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terry teachout on louisÑi armstrong on c-span. up next "washington journal." the guests include linda feldman of the christian signs monitor and david hawkings. they talk about politics and the latest news. then jacqueline o'neill of the institute for inclusive security talks about the role women play in muslim countries. then a former c.i.a. intelligence officer looks at al qaeda's determination to acquire weapons of mass destruction. "washington journal" is next. . >> good morning and welcome to "washington journal" on sunday the last day of january for 2010. dozen president obama need a republican congress? will washington and the administration benefit from republicans in congress? is there more balance when one party doesn't control both the executive and legislative branches? we will take your calls on that. >> we are also on online. you can e-mail us. and twitter. you can also find us on facebook. we are looking at a column in the washington called "does obama need a g.o.p. congress?" down into the story he writes it is tempting to wonder whether obama

. >> tonight, q&a with terry teachout.

and a commentary teachout on his two biography blu e.lking about the economic forecast. this is an hour and a half. >> the rain will come to order. first we want to welcome cbo director here to the budget committee to report on the latest cbo estimates. and before we can not, i want to publicly thank director elmendorf for the really extraordinary efforts he and the people at cbo has made over the last year, with an unprecedented workload, and i mean truly unprecedented. i know firsthand that he and his people have worked nights, weekends, repeatedly, repeatedly how my repeatedly, under extraordinary time pressures and with real complexity. and i must say, even though there have been times that i've disagreed to wreck their elmendorf's views, sometimes strenuously, i absolutely respect his independence and his integrity and making key is one the respect of people on both sides of the aisle who i've seen that he's tried to call them straight. and that's the best that we can ask for and it really is, i think, high professionalism from dire

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this weekend on "q&a," we'll hear from "the wall street journal's" terry teachout, that's sunday at 8:00 p.m. eastern here on c-span this weekend on c-span2's "book tv," andre schiff ron on the political cartoons of dr. seuss published in the war years in the 1940's, also ken colodn and tom schachtman about the war. and now, a briefing on haiti from the u.s. southern command and the pentagon. this is a half-hour. >> general frazier, it's colonel dave lupin at the pentagon. how do you hear me sir? >> lou -- loud and clear, good morning. >> we have you loud and clear here. good morning, privileged to reintroduce to you general dowling las fraser, the commander of u.s. southern command. he's joining us from miami to provide an operational update on our operation unify red spons in haiti. general, to you for opening statements, sir. >> ok, good morning. our relief efforts continue in support of the people of haiti, the government of haiti and the international effort that's ongoing. i guess i would characterize it as the situation improves day by day. the requirement is still enormous but

. >> terry teachout on louis armstrong. >> a discussion now on mexico's efforts to combat organized crime and drug trafficking from today's "washington journal." >> you talk about what is going on in mexico concerning the drug war. you start of going back to december 1, 2006. can you tell us what you started that date? why is it important when it comes to understanding mexico's drug war. >> in december of 2006, president calderon took office and immediately upon being inaugurated declared a full- fledged, full front war on drugs. i start out in this form policy article which is based on a book i just published in mexico by saying that the premises on which this war was declared it turned out to have been false. i go one by one through these two or three premises, the first one that violence and had increased so much in mexico that something had to be done about it. pilots had been decreasing since the early 1990's and was below levels of almost any country in latin america. still above the levels of the united states, but it had been steadily decreasing. the second prize was the drug cons