. >> in the mid-1990s, newsweek -- "newsweek" named omar not wasow one of the most interesting people to watch in what -- in cyberspace. sunday night, he talks about his current studies at harvard and what is ahead. that is on c-span's q&a. host: in just a moment we will return to afghanistan tuesday to a number of u.s. service members who are spending this christmas day in afghanistan. as you heard from general gary patton, it is about 5:00 p.m. or 6:00 p.m. there in afghanistan. we will get to our service members, marines, soldiers and sailors in just a bit. here is a commentary in the philadelphia inquirer. we're joined by a marine joined bylyle stiffarm. we appreciate you joining us this morning. tell us a bit about yourself, your machine, and how long you have been in afghanistan. guest: good morning to you, mary christmas. i am from foreground, montana. i am a native american. i have been in afghanistan for four and a half months. i have 45 days and counting. host: there'll be a little bit of satellite delay, as we had with general patton this morning. our first guest this morni

time, newsweek, and the economist. time and newsweek are completely and recognizable.i think they're going down. i am sad to say. the world of media changes, and you do not have to change with it, you do not have to track every mutation, but the answer to the political question is to do the right thing. do the right thing yourself. build it, they will come. >> i have two questions. do you agree with george will when he says there would not have been a ronald reagan if there was not a barry goldwater? there would not have been a barry goldwater without a national review. and there would not have been a national review without a william f. buckley? >> yes. >> my second question is, what do you think about christopher buckley's book? >> chris has been a friend of mine for a long time and an editor of mine. i notice that he ran forbes fyi, he was the first editor for a number of years. he also sent out three by five cards every time i wrote a piece. and i thought that is very nice to see that being carried out. chris is writing about his parents' death, and i was writing a

and senator ted kennedy. >> in the mid-1990s, newsweek -- "newsweek" named omar not wasow one of the most interesting people to watch in what -- in cyberspace. sunday night, he talks about his current studies at harvard and what is ahead. that is on c-span's q&a. host: in just a moment we will return to afghanistan tuesday to a number of u.s. service members who are spending this christmas day in afghanistan. as you heard from general gary patton, it is about 5:00 p.m. or 6:00 p.m. there in afghanistan. we will get to our service members, marines, soldiers and sailors in just a bit. here is a commentary in the philadelphia inquirer. we're joined by a marine joined bylyle stiffarm. we appreciate you joining us this morning. tell us a bit about yourself, your machine, and how long you have been in afghanistan. guest: good morning to you, mary christmas. i am from foreground, montana. i am a native american. i have been in afghanistan for four and a half months. i have 45 days and counting. host: there'll be a little bit of satellite delay, as we had with general patton this morning. ou

"time" and "newsweek" are going donw. th-- going down. the world of media changes. you do not have to track its every mutation. it is an attractive to wring your hands and say woe is us. the answer to the political thing is do the right thing yourself. build it and they will come. >> another question. >> whichi havdo you agree with e will when he said [unintelligible] and there would not be a "national review" if there was not a william buckley? >> yes. >> what do you think about chris buckley? >> he is a friend an an editor -- and an editor of mine. i wrote for him and i noticed he sent out 3 by 5 cards every time i wrote a piece and i thought, that is very nice to see that being carried on. chris was writing about his parents'deaths and i waparents'g about bill's life. two different books. >> i first read "conscience of the conservative" at 14. in the course of my life i watched conservatism ormorph and it reached its pinnacle with ronald reagan. would you agree that conservatism has changed in appearance and is that a good thing or bad thing? >> i think there was

at "newsweek," and he stopped me "newsweek," and he stopped me and said, the idea that -- i have an mba. i know all about this. the idea that a reporter would have then mba in the 1960's was an absurd. new sources create an enormous amount of pressure, not all of which is bad, but some of which is bad, to reach conclusions, to distill things into understandable sound bites or whatever you want to call them, because that is complication to get a police and the illusion of as much information as you can in a short -- or at least the illusion of as much information in a short amount of time as you can. when i came to "news we" in 1984 and started writing columns, it was about 1100 words long. it is now 700 words long. i do not want to see all of the missing words are gems, but you have to take things out when you write 700 words out of 1000 that it might be good to leave in. >> use it to market pressures. you have a circumstance now or various market pressures and all the technologies are driving the ability of traditional media to afford the kind of expertise they need and the kind of inv

i remember giving a lecture to die at newsweek -- to a guy oat "newsweek," and he stopped me and said, i have been in the day. i know about all this. the idea that -- i have an mba. i know all about this. the idea that a reporter would have then mba in the 1960's was an absurd. new sources create an enormous amount of pressure, not all of which is bad, but some of which is bad, to reach conclusions, to distill things into understandable sound bites or whatever you want to call them, because that is complication to get a police and the illusion of as much information as you can in a short -- or at least the illusion of as much information in a short amount of time as you can. when i came to "news we" in 1984 and started writing columns, it was about 1100 words long. it is now 700 words long. i do not want to see all of the missing words are gems, but you have to take things out when you write 700 words out of 1000 that it might be good to leave in. >> use it to market pressures. you have a circumstance now or various market pressures and all the technologies are driving the ability of

you saw a newsweek just had a cover story talking about how great powers decline. it starts with an explosion of debt. we have had that happen in our country over the last eight years. and we see the trend continuing. my own belief is that the american people know that we are on a track that cannot be sustained. they want something to be done about it. they understand that it is difficult for current institutions to do what needs to be done. and we need to give a group an opportunity to come up with a plan and, if the super majority of the group can agree to a plan in have come to congress for a vote, it would take a super majority to pass and the president could veto it. there are lots of opportunities for college to be fully involved. they will all have a vote. it would require a supermajority to pass. >> on the house side, the blue dog democrats, they are talking about a pay-go approach. if congress does not pay for new spending, there would be mandatory across-the-board cuts. you're not a fan of that because there are too many loopholes. but if it came down to

so he decided to review it in "newsweek," and i was very pleased to have him do so. >> i've got a clip from that 1996 interview that you and i had about joseph alsop, let's see it. >> does bill clinton have a relationship with any newsperson like joe alsop or stewart did with the presidents lyndon johnson and jack kennedy? >> i don't know that he does. i don't believe that he does. >> what did you think when you found all the letters of -- joe alsop would write to president kennedy and say you're just the greatest thing that ever happened, or lyndon johnson, you're on the right track, keep it up. does any of that kind of thing go on today? >> well, i don't think it does. i mean it shouldn't go on, and i think that most people who -- most journalists certainly and i think probably most other people who read this book will say there are a lot of transgressions here. i mean this guy is purporting to be a detached analytical newsman, and he's really snuggling up to a lot of his sources. but he was a columnist, of course, he wasn't an objective reporter who is simply giving facts, he was a

." >> in the mid-1990s, "newsweek" named omar wasow one of the most influential people in cyberspace. sunday night, he talks about his current studies at harvard and what÷head on cspan's "q&a." >> now available, the cspan book, "abraham lincoln." it is a unique, contemporaries perspective on life and from $56, a journalist, and writers. it is from lincoln's early years to his years in the white house and its relevance today. you can get it at your favorite bookstore -- bookseller. learn more at c-span.orge&ç/ lincoln book. host: ken walsh is here to talk to us about the president and his retreat. what can you tell us about president obama -- is obvious why a person would want to go to hawaii. get into that mind set of taking off in air force one and flying to the 50 of state for a couple of days? guest: he has very deep roots in hawaii. he was raised their partly by his grandparents. he went to school there is a teenager. he went to a school for the best students in hawaii. he has lots of friends there. his sister maya lives there with his family. over the years, the president struggl

you saw in "newsweek" just have a cover story talking about how great powers decline.starts with an explosion of debt. well, we've had that happen in our country over the last eight years, an explosion of debt. and we see the trend continuingr my own belief is the american people know that we're on a track that cannot be sustained, want something to be done about it, understand that it's very hard for our current institutions to do what needs to be done here. and we need to give a group an opportunity to come up with a plan. and if a supermajority of that group can agree to a plan that it comes to congress for a vote -- and again under our proposal it would take a super majority to pass and the president could veto it. so there's lots of opportunities for our colleagues to be fully involved. they'll all have a vote. in fact it would require a supermajority to pass. >> so senator, as you know on the house side the blue dog democrats, fiscal conservatives are advocating a pay growth approach which if congress doesn't pay for new spending there would be mandatory across t

this is something that came out in a piece on "newsweek." he had interrogators who came from the revolutionary guard. i was fortunate enough to be arrested by the minister of intelligence, which, at least, because of the chain murders of the 1990's has gone through a certain process of reform, so i had interrogators who were relatively educated, respectful men. obviously, the fact that i was a forerunner -- forerunner -- foreighnener really helped. there were not about to start bidding up someone who was going to be released in the near future. the journalist from "is a" was kicked and punched and also exposed to some outlandish accusations, like he had participated in six parties in new jersey, which was one of the signs of american corruption -- participated in sex parties in new jersey, which was one of the sense of american content -- corruption in the eyes of his investigators. because identify primarily as being greek and because i live in the region and also because one of my interrogators spoke arabic, we kept off on a more serious d

. >> in the mid 1990's, " newsweek's"named omar wasow one of the top people to watch in cyberspace.ded a charter school in brooklyn. sunday night, he talks about his current study in harvard and what is ahead. now president obama participates in a form on community service with george bush at his presidential library. this marks the 20th anniversary of the points of light service movement. from texas a&m university, this is about half an hour. >> it is a great honor and privilege to have millibarelody barnes. she had been at the center for american progress. she is part of the greatest alumni society ever. one of whom is on the supreme court. we note the will happen to you someday. melete barneody barnes. the u.s. special trade representative. you all know him. he needs and no introduction. and the mayor of dallas. everybody knows him. he is a wonderful friend of mine -- she is a wonderful friend of mine went to work that america online. she is now the ceo of the chase, foundation. thank you for being with us. and then a man who needs no introduction, sam nunn. chief executive offic

. >> i work for newsweek. >> well, never mind. >> the magazine is covered. >> we are very diversified. a very smart career decision. thriving business. >> well, western electronics. >> well, you are an electronic. i love it. [inaudible conversations] >> you have a new book, if i am to believe the press called "my paper chase: true stories of vanished times". you, sir, are an editor, former editor of two of the critics is peppers in the world, sunday times, times of london. you are old enough to remember the madarine empire. [laughter] and yet you don't read this book until you are 81 years old. did you not accomplish anything until your late 70's? >> i had to have a life. i couldn't very well as bring it out with a newspaper in my hands. >> very tough on your mother? >> what i spent my life doing was writing and editing newspapers and books. don't forget to every story, every night, you have to have a climax. now the climax is tonight. i'm on the colbert report. >> my book ok is available at fy local bookstores at a ridiculously cheap price. we still don't reflect the blood, sweat, te

in the mid 1990's, "newsweek" named omar wasow one of the people to watch in cyberspace.e helped found a charter school in brooklyn. sunday, he talks about his career studies at harvard and what is ahead. and now, first lady michelle obama and the ceo of toys for tots. the first lady

and this is something that came out in the piece for "newsweek."he had interrogators who came from the revolutionary guards. i was fortunate enough to be arrested by the minister of intelligence which at least because of the things in the 1990's have gone through a certain process of reform. i had certain interrogators who relatively educated, respectful men. and obviously the fact that i was a foreigner really helped. it wasn't about starting to beat up and humiliate who was more or less going to be released in the near future. but mazzio had a certain modicum of protection. that didn't stop him from getting beat and punched and humiliated and had outlandish accusation that he was an intelligence agent for "newsweek" magazine or that he had participated in sex parties in new jersey which to his sbarefwators' eyes was the most typical american corruption. i had to say that my interrogators were interested in finding out where i came from and how i had been culturally shaped. i said i was greek and because one mifesbarefwators spoke arabic and we ke

"time" and "newsweek" are going donw. th-- going down. the world of media changes. woe is us. the answer to the political thing is do the right thing yourself. build it and they will come. >> another question. >> whichi havdo you agree with e will when he said [unintelligible] and there would not be a "national review" if there was not a william buckley? >> yes. >> what do you think about chris buckley? >> he is a friend an an editor -- and an editor of mine. i wrote for him and i noticed he sent out 3 by 5 cards every time i wrote a piece and i thought, that is very nice to see that being carried on. chris was writing about his parents'deaths and i waparents'g about bill's life. two different books. >> i first read "conscience of the conservative" at 14. in the course of my life i watched conservatism ormorph and it reached its pinnacle with ronald reagan. would you agree that conservatism has changed in appearance and is that a good thing or bad thing? >> i think there was a very depressing consequence of republicans who were most of them, not all of them, most of

"newsweek"magazine has named it is as one of the 50 most people to what cyberspace. >> omar wasow, about 10 years ago, i interviewed someone and he asked where i was going next. he said to come on and i will buy you a subway ticket. i must have looked like i needed money. we were sitting there and this woman comes up to him, and says, "i am omar wasow's mother." they want to talk about you and his class. >> i had the real privilege in high school>> i was taking creative writing with frank mccord and he made anhe wrote one of my college recommendations. to this day, i think about what he said in that class. there were stories of him going into bars and being a theatrical character. teacher. telling stories and engaging us in unexpected ways. >> can you remember something you learned about writing? writing. he would ask us what the capital city of albania was. he would say that we would not pay attention to him. nobody cares about what he wants. on the second to last day, i looked up what the capitalwdç cy was and to this day i know it. he was always jousting with the class and teasing us.

"time" and "newsweek" are going donw. th-- going down. the world of media changes. you do not have to track its every mutation. it is an attractive to wring your hands and say woe is us. the answer to the political thing is do the right thing yourself. build it and they will come. >> another question. >> whichi havdo you agree with e will when he said [unintelligible] and there would not be a "national review" if there was not a william buckley? >> yes. >> what do you think about chris buckley? >> he is a friend an an editor -- and an editor of mine. i wrote for him and i noticed he sent out 3 by 5 cards every time i wrote a piece and i thought, that is very nice to see that being carried on. chris was writing about his parents'deaths and i waparents'g about bill's life. two different books. >> i first read "conscience of the conservative" at 14. in the course of my life i watched conservatism ormorph and it reached its pinnacle with ronald reagan. would you agree that conservatism has changed in appearance and is that a good thing or bad thing? >> i think there was

. >> in the mid 1990's, "newsweek" named him one of the 50 most influential people to watch in cyberspaceeated the social networking site blackplanet.com, helped found a charter school in brooklyn and explained new technologies on oprah. sunday night he talks about his current studies at harvard and what's ahead on c-span's q&a. >> former british ambassador christopher meyer testified before a committee examining the circumstances which led to the 2003 invasion of iraq. mr. meyer served as ambassador from 1997 through 2003 and authored the book "d.c. confidential," which received criticism from the british government. the former ambassador talked about his relationship with members of the bush administration and 10 downing street. in his testimony, he told members it was pointless to resist the u.s. charge to war. >> well, welcome, everyone. just a few opening remarks. the purpose of this session is to examine developments in the united states policy towards iraq between 2001 and 2003 and the u.k.'s response, and we're continuing this theme in hearings next week. i think i should emphasiz

i got a laudatory rebuke from "newsweek", but he notes that i did not get into the polk the slave owner or his personal life, to the extent that he would have liked. i think that is a fair criticism. >> and what is he doing writing a review on the book? i've never seen it before. >> i have never seen it before. >> do you have any idea why? >> i talked to and subsequently. joe alsop was sort of his uncle and he liked that book a lot. he took interest in the fact that i was writing a book on pulp and seemed to like the book a lot. he decided to review it, and i was very pleased to have him do so. >> we've got a clip from a 1996 interview you and i had about joseph alsop. let's see it. >> does bill clinton have a relationship with any newsperson like joe alsop did with the presidents lyndon johnson and jack kennedy? >> i do not know that he does. i do not believe that he does. >> what you think about all the letters of him writing to president kennedy saying that he was the greatest. >> it should not the one and i think that most people -- most journalists and most other people who read th

later on "q&a", omar wasow, co- founder of blackplanet.com. >> in the mid-1990s, "newsweek named omar of the 50 most influential people to watch in cyberspace. he has helped found a charter school in brooklyn and explained new technologies on over. tonight he talks about his current studies at harvard and what is ahead on "q&a". >> monday, expanding broadband to rural and underserved areas of the country. that is on a good communicators" on c-span2. newsday, a look at what is ahead for the new year. the rest and prime minister discusses his future from its annual culling program. austan goolsbee on the global economy. the co-founder of a guitar hero , plus the art of political cartooning. >> since august, dr. francis collins has been the director of the national institutes of health. a $30 billion budget is under his control. he is our guest this week on

. >> in the mid-1990s, "newsweek named him one of the most 50 most influential people to watch in cyberspace. he has helped found a charter school in brooklyn and explained new technologies on "oprah." >> next, encore presentations from the supreme court week's special. >> by and large, the people that cover us like their worked. as you indicate, they know our traditions and they do a very good job. the news cycle, the interest, the attention span being what it is, they have 24 or 48 hours to make the point. we write for a different time dimension than that. it is not just the result, it is what the principle is. the press does a very good job of reporting what we do. it is a little more difficult to report why we did it. i can understand that problem, because they have that 24 or 48 hour news cycle. so they have a tough job. >> this is the supreme court pressroom. on a day when several opinions have been released from the bench. in this program, we hear from two journalists who regularly write about the institution. lyle denison has covered the court for over 50 years, and joan has written

>> he did an article from "newsweek" from his home or somewhere on the east coast.on't know where it is. >> larry: it was on the east coast. >> did his article from there, and never actually went to milwaukee when i turned pro to write the article. >> larry: he wrote it elevated you to fame that people that knew nothing about golf stopped to watch tiger. he blew off the president of the united states and rachel robinson, the widow of the most important athlete and made no apologies. he didn't have to. he was tiger. no reaction other than that's interesting? >> it's just very interesting. very interesting, too, because one is the president asked me to come to mr. robinson's ceremony up in new york. it was the day i won the masters, and he said it was so important i should be there. i was just wondering if it was so important why didn't he ask me before instead of jumping on the bandwagon right when i won. that really bothered me. >> larry: did he call you personally? >> he did. i've always honored jackie robinson and know all about him, and i figured, you know what?

. >> in the mid 1990's, "newsweek" named him one of the most 50 influential people to watch in cyberspace. since then he's created the social networking site blackplanet.com, helped found a charter school in brooklyn and explained new technologies on oprah. sunday night he talks about his current studies at harvard and what's ahead on c-span's q&a. >> the commivet magazine held a conference earlier this month focusing on events that may shape 2010. up next we'll talk to a panel which includes david gregory, eric cantor and former press secretary joe lockhart. this lasts about an hour. >> let me introduce our panelists, first of all. congressman eric cantor. of course, very familiar to everyone, not just in this town, but in this country. republican whip and a busy year ahead of him certainly. joe lockhart was chief spokesman, as you all know, for the clinton white house and is now a founding partner and managing director of the global park group, which is a large and flourishing specialist in media relations, and, of course, very familiar around this town as well. adam boulton is an extre

there is a great article, by the way, in "newsweek" a month ago, cover story talked about how the taliban came back and i commend that to you if your folks haven't shown it to you. >> the idea wore concentrate on the populated areas but having force available to go into the less populated area to dismantle and -- >> that's correct, sir. in fact, we actually will be increasing our counterterrorist component of the overall strategy as well and general mcchrystal may want to talk to you a little bit about that during the closed session as well. no question, you got to kill or capture those bad guys that are not reconcilable. and we are intending to do that. and we will have additional national mission force elements to do that when the spring rolls around. >> have you thought about a strategic forces agreement with afghanistan? >> we have an agreement which covers the status of our forces, not formally called the status of forces agreement. and at this time, senator, we're comfortable with the arrangements that we have. >> secretary lew, 388 civilians outside of kabul by the end of the year.

last spring, jon meacham, the legal editor at newsweek, hailed burke as a role model for our times, a complex pragmatic figure, he said, who distrusted absolutes and who might be an antidote to the pervasive spirit of division in today's america. more recently, meacham has been claimed barack obama the most significant burkey and in american politics today. meanwhile, david brooks of "the new york times" has reported that when he had a meeting last spring with president obama's senior adviser, david off the iraq, mr. axelrod was conspicuously carrying a copy of edmund burke's reflections on the revolution in france. sam tanenhaus has taken it further. in the death of conservatism, he distinguishes between what he calls burkey and realists, the good guys in his formulation, committed he says to flexible adjustments, to changing conditions are and knows he excoriates as revanchists. ideologues seeking a destructive counterrevolution. according to him, the american conservative movement is dominated by extremist revanchists who have betrayed burkeians moderation for a politics of the sta

. >> in the mid 1990's "newsweek name to -- "newsweek" named him an important person. he talks about his current studies at harvard and what is ahead. >> now available, "abraham lincoln" a great read for any history buff. it is a unique perspective on abraham lincoln from $56. from his early years to his life in the white house. it is in hard cover at your favorite bookseller and now in digital audio, available where digital audio down the source told. learn more at c-span.org. >> queen elizabeth's annual christmas message. she talks about the war in afghanistan where 106 british soldiers were killed this year. she also talks about the commonwealth group of countries that celebrated the 60th anniversary. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> each year that passes seems to have its own character. some leave us with a feeling of satisfaction, others are best forgotten. 2009 was a difficult year for many, particularly those facing the effects of the economic downturn. i am sure we have all been affected by events in afghanistan and saddened by casualties suffered by our forces serving there. [bell

the second point is, yes, as robert samuelson would love to point out in "newsweek," it is true, though a lot of countries and people have said they want to cut their emissions by 60 or 80%. just because of honest people want to cut 60 or 80% doesn't mean it's going to happen. had this conversation for the longest. the start of legislation that was going to save the -- great britain was going to cut their emissions by 60%. this is all just a grand gesture in because essentially the politicians are saying we will let the next generation or three generations down the line. a lot of the backbenchers cleverly said, it doesn't take a genius to say if you want to cut 50 to 60% by 2050 we should cut 3% every year. it's actually that much. there was a political bargaining. the main point is that everyone got really, really worried because, no, no. we don't actually what this to happen. the whole government panicked and eventually they got it written into, we are going to do this in five years. the next five years really going to make an effort. and then another five years they will realize, thi

this is something that came out in a piece on "newsweek."e had interrogators who came from the revolutionary guard. i was fortunate enough to be arrested by the minister of intelligence, which, at least, because of the chain murders of the 1990's has gone through a certain process of reform, so i had interrogators who were relatively educated, respectful men. obviously, the fact that i was a forerunner -- forerunner -- foreighnener really helped. there were not about to start bidding up someone who was going to be released in the near future. the journalist from "is a" was kicked and punched and also exposed to some outlandish accusations, like he had participated in six parties in new jersey, which was one of the signs of american corruption -- participated in sex parties in new jersey, which was one of the sense of american content -- corruption in the eyes of his investigators. because identify primarily as being greek and because i live in the region and also because one of my interrogators spoke arabic, we kept off on a more serious dis

this is the cover of "newsweek". the polar bear got itself, with a lot of effort on the part of the bears and, by the way, a lot of objections from sarah palin, got itself listed as an endangered species which means you cannot shoot them in the united states. people can shoot them in canada and in russia and greenland, and you can't shoot them in america. that's what the -- you can't even bring in carcasses or souvenirs of the polar bear that you shot somewhere else. you can't bring them into the united states. now i'm going to show you a little story. i met somebody in the audience know who was on this very trip that i'm about to tell you about. we were on the ship in the background, a russian ice breaker, and those of you who saw there was a russian ice breaker stranded in the arctic, in the antarctic, i'm sorry, a couple of weeks ago was the sister ship of this one. and it looks very much like this, like a block of flats on a discharge as somebody said. it's not a particularly graceful ship, and we were all -- we

and that's from "newsweek." and here's a chart they put in their expert scientific article and it's entitled -- i think it's nice they put it in the nice blue color and it shows that the average temperatures are getting colder and colder. april 28, 1978. and like i said, madam speaker, i believed we were all going to freeze in the dark. scientists told us that we were going to freeze in the dark because of the weather patterns. climates do change, madam speaker. in the 1970's it was getting cooler. they say it's getting warmer. climates do change. that's what seasons are. most of us in the north have seasons. in houston we have two seasons. we have summer and we have august. other than that the seasons change in most parts of the world. they get warm, they get cold. and we are going to try to trust the world's climate prediction to a group of people from the 1970's and now 2000 to a group of people who can't even predict correctly tomorrow's weather. you know, people in the weather industry are the only people i

here is "newsweek's" cover story from december 8, 2009. i note paraphernalia theyically that december 8 -- paraphernalia theycally that december 8 is pearl harbor day. the cover is entitled "how great powers fall ". steep debt, slow growth and high spending kill empires, and america could be next. if you go inside the magazine and read the article, this is one paragraph. this is how empires decline. it begins with a debt explosion. it ends with an inexorable reduction in the resources available for the army, navy and air force. if the united states does not come up soon with a credible plan to restore the federal budget to balance over the next five to 10 years, the danger is very real that a debt crisis could lead to a major weakening of american power. we can't allow that to happen. the dead explosion in our country has already begun. the chairman referenced it as did senator voinovich, as did senator collins. under one 10-year scenario, gross federal debt could rise to 114% above our gross domestic product by 2019. that is approaching t

and the "newsweek" cover said this, "how great powers fall." steep debt, slow growth, and high spending kill empires and america could be next. when you went inside the story, it said this. this is how empires decline. it begins with a debt explosion. it ends with an inexorable reduction in the resources available for the army, navy, an air force. if the united states doesn't come up soon with a credible plan to restore the federal budget to balance over the next five to 10 years, the danger is very real that a debt crisis could lead to a major weakening of american power. mr. president, i don't know what could be more clear. here's what's happened since 2001. and, again, most of this is on the -- the shoulders, the responsibility of the previous administration. because the debt absolutely skyrocketed under their watch. but it is continuing to grow. and it must be faced up to. mr. president, what's more alarming is the longer-term outlook on the trend that we're on the debt which will reach over 100% of the gross domestic product by 2019 is sch

in the mid '90's, newsweek named omar wasow as the one to watch for cyberspace. he has explained new technologies on oprah. sunday night he talks about his current studies at harvard and what's ahead on c-span's "q&a". tomorrow on "news makers" national institutes of health director dr. francis collins on the latest developments in stem cell research, the future of genome technology and how nih may be affected by the healthcare bill making its way through congress. dr. collins interviewed by reporters from usa today and cq weekly.com. it airs at 6:00 a.m. and 10:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. >> good morning, everyone. today the judiciary committee is holding a second hearing on real authorize ition on the groundbreaking justice for all act, and the justice for all act includes the debbie smith rape kit reduction act, authorizing significant funding to reduce the backlog of untested rape kits so victims do not have to live in fear and we have seen this happening around the country. now we're going to examine some disturbing reports that despite the important progress

i remember giving a lecture to a guy at "newsweek" about ten years ago on depreciation. mr.reciate this. and he stopped me in midflight, and he said, i have an mba, i know about all of this. and the idea that a reporter would have an mba in the 1960s was just absurd. [laughter] but the multiplicity of information sources, news sources or whatever creates an enormous amount of pressure -- not all of which is bad, but some of which is bad -- to reach conclusions, to distill things into understandable sound bytes or whatever you want to call them because that, there's a competition to get at least the illusion of as much information in as short a period of time as you possibly can. so there's this consistent pressure that operates on everybody, and you see it in the shortening of things. when i came to "newsweek" in 1984 and started writing a column, it was about 1100 words long. it's now 700 words long. and i don't want to say that all those missing words were gems, but you have to take stuff out when you write at 700 and not at 900 or a thousand that might be good to leave in

next we've robert sam uleson, contributing editor at "newsweek" and "the washington post" where he has written about business and economic issues since 1977. his articles have appeared in the wall street journal, "new york times" and other papers. his latest book is on the past and future of american avenue will youence, in case you are wondering about a holiday gifment paul solomon is occasional correspondent for the pbs news hour. he answers questions on the business desk. recently he has become a fellow at yale's berkeley college and for those of you who were why our discussions this afternoon you know that he was a loud -- lovely moderator in the panel that just preceded dinner the with that i'm going to turn to bob franken and ask that he cuck the discussion on has the financial crisis changed the nature of economic news in bob? >> governor balile, commissioner kaplan, president jefferson, other slightly less notable lights who are here, first of all i'll make a deal with you, no jokes about tiger woods or the salahis. but they do make a point and the point is that people are almo

. >> in the mid-1990s, newsweek named omar wasow one of the most interesting people to watch in cyberspaceince then, he has helped found a charter school in brooklyn and explain the new technologies on oprah. sunday night he talks about his current cities and what is ahead on c-span's q&a. >> "washington journal" continues. host: brigadier-general gary patton is the deputy for the combined security transition command in afghanistan. we do want to let folks know we are going along distance to get this signal from afghanistan, so there may be a bit of delay both in the general's response and your phone calls. general gary patton, thank you for joining us this morning. guest: bill, thank you for having me. and from everyone on our end, all our service members, and merry christmas to everyone back there in the united states. thank you for having me on your show today. host: why don't we start with some essentials and what do you tell us where you are and the primary michigan -- the primary mission of your group in afghanistan? guest: sure thing, it is 5:00 p.m. christmas day. we aren't in kabu

here is "newsweek's" cover story from december 8, 2009.hernalia theyically that december 8 -- paraphernalia theycally that december 8 is pearl harbor day. the cover is entitled "how great powers fall ". steep debt, slow growth and high spending kill empires, and america could be next. if you go inside the magazine and read the article, this is one paragraph. this is how empires decline. it begins with a debt explosion. it ends with an inexorable reduction in the resources available for the army, navy and air force. if the united states does not come up soon with a credible plan to restore the federal budget to balance over the next five to 10 years, the danger is very real that a debt crisis could lead to a major weakening of american power. we can't allow that to happen. the dead explosion in our country has already begun. the chairman referenced it as did senator voinovich, as did senator collins. under one 10-year scenario, gross federal debt could rise to 114% above our gross domestic product by 2019. that is approaching the 100% above

"time" and "newsweek" are going donw. th-- going down. the world of media changes.you do not have to track its every mutation. it is an attractive to wring your hands and say woe is us. the answer to the political thing is do the right thing yourself. build it and they will come. >> another question. >> whichi havdo you agree with e will when he said [unintelligible] and there would not be a "national review" if there was not a william buckley? >> yes. >> what do you think about chris buckley? >> he is a friend an an editor -- and an editor of mine. i wrote for him and i noticed he sent out 3 by 5 cards every time i wrote a piece and i thought, that is very nice to see that being carried on. chris was writing about his parents'deaths and i waparents'g about bill's life. two different books. >> i first read "conscience of the conservative" at 14. in the course of my life i watched conservatism ormorph and it reached its pinnacle with ronald reagan. would you agree that conservatism has changed in appearance and is that a good thing or bad thing? >> i think there was

in the mid '90's, newsweek named omar wasow as the one to watch for cyberspace. he has explained new technologies on oprah. sunday night he talks about his current studies at harvard and what's ahead on c-span's "q&a". tomorrow on "news makers" national institutes of health director dr. francis collins on the latest developments in stem cell research, the future of genome technology and how nih may be affected by the healthcare bill making its way through congress. dr. collins interviewed by reporters from usa today and cq weekly.com. it airs at 6:00 a.m. and 10:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. >> good morning, everyone. today the judiciary committee is holding a second hearing on real authorize ition on the groundbreaking justice for all act, and the justice for all act includes the debbie smith rape kit reduction act, authorizing significant funding to reduce the backlog of untested rape kits so victims do not have to live in fear and we have seen this happening around the country. now we're going to examine some disturbing reports that despite the important progress

. >> in the mid 1990's "newsweek name to -- "newsweek" named him an important person. he talks about his current studies at harvard and what is ahead. >> now available, "abraham lincoln" a great read for any history buff. it is a unique perspective on abraham lincoln from $56. from his early years to his life in the white house. it is in hard cover at your favorite bookseller and now in digital audio, available where digital audio down the source told. learn more at c-span.org. >> queen elizabeth's annual christmas message. she talks about the war in afghanistan where 106 british soldiers were killed this year. she also talks about the commonwealth group of countries that celebrated the 60th anniversary. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> each year that passes seems to have its own character. some leave us with a feeling of satisfaction, others are best forgotten. 2009 was a difficult year for many, particularly those facing the effects of the economic downturn. i am sure we have all been affected by events in afghanistan and saddened by casualties suffered by our forces serving there. [bell

damage in the mid-1990s, newsweek named him one of the most 50 was influential people to watch in cyberspace. since then, he has created black planet.com, created a charter school in brooklyn, and he talks on what is ahead on c-span's q &a. >> president obama address the sacrifices made by troops overseas. they are followed by duncan hunter with the republican spots. with the republican response. this is about 10 minutes. >> hello, everyone, and merry christmas. as you and your families gather to celebrate the holidays, we want to take a moment to send greetings from our family, from may, michelle, malia, sasha, and from bo. >> this is our first christmas and the white house and we're so grateful for this extraordinary area. not far from here in the blue room is the official white house christmas tree. it is an 18-foot tall douglas fir from west virginia, decorated with hundreds of ornaments decorated by people all of the country, each a reminder of the traditions we cherish as americans and the blessings we are thankful for this holiday season. >> that is right, especially as we continue to

. >> in the mid 1990's, " newsweek's"named omar wasow one of the top people to watch in cyberspace.ded a charter school in brooklyn. sunday night, he talks about his current study in harvard and what is ahead. now president obama participates in a form on community service with george bush at his presidential library. this marks the 20th anniversary of the points of light service movement. from texas a&m university, this is about half an hour. >> it is a great honor and privilege to have millibarelody barnes. she had been at the center for american progress. she is part of the greatest alumni society ever. one of whom is on the supreme court. we note the will happen to you someday. melete barneody barnes. the u.s. special trade representative. you all know him. he needs and no introduction. and the mayor of dallas. everybody knows him. he is a wonderful friend of mine -- she is a wonderful friend of mine went to work that america online. she is now the ceo of the chase, foundation. thank you for being with us. and then a man who needs no introduction, sam nunn. chief executive offic

and that the senator from georgia would go back a few weeks then read newsweek magazine, one of theirters was captured in tehran and held in captivity for almost four months. he told a story about how he was first incarcerated in a prison and pay one. as he arrives his jailer said welcome to abu ghraib and guantÁnamo, american. so for us to believe that the rest of the world doesn't have a negative image of guantÁnamo and that it isn't being used against our troops is to ignore the obvious. there are some in this body who are hidebound to keep guantÁnamo open at any cost. i will tell you the cost is too high. if the continuation of guantÁnamo means danger to our troops, we elected them to close it. the president has reached that conclusion. people in charge of national security have reached that conclusion and we should as well. and then there's this notion about the danger of incarcerating terrorists in the united states. for the record, over 350 convicted terrorists are currently and present in the united states. all over the united states. in my own state of illinois 35 convicted t

chairman conrad already noted the december 7 issue of "newsweek" i noted he took out the part that saidcheney in 2012 on the top of it, but-dirnl' not going to comment on that. but in any event it was pretty clear and compelling. that article is an outstanding article. i think it's important that we can still change course. we can be the first republic to stand the test of time. but we have to change course. because we will not succeed unless we do. theodore roosevelt recognized that sometimes you have to do things differently, you need dramatic and fundamental reforms, you need to engage in movement politics. i think that's where we are here today. roosevelt recognized that the necessities of time and challenges that we face sometimes require breaking out of normal party structures, normal legislative processes in order to leap forward. that's where we are today. at the party g. partyson foundation which i'm honored to head, we have been engaging in a variety of citizen education engagement efforts, and this represents the results of the latest statistically valid public opinion survey

very interesting, and i hope we will talk some today about his experience and compare that to the "newsweek" correspondent who just came out i guess after almost four months of detention. they were in the same prison, came in about the same time and had different experiences. after iason cannot, he continued to cover the story in iran. i think that his perspective on trends in iran and looking at the media coverage and how the media function in a situation where first they were under extraordinary restrictions as to where they could go, what they could do in the immediate aftermath of the election, and then, you had people being arrested, and most of the foreign journalists being taken out of the country so that there were not able to report firsthand. how the report on the situation as it unfolds in that circumstance? so i think we will begin with iason to talk through the experiences that he had and his perspective on iran today, and then we will turn to barbara, also brings tremendous background on the subject to get her perspective as well, and then we'll open it up, i hope, to q&a. >>

"time" and "newsweek" are going donw. th-- going down. the world of media changes. you do not have to track its every mutation. it is an attractive to wring your hands and say woe is us. the answer to the political thing is do the right thing yourself. build it and they will come. >> another question. >> whichi havdo you agree with e will when he said [unintelligible] and there would not be a "national review" if there was not a william buckley? >> yes. >> what do you think about chris buckley? >> he is a friend an an editor -- and an editor of mine. i wrote for him and i noticed he sent out 3 by 5 cards every time i wrote a piece and i thought, that is very nice to see that being carried on. chris was writing about his parents'deaths and i waparents'g about bill's life. two different books. >> i first read "conscience of the conservative" at 14. in the course of my life i watched conservatism ormorph and it reached its pinnacle with ronald reagan. would you agree that conservatism has changed in appearance and is that a good thing or bad thing? >> i think there was

." >> in the mid-1990s, "newsweek" named omar wasow one of the most influential people in cyberspace.unday night, he talks about his current studies at harvard and what÷head on cspan's "q&a." >> now available, the cspan book, "abraham lincoln." it is a unique, contemporaries perspective on life and from $56, a journalist, and writers. it is from lincoln's early years to his years in the white house and its relevance today. you can get it at your favorite bookstore -- bookseller. learn more at c-span.orge&ç/ lincoln book. host: ken walsh is here to talk to us about the president and his retreat. what can you tell us about president obama -- is obvious why a person would want to go to hawaii. get into that mind set of taking off in air force one and flying to the 50 of state for a couple of days? guest: he has very deep roots in hawaii. he was raised their partly by his grandparents. he went to school there is a teenager. he went to a school for the best students in hawaii. he has lots of friends there. his sister maya lives there with his family. over the years, the president struggled