peter is the director of the office of management. in that role he is central, he is looking at the immediate economic crisis. in dealing with the enormous shortfalls with critical public investment, and dealing with federal government's unsustainable long fiscal position. and with respect to economic growth. i have no doubt that peter will lead us to successful resolution. let me introduce the distinguished peter rorzak. [applause] >> thank you, good morning. i am delighted to be here. i want to start today with a story which was embodied in a recent new yorker article which i found so, telling, i followed up by asking the researchers for additional information. i want to talk for a few moments about this story. there are 2 towns in texas which are both -- they have similar demographics, they both have 700,000 people living there. in 1992, not too surprising, given their similarities in their population, medicare expenditures were fairly similar in the 2 cities in texas. since then, there has been a dramatic difference. mcalan has gr

peters: madam speaker, i have an amendment at the desk. the chair: the clerk will designate the amendment. the clerk: amendment number 22 printed in part c of house report 111-143 offered by mr. peters of michigan. the chair: pursuant to house resolution 522, the gentleman from michigan, mr. peters, and a member opposed will each control five minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from michigan. mr. peters: thank you, madam speaker. i yield myself as much time as i may consume. the chair: the gentleman is recognized. mr. peters: today we are considering important legislation that will support efforts to strengthen, modernize and rebuild the capacity of the department of state to fulfill its core diplomatic mission. this legislation will also increase the arms control and nonproliferation capabilities of the state department and reform the system of export controls for military technology and improve oversight of u.s. security assistance abroad. as we expand our diplomatic capabilities, we must remember that trade is the driving force

budget and i'll introduce peter shortly. let me first step back for a moment from today's discussion. and agree with something that senator baucus said. i've been around economic issues in various regards for a long, long time. and i don't think there is any question that it's absolutely imperative that we have major reform of our healthcare system. to address wasteful expenditures, to reduce the rate of increase of healthcare costs, to improve outcomes and absolutely critically, to move toward accomplishing universal coverage. the rapid rate of increase in our nation's healthcare costs is in my view a grave threat to our economic future, both by undermining competitiveness and by fueling the steep rise in federal healthcare expenditures which is i'm sure peter will tell you is at the heart of an unsustainable long-term fiscal position in our country. i am certainly not an expert on healthcare reform. and as max said, senator baucus said, it's a very complex subject but many, many such experts believe the comparative effecti

peter, tough act to follow. >> yeah, i'm not sure i can. but i'll do my best. it's also a pleasure to be here today especially for danni pletka who's such a terrific person and a close friend. i think i endorse everything susan just said about the prospective industry. for those of you who may not be familiar with bae systems, we are a global defense and aerospace company, roots in the united kingdom but now have something like 50,000 u.s. employees so very strongly committed in the united states. i think, you know, most observers would say there's certainly room for improvement in the u.s.-india defense relationship but i think that improvement is almost certain to occur. over the course of the new administration in the united states and the renewed sing relationship in india. and we shouldn't overlook that these things take time. there is a long way to go in order to achieve a defense relationship that is comparable to the relationship that the u.s. has with its closest ally which is the united kingdom but we have made good progress. through the work as susa

>> peter osnos is the founder of publicaffairs books. mr. osnos, what do you plan on reading this summer? >> one of the first i plan on reading is k blows top, i can say i haven't had a chance to read it yet. everyone tells me it's absolutely marvelous. peter was a reporter for "the washington post" many years and tells the story of mickey eckert def's visit to the united states and 1959i believe. when he came at a time of the cold war at its peak and he was the quintessential russian alarm and came here and traveled the country and went to iowa and looked at the cornstalks and went to hollywood and disneyland, but peter has captured that moment in american history and told the story with what i gather is great good humor and history at a very tricky kind so that's the first book i will read. the second book i'm going to read is chris bulkeley's mum and pup. i.t. we have all seen the famous line what he said to his mother on the deathbed. he looked at her as she was about to take her last breath and said i forgive you. what i'm hoping is my

weapons of mass destruction with peter brookes. "washington journal" is live at 7:00 a.m. eastern here on c- span. tomorrow on c-span2, a look at u.s.-india relations and the obama administration with remarks by india's ambassador to the u.s. that begins live at 9:00 a.m. eastern on c-span2. >> how is c-span funded? >> publicly funded. >> donations may be? i have no idea. >> government. >> c-span gets its funding through federal funding. >> a public funding thing. >> may be. i don't know. >> 30 years ago, america's cable companies created c-span as a public-service, a private business initiative. no government mandate, no government money. >> next, from this morning's "washington journal," a discussion on the economy and unemployment. this lasts about an hour. host: we are talking about the u.s. economy. peter morrissey \ ici is an ecos professor. how was the economy doing? guest: it is in serious conditions but the statements of the obama administration. it will take a long time to clean up the mess he inherited. not all the issue

number one peter's war. >> peter's war is one of the more delightfully written books.s joyce malcolm who is a terrific historian. she's at george mason university law school. and there is -- this reads like a novel. there are no footnotes. it's compelling story of a 12-year-old boy who's a slave in concord, massachusetts, literally on the eve of the british coming through. the night of paul revere's ride. >> and it's nonfiction? >> it's nonfiction and it's based on archival research. and it follows peter's story. he escapes on the eve of the revolution. and he joins the continental army, not the british army. most blacks who did escape joined the british army because the british were known for abolitionism and they were antislavery. and it parallels another slave who escapes around the same time in the same geographic area who joins the british, and that slave ends up back as a slave after the war and peter doesn't. so he fights in the war. he's almost like a zellig, woody allen's zellig. he is at some of the main events at the revolution, the major battles and it has

peter is joining us from kentucky. good morning to you. caller: good morning, peter. thank you and everyone of your callers @ c-span poor providing america -- for providing america with the truth. to get to the point because i know there are other people waiting to talk to you, we need to literally hold both the democrats and republican representatives that were voted in accountable. they need to be held responsible for the actions that they take behind closed doors. as they said in the old- fashioned way, this is a heck of a way to run air railroad, running the deficit into the ground with his lavish spending, rhetoric that we are going to change things, we are going to do this and that, and then they turn around and take care of defense contractors and they are spending money on projects that bring votes back home. i am directing this both at the democrats and republicans. i am independent and proud of it, sir. i want to tell you democrats and republicans out there, there's going to be a change and there will be a third-party rising from the ranks because everyone t

he sits down with ralph peters. and next weekend for the holiday, three days of book tv starting friday morning at 8:00. including a historian and author. life, sunday from george washington's mount vernon estate. the entire schedule is on line, including streaming video and easy to search archives. >> and now, washington national's president stan kast en at the national press club. he talks about the team which moved to washington in 2005. >> good afternoon. welcome to the national bless club. i am a reporter with u.s.a. today and the president of the national press club. we are the world's leading professional organization for journalists and are committed to a future of journalism by providing informative programming, journalism education and fostering a free press worldwide. for more information about the national press club, please visit or website. on behalf of our 3,500 members worldwide, i would like to welcome our speaker and our guest in the audience today. i would also like to welcome those of you who are

i rise in support of congressman peter king of new york's legislation. i think it's very important at this point in time to recognize as we have discussed today the importance of that relationship that we have with south korea and recognize also just how much of a test north koreans' provocative actions have been for our allies in south korea. if we think back to the after effect of the korean war and how south korea lay in ruins and think today about the fact that south korea has one of the highest per capita incomes in the world, and yet we look at north korea it has the lowest. it is truly dramatic. i have been in north korea and it is phenomenal to me to see the kind of devastation that that misrule has led in terms of the population. the stunted growth, malnutrition that can you see when you meet people. but particularly for our friends in south korea who today are one of our strongest trading partners, particularly for them at this point in time when we see this north korean foreign policy which has always been aggressive, but lately has included l

. >> 2009 bookseller convention in new york city with bloomsbury and walker books i am here with peter miller. what you have coming out this fall? >> the most ambitious and exciting is the one over my shoulder which is a graphic novel. we decided to do this one because it is a historical biography of bertram russell and as crazy as that sounds it is interesting novel of ideas and the two people behind it are mathematicians and computer science experts said they decided to approach the i.d.'s of the foundation of mathematics been told as a comic book form because that big idea is what russell was pursuing as heroic and life-and-death as anything you would find with a super hero. it is a book getting a lot of attention before the convention and all lot here. we have been getting a lot of the galley. everyboby seems very excited to embrace this medium with this particular subject. >>host: what else? >>guest: the interesting work of nonfiction in the fall is this book called the age of comfort. the author is a scholar who takes a look at the period and the late 17th century when public lif

we are getting good feedback from peter bach and the research they're doing. take a look at the institute of medicine, those of you who are familiar with the institute of medicine, what it is and what it does, it pulls together a group of national experts on any printed the topic area to investigate and publish an unbiased, non partisan view on any particular topic. something the institute of medicine and highlighted was the importance of cultural healthcare, i am not a teacher so i can't speak for education but i have respect for teachers and the importance of workforce diversity. one of the other pieces of data we can certainly understand from that very important report is the importance of concordance between groups in terms of understanding particular patients. here is where we get to the heart of cultural competency. understanding the patient and being able to understand the cause. that could be a poor white patient, a rich white patient, a static patient, russian patient, understand the cultural background of the patient and being able to interpret that

and peter orszag, who i consider a friend, obama administration's o.m.b. director, has even said -- this is a quote from the c.b.o. director -- or the o.m.b. director -- "i don't want to sound like the boy crying wolf but it is a fact that given the path we are on, two things. one is we will ultimately wind up with a financial crisis that is substantially more severe than even what we're facing today if we don't alter the path of federal spending. and, secondly, that if we are on that path in the future and something like we are experiencing today occurred, we would have much less maneuvering to fight those fires because we will have already depleted the firetruck." i'd like to say in due respect to the o.m.b. director, mr. orszag, the firetruck is depleted. we're already there. and i'm disappointed as o.m.b. director he has forgotten his commitment to entitlement and tax reform that he so boldly and loudly called for when he was c.b.o. director. you would think that a change in title would not cause such a memory loss on as important an issue as the finan

i want to make sure that steve and peter both mention this but let me mention it seriously. it is not about personalities, not about people. it is not about any of that stuff. it is very political but it is not partisan what we do. we all love bill clinton has the president. i voted for him twice and i want you to understand that i thought he was a disgusting person but i thought he was a great president. mike was that the had been elected he still probably would have been a disgusting for some but we would have lost all the benefits of its leadership of president of the united states. i mean that seriously. especially in this administration, this man, barack obama is one of the most impressive human beings i have ever seen in my life and politics. i am awestruck. he is an awesome man. he represents so much that is wonderful about our country. a black african father, a white american mother, if that is not the melting pot i don't know what it is. raised in a very nurturing wonderful environment. he went to columbians university, did extraordinarily well. he then went to harv

unfortunately this administration is going the opposite way and peter i thank was the guy who thought of the title here. and comment you know but unfortunately it is coming true. what we have tried to do is lay out all the examples than they did it in a usable form. this is not and an academic form. is just trying to lay out the stories of many examples of when people did the right things and when they did the wrong things. i want to stress again it is not about nice people are bad people. does not about partisanship. this is politics but it is not republican, it is not a democrat, it is not liberal, it is not conservative. it is basic math and economics. thank you. [applause] >> we can take some questions. >> on the middle east energy issue, i know you are a big fan of the efficiencies and all but isn't the political instability a threat to then vincibility and is and that's something that can help deal with the inefficiencies or the sort of instability in the middle east? >> no, it is not. in that the vinnie thing it works the other way. the deans from trader such that they make the

in a moment peter brookes we peter m. >> the air force says it has successfully launched in on our minuteman 3 intercontinental ballistic missile from a california-based, firing at targets in the pacific ocean.

go ahead, you're on with peter. caller: good morning.have you read -- read a book called "fools of gold," written by julian tett? guest: no, i have not. could you give me its basic thesis, briefly? caller: starts back when tim geithner was the head of the treasury in new york. j.p. morgan -- jamie diamond and a bunch of the regulators, they concocted this entire mess. guest: there are many theories. some people don't have to look for a far off to place the blame. i can see that the congress is spending too much money without asking how we will pay for it. but the 19 center banks did a lot to create the mess. it went unnoticed and unregulated by mr. geithner while he was president of the new york federal reserve. people as far as him repulse and did not see it coming. i think there is a search and promiscuity in nor, the notion of too big to fail means they can do anything they like. host: here is a question by the twister. will you offer any words of wisdom for younger folks? guest: let's start with i have an 18 year-old who is going off

host: peter brookes is the project manager for re- districting reform. this comes up every 10 years with the senses, but this is an issue broader than just the census. what is your organization concerned about? guest: it is concerned about extreme jerrymanders that have been taking place with more frequency and extremism. politicians choosing voters in their districts rather than voters choosing their elected officials. americans for redistricting reform was greeted as a couple of years ago with a grant from the rockefellers to focus to the extent that we can on the fact that politicians when they draw up the strips with a congressional or state legislative oftentimes jury pick their voters to ensure the election of incumbents or create damage to the other party. host: tell us about the role of the census and seven congressional districts? guest: it will be taken in 2010. our constitution provides for that. once the census did it come out there usually released on a rally basis, beginning 2011. -- when the data canal. when that comes up for each state an

. >> i am now joined by peter who was promoted back into the cabinet as well secretary and today's reshuffle. >> this was not the reshuffle by gordon brown wanted, was it? >> i do not know. what he has done is renew his cabinet said his government. we now need to move forward and make sure that we get on the real issues that affect people, which is making sure we protect their jobs, making sure we invest in housing, making sure we get mortgages flowing to people. those of the issues that we need to govern effectively on. >> we also have a prime minister of property. his father told him to be honest. when he was asked whether alistair darling was really always going to be chancellor in this reshuffle, he immediately said yes. we know that is not true. >> but you are focusing, if i may say so, of the westminster bubble of politics. >> we're focusing on truth. >> chancellor darling has faced the toughest challenge with thi global financial crisis. those of the issues. we also are going to point out to people that the tories have got multi-billion cuts planned. it will cut public services if th

fox news strategic analyst ralph peters. mr. peters is the author of many books. the latest of which is looking for trouble adventures in a broken world. .. >> would be to go to pakistan and live among the people. said decide how she responded you are still married so it worked. but can you tell us more the background of this terrific narrative of what pakistan is really like it? the people, the smells, the field in the air took me back. >> guest: thanks. right at the time i was finishing graduate school in the summer 2005 i received a fellowship from the current world affairs which is a foundation funded by the crane foundation that you see the credo on toilets and they go on and we had major problems getting into iran i said i do not know anything about pakistan but it seems like a fascinating and dynamic country. they sent me their two years the only instructions go there, do not come home will learn and to do and write about what you see. isi can handle that so to make it more complicated i left on valentine's day february 2006 for their all the protests over

one of the things you will hear director peter orszag here -- say is the mayo clinic. it has one of the best and most cost-efficient records on precisely this constellation of measures. so, doctors know how to provide efficient care. but the system incentivizes wasteful inefficient care, and that is key to our reform. host: finally, mr. bernstein, a different topic before and let you go. lead editorial this morning in "the financial times," "and escape to soon for u.s. banks." letting banks out of tar is premature. the 10 have to demonstrate they can raise funds without guarantees. the temperature tenement -- put liquidity guarantee program however remains available to them, in effect, subsidized by the government but freed from rules on compensation and hiring, they can approach staff and business from competitors still in tarp. guest: an interesting thing, a couple of weeks ago i was out here talking to the media and folks said, why won't you let these people get out of the tarp and now we are criticized from all how come you are letting its people get out? the deal

him, or succumbed to self-doubt, arguably you might say that we could be living in a nation that peters out somewhere east of the mississippi. because we might not have gotten to the west by the erie canal and interest in minimum call to the continental nation, spanish from the north, and russian influence from the northwest might not have given us the country we have now and i would say for those who talk now, about creating a national infrastructure bank, then cite the erie canal as the first piece of infrastructure we made, it's important for those people involved in the bank to own it. if that is what is wanted, support it, and develop arguments against anybody who would argue against it. and then go ahead and do it with the same sort of dedication dewitt clinton put into the erie canal. i think that is all i'll say for prepared remarks, and now i think if anybody would like to ask questions, go ahead. [applause]. >> does anyone have a question? >> yes, do you think the proposed bank is a good idea. >> i think it is probably an essential -- i'm not an expert in this area, but you ha

nothing in the bill prohibits cms from using cer to contain costs and it's peter orszag who is the omb director, obviously, said cer's principal purpose to is to retain cost,s a direct quote. the acting nih director said costs will be a key factor in cer it just seems to me that we need this amendment to ensure that cer is not used to ration health care. >> peter orszag is not a member of congress. no matter what they might think. >> i'm going to do a hatch thing but i'm much louder than hatch so people don't listen to him. he's been doing this for a lot of years. now, i used to be a bucket toter, i was a bucket toter here in the senate for two year, went to the house, i was a bucket toter over there as a staff member. my box kathleen sebelius says you're in charge of health care. well i was in charge of everything, window, rug, administrative assistant, whatever else. agriculture, too. but every time that we would get into problems with our hospitals, our doctors, our home health care people, clinical la, everybody in the health care delivery system it was because of some goofy thing

in a response to the incident at the minneapolis airport, congressman peter king, the ranking member on the house homeland security committee and congressman steve pares -- steve pierce, first moved to provide immunity to public transportation who report suspicious activity through a recommittal motion to the rail and public transportation security act of 2007. which the house overwhelmingly passed on march, 2007, by a vote of 304-121. later in the 110th congress, despite care's public lobby effort, mr. king and senator joe lieberman were successful in adding a section to the 9/11 commission implementation act public law 110-53 which provides legal immunity to individuals who report terrorists or suspicious activity which they see on trains or planes to law enforcement. it has become a familiar refrain on fox news march 31, 2007 said, the peter king's legislative efforts were encouraging slamaphobia -- islamaphobia. it encouraged other john does who encounter suspicious activity to report it to authorities. care's fund something also a source of interest. a part of the financial link

. >> we have peter griffin. for all of you guy whose don't know who peter griffin is, "family guy." >> look at the resemblance there. >> i'm just not seeing it. >> now, we know that you have been called to look alike some people. i'm doing look alikes here and has anyone ever told you look like anyone? >> my ex-wife thought i had john cue sack's mouth. >> a lot of us think you look like that. >> are you using my body again? who is that head again? >> you look like the guy from wiggles. >> i have heard that. >> it is a matcho-looking group, so i can see why people make that mistake. >> my daughter is 1 and she watches the show. >> i am popular with the 1-year- olds. >> media look alikes with other celebrities. have you ever been told that you look like anyone? >> the guy from the bare naked ladies. >> a rock star? you look like a rock star? >> a rock star. >> in the clubhouse he had a different view, we thought you look like this guy. we actually came up with this. how do you feel about that? >> not bad. i can ta

just like peter the great. we don't know how great these guys are going to be. but they could be one of those, and let's hope none of them happen to be ivan the terrible because that would be terrible. persian gulf czar, sudan czar. now, we have an ambassador to sudan, i think. we have diplomats that work with sudan. we have a secretary of of state who has an office that sudan falls under. i'm sure she has got some of the best experts on sudan anywhere in the contry. just like she does on the persian gulf. just like she does on the middle east. the secretary of of state has the best people we can hire. some of these people have been working in this field forever. now we got a sudan czar. this means this is the absolute monarch of sudan experts? what does it mean? or is it just an associate of the administration that needs a be job? i don't know. i don't know what it does. climate czar. it's not clay mat change czar. it's not global warming czar. because we have had to change those terms. we started with climate -- started with global warming and started getting

peters: thank you. mr. speaker, my district is the home of the first free standing holocaust museum in the united states of america. for 25 years it has stood as a reminder of the horrific consequences of extremism and hate. just a few months ago the founder of that museum passed away. although he is gone, his life work will educate future generations about the horrors of the holocaust so that such senseless violence should never again be repeated. last month this body passed a resolution honoring his life and memory. so it is with an especially heavy heart today think a come to the floor to urge passage of resolution 529, a resolution condemning the violent attack on the united states holocaust memorial museum on june 10. the holocaust museum exists as a place to reflect and mourn murderous prejudice and hatred. yesterday yet -- yet yesterday a senseless attack motivated by the same prejudice and hatred resulted in the tragic death of a security guard, stephen t. johns. it is a sad reminder that we must al

might recall i was a member of the irt which was a special committee appointed by former secretary peters and we looked into some of these cases, and what we found, and that board by the way had a former chairman of the ntsb. we did number of safety experts on that panel and we looked into this particular allegation. at the time it was an allegation about the conduct and the retaliation. i was reasonably convinced that the member of the committee that the faa took appropriate action. i was not with the faa then. we were critiquing the faa and it was pursued by the ig and it seems to us that the time that it was handled in accordance with what we should do. having said that i will tell you that i want to make sure those procedures, there were a number of steps that forward in that report and i want to make certain those steps are followed, that we do actively pursue and make certain no one is subject to retaliation or is ever inhibited from raising a state the question without fear of reprisal. >> thank you mr. chairman. >> center lautenberg thank you very much. senator isakson. >> thank y

i'm peter skinner. i've been a member of the european parliament since 1994. this month i was elected for my fourth term. i'm a member of the economic and monetary affairs committee and directly involved in what's known as the transatlantic regulatory dialogue. i had a discussion between congressman berkeley. we talk regularly about issues like this. i was previously sponsor of the bill of reinsurance directive in 2005 and sovereigncy ii that will pass into law and pass into the countries by 2012. each country is moving towards that introduction. i fully understand and respect from the start the need for each trading block to insurance its own sovereign rules and practices. therefore, wish this committee every success in its deliberations. we have to take into account what i think we already heard, however. that taking divergent approaches during a global recession matched by the kinds of things we know about across the atlantic and around the globe will actually lead to the wrong conclusions. we need to agree common approaches, common regulatory structures, b

babbitt has referred to his service on the independent review team under then-secretary peters.f the findings of the team was that there was unambiguous commitment to the core mission of safety on the part of faa safety staff and that has been my experience as well since the time i've been ig and observing faa in action. a follow-on observation of the team, however, was that there was, quote, a remarkable degree of variation and regulatory ideologies among field office staff which could result in wide variances and possible errors in regulatory decision-making. in fact, there's no faa standard referring to training failures that you described. mr. babbitt, of course, is correct when he says faa inspectors have a wide degree of latitude. they're expected to exercise significant judgment and discretion so we will find from office to office inspector to inspector, carrier to carrier significant variations. the next phase of my office's review will explore those facts in more detail. >> is it -- my understanding, though, and you talked about -- mr. rosenker, about possible amendment

we need to be able to in peter the north from getting things it needs, to make more nuclear weapons and missiles and from sending things. we do need to do that, but we can't stop there nor should we consider that the pressure we are putting on them now will have the immediate effect of stopping them from making more plutonium. that is the part of our problem. i have no objection to part of what he said. i think we have to do that and i am glad that the chinese are willing to join with us but we should not see that as the solution. i think if i heard ambassador bosworth say this, i think that is his view as well. i think that is the administration's you if i heard it correctly. i think that it's very important here and it is very hard. there is no grounds for optimism. we don't have an alternative. >> eyes sense your concern about war. you talk about themselves so it seems to me that there is a slight variation in what you are saying. what is it you think, you talk about mr. cha's effort or what he has put forth and how you feel that may lead to wars so it sounds like to me-- >> i am sor

the speakers include senate finance committee chairman max baucus and white house budget director peter orszag. from the brookings institution this is about an hour. >> [inaudible conversations] >> good morning everyone, i would like to welcome new to this brookings institute this morning, im mark mcclellan, director of the engelberg center for health care reform at brookings and on behalf of bob and the hamilton project we would like to welcome you to today's events on one of the key issues of health care reform. implementing comparative effectiveness research here and we're delighted to have such distinguished participants to discuss this issue and that, of course, includes all of you here, in the overflow room and i know we have a lot of participants, as well. comparative effectiveness research has vaulted to the front lines of the health care reform debate and as you'll hear from some of our upcoming speakers it could even be a game changer come a key part of bending the health care cost curve and comparative americaness research is moving toward. the american recovery and reinvestm

peter, what you have coming out this fall? the most ambitious and exciting is the one over my soldiers is a graphic novel. we don't who normally publish is but we decided to do this one because this is an historical biography of bertrand russell and as crazy as that sounds it is an interesting novel of ideas and the two people behind it are mathematicians and computer science experts so they decided to sort of a approach the idea of the foundation of mathematics and the lice -- the life of version russell as told in comic-book form because to them when a big idea of what he was pursuing was actually as a heroic and the life and death as anything you find in a super hero tail and so it is a book that's been getting a lot of attention before this convention and a lot here. we have been getting a lot of from the galley and everybody seems to be excited to embrace this medium for that particular subject. >> what else you have coming out? >> the other interesting work of nonfiction in the fall is in this book called age of comfort

more with nicholas schmidle and ralph peters in just a moment. "after words" with nicholas schmidle and ralph peters continues. >> host: ayaan ralph peterson, and we are having a great time today, at least i am, talking with nicholas speed, the author of "to live or to perish forever" a superb and remarkably timely book on his two recent years and pakistan, a country very much in the headlines and is granted dominate headlines for some time to come. nick, one of the striking things about this series of tales is the time spent with taliban of fighting drugs with pakistanis but the other side of the taliban, the enforcers, people bringing sharia law to the northwest frontier and perhaps you could start us off by just telling us how you got there, introduce, something you could read from this book that will explain how you got in there. >> guest: the first thing is we were talking last time about abdul aziz ghazi. after he died he'd been my introduction to all of these and after ghazi died i wrote a piece titled farewell my jihadi friend, which was

peters: thank you, madam speaker. the cars act of 2009 is critical not only to spur growth in america's auto industry but to save and create jobs throughout our country. hi

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peters berg. we go to the bottom of the 8th 8th. do we have a defining moment in this game? >> rob: the defining moment was the walk here. kapler gets an inside curveball, hits his bat, you know the rest. >> bob: he hit that ball maybe 330 possibly less. >> rob: the dimension would have been less. they cut it in to make a smaller field. remember jack measurety stadium in san diego? they put a fence inside the brick fence. you had to hit a ton to get it out of the field. they moved it in, cut off the an -- the end to have corner action. >> bob: this ball is drilled to left center by pena. elijah dukes will pick it up. that's the lead run here in the 8th inning. [cheering and applause] in this series, the nationals have not scored an earned run after the 4 4th inning. >> bob: fastball up in the zone. second ball carlos pena hit hard this series. he hit a home run earlier in the series. he's been kind of quiet with a couple of bunt hits. >> bob: 5-11 in the series with two bunt hits. there's a lot of pressure on the nats bullpen. the nationals have scored one run in this series

what do you think about peter's question from mac lean? >> rob: i don't think it would fit the evolution of the young staff that we have here but in boston, the reason why they thought about going to a six- man rotation is because they brought in smoltz, brought in penny and figured one of those guys comes back, it's good. but daisuke matsuzaka has been so bad they're going to skip him. i'm not a big fan even of the five-man rotation. i would not mind going back to the four-man rotation but that would take decades to develop pitchers to do that. >> bob: decades, lawsuits. here is mike macdougal, no save situation tonight. but i think manny made the point that, when scott olson gets back and getting closer, there will be one pitcher sent to aaa. it will not be because that particular pitcher did not do well here. >> rob: and i have no problem with that. you put some chips into scott olson, bringing him here. you could even have scott olson basically you a dig for a trade but your future, you have so many great young pitchers in this organiz

then a discussion on the economy, unemployment and world financial markets with peter barisi from the university of maryland. and then the producer talks about a film, shouting fire, stories from the edge of free speech at 7:00 a.m. on c-span. how c-span funded? >> it is publicly funded. >> donations? >> government? by mike it gets the money surtaxes. >> i don't know. helices been funded? 30 years ago, america's cable companies created c-span as a public surface -- service. no government monday -- money. president obama and german chancellor angela merkel had a press conference. they discuss the future of guantanamo and global china -- climate change. it is my pleasure to welcome angela merkel to the white house. we had a very productive discussion in the oval office. our country serve together in afghanistan. in recent months i have come to appreciate our partnership with chancellor angela merkel. i value her wisdom and her can or. i admire her for her leadership and pragmatic approach to getting things done. she and the german people have welcomed me to germany twice, during the nat

peter brooks is a national security fellow at the heritage foundation, there is a report looking at the commission of prevention of weapons of mass destruction proliferation and terrorism. this commission was put together in 2008. guest: i am not a member of this commission. it is -- headed by bob graham. in the standard commission has been extended. they have been extended for a few more months. host: they deliver their report to president bush last -- late last year and testify before congress early this year. what is the focus today? guest: they are doing a great job. the commission has been extended, both senators will join us today to talk about their finding. they will also talk about their recommendations that they made to the president and congress last year. what is interesting is that there really want to get involved in public our reach. -- public of reach. utreach. they said, by 2013 that the u.s. would experience a terrorist wmd attack. they had over -- they met with over two hundred 50 individuals and held hearings. they spent six months with nine commissioners, involved i

tuesday morning in 1967, i thought peter at villard in the morning and adlai stevenson in the afternoonwas haunted by what they would have made of each other. they would not have gone for adlai stevenson. leaning out of the window, sweet old ladies came through in cambridge, and one said to the other, don't you just love history? it is so old. i appreciated this. it is old and young. this sort of cross fertilization in the present moment -- what one might do in those films, we are about to start shooting. there are follow-up films. if you don't find some of those words on that particular occasion, i very much doubt they will. before doing that, i worked for harold, this rather glorious days. a very reasonable roll. i work for at the occasional magazine, sometimes not. in a way, a good journalist in the first draft of history. i was lucky in life. goodness, how time flies. stand up and be counted. how long do i have? that sounds alarming. your life will expire in 3 minutes. two:59. eight:15. this skinny kid with the curly hair? there are 2 kind of history you can do. both of them in the

my name is peter. i am a former usa foreign service's officer. i was never fortunate enough to be stationed in his country. before introducing our speaker, some announcements. there will be a sound file made of this made available to members through the website. others may purchase a copy to the broadcast operations center of the club. please turn off any cell phone or blackberries or icons or pea pods or what at -- ipods or p pods or whatever was on. the next topic is u.s. muslim relations. if you have not already done so, as you leave, please add your name to the signup sheet outside. there is material outside related to this morning's news maker. he is the former crown prince of iran and the son of the former shah of iran. pahlavi, welcome back to the national press club. if i say welcome back because he has spoken here at least twice before. one of them was on march 4, 2006 when he discussed the situation in iran at that time. i was to thank for rolled, mr. pahlavi and all of the people whose names i cannot pronounced correctly. mr. pahlavi w

and then, a discussion with peter morici a of the university of maryland. and lives -- liz garbus talks about her film, "shouting fire." >> how is c-span funded? >> locally funded. >> donations? >> government. >> c-span didst funding for taxes. >> a funding thing. >> how is c-span funded? 30 years ago, america's cable companies created c-span as a public service, with no government mandate or government money. >> and now, from the annual judicial conference of the fourth circuit court of appeals, a conversation with chief justice john roberts, followed by discussion by a group of legal analysts on the decisions of the supreme court, who complete their term monday. this is about two hours, 40 minutes. >> could we have you take your seats, please? good morning. we have a very extra special program this morning, and it will focus entirely on the supreme court. chief justice marshall worried that the supreme court's role in the tripartite government would not be fulfilled if the court continued issuing multiple opinions, one from each justice, as was the custom

my name is peter hickman, i am a former foreign service officer, now a free-lance writer and editor actor. . before announcing our speaker, there will be a sound file made of speakers from all of them come available to members of the web site and you can purchase a copy from the broadcast center of this club. please turn off any cell phone, blackberries, i papods. if you have not already done so as to leave, please add your name to the sign in shape. there is material outside related to this newsmaker. that newsmaker is the former crown prince of iran, the st. -- the son of the late shah of iran. mr. pahlavi,