>>> hello, i'm randi kaye, sitting in for.com lemon. it is the kind of remark that makes you stop and ask, did he really say that? senator leader harry reid is apologizing to all americans for comments he made about president obama during the 2008 campaign. we are just learning about the quote which appears on a new book on the campaign called "game change." reid is quoted as saying, then senator obama had a chance, a good chance of winning the white house because he was, quote, light-skinned and his speech had what reid described as, quote, no negro dialect unless he wanted to have one. the damage control is already under way. in today's statement reid says, quote, i deeply regret using such a poor choice of words. i sincerely apologize for offending any and all americans, especially african-americans, for my improper comments. let's talk about all of this with cnn's political editor mark preston. good to see you, mark. >> hey, randi. >> what would possess harry reid even in private to say something like this? >> you know, randi, harry

randy foye takes the jumper and hits. eight points for randy foye. that was a three-pointer. so he has nine points in the game. here is joe johnson. pulls up on the jumper. no good. loose ball foul called on washington. and ed says it is on brendan haywood. that will be his third personal foul. so right away flip saunders shows he has the best. andray blatche in for brendan haywood. >> phil: he just got 28 seconds left. certainly doesn't want to lose him. give him a chance to pick up another personal. but going back to last play it is also about the front line here an even though you have collins in there. collins was in there. but josh smith. those guys are really active. very difficult to box them out. not to say that you still don't put that effort to do that. but very active. >> steve: wizards very quietly on a 7-0 run. they have cut the lead to 14. michael bibby pulls up over andray blatche. short. butler has it. comes the other way. flip saunders calling an offensive play. shot winding down. butler is short. jumper is good with is.6 seconds to play in the half. williams

randy foye drives, hits it again off the glass!tanding tonight making 7-14 field goals, five assists and 14 points. >> phil: he's really been clutch in this 4th quarter. he's taken a couple of really tough shots like that one. >> steve: deng trying to get the steal. gets it up off the glass, noah to follow, gets it back, goes up and misses and the rebound jamison. terrific effort by noah but he couldn't get it to go. and he's got his 20th double double of the year with 12 points and 11 rebounds. jamison for 3, how do you like that! 97-39 jamison with 3:13 to play in regulation. 28 points for a.j.. rose and the foul as haywood was standing there. reroy richardson said he was moving, so we'll let you make the call. >> phil: it was dangerous. i think it was rose that went down, jamisodown. youcan see him limping. let's take one more look at it. brendan got him with the hip there. >> stv ireless, you make the call. >> phil: again the danger was after that play where jamison came down on the on rose. >> steve: wizards outscored them by

nice shot by randy foye. they think like they can get a win over washington they got philly coming in here detroit they got a chance to do some good things. phil: next four game stretch at home against teams that are struggling as well. steve: from behind by butler and picked up by lee who scores again. lee second year from western kentucky averaging just over 11 points a game. came to the nets from orlando in june in a deal for vince carter. phil: one of those players that has had injuries too. steve: nice pass. haywood nearly traveled. here's butler. he takes the baseline shot and rims it. lee again, and he's red hot. phil: yeah. he got his stroke doing. he's certainly feeling good about himself. a perfect 4 for 4 with 8 points by lee. steve: he's going to take a time-out as his team trails now by 5 at the meadowlands with by 5 at the meadowlands with to inst q. re asmanaren - so likelai? likeay ielle - . 7did et ie? ye's k wei yeth a- blueroniw ca fii perv fo get an extra 8% instant savings or 18 montinte.

. >> tom brady where am i going to throw it to randy moss? >> you're talk about a true professional in the way he plays the game and he's surrounded with crazy talent. >> while ray lewis rand the ravens call tom bayday one of the greatest quarterbacks of all time, there wouldn't be a quarterback history without one of his biggest weapons. wes welker has him sitting along with his nfl leading 123 catches. the ravens defense isn't ready to change the game plan. >> i don't think it's real limiting. he's a great player. he's a looming receiver. he's done things in this league that haven't been done before, but they do a great job with personnel and they have weapons all over the place and nettleman is very similar. he doesn't have wes' experience, but he has tremendous talent. obviously, we have confidence in him. the challenge remains the same. >> it don't change not a bit the way we prepare. if you look at the young guy 11

. >>> hello, i'm randi kaye sitting in for don lemon. he successfully navigated president owe buibama's legisla. but today harry reid is apologizing to the president and all americans for a comment he made about mr. obama during the 2008 presidential campaign. we're learning more about the quotes which appear in a new book on the 2008 campaign called "game change." reid is quoted as saying then senator obama had a good chance of winning the white house because he was, quote, light skinned and his speech had what reid described as, quote, no negro dialect unless he wanted to have one. the damage control operation in high gear now. and today's statement, reid says -- let's talk more about this. senator reid's comments, of course welcome april ryan, the white house correspondent for american urban radio networks. she's joining us now by phone from baltimore. april, good to have you with us. >> thank you. >> first off your reaction to senator reid's comments. >> well, as a journalist, it is newsworthy, i can say that. i've been talking to so

. >> steve: randy foye knocking down a jumper and randy foye has been outstanding for the wizards. in fact last night became the first wizard guard other than gilbert to record a double- double with 10 appoints and six assists. back in 2004. gilbert still on suspension. last time these two teams met gilbert arenas had 23 points and hawks won it 100-89. antawn jamison in that game didn't play because he was out with an injury. >> phil: right. going back to randy foye. got need for him. five rebounds to go along with that. a couple of steals. so he has been get morgue and more confident. i like what i see from him. >> steme-oatla ngin a c. u coly ne o. ich uld ve?sy, h, mour - uhy mo ur mlite oh. mbli how s thf? ou le ta offbeermuch ll, uld. whate taabouknow ed tfile ret e no esti g yo que com h&k: get it right. >> steve: wizards having a tough start to this game. made two of their last seven shots. shooting now at 20%. as we take a look at our toyota league leaders. most points per game by starters. >> phil: obviously we tend to believe that means you could get a little bit more hel

baltimore will have to defend randy moss. and that makes it a little bit easier. i think it's going to be a great game. baltimore had a chance in the regular season, they kind of self-destructed, so i think it's going to be baltimore with a great shot, but new england does have tom brady. >> as we said earlier, you made half the point i was about to reiterate. they of course have tom brady. even though he's beaten up a bit, he will play. and bill belichick can game plan for a single game. i don't know if the patriots could make it through to the super bowl, but in a given game, not just this one at home, but if they manage to win it, in a given game, i don't think anybody looks forward to facing them. >> no, new england is a great football team and they've got that big game experience, but it's going to be difficult without welker. he was so much a part of their offense and keeping the chains moving. now they're going to have to rely on kevin faulk, and some other guys, but they still have bill be bill belichick and tom brady. saturday night is another rematch, th

then randy foye and hits a high art, the wizards win. they are home tomorrow against new orleans. >>> another award for peyton manning, winning the associated press award four times. manning and the colts have day bye in this week's playoffs after finishing 14-2. >>> pete carroll is allegedly going to become head coach of the seattle seahawks. after nearly a decade at usc and two national titles, it could be a five-year deal to turn around the seattle seahawks. a lot of people say it is not a done deal yet, but when they say it is not a done deal, it is a done deal. it is not a done deal, it is a done deal. have you gotten your seasonal flu vaccination? great - but your work's not done yet. we still need to get the h1n1 flu vaccination. you, me -- we should all get one. the vaccine is safe and proven effective against this highly contagious new strain of flu virus. we can help prevent the spread of this virus if we all just roll up our sleeves. to learn more about the h1n1 flu vaccination visit h1n1get1.com or call your local health depa

. >> what the ravens might be thinking about, tom brady and randy moss and a patriots team that didn't lose a game at home all season and hasn't lost a playoff game in decades. the patriots may be favored but the ravens are not embracing the role of underdog. >> if you're in the playoffs, you deserve to be in the playoffs. there's no underdogs. obviously, they're probably favored because they're at home. i don't think they're look at us. >> if the ravens can pull out a victory today, it would be the first ever against the patriots, it would give baltimore a second round playoff game at indianapolis against the top-seeded colts. i'll be in box foxboro today to give us our post-game wrap-up. >>> don't forget, you can catch the game here on wjz. our coverage kicks off at 1:00. >>> turning now to national news this morning, new numbers bode well for the senate's healthcare reform bill. a medicare report shows the senate plan would raise costs slightly but over time would reduce the annual increases in healthcare spending. the study finds that health spending which accounts for 1/6 of the e

randi, you will have information on that.will continue to monitor the aftershock and if we get more information we'll bring it to you. >> chris durant is a reporter with "the times standard" newspaper in eureka. can you describe what you saw. >> i was working. our newsroom was the second noor of a large concrete building. we are used to feeling small ones. after the first few seconds we looked at each other and said this is not a small one. i headed toward the stairwell. i had to stop or i would have ended up on the ground. in the stairwell there were chunks of plaster, not huge knock you out chunks. >> what type of damage are you hearing about in the area? >> not as much as you might think with a 6.5. a lot is store fronts broken, a lot of calls on the scanner with the smell of gas. the mall did see some injuries. some reports of people in the mall that ceiling tiles were falling on them and floor tiles popping up. they evacuated that. >> what else has been evacuated besides the mall? any neighborhoods. >> no. people are sta

. >> how are you doing, randy? >> how are you doing there? >> we're doing fine, i think we've come through this quite well. like you mentioned, we have frayed nerves, but the damage seems to have been limited to broken windows, downed power lines, isolated waterline breaks and minor injuries at this point. we're bracing for aftershocks, we've had a number of them so far, we've experienced very significant aftershocks for previous earthquakes, so we're cautiously optimistic at this point. >> i'm sure. i'm sure also that a lot of our viewers who may have relatives in california, who maybe can't reach them because of this earthquake may be worried about them. no serious injuries for sure? >> that's correct. we do have -- and life safety is our number one priority at this point. we have quite a few fire police and public works crews out assessing damage at this time. so far, no reports of any serious injuries to pass on. >> have you had to evacuate any areas or what are you advising residents? >> i believe we're advising residents to stay in thei

baltimore will have to defend randy moss. and that makes it a little bit easier. i think it's going to be a great game. baltimore had a chance in the regular season, they kind of self-destructed, so i think it's going to be baltimore with a great shot, but new england does have tom brady. >> as we said earlier, you made half the point i was about to reiterate. they of course have tom brady. even though he's beaten up a bit, he will play. and bill belichick can game plan for a single game. i don't know if the patriots could make it through to the super bowl, but in a given game, not just this one at home, but if they manage to win it, in a given game, i don't think anybody looks forward to facing them. >> no, new england is a great football team and they've got that big game experience, but it's going to be difficult without welker. he was so much a part of their offense and keeping the chains moving. now they're going to have to rely on kevin faulk, and some other guys, but they still have bill be bill belichick and tom brady. saturday night is another rematch, th

. >> now, randy and anti with the news. >> you have been doing this how long? >> i started in 2003. this is believereally my sevent. i have saddam hussein to king for the job. -- to think for the job. -- to think for the job. -- thank for the job. they wanted to go to more 24-7 coverage. they wanted more people of the microphone. he asked me to fill in. i was not with goodwill anymore and i just come to california from nevada. it just so happened that by june of 2003, a slot had opened up. the general manager asked if i would be interested in doing this. he carefully deleted the part about getting up at 2:00 a.m. in the morning. i said that that sounded kind of interesting. i have been there ever since. >> the time and you are on? >> 5:00 a.m.-9:00 a.m., monday through friday. >> the listening area that you go to. >> it would be the greater metropolitan area of washington, probably as far north as the outskirts of baltimore and as far south as washington. >> we took our cameras to your studios this week. here is a segment where you and and you were talking about haiti. >> when i was

. >> now, randy and andy with the news. >> you have been doing this how long? >> i started in 2003. this is really my seventh year. i have saddam hussein thank for the job. i had been out in california. i was between careers at that time. i had filled them for a talk- show host on our station from time to time. the guy that was on general manager, because of the war effort ramping up in iraq,they wanted to go to more 24/7 coverage. they wanted more people on the microphone. he asked me to fill in. i started doing more work. i was not with goodwill anymore and i had just come to california from nevada. i gravitated to it following the war. it just so happened that by june of 2003, a slot had opened up. and the parks had been doing it for years. -- andy parks had been doing it for years. the general manager asked if i would be interested in doing this. he carefully deleted the part about getting up at 2:00 a.m. in the morning. i said that that sounded kind of interesting. i have been there ever since. >> the time you are on? >> 5:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m., monday through friday. >> the list

i'm randy kay at the cnn center. a 6.5 magnitude quake struck off the coast of northern california. the usgs says 25 miles from the city of eureka. no reports of serious damage or any reports of injuries. a resident of ferndale, california, describes it as a rolling event, it rolled and rolled and slammed. the 6.5 magnitude earth wake struck off the coast. cnn is learning the quake hit around 4:27 p.m. california time. that would be 7:27 on the east coast here. no reports of any tsunami or anything like that as a result of this. we want to talk to someone who just went through this. his name is cole machado. he is a resident of eureka, cole, good to have you with us. glad you are safe and sound. can you tell me what happened during this quake? >> yeah. i'm watching cnn when it happened. i was talking on my cell phone. all of a sudden the house started shaking. i was worried about my television. i didn't want to it fall over. i went to go catch it in case it was going to fall. it was just brought back a lot of memories from an earthquake in 1990. >> you took these pictures we are loo

nazis were not, the people at randy's camps were not soldiers, they were criminaled. we treated them as such. that's what he deserves and he should be getting as such. >> larry: do you think he will not get a fair trial, nancy? what is your concern if he's tried as a terrorist? >> i believe he has not earned the right to have the same protections that an american citizen has. there is an obvious reason why there is a disagreement here. you have people by and large with a military background saying this needs to be treated differently and this can't be treated like a common thug. there is a greater intent here, there is a greater threat here. as horrible as it is, when one human being decides to take the life of another human being, it is different from when a nation decides to destroy another nation. our country and our culture are under attack, and if we do not correctly assess the threat, we will not correctly protect ourselves. >> again, in other words, if we can't be protected from him, how can we protect anybody? ikeman was a war criminal. he was given a trial. h

. >>> briefly on "sport science," we trieto re-create the infamous randy johnson pitch that crossed phsun fortunate pigeon. he phenomenal physi were so improbable, unfortunatelywe failed. time to reload and take a cack at another freak accident. >> august 4th, 1983, yankees at toronto. hall of fame outfielder dav winnfield finished his warm-up anthrew the balloward a ball boy near the fall line. but the throw skipped off the turf and killed a seagull. win feel was arrested but animal cruelty charges were dropped the next day since it was determined to an accident. so what variables lined up to create this bizarre accident? to find out, we'll use an air cannon, baseball's fishing line, sophisticat robotics and standing in f the unfortate seagull a frozen chicken. >> so here's how we're going to set this one up. staged behind the wall i'm going to hop the bird along right in into harm's way cindy is going to man t a cannon, e's going to hit the button. 're going to see if we can get a ball to skip off the turf and smash directly into our chicken. >> our team preps wit some dry runs. >> he

. >>> straight ahead -- randi kaye with the next hour of the "cnn newsroom," including a look at thetest and greatest gadgets at the consumer electronics show in las vegas. a flying drone and 3d tvs are just a few of the fascinating gizmos. i'm fredricka whitfield they cnn headquarters in atlanta. see you back here tomorrow. uuuuu

. >>> hello, i'm randi kaye. here's what's happening right now.ot of rattled nerves but no serious injuries or damage reported from a 6.5 quake off the coast of northern california. it struck just about three hours ago. residents in eureka and ferndale say they felt a rolling motion that knocked down pictures and cracked walls. most of the damage appears to be power outages and broken water and gas pipes. >>> senate majority leader harry reid is apologizing for comments he made during the 2008 presidential campaign. a new book called "game change" quotes reid as saying "then senator barack obama could win the white house because he was light-skinned and had no negro dialect unless he wanted to have one." president obama says he accepts reid's apology. cnn's dana bash reports reid is reaching out to civil rights leaders and african-american members of congress, including julian bond and representatives jim clyburn and barbara lee. >>> in vermont three snowmobiles crashed through thin ice, killing three people -- a man, his 24-year-old daughter, and

randy moss caught that one for a score. that was a crucial drop late in the game by clayton, remember that? >> phil: yeah, i do. >> jim: they would drive it down, down six. 27-21 victory ended up for new england. >> phil: well, what do you here? if you're the baltimore raven, you basically need one first down. if you get a first down here, it almost wins the game for you. the raiders are out of timeouts. >> jim: what will they do? will they go up top? >> phil: my first thought is they will run it. >> jim: they're going to go out of the gun. it's mcgahee, he's got a wide-open hole, and he is tackled at the 50 by eugene. only fitting that on the day where he's been the difference maker he goes for 36. willis mcgahee. >> phil: oh, what a block. the raiders not even play and run and the baltimore ravens if you watch this last quarter, they got on the sidelines and somebody must have said we're going to win this game because we're going to do it up front and run the football. and how about that? back inside their ten, three runn

. >>> i'm randi kaye at the cnn center in atlanta. i'll be back with more on the quotes from senate majority leader harry reid where he refers to president obama's skin color and dialect. "the situation room" begins right now. >>> president obama declares the buck stops with me and spells out ways the u.s. could better track and stop terrorists. this hour, his new response to the failed christmas bombing and what it means for your security. >>> also, the real life saga of a spy, a double agent turned suicide bomber or was he a triple agent? we're learning new details, how he earned the trust of cia officers and then turned on them with deadly results. >>> and two veteran democrats call it quits and now their party's clout in the senate may be in jeopardy. james carville and the surprising turns on election 2010. we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." >>> i am less interested in passing out blame than i am in learning from and correcting these mistakes

there was no indication, though, that al qaeda was trying to use that type of attack and ma modus op randi against aircraft. we're very concerned about it from an assassination standpoint. we continue to look at all the evidence that is out there so we can take the steps necessary to prevent any types of attacks from taking place. >> are we safer than we were in the immediate aftermath of 9/11? >> i think the u.s. government has done tremendous work over the last eight years, nine years, to strengthen our system, strengthen our security perimeters. we have now a system in place that the fbi and cia, nsa, department of homeland security, and others are working very collaboratively together in. what we need to do is to be sure we're able to leverage that system every day, making sure that it's 1,000% perfect so that we don't have another person like abdulmutallab come in. yes, i think the american people can take comfort in knowing the government has worked hard since 9/11 and has made steady progress, not just in terms of helping to secure the country, but also degrading, disrupting, and we

and if you see randy, tell him he dropped his wallet. >> tom: well temple wins it 73-46. two old friends, embracing at the end. and take a look at the numbers. 44.6% for temple. just 31.5% shooting wise, steve for the st. joseph hawks. >> steve: take everything else and throw it out the wind doe. 39-45 on the glass. -- 29-45. that is about it. >> tom: a lot of offensive rebounds. for our entire college sports crew i'm tom mccarthy. for the latest atlantic 10 scores, news and highlights log on to atlantic 10.com. this has been a presentation of the cbs college sports network. thank you for watching everyone. so óóó on the ice. alex the great ovenchin. and why fame and fortune has not changed him. >>> and paying tribute to a man that taught everybody about the game. >> and then a dream comes true for one high school baseball player a story that will warm your heart holiday season. >> hello and welcome to this special edition of net impact. i'm art fa nel. this is the best of 2009 report where we look back at some of the stories that touc

my name is randy sanchez and i'm spanish. do have a hispanic dialect. i don't think so. have an american dialect. i was brought up in american. that's true, justice and american way party. what i'm running for is healthcare. i cannot get healthcare. and my thing is the 25/75 like the song. i think there should be a $100 a month and it's $25 and $75. you pay $25 and carrier $75. host: thanks for the call. let's stay focused if we could for the first hour at least to get reaction for the story circulating over the last 24-hours. a lot of cable chatter yesterday and more on the sunday morning programs all from the new book called game change. co-written by john hallman wallace from san antonio texas. democrat line. caller: morning. seem like a ploy to sell a book to me. it's time that the american people wake up and remove the sleep from their eyes. this country is in front within and if we do not unify we're going to continue to fall. we're circling the toilet boil and we want to be remes!ered in history. unification is the key. the british have used divide and conquer far

from this platform a year ago, i thanked governor joe kernan, chief justice randy shepherd, and the commission colleagues for a superb set of proposals to modernize indiana's pioneer days system of local government. a state committed to protecting taxpayers, and limiting government to the role of the people surveyed, has no business maintaining more elected politicians and states twice our size. it's wasteful. is antiquated. it produces poor decisions, and it obscures the public's ability to assign either credit for success or blame for failure. this assembly has taken the first steps toward cleaning up is an anachronism. you have dealt with five of the commissioners seven recommendations, most noticeably the elimination of the township assessors. you reduce the number of cooked in the assessment kitchen by about 1000. having as many as 20 different assessors setting property values in a single county was a formula for unfairness, waste and, although often, corruption. moving assessment to a single, accounting county official was a matter of simple common sense. the exact same principle applie

no less than authority than randi weingarten, the president of the american federation of teachers has knowledge urges the student performance must be part of teacher evaluations. how can we in good faith and upgrades to students based on how they perform if we fail to do the same thing for the people teaching them. so recognizing good teachers is an overdue reform. next we need to provide schools with the flexibility to succeed. under my plan, schools will be encouraged to innovate. they'll be able to manage their budgets at the school level, set their own schedules, try creative approaches to curriculum and instruction. for example, we can see schools tried year-round schedule with a science-based theme that runs through the curriculum. and we must address low performing schools and reduce dropout rates. we can do it by empowering parents and districts and encouraging programs like the jobs for maine graduate program that we know are affected and keeping kids in school and preparing them for a career of college. it's not enough to have good schools if too many of our kids don't go to

i am randy larsen.us an overview -- that is vice-chairman jim talent, will first present an overview. kerry surely leave for another hearing up on the hill after presenting me go and we will have time for questions and answers. mr. chairman? >> thank you, colonel larsen for the great leadership you have provided over this past year. we have started today with breakfast with the families of 9/11. in many ways they are responsible not only for our commission, but for the 9/11 commission. it was there is emphasizing the importance of what had happened in order to prepare america to avoid a repetition. what happened in order to prepare america to avoid a one of the findings is when the worst weapons fell into the hands of the worst people. it led congress to create our commission to evaluate what our level of preparation is to avoid the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, particularly into the hands of terrorists. ration of weapons of mass destruction, particularly into the hands of terrorists. so

. >> fred grandy -- randy represented by what in congress for four terms.she was ceo and president of goodwill industries. -- he was ceo and president of goodwill industries. he is our guest on tonight's "q&a." >> witnesses at this meeting include top executives from goldman sachs, j.p. morgan chase, morgan stanley and bank of america. the commission, made up of six democrats and four republicans is mandated to deliver a report to congress b. this portion of the hearing is three hours, 20 minutes. >> the meeting of -- oh, good, the microphones work. the meeting of the commission will come to order. there is a quorum present, and so we will now proceed with this first of our public hearings. good morning to everyone and thank you for being here. i am honored to welcome you as we start this series of public hearings into the causes of the financial and economic crisis that has gripped this entire country. i think vice chairman thomas for his extraordinary cooperation and partnership. i applaud the dedication of my fellow commissioners. i am grateful to all of

randy has this twitter comment, saying that independent and moderate democrats, talking about marketorrections, obama had better listen." pessimistic, why? caller: the government is out of control. we gave them a wake-up call in virginia. i thank god for massachusetts. i think that the federal government is destroying this country and they need a big wake-up call. that is my comment for the day. host: another comment from twitter -- they are coming in fast and furious -- "how much are you under water? from the current section comes this from national politics -- "chris matthews was happy about barack obama, saying that he felt a thrill going up his leg. last week scott brown told the the obama and chris matthews was like a puppy on uppers. does he have a hot hand to run politically for the president next time"? ronald is killing us from atlanta. our phone lines just went down, we will try to fix it if we can. let's go to another twitter comment. for those of you watching, let's take a short break and get back in just a moment. first, a look at the issues and topics dominating the con

but, in her words, "we thought, how in the world could we possibly say note to randy and not give him our permission? -- our permission?" she is dedicated to telling the story of these three young men. she was a guiding light and an inspiration to the staff at the museum and she is loved and missed. david goodman and his wife sylvia are here in the audience. david, would you stand a moment? [applause] now i would like to introduce dr. walton getty will get the discussion moving. [applause] >> thank you so much. thank you for being here this evening for what we know will be a stimulating discussion. the interfaith alliance is a national organization that considers individual rights and matters of personal conscience to be sacred. that is why we are both for faith and freedom. do to 13 years working to protect the integrity of religion and the vitality of democracy so they can flourish together. toward that end, we challenged religious and political extremist who seek an entanglement of the institutions of religion and government and that threaten individual liberties and legislators. i

>> randy, thank you very much for providing inviting me to participate in this and i'm grateful to youfor organizing this forum year after year and it's a pleasure to participate with everyone on the panel. i'm going to talk about three topics. i'm going to start by talking about the use of fiscal policy as a countercyclical instrument. i then want to say a little bit about fiscal deficit and then finally i want to talk about what was the key fiscal economic policy of the past year in my judgment. and that is the health insurance legislation. so i'll start with a countercyclical instrument. this really has been a different business cycle for previous business cycles. we look at previous economic downturns that were caused by a tightening of the federal funds rate, the fed tightened because it was concerned about inflation either actual or incipient inflation. and when it had succeeded in doing what he set out to do a good lower the short-term increased rate the economy could recover. and that typically took about from pete to trough. in a key part of the recovery with the bounce back i

. >> we have invest randy johnson this team. we've scwawntdered some leads in the past. they've learned their lesson and learn that runs start with poor shot selection. we took care of the ball and got quality defense. >> you played great ball. what is the meth message going forward? it's not always going to be that easy. >> no, we got very lucky tonight. shots were falling. as we teach other guys, defense will keep you in the games. we have to continue to improve in that area. >> thanks a lot for the time. congratulations. see you soon. >> you've got it. head coach for northeastern. huskies, 71-46 over george mason. we're back to wrap it up here from above the on after this. >> mike: today's caa coverage on comcast sportsnet has been brought to you by champion, how you play. by geico, 15 minutes can save you 15% or more on car insurance. by kroger, freshness, variety, let's go krogering. by ramada worldwide. you do your thing. leave the rest to us. northeastern making quick work of george mason here tonight. 71-46, final score from boston. thanks for being with us tonig

[applause] in an era of reform, from this platform a year ago, i thanked chief justice randy sheppardnd their commission colleagues for a superb set of proposals to modernize indiana's pioneer day of local government. a state committed to helping taxpayers and limiting government to the role of the people's servant has no business than elected politicians twice our state's size. it is wasteful, antiquated, produces poor decisions, and reduces the public's ability to assign credit for success or blame for failure. this assembly has taken the first steps toward cleaning this up. you have dealt with the commission's 27 recommendations, five of them, most notably the number of cooks in the assessment kitchen by about 1,000. having as many as 22 different assessors setting property values in a single county was a formula for unfairness, waste, and all too often, corruption. moving assessment to a single county official is a matter of common sense. the exact same principle replies to poor relief and fire protection. still handled as they were in 1937. just as you already did for libraries,

the very first editorial your read -- i may have the name wrong -- randy bartlett -- host: barnett.aller: wasn't he a speechwriter for president bush? host: i don't know off the top of my head. the first article i read was " democrats cried in justice." caller: it is my understanding that the congress and by the president to make this state of the union address. -- congress invites the president to make the state of the union address. if they do that, shouldn't they show him the respect? why would you read an editorial that is asking for an apology from the president of the united states to a supreme court justice? the editorial on its face conservative -- are the ones who constantly say "my president, right or wrong -- conservatives are the ones who constantly say, "my president, right or wrong," "if you don't like it, just leave," "why do you hate your country?" any time a democrat would complain even in the slightest way -- the amount of disrespect shown by the justice shows a scary amount of self control. my children -- if my children behave that way for the president of the uni

chicago, randy, on the democrats' line. caller: that article was my very piont.-span has injected themselves into a contentious process. you have shown hundreds of hours of the hearings. to all the sudden inject yourself, to push this right wing agenda -- you have opened pandora's box. that is something you should not have done. another is here are "washington journal" but it has a natural proclivity to push a right-wing agenda, especially yourself, steve scully and the woman from "washington journal" as well. you cannot take a backseat. you have to take a stance on these issues from here on out. host: tidewater, va. caller: i agree with the last caller. you guys by opening the situation to have the camera in the negotiation room, i think you have opened a pandora's box. i think you have also waited too late. he should have done it when the public option was on the table. by doing it now i don't see the purpose. still without a public option is just negotiation for insurance companies. it is only to water the bill down. on the republican side those guys just want

we've got to move on to randy of williamsburg's virginia.please, go ahead. >> caller: good morning. happy new year. thank you for your efforts on behalf of those of us in the real world, michelle. let me give you an example of those non-for profits and hospitals and schools and how they are kind of connected in this mom for profit industrial complex along with the educational industrial complex. i own a small business called virginia is for education that has visited over 1,000 schools with a mobil facility that has its physical fitness and educational component all within this mobile trailer and not only do i go to school but i follow the children home into a depressed neighborhoods so that those children whose families don't have disposable income can come and principate and a health and wellness program on the corner that kicks the criminal element off and affords a healthy and clean environment for those people to be mentored. i create critical maps on the corner where it is needed. i bypass all these big federal programs that get out mi

when george bush took over, he gave all that money away to his oil bodies, insurance bodies, and randy -- buddies, insurance buddies, and ran the deficit up again. guest: we looked at that. there was a back and forth between david axelrod and karl rove. we looked at a claim by axelrod that was essentially what you said. he gave numbers on what the bush administration inherited in terms of the surplus, projected surplus, and what it left. we gave him a mostly true on that. i think he was off on one number that he used. i think it is important to give a perspective of history on all of these things. that is what we try to do with our truthometer. a lot of times elected officials will make claims about how things work, so we look at that, too. host: amanda on the republican line. caller: republican and independents should not stop with massachusetts. there is a lot of work to be done. i hope the tea party folks do not allow themselves to be coopted by the republicans. they need to remain independent. bill adair, i would like you to bring the truthometer on the scott brown campaign. he nev

>> randy, thank you very much for providing inviting me to participate in this and i'm grateful to youfor organizing this forum year after year and it's a pleasure to participate with everyone on the panel. i'm going to talk about three topics. i'm going to start by talking about the use of fiscal policy as a countercyclical instrument. i then want to say a little bit about fiscal deficit and then finally i want to talk about what was the key fiscal economic policy of the past year in my judgment. and that is the health insurance legislation. so i'll start with a countercyclical instrument. this really has been a different business cycle for previous business cycles. we look at previous economic downturns that were caused by a tightening of the federal funds rate, the fed tightened because it was concerned about inflation either actual or incipient inflation. and when it had succeeded in doing what he set out to do a good lower the short-term increased rate the economy could recover. and that typically took about from pete to trough. in a key part of the recovery with the bounce back i

there will be -- what i am not calling the meeting in i randy and iran meeting.you call the image in meeting. >> i didn't. >> and iran meeting. >> i said was it going to be the primary subject of the meeting. >> i will just say there will be a plus one a meeting in the coming days and with the information on that from the e.u. >> so -- >> madrid. >> here's my question and that meeting regardless of what are the number of topics we discussed which included discussion of iran. >> i would expect if we got together, we are casting in that broadly in terms of our consultations ahead with a number of countries and iran. it's a very importance subject of urgent time so if it will come up in our dialogue with a number of countries. alan expected to be a part of this. >> the chinese have dropped their resistance of the meeting? >> i'm saying you should await formal announcements of the meeting with our counterparts in the e.u. >> on iran there obviously offers somewhat that for the next couple of months it was stopping rich men's and there is another who barely overture.

and is ready for a second chapter, from this platform a year ago i think to governor joe kennon and randy shepard and commission colleagues for a superb set of proposals to modernize indianans piatt your system of local government. a state committed to protecting taxpayers and limiting government to the role of the people serving has no business maintaining or elected politicians than states twice our size. it's wasteful, antiquated and produces were decisions and obscures' public's ability to assign either credit for success or blame for failure. this assembly has taken the first steps toward cleaning up this anachronism. you build with five of the commission's 27 recommendations most notably elimination of township assessors. you reduce the number of cooks in the assessment kitchen by about 1,000. having as many as 22 different assessor's sitting property values in a single county was a formula for on fairness, waste and all too often corruption. moving passes into a single accountable county official was a matter of simple common sense. the exact same principle applies to poor relief a

in addition to that briefing, you and randy members of several committee sent a letter to the white houseand touch and a little bit so far but speak more about letter you sent and what were the major points? >> guest: the frustrations we have is we had no briefings on fort hood. the president commissioned a report to be done on november 30th. the report was delivered to the white house. congress still hasn't seen it. again i fought for what was a terrorist attack and what really caught my interest again was radical islamic cleric whose american-born. what is his influence? this is when al qaeda gets someone who is an american as part of their operational or inspirational network that is a true for them so what was going on and what did we learn and what did we know about him and what did we do as a result and they continue to refuse to brief us on that. i was in yemen on new year's day and expressly the white house called the ambassador and the cia called the station chief. this never happened to me before and said the congressman may ask particular questions about a range of issues the c

on april 11, and indianapolis indiana, country music legend randy travis and country music star colinhe first annual terry schiavo life in hope concert. this concert will benefit terry's foundation. the special concert will help us continue this life for the tens of thousands of brain injured persons like terry living in the united states today. please go to livenation.com and purchase tickets for the april 11 event in indianapolis, indiana. again, that is livenation.com. then you for being here, and god bless you all. >> we're getting down to some important business. these are the legislators. we're delighted to introduce, from the senate, senator sam brownback of kansas. [cheers and applause] >> thanks, nelly. do you realize now for the first time since the polling has been done, you now live in a majority pro-life country? and you're the reason for it. you have change hearts and minds. you did it by persuading people and living for a culture of life. keep it up. we have a lot of members of congress, and we have just won a health care cause, there will be no abortion in the health-

you see vern harris and randy mccall over at the tableng look at jorge gutierrez complaining that he received an elbow. they're right there. >> marques: i don't know. solomon hill, some contact. but it didn't look -- solomon hill took him down. mike montgomery is complaining that there was an intentional or some kind of flagrant foul situation. i didn't see much from solomon hill on that play. >> derrin: mike montgomery coaching up his team. like sean miller, he says the one thing he wants to see more of from his young team is they need to be a little tougher. he had some great teams in stanford, jacobson, these guys getting on the floor in the pac 10. that's one of the things he wants to see more of from his team. >> marques: i think the stanford teams were tougher than this cal team. arthur lee, julius barnes, the point guard. the officials look at the play and decided there was nothing flagrant by gutierrez. >> derrin: derrick williams wants to work on boykin. he goes up strong. out of bounds. off of the hand of solomon hill. >> marques: two very similar basketball players. simila

can help as brother paul just mentioned, on april 11th in indianapolis indiana, country music legend randy travis and country music star collin raye will be performing the first annual teri schiavo life and hope concert. [cheering] this concert will benefit terry's foundation. a special concert will help us continue to fight for the tens of thousands of brain injured persons like terry living in the united states today. please go to livenation.com, and you can purchase tickets for this event in indianapolis indiana. again, that is livenation.com. thank you for being here. god bless you all. thank you. [applause] [cheering] >> now we are getting down to some of the important business. these are our legislators and we are delighted to introduce, the senate senator sam brownback of kansas. [cheers and applause] >> thanks, nellie do you realize now for the first times is a plan has been done, the gallup poll, that you now live in a majority pro-life country? [cheers and applause] and you are the reason for it. you have changed hearts and minds. and you have done it by persuading people and liv

. >> late word, antawn jamison and randy foye both gametime decisions suffering from injuries. we'll have to see if they'll be available tonight against the world champions. >> chris miller, ron thompson. see you on the post-game show coming up at the top of the hour. it's the lakers-wizards in hi- definition right here on comcast sportsnet. after the game, they'll break it all down on wizards post- game live. and later on this very show, much more from ron thompson's exclusive conversation with kobe bryant. a side of kobe we rarely get to see. >> which riding kobe now? >> still enjoying it every day. >> is it still fun? >> i love it. >> we'll look back at some of kobe bryant's finest moments in the nba. a top five countdown you do not want to miss later on "geico sportsnite". >>> hockey now. apparently, regulation just can't contain the capitals and islanders. last four times they've met on the island, they've gone to overtime. 7-9 last games they've played overall needed 60 plus. tonight, they're back at nawms look to go extend their wing streak to a -- to a season high 17. >