rams 4-5 tied for fifth with william and mary. here are the starters for tonight's game. >> rodriquez had 21 points. seven assists and three rebounds. dukes only 6'1" five-year senior senior. he averages 13.5 points. he can play both guard positions positions. >> these teams were in the sun belt conference 1976-77 through 79-80 campaign. that was last time georgia state has won. since they have been in the '06 campaign georgia state has lost 11 straight against the a.m. that's the only fault georgia state has failed to beat within the league. there is a good reason. they have been the giant in this league twice in the last three yea . >> they are starting to play better basketball. hit a down stretch in the middle of the season. now won four of the last five games. sent back to a red hot north eastern team last weekend in boston. >> sanders 6'0". the crowd gets loud as the ball is bounced in the air. we are underway for virginia. here comes rodriquez c.a.a.'s best dimes person. come off a great round at bcu. >> bcu was unbelieve t

ay tonig rams 50-39 advantage. rodriquez and company all sm g8g8g8g8g8g8g8g8g8g8g8g8g8g8g8 g8g8g8g8g8g8g8g8g8g8g8g8g8g8g8 welome, >>> in the second half vcu leading georgia state 50-39. free throw line. whistle for the jump ball. possession will favor the panthers. >> marcus johnson getting his nose in on that play. diving on top of the pile. looked like a rugby there. those are the efforts you'll have to see from georgia state if they are growing to crawl their way back into this one. i like what they have done early stages. the energy has been there. plays have been crisper on the offensive end. now they have to find a way to do what rob barnes were barnes was backing for. they have to force vcu to work to get their shots off. >> again so in thanks to vcu and the rams video production crew in-house provide or pictures tonight. fall away not there. tad short. georgia state able to convert to the right block. >> he rebounds so well for a guy his size. only 6'1" but he hops. that's offensive against vcu. >> johnson

tonight rams will knock off georgia state.shot clock 14-point game. >> is this building rocking for the win over oklahoma or what? that had to be a special moment in this place. >> rodriquez fouled. that came on larry sander's birthday. what a birthday gift that was as if fans make their ways to the exits. i hope they have shovels and sleds ready. >> credit to jeff cable that said when he left bcu you always complain had the these guys don't get an opportunity to play against the big wigs. he said he'd come back and schedule the rams. he did. i'm sure he's sorry he did. vcu made him pay. he thought at the time that was going to be a statement win. at large hopes have gone away. rams still alive for a top four seed. bi in the conference tourney. they'll be dangerous out. >> 18.2 to go. no team in this league wants to see vcu in the tournament. the only team thats had success against vcu is north western. that's probably the team wants to face more than any other. >> north eastern the only team to beat vcu in this building over

they are believed to be traveling in a blue 1993 dodge ram pickup. if you see them, you are asked to call police. you might want to give yourself some extra time if you plan on writing metro late at night. starting tonight, trains will use a single track on some lines. they will be replacing ralph fasteners and concrete slabs. writers should take an extra 30 minutes for their trip. >> coming up, bitterly cold temperatures in the area tonight and the threat of snow out in the forecast. as jim zorn coached his last game with the redskins? i know what he had today -- had to say today. >> authorities have caught up with a florida man wanted for allegedly killing four family members on thanksgiving day. >> i am really happy that the monster is in a cage. >> he appeared in court just hours after being arrested. the owner of a motel in the florida keys called police after seeing the suspects picture on "america's most wanted." several suspected immigrant smugglers are behind bars after police raided a home in phoenix. authorities went to the home after rece

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louis rams game when they fell out of the stands. the men were reaching for a shoe thrown by one of the players. when they fell crashing through an awning and falling about 12 feet to the concrete below. one was taken away on a stretcher but police say neither was seriously injured. >>> >> looks like they fell on their head. >>> security is tight in dubai today where thousands gathered to watch the grand opening of the world's tallest building. a fireworks show helped celebrate the building which is about 2684 feet high and has the most stories of any building in the world. the lead developer says the price tag is 1.5 billion dollars. glass steel tower contains residential units as well as offices. how about a penthouse. >> yeah. >> would you buy real estate problems you might be able to get one. it's two empire state buildings on top of each other and more. >> i think that's insane. >> amaze. >>> still ahead on "eyewitness news" at noon, as you look another live look outside. stick around, your complete first warning weather forecas

drive a car into the main yard of the police station as a parade was taking place, but a policeman rammed into the car and saved many lives. al qaeda's responsibility -- the attack at the cia base was carried out by a jordanian doctor working as a double agent. our correspondent caviled -- traveled to the capital for this exclusive report. >> driving to meat al qaeda to speak to a fighter who claims he recruits jordanians for al qaeda's cause. the militant is suspected of killing cia agents in afghanistan this week. this man's praise for him was predictable. >> lots of people here would like to do something like that. he was a mortar. i would love to do what he did. -- he was a martyr. >> the bomber work as a doctor in this infamous suburb. al qaeda's #two grubb pierre. jordan has been aggressively -- al qaeda's number two gre up here. months ago the doctor was arrested here by a spy agency. he began working for them they thought as a double agent inside al qaeda. the family said they knew nothing about it. >> i just spoke to the sister of the bomber. she did say that she is angry and con

it basically bottled up the mermac. >> it was much faster and had the ram.uvered, rammed it before it can sink it. >> or run it down and sunk it. >> then he reequipped it as a cruiser to go after alabama. it in my chapter in the civil war, there is a long distance. he goes after the gold shipments coming from california. there's a great little story that played out result of that. >> yeah. >> yeah. a hard man to live with it seems. a hard man on his family. constantly, you kind of hint that he took out a lot of -- possibly took a lot of his business anxieties at home. he was really hard on his soons living up to the standards. the oldest william has a breakdown after working on wall street. and he goes and starts a farm on stanton island. and there's very successful. he comes back and inherits much of the business. but the other has a gambling problem. and then george washington vanderbilt is almost mysterious. he signed up for -- he goes to west pointe. he's in the union army, but he goes awall. >> something i found. the youngest son was by accounts vanderb

ram. >> larry: we're back with tyler perry. take a look at a scene from the new winning comedy series, "house of payne." watch. >> curtis, can you help us? >> yeah, we stuck. name two great kings. >> i got it. two great kings for $200. the first great king is smoking and second one is drinking. smoke and drinking. write that down. >> larry: she's a character. >> smoking, drinking, larry king. great kings. >> larry: it's an african-american family, three generations of family in it. pure comedy? >> pure comedy. but we put a lot of drama into it, too. it's really important for me to leave a message. we talk about breast cancer awareness to hiv and aids. we have covered so much in this show. great thing about it is having this show. what people don't know is the ratings among african-americans are higher than "csi miami." they're higher than "oprah," they're higher than "desperate housewives" and "american idol." it's a fantastic thing to have and have people appreciate for what it is. >> larry: it's been around. it's new in syndi

cumberland'children hospital they believe they are headed to north carolina and a blue, 1993, dodge ram pickup. >>> family and friends from a missing mother are turning to the media to help find her. she disappeared almost one month ago and police have named her husband a person of interest. he is now in washington state with his two boys visiting family. a three-day blitz is being launched on youtube, facebook, and put her to help them search. >> we are still looking for susan our primary focus is the family. we want to make sure that everybody in every corner of the world knows we are looking for her. >> investigators are still trying to figure out why the father took the young sons camping in 10-degree temperature the night his wife disappeared. email was a uncovered from the wife that said she was in may -- in a troubled marriage. >> the men hunt for accused murderer is over. the man is being held without bond. police say he went on the run on thanksgiving when police say he shot and killed four family members including a little girl buried a motel owner recognized and after seeing

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they're believed to be traveling in a dodge ram pickup truck. >>> the world's tallest building is now open for business in dubai. the $20 billion building has luxury apartments and a hotel. it is believed to be 2,700 feet tall with the most stories of any building. it comes at a tough time for their economy. they are struggling to pay billions of dollars in debt. >> it looks like it needs some companies out there. >> a i think chat is how they once did. >>> 5:07. >> still ahead, is it going to be the end of the road for coach jim zorn? multiple sources said he may be fired. >> snow by the end of the week. brian is tracking the latest storm. >> another check for you on the latest school delays. >>> a very good morning. this is monday, january 4. it is called to start. note wind chill advisors. there are breezes out here this morning. -- note windshield of five azeris. the wind chill factors are in the single digits. it is even colder to the west. flurries off in the ohio valley. we could see a passing snow shower. it will be a cold one. temperatures in the low 30's. it will feel colder

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they were in total control for eight years, ramming everything down our throats. now they are not in control and they still want everything we had before. tax cuts, tax cuts, tax cuts. host: let's go to a comment we got from massachusetts. "yes, democracy works better when balanced out between three segments, however, current republican leadership are more concerned with making obama failed and they are with improving the government." what do you think of that? the president was invited to their issues summit, you saw it appears -- side here on c-span. there were exchanges for about 90 minutes. you can see this on your screen. let's go to our next caller in denmark. scott, an independent line. caller: he should have conservative members of the house and senate. it started to work really well when president clinton had that. i believe that they all got things accomplished and we were prosperous. as far as that first caller, it is typical progressive thinking to say that everything is races against the president. but it is the progressive policies that he wants to t

until he was non-violent he believed to -- you could use it as a moral and political force, a battering ram to transform democracy. not the he was not combative. he was but the difference between king in the african-american critics see did not believe by lance was acceptable politically or morally. >> host: it was also true that king that come everybody remembers him now but back at the time people that want them coming in because it made life more difficult for many of those who had to stay behind. >> of some of the. they gang of the southern leadership conference they are the mobilizes of the civil-rights movement. st. nick was led by stoically carmichael and john lewis. he goes into places like birmingham or albany georgia or chicago were meant this tennessee and stirs things up. that is what is so interesting. demanding dozens of things from mayor daley in chicago of the early version of affirmative-action if he precipitates fear and loathing among the white population but also among certain black power brokers to have their own relationship with city hall and look at king as the outsi

the rams say neither fan was seriously hurt. he only fell about six or eight feet.the ravens another show down this coming sunday. mark viviano has more this morning from oakland california. >> in a season in which things did not come easily for the ravens so it is in the playoff clincher. they count on stars to come through in their victory over oakland. >> four r minutes to go first half. >> the ravens appeared to be cruising through the first half. pushes oakland safety and he goes 77 yards for his second touchdown of the day, 14-3 raven, oakland looked like a push overbut the raiders respond. charlie frey to miller for a second quarter td and they're within one point in the second half. that's when the baltimore defense froze up with two turnovers, russell and his quarterback kicked off by ellerby who return 28 yards, the first of two oakland turnovers in the second half and the ravens cash in on that with the third touchdown of the game, a one yard run and he will take them to the playoffs t. ravens winner over the raiders to clinch a spot 21-13 the final. >>>

because king believed that you could use nonviolence as a moral and political force, really a battering ram to transform democracy. so it wasn't that king was not combative. he was very combative. the difference between king and even some of his african-american critics was that he didn't believe that violence was acceptable politically or morally. >> host: and, you know, it also was true that king wasn't -- everybody embraces him now, but back in the time even among african-americans a lot of people didn't want him coming in to their towns and neighborhoods because when he left, he made life more difficult for many of those who had to stay behind. >> guest: absolutely. i mean, when we think about king and the scfs, the southern christian leadership conference, they are the premiere mobilizers of the civil rights movement. they're not grassroots organizers in contrast to the student nonviolent coordinating committee which was led by carmichael and in an earlier incarnation by lewis. king goes to birmingham, places like albany the, georgia, memphis, tennessee, and he really stirs things up.

roundhouse is a very old technique of ramming earth down. i think, i like to build. this is a square building go into a dome, done by my friend and neighbor, greg smith. >> i don't like to write in the evening, and less i have to do something for england. of course, you know, england is eight hours from here forward. if you're going to get something onto someone's desk by eight in the morning, then you can't do it in till late at night. but that's the shape of my day. it's not particularly my flightn the telephone to three or four people up in olympia, washington, who also does the editing on the books. our business operations are run right here by becky grant and dana wheeler. counterpunch books, we started b that we wanted to keep. our web stuff on the counterpunch site doesn't go et al. about the backside of mars or somewhere in the vast set of black gold, old internety all up in some government archive. god help the people have to go through it. but we felt we wanted to put them in hardcovers which began with a book about politics. we felt it important to have co

, zorn went 12-2789 the speculation about his job security started after the skins barely beat the rams game one. the whispers gained some volume in week six and he lost his play calling duties. when bruce allen came in, it was inevitable that changes were coming to redskins park. when asked if he had heard he would be fired last night, here is his reply. >> i have had no indication of that. i would not even comment on that until, you know, there is a lot of things i'm sure out there as far as stories. there already has been. i get that. but i'm working on our team meeting. i'm working on our off-season schedule. until i'm -- until it's told on any other effort, i'm he getting ready. >> reporter: we'll take a look at interesting stats here with the redskins. worst redskin coaching record during the super bowl era and you have h. to have coached a minimum of two seasons, jim zorn and steve spurrier, the two with the words record. if you look down this list, joe gibbs and george allen, only two guys that actually had a winning record. the worst points per game for redskin coaches, a minut

king believed that you could use non-violence as a moral and political force, really a battering ram to transform democracy. but to say king was not combative. he was really combative. he did not believe that violence was unacceptable politically orr morally. >> host: it also is true that, everybody embraces it now, but back at the time even among african americans a lot of people did not want him coming to their towns and neighborhoods because when he left he had made life more difficult for many of the sioux had to stay behind. >> guest: absolutely. and we think about king and the southern christian conference, they are the premier mobilizes of the civil-rights movement. they are not grass-roots organizers. led by stokely carmichael and in an earlier incarnation by john lewis. king goes into places like birmingham, albany, georgia, chicago,and he really stirs things up. that is what is so interesting. very, very combative demanding dozens of things from mayor daley in chicago, an early version of affirmative-action. he really precipitates fear and loathing among the white populatio

non-violent because he believed he could use of violence as a moral and political force, really a battering ram to transfer of democracy. so it wasn't that king wasn't combative, he was very combative. the difference between king and african-american critics was heated and believe that violence was acceptable politically or morally. >> host: it also was true everybody praises him now back in the time even among african-americans a lot of people didn't want him coming in to their towns and neighborhoods because when he left he made life more difficult for many of those who had stayed behind. >> guest: absolutely. when we think about king and the sclc, the southern christian conference. they are not sncc led by john car-mart -- carmichael. he goes to places like albany, georgia, like chicago, memphis tennessee and he stirs things up and that is what is interesting about dr. king. terrie combat if demanding dozens of things from mayor daley in chicago in 1965, 66 of the slum clearance in the early version of affirmative action for the city and he precipitates and loathing among the white populatio

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cost, i believe, you know, $3 trillion over the next decade and they're behind closed doors trying to ramat thing through without really having even a conference committee. they're doing it with just the leaders and they're doing it in a smoke-filled room with -- well, maybe they don't smoke, but they're doing it in a closed room where nobody can see, not even c-span, even though they promised that they would. let's just look at what happened since they took power with the white house as well as the house and the senate, since january of 2009. they passed the state children's health insurance reorganization act which was $73.3 approximately -- billion. in february they passed the stimulus bill which has not worked, unemployment which was not supposed to go over 8% went over 10%, now it's at least 10%. and that bill was $1.16 trillion when you include interest. also in february they passed the consolidated appropriations act which was $410 billion. when you add interest to it, it's $625 billion. and then in june of 2009 they passed the defense supplemental which was not a bad deal because

i think they will try to ram jobs bill through but this time they will have republicans pushing and shovings hard as democrats, so as far as deliberations and obstacles, forget about. they just wanted money out the door. host: dayton, ohio. independent line. ron, good morning. caller: my thinking is if the company wants to hire an employee, the cost 25%, 35% more to hire them because of the taxes, travelling expenses, that they incur. in order for small businesses, a designation of 100 or fewer or 50 or fewer, to make new employees 1099 employees or employees pay their own taxes, expenses, even a deduction for health insurance, and they could sunset a clause like that in to go away in about three years after the business cycle has changed and possibly after we have an insurance program in place. so, it allows the company to hire more employees, not to have to worry about the additional taxes or expenses that have to be incurred. i would like your opinion. host: jim, what do you think? guest: he sounds like it knows what to run a business. the problem, it does do away with payroll tax expens

and joining us in our studio is michael, the former chief political ropetter of pan ram that ma and author of some books. is thept arrivive of what you have -- representative of what you have seen on the floor? >> yeah. but everyone is on their best behavior. both neil and margaret have give enway. and in your own words it allowed people to interrupt them a great deal more often than normally they would. and sometimes indeed, the prime minister can be positively sort of aggressive about it. and i'm not giving way, i have given way. the convention is you give way. sometimes people can -- can stand up and try and interrupt you in order to put you off your stride. and as we see, she was she was very gentle about it and said i have two customers there, i'll take the first one and then the second one. i suspect when they're not on their good behavior, and they're not playing up a bit for the cameras, they'll tend to revert a bit more to the traditional form. >> you have watched mrs. thatcher a lot and have written about her on television, as for television. how do you think she hooked today? >>

it is an old technique of ramming, i think like many writers i like to think about things other thanriting and i like to build. this is a square building going into a dome than by my friend and neighbor greg smith. this is a freeze. jasper is very pleased he is in the picture. steve rogers did. i think many people thought this was some kind of out's abakai that one point because it looked like little like ed maddy stearn mosque but it is a very nice building. i love to build. if i had enough money i would be like the second bavarian. >> i don't like to read in the evening unless i have to do something for england and of course you know england is eight hours from here. if you were going to get something on someone's desk by 8:00 in the morning you have to do it until late in the night but that is the shape of my day. it is not particularly month like in its rightful seclusion. i spend a lot of time passing on the telephone, three or four people. allitt tina in olympia washington who also does the editing on the books. my business operations are run by becky grant and devah wheeler. i

the first thing is creating jobs and getting this economy back on track and not try to ram a health care bill down the american people's throat that they really, really don't want. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from kentucky rise? mr. yarmuth: request permission to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. yarmuth: there is always a great deal of danger in spontaneous reactions to elections. one of the things that i felt about last night when i watched scott brown accept his victory in massachusetts was that, he didn't talk about returning to the agenda of the 2,000-2008, he didn't talk about returning to economic economics or republican agenda. he never mentioned the word republican. what he did talk about and he talked about it extremely well was about the need for us to listen to the people, that the job wasn't -- his job or a kennedy job, this was the people's job. and that's a lesson for all of us to learn. the true political victory will be won by the party and the individuals who demonstrate responsiv

he rams it right back out. craig: not a hard enough dump by headmon. the capital defender to the puck first. joe: backstrom in the bok for the second time. another 30 secondings to serve. craig: doesn't serve a lot of minor penalties. he goes over 20. joe: vince lecavalier. jeff halpern! craig: this power play has found a way to enter the joan and utilize the nice passing displays. vince lecavalier found him where he had to and a right shot play in the left side and halpern beats the sprawl. theodore, four power play goals against the caps for tampa bay. joe: the 2nd time halpern has scored against the power mates. zenon konopka to right of center. the deficit is three and time is wasting for washington. backstrom along the board and turns one towards la cane. alex ovenchin an order night for the great 8. this onecesff on er. shin trailing by three. >> 5th goal of the hockey game. here comes st. louis with the slap shot on the power play. 1728 of that second period. that helped them go to the locker room after getting tied up, joe. got the lead back. t

. >> did the managers of these institutions at wall street and big banks of ram country have any incentivet all, in an economy based on incentives, and the incentive to economize on their own compensation? >> ms. minow? >> i think this guy is the limit. >> professor stiglitz? >> that incentives are distorted. talking about, what would happen if they had long run incentives, if they had a really effective long run incentives and they really don't have these are really effective incentives. then of course, they would say if i keep the base of the company larger, the network of the company larger, it would make larger profits in the long run and therefore in the long run the company is doing better and i will get an appropriate return. that is not the way our current incentive structures are designed. >> mr. bebchuk? >> they don't have the right incentives -- privately they would be better off had a larger compensation even at some cost to the shareholders. we have seen this in firms that were making decisions rapid -- whether to return top funding. seeing that some executives were eager to r

but there is suggestions that their government has corruption that is ram pant. look at afghanistan with karzai, sure we support the united states, you are not going against supporting the united states. but back room deal. >> yemen is trying to get rid . >> president obama sanctioned the air strike specifically against alaki who is the iman who is tied to the fort hood shooter and abdullmuttallab . he managed to survive the air strike before christmas. >> and the president wrapped up counter terrorism against yemen and spent 67 million last year alone. five million in 2006 . it is ramped up the president is serious about that and airport security. we are finding out that the pat downs, one of the second screening efforts are effectism. you have an underwear bomber, how in the world is a pat down going to catch something. >> how is it that they are doing it? >> it wouldn't matter in i demonstrate you. >> do i have to do this? >> you cannot board the plane. >> this is all they do. they do the side touching and quick side touch that's it. >> that's it. >> and if th

he is ramming health care down our throats.went to massachusetts and the whipped them into line. guest: always good to hear someone from tennessee. about 37% of the people who fought in the texas revolution were from tennessee. in the 1970's, 1980's, 99 days, there was pressure to -- 99 days, there was pressure to loan to the low income level-type of people. the problem is, that resulted in people not being able to pay it back. it is true that t.a.r.p. was designed to get the economy financed, to get the banks recapitalized so they could finance the economy. that is what happened. t.a.r.p. has been successful, in that sense. host: next phone call. keller, texas. caller: where are they hiring these people? apparently, not here. one thing that you have failed to mention, mr. mark leff, -- bartlett, is that bonuses have risen 200% while the average worker's wage has gone down considerably. how much do you contribute to lobbyists? i know that without money, nothing can be done. it is only the big guys that can afford this. i know y

while ago when asked about what the possibility of israeli preventive military action against the rammed the secretary gates-- secretary gates said admiral mullen has said this would stress our forces. we have two of knowledge we are because of what is going on in the horn of africa and yemen are military is dealing with two wars, two plus and we are still looking at the possibility of an israeli military strike sometime this year which will further complicate matters for us. with regard to another point that he alluded to but i would like to kind of is the balancing act, the balancing of our commitments with our assets and i would just like to focus on the iraq afghan couplet. since the very beginning of our involvement in afghanistan and then in iraq our involvement in both areas that had an intimate reciprocal influence on each other. i think it is hard to avoid the conclusion that the u.s. was in part encouraged to invade iraq by the swift and easy victory in afghanistan and the success of the bahn meeting afterwards which reste

once we have the answers to these questions, the government needs to decide whether to reallocate spec ram or commercial mobile users. if the government is requiring spectrum users to vacate reallocated band, the government also needs to establish a meaningful process for reallocated incumbent users. the process needs to begin the sooner rather than later. inventory reallocation and to reallocation all take time and commercial mobile demand for spectrum is increasing as i mentioned exponentially. furthermore, one rate to make more spectrum available for commercial purposes is to use government spectrum more efficiently and simply reallocate the spectrum saved. that was the idea behind the commercial spectrum enhancement act, which was enacted in 2004. the laws designed to provide funding to upgrade the wireless resources of government agencies while clearing additional spectrum for commercial use. while the cs ba government frequencies identified for reallocation or option two commercial licensees and the proceeds are used to improve the relocating agencies of wireless facilities. pursuant

they're avoiding a conference in order to make sure that they can just ram through what they want. and i think the press is completely right to complain about that. it's really not up to the president, what the house and senate decide to do. it would be helpful if he would keep out of it, but this is up to nancy pelosi and reid and the leadership in the two houses to say we're not going to play those kind of games. it may be harder for us to prevail if we do it the norm ham way, but we're not going to go behind closed doors and do everything in secrecy. that won't help them in the elections and it's certainly not good for government. >> thank you. >> thank you, mickey. >> all right. [applause] >> we take you live now to the first of two events looking at president obama's strategy in afghanistan. speakers at this morning's discussion including former c.i.a. agents bruce riden and frank anderson. the middle east policy council hosting the event, just getting underway on c-span2. >> we present four of them a year, discussing important topics and bringing good panelists, and we always

. >> did the managers of these institutions at wall street and big banks of ram country have any incentiveat all, in an economy based on incentives, and the incentive to economize on their own compensation? >> ms. minow? >> i think this guy is the limit. >> professor stiglitz? >> that incentives are distorted. talking about, what would happen if they had long run incentives, if they had a really effective long run incentives and they really don't have these are really effective incentives. then of course, they would say if i keep the base of the company larger, the network of the company larger, it would make larger profits in the long run and therefore in the long run the company is doing better and i will get an appropriate return. that is not the way our current incentive structures are designed. >> mr. bebchuk? >> they don't have the right incentives -- privately they would be better off had a larger compensation even at some cost to the shareholders. we have seen this in firms that were making decisions rapid -- whether to return top funding. seeing that some executives were eager to

sacks taxes that are continuing the policies hong -- and now it how many stealth bailouts have been rammedthrough without congressional authority at all over the holiday weekend for example, the limits on the government aid to fannie mae and freddie mac was completely blown out of the water. where is the transparency? face not been in the middle of the night when no one was paying attention. of course, gmac is now being taken over by the government and it is in these takeovers that are occurring outside of the legislative sphere that is particularly concerning to me. and we essentially have had that transformative agenda take place over the last two years. >> host: arizona please go ahead with your question for michelle malkin. >> caller: happy new year. i am a liberal and a proud of it. it seems more inclusive and you don't have to add the word compassion it -- compassionate to lipper cry would much rather talk about the subjects you are talking about now than factory and michele's issues. it reminds me the of it says nothing about dollar rate or michelle but it says everything about us.

i have some hope that the will have difficulty ramming this massive restructuring of one portion of ourhroats of the american people. >> another official in washington [inaudible] we know it has caught some competition on capitol hill. are you concerned about any quotes of late? >> the chairman of any committee will be measured in two ways. number one, how much money did he raise and number two, how many elections did you win. that standard will be applied to that -- to this chairman. he will be judged on the basis of how much money he raised and how many candidates he elected. >> that on afghanistan. -- back on afghanistan. what needs to be done to promote economic development? what can be done to promote legislation within the region? >> afghanistan used to be an agricultural export. we visited the area near the two rivers that are fertile. when the king of afghanistan, you think of these mountain ranges. down south in the areas along the rivers, it is very fertile. they can get on top of the opopy -- the poppy problem and get agricultural going again. >> i will speak to one aspect of

definitely shooting with 16 screens for them as they tackle the rams.aiting no doubt. on the preseason watch list for them and both to win an award for them and standing out there for tomorrow. and that is tomorrow, caa basketball at 7:00 on comcast sportsnet. today's women action with one game along ours. all the other games tipping off right about now. and as you have the great ones throughout the week for the rest of the day don't we? >> yes, i'll tell you what, it's the first weekend, especially the game right after the holidays. and that is always tough. always tough to find out who will be mentally prepared. who had be sharp. and last year, william and mary scored 3-0. great momentum. >> and for the delaware that, will be a great one tipping off right now. and the top 25 teams for them and the record. and certainly indicative for them and what they have. and that is an hour for all the years. that game should be interesting for them to have a hit -l score for you -- to have a little score for you. and also leading 28-19. and one out, they kind of

i have some hope that they will have difficulty ramming this massive restructuring of one sixth of our economy that cut medicare by half a trillion dollars in raises -- down the throats of the american people. >> another official in washington is michael steele it has caused some consternation among aides on capitol hill, i wonder, are you concerned about his "of late -- quotes of late? >> it be measured in two ways. how much money did you raise? how many elections did you win? that standard will be applied to this chairman as it has to others. >> you do not have any concern about -- >> chairman still will be bait -- judged on the basis of how much money did you raise? how many elections did you win? >> what is your sense following your visit to afghanistan about economic development? what can be done to promote specific legislation? >> afghanistan used to be an agricultural exporter. we visited the area near the two rivers. when you think of afghanistan, and you think of these mountain ranges. down south, the areas along the rivers, it is very fertile. to the extent that they can get

republicans were doing the same thing that democrats do now, during the bush administration, everything got rammedrough and nobody wanted to listen to the other side? and then also, why is it our system of government, which is admirable what the founding fathers put together, but it is an adversarial system where we are electing each representative to go and represent us, just us as individuals, and that it creates fights? because we are fighting against each other for what we can individually get out of the system, instead of fighting for the whole, for us to all benefit, except we constantly hear, what is in it for you and your family, not what is in it for us as a whole. host: thank you. guest: there is a lot there, and these are really interesting point. when the founders created our system of government, they created a adversarial system with checks and balances. they also created an adversarial system with checks on government power. the idea was to have a limited government so that power remains in the people in the states respectively. we have grown way beyond the notion of government by c

now there's enough support to pass a bill and that's when they ram it through and they don't let you up for air because they're afraid they'll lose votes . when that little moment comes, when they think they've got the votes, it comes through and that's why, that's why the united states senate was doing business for three constant weeks without a break and that's why they were doing business on christmas eve, to pass socialized medicine, with the 60-40 majority on december 24, christmas eevek, because they finally stacked the scales to the point where, clink, it would go over on the side where they could barely pass the bill. that's what they did. if those kind of negotiations are taking place out in the open where the american people understand it, they would be revolted by the concept of how this is business, how very little of it is discussion about what the best policy is for america and how much of it is a discussion about how you get the spoil of this group or that group or how you leverage to get the vote of a member of congress or united states senator. instead of evaluating

it could've been maneuvered impossibly rammed around. >> and then he reequip that as a cruiser to gofter the alabama. and in my chapter in the civil war there's this whole kind of long-distance duel between captain sands of the alabama who want to get revenge against vanderbilt for giving expensive ship to the navy. and he goes after the gold shipments coming from california. and there's a great little story that played out that the result of that. >> a hard man to live with it seems. a hard man on his family. constantly, you kind of hit that he took out a lot of his, possibly took out a lot of his business anxieties at home. and he was particularly hard on the sun, wanting them to live up to the standard he himself set. so the oldest, william has a breakdown after working for a short time on wall street. >> and for daniel drew. >> and goes and starts a farm on staten island. that's very successful. and he eventually comes back and inherits most of the fortune in the business. but the other two, cornel is an epileptic and has a huge giblin problem and is a mere do well his whole life

know how much the american people don't want to do it, so i have some hope they'll have difficulty rammingsive restructuring of 1/6 of our economy cutting medicare and raising a half a trillion taxes down the throats of the the american people. >> another position in washington is michael steel. we know there's consternation on capital hill and i'm wondering your concerned about his quotes of late? are you still having confidence in him to maintain his chair? >> the chairman where this one or any other chairman we've had or will have will be measured two-ways. number one, how much money did you raise and how many legislations did you win? that standard will be applied to this chairman as it has to others. >> you don't have concerns about him? >> he'll be jumped on how much money he raised and how much candidates did he elect? >> back on afghanistan and pakistan. what's your sense following of what needs to be done to promote economic development. administration is talking about development a lot. trade in the region? legislation? >> interesting enough, afghanistan used to be an agricultura

one broadway and limited ram space. -- one runway.orking to create a system where we get the planes stacked on the ground, offload cargo, on load the evacuees. there have been occasions today where it had to hold airplanes because the ramp was crowded. this is an indication as well that obviously the level of assistance is expanding. we contied at the port in to see how we can effectively -- and to see how we can effectively deliver not only the personnel who are doing the work of assessing the challenge, beginning the work on our urban search and rescue, we have medical personnel in the pipeline. some will be writing this evening from atlanta. logistics remains a challenge. -- some will be are writing this evening from the plan. -- arriving from atlanta. during the course of the day, there have been airplanes on the ramp and circling overhead and there have been airplanes held back in surrounding countries or in the united states to make sure that we would be sweet -- sequenced properly. there were occasionally temporary colts for an

find particularly alarming in the last month is how many of these stealth bailouts have just been rammedthrough without any congressional authority or approval at all over the holiday weekend, for example. the limit on government aid to fannie mae and freddie mac were completely blown out of the water. where's the transparency? they snuck it in in the middle of the night on a holiday weekend when nobody was paying attention. of course, gmac is now being taken over by the government. and it's these takeovers that are occurring outside of the legislative sphere that are particularly concerning to me. and we have, essentially have that transformative agenda take place over the last two years. >> host: sarah, sedona, arizona. please go ahead with your question for michelle malkin. >> caller: hi, happy new year. i'm a liberal. proud of it. it seems more inclusive, and you don't have to add the word compassionate to it to sound inclusive. and i would much rather talk about the subject you're talking about now than about it and michelle's shoes. reminds me of he's said it says nothing about pow

24/7 capability, but the bad news is that it is a very limited airport with one runway and limited rame working to create a system where we can get the planes stepped down on the ground, offload cargo, of loadie that to raise that might be going on, --ç unload evacuees. a there have been occasions where we have had to hold planes because the ramp is crowded. the level of assistance is expanding. we continue toxd look atç the t and to see how we can effectively deliver, not only the personnel that are doing the work of assessing the challenge, beginning of the work on urban search and rescue, we have got medical personnel in the pipeline. some will be writing this xdevening from atlanta. yes, logistics remains a challenge because of the limited infrastructure that is available to us. >> when you say holding pla nes -- >> there been airplanes on the ramp, airplanes circling overhead and airplanes held back in surrounding countries or in the united states to make sure that there would be sequence properly. these work occasionally temporary colts for an hour or two hours or so. logistics

address that was proposed by it should those funds be first targeted to address the ongoing probe ramsthat we know about. sorry problems that we know about,. >> well, i'd be happy to respond in writing. i think we have an estimate of a hundred billion dollars over a five-year period, 2008 on. we party reserved or guardian for those losses and reserved about 66 of that already. so i think we feel again based on our stress that unless the economy really gets into difficulties that we think the problems now are sufficient and there should be no additional news for premium increases for additional assessments. again, i was asked we happen to qualify based on economic conditions. i would say now that the stress is being driven by the economy. early on we were dealing with the unaffordable mortgages and the added serial ending and the residential construction development, there is still some of that. it is now being delivered by the economy and regular deterioration because people lose their jobs. >> could have 20 seconds to post one more question for follow-up? >> twenty. >> what would be g

qaeda. 2000, october 12, while they cam pained for president in 2000 was going on, a suicide squad rammedthe war ship uss cole with an explosive laden both killing 13 sailors and injuring 33. that was believed to have been caused by osama bin laden's al qaeda organization. and we still didn't recognize there was a war going on, not until september 11, 2001 when people know what happened. finally we got the picture. finally we realized this war has been going on for -- since 1979 and it's time we fought in this war and not let it be a one-sided war. there is no answering these people who want to destroy our way of life with reaching out in peace. i saw a sign not long ago that said -- some protest tore said, no war ever brought about peace. i was amazed. obviously, this person doesn't know anything about history. peace comes when bad guys are defeated, those who are mean and evil and they want to take the liberty that others have, you defeat them and then you have a period of peace. and there are periods of peace when the bad guys defeat countries who don't know they're at war, even though

while ago when asked about what the possibility of israeli preventive military action against the rammedthe secretary gates-- secretary gates said admiral mullen has said this would stress our forces. we have two of knowledge we are because of what is going on in the horn of africa and yemen are military is dealing with two wars, two plus and we are still looking at the possibility of an israeli military strike sometime this year which will further complicate matters for us. with regard to another point that he alluded to but i would like to kind of is the balancing act, the balancing of our commitments with our assets and i would just like to focus on the iraq afghan couplet. since the very beginning of our involvement in afghanistan and then in iraq our involvement in both areas that had an intimate reciprocal influence on each other. i think it is hard to avoid the conclusion that the u.s. was in part encouraged to invade iraq by the swift and easy victory in afghanistan and the success of the bahn meeting afterwards which resulted in creating the new government in kind of let us at l