and the south korean forces are not all under the command of general thurmond. some of them are under different command. they are not respond-- supposed to respond but who is to say that they wouldn't if there he had saw a local frof case. >> you are saying the u.s. would get sucked in. >> well, we are there. we're there to deter conflict. we're there to try to preserve peace and found a diplomatic path forward. north korea is making that very difficult. we are there together. we have to work on this closely together. general thurmond and his korea counterpart, the deputy commander of the combined force kos manned have lead responsibility but it will be the president of south korea and the president of the united states without have to make the big call. >> warner: as we know there have been no massive movements of forces to the border by the north koreans. but what form might a provocative strike take? i mean what-- what are the u.s. and south korea prepared for? >> the advantage for the provocation lies with north korea. they have the luxury of studying u.s. a

they call it the strom thurmond research room or something like that.ffs of the republican senator, right, me? and with a statute of strom thurmond staring at you. >> what did they want to ask you? is it a secret? >> it's a secret. it was off the record. >> okay. >> bill: no, they were a good crowd. we had a good time. and we talked about linda ron ronstt and other things. marco rubio's chief of staff was there, and he is having a hard time on this issue, and being given a hard time not by democrats but by fellow republicans. >> yeah, a lot of conservatives have targeted rubio and only rubio. schumer a little bit too, but it has been kind of interesting to watch. and a lot of the other republicans i have spoken to it's like we're eating our own. we don't this. we have got to support the guy. at least go after the democrats if you are going to go after someone. but rubio seems to be their top target. >> bill: does he see this as sort of his ticket to ride? >> i actually don't think he feels that way right now. i really think he believes this is good poli

thurmond. i say all this because i think it's important to point out how much time, energy, and intellectual capital, as well as resources we are investing in our rebalance to the asia pacific. across the breadth of our government. as the president has said, our investment in the region will continue to grow in the years to come. now, in this connection our rebalanced asia is mostly a political and economic concept. not a military one. but given my role as deputy secretary of defense, i'm naturally going to concentrate on its security aspects today. first i'd like to briefly address the evolving security situation on the korean peninsula. the north koreans have been determined of late to create a crisis atmosphere. but just because they have a habit of indulging in extreme rhetoric doesn't mean we don't take the situation seriously. as we have demonstrated through our actions in the past few weeks, the united states is committed to maintaining peace and security on the korean peninsula and thro

the shooting happened on wednesday night in the parking lot of thurmond field.d after an argument between a vallejo player and a relative during that t-ballgame. that family has since resigned from the game. the president of the little league met with parents, coaches to help ease concerns. >>> doctors are add vids parents to tell their children to say no to the sin na mon challenge, that involves daring someone to follow a spoonful of sin ma nin in -- cinnamon in 60 seconds. more people are being hospitalized. the spice can cause choking, breathing trouble and even collapsed lunnings -- lungs. >>> do you remember to carry your own shopping bags when you head off the store. if you don't, it will costing -- it will cost you as more people join the ban. >> i'm learning some are just dealing with it. some are really organized and others are getting creative. starting today retailers in pacifica, redwood city and menlo park join a list of places that cannot hand out plastic bags and they are required to charge you at least 10 cents for a paper bag. the new ordinance

general james thurmond and the south korean general are can selling their travel plans. the situation on the peninsula is now too uncertain to leave. to escalate the situation, a russian news agency is reporting that the dictator is demanding a personal call from president obama. >> and we are just days away from the ominous day where all foreigners are out of the country. none of the embassies have made plans to evacuate and they will be watching and waiting and we hear indonesia is starting to evaluate its options. abc news, seoul, south korea. >> now to another threat. the bird flu. two more human cases of the infection has been reported today raising the number in eastern china to 20. so far six people have died. health officials say they are contracting the virus through direct contact with foul and they say there is no evidence it is spreading between people. governor brown will be in china to start a trade mission. the governor needs money to build his proposed public works project in china. the country is loaded. they have at least $400 billion to invest.e brown

general james thurmond and the south korean general are can selling their travel plans.tion on the peninsula is now too uncertain to leave. to escalate the situation, a russian news agency is reporting that the dictator is demanding a personal call from president obama. >> and we are just days away from the ominous day where all foreigners are out of the country. none of the embassies have made plans to evacuate and they will be watching and waiting and we hear indonesia is starting to evaluate its options. abc news, seoul, south korea. >> now to another threat. the bird flu. two more human cases of the infection has been reported today raising the number in eastern china to 20. so far six people have died. health officials say they are contracting the virus through direct contact with foul and they say there is no evidence it is spreading between people. governor brown will be in china to start a trade mission. the governor needs money to build his proposed public works project in china. the country is loaded. they have at least $400 billion to invest. brown wants the t

laxalt and maybe senator thurmond told me -- a lot of steps said this the weird beard of his becoming a factor. he must shave it. bork asked me privately if he should shape. shave . i told you have been accused of and if you shave your beard, it would look planned. if you go to the hearing without a beard after your one and all your life, that is the ultimate confirmation conversion. the theatrics will not wash. i told them you should not shave it. he agreed with me and he did not shave. guest: who invented the term' murder boards.' it means you sit around in a mock hearing and i and others like me ask the worst questions you can possibly think of. host: where do you do this? guest: in a backroom. you do not do it at the agency or the court. you get a room and the executive branch somewhere or do it in the white house as in the case of the supreme court people. get a back room somewhere and sit around and for questions at them. the point is, when the hearing is over, he comes to you and says there were not half as bad as you were. host: what was the longest murder board you ever had?

standing up for some kind of weak civil rights plank in the democratic platform and you have strom thurmondk out and create the dixiecrats, starting then, it didn't start in the '60s, you had this tension where the party was starting to come apart. there is no way to deny the impact of the moves we made on race in the '60s. johnson signed the voting rights act in august of '65. one week later los angeles erupted in riots. they were able to almost say doing too much, too soon, brought about this explosion rather than we did too little, too late for so many years letting those problems first. but the republicans became very, very smart about dividing us racially and also sort of saying government can't help. government tries to get involved it often does the wrong thing. that, i think that even haunts us with the guns. >> john: why is it so hard to work the other way? why didn't democrats divide and conquer the same? g.o.p. has three masters, the wall street trickle down guys, the conservative christians and the guys who really like tom clancy books. why is it so hard with christians and the

it's coming back at it, threats by general thurmond and the rest of us.really worried about some sort of accident happening to trigger this or in fact the north koreans may make an attempt to make a statement by firing a missile somewhere. they think it's different. >> they think it's different. from an intelligence gathering standpoint, how much access does the united states really have? what do we really know? people have been making jokes about dennis rodman knows more than the cia. but how much do we know? >> we don't know much. the people i've been talking to, one of them it's just been in north korea, talked to north koreans. frankly, he didn't get much from them. north korean military can move large units without causing a spike in intercepts or anything. they can move missiles. they can launch them at a minute's notice. and frankly, as we've always been, we're blind to north korea. it's nobody's fault. it's a hermit kingdom. they keep their own council, say whatever you like. but it's very difficult to predict what they're going to do. now we're a

want more police patrols after an incident last week where one man fired shots at another man at thurmondk. luckily, nobody was hurt. >>> the governor of nevada is responding to dumping patients from there to hear. he acknowledged one patient was improperly discharged and says two hospital employees have been discharged. the "sacramento bee" said patients were given a00 -- 1500 patients over seven years. some of those may have ended up in san francisco. >>> growing safety concerns will be at the top of the agenda when b.a.r.t.'s board of directors meets tomorrow morning. the board will review security measures to protect b.a.r.t. passengers and employees. b.a.r.t. is joining transit agencies across the country in reviewing security after last week's bombing in boston and the attempted railway attack in canada. b.a.r.t. riders meanwhile can now check their commuters to see how crowd the trains can be. there's a icon whether heavy, moderate or light crowd is expected. b.a.r.t. says the new service stores historic data. it's not really a realtime thing. it does not tell you -- >> right. >> e

i worked with senator thurmond, hatch, simpson. it was a place where you worked together to find solutions. i can tell you, i would not work in the senate today because of the fact that people go in to make a difference. aboutou said, it's not you. it's about wanting to change the world. it's about wanting to see results. if you don't see an institution functioning to get to those results, you are not going to be inclined to do that. it is wonderful that young people want to surf. it is a wonderful a firming of the fact that people want to serve, but the question is, why? is it to change the world? and people are turning to other institutions, and i think one of the biggest mistakes -- my son .ent to iraq he is still in the reserves. i think one of the biggest mistakes this country has made is a volunteer military, in mandating you serve your country, to meet people from different levels of society, to see europe itself in the same boat, you see yourself as part of a whole. my foundation has been very our veteranselping returning f

they voted for newt gingrich in the gop primary in their state, strom thurmond, mark sanford.hological human level, what i simply don't get is when you have been that big of a disaster like you leave and then you say you're on the appalachian trail and unfortunately you pick the week it's nudist week on the appalachian trail and then you really weren't, you were really visiting your mistress in brazil, why you would want to bring all that up again, like i would be running in horror, running away in horror. if somebody sees like my fat thighs in a picture on facebook, i demand that i am untagged. so to have that much baggage of sheer embarrassment in your life that you go, you know what? clearly there's people out there who don't know what a creep i was. i want to make sure i let them know so that everybody is in on it. it's weird! >> do you care if you go over the line? >> well, i always wonder what the line is because, you know, everyone has a different line, and so if you worry about where the line is, then you may be censoring yourself to making the best thing you can make.

in 2043, i will be 87, if i live that long and if i can follow the senator strom thurmond model, i will have two terms left in the senate and i will miss most of you all. [laughter] i might be around -- might be around, but the rest of you, i will talk to your families. for those who are around in 2043, here's what i want you to look at. if nothing changes, by 2043, medicare and medicaid will take gdp defunct. >> the current trajectory is we will be close to half. >> 18% of gdp. how much to be put in revenue today? >> normally, 18% if we are lucky. >> here's the deal. in 2043, if we don't do something about medicare and medicaid, if it will take all the money we collected in taxes today plus 2% just to pay for those programs. how can that be? 10,000 baby boomers per day are retiring. in 1950, there were 16.5 workers for every social security recipient. 2030, there will be 2.1. mr. holtz-eakin, your point is unless we have a massive baby boom, the numbers are going the wrong direction. >> absolutely. >> how do you supplement? when i was born in 1955, there were 16 workers for every retir

winston churchill who gave us the korean war, thurmond he gave us nhs and margaret thatcher who rescuedur country from postwar decline. they say, three-hour,, demand when in 1979 came the hour and came the lady. she made the political weather. she made history and let this be her epitaph as she made our country great again. i commend this motion to the house. [shouting] >> order. the question is this house has considered the matter a tribute to right honorable baroness thatcher stephen algae. mr. edward miliband. >> mr. speaker, to join the prime minister commemorated to extort or that the contribution of margaret thatcher and not to him in any deepest condolences to her children, carol and mark, the whole family and many, many close friends. today's opportunity to reflect on margaret thatcher's achievement, politics and political latency. as the payments issues that, the journey to downing street is an unlikely one. i was particularly remarkable she was the daughter, not the son and at each stage of her life, she broke the mold. when there is not a single woman in the university who he

term limits were first proposed by strom thurmond in 1910.ow the history if you are from washington. presidente on to clinton. i will say something briefly in the vein of the 1996 race some people say the president is going to have a tough race. some say it is not going to be easy. well, i speak for the 30 and under generation. mr. president, i want you to know, you do not have to worry about us, because we do not vote. soundly. now, i just the fact is, those of you have seen my show, and there are nine, i've is special relationship with the president. he had actually appeared on my show many times. he has been a frequent guest. he has allowed me to interview him. thisis the first time that has happened in the 81 years of these dinners. the first time he has allowed the comedian to interview him like right here at the dinner. in to president clinton. given it up. i am the president. all right. welcome. how are you? i am filling relevant, really relevant. good for you. that is good for you. very good for you. >> it is good for america. i belie

in 2043, i will be 87, if i live that long and if i can follow the senator strom thurmond model, i will have two terms left in the senate and i will miss most of you all. [laughter] i might be around -- might be around, but the rest of you, i will talk to your families. for those who are around in 2043, here's what i want you to look at. if nothing changes, by 2043, medicare and medicaid will take gdp defunct. >> the current trajectory is we will be close to half. >> 18% of gdp. how much to be put in revenue today? >> normally, 18% if we are lucky. >> here's the deal. in 2043, if we don't do something about medicare and medicaid, if it will take all the money we collected in taxes today plus 2% just to pay for those programs. how can that be? 10,000 baby boomers per day are retiring. in 1950, there were 16.5 workers for every social security recipient. 23rd, there will be 2.1. mr. holtz-eakin, your point is unless we have a massive baby boom, the numbers are going the wrong direction. >> absolutely. >> how do you supplement? when i was born in 1955, there were 16 workers for every retir

in 2043, i will be 87, if i live that long and if i can follow the senator strom thurmond model, i will have two terms left in the senate and i will miss most of you all. [laughter] might bee around -- around, but the rest of you, i will talk to your families. for those who are around in 2043, here's what i want you to look at. if nothing changes, by 2043, medicare and medicaid will take gdp defunct. >> the current trajectory is we will be close to half. >> 80% of gdp. how much to be put in revenue today? >> normally, 80% if we are lucky. >> here's the deal. in 2043, if we don't do something about medicare and medicaid, if it will take all the money we collected in taxes today plus 2% just to pay for those programs. how can that be? 10,000 baby boomers per day are retiring. in 1950, there were 16.5 workers for every social security recipient. 23rd, there will be 2.1. mr. douglas holtz-eakin, your point is unless we have a massive baby boom, the numbers are going the wrong direction. >> absolutely. >> how do you supplement? when ias born in 1955, there were 16 workers for every retiree.