then we'll bring in the new pulitzer prize winning columnist kathleen parker for analysis. i'll have a final thought on-- dare i say it-- how that volcano has reminded us that life before jet planes was not all bad. but first, senator scott brown on "face the nation." captioning sponsored by cbs "face the nation" with cbs news chief washington correspondent bob schieffer. and now from cbs news in washington, bob schieffer. >> schieffer: good morning again. well, we welcome senator brown for his first sunday morning interview since being sworn in as a united states senator. welcome, senator. i want to say every day including yesterday seems to bring news of some new outrage on wall street. but your republican leader mitch mcconnell came out flatly against the financial reforms that the democrats are going to bring to the senate floor next week or this week maybe. it sounded like the republican response to health care reform. just we're against it. president obama pushed back about as hard as we heard him lately. he accused mcconnell of taking that stance after a meeting with

david brooks, david sanger, kathleen parker and harold ford junior after this brief station break. columnist. >>> you've senators leahy and sessions. news that this is going to happen fast they said this morning. you've got republicans who aren't taking a filibuster out of the' yags which is the only level of uncertainty in all this. size this up for me. >> first of all, you've got what you see in justice stevens is the change in the way america changed. my favorite story about him, he was in wrigley field when babe ruth called his shot and hit the home run. he's froa different era. he's a moderate, sales right through. then the conservative establishment rises. we get a polarized era. we get a period where everything is fought over. my sense this time is that what the administration is doing, and we heard it here today from senator leahy, is trying to cut through that left-right by going man of the people versus the powerful. so you're going to have a supreme court where every single member is harvard or yale. a lot of people talked about for the court are harvard or yale. i would

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this editorial piece from cathy parker in "the washington post -- kathleen parker in "the washington" action calls on you as someone with a prior relationship. it said that you and karzai dined together six nights a week during your diplomatic tenure. guest: that is true. bybee it that the issue of off dennis -- i'd be paved that the issue of afghanistan was important not only for afghans, but for is it was also important that they acquired a partnership between the afghan government and the international community led by the united states. therefore, we worked very closely together, coordinated -- i obviously coordinated at the highest level with president karzai, and treated him with respect publicly and privately, try to solve problems, providing what he did not have a times -- at time,s the u.s. capability with information as regarding was happening, the options to deal with problems. when he pointed out to why an option was problematic that we wanted to pursue, i tried to bring to bear how one could hedge against those implications of eight negative from his point of view. if on

this editorial piece from cathy parker in "the washington post -- kathleen parker in "the washington post" action calls on you as someone with a prior relationship. it said that you and karzai dined together six nights a week during your diplomatic tenure. guest: that is true. bybee it that the issue of off dennis -- i'd be paved that the issue of afghanistan was important not only for afghans, but for is it was also important that they acquired a partnership between the afghan government and the international community led by the united states. therefore, we worked very closely together, coordinated -- i obviously coordinated at the highest level with president karzai, and treated him with respect publicly and privately, try to solve problems, providing what he did not have a times -- at time,s the u.s. capability with information as regarding was happening, the options to deal with problems. when he pointed out to why an option was problematic that we wanted to pursue, i tried to bring to bear how one could hedge against those implications of eight negative from his point of view.

guest: well, the washington post also has george will, it has kathleen parker, who just won a pulitzerprize as a columnist. speaking for me, i'm a registered republican in d.c. i voted for ron paul in 2008. i came not directly from the washington independent, before that i was a libertarian, so i actually have been covering conservatives as a libertarian for my whole career. also, i mean, "the washington post" is -- my colleague amy gardner is covering the tea party. she actually rode from north carolina to d.c. to cover the movement. so, i mean, you might see somebody from the paper who makes fun, but my reporting is based completely on conversations i have wr conservatives, with tea party folks, and with republicans. host: david weigel has also written for the "l.a. times," "money," "radar,"ñr time.com, politico, slate, american spectator, and the american prospect. back to the phones. vero beach, florida, on our line for democrats. go ahead. valerie? caller: hello? host: turn down your television. caller: hello? host: yeah. caller: ok. my question is, for your guest is, how -- how d