now, you harry and tina are both american citizens. i'm not holding that against you.but you retain extraordinarily close links with the u.k. this embassy and i wish the book a great success. it's a remarkable story. so ladies and gentlemen please join me in welcoming sir harold evans. [applause] >> i just got to adjust -- i can't be elevated so i have to lower this. thank you so much for those excellent words. it's always good to come back to britain which is where we are. and not to go through the formalities of proving who i am which happens is when you go through any security. the lucky -- nigel is so lucky because he's lived very close to me. and he's lucky because we never met. [laughter] >> because who knows, tina, what might have happened if i met the gorgeous julia who became a scientist and like me, ended up in the united states. tonight really it should be a celebration. not of me, frankly, but of reporting. that's what my book is about. it's about what newspapers could achieve. not what an editor can achieve. but what the reporters on the ground can achieve

and he and tina have lived here for nearly 30 years.although tina doesn't remember, we were her contemporary's at oxford, and she had a knack of stopping the traffic they're just as she's done here and since. harris american career took him to u.s. news and world report, and a number of other top publication, from random house and from publishing to writing, including the award-winning american century. now, you, harry and to become are both now american citizens. i'm not holding that against you. [laughter] >> but you retain close links with the u.k. this embassy and i wish the book every success. it's a remarkable story. so ladies and gentlemen, please join me in welcoming sir harry evans. [applause] >> i just got to adjust. i can be elevated so i have to lower this. thank you so much for those actually words. it's always good to come back to britain. which is where we are. this is british territory, you understand. not to go through the formalities of proving land, which is what happens of course when you go through any security. it

i wrote about politics more under tina. c-span: but you've written major pieces on hillary clinton and newt gingrich, a book on steve ross, who was head of warner. >> guest: right. c-span: and in what years were all those done? >> guest: well, the book on ross, i guess -- i mean, that was "master of the game," which came out in 1994. and i had written pieces about time warner at "the new yorker. that was how i got interested in ross. and at the same time -- and then in the early '90s, i wrote the piece about hillary and then about gingrich. and then after that, i wrote about the middle east. so tina was the one who let me sort of just have a broader ambit. c-span: when did you marry congressman -- is it mel levine? >> guest: it's mel levine. c-span: levine. >> guest: just two years ago. and -- but i had been living in california with him more or less sort of the last five years. so -- and it was in that period of time that i was working on this book. c-span: the mob, the gangsters, all that, it pops up in your book all the

he spoke earlier today with tina susman of the "los angeles times" in port-au-prince. >> reporter: tina, thanks for joining us. you are at the airport so tell us first what's the situation there in terms of supplies being able to get in. >> well, today appears to be the first day that things have really gotten under way here at the airport. up until this morning they were having problems landing planes full of people and supplies because of crowd on the runway. but just today there have been, for instance, several cargo planes bringing people in, among them 250 doctors, nurses and medical experts including veterinarians, sent out from the health and human services department by the state department. they just arrived this afternoon. and aid agencies are expecting some cargo planes to come in. in fact they are expecting 18 metric tons of supplies arrive on a cargo plane this afternoon. >> reporter: give us a sense, if you would, about how hard it is to get around the city for you, for aid workers for anybody at this point. >> extraordinarily hard. in fact, everybody i have spoken to, the

. >> among other titles, tina brown is the cofounder of the daily beast.com website. you have a book section on that website. tell us about it. >> we launched about six months ago is becoming a very striving channel on the daily beast website. every day we cover a new book on each day we have highlights of what to read, why you should read it, we do wonderful little cheat sheet as we kaw, does kind of a brit lit, whatever is reading in the u.k. is a very lively channel. lucas whitman is the editor. he has joined us just recently. we are developing what we feel overly great warm spot for writers, because there's so few places now where they can get their books reviewed. we do video. read a wonderful interview gives very few interviews about his new book, the humbling. so i think a combination of video and pictures and reviews and interviews and extracts which were not doing, it's really developing quite a following. and i think hopefully we will span into the breach which has been led by so many spanish book reviews section. >> have you ever reviewed harold evans books

from the daily beast, tina brown. and mtv's sway call loway.e to help us unveil 360's all the best, all the worst of 2009. welcome, i'm tom foreman. if you did not get a little nervous this year you weren't paying attention. from economics to politics to pop culture everything seemed to be in flux. sure the nation signed on for change but by year's end some were ready to say keep the change. let's move on to better times. still, as we chart our course into the future, it's worth looking back on all that got us to where we are. back to where the whole big, bad year began. we've got to give the biggest and worst story of 2009 to the economy. because it certainly gave it to us. >> i think it's a year where america had to get off its sugar high. >> started out with an economic crisis and seemed to be a bottomless pit and started out as a very frightening time. >> certainly if you had a job you were really lucky and everybody was scaling back in their own way. >> from the start all the numbers were running bad, employment down, home sales down, busi

[applause] >> among other titles, tina brown is the cofounder of "the daily beast.com" website.you have a book section on the website, tell us about it. >> we lost about six months ago is coming a very striving channel on "the daily beast" website that everyday we cover a new book. each day we have highlights of what to read, why you should read it. we do wonderful little cheat sheet, pieces about reviews, more over the place we had the editor from the times littered, does kind of a written list, what ever is reading in the u.k. he's a very lively channel. and lucas whitman is the editor. he came and joined us just recently. we are developing what we feel overly great one spot for writers, because there are so few places to where they can get their books reviewed. we do video. we had a wonderful interview with philip recently who gives a very few interviews about his new book, the humbling. so i think a combination of video and pictures and reviews and interviews and extracts which were not doing. it's really developing quite a following that and i think hopefully we will stand

tina is here. latino was looking for you. >> this is to ralph. >> do you want the three of us? >> the party is a success. all three of us are here. >> survivors. >> this is for you ralph. i put what i truly believe. >> it got a good review. >> it did fine. also in "the chicago sun-times." >> did you see the parade? >> thank you so much. i am so pleased to see you. >> thank you. [inaudible conversations] >> i love that. >> we did not put it together. yeah. "the sunday times." i did not intend to show that. [laughter] author t.j. stiles recounts the life of transportation magnet cornelia after words in his book, t.j.. >> discussed the book at an event hosted by the new york public library. this is an hour and 15 minutes. >> thanks for coming everyone to this evening. it is a pleasure to be here at the library and the coleman center which has once again succeeded in green the publication and the outstanding work of literature. the first tycoon takes his place this year as the biography of record of one of the greatest and most selective figures in american business history. cornel

like you said the tina turner, but even going to school, taking my kids to school. of course, now parking on saturday that will hurt some of the businesses in adams morgan, capitol hill. >> if people don't go to restaurants or concerts because of the parking thing, the point is there's a balance here. you need some revenues but you don't want to turn people off. >> will that drive a lot of d.c. residents out to prince george's county, the national harbor or to other places in the suburbs? >> you're hitting a sore part there national harbor. that is drawing a lot of people out of d.c. already. conventions for instance. around that convention center these very laws will take effect. >> you also have people who depend on these, the parking spaces on weekends particularly who live in the communities. remember our downtown areas are now residential. so, you know, parking in lots are scarce and very expensive, $20, $30 for a few hours. so, if it will do anything else, here we go. what will it do. it will force people to use the metro? what happened? metro fares went up. w

if it is not sarah palin in 2012 then obviously it will be 26 tina maybe even 2020. >> host: anne kornblutof "the washington post" and her book, "notes from the cracked ceiling" hillary clinton, sarah palin and what ti will take for a woman to win. thanks for joining us. come back again. >> anne kornblut is the white house reporter for "the washington post." she has been a political reporter in washington since 1998 and worked for the "boston globe" and "the new york times" before joining the post and the 2007. form reclamation visit anne kornblut.com.  >> dominique lapierre author of "a rainbow in the night" talks about the heroic women in his many books including mother theresa helm he worked with ten rightabout and city of joy. the national museum of women and the arts in washington d.c. hosts this hour-long event. >> to begin with, i would really thank you for having mentioned my collaboration with larry collins. larry collins is unfortunately dead now for five years, an american journalist with, i spent 50 years of my life researching the world and writing books, and i think the two

but when you had gone through the tina fey parodies, you certainly cannot be in a position where youonto the stage and, you know, refer to him repeatedly on national television as senator o'biden. it would have just been, you know, devastating beyond words. >> cooper: so how'd you get around that? >> schmidt: it was multiple people-- and i wasn't one of them-- who all said at the same time, "just say, 'can i call you joe,'" which she... which she did. >> palin: do you mind if i call you joe? >> cooper: so, the... the, "can i call you joe," which people at the time thought was some sort of strategy, was really just a way for her to be able to say his name without messing it up. >> schmidt: correct. absolutely. >> cooper: but, one "o'biden" did slip out. >> palin: barak obama and senator o'biden, you've said no to everything. >> cooper: still, mccain staffers were delighted. >> schmidt: she did a good job in the debate against senator biden. i think she more than held her own. >> cooper: but schmidt now believes, if palin is the republican presidential candidate in 2012, it will be cat

she started to lose that talent, being in the national glare, and ridiculed by criticism and even by tina leftist journalist. and i can prove this, and anything this woman would say about sarah palin, is not credible at all. these are msnbc hang-outs and the first two guests were msnbc hang-outs. host: caller, i have to disagree. caller: well, i don't care what you have to do. "the new york times" present this gal, and how many books were o'reilly had and never reviewed. it's just a bunch of leftist garbage. host: so do you have a question for anne kornblut? caller: no, she's not qualified for a call. host: we have our next caller. caller: happy new year, i hate to follow that call. i want to give background and i am a strong supporter of secretary of state, hillary clinton. you can tell in my voice i am rather passionate. and i am also educated. and i am also middle class in my work experience and my wealth. and i am also very much a supporter of civil rights. i was in fact for years a corporate recruiter working in affirmative action recruiting. so i don't want anyone to think that don'

allitt tina in olympia washington who also does the editing on the books.y business operations are run by becky grant and devah wheeler. incredible efficiency of cars. counterpunch books, weublishing books and the newsletter that we wanted to keep it more permanent form. our web stuff on the counter pence side is not go away. some is in the fast black hole of volt internet communications. probably some government archive then god help the people that have to go through. we begin with a book called the politics of anti-semitism because we did a whole bunch of articles about this idea that if you aritical of israel that you are an anti-semite which was absolute nonsense. our association with ak press. a pretty bunch of well organized anarchists dauman oakland and ak we accept dearlove thee, looks after the bookshelf's distribution. we also sell the books on our web site. people write in the end we said them from the office here. it was natural for us. we had a bunch of articles and then we just got into books like. again it is not expensive. if you can sell t

. >> tina brown, cofounder, editor, daily beast.com. >> thank you. >> i am a revolutionary. black people need some peace. black people need some peace. we're going to have to struggle. >> i'm saying something. >> you going to have to do more than talk. you're going to have to do more than listen. we've got to start getting out there with the people. >> it's sort of like a primary thing to me. i'm the first move. >> this is 2337 westwood road, described by police as a black panther party arms and entities. 14 states attorneys placemen led by sergeant daniel gro found that indeed it was a hole for weapons that after a gunbattle that caused jeffrey haas his life, as soon as sergeant and the officer who are leaving are men announced their office occupants of the apartment attack them with shotgun fire. >> sir, you say your men were fired upon. witnesses who have seen the apartment say there is no evidence of bullets from the direction where the panthers supposedly were to be. >> this blatant act of legitimatize murder strips all credibility from law enforcement. in the context o

tina mike very much. >> good. thank you. we have some juicy issues here to look at. bridging the gap between conservation and the development agenda, the issue of what is the effect of war holes and wells on water tables and the effects on people in northern uganda and the looming question of how does climate change affect the work that we are doing? who would like to jump into this? i'll give it a shot here it >> a big issue i wanted to take on a couple of the questions that came up and probably a fairly superficial way and maybe it will be abused. it is personal healthy people versus healthy water. this distinction. i think the first turning point is to reframe it. i think as long as we continue to see this dichotomy we're going to continue to have the problem. the second thing i think they are is looking for the examples of where it has worked. there must be examples and finding them and figuring out how they're similar to other situations that may exist out there. i think that's critical particularly when you're trying to get to decision-makers in the u.s. federa

and we have fallen in on the new general order one and it's all about maintaining -- maintaining the tina. and i think if any san -- if anything -- gosh, i feel like we miss an opportunity to talk about several things. we miss an opportunity to talk about the incredible value and role of female soldiers have any 21st century united states army. we fail to talk about what it's like for commanders now with the 12 to 18 months of the well time to prepare for a 12-month deployment, what it's like to build teams, and how -- all the things that go into building teams in keeping them together. there's a lot of great stuff to talk about there and we just missed the opportunity because we got caught up in other things. but as far as my formations and the intent, my intent been understood by the soldiers and i don't have any second -- i don't have any issues with that at all. i think we are ok. >> general, american forces press corps. going to a more mundane things appear if it was the situation in and around mosul and what are your troops going to do on the election or for the election? >> great q

and the good is -- and tina is starting a digital book company.with newspapers so much doesn't get done. so we could talk about that. >> well we shall sometime. congratulations. cheers. >> thank you, thank you. >> tell kyl to get well soon. [inaudible conversations] >> as you were. i'm keeping going. >> hi, can i welcome

she started to lose that talent, being in the national glare, and ridiculed by criticism and even by tinaese would damage her. host: we have bob joining us. caller: good morning, you start the program out with leftist journalist, and you end with a leftist journalist. and i can prove this, and anything this woman would say about sarah palin, is not credible at all. these are msnbc hang-outs and the first two guests were msnbc hang-outs. host: caller, i have to disagree. caller: well, i don't care what you have to do. "the new york times" present this gal, and how many books were o'reilly had and never reviewed. it's just a bunch of leftist garbage. host: so do you have a question for anne kornblut? caller: no, she's not qualified for a call. host: we have our next caller. caller: happy new year, i hate to follow that call. i want to give background and i am a strong supporter of secretary of state, hillary clinton. you can tell in my voice i am rather passionate. and i am also educated. and i am also middle class in my work experience and my wealth. and i am also very much a supporter of

this is why my organization is in strong support of the save tina novice driver uniform protection act stand up and is joined the save road chretien's coalition to push this important legislation through congress. every state should have tough graduated driver licensing laws including cell phone and texting bands. as a mother who lost a child to impaired driving a woman who nearly lost her life in the crash and a committed advocate for curbing the carnage on our roadways i appeal to every governor and every state legislator to make 2010 the year when we will see strong ignition interlock, teen driving laws and all driver texting bans for adults become reality. there's no question that they will avert tragedy than save lives. thank you. [applause] >> thank you marge. is my pleasure not to introduce our next speaker, who is representative chris van hollen. representative finn holland represents district eight in montgomery county in maryland and member of the house democratic leadership team. before serving in congress beginning in 2002 representative dan holland was a member of the mary

special to us because she's the daughter of one of val's best friends and one of our best friends, tina perlo who made only one mistake, marion billy meyer's. [laughter] was also a great friend, pilot in vietnam and man of courage and friendship. mr. president, michele, president clinton, my good friend speaker pelosi and governor mark kel, my friends from the house and senate and my co-workers in the cabinet and members of the white house and office of the vice president and president staff and all the delaware elected officials that are here to note as all too well don't tell them all you know about us. [laughter] we are honored you do my family a great honor by being here today to celebrate the life of our mother. mr. president, i especially want to thank you for the way in which you treated my mom with such warmth and personal affection. warmed my heart and hers as well. one of her favorite pictures is a picture on election night in chicago as we were about to walk out on stage and she has barack -- pardon me, mr. president, you were jean than -- barack in her left arm and me on her