with republican congressmen john fleming and john bar aso. and then republican representative john moran and howard dean. in virginia. >> monday on washington journal, a discussion on recent health care town hall meetings with virginia congressman gerald connelly. we'll have more on health care as we hear from the president and c.e.o. james coal and dr. john garrett. also a discussion on recoovery efforts in louisiana four years after hurricane katrina with paul rainwater. washington journal live at 7:00 a.m. here on c-span. go inside the supreme court to see the public places and those rarely seen spaces. hear directly from the justices as they provide their insight about the court and the building. the supreme court, home to america's highest court. the first sunday in october on c-span. >> congressman john fleming and senator john brasso of wyoming, boats physicians, join john vitter. this lasts about an hour, 25 minutes. [applause] >> thank you all for being here. well, good afternoon and welcome to our health care reform forum. you know,

john fleming, who represents louisiana's fourth congressional district. he has spent his career as a family physician. he was named the louisiana family doctor of the year in 2007. john and i have both introduced legislation requiring that all members of the u.s. house and all members of the u.s. senate are put in any government option that may be passed. welcome, dr. john flemming. [applause] why don't we get started in the right frame of mind and the right frame of heart by standing up again if you can for a prayer? please, remained standing immediately following the prayer. we will have the pledge of allegiance to the flag. first, we will be led in player -- in prayer by the pastor of the living water church of louisiana. >> heads bowed and eyes closed. father, forgive us for a sense of omission and commission, give us the strength to release jealousy, hatred, and help us to forgive one another for we know that you will not forgive us unless we forgive one another. we pray for your presence today. that will impact all of america. we prayed that to lead

they started to program and a lot of that with john fleming was the idea of merchandise clarity.some categories, you're cutting down the category in terms of number of skus, but also giving clarity and then sales are up because you have that clarity. >> tell me about guidance. were you encouraged by it? is it something that the markets should be reacting positively to as it seems to be? >> we certainly think so. keep in mind the 0-2 guidance is for walmart stores, u.s. the comparisons get easier. about half of what they were in this second quarter when you were facing stimulus. so we continue to believe that you had expenses that were up, but keep in mind that expense number has some cost in there for some systems upgrades and et cetera that really the number is a little better than that when you take out some of those costs. >> john, we'll leave it there. thanks for being with us this morning. >> thank you. >> john lawrence, morggan keega. >>> hey, it's still me. what do you think of that? not just walmart going to be up there morning but it does appear a number of the bank stoc