guest: what worries to me about the president's approach to the pal -- palestinian approach is historical and the honest broker, brokering the differences of israel and the forces, the hamas and all the rest who want to destroy israel. because israel is a salient of our values, in a dangerous and inhospital neighborhood, it seems that the united states is an ally of israel and gets many awards from that association. host: as we jump around about the policies in iran? guest: it's thrilling what is going on in iran. in the run-up of the election, twittering, i don't know the verb. twitting was important. when the ayatollah came back in 1969, he was using cassettes. the world moves, 30 years late we have internet and satellite dishes, purities have established of sealing out outside forces. socializing the people. it's impossible nowadays, simply impossible. furthermore the median age of iran is 25, they are not going to be governed indefinitely by medieval clerics. it's not going to happen, and we are saying what happened in philippines when marcos call for election from the senator from ne

if those changes might move this process forward to where the pal stinniance are satisfied -- palestinians are satisfied, the israelis are satisfied and. >> it was not very successful. he was seen as very extreme. as we tried alienate the israeli public. when he ran for reelection now, he tried to provide a unit. forthcoming to the peace process. some kind of reconciliation with the palestinians. however, in the coalition that he has, it is one of those from them to the right. if he is more moderate now, the government he's heading is just as hard-core as the government he had in 1996. so there is not much of a change in that sense. most israelis believe that since the palestinian state isn't at arm's reach right now, it was in fact get into the reconciliation with the palestinians, the main focus now is iraq. one of the reasons why israelis voted for it. believe he's a tough guy to solve the palestinian issue. they seem to be on the back burner for most. host: is it expected the prime minister will make a significant reference to the election in iran? or is that seen as a distraction at t

my son and his pals he runs around with traveled one summer all around the country watching ballgames. that's tour im. as the senator from minnesota mentioned, the tourism jobs in nevada, the reason it is so important, we have one union that has 60,000 members. those member members are maids,r valets, they are waiters, waitresses. so i just think that it's a shame we have, because of the republicans are looking for an excuse to make obama look back, he wants this done. it is part of his program, tourism. so i appreciate the comments of my friend from minnesota. a senator: i suggest the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: the presiding officer: the senator from nebraska. mr. nelson: madam president, i rise to discuss a sense of the senate resolution i proposed with -- the presiding officer: senator nelson, the senate is currently in a quorum call. mr. nelson: i ask unanimous consent the call of the quorum be dispensed. .the presiding officer: without objection, so ordered. mr. nelson: thank you. i rise to discuss a sense-of-the-senate

we just elected in the munenuss pal election in philadelphia a wonderful council woman, maria sanchez, and she won in a district that was not 50% latino. she won because she was the best candidate and ran the best campaign. we have a secretary of state who was appointed by me in my first year of office. he has risen to be president of the national secretary of states association, and he's supervised two presidential elections, in 2004 and 2008, when pennsylvania was the center of the universe and there wasn't one hint of any problem in either of those elections. a remarkable fete by a remarkable young man. [applause] and we've made great progress politically and some progress with groups like ees&a in social and economic fronts. but that progress is challenged today by two things. i just want to take a minute to talk about the two thing that is are challenging those. first is education. i am so pleased that we have made so much gain in pennsylvania in six years in education. 30% more of our children are both proficient in math and in skyance than six years ago. math and english than s

you know, driving up here i live in pal tow alto and my husband and i were driving up here and i thought, you know, we are the most fortunate people on the planet in all of history to live in california. it is just gorgeous up here. palo alto and the south bay is beautiful. and it changes character, the terrain, the entire environment, changes character after -- go over that wolf golden gate bridge, and here we are in beautiful corda m madiera. you can't hear me, is this better? i'll speak up, also. i'll start by talking about how i happened to write this book and we have to go back into history, all of three years when, if you recall, three years ago, it seemed certain that a woman was going to be the democratic candidate for president of the united states. and then win this election. things changed a lot and very quickly but there was, three years ago, no competition on the horizon. and so as i thought about this woman, who was about to become our first woman president, of the united states, i realized, she had been a first lady, and i had worked on a first lady for 30 years of my care

i b, i thought the comparison of pal tin -- palestinians to slaves and therefore israelis to slave masters was absurd and unhistorical. host: do you applaud the effort or think he should not have made it? guest: i'm all for the effort, now in its 60th year, to get the palestinians and israelis together. i think there's a danger when you get a peace process going, the process becomes an end in itself. we'll do almost anything to keep the process going, the process is supposed to be a means to an end. host: chicago, you're on the phone for george will. clip good morning, how are you doing this morning? host: we're fine. what's on your mind. caller: primarily, when i turned on the program on, you were talking about big tobacco, i see we've digressed to international issues. host: it's a fairly free-ranging discussion, he writes about so many topics, what's on your mind? caller: i was calling about the big tobacco issue and from my experience and in my -- from historically, not historically but seeing mr. will's position on big tobacco, it seems that, ok, there seems to be a problem and the pr

cross afghanistan, in the pal and africa. we're starting to move to latin america up and i name them all dorothy burn after my mom. >> republican line? >> thanks for taking my call. mr. burn, thank you so much for being on the forefront of naked shorting an and greatest ponzi scheme this nation has seen. you've been doing a fantastic job and those of us that have been following it have been following you as well. my question - >> thank you. >> sure. my question is on the books, there have been um... there have been rules and regulations that were able to stop the naked shorting and we know that someone has been asleep at the switch but what's on our minds is, do you see the loopholes being closed and the you know the reigning in of naked shorting as you will? >> well, thank you for your really generous comments, dan. my thoughts are, well it has been quite a struggle and when americans understand as they are getting an understanding of this issue. i think it's going to turn out to be the biggest financial crime of all-time. i

cross afghanistan, in the pal and africa. we're starting to move to latin america up and i name them all dorothy burn after my mom. >> republican line? >> thanks for taking my call. mr. burn, thank you so much for being on the forefront of naked shorting an and greatest ponzi scheme this nation

we're very proud that our pals of this caliber would join us for the occasion, and we're especially delighted, as always, to help our friends to serve as the chief justice. as i mentioned last night, sometimes it's very hard to get judges to be unanimous about anything. i think you can say anything you can say about judges sometimes, which you can say about legislature is getting them together on something is like herding cows, but if there's one thing that those of us in the federal judiciary argue now about in this hour of respect, affection for the chief justice. he is someone of great warmth and great humor, and enormous legal skills, and one of the things i think we respect so much about him is he has an essential sense of the dignity of the job, so those of us in the federal judiciary to have someone of the chief justice's caliber leading our system. i have a few questions of you, chief. you mentioned last night in your remarks that one of the things that you had accomplished was the front load of the calendar of the supreme court calendar a little bit so everything wiewpts be jamed up

the reaction i had to having failed to nurse a baby whose malformed pal at made it impossible was the same one i'd experienced after attempting a vaginal birth after cesarean. that effort had resulted in 44 hours of unmedicated labor followed by another c-section. when pregnant with his older brother zeke, i spent most of my time online chatting and reading about how to avoid a medically-unnecessary cesarean. and all she sair yarns were, according to experts, unnecessary. women around me were having babies in birthing tubs and had birth plans. granted, i live in berkeley. perhaps in other parts of the country a woman who ends up under the knife is not derided as too posh to push. [laughter] posh or not, i never got to push. after 44 hours, a doctor shoved my midwife aside and ordered a c-section. when zeke was a fussy newborn who loathed all systems of transportation, especially his stroller, i was once walking home from running errands. i had been holding him all day, and my back felt like it had been worked over by a pack of foul-tempered ninjas. hoping to distract him from the fact

bull's-eye on his chest and the one without bubbles i says to the one with a bull's-eye heck of a birthmark, pal. [laughter] that is what it feels like to be jewish. you woke up thinking what did i do? why are people targeting me? why are people at the other end of the sniperscope, why do they want to tell me? what did i do to them? i am not saying the jewish people or the state of israel has never done anything wrong. but no more wrong than everybody else in the world we are all sinners. the bible says we all stand and have fallen short of the glory of god so why is everyone he doesn't want to annihilate us? throughout history this has happened. throughout history people have had to make choices. whose side are you on? are you going to be on the side of evil or are you on this side of god? are you on the side of the am i leaders or will dupre and fast and trust the god of abraham, isaac and jacob to use you to confront evil and save the lives of innocent people? this is a question we must ask right now. do we believe and the god of love? do we believe in the god of forgiveness? do we believe in

one of the issues another is a debate about it but i think we have certainly had a eighth straight pal empty for a long while and we're not getting the results. >> mr. chairman, the senator rakowski will be offering an amendment we can all agree on that is graduated rate we have been working on it a really good alternative. >> i think for the contribution. >> mr. chairman, i do have an amendment agreed upon, senator burkowski and i ask unanimous consent it be accepted? >> yes, burkowski never 40. >> i think it has been cleared on both sides. >> member 40. >> not the one i referred to. >> i think it is clear that on both sides -- tom, do you want to see it? i am going to recognize senator miracle for an amendment. just a second, we're looking at a burkowski amendment is there objection to the senator burkowski amendment? without objection the amendment is adopted. senator miracle. >> thank you mr. chairman, i want to take this opportunity to note that sma share with the appointed senator enzi to making a one folks approach. they break their agreement needs to be addressed in a way and t

three-run home run to ryan howard on saturday night and give autopsy grand slam, but his relieving pals in the bullpen picked him up and kept it a scoreless game into the bottom of the 12th inning. >> when brian bass walked the lead-off man in particular afast runner, bonifacio, you're asking for trouble. all you have to do is get the run and the game end ins the bottom of the inning. and luke scott made a strong throw to the plate and gregg zaun did the only thick a catcher can do in that situation, hope you come up with it and tag the base runner all in one motion. unfortunately he couldn't get the ball in there. luke plaid a strong throw, but the lead-off walk and the wild pitch proved costly. >> the orioles battle back and this team has been resilient on the year. you better get the 27 outs. we're going to welcome in the manager dave trembley. a disappointing loss, but what a battle your team made. you have to be really proud of the effort. two outs and nobody on in the ninth inning and somehow they manage to score three runs and tie it. >> we got some big hits off the bench. we got

guest: what worries to me about the president's approach to the pal -- palestinian approach is historical and the honest broker, brokering the differences of israel and the forces, the hamas and all the rest who want to destroy israel. because israel is a salient of our values, in a dangerous and inhospital neighborhood, it seems that the united states is an ally of israel and gets many awards from that association. host: as we jump around about the policies in iran? guest: it's thrilling what is going on in iran. in the run-up of the election, twittering, i don't know the verb.

thank the good lord above, they said sorry, pal, you are not a united states citizen. have a seat. you bet. those interrogations between k.s.m. and the other two very senior members of al qaeda, our intelligence services tell us that 60% to 70% of what we know about al qaeda and how it functions came from just those interrogations. 60% to 70%. that's by the understanding of our intelligence community. from there we pursued globally the effort to aggressively pursue those who attacked us and the network of al qaeda. imagine our shock after the president said he would not propose reading miranda rights as if they were shoplifters, that we find that they had sat down with the justice department and others and cooked up a plan called the global justice initiative. to change the priority from intelligence gathering on the field to law enforcement on the field. what does that mean? it means when they were picking up somebody on the battlefield in afghanistan after attacking say the 82nd airborne or putting i.e.d. to kill civilians or afghans or u.s. soldiers we are bringing back to a det