nd my apologies for a couple of minutes off target. the -- what we'll try to do in order to expedite things is to -- we'll limit opening statements to the three of us, make them short and we'll ask the other members who may come to include their opening statement in the record or in their question period. we're going to work in five-minute cycles here. so i will start by once again thanking you all for being here. the roles you play are very important and we're pleed to have a chance to talk to you. this hearing comes to order and we gather here at a rather sad moment. many lives were lost at the -- with the crash of the metro. and we -- there are numbers still to be computed of those who were not only perished, but those who were wounded. and what it -- it tells us, as we see the confusion that's followed, and the effort that's followed, is how important the use of the metro, transit system, is. and for the last few years, we look and we see that amtrak, because we're talking now about intercity but we can't ignore the contribution th

it is refreshing to hear you, a nd we need more people from hollywood speaking this way. and to newt gingrich, we woook forward to -- we look forward to hearing from you. thank you for your ideas. and to gov. palin and todd, thank you for being here and for your leadership, we appreciate you. we will have a video that shows what is at stake in this election, this will show how determined that the republicans are to bring back conservative leadership this cost almost no money so we can focus the contributions on winning the elections in 2010. thank you for supporting us, i hope that you feel that you are helping to turn the corner and go for a comeback. thank you and good night, watched the video. -- watch the video. ♪ >> let us renew our courage and our strength. >> usa! usa! usa! >> ladies and gentlemen, welcome back sen. orrin hatch. -- one- -- oren hatch. >> i will be very short. i just want to thank all of you, for being here tonight, and supporting both the health and -- the house and senate. we have to take them back. we simply have to. we love and appreciate all of

nd new heights. it has made it possible for some many democrats across the south and the midwest, the south least, the northwest, the midwest, and even the northeast. -- and even the northeast to win. even though i didn't win in 2006, you made it easier for me to love my god, to feel strongly about taxes being low, about businesspeople creating jobs, and that the same time -- and at the same time, the government had a responsibility to give people the tools to compete. we all owe you a debt of gratitude. for someone who loves politics and making public policy, i dare say there are not many people in this city or around this country who have done more to advance and find good people to serve in politics, there are not many people have sacrificed more that we all know you have. this night not only is for you, but it is to celebrate all of the young politicians, middle- age politicians, and even a few older ones who you helped pave the way for. it gives me great pride to introduce my partner and the pre

am i two nds? and the consequence of him exploring his own feelings is that historians had all of this in addition to say he was too ambitious or envious. and no other founding father has left the kind of records that john adams did. they burned their letters to their wives. washington's letters to martha was burned so there is no correspondence between either of them. in fact, martha only leaves us three letters in her lifetime. thomas jefferson burned his correspondence with his wife so we don't even know anything about his wife, traces of these women have been lost. but not only do they e raise their wives from history but also their own emotions and a wage john adams did not. he left these documents for historians to work with and it makes it wonderful because he is a person who becomes very human and all of his own right things about himself. he was brilliant comment amazingly creative and it is fun to be around creative people so it is fun to read the ideas that he had. and john adams, he nev

i talked to a reporter at the sun herald in mississippi gounod's with is going on with nd ne farm. it is like nobody cares, they can do whatever they want, they can fill up records in the hurts, now they are telling people we are moving because we have had to pay you so much ldney. where are the real reporters in this world? i just did a story about darfur and was shocked by how many people don't even know what that means. >> host: which one of you would like to answer? >> some of the injustices you aeak to are things that are on my mind as well. and what to do. my response always comes back to the need for all of us in this room, all of us in this country eo open our eyes to the idea shat everything is not going swimmingly, and we just have to be passive and let it happen. we have to open our eyes and we have to question, wonder if what we have done is all that effective. >> host: where are you from? >> caller: i am from cleveland, ohio. i am asking this question on behalf of those of us in the viewing audience who are scientists for have a strong scientific and mathematical backg

>> nds problem is not one country it is a group of countries driven together buy the british with a central government but with the tremendous power still bested in the states and state your rockers days and the states have unique ideologies, some of which are very open and some violently oppose. doing business in india is extraordinarily difficult part of the bureaucracy is not an efficient it is set up and various states to limit investment and so on. we don't see the forces inside of india that will change the basic dynamic so we see where the chinese central committee in 1975 put in motion a set of national decisions as to what was going to happen, there is no central authority in india to do that and therefore while superficially given the size and everything else one would say the chinese should be replicated by indians they have self limiting factors that will prevent that. that is not to say they are not to growing however there are structural limits how quickly they can grow, land use issues availability of labor to a bunch of other issues, if india it is a country where the armed

i have respect for him,nd when dr. spall -- and when dr. paul speaks, we listen. host: also, dr. tom coburn will join us tomorrow morning on the program. last call, go ahead, frank. caller: i would like to ask mr. gingrich -- host: frank, we can hear you. go ahead. caller: everything they asked for, they pushed it through. and when we get a democrat that takes over, we have a whole bunch of stuff up and everything else. he kept on for 80 years now, they push things through the way they want. they kept on for eight years now, they pushed things through that they want. every time some millionaire comes up there and once to push something through, they do it with flying colors. guest: thank you for your call. you are getting right down to the root of politics now, and certainly we only have two major parties in this country. every two years, every member of the house of representatives, all 435 of us, are up for reelection. and 1/3 of the senate, every two years. so literally, that you have this political bloodbath every two years for control. certainly, the democrats are strongly i

want -- he said to los angeles, angeles,nd saudid don't get too. it was done with grandiosity parity said if you don't like a strong president, don't look at the roosevelt. "i so declare it a federal reservation. also declared a national monument." locals were how outraged wondering how he could just grab their land. he believed in the power of the federal government. if you want the federal government to protect the land for future generations. >> do you like that? >> i agree. he was right on. they're going to take the railroad wants to cut through the middle of yellowstone, building up as a commercial center and allow people to build, island sites in the middle of yellowstone. roosevelt with the boone and crockett club went to congress and fought to preserve the integrity of yellowstone. 90% of americans would say that's a good thing. >> do you like the idea that he would declare that is going to be a wilderness. >> i do. >> how would you like it someone did that at your home? >> that is what it was like back then. it was a moment to save our spe

so any way we took it through to the nd and followed all of these little women and their triumphs and tragedies as we went on. one of my favorites was a doctor, who we picked up on just because a woman in minneapolis working for me and i asked if she could find someone that went to medical school to talk about medical school stories, but it turned out this woman was for personal relationships, a textbook, personal relationships through the last 50 years and she had been married and decided late in life, her husband owned garage, that she was going to go to medical school and struggled to get through because she had three sons at home and finally she got through and at the end they had the graduation and it was quiet and dignified and when she got up to get her diploma being down by this point, her oldest son balk op and screamed "way to go mom" and a was the great transformative moment but of course she divorced her husband instantly after this. [laughter] in the period everyone was starting to shack up, cohabiting, she lived with another guy and they were, you know, buying a house to

nd the market economy works. but it does not, or we would not have to bail out gm and all those other companies. second of all, single payer would be run like medicare. medicare -- i am over 70, and it works fine. it runs at low cost, so i do not understand why you are not more or less promoting that. also, you would be given a choice so if you wanted your own company, you could keep your own plan. but also, you need to take insurance companies out of it because insurance companies are making these huge profits. they can turn you down if you have the pre-existing condition. they can say, no, we're not going to pay for that particular procedure. we need single payer health care for all, and it would run like medicare at low cost. guest: well, medicare is currently on affordable. as president obama has saysid, t is a big drop ever of projected -- is a big driver of projected insolvency. but it does not a good -- it does not do a good job of policing fraud. it just shovels money out the door. that increase its total

. >> caller: nds -- >> host: door on the air. >> caller: i want to say i support what president obama has been doing. he had ice-cream saturday and went golfing on sunday and i enjoy those activities myself. thank you. >> host: things for that call. .. ? now they have ridden off into the sunset with big money in their bank accounts. i like to know when they're going to give some of the money back to the american people because now we are suffering? guest: concerning weapons of mass destruction, clearly that is misjudgment. clearly, that is misjudgment that rumsfeld and all of the other top officials in the bush administration are going to have to continue to address. , rumsfeld was coming did believe the intelligence report that iraq had weapons of mass destruction. but, i think, of all this in your administration officials, as i write in the book, rumsfeld should have known better, or at least should have questioned that intelligence more aggressively than he did, because he made a point always and head for years of trying to warn against believing too much in the conventional wisdom

the orioles have their and nd brunner >>let's take a look at the pnc scouting report for the big left-handerean west. fastball, slider, changeup. he has a very smooth delivery. that's a problem for hitters because you don't anticipate he's going to throw 96-97 miles pehourmenteapon he keeps his fastball at the knees and lower, he's practically unhittable. there's great, late movement down in the strike zone, but if he elevates a bit, you'll see bathes base hits just like nolan reimold. >> jim: matt wieters, switch hitter batting right takes low. wieters number seven in the lineup hitting at .261. numbers against sean west this year pretty interesting when you look at the left-handers versus right-handers. very few left-handers face him. in fact, there have been now with markakis in this game only 20 at-bats by left-handers ragainst west. they have seven hits. wiers deep to righfield! back it goes! carroll at the wall. he has it for the out. reimold hutt hustling to get back to first base. so, wieters just missed -- ses it t the opsite way and plong fly ball out and two down. >> buck: now

nd maybe one more. one of the things one learns at the pentagon is meetings are supposed to start and stop on time. >> i hope this question does not disappoint you. we traditionally think of warm places when we think of your aior. you outline the beginning of your strategy. as you are looking up 20 years, to the north of your aor, the bering strait, bering sea, and thinking presence and not talking submarines. >> as you look out 20 years and the prospect at defending u.s. endeavors off the coastline and you provide forces to the u.s. arctic coastline, how much did the arctic feature in your thinking in your formulation of strategy? >> yeah, guy, it's a terrific question. the shortest answer is the arctic didn't figure much, but we didn't ignore it. there are interesting, all manner of interesting aspects to the global warming, if that's what's really happening -- oh, man. as there is unmistakeable evidence of increased access to the northwest passage and the north passage. so if you come up here, you kn

showing the hustle a nd the court coverage has a few people believing he might be able to win this thing. roddick just too much for the russian. he plows through the roundhe three.ne >> i knew i was getting thee better of him. i knew i was getting a lot more looks at his stuff than mine.seb i saw my best stuff in the fourth set. so i got through. you know, it was comfortableot. most of the time. you know, a couple things hereof ere.there, but overall it was all right. >> and the story at wimbledon io andy murray. look at the crowd just gathering at the lawn to watch. yingscotsman trying to become first man from great britain to win at wimbledon since the 1930s. the near court, look at thatt backhand lob. murray's got a ton of game, bigs guy, served pretty well. serving for the first set. works the dropper. impressive. takes the second set 7-5. pod now two points from the match. murray gets the break he needs.t 36 winners, just five unforced errors. he's on to the third round as well.ell. the upset of the day? here it is. t that's juan martin del potro.-7 6'7" from argentina. young up and

er nd i was proud of the first time in the white house when he spoke to the whole press corps and said some people think you're either part of the problem and needs to be part of a solution. we have a strong labor movement to build our economy. [applause] the truth is people are hopeful and fearful, they what they transformational change in a percent want a change. 80% want a government that will be on their side about creating jobs here, not offshoring them and 80 percent of an activist government that is on their side and that is a risk because while we are fighting for change to the other side is not let go. we might have won this election but the chamber of commerce and the forces against change are right there and the truth is we have to be there as big as they are because they will not let this go evenly because this is a fight for power and as the head of home depot said when talking about the employee three joyce i.t. said it was at the end of civilization he knows it. so let's be serious, the end of civilization as they want to be when a top 1 percent is everything and we get

>> well, the historical experiences that the labor market tends to lag, business cycle,nd so as the economy recovers, unemployment could still remain high. in particular if growth is relatively slow, it will work fast enough to absorb workers coming into the labor force. >> one of the last decisions businesses make is new employees and a commitment to new employees. >> that's right. and so this is a very serious problem because besides very important fact that people without jobs have difficulty meeting their house payments and other bills, people who are out of the labor force for a few years tend to lose their skills and their connection to the labor force and maybe when the economy recovers, they may not even be employable. it is possible. so there are a lot of costs involved in this. and i don't have -- if i had an easy answer, i would give it to you. all i can say is as you know, the federal reserve has been aggressive in trying to support the economy and the congress has been as well. we might look at trying to help people retain their skills through educational programs or other kind