robert e. lee, the confederate general. so not only was it a convenient place to begin military burials for the civil war, it was also thought to be a matter of justice, maybe even vindication if you want to call it that. the first military burials at arlington came in may of 1864, well into the civil war and the very first of those burials was private from 67 pennsylvania infantry named william kristol wristband. she was from a poor family and he came to serve in the union army. unfortunately he ended up in the hospital in washington. he got a case of german measles, which killed many, many service members on both sides of the war. he developed peritonitis from his measles infection and he died in a washington hospital, was brought across the potomac river church of arlington as the first military burial. things were so desperate at that time in the civil war. there were so many people dying that there wasn't much time for ceremony or ritual at arlington. they would bring people over for buria

steve: douglas roberts drive reverses and misses. washington starting the first of a back-to-back will be home tomorrow night to take on the new york knicks first time this season they may the knicks. and that will be an 8:00 p.m. tip-off at verizon center. foye drives beautiful pass. haywood lays it in. phil: good job you notice brendan closes off. that's randy foye delivering the assist. i like that. steve: these teams met back on halloween night. the wizards won 123 to 104. haywood had 10 points 7 boards in that game. but it was andray blatche who had the big night with 30 points. of course gilbert had a pretty good night too he scored 32 in that game. phil: fade away jump shot defended well. steve: courtney lee missed the game against the clippers here the other night with a wisdom tooth. now randy foye open for a three that's a little short. douglas r pulls it down. >> that was their first win since december 30th. phil: talk about the points and assists, courtney lee knocks another jumper down. also that was their largest effort

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simply put, robert, is the stimulus working? same question for both of you.tart with robert. >> well, i think unemployment, the official unemployment rate, larry, would be about 13% now were it not for the stimulus. for all the reasons i gave you, when everybody else stopped spending, the last resort. i can't guarantee -- nobody knows exactly what's going to happen next year. probably, given the fact that the states are in effect mounting an anti-stimulus package because they are raising taxes and they are cutting jobs and cutting services we're probably going to have rely on more from the federal government. >> larry: ron? >> well, i think it's real hard to measure the number of jobs saved or not. i think the stimulus, obviously, helped wall street. wall street's doing very, very well. to say the stimulus was the answer and just do more of it fails to recognize that when government spends money it actually does help the gdp. there's a big difference if people get money, save money, and it's invested -- building cars or something versus when the government ta

the denise roberts foundation is a community of minority women and men fighting breast cancer throughse focuses on those under the age of 40 who do not have the proper insurance, but it's also sharing her personal struggle that has truly allowed her to help others: two years ago during a self breast examination, darlene smith found a lump. >> when you first get diagnosed and that information is given to you, you are in, i call it, a fog. >> like other women in the community, darlene called on denise. >> until you talk to another woman that has gone through what you're going through and have been there, the most comfort you can get out of anything that happens to you other than standing on your faith. >> denise roberts is a two-time cancer survivor, first diagnosed at the age of 34 with breast cancer which she thought was her hardest test. but 11 years later, her reality was rocked again by a diagnosis of uterine cancer. >> it was detected early, as the breast cancer. but both of them were the same. same meaning that they were not regular symptoms, so i had to know my body. i had to kn

i am appalled at justice roberts and justice kennedy. there is always a balancing act and the first amendment. you cannot yell fire a crowded theater. when it comes to democracy, furs as corporate power and wealth, there is no balancing act? >> there was a report that insurance companies were spending $20 million and health care -- and ads for stymieing the health care ads. >> a corporation cannot do that now after today, they can just write a check and thus we are successful with our legislation. that is the difference. there are many different limitations on them now. those are gone. these have been in existence since 1907. there are gone. anybody who had nightmares about buckley, this is it. >> can you provide any update on where health care is? >> i do not know what happens at the house caucus. we are all exploring the right way to go. you cannot just proceed as if nothing happened because something significant happen. there is a strong view in both caucuses that we want to do some good things in health care. the question is how do w

means that when they come here, they think of themselves as missionaries. >> reporter: professor robert says immigrants have always brought their religions with them, but few have expanded as much as nigerians have. >> they come from a huge, overcrowded english-speaking country, so they can land with their feet on the ground and get up and running with outreach, churches, building schools, building homes very quickly. they don't have the language barrier that a lot of the other immigrants have when they get to the united states. >> reporter: in addition, professor robert says, people are attracted to the pentecostal style of worship. >> pentecostalism has swept all over the world in the last several decades, so the immediacy of the supernatural, the emotional worship style, the focus on lifestyle and holines-- these are things that american churches has gotten soft on >> reporter: speaking in tongues which is a way of praying and, some say, a sign of god's grace also has an appeal. >> you enter not quite an altered state of consciousness but you're suspending your rational mind and just

robert reich is professor of public policy at the university of california at berkeley. he served as secretary of labor under president clinton. and martin feldstein is professor of economics at harvard university and president emeritus at the national bureau of economic research.6a- entlemen, thank you batt for being with us. professor feldstein to you first, if these initiatives the president announced today samed at helping the middle class child care tax credit retirement savings accounts at the workplace, and so forth, if these were enacted into law how much difference would they make ? >> well, it wouldn't make much difference at all. i like the workplace retirement plan , automatic retirement in workplaces, i think that would make a big difference-- . >> woodruff: professor, i'm going to have to interrupt you, unfortunatey we're having an audio problem here. we're going to get that fixed and come right back to you. and while we do i am going to turn to professor reich. same question, if these initiatives were to become law, how much would they help the middle clas

demonstre what is robert thompson st descrid.so he it i "if you reallyant to hear about it, the firsthing you'll probably want tonow is where i was born andhat my lousy childhood was li and how my parents wereccupied and all before they had me and all at david coppereld kind of crap. but i don't feel like going into it, if you want tknow the truth." >> lehrer: oh, man. >> so "if you nt to knowhe uth" becomes the operational assertionthere. and that davidopperfield kind crap is aanny tip of the cap to one of his predecessors, e youthful hero of a dickens novel. but 's saying i'm goi to do somhing different. i'm going to be as-- robert thompson just said-- disaffected but straightforward nonetheles so, yeah,t goes straight to the heartnd into the ear of the... in particular, i'd say, adolescent reader. >> lehrer: wel robt, take us to the next step in j.d. salinger's life. what is known or what the best guess that you he heard about why he dispeared? y he's rained in that small house i cornis.. outside corni, new hampshire all these

and robert reich, how do you come dn on that? >> well, i don'think businesses are reluctant t invest because they woy abt future deficits. i think sisses are reluctant to inves judy, because theyon't see customerout there and there arno customers out ere for many businesses cause people are so scared. th are losing their jobs. and their wages arfrozen, essentially, or many are settling for lower wages and is gets back to, basically, whether youant a short te stimulus or not. i thinwe do need a short term stimulus. i ha given you my best suggestion as tohat that shoulde. that is help for ste and local governments t there are othethings that can be done the point is that john-- being john keys, his theos from the 1930s are being exhumed. about what we ne to do en there are no other real sources of demd in the system. consumers have pled back. investors have pulled back. exports cannot be reliedn. the only remaining ber of last resort ishe governme. woodruff: gentlemen, we thank bout, martin feldstein robe reich. >> thanks, judy. >>

newer chief justice roberts is a little bit more flexible on things. but i have to say his predecessor would often interpret someone speaking right when the red light went on. even in mid syllable. >> this is the chamber from brown versus -- the most important decision in defining presidential power was decided in that room by human beings sitting on that bench after having listened to argument by other human beings. and the aura of the place is present. it doesn't make -- there are some bad lawyers who appear before the supreme court who just aren't up to the task. there's something about the feel

our guest is fcc commissioner robert mcdowell. >> robert mcdowell is our guest this week on "the communicators ." we are about a month away from a national broadband plan being delivered. can you give us an update on what is in that plan, what you have seen, and how it is developing? >> we have had a team since the middle of last year that has been brought in some from outside and some are internal. we are soliciting opinions and backs and analyses on just about every possible angle of how broad ban might affect america and what can we do as a country to make broadband work available. our broadband team has given us a number of briefings over the past few months. it comes down to a matter of supply and demand, as simple as that. what can we do to make the existing pipes that serve the broadband connections fatter and faster for americans and more affordable? what can we do to help americans want to subscribe more to broadband? we have not yet seen the draft detailed plan. we have only seen

his name is robert merry, and he has written a marvelous book on president polk. we will be right back with a very wide ranging discussion, bringing history to the present and the present back into history. >> "white house chronicle" is produced in collaboration with whut, howard university television. now, your program host, nationally syndicated columnist llewellyn king, and co-host linda gasparello. captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- >> hello again and thank you for coming along. i enjoyed by linda gasparello, and i promised you -- i am joined by linda gasparello, and i promised you robert merry. i know him quite well as a journalist and as an historian. there are not many who cross that line, but those who do tend to do it quite well because they write in a way that people can read, not in an academic way. i think your book on -- you're wonderful book about american journalism was seminal, about a decade ago. then he wrote an excellent book about the troubles in europe, the disintegration of yugoslavia, america's role there, and

another part of arlington just over the hill are the arctic explorers, robert gary and his associate matthew, who claim to reach the bowl in 1909. they are here. the point is arlington is more than just a military cemetery. it's a place for explorers, figures from history. and many other things. >> we are on the hill overlooking the city here. what is this tomb on the mound here overlooking the sea? >> this is the tomb of the freshmen who served in the american revolution. he stayed on.

the oath of office will now be administered to the governor-elect of the commonwealth of virginia, robert francis mcdonnell, by honorable barbara milano keenan, justice of the supreme court of virginia. [applause] >> are you ready to take the oath in. >> i am ready. >> please repeat after me, raise your right hand. i, robert francis mcdonnell, do solomnly swear, that i will support the constitution of the united states, and the constitution of the commonwealth of virginia, and that i will faithfully and impartially discharge the duties incumbent up on me as governor of the commonwealth of virginia, according to the best of my ability, so help me god. [ cheers and applause ] [applause] [applause] [applause] [applause] [applause] [applause] >> members and guests, please be seated. i have the honor to present to the sovereign people of virginia the new governor of the commonwealth, his excellencey, robert francis mcdonnell. [cheers and applause] >> well, that is a lot of people there. kind of like one of your fundraisers. thank you. thank you. [cheers and applause] >> thank you! [cheers and

we know that you can come into new york and win, robert kennedy and others. can harold ford be a viable new york candidate? >> i know harold. and see him quite a bit, different things. yeah, you know, new york is a place where we have a history like that. if we were talking about some other state, i would say that's a tough -- that's a tough thing to do. that's a tough thing to come in and at least immediately run for the senate. you can't run for governor in new york. you have to have a five year residency. you can run for the senate. i guess in new york, anything is possible. >> larry: why didn't you run for governor? >> i wasn't -- i didn't want to leave my business and law firm right now. i took a lot of time off to run for president, a lot of things got disorganized. i put them back together. we're in the middle of and on the verge of doing a lot of

for example, it's defense secretary robert gates. every senior leader when you are asked what keeps you awake, it's the thought of a terrorist ending up with a wepons of mass destruction, particularly nuclear. this is fbi director robert muller. he utters the words nuclear devicen he clenches his teeth. at one point when he's discussing the possibly, he lifting his left eyebrow like a arrow in mid flight. a former investigator, has similar problems, astartly. he knows more with each passing minutes that we are blind that al qaeda is looking for uranium. there's a lot out there. as little as 35 pounds to build a hiroshima bomb. that's why he doesn't sleep and he hasn't touched his corn muffin. okay. well, what i'd like to do is if my book is successful, we'll have a lot more sleep going on in washington. therefore, i hope better decision making. if that happens, i intend to take full credit for it. what i like to do is talk about several aspects which are in the book. we'll have time for questions afterwards, some of these are more in

we just -- it's not on the schedule as a trip the president is going to make. >> thanks, robert. >> robert it looks like harold ford is very serious about jumping into the senate race in new york. what is the white house's position of having a candidate like harold ford room for the senate seat? >> look, i think the white house is quite happy with the leadership and the representation of senator jalabert and in new york, and as many or in the

our guest is fcc commissioner robert mcdowell. >> host: fcc commissioner robert mcdowell is the senior republican on the federal communications commission end-user gastric this week on "the communicators" your commissioner mcdowell were about a month away from a national broadband plan being delivered. >> guest: 43 days. >> host: been delivered from the fcc. can you give us an update on what is in that plan, what you've seen, and how it's developed? >> guest: well, we have sent the middle of last year eight-team that has been brought in from the outside and others are internal. the commission has done a terrific job of having numerous hearings, workshops and issuing public notices to solicit opinion and facts and analyses on just about every possible angle you can think of of how broadband might affect america and what can we do as a country to make broadband more ubiquitous and more available for other countries. so fatter and faster pipes for more americans. our broadband team has given us a number of regimes over the past few months and it's really going to boil down to a think a ma

now, robert barons can act like parasites, striking at the very roots of our democracy.a time when americans are worried about too much influence, this opens the floodgates and allows special- interest money to overflow our elections and undermine our democracy. the bottom line is this. the supreme court has predetermined the winners of next november's elections. it will not be democrats. it will be corporate america. our system of government is the best in the world. there are corrupting influences at play, but this opinion gone unchallenged would permit the taint future elections. allowing corporations to spend that will on elections, which is what the court has just allowed, would have undue influence on elected officials. the money spent by deep-pocketed interest will work to dwarf the resources of ever to americans. i have not seen a decision that more undermines campaign funding, and it is one of three or four decisions in the history of the supreme court that most undermines democracy. we will regret the day that this decision has been issued. and at a time when a

private robert hayes, lance corporal timmer -- timothy brown. . .ur thoughts are with the families and friends who can be rightly proud of the courage, the dedication, the bravery and the sacrifice that has been shown by these men and that sacrifice will never be forgotten. forgotten. we have been d once again since the house last met that there are those who seek to harm us with terrorist incidents. i know that the house will also want to join me in sending our condolences to the wife and children of david taylor who, sadly, died on boxing day. he was a tremendous constituency member of parliament who thoroughly deserved the accolade of back bencher of the year for his tireless work for the people of north-west leicestershire. he will be greatly missed, not only by his family who are here in the house today, but by colleagues in westminster and all his constituents. this morning i had meetings with ministerial colleagues and others. in addition to my duties in the house, i shall have further such meetings later today. >> brian donohoe. >> i would o

. >> mclaughlin panelist, robert novac. >> senator ted kennedy. >> monica. >> four towering conservativeinds, bob novak, jim kemp, and bill sapphire. >> two of the journalistic figures and fortunately, they didn't live to see the decline of newspapers in america. i'm sorry to see them go. >> i would echo all of the above and sorry to see you go, senator ted kennedy. democrats and republicans feel his absence. okay, 15 minutes of fame. pat. >> the salahi's. >> now, they were the gate crashers. >> the unwanted guests at the white house. >> eleanor. >> i would agree, the red sorry. >> monica. >> tiger woods numerous extramarital friends. >> tom delay dancing on dancing with the stars, saying it is connecting him to his feminine side. >> 15 minutes of side has to go to the salahi's. the gate crashers of the white house. their story is going to be spun out further. we haven't heard the end of them. best spin of the year, pat. >> i am resigning because i want to spend more time with my family. >> eleanor. >> president obama and his nobel speech, swearing the circle between committed more troop

in the bottom box white house press secretary robert gibbs saying that defense secretary robert gatesill stay on his post. he is happy he is staying on. president obama and gates making an open-ended agreement, at least for the rest of 2010. martha: all right. well, brand new jobless numbers out there to chew over today. showing that the december numbers look like this. 10% as the economy sheds another 85,000 jobs. let's break it down. as you have poured through these numbers in this report what do you think the takeaway is? >> some mixed numbers to this. some of the conclusions. the positive is for the first time in two years the u.s. added jobs. the labor department revised its last report. the job market went positive. in december, ten times worse than expected. 85,000 jobs lost. that eclipses 4,000 added in november. those were mostly government jobs. the white house calls this a slight step back. economists are mixed. outside factors, even the bad weather in december skew that report negative. martha: interesting. what about 2010, jobs outlook, when economists believe will start

she has written or edited nine books. >> speaking with robert -- robert moore iii about his book "i alwaysd i would marry a white girl: coming to grips with race in america". let's start out with why -- who actually said you would marry a white girl? >> i think that was an internal feeling on my part. i grew up in a fascinating time period in a suburb in the 1960s. we were one of the few african-american families to ride the wave of millions of whites who left their america at that time period to go to the suburbs. at the same time many were coming out of rural america and going to the city. i felt very unique. very caught in between. two groups. like two sides. it was a time period that was -- i felt internally that perhaps i was destined to marry someone who was white rather than african-american. >> the first part of your book is a different section. the first is called straddling the sand. how did you come to grips with your identity as an african-american growing up in a predominantly white area of philadelphia? >> it was tough. i still wrestle with the impact of the time period. i gr

robert kaufman was 78 years old. stay with us.n we return we will >> there's a storm off cape cod and in new england. we have dry conditions here with sunshine. it only feels like 0. the actual temperature is 16 degrees. this is because of the strong winds. this evening the storm will still be off the shore on the new england coast. more to the mountains in the west with a few inches of accumulation as far as we are concerned. temperatures way below average for this time of year. high near 30 degrees, when you factor in the northwest winds it will feel like only 12 degrees during the day to day. only breezy tomorrow. the wind will back off. light snow by the end of the day. flurries and snow showers, thursday, friday, with temperatures well below seasonal averages. >> thank you for joining us. we continue in 27 minutes. >>> we are back on this sunday morning, january 3rd, 2010. it is bitter cold here in new york city this morning. i think janice told me the windchill is like 4 degrees. it feels like four million below zero. >> it

. >> brown: more on all this now from robert thompson of >> brown: more on all this now from robert thompson of syracuse university, where he's founding director of the blyer center for television and popular culture. and kim masters, who covers the entertainment business as host of kcrw's "the business" on public radio in los angeles. kim masters, it was the affiliates and their 11:00 p.m. newscasts. explain how that part of the tv business works. >> well, the affiliates rely on their local newscasts for advertising revenue. it's a very important part of their picture. and they found that they were losing their audience. in some cases it was quite precipitous. double digit drops. dropping , newscasts dropping from number one to number 2 or 3. they basically told nbc that if nbc did not pull jay leno at 10:00 they were going to start preempting the show. there was going to be something of a revolt. so that is what nbc maintains really forced its hand. nbc maintains from its standpoint it would have stuck with jay leno for a year. >> brown: that's kim, just to stay with you, that's even thoug

we have been talking with robert m. moore freakin' author of the always said i would marry a white girl coming to grips with race in america. >> thank you. nice having you. >> we are as west virginia university and morgenthau west virginia with john temple, author of "the last lawyer the fight to save death row inmates." mr. temple, why don't you start by telling a little bit about the main character, ted rose. >> there are two men about the same age. they both live in north carolina. jones was a farm hand from north carolina who was convicted of murder in 1993 from a murder that occurred in 1987 and he was sentenced to death and spent i believe 13 years on death row. kenneth rose is the lawyer who in 1997 took on his case shortly before he was scheduled to be executed in he has represented boe ever since and i spent four and a half years following that case. >> what got you interested in this particular case? you always been interested in the law? >> my wife is a lawyer but it's not a field i've studied. i was just dra

. >> reporter: prossor robert says immigrants ve always brought their regions with them, but few have expand as muchs nigerians have. >> they come om a huge, overcrowded englis-speaking country, so they can landith their feet on the gund and get up anrunning with outreach, chures, building schools, buiing homes very quickly. they don't have theanguage barrier that a l of the other immigrantsave when they get to the unid states. >> reporter: in addion, professorobert says, people are attracted tohe pentecostal style of worship. >> pentecostalism s swept all over the world in the lst several decades, so t immediacy of the supnatural, the etional worship style, the fos on lifestyle and holines- these are thgs that american chuhes has gotten soft on >> reporterspeaking itongues which is a wayf praying and, me say, a sign of god's gra also as an appeal. >> you enter not quitan alter state of consciousness bu you're suspending your rational mind and justetting your tongue loe. by releang your conscious mind, it lets mystery flow int you. >> reporter: nerians also emphasize hling as a part o

signed: robert c. byrd, president pro tempore. the presiding officer: under the previous order, the senate will stand adjourned until 11:00 a.m. on tuesday, january 19, 9, >> that wraps up the pro forma session. they will come back on january 19th. the second session of the 111th congress begins on january 20th as members return to consider the nomination of beverly martin to be u.s. circuit court judge for the eleventh circuit. live senate coverage as always on c-span2. the health-care debate is very much on the minds of senators as they return to town. democratic leaders head to the white house to meet with president obama to talk about details of the final bill which is awaiting negotiations between the house and senate. now we take you back to a discussion on long-term care services hosted by the journal health affairs and the s.c.a.n. foundation. this began a short time ago on how to pay for health care. we resume live coverage on c-span2. >> the value of any supplemental private coverage. to the extent that any public covera

robert is on our republican mind.l compared caller: good morning, everyone, and thank you for c-span. i live in silicon valley and i have been in china for six years working back and forth and also have been in the software outsourcing business. one thing that is kind of ironic is of the investment money that started out about the -- alibaba actually came out of the investment companies here in silicon valley. there is a very large contingency of chinese software engineers who work at google, who worked at jocko. there is such an integration between china and silicon valley, it is almost like the same hands, if you will. robert, have you looked into this? have you really seen the reality of our american investment companies that have been arrested in china, who actually have duplicated, the google model? because that is what they are doing. guest: i think if i understand the question correctly, it is, have i looked at the degree to which silicon valley and american investors have invested in china. yes, i think on the

robert menendez.he guests on "fox news sunday" include the white house press secretary, robert gibbs. as well as john cornyn. we know that he is also the guest of seized and hostile and " newsmakers -- he will also be the guest on c-span's "newsmakers pures." "state of the union" will include orrin hatch, david axelrod, and robert menendez. you can listen to all five of the sunday morning talk shows starting at noon eastern on c- span radio. you can follow us on facebook in an twitter furious -- facebook and twitter. >> this week, gordon smith on the fcc plan to expand the broadband spectrum and what it might mean for broadcasters. >> dolly madison had to encourage her shy husband. this week, on "after words," the wives of the founding fathers. >> each year, the washington center brings thousands of students to washington, d.c., to experience the workings of our government firsthand. they will experience politics, government, and the future. wednesday, chris -- president obama delivers his first state

oral roberts died. where is it going?who do you see out there who's going to succeed the people we used to hear about so intensively with the religious right? >> one thing that interests me is that there's less of an emphasis, if you're a younger evangelical leader, on starting a para-church ministry like billy graham did, and more of an emphasis on being a pastor. i'm not exactly sure why this shift has happened, but if you're a young pastor, you're charismatic, what you want to do is plant a church usually and grow it big and have that be where your ministry is. so i see a lot of pastors of enormous churches, in places like seattle and grand rapids who have churches of 20,0000, 30,000 people. you don't hear about them in the national news yet. you don't hear rob bell's name. you don't hear mark driscoll's name. >> one thing i'm watching is, with some of the folks you just referred to that already have these big mega-churches. what happens when those leaders, people like rick warren at saddleback church, people like bill

so roberts, have you looked into this? have you really seen the reality of our american investment companies that have invested in china? would have duplicated the google model because that's coming you know, that's what they are doing. >> guest: i think if i understand the question correctly, it's how they looked at the degree to which silicon valley and the american investors have invested in china. and yes, i think on the whole china is a huge market. it's an expanding market and it's a very important market for our technology companies. i think in no way would i guess that google's act is going to show a further pull out of the market by other american companies. microsoft authority stood up and said, absolutely not. they're in china for the long haul. they're going to stay there and they don't see the benefit to them as a company or to the chinese dissidents if they pulled out. >> host: address the political issue on this. what sort of pressures does the administration feel? what do they have to do in response outside

robert foster is in virginia beach, virginia. son, andrew foster, has been missing in haiti. we're happy to report he's been found. he's with his uncle. they were on a business trip. planned to go scuba diving. robert, wasn't he supposed to be in school? >> yeah. we decided to give him a break, you know, traveling with his uncle. trip of a lifetime and everything. we thought he could afford a few days off and obviously was just that, trip of the lifetime. >> larry: what was his uncle doing there? >> actually it's my wife's aunt and uncle. they've owned property there many years and been going to haiti 38 years. he's a retired dentist. had a private practice in new york. she's a retired registered nurse. they have been doing humanitarian work there for many years and just fell in love with the culture and the people and decided to buy property and stay and been going ever since. you know, over the years the home has gotten a bit much to deal with so they decided they would sell it and that was their business down there, this trip

sgt roberts' debt perfectly illustrates your point.hey were being stoned by a man throwing stones at them. as i understand it, he refused to stop doing that. sgt roberts' gun jammed. the machine gunner fired a machine gun. i think i am right in saying that is what killed sergeant robert, because the machine gunner did not appreciate that his machine gun was not accurate close quarters. there was a series -- >> hallowed individual dies is going to be a particular set of circumstances. but that part of the story which explains why he did not have the proper body armor. just one more question about personal payments, and that would be a good time for me to stop. there are more equipment issues to get into. the protection against chemical and biological warfare. the particular intelligence that saddam might have the stockpiles and use them. or the difficulties in getting the adequate equipment to the troops? >> every one was equipped with the appropriate clothing to protect them. indeed, one of the complaints are received was the fact that

robert carol, two pulitzer prizes along with numerous others awards. author of the amazing three volume biography of lyndon johnson. peggy noonan ronald reagan's chief speechwriter. then a terrific book about those years. "what i saw at the revolution." mel painter, a priceton university historian and author of "creating black americans: history of african-americans over the last 400 years." that was white a mouthful. peggy, when you were in the white house with ronald reagan, at the end of the first year i think people would have talked about optimism, confidence, things like that. what do you think people will say with this first year? >> i think this first year of obama, i think history will probably look back on it as an attempt to change the face of america in the world, which so far appears to be a good beginning, coupled with, i think, a serious domestic misstep with regard to focusing on certain issues that were not the great issues the american people were focused on when the great recession really sunk in. >> internationally, if i read your c

i am appalled at justice roberts and justice kennedy.ecausethere is always a balancing act and the first amendment. you cannot yell fire and a crowded theater. we have libel laws. butwhen it comes to democracy, furs as corporate power and wealth, boris a solid corporate power and wealth, -- versus corporate power and wealth, there is no balancing act? >> there was a report that insurance companies were spending $20 million and health care -- and ads for stymieing the health care ads. >> a corporation cannot do that now after today, they can just write a check and thus we are successful with our legislation. that is the difference. there are many different limitations on them now. that is blown away. those are gone. these have been in existence since 1907. in the tillman act. there are gone. -- they are gone. anybody who had nightmares about buckley, this is it. like i do. [laughter] >> can you provide any update on where health care is? >> i do not know what happens at the house caucus. -- what happened at the house caucus. we are all ex

robert hall, jr., american hero. thanks for being with us for this special "nancy grace investigates" see you tomorrow night 8:00 sharp eastern. until then, good night, friend.

for example, here's a statement by defense secretary robert gates. every senior leader when you're asked what keeps you awake at night is the thought of a terrorist inning up with a weapon of mass distraction, particularly nuclear. and this is fbi director robert mueller, somebody watching very carefully as he thinks there are dark circles under his eyes when he utters the words, nuclear device. he clutches his teeth. at one point when he is discussing the possibility of a nuclear threat from terrorists and anxious thought lets his left eyebrow like an arrow poised in midflight. and forcier investigated, ralph larsen has similar problems at nearly. he knows more shrewd with each passing minute that we are blind and al qaeda is looking for uranium, there's plenty of it out there with as low as 35 pounds sophisticate group could build a jewish human sized about it we have never seen coming. that's why he can't sleep. he is going them. what i'd like to do, if my book is successful, we'll have a lot more sleep going on in din and therefore i hope better

so much for the justice roberts view of modesty following precedent. he turned back the clock 100 years on one of the most vital parts of our democracy. ready for questions. >> senator schumer? >> yes. >> do you have any information or indication from anyone else on the other side of the aisle who might help you gain the votes? >> we've talked to both senators mccain and feingold and we'll be working with them on in. we haven't goten into specific details because we had to wait for the decision -- excuse me. we had to wait for the decision to see where to go, but senator mccain and senator feingold have expressed interest in trying to get involved in dealing with this decision. >> what are some of the options you have with responding? >> there are many different options and that's what we're going to explore. we have been looking that the obviously not just starting today but for days and months before. and there are various options which i think i'm not going to go into now, but there are different ones. well, i'll throw out a couple. there's the corr

defense secretary robert gates. he met with prime minister yusuf gilani, among others, and he called the anti-terror operations a success so far. residents of southern california endured heavy rains and high winds for a fourth straight day. more than 1,200 homes in the foothills and canyons along the san gabriel mountains were under orders to evacuate, but not everyone did. local officials said so far, flooding is limited, and no major mudslides have been reported. but the risk remained high. in some coastal communities-- like this one in pacifica-- buildings teetered on the edge, as 20-foot waves smashed ashore. conan o'brien and n.b.c. television have agreed to part ways paving the way for jay leno's return to "the tonight show." the network announced a $45 million severance deal today. $33 million of that goes to o'brien, and the rest to his staff. his last show will air tomorrow night, but he is free to return to television in september. leno takes back "the tonight show" reins starting march first. those are so

we have an independent scholar, robert, kansas city.s, when i went into the army in 1956, the war had to be declared by the united nations. even when we went to korea, they did not call that a war. they call that a conflict. but now we have changed the language and we have war on everything, war, war, war. why did they changed this from war to conflict or from conflict to war? guest: you are absolutely right, the conflicts we are in, the wars that we are in now are different from the world -- from world war i or world war ii were there was a declaration of war in both cases. we have not changed the system that requires the congress to support what the president is doing, whether it be in iraq or afghanistan in this case. the congress is being asked each time for resolutions. supporting what the president has done. congress has passed every year to pay for and pass legislation that provides funds to prosecute the war in afghanistan or iraq. while the declaration of war has not been used, the resolutions and the support from the congress

robert kaufman was 78-years old. >> now to the war on terror. the u.s. embassy in yemen has closed in response to the ongoing al qaeda threats to american interests in that country. spokespeople would not say that there is a specific threat, but the al qaeda branch in yemen apparently ordered the christmas day attack against a u.s. airliner that ultimately failed. >> in hawaii the president is winding down his vacation, interrupted by the cold reality of terrorism. he promised to work with republicans in washington to keep this nation safe. >> we cannot imagine a more fitting resolution to guide us as a people and nation. >> a sentiment echoed by top republicans. >> it is important to remember that we are united by our love of country and a common face that no challenge is too great for the american people to overcome. >> they pick up right where they left off, the battle over the war on terror is certain to begin anew after the attempted christmas day bombing. >> what questions need to be asked? what changes need to be made? >> this past week's suicide

robert gibbs has a parrot on his shoulder with an eye patch screaming, somali want a cracker.as to give and i am glad it was there scones. bill: you live in a beautiful state. you are paying the highest sales tax in the country. everytime you turn around, another tax is levied on you. the state might go bankrupt because of the entitlements, the pensions, the disabilities, and on and on. is that unfair to you, dennis miller? >> it is on terror up to the point that i stay here. i have a contingency plan. there is a part i will not go beyond and it is not about greed. it is about some crazy thing in my head that i would like to keep a dollar for every dollar giveaway to strangers. if it gets beyond that, i will split the state. i have heard trump will quit new york. you know, i think it is getting to that point. i love to help the helpless. we are helping to many of the clueless nowadays. bill: that is a good line. >> you do not get credit for it. we have john -- janet napolitano talking about the right-wing conspiracy. if you are going to hover over me like this, at least ditch