when he went to the whitehouse, he contacted me. and when he came to deliver his speech from cairo here, it was an excellent speech that enshould, assured the arab and muslim countries and people and it was a clear and loud message to all arab and muslim countries. before that, there was some sort of unease and concern about the leader's administration. but i also met him in rome duringnghe g-15 meeting. it was not a long time to talk, but when he visited cairo, we covered all the issues and how to handle the same. and i did find him and understanding man who wants to listen and to take informed decisions. and he's opened two opinions. i advised him to listen to everybody and after that you will make a full picture about which you can take informed decisions. and i'm very optimistic on the steps to be taken by president obama. he is well balanced in all his speeches and addresses. particularly within the context of violence particularly in arab and d aq, the concerns in the arab and muslim countries. once again, i think the obama ca

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whitehouse panel says swine flu could send almost two million people in the u.s. to the hospital. virus could kill between 30,000 and 90,000 people. one medical people in the u.s. have already gotten sec with swine flu and infection may rise as kids go back to school. vaccine is being created right now. white house expects the first round of shots will cover as many as 40 million people. >> this flu is active. it is not only in countries around the world but very much still circulating in this country. >>reporter: health and human services secretary also said she expects most people who want the swine flu vaccine will get it by thanksgiving. she's also suggesting people get a seasonal flu vaccine as well. >>> thousands of college students return to camp pus this weekend with many schools starting up on monday. swine flu emergency plans are already in place. kathleen live tonight from the maryland institute college of arts on mount royal avenue with the latest on the story tonight. kathleen. >>reporter: well, jeff, this campus had an influx of students with flu over the summer so s

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>>reporter: today deputy whitehouse press secretary bill burton took that a step further, saying without reform, the entire u.s. economy faces ruin. >> if we don't do something, not only is health caregoing to be in crisis, but the deficit will -- we will not be on a fiscally-sustainable path. >>reporter: as the financial realities are coming together, there are questions about why tort reform isn't part of the package. >>reporter: he demanded to know why the threat of medical lawsuits couldn't be reduced. >> there's $200 million -- nobody loses but the lawyers. >> (cheering). >> why have we not considered that. >>reporter: he turned the mic over to howard dean, who gave a surprisingly frank answer. >> here's why tort reform is not in the bill. when you go to pass a really enormous bill like that, the more stuff you put in, the more enemies you make; right? the reason the tort reform is not in the bill is because the people who wrote it did not want to take on the trial lawyers, in addition to everybody else. that is the plain and simple truth. >>reporter: the president of the american m

senator whitehouse. >> thank you, mr. chairman. and thank you for your wise and fair leadership of these confirmation proceedings. i also thank the ranking member for his fairness and courtesy of these proceedings. i will be proud to vote in support for judge sotomayor's nomination to the supreme court. i appreciate as i know the chairman and others do her background as a prosecutor. and i believe her noncontroversial 17-year record as a federal judge makes clear that she's dedicated to the rule of law, has a proper judicial temperament and gives every party before her a fair hearing. i also believe the unequivocal pledge that judge sotomayor gave me. that she will respect the role of congress as representatives of the american people, that she will decide cases based on the law and the facts, that she will not pre-judge any case but listen to every party that comes before her, and that she will respect precedent and limit herself to the issues that the court must decide. in short, that she will use the broad discretion of a suprem

senator whitehouse. >> thank you, madam chair. you have you have assembled a y towards a clean energy future. the consequence of failing to do that are man fold, there are natural security consequences, economic consequences, jobs consequences, quality of life consequences, and environmental consequences and they're all going to become very real for our children and grandchildren if we fail to acts but the second and related point that i want to leave us with is i don't believe that our present status quo is some ideal state of nature from which any variation is an anomaly or an interference. the status quo right now is riddled with government hand on the levers of our economy. it just happens to put those hands in places that benefit dirty polluting industries. and to move government's hand in a way that supports a better clean energy future is not a disturbance in the state of nature that some of my colleagues appear to presume the status quo represents, it's actually just making better decisions with the same government power w

whitehouse. i. mr. wicker. mr. wicker. no. mr. wyden. >> i. >> mr. wyden. i. mr. bennett of utah. no. mr. bayh. i. mrs. hutchison. no. mr. inhoff. no. mr. begich. i. >> they are just about to announce the final tally here. they've collected all the votes. so we're going to hear the announcement here in just a moment so we'll continue to listen. we're seeing the figure passed up from the clek there from the first row to second row, which will be passed to the presiding officer, which is al franken, and he will announce the result. what will often hold this up now if there is one or two members who came late or have not voted or changed their vote. there's a small period of time, a window of opportunity for them to do so and again, it's unclear exactly what the discussion is right now, but we expect at any moment we'll see al franken slam the gavel. >> the white house is saying judge sotomayor is going to stay out of the public view today. she's at a federal courthouse in new york watching this as well with a number of people with her. we hope to speak with someone who's with the ju

. >>> whitehouse e maims show that karl rove was deeply involved in the firing of at least one u.s. the documents reveal extensive exchanges between rove and then white house counsel harriet myers about federal prosecutor david iglesias. he was one of nine u.s. attorneys fired for apparently not being loyal enough to the bush administration. then suing controversy led to the eventual rest us nation of attorney general albert owe gonzales. >>> funeral arrangements are now set for eunice kennedy shriver. there will be a public service tomorrow in massachusetts. a funeral mass will be held in o. friday morning. it is likely to be closed to the public though. >>> still ahead, how would you like it if you only had to fill up a few times a year. coming up, we are talking more about general motors' push to boost sales with one incredibly fuel february ride. >> we'll tell you when the chevy volt will hit the show rooms. >>> paula is out. simon is staying. we'll take a look at the pay the meanest judge on american idol will be pulling in.  announcer: during the autobahn for all event,

they throw a lot of money around, and they are whitehouse .gov, so what is next?eil: my next guest says regardless of the ridiculous, this does raise some serious issues. what do you think? >> i think that your previous guest's concerns are correct, and here's why -- when president nixon used the fbi and cia and civilian clad military to take pictures of people during anti- war protests in the 1970's, the supreme court said it was unconstitutional. when nixon left office, the congress enacted the privacy act, which prohibits any branch of government from copying defaces or the words that people use and from storing those in records. it also prohibits the government from watching you while you browse a book in a library or get copies of the books you take out of the library. what is the internet? it is a modern-day library, the gateway to knowledge. just as the government cannot be over your shoulder with a camera when you are browsing through books in the library, the government cannot watch you as you browse through a web site or the internet. it is equally as pr

he lost his bid for the whitehouse but gave a spirited speech at the convention. >> the work goes on. the cause endures. the hope still lives and the dream shall never die. >> reporter: his run for the presidenciy over, he returned to washington to become known as quote, the lion of the senate. his private life became fodder for the cab lloyds inform 1982 after 24 years of marriage, he was divorced frohis wife joan. in 1991-rbg his nephew, william kennedy smith was charged with raping awe woman at the family's palm beach etate. kennedy's once stellar reputation was beginning to wayne inform 1992-rbgs he became involved in a relationship that would change his life forever. he married victoria reg gift e, a divorced mother of two and those close to the senator said he had finally found the happiness and peace he had sought for so long. he began to repair his tattered reputation fighting for the social issues he believed in like universal health care. despite never winning the white house, he remained an ardent supporter for others seeking the presidency an endorsed program early in the

i'm going to listen to what shelton whitehouse or bob casey says. i'm going to listen to barack obama more than i have because these opponents are just way over the line with what they're saying. >> i happen to agree with you 100%. i suppose it remains to be seen whether or not it plays out that way but that certainly is where it feels like it's going now. democratic senator sherrod brown, thank you so much for your time. appreciate it. >>> having grown up watching a lot of cartoons, i sort of figured we would have flying cars by now, right? didn't you? well, chevrolet hasn't gotten there yet but they are a little bit closer. at least in my mind. here's some really, really cool car news and including a lot of pictures and a mechanic to explain it all. and then kent jones has a report about flying cars and the jetsons and stuff. seriously. coming up. i'm racing cross country in this small sidecar, but i've still got room for the internet. with my new netbook from at&t. with its built-in 3g network, it's fast and small, so it goes places other laptops

senator whitehouse. >> thank you, chairman, and thank you for your wise and fair leadership of these confirmation proceedings. i also thank the ranking member for his fairness and courtesy throughout the proceedings. i will be proud to vote in support of judge sotomayor's confirmation to the united states supreme court. i appreciate, as i know the chairman and others do, her background as a prosecutor, and i believe her non-conversion 17-year record as a federal judge makes clear that she's dedicated to the rule of law, has a proper judicial temperament and gives every party before her a fair hearing. i also believe the unequivocal pledge that judge sotomayor gave me, that she will respect the role of congress as representive of the american people, that she will decide cases based on the law and the facts, that she will not pre-judge any case but listen to every party that comes before her, and that she will respect precedent and limit herself to the issues that the court must decide. in short, that she will use the broad discretion of a supreme court justice wisely. she promised th

whitehouse: i thank the presiding officer. the presiding officer: the senator from utah. mr. hatch: i have enjoyed my colleague's remarks. i don't agree with him but he is a great colleague and we appreciate him. mr. president, i rise today to explain why i cannot support the nomination of judge sotomayor sonia sotomayojudge sotomayor te supreme court and i do this with regret because the prospect of a woman of puerto rican heritage serving on the supreme court says a lot about america. says a lot about america. >> judge sotomayor has achieved academic and professional success, and i alaud her -- applaud her public service. but in the end her record creates too many conflicts with fundamental principles about the judiciary in which i deeply believe. i do not have -- it did not have to be this way. president obama could have taken a very positive step for our country by choosing a his tannic -- hispanic nominee whom all senators could support. president obama could have done so, and i regret he did not. i commend the ranking member of the judiciary committee senators leahy and

. >> reporter: now virtually alone, and dependent on her husband, james whitehouse, who drives 1,000 miles a week to see her, atkins is asking that her life sentence be cut short, so she can die at home, rather than the california prison system, where she's been for 39 years. denied parole repeatedly. despite expresses of deep regret for her victims and their loved ones. >> she's expressed remorse and grief for every one of her parole hearings, going back to 1972. >> reporter: diane sawyer met her in prison. she told diane, she's a changed woman. >> i'm not the same person i was when i came in here. >> do you expect to be out someday? >> i would like to be out someday. >> reporter: still clinging to that hope, atkins and her family will again appear before a parole board this september to make their plea official. but the families of the manson victims and their advocates, dismiss economics as a good reason for early release. >> the very release of a killer like that sends a message to people that this life sentence doesn't mean a life sentence. she needs to, in grace and dignity, fi

senator whitehouse. >> thank you, chairman. ms. burke you're done such good work as we look to rhode island as a potential national model here, what further feedback would you give us on what elements of the lindsay ann burke programs have been best received, have been most effective, what are the lessoned learns from what you've done that you think congress should focus on? i think the lessons learned have been the need for funding. the! ation of the laws working in rhode island mostly because our organization and the rhode island coalition against domestic violence from even before we have a law assed stepped up to the trait and said we will be able to provide free training. so there was no money when it was passed. the drawback in other states is that many states have good intentions, but their were concerned especially in the hard economic times about the cost of training. i've gotten calls even this week from the state of ohio, in new mexico, asking how we implement lindsay's law, what was the specifics and costs involved. i t

senator whitehouse. >> thank you, chairman, and thank you for this hearing. just to continue on senator sessions' point on mirandizing, i think you've said that you look at these matters case by case and you make a very specific fact intensive determination based on the particular circumstances of each case, correct? >> that's essentially right. i think that's the way it should be done anyway. >> that makes sense, doesn't it? >> i think so. >> are there not, indeed, cases in which mirandizing a detainee might actually be part of an optimal interrogation strategy for that particular detainee? >> well, it might be, and that would be something that i as a mere lawyer would want to defer to the interrogation experts. >> but certainly since congress is an interrogation expert, it would be a mistake for us to foreclose your ability to apply miranda warnings where the case by case in fact intensive determination suggested that it was a good idea? >> i think that's the absolutely critical point. we have a range of different remedies and tools we can use, and i think

you compare the houses, this house and house before that whitehouse, where the washington's were, witht was called braintree, and the notion that the lady was in that little cramped house, about the size of this room, was suddenly having 100 people to tea is a stretch, and she had to adjust. she had been an ambassador's wife. she had been in the court before, but she was not coming straight from braintree to washington to philadelphia, but still, she was not the gracious southern hostess who had grown up pro-life with people around -- her whole life with people around. she also did not have nearly costas. she was a great addition by the time that washington left the presidency. i remain so admired of martha washington on so many fronts. this is one. she had little bitty children when she was first lady. george washington custas got lost. when i was reading that, my daughter-in-law was doing a quick reading, she got nervous. what happened to him? i said, i guess i better get him found. [laughter] and then nellie was a wild and crazy thing, according to martha, but one of the things she

senator whitehouse. >> thank you, madam chair. you ever assembled distinguished witnesses. i think i may be the last person between us and them. i don't want to go on, but i do want to emphasize briefly the points that were made. it's important that we reset our economy towards a clean energy future. the consequence of failing to do that are manifold, national security consequences, economic consequences, jobs consequences, quality of life consequences,en environmental consequences that will become very real if we fail to act. the second point that i want to leave us with is i don't believe that our present status quo is some ideal state of nature from which any variation is anomaly, or interference. the status quo right now is riddled with government hand on the levers of our economy. it just happens to put those hands in places that benefit dirty, polluting industries. to move government's hand in a way that supports a better clean energy future is not a disturbance in the state of nature that some of thigh colleagues appear to presumesthe status quo represents. it's actu

. ♪ host: good morning, the whitehouse leaked the news shortly after 9:00 p.m.onday evening and today papers are reporting on the re-emanation of fed chairman ben bernanke. we will hear from the president live this morning from martha's vineyard at about 9:00 a.m. eastern. nasa try again tomorrow to launch the space shuttle after bad weather delayed the launch. this morning, also h1n1 could infect many thousands of this fall. more details on the prosecutor. we will look into the alleged cia interrogation abuses. those are some of the issues we will talk about on this august 25. our focus this first half-hour is on the federal reserve board and the expected re-nomination of. chairman ben of -- of chairman ben bernanke. we will also take your e-mails or you can send us a message by twitter. here is the front page above the fold in "the washington post" -- as a ben bernanke is reappointed, the announcement will come this morning from an elementary school. here is what mr. obama will say "as an expert on the causes of the great depression i'm sure that ben never ima

this portion begins with democratic senators sheldon whitehouse, robert menendez and dianne feinstein. >> madame president, it should be no surprise might views are not those of the distinguished ranking member of our judiciary committee. but somewhat different. i served on this committee for 16 years now. i have sat through the confirmation hearing of four supreme court justices and all i am very proud to say on a believe the president made an excellent choice and i enthusiastically support this nominee. judge sotomayor is a boreman and intelligent woman. more importantly though, she is a solid tested and mainstream federal judge. her personal story is one of hard work. she has risen above all kind of obstacles and she has perseverance. she's a role model for women until all and i cannot help feel a sense of enormous pride in her achievements, her nomination and hopefully before the end of the week her confirmation to be a supreme court justice. as i said the confirmation hearings a supreme court justice should possess at least five qualities. one, broad and relevant experience. so h

one is above the law so many times i couldn't count, then i heard nancy pelosi -- lighthouse -- whitehousend feinstein, i didn't hear any of the republicans say that, that no one is above the law. what is the message to all of us, african-americans, and for those -- of 57-year-old white woman, what is the message to all of us, we watch people in the bush administration or any administration who commit very serious crimes, lying about weapons of mass destruction, undermining our department of justice, when we watch our leaders not hold these countable -- these people accountable and watch some guy go to prison for five years for holding up the local grocery store or whatever it is, when we watch our leaders not hold crime accountable, what is the message to the rest of us? the message is very serious, that they are above the law. >> guest: none of us should be above the law. the reason you were not hearing that response from the republicans on the district committee they were holding hearings, the fear that there would be some effort to go back and have inquiries, investigation into what to

. >> and it's a big whitehouse that my familwhite housethat my. and i said, senator, welcome to the white house. and everybody cracked up. oprah had this great party and invited, what my daddy calls, all the big negroes and one little academic, me, to go out there a couple of septembers ago. and she seated me across from him. there were like 200 people there. and i admire him. i didn't know him when he was at harvard but i remember when he was elected president of the law review. i was really proud of him. i didn't know how to say his name but i was really proud of him. but it was iowa. i went to sleep waiting for the iowa results. i was living out at stanford on iis ais he bat cal. sabbatical. and i always watch leno, now conan. and i woke up and he was giving that victory speech. and do you know what it made me feel like? like what bobby kennedy's speeches used to make me feel like. and i jumped out of bed. i didn't want to miss t. it was. that was one of the truly great speeches. everybody talks about the convention speech and the acceptance sp

let's see, i heard eric hole holder say no one is before the law more times i can count and then i whitehousend leahy and feinstein. i didn't hear any republicans say that that no one is above the law. so what is the message to all of us, african-americans, say, the recidivism rate for men in prison and those in appalachia ya, and me, 57-year-old white woman, what's the message to us that we watch people say, for instance, the bush administration or any administration, who commit looks like very serious crimes, lying about wmds, outing valerie plame, when we watch our leaders not hold these people accountable and you watch some guy go to prison for whatever amount of time, five years for holding up a local grocery store or whatever, when we watch our leaders not hold serious crimes accountable, what's the message to the rest of us? i think the message is very serious, that they are above the law. >> host: kathleen, thank you. >> guest: i think kathleen's answer is self-evident. i don't think any of us should be before the law and the reason you weren't hearing that response on the committee i

former whitehouse reporter. lve on cspan. sunday, frank rich with the new york times. the white water hearings on q &a > > how is c-span funded? > > advertiasing? a private initiative. ♪ >> this is c-span's "america and the courts." thursday, the u.s. senate voted to confirm the nomination of sonia sotomayor to the supreme court 68-31 with nine republicans joining the democrats. next, highlights from the senate floor debate. sotomayor's nomination, but first i'm going to be joined by several of my esteemed fellow women senators, including senator shaheen of new hampshire, who is here already. senator stabenow of michigan. senator gillibrand from new york. and senator murray of washington state. we all know that this nomination is history-making for several reasons, but one of them, of course, is that judge sotomayor will be only the third woman to ever join the supreme court of the united states of america. we know she's incredibly well-qualified. she's got more federal judicial experience than any nominee for the past 100 years. that's something that's remarkable. but

senator whitehouse. >> thank you, madam chair. you ever assembled distinguished witnesses.i think i may be the last person between us and them. i don't want to go on, but i do want to emphasize briefly the points that were made. it's important that we reset our economy towards a clean energy future. the consequence of failing to do that are manifold, national security consequences, economic consequences, jobs consequences, quality of life consequences,en environmental consequences that will become very real if we fail to act. the second point that i want to leave us with is i don't believe that our present status quo is some ideal state of nature from which any variation is anomaly, or interference. the status quo right now is riddled with government hand on the levers of our economy. it just happens to put those hands in places that benefit dirty, polluting industries. to move government's hand in a way that supports a better clean energy future is not a disturbance in the state of nature that some of thigh colleagues appear to presumesthe status quo represents. it's actua