kira kay reports on what that means for the u.s. and others. >> reporter: from the air, the frozen landscape of canada's northwest territories looks as remote as any place on earth. but in this vast uninhab ied zone there's a kind of 21st century gold rush underway. after landing on the icy surface of thor lake.... >> very nice to meet you. >> reporter:... i met chris peterson, a geologist with after loan rare metals company. he's out here looking for very valuable minerals he believes are under this lake. >> those gray specks are rare earth minerals. i mean they're very non-december crypt not sparkling and shining like gold or anything. they're just as important. >> reporter: rare earths are the elements at the bottom row of that periodic table studied in high schools around the world. 17 in all. peterson took me out to avalon's drilling station where machines are running day and night, pulling samples from a thousand feet down hoping to find proof of a large rare-earth deposit. these are gray right here. all of these. >> just star

captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2010] >> this weekend on "book tv" kai bird. and on afterwards, vietnam veteran karl marlantes. buying the entire weekend schedule at booktv.org. join us on twitter. host: we are back with open phones this morning. we have 15 minutes. phone number as will be on your screen. above the gulf oil spill. this morning "the daily news"has the breakdown by numbers. 81% is the percentage of americans that bank bp is doing a poor or very poor job of cleaning up this bill. 59% of americans think that bp should pay people hurt by this bill even if they go out of business. 51% oppose it more offshore drilling. 2,000 miles is the estimated number covered by the oil slick. 1.6 billion is the economic activity paris because of the oil spill. caller: thank you for taking my call. my call is on campaign finance. i have been looking at health care costs at 17% of gdp in the u.s., and in the past eight years health-care profits went up 128%. an identical bottle from canada cost half as much there. and if we had harsh penalties for illegal wor

caller: i was not -- host: florida, kay, an independent line. caller: i was not satisfied with his speech. many people live here on florida that work the shore. bobby jindal is the only one that knows how to handle the situation. as far as i know, all he wants to do is tax us. host: these people with that these oil rig jobs, how much did they make? caller: is a new york city. $40,000 per year. host: that goes a long way? caller: it does in this area. host: some of these people that you know, have they lost a job because of the president's moratorium? caller: yes, i have a friend is not working because of this. host: here is what the president had to say about the moratorium yesterday. >> i have established a commission. already i have issued a six month moratorium on deepwater drilling. i know that this creates a difficulty for the people hat work on these rigs, but for the sake of their safety and for the entire region, we need to know the facts before we allow deepwater drilling to continue. host: arlington, va., patrick on the republican line

. >> this weekend on "book tv" kai bird. and on after words, carl marlente4s. i.n.d. and type your weekend schedule at -- find the untie your weekend schedule at bookt v.org. >host: what did you find out on agent orange? guest: this is the irritants, the problem that is keeping us from having good relations with vietnam. if you go to vietnam, the people of vietnam leveed the united states -- led the united states. -- love the united states. but there is one problem that has always stopped great relations, and that is the fact that the u.s. trade and left a lot of agent orange there. we're talking about a country that is a very important economic partner. a great trading partner, and a strategic ally in their region in which we're not quite sure what is happening with china and many other places. it is in our national security interest to have a good relationship with vietnam. we figure, let's figure out how you can clean up the agent orange we left there. we went there and got a group of. private citizens. i've brought the chairman of the aspen institute. christie tod

kay fwan.o list or the i think it's very interesting that we find the this kind of feminism in the courtroom but wheres the diversity. there's the ivy league background. deep within the tentacle office supreme court as a clerk. father was a very high powered lawyer. when you look at this. one is really hard pressed to look at the supreme court and talk about diversity. i don't think feminization or simply the placing of two on women on the supreme court counts as diversity or diversity of life experiences. they all seem to come from the same general area. guest: the caller makes a very good point. peter, he - he's absolutely right. if she gets on the court, all nine justices will have gone to harvard or yale law school. four of them will have been from the new york area. the even the religious diversity that shouldn't matter. where there's diversity or not. you will have six catholics and three jews but no protestants and two from manhattan. you would have everybody coming from the same, everyb

prime minister putin's comments i think were kaying that he didn't want to see this upset the relationship. i think from the white house as well, they don't want to see this upset the relationship. there's never a good time for this kind of thing. law enforcement officials have to carry out their duties. the timing wasn't great but there isn't much one can do about it. >> brown: your reaction to the arrest, anna, and the time something. >> the timing is very peculiar. as we all know it comes right after what was deemed to be a very successful visit of mr. medvedev to this country. when i read the record of the press conference between mr. obama and medvedev , you know, i could think and smile that the biggest issue between the u.s. and russia at the moment seems to be the issue of poultry sales. i thought wonderful times when that seems to be on the top of their agenda. finally russians will be buying american poultry. that's very important. today's news or yesterday's news comes as a wake-up call. it can be interpreted in several ways. again the timing is very peculiar. i looked through a

general kai, in i went to kabul. barely mentioned in the western press. president karzai went to new delhi, beijing, and washington and tokyo. these contacts are significantly narrowing the gap , the historic gap which is over 60 years old, between afghanistan and pakistan. please remember-- and your viewers-- please remember that on the day pakistan was-- declared independence, afghanistan opposed its entry into the u.n. in 1947. they have a disputed border. they are a pashtan ethnic group. there are massive historical issues here and president obama has sought to help the two work together for the simplest of reasons-- if they work together, there's mutual benefit for them and for the rest of the world because that is the area of the world , that border area, where the great threat to our national security, homeland security, that of our european allies, and indkra all lie. the last few months have seen a real dialogue, encouraged by but not guided by the u.s. that's what we do. that's what i think should have been years and years ago, and that's the po

. >> good saturday morning, michael kay at farmer's market, iowa's oldest open-fair farmers' market. 165 years . >> suarez: dubuque is one of the oldest cities in iowa. home to 60,000 people. >> hi, mr. mayor. >> good morning, michael. >> good to see you again. >> great to be here. beautiful day. >> reporter: the people in this old factory town along the mississippi have signed on the a unique experiment. they're attempting to turn dubuque into one of the nation's most sustainable cities. the man leading the charge is mayor roy buol. he spent decades working at the factory floor of john deere. five years ago he ran for mayor on a green platform and won. how does a guy who works with his hands at john deere all those years become a mayor so interested in the other kind of green-- green issues. >> well, i can tell you, it really started for me when my wife and i started being blessed with grandchildren. i just started thinking, you know, what kind of a world are we going to be leaving for future generations with our consumption patterns and how wasteful we were in our energy usage. >>

kay fwan. so list or the i think it's very interesting that we find the this kind of feminism in the courtroom but wheres the diversity. there's the ivy league background. deep within the tentacle office supreme court as a clerk. father was a very high powered lawyer. when you look at this. one is really hard pressed to look at the supreme court and talk about diversity. i don't think feminization or simply the placing of two on women on the supreme court counts as diversity or diversity of life experiences. they all seem to come from the same general ar. guest: the caller makes a very good point. peter, he - he's absolutely right. if she gets on the court, all nine justices will have gone to harvvrd or yale law school. four of them will have been from the new york area. the even the religious diversity that shouldn't matter. where there's diversity or not. you will have six catholics and three jews but no protestants and two from manhattan. you would have everybody coming from the same, everyb

. >> i think that's fairly well %-cepted that was the days kais. >> is that good or bad? >> i think it's enormously problematic to have contractors managing other contractors. >> so if we have a limited number of personnel in our force structure and in our budget, government personnel, should we stretch them by having the vital coordinating functions done by f either in each convoy or each private security detail, in each one, having some government -- at least one agent? can we stretch a limited number of government people? >> in my view, sir, when ever you have contractors managing each other, it is aed flag. >> i'll stop right there, my time is expired. >> i thank the gentman. >> thank you, mr. chairm. i have two questions i would like a response from each of the witnesses. this whole decision today, we may be asking the wrong questions. the issue seems to be whether it must be public or can it be private? very fundamentally it must be environmental or it is eligible for commercial market forces to take place. it strikes me that is a business decision -- first of all,

mary kay krangle and i live in arlington, virginia.just became eligible for medicare a few weeks ago. my question is about the doughnut hole. i think all of us appreciate the to under $50 -- $250, and i think it will help a lot of folks, but my concern is why is it taking so long? why 10 years to close bowl completely? >> essentially, we will be facing this down. it is just a matter of money. it is very expensive to close the double -- the doughnut hole. frankly, we should not have a double in the first place. but once that doughnut hole was created, each year, though budget was assuming it was there. for us to close that right away is to blow a hole through the budget. so we said, how do we provide some immediate assistance to those who are falling in the doughnut hole, and how do we rushed it a home -- and how we reach it at home. immediately, you will receive the to wondered $50 check. next year, the we then phase in the prescription drugs and part of what we still have to do is work with the drug companies to reduce the cost of pre

host: kay tweets in -- guest: actually i still disagree. if you look at our book, the one i wrote before this one "the end of prosperity," i talked a lot of the bush tax cuts. in 2003, cut the capital gains, dividends, the state and business taxes and we had a nice recovery for the four to five years. we had a big expansion in jobs -- i think the numbers were about 6 million or 7 million jobs were created after the bush tax cuts. we also, interestingly enough, after bush cut the capital gains in the the attacks is, amazing but true statistics, cutting the tax rate on dividends and capital gains led to more revenues and not less. so, if president obama is listening, if you want to get more taxes average people, cut their tax rates and not raise them -- what john credit approve -- john kennedy proved to be true and ronald reagan. host: richmond, virginia. landon, republican. caller: i take a completely different look at the debt that we have than you do. we are supposed to own money to china and different places like that, but actually the ch

reverend brought is the proud husband of mary kay and father to two children and grandfather to soon-to-be four grandchildren. i ask my colleagues in the house of representatives to join with me in congratulating reverend brought on a career of dedication and service. and i yield back. the speaker: thank you, mr. sarbanes. the chair will entertain up to 10 more additional one minutes % on each side of the aisle. for what purpose does the gentleman from ohio rise? >> ask permission to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. wilson: thank you, madam speaker. this week congressman glenn nye and i introduced the sweep act. this legislation would require an independent bipartisan commission be established to review federal programs and make recommendations for those that should be eliminated, consolidated or have their funding reduced. most importantly, this bill would require congress to have an up or down vote on the commission's recommendations. there are many programs that have about lived their original purpose. the sweep act will help us weed out

as kay. with that caveat that may lay out the five main advantages i see frm the overnment perspective of using militar authorities over civilian prosecution. this is the perspective of the prosecution and i will discuss each one or from fleming just quickly list them. first second, rules of confession. third, rules gverning clsure of court rom, fourth, here sables and fifth, classified evidence rules. so proof requirements. the militarycommissions the burden oof is the same as the civilian court. that is proof beyond a reasonab doubt innd on capitacases only wo-thirds of t juro rather than all of them are needed for the conviction. under the law of he war, it is tested through a tedous the government needs to persuade not only one person that's he judge and by the preponderance of the evidence the petitioner, prisoner is part of al qaeda or a seceded forces although it turns out that is not always as easy as it might be as our tough results in the gtmo case. the risk of leaving it on too thi

[laughter] >> mary kay crangel, and i live in arlington, virginia.ust became eligible for medicaid four weeks ago, and i've joined the program. mm question is about -- >> for medicare or medicaid? i want to make sure -- medicare? >> medicare. did i say medicaid? oh, sorry. >> that's okay. [laughter] >> medicare. my question is about the doughnut hole. i think all of us appreciate the $250, and i think that will help a lot of folks. but my concern is that it's taking so long -- why 10 years to close the hole completely? >> well, here's what happening. essentially, we're going to be phasing this down. and i'll be honest with you, it's just a matter of money. it's very expensive to close this doughnut hole. when the prescription drug plan was originally passed -- frankly, we shouldn't have had a doughnut hole in the first place, but once that hole was created, then each year the budget was assuming that doughnut hole was there. for us to close that right away would have blown a hole through the budget. so essentially what we said is, how do we provide s

we begin with questions by texas senator kay bailey hutchison. this part of the hearing is about an hour. >> senator hutchison, i think you were -- you're next and then senator specter. we're going to try to recognize folks in the order in which they came in. actually senator murray. senator hutchison? you may proceed. >> thank you. >> then i'll call on -- >> mr. chairman, thank you. i want to thank all you've foring into her. mr. chairman, we have talked about your mission to try to lower the defense budget and you're looking for places to cut and i'm hoping that i can expand on in this the near future with you. here are some of the concerns that i've seen. are some of the concerns that i have seen as the ranking member and former chairman of the military construction subcommittee. we have had a strategy. after we saw the deployment problems that we had when we were going into iraq out of germany. and also, as we were looking at the training constraints in germany and other parts of the world where we are. so, we have hd a strategy and this give

substantial indust discussion about the increased sophisticated of fraud availability over the internet -- >>kay. let me ask this question and the vice chair has a question and what he nts to do as a follow-up. any models to account for changing risk prile in terms of fraud? >> if you're referring me broadly it our overall methodology -- >> with respect to to that specificly. >> yes our overall methodology, we looked to the warranties and strength of our analysis of examining the companies oviding the warranty which would include the loans that turned -- >>f you would get for us or provide exactly what moody's did in terms altering its methody to account for perhaps increased fraud, . vice chairman? >> very directly and specifically on your response to the chairman in terms of actually getting firsthand or primary knowlee, you indicated in the residential -- in the mortgage area that you relied on a published sources so sendary. did moody'sely on secondary sources in all of itsating activities or were you involved in somerimary pursuits in terms of examining particular areas? were you a catcher