back its quest for sanctions against can young ill -- kim jong-il. holding off the turnover of military power to its military by u.s. forces, which have had a large base here since the korean war. then this other story from israel, as the sea fight provoked new tensions in the region. we begin with charles joining us from all possible, texas, democrats line. caller: thank you for c-span. internationally when it comes to foreign relations, we have nothing but troubles and domestically we have nothing but troubles. but as far as economics is concerned, because europe is kind of falling apart with the euro, things are getting better on that end for us. the dollar is kind of increasing, getting stronger, and europe is kind of declining. they think europe bought themselves time with this trillion dollar bailout, but all they did is buy themselves some time and it could get really, really bad for europe. as far as the israel thing, i was listening to the bbc world service yesterday, and they had on one of the women, or one of the head activists, speaking t

will take place, north korea announcing yesterday it will hold a rare meeting, the son of ruler kim jong-il of the dictatorship. the korean be found in the a how much section. now to the independent line. good morning. caller: good morning to you. i'm an old guy. and the leadership of the congress is old under the seniorty system. the republican leadership remember well president reagan. and when president reagan dame in, they believed the democrats would never again hold the leadership of the country. they said that many times, and i remember it quite well. and i think they never recovered from the election of bill clinton. and certainly didn't recover from the second re-election of bill clinton. and i think their entire focus is not unon doing their job but on regaining the leadership of the country. more than anything else, they want that presidentsi, and they are willing to fight the president on any issue at all or on all issues, because -- and to oppose him just so that they can -- defeat him on one issue, crack the success he has had. and finally, get re-elected themselves. >> edward

host: one theory is kim jong-il supported the attack and use it to prop up his son. elaborate?ink therere several theories. he knows after the stroke had, that his timis not infinite on this earth, which is of norththe people korea, so he is trying to groom year-old son who has virt >> we are going back live to the radio show in new orleans thunderstorms in the d.c. area cut off our signal. [radio commercial] >> why don't you grab that microphone up there and a set of headphones? there should be a second set right there. there should be a second set. got it? [radio commercial] >> for our viewers across the nation on c-span, my next guests are here. my relationship with todd goes back a few years. in the aftermath of katrina, we were trying to look for options to rebuild our wetlands and rebuild our barrier islands. todd introduced me to don samples. he introduced us to a grass called vetero-grass. this is a resilience trend of marsh grass used in third world countries that can iterally be used in louisiana to try to fight this oil intrusion. over the next few minutes, we will t