december is the month, where he had unforgettable days out west, a 54 game point in phoenix. he had 26 in a game a couple nights ago in minnesota. this month four games with 30 or more and that improved his season high. >> brendon hayward continues the positive play. >> we have been impressed with his play averaging over ten-and-a-half rebounds and that certainly is one of the rank that we will look at and third in the league in blocked shots. he ranked 9th in rebounding and he needs to bring it tonight against zack randolph 6th best in the league. you look at his numbers over his career. he is averaging about 1 points and probably about eight-and-a-half rebounds. he has had three seasons where he has averaged 20 and ten and that is what he is averaging this year but it is over the last four games he has gone through the roof averaging nearly 30 points and 18 rebounds and making 62% of his shots. >> rudy again injured his ankle, he will not play this game. wizards hope to rebound battling a member fies club that is number one in the league. the wizards meet the grizzlies on c

what is that coming out of his mouth. >> the wildlife world zoo, in phoenix, arizona.rand-new aquarium, only aquarium in that part of the world. look at this. this is a savannah water monitor. larry, look at his tongue. what he's doing, he's stealing your attention right now. you don't want to do that. act like you're not nervous. better. do this, larry. it feels good. let him touch your hand. do that. has it ever licked you? >> larry: it's not poison? >> no -- well -- no. >> larry: well, don't say well. you try it. >> put it like that, larry, do you see that? >> larry: yeah, did i see it? >> do you feel it? >> larry: yeah. >> what he's doing is he's picking up particles. what the dragon will do if he bites you. he will track you for days. the bite isn't what's going to kill you. do you like this animal like i do. this is the biggest one i've ever seen. >> larry: let's get in the alligator. two little alligators. wait a minute, i said little. >> is it a little one? holy mackerel, larry, wow, wee. larry, have you ever seen an alligator that close? >> larry: no, i've nev

to the people in the phoenix office that may have seen evil. i don't think it is. again, evil is often an eye of the beholder so it's kind of self-righteous and the way. yes, sir. >> a toka lot about how content creators at google have the book search issues. there's the viacom lawsuit in newspapers and there's also the music industry that has similar issue so, to these issues versus fast-changing business with the internet? >> i think it is much more the changing business than it is google. goal is a surrogate for the internet. if you think about how the music companies i would argue committed suicide, they weren't murdered and the suicide is to have a business model liz says we are only going to sell cds. you have to buy all the records in this album even if you don't like them and along in 2001 comes itunes in the state for 99 cents you can listen to a portion of it before you decide to click and buy it. why didn't they make a deal with the online stuff that people-- would you call it, what was the company that they sit? why didn't they make a deal with nafta? w

in phoenix, arizona. greatest zoo. white tiger. new aquarium, the only aquarium in that part of the world. look at this. this is a savannah? >> water monitor. >> look at his tongue. what he's doing, he's feeling your attention right now. don't do that. act like you're not nervous. that's better. do this, larry. it feels good. let him touch your hand. do that. has a lizard ever licked you? just try. >> larry: it's not poison? >> no -- well -- >> larry: well, don't say well. you try it. >> just go like, that larry. he's feeling -- don't let him get real close. do you see that? >> larry: yeah. do i see it. >> did you feel it? >> larry: yeah. >> what he's doing is he's picking up particles. that's how he hunts. the komodo dragon when he bites you the bite's not going to kill you. he will track you for days. this is the biggest one i've ever seen. >> larry: let's get in the alligator. not a big alligator. a little alligator. two little alligators. different from the croc. wait a minute, i said little. hold it. >> holy mackerel, larry. w

he discovered bill rehnquist when he was a clerk for justice jackson and enticed him to come to phoenixto practice law. he was the attorney for the goldwater department stores and he got barry goldwater to run for the phoenix council and then was his manager throughout -- till he got the republican nomination and he gave up his practice of law to do that. and when he was trying to organize a conservative taft delegation of the 1952 republican convention when taft contested eisenhower for the nomination and he wanted a conservative delegation from arizona, he somehow or other found dick klein who later became attorney general for the united states as a magazine in a cum laude of harvard law school. he was a native of arizona but he brought him out to work for him and organize politics. and this one man dennison kitchel found these three people who changed the course of barry goldwater and bill rehnquist, that's a remarkable man. and dennison kitchel was himself a very unusual man. he came from a very social family in new york. his father was the managing partner in a law firm, which is t

i ask unanimous consent that my health policy fellow janet phoenix have floor privileges during consideration of this debate on h.r. 3590. the presiding officer: is there objection? without objection, so ordered. mr. hatch: and i send a motion to commit with instructions to the desk and ask for its immediate consideration. the presiding officer: the clerk will report the motion. mr. hatch: mr. president, i've been very interested in some of the comments of my friend, and he is my friend. the presiding officer: if the senator will suspend, the clerk needs to report the motion. the clerk: the senator from utah, mr. hatch, moves to commit h.r. 3590 to the committee on finance. mr. hatch: i ask unanimous consent further reading be dispensed with. the presiding officer: without objection, so ordered. mr. hatch: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from utah. mr. hatch: i always enjoy my colleague from illinois. no matter what comes up, he can talk about it. i got a big kick out of him saying there are thr* aren't any republican bills. there are six of them. the problem is we only have

i was stationed in kabul, camp phoenix. that really is a safe area. i've been home for a week. host: enjoy your time home. here is the hill, talking about obama's sending christmas greetings, using the white house address to send holiday greetings. president barack obama joined by michelle obama at his side also touched on the tough economic year, as we recover from an extraordinary session. looking here at the president and first families looking head their christmas break. from georgia, go ahead. caller: i just wanted to say that i am praying for the troops. i will be grateful when the war is over and they could come home. i do not know anybody. i do not have many people over there. host: we are joined by a navy lieutenant from afghanistan. good to have you here. guest: thank you. merry christmas. host: tell us about your role in afghanistan, how long have been there, and your impressions so far. caller: my role is for an adviser to the medical group, working with statistics. general impressions is that they are very hard workers. a long way to go, but we're getting there. ho

and the ma'am moth spread of the food was removed the morale welfare and recreation club at camp phoenix cleared the dance floor and blasted hip-hop music until midnight. go ahead? caller: i was calling to make a comment. i think the president and the attorney general's creating a problem themselves, here we have this thing in nigeria or with this airline, and you know, it's starting up again. and we should be aware of what's going to happen. you know, they bomb the first towers and stuff in 1993, and now they are starting it up again. and we need to look out for that. why are we bringing these people to the united states? it's starting up again, that's their first phase. thank you. host: we're talking about domestic and foreign policy priorities for the obama administration in 2010. this op-ed in this morning's "new york post." post partisan? quotations? not. he writes obama the outsider hasn't changed the way washington works. he's worked washington in a way only an outsider with no respect for the place would dare. consider his domestic health care reform after a year of working on it

an e-mail question from jeff in phoenix. >> here's the thing, jeff, it all depends how old you happen to be. if you are old enough that you're going to be keeping this home, and it's going to be a home you'll stay in for the rest of your life. let's say you're 45, 50 years of age, then i personally think it's a wonderful thing to do to pay off your mortgage. why? most of your tax write-offs in a mortgage are in the beginning years. if you have a 30-year mortgage, a $200,000 mortgage and you pay $1,200 a month. after 20 years of paying $14,014 a year. you still will owe $100,000 on the mortgage. why? because all of the interest is up front, so in the later years of the mortgage, it is all principal anyway. so if you're going to stay in the house for the rest of your life, if you're 45, 50 years of age, i would say you should absolutely pay off your mortgage because then you know nobody can ever take your home away from you. >> larry: we have a call from ontario, niagara falls, the canada side. >> caller: barack obama has only been in office for almost 11 months now, and it's a year in

we're not as bad as las vegas, we're not as bad as phoenix or miami. >> suarez: levi is ceo of a nonprofit economic development corporation charged with revitalizing center city where most of the jobs are located. >> this was originally the curtis publishing where ladies home swrournl was published. >> suarez: one reason philadelphia is doing okay, +h3v it's industrial base left long ago. today the economy is diversified. >> we used to have 52% of our workforce at the beginning of the 20th century in manufacturing. today it's 4%. those were the jobs we were always losing at a faster rate than the national economy. a great strength in health care and education has buoyed us and carried us through this economy. >> suarez: and by the way, the health of thed> country is tied to the health of the cities says mayor nutter. >> you can't have a recovery without cities in metro areas recovering as well. they talked about some the industries that were too big to fail. i would say that cities are too important to fail. >> suarez: nutter asked the obama administration to free up more stimulus funds is

on the plane on the way home from phoenix no one said bomber but one person -- you don't worry about the last -- should have been someplace else. i went and threw up. i don't know how much you are talking about this but legal strategies. ohio is a place where the election day is a place where you get these voters, a bunch of lawyers, and the sure they stopped judges from doing dumb things and make sure polling places are operating as they should. make sure you are not seeing a voter irregularities. this is very much opposed to thousand. these teams of lawyers are ready. ohio is a good example. people are registering and voting. there is a very broad set of circumstances where someone was able to register early and vote on that day. we were concerned they doing it -- you can do a ton of anything. we went to make sure our lawyers were there. this is the second best thing to your voter file in terms of campaign planning, calendar. when do we need to start recruiting so we have people who are ready to go? it won't happen and there will be voting places where it is happening weekly. there

opportunities for -- present ue phoenix opportunities for terrorists. you don't have the t.s.a. officials there, law enforcement officers, processes passengers through these stations. we haven't provided amtrak the resources to fully fund this operation let alone the additional cost and manpower this legislation would necessary to comply. the traveling public deserves better. i'm asking each member to vote no on this rule so we can come back and get a fair rule pertaining to the traveling public. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady's time has expired. the gentleman from california. mr. dreier: mr. speaker, as i prepare to yield to mied good friend from alpine, utah, mr. chaffetz, i would simply say that give him two minutes which would total $15 billion of this measure based on the $7.5 billion per minute that it's costing us to do this. i'm happy to yield two minutes to our hardworking new colleague from utah. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from utah is recognized for two minutes. mr. chaffetz: thank you, mr. speaker. thank you for yielding

the former georgia billy head coach here scouting for the phoenix suns tonight.ete babcock here tonight scouting for the cleveland cavaliers. they got a row full of them over there. auburn now more misses -- there is dennis phelpson. auburn now 6-12 at the free-throw line tonight. >> daymeon: still remember coach felton winning the sec championship. >> matt: incredible accomplishment. won four games in three days. had to move over to georgia tech and play because of the tornado that hit downtown atlanta and damaged the georgia dome. won a double header on saturday to get to the championship game. it was a wild ride. they couldn't keep up that momentum the following year. >> daymeon: virginia really trying to set the inside presence off of the bounce versus going inside to their big man. >> matt: sene back in there with three fouls and had the rebound and lost it. sullivan ends up on the deck. actually, that is waller who ends up on the deck. landesberg picks up his first personal foul. that will get tay waller at the line. a senior out of manchester, georgia. sam

phoenix children's hospital in phoenix is built to handle about 20,000 emergency cases a year. as it great hospital. it receives about 60,000 per year. so its capacity does not begin to match the need. so to meet the demand, and by the way more than half of these are medicaid patients, the hospital built a new tower that was expected to open at the end of next yeemple good news, right -- year. good news, right? not exactly. the governor added up the states that governor brewer referred to and the additional cuts to finance new federal mandates an concluded that the math doesn't add up. as a result, phoenix children's hospitahospital nervous me thaty won't be able to move into their new building, it would have had 2,000 new jobs. what we do in washington has real consequences. i suspect the reid bill speps disaster for the states. so, mr. president, as we debate more and more features of this bill, i think each day we focus on something different in this legislation that creates a huge problem. today's focus for me is the problem focused on the state with the visit from the gove

on the court, and he was a huck of a point bard for the phoenix suns, made the all stars several times, but now he's called his honor, as the first african-american mayor of his hometown sacramento. we look at a day in the life of kevin johnson. >> reporter: it's 5:00 a.m., the city sleeps, but kevin johnson has traded in his comfortable bed for a pair of running shoes. moonlit pavement. and the biggest day of his young political career lies before him. >> for me, it's about staying in good shape, mental, physical, spiritual, and running allows that happen. when you get up at 4:30 to run, there's no distraction, it's quiet out. it allow use tow think and reflect, and a chance to certainly get the right perspective and early in the morning allows that really take place, because once the hustle and butle of the regular day starts, it's very, very difficult to have a private moment and get a peace of mind. >> reporter: with his workout behind him, the mayor begins what promises to be a very long day. even a quick car ride to a local television station is an opportunity to conduct business

i was stationed in kabul, camp phoenix. that really is a safe area. i've been home for a week. host: enjoy your time home. here is the hill, talking about obama's sending christmas greetings, using the white house address to send holiday greetings. president barack obama joined by michelle obama at his side also touched on the tough economic year, as we recover from an extraordinary session. looking here at the president and first families looking head their christmas break. from georgia, go ahead. caller: i just wanted to say that i am praying for the troops. i will be grateful when the war is over and they could come home. i do not know anybody. i do not have many people over there. host: we are joined by a navy lieutenant from afghanistan. good to have you here. guest: thank you. merry christmas. host: tell us about your role in afghanistan, how long have been there, and your impressions so far. caller: my role is for an adviser to the medical group, working with statistics. general impressions is that they are very hard workers. a long way to go, but we're getting there. ho

host: phoenix, arizona, p.j. on the independent line. caller: i would like to ask host: go ahead.st of all, i would like to say i enjoy your program very much. and your guest, i think she is describing in part of global economy fallout. i have been in the nursing career for 30 years. i loved my job. i was what you called a career nurse. what i am noticing particularly in the southwest of mayor akay, a lot of the nursing jobs, we have great-trained educated jobs are being given away to foreign immigrants. i have personally observed this. a lot 06 these i mean deprants that are coming and taking our american nurse jobs do not have the same high training and skills. also american nurses are being restricted, again, this is in southwest, restricted as to how many hours they can actually work. would you like to respond to my comments, please. guest: yes. i have one big thought about that which is we are not generating enough nurse ins this country, because we don't have the capability of educating them. we don't have enough nurse educateors. nursing is a very crafted profession for man

yeah, afghanistan, host: let's move on to peg inx phoenix on our line for democrats.r: good morning. i have a couple of questions. you k'ow, in our own country we have so much difficulty with greed and corruption in our financial institutions and banking and so on, and i know that the problem for people in afp'istan, and i wondered how - what are the plans to address the corruption? host: we've lost peg. um... was there enough there to - guest: think so. a question about corruption. we have heard about this enough. it is a problem that we acknowledge and it exists in afghanistan. we're firm&y committed fighting corruption. as president karzai said in the inaugural speech promise together hold a conference as conference on anticorruption, 450 people from across the country. governments of different society as well as partners from the international community participated in the conference to discuss this practices in the fight against corruption. they have adopted a resolution. which we hope we will be helped by our allies. to implement and in the coming months and yea

host: phoenix, arizona, p.j. on the independent line. caller: i would like to ask host: go ahead.caller: first of all, i would like to say i enjoy your program very much. and your guest, i think she is describing in part of global economy fallout. i have been in the nursing career for 30 years. i loved my job. i was what you called a career nurse. what i am noticing particularly in the southwest of mayor akay, a lot of the nursing jobs, we have great-trained educated jobs are being given away to foreign immigrants. i have personally observed this. a lot 06 these i mean deprants that are coming and taking our american nurse jobs do not have the same high training and skills. also american nurses are being restricted, again, this is in southwest, restricted as to how many hours they can actually work. would you like to respond to my comments, please. guest: yes. i have one big thought about that which is we are not generating enough nurse ins this country, because we don't have the capability of educating them. we don't have enough nurse educateors. nursing is a very crafted profess

we're located in phoenix, ariz., and we process -- we have more than 350 lawyers who prosecute more than chief assistant, i have prosecuted domestic violence cases, sexual abuse cases, and i currently oversee the specialized bureaus who focus on prosecuting those crimes. sexual violence causes lasting trauma to victims beyond physical injury. in many cases, these crimes go unreported due to the pier and trauma associated with sexual or violent person fear of retaliation from the offender and fear of public scrutiny in our experience, it is not uncommon for a sexual offender who is finally caught to admit to other sexual assaults that were never reported. in 2004 statewide study of arizona, it was estimated that only 16% of all sexual assault ever came to the attention of law enforcement. with respect to the fear of public scrutiny, the value of education cannot be underestimated. the dissemination of accurate information about sexual offenders and their victims is essential to change public attitudes about these crimes so that victims do not suffer embarrassment or humiliation when they

we have opened three very large processing centers, one in baltimore, won in phoenix and one in jeffersonville, kentucky. these processing centers are filled with machines, electronic scanners and disorders that can process tens of thousands of questionnaires every hour. it is a massive operation. and then, we have already printed hundreds of millions of forms. your press kit has a picture of one of our warehouses in the country stacked up with the interviewers which forms of various kinds. it gives you a sense of how already we are. we are ready to go and still some forms are being printed. we are putting labels on the questionnaires that will be mailed out over the coming weeks. outreach and advertising. we have successfully formed partnerships with 135,000 organizations around the country. what me tell you what a partner is. partner is an organization that volunteers to help us out. they volunteer to get the message out of the census to their group. some of these partners are national partners. some are large corporations like target and best buy, like aarp and campbell's soup, like the naa

phoenix, ariz., democrats line, your the first call. caller: i think what applies about jobs in the u.s. could also apply in afghanistan. my idea is 100% employee only companies where a person would say, let's get 200 people together and they either get my car loans or they have money of their own and they could be paid back through deductions. in afghanistan we do not need no bid contracts. and what we need to do was put the people to worked just like we do here so that people can join forces to build manufacturing and solar and turbine. in colorado, they build them 100% there and install them. host: we will leave your comment there and get a response. guest: i think she has a point. micro loans can make a huge difference, especially in third world countries. i have seen this in haiti where there was a situation where a woman would walk 7 miles every day to buy bread for dollar and then come back and sell abroad for a total of a $50. -- sell the bread for a total of $2. 50% of the profit was in interest every day. all you had to do was

phoenix power play. cashed in by petr prucha. there's more, like here in a 1-0 game.'s second of the night. sixth of the season. just hanging out. coyotes win it 6-3 in toronto. >>> stars have won five of six against the hurricanes. canes up 1-0. ruutu, spinning. beating marty turco to make it 2-0. but there is more ruutu to for you. like goal number two for ruutu. then, as time winds down, how about an empty net hat trick for ruutu? his first career hat trick, it counts. canes win it 5-3. >>> blues/blackhawks. to the united center. first period. chicago is up 1-0, power play. brian campbell, slapper. makes it 2-0. second period, it will be jonathan toews. to marian hossa for his fifth. hawks win it 3-0. i beg your pardon, 3-0 in the third. >>> the road to cincinnati, ohio, runs through mt. pleasant, michigan. after losing brian kelly to notre dame, the bear cats went back to central michigan -- butch jones. he takes over after the sugar bowl date with florida. >> i'm going to be around, but i'm going to be in the background. it's all about them finishing what they st

mike is joining us from phoenix. good morning. on the republican line. caller: hi, how are you doing this morning? guest: hi. caller: these countries that we're fighting in and rebuilding and -- why are we financing it? why aren't they? host: why aren't they financing what, mike, specifically? caller: the war that we're fighting so they can be rebuilt and restructured for themselves. host: would you support a war tax? caller: i would l love to pay for everything i could you. if i had the money, i would pay everything i could for my country. but why is it that these countries that we rebuild not paying their portion, too. host: thanks, mike. we'll get a response. guest: we're involved in afghanistan as we were in iraq because we thought it was in our, american, national interest. and i think that's true. i have criticisms of those conflicts, but i think we are there not to help those countries, per say, we're there -- per se, we're there to help make our country stronger. it happens that afghanistan is pretty poor, and what we're spending is far larger th

david on the republicans line in phoenix,s arizona.eah, if you calculate the amount of carbon in the air, it's like 10 to 16th points and they're talking about releasing a billion or so pounds per day. it doesn't work out. you are not putting enough carbon in the air to affect the climate. host: our next caller we have annie who is austin, texas, on the democrats' line. hi, annie. caller: hi. i just wanted to say that a few days ago, there was a lady from idaho that called about how cold her summer and fall had been and that the crops were not growing. i know how cold your summers were up there. but apparently you don't know that we were the second hottest summer in our history in austin and san antonio. it broke every record back to 1926, and the next few hottest summers were very recent as well, and so just once you go to look around at other parts of the country and not just be so blinded by your own little area, that's all i wanted to say. host: next caller, diana, independent line in indiana. caller: good morning. i appreciate you

and the ma'am moth spread of the food was removed the morale welfare and recreation club at camp phoenixleared the dance floor and blasted hip-hop music until midnight. go ahead? caller: i was calling to make a comment. i think the president and the attorney general's creating a problem themselves, here we have this thing in nigeria or with this airline, and you know, it's starting up again. and we should be aware of what's going to happen. you know, they bomb the first towers and stuff in 1993, and now they are starting it up again. and we need to look out for that. why are we bringing these people to the united states? it's starting up again, that's their first phase. thank you. host: we're talking about domestic and foreign policy priorities for the obama administration in 2010. this op-ed in this morning's "new york post." post partisan? quotations? not. he writes obama the outsider hasn't changed the way washington works. he's worked washington in a way only an outsider with no respect for the place would dare. consider his domestic health care reform after a year of working on it h

on the court, and he was a huck of a point bard for the phoenix suns, made the all stars several times, but now he's called his honor, as the first african-american mayor of his hometown sacramento. we look at a day in the life of kevin johnson. >> reporter: it's 5:00 a.m., the city sleeps, but kevin johnson has traded in his comfortable bed for a pair of running shoes. moonlit pavement. and the biggest day of his young political career lies before him. >> for me, it's about staying in good shape, mental, physical, spiritual, and running allows that happen. when you get up at 4:30 to run, there's no distraction, it's quiet out. it allow use tow think and reflect, and a chance to certainly get the right perspective and early in the morning allows that really take place, because once the hustle and butle of the regular day starts, it's very, very difficult to have a private moment and get a peace of mind. >> reporter: with his workout behind him, the mayor begins what promises to be a very long day. even a quick car ride to a local television station is an opportunity to conduct business

next call from phoenix. steve, democrats line. caller: good morning. thank you for c-span.martin regalia here's my question. years ago, a guy told me that where our country wants to go to a global economy but with a global economy you have to have global wages. plumbers and truck drivers make the same and et cetera. my question to you mr. martin regalia is to get the jobs back we have to be willing to works a little as they're done wherever they're done now. what do you propose and how little do you think the wagers should be for people that get their hands dirty? guest: interesting question but your premise is entirely wrong. you don't compete to the bottom you compete to the top. we want to create jobs in is this country the higher paying scaled jobs. our truck drivers should make more than truck drivers do in third world countries and that's great and they should. and economy will still function but you have to be cognizant of the fact that the world economy does provide competitive pressure and one of the things we have to do is reduce unnecessary costs foisted on our c

host: mike joins us from phoenix, arizona. go ahead, please. caller: i have a question for your guest there. what kind of -- what would you think about felons being able -- i'm a felon myself and i wonder about being able to vote but i have to wait a certain amount of time then petition for my rights to be able to vote. i have seen a lot of elections. as far as obama i wish i could have voted against him but what do you think of that? guest: what we try to do is emphasize the needs and rights of victims and there is a disparity between victims as to what they perceive should be the rights of people that committed crimes. probably a case-by-case basis should be a starting point. that is a discussion that others are taking up and of course we would commend the discussion but what we would like to do is be part of it as victims. host: donald says the prison system in america today is what he calls the new slavery. they selectively prosecute to jail who they want and if you don't have money bye-bye. your response. guest: with every crime what overl

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we have opened three very large processing centers, one in baltimore, one in phoenix, and one in jeffersonvillentucky. these processing centers are filled with machines, electronic scanners and sorters, that can process tens of thousands of questionnaires every hour. it's a massive operation. and then we have already printed hundreds of millions of forms. your press kit has a picture of one of our warehouses in the country stacked up with kits for interviewers, with forms of various kinds. it gives you a sense of how ready we are. we're ready to go on the form printing, still some forms are being printed. we're putting labels on the questionnaires that will be mailed out over the coming weeks. outreach and advertising, we have successfully formed partnerships with 135 organizations around the country. let me tell you what a partner is. a partner is a organization that volunteers to help us out. they volunteer to get the message out about the census to their group. some of these partners are national partners, some are large corporations like target and best buy. like aarp and campbell's soup, l

somebody make doing laundry for our troops and how much do they make let's say in kandahar or in camp phoenix? what do they make and what do they make in the police department locally so we can do an apples to apples comparison about the level of salary and if we're cutting off our nose to spite our face. let me go to aid and state department now for some questions about that. i know there's a reason we have six ambassadors in afghanistan, but it's not clear to me who's doing what. who is the ambassador? who's in charge? where is the orcs charge? what is the difference between eikenberry and holbrooke and who is answerable to them? can you help me with that? mr. feldman? >> i'd be happy to. we do have six ambassadors in couple, but we feel extremely well certified having them there to given the critical nature of our mission and the talent that they bring. so, ambassador eikenberry is charged with all of our work coming out of the embassy and just looking for the actual board chart which i brought with me and him happy to share. >> that's fine. you can give it to us for the record. the reason

on the plane on the way home from phoenix no one said bomber but one person -- you don't worry abouthe last -- should have been someplace else. i went and threw up. i don't know how much you are talking about this but legal strategies. ohio is a place where the election day is a place where you get these voters, a bunch of lawyers, and the sure they stopped judges from doing dumb things and make sure polling places are operating as they should. make sure you are not seeing a voter irregularities. this is very much opposed to thousand. these teams of lawyers are ready. ohio is a good example. people are registering and voting. there is a very broad set of circumstances where someone was able to register early and vote on that day. we were concerned they doing it -- you can do a ton of anything. we went to make sure our lawyers were there. this is the second best thing to your voter file in terms of campaign planning, calendar. when do we need to start recruiting so we have people who are ready to go? it won't happen and there will be voting places where it is happening weekly. there a

in september, the president spoke in phoenix, arizona, to the veterans of foreign wars. in that speech, the president's words were quite compelling about waste and pork-barrel spending in defense bills. in that speech, the president promised, promised to end -- an end to, quote -- "special interests and their exotic projects" and reaffirmed that he was leading the charge to kill off programs like the f-22, the second engine for the joint strike fighter and the outrageousiously expensive expensive helicopter. the president went on to say, quote -- "if a project does not support our troops, we will not fund it. if a system doesn't perform well, we will terminate it. and if congress sends me a bill loaded with that kind of waste, i will veto it. we will do right by our troops and taxpayers." well, mr. president, i can tell you, the president of the united states, that meets your criteria with over $7 billion of unnecessary, unwanted spending. will the president veto this bill? not a chance, not a chance. but the american people are going to demand that this -- that obscene

on the court, and he was a huck of a point bard for the phoenix suns, made the all stars several times, but now he's called his honor, as the first african-american mayor of his hometown sacramento. we look at a day in the life of kevin johnson. >> reporter: it's 5:00 a.m., the city sleeps, but kevin johnson has traded in his comfortable bed for a pair of running shoes. moonlit pavement. and the biggest day of his young political career lies before him. >> for me, it's about staying in good shape, mental, physical, spiritual, and running allows that happen. when you get up at 4:30 to run, there's no distraction, it's quiet out. it allow use tow think and reflect, and a chance to certainly get the right perspective and early in the morning allows that really take place, because once the hustle and butle of the regular day starts, it's very, very difficult to have a private moment and get a peace of mind. >> reporter: with his workout behind him, the mayor begins what promises to be a very long day. even a quick car ride to a local television station is an opportunity to conduct business

yeah, afghanistan, host: let's move on to peg inx phoenix on our line for democrats.ing, peg. caller: good morning. i have a couple of questions. you k'ow, in our own country we have so much difficulty with greed and corruption in our financial institutions and banking and so on, and i know that the problem for people in afp'istan, and i wondered how - what are the plans to address the corruption? host: we've lost peg. um... was there enough there to - guest: think so. a question about corruption. we have heard about this enough. it is a problem that we acknowledge and it exists in afghanistan. we're firm&y committed fighting corruption. as president karzai said in the inaugural speech promise together hold a conference as conference on anticorruption, 450 people from across the country. governments of different society as well as partners from the international community participated in the conference to discuss this practices in the fight against corruption. they have adopted a resolution. which we hope we will be helped by our allies. to implement and in the coming

one constituent from phoenix says, for the past month i've heard about proposed medicare cuts. finally after years of being self-employed and only affording high-deductible insurance, i now have medicare and in the medicare advantage plan. please tell me you're not cutting medicare advantage. have a heart. leave mair and medicare advantage a-- leave medicare and medicare advantage a loan. a constituent from peoria, arizona, says, i have two families receiving health care under the medicare advantage program. the care has been consistently outstanding due to the efforts of our case manager in coordinating patient care between privates and patients. we have a voice in determining type and scope of our care. please do not cut medicare advantage. here's a note from a constituent. i have heard reports that the government new -- the new government plan would do away with medicare advantage. if so, it would double my health care costs with my current health care provider. i do not want any legislation passed that would take away the medicare option for seniors. end of quote. another c

phoenix, ariz., democrats line, your the first call.caller: i think what applies about jobs in the u.s. could also apply in afghanistan. my idea is 100% employee only companies where a person would say, let's get 200 people together and they either get my car loans or they have money of their own and they could be paid back through deductions. in afghanistan we do not need no bid contracts. and what we need to do was put the people to worked just like we do here so that people can join forces to build manufacturing and solar and turbine. in colorado, they build them 100% there and install them. host: we will leave your comment there and get a response. guest: i think she has a point. micro loans can make a huge difference, especially in third world countries. i have seen this in haiti where there was a situation where a woman would walk 7 miles every day to buy bread for dollar and then come back and sell abroad for a total of a $50. -- sell the bread for a total of $2. 50% of the profit was in interest every day. all you had to do was

phoenix, arizona, linda on the democrats line. your first phone call. >> caller: yes. good morning. i hope you hear me. i'm always very nervous. i think what applies about jobs in the united states could also apply in afghanistan. my idea is 100% employing own companies we put 200 people together. either get microloans for 5,000, or they have money of their own which would be paid back through payroll deductions. now, in afghanistan we have to build the infrastructure. we don't need anymore no-bid loans or no-bid contracts, but we need to put the people to work there just like we do here so people can join forces. in america we would go and retool some of these manufacturing buildings, solar and turbines and stop the president signing stimulus plan and -- in colorado. 100% owned. they build them and install them. >> host: linda, we'll leave it there and focus on your comments about jobs in afghanistan. >> guest: it actually is a very interesting question and i think, linda in tucson has a point. microloans can make a huge difference, especially in third world countries. i have seen

and phoenix became the kidnap capital of the world.ow, what scares me, if it hadn't have been for a -- then she sits there and tells us that the system worked as advertised. the system failed big time. if it wasn't for a dutch citizen who jumped on this terrorist and was able to disarm and mitigate the situation, we would have 290 dead people and possibly dead people on the ground. >> host: richard, let me ask you what was the one thing that failed the most? a caller mentioned that this guy should have been on the no-fly list. is that the biggest missed opportunity? >> caller: that's a glaring failure. it reminds me of 9/11 when these reports from our intel agencies sat on the desks of our president clinton and possibly president bush, and no one investigated. >> host: yeah. >> caller: we had the pictures in the background of all the terrorists in the reports with the intel people, and they did not act on them. >> host: thanks for weighing in, about 15 more minutes of your calls, up to about 7:45 eastern on airport security, is more ne

constituent in surprise, arizona -- hope you like the name of that town, surprise, arizona, just west of phoenix "i truly hope you'll consider keeping the medicare advantage plans for seniors. i find the savings a must on my fixed income. i appreciate the high-quality doctor care on my medisun advantage plan. prescriptions are included in the cost of my plan, providing further savings for me. medicare advantage has made a real difference in my life. please don't let anything happen to this important program." and a constituent from fountain hills writes, "i suffer from a specific type of ametropholic lateral clersz and rely on medicare advantage for all of my medical needs. i'm asking that do you all that is in your power to protect and provide for the continued funding of this program. in arizona, we have over 329,000 people who count on medicare advantage. our lives would be devastated without it." and a constituent from wick enberg, arizona, says, "please don't let anything happen to my medicare advantage. i like my medicare advantage plan because i can choose my own doctor in my own town and

felt sorry for me going up to trenton so much and i said gosh with justice o'connor i could go to phoenix in palo alto. , so he started letting me come to his office and we ended up with a dozen interviews, and i have to say he never hold back from his most controversial statements. in fact that was one of the things that unsurprising is he cannot even stronger. at i said what about thesis said from the bench he would say i know that bothered some people but it got their attention, so on religion and race and issues that frankly a lot of people find troubling and that got him certainly some critical press coverage and law review commentary, he did not back away from it at all and did that came on much longer so i have to save the access that the ended up giving me was quite helpful. he has one surviving into lives in the trenton area of the happen to be-- she was 12 when he was born so she remembered him quite well and was his baby sitter. she said he was crying all the time but this is a 12-year-old taking care of her nephew which can't have been all that much fun. anyway i did a lot of