mr. schmidt? >> goo morning, chairman and other distinguished members of the commission. and he read the invitation to discuss the subcoract relationship between northrop grumman technical services and the prime contractor global ljungqvist solutions for gls. supporting the army's, iraqi linguist program. in addition i would like to take a moment and explain our obligations and cmitments to gls under the sub contract awarded to us. to begin iould like to provide a brief history of northrop grumman's one wa operations which cover the span of nearly 20 years. northrop grumman supported large-scale request requirements for the dod cince operations desert shield and storm includg operations in somalia, haiti, bosnia, and kosovo name feu. prior to joining the gls team, week ordered subcontractor to l-3 onhe previous iraq to this coract. joining the gls tiemann late, 27, provided the opportunity to retain the position on the program while we assessed future transitional requirements in the iraqi theater

mr. schmidt?> good morning, chairman thibault and other established members of the commission. i am here today at your invitation to discuss the subcontractor relationship between northrop technical services and the prime contractor, global linguist solutions, or gls. supporting the armies, iraqi linguist programs. in addition i would like to take a moment and explain our obligations and commitments to gls under the subcontract awarded to us. to begin, i relate to provide a brief history of northrop linguist operations which cover a span of nearly 20 years, northrop has required requirements for dod since operation, desert shield and storm, including operations in somalia, haiti, bosnia and cozumel, to name a few. prior to joining the gls team, we were a subcontractor to l-3 on the previous iraqi linguist contract. doing the gls team in late 2007, provided us the opportunity to retain a position on the program will be assessed future translational requirements in the iraqi theater in relationship

mr. schmidt is leaving the board of apple. was anybody expecting it? >> the surprise is not that he is gone, but it took as long as it did for this meeting of the minds, if you will. apple's board and people around eric schmidt. you have android, the mobile operating system and the other systems for net books. the g 1, g 2 and the smart phones as far as competition for i phone. she set in these meetings and recused himself with 1 flikts of interest. you wonder why he shows up in the first place. >> it seems like it would be a conflict on everything. is safari conversation and more and more the os combinations. we have into a huge new battle with apple and google. apple was with microsoft and when you look at the business over the next 10 year, it will be google who will power a lot of the dumb boxes on the mobile front. >> an interesting point and eric schmidt wants to fight microsoft. we have this bing phenomenon. >> all these companies are starting to overlap and here in the silicon valley it's nothing new. they served as collaborators and competitor

mr. president. welcome to portsmouth in new hampshire. -peter schmidt. i'm a state representative from over. i'm a senior citizen. i have a wonderful government- run health care plan called medicare. i like it. it is affordable. it is reasonable. nobody tells me what i need to do. i just go to my doctor and possible and i get care. one of the things you have been doing in your campaign to change the situation is u.s. been striving for bipartisanship. i think that is a wonderful idea. my question is -- if the republicans actively refused to participate in a reasonable way with reasonable proposals, isn't it time to say, "we will pass with the american people need and what they want without the republicans?" >> let me make a couple points -- first of all, you make a point about medicare that is important. i have been getting a lot of letters, pro and con, for health care reform.

mr. president. welcome to portsmouth in new hampshire. -peter schmidt. i'm a state representative from over. i'm a senior citizen. i have a wonderful government- run health care plan called medicare. i like it. it is affordable. it is reasonable. nobody tells me what i need to do. i just go to my doctor and possible and i get care. one of the things you have been doing in your campaign to change the situation is u.s. been striving for bipartisanship. i think that is a wonderful idea. my question is -- if the republicans actively refused to participate in a reasonable way with reasonable proposals, isn't it time to say, "we will pass with the american people need and what they want without the republicans?" >> let me make a couple points -- first of all, you make a point about medicare that is important. i have been getting a lot of letters, pro and con, for health

mr. schmidt, you said you had about 46 people that worked the gls headquarters or whenever the sistine. am i correct? >> yes. >> mr. miller, you didn't know. mr. houck coming to know how many l-3 have support you? >> i think what mr. miller was referring to was there are part of a management pool and we don't have the number of employees. >> could one of you get us that number? number two, but one of you and probably l-3 is the best one to do that mr. miller could you characterize and compare and contrast the time of transition between the iraq and afghanistan, the difference in the length of time to transition the contracts that were involved in? >> yes, sir. i do not recall exactly how long a transition was. i do know it was short, sure that iraq for sure because it was a much smaller contract at that time. it is still a much smaller contracts i believe and we work very closely to transition over the employee is. >> will you kind of hung around and iraq for a much longer time? >> you have paid a lot of money cried. >> on my written testimony i spoke on that. >> one last point and i don

mr. president. welcome to portsmouth and new hampshire. my name is peter schmidt. i'm a state representative from dover. i'm a senior citizen and i have a wonderful government-run health care plan called medicare. i like it. it's affordable. it's reasonable. nobody tells me what i need to do. i just go to my doctor or the hospital and i get care. now, one of the things you've been doing in your campaign to change the situation is you've been striving for bipartisanship. i think it's a wonderful idea, but my question is, if the republicans actively refuse to participate in a reasonable way, with reasonable proposals, isn't it time to just say, we're going to pass what the american people need and what they want, without the republicans? >> well, let me -- let me make a couple of points. first of all, you make a point about medicare that's very important. i've been getting a lot of letters, proand con for health

mr. obama's second presidential visit to mexico. the two-day summit wraps up this afternoon. emily schmidt, abc news, washington. >>> here's something you may not know. your dog is actually -- knows a lot. in fact your dog is probably as smart as your child. according to a canine iq test even the average dog has the mental abilities of a 2-year-old. that is found in a language development test revealing dogs can learn 165 words including signals and gestures. dogs in the top 20% of the test can learn about 250 dogs. border collies, german shepherds and poodles seem to be the smartest dogs. >> my dog knows "treat." >> you can live off that. >> dogs smarter than our kids. >>> coming up on "good morning maryland" - >> a world war ii vet proves you're never too old to go back to high school. why he decided to get his diploma decades after leaving school to join the military. >>> uncle joe, the bride and groom in connecticut promised their wedding wouldn't get boring how the reception brought new meaning to the phrase "wedding crasher." uncle joe. >>> 6:37. renewing the old meaning of the summe

mr. obama's second presidential trip to mexico. the two-day summit will wrap up this afternoon. jeremy? >> all right, emily schmidt in washington, thanks. >>> swine flu is a concern for the military. 51 troops have been diagnosed with it and another 71 are currently in isolation suspected of having the virus. >>> a deadly typhoon slammed into japan's west coast killing at least a dozen. a different storm battered taiwan yesterday. floodwaters eroded the land under a hotel causing it to topple over. hundreds of people evacuated. it was taiwan's worst flooding in half a century and in china, the storm chased about a million people from their homes. raging rivers and landslides have caught hundreds of towns in remote regions. >>> hawaii is under a tropical storm watch as felicia draws closer. residents have been stocking up emergency essentials like batteries and flashlights. forecasters say it could dump up to a foot of rain in some places. beaches are already closing because of rough surf. >>> now for this morning's weather from around the nation, powerful storms from pennsylvania to kansas with hail, 70-me-an-hour

mr. ghosn, a man can dream. >>> eric schmidt is resigning from apple's board of directors. that's an interesting twist. jim goldman joins us now on the phone. what is this? >> interesting development here. a lot of people who have been calling for eric schmidt to resign from aing's board just because of so much overlap between google's businesses now and certainly what apple has done. it started with tir eed the iph google gets into a handset with the g-phone and the thing from t-mobile. that was one issue. then you've got all of these operating system developments. with chrome and various other kinds of things that google is getting involved with. it just was clearer and clearer to just about everybody watching this company and certainly now aing's boa app apple's board that there were too many conflicts. eric schmidt always said he saw no conflict, he saw no issue with this. if one should arise, particularly with iphone, he would simply recuse himself from that part of the discussion. other than that, he enjoyed serving on apple's board. as late as saturday, schmidt was q

mr. obama's second presidential visit to mexico. two-day summit wraps up this afternoon. emily schmidt>> and there's lots more still to come the second hour of "good morning washington." >> and coming up, don't we just love this story? the benefits of a nap. if you just woke up but you already want to go back to bed, we have this report. you don't want to miss it. >> and more metro safety issues , and the question, who's keeping an eye on them? i'm matt brock. we'll have the story coming up. >> and jim russ is coming back to help you navigate your monday morning commute. traffic and weather when "good morning washington" ing washingt >> coming up on this monday more than -- the heat is on. we're going to seep how high the merks are you will go and if relief is on the way. and metro mourns another loss. we've got the latest details from an accident that killed a transit worker. plus, getting ready for swine flu. a local school starts testing a vaccine. "good morning washington" continues right now. captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- >> and welcome back to

price that most senators would not have paid, an intermediary, the new york banker, benno schmidt was told that mrad to come off the bill for 96ston support it. he worried that kennedy would refuse and he said, oh, hell that is correct's no problem. so formally at least the chief senate sponsor of the cancer bill was peter dominic, republicans of colorado. and it came into play. >> that's a small point. the larger point was richard nixon in 1974, when he was in troub trouble, supported the national health care plan, which included employer mandates, far more dramatic than anything being talked about today. kennedy rejelkted it. the history of health care has been a rejection on the part of the liberals of opportunities to really move ahead. there was an opportunity with the clintons and they didn't move ahead with jim cooper and dingle and the others and moynahan. >> more moderate. >> people don't seem to want to compromise. i think the opportunity will emerge and you and i know, and savannah, know covering this story there, will come a moment in the next couple of weeks, someone has to cut the di

mr. obama became president, 68% of americans believed he could successfully accomplish healthcare reform. 49% believe that now. emily schmidtabc news, washington. >> thank you, emily. 6:36 now, and time for a check of business headlines. >> linda bell standing by live in new york with that. good morning, linda. >> good morning to you, doug and greta. airlines are cutting fares deeper than usual this fall. in fact, the best deals right now include southwest airlines' $59 one-way special. that's according to the associated press, which also says that united and american airlines are cutting fares as well. t while you may save a few bucks on airfare, be careful, or you might spend it all at the concession stand anyway. starbucks is raising prices on by as much as 30 cents in some states. and is the housing market really picking up? we'll find out more later on this morning about a half an hour after the opening bell when the national association of realtors reports on july existing home sales. a report out from westwood capital yesterday said that home prices will fall another 16% b aefyeach bottom as for trading this friday m

mr. president. welcome to portsmouth in new hampshire. -peter schmidt. i'm a state representative from over. i'm a senior citizen. i have a wonderful government- run health care plan called medicare. i like it. it is affordable. it is reasonable. nobody tells me what i need to do. i just go to my doctor and possible and i get care. one of the things you have been doing in your campaign to change the situation is u.s. been striving for bipartisanship. i think that is a wonderful idea. my question is -- if the republicans actively refused to participate in a reasonable way with reasonable proposals, isn't it time to say, "we will pass with the american people need and what they want without the republicans?" >> let me make a couple points -- first of all, you make a point about medicare that is important. i have been getting a lot of letters, pro and con, for health care reform. one letter i received recently, i woman was very excited about the plant. she said she did not want government-run health care. she did not want me meddling in the private market place and keep your hands up my medicar

mr. president. welcome to portsmouth and new hampshire. my name is peter schmidt. i'm a state representative from dover. i'm a senior citizen. i have a wonderful government-run health care plan called medicare. >> right. >> i like it. it's affordable. it's reasonable. nobody tells me what i need to do. i just go to my doctor or the hospital. i get care. now, one of the things you've been doing in your campaign to change the situation is you've been striving for bipartisanship. >> right. >> i think it's a wonderful idea. but my question is, if the republicans actively refuse to participate in a reasonable way with reasonable proposals, isn't it time to just say we're going to pass what the american people need and what they want without the republicans? >> well, let me -- let me -- let me make a couple of points. first of all, you make a point about medicare that's very important. i've been getting a lot of letters, pro and con for health care reform, and one of the letters i received recently, a woman was very exer sio upset ai don't want the government-run health