welcome back tonight to joel and victoria osteen.y are pastors of the lakewood church in houston. joel's new book is "it's your time -- finding favor, restoration and abundance in every day life." it's already a major best seller. central message is? >> we're not supposed to put our lives on hold just because there's difficult times. when you believe that's when all things are possible. just seems like there's so much negative news these days with the recession and other things going on, people seem to be just so down. so i wanted eed write a book t would lift their spirits. >> larry: isn't it hard when there's christmas time, christianity's time. people are out of work, being foreclosed. isn't the hope you're giving them kind of ethereal? what is it based on? >> well, i think it's based on the scripture that when you believe that's what they lous god to work in your life. the on sit is to be down, be depressed, be bitter. all that does is not only make your life miserable, but it doesn't allow god to do great things. god works when

we'll ask joel and victoria what, if anything, makes them angry.'m going to try and make he them angry after this. trying to sort out what health reform means to seniors? for the first time, a law... to prohibit cuts to medicare benefits. no one standing between you and your doctor. and no increase in the deficit. reform will cover preventive care. help close the medicare prescription gap, to lower your costs. paid for with common sense ideas -- like ending duplication of tests and other waste. praised by doctors, nurses, and senior groups. it's reform that works for all of us. impl implts. >>> andzson cooper will host ac 360 at the top of the hour. >>> president obama is in trouble. he's on his way to copenhagen right now but with no guarantee he'll have a deal on climate change to sign. the talks have broken down. on health care the democrats don't have the votes to get a he deal done, and with the approval rating on the rocks, he has a lot riding on a health care bill. >>> also ahead, something you only see here on 360. look at this video. speci

happily, both marie and the empress victoria of germany were born in england and god bless them, they wrote their diaries and letters of the mother tongue. s four madame chiang a great deal was an english and when it came to the chinese are keizai was fortunate enough to find a graduate student through a friend of a friendly young woman who lived and shanghai and did not automatically spout party dogma. with our hurt her, i could not have written this book. looking at the back pages of "the last empress" and of consulting quite a number of archives i sought out the best food source reformation was the hoover institute at stanford university. my personal theory is that most right wing governments leave the archives to hoover perk up my experience with hoover goes back to my first book, the last romantics, a biography of queen marie of romania. this was a long time ago. allen and i were living in southern california and he was directing the president's men and i went up north to see the son of the romanian prime minister who was working at hoover at the time. at that point* in my life i

prince albert i had written a biography by the way of prince albert and another victoria. prince albert was on his deathbed dying probably of stomach cancer and despite that, from his deathbed he rode a watered-down ultimatum to lincoln that would save face for lincoln and return the two emissaries from prison, they were in prison in boston. they were released. there was no war and i think a lot of people in england were on happy that there was no war. but they continue to supply the confederates with arms and munitions despite federal blockade. a blockade runners were sent through to the south to pick up cotton and they got through the english would supply munitions and trade. the english and french even lent money to the confederacy to buy munitions and arms, hoping they would get the money back when the south became its own nation. this continued on and there was great hostility between the two nations and it became very funny at the end -- at the end of my book -- when sherman is in savannah finally and discovers all of these stockpiles of cotton that are piling up wai

glickman, president obama has appointed victoria's pa knell to be a new intellectual property czar. from your perspective as a former congressman and a member of the clinton administration, you've worked both sides of pennsylvania avenue. number one, what do you think of the appointment of so-called czars, and what do you think the effectiveness of an ip czar would be? >> guest: first of all, i don't think that she is going to be a czar. first of all, you have statutory authority begin to certain agent -- given to certain agencies, and she's not going to have that kind of independent statutory authority. what she will, hopefully, be able to do if she's given the proper resources is to be able to help coordinate and manage the issues, elevate the concept of intellectual property protection into every single agency of government so they all belief that this is a -- believe that this is a high priority issue and work with the congress on ways to make our enforcement in dealing with intellectual property more effective and more positive. you know, she'll also probably coordinate all of

victoria kennedy is in the gallery, and the visitors' gallery, watching the proceedings. senate majority leader harry reid has requested the senators are arrive early and be in their seats to boat from their seats and it will be a very formal, official but that takes place, unlike a lot of boats in the senate where the senators kind of walk up. we will take one mor call. you support the bill? go ahead. caller: i support the bill and it seems important that we take care of this. these reforms have been overdue. i was without health care for like four years. i have health care for for my employer now. -- through my employer now. [unintelligible] if you want to buy your own, you cannot afford it. i think it is high time we do health care overhaul. i do not like the idea of the way the republicans are doing it. they are just opposing it and not offering any ideas on how we are supposed to move forward. i am an independent. i have in the middle. i am not for to the left but i think we have to support health care. host: thank you. host: t "the new york times." this is a piece a

singers that nashville, tennessee, is called music city because in the 1870s when they sang for queen victoria, she pronounced to her court that they sing so beautifully, they must be from the music city. and now we hear the words music city, nashville, and we think it's all about country music. so i want to ask the panel -- and they are making billions and billions of dollars on this farce because those words, music city, had nothing to do originally with country music. it was about this group of former slaves who sang for the queen of england. so how do we address this cover-up that has kept us impoverished? i see it primarily as a financial purpose by keeping this history hidden, but i'd like to hear your comments on that. >> hey, toure, you could bring it out on your program in the morning. >> yes, absolutely. [laughter] >> but one of the issues when we talk about history that's been lost is how do you correct it? and the only way you correct it is to keep repeating what the truth is because we're not going to get the money from it, but we do want the recognition and want people to know th

victoria, damian more, and nathan for all of their hours. we are very proud of what we will talk about today and i will turn it over to david >> thank you very much. i was actually at a conference in berlin and joe acconsider machine who was the ceo of deutsche bank said at one point that it's the appropriate time of year to talk about fiscal policy. usually at christmas kids ask santa claus for presents and the adults pay for them. but in this era of deficits, adults the government for gifts and their kids will pay the bill. you know, i'm a reporter so it's always looking for that little fact that illustrates that something is happening. and one fact is that there's a discussion of the deficit in washington in a room in which there are more people than chairs. so that's kind of a leading indicator of things. we see it in our polls at the "wall street journal" that public concern about the deficit has definitely risen has as opposition to spending cuts or tax increasing. -- increases. so the ultimate dilemma here is quite clear as doug's suc

in some detail what really happened at abu ghraib as opposed to it was more than people wearing victoria's secret head gear. if you can discuss the specifics of those two incidents? >> fallujah. first it was not an anti-u.s. invasion city. despite the rhetoric in the media of that painting it later as a city follow sadam hussain said of the nonsense. it was a city in iraq where there is no fighting during the invasion. americans' role did the people put forth a couple of people to work with them they said we're glad saddam hussein is gone. we did not like kimmie there. that is pretty common. they welcome to the americans and and there were no problems but then i believe april april 28, 2003, little less than three weeks after the american stock baghdad, and fallujah of the talked to -- there we're occupying a secondary school, a demonstration because folks wanted their kids to use the school to go to school and the americans opened fired on demonstrators and killed 17 people and civil investigations are done and of course, americans claim they took fire from the demonstrations. the next da

debate an op-ed that appeared in "the washington post" this morning, written by our dear friend victoria reggie kennedy. it was entitled "the moment ted kennedy would not want to lose." vicki kennedy was senator kennedy's partner in all things, including his final efforts to move health reform forward, even as he valiantly fought his own battle with cancer. in more than 17 years of marriage, ted and vicki were inseparable, bonded by the love of friends, family, and most obviously by their love for one another. we remember vicki displayed inspirational grace in leading us all in our grief and in the memorial celebration of his life on the occasion of senator kennedy's death, and today she continues as his partner, paying tribute to ted's legacy by respectfully urging his colleagues to move forward on the health reform he would have wanted. i feel certain that vicki's voice and his will make us more determined than ever to complete ted's work for the american people, and we thank you, vicki. mr. president, i would now like to respond to an argument made in another op-ed in thursday's "wash

that's queen victoria as a young lady and apparently that's a portrait that's in a number of the schools in england. >> why don't you sit over here at your deck so we can get you a little more comfortable. right out that window is the capitol? >> that's right. put the court for a moment in perspective where we have the president and this building across the street and the court. what's its role? >> well, it's an independent branch of the government. it has to decide cases of controversy. it has to do it with the best ability that it can. >> does it do it the way you want to do it? >> sometimes. sometimes not. it's been true while i've been here and really thought you the hit of the court there are cases that are very difficult on which there is a difference of judgment by different members of the court. so when you're not in the majority, you wish they had decided it the other way and up think the world would have been better off if decided the other way but you don't have the votes, you can't do anything about it. in your 34 years are there cases that really mattered to you more than ot

i particularly want to thank victoria, damian more, and nathan for all of their hours. we are very proud of what we will talk about today and i will turn it over to david wessel. thank you. >> thank you debri much. -- thank you very much. i was at a conference in berlin and the ceo of which a bank said at one point that it is appropriate time of year to talk about fiscal policy -- ceo of deutsche bank. usually kids asked santa for present and adults pay for them. now adults ask the government for president -- now adults ask the government for presence and they have the kids pay later. one fact is there is a discussion of the deficit in washington in a room in which there are more people than shares. that is kind of a leading indicator of things. we see it in our polls @ "the wall street journal" that public concern about the deficit has definitely reason, as had -- has opposition to spending cuts and tax increases. the ultimate dilemma here is quite clear, as doug allen north put it, but the problem is the american people have asked the government for benefits, many ret

>> that is queen victoria has a young lady. apparently that is a portrait in a number of the school's in eli. >> sit over here and we will make you more comfortable. right out that window is the capitol building. >> that is right. >> put the court in perspective where we have a president and the capitol building and now this building. what is its role? >> it is an independent branch of government. it has to decide cases and controversies that raise federal questions. it has to do it with the best of ability that it can. >> does it do it the way that you want to do it? >> sometimes, sometimes not. it is been true that there are cases that are very difficult. sometimes there's a difference of judgment by different members of the court. when you are not in the majority, you wish they had decided it the other way. you think the world with been better off -- would have been better off. but if you do not have the votes, you cannot do it. >> are there some cases that matter or important to you within any other? >> if you ask me which

glickman, president obama has appointed victoria to be the new intellectual property czar. from your perspective, you're worked both sides of pennsylvania avenue, what do you think of the appointment of czars? and what do you think the effectiveness of i.p. czar? >> i don't think she's going to be the czar. you have statutory authority given to certain agencies. he's -- she's not going to have the independent ability. what she will be able to do is help coordinate and manage the issues, elevate the concept into every single agency of government. they all believe this is high priority, and work with the congress on ways to make our enforcement in dealing with intellectual property more effective and more positive. she'll also probably coordinate all of the public comment, public discussion of this kind of thing within the government. the congress is very good at passing it. i think it shows they believe this is a priority issue to our national economy. it needs to be addressed at the highest level. yesterday at the meeting, she was there, the vice president referred to her a

i particularly want to thank victoria al-hurra, damien more and nathan atlas for all of their work on this report. we are proud of what we are going to talk about today and i'm going to turn over to david wessel. thank you. >> thank you very much, maya macguineas. i was at a conference in berlin, and joe ackerman, the ceo of deutsche bank said at one point that it's appropriate time of year to talk about fiscal policy. usually at christmas kids ask santa claus for presents and the adults pay for them. but in this era of deficits adults ask the government for presence and tell their kids they will pay the bill. i think it is an interesting -- i'm a reporter so it's always looking for that little fact that illustrates that something is happening and one fact is that there is a discussion of the deficit and washington in a room that there are more people than chairs, so that's kind of a leading indicator of things. we see it at the polls in "the wall street journal" that a couple concerned about the deficit has definitely risen. as has opposition to the spending cuts or tax increases. [l

from victoria kennedy. good morning, michael. calling on the republican line.: i am 31 years old and i am sad to say i have never really followed the politics the way i've been following it the past few months over the healthcare debate. i have medicare/medicaid and am on social security. both of my daughters get health care through the state. i am wondering what the cuts to medicare -- i really can get the answer. how this russian my care? will still be able to choose the doctor i want to go to? host: michael, the best advice i can give you is to go to our website where we have some comparisons. c-span.org/healthcare. next up is greg, an independent caller. caller: i am in favor of the health care, more less hold out for the hr 676 by dennis kucinich, but i'm hoping that between the congress and representatives, and senate, they might actually come up with something at least with the public option. regarding the republicans, to borrow a line from a popular disney movie, i would like to say that their perspective on things is "take what you can and give nothing