i think the obama administration is continuing to fight a war and it is also continuing to use criminal measures just as the bush administration did. but the big difference is that the obama administration is seeking to do that within the frame of the rule of law. it has ended torture. it has closed the black site and ended the practice of disappearance. it has committed to closing guantanamo. and it said that it will attempt to try as many people as it can in the criminal courts. but it's still using military measures as well. and as vice president biden said it has killed 12 of al qaeda top 20 people since it has come to power. >> ifill: go ahead. >> i would agree with david if we were talking about 20023 and 2003. but i think what we have seen and including vice president biden agree og to this, the second term of the bush administration actually saw a real evolution of our counterterrorism policy. we know that water boarding was ended in 2003. the cia sites were-- . >> woodruff: . >> ifill: vice president chaney said he favored it. >> even though he favored it, exactly. the black si

for the good of the nation, i hope the obama administration will alter their policy.ary tribunals are thexd bet way to render justice, when this war, and protect our nation from a vicious enemy. may god bless the united states and pl those rráqiwg to defendxdñr our way of life. >> coming up on "the communicators," brad smith. later on america and the courts, a panel of law professors on the supreme court and public opinion. sunday and "washington journal," the role in launching a new right-wing think tank. also a discussion on the federal reserve's effort in helping the u.s. economy. after that, the recent trip to haiti and relief efforts there. that is live at 7:00 a.m. eastern here on c-span. it is the only collection of american presidential portraits painted by one artist. american presidents, like portraits. see the entire collection on- line at c-span's website. this week on "the communicators ," a discussion about the future of what is called cloud computing with brad smith of microsoft. his company is asking for new rules to protect business information. this

does the obama administration plan to revisit the clinton administration policy's pdd-15?ith test readiness. cos has invested a lot of money to make sure that the nevada test site was within a range of months capable of testing, but the obama administration's commitment to ratify and the ctest ban treaty is -- we will engage the senate and work to ratification cannot go for a vote until we have the votes. that will be over the horizon, my guess is. i think there is a balance between investing in the test site apparatus and infrastructure to make sure that we don't get surprised and also not tripping over the wire, looking like we will be testing in the next month or so. i think it has taken something like -- we have never tested in something like 13 or 14 or 15 months, as long as 20 months. so the key is to find that bubble where we could make that investment. when i was in the house i had an agreement with duncan hunter, who was on the armed services committee, to make sure we were investing to keep the test site in a reasonable set -- reasonable state of readiness. but t

the result was that the obama administration was simply unable to make netanyahu and the building. at jeffrey is also right, that going to be building settlements in order to anger this administration but one thing '÷ be going on is people building settlements without the permission of the government. so the difficulty of monitoring this moratorium, this freeze or pause or whatever you want to call it will be enormous. you have hundreds of thousands of settlers and their whole goal in life is to settle. not all of them. >> the israeli, from netanyahu's point of view, they are in a pretty good place, because the larger issue is the unsettled state of palestinian politics. it's just unclear how things will play out between- fatta, who the next leaders will argument and being prepared to talk without preconsiderations but there are prektion conditions. that's another story. he can make these gestures because there's confidence that the palestinian eswon't be able to reciprocate in a negotiation that is meaningful, and there were extensive talks between the previous prime minister,7kieb

the obama administration like the bush administration had determined that the uighurs are not a threato national security. they're not associated with al qaeda. on the other hand they can't send them back to china because china our government has deemed to persecute them in novel violate the refugee convention nurse because he can't send someone back in the torture convention to please will be persecuted and tortured. the district court held that these people have to be released in the united states. probably with a sorry and now you can be u.s. citizens. you know, we're really bummed out that we made this mistake. the appeals court said no, hold on a second, as long as the obama administration says are trying to find a place for the uighurs they do not have to be released. the obama administration said we tried really hard but we can't find anywhere places. we've got a couple of palau, some in italy, no one else wants these guys and they're still a handful in guantÁnamo bay. so, to the supreme court and they asked our policy group to write a brief that would weigh in on the question w

president obama takes aim at the perception that he and his administration are anti business. what follows in this interview are excerpts of obama's conversation with the bloomberg news white house correspondent, and washington bureau chief, executive editor, and bloomberg business week editor. one of the first question that they ask him is about business. if you look at our policies, everything we have done over the last year and a big thing we intend to do over the next several years i think will put american business on a stronger footing. we want to hear from you this morning whether or not you think the obama administration, being perceived as anti business, it is the correct perception. send us an e-mail at journal@c- span.org or a tweet at c-spanwj. the entire article is at business week.com. this is how bloomberg on their website play it. president barack obama says he does not begrudge 17 million- dollar bonuses awarded to j.p. morgan chase chief executive officer jimmy diamond or $9 million issue to goldman sachs group ceo lloyd blank fine, noting that some athletes t

last year the obama administration instructed officials to replace the term global war on terror with overseas contingency operation. around the same time, homeland security secretary napolitano started referring to terrorist attacks as man-made disasters. the administration also abandon the use of enemy combatants when referring to terrorists detained at guantanamo bay.

will it be able to fight the obama administration? seven years of attempts to and negotiate with iran, it is clear they are not going to be talked out of all weapons capability. it has had one consequence. they are now seven years closer to a deliverable nuclear weapon. the time for diplomacy has long since bailed -- failed. there is no chance of economic stations diverting them from its now 20-year long effort to get nuclear weapons. our metric should not be can sanctions caused them some economic pain. for the sake of argument, come up with new sanctions that could do that. is there any conceivable set of sanctions adopted by any conceivable set of nations that wilson -- that will dissuade them? the answer is no. the most likely outcome is that they get nuclear-weapons. once that happens you will have further proliferation in the region and be in a situation in a few years or half a dozen countries in the middle east have nuclear weapons. if you did not like the bipolar standoff of the cold war, imagine a three dimensional test -- c

the obama administration is calling it outrageous. another corporate giant that the taxpayers bailed out talking about handing out more bonuses. millions and millions and millions in bonuses. but the company claims we have to do it. we're live in d.c. with the details on that from the journalists of fox news, this is "the fox report."

currently a legal advisor in the obama administration and put them together in a very big room so there's lots of space between the democrats and republicans end of an administration and ask them, pick your top three crises and walk us through the role that international law played. in doing so, think about, was applying the law, was it something that the foreign service officers secretary of state president thought they were bound by? was it clear? this is something important. oftentimes international law is simply not that clear and so cannot be binding if it is not clear? did they have an obligation to speak law to power? did they simply advised that this is the law or did they say this is the law and u.s. the president and the secretary of state have an obligation to follow this thought even if it constrains your foreign-policy object to is be the use of force, the recognition of country come the allocation of death. and finally, this was the most interesting question.

disasters whether they be hurricanes, floods, tornadoes, or pandemic influenza, kudos to the obama administrationporate responding to natural disasters despite the fact that fema is in dhs. putting in the document that responding to disasters is a response broke -- responsibility, security is important. host: massachusetts, republican, you are on the air. caller: i have a question about air marshals. my son is one and he will fly from boston to new york and he says the bureaucracy -- when they go on vacation, they classify him as an air marshal. there are only like 3% of all domestic and international flights with air marshals. it is a joke. this, and security -- this homeland security is ridiculous it is like the tsa. ñguest: i think it is complicated. the federal air marshal program has good intent which is to provide another layer of security to prevent terrorist attacks via aircraft but is it is not the be all and end all. i will say that the statistics, there is a good reason it is not public. regarding where federal air marshals are flying for it would not make sense unless we had federal a

it was not the obama administration. it was the bush administration who let him go.in the past, he may have gone to guantanamo. clearly, the obama administration does not want to do that. since we have closed -- president obama has closed all of the cia black presence abroad, there are not all of option where we can take them. that could be one reason when you ask, when you read the reports, it is the pakistanis who are in control over baradar, not the u.s.. it may be because u.s. intelligence, at this point, does not know what to do with him. host: we are talking about the capture of the taliban number two. first phone call from new orleans. caller: there is a difference between a conspiracy theory and a conspiracy fact. a theory is only a theory until facts, not to support the conspiracy. that is what we have here. what i am about to bring up is fact. what are we doing fighting that, then? who attacked us? it was certainly not the taliban. -- what are we doing fighting the taliban? they came out after 9/11 and said, you supplied the evidence that usama bin laden wa

. >> reporter: even democrats sounded unhappy with the obama administration's progress on jobs. here's arkansas's blanche lincoln taking treasury secretary timothy geithner to task. >> i don't understand it, and i guess most arkansans don't understand the vision of the administration when it comes to putting in place economic policy that works for our nation in today's economy and the economic climate today. >> reporter: administration policy would work better, the secretary said, if congress actually passed it into law. >> it's important that we bring to earth a bunch of things we are still working on up here, like financial reform, health care reform, and elsewhere, so people can plan for a more certain future. >> reporter: but republicans like olympia snowe warned the administration's plan to raise taxes on upper income small business owners would not restore their confidence. >> there is no way that they are going to move forward to job creation. who would take the risk? depending on what they are hearing coming out of washington these days, would you take the risk? would yo

we are just about to discuss the difference between the bush and obama administration approach to the crisis. so in the book you talk about something i think a lot of people don't realize, that some of the top personnel basically didn't change. you talk about obama campaign on change you can believe in but with respect to the economic team and some degree the approach is more like rearranging the chairs on the titanic. what are the differences between bush and obama to the extent that there are in the economic policy but particularly in addressing the crisis. but what lessons do to the continuity of the personal? >> guest: >> guest: there was a clear decision to maintain continuity of the personnel and partly continuity of the policies because they didn't want to -- they were afraid of destabilizing the market. the markets you is this notion of your all the time and it is if you don't do this and they held a pointed the gun at the congress and said if you don't give us a blank check for $700 billion capitalism will fall apart so they use your all the time. and so they say you have to

it was created by the obama administration last summer. mueller told the senate panel yesterday that the hig has been conducting investigations since last fall. chuck, but was the hig involved in abdulmutallab's questioning? and there's still some question of how operational the hig is. they're still trying to get it to work. that was part of that briefing last night, savannah. >> but now everybody knows the grass glossary. call 1-800-2-refill for your free home delivery. save money. live better. walmart. somewhere in america... the slightest breeze harbors immense power. the tallest buildings leave the lightest footprints. a fifty-ton train makes barely a mark on the environment. and a country facing climate change finds climate solutions. somewhere in america, we've already answered some of the nation's toughest questions. and the over sixty thousand people of siemens are ready to do it again. siemens. answers. have come home to custom roasted maxwell house. really great flavor. i love the taste. hmmm. hmmm. smooth. rich. fabulous. is it

obama for that. that was the previous administration's economic policies. that we're into today. however, it's now president obama's problem to solve and he has not solved that problem. congressional democrats have not solved that problem. that's why democrats are facing big problems here on the economic pro-front. host: before we get to that second point, we had representative chris van hollen on this show a couple weeks ago, he is the assistant to the speaker. he heads up the effort on the the house side to reelect democrats to the house. and he was saying, when squd if president obama should bring up president bush in the state of the union, he said, well, yes, because we have to remember that republicans were in control and do we really want to go back to before 2006 when republicans were in control and president bush was in the administration. and so it soundsed like that was going to be a talking point for democrats running. that they're going to say look back to before we took over guest: with all due respect to chris van hollen, who i think is one o

but i applaud the obama administration on this that they are very clear that responding to natural disasters is homeland security. and that's simply that the bush administration, we struggled with. in fact, we never were very clear that that was a key mission. host: and does the report specifically go to improvements that can be made or is it a status report, does it mix the two? guest: i think it lays out the priorities. more importantly i hope it plays a key role in the fy 2012 and future budgets. where they can matchup these to priorities. host: back to calls, francis. caller: hello, this man is very articulate and i am sure he can answer questions. the last time i called into c-span, the two guests wouldn't answer my questions. i have three questions and you it answer them clearly and truthfully, i would be very grateful. on the homeland security act when it was passed was there a midnight rider put on it to block [inaudible] children's vaccines? host: let me stop you there. guest: i haven't heard of that, i don't know but i don't think it's come across. caller: mitch daniel was the gove

cooperation from the alleged christmas day bomber -- was the obama administration right? michael jackson's doctor could be charged. it could reveal much more about what we know about the singer's life style. >> hello and welcome. the old judges at the international criminal court have opened up the possibility that the sudanese president omar al-bashir could face genocide charges. the reason is technical, but the result is political. he is the first sitting head of state to be charged on crimes against humanity and war crimes. a new decision will be welcomed in some quarters and rejected by others. the big question is this. does it make an actual trial more or less likely? >> a fugitive from international justice. the sudanese president may goals freely with his fellow heads of state at the african union summit in ethiopia. despite the icc's arrest warrant, sudanese president omar al-bashir has traveled in africa and elsewhere. many countries have supported the man accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity in darfur. they argue that ever, was unfairly targeted. af

that was in question until the obama administration looked at all the documents and found unequivocablyat this program was successful. obama had accused us of torture, said that the program did not work, and it is absolutely false. that is what my book is about. before waterboarding, clique check muhammed was defined. -- khalid sheikh mohammed was defiant. he would say, soon enough, you will know. after waterboarding, he became the most prolific detainee in u.s. custody. he ran glasses on al qaeda where he grew schematics on how they operated, with their command structure was, how ya usama bin laden communicated, how they chose targets. this was invaluable information that we knew almost nothing about when we were hit on 9/11. we could not have gotten that information without the enhanced interrogation program, and now we have lost that ability. host: tell us about the process that takes place once the drones are in the air, and the bad guys have been spotted. what is the decision to send troops in to get the bad guy, or just to send a missile in? guest: those details are classified, so

the obama administration has to proceed on both these tracks. on the one hand, the nuclear front. how to stop this program in its tracks and on the other hand, we see the administration speaking out more enthusiastically or forcefully on behalf of the pro-democracy movement. how do today's developments affect the way the administration out to balance those? >> i think the obama administration goes down a very dangerous path if it lets support for green movement take over its iran policy. the obama administration, the united states, has very, very important objectives vis-a-vis iran with the nuclear issue, with iraq and afghanistan, with other regional issues. the united states needs to be doing serious strategic business with the islamic republic as it is and not as some might wish it to be. and that's what the obama administration needs to be focused on and not give into what is, frankly, an illusion that iranian domestic politics are going to produce some government that we are going to find much, much easier to deal with. >> warner: reza azlan, do you share that view that wheth

that was in question until the obama administration looked at all the documents and found unequivocablycessful. obama had accused us of torture, said that the program did not work, and it is absolutely false. that is what my book is about. before waterboarding, clique check muhammed was defined. -- khalid sheikh mohammed was defiant. he would say, soon enough, you will know. after waterboarding, he became the most prolific detainee in u.s. custody. he ran glasses on al qaeda where he grew schematics on how they operated, with their command structure was, how ya usama bin laden communicated, how they chose targets. this was invaluable information that we knew almost nothing about when we were hit on 9/11. we could not have gotten that information without the enhanced interrogation program, and now we have lost that ability. host: tell us about the process that takes place once the drones are in the air, and the bad guys have been spotted. what is the decision to send troops in to get the bad guy, or just to send a missile in? guest: those details are classified, so you cannot talk about

i have a chapter in your call general electric, the for-profit, the obama administration. they have spent more in the past ten years on lobbying than anyone in the country and their number two as far as individual corporations. everywhere obama opens up a new policy plant, you see ge opening up the new business. high-speed rail and freight rail, g. e. rent of its business and hires a new lobby is. lended daschle, wife of the former u.s. senator who is close to obama. embryonic stem cell research, obama's going to fund that ngt starts adventure with one of the largest unsell companies in the world. you see it again and again and the causality probably happens both ways. i don't think barack obama is trying to embrace ge. and not because they still own msnbc were keith olbermann and rachel madell sing dare hull lilia songs. i think that they just see that the way to make money in the world of obamanomics is to line up with government and what does that do? it really sacks entrepreneur ship. ended stultifies the economy and it means that you guys won't have jobs when you get o

can you hold up your hands we can get a microphone. >> matter secretary, does obama administration plan to revisit the clinton administration's anytime soon? >> well, as you know, every administration has everything under review. i can't even tell you what that is. do you want to -- is this a test? you want to tell me what it is? [inaudible] >> test readiness. as you know, over the years the congress has invested a lot of money to make sure that the nevada test site was within a range of months capable of testing, but the obama administration's commitment to ratify the test ban treaty is unabated. vice president bike is in charge of that effort, as he has said we will engage the senate and we were to ratification, but not go for a vote until we have the votes. so that will be over the horizon, my guess is. but i think that, you know, there is a balance between investing in test site apparatus and infrastructure to make sure that we don't get surprised and also not tripping over the wire of looking like we're going to be testing in the next month or so. as you know, i think it has taken

it was not the obama administration. it was the bush administration who let him go.u talk about guantanamo, where will baradar go? guest: good question. in the past, he may have gone to guantanamo. clearly, the obama administration does not want to do that. since we have closed -- president obama has closed all of the cia black presence abroad, there are not all of option where we can take them. that could be one reason when you ask, when you read the reports, it is the pakistanis who are in control over baradar, not the u.s.. it may be because u.s. intelligence, at this point, does not know what to do with him. host: we are talking about the capture of the taliban number two. first phone call from new orleans. caller: there is a difference between a conspiracy theory and a conspiracy fact. a theory is only a theory until facts, not to support the conspiracy. that is what we have here. what i am about to bring up is fact. what are we doing fighting that, then? who attacked us? it was certainly not the taliban. -- what are we doing fighting the taliban? they came out

that is the way the obama administration's approach is the issues. we can already see that playing out, not just in terrorism, but in proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. we have seen, ever since the inauguration, the administration jason i ran -- chasing iran and north korea. he is waving at them and pleading with them. why do you not sit down with me? the only thing surprising to me is that they have not agreed to it. in that field of proliferation, negotiation typically benefits proliferators. it gives them a critical asset to advance their objectives -- time it gives them the opportunity as they have demonstrated over the last eight years, to improve both their nuclear programs and their ballistic missile programs. this is a fundamental lesson about a role of negotiation in international affairs and the role of negotiation in a multilateral system, as the obama administration envisions it. it would like people to believe that they have replaced a group of unilateral cowboys who did not believe in negotiation, who did not only not want to

this year it will reach according to the obama administration's own estimate, $1.6 trillion. that is a huge debt. now, the u.s. wants to bring that down over time. the administration projects to cut that in half in the next decade, but can they do that? that's the question. no country can sustain this kind of debt. >> if these countries, greece and spain are going bankrupt, is the damage being confined to europe. will the ramifications be in europe? >> you don't have to go to bankruptcy. you can go to the point where the markets have faith and the debt issued by the countries. the short term problem in europe would be almost certainly france and germany would have to bail out in greece. now, if it were to get to a spanish default threat, that's a much bigger economy. much larger than greece and portugal together, actually. that becomes a bigger problem. you might have to turn to imf bailout, which is scary for a developed industrialized nation. what this really shows if we look across the globe is asia -- we have much less debt. china, for instance, is paying down retiring so

maybe there is still hope for that in an obama administration that has changed the discourse to say that we need a country that sees itself as one country among many. the discourse of president obama had been pretty amazing. the problem is his actions have not matched that discourse. >> if you look at the beginning of what happened right after 9/11 there was an almost unanimous vote in congress to go to war. there was only one dissenting vote, and that was congresswoman barbara lee. if you are speaking about a democracy it means that people wanted to go to war. is that a justification? >> there are two problems. one is no one asked the people. you know, we didn't elect a congress in the aftermath of 9/11. everyone was shocked by 9/11. perhaps, some people were not surprised, but everyone was shocked. the notion that we elected people based on how they would vote in the wake of such a horrific act, that was certainly not the case. i think that the other problem, though, was at that moment there was widespread fear, almost a paralysis of fear. we would have followed real leadership in any

the law enforcement model being used by the obama administration should be rejected.e're not fighting a crime, we're fighting a war. and to criminalize this war puts our nation at risk. jane: a similar measure failed last year, we're going to talk about why lawmakers think they have a better chance at this time, and we're going to be joined by one of the co-sponsors of the bill, senator saxby chambliss, in just a few minutes. jon: the senate select excellence committee calling top intelligence officials to capitol hill to testify on current and projected national security threats to the united states. we are all concerned about this one, obviously. national correspondent catherine herridge live in washington, what do we expect to hear this afternoon? >> reporter: well, this is really one of the most highly-anticipated hearings in terms of national security can of the calendar on capitol hill among the panelists testifying today before the senate select committee on intelligence is the nation's top intelligence official, dennis blair, also the cia directer leon panetta

he approves of the way dick cheney is going after the obama administration, even though say approves of the way that dick cheney is going after the obama administration even though president bush has remained silent. >> and the president is very clear he does not want to get into the politics of this stuff, but the policy of keeping the country safe in foreign affairs is safe to him. when joe biden says that being president is very hard, because you don't have to work at it, the vice president, well, apparently dick cheney is apparently willing to work at it, still. what he is doing is important still. he is calling out the obama administration and raising the red if flags and making it more difficult for them to be weaker and move to the left. that is why they have had to say, look, we will fight a war on terror and not a criminal action. >> dick cheney can speak out and president bush can speak out and finally he has a first amendment spokesperson he can endorse. dick cheney did not hold a task force on terrorism that he was required to attack until 9/11. we were attacked on part o

by the way, it didn't start with the obama administration. the spending was out of control under the bush administration. but the magnitude in just one year of the spending increases is unbelievable. >> greta: next, more with senator mccain. majority leader reid called senator mccain a sore loser. and accuses senator mccain of pacific a name caller. we asked senator mccain about senator reid. stick around to see what he has to say. plus, jon stewart face-to-face with bill o'reilly in the no spin zone. this you must see, back in two. this is the card that bought the saw... that cut the lumber... that built the extra space i needed to store more produce... that she sold to me to make my menu more organic. introducing ink from chase. the card that helped make it all happen because it's accepted in twice as many places worldwide as american express. with reward points worth 25% more when redeemed for air travel. make your mark with ink. go to chase.com/ink. chase what matters. ♪ [ male announcer ] you can get a lot of water where you least expect

joseph stiglitz and his book "freefall" we will discuss the difference between the bush and obama administration to the crisis you talk about something people do realize some of the top personnel basically did not change. you talk about obama's campaigning on change you can be the van but with respect to his economic team and the approach is more like rearranging the deck chairs on the titanic. what is the big differences from eight economic policy with a crisis? and the continuity of the personnel? >> guest: there is a clear decision to maintain continuity of the personnel and policies because they did not want, they were afraid of destabilizing the market. the market use the notion of the year of the time and said if you don't do this and held their hat in hand at the congress and said if you don't give us a blank check for $700 billion capitalism will fall apart they use fear all the time. they say you have to have continuity. and obama bought into that set of notions but there are some very big differences even within that because it bush did not want to do anything about stimulating the eco

the extraordinary effort of speaker pelosi and her leadership team, and the hard work of the obama administration bill passed. then we moved on to health care. healthcare, under president obama, he was a very modest proposal. he did not want to do anything radical. he said, let's leave people who have health insurance and are happy with it, leave them alone. let's work on thoseç people who do notok have health insurance, because they cannot get it due to discrimination on pre- existing medical conditions and the insurance companies will not sell them insurance for any price, or they are working people, for the most part, that could not buy health insurance. their employers would not give them insurance as an option. or they could not afford it. let's deal with those people by pulling them together and bring them to an exchange that would give them choices for health insurance. one of the choices we hoped would have been a public option. but choices that would bring some transparency and some competition in the insurance markets. it was modest compared toç thoe who wanted a single payer system.

the obama administration takes some credit for pushing toyota to confront problems. stand by for a new claim that toyota was a little deaf to the dang danger. and it's being called a game-changing study on delaying teens from having sex. now social conservatives who have been preaches abc nerns are saying we told you so. will the obama administration respond? i'll ask the second tear of education this hour. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." >>> on it's long-standing policy of gays in the military. pentagon officials told congress today they're already laying the groundwork for the end of don't ask/don't tell, six days after the president called for the repeal. this year in a activity union address, the joint chiefs chairman admiral mike mullen delivered a powerful statement supporting the repeal. >> speaking for myself and myself only, it is my personal belief that allowing gays and lesbians to serve openly would be the right thing to do. no matter how i look at this issue, i cannot escape being troubled by the fact that we have in place a policy whic

one republic congressman says the obama administration's handling of aig resembles the keystone cops. the president's pay czar told me he doesn't see the resemblance, but we did ask him, how does he explain yet another round of bonuses? today, we asked the obama administration's pay czar, why didn't the government demand, before it bailed out aig, that they not spend a penny on bonuses unless they pay back all of the taxpayer money? >> you can say a lot of things in 20/20 hindsight. these contracts were entered into between aig and its employees. the federal reserve says they're valid. >> reporter: he took us back to the drawing board today. more than $120 billion in taxpayer money loaned to aig. of that, aig still owes taxpayers close to $84 million. which is why, last year, there was fury when taxpayers heard $165 million in bonuses? feeling the heat, aig executives agreed to pay back $45 million of that. but even before they could pay it all back, today, word of another $100 million in bonuses handed out. we've been calling aig since december. is there anyone to talk to us about th

last fall, the obama administration, instead of trying to stop the iranian nuclear program, devised anrrangement to buy the international community more time to talk to the iranians. iran has a quantity of enriched uranium, and ridged to about 5% purity that if further enriched to 90%, would be sufficient for the core of what nuclear weapon. according to obama's proposed deal, iran would take about 3/4 of its enriched uranium and ship it to russia and france. russia and france would further enriched uranium to about 20% purity and then turn it into fuel rods. these fuel rods would then be sent to iran. the iranians say they need 20% enriched uranium for a medical research reactor in the iranian capital. on october 1, iran accepted the deal. two days later, it reneged. the united states, europe, and the international atomic energy commission then gave iran to the end of december to accept the deal. in november, the united states was confident that china would take the same position on iran as the other great powers. as usual, obamas top asia adviser on the national security council was

in the obama administration, changing the name of the war in iraq. iraqi freedom becoming operation new dawn, meant to reflect the reduced role u.s. troops will play securing the country n. afghanistan, nato forces meeting stiffer resistance in marjah, the offensive now in its seventh day. now back to "on the record." whs secretary robert gibbs accused cantor of being a hypocrite what does cantor say to that accusation? nice to see you. >> good to be with you. >> greta: press second tar gibbs say you are a hypocrite you oppose the stimulus bill but you want high rail in virginia, hypocrite? >> absolutely not. listen to what they are saying. there's 860 something billion dollars spent in the stimulus bill and it didn't work i was a failure. jobs weren't created. we now know over three million people lost their jobs since the passage of that bill. the bill has projects in it that many members have worked on over the years. there's a issue of transportation in the state of virginia. i take it very seriously. ever since i've been in congress, we've worke

frank, you have taken a strong position along with the obama administration on the question of bonuses and us banks. what's your feeling about what justice needs to be done? >>frank: well there's two issues there. well, first of all, there is the overall amount, which is wildly excessive by any standard of what i think of what's just compensation but the government is not in charge of that. we do say that the shareholders should have to vote on it. the fact is, that the board ofdirectors have proved to be pretty weak reads when it comes to standing up to the ceo and vice versa. they shine each other's shoes, very happily. so we do, in the bill that we passed give the shareholders the right to vote on that, it's to express an opinion, it's hard to find a way to make it binding, but it's hard to think that they would ignore the opinion. beyond that there is a federal interest in discouraging the kind of bonuses that incentivize too much risk. they've had a situation which is best described as heads they win, tails they break even. they take risks with other people's money, if the risks p

by the way, it didn't start with the obama administration. the spending was out of control under the bush administration. but the magnitude in just one year of the spending increases is unbelievable. >> greta: next, more with senator mccain. majority leader reid called senator mccain a sore loser. and accuses senator mccain of pacific a name caller. we asked senator mccain about senator reid. stick around to see what he has to say. plus, jon stewart face-to-face with bill o'reilly in the no spin zone. this you must see, back in two. all across america there are health mart towns, with health mart pharmacies that are locally owned, with pharmacists who are part of their communities. providing a unique combination of clinical expertise and personal attention. no wonder health mart has been ranked highest in customer satisfaction by jd power and associates. see if you live in a health mart town at healthmart.com this is the card that bought the saw... that cut the lumber... that built the extra space i needed to store more produce... that she so

. >> reporter: but senator grassley saves much of his ire for the obama administration. >> a.i.g. has taxpayers over the barrel. it seems to me the obama administration has been outmaneuvered. >> reporter: treasury secretary tim geithner agreed today the bonuses are outrageous, but that didn't satisfy texas republican kevin brady. >> the administration's handling of a.i.g. is... resembles the keystone cops. it would be funny if it wasn't leaving taxpayers crying. >> reporter: the administration's so-called pay czar says that while the bonuses are highly objectionable, there's nothing he can do to stop them. >> they've got a legally binding contract that they entered into two or three years ago. they're entitled to that money under the law. >> reporter: the white house says the president is frustrated and angry over the bonuses but aside from trying to shame a.i.g. employees into giving some of the moneyback, they say there's little even he can do about it. katie? >> couric: chip reid. chip, thanks very much. turning now to haiti, ten americans remain in custody there tonight accus

now there's a new worry about another problem with their cars, and today the obama administration briefly made things worse. >>> decision time for those americans arrested in haiti. they get their day in court, but what happens to the children? >>> security blanket. counting down to the olympic games in vancouver where they are putting safety first. >>> and a force of nature who sees green where others simply see mean streets. "nightly news" begins now. captions paid for by nbc-universal television >>> good evening. today the u.s. secretary of transportation told americans they should stop driving their toyotas until the gas pedal problem gets fixed. he then about 90 minutes later thought better of it, perhaps realizing a lot of americans haveo choice and were at the moment on the road in their toyotas. the secretary of transportation then dialed back his remarks. toyota, however, remains mired in a big problem. car sales are still frozen. there's skepticism regarding their suggested fix of the problem and there has never been a bigger gift to u.s. car makers. phil lebeau covers the car b

the obama administration is eager for the public to know that, no, putting him in the civilian court system hasn't stopped him from talking. he is talking now. he is giving all the names, dates, places, who he met with, where he went, how the plot was organized, who put him up to it. they said the miranda warning is not the end of the day. >> isn't some of the back and forth about this part of the leftover fight from the bush administration about whether the entire war on terror and the change in the way they defined constitutional rights was the right step then, and how much of this is really important to prosecuting this case and finding out who sent him and whether we can get that guy? >> well, i suppose -- i think there is probably equal amounts of it. there is some very legitimate concern about whether this was a missed opportunity. the government says no, it wasn't. look, he is talking. and they say, by the way, that what got him talking again was the decision to go find members of his family in nigeria who is from who would come over and persuade him to talk. the administratio

i think what will happen is we'll see how well the obama administration decides to actually comply withthe freedom of information requests and what the a.c.l.u. can then do is you know, challenge or make some trouble regarding you know, how well the administration's complying with providing information about that. >> is there any doubt that international law would allow such, allows for such attacks, even on a third party country? >> well, you know, the thing here, too, you have to remember is that this use of force was authorized by an executive order and president obama's, you know, use of executive power here is very interesting and vis-a-vis how the a.c.l.u. is responding because it's the use of executive power that goes beyond some of what they objected to from president bush. >> paul: it's fascinating to me, i think, dan, if president bush were still doing this, would we see even more opposition to this, do you think? because as a democratic president who's doing it maybe some of the opposition from the left is more muted than it might otherwise be? >> i don't think there's any do

the obama administration is calling it outrageous. another corporate giant that the taxpayers bailed out talking about handing out more bonuses. millions and millions and millions in bonuses. but the company claims we have to do it. we're live in d.c. with the details on that from the journalists of fox news, this is "the fox report." ah, auto! sir? finding everything okay? i work for a different insurance company. my auto policy's just getting a little too expensive. with progressive, you get the "name your price" option, so we build a policy to fit your budget. wow! the price gun. ♪ ah! wish we had this. we'd just tell people what to pay. yeah, we're the only ones that do. i love your insurance! bill? tom? hey! it's an office party! the freedom to name your price. only from progressive. call or click today. we give you peace of mind. i have diabetes like a lot of us here, so we understand. compassion. patience. you'll find it anytime you call. our customers say we're number one. plus, they're grateful we're located in the us, where

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kathleen sebelius left there to join the obama administration.er lieutenant governor, a former republican, mark parkinson, not seeking another term. it's sam brownback who almost has a clear field for this entire thing. that's today's top ten, but it's these highly competitive races that political junkies will be looking at them. 11 of them. arizona, colorado, florida, illinois, massachusetts, minnesota, nevada, ohio, rhode island, texas, and wisconsin. look, 36 governorships are up. so many of them are going to be close. and they don't necessarily move in the way the nation moves, because internal dynamics will move those things in-state dynamics on that. it's going to be a wild year. winners of these governors' races matter though, when it comes to congress, because the census is coming and reapportionme reapportionment. got to move on to one governor's race that is getting wild. less than 72 hours after the polls close in illinois, it's a big mess. scott lee cohen, he's a little-known millionaire pawn broker who came out of nowhere to win the