the words of a troubled nation searching for hope in time of fear, who seized upon the raleighing cry of a young -- raleighing cry of a young black man from illinois whose words led those crierks "yes, we can." all these words are the fundamental truth we have uttered to ourselves and to our children since the birth of our nation -- i quote -- "in ameri america, anything is possible." as i look around the senate floor today, i think of my parents who never saw this chamber. i think of my grandparents who never saw this city. i think of my ancestors who could dream only their freedom. i think of my great-great-grandfather, who was given that freedom, freed from bondage as a slave in 1865 near columbus, georgia. without a name of his own, he adopted the army rank as his first name, "major," and he adopted the name of his county, greene, as his last name. and he named himself major greene. and in the span of those few generations, i stand here in the senate chamber as the great-great-grandson of major greene on that uniquely american arc of history that has taken my family from slavery t

next to raleigh, north carolina. caller: my concern -- i would like to compliment the last caller on him being informed. my issue is not necessarily inflation. it is hyper inflation. the way we need to deal with this as a country is not a bailout, not injections of money. it is not necessarily getting rid of the federal reserve as a whole. we need to do what franklin roosevelt did. he declared this country bankrupt, and great organized it vas -- with infrastructure projects. then he had an exchange rate system. until we do that, we will suffer the consequences. and hosthost: 2 new york next. caller: talk is cheap and actions speak louder than words. i heard president obama, i don't call him met me -- my president. last week in a speech he made, here is iran fighting for democracy and he is not doing a thing. he is taking the easy way out, straddling the fence. i then worry, like you said inflation, hyper inflation. the cbo tell them not to spend the money. he was a community organizer. he does not know anything about

host: raleigh, n.c. on our end of the line. caller: good morning. i want to thank the program about the iranian people. i have a message. iranian are not asking americans to intervene. it is just because their turn to get their intention -- the united nations is in the united states. -- they're trying to get their attention. they do not realizrecognize ahmadinejad's government as iranian government. when the time comes for him to come to speak to the american people we hope that americans do not give him a visa. he is the one who claims to have democracy and freedom of speech. i want americans to know that iranians are just looking at the united states and try to get their voice out

he talked about the trial of sir walter raleigh for treason. they did not want to have trials by affidavit. justice scalia " at some length from that -- quotes at some length from that. i only bring a sub because when we think about the courts, this goes back to something we were talking about at the beginning in transparency in. you do not know what is happening behind closed doors. it is fascinating to see cases where justice thomas -- where we see his powerful dissent. there are cases where he has had an influence in shaping law that we do not normally think about. he made quite a mark on that supreme court after his dissent. he is often alone. there are areas of the law where he has shaped it quite significantly as in the confrontation clause. >> we have to move on. sorry. we would love to see more. could you take into some case procedure? >> yes. this is a case about civil procedure. i'd like to make the case that this is perhaps the most important case of the term practically. it gives us the strongest window into the teachings of the rob

what i would like to say is that the history of tobacco is that sir walter raleigh brought tobacco to the united states of america and it became a marketable product. of course, that made money. i just want to tell everybody that everybody's body has the gene that allows sleep. you do not have to be a smoker. you do not have to go out and lay in the sun. i have an uncle that is dying of cancer, but he never would wear a short sleeve shirt or go without a shirt in the sunshine, and he would never smoke cigarettes. and yet he is dying of cancer. host: kenny, being from virginia -- phil morris and austri-- phip morris and poultry are there -- there is a concern that this will have a negative economic impact. john is calling us now from the independent line. he is calling from denton, texas. good morning, you are on the air. caller: thanks. yeah, when they came for the spot smokers -- when they came for the pot smokers i did not say anything because i was not a pipe smoker. yet, bend over america, we deserve it. host: we have eight tweet -- we had a tweet. he calls it a no-brainer to our

in places like guys in our health systems in raleigh -- in rural perils -- and roll pennsylvania were high quality care is being provided at a cost well below the national average. these are islands of excellence and we need to make the standard in our health-care system. replicating best practices, incentivizing excellence, closing cost disparities, any legislation sent to my desk that does not achieve these goals in my mind does not earn the title of reform. but my signature on a bill is not enough. i need your help, doctors. because to most americans, you are the health care system. the fact is americans, and i include myself, michelle, and our kids, we just do what you tell us to do. [laughter] that's what we do. we listen to you, we trust you. that is why i will listen to you and work with you to pursue reform that works for you. [applause] together, if we take all of these steps, i am convinced we can bring spending down, bring quality up, we can save hundreds of billions of dollars on health care costs, while making our health care system work better for patients and doctors al

aaa -- who gets the capitation payments or who is basically -- and with a capitation payment for in raleigh? and a final issue which is not on -- line is i think it is important at some point to be involving the consumer or the patient in these payment methods peer down you know, this is a different approach than consumer directed health care, but i think that the two of them really need to come together because of these methods would be a lot more powerful if patients were engaged. if not only were they efficient providers rewarded on a say per-capita per enrollee basis, but also the enrollees have an incentive to use the efficient providers so you could get movement to them which is much more robust. you know, the key thing is we are not going to save a lot of money just by moving patients from one delivery system to another because the delivery systems are limited in how fast they can grow their capacity, but if there was enough movements that the systems that lost enrollees noticed it and decided to improve their efficiency, then we could get much more rapid gains from this approach. an

guest: a call from raleigh, n.c. on the independence line. caller: i think it is unconstitutional that democrats, when they have power in office, they will keep wanting more power. so they're going to take up more districts. more districts and when the republicans do not have the power there will be put behind. host: do it you see that happening? guest: it is definitely true in north carolina for the democrats control the governor's chair, the house, and the senate. when you have a monopoly like that on state power you really have the opportunity as a majority party to draw the lines almost any way you see fit as long as they do not violate federal law. you can redistrict in a way to put the minority party in a permanent minority status for the rest of the decade. host: viewers are calling from a number of states. what they cacan they find out fr website? guest: we have a math of the nation and you can bring up each state. -- have a mpa. ap. -- we have a map. host: back to texas with a twitter. what is the story with taxes now? guest: that is

he talked about the trial of sir walter raleigh, and the framers were concerned we not have these kinds of trials by after the. justice scalia quotes in length from that concurrence. thomas filed a separate concurring opinion this week looking back to that opinion in that 1992 case, white versus illinois. i only bring this up because when we think about the court, and this goes back to some of the stuff we were talking about at the beginning in transparency, but you still don't really know. you don't know what is happening behind those closed doors. you know what these decisions say. i think it is fascinating to see cases where particularly justice thomas has really had -- we see his powerful accident, but in cases where he has had really an influence on shaping law that we don't necessarily normally think about. i think this is is one. he has obviously made quite a mark on the supreme court through his accidents being very powerful and different. he is often alone as he was in the voting rights case and the strip search case. but there are areas of the law, the confrontation clause bei

. @@@@@@@@ tt tt we're talking about the white house health care plan, raleigh is joining us. caller: i am on vacation. i don't want people to think a federal employee son the phone talking while they should be working. i want to clear that up. but my question is, what makes the federal government think that it has the right to pay for all americans to have affordable health care when a, they can't even do it for their own employees? federal government is the largest employer in the country, but yet every year for the last 10 years or more, federal employees' insurance costs, including co-pays and premiums have gone up by 10% or more. secondly, if the american public thinks the federal government can run a federal health system, just look at our military's health care. when the government can show the public that it can take care of its own employees's health care and costs and its own military health care in a more efficient manner, then i think they should propose something to the american public to buy. host: thanks to the call. from tehran this story in the "wall street jo

host: lewis is on the phone from raleigh, north carolina. good morning to you. caller: my question is, why don't they keep the prisoners under supervised activities like work and doing jobs when they are not in their cells? guest: there are many facilities that do in fact provide work opportunities for inmates. but sometimes that work is not available. there is a difficult issue that many present encounter in producing present -- present encounter in producing goods because many may challenge the activities because they could be produced at a cheaper cost and therefore that has an adverse impact on industry and their ability to sell their goods. so there is some level of opposition to prison industry and as a result the ability to have individuals work is restricted. host: you looked at integrating some of these prisoners back into their communities. for those who experienced the horrible details of rape or incest, what does that do to them? guest: well, many of them -- and we have had testimony from individuals who were sexually assaulted -- are emotionally inj

we're talking about the white house health-care plan and ronald is joining us from raleigh, north carolina caller: good morning, first, let me sarah on vacation and i do not want everyone to -- let me say i am on vacation and i do not want everyone to think that federal employees are the only ones on the phone. my question is, what does what does the government think it has the right to pay for health care when they cannot even do it for their own federal employees? every year for the past 10 years or more, federal employees insurance costs, including copays and premiums, have gone up by 10% or more. secondly, if the american public thinks that the federal government can run a federal health system, just look at our military health care. when the government can show the public that it can take care of its own employees' health care and cost and its own military health-care in a more efficient manner, then i think they can propose a before the public to buy. host: thanks for the call. two things that we want to point out from this piece about iran this morning, first, mr. mousavi did not ap

there was a lot of hyperventilation about the moment as a spread of fire raleigh. people say she melted down. i spoke to people in the clinton campaign who said that the first response, people didn't see the video immediately and by the time they heard about it it was a full nervous breakdown and it clearly boz and so this was an intensely the dryly emotional few days and everything got it typed up and maybe didn't get corrected. >> doreen, good morning on the independent line. >> good morning, mr. wolffe. i've been following you through cnbc. >> guest: msnbc. it's okay. >> caller: i'm sorry. i am not a democrat however, i have been living here so many years and they may clinton supporter and have a family happily debating in politics and i switched over to obama after i was persuaded by my daughter overseas. >> guest: which is a common story by the way. children convincing their parents to switchover is common through the story. please go ahead. >> caller: i was just as convinced falling hillary clinton and the statements and the obama but i was falling over the p

he talked about the trial of sir walter raleigh for treason and how the framers were concerned we not have these trials by affidavit. of course, in the decision this week justice scalia quotes from that concurrence in white. thomas files a separate concurring opinion in week as well -- this week as well. i only bring this up because i think when we think about the court and this kind of goes back to some of the stuff we were talking about at the beginning and transparency, but you still don't really know. you know, you don't know what's happening behind those closed doors. you know what these decisions say, and i always think it's passionating so -- fascinating to see cases where particularly justice thomas, we see his powerful dissents, but in cases where he has had influence on shaping law that we don't necessarily think about it, and i think this is one. he's obviously made quite a mark on that supreme court through his dissents being very powerful and different. he's often aloan as he was in the voting rights case, but there are also areas of the law, confrontation clause being on

he talked about the trial of sir walter raleigh, and the framers were concerned we not have these kinds of trials by after the. justice scalia quotes in length from that

. >> host: kind of raleigh wally. >> guest: bearded, long curls, fake beard, round spectacles and was very jovial and was easy to laugh and was very open and didn't have anything to hide. he was open about his relationship with various jihadi groups and i don't know that he ever knew my family background but nonetheless he opened up to me so that was the basis in fact recently the second half of the book which is my four days and two jihadi camps and different groups and what not and it was based on this relationship with ghazi. >> host: there's several sections in the book. could you read one from the ret mosque and then when you talk about how we all ended. >> guest: so, you know, i'd met ghazi probably half a dozen times, and in the early part of 27 is when ghazi -- he had female madrassa students and they had taken every children's library and this was their response in moscow and this was the top position of moscow. a journalist asked ghazi now that you're going after the brothel's does this signal the taliban of islam and his response was when rudy governor of new york he went a