first we'll hear remarks from outgoing republican senator dick luger. that's outgoing republican senator dick luger. during his 20 minutes remarks he talks that u.s. foreign aid money is going to climate change programs over traditional education or food assistance programs. after that, we'll hear from the presidents of liberia, malawi and kosovo on developing their countries and a discussion on relief work in afghanistan, haiti, somalia and iran. dick luger is introduced by ravij shah. >> thank you for that introduction and hosting us for these next few days but for the deep and meaningful relationship that georgetown has displayed in partnering to produce frontiers in development. it's been a team effort with the georgetown team and development experts so thank you very much. i also want to take a moment to recognize that this really is an example of a wonderful public/private partnership with partners like the gates foundation, hewlett foundation and macarthur foundation coming together to recognize the changes and we have a chance to be more creativ

reverend fred luger jr. a milestone for the southern baptists, the church formed as a post slavery group before the civil war. luger said everyone has a past, all we can do is apologize and move on. and he called today's vote a sign that this is truly a new day. and now the changing face of the modern american family. a new study in the pew research uncovered a fact. the fastest growing wave of immigrants are asians. they are settling in surprising parts of this country and going after the american dream with gusto. and here's abc's sharyn alfonsi. >> reporter: soo kim abboud is one of the faces behind those new numbers. the daughter of korean immigrants who expected excellence from her. >> i don't think i brought home a "c" ever. my sister did once. her life wasn't the same for about another year. >> reporter: it's a philosophy that paid off. she's now a successful surgeon, author, professor and mother of two young children. the embodiment of the modern asian family. forget the poor huddled masses. this wav

bob bennett, his friend in the senate, but more importantly, i think he learned lessons from dick lugerindiana who was indignant that he was being sort of called back to his home state. and i think orrin hatch has made a point of showing his constituents in utah. he still wants to be there. >> he wants to be in the senate so he'll say anything he has to stay in washington. >> at least he's telling us he still cares, he's very in touch with his voters, while luger was very -- >> the club for growth was kind of the first one who would primary incumbents who they consider to be rhinos and not far enough to the right and hatch moved so that he eventually got tea party express, club four growth, sarah palin all to line up behind him to avoid the fate of some of these colleagues. >> you can make two very interesting bookends here about the story of orrin hatch's career, or the study of moderate conservativism. he came in in 1976 who was written off and ran as a reagan conservative. he was one of the tl-- there we number of primaries that took out some incumbents. all these sort of entrenched

avoiding the fate of fellow senator dick luger who lost to a tea party-backed candidate in last month'sindiana republican primary. in new york, charlie wrangle able to win the democratic primary, 46-40. his seat, the one he's held since 1970, was considered up for grabs. after he was censured by the house for 11 ethics violations, including failure to pay taxes. an upset of wrangle would have been a stunning development when you consider he won his last three general elections with an average of 88% of the vote. both hatch and wrangle are considered favorites now to win re-election in november. >>> still ahead this morning on "way too early," youk-gate, were boston fans booing the president or just paying tribute to their departed kevin youkilis, with a "youk" call. >>> plus the latest on the wildfires around colorado springs that boent quit. we'll show you where the fight against the flames is headed now. you get a check on the weather, when "way too early" comes back. >>> a routine police raid on an unlicensed bar, the stonewall inn, a gay bar in greenwich village, suddenly the custom

senator luger does not have additional questions i have one or two quickly, but i want to get the record complete here. we'll leave the record open, incidentally, to are a week in case there are additional questions to submit in writing. mr. timmons, at a hearing before the committee a couple of weeks ago we heard from one of the think tank folks out here from the heritage foundation, analyst who said that u.s. companies are free to exploit the deep sea bed right now and they have all the legal certainty necessary to support investments to drill in the deep sea bed. the analogy drawn by that witness is it's just like fishing. you go out and it's everyone for themselves. in light of the fact that you have 160 nations and all the parties to the convention, it seems odd to sort of suggest every person for themself approach to this. i wonder, you've addressed it somewhat here, you've talked about the certainty. i want to be crystal clear whether that's an alternative. is that viable? >> well, senator, i would -- mr. chairman, i would say it's an alternative but i don't think it's viable. we

. >> thank you, senator luger. >> thank you. i won't go into what i did this morning but when we had the generals there, i say to you, secretary rumsfeld, i commented from my experience in the military that we have chain of command. it's kind of interesting all these people and this morning we had 24 stars before us. i submitted a letter of 33 stars who are retired. seems like once they retire things kind of change. i always suspected that had to do with the chain of command. president obama and before him -- >> can i say to you, senator. >> i'll give you your time. i'm not going to invade your time. you are impugning the integrity of their testimony. each said they were there personally. it was their personal belief. no one twisted their arm and no one suggested it. >> not suggesting otherwise. i know the chain of command. that's all. i'd ask you secretary rumsfeld, how does it serve our national security interest to send not appropriated, entitlement spending to an international organization from payments that would go to coun

senator luger has raised this question about sort of do you maybe get a trillion dollars or something, whatever you might get out of it. if you are seeing an untoward distribution of that, you do have this ability to get out of it. as i've said. but the bottom line is this. if we don't do it, there are no royalties. and there's no guarantee that anybody's going to drill. and the only reason i can say that to you is that the ceos and legal departments of these companies are telling us that. now, you can choose not to believe fortune 500 ceos and their stock value interests and all the rest of it. it would be the first time i've known the republican party not to put some credibility in what they're saying. but you know, that's the choice here. it's not -- it seems to me we have to keep this framed properly. we will have additional hearings and we will continue to explore this. you all have been enormously helpful in fleshing out a number of these considerations. the record is getting stronger as a result in terms of people's ability to make judgments and that's what we want to do. so i'

asked to be done by the syrian people themselves majority of dictators the source luger thrown have been done. actually people so oh you have foreign intervention like in libya that is very very messy and. i'm sure. we're escalating great powers and i'm trying to make it do great power when it really is a people's you're. all right we've lost tony for a minute so i'm just going to stick with you but i mean what do you say is that it's again to the point where the international community is just going to call it a civil war and you know once you get to that point that in this case for trying to intervene when it's a civil war becomes a lot more difficult doesn't it. and there's one problems with. them i don't want to make moral judgment against people who are most in people like me who have to take up arms was all trends was huge is a big mystery because of the first six months when the switch was overwhelmed with nonviolent you know they didn't have support in the world they grew up on the syrian people but when the army on the so-called free syrian army begin to change and roll became m

senator warner, spectser, luger. to start, i want to thank the distinguished republican leader senator dole for his vision in directing the establishment of a senate republican health care task force in 1990. think of it, over three years ago, senator dole set up this republican health care task force. his support and encouragement of our efforts have brought us here today. i'm particularly indected to him for that. >> all right, so that is pretty much every leading senate republican of the time, including bob dole, who is leterally the leader of the senate republicans at the time. you want to know what was at the core of the bill, the heart bill? it was an individual mandate. it's right there in section 1501. section 1501, requirement of coverage, effective january 1, '05, every citizen who is a lawful permanent resident of the united states should be covered by a health care program as defined in 1601. that's half of an individual mandate. you might say where is the other half, where is the penalty? allow me to dir

three republicans voted for it, bennett, luger, murkowski. had the five democratic senators voted for it it would have become law. the president could have passed it through. it never happened. so there is reluctance also, i think we have to see, from some of the conservative democrats over in the senate this is going to make them uncomfortable. i'm curious to see how it will play in a place like nebraska. down in florida, bill nelson will grab ahold of this as a good thing. but overall, this is a political move and in the most important thing, we haven't touched on it yet, he is now going to drown out mitt romney, who is launching his five-day bus tour. the bus tour will not get nearly the same traction as it had. that's the first thing republicans are griping about more than anything else. >> jose, i want to ask you, the president is scheduled to address the national association of latino elected and appointed officials next friday. we know polling numbers show nbc news/"wall street journal" poll shows the president leading by 30%, sometime

murdoch beating luger, yes, huge and others. >> chris: that was indiana. >> that was indiana. huge. they have been on the ground there for a year there, chris. all of the groups. shows you the party of the tea party and what they can do in terms of taking on unions. >> chris: let's talk november. wisconsin is a blue state and has not voted for a republican for president since ronald reagan won 49 states in 1984. if walker wins how translatable do you think this is to romney having a chance in a state that has not gone republican for a quarter century? >> it will energize the republican base. people will feel there is an opportunity there not to be missed. the fact is that president obama didn't win by a lot last time in wisconsin and that narrow margin is what has made people think it is possible here for the republicans to see a resurgence. doesn't guarantee anything because the state is divided he polarized over the walker thing. a lot of money has come in from people like the coke brothers. i'm not sure that is going to be present in the fall. but the base, the republican base in

to push those currently in office incumbents and others, think of the race involving senator dick lugerthose who will be even more conservative and they are are backing ted cruz. do you think you have to be to the extreme right or you are not going to be elected or challenged by the right wing groups? >> i red a challenge that said if you have any doubt in your mind whether david dewhurst is conservative ask the democrats in the texas legislature. i am -- i am -- i have always been conservative. mr. cruz is a quite frankly he is a bright guy. they eloquent but has been a staffer all of his life. i'm a conservative leader. mr. cruz has been a staffer in state and federal bureaucracies for over half of his career. he has never created a job. never been a businessman. never wore the uniform of the united states as i have. never served abroad defending his country as i have. and so you have a big contrast between my opponent and myself. now, i'm very, very comfortable with the support i have in the state of texas. if i wasn't conservative and rick perry weren't conservative because we have

luger just got bombed, bob bennett got bumped. orin hatch could get bombed in utah. -- could get bumped in utah. it is sad, i think, that you cannot put it together yourself the way reasonable people do. they don't buy the blue plate special. voters love union and they are pro-choice and they go down the list and every single thing, they are against free trade. there are some but they are about 30%. we just go down the line left or right. i like it when people say on one issue they are not with the party. you hardly ever hear that. then you are marked as some kind of pro-life nut. if our voters become independent, we will have more independent politicians, i think. that's a sobering isn't it? >> what you think the biggest mistakes of the obama and romney campaign have made so far? >> romney has not made many mistakes. he has the strategy of being the last man standing. it does not try to sell his personality. [laughter] it is like roller derby. just not the other guys off the court. you cannot hide from the incoming. it was a rele

luger just got bombed, bob bennett got bumped. orin hatch could get bombed in utah. it is sad, i think, that you cannot put it together yourself the way reasonable people do. they don't buy the blue plate special. voters love union and they are pro-choice and they go down the list and every single thing, they are against free trade. there are some but they are about 30%. we just go down the line left or right. i like it when people say on one issue they are not with the party. you hardly ever hear that. then you are marked as some kind of pro-life nut. if our voters become independent, we will have more independent politicians, i think. that's a sobering isn't it? >> what you think the biggest mistakes of the obama and romney campaign have made so far? >> romney has not made many mistakes. he has the strategy of being the last man standing. it does not try to sell his personality. [laughter] it is like roller derby. just not the other guys off the court. you cannot hide from the incoming. it was a relentless negative advertising. it was done by these super packs like

dick luger lost because he just lost touch with his district.e of the things working against charlie rangel today. >> thanks so much. and we'll see what happens. >> okay. >> good to see you both. >> take care. >>> a fatal shootout at a very busy airport. police officers open fire on other officers. standby for details on that. >>> plus, say good-bye to big ben, at least as you know it now. the famous london landmark gets a name change. we'll tell you what it is. >>> and the president is no stranger to fast food joints, but wait until you hear the barrage of questions he gets when he visits an atlanta favorite. recently, students from 31 countries took part in a science test. the top academic performers surprised some people. so did the country that came in 17th place. let's raise the bar and elevate our academic standards. let's do what's best for our students-by investing in our teachers. let's solve this. delivering mail, medicine and packages. yet the house is considering a bill to close thousands of offices, slash service and layoff over 100

luger just got bombed, bob bennett got bumped. orin hatch could get bombed in utah. it is sad, i think, that you cannot put it together yourself the way reasonable people do. they don't buy the blue plate special. voters love union and they are pro-choice and they go down the list and every single thing, they are against free trade. there are some but they are about 30%. wene left i like it when people say on one issue they are not with the party. you hardly ever hear that. then you are marked as some kind of pro-life and not. nut. if our voters become independent, we will have more independent politicians, i think. that's a sobering isn't it? >> what you think the biggest mistakes of the obama and romney campaign have made so far? >> romney has not made many mistakes. he has the strategy of being the last man standing. it does not try to sell his personality. [laughter] it is like roller derby. just not the other guys off the cores. court. you cannot hide from the incoming. it was a relentless negative advertising. it was done by these super packs. like restore our