and senator lemieux came to me with an interesting idea.e's pretty concerned about waste and fraud if florida. -- in florida and in the country generally. and i remember a couple three months ago we were looking at home healthcare outlier percentage in florida and some of these counties are way, way above the cap of the seniors in those same counties. what his idea is this. maybe we could take a page from credit card companies. as we know, if the credit card companies have put together these very sophisticated mathematical algorithms, about their credit card holders, just like google does. google knows what books you buy and wants you to buy similar books based upon your purchasing matter. but the thought that senator lemieux had, just as a credit card company will notify you as a credit card holder, if there's some charge that's an outlier, you know, you say some charge made down in brazil, and you're not in brazil. >> and i was here. >> and you were here. and they call you up. did you make this charge? is this something you bought. it's a

but the thought senator lemieux had is this. just in the credit card company will notify you at the credit card holder is there some charge in this outlier. you save some charge made down in brazil. but they call you up, did you make this charge? is this what you bought? and me ask you first and you can either authorize or not authorize. but they know because they've got really sophisticated computer systems. the thought is maybe we can do some of this in medicare and medicaid and from other programs. now that gets into payment as a provider, how long does it take to be reimbursed. but on the surface, i think it has some appeal. senator lemieux told me that he called the credit card company and talk to the head of something astringency to what degree that might work here. and often it is a private sector that comes up with pretty efficient ways of doing things. they've got the bottom line to worry about. they've got to compete. like another credit card company, for example. i doubt she'd given a lot of thought to that, maybe you

lemieux: mr.president, i had the opportunity to go on a congressional visit to haiti a couple of weeks ago. actually it would be two weeks from tomorrow. we were there on the one-month anniversary of the tragic earthquake that killed more than 200,000 people. 200,000 people died in haiti. myself and the other members of the senate and the house who went there were able to see some of the tragedy. we visited the cathedral in haiti. you often hear president clinton talk about this wonderful catholic cathedral in haiti that stood the test of time but could not stand the test of this earthquake. in fact, really the only prominent part of this cathedral that still stood, unbelievably, was the cross. and we talked to the people who were there, and they are a wonderful and resilient people, and it is amazing that they could go on with the tragedy that they had experienced. i had the great honor to visit the operating hospital staffed mostly by american doctors and nurses, some from miami, some from older

. >> anytime you're on a list with wayne gretzky and mario lemieux you're doing well. 0 i have the 9thr of all time to get 500 points in his first 5 seasons. the other 8 are all in the hockey hall of fame. as we bring in our post-game guys smoking out coken and allah may. and i ask you gentlemen. this is a big enough game to walk from my set over here. it's a very long trip. we talk about back strom, o vanessa welch kin. how about the goalie, who's been pretty good during the streak? >> in the last 2 games, he's kept the team in it so they can finally get their game on track to win these things. >> yeah. he led on 5 tonight, but the most important stat is the w and he came up big in the last minute, the last 20 sects of the game. the most important save of the game, with about 13 seconds left. he corrals it, keeps it from going to an overtime and is simply finding ways to keep the team to win and keeping them in games, because in the first 2 periods, he 32 shots against, and he found a way to shut the door and keep the caps in it, because it could have been worse. >> i remember joe ben

guys like gretzky, bobby, mario lemieux and, of course, the great one had 914 points through five seasonsut no shame in not measuring up to number 99 but number 8 is doing fine, okay. lets gea to the guy who is will call the game at the top of the hour, joe beninati and craig laughlin. >> if you're going to enter into a gun and run game, proceed at your own risk. >> they came out stronger because they allowed the go- ahead goal to the rangers. they had four goals blue it's null and ovechkin or ovechkin single handedly, the line was dominant in the victory over the new york rangers. all three guys a big part of the caps' offense. >> over the last 12 games, locker, the capitals have shown double barrel scoring capability. the first line a plus 36, averaging 4 1/2 points a game. the second unit, laich, fleischmann and salmon, 30 points, a tremendous 1-2 punch here >> rich get rich ervin side the verizon center as the caps welcome mike green back to the rink. >> and greeny just brings so many elements to the back line. you think the caps are scoring the four goals a game now. he returned afte

from the senate, george lemieux, tom harkin, and in the klobuchar. they returned to the u.s. up next on c-span, a world economic forum discussion on the impact of future of global energy needs. after that, david cameron n.a. #others discuss the impact of government financial assistance for banks. thad allen on haiti relief. tomorrow on "washington journal" the private security fun details pakistan's war and fighting the role and afghanistan. douglas wilder discusses his recent -- where he calls on president obama to make changes to his and visors and for the removal of democratic national committee chair tim kaine. neil munro talks about his recent article on progressesxr reshaping biomedical technologies. "washington journal" live at 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. >> and discussion on the global energy outlook with the president and numerous oil companies around the world. this was held in davos switzerland last month. it is about an hour. ño'lp>> good morning, everybody. i want to welcome you to the discussao)hjz the global energy output. our topic is energy security, subject

. >> thank you, senator lemieux, senator lieberman. >> thanks, mr. chairman. thanks very much to secretary west and admiral clark for the service that you've given. obviously in doing this report, of course flout your lives, the attack of november 5th was a tragedy. and we're very grateful for the efforts that you've made, along with the department of defense personnel working with you in this review to ensure that such a tragedy doesn't happen again. the homeland security committee, senator collins and i are here has been investigating the fort hood shootings to assess the information the government had prior to the shootings and the actions it took in response to that information. i can tell you even at this early stage, it's become apparent to us that the department of defense's approach to the threat of service members who adopt a alent islamic extremist ideology needs to be revised. senator collins and i sent a letter last week along the lines to secretary gates. i know there's sensitivity on this about the other muslim-americans who are serving honorably

among those members, one republican, george lemieux, the senator from florida.so the briefing here at white house set to begin in just a couple minutes. live here on c-span2. [inaudible conversations] gnawed. [inaudible conversations] >> here at the white house waiting for briefing with robert gibbs to get underway. a couple of other live events to tell you about getting underway at this hour on c-span. the commandant of the coast guard, thad allen will talk about the state of the coast guard, earthquake relief in haiti and coast guard budget and more. >> let's do a couple, one announcement and week ahead before we get started. president obama called former president nelson mandela this morning to congratulate him on the 20th anniversary of his release from prison. president obama expressed the american people's great admiration for president mandela who was very appreciative of the call. next, let's do a quick week ahead. on sunday, i don't have anything for tomorrow. on sunday the president will travel to camp david. he will return to the white house on monday