senators john cornyn and spoon are expected to hold a news conference later. even though the use of charter flights does not violate senate ethics rules as long as paid for by the members office, some senators been more than others. office account records show that senators chuck schumer and john cornyn are the biggest spenders, but are not the only ones to use charter flights. in the first half of the fiscal year, three others spent more than $100,000 each on transportation. following a decision by the united nations security council to move ahead with sanctions on north korea, defense secretary robert gates says he does not dismiss threats of retaliation. speaking in brussels, the secretary also says that it does not appear that the capitol has made any military preparations to follow through on the threats. officials from scotland, indonesia, and thailand, and from the missions in geneva expect in announcement of a global swine flu pandemic to be imminent. the world health organization meeting in an emergency session today is likely to declare the first flu

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

otherwise, the texas senator john cornyn did. the party has been remarkably unified on foreign policy. it took sharp aim at obama's bridge with iran during the 2008 campaign season when the democrats insisted he was open to talks with iran without pre- condition. ruth on the republican line, which you make of the president's approach? caller: this last ellis of the same thing i wanted to sue. obama should just back off of iran and let them be. just let them do their own thing. the same thing in afghanistan and in the other countries. he wants to send money to build the mill. the money he wants to send over there we need over here. -- to bail them out. he always wants to give people money, give people money, but he doesn't for over here. our health program, they have synergy, and a first person who signs up on that there's a $6 charge. if they go up to $10 apiece if they add more people into the family they pay for all the medical. the prescriptions are all paid for and you do not have to worry if you have somebody who has cancer

. >> no, it wasn't john cornyn. mccain folded like he often does. >> a little bit of positive news. i briefed the senator mccaskill on some of this. and she told me, she said i don't know how long i'm going to be in washington. i'm from missouri. i'm a democrat from missouri, we are in danger. she said if i can change 1% of that, the gop, and she also had just gotten a new ad hoc committee on federal contracting and she said she is ready to take the two by four out. so we hope that she doesn't leave part, and it took a lot of guts to vote against the nominee. there are some out there still trying to. >> tried to talk to these people and help them to come forth. >> may be asking you guys to come talk to her. >> a question on acquisition. is there a problem, don't understand these problems or don't do anything about them? is that they don't have enough power implementing them? >> they have the power. i've watched and worked for acquisition executives in my time in the pentagon, and watched the procedure. you know, these guys come in from industry. some of them pretty bright guys your

did chuck schumer or john cornyn call and sat want to talk about such-and-such can be on it? where do you normally each day, chris our: them and saying on the issues? >> guest: there are a lot of congressmen and senators and a book writers and columnists that call up and want to be on the show which is really nice. in our problem is in the rotation of gas. how do all these people want to be on the show, where we put them and sometimes we cram too many on in one morning and then you have a news race and that is a great challenge. that is when you stop talking and i start playing train conductor. let me say one nice thing about chuck schumer because i have slammed him an awful lot. chuck schumer is a guy who would not come on the show because i went after him really hard and actually on this show also about miguel estrada and some of the other judges that were elevated specifically because they were hispanic african-american and i went after him an awful lot and he actually called up and said i want to be on man-to-man with gel and he did appear ago we talked and while i disagr