and essentially what he told me is -- he just looked at me one day and we were talking about something else. i think for whatever reason he didn't really give me much warning and he told me, okay, so you need to be in charge of the ward and that's the last thing i wanted to be in charge of. i think mostly i was just stunned and shocked that anyone would say that to a medical student which i was in my eyes. and he kind of looked at me like, you know, you're not in the states anymore. this is africa. and things are different here. no matter how low a cot gentry falls it's still higher than the grass. and i was sitting there shocked. things did not work out according to plan. so he left and went to a different area of sierra leone and eventually he ended up actually getting sick while he was out there. and after getting sick there we

she's always accusing me of triumphalism and making me cut back on that. i like to fly the flag high, and moira wants to be a little more critical than that. c-span: it's moira, spelled m-o-i-r-a. >> guest: yes, irish for mary. c-span: where did you meet her? >> guest: we met in baltimore. my first wife had just died. i had two kids. c-span: what year? >> guest: 1964. her husband had run off, leaving her with three kids. we lived in the same block, didn't know each other. we came together, and it was the best thing that ever happened to me. c-span: now, you also cite, i think, stephanie and grace. >> guest: yes, those are our daughters. c-span: that you had together. >> guest: no. i had two kids, she had three, but we've got five kids. c-span: what did grace and stephanie have to do with the books? >> guest: stephanie does a lot of research for me, and grace has done quite a lot of research for me. i pay them handsomely. some might say i overpay them. but they do very good work. one of my favorite chapters, for example, in the d-day book, is "d-day on the

and the votes was six /1 against me. so i thought i will probably live to regret this but i will do it. so my chapter two is now chapter one ended the reading chapter one and you think this is just too weird or eccentric, i am not sure the guy is fully balanced stop reading and go into chapter two. [laughter] and there you'll meet mrs. rutherford, she is gone now but she is sane. i don't know how the new readers and "roads to quoz" will have over the years but i cannot get by a much longer so he told me, pass the word. the third point* and this i have heard ever since the two but especially the last three books with prairie earth and "river horse" and now "roads to quoz" you like this or you don't but if you don't like it is easier to ignore it and go past it. some of you know, what i am talking about one, vocabulary, let me say it this way, as speakers of english, american english we have the largest vocabulary on the planet earth. the largest vocabulary 400,000 words. i do not know how they count los. i do not know if

he stopped, smiled, tilted his finger at me, and walked off. it was no credit to me. it is just a suggestion that this is more than just being polite. these are keys opening up relationships that lead it to knowledge. the sensitivity to the world beyond our shores has hard core information of value. i was with the head of intelligence for the european command during the un protection force in croatia and bosnia. in the fall of 1993, there was bitter fighting going on in eight bi-national town south of sarajevo. you're all familiar of the korean war scenes of towns being leveled. this town was leveled by small arms fire. the old, traditional brick buildings were whittled down by automatic weapons fire and not artillery. we were asked by the four-star deputy commander of the forces in europe who was on the offensive. we said that the croatians were against the bosnians. he asked for the would go. we told them they would go all the way to the river. he asked why. we said it was a natural defense line. that river drops down about 20 meters on the croatian side, but that w

it is gaining on me. our footstep echoes on fell cobblestone street like gunshots as i turn a corner running hard i looked quickly over my shoulder. i saw the brutality in his cold play is, the sweat running into his famous mustache and the image of the face in the mural that i suddenly find myself smack up against with no route to escapes saddam hussein. just as the great dictator closes in on me, i'd drift out of the dream and i try to sit up, but the belt fastened tight around my body holds me down in filthy sheets. i am in a disheveled bed in a makeshift bedroom and a gallery in chicago and instead of the gentle golden light of ancient brick i am surrounded by the walls, 1,000 first paint balls. the bang, bang, bang in my dream continues. it is the sound of the people gone. it is fortunate i had the foresight to restrain myself with a belt for the few hours i screamed. i have been getting each night. if i had bolted upright in bed a paint ball could have hit me squarely in their head at close range to

why won't it be me? >> mr. chairman, my time -- i've taken more than enough, but i appreciate the testimony and i think we would very much like to get some reports back from you about your inventory, parts inventory, auto inventory, how it is dealt with. >> thank you, senator. senator snowe? >> thank you, mr. chairman. mr. henderson and mr. press, in response to, i think it was senator johanns question about economic analysis, mr. henderson, did you say you did not perform any economic analysis on dealer by dealer in making these decisions? did either of you perform an economic analysis using specific criteria by cwhich you made thee decisions in targeting these dealers. >> the criteria was sales effectiveness so the dealers that were notified for wind down have been consistently underperforming in terms of sales effectiveness. we have

let me read from ms. cahill. the holiday season always reminded me how little we had and how unfair i felt that was to my children. she's talking about her own three children now. they were awesome little kids and i felt so guilty that no matter how hard i worked there was never enough. we are talking about a mother who was a schoolteacher and worked three jobs, people come in order to support her family. people don't think of teachers as underpaid but my own children qualified for free and reduced lunches which meant we fell below the poverty line. how sad is that? socio-economic we, our family ranked in the bottom 25th percentile even though i was college-educated and an award winning teacher. you think if that doesn't get you let's try this. ms. cahill help to an elderly black grandmother deliver groceries at thanksgiving or christmas, one of those holidays. >> guest: she's a saint. >> host: after doing her duty helping deliver the groceries, we read this later on in a book that is never self pity but is unspa

let me ask each of you. do you believe the insurance companies use rescission as a fraud prevention tool or a cost-saving instrument that will help them boost their corporate profits. miss horton? >> i think it's all about the money. >> ms. raditz. >> absolutely about the money. >> ms. baiten. >> absolutely. until you try to use it they just keep taking your money. >> as i listened to your testimony, ms. baiten, you're an rn and you were an attorney and you seem like you had access to people who could help you on this. what happens in your groups and people you talk to. what happens to people that don't have those support mechanisms in the family. ms. horton? >> they fall through the cracks. there's nothing -- even having radiologyists in my family i didn't have the opportunity to consult them before filling out the application. they live across the country with children and work all the time. i don't know what those people would do. >> ms. raditz? >> as i stated in my testimony, my brother was very fortunat

the consultants mothered me. best of all, they were confident that they could help showing me an oversized syringe attach today a long needle, they said you fill the syringe with breast milk, then you put your finger in the mouth and slide the needle in alongside it. while he sucks on your finger, slowly, slowly depress the 34ru7bger. make sure you go no faster than he can swallow. easy as pie except it took a full 20 minutes to give him a single ounce. at that time abe was consuming about 36 ounces of breast milk a day. at that rate, 12 hours of my day would be devoted just to feeding him. it took two hands and full concentration, and add to that the six hours a day i spent pumping. by have three other children, i wailed when i did the math, when do i sleep? well, the lactation consultant said giving my shoulders a squeeze, it's really just a question of how committed you are. in a few months, i'm sure he'll have learned to do it on his own. i packed up the baby and took him to the airport, i pumped on the plane

that me give you three characteristics. let me describe them to you. first is loss of control in the face of highly palatable food. a hard time resisting favorite food. number two, lack of space station, lack of feeling full when you're eating, a hard time stopping. third, preoccupation, thinking about food between meals. sometimes thinking about food when you're eating, as your eating your thinking about what you are going to be eating next. [laughter] sort of bizarre but the characteristics, loss of control in the face of highly palatable foods, like association or preoccupation, thinking about food. those three characteristics. sometimes i say that to people and there is a small percentage of the population who have no idea what i'm talking about. they look at me with absolute blank stares. those are the people i feel we should be studying. [laughter] those are the ones that are the most interesting scientific. but we look at the epidemiology and with my colleague what we did is looked how many people self report those characteristics, and we found

i said well, just give me that number, let me call them. and she calls me back in five minutes, says well, the nine will do. and i wasn't going to let her put me out of business, just like the gentleman beside me. i have employees that i care about, they have been with me from the beginning and it's just -- it's unbelievable how we have been treated. there is no rhyme or reason. in west virginia, there's a dealership that sold 19 cars last year and he has his franchise in his front yard, and he takes -- they take spencer auto group. there's no rhyme or reason. >> mr. press, were you an auto dealer like mr. lopez, would you know how to close down a dealership in 26 days? can you tell me how you do it? >> well, we are nae the process of working through a bankruptcy of chrysler corporation and not too many more days. it's very difficult, it's strenuous. the fact of the matter is that in our situation, we did not plan or have in our minds the desire to have a bankruptcy. >> i wish you would answer my question. >> okay. >> would you know how to

so, that was news to me.i certainly haven't been told that and i was just trying to be the best candidate i could be and let the chips fall where they may and we will deal with whatever happens after august. but i was certainly shocked to have won the primary and then head off into the general i realized i am the democratic candidate. [laughter] >> host: get ready for it, ms. cahill. >> guest: and was something i wasn't prepared for. i had numerous organizations asking me to come speak, you know, you're the candidate, we want to at this event and that was the expectation, and now i had to shift gears from focusing on the process a loan to being the candidate for the general election, and it was hard to get much attention beyond the fact a sixth grade class started this campaign and was running it because certainly that was the key factor that sold in the media and it was a benefit, but it did make it hard to talk about issues like education and mental health and nuclear waste in nevada because they didn't tak

he sent me out in the direction to go be people that could help me. very beneficial to me. he told me to go meet with our attorney general who is a great female role model in our state. another verdict connected people. connecting me with events. >> we will get to the party in a moment. interesting points. let's get to these kids. these kids really running the campaign. >> yes, ma'am. >> no desire to do it. that was the condition in which i agree to take this on. you guys will run the campaign. and i felt like this is the perfect opportunity for real world learning, which is what we talk about all the time in making things message to kids. have them be the stakeholders. and it works. they were 12 year old genie says as far as taking this and running with that. >> and we will get, in a moment, to how you were able to make this work. now, that means that the parents went with you to events. >> yes. >> and you had no of this? >> no. myself and 286 gears. >> 286th graders. there were actually two glasses. >> right. it went over 14 months. when one group left a picked up the nex

i tell me story, i grew up of a single parent and my mother did a beautiful job of me. and they have that connection, you grew up and your father wasn't there. but you made it. and the mentality they have is that if their father isn't there, they can't make it. and the president obama, met his father once, and he's the president of the united states. so the sky is the limit, and i leave them with a quote, every man can serve as an example, even if it's what not to become. [applause] >> great job, eton, thank you very much. and finally let's hear from mike. come on up here. [applause] i love mike because when we were all speaking earlier and introducing ourselves and everyone told what they did, mike said, i am just a dad. mike is from iowa, he's a small business owner and a great guy. let's hear from you. >> thank you, i also would like to thank the president. i am extremely honored to be here today. this is a wonderful kick-off to a phenomenal weekend. father's day is of great importance. i am a father and husband, my wife is here and my daughter. and i am also a small

me? >> me?>> all i can say is that i did go many, many different places trying to get help and i spent hours and quit working and did all my focusing on -- instead of focusing on getting well and my cancer, i focused on trying to get treatment and i went to every hospital in dallas. county hospitals. i went to ft. worth. i went everywhere. and i don't know how to fix it. all i know is there's something terribly wrong with the health care system. when you go to a big hospital and there's to so many people from waiting for help -- i went to all the clinics and sat with all the people that i just can't even imagine how many people are there waiting for help. you spend hours and hours, probably spend the whole day trying to see a doctor. i did that for weeks. and never got help. so the bad thing about that is when you go to different hospitals they give you 2ki6 opinions. every time i went to a different hospital my tumor was a different size. every time i went to a different hospital, one person wa

allergies that are killing me. ..ells had been very successful in the campaign by then mainly because she had gone to england twice and great triumph in the british isles. after she leaves the british isles, no one can ignore this campaign anymore. and tie lynching legislation has passed for the lynching is begin to go down. and, after the death of frederick douglass and 95, wells should have really been a leader of the plexiform civil rights movement. as we know it is really booker t. washington that emerges in this vacuum, and one reason why she was never permitted was because of course of gender mainly. she tried to sort of get the torch passed by frederick douglass him she was close to in some instances but he would not give her that. so, she is so i have heard time and so many ways and you know that is the price you pay when you are ahead of your time but she would have loved the '60s. i think that her campaign provides a foundation for that protest movement and i think she is enjoying politics right now. [laught

mir-hossein mousavi alone, it is three consecutive governments in front of me facing me. it's mr. mousavi, mr. khatami. he served in previous term. as a matter of fact, these people have always been bringing forces together and they've been attacking this government, criticizing this government trying to hurt this government. of course people know all about this, but they should also realize the fact that i am not standing, i am not competing one single candidate, it is a group of people with mr. mousavi of access and cooperating and moving against me. the reason for this heavy pressure on me the past four years and also heavier pressure during the election days, i think this comes down to one thing. in the past three governments the administrative structures were formed some managerial chains were formed and they went awry. they distanced themselves from the revolution. i don't mean that military services in europe rendered, but gradually, there was a current that came in and acted as if they were as if they possessed and they manipulate it and they had an open hand and doing eve

he said just give me ten minutes. jason took ten minutes and came back and all of a sudden it was silent and i said jason, what did you do and he said ivan the entire state of texas. [laughter] how often did participants attach religious significance to the project as a kind of sacrifice? >> the great question. it was very constant all the time, and was mostly attacking muslim religion and i think the religion that is demonized, you know, it is so reduced to very few words, the suicide bomber, the chehab and hate and heaven and 72 virgins, i don't know what one would do with 72 versions to be honest. but these i heard over and over and over in the chat room but also saw other people who did attach biblical rhetoric, and i think we had one participant who becomes so upset -- obsessed with it and less verses from the bible but then i discovered he was a priest, his house kicked him out and now he start drinking and wants to redeem by writing bible verses on this ethos website. so, it was a lot of fun. >> okay if there a

now he wanted to me with me to see how serious i was. he said he needed to look me in the eye to see if i really was willing to take on what it was going to muster at myself and if i was prepared for that. so he was really trying to shore me up and see what i was made and i suppose, but he was really a great guy. wimax and sort of in con me know. i remember thinking this is really on the body had a hat and a raincoat and sat next to me in the diner that is known jim kelly's --, the back of a casino with our five the barstools when they sell these creasy horrible hamburgers -- and i really mean a waterfall. he sat there and how they would look at me and i felt like i was meeting with the cia or someone. he said i need to know what you have done, what kind of things you have done to prepare for this, and, of course, i was a huge meal fight. i really had very little knowledge about how the workings of the parties worked or the process itself and was learning on the go. so he finally, i think he was a little discouraged that i didn't know as

>> 50 -- >> 92% -- excuse me. senator, we represent about 92% of the dealers of all brands, both domestic and international. >> to -- thank you very much for that. i just want to make sure i was clear on the stats. to the two gentlemen from chrysler and general motors, did you ever have any inclination as you developed, i will turn to both in regards to the documents that are required by dealers to sign, did you ever have any inclination to work with the association to figure out what's a decent agreement that the dealerships could sign? >> let me see if i can't deal with both of the agreements. in the case of the wind-down agreement, as i said, we had done a similar exercise in canada just recently and our early returns from our dealers who are going to be wound down and with the appeal process, we think we have a workable approach for those dealers. >> if i can interrupt, it's kind of a no choice deal. >> it is, but in our judgment, the benefits that are provided in this agreement are vastly superior to the alte

they invited me to the police department, took me into a room and interrogated me. told me that where were you at on july 20 -- i thought he said 22nd, but i said 27th, i was nervous an counsel fused, didn't know what the outcome of this matter was going to be. they took me in and presented evidence and are these your shoes? i said they look like them, but they wasn't in that condition. they had split my shoe from toe to heel and said they found a foam cushion for my shoe in jennifer's apartment. i then told the officer, well, you found that cushion from my shoe in jennifer's apartment, it's because you put it there. i haven't been there, i don't know jennifer, that's the truth and that's why i'm here. he look at me and stated well you think you missed the big stuff, going around town, screwing white women, we have your [beep]. i said well, you can think what you want to think, and i know why you're doing what you're doing and the reason i said that was at the time i was involved in an interracial relationship and that's why i feel that was happening to me. so after

and tell me about mr. summers, the intersection and place of involvement that he had with the project. >> i personally had no involvement with mr. summers. mr. chairman, i would ask that mr. price's notes from december 2 1st of 2008 and mr. lewis's notes also be entered into the record. >> without objection. >> thank you. >> so ordered. >> tell me about the interaction you continued to have in -- with mr. bernanke and mr. geithner at this point? >> well, i've had very little conversation with -- in fact, i can't recall of a conversation i've had with mr. bernanke in terms of being one on one. i remember council called the federal reserve advisory council and we -- there were 12 of us and we have dialogue with federal reserve, including mr. bernanke in a group setting. >> any interaction with the administration -- >> gentleman from utah, your time has expired. >> my apologies. >> now yield to the gentleman from maryland, mr. cummings. >> mr. lewis, i've listened to your testimony very carefully and you know

let me talk to members expenses. this subject has caused understandable loss of public trust and confidence in us all. in my 30 years in this house, i have seen nothing like it. let me see again -- let me say again to the men and women of this country, i am sorry. they worked very hard to produce detailed and throw proposals. they took a wide range of evidence and produced a report that was blunt and straightforward. there were 18 separate recommendations presented to the house on the fourth of july, 2008. in a letter to me on the 13th of june last year, sir christopher caylee, chairman of the standards in public life, commented that there were -- they were pleased to see the proposal for a more robust system and insurance based for the most part on the claims backed by receipts and the implied acceptance of complete transparency about what is claimed. taking together -- taken together, these seem to be significant steps toward the establishment of the robust regime that mp's and the taxpayer have a right to expect.

you're going to have to excuse me. this is not credible, you're trying to change the scenario to you as a victim to you as a powerful ceo that made a decision that denied your stockholders, your shareholders, material information that they needed provider to a vote on a merger. and i think that is the central point of this hearing and i'm sorry, that you haven't been forthcoming enough about that central point. yield back. >> well, one thing for sure, there was a shotgun marriage, shotgun wedding, no question about that. let me sort of raise this issue. on december the 22nd, 2008, mr. lewis you sent an e-mail to your board and let me quote, it says, i just talked with hank paulson. he said that there was no way the federal reserve and the treasury could send us a letter of any substance without public disclosure, which of course we do not want. do you remember that? >> i do, yes, sir. >> you know, that sort of -- i was raising this because of the answer that you gave to my colleague from virginia, mr. connolly, i didn'

the good thing is, this is what is, don't judge me because only god judge me. >> host: we have to leave it there. thank you very much. >> guest: well, thank you very much. and what you make me think of i is a couple things. when when you talk about the recognition of your own life, your own people, your own land, i saw a documentary friday night, an undergreatwall of the university of chicago -- under graduate kids that made documentaries and the one that broke me up was a two-meant sequence with a young woman who was an iraqi vet and she talked about how beautiful iraq is and the beauty of the people and how every morning she got up to see the sunrise, and she liked the sunset and had all of her troops stop for a minute and then the contradiction of living in a war in that spot, and as she talked she kept trying to keep a brave face and say how beautiful it was and have a strong upper lip and she deteriorated before our eyes. she broke into tears and said, why are we doing this? what was it about? and the rest of the thing is her going to pieces. so i think that we ought to recognize t

he didn't pass along many welding skills to me, but he did teach me what hard work was all about. >> that's what my dad taught me, work ethic. >> yep. >> my dad often holding down two, three jobs to support kids that could eat a lot. >> that's hard to believe. >> my two sisters were almost as big as me. >> a busy man this weekend. the bottom of the 5th, nick johnson. so whatever your dad does, honor him today. i think adam dunn had a great comment earlier. he said, to him father's day is not about him being a dad, it's about his dad. i think a lot of us think that way. we love our kids to death and love our families, but it's our dads we're thinking about, especially when they're no longer here with us. that's a fair ball. nick, a great safe, an amazing weekend for him. just put it in play. look at the head down. >> she did make a nice little hop over the ball at the end there. >> don't touch it. >> here's ryan zimmerman. we said this a couple of times today. the nationals are long from being done in this game. and i guarantee you, there's not one guy in the first base dugout who doe

that resonates with me and will ever resonate with me.vey, that is just an amazing observation about what all of us do. i don't care how good your job is. i don't care how will your job is. >> everybody contributes something and some people get credit in some people don't. mainly because of the income disparities and stuff. i wanted to tell you a story i read. there was a chicago sports writer, i forget his name but is the keys to be printed in the cleveland capers too and he was, he talked about, he said he just got mud this one time and it was a pretty unpleasant experience. he said if it would have been studs terkel, and the guy had tried to mug him, he would probably with out his taperecorder and tried to interview him. [laughter] >> studs got burglar after i did died. >> he invites the burglar in. [laughter] i have got $8, that is all i have got. why do you want to rob anybody? and then they played this line on the door after the taping that would have scared nobody. it is like, dog insider something. [laughter] >> and there is a dog

what they did for me that day was give me a voice. they blessed me with a voice, a place to stand, a place to make sense of what happened to ronald and myself. i'm so honored to be here. i just cannot tell you how honored i am to be amongst all of you, to be amongst the exxonees,

let me tell you something. i have been in this business 30 years. that has never happened to me. every time i have gotten into trouble, it is because they have quoted me exactly correctly. [laughter] so i always have to be careful when i am in a group like this. i am heartened that today we have jonathan here. he will be helping decide the questions later, and as theers while coach of the softball team, he ploomsed me softball questions, so i am really looking forward to that. i was here a couple of years ago. i want to talk to you about the things i said then. the plan that we enunciated back then, how we proceeded on that, and why the future i think for the franchise continues to be exceptionally rosie, why i continue to be so optimistic about where we are heading. first let me start by saying, again, i came here three years ago. i cannot tell you how much of love d.c. it is just thrilling being here. even on a slow, boring day for moat people, everything here is exciting, the pace, the people. not just national and international politics, the local politics gets quite exciting

this was terrible for me. each one of us is becoming defensive you sell, you are not selling you are sold or you are bought a. >> host: the bbc i think did that to you the cuts after he gave your book two barack obama it rose to #2 in the amazon ranking spry checked it because originally it was 57,000. negative and a one or 200,000 but it bounced up and down bride notice this week is 17,000. so you could be a little more humble. [laughter] it is not important at all in some fields of life there is what quantity and quality may be closer related but not in literature. you could be very successful in the market and in the quality but it definitely depends on that. in all of the history of the spanish language it is terrible, he wrote something like books like a soap operas and she sold much more. really. it does not mean too much. >> host: i think it is significant because this book affected me so much when i was a young man and it turns out that i thought you were such a man of such stature and so great then me

i mean, let me just read, okay.y wonderful el lilly passed away a few years ago it live for a century. her grandfather had been a slave on the plantation in virginia. for more than 40 years she worked at a bakery in the miller and roose department store in richmond virginia. when i was a child to made me many visits to my home. whenever my family fell on hard times, and it was often, my mother would send rle. she would always come. we would meet her at the greyhound bus station. she never travel light. she had several platts cases with leather buckles tied together with assorted straps to secure the contents. fill to bursting, the suitcases had apples and pears from her front yard and virginia. she also had a smoked shoulder of pork placed inside a burlap bag. this was a prized possession. aunt lilly had come to feed a hungry family in baltimore and she was always right on time. because the way to get her to the house. i should klan the rickety front steps to 1641 barnes street around the corner from the johns hopki

i remember him leading me into the mit library and showing me engineering plans he drafted as an undergraduate student. designed someday to help people read words on paper to translate text into physical signals. the formulas and drawings didn't make much sense to me then and dad, confess they still don't. but the core lesson has remained with me. communications technology has the power to transform lives for the better. we've all seen and lived and many of the members spoke about it in their heap oeping statements. the i wemplications of the communications revolution. we saw the world reshaped by communications technology. the telephone, radio, television, satellite, computers and the birth of the internet. now in 91st century, communications has a potential to unwave newlea new waves s nh innovati innovation. the federal communications commission has important roles to play in pursuing these goals and doing so on behalf of all americans. if confirmed i look toward to learning from and working closely with the committee on these essential topics. in this time of pro-found economic challenge,

don't judge me because only god judge me. >> host: we're going to have to leave it there. thank you very much. bill ayers. >> guest: well, thank you very much, and, you know, what you make me think of is a couple of things. one is when you talk about, about, you know, the recognition of your own life, your own people, your own land, i saw a documentary friday night on undergraduate at the university of chicago. i saw this documentary film festival that was just undergraduate kids who had made documentaries, and they were all very short, and the one that just broke me up was a two-minute sequence with a young woman what who was an iraqi vetd she started by talking about how beautiful iraq is and the beauty of the land and the people and how every morning she made a point of getting up so she could see the spectacular sun sunrise, and she saw the sunset and had all of her troops stop and watch the sunset because it was so beautiful, and then the contradiction of living in a war in that spot. and as she talked, she kept trying to keep a brave face and say how beautiful it was

i disagree with thisit was his right, of course -- he sent me letters insulting me. how could you say something so stupid, such unright? the entries about charlie chaplin i think he hated. i didn't know how young he was. and this was the proof, the evidence that we were becoming the same person because i think otherwise he would have allowed me to have my ground. but, no we were the same person. >> host: right. so,. >> guest: so when he died a passport of me died also. >> host: well, i haven't -- mark freed has done well by you. >> guest: i tell you, poor mark, but we are becoming sort of the same person. when we worked together on images, very, very good letters. >> host: i wanted to talk about a couple themes you develop, revolution and ideology, then talk about religion, but let's start with ideology. you said in an interview i read, i'm strongly influenced by marxism. and i love this -- perhaps i belong to the supersuspicious wing of the marxist movement to the magic wing. i eave hauls had problems with the dogmatic parrots that don't have ideas, only repeat them

i said nobody wants to buy a book from me. and they said let me lookq) at your speeches.et's see where we could go with this so they did. chartwell-lit area zfj --ço chal literary group helped me they are part of the hometown team and they have a studentaçb summer book sales program at thomas nelson and i had worked for southwestern company when i was in college and that's how i got through school, selling books door to door. so here i come again. i've got a book in my hand. isn't that just amazing? [laughter] >> how life works? as we went through the process of pulling a book together, it was so exciting for me to think, i have the opportunity to help and to help them focus on their life's equity. and a great part was no one had ever used the term "life equity" and i thought -- this is good. we talk about sweat equity. we talk about home equity. we talk about financial equity. but your life's equity, what makes you uniquely you is the compellation of your strengths, your experiences, where you've passions, the things you would put all your time and energy into. that is y

>> guest: you tell me, has the quality of senator gone down over the past 20 years? >> guest: i don't know, the quality of house guy gone down prexy used to be in their. >> guest: i don't know. i am surprised by some questions that have that can be inserted by leaders of both parties appear gum. i work with nancy pelosi a good bit. we interviewed her and i was surprised by some of the answers. i was surprised and how terribly she handled the cia issued. john boehner, again these are people i genuinely like, but surprised by how republicans have been simmering and staggering. john boehner is asking the press conference other going to be any more bailouts and his answer is that's a good question. in i was suppose that the head of the republican party and house of representatives should probably have a world do and whether should be more of a loss in the future are not. and so i have been surprised there are exceptions. there are people that come on both sides that are very good at what they do and don't just talk and news clips talking points. >> host: when you think o

so, let me leave you with this thought. as president clinton has often reminded us, when our memories outweigh our dreams we become old and it is the destiny of america and of new democrats to remain forever young. it is up to all of you to make sure that that is always true. thank you very much and thank you again for coming. [applause] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2009] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] . >> this morning we will talk with tony blankley. then, jon-christopher bua, about iran, and u.s. politics. tom davis will discuss the republican party. in a c

just stick with me a minute and let me finish the sentence. >> what washington policy department? cms? >> no. we're dealing with the white house policy. >> oh. >> who, in turn, deal with their agencies. could i go on to try to define a sensible center here which we just talked with your staff, but i don't think -- okay, the potential counteroffer which would say this, so the senator reports and recommendations are prohibited from being used as mandates for payment coverage or treatments. yours is prohibited from being used for payment coverage or treatment. all we want to do is after prohibited from being used, insert the word as mandates. >> i thought that was sort of the plan. i was impressed on on. >> actually, i thought it even more finely tuned what you wanted because we instructed as we were going to have this conversation, pay attention to what the others were saying. there have been bonified arguments raised. of course, the need for outcomes research is widely accepted in most circles. so i could go on and tell you what their rationale was. their mandate and explicit means

someone told me the other day, mr. president, that the issue to ban tobacco smoking on airplanes only passed the congress by one vote. imagine today if someone tried to restore the right or the privilege, whatever you want to call it, to smoke on airplanes, i doubt you would find one in favor of it. even smokers would object. yet only by one-vote margin did the congress vote to ban that practice. on monday we had a cloture vote and, again, people can vote for a lot of different reasons and i'm not suggesting everyone who voted against cloture was in favor of the continuation of the tobacco industry to be unregulated, but by a one-vote margin, basically, 61 votes, on a bipartisan basis here we terminated that debate which is bringing us to the vote in 20 minutes. and while it may seem just another vote on this day in june, in this year of 2009, it is a significant vote. i don't know of another vote in the last number of years as important as the one we're about to take. we're going to start a markup in the next wire or

but let me ask mr.tt, if -- if, in fact, the recommendation had been made -- now, you weren't there but the ntsb had made the recommendation to the faa, what, two years ago? >> the recommendation was actually made a number of years ago. but an advisory circular came out, to their credit, which suggested that this can be done by having the waiver signed. we would like to see it -- >> well, i understand that. you can go get a signature on a waiver form but you had recommended i believe that the faa do a rule-making and proceed to allow an easy access to the complete records of the pilot just as they have easy access to the complete records of the airplane. now, i guess, mr. babbitt, based on your knowledge of the culture of the faa, why a couple of years after this recommendation was made would the faa not initiated a rule-making? >> to be honest with you, i can't answer that. i don't know why they didn't. i'll certainly look into it. and i'll certainly get the information back to you. >> i mean, of all t

a friend gave it to me, ghazi said. he showed me how it worked able to launch grenades over a wall. in other words perfect weapon against an encroaching force if you are surrounded by high walls inside a mosque. ghazi overhauled his information after the female commandos took over the childrens' library. half a dozen new computers were brought in and buy several ghazi's tech savvy disciples. industrial ct and tv burners turned out footage of explosions in afghanistan. in response to those who suggested ghazi wanted to take islamabad to the eighth century he told me, quote, we don't want to go backwards. why would i give up my computer and mobile phone, walkie-talkie and fax machine? the changes were not limited to ghazi's technology there. just about the only thing that didn't change in ghazi's operations center was the, quote, ink color process charge by sherwin-williams on the wall. a weird twists for art, yes but if you were a.g. hoddy believed that depictions of -- what better than to collar a waltham with paint swatches. security tightened as well. getting in to see ghazi becam

who told me god is just, my father, he told me, criticize everything. do not be convinced except your mind, by your mind. he graduated from an islamic institute but he was also a dissident, a thinker. so i was lucky to be in this family, in fact. >> that still doesn't explain the call to writing. i mean, your response to the problem of the injustice in your family was to god. do you trace your sense that writing was you had to do back to that moment? what were you reading when you were a child? >> what i did i read? >> what were you reading? >> what i read? >> yes. >> well, i read, of course, in school. i didn't read much because we don't -- we didn't have a library. in primary school or secondary school. i used to -- i came from a poor family. and not rich -- my father didn't buy me books. my father had a library with some islamic books, et cetera, which i couldn't read. it's very difficult for me. the big yellow books. and i used to buy in the village, you know, where i used to live. so i -- and in the village usually they sell this little candy or so

my old boss ed muskey talk -- taught me about that. he sad had a rule, we can never introduce a piece of major legislation without having a republican as the principal co-sponsor. that doesn't mean we can't argue with the other party about whose ideas are best. we certainly can do that and i love to do it. but we also can do it civilly. so in the end, we can resolve our differences and hopefully both support solutions in the national interest. we do all live in the same country. as my friend jack kemp once told me, remember, we're political adversaries, not enemies. third, no value or idea we fought for at the d.l.c. was more powerful or more central to my being than our belief in the american dream. and how could it be any different? my father was an immigrant from eastern europe. my mother was a first generation american whose father came to america as a peddler. we had enough, but not a lot. my biggest political thrill as a child was meeting the mayor of south bend. when he came to our apartment building to drive a voter to the poll

and trusting me to express myself.i would like to, if i can, do a shortened version that have speech just as a calling card so you know so the wider group of you knows where i stand. i started out by saying i guess we're all gathered here today and by the way, is this microphone good and everybody hears me properly? is it good? i guess we're gathered here to talk about ideas, positive inroads we can make to gain back our power, to become triumphant in the next election. we certainly know that the democratic party thinks our vois have been silenced. they boast that threat winners and we have nothing to say. well, we certainly know how they won. obama's path to the presidency has been thoroughly documented. we may want to look at some of those strategies as we build toward the 2010 elections. certainly, at the outset, the democrats fulfilled their mission to paint president bush as a warmonger, and once they were able to reach all the youth in colleges on the internet with this lie, painting him as the evil one, never gi

and they take a shot at me i get bat. if they don't mention me i get angrier. i don't know which makes me angrier. >> i'm going do introduce you do my wife. come here. >> i'm not embarrassed bat it. come here. >> meet my very good friend. kitty kelley. >> how are you? i'm mike smerconish. how are you? >> yeah. [laughter] marvelous. >> thank you, cheers. >> wait, chris. right here. right here. woody,