i would like to thank my friend from new york, mr. steve israel, for bringing this resolution to the house floor. in an age where fear dictated the world stage, the armed forces of the united states of america bravely stood guard to ensure that communism, one of the democracy's greatest adversaries would not prevail. the cold war certificate program recognizes the service of veterans during the period of the cold war from september 2, 1945, to december 26, 1991, in promoting peace and stability for america. for nearly five decades, the united states stood the test of time and proved its powerful convictions in defending itself in the eyed yeels of freedom from the threat of communism. i ask my colleagues to help achieve the sacrifice of the forces bypassing a resolution that encourages the people of our nation to participate in local and national activities honoring our veterans. i am proud to stand here today to honor the men and the women who stood on the brink of devastating global war in order to bring peace and stability to the world.

. >> steve: clearly mr.icle because the more relook, the more we realize they were in such is a hurry to get this out that they proposed and adopted language that is so vague, now one of their main selling points, they don't have to live up to it. >> this has been the lead float in the parade that he's talking about. so when there is something that's promised and there is something that all or many americans find to be something that's important, giving sick children the ability to have insurance, to expand it and then we find out, well, there is 12 incarnations and it's not there, then somebody blew it big time. either the white house and/or the democratic congress blew it big time if these sick children are not being covered. >> steve: absolutely. >> gretchen: something that also is not explicit in that 2300 pages are the word redistribution of wealth. but yesterday, howard dean who is it a physician and the leader of the democratic national committee, he said this. >> question is, in a democracy, where do

mr. bernanke did a little saber rattling, steve liesman was right, i thought he came off hawkish yesterday. >> this is a whole new larry. >> think about this. i'm being mischievous here. >> we'll see the fed hiking interest rates this year. the outlook for inflation isn't as bright and perhaps this is what the market is getting a sense of. >> maybe the dollar is doing it for them, michelle. think about that. >> obviously, all these things working together and in the right drekdz. i have to say, i think we have a long way to go in terms of the dollar strengthening before we think about the fed being restricted or deflation or anything along those lines. but i do think it is all part of the same story where you have the markets now beginning to go from, you know, thinking the fed was never raising rates and the economy was weak and the dollar was under pressure to now the u.s. story is improving. >> how high are bond rates going to go? how high? the treasury is what today? 3.80 and change. how high will it go? >> i think it will go up to 4% and 4.5% next year. >> i think even higher. we have

mr. cummings, i'm steve wright, president of wright brothers construction co. in charleston, tennessee.d a representing the american road and transportation builders association where he served as the southern region by chairman. right brothers was founded in 1961 by my father and my uncle. our company performs a variety of highway and construction services. we currently have projects underway in tennessee, alabama, georgia and north carolina. mr. chairman, the recovery and reinvestment act to transportation investments have been a resounding success. its impacts however cannot be truly appreciated without understanding of what our sector faced prior to the measures in the net. the u.s. transportation construction markets had been in steady decline since 2007 due to state budget, the general economy and increasing material prices. the continued recession by this bad situation worse, highway contractors laid off almost 26,000 employees in 2008 and early 2009. in fact, my company simply peaked at 2008 at 350 workers have since fallen by 34% in the private construction market. going into 2

mr. rove. i'm calling first of all my question is for steve. i would like to know if you would give me a chance to rename karl rove's book. >> guest: actually, it's not up to him. it's up to my publisher. >> host: this is not steve. it's peter. go ahead with your question and what you'd like to rename the book. >> guest: okay. i would like to rename it the "untruth about iraq war." mr. rove, i have a question to you about is i totally disagree with you on the statement that you say that the only people we tortured were the high-valued detainees or whatever. because it's a proven fact in the documentary called "iraq for sale" that it was done by contracts all over in iraq and afghanistan. >>>> guest: i disagree 37 our laws do not allow tortures and these enhanced interrogation techniques were designed to get cooperation but within the limits of our laws and international commitments. look, i appreciate he doesn't agree with me on iraq. but again i find it hard to believe she's even read the book. read the book. all i ask is a fair reading. we ca

mr. rove. i'm calling first bought my question is for steve scully. i would like to know if you give me the chance to rename karl rove's both. >> host: will have to ask you if you that. >> guest: it's not up to me. it's up to simon & schuster. >> host: go ahead with your question to karl rove of what you would like to rename the book. >> caller: okay, i would like to rename it untruths above the iraq war. mr. rove, most of the biggest thing i have a question to you about is i totally disagree with you on a statement that you say is that the only people we tortured with a high valued detainees or whatever because it's a proven fact in the documentary that it was done by contractors all over in iraq and afghanistan. >> guest: first of all, i don't agree with the word torture. our laws do not allow torture in these techniques enhanced interrogation techniques were designed to elicit cooperation that was in the limits of our laws and international commitments. and look again, i appreciate she doesn't agree with me on iraq, but again i find it hard to beli

steve: all right. wendell goler. did you enjoy the music we were playing during the break before this? >> for folks who didn't hear, they were playing arrested developments, mr on camera ever since danny tario retired from dance fever. thank you, wendell. >> gretchen: what a great tune. now we have to move to what the republicans plan to do with this whole health care reform thing. they're now going through all these amendments. they have to debate tore 20 hours, then they hold a vote, it's called votarama. that could begin as soon as tonight. do all the republicans agree on this strategy? do they agree they should be delaying what some say is the inevitable, that health care reform now is law? >> steve: plus, there is the whole question of whether or not they should go along at all with anything the democrats come up with 'cause so far the democrats have been union -- republicans have been unified in all things democrats. but it would be hard for republicans say no to education or no child left behind. they might have to pivot, in which case the president can't make the argument that the republicans are the party of no because they would be going along with

mr. bob pisani from the floor of the nyse, and bertha coombs at the nymex and steve leaseme liesman, and my c simon hobbs. so how much of the bond market is weighing on the equities right now? >> well, look, if yields are going up aggressively and considering what is going be on in the bond market recently, that will put pressure on the stock market overall. this move up in the ten-year has the attention of some of the stock traders, but steve, the question is, is this a start of a wider trend, i would note that the spread between the two have dropped in the last month, but i don't know if it has been dramatic. >> steve? >> well, it is up again today, bob. what everybody is talking about is the sloppy action this morning and some of the commentary right here on the jeffreys trading floor is that it is a shot across the bow of the government when it comes to the debt being issued. they are asking the system to take on a lot of debt and $44 billion yesterday and $42 and $5 today and more in 7s which means higher yields. this is one of the biggest rises in yields since december 18. remember

steve emerson is the executive director of the investigative project on terrorism. mr. emerson, we have three or four very sincere callers who you labeled or could be labeled conspiratorial. what do you say to them? they were very sincere in their beliefs. guest: let me give you an example of the problem. after 9/11, i spoke at a law school, and at the law school, i was being heckled. i didn't know what to do because of the speakers, you're heckled, so you can't speech. so i took my speech, ripped it in half. i got everybody's attention, and i said, how many here believe that osama bin laden carried out 9/11? and half of the thousand people raised their hand. and then i said how many believe that israel and the c.i.a. carried out 9/11? and the other 500 raised their hands. what do you do with that? i'm never going to get behind their reality that 9/11 was a conspiracy by the c.i.a. and so i'm stuck with that, ok? i have to work around that. i can try to convince them. i can present facts and everything. but for somebody who's stouk a conspiracy, nothing i do can change

mr. hill has been in the the at crenshaw high junior and senior years. >> steve: this is how high he got.>> steve: lorenzo went to junior college. he said he would have gotten further today but that school already had a point guard by the name of roy hamilton, our executive producer. >> marques: he started out there his freshman year. >> steve: he was a sophomore. long memory for lorenzo. romar takes some of his students on in practice. i mean, he played for washington in 1978-80 and played with the milwaukee bucks, with you, for a very short slew. rk very und >> marques: very underrated. >> steve: washington to their first outright title since 1953 #. now trying to lead washington to the pac-10 tournament title game. >> marques: they're so pleased they have finally turned the corner defensively. that's focus, that kind of plagued this team earlier in the season. they're playing their best basketball at the perfect time of the year. vg thag having won six in a row, 11 of the last 13. you're also judged on what you've done lately. washington playing great basketball recently. >> marques: y

steve brant. and my question is for -- excuse me, i'm a little nervous here. mr.johnson, you talked about the social purpose of financial regulation. there's a great 30,000-foot comment. in a world that should have both carrot and stick, i'm thinking of the social purpose of our economic system itself 'cause if the regulators are going to be socially motivated, how about the culture of what they are regulating being looked at? i mean, jim wallace just has a new book out. and he's calling for a national dialog literally on what kind of economics do we have? why do we have economics? you know, management people like dr. deming said the purpose of business is to serve people and make money as a result. not to make money whether you're hurting people or helping people. so can you talk about the idea of getting at the culture of not just the regulators but the culture of the organizations being regulated and get them to look at maybe it's literally anti-american to make money by hurting people? >> i guess i would go two places. the first of which is kind of humorous. j

mr. johnson, and by the time they leave they're like what up, marques. >> steve: we have a chance to watchy're staying in school and getting better. landry has made himself into an nba prospect. boateng, nice rebound. >> marques: took a gamble on that fourth foul. stay in the game. pick up that fourth, get him out of there, sitting down. give stanford a lot of time. trying to establish position down low. >> steve: senior jerren shipp back in the game. boateng bowls over his man and is that a blocking foul? that would have been the fourth. that will be called against eric. >> marques: that is a blocking foul. zimmermann underneath but nice job, boateng. faceup moved. put the pressure on the defense to have to stop. he's got to be careful. >> steve: kuksiks trying to chase it down. green has it and lays it up and in! >> marques: another turnover. another miscommunication by arizona state. herb sendek express's -- as expressive as he'll get in this situation but i get the sense he does not like the way his team is performing out here. that's the understatement of the year. >> steve: down low,

steve mcmahon is a democratic strategist. and sweeney todd harris is also with us, he's a republican strategist. anyway, mr.e it's your turn to attack, ha do you make of this repeal and replace? the replace part sounds pretty weak. like gee whiz, i wish we had a health care plan, but we don't, so going to pretend like we did. what's this repeal talk? it's unrealistic? your thoughts. >> well, we do have a health care plan. that the republicans have been pushing for all year. but look, the repeal part of this, there's a two-pronged approach. the first is repeal. and the second one is replace it with something that the country actually wants and we can afford. and whether or not we can repeal the existing trillion-dollar bill this year, is irrelevant. our campaign message is going to be vote republican, this november. and help us replace this bill that the country doesn't want. that the country can't afford. with something that will lower the cost, medical costs for every american, but will do did in a way that doesn't bankrupt the country and doesn't cost jobs. and that's a winning message for republicans. it

. >> yes, my name is steve brandt and my question is for a come excuse me a little nervous here. mr. johnson, utah about the social purpose of financial regulation, the great 30,000-foot comment. and in a world that should have oath carrot and stick, i'm thinking of the social purpose of our economic system it self because the regulators are going to be socially motivated. how about the culture of what they are regulating, being looked at -- i mean, jim wallace just has a new book out and is calling for a national dialogue lederle on what kind of economics do we have. why do we have economics? you know, managing people like dr. deming used to say the purpose of business is to serve people and make money as a result, not to make money whether you're hurting people or helping people. so can you talk about the idea of getting at the culture of not just the regulators, but the culture of the organization be regulated and get them to look at maybe the literally anti-american to make money by hurting people. >> i guess i would go to two places. the first which is kind of humorous. joseph

mr. attorney general, can you hold for a moment? we have breaking news. steveancial regulatory reform right now. steve, what do you have? >> yeah, becky, really interesting ramping up of the rhetoric on the part of the administration when it comes to the republicans and financial regulatory reform. an administration official telling cnbc the republican amendments that have been introduced show the republican confusion on financial regulation. they say the republicans have no plan to end too big to fail and their amendments would make it impossible to regulate the next aig, bear stearns or lehman brothers. finally, the administration official saying republicans don't really know what they want after months of negotiations. we bring this to you not only for the criticism or whatever content is in it, but because a real change in strategy by the administration where they were negotiating in the background, now they're stepping up, ramping up the rhetoric on the republicans, and we'll see how this is going to play out in the attempt to get bipartisan support when i

paul tonko of new york, steve cohen of tennessee, mr.ilroy of ohio, carol porter of new hampshire, peter welch of vermont, franz kline of florida, and all of these young people that here who helped. all that we want to do to maneuver and win votes in the congress is not possible without the outside mobilization of people who understand the impact of the legislation and make their voices known to the members of congress. remember, nothing is more eloquent to a member of congress than the voice of his or her own constituents. many of our colleagues have already gone home to talk to their editorial boards, to see their families, and to meet with their constituents on this legislation. i think our class of 2006 and 2008 who are here in their own right and as representatives. [applause] i signed the big bill. this is a much smaller bill we are signing now. but none of these bills matches the number of pages that led to this -- letters from constituents asking for this legislation. [applause] [applause] >> the bill is embroiled. it will now go

mr. rove. i would like to know if he would give me the chance to rename carvel rove's book. >> host: we will have to ask steve if he will do that. guessed correctly is up to simon and schuster. >> host: angela first of all i am not steve macdill had -- >> guest: this is peter and his feelings have been hurt, angela. >> host: go ahead with your questions to karl rove for what he would like to rename the book. >> caller: okay. i would like to rename it the on the truth about the iraq war, and mr. rove, mostly the biggest thing i have a question to you about is i totally disagree with you on the statement that you see the only people we tortured worthy high valued detainee's or whatever because it is a proven fact and a documentary called "iraq for sale" that was done by contractors oliver iraq and afghanistan. >> guest: i disagree. first of all, i don't agree with the word torture. our laws do not allow torture, and these techniques enhanced interrogation techniques were designed to elicit cooperation but within the limits of our laws and international commitments. and look i appreciate she doesn't agree with m

steve, people's faith in markets and capitalism tend to rise when job growth increases. and survey after survey shows that people are concerned about lack of job growth, unemployment rate. in the election of mr. brown of massachusetts, i think evidence of that. if the president could do just one thing, just one thing only, to improve that matter, what would you advise him to do? >> if you mean by one thing only, that means he cannot go forward on health care the way he wants to do it, cap the tax on these other things. first and foremost, and raise taxes. first and foremost would be a stable dollar. so we can get real investment again, reagan understood it, john kennedy understood it. you get a stable dollar so that it's a moral issue, too. if you earn a dollar for your labor, why should politicians change what you got for your labor? it's not right. it should be stable like 12 inches and a foot, imagine building a house if they floated the foot. they would have a housing crisis now. [laughter] >> 12 inches in foot one day, 20 the next, 30 the next that it would be a disaster. so start with that. . . >> host: thank you very much. we're delighted and more than delighted to have to give did th

steve emerson is the executive director of the investigative project on terrorism. mr. emerson, we have three or four very sincere callers who you labeled or could be labeled conspiratorial. what do you say to them? they were very sincere in their beliefs. guest: let me give you an example of the problem. after 9/11, i spoke at a law school, and at the law school, i was being heckled. i didn't know what to do because of the speakers, you're heckled, so you can't speech. so i took my speech, ripped it in half. in half. i got everybody's attenti -- how many believe that osama bin laden carried out 9/11 and half of the 1000 people raised their hands. and then i asked how many thought that israel and the cia carry out 9/11, the other half raised their hand. i am never going to get behind the reality that 9/11 was a conspiracy by the cia. i can try to convince them and i can present facts, but if someone is stuck on a conspiracy, nothing i can do will change their mind. >> thank you for being on the washington journal. >> you are welcome. >> tonight, on c-span, house speaker

mr. rove. i am calling, first mike question is, i would like to know if you would give me the chance to rename karl rove's look. >> host: we will have to ask steve if he will do that. >> guest: it is actually up to simon & shuster. >> host: first of all i am not steve. >> guest: this is peter and his feelings have been hurt. >> host: go ahead with your question to karl rove, what you would like to rename the book. >> caller: i would like to rename it the untruths about the iraq war and mr. rove, mostly the biggest thing i have a question for you about is i totally disagree with you on the statement that you say the only people were tortured where the high-value detainees or whatever because-- it was done by contractors in iraq and afghanistan. >> guest: i disagree. first of all i don't agree with the word torture. our laws do not allow torture in these tech needs of enhanced interrogation were designed to elicit cooperation but within the limits of our laws and international commitments. again i appreciate that she doesn't agree with me on iraq but again i find it hard to believe that she has even read the book. read the book. all i ask is for a

steve, people's faith in market capitalism tends to rise when job growth increases. and certainly it shows that people are concerned about lack of job growth, unemployment rates, so forth in the election of mr brown of massachusetts i think is evident that the president can do just one thing, just wanting only to improve that matcher, what would you advise him to do? >> well, if you mean by wanting only that means he cannot go forward on health care the way he wants to do it, capping tax, a lot of these other things. first and foremost and the raise taxes. first and foremost with the a stable dollar. and so we can get real investment again. reagan understood it, john kennedy understood it, he had a stable dollar so that it's a moral issue, too. if you earn a dollar for your labor, why should politicians change what you got for your labor? it's not right. it should be stable by 12 inches and a further. imagine building a house if they floated the fudge. they have a housing crisis now. last night 12 inches and a foot one day, 20 the next, 30 the next, it would be a disaster. so start with that. i have a list of other things but if you start with that, then you can start to build on other area

mr. love by saying thing to everybody for coming and peter, for putting this together and steve cole, who isn't here the new american foundation for hosting me and to the organization which i am a fellow for right now the open society institute which has given me the time and resources to go out and do the research and to justine for printing my story. europe at ease the great greek playwright wrote a force of words can do whatever is done by conquering sorts. i believe firmly that we as americans are more than capable of outwitting our opponents, terrorists and interrogation both without using the enhanced interrogation techniques. i have to expand a little bit on my back from before i begin because there's an important piece of the puzzle which is a criminal investigator for the air force before i was an interrogator went to the army. i was school in law enforcement techniques and i grew up in those techniques in my professional career as an agent for the air force and i had a mentor very good at teaching me how to use long course of techniques in law enforcement setting when i went to

mr. rumsfeld's task force in the 1990's, a task force that has been vindicated that six weeks after it said would have to worry about long-range missile threats, it happened. and then steve pifer, a senior fellow. he is a fellow ambassador to ukraine and worked on nuclear issues and u.s.-russia issues for most of his career and has been writing on the topic including a brookings paper that i will promote here resetting relations. with that, we will hear from each of our panelists for about 10 minutes and then we will go to you. tom. >> thank you, mighke. when it comes to nuclear weapons, i do not know much about it. however, remarks have been informed by the expertise from my friend and colleague from committee staff days, dave trachtenberg, who served in several positions in the pentagon as principal secretary of defense. he is a genuine expert. i am not making this up entirely out of whole cloth. i do think that the current moment is one where the basic approach of figuring out what american strategy is should come before decisions of an arms control treaty port indeed on what our nuclear posturing should be. this is putting the horse before the courts exercise, in my

steve and bill, it looks like a follow-up conference. >> yes, in the far corner. >> thank you very much for an insightful panel. this question is directed to miss robinson and mricks. everyone needed to understand iraq for the sake of iraq. can you talk about the present and future influence of ahmad chalabi, if there is any? >> the plan has nine lives. i think it has been in i lot of the papers, so i -- in a lot of the papers, so i won't repeat the details of that. again, diplomatic intervention was required before those 500 people were perjuried -- purged from the electoral rolls. it is important that you get full reputation across the iraqi spectrum so you can have multisectarian political building that is neeted for the end game. it is a parliamentary system, and this is absolutely critical. so i am very concerned, a, that it happened, and b, that we were not more on top of it and did more to walk the cat back. and i think that we really do -- this is one thing. behind-the-scenes, petraeus and crocker worked intensively with malaki. the general is an able general, but he doesn't have that political intuition and maeuverability. he's not as ad event in that