guest: as jonathan pointed out, there are not any huge successes out there.expect that there would be in -- maybe it was unream h rearealis effect it but he has changed the tone. he has shaken hugo chavez's hand. he sent an envoy to myanmar. he sent at least two letters to the supreme leader of iran. he certainly has tried to change the image of the united states in dealing with countries like it. i think these countries are still pretty authoritarian. but in some cases we have seen some cracks. and i go back to the idea when the united states is no longer seen as the enam i am eemy it dissidents to protest. and even in north korea the government has had to apparently backtrack on currency reform because there's been -- there have been huge protest business people who are in private markets and who have amassed some foreign currency. and this is probably a first. i don't know that north korea has ever shifted policy because of a domestic situation. so, i think we have to give this policy a little bit more time. it maybe that the united states can't reach nucl

nation's foremost economists the man by the name of jonathan gruber analyze their billing concluded it will help americans pay less and get more. he found that while the cost of private insurance continues to rise an extremely rapid rates, those who use the new health care insurance changes we propose will save hundreds and in some cases thousands of dollars per year per person. gratified we have already taken health insurance reform further in a new point in american history but i'm not satisfied and will not rest until we finish the job. health care fairness will come if we dedicate the coming weeks to solutions, not scare tactics. >> mr. president. >> the republican leader. >> i just want to reiterate the point that the majority leader just made, that he is anticipating as being in on the weekends and to underscore why

jonathan ççbroder.to develop, if not an actual nuclear weapon, then at least the caxacility to build a nuclear weapon. and it is very, very difficult, as we have seen, to try to get the world to try to come together for some sort of sanctions regime against iran. the other option obviously is a military option. if you can't convince them through sanctions to stop their program, then you face a military issue. now, we are already involved in iraq and afghanistan. we don't have an infinite army or infin pit money to pay for these wars. and obama, i think, to be fair to him, is doing the best he can. i wouldn't be so harsh on the president in these circumstances. he fully understands, i think, the gravity of the situation. and i think he is trying his best through the policies he is pursuing. that doesn't always mean the governments on the other end are going to respond as quickly or as full somely as we would like but i don't personally agree that obama is doing;hnothing. i think he is trying his best. h

jonathan? >> i want to be sure i'm moderating the volume properly.an start with an anecdote a few years ago. i was working as a low ranking marine and one of the senior marines had proposed something about a terrorist incident. i said, well, extremist muslims. and i understand the discussion we had earlier about how you label al qaeda and their ilk. i said, extremist muslims would probably say this about the demand. and a senior marine turned to me and said do you mean muslims or extremist muslims? i said, well, our turkish allies that we just came back from serving with in bosnia, as well as the boss kneians and the kosovars, would probably say the extremist muslims. so it brings the point home in that dealing with the muslim world as a monolithic group, it does not hold water militarily. the way we enter act with our allies, the turkish military, one of our closest allies in nato and around the world, it is clearly something that we have to deal with in a very different way than how the u.s. military learns to deal with its relationship with the ir

foreign policy with barbara slavin of "the washington times" and jonathan broader.after that, a look at president obama's achievements in his first year in office from stephen helps of the brackings institute and dan thomason. that's live here on c-span starting at 7:5 a.m. eastern. in the mid 1990's, he was named one of the most 50 influential people to watch in cyberspace the since then he's completed blackplanet.com, helped found a charter school in brooklyn and explained new technologies on oprah. sunday night he talks about his current studies at harvard and what's ahead on c-span's q&a. >> in just over half an hour, a former british ambassador to the u.s. testifying on british involvement in the war in iraq. but first, a special presentation of our documentary, "the blair house -- the president's guest house" begins. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2009] >> the first blair home, the original part, and that where the green awning is, that's the primary entrance. that's where presidents,

to ask my colleagues if they want to [unintelligible] >> i want to take you back to the time of jonathane change was discussed, and there were objections that were raised. regime change in terms of military invasion, was athere ever an optiont hat -- option that was considered? >> not except for paul wolfowitz, who probably argue for it at that meeting. but the context, as i recall it, that set of meetings with the administration waiting -- the context for violence was arming and financing distant groups. which is provided for explicitly in the iraq liberation act. that is a long answer. the short answer is no. the regime change discussed in any of those meetings in terms of an invasion. >> by that time, it had come to mean military invasion? >> sorry, have i been unclear? the official u.s. policy on regime change was in practice and in discussion at that time. sharpening sanctions and trying to stiffen resistance groups. >> i made by the time that john sawyer and jonathan powell came to the united states, regime change had come to mean military invasion? >> no, no. at the beginning of j

sure, says jonathan patz-- t former sovt union will have a longer growing sean, but he says lers will outnumber wiers. >> a mority of agricultural areas will suffe and the verse effects will outweigh the benefial effects. >> suare in developing nations, the increasin temperatures could affecthe ability to beconomically productive. ashe world's poorest people try to work themsees out of poverty, the clites they live in are making it harder toork rd. dr. tord kjellstrom studs the effects of climate on work. and as the only way to protect your body from oveeat and heatstroke, which may ev kill you, is to tually slow down work. it means you are ls efficient the work you do. and you t less income. if you are an agricultural rker who is cutting sugar ca in nicaragua, r instance, you will produce less gar per day ift's very hot and you get paid less. >> suarez: rising heatevels, according to kjellstrom,s an added taon the poor, who must work longer hours inhe hot mont to maintain meager incomes. new seasal patterns will force anges in daily life in the wealthy industrializ countrs. declining

jonathan? >> it's part of the blame game. >> no, i don't think it is. again, people made conscious decisions to support tax cuts in 2001 and in 2003. people make conscious decisions to support an increase in -- to add a benefit to medicare without paying for it. right? we know that. people make conscious decisions to authorize the war in afghanistan and iraq and not pay for them. the president recognizes that the era of continued free lunch is over. jonathan? >> back on health care, i want to see if i can give you more specific on this senate tentative deal. it involves two pieces; a new health care plan put together by -- put together by the office of personnel management and expansion of medicare to the near retired, 55 to 65. so does the president went to see -- with the president need to see both of those pieces as the deal moves forward for the dependent on each other? >> i think, look, i think a lot of the details of this obviously are being examined currently by cbo. i hesitate not havin

jonathan patz is the director of global environmental health at the university of wisconsin in madison, and also a lead author for the intergovernmental panel on climate change. >> every year, we get these combined sewage overflow events already, just with the type of rainfall intensity we get today. we have over a trillion gallons that overflow into surface water, so over a trillion gallons of sewage-contaminated water overflowing from simple rainstorms every year in the united states. >> suarez: one example of this is new orleans. hurricane katrina contaminated and shut down the municipal water system long after the storm had passed. but in places like haiti, contaminated water brings typhoid and even death. but as temperatures rise and climate zones shift, wont some places benefit as others suffer? sure, says jonathan patz-- the former soviet union will have a longer growing season, but he says losers will outnumber winners. >> a majority of agricultural areas will suffer, and the adverse effects will outweigh the beneficial effects. >> suarez: in developing nations, the increase in

we do not understand that muslim world. >> jonathan? i want to get you in here. >> i think i agree with the notion that, very often, we do not completely understand it a specific place or what specifically is going on. again, i served on the ground in iraq in the marine corps. during my first tour, 2004-2005, it was evident that we really did not entirely understand the dynamics going on. the palace from earlier today -- a panelist from earlier today had noticeed that one of the sir linings in the last several years is the american-iraqi [unintelligible] you have literally tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of young american men and women, from across the entire country, who have been interacting on a daily business with young iraqi and afghan muslim men for years. that kind of cultural exchange and mutual understanding -- a lot of times, walking alone and having it to others back, literally bleeding and fighting and dying and surviving together, allows them to build an understanding that is otherwise absolutely impossible

jonathan? >> i just want to make sure i am moderating the volume properly.ack a few years ago i was working as a low-ranking marine , and one of the senior marines had proposed something about a terrorist incident, and i said well, extremist muslims, and i understand the discussion we had earlier today about how do you label al qaeda and their ilk? i said extremist muslims would probably say this about the event. and the senior marine turned to me and said do you mean muslims or extremist muslims? i said well, our turkish alleys that we just came back from serving with in bosnia as well as the bass north koreans and kosovars probably would say the extremist muslims. so it brings the point home the idea of relating to the muslim world as a monolithic group, it just doesn't hold water militarily. from the d.o.t. perspective, the way we -- from the d.o.d. perspective, the way we interact with our alleys, the turkish military is one of our closest alleys in nato and around the world, is clearly something we have to deal with in a very different way than how the

foreign policy with barbara slavin of "the washington times" and jonathan broader.look at president obama's achievements in his first year in office from stephen helps of the brackings institute and dan thomason. that's live here on c-span starting at 7:5 a.m. eastern. in the mid 1990's, he was named one of the most 50 influential people to watch in cyberspace the since then he's completed blackplanet.com, helped found a charter school in brooklyn and explained new technologies on oprah. sunday night he talks about his current studies at harvard and what's ahead on c-span's q&a. >> in just over half an hour, a former british ambassador to the u.s. testifying on british involvement in the war in iraq. but first, a special presentation of our documentary, "the blair house -- the president's guest house" begins. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2009] >> the first blair home, the original part, and that where the green awning is, that's the primary entrance. that's where presidents, our own and fo

starting to my left, jonathan morgan stern, who works at the department of defense.erves. -- he did active force in bosnia and two stores in iraq. another is the assistant deputy secretary of state for middle eastern affairs. she is overseeing the peace initiative and the north african peace initiative. she is and the past -- she has directed part of the sorbonne center, a well-known think tank in washington cd. she has served as middle east peace. she is offered of forthcoming work on democracy in the arab world. it has come out. layla is a spokesperson for the muslim woman's league. she has served on the impact board in the past. she was a member of the u.s. delegation to the un conference on women in beijing. she has also served as a member of the u.s. commission on international religious freedom. she is the chair person of a charity that focuses on children's names in palestine. she has a day job as the ob/gyn at the uc school of medicine. our fourth panelist has not joined us, and hopefully he will very shortly. i will introduce him if he makes it to our sessio

my prodigy was jonathan saffron fours. he wrote a book about vegetarianism. are contrast and the beautifully illustrated what the economist was talking about. i don't know why it took me so long. sometimes, finding the right story is really difficult. if you rush into print with something that does not quite work, you throw away a good idea. that is something you should never do. >> 1 people couone of the peoplo criticized you talked about -- >>e in 2002, he had written a book called "fooled by randomness." xí made the argument, as a wall street trader, that we greatly underestimate the frequency of catastrophic event in life. we also greatly overestimate our ability to control events. we underestimate the role of luck and overestimate our own efficacy. he is a brilliant man. he is one of the most gregarious and charming and hilarious people i have ever met. when you write a profile, i fell in love with a guy. who wouldn't? he is so fascinating. he subsequently wrote a book called "black swan." that was a huge best seller. he brilliantly predicted and anticip

jonathan gilma makes the tackle. 26-23, saints beat the falcons. >> just having that week, that initialou know, prior to the divisional playoff game at home. you know, just gives you an opportunity to get guys healthy, rest up and get ready to make a run. >> one thing we've done a good job with the leadership on our team is just looking at the next goal. we really haven't gotten away or ahead of that. so, really, the next objective for us is play a good dallas cowboy team. >> colt keep on winning, saints keep on winning. chargers, seven in a row. they visit the 8-4 cowboys. demarcus square, helmets into do you brow ski, a big shot down on the play. look at his teammates and even opposition very concerned for ware. off with a sprained neck gesturing to the crowd. phillip rivers looking for gate. 14-yard touchdown. chargers over jerry jones' cowboys, 20-17. afc north beening lys visiting the affect north leading vikings. brett favre looking to bounce back after a tough outing last week. favre to sidney rice in the end zone. favre's only touchdown pass today. vikings up 10-0. carson palmer

i'd like to quote from abc news by jonathan carl and def inn -- devin pryor, this is the season of pork i quote -- "before returning to their -- excuse me. "just weeks before returning to their districts for christmas, congress is poised to give the gift of pork, roughly $4 billion of it. more than 5,000 earmarks were included in the $447 billion omnibus bill, funding pet projects of key members of congress from both parties in all regions of the country. senate will vote on the bill this weekend. independent analysis of the bill reveal a whopping 12% increase in government spending for 2010 while the inflation rate in the country remains near zer zero." a 12% increase in spending when people are out of jobs, out of their homes. they cannot afford to -- the -- basically what they need to sustain their lives and we have increased spending by 12% and 4,500 earmarks. $4 million -- said brian -- quote the spending spree is continuing even as the deficit escalates to $2 trillion. the earmarks are all explicitly listed in the bill, right next to the members of congress to inserted them. $800,

we havmore from jonathan rugman of "independent levision news." >> reporter:hese photographs of iranianpolice in isfahan peared on the facebook web site tay. as oppositiogroups claimed many protestors we injured and arrested during ashes involving tons and teargas, while iran's pice chief warned of "fier confrontation" unless the protests stop. in isfah, one protestor dared toilm this rally using a mobile phone. "death to ruia!," the crowd shouted. a rerse of the usual "death to amera" and a round about way of shouting down t iranian regime itself. in the capal tehran, though students were far more bnt. "death to the dictat!"-- their rallying cryn pictures posted on youtube today. but as iran's president confronts e biggest domestic >> sreenivasaniran's state news agency denied t reports of clashes. instead, it accud the foreign news mediaf "staging a psychologicawar." a major storm moved er the middlef the country today, promising heavy holidasnow. a footr two was possible in kansas, coloradond elsewhere by christmasay. flig delays were already fouling avel plans, with more ncellations

jonathan, democratic line. you are next. caller: the best thing that he could really do is announce a troop withdrawal. we simply do not have the resources to pay for a war on the periphery of the world's economy. if you look back at history in this country, look after world war ii. we had central bank failures that ultimately led to the situation that caused hyperinflation there. hugely destabilizing to spend all of your money on a vast military industrial complex. it does not generate exportable goods for workers. the reason there are no jobs, i have only been employed on a spotty bases lately and the money that supports her armored vehicles and ied's, it is a big welfare project for the military industrial complex. people want to make it into a issue, saying that we have to fight them over there and over here, bull ship. they make $200 per year in afghanistan. these people have literally nothing. the bottom line is that if we continue this, it is like the neurotic people that dcomb and their hair -- that comb their hair u

i'd like to submit it to the record very quickly an article by jonathan gadoney, lessons from the soviet occupation in the united states. do i have concept? let me indicate what came out of that article, which is so true. the afghan government urgedly needed to establish legitimacy. ethnic tensions were unestimated. afghans were intolerant of foreign troop occupation and a military solution was proven not sufficient. the vietnam war in 1966 saw 200,000 troops committed to vietn vietnam. at the peak of the war, 543,of our treasure lost. general, the cia has indicated that afghanistan is 4,000 feet versus up in the air versus iraq that is flat. you asked for 40,000 troops. we've got 30,000. what is your commitment to protect troops as they travel up into those mountains and to save lives? >> my commitment is absolute. our rules of engagement provide them every responsibility and right to defend themselves. we believe that the equipment we're providing them is as good as we can and we will continue to do that better. i will push for every asset we need to protect there will be. >> i thank y

we have more from jonathan rugman of "independent television news." >> reporter: these photographs ofnian riot police in isfahan appeared on the facebook web site today. as opposition groups claimed many protestors were injured and arrested during clashes involving batons and teargas, while iran's police chief warned of "fierce confrontation" unless the protests stop. in isfahan, one protestor dared to film this rally using a mobile phone. "death to russia!," the crowd shouted. a reverse of the usual "death to america" and a round about way of shouting down the iranian regime itself. in the capital tehran, though students were far more blunt. "death to the dictator!"-- their rallying cry in pictures posted on youtube today. but as iran's president confronts the biggest domestic >> sreenivasan: iran's state news agency denied the reports of clashes. instead, it accused the foreign news media of "staging a psychological war." a major storm moved over the middle of the country today, promising heavy holiday snow. a foot or two was possible in kansas, colorado and elsewhere by christmas d

. >> warr: "guardian" newspaper comnist jonathan freedland says british pubc opinion shiftedramaticallyagainst the war th year after the current missioin helmand province advertised as peacekeeping turned bloody. nearly 240 british sdiers have been kled, a far higher per- capita death rate than u. forces. >> thahad been presented to britain being a deployment that would happen without,n the words the defense cretary at the time, without shot being fired this would be a r with no human st. the simple fact at changed the debate in britain i thinon afghanistan waa matter of blood d lives lost. >> warr: a memorial in this quiet park in reing stands as a symbol of imperial btain's willingnesto fight and die overas in centuries past. it honora british force that fought an erwhelming afghan army 130 years ago near kandar and st some 300 men. >> warr: so the weight of britn's disastrous earlier wars in afghanistan hangheavy here. the question is:o the british people have the stomach fo another afgh campaign that will carve more nameon memorials ke this one? prime minister gordon own - who's sen

we have a report narrated by jonathan rugman of independent television news. >> reporter: they burned a picture of the republic founder, its supreme leader, and then the president. iran's protest movement back on the streets today, its anger at the regime apparently as fierst as ever. death to the dictator these students in tehran shouted as they waved iranian flags with a symbol of the revolution, the word allah missing from the center. at one university they knocked down the gates. and at another, they sat in the street, calling iran's supreme leader eyea khamenei a criminal an a murderer. international news agencies have been told to stay inside for 48 hours. and in the past few days iran's internet connection has slowed to a trickle. but that hasn't stopped protestors from exporting pictures from their mobile phones to the outside world. this was in northeast iran. the fact that the protestors have no single leader or manifesto is making it that much harder to stop them. >> the people were warned not to come out but they've overcome their fear. people feel they can do something. a

. >> warner: "guardian" newspaper columnist jonathan freedland says british public opinion shifted dramaticallyagainst the war this year after the current mission in helmand province advertised as peacekeeping turned bloody. nearly 240 british soldiers have been killed, a far higher per- capita death rate than u.s. forces. >> that had been presented to britain as being a deployment that would happen without, in the words of the defense secretary at the time, without a shot being fired. this would be a war with no human cost. the simple fact that changed the debate in britain i think on afghanistan was a matter of blood and lives lost. >> warner: a memorial in this quiet park in reading stands as a symbol of imperial britain's willingness to fight and die overseas in centuries past. it honors a british force that fought an overwhelming afghan army 130 years ago near kandahar and lost some 300 men. >> warner: so the weight of britain's disastrous earlier wars in afghanistan hangs heavy here. the question is: do the british people have the stomach for another afghan campaign that will carve more n

well, there's a professor jonathan gruber, who's probably the lead health economist -- one of the leading health economists in the world, the lead health economist at the massachusetts institute of technology. he took a look at this book -- at this bill and he said this, "my summary is it's really hard to figure out how to bend the cost curve, but i can't think of a thing to try that they didn't try that's in our bill." "i can't think of a thing to try that they didn't try. they really make the best effort anyone has ever made. everything is in here. i can't think of anything i'd do that they are not doing in the bill. you couldn't have done better than they are doing." $700 billion to a $1 trillion target. hard to project with t it, whetr you're c.b.o. or c.m.s. but we know the general directions that are required, and we have everything in this bill that we can to explore it. somebody's actually taken a bit of a look at this. they focused hard and they admit that their findings aren't as solid as, you know, a full actuarial report. but the commonwealth fund does a lot of work in this ar

barbara slater of "the washington times" an jonathan broder of g.q.will be here to discuss foreign policy and then we will have steven hess from the brookings institution and dan thomasson of scripps howard news service to talk about president obama's first year in office. thank you for watching this edition of "the washington journal" and we will see you tomorrow morning at 7 a.m. eastern. coming up, the communictors, and at 10:30, a senate hearing on the backlog of d.n.a. evidence collected for unsolved rape cases, and later, a former c.i.a. intelligence officer on u.s. policy in afghanistan. tonight, on "america and the courts" encore presentations from c-span's supreme court week special. the supreme court jurn aferlist lyle denison an joan biskubic on covering the courts and appellate attorney maureen maloney on arguing before the court tonight at 7:30 p.m. eastern here on c-span. in the mid '90's, newsweek named omar wasow one of the 50 most influential people to watch in cyberspace and since then he has created the social networking site blackp

jonathan, republican. medical malpractice is obviously necessary. it keeps a level of due diligence and prudence in the medical fields. i just wanted to make a comment about the current health care situation we are in now. i would advise everyone listening that congress is not going to change anything. if you want change, stop paying your premiums. if you want reform, take your money out -- banking reform. that is all i have to say. host: professor, any comment? guest: thanks, jonathan. i would like to make some comments. as i mentioned earlier, i think everybody does believe that the medical malpractice system has to change. i think everyone also recognizes there needs to be accountability within the system and responsibility for when bad things happen. ithere is a movement in this country to move away from a punitive adversarial system towards a system of more transparency and disclosure. the two bills right now in congress, in health care reform -- house reform bill and the senate bill -- there is langu

again, as jonathan said, there's two different -- as i understand it, as i think people here understands two different aspects to it that would increase choice in competition. obviously one part of that is something akin to what is set up under fehpb. >> is this akin to -- would this turn health care into something like a regulated ewe snilt is that a good comparison? -- utility? is that a good comparison? >> i don't know enough about the regulation of utilities. bill. >> robert, again, we don't know all the details but it seems -- now i'm talking about the medicare part of it but the other part that you discussed with market, that it offers a choice among another whole set of private insurance plans. so how does that offer the competition that the president was talking about if it's just more private insurance plans on top of the 1,300 we already have? >> understand, bill, that somebody's going to -- there's going to be 30-some million people that will go into -- have access to different plans. the person that puts together the best plan that's the most affordable is what people are go

jonathan? >> welcome to begin with, congress has a systems problem. we have a situation where 535 members are set in competition against one another to see how much money they can spend. so we have a problem to begin with, then you see this line of hand that goes on on the democrats' site where they have paygo which is nothing but swiss cheese, and then of course you have the health care bill, which the pay-for is ten years of revenue against six years expenses. so these will continue on until the american people hold their cumbrous folks accountable both on an individual level and on a collective level to finally restrained spending here in washington. >> thanks, steve. a lot already been said. i just want to lay off a very important statistic that has been lost. in the last eight months the debt ceiling will have been raised buy almost $3 trillion. and total, we are now looking at a 14 trillion-dollar debt. if you look at interest expense on that and you have to service $14 trillion a nominal

economist jonathan gruber says this provision will cause worker wages to rise, $700 in additional income for every household with health insurance. the truth is this bill is fully paid for. c.b.o. says so. and it is paid for in a fiscally responsible way. it reduces the federal deficit. it lowers the cost of health care costs, provides quality affordable health insurance to millions more americans. and it is a net tax cut. net tax cut for american families, businesses, and workers which in these tough economic times means more than ever. a senator: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from oklahoma. mr. coburn: thank you. you know, i stand confused from the chairman of the finance committee because we have all the reports of the bill you're talking about and the bill you're going to be voting on because you're totally changing what you're doing. what is out there now is we're going to expand medicare to those down to 55 years of age, and we're going to expand medicaid up to those up to 150%. we're going to add billions of dollars of mandates even at 90% co-pay by the federal

. >> jonathan, take us away. >> april, please forgive me if i ask this question. can you take us back to the november 11, wednesday meeting when the president came and said he wasn't happy with the options he was presented? is that when the staff began working on a more rapid, a more rapid deployment strategy and is that when the july, 2011, date starting working? >> yes. >> tell us the advent of the july, 2011, date? >> as a structure of this policy in general, and i don't -- i can see who has notes or go back and look at some of my notes. july, 2011 -- i'm sorry -- november 11 was a time period, was, as i characterized it, the president was dissatisfied with options that were put in front of him. but throughout this process, jonathan, the president asked for and i think everybody involved, as you can see from secretary gates' testimony today, first and foremost, a strategy and a mission was agreed upon. after you pick a strategy, you have to resource that strategy. i don't know if it's the 11th, or what have you, but throughout this process -- and, again, secret

i'd like to quote from abc news by jonathan carl and def inn -- devin pryor, this is the season of pork, i quote -- "before returning to their -- excuse me. "just weeks before returning to their districts for christmas, congress is poised to give the gift of pork, roughly $4 billion of it. more than 5,000 earmarks were included in the $447 billion omnibus bill, funding pet projects of key members of congress from both parties in all regions of the country. senate will vote on the bill this weekend. independent analysis of the bill reveal a whopping 12% increase in government spending for 2010 while the inflation rate in the country remains near zer zero." a 12% increase in spending when people are out of jobs, out of their homes. they cannot afford to -- the -- basically what they need to sustain their lives and we have increased spending by 12% and 4,500 earmarks. $4 million -- said brian -- quote the spending spree is continuing even as the deficit escalates to $2 trillion. the earmarks are all explicitly listed in the bill, right next to the members of congress to inserted them. $800

host:ç jonathan on!dhe republicans' line from portland, oregon. caller: i have a question.tan and afghanistan, since they were growing nuclear competency? guest: this is one of my favorite topics. i am glad that question was asked. thank you for asking it. frankly, india isi] part of the problem in pakistanç -- it's absolute fascination and focus on india. india has, for pakistan, and the primary enemy, the existential and meat for over six years. -- existential and me for over 60 years. the pakistanis still believe in their heart of hearts and their minds that india is the greater threat. even if that taliban were attacking them. india is playing a role to the pakistani mind and pakistani mission -- through the pakistani mind and vision in the afghan war, because it is a attitude towards the war that still makes things problematic over there. qindia is very important. there is also the question that is often raised about the nuclear capability of india and pakistan. my understanding is that india and's nuclear capability is as much directed -- india's nuclear capability i

jonathan was intellectually did- disabled and artistic. at the age of 11, a private school in new york secluded him in his room for extended time frames. he was also denied 40% of his regular meals for behavioral problems. his father removed him from the school after finding him lying naked in his own urine. although hard to believe, things got worse for jonathon when he was transferred to a state school for children with disabilities. while on a field trip, jonathon became disruptive in the school band and was restrained by an aide. jonathan died after this aid sat on top of him until he stopped breathing. third, the monitors showed a picture of christopher smith at the age of eight. christopher was diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. when he was 9-year-old he was secluded 75 times in the time out room uc shown on both monitors. although this room was unlocked, a staff person would hold the door shut so that christopher could not leave. you might wonder what this boy did it to be secluded in his room 75 different time

sgt jonathan pryce, a single entity, unbelievable soldier with -- what he is s -- single amputee, unbelievableomplished. and we have one who is now a platoon sergeant at our warrior transition unit. a lieutenant colonel, a soldier who is paralyzed in both of his feet from wounds in iraq. he now, as the warrior transition unit battalion -- now commands the warrior transition unit battalion at fort lewis, washington pi. and another one injured in 2005 by an ied, that he has a master's degree from west point. we have a lot of roles we can fill just within our wounded warriors program for these soldiers. but they are not limited to that. they can do whatever it is they want to do. we want to put them in positions where they can continue to make a contribution. host: let's go back to the phones. of kentucky, dave on the line for independence. -- independents. caller: i joined the army that i felt so sorry for those guys in world war iii, correa, because -- will war ii -- world war ii, korea, and they made a truck driver out of me, and i was over there a few months. they started building the berlin

host:ç jonathan on!dhe republicans' line from portland, oregon. caller: i have a question.ying a role to the pakistani mind and pakistani mission -- through the pakistani mind and vision in the afghan war, because it is a attitude towards the war that still makes things problematic over there. qindia is very important. there is also the question that is often raised about the nuclear capability of india and pakistan. my understanding is that india and's nuclear capability is as much directed -- india's nuclear capability is as much to deterrence towards china as towards pakistan, although they certainly of deterrence towards pakistan. they are so outgunned by india's conventional forces that for pakistan, a nuclear arsenal is basically a deterrent against india. that, of course, leads to a great number of years, that some of the two will go to war and will become a nuclear war. the second, which you see a lot in the press, is that pakistan's nuclear arsenal is unsafe, because it could be captured by extremists, but that taliban. -- by the taliban. so far, the nuclear arsena

i'd like to quote from abc news by jonathan carl and def inn -- devin pryor, this is the season of pork i quote -- "before returning to their -- excuse me. "just weeks before returning to their districts for christmas, congress is poised to give the gift of pork, roughly $4 billion of it. more than 5,000 earmarks were included in the $447 billion omnibus bill, funding pet projects of key members of congress from both parties in all regions of the country. senate will vote on the bill this weekend. independent analysis of the bill reveal a whopping 12% increase in government spending for 2010 while the inflation rate in the country remains near zer zero 12% spending when they are out of their homes and cannot afford to sustain their lives. we have increased spending by 12% @ 405,000 earmarks. that is up $4 million. this congress has not shown they are serious about the budget deficit. "the spending sprees continue as the deficit relays to $2 trillion, quell their marks are listed in the bill. eight and a thousand dollars for new york's lincoln center. senator harkin [unintelligible] they

sgt jonathan pryce, a single entity, unbelievable soldier with -- what he is s -- single amputee, unbelievablen unit. a lieutenant colonel, a soldier who is paralyzed in both of his feet from wounds in iraq. he now, as the warrior transition unit battalion -- now commands the warrior transition unit battalion at fort lewis, washington pi. and another one injured in 2005 by an ied, that he has a master's degree from west point. we have a lot of roles we can fill just within our wounded warriors program for these soldiers. but they are not limited to that. they can do whatever it is they want to do. we want to put them in positions where they can continue to make a contribution. host: let's go back to the phones. of kentucky, dave on the line for independence. -- independents. caller: i joined the army that i felt so sorry for those guys in world war iii, correa, because -- will war ii -- world war ii, korea, and they made a truck driver out of me, and i was over there a few months. they started building the berlin wall. then they turned around, and my mother almost died, so they sent me home by

it is from jonathan paris. i guess it is about pakistan.given that the obama administration several times during the last few months has talked about pakistan, are you concerned about pressure on the pakistani army to go after the taliban will ultimately undermine the cohesion of the pakistani army? and eventually the the stabilization of pakistan? -- that the stabilization -- de stabilization of pakistan? >> i do not believe so. the border is not even agreed on and the patterns of kinship along the disputed border. are we concerned about these users? you bet. pakistani officials have said publicly prior to the president's decision and cents to send 30,000 additional troops, they said very clearly and very honestly, in 2002 you drop the taliban and al qaeda east into pakistan without consulting us were preparing us, and we inherited the consequences. we need to be consulted. and stan mcchrystal, with our strong encouragement, and ambassador i eikenberry as well, go to islamabad pretty regularly. they talk to the government and the military

jonathan, democratic line. you are next. caller: the best thing that he could really do is announce a troop withdrawal. we simply do not have the resources to pay for a war on the periphery of the world's economy. if you look back at history in this country, look after world war ii. we had central bank failures that ultimately led to the situation that caused hyperinflation there. hugely destabilizing to spend all of your money on a vast military industrial complex. it does not generate exportable goods for workers. the reason there are no jobs, i have only been employed on a spotty bases lately and the money that supports her armored vehicles and ied's, it is a big welfare project for the military industrial complex. people want to make it into a issue, saying that we have to fight them over there and over here, bull ship. they make $200 per year in afghanistan. these people have literally nothing. the bottom line is that if we continue this, it is like the neurotic people that dcomb and their hair -- that comb their hair u

second period, it will be jonathan toews. to marian hossa for his fifth. hawks win it 3-0.the third. >>> the road to cincinnati, ohio, runs through mt. pleasant, michigan. after losing brian kelly to notre dame, the bear cats went back to central michigan -- butch jones. he takes over after the sugar bowl date with florida. >> i'm going to be around, but i'm going to be in the background. it's all about them finishing what they started. i talked to them about them leaving their legacy. they have an opportunity to leave their legacy, and to me, it's all about the kids. no coach has ever thrown a pass, no coach has ever caught a touchdown pass or made a tackle. and that's the basis of our football family. it's about the kids. i'll be an onlooker, but i'll be a bystander, i don't want to get in the way of anything of attempting them to go 13-0. >>> i've always wondered, do the new coaches have their own tie matching the school or does the school give the new coach the new tie? this is the cincinnati basketball team on the road at uab. that's elijah millsap. he had 22 points an

sgt jonathan pryce, a single entity, unbelievable soldier with -- what he is s -- single amputee, unbelievable soldier with what he has accomplished. and we have one who is now a platoon sergeant at our warrior transition unit. a lieutenant colonel, a soldier who is paralyzed in both of his feet from wounds in iraq. he now, as the warrior transition unit battalion -- now commands the warrior transition unit battalion at fort lewis, washington pi. and another one injured in 2005 by an ied, that he has a master's degree from west point. we have a lot of roles we can fill just within our wounded warriors program for these soldiers. but they are not limited to that. they can do whatever it is they want to do. we want to put them in positions where they can continue to make a contribution. host: let's go back to the phones. of kentucky, dave on the line for independence. -- independents. caller: i joined the army that i felt so sorry for those guys in world war iii, correa, because -- will war ii -- world war ii, korea, and they made a truck driver out of me, and i was over there a few months. they

my colleague, charles, conservative member, i see jonathan, the deputy speaker for house of commons sylvia from the peak of and bhatia, the member from northeast, all here because they're interested in listening and perhaps learning from you. at this plan to ask aretas to wrap up computing and >> can i say first of all the points raised were passionate and there were some really good ones raised. 15,000, 30,000, one in three, young people, we have heard a variety of passionate arguments for why they should be kept. for one the economic crisis we find ourselves in a deep recession. do we need to burden ourselves anymore adding another two or 3.5 billion extra to the taxpayer? or do we listen to the morality and conscious house three-quarters of working young people at the moment will opt not to want to further education because the fear of debt and of not being able to afford the cost going to a university. so when you vote today it is not only possible to consider those of the chamber but of the views of those all over england. it's ludicrous how you one young person described the concept

so i don't want to dump particularly on jonathan, iran, the engines of the world economy and but not the former military powers and then by 1947 and 48, the third major problem was in the soviet union and its allies but the one thing was the enormous force deployed by anti colonial peoples movements in vietnam, especially by many other places. it is hard for young people i think to recall the towering influence of a third of world leaders just 30 years ago ended movements that abscessed the united states, vietnam been a particularly good example, but most people in their generation didn't believe the peoples could raise the figure in their own defense or cause major problems, ratio discrimination or racial prejudice was also involved in this. it was something entirely new in the world because there were 30 years, in vietnam fundamentally anti imperial war when all was said and done. anyway, from the standpoint of either acheson it or can lynwood have been rather predictive of the first world of the world economy and containment of the soviet union and it would have been flabbergasted

host: south bend, indiana, jonathan, good morning. caller: good morning. president obama is making a mockery of the united states. this man is absolutely the worst possible person we can have as a leader of the free world. host: caller, let me explain why. caller: well, there's three basic reasons. number one, he's been in office for a year, and the man is finally, after listening to his generals saying we need 40,000, he undercuts them and says, we'll, wool give you 30. and then in 18 months he is we're leaving. can you imagine world war ii, all right, we're fighting this war because it's veelingts that we win the war, but you know in june of next year we're leaving? host: caller, let me ask you, though, the administration did make the point they're trying to try to get some extra troops from nato does. that mean anything to you? caller: not at all. the united states is the one that suffered the world trade towers coming down, not nato f. we're going to do, this we have to do this on our own. the third most important point, is president obama going to iss

type of things, signers of independence, declaration of independence, signers of the constitution, jonathan trumble said this, in his will, principally and first of all i bequeath my soul to god the creator and giver thereof embody the earth. nothing doubting but that i shall receive the same again at the general resurrection through the power of almighty god, believing and hoping for eternal life through the merits of my dear exhausted -- exalted redeemer, jesus christ. he painted the paintings out here in our rotunda. one of the things that has run throughout this nation, you go back to the constitution, these were the founders that i've been quoting, those who were able to come together and have a declaration of independence, who sought as benjamin franklin said god's help in the war of the revolution and who sought him in the difficult trying times after the articles of confederation were passed. and who they sought as benjamin franklin pointed out in those great words i read in 1787 when they finally -- after which they were finally able to come together with a constitution. but, as we

jonathan adler, professor of law at case western reserve university school of law has stated, and i quote -- "in this case, the overall scheme would involve the regulation of commerce as the supreme court has defind it for several decades, as it would involve the regulation health care markets. and the success of such a regulatory scheme would depend upon requiring all to participate." end quote. doug kendall of the constitutional accountability center similarly concluded, quote -- "the fundamental point behind pushing people into the private insurance market is to make sure that uninsured individuals who can pay for health insurance don't impose costs on other taxpayers." professor michael dorff of the cornell university law school also noted that, quote -- "the individual mandate is plainly adapted to the undoubtedly legitimate end of regulating the enormous and enormously important health care sector of the national economy. it is therefore constitutional." and robert shapiro, professor of law at emery university of law school stated and i quote -- "everyone thinks of the wisdom of the

foreign policy with barbara slave inn of "the washington times" and jonathan broder of c.q. weekly.fter that a look at president obama's achievements in his first year in office with stephen hess of the brookings institute and dan thomason. that's live here on c-span at 7:00 a.m. eastern. >> monday, expanding broadband to rural and underserved areas of the country. an update from blair eleven on the communicators on c-span2. >> next, author and researcher, william eggers, analyzes the successes and failures of the u.s. government over the last 75 years. he recently co-wrote a book entitled, "if we can put a man on the moon -- getting big things done in government." this is just over an hour. [applause] >> well, thank you all for coming and thank you to the commonwealth for having me here. it's really an honor to speak. it's great to be here in beautiful, sunny california. got to love the weather. i'm particularly pleased to be here tonight, because so many of my friends and colleagues and many of my relatives are here. my brother and his wife are in the back and a lot of my cousins.

the massachusetts institute of technologies, jonathan gruber, is one of the most respected economists in the world, said in today's "washington post" -- here's a quote -- "here's a bill that reduces the deficit, covers 30 million people -- 30 million more people and has a promise of lowering premiums." a pretty good statement. that means that millions of americans who today cannot afford coverage or whose medical bills drive them to financial ruin -- and remember, i repeat, mr. president, what i said yesterday as this debate began, last year 750,000 people in america filed for bankruptcy. almost 70% of the bankruptcy filings were because of health care costs. but those people who filed for bankruptcy because of health care costs, 62% of them had insurance, health insurance. does that speak about our system that is so in trouble? of course it does. so, i repeat, that means millions of americans who today cannot afford coverage or whose medical bills drive them to financial ruin will be able to afford to stay healthy. it means if we don't reform health care, millions more will find them