solomon: he has made some plays today. that is when cleveland was knocking on the door, trying to get a touchdown. kevin: at the san diego 8, they fumbled the ball after they scored a touchdown and a pass to massaquoi. cleveland has just called their final time-out. but on the san diego side, almost 500 yards of offense, no turnovers, no penalties, a very efficient game. they will go to 9-3. they have won seven consecutive games after a 2-3 start. they still lead the afc west by a game. denver won today. and they have won their 15th consecutive game in the month of december. solomon: they are not looking in the rear view mirror. they are not concerned with denver or anyone else. they are simply concerned about themselves. they said they look to win games during the week in practice in terms of their preparation and it carries over into games on sunday. kevin: a bright spot in brady quinn, talking about him throughout the game and really doing a nice job. san diego chargers have won 30-23. so, so long from cleveland. you ha

solomon, i read your book and it's a wonderful book. i'm also with cei. and as myron said there are many things in the book that were completely new to me. as they were to him. one of the most remarkable parts of the book i thought was the discussion of carbon dioxide which i had assumed was totally settled. that a, carbon dioxide does accumulate in the atmosphere for 50 to 200 years. that's why we have to be worried about it. and secondly, that we know for a fact that carbon dioxide levels today are higher than they've ever been in the last 650,000 years. and yet you presented -->> >> your mic's off. >> sorry. >> and yet you reviewed the research of some scientists who have challenged these very core premises of the whole ippc consensus. i'm wondering if you have received any -- any further inquiries from scientists or letters from scientists about this particular part of your book which i think as far as raising questions about the consensus is the most radical that i have seen from any of the so-called skeptics? >> no, actually, none -- i'm in touch wi

solomon.st of all, i want to echo the same thing the previous caller said about your level of intelligence. i think you are very intelligent and it is fun listening to you. do you think president obama's speech at oslo was carefully crafted a? carefully crafted to appease the republican base for some reason? it seems to me that he said a number of things he does not truly believe. am i wrong? by the way, i do agree with you on health care. it is right for everyone. it is a basic human right. if it does not get past, america is in trouble. guest: it is a quixotic and not for a full effort to understand what a president believes at the bottom of his heart. we need to look at his actual policy. lyndon johnson gave an eloquent , progressive and doggerel address and proceeded to escalate the war that caused a few million deaths in vietnam and destroyed the hopes of a great society and his own domestic program. i think that barack obama has shown himself despite his protesting too much that he belie

solomon, i love your intentions and intelligence. mr. tapscott, i find you are skirting any solid question with any value towards the american public. i have three questions for you. first, the beginning of the u.s. when the boat came over and basically was welcomed by the natives of there in new england. and talked how to live on this land. yet the result of that kind this was turned back them with murder and mayhem. the country moves toward. you brought up barry goldwater and want brown points for the civil-rights movement. the white democrats did not want to pass it down south. we wanted to do it.

solomon. want to echo the same thing the previous caller said about your level of intelligence. i think you are very intelligent and it is fun listening to you. do you think president obama's speech at oslo was carefully crafted a? carefully crafted to appease the republican base for some reason? it seems to me that he said a number of things he does not truly believe. am i wrong? by the way, i do agree with you on health care. it is right for everyone. it is a basic human right. if it does not get past, america is in trouble. guest: it is a quixotic and not for a full effort to understand what a president believes at the bottom of his heart. we need to look at his actual policy. lyndon johnson gave an eloquent , progressive and doggerel address and proceeded to escalate the war that caused a few million deaths in vietnam and destroyed the hopes of a great society and his own domestic program. i think that barack obama has shown himself despite his protesting too much that he believes there's

. >> lehrer: i wasust going y paul solomon we just have a minute or sleft here, he mentioned, anhe he up -- paul samuelsson holding up the big book th he wrotethe big textbook. how would you statthe influence ul samuelsson had on theducation of economists through m.t. and elsewhere? well, he had enormous affect. he wrotewo books, a book called econocs foundation for gradua students and economs introductory analysis and stu. he understood that he, through his influence sort of controlled economics. he said to monce, he said mion understands that in ordeto reach other economists he's t to come rough me, meaning through tenical journals. freedm wrote a very inuence book in 1962 called monetary history of e united states but after that, he rlly dealt directly with the blic by writing a book called capitalism and freedom and later the famous televion series free to choe. >> but your poinis that samusson's impact was more thugh the teaching of economics,hrough what, through the colleg, universities. >> wl, through text books. i mean almost evy textbook is based on his introdtory textbo, mai

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is it possible in the formulation that somehow you could come up with a solomonic kind of solution andsplitting, according to some formulaic way, how to deal with all these people? >> congressman ackerman, i don't think formula is the answer. i think analyzing individual situations is the answer. >> each case individually? if i was getting paid $1 million a week, i would like that. [applause] >> i believe that this trustee -- >> i am not questioning the trusty. i am just questioning the irony in this situation. >> first, no customer money goes to pay attorneys' fees the trusties fees. >> where does that come from? >> the securities and investor protection corp.. the second point is, looking at these cases individually, our statute was designed to protect the small investor, and i think that is exactly what he is doing. >> as i understand it, brokers, investment advisers, are required to put into the fund to be covered by sipc $150. >> that is not correct. currently, the assessments would require each bridge firm to be as -- each brokerage firm to be assessed at 1/4 of 1% of their net o

and future of american avenue will youence, in case you are wondering about a holiday gifment paul solomon is occasional correspondent for the pbs news hour. he answers questions on the business desk. recently he has become a fellow at yale's berkeley college and for those of you who were why our discussions this afternoon you know that he was a loud -- lovely moderator in the panel that just preceded dinner the with that i'm going to turn to bob franken and ask that he cuck the discussion on has the financial crisis changed the nature of economic news in bob? >> governor balile, commissioner kaplan, president jefferson, other slightly less notable lights who are here, first of all i'll make a deal with you, no jokes about tiger woods or the salahis. but they do make a point and the point is that people are almost desperate to want to pay attention to that type of thing and they are encouraged to do so by my medium, television. but there is so much that is of probably much greater consequence these days and what we have when it comes to financial reporting is as dickens would say, the best

and lawrence solomon on the scientists who question the validity of global warming. on afterwords joan and her bio of antonin scully. and can all lead on how google became the new media giants. booktv this weekend on c-span 2. >> now some of today's health care debate in the senate. it begins with a procedural motion by democrat dick durbin and an objection by republican senator mike and see. this is a half-hour. >> yesterday mr. president and majority leader propounded the unanimous consent to afford both with respect to the health care bill. a revote later objected to the consensus indicating they had just received a copy of senator lautenberg's side-by-side amendment to the dorgan amendment so they needed time to review the amendment. therefore mr. president and ask unanimous consent that follow. mourning this mistake resume business as h.r. 3590 for the certain pending crapo amendment to commit in the dorgan amendment number 2793 is modified. may senator baucus be recognized with a side-by-side amendment to the crapo motion. once that has been recognized to the d

lawrence solomon, on the scientists the question the validity of global warming.biography of canton and scalia, the author is interviewed by the former solicitor general. ken oletta on healtow google became an internet giant. this weekend, on c-span 2. >> "washington journal" continues. host: with us now is the commander of the multinational division in northern iraq. he is now out of iraq, reese stationed in hawaii. major general, tell us about your operation. guest: we were responsible for operations in northern baghdad. we had three other arab province since. the home of saddam hussein, and the heart of the insurgency. we also had kirkuk, which is very unique for its kurdish and arab tensions. we also have responsibility for kurdistan. as the multinational north division commander we have responsibilities for 23,000 u.s. soldiers and and other service members, responsible to train iraqi police and to do our best to work with the development of the security forces and government, helping us to build the economy. host: how long were you there? guest: we were ther

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and lawrence solomon on the scientists who question the validity of global warming.f the supreme court justice antonin scalia she is a defeated by former solicitor general can olson, and then how google became a media giant. this weekend on c-span2. >> "washington journal" continues. host: kevin hall, mcclatchy newspapers national economics correspondent the administration is beginning year to and so is that global economic meltdown. if you haveç to give a broad carrot -- categorization of the policies in year 2, what is it? guest: year one, plug the holes and don't let the boat sink and nowç itt( is billing the watert and buy end of next year getting the book actually moving forward. -- getting the boat actually moving forward. host: what are some of the broad strokes? guest: a lot of continuity, the effort to jump-start housing, lending, a lot of the programs jointly with the federal reserve designed to get the secondary market started. right now for the last 15 years most lending has happened because banks don't keep loans on their books. what they are trying to

to put it in biblical terms, leader reid has the patience of job, the wisdom of solomon, and the stamina of sampson. senator reid is on the verge of achieving what majority leaders going back nearly a century have failed to accomplish. make no mistake about it. when this final vote is cast tomorrow morning, majority leader reid has earned his place in the senate's history. madam president, as we approach the final vote, we have reached a momentous crossroads just as senators did in 1935 when they passed the social security act, and in 1965 when they created medicare. each of those bills marked a giant step forward for the american people. each was industry dentally opposed by defenders of the status quo. but in the end, madam president, a critical mass of senators rose to the historic occasion. they voted their hopes, not their fears. as we know now in retrospect, they passed laws that transformed america in profoundly positive ways. the senate has arrived now at another one of those rare, historic crossroads. this time we are going to pass comprehensive health reform, a great goal that

change with former vice- president al gore on reducing the effects of greenhouse gases and lawrence solomonantonin scalia and how google became a media giant. this weekend on c-span2. >> the role of federal financial assistance and government officials in the deal. discussing some of the litigation against bank of america. this is two hours. >> >> the committee will come to order. good morning and thank you for being here. the committee's investigation into bank of america's acquisition of merrill lynch has resulted in an unprecedented look behind the scenes of one of the biggest bailout in american history. did the federal government force bank of america is to go through with the merger? every senior executive involved has told the committee that the government did not force them to go through with it. they told us they decided to go through with it because they thought it was in the best interest of bank of america and its shareholders. ken lewis testified that no one in the government did anything improper doing this transaction. if there is still people who want to say the government f

to put it in biblical term thes, harry reid has the patience of job, the wisdom of solomon and the endurance of sampson. he has hung in there day after day, has hut put this -- put this together, and he is about to achieve what has eluded so many majority leaders going back over half a century. truly with the passage of this bill, harry reid will have everyoned his place in the senate's history. [applause] so -- [applause] i thank all the groups for all their support behind us here who have gotten us to this point, and without further ado, the person who has led us to this point of victory for the american people, our great leader, harry reid. [applause] >> we have a line up here today that is the lineup that is the reason that we are able to complete this legislation. i played baseball, i love baseball. i love baseball season, i can come home even if it's for a short time the, turn on the tv and watch an inning or two, it's extremely relaxing, and i enjoy it very much. i know a lot about baseball. i know a lot about why managers do things with lineups in baseball, and the reason i wanted th