luckily for robin, she was finally able to get the surgery. not through blue cross/blue shield, though, as i understand it. she's now undergoing chemotherapy because the cancer has spread to her lymph nodes. but she is still with us, thank god. and she's here today to tell us her personal story. robin's situation was what caused notice draft an amendment to represent the breast cancer bill last year to protect people like robin by prohibiting recisions of health insurance if nondisclosure of information is not related to the claim. not related to the claim, and inadvertent. there is no reason on god's green earth that somebody ought to have their health insurance revoked because of some inadvertent omission that's not related to the claim that's being submitted to the health insurance company. this bill, with my amendment, passed the house last year. but it died in the senate. it's been reintroduced and hopefully it will pass this year. i support the right of an applicant to request a third-party independent review of an insurance -- an insure

senator john mccain, 2004, the language 10,000 years never had a word for robin and now there are robins villages. the bbc program on climate change title, no word for robin, climate change in the canadian arctic. okay, where are the fact-checkers on this one. come on. there are staffers over here on the hill that had to have had a computer, which would be connected to the library of congress. there are fact checkers at the bbc who could connect with the british museum. or whatever. 1953, the journal arctic, volume 6 pages 35-43 by l. irving, the naming of birds by the nunamiut eskimo. robin equals koyapigaktoruk. nobody bothered to check. or in 1913, a great book by the way. this guy went and lived up there. my life among the eskimo. mackenzie eskimo or alaskan eskimo. and ironically, the 2004 quote by mccain was related to a trip to alaska. so there you have it. we have a book detailing this and we discuss why it happened. that's beyond -- i'll talk about it in the q & a if you want. is there are several reasons for it. be very careful when you hear one of the following. there's no suc

the inuit language for 10,000 years never had a word for robin and thousand there are robins all over. the bbc program on climate change title, no word for robin: climate change in the canadian arctic. where are the fact-checkers on this one? come on. there are staffers over here

i will take up bomb where robin left. essentially, making an argument that most of the sources really do not know where iran is going. it has to do with the fact that the iranian leaders themselves probably do not know where they are going at this point. i will make an argument that this is a very improvised game and a moment in iranian history. we are probably better off sitting down and watching been trying to analyze the situation on a minute by minute basis. the crisis that has involved iran since its election is without a doubt the most significant event in the 30 year history of the islamic republic, as far as i am concerned. the revolution itself has deeply restructured these events. these are big events, like the iran and iraq war, the revolution of 1999, turning the office of the leadership into an absolute office that created the expediency challenge because of the conflicts that existed none of these events have been as significant, as far as i am -- as far as i can tell. there have been two basic institutions

mike patrick and robin ventura with more. >> i think most people had to have favored north carolina inballgame but arizona state pulled it off -- the number five national seed knocks off the heels. they win it 12-5 here at the college world series. and i say that most people believed that north carolina would win it because of the superior pitching that they have, robin, and certainly they had a 4-0 lead and it looked like they had everything going their way early. >> everything was going their way. you had harvey on the mound, everything looked good, you're number three, up 4-0, cruising through into the fifth inning and everything took a turn for the worst. >> the babe is so important in baseball history, and now he is at the college world series -- cole calhoun was the guy who got arizona state there, but it started with small ball and some really unusual plays. >> we haven't seen a whole lot of this coming into the tournament of this magnitude. you had a couple safety squeezes that came in there, all of a sudden it's 4-0 north carolina and then the big bat comes in with cole calhou

today we have miss robin beaton, who is a citizen of walksahatchie. so i want to extend to her the very best wishes and let her and the other two panelists on this first panel know that there's nothing to be afraid of. you speak for tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of american citizens. and the country is very interested through the auspices of this hearing to hear your story. we appreciate all three of you being here. this is an important hearing.

speaker as robin cooke recognized as his new home secretary realizes this cannot go on. so why is he seeking to restart a general debate on electoral reform? we had the update. the independents power inquiry, we can't afford to wait for a cross-party consensus because westminster stitcher. we don't neat need to wait for his cabinet to make up its mind. it's not up to them to decide how our democracy works. people should now be given a say so will the prime minister now call a referendum this autumn to give people a choice? a choice between the bankrupt system we have now and serious proposals for reform which finally puts people in charge, not the politicians. mr. speaker, the prime minister has nothing to lose. this is no time for his trademark timidity. just get on with it. will he cancel the recess and pass the legislation that we need and give people the say we deserve. >> mr. speaker, let me say we agree first of all -- we grow and i'm glad he has said this explicitly that we will all support the new parliamentary standards authority. we'll move from self-regulation

suddenly we saw the unity breaking apart, as robin so eloquently described. how is the money going to be separated? but this -- what is the role of the economy? housing? much much faster than the inflation rate. imports of food have gone through the roof. inflation has gone through the roof. the central government is giving money. salaries are not keeping up with inflation. in the presentation, everybody shows numbers. multiplied by 12, you can get the year. in any case, this is the central bank of iran. if you add to unemployment -- sorry, thank you. if you look at unemployment, it is an interesting statistic. the government gives you all sorts of statistics. i have no way of judging that except to look at the aggregate of numbers, which are roughly around 7 million. 20 million are either too young or too old. the ministry of labor says that there are 25 million people on the work force. if you look at the 25 million people that were employed, eight women -- women, and a woman cannot work. i did not say that. of the 25 million remaining, unemployment is runn

. >> thanks to robin, we know iran is entering a new phase that is probably more diffuse, opaque, and contracted than the previous weeks. in a way, that makes it harder for all the countries in the region, specifically the arab world to have a good sense of what is happening to iran. how this will play out. it is important to examine that at this point, the implications for middle east security and politics, of the profound changes that have affected iran recently. much will depend on how these various players in the countries, including the great powers will assess the nature of the system that is emerging from the turmoil in iran. from the middle east, and more specifically from the arab states, that much is certain. revolution has entered its second age, ever since the election of ahmadinejad in 2005. this new age has several trades characteristic -- the growing assertiveness of the once timid supreme leader, the immensely important and economic rise of the revolutionary guards and previously very important key power centers, including clerical once. the coal states had to rebuild

robin? crags of very important point. that is one of the many cracks. about 1/3 showed up for the victory party, telling. in terms of the deadline, i would caution you not to put a deadline when the process has not started. obama has talked about one year he wants to see something happened, until january. very fluid situation. in some ways, it is a day-by-day situation. you cannot look for too much now. we are 2.5 weeks after the election. there's going to be a lot of settling down. >> would you comment on that prospect that sanctions could have any further a fact? we have many more arrows in the quiver that we could use on the sanctions. >> a couple of things on the vulnerability. i do not think the split is just in the magistrate. it is all over the place. because of that, i do not think anything is going to happen until they sort out the mess on monks themselves. with regard to these sanctions, that's talk about the nuclear situation and look at the effectiveness of sanctions. president obama seems to say that if you want nuclear power for energy, yo

he's complained about his knee since a fourth-round loss to robin soderling at the french open on may 31. nadal agonized over the decision. >> don't play wimbledon, it's one of the toughest decisions in my career. but, you know, the situation makes me -- the decision a little bit easier. not only 'cause it's tough, but at the same time it's -- it's what it is. not option to do. >> for just the fourth time in the last 40 years, defending men's singles champion will have to miss wimbledon. nadal is the first since ivanisevic missed because of shoulder surgery in 2002. prior to that smith and newcombe did not defend their titles back in the early 70s. earlier on espnews we discussed nadal's withdrawal with cliff drysdale. >> in the press conference, interesting to hear him say that he's tapped out with the knee problems he's having at the moment and the physicality that he brings to the coat, he's not going to raise the bar any higher. he's made this decision for a couple of reasons. mentally he's not there anymore at the moment. physically he needs to go away, fix up the knee problem. h

and robin soderling will face federer, the man who beat him in paris. "joking" aside. >> me and my coach were joking, saying nobody can beat me 10 times in a row, but we were wrong. so for next match, next time we play, you know, nobody can beat me 11 times in a row, i promise you. >> we're all just "joking" around. it's one big "joke." the soft "j." >> when he wins, he'll be "jumping" for "joy." >> soderling is well aware of the task ahead.. only won one set against him. d maybe that's where you start. >> got to start somewhere. marlins putting their five-gamer win streak on the line againstt the rays. bottom eight, 3-3 game, bases f loaded for b.j. upton. going to bounce off the base of the wall. rays win 7-3, as florida's five-game win streak comes to an end. >> ramirez homered in the loss. he went homerless in a span of 26 games, but bounced back with a vengeance. now has four home runs and 15 rbis in his last five games. >> giants-brewers, the lone interleague game on the ledger on friday. j.j. hardy, his seventh of the year. kean, not 1 of his bet

. >> other notable results on the men's side, rbbredo up in four sets, and robin soderling also movescing roger federer the man who beat him in paris. >> yes me and my coach were joking, you know, you beat me nine times in a row before this match. so we were joking and saying nobody can beat me 10 times in a row. we were wrong. so next time we play, you know, nobody can beat me 11 times in a row, i promise you. >> just yolking around. maybe it's got a soft "j." i think soderling is well aware of the task heavyduty him. he's never beaten federer in 10 career matches, but nobody beats him in 11 in a row. federer has won of the 23 sets between them. soderling, just try to get more than a set this time. >> marlins putting their five-game win streak on the line against the the rays. bottom of the eighth, bases that loaded for b.j. upton. the wa that's hit all the way to thescs wall.avarro t two score on the double. rays win 7-3. florida's win streak is over. ramirez went homeless in a span of 26 games, but bounced back with a vengeance. now has four home runs and 15 rbis in his last five g

in his case, she first got into crime as a way to get money fast by robin from the parking meters and don't even think he thought of that as a crime because he took the money, went to the grocery store and all of a sudden there was food in the house and i think that sort of set the stage for what would happen later on. counterfeiting in particular is a very interesting crime because people who do it generally feel no guilt whatsoever. and part of the reason for that is when you make money art would say i love the act of making this money. it's creative, it's mine, i made this and it would come off the press and it is almost like a sexual russia and so i think that gratification reinforces this and then when you get to the point where you have got piles and piles of this money and he's selling it or passing it off and people are taking it as real and he started falling into the feeling that this is real and he would also give a lot of the money away. his charitable thing was a baby because they hippie's shopping malls passing 100-dollar bills getting $90 back and change and they have a

and as the doctor said to me, i didn't get into medicine to be kind of like a baskin robins take a number and every ten minutes i'm going to be rotating out so that i can make sure that i've made enough money today to pay for you. i want to be able to provide a level of care. and the patient who goes in there wants to know that they're being attended to. so i'd be happy to get some more of the specifics. i think they're helpful to the conversation. >> senator, i -- this raised a lot of, i think -- in the con instru construct of the amendment and you raised a lot of important issues that go beyond the scope of my prevention type, one, of course, is the lack of primary care practitioners, family practitioners. hopefully we're going to address that in both this bill and the financial community bill that somehow we have got to increase the pipeline more general practitioners and fewer specialists. i had a heart doctor friend of mine, he's now retired and said to me one time, look, you want more family practitioners out there, which he said i agree you need, he said pay them as much as you pay

slams in one series.ra the last national league playere to hit two grand slams in the same series was robin ventura in 1999. he hit slams in both games of a doubleheader. >> we'll have all the highlights for you on the next "baseball tonight," 10:00 eastern on espn. >> thanks, fellas. the chicago baseball writers who hold hall of fame votes met today to discuss what to do about players tied to performance-enhancing drugs. six of the eight most prestigious sluggers in the steroid era have been directly tied to p.e.d.s -- bonds, mcgwire, sosa, a-rod and manny, leaving just ken griffey, jr., and jim thome unscathed. chris deluca is the national baseball columnist for the "chicago sun-times," one of the hall of fame voters at that meeting. chris, what happened today? >> i think everybody wanted to get together and just talk about this. it's become such a hot issue since the sammy sosa revelation. people needed guidance. rick calendar, one of my colleagues at the sun "times" asked about this last week. we decided to get together before this cub-sox game at u.s. cellular field, and there was a lo

but then again i had the luxury of rooming with robin roberts when i was 19, having veteran pitchers that led the way. >> rob: we don't have a lot of veterans. our oldest guy in ouroation has 50-plus starts, he's 25 years old. >> bob: here's a guy, you got to go right at him, but he's only walked five times in the year. >> jim p.: watch this helicopter swing. >> jim h.: there's a strike, 2- 1. already bullpen activity. >> jim p.: the last thing dave trembley wants to do is relieve jeremy guthrie. but he's putting him in a pretty awkward position. where you have to get somebody up. >> jim h.: fastball is high, ball three. the two balls put in play began the inning back-to-back singles, since then three walks and a called strike three. now 3-1 on belliard. sharply hit foul. >> rob: we see guthrie working from the windup. is that because he's uncomfortable in the stretch. is that because he thinks he has better stuff in the windup? >> jim p.: i think he's the starting pitcher and he doesn't think that the runner from third is going to steal. he's just struggling to put a pitch over. you

irving the names of birds by the nunamiut eskimo robin equals koyapigaktonuk. nobody bothered to check. .. >> and you will find out that we don't agree. everything. we agree on some things. he is the associate professor of climatology at the university of delaware also the style of art -- estate dollar climatologist from 2002 through the president and his governor joined him on speaking out against climate change they have state climatology's so i am sure he will have nothing to say for pro governor kaine asked me to do the same which is what i will be full time at the cato institute speak being freely starting july 1st. is also the director of the world's most unique micro and meteorological networks the delaware observing system in which people learn a tremendous amount of fine scale distribution of climate within a small city and a large city and farm to farm this is the high-tech stuff. he holds the be a and ph.d. really love their to go to the university of oklahoma for nine and a half years and delaware which is the only institution in the united states t

our first panel we have robin beaton, who is a policyholder from walkahatchee, texas. miss peggy raddatz from illinois. and miss wittney horton from los angeles, california. welcome all of you. thank you for coming. it's the policy of the subcommittee to take all testimony under oath. please be advised that you have a right under the rules of the house to be advised by counsel during your testimony. do you wish to be represent the by counsel during your testimony? you're all shaking your heads no? so -- okay. i'm going to ask you to please rise and raise your right hand to take the oath. miss beaton, if you want to sit there, that's okay. do you swear or affirm the testimony you're about to give will be the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth in the matter pending before this committee? let the record reflect the witnesses replied in the affirmative. they are now under oath. we will hear a five-minute opening statement from each of you. miss beaton, would you like to start first with an opening? you'd like to be last? miss horton, would you mind being firs

robin wright and the front. >> i have a question for friend. a couple of questions actually -- can you take a look or compare for us the kind of activism ec and the melon by man today resisted early days of the revolution when they had dreams of exporting and were a visibly helping a lot of groups on the eastern some golf and region as well deeper in the arab world and also compared with what the saudis are doing with a use of your own funds in promoting mosques in the region. it to what degree those to are trying to counter each other or in this really their own domestic agenda. >> i think there is opposed revolutionary time in that in the appeal or i ran's ideology it is time to sell is a mix of rejection as some, it can arguably called pan-arabism and there is an interesting quote from an official in has a love that's and iran foreign-policy is essentially sunni because iran has essentially coopted your ticket number and number of traditionally pan arab concerns and i think it's an interesting dynamic, no longer export a pure revolutionary s

governmental entities and the most vivid example happened to someone you know quite well, joe thomas's wife, robin, was serving as a volunteer and took a call from a man who went back into his home and found his mother's body. there was no one to call about 211. i think that you were urgency to continue this funding and legislation speaks to the need of american people and i want to thank do for that. >> thank you. any closing comments? >> senator i just want to make also add thanks having spent a few years doing this i've gotten good at realizing there hasn't been a lot of efficacy on the hill, consistent advocacy on disaster response and recovery and to the .1 of the things we have seen with the ready come emt initiative is i know the you are focused on hurricanes your constituency, that's your geography, that's one of the biggest threats that you face but over the course the last 60 days have a little bit of a shake in the los angeles region and we've had a scare from pandemic and the one recognition and the one thing i strongly encourage you to do is let's make this about the need for better c

. >> hi, my name is robin michaelson. welcome to close-up at the newseum. >> hello, my name is molly burke and we will be talking to bob schieffer about politics and the media. >> i am frank bond. we are in the night studio located on pennsylvania in washington d.c. where each week we bring students face to face with current events and the workings of government and of the press. our students generate most of the questions and comments in the discussion. this week our audience consists of students from the close-up academy and the washington center as well. let's meet some of them now. welcome to close-up at the newseum. tell us you are and where you are from. >> i am stotland kester from crofton nebraska. >> what has been the highlight of this week in washington? >> basically being in washington dc. being from a town of 700 people we don't get an opportunity to come to a place like this, the national capital. >> did you get to spend time on capitol hill? did you visit your congressional what is on their minds? >> we ask

governmental entities, and the most vivid example happened with someone you know quite well, joe thomas' wife robin was serving as a volunteer and took a call from a man who went back into his home and found his mother's body. there was no one for him to call but 211. i think that your urgency to continue this funding and this legislation speaks to the need of american people, and i want to thank you for that. >> thank you very much. all right. any closing comments? >> senator, i just want to make, also add the thanks to it. you know, having spent a few years doing this, i've gotten pretty good at realizing there's not been a lot of advocacy on the hill on the issues of disaster response and recovery. and to your point and one of the things that we've seen with the ready communities initiative is i know you're focused on hurricanes, that's your constituency, that's your geography, that's one of the biggest threats we've faced, but over the course of the last 60 days we've had a little bit of a shake in the los angeles region, we've had a scare from pandemic, and i think the one thing i strongly enc

robin wright. in the front here, katie. >> thanks i have a question for fred. couple of questions, actually. can you take a look or compare for us the kind of activism you see the meddling by iran today versus the early days of the revelation, when they had dreams of exporting and -- revolution, when they had dreams of exporting and were much -- were visibly helping a lot of groups, eastern saudi arabia, the eastern gulf, region as well as deeper in the arab world. and also, compare it with the what the oddies -- saudis are doing in promoting their own funds, promoting wahhbism, building mosquealize over the region and to what degree those two are trying to counter each other or is this really just their own domestic agenda. >> i think there's a qualitative difference between obviously the post-revolutionary period in that the appeal -- iran's ideology that it's trying to sell is a mix of rejectionism, it can arguably be called pan arabism. in fact there's an interesting quote from abofficial in hezbollah which said iran's foreign policy is essentially sunni be

it in this hearing will receive testimony from robin savages of network carriers and regional carriers, from the air transport association and the regional airline association respectively. it will also hear from the air line pilots association and mr. scott -- scott mauer representing the families of the continental express flight 3407 which crashed on february 12th of this year in new york. i do want to say as well as mr. this hearing and that i had intended it and wished to have representatives of the carriers themselves at a hearing and so we did not accomplish that today. i am not minimizing and all other representatives of the 80 a but i will wish to expand invitation and have representatives of the airlines themselves here within the next month or so. it is important i think that they wouldn't accept an invitation to, and so i will extend those invitations again. in this country i think it is safe to say that we have a remarkably safe system of air travel. it is not my intention with hearings about aviation safety to alarm anyone about taking a flight to on a regional carrier wh

amount of danger and also threaten the viability of a speech to the fashion in the west bank arab robins reasons the strength of wayne. so there are a lot of petitions about the way this is going to work out but at the end of the day it comes down to iran my getting nuclear weapons and not shipped in the balance of power that right now keeps the region, i'm not going to stay stable but more stable than it could be. >> that is a the other side of the question which to barack obama has said it would be intolerable for the iranians and this regime, this regime to get a clear weapons. president bush said the same thing, the israelis are saying it and some people the israelis really mean it. >> and i continue to hear about possible plans for a strike but as i understand it's a strike would probably be one of the more complex military operation is not just in israeli history by military history given the idea of a a flyover of the mediterranean and over turkey and iraq into iran, hitting every side with perfect intelligence and having multiple times with u.s.-made munitions and needed to get u

this is what happened to one of our witnesses here today, [ applause ] robin beaton. we'll also hear from mr. horton and mr. raddatz where the threat or actual termination of insurance policies cause pain, frustration and great expense. we may be here to discuss valid uses for procedural aspects of recisions, medical underwriting, and other corporate practices. there are some actions we should no longer allow insurance companies to do. playing gotcha with policyholders who have serious illnesses and huge expenses must stop. insurance companies cannot wait until customers are sick or filing claims to verify their medical history and decide whether or not they want them as a customer. this is what they're supposed to be doing when they sign the member up. if the company does not conduct a review of unclear or incomplete information on the application, then the plan should not use subsequently acquired information as a basis for rescinding coverage. this practice is known as post-claims underwriting. the company should conduct its due diligence at the time the applicatio