. >> john wall told reporters he was disappointed that he let down his attempts and the organization. he will sit out tonight's game against cleveland. >> he is 6'4". >> he plays like he is taller. >> this is the last day, the prediction was when the cherry trees are at the puffy white stage. free fireworks saturday at 8:30, and sunday, the credit union cherry blossom ten mile run. to accommodate the crowd, metro will open at 5:00 a.m. sunday morning. there is one less way to get to the festival. d.c. is ending circular bus service. instead, they will redirect hours for a bus link. >> not enough riders going down to the mall, now that tourist season is underway. walk all the way to the mall? >> yes. >> not only the cherry trees around the tidal basin, the ones around the washington monument. they are going stay at peak loom today, the winds will be picking up. we may have a blossom blizzard with strong, gusty winds. we don't have any rain falling through advertently, scatter ed blue, in madison, getting a few sprinkles. to the north there, along the blue ridge, warren and clarke count

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. >> and finally, john wall will serve his one game suspension tonight for his altercation. the wizards host the cavaliers later tonight. shaun. >>> thank you, lindsey. now you have the news edge. the news is always on on myfoxdc.com. keep it right here. tmz on tv is coming up next. we'll see you back here for fox news at 10:00. good night. 

. >>> finally john wall has been suspended one game for his altercation with the heat's zydrunas ilgauskas last night. ilgauskas was fined $21,000. that's a look at sports. the edge will be right back.  >>> well, you're stilling if to need the up -- going to need the umbrella tomorrow, but at least we get to 50 degrees and going into the weekend things gradually get better. sunday looks real nice. ♪check out the hook where my dee-jay is performing ♪ >> from ice, ice baby to no sound at all. vanilla ice is

john wall suspended after that little mishap. >> i'm comfortable. >> very competitive. fighter.gs down deep. so i think that's a character that we are looking for. >> i believe the coach got an e- mail during that sound byte. caps off tonight beating columbus in overtime last night. defenseman john irskin got hurt as he beat the snot out of jarret bowl. he is likely out tomorrow against the sabres. >>> big national spotlight on a school on our high school highlights. playing brooklyn's boys and girls high school in the espn ride tournament today. gary williams is going to like this highlight. he is getting this guy next year. justin anderson throws down two of his 18. a winner today by 22. >>> just because jayson werth is getting paid like he is four people we cannot expect him to produce like he is four people. so after yesterday's opening game fizzle let us remain calm. he did have a base hit in his first at bat as a national. the team only managed four other hits all day but between them and the rest of this more than solid lineup nobody seems to be worried about long-term of

meanwhile, wizards rookie john wall has been suspended for one game for his role in that little ruckus with the heat. wall responded to it by punching him. miami's big man got a fine. wall will sit against the cavs tomorrow. a reminder for the high school, we still have a few spots for campus correspondence dc highschoolsports.net. bcu has only had a basketball program for 44 years, which isn't that long. but it's still ten years longer than the head coach has been alive. the 33-year-old smart may be short on years, but he is clearly long on poise. and as they held their first practice today, the bcu players continued to feed off the coach believing that the 11th seed next to their name they will be the national champions. finally tonight, the brewers did something today that hadn't happened in 42 years in baseball. second baseman ricky leaks leading off the game with a homerun and then right after him center fielder carlos gomez hits another homerun. that is the first time since 1969 that a team has led off its season with back-to-back homeruns. the bummer for the brewers is, they los

we talked to jonathan karl of abc news, gerald seib of the "wall street journal" and john heilemann of "new york" magazine. >> the budget though is really setting the republican agenda not just for the rest of the year but potentially for a generation. i mean he has put forward a plan that gets into not simply questions of government spending but of policy. i mean his efforts to basically remake the medicare program into a system that is government subsidized but private insurance. >> what paul ryan did this week starts a national conversation slash debate that runs all the way through the 2012 election. it is a conversation and debate that's not really about the budget, it is about what is the role of government in the 21st century america and how much are you willing to pay to have that role fulfilled. >> if you think about gingrich, he had those revolutionaries behind him, his base, the further i was pea he pull on the

. >> like john walls and blake griffith are gone. >> that really is an equalizer. some people complain that means the quality isn't as high as it once was, may well be true. >> it's not. >> but the narrative is better. >> absolutely. the quality of basketball at all levels for reasons that we could spend several hours discussing isn't nearly as good as it was 15, 20, 25 years ago. the players don't want to be coached any more. they're too big starses to be coached. they play summer ball now which is all one-on-one. nobody plays defense. they all want to be on the espn. we call it the espning of athletics. plus the fact that you do have the college kids now coming out after a year, so-called one and done because that rule was put in several years ago. but you are right. the quality of competition is better than it's ever been. because there are more teams that can advance to the final four, more teams that can win the national championship realistickically than ever before. when george mason made the final four in 2006, i thought then that was a once in a lifetime o

out in a recent rolling stone article christie now the wife of a high profile banks there on wall street john mack was given two hundred twenty million dollars by the fed to prop up an investment firm that she and her friend susan had started up neither the two women had any experience in finance but the fed figured they were safe investment through a boatload of essentially free cash ip or free and interest for cash and all of this all the secret lending to major for corporations dictators and wall street wives all of whom would have gone down in complete secrecy had not been for the efforts of senators bernie sanders and franklin i was ron paul to make the fed open up their books and let us taxpayers take a look. so are you still wondering why the fed's actions aren't fixing our economy let's imagine for a second that this wall right here is keeping our economy from collapsing think of it as a giant dam but this dam is starting to crack and holes are starting to form due to all the pressure behind pressure joblessness massive student loan credit card debt student loan debt by the way just e

an investor learns one thousand two hundred sixty nine miles from wall street john and welcome back to the cars a report by max how are you. goalie since we spoke less the time has gone out on dear mr warren buffett apparently he's not wearing any shorts tell us about the departure of is heir apparent and the whiff of front running insider trading what it says about the bigger picture and us banking jetted to have a kohli on next this isn't a case of telling the truth slowly i think you're aware that warren buffett issued a press release and them all talking about the departure of david so call who was the head of american energy and david so call. it was also somebody who looked at acquisition candidates for berkshire hathaway now as the facts are coming out it appears that he was new meeting with citi group bankers on december thirteenth and the next day he bought shares in a country called oversaw in a company called lubrizol now the day before the citi group bankers understood that they were talking to david so call in his capacity as an officer of berkshire hathaway in a capacity

open house in the new aviation lab on campus where there is a bronze plaque on the wall in jason's honor. >> insurer john han cock will have to pay for 20 years of shaky handling of life insurance policies. an audit initiated found that john han cock failed to pay death benefits to beneficencaries of life policy. they would take money in order to continue to take payments. the settlement requires them to restore the full value of will of you accounts dating back to 1992, it totals more than 20 million. >> the teenager who faked a pregnancy for six months. why she did it and what she learned from it. >> i am meteorologist sandy patele. showers on the weekend . i will let you know if the threat will be over by easter. >> late today. actress lindsay lohan sentenced to jail. the [ female announcer ] at the jcpenney spring sale, shop doorbusters all day friday and saturday 9am to 1pm. find $19.99 juniors dresses, $12.99 stafford oxford dress shirts, or men's ties! save 55% on girl's spring dresses and get 50% off handbags from liz claiborne and more. save even more with jcp cash! get $10, $15 or $20 off! no e

eastern time, we will get wall street's perspective from john fund, a columnist with "the wall streetrnal." we will talk to them about all the questions that you raised. here is "the new york post" this morning with president obama's tax return from 2010. the white house issued a released showing what president obama paid, as well as the vice president and his wife there is president obama and michelle obama 1040. let me read a little bit from "the new york post." "they paid about $435,000 in taxes, a $51,000 in illinois state taxes, and they contributed $245,000 to charities. the bulk of the earnings continue to come from books sales that generated $1.5 million." this is from "the washington post" this morning. if you look at vice president joe biden. "the wall street journal" says they paid $86,000 in federal taxes last year. several host: the stories break down the charities -- host: several of the stories break down the charities that president obama and michelle obama gave to, as well. we're talking about the dead. caller: we have two problems. the debt -- we really want to make

for nixon's downfall was that there was what was called the berlin wall, this type of white house staff system run by bob holderman and john, that they called the berlin wall because they both have names that sounded germanic. and he did not that. and he said he established this anti-conference he asked al haig to stay on and it turned on he felt he couldn't keep al. he asked me to come into and i told him, i wouldn't do it. it couldn't be done, that the model he designed was not going to work. and he said i know that now, but i want to have to get from rem to where i want to be, and just give me a little slack while we navigate over to a rational white house and chief of staff system. >> dick cheney has said serving as chief of staff as your successor under president ford, yet so many sites with doctor presidents were constrained. congress is moving in and, of course, to some extent they can he say when he became vice president, one of the things he'll do was expand presidential power and attention the other way. did you feel the same way? >> when you have an embattled president functioning in the white house, at that poi

but the american public is most angry at the wall street bankers because they made out >>> i think john will be real pressure on the united states to reinstitute the airstrikes in libya, and until we drive gaddafi out, then the pressure will come to put boots on the grounds for the aftermath. >> eleanor? >> republican plan to gut medicare will put the 25 seats in the house with the democrats need into play to make it plausible the democrats could regain the majority in two years. or year and a half. >> richard? >> a gas tax holiday passes the house. >> is that good? >> it's politics are good. >> obama will keep tax cuts for the -- foes who are not rich but only for a million dollars, and up. >> you saw my prediction, clarence! >> i didn't know that! >> bye-bye!

walled-off social networks. >> reporter: that's why the knight foundation's john bracken says it should come as no surprise that businesses are using it to talk to customers. >> increasingly, particularly in the u.s. and the developing world, it's hard to imagine a robust media presence or brand you care about that's not thinking about engaging in social media. >> reporter: like dell. it has a site where consumers brainstorm products they'd like the company to develop. starbucks' fans also talk and critique ideas online. so far, that's meant 25,000 suggestions for coffee drinks alone. and it's not just big business taking advantage of social media. threadless.com is a t-shirt company that gets all its designs online from customers. >> it is... is a community of people they've built and engaged in their business that designs t-shirts, votes on the t-shirts, then promotes and talks about them online. >> reporter: zach clayton says, be it business, politics or everyday life, if you don't join the chatter, you'll be left behind. >> it's hard to imagine people who say "i don't do phone" today. and if you don't do so

i did a piece in the wall street journal on the founders. john adams, one continue in salt to decency and good manners. he is always an honest man, and son finn's absolutely out of his senses. is compared to adams and hamilton, a scotch peddler, hamilton, a superabundance of features, to drop off. doesn't get any stronger than that. hamilton, gave as good as he got. john adams is as wicked as he is mad. the only one who really rises above all of this partisan name calling and mudslinging is george washington. at the beginning of his term he has a political honeymoon for a year or two but the two party system springs up and the opposition party attacks and. and restore a monarchy to -- and some of the charges today. it was the fame. he was not a glad handing backslapping personality. he was not a good extemporaneous speaker and wherever you went he gave a few well chosen words. you can see when he was president he made a tour of all of these states and send a delegation of dignitaries to the money outskirts of town and one always arrive an hour or

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. >>> and joining us now to break down the jobs report is "the wall street journal's" chief economic correspondent john hilsenrath along with "gma" workplace contributor tory johnson. we've asked them to come in and answer your questions on the best way to find a job. thanks so much for joining us. john, i want to begin with you. encouraging news we saw. we saw employers hiring more but unlike the past recession this is coming from a different sector, right? and you say the heartland is where we're seeing -- >> very different. i would call this a heartland recovery. we're seeing jobs coming up in manufacturing, mining, agriculture. in fact, one out of every five jobs have been in manufacturing or mining sectors. surprisingly michigan has seen the biggest drop in unemployment that we've seen across the states in the country. what we're seeing is a globally driven recovery. manufacturing, basically places in the country where we make stuff and pull it out of the ground and then export it overseas are the kinds of jobs that are coming back right now. >> and, meantime, we have turmoil in the middle east. w

john sasaki. >>> so what causes a lot of the violence behind if walls of napa hospital?tomorrow how tobacco may be at the root of it all. tomorrow at 5:00. >>> today was all about sunshine and a bit of wind. let's go outside. we can pick up the wind readings out here near martinez. out on the delta. 28-mile-per-hour gusts. fairfield you have winds gusting to 25 miles per hour. it's still breezy out there. the winds stick with us tomorrow. but there's less of it. less winds means temperatures will cool down more. we start off cool tonight. overnight lows are going to be in the mid- and upper 30s. that is chilly, that will get you frost in the east valley. 38 in santa rosa, 35 in napa when you wake up for your friday morning already. this is your wind model. reds representing wind gusts. you can see tomorrow morning not a lot of wind. then it ramps up around 2:00 tomorrow. winds gusting 25 to 30 miles per hour offshore. about 15 to 20 in the inland bay valleys. then the winds back up again. see the cool blues around the bay. those winds down around 9 miles per hour. those

john sasaki. >>> so what causes a lot of the violence behind if walls of napa hospital?tomorrow how tobacco may be at the root of it all. tomorrow at 5:00. >>> today was all about sunshine and a bit of wind. let's go outside. we can pick up the wind readings out here near martinez. out on the delta. 28-mile-per-hour gusts. fairfield you have winds gusting to 25 miles per hour. it's still breezy out there. the winds stick with us tomorrow. but there's less of it. less winds means temperatures will cool down more. we start off cool tonight. overnight lows are going to be in the mid- and upper 30s. that is chilly, that will get you frost in the east valley. 38 in santa rosa, 35 in napa when you wake up for your friday morning already. this is your wind model. reds representing wind gusts. you can see tomorrow morning not a lot of wind. then it ramps up around 2:00 tomorrow. winds gusting 25 to 30 miles per hour offshore. about 15 to 20 in the inland bay valleys. then the winds back up again. see the cool blues around the bay. those winds down around 9 miles per hour. those

john hendren, abc news washington. >>> and a car crashed through a wall and ended up with the teachere k 33,000 people were killed in traffic accidents last year. down 3% from 2009 that's the leest level in 60 years. experts credit seat belt safer cars and efforts to stop drunk driving. >>> expert panels say there's no need for warnings or commonly used food dye. with the effect of those dyes on children with behavorial problems. the final decision on the warning labels is now up to the fda. >>> also there's some encouraging news in the battle against cancer. the rate of lung cancer deaths in the rate of women has fallen for the 30 in 30 years. mainly due to the fact that fewer women smoke. >>> the poisonous cobra is now back in cap sifttivity this morning. officials say the snake was hiding in the reptile house. the cobra came wildly popular inkast week even had his own twitter account. 270,000 followers. >> you know what no looking under the desk. >>> for for this morning's weather around the country with the nor'easter look for showers with a mix of snow. chicago, indianapolis and

john mcelroy. >> here we are in studio with the president and ceo of the mopar brand. joining us is jeff bennett from the wall street journal and eric mayne from wards. great to have you too. i'm fascinated with what is going on with the mopar brands. i have interviewed countless spokespersons, but i don't believe anyone has talked about the mopar brand before. here you are as ceo, doing all of these things. what are the marrin marching instructions that sergio gave you? >> the m oorkopar brand has a lf history, 75 years of history, and within the last ten years has been neglected. a lot of industry firsts, but was not under the spotlight. mopar is in charge of everything, is about taking care of the customer after the purchase of a car. one of the main missions we have at chrysler is to improve and revamp the customer experience. so naturally, mopar is an important asset in this process. take care of the customer is the mission, and giving the best experience when they come to our dealership. >> how important is mopar to the customer's biz ?ns business? >> i tell you, november 2009 when we presented our plan

john edwards volunteered for possession every week. he was certified. ex exor citizenim did nothing. colt 45, crazy horse they demand the sacrifices in blood so bottles would go to the couch friday night. wallstil straight jackets lay waiting on the lawn. mama would site visions of gang boys with metal vent as if it explained anything. it didn't between dusk from the and dawn saturday he was ready to blow the -- up. do you want some of this? oh , no, yes oh , no or yes , i will be damn, i will be damn, i will be damn. [applause] >> this is called someone else's child. and i guess it's a sort of an imagined conversation with a took place in a real moment in my father's hospital room in a matter of weeks before he d.

of the reason for nixon's downfall was the result was called the berlin wall, white house staff system run by bob haldeman and john ehrlichman that he called the berlin wall because they both had names the found in german mix vv commesso he didn't want that. and he said he had established this and he asked -- he asked how to stay on and then it turned out he felt he couldn't keep him and he went over as the allied commander in europe and asked me to come and i told him i wouldn't do it. it couldn't be done, the demography design wasn't going to work and he said i know that now but i want to help you get from where i am to where i want to be and give you a little slab of where we navigate over to the national white house chief of staff system. >> cheney said serving as the chief of staff house your successor under the president ford he's also many signs of the fact presidents were constrained in the wake of the watergate, congress was moving in and the course of some extent and he said when it became vice president one of the things he hoped to do is expand presidential power and move the pendulum the other way. di

of the reason for nixon's downfall was the result was called the berlin wall, white house staff system run by bob haldeman and john ehrlichman that he called the berlin wall because they both had names the found in german mix vv commesso he didn't want that. and he said he had established this and he asked -- he asked how to stay on and then it turned out he felt he couldn't keep him and he went over as the allied commander in europe and asked me to come and i told him i wouldn't do it. it couldn't be done, the demography design wasn't going to work and he said i know that now but i want to help you get from where i am to where i want to be and give you a little slab of where we navigate over to the national white house chief of staff system. >> cheney said serving as the chief of staff house your successor under the president ford he's also many signs of the fact presidents were constrained in the wake of the watergate, congress was moving in and the course of some extent and he said when it became vice president one of the things he hoped to do is expand presidential power and move the pendulum the other way. di

john edwards volunteered for possession every week. he was certified. ex exor citizenim did nothing. colt 45, crazy horse they demand the sacrifices in blood so bottles would go to the couch friday night. wallsuntil straight jackets lay waiting on the lawn. mama would site visions of gang boys with metal vent as if it explained anything. it didn't between dusk from the and dawn saturday he was ready to blow the -- up. do you want some of this? oh , no, yes oh , no or yes , i will be damn, i will be damn, i will be damn. [applause] >> this is called someone else's child. and i guess it's a sort of an imagined conversation with a took place in a real moment in my father's hospital room in a matter of weeks before he died. my father is my foster father and there was always in my life this level of awkwardness because i was not biologically his own son. and he and i never got to have the conversation that i imagined here on page in this piece. so, there is a lot of truth in it. and here we go. someone else's child. >> i'm going to write a poem about you, i said. shall i tell the truth or make something up. what would you write about me. i'd write about the small things like catching my first per

remarks and "wall street journal" columnist john looking at the recent change in the nation's debt rating by standard poor's.inues. >> host: we are back from new york. a columnist with "the wall street journal." let's begin with what s&p said yesterday. begin with what s&p sd yesterday. the lower the u.s. debt from stable set negative. they said there's a one in three chance the u.s. could lose its aaa rating in two years. they expressed little confidence washington could come together on some sort of agreement before the 2012 election. what does this mean? can you explain that to begin with? guest: it is a wake-up call and if we do not heed the warning, we will sink into deep trouble. the kind of debt trap that was described earlier in the program. what s&p said was a political statement after president obama's speech last week. the concluded there's very little chance on an agreement towards fiscal sanity between congress and the white house before the 2012 election. in a sense, the president began his reelection campaign. i do not think we have the luxury of debating this issue for the

he was secretary of three things, including treasury; and john taylor, who is a stanford economics professor. they wrote this op-ed in the "wall street journal." i'll just quote two short paragraphs. they start out by saying "wanted: a strategy for economic growth, full employment and deficit reduction all without inflation." they say "experience shows how to get there. credible actions that reduce the rapid growth of federal spending and debt will raise economic growth and lower the unemployment rate, higher private investment, not more government purchases, is the surest way to increase prosperity. when private investment is high, unemployment is low. above all, they say, the federal government needs a credible and transparent budget strategy. it's time for a game changeer, a budget action that will stop the recent discretionary spending binge before it gets entrenched in government agencies." and they conclude by saying "we need to lay out a path for total federal government spending growth for the next year and later years that will gradually bring spending into balance with the amount of tax revenues generated in later ye

wall in the main hallway. >> the president called a late night meeting at the white house to try to avert a government shut down. he will sit down again with house speaker john boehner to try to hammer out a short term measure for funding the government. if no agreement is reached the government will run out of money on midnight on friday. and in oakland, employees told abc 7 news they haven't been told whether they're coming to work next week. >> we're just waiting to hear from something... from the congress what they're going to do. we don't know yet. and this is coming up to friday, deadline. we're in the dark. oof 800,000 employees could be sent home without pay. >> some of the president's supporters getting sticker shock in san francisco a cording to the chronicle, the exclusive april 20th dinner is $35,800 per person. and the palo alto home. officials say $30,800 goes to the democratic national convention. and there is another $2500 going to his general election fund. >> and there is a study that continues to evolve. >> and the children being left behind at the preschool level thanks to the deep recession. >> governor brown lays out the worst case tuit

john fund is a columnist with "the wall street journal." let's begin with what s&p said yesterday. the lower the u.s. debt from stable set negative. they said there's a one in three chance the u.s. could lose its aaa rating in two years. they expressed little confidence washington could come together on some sort of agreement before the 2012 election. what does this mean? can you explain that to begin with? guest: it is a wake-up call and if we do not heed the warning, we will sink into deep trouble. the kind of debt trap that was described earlier in the program. what s&p said was a political statement after president obama's speech last week. the concluded there's very little chance on an agreement towards fiscal sanity between congress and the white house before the 2012 election. in a sense, the president began his reelection campaign. i do not think we have the luxury of debating this issue for the next year and half. i think we'll have to tackle this. s&p is saying political paralysis in washington for the next 18 months can do serious damage to the economy, of course this re

here is our discussion with john fund from this morning. "t wall street journal." let's begin with what s&p said yesterday. the lower the u.s. debt from stable set negative. they said there's a one in three chance the u.s. could lose its aaa rating in two years. they expressed little confidence washington could come together on some sort of agreement before the 2012 election. what does this mean? can you explain that to begin with? guest: it is a wake-up call and if we do not heed the warning, we will sink into deep trouble. the kind of debt trap that was described earlier in the program. what s&p said was a political statement after president obama's speech last week. the concluded there's very little chance on an agreement towards fiscal sanity between congress and the white house before the 2012 election. in a sense, the president began his reelection campaign i do not think we have the luxury of debating this issue for the next year and half. i think we'll have to tackle this. s&p is saying political paralysis in washington for the next 18 months can do serious

john, thanks. we want to take you now behind the walls of this tower which is where we find victoria arbiter this morningon. high, victoria. >> hello there, erica. well, kate middleton might not be a princess yet, but she's fast becoming a fashion queen. she's received worldwide attention, causing any designer, or brand, to receive a right royal boost in sales. she's a princess-in-waiting with that girl next door look and kate middleton has the entire fashion world wrapped her 18 karat finger. >> the interest in everything kate wears has been absolutely phenomenal. >> reporter: and why not? famous for her simple elegance and well-groomed taste, kate makes any outfit seem accessible. >> the genius of kate middleton is that she hasn't gone too far. she's still dressing the way that people can relate to. ♪ >> reporter: so women don't just relate to her look, they can own it. when she was spotted in a $78 top shop dress, within a day, stores around london sold out. her ability to instantly move merchandise is cowed the kate effect. and lately it's been unstoppable. this sapphire blue engagement dress didn't

in local the wall street journal" yesterday, john hill's arrest wrote about the preparation for today's news conference. he writes that president obama -- mr. obama -- mr. bernanke has taking questions from the media twice before, at the national press club. on both occasions reporters wrote down questions on cards and a moderator from the media chose which ones to ask. this news conference will be more traditional. hands will go up, he will call on reporters, and the questioning will begin. we also got a preview of today's news conference from today's "washington journal." >> to get a sense of the conference today, joining us is john from bloomberg news. mr. landon, what is the purpose, the message, that mr. bernanke has to deliver today? >> this is historic. the bailout of bear stearns, aig, over $2 trillion now, adding more than what has been called qe2 last november. they face a lot of criticism. there is a portion of the population that does not understand what the fed does, that they want it to be more in front of the public. so there are several purposes to it. one is to explain

john f. kennedy. even in our messed up houses we often had a picture of jfk on the wall. and ted had followed him and held his seat until the time i was -- on top of that legacy we are on a state where all% of registered voters are republicans. 12%. in a republican who bothers to run for political office isn't just taking on an opponent. you are taking on the entire democratic state committee and this whole machine of unions and special interests. most times they can keep a pretty tight hold on things in massachusetts, and my race was different for a whole lot of reasons. in a bad economy with two wars going on voters were at a pretty serious frame of mind. while the machine was treating the whole thing as a formality. iran on the issues him and voters appreciated being treated as if they had a choice. i said that a government takeover of health care was a bad idea. and i was against it. i also said that we need to get off the road of big government and dangerous debt and focus again on private enterprise and growing our economy and new jobs for our people. [applause] >>