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well, chad sent us an e-mail from mobile, alabama. and he says -- >>> okay. so what do you think? what should the u.s. government resolve to do in 2010? weigh in on my facebook page, facebook.com and search for holly firfer or go ahead and e-mail us at cnn.com/hln. and your response to be chosen to show on the air today. >>> police in denmark say a man with ties to al qaeda tried to kill a cartoonist who drew a controversial sketch of the prophet muhammad. authorities arrested the somali man at the home of kurt westergaard last night after he broke inside. police say westergaard was able to flee to a safe room along with hills 5-year-old granddaughter. he was shot and wounded after he allegedly threatened the police with an axe. he faces two charges of attempted murder. he denied those charges at an initial hearing. the police have not given a motive for last night's attack but back in 2005, westergaard drew a cartoon showing muhammad with a turban shaped like a bomb. it prompted protests and death threats from muslims worldwide. >>> fox and time warner cable reached a broadcastin

you can send us an e-mail or tweet us at. next phone call.aller: i think our president is doing very well. if we wanted joe biden as president, he would be president. i like the idea that our president is intelligent. he is not a puppet, like the last eight years. i think he is doing what he is supposed to be doing. host: james traub? guest: i guess i would agree, in general. he believes he could be a good president. i believe this is almost a desirable alternative. he is a very knowledgeable, bright guy. i do not think he has those qualities of character. i do not mean to say that he has no character at all that americans look to have as their president. i think obama, for all the mistakes he has made, has proved that people have a deep sense of comfort up and we did with him, as a person. biden is more of a hyperactive person. -- deep sense of comfort with him, as a person. host: franklin, new hampshire. caller: mr. traub, i know you denounced the history of vice- president cheney, and you believe that he was just awful. if you would be kin

democrats, dial -- remember, you can follow us on facebook and twitter and send an e-mail. he facebook address is facebook.com/c-span. and you can send us an e-mail, journal@c-span.org. linda feldman wrote this story from the christian science monitor. "can obama get his mojo backed?" what will be the tenor of the speech? guest: the person the president needs to do is to reassure the people that he hears them, got the message not only from massachusetts senate election but the overall decline in his popularity in the last year. and then he needs to pivot toward what he does plan to do. he does know the economy and jobs are the number one issue. but he is prepared to do what ever it takes to improve the situation with jobs. host: what happens after tonight's speech when he delivers this message on jobs and the economy, where is ago next and how does it keep up the message? guest: he needs to just keep pounding away. he has had two trips on his main street tour, going out into the country. we expect a lot more domestic travel this year. tapping a bit into the populism he start

chad sent us an e-mail from mobile, alabama and says -- and k has this to say -- so what do you thinkwhat should the u.s. government resolve to do in 2010? weigh in on my facebook page or go ahead and e-mail us at cnn.com/hln. your response could be shown on the air today. >>> police in denmark say a man with ties to al-qaeda tried to kill a cartoonist who drew a controversial sketch of the prophet muhammad. police arrested the man at a home last night after he broke inside. police say the man was able to flee to a safe room along with his 5-year-old granddaughter. officers shot and wounded the suspect. the man faces two charges of attempted murder. he denied those charges at an initial hearing. police have not given a motive for the attack, but in 2005, westerguard drew a cartoon that prompted protests and death threats from muslims worldwide. >>> fox and time warner cable reached a broadcasting deal just in time for millions of people to watch the sugar bowl. now, fox had threatened to force time warner and another provider to drop the fox broadcast signal from 14 of its stations an

you can send us an e-mail or tweet us at . next phone call.ident is doing very well. if we wanted joe biden as president, he would be president. i like the idea that our president is intelligent. he is not a puppet, like the last eight years. i think he is doing what he is supposed to be doing. host: james traub? guest: i guess i would agree in general. he believes he could be a good president. i believe this is almost a desirable alternative. he is a very knowledgeable bright guy. i do not think he has those qualities of character. i do not mean to say that he has no character at all that americans look to have as their president. i think obama for all the mistakes he has made, has proved that people have a deep sense of comfort up and we did with him as a person. biden is more of a hyperactive person. -- deep sense of comfort with him, as a person. host: franklin, new hampshire. caller: mr. traub i know you denounced the history of vice- president cheney, and you believe that he was just awful. if you would be kind enough to share with the a

you can also send us an e-mail or twitter.who are some of the republicans he has to get on board and democrats he has to smooth things over with to get them to support his plan the agenda on capitol hill? guest: when you look at republicans, it is an unusual mixture. it is not a defining geographical area that they come from. it is everyone from the stokowski, from alaska, the top republican on the senate energy committee, to lindsey graham, most involved in crafting a kind of bill from south carolina. but then you have the two main moderate republicans, as well as a handful of others. bob corker from tennessee. it is a mix. with a lot of the moderate democrats from the country, you're talking but indiana, michigan, ohio, even arkansas. it is a range of people that has çto work on it. it's still our main -- our first call comes from -- host: our first call comes from california. caller: happy new year from california. i am a democrat and i am very upset with president obama. i think he should get the academy award, not the no

you can send us an e- mail,jopuranl@c-span.org. caller: i think long term commitment should not be there. is this going to be a land grab with all these people coming inde? i don't think the united states should be there but the chinese or what ever could come in there. but fake with the closures and layoffs, more money should be thrown into our governments and our country first. that sounds selfish, i am sorry. i think there are many people, detroit, michigan, they have been really hit hard. in my city, there is a lot of foreclosures going on. i think that's terrible. that's all i have to say. host: we will go to the democrats learned from jacksonville, florida, good morning. will there be a long-term u.s. commitment to haiti? caller: yes, i think it will bid. these people are really suffering. that is all of the other caller to say that. we need to commit money to all these other terrorists in other countries, one of commitment to haiti? host: york city, on the independent life. caller: good morning, you have a great show. i woul

you can send us a message by twitter and also send us an e- mail.rton contract he had a column this week he in -- morton kondracke had a column that invoke your name. he said what kind of a party is it going to be? guest: let's recognize that when we had a majority in the past, mistakes were made. number two, we need to be a party of media sprit, three, we need to be an inclusive party. what i think we ought to say to people is, look, if you believe in the principles that built this country, the founding principles -- liberty, freedom, free enterprise, self- determination -- we want you in our party. we want you to join with us so that we can take this country back and restore its greatness. we have a fiscal and economic situation in this country whereby america, because of its debt and deficits and its economic condition could really become the first time in a generation where we bequeathed the next generation a good standard of living. we are on the cusp of missing this thing up, and we need to fix that fast. we need to take those timeless princip

you can send us an e-mail or ascendancy twitter message if you will like. one last question before calls, ask you to tell us your views about the implications of the aging baby boomer generation both on the kinds of care people will be seeking in the country's ability to pay for it. >> guest: it is interesting the one worry people are voicing is were we going to get the primary care doctors to help with that but the even larger issue is that over the next 15 years or so the population over 65 is going to double which means the number of breast cancer, colon cancer, heart attacks are going to nearly double. our workforce for managing those problems is like going to get bigger and we have not been thinking through how we organize ourselves to handle a larger population of people with more complex needs and not as many people in the system. we are thinking that's higher mark, higher mark, hire more, spend more, spend more, spend more and there is every sign beacon make safer quality care and organize ourselves in ways we can handle the problem without expecting

you can send us an e-mail or tweet us at. next phone call.aller: i think our president is doing very well. if we wanted joe biden as president, he would be president. i like the idea that our president is intelligent. he is not a puppet, like the last eight years. i think he is doing what he is supposed to be doing. host: james traub? guest: i guess i would agree, in general. he believes he could be a good president. i believe this is almost a desirable alternative. he is a very knowledgeable, bright guy. i do not think he has those qualities of character. i do not mean to say that he has no character at all that americans look to have as their president. i think obama, for all the mistakes he has made, has proved that people have a deep sense of comfort up and we did with him, as a person. biden is more of a hyperactive person. -- deep sense of comfort with him, as a person. host: franklin, new hampshire. caller: mr. traub, i know you denounced the history of vice- president cheney, and you believe that he was just awful. if you would be kin

you can send us a twitter or an e-mail at journal@c-span.org.i am not optimistic about 2010 until obama realizes that we need less government, not more, we will continue to drive the dead." from "the washington post" the article points out that wielding a large majorities, they relied on their expert vote-counting skills to send obama 13 major bills and read over alterations health care system. then the bullet train screeched to a halt. scott brown's victory in massachusetts cause the democrats their filibuster-proof senate majority. obama's biggest priorities, for use in climate change -- reducing climate change, overhauling health care, expanding college aid, are now in limbo. our question this morning, optimistic or pessimistic about the year ahead? roger is our next caller. caller: i am very optimistic. host: turn the volume down on your television, we will hear you much better. caller: ok. host: still with us? caller: i feel optimistic. i feel that obama just got in with one year. he is doing the best that he can with what he has got. he ha

we need to take her to the public library, sit her down, and show her how to use the internet, show her how to open up an e-mail account, show her how to use these resources, show her how to use web md. in addition to the more direct mobilization, because we all have our friends and family who are not online or not effectively using the internet, there are the more traditional media sources of tv, radio, print, to disseminate the information, and especially using the experts in our community, that tom joyners and the other experts. as you guys know, i am obsessed with voting, and i cannot not speak about voting. i was having a conversation yesterday with a young woman, and she asked me -- she said, we just heard about the investment being made in the national urban fellows is going to be paying off for decades to come, but i want to see something more immediate. what can i do, what can we do, something that will be seen tangibly now? and so we were talking and brainstorming, and we came up with the idea of why not have a national urban fellows page that you all tap into all of your networks, all your facebook p

twitter address c listed if you want to send us an a tweet or e-mail us at - what is that? journalist c-span.org and at c-span.o if you would like to read the and classified report issued yesterday, you can find it right there on our website. here is "usa today" editorial, review of christmas attack shows complacency. complacency is natural with the passage of time. it is evident in the public as it is in the government. travelers complain about the cumbersome measures put in place to protect them, but it cannot be allowed in defending the nation. these leaders failed to keep their team on their toes. obama seems slow to grasp the importance of the attempted attack. it took him three days to make his first public statement and by then his homeland security secretary went on television to declare absurdly that the system worked. even now some of his fixes sound like only things a bureaucrat could love. it describes a lot of clarifying issuing and clarifying. the system needs more of a jolt. bill a democrat, you are on the air. what do you think? caller: it seems like nobody

an e-mail later. he made a good presentation, you made us think, we don't see the argument against what you are saying. i did a show with a left wing host in advance of an appearance in west virginia. i had ten minutes to explain f. a. hayek's theories. in ten minutes he said i was expecting to hate you. instead he make a good case and finally the guy who reads free-market look at why the stock market collapsed, the economy tanked, and government bailouts will make things worse" who has the greatest reading voice you can imagine. he is like a guy from the movies. just died. he is an obama supporter too free-market look at why the stock market collapsed, the economy tanked, and government bailouts will make things worse" he thought here we go with another bit of right wing propaganda and he wrote to me and said you make a strong case. it is nice once in a while that even though we disagree with people we can be civil and listen to what we are saying. isn't this a wonderful break from what usually takes place? here is f. a. hayek's argument very simply. he wants to know why it is the economy moves like

twitter address c listed if you want to send us an a tweet or e-mail us at - what is that? journalist c-span.org and at c-span.org you can read the unclassified report issued yesterday by administration. it's right there on the web page. usa today. review of christmas attacks shows disturbing complacency. it's natural with the passage of time. it's evident in the public as with government. travelers that felt the specter of another attack now complain about the cumbersome measures put in place to protect them but it can't be that the leaders will fail to keep their team on his toes. obama seems slow to grasp the an importance of the attack. three days to make the first public statement and then his secretary went on television to claim absurd. each know some of the proposed fixings sound like things only a but cat could love. there's a lot of reaffirming and clarifying, issuing, strengthening and developing the system need as jolt. u.s. today writes. st. louis how are you this morning caller: seems like nobody connected the dots on 9/11. everybody was promoted after that di

. >> well, that is an inspirational presentation if i ever -- michelle, thank you. >> you are so welcome. >> you can e-mail us at gerri@cnn.com. we would love to hear from you on this topic if you're trying to save money, get in contact with us. >>> still ahead, we're here to keep you from getting nickeled and dimed. we're going to tell you everything you need to know. ee >>> with every break-up comes a price, especially when it comes to your cell phone, cable service or car lease. they're called early termination fees. if you want out of that contract, well, our next guest is here to tell you the tips you need to know before you get socked with a boatload of charges. bob sullivan is the author of "stop getting ripped off." bob, welcome. >> thanks for having me. >> so we have to start with this $350 early termination fee. is it verizon that's charging this? >> yeah, verizon for their expensive smart phones. we thought we had these termination fees. >> smart phone, stupid fees. >> that's right. but we don't know how much they'll cost. they're trying to keep the up-front costs down to compete with the iphone

residents get a digital mailbox based on the street address, basically an e-mail address for your house. and cities can can actually useto communicate with people about things like street maintenance and sanitation or even missing pets. advocates say it could save millions. claudia cowen has the story. >> reporter: to cut down on the mail, ryan nickel of san francisco is paying his bills and keeping in touch with friends and family online. and now he's also using a new web-based postal system that uses his street address for e-delivery. it's called zoom box. >> i can just with one click say i want this paperless in the future, please. and i'll never see a paper copy of it again. >> we created a digital mailbox for every street address in the u.s. so now all mail can be sent online the same way it's sent on paper. >> it saves a bundle on printing and postage which caught san francisco's attention. last year they sent 7 million pieces of mail at a cost of over $3 million. money mayor gavin newsom would like to spend on other things. >> nice thing, take advantage of technology and go paperless. this is invariably the futu

i assume for those of us who just get their statements online, are they required to send you an e-mail sort? >> they're required to send you notice here. you are getting the notice, a lot of people aren't paying attention to the notice. >> because they send you like 5,000 e-mails. >> so you just throw them out. now is the time to open the e-mail you're getting from your creditors. another thing they're doing is penalizing consumers for not using their plastic. they're closing down accounts altogether or starting to charge inactivity fees as high as maybe $19 a month if you don't use your card over a 12-month period. all that old advice we used to give, put a credit card on ice, it's not relevant. >> a lot of people keep a card just in case of a real emergency. >> now you have to keep them active or they're going to close it down altogether. >> are they required to tell but that, too? >> they're required to tell but all of this. the mailings have gone out but people will be in for a rude awakening if they actually don't open that information. >> do we know which banks are going to start

another -- in the words of one of his supporters, i just got an e-mail, it's another straw to break the camel's back. >> dana, stay with us may come back do you in a moment. president obama was quick to respond to senator reid's apology. the white house issued this statement, harry reid called me today and apologized for an unfortunate comment reported today. i accepted harry's apology without question, because i've known him for years, i've seen the passionate leadership he's shown on social justice. as far as i am concerned, the book is closed. that statement coming directly from the president, our senior white house correspondent ed henry joins me now by phone. this statement coming from the president himself. does this elevate the story in your mind? >> it does, and it's rare for the president to jump into the fray on almost any issue that quickly. he put out that statement within a few hours of this controversy coming up. look what happened when we were in hawaii with the president. there was the terror incident and the president didn't speak on it for a few days. the president does need to jump out there on every si

the redskins sent an e-mail saying that jim zorn's normal monday press conference was on for 12:25 this afternoon, and all of us said the likelihood that press conference takes place with him present is low, now it seems there will no press conference, unless it is a press conference for the hiring of magician san. several sources reporting this morning that he was fired shortly after arriving back here at redskins park at 2:30 this morning. that's when they got back from san diego. i witnessed him leaving the building on foot at 4:45. he was escorted by redskins staff. security to my knowledge. they walked him to his porsche. he got in the car, and left. presumably for the last time, ending his rather due just tenure with the team that saw them win 8 games last year, 4 this year. saw his play calling duties overtaken by certainly and lewis, and a rather odd end to his tenure. one he handled with class and dignity, one that appears to be over. now the mike shanahan era we believe will begin. reports far and wide that he will succeed jim zorn as the boss here. some rumors unsubstantiated that daniel snider was p

contact back from a person who says that any conference, but toby e-mailed me and what ensued was basically an almost daily correspondence between us it seemed, about questions relating to this map. the questions involved. they started out very simplistic, the basic sources, what to read and over the course of a year, a year-and-a-half the questions began to ramp up rather quickly. toby's question became complex enough that in the end i was struggling to answer them, and i think he has incorporated into this book the whole story, a story that has really never been told before in the completeness that this book presents it in. the other three books on the subject seymor schwartz's, peter dixon who is also in the audience and my book are much more specialized and are much more focused on specific issues whereas toby's really does agrast the whole story. toby is an editor, or was an editor for "the atlantic monthly." he is a correspondent for the boston globe. he has written in the american scholar and many other magazines, and i give you toby lester. [applause] >> thanks john and thanks to everybody for coming. i have to say before t

e-mails and tweets. three hours with michelle malkin today on booktv. >> author robert carroll, give us an update on your lbj volume. >> well, i'm doing the fourth one. the third one i got the national book award here about five years ago. and i'm, well, this is a long book, and i'm sort of in the middle of it now. it's, you know, lyndon johnson, president, civil rights, vietnam, turning points in american history, so it's an interesting book to do. interesting for me to try to do it. >> when do you foresee it being finished? >> i think i have about two more years' work on this. >> how many years of your professional life have been devoted to lyndon johnson? >> well, i started -- i have to date it back. the power broker came out in -- that was my first book by robert moses -- came out in '74, and i started in '76 on lyndon johnson. do i want to add this up? it's 33 years. [laughter] >> what first sparked you, your interest in lbj? >> oh, good question. you know, i never look at my books as biographies. i never want to do a book just about a great man. but i'm interested in this political power and how it

uses the word illegal media matters' gets all over. illegal immigration. they even went as far as sending an e-mail blast which is one of their tactics, as you know come to their constituents to protest this at the radio station so we have a few protesters on the sidewalk and we have other people calling the radio station, calling advertisers to try to get those advertisers off the radio station. here is the irony of the whole thing. most of those people have even heard the program, don't even know what the radio station is and they are like sheep. and i think media matters is an organization. they have the right to free speech, but so do we. >> host: this is what is so disturbing about what you just described. in the united states in the year 2009, in the 21st century that we have these kinds of intimidation tactics and strong-arm tactics to silence people with legitimate points of view. again nobody is going on the air yelling fire in a crowded theater. we are simply expressing a legitimate political point of view and what we have now are the stock police said, from milak, the thought police, he

an e-mail viewer writes us. was there a saudi hand in any of this, do you think? >> guest: i have no idea, sir. i know the saudis are probably in the world today the most dangerous government to the united states? >> host: why? >> guest: because first of all they control next to the israeli lob by, the saudi lobby is the most powerful. they control the swing production of oil. they probably own the most of our debt. and so the idea that somehow we're the boss in that relationship is incorrect. when i was running operations against osama bin laden, they continually refused to help us. they really -- they don't mind terrorism, as long as it doesn't happen in the kingdom. and the final point i would make is they pay for an enormous amount of proselytizing in the united states and muslim mosque. they train the preachers and send preachers from saudi, and those people preach a brand of islam that is far more anti-western, anti-christian, anti-jewish, than anything osama bin laden stands for. >> host: next up carl on the republican line. go ahead, carl. >> caller: yeah,

employee base and will you call your member of congress, when you send an e-mail or twitter or go on facebook or come to washington and help us lobby on this issue so they can put that constituent hat on. >> i have a question with regards to leveraging your executives and employees to help you with your efforts. you said that a lot of your jobs in your capacity at microsoft has to do with p r. i was wondering in terms of increasing the overall effectiveness of that contribution, how much public speaking coaching goes into helping them better advocate what you want them to advocate. >> employees and execs -- we coach every exact from the top down. you are going to go before this member or this committee, obviously coaching them on testifying before a hearing on a 1-on-1 meeting but definitely coach them. here is what you can expect based on our experience. here is who this senator will have in the room with her. this cabinet secretary, here is how he will approach this most likely. here are the three main points you would probably make right up front because they will take over the community. we do a lot of coaching. that is p

an examination of facts. the proponents of global warming has cast doubt over this thing by the suppression of disagreement. trying to make this consensual. this whole incident with the e-mails there useda political agenda for the world to be flat. there was a consent -- consensus for that >> sean: they have a political agenda it is predicated on the belief that capitalism is evil and capitalists rape and pillage for profit and this is their mechanism to accomplish that we have to take a break. we will come back. we'll continue more with our great, great american panel. ÷÷ . >> sean: we continue with our great, great american panel. unemployment another 85,000 jobs lost. one year ago christina roamer said the president's chief economic adviser that unemployment wouldn't go above 8% if we passed the stimulus. here's what the ap says: when discouraged and part-time workers who would prefer fulltime jobs are included in the so-called under employment, the rate in december rose to 17.3% unemployment in this country stephen. what happened? stimulus 8%, supposed to work. >> it was supposed to work remember we rushed it through in one weekend if it wasn't there would have been economic cala

e-mail or look for jobs. as we know, unemployment jobless rates at an all time high. more people are going to the library to use the internet to find new jobs. this is having a big impact on those people but also folks wanting to check out books as well. >> julie: any idea on how many men's have been affected in this? >> this a fascinating number. when we sat down to do the research, 1.2 billion people use libraries last year checking out some 2 billion items. that really puts it into perspective in terms of how many people utilize those service and how many people could be affected if we start closing doors. >> julie: casey siegle, thank you very much. >> gregg: you're going to like this one. a soda machine thief leading police on an incredible wild chase in tennessee. yep, there it is. there is the machine, swinging dangerously from a chain behind the blue truck. the driver stole the machine from a dollar store. someone saw it dragging down the highway and called the cops. the chain gave way and he kept going. deputies pulled him over and he is charged, theft, resisting arrest. turns out the guy wasn't thirst

use e-mails. he was making websites, uploading news, content, keeping stories, going through the taliban's web site, so he's an innovator thinking, he's useful, chris machrismatic. they're branding him. bin laden 2.0 and i think this is an important step. well, as you move through 2006-2007, you start to see just what this guy is capable of, and his role that he plays for al qaeda. so i think some of the most important positions or things, contributions that he's provided to al qaeda, is he served as, you can call him the religious map maker for al qaeda, you know, he's a jihaddist topographyer. he's saying that movements historically have gone awry, because they've gotten off the right path. i'm going to articulate what that path looks like and then i'm going to make sure that everyone stays on that path and i'm going to scold you if you're off that path. he's been very aggressive against saudi mainstream sheikhs, so you can call him the religious policeman and he's obsessed with purity, religious purity, and we'll talk about this, but his argument is that islam is being diluted from within, by the embracing

e-mail us, and we will get back to you pretty quickly. carol and i are more morning people, and liz it an evening person, but we have it pretty kell covered 24/7. but time here, as in a campaign is your enemy. so you you want to take advantage. the course will progress pretty much the way a campaign would progress. neil is going to talk first hand about the political environment going into 2010. bob will be in to talk about senate races. david will be in this afternoon to talk about strategy and message. and then we will round out the day by talking about survey research. and then tomorrow we will continue talking about research and how to use issues to frame a message. then tomorrow afternoon we will talk about targeting and voter files. those are really the building blocks of any campaign. what is a political environment, how do you develop a strategy, who are you going to talk to? then we will get into more of the tactics. we will talk about budgeting on wednesday, management and organization. we will spend a good part of wednesday talking about money, and into thursday you're going to

using technology in an old school way. this has been done with direct mail for the past 20 or 30 years, and then it was done by e-mail, for the past eight years and now they're moving to text message, so it's a very old school tactic being applied to a new school technology and i'm not quite sure how effective that is. i think we review it as noise. we chuck it in the garbage, delete it. now if that text message came from somebody you actually knew saying dude, important election, go out and vote, we need you, i think that you would hold on to that and it might influence you to do something. >> but the one difference with texting, there's spamming regulations, so an e-mail, you get spam all the time, if you get a text and you opt out of that text, you still keep getting text messages, the fines for that are through the roof and because most people value their cell phone, it's within 10 feet of them 90% of the time, it's a way to directly reach people when there's an urgent need, whether it's get out and vote or get your friends to vote or what have you, or we neighed $10 right now, you know, can you do this, so that -- it