caller: this is eric from richmond, virginia. i want to say that i sent my condolences to the family of mr. byrd. host: you have got to turn down the volume, you know the rules. now go ahead did you know what? we will put you on hold. we will come back if you are still there. arlington, virginia, republican. caller: good morning to i send my condolences a small to the family of robert byrd and all his call -- i sent my condolences as well to the family of robert byrd and all his colleagues. even though i am a republican, i appreciate the bipartisan manner in which he approached the congress, and he is representative of traditional values and people of this all just that america is slowly losing in homes that -- and the beloved it is all just that america is slowly -- beloved nostalgia that america is slowly losing in a homosexual marriage and abortion. i appreciate his traditional nature. host: "it has been my greatest privilege to serve next to robert byrd in the senate. he leaves a void that simply can never be filled, but i am

when he announced the possibility of going to the high court to his partners in richmond, he was disappointedthat no one expressed regret that he might be leaving. in fact, it occurred to him, that they might be relishing the prospect of carving up his shachair. benjamin franklin had been right about the scottish system of judicial appointments. at least it led to the naming of the best lawyer to the bench. powell represented the finest qualities of the borroar. with mrs. powell in tears --3 alumna -- and i loved her. i was 35 and she would always come up to me and asked if i was a student. it said something about her eyesight or how a looi looked. they called john mitchell and agreed to accept the president's nomination. let's come towards the end. let's look at patterns of court involvement. the court's early history, based on my research so far, the court involvement in nominations seems primarily to be in a post- colorado phenomena. little evidence points to -- - post-bellum phenomena. why? played aacfactors role. several justices were closer in time to the birth of the constitution and i

i will go on wednesday afternoon to richmond to talk at a conference which is about worker skill acquisitionjunior colleges, community colleges and so on. give people skills and they can get the kind of work that will give them a decent wage. that is even more critical today than normal because one of the very disturbing aspects of our labour market situation is that about half of the unemployed have been unemployed for six months or more. that means they are losing skills and contact with the job market if they simply sit at home, when the economy gets back to normal normal state, they cannot find good work. even now, it is more important than ever that we make available in every way we can opportunities for people to get skills so they can get decent paying jobs them up the final question right over here. >> is it likely that this country will ever have much leverage in negotiating with china? >> i just came back from china. i attended the strategic and economic dialogue which is both strategic and has a bearing on state department-type issues and economic, fed-type issues. i am one of the

we recognize the need of a coal miner and a black woman witching -- working at chevron's richmond have same agenda and we need to focus their needs. that is who we are. i come out of the labor a moment so i am used to people yelling at me. [laughter] members, politicians, it does not hurt my feelings. glenn that started talking about me and i was asked if i was angry. i told him we have a plot to take over this country. absolutely, we do. [applause] it is not a hidden agenda. it is and ed agenda that says all people deserve high quality and white call miners in west virginia and black women in richmond, calif. want the same thing. what they want is for us to divide ourselves. they want us to say that one is better than another. we say it is immigration vs column writing. we say no because our vision of america has all of us, not some of us, when we think about what green is, it is green for all and not for some. that is the difference. i thought about how we make this happen. we have made some mistakes. we thought an election was a victory. we forgot that candidates do not deliver chan

and one of the realities here, the richmond fed came out with their studies.y 2002, 68% of the subprime mortgages were the result of the activity of fha and the gses. and i want to go here to a larger point. >> will the gentleman yield briefly on that? >> i will yield. >> that was 2002. >> right. >> what did the study say or did it say anything about the percentage? because my understanding was that the percentage went up subsequent to 2002. >> it wouldn't be odd, reclaiming my time, in the fact that you had government-sponsored enterprises then putting their stamp of approval on the idea these were safe mortgage-backed securities. so you would expect the market to assume, if these are safe for the government-sponsored enterprises, we ought to go -- >> will you yield? >> i will. >> after 2002, the gentle woman's remarks would be accurate? >> no. >> but it was the ult of the poor government market? >> no, that's not true either. of course,ne of my reason we want adoption for these studies is we suspect it will show exactly what the richmond fed has shown, which

in the case of richmond newspapers versus virginia, the supre court said that a public pril belongs not only to the accused but to the public and press as well. people now acquire infoation on court procedures chiefly through the print and electroni media. that's a 1980 decision which upheld the newspapers' rights to be inourt and observe a trial. isn't that some pretty solid precedent to say that as a matter of law the court ought to have television to have public access because that's the way most people get their information these days? >> that's very interesting, senator specter. i had never considered the relevance of that case to the -- to the televising question, but i think that certainly the princies in that case, the values that case are about -- about the public's ability to know how our governmental institutions work which is what's critical to this issue as well. >> let me move on to another subject which i consider to be of great importance, and that is the agenda of the court, the number of cases the court hears. in 1886 the court decided 451 cases. in 1987, a little more

at white coal miners and black women in richmond, california, want the same thing.they want is for us to divide ourselves. what they want is for us to say that one is better than another, that it is immigration versus coal mining. and what we say is our vision of america has all of us, not some of us. when we think about what green is is green for all, not for some. that is the difference. i thought about, how we make this happen? we have made mistakes. we thought an election was a victory. and what we forgot is that candidates do not deliver change. they became part of the system, which is important, but we are the people that hold them accountable. for us not to recognize that while i voted for barack obama and i would again, that he is not enough. if we do not pushing to say, the handling of bp has been atrocious at best. if we do not say, it does not mean that we do not support him, it means that we recognize that people liked shalamrar, jasmine, and layla are not getting their needs met. we want to raise our expectations. what is important? we hope that people

host: richmond, virginia, democratic line. good morning. caller: yes, i think the federal government should provide to the states. host: why is that? caller: because a lot of the states are already struggling, and everybody -- everybody -- some states are criticizing the fact they did not want to accept the stimulus money. in reality, a lot of states and did except -- if the states did not accept stimulus money, we would lose our public services. even though we are getting it aid to help out with the budget, it is still a shortcoming because that is really not even enough. host: all right. the papers this morning are reacting to the news that bp's ceo was watching his yeachacht a race. "new york post" headline is "captain clueless." news" isk daily "sea-slick." front page of the "times picayne" -- chefs stand by seafood. fears over deep water spread. he is having trouble seeing the silver lining in the gulf of mexico drilling ban that is starting to cut into his business. it is not a crisis time yet. a safety company in east houston has ben

security council resolutions that mandate suspension of iran's in richmond operations.we have said many times we do not qution iran's right to peaceful nuclear energy but with those rights, responsibilities. mr. president, today's resolution has been made necessary by iran's actions. once again the resolution restas our willingness to engage in dialogue to address the substance of our concerns. the meases adopted in this and previous resolutions can be suspended when iran's suspend its nuclear activities. we remain ready to resume the talks o iran's program that we started in geneva on the first october, 2009. we believe such talks can lead to a solution as long as they are purposeful, discuss both sides' concerns anmake swift progress. in extended our hand we show our determination to resolve these matters through dialogue and diplomacy and in adopting this resolution we show equal determination to continue to respond robustl to hear on's refusal to comply with its international obligations. thank you. >> [speaking in native tongue] >> translator: mr. president confere

host: richmond, virginia. on withharles. gue: good morning. caller: good morning. u're correct. local government is theebest way to go. at's the way tounding fathers started the country. the least power should be in the federal vernment and there should be more power given to theovernors in the area of the gulf to oversee what's happening. but myoint is i look at but myoint is i look at there's been innovator that have been on tv showi how they can clean up and separate the oil from the water. they've notified the government and just like with governor jindle, they've gotten no response. so this leads me to the question that i'm going to ask you about. earlr in presidentbama's administtion, rahm emanuel said do not lve a crisi go to waste. good crisis go to waste. i look at this and see the disaster that's going to come disaster that's going to come economically and vironmentally. it is the best thing for president obam be able to pass his cap and trade. why would he want to pass cap d trade? because chicago climate exchange is an orgation is -- carbon offset company that was st

richmond, va., and charles on the line for republicans. caller: good morning. when the founding fathers came to the new continent, they boughrought korans with them. slavery is islamic. when they left, most of the europeans did not delike slavery. the constitution of the united states had to be revised. people alws talk about how they wish they could go back to the old ways of the constitution. i'm a blacc person in america and. [inaudible] host: charles, there's a breath connection. andrew mccarthy, anything there you want to respond to? guest: despite the fact that slavery is the darkest chapter in the history of our country, it is a chapter that we overcame. the caller is thought that there is islamic scripture, which is approving of slavery, for that reason world. host: you argue in your book at president obama crafted his message and images for a muslim world. outside of the speech in cairo, give us a specific ongoing example of that. guest: the president follows the same practice that some of the islamists in america could do. they present a sanitized ver

host: we will move on to richmond, republican line. caller: good morning. you are one classy lady. nothing has gotten better under president obama because he does not want it to get better. he uses every crisis to an expanded government and government causes more problems. people depend on something that will always let them down. and he is a talker. a professional voyeur. if he had any emotion at all it was about having one of his vacations interrupted. here is what is wrong with america, self destructive and self-serving. god bless you for what you do. thank you. host: sheila, democratic line. go ahead. caller: the question today about the president having a motion -- having emotion, the question is out of line with what is going on. do you want someone running around screaming fire, fire? i have watched you for the last hour, you have not moved it from the right or the left. should you have more a motion about what is going on? what is the question? of what kind of a motion do you want him to have? host: i am not asking the question period this morning it is the question from "t

host: roy from richmond, virginia. caller: good morning. it is typical of the liberals. it is the thugs and the gangster culture and people living in miserable conditions and spreading misery with bullets and anything else they can spread it on america. liberals look for someone to sue like a gun manufacturer or someone to blame. the love to play the blame gamm. personal responsibility, people. individual freedom. that is what makes america great. if someone needs a shot gun to protect themselves, let them have their shotgun. fix your own problems. bring america back to where it's supposed to be with freedom and integrity. host: we move on to gina. caller: i am watching your show on gun rights. i'm totally for individuals owning guns. i am a single woman living alone. i recently purchased a gun. i sleep a lot better knowing that if a criminal breaks into my house, i can blow their butts right out the door. host: what are the gun laws in your area? caller: i do not have any idea. i have a handgun. it makes a world of difference in the way you feel secure. i am not someone

i'm going to go thursday to richmond to to talk at a conference to talk about workplace positions.ve people skills, and they can get a decent wage. one of the very disturbing aspects of our labour market situation is that about half of the unemployed have been unemployed for six months or more. that means that they are losing skills, losing contact with the job market, and as things go on if they just sit at home they will not find good work. even now, is more important than ever that we make available in every way that we can, not just k-12, but for working americans to get decent paying jobs. >> is it likely this country will ever have much leverage in negotiating with china? >> you just came back from china. >> i just came back from china. i attended what is now called the strategic and economic dialogue, which is strategic -- i am perhaps the only american person on the american side to have been to all of them. this meeting was created by secretary paulson and the previous administration and has just continued into the current administration with some modifications. essentiall

in the richmond newspapers case in 1980, the supreme court said that the process of justice is an open process. actually, they said that as long ago as craig versus party in 1940. it ought to be an open process. for the court to pick and choose between the media -- the forms of media that undertake to cover the proceedings -- seems to me to be engaging in what is a form of first-amendment discrimination. my colleague, pete williams, from nbc, would be a wonderful person to be standing outside the courtroom and narrating a film about the oral argument, because he understands the court. i frankly am never persuaded by the argument that the court is so fragile that it could not survive televising. it is a pretty hardy institution. if you expose it to television and -- i have seen editorial cartoons about the supreme court, which if i were sitting up there i would be well. the court is not going to lose public respect if it goes on television. it will only gain respect. i will tell you that would very likely is going to happen -- if you watch a television program the broadcasts in full the

richmond, va., and charles on the line for republicans. caller: good morning. when the founding fathers came to the new continent, they boughrought korans with them. slavery is islamic. when they left, most of the europeans did not delike slavery. the constitution of the united states had to be revised. people always talk about how they wish they could go back to the old ways of the constitution. i'm a blacc person in america and. [inaudible] host: charles, there's a breath connection. andrew mccarthy, anything there you want to respond to? guest: despite the fact that slavery is the darkest chapter in the history of our country, it is a chapter that we overcame. the caller is thought that there is islamic scripture, which is approving of slavery, for that reason world. host: you argue in your book that president obama crafted his message and images for a muslim world. outside of the speech in cairo, give us a specific ongoing example of that. guest: the president follows the same practice that some of the islamists in america could do. they present a sanitized

"st: >> in this morning's richmond times dispatch" there is an article by jeff schapiro.ack to the phones. pennsylvania, independent line. caller: i do not see any signs of anything going on. host: where is your city? caller: [unintelligible] host: nothing has changed? caller: i do not see much. this place has been forgotten about for the last 20 years as far as i'm concerned. host: inglewood, ohio, republican line. caller: last fall they had a black top job they did. it took about three days to do. i guess they paid a company $200,000 for it. the town i lived in has a surplus of money, they will pay for it themselves. that is all i have to say about it. host: talladega, fla., democrats. caller: good morning. i was calling about the construction here. we have two big projects on hold for years in my town. there has of been anything going on around here. those projects are still on hold. host: are they road or building projects? caller: it is a bypass around the city. nothing is connecting the two inner stays together. -- interstates together. host: what do you think is ho

host: richmond, virginia. landon, republican. caller: i take a completely different look at the debt that we have than you do. we are supposed to own money to china and different places like that, but actually the chinese don't print american money. will we have done has been done through selling bonds. i think what bill clinton and george bush and even president obama, is looking at the situation -- where we are it is a battle with the euro, the european morning and they really want to take charge of the financial markets of the world. but they can't because the dollar is so strong. what we actually do is, we sell bonds -- we give the chinese bonds, more or less, and then we print the money by ourselves. people basically don't understand that. the whole world is saturated with american dollars. we talk about how much we owe -- in reality, we really don't owe anything. we will have to pay back in years, say, 20 years when the bonds mature. all right -- host: we have to leave it there. let's get a response. guest: i think this gen

host: debora is joining us from richmond, virginia. caller: good morning. how you all doing? the reason i'm calling is because i am wondering whether you all have thought about extending the period of bankruptcy. it needs to be extended. when i went bankrupt, i was waiting around for my social security. i had to have an emergency operation and go out on disability. when you go out on disability, is not required -- the company's september the disability -- the companies have temporary disability did they go by b -- have a temporary disability. they don't go by what the doctors say. during bankruptcy, you have to come up with the money to the trustees, you have to keep up your monthly payments on your house and everything. it is very, very difficult. if i had a husband like one of the previous callers, ok, school. but when you or a single woman who has been working, and i have worked almost 30 years and that was the last job that i had, and all of a sudden i had to have an emergency operation, you know, bankruptcy is not enough. host: let me take her situation and broaden it ou

host: richmond, va., independent line. your on the air. -- you are on the air.te to digress, but i would like to get back on the subject of energy. i feel that if we are putting our tax dollars into research and the government is giving subsidies and grants and what not, whenever they use to process the research -- what ever they used to process the research, i would like to ask how you take ownership and accept the outcome on the use of energy. i would like to know, what do you feel personally about the governor -- the government taking ownership? guest: the free market and enterprise system has proven in country after country in the world as the best model. i do think is in the best interest of government to make investments in things, such as our road system, our real way system, and including our energy system. not to own assets -- i think is better not to own the assets, but to reassure low-cost energy to make our economy more effective. i think that is a legitimate role of government. but i do believe that thas a strategy board, there ought to be a lot of

host: richmond, virginia. on with charles. guest: good morning. caller: good morning. you're correct. local government is theebest way to go. that's the way the founding fathers started the country. the least power should be in the federal government and there should be more power given to the governors in the area of the gulf to oversee what's happening. but my point is i look at but my point is i look at there's been innovators that have been on tv showing how they can clean up and separate the oil from the water. they've notified the government and just like with governor jindle, they've gotten no response. so this leads me to the question that i'm going to ask you about. earlier in president obama's administration, rahm emanuel said do not leave a crisis go to waste. a good crisis go to waste. i look at this and see the disaster that's going to come disaster that's going to come economically and environmentally. it is the best thing for president obama to be able to pass his cap and trade. so why would he want to pass cap and trade? because chicago climate exchange

in the case of richmond newspapers versus virginia, the supreme court said that a public pril belongs not only to the accused but to the public and press as well. people now acquire information on court procedures chiefly hrough the print and electronic media. that's a 1980 decision which upheld the newspapers' rights to be in court and observe a trial. isn't that some pretty solid precedentto say that as a matter of law the court ought to have television to have public access because that's the way most people get their information these days? >> that's very interesting, senator specter. i had never considered the relevance of that case to the -- to the televising question, but i think that certainly the principles in that case, the values in that case are about -- about the public's ability to know how our governmental institutions work which is what's critical to this issue as well. >> let me move on to another bject which i consider to be of great importance,nd that is the agenda of the court, the number of cases the court hears. in 1886 the court decided 451 cases. in 1987, a lit

host: richmond, virginia. william, republicans line. hi, william per.aller: good morning and thank you for putting up with the people. it is very important that we vote in the primaries so we can pick people who believe in freedom and integrity and get away from playing the blame game. this current bunch we have, all they know how to do is play the and demonize and punished. that is not the way to success. that is a way to failure. love your fellow americans. it is a bit foolish and indirect to hate one another? believe in the american dream and work hard and stop playing the blame game. host: connecticut. andrew, independent line. caller: nothing motivates me to vote any more because of the past politicians who sold us out. that is all i have to say. thank you. host: looking at primary election battles going on. we talked about what is happening this coming tuesday. they continue on throughout the summer -- june, 22nd, utah, july 20, georgia, july 27, oklahoma, kansas, michigan, missouri, in august, colorado and connecticut, washington and wyoming, aug

in richmond, california, we are integrating with the city. >> it is important to remember as you pursuehis as a model the ways in which the national park represents the federal government. it plays a role and insights expanded investment in the state and local government. it is a multiplier of defect. investment resources. urban contexts lend themselves to that. i do think there is a model there that is worth encouraging. another question, this is a little more down in the weeds. in recent years, the park has begun to centralize many functions. what were your goals in doing this? the effect these changes are having? >> mary good question. there are times when consolidation of offices makes a lot of sense. i tried to get as much efficiency as i can possibly ing out of consolidation of offices, consolidation of programs. we are also evaluating those against service to the public and service to the resources as well. in the pacific where i was a regional director for seven years, we found some great synergies in the consolidation of certain functions, such as contacting. they were virtuall

of the coal miner, the white west virginia coal miner and the black woman working at a chevron in richmondave the same needs and an agenda can meet both. that is who we are. i come out of the labor movement. i am used to people yelling at me. it does not hurt my feelings. when glen baxter talking about me whe --n when glenn beck started talking about me, i told him we had a plot to take over the country. absolutely we do. [applause] it is not a hidden agenda. is an agenda that says all people deserve a high-quality, coal miners in virginia, and black women with the same thing. what they want is for us to divide ourselves. what they want is for us to say one is better than another. immigration, coal mining, this reverses that. our vision of america has all of us, not some of us. green for all, not for some. that is the difference. i thought about, how do we make this happen? we have madeesome mistakes. we thought an election was a victory. but we forgot is that candidates do not deliver change. they become part of the system which is important, but we are the people that hold accountable. f

host: richmond, va., independe line your on the air. -- you are on the r.te to digress, but i would like to get back on the subjec of energy. i feel that if we are putting our tax dollars in research and the governments giving subsidies and grts and wha not, whenever they use to ever they used to process the rearch, i wod like to ask how you take ownership and accept t outcome on the use of energy. i would like to know, what do u fl persollybout the goveor -- the government taking ownership guest: the free market and enterpriseystem has proven in country after country in the world as the best model. i think is in the best intest o government to make instments in things, such as ooad stem, our real y system, nd including our ene system. not to o assets -- i thinis tter not to own the assets, but to reassure lcost ergy to make our econo more effective. i think tt is a legitimate role of government. but i do believe that thas a strategy board, thereught to ba lot of leeway in improvements for the economy. host: next pho call, republican le, bill. caller: my ba