i live in a waldorf maryland and they've been doing it for years.try to get them to stop and it's very hard. >> host: okay. got the point. linda lear, let's start with you and then paul driessen. >> guest: i couldn't agree with you more. we haven't come that far where we care more about how to clean our lawns are as opposed to how many songbirds we have or whether the worms and other drugs under the ground or in good health or in poor health. i just want to say that carson's whole point was about humility and arrogance that so long as humans act as though they can't control nature we can spray away this and the drug away that. we are not going to have a cleaner world or a world that will sustain our planet for very long humans have to have some humility. we are not in control of nature and we can't control where it is going to go. we have to be humble and we have to think about the whole of nature and that includes all the little insects in people and yes media or green lawns and golf courses can't be so green but maybe we can live happier and longe

host: waldorf, maryland, robert on the independent line. caller: how are you today, congressman? guest: fine and i hope you are. caller: i'm good. a couple of questions. with all of the media hype that this process was so bad, isn't this the closest we have come to changing of the healthcare syst system? and why is that? and, also, isn't there a provision in the bill that says the insurance companies will have to invest 90% of their earnings back into the system? guest: there is a provision which requires that the insurance companies pay a certain amount out in its -- to its clients of the earnings and revenues that it gets. that is to stop opl of abuses that we have seen in the insurance industry by paying too much in, frankly, benefits to their officers and shareholders and too little to their policyholders. it is one of the many rorls we are trying to get into the insurance industry for the protection of the rate payers. having said this, you are right. this is about as close as we have ever been and i'm hopeful that we can finish the issue because the urgent need of addressin

host: waldorf, maryland, robert on the independent line. caller: how are you today, congressman?est: fine and i hope you are. caller: i'm good. a couple of questions. with all of the media hype that this process was so bad, isn't this the closest we have come to changing of the healthcare syst system? and why is that? and, also, isn't there a provision in the bill that says the insurance companies will have to invest 90% of their earnings back into the system? guest: there is a provision which requires that the insurance companies pay a certain amount out in its -- to its clients of the earnings and revenues that it gets. that is to stop opl of abuses that we have seen in the insurance industry by paying too much in, frankly, benefits to their officers and shareholders and too little to their policyholders. it is one of the many rorls we are trying to get into the insurance industry for the protection of the rate payers. having said this, you are right. this is about as close as we have ever been and i'm hopeful that we can finish the issue because the urgent need of addressing t

host: waldorf, maryland, robert on the independent line. caller: how are you today, congressman? guest: fine and i hope you are. caller: i'm good. a couple of questions. with all of the media hype that this process was so bad, isn't this the closest we have come to changing of the healthcare syst system? and why is that? and, also, isn't there a provision in the bill that says the insurance companies will have to invest 90% of their earnings back into the system? guest: there is a provision which requires that the insurance companies pay a certain amount out in its -- to its clients of the earnings and revenues that it gets. that is to stop opl of abuses that we have seen in the insurance industry by paying too much in, frankly, benefits to their officers and shareholders and too little to their policyholders. it is one of the many rorls we are trying to get into the insurance industry for the protection of the rate payers. having said this, you are right. this is about as close as we have ever been and i'm hopeful that we can finish the issue because the urgent need of addressin

host: waldorf, maryland. thomas on the democrats' line. caller: this is directed basically -- senator barraso was on earlier regarding health care. he is a prime example of the republican platform. if you say something long enough people will start to believe it. the president answered his question about the money for people who are -- who have health care as catastrophic care. the president told him if he was making $40,000 a year, how much money would he have to put in the health savings account and he answered that in the american people heard what the president said and his answer. he did not have an answer but he came back with the foolishness about health savings accounts is only good for people who make decent amounts of money. i would just like someone to bring this to the attention time he is on tv. this question was answered so why do you keep bringing back up the same foolishness? host: thomas, thanks. that leads me to ask you about qualifications for federal programs. this week we began to hear a discussion about a new formula

maryland and that's about it. zone forecast, in the 40s. for win chest and martinsburg and leesburg. but 50 culpeper, 48 manassas tomorrow with sunshine. downtown around 50, 51 for annapolis. 50 andrews. 50 waldorf and low 50s to southern maryland. next steven days. bright buries crisp tomorrow, 50 and low 50s on sunday , rain and showers develop. lingering showers on monday and 58 and then four beautiful days. low 60s on tuesday, nine across the board now as we finish out next week. near 70 on wednesday. mid-70s on thursday and almost 80 next friday. first 8 of the year. >> love that. we will be talking about that but what we are talking about right now is the arenas ' sentencing a lot of people want to know was it fair. >> right. i don't know. do we know the full details of what he did in terms of charity and the guidelines the government had to follow? i don't know but was justice served or did arenas benefit as from his status as a famous athlete? we will look in to that more. >>> and the big dance rolls on tonight nine sports talks to the coach coming up. >>> when you are standing in front of a judge it is not supposed to matter how many points you average or how many zero your contract has

host: waldorf, maryland. thomas on the democrats' line.caller: this is directed basically -- senator barraso was on earlier regarding health care. he is a prime example of the republican platform. if you say something long enough people will start to believe it. the president answered his question about the money for people who are -- who have health care as catastrophic care. the president told him if he was making $40,000 a year, how much money would he have to put in the health savings account and he answered that in the american people heard what the president said and his answer. he did not have an answer but he came back with the foolishness about health savings accounts is only good for people who make decent amounts of money. i would just like someone to bring this to the attention time he is on tv. this question was answered so why do you keep bringing back up the same foolishness? host: thomas, thanks. that leads me to ask you about qualifications for federal programs. this week we began to hear a discussion about a new formula b

. >>> now the news edge on maryland where ride home turned into a nightmare for a charles county woman. investigators say she was held hostage inside a waldorf home and repeatedly assaulted. six men are under arrest charged in a gang rape. paul wagner is live in maryland to pick up the story. paul? >> brian, this six-page court afghanistan spells out the horrific -- affidavit spells out the horrific details. it happened in this house behind me. investigators say monday night this woman, who is 30 years old, met a man at st eddy's pool hall in alexandria. she asked the man to give her a ride home. when she got outside, there were three other men in the vehicle. instead of a ride home, they came to this house in charles county. these are the six men under arrest all charged with first- degree rape and false imprisonment. sheriff's deputies say the 30- year-old woman was held against her will for over three hours before escaping to a house down the street. investigators say she was raped by as many as four men who surrounded her in the basement and used gang signs as they taunted her. investigators say there were as many as 14 people in the hou