>> in fact, his first post was in sioux falls, south dakota. long before i was born, by the way. i might have been raised there. over the years. thank you. we are joined by mark warner, senator warner of virginia. mark, do you have any opening comments you'd like to make? >> senator tester told me since i was late i had to reserve my comments. >> well, john runs the show around here, so we appreciate it. let me start with some questions. i'm going to leave the clock off. i'll invite my colleagues sings there are three or four of us here to have a more informal conversation. if i start a line of questioning and you have a thought along the same line, jump right in here, so we make this in a way more cohesive in that sense. so many places to start. let me start with this. since t.a.r.p.'s inception the program's scope, size and complexity have dramatically increased. i made note of this in my opening comments when i noted the 12 separate initiatives under t.a.r.p. today. some of these interact with the federal reserve, some with the fdic, some obviously with private investors as we

. -- sioux city. what should u.s. policy towards iran be, and should regime change become a part of a policy? >> this is an unbelievably difficult question, because this is not the same as when iraq started developing their nuclear programs back in the 1980's, when israel took out their program that then. iran has learned from that. they are spreading around the country. it is not as easy for israel to take out the nuclear capabilities. the world simply cannot afford to have iran have a nuclear weapon. cannot afford it. there are no options. that is the bottom line. the president has said that. i agree with the statements he has made all with that. countries like iran, they only understand strength. remember libya? again, and when ronald reagan was president -- i am a veterinarian, so i can use this. moammar gaddafi. did not mean to offend anyone, but the veterinarian comes out on a once in awhile, and that really is. they understand strength, and you cannot pass a by people like mahmoud ahmadinejad. you cannot, and t

playing for the vikings next year there are going to be a lot more people that will want to get from siouxalls to minneapolis and prmblely quickly and without having to drive through a blizzard. if i might direct a question to, this will be to mr. szabo and ms. fleming. what i take from the g.a.o.'s testimony is ridership and cost. the concern is that overly optimistic project proponents is going to overstatement ridership and understatement cost. if the federal government makes investment decisions based upon faulty forecasts we're going to fund the projects that won't be successful. so i guess the question and maybe i'll direct this to mr. szabo is how are you going to evaluate scutch projections for proposed projects -- such projections for proposed projects and are you going to rely on the project sponsor for those? >> well, first off, one of the key components that we will be ranking the applications on will be their proposed management plan and their management of risk which includes covering all of the operating costs and any cost overruns. those responsibilities belong to the appli

i know having grown up in sioux falls, south dakota, it would have been nice too take a trip to minneapolis for a vikings game. but i was at home stuck in a blizzard because we had to travel by car. yes, these systems will be costly to design, fund and construct, but we can do this. this is the united states of america. mr. chairman, i have three policy changes for this committee to consider in the new authorization. first, we must agree upon a bold new vision and make the cultural shift in the h in the way we do transportation. a vision they can invest in and believe in, connecting america much like the eisenhower highway system did. we must do today what our parents and our grandparents did for us. invest in a new vision, reform the current program and revolutionize how we do transportation policy and funding. second, we must reduce the time it takes to deliver a rail project in this country. 20 years in new starts is just too long. we need to get our projects delivered in three to five years. this is not environmental streamlining, as some would like to call it. it's process delivery. ag

. >> at what level was the sioux rivers? >> the appeals court said they could not sue. that the city acted in good faith that it would be concerned that it would be settled -- sued by black firefighters. it had a disparate impact. it favored white firefighters at least in terms of the bottom line. the supreme court reversed that lower-court ruling and said no, the city does not have a good defense and the white firefighters when the case. >> what did the judge -- she sat on the second chord. what did she say in the ruling? >> she did not say much. a couple technical points. the second circuit was issued by the court as a whole. there were three judges there. what they said was the brit -- the way the district analyze the case is they want. there was no independent analysis. we adopt the reasoning of the district judge. we have for the white firefighters who lost their chance for promotion but this city was justified in cancelling the promotions. >> in the majority ruling, overturning the second circuit court decision, what did the majority coalesce around as far as maki

. >> final question for two nights this question comes from sioux city. some and republican party suggest eight departure from conservatism toward moderation to be successful. >> to ba a majority party you have to you have to allow for disagreements on some issues but that is why i try to talk about how we get to the core principles that unites republicans. reagan said if you agree with somebody 80% of the time that somebody wanted your party we have to be respectful in our disagreements the intermountain west, trust me has so many different issues than you have in the midwest just on the environment better complete the different and the northeast a lot of the things that you do with farming issues they are different kinds of farming issues you would have and other parts of the country and we have to understand the differences but the core principles that i talked about with limited government and being fiscally responsible along with personal responsibility and caring about our communities come with those things getting back to the constitution that is a

with the sioux lerner and john brunner, we were the three visiting the museum at the and we were talking about so-called a prehistoric art and this question arose. why not, perhaps it were a woman, perhaps that is a known artist that was a woman. in and that is why i thought this is a good story that it deserves to be written. and later on i went on writing, writing a story 10, 12, 15 times the same story and cutting and cutting. the moment in which i think i feel that the words in their exist. or they try to be better than silence. >> host: the story affected me a lot because i have always been fascinated by the cave paintings and to me what struck me most that made me think was, of course, the beauty, but i was thinking of the intellectual capacity because of and we think piven is a man as primitive as in his brain were not as good as our brain, that he wasn't as smart as we are and i was thinking approximately 40,000 years ago, right, then these people were doing these works of art to with the brilliant powers of creativity. there privily -- they're probably no different than any powe

get a case that involves the question of when can a planned administrator for the risks of benefits sioux and under what conditions can that administrator the sood i am not sure anybody is going to turn on rachel maddow and watch instead. >> to complete the circle since we are talking about audio, even more bizarre than the court power to say no overall video is the courts policy on when the alladi yell and one of the things that has been driving me insane is that, you know, one of the only times the public gets access to audio are in the opposite of the case, the court by some metric that is notable to humankind decides which oral arguments are going to get this instant audio treatment and there is usually two or three a year since bush v. gore but i think it is a colossal mistake to say let's do the audio for the abortion cases, the affirmative action cases, the cases that make people insane and that make the justices act out and that if you are going to allow only selected fabio, my god, allow audio that is represented of 90% of the court's docket which is not all that sensational but

two of the largest ones are in sioux falls, south dakota, which is focused solely on educating americans about the effects of nationalized health care. and the other one that's going to be very large is in dallas, texas. tea party patriots is hosting opposition to government-run health care town hall meetings between now and the end of july. each week, one of these town halls will be fully interactive, like this event today. today we're on patriots heart networking which is part of blog talk radio. we're on you stream, live video streaming. chat rooms and a tweet stream going on all today. on july 2 in florida, in -- and then nationwide on july 17, tea party associates is hosting another major round of tea party protests around the country. this time, we're going to be in front of the local congressional, and senatorial district offices all around this country. if you've heard about the effects of government-run health care today and it concerns you, and if you are like barbara gilbert and you're willing to serve your country to ensure that your children and grandchildren are not left to

two of the largest are in sioux falls, south dakota which is focused solely on a educating americans about the ethics of nationalized health care and in the other one is going to be very large is in dallas, texas. tea party patriots is hosting opposition to government run health care town hall meetings between now and the end of july. each week one of these will be fully interactive like this event today. today we are on patriots are network on blog talk radio, youtube live and video streaming, and chat rooms and a tweed stream going on all the way. on july 2nd of florida and the nationwide on a this 17th, we are hosting another major round of the party protests around the country. of this time we are going to be in front, the local congressional and senatorial district offices all around this country. if you have heard about the ethics of government run health care today and it concerns you, and you are like barbara and are willing to serve your country to ensure that your children and grandchildren are not left to enhance these deficits in this kind of health care, joe tutti party

angeles part of their mission was to talk to those people that are still back in rural americans and the sioux have this amazing thing going on out here and you're not as low as you thank you are. allot of it was out region that is why one magazine was born to talk to those people and say you are not alone. many of these people though, these men and women as they became elderly started to rethink this. they knew how vulnerable they were in the began to get scared especially hearing stories about the matthew shepard beating, they're moving back to their homes in louisiana and colorado. it is one thing to be out an active as an activist and los angeles, but when you are a boy in louisiana is different. many of them said to heck with it, i am an activist and will not turn my back on my past and we're glad i was using their real names to tell their story but one individual which was one pseudonym i call antonio sanchez. when i first contacted tony probably three or four years ago now, he was very receptive and tried to know that his story was being told and we had an amazing conversation but then

additionally, june 11 of 2008, witnessed the destruction of iowa's little sioux scout ranch by a devastating tornado which sadly resulted in the deaths of four scouts and injuries to 48 other scouts and staff. in response, groups of scouts and volunteers promptly set up a triage system provided first aid to the injured and began digging victims from the rubble of the collapsed campsite. just one day earlier these brave scouts were attending a week long leadership training session at the camp had taken part in a mock emergency drile. -- drill. notably february 8 of next year will mark the 100th anniversary of the boy scouts of america and fittingly house resolution 356 expresses our support for the designation of that date as boy scouts of america day. madam speaker, let us commemorate the 100 years of civic and educational service provided by the boy scouts of america through the adoption of house resolution 3856, and by expressing our support for the designation of february 8, 2010, as boy scouts of america day. i urge my colleagues to join us in supporting this resolution. i reserve the ba