he had the hand up after the bad pass and was able to knock it down. old dominion looking for their first point. that's leeway outside. darius james with it on the left point. >> you can rest assured that the monarchs will be looking to lee on this play down court here. he is really the center peels of their offense. >> carter, up top, kick it outside. james, rattles home the three ball. darius james has of. >> james, nice point guard, one of those lead guards that look for a pass first but took the open three-point shot, able too knock it down. >> inside to huelsman, he gets the roll over lee. that's going to be key, too. you have to go in and make lee work a little on defense >> derek: that's right. that's one way you neutralize the offensive player. you go at hem and make him play defense. kurt hustle hustle huelsman, we talked about the easy defense. >> mike: up top, ben finney, short. chris wright the rebound. here comes dayton, warren, down the lane, up high, miss, huelsman the rebound. he is in traffic. what happened? we have a foul. huelsman bei

now, the discussions of debt, is it good or bad, this is a very contentious issue. after all, having credit means you have the ability to take a vantage of things your present self can't afford but future self can. gives more opportunities, more options, must be good. maybe. on the other hand though i think he would be embarrassed to tell something to your mother than maybe it's not entirely good. so, not so sure about how good this development has been. it's interesting a few years ago a lot of retailers kind of phased out there lee way programs and christmas clubs because it seemed no longer to be necessary but the recession that is it basically since i wrote the book we've seen these layaway and christmas clubs coming back as a way to help people and also they are in some ways undesirable financial instruments because they pay lower interest or no interest in some cases, and on the other hand helpful for people who like self discipline and foresight. so i don't know. not sure whether it is a good thing or a bad thing. all right. i want to talk a little bit about g

guys here -- a strategic mission of looking for the big bad guys. he picture is not as nice as of the reaper but it is the exact same mission. >> of the units in afghanistan do not handle many attacks. the operations and the operators sit in these trailers. most of those people are in las vegas. their work at the air force base in nevada. the guys in afghanistan launch and recover them. they are responsible for operations in small areas usually around the air base. it is like a 24 hour operation. the air for skies and contractors are constantly dragging these out to the air strip in watching them from control trailers with a remote control. they pass them off to the guys in las vegas. they fly around and return the drowns -- drones to the guys in control. they will look for roadside bombs, any activity. >> they took a pilot out of the cockpit and put in a satellite dish. they are always looking for the control. the missions can be so long, over one day sometimes, that a regular person could not do it. it also allows us to do the majority of the work

>> the whole thing is a bad idea. e idea was that it was not going to increase the deficit and it won't for the first ten years because for the first four years, monies coming in without anything going out. the next ten years and the next ten years after that, money will be going out and less will be coming in. so, he's not going to fulfill his promise that this is not going to break the bank. it is going to break the bank. it is a rotten idea for government to get more involved in health care than it already is. >> larry: you don't think there's a health care crisis with 48 million uninsured, larry? >> there are more ways of dealing with it. including letting people buy insurance across state lines, giving individuals the same kind of tax break that is businesses have, buying insurance across state lines, allowing more competition. that's what will bring down the costs. to put on millions of people and make this guy pay for that guy's health care and to tell people with a straight face it's not going to increase overa

the issue is really one of engagement. adds ben well knows, his former boss, president nixon, engaged with a bad guy oning schi that. the issue is whether or not we are going to engage. writing a better of picking up the phone? i'm not going to speak to the mechanics. we have come off a foreign policy where we treated our interests like a video game. you don't like us, i am not talking to you. >> sent many messages to nixon about that. if that happened with kim jong-il, i would be with you. >> i'm close to ben stein's view. i would try sanctions and i think my friend ron was being too cavalier about this. south korea has become a democracy with our help. the people's republic of china is failing on its responsibility and not helping us put pressure on north korea. nuclear weapons is a scary thought. >> larry: we thank you guys. african-americans helped president obama get elected. how do they feel about him now? that's next. by changing her medicare prescription plan. all we had to do was go to cvs.com and use the free savings calculator. we learned that changing your medicare part d plan could save an average of $61

the fact that he's lived this life, however bad it is, the numbers that we have been hearing, howeverad it is, he's clearly wanted to live that kind of life. what a remarkable change for tiger woods obviously, i would say it's for the better. i think a lot of people would agree to have more of a settled life would probably good for tiger woods. but he's living a high-wire act, and he's been loving it. on the golf course, off the golf course. this is an extraordinary change for a man who's prominent in america culture. >> jim: david, we don't think of golfers as playboys, but i guess that has changed this week, too. >> yeah, in this particular case, it's shown that there are groupies and such like that, more than basketball and football, the sports normally associated with that kind of behavior with, in speaking generalities when you get athletes who have this amount of money, oftentimes, they get this amount of money, millions of dollars at a very young age, it doesn't matter if they're football, basketball, hockey, or in some cases golf or sports you wouldn't associate that kind of b

has that changed, do you think, because the pr was getting so bad for the industry and they realized that they needed to get on the right side of it? >> guest: i've encouraged ctia as incoming chair to take the issue of texting and driving and make it a top priority to go out and be aggressive about communicating the fact that we don't want people texting and driving and to get a campaign that is proactive rather than reactive, and i think you've seen ctia and its member companies take up that flag. i think that we don't want our young people texting and driving, and we're very supportive of any effort, including all education efforts, to make sure people understand that we don't want our young people doing that. >> host: and we should just note that ralph de la vega is the incoming chairman of the ctia which is the wireless association. go ahead, mr. kirby. >> host: and as far as -- >> guest: yeah, i wanted to add one more point so you understand kind of what our thinking is. at at&t we have taken a policy that we don't want our employees driving and texting, so it is best practices

the ftc has been hampered in going after the bad actors. t should be and has not had the resources, and it is also been in conflict. there is now a new chairman there. there is a new director of consumer protection. they really want to move on this issue, and they could in fact be empowered to go after the bad actors in a much more vigorous way. of course, we do not want to see state pre-emption consumer advocacy. >> when i had hearings on this, one of the problems we found is that there was no reference paucity between countries and you had the bad actors outside the it -- reciprocity, and you had the bad actors outside the united states. and so part and parcel of this is to develop legislation with other countries where you have reciprocity so that you and go after corruption and fraud and there is that ability to do that. >> i think that we are falling behind the europeans. i think it is ironic. they are going and have a better privacy policy and build a whole new online commerce business that is privacy friendly while we are lagging beca

of course, the bad news for the lease was that there were 16000 tunes here at the time. so as a practical matter, they couldn't come back to live here. so they settled with the government for fair market value, $150,000, 1100 acres of prime real estate, and 16000 tunes on the banks of the potomac river. the great irony is that when custis lee signed the state over, the title over to the federal government, custis lee on one side signing the title. on the other side with the secretary of war, robert todd lincoln, son of abraham lincoln. so that you had the son of lee and the son of lincoln agreeing on something. and i would say that that was the beginning of some hope that we could reunite north and south again. it took a while, but that was the beginning of the reunion. >> so we are going to walk back here to the first two of the unknown soldier's? >> yes. one of the great traditions in arlington is honoring the unknown soldiers. and the first instance of that came just after the civil war when quartermaster general montgomery meigs said a recovery team out into the batt

we want to play a little bit of that interview and get your reaction to what he said. >> the bad newsruggling, given the changes in the marketplace. as the contribution based for the program shrinks, there are other issues creating stress is on the program. there is a wide bipartisan group that has sought reform in the universal service fund for quite some time. the last element of the program that needs reform is that, as you said, is targeted at the kind of communication service that we had when we were growing up, ordinary telephones. what we need to do is reorient the universal service fund to support the next generation of communication services. that is something that is widely recognized as desirable. there are a lot of hard questions in theory at how we get from here to there. -- in figuring out how we get from here to there. it will take awhile to devise a way to inform universal service and implement it, but there is widespread agreement that we need to reorient the universal service fund to broadband for the 21st century. >> i think that reorienting the fund to broadbent is

people have miakenly thought about pakistan as a refuge r the bad guys afgnistan. it is thother way aund. think of afghanian as the place of refe and the -- refuge for radical iam in pakistan. if they are attacking as they are the northern teitories, you want the americs in afghistan holding the border and preventing escape and regrouping. that is at is happening here, a war one side of the border and the other. >> the pakistanis areaying a pretty steep price, with a daily bombgs. general petraeus, in an terview with npr, went through the leaderip of the taliban and al qaeda, by name,nd he said that they are in pakistan. >> let's talk se morebout afghanistan. >> it is noclear how an expanded military effort in afghanistan dresses the problem of taliban and aqaeda safe havens across the bder in pakistan. >> the shortfall isot a shortage of americanombat troops. it is shorte of afghan troops. >> senators richa lugar and carl levin u want to see bipartisanship onhe hill? barrett is, a leading republican and democr both with the -- there is, a leading republican and moc

bad. that's the only way to say it. bad football. and they fix it up, get some different guys in the lineup. it's worked out very well. the san diego chargers absolutely gone through just as much, probably more with the injury front. you know, in the nfl, it's about adversity, so you got to fight through it. not to be at full strength or not playing their best and still finding ways to win games. jim: on its way to an eighth straight win, very possibly finding its way as the two lined up behind indianapolis in the playoffs. which could mean down the road an a.f.c. championship game in indianapolis, and they're not scared to go there. referee: false start, offense, number 82. five-yard penalty. second down. jim: actually, that will back them up to the 9-yard line. cincinnati next week, regional action. many of you are going to see that game. then at tennessee on christmas night, hosting washington. phil: three tough games. go look at those records. jim: romo gets a touchdown pass to crayton with two seconds. phil: a nice little play. t

group is the wrong kind of group, you may be a dangerous person. >> the big thing is happy this but the bad thing is depending on that for your sense of fulfillment. that is the problem. >>host: who is dying for happen? to make people who feel that they don't the long and to prove themselves in order to belong. the group that tells them they're going to happen is usually a religious group but the problem to begin with is not religious but that they don't belong and that is what is happening in the middle east. two many people no longer belong in any recognizable group. that is what you see the violence over there and not here. >>host: how do come up with your theories? >> i have been doing religion psychology over 20 years and have studied other cases of people and injuring themselves for religion. like a rite of passage or pull bridge where they walk on their knees or the initiation sparc we have all seen the monks to whip themselves and that sort of thing. i am an expert on why religious people feel they need to hurt themselves in order to get what they want which is salvation. >>host: wh

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they made a small percentage of the bad loans. the bad loans were made overwhelmingly by the banks not in the program. too little government, not too much. you had private citizens and we tried to get rules adopted to prevent that because we saw the negative consequences. the community reinvestment act was not involved. >> barney, i wanted to bring it up because i didn't want them to think we agreed on everything. >> larry: gentlemen. >> all right, go ahead. >> larry: all right, the republicans today had a freeze today for a few hours on the debate insisting that the amendment be read aloud. key question, barney and then ron, barney, are we going to get a bill? >> i believe we will. that's just an anachronistic rule. they used to read thins allowed in the parliament in england because they didn't have type writers or computers. but i think you are going to get a bill. >> larry: ron, are we going get a bill? >> no, i'm saying that we will not. we'll get something but not a real bill. there will be some incremental increase in gover

we know the economy's bad. but if we don't do it now, it will catch-up with us. as, jon, how important is the climate change in your view? caller: it's important. and i'm fearing that something is not going to happen because a lot of rich countries are entrenched but one of the main points was a lot of the people who deny climate change are the same people it seems like a lot of conservatives who don't believe in science period, they don't believe in evolution and they are not going to trust scientists anyway. so coming from them, it doesn't sound genuine when they don't believe in the science of evolution, which is as plain and simple and most people, most scientists should believe in it. but i think what's happening now is that the rich countries don't want to help the poorer countries who are trying to develop, and that they are so entrenched that they don't want to give any ground, and what i'm seeing in the talks is it seems like the rich countries are just not -- they are not acting in good faith. especially the u.s. and china. and, but i think that we need

the other half the bad news for the democrats which is losing virginia, losing new jersey, losing the enthusiasm quosh enlt which is so important in elections because there's more enthusiasm and passion right now on the republican side than on the democratic. and just as important is what's happening with independents. first of all, the rise of independents and secondly, the fact that a independents are now favoring republicans over democrats. so there are many problems for both parties. and what is happening more and more is a kind of a disillusionment with the whole political system, the sense that the fix is in and if you're an ordinary american, these are not good times. >> you mentioned the lack of democratic enthusiasm. if that continues, will the right wing essentially -- the right wing fringe devouring the gop, will that even matter? >> well, that's what we don't know. things don't look good at the moment for democrats in 2010. after all, they are in control of congress and the white house. so if unemployment continues to rise -- weighed some good news today. but still real un

i would not -- i stipulate to the view that we shouldn't do bad loans. how are we going to know that or not? the reason it's so important is i don't see any way to get the unemployment rate down without our small businesses having access to having credit. i think you've heard that unversely today. >> i have heard it. i will give it more thought. one statistic we have is we do survey the loan office, the senior loan sters at banks. we ask them a whole bunch of questions. one thing that is clear is that the tightness of lending standards imposed by the banks themselves are at record tight levels. so it is not just the regulators. >> so here's what i -- first of all, i, for one, would be willing to work with you and your staff on this. because we have to move past the he said, she said aspect of what is going on. the examiners saying one thing is true, an observation gnat you just made about banks holding on to capital. i feel like we're being guided by vague impressions of what might be going on when the people that actually cannot keep their doors open and

the other names? >> guest: there's a bad. the first was eray vision to be a guest, the idea was eray, being economics as a special power to look for and there would have to be some kind of character with a cape on his back. but my favorite that was bad but it was a great bad one was we should say levitt's sister, linda, came up with freakonomics and we had this book about everything and nothing and it was hard to name it properly but her other great terrible name was bin did light speed which was so bad it must be the best team ever. >> host: it would be funny to watch people in the future to make sense of it. >> guest: or in the present actually. >> host: it's a book about nothing and everything. what's the project? what is the project of freakonomics? >> guest: i don't know if there's a project. i spent a lifetime studying economics in my own way using the tools of economics like models and thinking about incentives and using the data to figure out the difference between the correlation of causality but applied to a differen

the answer has been hands-on projects in the class and the practicing of formal skills. if it's bad to impose a lot of inter- world learned fact then students will chiefly need to learn how to think. hence the goal became critical thinking skills. but you can see that critical thinking skill as a formal educational goal is a scientific mistake. vertical thinking skills is informal and character. it's powerfully knowledge dependent in every case. just as language skill is powerfully knowledge dependent. such fundamental scientific errors allowed justify a full scale abandonment of the anti-curriculum movements. the most memorable observation about failed education -- arrangements of american schooling was offered in a fine book the learning gap by harold stevenson and james pickler. they said that the chief problem of the american classroom is not racial or ethnic diversity or economic diversity, but diversity of academic preparation. in a system with no contact of parents or cumulative net, teachers are to vsat. children are left behind. whatever worries they conceived in having a g

they did not try to prop up the bad investments. it was over rather quickly. this argument has been over for a long time. jefferson got rid of one and jackson got rid of the other. it is the sacredness and the power that exists with the central bank that finally usually arouses the people to the point of saying, this is a bad deal. we need to know more of what is going on. host: we have about 15 more minutes with ron paul. this is a port charlotte, fla.. caller: i think it was january or february of this year, there was a story that broke about a couple of guys trying to smuggle -- i think it was $135 billion worth of government securities into italy and there were rumors that the federal reserve was involved. but that story was dropped as quickly as it came on the scene. do you have any information about that? guest: no, i'm sorry i do not. i remember reading about that, but i do not know exactly what was going on. it reminds me of the stories of shipping carloads of cash over to iraq to be distributed, literally billions of dollars of cash. and there was no

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the future? all of these people, all these incredibly bad decisions and guess what? could you comment on that cycle? >> let me say the federal reserve finds itself in the unenviable position. just by maintaining a very low interest rate, are we allowing this process to continue? for do we run the risk of tightening are making this can bit more difficult but at the same time run the risk of derailing recovery? that is not an enviable position to be an. moral hazard progress after bring of moral hazard which is clearly i think if we go anywhere with any kind of regulation that is meaningful, it has to deal squarely. what do i mean in english? had a blanket guarantee. we have seen an incredible amount of government guarantees. that induces hang goes back to the question on risk-taking that the gentlemen asked earlier. it is easy for me to conjecture you want to avoid this kind of behavior again, tighten the screws to make a quick to be very difficult but that is also running the risk of what we did in the mid thirties. but with any regulation going forward has to do with

as hard as it is, it is the best of the bad options we have today. ally had two other options. one was cutting and running. we can define cutting and running in a lot of different ways, downsize the mission, readjust the mission, but all of them come down to cutting and running one way or another. i think the president wisely ruled that out from the beginning. if we are defeated in afghanistan by the taliban, it will also be a global game changer. this will be the second superpower as the taliban loves to remind us, defeated in afghanistan and the global revere bations of that will be enormous and no more so than next door in pakistan. thirdly, this issue is now going to consume this presidency, which is why it took them 92 days to come to a second conclusion because they don't like that answer and i wouldn't like it either if i was rahm emanuel or david axelrod. this is going to be the foreign policy that the president will be judged by the american people in november, 2012 and foreign policy that the congress of the united states is judged less than

the imf. >> is that a good thing or a bad thing? >> well, all lot of people have thought about this issue and come up with 60% being about right. that is what we're saying in this report. if our goal -- we should set a stabilized by 2018 at 60%. so there's a number for you. >> so -- thank you. [laughter] i was not going to let you get away. but hold on. what you are saying -- and thank you for clarifying -- the growth coming from the consumer in terms of concern and the ability of the politicians to connect the dots, right? that is what you're saying. >> i think that is what happened in the 1980's. there was not an lot of understanding about that per se, but it was bipartisan to connect the high deficits to the future of the economy, and it worked. >> so when you look at the midterm elections that we are going to see right around the corner, knowing that space is you do, will they be impacted? >> i agree with alice that they could be connected with something like social security. i think it is a matter of political will. but we know

the time. i said, oh, bad news. because under subsection a1a if the individual health insurance issuer offering such coverage enrolls any individual in the coverage after the date this bill go into effect, ewe lose your insurance. everybody in a -- you lose your insurance. everybody that has it loses it, and you get kicked over to the federal exchange program. let me tell you number, here at the bottom of page 91, says the issuer does not change any of its terms or conditions, including benefits and cost sharing, from those in effect as of the day before the first day of y-1. so very clearly, if the insurance terms and conditions change at all, if the benefits change at all, co-payments change, any of the cost sharing, premiums, whatever, they change, tragic, you lose your insurance. you do not get to keep it. the government ketogets to tell you about your health care under the federal -- the government gets to tell you about your health care under the federal exchange. yes, we've heard a lot about the panel that sai

the bad guys. doing a good job of securing our borders. that is why the sbi net, physical fences, are all so important for this cause. we can be vigilant and keep people out and also catch the bad guys. i appreciate your bringing up the issue of how important the reform of immigration is. i'd like to at this point recognize a member we gave unanimous consent to sit on this committee today. there the chair of our oversight committee. he and i have shared many hearings together. we have been looking at the issues of border security. it thank you for waiting around. -- thank you. >> thank you for the gracious invitation to attend. i have several questions, probably more than five minutes. this is about the last time we will gavel -- gather on the subject. chief, you mentioned in your comments that you have a three legged stool that is all interdependent. i think one of the legs, the technology leg, is wobbly. how're you compensating for that? >> we are compensating for the wobbly leg by continuing to

the way. regulation's bad. it undermines business. undermines growth. your no cost jobs program says get out of the way. reduce regular regular -- regulation. we have a real difference on this issue. franklin roosevelt came in and said the reason we have a stock market crash is because there were no referees. and under his leadership we created a lot of referees. very frankly, for 60 or 70 years they kept this country pretty much on track. we got way off track. and very frankly, my friends, when you wring your hands about the cost of this referee, called the consumer financial protection agency, this referee i don't accept the cost that you use, but let's say there is a significant cost, let's say it's a couple of billion dollars. you say $4 billion. let's say for the sake of argument, a couple billion. pales into incision in the $1.5 trillion that we have borrowed to get this country out of the deep, deep, deep hole caused by the failure to regulate properly. . and it wasn't the rich guys on wall street that paid that price, it was every one of our taxp

the floor. what had been a good war one year ago was now just like every other war, a bad one. the war had become widespread among the president's supporters. the second thing that happened was on the political side. the expectation in march was that we would be able to work with the then afghan government and the international community to produce something that would look like a legitimate and credible presidential election. instead, we had a fiasco followed by a disaster. no one can pretend that this afghan presidential election was legitimate or credible. in the first round, karzai supporters produced 1 million fraudulent ballots. that is a lot even by the standards of a florida or illinois. this is cheating on a global scale. he got caught and he got away with it. i am not sure how diligent man the government looks through the eyes of the afghans, but it looks illegitimate through the eyes of americans and our european and non-european partners. this administration has to bear some of the responsibility for this. it did not happen on the bush's watch. behavior towards the

the american people have said it's a bad deal. the experts say it's a bad deal, small businesses say it's a bad deal, providers say it's a bad deal. what's left? well, i'm helping to that there are a couple of courageous democrats who are going to step forward, agree with the american people, say we are listen to the american people, we are listening to the experts, we are listening to small businesses that create two-thirds or three-quarters of the jobs in our economy, and we agree we are going to stop this train wreck from happening, sit down, start over, do this right, work with republicans to write a bill that actually does constrain costs, that drives the cost curve down and can -- provides access to more americans. mr. president, i hope that there are a few democrats out there who will do that. because i think on our side, we've all -- we've concluded,based on what we hear from the american people, what we hear from the experts, what we hear from the business community, what we hear from the provider community, the hospitals

so the idea is while if the problem is really bad, bad enough to worry about, in other words, if the problem as i said a minute ago is warming, there's other problems to discuss and we discussed some of those but the essential problem is warming, if it is stopping burning of fossil fuels even at a very slow rate, one that may be just the train to achieve with any kind of political friction at all. and the answer the best as we can tell is probably not. and the reason why is carbon mitigation as a kind of primary route, even if it could be achieved far more successfully than any indication that it could be, we would probably be too little and too late and too optimistic to achieve the goal. now, there are a lot of other reasons you might want to print your fossil fuel. you might want to find cheaper and cleaner and better forms of energy. i think almost everybody is in favor of that except maybe a few very interested parties. ocean acidification is a real issue. jeal engineering of itself would not address. with the idea is to coiffure if it becomes dangerously hot what can you do, be

and i pulled over and she broke the bad news to me. >> larry: jackie, how'd you learn? i was at the venetian hotel with jermaine's two kids, shopping. i was just looking at a monitor where michael shops and buys all his luggage and things like that and souvenirs. and we were just looking at it, and all of a sudden, someone passing said, michael jackson died -- or someone passing me said that. and i said, no way. soy walked outside and i got a phone call from my mom. and she told me, it's true. >> larry: and jermaine, i know we've asked you before, but just for the benefit of those who didn't see it, where were you? >> well, my first -- i was on the other side of pasadena. my first phone call was you guys. >> larry: you found out from cnn? >> i found out from cnn. and i just said, i'm going to call my mother right away. so i called my mother, she said she was on her way to the hospital. within 45 minutes passed, janet -- i spoke to janet and i spoke to our attorney, joe katz, and the next thing i knew, and i called my mother back, and to hear her voice, she was at the ho

that is something to be excited about in the me tell you why i think it is true. i will talk about how bad the problems or how we got into the current social trends and how to get out then we get to the interesting part which is your questions and comments. we have half as much today they big crime collapse. having reduce our crime by half we have only 250% crime as we did when i was growing up. idea not battle. we have five times the homicide rate that any other advanced democracy has. congressman scott reported to the incarceration rates fedders scandalous and more scandalous if you look in particularly impacted committees and the same thing is true of the crime rate. homicide is the leading cause of death three gunmen in some neighborhoods in this city and every major city around the country they are invariably the african-american and latino communities. both crime and incarceration are dictated by race and class. everybody pays of the cost of crime in ways they are not aware of because we did not used to do things. people talk about the nature -- need to fix land-use policies concentr

you'd think senator lieberman would be feeling the pressure of the liberal hate, the bad vibes, the insults being hurled on him, he was putting the jo in jovial. cnn dana bash say he is enjoying the limelight. >> it is no fun to have your colleagues be angry at you. >> all right. am i excused? >> you are excused, sir. >> not by everyone. >> what do you think of joe lieberman? >> lieberman must pay. >> "larry king live" right now. >> larry: tonight the all-star cast of the golden globe nominated "nine." kate hudson, nicole kidman -- >> don't kiss me. >> larry: daniel day-lewis, pe lel pi cruz, judi dench. >> i was asked to have a coffee. >> larry: marion co-till yard, fergie and sophia loren, next on "larry king live." good evening. "nine" opens this friday in new york and los angeles. and across the country on christmas day. it's been nominated a record ten times by the broadcast film critics association including nods for best picture, best supporting actress and best ensemb ensemble. it was voted for nine golden globes, best comedy and best song. kate hudson, academy award nominated actre

the u.s. is going a bad country and needs to be punished. janet napolitano, i mean, having her at homeland security director, i mean, it's almost a joke. when she was the governor of arizona, she wouldn't even give the state police the weapons they needed to fight the drug cartels. so consequently, they moved in and took over the city. now, what scares me, if it hadn't have been -- then she sits there and tells us that the system works as tell used. the system failed big time. if it wasn't for a dutch citizen who jumped on this terrorist and was able to disarm him and mitigate the situation, we would have 290 dead people and possibly dead people on the ground. host: what was the one thing that failed the most? was it a -- a caller mentioned earlier this guy should have been on the no-fly list. is that the biggest missed opportunity? caller: it's a glaring failure. it reminds me of 9/11, when these reports from our intel agencies set on the desk of our president clinton and sexrobe no one investigated, and we had the pictures and the backgroun

. >> reporter: the ranchers here are all-to-often painted as the bad guys. ey've chopped the forest down, they've made a lot of money from the timber and then they've raised all these cattle and they get a lot of money out of that. the interesting thing though is that they are going to be one of the chief beneficiaries of redd. and so they should be, says augair vuicik, who bought her 2,500 hectare ranch legally 25 years ago. more than half of it's still forested. if it's to stay that way, she can't expand her herd and for that, she says, she should be compensated. >> ( translated ): it is not our fault what is happening to the world. they have to give us a financial incentive to stop cutting down the trees because people can not just stop working because the world thinks that saving the amazon is going to save the planet. to preserve the forest, you need money; you need to have people around to make sure that conservation does take place. if i wasn't here, all this forest would have been cut down. i left part of my forest untouched. >> reporter: even brazili

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the only thing worse than bad policy is permanent bad policy. i am sure the american people won't be upset with this certainty of zero. today, the majority's working hard to bring new thing to the old adage, the only thing in life that is certain is death and taxes. let's remember that the unemployment rate is still high. 10% nationwide. more than 13% in my home saith of -- home state of nevada. the full repeal of the tax would create 1.5 million jobs. again, that's jobs created. who knows how many jobs would be saved by eliminating the death tax. eliminating the death tax will also have several positive effects on the economy. one recent study showed that eliminating the death tax would increase small business capital by over $1.6 trillion. eliminating the death tax will increase the probability of hiring by 8.6%. eliminating the death tax will increase payrolls by 2.6%. eliminating the death tax will expand investment by 3%. mr. speaker. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman may proceed. mr. heller: thank you, mr. speaker. eliminating the deat

the argument goes on for a while, and one of the bad signs of an oral argument is when the questions stop. it means that you have not persuaded them or they have figured it out already and there is nothing more you can add. you sit down and then the response -- and then the respondent get an up and tries to piquet holes in the argument that was made by the petitioner. >> it is as you are giving are not usually wonderful sound bites. they are designed -- it is a much more scholarly exercise. it is designed to, based on the president of the case, to bring all those materials the bear in a concise and persuasive way and to do it in a small amount of time. you have to be well prepared if you are on to do well. you have to know more case backwards and forwards. you better know it better than anyone in the courtroom. you have to be able to recall anything critically and be able to weave it into the narrative of. it is challenging. they are all relieved. america should be enormously proud of the courts. the supreme court is excellent care if it is challenging to arm at the level and meet th

i think the american people have this facade that the iranian people of the big, bad wolf. er internal problems. they have nothing to gain, really, from "wiping israel off the face of the earth." i wish people would addressed the irgc and the iranian theocracy'sç pillars of stability. they are teetering right now, i wish someone would addressed -- would educate the american people -- israel hasç blown ths nuclear peace totally out of proportion. congress will pick shutdown the secretive --xd the strait -- it would totally destroy their country could we should focus on why iran is so scared right now. guest: i am no expert on iran, but it strikes me that iran is undergoing a very traumatic kind of internal difficulties. getting to something keepsron d about negotiating on nuclear weapons, i'm not sure that there is anybody to negotiate with right now in iran. we have to negotiate with the government, but the government is a in a sense on the run. it seems to me to be a weak government that will not be able to negotiate. you will not have negotiators with any authority, i t

and it was solved by a sheriff in north idaho who found the bad guy, the killer who was corrupt in the you won't believe this but they were killing people over bootlegged butter. that was their racket in the 1930s and somebody got onto it and they killed a night watchmen over this bootleg butter and they found him where he had been a judge and had a pretty prosperous man. and tony caught up with him in the eve of his death. the guy died shortly thereafter. and i was -- you know, i've been with the "new york times" for 20 years and it was one of those "times" stories i did. and i was roaming the west looking for these stories. someone say you're a historian, congressman pat williams who's with me i'm a historian. thank you, congressman, but i'm not worthy of that designation. i'm a storiy material. and i heard this story. he found the murder weapon buried -- it was thrown off the bridge in the spokane river and when the river was drained the lowest it had ever do some dam repair, they had found the gun that was used in the killing 54 years later. it was a great story. i was fascinated b

no. 7 on the paperback list for nine weeks is "blank brad >> this is about decisions that we make in an instant, when they go bad and when they get better. >> an enormous amount of what we do is something that we do like that. i found it interesting and wanted to explore that phenomenon. the boilers that were done in 2005. and now "out liers," what is that about? >> it is about success. it's important to understand what are the reasons why certain individuals outliers --are outliers. it looks at culture and luck and generation, all those things that lead to success. >> and the current one, "what the dog saw, "what is that about? >> it is a collection of essays for the "new yorker" of the last years. the first is a profile of cesar millan, the dog whisperer on national geographic. my first thought was to write an essay about what does he see when he sees a dog. he has this extraordinary ability to calm dogs. it is incredible. he would walk into our room and the dog simply looks at cesar and stops. and i thought, no, the interesting question is not what does cesar c. when he looks at adult but what does the dog se

the do to you? do you feel threatened? is it good for you or bad for you? how do you respond? >> you are absolutely right. for years and years i have written about the glories of markets and the benefits of competition, but i always assumed i would be exempted from the benefits of market, and all of a sudden, they have come flooding through, and i have to say, i do not like it. i wish all the economists would unplug their computers, but unfortunately, this is not going to happen, and there are two defects, i think. -- two effects, i say. one is that rewards to journalists are going to go down, because there are a lot of people reaching the stars and people who can say, i draw this kind of audience will be well rewarded, perhaps better than they used to be, but the run-of- the-mill people are basically competing with lots of folks who are offering their opinions, either for free or at a reduced rate, and a reduced rate meaning somebody else is going to be paying their mortgages send food bills or whatever, and the economic award they are getting -- most is psychological. that is

the expansion of money. they were restrained. as bad as they were in inviting problems, they still have some restrains up until 1971. even though the federal reserve act gave the power to the feds to buy corporate debt, they really never did that until just recently. it used to be gold and silver that they used as reserve. after that 1971, they just used treasury bills. which was bad. but still there was some restraint on that. that depends on the amount of debt. that gave license to the congress to run up the amount of debt. but today what backs our dollar is derivatives. all of the worthless, toxin assets that we were required to buy are now held by the feds. we don't know exactly how much and what they have bought. that's why we are arguing for the case of auditing the fed. next to the federal reserve board chairman that i had some confrontations with and discussion with was alan greenspan. and i'd tell the story in there about the time -- i think most of you here in this audience would know the story. alan greenspan was of course a

again, corruption at the white house. how bad has it become? ow cynical has it become one of majority leader of the senate, the man who runs of the senate was confronted with but nebraska deal to get a 60 the boat and he said, well, just about every senator has something in the bill for him and says something about their competence and they don't. in other words, if you are not selling your soul or principles down the river for a few shekels, there is something wrong with you as a senator. with a corrupt leadership in this country right now. it is incapable of leading as effectively. the only good reason i can give dean for voting for republicans now is to probe the scoundrels out and if they don't do a good job we throw those scandals out. but right now this bill is being written by a bunch of scoundrels. host: phil is on the republican line. go ahead. caller: i have been over the last couple of years reading and of economics probably to make myself dangerous. guest: you are dangerous, sir. caller: i read marx for the first time, adams met -- a