>> well, as rick said and rick i covered tiger for a long time, we don't really know him. even those who know him don't really know him. he's kept his privacy very guarded which, by the way, is his right. i'm not saying that's wrong. it's about corporate acquiescence. about keeping the response sores happy. occasionally he does speak out, he spoke out that augusta should have women members. he's the only pro to do that. that's a good thing. he's maturing and doing things that you would want of a man in his early to mid 30s. this is a clear step backwards. this is stunning. when you hear his voice this morning. as i said, i was trying to avoid the tabloids. we weren't quite exactly sure what was what and wasn't. he said/she said, then you hear his voice on that voice mail tape. and, wow. that's pretty bad. >> yeah, that's lesson 101 in philandering superstar. you never leave a voice mail, never. it's so easily covered. i'm surprised a guy that careful would do that, not to say what he did was right. boy, i thought he was easily caught. what did it get sold for, 100 grand? >

rick is my friend and dear colleague. bill buckley said about his first book as a remarkable stylistic performance. anything that rick does is remarkable stylistic performance. he can knock your socks off with an e-mail. and thank you rick for being with us. tell us and start off with the narrative flow of the book, how did you discover national review and bill buckley? >> my family discovered him in the late 60's. and the first means of it was television. he hosted a tv show called "firing line" that ran for 33 years it started in 1966. through most of its life it was an hour of political talk. it was a simple format, when we sat down i thought it was like firing line, two chairs and a table. it was simplier tv, no bells or whistles and no scripts and no top-10 list, it was usually him and one or two guests. and he would give them a polite introduction and then go at it. and sometimes it got pretty rough. i think we first watched it as a sporting event, without attending to the content so much. and then we got drawn into

and came in with good numbers, and rick stansbury knows that this team is on the move. they came in at 5-2, but marcus, what would they do losing by 14 points to ryder and also losing to richmond? >> marcus: yeah jarvis. >> steve: they are better than that. >> marcus: yeah. that was a couple of tough losses, especially with the kind of display they put on here early. it's hard to fathom with the blocking and the defensive side and varnado on the inside. jarvis. >> steve: roll back in the game with anderson, lee, dragovic and ri ec. much more aggressive team on the floor. nelson. a jump ball situation. it will be possession arrow pointing to the bruins. we've got a time-out on the floor with 5:58 left. varnado having a block party in anaheim, california, and ripping it down on the offensive end. it's mississippi state humbling ucla early at wooden classic. this is my small-business specialist, tara. i know landscaping, but i didn't know how wireless could help my business. i just don't know how wireless can help my business. tara showed me how i could keep track of my em

ricks.foreign policy.come. three things we need from obama on afghanistan. you write, most importantly, is his heart in it? can he bring along a good portion of the american people, especially part of his base or is he going to say we're giving it 12 months and then we're uotta here? what did you mean by this? explain a little more. >> guest: obama is a great speech maker. people expect him to be eloquent. the question will he also give the sense after this very long internal policy debate that lasted since the summer, does he really think this is something worth doing or is he kind of begrudging about it? is there is any sense he is not into this heart and soul, i think democratic base especially will run away from this. >> host: what words does he need to say tonight to the american people that indicate to you that his heart is in it? >> i think the words he shouldn't use. if he uses the phrase, exit strategy, a friend of mind said, that is sign this is one-term president. if you're so foc

we mentioned early that he has an issue with the big 7 footer from rick stansbury. the difference in their two faces is that there has not been a violation identified yet by the ncaa as it relates to renardo sidney so until that violation is issued rick stansbury and his team has no idea how long renardo sidney will be out. we talked to coach stansbury yesterday and he said he's no longer worried about the process and has moved on. they don't know when sidney will play. you wonder guy, this team, a top 25 teams, and maybe can challenge kentucky or challenge other teams. without renardo sidney, how deep can this mississippi state team jarvis. >> steve: pretty good in their first five but renardo sidney is one of those freak of nature guys when he's in shape. >> marcus: he transferred to fairfax high school and did the investigation of how they would be able to afford the residences in the area but he can play. he'll make a major impact, and my thing is make a decision. if you're the ncaa, rule him ineligible, rule him ineligible but don't string him along for another

i will add to what rick said. the political expression of conservatism is going to change. . . >> he was very impressed much a book by claude brown. a lot of it was about heroin use in harlem. he came out when he was running for mayor with some very anti- drug statement or proposal, and he got a postcard from milton friedman. he explained why this was wrong. this was something build lot about and wrestled with, and not just marijuana, he added an issue in the magazine called "the war on drugs is lost." it was a symposium. he was passing this judgment on the whole thing. i think his judgment was that yes, marijuana has that effect. they are not truly worse than alcohol, and we waste a lot of resources and generate a lot of hypocrisy and capricious law- enforcement by pursuing its offenders. this came into my life in 1992 when i had cancer and had to go through chemotherapy. chemotherapy always always -- almost always creates nausea, and i found myself using marijuana to deal with that. i think bill's wrestling with

dinner on friday night and everyone said rick was supposed to come, but he cancelled. i went. i'm here because i'm having date night with my husband. >> where is your husband. >> he's right behind the guy with the black and white shirt. the guy with the beard. >> hello. how are you? >> i'm great. >> you're all mic'd up. >> so i want to know, are you going to copenhagen? >> yes. >> is there a big delegation going? >> there is. we're planning it, and we're supposed to have votes december 18, which when i heard, that's the last day of copenhagen, so we're trying to figure that out. >> we should actually talk about how to bring briefings, activities, whatever. >> so jake was in barcelona, and i was in barcelona, i talked to jake and heather. >> was heather there? >> heather allen. >> oh, heather taylor. not heather allen. that would have been fun. >> the c4 is up and running. >> i know. i'm so proud of her. >> you should be. she's doing a great job. bob epstein is the chair of it. >> she and bob are just -- lock armed. >> they are. we're motoring along. it's good. >> you're like f

congress has been very clear that you know we need to be as rick grists budgetarily as we can become so we really did a scrub and where can we move some fte's? >> that is good but just to interrupt to ask what is the mark for the southern border for next year in terms of active agents? >> i will have to give you the exact number but it is@@> k > h it is good that senator cardin is here. he held that in his judiciary subcommittee. your deputy undersecretary from dhs was there, associate deputy attorney general james baker was there, and a senior official from nsa and the fbi were there and i asked them if any of them were satisfied with the existing legal structure within which the cyberdefense effort currently operates, and i got a unanimous the array of no from each of them. there is understand an interagency process that is led by or through the national security council, but given all the responsibilities of the national security council, i am not entirely comfortable that that is a good and lasting government-- government structure for cybersecurity efforts. i see that more as an

i'm rick sanchez. see you tomorrow. >> here's larry. >> larry: tonight, a young mother in utah vanishes. last seen and heard from 11 days ago. now foul play might be in the mix. police call her husband a person of interest in her mysterious disappearance. why are they focussing on him? >> they had issues but they were working through the issues. >> larry: susan powell's father is here telling us why he's worried sick. and governor david paterson and his rift with obama. is the president trying to push him out of office? then joel and victoria osteen. that's next on "larry king live." strange doingings. susan powell's husband, joshua took their two sons camping at around mid night on december 6. when he returned the next afternoon, 28-year-old susan was gone, nowhere to be found. her keys, purse and cell phone still at home. police say they're not ruling out foul play. with us are chuck cox, susan powell's father and mike, susan's best friend. she's known susan since she was 8 years old. how are you hol

according to rick foster, who is the person from the administration, who keeps track of all medicare and medicaid spending, the bill increases health care costs $234 billion more than if we did nothing. that's a huge cost. in addition to increasing total cost, the reid bill will increase our national debt and threaten the health care provided to millions of medicare beneficiaries. some of my democratic colleagues are going to come down to the floor and argue the reid bill will reduce the deficit and extend the solvency of the medicare program. they have been doing that for days. they will cite the congressional budget office to support their arguments. i hope that every american hears those arguments and remembers a few inconvenient truths that my democratic colleagues are going to forget to mention. the way my colleagues on the other side of the aisle were able to force c.b.o. to conclude that the reid bill will not increase the deficit was by requiring them to use budget gimmicks and assumptions that would make bernie madoff blush. every time you hear one of my colleagues argue tha

host: thomas ricks is with us for about 45 more minutes. phoenix, ariz., democrats line, your the first call. caller: i think what applies about jobs in the u.s. could also apply in afghanistan. my idea is 100% employee only companies where a person would say, let's get 200 people together and they either get my car loans or they have money of their own and they could be paid back through deductions. in afghanistan we do not need no bid contracts. and what we need to do was put the people to worked just like we do here so that people can join forces to build manufacturing and solar and turbine. in colorado, they build them 100% there and install them. host: we will leave your comment there and get a response. guest: i think she has a point. micro loans can make a huge difference, especially in third world countries. i have seen this in haiti where there was a situation where a woman would walk 7 miles every day to buy bread for dollar and then come back and sell abroad for a total of a $50. -- sell the bread for a total of $2. 50% of the pr

rick fa tino that worked players harder than anybody i'd ever seen. >> marques: rick fatino takes you up on game day. >> barry: yeah. they played a game on game he day. some recognition that time on the split but franklin comes up short and yanks it out of the air. >> marques: nice job by zimmermann. that's not the shot you want for travis ford. you see stanford, everything is happening on that right side of the floor. you have three guys over there, kind of a high post offense. landry fields on the weak side. you have to swing the ball back around to the weak side and give him a xhans to take a look. we've seen how unselfish of a player he is. he's not going to force things too much to the detriment of the basketball team. you got to give him as many touches as you possibly can. here he is. >> barry: that drops it down for zimmermann. now fields for three. he yanks it out of the air. again, a second chance, and muonelo can't get it to go. bounced around and getting on the ground for harris to control it for the cardinal. >> marques: nice job, gabriel harris a freshman, holding his ow

rick boucher, be yielded 10 minutes of my time and that he be allowed to control that time. i yield myself such time as i may consume. and i ask the house to be in order, please. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. conyers: madam speaker and members, h.r. 3570 extends the compulsory copyright license for satellite television providers for another five years as congress has done in each of the last two other cycles that this measure has been re-authorized. this is an important intellectual property law and will also make a number of critical updates and much needed clarifications to the compulsory copyright licenses for both satellite and cable television. passage of this legislation before the end of the year is crucial. we must pass this bill in both bodies by december 31. and if we don't pass this bill, thousands of -- upon thousands of satellite television subscribers will lose their signals. in addition to simply re-authorizing the license, the bill ambitiously tackles several other issues for consumers. for content owners, and cable and satellite companies a

. >> host: so recently rick boucher who's head of the house internet subcommittee sent a letter to you guys saying he thought we should have 50 megabits per second to 80% of homes in about five years. what do you think of that, do you think that's i chief bl? >> guest: -- achievable? >> guest: well, there are a number of different parameters. his letter said actual speed as opposed to advertise thed speed, and that makes a big difference. >> host: doesn't that make it even harder? >> guest: well, if you have it be actual, it is harder. i think that's a very worthy goal the, but i think what we want to point out to decision makers like the congressman is, yeah, that's great. if we think we have a path for doing it, here's a path, but if that path requires congress to act in a certain way or the fcc to act in a certain way, here's what they need to do. so, you know, i think it's very worthy to kind of state, kind of stretch goals and see what we can do to try to get there. but, again, broadband is primarily a function of private investment. the big news the -- in terms of wireless over t

i will add to what rick said.ch a book by claude brown. a lot of it was about heroin use in harlem. he came out when he was running for mayor with some very anti- drug statement or proposal, and he got a postcard from milton friedman. he explained why this was wrong. this was something build lot about and wrestled with, and not just marijuana, he added an issue in the magazine called "the war on drugs is lost." it was a symposium. he was passing this judgment on the whole thing. i think his judgment was that yes, marijuana has that effect. they are not truly worse than alcohol, and we waste a lot of resources and generate a lot of hypocrisy and capricious law- enforcement by pursuing its offenders. this came into my life in 1992 when i had cancer and had to go through chemotherapy. chemotherapy always always -- almost always creates nausea, and i found myself using marijuana to deal with that. i think bill's wrestling with this issue helped me indirectly. it prepared the intellectual grounds for it. i know i certa

our next speaker is rick farber. -- former -- robert farmer -- rick formearmer. i thought everybody was going to bring a power point so i did not want to be left out. i made one of the plane and shows those colors at about 1130 last night. if somebody else has a power point, you need to get up and do your power point. it is an honor to be here. i really appreciate the work that is done here. i welcome all of you to akron ohio. i look forward to being a part of this conference. you guys do a great job. i was invited to talk to a group of students in february of 2008. it was an awards banquet and there were some community people in some universities leaders -- and some university leaders. the cast who was born to be the nominee for president. the question is, who is more to the president of the united states and the answer is bill clinton. fo-- hillary clinton this is wht this paper is about is that i would have been right. they would have known that i was want to be embarrassed this morning. the point of the paper, what i hope that i can demonstrate in a few short

. >> rick, what about security at the amsterdam airport, a very famous airport?yes, it's not only -- i think it's important to say tonight, they're one of the best run and most important airports in europe. they're not some rink can i dink airport in the middle of nowhere. security is taken extremely seriously, at the forefront of not only procedures, but of equipment. the new gadget out there, will have it, and remember larry that it's one of the major european hubs and bases for delta airlines and the old northwest through their sky team alliance. it's not as if delta has one or two flights a day into this place. it's a major modern airport, and they'll be -- i know for a fact, they told me today they're taking it seriously. >> should people be concerned about flying internationally? >> well, people shouldn't be too fearful, but there are real vulnerabilities, the powdery explosives, liquid explosives are very very difficult to detect, and that's why al qaeda is trying to use them and will be likely to try to use them again. western securities have to be vigila

rick warren did a wonderful job of this. yet despite all of that, we also have a country that is far less doctrine prevent even the megachurches do not emphasize of the doctrine. that is found upon my colleague who has a great line that says americans don't one to the last judgment with the almighty but a last discussion. [laughter] all of this chemists to a head in 2008. it is still there now if you look at the majority common mccain did great. he got 55% of the white vote which is usually enough to get you elected. 56 of those aged 49. they are there break-in generation, those that came of age politically when ronald reagan was president. 52% of married voters come a 65% of the white protestants, a 55% of those who went to church weekly but if you look at that, you say all my goodness he should have been elected and 90% of the mccain vote was white. that would have worked very well even as recently as 1992 as march have talked about that, if that majority had been in place in 1992, i am sorry, it 1992 electorate and 2008 b

he takes me to lunch and he says, "rick, i have decided you will succeed me as editor. he also said when that happens you will all the magazine. -- own the magazine. i was flabbergasted. there was no preparation for this. no hands or anything i picked up. i had older colleagues. i asked him one of this one or that one and he had various reasons. he said it is going to be you. so and then to reinforce this a year later, he took me, he said, "let talk." and that that were going to lunch but instead we go to mexico city. and then to tasco. that was his idea of going around the corner. then he sort of emphasized the offer. it was a way of underlining the offer. this was to be the plan of my life at age 23. i accepted it. i was very young. i accepted it without demur. that was how young i was. that was the framework for everything i did for the next nine years until i was 32. i was managing editor by this time. i came back to work after lunch one day and there was a letter addressed to me from bill. it said confidential. i opened it and he says, i have decided you are not go

he takes me to lunch and he says, "rick, i have decided you will succeed me as editor. he also said when that happens you will all the magazine. -- own the magazine. i was flabbergasted. there was no preparation for this. no hands or anything i picked up. i had older colleagues. i asked him one of this one or that one and he had various reasons. he said it is going to be you. so and then to reinforce this a year later, he took me, he said, "let talk." and that that were going to lunch but instead we go to mexico city. and then to tasco. that was his idea of going around the corner. then he sort of emphasized the offer. it was a way of underlining the offer. this was to be the plan of my life at age 23. i accepted it. i was very young. i accepted it without demur. that was how young i was. that was the framework for everything i did for the next nine years until i was 32. i was managing editor by this time. i came back to work after lunch one day and there was a letter addressed to me from bill. it said confidential. i opened it and he says, i have decided you are not go

i will add to what rick said. the political expression of conservatism is going to change. . . i know at least as early as his run for mayor of new york in 1965. he was very impressed>> he was very impressed much a book by claude brown. a lot of it was about heroin use in harlem. he came out when he was running for mayor with some very anti- drug statement or proposal, and he got a postcard from milton friedman. an. he explained why this was wrong. this was something build lot about and wrestled with, and not just marijuana, he added an issue in the magazine called "the war on drugs is lost." it was a symposium. he was passing this judgment on the whole thing. i think his judgment was that yes, marijuana has that effect. they are not truly worse than alcohol, and we waste a lot of resources and generate a lot of hypocrisy and capricious law- enforcement by pursuing its offenders. this came into my life in 1992 when i had cancer and had to go through chemotherapy. chemotherapy always always -- almost always creates nausea, and i found myself using marijuana to deal with that. i

rick brisette had to file for bankruptcy to keep his antique dealership open. >> while i was busy during better times and not paying attention to what was going on, on the national scene, there were people making decisions and investments in new york city or on the east coast, that when it failed for them was when it ripped my world apart. >> suarez: you didn't have a sense of that before? >> i had no sense of that whatsoever. i didn't, i've never even heard the word derivative before and didn't understand the implications of that. i have a much better understanding. as a small business owner, i'm a little bitter and a little angry that those individuals have been bailed out and their interests have been protected. and yet, mine have not or my peers here. >> i don't feel recovery in this economy as we knew it several years ago for years. >> suarez: barbara jenkins gibson owns a christmas specialty shop. she actually had a good year. she says people cling to tradition even during hard times and they can spend less than $10 and walk out of the store with a nice gift. >> it's a good opportu

rick jackson playing the big defense. next possession, jackson on the other end. there as well, syracuse by a dozen at the break. second half, brandon trish the pass. going in for the slam. led the orange to 14. syracuse cruises, winning it by 24. >>> detroit struggling on offense. stevens the steal going the other way. how about this? oh, he's unable to convert the wide open dunk and simon taking on the fast break. simon doesn't know he has a man behind him. novak, a big block. titans having a tough time hanging with the wolverines. later on harris outlet pass, not going to get this. harris had 27. michigan wins is-t by 11. >>> illinois hosting western michigan. first half, illini on the break. the give and go. lays it in. 2 of his 11 points on the day. later, same guy showing hustle, making the steal. going to leave some offensive production. bucket on the other end. illinois got 23 at the break. in the second, gordon, son of michael. looking like michael a little bit there, using the window. 88-53 the final, illinois a winner. >>> we're not done here on "the fi

are you there, bill rick ka? last chance? >> caller: yes. >> larry: what is the question. >> caller: when do the individuals here -- i knee bernanke was awarded the prize. when do we anticipate seeing the community banchs being able to turn me money to get the lower middle class back to borrowing money. >> larry: the other night, donald trump says the banks have the money and they are not loaning it. barney? >> i'm frustrated by that. there are governmental obstacles in policy. the bank examiners. they work for the insurance commission, the corporation or control the currency. they go out and examine each bank. i'm afraid the culture has been to be too tough. they have not been rebuked because of a loan that should be made and shouldn't have been made. i have tried hard, we talked to the chiefs of the agencies to urge them to get them to lend. it be a part of the accounting rules there. because of the vaul, as the assets deteriorates, we try to fix that. but i think it's fundamentally probably a problem with the culture we ar

i'm rick sanchez. campbell is back tomorrow. thanks for being with us. here now, the king, larry starts right now. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >> larry: tonight al qaeda claims responsibility for trying to bomb a u.s. airliner out of the sky on christmas. making america pay for reported strikes in yemen, and they threaten more attacks. plus, the first homeland security chief, tom ridge. what does he think of janet napolitano's controversial remarks that the system worked and her little back pedaling today? he'll tell us if president obama's response is tough enough. >> we will continue to use every element of our national power to disrupt, to dismantle and defeat the vie he lent extremist who is threaten us. >> larry: all that and more next on "larry king live." good evening. the christmas day bomb plot story gets more interesting by the hour. we have ed henry cnn's senior white house correspondent with us from hawaii, and nic robertson senior international correspondent in london to talk about the latest development. cnn has obtained photos of

rick reports on the primary season meeting no preference for obama. the section begins with a devastating reflection on recent american political dynasties. parquetry represents the period after obama clinched the nomination and is called "the spirit." the last paragraph of rik's last piece needs to be engraved on the walls. "americans of an age to remember selma and montgomery and memphis did not imagine they would live to see an african-american elected president of the united states. it has happened. no doubt, there will be disappointment and difficulties ahead, there always are." it is a great pleasure to welcome hendrik hertzberg back here tonight. [applause] thank you, that was lovely. and thank you all for turning out. this is touching and lovely to see so many lovely people here. thank you. i am here because of "obamanos." also, by the way because of another sort of novelty item, "one million," which is a book that contains 1 million dots that i first published in 1970, a couple of additions. this is a brand new addition just out. carla has gi

ricks to address a number of issues.number one, isn't it true that we are inserting ourselves into an ethnic conflict between the passions and the south -- between the pashtun is in the south and the rest of the ethnic groups in the northern part of the country, which are the uzbeks, the turkmenistan's , et? the pashtun have been fighting for centuries against foreign occupiers. host: we're going to take the first point because we're running out of time. guest: the caller is correct. there is a real problem there with the ethnicity. and the belief with the pashtun is that the tajiks have been kind of lording it over them in recent years. it is a problem that we have to address. i think sensitivity to ethnicity is really important, but i also think afghanistan can be stable and has been stable. it has been most stable when there is a pashtun rule in kabul. yes, you do 1 pashtun representation and even leadership in the government, but not taliban leadership. the question is, how do you get that? host: to read more of thom

there are erect rick l filings. what's the relationship with your consciousness and what happens in the brain? this is called the hard question in science today. >> i'm a little lost right now which is a good thing. we're going to come back and figure this out. i'm fascinated by this toptopic. we may not be able to prove life after death but the other question is can we disprove it? a skeptic joins us with the other side. that's next. we'll make sense of all this. >>> welcome back to "larry king live." i'm jeff from survivor sitting in for larry tonight. we're talk about coming from the dead. joining us, michael shurmur, ph.d., founder, publisher of "skeptic magazine" and associate director of the skeptic society and columnist for "scientific american." welcome, michael. you're a skeptic. we're going to refer to you as the skeptic. what's your take so far on this discussion? >> well, a couple of things. first of all when it comes to the after life, i'm for it, of course. who wouldn't be? what i'm for and what's true

. >> larry: concerning wealth rick warren says god wants everybody to be wealthy is creating a falsedol. is he right? >> i think that's true. if you're just focusing on wealth, that's not what christianity is all about. it's about helping other people. we believe that god wants you to prosper. prosper means to have good releasesh relationships and have money to pay your bills and bless others. i don't think we should ever take christianity or anything we believe is just all about riches and this world. that's not what it's all about. >> larry: do you get angry about hypocrisy in faith? >> it puts all of us in a bad light. it's much better if we try to live by example and hopefully, you know, be who you really are and not just, you know -- >> larry: do you take any political stands? >> we really don't. we really don't. i mean, in terms of -- no, we don't. on the health bill. >> we really don't. i'm not up to speed on all that. i think we should take care of the environment, and i do believe that people should, you know, hope that everybody could have health care. i mean, in a -- from

rick is on the wrong side of him defensively and no way for any help side defense to react. foul was on malcolm grant, the third. it will be paris at the line. first free-throws of the afternoon. he's got four points in the game. 4:44 to play. lead back to 57-49. >> ron: trying to get position on southern. and to grant. grant carries the three over the outstretched hands of corey raji. >> ron: now the three-point shots starting to come alive. a nice run behind by grant, penetrating and came behind him. ln almost was a four point play, southern just had a vicious kick at grant. thomas on trapani. shot clock at 12. shot clock at eight. whistle and foul. little chicken hook underneath the left side. miami's raised the three by malcolm grant. 3:53 left to play in the ballgame. ♪ [ male announcer ] the day you give someone a lexus is just the first of many memories you'll make with it. [ engine revs ] [ tires screech ] oh, very funny. ♪ [ male announcer ] the lexus december to remember sales event with some of the best values of the year. ♪ special lease offers now available on t

and rick pitino 219 and national title. john calipari, ten wins maybe national title. >> kyle: hall and calipari have developed a unique relationship in the short period of time since he's been here. in the i.u. game, cats tried a 1-3-1 zone defense. hall loved that and probably tried to encourage him to give him a chance. >> matt: alley-oop. possession arrow in favor of the governors. austin peay started their orc schedule. they were picked third in the ovc behind murray and moorhead. 19-13. second in the ovc. holding their own for most of their day. here at rupp arena. addition side. roberson got mugged. >> kyle: this contest, they're trying to get focus to make them a better team for a conference play. they did come away with a win at southeast missouri state. which is a big win. austin peay was up eight with a minute to play. let them go to overtime before they put them away. >> matt: roberson at the line played a big role in that victory. career high 15 points. got ten today. two of three shooting at the free-throw lin

may who was the heat bomber leader from world war ii who became the model for the general in cube rick's dr. strangelove, jack d. ripper was the general' name. so bernard and the people who worked with him ran into tremendous resistance from the bomber people, and they had to overcome it, and they did. they got to eisenhower, and he understood what they were trying to do and gave them carte blanche just in time. he signed off on september 13th, and he had his heart attack ten days later. >> how long have you been researching this book? >> i worked on the book for 14 years altogether but ten intensive years. i did 52 interviews with bernard, i interviewed about another 120 people, everybody who was alive who worked with him chasing the grim reaper because these people were older men. they all cooperated with me. schriever told everybody, talk to this man, tell him the truth. and he gave me all his papers and his diary all of which were incredibly value. this book is written not as an academic history it's written as a fast-paced narrative in novelistic form because i believe in recreating

and then rick patton, a special guest as nancy said, will talk about his experience in national and mississippi has freedom riders. we are here today because of the remarkable events of 48 years ago. the freedom ride for the third major campaign in the modern civil rights movement. in late 1955, of course, rosa parks refused to give up her seat on a city bus in montgomery and thus began the bus boycott there. february, 1964, black college students in greensboro, north carolina, walked into a woolworth one morning and began a sit-in movement which spread like wildfire in cities and towns across the south and was very successful in desegregating many businesses. in 1961 the movement was asking itself the question okay, what do we do next? how do we continue to up the ante, how do we put more pressure on the system and force change? the freedom flight was james former's idea, and this is his mug shot from jackson. he was the newly installed head of core, congress of racial equality. and he knew in 1960 the supreme court ruled segregation on bus and train stations was illegal. he also knew southern

this past weekend in honor of the thanksgiving holiday, nbc's "meet the press" hosted the reverend rick warren in a discussion on giving. and civic duty. during the dialogue, reverend warren stated his belief that, it isn't a sin to be rich but it is a sin to die rich. i don't agree with reverend warren's views on many issues, i ask my colleagues to reflect on the meaning of those words. the reverend was speaking, of course, of the importance of charity and moral obligation to improve the condition of fell man whenever and wherever we can. today i speak to you with the same sense of duty. duty to our country that has allowed me personally to achieve personal wealth. and in turn to help others. mr. speaker, the bill before us under this rule is a significant tax cut. without this bill the estate tax will return in the year 2011 at a much lower exemption amount. an exemption of $1 million instead of an exemption much $3.5 m and much higher tax rate. a tax a rate of 55% rather than a tax rate of 45% which we have under this bill. we all know that the occasion of the death of a loved one is

. >> host: we have a couple calls from houston here, first to rick on our republican line, go ahead for larry larry klayman. >> caller: how y'all doing this morning? i got a few comments, but i just want to say that this man is an eagle, and that's what we need. we don't need a bunch of ducks swirling in the same pond be, crapping in it and eating out of it at the same time. what i want to say to nancy pelosi and dick cheney, the reason i don't like what was going on at guantanamo bay is because it reminded me of how you all used to string black people up, put ropes around their neck, hang 'em naked while you beat with them. this health care bill, the fda is not watching out for us and it's simply a big bailout for the health industry for all these doctors and all this, and the last thing that i want to say is with these illegal aliens here, you can look at this housing crisis, you can look at this health care crisis, and you can look at this school crisis with these kids -- you say you don't want to leave any kids behind, but these schools are so filled up with illegal aliens, look at

i agree with pastor rick warren when he uses that principle, and i believe to see a doctor when you need one, to save a life or to deal with the health care you need so you don't lose an eye. like in diabetes, you don't lose an eye, you don't lose a kidney, you don't lose a foot, or if you're pregnant and diabetic, lose your child. we want to make sure that women have access to mammograms, that the men we love and who love us have access, if they have high blood pressure -- and sometimes they have it because they don't have health care for their family -- prostate cancer. i believe that's what whole life is. so, you see, in this bill i believe that supporting screening for diabetes is pro-life, cervical cancer screening is pro-life. but most of all, if you want people to have healthy pregnancies, healthy childbirth, healthy babies, they need access to health care. so that's why i say that voting for universal access to health care is as pro-life as you can be. making this debate about abortion, i believe, is misguided and wrong. first of all, in the bill we already deal with this topic.

he takes me to lunch and he says, "rick, i have decided you will succeed me as editor. he also said when that happens you will all the magazine. -- own the magazine. i was flabbergasted. there was no preparation for this. no hands or anything i picked up. i had older colleagues. i asked him one of this one or that one and he had various reasons. he said it is going to be you. so and then to reinforce this a year later, he took me, he said, "let talk." and that that were going to lunch but instead we go to mexico city. and then to tasco. that was his idea of going around the corner. then he sort of emphasized the offer. it was a way of underlining the offer. this was to be the plan of my life at age 23. i accepted it. i was very young. i accepted it without demur. that was how young i was. that was the framework for everything i did for the next nine years until i was 32. i was managing editor by this time. i came back to work after lunch one day and there was a letter addressed to me from bill. it said confidential. i opened it and he says, i have decided you are not go

host: rick, thanks for the call. this twitter comment. calling that amazing. thanks for being with us. guest: thanks for having me. host: let me begin with inside the democratic caucus in a closed door meeting was olympia snowe -- snowe. how important is that? guest: olympia snowe is the only republican that has voted for these plans in congress. snowe voted for the plan that came out of the finance committee a few months ago, and snowe said she would not be on board for the program that said harry reed unfailed last month. so it is interesting that now it seems senator snowe and perhaps even senator collins, a couple moderates might be back at the table. host: there is a 2:00 p.m. democratic caucus that the president will be planning to attend. at that time he's going to try to bring unity to the democratic caucus. there are 60 senators that do caucus with the senators, and the operating mentality, at least for the last several weeks is that if democrats are going to pass a bill out of the senate, that it is likely going to be with the support of all members

. >> so recently are rick boucher, head of the house subcommittee released a letter to you guys sayingght we should have 50 meg megabits per second to 80% of homes in about five years. what do you think of that? do you think that's achievable? >> there are a number of different parameters. for example, his letter said actual speed as opposed to advertised speed. that makes a big difference. again, as we talked about in our september meeting. >> doesn't it make it even harder? >> if it you have it the actual, it is harder. one of the things we want to do -- i think that's a worthy goal but what we want to point out to the decision makers like the congressmen is that, yeah, that's great. if we think we have a path for doing it, here is a path, but if that path requires congress to act in a certain way or the f.c.c. to act in a certain way, here is what they need to do, so you know, i think it's very worthy to kind of stay kind of stretch goals and see what we can do to try to get there, but, again, broadband is primarily a function of private investment. the big news in terms of fixed wi

congress has been very clear that you know we need to be as rick grists budgetarily as we can becomeo we really did a scrub and where can we move some fte's? >> that is good but just to interrupt to ask what is the mark for the southern border for next year in terms of active agents? >> i will have to give you the exact number but it is right around 20,000. >> okay. >> it is the congressional mark. >> okay, also have got a couple of other questions in my time has expired so i will submit them to the record. >> thank you senator kyl. senator whitehouse. >> thank you chairman. welcome. if you don't mind that would like to briefly shift the topic. >> senator whitehouse, senator kyl, i see him standing there and he is actually supposed to be next. >> mr. chairman he is the senior member of our class of senators who came in two years ago so i owe him-- >> i appreciate the courtesy and i am prepared to wait for senator whitehouse and senator cornyn's and i will be prepared to testify. >> senator, go ahead. >> on cyber we had a hearing and it is good that senator cardin is here. he held tha

congress has been very clear that you know we need to be as rick grists budgetarily as we can becomeso we really did a scrub and where can we move some fte's? >> that is good but just to interrupt to ask what is the mark for the southern border for next year in terms of active agents? >> i will have to give you the exact number but it is right around 20,000. >> okay. >> it is the congressional mark. >> okay, also have got a couple of other questions in my time has expired so i will submit them to the record. >> thank you senator kyl. senator whitehouse. >> thank you chairman. welcome. if you don't mind that would like to briefly shift the topic. >> senator whitehouse, senator kyl, i see him standing there and he is actually supposed to be next. >> mr. chairman he is the senior member of our class of senators who came in two years ago so i owe him-- >> i appreciate the courtesy and i am prepared to wait for senator whitehouse and senator cornyn's and i will be prepared to testify. >> senator, go ahead. >> on cyber we had a hearing and it is good that senator cardin is here. he held th

host: rick on the democrats' line from detroit.aller: i have a network that i am wondering is a cadillac plan and what i'd lose my coverage under this plan? if i did, the new insurance, would i be able to pick up my insurance costs? guest: do you work in a dangerous job like construction or an office related job? caller: i work in food service. guest: if your plan is more than $23,000 a year, it will be taxed through whoever your employer is. instead of sending that bill to the taxpayers of america, they will find a more cost-effective plan that at the same value. then the taxpayer will be happy to subsidize a more efficient policy for you. the taxpayer cannot continue to finance plans over 25,000 or $37,000. the average plan in america is valued between 12,018 thousand. we feel very confident that he will be able to get excellent coverage in the private market for less than 20,000. we will give you up to 23,000. if you are in a high risk area job, over 26,000. but taxpayers cannot keep subsidizing over that period let me say one o

. >> rick? >> i don't even mention the problem on not working on. it's a game, when i go to india and i go to india frequently and i look forward to going back soon, because we keep the indians very closely informed of our efforts, because indians are hugely important factor here. but whenever that second question comes up, your indian journalistic colleagues try to get me to mention that k. word. and i will not do it. because everybody keeps saying that either i am certainly working on it, or i out to be working on it. well, they are wrong on both counts. i am not working on that problem. the president addressed it very clearly as did the secretary of state in recent interviews. and my job is to work on the civilian side of afghanistan, pakistan. we all know how important that issue is. everyone knows it, and it is long tortured history. but it is not what i do, and it is not what the countries in the region expect me to do. and i think -- i understand where you ask it, but that's the simple fact. >> rick? >> you made some very eloquent comments at

the threat is real, and we are still at rick in this nation. case after case demonstrates major hasan said his allegiance was to the koran and not the constitution. tried to get his bosses to prosecute some of his patients as war criminals, regularly described the war on terrorism as a war against islam. used a presentation at an environmental health class to argue that muslims were being targeted by the u.s. anti-terror campaign and was very vocal about the war. very up front about being a muslim first and an american second. daniel patrick boyd, a u.s. citizen and six others arrested in july charged with conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists. according to the fbi, boyd trained and in terrorist training camps in pakistan and afghanistan. and then mr. zazi, probably one of the biggest threats we've discovered recently in terms of a cell in the united states working on behalf of al qaeda, born in afghanistan, u.s. legal permit resident living in colorado, charged with conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction. david hedley, a

and president obama took important steps, more money with the stimulus appointing secretary locke, rickf, dr. robert groves who for a short period of time have stepped things up, but nonetheless, there are a lot more things that have to be done for us to say that we're confident that this plan can address the historic undercount in this nation. the final thing i want to emphasize to everyone because we have talked about a number of things and a number of areas of concern, and that is to emphasize that we are committed and many ofÑi us are already working doing outreach in local communities with few, if any, resources because this is important. we are working in communities. the urban league, the naacp, national action, the national coalition just to name a few, we are working in local communities on outreach, on motivation, on awareness, on information, on organizing. we are committed to making sure and we're going to do our part. we want to make sure that census and commerce understand how they can do their job better, do their job best, get this job done. this is an important time, an

rick on the independent line. good morning. >> caller: good morning. >> host: go ahead, rick, what are your thoughts on democrats likely to drop the medication provision, expanding it? >> caller: i hope not. i really do. >> host: why is that, rick? >> caller: because i'm 59 but i'm disabled. i have, i have parkinson's, and, if that he is the only thing that is keeping me from bankruptcy. >> host: okay. charleston, indiana, jan on the democrats line. you're next. good morning. >> caller: good morning. i am so angry about this. i just don't understand how anyone who is a christian can be opposed to health care for everyone. i don't know. and i agree totally with the first guy. he was so articulate. he said everything i would like to say. >> host: all right. more headlines for you from the capitol hill newspapers. hear is the hill newspaper. reid bows to centrists, drops medicare buy-in. the headline in "roll call", lieberman sets off scramble when he said he would not support expanding medicare. following that in po

the threat is real, and we are still at rick in this nation. case after case demonstrates major hasan said his allegiance was to the koran and not the constitution. tried to get his bosses to prosecute some of his patients as war criminals, regularly described the war on terrorism as a war against islam. used a presentation at an environmental health class to argue that muslims were being targeted by the u.s. anti-terror campaign and was very vocal about the war. very up front about being a muslim first and an american second. daniel patrick boyd, a u.s. citizen and six others arrested in july charged with conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists. according to the fbi, boyd trained and in terrorist training camps in pakistan and afghanistan. and then mr. zazi, probably one of the biggest threats we've discovered recently in terms of a cell in the united states working on behalf of al qaeda, born in afghanistan, u.s. legal permit resident living in colorado, charged with conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction. david hedley, a