but i want to ask you to follow-up on what lisa said.u look at the way president obama has handled these cases in particular, what have you agreed with, what have you disagreed with, what surprised you if anything about the approach of the administration has taken particularly on this basket of cases on torture, on guantanamo, on how to prosecute the people who are being held? >> i would like to start out with something that i completely agree with lisa on, and that is regardless of which administration lawyers you're looking at, these lawyers are always, always in my experience trying to do the right thing struggling with very, very difficult legal questions. take the torture issue. there was no lawyer in the united states government that was roving around the world trying to push on others in various practices. rather, when you're a lawyer in the office of legal counsel a question is brought to you. the question is can i do this or can't i do this when it comes to things like stress positions, whether it comes to putting a caterpillar

lisa brown is very well known in this crowd. [applause] she now serves as assistant to the president, white house secretary, a position i occupied for president clinton. i expect her to be the chief of staff and the white house in the last three years of the obama administration. she cochaired the agency review for the obama-biden transition process. prior to joining the transition, she served for six years as the executive director of the american constitution society where she helped lead the organization to the tremendous growth and prominence it has today. lisa also was counsel to vice president al gore before her duties -- before duties in the vice president's office, she served in the office of legal counsel in the department of justice. she has seen a lot of variety from different perspectives. he is executive she of staff to vice president joe biden. before joining vice-president gore's staff, ron was chief of staff to janet reno and assist -- associate counsel in charge of judicial selection. he has been a veteran of fi

when lisa lost her job recently, she lost her health coverage. now both lisa and her daughters miss out on the tests and preventive medicine to keep them healthy. her long letter ended with a simple plea, and i quote, "we want to go to the doctor." end of quote. bray deny lives in sparks, nevada. the 5-hour weeks he works to support his family just barely covers his bills. he doesn't have enough money to buy health insurance for his family, so he doesn't buy it. bray deny owes the hospital $12,000 for a trip to the emergency room, the only place he could go, as he has no health care. bray deny is brave, though. in his letter he doesn't dread the debt he carries or complain about how hard he works. "if i was seriously sick or injured, i would lose it all." alicia is a 21-year-old woman from las vegas. she needs surgery for a kidney disease which she has suffered with since she was born. but because recently she lost her job, health care isn't part of her life anymore. alicia has done everything she had k. it try to get help. medicaid tells her she

it is also great to be here with lisa, given her contribution to acs. after four times of debating administration officials, it is nice to be an administration official. [applause] i have had the unique role of working for two vice presidents and a very different vice- president in between. with all of them, the role of a vice-president starts and ends with his relationship with the president and what the president asked him to do. al gore said the vice president has one other do you which is to cast a vote in the senate when there is a tie vote. as he is fond of saying, every time i vote, we win. in the case of vice-president biden, president obama has asked him to be a counselor at large and take on special projects as they come up. right now we are spending a lot of time implementing the recovery act and have a lot of our staff working on that. on the foreign-policy side we are working on issues of non- proliferation. i think that we do aside from the specific responsibilities, the general role of applying advice to experience and some insights as di

what lisa is doing is an example of what i said. health care, everyone is talking about needing reform. and one reason it wasn't used by president obama, or most of the candidates i was working for running for office, you have to get something where you're going to campaign. people say there is too much negative advertising, but you have to say there is a contract. so you are saying divided we fail message, we want to reform health care, and your ponet is saying we have to make changes in health care, you not getting traction on a difference. so to some extent united we fail took some of the oxygen out of the room. we wanted to put it in that litany of here are what our most important priorities are. it wasn't on an issue of a tax issue, but you took it from a different perspective here, the republican is

[laughter] lisa, you work for one of the most powerful lobbies/groups in the country. a group i might add the sade me $80 on a rental car a couple of weeks ago. [laughter] >> you may dep your membership fee. >> i have already made up my membership fees for the first five years. lest you you were charged with running the divided we fail campaign for the aarp and in raising this issue of healthcare from a third party perspective, what you tell us a bit about that and i know you brought a couple of the ads you folks ran so we can take a look at those as well. >> in the fall to doesn't six we started talking, we knew our nation needed to deal with healthcare and we also saw healthcare is inextricably linked to financial security. so we decided to devise a campaign that would engage the public not just our members, but people of all generations in ways that aarp had before, working with what we call their strange bedfellows partners, a business, business roundtable and labor and the goal was to use the historic 2008 elections as a frame for driving healthcare financial secu

. >> lisa murkowski. user first name. >> lisa. >> your irish, you ought to know how to save these names. senator lisa murkowski the amendment, number 38 and amendment number 34 as modified. without objection, they are adopted. further amendments at this time? >> i have to return to one area that we have talked about and that is with enzi amendment number seven. >> enzi amendment number seven. >> it is a very small piece but i think a very important piece on the again, compared the effectiveness research. this amendment would prevent the government from developing quality adjusted life year, called crowley in the united kingdom, which there measures or other government for millis to assess whether patients deserve treatment, and the united kingdom uses it to determine if the patient should receive treatment and the formula often leads to the elderly and disabled being denied care. so, this would prohibit again the word prohibit to develop certain types of formal methods like the united kingdom uses to deny

senator lisa murkowski. >> good afternoon. i am barry, an executive director, and it is my pleasure to welcome you. it is our pleasure to have senator lisa murkowski. this is on the record, as are all of our briefings. she is only the six the center of alaska -- the sixth center of alaska. she joined the senate in 2002 -- the six senatth senator of alas. she is a member of the senate appropriations committee, and she is on the senate indian affairs committee. we all understand how busy she is competent to release these days, so we appreciate your taking time out of your schedule to be with us -- we understand how busy she is these days, so we appreciate your taking time and rescheduled to be with us. >> i think timing wise -- taking time out of your schedule to be with us. >> i think timing wise, this is good. this has been a part of my life for the past three months as we have order to advance an energy bill. i was at a gathering a few days back, and somebody commented that the energy bill coming out of the senate energy comm

the sec, -- lisa, explain what your main duty is which is on the paper flow side. do you feel like you have a responsibility to provide alternative views from the right to the president? he is famous for wanting to hear from his critics as well as from his supporters. how do you manage the need to give him information that is coming from the right? all of us hope that you are only giving him stuff from my progress of perspective. what is the role of your office? >> thie staff secretary's office is an inward white house looking office. all the paper goes through this the secretary's office and the core of the job is insuring that by the time the decision memo gets to the president, it reflects his advisers' views. there is a process that you go through as one of the policy councils is working on developing policy and is working with agencies on policy. it works its way through and there is a certain amount of consensus developed. we will make sure that we will circulated and make sure that his senior advisers have had a chance to have input so that if you have larry

next, the panel's top republican, senator lisa murk s murkowski , shares her thoughts with reporters. this is just over an hour. >> good afternoon, i am barry worthington, executive director of the united states energy association that it is my pleasure to welcome to our newsmakers series, senator lisa murkows murkowski. this is all on the record, as all of our briefings are. she is the senior senator from alaska, only the sixth senator from alaska and the first born in the state. she was elected to three terms before joining the united states senate in 2002. she is with us today because she is the ranking republican on the senate energy and natural resources committee, she is also a member of the senate appropriations committee, health education, labor and pension committee and the senate indian affairs committee. we know and understand how busy she is, particularly these days. we appreciate you taking time from your schedule to be with us. we normally ask our guests to speak for 15 or 20 minutes or however long she prefers and open up for questions and try to be done in an hour. >>

lisa did an unflattering piece on north korea. how dot people live in north korea -- do the people live in north korea? basic necessities, food, shelter, education, clothing? guest: it's a real tragedy. it's one of the poorest states. as the caller mentioned. most of the food aid, the hard cash that comes in for the sale of mostly illegal goods goes to kim and his family and his cronies. the people have gone through famine and starvation. they live very badly. it's one of the greatest human tragedies i think on earth today. host: again, does this give the administration any leverage in trying to free the hostages or resume any type of dialogue with pyongyang? guest: if the administration was successful, which i think would be very difficult, then, yes, that would provide a great deal of leverage. but i don't think the chinese will do that. host: albert from atlanta. good morning. caller: yes. i had a question or two weren't we supposed to help north korea build a reactor which would require so much upgraded plutonium? wasn't that

that started with coach auriemma, pat summitt, lisa leslie, cheryl. those guys really paved the way. we've been able to benefit from the groundwork they laid down, and now women do have an opportunity to go overseas and make some pretty good money. with candace parker coming out and the popularity she's given the game, and it's all about players getting better, and when we can get better to that level, then the game will keep growing. >> phoenix at san antonio, 7:30 tonight, espn 2. diana taurasi, thanks, as always. we'll catch up with you soon. >> no problem. go, manny. >> and manny ramirez, this just moments ago at the batting cage in isotopes park. he will start his rehab stnt tonight, a week and a half away from being eligible to return to the major leagues. >> if i can interject, it's amazing to me, we just heard diana taurasi. the last thing she said is, "go, manny." it's amazing his popularity. a 50-game suspension for performance-enhancing drugs. maybe that's where we're at now with baseball in the steroid era, but it just doesn't seem that th

host: that is lisa from rhode island. earlier this week we heard that twitter was asked to postpone planned maintenance. the state department as i read confirmed there had been an e- mail sent and that is being used as one way to observe events on the ground. this morning from " i the " itmes" it's about youtube, youtube says it has relaxed its image as to allow the images to reach the rest of the world. it says in general it does not allow graphics or violence, but makes exceptions for those that have certain kinds of values of education, or scientific observations. it is important that citizens in iran can use it to capture their experiences for the world to see. how are you staying in guest: touch i am twitter-challenged. i stay in touch by with your phone calls and many true e- mailed. i have received dozens of e- mails. host: here is a question from twitter. guest: the ayatollah khomeini when elected as supreme leader did not have the religious credentials that were bestowed upon him in order to make him into this su

some of the people taking part are white house counsel greg craig, white house secretary lisa brown, and john podesta, chief executive officer for the center for american progress. we'll have more live coverage with the radio and television correspondents dinner beginning at 8:25 here on c-span. president obama will deliver remarks. on your screen is john podesta, the ceo of the center for american progress. live coverage on c-span. >> this event is expected to begin shortly. president obama will be at the radio and tv correspondents association dinner tonight delivering remarks. that begins and caught 25 eastern time. but the associated press writes that president obama is describing the overall health care plan put forward by house democrats today as a major step toward the goal of fixing what is broken and building on what works. house republicans are sharpening their criticism. they say it would cost tens of millions of people to lose the current health care coverage. the participants are getting ready to start. it should begin momentarily. [crowd murmurs] >> a little bit of back

. >> lisa -- by the way, we have cards in here if you want to ask questions. like the office of legal policy no one knows what the staff secretary is. explain what your main duty is, and to you have a responsibility, do you feel you have a responsibility to provide alternative views from the right to the president? he is wanting to hear from his critics as well as his supporters. how do you manage the need to give him information that is coming from the right? all of us hope that you are only giving himself from the rest of the perspective but what is the role of your office? >> the staff secretary's office, i certainly did know about and to working in the white house, a very inward looking office, all of the paper goes to the president through the secretary's office. look core of the job is ensuring that by the time a decision memo gets to the president, it accurately reflects his advisor's views. there's a process you go for as a policy council, working on developing policy and working with agencies on policy, it works its way through, there's a certain cons

i share lisa's view. of the frustration that people who care about these issues field. i hope that next year when we have this conference, and the question gets asked what it does not elicit the same kind of applause that it elicited. i hope we have more progress. there is applause about the accomplishments we have made. >> i hope you're right. i will read this question. much of the administration's political policy and legal agenda seems to be strategically responsive to the success of the federal society legal agenda. [unintelligible] rather than the one that we can achieve and how can we move toward that society? in the heart of the context of legal policy, where do you think we need to be going? >> as you watch how he approaches the enhanced interrogation techniques and the military commissions of those issues, this is somebody -- i cannot know if you heard his speech on this report of issues. he believes in this document and understand what it means for people in this country. because of who he is and where he comes from, you are going to -- you already see part of

lisa communications. >> john allen, a reporter for congressional quarterly and the shortstop of the n.p.c. softball team. i sense a them. vice president of communications and community relations for the nationals, also a guest of our speaker. >> skipping over the podium just a moment, we have jonathan of bloomberg news, former n.p.c. president, the speaker's committee member who organized today's lunch and coach of the division championship-winning softball team. we have jeff dufour, columnist for the washington examiner. are you a member of the n.p.c. softball team? >> another team. >> and the community relations director for the national. >> paul dixon, author of "the dixon baseball dictionary" and other books. and finally we have amy, an original member of the n.p.c. softball team. [applause] >> of the old washington senators it was often said washington, first in war, first in peace, and last in the american league. substitute nationals for senators, and national league for american, and you can describe the situation for our local major league team today and today's speaker. in fact,

i share lisa's view. of the frustration that people who care about these issues field. i hope that next year when we have this conference, and the question gets asked what it does not elicit the same kind of applause that it elicited. i hope we have more progress. there is applause about the accomplishments we have made. >> i hope you're right. i will read this question. much of the administration's political policy and legal agenda

as lisa jackson, the director of the environmental protection agency said while in my home state of wyoming: "as a home of wind, coal, and natural gas, wyoming is at the heart of america's energy future." that's because wyoming has it all. it has the cool, wind, natural gas and uranium. it has it all and we need it all. the bottom line, madam president, is the democrats cap and tax bill costs jobs and raises energy prices. i don't understand can we can't make america's energy as clean as we can as fast as we can without raising energy prices on american families. the administration wants to take a different approach. why are the american people being given this stacked deck? where all of the options hurt the economy, raise energy prices, and cost jobs. the president says we need green jobs. i agree. we also need red, white and blue jobs: american energy, american energy sources. the reality is, this heart dan energy tax -- this partisan energy tax bill passing in the house a bad bet for all of us. we shouldn't double down with anymore taxpayer money to bail out the climate through an energy

[inaudible] >> the next question is from lisa from abc news. please go ahead. >> thanks. my question has to do with the recovery act and state fiscal spending with respect when you talk a little bit about how even with the recovery act the decline has gone on. if you can speak a little bit more about how the recovery act impacted in medicaid and education, where we are seeing specifically how that has helped. >> okay. as i mentioned, those two programs represent about 135 billion. it is the only flexible money that is there. and what it's allowed states to do particularly under medicaid, because it is also the medicaid money was retroactive to november 2008 and it's over 27 month period but that has allowed the states to take back their money because the feds were picking up an extra 6% share and to spread it around you find places where that money plus used to protect education and from a macroeconomic standpoint it was very positive because we have shortfalls of 200 billion going in before the recovery package and that would have had a larger negative impact so that med

the subcommittee have any -- lisa, the have any evidence? >> i think generally when the public thinks about health care reform, they're thinking about it through their own lands. for most of them, that lens is cost. they're doing their checkbook calculations for it if their family member has a mental health condition, then that factors in. i don't think they're speaking about the specific issues. again, we looked at it more generally. >> kaiser is a lot of public policy and appalling. roughly 8% of americans have cited they have had a mental health issues in the last year that they have not been able to treat because of cost. about 65%-75% said the condition got worse as a consequence. the percentage of getting worse is one of the highest of the mental health issues because of the lack of treatment. we have about 40% of the people in the country about the present issue and i think this is the connective tissue. a majority of the country says that either someone in their family or a very close friend has had an alcohol, drug, or significant p

. -- i think lisa's emery was great. i would not underestimate the power of physicians. in the florida, we have white coat it. all the men and women come in their lab coats and walked into the state capital. you guys are uniquely good at having, i think, impact against legislators. here is the trouble. it can get very hard. you're paid by the hour. it is very, very hard. you have your own tough times to have people to take a day or two off to go to the state capital. it hurts patient responsibilities and others. when it has been done in pennsylvania and florida and other states, the legislators say it was very powerful. there were up 2000 physicians there on that day. again, you are here. you're sitting all day in the room with no windows. i know you folks personally have made that commitment, but again, i want to in my thoughts with what i have said. we're at this once in a generation window. this is a unique time where there is an enormous amount of state. -- the enormous amounts at stake. i was opposed and i did a lot of work against the clinton plan. i never ever pre

. >> on the issue of the doma brief, one of your colleagues lisa brown said some of the language she didn't think should have been in there. can you clarify whether that brief was cleared here at the white house, whether it represents the white house's view? >> you didn't ask the staff secretary? >> it wasn't a press conference, it was a panel discussion. can you clarify whether it was -- >> i don't know the answer to that. >> do you know if there's any discussion under way about maybe modifying or changing it? >> nothing i'm aware of, no. george? >> what do you see as a realistic timetable for getting immigration reform through congress? >> as i talked about last week, the president will have a meeting at the white house on thursday, that will be with those that have supported and opposed in the past what the president believes is comprehensive immigration reform. i think this is as i described last week part of the ongoing and continued conversation, understanding that we have still got progress to make in order to get something like this through the house and the senate. i think t

. >> our next question is from lisa from abc news. please go ahead. >> thanks to my question has to do with a recovery act, interstates fiscal spending as with respect to a. you talk a little bit about how that even with the recovery act the decline has gone on. did you speak a little bit more about how the recovery act impacted in medicaid and education? where are we seeing specifically how that helped? >> okay. well, as i mentioned, those two programs represent about 135 billion. it is the only flexible money that is there. and what it has allowed states to do, particularly the medicaid, because it's also medicaid money was retroactive to october as a remember, 2008. and it's over a 27 month period. but that's allowed states really to take back their money because the feds are picking up over a 6% share. and to spread it around in fact you will find places where that money was even used to protect education. from a macro economic standpoint it was very positive because we had shortfalls of 200 billion going into -- or before the rec

. -- lisa. caller: thank you. my son enlisted in the military. he is going into the army and he was in basic training july 7, and he is very proud to serve his country. something he has won a to do since he was very little beard always loved the military. i don't think that people realize the sacrifice that these people make. maybe some part of them realize what they are doing, but as his mother, i worry 24/7 and i will worry and pray every second day that everything goes well for him and every other woman and man over there fighting for this country, for the basic freedoms that the constitution provides. that we have been trying to spread for the world. it is all about in a democracy. for i appreciate you coming on and, you know, giving a -- to our troops and backing them up and making people realize that you are right, when everything is going well people seem to put it in the sidelines and it is when things get bad that people are upset. supporters choose no matter what is going on. host: do you have it, or feedback for that caller? guest: a w

horse comanche, who was once wild and i will tell you his story in a few minutes, and thank you to lisand for helping to organize this event and the rest of the staff and also to the staff at the southwest museum. and a shoutout to peter at c-span, happy norwegian day, i know that norway is home of the amazing breeds of fjord horse. here we are and thank you all for coming today. i'd like to talk about first how and why i wrote "mustang." about 10 years ago, a little over 10 years ago, in 1998, at christmastime, i was out in a desert bar in 29 palms california, waiting to meet with a source. i was finishing up my previous book, "29 palms," the true story of murder, marines and the mojave, about two girls who had been killed after the gulf war and i picked up a local paper and saw an item that said six wild horses had been gunned down outside reno and i was of course, extremely shocked and horrified. it was a terrible story on its face. and it started to person late. a couple of days later, there was another item that said, 12 horse carcasses had been found in the virginia range outside

lisa, do you have any evidence from what you guys have done? .. say that conditions got worse as a consequence. they do that lots of other mental issues and the% getting worse is one of the high cindy mental health issues because of lack of treatment. we have about 14 percent of the people in the survey to a knowledge they had a serious depressive issue and this is i think the connective tissue of a majority of the country saying that they either or someone in their family for a very close friend has had an alcohol and drug or significant oppressive issue so it touches their lives. i have one suggestion in terms of have to translate those percentages. i do seat belt safety, i started in 1996 to make sure kids whenever in the front seat seat belt and i broke all over the country for monetary seat belt laws with enormous effect a substantial of the fact, but three asked parents like how you secure your kids and 60 percent said they did not secure the adderall. people in this survey know what the socialize response is going to be so 6% say i don't re

in this book called seeing it a battle song and we will talk with her about that when she gets here lisa you're on with bill ayers. >> caller: i am here from hawaii. i want to thank you come with thank you so much because everything you pinpointed such an amazing grace it is being heard because my children and me with the economy and everything we were brought up to know the white law, but the difference is we are an economy with a mixed plate so we all got along. yet i am in hawaii, my family before me, even though we come down from the descendants, we were all getting along and it was some meaning be responsible with a latent a. if you want to be treated that way but take care of ourselves like we take care of our land because we need to eat but we all got along. somehow win the war came even though all these different races came and put the timeout to go to the war, they have all different races and speaking but one focus. the people of the united states. and our forefathers before us especially abraham lincoln i can see what you are doing and i pray and pray for you to give you the w

lisa, i see you. >> you have suggested this isn't necessarily the solution and it may not be the solution for the high costs that we experience with health care, but i think it has to be viewed as a piece of it. when i met with a group of doctors when i was home on friday, we would kind of go around the room saying okay, within your practice, what are the things that you can do, that we can do, you can do from your side and we can do from the federal side that would help reduce the health care costs that we experience here in anchorage, alaska. and whether they are a family practitioner or whether they are an orthopedic surgeon, their response was we've got to get ahold of what's going on with the medical malpractice, and not one of them in that room had had a situation where they had -- there had been a claim that had been filed against them that went against their record, if you will, or against their good name, but they pay for it. and as tom has mentioned, it's the frivolous claims that are filed, it's the claims where you got to blame somebody and so you'll blame the doctor, and it c

named lisa lutz. it's the spellman files. she is young, hip, crazy reader and writer eric if i can get through that this summer i will feel good. >> i'm looking forward to my summer vacation and my summer reading. i'm going to read adam got neck. this is a longshot, but i am reading about the story of lincoln darwin and modern life. and that's my lead-in. that i carry my books about lincoln and my books about fdr which i take with each trip and i get to be. i will do it this summer. >> to see more summer reading list and other program information, visit our website at booktv.org. >> business week legal affairs editor linda himelstein discusses her book the king of vodka and the life of pyotr smirnov, the creator of smirnov vodka. she talks about spinouts rise amid lower class families to be one of the wealthiest businessmen in russia. kepler's books in menlo park, california, host the event. >> i'm just thrilled to be here. i love this bookstore. it is such a wonderful institution. so, the king of vodka, i get asked more than

it helps the american public realed that just like mona lisa or any other historic art fact, these parks and refuges are really historic items and it helps a lot of people realize what we do. a lot of us gives talks at schools that last for an hour or so. really useful if we can turn it into a substantive history book like doug's. >> your background. i know you graduated from harvard -- what year? >> i graduated from harvard? 199 with a ph.d. in history and science. >> how long have you been here? >> 10 years. this is my 10th anniversary. the best place i've ever worked. i worked as a professor in harvard and australia, but here i feel like i'm doing history in the field. it's a great place. >> steve chase, your background? >> i have a masters in public administration from the barney school in hartford and worked on a lot of different jobs in environmental education, the outdoor business, and public government. and came in to the fish & wildlife service as presidential management intern in 1990. and started in d.c. and then this project came along and i was able to jump in right at the v

leadership, talking about senator john thune wants to replace ensign in the hierarchy, and alaska senator lisa morehouse state seeking to be the vice chair of the senate republican conference as a senator john thune click to move up to the policy chair in the senate leadership. >> is greg from franklin, virginia. independent line. caller: i think it is a little disgruntled -- or it seems that we are putting all the money into the financial institutions for the stimulus package, focusing so much money on financial institutions, when their product is money. so we are giving them their products. apparently there were not good at managing the products. i think the money would have been much better used had it been given to the citizens to stimulate the economy. people don't have money to spend. it sent it is taxpayers' money. if they would have given more of the stimulus money back to the people, then the people could perhaps by -- the scenes like this and the station is in support of big business when that was not with the people voted for. the people know that -- voted for change but nothing see

let me ask unanimous consent if i might to ask that ryan douglas and christopher feldon and lisa hone, congressional fellows with the commerce committee, be allowed floor privileges during the consideration of s. 1023. the presiding officer: without objection, so ordered. a senator: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from minnesota. mrs. clone cher: mr. president, i'm here -- ms. klobuchar: mr. president, i'm here to speak in support of the travel promotion act. i first want to thank the senatosenatordorgan, the senatoh dakota. i have visited the teddy roosevelt park. and i want to thank him for his great leadership on this bill over many years. i also want to thank senator ensign for his leadership. i believe this legislation will help our economy to do better to create jobs without any taxpayer expense. as the chair of the commerce subcommittee that is includes tourism, i recently held a hearing, a well-attended hearing with many senators and people there to examine the state of our tourism industry during these troubled economic times. i want to thank my ranking repu

lisa pagano, communications manager for the nationals and a guest of our speaker. john allen, a reporter for "congressional quarterly" and the shortstop of the npc softball team. i sent the theme. the vice president of communications and community relations for the nationals, also a guest of our speaker. skipping over the podium for just a moment, we have jonathan this is a land of bloomberg news, a former nbc president, the speakers committee member who organize today's lunch and the coach of the division winning, a division championship in pcs softball team. scathing over our speaker we have jeff, columnist for the washington examiner. are you a member of the softball team? okay, disloyal. israel, community relations director for the nationals. paul dixon, author of the dixon baseball dictionary and other books. and finally, we have amy from platts and an original member of the npc softball team. [applause] of the old washington senators it was often said washington, first in war, first in peace and last in the american league. substitute nationals for senators a

. >> lisa warren is vice president of de capo press. >> up next a history of accretion of the erie canal which expedited expansion of the united states and facilitated trade with the american west, author of gerard koeppel recounts the canals development and how did establish new york city as america's economic center. this event hosted by borders bookstore in new york city is 40 minutes. >> i am going to talk about 30 minutes and maybe have time for a few minutes of q&a afterwards. it wasn't my idea to write this book editor who asked my agent if he knew someone who could write a book about the erie canal and agent said, yes, the guy who had written a book about new york city is what our history and the editor said great and my agent called me and i said why? what is there possibly new to write about it able but long irrelevant canal? can 1 million history at vytorin and folklore? dozens of books have been written about. in recent decades hurt children and maybe that is of program anymore for the old readers. but my age of answer the question why by saying when a major publisher wants t

until four weeks ago when it was too late, if you get a copy bredesen to your brain housing group as lisa saying in the navy and arrive in your book this phrase because i think it will help make sense of things: that quoz as i see it is marked primarily by a being a silent and persistent energy. when i saw that phrase i got from christopher morley a book called the haunted bookshop. he was talking about books as silent persistent energy and i thought is that the best definition of a book i ever saw. if you have books on home on your show is you want to read but haven't read and on the open, but enough of that book is sitting there and its potential energy, it does not work until you open it up and you begin as the reader, the good reader doing some assembly and you begin tapping into that energy in that book. well, that is what quoz is. quoz are everywhere across the land, anything can be quoz, a person, event or thing. there's nothing that can't be quoz as far as i can see, but your quoz will not be my quoz. maybe but probably not. but it is quoz that makes us to my mind significant memb

lisa, do you want to? [inaudible] one of the things that goes along with transparency, this administration is using technologies in ways that you have not seen before, and has a very vibrant website and is really encouraging interplay on the website. so i think that obviously is one with it the other way as sort of the traditional way which especially for acs member scott talking to all of us. we really do want to hear ideas. this is an administration that is very eager to hear good ideas right now, so i don't recommend regular mail to the white house because just last week received an invitation to an end i drove party. [laughter] >> it was being irradiated someplace. e-mailed answer the website and talking to all of us. >> i think this white house, it's a very, very vibrant part of the white house. not just in terms of meeting but actually bringing feedback back. and they have e-mail that is actually public at who got go. somebody actually checks it every minute. don't think it's one of these dummy mailb

administrator lisa jackson put out an announcement about this program. i'm sure there will be hundreds of applications from all over this country. climate change is one of the most serious issues facing our country. we held hearings. and brought in representatives from all the federal agencies. and they alltel us that they can see the impacts of climate change on the federal lands across the country. i mean people are talking about bug infestation and they're talking about the effect of this bug infestation which has a devastating effect on our forestry and our trees. and then we have the fire issues. the fire season is now one month longer on each end, so we have drought, bug infestations and longer fire seasons. we have all these things happening because of global warming and climate change. and we have to deal with that. and we have to have our communities involved. we have to our rural communities involved. so i think the investments that we're making here and the research that we're doing is very necessary. it's amazing to me, there are some who sti

lisa in honolulu, thanks for holing. go ahead with your question. >> hello, hello. i'm here from hawaii and i want to thank you, thank you, thank you, so much, bus you know, everything that you pinpoints is such an amazing grace that is being heard because my children and me with the economy and everything, the basic think is we were brought up to know the white law but the difference is we are economy with a mixed plate so we all got along, and yet i'm in hawaii, my family is before me, even though we come from the descendents were were all living and get can along and our word was take care of your -- be responsible with the land, with your family. if you want to be treated that way, then you treat it then, but it's basically take care of ourselves like we take care of our land because we need to eat, so we all got long. when the war came, even though all these different races came and they put their time out to go to the war, the differences, they had all different races, all different speaking but one focus, is to turn around the fate of people, the people of th

blagojevich pass in a tight meaningful legislation, primarily because you wanted to see his daughter lisadigan wind up becoming governor which you very well may so there were entrenched interests that he was trying to go around, but, on the other hand, he did absolutely nothing to for any political relationships with any of these people that might have gone some of the legislation passed. >> but he did have an alliance with former senate president jones which actually made it complete paralytic gridlock is being built at the time because nothing was moving either way back exactly and i did interview him for the book could still have very angry about what happened to rod blagojevich and characterize the of his men as a political lynching. so he did have some support in the senate in springfield, what it was still, he made no attempt to really to have any kind of relationship of of the and one of total anger with michael madigan. >> confrontation. >> about the ethics of the landfill. shouldn't have been stopped on its merits? or was it stopped when it should have gone ahead? >> as a good qu

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to have rod blagojevich pass any kind of meaningful legislation primarily because he wanted to see lisaadigan wind up becoming governor, which she very well may. so there were entrenched interests that he was trying to go around, but on the other hand he did absolutely nothing to form any political relationship with any of these people that might have gotten some of this legislation. >> but he did have an alliance with. >> yes, sir. did. >> which actually made a complete gridlock at the time because nothing really is moving it away. >> exactly. i did interview him for the book who is still very angry about what happened to rod blagojevich and characterized the impeachment as a political lynching. so he did have some support in the senate in springfield, but it was still, he made no attempt really to have any kind of a relationship other than one of total anger with michael madigan. >> yes, sir. >> about the ethic of the landfill should it have been on its merit? or was it stopped when it should have gone ahead? >> that's a good question. i think there were some questions about the landf