so i know in new york, it's 75%. so they get 75 cents on the dollar, and they have to fund raise for the final 25 cents. >> are they considered public schools? >> yes. they are entirely public. they are open enrollment by law. that's where the lottery comes from. if more parents enter their children to attend the schools than they have space for, they are required by law to lottery. it's totally random. >> i noted that on the united federation of teachers, they have charter schools that are unionized. >> there are a few in the city. >> why don't they have to be unionized or how do they keep them out if they don't want them in there? >> that's part of the charter law that they're not required to be unionized. in the traditional school, as soon as you're given a job you're signed up for the union. charter schools don't do that. teachers can vote to unionize, but by and large they choose not to. >> what year did you get out of greenwich high school? >> 2001. >> and what year did you get out of duke? >> 2005. >> and this

in new york, is 75%.y get seventy-five cents on the dollar and a half the fun race for the final twenty-five cents. >> are they consider public schools? >> yes, they are public schools. they are entirely open for enrollment by law. that is where the lottery comes. the lottery is totally random. >> i noticed on the united federation of teacher website that they do have charter schools that are unionized. >> there are few in this did it -- and the city. >> why don't they have to be unionized? >> that is part of the charter law, is that they are not required to be unionized. in the traditional public school system, as soon as you are given a job there, you're signed up for the union you begin paying dues. charter's do not have that. by and large they choose not to. >> what year did you get out of greenwich high school? >> 2001. to do what year did you get out of duke? >> 2005. >> is this your first documentary? >> i worked as an editor for five years. i was working freelance, so lots of different prospects,

in new york, it is 75%. get 75 cents on the dollar and they have to fund raise for the final 25 cents. >> are they considered public schools? >> yes, they are open enrollment by law. that is where the lottery comes from. if more parents enter their children, they are required by law. >>the ufta website has a charter schools that are unionized. >> there are a few in the city. >> why don't they have to be unionized? >> that is part of the charter law is that they are not required. in the public-school system, as soon as you are signed up, you become part of the union. in charter schools, people can of voted to unionize but by and large they choose not to. >> what year did you get out of greenwich high school? >> 2001. >> what year did you get out of duke? >> 2005. >> is this your first documentary? >> i worked as an editor since i graduated. i was working freelance. i was working on different types of projects, but my last few were documentary's. >> what did you study had do it? >> i studied by 0-psychology. -

gutierrez, watt, meeks of new york, moore of kansas, ms. kilroy, messrs. peters, bachus, royce, mrs. biggert, mrs. capito, messrs. hensarling and garrett of new jersey. from the committee on agriculture for consideration of subtitles a and b of title 1, sections 1303, 1609, 1702, 1703, title 3 except sections 3301 and 3302, sections 4205-c, 4804-b-8-b, 5008 and 7509 of the house bill and section 102 subtitle a of title 1, sections 406, 604-h, title 7, title 8, sections 983, 989-e, 1027-j, 1088-a-8, 1098 and 1099 of the senate amendment and modifications committed to conference, messrs. peterson, boswell and lucas. from the committee on energy and commerce f consideration of sections 3009, 3102-a-2, 4001, 4002, 4101-0118, 4202, 4204 through 4210, 4314, 4401 through 4403, 4410, 4501 through 4509, 4601 through 4606,815, 4901. in that portion of section 8002-a-3 by adds a new stion 313-d to title 13, united states code, of the house bill and that portion of section 502-a-3 which adds a new section 313-d to title 31, united states code, section 722-e, 1001, 1002

israel of new york. the chair: pursuant to house resolution 1436, the gentleman from new york, mr. israel, and a member opposed, each will control five minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from new york. mr. israel: thank you, mr. chairman. i yield myself two minutes. the chair: the gentleman is recognized. mr. israel: i thank the chairman. i rise in support of the israel-barrow amendment.

we will bring you there now. . . , thal of northern westchester new york. the chaplain: o god, source of the spirit of living things, you created humanity with all its diversity in your image and placed us upon this earth to tend it, guiding us alon whichever spiritual path we call our own toward goodness and peace. in this great hall where dreams come true, we ask your blessing upon these men and women, these representatives of the people. they have devoted their lives to our welfare, strengthened them with your courage, inspire them as they answer isiah's call to feed the hungry and clothe the naked, to lift up those in this land and in all land who cannot stand on their own. in this chamber of debate, may every debate be for the sake of justice and may justice always be tempered with compassion. may this house be home to the hopes and aspirations of every american, and may america shine as an example to all the world. amen. the speaker pro tempore: the chair has examined the journal of the last day's proceedings and announces to the house his approval th

the chair: prsuant to house resolution 124, the gtlem from new york irecognized. a memb opped each will controfive minutes. the chair now recognizes the gentlen from new yk. mr. maffei: thank you, mr. chairman. i just want to thank chairman ank and chairwoman waters fr bringing this ll and my amendment t the floor. we wer all outraged when we learned that dozensof employees at the securities ad exchange commission were found to have been using their gvement ised cters to view pornographer -- pore -- pornraphy. some were soonors stfers eaing as much as $122,000 a year. one spent eight hos day wahing pornography. an accountant in a regional offi was ded access by the government 16,000 times when he tried o access webpages containing sexually explicit material. ehavior, these abuses is not just an abu of government resources t is also of the public trust. it undermines confidence in our institutions. subjects e thousands of s.e.c. and other government employees who work ha every day to diminishment and simply put it isoutrageous and unacceptable. this amendment is ver

and i said no, wait, i've got a meeting with president clinton in new york. i said he may have something else, then you go. so we held off sending the team over there, and, of course, i was at usaid meeting with the new administration on wednesday morning, wednesday afternoon, 5:00, that big earthquake hit. well, that changed the whole meeting in new york. it changed it to a response meeting. and then president clinton asked me to go with him to haiti after the earthquake, and i did twice. and i just want to tell you, with the support of mayor bloomberg in new york and commissioner bruno, and the new york city firefighters and emergency management and the team that they volunteered to use to help us to do the training, we just -- sean penn has an n.g.o. organization in haiti, and they're managing a camp of 60,000 people in haiti. so he volunteered for his organization to support us, to train in their camp first. so we just completed the training and the certificate ceremony for 415 haitian women, train the trainer in haiti, and that one camp, and it was so wel

elsa chang with wnyc joining us from new york, thanks very much. >> you're welcome. >> woodruff: as we say here in the studio is steve coll with the new america foundation who has written extensively about the taliban. steve, just from listening to this, what does it tell you about shahzad? >> he's a puzzling case. initially while he was carrying out his attack he made a lot of mistake. he locked his key in the car. he made himself easy to find. he immediately started cooperating after his arrest. i think today he wanted to make clear at least to his followers and perhaps to himself that he saw himself as a warrior not a bumbler and not a criminal. and he does represent the latest in a disturbing series of cases of radicalization of individuals who had long lives in the united states. shahzad was a simulated for many years that he lived in the u.s., and the number of these cases has picked up over the last 18 months. they have been around from time to time over the last 20 years but there's a new pattern that's disturbing. >> woodruff: and how concerned is the u.s. government about thi

the gentleman from new york. mr. isreal: mr. chairman, i yield as much time as he may consume to the gentleman from georgia, mr. beiro. -- mr. barrow. the chair: the gentleman is recognized for three minutes. mr. barrow: mr. chairman, i thank the gentleman for yielding. mr. chairman, i spend a lot of time with small business owners in my district because they are the backbone of our economy and they hold the key to our recovery. in the last decade 70% of all new jobs were created by small businesses. but many are now facing a credit squeeze which makes it hard to cover everyday expenses, including hiring and retaining workers. it's in the best interest of our country that small businesses thrive. that's why the small business lending fund act deserves our support. i think our amendment makes this bill better. it reaches out to women, minority and veteran-owned businesses to make them aware of the availability of these funds. they are an often disadvantaged part of our economy and i think they deserve our attention. i thank mr. h

foreign policy officials and referred to contact with a new york fpber involved in politics. two of the suspects were asked to learn about president obama's 2009 trip to russia. trying to outline their views and most important mr. obama's goals but the f.b.i. was watching and listening. this weekend undercover f.b.i. agents posing as russian operatives met with two of the defendants in new york and washington. today the son of one of the arrested couples called the charges against his parents preposterous. word of the arrest came just days after russian president medvedev and president obama met in washington and shared a cheese burger and pledged to reset relations between the two countries. at the state department today officials said that effort would continue despite the spy case. >> they're moving towards a more trusting relationship. we're beyond the cold war. i think our relations absolutely demonstrate that. but as i say, i don't think anyone was hugely shocked to know that some vestages of old attempts to use intelligence are still there. >> brown: russian prime mini

in new york, the department of new york was immensely supportive. in addition, a great wealth of nonprofit organizations exist in your city, lent their expertise, their knowledge of communities throughout the city. so, i thank you for this opportunity to testify. >> i am sorry. thank you, ms. donahue. >> thank you for inviting me to testify today on the national challenge of turning around our low performing secondary schools. i will focus on middle and high schools. and in the 21st century, we have to provide students pathways from secondary schools to post secondary success in college, the military, or through job training. there is no work to support a family if you do not graduate high school and have the ability to receive further training. we cannot have a society where people are cut off because they do not have the opportunity to attend school and be prepared for success. the reason we find ourselves in this situation is far too many of our middle and high school schools -- the ones that serve minority and low-income populations are designed

host: next, buffalo, new york. caller: hello.i have a statement in regards to adults of not receiving enough in their earnings from the economic stimulus. america's national debt cannot be brought down by adults earning high salary incomes monthly. the most earned $85 per hour. before this can happen, employers need to be allowed to borrow enough from the banks or stimulus for payroll. employers and employees can pay portions of taxes back on the stimulus from their own dollars. guest: i'm not sure that i understand your plan, but it sounds like you have thought a lot about it. i don't you send it to me, care of c-span, and i will see what i think about it? it sounds too detailed for me to give rational response right away. host: here is i have time. -- here is a headline. rahm talk on one of the sunday shows about it. >> you were given what democrats see as a political gift by joe barton, the ranking republican. >> i am ashamed of what happened in the white house just today. i think it is a tragedy of the first proportion that a

host: this is from a june 2 "new york times" editoral.ric holder said he would provide penalties to wildlife and bird species. exxon agreed to pay $100 million -- rather $1 billion in federal and state civil damages and $500 million in punitive damages. the migratoy bird act, how does that come into play and how can it be used? guest: exxon pled guilty under the migetri bird act and the -- migratory bird act and the clean water act. there are older laws that result in strict liability, which is basically the federal government doesn't have to prove that there was intent here, that there was any negligence on the part of the company. it's really, if you look at the migratory bird treaty act, it is really straight forward about killing of a migratory bird is a violation of federal and state law. that's why it is so straight forward. the fish and wildlife service now is treating this like a crime scene. they are pulling in these oil birds. they are documenting them all. they are doing the studies to ensure these were birds killed by the oil

host: " new york daily news" this morning says that "$1.6 billion is the economic activity at risk because of the spill. 2000 is the estimated number of square miles covered by the oil slick. 51% of the floridians that oppose more offshore drilling since the disaster, 114 million gallons is the estimated number of gallons spilled. hazleton, missouri, bob on the democratic line. good morning, bob. caller: yeah, i think that a lot of the frustration people are feeling is that no one is being held responsible for this. the president has stated he is looking to determine who's as he should kick. quite frankly, if that was reagan, he would have went in there and fired the entire department can call the press in to show an empty office. host: can i get your reaction to president obama asking a former district attorney and inspector general to come in and be in charge of raising efforts for the mineral management service. partially to eliminate conflict of interest to eliminate ovvrsight. what do you think about that? host: -- caller: frankly,,i do not know why they make it so complicated. they h

states that want to ban assault weapons include connecticut, hawaii, new york. states that want to permit local control on the loss included florida, illinois, new jersey, pennsylvania. more from the a section of this paper. richard on the twitter page -- next is steve, from atlanta. caller: if the democrats did not work so hard on being soft on criminals and letting the relief corps bad guys out, telling us we must rehabilitate them, telling us we must understand them -- they are the ones with the guns. to restrict the common folks from having them, to prevent and defend us from liberal judges who cast of the worst in society out -- there are those who tell me that they constantly serve the same morn's on the same people. due to the breakup of the family urged by the great society reform bills, now you have people in the country who do not, did not grow up in a good family, and then they will not let us defend ourselves against the weekend policies. we need our guns. it is our constitutional right. host: justice samuel a leto writing that the gun right is fundam

the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from new york yields back the balance of his time. the gentleman from utah is recognized. mr. chaffetz: madam speaker, i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. chaffetz: chairman towns, madam speaker, chairman towns is one of my favorite people. i really come to grow and appreciate him. i happen to -- -- i happen to disagree with him on this. there are a whole lot of people on that walk of fame. we probably should recognize -- shouldn't recognize them in any way, shape, or form. there's a certain egment of our population, entertainment industry, involved in sports that gets more adulation from the public they can possibly, possibly take. yet we have true heroes, real heroes who don't get an ounce, don't get an ounce of appreciation from this body that do deserve it. the other day i was watching television, this is just recently, there was a national guardsman who pulled around a corner, i can't remember the state, i want to say the state of washington, i might be wrong, all o

host: greenville, new york, david, hello. caller: what i was watching yesterday was pretty much showing me how these congressmen and senators just do not know what is going on and they just need to make their constituents feel a little bit better about what is going on. i just feel that federal regulations, just like what happened on wall street, continue to fail the american people. they continue not to look our for our interest. they continue to just bend over for special interest groups and how much money they're getting from lobbyists and all of this other stuff. we are never going to get away from drilling in the gulf. one-third of the production comes from the gulf. a lot of natural gas comes from the gulf. putting a moratorium on the gulf is just going to make the gas go up. it is going to make everything go up. it is ridiculous. host: inside the "new york post" -- jim is a democrat in the union, alabama. what did you think about yesterday's hearings? caller: i thought it was wonderful. we, the little people, thankfull

i also want to thank my dear friend from new york, the gentleman from new york, congressman charles rangel, for his service to our country during the korean war, for his long and abled service in the house of representatives and for his authorship of this important resolution. i will also want to note our other colleagues who are also veterans of the korean war, congressman john conyers of michigan, congressman samuel johnson of texas, and congressman howard coble of north carolina. my apologies if i may have left out other members, but it certainly was not intentional, madam speaker, and i also want to thank them as well. congressman rangel fought in the korean war from 1950 to 1952 as a member of the 503 battalion all-black artillery unit in the second infantry division. late november, 1950, his unit en

when he returned to new york five days later, he was apprehended by the f.b.i. on charges of fraud and money laundering, to the complete and utter astonishment of the new york legal community and to the employees of his own law firm. >> joanne rapuano: when we heard the news, we thought it was a joke, at first. >> tori lalonde: there were ten floors of attorneys in boxes. but a lot of people started to resign immediately. they just walked out the door. >> okay, next up, these are the black poltrona frau leather bucket-style chairs... >> kroft: ten days after dreier's arrest, the law firm bearing his name had declared bankruptcy and 600 people were looking for work. the day we met attorney joanne rapuano and long-time office manager tori lalonde, the firm's furniture and office equipment were being sold off by the court to pay off the creditors, mostly hedge funds and their investors, who are not likely to see much of the missing $400 million. >> okay, now, we have the paper shredder. if this paper shredder could talk! how much for the paper shredder? $25 bid. op

a major concern to my area of new york, new york city. and i echo everything that mr. weiner said. we are very, very concerned. there are many teaching hospitals in new york city. they've been devastated by cuts on the federal and state level. whether it's dish payments, or in the health care bill that we passed. we had a whole fight over do gooder states provisions, things like that. they've been decimated back and forth. new york has 15% of the teaching hospitals. we train 15% of the doctors across the country. it's a really big thing for us. i kkow you said that it wasn't a $3.5 billion cut per say. and these teaching hospitals would still receive funding if they showed their further erg goals. but the yet to be established goals by the secretary of h.h.s. and the new york city teaching hospitals are very worried they would lose up to $450 million annually. and you know, that's just really untannable. i understand that, but what you said before about you want to make sure there's quality. of course you want to make sure, but at some point you can't get blood from a stone. i thin

host: joining us from our studios in new york is yalman onaran, senior writer at bloomberg news. what happened at 5:45 a.m. this morning? guest: well, i did not stay with it all to the end. i have many colleagues in washington who did stay up, unfortunately. but the congress conference committee -- senate-house conference committee, they finalll hammered out an agreement on the financial reform bill, which has been taking a while, but we are almost to the end of it, i guess, now. host: according to this article in a "politico," this is the broadest rewrite of the nation's financial regulation since the great depression. do you agree with that? guest: i do, i think everybody agrees with this. of course, i talked to a lot of analysts and because we really, we had the big reform after the great depression, which kept the financial system pretty healthy for 40 or 50 years, and then we started deregulating and the 1980's. since then, it has really been in the other direction. this is 30 years later, the first attempts to er-regulate -- re-regulate. host: what is the volcker rule and w

host: mike, new york, new york, good morning. caller: good morning to you. i lived in new york city. i have the privilege of attending some of the ration rallies in union square. -- some of the immigration rallies in union square. americans are not anti- immigration, we are anti-a legal immigration. every rally i have ever gone to+ they never distinguish them. it is either immigration all the way or you are a racist if you do not go with it. understand? i do not know why the media does not separate them. we are anti-illegal immigration. we are anti-illegal immigration.

host: this is an article in "the new york times." he does a comparison with the surges in iraq and afghanistan. host: and in other news this primaries and runoffs yesterday in several states. joining us on the phone is david, a political reporter. let's start with the headline in south carolina. guest: it was very significant. indian-american female, sort of breaking the glass ceiling in that state. she has launched herself on a clear trajectoryyto be a leading figure in the republican party. host: also out of south carolina, there's a story about thurman's son losing, and the state has elected an african american. guest: right. this is another historic moment in a state where dixiecrat politics ruled the state years ago. you can see the demographic changes are clearly making big changes at the electoral level. americans and women.ican- the republican party says this is good. thht is why you see a lot of national leaders like mitt romney and sarah palin involved. host: tim scott, who would be the first black republican in congress sin

he was in new york. and i thought i could get him because on that occasion the white house, as it had throughout the first weeks after the break-in, had made the issue of watergate our conduct at the "washington post" rather than the conduct of the president and his mean. and every day the president or others in his entourage would get up and attack us and "the washington post" for making up fiction and having a political agenda. so they did it on this occasion, too, when we wrote this story that said mitchell had controlled this fund, and so i called mitchell and i said, mr. mitchell, we have a story -- >> he got him. i think he was asleep. >> he said what time is it? i said 11:00. he said 11:00 when? and i said at night, sir. he said, oh. he might have had a pop or two. possible. so i said we have a story in tomorrow's paper i would like to read to you and carl bernstein from "the washington post" and have your response. and i began reading, he said go ahead. i began reading john m. mitchell while atto

"new york post" headline is "captain clueless." news" isk daily "sea-slick." front page of the "times picayne" -- chefs stand by seafood. fears over deep water spread. he is having trouble seeing the silver lining in the gulf of mexico drilling ban that is starting to cut into his business. it is not a crisis time yet. a safety company in east houston has benefited from orders of supplies a protective safety suits and hard hats to crews cleaning up the gulf oil spill that prompted the moratorium. he knows the business will not last, and he is worried about what is next. that is the front page of "the houston chronicle," this morning. independent line, good morning. caller: listen, i work three jobs. the place icause live in, michigan, we are the whirlpool plant headquarters. they have cut all of the jobs out of here. we are getting ready to lose another plant with 200 workers. i think the federal garmish should provide aid to some of the states, especially states like michigan where we have lost so much with the car industry and things have gone down hill. our

-based sell in new york, new jersey, and connecticut. we have details on dozens of vendors involved. they rent a counterfeit clothing and electronic -- thereat a count of a clothing and electronics operation --. they ran a counterfeit clothing and electronics operation. a crime ring operating in new york's chinatown. 51 people were touched with racketeering and attempted murder, including trafficking in counterfeit goods. $4 million in luxury goods were seized. in a potentially related case upon the leader of the new york organization was sentenced to 10 months for murder and illegal gambling. court records show that this group was engaged in trafficking counterfeit groups and -- trafficking potiphar goods as well. in 2009, police seized about 50,000 pirated dvds and cds dropped into russian. investigators believed -- they were -- dubbed into russian. investigators believe they were part of a counterbid group reporte -- out of a group. bottom was thebottol- operation in los angeles. clothing was traffic around los angeles. the general se

if you want -- >> larry: protestants no buddhists new york agnostics new york atheists. the justices will either be catholic or jewish. >> right. doesn't really mat her to me catholic, jew, protestant. they are all believers. went issue of separation of church and state comes up, the issue is slightly loaded for them. >> larry: most of the country is believers. >> so what? 15% is not. >> larry: so you are calling for an atheist on the court? >> yes, somebody, a rationalist. let's call them that. somebody who doesn't believe in magic. someone who doesn't -- >> larry: tom payne-type? >> tom payne, when glenn beck dresses up as tom payne, i obviously never read tom payne's book. >> larry: i don't think tom payne we gray? >> not a little bit. they think founding fathers, the founding fathers were elitists. they were intellectuals. they were europe-thinking. everything the tea baggers were no the founding fathers wouldn't have lunch with glenn beck. >> larry: try to draw bill out again in the next segment. every time it is so hard with this, riding the easy road. you are watc

america is becoming a drama queen -- mike is joining us from a story, new york. independent line. michael? caller: my ministry is ecumenical. i work with christian, jew, muslim, buddhist, for one world, not and a sense of a political thing but we don't have an old world, new world, third world, there is one world that even goes beyond our comprehension. we have to get rid of myths. i would like to see a one state solution. maybe we should have a state of an -- abraham,, where all the exist peaceably but we have toa- get rid of beth myth that israel is a democracy. it is not. host: what is it? caller: it is very much like jimmy carter said, a state of apartheid. a gross use of our military and other funding. they are the largest recipient of foreign aid from the u.s., $3 billion a year. host: but it is a democracy. the people elect their leaders. caller: it is not a democracy if you don't have equal rights and travel and free speech and it just representation. host: what would you call that? caller: an apartheid state. there is a clear distinction where the guidelines or the lines s

we have had the core of al qaeda, the kid in denver and new york, the like-minded who will carry the revolution forward. it is a global revolution. like-minded people in places like dallas. at their people who want to pick up weapons to attack. new jersey. i mentioned a global because to my mind that are not much different than the like-minded from syria who walked into iraq. i talk to my friends in the middle east and i view the kids in this country, which we view as the bastion as democracy, why would anyone adopt this ideology in this country? there are not any different than the kids i see from remarkably different cultural -- cultures. they were ideologically motivated, very focused people. the kids are seeing today similar to what we have seen kids see overseas. there are talking among themselves. they call these clusters of kids, i have never seen the show "24" the kids who are talking. they start showing videos from an attack in iraq. they show videos from people killed after eight you a the attack in pakistan. -- killed after a uav attack in pakistan. these kids start to talk

>> well, it was actually a nickname that some of my friends called me in new york. doing these performance art pop music pieces in the city. and they were a bit on the eccentric side, i suppose. so people started to call me gaga after the queen song "radio gaga." >> larry: at what age growing up, gaga, did you know that you wanted to be a performer? >> in the womb, larry. in my mother's warm womb. >> larry: at your birth. >> yes, at my birth. i guess you could say it's always been my destiny to be a performer. i used to perform even just in restaurants with my family or in the living room. but it's been really a very exciting transition now that i get to do this for a living. and i just refuse to stop. i probably should take a break and go on vacation. but i'd rather die onstage, not under a palm tree. >> larry: before you were a performer, did you have any other jobs? >> yeah. well, i was a waitress for many years. and a bartender. and i was a go-go dancer briefly as well. i used to make a lot of money to pay for demos and flyers that i used to post up all around t

now, reports today's lead "new york times" story, the pentagon is telling u.s. and afghan leaders that the untapped mineral finds, spread throughout the country, could be worth a trillion dollars. the karzai government said that was good news. >> it's very heartening that afghanistan has a very bright future if the afghan issues are resolved properly. >> warner: joining us is james risen, the "new york times" correspondent who reported today's story. now the existence of future reserves, as we said, has been believed for quite some time in afghanistan. what is new about what the government has developed here. >> what happened is that geologists had looked at this but nobody had really been paying any attention. the middle of last year a pentagon task force that had been working in iraq on business development was transferred to afghanistan. they began to look for what is it we can do here economically . they stumbled across these geological reports that nobody had been in the upper reaches of the u.s. government began looking at. they began to realize this is the

independent line, brian, albany, new york. caller: hi. i'd like to say thank you for having me on today. first of all, to address this, if the normal media -- if the modern media, like the big seven news networks, if they're out and they're not showing it to the public, then somebody's got to do it. i mean, we ran into this kind of issue back during world war ii, and f.d.r. himself decided to show, there's grainy footage of what was going on, and it actually boosted morale, boosted concern for the war effort. people wanted to participate more, to buy more war bonds, etc. obviously we're in a financial crisis, and it seems the majority of our infrastructure is based on war. it just seems that after 4.6 billion years swirling around the solar system that we're headed in the wrong direction. everything that our government is spending money on, this is devoid of our essence. i don't know. i'm just very offended, the fact that our country would support torture now, if torture was right, why didn't we do it during world war ii? host: lawrence,

>> i'm based in new york city. i live in the great state of new and i have an office in chelsea in new york city. dead crated -- dedicated crew. i'd say the core group is about six people. it stands massively to be about 50 by the time you bring in cinematographers, assissant editors, the people who mix the film, some of the outlying researchers. we employ people sometimes in different places aal over the world to do this or that ffr us as we're putting somethhng together. >> here's some more familiar faces. it's a republican national convention. don't have the year. maybe you can remember it. and some faces that we haven't seen for a while. let's watch this and get your reaction to it. >> ladies and gentlemen, the chairman of the college republican national committee, jack abramoff for purposes of addressing the convention. >> part of me wanted to give a rarara, we're all young people. they rejected my speech, and i got up to the podium, and their speech went up on the teleprompter. >> fellow republicans, i come be

faleomavaega: i gladly yield to the gentleman from new york. mr. rangel: and i want you to know that this just the beginning of the united states of america's involvement. in september of this year, in commemoration of the lives that were lost by koreans and americans and the other 20 countries that fought against communism, there will be a commemorative ceremony in seoul, which our state department will be participating in, and, again, my colleagues have been invited to join but the situation here in congress didn't allow us to accept. but mr. boehner, the minority leader, as well as our distinguished speaker, has thought that since we could not be represented over in seoul next week that reception will be held right here and a ceremony in statutory hall where the participants from the free countries that joined with me will be there with their representatives. the reason i constantly say i haven't had a bad day since and to say how good god is because it's been 60 years ago and recently, last week, at the kennedy center, the korean angels, a youn

host: this is a news analysis from "the new york times" this morning. "why have the two countries been openly defying the united states by voting against new sanctions? for the united states it was a slap in the face from a close ally prompting some soul- searching about turkey. robert gates made a note that turkey was moving eastward, a shiff that he attributed to their turned down response to join. turkey the east-west bridge, siding with the east because it lost its path on becoming more like the west." is that fair? guest: most people in turkey rejected that conventional wisdom. whether or not it is true, it is safe to say that this particular turkish government, the government of the akp, they certainly have a much more religious and islamic hue than previous governments. they certainly are more focused on building relationships and coaxing investment from the arab world. iran has invested tremendous amounts in trying to be the vanguard of the islamic world. they have supported organizations like hezbollah and hamas, but they have gotten two tangibl

"the new york times" they move forward to general petraeus's leadership. new mission for petreaus -- make his own plan work. they write from kabul -- of course, just recently, he had the other incidents where he fainted during his appearance before a senate panel, saying that he had become dehydrated. during the questioning next week, i am sure some questions will come up about his health status. new orleans, louisiana. jay is on our republican minded good morning. caller: i think this whole incident is manna from heaven for the president, because if you can imagine, down here it is a disaster and the federal government is not just not helping us but hampering our efforts to help ourselves down here. it is ridiculous what is going on in the country. the economy -- the president of the united states is not an entry level executive position. this man is not a chief executive. he is not a statesman. he has no experience. he is the most incompetent man we have had to serve. i did not know where people say did -- get off saying he is the right man at the right t

host: a shot of the president in the "of the new york daily news." the admiral is behind him, who is in charge of the clinic. he will give the president a briefing today down in the gulf. he will then make a speech in pensacola. flyback to washington for the speech tonight. tom defrank, what he says is -- paris, illinois. terry on theerepublican line. what should the president say? caller: thanks for letting me be on c-span. i've just got a few things. i think the president is doing a good job. i think he is doing what he can. it is a natural disaster that, when you get into simple problems, it takes professionals to get them done. and this is not a simple problem. i just think the president ought to say, we need to invent our way out of dependency. we can get carburetors to get five times of the gas mileage. or we can have an air impact system like an air impact wrench. you could have a bigger one to run a torque converter of a transmission. you will run a, pressure -- compressor instead of gasoline and have an air impact wrench to run the compresso

that is about four times the size of new york. can you imagine four new yorks where everybody is unemployed? that is what we have -- 30 million unemployed or underemployed. that is the official count. if you took the unofficial, more accurate count, it would probably be millions more. what a loss of productive power for our country. numbers alone do not measure the impact of this crisis. they never have, and they never will. you can put a price tag on the hardships people are experiencing -- you cannot put a price tag on the hardships people are experiencing. crushed hopes and deferred dreams resist easy calculations. wall street executives will not pay for these crimes. any measure of justice -- they should go to prison for a long time. [applause] in the bronx, where i live, if you are young, especially black or latin, you can be arrested for doing nothing or practically nothing and end up in the state prison for a long, long time. that is capitalist and racial justice in this ountry. that is the justice system that is riddled wi

the gentleman from new york is recognized. mr. ackerman: i want to thank the the gentlewoman from florida, the distinguished ranking member of the committee, for her statement and for her support. madam speaker, now is my pleasure to yield to the gentlewoman from nevada, the distinguished and respected member of our committee, shelley berkley, for as much time as she may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady from nevada is recognized for as much time as she might consume. ms. berkley: thank you, madam speaker. i want to thank my very good and dear and cherished friend from new york for yielding and for bringing much needed attention for -- to this issue by introducing this resolution which i proudly co-sponsorsed. madam speaker, i rise today along with my colleagues to mark a very sad occasion, the fourth anniversary of the kidnapping of israeli soldier, gilad shalit. if the world needs evidence of hamas' cruelty, they need look no farther than the kidnapping of this young soldier serving on the israeli side of the gaza

you didn't take it to new york because you were worried about the critics.ffected you. what are you going to do? are you going to do anything else except monologue? >> oh, no. my career continues with public stand-up appearances. melissa and i have a new show "mother knows best". >> larry: television show? >> television show. i'm moving in with her because i'm thinking about coming back to california so i'm going to test it with melissa. poor melissa. and how did you get so rich is going to its third season. so all good -- qvc, god bless qvc and my ladies. >>arry: you are a mogul. >> well, not really.

i see my colleague from new york here and i know that he, too, along with the residents of new york are terribly interested in what's happening and in our national energy policies and our move away from oil. congressman tonko, if you would, please, join us. mr. tonko: representative garamendi, thank you for bringing us together in this thoughtful way, it's great to join you and representative chu and others who will be participating in this hour of dialogue where we look in a laser-sharp, focused way at this tragic occurrence in the gulf. obviously, i think it's important to recognize the commitment made by the president and his administration to make certain that we do everything we can possible to make certain that we stay on this case of cleanup and capping. certainly shutting off that leak of that oil well is incredibly important and the cleanup in those gulf states, in that gulf area, that impacts the gulf states, is absolutely essential. to have the president recognize that we have deployed some 30,000 workers that will be in the midst of that activity helping is important, to kno

host: brooklyn, new york.aller: you briefly touched upon criminal charges being brought up against the peak. did they commit these felonies in furtherance of getting these wells up and running, resulting in the deaths of? if so, they should be charged with felony murder on top of that. guest: well, i do think that there should be a full investigation from a national bipartisan commission that the president has appointed. yesterday the president said that they would follow the evidence regardless of who was involved. and if that meant that bp and trans ocean, or halliburton, if they violated the law and is -- and are responsible for this that, they need to be held, but -- responsible for the deaths, they need to be held accountable. host: what will make this one different? guest: to my knowledge there has never been an investigation like this of such an event. the commission that president obama has appointed was modeled after the one that president reagan appointed after the challenger space shuttle disaster.