>> that is not her official name. her official name is loading. but she is a bright and sunny baby. she is a suite. >> how old is your brother? >> two. they are twins. they are great. we are so lucky. they are healthy. they are smart. very smart. my daughter is smart as a whip. just watching them grow has been a tremendous honor. >> back to some more issues. in 2007, wrote about the imus fallout and lessons for black america. >> i can always tell about how things are going in racial issues by media schedule. when i am doing a lot of television, that means that something is going on. again, we only talk about race when there is a crisis. he said some ridiculous things on television. we had this conversation while the dust was still on the air and then when the dust settles, we go on to something else. >> let me do a brief analysis and get your reaction. >> the rev. al sharpton goes after him. cbs fires him. they have to pay him of some $20 million. he is now back on television and back on the radio and problem has multi-year contracts. what did we game? >> nothing. nothing. he sat ou

civilian components together with the military, just one quick note, for example, a great aid official named don laberry, the equivalent of the division commander of the great 82nd airborne division regional command east, and they are partners and we have tried to establish what is not necessarily a civilian chain f command, if you will, but what do you call it? it is a line of -- >> a unity of civilian effort. >> that helps to achieve unity of overall effort. that's the effort in the reintegration arena and then separate from that is this community defense initiative where we put small special forces units literally in the villages and helping to develop conditions that enable the local individuals to defend themselves and be linked to a district or subdistrict, quick reaction force and then on up the line. >> thank you very much. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i want to echo everybody else's comments about thanking you for your service. and i've been to iraq and afghanistan twice this year. and i'm totally inarticulate to express the courage, the intelligence and the motivation of the troops

it has an official name. i'm going to call it kennedy care, and i hope some others will, too, because we do it because of the inspiration of a great friend, a great senator, and a great statesman, edward kennedy who i'm sorry can't be here to enjoy this historic moment, but he led us to this moment and he -- as he said in one of his last columns that he wrote about health care, we're almost there, and in four hours, we'll be there. mr. president, i yield the floor. mr. harkin: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from iowa. mr. harkin: mr. president, first of all, i want to commend senator durbin for his great leadership. he is our assistant majority leader, and for all of his handiwork on this bill. he has been one of our strongest proponents for making coverage more affordable for small businesses. and he just spoke about that. in fact, under the manager's amendment, we have expanded even more than what we did in the original bill credits for small businesses. these credits now start in 2010, t

he changed his name allegedly to reduce scrutiny by immigration and customs officials while travelings is a test case. what can be done to try to avoid, to block this kind of name change being used as a way to avoid being on a watch list or being picked up by hopes of other terrorist-blocking system. you get my point -- to what extent can an individual like this make a harder for him to be picked up by changing his name to an american or english sounding name? >> that's difficult because i'm in a difficult position about commenting on a particular case. i find challenges in my particular position because it is truly a balancing act. it's a balancing act between safeguarding civil liberties and protecting the american people. the best we can do is keep driving the intelligence and working intelligence as much as we can to get the information. i don't know how else you could do it. >> does anyone else have a response? >> i agree that this is a challenge. those that are seeking to do harm are constantly hearing what we are giving, watching what we're doing, and adapting to it. said chang

. >> it's official, here is my pit pass and my name on it. if anything happens, put it in my meme mores. >> are now a semiprofessional race car driver. and maybe by the end of the day it will make you professional. >> it's that time. got to go put on my uniform and when i come back i will be a full fledged driver, i hope. >> hey, buddy. thank you very much. >> make no mistake, if anything happens to me, you have to explain it to my wife. >> me and your wife have it worked out. >> is that why the insurance papers are out this morning? >> i'm moving right in. >> all right. here we go. more laps. my man don new berger. >> that was a tip, for us doing 120 miles per hour going into that first turn, you feel it. you feel it. and that was fun. that was fun. >> i can't wait to do it myself just to see what it will feel like being on the left side of it and being on the right side of it, that was a rush. that was a rush, man. that was a rush. wow! >> all right, man. let's do this. >> it will be all right. it will be all right. >> we are ready. i am re

one law official tells me that the names of none of these young men had shown up on their radar before. the names of the individuals were passed on to pakistani authorities as persons of interest and then we have the arrests in pakistan. the pakistani authorities are definitive that indeed the young men they picked up were the men missing from virginia. they say they tried to hook up with terrorist groups in pakistan but were not successful in doing so. the u.s. officials are not going that far. their operating belief is that these are the five young men from northern virginia but they cannot confirm that information at this point in time. and they underline that at this point no charges have been filed against anyone. >> larry: do the parents know that the boys were going overseas? >> from what i understand, they were concerned about this. and there was a video left behind by one of the young men. as it's been described by some of the individuals you'll be talking to here tonight, it was a very disturbing video. and that there were hints in there that these young men were going somewh

. >> it's official, here is my pit pass and my name on it. if anything happens, put it in my meme mores. >> are now a semiprofessional race car driver. and maybe by the end of the day it will make you professional. >> it's that time. got to go put on my uniform and when i come back i will be a full fledged driver, i hope. >> hey, buddy. thank you very much. >> make no mistake, if anything happens to me, you have to explain it to my wife. >> me and your wife have it worked out. >> is that why the insurance papers are out this morning? >> i'm moving right in. >> all right. here we go. more laps. my man don new berger. >> that was a tip, for us doing 120 miles per hour going into that first turn, you feel it. you feel it. and that was fun. that was fun. >> i can't wait to do it myself just to see what it will feel like being on the left side of it and being on the right side of it, that was a rush. that was a rush, man. that was a rush. wow! >> all right, man. let's do this. >> it will be all right. it will be all right. >> we are ready. i am re

. >> it's official, here is my pit pass and my name on it. happens put it in my meme mores. >> are now a semiprofessional race car driver. and maybe by the end of the day it will make you professional. >> it's that time. got to go put on my uniform and when i come back i will be a full fledged driver, i hope. >> hey, buddy. thank you very much. >> make no mistake, if anything happens to me, you have to explain it to my wife. >> me and your wife have it worked out. >> is that why the insurance papers are out this morning? >> i'm moving right in. >> all right. here we go. more laps. my man don new berger. >> that was a tip, for us doing 120 miles per hour going into that first turn, you feel it. you feel it. and that was fun. that was fun. >> i can't wait to do it myself just to see what it will feel like being on the left side of it and being on the right side of it, that was a rush. that was a rush, man. that was a rush. wow! >> all right, man. let's do this. >> it will be all right. it will be all right. >> we are ready. i am ready. all of t

official dinner, you do get a formal invitation. it's beautifully elaborate in a large envelope with a handwritten printing of your names. did she ever tell you she had that? >> larry, as far as i know, she did say she was officially invited to the state dinner, however, i never did see the invitation. but i know she had correspondence with the white house social secretary about the proper attire she should wear as she was trying to decide about the dress and the color and if this was the proper attire to wear. i know there was correspondence with people that definitely knew she was attending and had her on some type of list. and i spoke to her and she said that they went through the proper security. they showed their passports and i.d.s and there was never a doubt they weren't suppose to be there. >> larry: i was just imagining, matthew, if shawn and i went to a state dinner and we didn't have an invitation but i went, what do you think they would do? >> you're larry king. >> larry: and if my wife didn't see the invitation she'd club me over the head. >> that's right. >> larry: they would probably let us in maybe or what

states back to their points of origin in europe when it was learned by dhs officials that somebody on the plane manifest had a name that was apparently connected to terrorism. what i don't understand in this case is if in fact -- whether he was on a list or not, if somebody knew apparently that this fellow had known terrorism tie, why was he allowed to stay on a plane that was bound for the united states? the second issue what we've been discussing for a number of hours is exactly how this incendiary device made its way past airport screeners. we don't know whether he had it with him when he boarded the flight in nigeria. if he did, that's somewhat understandable since nigeria is known for having lax aviation security. he ought to have been rescreened once he boarded the flight in amsterdam, especially since that flight was bound for the united states. that should have happened. if it did happen, why wasn't the device discovered then? if it wasn't discovered, it certainly should have been. it also points out, by the way, that there are a number of things that can be detected. we're not very good at detecting explo

ackerman by name that during the stock market crash mr. madoff was getting calls from officials of the united states government and asked what his recommendation, should they close the markets? that's understood. he was the president of the nasdaq at one time and a substantial person in this country, but after we see what happened, what are we doing to prevent this in the future? are we checking out some of the these very substantial people are involved? are they trading on that? are they enticing relatively innocent people to trust them? what has your company done? we have asked them how are they getting advice on where to invest and what advice is being made and who are they using and are we finding some way to check the people out and if they get creamed, they get creamed. it seems that once you see something like this happen, being either in the government or quasi in the government, we have more of a responsibility to do something. we can't cure it all. we can't save everybody. we can't prevent all injury, but obviouk@@@@@ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ " >> when i first started this lo

when you have 500,000 names on a list, larry, and you get tens of thousands of tips, pieces of information, how duo officiallyck out each one? that's the problem that will bite us in the butt. >> larry: jack rice, that seems insurmountable. >> part of the problem is we don't have exclusive authority and oversight of everything we're going through. let me give you within example. i flew out of kabul, afghanistan a week and a half ago. from there i was in delhi and dubai to washington, d.c. how much oversight do you think homeland security has or the president has when it comes to these issues? we're dependent on a lot of different people. we still shouldn't lose sight of exactly how many flights are going out. over the last ten years the bureau of transportation estimates about 99 million flights that have touched the united states, sort of coming and going over the last tennessee years. only six are tied to terrorism-related issues, four from 9/11, richard reid was one of them and this one. if you think about it statistically the chances are to say unlikely doesn't do it best. the sky is not falling. we need

news accounts name him as a nigerian who claimed a link to al qaeda. white house officials called it an attempted act of terror and said the president was monitoring the system. millions around the world celebrate -- millions around the world celebrated christmas as blizzards disrupted travel in the u.s. harsvene in our newsroom previews. >> on the rundown there is more from john merrow and what the plight of d.c. schools can shape the nation. you can also find a link to watch the full series on schools in both d.c. and new orleans. also, check out our roundup of all our recent coverage on the health care debate both on air and online. you will find reports on what the new legislation may mean for you, the political road ahead and what policy makers can learn from innovative models in local communities around the nation. all that and more is on our website, newshour.pbs.org. >> brown: that's the newshour for tonight. i'm jeffrey brown. >> warner: i'm margaret warner. we'll see you here and online. have a nice christmas weekend. thank you and goodnight. major funding for the

told that the nsa began trolling to see if his name popped up, and other agencies were actively pursuing the yemen connection, but one state department official said to me that's where we were on december 25th. >> not clear yet why he was not put on a much more restricted watch list? >> no, it wasn't. this official told me it was the collective judgment of everybody involved, all the relevant agencies, that so far though the report was credible, there wasn't anything to corroborate it, no derogatory information that would meet the standard of going on the so-called screening list. that's still a huge list of 400,000, but that's basically decided through a separate acronym-laden agency or consortium run by the fbi, and that list is about 400,000. it appears, piecing all this together, that what was underway was the investigation that would ultimately perhaps nominate him to be put on this other list. >> all right. and then lastly, for now, there's the visa issue, right? what do we know about why the state department did not revoke the visa? >> i asked that question. state says they have the authority to revoke a visa, but that in terrorism cas

official charges. let me know what else you know other than the identity of the person who may be charged. >> his name was a somewhat sophisticated device. it was obviously more than a fire cracker. he himself has third-degree burns. he's being questioned. obviouslily this is going to be looked upon very seriously. he has third-degree burns himself. >> from what we understand, and this is what we do know from the federal government, the situational awareness bulletin, he was being treated, and he's claiming to have extremist affiliations. it was initially reported it might have been firecrackers possiblily because of the size or how it went off. do you know anything about it? was it strapped to his leg? >> caller: i cannot tell you what it was. it was certainly not a firecracker. and it appears to be a different type of detonation than has been used before. it could have been far more serious than it turned out to be. and again, fortunately, you know, we were lucky on this one. it could have been devastating. >> representative, you know a great deal about airport security given your experience on the

they make official notifications to the families in the event of death or injury. we have lost 35 people. we have a memorial garden with stones with namesf the indoctrination process for the people who come to deploy to understand the significant sacrifices the others have made. >> let me talk about injury. you have employees that are american citizens, european, third-world, indigenous. do you keep track of all of them or just americans? >> i believe we keep track of what we consider ex-pats which are foreign nationals who from europe freed third country nationals, we really do not have interaction with the families. -- from europe. third country nationals, we do not have interaction. >> do you have something in your contract lines out how you treat the wounded? >> it is part of proposals because it is an important part of the contract. >> in terms of your seeking to recruit, i would think they would want to know what benefits and how the family is treated. i am assuming that is true. i found this panel very helpful and i appreciate the questions. i do not think we are doing enough asking all of you in a public forum when you were deal

official is the ability to do that. i think we have some great examples. the person who helped get us to the moon was a guy named james webb. he was the head of nasa when president kennedy announced this. what he did, he had to basically find a way to work with industry, a lot of the defense contractors and space companies to figure out a way to call them all together. one of the funny things when you look at the aircraft that was going up, it was actually put together with low bids in the end, which is a little bit scary. we need to move away from ideological fight about whether we should privatize or not, or more government or less government. with almost all these initiatives, you have partnerships between the public and private sectors. more closely together they can work, the more public value you can create. weather is infrastructure here in california, where the public sector does not build much of the infrastructure, they need to do more in the public-private partnership. >> i hate to see the program end, but we only have time for one last question. in your judgment, what is your judgment on al gore's re

official have to report it. they have to disclose to the secretary of the senate and the house clerk, any contributions to libraries, inaugural committees, or entities controlled, named for, or honoring members of congress. the consequences of these reforms that are listed here -- we will talk about that in great detail and historic context, the history of lobbying reform. they have created a certain amount of unintended consequences in my opinion. the revolving door restrictions, in my mind, have created a situation where we have de- registrations. we also have the lobbying and stimulus restrictions. there are advisory groups, frequently people that are on a commission related to the issue that they were dealing with. it or not. now there is a restriction from the executive branch, from the president, to restrict people from participating on these government advisory boards. they have been criticized for this. what do you think? these rules of i have described them so far, are they too strict? are they ok? what would you do? yes? >> it is not that they are too strict, but it very much tender's the process. especially getting together the economic team very early on

ackerman by name that during the stock market crash mr. madoff was getting calls from officials of the united states government and asked what his recommendation, should they close the markets? that's understood. he was the president of the nasdaq at one time and a substantial person in this country, but after we see what happened, what are we doing to prevent this in the future? are we checking out some of the these very substantial people are involved? are they trading on that? are they enticing relatively innocent people to trust them? what has your company done? we have asked them how are they getting advice on where to invest and what advice is being made and who are they using and are we finding some way to check the people out and if they get creamed, they get creamed. it seems that once you see something like this happen, being either in the government or quasi in the government, we have more of a responsibility to do something. we can't cure it all. we can't save everybody. we can't prevent all injury, but obvious injury, we have an obligation. that is where i first sta

officials in africa about his son's extremist views. it now appears that weeks ago this information was passed to a component of our intelligence community but was not effectively distributed so as to get the suspect's namea no-fly list. there appears to be other deficiencies as well. even without this one report, there were bits of information available within the intelligence community that could have and should have been pieced together. we've achieved much since 9/11 in terms of collecting information that relates to terrorists and potential terrorist attacks, but it's becoming clear that the system that has been in place for years now is not sufficiently up to date to take full advantage of the information we collect and the knowledge we have. had this critical information been shared, it could have been compiled with other intelligence and a fuller, clearer picture of the suspect would have emerged. the warning signs would have triggered red flags, and the suspects would have never been allowed to board that plane for america. the professionalism of the men and women in our intelligence, counterterrorism, and law enforcement and homeland security communities is extraordinary. they are some of the m

nobody name even had november as a killer en route to america let alone something somebody withheld. intelligence officials said there were reference to nigerian in some national security intercepts of communications involveds the locke and others but never mentioned the suspect by name. comments on terror attack and president's handling of it. several stories in the paper include some talking about the incident. some reshowing the picture of umar farouk abdulmutallab that was shown over the last few days. you can see it on your screen now. la grange, texas. mike on our independent line. go ahead. >> caller: yeah, good morning. what this shows is, that after 9/11, all we heard was, we need to tear down the walls between one division of intelligence to the other. we spent $100 billion create the homeland security department. and who shared what? no one. it's the same ol' story. we spent a trillion dollars or 2 trillion dollars over the last eight years and we gained absolutely nothing for it. have a nice day. >> host: will watson on twitter adds this portion. he says, that it did not help that transportatio

ackerman by name -- [laughter] çthat during the stock market crash, mr. madoff was getting calls from officialsfrom the united states government about what was his recommendation, should they close the market. that is understood. wasn't he president of nasdaq at one time? he is a pretty substantial person in this country. after we see what happened, what are we doing to prevent this in the future? are we checking out some of the things that these "a very substantial people close to or involved in? are they trading on that -- "a very substantial people" are involved in? but the trading on that? what have we done? what has your corporation done? asking them how they are getting advice as to -- what if ice is being made? -- what advice is being made? or do we not really give a damn, is up to them, and if they get cleaned, they get clean? it seems to me that once you see something like this happen, being in the government or quasi in the government, we have more responsibility to do something. we cannot prevent all injury, but obvious injury, obvious things that are fraud or figures that exist, we

named the big companies. it was an impressive list of people. it was not just ceo's. we also that several senior government officialsama administration. host: democrats line, good morning. caller: good morning. the last couple of callers have touched on our lack of manufacturing in this country. i would like to expound on that. i believe that the manufacturers have pretty much sold out the american workers in favor of corporate profits. i think that there are ways that we can level the playing field to some degree. a few years ago, as a nation, we were very concerned about the safety of things imported in these big containers. that has kind of fallen off the radar now. when people stop reporting on something, people forget. things are still being imported. the containers are still coming in huge numbers. that is a security problem. that is a security issue. it is my belief that if the importers that are bringing these shipping containers into this country had to pay a fairly hefty fee to have them thoroughly inspected so we would truly be safe, then they made rather hire american workers to manufacture the prof mont

we have a researcher named mark levine from the university of wisconsin, milwaukee, who has kept data of the discouraged workers, those who are not officially unemployed because they're no longer standing there, discouraged workers. among white men in my community, we have a 17% unemployment rate. we have a 40% to 50% unemployment rate among white men and of course a staggering statistic, about 30% among hispanic men. but 17% among white men in our community. so it's really a crisis of gargantuan proportions. mr. ellison: would the gentleman yield? ms. moore: have you ever talked to somebody who's been un employee -- yes. mr. ellison: have you talked to somebody who's been unemployee ffered 16, 18 month what does that do to their self-esteem? ms. jackson lee: the gentleman is right. stastistics -- statistics lay the framework of what we're talking about. what i will tell you is that people are more and more going to places where there are mass feasts and feeding. when you go amongst those people, you hear the stories of mothers and fathers who lost work. now more families coming into these open feeding that we've had. i just participated in

officials have said that regulatory action regulating the subprime markets could injure the opportunity for that market." on the floor of the senate, i was involved in a debate with the senator from texas named phil gramm. he offered an amendment to a bankruptcy bill which senator grassley and i worked on that said, if you were guilty of predatory lending, you will be precluded in bankruptcy from pursuing their claim. that was debated on the floor and debating the other side against my amendment was senator phil gramm of texas, who said on the floor of the united states senate, if the durbin amendment passes, it will destroy the subprime mortgage market. well, my amendment failed. by one vote. and the subprime mortgage market continued until it collapsed, just a couple years ago. i wish i'd had another vote for my amendment. at this time in this debate took place in december of 2006, about 25% of home loans were subprime. so the mortgage bankers, unfortunately, misled the public about the state of the market at the time to wave away any warnings about any crisis that might be following them. we all know twha has meant to this country. i go back to that episode now because in 2009 we have had

they make official notifications to the families in the event of death or injury. we have lost 35 people. we have a memorial garden with stones with namespart of the indoctrination process for the people who come to deploy to understand the significant sacrifices the others have made. >> let me talk about injury. you have employees that are american citizens, european, third-world, indigenous. do you keep track of all of them or just americans? >> i believe we keep track of what we consider ex-pats which are foreign nationals who from europe freed third country nationals, we really do not have interaction with the families. -- from europe. third country nationals, we do not have interaction. >> do you have something in your contract lines out how you treat the wounded? >> it is part of proposals because it is an important part of the contract. >> in terms of your seeking to recruit, i would think they would want to know what benefits and how the family is treated. i am assuming that is true. i found this panel very helpful and i appreciate the questions. i do not think we are doing enough asking all of you in a public forum when you wer

officials in africa about his son's extremist views. it now appears that weeks ago this information was passed to a component of our intelligent -- intelligence community but was not effectively distributed so to get the suspect's nameoó3 a no-fly this. there appears to be other deficiencies as well. even without this one report, there were bits of informational available within the intelligence community that could have and should have been pieced together. we achieved much since 9/11 and terms of collecting of the mission that relates to terrorists and potential terrorist attacks. it is becoming clear that the system that has been in place for years now is not sufficiently up to date to take full advantage of the information we collect and the knowledge we have. had this critical information been shared it could have been compiled with other intelligence and a fuller, clearer picture of the suspect could have emerged. the warning signs would have triggered red flags and the suspect would have never been allowed to board that plane for america. host: "the washington post" as a follow-up on its story about the president's speech, specifically talking about the bids of inflammation portion. host: with your thoughts t

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