joined by phil brstein, one of ameri's great journalists, knownll around the cotry and eecially no to thpublic on the wt coast. he has been a journast in the bay ar, san francisco, and an editor f many years. would you like to run or what you dohese days? >> i think running or is a great phrase f my career. i started out at kqehere in the 70's, and ty had an interesting nightly news sw, a semiprofessional operation made up of old newsper reporters, and went to the examer in 1980, became an investigativ reporter, a really the first full-time foreig correspondent maybe ever when i was in the philippines, and then i went to el salvado central america, peru anthe middleast. in 1981 i beme the editor of the "examir," and in the merg in 2000, i became edito of t "chronicle." i am now editor at large, encompassing many things, incling figuring out this inrnet phenomenon. >> one thing you are doing i to try to bring thdisciplines of journalism together, throu the tdency of the emphasis to hold up per and say, who wrote this? we have all eerienced that. i did. how are you making out the newspaper ople,

april with infectiontill spreading, the government is aggressive working to get avaccine out to thpublic. the admistration also hosted a summit today at the natial initutes of health to be sure americans are ready foa potential flpandemic this fa. health anduman services seetary katherine sebelius is ging the states and the publico stay vigilant and the feds are launching flu.gov, website with tips and information on theirus. >> susie: sebelius and t obama administraon are also pressuring congrs to come up with healthce reform bills bere the august recess. earlietoday i talked with sebelius about that. my first questn: despite all e cost cutting concessions fromospitals insurance companies, and drug firmis that real refo? >> well i uld say that cost reductions are a piece of it but what wre tying to cost ductions is a higher quality system. what we know is whetheits in hospitals or too often in doctors offices or it heal clinics around t country that some aricans get very high quality health care and me do not. weave a very erratic distribution system in termsf quality. we kw that there

thpublic, it is on the inrnet, my committee sid, of the other committees, e members, we havebeen holding townallsing telephone town halls, i'm doing one later tonig, several thounds of people iny district to lk them through the billo discuss it with them and i think in t house we are a big breaktough in the last couple of days where the blu dogs decided many of em could sport the billith some changes. those changeare being put in the commiee today. so i think it's been a pretty delibative process in terms of the iolvement of members ofongress and the public. >> a right. i think we ve to leave there. thank yofor joining us. >> tnk you. >>hank you. my guest this evening: congressman george mler. >> jeff: stos jumped to nine- month highs thanks to the last jobs data, song results from stercard and an upgrade of g while new weekly jobless befit claims rose ightly, the number ofeople filing for an extension of benefits fello a three-month w. that helped the dow rally to 170 point gain ithe first 90 minus of trading. while the mark remained higher through the afternoo some late-profitaking tri

turn off all of th lights, because i had pimples really badly, and it was just difficult to face thpublick it was somewhere like virginia or somethin and some lady recognized my brothers and all of . she goesoh, od, it's the ckn 5. where's ttle michael? where's little michael? she's looking down. where'little michael? and another person goes, "there he is." d she goes, ew, what happened? just like that. and, god, i st could have died ght there. it'sxaly what that lady said to me. >> did your father andour brothers tease y about your appeancean adolescent? >> my father did. and someousins did. >> what did your fatr say? >>e would tease me about how i looked, and he woulday, well, you didn get it from my side of t family. st have been on kate -- ka he would always say, meaningy moer. you didn't get that from me. i saidthanks for making me feel better, you know. i would just go to the bedroom and cry, you kw. >> is it truthat your father used to y you had a fat nose? >> yeah. >> what did he say? whwh d dide actually say? >> god, yoururosose big. you didi't't g it from me. >> whahat eses tt d

we referred to this as tomorrrrow ththeyad this thingg ckck, the nine firms that aree gng to d d thpublic private partnershipip that's supposed to buy the xic assets off t the boooo with som government help. they had n nienamesicked from what i undnderananlast wednesday. th's'shy we rorted last wednesday we were toldld point blank that the firms w we susupped to happened b bac fina paperwork last tuesday night which appapantntly they did.d. lien, i'm hearing it's ppppos to be announced tomorrow. itit cld be delayed a ather day for publili relations rereons. bu one of f ee positive thgsgs abt t th delayayggthis is we get to k kpp a running l lis of thee f fir noww i i this progra and we have that lisis right oww as y you know, we reported d it already that w wilr r ross'siri isnn it.t. angelo gordon and ,omome sort of combininedidid they'y're goo put in together. wellington asset management, boston-based moneyey management firm and lalackck, larry fink's firm. that's a little bit surprising only becausehere was some specululioion at maybe larry would pull ss name out of it cacausof all the

>> we opened the cn after we made the crown more secure to enhance thpublic safe. we think we have a good balance herebut more importantly, it's about a new beginning under president oba's adnistration, saying that we are now open to the world. and the freedom andhe hope and aspirations of the statue of lirty really now will continue to be a beacon throuout the country and throughout the world. >> yeah. and youtalk about the safety measures that have been upgrad. could youjust outline those a little bit further for us? >> ye. therere now handrails on t staircases goingp and down to e crown of the statue of liberty. there are also other security measures thatave been put into ace. and so based on what the experts ve told us, th is the epro appropriatbalance and make re we're procting the public safety. >>t's good. i unrsnd there are places, little atforms, where people can res right? because this is a long rek. mr. sretary, this is 23 fors worth of stair >> it is a long ways up. i've been up and down it a few times. anlet me just say, think, you know, people taket s

there are sats tt are marke right behind methere areeats for the family, the prs and thpublic. if you are a member ofthe public and youant to come and art of and listeno judge sotomayor's confiation hearings, you can do hat. you ll have to wait in line. that's how theprotesrs got in here. one of them calling abortn genocide, one wi the long ir, also speaking in spanish. i thinkthat just happens. in all of these hearings that i've be to people try and ice some opposition or trynd be heard. that's part of the nature of this building and our demoacy that they can that, but ey are quickly escted out. term o the fireworks between senators andsotoyor, we're going to see a lot of that tomorrow. ths been a lot of chatter about some tough remar, the tone already that some republics senators have tak led by the ranking republican. setor jeff sessions, w said he fnd it offensive that jge tomayor's psonal background would weigh in some of her decision making. that'shere you're going to see some pushbk by judge sotomayor anthe democrats. there is been a lot of talk of how justice ginsburg p

showg that something like two- thirds of thpublic would favor a canadian style oa medicare for all ste single payer system. the sa is true of physicians, now. about 60% of physicians vor medire for all, or a single payesystem. so, what is against it the pharmaceuticalnd the insurae industries are the biggest lobbies inashington. they snd millions and millions onnfluential members of congress. d the amount that they are spding now to the chairman of the relevant health commites has incrsed enormously in the past few months. >> moyer just the other day the chamber of commerce bega running an aertising campaign. and thchamber says a new government run plan will undermine employer sponsed coverage and eventuay lead to a gornment takeover of the health care system. >> like medire. >> moyers: alright. that will limit. >> that's scary. >> moyer that will limit patients' choice i mean, isn't that prong to be a convincing argument th the public? at seems to be... >> well, it's phony, of cose. >> moyers: phony? >> it's ony, in the sense that medicare is a single per system, embedded whin our lar

yourself a year fro w when the deficit outlook that we'reiscussing here becos the universal view what thpublic reactn will be. i suspect it wilbe considerably me adverse than we saw in lt month's poll and there will ba lot of pressure on the congress, for example, on the president andso forth, t do something about it. and this is the conundr you discussed at thebeginning. the economy will be weak and in macroeconomic theoryone should not withdraw stimulus at a time when the economy is that weak. but the public may be and/or the financiamarkets may be demanding it. anhow will they handle that? that's why i say it's... the political equivalent of gettysbu. >> rose: i'll come back to that int in terms of what they can do in termof the litical equivale. but is there nothing the admistration can do to make the economic recovery faster? >> relative little. >> ros do they regnize that? >> wel, as we discusse a minute ago, there's debate that's broken out in the last really 48 to 7 hoursabout a second stulus. we had a roughly $800 blion, $787 billion stimulus psed, as we well know, inhe early days ofh

. >> we protected sma buinesses and we insured that thpublic option is on a level playing field andts oponal people and iwon't be mandated on anyby and that its done in a way by demanding thathe buplic option compete with plans by negotiatg rates instead demanding medicare rates on anybody saves rur hospitals acrosshis country partf the agreement stipulates there will still be vote by the fullouse until september, and ross warned the deal does not guarantee passe. there was also movementn the senate. where thcongressional budget office told members of the finance committeehat their proposal wilcost less than a trillion dollars, a number they've been trying reach for weeks. chairn max baucus said the c.b.o. issued new figur last night. >> the report is encraging, the curnt draft is bel $900 billion over 10 years, covs 95% of all americans by 2015. >> reporter: thfinance committ's has reportedly dropped a public-option planin favor of non-pfit cooperatives compete with private insurers. but one negotiat, democrat kent crad, acknowledged obstacles remain. >>f i had to describe most cha

youon't want hi children hearing thpublic define who this man was to us. to look at their daddy an entily diffent appropriate way. >> the problem is al sharptonis gogo put it in a context >> others have done it. they just did it privately but he did it publly and i tught it was iortant to do that. >> cotessa? >> ihink the most pignt mont for me was the people watchingelsewhe outside of the stadium or inimes square and when they were sging "we arehe world," to see a group spontaneously holding handand widening out to make the big circle. that's people that areaking the finest, e most noble part of michael jackson as a performer anthis that moment, showing 're going hold this near andear. i thought th was moving. they are really -- they we really trying show the worldhe impacthat michael jackson had. all know the hisry now. come on, now. >> sur >> the days a weeks and months an years to come, it will all be revisited but a day like yeerday, the day of his funeral is the realitys what you were doing was sendi a message about t positive impact he had. certainl