he is somebody who understands economics very well. he understands freedom. he is the kind of person you wish we had politicians who cared about political policy. the czech republic has been very fortunate to have this giant, in a national figure. prior to being president, he was prime minister. he established the policy is that led to the things we have today. he is somebody who has major positions in the government. he is associated with my friend at the competitive enterprise institute. he is somebody who has had the courage to stand up to the scientific nonsense of the global warming alarmists. it has been 10 years since there has been any warming and what ever won in there is, we do not know what causes it. it takes courage to do that. this is a man who has courage on so many different issues. we published a book some years ago

i think they don't understand it in britain and i think -- i know more about this. they don't understand it in france. i spoke with a journalist from there last night. they love obama. they thought he was going to do great change and they don't understand this popular reaction against the health plan based on a notion of a government takeover. >> what does the term socialized medicine mean to a european? >> socialized medicine means medicine both financed and provided by the state with the outlaw of any private sector whatsoever. there are very few cases of socialized medicine in the world today. certainly even in britain which has a national health service that is not socialized medicine because you have a private sector, you have a supplementary private insurance sector and you have extraordinary clinical autonomy. in france, even less than in britain, you have nothing resembling socialized medicine. you have national health insurance which is just like medicare for all. medicare in the united states is not socialized medicine. medicare in the united states is pub

i do not understand it. i do not know what is happening in two weeks that we cannot wait to get the final numbers if that is what is going to take for the congressional budget office director to get it done. he said that very clearly yesterday. he was very precise, as he has been all along in this process. we should not be afraid of that. we should not be afraid of sunshine laws. we should not be afraid of sunlight. we should not be afraid of transparency. we should not afraid of accountability. we should not be afraid of the numbers and the facts, because the facts matter, the numbers matter. and if these numbers are wrong, would we not want to come back as a committee and work on it, revise our work, address those issues? is that

so of course it was a different, but of course a little bit insulting but i understand it is different cultures. and we can turn to some other things now. maybe about a littleit serious things. >> okay. >> about the relations between trenton and eisenhower. and when we talk about these and the talk will about the invitation, it was many discussion that really the white house would impose conditions. if khrushchev will do this and this and this, and then we will invite him. not uerstand khrushchev because khrushchev wanted to be treated as equal, and if you put the conditions of him he would never come. and maybe we'll go deeper in the cold war and strong relations. so what is your feeling of all the things, are they adjusting to each other? because khrushchev didn't understand how isenhour control his country, and the white house, how to treat your counterpart. this is happening now to. i wasery surprised when the president and other ministrations and we will not negotiate with other countries unl they will not agree with us. in this case we don't need the state department. i thought i

i understand what. i am not critical of that. i am just saying that is a fact that we have to deal with. as many of us have observed, this proposal overhaul's 1/6 of the economy. 2.6 trillion dollars. i'm concerned the process is being a german by an artificial deadline. this is september 24, 2009. the main spending in this proposal does not go into affect until 2013. as we have discussed, the medicaid expansions do not go into effect until 2014, five years from now. i believe is imperative that we get this right. i have heard members on both sides of the aisle say that. over the break, i learned the cbo made a mistake in scoring the amendment that was accepted by vote today. that was c-6. it was a $600 million mistake. because cbo had said it was revenue neutral, no osset was required by the chair. i do not blame the chair. i do not blame the cbo. i do not blame the senator. i believe the unrealistic time lines which are artificial that have been imposed contributed to the $600 million mistake. $600 million may not sound like a

we don't understand the change. i have a chapter reading the environment and understanding it. that may be the biggest flaw and it leads to others. obviously we need to reestablish a code of ethics, ethical and moral behavior. we have lt that in parts of society i talked about in the book from places you wouldn't expect from religious leadership and elsewhere and i think now the american people and other people are demandingore in a way of the rht kind code and the way you do things and get it done. i think also we have lost a little bit in the way we us t develop strategic thinkers. we keep asking ourselves where are t george marshall's of the world -- and they are not there so we need visionaries and we are sort of a transaction all day today society as opposed to saying we have a vision of where we want to be in five, ten, 15, 20 years whether you are running a company or military unit so those are the kind of things that have been missing. >>ost: witregard to the entry into iraq many profsional folks inow and certainly that includes you have serious concerns about t prises

it is our understanding that everybody is off and safe. is that right?that has not been confirmed yet. shepard: paulina gomez on the ground there. we want to leave you free to do some more reporting for us. as we continue to watch these live pictures coming in from tv azteca, and we thank them for the feet of the still developing situation. you can see chopper's now on the ground as mexican officials work to handle the situation. three or four people -- conflicting information -- at least three hijackers, and jonathan hunt reports the possibility of as many as four demanding to see the mexican president, taking off from cancun with the destination of mexico city, about 800 miles away. my experience has been -- and that is missing from los angeles as will and -- in is messaging and from los angeles as well. i go through a scanner at airports, but it often seems that according to adam, more like a form of a. be that as of may, security was extremely tight or extremely was, three or to four men were able to hijack the plane, or the subject, i should say, an

what's your understanding of the adjustnt to eacother because khrushchev didn't understand how eisenhower control his country. and the white house didn't understand how to treat your counterpart. by this happening now, too, i was very surprised when the administration said we will not negotiate with other countries until they agree with us. in that case, we don't need the state department. >> guest: i thoht it was interesting during the presidential campaign when an issue was made of obama's willingness to negotiate and mccain said we won't negotiate unless there's preconditions and khrushchev came here and there were no pre, which no one seemed to mention that during the campaign. maybe that's been forgotten now. but what happened is that president eisenhower was eager to solve the berlin crisis. of course the west and the soviet union shared -- >> tell the listeners know the berlin crisis. >> many may not remember, but berlin was at the time, after world war ii divided between three western zones, occupied by the united states, britain and france. and eastern zone occupied by the soviet

you would understand that.y political risks and he'd trying to, it seem, at least, he wants a bipartisan bill. he could get it through just as a partisan bill but he doesn't want to do that. >> he's not going to get a bipartisan bill. >> okay, but -- >> at this point, name his opponents. call out the people who are -- >> they are looking at naming names. he said he was going to do that in his speech and basically calling them out is calling out who received the $260 million from lobbyists for this bill. >> he hasn't figured yet the republicans as matter of political strategy will oppose whatever he's in favor of. at that point, do what roosevelt did in '36 and call him out. name names. say, these are the people who are obstructing me. >> let me ask you this and state this before i get a call from the white house. i am saying i have no knowledge of think, but i would think there's got to be internal struggle there with someone like rahm emanuel, who is used to going after naming names, cutting some throats. and

and we -- i understand that they are. and we're -- >> no. >> we'll be in touch with you regarding our request that we get those audiotapes. now i just would like to request with this question for each and every one of you. the premise of this hearing is that health insurers wield strong influence in the kind of care, whether there's care, for their policyholders who become very sick. according to the american cancer society, and this is a quote, cancer patients and survivors may delay or forego care in the face of cost sharing that they find difficult to afford. a recent study found that 5% of nonelderly adults with private health insurance who have been diagnosed with a chronic condition such as cancer reported they went without needed care in 2006. american cancer society saying this. i want to give you a chance to express for the record what you think on this -- about this question. and really with a simple yes or no answer. and we're going to go down the line, and i want you to answer this question. do you believe tha

they understand that there have been mistakes because people didn't understand the gravity and urgency of the threat. well, as i say to my children, nobody gets to make the same mistake twice without consequences. and i think that's true of the federal government. if we don't get information sharing right, you can be sure when there is another attack, i said when not what if, there will be a problem with information sharing. if that is true. if i am right, people need to lose their jobs. we cannot -- the american people have a right to expect when we've made a mistake and it's been pointed out that we fix it. as i said, i think there's been a tremendous progress made on information sharing. but i will tell you as we look at the homeland security alert system and sat with mayors and governors and first responders, we have not solved the vertical information sharing system. there are now fusion centers which help. but we are by no means down. and i think this is a problem that doesn't -- the tyranny of the inbox, this is an issue that falls down the list of priorities. this has got to be

i was trying to understand the killers better, really understand what happened. the story just wasn't ready. it was really to leave your -- a five year point that i decided we have the fbi team for the first time diagnose a killer and i startedr at that point and realize i wanted two stories, the story of the killers, how they evolve as killers, such a gradual process, interesting to see how they developed and i wanted to do the after story, e victims, the survivors, what these killers did to them. i into cuthapterso get both stories simultaneously but i wrote them separately. i wrote all of eric harris's story of a five months, dyla klebols story after near the fiveonthly death threat was done with eric harris college it would read s journal,isten to mic he listened to, watch the films he liked, a nurse myself in his world, write about him, talk to a psychiatrist abouhim, trying to work out puzzle i didn't understan about him, complete eric harris immersion in five months, the same thing with dylan klebold. i actually got depressed riding the dylan klebold story

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i understand you have water? >> yeah, but i'm trying to get this jet ski running so i can get around and make sure if i need to help out the community at all. >> have you seen any evidence of people trapped in their home or hurt? no. regular patrols have john boats. there is a row boat moving around. there is presence out there. >> okay. we want to make sure that you are safe. if you have water getting into your home and your electricity is on that could be an issue. have you still got power at this point? no no power. we made sure everything is off. we are upstairs so we are okay. we are safe. >> what are you telling your kids? how you get through something like this? >> i'm making them feel comforted. making it not seem like a scary or big deal. >> that's todd johnson. what street are you on again? >> dundalk avenue. >> you make it home about an hour or so ago. got in just before the worse of this made its way to his area. he and his family are now literally trapped on the second floor of their home. he and his

texas leads the way in their disenfranchisement. >> yes, it does. >> and their understanding of what a republic really is. >> these are folks who understand the problem with government is not democrats or republicans, it is just as you said, corruption. lack of fidelity to the constitution. lack of belief in the natural law, lack of fidelity to the frae market. these people want to claim those basic american values back. they also... [cheers and applause]. >>... want you down here, beck. [cheers and applause]. >> i couldn't help it. >> appreciate it. >> pad caddell made me say that. >> he wanted me to say hi to his favorite judge, i just did. i appreciate it, judge, make sure those texans stay strong, because, not only the heart of texas, i think, texas leads the way. thanks, judge. let's go to washington, d.c. -- >> a lot of liberty in a downpour, brian. >> to griff jenkins in washington, d.c. griff? we had you right at the beginning of the program, let's spend the last few minute with those in washington. what is happening? >> i have lost my voice, talking to these people, so i'll

and we -- i understand that they are. and we're -- >> no. >> we'll be in touch with you regarding our request that we get those audiotapes. now i just would like to request with this question for each and every one of you. the premise of this hearing is that health insurers wield strong influence in the kind of care, whether there's care, for their policyholders who become very sick. the recent study found that 5% of non elderly adults with insurance that have been diagnosed of a chronic condition like cancer reported they went to the needed care in 2006. i want to give you a chance to express for the record what you think about this question. with a simple yes or no answer. i would need into this question. do you believe that a health insurers refusal to pay for a patient's cancer treatment can it directly or indirectly cause harm or death to that patient? do you believe that a health insurers refusal to pay for a patient's cancer treatment can directly or indirectly cause harm or death to that person? i would like to go

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at the same time, we understand now that the political structure is well organized. many people ask the same question about how the structure works, with prime minister putin, who is definitely the leader of the party and well respected in the country, and president medvedev. and now it is obvious that it works like a well oiled team. they work as a whole team, the government works and the administration works as the whole team. we do not observe any contradictions or something, because in the constitution we have completely clear outlines for obligations and the powers of the president and prime minister, the government as a whole, so we observe that everybody has his job and do it very successfully. it is not an easy time with redundancy, and social -- it was very difficult for people because many lost their jobs and could not pay that -- their mortgages and so on. but we understand that the organization is pretty stable and now unemployment is reducing and the whole system works very stable. at the moment we have a positive economic growth for the third month in a

understanding but the value and the challenges facing the alliance. there is much to drill down deeper run. let me pick one issue and then i will turn to the audience for questions. missile defense. and also the relationship within europe. approval ratings in the u.s. are 60% and above. does that concern you? and when you talk about books on the ground and exercises, can you be more concrete? what would you have the obama administration to right now to specifically reassert central and eastern europe? >> first of ouall, with regard o poland there could be reasons why the percentage is 11% besides the recent situation. i will not try and analyze that. others are more gifted in that respect. i would to say that leaving aside poland, when i visited nato headquarters a year ago in brussels, i saw representatives of the baltic states, for example, who were deeply worried about article 5 for the same reason the polls and the czechs and the others might be worried about them. they are really asking very directly, if something happened to us, would you come?

i could understand that, you know. and that was part of me with going to college, wake forest, that was in my backyard. i was five minutes away from my grandmother's cooking. >> the best conference to play in too. >> you know it. you know it and wake forest is the best school, right. >> well, i don't know that. although i have great admiration for it. it is just the big four, it is a huge place. >> yeah. >> and great sense of competition in the nba and -- i mean in north carolina. >> right. >> talk about skills, though. tell me about what it is we don't know basketball at the pro level. >> the competition is amazing. people always ask me what is it like to play in the nba. and you know everyone, you know, i always talk about how they love college basketball because they feel guys in the nba take nights off and things like that. but from playing in the nba i can speak from experience, there are no nights off. are you playing against the most finely tuned athletes in the world night in and night out. and if you don't bri

no, "understand." if you understand someone, you know what he or she means.nderstand slappy's drinking problem. i'd like to help people understand animals' thoughts. so, does that mean you'll do it? you bet. good dog! having trouble comprehending your pet? i'm martha and i can help. ♪ conversing with a camel or comprehending cats ♪ ♪ translating things for turtles or having chats with rats ♪ ♪ conversation dog! conversation dog! ♪ ♪ con-ver-sa-tion dog...! that's me! (barks) hmm, here's how i'd translate caesar's thoughts: you snore like a foghorn factory, and he can't sleep. (barks) let's chat, cleo. what's on your mind? (meows) hmm, try to comprehend this: cleo doesn't want to be an indoor cat. she'd like to run free, get fleas, eat from trash cans. cleo! cats and trash belong together, am i right? (audience laughs) (whinnies) okay, relax. i'll translate. tom, here are tony's thoughts: he doesn't like you making him work. he's only two years old. but everyone races two-year-old horses. (chattering) i'm very sorry. four-legged animals only. (sighs) (bleating

many you are diversified and you understand it. you understand the concept.ciate that fact. i'm aware of the fact that this show's audience is probably the most intelligent one around and i want to play to that. how about speculation friday? what's the point of that sometimes segment? and how do you get the most out of it? at certain point i decided the smartest thing would be to move many of my speculative risky picks -- remember i accept that 20% of your portfolio can be speculative. keep you interested. i'm with you at end the week which would give everyone a weekend long, cooling off period to research the stocks. people don't buy them friday night. nobody trades friday night. then you don't dive headlong into them. >> that way responsible speculators won't get hurt by the fact that the stocks spike and they can't find a good entry point either, considering a seat belt and an airbag. the cell block is probably the most important segment that i have added to the show since we started. it's devoted to two separate but latest things. being held accountable.

we understand him as a man, now.applause] we trust the sincerity and the authenticity that came through and we believe that he intends to do what he said he will do. that is a good thing! we should celebrate that. [applause] i also want to say that this is the hbcu community and we appreciate intelligence. because of something that you mention, i wanted to know that we can help you in a very special way. one of our most prominent alumni, spike lee, is about to shoot a film called "inside man, "this would be "inside man 2" and he could easily put a black james bond character in that and help recruit for the cia. [laughter] i will call him and let him know he can do that. here is an award for all you do and all you have done, leon panetta. [applause] thank you. >> thank you very much. >> he has to leave and we thank you again. let's give him another hand as he leaves, thank you. [applause] and now we will have final remarks. >> later this week, a review of the health-care debate in congress with highlights from house a

you understand that part? >> yeah, i understand that part. the media, not saying this media, but the media as far as the mature media -- >> immature media. >> immature media. i feel like it's high school sometimes. i feel like they spun a lot of stuff out of control as far as with the judge. everybody reads blogs, everybody reads stuff like that. it's easy to influence whenever there's something that's stated like that happened. >> larry: but what happened happened? >> yeah. >> larry: you were involved with what happened so you have to accept the consequences. >> the difference in this case, and i've been through a number of cases where there was media attention. the difference in this case is the aftermath of the incident, where there was repeatedly just false stuff that would be printed. and major newspapers would put out they spent the weekend together there, or the weekend there. which was false. at one point, they said they spent the night together in a location. she wasn't even in the country. >> larry: when is the last time you had con

>> we do not have any understanding.meaningful response. we're not going to respond to something that is made through the media. the offer of the p5 +1 remains on the table, and we can respond to that when they respond officially. in the meantime, as we saw in the most recent iep report, they are not complying with their -- i e a e report, they are not complying with their obligations and remains a matter of deep concern to us. how to say what i have said before, we have provided a pact whereby they can become a fall in respected member of the international community. it is up to them whether or not they want to choose that path. >> are you going on the nuclear stuff? why shouldn't one card these reports of a new proposal that just happened to surface on the eve of a meeting in three weeks in advance of the u.n. general assembly, when this is going to be a major subject and topic of conversation, why shouldn't one regard this other than an effort by the iranians to blunt the u.s. push to consider additional sanctions? >>

. - we want them to understand on whatever level they can understand. the kids range in age from 13 to 7, so their levels of understanding are different. - we can't go to the store a lot and buy stuff that's really expensive. we have to buy stuff that's cheap. - they talk to us about a want versus a need. you want new clothes, but you need food for your lunches. - i'm reading this book called "the world as we know it," and their family's starting a garden, so i said, "we should start a garden, too." - my daughter's a book reader, and she loves owning books. she likes to buy books. and that's a wonderful problem to have-- a kid that, you know, always wants for you to buy books-- so i said, "well, honey, we can't buy books now. you have to go to the library." she says, "well, daddy, if i spend my own money, can i buy my own books?" i said, "hey, i have no problem with that." - i probably have about 150 books or so. - ok, and you think if we can sell each one for a dollar, how much would you have? - $150. - you're right. - you actually brought a decent sel

we also have to understand the insurance industry is fighting this tooth and nail. they understand real health insurance reform is going to make sure they can't be denied coverage for pre-existing conditions, there won't be caps on the amount of money spent in a lifetime, the health insurance companies won't abandon you when you need them the most. those are the kinds of reforms americans desperately need. >> the white house is sending a no so subtle signal, the vice president saying on the "today" program this week, there will be a bill by thanksgiving. will the senate, will the congress meet that deadline? >> i believe we can and we hope that we'll have republican support to do it. despite the best efforts of chris dodd on the help committee as well as max baucus on the finance committee, only three senators have stepped up to this point. i really hope they will be with us and they will work with the finance committee to pass a bill, but our doors are open, as the president said, anyone who would like to step forward from the republican side and help us write the

i understand he apologized. i do think we have lost a basic sense of civility in this country, and some of that is also what the media covers. we did over 100 town meetings and my district, and most of them were very simple. there were a few people who were rude and uncivil, and they often got called out, whether it was by their neighbors or others. this is a time where part of the american tradition is to disagree and to disagree intensely. but to do so this reply fully as leslie, i think we will see the republican -- but to do so as disrespectfully as last night, i think we will see the republican party call that out. host: jane, you are on the air. caller: nice to talk to you. i wanted to make a comment that first of all i am solidly it for a single payer system, and i hope that, you know, whatever reform we take is the path toward that. i think that having any profit motive in health care is really a moral -- is really immoral. i also think that the timing of health care insurance to employment is anacharis

and if you don't understand individuals, you don't understand why they took the actions that they did. that's going to be very fficult to undo the damage that they have already done. >> host: you know, one of the americans thaemerges larger-than-life in the book f you is john r. neill. and i was struck by the fact that on the one hand you se fascinated by him. on the other hand you are aost repulsed by, not just by his behavior, but you have real questions about him, his debt, his lifestyle. whether he was a security risk or not. but still he emees an extraordinary character for you. tell me about him. >> guest: well, john o'neill wanted to be an fbi agent since he was a child. there was a tv show called the fbi. you might remember, and the agent was kind of dapper and that is the same rolehat o'neal played. he was a very dressy for an fbi agent, head double breasted suits and handkerchief in his pocket and expensive brand name clothes. he got a job at the fbi headquartershen he was 14 as a tour guide, and he became a fingerprint clerk. and eventually worked his way up to becoming h

then an understanding if you are going to get into the opera real space, you have to understand what it takes. we understand there is discrimination that makes it was difficult for us as african- americans, but you can use that as a crutch or accepted as orality and figure out how do i get past it. when of the ways you get past it is understand whether you are an sba from going for a loan that could be guaranteed or another going on your own credit, you will be subject to the same due diligence that everybody else is. they will want to come in, i understand you have a corporate structure in place that understands what it is doing, i understand you have figured out -- and this is a challenge for many of us -- that you want to be a a real business as opposed to a lifestyle business. we have to accept the responsibility. we commend our leaders in the congress and work have done to put in place programs, but those programs did not work unless we understand the rules, we get together, go out and pursue things aggressively, and then we do what we need to do to be successful, and then what

i understand that. i think there is a real incentive in having the eyes of history on the decisions of your being made progres. >> when the decision detailed minutes are made publicly available. >>@@@@@@@@@ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ >> i am talking about e-mail going back and forth. it is that sort of thing. >> we have policies for all of the documentation, including e- mails that we keep for the length of time. we have a schedule that is in accord with the darkest about keeping that information. in the monetary policy area, we keep all the memoranda used for the meetings and a complete transcript of the meeting. we make those available to the public after five years. we keep them permanently ourselves. >> all of the detailed stuff like e-mail, personal memos, will those be available to historians 30 years from now? what is the policy? >> the policy on disclosure of the information depends on the type of information. some is made available as time passes. some of it contains confidential information that is n

i think you can understand it and read it. because i want you to understand it. i think it is a pretty decent bill. it is not perfect, but i think it is decent. but because i think it is a decent bill, i want you to understand it. that way, i to argue why it is decent bill. if you disagree, that is a great democracy. >> thank you, sir. you asked about abortion. i'm glad you reference that. on the abortion issue, nothing in this bill -- understand this is a base bill that is being worked on by three committees. there is nothing in this bill that changes existing language in the law that says no federal funds will be spent on abortion. that is why you don't read anything in the bill, because it does not do anything to affect the law. >> my name is paula pippen, a widow of a naval aviator in the vietnam war who flew three out of every nine weeks in the skies of vietnam. my medicare i really like. i really like the government plan. my question, because i obviously have such good and reliable care is, dealing with the cost of the program -- this is my question. the pu

the best thing is to understand the other side better than it understands itself, set out their position with more profound floors and to demolish it and carefully set down. >> i think the point is well taken that ben has made and that is that we not only need to study our side but the other side as well. and i think that i putting down some talking points will help you i think it is a good idea as well. >> josh at the university of chicago. dr. wiker, i noticed you are under both your list and mr. crocker's list that you support machiavellian. is there a fundamental difference in. and a quick second question, you had hobs as for the origin of the rights of discourse, but wasn't, arm more based on today than logs today, so the idea of rights, liberty of state? >> while i would disagree with my own editor here. that ihink that machiavelli discoursed is one of the medieval books of all time. and it fits perfectly with the prince. and what was the second? the rights. all, i believe to put it sustainably and these aren't my words, but leo strauss is, that locke wasn'tust hop sugarcoated. d y

it was briefed on the hill and i understand it will be made available on the hill. the people's representatives will have access to it. we need to understand the decisions the president faces are perhaps some of the most important on afghanistan that he may face in his presidency about how we go forward there. this is a situation in which the decision process should not be rushed. if there are urgent needs, i have authorized, in the last 10 days or so, within the troop levels of the president has approved, sending another 3000 critical enablers that general mcchrystal has asked for. i appear prepared to ask for the flexibility to send more. that is before the president makes a decision on whether or not to send significant additional combat troops. my view is that as the present said yesterday, it is important to make sure we have the strategy right before we start talking resources. some of the questions are outside of general mcchrystal's area of authority. they have to do with the political situation. they have to do with focus and so on. there is a sense of buil

[applause] >> i understand. i understand. i can just wrap up then that would be great.ry complicated issue and i know that intuitively it seems like creating an immigration policy that is designed to keep people out and then enforcing that policy makes the most sense. in fact, we're spending a lot of money securing the border. not against terrorists but against people who are trying to work mostly. and there are -- there's a history to the creation of that law that makes it so that it is applied in a racist way. it isn't irish undocumented immigrants that we chase down and raid and, you know, pull out of their homes in the middle of the night and separate from their children. [applause] >> so i would ask us just t -- not to ignore our intuition but to look at all the conditions around these decisions that we're making to see really how they're playing out. and the best way is going to be by actually getting to know immigrants in or near your community and talking to them about how they came to get he, what drove them here, and what they'd like to see happen in their liv

read, understand, apply the constitution. mandy, we want to keep our great insurance that we pay premiums for. we don't want our tax dollars to fund another fee as cow and become another canada. holly, stop the spending. when i get in debt, i pay for things slowly, but surely, i'm out of debt now and i don't want to ask people to print money for me. bob, promise me you will put yourself and your family on the same plan you are going to force upon us. grace, i hope you look at the people who don't have insurance. james, u.s. congress and the executive branch of the federal government should limit their reach to what is allowed by our founding fathers' documents. robert, we must stop this crazy deficit spending and borrowing. marilyn, i hope you will find a way to find the programs that are available to cover all americans. rosa lee, government is spending too much money, back off. larry, in the bill, there is language limiting the growth of physician-owned hospitals. they supply health care services more efficiently than other

that was not my understanding at all.conversation" and "comprehend," "quarrel" and "negotiate." ah! enjoy the show! (barks) daniel, skits is doing it again!

that's what we have to understand.ple who have insurance put off care and they pay some on their own. taxpayers spend billions on them as well but they just don't get anywhere near what someone with actual someone with insurance like medicaid. >> when lyndon johnson launched the war on poverty, welfare spending in 1964 was about in today's dollars about $70 billion a year. it's now 10 times higher. it went from 1% of gross domestic product to 5% of gross domestic product. and the next decade it'll be 6% of gross domestic product. in each step of that process we were told we were spending the additional money in order to save money. and, boy, it's a good thing we saved all that money. the bottom line is that as long as you have this type of lowered skilled immigrant in massive numbers in the united states, either legally or illegally, they're going to cost the u.s. taxpayers a lot of money one way or the other. to the extent you formally incorporate them into these gornment programs, those costs go up rather rapidly. >>

and i understand politically why he's doing it. because you don't scare people who are happy with what they have. but it does mean substantively you run into problems. it does mean substantively there's a limit to how much cost control you can do and he's perpetually stuck on the horns of that dlaepl ma and i don't know, frankly, how he gets out of that. >> rose: let me go around in our remaining three or four minutes. this is the most important moment of the obama presidency? >> it is for obama and it is for the democrats. whatever they pass, we may find out later how it works. if the democrats don't pass the bill, if they fail, i will guarantee they will lose 30 or 40 seats in the house and five or six? the senate. if they pass a bill and the economy is okay-- that's a big if-- those losses will be much less. they cannot afford failure. >> i think it was the actual proposal of the bill that was unpopular, not the killing of it. that would just show they were not as competent. >> rose: so the dye cast? >> well, that i've got an up

i just don't understand... i'm sorry dick butkus. (announcer) we understand. want to grow internationally. fedex express >>> the aarp booth at minnesota state fair taking a kernel poll. that's the republican booth waiting in line for obama care. health care is a big issue. we're back with the senator from minnesota and ben nelson, two democrats. i want to move to another issue. also an issue is the h1n1 flu virus. there have been 4h students sent home from here because of confirmed cases. to you first. are you confident that the administration has a plan in place to deal with this as america goes back to school? >> they do have a plan, but everyone knows that there's going to be challenges, and i think they've been very good about getting out front about the challenges, the fact that the regular flu vaccine is more targeted to seniors and others, the fact that the new h1n1 vaccine really has to go first to kids and to pregnant women. so there's -- i talked to some of our health officials in smaller counties with their education challenges ahead. the admission

have a common understanding of security. i think this is a very important part of the agenda as nato looks at its strategic posture now. the same way that we all talked about article 5, and you can read them backward and forward, you are quite correct. there are some things that may require a definition, but the national sentiments and our willingness to come to each other is rescue, the importance we proceed and that, not only for ourselves and a joke but for the rest of the world. there be this cohesive organization of democracies, people who talk about what we do. i think there is hope around the world that that is the case, that there are countries who are still able to articulate things that are most important to human beings generally, and they take strength. we're able to emulate that, and, furthermore, they might like to be a part of that. this may lead, in fact, to some intersection of the nato alliance with other alliances in due course who share those values around the world. this goes beyond our agenda today, but

i mean, unless you understand that pakistan is 20-30ears ahead of afghanistan, you don't understand where we're starting from. and pakistan is still not an ideal state. but the pakistan army, the police, the civil service, the financial administration, the education are whole decades ahead of the afghan. so, our whole model is broken from the beginning. because you could put all this investment in, you would make afghanistan look a bit more like pakistan, but that wouldn't achieve whatever your national security objectives seem to be. >> sherr: so, to sum up, president obama has his big decision, and your advice is? >> my advice to president obama is, you're going to have to increase troops now. it's too late for you, because you're going to be destroyed politically if you oppose your general on the ground on something like this. but let's think now six months, a year down the line. we're going to have to decrease again. we can't keep these numbers indefinitely. cap it. don't go up any further. that's it. if the military come back in six months and say, "by the way, we'd like ano,her 50,0

steve: and can i understand that given the evidence when my kids come home from school to talk about what their teachers have told them during history classes and political discussions. i mean, after a class watches the president yesterday and then these members of the nea, which as you pointed out are big supporters of barack obama and the democrat party. >> overwhelmingly. steve: they suddenly ad-lib, great speech. he is a fantastic president. i don't know what was said across america, but i do understand why people would be worried, if not about the materials from the department of education from the ad-libber, teachers who were essentially going off some of the material that were given to them earlier. >> of course. these are government schools. this is a captive audience. i don't care who is president. i don't care if it's a president i love and voted for. we should be really on guard against vigilant against schools being used as a way to deliver propaganda to children. let's just keep politics away from kids. they can't vote. these are issues that are really too complex for mo

i understand how difficult this health care debate has been. i know that many in this country are deeply skeptical that government is looking out for them. i understand that the politically safe move would be to kick the can further down the road and to defer reform one more year or one more election or one more term, but that is not what this moment calls for. that's not what we came here to do. we did not come to fear the future. we came here to shape it. i still believe we can act even when it's hard. [ applause ] i still believe -- i still believe that we can act when it's hard. i still believe we can replace ak r with progress and we can do great things and that here and now we'll meet history's test because that's who we are. that is our calling. that is our character. thank you. god bless you and may god bless the united states of america. [ applause ] thank you. >> presenting health care reform as a societal imperative and a test of the nation's character. the president completes his address to the joint session of congress inside the c

you can understand governor paterson's position of wanting to fire back.: i felt sorry for governor paterson. the president is extolling the virtues of the state attorney general who very likely could be a good guitar -- a gubernatorial candidate. gov. paterson is just being humiliated in public. that is not right. >> it is a hands-on approach. that makes those dynamics very difficult. it is hard to have that go on in front of you. i think that is probably why he is firing back quite strongly today. it is not uncommon for presidents to get involved. jfk encouraged his brother to run in 1962. it was hard on his brother. he had to say, i deserve this in my own right. neil: i was talking to the former new york governor. one of the things he was telling me was that this kind of stuff happens. you have been in business for a long time. >> it never happens to me. i was governor for 12 years. i am sure they may have followed it from a distance. they never talked about politics. neil: giving him the benefit of the doubt on this one, what about other outsiders sayi

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i just don't understand... i'm sorry dick butkus. (announcer) we understand.nt to grow internationally. fedex express bill: thanks for staying with us. i'm bill o'reilly reporting tonight from washington. we at this point tonight with our pal glenn beck from new york. he has a new book coming out next tuesday. check it out. recently the democratic national committee spent some money on this ad. >> how many does that make now? we decided to count them up. there is the drug czar, then there is the intelligence czar. the economic czar, border czar, homeland security terrorism czar, the regulatory czar, technology czar, the car czar and now the cyber czar. bill: all right. here is beck again. so, you know, a whole political ad. >> i don't know if they know this. i'm not running for anything. i mean, i saw that. i was watching tv and i saw it on tv and i'm like what, am i running for office? what is that? bill: but, wait, they want to marginalize you, the democratic party does, because you are doing some damage to president obama. but that was a pretty good ad beca

i think he really does understand it.progress, some really achievement in arab/israeli peace in our history. the cardinal rule, though, in arab/israeli peacemaking to really make progress is that a president must engage the palestinians and israelis, the arabs and israelis, in serious negotiations in his first year, maybe first year and a half, because if he doesn't do it then, the american political calendar takes over. first with the midterm congressional elections, which for obama will be 2010. and then the presidential re-election in 2012. those elections, that american political calendar, will overwhelm and paralyze any arab/israeli process if it's not already in a serious state of negotiations in the first year. >> and is there any reason to believe that president obama can actually achieve headway here where his predecessors have failed? >> well, not unless he has a serious coherent strategy to achieve a settlement. and here i think he does have some significant problems. both on the israeli side and on the arab si