i'm proud of you, sean. keep pressing on, babe. >>> security at local emergency rooms is in question after a man fires a flair gun inside of a maryland hospital. digital correspondent kristin fisher has more from prince georges hospital center in cheverly. >> reporter: 39-year-old evan gerald graham walked in the emergency room on saturday night. but when he became disorderly with staff, he was asked to leave by a security guard. >> pulled out a flare gun and pointed it at the security guard. after that he fired two shots in to the air, struck the ceiling of the hospital. >> reporter: fortunately no one here was injured in the incident but that's not always the case. health care workers are twice as likely as those in other fields to be injured in a violent act at work and the emergency room is by far the most dangerous place. 20% of emergency departments report that gun organization knives are brought in to the er on a daily or weekly basis and less than half screen or have metal detectors. the emergency nu

and i think that what sean wilentz is saying here is that polk was the instrument of the sentiment that emerged, and i make it very clear that he emerged very powerfully in america, largely as a result of the annexation of texas. >> go back to, you say you're reading the newspaper articles and the diary, did you read the diary in printed form or in longhand form? >> no, i get too frustrated trying to read people who had the handwriting of people from the 19th century. i read it in printed form. it was published by the chicago public library in four volumes, and i had all four volumes. and i went over it very, very, very carefully. >> i accessed it on the -- google has got it on there. >> yes. >> watch it on your computer. did you read it all? >> oh, yes, yes, i read it all multiple times really. i went over it and over it. took notes from it. i really came very close to memorizing it. >> if you had the four volumes and stacked them up, how thick was it? >> each one was 500 pages. >> so he had 2,000 pages of typewritten diary? >> uh-huh. >> and how often -- and this is only from the pres

sean goldman and his dad landing in orlando after an international custody fight.adlines shortly, now back to larry king. >> this i'm pulling this very hard. that was in her skin there. there and this here. these are quills. take these home to your sons and let them fight each other. just kidding, larry, don't do that. >> larry: no, they will. how is this one different from the other that was bigger? >> the african porcupine is much bigger than the north american porcupine. there's a barb there. the minute you touch this animal, whether it be a cougar or bobcat to try to eat it, the quill will come off in their mouth or hand and infect them. >> let's meet the striped skunk. >> be careful. just take your time. no hurry here. >> larry: here comes the striped skunk. >> there, see the tail goes up, right? >> larry: does that mean he's going to smell? >> could be, yeah. larry, i want to encourage people to not try to pick up a baby skunk. number one, they'll get sprayed and two, they carry the rabies virus. animals could have the -- not show symptoms but carry the rabie

sean goldman and his dad arriving in orlando from brazil, ending a five-year international custody fightmore headlines shortly. now back to larry king. >> larry: we're in the rainforest with jack hanna on "larry king live." and a hungry ocelot. >> larry, you may have heard about the ocelot. >> larry: it smells a little weird. >> it's a urine smell that they have to mark their territory. that type of thing. the ocelot, though, i'm sorry to say back in the '60s and '70s was sold as a lot of pets. it's a wild cat. all spotted cats are endangered. the ocelot is endangered. where it was in the '60s and '70s -- larry, look at that coat. absolutely gorgeous. you can see why people hunted the animal. now, they can now make the fake furs which is much, much better on everybody. but the ocelot's an animal, larry, you smell that odor. that's how they mark their territory. the ocelot is nocturnal, and notorious for finding birds and stuff at night. this cat, larry, could walk by you six inches from where you're sleeping in the jungle, you'd never, ever hear this animal. and even to see one in the wi

our next caller is sean. caller: yes, i had a question.you could turn the volume down on your tv set. caller: yes -- host: sean,i will put you on hold. caller: ok, i had a question. i support the war to end the war. can we just like fire bomb or clean sweep these valleys where the enemy is at? with nonconventional nuclear weapons? guest: the answer is no. american war strategy does not call for killing afghan civilians. a guerrilla war is extremely difficult for a lot of reasons that are well known. among them is the taliban and much the population are in separatable in places. and one thing that the president asked for in this review is a province by province assessment as trudy was talking about. where are the conventional leaders and who are the leaders that can take control so the u.s. doesn't have to put troops in. but wiping out villages is something that is not possible. host: next caller. caller: good morning, our troops over there they have a hard time determining who are the good guys and who are the bad guys. when we pay these t

and sean, in the review of my book, suggests -- i've never seen this noted before come but this lincoln speech and some other speeches along the same lines could be attributable more to lincoln's partisanship that to any fundamental will socle ground. >> and lincoln was a one-term congressman. >> it was assumed that this group of people in illinois, district would trade off, but lincoln wanted to remain in washington. even if his colleagues in illinois had wanted him to, his opposition to polk and the nature of his opposition had thrown away his prospect of having another term. the boilers on the mexican war, what did polk have to do with that? what was the end result? >> one week and next taxes, mexico considered that to be an act of war. mexico had not been able to get texas back. but they had never recognize that texas independence. now we have texas and mexico which draws its ambassador. they threatened to declare war on the united states agree that leads to huge tensions between the united states and mexico. polk sent an army to the rio grande in disputed territory. a skirmish brea

last night we spoke to the father of sean goldman who was on his way to brazil to be reunited with hisow to those hopes by the brazilian courts. >> larry: what did the courts do? do they take a vacation? >> they basically stopped the -- there was one judge which allowed this reunion to happen, and then another court stepped in and said it shouldn't happen. so it's really up in the air. this isn't the first time they've done this, but for this dad it's just heart breaking. >> larry: that's just so sad. what makes you angry. prejudice should make you angry. people who look upon other people just because of race, creed, color. >> absolutely. and people mistreating other people. that makes us upset. we know that's not right. but, you know, things like that. >> yeah. >> larry: same with you. >> yeah. you know, you can't spend your time being angry. you know, you have to think -- it makes you angry. but, you know, you've just got to belief that people are going to, you know, get over this. because there is a lot of things in the world that can make you angry. you could stay angry a lot. >> l

last night we spoke with the father of 9-year-old sean goldman who was on his way he to the reunitedith his son. a stunning blow today. >> larry: anderson, did the courts take a vacation? >> they stopped -- there was one judge that allowed this reunion to happen, and then another court stepped in and said it shouldn't happen. so it's really up in the air. this isn't the first time they've done this, but for this dad it's just heart-breaking. >> larry: shaethat's so sad. prejudice should make you angry. people who look upon people just because of race, creed and color. >> absolutely. things like that do, and people mistreating other people. that makes us upset and know that's not right. things like that. >> larry: same with you? >> yeah. you got to just -- you can't spend your time being angry, you know. you have to think -- >> larry: something makes you angry. >> it makes you angry, but you have to believe that people are going to, you know, get over this because there is a lot of things that can make you angry. you could stay angry a lot. >> larry: no kidding. what do you make he of

i don't -- sean hannity is not a hard target. let's be honest that i would love to go on his show and talk to him, so that was my self publishing process. i would say if there's anyone out there who wants to self publish, just be ready to do a lot of work. the amount of editing, you can find any mistakes in my book, please let me know. but it was probably six or seven and getting process that i would encourage anyone out there that they're passionate about just go for it. don't like. >> you've got a booth here at the l.a. times festival. you have to put this together. a cost of a bitter, chevy put into it? >> all in all, it's probably been a couple, two or 3000 to get to this point. i would say that it's -- if i had to do it over again i would do it exactly the same way. i think i would prefer to self publish this book. i refer to myself as a political activist, self-publishing is part of the self-publishing activist that i would encourage those out there if you're passionate about it, you've got to go for yourself that you can't

and the takeover of the republican party by the rush limbaugh, sarah palin, sean hannity types because this at some point people are going to get tired of the democrats and the only alternative is going to be the republicans and they are going to vote for the republicans. and these are the republicans then we have a real problem. we have a serious, serious problem on our hands. they've shown their incompetence and governing and that has led to some horace, and if you add on top of it this craziness, it is something to worry about. but i do think we may have a generation -- conservative ascendancy. i'm hoping that we are kind of entering a bumpy just as the conservative sentence seat was always -- did not always mean conservatives in charge of everything. i hope we are entering a bumpy kind of incidents each and what i really hope is there will be increasing attention given to this kind of political hydraulics that i've been talking about of looking at our system doing instead of worshiping the founding fathers in the take the founding fathers, do what the foun

sure, says jonathan patz-- t former sovt union will have a longer growing sean, but he says lers will outnumber wiers. >> a mority of agricultural areas will suffe and the verse effects will outweigh the benefial effects. >> suare in developing nations, the increasin temperatures could affecthe ability to beconomically productive. ashe world's poorest people try to work themsees out of poverty, the clites they live in are making it harder toork rd. dr. tord kjellstrom studs the effects of climate on work. and as the only way to protect your body from oveeat and heatstroke, which may ev kill you, is to tually slow down work. it means you are ls efficient the work you do. and you t less income. if you are an agricultural rker who is cutting sugar ca in nicaragua, r instance, you will produce less gar per day ift's very hot and you get paid less. >> suarez: rising heatevels, according to kjellstrom,s an added taon the poor, who must work longer hours inhe hot mont to maintain meager incomes. new seasal patterns will force anges in daily life in the wealthy industrializ countrs. declining

get in shape, and i said i am doing a lot of lifting, boxing, and he thought about it for a second sean said, why don't you just play rugby. >> coming up, you will see for about the new movie, invic tuesday. you will find out what it is like bring ago true story filled with inspiration to the big screen. >> maryland, eastern kentucky, you saw on the big screen. gregory, served an #-game suspension of the year. late for a shoot around. gregory 8 pointings, 2 blocks, vasquez, 30 points, 2 rebounds. chick hernandez with the head coach, gary williams after the win. >> thank you very much. obviously, eastern kentucky team, you knew they would rebound pretty well. what was that? >> i thought the defense got tougher. defense, there are things tough do but intensity is very important to the defense. i picked it off that game went on in this second half. they could have easily won the game. they deserve a lot of credit. it is one of those december games, once you got it you feel pretty good, but it was hard. we had to work for 40 minutes. >> vasguez did not get the start, but comes off the bench

. >> joe: steckel and morrison up front on a night play play without sean morrison who aggravated anight in november. kyle wilson and josh erskine reasoning. -- returning. washington without several players still. sam gagner's pass, not quite to the intended target, and the chant is let's go oilers! five and a half into the third period. making it interesting for washington. green, shoulder to shoulder with potulny. point position for gilbert. braces himself for the high hit. green knocked him down. >> craig: he tried to throw and drag. his stick was broken in half. >> joe: gilbert revving it up for edmonton. cody serving just another three second. he's at the penalty box door. back to even strength for the capitals. important penalty kill there. now we will see if washington can continue the offensive momentum. stone, away somes alexander. o'sullivan waits. good solid defensive play. alex ovechkin fires, kicks, saves, he scores! ovechkin taking matters into his own hands. >> craig: and getting a big cheer to boot here in edmonton. one-man band to start the third period. end to end,

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phil shilera and sean moch worked to defend the administration, done a tremendous job. and dana singheiser as well for her work. we'll make these lists available for the record, madam president. but i wanted to thank these individuals again for their fine, fine work. madam president, i want to speak, if i can today about, not as my capacity as a senior member of the health, education, labor, and pensions, nor in my capacity as one of the coauthors of the underlying legislation, but rather in my capacity, as i said at the outset of these remarks, as a senator representing 3.5 million residents of the state of connecticut. the neighboring state, my good friend and colleague, the presiding officer represents new hampshire in new england. if you travel my state, madam president, you will meet some of the world's most talented and dedicated health care professionals, tour some of the nation's finest hospitals where patients get world-class treatment. but you'll hear heartbreaking stories from people in my state, people who have come from middle-class families who have lost e

with two minutes left in regulation sean cleveland pooches a 23-yard field goal that would have given redskins a two-possession lead. mike sellers takes the pass from jason campbell but he fumbles, it's recovered by the saints at the redskins 37. and new orleans capitalizes with garrett hartley's 18-yard game winner to give the saints the improbable victory. now shaun suisham is on shaky ground despite hitting on 18 of 21 field goal attempts this year. but chic hernandez did confirm today that the 'skins will bring in a few kickers to work out tomorrow one of which is former terp and former redskin nick novak. he hit this game winner in 2006 against the cowboys. how could you forget. there could be a change in the running back rotation as well. quinton ganther is likely to get the start sunday against the raiders which clearly is news that may not please current starter rock cartwright. and we think quinton is a pretty good runner, finishes runs off a little bit better, you know. so, you just go with this, it's not what rock isn't doing, we think it's what quinton may be able to do fo

that was pointed out that sean hannity was not using the arch will footage. -- the actual footage.will say that with his health care, even though it was somewhat watered-down, the train has left the station. you could not deal with this man in one year. he still kept us from going into a depression. he got us health care. he got a peace prize. if his opposition is just simply going to do all these silly things that they do to him, it's going to cost the republican party. host: a couple of stories on soldiers. we will be speaking with military service members from afghanistan this morning. that is from the times of london on line this morning. and here is a look at the open court orange county register" this morning. that is from this morning's "orange county register." go ahead, butch, good morning. host: happy holidays. the most important to me was the situation with a and bin laden when we have the mentor bora -- when we had him in the torah borah, we pulled our special forces out. this was under bush. if you go back a little ways and realize that after 9/11, the only plane that

people like rush limbaugh and sean hannity, they could crush the health-insurance bill in two days if they wanted to. i think it was a trade-off. republicans get the war and they are happy, democrats get their health insurance and the people get screwed. host: roanoke, va. caller: no matter what they decide i would like them to be able to implement whatever it is and run it honestly. right now they're not doing a very good job. maybe they can put unemployed people to work. host: dallas, republican line. your thoughts? caller: they need to start over again entirely. they need to concentrate on reducing costs, to start with, then see a thing need to increase. we are going to lose a lot of doctors in this country. ridiculous, thinking that we would add 30 million people to this health care situation. thank you. host: delaware, good morning. caller: good morning. i think it is sad but we do not all have rights to health insurance. i do not see what the bickering is about. why can we not all have health care? host: all right. bob cusack, you have been listening to the phone calls for the l

that was pointed out that sean hannity was not using the arch will footage. -- the actual footage. but i will say that with his health care, even though it was somewhat watered-down, the train has left the station. you could not deal with this man in one year. he still kept us from going into a depression. he got us health care. he got a peace prize. if his opposition is just simply going to do all these silly things that they do to him, it's going to cost the republican party. host: a couple of stories on soldiers. we will be speaking with military service members from afghanistan this morning. that is from the times of london on line this morning. and here is a look at the open court orange county register" this morning. that is from this morning's "orange county register." go ahead, butch, good morning. host: happy holidays. the most important to me was the situation with a and bin laden when we have the mentor bora -- when we had him in the torah borah, we pulled our special forces out. this was under bush. if you go back a little ways and realize that after 9/11, the only plan

host: sean is on the republican line from louisiana. caller: yes, ma'am, i have a statement for mr.u think that will take? and will we wait for these radicals to strike and how will that play on our troops stuck in iraq? guest: the way i see the situation in iran, there are two clocks ticking. the nuclear clock that is ticking until they have a nuclear ability is ticking fast. and the democracy clock that is ticking down to a grassroots formation within iran is ticking slowly. although much faster in the last six months than before. the promise of any serious strategy starts with slowing down the first clock and speeding up the next clock. if iran acquires nuclear ability it depends on who has their finger on the trigger. and will we wait on the options and timelines as we worry about the iranians and their threats and that capability. i am not someone that believes that the moment that iran goes nuclear they will use it. in the run up to the iraq war, six years ago, there was only one declared nuclear aspirant in the gulf, only one country and it was iran. and today there are 14 co

people like rush limbaugh and sean hannity, they could crush the health-insurance bill in two days if they wanted to. i think it was a trade-off. republicans get the war and they are happy, democrats get their health insurance and the people get screwed. host: roanoke, va. caller: no matter what they decide i would like them to be able to implement whatever it is and run it honestly. right now they're not doing a very good job. maybe they can put unemployed people to work. host: dallas, republican line. your thoughts? caller: they need to start over again entirely. they need to concentrate on reducing costs, to start with, then see a thing need to increase. we are going to lose a lot of doctors in this country. ridiculous, thinking that we would add 30 million people to this health care situation. thank you. host: delaware, good morning. caller: good morning. i think it is sad but we do not all have rights to health insurance. i do not see what the bickering is about. why can we not all have health care? host: all right. bob cusack, you have been listening to the phone calls for the l

i guess that's the sean hasity line, why does she hate america and every democrat? guest: i don't think i've been accused of that before. i take a critical approach to things i discuss. host: linda on our republican line. caller: hello. hello. guest: good morning. caller: i wanted to ask your guest how it was possible that when the politician is giving a speech they manage to find the person who died because they didn't get a letter or the person who -- because their feet was turned off and they're mentioned prominently? when in this case there was a father who was extremely credible and also somewhat of a prominent person in nigeria who went to two embassies and got no reaction whatsoever, i just find that incredible. and i'd like to hear the comments -- her comments on all of that. guest: sure. it's definitely worth noting that within the last month alone we've had two cases where family members have come forward. in the case of the nigerian suspect to an embassy overseas. you'll remember a case recently of washington, d.c., of five young men who disappeared into

arlington, sean, democrats line. caller: appreciate c-span. quick two comments.ay i'm extremely disappointed at the bill as it is shaping up. i am not in favor of public option and medicare by and just as a holy grail to support it but what we have now is requiring people to purchase insurance through existing private insurers and looks to me like a bit of a giveaway. second thing, when people on the other side of the i'll throw out statistics about 55%, 65 -- 60%, citing the that majority of americans don't support health reform, but a lot of people opposing the bill now are people like me who are unhappy at the direction it is taking and a lot of people would be supportive of reform if it was something was similar to what the house of representatives was passing. host: two stories related to financial reform. on the front page of " the washington post" style section, profile of richard shelby, republican of alabama. also related to financial markets, "the financial times." host: open phones, let's go back to your calls. utah, south jordan. stephen on our indepe

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i guess that's the sean hasity line, why does she hate america and every democrat?uest: i don't think i've been accused of that before. i take a critical approach to things i discuss. host: linda on our republican line. caller: hello. hello. guest: good morning. caller: i wanted to ask your guest how it was possible that when the politician is giving a speech they manage to find the person who died because they didn't get a letter or the person who -- because their feet was turned off and they're mentioned prominently? when in this case there was a father who was extremely credible and also somewhat of a prominent person in nigeria who went to two embassies and got no reaction whatsoever, i just find that incredible. and i'd like to hear the comments -- her comments on all of that. guest: sure. it's definitely worth noting that within the last month alone we've had two cases where family members have come forward. in the case of the nigerian suspect to an embassy overseas. you'll remember a case recently of washington, d.c., of five young men who disappeared into th

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we have all the water sean on here.lected, analyzed, and then get back to the border patrol agents who are protecting our border. they are putting in an integration center at the great lakes and northern border rain which will be a pilot program for the northern border of analyzing all of the data. i think that is one of the things we learn from 9/11. you have to move a from the need to know to the need to share information amongst all the agencies. my time has run out. i would invite you to come see the work firsthand on the northern border. our experience has been positive and we are looking forward to this. >> i would like to knowledge your continued efforts to talk about the northern border. america always worries about the southern border. the reality is we have three real borders. the southern, the no. which is quite open, -- the northern, and the maritime. we are very worried about the caribbean situation with the drugs coming in which does not get a big of a play. we are hoping on this committed to address both

the secretary of hud sean donovan, who are -- we are pleased to have with us today, will respond to thervey and his approach to the issue of homelessness. this is not the first time secretary donovan has been with us since he became -- he even became before he was secretary, alleging he was the housing director of new york city. he has been with us all the way and. the agriculture of carbon is very important. we are so pleased to have the deputy undersecretary for food, and attrition, and consumer services. she was -- she will respond to the findings. this department, although perceived to be much more world when it comes to feeding people that live in a densely populated areas of america, this department is doing more and more to serve urban and suburban america. at this point, i would like to call our chair and after her, we will go with each person i have mentioned. thank you very much. >> thank you. i appreciate having the opportunity to be here today. i think throughout all the cities that have been surveyed, my city is probably the smallest of 73,000 people. yet, we still deal wit