we have posted this on facebook if you want to respond at facebook.com/c-span or you can email us at journal@c-span.org. highlighted in the pages of "usa today" this morning house speaker john boehner, the headlines, some of the details of what the white house offered. a little rundown. host: again, that's just some of the highlight from the what the white house offered from tim geithner. we'll show you that during the course of our time together. but again, we want your reaction, not just to the proposal itself but what you think congress should do about it. so if you want to give us a call, (202)585-3880 for democrats. (202)585-3881 for republicans and (202) 628-0205 for independents. "the washington post" this morning also profiles the man who delivered the message. it was tim geithner. obama's unlikely negotiator, read the headlines. another wrote that mr. geithner plans to step down in january and the fact that he selected him shows how much the president has come to rely on him. >> the huffington post if you were to go to their website has this to add to their story about the proposal itself from

catch up with us on all your favorite social media sites on twitter, facebook and email us at journal @c-span.org. a very good morning to you. want to begin as we said with that $4.5 billion fine of b.p. over the oil spill from 2010. here's the front page of the "houston chronicle" this morning. b.p. stock with $4.5 billion fines. the column notes that finally justice for 11 lyes lost. another headline, b.p. pleads guilty, a picture of the deep water horizon rig there from the incident. and want to take you to "the advocate" also in louisiana. oil firm to plead guilty to charges in death. b.p. agrees to pay out $4.5 billion in debt. and a day of reckoning arrives for b.p. on thursday. we'll read you the front page story from the "wall street journal" now. b.p. slapped with record fines. they agreed to accept criminal responsibility for the 2010 deep water horizon disaster that killed 11 workers and paid $4.5 billion in fines and restitution. the biggest fine ever levied by the u.s. justice department. but the oil producer still faces a costlier battle for the pollution unleashed when the drilling

and you can email us at journal@c-span.org. so what is senator reid proposing?> before i get to that, pedro, let me just make one point. this issue is a little bit like your debt ceiling one. your perception depends on where you sit. so it was before republicans in the majority with their own president frustrated and talking about how they were going to change the filibuster to enable it to act. now it's flipped around. it's your president and they are saying let's be responsible. so we have had this tension develop, but it's younger senators who push this now and harry reid who resisted for a long time, because he knew he would be back in the minority, he has embraced them now out of his own frustration. so they no longer want a filibuster to stop a motion. and the other is the so-called talking filibuster. now you can lift your little finger as one senator and say i'm going to filibuster, and you've still got to go through all of these motions. you don't even have to appear in the senate at all until there are votes. so they say let's go to the mr. smith goes

us an e-mail at the tv at c-span.org. were tweet us at twitter.com/booktv. >> the year was 1981 and 1982 when i was living in hong kong and working for the asian wall street journal. i was the op-ed editor. one day a simitian crossed my desk and it was written by an italian journalist who was living in what we called peking. he had secured a rare visa and had written an article for publication about it and hope that the asian wall street journal would publish it. of course, we did. and i was really blown away by it. it was completely eye-opening to me. especially the description of the mass public worship of the leader of north korea. his vision has come to light a few years earlier and the republic of korea. as the years went by, i couldn't get the closing line out of my head. it read, when i got off the plane in peking, i kissed the ground, happy to be back in a free country. a free country? china in 1981? i had been there. i knew that china was not safe. was it really possible that there could be a place that north korea could be worse? thirty years later, we know the answer to that question. it is the world most repressive state. it controls every aspect of t

host: as always, you can join us on facebook, send it to e-mail -- journal@c-span.org, or send us a tweet atwitter.com/c- spanwj. let's go the battleground states and the headlines, courtesy of the newseum this morning. from "the cleveland plain dealer," it is all about ohio. meanwhile, "the sunday tribune review," "pennsylvania still in play." pennsylvania is shown at a dead heat. 47% for the president, 47% for mitt romney. we will have live coverage of the mitt romney campaign appearance later today. in western pennsylvania, obama saying the president deserves another four years. from the tampa -- "tampa tribune," "paving the way to the presidency." the obama and romney campaign tosco on the attack in rallies. both the president and the vice- president are shown campaigning in the granite state in the final hours of this presidential campaign. just some of the headlines this morning. some of you are already weighing in on twitter and facebook about who will win and why. david says that it is mitt romney, it is all about jobs and money. christopher says -- definitely not the american people

using other technologies to bring soldiers home. host: "washington journal" on wednesday looked at where american forces are around the world. you can find that on c-span.org in the archives. mark joins us next, a republican column. caller: i know i have to keep it short. a priest wrote a book called the " top secret america." discussed the drones. they talked about how much americans pay to support a top- secret military people watching terrorists around the world and the american people. i agree with your guest. the genie is out of the bottle. if you have a phone number, if you can be tracked anywhere in the world. the military is using its ostensibly to track terrorists, but it always comes back to domestic law enforcement to spy on the american people. it is incredible. you cannot shoot it out of the sky. you will be arrested for firing your gun. you have to go to the police department and say no drones in this area. we already are in the big brother of society. it is so scary the american people are not up on this. the saddest way to leave this call is to say i do not know where we're going. i do know where we're going. it is disgusting they will be f

us an email to journal@c-span.org. this is more of what was in "the new york daily news" by joseph straw -- host: we want to take a look at what the president had to say yesterday, speaking yesterday. the president again said those making over $250,000 a year should pay more taxes and said a deal extending tax cuts for the middle class should happen immediately. >> already i put forward a detailed plan that allows us to make these investments while reducing our deficit by $4 trillion over the next decade. i want to be clear. i'm not wedded to every detail of my plan. i'm open to compromise. i'm open to new ideas. i'm committed to solving our fiscal challenges. i refuse to accept any approach that isn't balanced. i am not going to ask students and seniors and middle-class families to pay down the entire deficit while people like me making over $250,000 aren't asked to pay a dime more in taxes. i'm not going to do that. fortunately, we shouldn't need long negotiations or drama to solve that part of the problem. while there may be disagreement in congress over whether or not to raise taxes on folks making over $250,000 a yea