congressman john klein, one of the congressional panels with jurisdiction over proposed health care legislation. >> many of us will also be thinking about the state of working america this weekend. yesterday we received a report showing that job losses have slowed dramatically, compared to just a few months ago. earlier in the week, we learned what the manufacturing sector posted its first change in 18 months. many of the banks that borrow money at the height of the financial crisis are now returning it to taxpayers with interest. these are only the most recent signs that the economy is turning around. the suns will -- the son told little comfort to those who experienced the pain of losing a job in recent months -- that is why it is so important to remain focused on our economic recovery. tens of thousands of recovery projects are under way, repairing our nation's roads, bridges, ports, and waterways. renovating schools, and developing renewable energy. we are putting americans back to work doing the work that needs done, mostly in private sector jobs. even as we take aggressive steps to put pe

minnesota congressman john klein says democrats need a do-over. >> no wonder americans are scared.sed upon them rather than developed with them. and the potential costs are far too high. and sadly, monetary costs are only part of the picture. many are concerned that democrats' plans may cause patients the right to see their family doctor or have any input into life altering, if not life saving medical treatment and they also fear it may cost them their jobs, a devastating prospect in an economy that has already lost 6.7 million jobs since the recession began. democrats have crafted this legislation behind closed doors, creating a partisan blue print that at last count clocked in at more than 1,000 pages, it's complicated and convoluted and not going to work. it's time to press the reset button. >> we went through all of this on health care reform. we've got to start over. kline sent a letter about the speech president obama will give to the country's school children that's supposed to happen on tuesday, he asked for a preview. wanted people to be able to see the speech and parents

the young composer behind that masterful piece of art, lists among her musical influences john adams and phil kleinin 1987, john adamss composed on opera called "nixon in china" portraying nixon's 1972 trip to china. >> your flight was smooth i hope? >> oh, yes, smooth. it was very pleasant. >> it was very pleasant. back in 2004, phil klein released a trilogy of rumsfeld songs making music from the inadvertent poetry of rumsfeld. we took the liberty of slicing klein's music to the original sound bites from mr. rumsfeld. ♪ ♪ as we know there are known knowns ♪ ♪ >> there are things we know we know. there are no unknowns. there are things we now know we don't know. but there are also unknowns unknowns. the ones we don't know we don't know. and each year, we discover a few more of those unknown unknowns. and it sounds like a riddle. >> still six years later brilliant. that's tonight's moment of geek. low politics and high art. we put links to phil klein's songs, john adams's opera and melissa's contata on msnbc.com. my identity was stolen when i was eight years old, and we didn't find out until i was

john klein said the plan is too expensive and being completed without republican support. >> democrats have crafted this legislation behind closed doors creating a partisan blue print that clocked in at more than 1,000 pages. it's complicated and convoluted and not going to work. it's time to press the reset button. >> instead the congressman says the gop wants to make sure people that aren't insured get insurance and those who have it can keep it. >> some republican leaders and some parents don't want their kids to hear that message. the gop chairman in florida claims the tuesday's speech, political indoctrination, the governor of minnesota says the president is not welcome in his state's classroom. it is baffling to teachers and enraging some parents. >> it's the president talking to students, the embrace of technology as a young student, i would have been so excited to have the president talk to me. so i think it's a great opportunity for our students and we're going to embrace it. >> trying to bring his views all into the school and you know with -- no, i don't think it's a good id

. ♪ i don't recall >> the composers, john adams and phil klein both have used politics to make high arts composed an opera called nixon in china portraying nixon's peacemaking trip to china, complete with an air force one on stage. ♪ your flight was smooth o yes ♪ ♪ smooth ♪ and very pleasant >> back in 2004, phil klein released a trilogy of rumsfeld songs making music of the inadder vent poetry of donald rumsfeld. like rumsfeld's most famous assertions when reporters asked about the links between iraq's wmds and terrorism. we took the liberty of splicing klein's music from the original sound bites of mr. rumsfeld. ♪ as we know there are no knowns ♪ >> as we know, there are known knowns. there are things we know we know. there are no unknowns. that is to say, there are things that we now know we don't know. there are also unknown unknowns, the ones we don't know we don't know. and each year we discover a few more of those unknown unknowns. and it sounds like a riddle. >> still inscrutable, even six years later, but brilliant. that's tonight's "moment of geek" low politics and high art.

that is followed by obama's weekly address and the republican addressed by john klein of minnesota. >zol will take your questions on sunday. >> sunday, there will be a commemoration of the 70th anniversary of world war ii. that is at 9:00 p.m. eastern and pacific on c-span. >> this is c-span's "america and the courts." on september 9, there will be the federal election commission. next, a discussion about the case and the future of campaign finance reform. the american constitution society posted this on friday. the national press club. washington. >> thank you for your patience, and welcome to this event, sponsored by the american constitution society. as carolyn said in her introduction, the board will here, these unusual arguments one end week from today. the justices themselves team up in important cases when in june they announced it would broaden to look seriously at corporate expenditures are around the board. central to the real arguments is a 1990 case of austin versus michigan chamber of commerce, which you will be hearing a lot about today from our panel. that is the 6-3 ca

i'm john klein and i want to thank you for listening. >> president obama will talk to students about the importance of persisting and succeeding in school. afterwards c-span will open our phone thrines take viewer phone calls to get your response. students in their classrooms will be able to watch on c-span or c-span.org. our live coverage starts at noon eastern here on c-span. this, of course, will not be the first time a president has talked with students around the country. go to c-span.org to find when president reagan talked to students in 19 8 and when president bush spoke to students in 1991. >> september 1 marked the 70th anniversary of the start of world war ii. from polland chancellor and russian prime minister and polish president at 9:00 eastern and pacific on c-span. >> the head of the centers for disease control and prevention on thursday stayed h 1 n 1 swine flu has not yet knew tated meaning thefully hasn't become more dangerous since it first appeared. this briefing from atlanta is about 30 minutes. >> what i'd like to do this afternoon is give you an update on some

john, thank you very much. >> you bet. >>> and in "the big picture," president obama on the world stage. "time" magazine's joe kleine and others have written about the president's standing overseas. mr. obama has had some success on the domestic front, he's facing many frustration as broad from iran to afghanistan and, of course, even the global financial crisis, which he is going to be addressing tonight at the g-20 summit. joining us now live is mark whitaker, nbc's washington bureau chief. mark, let's use this piece that joe kleine wrote about in "time" magazine as a jumping off point for this discussion. what about that, that he may end this year with some great domestic accomplishments. whether it's a huge stimulus proposal and then perhaps the health care bill. but on the foreign policy front, he's really having some tough times. >> well, another point that joe was make sthag ing is that as ps barack obama is around the world, as excited as people were throughout the globe by his election, ultimately the leaders he has to deal with are going to judge him and his political clout based on what he can accomplish