so i picked up on the jpmorgan group and essentially the book the rise into three parts. the first part is called innovation because i try and tell the story about how this group developed a set of ideas starting in the early 1990's which proved absolutely crucial in terms of taking credit risk which were traditionally treated as something which stuck to the banks and slicing and dicing it in a way that could be sold across the system and parceled out to investors all over the world. they initially did that with credit risk and, in fact, stuck with corporate credit resco and they did that partly to the derivatives. and as they develop these ideas and came out as a much longer stream of international development occurring in finance in the late '70s which was all about trying to find ways to try and fill rest between banks and banks and investors amid the financial system more efficient and effectively they hoped less risky, that was the theory. so there was this body of experimentation and development that took place in the '90s which was pioneered in the corporate deriva

other racial and ethnic groups passed the test too, but their scores were not as high as this group of mostly white firefighters. so under the standardized tests, individuals from these other groups would not have been promoted. to avoid the result, the city threw out -- to avoid this result, the city threw out the test and announced that no one that took it would be eligible for promotion regardless of how well they performed. the firefighters who scored highly sued the city under federal law on grounds of employment discrimination. the trial court ruled against them on summary judgment. when their case reached the circuit -- second circuit, judge sotomayor sat on the panel that decided it. it was and is a major case. as i mentioned, the supreme court has taken that case and its decision is expected soon. the second circuit recognized tpwas a major case too. amicus briefs were submitted. the court allotted extra time for oral argument. but unlike the trial judge who rendered a 48-page opinion, judge sotomayor's panel dismissed the firefighters' appeal in just a few sentences. so not o

of a large number of tourists to secure the release of the commander of the terrorist group. the statement continued, quote, the rush behavior and irresponsibility of government security forces with regard to tourists and civilians led to the high number of fatities. the statement also warned that the islamic group, quote, will continue its military operations as long as the regime does not respond to our demands. the statement lists the most important demands as, quote, the establishment of god's law, cutting relations with the zionist entity, israel and returning the sheik to his land. on october 13, 1999, a statement in the name of islamic group laider, yasir, who was a co-con spirit ator not named and said the united states, quote, hostile's strategy to the islamic movement would drive it to unify its efforts to confront america's pier asy. in or about march of the year 2000, individuals claiming association with the terrorist group kidnapped approximately 29 hostages in the philippines and demanded the release of prison of rahman and two other convicted terrorists in exch

the top four health insurance companies in america -- united health group, well point, aetna and humana -- made more than $7.5 billion in combined profit last year, while the bottom fell out for sreurt wastefulry other company, short of the oil industry, across the board. the goal of the democratic health insurance bill is to create health care and quality. republicans want to preserve a broken system, one with escalating costs and no guarantee that the policy is going to be there when you need it. rather than health insurance companies, democrats want to put american families first and help those who are struggling with high health care costs. i think this is a moment of truth for us in this congress. this isn't an easy issue. right now the finance committee and the "help" committee are both working hard in the senate to try to put together health care reform. but let me tell you, without this things are going to get progressively worse. the cost of health care will continue to rise to unsupportable levels. individuals will still feel that even if they have a good health insurance plan

the u.s. government, congress and n.g.o.'s along with academic and media groups, end of quote, and lamented that, quote, despite being founded by leading islamists care has successfully portrayed itself as a mainstream muslim organization over the past 15 years and has been treated as such by many u.s. government officials, end of quote. or most recently in april, 2009, an advertisement in "the weekly standard" offered by american muslims applauded the f.b.i. for rejecting care. the sing thattories included representatives of six different organizations, and i submit a copy for the record. the signatories wrote, we observe, quote, that they, care, denounce terrorism in general terms but not the specific actions of islamic groups like hamas or hezbollah. they've denounce violence but not the ideologieses behind them. further, the group which attempt to chill speech by calling critics of radical islam is -- finally, i like to close my speech by recognizing the men and women of the f.b.i. and the hard work they do every day to keep this country safe and to restate t

years ago, five years ago, those don't matter in the small group market. you are only allowed to apply and insurers are only allowed to apply preexisting conditions for something that was treated or died nest in the six month window prior to cover its stake in effect so anything that happened before that isn't even allowed to be considered and that the person coming into the policy had prior group coverage that gives credited against the pretext so that cannot be considered either so it is mostly eligibility. >> i am going to try to be real quick here and i apologize for cutting you off. with regard to what needs to be done, in the event we don't get the major reform that you will have been talking about and anybody else was talking about, in the event it becomes something of trying to narrow a time window in which insurance companies have the right to review medical records, would it not be feasible that if we have electronic medical records, that that would facilitate a more timely review? i would assume common sense would say that it would. ms. pollitz d

so i picked up on the jpmorgan group, and essentially the book divides into three parts. the first part is calls innovation because i try to tell the story about how this group developed a set of ideas starting in the early 1990s which proved absolutely crucial later this decade in terms of taking credit risks which had traditionally been treated as something which stuck to the balance sheets of banks and slicing and dicing it in a way that it could be sold across the system and parceled out to investors all over the world. they initially did that with corporate credit risk, and in fact, for the most part stuck with corporate credit risk, and they did that partly through derivatives. and as they developed these ideas, it came out of a much longer stream of international development that had been occurring in finance really starting in the late 1970s which was all about trying to find ways to transfer risk between banks and between banks and investors that made the financial system more efficient and effectively they hoped less risky. that was the theory. so there were thi

even though some of the groups, the various groups that operate along the border region may only be loosely affiliated, the guy at the district level always asked to kick a percentage upstairs to his commander and everybody pays 10 it is like the upside-down pyramid the money goes toward the top which

in one of these cases the group sued the new york city police department on the ground that its tests for promotion discriminated against certain groups. the suit alleged that too many caucasian officers were doing well on the exam and not enough hispanic and african-american officers were performing as well. the city settled the lawsuit by promoting some african-americans and hispanics who hadn't passed the test while passing over some white officers who had. well, some of these white officers turned around and sued the city. they alleged that even though they performed well on the exam the city discriminated against them based upon race under the settlement agreement and refused to promote them because of quotas. their cases reached the supreme court with the high court splitting 4-4 which allowed the settlement to stand. more recently, another group of public safety officers made a similar claim. a group of mostly white new haven, connecticut, firefighters performed well on a standardized test which denied promotions for lieutenant and for captain. other racial and ethnic groups pa

and here is the interesting thing instead of the intermediate group they merged into the low group and combined it. it is magic and all of a seventh day affect the locals goes away. and only by finding that trove of documents and reading the studies was i able to figure this out. this is what we see more and more of. we publish the us and of course, the moral is by the end osha pullback and instead of pushing for one microgram standard raised at five and gave the aircraft industry level of 25 so in practice of illustration can go on record of never issuing important health standards. one other thing you want to talk about is the interpretation of studies that is more insidious. i will make the case that scientists with financial conflict of interest cannot be trusted to provide a reasonable interpretation of data and i talk about all of this the book and on defending science the door. talking about vioxx, it was approved by the fda but you can see in the early days the first of these that were done lead themselves to conflicting interpretations but also another we would get eventually

, some of these, the various groups that operate in the border regionsthey only be very loosely affiliated with each other. a guy at the district level always have to kick a percentage up stairs to whoever his commander is. and everybody pays in, so it sort of like a peer may. i guess an upside down peer may. the money goes towards the top, which would indicate that the top leaders of all of these movements are making huge amounts of money off of all of this criminal activity in the region. we heard numerous reports of financial representatives from each of these groups, from al qaeda, from the imu, from the taliban, rum that haqqani group, from the hig which operates in eastern afghanistan. they routinely meet usually in pakistan often and the city of in the southwest. i've heard of other meetings in the tribal areas. we heard about other meetings in the shower. they need routinely to divide up the funds. it's kind of like one of those scenes you see in a movie or in the sopranos or a movie like goodfellas where they get together, everybody has to answe

like they expose themselves so that the weinrich group to it. this is what they are marketing material asbestos pharmaceutic kurds, we are all mix. they will go to the company and say look what happened was best is, look what happened to debaca. it is a good thing those things happened in my view of course, and the thing they stress is the chemicals should have presumptive innocence, that they should be innocent until proven guilty and they are the advocates, the defense attorneys for the chemicals and they will make sure they are not found guilty. this is an example, this was on the wonder group's web site intel fibro an article in the scientific america and it pulled this case study from the web site. now, i think those of you will follow the food and drug administration know that the fda essentially forces a drug off the market for one of two reasons and they have to be pretty good reasons. one if it is shown the drug simply does not work. the other thing, it's the fda shows that the risk associated with the drug badly up with the benefits. ob

also, the have not picked up anything underlying that in focus groups on health care. i have done dozens over the past two years. i haven't heard anything more people say this disease is important, this disease is not. i think one of the things on how to use this in campaigns is that i have used mental-health parity in several campaigns where people are looking for something to grab onto. they didn't say to make sure there were helping this group or did it for mental health parity. you stood up to people who wanted to let the insurers deny and make sure how to deny coverage. it went to deny coverage to people who needed it. the idea is that some of the rising tide that can help police to get into the door and pushed the message that the need for equal treatment which is sending the people do believe in. the more we get into specifics, i think it is harder to expect candidates to campaign on that and put that on the air for a specific issue not because it is not important but because the 10% of the people in that poll said they were affected directly, but still when you

sandra day o'connor and john paul stevens were in the dissent and the group that judge sotomayor was associated with filed a brief opposing this parental notification law saying -- quote -- "any effort to overturn or restrict the rights in roev. wade," they opposed any restriction, even allowing participates of a minor child to give parental notification or have parental modification their child would go through a major medical procedure and she took a stand opposed to that parental right that most of the american public, 75% of the american public support that parental right of that notification. she opposed it. according to the "the new york times" -- quote -- "the board monitored all litigation undertaken by the funds' lawyers and a number of the lawyers said miss sotomayor was involved and ardent supporter of the various legal efforts during the time with the group." i'm concerned judge sotomayor will bring this agenda to the court. judge sotomayor has given speeches and written articles promoting judicial activism and the president said "judges should have the empathy to recogniz

asked to help the iranians in 1953? >> there were groups that were interested in having united states and u.k. help but it went beyond that. it was a broad-based appeal for help whichs was the thought, but that was wrong. the reason why mosadde fell out with the united kingdom and united states is because it might lead to add sapgs to the soviet union, but also to the fact that he had nationalized u.k. oil interests are in iran, so it was a bad episode in u.s. history, and politicians in both countries have recognized the fact

so i hung out with jim tucker as he tracked down the meeting of this fabled bilderberg group and went with him to try and -- to try and shimmy up the drainpipes and get in and catch them red-handed going about their covert wickedness. so that was jim in d.c. there was tom robb, the klan leader in arkansas, who's giving his klan a positive spin. then there's the weaver family. i spent a lot of time with randy weaver and his -- one of his daughters, rachel. and i re-tell the ruby ridge story in what i believe is a more accurate way. i think it was spun. i think it benefited everybody to spin the story as white supremacists pretty much getting what they deserved, and ok, the government made a mistake, but they were white supremacists, so it was basically ok. so i've re-told that story in a more, i think, humanist way. who else did i see in the states? c-span: about the bohemian grove. >> guest: oh, yeah! you see, this is... (laughter) >> guest: how could i forget that? this is -- this is a group -- again, all the conspiracy theorists said that not only is this -- is there this shadowy ca

the rio group in return, which brings together all at american countries, yet today adopted the same resolution -- yesterday adopted the same resolution. countries affiliated through the central american bloc of countries, salvador, costa rica, panama -- at a significant meeting served the country. they to eductive this resolution condemning, rejecting, and calling for respect for the democratic decisions taken in honduras. they too have come to the floor for the organization of central american and caribbean countries. so has central america. this includes mexico and colombia. they too have used the same terms and their institutions have expressed their view. europe, by the european union, and through the prime minister and his majesty, they too outlined a same firm position with regard to any movement of aggression attacking the democratic will of the people. today, following this decision, which joined a decision taken by the people of america, we have ratified what we had agreed upon earlier and we are sending a signal for future generations and for humanity. all countries, witho

and he just let us know he was proud of the whole team, the group in general. as a long tournament, you know. it was mentally draining and physically draining, but he's just proud of our effort. we showed that we can play with the big boys, so we were happy about that as a team. >> landon donovan said there are no moral victories here. what do you think? >> no moral victories? no. obviously we're disappointed in the loss, you know, we made it to the final and we got a long way. saying that we can take a lot of the tournament and be proud. like i said, we left everything out on the field, and in the end, it just happened, you know, brazil was the better team, and we got beat and that happens in sports. >> what lessons did you come away with? >> you know, the lessons that we don't just come here the participate in these tournaments anymore. we're now on the world stage and we've showed that we cannot only compete with these wig teams but also beat them. and so we can take a lot away from that and the confidence, you know, going into next next summer's world cup es

the detainees held at guantanamo bay are affiliated with the group. according to the detainees' sworn statement, many acknowledge they had trained at an etim training camp from june to november, 2001 and several confirm that the camp was run by abdul. . following the u.s. invasion of afghanistan in 2001, it's clear that involvement between etim and taliban increased. the leader was hasan mossam who led his men to support taliban and fight alongside them against the u.s. and coalition forces. on october 2, 2003, hasan mossam was killed by a pakistani army raid in south waziristan area of pakistan. additionally in 2008 al qaeda in afghanistan publication titled, quote, martyrs in times of alienation, end of quote, identified 120 martyrs, including five members who trained in tora bora who fought with the taliban in afghanistan against u.s. troops. one is reported to have been killed fighting u.s. forces in 2001 and hasan mossam confirmed prior to his death in 2003 that e tim members trained and fought with forces in afghanistan. in addition to their desi

you have the russian immigrants who came in. you have a significant groupof russian immigrants who came in and they forged a block that is really distinct from the historic ashkinazi community that came in. there's been a transformation of israel that is more idealogical over time. initially it was a socialist country. most of the immigrants came in with socialist ideas, establishing the collectists. and more secular and less religious. and clearly what was seen in israel is more moved toward religious groups. still not a majority but a significant group. and certainly the economy and the culture has changed. so there are far more important divides in israel today than simply the safartic divide. host: a photograph of some of the bright a.p. world history students from woodlawn school in davidson, north carolina. one of those students joins us on the phone, onboard the c-span civics bus. good morning, graham. caller: hi. good morning. i like the election. here's my question. the pro western forces won the election. the hezbollah, which the u.s. government h

that one was about black so that meant lots of other groups, racial blick, the asians, mixed groups, white were not supporting the agency because in part of the slogan. but also it was about power, not about what you were going to do with it once you were in power. and when we changed the slogan to a better life for all, that was inclusive, but also it wasn't just about power. not just about the past. and i presented it to mandella. and i said, you know what, we're saying, and i felt a little bit uncomfortable saying it as an american. i said we can't have an election about apartheid. do the agency has been fighting apartheid for all these decades that he has been in jail for 27 years for fighting apartheid and i think who am i to say to him that you can't have an election about apartheid. now, i'm saying this because i am listening to people. i'm listening to a vast mass of africans who say we don't want this stuff, apartheid. we want to be about what the changes you're going to bring what you come in. what's going to be better? it's not just about segregation

the tell this group but to say, tell them how to approach the issue. use the right words and you'll get nothing for it. [laughter] >> here is my thought. we did do some work for mha in 2001, we interviewed the family physician, and represent said they did to depression or mental health screening is part of a routine check. there is a very powerful movement for prevention well as in terms of magi to reorient our economy and so when i tell people is in is a lot better if there is a big ring current it's better to put that to build a new pathway. some my instincts are to look at prevention and wellness, to make mental health under the rubric of something under prevention and wellness and i thank you have to have a message of some optimism and hope that it transforms lives in a way from survey data. and from people with chronic depression bruces those who have had a mild depression and you look at the people who have had it chronic episodes and, of course, in education. they're not being able to work. i can tell from members of the human story that is thei

and i concede that that is going to be part of the dynamic between the groups that have a m.r. appointed jenna and of the necessity to be broader in the messaging of the democrats. ,. as i think deepak talked about the short-term and the long-term, if we were going to have actually a couple years ashopping cart, whether we are going to transform this, it really does come to whether we can actually do things that make a huge difference. and i think that, you know, some -- a poll we are going to release later today shows 80% of americans think we need to have quality affordable health care for every man, woman, and child now and the public plan is a piece of that. flaus -- [applause] and because, because it makes it affordable. it makes it a way of being able to control costs and as you think about the different pieces about a quality affordable health care plan that covers everyone, we need to be able -- make sure that we can actually hold down costs and one of the best competitors we can have to the private industry is to be able to have a public plan that actually does that and

disparity persists and these data suggest among other things that major gaps can remain between the groups despite the end of active treatment of a most important cause of disease. one of the messages of data was that good health care alone will not resolve health disparities. health care most often happens when something goes wrong or high-risk situation manifest itself whether it is an elevation in cholesterol or catastrophic attack. the most often discussed focusing on care for establish disease and this is critically important. however, what i am emphasizing here is the need to focus on understanding and addressing more abstain issues. we need to answer the question why do blacks have hypertension, diabetes and obesity that set the stage for a disparity. when we asked these questions and applied the preventive interventions we will have a greater chance of eliminating disparities and improved quality and availability for our care where it is necessary but not sufficient to raise interest to the general population. who must address fundamental causes. in short a much more aggressive app

such as the sustainable aviation fuel group to make sure that these supply chains are developed in a sustainable way right from the very beginning. we are also a major investor in a company called tivo, a new comp me which turned biomass such as sugarcane into iso- butanol which also i believe could be answer for aircraft and formula one cars alike. we have been watching with keen interest in the obama administration's focus on green economic recovery, but we need governments over the world to support for the next generation of biofuels as part of the economic regeneration efforts. i have been a big believer in innovation throughout my life, and some of the work that is going on right now as a renewable fuel feedstock and converting biomass waste into fuels that need to restrict wire meant is already impressive. government support for these efforts is a sensual and will help to make sure that airlines can play their crucial role in maintaining this is an cultural links between countries, simulating economic development, and flying our way out of this recession. sustainable aviat

are bound by certain realities in the domestic states with a professors is designed and i think the group ultimately follow their own domestic agenda as and iran has a long history of being disappointed and exacerbated by the lack of reciprocity that a rise from the process is and give us all this aid and support and doesn't always translate into the desired degree of reciprocity. regarding hezbollah i think hezbollah response to a domestic constituents. much of their appeal we found in our field work in lebanon was due to rising sectarian tensions, the fear that there was this sunni empowerment, this growing radicalism -- salafi radicalism and reverting to his bow as the only defense in this arising sunni threat. but i think hezbollah is planned to that domestic constituents seem, regarding the elections i don't want to predict what the relationship obey. i think there could be a strong case that hezbollah will increasingly and as irresponsible political actor inside lebanon on that this increased political power could, in fact, moderated but i think the relationship will still be solid

i wish republican senators would pay less attention to the special interest groups and the pressure groups and the agitators from the far right. i wish they would take a view of a handful of judges in her cases to -- as an activist consider her record fairly. she has been a judge that a very conservative republican, kenest star has endorsed. the other judges -- kenest star has endorsed. i'm a member of the of a bar on the second circuit. under the second circuit, i know the other judges of the second circuit think the world of her and i've been here for nomination of practically all of them. they have great respect for her judgment and judging. she is a nominee in which all americans can take pride and have confidence. she has been a judge for all americans. more importantly, she will be a justice of the supreme court for all americans. and i'm sorry some critics are painting a characterture of her as mischaracterizing her involvement william a mainstream civil rights organization. what about her involvement with puerto rican legal defense and education fund as they pulled back the mischar

now, i wish republican senators would pay less attention to the special interest groups and the pressure groups, the agitators from the far right. i wish they would take a less likely view of a handful of judges, to consider her record fairly. she has been a judge so a very conservative judge, kenneth starr, has endorsed. the other judges on the second circuit, the circuit -- i'm a member of the bar of the second circuit -- is the vermont is one of the three states under the second circuit. i know the other judges of the second circuit think of world of her and i've been here for the nomination of practically all of them. they have great respect for the judge. she is a nominee in which all americans can take ride and have confidence. she has been a judge for all americans. more importantly, mr. president, she will be a justice of the supreme court for all americans. and i'm sorry that some critics are seeking are mischaracterring her involvement with respectable mainstream civil rights organizations. i had some of the press say, what about her puerto rico defense fund as they quote on th

>> coming up on "espnews," soccer history was on the line and this group of americans was determined to make it. >> inside the box and there it goes. the u.s. leads. they come through. >> would that goal reverberate throughout the soccer world or did brazil have an answer? we'll see. >> rolling thunder hits new hampshire. unpredictable outcome. >> sweet lou piniella says sorry to his outfielder and sends out the edgy eighth in the chicago special. and all-time baseball hits the interleague as atlanta releases hanson on the boston bat. >> hi world war i and it's about self-determination and nationalism and giving colonials peoples the hope that they too could form their own nations and he takes these ideas and looks at how they traveled in different countries and led to uprisings the following year in many nations. china, korea, egypt and india. and those are only some of the countries that are involved in this book because similar events are going on in palestine and other places. this is an author who reads a lot of languages and spent time in all of those countries doing archival wo

i don't know that -- i don't know who the group is. >> have you seen this report? >> no, i have not. >> okay. all right. now, the president has indicated that if any bill rises from congress that's not controlling costs, that's the bill he can't support. so the first question is, you don't agree with this report. you don't know about it. they said it's going to cost $3.5 trillion. fit's not $3.5 or $3.2 or $2.8, where are you going to get the money to pay for this bill? >> again, congressman, i think that once the bill is scored and once the proposals are put forward, i'm eager to work with the committees and the house and the committees in the senate to identify the cost savings the president has proposed about a billion dollars worth of revenue enhancements and cost savings that he feels are appropriate to spend on this and other ideas that are being proposed by members of the senate and members of the house and we're eager to work on that. >> one day is not going to approach $3.5 trillion. so one billion is just a pittians that the report shows it will cost. anot

the goal of all of these groups is to reach out to the american people and to engage them in a serious discussion about the future of our country. and if we do that and if we do it well as all of these groups are committed to doing, we will truly keep the change going that we've started this past year. so thank you all very much for all of your work. let's all go get lunch, and >> and coming up on this morning's "washington journal", jared allen has written an article about congressional intelligence briefings on detainee investigations. >> and we'll talk to john mcmanus, the author of "the americans at d-day and the americans at normandy." >> there is still time to get your 2009 u.s. congressional directory with information about the cabinet and the nation's governors, plus district maps. it's $16.95 online at c-span.org/products or call 1-877-on-c-span. >> president obama and german chancellor angela merkel held a news conference yesterday in dresden, germany. during the conference, they talked about climate change and the 65th anniversary of d-day. today president obama will speak i

of us in the office talking about national security and wheat come out and then the group that comes in and talks about economic relations, the president tells us with a laugh that we are the good part of his -day. dealing with banks and our companies is really that tough part. but, he does seem to feel that in the national security area he has got some good tools to work with and sometimes it is even more manageable than dealing with the financial crisis. i am sure he says the same thing to tim geithner and larry summers when they come as the room and we have left. we are all trying to keep our eye on a lot of things. so, let me stop there and turn the lecture into a discussion, but those are the sorts of things that i have been working on in terms of issues. they are the way we are trying to think of our primary function as an intelligence committee to contribute to this country's national security and i would be remiss if i did not acknowledge the partnership of many of you personally and certainly many of their companies in helping us to this important work, so thank y

the group crafted their plan. it is about 20 minutes. >> on every major -- on every major issue drafted by congress, is the american middle class that has taken a hit from the trillion dollars stimulus bill to the fiscally irresponsible budget to these endless bailouts. washington has asked the middle class to bankroll the trillions in spending that we cannot afford. it appears the democrats are ready to lead the middle class off a cliff again. we're here to urge americans to be engaged and be on alert for what congress is about to do to rush a health-care bill. they want to rush this as quickly as possible so no one can understand the implications of what is about to happen. president obama was in wisconsin pushing for passage of the bill. it is going to make health care more expensive for americans oppose the middle-class. -- for america's middle-class. middle-class americans and small businesses have too much at stake when it comes to their health care. the democrats emerging bill rages -- raises taxes, rations

this event was part of a conference hosted by the group mental-health america. pplause] >> on behalf of the panel i want to thank mental-health of america for inviting us. this is a massively timely subject, particularly in view of the last panel. this fits with where all of us want to focus our time a

and then what do you take from the focus group to put into your polls that strike you why didn't i think of that or the way the express' it? the way im trying to tell the tutors of the way they informed the polls a? >> guest: the issues are different things. frequently when i started in a country i haven't worked before and just like here the politicians are fighting each other, they have strong views and think they know everything and so, one thing i will do is a focus group open-ended, let people talk and almost enviably people will listen and say i can consider that, it opens up people's mind is to discover people are much more open minded about these issues and they haven't locked in preformed the way political class's login wasilla part of it is opening the process at the beginning to think afresh about it. but sometimes it's a way of getting leaders in touch. nelson mandela came out of prison, 27 years in prison. they were involved in negotiations, adding three and half years into negotiations would reading the constitution. when i reported to him people were saying you folks are o

they declared war it humane enough to take prisoners then they are held until the group says they are no longer at war. here there are people in this country, in the administration who do not understand that these people still want to kill us. look at the pleading of khalid shaikh mohammed. his words, we are terrorists to the bone. you release those people, bring them in the united states. we already heard from one case that the supreme court majority is wanting to give them rights to which they are not or should not be entitled. and that's justice justice scalia said this opinion will cost american lives. that was a bold statement by scalia but he's right. we should not allow this to hurt american soldiers and american people and put innocent lives at risk even though it may get some applause overseas from people who would not mind seeing america disappear. and i want to touch very quickly on the photographs. we believe in america that guilty people should be punished and people who tortured are treated prisoners inhumanely have been punished and are being punished. but if those phot

>> there have been concerned expressed by the more liberal group of the party who might like to have single payer. there are concerns, i suppose by the christian scientists who want to do other things. but at the end of the day, if you choose to have competition, and you choose to have a plan that's dependable and affordable, you can't do it without having a public plan there. and that creates the competition from the private plan. so, yes, there will be a public plan in the bill. will people vote it -- vote for it? i don't know, who wants to go home at next year's primary and say, i voted against a plan that's going to proid provide, say, 30,000 people in my district, most of whom are nonwhite, most of whom are poor, most of whom are working, most of whom don't have a way to get insurance, i voted against a way for them to have a way to pay their doctor bills. >> isn't it premature to assume that if it's going to be paid for by tax increases. >> is that -- it's premature to suggest that's 40u it's going to be paid for. the process we're following is to say, let's put a bill out ther

when we had the revival of the islamic groups and the christian groups, et cetera. muslim brothers wanted to have -- to connect with the government and the government wanted to connect with the muslim brothers who have power. they sacrifice. that's why it's very important to have principles. religious people are a bit -- are not generalizing but religion encourages fragmentism, you know? not ethics. people think morality and ethics in religion, no, it encourages pragmatism. we need to stick with principles, justice, love, peace. what is peace in religion? what is peace? there is war all the time. if you are fighting the infidel, if you are fighting the stranger, the other, what is peace? i didn't find peace. did you find peace? >> well, again -- [laughter] >> i find myself -- i'm not sure i like being where i am in this -- [laughter] >> in the place where i am but it is important that in those large crowds that you said rightly were ignored when they spoke around the world against the invasion of iraq, there were many people who were there speaking for peace in the

now, what to address the politicians and the candidates and those party leaders. of what to tell this group of people that we are at a critical historical juncture. if you look at the situation in the middle lease. if you consider the issues in our neighboring countries,in every election, some people the future this way. investigated the right way, based on law, and if there is comprehensive law. there is no deficiency to that. as the candidates have the right to have their monitors and observers, the have the right to file complaints. i ask the respective guardian of the representatives of the candice themselves. they can record everything and sign it in their presence. that is what i wanted to address to your respective people. politicians and the candidate, political groups. i want to tell this group of people that today, we are at a this country. the world, if you consider the issues in our neighboring countries, in iraq, afghanistan, point, a critical juncture of historic juncture to remain cautious not to make mistakes. they were responsible to do, and they did it the right way, but w

it seems like the department of homeland security had identified conservatives as hate groups. it seems like the f.b.i. had resources to send investigators out to mill through the crowds on tax freedom -- on tea bag day, april 15, tax day. the f.b.i. was looking at the people that came to the courthouse square to voice their objection to the oppressive taxes that have been imposed upon this country and the irresponsible spending, and they're identified as hate groups. conservative group, hate groups, i don't know of a liberal group that would be on that, but i hope we are able to make that request and get a list in the congressional record of who are the hate groups. i suspect i am probably alleged to be on some of them. then other groups that were not considered were law enforcement groups, anti-immigrant groups. i don't know what an anti-immigrant group is. i know there are some anti-illegal immigrant groups. i don't know of a single anti-immigrant group, but that gives you the sense of the bias ideology. and also people that are fearful of participating in the census. it give

bond has an excellent job of the solutions groups. the leader has been personally involved in making sure that when the time comes, we will have an alternative both legislatively and at each of the committees. hopefully, if the democrats mean what they say, we will have a bipartisan solution. we have no problem with president obama's general principles. the big difference is, we believe in a private-sector approach as opposed to a government approach. we have a food safety market going up -- mark up going on right now is like an excuse myself -- so i'm going to excuse myself. >> we agreed to build on what works and fix what is broken. we said that with serious health care reform, we want people who like their coverage to keep it. we want to protect americans from being forced into a government run health care plan. this is a major contrast with the democrats' plan. the cbo tells us it will ship -- by and large, our employer base health-care system is a success. most employees are happy with the coverage they have received. my goal thro

we will begin with ralph, exit to officer of the public service enterprise group incorporated. he is a leader within the utility industry and public policy area. thank you once again for being here. whenever you are ready, please begin. >> mr. chairman, members of the committee, thank you -- islamic could you move the microphone closer? >> thank you for the opportunity to appear before you today to testify. p.s. eg dustin its electricity and natural gas to more than 2 million customers in new jersey and owns and operates electric generating capacity in the northeast and mid-atlantic and texas. pscg has supported policies to promote renewable generation. we are planning major investments in solar, offshore wind generation, and energy storage technology that will make renewable energy more competitive. the question today is not whether we should vigorously promote renewable generation but how. specifically, how should we use transmission policy to promote renewable generation at the lowest possible cost. this would include not just federal citing authority but decisions about tran

could he talk to management of the lloyds group urgently and point out that we are major shareholders in that bank and expect better standards than this? >> well, i'm very happy to talk about lloyds and we'll look at that in the context. any jobs to be lost is to be regretted and we'll do everything we can. >> the prime minister will have satisfied virtually nobody with his private inquiry into the war in iraq. he does, however, have the opportunity to satisfy one family. mr. al-sarad is detained in baghdad. he is a husband of a constituent of mine. would the prime minister talk to the u.s. authorities to try to secure a release date for him. >> you've raised this case with me. i will look at what he says and i shall write to him. >> would the prime minister take the opportunity to condemn the appalling racist attacks on romanian families in belfast? >> yes, indeed. and i hope that the authorities are able to take all the action is necessary to protect them. >> can the prime minister confirm that the department of transport has been comparing dossiers on the opponents of the third run