even vietnam vet john kerry was taken down on that. >> i served with john kerry. ry served with john kerry. he is not honest. >> he is lying. chris: third is obama's debt connection that may protect him from charges. >> these are the actions of an old-style, died in the wool, big spending liberal commit todd a meverngont that spends and spends and taxes and taxes. chris: the numbers don't show it, so he has to move to the center. >> i think the president would say he is a pragmatist and he ran his campaign -- he would like to do things more liberal or more progressive, but he has a practicing matic strkea and at the end of the day he will figure it out and pitches health care that way. he won't sell himself as a centrist. instead, the way he can slel the middle is saying i'm a pragmatist. chris: we are in april of 2010 and mid-term elections. they knew they have to get to the center? >> this was planned many months ago. they were pushing jobs, jobs, jobs agenda for months now. and they also thought that health care would have been passed a long time ago. i think t

the deep fallacy in things like joe biden, john kerry, and others, that they have this objection to abortion as a rigid -- as a religious conviction, but they cannot impose their private belief. it was not communal. it was not based on any truth of embryology or any reasoning apart from their cells. the only way to deal with that is to do pieces on it to expose it. i would like to stick up for myself. there are no moral truths or absolute truths, which is how we've understand constitutional freedom now. we have freedom because there are no moral truths to constrain us. lincoln said that that doctrine of the rightness of self- government was absolutely and eternally true, grounded in something enduring in the nature of human beings which made it unfit for them to -- the way god may rule horses and men. that nature subsists. now, if you say that there are no truths, and dogmatic relativists who insists that insists that relativism is true -- if there are no moral truths, there are no moral truths that underlie the commitment to constitutionalism itself. then it is only contingent in true -- co

did john kerry deserve his three purple hearts.es will's debate it. it makes for a big time wrestling dramatic television. and the cable industry, it churns a lot. a lot of people tune in on that. it sets a kind of tone and temper to things. but i want to dissent slightly in the conversation. i don't feel our times right now are uniquely oppressive when it comes to hate and death threats. just look in the 60s. martin luther king killed, malcolm x bill killed. bobby kennedy killed. john f. kennedy killed. places like oxford and selma, birmingham, these were battle grounds zones in the '60s. the thought that you could have so many black mayors in the south seem removed in the '60s. the fact that a michael steele african-american could be head of the republican party, and the fact that we have barack obama. but so i think we've got to kind of take stock. and also look at the anti-, the left hatred of richard nixon. and the things that were said about nixon and the let's get him by so many people. so i think we're in a danger zone righ

john kerry, lindsey graham and joe lieberman saying, wait a second, you can't start working on immigrationwe can't walk and chew gum at the same time. it seems like the politics of this are that they're going to be told you're making a choice. it's either immigration reform or climate change. >> well, it's not that we're starting all over or starting anything. this has been an ongoing priority for the country for several years now and in fact, president obama, at our conference two years ago, when he was a candidate, said this would be a priority in his administration. obviously, a lot of other events have intervened, but it still remains a priority. it should have bipartisan support. there's no question this bill will have ramifications, not just on immigrants, but on the latino population and other minority communities. this is the fastest growing segment of the electoral community in this country. there will be economic ramifications, political ramifications. it calls for comprehensive immigration reform to be done with a sense of urgency, so to the members in congress, i would say that

support for the climate bill going through the senate and working on it with joe lieberman and john kerry and set to make an announcement tomorrow and again dropped his support of it because it looks like the president is putting immigration ahead of the climate bill. so, opponents of climate legislation, you can feel relaxed this morning and exhale. >> here is what lindsey graham had to say, moving forward on immigration in this hurried panic matter is nothing more than a cynical plot employ, i know my personal experiences amount of time energy and effort that must be devoted to this issue to make even limited progress, he says immigration is important, but we've been working hard on this will bill. it will take months if not years to get the immigration done and lindsey graham knows. there was supposed to be action tomorrow. >> a background pomp and circumstance, we've got the lectern, the-- >> we've got the dj. >> cancel the giant sub. >> they're going to have a dj. >> no, they have to cancel that. pennsylvania governor, i know that state well, he's under fire for coming at the tea par

caller: because it was killed by john kerry, i believe in the senate, when he was a senator. they had the three mile island incident that took place at the same time so we killed a perfectly safe reactor, dummy proof for reactor, because of a very poor population of a dangerous reactor. host: joe, illinois. independent. caller: ignorance of the american public regarding nuclear energy in shocking. allied chemical and gulf oil build a plant in north carolina to reprocess the spent fuel. spent fuel is not worn out -- simply contaminated with products such as plutonium. they built the plant. it was ready for a start up and president carter would not let them start it because he was afraid that terrorists might get a hold of it to make bombs. actually spent fuel is not that much of a problem. in france, the part of the spent fuel -- the bad part -- i am not sure exactly how they treat it but they do treat it like something like glass, and then they buried it under ground and there is no problem. host: where is metropolis, illinois. if you look at this map and "usa today," it look

pennsylvania 12 is the only district in the country that voted for john kerry in 2004 and john mccainn '08. republican congressional campaign committee has been pouring money into the race so far. $480,000 and the d.c. cc has spent $298,000. both candidates are running on jack murtha's record. here's an ad from democrat mark kriz, murtha's long time stafferer running to replace him. >> born in westmoreland county, mark critz went on to become murtha's economic development director. tim burns support outsourcing. burns' own company got up to $6 million in tax breaks for out0 sourcing our jobs. tim burns, out for himself, not us. >> critz is running on the jobs murtha brought into the district but today republican tim burns signals he plans to bring murtha's record against the democrat. take a look at his new ad. >> mark critz, a washington bureaucrat bang rolled by pelosi. critz was investigated by the ethics office and in charge of the finances for a company caught not paying their taxes. two candidates, one clear choice. >> speaking of special elections if it's tuesday, somebody's vo

massachusetts senator john kerry could introduce the legislation next week. >>> the parents involved in the balloon boy hoax will pay $36,000 in restitution. more than $48,000 was spent on last year's incident. >>> virginia has one of the highest census return rates nationwide so far. 75% of the forms were sent back. maryland is at 73%. the district is at 67%. >>> here's howard. what's happening. >> turning wetter and wetter. we are seeing the moisture come in from virginia to the district and maryland right now as it moves to the north and east. we will start with live doppler hd, i have to tell you, grab the rain gear, not raining constantly, sometimes a little sprinkle here and there but rain will be out there at times today and we are seeing it right now. most of it to the south and west. zoom in on live doppler 9000 hd to the metro and you will see in dc is still quiet but to the south a few sprinkles and northwest a few sprinkles, as well. a few honest to goodness showers from potomac to rockville. this is lifting northeast and the 270 corridor, another 20 to 30 minutes will be

he's a journalist former prosecutor served as legal adviser on john kerry's failed presidential campaignfrey -- sorry i couldn't resist, scott shapiro with us. franklin graham may be disinvited to this event they are having because of his remarks about islam. including that muslims are enslaved by their religion. here's part of what he said. he said i want people to know for example, that they don't have to die in a car bomb. they don't have to die in some kind of holy war to be accepted by god. i love the people of islam but their religion, i don't agree with their religion at all. if you look at what the religion has done just to women alone is horrid. should he be disinvited? >> absolutely. we have people of that faith serving in the armed forces. >> sean: what do you think of the way islam treats women? the way they treat women, do you agree? >> i totally disapprove 100%. >> sean: is it horrid? >> yes. i agree with his position but i do not think the government should allow him to speak at a government sponsored event. >> sean: it is not obvious talking about people dying in car bomb

out of his effort to negotiate a climate and energy bill with joe lieberman, the independent, and john kerrys. well, i'm told that john kerry went to majority leader, her reid, and said can you please put off immigration until after the election, that's the only way to get lindsey graham to continue his negotiations with us on the energy and climate bill. they wanted to do it first and the immigration after the election and i'm told the majority leader said no, thank you, i'm going to bring immigration reform to the floor in the next couple weeks. they're still working on a piece of negotiation. even those close to harry reid says he does not have 60 votes to bring it forward and many think it's politically motivated because of his troubles back in nevada. you heard the president, the dwhows is on his side. they say they should at least make an effort even if they can't pass it. >> the charge against harry reid, the majority leader, he's trying to get some support from hispanics in nevada which he desperately needs. >> and he desperately needs them in nevada and hmany others need them across

. >> john kerry and others, senator lieberman, others are going to be introducing legislation next week on climate change and energy, but what they've been arguing is this is a national security issue, that as long as we rely on persian gulf oil and on, you know, importing from other unreliable sources, as long as our policy toward iran is conflicted by our energy policy, that we're never going to move forward. >> well, there's a big discussion going on in the public about whether we should be alarmed about this or not, but there isn't any dissent in the military and there isn't any dissent in the insurance companies. they know that these climate changes that we're dealing with are serious matters, and they are a matter of security and prosperity, too, for that matter. >> tell us about the auction tonight at christie's, the green auction, and what are you auctioning off and what do you hope to achieve? >> well, first of all, it's very nice to be working for a fenetwk that takes this question seriously and what we're doing is terrific and what christie's is doing is also wonderful. they'

today was supposed to be the day that democratic senator john kerry and republican senator lindsey graham announced bipartisan climate change legislation. that announcement, as you probably noticed, did not happen today. why didn't it happen? because lindsey graham got very mad. he scuttled his own climate legislation because he says he's angry that the obama administration might bring up the issue of immigration reform first. quote, this comes out of left field. we haven't done anything to prepare the body or the country for immigration. senator graham's anger has been seconded now by the top republican in the senate, mitch mcconnell who said, quote, this isn't the right time to do immigration reform. republicans bending over backwards doing everything they can, skcuttling their own announcements to make sure immigration reform does not come up. remember when george bush wanted to do immigration reform in 2007, his own party bent over backwards and delivered their own president a huge political defeat on this issue because they were so desperate to not do immigration reformat the federal

they did it to john kerry. they aren't going to stand for this false assertion he's made.nti-terrorism unit, command an aircraft carrier battle group without having an distinguished career. arlen specter. it is time without a question for the change in politics. i don't think my party leadership -- >> you're optimistic. let me ask you this. do you think people watching the ad we just watched thinks you're section 8? you had a problem? you were relieved of duty for some personal reason? that's what they're saying, you had a problem. what does relieved of duty mean to you? to me it means you couldn't finish the job. you had a problem, mental, emotional, whatever, you couldn't do the job so they took it away from you. >> i think it's pretty obvious right now that the verdict on arlen specter is he's not fit to be the united states senator. that's why he's going to be relieved of command. look, arlen specter's verdict has already been made. you know it. you've seen the rasmussen poll. we're in a dead heat. you've seen other polls where many, many are undecided. >>> which of th

in other words, what john kerry and i and others -- and i hope the white house will get involved in this- has to do in the next couple of days was to bring about a meeting of minds between two people. harry reid and lindsey graham so lindsey feels a separation from immigration reform which will enable him to come back and be where he wants to be for this energy npd climate change bill. >> you know how to do the math. do you think there is any chance in this tough election year of passing immigration reform? >> i happen to be for immigration reform -- >> that's a separate question. >> yes, i'm going to say that as a precondition to say that i am, therefore, disappointed to tell you that i don't see a reasonable prospect of passing immigration reform this year. and i think that one of the reasons for it is that the only republican who's come forward to say he'll work with democrats in immigration reform, lindsey graham, says, i won't do it this year. >> a lot of democrats don't want to take this tough vote in this election year. if there's not unanimous support on the democratic side and y

ask you both in closing i'm told senator john kerry who is working on the climate change legislationou senator cantwell went to leader reid and said please don't bring up immigration because then we lufz lindsey graham the republican on climate change and not get it done and senator reid said, no, he plans to bring up immigration reform this year. do you want to debate immigration reform this year? will republicans vote to get it to the floor, a bill that includes status for the millions here illegally and also does things on the border? are you prepared to have that debate this year or republicans say no way, mr. leader? >> john, i think republicans and democrats alike have great reservations because of the climate right now. people want to see controlling the border. and right now the violence that's coming across the border, people say, oh, no it's not coming -- it is coming across the border. we see it in our border states. and that is not the right climate. nor has the president nor the members of congress on both sides had the chance to sit down and work on a bill. i was part o

john kerry didn't win the white vote in his presidential race and barely lost.why the democratic party. hillary clinton or bill clinton, why do they lose the white vote? >> hillary clinton won a lot of working class votes but if she had won the nomination and faced john mccain -- >> you think you would have flipped. >> it would have been much more problematic. during the campaign of barack obama, you say he was detached. he made a comment in san francisco with an elite group. he was pandering myself the elite. >> pounded over the head -- >> he talked about the white guys that cling to their guns and religion because they're afraid. >> what was he trying to say? >> people get despairing when they're out of work. i don't think people start shooting things and horrible things happen. >> did you hear of "deer hunter" confident people who like to hunt deer and people who go to church who have a lot of money. >> when obama found his voice in illinois, he attracted the white folks in southern illinois. i think the notion that he's somehow just appealing to african-amer

they did it to john kerry. all veterans aren't going to stand for this.ssertion he has made. you don't get to be a three-star admiral, get to command the aircraft carrier battle group, having a distinguished career. arlen specter, you know, it is time without a question for the change in politics of a republican who's a democrat in name only. i don't think my party leadership is going to -- >> you're optimistic. let me ask you this. do you think the people watching the ad we just watched think you were section 8, you had a problem, you were relieved of duty for some personal reason? that's what he's saying is that you had a problem. section 8, whatever you want to call it. what's relieved of duty mean to you? to me it means you had a problem, mental, emotional, you couldn't do the job because they took it away from you. that's ha arlen's saying about you. >> the verdict on arlen specter is he's not visit to be the united states senator. that's why he's going to be relieved of command. look, arlen specter's verdict has already been made. you've seen the ra

john kerry got twice that in '04 when he lost. >> moyers: what do they say to you? those statistics? >> well, they say to me that we still live in a society where there are incredible... there was incredible race consciousness. where there are these divisions. i mean, my state, again, is, you know, a state where in 2004, we tried to get rid of segregation language in the state constitution, and a majority of people in alabama voted to keep that language in that prohibits black and white kids from going to school together. and we're supposed to just carry on, as if somehow that doesn't matter. and these very stark racial divisions and realities are very dominant. there's a very strong reaction against the obama election in the deep south. in many places the number of incidents of hate crimes and complaints by black teachers and others has dramatically increased. so, i don't want us to think that the election stands alone. for every action there's a reaction. and the reaction is quite worrisome to many people of color in the deep south. >> moyers: you call your book "

and of course i want to commend and thank the work that our chairman, senator john kerry, is doing on this issue with us every day as well. creating an environment where local farmers can produce for themselves and their communities as well as easily trade and get their goods to market is the key to fundamentally changing this ongoing crisis. with the host of competing priorities for united states attention, i believe there are at least two reasons why food security matters even in the midst of some of the challenges we're facing here domestically. first, this is a humanitarian crisis of immense proportions that we go go a long way towards solving. i think when we talk about this issue, no matter who we are, no matter what our station in life is, this is an issue that we come to, i think, summoned by our conscience. and i think that's true here in the united states senate as well. as one of the richest countries in the world, i believe we have a moral obligation to do all we can and to help. this crisis is solvable with a combination of assistance and emphasis on providing small farme

if barack obama were white, if he were john kerry pursuing more or less the same politics or hillaryclinton pursuing the same politics whether it is in foreign policy, domestic policy and face this kind of opposition in congress or on the street would die immediately as fried to racism? i could and sexism, i think people have real political disagreements and concerns and anxieties. there is such a thing as a panoply of opinion. but do i think that some of the opposition and some of the uglier voice is directed at obama have something to do with racism? i think it's undeniable. i don't think you can deny that at all. as for his racial identity, you know, in a large measure this is something given to you but you also have something to say about it and when he filled out his census report who am i to argue with that? is especially me. i don't know what michele would say, but these are distinctions its distinctions at all with a very slight difference. yes, that he has an african legacy although he played a role mainly in memory that in his life he experienced life as an african-american

and now on the senate side you have senators lindsey graham, and joe lieberman, teaming up with john kerryet those three guys together can they bring enough moderates along the way to get something like this passed . >> that is the big question. i think the coalition is a good one. the real issue is just -- as justin suggested is what are the implications for the economy, jobs and taxes, health care will mean higher taxes, and the budget deficit will almost certainly mean higher taxes. i don't think the president is going to want to take a risk. nor the democrats in the senate. take a risk of another big tax increase, being proposed. on the -- in the wake of the election. bill: justin that is a democrat talking there. >> you can hear... do you agree? >> doug is a savvy democrat and i think understands the political realities the democratic party is facing now and some of the polls we have seen in recent days show the congressional generic ballot showing republicans ahead of democrats on the congressional generic ballot polling and that is a real risk and i think what is key here is, if the

it's being propod by senators joe lieberman, lindsey graham and john kerry, that's an independent, a republican, and a democrat, bipartisan group. they're going to propose this as part of the new climate bill. a, it would raise an awful lot of money for the federal government, which is indidoo it can't pay its bills, and number two, it would finance some of the needed changes to control emissions. so it's a bipartisan group of senators, it's a proposal for up to 15 cents a gallon, and really, what it's all about is another proposed consumption tax, like the vat you've been hearing about, a tax on what you buy as opposed to what you earn. martha: my first question, does it have the votes to pass. >> that's a very good question. if you put it up for a vote right now, the flat answer is no. you've got the elections coming up in november. but after the elections, you will have this decifit reduction commission reporting on december 1st. maybe they'll say yes, a consumption tax like a gas tax is what is required. so after the election, it might be a different story from now, when the vote

lindsey graham and john kerry and joe lieberman were together going to come out on monday morning and plan to deal with climate change. lindsey graham pulls out and says that because the administration looks like it's focusing on immigration reform, the climate thing's not going to get done and theoretically it's doing it in protest. >> right. he's got some legitimate facts on the point that immigration has vaulted up. it's a controversial issue. >> yep. >> hard to deal with, and once you put that on plate, getting energy reform, which is also tough, dealing with climate change. >> yeah. >> to get a deal, you sort of muck up the works maybe and it's hard to get something done. you talk to democrats and they say, wait a second, it was lindsey graham urging the president to get immigration reform on the docket. he and chuck schumer, the democrat, got a bill. and they got a meeting with the president a few weeks back and they kind of feel that lindsey graham is protecting john mccain, for example, his mentor who back in arizona does want want to deal with the immigration issue, pretty co

in 2004, after i voted against the war in iraq, i worked to elect john kerry so we could bring the illegalral war to an end. in 2006, when it seemed possible for democrats to regain the majority and put this country back on the right track, i worked hard to make that happen, and we did it. and i became chairman of the oversight and investigations committee. the most fascinating subcommittee in all of congress. over the past four years on our committee we launched investigations into high-profile issues such as border security, nursing home safety, security breaches that are nuclear weapons labs, food and drug safety investigations, excessive energy speculation, discriminatory practices in the health insurance industry, and the recent toyota sudden unattended acceleration problems. but two years ago, i saw an opportunity to finally enact health care with the election of a new president. i thank president obama and speaker pelosi for their leadership to put us across the line as we fine ally have healt care a reality in this country. while legislative accomplishments have been a significant

in 2004, after i voted against the war in iraq, i worked to elect john kerry so that we could bring thellegal, immoral war to end. in 2006, when it seemed possible for democrats to regain the majority and put this country back on the right track, i worked hard to make that happen. we did it. i became chairman of the oversight and investigations committee, the most fascinating subcommittee in all of congress. of the past four years, we launched investigations into high-profile issues, such as border security, a nursing home safety, security breaches at our nuclear weapons lab, food and drug inspections. two years ago, i saw an opportunity to finally enact health care with the election of a new president. i think president obama and nancy pelosi for their leadership. while legislative accomplishments have been a significant part of my career, perhaps the thing i am most proud of is helping you, my friends, neighbors, and my constituents. my staff and i have helped tens of thousands of constituents resolve problems and cut through red tape. problems such as helping secure benefits through

if barack obama were white, if you were john kerry pursuing more or less the same politics or hillarylinton pursuing the same politics whether it is in foreign-policy or domestic policy and face this kind of opposition in congress are on the street, would i immediately ascribe it to racism or sexism in case of hillary clinton? i think people have real political disagreements and concerns and anxieties. there is a such thing as a panoply of opinion but do i think some of the opposition and some of the uglier voices directed at obama has something to do with racism? i think it is undeniable. i don't think you can deny that at all and as for his racial identity, you know in large measure this is something given to you but you also have something to say about it and when he filled out his senses report who might argue with that? especially me. i don't know what michelle would say but these are distinctions if they are distinctions at all, with a very slight difference. yes he has an african legacy although it played a role mainly in memory, that in his life he experienced life as an afric

i think john kerry and barbara boxer and others, working with lindsey graham, may have a way to do this that would work, that was different. all i can say is this. and this gets back to the perfect storm. and it relates, i guess, to the environment. from my generation, global warming is a threat that we must address in terms of our children and our grandchildren. the assumption is that it will all work out is an assumption that is too dangerous. so, i think this will probably not be the year, but maybe so, but if it is not this year, i hope this country will have enough sense to have a sensible discussion of climate issues and not to be caught up in what has become so divisive within our rhetoric. >> we are almost out of time. before asking the last question we have a couple important matters to take care of. first, let us remind our guests and members of future speakers. april 30, secretary of the department of navy and may 19 hosting the honorable tim kane, chair of the democrat national committee will discuss his party's prospects in the 2010 elections. second, the moment we have bee

it will be out there introduced in the senate and lindsay graham is working with john kerry about someively scary and controversial. >> one of the things that they're going to need g.o.p. help on if they want to pass it is financial regulatory reform and that is the next big task in front of president obama. so which members of the g.o.p. could break from the bunch and vote with this. vote with the president. let's take a look at the list of eight. first, you have from georgia. scott brown from massachusetts. bob corker from tennessee. john mccain from arizona. take it away, guys. the next four. >> you got olympia snow over there, susan collins and you have kit bonds. they all said they're all on the shelf of saying -- they're saying we might do this. here's the risk that republicans have in that they all four working in some type of wall street reform. and no offense to you, eric but it might not be the most popular thing for any party to say i'm pro wall street. i'm going to side with the banks that got the bailout that don't seem to be going with main street. so republicans got to s

i think john kerry and barbara boxer and others, working with lindsey graham, may have a way to do this that would work, that was different. all i can say is this. and this gets back to the perfect storm. and it relates, i guess, to the environment. from my generation, global warming is a threat that we must address in terms of our children and our grandchildren. the assumption is that it will all work out is an assumption that is too dangerous. so, i think this will probably not be the year, but maybe so, but if it is not this year, i hope this country will have enough sense to have a sensible discussion of climate issues and not to be caught up in what has become so divisive within our rhetoric. >> we are almost out of time. before asking the last question we have a couple important matters to take care of. first, let us remind our guests and members of future speakers. april 30, secretary of the department of navy and may 19 hosting the honorable tim kane, chair of the democrat national committee will discuss his party's prospects in the 2010 elections. second, the moment we have bee

i think that john, john kerry and barbara boxer and others, working with lindsey graham, may have a way to do this that would work, that was different. all i can say is this. and this gets back to the perfect storm. and it relates against to the environment. look, for my generation, global warming is a threat that we must address in terms of our children and our grandchildren. the assumption is that it will all work out, is an assumption that is too dangerous. so i think this will probably not be the year, but maybe so, but if it's not this year, i hope this country will have enough sense to have a sensible discussion of climate issues. and not be caught up in what has become so divisive within our rhetoric. >> we are almost out of time, but before asking the last question we have a couple of important matters to take care of the. first, let us remind our guests and members of future speakers. on april 30 without secretary made his of the u.s. department of navy economic 19th will be hosting the honorable ken king, chair of the democratic national committee who will discuss his party's

after i voted against the -- in 2004, after i voted against the war in iraq, i worked alongside john kerry to bring the immoral war to an end. i became chairman of the oversight and investigations committee, the most fascinating sub-committee in all of congress. over the past four years, on our committee, we have launched investigations into high-profile issues such as a border security, nursing homes a free, security breaches at our nuclear weapons labs, food and drug safety, discriminatory practices in the health insurance industry, and the recent toyota sudden unintended acceleration problems. but two years ago, i saw of the opportunity to finally enact health care with the election of a new president. i thank president barack obama and speaker pelosi for finally making health care and reality in this country. while legislative accomplishments have been a significant part of my career, perhaps the thing i am most proud of over 18 years is helping you, my friend, my neighbors, and my constituents. my staff and i have helped tens of thousands of constituents resolve problems and cut throu

senator john kerry has spearheaded an effort working with senator barbara boxer and senator bingaman to come forward with an idea on clean energy. he will be joined by senator joseph lieberman and senator lindsey graham. it's a bipartisan effort. and what they are seeking to do in this bill i think is certainly consistent with the goals of earth day and our national goals. first, to reduce our dependence on foreign oil, to encourage domestic energy sources that are renewable and sustainable, that we can build on for our future. second, to create jobs, which is our highest priority in this congress with the recession that we face. we understand the reality that countries like china see a great potential for building solar panels and wind su turbines anda variety of different forms of technology to promote energy efficiency and to promote the kind of clean energy approach that we should have as part of our future. and a third thing, of course, is that we wanted to do something about pollution, carbon emissions, the impact that they have on our lungs and on our atmosphere. this is, i th

after i voted against the -- in 2004, after i voted against the war in iraq, i worked alongside john kerry to bring the immoral war to an end. i became chairman of the oversight and investigations committee, the most fascinating sub-committee in all of congress. over the past four years, on our committee, we have launched investigations into high-profile issues such as a border security, nursing homes a free, security breaches at our nuclear weapons labs, food and drug safety, discriminatory practices in the health insurance industry, and the recent toyota sudden unintended acceleration problems. but two years ago, i saw of the opportunity to finally enact health care with the election of a new president. i thank president barack obama and speaker pelosi for finally making health care and reality in this country. while legislative accomplishments have been a significant part of my career, perhaps the thing i am most proud of over 18 years is helping you, my friend, my neighbors, and my constituents. my staff and i have helped tens of thousands of constituents resolve problems and cut throu

i think john kerry and barbara boxer and others, working with lindsey graham, may have a way to do this that would work, that was different. all i can say is this. and this gets back to the perfect storm. and it relates, i guess, to the environment. from my generation, global warming is a threat that we must address in terms of our children and our grandchildren. the assumption is that it will all work out is an assumption that is too dangerous. so, i think this will probably not be the year, but maybe so, but if it is not this year, i hope this country will have enough sense to have a sensible discussion of climate issues and not to be caught up in what has become so divisive within our rhetoric. >> we are almost out of time. before asking the last question we have a couple important matters to take care of. first, let us remind our guests and members of future speakers. april 30, secretary of the department of navy and may 19 hosting the honorable tim kane, chair of the democrat national committee will discuss his party's prospects in the 2010 elections. second, the moment we have bee

against the war in iraq, and worked -- in 2004, after i voted against the war in iraq, and worked for john kerryack on the right track. i became chairman of the most fascinating sub-committee in all of congress. over the past four years, on our committee, we have launched investigations into high-profile issues such as the border security, nursing home safety, breaches at our nuclear weapons labs, food and drug safety regulations, discriminatory practices in the health- insurance industry, and the recent toyota a sudden unintended acceleration problem. two years ago, i saw an opportunity to finally enact health care with the election of a new president. thank president obama and speaker pelosi for finally making health care reform and reality in this country. perhaps the thing i am most proud of over 18 years is helping you, my friends, my neighbors, and my constituents. my staff and i have helped tens of thousands of constituents resolve problems and cut through red tape, problems such as helping secure benefits through the veterans or social security administration, or helping with a tax probl

john kerry spend $100 million more than george bush in the 2004 election and it struck me at that time as i realized now an inclusive framework that the american people were not willing to accept business as usual. what i did know is george bush would do such a genetically bad job in the last half of the second term that trend would continue manifesting in but unfortunately was the obama victory as well, so american i think we have seen since 2004 have been saying we are tired of business as usual. the election of bush signified that in the middle of the war and in the election of obama signified and now what american people are seeing is neither party has been honest, neither party has had the nation's best interest in mind in the third step that multi-party movement and this remarkable shift we are seeing politically. >> we will get into the tea party in just a minute. you said you think george w. bush did remarkably bad job. >> stunning. >> why do you think that way? >> he started listening to other people. but presidents also when they get to the end of a last term -- i think georg

kerry your science at john. i find this to be kind of a cozy relationship, to put it mildly, that is reflected in this memorandum, very deferential apologetic e-mail, long overdue by years, months on the up or down grading of the bank, apologetic, deferential. and then a few months earlier, apparently this document, proposed m.o.u. had been shared out the chain. and you get an interesting reaction. back in july i guess when it first putting this m.o.u. together, this came from mr. dochow, who will hear from later ongoing of the changes mr. ward. this is exhibit 44 by the way -- i'm sorry, 45. let me point you to exhibit 45. down at the bottom of page one you will see mr. ward to mr. mr. dochow, saying on the wamu m.o.u., why did we run it by fdic but not me? this is the first question he asks. then mr. dochow answers you make a good point. i apologize. here is the m.o.u. for your review. i didn't make -- i will make any changes you wanted it has not yet gone to the company. the m.o.u. came up yesterday in a call