ralph reed, john doolittle, karl rove, dick armey, conrad burns, don young. it was all about the money. >> almost everyone on that%+ screen is gone from where they were when they either got in trouble or they were in office. a couple of them are till ttere. who did we just see and why did you start with those people? >> i started with those people because it was interesting to me to show that jack abramoff wasn't on the periphery,,that he was at a certain moment in time, his moment, the late 1990's, early 2000's, that he was at he center of washington. and so you saw a lot of people there, ralph reed, karl rove and others, and george w. bush who were right at the center of power in washington, because i think there have been a pretty concerted attempt to use abramoff in a way to be the scapegoat. not that he didn't do things wrong. he did a lot that was dead- prong. but to lay all the blame at his doorstep as if to say jack was a unique character whoooperated onnthe fringes of government, didn't have much affect on somebody. he was at the center, thht's why i

but reed's office ruled it out and said senator snowe, if she wanted to support this, could have done it yesterday. >> woodruff: and the argument-- i mean, were they debating the substance as they were arguing about this? >> well, the argument was almost entirely about deficit spending, and republicans accusing democrats of , you know, they had offered an alternative that were fully paid for with spending cuts. that was their sort of position. and unless democrats paid for the whole thing and cut spend, republicans seemed completely unwilling to vote for this mix of things that contained some things that they didn't really want to support. >> woodruff: so there could be an attempt to come back, but in the time being, no jobless benefits. >> for the time being, no jobless benefits. >> woodruff: all right, lori montgomery with the "washington post," thank you very much. >> thank you. >> brown: and still to come on the newshour, mental health concerns in the gulf, shields and brooks, and socker and other power plays in brazil. but first, the other news of the day. here's hari sreenivasan

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. >> do agree with reed hunt? >> i absolutely agreed that broadband will be the future. it is the future of job growth, health care, and quality of life, and it will be he dominant information for the information age. >> i have noticed that in your brief, you used the term iap instead of isp. is this an new tactic? to call it an internet access provider instead of internet service provider? >> it confuses folks, because services are what we think of as once you have the connection. is only internet access, only the internet access portion of broadband that we think the fcc should be concerned with. >> what you think? >> i think it is like trying to save the consumer should have to buy an engine and by the starter separately. or if you buy a car, you by a motor and a carriige. the fact of the matter is, when a consumer wants internet access, they want to be sure that when they plug in a domain name and they will get delivered. they want to make sure they will have a fire wall and spam protection, and the kinds of services he has come to expect as being what the internet i

there were cut off on her cane reed and katrina. they came off the worst economy this country has seen since the great depression. this season was going to be the season where they were going to bounce back not only that, but this happened at the worst possible time. they are making their entire income for the year in the three or four months during which folks can take their boats out and people come down for tourism. i emphasize to to the chairman that when he talked to shareholders and meetings in his boardrooms, keep in mind those individuals that are desperate. if some of them don't get really quickly they may lose business -- lose businesses that have been and their families for two or three generations the chairman assured me that he will keep them in my. that will be the standard by which i measure the bp response. i think today is a good start it should provide some assurance to some of the small business owners and individuals in the gulf coast that i visited with that bp will meet its responsibilities. i indicated to the

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corruption that has taken a claim on our senior senator harry reed. >> woodruff: republican voters in california backed two former corporate executives as their senate and gubernatorial nominees, former hewlett-packard c.e.o. carly fiorina will challenge democratic senator barbara boxer. and former e-bay c.e.o. meg whitman will face off against state attorney general jerry brown for governor. in south carolina's republican gubernatorial primary, nikki haley received 49% of the vote, just shy of the majority she needed to avoid a runoff later this month. her opponent will be congressman gresham barrett. haley overcame allegations of infidelity by two men in recent weeks which she vehemently denied. she says south carolina voters had had enough. >> we said no to inside deal making and backroom politics. and this last two or three weeks we said no to the dark side of politics. >> woodruff: haley, an indian american, would be the first woman and racial minority to be elected governor of south carolina. and to make sense of last night's results, we are joined once game by amy walter, edito

, which started four months after his injury, have been the hardest part of his recovery at walter reededical center. each seizure would wipe out the progress he was making, and he'd have to start all over again. do you wonder, patty, how much more pat might have progressed if he didn't have the epilepsy? >> patty horan: yeah, i do. they say most of your healing is going to be done in the first two years. so, a year and a half of that, he had seizures, you know, every month, every two months, >> david axelrod: you have all these young people coming back, and they are very, very much at risk.Ñi the statistics from vietnam reflected a high percentage of those with penetrating brain injuries developed epilepsy, you know, five, seven, ten years later. >> couric: the military is already treating soldiers with severe brain injuries in the field with anti-seizure medications, to try to prevent seizures during the early stages of recovery. at 29 sites across the country, another experimental treatment is under way, using a pulse of electricity in the brain to stop a seizure in its tracks. 26-ye

host: reed is joining us on the democrats' line. caller: mr. solomon, i have been a really good example of somebody who is a cross between zero working democrat and liberal democrat. this is feeding into the terrible bashing that president obama is getting as a communist. you are absolutely losing poderates for the democratic party. you are example of making the perfect the enemy of the good. please support the president. i actually voted for hillary, but i have to belleve that you president of the united states.e the alternative, are you kidding me? you are also one of these people that reminns me -- of wood rather always be out of office. guest: president obama, unfortunately with his policies, is enabling and empowering the right wing. the white house has aligned that is not the proper stance for democrats in office. when democrats put geithner and summee in top economic policy positions, that enables and strengthens the right wing postulate to make gains. i would say the situation is more a 180 then what you describe. this policy is strengt

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. >> senator hay begin, -- hagin, senator reed. senator reed has to leave. i want to thank her for her hospitality. this is great payback for not leaving yoo in afghanistan. i understand. mr. balfanz, there's a lot of discussion around the different turnaround models. from your sense what kind of empirical evidence do we have? it might be that we haven't tried it a lot. >> yeah, i think the honest answer right now is we have mix evidence. you can point for successes and failure for every one of those models. we haven't done them in 200 places to find out where the average breaks out. but i really thinks that gets back to what i said. we really need to analyze each school's challenges and get a design that fits that. in some cases it is a capacity challenge. but other places it's just simply, they haven't been exposed to -- what is a good program for kids that are two years behind in reading. it's the one size fits all is the struggle. >> yeah. and a wonder from your perspective and i'll ask your colleagues, do we have an ongoing research plan to try to valid

reed. >> no. >> ms. lincoln. >> no. >> mr. leahy. >> mr. leahy know by proxy. >> mr. shelby. >> know. aye. >> mr. crrdo. >> aye. >> mr. chambliss. >> aye. >> the measure fails. >> this measure creates a consumer financial protection bureau the gives regulators the power to break up large, failing to financial companies that pose a threat to the greater economy. there are also a number of restrictions on banks that trade in derivatives. the white house and democratic leaders are hoping to have a final vote on the measure by july 4th. here is more on the debate on how the bill is being paid for. >> next, a look at oil spill cleanup efforts in a louisiana parish. >> i am under the weather. how are you doing? i came in to see you all. >> take care of him. he is so special. >> well, let us go upstairs. >> he is like my little kid, because they went to school together. >> i knew i was going to shut down soon. >> i am amazed you are on this long. i was worried about getting through. [unintelligible] >> do you know jackie? >> it is nice to see you again. >> this is danielle,

there will be two reeds on the ballot. harry gray is the senate democratic leader.omorrow morning, in the water will join us on "washington journal." >> first of all, i want to thank you for c-span. i think it is wonderful you are able to get on their and say what you think about what is the one on. this election out there in california, these two candidates for governor, i will tell you. after watching them, this jerry brown it seems as though this man has some sort of chip on his shoulder. i have never met anyone -- either one of these people or heard them. in just listening to both of them, it seems as though this man, when his wife came up on stage, it seemed as though she wanted to hug him but he was standoffish. he did not say much about the economy. it was just a very poor speech that he gave after winning something that big. i am concerned about that out there because i know it is really bad. i watched meg. she is a ceo and has a lot of business experience which tells me that maybe that is what they need out there in order to get that state balanced out and

when they went to containment we wanted to get another set of pressure reedings. that will give us better ratings. >> how many vents are closed? >> onr. concerns about the -- one. not wanting to create a pressure differential that will cause a problem. they are still rationing the choke up. they can handle more production. >> let's go to the phone. operator, you can begin. >> good morning. [inaudible] how many animals are being treated? there were reports about a whale that washed up on a beach in new york. is that oil-spill related? [inaudible] if so, what do you and the president hope to learn from that meeting that you don't already know? i did not bring the wildlife numbers with me. any time we have a marine mammal death in the vicinity there are always concerns about whether it was related to hydrocarbons. i will reach out and see if we can ascertain if there is any causality. if there is any concern we will check it out. regarding the meeting, the agenda is being developed. there are a list of concerns. it will have to be a combination of bp issues. that is

reed the people in and ask us so bad, because they are not -- they really did mysteries the people in alaska -- mistreat the people in alaska so bad. in alaska there was a small oil spill -- they are having problems with the salmon and the fisheries. the poison coming from the earth, they are not telling you about that. i know for a fact, i watched a program about that specifically. the materials that far deep down in the earth is a lot worse, 5,000 feet down drilling into the earth. i am -- i just think we are grateful for the $20 billion fund but i do not think it will come close to cover the cost of the damage it would do to the gulf -- texas, all along the gulf, even mexico. host: jeff, democrats line. you are on. caller: good morning. this -- this bill down there -- this spill down there is devastating, i know. i believe in god, but i am not the type of person who goes around and lays my religion on my sleeve. but the evil that has been going on in this country, i think people should stop and think. those people down there, those southern states, they hate obama, i don't care wha

for the first time since two tawes three we have more troops in afghanistan dan and i tracked reed of where we remain on pace to draw down to roughly 50,000 troops by the end of august. the bulk of the 30,000 additional forces the president authorized for afghanistan are in country and the remainder, less than 10,000 will arrive in next two months. these forces are now and will continue to be focused on operations in the central helmand valley. in marjah and kandahar specifically. we're keeping abreast what we are trying to achieve. but i think it's important here to just summarize. kandahar is the birthplace of the taliban insurgency. it is from there that they have tried to spread their influence across afghanistan. and it is from there that the desire to fool once again. i think that it is safe to say that they still believe in their cause. in and around kandahar the train, equip, plan and intimidate. just the other day in the village not far away these people went to a small boy claiming he was a spy for the coalition. .. you saw president karzai down there just this past weekend,

reed. >> aye. >> mr. leahy. >> aye, by proxy. >> mr. shelby. >> no. >> mr. crapo. >> no. >> mr. chambliss. >> know. >> the voters are 7-5. the measure is passed. we can send this proposal to the house. all those in favor? the ayes have it. >> under consideration, this is no (a recognize the gentleman from alabama. >> thank you, chairman. we convened at 5:00 p.m. we got a three-minute notice as to the amendment. but it was not three minutes before the meeting. it was three minutes after the meeting started. here is the mail. i would like to put -- here is the e-mail. i would like to put it in the record. attached is a copy of the amendment that will be addressed at today's meeting. this bill is like giving due consideration. we have all been out on the highway and seen an 18-wheeler that is swerving from lane to lane and we said that that driver has not had any sleep in 16 hours are 20 hours. last thursday and friday, we had a lot of weaving. part of the weaving is going to cost american companies as much as an estimate of $1 trillion on the derivative pursuit. now we hear that w

if any americans have been released around the same timeframe that these three individuals were or reed. >> i can't say when was the last time an american citizen in yemen was contained and questioning and released. i don't know. >> when you said there have been none recently. within your definition x have there been any released? >> let me get to the more specific. there was some reporting in the star yesterday that there was a fresh - group of individuals arrested on terrorism charge. we're unaware of a new wave of arrests in recent days in yemen. >> let me ask this. those were part of a broader context reporting 50 westerners contained and there was those reported a among americans. >> i'm saying, at this point, you know, again there are three americans that we're aware of that are currently in yemen custody on terrorism charges. we're still seeking information from the yemen government as to whether or not there's been new arrests. we're not aware of any new arrests of americans. >> any other? >> that would be a question - there would not necessarily be a reason for we at the state

launched the interim haiti reconstruction commission which will be cochaired by prime minister belle reed and un special envoy bill clinton. turning to africa, we congratulate and commend the government of liberia for its commitment to the rule for all and the international fight against drug trafficking with the address of seven suspects on drug-trafficking charges as part of a joint u.s.-liberian undercover operation. the message being sent in liberia is strong and clear. liberia is not open for this type of business. there is brought -- the united states and libya are united and strong partnership to combat the international drug trade. also in africa, the united states is troubled by the government of bear run the's decision to expel a human-rights watch researcher from the country. human-rights watch and other duly accredited non-governmental organizations in grundy -- burundi must be afforded the legal right to engage and report freely on political and human rights conditions. they should reconsider their decision. and just before taking youu questions, a couple of items left printi

. >> marshland oil, maybe things with reeds. >> anything with oil on it has to be disposed of in accordance with federal law. >> it is not a cost-effective -- not cost effective to even try to do that with the deposits? . . >> can you discuss the benefits of asking oil companies to drill simultaneously? would that help -- help in the current situation? >> i have not had that discussion. i think that would be a legitimate point to put in front of the commission. >> that would fall under the regulatory framework that the commission will evaluate in order to determine the best way to operate in of fail-safe atmosphere moving forward. thank you. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2010] >> president obama says his administration is focusing on improving the claims process as it was affected by the oil spill. he spoke briefly with reporters after a cabinet meeting. >> i just completed a meeting with the cabinet that is in charge of dealing with in the deepwater horizon oil spill. we activated 15 agencies for what is now the l

every time i go to walter reed, when i visit afghanistan and i visit the hospitals and you see young men and women who are giving their all, making enormous sacrifices on behalf of the security of this nation, my expectation is that the leadership is true to those sacrifices, that the strategy we are promoting, the manner in which we are working together at the leadership level, fully reflects and honors the incredible dedication of our young men and women on the ground. that is what i expect, and i believe that is what i will receive. was there one last aspect of the question? >> about the chain of command. >> i am confident we have a team in place they can execute. i am paying very close attention to make sure that they execute, and i will be insisting on extraordinary performance moving forward. one last thing, i just want to remind everybody about. the issue is what general mcchrystal that culminated in my decision yesterday were not as a result of a difference in policy. i want to be very clear about that. he was executing a policy that i had laid out. he was executing the order

i think sandoval heads into the general election with an advantage over rory reed -- republican year. it will probably likely be a republican pickup -- republican hold. g-8 do you host: jim gibbons got 27% of the vote. you were saying harry reid is this mild-mannered person yet very aggressive. does his son reflect those same characteristics? guest: from what we can tell, i have not covered rory reid ne near -- nowhere near as closely as father. but the same political machine. harry reid has certainly helped his son along the way to become the clarke county commission chair just a couple of years ago, and it now becomes -- i think you see them certainly operating hand in hand. but what rory reid needs to do is to establish and sell as his own political force. you will not see the two campaign to the other, especially given the fact that every need remains relatively unpopular in the state. host: i heard one commentator yesterday, by the bennison was on yesterday, noting nevada's population has increased by one- third since harry reid last ran for reelection and many of these voters, w

they wanted to get this thing crammed through and harry reed said at the time were democrat votes. don't need anybody. he called olympia snowe inconsequential. senator snowe has been very involved in these issues all the way through. he wanted to hold his 60 together and get a bill cobbled together he could get those 60 to vote for which is where the american people i think really were offended when they saw the cornhusker kick back and the louisiana purchase and all these sweetheart deals just to get those 60 democrats to vote for a bill that is now a law that is now very unpopular. i think the president has finally come to visit with the republicans because he realizes how unpopular this health care law is. you see it in the money that they're putting into trying to run new commercials and the ads and the mailers. so i would like actually to have annopen dialogue and exchange with the president more frequently than every 16 months. and only when his poll numbers dip too low. so we'll see when he wants to visit again. i'd be encouraged if there was actually more of an effort for p

creating a security and governance of the environment that allows our good men and >> when the walter reedcandal broke in the washington post, secretary gates fired the people involved. when live nuclear weapons were actively put on an air force base, secretary gates fired the people involved. why would you want to have general mcchrystal in the white house and not have this handled by the secretary? who has shown himself willing? >> this is a decision that will be made by the commander-in- phief. as i said a moment ago, this is an enormously important message and this is an enormously important time. i think that the president believes that the general should havv an opportunity to discuss with him. >> one more thing on that. general mcchrystal already had his woodshed moment wiih the president. how many times can this man be taken to the woodshed by the commander-in-chief? >> we will know more about that tomorrow. >> robert, you have spoken a couple of times about what is owed to the people serving over there. what should people put in harm's way of their commander taking these shots at

reed? >> aye. >> mr. schumer. >> aye, by proxy. >> ms. lincoln? >> aye. >> mr. harkin. >> aye, by proxy. >> aye, by proxy. >> mr. shelby? >> no. >> mr. crapo. >> no. >> mr. corker. >> no. >> mr. gregg. >> no. >> mr. chambliss. >> no. >> the clerk will report. >> 7 aye, 5 nay. the bill is passed. >> i thank my colleagues. [applause] >> with the votes of the house and senate conferees in favor of passage of the bill, i declare the bill passed and the conference committee is now adjourned. [applause] >> nice to meet you. take care. >> i'm on the cleanup crew. >> congratulations. >> congratulations. >> we recognize the tremendous efforts of staff. barney frank and i have worked together for the last few years. it has been nothing quite like this. as is as good as it gets in terms of a legislative effort. this makes a huge difference. no one thought we could get this done. it is a tough environment to operate in. to establish a consumer protection bureau for the first time in the history of our country, to stop the too big to fail, to ensure that we do not end up wit

. >> marshland oil and reeds. >> anything that got oil on it, it buc becomes, it has to be disposed of in accordance with federal haw. it is not cost effective to do that? >> some is done through incineration. if it could be reclimbed, that happens. it gets to the point where it is just debris, then we dispose of that according to federal guidelines. e.p.a. is consulting with us and making sure of that. we go out and visit the federal sites, one thing we look at is waste disopposal and decontam mation and every base has a station ready for boom or boots or clothing, when you go in this, it is put into a tank and the oil is decanted and recycled. >> sam and enthen we should go to this meeting. >> just a quick question. can you discuss the benefits in the shortcomings going forward of requiring oil companies to drill relief wells simultaneously to the production of pill. would that have helped in the current situation, had b.p. actually had that up on line before the spill took place? >> i have not had that discussion. i think that would be a legitimate point to be raised and put in fron

it is unclear whether a majority leader reed has the votes he needs. . >> two days of panels, interviewss. but the entire schedule at booktv-.org. >> now, a briefing by the state department, pj crowley. this is about 50 minutes. >> good afternoon, and welcome to the department of state. several things to talk about before taking your questions. he secretary was delighted to welcome president mahmoud abbas to the state department earlier this morning. she was very grateful that he delayed his departure for madrid to allow -- and to meet with her. and unfortunately, because of time pressures both on her schedule with a ball on meeting at the white house with the president -- with a her. and unfortunately, because -- of time pressures both on her meeting at the white house with -- needed to depart to get to madrid, we were not allowed -- availability on that. george mitchell will be back in the region next week to follow up. specific times and days are still being worked out. they talked about the situation in gaza. the president shared ideas on how to xpand access for people and goods thro

and every time i go to walter reed hospital, where i visited hospitals and you see the young men and young women who are giving everything, making enormous sacrifices on behalf of the security of this nation, i believe that the leadership is true to those sacrifices, and the strategy we are promoting and the manner in which we are working together at the leadership level, this fully reflects an honors the incredible dedication of the young men and women on the ground. this is what i expect, this is what i believe i will receive. >> does anybody else need to go into the chain of command? >> i am confident that the team in place will be able to execute. i am paying close attention to make certain that they will be able to execute. and i will be insisting on an extraordinary performance, moving forward. the one last thing i want to remind everyone about, the issues with gen. mccrystal, that culminated in my decision yesterday, were not as of a result of the difference in policy. he was executing the policy that i had laid out, and he was executing the orders that i had issued, and this