they come before the release of the npr, so that sort of reached the speculation that the npr is goingto be used to provide cover or justification for whatever it is they can manage to negotiate. in other words, we will see what we do in terms of reductions and en we will build a strategy and policy to fit that based on what we can -- what you think about that? >> this is -- sometimes that the administration is criticized for entering into these negotiations, and even talking about having negotiations finished up with the npr will be done. that's exactly what happened with the moscow treaty or the sword tree is that the treaty was negotiated first and npr came out. i'm sure hans knows all the dates which i'm not as good at. yeah, i think -- it's not -- i believe that the npr should direct our goals with what our negotiations ought to be, rather than see how low we can get with the russians and then come back and try to reverse engineering and think what strategy can we fit into this kind of thing that we also have to be careful about talking to when the npr is done. maybe it is not sig

so, npr is exempt from all of this. >> guest: absolutely. >> host: why?>> guest: it is their own turf. of course it would apply to them in the legal sense they could not pass a law or a regulation that would impact just conservative talk radio without impacting npr. >> host: 80 you and i could get a gig on npr. >> guest: i will be there with your shoulder to shoulder demanding equal time on every station. >> host: doesn't this just strike you as absolute, upside-down, alice in wonderland craziness where npr, a government-run entity on talk radio, far to the left that protected from this kind of imposition of fairness and whatever other euphemism they want to stifle free speech. >> guest: our dear friend, alan calms nailed it. he said we have to be careful for what we ask. and he is absolutely true because and right because it would impact national public radio potentially and all other liberal media potentially. and let's face it. again, they have control over most mainstream media. their faults permeate most mainstream media, so i think they are on the s

could not pass a law or regulation that would impact just conservative talk radio without impacting nprst: i will be there with your shoulder to shoulder demanding equal time on every npr radio station. >> host: doesn't this strike you as absolute upside down alice-in-wonderland craziness where npr which is a government-run in to be on talk radio which is far to the left, paid for bye taxpayer dollars they would essentially be protected from this kind of imposition of fairness or whatever other euphemism they want to stifle free speech. >> guest: our friend, alan echols, nailed it. he says we have to be careful for what we ask. and he's absolutely true because and right because it would impact public radio and all public media potentially and let's face it again to have control over most mainstream media and their thoughts permeate most mainstream media so i think they are on slippery, slippery slope and thin ice big-time. >> host: you mentioned president obama and a little bit of a track record in talking about these issues and certainly, he's a smart politician to the extent that he w

i quote david mamet in the book about the average npr man. and he goes i don't want to be attacked again, but shut the heck up. he could not take the left anymore. he has come over to our side. i identify him as one of my heroes. it is unavoidable. you cannot, living where we live, avoid the standard issue. >>host: so you feel that is essentially the agar in which you are living or which you open your gills is pretty much left or the liberal and if you just sit still it's going to hord your years. >>guest: right. >>host: you have to work hard to get the other side. >>guest: i am often surprised that they are unaware of certain things that people on the right know all about. for example, the duke case is one example. conservatives knew very early that the case was bogus. people who live with would speak to about it didn't know. if they only read the new york times. they simply did know. there is all this talk now about the chrysler dealerships. at least i am a conservative website. i take it with a grain of salt. the chrysler dealerships that

so npr is xm from all of this. >> guest: absolutely. >> host: why? >> guest: it is their own turf. it will not apply to them. of course it would apply to than in the legal sense they couldn't pass a law or regulation that would impact just conservative talk radio without impacting in puerto rico. >> host: so maybe you and i could get a gig on npr. >> guest: i would be their shoulder to shoulder demanding equal time on every station. >> host: doesn't this strike you as absolute upside down alice-in-wonderland craziness where npr which is a government-run entity on talk radio which is far to the left paid for bye taxpayer dollars the woody essentially be protected from this kind of imposition of fairness and whenever a third euphemism they want to stifle free speech? >> guest: at word your friend alan echols nailed it. he says we have to be careful for what we ask and he's absolutely true because and right because it would impact a national public radio potentially and all other liberal media potentially. and let's face it. again, they have control over most of the mainstream media.

in the npr poll, when we tested the president's arguments, health care did better. it slipped. when you asked people from what you've heard about the president's plan, are you for or against it, they're against it. what have they been hearing? it has a $1 trillion price tag over 10 years, it's going to raise taxes. >> aren't those both true? >> i think this is a result of the president's legislative strategy. he left this up to congress and congress, what do we see from congress? very, very messy. democrats divided. plans that don't do what the president wanted them to do. bend the cost curve down. be deficit neutral. he has, i think, to a large extent, lost control of the narrative of health care and that's one of the reasons his numbers are going down. also the economy isn't getting better. he oversold the recovery plan. he said it was going to be a jolt to the economy. it was going to happen really fast. and despite the good news from the stock market this week, the unemployment numbers are lagging really badly. >> steve, one fallout from these falling poll numbers is that d

mara liasson of npr put it correctly. there is no left wing democrat who will lose a seat if the option is left out of the bill, but there are a lot of moderate democrats who will lose a seat if the public option is in the bill. that willetermine how it goes. there will be no public option. there might be a co-op idea, which is a trojan horse, which would be a substitute. >> i don't think there will be a co-op idea. that has fallen pretty flat. it would not surprise me if the house passes a bill with the public option it. and the senate passes some bifurcated thing that does not have the public option, and it is all resolved in conference, probably without a public option. that will be the big trade off, that you have a public option and you give in on x, y, and z. >> you have the blue dogs digging in their heels, you have howard dean saying that the public option has to be there. how would all be to have handled this? -- lbj had handled this? >> he would not give the opposition ta chance to wave signs and talk about soci

ra liasson npr t it coectly. there no left wing democrat who will losa seat if the option is leftout of the bill. there are moderate docrats who wi lose seats if the option is in the bill. th will determine how it goes. ere will be no pubc oion. ther might be a co-opdea, whicis a trojan horse. >> i don't think there will be a co-opdea. at has faen pretty flat. it would not surprise me if th house pass a bill with a public option in,nd the senate paes some bifurcadhing that ds not have a public option, and it is all result in congress, probablyithout some sort of publ option. --is all relved in conference,probably wiout some st of public option. >> you ha the blue dogs digging in their heels, you have howard de saying thathe public oion pass to be there howould l handle is? >> hwould not haveeld public meetings. giving the oppositioa chance to ce and waved sis and talk out socialismnd death pane. heworked with congrs but he got medicare tough congress in 1965. it w the last of thereat society. he got considerablbi

mara liasson of npr put it correctly -- there is no left wing democrat who will lose his seat if the option is left out of the bill. there are moderate democrats who will lose his seat if it is in the bill. that will determine how it goes. there will be no public option. there might be a co-op idea, which is a trojan horse. >> nina? >> i don't think there will be a co-op idea. it would not surprise me if the bill passes the house with the public option and the senate passes a bifurcated thing that does not have the public option, and it is all resolved in conference, probably without the public option. that will be the big trade-off. ok, you drop the public option, and give on x, y, and busy. >> you have the blue dogs digging in their heels, united jerrold nadler saying he would not vote for it, he said that howard dean -- you saw howard dean said it has to be there. >> 50 opposition a chance to, and waved signs and -- if the opposition a chance to come in with signs and talk about death panels. in 1965, it was the last of the great society and a considerable bipartisan support. >> t

so sometimes i do things from home in my pajamas sitting here at the microphone four npr.t right next to me is books and more books and research and then these folios is the afro-american of from 1933. these are saved copies of the newspaper from 1933 but libraries that have them this newspaper could not afford to house them that they throw them now i feel bad they let me take them because they are trying to get rid of them that these are original copies and people have put them on my crawfish but i love history and i am slow i should have thrown it out. >>host: could you open that up? >> it is very tender. march 25, 1933 the afro-american. >>host: they would just throw these the way? >>guest: much of it is on microfilm or micro fish and they don't have space for the kind of a temperature sensitive place to hold it and knoll library apparently wants it because again these are tough economic times nobody is grabbing onto these old newspapers if it cannot be stored on computer, and nobody will take it so i saved it. [laughter] >> here is one that i treasurer laurence fishbur

. >> i don't but npr had a poll and we showed the president's approval rating at 53 and -5 on healthare, different numbers but the same spread. >> chris: and she was able to get the plug in for npr. >> as i know you would do if you were in my situation, however what is happening is not just substance, in the poll when we tested the president's argument health care did better and flipped and ask people from what you have heard about the president's plan, they are against it, but the fact is what have they heard, it has a $1 trillion price tag over ten years and will raise your taxes and i think -- >> aren't those both true. >> i think this is a result of the president's legislative strategy, he left it up to congress, and congress -- what have we seen, very, very messy and democrats divided and plans that don't do what the president wanted them to document bend the cost curve down, and the deficit -- be deficit neutral and he has i think to a large extent lost control of the narrative of health care, and that is one of the reasons, his numbers are going down and also the economy is no

the fact that he never apologized to that woman's family, the fact that i heard on npr the other day,e has this great sense of humor, very robust sense of humor and one of the topics he liked to joke about was chap qipequittick. >> he was never given pass on that and he acknowledged that he was responsible. what we're talking about is the legacy of loss benefited everyone around this table and every woman around this country. >> that's an important point, which is, you know, sort of everyone struggles with the personal politician and the legislation they've nact enacte. it's fair to bring that up. conservatives lean on that heavily when they talk about kennedy. i personally am concerned with rape charges in members of his family -- >> let me throw something out there. the whole huge kennedy family, the men run for president and the women run these charities. i mean, it's kind of -- it seems to me a little bit gender-biased that they didn't -- you know, there was kathleen kennedy townsend that used to be a member of this panel who was lieutenant governor of maryland, but she didn't --

he got into it a little bit with the npr host.le dance, joe. >> throwing facts around right there. >> how dare you? >> curt andersen? i guess he thought he was talking to rush limbaugh or something. what? the government? no, they got to be out of it. as though he had base -- base-itis or something. >> i don't know. i don't know. lil we, what do you think? >> i think -- i think we should go to politico? >> isn't that something, though? he did. he gets in a lot of trouble. >> well, you know. he is kind of a shoots from the hip a little bit. >> he does. >> by the way he operates and sometimes that gets him in a little bit of trouble i guess you can say. >> maybe behind the scenes and starts the raise money and organizing and things such as this. >> if your interview. >> stop being interviewed. unless on this show. >> always welcome here. >> so who do we have got politico? >> patrick flavin. let's talk about the politics. but the politics of the passing of the ted kennedy, you eve heard whispers already, some democrats about the healt

i never would have run for the white house in 1980 if frank had not been president of npr in the 1970's. he kept needling me year after year. he loved to say that he got to be president before i did. how could i possibly go wrong. it was all will be wise advice -- with all the wise advice, he kept saying, "you can do it, ted, you can't mess." -- miss." [laughter] >> what is he like? >> he is a likable and engaging man di. he is the best center of the 19th century -- of the 20th- century. he has a devotion to really good causes. >> have you talked to him during this time of his brain cancer? >> not much. >> this seems to be a time a lot of people passing on. but a lot of big-name figures of the '60s and '70s. >> what is the legacy of all that era? >> it is hard to say. part of the legacy is good fellowship for compatibility. we all got along a lot better. maybe things move a little more easily as a result. -- moved a little more easily as a result. we would talk frequently about all kinds of things, college basketball, and foreign policy and what was interesting and amusing rather than

that 100% tax would be run to the state-run npr and if you can't pay that, that's ok, but you will lose your license and that license will then be sold to a minority group. america, hear me clearly. you must stand up and speak without fear. you carry the biggest stick, which is the truth. on global warming, people didn't speak out because they didn't want to to be seen as a holocaust denier. who wants to be called a flat earther? so they allowed harmless legislation to pass, and now we have a half a billion dollars in the hands of a communist revoluntionary who describes his job as this -- >> actually, my job is not so dissimilar than my job was before. what i do, to make it simple, i'm basically a community organizer inside the federal family. you >> >> inside the federal family? how long have i been saying they a building a framework inside our federal government, and therest is. now, because no one in their right mind is against diversity, because people will be afraid, be afraid of being called a racist, bigot or hate monger. america, you speak without fear, or more harmless legisla

that 100% tax would be run to the state-run npr and if you can't pay that, that's ok, but you will lose your license and that license will then be sold to a minority group. america, hear me clearly. you must stand up and speak without fear. you carry the biggest stick, which is the truth. on global warming, people didn't speak out because they didn't want to to be seen as a holocaust denier. who wants to be called a flat earther? so they allowed harmless legislation to pass, and now we have a half a billion dollars in the hands of a communist revoluntionary who describes his job as this -- >> actually, my job is not so dissimilar than my job was before. what i do, to make it simple, i'm basically a community organizer inside the federal family. you >> >> inside the federal family? how long have i been saying they a building a framework inside our federal government, and therest is. now, because no one in their right mind is against diversity, because people will be afraid, be afraid of being called a racist, bigot or hate monger. america, you speak without fear, or more harmless legisla

great review on npr.ad an interview and it sounds really, really interesting. >> starring jeremy, our favorite talent agent from entourage the hbo series. >> unless he is eating too much fish. >> i heard an interview with jeremy t-iven and a lot of times the actors go in disguise and sit in screenings to see how audience react and he said it was a delightful feeling because people were cracking up, rolling out of their chairs and expect a lot of politically incorrect humor. he played a car salesman. >> has traffic kris seen it? >> no. >> it is a minute before 6:00 but more importantly it is fryoayu will help you out the do or. r.atve eatnhagis angie has news in wsin ndco s hu d. se cond i it is humid. . it s one ofoftho you feel like you could swim through the air to work. it is 79 at

when cokie is on npr, a feel like i get that straight forward, old-fashioned style of reporting.ting for abc or npr, whether she is talking about white house, congress, nominations, and fights about all of them, you can count on ms. roberts to give you truly both sides of that argument with the board stated facts. as a competent -- with authoritative backs. she's extremely respected and her efforts to tell the history of politics. in her book recently revised, in its 10th anniversary, "we are mothers daughters," you'll find wonderful chapters about all sorts of women. cokie, i personally enjoyed your addition of chapter 2, which was mrs. bush. she also is author of these of liberty and founding mothers, both of which are here. many of them are going to it -- they are all going to sign their books. they are wonderful books if you have not had a chance to pick them up. last year had the opportunity spend time with accokeek on another panel in an event hosted by mrs. bush. prior to their visit, i was researching back on information on kathrin. every time you have a guest, you have t

clive edited and asked if he would write the introduction he has written several books he comments on npr and seems to have the right touch. >> host: let's divan and pick a page and see what we find and you can explain it. as i lay on dead and dying. >> guest: there were a lot of zombie contributions. there were a lot of contributions from certain authors. i don't know if i have that right in front of me but if we come over here we have people who have that information. do you have a sheet of the most seek well titles? that is what we're looking for write now. >> i do not. >> host: what are you working on? >> good digital audio in addition and right now i am waiting for a final audiophiles to come from michigan from the the studio i will prove them right here in the booth with had found the ones i am okay i will upload to the site and let all of the mentors know that the body of music is an overdrive they can pull down the file and put them on their side d&b will have the audio edition. >> host: you have already recorded the audio edition? why in michigan? >> guest: we have a great relati

npr released a poll about a week ago showing that republicans now lead plus 1 in the generic vote. and as you showed earlier, the clips, the members went home armed with a piece of paper from speaker pelosi about how to speak about health care. and it's going really badly. everybody else sees that. so it has the effect of sort of building on itself. and i think that these members are playing very close attention. >> although it's worth mentioning that cnn's most recent poll 8 out of 10 are blaming the republicans for how the gop is going. >> the mentality that rich is talking about is the mentality that got the republican congress and the last republican president in trouble. looking at the midterm elections, having the republican party say with the elections coming up, let's find out what the political thing is to do to save our feet. we shouldn't be trying to save our feet. that's the course they're on, even though it may cost them the election. >> i have a slightly different memory of 2006, and that was one in which a president, george w. bush, pressed ahead with his agenda, irr

and a award from the sierra club and his new book is a bear can cost both the will be appearing on npr to talk about it soon broker eric? [applause] >> thank you very much. i grew up in louisville and i spend a lot of time at carmichael's bookstore when i was little thinking how i wanted to grow to be a writer so congratulations for being the number one independent bookstore in the country. that is amazing [applause] we need to do it with energy with what they have done with books we need to decentralize and localize. i've lived in lexington now we have the largest per-capita footprint in the country and i want to talk about how we can begin to work on that i know you have a big one as well but i want to start by talking about the false dichotomy about jobs and the environment. in 2006, two miners died in an underground mine because because of a can fire it -- conveyor belt that caught on fire and they died of smoke inhalation a few weeks before they died the president of massey energy since an employee -- a memo to all employees to have been asked by your residence to do anything othe

>> i had been dabbling in audio because i was doing commentary for npr. i basically decided one not actually start producing some? it started with a conversation with some people at the ford foundation. they funded the initial documentary. for the last set, we have several funders who came in, including the atlantic philanthropies, the goldman sachs fund, and ford as well. >> what is your goal? >> i am a journalist and writer. telling stories is what we do. my other goal is to explore something that has fascinated me since i was a kid growing up in the projects, the whole idea of what is it that enables some people to get out and succeed and do well, and others in similar circumstances do not? that is part of why it is against the odds. it is a look at people who have persevered and done something. it also reflects another interest i have always had, in allowing people who do not normally get on the national news a chance to tell their stories, like someone from a refugee camp, or the two young ladies you spoke of earlier who came out of foster care. it w

here he is speaking with npr host steve inskeep. this is just a portrait of bewilderment. >> with a couple of paragraphs of writing we need to protect medicare you write you oppose president obama's "plan for a government run health care system." you're a veteran public policy official. you're aware medicare is a government run health care. >> look how it's run. that's my point. take medicare and make it writ-large across the country. because, how many times have we been to the -- to the precipice of bankruptcy for a government-run health care program. >> it sounds like you don't like medicare. >> wait a minute! exactly. no. medicare is what it is. it's not going anywhere. so let's focus on fixing it so we don't every three, five, ten years have discussions about bankruptcy and running out of money. >> i'm still having trouble with the notion you are going to protect medicare, that you are going to preserve this program to make sure this government-run health care system stays solvent -- and yet you are opposing government-run healt

we are fragmented, and people get their science from fox news, and some people get it from npr and they get different versions of scientific information. and the phenomenon is only magnified where you have the pro science, anti-science whic@ are equally pular, and everybody else never going with any of them. so what is science communication going to look like? how are we going to get past the fragmentation that is the whole story of the changing media for the last 20 years driven by technogil change and really economic forces tt are bigger than any one person? and then we discuss the divid between science and entertainment. why is this importa? well, first of all, there's a lot of inaccuracy. and it's not a huge problem in fictional story to have factual incuracy. definitely there's some hollywood science. has anybody seen "the core." ok. do you want your money back? the plot of this one is that the earth's core stop spinning, or starts to stop spinning, and as a result the planet is desieged by deadly microwaves which destroy the golden gate bridge. but the characters go to the center

here he is speaking with npr host steve. just a portrait of this. >> with a couple of paragraphs of writing we need to protect medicare you write you oppose president obama's "plan for a government run health care system." you're a veteran public policy official. you're aware medicare is a government run health care. >> look how it's run. that's my point. take medicare and make it writ-large across the country. because, how many times have we been to the -- >> wait a minute! exactly. no. i hate government-run health care. since you already have it, butter not mess with it, eve be though it's totally broken. ooh. strike one. strike two, mr. steele's decision to go in the same interview with a fact-free declaratory statement about what the health reform debate has been like so far. >> okay. i understand the need to make short declarative statements in order to sound like you're not confused anymore, but don't make them about something like this. because if there's one thing we can all absolutely positively, left, right and cen

look at all of the national polls you've had nbc and npr polls at 53% approval. pew at 54.e and cnn at 56. ipo and gallup at 58. the average is around 54%. but what you see is there is a general trend downward. downward. and what you see is the president's numbers kind of yo yo up and down. and they -- but the pattern you're seeing is that when his numbers go up, they generally don't go up as high as his previous highs, and then when they drop low, they do drop lower than his previous lows. so it's sort of a ratcheting down effect that's happening. he's sort of within the average of normal presidents at this point. but, clearly, his disapproval ratings are consistently going up, and he's not in a good place right now. >> do the better than expected numbers on unemployment, and the stock market gains, does that do anything to help turn this around for the president? >> i think any time you have a lousy economy, whether you inherited it or not, it's basically a weight on your shoulders, it kind of keeps holding you down. and that every month, the president's in office he beco

it is here that the trust in npr becomes an invaluable asset. a good example is the public radio exchange. prx brings local stations to new content creators and distributes content through its public radio player through closed platforms like the iohone. the content is rated and curated by an editorial staff. prx indexes over 20,000 works, most of mitch -- most of which kendeigh -- most of which can be done. public stations are moving from being media entities to becoming community hubs that uses information to foster psittacine engagement with each other and with every nation that makes -- to foster a citizen engagement with each other. their effect is to grow the public media audience and the appetite for broadband, and to tell the underserved populations there is something for them. to link communications to access requires training media makers. several non-profit programs outfit public media makers with skills and multimedia production. one such group has activated hundreds of new voices. the new model of public media is exemplified in st.

. >> yeah, kevin whitelaw with npr. i wanted to talk about the difference between the idea of bringing in contractors for specific skillsets for specific periods of time versus what appears to have happened a lot after 9/11 which was bringing them in for ongoing, long-term operations and running them often in place of government employees or because it was easier to do it or that. i think if i understd correctly from what you're saying that is what you as c.i.a. director tried to work at maybe rationalizing and fixing, sort of to the degree that you -- you know, can you characterize how successful you were at that? and i think that the second part of the question is probably to secretary chertoff but to you as well, is the c.i.a. maybe ahead of other agencies? do a lot of other agencies have catchup to do, what is the variation within the full community? >> yeah, what we did, and i'm going to be very quick about this, kevin so i don't drag you into my whole inbox, i said arbitrarily 10, and 10 plus five, but we had sign

>> listen to npr. are two brothers, tom and ray, they're also known to click and clack to those followers. they talk about all the common problems, people call in and ask questions. maybe something will ring a bell. also can you go on to their website, action hadn't publicbroadcasting.net/car talk. you'll get some advice from them. there's also twocarpros.com. they're two professionals, they answer 10,000 questions a month on their website, completely free. even if you aren't going to get under the hood, can you go into your mechanic a little more educated. don't be like "completely rip me off. i have no idea what's going on." >> i've never done that before. >> me either. >> how about appliances? i wouldn't think you could try to fix them yourselves. i'm sure it adds up. dishwashers, walshing machines? >> just a service call to have someone come in and say all you needed was a filter or to vacuum behind your refraj rater and everything's going to work great, go on repairclinic.com, pcappliance.com. the

with us, npr founder, john ridley. jeff, did you buy the apology?>> i don't have the ability to look into michael vick's soul. as far as i'm concerned -- >> that never stops anyone in cable news. >> i know. i think he paid his debt, he went to prison, he should go -- should be allowed a second chance. i would like to see less-celebrated people get second chances, too. what i don't care about him saying i want to be a role model. please. this guy is very far from a role model. he should just shut up and play football, stay out of trouble and that's all he should do. >> i want to play for our viewers something else vick had to say about his first day in prison. >> the first day i walked into prison and they slammed that door i knew, you know, the magnitude of the decisions that i made. and the poor judgment and what i, you know, allowed to happen to the animals. >> john, what did you make of him on "60 minutes" do you buy his explanations? >> well, listen. i don't mean to be too much of a cynic if he means he's sorry. is he sorry for what he did or is

he will be appearing on npr's terry gross. arc. [applause] >> thank you very much. i grew up in louisville, and i spent a lot of time in carm michaels book story, and i want to say congratulations to carol and michael and the book store for being the number one independent book store in the country. that's amazing. [applause] >> we need to do with energy what they have done with books. we need to decentralize it and localize it. i live in lexington now. we have the larger per capita carbon foot print in the >> and i want to talk about how we can begin to work on that. i know you have a really big one, too. i want to start by talking about this false dichotomy between jobs and the environment. in 2006, two miners died in an underground mine because of a conveyor belt that caught on fire, and they ended up dying of smoke inhalation. a few weeks before they died, don blankenship, the president of massey energy, sent a memo to all employees saying, if you have been asked by your group president to do anything other than run coal, you need to ignore them and run coal. an

. >> the only argument that i could come up with is you look at npr, you know there are some models,ation for public broadcasting, of course, there are some models to fund or help fund news organizations. is that something we should do more of? >> possibly. i'm not advocating -- i'm an online guy, i'm pretty safe -- >> that's what you think. >> well, for now, right? all are safe for now. and i think that we're just eventually going to have to figure this out. there are a lot of goods that we want provided that the market doesn't did a good job of providing. road, police departments, and have decided we're going to get together and make sure we have provision of them. we may have to do the same thing or maybe something will emerge and we won't. but it doesn't -- >> this is the kind of thing obviously that people say who are in danger of losing their jobs. and we are looking at a situation in which it's quite possible that every big city daily will be in bankruptcy in the next 12 to 18 months. so people have the jitters. and it's quite reasonable that at shall point down the road there

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thing is jg removed from their daily life, not reading the "new york times," they're not listening to nprot probably watching c-span 'pz unless, you know, all the'fg ot channels are81[ out, and so a l of the media stuff seems very remote to them. they're more likely to hearoqt from -- i've heard from a lot of kids, oh, my teacher read your article or my teacher did -- you know, said this or read -- you know, read about your book, and so they hear about it that way and maybe other kids will say my mom said they saw your coach on cnn or on tv. so it seems sort of far away and i don't think it really impacts their daily life, and they've got all these struggles that are right before them every single day. so i think, you know -- again, to kind of upper middle class america and a bunch of media attention would probably be a very exciting, maybe even temporarily life-changing experience, you know, you go gate publicist and that kind of thing but for most of these kids, it's just -- they don't quite understand why there's all these grownups, you know, walking around with these big sticks and wi

"the new york times" has done it, and so has npr. their reporters end up being made fun of by john stewart? what am i talking about? you've figured it out by now. here it is again, and, yes, you have my permission to laugh. go. do it. ya, ya! oh. why are those guys laughing at me? not that it matters if all you're trying to do is take a clip and show it out of context. but there was a fairly important reason for doing that story, like four dead people. that reason enough, do you think? who could have been saved, by the way, if jails across the country weren't so hell bent on having guards walking around with open holsters with guns in them. what's that? wolf blitzer wants to know more about this? you mean he doesn't want to just show the clip and laugh with everybody else and move on? sure, wolf, i'll talk to you. 50,000 volts of electricity. let me tell you something, this is very, very painful. but the findings of that report are really, really important, and i stand behind the findings, which essentially say i think most people re

the npr poll last week of those 25% of the public strongly supported what obama is trying to do on health care. 39% strongly opposed. right now there does seem to be more energy in the opponents than the supporters although the opponents ever trying to gear up, and i think it would be a mistake to simply read what's happening as a racial reaction there. is an indication there of the problem the democrats face. >> it was like k.a.c.o.r.n. on e right. insect them with sodium pentothal how many would say i don't like the idea of having a black president. >> i'm just guessing. i think 45% to 65% of the people who appear at these groups are people who will never be comfortable with the idea of a black president. >> can you venture a guess? >> i would not go that far. >> how many of them would say i would really like the idea of sarah palin to be president of the united states. what percentage? >> about the same. about the same. >> let me go to a softer overlap. how many of the overlap is between people who don't like the particular reform aspects of this, worried about rationing, costs, or tax

. >> i wish i could say i purchased and read your book purchase the but i did hear you on npr. you touched on something that may have fueled priestley and how productive he was and the difference of where things were germinated instead of a pub it was a coffeehouse? >> exactly i am glad you brought that up. it is one of my favorite site stories. talk about the flow of energy through society. it's crucial to this story priestley and franklin met at a coffeehouse near st. paul. i went there just a while ago. there's no marker for it even though it's an amazing op-ed intellectual period although there is a starbucks near so that is part of it. it is crucial to the story and to waste. one, the coffeehouse was a melting pot where people from various backgrounds come together and trade ideas and hang out and talk so franklin had a group called the club of modest wages would get together and talk politics and electricity and chemistry and anything else they were interested in and it would go on for hours and hours, and a remarkable number of key kind of innovations in british society

. >> joined the conversation on race relations with npr and fox news analyst juan williams, life c-span 2 -- live sunday at noon eastern on c-span 2. host: a vote yesterday on executive compensation. what took place? >> there was a bill to limit pay at banks, all banks, and set up a procedure where shareholders and companies would take an annual vote on the pay of the most highly compensated executives of a company. and a third provision required companies to have what they call independent compensation committees to set salaries for top executives. that was the notable thing about the bill. there was potential for big bonuses paid by aig and other companies that were recipients of government aid, and to what we were arguing about was that there would not be much of the dispute. take the number -- government money, take their conditions. but one of the things this bill does is give regulators the authority to set payrolls applying to every bank in america, regardless of whether or not they took money. and it does not just stop the most highly paid executives but rather goes to any compe