god bless all of you. >> usa, usa! >> ladies and gentlemen, i want to reduce four of eight whifathr is who make up the band of dads. each lost a firefighters' sun on 9/11. they stayed there and helped and served for weeks and months after the terrorist attacks. lee and terry. dennis, george, jack. [applause] >> thank you. i was asked to come up here to say a few words about what this group of dad's did. it's a powerful story. when i got there i met a lot of fathers and sons looking for their dads or their sons. i met a lot of police officers that will looking for their sons. i met a lot of port authority police officers that were looking for their sons and relatives. a small group of us stayed together and we worked together. some of us are on the stage and some are in the audience. our mission was to look for the folks that were lost at this site on 9/11. the process went on for many months. we stayed together as a group of dads. we became an inspiration, i'm going to say, because it was a very difficult place to work

>> well, it's going to be in tomorrow's "usa today," but i guess it's online. yeah, what an apology, huh? the first paragraph, larry, is an apology, the second two paragraphs, he attacks everybody else, and of course, this is a self-induced scandal. tiger woods has no one to blame for this but himself. and i think it's an amazing window, larry, into the psyche of tiger woods, that even as he is, quote/unquote, apologizing, you wonder, and i hope i'm wrong on this, you do wonder if in fact he felt worse about getting caught than he does about cheating on his wife. for those who say let him have his private life. for the many days that the tabloids were going crazy, i was trying to ignore that and go with the fact. picture this, he's always on his website, the family pictures, the beautiful image of him as a family man. well, now, we know that's a charade. and i think it's fair that a man who asks for the money from all of the endorsements gets and wants you to buy his products and wants you to cheer for him on the golf course, but then he wants to us shut him ou

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[cheers and applause] >> usa! usa! usa! usa! >> all right, folks, we're going to bring you another man with a firefighter background, peter eagan is an active fdny fire fighter and a u.s. marine who's served two tours in iraq and is a 9/11 family member. he lost his father, firefighter donald regan, fdny rescue company number 3, and he is here to make a very special introduction. peter regan. [cheers and applause] >> like to thank everyone for coming out here. start off, the united states constitution, in my opinion, is arguably the most sought-after piece of literature in its time behind the bible. by new ambitions seeking freedom, liberty and endless possibility or by rogue, spiteful nations that feel threatened by it and want it destroyed by any means. the united states constitution was written by americans and for americans. it was intended for the protection of the nation and it people. it is a set of guidelines that we are expected to uphold. i say we because i am speaking as we, the people. the fact that ksm and his cohor

"usa today." host: on the associated press, the world's weatherman says this decade has very likely been the warmest on historical record and 2009 will likely end of one of the warmest years, according to the world leader of logical association -- meteorological association. last fall call here on what you do with the extra money. lexington, ky. you think jobs. why is it? caller: i think john's -- i would put into research and development. this country is changing. you hear the calls talking about manufacturing is gone. we need to turn to a new era. the green jobs, i don't know where that might lead. but i have been on and lloyd since 2002. i was in management. i am educated. and now i'm working at kroger's 4 $7.50 an hour. all of this anger, we have been in debt for years, but just coming about sense of the financial crisis. i think we need to get our fiscal responsibilities in order, but i call on each one of the callers, look at your home state and see what your congressmen are doing there. her

in some ways, he may have done usa favor.he fact that this man would try to blow out the side of an airport and that the response of this government would be to put anymore krillal custody -- that man should have been taken after he was stabilized and interrogated for every bit of intelligence we could get from him. the yemeni government is saying they are cooperating, but the fact of the matter is, this is the new center of gravity in yes, ma'amen and we need to know who is behind this? who helped him. the information that would have come out is lost to us. he is lawyered up and we have to put him through the criminal system where we are negotiating with the terrorism. >> larry: alice, the same occurred in the bush administration with the shoe bomber. >> yeah, in the same way, abdulmutallab has done usa favor. he has given the american people a gift. we are focused on two important issues we lost track off. those are deficiencies in the aviation authorities and the proper courts for prying trifrts. >> larry: david, do you ev

host: "usa today" writes a little about that.he story this morning that dubbing them the louisiana purchase and the cornhuskers set backickback -- louisiana, next up, ronald on the independent line. caller: my opinion, getting back to miss mary lender of think that she did great for the state of louisiana and that is why she was elected -- to get things done. -- that is married landrieu. as far as both sides, the republican and democratic parties are fighting among us, doing worse than any terrorist could ever do. they are dividing the nation. eager to the coffee shop and hear people discussing and getting angry with each other. we need to get together. we're no longer the united states. host: this headline, durbin said afterwards that he hopes cooler heads will prevail. he said he does notñr see a purpose in further delay. next up, cleveland, ohio. good morning. caller: well, i was not paying so much attention on debate as to the spin on the debate with people's talking points. no one remembers the 52 weeks ago the stock market

christine brennan, "usa today" sports columnist. we mentioned earlier in this broadcast that nike, in a statement, is standing by, at least it sounds like it, they support and are standing by tiger woods. what's your response to that? >> well, no surprise at all. in fact, it would be stunning news if nike said it weren't doing that. nike, we have to remember, is the company that signed tonya harding after the attack on nancy kerrigan. they will throw money at anything. the key ones for me are accenture and at&t. the other day i tried to reach both of those, jim. accenture i called in the morning and again five hours later. accenture is be a tiger. you see it in all the airports. it's so embarrassing right now. and the spokeswoman never, ever got back to me. nine hours, no phone call return. they acted as if they didn't even know who tiger woods was. >> so are you suggesting they're on the fence? do you think they're on the fence at this point? >> well, i guess after nine hours not returning a phone call with the question i asked, ar

mitt romney has an opinion piece in "usa today" offering a ten-point plan to save the economy.ee what president obama said about the job picture today and then ask governor romney about it. watch. >> while i believe the government has a critical role in creating the conditions for economic growth, ultimately true economic recovery is only going to come from the private sector. we don't have enough public dollars to fill the hole of private dollars created because of the crisis. it is only when the private sector starts to reinvest again. only when our businesses start hiring again. and people start spending again and families start seeing improvement in their own lives again that we are going to have the kind of economy that we want. that's the measure of a real economic recovery. >> larry: before we get to your ten-point plan, do you want to comment on that, mitt? >> what the president is saying is correct. which is that jobs are created in the private sector. businesses hiring individuals to be able to provide goods and services to other americans. unfortunately, what he did

in other news this morning, in copenhagen, here is the front page of usa today. it says tha-- host: also, out of in the worlds section of "the financial times." host: arkansas, charles on the republican line. good morning. caller: good morning. it is easy to be a democrat these days, like byron dorgan. mr. lieberman has stepped up. it takes more guts to lieberman. it is easy to satisfy the give- me people. they do not care about their children and their grandchildren. they do not care about the cost of all these things. as far as the entire congress, and the gentleman we have as president, they will do anything for a vote. they basically do not care about the people. they will do anything that the people ask them to do. host: janet on the democrats' line. caller: is always difficult to get on line. i really hate that i am wasting an opportunity to talk. i have to say one thing for my state. i'm ashamed that joe lieberman represents my state. i am disgusted with him. that is basically all i wanted to say. host: what do think will happen in the next election? calle

. >> christopher, was there a perception in the usa that participation would be inevitable?> there was a stage -- and what i was told by a very regular contact, somebody senior in the state. from the national security council, i warned london about this in the middle of the summer, that we were, i thought, being taken for granted. it was assumed partly because we were engaged in the contingency planning on the military side. i assume that what tony blair had said it in private to bush would be public the next day. there was an assumption. the brits were going to be there. i would say that london had been taken for granted. by the way, what about air services and steel tariffs? >> your suggesting that we did not use the interest that we had as positive things we could have done? >> if i put it charitably, we underestimated the leverage at our disposal. >> you are traveling about the country a lot, and there is not a lot of support for the war? >> it is not that it was building opposition to the war, it was simply that -- i went to 45, maybe more cities, and he did not get tha

host: from "said usa today" -- from "usa today" "later in the week there would be a jobs summit, a health-care bill, and next -- and next week there is a climate change summit. the risk for the white house is that this becomes a political version of dodgem cars, where a move by one could block the path of another." bob cusack, what happens to health care when the president is trying to do all these other things? caller: it will be very challenging. he really wants the senate to pass this bill. remember, the initial goal of the white house was to pass the finance bill by december 31. that is not going happen. the new goal is for the senate to pass the bill. obama said that if health care does not get done this year, it will never get done. this has a chance to drag out into the spring. blogger that the bill is out there, republicans would tell you that they have to move controversial things through quickly and the longer it is out there, there is less of a chance that it will happen. it has been very slow progress, the upper chamber passing the bill by the end of this year. republicans are goin

she is the chairperson of candor usa which focuses on children's needs -- of ca kinder usa which focuses on children's needs. she is also. gb why and -- she is also an ob/gyn. later, aslam abdullah will join us. i am going to start off, basically -- the panelists labeled improving u.s.-muslim relations. i looked at that question and said, doesn't even make sense? we can speak of improving u.s.- turkish relations, u.s.-iranian relations, but can we talk about u.s.-muslim relations? who in the muslim world away tried to lead to? are we turn to lead to the government or the massive public opinion? -- are we trying to relate to the garment or the mass of public opinion? >> a few years ago, i was working as a low ranking marine. one of the senior marines had proposed something about a terrorist incident. i said, extremist muslims -- i understand in the discussion we had earlier about how do you label al qaeda and their ilk. i said extremist muslims would probably say this about the event. the senior marine said muslims or extreme muslims? our turkish allies that we just came back from serving

there is a piece yesterday in the book section of "usa today" looking and authors who passed away inhe last year, including bob mcdonnedominick dunne and j. bill, good morning. caller: i am reading "the forgotten," a book about the korean war. it includes stories in veteran'' own words. host: who is the author? caller: it is me. the book is not about me. i put the stories of the korean war together around these stories about the war. the subtitle is called "the forgotten flaccg." "the forgotten war" and "the forgotten her pro it has been out since june. i gave the first boat to the president of korea. i had three brothers in the war. one newspaper called it "for domino more -- forgotten no more," which was a tremendous lift for me. on the date the war started 59 years later. it has done a great reviews. host: thank you for calling. we can tell you about january and february. january 3, from noon until 3:00 p.m., three hours with michelle malkin. our february guest is paul johnson and his caucus on churchill. the will be on sunday, february 7. this is carol on our independence linemen

guest: "usa today" did a very, very good article last monday that addressed that.e center announced that four new companies had adopted political disclosure, microsoft, time warner, campbell's soup and wisconsin energy. "usa today" use that had to address this whole issue of what do we know about payments through trade associations? what they did is they focused on payments to groups such as pharma and were looking at companies like bristol miers squib and merck, and you found that there are millions of dollars that companies are spending or giving to their trade associations that are then being spent to lobby and to both doing regular lobbying and grass roots lobbying, which is a form of political spending on this issue. one of the things that was interesting is that, you know, it the disclosure, the figures that were used in the "usa today" arg were drawn from disclosures that companies have made as a result of their agreements with the center. one of the things that's interesting is we have been working with companies for the past six years to ask them to disclo

that's the article from the "usa today." jobs americans won't do? jobs are lined up. americans are lined up to get jobs in day labor gatherings alongside groups of illegals who have decided not to go back home because of the lack of opportunity here. the unemployment rate is 10.2%. 15.7 million unemployed. madam speaker, if you add the list to that 15.7 million legitimate workers in america who are unemployed and by definition looking for a job, there is another 5.5 million who exhausted their unemployment benefits that are looking for a job. more than 20 million americans that want a job today. and the american workforce of 154.4 million of our total workforce, there are over 70 million americans of working age not working, over 70 million. we could tap into the workforce of more than 70 million people of working age that simply aren't working because the wages don't pay enough, benefits don't pay enough, maybe they are in between jobs, but they are hireable. these are americans that will work. 70 million, nonworking americans of working age, seven to eight million i

host: from "said usa today" -- from "usa today" "later in the week there would be a jobs summit, a health-care bill, and next -- and next week there is a climate change summit. the risk for the white house is that this becomes a political version of dodgem cars, where a move by one could block the path of another." bob cusack, what happens to health care when the president is trying to do all these other things? caller: it will be very challenging. he really wants the senate to pass this bill. remember, the initial goal of the white house was to pass the finance bill by december 31. that is not going happen. the new goal is for the senate to pass the bill. obama said that if health care does not get done this year, it will never get done. this has a chance to drag out into the spring. blogger that the bill is out there, republicans would tell you that they have to move controversial things through quickly and the longer it is out there, there is less of a chance that it will happen. it has been very slow progress, the upper chamber passing the bill by the end of this year. republicans are goin

[applause] covering the supreme court for the "usa today" newspaper she has just written this book. you got justice scalia to cooperate on this book. how did you do that? gimmicky was a reluctant subjects and initially said he would not sit for interviews but i did some research into its early life and family story in his father emigrated from sicily had so much research body essentially traded information and he tried to tap my stories and eventually he sat 41 dozen interviews. >> host: is he tough to do? do when he is a great conversationalist by a likes to talk. he was interested when i was finding and also when his critics were saying and i would come back and say this is what you said and this is the response i am getting and i give him another shot to respond he was an easy interview because he did not back away from his controversial statements for every interview with him i cut it off for i left the room because i could be there two hours and i think i do not want to wear out my welcome budget he was engaged. >> what do you think has been his effect on american interests pru

. & born in the usa ♪ [ music ] ♪ >> the grand finale was devoted to the boss ♪ [ music ] >> it is fantastic forget it. >> reporter: springsteen never dreamed he'd come this far. >> i wanted to play rhythm, initially in a local bands and hoped that may work out for me, but, you know, you don't quite figure out, going to end up in this spot, you know. >> reporter: from the kennedy center, i'm tara mergener. >> great show that was. >> i saw him in charlottesville and he puts on a heck of a show. >> president obama said i might be the president but he's the boss. you are the boss of the weather this morning. >> oh, man, am i. good news first, the winds are done. >> check. >> baddish news, it is really cold outside and eh news we will probably have some icing tomorrow morning. 24 is where we are at. hagertown, hi there, gary, in hagerstown, sorry i had to hang up so fast. i had to do the weather. some high clouds moving in. don't have rain or snow attached but will be filtering the sunshine and especially by 5:00. without gusty winds it will feel like 38 and we will be talking about tomorrow's s

i usa like to think, is there a way to solve the problems with more freedom.he fact that we we got is not works does not mean that is the only way out. i may agree with stephanie on that. >> larry: let's turn to the former governor of alaska. sarah palin continues to provide fodder for the late night comics. here san example. >> a man was arrested at the mall of america yesterday for throwing tomatoes at sara palin. as she calls them, italian aps. he threw two tomatoes, neither came close to hittinger and instead they hit a cop. they released his mug shot today. he looks familiar. i cannot figure out where he is from. >> all right, palin's mem ra, "going a blockbuster hit acres tracking huge crowds, popularity going up, not at 50% where obamasome but he is sliding a little. what do you make of her? >> she is an amazingly charismatic character to some but i must say i can't take her seriously. i think her position on issues are extremely correct, to me at least, but not to many others but doesn't sound lick a serious person and i don't take her seriously. >> ta

and usa today, at general david patraeus says the surge will not have quick results. next call on the treasury story in the "new york times" today, portland, ore., jeff, democratic caller. hello there. good morning, jeff. caller: i just wanted to say that benjamin franklin said whenever he was in office that these banks are going to screw us over and take all of our money and charge us to let -- too much on our loans, and i think that is what they have done. host: aiding else? caller: nope. host: let's hear from oakland, calif., charles. caller: i am missing three days of my salary every month. and these corporations, they only on my electrical bill. i have called them and said i'm going to be a little bit late. they just charged me $350 for being late. these corporations are out of control. i think it is corporations period

host: "usa today" has a store on the mentors program.ought back as consultants. yesterday, the secretary announced a review of the program. on the senate side, senator claire mccaskill is leading a hearing on the program. i want to give the viewers a sense of this. "to review found that the navy pays its mentor's an average of $330 an hour, the marines, $187 per hour less expensive -- per hour plus expenses. the investigation published last month found that 80% of the 158 military mentors that the newspaper could identify also had ties to defense contractors." guest: that is all relevant and something that we should ask a lot of hard questions about and may discontinue the program and rebuild completely. i don't know what the benefit is. we have to get the benefit to say is it worth all of this apparent waste and over-billing? i don't know the answer to that. one of the things that i think the liberals and conservatives and independents can get together on is inside this military budget, which is massive, what can we do to reduce costs a

"usa today" has a new poll, with 54% supporting -- 51% supporting the president's plan in afghanistanhe president the other day, it will cost $30 billion. john is calling us from texas. caller: i want to let everybody know about something i saw the other day on the stock market. every time the dollar gets weaker, the stock market goes up. therefore it makes me think that over on wall street, they are working against us. when the value of the dollar goes down, they like it. everything that we buy costs us more. host: thanks. of you were saying -- a v were saying -- roger from a virginia on the democrats' line. caller: i have been at noticing that the stimulus package and the tarp with billions of dollars left over, the money could be reallocated to community banks and to fund small businesses. we have construction projects in my area, mostly working offshore. it seems to me that the money is going towards individuals or not legally allowed to work and the country, and workers who are maybe able to be trained for jobs in the industry, that puts us at a disadvantage. i thought that maybe

usa today. general pay try as. this is usa today and general that commands forces in the middle east doesn't think progress to achieve under the troop surge in iraq in 2007. this will be a step-by-step operational campaign he told usa today. at times increases in violence undaed edly as taliban try to hang on a particular safe haven and sanctuary. next call on the treasury story in the "new york times" today. portland oregon. jeff? hello there. morning jeff. caller: i just wanted to say that benjamin franklin said when he was in office, these banks are going to kind of screw us over and take all of our money and charge us too much on our loans and i think that's what they've done. host: oakland, california. independent caller. charle? caller: i'm glad that they're getting some taxpayer money out. i'm in california and a furlough employee and i'm missing three days of my salary every month and corporations like pg&e. i'm late on my electrical bill. i've said i'm going to be a little late. they just charged me $350 f

that's just a bit of the story this morning from "usa today." we'll read more as well and other headlines, but we'd like to know your experience, too, and your response to our question. is it more security needed? we'll get to your calls momentarily. a posting this morning on 538.com by nate sill vemple he writes about the number of airline incidents and the odds of airborne terror. this is at fivethirtyeight.com, nate silver write this morning -- he puts up a posting by james joyner, who was a guest on this program a couple of weeks ago. james joyner, a conservative blogger wrote, there have been precisely three attempts over the last eight years to commit acts of terrorism aboard commercial aircraft, all of them clownishly inept and easily thwarted by passengers. how many tens of thousands of flights have been incident-free? let's expand joyner's scope. over the past decade, there have been, by my count, six attempted terrorist incidents on board a commercial airliner that landed or departed from the united states. the four planes that were hi

this is the op ed this morning in "usa today" from homeland security secretary general napolitano. the headline says the u.s. will "find and fix" system vulnerabilities. she goes on to write that this really makes a more critical we work at all levels. host: there are several responses this morning on the president's handling of the last couple of days since the threat on christmas day. this is from dailybreeze.com -- writing about jane harman, democrat of california. she was briefed on the attack saturday and she applauded "sophisticated tradecraft" in the investigation and president barack obama's response to the incident. they are not terrifying the public, she said. she goes on to say -- the homeland security secretary was right to correct statement on the attack and note the administration is acting appropriately by reviewing screening protocols. that is from jane harman. at the top, " the daily news." the lead editorial -- it is time,prez, for you to get serious. it says -- host: a lot of varying thoughts on the president's handling of the situation. now we're interested in y

supreme court journalist lyle denniston and joan biskupic of "usa today" on covering the court, also,former solicitor drew days and maureen maholm knee on arguing before the court, that's tonight, 7:00 p.m. eastern, here on c-span. >> tomorrow on "washington journal," a discussion on u.s. foreign policy with barbara slavin of "the washington times" and jonathan broader. after that, a look at president obama's achievements in his first year in office from stephen helps of the brackings institute and dan thomason. that's live here on c-span starting at 7:5 a.m. eastern. in the mid 1990's, he was named one of the most 50 influential people to watch in cyberspace the since then he's completed blackplanet.com, helped found a charter school in brooklyn and explained new technologies on oprah. sunday night he talks about his current studies at harvard and what's ahead on c-span's q&a. >> in just over half an hour, a former british ambassador to the u.s. testifying on british involvement in the war in iraq. but first, a special presentation of our documentary, "the blair house -- the presiden

. >> she sat out about six months after minor surgery, couldn't play on the usa national team over thes continued to have to round herself back into game shape. she looks great today. >> jim: tennessee has gone 3 for their last 23. stricklen. against pohlen. there's bjorklund. she hit a couple early but nothing in the last ten minutes plus. here comes pohlen. cross-court kick. j.j. hones. clearing out inside. give way to pedersen with the left hand. >> mary: that left hand, she was so far under it. it was her only angle. react great reaction and read by kayla pedersen. >> lisa: again, i hate to harp on jayne appel, but that was all because she's patient and very unselfish. you could have tried to throw that right-hand hook, but instead she made the pass to her open teammates for an easy layup. >> jim: tennessee women's team on the west coast. the tennessee men's team is also on the west coast. they're in the locker room in los angeles getting set. tennessee and bruce pearl number nine in the nation against kevin o'neill, new head coach at usc. that is coming up next, barry tompkins as

first, we have alan horn, the executive director and general council for safe kids usa and cheryl burtu.s. fire administrator of homeland security. i want to welcome all of you all to the subcommittee today. thank you for your time. i know it's late in december and you probably have a lot of other things you could be doing today. thank you very much for your preparation and for those of you who travelled. we appreciate you very much. you want to lead off? [ inaudible ] >> am i on? one that in our view that gets very little attention. we very much appreciate the opportunity to increase this today. the subcommittee knows very well that safe kids usa spends every waking moment working to protect children from the number one killer, unintentional injury. this subcommittee and quite frankly senator pryor and senator klobuchar have been helpful in that effort throughout the years. we know children and children's safety are in good hands with these two members of congress. that help continues here today. the vast majority of americans don't realize the number one killer of children is injury,

team usa versus the world. sidney not just a prototypical big man. can run the floor and handle the ball. that's what made him one of the best prospects in the nation. the problem is he's not been able to play. we mentioned early that he has an issue with the big 7 footer from rick stansbury. the difference in their two faces is that there has not been a violation identified yet by the ncaa as it relates to renardo sidney so until that violation is issued rick stansbury and his team has no idea how long renardo sidney will be out. we talked to coach stansbury yesterday and he said he's no longer worried about the process and has moved on. they don't know when sidney will play. you wonder guy, this team, a top 25 teams, and maybe can challenge kentucky or challenge other teams. without renardo sidney, how deep can this mississippi state team jarvis. >> steve: pretty good in their first five but renardo sidney is one of those freak of nature guys when he's in shape. >> marcus: he transferred to fairfax high school and did the investigation of how they

our expert panel, sports columnist for "usa today" christine brennan, and david ducek. here with me in los angeles, my friend howard bragman, celebrity pub cy publicist. howard what you do you think? i know you're critical on how he handles this from the beginning. you want to get in front of this story. he's behind this from the get-go. >> this has been a textbook case of misery for tiger woods. when i look at pr, it's like a doctor, what's the result that you want at the end? if i'm tiger woods, what i want is this story to go away more than anything. and this act he did today is making this is a much bigger story as opposed to a smaller story. and anything that makes it a bigger story has got to be bad from a pr point of view, jim. >> jim: christine brennan, what's your take on this announcement. were you surprised? >> i'm surprised. i'm glad for tiger in the sense it sounds like he's addressing this issue and meeting it head-on. yesterday in a column, i wrote he should take six months or a year off, i know that sounds harsh and shocking to sports fans and the people

. >> larry: that's in "usa today." excellent read. look forward to seeing you again soon.e look forward to "no apologies." >> thank you. >> larry: we leave with you a washington tradition we all can enjoy. the lighting tonight of the national christmas tree on the ellipse. anderson cooper and "ac 360" will follow that. that's next. good night. >>> and now to the serious business of pressing the button and

the united states has changed its telecom policies, and earlier this month there was the arrest of a usa contractor for the stripping electronics equipment in cuba, which has -- for selling electronics agreement in cuba. we're fortunate to have experts to try to navigate through this complicated maze with us and in provide insight on how technological change is impacting cuba. are for speaker is a professor on blackened cuban studies and the author of the handbook. he has visited the island many times and more recently he has turned his attention to blogs, including he has done several interviews on the island with sanchez and just recently launched his own blog, el yuma, which went live months ago and faces -- address issues facing island. he will be followed by carlos carlos is the coordinator for journalists. he is originally from buenos raares, and he went on to work r "playboy in" magazine terry and he had a distinguished career in journalism. in recent years he has been working on issues, and this fall, he wrote an important report looking at the impact of the internet on cuba. i m

there is a piece this morning actually it came in yesterday in the book section of usa today. the work will live forever looking at authors who passed away in the last year including dominick, frank mcwhorter, john mortimer and john updike. spending the next half-hour or until 10:00 eastern asking you what your favorite nonfiction book of 2009 was. bill, good morning. republican call import or range. what are you reading? >> caller: i'm reading the forgotten a book about the corrine and war. it's the first volume of several including stories in the veterans own words actual events that happened on the ground. >> host: who is the author of the forgotten? >> caller: the book is not about me or anything, but these stories of the korean war to get their, stories about the war. the subtitle was called the forgotten flag, the picture of the first raising of the american flag and the second subtitle is the forgotten war and then the forgotten victory. >> host: so is this -- is published this year, are you waiting to get it published? >> caller: its been out since june. i flew to kara

host: in "usa today" west point offers gravitas and a rapt audience. the next call comes fromsan jose on the line for independentss. caller: good morning. first off i just want to say that you are my favorite on "washington journal" -- host: oh, stop it. caller: i'm listening to everybody. i didn't see this be. i was very fond of how he presented himself. it kind of scared me at once p itoint. i'm hoping he has another strategy he did not tell us because he might be giving us too much information. the look on the troops faces had me thinking that a good leader -- republicans and democrats are so separated. they won the war. the radical people there, the terrorists, people against us have one because our country is divided. people cannot seem to get past the fact that whenever liberal -- i don't know what it means. a good leader is a good leader and mankind cannot govern themselves as a species. the only thing we really can do is to understand, communicate the hard stuff. war is a terrible thing. the troops, our veterans ,ww ii survivors, and i read a b

from the front page of "usa today." "sarah palin got an interview with caffey kiley this morning."xine, florida. you are on the line. caller: bank you for taking my call. i am calling in regards to the republicans and the abortion issue. republicans are always talking about government meddling into our affairs. i feel that abortion should be left up to the woman in her guard, -- a woman and her god, not to the people. that is my comment. host: loretta, atlanta. caller: i think that you are an excellent host. i really appreciate your work. my comment regarding this last segment in particular, in an administrative assistant at has been paying into the system since 1965. i was not given the option, i was required to do it. a couple of days ago during open enrollment, i am already paying an $96 per month for a prescription drug coverage. a couple of days ago i learned that in order for me to stay within prescription drug coverage that i can afford, my premium monthly is going to go from $28 per month to $39 per month. all i have ever heard is how much of this will benefit anyone. i hav

congressional quarterly magazine, you didn't like me when i reported for "the washington post" now with usa today can we start over and he rode back and said even though i am cicilline i have not been holding a grudge. [laughter] but any way we had ups and downs through the years especially when i was with "washington post" in the 90's up until 2000. and when i told him i signed the contract -- >> host: you did that before you knew you were going to get help from him. >> guest: i did, and that is because i knew his story and i knew i could get to people. i knew -- i'd been watching. my first sit-down interview with him had been 1990 when i was still with congressional quarterly and when you are at the court every day you feel like you have a type of access, so i was confident and frankly my publisher and i were confident i would be able to tell his story without having a guarantee from him and he wrote back saying to me, once i told him i signed a contract he wrote back saying okay feel free to talk to colleagues and friends and my family but i won't talk to you and i said just keep an open

congressional quarterly magazine, didn't like meet with the washington post but now i am switching to usatoday and he said even though i'm sicilian i haven't been holding a grudge. [laughter] so we have had some ups and downs to the years especially when i was with the washington post in the '90s up to 2,000. and when i told him i signed a contract with strauss . >> host: you did that before you knew you would get help from him. >> guest: as because i knew his story and i knew i could get to people. i have been watching him, my purse it down into the was in '92 when allison with congressional braley and when you're up there every day you feel like you have a type of access so i was confident and when my publisher and editor confidence i could tell his story without having a guarantee from hampshire bell and he wrote back saying once i told him i signed a contract saying feel free to talk to colleagues and friends and reach out to my family but i won't talk to you. i said keep an open mind and then i began my research in earnest and spent time in trenton where he was born in queens, when t

host: "usa today" headline. they have a list of the financial meeting line up to do.ichigan, on the republican line. caller: i used to be a futures trader. to seexd some of these situatios that the banks and these people got bailed out for is unbelievable to me. when i was trading i was responsible for my own debt and if i lost money came from my own pocket. it is disheartening to many americans to see these guys get bailed out, whether it be a bank or insurance company. they made these derivative trades and get billed out for having made a bad trade. it is unfair. it has many americans upset. anyone with half a brain can see through to see special interests are still running the show in washington. guest: that is what president obama is talking about. these people brought you the financial global not done. it makes americans angry to see them getting a $20 billion bonuses. he is tapping into that anger. it is true. it is inescapable that those who made the bad debts, disastrous decisions have largely been rescued. most have not really suffered any major financial con

he is interviewed by reporters from usa today and c.q. weekly.com.ning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2009] cheer clear next, broadband expansion in the united states and blair levine is back at the federal communications commission, this time as the omnibus broadband initiative executive director, and he is our guest this week on "the communictors." amy schotts of the wall street journal is joining in on the questioning. mr. levine, we're about 50-odd days away from the national broadband plan being presented to congress. can you give us a status update on that report? >> sure. as we set out in july, we have been getting status updates all along. in september, we laid out for the f.c.c. where we thought the state of broad broadband was in the united states. in november, we looked at the problems we needed to deal with. a couple weeks ago we looked at how to address those problems and right now, we're in the situation where over the holidays we are busy trying to write up our best view o

first, we have alan horn, the executive director and general council for safe kids usa and cheryl burt of rochester, minnesota. is it john andress? the director of engineering kid resdown shal and commercial division. then we have kelvin cochran, u.s. fire administrator of homeland security. i want to welcome all of you all to the subcommittee today. thank you for your time. i know it's late in december and you probably have a lot of other things you could be doing today. thank you very much for your preparation and for those of you who travelled. we appreciate you very much. you want to lead off? [ inaudible ] >> am i on? one that in our view that gets very little attention. we very much appreciate the opportunity to increase this today. the subcommittee knows very well that safe kids usa spends every waking moment working to protect children from the number one killer, unintentional injury. this subcommittee and quite frankly senator pryor and senator klobuchar have been helpful in that effort throughout the years. we know children and children's safety are in good hands with these t

to learn more about the 2010 land-rover vehicles, visitland- rover usa today. the capital's first visit to edmonton in more than three years. back in october of '06 they were blanked by the oilers 4-0. the guy in the white get 4 in the third to win it by the final of 4-2. for craig laughlin and all the men and women in our crew, joe beninati thanking you for your time. the caps will be back home and meet up with the buffalo sabers at 7:00 p.m. eastern time. up next on csn, net impact and then stay tuned for sportsnite at 1:00 a.m. eastern. a great night for the great eight. washington looking bleak after two. but the rally in the third, all started by ov. ja brawl. >> this month a net impact, the best of 2009. tough man on the ice. alex the great ovenchin. and why fame and fortune has not changed him. >>> and paying tribute to a man that taught everybody about the game. >> and then a dream comes true for one high school baseball player, a story that will warm your heart holiday season. >> hello and welcome to this special edition of net impact. i'm art fa nel.

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all of our activities, both those in the past and those upcoming are listed on our website, www.n c-usa r.org. we have transcripts of a program we did 10 days ago on capitol hill dealing in great detail with yemen. all of materials from our october arab u.s. policymakers conference are up on our website as well as information about all of the council's other programs. also we want to thank c-span for being here today to tape this program. and i'm told it will be rebroadcast this evening at some point and perhaps in the we small hours in the morning as well. so we hope that you might take a chance or let others know also a video of the conference of this presence this afternoon will be up on our went in short order. please allow us is bit of leeway for the holiday season and the fact our staff wishes no more to be in the office than your staff wishes to be in the office at the holidays. with that, holiday greetings to all. thank you for being here and i'm sure if you have further questions, dr. anthony would be more than happy to stay afterwards to speak with you. thank you, dr. anthony.

collins interviewed by reporters from usa today and cq weekly.com. it airs at 6:00 a.m. and 10:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. >> good morning, everyone. today the judiciary committee is holding a second hearing on real authorize ition on the groundbreaking justice for all act, and the justice for all act includes the debbie smith rape kit reduction act, authorizing significant funding to reduce the backlog of untested rape kits so victims do not have to live in fear and we have seen this happening around the country. now we're going to examine some disturbing reports that despite the important progress we've made tone sure justice for rape victims, in too many jurisdictions, large numbers of kits continue to sit untested. when d.n.a. evidence taken from rape victims can be iewbsed to find and convict criminals and instead it sits on a shelf and rape victims are victimized once again and our communities become more dangerous rather than safer. that's unacceptable and we have to fix that problem. since we passed this law in 2004, it has resulted in hundreds of millions of doll

supreme court journalist lyle denniston and joan biskupic of "usa today" on covering the court, also,or drew days and maureen maholm knee on arguing before the court, that's tonight, 7:00 p.m. eastern, here on c-span. >> tomorrow on "washington journal," a discussion on u.s. foreign policy with barbara slavin of "the washington times" and jonathan broader. after that, a look at president obama's achievements in his first year in office from stephen helps of the brackings institute and dan thomason. that's live here on c-span starting at 7:5 a.m. eastern. in the mid 1990's, he was named one of the most 50 influential people to watch in cyberspace the since then he's completed blackplanet.com, helped found a charter school in brooklyn and explained new technologies on oprah. sunday night he talks about his current studies at harvard and what's ahead on c-span's q&a. >> in just over half an hour, a former british ambassador to the u.s. testifying on british involvement in the war in iraq. but first, a special presentation of our documentary, "the blair house -- the president's guest hous

host: today's usa today winners and loosers of 2009. some ascended to new heights. others stumbled. an up and coming senator shaking hands in january, you spend billions >> minneapolis. your thoughts. caller: one of the most defining events was allen greenspan's failure to recognize the housing bubble. this guy should be sent out digging ditches. the other day they had him up on capitol hill testifying about some financial affairs. this guy is an idiot. he should not be given any credibility anymore. they are still talking to the idiot. how much does it take to say that he did not recognize any financial signs. he could have went out and tried buy a working man's house and recognized how expensive they were. this guy should be relevant gated to shame. host: thank you. we'll continue talking to the defining moments of the decade and taking a look at other items in the news this morning. we mentioned at the top of the show. officers are killed in afghan attack. eight americans including officers of the central intelligence agency were killed in a suicide attack current and former u.s.

your favorite sec, acc, seatbelt, conference usa and sun teams.isit css sports.com for a complete schedule. we will be back here on december 20th for more auburn tigers basketball as auburn takes on sam houston state. >> daymeon: you have finals coming up right now. as a player you don't want to lose this game. it will make for long practices over the break if you do. >> matt: virginia will be back in action against wilmington in 12 days. that will be seen on many of these comcast sportsnet stations. auburn will be back if action playing at florida state. ball out of bounds. it will be virginia's ball. that the third of three acc opponents that the tigers will play this season. 11:50 to play in regulation. virginia and auburn tied at 46. jeff lebo wants an explanation. it doesn't look like he is happy with it. towels in my room. continue. ( strokes violin ) ♪ do you need anybody! friendly service. real value from your friends at hampton. >> matt: auburn and virginia tied at 46. a year ago, daymeon, sammy zeglinski was one of eight in their loss to

douglas said i think in an article in usa today, quote medicare and finished plants can compete on a level playing field. the changes in this bill, me speaking now the changes in this bill will help reduce these overpayments and they bring us closer to that level playing field that was suggested last year. my friends on the other side of the aisle say that reducing the government subsidies to private medical plans is going to increase the cost for seniors. again this statement is fiction. the overpayments, private insurance companies received under the current law to deliver medicare benefits have increased the cost for seniors today. so mr. president i would ask -- the in fact result in a 90-dollar increase to seniors to pay for the difference. so i would ask unanimous consent the full text be placed in the record and not in full, and i hope as we go forward here that it is the truth and fact that will prevail, not fiction we keep hearing to scare seniors. >> without objection. >> mr. president. >> the senator from wyoming. >> i would also ask unanimous consent that an article immed