carper, democrat from delaware, and senator tom coburn had introduced in the senate. and the goal of the o.m.b. was to dispose of $9 billion in unneeded real property. can i have some additional time? ms. foxx: absolutely. i yield another 30 seconds. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. duncan: and director nussle wrote at the time i introduced that bill with congressman moore he said to reach this objective i believe we must improve and streamline the current process the federal agencies face in disposing real property assets. therefore i applaud your introduction of h.r. 3049 which would establish a five-year pilot program for expediting the disposal of properties no longer needed by the federal government. we have got to wake up, mr. speaker, and realize that private property is the

he had a very special relationship with tom delay. he took him on trips to russia, scotland, and the south pacific. he made sure that his clients showered money on delay's foundation and employed his wife. in return, delay let jack market himself as the man who had access to delay's power. >> the first time i met jack abramoff was in the majority whip's office at an event. >> jack is one of a kind. he comes in for five minutes, sits down next to somebody who is willing to spend millions of dollars to lobby washington, ann then he leaves in five minutes. and the guy or the woman thinks that jack's talking to the president, but he's probably playing solitaire on his computer, and then he comes back in and he's like, sorry about that, but he's got two more minutes. by the way, i need about $250,000 month. and then walks out the door. one of a kind. one of a kind. >> has jack abramoff seen this doccmentary, and if so, what's his reaction to it? >> i don't know if he's seen it. and now that he's in a halfway house, i'm going to see if i ca

tom delay, john doolittle. j.d.eyward, patrick kennedy, jack abramoff was so skillful at convincing a lot of indian tribes or companies to donate all kinds of money to political candidates and political parties as he saw fit. so yeah, jack abramoff was a huge rainmaker, one of the largest rainmakerr in town. >> you know, there are a lot of names that popped up on there. that? >> how did i do what? >> that whole scene with the slot machine. >> oh, well, we worked with a great design firm called big star in new york, and we had the concept, and they helped us to execute it, to actually put the photographs in, to composite it and put the shadows so it has a -- we actually shot a real slot machinee which turned out to be more difficult to do than i thought, and then we put it ll together in a post-production process. it was fun. >> i know i've said this a couple times, but it's amazing how many people in your documentary are no longer in politics, no longer in power. but some are. john brill waa on that list.3 harry rei

i have gotten to work with pele like tom hunter a lot over the last 51 days. they are the best scientists that america has. and it is the president's direction that you have people like the secretary and tom and marsha and a wle host of others oversea. >> he is one of the group of the best thinkers brought together to try to figure out what do we do here. if i have just another moment ane just say that you look like you could use 10, 15 hours of sleep. i know the hours that you are likely working and we thank you for that. let me ask, a hurrica enters the gul of mexico, wells, rigs and production platform platforms is is there a written plan for this circumstance? >> the answer to that is yes. >>hen they happen in the past, there is down ocrs within the g mexico. the answer, also, with respect to this particular leak is that it is is one of the issues which secretary and i have insisted there be the capacit it is part of the program. >> let me say that i don't mean that the three of you look awful. when i said that you need sleep. this has been a long period.

>> tom payne, when glenn beck dresses up as tom payne, i obviously never read tom payne's book. >> larry: i don't think tom payne we gray? >> not a little bit. they think founding fathers, the founding fathers were elitists. they were intellectuals. they were europe-thinking. everything the tea baggers were no the founding fathers wouldn't have lunch with glenn beck. >> larry: try to draw bill out again in the next segment. every time it is so hard with this, riding the easy road. you are watching "larry king live." we will be right back. [ male announcer ] when we built our first hybrid, youtube didn't exist. and facebook was still run out of a dorm room. when we built our first hybrid, more people had landlines than cell phones, and gas was $1.75 a gallon. and now, while other luxury carmakers are building their first hybrids, lexus hybrids have traveled 5.5 billion miles. and that's quite a head start. ♪ ♪ [ bank associate ] welcome to the greater offshore bank and trust. [ bank associate ] right now, we're offering you $500 just to open an account. [ bank associate ] we just need you

tom youk didn't kill himself with jack kevorkian's help.ng him with drugs. >> he calls it a murder, a crime, a killing. i call it a medical service. tom youk didn't come to me because i want to die, kill me. he came to me to say, please help me. >> guilty of lesser charge of second-degree murder. >> with regard to count ii, what is your verdict. >> guilty of a delivery of a controlled substance. >> larry: dr. jack kevorkian served more than eight years in prison in the second-degree murder in the 1998 death of thomas youk. thomas's brother terry joins us from vermont. he had lou gehrig's disease. how did you feel about the doctor being convicted in the death of your brother, terry? >> well, of course, we never felt that jack should have been convicted because we don't believe it was a crime. as far as we're concerned, it was an act of mercy, and we'll always be very grateful for that service that jack provided for my brother. >> larry: were you involved in the arrangements to have dr. kevorkian do this? >> yes. at my brother's request, i co

they were going after tom delay. they do not seem to have gotten him. mr. delay himself may have not done anything wrong. a former member of congress who went in and out of jail is now out of jail. all the people who have pled guilty and have prosecution or jail terms hanging over them are all these 20-year-old staffers in mr. delay's office. it seems the prosecutors were going for the big fish and they ended up getting all the small fish. a lot of these guys have families. they clearly made mistakes when they were younger, and now they are walking around with no chance of getting a job in d.c. they have pled guilty but have not yet been sentenced. they are walking around not knowing when and if they will go to jail. the big guys, the tom delays, have never been charged with anything. >> go back to the story. can you remember how your originally learned about it? >> it is a good example of how d.c., how journalism works in dc. if you are just getting your start in journalism, you are younger, making friends with staffers on capitol hill, they are in the sam

miles senate, tom said. we grew up to create large scale, pubic processes to bring the general interest public into debate on specific issues match to real decisions being made at that time. went to economic developer. went on health care refor we have done budget priorities, you name it, we have done it. there are four things, and part of our credibility to w are completely nonpartisan. we ourselves as an organization never take a position on the issue and never advocate for it. we are advocating that ordinary americans in this country should have more influence on policy. as an antidote against money to special interest influence on policy. there are four things. we've been doing this now, kind of scares me to realizethis, but a decade and have. i n't know the total number of projects we have done here and abroad, ankly, but let me speak only in america. four things that have happened in every single project we have ever done. number one, the radical solution on both the right and the left fall off the tab

on the oil spill, learn more about the work of deep sea scientists profiled in tom's piece. on the kagan confirmation, find today's liveblog from our partners at scotusblog-- a look back at our coverage of the court over the years and a guide to some of the staffers behind the senators. and a reminder: send your questions for ray to pose to b.p. executive bob dudley tomorrow. all that and more is on our web site, newshour.pbs.org. gwen? >> ifill: and that's the "newshour" for tonight. i'm gwen ifill. >> brown: and i'm jeffrey brown. we'll see you on-line. and again here tomorrow evening. thank you and good night. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> and by the bill and melinda gates foundation. dedicated to the idea that all people deserve the chance to live a healthy productive life. and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. captioning sponsored by macneil/lehrer producti

tom paine. that is right. when: back dresses up as tom paine, he is obviously never read the book. >> larry: i do not think he would agree with him. >> not even a little bit. they think the founding fathers were elitistspeerk they were intellectuals. there were european. they were thinking everything they were not. the founding fathers would not have lunch with him. we will try to draw him out in the next segment. every time, it is hard with this. writing the easy road. you're watching "larry king live." we will be right back. get out o. then...well, i have to keep winding myself up to deal with the sadness, the loss of interest, the trouble concentrating, the lack of energy. [ male announcer ] if depression is taking so much out of you, ask your doctor about pristiq®. pristiq is a prescription medicine proven to treat depression. pristiq is thought to work by affecting the levels of two chemicals in the brain, serotonin and norepinephrine. tell your doctor right away if your depression worsens or you have unu

he supported the tom clark, president truman's attorney general in 1949.i am pleased and privileged to call my friend, the justice tom clark's daughter -- mimi, are you here? there she is. it is wonderful to see you. thank you for being here. justice frankfurter continued his influence as his tenure moved toward its conclusion in the early 1960's. president john f. kennedy told3 bradlee they're replacing frankfurter with another jewish justice was too obvious and keep. nevertheless, he did so in 1962 with oldberg. jfk consulttd about his choice with both justice frankfurter and chief justice of world war in. kennedy's successor and lyndon johnson -- chief justice earl warren. lyndon johnson looked to sitting justices to affirm his choices. fortis preferred his lucrative practice in washington as well as his partisan support for his friend, lbj. johnson twisted the arms of two rereluctant men. he sent fortis to the high court as associate justice. the jewish seat remained intact. chief justice warren supported johnson's unsuccessful attempt to promote forti

i have gotten to work with people like tom hunter a lot over the last 51 days. they are the best scientists that america has. and it is the president's direction that you have people like the secretary and tom and marsha and a whole host of others oversea. >> he is one of the group of the best thinkers brought together to try to figure out what do we do here. if i have just another moment ane just say that you look like you could use 10, 15 hours of slee i know the hours that you are likely working and we thank you for that. let me ask, a hurrica enters the gulf of mexico, wells, rigs and production platform platforms is is there a written plan for this circumstance? >> the answer to that is yes. >> when they happen in the past, there isue dowoccurs within the mexico. the answer, also, with respect to this particular leak is that it is is one of the issues which secretary and i have insisted there be the capacity it is part of the program. >> lete say that ion't mean that the three of you look awful. when i said that you need sleep. this has been a long period.

that's tom perez. and so, the administration has can selled the most open and shut voter intimidation case in the history of america. it was a done deal. they can selled it. the administration, loretta king in the justice department, can selled also the will of the people in kingston, north carolina, that's -- in kinston, north carolina. they dropped the g they didn't want to be another kingston, north carolina. they voted by referendum the will of the people, the numbers, it's generally memorized but maybe not specifically accurate, 70% to 30% they voted to end the% partisan local lechee in kinston, next, and no longer label the candidate with an r or d by their name. because kinston is a covered district controlled by the voting rights act if they're going to move a voting booth 10 feet down the hallway, they have to get the permission of the justice department under federal law. under the justice department, loretta king is the one who speaks for the justice depprtment, for eric holder she issued a

i tried to get away and see my tom -- to see how much i know of her. i think when i come in there, i will have enough of a sense of what her thoughts are and her abilities, and i will ask specific questions common and i will be one of the fused -- questions, and i will be one of the few senators who will be there for the whole hearing. it will just be a case where every question has been asked, but not everybody has asked it, so some will ask the same questions over and over again. >> we have time for a couple more questions. >> you mention not having a recess this time. i know republican senators would like to push it back to after the recess. is there any circumstance you could in fission were you would delay the hearing? -- invasion were you would delay the hearing? >> i tried to make it so no one can be partisan. i have taken the schedule for john roberts and sotomayor, which some would say i am probably during the same schedule for elena kagan. she is going to take a day longer, only because it did not want to start the hearings on a sunday. i hav

tom?aller: i just have a question for the congress lady about the plunging tax credit on the soy dees ill that hasn't been passed and why the congress can't get it done because this is renewable energy source. i don't understand why they are delaying this. this is just not a good thing. guest: i'm sure you heard about needing 60 votes in the senate instead of 50 on everything. that's part of the reason. host: next phone call on the independent line from south carolina. good morning, rob. rob, are you there? caller: yes. host: go ahead. caller: i was in the marine corps for 20 years and felt with assault fuel systems in the marine corps that handled very large amounts of fuel. i have a solution on how to stop and control the leak. i called the white house operator. she gave me a line to leave a message for the president. i called the epa and they put my name in a database. i tried to explain that i needed to speak to a person. no response i called homeland security. same thing, no response.

tom defrank, what he says is -- paris, illinois. terry on theerepublican line. what should the president say? caller: thanks for letting me be on c-span. i've just got a few things. i think the president is doing a good job. i think he is doing what he can. it is a natural disaster that, when you get into simple problems, it takes professionals to get them done. and this is not a simple problem. i just think the president ought to say, we need to invent our way out of dependency. we can get carburetors to get five times of the gas mileage. or we can have an air impact system like an air impact wrench. you could have a bigger one to run a torque converter of a transmission. you will run a, pressure -- compressor instead of gasoline and have an air impact wrench to run the compressor to supply the air to the transmission to go out to the tank and run that air right back to the front of the compressor and it would not even take a gallon of gas to go 500 miles because you only need gas to start the system. host: ideas from illinois. let us go to the independent line

but tom campbell, former u.s. representative, he ran for the senate against dianne feinstein, the of the democratic senator for california back in 2000. conservative on fiscal issues but more moderate on social issues. he had been running for governor. well, the governor's race got to be this huge big spending affair between a couple of very wealthy candidates and he felt like he could not compete there and switched over to the senate race. now carly fiorina is positioned between a moderate candidate and a conservative candidate. what she has done, appealed very strongly to the conservative base, which is pretty much the majority of almost every state republican primary, and it looks like she has boxed out devore on the issue and it has become a race between campbell and fiorina. it will be interesting to see what the impact of that is, the republican gubernatorial primary. meg whitman, the former ebay ceo, and the state insurance commissioner. host: one more question about the senate race. president obama went ou

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. >> tom vilsack, joining us on "newsmakers" this week. thank you very much. we're going to spend a couple of minutes where we help understand what the secretary had to say and i want to start with mike. he talked about regional differences and commodity differences. what do you know that the secretary was unwilling to say about this? >> i put the bait out there but he would not buy. every farm bill is a regional flight. to say it's a fight is not to say it's wrong, but it is the nature of the business. western dairies in california, where many of my papers are, the areas are large. that compares to wisconsin, is a very different man than the for inputing costs. it is very complicated to get them aligned and difficult to unnecessarily aligned southern cotton growers with western cotton growers. crop growers in california often have nothing to do with wheat growers in the midwest. the differences between the processors and producers can be great. what the secretary was dancing around is the fact that there are inherent fights and they are never resolved to ever

in particular i want to point out to my friend, tom platts, who has been working on this particular bill the last few sessions, building the foundation and we went and looked at his bill and looked at some of the other things that we were working on and put it together as a bipartisan bill. h.r. 2142 creates a government that works with the people, commonsense concept that emphasizes a couple of things. one, increases government accountability while federal agencies must identify cost cutting, outcome based growth that have a direct impact on the american people. shines light on ineffective federal programs to root out wasteful spending whether they are held accountable. and more importantly senior management will be held aacountable for this work. g.a.o., oversight on the use of taxpayers dollars, wasteful spending requires the g.a.o. to perform frequent detailed evaluations of the agency implementation of this legislation. and finally, if i can say this, it would not add to the federal deficit. as you know the c.b.o. says it does not affect the direct spending or revenues. moreover dre

barbara boxer over tom campbell. >> it looked like tom campbell was going to make it through.hey would have been the toughest challenge to barbara boxer. he is pro-choice and a moderate republican. boxer has never face that type of candidates. she has never faced a woman. fiorina is a stellar campaigner. she has put up $5 million of her own money. look for some of the same parallels. democrats will paint her as a failed ceo from hewlett-packard, somebody who laid off more than 20,000 workers. somebody who got a golden parachute from that company and lives at lavish lifestyle. both of these women will be attacked with the corporate life style of a political outsider vs. corporate malfeasance. that will be the theme going forward. >> let's look at the latest numbers. 58% going to fiorini. campbell with about 23%. these are early numbers. it is going on 11:00 in california. >> that is right. >> it is about quarter to one in the east. as you go back to the governor's race between jerry brown and maggot whitman, one issue that jerry brown will say is that -- meg whitman, one issue

national cable satellite corp. 2010] >> our guest on "newsmakers" this week is the agriculture secretary tom villsak joining us by connection from iowa i, his home, where he just hosted a rural summit. let me start with your midwestern summit on the economy. tell us, you've got some big goals for communities and the agriculture economy. can you give our national audience a sense of where you're leading this effort and why. >> sure. the summit was an opportunity for us to educate america about the important role that rural america plays for all of us. it is the supply of inexpensive affordable quality food, it is the supply of water that we drink and rely on. it helps to make us energy independent and at the same time it's a substantial percentage of our military comes from these small towns. so it's important that there be a vibrant economy in rural america to support families. sadly for the last several decades we've seeb a decline in rural america, an aging population, persistent poverty, fairly significant distinction between per capita income. so the obama administration has decided to p

but tom campbell,ormer u.s. representative, he ran for the senate against dianne feinstein, the of the democratic senator for lifornia back in 2000. conservative on fiscal issues but more moderate on social issues. he had been running for governor. well, the governor's race got to behis huge big spending affair between a couple of very wealthy candidates and he felt like he could not compete there and switched over to the senate race. now carly fiorina is positioned between a moderate candidate and a conservative candidate. what she has done, appealed ve strongly to the conservative base, which is pretty much the majority of almost every state republican primary, and it looks like she has boxed out devore on the issue and it has become a race between campbell and fiorina. it will be interesting to see what the impact of that is, the republican gubernatorial primary. meg whitman, the former ebay ceo, and the state insurance commissioner. host: one more question about the senate race. president obama went out to c

host: tom is joining us from new jersey on the republican line.aller: i have a couple of quick comments. first of all, with regard to the oil companies and the industry, i say to those people up in arms, do not kill the golden goose. there is an old child our rhymed story about the golden goose line eggs and then killing them to get it -- and then killing it to get them all at once. we have to stop banning things we cannot come and try to learn how to control things. that applies to oil, guns, drugs, and a lot of other things. we can get more out of the oil industry and serve the people this country better if we work with them and don't see them as enemies. we have to decide, don't we? we just so we wanted to free ourselves of middle east oil dependency and become independent for the safety of our country? we will have to suffer some consequences if we do. . . guest: we're going to learn a lot from this and be better than ever before. we do have to get through this and recognize the nation needs a lot of natural gas moving toward. it provides 60%

chalk devore --vhuck devore and tom campbell. worked hard for the privilege of this office and i salute them for their determined work to change the course of america and i look very much forward to their help and support in the common cause we now share. [applause] and congratulations as well to my good friend and colleague, meg whitman. [applause] california will now be offered two candidates at the top of our ticket who have actually created jobs and cut costs and we look for taking on the two career politicians on the other side. [applause] the team work that has brought us here can end here tonight. and so as we celebrate, and it looks like you have been having a heck of a party celebrating -- [applause] let us remember that beginning tomorrow and through november 2, we will run a tireless, appear less campaign all across california to finally on seat barbara boxer. --unseat barbara boxer. [applause] [chanting] [beat barbara boxer] >> in her 20 years, she is a bitter partisan who has said much but accomplished little. to mak

he was introduced by tom-all. this is 40 minutes. >> good morning. i am tom-all -- tom daschle. i am privileged to introduce peter orszag. i want to speak about building more effective, efficient government agencies. government can produce better results and save money in two main ways. the first is by focusing on things in order of importance. the second is eliminating or reforming misguided spending programs. think about health care. we just enacted landmark legislation to bring affordable coverage to all americans. president barack obama and the congress deserve great credit for this. we should celebrate the accomplishment, but the legislation alone, as good as it may be, does not guarantee success. the policies may be smart and well crafted, but they will fall short of the government is not ready to execute. the story of the veteran's health administration underscores this point. when president clinton took office, the v h a provided substandard, and some would say woeful care to our veterans. the administration quickly put in place reforms and adapted open source software t

my name is tom galligan and i'm the president of colby sawyer college in new london, new hampshire.ggering consequences of the oil spill in the gulf of mexico force us to ask whether our laws are fair, consistent and up to date. do they provide adequate compensation? do they provide proper incentives to ensure efficient investments in safety? sadly, an analysis of the relevant laws reveals a climate of limited liability, undercompensation and the possibility of increased risk. let me begin with a discussion of wrongful death recovery for see men under the jones act and anyone killed on the high seas under the death on the high seas act. both of those statutes were passed in 1920, another era. as you said, and as chris jones said, neither of them as interpreted allows recovery for loss of society damages to the survivors of those killed in maritime disasters. loss of society or damages for companionship for the loss of care, comfort and companionship caused by the death of a loved one. the ma jort of american jurisdictions today do recognize some right to recover for loss of society

i walked over here, io the pitol chber and sat here to listeto him speak and tom, knong the rthm ofhe pce here, saw me in the chamber d concluded i came over because i had me things toay. he recognized me to speakn the subject matter of immigration, i was not preparing to do so, tugh i happen toave been prepad because of the issues in mind, and from those days on forward, ve been tive on this issue here in congress. 've had the privilege of sharing a stage th ongressman tancredo saay night in phoeni it was e same good man a paion and great heara man what undersnds america, the need to have a vereign nation, the need to control our bords, the need to have a network ross thicouny of all levels of law enforcement working together to enforce th law, establish the rule of law, i sulsay re-establish the rule of law in the unit statesnd build a greater -- grter country than are day, mr. speaker. it was a refreshing thing for me to hear those wordsome out ofhe moh my good fiend, congressman tom tanc and to share se ti on that microphone with sheriff joe arpaio o maricopa county of arizona who

tom ridge is here tonight. we are delighted to have the governor here. [applause] the former secretary of the department of homeland security. i want to introduce two people who are very important to us because they helped us with the appropriations of the wilson center at the united states congress. they may be the most important people here so far as i am concerned. [laughter] janey james and chris tobeck are here. [applause] they do marvelous work on the step of the appropriations committee. i am delighted that jim leach is here who is chairman of the national endowment of the humanities and a former colleague of mine on our board. [applause] i will be introducing sam donaldson in a moment, but i want to say that his wife jan is here and we are delighted to have you here as well. [applause] we have the president of s iemens usa. we have several ambassadors with us tonight ambassador su from the republic of korea, will you stand please? [applause] the ambassador from the embassy of sweden is with us. [applause] the ambassador from japan is here. [appla

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>> i see tom kibo over there behind that man -- tom kegle over there behind that man.the >> would you say about senator paulicjohnson? >> it was difficult to say no to lyndon johnson. i was one of the few to say no to him, but he probably could not say -- operate as he did then today. >> when did you say no to him? >> when he called me on one occasion and asked me to support the civil rights act of 1964 and i told him that i could not vote for it. there were some parts of that i could support, but some that i coull not. he started like this, he said, how bad the the one that judge it? -- how bad do you want that judgeship? i had a man i wanted to see appointed as a federal district judge. mr. johnson called me on the phone. he was president then. he said, how bad you want that judgeship? and i said i want it. and he said he is not qualified. and i said why? and he said, he is too old. i said, you know, mr. president when you were running for president i went to the convention as a delegate from western virginia and openly announced in support of lyndon b. johnson. i wa

. >> larry: jennifer, any truth to the rumor you and tom cruise are going on "dancing with the stars" two weeks. >> no. >> larry: got ya. >> no. i think we're both kind of busy to go on "dancing with the stars." he's got, i'm sure, we mourn his untimely passing. >> larry: lynda did you choose to write because your sister went the other route? >> no, it is because i loved. growing up, our heads were in different places and jen loves to sing and dance and perform. >> and her head was always in a book. >> and i never liked to be in front of people and perform too much, so -- >> we gravitated to our own. >> and i am very much my dad's personality and she is my mom's. it is great. >> larry: good luck with the partnership with samsung, and much success with the maribel foundation, and maribelfoundation.org. >> thank you, thank you, so much, larry. >> larry: thank you both. a sad note in the heartbreaking loss in the larry king family. one of our sons, brian, who was a special boy who had a passion for music and paintball and making people smile. we mourn his untimely passing an unfill

[applause] >> ladies and gentlemen, we will be led in the pledge of allegiance by tom tradewell, who and who was with the engineer company of the light brigade demolition specialist. he won a lot of medals over there. is the national commander of the veterans of foreign wars. we certainly encourage everyone gave a million dollar contribution to help us build the education center which will be across the street here. he is a real live native of milwaukee, wisconsin. does anyone know the brand of motorcycle -- [laughter] harley-davidson is made there. and everyone who knew what he knows, he will lead is now in the pledge of allegiance. >> and so it. and -- salute. i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> please retire the colors. thank you. >> we need to give everyone a nice hand for dressing up in these uniforms. it is a little warm. you can be seated now. many years ago as a much younger man actually going into vietnam, in my first three days there,

tom? hey! it's an office party! the freedom to name your price. only from progressive.oday. basic.? preferred. okay. at meineke i have options, and 50% off brake pads and shoes. my money. my choice. my meineke. >>> so i'm thinking it can't get any better and sharon stone walks up. she is dressed up to the nines, the hair is slicked back, the makeup on. she is wearing a black sequin mini dress. she has the ridiculous body of death. and her face looks great. i don't know if she has been to the dentist. i know she absolutely hates me and here is why. whenever i make a joke at her expense, she always goes like this -- [ laughter ] isn't she great. >> larry: our guest is kathy griffin, the extraordinary kathy griffin. i really adore her, despite it looks like fighting and stuff and she kids a lot. before she went on, she told my crack crew who i was not mean to, she told my crack crew that she was upset that i didn't ask her questions like i asked during our anniversary week of the other guests. so i will ask you some of the questions. >> because i watched every moment of it

tom? hey! it's an office party! the freedom to name your price. only from progressive. click today. >>> breaking news tonight live from louisiana. we just learned the obama administration lawyers will appeal tuesday's ruling, striking down a six-month moratorium on deepwater drilling. they'll have delay lifting the ban until an appeals court reviews the case. this is what the oil leak looked like, uncapped, unchecked oil. we'll tell you why it was removed today and how close bp is to getting it back on. >>> also, my trip out to see why efforts to keep oil from coming onshore are being slowed. that's at the top of the hour. now back to "larry king live." >>> there are a zillion kids at this park. >>> i would come here and watch one or two kids interact, run around and follow them and think i want to have a child. >> i always loved kids. it brings out the kid in me. there's nothing like the love of a child. >> larry: we welcome soledad o'brien, cnn anchor, special correspondent and her newest "in america" special is tony & gary have a baby, june 24th at 8:00 and again at

tom campbell former house member who is her leading opponent is conservative on economic issues but moderateon social issues. and there was a recent poll that showed that he was running stronger against barbara boxer in november than carlee fiorina wood. carly has worked very hard and very aggressively to corral the conservative vote in a primary where conservatives are dominant. she's got the sport of sarah palin, for example. it looks as though she is going to win. but the question is whether someone with that profile can win statewide in california. it has been two decades since californias have elected swb somebody who is pro-life and pro gun, anti-gun control, in the way that she is. so this will be a very interesting test if she survives the fight tomorrow. >> woodruff: and amy, pick up on that and then bring in the governor's race where you have meg whitman the former ceo, founder of ebay. >> picking up on dan's point, which i think they are all very important. the question really for carly fiorina is one whether she can tack back to the center after move together right in the primary

that tom perez is here today?e has made it a priority to tackle theivil rights challenges of the 21st century. desires to make substantial and meaningful progrestowaad providinggequal opportunity to all americans. it is not enough to say that the division will simply mean more active. the real question is, to what end will it dedicate its resources and its energy? as long as in attorney general, that answer is prett simple. we will dedate our resources and energy to enforcing the law neutrally, fairly, into working to provide all americans with an equal portunity to pursue their dreams. that is was civil rights are all about. one of the division's many calls it -- many goals is ensuring that housing, educational opptunity, and other rights are dealt with. one issue that i know is particularly of interest to you is combating hate crimes. e prosecution of hate crimes is aop priority. we are employing new tools that have been afforded to us by the matthew shepard hate crimes prevtion act of 2008 to address and elimin

dionne and tom mann who are the people who sort of got this whole conversation going about what we'reng to do together today. i also want to very much thank the other three organizations who are cosponsors, everyday democracy and americaspeaks, both of whom who have in one way or another been leaders of the effort o get genuine civic participation d public dialogue in our country over the last number of ye at also be asked institute at the kennedy school at harvard where aron fung has been a terrific member of our planning team. so i'm delighted that they have been participants from the beginning, and i think that we're going to have a really good conversation today. i esecially want to thank norm eisen though i will introduce short, but coming in and reversing the white house, we're delighted to have a conversation with you as well. therare really two strands of developments that have brought us to today's event. the first is a long history of work in a variety of ways to make our democracy work better. this work has been done overcome him, hundreds of years i suppose but just in the

pittsburg -- sorry, just talked to tom. let us move on to paul on the democratic line from kentucky. caller: i have a solution for, you know, we are going down big time in this country. we need to nationalize our oil. with this disaster -- it pays for itself. it is not something i buried in the ground and i get it. it belongs to everybody in this country. we are going down big time. i have been here 35 years and i have never seen this country going down this bad. it is a shame to see this -- thank you. host: this is "the financial times" front page of this morning. lawmakers scrapped plans for bank fees. ccming up next, we are going to be talking to senator mark begich of alaska and also he serves on the armed service committee so we would get his thoughts on afghanistan policy as well. that is about in 15 minutes. first, we will continue to talk to you this morning about whether you think we are headed toward a double-dip recession. this is inside "the wall street journal." risch jenson -- recession strikes deep into the w

tom. >> that you, but to present. you said it was too early to tell if china's valuation would lead to real valuation. you've just said a couple of months. >> did i say a year in the press coverage? >> you did. you said "by your to monitor the r&b -- a year to monitor the rmb. >> i would have to look to the transcript but let me be absolutely clear. number one, china has determined that it is in its own interest -- its own sovereign interests -- to move back toward a path of flexible exchange rates. we think that is a very positive thing. in part, is a positive thing because it undervalued rmb has given china a significant trade advantage and we are very clear with them that we do not consider that acceptable or consistent with the principles of balanced and sustainable growth that were discussed in per spurred and that all g-20 countries signed onto. we're pleased that they have made his first that. but a number of other trading partners with china, the proof of the pudding will be in the beating. we did not expect a

host: tom, thanks for the call. inside "the washington post." kagan's civil rights record is questioned pointing out on the eve of her confirmation hearings her records on race are producing discomfort among some civil rights organizations levering them to struggle about whether they want her to -- in what otherwise has been a low-key partisan debate over kagan's merits. so far no senate democrats have signaled they are waivering on the nomination hearing. subject to a couple of front page stories including the "l.a. times." kagan's not so leftist liberal. this is what it looks like and the "orange county register"ster. kin e again, the confirmation hearings getting underway. michael joining us from philadelphia, the editorial from the inquirer in that pennsylvania city. good morning to you michael. caller: good morning to you and c-span. the caller from massachusets kind of took the wind out of my sail. patriotism has gone out the window. people are fighting with one another. it's disturbing. one thing i wanted to point out is i have a 30-year-

look, one of the things i am excited about this election is a thing we will see more people like tom coburn and jim demint elected to the senate. pat toomey, of course, who took over for me, running in tens of it. i met sharon ankle -- sharron angle running against harry reid. one of the things that is exciting about her, touching back to what a previous caller said, she got her start in the tea party movement. that is what is interesting. the tea party movement is congress that would get the debt under control. host: was she a club for growth candidate? guest: i believe she was. i don't follow day today becauss i have to kinda keep my distance -- host: you have a chance to meet her. she is not very accessible to the media. guest: she was accessible to me, i'm the media. but i will ask for the next time she is on town to come on c- span. i just really think she is one of the people who proves throughout her political career that you can take on city hall. she is able to organize people, bring political change. a lot of people feel stress trade it -- frustrated that we can't change an

tom ridge is here. -- with pennsylvanians. tom ridge is here.applause] i want to introduce two people who are important to us, because they help us with the appropriations at the wilson center, and they may be the most important people here, as far as i am concerned. would you stand? [applause] they do marvelous work on the appropriations committee. i am delighted that jim is here. he is now chairman of the national endowment of humanities. [applause] i am going to be introducing sam donaldson in a moment, but i want to say that his wife is here. we are delighted to have you, as well. [applause] we have the president of siemens usa. we are delighted to have him with us. [applause] we have several ambassadors with us. one from the republic of korea. over here. the ambassador from the swedish embassy. the ambassador from japan is here. [applause] and the ambassador from mexico is here. we are delighted to have him. [applause] i think this resilient ambassador from brazil. i did not see him. [applause] and we have the showers affair -- sure -- of t

host: tom, the senate was not able to pass that part of a larger package on friday.they return this week to address jobless benefits and aid to states. that is still up there. michael might want to weigh in on he politics of that? guest: i'm not an expert on what is going on there. but i would just be astounded if one way or the other they did not pass that extension. or the aid to states, but mainly the unemployment extension. that would make -- first of all, it would be wrong and unfair because people are really hurting. second of all, it would make some of people so mad at them. third host: republican line, from san antonio. caller: i am a republican but like to think that i am a red list person. i say that because everyone walks around and talks about the deficit. under george bush we got caught up in two wars that i do not think were necessary. he fought this war's off the books. -- he fought of the war's off the books. then when you have people calling in about big government, big government -- ask them what they would like to cut first? when you have the corpo