coming up later, the sec says good-bye to tim tebow. there's a lot of head coaches who will pat him on the back and say good riddance, move on. but what impact has this guy had on college football when it's all said and done do you think? >> just the run that they've been able to put together. this is the most accomplished senior class in the history of the southeastern conference with the number of wins that they've peopled up. steve spurrier talked about tim tebow and what he means to this football team. he said his ability to make plays in critical moments and convert third downs, and he looked that's tape of that sec championship game last year and the national championship against oklahoma when tim tebow had he ball if his hands in critical situations. >> same steve spurrier who initially did not vote for tim tebow as the sec preseason number one quarterback, but it's not just tim tebow, it's the whole cast of seniors. >> the recruiting class was second in the country to usc. what made this group special was how many they got right

the boilermakers from the big ten defeat the sec. tennessee volunteers in a thriller 73-72. >> dan: not much more you could ask for. >> larry: the strategy i thought was proper for tennessee. after barlow missed those two free throws, they put the ball in the hands of a guy who should handle it. that was bobby maze. they got the fwhal the hands of the guy that could handle it and that was chism. let's throw it over to samantha smith. >> the championship trophy of the 2009 paradise jam tournament. let's bring over the guys. >> purdue, this symbol you see has a brass cylinder attached to the front of this trophy is the replica of the caribbean steel pan. it's a musical instrument indigenous to the caribbean and a shared symbol of all the islands. this is from the people of the virgin islands. taking home this year's 2009 paradise jam champions! >> and now we will present the most valuable player trophy. >> this year's mvp from purdue, e'twaun moore! this year's mvp of the paradise jam. congratulations. >> congratulations, guys. january

dead last out of the 12 teams in the sec. they're now averaging only 61 points in sec games.g line-up so he can find that chemistry. he has to find what this team identity is going to be offensively and defensively. matt: stephenson, goaltending and got the basket anyway. litterial: he's very athletic, he really needs him to play well and play to his potential. stephenson is coming out tonight and being very aggressive against a big georgia front line with him being undersized. matt: this is exactly what we were talking about a few minutes ago. averaging under 65 points per game and then it will be even worse in sec games. only 61 in conference games. second lowest in 50 years and remember, they used to not have a shot. that's hard to do. litterial: i never saw a shot i didn't like. matt: i remember. but fortunately for georgia, they're not hitting them. litterial: not too many. matt: georgia kind of falling back into some old habits. litterial: careless turnovers were that's unforced errors. it's hard to become a good team if you have an unforced error. just the simple thing

space slot. >> and georgia, their conference record very low compared to to the other teams in the sec west, they take on georgia tech in atlanta. georgia tech the highest ranked bcs team with one loss. both of these teams pretty much predicated on running the ball. >> yeah, this is clean old- fashioned hate. it's pivotal for them, kind of paints the entire season. georgia tech has had a great year, if they lose to georgia, it won't be a victorious one, the fans won't be happy. >> in our household, we teach that we don't use the word hate. >> w yelling at mom for some deal. shay hodge and ole miss next. >>> t.j. fuller returned the opening kickoff for clemson but not getting better for the game cocks at home. garcia rolls to his right. picked off for the interception by hall and they are in gamecock territory already. >>> beautiful day up ahead here. highs in the upper 60s for the egg bowl. women see you at halftime. now we send you back out to starkville. for kerry, andre and dave neal. >> it is our wrangler game of the week a mag noel georgia state show down. ole miss ranked 25th, ta

it's almost dem goejic by saying don't give the sec a nickle.eft, right and center who studies this realizes that. we would allow the commission to embark on the long-term reforms that chairman shapiro promised without -- and without the money there will be next year to pay for personnel and technology upgrades. out won't have to to worry abou those things. so, that's one thing that we should do. the second major reform i would like to mention is a series of proshareholder measures that senator dodd include in the bill. they were drawn in legislation called shareholders bill of rights. the premission of that bill is the best way to rein in executive compensation is to empower the firms' shareholders and make sure boards fulfill their responsibility. we need government regulation but i'm sure most people would concede the best watchdog are the shareholders if they are empowered because they don't want to lose money like the bear stearns or aig shareholders did. so, what we've done, the new regulatory overhaul contains this. first allowing shareho

you had two teams trying to remain unbeaten ahead of their sec championship game. florida taking on florida state later today. alabama took on in-state rival auburn yesterday. a wonderful drive to conclude it. a short pass there. 1:24 left. here the final play of the game, and alabama d does what it does best, earn a victory, so alabama victorious 2-21. a huge final drive for greg mcill roy and company. what imprettied you the most about the -- what impressed you the most about the tide on this drive? >> well, they lost mark ingram on that drive, and saw others step up. you see mcilroy, completed his final seven passes. that's what they're going to have to have, especially if ingram's injury turns out to be serious. >> big news coming out of this one, mark ingram. preliminary reports are a abused hip. just 16 carries, 30 yards for the all american, ingram. >> and you expected a big day out of this guy, especially when you're playing against auburn, the number 10 rush defense in the conference, but only 30 yards on the ground, and he's ultimately injured in this bal

. >> coming up, sec commissioner, and on america and the courts, and look at recent changes in the supreme court. >> american icons, three nights of c-span original documentary on the iconic homes of the three branches of american government continues. tonight at 8:00 p.m., the capitol. american icons, tonight at 8:00 p.m. on c-span. get your own copy of american icons, a 3 disk dtv said. order online at c-span.org /store. >> this week, a discussion with fcc commissioner meredith atwell maker. she discusses net neutrality, media ownership rules, and federal rabin policy. >> meredith atwell maker is the best this week on "the communicators." also here is kim hart to join in the questioning. if we did start with the issue of network neutrality and debt management. reduce the price that chairman genachowski emphasize this as his priority -- were you surprised? >> certainly the president had outlined in his campaign speeches, so we knew this was a priority of the chairman. i think a lot like to start with something we all agree on, which is the fact that we ought to have an open internet and w

talk about the sec and the madoff situation, the federal emergency management thing and katrina. there is always the united states postal service. i don't know where they get the service from, but nevertheless. it may be a good thing to have less government and less effective government. we may be very fortunate we don't get all the government will pay for. >> can i answer the gentleman's question? there have been studies on this. a good book to read would be thomas patterson's "the vanishing voter" where he interviewed something like 90,000 voters. there is a correlation. first you see a correlation in interest in the election itself a new look at the that turned out for ross perot compared to the other debates that didn't have a third party. and that is one of the things that people site. conveniences'. i can't get to the polls. but it is one of the factors, there is not the range of choice. there are a number of studies that have been done on this. there probably should be more. i am going to defend this service here and say that i think it would be fair, more fair to say that

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basically played one year of high school football, two years of junior college, and now starting in the sec. he has been great for this defense. >> dave: two-time college all american. led jc players, all of them, the last two years in stats in his junior college career. tyler campbell punts it away, but flagsen down. i believe that was a delay of game. >> reporter: before the 123457, delay of game, 97 on the offense. five-yard penalty. still fourth down. >> andre: this is one of those chess match deals. i would never accept this penalty if i was a head coach. you're basically trying to back up so you can down the football. i would never accept the penalty. make it uncomfortable for the punter. >> dave: campbell's long this year has been 71 yards. not much of a rush by the bulldogs. it's a wobbly kick. bumpas will have a does to return it. out to the 30-yard line. mississippi state. >> dave: the tack . >> dave: dixon breaks a couple of tackles. >> andre: he came to camp, was a little bit overweight, got in dan mullen's dog house a little bit, but then he lost the weight and got his quicknes

it involves the sec. this week bear stearns, acquitted on criminal charges about misleading investors about losses at their funds. of course, your reaction to

the sec has battered because the madoff situation. right now is a good time for the sec to make a big speech, list a bunch of high-profile investigations, but there may not be much there. this is a publicity effort. >> that's odd. i guess i would say read the complaint. companies are paying real fines of significant amounts. so this is not an effort to respond to critics. we respect what the commission has done. >> so this doesn't represent the new enforce. what does it respect? >> well, the cases are. i mean certainly under chairman sha peer row and the commission, there's been an effort to revitalize to take a hard look at it and decide where there restrictions or procedures or practices that hampered the enforcement effort, and thanks thanks to her efforts, and those of the commission, we've been able to accomplish some of that. i think it's given, the message is clear. it's given a sponge message. they are there to do the enforcement job. they'll be safe when they do. i think her efforts within the propro -- proposals have all com

. >> last year mercer knocked off a couple of sec teams. they would love to put a feather from florida state right in their cap. >> they were up by 18 against georgia tech right here, so they are capable if they can make some three-point shots, this will be interesting. >> so it's mercer and florida state. acc hoops from macon, georgia. florida state off to a 2-0 start knocking on the door of the top 25. mercer looking for an upset in front of a sellout crowd at home. acc hoops coming up. if [vibrates] g morning, sunshine. wakey, wakey. text me back. [chattering] [vibrates] hey. did you tell your parents about us? let's skip first period together. did you get all my texts? is practice over yet? where you at? are you with your friends? that's laaaa-mee. capital "x," lower-case "o," capital "x," lower-case "o," i love you. jk. i hate you. jk. are you ignoring me? we're in a huge fight right now. is it something i did? i can see your lights on. i'm coming over. this isn't a joke. what did you dream about? [overlapping] is it me? i'm lonely. ho

but before i start on that the first will be geography and the sec and will be biography. how many of you have been to south beach. [laughter] raise your hand. you did very well. [applause] now we come to the biography. how many of you know barbara? smaller, but not insignificant. she is why there is a south beach today. let me tell you this story. south beach was developed in the period after world war i and became a major national and international tourist destination. by the 1970's it was falling onto hard times. disney was constructed and many people referred to as the i encourage a backup tourist from moving further south. they felt miami beach had become an antiquated place. frankly, they thought there were too many elderly people that lived there and as i celebrated my 73rd birthday, i take great offense and it was no longer attractive for tourism. in 1976, the city government of miami beach announced a plan to convert miami beach, protector the south beach into a new international research. they took their ideas from disney world a part of this would be disney worl

be protecting us all and protecting us from the systemic dangers in the system, in 2007, we had the sec, fdic, office of thrift supervision, ssa europe, asia, all of these are movers and regulators with hundreds of thousands of people working but not as a coordinated group with a complete lack of coordination, a complete lack of risk-management when you have all of these regulators that would oversee the dangers of supposed to be overseeing these terrible risks growing through 2007. and the reason this is not only richard fuld problem but our regulators said they were so horribly horribly uncoordinated. going forward if we ask people to be in the rules of regulation we should have people that have a global systemic risk manager that look at the whole picture and leverage all-around wall street and the different banks. and have there be accountability. capitalism cannot work without transparency. we have to have transparency and risk. not investment banks and/or black box is in a more. really, from the bottom of my heart, i wrote this book because we never ever want to have this happen a

talk about the sec and the bird may obstetrician. you talk about the federal emergency management thing and katrina and there's always this they call united states postal service, i don't know where they get the service from, but nevertheless. it may be a good thing to have less government and less effective government. we may be fortunate we don't get all the government we paid for. >> could i answer the gentleman's question? there have been studies on this and a good book to read would be thomas patterson's the vanishing voter, where he interviewed something like 90,000 voters but there is a correlation. first to see correlation of interest in the election itself when you will get the viewership that turned out for ross perot compared to the other debates that didn't have a third party and second coming guess that's one of the factors people cite what they don't vote. it's not the first factor. a lot of time its convenience, can't get to the polls, i have to work, but never but it is one of the factors that there isn't a range of c

the right set of fees should be, some of them saying that the marketplace is better, maybe have the sec involved. that the market cannot supply the necessary oversight and court needed to step in. >> this is a case where what the standard is is probably more important than the outcome, because if the court were to decide for instance that the statute means that the judiciary has to determine whether or not the fees are essentially reasonable for every mutual fund, there are thousands of them and investors could go to court and say i do not think it is reasonable and to have litigation over the reasonableness of the fees. historically, when you have an independent board of directors, which is what congress requires to produce mutual funds, when they make a decision with full information, the court ordinarily is deferential to those decisions. that is the backdrop. that is why the judge came out the way he did. he said, wait, if the independent board was not upset about what was being charged and why and all of those things, then that is the process that has been set up. it is interesting

i don't feel we are even sec. thank you.ick. thank you. >> amen to that. >> just to reiterate. just to reiterate i was in colby, kansas, this summer. we might have a little sniffle but they have pneumonia. >> you are absolutely right. >> things have happened here that had to make us look inward. the potential closing of rockwell. you can't just say it won't make any difference. it will. it is part of the unraveling. >> let me just share a little further tidbit about colby. it is so much further down that line. this woman sarah shared with us, she went back to colby and it was christmas of 2007. she stood in the main street on saturday afternoon for three hours. and she met one person in three hours. she said to -- the bank had hiked christmas music over the loudspeaker and it was just echoing off of this empty town. it was the eeriest thing she ever saw. a very poignant way of giving you a window on what can happen when you don't think about what the future can hold and don't take action. we are trying to get started here. >> i have a question. on the research you have done was

called gladly lauren gladly page which is describing as you probably know but the way to get to the sec is at johnvfleming.com and has a blog reference. >> host: one of your neighbors george kennan, the great diplomat, and he was part of the history of this turning on the cold war. i worked the council on foreign relations and he wrote his famous essay sources of soviet conduct for our periodical foreign affairs and i believe 1947. >> guest: yes indeed. >> host: what did that and say say? >> guest: well, cannon, who i knew if reasonably well because we were members of the same church, tannin net route while he wrote all sorts of the famous things but the famous long telegram you know about and then the famous article and what he said was she agreed that soviet aims were the traditional ames of the tsar in pure realist russia for ever, that what was his wonderful phrase, they are unimpressed by the force of logic but they understand the logic of force i think is the way he put it and that the united states should contain, that is confront at every point the expansion of soviet power and

took about the sec and the madoff situation. hey we have the federal emergency management thing and katrina but there is always this thing called the united states postal service. i don't nowhere they get the service from but nevertheless, it may be a good thing to have less government and a less effective government and we may be very fortunate we don't get all the government we paid for. >> can i answer the gentleman's question? there have been studies on this and a good book to read would be thomas patterson's the bin eshing voter ernie interviewed something like 90,000 voters but there's a correlation. first dca korelitz station in the interest itself when you look of the that turned out for ross perot compared to the other debates that did not have a third party in line and that is one of the factors that people cited by they don't go vote. the lot of times it is convenient, came to the polls, had to go home for my kids, had to work or whatever but it is one of the factors that there is not the range of choice so there are

in fact, some at the sec told when i tried to paint a hypothetical that, you know, these laws are not written for a grassroots campaign. i thought, there's a big problem right there. so extraordinary difficult if you don't come with a cottage industry of lawyers, people who aren't savvy in how these laws have been applied and fundamental background and understanding, and really extend mechanism or vehicle like a major part in order to navigate the regular framework. that having been said, i think that needs to be improved. i would not agree to get rid of it, but we will talk about that in a minute. the major hurdle every third party and independent candidate faces is 51 different ballot access laws. jim painted some of the picture but the reality and the nightmare is unbelievable, because every single third party candidate and independent will tell you the majority of the resources, all the blood, sweat and tears goes to getting on about. because if you're not on about your just not a choice. and this is a system that the ballot laws is very important to note are written by you? the d

talk about the sec and the dirty mittal situation. you talk about hey, we've got the federal emergency management thing and katrina and there's always this they call the united states postal service. i don't know where they get the surface from. but nonetheless, it may be a good thing to have less government and a less effective government that we may be very fortunate we don't get all the government we paid for. >> could i answer the gentleman's questioned? there have been studies on this, and a good book to read would be thomas patterson's "the vanishing voters" where he interviewed something like 90,000 voters but there's a correlation. first you see corporation of interest in the election itself when you look at the viewership that turned up for ross perot compared to the other votes they didn't have a third-party candidate. and guess that's one of the factors people cite why they don't vote. it's not the first factor and a lot of time is convenient. can't get to the poll, have to go home for my kids, have to work, whatever, but i

plan relies heavily on complex, bureaucratic processes involving multiple regulators, including the sec, the cftc and the newly proposed agency in the proposal for financial stability. this approach, a lot of us believe creates unnecessary bureaucracy and will delay critical changes such as the establishment of a comprehensive transaction reporting system. moreover, it blurs the lines of regulatory accountability, laying the ground work for future regulatory failures and cross agency finger points. finally imposes punitive capital requirements, unclear trades that will serve as a perverse incentive to clear trades that are not suitable for clearing. as a result, clearing central clearinghouses will be under pressure to engage in unwarranted risk taking. finally the bill proposed before us contains a number of provisions that have nothing at all to do with financial crisis but everything to do with politics. whatever behind these changes, each would be significant change in policy requiring some sort of committee. as we all know, the committee's held no specific hearings to examine any o

the sec chairman julius genacho wski maps out his plans on c- span2.eginning thursday night at 8:00 p.m. eastern, the supreme court, home to america's highest court, reveals the building in its with the detail through the supreme court justices eyes. and be on the road -- the velvet ropes of public tours, public places as well as rarely seen spaces. and saturday at 8:00 p.m. eastern, the capital, the history and art and architecture of one of america's most symbolic structures. american icons, three memorable nights, thursday, friday, and saturday at 8:00 p.m. eastern. get your own copy of american icons, a 3 diss dvt said for $24.95 plus shipping and handling. this morning, "washington journal" talked with "washington post" reporter walter pincus about how u.s. handles intelligence and how particular agencies share information. this is about 30 minutes. for "the washington post." welcome. you wrote last week about the developing turf war between the director of intelligence and the cia. you said the tension that had arisen between the two had to be se

sec stair of the state clinton says there's no evidence to support charges against them.a hiker's family says they crossed the unmarked frontier by in addition take. >>> the debate over health care reform is moving now to the senate. but not right away. the house approved a plan late in the night saturday. most senate republicans oppose that. it will take all 60 members of the democratic caucus to bring a public option to a vote. one is independent joe lieberman of connecticut. he says he'll join blocking consideration of the bill. >>> people along the gulf coast have their work cut out for them. a tropical storm, and a very wet one, bearing down. where and how rainy will it be? bonnie schneider joins us with the latest on the storm. they think may believe mobile bay. >> that will be a spot we're watching for possibly land fall. that means when the scepter of the storm or eye of the storm passes over land. tropical storm forced winds extend pretty far out into the storm. so that is why we have tropical storm wind warnings in effect for a good portion of the gulf coast. yo

so congrats to brandon spikes for his maturity in that and too bad his coach and the sec where he hadhe one. now it's behind him. >> is it quieting people down now? because a lot of people wanted him -- >> it is quieting people down along with the fact that the guy's eyes he was trying to gouge said it was not a big deal. >>> a sex tape of former miss california usa carrie prejean apparently led to her sudden legal settlement with the pageant. and the story's getting a lot of attention on cnn.com. tmz says it got the home video in the summer but it was too racy to post on its site. the managing editor indicated prejean was alone on the tape. her lawyer would only say that the settlement was confidential and he would not discuss it. >>> a prison guard came under attack and the whole thing was caught on tape because the other inmates just jumping in. but you may be surprised why. >>> plus, school can be hard, even if your dad's the president. what happened when malia obama came hope with a c?  >>> the new york stock exchange has just opened for business. how will stocks rea

. >> craig: i think it's going to be the hold with nick backstrom got a sec on him.eam goes shorthanded. actually pacioretty gets the call. watch him down low. the left hand and the right hand in the belly and off goes pacioretty. cap goes to an early power play. >> joe: washington has not tallied in its last four games a man up. they did not have a power play chance last time against the buffalo sabres in what turned out to be a victory on home saiz. a little ride in his own defensive zone. and shrugs it down. >> craig: it's arguably their mvm so far to this date in the season. he's done a little bit of everything for the montreal canadiens. >> joe: ovechkin fires and he police officered that one. 10 feet wide. >> craig: he has to get his sights set here in montreal. too anxious when he teed that baby up on a nice drop pass from nick backstrom. >> joe: mike green gliding through center. on for backstrom once more crisscross with clark. o'byrne pounces on it for montreal and over the head of green back onto the washington side. these capitals 0-10 in the last four ou

i wouldn't be surprised and there is a lot of speculation that the release of the sec tapes coincide with her book. this is one grand thing for her that is benefiting her and keeping her name in the press. >> a lot of questions surrounding her. it would be super slimy, but we are talking about a porn company and it might be par for the course. i want to talk about jon gosselin's legal problems. kate major who said she was jon's girlfriend is threatening to see him over breech of contract. radar online posted the contract between jon and kooit their website and it reads i, kate major, will run any media inquiries before doing on air or print work. i will not make negative or disparaging remarks. jon and i will not comment publicly about our relationship. >> jon reportedly scribbled his end of the deal with to kate that read i will employ kate major as a personal assistant. she will be a subcontractor and receive a percentage of accounts for payment based upon involvement. megan, if this whole thing is real, does jon gosselin have another big problem on his hands here? >> i think he do

but i don't think it was cool that his coach and the scht e krechlt put t sec put the player in the position to have to say it. >> thank you, rafer. and what a game that was last night. >>> a sex tape of former fiscal cal usa carrie prejean according to a source and the story getting a lot of attention at cnn.com. tmz says it got the home video in the summer but it was too racy to post. the managing editor indicated prejean was alone on that tape. her lawyer would only say the settlement was confidential and he could not discuss it. >>> a man who dressed up as a breathalyzer machine for halloween got arrested in ohio for allegedly driving drunk. police say they pulled over the man after he was driving the wrong way on a one-way street and did not have his head heights on. cops say he was nearly two times over the legal limit. he's facing several charges. so much for the costume. >>> a once did disgraced pastor is stepping back into the pulpit. sort of. see where ted haggard is starting a makeshift church. >>> a woman missing for about a year has been identified as one of the 11 boats found a

. >> i think we generally understood the rules of the sec with regard to quality reporting and specialreporting. we were not able -- if we disclose something that did not happen, we could have misled them in the wrong way. typically what you disclosed is the transaction that you have, and we ultimately were able to get that term sheet signed around january 16. that is when we disclosed it. >> did the bank of america pressure it special outside counsel to make a case that the firm did not believe in on the mac? >> this is what they do in life, and we rely on them as outside counsel. i believe there were given the facts, losses we found out about that had moved to $14 billion and ultimately $21 billion. they came to the same judgment and i suggest that they believed we had a valid right to claim on the mac costs. i think the bias that people look at is, these are difficult cases -- the advice that people look at. the reality was that they were consistent in their advice. >> so the council you are specifically on this issue was not unduly pressured to come up with this answer? >> i had no

. >> at the state dinner with india, the white house has asked the sec -- secret service to review ang. with a review what the secret service did or will they let the white house staff and see whether they made mistakes? >> i will check with the folks here. my understanding is that the secret service will look at what the secret service did. >> there were guess they came to this event to say that at previous dinners, there were someone from the social secretaries office their checking and spirit that is not the responsibility of the secret service. >> the individuals that were listed were not on any list. i think the secret service, through the director, has admitted that somebody who was not on a list and was not wait din was allowed into -- waved in was allowed into event that clearly should not have been. no call or reach out ever came to anybody in terms of staff of the secret service about whether there was confusion about a name on a list. >> the white house staff is usually checking names. someone checking names might have caught that. >> i assume in the absence of somebody bei

the sec restair of -- secretary of state was in islamabad and lahore. foreign minister co-reshea has been here twice in the -- kareshi has been here twice in the last five weeks, six weeks. we are in constant contact. also through the excellent ambassador in washington. i don't believe that anyone seriously thinks we're not having detailed consultations with pakistan. if that was said, i think it has to be put into context. but there's no country we're consulting more closely than pakistan, nor is there any country more integrally related to this issue. mullen is in constant contact with the pakistani military. i'm in constant contact with leaders of their government by phone and other means. i don't see that as a real issue. thank you very much. >> thank you. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2009] >> on tomorrow morning's "washington journal," we're joined by clea benson on the federal government's relation with rural america. after that, lewis morris talks about fraud and waste

the president has meetings with the speaker of the house, and nancy pelosi, vice-president biden, the sec three of defense, robert gates. news reports say that the president has finished gathering information about troop options in afghanistan and will likely announce his decision in an address to the nation next tuesday. no official word on that, but news reports today are indicating that. live coverage from the white house. awaiting president obama and the indian prime minister. it does look like it will be at least a couple minutes before president obama and indian prime minister manmohan singh comes out for their joint news conference. in that time, we will show you a brief conversation we had this morning with a reporter from south carolina about the beginning of proposed impeachment proceedings against gov. mark sanford. here is that conversation. -- bill." john o'connor is joining us, he writes for the state newspaper in south carolina. thank you for being with us. in essence this is the first step of a possible impeachment against gov. sanford. what are you looking for today? call

this week what we learned from looking at the sec filings for city group. they're disclosing compensation for top employees. this becomes because the pay czar is capping the top pay of the bailed out firms. james forese is the cohead of global markets at citi. last year he made $12.9 million. this so a relatively large amount but a haircut from the year before. same story with the vice chairman at citi, stephen volk, last year he took in $10.5 million. this year he will take in $3.9 million. the question here is why. citi is one of those seven companies that are overseen by president obama's pay czar. what we'll seen from the next few weeks leading up to the end of the year is how these companies are complying. the top execs are taking very, very big paycuts. richelle? >> all right, and still more pay cuts to come, right? >> reporter: yeah, i mean you're exactly right. what's happening now is that ken feinberg, the pay czar's reviewing compensation for the next 75 highest paid employees at those seven companies. take a look at your screen. you know those co

. >> today, the sec commissioner talks about high-speed internet access and other telecom issues. on "america and the courts," recent changes on the court. analysts include the former deputy u.s. solicitor general. >> american icons, three nights of c-span original documentaries on the a conic homes of the three branches of american government. it continues tonight at 8:00 p.m. the history, art, and architecture of one of the most symbolic american structures. get your own copy of the set. you can order online c-span.org /store >> encouraging americans to vote in the 2008 election was the topic of the conference at the university of akron. they look at how political parties worked to boost the vote. this is about 90 minutes. >> thank you for making us feel so welcome. i am chairing a great panel on party organizations in 2008. i have the luxury of reading the papers before i came out. they are all excellent. you will have good presentations. one thing that is interesting about these papers and discussions is that they all have a slightly different definition of political party. i

face says that financial institutions, a big part of the problem, cannot make those sales, but the sec and other federal banking regulators and acted regulations that essentially completely circumvented what i thought was the intent of that legislation and allowed access to consumer accounts on the actual sharing of the information being encrypt it. but then the membership clubs said they consented and a decrypt the numbers, so it did not effectively do anything, although on the face it seemed to solve the problem. >> what do you think? the evidence also shows these people may be know this, but these people who get stuck in one of these, too much of them eventually canceled? >> you can sort out and to certain subgroups, great question, the consort into subgroups who the people are. some people will cancel within the 30 day trial. what is interesting, and a large data base sample, it shows that in fact most people who wind up getting this catch it after it is initially build, not during the 30 days, which is counter- indicated if he thought it worked the way that you thought it did. mos