mr. stevens. do you believe that t resources at, at fha are enough for, or do you think there is a need, particularly in the area of administrative funding, staff increase, and or expaed information technology capabilities that to accomplish fha's overght needs? >> i appreciate the question. we've, i've been stated previously, and others have as well that we do believe some additional investment is needed from a resource standpoint particularly in the area of technology as you have mentioned to help bring our systems into line. >> you know, how long will that? because we've been worried for several years on this technology issue and it hasn't been resolve in hud. it is not completed yet. is this going to be in time to do all things that are necessary to do now? >> i think it is a great question. at end of the day there is some defered investment into systems in fha in general. there is budget request in. budget requests have been made in past years as well. but we're hoping and we have an initiati

mr. stevens? >>hairwoman waters, ranking member capito, members of the bcommittee, thank you for the opportunity to testify on making home affordable program. and other administration efforts to homeowners and neighborhoods suffering in the foreclosure crisis. madam chairwoman, i would like to thank you for your leership, your commitment as chair ofhe subcommittee, to ensure that the administration's efforts help as many families as possible. that is always important b particularly so important during this difficult time. my colleague has done an excellent job describi progre to date in the making home affordable program. and while i hav't submitted testimony for the record i like to focus my remarks on how to efforts to assist in both in our work and washington and just as important on the ground and neighborhoods across this country. first the neighborhood stabilization program recognizing that concentrated forecloses can recount on one stable communities. hud is working to nature that 6 billion

mr. stevens was in court earlier today.r his first court appearance and he's going to be left to sit and think about this impulse that he acted upon until at least next tuesday when he's due back before the judge again. >> good. that's good news. >> mimi, you've got to throw the book that the guy, don't you, for that? >> you're absolutely right, mike. you're being too nice when you say throw the book that the clown. i think that's far too kind. when we look at the law, when we are talking about a first-degree cruelty to children case, part of the elements is did the defendant maliciously cause a child cruel or excessive pain? this act was malicious. how do you get more malicious to this? you look at the child, 2 years old and the reasonableness, crying a 2-year-old, what is more natural than that? this guy has nothing to justify defense and quite frankly, he's a menace to society. >> a lot of people want in on this conversation. dawn is with us in west virginia. dawn, go ahead. >> caller: i just wanted to say mike, he might

mr. buyer. ms. stevens i want to thank you for coming and testifying before us and a note for the record this committee does not have jurisdiction over the national park service and we appreciate you coming to testify before us. but we all share the same goal and terms of standards and quality high of the facilities that you manage. says the fsn help with replacing the headstones when they break gordy terrie? >> i do not believe that they do. we order the headstones from the same company, but we do all of that workforce all. >> as on the the a advisory committee do feel this is a good vehicle for addressing the concerns or do they need a more developed in partnership with the the a regarding cemeteries? >> fairly recently in 2004 the interagency committee was established and we look forward to working with that committee but the head of that committee became ill before it was resolve labor like to see the committee reconstituted so we can discuss some of these concerns. >> when will the review of the cemete

mr. buyer. ms. stevensi want to thank you for coming and testifying before us and a note for the record this committee does not have jurisdiction over the national park service and we appreciate you coming to testify before us. but we all share the same goal and terms of standards and quality high of the facilities that you manage. says the fsn help with replacing the headstones when they break gordy terrie? >> i do not believe that they do. we order the headstones from the same company, but we do all of that workforce all. >> as on the the a advisory committee do feel this is a good vehicle for addressing the concerns or do they need a more developed in partnership with the the a regarding cemeteries? >> fairly recently in 2004 the interagency committee was established and we look forward to working with that committee but the head of that committee became ill before it was resolve labor like to see the committee reconstituted so we can discuss some of these concerns. >> when will the review of the cemeter

the reason we know about and can talk about the abduction of steven ferrell and sultan is because it's over. at 7:30 on tuesday night, mr. ferrell called his editor and said, "i'm out. i'm free." despite some reports that quiet negotiations had been happening behind the scenes for their release, ultimately the way that steven ferrell was freed was by a british commando raid on the compound in which he and sultan were being held. now, in the resulting chaotic firefight, sultan was shot dead, as was one of the british commandos, as was one local woman and one child. the reporter steven ferrell was unharmed, the media embargo was ended and now a new association of afghan journalists who work with western reporters is protesting both that military raid and the fact that mr mr. munadi's body was left behind on the scene afterwards. now in the u.s., "the new york times," having had two of its key reporters abducted this year alone and having one of its longtime translators killed, "the new york times" says it is reviewing security procedures, reviewing the dangers that it's willing to have its reporters face in afghanistan in

steven, who are we hiring tonight? >> steve: well, mr.ew temps coming to stage are joe pelosi, noel dominigez and christian badilla. come on down and "do the right bing." "do the right bing" is a registered trademark of the jimmy fallon corporation. >> jimmy: great. first, a little office meet and greet. what's your name? >> joe. >> jimmy: joe? >> from jersey. >> jimmy: all right. joe from jersey. [ laughter ] that's your full name? >> yes. >> jimmy: you come from a long line of from jerseys? >> yes. >> jimmy: from jersey? that's your last name? joe from jersey. >> yes. >> jimmy: joe from jersey, hello. hi, what's your name? >> noel. >> jimmy: just one name. >> noel dominigez. >> jimmy: that's how you do it, joe from jersey. yeah, very good, noel. very good, and what's your name? >> christian. >> jimmy: christian, very, very good. you guys look like a fine group -- we're looking for real go-getters. do you guys consider yourselves go-getters? >> yeah, definitely. >> absolutely. >> jimmy: good, then go get me some coffee. [ laughter ] stev

joining from us washington steven maloy author of the book green hell. mr. milloy is tracking the situation: pacs and political action committees, why do we care about what g.e. is doing? shouldn't they do this? isn't that promoting their self-interest. >> there is nothing wrong with corporations to lobby. they pay taxes, we expect that in this case we have a situation where g.e. is lobbying for the waxman lock keyed harr continue bill through. and in the end, american taxpayers are going to be paying more -- paying higher taxes, subsidizing g.e. products. american consumers are going to be paying higher electricity price. american consumers are going to be paying more for g.e. appliances. basically g.e., through waxman markey is going to be enacting a federal law. bill: tell us what waxman marquis. waxman liberal guy from california. what would that do? what would that bill do, very quickly. >> waxman markey is the cap and trade bill it would put a price on carbon dioxide emissions between the years 2012 and 2050 com would make energy costs $9 trillion more

mr. sarkozy's happiness might not be my happiness and his government becomes the arbiter of happiness i think we're all in trouble. >> all right, joe. >> energy secretary stevene was taking to a journal reporter with climate change and said the american public just like your teenage kids aren't acting in the way they should act and the american public has to really understand it in their core, how important this issue is. and now, this sounds like a miss, but it's actually a hit. if in the new spirit of maturity, the white house starts talking about the tax that it wants to impose on all sorts of carbon energy that will make grocery, gas and electricity more expensive, so, all right, joe, thanks. >> i'd like to give a miss this week to the 53 senators, including 51 democrats, who voted down an amendment by republican jim demint of south carolina to stop spending federal fund on the airports at pennsylvania congressman jack murtha built with more than 150 million dollars in federal subsidies and ear marks over the last 20 years. the airport has just three, count em, three daily commercial flights all to washington d.c. the federal subsidies average $100 for ea

steven baldwin and bill o'reilly. and we found here -- her. the first lady. doesn't it seem like mrs. obama has been keeping a low p.l.o. -- profile lately? but today she threw some punches in the health care bat. >> if we want to achieve true equality for women, if that is our goal, if we want to ensure that women have opportunities that ste deserve, if that it -- is our goal, if we want women to be able to care for their families and pursue things that they could never imagine, then we have to reform the system. we have to reform the system, the status quo is unacceptable. it is holding women and families back and we know it. greta: finally, if you're going to call 911 in vallejo, california, make sure it's a real emergency. the city will soon be charging $200 each for each bogus call. city officials say the city wastes $200,000 a year on bogus calls, calls that are not real emergencieses. imagine if these people lived in val edgeo. >> i ordered french fries but i asked them to put the money back on the debit card -- >> ok. that's not actually something the police would get involved

>> i would like to take advantage of justice stevens' offer and respond to that during the rebuttal, mr. chief justice. >> thank you, mr. olson. >> mr. abrams? >> mr. chief justice, and may it please the court. the first case cited to you by mr. olson happened in "the new york times" against sullivan, and i'd like to begin by urging two propositions on you from that case. in that case the court was confronted with a situation where "the times" made three arguments to the court. they said for us to win, they said, you either have to revise basically federalize libel law to a considerable degree of which they did, or, they said, we only sold 390 copies in alabama. so you could rule in our favor by saying there was no jurisdiction. or they said we didn't even mention sheriff sullivan's name. so you could rule in our favor on the ground that they haven't proved a libel case. the court did the first. it did the first which is the broader rather than the narrowest way to address the question. and i suspect they did it -- don't know -- but i suspect they did it because they had come to the con

steven moore. he bragged about the 45 million or so jobs that were created in the last 30 years. may i remind you, mr. moore, that slaves had jobs. and the second comment is we should have had a little moderation about shipping all these jobs overseas. i mean, we just keep buying stuff? we have to borrow money to buy it? it doesn't make snens to me. guest: if you look at the census bureau just came out with new stats tiss ticks on this, the average compensation to workers, when you adjust for inflation is up about 25 or 30%. so it's not true that we're creating less, lower paying jobs. the good news is, though, that if you look at how we get out of this crisis, i think it's pretty clear. we've got to get government under control. we can't pass the cap and trade bill. i agree with you, we don't want to create incentives for american ind stroy move somewhere else. cap and trade taxes, higher taxes do that. we have the second highest corporate income tax in the world. even countries like sweden and germany are cutting theirs while we're raising our rates. it makes absolutely no sense. host: we have ann

>> i would like to take advantage of justice stevens' offer and respond to that during the rebuttal, mrthank you, mr. olson. >> mr. abrams? >> mr. chief justice, and may it please the court. the first case cited to you by mr. olson happened in "the new york times" against sullivan, and i'd like to begin by urging two propositions on you from that case. in that case the court was confronted with a situation where "the times" made three arguments to the court. they said for us to win, they said, you either have to revise basically federalize libel law to a considerable degree of which they did, or, they said, we only sold 390 copies in alabama. so you could rule in our favor by saying there was no jurisdiction. or they said we didn't even mention sheriff sullivan's name. so you could rule in our favor on the ground that they haven't proved a libel case. the court did the first. it did the first which is the broader rather than the narrowest way to address the question. and i suspect they did it -- don't know -- but i suspect they did it because they had come to the conclusion that the deg

mr. mann and dr. niskanen for being here let's go have lunch. [inaudle conversations] >> steven is the auphor of severalooks includinghe two-volumeolitical biography of ronald reagan, the age of reagan, and churchill on leadership. he's a senior fellow at the pacific research institutend fellow at the american enterprise institute. the cato institute hosted this event. for more information, visit cato.org. >> we areebe at the oregon council for social secity -- social studies speaking with robert miller author of "native america, discovered and conquered." thomas jefferson, lewis and clark and manife destiny. mr. miller, your book talks a lot about the doctrine of discovery. why don' you tell us a little bit about that. >> the doctrine of discovery is a legal principle that describes how europeans came to this continent and claimedhe lands from the nativepeople. the doctrine was literally developed by the church and portugal and spain. and the european countries used this legal principle to claim lands in africa, asia, and, of course, in the americas. the classic painting or the

mr. munadi were both kidnapped by the taliban at the site of the bombing. but here's where the story changes from a war movie script to a stevenh war movie script, and one with a brutal ending. stephen farrell is irish, a dual irish/british citizen. by 2:00 p.m. on saturday, the day they were kidnapped, a website called irishcentral had already broken the news about the abduction. then, right away, irishcentral unbroke the story. they erased the story from that i shall website. they erased it from the other websites they share content with and erased it from all their news feeds. they disappeared the story after "the new york times" called them and told them they wanted to keep the kidnapping under wraps because they thought that would be in the best interest of the hostages. we've seen this before, sort of. current tv, for example, wouldn't tell us anything about laura ling and euna lee when they were being held in north korea. at first, "newsweek" magazine wouldn't say anything about its reporter when he was first being held in iran, though they have since changed their mind and are publicizing his case. "the times" kept the

steven hayward fellow at the american enterprise institute presents his second volume on the political career of president ronald reagan. mr. hayward recalls president reagan's public and foreign policy decisions and the former president's internal disputes with republican party stalwarts. the cato institute in washinon dc this event. it is an hour and 35 minutes. >> i am john samples. trec the center for representative government here of the cato institute. and today we argoing to have what i think is going to be a very interesting and very funny fence about a new book by ronald reagan. this book, "the age of reagan" the conservative counrrevolution 1980-1989. [laughter] pardon me? excuse me. [laughter] seek, is already fun. a new book about ronald reagan, "the age of reagan" the conservative counterrevolution 1980-1989 i steven hayward. andanways ronald reagan continues to inform our politics. after the 2006 elections just to recall one way which also happened after the 1992 elections some members of congress were quick to declare the end of reaganismr the end of the reagan era. reagan has also found sometng of an admire

steven moore. he bragged about the 45 million or so jobs that were created in the last 30 years. may i remind you, mr moore, that slaves had jobs. and the second comment is we should have had a little moderation about shipping all these jobs overseas. i mean, we just keep buying stuff? we have to borrow money to buy it? it doesn't make snens to me. guest: if you look at the census bureau just came out with new stats tiss ticks on this, the average compensation to workers, when you adjust for inflation is up about 25 or 30%. so it's not true that we're creating less, lower paying jobs. the good news is, though, that if you look at how we get out of this crisis, i think it's pretty clear. we've got to get government under control. we can't pass the cap and trade bill. i agree with you, we don't want to create incentives for american ind stroy move somewhere else. cap and trade taxes, higher taxes do that. we have the second highest corporate income tax in the world. even countries like sweden and germany are cutting theirs while we're raising our rates. it makes absolutely no sense. host: we have ann o