help knowing the downfalls of being a government servant, that is minor compared to helping the american public and improving the system. that is something that will last for generations. it's really important by the way one of the things that motivates me is the american health care system is so expensive, so much money that it influences our debt and influences state budget. one of the things that motivates me is i care about future generations. i care about the it education our kids are getting and the best way to help that is health care costs. what is driving the long-term debt in this country? i health care costs. what is driving states to take away from college and primary and secondary school, high health care costs. it frees up resources for paying down the federal debt and states being able to support education. that's one of the reasons i motivated to do everything i can whether in government or not to improve the american health care system. >> lets go from large board to very contain. you said you loved working in the white house and i can imagine during this time revolutionary as

be happy to go in, knowing all the downfalls of being a public servant, including the personal attacks even when they're false. that's minor compared to helping the american public and improving the system. that will last for generations and that's, i think, really important. by the way, one of the things that motivated me is -- the american healthcare system is so expensive. so much money. it really influences our debt. and influences state budgets. and one of the things that constantly motivated me is, i care about future generations. i care about the education our kids are getting, and the best way to fix that is to try to reduce healthcare costs but a what is driving the long-term debt, high healthcare costs. what is driving states to take money from college and primary and secondary school? high medicaid costs. so getting healthcare costs under control frees up resources for paying down the federal doubt, states being able to support primary and secondary over indication. so that's one reason i'm motivated to do everything i can, whether in government or not, to improve the american healthcare system. >> host: let's good from very large board to very

the premise. the public that somehow we didn't adhere to that promise. right now we have to go and have a major campaign and explain to the american public the benefits of the affordable care act and i think we need to be quite honest about it. this is one of the frustrations. implementation of a complex bill in change in the american health care system is going to be a bed of roses. there are going to be ups and downs. let's put that on the table and seven changes are going to lose on the way to a better team. a better system will be much better on all three matcher. access to insurance and care, and cost of the your periods. the fact is on each one of those metrics to party had access in the american system and will continue to a success. the last witness who could save every family's been a $2500. first of all, that is not tomorrow. second of all, it gives the background of health care costs going up at like 4% greater than the growth of the economy. the cbo has pointed out, look, premiums have been a lot lower and they are a lot lower the exchange than we are calculated in 20. yes, inflation has come down. not all that is the affordable care act. par

>> the american public the execution of federal exchange people accused of word fiasco and there really was. i eighth tried hundreds of times and many people were frustrated and it did not have to me that way but connecticut's it succeeded. california did moderately well. i think it was not properly managed when you have a reasonable competent team come together to fix it. >> host: why did that take so long? you refreshingly were transparent about the dynamics with managerial skill and health insurance experience. >> i cannot explain the resistance but if you looked have spent a good but connecticut has a health insurance executive has a quasi private derangement the same thing to understand the insurance needs in the marketplace also with managerial experience how do we make the exchange better how they operate to give the right to information? that there is a good experience in a reasonable amount of time and they run it like amazon. that is what we need to aspire to. maybe a not to right out of the box to become amazon overnight it has been out there for nearly two decades but we nee

when it comes down to it whether they knew they were straight with the bankruptcy court and the american public. because you have to remember also that the american public that paid billions in taxpayer dollars to help in the g.m. bankruptcy are the very same people that g.m. has been lying to for all these years to your question of what happens now we believe the claims asserted will be sustained against the current generation of general motors. >> you were a lawmaker for a long time. you were a lawyer and a member of the president's cabinet during the reorganization of the company. is it clear that the obligations from the old company follow through bankruptcy to this new one? >> i don't think it's that clear, ray, and i think this will be litigated for a long, long time. if we were to use an ounce of common sense which really doesn't apply in cases like this or in washington you would think that the old g.m. would be responsible. they are the company that manufactured these cars and in turn manufactured the defects and ignored what people were telling them about the defects and made a busine

it is not as if the press is trying to harm the american public. e just defined it as a stronger country when there is a free flow of ideas, when there is consent of the government, because they understand that the programs are you are implementing in their name. and we feel, even bad news, sometimes drink in the country because the rest of the world just to see our transparency and accountability system. and so it is a larger framing of what national security is. but because of the way that the executive branch has a monopoly on defining what national security is, you get to put your own parameters around it and define us as outside of it sometimes. we are not trying to harm the country by writing these stories. in fact, i think most reporters feel they are really helping my getting this information out to the voters. >> i accept most of what you said. i, too, agree that reporters are not out to undermine the country, but i'm also clear in my mind that reporters do not often understand why something can be harmful, or why certain things could be gu

that would stand up and tell the truth and the american public about the situation we find ourselves in. you can debate what caused it. i will live out my idea what caused them. >> career, politics and reasons for retirement from the senate at the end of the session here tonight at 8:00 these stands q&a. >> you are watching the tv. next, an interview with kate bowler about her book "blessed." she looks at the long history depressed or the gospel in the united states and profiles for her to cost the preachers like joel osteen, t.d. jakes and joyce meyer. this interview was recorded at the washington duke and in durham, north carolina. it is part of the tvs college series. >> "blessed" is the name of the book. "blessed: a history of the american prosperity gospel." duke university professor of religion, kate bowler is the author. professor bowler, what is the prosperity gospel? >> it developed a special vocabulary for how exactly faith reaches out and brings back material things. >> host: what is pentecostal? >> guest: pentecostalism is a movement that sprang up in the early 20th centu

the need for affirmative action? i ask you, david. >> i think that is there a problem with helping african americans into good colleges? yes. what the court was making a technical call. the american public opinion is hostile to quotas, extremely hostile to the bumping people up in the schools. i think what they said in justice kennedy's ruling, which was right, there are other ways to do this. there are smarter ways to do this. targeting low income schools, targeting inner city schools. that is where the american public. >> michigan joins seven other states, including california, that have these similar bans. if you look at the public universities in these states, the number of minorities has fallen. so, no, you can't say that we've passed the need for affirmative action. but it is challenging. the other states to try to find other ways. in texas, they admitted top 10% in all of the high schools to colleges and that assumes that these high schools are pretty much segregated, black, white, hispanic. >> it's not exactly right. >> i get to finish my thought. you get a diversity. so there are other ways to achieve this. but i think this is a setback. and her decent, which is based on her pe

that's what the rest of the american public, 90% of americans who support not taking guns out of theds of the good guys and gals but keeping them out of the hands of dangerous people through things like background checks, which includes the majority of nra members themselves, rank and file nra members. that's what we need to realize. our issue isn't with the people in the audience there, the people who might have gone hunting, dawning camouflage. >> let's get to the corporate bagging in a moment. but first, sam, i wanted to get your reaction to his gun control issue with a number of other pr debacles they have faced. he linked it to the nsa scandal, violations of privacy, calling it a corruption of trust. is that a smart move on his part? >> it has proven to be strategically smart. the nra is as powerful if not more than any point. the problem he faces is during the first term he had a pretty good boogeyman. he said he will come and get your guns. he doesn't have that in the second term. the president is not running for reelection. he needs to create a few other things for people to

. >> in the 30 year, fixed-rate mortgages is good for the american public area you will need public dissipationn some way to bring the cost down. i think the american public will do way better with some kind of guaranteed instrument in the picture. i think that will be in the picture. whether you start an entirely new company and let freddie and fannie run often have a new company that in turn has government guarantee, perhaps with riot the dissipation, and i know they're are talking about having the private market set the price to some degree, but have the government have -- be the insurer of some resort, maybe the private sector would take some percent of the risk. >> do you think they have aided in the company? >> no, freddie and fannie's stock rallying, i do not think it has got anything to do with the housing recovery. i think housing recovery was built into low level of housing starts following the crash in 2008 for a couple of years. household formation eventually just demands housing. >> all right. it is earnings season. a roundup coming up in company. in motors, bmw taking on tesla wit

nhtsa, which is responsible for protecting the monitoring of the american public needs more resources to get their job done. i urge congress to take immediate action to provide additional funding for nhtsa and to make the agency more transparent and informative for the public they are charged with serving. please help us protect our children and pass legislation to make sure it doesn't ever happen again. thank you. >> so now we're going to have ken reimer of wisconsin. >> thank you. >> i am here before you today as a voice of my step daughter, natasha wigele, 18, and her friend amy rideamaer, 15. they lost their voice, their whole life on the evening of october 24, 2006 while riding with another friend, megan concerns, in her father-in-law's 2005 chevy cobalt. what was to be a simple shopping excursion turned into a death trap as their vehicle, without any warning, lost power, steering wheel locked, power brakes no longer worked and the safety air bags were turned off. when all of this happened, the car followed a path off the road, went airborne over an adjoining driveway, crushed a

i strongly feel it was the correct decision and we knew all week that support from the american publicly critical in allowing us to savely apprehend the subjects and we felt that was quite true and prophetic auz the week went on. >> you were unindated with cell phone video and people responding. how do you watch all of this and assess it and figure out what could be the critical clues you needed to identify the suspects. >> we had over 120 analysts and agencies at the fbi laboratory in quantityco, virginia, analyzing thousands and thousands of still photos and videos we were receiving. we had many individuals in boston as well analyzing photographs. but when you acquire videos that are in very approximate location to the blast sites and it gives you a window into individuals that were around those blast sites, preceding the blast, those are the videos you focus upon and watch hundreds and hundreds of times until you can spot patterns of activity that indicate you're on to something. >> you told 60 minutes it was your wife the night there was another shooting who first said these could

barnum put it, no one ever lost a dollar by underestimating the taste of the american public. [laughter] the american public is still interested in side shows. that is why every day a mainstream media portrays the conservative movement as a sideshow. they present a parade of horribles, candid it's too are portrayed as caring about the needs of women and minority groups, politicians who are said to promote xenophobia, fear of emigrants, and rich old white men your focus on lowering their tax rates and preserving the wealth instead of paying their fair share. day after day the media tells stories like these in lurid detail. through these reports and entire conservative movement is depicted as a parade of human oddity, just as shocking and just as fascinating as a circus sideshow. and many conservatives fear that the media-reported freak shows may turn the next generation away from conservatism. in considering this situation it is important to start with the observation that on many levels america is a concerted nation. earlier this year the "washington post" reported that conserv

i guess i'm a little skeptical that the american public is hanging on these jobs numbers and will vote on them for the mid terms, given all the other stuff in the ether. >> i think you're right to be skeptical that the american public is hanging on these job numbers. i think the american public hangs on things like the results of dancing with the stars or the final four. as much as i would love if they did because it would be great for people like annie and myself and you, i think that they don't hang on every jot and tittle of political and economic news that comes out. i think what typically happens there's a perception. things are getting better, things are staying the same, things are getting worse. three or four straight months of good jobs reports, the coverage of the jobs reports winds up being sort of this is moving in the right direction, i think takes away the nightmare scenario for democrats in the 2014 mid-terms, which is the bottom totally falls out, president obama is not at all popular, obamacare is not at all popular, and people's perceptions that the economy is bad you

look, when you ask the american public whether they're gun owners or nra members or the public at large, 90% believe in ba background checks, and tha doesn't matter what party you belong to. from our point of view this isn't about gun crime. it's about crime control. it's about keeping people safe, it's about moms know they're going to pick up their kids at soccer practice, not the emergency room. >> you guys are talking about coalescing moms and really focusing on women, also mayors, but really focusing on moms, and teachers was another group you say you're focusing on. what is it you want your grass-roots supporters, which already are over is million? >> for too long the washington gun lobby has really had the field to themselves. and what we have to do is make sure that every mom and every teacher and everywhere a voice is heard so that when politicians, whether at the state or federal level, make the decision to vote. they're thinking about every town, not just about the washington gun lobby. >> are you specifically saying we want people to pledge to vote against anyone who opposes

reaction from the public, and that outcry of public opinion came into play as we went into conference with the senate. [ siren wails ] poussaint: public anxiety spiked again when an americances. poussaint: events and public pressure had moved both sides to agreement, compromising to make screeners federal employees, but only on an interim basis with an option to privatize them later. man: on this vote, the yeas are 410, the nays are 9, the conference report is agreed to. poussaint: the post-vote analysis pointed to a disconnect between republican party policy and public sentiment on this issue. oberstar: they were pursuing their own ideological bent and they misjudged what the public wanted. poussaint: on november 16th, president bush and a delegation from congress went to the airport for the signing ceremony. today, we take permanent and aggressive steps to improve the security of our airways. poussaint: and so, because of public opinion, there was a dramatic shift by republicans from private to federal control of airport screeners. we are all aware that public officials, political candidates, and media outlets are generating a mountain of polls to gauge public opinion a

there is no question the congress routinely does not speak the truth to the american public. it is not just about inaccuracies. it is the absence of speaking the truth about where we are. where are we? livingat a standard of the same as what we had in 1988. we need -- now have unfunded obligations of $1.1 million per family. that needs to be spoken. we need to build a context of how things are going to come. seebiggest problem that i with congress is the denial of reality. person still be a good and deny reality. we all have flaws. we all deny reality in some sense in our lives. we don't want to face reality. the fact is we have not had the leadership in this country for a long time, i am talking a presidential and congressional, that would tell the truth about the situation we find ourselves in. you can debate what caused it. i have my idea what caused it. coburn on his career in politics and the reason for his retirement in the senate. tonight at 8:00 on c-span. >> collecting each year $100 billion in federal taxes, the internal revenue service has contact with more citizens

a real disregard for the american public. paul ryan has pretended to be a friend of the poor or someone concerned enough to go out to these communities and talk to people who are disenfranchised about what is happening in their neighborhoods and then turns around and present this to the country as his blueprint. it is fairly outrage just. and i feel like it is the jupgs on the part of republicans, to present this at the the same time that they say that they care poverty and are launching their own war on it. it's outrage just. >> it is outrageous. this is of course not a war on poverty. this document, this budget. is a war on the poor. as you indicate, what it does, is say to people who need a little help for food and nutrition, we'll take that away from you. because our republican theory, is when we help a struggling family, it just means we sap their will to work. they will be playing around in hammock, and therefore, the way to really help people is take away food nutrition programs for kids. let's take away the school lunc

this trip has been under the radar for the american public. nonetheless it's incredibly important. resident barack obama wanted to be there to show the long standing relationship with the philippines is still strong. of course he's not visiting china but the whole trip is act china and saying to china, america has security and economic ties in the region. >> how sensitive is it going to be on the ground in the philippines? few decades ago they didn't want the american presence anymore. will that be mirrored ed ied i? >> yes. at times it's get them out. there's a mixed feeling in the philippines about the u.s. presence. some still want especially with rising china to have a close relationship with the u.s. there's a huge philippine community in the united states as well. they're watching this. there are quite a lot of people that want a strong u.s. military presence. >> as far as the american public is concerned, stationing more troops there or sending more troops in, will they be happy with that in terms of presence in that area and potential intelligence ties perhaps with the phili

it will take someone strong or pulled to gain the trust of the american public. neil: any thing that will reflects an institution is not there. but that is the old adage a lot more than twice shy. where does this go? >> that the market under president obama has done quite well but at the same time they don' feel that's and that is the problem for this administration who has gone after republicans for their policies at the same time he has been in office for five years so there is a disconnect between every day americans and wall street and whoever taps into that is a lot of rage there. >> governor gentle people have done well it is not federal or a senator. governor. i think people trust their governor. fade to a lot of good jobs. we're in the red in doing red -- doing good. he has a fresh idea in president clinton did was us and nobody. then let's get president obama was a nobody as well. we go to the states. neil: bet you may imagine those examples that may harvard -- harbour those fears. neil: and bill clinton will be a grandfather. who says democrats should no

gas emissions from power plants and autos, but faces an uphill battle in congress, and among the american public, if it tries to implement a broader climate agenda. separate polls last year, by the pew research center, found more than two-thirds of americans believed the earth is getting warmer. but only one-third saw government action as a priority. >> woodruff: a closer look now at the specifics, and the questions raised by this, from two people who worked on the report. michael oppenheimer is a coordinating lead author of it. and a professor of geosciences and international affairs at princeton university. and patricia romero lankao of the u.s. national center for atmospheric research was a lead author of a chapter about north america. she's a sociologist who studies the societal impact of climate change. and we welcome you both to the program. michael oppenheimer, it seems one of the screaming headlines from this is that people need to pay attention. what had been felt to be in the future is happening now. how do you read the main conclusions today? >> right. we're already detecting some of

i am going to speak in favor of the motion because the american public deserves transparency. in an investigation that the chairman has marred with partisan attack and selective releases of interview transcripts. you know, i find it incredulous that my friend from florida talked about, this is about election integrity and protecting elections and stopping the manipulation of an election. where was that resolve for protecting integrity of elections after the 2000 hijacking of the national action ? it certainly was not in this room. it was not on this committee. and so what -- >> this is coming from nevada's time has expired. all-time -- no further members seek recognition and a sufficient quorum being present the question is on favor of reporting contempt report to the house all those in favor signify by saying i. many opposed. clearly the i said that. the clerk will call the roll. [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] >> is anyone else seeking to be recorded? the clerk will report. >> on the vote, sir, there are 21 yeas, 12 nays. >> the eyes have it. the ayes have it. contender b

trying to create new sources of revenue. " we still think the postal service is important for the american public and the american people and it is our responsibility to pursue new revenues to keep the revenue flow and the financial stregnth in this organization. " donahoe says the postal service has lost 28% of its mail base in the last 6 years. the greek yogurt growth curve apparently is still on the up swing. chobani is already the largest player in the category. it's increasing its exports and now has a 3- quarter of a billion dollar private equity loan to further expand exprts and develop new products. the money comes from tpg capital which will also have a seat on the board and may take an equity stake. in today's cover story--- americans consume more soft drinks than anything else, but alcoholic beverages are second, accounting for nearly half of all liquor sales. but in the last five years, the biggest growth has been in spirits. home-grown american bourbons and whiskeys making the biggest jumps in volume sold and sales raked in. "we're up 75% for our brand and we've been out of the marke

if they claim to be good stewards of the land and the land will be beneficial to the american public,merican public isn't benefitting. he's claiming he has title to the easement and maybe he does and that's something perhaps they can work out. they approached this heavy-handed from get-go. if these cattle, blm called them trespass cattle. if they were people and here illegally, the department of justice would be running guns to them and the department of homeland security would be driving by with free government phones and ebt cards. because they are cattle they are rounding them up and killing them, he had thousands of heads that have been reduced dramatically. he's the last rancher in this county because the land management has run off everybody, even those with a a valid claim to easement on the land. what they are doing is ridiculous and it needs to stop. >> they are killing the cattle? >> yeah, multiple reports. i talked to mr. bundy today and he said that's what they think those big old trucks are there for. they have taken 300 cattle from him with intent to destroy. >> the prob

david souter and sandra day o'connor raised eyebrows when they called out the ignorance of the american publicpaul stevens' turn when asked if the justice should consider the giant oval when they retire. >> do you think it's something that justices should take into account? >> i think so. it's certainly a natural and appropriate thing to think about your successor. >> stevens' comments came after the dean of the law school penned an op-ed in "the new york times" urging ruth bader ginsburg, the court's most senior justice to retire before the november elections this year, ensuring that a democratically controlled administration could confirm that. but seemingly when touched on politics and urge older citizens to rise up in revolt. antonia scala told students while they ask tax, if it goes to a certain level, you should revolt. while a scalia-led insurrection is not something to lose sleep over. the political activity in scalia's wife maureen is cause for concern. in june, the court will rule on the massachusetts 35-foot buffer zone, one that exists outside of abortion clinics. maureen scalia is

. >> you see certain countries starting to step up, which leads me to something i think the american publics heard say time and time again. bill clinton has told me in a private conversation with him as he traveled to various places. he has told me this privately and has said this publicly. he is on the record saying that the worst mistake of his presidency was not moving quickly enough into rwanda. i think even his secretary of state had at times expressed regret that they did not move quickly enough on rwanda. when you look back at this genocide, what do you make of the world's leading nations, including ours who did not do anything? the nurses ofe of i'm one of the witnesses of the genocide. i was there. who after those ones do thethem abandoning us dogs and the thief's and the gangsters, one of the ones who was still calling the international community. i was calling the white house. i was calling the united nations. i was quoting the peace corps. i knew what i was doing. , i wasey left rwanda seeing them. i wanted to shame them. today we are calling president clinton. , thee calling mr

narrowest possible monocle top hatted man hands a bag of money to the liberal fat cat where the american public stands behind them wearing a barrel known as quid proquo corruption. >> unless the money is transferred. you have to get it from the person who wants to corrupt to the person who is going to be corrupted. unless the money can make it from a to b i don't see where the quid procoargument is. >> jon: is he (bleep) that? you know they don't want cameras in the courtroom. let me get that straight. justice alito doesn't see how money corrupts politics unless you can draw a straight line from i am giving you this money to do this thing for me. let's see if we can find justice alito a broader nonliteral quid quo prolike an historical example of the corrupting influence of money in politics. what if we reached back in history to like this weekend. >> the republican governors are heading west to las vegas. they are speaking at the spring meeting of republican jewish coalition but more important the private talks with one man, republican super donor sheldon adleson. >> jon: i would respectfully

it has repeatedly demonstrated to the american public that it can't be trusted to be acting in our best behalf. the request to epa to reinstate it on behalf of the american public that is recognize that bp simply can't be trusted to continue to do this. >> can you talk about the petitions he delivered? >> right. that petition is asking the epa to reinstate the suspension against the bp. following the deepwater horizon spill, epa temporally suspended bp while it was investigating the deepwater horizon oil spill. a few months back, bp been sued epa to lift the suspension so they reached an agreement which resulted in a five year probation for bp and then a few weeks ago, we had this other spill and lake michigan were about 1600 gallons -- it just further illustrates bp is unprepared to deal with the oil and gas development activities. >> jaclyn lopez, it is four years later. how do you think bp should be held accountable? >> we think the american people have spoken and the petition was signed by over 50 organizations representing millions of americans which was independently signed by ano

we are not trained in speaking to the american public. we see extremists and terrorists is the same thing. obviously the american public does not so my first idea on lessons learned would have been to push back and say why doesn't the committee take a first stab at writing the talking points and then we will take a look at them. the second conclusion that the lessons learned paper came to us , if we do write unclassified talking points than the substance -- substantive expert should be involved in the editorial process all the way through and not do what we did in this case which was experts up front, a bunch of congressional affairs and public affairs people in the middle and only bringing in the experts at the end. >> if you look at chairman colin powell who went to the united nations and was relying on information received from the community about weapons of mass destruction in iraq and the same thing with susan rice. she went through a tough time when she was responding to what information she got so there are a lot of lessons to be le

have not had the leadership in this country in a long time to stand up and tell the truth to the american public about the situation we find ourselves in. you can debate what caused it. on his career,rn politics and reason for retirement from the senate at the end of the session. sunday night at 8:00 on c-span's q&a. >> president omar -- obama marks equal payday by speaking about the paycheck fairness act. he will be introducing the white house east room by the advocates and author, lilly ledbetter. \[applause] >> ladies and gentlemen, the president of the united states accompanied by mrs. lilly ledbetter. \[applause] >> thank you. thank you. thank you. thank you. \[applause] thank you and good morning. my name is lilly ledbetter and i am honored to stand here today on behalf of women everywhere who are struggling to make ends meet because of the gender pay gap. my perm story of unfair pagan in 1979 when i started at good year tire and rubber company. i thought a job at good year could help put my two children through college and enable my husband and i have to financial security in retirement.

they really have to shake it off and prove to the american public that the investment was a good investment. >> does mary barra survive this? >> i think she will. it's so easterly and it's clear she's just getting her hands around this issue that at the moment i don't think anybody should be concerned about that. but look at this. you've had a 750 million charge amounts for the first quarter. basically wiping out their earnings for the first quarter. if we were to get a billion dollar charge or another half million dollar charge that's real money. we have to think about the prospects of what happens to a ceo with charges like that. >> thank you for coming on the show. good to see you. >> thank you. >> editor of curb and cars. >>> carl levin of michigan said the construction manufacturer caterpillar shifted profits to a subsidiary in switzerland which had no employees or real business activity. caterpillar said the company's actions were legal and appropriate. what i'm about to say is not an april fool's joke. more than 7 million people have signed up for health insurance under obamacare. th

the american public is still extremely frustrated. i think the big question for the election coming up is how much will president obama actually be a marker for this election given people know -- >> hard to imagine he won't be. >> ifthe there's a change from 2006, it's the intensity level. >> i want to go the foreign policy, micah, that was a dramatic number. look at march 14 versus september 2011 and it's almost a flip of more active to less active. this is a country that just wants to retreat. >> we have to put that september 11, 2001 -- >> no doubt. >> after that dramatic event of september 11th, you couldn't get into the 50% of rain of wanting to get more involved is pretty dramatic. and it goes across party line, which is a very important part of the electorate and how people are going to be looking at issues, international issues moving forward through 2016. >> being pro active on national security is not going to be good politics in 2016 whether you're democrat or republican. while the preference for a the president's foreign po

but it really is very disturbing for the american public. ou believe gm executives and workers in the company should be held criminally liable for the death of your daughter, ken rimer? >> they were aware the switch was not correct. all to the organization, i can just put the blame on one person, but there are many there that made that decision. there are also many more that made the decision to hide that. they need to be held accountable for those decisions that they made and rather process, not just the guy that signed off the original paper, but his supervisor and all the way up the chain of command. >> ken rimer, condolences on the death of her 18 year old stepdaughter natasha who died in a car crash in 2006, along with her friend. also want to thank joan claybrook for joining us. democracy now! is looking for feedback from people whod<é?x >> my name is alexandra grant and i am an artist.

the more we are transparent i think the more the american public will realize the american intelligence the issue we have with nsa also. >> in the last couple of minutes i have with you, do you think the american public will be any easier knowing that their phone metadata -- that is what numb p er calls what number and for how long -- will be stored under the president's proposal -- you all need to put legislation around it -- will be stored with the phone companies as opposed to the federal government. isn't the point that too much data is being collected? >> remember, that happens already and was happening well before this program got started. that's how they bill. these are really phone company billing records. this isn't some special collection by the phone companies. they collect it as a natural course of their billing cycles for phone numbers. >> do they want to be a part of this really? >> they have to keep it anyway by the fcc rules. at least 18 months. so what happens now is -- and dutch and i have gone round and round and tried to find the right place. remember, there was noth

smith, what do you say to the american public that frankly seems not to care. the latest polls indicating that 82% of americans are now opposed to the war in afghanistan. in 2008 the opposition to the war was at 46%. so what do you say to americans who believe that afghanistan was nothing more than a waste of time, and this election is the same? >> i think this election will provide an answer to that question one way or the other. again, if there is a high turnout, and it demonstrates in face of insecurity and taliban threats that afghans are willing to go out and vote. they are willing to endorse the political system and the constitution they have now. elect a president who has legitimacy and can rebuild relations with the rest of the world. i think that would be a very powerful signal. if on the other hand there's a low turnout, the vote is marred by fraud, security incidents, if the taliban can claim to have effectively defeated the election, then i think there -- will be an argument on the part of the nay sayers who right now are as you pointed out, tired of

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and i think that the american public and the government are going to look at that before they look at substance. >> chip, since when in politics can you replace something with nothing and succeed as a political message? >> i think it's a political party in the health care side of things. nothing much is going to move over the next six months. the law is the law of the land. the republicans need to have a message of what they want to do if they want to replace it, if they want to block grant it to the states which is what i'm in favor of. you're asking about the town hall questions. the town hall questions i've been to with a couple of members from congress, it's a lot of small business people. how do i deal with this health care plan? i have to make the decision do i add employees or lose employees? the extra cost of obamacare is making me not be able to hire people. these are the 50 plus range group that have been spending thousands of dollars on accountants, lawyers, cpas to tell them what that means. i think the big winner of obamacare is cpas and lawyers. they are plowing through

the american public deserves transparency. in an investigation, chairman partisanmarred with attacks and released transcripts. i'm incredulous that my friend from florida talk about election integrity and protecting, and stopping the manipulation of an election. resolve forat protecting integrity of elections after the 2000 and hijacking of a national election? it is not in this room. it wasn't on this committee. >> the gentleman from nevada's time is expired. all time. no further members seek recognition. a sufficient quorum being present, the question is, contempt report to the house, all those in favor, signify by saying aye. in the opinion of the chair, the ayes have it. the clerk will call the roll. >> mr. chairmam. mr. turner votes aye. mr. mchenry votes aye. mr. chez fits -- mr. langford. ssard votes aye. mr. ferranthal votes aye. mr. woodall. massey votes aye. ye. desanto's votes a mr. cummings votes no. mrs. maloney votes no. mr. tierney. mr. clay votes no. mr. lynch votes no. mr. cooper votes no. cartwright votes no.