the israeli ambassador was summoned to parliament had for a meeting with the ambassador, stephen smith, where he was warned that the relationship could be damaged. the meeting followed the stern rebuke from the australian prime minister, kevin rudd. >> as a longstanding friend of israel, i repeat what i said before. any state, in the states which uses or forges australian passports, let alone uses or foes australian passports for the purposes of assassination, is of the deepest concern to australia, the deepest concern to australia. and we will not let the matter rest. >> given the close relationship between australia and israel, the diplomatic language was uncharacteristic the robust. >> i made it crystal clear to the ambassador that if the results of that investigation causes to come to the conclusion that the abuse -- cause us to come to the conclusion that the abuse of austlian passports was in any way sponsored or condoned by israeli officials, in australia would not regard that as the act

and from new york, the one and only stephen a. smithsports on the radio and a columnist for the "philadelphia inquirer" always calls them as he sees them. we'll start with jackie. from the perspective of an athlete's wife, what did you make of this statement? >> i took it as i thought it wasn't enough. i felt like it was contrived and he wrote it and he was saying all the right things. i would have wanted more emotion. i just felt like it was really shallow. >> larry: did you expect him to tell his wife he loved her? >> i expected him to tell her he loved her, i expected him to get on bended knee. if you want the world to know how sorry are you for what you've done to your wife, you need to prove it and probleming it i don't think is reading a statement. >> larry: so you're saying if that were you, that's what you would have expected. you would have been long gone. >> a long time ago, but i still would have wanted the apology. >> larry: stephen smith who calls them as he seize them, what did you make of it today? >> i think jackie is be

>> stephen smith. >> and were in george washington university, what do you do there? >> professor republic science here george washington. >> at brookings? >> is senior fellow at brookings were but the filibuster buchan still toil away and talk about commercial politics. >> atul gawande shows how something as simple as a checklist can reduce complications in surgery's. he appeared on c-span's washington journal. this is an hour. >> host: we are going to introduce you to our guests, dr. atul gawande who is a surgeon and also inside the debate over public policy on health care for a decade and a half now. he has in the pastored number of books including a surgeon's notes on performance complications a surgeon's notes on imperfect science and his latest book is called "the checklist manifesto," how to get things right. we will talk to him this morning. during the clinton years he served as senior health policy adviser for the campaign and during the white house 9293 and you can read him on a fairly regular basis in "the new yorker" sarah thanks for being here. when did y

nabby merida pompous and unsuccessful william stephens smith. charles succumbed to a call as him and died during his father's presidency. thomas boylston, the youngest, eke out a marginal legal career. only john quincy moved on. by 7094 hit game to reputation like his father in law and politics. prompting president washington to appointed u.s. minister to the netherlands. the first in a long series of diplomatic missions that would culminate in him serving as the most noted secretary of state in american history. >> quincy, april 18, 1794. my dearest friend. your letter of april 5 and 7th reached me last evening. and they fill me with more apprehensions of a war than anything i have before her. the body of the people are decidedly against war. and if a warrant is magic gore foolishly precipitated upon us, without the union of the people, we shall need a fine man or money to prosecute it. and the government will be cursed and abused for all the consequences which must follow. i have many disputes with your brother up on this subject, whose passio

and our old buddy stephen a. smith, columnist with the "philadelphia inquirer." brandle, what do you make about the way he's going to do this >> it's tiger woods to a tee, he's controlling the who, the friday? what, the where and the how. to the extent that he won't allow questions. you go all the way back to 1996. he had a statement where he said, hello, world. from that moment on, it's been all with his golf clubs. i think what he does friday is going to have a huge impact, not so much what he says, but how he says it. >> larry: david, why have a bunch of people around if he's the only one going to talk and no questions allowed? >> i'm not sure, frankly. being present and reading a statement without media present to ask questions isn't a whole lot different than issuing a statement on his website. but perhaps he can pull it off. the reason that he's in this position is that we learned or the public learned that tiger woods was not who we thought he was. so if he issues a statement and demonstrates authenticity, remorse, as odd as it may seem, the public probabl

stephen abraham joins member of september 11 families here also, brad smith of microsoft on the future of what is called cloud computing, dealing with how."iu instead a local computer servers. >> it is the only collection of american presidential portraits painted by one artist. see the entire collection on- line at c-span's web sites, americanpresident's board -- americapresidents.org. people who run the historic mount vernon estate, the va home of the nation's first president, say the day belongs only to him, and the government website knows that the legal designation is washington's birthday. his actual birthday is next monday. this morning, "washington journal" talked to a presidential historian for about an hour. host: we are joined from boston from presidential historian, rice university history professor and no stranger to the audience at c-span2, douglas bernanke -- douglas brinkley. thank you for joining us this morning. guest: good morning. thanks for having me. host: if president stay were a holiday celebrating just one president, it there or one president to honor, who wou