john adams is someone we can get to know as a human being. john adams let his feelings show. john adams wrote about his feelings and then did not throw out either his letters or his diaries. he wrote a diary from a very young age, from the time he was in college until the end of his life. and he wrote autobiographies also. , and then he wrote just hundreds of letters, and all the time, in his writings, he would take his temperature and he'd say, am i too ambitious? am i too envious. and the consequence of his exploring his own feelings is that historians have had all this ammunition to say he was too ambitious, he was too envious. and no other founding father has left the kind of record that john adams did. they burned their letters to their wives. washington's letters to martha washington were burned, so there's no correspondence between either of them. in fact, martha washington leaves us only three letters in her lifetime. thomas jefferson burned his correspondence with his wife. so we don't even know anything about his wife. traces of these women have been lost, but not o

and that's how john came in third as there was a tie. but john left the capital city before the inauguration of thomas jefferson. he left at six in the morning, at daybreak, and didn't stay for the inoculation of jefferson. he was so hurt. not only by losing office, but his son, his second son had just died. his son died the day -- he learned that his son died the same day that he learned that jefferson won the presidency. he was not a happy camper that day so he didn't stick around. other questions?

if not a soldier, john could still be a revolutionary. and now abigail. as it was for john, independence was on abigail's mind in that spring of 1776. and this was after the declaration of independence had already been signed. i suppose in congress, that you think of everything relative to trade in commerce, as well as other things she wrote. demure, before she forwarded her own recommendations. she proposed that congress place an excise tax on spirits and liquors, that would be equal among all the states. currently, she pointed out, new england carries a heavier surcharge than others, which damaged their trade. sensing then perhaps that she was on a role, abigail next introduced a topic that the delegates had purposefully avoided. i have sometimes been ready to think, and she backed into her subject before delivering her blow, that the passion for liberty cannot be equally strong in the breaths of those who have been accustomed to deprive their fellow creatures of airs. artfully proposing her comments in the conditional form, she then stepped audaciously in

i've been through this as john as 1 1/2 decades working with john on these and patent issues, too, that pharma seems to, even when we went to battle they seem to win the war. any weakening language does two things. one, it denies these cost savings to consumers and second, it's got something about public safety as john points out. it denies savings to consumers and only doesn't save us the money it would save if we were to do this right. for years, several years when what is in the house of representatives, i represented a district in northern ohio about four hours from windsor, ontario. i used to take bus loads of ohio consumers, mostly elderly, but not all, to canada to buy drugs. it was a peculiar thing for a federal official in one country to take people to another country to buy prescription drugs, the same prescription drugs they could have bought in a local drug store, same brand names, same box even, the same -- this exact same drug, same inert or active ingredients. the price was 1/3 or 1/4. that's the only difference. that's not because of their single-payer health care system

five presidential campaigns, he directed the fall debate preparations for president obama as well as for john kerry in 2004. in 2000 he served as general counsel to vice president recount committee in florida, a role made slightly more famous than kevin spacey. on capitol hill he served as the staff director for the senate democratic leadership committee and chief counsel for the u.s. senate committee on the judiciary for then senator joe biden. no francisco, civil and criminal involved the federal and state government including enforcement actions brought by government lawsuits and gets government in congressional investigations can he has recognized authority on constitutional and national security laws. in addition, mr. francisco advises individuals and companies subject to congressional investigations such as international coal group in connection with the 2006 sago mine accident. perhaps more important with respective of this panel he served as the associate counsel for president bush in 2001 until 2003, and in the deputy assistant attorney general in the office of legal counsel from 200

host: john, as part of this process of dealing with banks, talk about republicans have reacted. have they worked with the administration or not? what is the general feeling toward the banking industry. guest: they have been convicted. there was a lot of skepticism on the creation of the tarp program. republicans thought it was going quite a distance from their basic philosophy. the bush administration pushed it. the republicans supported it. the tarp program has not been popular with republicans anymore than with democrats. in terms of the banking industry, they have been surprised at the problems that have been made apparent. the they are fairly active in putting together the reform packages. their general view is still that there should be less regulation then maybe the democrats want, but the notion that a stronger de-regulatory focus is not even popular among republicans. there has been a shift in the bankers view. they will be active in this debate unfolding of a the lisvet half of the year. host: do you expect because of this current policy attitude that you will see an in

we were still able to complete the senate consideration, and the senate confirmed john roberts as chief justice of the united states 72 days after he was initially designated to be the associate justice. we did this despite the fact that the initial nomination was withdrawn and only shortly before his hearing he was renominated to serve as the chief justice of the united states, and we did this despite the terrible aftermath of hurricane katrina, where everybody, republicans and democrats alike, agreed that we should hold back a week on the hearings so that we could all concentrate the nation's resources on hurricane katrina, and so that required a week's delay, and then 72 days after, we followed the same schedule, 72 days after judge sotomayor was designated to join the supreme court, and without the week we had with katrina. both republicans and democrats ask questions, raise concerns, evaluate the nominee. our republican colleagues say they intend to ask her about her judicial philosophy. now, it doesn't take four months to prepare to ask these questions. in fact, most have already

we have a microphone you can get from john as needed. are there any questions? mr. frankie? >> my question is kind of about a factor in government that i think we have skirted around besides the judiciary that we have maligned for reasons. i would talk about what is labeled as the for the state -- as the fourth estate. does the media played an active role in that development? >> they journalists want to answer that? -- do the journalists went to answer that? >> i think we touched on this a while ago. the fact that the president is one person and can do one dramatic thing a day or so, that is automatically causing us to gravitate towards him. congress is lots of things all the long that could dramatically alter life for millions of americans, and yet i would venture to say that very few people are even aware that it exists or know how it could affect their lives. whose fault is this? i do not know. twitter has an audience and sodas cable news and so does reality tv. my industry is the one that is dying. i think that the information is out there and that if you want to be awar

john. he was known as a gentle giant and remembered for his friendliness, soft spoken nature and gentle demeanor. this morning i had the opportunity to speak to officer johns' mother and stepfather. the entire family is grieving this senseless loss. above all, the family wanted america to know that stephen was dedicated to his job and his family. his mother said he loved his job and he took his duty at the holocaust memorial museum very seriously. so seriously that he ended up paying the ultimate sacrifice. as we join officer johns' family in struggling to find answers, the truth is that this was a senseless act and a senseless murder that has resulted in a great loss. officer johns' sacrifice is a stark reminder of the threat of hate and intolerance to our humanity. i want the family of officer johns to know that i along with my colleagues here in congress are grieving with them and america is grieving with them. in addition to his family and friends, officer johns leaves an 11-year-old son, stephen tyrone johns jr. to mourn his loss. so it is with a heavy and sad heart that i offer my sincere

john lannan will probably go all the way with a complete game as well.hese relievers chemotheir game in the -- keep them in the game you can keep your color. we will be back talking about the nationals offense. and he will give us a break down. micah owings taking on john lannan in the series finale as the nationals look for another complete game. the nats and reds, a day game from the park next. so, what's the problem? these are hot. we're shipping 'em everywhere. but we can't predict our shipping costs. dallas. detroit. different rates. well with us, it's the same flat rate. same flat rate. boston. boise? same flat rate. alabama. alaska? with priority mail flat rate boxes from the postal service. if it fits, it ships anywhere in the country for a low flat rate. dude's good. dude's real good. dudes. priority mail flat rate boxes only from the postal service. a simpler way to ship. >> concentrate and get some better at-bats with situational hitting. i think we are underestimating at the end of the game. that counts even if it is in the 2nd inning. i

bercow esquire in the room of our beloved and faithful michael john martin, as far, to be speaker of the lower house of our parliament. we are graciously pleased to approve this choice and to allow and concern the same and for as much as the causes and considerations we cannot conveniently at this time be prevalent in our royal person in our said parliament. we come a trusting in the fidelity and care of the most reverent father and my god and our faithful counselor, ryland douglas, are well beloved and faithful counselors, john strawn, chancellor of great britain. thomas galloway dunlop. tom lord macnally. frances gertrude claire. and other lords of our privy council, but the tenant of these we grant to them or any three or more of them for power in our name to declare and notify our royal approbation of the choice of the -- choice of john simon bercow to be the speaker of the lower house and to allow and confirm the fed john simon bercow to be speaker of the lower house and to do all things in our parliament that may be necessary for declaring our royal approb

so as john was describing, i consider myself a photo historian and specifically, instead of a pen, i use the camera as my tool. i tell the story of america in pictures, and most recently, in various ways if music, images, in lyrics in this project. in fact, recently i was looking at a sign if a camera store which basically is where i deposit most of my revenue, and i was looking at the word camera and then all of a sudden i was going, huh, now i'm from california, so you have to process this. but basically, if you rescramble those letters, it's almost an anno gram. take the c, move it around. camera almost smells america. now you can try this at home. you can spell it out. the only thing it's missing is the i. the i of the camera. so i figured the cameras was a great way for me to tell the story of america. i'm particularly attracted to the marquis lafayette. the motion i heard america, i loved her and as john said, that can be a bumper sticker or it can be a row found law and i -- profound law and i think as you come to washington, d.c., you will come to love her as well. i also have

i also want to recognize john cornyn who's doing a fabulous job as chairman of the nrsc. orrin hatch who's doing an absolutely spectacular job. orrin has enjoyed a long and distinguished career and certainly doesn't need to be spending his time pitching for the nrsc but to tell you the truth, he's been an all-star the past couple of years and we don't know where we'd have been without him. thank you so much, orrin. and my buddy john boehner has done a great job holding those house republicans together. thank you so much, john, for the great job you're doing. and pete sessions, an outstanding job at the nrcc and finally, i want to thank probably the best idea man we've ever had is back in action and providing great suggestions. sometimes on a virtually hourly basis. our speaker tonight, newt gingrich. thanks for being with us, newt. as jon voight indicated this new administration has got a very, very radical agenda. it's been pushing hard and we've been pushing back. they may have the numbers but we've had some successes we can be proud of. for example, a couple of weeks ag

john thune. and the alaska senator is seeking to be the vice chair as john will move up to the policy chair in the senate and leadership. next is greg from virginia. good morning. caller: yes, i think it is a little -- i am disgruntled. it seems like we are putting all the money into the financial institutions or the stimulus package has focused on financial institutions when their product is money. so we are giving them their product. they were not good at managing their product. the money would have been better used had it been given to citizens to stimulate the economy. people don't have money to spend. if it would have given some of that money back to the people, then the people could use it. but it seems like this a administration is in support of big business when that was not what the people voted for. people voted for change but nothing seems to have changed because big business is still the one reaping the benefit. host: the headline in the washington paper, the situation on the metro system which took place just a few miles from where we are on capitol hill. nine deaths in the train syst

it's sad that this person went out to try to kill as many people as possible and being at the holocaust museum. stephen johns was there to protect the people in the museum and he lost his life. he lost his life being a hero by trying to save as many people there as possible. mr. speaker, each and every day there are killings, there are hatred, put on this kind of killings. it's got to stop. we can stop it here in congress if the american people would actually put their choices -- put their voices a little higher and tell their representatives the violence needs to stop. violence on every level is totally wrong. violence to innocent people is totally wrong. we need to do a better job of stopping the hate in this country. with that, i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from west virginia. mr. rahall: i yield one minute to the gentlelady from illinois, ms. schakowsky. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman is recognized for one minute. ms. schakowsky: it's nearly a decade ago that in my district a hate monger came with a gun and pointed it at young men and women, people,

if you compare the work that was required to consider the nomination of the now-chief justice john roberts as opposed to this nominee, you've got more than ten times as many cases to look at with judge sotomayor as you had with justice roberts. that takes a lot of time. and even with 20-some staffers reading these 4,000-plus decisions, it's not just a matter of reading the cases. it's a matter of then looking to see what the precedence cited were to determine whether or not you think the judge was right in the decision that was rendered, to look at the other references in the case to see how closely this followed the existing law and whether it appears the judge might be trying to make law as opposed to deciding law. that's important in this particular case because of the standard that the president has laid down for his nominees which strongly suggests something beyond deciding the law. in 5% of the cases, as he said, there's no precedent, no legal mechanism for deciding how the case should come out. you have to base it on other factors. everybody is well aware of some of the factors that th

as john points out it denies savings to consumers and doesn't save us the money it was saved if we were to do this right. for a year i represent a district in northern ohio about four hours from the canadian and i used to take a bus loads of ohio consumers mostly elderly by not all to canada to buy drugs and it was a peculiar thing for a federal official to take people to another country to buy prescription drugs that could have bought and a local drug store and the same brand name and same box even this exact same drug inner to an active ingredients but the price was have for a third or one for them in the cases and that is because canada and not because of a single payer health care system but because the government did with the v.a. does in this country negotiates drug prices directly on behalf of 30 million canadian consumers and with the drug industry got price savings of 50 or 60 or 80% as of the mccain approaches the right approach and cost savings that are so important will be contributed to this bill and we pass the mccain and language without the weakening language. out at tho

as "the washington post" reported, at a monument of sorrow. and also a standing edifice for peace. i offer my deepest sympathy of the family of steven t. johns. and as a believer and advocate of the constitution and our first amendment rights, i stand here in outrage to express my opposition to the idea that protected speech equals protected violence. this was a dastardly act, and we don't know how many other targets as hateful minded person might have been engaged in. we must continue to stand against hate. we must continue to promote the passage of the hate crimes legislation. but frankly, we must say to those who we are mourn by putting forward a holocaust museum, many across the nation and in my town of houston that we stand with them in solidarity. to my good friend, peter and fred who chairs the holocaust museum in washington, you have my deepest sympathy, my respect and i stand in solidarity with you. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman yields back. for what purpose does the gentleman from florida rise? -- texas rise. >> i rise to address the house for one minute and to revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro

he hired john leonard as a harvard dropout and then he sent him to cuba to do a story on one of castro's prisoners. john was 19 years old. and he also grabbed me at the age of 14. a second movement in right time right place is the time and the place. 40 years is a long time. it goes from the vietnam war to the surge in iraq. we missed obama's election. that's not in there. but all of that -- all of that history, 9/11, fall of communism -- it's all there. and one of the lessons i think for conservatives at this moment were pretty glum because things are pretty grim and they really are grim, but you have to remember it has been worse. the mid to late '70s were awful. they were just awful. there was watergate. there was the fall of vietnam. there was stagflation. there was an energy crisis. there was gerald ford's good but bumbling intentions. there was jimmy carter's puniness. cubans were patrolling africa. africa? soviets were occupying afghanistan. it was an awful, awful time. and it ended with ronald reagan. i'm not saying every disaster ends with ronald reagan. [laughter] sometimes the

. >> senator murkowski will replace john thiewn as vice chairman. from earlier today, it's just under ten minutes. good afternoon. i want to introduce you to senator john thune and senator mckowski taking over the chair. we are pleased to welcome them to the chair. senator thune was previously chair. we have made the changes and we are happy to call on them for comment and we'll take questions if there are any. john, why don't you lead off? >> thank you. i want to thank my colleagues for giving me the opportunity to continue as party chair. i think they have given us a lot of opportunity to work with, whether proposing the largest tax increase in american history, spending it at unprecedenced levels, adding an energy tax, nationalizing america with the healthcare system, calling for more unionization. there are so many things out there that i think create opportunity for us to point out the distinctions between our vision of the future and ours. i look forward to not just challenging democrats on the things we think they are doing wrong, but also adv

the struggles vexing his republican party as another of its rising stars was up ended by a sexual indiscretion." it was last year in that we learned about john edwards, as he spoke to what bob woodruff on abc's "nightline" program. >> 2006, two years ago, i made a very serious mistake, a mistake that i am responsible for and no one else. in 2006 i told elizabeth about the mistake, asked her for her forgiveness, asked god for his forgiveness, and we have kept this within our family since that time. all of my family knows about this. and just to be absolutely clear, none of them are responsible for it. >> is this a fair completely over? >> yes, it has been over for a long time. host: that interview conducted by bob woodruff of abc news. in "the washington post," more on the metro accident that took place, but next to that, "governor sanford admits to a fair." next call. good morning. caller: good morning. i am calling because it seems to be a tit-for-tat. democrats do not one the republicans to get an edge in. republicans want to come back at the democrats. i said they are technically one of us. the problem is everybody is trying to get inform

john ended with, the standing point. there were five so-call environmental cases and the so-called environmental side lost all five. so i suppose it is going to be characterized as a big lows for the environmental interests and so forth, but most of these cases really had to do with other grounds for decision. one of which john mentioned, which was standing. one of them involved the extent to which people that were objecting to a forest service policy involving the cutting of trees could go ahead and bring this challenge, notwithstanding the fact that the case had been settled, and they were then going to challenge some of the process and procedures and policies of the forest service, notwithstanding the fanth that the -- fact that the case had been settled. justice scalia wrote a 5-4 decision saying there is no standing in this case. john roberts wrote a law review article about standing. he joined the justice department in 1981 when rex lee -- the beginning of the reagan administration. then john roberts, now chief justice roberts was a special assistant to the attorney general. one of the things going on in the justice department then is judicial restraint. w

he carried many of those, he outran john kerry as a matter a percentage and when you compare his boat to barack obama not only did obama do as it has been no significant worse on percentage basis, he got fewer votes despite a massive increase in turn out so you can see in rural tennessee white democrats because there are no blacks in these places, voting for a black democrat in 2006 and against another different black democrat in 2008. even the girl south has changed so the question is back to the professor, how you view that? do you view that with as long as there is one iota of racism protection is still required? do you view that the way michael to use that as a sign of the voting rights act succeeding completely and therefore all protection as a legal mandate ought to be set aside or do you view that as a team messy ambivalent model from a pitcher of in coherence to which some fear he needs to be provided by a flexible and dynamic clockworks [laughter] >> that is a question for america but ultimately the question is how much do we trust ourselves because how you into that determin

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the hired at john brunner as a harvard dropout and as an him to cuba to do a story on one of castro's early prisoners, john was 19 years old. he also grabbed to me at the age of 14. the second movement is the time and the place. 40 years is a long time. it goes from the vietnam war to the surge in iraq. we missed obama's election. that is not in their. but all of that history, 9/11, all of communism is there. one of the lessons for conservatives at this moment were pretty blunt because things were pretty grim and they really are grim. but you have to remember it has been worse. the mid to late seventies or awful. they were just awful. there was watergate, the fall of vietnam, stagflation, an energy crisis, there was gerald ford good but bumbling intentions and jimmy carter humaneness and they were patrolling africa, africa. soviets were occupying afghanistan, it is an awful time. and it ended with ronald reagan. i am not saying every disaster and with ronald reagan the. [laughter] they don't. sometimes they keep getting worse and worse but sometimes it is important for conservatives t

i'm pleased to have as co-sponsors of this bill the chairman of the judiciary committee, john conyers, as well as full committee ranking member lamar smith and courts subcommittee ranking member, howard coble. cartel violations are. so worst crimes perpetrated on the american consumer, yet they are too often crimes we cannot see as all of this criminal activity takes place in secret meetings behind closed doors. the previous bill we were talking about crime in the streets and now we are talking about crime in the suites. price fixing cartels can go undetected for years, possibly forever, with hundreds of millions or even billions of dollars worth of unlawful profits at stake, these criminal cartels are a very effective at finding ways to keep their actions secret. but five years ago congress gave the justice department antitrust division a new weapon to attack this secrecy head-on. acpera promotes the detection and prosecution of illegal cartel behavior by giving participants in a price fixing cartel powerful incentives to report the cartel to the justice department and cooperate in t

meacaem come as a fan and someone who read all of your books, i want to take this liberty and be an assignment -- mr. meachem. please write a book on john brown as well as william -- general washington's trusted confidante. i believe out of all of the riders, only you can tell as deep -- billed as deep as necessity will dictate. a couple of recent things in the news -- and i have been called a rhino, and i proudly wear the badge because i'm somewhat of an independent thinker, although the no i would like to spell know. mr. gingrich stated he was not a citizen of the world, with much fervor and fanfare, yet, low and behold, mr. reagan, president reagan stated in front of the united nations that he was a citizen of the world. could you tie and the disconnect -- those who espouse reagan and yet strobel -- strobel in a plea at attempts to carry the banner of reagan -- struggle ineptly to carry the banner with shenanigans and over the top sound bites. guest: thank you for the assignment. i will look at it, and i appreciate your kind words about my work. i think the question you raised is a fascinating one, not just for the republicans in 200

bailey is the [indiscernible] bankruptcy plan ended to releigh johns men'sville from as bess to us liability. at issue is an attempt by travel ers, johns manville's primary insurer, to pursue recent lawsuits against it and other insurers for conduct relating to their own coverage of asbestos manufacturers to what they did and not to what johns manville did. next, in you mow v. clearing house association, -- cuomov. clearing house association, the court is considering a position of the national bank act limiting the exercise of visitor yal powers over national banks. interpreting this provision, the office of the controller of the currency adopted a regulation prohibiting states from enforcing against national banks, federal or state, federal or state laws governing banking activities. the controller invoked this regulation to gain a federal court injunction against the new york attorney general when that officer attempted to investigate national bank's lending practices for violations of state and federal antidiscrimination laws the second circuit affirmed the injunction in principal part, h

kind of arse -- arguments can we make, and standing was a big thing with rex lee, and there was john roberts as a part of that. and when he did become chief justice, one of the first opinions he wrote was a case against daimlerchrysler, and that ostensibly involved tax breaks, but it went off all about standing. and a very, very -- i think it was his first opinion or main his second opinion as chief justice. he wrote a very, very powerful standing decision going down various different bases for rejecting all of them. the other cases in the environmental area, and i'll do this brief because i know we're short of time. one way -- case was whales vs. sonar because of the damage the submarines might do to the whales. the next case was the tree huggers versus the loggers, and the loggers won. [laughter] the next one had to do with the use of the best available technology to pool water that was being used for nuke collar reactors and then putting back into the stream. cost benefit analysis won, and then a case in alaska which involved a gold mine in alaska, and the justices that were against the perm

john smoltz on thursday. as i mentioned a few minutes ago, it gets going with john lannan coming off one of the best games of his career. the bullpen is busy now. harris reading it. that's easy for him. two outs, scott rolen coming, and so our friend the duck. happy father's day. >> aflac. >> the oldest player in blue jay history. >> wow. >> there's nick. he's got it. and the blue jays are gone in the third. old blue jays will think about it during the break. or hospital wanted to add on to their benefits package at no direct cost to the company, their very first word was... aflac! aflac! find out more at aflacforbusiness.com >>> the nats still down by . josh bard, a 2-run single off the glove of aaron hill up the middle the first time up, and breaking ball for ball 1, low and inside. he might have gone from there to seattle. nats have plenty of time to build a couple of rallies to get back in this game. romero, 58 pitches in his first three innings, so he's probably not on schedule for more than five or six

the last speaker pointed out if you compare the record of the now chief justice john roberts as opposed to this nominee, you have more than 10 times as many cases to look at with judge sotomayor as you had with justice roberts. that takes a lot of time. even with 20-some staffers reading these 4,000-plus decisions, it is not just a matter of reading these cases, it is worth realeding to see if you think the judge was right in the decision rendered. to look at the other references in the case to see how closely this followed the existing law, and whether it appears the judge might be trying to make law as opposed to deciding the law. and that is important in this case which the president has cladelade down which strongly suggests something stronger than deciding the law. he said there is no legal mechanism for deciding how the case should come out, you have to base it on other factors. and everybody is well aware of some of the other factors this particular nominee has talked about. the empathy, the background, the experience in other matters. so the question is, in reading these opinion

john edwards. as more and more seedy details were coming out about his affair he was having while his wife is fighting terminal cancer and how he's going to be a possible criminal charges for funneling money to her through his campaign, possibly, she came out and defended him and said, oh, it was so sad about what was happening to john edwards. that's what she said. these things were happening to john edwards. it was a disgrace. the feminist movement should have been up and arms and run her out of town. but not a word about the fact that she defended this man and what he was doing to his very courageous wife. no, it is high time that conservative women start standing up for themselves and their beliefs boldly and loudly. in the tradition of margaret thatcher and clare boothe luce and, yes, sarah palin, when we do that, we will bring other women to other movement. when we say we have nothing to be ashamed of and, in fact, we have so much to be proud of, the accomplishments, not just of conservative wom

not worried about them micromanaging or running these car companies based on political motivations, as johnuggests, over anything beyond it the shortest of times. they have got plenty to do. the uaw has got plenty of workers for these auto companies, and they took large and significant reductions relative to their contracts. host: alexandria, virginia. democratic line. go ahead. caller: i would like to discuss the health care legislation in congress right now. in "the washington post" yesterday, you can see the number of people involved in health care industry who have a direct conflict of interest when it comes to health care for the american people. something has to be done about this. these people need to disqualify themselves if they have an interest in the health-care industry. they have to disqualify themselves. we cannot get anywhere. we have these people who are looking out for their own pockets and not the united states and its people. guest: many of these guys are the experts that know what is happening in the area. it will be hard to disqualify them from having any kind of input.

>> well, this may sound like a dodge, john, but as we go through these deliberations, i mean, it's a very significant and fundamental decision that you have to make. and we are going through that now looking at what is the right way to try to divine that characterization, if you will, of what we're going to need in the future? and i believe part of the success of the qdr is to go into the process and to look at the analysis with an open mind. if i went in and said, you know, this is, you know, what i strongly believe and shut off all of the good analytical work and the serious discussion that's taking place, i'm not sure that that would be in the best interest of what we're trying to achieve. the qdr allows us to go in and challenge some of our assumptions and question that, what we're doing. and that's not easy. that's a hard thing to do particularly in a large bureaucratic organization that has a lot of inertia behind it where there's interest in specific programs. but if you do this right, you begin to question, and you should question, you know, are we doing the right thing? yes,

host: john mercurio, thanks as always. david makovsky is author of this new book, "myths, illusions, and peace." guest: good to be with you, steve. host: the call it the cairo speech, pointing out that words are important. mr. obama was right when he urged leaders privately speak of moderation and compromise to dare to say those words in public, but the words are not enough. mr. obama, who had been in office less than six months, has a lot to do to fulfil this mission, and so do others. guest: i mean, clearly what depressed and it is trying to do is turn the page in the muslim world, began a new dialogue, try to transcend old divisions, search for some common ground, and he is trying to open a conversation with them. at the same time, as he said himself, everything does not change with one speech. but i think one of his prime objectives is to get a lot of people in different muslim communities around the world to reevaluate their attitudes toward the united states and to create a wider distance between some of these muslim

and john loves golf as well, and my dad was that kind of gracious, you know, figure, very, you know, elegant. but down to earth tough, principled. that's who john is. and i'm very honored to introduce him to you tonight. ladies and gentlemen, john boehner. >> thank you, jon for the introduction. i appreciate you all being here tonight. and doing what you do to help promote our party and our values. let me also welcome all my fellow gm shareholders. i want to thank paul ryan, our dinner chairman for helping pull this event together. and i want to thank him for the pivotal role that he's playing on our house republican team. i also want to thank pete sessions for the outstanding work that he's doing to build a stronger and more aggressive nrcc. you know, raising moin, recruiting great candidates and really going after the vulnerable democrats around the country and let me tell you, they're doing great work. now, i wasn't really going to talk about my senate colleagues because you know, this is a house-senate dinner. they do our thing, we do ours. let me tell you what, i could not have a

john berko has secured more than 50% of the ballots cast. as many of you are of that opinion say aye. of the crea no. i think the ayes have it. the ayes have it. congratulations, mr. speaker. [applause] >> thank you, my first pleasant duty is warmly to thank on behalf of us all alan williams for the magnificent and good humerd way in which he conducted this election. [applause] it's been a very long day. and those of you expecting a cumly lengthy die tribe will be sorely disappointed. i should like to thank and pay a heartfelt tribute to all of the candidates who stood in this election. [applause] it has been a constructive debate that we have enjoyed over the last few weeks. i confess that i have the highest regard for all of the other candidates, each brought something to the occasion, each had a contribution to make, and i can honestly say that each made that contribution in the most sincere and constructive fashion. to the great and continuing benefit of this house. [applause] colleagues, you will understand that my thoughts at this time ar

i the war is illegal, immoral, slots at thing instant innocents and as john kerry said, we committed war crimes every day. not as a matter of choice but as matter of policy, and that was true. so what is the responsibility of citizenship? i think of myself as a patriot but not a nationalist. a patriot is something who wants their country to live up to its own ideals and the universal ideals of human rights and freedom and democracy and justice. a nationalist is somebody who says, my country right or wrong. whatever it does, doesn't matter. i think that's a horrible mistake. i think in many ways nationalism is rejection of peyton jim just as patriotism rejects nationality. so i don't think the antiwar mom was antipatriotic and this idea we were against the troops is wrong. it was the center of the effort, and interestingly the troops are at the center of the antiiraq effort right now. i went down to an encampment early on that cindi sheehan set up in texas and there was a peace encampment run by soldiers, and we ended up kind of -- when they said lunch is as noon they didn't mean 12:30

john? guest: i would like to extend my gratitude to you as well and to your family. one thing, as you spoke that struck me, i have seen so many letters home from world war ii soldiers mentioning their young sons and saying i'm fighting now so that my sons won't have to ever have to do this again. then when i read that, i'm always struck by a real sense of sadness because as an historian i know how things are going to turn out and how it turned out is by the 1960's the united states was involved in the vietnam war. so, many sons of world war ii veterans like yourself went off to war and that is the way so many fathers felt. they wished they could have done it so their kids wouldn't have to deal with it. i'm sure you can relate to that much better than anyone can imagine with your own son going to iraq. as a military historian, what strikes me is the tragic continuum of how wars seem to happen for every generation throughout human history, not just our own modern u.s. history, which i study in particular. but throughout human history there just doesn't seem to be any e

this resolution will be a part of it, of how a nation deals with such enormous problem as this. and john has been a very courageous, long-standing advocate in the mode of what john quincy adams was for years in fighting against slavery. he has been dedicated to this. i remember first going over to his office and him showing me a book of pictures that were on lynchings that had taken place. it was just such a tragic set of pictures that you look at that happened in the early part of the 19th -- the 1900's in my state and many other states around the country. and i am very appreciative of him. and then people that recently passed away like rosa parks that gave us these defining moments of ending segregation. or in my state, like sheryl brown henderson of the brown family of the brown v. education, the landmark desegregating case inquir whered that even if a school is equal, segregation is inherently wrong. and that they've stood for it and stood tall to bring us to a better point in time. you know, it hasn't been all that long ago -- i started out in a professional career in broadcasting a