massey cole company. we are in west virginia. there are not many cases which are more familiar to readers of newspapers and people who watch television. that has to be on our docket. >> many of you do know the background facts of this case, but let me summarize it briefly. there is a major dispute between two cole companies in west virginia -- coal companies in west virginia. one accuses the other of uses ma lirbles -- malicious aggressive tactics to drive the first company out of business. there is like a $50 million verdict against the aggressor coal company. the defeated aggressor coal company in that case says we are going to appeal, and the president of the company at the same time says i am going to participate in a big way in electing the next available justice to the west virginia supreme court. so that individual spends something like there are 3  million of his own money to replace in the election one of the justices on the supreme court perceived by him to be least favorable to his potential case, wit someone who he

virginia twice cast the deciding joke -- the deciding vote to throw out a $50 million verdict against massey energy, one of the country's biggest coal companies. the reaction this morning from "the new york times," and in just about every newspaper in the country joins us from pittsburgh. are you satisfied with your current health-care program? caller: yes, steve, i am very satisfied. i retired and every year i get at least four or five insurance companies sending me literature to change my medicare plan. i decided to go with security blue, and it has been perfect. i have to say one other thing. there is a very simple solution to ensure the 40 million people, and it is using the v.a. health system. if somebody gets unemployed and lose their insurance, when they go sign up, they get a special v.a. card that makes them eligible to go to any v.a. facility that we have. host: who pays for it? caller: well, the government. he is going to spend over $one trillion already -- $1 trillion already. it would be much simpler, and everybody would be covered. host: go to twitteredr.com/cwj. mike is joinin

that is going to be a major focus of international dip moment massey with iran in the future, particularly now that the united states has joined that effort, as it had been in the past, as it was when i was an ambassador. host: an ambassador from 2002 to 2006 representing the united kingdom. he is now an associate fellow at chatham house. sir richard dalton is here in the united states for speaking events in washington. yesterday he was at the new america foundation. you can see his speech on their website. we will go back to the phones. saratoga, california, on our line for republicans. next call comes from mary. caller: yes, i can't believe what i'm hearing, and it's constant. in your own country and england, you are now considering allowing them to deploy she ya law in your country. they keep moving forward. now we have a president that says it doesn't matter which side would have won this. we are watching people begging for our help. their signs are in english. they know we need to support them. it frightens me how -- obama says that we won't respect them. do you think these mullahs ca