan and it's called the lone survivor and he is the lone survivor and it's one of the more remarkable stories of human courage and really is a tribute to the courage of his comrades who lost their lives in that time in afghanistan but i

iraq, in libya, in egypt, in syria and so on replaced by extremist governments.he soviet union did gain a grip on many regimes in the region. now jews are accused of this dual loyalty on account of the existence of israel. was kennan mostly right? >> no. i mean, in fact, one other thing we should say, one of the other arguments which was a very strong one at the time is that they all said war is going to break out between the new state and the arabs and the new jewish state could not and would not win. they were convinced of that. there was no way the jews would win and defeat any arab armies. it would be a bloodbath and the middle east would erupt in fire. that was also part of their argument. in fact, that was the main part of their argument and they were totally wrong in that. they didn't think they could defend themselves and they didn't think they could win. you know, certainly the point is -- >> in fairness to the people making it, it was an improbable victory. >> yeah. but to a lot of of the jewish leaders in palestine they felt they would be able to stand

in order to use is time here in a fashion. we'll ask senator casey to give us opening thoughts on the abuse and fraud section. so we'll complete that part of the process. once we complete the four amendments on workforce we can move directly to the amendments on use and fraud. >> i'm honored to have a chance to review this section. i want to commend the staff. they've done, as they do on every section, great work. i was -- as a state official, both the auditor general and the treasurer. auditor general for eight years. state treasurer for two. in that decade, had the opportunity to be involved in a lot of audits and investigations and reviews some of them involving these issues of waste, fraud and abuse. the way i look at this i think is the way we all look at it. waste and fraud and abuse is not just a bad thing for our system, for our health care system, it's a lot more serious than that. i believe that every instance of waste, fraud and abuse, no matter what it is, no matter what the dollar amount, represents a taking, almo

budget, and this is the debtor in possession budget of -- in the bankruptcy. and -- it talked about the budget for the old company. what troubles me in there, there is an acknowledgement there may be up to 15 employees of old chrysler working on this bankruptcy and there is a pool in this budget of up to $20 million for bonuses. i can't imagine what kind of kick in the gut that would be if we were to learn in the next two weeks that some of the old chrysler folks which are getting paid their salaries, which they should, you are doing hard work, but if there is $20 million in bonuses for as few as three to five people that are associated with old chrysler, i think that would be a huge -- i mean, i think the pitch forks would come out and i think there, you know, there would be a real problem and i want -- i know i ask you about this yesterday, have you learned anything more about that and can you shed any light on that? >> no, senator. i did make an inquiry, we were not able to find testimony. i can only speculate. i think that would be inappropriate at this ti

we have $85 billion in the company's, 50 in gm, 16 in chrysler, 14 in the supplier's. you have answered very affirmatively there's no money, but my understanding is, i have seen the other senators moving around a little bit with the energy bill. how much do you expect them to get out of another pocket? it is all our money. >> let me try to answer your question. a very small correction. the total u.s. government commitment to chrysler is $12 billion, remaining funds are from the canadian government. >> we had a guy out here who told us if we put one dollar in these companies we would end up $125 billion. we have already gone past that. and number of us are working to keep that from happening. how much money have they applied for? >> both of the companies have applications for 136 funding. my understanding is it is a competitive process where many -- >> how much? >> they both applied on the order of $546 billion by have no indication that they will receive it. it is a competitive process. there are dozens of companies applying for it. if they're deemed worthy they will g

guest: 2 more in the house and one in the senate. a bill to promote tourism and the senate, and a lot of committee work on health care reform. that will take care of the whole week. two bills for appropriations, homeland security funding and the interior environment fund in the house. also the tourism bill in the senate. host: we are covering the health committee markup. this must be the fourth day they've met. guest: that's right. in the house, they came out with their own plan, similar to the kennedy bill. it will be marked up this week in the house. every day there will be committee work on health care in both the house and the senate on different plants. host: susan ferrechio, we will check back with you. to bloomfield in west virginia, our democratic ally. where are the jobs in your community? caller: we are in the appellations, we lost our jobs and they have never come back. you can see what is happening all over the country, in michigan and everywhere. our jobs have been exported offshore. i don't think they will come back. th

nonprofits are up in baltimore in san jose in any of the cities now underserved journalistically, it's going to work, and i thank you are going to be able to hire the cream of about out laid-off crop of journalists and if you are committed to putting the money back in i think it will actually grow. you do the math, plot a cocktail napkin into the mass of six, seven, $8 a month for 10% or 15% of what the newspapers prior subscription base was and realize that all of that money come all that is now profit. it is on circulation cost. again, we did not see it, but that has been transformed and i think on a small scale basis where everybody is committed to just covering the original area there is no room and board a lot of things not relevant anymore to the local paper. in the comics, the crossword puzzle, national coverage. but there is still a market in these regional areas for journalism and i think ultimately it will be a non-profit or a very modest profit, some has to say, you know what, five or 6 percent growth is okay. let's put everything else back into the product and nobody said t

it will be the biggest budget deficit in europe and the biggest in our history. let's be clear about this no plans are no proposals to day as he put it. a man with no democratic legitimacy who has never been elected as our prime minister, who has been defeated every time the public have been able to vote for him is now considering trying to fix the rules of the election before the next general election. isn't that what is happening? >> first of all, on public spending and deficits, let him proposed -- let him confirm that his proposals or for a 10% cut. if he wishes to raise the question of deficits and debt, let him confirm that that is now the proposal of the shadow chancellor as confirmed by the shadow health secretary this morning. that does have a debate about the choice that really does exist in the country between the conservative party that now wants to cut even at a time of recession into our basic public services and the labor party that wants to invest in them. let him also be honest with the country that when it comes to calling for election, he has a

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in my state. doctor osterhall is a disease expert and you may have seen him featured with the latest flu outbreak. he is credited with the creation of the minnesota program. he has said the creation of regional programs models on minnesota would go a long way toward providing precisely the real-time support for outbreak investigations at the state and local levels that is so sorely needed. no one believes we can do all this out of washington. that's why we simply have to upgrid the practices that our states are using when there is an outbreak so we don't have to wait for people to get sick or die in minnesota so solve these problems. the recent outbreaks have shaken the confidence and trust in the food we eat. according to the centers for disease control, food-borne disease causes 76 million ills in, 335,000 hospitalizations and 5,000 deaths in the united states. for each illness reported it is estimated up to 40 more illnesses are not reported or confirmed by a lab. the annual cost of medical car

in areas with flooding in destruction, and do you have the backup plan using schools in some areas? it might not be the best in that circumstance. >> there's a long wait for the solution regarding. you're right about catastrophic disaster. what happens when you have people dislocated on a basis for a long period of time? there is the housing task force that fema has that should be the natural connection into getting people into shelters and other types of housing. i know that looking at evacuation's of people through other areas is a possibility, but that has its own trials and tribulations. as it stands right now, the options are limited. we feel a quietness, especially when people are evacuated. the community would like to get back to being normal again. it is something that, until a solution comes up for interim housing, we will be struggling with that. this issue. >> and in the model for shelter programs, do you have a framework? one week, two weeks, three days, 30 days? your plan is for immediate, not long term. what is your plan? >> we look at 30 days. beyond that, it might no

an inning so far this year since may 6 against the dodgers in the 6th inning. the nationals ended up losing 10-3. >> bob: that was against mike hinckley and logan kensing. daniel cabrera start that had game and pitched into the sixth inning, but not for long. that was one month and one week ago and none of those pitchers are still around. willie harris, austin kearns and wil nieves here in the 7th. andy sonnanstine. >> rob: look at that stat. >> bob: that's how you go 4-6 with a 7 e.r.a. >> rob: second in the major leagues with run support, over eight runs per start. >> bob: you brought this up numerous times. what is it about these guys with 6 and 7 e.r.a.'s, our ball club can't hit them. >> rob: i don't know. maybe we take them for granted that they're not throwing the ball well. >> bob: that's a way to help out a pitcher. willie harris will fly out on a pitch that was way up out of his zone. the nats now have been set down 13 in a row. >> bob: last night matt garza with amazing stuff. then let them off the hook after that. you've got to keep charging every i

, in the normal process, not in the process we're in today. but i thank the gentleman for yielding because i think the debate we're in is very, very vital to this country and i appreciate him for yielding. thank you. the chair: the gentleman yields back. the gentleman from north carolina. mr. price: madam speaker, i inquire how much time we have remaining. the chair: the gentleman from north carolina has 8 1/2 minutes remaining. the gentleman from kentucky has 3 1/2 minutesemaining. mr. price: we have no further speakers on the floor at this point. there may be one on the way so i'd like to reserve the balance of my time. the chair: the gentleman reserves. the gentleman from kentucky. mr. rogers: madam speaker, i have no further speakers. i intend to close our time you down but i'd be happy to do that now or whenever the chairman would like for to us proceed. mr. price: if the gentleman has -- if the gentleman has no further speakers, we'll be happy to move on to the amendments. the chair: the gentleman from kentucky to close. mr. rogers: i yi

i believe in the product. i believe in what they are doing is right.i don't believe in eliminating the dealer body did any good. i believe the bankruptcy was something that was inevitable but products they make are far superior. the dodge charger, the challenger, the 1500 are phenomenal. and i believe in the product. and it's just unfortunate when we have such a well-run business and there's other dealers out there that are substandard you can't really look at any metrics from any dealership and shoot holes and everyone of them, and i don't believe it was -- copps pumas i appreciate your testimony. thank you khan -- >> general motors even mr. press, i guess i'm concerned as i see the opening areas about the rural areas where i live have any of you talked about 100,000, 80,000, i don't have a county in my district that house 70,000. i am a vast rural leary and i think we have got six chrysler dealerships being closed, maybe four or five, maybe more than that in my district of general motors. heil or people going to get service? if i bought a car this ye