coming up, tom udall.e is a news update. >> president obama says the united states will provide the country of jordan with up to $1 billion in aid. this is according to a white house transcript of the president's comments yesterday. the president went on to say that the funding would be channeled through the overseas private investment corp., the u.s. government's finance institution. the president is scheduled to make a peace -- speech to mark on the mideast peace situation. dominique strauss-kahn is obviously not in a position to run the international monetary fund. he was arrested on charges of attempted rape. the secretary called on the imf executive board to formally designate an interim head. the secretary is the first obama administration official to comment on dominique strauss- kahn and the future of the imf, making his remarks last night at the harvard club of new york. the space shuttle endeavor has reached its destination, docking with the international space station this morning. endeavor and

host: senator tom udall, your thoughts? guest: i think that this is a very troublesome partner, no doubt about it. the capture of bin laden, people are wondering, it is pakistan really an allied? many of the things he is saying -- those questions are being asked back home. we have to look in the larger context. we have to look at how we get our supplies to our troops in afghanistan. we have to look at al qaeda and how they c assist us. they did help us with some of the things that led up to the capture and killing of bin laden. i am not here to apologize in any way for them or to say that many of the things that they do are good things, but they are a strategic partner. we need to try to reset the relationship and move on down the road. host: $27 billion to military and economic aid to pakistan from 2000 to 2011. what have we gotten for the ne host: -- guest: that is an excellent question. i do not think we have gotten what we need. the most worrisome thing to me is that, as we move down the road in afghanistan, we need to

along with the junior senator from oregon, senator merkley, and the senator from new mexico, senator tom udall, -- excuse me, the senator from testimony, mark udall, and the senator from rhode island, senator whitehouse, met last night to discuss this. the legal interpretation of the foreign intelligence surveillance act provisions and how these provisions are implemented. i very much appreciate the strong views that senator wyden and senator udall have in this area and believe that they are raising a serious and important point as to how exactly these authorities are carried out. i believe we are also all in agreement that these are important counterterrorism authorities and have contributed to the security of our nation. mr. wyden: mr. president, i have enormous respect for my special friend from california, the distinguished chair of the intelligence committee. i have sat next to her literally for more than a decade. we agree on virtually all of these issues, but this is an area where we have had a difference of opinion. i have said that i wouldn't support a long-term reauthorization of the

then tom udall will discuss u.s.-pakistan relationships. later, we discussion -- we continue our discussion on homeland security. roberts stephan joins us. each morning at 7:00 a.m. eastern here on c-span. >> today i couple of a senate appropriations subcommittees on 2012 federal spending to tell you about. the army budget request for next year live beginning at 10:30 a.m. eastern. later in the day, steven chu is on capitol hill to talk about his department's budget priorities for 2012. that is from the senate subcommittee on energy appropriation act to 30 p.m. eastern. that is also live here on c- span. >> history as you know is much more than just politics and soldiers. social issues, it is also medicine and science and art and music and theater and poetry and ideas, and we should not want things into categories. it is all part of the same thing. >> samuel morse,. beecher stowe, thomas edison, henry adams, sunday night on q&a, part one of two weeks with david mccullough on the americans to make a greater germany, to 19th century paris. at

provisions of rule 1, paragraph 3, of the standing rules of the senate, i hereby appoint the honorable tom udall, a senator from the state of new mexico, to perform the duties of the chair. signed: daniel k. inouye, president pro tempore. mr. reid: mr. president? the presiding officer: the majority leader is recognized. mr. reid: i see our esteemed chaplain in the chamber. we appreciate very much his everyday prayer and the prayer this morning of the guest chaplain, which was very -- a very nice prayer. very, very thoughtful and outlines what our country is all about. we appreciate that very, very much. following leader remarks, the senate will be in morning business until 11:00 a.m., with the majority controlling the first half, the republicans controlling the final half. at 11:00 a.m., the senate will be in executive session to consider the nomination of goodwin liu to be united states circuit judge for the ninth circuit with the time until 2:00 p.m. equally divided and controlled. at about 2:00 p.m., there will be a roll call vote on the nomination to invoke cloture on the liu nomination. mr.

, this morning, senator udall and i had the help of several colleagues, senator merkley, senator tom udall, we reached an agreement with the chair of the intelligence committee, senator feinstein. she is going to be holding hearings on this issue next month. senator udall and i as members of the committee will be in a position to go into those hearings and the subsequent deliberations, be in a position to try to amend the intelligence authorization, and if we don't get results inside the committee because of the agreement today with the distinguished chair of the intelligence committee, senator feinstein, the majority leader, senator reid, we will be in a position to come back to this floor and offer our original amendment this fall. now, we're going to keep fighting for openness and honesty. as of today, the government's official interpretation of the law is still secret, still secret, mr. president, and i believe that there is a growing gap as of this afternoon between what the public believes that law says and the secret interpretation of the justice department. so i plan to vote no thi