and it's very scary for me. i was telling somebody in the green room that it's kind of embarrassing. this is the first time in my career. i came on the stage originally just to be a comedian and make people laugh then i got jobs as an actor and a voiceover person and a host. and this is the first time i've been this honest and i'm letting down the veil. >> larry: you've discussed it before, but not at this length -- >> not at this level. it's a very tortuous thing. a very serious thing in my life. and that's not what the whole book is about, but that's a big part of what makes up me. >> larry: you told someone else that you hope it doesn't sell? did you -- are you kidding? >> i told someone else -- >> larry: does it bother you if people buy it? >> it's embarrassing because it's real. these are things i spent my whole life hiding. things that were going on in my mind and my head. and they weren't -- and i go to therapy. enjoy to therapy a lot. and i'm open about that. and i try to get the help so i can cope and m

>> it is impossible. >> everybody knows about me, why won't you let me near you. >> it is not fair toour husband. it is not fair to my wife. >> please let me come with you. >> no. >> i'll be waiting for you with my legs open. >> larry: you like doing love scenes penelope? >> what. >> larry: you like doing love scenes. >> no. >> larry: no? >> it's always a very strange thing. i mean, we had the best director and i was in the best possible company but it's always something strange, right? daniel? >> we had a laugh. >> we laugh a lot together because you have to bring humor to those situations. >> larry: with a cast this big there had to be behind-the-scenes drama. was there? we'll ask after the break. i drove my first car from my parent's home in the north of england to my new job at the refinery in the south. i'll never forget. it used one tank of petrol and i had to refill it twice with oil. a new car today has 95% lower emissions than in 1970. exxonmobil is working to improve cars, liners of tires, plastics which are lighter and advanced hydrogen technologies that could increase fuel

>> me.his way. >> i got the final word. >> larry: let's say a financer comes along and he wants to build a jackson museum in dubuque. who does he talk to? >> jermaine. >> he talks to all of us. >> we'd sit down and talk about it amongst ourselves. >> larry: what if you vote and it's 2-2? >> no, but there's randy, too. >> larry: oh, yeah. >> you're going to have the swing vote. >> larry: are janet and latoya as close to you as you are to you? >> of course, of course. >> absolutely. >> so the sisters are close? >> absolutely. >> larry: the tie is strongest to the mom, right? >> fell me about ckathleen. i spoke to her on the phone once. >> she should be the mother of mothers around the world. she's an incredible human being and so nice, and we get all that niceness from her. sometimes we hate it -- >> we don't speak up for ourselves. she couldn't fire a maid. >> larry: how old is she now? >> she's 72. >> no. she's -- she's in her late 70s, i believe. let's put it that way. >> larry: healthy? >>

what drew me to the story, first of all, what made me think i might want to try to write about this was something rather small. telling me about his time of homeless ness. he mentioned before he headed for bed in central park he'd look all around to make sure that no strangers were watching. because anyone who saw him entering the park at that late hour would guess that he was homeless. when he told me this, i thought of my daughter. who once years ago when she was a young teenager on the trip to new york. she started across the busy street. my wife yelled at her. in cold furry, my daughter said thanks a lot mom, for ruining my reputation in new york city. i knew the story was true. more than that, i recognized his feelings, and not just in my daughter. i could imagine myself in his place. not fearing the eyes of strangers, fearing not the darkness of the park or what might happen to me if i surrendered myself to sleep there. but the destain or pity of strangers who would never be anything but strangers. feeling this, i thought i could find a way into his story if he decided he would le

told me all about it, told me we lost 3,000, 4,000 men. fast-forward ten years, i meet this gentleman. i asked him -- we were at the book fair at ucla. i said, did you know eddie albert? he said, absolutely. i remember seeing him, japanese bull etds were flying flgt he was dragging marines out of the bay. i said, leon, that's 65 years ago. how could you remember that? he said that's something you'll never forget. >> larry: ed, how did they get you involved? >> i'm not sure who asked me, but i met with steven and leon, and he told me his story and what he was doing and the documentary they were working on. i saw the film and i said, yeah, i'd be happy to help out. i mean, i really like -- i appreciate people of passion and have a lot of respect for my elders. i was glad to help leon out. >> did you know about tarawa? >> not at all. my dad was in wwii but in the army and in europe. i knew there was a lot of hellish battles in the pacific, but i did not know any specifics really. >> larry: my former father-in-law fought in tarawa, a lot of th

it was a great treat for me. anyone else? yes. >> to talk about what her life is like during his old age when she is over here in the u.s. and also the political, transition a political system in taiwan, how she feels about the whole thing, because it is totally different world. >> she moved into an apartment in 10 gracie square in new york which is a very grand building. and she managed to be sick a good deal of the time. she had 24 servants. i assumed they were in relays of eight each. she went back to taiwan once or twice. wants to say goodbye to a favorite niece who was dying of cancer. but she went back when she first went back, she went back thinking she could change chink will. she could change the fact that chiang kai-shek's son had said he and rush and his outlook was very different from hers. and she would thinking perhaps she could revive a nationalist movement, which of course was impossible. but she continued to believe what she believed, and she would occasionally issue a bulletin from the united states saying x

they were less pressing to me.hy is there -- what have we seen an eight-fold increase in incarceration in the last few years. going back to school, that was a way to to ask new questions. >> the brooklyn charter school. why did you get involved in that and what year did you get involved and is it still there? >> i am the child of two educators. a teacher. my grandfather turned to me and said that you do not need a high business. i had violated the family business. i continue to love entepeneurship, but starting a charter school has been a kind of penance to the educators in my family. i am still connected to this family trade of education. 9 of entrepeneurship and education. >> how did you do it? >> i initially was involved with a group that was lobbying for a charter bill and the state. -- in new york state. that got passed in 1997. friends to start a charter school. i got rejected twice. in the third go round, in 2000, we got approved, which was thrilling. we took an extra year to get the foundation right. septem

oprah took a bit of a shining to me and included me in almost all of the episodes. >> i see that you are writing about the obama presidential race and the internet. did you work for the campaign? if you did not, why not? but i did not work for the campaign -- eli >> i did not work for the campaign. -- >> i did not work for the campaign. i felt that we had some personal comparisons. his father is from kenya and my father is from kenya. i come from a mixed race and he comes from a mixed race. there is sort of a generational thing. it feels like he could be a peer. he has a funny first name. there are all sorts of things that are arbitrary and substantive that gave me a strong connection to him. i was the student body president of my high school. i thought i would go on and run for office. i care deeply about politics and i had the privilege to work with bill gray. when i was in college, i intern with him. one of the things that i took away is that i did not want to work in politics. it was to far removed -- it was too too far removed -- it was too far removed from what i wanted to do.

magagnini, let me ask you about this story. what are you thinking about when you want to talk to mr. mason about his background and his new opportunity? >> well, with a story like this, i want to get to mr. mason where he lives. and i want to get as much time with him as i can, perhaps an afternoon. and i'll take him out to dinner. and i'll get him to tell me the story from day one and from before. >> ogletree: well, mr. magagnini, you're able to come to visit mr. mason. you come to his house. you meet his wife, and you meet his daughter and his son. and you notice something. mr. mason, an african american now back in belleville, his daughter, lisanne, is white. his son, craig, is black. his wife is african american, as well. is that of interest to you? >> i would have some curiosity about it. >> ogletree: but this is a story, as i stated, on the business section of your paper. why is that at all of interest to you? >> i think it's of interest to me as a human being. i'm not saying that it belongs in the story. >> ogletree: oka

please excuse me. thank you. >> pardon me.onkite. he was really ferocious at times. in the 1960 democratic national convention, when some security agents rough up and down rather on the floor, walter and lost his cool on the air, and shouted on the floor the convention. the next day, in the anchor booth, to our shock, first mayor daley kicked me out of my seat, sat down, and walter interview them about the events the night before. from walters point of view, it was one of the low points in his life because he had not defended the rules of coverage. then, in the fall of 1969, spiro agnew, then vice president, delivered his famous attack on the media. he said there were an eastern elite that had not been elected. walter was furious about that. if the media was not one to defend itself, who would. he grabbed onto it at the time. they flew out to st. joseph, missouri. they had a town meeting with citizens of st. joseph, letting the citizens explore the whole idea of whether we were nattering nabobs of negativity. cbs broadcast the

tell me about katherine.mother of mothers around the world. she's an incredible human being and so nice, and we get all that niceness from her. sometimes we hate it -- >> we don't speak up for ourselves. >> my mother was the type of woman, she couldn't fire a made. >> larry: how old is she now? >> she's 72. >> no. she's -- she's in her late 70s, i believe. let's put it that way. >> larry: healthy? >> very healthy. >> larry: we'll be back with our remaining moments with the jacksons after this. boss: ah! thank goodness you're back. gecko: what's going on, sir? boss: we're slammed. tons of people interested in all the money they could be saving by switching to geico.. gecko: yeah, 'course. boss: boy, did we miss you last week. that temp wasn't working out at all. exec: took me all morning but i got those quarterly figures for ... you. (hissing noise, gulping) gecko: aw, he ate all my mints. anncr: geico. fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance. >>> for me the gift of the music ha

all of a sudden, jason mcmanus, who brought me up nervously nudging me. i kind of said, harvard, but i made it sound like auburn, and actually from then on they never brought me to see headley donovan again, but i think he thought for the rest of the time i had gone to auburn. one of the things he trade to do because of that is when i became editor of time, it was true that you get isolated as a journalist, especially in -- so we used to get a greyhound bus and drive route 50 across america', stopping at pta meet examination -- meetings and town halls and rotary club breakfasts so people could get a sense for what was on people's mind. the last trip we took, we rented a boat in missouri and went down in new orleans. while i was at "time" is where i really got bitten by the motion of -- by the notion of covering people and also the possibility of writing books. otto friedrich was my editor. he was totally and always and constantly amused by himself. he would just walk around sort of smiling. and he wrote books on the side. i said, i get it. this is really

and this is a piece that got me. pay a fine with our money, with taxpayers' dollars, does this strike you as fair to the taxpayer shareholders? does it fit your mission of protecting american investors? to me it is like you find somebody and then take somebody else's money to pay the fine and i'm trying to figure out where is the punishment in that? where's the enforcement in that? i mean if i'm sitting back, i say, oh, boy, i got a great day here. got the public's money to pay the fine. everything's fine. i don't have to pay a dime. and then one of the things that i -- that i read about the settlement, once i read about it i fired off a letter to your inspector general, david coates, asking him to look into the settlement. i just read in mr. coates' recent semiannual report to congress that he is in the midst of this investigation and i look forward to his conclusions. one of the main reasons i requested the investigation was because i would not be the least bit surprised that in the aftermath of this crisis the fai

he said the key made me understand me, which is what love is all about. -- he said vickie made me understandmeet. >> the other thing about the book is, we have all read many memoirs, and if we were in a different line of work, we probably would not read a lot of them. a lot of these books are interesting if you are interested in the time or the career or the issues. the ones that are really great are universal. you do not have to be a political junkie to get something out of the book. you will read this book from beginning to end even if you are not interested in politics. there are so many things there thaearly on. when ted kennedy was talking about writing this book, he said one model he had is katherine graham's book, personal history. because she was a candid. brown the time that book came out, i was in chicago and our ran into a woman who was about 22 years old. she came up to me and said he lived in washington, don't you? she said, do you know katherine graham? she looked at me as if she was seeing -- that book was able to speak to someone of a total different experience who was not a

he pulled me aside and asked why i did not tell him this. i said he was too busy yelling at me. i was 16 at the time. i let it roll off my back. >> what is the relationship of your father to walter fauntroy? >> my father, kenneth, is two years younger than michael. >> how many are there in that family? >> as many as eight, and now five are still with us. >> what is the difference -- before we go any farther, walter fauntroy is -- >> a hero of mine. i do not have many. i have had a chance to look first hand what it means to be committed to something greater than yourself. i have seen the sincerity in that. i have come to believe his as a result of politics and it is an honorable profession. i have seen it with my own eyes. he was a child prodigy and went on to virginia university where he met martin luther king jr.. that sparked a friendship that lasted until king's assassination. he represented king. he was a washington bureau chief. he was a founding member of the congressional black caucus. toward the end of 2009, we're just recently celebrating the 25th anniversary of the fre

let me -- let me turn -- was that a sarcastic remark? [laughter] >> let me turn -- tomorrow night, the president is going to speak, about -- afghanistan. and so, by the time people look at this, those people who will be watching this, it'll already be a policy. in general, what would you tell -- tell the president? what do you want him to do in terms of afghanistan? if you say, i don't have any. i or any idea, that's fine. and afghanistan, anybody? yeah, lisa. >> i don't want a war tax. >> okay. >> i want to know what his goals are in afghanistan. >> okay. >> okay. >> i wanted him to withdraw and don't want him to lose anymore american lives. >> okay. stand up if you want him to withdraw. stand up. all right. okay. but i have got, six people who say, i want him to withdraw. and you're a john mccain voter and you're republican? >> yes. >> why you want him to withdraw? >> primarily because -- primary -- primarily because they been looking at this since march and changed the command in affing. it is a corrupt government. the pakistanis have

. >> thank you for loving me more now than ever, you are who i am today, you make me in soul, now it is my turn to love you, rest in piece. i love you. >> of course the season had a bitter sweet ending for jose, the yanks would go on to win the world series and with that win jose picked up his second world series ring, he received the first one along with his brother ben gypping with the and gers, his brother yad dar won a ring with the cardinals in 2006. of course the entire baseball community in the city of brotherly love was saddened this year with the passing of one of the game's great announcer, hall of famer harry callus. he was one of those class acts that for so many of us made the moments on the field magical. derrick gunn reports on the voice we lost. >> this afternoon at a little past 1:00 p.m., harry callus passed away at the age of 73, a day that will live in imfa knee in philadelphia. >> this ball is out of here!. the philadelphia phillies are 2008 world champions of baseball! >> a voice so distinct and recognizable emma knitting from a man that ca necked with fans thro

let me be specific. first, the bush administration asked for and then used authority to spend unprecedented sums of money to help banks, auto companies, insurance firms, fannie mae and freddie mac to weather the financial crisis. the prior administration enacted and used these authorities before the current administration even took office. that ran up a huge number, huge addition to our deficits and debt. second, the new administration inherited the great recession. the recession has lowered revenues to compensate for reduced revenues the treasury has had to borrow more. in addition, the recession has increased the need for federal spending on things like unemployment insurance and medicaid costs for folks who can no longer afford health care. to compensate for these increased outlays, treasury has had to borrow more as well. finally, to keep the recession from becoming a lot worse than it has, the obama administration had no choice but to enact a vigorous stimulus package. the treasury has had to borrow

that is puzzling to me. let me ask you about the appeals process in general. forget this issue.al, bus you have been on both sides. sometimes you appeal, sometimes after you contract and somebody appeals against you. do you believe we canç -- have you been in any instances where the process was speeded up by the government, they just moved forward and said we have to move forward with this contract? mr. ryder, have you had any cases like that? or mr. nicker sop where the process was speeded up where the issue was resolved sooner? >> no, sir. >> mr. roitz? >> my former role we were responsible for a large procurement for guards at our military bases. and we had multiple protests and we did multiple protest overrides. . retty high and level. a pretty high level. might it allows, and there are two protests. there are award and pre-award protests. post-award has limitations on performance. they can do it themselves and it allows them to either award the contract or to perform the service. >> can any of your answer this. i want to know how you think about this process? do you think

in it is unbelievable to me. -- it is unbelievable to me. the piece that we can understand is fatigued, if nothing else, and tried to move expeditiously as we can to address it. i want to ask a couple of other questions. this issue at snappine of nappii understand why someone might suggest that as an alternative, and perhaps some carriers overseas use it, but i also understand the captain's notions about this. i have flown their planes very minimally. very few hours. i understand in the cockpit, if you are napping and a bell or whistle goes off, you did not wake up knowing that actions to take. you are drowsy. i do not understand the issue of solving of fatigue issue by napping. >> i am glad to elaborate. we do not view this as the silver bullet for fatigue. it is one of the many tools in the toolbox. airlines would not a build schedules that incorporate napping as a requirement to complete a trip. it is a way to manage fatigue as it rises on a real-time basis. we think it is a smarter approach, managing the napping process, then allowing th

. >> let me know if you need me, i'm happy to sit down with anybody and i offered it to scott because he was calling me asking me, what should i do and i said you should take the job. >> do you know him? >> no. >> we need to meet him. we need to ask somebody. hello, tim, where are you now? >> clean economy network. >> where is that? >> amy christianson? >> to. no. we start add new non-profit about 10 weeks to go. 2 to 10 in three months. >> one of the best interns. >> sam blodgett. he's on full time with us now. >> what's the agenda? >> is there always an agenda? i have no motive. >> what's the mission? >> we represent clean businesses, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and we're creating a 50-state network, so actual businesses don't sign up for us. it's just clean energy professionals in them, business network just merged into us, it just became official, so we're building this chapter structure and we have a c3 and a c4. >> >> so you're a not for profit. >> c3 and pac. >> you should know that this is tim's. >> tim is one creative guy. it was the bus tour. >> i still have nightmare

come instructed me, surprised become infuriated me. the views of credit shelia keller in the "los angeles times" yesterday. brooklyn, good morning on the independent line. what is your favorite this year? >> caller: first have to give an inch and a couple of books one being the ayatollah which is an insightful look into the iranian society forming politics and the second is the new founders by [inaudible] in which he profiles democratic activists or political activists from seven of the more repressive countries in the middle east. it shows the movement toward democracy and the best book of 2009 would have to be [inaudible] by gretchen peters which really shows the cultivation in afghanistan, pakistan's tribal regions and how the insurgency and distribution networks support the terrorist operations. >> host: we go next to hutcheson kansas and democratic callers got what are your favorite -- what is your favorite books or books? merry christmas. >> caller: i enjoyed the worst part times. i wish i remember the author name but i forgot. i

get me some answers. it's clear some heads are likely to roll. >> i was just going to say she couldn't have said what the president said today because they were still vacuuming up information from within the intelligence community and figuring out exactly what they had and what dots weren't connected. i think that's why she couldn't have gone that far, certainly, as ed says. she might have been a little bit more transparent about the system. the system working. it wasn't her best moment as we all know. we'll hear from some former government insiders and get their reaction to today's revelations next. >>> hi. welcome back to "larry king live." we have a couple experts here. we've got breaking news about this christmas day incident which was almost catastrophic in the skies over detroit. with me right now, frances townsend the cnn national security contributor who also served as chief antiterrorism and homeland security adviser for president george bush. also jack rice, former cia officer, journalist, syndi

didn't phase me. all of a sudden, he totally unfurls his great height and just assumed that some bug sent by the lord provost so he turns to me and says you take the elevator, i'll take the stairs. the point of this totally alluded me but i take the elevator to get there about the fifth floor about the same time, barge into the room, david urges him. he was a chain smoker so humid delhi collapses and starts wheezing and this poor guy who is a television repairman scatters out with the tv still all in parts. but david got me the notion of just getting out in the world. how important it was as a storyteller to be there and meeting people. i was in belfast with him once. we were at the europa hotel. it was a tuesday and there was a demonstration going on. now, the sunday times as you can probably figure out comes out only once a week am on sunday. there's really no reason to be covering the demonstration on a tuesday. david said we had to get out there. i said well, it looked kind of changers and he says

he said the key made me understand me, which is what love is all about. -- he said vickie made me understandeet. >> the other thing about the book is, we have all read many memoirs, and if we were in a different line of work, we probably would not read a lot of them. a lot of these books are interesting if you are interested in the time or the career or the issues. the ones that are really great are universal. you do not have to be a political junkie to get something out of the book. you will read this book from beginning to end even if you are not interested in politics. there are so many things there thaearly on. when ted kennedy was talking about writing this book, he said one model he had is katherine graham's book, personal history. because she was a candid. brown the time that book came out, i was in chicago and our ran into a woman who was about 22 years old. she came up to me and said he lived in washington, don't you? she said, do you know katherine graham? she looked at me as if she was seeing -- that book was able to speak to someone of a total different experience who was not a b

, she's a woman, she's younger than me, older than me, whatever. i mean, this is malcolm gladwell material, obviously, i'm going to know. now, the racism part comes in, are we going to make negative, positive or neutral decisions based on she's black, he's white, whatever? you know, and hopefully we'll make neutral decisions and not negative decisions based on those basic facts. what i'm talking about with post-black is something entirely different. there's a different way to rook at -- look at the possibilities of being black. as you know, there's much, much, much, more. we could take up the whole panel talking about that, and we won't. [laughter] >> but malcolm talked about being black. he raised a lot of consciouses, he made a lot of people mad. let me ask you, as a youngster how did you respond to this? >> to what? >> the idea that being plaque was beautiful and not -- black was beautiful and not something you should avoid? >> i don't think that we ever thought we were to avoid anything. you know, so it's kind of difficult sometimes to answer s

that to me is judging. to admit that you may have a weakness and a problem but you cannot put that into this document. the two are separate. the members of the court with them i have served have been wonderful. you learn from people. justice o'connor is a wonderful friend. there is no sadder day around here than when a member of this court -- than when justice souter announce that when he was leaving -- remember, i served 18 years with him, almost 18 years. he becomes your friend. you do not have to agree, but he is your friend. when you hear one of your colleagues is sick, it is one of your family members who are sick. so much is made of whether we agree or disagree. can you think of any human being with him you agree on everything? large or small? it does not exist. it does not happen. but you feel a closeness and you have done it in no way did you think has been respectful to each other and to the institution and to your fellow citizens. >> let me move to the court and the public. we just recently conduc

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they bring me a plate. they bring me a tenderloin. margaret brings me carrots and beets. have to eat alone in a candle lit room. >> this is another special room. this is trimming's officuman's . the portrait of chairman we have is by the painter who painted the official portrait of the president. she copy of the original work for blair house car during the reagan and renovation of the 1980's. ♪ the mantle in this room that was installed in the white house during the 1901 renovation and then the treatment renovation was brought to blair house sutra member have a visual reminder of the white house and during the years he did not get to live there. ♪ his favorite color was green. the walls or green. the carpet was green. there was a desk in the middle of the floor. you're only feet off of the avenue and there were trolley cars out there. this is an open passage way. this would happen president truman pasqua bedroom. -- president truman's bedroom. there were gunshots l outside. one of the attackers was killed. >> this was a dedicated to. eisenhower. this is the president's p

i don't know if you know, if you do tweet me, i am the one, nobody else tweets on my site but me. i try to answer every single question that somebody asked me and the reason that i like it so much is that it actually keeps me in touch with what does america want to know, what do you need? what are you feeling? and it all kind of comes out on my twitter site and i love it and i do it almost every day. >> larry: pretty good ego trip, though? >> it's kind of nice. it's true, i can't wait to hit that 1 million point, sir. an e-mail question from jeff in phoenix. >> here's the thing, jeff, it all depends how old you happen to be. if you are old enough that you're going to be keeping this home and it's going to be a home you'll stay in for the rest of your life. let's say you're 45, 50 years of age, then i personally think it's a wonderful thing to do to pay off your mortgage. why? most of your tax write-offs in a mortgage are in the beginning years. if you have a 30-year mortgage, a $200,000 mortgage and you pay $1200 a month. after 20 years of paying $14,014 a year. all the interest i

me knock me to the ground. me, knocked me to the ground, kicked me, rifled through my pants, took my wallet. called me all kinds of racial epithets. all kinds of curse words and the like. one guy pulled a knife out. fortunately somebody was driving by and started pwaoepg there their horn and kept pwaoepg in and they ran off. the police were spb full and a -- the police were unsuccessful and really didn't show the level of interest or concern that i had expected and consequently he was a pretty angry fellow. so, to raise the seriousness of the crime i insisted that they consider it to be a hate crime. and i was informed that it didn't apply to me, only applied to minorities. and i was just in shock and disbelief and proceeded to go to the district attorney and whatever and was repeatedly told it just didn't apply to you. and there had been other similar incidents and it was never solved and no one was arrested and i was never even brought in to see a lineup. host: when did this took place in frpblgt it was seaso

caller: it is me. the book is not about me. put the stories of the korean war together around these stories about the war. the subtitle is called "the forgotten flaccg." "the forgotten war" and "the forgotten her pro it has been out since june. i gave the first boat to the president of korea. i had three brothers in the war. one newspaper called it "for domino more -- forgotten no more," which was a tremendous lift for me. on the date the war started 59 years later. it has done a great reviews. host: thank you for calling. we can tell you about january and february. january 3, from noon until 3:00 p.m., three hours with michelle malkin. our february guest is paul johnson and his caucus on churchill. the will be on sunday, february 7. this is carol on our independence linemen. caller: my favorite book, i read the paper back, "the hemmings of monticello." host: she won a prize. caller: national book award. it is so well-written and so well documented. it brings a whole new point of view to the complexity of race relations in our

let me say that this is a priority for me.ould reiterate what senator hutchinson said, our transportation system is the safest in the world. we clearly cannot rest -- rest on our achievements. with the tragedy earlier this year with the flight 3047 which brought the safety of our airlines into the public eye. it was chilling to learn about the fatigue issues and some of the training issues for regional flights and the most chilling was the conversation that was recorded between the captain in the first officer when the first officer told the pilot he had never seen icing conditions. as a result of some of the hearings, i looked into these rules and was shocked to find out that the deicing rule has been pending for 12 years. i raised this issue earlier in a letter to secretary lahood and was pleased to work with him to move it out and get it out there for public comment. but that is 12 years. when you said 3000 pages for this new rule, even if you have this amount, it would be 250 pages per year over a 12 year period. we cannot

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i was very thankful that a couple took me inçó, also immigrants here, and raised me as their own child everything in my life was easy relative to that. i tell people that sometimes the obstacles that you face are opportunities in disguise, because in those early days, i really thought that what happened to meet was somehow my punishment. i cannot understand why all my friends were worth their families that had things i was used to, and i was in a new country, could not speak the language, did not know the people i was with. in the end, it turned out that i would not have changed a thing about what happened that day. i realize that i was in a difficult situation, but i was in the greatest country in the world with a wonderful set of people who were taking care of me. my theme of the book is that inside every obstacle, there is opportunity. if you look for it, once you sees it, the opportunity is yours. >> he was chief operating officer at singular wireless and has been with at&t since 2007. mr. kirby, next question. >> early termination fees are starting to get more attention in washing

let me ask mr. carey, you have initiated the steps with respect to your policies as a result of any type of regulatory suggestion or is this just something that you think is good business? >> this has been their practice really sense we invented the atm, and we have never done anything. >> careful because someone invented the internet. >> i don't think there is as much dispute around this one as the other one but it has had essentially been our practice that the funds are not there then the transaction doesn't go forward. >> the majority of banks, large, medium and all sizes charge these these and i guess my point is, and is due regulators ever looked at you and say, that is great for today in any way try to suggest what a good fee structure would be with respect to the consumers or do they just remain aloof? >> your first point, i have yet to be in a meeting with the regulator or they have said everything i have done is really could mpaf mian the head because that is not their job but to their comp

it makes no sense to me. but let me take a step back. we all remember a few months ago there was a big story that nevada was going to get a special medicaid deal. and it was right about that time that we took a few days off and i went back home and i did town hall meetings like i've done for years and years and years. but we really invested time and effort. and we identified six principles of health care. they're on my website. you can go look at them. and i literally had a powerpoint presentation. i did four town hall meetings, carney, grand island, lexington, lincoln, and i put these principles up. and one of the principles was no carve outs, no backroom deals, no special deals. and i presented that to the people that were at those town hall meetings. i did tons of interviews. i explained why i felt the way i did. and people were so irate at the possibility that nevada was going to get this special deal. now, since then i think that's fallen to the wayside. but all of these other things have come along. that's why i read the lincoln jo

that seems insane to me. if you give me, larry, you give me $700 billion. you can call me anything you want any time on any show you want anywhere. deal? >> larry: good point, isn't it s.e. cupp? >> absolutely. but the obama administration is indignant forgetting the fact they were behind these bailouts to begin with and scolding them for using the money seems a little misplaced. the obama administration has to realize their own culpability. >> larry: president obama sat down with oprah winfrey and she asked him how he would grade himself? >> the economy is growing again. we are on our way out of iraq. i think we've got the best possible plan for afghanistan. we have reset our image around the world. we are -- we have achieved an international consensus around the need for iran and north korea to disable their nuclear weapons and i think that we're going to pass the most significant piece of social legislation since social security, and that's health insurance for every american. >> larry: let me get the panel's reaction after this. no way! way. ♪ - sure, c

the congressman who just hated me put his arm around me and said, told me that's all right, son.so that was -- that was my debating career. i figured after that no more. election day came and we had -- we got everybody together in the headquarters and went to mcdonalds for dinner. seriously. i sent everybody -- and everybody was six people -- to the key precincts. dumont, and bergenfield and just to get the info back in. so when the polls closed on election day in englewood, new jersey, in 1976, i was alone in the campaign headquarters with a woman college radio reporter because her mother -- with -- who was there with her mother because her mother wouldn't let her come along, just the three of us at campaign headquarters. the numbers started coming in and you know what, it looked pretty good. i'd done all the targeting stuff. i knew where we had to be and, you know, this is jimmy carter is winning the presidency but you know what? it was going pretty well so i called my mom back in kansas city who has no clue what the heck i do for a living and said, hey, mom, i think we're doin

me. a lot of different factors go into it. it has to do a lot with the majors and gearing up. i like to have my game peaking for these. >> larry: you play the week before a major? >> i usually take the week off. some like to play two or three weeks in a row into a major, and others like to golf in seclusion and get ready that way. >> larry: do you ever wonder looking back how all this happened to you? i mean, you're obviously superb at the sport, but all this attention so young. do you ever think to yourself, where did this come from? >> i really do, because it's wild. when i go grocery shopping, run my cart up and down the the aisles and people recognize me. the wildest thing that ever happened was my friends and i were going to a -- where were we going? a clipper game. >> larry: a clipper game. >> we're driving along in the car at 25 miles per hour. it's a night and my window is down. we're driving along and people recognized me. that was wild. that was wild, yeah. >> larry: do you ever

they kicked me out. so there you are. >> okay. >> i was in it for a couple months marching around and learning -- i never was able to serve. >> larry: jesse was a s.e.a.l. >> jesse is a brave guy. >> you know what's going to be interesting, tomorrow night the president is going to give a speech and in which he's going to try and square the circle. he's going to give general mcchrystal more or less what he wanted in terms of troops. and he's going to try to give everybody else who is opposed to this escalation a lot of words. but that's not going to work. because the public is losing confidence in this attempt to try and be all things to our people. >> larry: sorry, folks, we're out of time. i'm really sorry. thank you all very much.

pardon me? the entire government of the united states, all of the embassies overseas, the defense department, transportation, education, national parks, name it, whatever it is, every dime to keep the government going had to be borrowed not because we didn't have any revenue -- we had $2.2 trillion worth of revenue which by itself would have covered the cost of keeping the government open. but we couldn't touch a single dime of that $2.2 trillion because all of it was tied up with entitlements sofplt what are we doing in the face of that experience? we are creating a new entitlement to add to those that we already have. now the realities of federal budgeting are these -- and they're not unlike the realities of running a business. i have run a business, and i understand how the very best projections, the very best forecasts can go awry. you can have a new product. you think it's going to do really well, and you forecast "x" millions of dollars in revenue from this new product, and you look at wha

not me. so is this smart to have a program that people have depended on, that we have a moral compact to support our seniors who paid into this plan for 40 years now taking money out of that to create a new program? it is, in fact, in quite a number of areas going to cost far more than is being suggested by the people who are promoting the legislation. we're going to dig into this and try analyze it with more clarity. but the truth is the numbers just don't add up. they won't work. we -- we just ought not to be establishing a new entitlement program of massive proportions in a way that we really have little concept of how it's going to play out at a time of the largest deficits this nation has ef her. -- ever had. deficits that according to our own congressional budget office will double the national debt in five years an triple it to dz -- and triple it to $17 trillion in 10 years. it is an unsustainable course. and one of the first things you have to do is watch how to you spend your money.

to me, that was painful, and i rice for it.was painful, and i for me, that was an experience that encapsulatelet's explore that. he referred to the fact of the hardest part of the job is deciding what the position of the government should be because of competing interests. the referred to representing clients vigorously in the supreme court, but on one hand you are a custodian of the credibility of the office, and also a high-ranking political appointee. ultimately to the president. how you reconcile all of those different roles and interests, and in particular, how would you decide to repudiate a decision taken by the prior administration? you have to wait continuity against the perception of the office, against your obligation that you believe to be right? >> it is a very difficult balancing proposition. on one hand, one thing the justice captures is this idea that there's a special relationship between the court and solicitor general's office, and a sense of independence of the solicitor general's office from the rest of the executive branch. but one of the mystifying things is that if you

let me introduce our panel.rence ef vans, john hilley who served as seniorlp advisor to president clinton in 1996-1998. and g. william hoagland who served as policy advisorÑiñ2hp'p budget aid to former senate majority leader bill frist. frances lee from the university of maryland-college park and w. lee rawls from the f.b.i. and in a past life was chief of staff to the majority leader bill frist and to -- and chief of staff to another senator.çó the session is moderated by alai murray. alan is especially appropriate for this given his authorship of "showdown at guchi gulch" 1986 and i would say it would make a terrific holiday gift having used it in class. alan? >> that was good. that made the trip all worth whooil. thank you, david. so it's a bigger panel than the last panel and each panelist this time only gets 5 to 7 minutes. we have a bit of a problem because three of theÑi people o this panel have worked in the u.s. senate which knows no time limits, but i'll do my best to enforce it. we're going to start w

me. caller: good morning. sir, i honor your service to our country and the service of all of your other fellow warriors, though i oppose war. i'm an anti war veteran. i want to ask you two questions. what lessons have we learned -- [inaudible] and what are we doing to address the deficits for vietnam veterans that have been mistreated? and when are we going to get a surgeon general, sir? let's get on with it. thank you. guest: paul, i had difficulty understanding the first questions. i just got the lessons and care. host: i think that is the gist of it. guest: he asked one question we learned about warrior care since walter reed. i think we learned there is that, first of all, the army -- if you remember "forrest gump" when he was playing ping-pong, he was playing a patient in an army relocation center, -- army rehabilitation center. in the 1970's, we had one of those at valley forge, pennsylvania, were general frank reelected after being wounded in vietnam and decided to have this leg am

that troubled me when i heard it but then the president added words to reassure me.ich were we'll execute this transaction responsibly taking into account conditioned on the groun". secretary gates this morning you added more detail i think to the, admiral mu len you did too to the mode we'll begin this transition in july of 2011. and i'm maginally struck that you refer to it's a transfer of security responsibility and you also say that it will be very much like what we did in iraq. international security forces provided over watch. first aá the tactical level and then at the strategic level. secretary gates am i cjq(u in concluding what will definitely begin in july of 2011, is a transfer of security responsibility to the afghans, but may not include immediately a withdrawal of forces from afghanistan? >> that is correct. i think that as we turn over more districts and more provinces to afghan security control, much as we did with the provincial iraqi control, that there will be a thinning of our forces and a gradual drop down. i would remind folks here, since this