robert king to the program from louisiana state university. he was a junior and he went back to school and entered the school paper and then for a while he thought about getting a master's in business education, but the "washington post" saved him from the fate of personal wealth by recruiting him as a reporter for the post and now she labors under the slave wages of journalism. what's left of journalism. thank goodness the "washington post" owns caplin testing or there might be more problems here in washington, d.c. with journalism. on the model lee am pleased to introduced robert and jon jeter but i am now jealous because i haven't written a book, and i am pleased that he has done so. the only thing i ask is i get to ask the first question after they make their presentations. by the way with a few exceptions i will represent all white people here tonight. [laughter] i know that you're always asked what do black people think about this, so you can ask me what white people think about this. robert, jon. [applause] [laughter] >> good evening. f

again, i would refer people to the heritage website and the work is by robert rechter. mr. king: i had forgotten that number. $44,000. now if you have all the free time in the world to do whatever it is you want to do and have rent subsidy, heat subsidy and food stamps and earned income tax credit and other programs -- mrs. bachmann: and a home mortgage that is subsidized by the taxpayers because this is part of the problems in the community reinvestment act in the 1990's, an individual could have no job, no income, no assets, no job. and with all of that, you could still get a mortgage just based on your welfare benefits. this is a complete change in the way mortgages were given out. and welfare is inherptly unstable. to think that a 30-year mortgage is given to someone on the basis of their welfare payments, we had never done that before in the united states. what we saw is a correlation with a very high rate of forecast. what inducement is there for an individual to save up to buy a house, save a down payment, be frugal, do what you need to do to get a good credit score to ge

dallas when it seemed natural been attached to los angeles, where robert kennedy was assassinated, to memphis necessarily water or to mr. king died and yet in dallas, there was a feeling among many letter writers that they were themselves ashamed and they felt very strongly that people in dallas would be blamed. one letter from a woman at midway and predicted most persons outside the state will bitterly feel that it could have only happened in texas. but in fact, for reading these letters, that feeling was widely shared a sense of shame across the nation. in strange ways, people felt, they try to get ahold of this event by looking at their own lives, a variety of cardinal fact or is he one man broke, i feel in some way could have been someone that follow. each night i used to pray for her has been to protect us with god's help. last night, i stayed out late, went to bed without saying my prayers. when i heard this about our great leader, i was so sorry i did not pray. this i will never do again. god help me. but the sense of acute responsibility that many folks from dallas and throughout taxes felt comes across very clearly

robert ruben. as you recall, he was secretary of the treasury under under bill clinton and back then considered the king midas. we'll see how far his star has fallen. he's going to take questions about his job after he left government when he became one of the most powerful players at citi bank. that helped drive the sub prime mortgage crisis. expect ruben to be grilled over allegations by a former employee who testified today that he warned management the company was taking on too many risky mortgages, but he said the company ignored those warnings. john, we believe this will be the very first time bob ruben is going to be forced to answer in-depth questions about citi and his role in the financial felt down. it will be a big day. >> a big day tomorrow, a down day today on wall street. the dow industrials fell about 72 points. also weighing on the market, news that general motors lost $3.4 billion in the last quarter of 2009. officials say there's a chance gm could turn a profit by the end of the year. let's head to the magic wall. we'll continue our focus on the mine tragedy in west virginia. when we

king of the microchip. >> reporter: some remain positive like former document manager and high tech salesman robert weinstein and project coordinator pat. >> i'm an optimist. it has to get better because it can't get much worse, right? i mean, these things tend to be cyclical. >> even though, yeah, we're... it's kind of down right now and the people are leaving, everybody is kind of looking for the next great thing. >> reporter: his former employer, applied materials, figured the next big thing was green energy. one of silicon valley's oldest and biggest companies with 12,000 employees it laid off 10% of its work force and moved almost all manufacturing overseas. originally applied materials was a maker of machines that manufactured chips, the brains in computers. but today, says chief technology officer mark pinto, the company is also successfully building machines that make these advanced solar panels. and it is such a large presence in china that pinto himself and his family are moving there. >> there's been a lot of investment in energy in start- ups. we're one of the few i think big companys that have m

owen lee of king tv shows us their rescue and bittersweet return. >> come on, dad. >> reporter: it's been almost two weeks since dani jack's father, robertishing boat sank in icy waters. tonight she welcomes him home. >> daddy! i love you. >> i love you, too. >> reporter: while this father embraces his daughter, nicole esau comes home to her father. >> everything is going to be okay. i'm safe. my refuge. >> reporter: and todd can joke tonight he's never going back to the sea. >> no, we're done. the jacuzzi is about the only thing i'll get into water. >> the only thing that saved us is robert's mayday. >> mayday, mayday, this is the northern belle. >> we were by ourselves. we all came together. >> i was sucked under by the crane. and i came up and said, dear lord, please let me see my daughter, dani again. i never had any doubt i wouldn't survive after that. >> trying to stay alive. you know, we were cold. filled half with water. praying to god we were going to make it. >> i used my whistle and blinking strobe light to locate two of the other people. >> little bits of hope were given to us. i mean, things like, we had a lot of debris, and