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this is one from the "washington post" -- 18 states decline to run high-risk insurance pools. what's going on? guest: this is one of the first provisions in the bill that we're setting up high-risk pools across the country, a temporary thing, sort of a bridge to get us to the main provision of the bill which goes in effect in 2014. people who have pre-existing conditions who are in big trouble because they can't get plans they are going to be able to go into the high risk pools that are being set up. this will be a a temporary stopgap until 2014. starting in 2014, insurers will have to take these people. the high risk pool will probably be a problem. it's going to be tricky to set up. there may not be enough money for it. some states are already resisting setting them up in their states. host: 18 states are declining right now. guest: yes. host: states are concerned that if funds run out there could be difficult choices, political choices, reducing benefits, raising premiums or limiting enrollment. guest: right. this is really kind of a -- this problem is because they waited u

phenomenon, you'd find black-owned businesses. >> "one black year" with crish sha thompson of "the washington post." this friday on c-span radio 7:00 p.m. eastern on "afterwards." >>> c-span radio is around the country on xm satellite radio channel 119 and "washington today" continues.

with us today, the "washington post" bob woodward, cnbc becky quick, the "washington post" kathleen parker and the national journal's major garrett. while republicans are having to explain rush limbaugh's hatefulness this week, barack obama is radiating optimism these days. the president is channeling that old ronald reagan morning in america. here he is on tuesday. >> i'm not going to settle for a country where a few do really well and everybody else is struggling to get by. i promise you this. as long as you got an ounce of fight left in you, i'll have a ton of fight left in me. >> a new poll has obama losing to mitt romney by four points believe it or not, even with all of the damage that romney sustained lately. other polls have obama winning or tied. those are snapshots. obama knows history. he knows that the trend in a president's job approval is the key. this chart shows his approval and disapproval since inauguration. right now his approval is going up decidedly, this is going down. jimmy carter and george bush 41, that's the first george bush had trend lines going down during this

a series of essays written by the staff of the washington post. it is about half an hour. >> we turn our attention to the new health care bill that was passed into law recently and joining us at the table is alec mcginnis of the washington post. here to talk about a new book. the washington post put out a book "landmark: the inside story of america's new health-care law and what it means for us all". you can see my note attached to the book. there are a couple stories in the paper about this health care bill. this is one from the washington post. 18 states the kline to run for high risk insurance pools. what is going on? >> guest: one of the first provisions in the bill across the country, sort of a temporary thing. a bridge to get as to the main provisions of the bill. basically people with preexisting conditions in trouble right now. can't get plans. they are ready to go to high risk pools that have been set up. the high risk pool is a problem. and it will be very tricky to set up. might not be enough money and some states are resisting. >> 18 s

washington post foreign affairs columnist. at 8:30 eastern, we will focus on energy policy and the cost of oil and gasoline. we will discuss the farming and agriculture industry with our guest from the department of agriculture and a columnist with "the national journal." "washington journal" is next. host: good morning, you're watching "washington journal." the latest in the headlines this morning is what's being called twin opticals to the u.s. and nato time table for withdrawal and exit from afghanistan. that is a demand from karzai for accelerating troops. and a break-up of talks between the u.s. and the taliban. we'll ask you what your reaction is to all this. with our phone lines open this morning. your comments by twitter and on facebook. our phone lines are -- as karzai demands a u.s. pull back of troops in afghanistan. and a good friday morning to you. well, let's begin with a piece of video. this week the brishes -- the british prime minister was here in washington, d.c. and the president and british prime minister t

washington post headlines, this gives us a chance to go back to the '60s again and what the big media want to replay over and over again. let me suggest something else, i live in washington d.c. and watch the local news every night and true in many big cities, too, most of the crime stories that local stations focus on involve african-american perpetrators, dead black children perpetrating adults with guns almost never about the successful, family oriented, honest, law abiding african-american people and i'm suggesting to you, jon, that this helps feed the racism in some minds, pan gives the gated communities and the alarms more credence. >> ellen, racism figured into this coverage here quickly. if zimmerman were black, would this story have gotten this attention. >> most likely, it would not have and the fact is that you wasn't. racism did play into it and racism does play into it. and in fact, there was one group that said there were a the lot of these kind of stories that don't get play precisely because of that. >> i don't think we know right now, ellen, that racism played into it

that were never reported to elections officials. >> we're going to talk about this project, the washington post story. >> that's all i want to talk about today is this project, thank you. >> reporter: according to the post, veteran campaign operative vernon hawkins led the secret campaign. that's hawkins on the left in this picture with mayor gray, the two said to be close friends. >> i think given how these complaints are mushrooming and this thing is sort of taking on a life of its own, i think that the mayor would do better to launch a counter offensive of. >> reporter: robert mccartney is a metro columnist for the washington post. he's written extensively about the federal government's ongoing investigation of mayor gray and other elected officials in the district. >> it certainly seems that there's a lot of potential for major legal problems that could make it impossible one way or the other for the mayor or other senior politicians to remain in office. i think that's certainly something we have to take seriously as a possibility now. >> reporter: three weeks ago the feds raided the home a

as charles krauthammer in "the washington post," that's a little much. >> jon: have the media changed their minds about mitt romney after him going two for two. i think they're beginning to have to acknowledge the obvious, which he is the front runner, he's going into super tuesday as the front runner and even conservatives like jennifer reuben in "the washington post" have said, you know, rick santorum makes social issues the issue, and then he gets mad at the media for covering him when he does that. i think that the tide has really turned on the santorum surge, and even if the headliners don't seem to get it yet. >> jon: here is another aspects of this, monica, rick santorum has bashed the media and said, look, they are, you know, misquoting me or they are focusing on the wrong things and focusing on my religion and not my economic plan. you don't hear that much from mitt romney. >> you know what's interesting, whenever republican presidential candidates go after the media, they either have success or they don't and i think that the thing that decides whether or not they're going t

i was really fired by the washington post. that's a curious story that you'll--that you'll find in there, but i continue to be friends with katharine graham and ben bradlee. i've talked with them about the--about that matter several times. and they, indeed, recommended me--i mean, the post recommended me when i was considered for the sam--a similar job at the new york times, which i got. c-span: why did they fire you? >> guest: well, it was an offshoot of katharine's decision to bring ben bradlee over from newsweek to the managing--to the editorship of the post. and that had a secondary effect, which i don't think katharine ex--expected. the number-two person at--at the post under al friendly, the managing editor, was a guy named ben--ben gilbert and he really got upset because he had expected to--to move--ad--advance himself and he c--when bradlee was put over there, he saw that he--his career was gonna quickly terminate, which it did, in a couple of years. so gilbert was the man i had worked with mostly as picture editor and

and alexandra petri, "the washington post" editorial writer who rush attacked today. and tracy mcmillan, author of the american war of eating. she was also attacked by rush this week. thanks to all of you for joining me tonight. >> thanks for having us on. >> let me start with you, congressman bass. congressman bass, what do you say about the gop leadership refusing to denounce rush limbaugh? >> well, i think it's absolutely inappropriate and absurd. they need to be on the floor. they need to be holding press conferences. they need to say that this type of speech which in my opinion is hate speech needs to stop or he need to be off the air. i think that this is the type of thing that leads to violence against women. this is international women's day. and so the way he acknowledges it is by using the "b" word in reference to a woman? what i'm very glad about, though is that there's 50 sponsors that have pulled out. i think there needs to be triple that. and i think the stations need to begin to throw him off the air. that is the only solution to rush limbaugh because h

welcome you to find them on "the washington post" website. for his next call from new york city, david is the democrat there. good morning, david. you're on. >> caller: good morning, just a question. you appear to be a very thoughtful and reflective man. if we could consider the counter factual, so to speak, if after 9/11 we had characterized this as a criminal act and involved the fbi and in terms of securing the country from terrorism and also engaged the cia in terms of gathering intelligence and never gone to war, just never gone to war in afghanistan or iraq and taken a completely different route, would we be in a better position now? >> i think it's entirely possible that we would be in a better position. i think you've raised one of the most important lessons of this ten years of war that we lived through which is that american power in a funny way is more powerful when it's add our side, you know, when the gun is in the holster. once we take it out and begin shooting, once we begin these big expeditionary wars with tens and hundred th

it's also available online at "washington post".com. rosalyn helderman is congressional reporter for the post. thanks for joining us here today. thanks for being with us. >> thanks for having me. >> what is in the plan specifically? i know the details are coming out tomorrow. what can we expect? >> what we've been hearing so far is on the most important issue, which is the top line for how much the budget is going to say that the government should spend in discretionary spending next year, the number that congressman ryan is going to propose is $1.028 trillion. that is the same number that was in his budget last year for the fiscal 2013 year. it's an interesting number for reasons we can discuss. >> what about the timeline for reducing the overall debt? because that's been one of the issues. some say ten years the ryan plan could take up to 30 years. >> that's right. and that number will have to wait to be scored and get some experts to take a look at it once it's actually on paper. but that number would be much more in line with what he

another site they can read and see i'm the same person that looked at amazon that looked at "washington post" that looked at c-span. host: back to the phones. chuck on our line. you're on the "washington journal." go ahead. caller: thank you for listening to me. first i would like to pass along a method that i've use ford years to find out who is has been moving my information. the average person can sign their name like a dozen different ways your first initial last name, middle initial, and i've done this for years andive found out who has been selling my information. by all i get advertisements with that particular way that i signed. another thing too that i want to complain about is v.a. hospital system. i'm a disabled veteran and when i go there for a clinic and they say well you're going to this clinic or whatever, all of a sudden i'm bombardd with all kinds of advertisement from hearing clinics or whatever. and i'm going, whose selling my information over there? so this is happening at the government level also. host: go ahead. guest: so i think that's a great way to ferret out who is

and jonathan cape hart is an opinion writer for the washington post and msnbc con tribi contributor. he is writing about questions he has for the sanford police department he has tonight. thank you for being here tonight. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> eugene, let me start with you. i've been be a be a dacating that the shooter should be arrest end now we are hearing the the sneer on trayvon. >> not only were there major questions about the police investigation on day one but the selective disclosure of information has been a problem. obviously the police and prosecutors have a duty to protect their victims. if you are going to set an

daveragetde you had an item in "the washington post" that said the president's envoy has been conducting secret negotiations with the taliban where they would agree to go to qatar and engage in peace talks with us and also that he is working on a reasonable framework with the neighboring countries to avoid chaos once we get out. is that all off now? or is it still happening? >> no, we'll have to see, but the diplomatic side of this is the right rejoinder to what andrew is have aing and what the country is saying. everybody wants to get out of afghanistan, but you don't want to leave behind the kind of mess that produced al qaeda and the 9/11 attacks. just 0 to finish the point, the best way to do that is to have some regional structure, some agreement among the neighboring countries, pakistan, india, that you are going to contain the violence. afghanistan is requesting to be a violent country probably for as long as we're all alive, but if you can contain it so it doesn't below up -- blow up, it's a safer situation. >> if that were possible, it's clearly the best strategy but if -- in 10

joining me now is david ignacious, opinion writer for t the washington post.for being here. >> great to be here reverend sharpton. >> now, david, how was bin laden planning to do this? >> bin laden talked, in one of the messages in which he had instructed kashmiri oh organize cells with the express purpose of trying to kill president obama and general petraeus in their aircraft as they were traveling, presumably the idea was to find anti-aircraft missiles of some kind. i'm told by white house administration officials that this plot was never a serious threat. they didn't have the ability to carry it off. but the fact that bin laden was still trying for this kind of terrorist spectacular shows us how dangerous he remained until the day he died. >> so you are the only one in the media, the only one that has really seen these documents and these were documents taken from bin laden's compound, letters that he wrote to his aides? >> these are documents -- i've seen both the arabic originals and the translations that have been prepared by the agencies that have been

once a hockey nut write the washington post, always a hockey nut. during his last game on new year's eve, john kerry suffered a broken nose and black eye. he wore sunglasses. at 68 years old, you would think the senior senator might consider giving up the game to concentrate on gentler pursuits, such as politics. he loves hockey. they defeated the lobbyists in -- it's been a running joke. there's the golf players, the annual basketball game and baseball game every summer in washington, d.c. on the house floor today, two members of congress, mike quigley and others with some bragging rights you might say after they defeated the lobbyists. here's what happened earlier today on c-span. >> it is my great pleasure to stand with eric paulson, mike quigley and brian higgins and larry bucshon in a drew bipartisan fashion to deliver the exciting news to the entire house that this team skating together as part of the congressional hockey caucus after a two-year absence on sunday at the verizon center won back the important cup in a victory 5-3 over the lobbyi

this is how he characterized a female "washington post" humor columnist today. >> ms. petrie, i don't know who feeds you your information. i have a pretty good guess. but you might -- you might want to double check here because you've written something that's patently false, it is an out and out lie, complete with your b-i itchy opinion in it. and it is untrue. >> the guy can't help himself. rush can't hide his negative altitude toward women. he also can't hide the trouble his show is facing as of late. this is what you heard today, if you were listening to the rush limbaugh radio show in the largest media market in the country. >> we barely scratch ready the service on the eib network today, for example sit tight, the fastest three hours of media roll on right after this. >> that would be dead air. rush claims sponsors have not runaway but silence speaks louder than words. on the abc web stream, the show had five minutes and 33 seconds of dead air where commercials are supposed to be. of the 86 ads during the broadcast, 77 of them were unpaid public service announceme

according to the washington post report some of the things that would potentially be built and you know the u.s. government is trying to make it very clear that this is not something that's going to happen in the next few years even the next few decades. we don't know if that's true but what they're saying is that it's an ideal location for both manned surveillance plan planes and unmanned drones what do you foresee that this will look like if this is indeed the next sort of future in diego garcia well i think it could be done in stages you don't need is one of the runways for drones and that sort of thing as you do for if you were to put the fifty two bombers like we have a go go see or other bombers that we have there and so i think you know this could be ramped up over time they. seem to think this has been thoroughly discussed they were kind of caught unawares by this but certainly at the lower levels this is being discussed and it could be a plan for the future if any part of this simply the u.s. government or the pentagon trying to send a message or is this actually just the next

it's a new washington post poll. a gallon of gas goes up to $3.80. and epa gasoline regulations, whatever that energy policy is, his numbers are falling until he changes it. now, sizzle number two is the real inflation rate actually close to 8%? on the eve of the feds meeting tomorrow, we debate whether the rate is 8.1, believe it or not. and with 24 hours to go until two major primaries in the south, is mitt romney about to pull off a big upset? all right, but, first up, jus as fast as gas prices continue to rise, president obama's ratings continue to sink. cnbc correspondent joins us with all the details. good evening, john. >> reporter: good evening, larry. this washington post abc news poll has some findings. his overall job approval is down. his handling of the economy is down. this is caused the president, today, as he gave a series of interviews to local affiliate who touted his energy policy to defend what he's done so far and his lack of ability to control the situation. here's president obama. >> i think the american people understand that,

>> mideast trying to counter act the findings we see in the new washington post/abc news poll.he approval rating is taking a beating because of the high gas prices. the white house always said that his standing has improved the last couple of months but things out of their control, certain sevenths could harm his ability to win re-election. and high gases are one of those especially when the president is creating a psychcology of optimism around the recovering economy. more people feel the difficulty at the pump and feel that the gas prices are out of control, even if they understand that president obama is not making that happen, it plays into republican arguments and hurts the president. >> sure. the disapproval of the president's overall handling of the economy, that's also taking a hit. a record number of americans holding strongly negative reviews and just last week we talked about how good the president's approval rating was. so what happened in that short period of time? >> well, you can't discount the possibility of sampling variation, so polls go up and down, and our n

just 26% of those in a "washington post" survey approve of the president's job performance on gas prices his lowest rating in the poll. most responded to a "washington post" survey saying high gas prices are taking a toll on family finances. 59% gave the president negative ratings on the overall economy. >>> 5:37 the time now. 49 degrees outside. tragedy in afghanistan. the safety concerns facing u.s. forces now after an american soldier's shooting rampage. >>> here's something that will bug you. why our mild winter could mean more pests for you this spring and summer. yuck. >>> and if you haven't noticed, spring has sprung around the area. >>> the mieltd mild winter could bring pesky bugs out sooner than usual. experts say you may see mosquitoes, tics, spiders and other creepy crawlers as early as this spring. there's already a warning out for tics in fairfax county and termites in homes. some insect experts are concerned about the bees since there's been little or no snow and rain. experts are worried that bees won't have enough flowers for nectar. although a lot of flowers are bloomin

look at the "washington post" fact-checker. glen kessler.went through the energy document that the white house put out today. they can't claim credit for a lot of things they claim credit for. we looked today from quotes in 2008 when gas prices were on the rise and things then that senator obama as candidate said about president bush and oil policies. in some ways, what president bush had a great opportunity to do but looks like he won't take it is totally go against type, go ahead and say we're going to do keystone. environmentally responsible way and then ten years from now that will be my legacy. >> that isn't the only option for the democratic party. we can also instead of just relying on this keystone pipeline, whatever problems there are, i get it. i understand, i think that it is a good idea. as a liberal. i think it's a good idea. but we also have nuclear energy, we have other options for america. and reducing our reliance. >> dana: the problem is that debate -- it's all about energy. we need energy of all sorts. nuclear energy would

washington post, drawnout battle goes on and usa today, romney ekes out ohio win. the coverage was kind of similar on the cable channels and the networks as well. and there seems to be this reluctance to call mitt romney a winner. >> well, i think that's kind of fair. >> and i think santorum would agree. i mean, look, romney's having a very hard time and actually i think his speech tuesday night was probably the best i've heard him give. but nonetheless the media are the enjoying the fight. >> that seems to be the focus, the republicans going after each other what the media likes to focus on. >> wouldn't you if you were rooting for obama? let's take a look at four years ago, these are some of the headlines after the democratic super tuesday four years ago. and look at these headlines, "the washington post," obama on super tuesday, our time has come. in the new york times, with issues of war and peace on their minds, voters make choices, the wall street journal, tight contest, historic firsts heighten interest. >> record may fall and in usa today, bragging rights go

and a retired major wrote this in the washington post.rhaps it might be right and proper to suggest the underlying issue is not the failure of our army. and could the issue be no institutional effort can make up trying over the past ten years to fight too many wars with too few soldiers. paul rieckhoff, regular people that i spoke to said after this, we have to get out of there. >> let's break that apart. what is true is our troops are being asked to do an unprecedented amount of work. nobody has been asked to do so much for so long. less than one-half of the 1% of the american public. we don't know about a lot of the facts. the facts continue to unfold. our troops are under tremendous strain but there's not a connection with traumatic brain injury and murderous rampages like this. the troops are honorable and courageous, and we have to make sure we don't let this man represent so many that have done so much for the country and while most folks have not been paying attention. this is what it took for the country to have this conversation,

the "washington post" is reporting that u.s. officials are negotiating with afghan leaders about extending the american military presence in the country beyond 2014. again, we'll see if this news today changes that. >>> secretary of state hillary clinton will meet with her russian counterpart today at the u.n. amid sharp divisions about how to end the blood in syria. at least 12 people were killed in the city of homs on sunday. the regime blaming armed terrorists for the deaths as they have opposed. russia has repeatedly opposed intervention. kofi annan left damascus yesterday without securing a cease-fire deal from president assad. >>> we turn to 2012 american politics, rick santorum is coming off a big weekend win in the kansas caucuses even as the romney campaign claims a big win with delegates. santorum got 51% support, a full 30 points ahead of romney. romney won the delegate vote in wyoming's county conventions on saturday. combined he added 39 delegates to his total this weekend, rick santorum got 36. in all romney leads

that was the lead story in today's "the washington post."he're talking about iranian revolutionaries. putting in weaponry, money, electronic surveillance. intel officials and also helping with questions of defense. let's be clear. for iran, syria is their number 1 ally in the arab world. most of the arabs are very nervous about the iran presents. if you back to the iraq war that went on for eight years, the only country that helped iran in that war was syria. it would be a devastating blow for iran. host: next caller is from dallas, texas. caller: a tenement with the apac think tank. host: i will stop right there because you are a repeat collar. we do ask that our viewers wait 30 days. good morning. caller: your guest mansion the regarding israel's window, i disagree. i think israel, a lot times in world affairs, acts like the kid who pays the big bully to back it up. guest: i said it has an open window. that means it has to make a closer calculation that it could be now-or-never for them. the defense minister said so in an interview. just a

it didn't take "washington post" fact check it.ed it and found out that he was offbase. we may have 60 times what he set himself. >> greg: if obama spun any faster we could use it to drill for oil. >> andrea: that would be helpful. >> kimberly: it would. >> juan: at least funny. i would be amused by it. >> greg: could be a superhero. >> juan: better than the hypocrisy at the table. >> greg: be very mad. >> andrea: exactly. >> juan: imagine that. republicans who say oh, no, we have nothing to do with this great economic fall. we had nothing to do with it. we deregulated everything. the housing industry, the banks -- >> andrea: juan -- >> juan: you don't represent -- >> andrea: hypotheticals saying it would have been better, could have, would have, should have don't win elections. >> juan: right. it would have been absolutely. >> eric: he promised he wouldn't for a better term if it's not better by now. >> juan: it is better. >> kimberly: don't worry. the russians feel good about us. coming up, they tell the democratic party they nee

the washington post reports: >> all right. i'm going to bring in a guest michael mcauliffe has been following all this. mike in a best case scenario where president obama is an actual progressive does it not appear to be, does he not appear to be the world's worst negotiator? >> well, i can't tell you how many times over the last three years i've heard progressive democrats, even some middle of the road democrats campaign up on capitol hill about the president's negotiating skills. one guy said the problem is he keeps giving the republicans more cheese so they keep coming back for more. he starts at the end point doesn't fight for the part that he thinks or progressives think he should be. he just lets them, here's where i'm at and then he starts moving over to the right. >> you know, one of the parts of the story that really struck me that i just talked about is dick durbin was in the gang of six. nobody thinks he is a lion of strength. is he a weak senator a democratic aband he got $2 trillion in tax increases in negotiation