jayne appel. >> jim: mary, you saw it just as i saw it. >> mary: it's unbelievable. as soon as the possession changes, she's at midcourt. >> jim: inside. the help defense came from pedersen. and the foul, i believe, will be on pedersen. no, they get appel for the reach. >> lisa: but the nice job about appel, she's going to react. once the ball hits the rim, you take off. your first three steps. i ran the floor all the time, and that's how you beat the defense. in fact, tara taught me that. >> mary: i got this old videotape about pat riley. the whole thing is about the first two steps. you've got to swing those arms and appel does that. >> lisa: she's not the fastest player on the floor but because she makes the effort and reacts to the shots, she's getting down there for fastbreak layups. >> jim: you don't have to be the fastest, you just have to be faster than your man? >> lisa: absolutely. and you have to react. >> mary: put her ice skates on and made it to the bucket. >> lisa: absolutely. >> jim: 34-22. the lead was also 12 at the break. all that work by tennessee

>> first, mary, we have no composure.getherness with our schemes on offense or defense. and, obviously, when you're not making shots, you've got to make stops. and stanford's had their way. they've had their way up and down the floor both ends. we've got to go in and try to figure something out. i'm not sure what it is. but hopefully we'll have a better game plan the second half. >> mary: good luck with that. thanks for joining us. >> thank you. >> jim: when you're not making shots, you've got to make stops. tennessee did neither in the last ten minutes. the vols, 7 of 32 from the field. stanford shot 40%. it's a 12-point difference. stanford, 30, tennessee, 18. number two over number three.... >> jim: 30-18. number two, stanford, over number three, tennessee. halftime inside maples pavilion where the cardinal have not lost in three years. a beautiful day on the san francisco peninsula. a good time to stretch your legs with a walking tour of the stanford campus. ♪ >> welcome to stanford. i'm ali. i'll be your tour guide t

can't well and mary landrieu from louisiana. they recognized how important this was. they recognized we were trying to solve major problems for people, especially in rural amplest i think it would be worthwhile to reflect back on the 2003 debate and remember the reasons this issue inspired such strong bipartisan consensus. you don't hear it at all from that side now. after the program has proven its efficacy and has proven that it works. we supported the medicare advantage program six years ago because we knew it was the right thing to do for beneficiaries and the same logic holds true today. we owe it to beneficiaries to provide a strong, adequately funded program that provides them with high-quality health care choices. during the finance committee's consideration of -- and by the way, every medicare beneficiary can go into medicare advantage if they desire under current

mary bono mack of california. congresswoman mary bono mack has represented california's 45th district since 1998. .. extended until the year 2022. that's a fact. at least the fact is, that's what the c.b.o. concludes in the letter. they say that is a fact. second as a caring physician i mean does the senator think that -- that we as a country should try to find a way to provide health insurance for you know, so many americans some of the them lower income, who just don't have health insurance in our country? after all, we're the only industrialized country in the world that doesn't find a way to make sure its citizens have health insurance. i mean, you -- as a physician who sees patients, and when of >> guest: we were in montana, i gave a little slide show, and you were sitting on, i think there was like five, six people there. you were sitting on a couch and you had a baseball cap on and you asked some very timely questions, and i didn't know who you were at the time. when we got done, i remember you saying well,

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those in the long run will b more cost effective than screing devices. >> david schanzer and mary hiavo, thank you both for joining us. >> thank you. thank you. >> brown: now, more on t country that's bome the latest focus of terrism fears: yemen. we begin wh washington post reporter sudarsan raghavan i yemes capital, sanaah. i talked with him a shortime o by phone. >> sudarsaraghavan, welcome. so it's noknown that mr. abdul abdulmutallab inemen reasonable, but aprently not considered a threa can you add to what heas doing there? >> sure. he arred in august to ke an arabic lanage course at a language instute in soig's old old -- i sanaa's old city. th is the second time in yemen, he had taken a silar course in 20. what we knows that he attended a course in august a september, b then abruptly disappeared. the peop i spoke to at the scho today said that in tober -- from october on he didn't show up this courses. and that's basically whe the investigatiois heading. the yemeni authoritiesre trying to piece togetherhere he wasetween october and december. >> now, what about theroup that has t

caller: mary christmas. guest: mary christmas, i know you are currently unwrapping presents right now. i love you all and thanks for your support. i will be calling you later on today and seeing what you got from santa claus. caller: mayor a christmas dad. caller: -- merry christmas dad. caller: hi, dad. guest: i cannot see you from this end, but i can hear you and i just want to thank you for being there for me. i am thinking about you. merry christmas from all the soldiers and service members over here. we are all missing our families. host: we want to thank your wife and children as well for calling in this morning. general gary patton joining us from kabul this morning. we appreciate your time this morning, general. guest: thank you for having me on the show. thanks for bringing my family into the show. it was great to talk to the american public out there. again, mary christmas, happy new year to you all. we're going to get back to our information, but thank you for talking me -- talking to me this morn

for that, we turn to mary schiavo, former inspector general of the department of transporation. she's now an aviation attorney in private practice, and represents many of the families whose relatives were killed in the 9/11 attacks. and david schanzer. he's the director of the triangle center on terrorism and homeland security at duke university and the university of north carolina. i want to start by asking you what the president had to say today. he said there was a systemic failure, a mix of human and systemic failure. what does that mean to you? >> well, that means that there's more than one fail. obviously first and foremost that people followed the screening that failed, but obviously the various watch list. the watch lists were targeted and revealed to be a problem in the summer of this year. there was a special report de by the office of inspector general, congress has addressed these issues, they knew that the screening wasn't good as well, so many things failed. thus his calling it a systemic failure. >> david schanzer is there a technology in place that could have avo

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loves marie callender's home-style creations.here does she find them? not in the freezer section. that's why becky uses gps. not that kind. go to the pasta or soup aisle to find marie callender's home-style creations. keep up the good work, becky. your walgreens pharmacist also dispenses wisdom... to help you make the right health care decisipds. like understanding medicare part d. we'll walk you through a free plan comparison report... to guide you to the most cost-effective... and comprehensive plan, whether you're new to medicare part d... or you've been covered for a while. so stop in and stay well. cheese! walgreens. there's a way to stay well. . >> larry: i want to apologize. we got cut off for a glitch in one of the cities. and i will go back to penn jillette and health care the senate democratic compromise and looks like it's going jetson. what do you make of it. >> medicare early is a very big deal and is moving to the little ral agenda than the public option. i think it's a little bit, for her, spending our way of a rec

caller: mary christmas. mary christmas, i know you are currently unwrapping presents right now. i love you all and thanks for your support. i will be calling you later on today and seeing what you got from santa claus. caller: mayor a christmas dad. caller: -- merry christmas dad. caller: hi, dad. guest: i cannot see you from this end, but i can hear you and i just want to thank you for being there for me. i am thinking about you. merry christmas from all the soldiers and service members over here. we are all missing our families. host: we want to thank your wife and children as well for calling in this morning. general gary patton joining us from kabul this morning. we appreciate your time this morning, general. guest: thank you for having me on the show. thanks for bringing my family into the show. it was great to talk to the american public out there. again, mary christmas, happy new year to you all. we're going to get back to our information, but thank you for talking me -- talking to me this morning. ha

thank you for joining us this morning, and mary christmas to you, and good luck as well. we are spending this half hour talking to service members in afghanistan. here's a story at msnbc.com. u.s. and taliban compete for afghan towns, but retaining talent is hard. greenville, michigan. go ahead. >> i wanted to tell a story, because you had the article on world war one. my grandfather -- the only thing i know about the war, because he would not talk about it, was that that was the war where they had those long holes they had dug, the trenches, and all day long they would fight, and when the sun went down, there would fix something to be -- eat. and before they went to bed, both sides, the germans and the americans would sing together. and that was the only thing he told us, because he thought war was so stupid. but i am so proud of the guys and girls that go. i did not know how they go. i am 60. high it would never think of doing that. but merry christmas to all of you, and i hope you like the story. host: according to senior military leaders, most units are in the midst o

go ahead. >> yes, mary christmas. my favorite of the year is god who hates by the subtitle courageous woman who enflamed the muslim world speaks out against her experience and the evils of islam. pascrell here is jones fell virginia. republican line, you're favorite book of 2009. >> caller: i would like to say merry christmas and thank all the troops that serve in the army and military. i appreciate them and my favorite book is the bible in every time i read it i read something new about a so it's new to me at this time of year our savior's dearth it is a good time to read it and i would like to say that jesus was conceived in december and born in september. it might be something somebody wants to study but i was a farmer who for many years and in the wintertime we didn't put our sheep on the side of the hills to graze. we took them to the barn that might be something you are interested in studying. >> host: a couple political books of the many political books, and by the way the past 11 years c-span's covered some 9,

mary, my question to you is the following. you seem to want to have it both ways.g on the one hand that in the long run, the architecture created in 1989 and 1990 missed the punctuational moment in that it did not provide for long-term satisfactory answers. there is a strong element of your analysis that is critical of the long term architecture created. on the other hand, if you are quick to say that it was the only possible architecture. how do you reconcile these two things? what are the implications of those statements? bill, my question to you is on your third and fourth example about iraq. you are critical of scholars. you said the policy makers had it more correct than the scholars in the decision to go to war against iraq. you say the decision makers have more rights and the scholars. -- you say the decision makers had a bit more right than the scholars. use of the scholars said the costs would exceed the benefits. -- you said that the scholars said that the costs will exceed the benefits. i do not know what you say that their views should be reconsidered.

i love you all very much and i wish you all at mary, mary christmas and much luck to everything thatomes a headed your life. " this is from mrs. bogart's geography class in el cajon high school. >> from monica avila. " is an honor to wish you a happy new year and merry christmas. thank you for trying to save our country and for us to be in peace. we all appreciate your bravery and honesty to keep yourself and your honor of. thank you. " >> this was written by solly jones of climax, georgia. "dear vietnam veterans, is with honor that i wish to a blessed policies in an ungrateful for all you veterans. and for service to our country so we can all be saved. i will never forget you veterans. i lost my son from loans overseas. he did not die over there but at home. god bless." >> this is a message from diana gutenberg in south carolina. "we set up the vietnam war memorial and thank you and god bless you this policies and." >> this is from jasmine ariola in fort worth, texas. "i am a student from carter riverside high school, in fort worth, texas. i want to thank you for defending our count

mary's church in shrewsbury, mrs. blute served on many committees. she taught catechism, worked with the women's guild and was a eucharist minister. in 1994, she received the ultimate honor for all of her service to the shrewsbury community through the catholic church with the title of one of the catholic religious orders related to charitable service. sher generosity extended outside her family and her neighbors. after her children had left for college, mrs. blute offered her home and her hospitality to young vietnamese im-- immigrants. one, who is 44 years old, said of her host, when i first came here she was standing at the door waiting for me with arms wide open. i felt shaky but as i came to her she hugged me. ann marie blute's kindness knew no bounds. mrs. blute sadly passed away at the age of 83. she is survived by her husband, children and large extended family. please join me in supporting this bill in honor of ann marie blute who served her community in shrewsbury. thank you, mr. speaker. i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro te

and mary christmas to you and all the publicity. host: recovered wrong cawe covel talking about his book. " there were discussions with alan greenspan. i tell the story about the time and most of you would know the story. alan greenspan was get a supporter of a little group of people in the 1960's. he wrote a fantastic article about how bad the debt was and how bad the central bank was and we confiscate wealth by printing money. it is a wonderful article. we had one session and one morning before orlin to the banking committee and it was to go in and say -- before we go into the banking committee. he was getting ready to testify. i dug up an old copy of the objective newsletter with the original article appeared on the gold standard. a doug that out and took it with a. when i was meeting him, i said, and d recognize suspects i had it and flipped it open to that particular article. he said, yes, i remember that article. i said, would you, autograph this article? he took his pen out and signed it. i said, do you want to add a disclaim

robert mary has written a new book about him. -- robert merry. >> of mary, in your book, -- bob merry, you talk about a senator named tibetan. -- named benton. why? >> he was a big man at the time. he was so representing in missouri in the senate forced 30 years. he was a powerful figure. he wrote a massive memoir after that, which historians have been using for a century and a half. he was very powerful during that time. ñr>> the story about the dual audience and do jackson never ceases to amaze me. what was the story? >> they were very close. there were a lot of tools and tennessee in those days when jackson was relatively young girl. he consented to be the second of a friend of his. jesse took a bullet to the buttocks, which proved embarrassing. as a result of that, they were trashing jackson's name all over national. jackson did not like that. he took himself quite seriously. he went after the two of them with a riding with. jackson was wounded in the soldier. he was lying in the street of national bleeding profusely. and realize that given the fact that jackson was the hero of te

the terps are lacking something that william and mary has and that's a signature win. terps have had opportunity, just never really seized on them. >> they won six games at home. what have you liked about them so far this season and what do they need to improve upon before the a.c.c. starts? >> one thing that they have to improve upon ray vazquez is the player that everybody thought he was going to be all year long. over the course of the last three games, he has been magnificent, everything that he could have asked for at both end of the floor. that's the most critical part. beyond that, they have to defend a little better, defend a little bit better, rebound better. >> i want to talk about shawn moseley tonight. >> he is 93% coming into this game. i don't know how you figure that one out, but he looks good. he could have played against florida atlantic and i think that implicitly tells you what gary williams thinks about this game. that's how important it is. he will play. >> talking about those squall wins so far and, as you know, you played, when you get into your

so ann marie, wonderful to see you. i'm real estatey delighted to see with emily adam and dalia because i think we do different things even as we do the same things. we cover the court in different forms in different -- in different ways, but i just would like to say how much i admire your work in particular. i mean dalia and emily have really redefined the way the court is covered in many represents with an irreverence and intelligence that hasn't been seen before. adam has brought new vigor to the supreme court beat including to a wonderful story. you really stick it to anthony kennedy. adam also has many other virtues, including the fact that he knows what east coming here, is that his -- what is coming here. is that his wife saved our dog's life when he ate a pair of my daughter's underwear. it really gets a lot worse from there. if you were to ask, the peculiar thing about the supreme court is that it is as one -- it is at once very well known as a important institution and virtually unknown in terms of what it doe

centers marie and harkin are off to their families.i look forward to working with my friends in the house so we can send a bill to the president as soon as possible. senator baucus, we will hear from the senators and we will not take questions. >> it has been nearly two years since we began our work. and we are very proud of this moment. we stand here at the finish line. as the tender, we do not stand alone part we stand up with those who blazed the trail before us. this was all the way from president theodore roosevelt to our good friend who is with us in spirit, as senator ted kennedy. we're standing with millions of american families who've been forced into bankruptcy to cover the cost of health care. we stayed here on behalf of 45 million americans who do not have health insurance part we stand with small-business owners who cannot afford health insurance for their employees. we stand with americans suffering from diseases like cancer, diabetes, and all those who have been discriminated against or deny health insurance coverage bec

happily, both marie and the empress victoria of germany were born in england and god bless them, they wrote their diaries and letters of the mother tongue. s four madame chiang a great deal was an english and when it came to the chinese are keizai was fortunate enough to find a graduate student through a friend of a friendly young woman who lived and shanghai and did not automatically spout party dogma. with our hurt her, i could not have written this book. looking at the back pages of "the last empress" and of consulting quite a number of archives i sought out the best food source reformation was the hoover institute at stanford university. my personal theory is that most right wing governments leave the archives to hoover perk up my experience with hoover goes back to my first book, the last romantics, a biography of queen marie of romania. this was a long time ago. allen and i were living in southern california and he was directing the president's men and i went up north to see the son of the romanian prime minister who was working at hoover at the time. at that point* in my life i

while i think some of his friends, in fact, james madison acted as an inter mary between himself and callender. i think people were trying to distance himself from callender at the time, but i think jefferson's, i think his whole approach to the whole affair was two have a moment of science, not to comment publicly on the slanders and he didn't feel any one really needed to defend him and because in his view if you deny or admit one slander another 10 are going to come up to use of that was his public stance that he would not deny its in public because what ever you deny or admit something else would come off but i think there are other people behind the scenes, james madison and monroe, who were telling him to distance himself particularly from callender. >> what about the studies on the sally hemmings descendants? >> the dna on sally hemmings? did dna study from what i have learned and from what i know matched all they can say is that it matched a male white,, a descendant from a field of jefferson matched the descendants from the having said. that is all the dna says. it does not

my experience with hoover goes back to my first book, the last romantic, a biography of queen marie of romania. this was a long time ago. alan and i were living in southern california. he was directing all the presidents men, and i went up north to see the sun of the romanian prime minister who was working at hoover at the time. at that point in my life, i had written nothing more than book reviews and pieces on bluejeans and shopping bags. so i was amazed of the cordial reception i got. all, mrs. pakula, we are so happy to have you here. we apologize for not giving you the first class tour, but governor reagan is here today. now you know how long ago it was. here, let a show you the diaries. why were they treating me so well? i worked there for about a week or two. got ready to leave. as i was walking out, the powers to be stopped me. mrs. pakula, mrs. pakula, it's been such great pleasure having you here. do you think you could get woodward and bernstein's papers for us? [laughter] >> the list of archives credited in the back of my book on madam as she was called is ridiculously long

they fall to the -- hail maries. they fall to the ground incomplete.you get the impression they're far less interested in the substance of the bill than just passing something. when the president came up here last sunday he said "make history." make history? the american people are not asking us to make history by passing this bill. they don't believe it's about the president. they believe it's about the substance. and we're out here prepared to talk about the substance of this measure, offer amendments. and we fully intend to do it for as long as it takes, and as the senator from arizona has suggested, if the majority leader pivots to a conference report, which he's able to do under our process, we'll spend all the time it takes to deal with the conference report. mr. mccain: may i point out again, as the senator from maine, senator snowe, pointed out, it was highlighted in the "wall street journal" today, no major reform in the modern history of this united states senate has been enacted without bipartisan support, a reason for us to go back to the d

reed beat city councilwoman mary norwood by 714 votes in a runoff. she would have been the city's first white mayor since 1973. those are some of the day's main stories. i'll be back at the end of the broadcast with a look at what you'll find tonight on our web site. but for now, back to jim. >> lehrer: and still to come on the "newshour" tonight: the terrorism indictment in chicago; our patchwork nation series; ray suarez on the state of the economy in tractor country; and the music of piano man richard glazier. that's after a judy woodruff report on the global warming negotiations in denmark. >> reporter: ithe climate change summit in copenhagen looked to be just another chance for diplomats to talk, but get little done. today came a rallying cry from one of the top members of the u.s. delegation. the head of the environmental protection agency lisa jackson is in denmark. >> if we do not act to reduce greenhouse gases, the planet we leave to the next generation will be a very different place than the one we know today. >> reporter: other countries

suarez: in a speech to students andaculty in october, universityresident mary sue coleman sa u.m.is capitaling on the economic downtu. >> just as we arrecruiting great scholars when othe univerties have all but shutred their employment office we are moving forward with a research expansiounlike any her. >> srez: coleman points to the pfizer research and velopment campus in ann arbor. when the pharmaceuticagiant left town, so did 2,500 gh- payi jobs, along with an annual $4 million in tax renue for the city. when no commercial buyer w interested, the univsity bought the 174 acre si. it's counter intuitive in ugh times to maksuch an audacious play, to spend that kind of money. wee not talking about a million or two, it's a b, big purcha. >> yes, well, it was $10 millio let meive you a relative value he. to build that kind olab space costs $600 a square fo. we g it for less than $50 a square foot, so for ust was a huge bargain. wee making the investments at a good price that we belie is going to be annormous return. >> suarez: colan's betting she can fill the labpace by attracting pr

so our first speaker will be mary elease serti. i will hand it over to you. >> thank you very much. as john just said, i've just come out with this book, 1989, so i've got so many details and only 15 minutes in which to tell them. i will try to restrain myself and i will be happy to take questions. this book is an international history of 1989. it builds on an early exceptional work, the best study of u.s. foreign policy in this period. i had the advantage of more sources having written this book more recently, so i had the opportunity to go to russia, poland, to germany, britain, and france and look at their documents on german unification as well as look at the materials in james bakers' collection and also in the bush library, which is also thanks, he chose to foot nothe his books, they were not available at the time but as a result of the his decision to feet note them it's been possible for scholars to request them and they are now available. so there is really a extraordinary source basis available on 1989 for his attorneys.

mary? >> thank you very much. and our final panelist for this panel is mary edelman. you don't need much of an introduction. she is the founder and president of the children's defense fund and is the -- which is the nation's strongest voice for children and families over the years. mary, thank you very much for honoring us with your presence. >> thank you, mr. chairman, for having us. thank you for your leadership. you're the only person in the world who got me over here today. but thank you. i mean when you call, i come. and i just appreciate your leadership. you probably already heard all the facts you need to hear. my staff did a quick summary of the data. we know the problem in many ways. we'll submit that for the record. everybody here knows it. i'm sorry i missed everybody. i want to just make three or four very basic points. i used to be a civil rights lawyer. and the children's defense fund is an outgrowth of that civil rights experience in mississippi with the naacp legal defense fund. and it was pretty clear and n. 1966, '67, '68 that when i won a deseg indi

mary? >> thank you very much. and our final panelist for this panel is mary edelman. you don't need much of an introduction. she is the founder and president of the children's defense fund and is the -- which is the nation's strongest voice for children and families over the years. mary, thank you very much for honoring us with your presence. >> thank you, mr. chairman, for having us. thank you for your leadership. you're the only person in the world who got me over here today. but thank you. i mean when you call, i come. and i just appreciate your leadership. you probably already heard all the facts you need to hear. my staff did a quick summary of the data. we know the problem in many ways. we'll submit that for the record. everybody here knows it. i'm sorry i missed everybody. i want to just make three or four very basic points. i used to be a civil rights lawyer. and the children's defense fund is an outgrowth of that civil rights experience in mississippi with the naacp legal defense fund. and it was pretty clear and n. 1966, '67, '68 that when i won a deseg indi

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william and mary, 2-0 against the acc this year.road. >> mike h.: it has been an interesting preseason. randall. and javy gonzalez, great defense. knocked the ball away to wood. back to smith. >> mike g.: well run break. right now they are just really trying to pressure randall. javy gonzalez is getting right up into his grill. 8@á@qp=@9tí8exbaa iw,bwÑpr zi@m0m6Ñru,vbt:1a d@gp@v @cfcnc >> mike h.: nc state playing outstanding defense. on the drive, there's kyle &f randall. again, he's coming off the bench tonight for the first time. >> mike g.: sidney lowe talked about the fact in watching film on uncg that they are very aggressive. they want to try to get into the paint area. he stressed keeping them in front of us is going to be a big key. >> mike h.: randall in his last two games, just 2 for 18 from the field. one of the reasons he was not in the starting lineup. good ball movement by nc state. there's smith. kendall toney with the rebound. oh, my. a tough shot by brandon evans, the leading scorer on this spartan teams. >> mike g

we'll go to mary from rhode island.a west point graduate class of 71 in attendance at the event tonight at west point. go ahead, mary. >> i am calling not because i support or oppose his stance, but because i'm curious how many of the cadets attending were forgiven, in other words for the attendants i'm sure they were promised something and probably a forgiveness for a certain number of the merits of every cadet usually collects. >> why do you say that? >> it's pretty obvious from those attending. i think the venue is questionable for obama. >> worship he delivered a speech? >> perhaps where most president delivered his speech, from the oval office. i would've expected that. >> thank you, mary. will go to jacqui in louisville, kentucky. evening to you. >> good evening. i'm here to support the president. he stated so many points and it's true that, you know, there are people over there fighting and people's sons, daughters, nephews, and all that. that is true. but we didn't really ask the last president, you know, he did

at the heart of luke's gospel stands the person of mary, the mother of jesus. senator kennedy had a special respect for her great prayer, the magnifica, a prayer which simultaneously glorify god for his blessings and promised god's protection of the poor. in his final days, the senator and vicki and i pondered this prayer in terms of the meaning of his life's work. "our blessed mother proclaims these sentiments. dots mercy is -- god's mercy is from age to age to those who fear him. he has shown might with his arm and dispersed the arrogance of mind and heart. he has thrown down the rulers from their thrones but lifted up the lowly. the hungry, he has filled with good things. the rich, he has sent away and the -- empty." ted kennedy, of course, live in a far more complex world than that of jesus' time and place, but that challenge evoked from him his public gets. he understood the complexity of the society in which he lived. he was renowned for his mastery of the possible and for his genius at crafting law and policy in ways which benefited the widows and orphan

it gave you were named mary. caller: good morning and mary christmas. the outsourcing. it seems to me if you really wanted to keep the jobs of this year you really have to make whatever those tax credits are, given to these companies, you have to make them for civil -- fourthable -- forfeitable if they outsource. guest: again i refer to my last answer, stressing the domestic content of the new tax credit. but with the president has consistently come from at this point, is we are not going to isolate ourselves, we are not going to build walls, but with the extremely sensitive to the point marry another callers have made and we have to tap into our unique and dominant strengths are in the economy. we have the most productive manufacturers in the world. we have a top university system. we have an extremely productive workforce, especially, again, in that manufacturing space. those are the strengths we have to promote. that takes us through the president's education agenda, to make sure that we have "the human capital inputs," it to put a call economist fra

mary's in did he luge, places that work to have this integrated care, places that make sure we have less readmissions in the hospitals. and finally, and i am pleased that we got this in the freshmen package that's coming out, there is a much bigger focus on fraud in the system. $60 billion a year going down the tubes, going to fraudsters, going to conmen, getting sigh siphoned off the system, claiming that they should get some of the reimbursements that should be going to our seniors. that's $60 billion in medicare fraud alone every single year. so increased penalties with some tools to make sure we're better enforcing the law. we can reclaim some of that money and give to to the american taxpayer, give it to our seniors. those are the things. that's just a few of themmism be talking about more this week when we talk about cost dploal this bill. so, mr. president, thank you so much for allowing me to share some of my thoughts on cost control. but, again to remember three numbers -- 6, 12, 24. ten years, average american family, $6,000 for their premiums. now what are they spending? $12,0

senator mary landrieu called the agreement is very good idea. senator blanche lincoln said more information is needed and senator ben nelson said i just want to know what the costs are. so do the rest of us. so do the rest of us. so here we have a proposal after a nearly a year that is being here, quote assessed by the congressional budget office and here we are with no knowledge but that bill is about of some their essentials that have been leaked. what does this have to with change? what does this have to do it by partisanship what does this have to do with frankly anything? and we have an editorial in "the washington post" this morning that has called it, quote, medicare sausage. and i ask unanimous consent that this editorial from "washington post" be made part of the record. says, quote -- >> without objection. >> the body in a proposal could have costly, unintended consequences. could have costly unintended consequences we don't know what it is but we never before in this entire year i would ask my colleagues have we seen a proposal and wo

glenn's wife mary said not a day goes by when i don't miss glenn's companionship. because of gross negligence, he was not here to support me when our son went off to serve our country in iraq. a real-life story. this man did nothing wrong. an innocent victim who in our system of justice is entitled to compensation. but if his widow didn't have enough money to pay the entire attorney's fees and webt in for a -- went in for a contingency fee, she might be limited because of the amendment being offered by the senator from nevada. this next case in illinois involves children.

hello, mary. >> guest: how are you? >> caller: i'm from detroit, michigan, and what i have is blue care network. is that considered one of the cadillac plans that would be taxed 40%? and would i lose my coverage under this plan? and if i did, the new insurance would i be able to still pick up my insurance cost -- >> guest: can i ask you a question? do you work in a dangerous job like construction, or do you work in an office-related job? >> caller: no. i actually work in food service. >> guest: okay. then if your plan is more than $23,000 a year, it will be taxed through whoever your employer is. and that will give them the incentive instead of sending that bill to all the taxpayers in america, they will go look, hopefully, and find a more cost-effective plan, one that has, hopefully, the same value to your family. and then the taxpayers will be happy to subsidize a more efficient policy for you. but the taxpayers can't continue to finance plans over 25, 27, $30,000. and the average good family plan in america, what fed

. >> last question -- >> and mary christmas, happy new year, by. >> from the u.n.climate change summit in copenhagen this nicolas sarkozy says progress in climate talks is being held back by china. he spoke to reporters briefly after an unscheduled meeting this morning with president barack obama and other world leaders in the last attempt to craft a climate deal. "we expect to hear from president barack obama shortly and other world leaders are speaking. we're recording those speeches and one of those later in our program, in particular the president'." other world leaders including the german chancellor angela merkel spoke. this runs about 45 minutes. >> here in copenhagen, more than 100 heads of state and government have gathered. more than 100 ministers of the environment and representatives of non-governmental organizations, many young people who together with us are very much switching for a solution, wondering whether we will be able to come up with a solution of the future issue, preserving our environment and find an answer to the changes brought by climat

mary, my question to you is the following. you seem to want to have it both ways.re saying on the one hand that in the long run the architecture that was created in 1989, 1989, 1990 was a pre-found architecture that really miss the punctuation or moments in the sense that it didn't provide for long-term satisfactory answers. so basically there's a strong element of your analysis that's critical of the long-term architecture that was created. on the other hand you are very quick to say that it was very possibly architecture. so how do you reconcile these two things. what are the implications of those statements? and my question to you is just on your third or your fourth example about iraq or your critical of scholars. and you say that the policymakers had it more correct than the scholars. but it seems to me -- in the decision to go to war against iraq is seems to me you are saying that the decision-makers had it more rights than the scholars. and it seems to me that the scholars were saying that the cost would exceed the benefits. and that was their argument. and

atlantic beach, florida, mary on the democrats' plan. caller: good morning.aid the slightest attention to politics but i just voted every four years. then the president i voted for decided to attack iraq for no reason, except that he felt like it. i promptly became an independent. the next time i went to vote, i found out that independents could not vote on very many issues at all, so i reluctantly became a democrat. and then ron paul came along and i would like everything he said, or almost everything -- i don't like what says about health care -- and i want to become a republican again to vote for ron paul, and then i saw the debate , and all of these warmongersç almost blew ron paul off the stageçi]çç, whent(ç all he o talkw3 aboutçççç was savingd they just -- host: you are havingç trouble finding footing in a party. caller: no, i am back to being a loyal democrat, because i like it like to do about health care, -- what they would like to do about health care, except i like what mr. howard dean said that without a public option, the bill ain't ev

mary? >> thank you very much. and our final panelist for this panel is mary edelman.don't need much of an introduction. she is the founder and president of the children's defense fund and is the -- which is the nation's strongest voice for children and families over the years. mary, thank you very much for honoring us with your presence. >> thank you, mr. chairman, for having us. thank you for your leadership. you're the only person in the world who got me over here today. but thank you. i mean when you call, i come. and i just appreciate your leadership. you probably already heard all the facts you need to hear. my staff did a quick summary of the data. we know the problem in many ways. we'll submit that for the record. everybody here knows it. i'm sorry i missed everybody. i want to just make three or four very basic points. i used to be a civil rights lawyer. and the children's defense fund is an outgrowth of that civil rights experience in mississippi with the naacp legal defense fund. and it was pretty clear and n. 1966, '67, '68 that when i won a deseg indicatio

at the heart of luke's gospel stands the person of mary, the mother of jesus. had a special respect for her great prayer, the magnifica, a prayer which simultaneously glorify god for his blessings and promised god's protection of the poor. in his final days, the senator and vicki and i pondered this prayer in terms of the meaning of his life's work. "our blessed mother proclaims these sentiments. dots mercy is -- god's mercy is from age to age to those who fear him. he has shown might with his arm and dispersed the arrogance of mind and heart. he has thrown down the rulers from their thrones but lifted up the lowly. the hungry, he has filled with good things. the rich, he has sent away and the -- empty." ted kennedy, of course, live in a far more complex world than that of jesus' time and place, but that challenge evoked from him his public gets. he understood the complexity of the society in which he lived. he was renowned for his mastery of the possible and for his genius at crafting law and policy in ways which benefited the widows and orphans of our time. a

caller: thank you, mary christmas to all. they are going to get what they really want. they're thinking they are going to get free health care. they keep saying it will be affordable health care, but i have not heard nancy pelosi or anyone define what is affordable. what is affordable to someone who just got a pink slip and is losing their job? i know there will be subsidies, but if you are fighting to put food on your table, pay your rent or mortgage, healthcare is down the list. i do not think many congressmen or senators read the bill, and i think it is unconstitutional because my understanding, the with federal law is, should be uniform. in ohio,, across the nation at the federal level. when you have different deals like with ben nelson, i do not think it is fair because you have a federal law that is not uniform. i think ultimately you are going to have people with health problems because they are basically going to go to nebraska because they know they can go there because ben nelson has paid-for deals. i think somebody is going to challenge this in court. i think

host: mary anne hansen jr. -- santa rosa, california, on our democrats line.aller: i can't help think about dick cheney and how he has been talking about how barack obama has not been on the watch and stuff. he has had eight years to have taken care of this problem and it didn't get fixed on his watch it so they should be blaming barack for anything going on now. they are really small things in some ways. they should have been taken care of. dick cheney -- he had such a big mouth before. so, ok, that's it. host: lewiston, michigan, next on our independent line. caller: first off, have the new year. a couple of things that are wrong. first off, it is not a political issue, not a partisan issue, but a people issue. there were people on board the airplane. the problem did not start in america, it started over in amsterdam. sorry it interrupted the president's golf game but two things he did not say -- did not say he made a call to the leaders of yemen, did not say he made a call to anyone in amsterdam to find out what was going on. he should have at least said, w

senator mary landrieu called the agreement a very good idea. senator burr lance lincoln said more information is needed and senator ben nelson said i just want to know what the costs are. so do the rest of us, so did the rest of us. so here we have a proposal after nearly a year that is being assessed by the congressional budget office and here we are with no knowledge of what that bill is about with the exception of some bare essentials that had been leaked. what is this got to do with change? what is this got to do it by partisanship? what is his guts to do with anything? rankly we have the editorial in "the washington post" this morning that calls that "medicare's kasich." and isd man is consent that this editorial from "the washington post" be made part of the record. >> without objection. >> the emerging proposal could have costly and detention, costly unintended consequences but we don't know what it is. what we no, never before in this entire gear i would ask my colleagues have we seen a proposal that would increase eligibility, the chan

mary's an example of somebody who would be helped by this bill. she can go on the insurance exchange. she can choose a private company or a public option. and she could make a decision based on what her needs are. whether she wants the private or public. and she knows with a public option that prices will be more stable, that the quality will be better because there will be more competition than there would otherwise. ann from montgomery county, the dayton area writes, our insurance premiums have tripled in the last six years going from $500 a month to $1,500 per month. at the same time we see no benefit increase. since we bought our policy we have paid the insurance company $68,000 for the insurance. then she writes something almost like she's writing in a magazine. anthem's total spending for my family's total claim since we bought insurance $4,064. anthem's profit, $64,000. anthem's c.e.o. compensation last year alone $10 million. the reason these -- you know i'm sure that -- my friends on the other side of the aisle, who, clearly, one of their