. >> i'd join with him in thinking professor john hill and his panel for the important report of the national equality panel. he is right to say that the report says under the conservatives inequality -- under the conservative -- inequality widened and as a result of the effect of this government's policy most particularly tax and benefits growing inequality has been stemmed. we also tackle poverty particularly child poverty and pension poverty but we think inequality, massive for the individual and opportunities in the economy and a more peaceful society. we are determined to do more to tackle inequality on what can be handed down the generations. >> the government may be determined but the brutal truth is economic equality -- inequality is getting worse. the heart of the problem is the failure to reform the unfairness of the taxes. you will understand why conservative governments might wish to give top priority to rewarding the wealthy. but why has a labour government given overriding priority to cutting the tax rates from wealthy people paid on their capital gains at a lower rate

this wonderful run of talks we are on about the waldseemuller map and especially of like to thank john hill is here, the chief in john hasler who is a reference specialist who is going to introduce our speaker, toby. john hassler. let's give john a hand. [applause] >> thank you john and thank everyone for coming. about four years ago i gave a lecture on the waldseemuller map and the young gentleman can up to me after the talking said that he was interested in the map. and this is a pretty common occurrence after you talk on the waldseemuller map. it is a popular subject. there's lots of interest in it. there have been now a total of four books written about the map over the last four years. and toby came up and said he was interested in doing an article and maybe a book and it was a typical thing that usually you never get in contact back from a person who says that any conference, but toby e-mailed me and what ensued was basically an almost daily correspondence between us it seemed, about questions relating to this map. the questions involved. they started out very simplistic, the basic so

chris: chapel hill, tennessee, independent line, tony. john: thank you and thank god for c-span. i'm so tkhrad we have it. -- glad we have it. my question is, by the way the people interested there is a back by gary westbound called dark alliance. it will tell you a lot about the drugs passed through the country and within more thing, if we do stop the war on drugs, the sheriff deputy and police department and c.i.a. and f.b.i. won't be able to confiscate people's houses and money and property and they are going to be out of money. and that will be a big problem. people, marijuana is not harmful. i don't care what anybody tells i. thank you so much for c-span. chris: let's take one more call and that is chicago, illinois, object the democrat line. lucille. john: thraeufpg you f -- thank you for taking my call. i agree with your guest. he has been the most -- i beg your pardon. chris: go ahead. chris: john: he has been the most honest person i have ever heard on any program anywhere about this problem. i agree that the way we can really help mexico is concentrate on our country, t

. >> larry: we're back from the rotunda in capitol hill with senator john mccain. you mentioned that he keeps criticizing the bush administration. you have to admit in all fairness that obama inherited quite a set of problems. >> absolutely. and that's one of the reasons why we lost the election. maybe also because not so great a candidate. but the point is that we let spending get out of control under the bush administration. we republicans. and we paid a heavy price for it. but the president also promised that he would go line by line, that he would veto bills, that there would be transparency. i mean, tonight when he said that he was going to put further restraint on the lobbyists after the deals that they've been cutting in the white house with the special interests and pharmaceutical companies and others? i mean, there was two reasons why the people have rejected if president's health care reform. one is because the product they don't like because it's a $2.5 trillion debt on future americans. but also the process. the cornhusker kickback and the louisiana pur

john is with the staff hill paper. the employment rate is expected to real estate remain at 10.5% come next november. we're also not just talking about the unemployment, the housing market is still weak and president obama's to help homeowners have had little impact. some economists say more stimulus is needed to prevent another recession. can the dems turn this around come this summer? that is when people make up their minds, right? >> that is the big question. the economy is going to play a much bigger role in how people vote in november than the health care debate or potentially or the terrorism or national security if there is not another major attack. this is a big keb concern for democrats. they are looking at the unemployment numbers and don't know how to get them down necessarily. it's how much they can put together between now and summer and try to make it appear that the economy is getting better. >> julie: many economists expect jobs to reseem in february or march. even though the unemployment rate will rema

when john quincy adams was a boy in massachusetts he heard the gunfire at the battle of bunker hill. perhaps one of the greatest figures of that battle, another great and forgotten figure of the american founding is a man named joseph warren. in the context of the american founding you might recall the suffolk resolve. he is also the man who sent a horseman named paul revere on a very famous ride. he was very dedicated to the revolutionary cause. and when the british had been chased from concord back to boston, and the americans took position on bunker hill, a very weak position, though he was a leader in the colonial movement and had been appointed a general, adjunct general he went instead volunteered to fight defending that position. the british, of course, where wanting to have nothing with these rabble who thought they could fight off the greatest military power in the world. so attacked head-on through frontal assaults. the first time they did so they failed. you might remember another famous line which explains the american success, don't fire until you see the whites of their

hill park. witness reported seeing two men run from the scene. but so far police have not named any suspects nor a motive. >>> a johns hopkins university graduate dies after the car plunges into a frozen creek near washington, d.c. a jogger called police after spotting a tire sticking out of rock creek. police say 22-year-old joshua coleman was trapped inside the car. he graduated from johns hopkins last year and investigators are now trying to piece together what happened. >> anything that we find on the scene as far as skid marks or broken tees and that type of thing is going to be part of the investigation. right now we have not determined where the vehicle came. >> it took several hours and three different tow trucks to pull the badly damaged car out of the ice. >>> maryland transit authority police are seek witnesses to the death of a pedestrian who was found dead along the northbound lanes of the harbor tunnel throughway. police have identified him as 23-year-old christian of baltimore city. they ask anyone with information on the death to give them a call. >>> as maryland's unemployment rate climbs, state leaders are set to begin debating sal

john challenger with challenger, gray and christmas. we appreciate it. >> thank you. >> and still ahead here on "first business", talks continue on capitol hill over the green house gas emissions debate will lawmakers take action in 2010. but first, important antitrust cases that are likely to be decided in the year ahead. it's a revolution in pain relief. (announcer) new icy hot medicated roll. for wherever you hurt. icy to dull pain, hot to relax it away. the new icy hot medicated roll. with the roll, pain's under control. i recommend act fluoride mouthwash. act works with calcium to rebuild enamel. to avoid dental problems act daily. >> as 2009 comes to a close, there are some big antitrust cases yet ton to be resolved involving the biggest names in technology and entertainment sectors. spencer waller is with loyola university chicago and he joins us with how these cases could take shape in the next year. spencer, thank you for joining us. >> thank you. >> start with intel, obviously no stranger to antitrust cases. take a look here, a $1.25 billion settlement in amd in november and fine from the european commission and not ftc is taking aim at inte

>> yes, john is actually splitting his time between an annex on the couple's property in chapel hill, north carolina, but also at their beach house with which is his main residence. he's not sharing a home with e liz beth. she has kicked him out. >> larry: does she retain her popularity? >> not as much. she's a sympathetic figure. she has stage 4 cancer. i think people are really -- this is the kind of story where nobody comes out good. john edwards obviously comes out horribly. in this book rielle hunter -- she was cussing out andrew young when she said john edwards had to fly back when elizabeth was re-diagnosed with cancer. >> larry: what's andrew young's story? >> he was definitely a close confidant of john edwards. he was a trusted intimate. if you believe his claims he was really the guy that john turned to when he needed help the most. >> larry: he asked him to take the rap for him. >> he said take a bullet for me and he did. i mean, here's the weird part, larry. remember he actually had rielle move in with his wife and children in that house in north carolina. that was some ki

hill today. he met with senate minority leader mitch mcconnell, massachusetts democrats john kerry and paul kirk, and republican senator john mccain. brown won in part on a promise to stop health care reform in its present form. he was asked today about working with democrats. >> am i open? i'm open to looking at every single bill on its merits and making a decision based on that and my first is going to look at is whether it's good for my state and then obviously if it's good for the country. >> reporter: but republican leaders-- invigorated by brown's election-- said democrats' health reform efforts are dead. house minority leader john boehner said congress should start over. >> listen, our goal is to stop this monstrosity. and we're working with our members so that we don't find ourselves in a position where they're able to pick off a few of our members and to get this bill passed. >> reporter: a white house spokesman said today president obama now agrees on the need to let the dust settle before trying to craft a health care bill that can pass, possibly with republican support. >> sreenivasan

john harris? what is the... what's your sense in was it smart for him to make this appeal to bipartisanship and to say to his colleagues "don't run for the hills"? >> absolutely. and i want to clarify my point. i don't think a tune i don't know speech would be the appropriate place to lay out in the nitty-gritty legislative tactics or the legislative calendar.ú; cynthia's quite right about that. i do think two things that obama was trying to do and these are lessons from bill clinton, one, liberate himself from congress. i don't think any president wants to be seen as tied to the fortunes of his or her own party within the congress. he wants to stand above other politicians and to some extent liberate himself from his party. be seen as president of the united states rather than just leader of the democratic party. in that sense it was effective. here's where i do think it was important to address the inside audience. in the first term, there was a very clear theory of the case that barack obama and his aides were advancing, the so-called big-bang theory of governance. they were going to pass big things all in one year: health care, cap-and-tra

chris: chapel hill, tennessee, independent line, tony. john: thank you and thank god for c-span.y the people interested there is a back by gary westbound called dark alliance. it will tell you a lot about the drugs passed through the country and within more thing, if we do stop the war on drugs, the sheriff deputy and police department and c.i.a. and f.b.i. won't be able to confiscate people's houses and money and property and they are going to be out of money. and that will be a big problem. people, marijuana is not harmful. i don't care what anybody tells i. thank you so much for c-span. chris: let's take one more call and that is chicago, illinois, object the democrat line. lucille. john: thraeufpg you f -- thank you for taking my call. i agree with your guest. he has been the most -- i beg your pardon. chris: go ahead. chris: john: he has been the most honest person i have ever heard on any program anywhere about this problem. i agree that the way we can really help mexico is concentrate on our country, the consumption in this country. if we stop the consumption here, no matt

i will note that john mccain now has one of the best or most followed twitter accounts in the world. at least on capitol hillnow, why he wasn't doing that as a presidential candidate, i don't understand. nevertheless, it also needs to be said that i'm not saying if john mccain was using twitter last year or a year and a half ago he would be president now. that would be absurd. i don't think the social media in and of themselves are going to get you elected president, but i think when you put the whole package together, because by the way, i think david was making this point before about traditional media, traditional ground game in the campaign, i think you'll both agree that you can't just focus on social media just because that's the wave of the future at the expense of making those phone calls, going door-to-door, and i think the obama campaign sort of had the whole package. they were still knocking on doors and using facebook, and just real quick on why they may be -- and i stress may be losing some young people is the first part of what's. i talked about the tools, first of all, the agenda on some of th

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hill. and let me just wrap up this part of the discussion by noting a pole that was done by john zogby in 2007out two years ago. where he found that 27% of voters are more likely to support the nra-endorsed candidate than the candidate we are not supporting. that translates into about approximate 40 million votes in a national election year. some of the things that i thought was interesting is when zogby compared what level an nra endorsement has with other politicians and celebrities when you look some of the people we outpaced it was pretty impressive. that means we were more influential than an endorsement by president clinton, by president bush it is first and the afl-cio than oprah winfrey or barbra streisand. when the nra gives its "good housekeeping" seal of approval to a candidate it's votes and boots on the ground for candidates. before we get into some of our legislative strategies and our job at the national rifle association in engaging citizens to become active is not altruistic. my job is not to ensure that 100% of all americans are engaged in the process. my goal is that 100% th

if you have any interest in this, e now to capitol hill for a senate hearing on haiti earthy -- earthquake relief efforts. this includes john kerry of massachusetts who chairs the foreign relations committee. this is about an hour and 45 minutes. we will start the hearing. i think dr. farmer is not very far away. i appreciate everybody's ability to move this and disadvantaged. i think what we will try to do -- we have until that 1045 or so. that ought to give as an opportunity to be able to get through both the testimony and the questions adequately. i wish we were not press. the reality is that we are. haiti is reeling in the aftermath of white men have been the worst humanitarian disaster that the americans have ever seen. over 1000 are dead and more are dying every day. an estimated 1 million haitians are displaced. several outlying cities are flattened. does not explain the horrors that many haitians are living through. as you begin to understand the tragedy through stories and images, they probably better tell us what this is like. a haitian child dividing one rationed milk among eight members of his family. a 70-year-

hill will get its due. but aides said it will be far from the focus of the president's remarks. at the capitol today, democrats like congressman johnson of connecticut-- and others-- said they hope the president's words can revitalize the party. democrat eliot engel of new york. >> let's rally behind our president, the people sent us here to rk together in a bipartisan faction. let's not look at what's best politically for this party or that party, let's look at what's best for the american people. house minority whip eric cantor. >> we want to see the president listen, learn that the agenda he has promoted over the last year just hasn't yielded the results. right now, families across america around the kitchen table worried about prospects about employment, the future for their kids. we want to hear some solutions that are akin to what we've been working on for the last 12 months. >> reporter: the president will address the nation this evening at 9:00 pm eastern time. >> lehrer: and to shields and welcome, mr. axelrod. >> thanks, gwen. good to be with you. >> ifill: we've heard so many times the next speech the president is going

hill. we will begin with the minority leader in the house, john boehner. here is what he had to say. >> i think the supreme court decisions today are a big win for the first amendment and a step in the right direction. i have always believed that sunshine was the best disinfectant. when you look at our campaign finance system and what happened under mccain fine gold -- feingold we put money out of the light into the dark. the money was still being spent but no one could see where it was coming from. i think what they do in virginia is the most sensible way to have a real campaign finance reform. have no limits, but allow every dime spent on behalf of a candidate or issue to be published so that the american people have a clear view of who is supporting which candidate or who is opposing which candidate. let the american people decide how much money is enough. sunshine really does work if you allow it to. host: the white house yesterday also issued a response. here is what the white house said -- but the ruling the supreme court has given a green light to n

"the hill" reports that members of the iranian parliament opposed a request abysm of john kerry -- visitf john kerry. meanwhile, many are asking the supreme leader in iran to stop violence against protesters. at least eight people died across clashes last month. those are some of the latest headlines. >> coming up at 10:30 a.m., and the inauguration ceremony for annis parker, houston's first openly gay mayor. on "the communicators" -- dan the british prime minister questions returned as wednesday starting at 7:00 a.m. eastern. host: james traub is a contributing editor to "new york times magazine." he wrote a piece on june biden. joining us from new york right now, good morning. you wrote in that piece, instead of the role every bus president wants, but which only his best -- predecessor had enjoyed, to be the last voice in the room. so, one year later, is he the last voice, in terms of policy decision? guest: i think so. if there was anyone who was the last, he is in it. being the last was in the room in the bush administration meant that you could drive policy. bush came into office kn

david young is the president, the emperor, the king and john barry is one of the greatest-- come here, one of the greatest reporters hill at fur refuse to accept my-- no. [laughter] he was the star in "the sunday times." >> i must tell you both i have taken a sneak peek and read the book, so you already have admires. i actually went to the store and bought it. welch. >> real money. >> real money, i am not used to that. i am used to people send me books. >> i am sorry. i should have done that. john has done more than the index. >> certification harrell has been very kind. >> don't go home. john is a fantastic writer and i can tell you hundreds of stories about him. , but i mean i never forget, when the french entered the gold rush, we got reporters and photographers-- [inaudible] eight or 12 pages and he pulled the whole bloody lot together seamlessly. i will never forget it. you know i said i don't think i could have done that myself. >> what i remember about that is one of our reporters tony geraghty who was eccentric, but he on the flight home to paris, his colleagues sometimes would go with him and realized he was dr

gratitude to the leadership in the hill -- on the hill who have fought valiantly to get those issues before the american people. we've watched mitch mcconnell and john and the team on the floors of the house and the senate propose measure of measure tort reform. how do you do health care without tort reform? i don't understand that. small business pools, small businesses can pool their employees and get competition going in the insurance market. reforming the health savings accounts provisions to expand them to allow greater flexibility for individuals to save for their health care. there are so many aspects of what needs to be done in health care that are not in the bill that's before the congress right now for consideration. that we will continue to fight for and should our number -- we will be able to close the gap or indeed take control of one or both chambers. you are going to bet that we bring the issues back to the floor. >> host: do you see any similarities between this year and 1954? >> that's a good question. there are aspects, but the environment is very different. the at a to do is very different. i mean you are seeing, almost like it's

enormous gratitude to the leadership on the hill who have fought valiantly to get those issues before the american people. we've watched mitch mcconnell and johnaner and team on the floors of the house and senate propose, measure after measure, tort reform. how do you do healthcare without tort reform? i don't understand that. so small businesses can pull their businesses and get competition going. reforming the healthcare saving as count provisions to expand them to allow great eer flexibility. there's so many aspects of what needs to be done in healthcare that i'm not in the bill that's before the congress right now for consideration. that we'll continue to fight for and be able to close the gap or indeed take control of one or both chambers. you bet we're bringing those issues back to the floor. host: you see similarities between this year and 1984? guest: that's good question. i think some aspects are similar but the environment is different. the attitude is different. your seeing, almost like it's accelerated. newt gingrich and i were talking about this and he's such a phenolal understanding of - not just history, but where we need to go

i will note that john mccain now has one of the best or most followed twitter accounts in the world. at least on capitol hill. there was an article that he's got over a million followers or something like that. now why he wasn't doing that as a presidential candidate, i really don't understand. nevertheless, i think it also needs to be said that i'm not saying if john mccain was using twitter last year, 0 a year and a half ago, he would be president now. i think that would be an absurd notion. i don't think the social media in and of themselves are going to get you elected president, but i think when you put the whole package together, because by the way, i think david was making this point before about traditional media, traditional ground campaign, i think you both agree that you can't just focus on social media, just because that's the wave of the future, at the expense of making those phone calls, going door to door and i think the obama campaign sort of had the whole package. they were still knocking on doors and using facebook and just real quick, on why maybe they may be, and i stress may be losing so

hill for a senate hearing on haiti earthquake relief efforts. witnesses include un deputy special envoy, paul farmer, and former white house envoy, james dobbins. john kerry of massachusetts chairs the foreign relations committee. this is about an hour, 45 minutes. >> the hearing will come to order. we will start the hearing, and i think dr. farmer is not very far away. five votes been scheduled. if we had begun this hearing when it had been scheduled, we would not have had a hearing. i appreciate everyone's understanding. we will try to compress the hearing -- we have a grace period of 15 minutes beyond 10:30. we have to hold at 10:45 or so, and that ought to give us an opportunity to be able to get through both the testimony and the questions adequately. i wish we were not pressed, but the reality is we are. needless to say, today in haiti is reeling in the aftermath of what may well be the worst humanitarian catastrophe that the americas have ever seen. well over 100,000 dead, and more dying every day. an estimated 1 million haitians are displaced. large parts of port-au-prince and several outlying cities are flattened. an already weakened infras

enormous gratitude to the leadership on the hill who have fought valiantly to get those issues before the american people. we've watched mitch mcconnell and john baner and team on the floors of the house and senate propose, measure after measure, tort reform. how do you do healthcare without tort reform? i don't understand that. so small businesses can pull their businesses and get competition going. reforming the healthcare saving as count provisions to expand them to allow great eer flexibility. there's so many aspects of what needs to be done in healthcare that i'm not in the bill that's before the congress right now for consideration. that we'll continue to fight for and be able to close the gap or indeed take control of one or both chambers. you bet we're bringing those issues back to the floor. host: you see similarities between this year and 1984? guest: that's good question. i think some aspects are similar but the environment is different. the attitude is different. your seeing, almost like it's accelerated. newt gingrich and i were talking about this and he's such a phenolal understanding of - not just history, but where we need to g

on capitol hill hoping to raise awareness on the talks that continue to try to negotiate a new labor agreement, the new york times publishes an article quoting extensively giants co-owner john mara. he is the first o the negotiations. among his comments quote, i don't think we're making any progress. we mailed a proposal in early november. i don't think we've received a meaningful counter proposal. the point we try to make to them is that the costs and risks are much greater than they have ever been especially in this economy. i don't think there's been enough of a recognition on their part of that concept. they want a deal that is equal to or better than the existing one and that is not acceptable to us end quote. these comments did not sit well with the players here wednesday. >> it's not really disrespect. it's flat out up yours. they don't care. >> i think it's very distressing you have a month and-a-half to get a deal done key component the management side ones opting out of the contract saying we give up. >> anyone that asks for a 20% pay cut doesn't matter whether you're working for the uaw or united steelworkers or whatever if manager asked you are for a 20% pay cut

enormous gratitude to the leadership on the hill who have fought valiantly to get those issues before the american people. we've watched mitch mcconnell and john baner and team on the floors of the house and senate propose, measure after measure, tort reform. how do you do healthcare without tort reform? i don't understand that. so small businesses can pull their businesses and get competition going. reforming the healthcare saving as count provisions to expand them to allow great eer flexibility. there's so many aspects of what needs to be done in healthcare that i'm not in the bill that's before the congress right now for consideration. that we'll continue to fight for and be able to close the gap or indeed take control of one or both chambers. you bet we're bringing those issues back to the floor. host: you see similarities between this year and 1984? guest: that's good question. i think some aspects are similar but the environment is different. the attitude is different. your seeing, almost like it's accelerated. newt gingrich and i were talking about this and he's such a phenolal understanding of - not just history, but where we need to g