she said whatever. >> steve: snowing on and off all day in minneapolis.d 15 inches on the ground when they arrived last night. the wizards have outscored the wizards after the wizards led by seven. >> phil: there were a couple place that went up and jeff everwas looking towards the room. that was our physical play. >> steve: caron has 4 points. >> phil: washington is perfect from the free-throw line. they had 15 rebounds. >> steve: minnesota starts the second quarter with possession. tipped out-of-bounds by washington. they will give it to the wizards. it looked like haywood may have got a hand on it. sasha pavlovic starts the period. here is blatche, he scores. it's good to see him score earl because >> steve: blatche to hollins who misses and haywood clears the glass. seven rebounds for brendan haywood already. nick young. they have to reset with eight seconds to shoot. boykins with 5. around the haywood screen. underneath to brendan but couldn't do it. >> phil: it was a hard fast because it was so long. you heard it. >> steve: it was a couple years ago

. >> steve: we are at halftime in minneapolis.he biggest difference in this ballgame is rebounding by the timberwolves and second half points. they are shooting 35% from the field and yet they have the lead on the wizards 43-42 at the break. let's look around the n. unusual series of events for ron artest, he fell down his stairs after -- he had a concussion after fa >> steve: this is the first meeting between these two teams this year. washington looks for its third consecutive win. we had a terrific time last night at flip saunders home. he opened it up for the entire team, the broadcasters, trainers, equipment guys, it was fun. 11 rebounds for this minnesota team on the offensive glass that lead to eight second chance points. >> phil: washington was able to keep them at a lower shooting percentage around 35%. but they are to shore that up in the second half, their defensive rebounds maybe get a few second chance baskets of their own. >> steve: wizards shot 42.5%. it kills you when the other team is shooting so poorly and someho

has had a difficult practice in minneapolis before going to memphis in the afternoon. memphis grizzlies are 13 and 16, they are nine and five at home and have yet to fall to a home at home i should say against a team with the losing record, five and 0 here. da marre the rookie from missouri has his first start as zack randolph is averaging a double, double and a career high with 11 rebounds a game. lionel harlens got the job after mark abhorrente was fired on january 23rd. he had been coaching for 21 years and this is his third stint with the grizzlies. we'll check the toyota who wants to watch phil? >>phil: a battle in the mid middle. steve: we head to the floor for the papa johns opening tipoffs as the wizards look for their first win in five straight games against washington's last win. november3rd, 2004 here. that's your memphis team that swept the series for the second time in four years. last season the griz beat the whizzes by five in april and by 16 in washington in february. we are under way. washington gets the tip. great to have you with us tonight. happy ho

hood is different than minneapolis. i would say that one of the things from somali experts and people in the community said since the withdrawal of ethiopian forces, the lure has gone down and the parents turned them in. the u.s. attorney had the full cooperation of the parents and the parents looked upon it as a relief because the people who were preying on their kids were gone. we were doing it well and it is not the mainstream. it's the margin and we have to make sure it stays on the margin. >> we received a variety of mixed opinions to address the issue of radicalization. some say there should be increased cooperation between law enforcement and muslim clergy and religious teens. we want to deter the teens from going down the path of radicalization. it causes voices we hope to encourage to be discredited as pop ganda. do you believe the government and officials should actively engage with muslim religious and clergy leaders and how can it be done without discrediting? >> i will start by saying one thing and to agree

and set up in integration burba the university of minneapolis minnesota and minneapolis. and he led a group down -- led the group down to jackson. he still lives in minneapolis today and is very much involved in politics. one of his good friends who came along with him was david morton, who in this photograph like a nice, clean-cut american kid. but this is what he looked like then as well as now. he shaved his beard to come south so they wouldn't accuse him of being a happy, which is what he was. he was a poet and musician and had some relationship with the dublin in the early days, for those of you in to your dillonology this is one of the original freedom riders who left washington and the original group as well as bob fielder from pittsburgh in new york and today represents san diego and the house of representatives. there were three, at least three people who had survived, riders who survived the holocaust and world war ii as children. alex is get as a young child with his family out of vienna before the war started and was talked about what his father had been throu

and you have the somali men who went from minneapolis to fight with the affiliated group in somalia. and the great fear is that perhaps these young men had some intention to do one or the other, wage jihad overseas or come back and do something here. i will tell you one law enforcement source says there are no charges that have been brought here. this is still very much an investigation. they say the hints that they've seen thus far in the investigation lead them to believe that their intention was to do something overseas. to wage jihad. >> larry: we'll be following up on this tomorrow night. thank you, thank you very much very much. two experts on terrorism tell us what they think on all this next. [ female announcer ] get more of what you love when you create your own seafood feast at red lobster. choose two or three from new creations... like wood-grilled shrimp with garlic creme and parmesan... to classics like succulent steamed crab legs. for a limited time, at red lobster. every time you take advil liqui-gels you're taking the pain reliever that works faster on tough pain than

>> it turned out to be minneapolis, and i'm very happy and proud to be here and to see all of you. i want to speak rather briefly just for 20 or 25 minutes, and schedule little bit about the book that can referred to, "the future of faith," because i really look forward to the period in which you can ask your questions or for sure criticisms, and we can have a back and forth among us here, and for the instruction and entertainment of those in the radio audience. there are three main points in the "the future of faith" which you will pick out. i simply ask myself, what can we say about the future fate, the the future of religion, christianity in particular as we look down the long quarter of the 21st century. first of all, i have to warn you, be very, very careful of anybody who makes predictions about anything. stock market, or religion, especially beware of me, i firmly predicted that the red sox would win the pennant and the world series. [laughter] [applause] >> thank you, thank you. is always next year, for another red sox world series victory. i think it is a really long hard

back on the phones, minneapolis on our line for independents. good morning. minneapolis? caller: yes. now i can hear you. host: go ahead. caller: first let me thank you for c-span. i think president obama ought to have secretary of state clinton focus on problems between israel and the palestinians so we can go ahead and debunk this idea that if there was some kind of a deal that if the palestinians got a state that terrorism would vanish into thin air, which it's not going to. that's not what this is really all about. i don't think that we can have connelly in the had? name. senate anymore. we've become so polarized in this country that there's no compromise in either party. and i believe that well, just like there was a poll out not that long ago where the tea party, which doesn't even exist actually polled higher than either the democratic or the republican parties. and then in a national poll, which is just beyond belief, but it actually happened, i believe we need to think about doing away with the two parties -- two-party system that we have in this country. host: s

but the minneapolis would come back. it all began in the 2nd period. panhandled the shot.and the rebound t leafs are within one. then on the 2man advantage. campings neuvirth off forward and just like that, tied for 2. ovechkin sets up backstrom for the 2nd of the game. caps up top, 3-2. but as we move into the 3rd period, game tied at 3 when say january corral as loose puck. stajan. instead, they turn it over 2 blue line. and they would go onto the 6-3 victory. you look at that time numbers on this one, you see the capitals with the shot on goal advantage. that is the difference. a big night for the -- ruin for the capitals top line. let's take you back to the center. we bring you back joe and greg. guys, we talked about it. they certainly did look a little fatigued and understandably so, but you are going right between the pipes, greg, when you talk about this one. >> greg: yes, i really think so. i think we saw the youth tonight. neuvirth not a great outing. he allowed 6 and i don't hang him for all of them, but i thought there were probably 3 or 4 he should have had. t

hood is different than minneapolis. would say that one of the things from somali experts and people in the community said since the withdrawal of ethiopian forces, the lure has gone down and the parents turned them in. the u.s. attorney had the full cooperation of the parents and the parents looked upon it as a relief because the people who were preying on their kids were gone. we were doing it well and it is not the mainstream. it's the margin and we have to make sure it stays on the margin. >> we received a variety of mixed opinions to address the issue of radicalization. some say there should be increased cooperation between law enforcement and muslim clergy and religious teens. we want to deter the teens from going down the path of radicalization. it causes voices we hope to encourage to be discredited as pop ganda. do you believe the government and officials should actively engage with muslim religious and clergy leaders and how can it be done without discrediting? >> i will start by saying one thing and to agree w

as part of a cold case homicide project, minneapolis police sergeant found evidence and that evidence was submitted for d.n.a. testing. that evidence hit to a man whose only felony conviction was for drunk driving. senator cobetur was largely responsible which for the law which made repeat drunk driving a felony. the crime never would have been solved but for the fact that he was placed into the convicted offender data base. this is a magnificent example where the law of unintended consequences led to a terrific outcome. i am fortunate have to have been a part of this. i have made suggestions to this committee. i believe the use of d.n.a. typing to identified rapists can be furthered enhanced and additional rapist ks be brought to justice. i outlined in my submissions a number of areas that can help us. i want to thank you for inviting me to testify before you today and i look forward to continuing my work on maximizing the use of d.n.a. technology in this area. >> thank you very much. our next witness has been the director of victims of crime. she joined the organization in 1991. she

one year ago it became mandatory in minneapolis to test all cases where the victim has identified her perpetrator and indicated that he was, in fact, a stranger. we need more training for police, for evidence gatherers and prosecutors. years ago prosecutors with dna experience provided training to inexperienced prosecutors. that training was crucial. however, it -- in most cases -- is no longer available. in sexual assault cases, evidence collection is most often performed these day cans by a specially-trained nurse. perpetrators know about dna, and they're taking steps to avoid leaving it at a crime scene. one rapest ejaculated in the woman's pants. she yelled for him to bring her pants back, his response? i'm taking these for dna purposes. he thought that he had taken the only evidence which could tie him to the sexual assault he had just committed. however, the nurse who was taking the evidence from her in a careful interview revealed that he had talked on her cell phone. she obtained her cell phone, she swabbed the receiver of the cell phone. that dna profile was entered into the

"minneapolis star-tribune" run three days of stories about it.she is lead stories on ail three tv stations six straight newscasts. gee, we should pay attention to this what a shock. we're bright political consultants. we decide to do three things on sunday night which is october 18th. we go into the field to take a survey. and we prepared two ads we want to go on the airbased on survey coming back as we thought. we get the survey back tuesday morning. she is down 6 points. we've seen a 20-point net movement in six days inside the campaign. even more disturbing was that, about 30% of the electorate had yet to hear of this controversy taking place. meant a lot of our loss was among republicans as well were saying gee, she is not the person we thought we were. our opponent at the time, was a former state senator and a former mayor and former commissioner of transportation under jesse ventura. had a couple of potential weaknesses we saw. been for tax increases. but also had a little ethical lapse while he was member of the department of transportatio

that's the story here from minneapolis. the wizards will return to comcast sportsnet when they will be in memphis taking on the grizzles. final here tonight, the timberwolves 101-89. happy holidays, remember any christmas to one and all. we'll see you monday night in memphis. have a ja brawl. >> this month a net impact, the best of 2009. h man on the ice. alex the great ovenchin. and why fame and fortune has not changed him. >>> and paying tribute to a man that taught everybody about the game. >> and then a dream comes true for one high school baseball player, a story that will warm your heart holiday season. >> hello and welcome to this special edition of net impact. i'm art fa nel. this is the best of 2009 report where we look back at some of the stories that touched most and kept us talking. like the first report that we called a father's tribute when we went under the lights on the biggest stage in major league baseball where yankee catcher jose molina could not help but reflect on the death of his father. this year was

i returned to minneapolis to thank the va care providers there for all they have done for him. i'm glad they're taking good care of you. they are a great partner of ours in this. we are very grateful for the service they provide, for veterans and active duty soldiers as well. host: gov. -- no, general cheek, thank you for being on the program. guest: thank you, and i'm grateful for all the care for the wounded soldiers. the love and care from the nation makes quite a difference. host: another programming notes -- notable books from 2009 -- "washington journal," during the last hour on friday, will be hooking up with otbook tv to highlight notable books of 2009. thank you very much for watching this edition of "washington journal." we will see you again tomorrow morning at 7:00 a.m. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2009] . >> next, house and senate negotiators will work on reconciling the different versions of the bill in january after the holiday break. if we will show you highlights coming up next starti

i returned to minneapolis to thank the va care providers there for all they have done for him. i'm glad they're taking good care of you. they are a great partner of ours in this. we are very grateful for the service they provide, for veterans and active duty soldiers as well. host: gov. -- no, general cheek, thank you for being on the program. guest: thank you, and i'm grateful for all the care for the wounded soldiers. the love and care from the nation makes quite a difference. host: another programming notes -- notable books from 2009 -- "washington journal," during the last hour on friday, will be hooking up with otbook tv to highlight notable books of 2009. thank you very much for watching this edition of "washington journal." we will see you again tomorrow morning at 7:00 a.m. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2009] . >> next, house and senate negotiators will work on reconciling the different versions of the bill in january after the holiday break. if we will show you highlights coming up next starti

caller: north of minneapolis. host: our next call comes from jesse. caller: thank you for c-span. you are looking very well today. everything that the callers have said, in america we voted for this man. a lot of young whites and blacks voted for change. now, he says there is no money to give retirees this year, but they will spend $30 billion for five years? c'mon. i thought i was voting for someone that was thinking about peace instead of war. host: from "the new york times" this morning, "president obama spent 40 minutes with nicolas sarkozy of france, who signaled that the french are not willing to send more troops to afghanistan. instead of troops, mr. sarkozy told obama that there would be a conference sponsored in london to rally support for afghanistan. it also says that the administration sent richard holbrooke to brussels on tuesday to begin briefing nato allies on policy. stanley mcchrystal will also be briefing allies in his capacity. chris, independent line -- capacity." chris, independent line. what are your thoughts? chris, i am going to put you on hold until you tu

americans could have created 360 jobs in minneapolis, they made that decision. councilman paul ostro was the single councilmember to vote against the center of dance saying, it wasn't creating enough jobs to qualify, whereas the solar energy plant clearly fit the president's goals, it was a home run. it was a home run. i told you a week or so ago about the 95 -- about the $95,000 being spent to study viking-era pollen in iceland. viking-era pollen in iceland. $95,000. you see why when when i get up here sometimes, having been a small business person and helped create jobs and watched every nickel, because you do that in real america, not back here, but when you're in real america and creating real jobs and trying to get to something we call positive cash flow and maintain that, you watch every nickel. you don't let $95,000 go out the door to study viking era pollen in iceland. . you don't throw money out the door. you are trying to grow and expand your business. my friend earlier talked about as if the whole american recovery, the whole economy and the greatness

a young woman was stabbed to death in south minneapolis. as part of a project, the police sergeant found evidence and this evidence was submitted for dna testing. this went to a man with a felony conviction for drunk driving. the senator was responsible for the law that made this a felony. i charged him and he is doing 25 years in prison for a crime that never would have been solved but for the fact that he was in the convicted offender data base. this is a great example of how the an event -- the consequences led to the outcome. i am fortune to be part of the revolution in the dna evidence. i have made suggestions to the committee and i believe that the use of dna to identify rapists can be enhanced and this can be brought to justice. i have a number of areas that i think may be helping us. i want to thank you for inviting me to testify before you. i look forward to continuing my word on maximizing dna technology in this area. >> thank you very much. the next witness is the director of public policy since 1999. she has joined the organizat

lack out, minneapolis! rivalry between the yankees and red sox reached a boiling point in the 2003 alcs. >> that is not even close. >> you talk about looking for a reason. >> absolutely. >> and then the team took a bizarre turn. >> oh, my goodness. don zimmer and pedro martinez --oh. that's awful. don zimmer, a 72-year-old man, went into pedro martinez's face and med pedro martinez threw him down. >> he was the best hockey player in history, and canada's most famous citizen. and then rumors of a trade began to swirl. what, they traded who? >> they got traded? no way. >> they traded him? >> we think he lacks the most in house. >> there comes a time when -- when -- >> wayne gretzky was now in hollywood and the nhl would never be the same. he was the heart and soul of the yankees team that was the two-time defending world series champions. >> the new york yankees and sports fans everywhere suffered a great loss tonight. that of star catcher thurmond munson, who was killed this afternoon in an airplane catch. >

>>anthony: secondly, thi bears a eerie remblance of what happened before 9-11 minneapolis when the lal fbi agent questions a man o was taking fght lessons and appeared to reprent some kind of threat to the united stat anthe local fbi agent tried his besto get his superiors in washington to authize a foreigintelligence search warrant of moussauoi's poessions, could not get national f to cooperate. nobody told the cia and we wl never know whether the information at could of been obtained for moussauoi bore september 11th could of prevented the attack. so it's happened again. >> jeffrey: san, let's go to at issue. there was inte intelgence on ths yog man. wasn't shared or decisions were made t to follow-up. >> i thinke need to try to unrstand the nuts and bolts, reverse en near at happened. >> the first question i wod ask apart om the questions of the actualnterview is when the group t to discuss this in the embassy. what information, what additionalnformation were they ab to obtain by going back to their agencies to learn to, brinto bear on that discussion. yes, if there was infoation th

just recently i saw on tv -- host: i think he is referring to the flight that overshot minneapolis and result -- they apparently were on the blog receiver -- the wrong receiver and on laptop computers. guest: for the color, i want to let you know that the safety board is looking at accidents and determine the probable cause so that they did not happen again. tsa is a part of the department of common security. with respect to the overflight of minneapolis, the safety board is investigating that incident, and the pilots when they were interviewed indicated they were on their laptops at the time. the safety board is looking at distractions at all modes of transportation. host: patty is joining us from r"⌞r >> i understand that the mtsb is up for reauthorization this year. do you have any recommendations? >> it is my pleasure to support these people. they are looking -- they are deployed to jamaica this weekend. thank you for the complement. i will pass it back to them. we have reauthorization coming up this year. year. i don't foresee any specific challenges. içó think that our responsibi

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back on the phones, minneapolis on our line for independents. good morning. minneapolis?aller: yes. now i can hear you. host: go ahead. caller: first let me thank you for c-span. i think president obama ought to have secretary of state clinton focus on problems between israel and the palestinians so we can go ahead and debunk this idea that if there was some kind of a deal that if the palestinians got a state that terrorism would vanish into thin air, which it's not going to. that's not what this is really all about. i don't think that we can have connelly in the had? name. senate anymore. we've become so polarized in this country that there's no compromise in either party. and i believe that well, just like there was a poll out not that long ago where the tea party, which doesn't even exist actually polled higher than either the democratic or the republican parties. and then in a national poll, which is just beyond belief, but it actually happened, i believe we need to think about doing away with the two parties -- two-party system that we have in this country. host: so

we have seen fit to give in cases come in dallas, minneapolis, here, work people from the united statespakistan and did surveillance for the mumbai attacks. we are in the crosshairs of what we've been seeing in europe for some time, domestic radicalization of a radical islamist nature. host: in the u.s., a number of these cases, the individuals are second generation, children of immigrants, and not so much in europe. guest: in europe they are second, third, fourth generation. here, we are just beginning to see what the trend is going to be. my real concern in the united states is that the way we are dealing with this as a government is by approaching it with the terminology of combat in the violent extremism. to me that is an hour late and a dollar short. what is driving them to this radical literature on line, what has been sending them to pakistan or somalia to carry out actual attacks -- we have two american suicide bombers in somalia -- is a radical ideology. it involves more than just law enforcement. we have to deal with the radical ideology that comes before the pilots. that is d

just recently i saw on tv -- host: i think he is referring to the flight that overshot minneapolis and result -- they apparently were on the blog receiver -- the wrong receiver and on laptop computers. guest: for the color, i want to let you know that the safety board is looking at accidents and determine the probable cause so that they did not happen again. tsa is a part of the department of common security. with respect to the overflight of minneapolis, the safety board is investigating that incident, and the pilots when they were interviewed indicated they were on their laptops at the time. the safety board is looking at distractions at all modes of transportation. host: patty is joining us from alexandria, virginia. caller: good morning, and thank you for taking my call. this will sound corny, but i want to thank ms. hersman for her service to the american people. every time there is an accident, we see ntsb there, and i think it is something we should say thank you for. i understand that ntsb is up for reauthorization this year. d.c. special challenges? gues -- to use the special

we have a lot of parks in minneapolis. it was cold and i wanted to get my legs stretched from working so hard last week. i was walking along one of our many trails and i decided to sit down at a park bench and looked like a pretty old looking park bench. the rust was there. and i noticed that it was sturdy. and we sat there talking to a few friends. when i got up to leave, there was a plaque and it said on it, w.p.a., 1934. for 75 years, that park bench been sitting there. for 75 years, that thing has been given comfort to people who are just walking by. but 75 years ago, we had a job crisis then. and our country, our congress responded to the needs of unemployed americans. you know, we need to respond to the needs of americans today. our people are putting pressure on food shelves and people don't have money for lights, as folks who have two and three jobs that were part-time, now lost them, now they have no lifeline, we have to respond to generation of americans looking for work today and where is there extra work, there

just recently i saw on tv -- host: i think he is referring to the flight that overshot minneapolis andresult -- they apparently were on the blog receiver -- the wrong receiver and on laptop computers. guest: for the color, i want to let you know that the safety board is looking at accidents and determine the probable cause so that they did not happen again. tsa is a part of the department of common security. with respect to the overflight of minneapolis, the safety board is investigating that incident, and the pilots when they were interviewed indicated they were on their laptops at the time. the safety board is looking at distractions at all modes of transportation. host: patty is joining us from alexandria, virginia. caller: good morning, and thank you for taking my call. this will sound corny, but i want to thank ms. hersman for her service to the american people. every time there is an accident, we see ntsb there, and i think it is something we should say thank you for. i understand that ntsb is up for reauthorization this year. d.c. special challenges? gues -- to use the special c

an up and coming senator shaking hands in january, you spend billions >> minneapolis. your thoughts. caller: one of the most defining events was allen greenspan's failure to recognize the housing bubble. this guy should be sent out digging ditches. the other day they had him up on capitol hill testifying about some financial affairs. this guy is an idiot. he should not be given any credibility anymore. they are still talking to the idiot. how much does it take to say that he did not recognize any financial signs. he could have went out and tried buy a working man's house and recognized how expensive they were. this guy should be relevant gated to shame. host: thank you. we'll continue talking to the defining moments of the decade and taking a look at other items in the news this morning. we mentioned at the top of the show. officers are killed in afghan attack. eight americans including officers of the central intelligence agency were killed in a suicide attack current and former u.s. officials said what could be the biggest loss since before the war began here. the ar

i'm from the city of minneapolis. and in migrate city of minneapolis, we had on august 4, 2007, a bridge collapse into the mississippi river. 13 people died and 100 have injuries like spinal column injuries as they fell 65 feet from the bridge to the water. now, at the end of the day, this crisis and this tragedy occurred because we did not maintain that infrastructure well enough. i'm not saying it's anybody's fault. i'm sure everybody did the best they could, but the fact is if we would have had a stronger infrastructure commitment that would make bridges around this country a priority to repair and to fix and to rebuild, this tragedy may not have happened, but it did happen. and so we put out a clarion call for infrastructure development in our country and i say we need to do this anyway and develop infrastructure so we can avoid horrible tragedies like the one that happened in my city. but as importantly, we need to do it now to put americans back to work. during the first six to nine months, if we could pass a gr

derrick is on the independents' line calling from minneapolis pr. caller: hello, nice lady. 1967 which israel, taking the west bank and the gaza strip, taking their land -- when you do that, people are not going to lay down. the united states back to israel, and that is why we are having problems street give those people back their land, and then they can rest again. until that happens, there will always be this problem. host: ambassador neumannç, we have had a couple of callers mentioned israel and the situation there. you alluded to that we seek more tensions mount because of what happened in israel, but give us a sense of how information spreads and a country like afghanistan when it comes to israel and the conflict there. çguest: you have a number of different things goingç on. in fairness compa, the 1967 war started with. pressures -- started with arab pressures. there is enough room for everybody to make mistakes. the famous summit in khartoum, and no recognition of israel -- a hugew3 arab mistakes, when thy could have negotiated back the land. israel is made many -

as part of a cold case homicide project, minneapolis police sergeant found evidence and that evidence was submitted for d.n.a. testing. that evidence hit to a man whose only felony conviction was for drunk driving. senator cobetur was largely responsible which for the law which made repeat drunk driving a felony. the crime never would have been solved but for the fact that he was placed into the convicted offender data base. this is a magnificent example where the law of unintended consequences led to a terrific outcome. i am fortunate have to have been a part of this. i have made suggestions to this committee. i believe the use of d.n.a. typing to identified rapists can be furthered enhanced and additional rapist ks be brought to justice. i outlined in my submissions a number of areas that can help us. i want to thank you for inviting me to testify before you today and i look forward to continuing my work on maximizing the use of d.n.a. technology in this area. >> thank you very much. our next witness has been the director of victims of crime. she joined the organization in 1991. she

an up and coming senator shaking hands in january, you spend billions >> minneapolis. your thoughts. caller: one of the most defining events was allen greenspan's failure to recognize the housing bubble. this guy should be sent out digging ditches. the other day they had him up on capitol hill testifying about some financial affairs. this guy is an idiot. he should not be given any credibility anymore. they are still talking to the idiot. how much does it take to say that he did not recognize any financial signs. he could have went out and tried buy a working man's house and recognized how expensive they were. this guy should be relevant gated to shame. host: thank you. we'll continue talking to the defining moments of the decade and taking a look at other items in the news this morning. we mentioned at the top of the show. officers are killed in afghan attack. eight americans including officers of the central intelligence agency were killed in a suicide attack current and former u.s. officials said what could be the biggest loss since before the war began here. the ar

caller: north of minneapolis. host: our next call comes from jesse. caller: thank you for c-span. you are looking very well today. everything that the callers have said, in america we voted for this man. a lot of young whites and blacks voted for change. now, he says there is no money to give retirees this year, but they will spend $30 billion for five years? c'mon. i thought i was voting for someone that was thinking about peace instead of war. host: from "the new york times" this morning, "president obama spent 40 minutes with nicolas sarkozy of france, who signaled that the french are not willing to send more troops to afghanistan. instead of troops, mr. sarkozy told obama that there would be a conference sponsored in london to rally support for afghanistan. it also says that the administration sent richard holbrooke to brussels on tuesday to begin briefing nato allies on policy. stanley mcchrystal will also be briefing allies in his capacity. chris, independent line -- capacity." chris, independent line. what are your thoughts? chris, i am going to put you on hold until you tu

is going to go to new york and blow up things, or last weekend there were suspects arrested in minneapolis because they were shipping young people for terrorist activity somewheres else in the world. and it is a rude awakening that what happens in 9/11 can happen again in the united states. so i think it brings attention to the fact that you ought to stop terrorist training activities and terrorist organizations as they are killing americans because the federal government's responsibility is to protect americans. so it's all probably developed because of terrorist activity against americans, and our responsibility to protect americans from that sort of activity. >> host: senator charles grassley is the ranking member of the finance committee, republican of iowa. on behalf of the students joining us here, thanks for joining us on c-span. >> guest: i am glad to be with all of you and i hope sometime i see some of you in congress. >> the senate will continue >> while we wait for the senator return to debate health care, a look at the other store in washington today, the president's speech ton

that there be two minneapolis of debate prior to a vote in relation to the mccain motion to commit, equally divided and controlled in the usual form. that upon yielding back the use of that time, the senate proceed to vote in relation to the mccain motion to commit. the mccain motion be on a 60-vote threshold. if the motion achieves that threshold, that it be agreed to and laid on the table. if it does not achieve that threshold, that it be withdrawn and no amendment in the motion, and i move to table. the presiding officer: is there objection? without objection, so ordered. mrs. boxer: mr. president, i move to table the nelson amendment and i ask for the yeas and nays. the presiding officer: is there a sufficient second? there appears to be. there is. the question is on the motion to table. the clerk will call the roll. vote: vote: the presiding officer: are there any senators in the chamber wishing to vote or change their vote? if not, the yeas are 54, the nays are 45rbg the motion to table has been agreed to. under the previous order, there will be two minutes of debate equally divided p

as we continue to take your so, minneapolis. erin you're a posted to the senate healthcare bill? union members bea. i'm totally in favor of national healthcare and most of the civil wealthy countries on the planet have figured this out and they're delivering far better coverage to every citizen for some cases 7 percent and what i understand what i mean 8 or 9 percent of the gross national product and what i understand congress has rationalized 15-25% of people's incomes should be spent on healthcare. basically the healthcare business has purchased congress and not collected they're will and really put the morality of healthcare available. secondly, they've not put together the economic impact of having most expensive healthcare system on the planet. they keep talking about a recovery. there's no recovery. we're super in debt and there's% no plan to change it right now. the high paying manufacturing jobs have left the counáry. you can't buy a television set made in america to"ay. i went to afford dealership a couple of days ago to look at a truck. i've been driving fords all my li

derrick is on the independents' line calling from minneapolis pr. caller: hello, nice lady.eads and a country like afghanistan when it comes to israel and the conflict there. çguest: you have a number of different things goingç on. in fairness compa, the 1967 war started with. pressures -- started with arab pressures. there is enough room for everybody to make mistakes. the famous summit in khartoum, and no recognition of israel -- a hugew3 arab mistakes, when thy could have negotiated back the land. israel is made many --ç israel made many mistakes of their own. what happens with these really issues and the palestinian issue is a affects muslim opinion all over the world. çit is primarily -- i don't wat to say primarily -- something that has increased enormously with the advent of satellite television. i saw that in my career in the gulf. until the first intifada, they did not much really care, and then they become very attuned to the suffering of palestinians. i think this is a recruiting ground for al qaeda. that is very clear. there are muslims who feel very strongly

as we continue to take your so, minneapolis. erin you're a posted to the senate healthcare bill?'m a union members bea. i'm totally in favor of national healthcare and most of the civil wealthy countries on the planet have figured this out and they're delivering far better coverage to every citizen for some cases 7 percent and what i understand what i mean 8 or 9 percent of the gross national product and what i understand congress has rationalized 15-25% of people's incomes should be spent on healthcare. basically the healthcare business has purchased congress and not collected they're will and really put the morality of healthcare available. secondly, they've not put together the economic impact of having most expensive healthcare system on the planet. they keep talking about a recovery. there's no recovery. we're super in debt and there's% no plan to change it right now. the high paying manufacturing jobs have left the counáry. you can't buy a television set made in america to"ay. i went to afford dealership a couple of days ago to look at a truck. i've been driving fords all m

one year ago it became mandatory in minneapolis to test all cases were the victim has identified herors. years ago prosecutors with dna experience provided training to inexperienced prosecutors. it is no longer available in most cases. evidence collection is performed by a specially trained nurse. perpetrators know about dna and are taking steps to avoid leaving it. one victim ejaculated in the woman's pants and he took them. he said, i am taking these for dna purposes. he thought he took the only evidence that would tie him to the crime, but the nurse who was taking the evidence from her revealed that he had talked on her cell phone. that dna profile was entered into the database and hit to this man. her innovation made that arrest possible. he is awaiting trial. for similar reasons, police training would enhance investigations. there needs to be more cooperation between police and prosecutors. when they work together, we improve outcomes significantly. team work on a cold cases is crucial. a road block exists to this cooperation and i have detailed what that is and suggested soluti

host: minneapolis, what would you like to ask elizabeth warren? you are on., we pay our taxes and there are other sources of revenue for the government. remember, i know this sounds hard, but it was back in the early 1990's when we actually had some fiscal responsibility and we were running surpluses. the government was net positive. so would it have been nice if we -- it would have been nice if we put some of that back for a rainy day. expenses went up, as you know, in the 2000's. we got involved in a very expensive war and now we are in deeper and deeper trouble. host: memphis, good morning to you, on our democrats line. caller: i'm so excited to be hearing elizabeth warren thi morning. i have a quick comment. i do have a special problem because i was a mortgage broker. also, i have a quick solution that could possibly help. i am so happy to hear her say that the investors cause a lot of the spirit and a lot of people talk about subprime and people who could not -- caused a his. and a lot of people talk about subprime and people who could not afford mortgag