there's another olympics already?the interest in beijing, it was such a big event. >> reporter: on the eve of the olympics, weeks s of the opening ceremonies, the vancouver winter games could fall flat state side. >> they need to have a superstar. that usually is a figure skater for the american audience. >> reporter: no dominant women's figure skater. no nancy kerrigan, no michelle kwan. they could figure out of the medals in figure skating for the first time in centuries. former stars such as miller and ohno give the u.s. team some hope. few fresh faces have emerged. to carry the torch. >> the american audience is more valuable thanny than any in the world. america has been the greatest single consumer market. americans are pulling back in a big way. >> reporter: in the u.s., the winter olympics attract less interest than the summer games. this year could be rough. both for u.s. athletes and advertisers. >> are there emerging stars? someone americans can relate to? advertisers are eager for that. i don't think you'v

my first olympic breakthrough career was in salt lake city.ds the end of my career, i've moved back to salt lake city to train. and i'm essentially possibly could be finishing my olympic experience in vancouver. so hopefully the circle has some underlying meaning, i don't know. i think so, i like 0 believe so. >> your dad used to take you to vancouver. you lived in seattle, he would drive you to vancouver to drain when you were just a kid. he's been soex a part of this process for you. >> a huge support. >> what does his support mean? >> everything. he's taught me, so many lessons that i learned from sport can be applicable towards any part of life in itself. that's why i think that you know, so many kids should be involved in sports and have a good time, you know. >> you should be training but you're here in new york and there's a reason why. why are you here? >> i'm here in new york. i should be training. i'm usually training. we're about to go into my final stage of preparation. but i'm here along with shawn johnson. we're here because nece

cc came to washington to celebrate the 100-day countdown to the 2010 olympic games. and to officially mark the countdown to vancouver, the unveiling of the 100-day countdown clock. >> it is great to have a little vancouver right here on pennsylvania avenue. so it makes it real for all of us as we count down the 100 days. >> reporter: joining the canadian ambassador was the president of the company dubbed the olympic official timekeeper since 1932. >> we had about 30 stop watches if you will at the time. today we have over 400 tons of equipment. hubs. time keeping professionals and thousands of volunteers. it has evolved quite a bit over the years. >> reporter: while the clock is ticking, the excitement is will building. >> what are you looking forward to? >> all the games. it will be really cool. >> i love ice skating. >> reporter: meanwhile as the athletes train, their vancouver village is getting its finishing touches. so are the convenient you use where it will take plays. >> by february 12, it will have visited over 1,000 communities, touched three oceans. >> rep

a sad note, daniel kerrigan, the father of olympic figure skating medalist nancy kerrigan laid to rest earlier today in massachusetts. he was 70. nancy said her father was always there to support her and describes him as having been an extra parent for her three children

i think people are pretty excited about hosting the olympic games. do think that canadians, there is a deep well -- it is not patriotism in the sense we tend to see itself, the loud kind of flag-waving -- flag-waving patriotism. we have a great country. people around the world really admire our country. we are one of those countries that is big enough to have some influence, but not big enough to threaten anyone. events like this bring that out and canadians are feeling pretty good right now. they are pretty excited about the olympics and i am confident that when it is all over, they will have reason to look back on it with considerable pride. >> will the hockey team beat anna? >> have you tried to draw me into this conversation before? we will have some pretty tough competition. the russian team is going to be very strong. obviously, we will be there cheering. i hope to go to the gold medal game. i am confident that we will be in it, but let's just remember to remind people, there is a lot more to the alembics then just hockey. i know hockey is so i

they have the olympic rings on their t-shirts. this guy is not noticing this so he thinks suddenly loved my food. i knew this was bound to happen so he built a second location and the olympics go away at his second location, they are getting no tips, there is nobody in their. should we want to stimulate his idle resources back into activity? obviously that would divert resources from healthy areas of the economy where the market needs to redeploy them. it would be a total waste to do this. stimulus packages are like drinking red bull instead of sleeping. what it is actually doing, there is no perpetual motion machine. whatever part of your body is not totally exhausted the red bull will totally exhausted. it is not like no crash coming, that crashed is coming. likewise -- it seeks out like the parasite that it is a profitable sliver of the economy and sucks resources out of it and exhausts the economy still further. monetary stimulus, let's print more money and blow it. that puts it off for a few more years and make it more intens

at the beginning he talked until he had an olympics now it's over. what he should have done is apprehended him as an enemy combatant and kept him in that status and -- supreme court ruli at homdi. it won't prejudice getting a military trial but at least have him interrogated. he's got a lot of information on yemen that's going to be our next front. that was all gone out the window when he got read his miranda rights. >> this is worth further discussion and we'll do it next. >> iraq was yesterday's war. afghanistan is today's war. if we don't act preemtively, yemen will be tomorrow's war. that's the danger we face. >> senator joe liberman, chairman of the senate homeland security and government affairs committee on fox. anybody want to respond to the chaney comments? >> yes. or liberman. we already are in a war in yemen. we've got a lot of assets over there and predators and we're going to be more and more. i think the obama thing is speak softliers don't use a whole lot of rhetoric. but be pretty serious on the counter terrorist side. i'm pretty sure

are a lot of spectators and athletes and they all have the olympic circles on their t-shirts and he is and noticing this and he thinks suddenly everybody knows my food i knew this was bound to happen so he builds a second location and then the olympics go away and a second location of the waiters and waitresses are standing around, there's nobody in their. should we want to stimulate his resources back interactivity? no. that would divert resources away from wealthy areas of the economy where the market needs to be given the chance to redeploy them. it would be a total waste to do this. stimulus packages are like drinking a red bull instead of sleeping. because if you have had red bull before, which i haven't by the way. i'd like this naturally without red bull. but if you have rebel you know what it's doing there is no perpetual motion machine. you drink red bull you keep going. it is the better part of your body is not totally exhausted the red bull will totally exhausted and then it's not like you know, no crashes coming, no, the crash is coming. well, likewise the fiscal stimulu

grant was on the olympic team in atlanta, and she was there also with him.or a while. so we started going every night to the basketball games. >> it was all right because there were how many thousands of people there. it was fine. it wasn't like i was going to their home, you know. i think it was in atlanta at the olympics. it was the best way. >> it was easy. we got married in 1999 so we're 10 years being married. your wedding vows are sickness and health, and we've tested that. >> tell me when you first got the call that grant was being rushed to the hospital with the staff infection. >> that was horrible. my daughter-in-law called from orlando about a week and a half after grant had had his fourth and successful surgery at duke. >> the scene wasn't as scary because we didn't know what the deal was. he had been spiking with a fever. >> he was laying on the sofa and went into shock. >> he was just shaking. i'm so cold. i just thought he was just exaggerating. are you really that cold? so i go and grab a thermometer. all digital, and i put it in his mouth, a

bill ayers could bring in the incendiary devices and light the olympic torch. reverend wright do the invocation. this thing is pre made. >> not to god bless america, god d * * america. >> i don't believe it. >> that would make sports center. bill: you can throw out the first pitch. if you practice a little bit. >> yes. you will never let me -- bill: you will never live that down. plenty more ahead as we move along this evening. miller gives us his thoughts on my interview with barney frank. "the factor" and miller time will be right back. bill: what does miller think about my interviews with barney frank? here it goes. i have a bunch of simple questions. as you know, i am a very simple man. >> i hate to say this -- bill: i do not think barney frank likes me. >> yes. bill: barney started off truculent. >> "truculent" is an adjective. bill: love that. you know, it was almost like we were, not pals, but there was some stability to it. >> billy, if i am going to row the boat across the river with people shooting each other, i do not want to see them flinging cream

the summer olympics in 2012, you don't want to be on the air when the summer olympics are on the airause no one will listen to you. they are watching the olympics. if you have a march primary this coming year, you have a problem. it will be hard to get people's attention. you don't feel people up during december because -- there are those kinds of things that you have to -- big media or cultural events are happening that you have to take into account. rarely are really in a position where we are up in december or august, but you will hit one where i have to advertise in the middle of this huge national or international thing. you do come to a lower point for those few days. you never want to come completely down. that is where it gets really tricky and you want guys like mark thinking about this. there is no right or wrong answer but you don't want 2,000 points of expensive television running during a massive national event where no one is paying attention to your television ads. every now and then you run into something like that but it is not common. is very uncommon. >> mark begic

i am not focused on it right now. >> he mentioned the olympics.veryone is looking forward to the first gold medal won by canadians in canada. >> we are going to have more than one goal. we have a good winter olympic team. since 1988, we have been building constantly. we had a great finish in italy. i'm confident we will see a number of gold medals. >> we are seeing the torch run catching on. it doesn't say some media but canadians and the way we handle patriotism? -- doesn't it say something about canadians? >> in spite of the challenges we all have, particularly economic, i think the country is feeling pretty good about itself and is proud. i think people are pretty excited about hosting the olympic games. pay think there is a deep well -- it is not patriotism in this sense we think of it with a flag-waving but a deep attachment to the country. people around the world really admire our country. we are one of those countries that is big enough to have some influence but not big enough to threaten anyone. i think events like this bring that out and

he didn't want to go to the golf version of the specs olympics. he wanted to play for the highest honors. that was the issue. so it wasn't a matter of making his life easy or, trying to alleviate his pain. he could play golf. the real issue is whether he would qualify for the hons norse which takes us back questions about dessert and what golf is really about at the tournament level. what about the idea, what would aristotle say to the idea that the best flute should go to the mediocre players because the really good players can make pretty good music even with a kazoo? maybe they could, but, he would say, wouldn't you agree, take the example of a stratvarious violin. now, you would say give that stratvarious, not to, it talk perlman because he will play pretty well on ordinary fiddle, give it to my fifth grade beginner of violinist because he needs it more. you would say, well, there is something a little wacky in that because the not so good player is really not going to be able to realize the potential of the stratvarious. and realizing the hig

. > lobby for the chicago olympics, have them rejected before they get down to andrews air force base>> is that where he had his meeting who came down from london? >> yes. >> was that whole thing designed to get him face to face with mccrystal? >> general get out of my face -- >> wasn't that the first time he had a meeting with mccrystal? >> second face to face meeting. right. >> i don't know what you are getting at. the president has done his due diligence on what he should do in afghanistan and what he came out with, pleases both of you. >> monica. >> no, biggest government waste, the ballooning of private contractors. 74,000 of them in afghanistan. actually, more private contractors than troops this summer. >> are you going to give out awards? >> i would like to do both. >> monica. >> biggest government waste, there's so much to choose from. $787billion economic stimulous. a $1.1 trillion. a half a trillion spending bill. $100 billion auto bailout. $3.5trillion budget, and my favorite, the impending $2 trillion healthcare bill. >> quickly. >> the billions of dollars wasted contract

this is from jim mckay in 1972, he broadcast the munich olympics. that was when the israeli athletes were killed by terrorists and jim had to go on the air and say they were all gone and he got the emmy award for that. so, it is a very special thing the mckay family has brought us. let's go over here. >> let's talk about the lacrosse sticks that we teased. they're really really fascinating. 1780. who would have known that lacrosse went back that far? >> people now do. and that's our job is to interpret the history but these are lacrosse sticks that the american indians used. they invented the game of lacrosse and as you know, from reading the captions, when the indians played, they have 75 to 100 people per team. so, it must have been one heck of a melee. you see how small the sticks are. i wish we had a ball that they use. but that would be the next thing we get. >> and we have also stuff right here. we have the super bowl or is that -- which is that? >> this is from carmelo anthony. he played one year with the university of syracuse in 2003 and he

, that is the-- that is the mood. >> bill: so you agree with me, if he gets the olympics for chicago,od thing, it's good for america, he's popular overseas and get on the television and do whatever he wants. no harm. >> i think it'd be great in chicago when you think about it. blago could be the mascot, he looks kind of cartoonist-- hey, kids, want a job in the senate? and they could bring the incendiary device in and we could have reverend wright do the invocation and i think the thing is pre-made. >> not god bless america, god damn america. >> bill: you know, that would liven up the crowd. that would make bob costas' head whip back. >> i don't believe it. >> bill: there you go. >> that would make sports center. >> bill: and you know, you could throw out the first pitch. >> just a bit outside. if you practice a little bit. >> yeah. >> oh, you'll never let me-- >> never, miller, you'll never live at that down. more ahead as the factor moves along as miller gives his thoughts on my interview with barney frank. the factor and miller time will be right bab. . >> continuing now with the o

brightest stars of the winter sports is heading to vancouver for the winter olympic games. it begins february 12th on the networks of nbc. you and i will both be in british columbia for it. >> cris: can't wait. going to see shaun white tomorrow for a little interview out in california. he has been red hot lately. >> al: no pun intended. the flying tomato. mcnabb will go down in the arms of bradie james. . >> cris: you come in talking about the eagles blitz and it's been the cowboys blitz here today. it's been the difference. they really have been able to do about anything they wanted. lesean mccoy, i think, simply did not see bradie james coming and he tried to sneak out on the route and mcnabb couldn't sneak anywhere. >> al: mcnabb has taken whacks tonight. second down and 16. he does get that one out of the end zone into the arms of mccoy. up to the 14 yard line. stephen bowen will make the tackle. >> cris: this offense has been so good for so long this season and it just came to a screeching halt in two weeks against the cowboys. you don't know. maybe these young players

brightest stars of the winter sports is heading to vancouver for the winter olympic games. it begins february 12th on the networksf nbc. you and i will both be in british columbia for it. >> cris: can't wait. going to see shaun white tomorrow for a little interview out in california. he has been red hot lately. >> al: no pun intended. the flying tomato. mcnabb will go down in the arms of bradie james. . >> cris: you come in talking about the eagles blitz and it's been the cowboys blitz here today. it's been the difference. they really have been able to do about anything they wanted. lesean mccoy, i think, simply did not see bradie james coming and he tried to sneak out on the route and mcnabb couldn't sneak anywhere. >> al: mcnabb has taken whacks tonight. second down and 16. he does get that one out of the end zone into the arms of mccoy. up to the 14 yard line. stephen bowen will make the tackle. >> cris: this offense has been so good for so long this season and it just came to a screeching halt in two weeks against the cowboys. you don't know. maybthese young players, le

during the mt recent olympic games in beijing many americans pressed outrage after learni many of theine city's restaunts serve entrees containing dog meat. the beijing tourism bure evenally decided to take dog off of menus during the mes, but thcontroversy spard a brant discussion abo me-eating in general. now a new bo further explores e issue by attemptinto answer the questio why do we love dogs, eat ps, and wear co? >> the easiest way for me to answer that question with an illustraon. so imagine that you are at a ncy dinner party. you're sitti at a beautiful table, you'renjoying the conversation, you're drinking the fine wine, you'reating a decious beef stew, andn fact, this stew is so decious at you ask youhost for the cipe. and flattered, she replies, "th secret ingdient is the meat. you usthree pounds of well-minated golden reriever." now, stop for a minute and think about ur thoughts and feelings upon hearing that. chances e, the meat on your plate iso longer food to you, b looks like a dead animal. your reaction an example of wh i call carnism. >> bonnie: psycholist melanie jo

it happened in a training accident thursday as he prepared for next week's olympic qualifying events. according to a spokeswoman, the 22-year-old had been completing a twisting double backflip when he caught his toeside edge and landed on his head. she said he was wearing a helmet at the time. pierce remains in the intensive care unit at the university of utah hospital. >>> typically you have to get into an airplane or helicopter to be a half mile off the ground, but in one city, all you have to do now is h on an elevator. the burj dubai tower opens today in dubai. it's now the world's tallest building. the tower is at least 160 stories high, cost $1.5 billion to build. these are live pictures from dubai right now. it is being called a vertical city of apartments and offices. i ao includes four swimming pools, a private library, and a hotel designed by giorgio armani. the opening ceremonies are taking place right now. once again, these are live pictures of that opening ceremony from dubai. >> very fancy. >> it is fancy, to say the least, indeed. >>> well, coming up in the next half ho

we will be hosting the olympics. we have international summits.obably the thing we have done really well this year is we have just focused on governing the country. but the opposition, houses of parliament, don't distracted. a focus on the things that matter to people. if we have had success this year, that is responsible for it. >> piano man. what convinced you to get up on stage and do that? you are usually not the kind of guy who would get up and sing in front of a lot of people. >> it was my wife who convinced me to do it. i wish she had came to me earlier, but she came to me two weeks before the concert and said, i want you to play in this gala that i am chairing. i had been practicing with this book, herringbone, a little bit, something i just did for fun. i was reluctant at first, not status because of my personality, but at the same time i was attracted to it. one of the advantages to get to do as prime minister is to get to do things you normally would not do. normally i sing and play a little bit but nobody would want to hear me perform.

i'm working on the film for olympic games. was seven minutes of animation and i was asked to make this film for bob dylan for his own, you've got to serve somebody, for mtv. that was fantastic because i love music. that i love bob dylan. mtv, nobody knew if it was be successful or not, but who cares? i thought i was like the moment in my life when everything came together. i was in hollywood. i was invited, they had white suits and swimming pools, no matter. and everything was okay for two months. but what people don't understand are born free and didn't live in a totalitarian country, that if you live in totalitarian country they give you permission to ask for a decent. they give you permission to travel for certain period of time. if you didn't come back in that time you would be in trouble. even passport would be taken away or if you came very late, you just could end up in prison. this was a whole issue that since you are a little boy you were brought up with this in doctor nation that only bad people would leave their cou

then the whole history came up again during the olympics debacle because it was the likes of valeriejarrett and the chicago cronies and richard daley who pushed very hard for both barack and michelle obama to go to bat for the olympics bid. bad entire chicago contingent traveled abroad to make that pitch. and it was a huge failure. i think a turning point* of people realizing the extent of the chicago ways on the potomac. >> host: this is a c-span booktv our monthly program featuring what author and his or her body of work. this month's guest is michelle malkin. booktv c-span.org is or e-mail address to ruder.com/ booktv the key for holding. you are on the air. >> caller: good morning. i have a question about your videos. on youtube there are videos some call you a dog is where the nazi slut or a racist or prosecute what the hell is going on? >> guest:. [laughter] and. we talked about this. that is what unhinged is about. the response that i seem to provoke. he mentioned videos on youtube. when i started hot air which is my group blog we initially conceived it as a video broadcasting

i think people are excited about hosting the olympic games. i think that canadians, there is a deep well of -- it is not patriotism in the sense that we see south of the border, the loud, flag-waving patriotism, but a real deep affection and attachment to the country. we have a great country. people around the world really admire our country. we are one of those countries that is big enough to have influence, but not big enough to threaten anyone. i think events like this bring that out and canadians are feeling good and are excited about the olympics. i'm confident when it is over that they will have reason to look back with considerable pride. . rii hope that the hockey does nt breed of all the oxygen at the olympics. >> we are looking forward to it. it will consume the country. thank you very much. we wish you and mrs. harper and your family all the best for the holidays. >> thank you very much. i want to wish both did you and all of your viewers a very merry christmas and a very happy new year. >> what do you think? >> a budget in march is

he doesn't want to be replaced on the olympic team. and kevin a severed tendon.ilar to an injury on mar cov who's playing tonight. >> joe: he's so important on totheir back line. we begin period two, cammalleri from a sharp angle. neuvirth had to face three shots in the 1st period. the fewest the caps have surrounded. knuble down the wing and answered by hamrlik. mike green for backstrom. backstrom one handed to ovechkin. swivels on top for green. wide to the cage guarded by carey price. hamrlik will settle this one. ovechkin comes up with it. makes one more feed and that will kick start the break for montreal. >> craig: that was a tricky feed. he knew carey price had a

and then this whole history came up again during the olympics debacle because, of course, it was the likes of valerie jarrett and the chicago cronies and richard daley who had pushed very hard for barack obama and michelle to go to bat for the 2016 olympics bid so that entire chicago contingent traveled abroad to make a that pitch. and it was a huge failure. and i think a turning point in people realizing the extent of the chicago way on the potomac. >> this is c-span's book tv. wanted c-span booktv. this is our "in depth" program featuring one author and his or her body of work. if you'd like to dial in a talk this month, (202)737-0001, (202)737-0002, mount and pacific. twitter.com slashed booktv is where you can send a tweet to michelle balkan. bill in l.a., thanks for holding. you are on air. >> caller: good morning, ms. malkin, how are you? >> guest: good. how are you? >> caller: i just noticed on youtube there are 1600 videos by you and other members. so far, dishonest, nazi slut, a racist, prostitute. what the hell is going on? >> guest: we talked about this. this is what "unhi

we are approaching rather quickly the vancouver olympics.here's what's to come on the schedule. >> craig: you can see 11 games in 19 days. five home, six away. three sets of back to backs and three southeast division games and a road trip upcoming start february off and to finish it up, moving in on that olympic break. >> joe: january 26, 2010 and the investigate one is almost half a hundred. wayne gretzky, 49 today. just sigh of the 3:00 mark this have third period with the capitals in front by four. washington beings wins over new york. 3-2-0. 5-4 in a shootout and 11-round shootout back in mid-november. [ whistle ] >> joe: the islanders have the other victory thanks to tret streit for head coach scott gordon. >> cras done an excellent job since become their head coach out of the american hockey league in his second season. here you look at his numbers. grooming a lost young players who will be -- who will be the stars of the future here on the island. >> joe: they missed the postseason 3-4 last campaigns. they'd love to change that around

kevin pearce was hurt as he trained in park city, utah, for next week's olympic qualifying events.eswoman said pearce was in the middle of a maneuver when he landed on his head. he was wearing a helmet. doctors are monitoring his brain for signs of swelling and say he has a long recovery ahead of him. >>> blind mice are helping researchers for incurable eye diseases. what's working in the lab and how quickly it could come to market. >>> i-reporter ryan hartman got more than he expected while taping a new year's eve fireworks show in thailand. one of the ignited shells misfired and fell back on to other fireworks. wow. hartman says some people were screaming in panic while others were cheering. he saw some people with minor burns, but luckily no serious injuries. >>> china could end up dealing with its coldest winter in 40 years. snow has been causing major trouble in china since friday. there's been so much of it that traffic in beijing is barely moving. a lot of people are trying to get back into the city after the long holiday weekend. beijing's airport is a mess, and many highwa

his brother finished sixth in the '08 olympics in beijing. >> on the wing hampton gets inside. finds three defenders. took out johnson. up high. hampton 13 to shoot. >> hampton tried to pull sanders awe way from the basket. sanders won't bite. >> up top dukes getting past vincent . nearly tied. able to bring it in. gets a bucket and a foul. vincent will go to the line. >> that is a wide body and good, low base. he was not going to be on that block. quick leasing available right back up as he was late in out of position giving that foul. >> foul goes to burrges. five against the rams. two against the panthers. georgia state going to the line again. on the way and good. vincent a 64% shooter at the line brings it as close as it has been on the second half. >> here comes the pressure from georgia state. making it a 12-5 run for the panthers to begin the second stanza. >>> vcu has not scored since after the timeout. >> picked up by goldston. shake and bake and nixon. spins. kick out marcus johnson. calls for uptight up field. >> you have momentum. no reason for a silly force. you h

someone i was worried about my >> 2000 i think about coming back from olympics. riding a true high.my daughter. gold medal. coming off of a major season, running up on mvp. first team, all nba, all-star. you name it everything. player of the year and everything. to hit a -- hear the knews that i've a rare kidney disorder. >> alonzo and i were at lunch and he said you've to come over. we think we have this raucid disease. the doctor explained you're going to need a kidney transplant. >> you were one of the first people that received the phone call that he had this rare condition. >> it scared the hell about. wasn't someone i loved. >> i was brought to my k quickl ltl ws going on. seed of equivalent benefit. i say lord, there's going something god to come -- good to come out of this. >> alonzo can will himself through anything. the day was emotional. he says i got emotional when it came out. and he said, jeff let's get going. >> in 2003 and getting that kidney transplant. it got a second chance of life. my life could have gone totally left but it went right. it has to do a lot with my

just like they were when london won its bid to host the 2012 olympics.he megamosque will hold 40,000 muslim worshippers and the most visible monument from the games. city counselor alan craig is leading a campaign against it. >> they have it. this is the megamosque. the huge building will be right there. >> it looks like wasteland. what is wrong with putting a mosque or anything there? >> this is different this is huge. this is massive. this will be at least the biggest mosque in europe, some say the biggest mosque outside of the middle east. >> right now the biggest symbol of the tug of war over islam. today counselor craig and his supporters are canvassing the neighborhood. >> hello. sorry to bother you. my name is alan craig. i'm a local counselor. i'm calling round about a large mosque they are planning to built. what is your reaction? do you welcome or not welcome? >> not welcome. >> a blunt view shared by other east enders. >> why do you not want to see this megamosque here? >> to be honest we are overcrowded here without getting a load more people

we are doing security for the olympics and the world cup in brazil. i'm involved with my firm in a lot of cases mooism active and enjoying myself which is the most important thing in life. >> larry: no kidding. the things current. the detroit suspect indicted today. some saying he should be classifieds a a military combatant. what do you think of trying him in the criminal courts? >> it's not so much trying him. it's the opportunity that was lost. the president a mistake not making him an enemy combatant. the minl you make him that, you cut off the ability to question him. i don't know the inside story. he went talking until he went out and got him a lawyer. you want to talk to this guy for a month. you want to keep him for a month or two get to get you a the intelligence he is going give you. because that could be about other possible attacks on the united states. and i really believe the president and the attorney general should rethink the commitment to the justice system. we came from outside the country. what he was planning was an attack on amer

months later he said i was with him in cairo, i visited many times we work together to watch the olympics then he died. what was particularly interesting fat was according to the sun, heim had to convert to islam because israel signed a peace treaty with egypt he was afraid the egyptians would give him up. said he converted to have protection from the egyptians. but heim wanted to donate his body to science but the family that adopted him was opposed on religious grounds because it is against islam so they stole his body and threw it into a mass grave that is used for paupers. every year thousands of corpses are thrown into the mass grave and that happened is supposedly 1992. it is impossible to corroborate the story. we cannot do dna checked and it is a perfect fit to. he is certain he lived in egypt. and actually after he supposedly was assassinated by some israeli claims of 25 not zzzz but under no certainty and the german police agreed that heim died for of that is one case and one last story will give you an idea of how we work. a case of a man we hope will be brought to trial shortl

just like they were when london won its bid to host the 2012 olympics.and it will be the most visible monument from the games. >> the site itself, an old chemical site. >> reporter: city councilor alan craig is leading a campaign against it. >> there you have it. this is the mega mosque, that huge building you've seen on the plans and architects would be right there. >> reporter: it looks like wasteland. what's wrong with putting a mosque or anything there? >> but this is different. this is huge. this is massive. this is going to be at least the biggest mosque in europe, some say the biggest mosque outside the middle east. >> reporter: and right now, it's become the biggest symbol of the tug-of-war that's happening here over islam. today councilor craig and his supporters are canvassing the neighborhood. >> hello, sorry to bother you. my name's alan craig. i'm a local councilor, calling around about a large mosque. they're planning to build just across the way here. you've heard about this mosque this large one. >> yeah. >> what is your reaction, welcome

good news for the winter olympics. no official word yet on the late night shake-up that has got the tv world buzzing. the new york times is reporting nbc plans to move jay leno back to its 11:30 time slot and push conan to midnight. officials met with both hosts on thursday, the network spokeswoman was tight lipped. both late night hosts refusing to comment on what's going on behind the scenes. leno himself made light of the situation. >> it's katie couric's birthday today. she left nbc for another network, i have to give her a call, see how that's working out. as you may have heard, there's a rumor floating around we were cancelled. i heard it this morning on the radio. kevin, you know, if we did get cancelled, it would give us time to do some traveling. >> that would be wonderful. >> i understand, fox is beautiful this time of year. >> it really is. >> what does nbc stand for? >> never believe your contract. but you know, hey, i want to tell you. >> leno's 10:00 p.m. show isn't giving network affiliates the boost the

in the run-up to the beijing olympics the chinese were worried about terrorist attacks on the olympicsthat would disrupt the games and be a black mark on china's reputation. we worked very hard with the chinese to share as much information as we could. we actually disrupted a couple of attacks. one attack would have occurred on an airplane headed into china. bose came out of western pakistan. and were tied to al qaeda and the islamic movement which the u.s. government considers a terrorist organization. that said, china continues to see the threat of terrorism through their local lens and they have yet to engage fully as a global partner on the issue of how these transnational threats affect not just their security but global security. this also relates well be on the terrorism context to issues like the iran nuclear question, their willingness to impose sanctions, their willingness to hurt their own commercial interests to meet international security considerations in north korea. there is a full slate of international issues where chinese involvement as a productive international pla

what happened was the house of blues had, was there for the olympics in 1996 and there was a church they had turned into the house of blues. i had an opportunity to rent the place because it had like 1,100 seats and it was the perfect size of what i wanted to do. >> larry: what kind of plays do you write? >> they're called gospel musicals. they have been called urban theater. chitlin circuit theater. which is a thing i'm really, really proud of. first off, i used to be embarrassed by that term. then i found out the history about it. when black people couldn't perform in the establishments, such as marion anderson, you name it. you go down the list, billie holiday, they would go on this circuit where black people would be -- there would be chitlins there. and she would sing and perform. that's how they supported their families and become famous. before anyone knew my name, i was doing really well on this circuit. and that's why i'm able to do the movies and be in the position i'm in now. >> larry: what are you first? because you perform, you write, you do a lot of things -- are you a play

we're getting involved in doing security for the olympics and the world cup in brazil. a bunch of other projects like that in other parts of the world. i'm involved with my firm in audit cases. i'm very active and i'm enjoying myself, which is the most important thing in life, right? >> larry: you're not kidding. let's get to things current. the detroit terror suspect indicted today. liz cheney and some others say he should be classified as an enemy combatant before a military tribunal. you were a prosecutor. what do you think of trying him in the criminal courts? >> i don't think it's a question of trying him so much as the opportunity that was lost. i think the president made a very big mistake in not making him an enemy combatant, because the minute you make him a criminal justice defendant, you cut off the ability to really question him. in fact, as far as i know -- i don't know the inside story here. he was talking until we went out and got him a lawyer. cut him off from talking. you want to talk to this guy for about a month. you want to keep him an enemy combatan

he's not quitting, he's just telling him they won't do what they're asking him to do after the olympics. >> larry: yay a >> larry: jay and conan have been making jokes about this debacle, let's take a look. oh, we didn't have it. >> they just put a banner up, nbc, "mission accomplished." >> larry: donald, aren't you surprised? you know all these executives. how did they get in this mess? >> dfs just a big mistake. i think it was one of the biggest mistakes in the history of television, as bill carter said, and it looks to me like a massive litigation waiting to happen. at the same time, ic think now nbc has claimed not to pay conan because they're going to say conan has refused to go on the air, that way we don't have to pay him the 40 or $8 o$80 milli whatever the package is, and now they're probably going to say we're not going to pay conan and we have jay leno back where he belongs. it's a mess. i've never seen anything like this. >> larry: hold it, dick. whoever ends up on the 11:35 will koccompete with letterman here's what he said on the show tonight. >> now nbc is really up again

we talk about the olympics, they are building a lot of tv sets. no one says, yeah, they have nukes too. they moseley sat in silos or ware houses in various places. it hasn't had much significance, anything expect in causing a certain amount of alarm among various other countries. okay. nuclear proliferation next point, well, not necessarily undesirable does not prove to be a major danger. it follows with what i'm saying. it happens, too bad. they'll be wasting a lot of money and effort. it's not likely to be a big deal. there aren't a whole lot of countries anxious to jump in to waste their money on the silly weapons. it's not likely to accelerate. the -- on the other hand, strong efforts, particularly since the end of the cold war, 20 years ago, they keep rogue states from obtaining nuclear weapons and counterproductive and have far more deathed that have been inflicted by all wepons of mass destruction in all of history. the chief case in this is iraq. the concern was that saddam hussein got nuclear weapons or even weapons of mass destruction li

. >> $1.76 billion for the winter olympic games in vancouver. >> not an all-time high but it is for the winter games. after the super bowl we have 5,000 athletes, don, from 58 countries heading to vancouver. $2 billion of cost. the open, closing ceremony already sold out. hockey game already sold out. good to know in this economy it's a big event and doing well. >> world cup, too, another event. prize money $420 million. >> well, the $420 is one story, but the fact that south africa is hosting a world class event for the first time, little bit risky. the infrastructure isn't guaranteed. we've seen it. it's going to revolutionize the world cup and bring major events to a continent that haven't had them before. >> did you have a good holiday season? >> fantastic holiday season. i drank a little bit, thinking about how we're going to make segments bigger and better for the next 30 years, my friend. how does that sound? >> that sounds great. by then i'll be really old. we won't say how old. >> really rich in. >> 30 years i'll be 40. >> okay. good math. see you next week. >>> they say it wil

little red cloth is so terrifying that that day i recall, i think he won the 100 meters race at the olympicscoming out of the bullriding and we published our second book, which is called i will let tressa when the morning as merv griffin said one day on one of his shows. and then one day i lecture dental lateef, and i decided to go and visit, so i took a taxi and and that's taxi suddenly i discovered on this side of the roads climbing to jerusalem it was a tiny boat at the time, at a cemetery of charge tracks and on each of those trucks there was a few words in hebrew. there were some flowers and i said to the driver, but why this calvary on the road to jerusalem and he said sorry you don't know what happened here. on the night of the 24th of march, 1948 the whole city of jerusalem was completely bcg by arab guerrillas, and the people there, 100,000, the most sacred of the jewish people were about to die of thirst and hunger, and david ben gurion you the time was the chief of the jewish community of palestine had decided to organize a huge convoy of trucks to bring flour, water and sugar to

run on february 11 as nbcegins its verage of the winter olympics. friday lemo was already joki about his next move. >> they did canc as it would ben easy move for me because i stilhaven't unpacked from the last shothey canceled. everything istill back there so it's fine. >> brown: more on l this now from roberthompson of >> brown: more on all this n from robert thomon of syracuse iversity, where he's foundin director of e blyer center for televion and popular culture. and kim sters, who covers the entertainment business as st kcrw's "the business" on blic radio in los angeles. kim masters, it was the affiliates and their1:00 p.m.ewscasts. explain how thatart of the tv busess works. >> well, the affiliates rely on tir local newscasts for advertising revenue. it's a very important partf eir picture. and th found that they were long their audience. in some cases it was quite precipitous. double digit dps. dropping , newscasts dropping fromumber one to number 2 or 3. they bically told nbc that if nbc did not puljay leno at 10:00 they were goi to start p