. >> he's what was described as an npr liberal, that means all things considered. (female announcer) stressless is designed to be the most comfortable line of furniture in existence. it's a motion line of furniture that conforms to your body and supports your head, neck, and back seamlessly in any position, leaving your entire body feeling rested and rejuvenated. [upbeat jazz arrangement] ♪ right now, you'll receive a stressless accessory free of charge when you purchase one of our recliners. ♪ call now... ...featuring our entire stressless line. give yourself the gift of ultimate comfort, and where better to find it than from stressless, the innovators of comfort. call now for a free catalog and dvd featuring our entire stressless line. >>> every once in a while i like to have on a couple of smart people to talk about whatever is happening in the world and what is on their minds. this is one of those occasions. simon schama is a professor of history and art history at columbia university. including oxford, cambridge and the other cam bridge also known as harvard u

the npr blog it turns out cites as a source "the l.a. times" blog. it describes "the l.a." blog as quote hardly a partisan forum except "the l.a. times" blog post was written by the former press secretary to laura bush, a man who was in fact the worst kind of partisan and he managed to write a column called countdown begins for the end of keith olbermann's "countdown" predicated on the relative ratings of this program to cnn as reported in yet another blog from a site called daily finance which cherry picked the january ratings to report that the 8:00 p.m. shows on cnn and headline news have narrowed the gap. so "the new york post" lifted from an npr blog which lifted from laura bush's express secretary's blog which lifted from daily finance's blog which left out details that makes the whole thing nonsensical. this program's ratings actually grew from december to last month by 5% at 8:00 and 6% at 10:00. in a month in which cnn did exceptional almost continuous coverage of haiti, grew to 20% ahead of cnn and 24% ahead of headline news. grew from the end of a year in which

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[laughter] i did that last week on npr and they ask me the same question and she shook her head no. it is up to you. >> that was my question. having gone through what you have been through, would you like your daughter to be in the military? >> i loved being in the army per crime of being in the service. i don't regret it being 10. i would do would again. except for the ambush. i enjoyed it. it was something i was very, very proud of and i think i made a contribution to the society in which i live. [applause] i will take two more questions than we can sign the box. >> you said you were a loan. jessica was not with you? >> no. what happened with jessica lynch common the ad and the guys were captured. lynch was unconscious they went back checking the bodies and found her alive and to occur to the hospital. by that time they had already started to move us into baghdad. we did not see lynch again until the rescue. [inaudible] ashley we were road to baghdad. i always say that. [laughter] there was a series of movies for young people. [laughter] the doctor told me your blonde friend is a

view and a father's when president obama will sell the nuclear review in less than a month that the npr should narrow the world's nuclear weapons to a core mission that being the stigma the purpose of nuclear weapons is to be toward the use of nuclear weapons by other states against the united states or its allies. that isn't a first use pledge but that is a narrowing of the role and mission of nuclear weapons in the declaratory policy. the price up for what what the final points on the president's practical agenda, the test ban treaty. as has been noted appear on the podium already, it has been almost 20 years since the u.s. conducted explosion on september september 1992. it is i think time to acknowledge that after the tremendous investments in the stockpile program advances made by the weapons laboratories there's simply no technical reason to resume weapons testing to ryckman team the arsenal as undersecretary tauscher said the military see no military reason to acquire a new military capability for the nuclear weapons arsenal and therefore no need for a new designed war for that p

. >> on the npr, we have been hearing rumors thatçó it will ba rather modest document.anything interesting or compelling? the president spoken brought about transforming nuclear- weapons. [unintelligible] you were only one of the people to support the changing agenda in this administration. many of them are traditional thinkers. really changing the postern dramatically, what is your sense of that? can we hope this to be more transformational? >> at my age it's nice to be known as new for anything. we are working very hard to deliver to the president of the options the president has asked for in his presidential review directive. i think that, because it is a classified document, speculation about it is what it is, speculation. considering the president's speech in prague and its energy and animation about this issue, i would say that this is going to be a more about document. we will have to see. >> anybody on this side? >> elaine rosman. -- grossman. i was wondering what the obama administration policy might look like in terms of dismantlement of the existing stockpile

. >> just this morning i was listening to npr and there was breaking news about google's computer systems being hacked, i guess, or invaded by what might've been state-sponsored or state-supported initiative from china. and that brought to mind the way china has limited the access to a lot of information through google. google working with china has had to limit the results of searches on their search engine. and i was wondering how you reconciled this notion of the emancipation of the minds with the limiting, limiting of information. >> first of all, this is not breaking news. industry that way in the west, at the back and forth between the chinese government and google has been going on for five or six years, and google really took a big hit, you write member, for years ago when they agree to some censorship that the government wanted to. and this continues and we don't know who's hacking by the way, but the larger picture is that there are 350 million people on the internet in china, more than any other country in the world by far. and the government gets freaked out now and then about

. >> you mentioned you expect the npr to be submitted next month. how confident are you in the march a first date that had been talked about? is there any possibility that the date could slip and could just kind of, you know, your opinion on that. >> i cannot say the date other than it's targeted toward the first week of march, and i know that the parameters are to deliver after the president made his decision. and so we're working both collaboratively and interagency with the state department and defense department, and others, to deliver those options to the president. so i'm not responsible for the day, but i said -- they said the first week of march and i expect that will be when they try to deliver it. >> i am with you see us come how are you? again on the npr, we have been hearing rumors basically that the it will be a rather modest document, will be anything interesting, compelling. the present speech in prague last april was about changing weapons, the four horsemen started in their journal of op-ed's. unfortunate, i think you are one of the

the committee met at september 2009 deadline, however faa missed its milestone to issue an npr and aplans to issue this spring. however, the past is prologue the new book of years in the making. numerous attempts to update these requirements, which were last modified in the 1880's have failed due to disagreements among faa airlines and pilots. faa is facing similar challenges with revising crew training requirements. faa issued an npr and on the new requirements over a year ago and received over three dozen comments. faa now plans to offer supplemental notice in the very near future. at the same time, faa's reviews let crew training and qualification programs like the rigor needed to assess effectiveness. we question the thoroughness of these reviews in part because faa did not provide specific review criteria to inspectors. many of whom had never assess remedial training programs for pilots. faa surveillance questions also raised concerns as the number were not relevant to many air carrier operations to moreover, some questions were not comprehensive enough to detect flaws in traini

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the committee met at september 2009 deadline, however faa missed its milestone to issue an npr and aow plans to issue this spring. however, the past is prologue the new book of years in the making. numerous attempts to update these requirements, which were last modified in the 1880's have failed due to disagreements among faa airlines and pilots. faa is facing similar challenges with revising crew training requirements. faa issued an npr and on the new requirements over a year ago and received over three dozen comments. faa now plans to offer supplemental notice in the very near future. at the same time, faa's reviews let crew training and qualification programs like the rigor needed to assess effectiveness. we question the thoroughness of these reviews in part because faa did not provide specific review criteria to inspectors. many of whom had never assess remedial training programs for pilots. faa surveillance questions also raised concerns as the number were not relevant to many air carrier operations to moreover, some questions were not comprehensive enough to detect flaws in tra

the last npr poll last week indicated that by 58 to 38, the american people were opposed to this bill why would they want to keep pushing something that the public is overwhelmingly against? obviously, the answer to that is put that measure on the shelf and start over, go step by step, and get it right. >> democrats are saying that -- things you have proposed such as allowing people to purchase insurance across state lines is in the bill that has come together in the discussions between the senate and the house. have you heard that on the hill, and do you have a response? >> we are going to have a health care meeting on the 25th. what i am telling you is we need to put that bill on the shelf, the 2700-page bill, start over with more modest goals and go step by step and do with the problems the american people would like us to deal with. >> the president wants to have bipartisan conversations. it is going to be difficult to have a bipartisan conversation with regard to what 2700-page health care bill that the democrat majority in the house and the democrat majority in the senate cannot

washington post," the head of the ap bureau, he was asked to be mccain's media director and then you have npring howard dean and cnn asking one year into obama's term whether he could be reelected. what kind of media is this? host: republican, south carolina. caller: i cannot agree what the last two callers any more as far as the pep talk. that's the last thing we need. what we need is jobs and to start with get rid of illegal so we can get back to work. we lost three job sites to other construction workers, and the job sites are going on. getting done now by mexicans. illegal in this country. it is wrong to the american people. and the politicians in this country need to stand up and do the right thing and start deporting them so we can go back to work. host: "the wall street journal" has an optimistic had lied. factories get set to hire. makers of shoes, electronics to add staff. next is a call from albuquerque, new mexico. john, independent line. caller: how are you? i appreciate this program and i love that yesterday's series about -- i love to yesterday's series about the recovery act. m

abc, nbc, cbs, npr, virtually every cable station except fox, etc.. they offered the alternative contention ignores the reality that the elite liberal media really virtually carries water for the democrats at every day. guest: i hope a lot of parents send their children to your class. i do not disagree with a word you say. i used to be a press operative in this town. if we needed to get a story in the evening, we had to get "the washington post" or "the new york times" to first caria. there was a political judgment. they took their guidance from those newspapers. it has broadened somewhat over the last 15 years. it is still in the case that the general liberal view of most of the media shapes the radio headline news is of the hours, all of that. it flows fromq the dinosaur meda perception of reality. there are few islands. fox is different. "the washington times" is different. some blogs are different. it is undeniable it is a realistic description of the white news works. host: was from wisconsin -- liz and wisconsin. caller: i have a question of wha

. >> let me say, if you listen to npr on the radio, like my mother does, like i do, you could listen -- >> well, lester needs a job. >> thanks, guys. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2010] >> the proposed jobs bill and hearings on do not ask to do not tell. after that, neal irwin stops by to discuss the latest unemployment number and a jobs proposal announced by senate democrats. later, and the knesset's future. our guest this frank morring. we take your calls and e-mails like every morning starting at 7:00 a.m. eastern here on c- span. >> a year ago this month, president obama signed the economic stimulus funding into law making $787 million available. since then, they have committed $332 billion to stay for stimulus projects. that is up $3 billion from last week. $176 billion have been paid out for the projects. a more but the economic stimulus, go online to c- span.org/stimulus. will find offense like president obama's town hall meeting in new hampshire where he analysis plan to help local banks provide more

i was on an npr show a couple of years ago and at pointed out as an aside that there were very happy free muslim societies and the caller said what you mean by that and so you pull up a few facts about free and fair elections, freedom of religion, women's rights, independent judiciary, and she says that's just your opinion. [laughter] and you try to point out these are when we used to coax. one and she says i think you're being very high -- spiracle and imposing your values on them and you realize then have the greatest fans fish of cultural relativism is that it renders arguments impossible, there's no longer reality. unfortunately reality is still out there and has a way of asserting itself. two years ago i did a quick blog opposed on the internet about a small bbc story that, r.i., the italian performance artist, known s with the back fence set off to hitchhike from milan to the palestinian territories superman will peace. she was dressed as a bride and and the purpose of her trip was to show if only you put your trust in our common humanity that all will be wow. a month later her

he has appeared on the pbs news hour, npr's morning edition, all things considered, talk to the nation, voice of america, abc, cbs, and nbc news, cbn, cnn, c-span, australian, czech, and polish tv and eight special pbs productions on family issues, but now for the rest of the story. allan lives on a farm in winnebago, county, illinois, where he and his wife betsy tend to a one acre vegetable garden, perhaps reflecting his swedish peasant roots, his favorite crop is the potato, particularly the northern red. his fellow swedish americans think he is a very funny guy, which allan admits is a fairly low bar on the humor scale, inasmuch as swedes are notoriously humor challenged, but because of their high regard for his low level swedish humor, he serves as master of ceremonies at the county jewelfest, scandinavian christmas party, where allan modestly reports, knocking them dead with his ole and lena jokes. let's welcome allan c. carlson address, will the post-family culture shape america. [applause] >> well, thank you, and it's a pleasure to be with you today. odd live enough, like profes

she is also a featured guest on the today show and npr. dr. defrancesco soto. [applause] >> as one of the new young voices in the world of political analysis. with an extensive background in democratic politics and international affairs, he was a strong supporter of barack obama's campaign and became a fixture on cnn's political coverage. what is entertaining opinions distinguished him as one of the freshest commentators in the media. previously, he was a senior aide to several democratic political campaigns. his opinions have been featured in major national news outlets, including the "new york times," gq, and the politico. jamal simmons. [applause] >> the way this is going to work is each of them are going to talk to you for 10 to 15 minutes, and then jeff is going to moderate a panel with some really invigorating and provocative discussions on the media. thank you so much. >> good afternoon. i guess this is the invigorating part. [laughter] >> and it is an honor and pleasure to be here, give greetings to my other board members and to all of you, regardless o