it was like the scene in the titanic in wallace, idaho. women and children only.ole town was being evacuated and they said men had to stay behind and fight for their homes but the women and children could leave on the last train out of town. well, that last train out of town wasn't necessarily going to get you to missoula because all these tressels were burning as well. so there's these harrowing accounts of the train essentially going up to the edge and then sending someone out to see if the fire was burning a tressel and nudging another mile but many of these tressels burned down and collapsed of this engineering feat being tossed around for this big burn as well. but thank you for bringing that up. yes, sir. >> can you talk about one of your other books just for a minute? >> sure. >> "breaking blue." you were born and raised in spokane and you told this horrible story. how did you get into that? >> well, he asked about "breaking blue." actually, i wasn't -- i was born in seattle but raised in spokane so i like to point that out. i got a little bit of both in my

, if wallace had won a couple of more states he might have been able to be the power broker to decide the presidential election. but he didn't have just a normal collection he would have been nothing. i don't see any evidence we would have more candidates for president than you get for governor in the average state. >> my stride. now second question -- >> do you have an answer to it? >> nope. >> good. >> why can't the samet simply stand down a filibuster and let the guy read the phone book and the bible and the odyssey or whatever? >> good question. why can't the senate, why can't they make them filibuster their filibuster liken mr. smith goes to washington? i think they should do that. i guess the underlying question is why do senators like filibuster's so much? why do even minority -- why do the majority centers like it? why is it hard to get rid of? the main reason is a durham powers the higher the threshold that's 60 vote threshold gives individual senators enormous power, and this would decrease their individual power to do it. still there was a time when this was a big public is

ben wallace. >> thank you, mr. speaker, recently revealed figures showed since 2001 140 inmates were allowed to die of cancer while serving in uk jails. under this government, is it one rule for british inmates and another one for libyan mass murderers? >> mr. speaker, as he knows, the decision on libya was made by the scottish administration. it was their decision to make. it was not our decision to make. >> roger barry. >> mr. speaker, my constituents are extremely concerned about the impact of global warming and wants speedy action to deal with it members opposite in their european allies. will my right honorable friend assure the house that he has been doing everything possible so that both developed and developing countries can look to a deal at copenhagen? >> well, we are in the happy position of being able to work with the rest of europe to get a climate change agreement and in the position to work as europe with the rest of the world to make sure that we can move forward. and the talks that are taking place

. >> wallace did the cover design, it was designed in house. the term size and the interior was mine. there's a lot of people that put it together. >> fantastic. thanks. good. >> mr. skwrao: he's clear clear. >> he's clear cleerp. >> he's wonderful. amazing guy. he gave a great speech. i'm going to give him my job. >> i hope you enjoy it. thanks for. coulding out. >> frances beinecke co-authored "clean energy common sense" with bob deans and to find out more, visit nrdc.org. >> we're here with garrett peck, the author of "the prohibition hangover," what was the pro hijack and when did it take place? >> prohibition was a constitutional amendment that took place in 1920 and lasted almost 14 years, until 1933. the country realized that prohibition didn't work out too well, because we banned the manufacturer's sale and transportation of alcohol, which of course, engendered a tremendous amount of law breaking and then once the great depression took place, the country realized, you know what, this is becoming such a big law and order issue and we nee

gerald wallace at the hard working. wallace with 12 rebounds leefl now only five.here's the larry brown shot. pacers with the win. coming up on the "final score," maybe this or maybe that. i'm going to guess kobe for your i'm going to guess kobe for your oh! blue! time! time out. i touched it. i touched the ball before it went out, coach. come on, alex, the ref did not call that! you gotta be kidding me, alex! it's the championship game! talk to him, coach. i touched, it's their ball. don't foul them when they inbound. team on 'three.' one, two, three. nice going, alex. sorry coach. alex! good call. >>> time to go to the overtime report brought to you by las vegas. why is this funny? the wizards have won one. not remotely funny. a couple of rookies. evans would finish with 26. under 30 to go. butler, the inbound pass. now it is only a one-point game. only ten seconds remaining. a 1-point game. still gilbert arenas. makes two points. up they have. one last shot for the wiz. butler for three. kings win 112-109 california knucks trying to win four straight. tied 1-1,

the guests on fox news sunday hosted by chris wallace include clare mccatskill, also oklahoma republicanmes inhoff and massachusetts democratic senator ed markey on "face the nation," connecticut independent senator joseph lism eberman and rockefeller from west virginia and nebraska's ben nelson. and cnn's state of the union will include lauren so maniers, director of the national economic council, virginia democratic senator mark warner, and south dakota republican john stone. you can listen to all five of the sunday morning talk shows starting at noon eastern on c-span radio at 90.1 f.m., nationwide on channel 132, xm, and on the web at c-span.org, c-spanradio.org. >> michael faunroy wrote "republicans and the black vote." he is our guest tonight on c-span's "q & a." >> this week on "the communicateors," an insider's perspective with ralph de la vega. monday at 8:00 p.m. on c-span2. host: we want to welcome the president of the committee congress for a responsible budget. guest: thank you. host: the budget is approaching $it trillion. -- approaching $2 trillion. what does that mean? gu

gerald wallace right at tyler hansbrough for the lane. 29-12 for wallace. pacers up five.s it too late. larry, what do you think? >>> hawks riding a four-game win streak. grizzlies in town. joe johnson, cherry picking. he had a game high 26. rough night for rudy gay. here's rudy. baseline pullup. sinks that, but he's limping after. then in the third he's going to twist his ankle there -- ow. i hadn't seen that. he's going to head to the bench. sprained ankle. he had 11. third quarter, hawks up 15. jamal crawford. nice. 110-97. >>> mavs have won four straight, here they are in oklahoma city. thunlder up by two. kevin durant misses, but however, the bucket. still in the fourth, dallas. helping on durant. erick dampier with the block. that's swatted away by dirk nowitzki. mavs start to pull away. nowitzki to dampier. then, dirk with the three. dirk, 35 and 11. 100-86. >>> clippers start a six-game road trip in minnesota, taking on kurt rambis and the crew. clippers up nine. chris kaman had 23-10. and he can do that. third quarter, marcus camby. the block. daron davis, the spi

next is wallace from albany, georgia. Ñihow long have you been out of work?ller: i was forced to take early retirement. i am 63 years old now. i was trying to continue to work, but i had a hip replacement. so, i went on through early retirement. i feel like health comes first before the job. the reason i say that is because if you do not have your health and you did not make it, you cannot go to work. you might come up and lose your job. or not be able to perform your job. i have a son that has been in a vocation, and he has taken up all the mechanics. host: can he find work? caller: he cannot because he has a condition. every time he tries to get a job, he cannot perform because he has a mental condition and no health insurance. they lay him right off, even though he's got two degrees. he has good skills, but he cannot afford the medicine. i cannot a pet -- afford to pay for his medicine. host: thank you for sharing the story with us. this twitter comment from tom -- overqualified, underqualified, a terrible niche to be in. we want to hear from you who are u

ben wallace. >> thank you, mr.speaker, recently revealed figures showed since 2001 140 inmates were allowed to die of cancer while serving in uk jails. under this government, is it one rule for british inmates and another one for libyan mass murderers? >> mr. speaker, as he knows, the decision on libya was made by the scottish administration. it was their decision to make. it was not our decision to make. >> roger barry. >> mr. speaker, my constituents are extremely concerned about the impact of global warming and wants speedy action to deal with it members opposite in their european allies. will my right honorable friend assure the house that he has been doing everything possible so that both developed and developing countries can look to a deal at copenhagen? >> well, we are in the happy position of being able to work with the rest of europe to get a climate change agreement and in the position to work as europe with the rest of the world to make sure that we can move forward. and the talks that are taking place