tom is not one who will be forgotten. only because of his unique background as a holocaust survivor, but for the strength of his convictions and the power of his oratory. tom had experience personally what it meant to be hunted, to be oppressed, to be friendless and without a champion. it was this experience that made him determined to become a defender of the rights of his fellow human beings and he lived up to that commitment in a remarkable way. tom came to this country in 1947 as a penniless immigrant. and that is not an exaggeration. like so many others, he realized the united states with a place with wide open doors of opportunity. tom walked to the stores with gratitude and enthusiasm. he became a profoundly patriotic american and sec every occasion to express gratitude for the opportunity. when he announced he would not run for reelection to the cancer that ultimately took his life, tom said "is only in the united states that penniless survivor of the holocaust and a fighter in the anti-nazi underground could have

tom was telling me during the break kind of an ironic story. want to repeat it, tom? >> a friend of mine who worked with me in the white house and called me on december 22nd and reminded me this past year that december 22nd, 2001 is the richard reid attempt. remember the shoebomber and part of the explosive material he detonated at that time was the the same material this terrorist used as well. interesting eight years. >> larry: what's your reaction to the president's statement today? >> i think he's spot on with regard to beefing up security patrol proet caltocols and watc. i think one of the most interesting observations they haven't made, and i know secretary napolitano clarified her statement today. we were only a consumer of information and didn't generate it. you can only act on those things that you know, and the question remains in my mind, what was the e-mail or what was the communication from the department of state, from the counselor's office to the terrorist screening center? the department of homeland security doesn't run the tse. that's the department

tom was telling me during the break kind of an ironic story. want to repeat it, tom? >> a friend of mean who worked with me in the white house called me on december 22nd and reminded me that this past year that december 22nd, 2001 is the richard reid attempt. remember the shoebomber and part of the explosive he material he tried to detonate at that time was the same material that this terrorist used as well. interesting eight years. >> larry: boy. what's your reaction to the president's statement today? >> i think he's spot on with regard to beefing up security protocols and the watch list. one of the more interesting observations that folks haven't made and i know secretary napolitano obviously clarified her statement today. i can tell you as first secretary of homeland security, we were only a consumer of information and we really didn't generate it. you can only act on things that you you know, and the question remains in my mind what was the e-mail or the communication from the department of state -- from the counselor's office to the terrorist screening center. t

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luck involved, tom? >> i think -- of course. device didn't explode and the plane didn't crash and the people didn't die. that's a lucky break, because the materials to do it were on board and it could have happened. >> larry: harry, you agree it could have happened? >> absolutely. because of the positioning of the detonator relative to the base explosive, we were very fortunate in that it did not detonate high order. >> larry: harvey, are things getting worse? >> larry, i can't say they're getting better but i don't think they're getting better. we're facing a new kind of terror threat than we did prior to 2001. al qaeda has morphed into a very loose, configured group of individuals. we don't know yet how this is going to play out, whether or not we had a he direct link to al qaeda, whether he was trained by al qaeda. that needs to be seen. but larry, it's much more difficult when you have people all over the world carrying passports from 50, 60 different nations that want to do us harm. this is a monumental task for law enforce

so tom lantos was that kind of person.y, [unintelligible] from the hungry, and his life experience broad difficulty. but through his own hard work, the spirit is really great. he was a very successful person. and not only as an individual but also a tremendous amount of service to research and field. so what else i should say? i do not know. [laughter] you have seen this sort of metdal. it is quite heavy. [laughter] but this gives me some kind of encouragement of the sign of recognition of life and a little service. of those now, for the rest of my life, i take it with me. for promotional human value, promotional human affection and compassion and the quality and basic human rights forever in to that or in mainland china or everywhere. taiwan or africa or latin america, even here in america. the richest country, but still, a lot of poor people. a huge gap, rich tempore. this is unhealthy. -- a huge gap, rich to poor. it is held -- unhealthy. they are also human beings. they might be in a more happier sort of state. the who

tom is not one who will be forgotten. of his unique background as a holocaust survivor, but for the strength of his convictions and the power of his oratory. tom had experience personally what it meant to be hunted, to be oppressed, to be friendless and without a champion. it was this experience that made him determined to become a defender of the rights of his fellow human beings and he lived up to that commitment in a remarkable way. tom came to this country in 1947 as a penniless immigrant. and that is not an exaggeration. like so many others, he realized the united states with a place with wide open doors of opportunity. tom walked to the stores with gratitude and enthusiasm. he became a profoundly patriotic american and sec every occasion to express gratitude for the opportunity. when he announced he would not run for reelection to the cancer that ultimately took his life, tom said "is only in the united states that penniless survivor of the holocaust and a fighter in the anti-nazi underground could have received and

he was the uncle of my best friend, guy named tom cowen, so when we we are young we used to go over lake ponchatrain and party skiing, and nobody quite

tom and tom and i came down and spoke for hours. it's got some good things in it. we'd love to have some input into whatever the legislation is going to do. but make no mistake about it. just because you stick your head in a hole and see nothing else out there doesn't mean it is not there. to come to the floor and claim that no republicans have offered a legislative remedy to health care is to stick your head in a hole and say, i'm not going it look. therefore, nothing exists. now, mr. president, i know i'm coming to the end, and i see that the ranking member of the finance committee wants to speak. my good friend from rhode island said -- and i quote -- i wrote it -- "actuaries can't cost it out." he said before he left the floor, "actuaries can't cost it out." well, he may or may not be right. i can tell you this: the american people can cost it out, and the american people have said "no." "no" to passage of the reid health care bill. we should listen to the american people. mr. president, i yield the floor. mr. grassley: mr. president? the presiding officer: the

and that's when i had the good fortune to get to know tom. he was then elected a member of montgomery county at the m-mike emery council in maryland and i have to admit that i also had the good fortune there to be one of tom's constituents. to top it all off, tom was a professor for six years at the university of maryland school of law and taught at george washington school of public health. in the history of the civil rights movement, there have been times of hope and times of despair. the progress and periods of terrible setback. that has also been true for the civil rights division. but the pendulum has now swung towards hope and progress. in good measure, thanks to the leadership of tom and his outstanding team and the civil rights division as well as the perseverance of the career employees who carried on the work during good times and during god. so it is a real special honor for the american constitution society, for me to be joined this afternoon i assistant attorney general for civil rights, tom perez. please welcome tom. [applause]

up next, tom foreman and dr. sanjay gupta and the critical health care debate. >>> a late night senate showdown. we're just one hour away from a major vote on health care reform. democrats say it will pass. and if it does, it will be a huge step towards a massive overhaul of the nation's health care system. hello, i'm tom foreman reporting tonight from washington. >> and i'm dr. sanjay gupta in atlanta. this is special coverage of a crucial senate vote on held care reform. >> members of the best political team are joining us on the late night shift. dana bash is standing by at the capitol. dan lothian is here in washington and dana gergen and democratic strategist john brazil is on the phone as well. let's head straight to capitol hill first. they are kicking off ap brand new legislative date. dana bash is there. what a day it's been for you, dana. set the scene for us. i have a question about that. is there a risk that someone might not make it in with all of the weather that is going on? >> that's a very good q

>> no, look, tom is a serious guy. he's a good guy. i served with him when we were governors together. but his proposal isn't health insurance reform. triggers are not health insurance reform. they're devices put in for the health insurance industry. today it came out aetna is going to drop 600,000 people from their insurance so they can make more money. why is it that these senators can't get it in their heads that putting money in the health insurance system that we have now doesn't work. that's not health care reform. knock it off! listen to sherrod brown. listen to the 56 senators who want to do the right thing in the democratic party. stop grandstanding and get this done. >> senator ben nelson says he will filibuster health care reform unless the law is written to the approval of catholic bishops. where do you begin with that? >> well, first of all, i doesn't think he's going to filibuster health care reform. i think nobody wants to see that, even the republicans can get in trouble for doing that. i don't think a religious gerut g

without further delay, tom. >> good morning. i want to give you a brief background and a view of where things are with the making affordable program. the basic overview for the program was that it was decided to reach up to three to four million people. it runs through the end of 2012. the basic thrust of this is to bring borrowers who are at risk of imminent default or at 60 day delinquencies and bring their mortgage payments and down to 31% debt to income ratio. the way that is done is that the property has to be honor occupied, have a performing mortgages -- has to be owner occupied, etc. we can do this for interest-rate reductions, term extensions, a principal forbearances. it is an essential waterfall. the incentive structure is that these services are required to bring the debt can income ratio and there is a dollar to dollar match from 30% 2 daut 31%. -- 38% to 31%. there is a trial period. after that, they pay out incentives. there is a trial. to make sure the bar or in the program will be successful. the incentives are

. >> tom from u.s.a. today. >> sir, thank you for taking the time. how long do you believe they need support? >> as the president outlined by 2011, we will begin to transition our combat forces out. we will probably as we have done in iraq, maintain first forces to protect our troops. but second there are critical enablers like helicopter lift. but one of the interesting comparisons in iraq and afghanistan is that, you know i think if we are able to deploy afghany forces with suitable mobility, that some of the more elaborate enablers like helicopter lift, etc. may not be necessary. i think they would be capable against the taliban with mobility and training and fire support and those things. but there will be a continuing logistical support. but the key element is combat forces will begin to come out. >> right, but is this going to take a decade that they need u.s. troops and that support? >> weville -- we will have to have a presence in south asia, because it's a critical area. al qaeda is still on the border, and you have other terrorist networks,

i agree with tom coburn.nnot mandate anything on the american people, and only states can do that? that is all. thank you. guest: not a constitutional scholar. a belief -- i believe there are lots of mandates on individual americans prepar. mandates and requirements for american citizens -- there is broad agreement that the federal government does have power is an individual state governments don't have them. -- does have powers that individual state governments don't have. senator cohen wanted to four spokes to see what was at -- senator tom coburn wanted it to force folks to see was in senator sanders' amendment. this would have been the first time that a single payer universal health care system was debated on the senate floor. he wanted to vote on it eventually. he ended up withdrawing that. for senator centers and those who want a single payer system, the thought this -- for senator sanders and those who want a single payer system, they thought this was a big moment. this is fascinating to watch. this is

without further delay, tom. >> good morning. i want to give you a brief background in the view of where things are with the making homes affordable program. the basic overview for the program was that it was decided to reach up to three into four million people. the program will run through the end of 2012. the basic thrust of this is to bring borrowers who are at risk of imminent default or at a 60 day delinquency and bring their mortgage payments down to 31% debt to income ratio. the way that is done is that the property has to be owner occupied, have a performing mortgage, cannot be investor- owned, a second home, etc. we can do that for interest-rate reductions, term extensions, and principal forbearances. the incentive structure from the servicers are required to bring down the debt to income ratio down to 30% and then there is a dollar to dollar match from 38% to 31%. borrowers go through a 90 day trial period. after that is complete, the government pays out the incentives. there is a trial. to make sure -- there is a tria

tom coburn. [cheers and applause] >> thank you all. let me first of all say -- in the mic. let me say thank you for taking the time out to be here. what our country lacks is our active involvement to return the freedom that is rightfully ours back to a loss again. what our country lacks is the active involvement of the citizens of this country to return the freedom that is rightfully ours back to us again. the healthcare bill isn't about health care. the health care bill is about government control. the health care bill is about eliminating the liberty and freedom to choose what is best for you and your family. you know i've practiced medicine for over 25 years. i am a two-time cancer survivor and the best health care system in the world. [cheers and applause] and that does not mean that there are not problems with our health care system. but i will tell you the government runs 60% of healthcare in this country and they don't do a good job at any one of those levels. and this bill will move another 20% of health care under control of the government. if in fact you are here

i'm tom foreman. i'll be back in a half hour with more newsroom. cnn's "planet in peril" returns after this. i always thought calcium, and vitamin d, and exercise would keep my bones healthy. but i got osteoporosis anyway, so my doctor started me on once-monthly boniva. and he told me something important. boniva works with your body to help stop and reverse bone loss. my test results proved i was able to stop and reverse my bone loss with boniva. and studies show, after one year on boniva, nine out of ten women did, too. (announcer) don't take boniva if you have low blood calcium, severe kidney disease, or can't sit or stand for at least one hour. follow dosing instructions carefully. stop taking boniva and tell your doctor if you have difficult or painful swallowing, chest pain, or severe or continuing heartburn as these may be signs of serious upper digestive problems. if jaw problems or severe bone, joint, and/or muscle pain develops, tell your doctor. i've got this one body and this one life. so i wanted to stop my bone loss. but i did more tha

>> they absolutely would have investigated this. >> larry: what if tom smith said i won't talk to you? >> at the very least they would have taken the blood. that to me is not something that's unusual. they have an auto accident, somebody who is lying there, presumably they have a hospital that drew blood. >> larry: can they subpoena and warrant, subpoena the hospital records? >> they can get it by way of a search warrant. absolutely. they have enough right now. >> larry: if they get that, all if, speculation is what we do, if they -- what if it showed there was no blood in the car and that the blood could not be -- the accident could not have been caused by the car -- the injuries? >> then there's a lot more questions than answers which there have been all along in this case, larry. we're all interested, what's the toxicology report? what are the injuries? are they consistent with a car accident? there's a lot of intriguing questions that really are happening here. and i think that's why the media is so interested and remains so interested in this thing. and i can tell you, i've worke

as far as tom coburn, he has no credibility.eople are going to die. and kimberley in "the wall street journal," she does nothing but-obama. i like c-span, but reading newspaper it -- does nothing but bash obama. i like c-span, but reading these newspapers -- [unintelligible] why wouldn't you want to get health care --ñr if they don't o it, it won't get done. if they cannot do it with obama in the administration, they will never get it done. have a great day. host:ñr gerry, independent. health care as political suicide. caller: good morning, c-span. i just think -- i am an independent, have never been involved in politics before. me and my wife voted for barack . i am extremely disappointed. i'm disappointed in the administration. i'm a minority. my life is latino. -- my wife is latino. we voted for change. and the democrats have 60 seats. the republicans will do whatever they have to do. they have 40 seats. they have 60 seats, with two independents. i'm disappointed. barack obama has sat on his butt, and he does not have the bac

. >> however i grew up under the guidance and wiz tom of -- wisdom of frederick douglass, of w.e.b. duboise, so i grew up in a society where black was beautiful, black was excellence, and the people who didn't think that were stupid. >> that's right. but in the '60s james brown had to do a psa saying black is beautiful. nobody would do a song like that now because the idea is obvious. of course we have pride in ourselves and the way we look -- >> but do we really? you know, i think it's changing. i think it's, you know, i don't think that we really have a lot of pride in being black. i don't know that we even understand our history, the richness of it. and i think this is really the importance of this book and the importance of history is so that we can be proud of who we are, that we're not continuously brainwashed. dr. rosco brown and i were just talking about it. in our household you were either a victim, or you were an activist, and there were no victims in my home the way we grew up, so we just knew. my mother always said just like one must drink water, one must give back. the

we had these portrait unveilings for tom daschle.ed his call explaining why he would not be here. have we served in a time that he described as a time like no other. we did not really know each other that well, but we developed a bond. when you bleed together, you bond together. then there was 9/11 and the amtracs problem. through it all -- and the anthrax problem. you can be adversaries legislatively, but develop a real friendship. thank you, linda, for being here. and thank you, steven, for all you have done. former staff members, we did not realize how many there were. we only invited my staff members from the senate. i did have position of secretary of the senate and with on a couple of occasions. there was a lot of staff over those years. they are the people that make the senators look good on occasion and do good things for people observing, helping me get a lot of projects and a good deserving earmark projects. [laughter] those were not poor, they were south of memphis. -- pork, they were southo f memp -- south of memphis. i h

tom poti with the defensive play. ovechkin lost the handle. three on three back the other way. loads and drives right to the gut of neuvirth. >> craig: we will stop there with neuvirth. the capitals turning it over on their blue line. ryan driving hard to the net. the caps have to be better. here ov trying to do too much. here's the oilers three on two. good three-way passing play. lead together slap shot into the belly of the caps' young goalie. >> joe: john is closing in on 600 games. >> craig: big time college numbers at michigan state. >> joe: he was an outstanding spartan. david steckel playing at ohio state. steckel bottled up, and away come the oiler in the blue as we reach the 6-minute mark in the scoreless opening period. quintin laing will be digging his hardest with matt bradley. no score north of the border. >>> she's proudly wearing capital's red, white, and blue in the enemy easter tore. caps and oilers, no store score. the ones to watch, two hefty winners. nike knuble the veteran. 16 points so far. 18 goals, doubling up anybody close to them in their lineup. the

those ant tom coburn -- those aren't tom coburn's opinion, those are published data. we know that it isn't as good as the other insurance programs. we know it's not as good as the people in the cash harkt even though they -- market even they pay more. it protects patients and their caregiver's rivment and, finally, it -- relationship. and, finally, it empowers mothers for their children, it empowers the provide, but it doesn't empower the federal government. and the federal government's failing in health care right now. and it's not -- it really isn't my ingenuity that came up with this. but since i'm around my three daughters and a lot of younger people who work for me on my staff is a comparison of the patients' choice act to the act that we have here is like comparing old ma bell to an iphone. in the patient -- and the patient's choice act is the iphone. a little over a decade ago iphones or even cell phones in general, who would think that they would be so widespread. apple iphones were 2 1/2 times faster growth in 2007. why did this object -- why did it take off?

did tom mentioned that the book is on sale at the bookstore? senator kennedy wrote about his mother having him at st. margaret's hospital, just up the street. it is a very important institution. a couple hundred yards from here, the bethlehem community health centers -- it was the first in the country, and senator kennedy was a major force in creating it and all the other health centers. we will be beside the john f. kennedy library where senator kennedy wanted to be. an important part of the university of massachusetts at boston, senator kennedy said if you want to see the future of massachusetts, you go into u- mass boston. we are proud to be part of, never to, brother of the kennedy library in boston. there are three things the senator brought to the table every day. he was the best prepared in the room. he did his homework. he had respect for other people and other people's ideas. he knew how to reach across the aisle. thirdly, he knew how to get the deal done. if we can impart to young people today as they study the u.s. senate, those thre

including oklahoma senator tom coburn. >> in the mic. let me first of all say thank you for taking a timeout to be here. what our country lacks is our active involvement to return the freedom that is rightly ours back to us again. what our country lacks is the active involvement of the citizens of this country to return the freedom that is rightly ours back to us again. the health care bill isn't about health care. the health care bill is about government control. the health care bill is about eliminating the liberty and freedom to choose what is best for you and your family. you know i practiced medicine for over 25 years. i am a two-time cancer survivor in the best health care system in the world. [cheers and applause] and that does not mean that there are not problems with their health care system. but i would tell you the government now run 60% of the health care in this country and they don't do a good job at any one of those levels. and this bill will move another 20% of health care under the control of the government. if in fact y

ralph ellison was never a tom. lee armstrong, encountered some of the same things. farther from the truth. you know, we can misunderstand. we can't judge the actors of a certain generation and say you were playing these maids and all of these stereotypes, unit unit, it's too collocated to just judge them that way. but yes, nowadays, i want to get out the pitchfork when i see people and some people tried to make this connection between pressures, which is an amazing brilliant film that i would urge all of you to see and bring two boxes of kleenex, because it will mess up your whole day. but it is amazing. but then the amazing nuanced beautiful portrayal of the very difficult black life in precious, and then a caricature of a black woman in tyler perry's movies. you know, if he made one i would feel like, okay, what ever. but how many has he made of these? six, seven, 10? he has greenlighted himself. i don't know. i don't know. >> heat if you get rich off of selling poison. >> well, he is rich. but at what cost to the rest of us? mac but if you think about, years ago

it is mentioned in the book -- the tom mentioned that the book is on sale at the bookstore? senator kennedy wrote about his mother having him at st. margaret's hospital, just up the street. it is a very important institution. a couple hundred yards from here, the bethlehem community health centers -- it was the first in the country, and senator kennedy was a major force in creating it and all the other health centers. we will be beside the john f. kennedy library where senator kennedy wanted to be. an important part of the university of massachusetts at boston, senator kennedy said if you want to see the future of massachusetts, you go into u- mass boston. we are proud to be part of, never to, brother of the kennedy library in boston. there are three things the senator brought to the table every day. he was the best prepared in the room. he did his homework. he had respect for other people and other people's ideas. he knew how to reach across the aisle. thirdly, he knew how to get the deal done. if we can impart to young people today as they study the u.s. senate, those thre

one of which was the putting down of evito over the disbanding of the public economy in iraq under tomoley. who was responsible for the economic situation in baghdad. that would create too much unemployment as a difficult period in iraq. that was the only formal veto that i put down. on the whole, we've always had to get our arguments for a constant reiteration by working different parts of the system by going to the iraqis and influencing them rather than anything top down. thank you. >> market -- -- martin -- >> you felt we were not bring in enough resources. not enough in police training, not enough into the center, where was the blockage? why was the british, not producing enough results? >> it goes back to more than the british. the most basic error that was made in the whole planning for the post-conflict phase in iraq was not to upset the american military, the mission, of administering iraq after the war was over. in my view, general tommy franks was given the long mission to invade iraq, get rid of the saddam hussein and her turn it over to the minister is bridge he should hav

that is by tom friedman in "the new york times" today.to democrats line in west palm beach, florida. good morning, john. caller: good morning. i want to follow up on what you were just reading from the newspaper there. the fact that -- i mean, i know why we have these fluctuations, why some people say if we're warming, why is it cooler this season, and if we're cooling, why is it warmer this season? it's simply because global temperature doesn't rise in a straight line. global temperatures are not a straight line phenomenon. it is a periodic wave kind of thing, which means that no one can really tell what part of the phase we're on, if we're an upside phase, which means temperature is going up or on a downside phase which means the trend would be going down, and it is complicated and to try to say that one factor is contributing to the overall temperature changes is very unscientific and hiewdz crews. this are several factors that are involved in the climate change, and for us to think that we're going to get a handle on all those factors

reform the stems from controversy associated with staff members on the hill that were associated -- tom delay, the majority leader at one point, accused of using corporate funds illegally in texas to redistrict to get rid of blue dogs and bring in more republicans to the house. william jefferson that had $90,000 worth of cold cash in his freezer for bribe that occurred. he is in jail right now. he got reelected in 2006 when there were 19 people in 2006 that were up for reelection that had some controversy associated with them related to lobbying or ethics. of the 19, william jefferson was the only democrat. the rest for republicans. nine of those 18 republicans lost those elections. there was duke cunningham. the dexter. -- the dukester that earmarked money for corporations in his district in san diego, calif. for work under the black budget. that is a budget that is for the intelligence community. these were contractors that did not have a long track record, but he received things. the contractors had his house directly under market value. he received bribes. that became part of the pi

it might be because you met tom... who owns the fishing boat. castle is actually 300 years of age. a mermaid darts in dark hollow... light drips in shimmering scale... did i merely see a girl that day... and drm the glorious tail? but i'd still recommend you visit belfast... before you leave northern ireland. garlique's clinically proven ingredient maintains healthy cholesterol naturally. eat right. exercise. garlique. >> larry: before we talk with yale galanter, the attorney for charlie sheen's wife, brooke mueller, let's talk to erica hill, the host of ""ac 360."" what's up tonight, erica? >> larry, thanks. tonight at the top of the hour, new and frankly mind boggling details about what u.s. intelligence agencies knew about the alleged underwear bomber. details, which, of course, did not stop him from boarding that flight in amsterdam last week. we are keeping them honest tonight, taking a look as well at the recommendations made by the 9/11 commission. those recommendations came out 5 1/2 years ago. all made to prevent exactly this type of sc

tom harkin, thank you very much. result had to be a bill that save livd lives, mo, and medicare. we did that. we knew that we had to stabilize insurance for those who had it. we have to lower the cost. we have to reduce the national debt. we did that. we have to stop insurance companies from denying health care to the dying. this bill does everyone of those things. the revision being read on the senate floor right now, some of the new elements will further rain in health care costs. it will make care more affordable by expanding small business tax credits. we did a lot in the last few weeks in that regard. demanding greater accountability from insurance companies, trading greater choice for consumers. we kept in mind to let the market control of a lot of what takes place. we also have a lot of control to make sure that the insurance industry does not go wild with costs for people who have insurance policies. all of this will help to level the playing field between american families and the insurance industry. some pr

tom ricks? >> guest: it actually brings home the difficulty of the task we're asking the afghan and pakistan governments to do. the afghan-pakistan border is a mountainous area which there are a lot of al qaeda, taliban extremists and others working both in afghanistan and pakistan. when we asked them to get that area straight and be humble and keep in mind the difficulty we have actually policing our own borders. i've been down in el paso and watched people simply walk across the rio grande river on monday morning commute care iing are their lunches. they cross illegally occasionally but expect to do so every monday morning. it is a difficult thing. that said we don't see terrorists coming across the border. we don't see suicide bombers coming across the border and detonating bombs in our capital and major cities. so i think it is a similar problem but qualitativelily a much different problem. >> host: a response to your blog what you talked about, three things we need from obama and afghanista

newshour correspondent tom bearden has the story. >> it wasn't this windy at our house. >> reporter: shortly after dawn on a tuesday morning, temperature in the low 30s. >> keep logan covered up, though >> reporter: a young family meets with a photographer for a family portrait. not in a nice warm studio, but in the garden of the gods park in colorado springs, colorado. and as cold as it was, they took off their coats, because they wanted the best picture possible. >> ok, we're gonna get this done quick >> reporter: the photographer is jay dickman, one of hundreds of professional photographers who volunteered for a project called "portraits of love." >> i've covered wars before, but this could do it. >> reporter: a veterans support group, soldiers angels, joined forces with pdma, a professional photographers organization, to take pictures of military families and send them to loved ones overseas in time for the holidays. portraits aren't what dickman normally shoots. he's a pulitzer prize winning national geographic photographer with an international reputation. >> rylee, you are loo

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baucus baucus: i'm going tom my time. i reclaim my time. and i want to tell the senator, that is not what happened. i was in the room constantly, constant. i talked to those senators many, many times. that is not what happened. i'll tell what you did happen, your leadership pressured them, pressured them, pressured them not to work together. there is no european-style effort in that room. that is a totally untruthful statement. totally untruthful statement. none whatsoever. mr. wicker: i thank the gentleman for briefly yielding. mr. baucus: we're passing a bill here that's uniquely an american solution. it provides competition. it helps the doctor-patient relationship. so that assertion in working toward a european solution is entirely untrue. it's entirely false. the fact is that those senators did not want to work with us. it's regrettable. it's highly regrettable. and do you know what, mr. president? one of the biggest travesties i think here, there was not a good-faith effort on that side of the aisle to come up with a constructive, com

tom delay did that kind of stuff, i had to file complaints against him. so these are the kinds of things that really corrupt washington. and then when these congressmen and senators and presidents leave, then they represent private interests with their buddies who are still on capitol hill and elsewhere and rake in even more money. and that's what it's about. you know, washington is undergoing no recession today. it continues to expand. the rest of us don't have enough money to eat. can't buy a car, can't buy a house, can't get health insurance adequately, but the people in washington, they're living high on the hog. and the economy's expanding. there's something wrong when that's the case, seriously wrong, so that's what i'm talking about in "whores." >> host: one more caller standing by, homer in louisiana. >> caller: god bless you, larry, and all you do. my first point, how did sandy berger -- now, just please explain this to me -- i know clinton put him up to it, how did sandy berger go in and steal all them classified documents? how did he get away w

back many years ago when i worked for another network, tom brokaw's office was right next to mine up on the eighth floor of the same building we're in today. and tom brokaw had just written that book, the greatest generation, and my mom and dad were part of it. in fact, the cover of that book could easily have been my mom and dad. there's a soldier's trousers and a beautiful woman's legs, and that was my mom. and i've looked back carefully at not only what was in his book, but at that generation as it influenced me as a young person growing up, and that is the message i've got for you. that's the message of this great museum. the message is the legacy that had been left for the next generation. that's why this museum is such an important part of who we are as a people in america. and that's why that legacy that was handed off to my brothers and me influenced all of us, every one of us served in the military. not because we're more patriotic than the next door neighbor, but it was part of who we are, it was part of who my parents were. every one of my uncles served in world war ii. th

host: tom, on the democratic line. good morning.form american this morning that $600 billion a year over 10 years $6 trillion we will be spending on the military. the other arms of the military industrial[ complex, we are in the supplementals to the warç, spending over $1 trillion a year on this military-industrial complex. over the next 10 years, you can get that 10 trillion dollars away and you will not be any safer than you are guest: we look at the pentagon budget. for example, on nuclear weapons, primarily funded in the department of energy, so if you say how much are we spending on çdefense and somebody says $520 billion -- yeah, but you have another $13 billion or $14 billion in the department of energy that you have to pay for. we are focusing primarily on the pentagon, and the department of energy, but there are things in other agencies. if you add it all up, we are spending more on national security than the rest of the world combined host: how did you come to that figure? guest: look at what we spend, and the total mo

. >> tom harris. >> thank you, mr. speaker. does the prime minister believe that every candidate who stands for election to this house should pay taxes to this country? >> yes. >> for the first time in 50 years the key economic portfolio in the european commission has gone to france. president sarkozy has proudly told reuters the english are the big losers in this business. why did the prime minister fail to win it for britain? >> mr. speaker, if he looks at the policy that is being adopted by the european union at the moment and they're discussing today on the policy of financial services and look at the policy that is being adopted on the economy generally, it is british proposals, british influence, british policies that are making a difference. and i say to him that is the advantage of being at the heart of europe. if we took his advice and his party's advice we'd be on the fringe of europe isolated dealing with minority parties and unable to change the course of the debate. that is not the position we're in. >> my right ho

because of the leadership of harry reid and tom harkin and max baucus, we are now on the cusp of achieving something that has been going on for five generations bridge -- five generations. this is probably the most important votes that every member will cast in their tenure here. i am proud to be a part of it. i wish ted kennedy were here with us today to enjoy this. mary christmas to everybody. -- merry christmas to everybody. >> i will tell you the contribution to this nation made by the senator from nevada will be one of the shining chapters in the history of the new united states senate and in our nation. he achieved what others have failed. he did it with the tenacity and determination that i have never seen here in my time serving in congress. i am honored to have served beside can and so many others to see this great day finally arrived. this is a time of year when -- with long nights. people would gather and look for signs of hope and light a candle. this morning, this votes in the united states senate lit a candle of hope for 50 million americans who went to bed last night without

and toms there. quickly, on the run. watch for him. will have the way he shoots the puck. releases it. slowly gets in there. roaring in. that is cut off there. ovechkin to backstrom. to ovechkin once more. scores! backstrom makes it 2-zip. that is one of the prettiest passes we have seen this season from the caps. just like that, over 5 minute into the hockey game, the visitors have a 2-0 lead. splendid offensivetality. what is happening in the t- zone. nick to v. in the overlap. wide open. in a is through four legs, two sticks and a whole bunch of bodies. just like that, the caps number one trio puts it in. >> joe: and the caps say they don't get a chance to play on the big stages of toronto or montreal very often. when they are here, they want to put on a show. 5:15 into the contest, backstrom gets the first ever goal in this game. kaberle keeps it in here. deflected down and wide. knuble, there. right there. the energy shifts, coming from jamal mayers and friends. this time he will melt it without a penalty. >> greg: i am sure he looked over at the referee for a reason

tom wigly sent me a worried email when he heard about it. he thought people might ask him for his model code. my heavens. keep in mind that this theory that man kind-made co-2 emotions is driving the temperature upwards is just that. it's a theory. these researchers have built these models to try to replicate the planet's temperature mechanism, and all these models show the temperature going up. but that's the conclusion that the modelers want. it is not factually correct to say the temperature is going up. it's factually correct to say that the modelers who want the temperatures to go up are putting variables and assumptions in these models to drive them up, but apparently don't have the data to back that up. let's go to number six. this is again from mr. jones to a gentleman named gavin schmidt, concerning the revised version of something called the wengen paper. it says, all of our freedom of information officers have be using the same exceptions not to respond. the advice they got from the information commissioner. the freedom of informa

so the bomb tom line is the dorgan amendment gives the in f.d.a. the authority and the resources it needs to implement drug safety from court importation of drugs. and certainly the president knows that a great way to hold drug companies accountable is to allow safe, legal drug importation, because i would like to quote this president not when he was a ca candidate for president but a candidate for the senate. this is what president obama said then -- quote -- "i urge my opponent to stop siding with the drug manufacturers and put aside his opposition to the reimportation of lower-priced prescription drugs. and now we're hearing about the secret deal with big pharma, that that was revised just this week to solidify support with pharma's allies for killing this very important dorgan amendment. the drug companies will do nothing. they will do anythin nothing toe united states -- or they'll stop at nothing to keep united states closed to other markets in order to charge hirer prices. -- charge higher prices. so with the dorgan amendment, we're working

the idea of people like bob dole or tom daschle, folks like that.ple who served, maybe who chaired the budget committee in the past, who have a whole lot of knowledge here and trust and confidence and understand the politics as well as the policy. your thoughts, please. i again want to thank joining voinovich for yielding. thank you. >> i think it's less important toÑi who the individual members are than the process of the deliberations and how it ultimately is constructed into a report and eventually into legislation. there are certain critical things which my experience indicate suggests have to be done, namely you cannot drop a whole report after a secretive deliberative discussions by some private group. it will go nowhere. and the reason basically is that when you have a commission, especially in controversial areas, the ideas and notions of change have to be absorbed gradually by the congress. if you force them to react immediately, they will take positions which they may be sorry about but they will not be able to reverse having taken a commi