and this is not to take away from the heroic work that the moms are doing. but the moms need help. if you a single mom like mine was, and going to school or working. the pressures are enormous and to have someone there to carry on the child-rearing responsibilities is critical. anyone else? let me get one of these young people. >> good afternoon, i am larry, i attend a school for boys. traveling from state to state and country to country, being a president. which is funner, being a father or president? >> oh, wow. i mean this, nothing is more fun than being a father. now my kids aren't teenagers yet so i don't know -- i don't know if that will maintain itself. but right now the greatest joy i get is just hanging out with the girls and talking to them and watching them grow and succeed. and probably the most fun i have had since i have been president was at a parent-teacher conference where the teachers were braging on my children. and i just sat there and basked in the glory. and nothing is more important than that, i think that a lot of fathers can relate to that. but here's the i

how do you do it and still be a mom? so i want to try to answer that guy and you guys will have to sit here and listening to it and you will guys will be impact and it has impact on you just just listened. i'm here because my father inspired me. when i was very young he inspired me to believe with something with my whole heart and whole being and then work for it without ceasing. for him that was freedom. it was in the mountains of southwest virginia that my father learned the value of hard work and an honest day's work. there he was taught my grandparents a man is only as good as his word and you don't hear that anymore and god calls us to compassion to help one another through the toughest of times. he learned to love his creator and he knew he was blessed to grow up in one of the most beautiful places in the world. but he would say it was there that he learned most importantly the value of freedom and the need to be courageous and unrelenti unrelenting. as i was growing up we would go to blacksburg and they were rock

and her mom was working the third job, again. she cracked open the book for the first time and began to read and there was one sentence and frank had written as if for maria to discover and all it said was sometimes i feel like a bird in a cage and i wish i could fly away. at the moment it was like a lightbulb she had seen in the cartoons before and she felt like ann frank had written that for her because like maria and so many other young women she was the bird in the cage and she never used her wings to fly so for the first time maria had hope and what finally, finally the good guy is going to make it and anne frank is going to bust out of the attic and all will be right with the world and she kept reading and every day she would come to class and ask these questions and i would think she didn't go to the video store and rent the movie or get the cliff notes or down vote somebody's paper. this little girl is actually reading. the first question she asked when i realized she actually read the book is when she quickly renamed the

this bill not only gives four weeks of new paid leave for the mom who may be coming home immediately following the birth of a child, but it gives that four weeks of additional pay to the father. it does so whether it's an adult child they're adopting, someone 15, 16 going off to school every day. it does it for both mom and dad and does it on top of the eight weeks they can take in other ways already. i want the american people to understand not only does it do that, but it is anticipated by the majority that after an o.m.b. study which they fully believe will show on balance this is a good motivator, this benefit will rise from four weeks of additional pay to eight weeks of additional pay for both men and women in the federal work force at a time when 14 million americans have no income at all. with that, madam chair, i hope that the majority will see that they're out of touch if they don't think the american people are concerned that this is, in fact, showing a disconnect between the american people suffering and, in fact, the new benefits to the one portion of the work force that

it was really wonderful, because my mom taught me a work ethic. i am so thankful to hurt to this day for that work ethic that she taught me. growing up without a lot of adult supervision in the household, though, probably took a toll with a lot of teams, headed down not exactly the right path. i was very happy when my mom got married and i was adopted by my father when i was 15. i went on to college and decided to become a veterinarian. i ended up one to veterinary school and got my degree. i love being a veterinarian. i opened a practice in las vegas. a 24-hour town had no 24-hour animal hospitals, so i opened up the first 24-hour animal hospital there. i was very successful doing that. i have since built another hospital and owned and operated both of those hospitals. i love being a veterinarian. my wife and i were married for a few years before that. we had just had our first child, trevor, who is now 17 years of age. it is incredible to think about that, as those of you know who have a lot more of the color of my hair. it seems like each year

so i'd like to see us use our taxpayer dollars not to fund abortions but to use this money for the moms and for the babies for health care and other services that they need. i was really proud during my first few weeks here in washington in this chamber to vote for schip. this legislation provided critical health services for our nation's babies and just as importantly it provided crucial assistance for pregnant moms as well, the first time we have done that in this country. what a blessing it is we are finally taking care of the brand new precious babies and providing support for moms too. i strongly support this bill because of another personal story i have. when my second child was being born, when i was pregnant with number two gretchen we changed jobs in the middle of the pregnancy. my husband was carrying the insurance on his jobs and all of a sudden i had a preexisting condition. that preexisting condition was my pregnancy. and that child was born without myself having any health care coverage and luckily i had a very noneventful, natural birth, but you still have to go and have

moms face, what if i had a different standard for a single mom who came into my courtroom and she was found guilty of murder, for instance. i'll pick a dramatic one, i might feel sorry for you, yeah, it's really tough, poor thing. i have a different standard for her than, say, an african-american male who committed the same offense under similar circumstances. is that fair? that is not fair at all. it's bias thwarting justice versus my empathy impacting the situation positively. so be ready with that. in fact, the oath of the supreme court is in part, i do solemnly swear that i will administer justice without respect to persons and do equal right to the poor and to the rich so help me god. so when somebody comes up and tells you that it's perfectly justifiable thing for her to say, no, not in our country. we believe in blind, fair justice. be ready with the story of frank richie. i'm sure you've been hearing about this on the news. he was denied a promotion despite his distinctly american story and struggle from a blue collar -- he had dyslexia, all sorts of learning impairments and h

her mom was devoted to her children's education. in fact, her mom was so devoted to her education and her brother's education that she actually saved every penny she could so she could buy e encyclopedia britannicas for her kids and this really meant a lot to meevment i remember growing up, thencyclopedia britannicas in the hallway were like in a hallowed place. i now show my daughter who is 13 and these are from the 1960's. she doesn't seem very interested in them, but they meant a lot to our family and they clearly meant a lot to judge sotomayor. she graduated from princeton summa cum laude and f.b.i. bet at that kappa and was one of two people to wint highest award that prifnston gives to undergraduates. she went on to yale law school which launched a three decades'-long career in the law. so when commentators have questioned whether she was smart enough, i'm lirks you can't make this up. you can't make up f.b.i. bet at that cap pavment you can't make up that you have these high awards and that you're summa cum laude and phi bet

i know how nice it is for adam to have his mom and dad watching this ballgame today in person. swing and a pop up on the infield. and there's one down. so, hairston with an easy grab at third. zimmerman staying at first and elijah dukes will step in. struck out the last two times he has been to the plate. 0-3 afternoon. dukes hit that homerun on tuesday night. along with guzman. but now the idea just to get a base hit. just getting some guys on base. first pitch swinging. a high fly to right. but bruce will handle this with ease and there's two down. coors light freeze cam brought to you by frost brewed coors light. the world's most refreshing beer. >> rob: cristian guzman slaps it to third. freeze it. hairston catches it. does he have a shot at the plate on willingham, maybe. but he chooses to just go over and take the sure out. and they would get out of that inning. keep the score 2-1. coors light freeze cam. >> johnny: and the reds with a run in the second, a run in the 4th. they have got a 2-1 lead. josh willingham. he has had base hits his last two times up. he has 2 of th

so it's a great privilege to be a mom. but it's a great privilege to be able to contribute on both ways. thank you for your question. >> thank you. >> hi, i'm caroline from i'm from the university of virginia. and as college students we often face the hookup culture and this idea of traditional relationships are not valued anymore and how as students can we stand strong for our values without feeling left out? >> secure allies in the battle. many times i get mails from parents or from college kids saying i feel like i'm the only one. i feel like i'm the only one. now, even if you are the only one, you must always stand for what is right. but you are not the only one. that believes in those values of virtues. look for people who share your values. form friendships with them. create your own subculture. again, it comes to the commitment and the relationships. watching each other's back. ally yourself with groups and others who believe like you and you become the force for good that changes the culture that you're in instead

, her grand mom?xtraordinary, the whole experience for black women to tell us their feelings about the first lady and something about the title of the book people always ask us about that. "go, tell michelle" it started out as dear michele, letters of love and support and encouragement but we send it into the publisher but they said how about this title? we don't want anyone bossing us around but we boughtlp it. those of us who like poetry we said it is not just go tell michelle but go tell it on the mound 10. so doing a little research and finding now calling the publisher back but there has to be a, after the word go and it signifies that we were either identifying

i just want to point out, mom, it's totally your fault. she wants to know how this is all my mother's fault, and i am about to explain. [laughter] this is all my mother's fault because my mother raised you like i'm sure your mother raised you in the '70s and '80st. she raised me to believe that i could have everything and i should have everything, and she prepared me very well to have a career. so i did well in school because those were the expectations and i, you know, got a great job that i love. i went to the institutions that gave sticker rights on the back of the car, that aspen station wagon was like a a chariot unto the gods, and i did all the things i was supposed to, and i had incredible ambitions generated in me by my mother except the world didn't change as fast as we did, or if you're a conspiracy theorist, you would say that the world changed in this nefarious way. suddenly, the workplace became this place you had to be in all the time. so when i was a kid, the train that showed up in new jersey at, say, 6:00, all the dads got

>> well, as a mom -- and by the way, i have two children that are in your age range. i have a son who's 21 and a son who's 20. and then my daughter's 16. i would say that greatest calling for a woman who becomes a mother is to put everything she can into those precious lives that were placed into her arms. and that's the greatest calling of dads, too. and we have a tremendous responsibility to shape the character every single day and to make it our focus. my books are all about that, are about that commitment every day. i want my kids to know i love them enough to dare to challenge the status quo every single day. and to dare to build into them very purposefully those character qualities. but let me just quickly say, too, i know that it's very painful in our nation that for every 100 babies that are born in this country, 60 are born to a broken family. see, in 1950 for every 100 babies that were born in this country, 12 were born to a broken family. that is to a family either out of wedlock or to a family that would soon suffer divorce. now that number is 60. and perh

my mom, hellen gingrey who lives in a retirement community, my mom had her 91st birthday on february 8 of this year. when she was 90, about five or six months ago, she had a knee replacement. and mom had gotten to the point where she could barely walk and in constant pain on the verge of falling and breaking a hip at any moment. and now, she is enjoying life and enjoying being with her friends and maybe she will live another 10 or 15 years. but do you think in canada or u.k. or one of these countries that they rashion care she would be able to have that knee replacement? absolutely not. i would like to see equal treatment of health care benefit for individuals who have to go out in the market on their own and don't get it from their employer. why should they not get a tax advantage health care plan like everybody else? i have not heard the democrats in the house, the democrats in the senate or president obama talk about that and talk about fairness and want to be equitable. let's hear more about it. i want to thank my colleagues, dr. roe, dr. fleming and my good friend from californi

her mom was devoted to her children's education and. in fact, her mom was so devoted to her education and her brothers education then she angeles save every penny she could such a good-bye encyclopedia britannica as for her kids. and this really meant a lot to me, i remember growing up in the encyclopedia britannica in the hallway were in the hallowed place in, these are the encyclopedia britannica and now show my daughter who is 14 and in these, of course, on now from the 1960's, she doesn't seem interested in them but they meant a lot to our family and they clearly meant a lot to judge sotomayor. judge sotomayor graduated from princeton in summa cum laude me and private capital and was one of two people sue in the highest award that princeton guess to undergraduates was, she went on to yale law school which launched a three decades-long career in the law. with so when commentators have questioned whether she was smart enough i said you can't make up why did a capra, you can't make up did you have these high awards and you are summa cu

this young boy told me, i don't have a mom because my country did it work for me and my mom didn't have health care coverage -- what a tragedy. i will remember that little boy. he was passionate to maim. as far as it was for him to understand the system vienna said his country failed him. that should not be happening today, that is what we're trying to do with this bill here and other hard decisions ahead of us? yes are there a pile of amendments, yes. to fight is is two these solutions absolutely. but the argument that we should delay doesn't have to hold water with me. we have been talking about health care reform for decades. we have listened to the stores like i've just talked about and reval heard and we can delay this any further, we need to get to the hard work sitting to this committee, working to the amendments, coming of with a product we can move to the end of the day the other argument i hear on the other side this is going to cost too much. i will tell you what cost too much -- would cost too much is status quo. a $2 trillion a year that we spend in this country every year

her mom was devoted to her children's education. her mom was so devoted to her education and her brothers education that she save every penny she could so she could buy encyclopedia britannica for her children. this meant a lot to me. i remember seeing them in the hallway growing up. i now show my daughter the encyclopedias. she is not very interested in them. they met a lot to my family and meant a lot to the judge. she graduated from princeton semanko mulally -- summa cum laude and hi nbbetta kappa. some question if she is smart enough. you cannot make up that you have these high awards. it is a fact that she is a phi betta kappa. she has a very interesting legal career. she has worked in the private sector as a civil litigator. she has been an appellate court judge. the one experience of hers that resonates for me is that immediately graduating from law school, she spent five years as a prosecutor during one of the most busiest offices in our country. at the time, it paid about half as much as the job in the private sector. she w

because -- [applause] my mom and dad split when i was nine years old. and at age 13 not having the ability to think through that difficulty, i succumbed to problems and did drugs and had a child out of wedlock who i am not responsible for. that kid is doing great, but not because of me. and i at the end of a one-year stay of drug treatment. i met my wife and i gave her a rose and she wouldn't talk to me. and then decided to have a relationship with me and have a stepchild and then a child together. and although i had that system, and we can help with issues that impact young men's ability to manage their own behavior. and i am fortunate i have an organization where we do deep penetration in baltimore, outreach into the most disconnected communities in baltimore, and getting the young men to come in, and saying to them, if you do the right thing and with the support system, you can be successful. i achieved a g.e.d. and then graduated cum laude from baltimore county. it's that attitude and we can provide for our children and then our families can be heal

the mental bell that -- illness the cost goes down and it is a powerful argument. >> i know from my mom who lived with diabetes and depression, when she was not taking care of the depression there was no way she would take blood sugar levels. no way. this goes from me to something else that may be is premature t

my mom was my dad secretary. she was orphaned as a child and passed around. she lived into her 90s, my dad lived until 94. he was born about ninth and 14th street. in my later life i drove him by the house and said this is weird jane addams or as if i was telling him something and he said i came here every day after school. my sister and i grew up in a loving household they consider themselves a mixed marriage because my dad was jewish, my mom was swedish the families were not happy but they have a good marriage. they wanted better for their daughters. >> host: how did you get involved with a student activism and the anti-war movement? >> guest: i watched part of "race course" you will see there is a story of my looking at tv and images in the newspaper from my safety and security of the all white high-school in milwaukee and thinking something is going on out here. then when he was lynch and he was my age, seven youngsters trying to get into school in little rock and they are my age. something is going on i felt very far away but i knew there was a world i w

i obviously my mom and dad having four kids within five years and then having a little hiatus for 15 14, 15 years took a lot of energy. so, all the praise goes to my mom and dad for that. >> it's petro -- >> jim: it's prez pretty amazing when we are told that you are 19 years older than your younger brother rich hill. it's an amazing age difference, yet you're still very close. >> well, we were born on the same day actually 19 years apart. he continuously reminds bhe that as i've changed into the hair color change. it was a great experience to the whole family to have rich in our lives. >> buck: lloyd, we're just now getting to get to know rich better as he joins the organization. talk about how he stays involved in his community, high school and kids around the south boston area. >> as you can imagine, the time between the end of the season and spring training is quite short. he's very generous with his time fundraising, offering clinics at the different high schools and little league can raise money to help fund their different excursions and jv uniforms and freshmen iewrn iewfn fo

. >> so, you talk a lot about, in the book about how your mom was sometimes -- would sometimes laugh, sometimes cry, at the -- this particular prophesy because she saw you go through so much i mean, i thought, no, it can't be this, has to be a better life, and... [inaudible] getting out of prison. [applause]. >> in reading the book i have to tell you, there were so many times, you spoke of when you were in jail and there were so many times that i read, okay. he was in jail, all right. and you came outs of jail, and, first, you came out of jail, and you... you came out of jail and you looked so teeny-tiny. and, in the i would think that the first thing you would do is maybe just maybe go home, and lay low for a minute. and i saw the pictures of you with your hand in the air and, in the jeep and going through the streets, and almost seemed like, you had no fear. >> no, it was at that point, there was nothing to fear. i came out of jail, there were crowds. the crowds were jubilating, very pleased that we were out. and so, the natural thing to do, was to go and you know, and have a rally

and went word comes, and his mom learns that he has been executed, she is out there giving interviewsto the press. so happy to do so. yes, he loved me and why wouldn't he. you know, it was actually just sickening. but he wrote these poems that were influenced by spiritism and all sorts of stuff, i don't know anything about poetry but i try to analyze what he said. but i know a lot about emile henry. i followed him around london even. you know, in those neighborhoods. his inner soul, i can't get into that but i could understand him. i do know him. i know that guy. i guess those of us who grew up in the 1970s, we hated like that. during the vietnam war, absolutely. absolutely. yes. >> this is also a research question. some of the transcript from the secret police, did you have access to the? does france have something simmer to a freedom of information act? >> i had access to everything. 50 euros rule, archival. it's 100 years for censorship. [inaudible] >> he was really good. he really rocks. and you don't just believe everything they write. my late friend richard cobb said the police

she said, "well, mom. it must have been hard growing up in the olden days. [laughter] the pace of change seems to be speeding up three new devices are being developed at an astonishing pace and changing the way we live our lives. five years ago, youtuber and a twitter did not exist. facebook existed but it was hardly the behemoth it became today. it is not a surprise us that there are people other developing new technologies that we can barely imagine. technology with enhances our lives and at the same time industries our lives in ways remain had not anticipated. it frees you to work from anywhere but keep you prisoner in others. parents have for years battled with kids of the time they should spend on computers and video games. today, children are fighting to get their parents off their blackberries. there is a great article a few years ago that describe one family in texas. this one woman's 7-year-old and she was annoyed her mother was always on her black married. -- on her blackberry. the 4-year-old girl seen to recognize her fawn broader comfort like a s

he loves his mom who needs to go visit her out in this oddly not that far away from for absolutely call of the cultural place a few years back. he used to go out to see his mother but then he fell in love with this woman as far as the relationship never existed and she had the disadvantage of being married to one of her brothers and our cust friends. and i've got no where, he made clumsy efforts and got nowhere. that did not drive him to become an anarchist, what drove him to be an anarchist was living in haiti than 20 of area among the best people he had ever known. the anarchism who was in italian anarchists and one who was long dead but anarchism at that time was in the newspaper published and he gradually became an anarchist in those days. the places he lived helped create this hatred. as i said he lived in an area of the streets that don't matter now but they did to him. there is an underappreciated novel from 1898 in which a priest who like to the r.e.m. song is losing his religion and he goes onto the roof to try to help the repoire. he has a brother who was an anarchist to proba

my mom would wash it out with soap. >> i still would have said heck, knowing my mom would be watching. >> i'm going to get a phone call when i get off the set. jose reyes, one of the notables on this list. along with a calf injury and torn hamstring. we asked our manager at what point would he approach the front office if he was the manager of the mets about making a deal? >> if i'm the manager of the new york mets, i don't go to the general manager. first of all, they've got almost a 150 million payroll. put yourself in the general manager's shoes. he then has to go to ownership. he's said if he we can have this much money and trade for this guy in the off season, now you're put in position to do that again. i guarantee that man ear jess had input on the players now. you're better off saying we're going to make these guys better, we're going to get healthy. we've barely played a third in the season. let's hold on here and don't put your gm in position to do something. you're managing the people on the field. i don't think it's your job to tell him you have to do something. >> well, t

> and it is killing, poor mum has to get up three hours earlier than she does, in l.a., she'll say, mom, 10:00 is halfway through my morning, can you get up at 7:00 and i'm saying, well, i think i can... you know. >> does very well. >> and i do my best and i'm not as literate on my computer as she is, but i do my best. >> is there a certain lengths of children -- a children's book should be. >> say that sgheen a certain length. >> it depends hope to age of the child. >> what age do you write for. >> all ages. >> we write for all ages, with tremendous audacity. >> true. >> we write picture books, we might young adult novels and chapter books and middle grade readers, and, our latest is an anthology for all ages. poetry anthology, called the julie andrews collection of poems, songs and lullabies. >> and this is actually quite thick. so -- >> very thick. >> it is the first book with our lovely new plusher, little brown, part of the group, and, they actually came to us and said, would you consider doing an anthology, for us, and we said. >> had so much fun we're doing another one after this

how many of you had 20 moms and dads when you went off to college? -- how many of you had whiney mons and dads? it is a great privilege to be a mom, but it is a great privilege to be able to contribute both ways. >> i am from the university of virginia and as college students we often face the hook-up culture and how traditional relationships are not valued. how do we stand strong for our values without feeling left out? >> secure allies in the battle. many times i get emails from parents or college kids saying they feel like they're the only one. even if you are the only one, you must stand for what is right. you're not the only one who believes in the modern value of virtue. look for people who share your values, form friendships with them, create your own culture. it comes down to commitment in relationships and watching each others' backs. surround yourself with people who believe like you do and you become the force for good and changing the culture you are in and set of having it feel you've -- instead of having its make you feel separated. whe

and andy roddick matched up with a friend on the grass and how andy was able to withstand tense moms advance. >> and kyle busch finding him in familiar territory. how he was able to earn his fifth nationwide win of the year. and in baseball, manny has a home run and a walk in two at-bats. the game in the bottom of the fourth and he is reading off in the fifth. the fifth. hey max, new car huh? max: yeah. the jetta tdi clean diesel. i got a hybrid, so you know... max: a tdi set a guinness world record of 58 miles per gallon. 58 miles per gallon!? max: but this baby hauls!! it's like (mimicking engine sounds) rrrgggnnnnn, rrrrnnnnghhhh, rrrrrghhhh... max: what's your hybrid sound like? (breathes like wind) whooooooh. max: that's cool. >> back here on "espnews," mike yam and will selva with you. momentarily we will get you ought to california and manny ramirez will take his third at-bat of the evening. this is what is going on right now. the rockies and a's, an 11-2 score. and barmes, a solo shot in this one and the mariners and dodgers. and ken griffey, jr. a two-run home run and the 62

. >> your mom looks like she's really enjoying that. >> it was just awful.i was really shocked i was able to get through that. i think that the footage shows it all. >> there you go. but you had a win. >> i don't know how. >> you've played hanescu -- daniela hantuchova a lot of times. what's in her game that might worry you if she's praying -- playing well. >> first of all, she always plays well. she's a really solid player. she doesn't do anything bad. you think, which side do i get to and what do i do? she always keeps the pressure on. it will be really good match. >> how did you feel your serve was today? it looked like mid way through the second you relied on aces at timely moments. >> i did. it didn't work as well as i wanted it to, but hopefully it will come back. >> serena, surprise, sadness this morning at the passing of michael jackson. what's your relationship there? >> well, i think everyone, not just one country or one continent, the whole world knows and the whole world is saddened by the news because he was such an amazing icon across the board

my mom was my dad's secretary. she was orphaned as a kid and passed around. she was swedish. she lived into her 90s. my dad lived to 94. he was born on halstead and about 14th street. he used to go to ho house as a kid. in my later life i drove him by the house as if i were telling him something, and he was like, i came here every day. so my sister and i grew up in loafing household. they considered themself as mixed marriage because my dad was jewish and my mom was swedessish. their families were not happy with their marriage but they had a good marriage and they wanted better for their daughters. >> host: how did you got involved in the antiwar movement and student activism. >> guest: i watched. i looked at tv and looking at images the newspaper from my safety and security of an all-white high school in milwaukee, and thinking something is going on out here and till was lynched and he was my age and seven youngsters trying to get into:in little rock and they're my age and something is going on. i was -- felt very far away from it but i knew there was a world i wanted to get

i'm going to hit my mom's friend judy. thanks, judy. okay. and there's one last opportunity -- yes, my dear. i knew you wanted to ask a question. >> i don't really have a question, i just want you to give props to jennifer lopez for making -- >> that is true. i have to make props for jennifer lopez for backing out of the movie, but she did bring it to a place where it could be made. >> she read your book and loved it. >> i don't think she read the book. she totally read the script. [laughter] i mean, you know, they're actresses, they're very, very busy. but this was my fantasy. it was going to be, like, the red carpet and you may or may not know this, but jennifer lopez and i share an attribute, and i thought she would, like, lend me a dress for the premiere, like a big booty dresdz. you get your freaking dresdz on, you know, i was totally going to borrow a freaking dress. i could basically fit natalie portman's dress over my thigh, so that ain't gonna happen, but don't i have a walk-on? i do. i do have a walk-on. i was so nervous, and i had

the idiots that people like my mom instead of going on welfare we should reformate because getting theob from an employer is better than getting a job offer from the government because you can take pride and teach your child a work ethic. b.a.t we should not leave our country with a huge debt we should the bit better off for our children. every generation until this generation has always sought the next generation would have a better. this is the first generation that does not believe that. it is a lot because of what we have done and the people we have elected to office that have spent our children's future and what that is what i want to talk about how we turn this around and what is the principles or the vision we should have for america. barack obama elected to office on hope and change. we heard all about it. he came in coming granted it was a tough economy he was handed. i believe by the way bad economy was mostly government created, not private sector the government incentivize it whether through the community reinvestment act, they were all good reasons people wanted to increas

so the understanding, for example, of how untreated mental depression can interrupt the mom's ability to turn on those receptors in the baby's brain that are critical to developing the relationships and how that can leave later on to behavioral problems and a conduct disorder, you know, which we understand the scientific link there. the report just out from the iom about prevention, and the report just out about depression in young people and their adults, boy, is this tough time at. so the question though of how we make the sale to, and i really like the metaphor of poking our car to that train. what our message is, in this community, we're going to have to get a little bit clearer about, but i think a message about prevention and wellness and the centrality of the surgeon general said mental health is essential to overall health. that have to be what we focus on. >> and there has been some interesting studies that show a significant of how mental health affects physical health, and that if you look at the cost of treating depression with someone who has either heart disease, diabete

my mom was my dad's secretary. she was orphaned as a kid and passed around. she was swedish. she lived into her 90s. my dad lived to 94. he was born on hall stead and about, halstead and about 14th street. used to go to hull house as a kid. in my later life i drove him by hull house and said this is where jane adams and all the women of hull house were as if i were telling him something, and he was, like, i came here every day after school. they considered themselves a mixed marriage at the time because my dad was jewish and my mom was swedish. their families were not happy with their marriage. but they had a good marriage, and they wanted better for their daughters. >> host: how did you get involved in the antiwar movement and student activism? >> guest: pretty simple, i watched, i watched. part of race course, you'll see, is a story of my looking at tv and looking at images in the newspaper from my safety and security of an all-white high school in milwaukee and thinking something's going on out here. and mattel was lynched, and these seven youngsters are trying to get into

issue is important, i believe what you think on this issue is important and i hope to talk to your mom and dad about it because it's important to have those family conversations. >> host: it is a wonderful demonstration and cross-examination you want a teacher to do rather than, quote come answered the question. you didn't have to answer it, he answered in his answer is legitimate. >> guest: is, absolutely. >> host: most of us would have been flummoxed about how to get around that one especially given your philosophy. to give the audience, ms. cahill, the sense of your gift as a teacher, i was very moved as a third generation washingtonian surrounded by the monuments by the link you made between washington, its architecture, its monuments and democracy. would you say something about that, please? >> guest: sure. sixth grade social studies is essentially world history and civics so you start looking at the great civilizations of mesopotamia and egypt and then go right into greece and rome and that is where the challenge actually presented itself when we were looking at greece and talkin

this kind of support -- with their moms and dads back nodding approvingly. i saw this with my own eyes and i thought this is wonderful. this is terrific. ambassador kinney said two years ago, mom and dad would have pulled the kids back and they would have stayed well away from the street and if there had been any demonstration it would have been unfavorable. so i saw with my own eyes enthusiastic support from the citizens who had been previously terrorized by violent extremists. i believe we have made significant progress. it's a tough metric back to her question. we've got the guys there that we have there now, tom, we'll keep them there for the foreseeable future. it's a situation we analyze constantly with department of defense, department of state, international security council. we're there for the foreseeable future and i think that the benefits we gain in spite of significant tension on special operation forces are important enough that we maintain our posture and presence in the southern philippines. sir? >> >> vice marshall mark harwood from the u.k

, mom, i want a snack that will help prevent colon-rectal cancer. that was one culture i covered in the 1990's and then covered outer ring suburbs and spent a lot of time in home depots, watching men buy barbecue grills because that's when they're most emotionally exposed. doing the manly waddle men do in the presence of large amounts of lumber. used to go over to the sam's club store which is the big discount stores which are like wal-mart on acid. you could go there and you would buy your 30 pound bags of tater tots, packages with 3,000 q-tips. which is 6,000 cotton swabs and one at ear end. i used to go to those places and who comes here shopping for condoms? because the quantities are just so massive. [laughter] there are a lot of optimistic people in america. and the other thing about those places is everyone's having the same conversation which is about how much money they're saving by buying in bulk. so you'll hear a couple say we should get 15,000 popsicles because we were thinking of having kids anyway. and that was one culture. and now we'

i guess while gas is up to $3.08, we got the soccer moms. gas is up to $3.77, most important thing is declaring national train day. $3.84, it's getting serious, people are calling me, saying what are you doing? we passed great cats and rare canids day. i didn't know what a canid was, but i googled it, it's a dog. so when my constituents were paying $3.84 a gallon, we were doing cats and dogs. goes over $4, you think, we're going to get to the bottom of it now. the majority decided the most important thing to do was to declare twoith the international ear -- 2008 the international year of sanitation. gas crested at $4.14 in my part of the world in july of 2008, surely we're going to talk about gas. no, we were too busy, we had to pass the monkey safety act on that particular day. we thought maybe folks had learned as a result of that because clearly when gas has gone up to that price, the monkey safety act isn't the most important thing on my stilts' minds system of we come to this year. this year, as we've talked about during this hour, ther

i think when you believe is important and i hope you talk to your mom and dad about it because it is important as family discussions. >> host: that is the kind of cross-examination you what a teacher to do rather than, quote, answer the question. you didn't have to answer it, he answered it and his answer was legitimate. >> guest: absolutely. >> host: most of us would have been wondering how to get around that one especially with your philosophy. so to give the audience, ms. cahill, a sense of your gift of a teacher i was very moved as a washingtonian, third generation washingtonian surrounded by these wonderful monuments. by the link you made between washington, its architecture, its monuments and dom shocker seat, would you say something about that, please? >> guest: short. sixth grade social studies is essentially six so you start looking at the great civilizations of mesopotamia and egypt and then you go right into greece and rome and that's where this challenge actually presented itself is when we were looking at greece and talking about democracy and the great general pericles.

but a single mom saying i don't make enough money to live in town. so i'm out in the rural area which means i have to pay more -- for more gasoline to get into town. i'm maxing out my credit card every month just on gasoline. and it's getting close on whether i have enough each month leeway in my credit card to get enough gas to keep going back and forth to my job because if i lose my job i can't pay anything, including my credit card bill. and just -- the desperation in their eyes. the things that are in this cap and trade bill, they are an inconvenience to the wealthy. they'll be an increens. -- inconvenience. the people like that single mom and so many others that are just struggling to get by. one 80-plus-year-old lady told me last summer, she said i started out in a house that had no running water and no power. we cooked with wood. she said because of the price of fuel now, it looks like i'm going to finish my life in a house the way it started. this bill is going to do that. and i know that privately there are people who were so pleased about t

because my mom said she didn't want me to go to kindergarten.she kept me up, so my first grade it was 50% white, 50% black and a public school that had been the african-american school the year before so it was a great experience. i finally went to private school and high school, pensacola have catholic high school. i loved the nuns and they loved me back. they let me get away with things others wouldn't get away with. it was a great experience to it and then identity and ever city of alabama undergrad. and then university of florida law school. >> host: all right. phil bredesen, and exceed of producer i think the executive producer at msnbc, once told me that you came to him after you left congress, and you said to him of television news get me in the game. he said you were like a hockey player. you wanted to get on the ice. get me in the game. i don't know why i always remembered that, but i do. why did he want to get into the game, and what is the game? >> guest: i wanted -- i had seen what happened with fox news, which i fought really was so

my mom was very fortunate. she won her battle with breast cancer. but even today, many, many families find themselves in that same situation. and it shouldn't be that way. you know, even families who do have health insurance find these rising costs or they have the false sense of security that they have health insurance, only to find some of these costs and some of these tests that they're denied. so in order to compensate for the care, for the insured -- uninsured, families are paying $1,000 in additional costs each year in their own health care care to cover insurance. it's obvious we need health care reform. as congress takes up this health care issue, we have to follow and focus on the following priorities. we need to reduce costs. we need to preserve everyone's choice of doctors and their plans. we need to improve the quality of care. these are the keys to successful reform health care and reforming of health care in america. the cost for an average american, for businesses and for our country are out of control. and they're still rising. and a

i wrote my mom and told my mom and a number that is 49 million or less we barone's to zero. [laughter] 100 million was .1. which gives you a flavor. know what is that? bill safire back then have the greatest phrase. he called it may go numbers which he spelled mego which he claims stood four, my eyes glaze over. i want to make sure that steve and peter both mention this but let me mention it seriously. it is not about personalities, not about people. it is not about any of that stuff. it is very political but it is not partisan what we do. we all love bill clinton has the president. i voted for him twice and i want you to understand that i thought he was a disgusting person but i thought he was a great president. mike was that the had been elected he still probably would have been a disgusting for some but we would have lost all the benefits of its leadership of president of the united states. i mean that seriously. especially in this administration, this man, barack obama is one of the most impressive human beings i have ever seen in my life and politics. i am awestruck. he