and isakson, clearly, he talked to a great many people. he, of course, talked to steve jobs several times including the last interview in august just weeks before his death in on. so the portrait that isakson painted of steve jobs is a tremendously complicated one. this is not a guy who was about roses and puppies by any stretch of the imagination. he was driven. he could be brutal, he could be tremendously demanding. but one could argue that that type of driven personality produces results. all you have to do is look at how many people carry around their iphones or their ipads or type on mac book airs. i mean, apple certainly, especially after jobs came back in the late '90s, became a force to be reckoned with. so it was a fascinating portrait of this, this very driven man who turned around a company and made it so much his own. and, of course, there's this arc where he and steve wozniak had created it x then jobs was forced out, and he was in the so-called wilderness, but his wilderness was in creating, in buying pixar and turning it int

so the porch of that isakson creates painted that steve jobs is a tremendously complicated one. this is not a guy who was about roses and puppies by any stretch of the imagination. he was driven. he could be brutal. he could be tremendously demanding. but one could argue that type of driven personality produces results. all you have to do is look at how many people carry around their iphones further ipads or type on macbook air's. apple certainly, especially after jobs came back in the late '90s, became a force to be reckoned with so it is a fascinating portrait of this very driven man who turned around a company and made it so much his own and of course there is this arc where he and steve wozniacki had created it and then jobs is forced out and the so-called wilderness. but his wilderness was in creating, in buying pixar and turning it into a multibillion-dollar company as well. so, it's just an amazing portrait of i guess american capitalism ultimately too. >> host: how much cooperation did steve jobs give to walter isaacson in the up look and the original publication date wa

isakson isakson: just thankr your leadership. it's been out standing. mr. hoeven: thank you, senator isakson. thanks for being here. now i will turn to senator hutchison from texas. we have actually 40 senators already on this legislation. 40 senators. it is bipartisan. you know, this is something we absolutely need to move on. i spoke with the canadian ambassador today, ambassador duer. he talked about how they're already looking at western routes to send this oil to chiefnlt so this oil is going to be produced -- oil to china. so this oil is going to be produced. it's going to be produced. the question is, does it come to the united states and help us reduce our dependence on middle eastern oil? does it come here and create thousands of jobs? or do we send it to china, where there will actually be more emissions because it will be refined in refineries that produce higher emissions and you'll also have the emissions of shipping product all around the world. not only shipping this oil to china but then we're going to continue to have to ship oil in from pl

isakson: thank you, mr. president. this morning it was announced the former officers of freddie mac and fannie mae will be prosecuted for their misrepresentations of the liabilities those those institutions posed to the american congress and the american taxpayer. last year when we passed the d.o.d. frank amendment on mortgages and on risk retention we exempted freddie mac and fannie mae from the liability every other company has to go through. we find ourselves in a situation where fannie mae and freddie mac are have cost the american taxpayer at least $171 billion. that number is rising because of the exemption from d.o.d. frank, they're the only act in town. a week ago i introduced a piece of legislation to deal with this issue. a piece of legislation that will terminate freddie mac and fannie mae and create a bridge or transition from where we are today to a privatized mortgage security and guarantee program. i want to briefly address how that takes place. in the end it will pay the american taxpayer back, put fred

isakson: i appreciate the time. i want to thank senator hatch of utah for 16 continuous years of work on the balanced budget amendment. it was his fight in 1995 that brought that amendment to the floor within one vote in the united states senate, and it's his fight today to bring it back for another vote. you know, i have listened to all of the speeches, not every one of them but a substantial number of them, but i come back to three points. you know, facts are stubborn things and there are three facts. we are spending too much. the second fact, we're promising too much to our people. the third fact, we're borrowing too much. you know, i ran a real estate company for 22 years. real estate is all about borrowing and leverage, but you learn a lesson in real estate, you learn it very painfully. there is such a thing as good leverage and there is such a thing as too much leverage. our country is at the breaking point on leverage. we have got a process problem in the united states senate, in the united states house. we c

your on with johnny isaacson of georgia. -- isakson. caller: [inaudible] it seems to me they should take the money out of their own pockets --[inaudible] what about the people they are supposed to be representing? i have been a republican for years. guest: the gentleman is right, it is a shared responsibility. i do not think i have tried to cast blame on either side one way or another, but i would caution the gentleman to do this. at 75 years of age he has a lot of accumulated wisdom of lot of americans do not have. i hope he will go to the polls and vote, because that is what is most important. is anotherost: there proposal in the senate. one is from clear the casco of missouri -- claire mccaskill of missouri. it would provide additional money for highways, bridges, and other jobs-creating transportation projects. it would be offset with an excess of 1 million per year. could you support that? guest: that is something that is new to me, so i will not say anything but to say it makes a lot of sense. highways and infrastructures to creat

with that, i would yield to senator isakson. mr. isakson: i thank mr. chambliss for the opportunity to share a few moments -- the presiding officer: the senator from georgia. mr. isakson: i'm honored to share a few moments with senator chambliss on the floor of the senate to pay tribute to a great georgia lending end, larry munson. larry munson was born in indianapolis, and after his service got a scholarship for broadcasting school and his first job at the university of wyoming calling their football games. he worked his way to tennessee where he was the announcer for the vanderbilt basketball program and the vanderbilt football program. then when the atlanta braves moved from milwaukee to atlanta, larry munson was brought in to be one of the announcers for atlanta braves baseball. shortly after that, the voice of the georgia bulldogs retired, went to another job, and larry munson was asked to take over broadcasting at the university of georgia. he was a yankee, an outsider, not one that many people thought much of when he started, but he became a lege

>> host: senator isakson? >> guest: well, this is the grover norquist game that both sides are playing very heavily right now. the president's, obviously, playing on the no tax increase pledge. this was a temporary reduction of the payroll tax, it was not a permanent reduction, so i don't consider it a tax increase at all just like i don't consider reforming the income tax code and doing away with any number of tax treatments and lowering the rates to be a tax increase. i think we've gotten ourselves too locked in, and i'll be the first to admit that's one of the problems that all of us as politicians have. we make decisions in elections and take pledges and promises in a time that's different from the time when we serve. and right now we're in a different time that we've never been in in this country. we're on a precipice we could fall off of. everybody has got to wipe the slate clean, get our spending down and reform our entitlement programs. we've all got to belly up to the bar, so to speak, and to what's r

steve jobs by walter isakson taking less than two months to rise to the top of the list. will recall it was published just a few weeks after jobs' death in early october. verizon reportedly set to challenge netflix with a new streaming video service, according to reuters. it will launch some time next year. it would also be competing with hulu and amazon prime. offering yet another way for people to watch movies and tv shows over the internet. well, as you know, today marks 70 years since the attack on pearl harbor which killed thousands of americans and pulled u.s. in to worlds war 2. earlier today, more than 100 survivors gathered in hawaii to remember all the lives lost. more from that ceremony is next. i know you're worried about making your savings last and having enough income when you retire. that's why i'm here. to help come up with a plan and get you on the right path. i have more than a thousand fidelity experts working with me so that i can work one-on-one with you. it's your green line. but i'll be there, every step of the way. call or come in for a free portf

[applause] [inaudible conversations] >> up next, walter isakson recounts the life of steve jobs. mr. issacson speaks at mountain view, california for about an hour and a half. >> good evening, everyone, and welcome to the computer history museum. i'm john holler, the ceo, and my pleasure to welcome you tonight on the behalf of the trustees, staff, our members, everybody associated with the museum, just delighted you are here. toipt thank our good -- i want to thank our good friends at intel who sponsored the entire season one and they provided support for the speaker series, and in connection with with revolutionaries, i'm delighted to announce a fairly significant partnership with kqad. kqad and the museum partnered to produce a 1 3 part series and it's the best of the series featuring people you will have seen and heard either permly here at the -- personally here at the museum or on c-span. by the way, kqad and c-span are both here tonight. this is the lineup that starts january 16th and will go for 13 weeks. of course, walter issacson, and ibm chairman, jeremy, ibm's david, i

colonel sawyer, the question i have isakson -- the question i have isto what extent is al qaeda planning to infiltrate the members into the military? if you see an increase in trend in this? >> parts of that question will be addressed in a closed session. you carried a distributed network. the referee -- rapid proliferation of their materials makes it possible for everybody to participate. it increases -- it make it inaccessible for anybody regardless of their ethnicity to participate and belong to this. it decreases the barriers of entry. the continue to paint the military as war criminals. it will induce further people to further target the u.s. military and will increase the insider threat. >> thank you. secretary stockton, jihadist have discussed bank carried out attacks on some military related targets, such as military funerals, metro stations frequented by military personnel, etc.. what can be done to harden these targets and how can we protect our military troops when they are after most of vulnerable? >> see discussed it and are carrying this out. >> what can be done to harden t

later, walther isakson's book on steve job cans.tter all at c-span.org/campaign 2012. >> our campaign coverage continues today. we'll join the jan nicholson radio show in iowa, he'll talk to michele bachmann and ron paul. that's live at 10 a.m. eastern on c-span. later, an event with texas governor rick perry at a coffee company in in cedar rapids, ray, also on c-span. >>> next, a hearing on homeless children and housing assistance programs. we'll hear testimony from current and former homeless children as well as housing and homeless services government officials. this house financial services subcommittee hearing is about two hours and 35 minutes. [inaudible conversations] >> the subcommittee on insurance, housing and community opportunity will come to order. we are having a hearing today entitled the homeless children and youth act of 2011 proposal to promote economic independence for homeless children and youth. i'd like to welcome you all here today and, first of all, i'd like to thank the judiciary committee for allowing us to

leader, senator mitch mcconnell of kentucky, senator kay bailey hutchison of texas, senators johnny isakson johanns from nebraska and jim inhofe from oklahoma. we're here to discuss a very -- a solutions-oriented piece of legislation. it's about creating jobs, it's about creating energy security for our nation. it's about good environmental stewardship. it's about all of these things and more. and we want to take this opportunity to discuss the legislation and encourage, to urge our fellow colleagues to join with us to create jobs and opportunity for the american people. in a nutshell, this legislation clears the way for the keystone x.l. pipeline which is a 1,700-mile pipeline that will run from alberta, canada, all the way down to the gulf coast region of the country down 0 the refineries in the united states. this blue line shows the route of the keystone x.l. pipeline. this red line shows an existing pipeline, the keystone pipeline which was built very recently by transcanada. it provides almost 600,000 barrels a day of crude to the united states. the keystone x.l. pipeline would provid

out you know, johnny isakson catche. it out. looks almost like a rabbit your desk.mod steve says that's not good, butk they keep playing with the model until they have it beautiful.p they make it translucent. jellybean fat trees to say how do you make it look u right? insi lets you see the circuit board h inside d.c. have made the circuit board is. and johnny had comes up with a c notion, even though it's a bighs desktop machines and thes much engineer said the cost of much ha money. an why would you want to handle clicks are not supposed to pick it up. what stephen johnny intuitively understood was that computers were still intimidatingti to s people, but the handle gives yob permission to touch it. it says i'm at your service. so just by having a recessed handle, even if you didn't use that def rein shall to you. so that beautiful design, when they have flat screens, they tike the imac, and johnny designs something, and steve says, no, no, no, integrity of the flat screen, you screwedded up. and johnny comes back to steve's house in the back yard, they planted sun

[applause] >> walter isakson -- issacson is u author of the steve jobs. this is an hour yaf. >> good evening, everyone, welcome to the museum, i'm john holler, the ceo, and it's my pleasure to welcome you tonight on behalf of the trustees, our staff, our member, and everybody associated with the museum, we're absolutely delighted that you are here. i want to thank our good friends at intel who sponsored the entire revolutionary series, season one, as we're calling it now, and also the software who provided support for the speaker serieses, and in connection with with rev -- revolutionaries, i'm excited to announce a partnership with kqad. they partnered to produce a 13-part series that will premier on public television in january called "chm presents revolutionaries," and it's going to be the best of the speaker series featuring people that you all have seen and heard either personally here at the museum or on our youtube channel or kqad fm, or on c-span. they are both here tonight. this is the line up that starts january 16th, and this goes for 13 weeks.

. >> hello, i'm senator johnny isakson from georgia.st, i want to send my -- as a businessman who ran a company in the private sector for 22 years, i have always set priorities. i would like to talk about my goals and commitments for the american people for 2012. it is no secret that the number one issue facing our country is jobs. our number one goal is to make it easier for american small businesses to create jobs. we will accomplish this by focusing on three things, a fundamental tax reform, energy reform and security. in 2012, republicans will continue to fight for much needed tax reform. it is critical if we want to see our economy grow in this country. we should do away with specialized tax deductions, broaden the tax base and close loopholes. many of these suggestions were included in president obama's on deficit reduction proposal, the simpson-bowles plan. unfortunately, president obama chose to read checked that plan. -- reject the plan. democrats have pushed over and over again to raise taxes on the american family and small b

over extending the payroll tax cut in unemployment benefit with democratic rep paul tonko and johnny isakson. >> pay a dollar now. have no healthcare. no pollution-control and no retirement, and do not care about anything but making money. there would be a giant sucking sound going south. >> the billionaire businessman made it two times for the presidency, the first time getting over 19 million votes, more popular votes than any third-party candidate in history. he has had a lasting influence on american politics. he is our final candidate on our c-span series ""the contenders"." go to c-span.org/the contenders for more information. >> now defense secretary leon panetta on u.s.-israel relations. his recent comments at the brookings institution's included his opinion on the middle east peace process and the possibility of iran developing nuclear weapons. this is about an hour. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2011] >> this is the seventh year we have convened members of the international policy-making community to discu