also, you'll find paul's personal rememberance of economist paul samuelson. and before he left for copenhagen, ray suarez joined me at the rundown to talk about the h1n1 flu documentary that's airing tonight on pbs. we've launched an "anatomy of a pandemic" web site, where you can ask questions to the head of flu response at the cdc. dr. anne schuchat and flu expert dr. michael osterholm. you can visit us at newshour.pbs.org. >> woodruff: and that's the newshour for tonight. i'm judy woodruff. >> lehrer: and i'm jim lehrer. we'll see you on-line. and again here tomorrow evening. thank you and good night. major funding for the pbs newshour is provided by: >> what the world needs now is energy. the energy to get the economy humming again. the energy to tackle challenges like climate change. what is that energy came from an energy company? everyday, chevron invests $62 million in people, in ideas-- seeking, teaching, building. fueling growth around the world to move us all ahead. this is the power of human energy. chevron. >> this is the engine that connects abu

paul williams the right side, now looking inside. luke fabz quo fabrizio in the lane. >> derek: this dayton team chuting 80% largely due to a lot of lay-ins >> mike: good look by mickey perry. maybe old dominion and others were looking for fabre sieio. offensive foul called on frank hassell. look out. we have two flyers down, maybe knocking heads. i'm not sure >> derek: paul williams lands right on luke fabrizius' knee. that doesn't look good. i think he hyper extended his knee >> mike: luke just came into the game. he is not looking -- >> derek: really bent his knee completely back. one of those common injuries that takes place when you are under the basket and you have a charge that occurs. i'm not sure if we're going to have the opportunity to see another replay, but fabrizius obviously in quite a bit of pain. quite a bit of pain. the arena has gone quiet. luke is going to try to get up, get help from mike bewley. mike and nate carrying him off. he is not putting any wit on that leg >> derek: no, he is not. we're going to get an o

. >> host: paul kirby is here joining in the requesting. >> host: thank you. >> guest: hello, paul be. >> host: regarding net neutrality the chairman has stressed the point that the fcc will realize that wireless and wire line networks are technologically different. so in adopting rules, it will recognize that. so as long as it does, why is it a bad thing that it applies those rules to the wireless effort? >> guest: that's a great point that i first made with the chairman and his staff, and i'm glad he recognizes it. what it says to me is that we should be thoughtful about how we apply them to wireless. it is different, spectrum is limited in wireless, and we should be thoughtful about putting rules in place that encourage people to conserve this very valuable resource which is what spectrum is. and so those kind of details, you know, it's always the devil is in the details, but just the fact that there's that recognition is encouraging on part of the commission. but i think until we see the final rulings, we won't be able to tell whether we have any concerns about them or not. >> hos

paul williams goes out. mark just johnson back in >> derek: the thing to keep an eye on in this game is offensive rebound. right now, the monarchs have seven offensive rebounds. when they have 14 or more offensive rebounds, they are undefeated. that's a statistic to keep an eye on tonight >> mike: all tied at 25 as keyon carter completes the three-point game and goes out of the game and gerel lee comes back in for the monarchs. dealing with old dough men onzone defense. marcus johnson, coming off the dribble, chris johnson for 3. that one rims out and another rebound for old dominion, this time a defensive board. 43 seconds left to play. we are tied at 25. bazemore with the ball, off the dribble, kicks it down low. darius james is going to bring it back out and set it up. a 10-second difference between the game clock and shot clock. shot clock at 16 now. chris johnson, chris wright guarding darius james. up top, neely. 10 seconds left, down low. lee has it tripped by london warren. loose on the floor. it's t

they get it to paul williams and paul is going to be fouled by gerald lee. gerald lee will pick up his fourth personal foul. paul williams, that's the 9th team out mark just johnson back in the game. paul williams at the line fort flyers, shooting the one on one. paul williams back on the line again, 75% free throw shooter. sends it on the way. and it goes. all of his points from the free throw line tonight but those are big and that's what this team has done better this season, shoot the free throws. >> they really v that was the point of emphasis that they had off the summer. the flares have put the time in and as a result, they are shooting a lot higher percentage from the charity stripe. >> 6 seconds left. the three-pointer fired up, no good. old dominion picks it up. gerald lee at the buzzer. that's the ballgame. the dayton flyers win their 24th straight game at home, 58- 50 over old dominion. we'll be right back. oh! blue! time! time out. i touched it. i touched the ball before it went out, coach. come on, alex, the ref did not call that! you gotta be

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and paul pillar served in a variety of intelligence analysis and management positions. mr. allen, i will start with you. after 9/11 there was a lot of reorganization in the intelligence community. has it worked? what do we now know? >> i think it's worked very well overall. obviously there's still more work to be done based on this event that occurred on christmas day. but the intelligence reform and terrorism prevention act said we should establish a national counterterrorism center and all intelligence agencies should ensure that the information flows freely and fully. and that information is shared even in the sensitive with the national counterterrorism center. and we do this on a regular basis. it is not perfect. a lot of cables flow in every day from all over the world. they flow from many sources, military, intelligence, law enforcement, and all that data has to be looked at. assessed and determined, does this really pose a direct threat to the interests of the united states, at home or abroad. this is a very large problem. we need to streamline this further. i worke

ron paul. we heard discussion back-and-forth about liberty and that sort of thing on the two parties but i think dr. paul kneal did in terms of the linchpin that's caused so many problems in the federal reserve system. it is a wonderful book, very well written, very down-to-earth and his humanity comes through. i would highly recommend it and the fed to everyone a merry christmas to you and all the listeners. >> host: and we covered congressmen ron paul talking about his book at ebook event this year on book tv. here is a look. scaap next federal reserve chairman i had some confrontations with and discussion with was alan greenspan and i tell the story about the time i think most of you here in this audience would know the story that alan greenspan of course was a supporter of and friend of ayn rand and was in their group of people but in the 1960's he approached this fantastic article about how bad that debt was and how bad the federal central bank was and we confiscated wealth by printing mon

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and ron paul has spoken accurately. i do believe we ought to have a system that makes it -- that extends medical care. but you can't guarantee it. i think we with do better in providing it. and i think medicare is a good thing. for older people, they are better off with medicare. and i would say the most popular form of medicine is the holy government medicine that is dispensed by the veterans affairs. the ones they talked to would get angry, and it's after a holy government. >> congressman paul, would you an agree that public at large does not want to you fail again to come up with you as a body to come up with something that improve what is we have? >> everybody does. i might believe that you can improve it with less government. others believe you nied more government. for instance, i don't believe we should cut of the funds for medicare. they talk about taking $400 billion out of medicare. that doesn't make sense. iowa agree was. everybody should have good hk. i don't believe that government delivers on their promise

i agree 100% with what ron paul just said. the hundreds of billions, the trillions we are on the verge of wasting in wars that do it more harm than good, that's really very important. and ron paul has spoken very accurately. and i agree with him on that. i do believe we ought to have a system that makes it -- that extends medical care. but you can't guarantee it. i think we can do a lot better in providing it. i also think as an example of my difference with ron is i think medicare is a good thing. for older people, they are better off with medicare than what replaced pitp and i would say the most popular form of medicine is the holy government medicine that is dispensed by the department of veterans affairs. the veterans i talked to would get very angry if someone said we'll abolish the veterans affair which is a holy government. >> congressman paul, would you an agree that public at large does not want to you fail again to come up -- you as a body -- to come up with something that improves what we have? >> everybody does. i

ron paul. and these are the people who understood and knew that the mass we are in was coming before it actually had us. they also fall -- dr. thomas e. woods literally breaks out of a very good case and a case of how government created this mess, including the federal reserve, which allowed all of this to occur. >> host: jeff, thank you for the input. richard on our democrat fine. your favorite book of 2009 nonfiction? >> caller: thank you for c-span. richard dawkins, the raiders joiners. the evidence for evolution. i'm just amazed that people are calling and and citing the bible as a nonfiction book. thank you. >> host: thank you for your call. a look at richard dawkins book. one of the many books recovered, the invention of air earlier this year and that steven johnson's book. here's a look at his comments in the book reading. >> i stumbled across this story about joseph priestley and i knew a little bit about briefly. like most people i think i'd heard about him is the guy who i discovered

i this one to ask, how did you get to follow paul former?>> i met him, i was doing an article for the "new yorker" magazine in haiti but american soldiers and i ran into him and i got interested in him, although six years past, i kept vague track of him for those six years and i think it is odd to me that i didn't pursue him right away because he was so clearly interested, but i think i was shocked by haiti. and i think when i came back, i spent a lot of time and energy trying to reconcile the that that they be with my own privileged american life, trying to hang on to my conviction that i had learned all of my privileges and the problem of course with an idea like that, it falls apart the minute you ask if, what if i had been born haitian? i think i knew from the start if i started following this guy around if you let me, he would disturb my peace of mind. anyway, somewhere around 2000, late 1999 i got in touch with him, and he invited me to come and see him at the hospital in boston and then he invited me to spend, to follow him around for

paul, what is your take on the events of the last two days? >> reporter: well being we', we seen a serious plot averted that could have killed hundreds of people in the skies, hundreds of more people on the ground. in 2006 here in london around ten individuals plotted a major attack to bring down airliners over the atlantic ocean. this seems a lot like that in many respects. al qaeda has come back to targeting airliners time and time again. we saw 9/11, in '95, an attempt over the pacific of american airline irs. it has the hallmarks of al qaeda. it is too early to tell if it is linked to that terrorist organization, larry. >> larry: nic, how concerned are the british authorities about muslim radicalism in the uk? do they see this suspect as an off/on operator or part of a wider network? >> reporter: they haven't -- we haven't heard from british officials specifically about this suspect at the moment, the british government said they're very concerned. the prime minister said today he's concerned helping the u.s. authorities with the investiga

paul krugman, to you first.you've been calling on the president for some time to do more to create jobs. what do you think of his proposals today? >> what i've been saying basically is show me the money. concept ally it kind of makes sense. it's a bunch of things that are ideas that i and other people have been advocating. it is clearly a plan to sort of do job creation on the cheat. they're trying to leverage a limited amount funds to do a disproportionate amount of job creation. okay stuff. how big? if we're talking about $60 women i don't know, this is not going to do it. if it is $200 billion, we're talking at least something halfway serious . >> woodruff: you're saying a little bit is okay but he should have done still more. >> we don't know how much he's doing, right? i read his speech. i listened to it. it's all general, conceptual stuff. we don't have a number on what this is going to be. that makes all the difference. it's the scale of the thing. it's not something where you can say... the idea is good.

the importance of charter0is beyond a pition to what doug paul just said -- arter-08 presents a cogent anysis of the last almoswond years of chinese hiory and enumerates a -- almos100 years of chinese history d enumerates a list of human-rights disasters andhis has all been laid at the fooof the regime that do not allow freedom expression, indendent, civil-society voices and then wh the charter sets fth is a call to implemt international human rights in the chinese contt, so i think thais in part why there isuch a strong reaction fromhe authories, but the other reacon is because charter-'08 in december 08 was signed by 300 of t most diverse group so in additiono intellectuals and holars, it was sign by workers. it was signed by petitners. it was signed by journalts. it was a derse group. and now, more than a yr later, despite most a year of chinese poce, security forces, and the whole machery intimidating, detaining, questioning individus who did sign it, you actually now have ov 10,000 signatures, sohat the significance of it iis, despite the intidation and the detention and the 11ear

paul.is is a port charlotte, fla.. caller: i think it was january or february of this year, there was a story that broke about a couple of guys trying to smuggle -- i think it was $135 billion worth of government securities into italy and there were rumors that the federal reserve was involved. but that story was dropped as quickly as it came on the scene. do you have any information about that? guest: no, i'm sorry i do not. i remember reading about that, but i do not know exactly what was going on. it reminds me of the stories of shipping carloads of cash over to iraq to be distributed, literally billions of dollars of cash. and there was no audit exactly of where this cash went into iraq. a lot of those things happen. maybe something like that would come out in an audit, but i'm afraid that even with an audit, they would be able to cover their trails and cover of most of that kind of stuff. host: 50 bill that is coming out of committee becomes law, will we be in better or worse shape? gu

douglas paul and professor holm, thank you both very much. >> you're welcome. thank you. >> brown: now, in a weak economy, what may be a ticking time bomb for many states, cities and towns. hundreds of billions in pension liabilities that are currently underfunded. in california, governor arnold schwarzenegger warned just this week that his state will need billions more from the federal government for basic operations, even as longer-term pension requirements loom. "newshour" correspondent spencer michels reports. >> reporter: when 86-year-old john canfield retired from his california state job, he was making about $50,000 a year. as a senior engineer, he had designed highway bridges used by thousands of californians. >> destructed all over the state of california and i take pride in that. >> reporter: today with yearly increases for cost of living, his state pension totals about $63,000. that's more than the average for state workers because canfield was one of the higher paid employees. >> i feel that i earned that retirement pay. i considered it a contract b

paul. they saw the great depression before it hit. dr.homas lays out a good case, farewell how government created this. he eviscerates the government that allowed this to a corporate host: thank you for the import. your favorite book of 2009 precurso. caller: "the greatest show on earth." i am amazed that people are citing the bible as a nonfiction book. host: thank you for your call. this is the cover of richard dawkins' book. we covered "the invention of tair." here's a look at his comments. " i stumbled across this story. i heard of him as the guy who discovered oxygen for the first time. that is his reputation. it is strange. he did not do it first and the kind of got it wrong in some fundamental ways. but that line has a kind of stuck with him. his wikipedia entry is that he's the guy who discovered oxygen. i found out another interesting thing about him. i think it deserves more credit. the book evangelizes that discovery. he was the first person to realize that plants were creating oxygen. host: marquette, michigan. caller: good mo

but with paul, he actually went to new york when he was in new york after his death. he visited with the widow. and he expressed his sympathy. and what does this -- what does this tell me? and what it tells one that the culture of death is bigger than putin. it's even bigger than putin. >> joining us now on book tv is morgan. you are here at the national book awards. do you have any finalist? >> i don't. but i'm on the board of the national book foundation. so i'm very excited that we are celebrating our 60th. we had our contest to name the book. i have the honor of announcing that tonight. so it's an exciting night. >> well, let's talk economies. what's the economic situation for grove atlantic right now? >> grove atlantic consistents of two old, grove press founded in 1951 and atlantic founded in 1917. we are privately owned. myself and a couple others of my fames. -- families. we don't have the pressures. we also do about 50% of our business off of our old list. henry miller, samuel bucket, that gives us a kind of stability. it's tough out there. i was just saying

we need a true second party, ron paul.atest on the copenhagen conference on climate change. rich nations step up pressure on beijing. developed countries like the united states are pressing china's delegation to submit to independent monitoring and formal targets. the other headline this morning in "the washington post." coordination stalled talks on global warming. they said the walkout may not delay deal. negotiators hope to have an agreement by this friday. bakersfield, calif., -- california. caller: i'm a green, i hate to admit it but i think the most impressive is barney frank. i do not like the man personally but i think he has really got the answers we need to listen to. host: what are the things he is saying? caller: he really understands the shell game that was played with the bundling of securities. he really understands we need regulation. free enterprise without regulation is really just piracy. host: ron on the democratic line from pennsylvania. caller: in my view, a tie between al gore and robert kennedy, jr.

paul taylor the professor exhibited only pride and encouragement for her ambition never for a moment thought she should stay home and mind of the children and of so we thought she was a genius and adored her for it. another unique been on women's emancipation is find the right has been. now with the politics of gender and the federal government in her government job and the struggles of the point*. these are images of two new deal barrels. they're typical. that is why i chose them if they reflect visually what i am about to say about policy which is virtually every new deal program rested on conservative assumptions of gender. even the emergency relief program either excluded women wore excluded them from public jobs and had tiny relief payments or they limited the end to selling mattresses and federal sweatshops. social security, wagner labor relations act it excluded from coverage almost all men of color and women of all races. lange's employer was one of the most discriminatory agencies the biggest operation of the federal government bigger than the defense department. its definit

and ask paul questions abo the recession. president's plan for creating jobor other economic topi on your mind. ray suarez has twoideo postcards fr ann arbor, michigan one on zingerman's deli and e other on the re of digital mea. and jeffrey brown's art beat bl our correspondents pick their favote books, movies and performances of 2009. all of that, and our n blog of ne and insight it'called 'the rundo', and we update it throughout the day. you can find it all newshour.pbs.org. judy. >> woodruff: a that's the newshour foronight. i'm judy woodrf. jim. >> lehrer: thanks, judy. we'll see you on-le and again here tomorrow evenin i'm jim lehrer. ank you and good night. major funding for the pbs newshour is providedy: >> this is the eine that connectsbundant grain from the american heartland to han's best sellinghole wheat, while keeping 60illion pounds of rbon out of the atmosphere every year. bnsf, the engine that connects us. >> what makes us an engineor theconomy? plants across america. nearly00,000 jobs created. weee beyond ca

representative ron paul is a republican of texas, member of the international relations committee. was a flight surgeon in the air force and obgyn in civilian life. and ben stein the economist attorney, former presidential speech writer, columnist with "fortune" magazine. representative lee, were you satisfied with the president's statement today, and do you think we're now getting on top of things? >> absolutely, larry. i believe the president has always been on top of this issue of securing the homeland. it is not a partisan issue. it's not a democratic issue or republican issue, and he stood today and indicated we're moving forward on items we've done improving our security and screening, looking to ensure that we're going after the terrorists who want to come after us. finding al qaeda wherever it is, and yes, doing an inventory and investigation on what happened and why. but several issues we have to address. and one of them is the serious stove piping of intelligence. communicating information that could have prevented this individual from boarding this plane, flight 253. >>

>> brown: and the relevance in our time of john maynard keynes: "newshour" economics correspondent paul solman has a somewhat off-beat explanation. ♪ my general theory made quite an impression i transformed the econ profession, you know me, modesty say it loud and say it clear, we're all keynesians now. >> lehrer: that's all ahead on tonight's "pbs newshour."

guest: paul, i had difficulty understanding the first questions. i just got the lessons and care. host: i think that is the gist of it. guest: he asked one question we learned about warrior care since walter reed. i think we learned there is that, first of all, the army -- if you remember "forrest gump" when he was playing ping-pong, he was playing a patient in an army relocation center, -- army rehabilitation center. in the 1970's, we had one of

even john paul stevens who does his own first draft. justice stevens as i will leave the bench when i stopped doing my first draft. justice scalia is that way. >> host: i love to pick up an opinion of a justice scalia whether it be the tax or bankruptcy or the most out of your topic, and somehow he brings it to life. i mean, i think you talk about that a great deal in the book about how somehow he is able to write, not everybody in law can be boring. it's not born when he writes. isn't that right? >> guest: yes. no, he is very engaged. and that's what twomey to him is that he's engaged in the subject. and he is sort of interest in the world at large. i found that during our conversations together, he would often respond to my questions by answering and asking other questions, just about different ideas, different topics, different things others have said about him. >> host: what made him what he is today? tell me about his upbringing and his parents and a little bit about that. >> guest: he has an unusual life story and that not only wa

justice john paul stevens is another who does his own first draft and in fact justice stevens says i will stop when i leave the bench and justice scalia is the same way and i think the writing shows. >> host: i think it does, too peery i love to pick up an opinion of justice scalia whether it be a tax or bankruptcy or the most obscure topic and somehow he brings it to life. i think you talk about that a great deal in the book but house and how he is able to write, not everybody can -- the law can be boring. it's not boring when he writes. is in the right? >> guest: , yes -- no, he is very engaged and that is what drew me to him he is engaged in his subject and sort of interested in the world of large, and i found that during our conversations together he would often respond to my questions by answering and then asking other questions just about different ideas, different topics, different things others had said about him. >> host: tell me about his biography. i mean, what made him what he is today? tell me about his upbringing and education and his parents and a little about that. >>

paul wolfowitz, the defense secretary, who was the leading neo-con in the u.s. administration, very fluent in the intelligence, very affluent in the world and where america should deploy her power, and i remember him saying that when i first arrived in washington, he said, what we should do is we should invade southern iraq, seize the oil fields, base ourselves in bosworth, and from there launch raids against saddam hussein and little by little we will bring the regina down. -- will bring the regime down. that was the extreme fringe. but that as a policy between inauguration day and 9/11, i do not think it ever got into the mainstream of the u.s. administration debate. it continued to focus on at narrowing and deepening sanctions and what could we do about the taliban. >> when you were preparing for the visit of our prime minister to camp david to see president bush in february, what briefing were you given in regard to the dynamic within the administration from the sanctions supporters to the wild men, if you like? >> camp david was february 22- 24. iraq was no

>> in reading of the letter of paul to philippians.g our lovely body to conform with his glorified, the power that enables him also to bring all things into subjection to himself. >> thanks be to god. may i just for a moment be the voice of so many of around the world to pay a final tribute to senator ted kennedy and to offer our heartfelt condolences to his wife vicki, sister jeanne, children and grandchildren, and to all the kennedy family and to the extended family that most probably include most of america. they also add a word that we who are privileged to watch the very beautiful funeral mass this morning had to be touched by the wonderful part in that liturgy played by the younger generation of kennedys, the warm and very personal tribute in the elegies of teddy's sons and even that of the president of the united states whose warmth and friendship for ted was obviously so powerful. that together with the splendid homily of ted's parish priest made our farewell to senator kennedy on forgettable -- unforgetaable. upon learning of

we'll talk about ron paul and sheila jackson-lee and our friend ben stein all next. would you like a pony ? yeah. would you like a pony ? yeah ! ( cluck, cluck, cluck ) oh, wowww ! that's fun ! you didn't say i could have a real one. well, you didn't ask. even kids know when it's wrong to hold out on somebody. why don't banks ? we're ally, a new bank that alerts you when your money could be working harder and earning more. it's just the right thing to do. >> larry: eric hill will host "ac 360" at the top of the hour. >> we have new details on attempted terror attack at the top of the hour, including why so many warning signs were missed. could this suspect have been stopped from even boarding that flight? he was on a terror watch but not a no-fly list. how does that happen? we speak to passengers on board flight 253 who have a tale you haven't heard. they saw a mysterious well-dressed man helping the suspect board the flight in amsterdam. all that and plus a look at how airport security is already changing the new policies that have been put in place, and if you're f

paul never really liked zachary taylor and did not think very much of him. a stolid, on imaginative guide. my own view as a military man was that he strategically was limited. he got himself into a lot of scrapes. he got into unfortunate situation, but technically brilliant. and therefore managed to get his armies out of those unfortunate circumstances. >> of wade? >> he was, and that is why it polk never really liked him. -- a whig? >> he was, and that is why polk never really liked him. >> where would save whig -- a whig stand today, and what party? >> it would focus on concentration of power -- they were more in favor of concentration of power in washington that would be along the liberal side. but what was emerging was an increasing consciousness and concern about the slavery issue th. the whig party was more of the vanguard of pushing on the slavery issue. many were raising serious questions about slavery, but the attempt missouri, and those abolitionist were largely whigs. >> how many slaves did james polk owned? >> we do not know the answer to that. i

with begin things with ambassador paul bremer. he was served as presidential envoy to iraq from 2003 to 2004. he was chairman of the national commission on terrorism from '99 to 2000. thanks being with us. the president says that human and systemic failures resulted in the terrorist incident on christmas day. what's your assessment? >> i think looking back, there are groups of technical problems and conceptual problems. the technical problems involve things like these massive databases and how they're handled or not handled. the second question is whether there's been adequate information sharing across the various bureaucratic bound ris. thirdly, of course, the incident showed that there is a massive failure of the screening system, both the physical screening and the conceptually sort of how you screen the fact that this guy, you know, paid cash for his ticket, didn't have baggage and so forth, alarms obviously should have gone off. i think these technical problems are troubling. they're not particularly surprising to me. much m

representative paul of course is-- so i don't know whether he has tendencies in seeking the presidency again as he did in 2008, but he conveys a certain message which appeals to a certain part of the spectrum and which in some ways resonates with much broader parts of the spectrum but i think particularly on the foreign-policy side of his message, that is more constrained. that is more limited and not all conservatives would adhere to that. also his pierre anti-stateism to view may be of little too pure for what more middle-of-the-road conservatives would regard as achievable or even possibly desirable in the real world in which we live. but, he does obviously speak to some and that message has a certain wider rein in the wake of the t.a.r.p. plan and the bailouts in the stimulus package is in the health care issues, in the wake of these gigantic intrusion of government into the private sector that we have witnessed in the last year-and-a-half so the message resonates further but i doubt that he himself is going to be the carrier of that message to greater heights. i see a question ove

>> in reading of the letter of paul to philippians.y to conform with his glorified, the power that enables him also to bring all things into subjection to himself. >> thanks be to god. may i just for a moment be the voice of so many of around the world to pay a final tribute to senator ted kennedy and to offer our heartfelt condolences to his wife vicki, sister jeanne, children and grandchildren, and to all the kennedy family and to the extended family that most probably include most of america. they also add a word that we who are privileged to watch the very beautiful funeral mass this morning had to be touched by the wonderful part in that liturgy played by the younger generation of kennedys, the warm and very personal tribute in the elegies of teddy's sons and even that of the president of the united states whose warmth and friendship for ted was obviously so powerful. that together with the splendid homily of ted's parish priest made our farewell to senator kennedy on forgettable -- unforgetaable. upon learning of his death last w

paul. this is a port charlotte, fla.. caller: i think it was january or february of this year, there was a story that broke about a couple of guys trying to smuggle -- i think it was $135 billion worth of government securities into italy and there were rumors that the federal reserve was involved. but that story was dropped as quickly as it came on the scene. do you have any information about that? guest: no, i'm sorry i do not. i remember reading about that, but i do not know exactly what was going on. it reminds me of the stories of shipping carloads of cash over to iraq to be distributed, literally billions of dollars of cash. and there was no audit exactly of where this cash went into iraq. a lot of those things happen. maybe something like that would come out in an audit, but i'm afraid that even with an audit, they would be able to cover their trails and cover of most of that kind of stuff. host: 50 bill that is coming out of committee becomes law, will we be in better or worse shape?

paul solman's report on the country's older job-seekers.d the latest ray suarez "patchwork nation" story comes from one of america's boom towns. that's all ahead but now, for some of the day's other stories, over to hari sreenivasan in our newsroom. >> sreenivasan: the president faced new questions today about leaving afghanistan. he told reporters in oslo he's sticking to his plan to start u.s. troop withdrawals in july of 2011. but he promised the pull-out will be gradual. >> i think it's very important to understand that we're not going to see some sharp cliff, some precipitous drawdown. our whole concept here is to train and partner with afghan forces and to transfer to them even as our troops are fighting alongside each other. >> sreenivasan: meanwhile, general mcchrsytal the u.s. commander in afghanistan, played down concerns about the timetable. he told a house hearing that insurgents will see the u.s. commitment and realize: "a date doesn't change anything". defense secretary gates has arrived in iraq from afghanistan. he met today

you'll always have a paul greenberg. what -- how do you want to respond to them?decided that i was never going to make it a sign of my own success to silence critics i am not out to convert the world. i want to -- i want people to engage in my ideas and they do, fine. i would be happy if the people i care about, the people closest to me, thought what i was doing was meaningful. if my mother likes it, it's my editor likes it, it my best friend bruce lexi, i am happy. those are important roles. if you could have some version of that, some kind of system for making sense of criticism, is easier to function. >> he goes on to "joseph epstein from "the weekly standard," so much that gladwell rights is not new and some west that he writes that is new is untrue. 8wñwhat he reports feels more le half-truths' because they do not pass the final truth test about human nature. >> i think remember reading that. "outliers" is what i thought is an example of the opposite phenomenon. i was trying to confront a simplistic idea about success and say that success is far more mysterio

[laughter] >> the book john paul ii, john paul ii was a hugely important relation to his relationship enfolded when he went there in 1979, this was a pivotal moment in the eyes of solitary. it was absolutely no accident or no coincidence, but direct relationship between the pope, the polish pope, first non-italian hoping for a half-century, on the sense that god was on their side. this was pretty crucial for the development of solidarity in 1980, 1981. however, no more than reagan's power was the pope's moral authority able to prevent the imposition of martial law in the summer 1981. so i would argue that gorbachev was more important for the transformations of 1989 then-president reagan and pope john paul ii put together. it was the occupants of the chroma, not the occupant of the white house or the vatican who had locked the doors to change in eastern europe. it was they who held the keys that could open them. after three leaders in a row, brezhnev and grudging cup, they chose the youngest leader, gorbachev, in 1985. a lot of people to view up to the mid 1980s and even beyond that th

in city after city, he was the paul revere of this. he traveled incessantly for four years, making the argument that it is cheaper to solve homelessness than to treat homelessness. the homeless person who stays on the street costas off far more money than it used simply go and give that person an apartment, someone to watch over them, and find a job. i wrote a piece about his ideas, his crusade, and the larger intellectual context in which he was operating. i did not create that movement by publicized what he was doing -- but i publicized what he was doing great many people tell me that it made their work a lot easier to have an argument, making the case for what they're doing, and helping them overcome skepticism. that was a way in which the riding of the sort that i do is valuable. it helps people -- when i shed light on something, it helps those people who are interested in creating change -- makes their likely little easier. >> a woman who writes for the a "nation," writing about why you're so successful. she says -- >> i read that

paul. this is a port charlotte, fla.. caller: i think it was january or february of this year, there was a story that broke about a couple of guys trying to smuggle -- i think it was $135 billion worth of government securities into italy and there were rumors that the federal reserve was involved. but that story was dropped as quickly as it came on the scene. do you have any information about that? guest: no, i'm sorry i do not. i remember reading about that, but i do not know exactly what was going on. it reminds me of the stories of shipping carloads of cash over to iraq to be distributed, literally billions of dollars of cash. and there was no audit exactly of where this cash went into iraq. a lot of those things happen. maybe something like that would come out in an audit, but i'm afraid that even with an audit, they would be able to cover their trails and cover of most of that kind of stuff. host: 50 bill that is coming out of committee becomes law, will we be in better or worse shape?

but the one that i got to know the best in earlier was paul volker. i came him a plus for the various chairman that i've met. because he seemed to be more willing to discuss thing on a one-to-one basis. actually, there was one time when we were working on the monetary control act in 1980s which gave a lot more power, regulatory powers to the federal reserve. and to monetize debt. and i was arguing one case in the committee that it was a dangerous thing because he could -- we could -- the federal reserve was giving too much power to inflate endlessly. it didn't have to have any reserves whatsoever. it could take interest rates down to entree oh or whatever. and he was just agreeing with me. he said, look, i'd like to you come have breakfast with me. that wouldn't happen with bernanke or greenspan. he tried to convince me differently. he said you may be right about this. i may be right on the interpretation of the legislation. he himself would not inflate. he wants this so that he has the power to restrain monetary authorities, rather than to expand mon

go ahead, paul. >> thanks, paul and tim for putting together this little show for all of us to promote the book and to draw our public more into the internal workings of the supreme court. i chose the casey decision that was decided in 1992. and i did so for what is, for me at least, a very obvious reason. beginning with justice o'connor's ascension to the bench in 1981 it was very clear that roe v. wade, the 1973 decision establishing a woman's right to have an abortion, was under siege. and each time a new opinion came out of the court, the court appeared to be less and less committed to sustaining the right to terminate in an abortion. and, in fact, it finally got to the point where the majority was down to five, 5-4. and there had been indications, particularly in 1989, that o'connor might well provide a vote to overturn roe v. wade and, indeed, the administration, the reagan administration had tried several times to persuade the court directly to overrule it. i chose this particular case for our book about oral argument because of the audacity of the counsel who argued in favor of

what does it tell you, paul, the fact that they were arrested? >> it tells us there was a lot of collaboration between muslim community groups here in the united states. this is a success story in terms of the muslim community giving information to the fbi. the fbi was able to collaborate with the pakistani authorities to bring these people in to custody to stop them from launching attacks in afghanistan. it seems from the video, what we have heard, they were against what the united states was doing over there, larry. they may have wanted to go to afghanistan, but it's not clear what the people were up to yet. >> larry: peter, in your opinion, should this cause more concern on the part of americans? >> yeah. i think if you take together all the cases that paul just described, clearly we're in a slightly different situation than we were a couple years ago. if you go back two or three years, many were aspirational, not operational. when you have people going to pakistan, going to somalia, training overseas, hooking up with al qaeda, we've seen all

paul. my question is inspired by it are commuters. the city of philadelphia install target readers with credit cards. i was wondering if the potential government takeover of the bank in fact are like general motors, what about the possibilities for routine police access to the credit card system, the information in the credit card system and the police routinely using it to gather suspects were police lineup? >> i'm not sure i understand. he's talking about credit cards being used in parking meters and whether the police might take these and didn't abuse the system. >> can the police use the information in the credit card system? >> when you have target readers are not, i think is a real threat. you know, the information that they get in the identity theft. but i guess the credit card idea is so pervasive and yet that may come to an end because that always meant that you delayed payments and you created money with plastic. but i don't know the details of what the odds are in the city of phi

paul krugman writes about "dangerous dysfunction" in "the new york timesç."forward. it was, however, a close-run thing, and the fact that it was a close thing shows that the senate and the u.s. government as a whole has become ominously dysfunctional. çdemocrats won big last year running on a platform that but health reform front and center. in any other advanced democracy, this would have been a mandate and the ability to make major changes. but the need for 60 votes to cut off debate and end a filibuster, a requirement that appears nowhere in the constitution, turned what should have been straightforward legislating into a nail-biter, and it did a handful of wavering senators extraordinary power to shape the bill. consider what lies ahead. we need fundamental financial reform,ç we need to deal with climate change,çó the to deal wh the long run budget deficit. what are the chances that we can do all of that, if anything requires 60 votes in a deeply polarized senate?" good morning to diana on the democrats' line. have your politics changed over the decade?

paul.r. paul: i thank the gentleman for yielding. the chairman states that the main purpose of this bill is to prevent the iranians from getting a nuclear weapon. that isn't even as a powerful statement as was made that enticed us into the iraq war. it was to claim this they already had them. now, this is a pretense and yet here we are taking these drastic steps. my reason for opposing this bill, i think it's detrimental to our national security. it doesn't serve our interests. i oppose to it. in the late 1930's and early 1940's, the american people did not want to go into war. but there were some that were maneuvering us into war and they wrused the argument that you needed -- used the argument that you needed an event. in june of 1941, sanctions were put against japan incidentally and ironically prohibit oil products from going into japan. within six months there was the bombing of pearl harbor. and there are now talks -- there has been talk in the media and we heard about it, we need to