olsen. he understands the icy, its process and procedure and has served with distinction to read well, i can go on and on and i have many pages here. i'm not going to do it. suffice it to say i believe that we have an extraordinarily qualified professional, which can step into the leadership of nctc, and at this very potentially balk period provided with the leadership, it really does deserve a marriage. so, with that, mr. vice chairman, may i ask you to meet your remarks? >> thank you madame churn. mr. olsen, congratulations on being nominated to be the director of the national counterterrorism center. thank you for your service to the country especially in its demanding roles over the last several years. i also welcome your family and thank them for their great support to you and to the country. we appreciate that very much. i also want to just say a special word of thank future michael liter that you were going to be seceding. i talked about this the other day, you and i are great friends

olsen. according to "the washington post" article, the first concrete step towards closing of a detention center was agreed upon during an april 14, 2000 - session at the white house. it was to be ase dolph moved. they were going to show up here and we were going to announce this said one senior official describing the swift secretive operation that was designed by the administration to putting up any political outcry that could prevent the transfer. mr. walls goes on following the publication of this article in april and i personally call mr. olsen to ask whether he was aware of the time of any meeting with him on my meeting with him on april 22nd, to thousand 9 that a decision had already been made on the transfer of the detainees. he told me that he was aware of the decision prior to our meeting. i believe i was intentionally misled by mr. olsen and other administration officials during my april 22nd meeting with the task force, but i'm also concerned that the attorney general did not ack

20,632 for olsen. 17,702 for fred clark.ell, look, there's a city there, baraboo, that the last i checked it still had not got its numbers in. baraboo is a very pro-clark town. that's where he's going to have to get huge numbers out of there. uld still close this up and pull ahead. >> john nichols, washington correspondent of "the nation" magazine. our coverage continues here in madison, wisconsin. stay with us. we're right back with more. [ male announcer ] heard this one? listen to this. three out of four americans don't get enough vegetables. so here's five bucks to help you buy v8 juice. five bucks. that's a lot of green. go to v8juice.com for coupons. you can count on us. energy is being produced to power our lives. while energy developement comes with some risk, north america's natural gas producers are committed to safely and responsibly providing decades of cleaner burning energy for our country, drilling thousands of feet below fresh water sources within self contained well systems and using state of the art monitor

in the 14th district, the republican income bent is luther olsen, olsen behind clark, the democratichallenger leading the republican incumbent 52% to 48%. again, 1% and 2% in in these races. do not extrapolate, but this is what we got. in the 10th district, republican incumbent sheila harsdorf, shelly moore. we don't have results to report there, but we'll keep you posted. generally the way these things happen is you get 1% and 2%, and they start coming in in larger increments, but we'll be watching over the course of the night. >>> in 2008, the presidential election in wisconsin was not at all close. president obama beat john mccain by 13 points. that was a bigger margin than obama got in nevada, minnesota, new hampshire, almost the margin by which he won the great state of new jersey. even though wisconsin looks a little purple, frankly in 2008, wisconsin was deep blue. it was a blow out in the '08 presidential race in wisconsin of the still though on that night in that same election in which barack obama made john mccain irrelevant, on that same night, these six republican state s

olsen. you certainly come to this position with an impressive array of credentials and i congratulate you and certainly senator conrad's accommodation certainly speaks volumes about what you represent and what you bring to this position which is obviously a significant as we continue to face a growing threat. i would like to just explore with you for a moment in the aftermath of the assassination of osama bin laden, how would you describe the al qaeda threat and what it poses today? i know you have said it is significant and it remains the most significant threat to the united states in combination with regional affiliates that were dispersed and as you mentioned it is certainly a dynamic and complex environment and certainly an asymmetrical threat. how to identify, how to quantify. where do you think we stand today in terms of one, mitigating the threat and certainly since the killing of osama bin laden? >> thank you very much senator. the threat i think today is as diffuse and as complex a

with 100% of precincts reporting in the 14th district republican luther olsen has received 56% of the vote. excuse me. 52% of the vote. his democratic challenger fred clark at 48% of the vote. this was no sure thing heading into tonight's elections in terms of predictions. but by the four-point spread you that see there state senator luther olsen has defeated the recall effort against him and has held on to his seat. so again, to recap, right now democrats have picked off two republican state senators in the great state of wisconsin. if senator alberta darling hangs on to her seat, that will mean that republicans will have a majority of one in the state senate. if alberta darling falls tonight, democrats will take control of the state senate. but if alberta darling holds on, if that happens, i have a wild card to throw your way. if alberta darling holds on tonight and the republican margin in the wisconsin state senate goes to one, all eyes in wisconsin will turn to this guy as a potential wild card for the real balance of power in the state capitol. he is a republican. he's state sen

luther olsen projected the winner in the wisconsin state senate race. so this would give three republicans, they are surviving this recall effort in the state of wisconsin. at this moment in the 32nd district challenger jennifer shilling is leading by 8 percentage points over senator dan kapanke. also, in the 18th district, in the 18th district randy hopper, the senator is leading by 2% of the vote over challenger jessica king. this was expected to be a win for the democrats. but those are the numbers. hopper in with 22,788. and jessica king in at 22,212. 51% to 49%. and we've also got a very interesting race. in the 8th district, suburban milwaukee, alberta darling is trailing at this hour to challenger representative sandy pasch by 8% of the vote. pasch in with 12,032 votes at 56%. and roberta darling in with that number you that saw on the screen there, with 44% of the votes. so it's still a very good chance for the democrats to get three. but the surprise here is the showing of randy hopper, the state senator. for more on that let's go to john nicho

luther olsen projected the winner in the wisconsin state senate race. so this would give three republicans, they are surviving this recall effort in the state of wisconsin. at this moment in the 32nd district challenger jennifer shilling is leading by 8 percentage points over senator dan kapanke. also, in the 18th district, in the 18th district randy hopper, the senator is leading by 2% of the vote over challenger jessica king. this was expected to be a win for the democrats. but those are the numbers. hopper in with 22,788. and jessica king in at 22,212. 51% to 49%. and we've also got a very interesting race. in the 8th district, suburban milwaukee, alberta darling is trailing at this hour to challenger representative sandy pasch by 8% of the vote. pasch in with 12,032 votes at 56%. and roberta darling in with that number you that saw on the screen there, with 44% of the votes. so it's still a very good chance for the democrats to get three. but the surprise here is the showing of randy hopper, the state senator. for more on that let's go to john nicho

britta olsen is my patient. i spend long hours with her checking her heart rate, administering her medication, and just making her comfortable. one night britta told me about a tradition in denmark, "when a person dies," she said, "someone must open the window so the soul can depart." i smiled and squeezed her hand. "not tonight, britta. not tonight." ♪ >>> of all the drama surrounds the debt ceiling, one of the most dramatic moments was the appearance of gabrielle giffords on the house floor. it was seven months since she was shot in an assassination attempt in her direct. more now on giffords's emotional return. how were her colleagues reacting to this dramatic scene? >> wolf, after the tears, they said gabby's back. one of her colleagues said that watching the legislator casting the vote is about as exciting as watching someone use an atm machine. last night was an exception that literally took their breath away. it was an unexpected moment from the floor. one that surprised even those closest to congresswoma

you are challenging luther olsen who has not had competition for years on end. it's been 16 or 17 years he's not had competition? >> in his career. go back 116 years and you can't find a democrat that's represented that district. you can't. how do you feel going into it? >> i did my own poll at a corn roast. in two hours greeting folks in line to eat sweet corn, i shook hands and said hi to folks. everybody knows this race. they are planning to vote. people are engaged like they haven't seen in years and years. >> do you think what happens today on wall street and what's happened in the market in the last few weeks is going to be a motivating factor for turn out? do people view this as wall street versus main street? do they see the severity of the outcome and what it means for the rest of the country? >> the lessons people can take from wall street, in washington, the elected leaders cannot work together and took this to the brink before crafting a deal that no one was happy with at the end of the day. they expect us to do better than that in madison. in extrem

they're like the olsen twins of factory run-offs. americans for prosperity has even sent out these actual helpful absentee ballot applications to democratic districts. now, they had to rush these to print, so some people complained about inaccuracies, but it's minor stuff, like instead of instructing do you send your ballot to the local municipal clerk, where ballots are officially collected, the address on this is "absentee ballot application processing center," which, and this is interesting, does not exist. but i'm sure the koch brothers were going to hand deliver those ballots to the proper location once they've separated them from the mail sent to wisconsin family association and wisconsin right to life, the two other conservative groups to use that anonymous po box. because why else would they go to the trouble to give democratic voters helpful instructions like, "mail in your completed absentee ballot, which must be received by your city clerk before august 11th." here's a little rhyme to help you remember when it's due. on au

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. >> ed, i want to go back to your reporting on the 14th district, luther olsen, the district has been republican for over 100 years, but running unopposed is an indication of our national office of just how solid the 14th district lock has been for republicans until possibly tonight. that wasn't even one of the districts that i had my eye on as a possible swing, so if that thing is running as tight as it's running, that's a very good sign for other districts, isn't it? >> there's no question about it. jon erpenbach, we'll have him on "the ed show" later tonight, we have the ground game, boots opt ground, but we don't have the money they have. this is a battle of two titans going at it in two different ways. obviously, you can't underscore the impact the tea party groups have had here the last five days, and that's why it's so hard to judge what's going to happen in some of these other districts other than the 14th, which we were talking about. a lot of it is unpredictable. what does a great turnout mean? does that mean the citizens united money worked, does that mean republicans have

and funds for our grand kids' schools snchl you ought to be ashamed, senator olsen. >> what happened being front and center? >> the ad you showed was put on by a third party group. what happened was collective bargaining was certainly the trigger that started the recall effort. since then we passed the state budget that made crippling cuts to education, public schools in wisconsin that has started the process of really reformulating some of the most successful public health programs in the country. so there's a much lighter group of issues that are at stake right now. voters have those issues on their minds when they're going to the polls tomorrow. >> do you see this? do you think voters see this as a referendum on scott walker the governor? >> i'm sure there's many voters who have that on their mind tomorrow. it's also a referendum on what we should expect of our elected representatives. unfortunately this year too many of our representatives have simply been a rubber stamp for an agenda handed down by our governor and majority leader and they haven't exercised independent judgment

. >> elizabeth olsen playing carrie, blake lively will be samantha.ena gomez, who is 18 years old, charlotte and emma roberts as miranda. >> there was going to be a movie as prequel and now it may be a tv show prequel. >> i like my carrie bradshaw as sarah jessica parker. i'm attached to this character. that's what i remember. >> a lot of people will feel that same way. it will be weird on tv. they're milking it for all it's worth. let it just be after a while. >> you know you love it. >> all right. this story i do love here. the situation, everyone knows this guy from the "jersey shore." say what you want about those ds, you and i both enjoy the show. >> i love it. >> those kids have made a ton of money off endorsement deals and public appearances. but now get this, abercrombie & fitch want to strike a very different deal. they want to pay the situation and other cast members to not wear their clothes. they released a statement -- >> the situation doesn't wear clothes. it's his abs we're talking about. >> he says we understand the show is for enterta

joining me state senator luther olsen, a republican who's on the ballot on this recall election day.ator, good to see you. >> good to be with you, contessa. >> do you think people are voting today based on these collective bargaining rights for government workers, or has this really morphed into labor versus tea party divide? >> well, i think the democrats and the union folks are voting the union part. the other folks the republicans i believe are voting to support us in what we did to balance the budget without raising taxes, our job growth agenda and things like that. i think it's two different reasons folks are going to the polls. >> you haven't had a democratic challenger in all of the 16 years i understand that you have served. yesterday, i talk odd the democrat who's the first to challenge you and here's what he said. >> wisconsin has -- in the midst of a historic set of events. unfortunately this year too many of our representatives have simply been a rubber stamp for -- handed down by our govern and majority leader. >> representative fred clark obviously thinks in a republica

britta olsen is my patient.s with her checking her heart rate, administering her medication, and just making her comfortable. one night britta told me about a tradition in denmark, "when a person dies," she said, "someone must open the window so the soul can depart." i smiled and squeezed her hand. "not tonight, britta. not tonight." ♪ >>> the pictures coming out of somalia, absolutely smocking. drought a also spreading now to kenya, ethiopia. one group founded by a 2010 cnn hero and andersson cooper has more on this. >> what the u.n. refugee agency is calling the worst humanitarian disaster in the world, mary' meals is in the middle of the crisis. >> we've been walking in northe working in northern kenya for about four years now. one third of the children are malnourished. so we have a real situation of life and death. we're trying desperately to expand our program to reach more children at risk. . >> since 2006, mary's meals have been feeding thousands of young children in schools across the region. >> this is

guest: i'm danielle olsen from huntington beach, california. after listening to this document i just like you said it was written 100 years ago and so many things have changed within 100 years. the fear of god and man and stuff about the whole religion thing and everyone has a different opinion on religion. and most of this conference is women. i thinking -- i think like having an opinion and being bias is important because people are saying state the facts, state the facts. but i feel like if it was just the facts everything would be the same. every paper would seem the same. i think having different opinions and different performance like put their own flavor in what they are writing. way of pens up a tpnew thinking for yourself. like most of kind of the gist of the story and make a judgment for yourself. but i think it is interesting it listen it other people's opinions and kind of like look at it from their perspective. host: thank you. that went pretty goes. this this is the dean of admission of george mason university to have you here. th

britta olsen is my patient.administering her medication, and just making her comfortable. one night britta told me about a tradition in denmark, "when a person dies," she said, "someone must open the window so the soul can depart." i smiled and squeezed her hand. "not tonight, britta. not tonight." ♪ >>> this week, cnn heroes, a young cancer survivor is helping other women battle the disease. meet debbie can'twell. >> when i was diagnosed with cancer, i was working full time and struggling. when you start adding medication costs, it throws your life upside down. my husband took care of me, took care of the kids. my parents, my friends, did everything for me. through treatment i was meeting women that just didn't have it as easy as me. all of these people were there for me and i couldn't possibly pay everybody back. i decided that i was going to pay it forward. my name is debbie cantwell and i provide care and comfort to those fighting cancer. restaurant gift cards, grocery gift cards. >> i was really bottoming o

the operation that killed osama bin laden, admiral eric olsen will be interviewed at the aspen securityorum, tonight at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. live coverage of that, followed by your phone calls. right now -- what e.j. dionne writes today. what do you think? can america still lead? let's continue on. let's get right to the phones. dennis on the line for democrats in maryland. good morning. caller: good morning. thank you for the opportunity. the short answer, yes, americans still lead. america is still the richest nation in the history of the world. we still have trillions and trillions of dollars that these bankers are sitting on that they will not release into the economy. even though the president has to deal with this small minority of republicans, the so-called tea party people, who has his hands tied, i think it is really a shame that the credit score had to be reduced. i blame it -- i put it squarely on the backs of the republicans. one last thing. america will get a chance to speak next year in the elections and i can guarantee you they are going to clean house with these

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olsen, logic of collective action can not organize. they don't have the incentive to organize in the sense nra is representing their point of view. rather than a special interest, they are promoting a public interest. i'm raising the question. we are a group of many economists and thinkers here. the, assume, now, this is just a big assumption. assume that there is a rent seeking and debt loss to getting rid of mid. we need to assure the debt code we don't have the rate loss. if we change the rules in middle of the game it impacts current people who may have had the decision based on the current rules. somehow if we, global warming and everybody move to the north pole and we can start all over, perhaps mortgage interest deduction is not there. we're not starting from all over. we're a history made the decision knowing that was in place and is it fair? and, if there is a dead weight loss cord, there is always a way to negotiate and provide the necessary way to remove that dead weight loss. i'm not sure what that is. i'm trying to raise t

special operations commander eric olsen is interviewed by martha raddiz. with senate adjoined for the august recess, you can see "booktv" all this month on c- span 2 in prime time. monday, a look for aliens and top-secret military projects in area 5 -- "area 5." jennet comant, a boca julia and paul childes in the oss. that is tonight on c-span 2. earlier today, members of the national association to advance fat acceptance said that michelle obama as campaign raleigh focuses on size rather than health. this is 40 minutes. [indistinct room noise] [no audio] >> one out of six children are being bullied. 86% of those children were visible handicaps. a federal law that does not protect those children is a federal law without teeth. that video that you just saw was put together by members, amateurs, to get the message across. they put forward the youtube video is for us. at the end of the press conference, we will show you who the winner was. great talent. great a motion. great emphasis on what it is to be that child that was picked on. putting together the chil

operation to capture and kill osama bin laden with a man who led the seam, specialist commander, eric olsen, is interviewed at the aspen security forum. gail smith, who served as director from global development spoke last week at a forum hosted by the society for international development here in washington, d.c. her remarks run about 25 minutes. >> thanks. and yes, i do cheer for the packers. i'm so delighted that the labor negotiations between the packers and the nfl have been resolved. i have a fabulous fall to look forward to. we also have a fabulous speaker to look forward to. gail smith is well known to many of you. let me just do a short introduction to remind those of you who don't know her as well sort of what she's about and thinking about about. i anticipate her contributions to the a highly effective sid world congress will be telling. many of you from the washington chapter will remember the spirited discussion that gail and tom ridge led at the 2008 conference head before the 2008 presidential elections. gail and governor ridge disagreed on some issues, agreed on others, but

olsen was my professor and he actually asked you to go to the former society republic in my bio he's the one that forced me to go there. [laughter] >> he's -- you know, his book was on the ransacking special interest group. the nar creates so much debt to the society. well, many of the policy advocates position that we provide certainly benefits our members. but the true beneficiaries are the homeowners, existing homeowners. they own reduction of their home values and homeowners make up 75 million families. that are the comfortable majority. homeowners according to the logic of collective action cannot organize. they don't have the incentive to organize. nar is representing their point of view. rather than a special interest, is nar promoting a public interest in representing? so i'm just raising the question. i know we are a group of economist think here. the -- assume, now this is just a big assumption, excuse me there is a loss of m.i.d., and then you say, well, we need to change the tax code to assure that we don't have the debt weight loss. as i mention, if we change the rules i