guest: i would contact the irs. which i and tell te problem is and they will be able to check. caller: thank you very much. host: assuming that one has all their holiday shopping done and they are homebound today with the storm that is moving up and down the east coast, what should people be doing today to get ready for their tax season, april. ? guest: they should collect all their receipts. i have said numerous times, my personal belief after 49 years of doing this is that most americans pay more taxes in general than they have to because we're the world's worst record keepers. we will simply not write anything down part of, april or march when you sit down and do your tax return, everybody becomes the late karnak, they think about the prior year and try to figure out where they can go. if you have an opportunity to start getting your bills and receipts ready, particularly for things like a charitable contributions, also look at your credit cards. many people do not realize that taxes are based on a calendar year

irs taze, he wrote iwo jima.s pays gid in the interview to "time" magazine one year before he died. in that interview i read hayes said, i feel like i'm about to crack up, thinking about my buddies. those guys didn't come back. those guys who were better than me. one year later, he died at the age of 33, face down, the dead drunk. my father when he was called by the "associated press" to cummins said, i read hayes is truly a casualty of war. >> ladies and gentlemen let's give mr. james bradley a big hand. [applause] >> thank you. thank you. he has agreed to, but folks can i say one more thing? now that the kamisar on or off or whatever, i think some people helped me in the back of the book. two of them are here today. my roommate whom i lived with in tokyo and we are still arguing who is right about whatever, we still can't come to any agreement after all these years but he has been a great help and inspiration for me with the three books. his name is chris cannon and he is right there in the back, that handsome

as has the irs. credit goes to officials in states like louisiana and nevada for opening investigations, but acorn is a sprawling, multilayer organization with offices all over the country. it operates in a multitude of different areas from elections to housing to even operating radio and tv stations. i'm sorry, is my time up? , could you summarize? >> the bottom line is that only the fbi and the justice department have the power to perform a nationwide investigation. and there is more than enough evidence for the undercover videos and all of these other reports to provide a basis for a federal investigation. the government has launched a major investigations of businesses and government contractors on much less evidence. what needs to happen is they need to act immediately -- the dumping of california of 20,000 documents in the trash by the san diego office only days after the secretary of state -- the attorney general announced an investigation shows that they are willing to destroy evidence and pe

does the irs lacks the resources to collect the debt? >> there are a lot of us responsible for a revenue system that is badly out of sync with the world we are in today. when this tax system was devised, we did not have to worry about competitive positioning in the unit is states. the united states was dominant. but now we do. when this tax system was instituted, we did not have all of these accountants and lawyers sitting around figuring out how to avoid and evade the system going offshore. you did not have these offshore opportunities that exist today. by the way, if you want to see the magnitude of what is occurring in these offshore tax savings, just go global offshore tax savings and see what you find. -- just go google offshore tax savings and see what you find. it is very eliminating. >> -- it is very illuminating. >> all lines of taxation, a lot of people think -- along the lines of taxation, a lot of people think about the added value tax or some national sales tax that the commission would be tempted to look to to raise revenue

as has the irs. credit goes to officials in states like louisiana and nevada for opening investigations, but acorn is a sprawling, multilayer organization with offices all over the country. it operates in a multitude of different areas from elections to housing to even operating radio and tv stations. i'm sorry, is my time up? , could you summarize? >> the bottom line is that only the fbi and the justice department have the power to perform a nationwide investigation. and there is more than enough evidence for the undercover videos and all of these other reports to provide a basis for a federal investigation. the government has launched a major investigations of businesses and government contractors on much less evidence. what needs to happen is they need to act immediately -- the dumping of california of 20,000 documents in the trash by the san diego office only days after the secretary of state -- the attorney general announced an investigation shows that they are willing to destroy evidence and pe

there were devastated by the irs. they were taxed on the money they thought they had. they did not have the investment returns. the government robbed them by charging them a tax. they can only go back a few years and not the full 13. the government illegally robbed them of taxes. so many are now being raped by the clawback decision. it the think they have this money in their account that they did not have and they spent it to live on. that is what it was for. i have met people who have content for the victims because they should have known better. how? i represent the north shore of long island. it is paces from where mr.. operated. country club see belonged to. thousands of people who thought they were likely to know such a nice man who is so reliable received all the alkylates did alkylates -- all the accolades. these people thought they were lucky. they were probably the unluckiest people of all. they were further ripped apart. they knew this guy they thought was a wonderful human being. how lucky were they? now they are personally devastated. to those people who lo

a second one is getting the tax form and the turnaround time by the irs, by the time they get the forms back, their forms are inspired. that is something that we will try to address. >> the waiver of privacy -- >> which is only valid for 60 days and because servicers were so backed up at the beginning, but they were -- by the time they are giving to those, they are beyond 60 days and the irs is not going to take those. we are trying to do something about that immediately so people do not go back in the queue. finally, there are some places where we have to do better outreach in terms of getting people educated on the importance of documents. there are more than enough cases were servicers have not done their part and they are taking accountability for that and they are self acknowledging places where they did not ramp up in time. but there also acknowledging situations where they are setting fedex and dockers and gift cards out to certain borrowers and not getting the document back. they're trying to understand what might have changed that the borrower is not ready to make the next step

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as has the irs.es to officials in states like louisiana and nevada for opening investigations, but acorn is a sprawling, multilayer organization with offices all over the country. it operates in a multitude of different areas from elections to housing to even operating radio and tv stations. i'm sorry, is my time up? , could you summarize? >> the bottom line is that only the fbi and the justice department have the power to perform a nationwide investigation. and there is more than enough evidence for the undercover videos and all of these other reports to provide a basis for a federal investigation. the government has launched a major investigations of businesses and government contractors on much less evidence. what needs to happen is they need to act immediately -- the dumping of california of 20,000 documents in the trash by the san diego office only days after the secretary of state -- the attorney general announced an investigation shows that they are willing to destroy evidence and perhaps obst

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we saw 9/11, in '95, an attempt over the pacific of american airline irs. it has the hallmarks of al qaeda. it is too early to tell if it is linked to that terrorist organization, larry. >> larry: nic, how concerned are the british authorities about muslim radicalism in the uk? do they see this suspect as an off/on operator or part of a wider network? >> reporter: they haven't -- we haven't heard from british officials specifically about this suspect at the moment, the british government said they're very concerned. the prime minister said today he's concerned helping the u.s. authorities with the investigation. but if you look at what the intelligence services have said in the past few years here, they have 2,000 terror suspects that they're following and about 30 active terror plots that they're following at any one time. it is a big problem here. it's something that they're watching very careful le aly ans something they're very aware of. they can't know everything all the time. just below this radicalized level of people who want to act out terror plots

i look forward to your questions. >> think you, sir. -- thank you,s ir. sir. is a harvard university law graduate. we welcome you today. >> thank you. i am grateful for the opportunity to testify today on the subject of piracy of blood sports broadcasting. today most of the attention has been focused on pre-recorded television. today's hearing provides welcome the attention on the unique problems and challenges posed by piracy of live television. a wide range of companies offer devices that take advantages of what is known as that analog hole. because these ports have data and an analog format that lack the sophisticated copyright protection built into the digital format, once live television program has and captured and stored on the computer, the person must find a way to distribute it. one plate of doing so is streaming video, in which the copier establishes an internet connection. those making unauthorized copies of live television program have increasingly used this method. the content is saved in a file that is sent to and stored by multiple and users th

the desion of ir's leaders tgovern through fr and tyranny willot succeed making those aspirationso aay >> warner: there were scattered reports of new trouble today anpposition web site said polic fired ar gas disperse moussavi supporters outside a hospital i hran. and for mo on the volatile for more on the volaile situation inran, we go to trita parsipresident of the tional iranian-american council, a nonpartisan oranization promoting iranian- american particition in u. civic life. and karim sadjapours an associate at the carneg endownt for international peace. elcome to you both, karim benning with you, how significant a mome is this in this six and a half month clash between the government and the oppotion. >> it isncredibly significant,argaret. a few points which wou make. first the demonstrators were waed weeks in advance that there would be severe/( epercussions if they ntinued the protests and yet several hundred thound people stil took to the reets. i think cond, some of the skeptics of the process last june said well, these are only t modern elitis youth of norern tehran who ar

connect to the fiber-optic cable that runs offshore of cuba, but some sectors of the united states' ire to keep them from becoming connected, and so that dance continues now with the obama administration reaching out, trying to allow that to happen, but the cuban government still been reticent, and also saying, "hey, we have another option, and that is venezuela," and they kept saying 2010, 2010, 2010. that has been the argument or the x q's up until now. one thing i will say in the last few minutes is just to sketch of the history. -- that has been at the argument or the excuse up until now. there is actually a whole world connected to that, so first, let me talk about history, and then i will talk about projects. in my analysis of her bkloglog,u can break it up into six stages, and we can come back to it if you're interested. exorcisms, personal exorcisms you could call it, what she calls it. six out -- six months later, october 2007. then there was international recognition from about october through march, and march is when the cuban government started to clamp down and blocker site

they were devastated by the irs if they paid taxes on the money that they thought they had. they didn't have the investment returns and the government then robbed them by charging them tax that they can only go back a few years. so many of them are being raped by the provision. for reliably, understandably, thinking they have this money in their account that they did not have in there and then they spend it to live on. that is what it was for. i have met people that had contempt for the victims. i represent the north shore of long island. the country clubs that he belonged to and thousands of people who thought that they were lucky to know such a nice man who was so reliable and receive all the accolades that society could heap upon an individual who is making a company and returning investments for so many years. these are the people of thought they were lucky -- these are the people that thought they were lucky. they were further ripped apart because they personally knew this guy who they thought was this wonderful human being, and how lucky were they? now, they are person

and i had to go through five months of changes, you know, making $15,000 a year being audited by the irs, and this man's walking away with millions and millions, and i wonder what you think about that and how can we -- i think that the problem is that we are a land of lawlessness anymore. we don't enforce the law, we're a nation of men and not a nation of laws the way that we were designed. what can we do to make a change? >> host: thanks, we'll get a response. >> guest: that's, that was the whole ball of wax. that's in the book, "whores." what we're talking about is exactly what i wrote about, and that's why i hope people will read that book because, number one, we need competition. i'm going to go back to the last caller, we need another political party, maybe two or three more. we need competition. i'm an old antitrust lawyer, i helped break up at&t as a young lawyer at the justice department. but in terms of where we are with regard to congress and holding them accountable to people like charlie rangel who have, obviously, broken the law, people like geithner who's running the treasu

a second is getting that tax reform and the turnaround time from the irs. by that time they get the form back, the form has expired. they're stuck with whether they go back to the bar work or not. -- deparle or borrower -- whether they go back to the borrower or not. by the time they get to those, they are beyond 60 days and the irs will not take them. we're trying to do something about that immediately said that people do not go back into the queue -- esso that people do not go back into the queue. and we need to do better out reacreach where servicers have t done their part. there've knowledge in places where they did not ramp up in time. that raises the situation where they are sending back packages, door knockers, and even get cards out to bars and they are not getting the documents back. -- to borrowers and they are not getting the document pack. that is where we are. it has been a fascinating research project. the real goal is to see how much we can push through or pull through this by the end of the year. >> grab one of the microphones. >> treasury i

admitted extreme culpability in missing the warning signs of the madoff scam and others, and because the irs essentially endorsed madoff in 2004 by naming his firm as a non-bank custodian of ira's and other tax-deferred retirement accounts, we believe that congress has a duty to ensure it did equal sipc relief be provided to all victims, not just some victims as is currently the case. the concepts outlined in the maffei/ellison amendment would be wonderful if it were expanded to include all indirect investors. unfortunately it only addresses erisa plan victims. it excludes thousands of other indirect victims, including those in self funded retirement plans such as ira's. i ask you again -- where is the justice and that kind of an approach? we see no moral basis for congress to amend sipa to provide customer status to a relatively small, special interest group of indirect investors e nrisa plans and exclude all other indirect investors. we indirect investors lost our savings in the same fraudulent ponzi scheme, suffered the same financial devastation and erisa plan members and a direct invest

there were devastated by the irs. they were taxed on the money they thought they had. they did not have the investment returns. the government robbed them by charging them a tax. they can only go back a few years and not the full 13. the government illegally robbed them of taxes. so many are now being raped by the clawback decision. it the think they have this money in their account that they did not have and they spent it to live on. that is what it was for. i have met people who have content for the victims because they should have known better. how? i represent the north shore of long island. it is paces from where mr.. operated. country club see belonged to. thousands of people who thought they were likely to know such a nice man who is so reliable received all the alkylates did alkylates -- all the accolades. these people thought they were lucky. they were probably the unluckiest people of all. they were further ripped apart. they knew this guy they thought was a wonderful human being. how lucky were they? now they are personally devastated. to those people who lo

us to take what has traditionally been the responsibility of the fdic and the sec and probably the irs and place it with the secret service? >> to your point, sir. i can't say that i'm happy that this occurred. >> i'm sure you are not. >> i do a grow that there will be some good that comes from this. we are a duel mission organization. we were first founded to discov discover counterfeit currency. we have about 3500 agents. 2200 agents are out in the field. they do support our protective mission. it's my believe what our agents learn make them that much better in our protection evaluating people and dealing with various types of situations. the investigative mission revolves around the financial times. those are access to advice or credit card fraud and as it relates to cyber related issues. we do do some work for missing and exploited children. a lot of that is because of the cape abilities we have. that's not full time for every agent. we have a small number of agents assigned to that. we believe that our job is to make an impact on the community. we believe this is a good thing for

and if i do not buy it, i have to pay $1,500 to the irs every year. and kind of stating that it is unpatriotic, unconstitutional. host: to our listeners on c-span radio, we are joined by senator charles grassley. and the students are asking questions. joe, good morning. caller: good morning, sir. guest: good morning. caller: with all due respect, i've been listening to this debate very carefully. it does not sound like anybody is sincerely representing the interests of americans. how can this be a serious debate when you guys pretend like eliminating insurance companies and allow in medical care providers to directly compete for patients by offering low-cost and efficient services is void. when i go to mcdonald's, i can see the price on the menu. madison -- the practice of medicine is the only business in this country in which no one has an idea of what they paid before the land. it is absurd that you guys advocate for the insurance companies by claiming everybody needs to have insurance when we do not need insurance. we just simply need the law to ma

will of the 50% or so -- 15% or so and the country who are uninsured to -- be it a government subsidy irsnism or whatever -- we will never support anything that has to date we try to single payer, which both the house and senate will have. -- that has the gateway drug to single pair, which both the house and senate bill have. i think we will wait for it to follow before we make a decision, but there is no question at all that anything past or not past that has a public option or any kind of government controlled health care there, we will oppose, today, tomorrow, next. host: kerri toloczko, thank you. guest: thank you, anytime. host: the tea party rallies -- how influential with a cut in this process? -- how influential or they in this process? guest: they were among the first running advertisements. it was at first hard to tell how much was genuine, and how much was been ginned up by the insurance industry, other things. but august was not a good month if you are supporting this bill. this debate has gotten very, very polarized, for better or worse. you have basically got people who real

15% of people in this country the uninsured to begin the system with a to government subsidy or an irs mechanism or whatever. we will never support anything that has again, the gateway drug to single-payer, which both the house and senate bill have come so we will remain focused on that. you know, no one really knows. is such a crazy thing right at the moment whether it will go to cumbrance at paygo or whether the house is going to have the bill-- deal with the senate bill on the floor so i think we will wait for that to follow before we make a decision but there's no question it all that anything pasteur unpass that has a public option or any kind of government controlled health care in there, we will oppose, today to maron next year. >> host: kerri toloczko, the policy director, thank you. >> thank you, any time. >> house and senate negotiations on health care legislation are expected to begin next week. that according to senate finance committee chairman max baucus of montana. the house formally reconvenes january 12, the senate on january 20 is. >> order, order. gid morning, and we

government in charge, it neutralizing the tax effect to make everybody treated the same as far as the irs. right now if you get insurance through your insurance, you get $2700. if you don't, you get $100. that's really fair. that's one of the reason that people who don't get insurance through their employ can't afford health insurance. americans plus help them pay their share. the patients' choice act incentivizes states to have reform in terms of the tort problem that we have that we know costs at least 6% to 7% more than we've spent on health care than we would if we had a realistic health system. we go after health insurance companies because we do risk readjustment. if you're dumping patients or cherry-picking, you have to pay extra. you have to pay to the very insurance companies that are covering those sick people. so we change the incentive to where aen insurance company is incentivized -- to where an insurance company is incentivized to care for somebody rather than to dump@@@t 13 voted against the common sense bill that did not increase taxes, didn't increase premiums, covered mo

that is something the irs could monitor very easily based upon what corporation the person works foras far as job zones and things, i think that should be just a local type of things. the federal government -- can pass money through the state or whatever, but as far as locations of businesses and profitability, that should be something local. and the other point he was making about the stewardship of the tarp funds. the reason why all of these companies are able to pay all of this back is because they are reviewing all of these derivatives. that is why goldman sachs was making so much money, they are reviewing all of these contracts and cleaning up their own stuff just like the federal government help clean up the major banks. now the major banks are cleaning up the major parties and customers all related to the same thing. it is not giving to the people, that's why. host: yesterday the speaker of the house had an end of your briefing. here is the front page story -- host: next is a call from nyack, new york. angelica on the independent line. caller: i think giving a tax credit for b

you will not get those numbers from the irs.we have our own internal numbers of what is really going on. it is very dramatic what has to be confronted here on behalf of the country. >> senator gregg, any final thoughts? >> tonight, expanding broadband to rural areas of the country. on the communicators on c-span2. cs barron on thursday, a look back at world leaders including the dalai lama, ted kennedy, or ronald reagan, walter cronkite, colin powell and others. and then, a look at what is ahead for the new year. vladimirthe creator of the segue co-founder of "guitar hero." >> >> , a discussion on president obama's economic agenda. from today is "washington journal," this was one hour. -- this runs one hour. host: for the next hour it is the obama administration and economy. we are joined by dean baker, economic and policy research, and university of maryland economics professor peter morici. thank you for joining us this morning. we will take a look at the president's comments from the signing of the stimulus bill earlier. but

ire are katz it address the work of line of action two which focuses on achieving improvements in health outcomes associated with psychological health and post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury, today i briefly u doesed the role of my office in overseeing the health related aspects of line of action four, which focused over the last two years on d.o.d., v.a. sharing of information technology and information. and regarding line of action two, the department is committed to insuring that all service members especially those with mental health and traumatic brain injuries received consistently excellent care across the entire care continuum. for both psychological health and t.b.i., our focus has been on building and sustaining physical and mental resilience and improving the quality and consistency of prevention and protection and diagnosis and treatment, and recovery and transition programs for both d.o.d. and v.a. for traumatic brain injury this also includes a significant emphasis on research, to clarify and improve clinical and diagnostic and treatment and rehabilita

ire recognition of the program's effectiveness in the value congress has authorized for fy10 $1.3 billion for the program and we understand we will appropriate 1.2 billion for the program. centcom plans to allocate the bulk of those funds to operations in afghanistan. by its nature it involved decentralize implementation by the local theater. tomar x'er responsiveness to urgent needs and flexibility and we have heard the concerns expressed by members of congress here today as well. we studied the recent findings of audit reports and reexamined lessons learned from previous deployments and we have taken steps within the department within the army and within centcom theater to improve the oversight of the program always the goal of not diminishing the key element of flexibility and responsiveness the program provides to the commanders in the field. with what-- within dod the office comptroller provides guidance to the management regulation. these regulations went to a significant uptick in june and december of 2008 and this guidance is supplemented by field level instruction and training. a

with bloomberg and krit sideed the record management bonuses said to be paid by big banks this year by ir reshops bli high bonuses. all banks need to restrain the amount they pay their leaders to long-term goals. the house takes up a major financial regulation bill. think about midweek or so. white house coverage and in will it o beach, new york. hi. joe. caller: i hate to break people's heart. this has nothing to do with democrats or republicans but there's a tremendous disconnect here. doesn't anybody notice? the dow was down to 6 thousand points and more statistics came out and more people are losing their jobs and homes. more people have nowhere to come. they're getting part time jobs and looking to scrounge and look for a place to live and all this is going up and stock market went up on the back of misery. more americans are suffering the more cheap labor they can get and more jobs are disconnected the more profit these guys are making. i was a capitalist rooting and now i'm not sure if i want to root for wall street. they're making billions and people here are trying pay their rent

admitted extreme culpability in missing the warning signs of the madoff scam and others, and because the irs essentially endorsed madoff in 2004 by naming his firm as a non-bank custodian of ira's and other tax referred -- tax- deferred retirement accounts, we believe that congress has a duty see that relief be provided to all victims, not just some victims. the concepts outlined in the maffei/ellison amendment would be a wonderful solution if it were expanded to include all indirect investors. unfortunately it addresses only erisa plan victims and excludes thousands of other indirect victims, including those in self funding retirement plans such as ira's. i ask you again, where is that justice in that kind of an approach? we see no moral basis for congress to amend sipa to provide customer status to the relatively small special interest group of indirect investors in erisa plans, and exclude all other indirect investors. we indirect investors lost our we indirect investors lost our savings to the same fraudulent ponzi scheme, suffered the same financial devastation as they plan members and

will of the 50% or so -- 15% or so and the country who are uninsured to -- be it a government subsidy irs or whatever -- we will never support anything that has to date we try to single payer, which both the house and senate will have. -- that has the gateway drug to single pair, which both the house and senate bill have. i think we will wait for it to follow before we make a decision, but there is no question at all that anything past or not past that has a public option or any kind of government controlled health care there, we will oppose, today, tomorrow, next. host: kerri toloczko, thank you. guest: thank you, anytime. host: the tea party rallies -- how influential with a cut in this process? -- how influential or they in this process? guest: they were among the first running advertisements. it was at first hard to tell how much was genuine, and how much was been ginned up by the insurance industry, other things. but august was not a good month if you are supporting this bill. this debate has gotten very, very polarized, for better or worse. you have basically got people who really w

it ire -- reform. i want to tell you story. i've heard so much from people in michigan. here is a recent story of someone who has written to me. joe is a 40-year-old father with heart disease. his family says despite his heart condition, he's doing well, loves to work. his medicines cost over $4,800 a month. can you imagine that? but his insurance has a family cap of $10,000 a year. in other words, after basically two months, he hits the cap and he has to pay for everything out-of-pocket. by going over the bridge to canada -- and we have three bridges up in the upper peninsula, we have a port huron and the largest cross border bridge in terms of volume of goods and services in the -- on the northern border. but by simply going across the bridge, joe would be able to save $2,000 a month. we should be able to do better for joe and his family. he could save $2,000. almost half of his costs. by simply buying the same drug, f.d.a. approved, but buying it from one side of the bridge instead of the other. we also know that cholesterol-lowering drug lipitor is 40% less. also pre

ire communities bleeding and we are the worst hit. the old adage, if someone has a cold we have got its h1n1 so it is important to know that we are not going to seize rolling up our sleeves and i would say this, as you help those that are latinos and african-americans to help poor whites in appalacia because it has to do with the targeted unemployed and the underemployed. we have an additional issue of course a we have a high percentage of tax offenders, people who have done their time and paid for the crime, seven, ten, 35 years and they want to simply provide for their families. our caucus is one that has to consider those responsibilities and i would just like to say there are monies already have in the system in addition to the system we are utilizing better not being focused on the populations that we want to focus on and i just beside this to you in closing. hallman publica fill-in weatherization, greening of public spaces, municipal waste and recycling, a public building of solar installation and maintenance, forester pretraini

are any doubts remaining about what in bill means for americans' pocketbooks, let's consider this: iring's an analysis by the joint commission on taxation looked at four tax provisions in the bill and how, when taken together, they will affect americans. they looked at the tax credit for health insurance, the additional medicare payroll tax and several that i've already mentioned, the high-cost plan tax and the medical expense deduction limit. their analysis shows that when this bill is in full effect, on average -- on average, individuals making over $50,000 and families making over $75,000 would see their taxes go up under this bill. even after taking into account the premium tax credit -- the subsidy that the government will provide to help people offset the cost of health insurance when this bill is fully in effect -- more than 42 million individuals and families, or 25%, one-quarter of all tax returns under $200,000, will see on average their taxes go up as a result of this bill. in addition, based on the same information the joint committee on taxation identified two groups of taxpay

either you support these revenues being placed in the medicare trust fund, or you support having the irs write a check and sending it to health insurance companies to subsidize the million, multimillion dollar salaries that they're paying in their taxes. and i urge my colleagues to support this effort on behalf of the american taxpayer and on behalf of our seniors and to vote in favor of this amendment that i feel like has been structured in a very fair way. >> that was arkansas senator blanche lincoln from yesterday. >> a look, now, at what senator roger wicker had to say about the bill this morning on "washington journal." >> host: our guest is senator roger wicker. jim is joining us from michigan. good morning, jim. >> caller: good morning. senator, first, just a comment. in my opinion, medicare advantage is just, well, they're trying to privatize medicare. all of this could have been prevented if we had allowed medicaid, medicare to negotiate with the drug companies. but the question i wanted to ask you, are you familiar with the study done by the kaiser foundation? it shows that 21%

what has traditionally been the responsibility of the fdic, the sec, and probably to some degree the irsnd place it with the secret service? >> to your point, sir, first of all i cannot say i am happy that this occurred. i do agree that i think there will be some good that comes from this. we are a dual mission organization. we were first founded to combat counterfeit currency. we did not pick up protection responsibility until about 50 years after our creation. i believe the dual mission of our -- organization is important. 2200 of our agents are out in the field and do support our protective mission. it is my belief that what our agents learn as investigators make them that much better in their protection assignment, evaluating people, dealing with them, dealing with various types of situations the investigative mission of our job revolves around financial crimes. the majority of those crimes are credit card fraud, identity theft, and into crimes, and several related -- and cyber related issues. >so that is because of the capabilities we have. that is not full time for every age and we

able to get into the system that the rest of us all all in, whether it be to a government subsidy, an irs mechanism or whatever. we will never support anything that has come again, the gateway drug to single parents which both the house and senate bill has. so we will remain focused on that. no one really knows. it such a crazy thing right at the moment whether we are easy-going to go to conference at all, whether the house is going to have to do with the senate bill on the floor. so i think we'll wait for that to follow before we make a decision. does no question at all that anything past or i'm past that has a public option or any kind of government control of health care, we will oppose today, tomorrow and next year. >> host: kerri toloczko, the policy druker. thank you. this group, the tea party rally that we saw over the summer, how influential in your estimation were they in this whole process? >> guest: i think they were, as she said, the first group out running ads, so i think at the beginning not so much. i think over the summer it was hard to tell. to tease out how much was genu