laurell cuomo once said that we campaign in poetry but we govern in prose. the pros matters more, but the poetry is sometimes more interesting. when you are doing the prose, the best liberals are always pushing the limits of what is possible. the best conservatives are open to change, but know when to draw the line. but when you get into the poetry, sometimes the further you push it out, the more effective is in the short run. i just want to amplify some things newt gingrich said, because i think they are important for the public record. trent lott was a good leader. he got a lot done when i was there. he became majority leader in 1996. i just want to run through the record, because i think that is what really matters. months after he showed up, after two vetoes, i signed the welfare reform law. it led to a 60% reduction in the welfare rolls and was part of the reduction in poverty of almost 7 million, which is 100 times as had move from poverty to middle-class in the previous 12 years. it was a good bill. it had a conservative requirement that people who ca

the al question is it's a bi plan, somhing close to at max max baucus i prosing, $800 billi that haa very we-ranging reform, or they end up doing mething smaller which is still significant which is basically expanding medicaid to include milons of more people andpaying more it with mecare cuts. >> we' going to have to leave there. we can go on and on i kno another time. we'll co back to you. thanks a l, dren. >> thanks, susie. >> wasngton bureau >> sie: darren, thanks for joining us. washington beau chief darrenersh. >> paul: tre's a bit of opmistic news for the housing industry. new cotruction rose in last month to its highest lev in 9 months. the commerce departmt said housing starts increased 1.5% slightly less than economis were expecting but still ading in the right direction. groundreaking for single- family homes fell 3%. but construction on multi-faly homes like apaments, jumped 25 applications for building permits an indicatorf future activityere also up. >> paul: another factor in spurring that optism in housing. mo and more americans are tang advantage of that $8,000 tax c

given complicatio and i complicate things ormously i'm assuming for predent obama, woulthis be the prose time to put thi on holdather than go down the route saying we want to sanction and the chinese say the same thing? what is pointof going down the route? >> the russians wil always complicate this for us. unitedtates policy will be complicad by theussians being in thatquation and that's very real. i think this wi come to a head whenhmadinejad vsits new york, visits the u.n., and he's going to be her and there's going to be a great callor him to release the "newsweek" correspondent whis still bng held trelease many of the journalists andbloggers still being detained. there are things for ahmadinejad to answeror and i think, yes it will have to gonto a cooling pattern where thes going to have to b very clear that this gornment is seen as creasingly illegitimate and they have to p that forward. >> one other pect, israel. we m go into a holding or cooling patrn, whatever you call it but israel and netanyu may not be paent. they may t unilaterally. you can't allo an open ended situation and

. >> the reforms -- the reforms i'm prosing would not apply to those who are here illegally. >> you lie. >> not true. >> and that led to a former president saying this -- >> i think an overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity towards president barack obama is based on the fact that he is a black man. that he's african-american. >> interesting to hear jimmy carter say that, though we should know historically, jimmy carter has always been in the fore of race and politics. talk to me about that statement and how true you see it. >> you talked about how the obama administration what role race plays in this. what they're trying to do is not deal with race. the reasons are fairly obvious. i would think that he wants to be seen as the president not the african-american president, and he does not want to be seen as complaining about the treatment he is getting, because he is black, because a lot of white people, a lot of white voters, will look at this and say, there those people go again, blaming their problems again on race. >> we knew pam gentry, he -- he being barack oba

in his first meeting with president obama, theew nato cretary general has prosed the north atlantic alliancei remain in afanistans long as itakes to finish its task. the war in ahanistan was not americs responsibility ane, they said. our washington corresponden paul ams, has beenmonitoring developments and gave me this assessment. >> well, i think mr. rasmussen came he very much anxious to y to the americans, look, while you debate, and this is a very serious and big debate here in america- whether or not to send more troops t afghanistan, d't forget that this is a coalition operation. othersre fighting and dyi ere, too, and yo the ericans, need toecognize that. certainly president obama, en they met, thisas a message that he clearly understood an he repeated. and i think it waslso worth noting tt mr. rsmussen very much steered clear of getting involved in th heate debate in america abouthether or not to send more troops. we know that general mcchstal, the american general on the ground, who, of course is a nato general, too, has put in his ruest for more trps, anhing up to 30,000 to 40,000

>> the people are rightly concerned about what their children are or are not being eck prosed to politicallythe schools. to see the people first complain that somehow it was put on tape and exposed to the world. it is that they are missing the point. the parents don't want the children indoctrinated. they want them to be able to write, read and do arithmetic. >> barack hussein obama. >> or did they do the whole thing? >> i like something a little more subtle, a rally, something like that. but remember the good 'ole days where kids would get the tape and just fast forward to their dad's crouch. where is bob sagett when we need him? folks this is all over the news. if i was a parent i would be pissed off. >> i understand why some parents are concerned about it and again, i don't like the task that the people are taking on themselves similar to the acorn situation. in the situation they said the children wrote the sign themselves. >> greg: somebody needs to be fired and i think it is just you. >> i don't know. you ask the question, i want an answer as to why, greg. >> greg: this would be a good

hallowed halls of some of the greatest universities and right in each other beautiful cars, beautiful prose. and so there were many letters written during thatime, not just an african american life, but in american life. before the popularity of phones and the kind of technology that we now take for granted people wrote letters. did not only wrote letters, but these matters are easily anticipated and savored. there were chairs like family jewels. people kept them. it was something that you passed down. so there were many, many letters. i would from that time during the construction up until maybe the 1920's is when you saw kind of a drop in the ninth of the letters. letters continued to get shorter and shorter and shorter after that time because of course with the telephone took off people were communicating that way. and then you saw it also, telegrams and postcards. and i include some of them. and of course we all know what is happening rightow. we stay connected to e-mail and text messaging and gun bans how many of the place. the art of letter writing has taken of bills wind. i don't and

last week, federal judge threw out a prosed settlement othe civil case.he headf thefederal mmunications commission proposed open internetules day. he callefor all wireless carriers to abide by theame rus that wired networks have to follow. some wireless carriers, suchs at&t, have blocked filsharing traffic because they takup so muchapacity. the carriers argue heavy use can slow traffic f everyone. and still to come onhe and still to comon the newshour tight: a health insurance mandate; and novelt margaret atwood. that follows the latest the arrest of the terror suspects. judy wdruff has the story. >> woodruff: thehree defendantsade their first appearancein federal court today in dver and new york city. the arrests on surday were the resultf a year-long investation of 24-year-old najibullah zazi, an afan naonal and airport bus driver who hareportedly admitted to getting explosives training from al qae. police raided his denv-area home last week. he allegedly traveled to pakistan tce this year, and had notes anguides for bomb maki on his computer. >> swhen

despite the overwhelming temptations that sam's prose killing stop, i actually think we should accept this framework and his conclusion at least provisionally, because i think it provides us with a window into an unstated or unacknowledged premise that liberals take for granted in the modern world. but which conservatives do not actually recognized to the great detriment. and i think the best way to do this is to pick on two particular examples in sam's book that serve as my data points. as much as i enjoy sam's writing and his narrative of the intellectual history of conservatism, there were times in the book when i thought that we have slipped into some universe or spock has a goatee and captain kir is a raving lunatic. how else can you make sense of this sentence. david souter may well endure the most authentic conservative in the supreme crt's modern history, closed quote. now have practiced lithosphere and sam would be right to protest the way i've done that because of the longer quote as an important center of toussaint's analysis that i will read the whole thing. as i paraphras

politics and prose bookstore in washinon, d.c. posted this event. it's an hour. >> thank you very much. i'd like to start by saying i had sort of been on a kind of dia tour for almost two months now. i'veeen on "the today show" and "20/20" and "colbert" and this is the hardest crowd to books of that must mean th crowd is the most elite audience. it took a long time to get here but i am glad to get here. thank youor coming and hearing about my book. i will -- i will give you kind of -- art with a quick summary of what the book is about, with the point is, and talk about some o the things i've learned ong the way and the reaction which as been a learning experience of itlf and then we will open up for questions. so as mike said( this books a highly intime account of my own surbeal descent into mortgage media at the height of housing double. i think it's fair to say i had a very unique vantage point as a huge swatch of the country was becoming obsessed by the seemingly sure-fire portunities posed by soaring home prices and exotic mortgages and ever mor

not on medicaid which of course a government progr, what is the baucus plan, what do the democrats prose to do about those folks inhat lowest level? >> suprisingly enough those ople in that bluepart of the pie are uniured. those are peop who are or but not in medicaid. wh because medicaid eligibility rules vary from state to state. the are also pvisions of deral law that ep certain poor people off medicaid. for example, adults who d't have dependent children do not qualify except in some states for medicaidoverage. so the bills all across the board, the democratic bis would all raise th level of eligibility fopeople in medicaid. it would go up to 133% of t poverty level and put on a lot of tho so-called childless adults. that part of t safety net woulde swelled. it would grab all of those people i that blue rt of the pie and a little bit merging into the green partf thpie. >> woodruff:nvolving subsidies from t government. >> directly paid fo by the dicaid program. e medicaid program which now cove 63 millionndividuals would grow by a substantl margin. now, up the income sle. thosfolks wo

>> yeah, this is actually my second book of poetry and prose.m very proud of it. >> jimmy: it's really cool. and all these stories are true? some of the stories in here? >> yes, everything is true. there are pieces in there that were originally, actually, e-mails to people. and thei sort of had them as e-mail format to begin with. and then i just realized -- it's just a great story on its own. so, i'll put it on there without putting someone's e-mail. >> jimmy: what's with the wrestling? the wrestling story in spain. >> yeah, that was at a lucha libre event in spain where -- >> jimmy: lucha libre is -- >> -- is wrestling with masks, for those of you that don't live in the 21st century. >> jimmy: i didn't know what that was. >> really? >> jimmy: yeah. does everybody here know lucha libre? i don't live in the 20th century. i cry all day. [ laughter ] >> no, it's wrestling with masks and it's all very dramatic. and it was an incredible experience. i saw, at one point, it's sort of the finale. everybody was breaking chairs over each other's heads an

now, they prosed a llege of cardinals, soto sak.... >> rose:id they propose that or did dodd pronees? >> well, dodd i think has proposed something gular. >> rose: aouncil of regulators i thinhe callsit. >> well,e's got council of regulators... i thk it may be a significa differenc th treasurwould be the chairman. d the treasury wou have a staff. th that's one wayou can do it. the treasury wld put the... put the treasure in that positi but the treasury has no tradition, no aff, no expertise, professional background, no traditions in t area of banking supervision. and then think, you know, you ask... the federal resve is a natural pce... i mean, i assumed when i was chairman of the federal reservthat i had so responsibility for overseeing the whole system. whether i had any explicit authority not. because the federal reserve has a specialrole. it's the onl initution that, first of all, independent and has continuit it's professional, it's involve in regulation and it' got money, whh nobody else has, you kn, to go running to congress when there's an emergen. >> rose: that'why it can do t

politics and prose bookstore in washington, d.c., hosted this event. it's an hour. >> thank you very much. i'd like to start by saying i've sort of been on sort of a media tour for almost two months now. i've bn on the today's show and 20/20 and colbert. this is the hardest place to book. that means the crowd is the most elite audience to get here. it took me a long time to get here but i'm glad to be here. thank you for coming and hearing about my book. i will give you, you know, kin of -- start with a quick summary of what the book is about, what the point of it is. and talk about some of the things that i've learned along the way as well as the reaction to it, which has been kind of a learning experience in itself. and then we'll opeit up for questions. so as mike said, this book is a highly intimate account of my own surreal descent into mortga mania at the height of the housing bubble. i think it's fair to say that i had a very unique vantage point as a huge swath of the country was becoming obsessed by the seemingly surefire opportunities posed b

obviously you know the prose is going to give a speech, i guess next wee and we'll see if that reshapes whe things are or not, our concerns with the bill have been fairly clear, and we've not hidden this on capitol hill. one is the employer mandate. when the house -- when the house -- the house bill says, you as an employer, except for the very smallest employers, must provide a qualified health care plan, qualified is defined by the federal government, both in the bill and by a board yet to be created, you have to provide that little of benefits or pay a fine of 8% of your payroll, to the federal government. we have concerns. 8% of your payroll, someone making $40,000 a yr, how much is that? that's a $3,200 tax on each person making $40,000 or you do the math, it's easy. that can add up pretty quickly, particularly for a small business guy. why shouldn't all employers have to participate? not all employers can do that, particularly small staup businesses. as i mentioned, the employer community is already kicking in $500 billion worth of health care contributions, and we think we're alr

. >> he'd make very strong arguments on behalf of conservatism but did it by em prays prose that madel thought, more respectful in the 1970s and paving the way for the reagan revolution, he had a role in that didn't he. >> he did indeed along with my predecessor, robert bartley and george will and some others, they were pioneers in the 1970s in resurrecting and bill buckley, of course in making conservative ideas more popular in the mainstream press. but, remember, the left hated him at first, when he started at the times in the '70s because they viewed him as a republican hack, and they said, look, you are just a nixon apologist, and i think bill's skill and independence of mind allowed him to transcend that in very short order. and, he was a conservative libertarian and he -- first and foremost before he was a republican, he was somebody who had... he thought for himself. >> gregg: paul gigot, thanks for sharing your thoughts. appreciate it. >> thank you. >> julie: we're learning more about what the feds are calling the most dangerous terror plot since 9/11, before he was arrested a

they prose different hypotheses that use the event. it is adequate to explain the effects in question. that leads to a question of scientific method. how we determine which explanation provides the best explanation for the event w are trying to explain? it turned out that darn and his key scientific mentor had a very practical, common-sense principle of reasoning they used to guide their scientific method of reasoning about the distant past and one day, glancing at the front piece of the book, i had an eat if any. the subtitle of his boat, crystalized this method in a single phre, he ss the title of theook is principles of geology being an attempt to explain the former anges of the earth's surface by reference to causes now in operation. the princip was very simple. if you are going to try to explain an event in the remote past you want to invoke a cause which is known to produce the effect in question. if you want to expla the layer of volcanic ash that existsn eastern washington you are going to prefer the volcanic eruption hypophysi

as we are reminded frequently by reagan and others, campaigning is poetry and a government is prose.uch more mundane. the mundane business of governing colorado has not been kind to the liberal majority. as you know, the governor has a historic-approval rating. right now he is trailing his potential opponents. senator bennett is, at best, a dead even favored for the election. the popularity ratings are even below that which is -- that of the california legislature. then we have the democratic congressional delegation. at least one democratic congressman has announced he will not be holding a town hall meetings because people in his district do not know what they're talking about, he says. let me predict this will be a campaign commercial in the next election. about those town hall meetings. isn't it interesting -- by the way, i apologize. the reason i am wearing a suit is because i had to do it one final debate on this town hall meetings before i had to drive up here. one of the things i have always encountered in debating these town hall meetings is how agitated liberals get when pe

he proses to attract new business to the nation's capital, fight crime and revolutionize public schools. in the meantime current d.c. mayor, adrian fenty, if holding a reelection fund-raiser at a home in southeast washington. >>> just about 7:11 right now. coming up on this monday morning on fox 5 morning news, just days after the solemn anniversary of the september 11th attacks, we are hearing a strong message addingly from osama bin laden. what he is saying about president obama. that's next. >>> also the man who threw the shoes at president bush is set to be released from prison. so what's he going to do with his newfound celebrity status? we'll talk about that coming up. >>> and just ahead, he is the man whooshed "you lie" during the health care address last week but we'll find out why congressman joe wilson says he is done apologizing despite facing back lash from his peers. more and more, the quality of our lives depends on our connections. access to high-speed internet, at home and on the go, is no longer a luxury. it's how our children access education. it's how we find jobs, di

the two democrats besides senator baucus have not put out their position on how they feel about this prosesal. we're getting the details on this from an anonymous source. this is it for this bipartisan group to come up with this to see if they can work out a compromise. that's where we're going to look at today for this group that seems like the best chance for a health care overhaul. >> brianna, thanks so much. a member of the gang of six is montana senator chuck grassley. sorry, iowa senator chuck grassley. i'm sorry. he's going to join us in our 7:30 half hour to talk more about this idea of baucus's plan and why it might fly with republicans. senator grassley, who conducked town hall meetings in 30 counties in the great state of iowa will be with us in about 20 minutes or so. >> in the meantime, it's back to school day for many kids across the country. at noon eastern today, a lot of them will be putting down pens and pencils and listening to a pep talk from the president of the united states. it's a speech that drew fire days before anyone actually saw it. and now, almost everyone see

own politics and prose bookstore in washington,.c.. we have about 60 employees most of them full-time. we insure them but we also assure them if there are costs they cannot, that they cannot pay that the co-payments we will help them if there is a need to. we have a woman mauney responsility extds to not only my employees but my family. i still am very lucky and have a mother living. i have answered and uncles living. i have friends most of them who are collecting medicare some of whom are single and need support, and some of us also worry as the previous speaker said about our own children whether they wil have -- whether their health care will follow them in their jobs, and we worry about some catastrophic illness happening to them and maxine out and their payments and being tossed out of the system. we need to be assured in this country that we will be able -- everybody will have the chance to pay for his or her health care. it's something that preys upon a lot of people and it's just a very important -- it's an important asset goin

it is poetry as well as prose, fiction as well as nonfiction. motion picture as well as journal articles, culture, movie, imagination as much as the intellect. it speaks to the spirit and the heart as much as the mind. this is why we can't reach our kids! they don't care about the analysis of an issue. they just feel as if social justice is important. and we got to demonstrate to them that our principles make better people and improve communities. [applause] >> it is the evidence. when john the baptist's servants came to jesus and said "are you the one? must we seek another?" jesus didn't pull out a powerpoint. [laughter] >> jesus healed in their presence. and said to them, "the blind can see. the lame can walk and the sick are healed. go back and tell your master what you saw." we have got to -- if we want to attract people to the principles that we stand for, we have to be witnesses to them that these principles produce better people and improve communities by reaching out. we got to have a ground strategy that reaches out to people. and encou