hey, pete, you waiting for an engraved invitation?f you have high cholesterol and coronary artery disease, and diet and exercise are not enough, niaspan, along with diet and a bile acid-binding resin, is fda-approved not only to slow down plaque buildup but to actually help clear some of it away. pete, as kids, i always looked up to you. now, i'm just trying to look after you. if you cannot afford your medication, call 1-877-niaspan. niaspan is not for everyone, like people with stomach ulcers, liver, or serious bleeding problems. severe liver damage can occur when switching to niaspan from immediate-release niacin. blood tests are needed to check for liver problems. tell your doctor if you have muscle pain or weakness; this could be a sign of serious side effects; this risk can increase with statin use. tell your doctor about alcohol use, if you've ever had gout, or are diabetic and experience increases in blood sugar. flushing, a common side effect, is warmth, redness, itching, or tingling of the skin. ask your doctor about niaspan.

pete hesef is president of vets for freedom. he's an iraqi war veteran.arnhart is the author of theic russ syndrome, a history of american hubris. and john saltz returns, co-founder and chair of vets.org. he served as a captain during operation iraqi freedom. staying with us from kabul is "rolling stone's" michael hastings who wrote that bombshell article about general mcchrystal what will be everywhere friday. what do you make of these developments? >> shocking. it's an end to a good career. the president did the right thing. you cannot have the military do that. in fairness, it was mostly his aides. that doesn't get the general off the hook. larry, the big question i have is who in the world approved michael getting this interview? and, you know, things like this aren't just the general's people out in the field. people at the pentagon have to sign off on this. public affairs staff at the pentagon needs to explain all of this. because i don't want those people in charge of anything serious again. when you allow a journalist especially into a bar lake th

i think, as pete suggested, he is very good at communicate ago few big ideas to troops. kind of getting folks on the same page. so i can imagine that will happen. you know, he's also a risk-taker, as he proved in iraq during the surge in terms of reaching out to the sunnis, kind of trying to... the sunni insurgent population particularly in that country and reaching out to enemies. so i would expect there to be an aggressive push to reach out to some of the more reconcilable elements of the insurgency in afghanistan. >> woodruff: how do you see that? do you expect to see visible changes? >> i think every general makes adjustments when he gets on the ground. things about how we're conducting the operations in kandahar or in helmand, how to balance forces. and whether we are doing all of the things that we need to be doing to succeed. this conflict is complicated but the united states can achieve its objectives. what general petraeus needs to do is figure out how to apply our forces better and how to use the political leverage that the united states and the international c

[applause] i also want to thank the former governor, pete wilson.e] i would also like to thank my campaign co-shares, congressman kevin mccarthy, the state senator, the assemblyman, the former assemblywoman, [applause] let me also thank my incredible campaign team and the more than 20,000 volunteers in 58 counties who worked so hard. [applause] what an amazing effort. i am so proud of each and everyone of you. in particular, i would like to say thank-you to four of might senior leadership team who helped run this campaign. [applause] tonight's when would not be possible without the trust of the voters. [applause] i am humbled by this victory and i am so grateful for the support and the trust you have shown in me to die. [applause] -- have shown in me tonight. [applause] i am deeply, deeply committed to running a campaign but gives you hope for a better tomorrow. [applause] we begin a new journey together tonight, don't we? [applause] haa new california. [applause] there is a clear choice in this election -- california is in crisis and we certainlyzú

oh, pete doesn't have any idea how brilliant you are.of the top of your head every minute. i love you, joan! >> i love her -- you don't know how gracious she is. a funny, never did a bad joke, always current. what a role model. she saw me when she was at the top of her game and i was just starting in new york. she sat in the front row and she laughed louder than anybody. she encouraged, she came back. phyllis diller has my heart. >> where's her place in this comedic history with women? or should we not even say women? >> no, as a comedian, one of the great stand-ups, one of the most current, always relevant, when she came on stage, when she talked, she talked about, what she read in the paper, and strong. i just think phyllis was an amazing and is an amazing performer. >> larry: and so are you. is there any area you would not go to? >> no. if i think i want to talk about it, then it's right to talk about it. and i purposefully go into area where is people are still very sensitive about. >> larry: why? >> if you laugh at it, you can deal

. >> pete williams? >> no. >> but he went to jail. >> are you talking about seller?ve went to jail. >> right. >> we're talking about a documentary now. i think it will be a healthy and useful documentary to dig into that kind of institutionalized corruption on the part of the democrats. more power to somebody to do it. >> do you have a hero in your life in politics? somebody that was in elected office? >> martin luther kkng. sorry, that's not elected office. it was more of a ground swell. i like - in terms of hero, i mean, that's a good question. and i should have a better answer. there are some people in congress now i like. but a hero, i don't know. i guess i still go with the outsider. >> could you give us an example of somebody you like now? >> well, you know, i was very impressed with carl levin's investigation when he was on the armed services committee into the torture scandal. i felt that was very impressive. i think dick durbin and some of his recent attempts to try to staunch the flowwof money in politics have been interesting. those would be two examples o

cheri pete of the maw's sandwich and snack shop. >> katrina could not keep me away. i was back to months later. i am bound and determined to stay. it took us to february to get back open. >> is that right here? >> that was right next door. it would nine weeks. this is before katrina. >> i notice that you have a bunch of signs up on the side of your restaurant. can you explain those? >> it's a frustration. you wake up -- you go bed watching the news, and then you see the same thing on the news. no progress whatsoever. they say things to make you feel better but it is not working. we are living with what is going on out there. we want to see some progress. we have lots of ideas and we know they will work. things that can work, things that are common sense. as one of our sons show, we have obama and the american flag surrounded by life represented by the oil. and then bp surrounded by dollar signs. we're drowning in oil. everyone is totally devastated because this was not our came rolling in that we could prepare for. this is something that we do not know how to prepare

host: some familiar names, including in new mexico, the son of the former senator pete domenici. guest: [no audio] it is interesting -- i think that pete domenici, a junior, is running ain the republican gubernatorial primary but has gubernatorial primary but has not been able to pick up steam. many people think that the county district attorney will run away with the republican primary victory today. host: alabama and mississippi are along the gulf coast, as we continue to monitor the situation in that part of the country, what impact do you think the bp oil spill will have in these statewide races, if any? guest: it is hard to say, but one thing you want to look at is turnout. looking at that crisis, coming after the three-day holiday weekend, and what it could mean for turn out, how much interest as there, what does it mean for these primary states, it is hard to said. a lot of people are expecting low turnout in these states. host: we have seen in elections in massachusetts and pennsylvania and kentucky, the change election bid is not whether you are d or r, but whether you a

he has some legislation and maybe other things he wishes to talk about so i yield to my friend, pete olson, the member from sugarland and all points south, talk to us about how he feels about what's going on today. mr. olson: thank you for hosting this special order tonight on such an important issue for the american people. i'd like to thank my colleague from florida for coming by and give his per spictive on how this disaster is affecting florida. i was in the navy for 10 years, naval officer. we're trained to lead. we -- in my aircraft, i was a crew of 12, five officers, seven enlisted folks, i was patrol plane commander. those 11 individuals depended on me to bring them, take them out, do a mission, and come back home safely. to sum it up in two words, the philosophy is, leaders lead. guess what, we're not seeing leadership out of washington. we've had a very difficult situation. we've had the largest oil spill in american history. and there are thousands of jobs affected already. the fishing industry across the coast of louisiana, mississippi, alabama the tourist industry and th

cannot take on a challenge like this without the love and i also want to thank our -- former governor pete. i would also like to thank my campaign cochairs, congressman kevin mccarthy, congresswoman mary bono mack, state senator john d. strickland, assemblyman nagin fletcher, a former assemblywoman sharon runner, and bill simon. let me also thank my incredible campaign team, and the more than 20,000 volunteers in 58 counties to work so hard. -- who worked so hard. what an amazing effort. i am so proud of each and everyone of you. in particular, i would like to say thank-you to four of my senior leadership team to help me run this campaign. [applause] but tonight's win would not have been possible without the trust of the voters. i am humbled by this victory, and i am so grateful for the support and trust that you have shown in me tonight. i am deeply, deeply committed to running a cammaign that gives you hope for a better tomorrow. we begin a new jouuney together tonight, don't we? we have in our power to build a new california. there is a clear choice in this election. california is in cr

starting from the top, he should be in pete and put in jail. this is a disaster. that is all i want to say and you have a good day. host: the president and congress will have a busy week for all oil-related issues pretty president is heading to the gulf he will be there today and tomorrow visiting mississippi first then alabama and ben florida. congress has a couple of key areas which we will cover on c- span 3. here is a story about the president's visit to mississippi. the governor argues that the coverage of this bill of the -- of the oil spill has heard is state more than the actual spell. ill. heavy cancellations dragged down revenues in motels last month in mississippp. it was down 50% on average rate a local hospital is cutting employee hours because of fewer tourists and your patience. wingate, north carolina, go ahead caller: i think the president [unintelligible] bp should say it is your problem now clean it up. bp wants that -- wants them to do that. host: baltimore,jnck maryland, independent caller, go ahead. caller::this is my first time calling. host

i also want to thank former governor pete wilson, the chairman of my campaign. >> i would also like tohank my campaign chair, the congresswoman, the assemblyman, and bill symmon. [applause] let me also thank my incredible campaign team and the more than 20,000 volunteers in 58 counties that worked so hard. [applause] what an amazing effort. i am so proud of each and everyone of you. in particular, i would like to say thank you to four of my senior leadership team who helped me run this campaign. mike murphy and others. [applause] win would not have been possible without the trust of the voters. [applause] i am humbled by this victory and i am so grateful for the support and trust that you have shown in me tonight. [applause] >> i am deeply committed to running this campaign that gives you hope for a better tomorrow. [applause] we begin in new jersey tonight. we have it in our power to build a new california. [applause] there is a clear choice in this election. california is in crisis. we certainly cannot save california's future by repeating the failures of the past. [applause] jerry b

all of the testimony we have heard indicates that the choices be pete made -- bp made in order to save money led to blind faith in the cement job. first of all, you chose a riskier well as design. the best practice would have been to use a airliner and a tie back which provides for barriers to allowing hydrocarbons into the well head. instead, you chose a long string approach which only has two barriers. an internal document warned that this approach was not recommended because "cement simulations indicated it is unlikely to be a successful cement job." you can look at have six of the note but you have in front of you to see that, mr. hayward. it says "cement indications -- simulations indicate it is unlikely to be a successful cement job." have you seen this before? >> i saw it as a result of this investigation. >> but you did not see it at the time? >> i did not. >> but people at your company did. >> yes. >> secondly, bp chose a riskier option.izeer the best practice would have been to use 21, but bp only used six. take a look at have eight. -- tab 8. you did this, even though hallib

>> we want to make sure that there were mechanisms to address that the contribution by pete t bp. >> the president understands the economic impact of the moratorium. we do not know what has caused the accident. because of that, the president believes it was important to stop additional drilling. the national commission that will look into the regulatory framework, we must have this going forward to insure that drilling is safe and they can and should look at the framework of round deepwater drilling first and report back to him as soon as they can. >> it sounds like they are in a separate -- >> the taxpayers will pay for some portion. >> some of the workers were qualified under existing law, some were seeking to make sure that they are qualified and now there is the additional funds. >> he has set standards. there is a lot of bureaucracy. >> this will be a seamless transition. there is a claims process. this is not working the way we >> what they are getting is a drop in the bucket. >> that is why we did this. >> i think picking him and someone who has done this before understands th

we asked, did you find out, pete, i found out about it when you did, i read the paper yesterday. that's another point. congress has the oversight. we're the power of the purse. i'm not aware of any outreach from the administration to any member of congress prior that decision being made. i'm a freshman here but i've been involved on the hill for a number of year, particularly in the military and the thing is when you were going to make a change in a program you went and talked to the chairman and ranking member of the committee and gave them the courtesy of what were you -- of what you were planning to do the thing with the termination liability, the anti-deficiency act we think it's unprecedented, we're doing research to find out if it's ever been done in the past. what it basically does, nasa told the contractors, hold some money in reserve for termination liability, can't spend it on cooperate, you have to hold it. the money they're holding for september 30 is going to be dried you were sometime in the middle of august. the only solution is to lay off those people. again, i do

host: pete, republican. caller: i have a ph.d. from chemistry in 1969 when i started my own business. july of 2005 i had 771 employees. i had a layoff one-third of them in the fall of 2008 after reading about obama's associations. we can see that this federal government is destroying businesses trying to accomplish that they need to do. what do those damn fools think that we do with our profits? we hire more people. we purchased more equipment. what do we have to do with? we have a bunch of communists in this government. you have an epa that decided it is going to run roughshod over everyone. as far as energy is concerned, you are all talking about clean energy. we have to wonder and 50 million boats, motorcycles, etc., and they'll run on oil. we are going to be stuck with oil for at least 20 to 25 years. host: quick question, what kind of business do you run? caller: i have had four different companies at one time. producing low molecular mass solvents used as the britons and anti-corrosive is. -- used as a lubricants and anti-co

pete wilson, who remains popular among republican loyalists but not necessarily with the electorate in california as a whole, especially among hispanics. the member his strong support for proposition 187. i think the caller is right. i think this is going to be very different campaign in california from here on out. host: tonya from martinsburg, west virginia independent line. caller: there are a couple of things that seems suspicious to me in arkansas. the democrats, they told the voters to go out and vote early saturday, and when the people showed up, the polls were closed. one county where there were 40 locations open to in the first primary between blanche lincoln and the challenger, there were only two polling places opened yesterday. i find that very suspicious. and before -- the $10 million that labor cent, the white house spent $10 million on parties in the white house and the last 10 years. if just because the black people came out in arkansas and voted against the their interest, i would not be giving no parade if i was washington. host: any word about whether or not presiden

prior to the beat pete spill, containment and termination of oil leaks -- prior oil thebp spill, containment and termination of oil leaks had never been tried before. i will put in the specific failures of technology, the blowout fail-safe that remotely operated, vehicle failures, the soda straw that had to be removed, the top kill that failed, and the only method that appears to have had some limited measure of success is the top hat which is in place on top of the well head, but it still allows oil to escape into the ocean because the method

my colleague, pete williams, from nbc, would be a wonderful person to be standing outside the courtroom and narrating a film about the oral argument, because he understands the court. i frankly am never persuaded by the argument that the court is so fragile that it could not survive televising. it is a pretty hardy institution. if you expose it to television and -- i have seen editorial cartoons about the supreme court, which if i were sitting up there i would be well. the court is not going to lose public respect if it goes on television. it will only gain respect. i will tell you that would very likely is going to happen -- if you watch a television program the broadcasts in full the argument on patent law and get into the degree of of business of the patent and the formula for what is patentable -- they had better put that on between 2:00 and 3:00 a.m., because it is only going to serve the insomniacs in the audience. but that is not the routine case. most of the case is over there are fascinating. the court had a decision yesterday on the custody rights of parents who live in differ

i also want to thank former governor pete wilson, the chairman of my campaign.eers and applause] i would also like to thank my campaign coceres, congressman kevin mccarthy, congresswoman mary bono mack, state senator tony strickland, assemblyman, nathan fletcher, former assemblywoman sharron runner, and bill simon. [cheers and applause] now le met thank my incredible campaign team and the more than 20,000 volunteers in 58 counsel to worked so hard. -- in 58 counties who worked so hard. [cheers and applause] what an amazing effort. i am so proud of each and every one of you. and in particular i would like to say thank you to four of my senior leadership team who helped me run this campaign. [cheers and applause] but tonight's win would not have been possible without the trust of the voters. [cheers and applause] i am humbled by this victory, and i am so grateful for the support and the trust that you have shown in me tonight. [cheers and applause] and i am deeply, deeply committed to running a campaign that gives you hope for a better tomorrow. [cheers and applau

what worries me is that pete peterson's foundation was at a hearing that we had on the oversight subcommittee professor -- subcommittee. he said we are at a tipping point only have one or two years to solve this problem of our debt. the first thing we have to do is to tell the truth to the american people. they have been lied to. we are going to have to do the sacrifices including the congress. and stop spending. this is just changing. it is still going to be $19 billion that is going to increase our debt at the least. then i think we have this problem with the end user which we want it to. it concerns me that one we know that something is wrong, we should do the right thing. i do not think that people want to vote yes for a bill that is not the way it should be. we just cannot do that type of thing. >> new jersey. >> thank you. someone said the we should rename the bill to the franc/dodd bill. he does combine that to the broad bill to describe exactly what we have here now. it amazes me that in this day and age when our constituents are going through such hard times and americans are asking

they do not like the fact that we are pressing beat pete -- bp in the way that we are pressing them.t: republican line, eric. caller: franklln, i listened to that caller from new york who trashed soccer, asking what is the need and then she continued to say we need to focus and worry about the economy. i do not think that were really gets anything done. during any depression, most people are looking for entertainment. i think soccer really provides that diversion. also, i think that soccer is great for diplomacy. in and of itself, it really does help joined countries. i know there can be flights that could develop -- fights that could divide countries, like north and south korea, if those two play each other, you hope that stays calm. other countries that are looking to reach out to each other, it could create a diplomatic moment. i am a big fan of the english league soccer. i saw on the bbc website a few months ago that you had problems with english fans being attacked when they go to scotland to watch matches. i was wondering if that was still a problem. thank you, a very much. gue

president has made historic -- be pete deepwater horizon this bill.re of an historic3 come from research institutions, academic institutions, the private sector, in ways to understand the dislocation to mitigate the spill and also to actually stop the spill. at the president's direction and under the coordination of admiral allen, secretary chu, administrator jackson, and others have been engaging scientists from throughout the federal family, as well as the academic institutions, and to leverage the best minds in the country to help deal with this tragedy. clearly, our number one priority is stopping the leak or containing it. we are leveraging the best scientific and engineering capacity to do that. at the request of president obama, secretary chu assembled a team of more than to what it soug -- more than 200 top scientists to analyze the response that bp has proposed and recommend additional actions for stopping or contain the leak. team convince to be bt's high-energy gamma rays useonvinced he'd be to high-energy gamma rays -- convinced bp to use

. >> my name is cheri pete. i have lived here my whole life. katrina could not keep me away. since i was 6 years old i have wanted to have this business. we have been working since 2009 to rebuild and get back open. >> that was right here? >> that was right next door. i will show you what was here. [unintelligible] >> i noticed that you have a bunch of signed upon the side of your restaurant. can you explain those? >> i feel frustration. i have had many mornings of frustration. you wake up watching the news, you go to sleep watching the news, and you wake up and see the exact same things on the news, and no progress whatsoever. we want to see some progress. it does not take a rocket scientist to figure out how to stop the well. we have lots of ideas. there are things that can work, things that are common sense. we have obama and the american flag surrounded by black, representing the oil. that is how we feel in our community. we are drowning in oil. everyone in a matter of hours of this oil spill was totally devastated because this was not a hurricane rowling in that we could

it makes sense that the pete bear the responsibility of the economic hardship -- that bp bear the responsibility of the economic hardship of the moratorium. i thank you for the $100 million aside for lost jobs. in a given month, i am told, it is about $350 million per month in wages. is your company going to take responsibility and make sure that these companies that fold up for these companies that have the financial hardships, and particularly their employees that they will start to lay off, will be compensated in some way? >> we have made a contribution, having been asked to by the government, to a fund which will be part of the funding for that issue. >> do you think $100 million is adequate? you have been in the oil business for quite awhile. those are good paying jobs. that is why we want to keep them. to think that contribution is adequate? >> we set aside $20 billion for claims. >> that is for everybody else that our businesses and otherwise. i am concerned also with the them. mrs. kemp was in -- the other day. brave women, especially so soon after the deaths of their spouses. after hear