the committee has not hesitated to use enforcement powers where necessary as in the case of miers andolton to find people in contempt as needed and do what needs to get done. yes, sir? >> a couple quick things, on the karl rove bill, i just drove up overnight from alabama and i've been covering this thing for the last couple of years and i was just curious to ask you while i've got you here on -- do you have a clear indication of when this interview is going to take place with karl rove? >> the interview has been scheduled. that has been publicly stated. i cannot give you any more information about it. >> [ inaudible ] -- the deal that was made with karl rove about whether or not this is under oath or not, are you satisfied that this is going to be something that's under oath, that's going to be on the record that he can't sfli. >> we are satisfied by those terms quite specifically. when this issue came up, the only offer that we could get from the prior administration was essentially an informal chat, as chairman conyers put it, like inviting mr. rove could go down for fish and chips

there will be on the record interviews under penalty of prosecution of both miers and karl rove. in the interviews are done, all of that material will be available to the public with additional conclusions from the committee and the possibilities of hearings at some point. we're not done in that area. we have seen enormous abuses of power that had begun to be corrected. congress passed an important law limiting the ability of the attorney general to simply appoint people as u.s. attorney without senate confirmation. the abuses that occurred just in that respect are truly astonishing. there is more to come, unfortunately. there was a politicization of hiring at the department. the centerpiece of the committee investigation was the living testimony of limonica goodwin with knitted she used political factors in recommending career attorneys. this led to another investigation that further documented problems there and in the justice department of program and summer internship program. i am happy to say that we now have a new attorney general who has clearly committed to the complete

magistrate judge hears arguments today about whether walter kendall miers and his wife should continue to be held until they go to trial. the former state department employee and his wife, accused of spying for cuba, have been behind bars since there arrested thursday. "the boston globe" is reporting that the new york times co. has hired goldman sachs to manage the possible sale of open code the boston globe." the report says they have begun accepting bids. >> "washington journal" continues. host: gov. howard dean joins us, the author of "howard dean's prescriptions for real healthcare reform." guest: i do not think we are blind to get much agreement between dr. dean and dr. coburn on this one. the idea that we were better off with insurance companies is a crazy idea. there are more bureaucrats telling doctors what to do than there ever were in the united states government. host: as far as prescriptions that the obama administration one for health care, how did they fall in line with what you are prescribing? guest: that is the plan in prescribing. there needs to be a public option. th

the miers' often very superficial.just well, it's the exception for existential circumstances or this is the only available contractor and we followed those of tuzee whether it really has to be done without competition. >> i might add the plant that this was a very

save goes to mier. berken one win and four losses. he deserves probably a better fate. he got into a hole in the first inning. brian roberts 2-3 performance including a double. melvin mora drove in a run and orioles wound up lose that i go second frait straight game to the florida marlins 5-26789 orioles in the series were nine wins and three loss and now drop two quickly to the marlins. >> i know. you have to play a good, solid, defensive ballgame most of the time much. when you get in the streaks we talk about how the orioles would be in their win streak. they had a five-game win streak against the marlins. one baserunning mistake will cost them the ballgame. cost them the mom yum and put enough in favor of the florida marlins to really stop them. two games in a row now and they really had a good chance of win ago orioles lose tonight 5-2. for more on tonight's show, back to florida and revisit with jim hunter and buck martinez. jim? >> all right. tom, thank you thanks very much. buck, you look at the scoreboard and three actual errors in this game. there were more me

the miers' often very superficial. just well, it's the exception for existential circumstances or this is the only available contractor and we followed those of tuzee whether it really has to be done without competition. >> i might add the plant that this was a very unique contract and you could maybe think about whether it was dysfunctional in terms of the way that was established but there was competition, that it is a ten year contract, cost type dollar for dollar ten year contract. once a year it can be rolled over. so you're talking about a contract in action with a sole supplier that dates back to the 2003i believe time frame and it's still in place because ten years haven't passed. so there is no competition anymore and that's why we are encouraged by the action to go to logcap for whether there are three vendors that would bid and there's tremendous attendees. we saw an example where the same type of work that was bid in kuwait using logcap three had priced out on hundred $20 million that was $55 million less a

now, miers' almost as tough as you were to say as ahmadinejad. my father was orthodox jewish. that as a whole other story. a good story. [laughter] maybe we will find it during the q&a time. my father, when he was growing up in temple was in a play about these very evens and he was one of the soldiers in the persian palace and he was to take his spear and stamp three times and say ladies and gentlemen, king [inaudible] i'm going to use keen xerxes because the disease year. king xerxes was the leader now, in chapter 31136, the plot begins to thicken and we are not going to go through all the chapters of esther but in chapters 3136 after these events, king xerxes promoted heymann, the son of hamidatha and established his authority over all the princes that were with him and all the king's servants at the king's gate bowed down and paid homage to haman for the king had commanded. but mortiki neither paid homage. in the king's servants at the king's gate said to him why are you trends transgressing the king's command. when the spoken daily to him and he wouldn't listen to them the

i assure the encouragement and miers' helping him in the same way that if there had been a terrorist attack for months ago we would have a different president today. wouldn't you imagine? it is just human nature for people when they are threatened and fearful to go to the hard-liner, and he is a hard liner. .. look for more weeklian and it was very fun to get eye contact. it was called eye fishing. i would go out and do some eye fishing because it takes them a while to shoot this stuff. i get eye contact with somebody and they'd say hello and they'd always say where are you from? and i had a personal little game. i would never tell them. i'd say where do you think. they would never, ever -- i can't remember guess the united states. finally, i said united states. and they'd go, united states? what are you doing here and then they would say welcome. it was the amazing thing. we'd go in shops across the street from the shot -- from the mural and there was a bookstore. and gorgeous books. they will really into poetry and then we had to go and i said thank you and the lady who was the boo