all appeals are done, right, ted? so where are we now?l of the appeals to the supreme court have come back and been denied. only thing left on the table is another request to the governor of the state of utah for a stay. he denied a request for a stay earlier in the day. that is the last thing. the last hope for ronnie gardner here as he gets closer to his execution time, right now he is an observation cell near the death chamber. he apparently has had a quiet day. the mood in the prison is somber. mood here is somber. no matter where you stand on the issue, larry having covered these before when you are getting close to an execution it is a pretty somber time. >> larry: and the firing squad is his choice, right, ted? >> yeah, he made this choice. utah is the only state that still offers this. they offered it, grand fathering it out, he was grandfathered in. he made this choice himself to die via firing squad rather than lethal injection. >> larry: randy, your brother is a convicted murderer. why after all this time should he live? >> wel

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and ted, and chris bates' partnership split up because ted wanted to take this in an unethical direction which we would not be a part of. >> larry: unethical, how? >> he was going to try to exploit me and throw me under the bus as an irresponsible parent that knew nothing about yachting and boating. which is something i have been involved in. >> larry: how is he going to make money doing that? >> basing it on abigail dying going around cape horn. >> larry: she had to die. >> according to chris bates. >> larry: we'll take a break and come back with more with laurence sunderland. don't go away. you know, when i grow up, i'm going to own my own restaurant. i want to be a volunteer firefighter. when i grow up, i want to write a novel. i want to go on a road trip. when i grow up, i'm going to go there. i'm going to work with kids. i want to fix up old houses. [ female announcer ] at aarp we believe you're never done growing. i want to fall in love again. [ female announcer ] together we can discover the best of what's next at aarp.org. [ female announcer ] together we can discover ever seen a

edgar hoover -- ted kennedy and j. edgar hoover. ted kennedy wanted him to testify in front of a committee, in one memo written by j. edgar hoover calling kennedy a dishonest man who can't be trusted. there are many, many more examples of a schizophrenic relationship. very cordial letters between kennedy and j. edgar hoover because at the same time we know that the fbi is tracking him when he is traveling to central and south america, accusing him of meeting with leftists, of gathering intelligence the same time the fbi director is apparently his best friend. host: how does this process work, the fbi releasing files? does every public official had a file? guest: not every public official necessarily. but many of them do. basically the process worked where the boston globe -- and that understand a lot of other media outlets requested kennedy's file after his death under the freedom of information act. basically over the last six or eight months, the fbi has been reviewing the file, blacking out anything that might impinge on someone'

when ted introduced then judge breyer, he quoted oliver wendell holmes that every calling is great when greatly pursued. those words applied to stephen breyerrand i can share with you my complete and total confidence that they apply equally to solicitor general elena kagan. massachusetts is proud, mr. chairman, of enain lane nan kagan's accomplishments. and we believe through these hearings as each of you get to know her as we do, we willer and broad bipartisan support just as she did when she was nominated as solicitor general. by now, every one of us has heard many times repeated and you know well the high points of her record. a trail blazing pace culminating in her selection as the first woman to serve as the dean of harvard law school and the first woman to serve as solicitor general. fur confirmed, she will make history once again. in an america where women comprise more than half the population, she will join justices ginsburg and sotomayor and for the first time in our history, a full third of the united states supreme court will be women. but there is much more that distinguish

said there is that familiarity, and last year you had the departure of some icons like joseph biden, ted kennedy, who had dominated the hearings of the past, it was that sense. senator leahy was with kagan you do have some people with real continuity. i think the most interesting person to watch or one of the most interesting people to watch could be arlen specter. he has lost his primary. he voted against kagan for solicitor general, and it will be interesting to see if he will come off as the prosecutor. does he tell the party line? that should be interesting to watch. >> she said -- he suspects she will say it is settled law. you think that is the big issue that will be controversial in these hearings? >> i did not know if it is the big issue. it is always a big issue whenever you have a supreme court nomination, i think along with other issues that could come up that would be hot button, such as campaign finance and free speech, the place of religion and separation of church and state. i think those are all issues, but you heard him say he thought she would say it settled law. that i

familiarity and last year you had the departure of some icons like biden who is now the vice president, ted kennedy who had dominated the hearings of the past. so it was sort of a new era. senator leahy is with kayen if she is confirmed to have sat through the h

for leader and he beat ted kennedy for senate leader in the early 1970's and that put him on a different path. host: two things you report in your story that are pretty well known. at least one of them, he would carry a u.s. constitution, a pocket competition. guest: it might seem a quaint to those of us who are on twitter and facebook and on the internet all day, but he carried a pocket constitution and to he would " from it. he said, you know what, this is all i will need iff-- this is all i need. but he was much more intellectual. he could go to the senate floor and in a speech, and he would " caribbean is from the bible, and sorrow for philosophy, and madison from the federalist papers -- he would quote corinthians from the bible and thoreau from philosophy. host: here is another quote -- guest: doesn't that seem quite? -- quaint. host: he served in the u.s. senate since 1954. we want to get your reaction to the passing of senator robert byrd. marjorie from pratte, west virginia. guest: good morning. i can't begin to tell you what a loss i feel this morning. i just absolutely adore h

he was not anywhere near as good a campaigner as ted kennedy.e could stay in the white house and say i care more about the american people. it is a good reason why ted kennedy lost. host: the story is "obama and the chaos perception." take a cautionary tale of jimmy carter. in fact, inflation was probably at the core of carter's troubles, but those other misfortunes contributed, too. you have to factor in the meltdown of three mile island, soviet tanks in afghanistan, and skylab. in other words, an era of chaos and a belief that the president had too little control over larger forces in the universe. this explains the appeal of ronald reagan, whose cinematic percent suggested that he would of lassoed the satellite and hurled it back into space." guest: it emphasizes how chance plays a role. no one would claim that three mile island was jimmy carter's fault, but the president is not -- the presidency is not fair. you are responsible for what happens on your watch. the clock is ticking on obama. he avoided katrina-scale blame so far. if we are in

you also got one of the best governors in the country in ted strickland. and i want to acknowledge you already have one of the best senators in sheriff brown and you are going to have another one in lee fisher. so we appreciate the great work that they're doing. i'm going to mention some of the congressional delegations here because they've got a lot to do with what's going on at this site. my last visit here was a little over a year ago. when i came to take part in a gracious ceremony for 114 -- gracious ceremony for the 11th class of the columbus police recruit. these are difficult times for ohio and difficult times for the country. and when i was here last, america was losing 700,000 jobs per month. our economy was shrinking. plants and business right here in ohio were closing. and we knew if we failed to act, then things were only beginning to get much worse. and that's why with the support of sheriff brown, but also members of the house of representatives i mary jo kilroy, and charlie wilson who are all here. wave, guys. [applause] that's why these fo

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ted fishman is an author specializing on the chinese economy. he says by creating expensive exhibits, countries wishing to court china's strong export economy and huge consumer market have followed the long-standing tradition of bringing gifts and bong to the emperor. why did countries feel like they had to be here? >> they had to be here both because china wants them here and if they're not here, it's an insult to china but they also feel they need to be here becae they have an international demand. china is buying more of everything at every company in the expo . so you need to be there to show your own country that you're engaged in china, and you need to be there to show china that you're endpajed at the very highest level with the superpower has to come. >> reporter: the spokesperson for the expo said it's not just about trade relations. >> ( translated ): the expo will serve as an important platform for cultural change extinction, which help chinese gain a better understanding of other countries. >> reporter: the united kingdom created one

senators like ted kaufman of delaware questioned david petraeus about the withdrawal timeline of july , 2011. >> the point at which, again, the term responsible drawdown of the surge forces begins at a rate to be determined by the conditions. >> so it's not whether we're going to draw down. it's the rate determined by the conditions on the ground. >> that's correct. >> there will be no more new introductions of troops. >> that is not the intention right now. i would never rule out coming back and asking for something more. i think that would be irresponsible. >> also today, defense secretary robert gates cautioned against getting overly negative about the afghan war. he said while the current narrative among politicians and the media may be negative that progress is being made. the military in krygyzstan tried to regain control of osh after days of ethnic killing. the death toll grew to 189. at least 1900 others have been wounded but other estimates range far higher. most of the victims were minority uzbeks, and thousands tried to flee but they've been denied entry into uzbekistan and

angle quickly 55 ted to her general election opponent, senator majority leader harry reid. >> this campaign is about opposing tax and spend, let's make a deal, politics as usual washington, d.c. corruption that has taken a claim on our senior senator harry reed. >> woodruff: republican voters in california backed two former corporate executives as their senate and gubernatorial nominees, former hewlett-packard c.e.o. carly fiorina will challenge democratic senator barbara boxer. and former e-bay c.e.o. meg whitman will face off against state attorney general jerry brown for governor. in south carolina's republican gubernatorial primary, nikki haley received 49% of the vote, just shy of the majority she needed to avoid a runoff later this month. her opponent will be congressman gresham barrett. haley overcame allegations of infidelity by two men in recent weeks which she vehemently denied. she says south carolina voters had had enough. >> we said no to inside deal making and backroom politics. and this last two or three weeks we said no to the dark side of politics. >> woodruff: haley, an in

when the city decided to see if it needed to change the allotment of characters, they aud ted these two... audited these two officer's messages, found on the one there were a large number of personal and sexually explicit messages. he was disciplined. he went to federal court, sued saying his privacy right was violated and the city had engaged in an unreasonable search and seizure under the fourth amendment of the constitution . >> suarez: on that fourth amendment argument, how did the justices rule? is there any right to privacy on an office-owned communications device? >> well, in a way, like the florida case, the justices decided that they did not... they would not today issue a broad holding about an employee's privacy expectations in cell phones, pagers, or technology... any technology. justice kennedy wrote for the court. and he said this technology is evolving so quickly today we have to be cautious. and also society's view of this technology and its use of this technology is also evolving. so we're not going to decide that. but we are going to assume that officer kwan here had a

delaware's ted kaufman singled out this year's decision that wiped away limits on corporate and labor union spending in campaigns for president and congress. >> i mean, we have these issues, like results-oriented judging, precedent, stare decisis, where everybody seems... everybody on the committee seems to agree. it's kind of remarkable how when we look at individual cases they aren't taken into account. and i'm not going to ask you to comment on that. >> reporter: and along those same lines, minnesota democrat al franken sought kagan's views on giving deference to congress. >> general kagan, we spend a lot of time in hearings and on the floor debating legislation. how much weight do you think a judge should give to the deliberations of congress and the reasons why we passed a law in the first place? >> well, senator franken, the most important thing in interpreting any statute-- in fact, the only thing that matters in interpreting any statute-- is congress's intent. congress gets to make the laws, under article i of the constitution. and what the court should be doing in applying th

. >> brown: ted turner was characteristically bold and brash when he launched the cable news network 30 years ago and predicted it would become, quote, the greatest achievement in the history of journalism. >> to provide information to people when it wasn't available before . to offer those who want it a choice. i dedicate the news channel for america. the cable news network. >> brown: the idea was simple but revolutionary. 24-hour news channel, a mix of live coverage of breaking stories and analysis and debate programs that would reach around the globe and compete for the three main networks. >> evening news with walter cronkite. >> good evening. president carter says.... >> brown: cnn struggled to gain credibility as a serious news source at first but its ability to jump on and stick with big stories helped make its mark. one was the 1986 challenger disaster. >> this morning it looked as though they wouldn't be able to get off. >> brown: a year later round-the -clock coverage of a toddler who fell into a well in texas turned baby jessica into a national drama. >> you could hear the

he was a combination of ted olson and oprah winfrey. [laughter] indeed, much like chief justice ginsburg, he was a leading member of the bar before he assumed his current position. unlike the chief justice, he was nominated not by president clinton, but by god himself. >> is that in the record? >> i would have to look. i'm not sure. one could take judicial notice that the archbishop of canterbury was selected by god. >> does not violate the doctrine? >> that doctrine was applied somewhat more loosely, as was the separation of power in the 15th century. it was reasonable for his majesty to rely on the archbishop's opinion, given his preeminent status in the legal community. as was poiited out earlier in the colloquy with mr. garre, henry was not someone educated in law. he was not a lawyer. he spent most of his youth in bars, rather than at our review. -- at bar review. his majesty is immune from suit under principles of qualified immunity, even if this court were to conclude that he is not entitled to absolute immunity, a conclusion tha

as former united states solicitor general ted olson statee in our committee's may 6 hearing, so we are saying that you have to guess what the law is because the government can't even tell you what the law is. if you guess wrong, you may be sent to jail or you may be prosecuted. those who seek to challenge this bill's ambiguous and potentiay unconstitutional provisions in court are going to be faced with a judicial review process designed for delay and ppfrustration. the procedure in this bill conflicts with the processes created in both the federal election campaign act and the bipartisan campaign reform act. opening the door to collateral litigation to decide what court to be in before the case is even heard. section 401 of this bill is congressional forum shopping. the only conclusion one can draw from the immediate implementation without regulatory guidance and protracted court processs that this bill is designed to effect the outcome of the 2010 elections. indeed, one need not guess to know that this is true. a letter sent earlier this week from senate majority leadership to house

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people will be able to earn 7,475 pounds before they have to start paying income ted. 23 million peopleyers will each gain by up to 170 pounds a year. 880,000 of the lowest income payers will be taken out of tax altogether. higher rate taxpayers will not benefit from this change, and a higher rate income tax threshold will have to remain frozen to 2013-2014. our long-term objective remains to increase the personal loans to 10,000 pounds as set out in the coalition agreement, and we will make real steps toward this throughout the rest of this parliament. i do not disguise from this house that the combined impact of the tax and benefit changes we make today are tough for people. that is unavoidable, given the scale of the debts our country faces and the catastrophe that would ensue if we failed to deal with them. my priority in putting together this budget has been to make sure that the measures are fair, that all sections of society contribute, but that the richest pay more than the poorest. not just in terms of cash, but as a proportion of income as well. that is far from straightforwar

ted allen was about to retire, and he has answered the call on behalf of this country, and is working as hard as is the one in this country to help deal with this crisis for members of the coast for have been doing outstanding work each and every day, -- of the coast guard have been doing an outstanding work each and every day, and i want to say to them that the country is proud of you, grateful to you. keep up the good work. thank you very much, everybody. [applause] i want to take just one question, because there have been some reports in the news. i am going to meet with the bp chairman and the number of officials on wednesday. we have begun preliminary conversations about how to restructure a mechanism so the legitimate claims that are going to be presented not just to laurel as not just the fifi but over the coming months are dealt with -- not just bp but over the coming months have been dealt with. i hope by the time the chairman and i meet on wednesday that we have made sufficient progress so we can start seeing a structure that would be in place. it is too early at this point

to establish a lasting and true friendship with senator ted kennedy from massachusetts, as we all know, who passed shortly before senator byrd and for whom senator byrd had nothing but the utmost and kindest words of praise and truly defined a friendship that perhaps has not been in american politics for sometime. this was a defining quality and a well-spring of immeasurable joy for senator byrd. for setting records and breaking his own was the inevitable result, but ultimately we are the ones who reaped the greatest benefit. in his later years when anyone questioned age as somehow detrimental to service, senator byrd reveled in picking off the names and ages of the ancients in the old testament and their continued service to the lord. moses was 120, senator byrd would say. noah was 960. he would call out, while i am but a spry 85. at 92, senator byrd work the longest record of service in congress well established, senator byrd enjoyed public service so much it's possible he also had the longest happy life on record. if only we could have captured the energies produced by his immense j

ken starr and ted olson have suggested to the committee that y are a qualified nominee. there's no to doubt in my mind that you are a liberal person. that applies to most of the people on the other side. and i respect them and i respect you. i'm a conservative person. and you would expect a conservative president to nominate a conservative person who did not work in the clinton administration. so the fact that you've embraced liberal causes and you have grown up in a liberalousehold is something we need to talk about, but that's just america. it's okay to be liberal, it's okay to be conservative, but when it comes time to be a judge, you got to make sure you understand the limits that position places on any agenda, liberal or conservative. your judicial hero is an interesting guy. you're going to have a lot of explaining to do to me about why you picked judge barack as your hero because when i read his writings, a bit disturbing about his view of what a judge is supposed to do for society as a whole, but i'm sure vul good answers and i will look forward to that discussio

for leader and he beat ted kennedy for senate leader in the early 1970's and that put him on a differentpath. host: two things you report in your story that are pretty well known. at least one of them, he would carry a u.s. constitution, a pocket competition. guest: it might seem a quaint to those of us who are on twitter and facebook and on the internet all day, but he carried a pocket constitution and to he would " from it. he said, you know what, this is all i will need iff-- this is all i need. but he was much more intellectual. he could go to the senate floor and in a speech, and he would " caribbean is from the bibleand sorrow for philosophy, and madison from the federalist pape -- he would quote corinthianfrom the bible and thoreau from philosophy. host: here is another quote -- guest: doesn't that seem quite? -- quaint. host: he served in the u.s. senate since 1954. we want to get your reaction to the passing of senator robert byrd. marjorie from pratte, west virginia. guest: good morning. i can't begin to tell you what a loss i feel this morning. i just absolutely ado him. our s

the best governors -- one of the best mayor is in the country, and also one of the best governors in tedrickland. [applause] i also want to just acknowledge that you are going to have -- you already have one of the best senators in sherer brown, and you will have another one, louise fisher. i will mention some of the congressional delegations here, because they have a lot to do with what is going on at at this site. i came here to take part in a graduation ceremony for 114 -- the 114th class of the columbus police recruits. some of you may remember that i note the mayor does. i don't need to tell you that these have been difficult times for ohio and the company. what i was here last, america was losing 7000 jobs per month. the economy was shrinking, and plants and businesses in ohio were closing. we knew that if we fail to act, things were only going to get much worse. that is what with the support of sherrod brown -- why the support of at sherrod brown, members of the house of representatives, mary jo kilroy -- wave, guys -- [applause] that is why these folks worked so hard to pass the

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ted will not be ignored, but -- because of there is one thing we understand in washington, it is political incentives and imperatives. the real question is how we respond to those incentives. phere is the easy way -- clip slogans about spending, solutions that are more about winning political power than confronting the scope of the problem, and answers borrowed from decades-old dogma instead of from a hard look at the reality. and then there are he correct ways. the correct way starts by recognizing that our problem is structural -- the product of a generation worth of easy decisions. our problem is nnt about the short-term. so when the heritage foundation wrote in response to my last fiscal speech, that "is congress is out of control spending which is causing major deficits," that kind of language makes for good attack ads, but it has little basissin reality. it ignores the effect of massive, regressive tax cuts, to debt-financed wars, a catastrophic recession, rapidly escalating entitlement costs, and that 2008 emergency response that both republicans and democratic economists agreed was

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as former united states solicitor general ted olson statee in our committee's may 6 hearing, so we are saying that you have to guess what t law is because the government can't even tell you what the law is. if you guess wrong, you may be sent to jail or you may be prosecuted. thoswho seek to challenge this bill's ambiguous and potentially unconstitutional provisions in court are going to be faced with a judicial review process designed for delay and ppfrustration. the procedure in this bill conflicts ith the processes created in both the federal election campaign act and the bipartisan campaign reform act. opening e door to collateral litigation to decide what court to be in before the case is even heard. section 401 of this bill is congressional forum shopping. the only conclusion one can draw from the immediate implementation without regulatory guidance and protracted court process is that this bill is designed to effect the outcome of the 2010 elections. indeed, one need not guess to know that this is true. a letter sent earlier this week fromenate majority leadership to house major

finally, the 40-year old son of the former abc anger ted koppel was found dead in a new york city apartment. the cause of death has not yet been determined. now "washington journal" continues. host: we want to welcome todd tucker, the research director with the global trade watch. our topic is nafta. and also daniel griswold of the cato institute. what impact do you think that nafta will have on the u.s. economy? guest: it has been in effect for 15 years. i think the impact has been positive. more importantly not only on the economy, but on foreign policy. the u.s. is 17 times larger than mexico. low. it has been a foreign policy success with mexico and canada. it has built bonds of friendship. mexico is a different country than 25 years ago. it has a multi-party democracy. they are on the road to modernization. it has been a modest success. host: todd tucker, is it working? guest: agreements of nafta combined with the world trade organization which is global, you can see that the u.s. has said burgeoning trade deficits and a loss of 5000 -- 5 million manufacturing jobs. a significant chunk

ken starr and ted olson have suggested to the committee that you are a qualified nominee. there's no to doubt in my mind that you are a liberal person. that applies to most of the people on the other side. and i respect them and i respect you. i'm a conservative person. and you would expect a conservative president to nominate a conservative person o did not work in the clinton administration. so the fact that you've embraced liberal causes and you have grown up in a liberal household is something we need to talk about, but that's just america. it's okay to be liberal, it's okay to be conservative, but when it comes time to be a judge, you got to make sure you understand the limits that position places on any agenda, liberal or conservative. your judicial hero is an interesting guy. you're going to have a lot of explaining to do to me about why you picked judge barack as your hero because when i read his writings, a bit disturbing about his view of what a judge is supposed to do for society as a whole, but i'm sure vul good answers and i will look forward to that discussio

ted poe says elena kagan has never been a judge, never seen the courtroom from the bench, never had thesponsibility, never instructed the jury, never made any point of law. she has never tried a criminal, civil, or even a traffic case. she has not decided any constitutional issues. tuesday, the confirmation hearing for general david petraeus. the weekly standard -- obama finds a general. there's an editorial supporting the confirmation. that hearing begins on tuesday morning at 9:30. we will be covering both of these events. the elena kagan hearings continue through thursday. we have a special web site that will allow you to watch the hearings in a number of different ways. c-span.org/kagan. live coverage begins at 12:30 tomorrow. there is background and links to many documents. we will discuss many of the terms that will be coming up in the questioning of elena kagan. you may not be familiar with these terms. we will do so in real time. check it out online c-span.org. theresa, from las vegas, go ahead. caller: i have a general comment. thank you, c-span. it is early. whenever there are

mary waters and her son and ted kronz and twothers died during the storm. on sunday, i rode with the sheriff and the chief of police to get a first-hand view of the devastation left behind by these tornadoes. during these visits, i spoke with my residents who survived the storm and heard them relate their miracle tales of survival. i want to recognize the 2010 graduating class of lake high school in wood county for their stedfast will and character in the wake of this deadly storm. one of the tornadoes hit lake high school destroying the school. this happened only hours before the senior class of 110 students were scheduled to hold their commencement ceremony sunday afternoon and sadly the class value dick torian lost her father during that storm. the true character, compassion and strength come through in times like the. as the surrounding communities ha stepped in to help whatever ways possible during the recovery effort. the local chapter of the red cross and other volunteer organizations were on the ground to lend their support. the local elected offici

as former united states solicitor general ted olson statee in our committee's may 6 hearing, so we are saying that you have to guess what the law is because the government can't even tell you what the law is. if you guess wrong, you may be sent to jail or you may be prosecuted. those who seek to challenge this bill's ambiguous and potentially unconstitutional provisions in court are going to be faced with a judicial review process designed for delay and ppfrustration. the procedure in this bill conflicts with the processes created in both the federal election campaign act and the bipartisan campaign reform act. opening the door to collateral litigation to decide what court to be in before the case is even heard. section 401 of this bill is congressional forum shopping. the only conclusion one can draw from the immediate implementation without regulatory guidance and protracted court process is that this bill is designed to effect the outcome of the 2010 elections. indeed, one need not guess to know that this is true. a letter sent earlier this week from senate majority leadership to ho

alabama on our line for independents, ted, you are on with lieutenant general russell honore.aller: you did a fine job with katrina. i was down there after you left and redid the crours there courthouse. but if you all don't hurry up and do something quick, you're going to ruin the whole gulf. i've lived in georgia just about all my life, moved to alabama. you keep dragging your feet, you know, not doing what you need to do as quickly as you can do it, the whole gulf is going to be ruined. and lieutenant, you've been down there yourself. you've seen the beaches. you know how it is. why have a meeting with congress when you're trying to decide what needs to be done? hurry and get it done. by the time you decide and have meetings about what needs to be done, the beaches and the gulf is going to be ruined. and you know, maybe somebody needs to just take the bull by the horns and just run with it quick. it ain't going to be a matter of time before it's ruined. and it's probably already ruined. host: how close to the gulf are you and what's the first thing that you would like to se

.%% as former united states solicitor general ted olson statee in our committee's may 6 hearing, so we are saying that you have to guess what the law is because the governme can't even tell you what the law is. if you guess wrong, you may be sent to jail or you may be prosecuted. those who seek to challenge this bill's ambiguous and potentially unconstitutional provisions in court are going to be faced with a judicial review process designed for delay and ppfrustration. the procedure in this bill conflicts with the processes created in both the federal election campaign act and the bipartisan campaign reform act. opening the door to collateral litigation to decide what court to be in before the case is even heard. section 401 of this bill is congressional forum shopping. the only conclusion one can draw from the immediate implementation without regulatory guidance and protracted court process is that this bill is designed to efect the outcome of the 2010 elections. indeed, one need not guess to know that this is true. a letter sent earlier this week from senate majority leadership to h

. >> senator, first of all, i think july 2011 is etched in stone, but, as i ted to explaiit there as a date at which a process begins, that is based on conditions, and that i think was explained clearly at the speech at west point by the president, which i was privileged to attend. beyond that, as i said yesterday, i don't think it's productive, obviously, to discuss journalistics accounts of oval office conversations based on second and third-hand sources. other than to say that i think it is important that folks should know that those are not a complete account. but i will leave it right there. what i have tried to explained today is my understanding of what july 2011 means. and how it is important, again, that people do realize, especially our partners, especially our comrades in arms in afghanistan, and in the region, that that is not the date when we look for the door, and try to turn off the light, but rather a date at which a process begins. and if i could, i'd like to ask the undersecretary, perhaps, if she wanted to provide some insights, having participated the process, as

ted, you're on the "washington journal." good morning. caller: good morning. and thank you for c-span. my opinion of the financial regulatory overhaul is that it's basically rearranging the deck chairs on the titanic. when you think about the collapse and the credit bubble and everything that happened over the past three years, it was really predicated on the biggest expansion of credit the world has ever seen, and that was really only made possible by the fact that the dollar is unsound for currency, and that could never have happened with a hard currency that was backed by the dollar, backed by gold, excuse me. so all of this is just kicking the ball down the road that's setting us up for the next asset bubble and collapse, and it's really no solution to the situation. . >> >> i want to talk about miss warren, who's in charge at the top. that gentleman got a name. i just want to keep it in context. if you notice, when she has a hearing and miss blair, who's in charge of the fdic, they degrade them like they're useless, and they're the only ones that can save

requiring one hand and the two of them played that in the caucus room now named after our late senator tedkennedy. but i heard him play that in the happy times, in the enjoyable times when he would try to bring senators of both parties together to just act like human beings. but i also sat here with him when he reminded senators of what the constitution stood for, what our role was in the constitution when he spoke about against -- against going to work in iraq without reason and without a declaration of war. it was one of the most powerful speeches i have heard him give in over 36 years of serving with him i heard many, many speeches. others can speak of his record for time served in the senate and congress, the number of votes he cast, i think, madam president, him more as a mentor and a friend. i recall in the fall of 1974 having been -- having become the senator-elect and coming down here to talk to senators and meeting with senator byrd and senator mansfield. senator mansfield being the leader and senator byrd the deputy leader. i recall one of the things he told me -- both of them di

partieand two years later the economy is still all of that's the only situati i think people might say we tedboth in row and they failed us and they'll sart a successful cdateo beat the party th gets20%on the vote realing theamendment and is d that and quoting the borders. a poll tt has lou dobbsws to seeho pular they are around 2 and that ould require a complete collapse of confence i both parties. people don'tlike both parties but they thi may be republicans learned the lessons if they win and they didn't but i don't see that aslikely because m no thatmuch of a pessimt. >> my name is ken. kristen t e point i want to k in a that waswheter or not as a rest the apparent diminishing influence of the tea party overhe last coupleof months whetr or not you think the fact th tea partiers didn't stop the healthcare bil whether or not you hink that is going to turn into apathy at the voting booth either in 20 or 2012. >> i wouldn't say that it's rned into apathy. there's another question we sk in the survey on a scale of one mind how likely d you belie y are to vote in the november elections and the