have you reported on ron paul's legislation to audit the fed? this legislation is chaired by four members, multi-millionaires and a think it is at the root of many of our deals are now. woodrow wilson put that into power at the same time that stalin was coming into power in russia. i'm not in that every democrat is communists, but i think that he was. he imprisoned people. i think that if you were to poll the american people 95% of those who would know anything would want the fed completely severed from the government. guest: that is a growing sentiment right now, the concern about the fed's power. on the ron paul legislation specifically, he has introduced a bill to audit the fed. right now the fed is audited internally extensively and has some outside auditing from the government accountability office, but it is limited because the fed is intended to be an independent institution. you do not want the fed, congress and political authorities interfering in something like the management of interest rates because the fed officials may need to rais

ron paul wants to go back to the gold standard. what is everybody going to do, carry around a will barrel -- carry around a wheelbarrow full of gold? the federal reserve is basically a government bank that will allow people or allow the government to print money, put it out there to make things easier for everybody. is real simple. realistically, you can go about it anywhere and they can print out a promissory note and create money like the federal reserve. the only thing is, they regulate it much better, and it is designed to structure the economy well. host: i think we are going to have to leave it there because we have to go to the phone, pearl davenport, an energy reporter who will catch us up to speed on what is happening in the u.s. house on it and the energy and climate change bill. are you there? guest: good morning. host: where are they in the house? guest: well, it looks like they are going to bring it up for today for debate. it looks like the rules they have set up for debate means that we may get a vote today. this is

ron paul. host: randy is next from california. caller: it is yet to be determined. there's not a clear standout voice for the republicans. of course, for the conservatives, rush limbaugh is doing a pretty good job. dick cheney is making his will alone. as far as sarah palin, first of all, she motivated me to become a nra lifetime member of this year. i'd really like her. i think she has a good record. she is a popular governor. when the mainstream media people like amy walter say she needs to bring something to the table -- what did barack obama bring to the table when he was running? i did not see any plethora of experience or anything that he brought. the pendulum will swing. democrats were in the wilderness just a few years ago. we will get over it. thank you, c-span. host: this e-mail from john from tennessee. host: more from last night's dinner with the former speaker of the house, the keynote address by newt gingrich. >> i think our goals should be to reach out to the american people in every possible way, to make sure that john boehner becomes the speaker of

the ron paul website explains it better than i can. i would like to hear them talk about ron paul at the federal reserve. caller: it is important to read the bill. guest: cap and trade has been going on for a decade. this is been a gradual process. we have had debates for a while. john mccain has been a leader in pushing similar legislation. this agenda did not surprise anybody. it is one that president-elect barack obama campaigned on. the details were well-understood by leaders of both parties in the house. host: the president expressed doubt about the tariff provision in the bill. does he go into this negotiation with political capital and getting out of the bill once it goes to the senate? guest: he gave an interview yesterday and it was an effort to influence the senate debate. they want to take out what they see as a protectionist item in the house compromise. hopefully, they will have help doing that. there is still room to strengthen the senate bill for it is far weaker than the house bill. there has to the effort made to make

while i do not endorse the ron paul bill, it does seem to me that we should have a lively public debate about how independent the fed should be and are there ways to maintain that independence while at the same time we increase the accountability. host: up all the fed has done since the beginning of the financial crisis until now, have expanded their role -- is the barn door open? kenyan not get the genie back into the bottle? guest: you raise a very valid point. it seems to be once but that has demonstrated that it at least thinks it has these powers and it has exercised these powers, it would be very difficult to say to a fed chairman and a fed board 10 years from now or 20 years from now, no, you can't do that, when the id

look at the money barack obama raised on-line, look at the money that ron paul raised on-line. here you have ron paul a libertarian conservative who raised more money than all of these mainstream canada's route the final quarter of 2007, a conservative leader can rise, a real conservative over the past quarter century that can raise millions and millions of dollars and made the republican party your element so the republican party needs to reform itself or die and i'm not sure what it is going to do. >> host: you talk in the book, striking pieces of advice with this party ought to do and the republicans to do over the next few years. you want to tell us domestically and in foreign affairs? >> guest: it has got to show restraint, first of all, piven that is how we got to where we are right now. and, yes, we have to spend some money at this stage we're in an economically but we have to understand and again that this single issue that is unified conservatives to the years moderates republicans, conservative republicans and even liberal republicans most have believed in less govern

first, i was wondering if you were aboard with ron paul's idea of auditing the federal reserve, which is a pretty big issue. if you want more information, go to infowars.com. it is like a giant ponzi scheme run by bernie madoff. guest: i have a co-sponsor of that bill. the federal reserve system ais a private bank. they have been doing some amazing things lately. i think it is extremely a proper for the federal government and those of us in congress to know what the federal reserve is doing. so i think it is a very good bill that ron paul has, with a lot of co-sponsors, and it is basic transparency. the federal reserve is doing things on the up and up, and they should be willing to share that information with us because they do control our money supply. there was an article that appeared two weeks ago on a thursday in the editorial page of "it will street journal" which shows what they have done with m1, which is the supply of money. you go back from 1960, van de graaff

i've got a question first i was wondering if you were a co-sponsor for ron paul's federal reserve, which is a pretty big issue if you want to find out a lot more information infoworld.com ann gates like a ponzi scheme with bernie madoff. i appreciate program. thank you. >> guest: to answer the question i am a co-sponsor of that bill. the federal reserve system of course is a private bank. they've been doing some very amazing things lately. i think it is extremely appropriate for the federal government and those of us in congress elected to office to know what the federal reserve is doing, and so i think it is a very good bill that ron paul has. a lot of co-sponsors. that's a basic transparency of the federal reserve is doing things in the up and out than they should be willing to share that information with us because they do control our suwannee supply. there was an article that appeared to weeks ago on a thursday which shows what they have done with the supply of money in the olden days because of that running the printing press and you go back from 1960 and it is buzzing out and down

caller: i am a supporter of ron paul. a belief in his programs. i think the american people made a tragic mistake choosing between mccain and obama. my question to your guess is, do we need a new commission to come into looking -- to look at downsizing the government? why shouldn't the government do the same thing? the government is inflationary and we need to downsize it. let's do it immediately. your comments? guest: i disagree. i think it is crazy that we are even talking about this at a time when we are having the biggest crisis in 70 years. it amazes me that you have all these people on the right side of the aisle still talking about how we of to cut government workers and the budget. we need to be inflating this economy, giving people jobs. host: our next call from kentucky, good morning. let me share with you part of the interview we did with president obama from the library of the white house. one of the questions we asked him is a comment made that he was a pragmatist. here is his response. >> what is the way to achieve an outcome where t

ron paul is a member of the gop doctors caucus. guest: dr. paul is inan outstanding member of the gop doctors caucus. i have respect for him,nd when dr. spall -- and when dr. paul speaks, we listen. host: also, dr. tom coburn will join us tomorrow morning on the program. last call, go ahead, frank. caller: i would like to ask mr. gingrich -- host: frank, we can hear you. go ahead. caller: everything they asked for, they pushed it through. and when we get a democrat that takes over, we have a whole bunch of stuff up and everything else. he kept on for 80 years now, they push things through the way they want. they kept on for eight years now, they pushed things through that they want. every time some millionaire comes up there and once to push something through, they do it with flying colors. guest: thank you for your call. you are getting right down to the root of politics now, and certainly we only have two major parties in this country. every two years, every member of the house of representatives, all 435 of us, are up for reelection. and 1/

. >> host: question from david of ohio wondering if ron paul is a member of the gop doctors caucus? >> dr. paul is a member of the gop doctors caucus. he's an outstanding member of the republican conference and outstanding physician. he is ob/gyn who is probably delivered more babies than i have. i have respect for him and when dr. paul speaks we all listen. >> host: another doctor is dr. colburn from oklahoma who will be joining tomorrow. last call, where are you from? >> caller: [inaudible] >> host: go ahead, frank. >> caller: i would like to ask mr. gingrey -- >> host: we can hear you, go ahead. >> caller: i would like to ask mr. gingrey [inaudible] they pushed it through and how we get a democrat

ron paul's site tops a lot about it. host: the importance of being able to read the bill? guest: it is important, but this cap and trade bill has been going on for decades. it has been gradual. you have had debate on it for the last several congresses. the have improved on the past previous efforts. john mccain has been a leader previously in pushing legislation on this. this agenda did not surprise. it is one president obama campaigned on it, the details of which were well-understood by leaders of both parties in the house. host: here is an article on the terror provision that was in the bill. as to go into this negotiation with the senate was some political capital? guest: president obama gave interviews concerning the energy bill which was widely reported as an effort to try to influence the senate debate. they want to take out what they see as a protectionist item in the house compromise and hopefully have some success. there is still a lot of room to strengthen the senate bill. right now it is far weaker than the house bill. there has been to the many efforts made. ho

originally, it is house resolution 1207 and was offered by ron paul of texas. it had 135 co-sponsors. at the time a democrat from florida who we started helping decided to start whipping democratic co-sponsors, sen now there is 222. we have been active in keeping track of those votes and it is another situation we are seeing an interesting coalition come together of conservative republicans and progressive democrats who won more transparency and an end to their parents. there is nothing you said i disagree with and i am pretty progressive. host: one of the aspects i am reading is about the detainee photos. guest: the detainee photos are gone. they sort of kept those into the bill in the middle of the night. i think a lot of people did not even know what they were voting for. it came on the radar when barney frank called me and said this is in the bill. even people like me who want to vote for this will not do so. i think they were thrown in there said there would be something to deal out so progressives feel like they would get something. i sort of thought that

caller: i paid a lot of attention to the republican debate, and i like a lot of what ron paul says about our military around the country and around the world. we have the military in 30 countries, which is quite a lot. why can't we just scale back our military to, say, 65 countries and limit the amount of money we're spending? we are borrowing 49 cents of every dollar that we spend. i am wondering why that cannot be done, because 65 countries to me sounds like a lot, and that would cut the number in half from where we are today. i will take my answer offline. thank you. guest: thank you for your question. when you are stretched over 130 different countries, you can imagine the wear and tear on our military, on our system here, and what tradeoffs have to occur. in a lot of ways, carrying a heavier load, this is where i know president obama is aggressively approaching as well, as both republicans and democrats view it as a non- partisan issue when it comes to engaging our allies around the country, around the globe, to step up to do more than one they are doing today. your argument is a ve

ron paul is the only candidate running for president used that as a promise as elected. neither afghanistan or iraq pose any threat, military or economic, to the united states. there are a lot of people who feel we should of been out there a long time ago. that being said, supporting the troops also when they come back home, to make sure that they have hospitals, therapy, all kinds of help that they need. the highest suicide rate per soldier of any war. but going back to the beginning of the war -- and i think "newsweek" was very fair, but i think the press, the fourth estate really fell asleep at the wheel. the wheat now see that these were not miscalculations on mistakes of intelligence but calculated lies to get us into the war from the bush-cheney administration. guest: well, i think that the debate over the pre-war intelligence is fascinating. i think the debate over the role of the press is particularly telling. and i had this conversation, as you might imagine, a lot with people. i don't know that i agree with the emergence of conventional wisdom that the press co

ron paul worked on this plan. has endorsed it. he's not here. congressman miller supports the plan. so we have come in a united way. we have two other people who have worked on it also. we have tom price who is a senior member of our committee and mike castle. mike is not here. most of you know mike. he's very involved over the past few days in making some decisions. but they are very supportive. and then we have our vice chairman of the committee, randi nugenbauer. we've met with randy's office and he has scheduled all the meetings and we have had several meetings. we've ironed this thing out and we knew we needed to get it right. let me say this, financial services, regulatory reform and the structure of our regulatory system is of critical importance and we knew that we had to get it right. we're offering today our solutions to address the causes of the financial crisis that we've all been going through, us and the families we represent. and to create a more transparent and accountable regulatory system. you'll see that a lot of what we propose here is about accountability and tr

caller: both dennis cuse niche and ron paul. but they never have a huge voice. but also, in a third party, mckinny and the green party. and michael bat anywheric of the libertarian party. guest: that's a recipe for disenfranchise. sintsdza mckinny right after 9/11 was peddling conconspiracyy theories accusing our own government of being behind the nine letch attacks. and those two candidates that he mentioned were like in last place. given the 98% or so of reelection rate of incumbents in the senate, for example, to completely run off both major parties is a recipe for just selft erashor politically. i think it's very irresponsible for advocates for lgbt or any other advocates to demand perfection. no political franchise is perfect. the department of justice brief in the doma case did not exactly call us ped filse. there was a reference to various other things. i think the argument was if we have to allow this, we have to allow other things, which is completely ill logical, because making one change does not mean you have to change everything. you advocate for c

. >> caller: i see a lot of attention to the republican debate and i like a lot of what ron paul said as far as how the military is around the world. apparently we have the military and one-hundred 30 countries. actually i didn't know there were 130 countries, i think that's quite a lot but i was curious why can't we scale back from the list is a 65 countries and limit the amount of money we're spending because we are actively borrowing 49 cents of every dollar we spend and have so many problems at home with health care and the economy we need to scale back the military so i'm wondering why can that not be done? 65 countries to me sounds like a lot and felt cut the number in half of where we are today. i will take my answer offline. >> guest: thank you for the question and it's a good point with a restrictive for 130 different countries you can imagine the wire and terror of the military on the system and what the tradeoffs have to occur. in a lot of ways the united states has been carrying a heavier load as times progress on dealing with international issues with regard to conflicts

ron paul got the traction, he got in those debates and was magnificent and they laughed at him. i disagree with him on many issues that he was up there like a teacher laying out the constitution, he was brilliant. by the end of that primary season, they were glad, he had done his job and he didn't care. they were dismissive of the other candidates, dismissive of them which was very effective. and he would show up again and again. he really connected. i don't say get away from that, but at the same time, have some positions on those hot button issues and see if you can't get something going and see where you stand when the pressure it. >> i am emily, one of the things i noticed in examining the conflict between the 2 sides is that while conservatives as he mentioned, have varying degrees of positions on certain things like abortion where some have conditional, pro-life, some have absolute pro-life, the liberal camp seems to present much more united front because they will spread their arms out and welcome just about everything. how do we effectively combat that and effectively le

ron ba loan, 16 strikeouts, in a nine-inning game with the reds. >> johnny: yeah, loose helping up. johnny cueto facing, now, anderson hernandez. >> rob: that curve paul in there for strike one. >> johnny: will nieves will be on deck. pitch just outside and it's one ball and one strike.  time becoming a facto the nats tonight in this ball game. hernandez topped to second back in the second, grounded out to second again in the fourth. ball club needs some base runners.  out of play and a bal strikes. >> rob: sometimes the rain delayed ball games comes out and throws your routine off, you go to work at 7:05, a rain delay of an hour and 15 minutes, all of a sudden you wake up and "oh my goodness, we're in the seventh inning, down 3-1, we have got three hits." get it goin' here. we have got to try to get on any way they can. get the tying run to the plate. >> johnny: two balls and two strikes for the nats' second baseman. johnny cueto has worked his way out of trouble on more than one occasion. a couple of double plays to get him out of trouble. 41 balls, 59 strikes, 100 pitches thrown thus far