you realize he can make the runways and you pull up and circle around and in a big circle over long island reproached for a second landing and as they were flying towards gfk to come in for the second landing, the engine-- the flight engineer cries out, flame out on engine number four and flame out one engine number three. one by one the engines were just blowing and the captain says, show me the runway because he thinks it they are close enough to jfk they can drive the crippled plane in and it won't matter that they were losing all of their engines. they are known nowhere near gfk and they are still 14 miles away from the airport, so they crashed. they come down in the actually crash in the backyard of john mcenroe's father's estate on the oyster bay and long island. 73 people died and it is one of the worst accidents in many years. the next day of course the flighted investigators, calm to the wreckage and the retrieve the black box and they start their investigation. typically the investigations can take weeks to uncover the cause of the crash but in this case it doesn't take weeks and

like a young new yorker who pled guilty in a plot to blow up the long island railroad.ith kataab. >> i know he was a good muslim. >> maldenado arrested in texas for receiving military training with somali terrorists, mahana was arrested in boston. the revolution muslim partners say they do not fight themselves and do not incite others to fight. but make no mistake, they want you to become a muslim. they want americans to die. >> i would not do it myself. is obama a murderer, a tyrant, a scumbag? absolutely he is. if they killed him would i shed a tear? absolutely. do i incite his murder? we don't preach that. >> the mosques have tried to prevent that kind of hatred from being preached by calling police. there is little police or the fbi can do to stop these radicalizers. they are protected by legal rights in a country they detest. less strident than revolution muslim is an american-born preacher anwaral alaki. >> quite a mix of people he has met in his travels including three of the 9/11 hijackers. he received e-mails from ft. hood shooting suspect nidal hasan. more fro

the kaberle long island native wants it back. and he will squeeze. >> greg: talk about toskala laning there. he was laning away, maybe looking for a back door pass. toskala along several goal- tenders, jonas gustavsson still recovering from his injury. he was on the ice this morning. that was the first time i have seen a sign of him chemicalling back. >> joe: intercepted. going the other way. ovechkin fires. rebounds and scores! well, for goalies, you like to have a velcro chest and pad. right there, that did not stick to the goal-tender, neuvirth, and that juicy rebound came right back around. sort of a broken play. pretty routine shot, though. the goal-tender must draw the glove like velcro. he doesn't, kicks it right in the slot and there it goes. >> greg: work would the wall. below the blue line. >> greg: he is going to need a haircut, soon, isn't he? >> joe: which guy? >> greg: peru. i can't tell how long lit be. -- perreault. i need you to start wearing some sort of hat. close your eyes and what do you see? those are the ha

harvey, and he's a terrorism expert as well, and chairman of the department of criminal justice at long island university and author of "holy war on the home front: the secret islamic terror network in the united states." finally in washington, larry c. johnson. he served as deputy director of the u.s. state department's office of counterterrorism. he's ceo and founder of -- co-founder of berg associates. peter bergen, was the president's statement today satisfactory? >> yeah, i think it was satisfactory. if the plane had blown up, obviously, he would have made a statement earlier. i think so, yeah. >> larry: what do you think, jack? >> obviously, there's enough problems here that he had to address this. i think it was sufficient that napolitano and robert gibbs ultimately stepped up early thangfully because there were no deaths here, we didn't see the president's necessity to speak. on the other hand it's beneficial for people to realize he's watching this and being briefed on this regularly. it's a positive accept for all americans to know. >> larry: harvey, cnn has photos of what remains of

he grew up in a working-class family on long island, new york.mpressive grasp of the issues and spends a huge amount of his time and money supporting causes he believes in: animal rights, the environment, the arts. but his bare-knuckled approach to political discourse... >> baldwin: not all republicans are as insane as these extremist conservatives. >> safer: ...paired with a total inability to keep his mouth shut has also made him a favorite target of the tabloids. he was dubbed the "bloviator" and was shown no mercy when his marriage unraveled. you described your ex-wife's lawyer as "a 300-pound homunculus with a face like a clenched fist." >> baldwin: i was being kind, morley. i was being kind. >> safer: it's up there in the pantheon of abusive remarks, correct? >> baldwin: well, i think that people who treat someone the way i was treated during that case, you respond to them. i don't view that as abusive. >> safer: he says his divorce from basinger was devastating, and the custody fight over their daughter was brutal. it all took a physical t

their troops had overarm long island, new york, westchester and most of new jersey. thousands of american troops had deserted and the british chased the remnants of washington's army across new jersey over the delaware and into pennsylvania. redcoats were in sight of the american capital philadelphia. congress fled to baltimore and began debating terms of capitulation to the british. the war was over. unless washington could come up with a miracle, and he chose a young college student, lieutenant general james monroe, to help make a miracle happened. they all crossed the delaware during a blinding snowstorm on christmas night only six months after we had declared independence. in trenton 3,000 haitian mercenaries had spent the evening celebrating, and because the snow storm they went to sleep without posting centuries. at dawn the next morning monroe and his squad sneak up to the cannon emplacements at king street in trenton, the main street washington would have to come up with his troops to capture the town. a haitian soldier happened to step outside to do you know

i represent the north shore of long island. the country clubs that he belonged to and thousands of people who thought that they were lucky to know such a nice man who was so reliable and receive all the accolades that society could heap upon an individual who is making a company and returning investments for so many years. these are the people of thought they were lucky -- these are the people that thought they were lucky. they were further ripped apart because they personally knew this guy who they thought was this wonderful human being, and how lucky were they? now, they are personally devastated because of the abuse. to those people who look upon the victims and said they're lucky they are not there, they really do not get it. some of them are involved in this fraud personally with their finances. we have to be able to somehow do better. i see that my time has expired. almost everybody on the panel, or most of us at the hearing have selected witnesses that appeared before us today so that we understand who the victims really

ansome guys from long island, for instance.own: there were also reports that they were ung facebook, youtube, tget in touch with jihad i groups. >> that's true and i thi this is not the first case where they'vbeen reports of people from t united states going to pakistan and tryinto hook up with these groups and beg rejected. i think these groups, espeally ones considered pipenes to al qaeda arvery, very concerned right w that these people might be spies f the c.i.a. or informanfor the f.b.i. or just wannabes that have no ace there. so, you know, there's...hey have their o operational security a they've rejected americans for not having the right references. >> brown: now how worrieare you and your community aut the potential for more cases le this? >> well, first of all, we ha to make re that this is a all problem, it's not widespread, but to us its a serious probm. it is ere. it is not wispread, does not reflecon the muslim community or even young muslimnationwide because the overwhelmi majority are iegrated, they're americ ci

valley stream, n.y., out on long island, good morning. caller: an earlier caller made a comment about an excellent film. i have not had the chance to watch all of it, but it seems like it shows something we have not seen in the media here. i feel like people should check that out. host: what is it? caller: from a few minutes i had time to watch, the movie -- i do not know the numbers, but while we were transporting troops in afghanistan that we left over to the local afghanis, these people just died in containers. people whom i assume have not been tried because there were no trials at that time. host: in "usa today" west point offers gravitas and a rapt audience. the next call comes fromsan jose on the line for independentss. caller: good morning. first off i just want to say that you are my favorite on "washington journal" -- host: oh, stop it. caller: i'm listening to everybody. i didn't see this be. i was very fond of how he presented himself. it kind of scared me at once p itoint. i'm hoping he has another strategy he did not tell us

host: next up is long island, n.y., on airline for democrats. caller: it is confusing when you look at the people who practice their political ideologies and when you look at the way the idea adelgids were written. we confuse fascism and communism and socialism. we have to remember that italian fascism was not the same as german nazism which was a spinoff of fascism. many things that were practiced by the nazis were not practiced by the fascists. the ideas were also very different for the fascist did not have a "mein kampf." you also have to look at the united states. we do in practice our democratic principle perfectly, either. our foreign-policy -- we will use you and regulations against iraq for them by letting things and we will not use that against the right wing of the israeli nation when they colonize against the international requirements for them to stay out of the west bank. it is very hypocritical on how we practice our own politics. we have to look at the way certain things were written like communism and how it was supposed to benef

tim fagan, a young 16 year old boy from long island new york. he received liver transplant. prescribed a drug after his liver transplant called apogee and to boost his red blood cells and to fight the immediate. after the operation. he received daily injections, but his red blood cell count was in improving and the doctors couldn't figure out why, what was happening. after two months, tim's mom went to her local pharmacy where she was told by the way, the epogen your son has been taking may have been counterfeit. and here is an example of, again, an example of counterfeiting in the existing domestic drug supply. counterfeiting in which this container held a counterfeit medicine and this container held the real medicine. there were subtle differences, but not much. turned out that the vials that tim was injecting contained one 20th of the strength of what he was supposed to be taking and what was this close on the label. how did that happen? well, the weaker drug so for $20 a bottle and the high-strength version goes for $445 a bottle. investigators found that 110,000 of the

i represent the north shore of long island. it is paces from where mr.. operated. country club see belonged to. thousands of people who thought they were likely to know such a nice man who is so reliable received all the alkylates did alkylates -- all the accolades. these people thought they were lucky. they were probably the unluckiest people of all. they were further ripped apart. they knew this guy they thought was a wonderful human being. how lucky were they? now they are personally devastated. to those people who look upon the victims and thought how smart they are and how stupid they were, they really do not get it. some of them are involved in this fraud personally. we have to be able to somehow do better. i think it is interesting almost everybody on the panel have actually selected witnesses to appear before is that we understand who the victims really are. keep in mind, what we have to do is try to fix the system so it brings the thing that i think we all know, we cannot treat everybody equally. we had set people upon themselves against each other because

host: anthony is next, joining us from long island, new york. caller: good morning, mr.ood morning, ms. hersman. i want to wish the c-span people behind the scenes a happy holiday season as well. i have an important question, pertaining to those orange boxes, or black boxes. it seems as though when they are found, they are sometimes kept from the public eye. i just wondered, why is it that if it is taxpayer-funded, what you don't have full access to those boxes? more importantly, on 9/11, four plans crash, and not one set of black boxes has been revealed. you might say, well, the boxes were never found, but that is not true. the boxes were recovered, and yet they are kept from scrutiny from either the media or from the scientific community to expose exactly, precisely what was on those boxes. host: or the boxes down? -- were the boxes down? guest -- >> found? guest: in most of those cases they were found. that was actually a criminal investigation. with respect to what is revealed on the boxes, i want to make it very clear that there are two sets of data. one of them is

this included less populous and more rural areas of the country, but also areas like long island, new york. well, congress heard from these seniors loud and clear and they were angry about losing their coverage. many remember that the medicare modernization act was a landmark achievement, but it was necessary for another reason as well, and that was to respond to the call of the seniors who wanted their private options back. so in 2003, the medicare modernization act expanded plan options to include regional p.p.o.'s and restored plan and paissments it was a deliberate, bipartisan decision -- payments. it was a deliberate bipartisan decision to increase the plan's payments to include rural areas and some urban areas, as i mentioned long island. let me remind my colleagues, former senator clinton from new york, for example, said that these medicare plus choice plans, we now call them medicare advantage plans, and i'm -- quote -- "ing are feeling the squeeze in a system caught between rapidly exploding costs and rapidly imploding finances. while we debate medicare, we need to recognize

we will begin with long island senator jack reed, followed by west virginia's junior senator jay rockefellermcconnell and john kyl. this is 25 minutes. rising to pay tribute to my chairman and longest-serving senator in the history of this country, the senior senator from west virginia, robert c. byrd. he has reached a milestone among many in his career. it is an extraordinary record of service and dedication an patriotism to the country and reflects the values of the people of west virginia and the people of this great nation. extraordinary service measured not just in length, but accomplishment. but the length is impressive, indeed. 20,744 days of service as a member of the congress. 56 years and 10 1/2 months. and over that time senator byrd has cast 18,500 roll calls, more or less, witnessed the inauguration of 11 presidents and has been successful in 15 out of 15 elections. that's impressive, indeed. for over 60 years he has represented the people of west virginia tirelessly and with a great deal of energy and a great deal of success. he started in the west virginia house of delegates,

get some year-end tax preparation advice, the number is on your screen our first caller is from long islandtate tax that was repealed until 2010. there was a bill that was passed by the house at the end of november that is now sitting on the senate floor. it looks like the senate is very busy with the health care. bill and it looks like they will not get to the estate tax bill sometime this year. if they do it in 2010, can it be retroactively applied to january 1, 2010 or will the window. be exempt from the estate tax? guest: when the senate gets around to doing this, it will more than likely be retroactive to january 1. even in the way congress operates, i don't think they would create the untenable position of having a window there where there would be no estate tax and later on there might be an estate tax. the way i joke aboutd't this whi do seminars -- i don't think you, if you were hooked up to life support and somebody had to make a medical decision and if they pulled the plug, you have no state tax and if they waited, there would be an estate tax. i don't think anybody wants to crea

one from long island university. he served in desert shield and desert storm.as held faculty positions at west point, including football coach. he was 78 in commandant. is that the chief of the academy? guest: commandant is responsible for the military development. leadership development is military, physical, and academic. my battle body, the dean, we worked on military. guesthost: what was your footbal record? guest: it has been too long. host: tell us about the 25th division. guest: it is headquartered in hawaii. they have a tremendous lineage that goes back to world war ii and the korean war. they also participated in haiti, the work in haiti. host: in 1994? guest: wright, 1994, 1995. they are involved in the global war on terrorism. they have had two rotations in iraq and one in afghanistan. they are scheduled to go back to iraq. based on the last mission, it will be changing. a very honorable division. my memories are fantastic. host: lincoln, nebraska. go ahead. caller: i salute your service to the nation, general. my question, the prime minister of iraq

host: next up is long island, n.y., on airline for democrats.aller: it is confusing when you look at the people who practice their political ideologies and when you look at the way the idea adelgids were written. we confuse fascism and communism and socialism. we have to remember that italian fascism was not the same as german nazism which was a spinoff of fascism. many things that were practiced by the nazis were not practiced by the fascists. the ideas were also very different for the fascist did not have a "mein kampf." you also have to look at the united states. we do in practice our democratic principle perfectly, either. our foreign-policy -- we will use you and regulations against iraq for them by letting things and we will not use that against the right wing of the israeli nation when they colonize against the international requirements for them to stay out of the west bank. it is very hypocritical on how we practice our own politics. we have to look at the way certain things were written like communism and how it was supposed to benefit

host: long island, new york, independent line, robert, good morning. caller: good morning.ust like to say that the earth has been warming up ever since the ice age. they seem to know what created the ice age, but they don't seem to think what is creating the hot age. it is being slowly warmed up all these centuries, and we can do whatever we want to do, but it's going to keep on warming up. thank you. host: thank you. let's go to anderson in south carolina where james is on the republicans line. hi, james. caller: good morning. thank you for c-span. i just would like people to think outside the box about the solar system, how it works and how the other planets in our solar system are going through climate changes as well. you can find these things if you search hard enough on the internet. the sun also has its own weather system, which cycles every 11 years. now, when i was in high school, they were telling us that we were headed towards an ice age, you know, because it was so cold , and i think the evidence that scientists i think are on the payroll maybe. i think it is an

i represent the north shore of long island. it is paces from where mr.. operated. country club see belonged to. thousands of people who thought they were likely to know such a nice man who is so reliable received all the alkylates did alkylates -- all the accolades. these people thought they were lucky. they were probably the unluckiest people of all. they were further ripped apart. they knew this guy they thought was a wonderful human being. how lucky were they? now they are personally devastated. to those people who look upon the victims and thought how smart they are and how stupid they were, they really do not get it. some of them are involved in this fraud personally. we have to be able to somehow do better. i think it is interesting almost everybody on the panel have actually selected witnesses to appear before is that we understand who the victims really are. what we have to do is try to fix the system so it makes sense. we cannot treat everybody equally. we said people upon themselves like a bunch of piranhas. which group is luckier? it behooves us to figur

the he's say play on the other end, and rhode island gets to get into their pressure. >> tim: that pressure again exhibited. it's knocked away. those long rhode island rams. cothran got his hands on that one. you look at this rhode island team, they've got a lot of pieces to the puzzle. quality depth, players that are quite similar that can come in, second-line guys and they give up very little when they go to their bench. >> mike: well, consider the fact their point guard and their backup point guard are both in the top ten and top ten in assists. i don't know i've everer ed heard of that before in any conference. you know they get solid play at that position. >> tim: pulled down by lamonte ulmer. ulmer similar in his approach as james. cothran using the right hand and going to the glass. he has ten. cothran averaging 17 a game. >> mike: with cothran, he averages seven points in the first half games, ten in the second. he works late. you know what, jim baron, he'll live with that play. an occasional breakout layup like that as opposed to the turnovers in the early part of the press. >> tim: rebound of the cothran shot. biko paris with

host: long island, new york. independent line. caller: yes, good morning.what is secretary of state hillary clinton doing, is she waiting for an opinion poll to come out? thank you very much. guest: oh, wow. i certainly can't speak for hillary clinton but it's true. i don't think we have seen her publicly since this has unfolded. can you recall? no, i don't believe so. we certainly had briefings at the state department, but you are correct. the two people who have been at the forefront of that, this public face, wasÑi initially th secretary of homeland security and then president obama. i can't speak as to why hillary clinton has not been more visible. there may be a very legitimate reason for that. host: oklahoma city, oklahoma. democrats' line. caller: we have caucasians in america that join the ku klux klan and join these military militias because their mindsets is against the government. we have people from inside america, americans that want to destroy the government from within. and most of those are republicans. now, another thing. if the terrorist o

host: norma, independent from long island.hope the white house is listening. many of us are extremely disappointing us. it's on the pre-existing conditions will definitely effect seniors premiums in something as like high blood pressure. practically every senior i know has high blood pressure. let's get down to what's going on here. i think the problem is in the senate so far as senaáor reid is concerned and i'm wondering if mr. bingaman to get a book entitled master of the senate. the authorest scrapes me. good. it's written aboutl b. j. and how he managed to run the senate and get what he wanted. looks to me joe lieberman is new senate majority leader and he's running the senate. something wrong with harry reed that let's this person remain in chair in light of what he's trying destroy anything the democrats do. bipartisan ship is simply not going to work and it's time for all senators including mr. reid to wake up to that effect. i'm calling senators today to say if they vote for this bill i'm not voting for them again. hos

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host: norma, independent from long island. i'm a senior that voted for president barack obama. i hope the white house is listening. many of us are extremely disappointing us. it's on the pre-existing conditions will definitely effect seniors premiums in something as like high blood pressure. practically every senior i know has high blood pressure. let's get down to what's going on here. i think the problem is in the senate so far as senaáor reid is concerned and i'm wondering if mr. bingaman to get a book entitled master of the senate. the authorest scrapes me. good. it's written aboutl b. j. and how he managed to run the senate and get what he wanted. looks to me joe lieberman is new senate majority leader and he's running the senate. something wrong with harry reed that let's this person remain in chair in light of what he's trying destroy anything the democrats do. bipartisan ship is simply not going to work and it's time for all senators including mr. reid to wake up to that effect. i'm calling senators today to say if the

host: anthony is next, joining us from long island, new york. caller: good morning, mr. good morning, ms. hersman. i want to wish the c-span people behind the scenes a happy holiday season as well. i have an important question, pertaining to those orange boxes, or black boxes. it seems as though when they are found, they are sometimes kept from the public eye. i just wondered, why is it that if it is taxpayer-funded, what you don't have full access to those boxes? more importantly, on 9/11, four plans crash, and not one set of black boxes has been revealed. you might say, well, the boxes were never found, but that is not true. the boxes were recovered, and yet they are kept from scrutiny from either the media or from the scientific community to expose exactly, precisely what was on those boxes. host: or the boxes down? -- were the boxes down? guest -- >> found? guest: in most of those cases they were found. that was actually a criminal investigation. with respect to what is revealed on the boxes, i want to make it very clear that there are two sets of data. one of them i

host: steve, long island -- joe, independent. caller: interesting comments by the senator.republicans are acting stupidly. this whole health care situation has become a political football, and i guess it is going to be a problem for democrats, but republicans should not be posting. they really missed the opportunity when they had the power to put together a plan that would work and fix the system, and instead, they just went ahead and continue their own little other in their own nest, i guess. now we have a political situation on something that is of vital importance to america, we are going to wind up with something that i do not think will be good for the american people. i'm very disappointed. i used to be a republican, and i am now an independent, i will not vote for a republican or democrat in any upcoming election. until they grow up and start taking responsibility for the country, and the job that they have, i just cannot give them my vote. i'm looking for an independent candidate. host: front page of "the washington times close with this morning, "100,000 earmarks i

host: long island, new york. independent line. caller: yes, good morning.at is secretary of state hillary clinton doing, is she waiting for an opinion poll to come out? thank you very much. guest: oh, wow. i certainly can't speak for hillary clinton but it's true. i don't think we have seen her publicly since this has unfolded. can you recall? no, i don't believe so. we certainly had briefings at the state department, but you are correct. the two people who have been at the forefront of that, this public face, wasÑi initially th secretary of homeland security and then president obama. i can't speak as to why hillary clinton has not been more visible. there may be a very legitimate reason for that. host: oklahoma city, oklahoma. democrats' line. caller: we have caucasians in america that join the ku klux klan and join these military militias because their mindsets is against the government. we have people from inside america, americans that want to destroy the government from within. and most of those are republicans. now, another thing. if the terrorist or

the next will go to david from long island.going to say that i am opposed to the war. i believe that the war is a fraud. we spent billions of dollars and can't it be the group. they fight out of pickup trucks. they used missiles left over from the 80's. i think it's similar to vietnam. vietnam was based on a place which is now considered a fraud. i think 9/11 is questionable. there are documentaries that supplement a movie to that. alex jones predicted 9/11 in the summer of 2001. >> 9/11 is questionable in what way? >> i think there's a lot of problems with what happened there. u.s. people pleasing options on the airlines that were attacked. they made a lot of money off the bat. you can look at 9/11 options. peter jennings covered it. so did 9/11 families. the 9/11 commission put out a book called on president and commissioners hamilton and kean said the commission was set up to fail. >> david, thank you for the call. carla is joining us from pennsylvania. do you support the president? >> yes, i support the president. i would l

host: thank you for making your points and sharing your own experiences from long island.hear from labor department officials this morning and we will be covering that event there is also a transportation department event looking at high speed rail and the impact, with gm and kawasaki, a japanese road transportation manufacturer. jim, good morning. caller: glad you could take my call. we got the wealthiest capital in the united states and we have so little to look forward to. i have seen a lack of services and all the all levels of government. from the ground up enough problems and no one represents a spread -- represents the spirit as soon as the immigrants -- no one represents bus. as soon as the immigrants arrive at our front door, they receive a check and are given status as responsible individuals. host: jo is joining us from florida. what is on your mind? caller: you could not have opened me with a better statement. i run a vending machine business, and just to make a quick statement, last year it was a very, very productive. money was being given to people to buy bi

reserve pilots are within two to three hours of their duty station but even there, if you live on long islandyou are trying to get to newark it can easily take three hours so you do have the plan far ahead. i do not see it as the problem. one of them that has been cited so many times is that the first officer commuted from seattle to new work to fly her trip. what should be said is or should be pointed out is she could have flown that trip as a pilot the night before and been legal to fly the trip to buffalo, so it is not just commuting, it is the overall issue of how are flight duty time rules work. who is in charge? well, i think it starts and ends with the captain but the carrier does have responsibility. the carrier has got a responsibility to accept my word and they are not going to fire me or discipline me if i say i'm too tired to go on. we still fight the problem. we khaled pilots pushing because of the airplane doesn't go the revenues it's on the tarmac. they don't have enough pilots because they have cut back so much that trip is canceled. those economic pressures live every day. we

host: next subpoena long island. good morning to brad on our independents line, hi., hi, good morning. host: good morning. caller: yerks i'm a third-generation physician, a second-generation ophthalmologist, and a first-generation single father, but first-year law student who i still love anyway, and healthcare, this healthcare issue is emblematic of the overt quid pro quo racketeering of our government. and as a physician, i can tell you it's illegal, grossly illegal, for c.e.o.'s of healthcare companies to determine whether a doctor's diagnosis or orders are legitimate. and when they refuse to treat somebody, that's more than racketeering. that's overt murder. and if they're held accountable, like everybody else, because on my and all the other physicians and healthcare workers' backs, c.e.o.'s are making $57,000 an hour, and they don't do anything. they don't provide anything. and all their surrogates who are selling policies are, in fact, have no idea what they're selling. they don't know, for example, what the indications are for cataract surgery. andly, all the

host: our next call is from joe on long island, new york, on the line from independents. you have a governor's race in 2010. caller: thank you for c-span. yes, we do have a governor's race. gov. paterson is having a real problem. my question to the governor is -- i am independent, and when the first comments you made -- one of the first comments you made this how many democrats they were and how many republicans their workers when are you going to get politicians who just care about the people to stop going into the democratic caucus or the republican governors association? why can you guys sit down at -- what can you guys not sit down and get something done for the american people? that is a big disappointment from president obama. he promised that things would be different, and the partisanship has just increased. i would be . . office i have been elected to print in montana, -- elected to. in montana, at the governor and lieutenant governor run as a team, like the president and vice-president. the day i announced i was choosing a republican state senator to be my lieut

one from long island university. he served in desert shield and desert storm. desert storm. he has he has held football positions and teaching positions at west point and was the head coach. guest: the commandant is responsible for military development, not the physical development of the court did cadets -- the court cadets. i have a counterpart, who was the dean of the academic corps. host: what was your football record? guest: that was a couple of years ago. tomorrow is the army-navy game. after seven years of not winning, i will put some money on that one. host: tells about the 25th division. guest: we take orders at barracks in hawaii. we have a tremendous lineage going back to world war ii, and they also participate in haiti. . host: in 1994? guest: wright, 1994, 1995. they are involved in the global war on terrorism. they have had two rotations in iraq and one in afghanistan. they are scheduled to go back to iraq. based on the last mission, it will be changing. a very honorable division. my memories are fantastic. host: lincoln, nebraska. go ahead. caller: i salute yo

. >> my name is gerald from long island, new york. a democrat. i interned in then-senator clinton's office last year then did some field work for the obama campaign. and heard nothing but good things. >> my name is gretchen foul. i'm a first year applied politics master's student. i'm from st. paul, minnesota. i've worked a few campaigns in minnesota and then i helped with a campaign to replace rahm emanuel in the fifth district and i'm here because i hope to be managing campaigns at some point. >> i'm from loudon county, virginia. i'm a first year grad student and i worked for mcdonald for governor and huckabee and john mccain for president last year and i'm a republican. >> i'm stephanie slade. i am also a first year grad student from tampa, florida. no campaign experience. i would consider myself an open-minded r. i'm here out of interest in political communications. >> my name is amy. i'm a first year master student. no campaign experience. i consider myself a leaning democrat. and i took cmi just because of its reputation. >> my name is dan.

island share something. television has come a long way.ed states clearly is trying to take this changing technological landscape into account and changing policies toward cuba. it is still must clear that we have the right mix. on the one hand, earlier this year, president obama authorized in number of changes in u.s. policy with telecommunications, including allowing u.s. telecom providers to enter into agreement around optic fiber that links cuba to the united states. they enter into roaming service agreements. when you're working with cuban providers, that is clearly the cuban government. the desire to increase those official types of linkages -- at the same time, the u.s. has tried to help facilitate society in cuba and provide technology along those lines as well. with regard to tecological changes in cuba, in the process of trying to facilitate downloading development, downloading democracy, or downloading destabilization -- those other things that are very much on the minds of those cubans on the island. with that comment, we would

host: norma, independent from long island.: good morning, i'm a senior that voted for president barack obama. i hope the white house is listening. many of us are extremely disappointing us. it's on the pre-existing conditions will definitely effect seniors premiums in something as like high blood pressure. practically every senior i know has high blood pressure. let's get down to what's going on here. i think the problem is in the senate so far as senaáor reid is concerned and i'm wondering if mr. bingaman to get a book entitled master of the senate. the authorest scrapes me. good. it's written aboutl b. j. and how he managed to run the senate and get what he wanted. looks to me joe lieberman is new senate majority leader and he's running the senate. something wrong with harry reed that let's this person remain in chair in light of what he's trying destroy anything the democrats do. bipartisan ship is simply not going to work and it's time for all senators including mr. reid to wake up to that effect. i'm calling senators toda

i was provost of southampton college of long island university and we offered a masters in creative writingand hired frank mccourt to teach in that program. he taught in that program every summer from 2002 through 2008 and he was preparing to teach in the summer of 2009 when he died. to describe him as a great teacher is to not do him justice. he was an extraordinary teacher. he was inspiring, he was inspired, he was engaging, and he was incredibly effective. the work shop he offered was called memoir writing. it was always the most heavily subscribed of all the work shops we offered. there was always a waiting list. alan alda worked on his memoirs as a student in frank mccourt's class. anne bancroft was a student in frank mccourt's memoir writing class that class was a textbook in how to teach, how to engage student, how to turn them on to a subject matter and how to get the most out of them, the very essence of teaching. he did it with enormous humor, with great charm and almost effortless in his ability to connect with students. so i am delighted that the congress, i hope that the congre

tim fagan, a young 16-year-old boy from long island, new york. he received a liver trns plant. he -- transplant. he received epogen after the transplant. he received daily injections but the red blood cell count wasn't improving. after two months tim's mom went to the pharmacy where she was told that the epogen that your son has been taking may have been counterfeit. here is an example, again, an example of counterfeiting in the existing domestic drug supply. counterfeiting in which this container held the counterfeit medicine and this container held the real medicine. there were subtle differences, but not much. it turned out that the vials that tim was injecting contained 1-20 of the -- 1/20 of the strength. the weaker drug sells for $20 a bottle and the higher strength goes for $440 a bottle. investigators found that 110,000 of the bogus bottles reached the market in this country. and it's estimated that criminals involved with that counterfeiting in that particular case made $46 million. the manufacturer of that drug, a company called amerisource had some of the product thr

island, 68-54. and it all starts with the pilver and they got one. the long look ahead. sanders, he has really struggled in the second half. the lack of basketball conditioning, i think, really affecting him. and then it's just too easy down at the other end. really no way for people to react. >> tim: these home head scratchers, this falls into that category. >> mike: you look back, tim, historically there's been one or two every year, vermont -- duquesne and then the consecutive losses to harvard here this this building. the coaching staff was wondering how they were going to come out of that loss. certainly their attention and radar should have been on fall, but rhode island has really -- we talked about it as a key at the beginning of the tempo, dictate tempo. >> tim: rhode island get a lot out of this if they are able to come away with a road victory, on many fronts. this gives them a lot of momentum before they get into conference play, too. >> mike: jim baron said beforehand, they weren't picked -- very high in the preseason, but they've come together very quickly.

long time. >> coming from rhode island where we have a very big senior population and we are not like florida or arizona senior destination states, these are people who were often struggling to get by. for many rhode island seniors, coming of age to qualify for medicare is safe harbor after a lifetime of storms and worries. to move that forward is not an issue that creates a lot of tanks in our caucus between the lower administrative costs, lower provider payments and lower rates that that enables but more than anything else the feeling of comfort and security that you know you have got medicare. it is going to be a big difference for people. i don't see that as a point of great division. >> to regard a medicare by in as something we are saying we don't really want that. that is what we have to settle for. would be a total misinterpretation of the feelings of among most of us as shelton and bob mentioned. the democratic party has long sought it and look, here's another reaction. look at people who very much look forward to the public option. not all but any say at this is a step up especially

long time. >> coming from rhode island where we have a very big senior population and not like florida lower at arizona as a destination state they're very often struggling to get by for many seniors in rhode island, a coming-of-age to qualify for medicare is a safe harbor after a lifetime of storms and worries. such a move that forward is not an issue that is treated with angst the lower provider payments and the lower rates of that enables the more than anything else the deal of comfort and security to know that you have medicare will be a big point* for people not a point* of division. >> to regard the medicare by and as something that we don't want that but that is what we have to settle for is a total misinterpretation as much of us the democratic party has long sought. and here is another reaction. we look into the blogosphere of people who very much want the public option and many say it is a step up especially given the public option that we ended up with was not as strong as some would like. nea idea that this is a fallback i think is a big step forward. i think that is how most of us

the savannah river made up largely of royce rafts, big long draughts tied to get their to make a bridge and they went as far as one of the islands in the savannah river and then they went across the island to the other side of it and another pontoon bridge was erected. they knocked down the walls and used them on top of the rice flats for a surface and since they couldn't get the trains out of savanna they took the wheels off the trains as weights to hold down the pontoon bridge and this was done very ingeniously and it's almost certain sherman's man knew that it was being done that they wanted them out of savannah. meanwhile harding, trying to fool the americans had built bonfires all the way through the environment of savannah to look as if the troops were camping out near the union troops and so would looked as if there was an actual troop presence at the time they crossed in the middle of the night. they crossed, durham boats, burned the pontoon bridge and they could be seen crossing the bridge by some of the union troops at night but nevertheless they got across. i think only one bed and fell into the river. the authors man

. >> i am long-term interest in the problems that are faced operatively by those island states where the possibility is that we could be dealing with climate change refugees and climate change in the not-too-distant future. and therefore, copenhagen is important because it can allow us to make a commitment to help immediately those island states that are facing needs among difficulties and help them get support to do with their adaptation that is necessary. we will not forget the challenges faced by these island. many of them are part of the commonwealth and it is a portal that we come to the aid of countries when they are in need. >> mr. speaker, why was the prime minister's statement completely silent on the consul agreements for a tangible e.u., a single space and a security system and what he calls a common asylum system by 2012? says labour ministers argue against all these policies against the negotiations of the lisbon treaty, as i saw for myself on the european convention, does the prime minister regret having to support them now and pretend that he was always in favor of the