who will be bailed out, who will not bail out? i again ask you for some clarity on what is a financial institution? >> congressmen, i don't think we are going to be able to take this further. i do not believe you can read this statute today. things might be different in the future. i don't think you can read the statute today to justify action beyond the scope of the actions we have taken in this context. >> i am personally hoping that the legal interpretation of a statute does not change in the passing of a handful of months. >> we have to pass two tests to use this authority. does the law gives us the authority to act proved the other is, are those actions necessary and prudent in the interest of fixing this mass, restored to financial stability? it is not the simple test -- >> forgive me because our time is constrained. leaving the question of the definition of a financial institution, there are roughly six or eight major programs under tarp. i am curious for having been serving on this panel for a year, i am having trouble dis

who are not considering, god's evaluation of who we are, we as christians believe we are made in thege of god and that gives us a perspective of the value of life, of human beings all over and we do not craft a health care program that attempts to try to depopulate the -- what i call the baby boomers who are flooding into the retirement ranks at such a rate, that it is stretching the social security, and medicaid and medicare and this elite is prescribing a solution that does not consider who we are. as christians. >> reverends appreciate it. we will continue our conversation when we return in a moment. >> i lost my ear phone.

could a bank robber -- >> i'm saying any violent felon who is sentenced after a trial by a judge who has heard from the victims, heard from the witnesses, a violent felon, someone who goes into your home and burglarizes your home with you in it at night and holds a knife to your throat while they go through your property and takes your wife and holds a knife to her throat and then goes into your baby's room and grabs them out of bed, that's a violent crime. >> larry: how do you write that law because a violent felon would also be a husband who hits his wife. and is sentenced to six months. you'd keep him forever. >> no, no, no. >> larry: why? that's violent. >> the answer, if you would want, if you would feel comfortable having this person with this entire history living next to you, check it off and go to question number two. finished his ged, finished all of this. what i think people fail to realize in the criminal justice system is that those people, if they're smart enough, and we hope that they're smart, have heard from victims, have seen the evidence, have seen the photographs

but, hey, who's counting? lott voted to kick clinton out of the presidency, only to have the next president, a republican, george w. bush push him out of the senate leadership. here's trent lott reminding bill of that first encounter of the first part. >> one of the reasons why i think we got along so well, and why we got a lot more than people realized was going on that he we did get done is because we never lost our ability to talk. even when i'd do something or say something stupid or vice versa -- excuse me, mr. president -- the main thing about it is quite often we'd call one or the other and laugh about it. >> yeah, vice versa. hell of a joke. anyway, the room was full of lobbyists. they laugh when any politician tells anything halfway funny. it's their job to laugh. time now for tonight's "big number." there's been hands wringing on the right over the 30 policy czars so-called serving in the obama administration. so how many -- somebody in the national committee actually put out a video narrated by cons

who -- who has a lot of experience in this.mark strella and we need from the iraqis a similar commitment to bringing these refugees home. the iraqis often tell us that there are no barriers, they can simply come home. we believe more needs to be done to make sure that they feel welcomed and feel safe. so i can assure you, this is a real priority, because these refugees who are -- who are in places like syria, and jordan, are not having an easy time of it. it is costing everyone money, and we would like to get them home. i have raised this with the iraqi government, and i will continue to raise this. there's one very specific thing, which is they have agreed to name an interagency coordinator, because this can't just be dealt with in their ministry of immigration. they need to have a more interagency process. they have agreed to do this. and i think we're going to really hold them to it. >> well, thank you. i've had the chance to visit with some of the iraqi refugees in both syria and in jordan. and you're absolutely right. ther

for those who don't. and it will slow the growth of health care costs for our families, our businesses and our government. [applause] it's a plan that asks everyone to take responsibility for meeting this challenge. not just government, not just insurance companies, but everybody. including employers and individuals. and it's a plan that incorporates ideas from senators and congressman, from democrats and republicans. and, yes, from some of my opponents in both the primary and general election. here are the details that every american needs to know about this plan. first, if you are among the hundreds of millions of americans who already have health insurance through your job or medicare or medicaid, or the v.a., nothing in this plan will require you or your employer to change the coverage or the doctor you have. [applause] let me repeat this. nothing in our plan requires you to change what you have. what this plan will do is make the insurance you have work better for you. under this plan it will be agai

the ones who suffer silently and the ones who share their stories with us at town halls and emails and letters. i received one of those letters a few days ago. it was from our beloved friend and colleague, ted kennedy. he had written it back in may shortly after he was told that his illness was terminal. he asked that it be delivered upon his death. in it he spoke about what a happy time his last months were, thanks to the love and support of family and friends, his wife vickie, his amazing children, who are all here tonight. and he expressed confidence that this would be the year that health care reform, that great unfinished business of our society, he called it, would finally pass. he repeated the truth that health care is decisive for our future prosperity but he also reminded me that it concerns more than material things@@@@@ at stake are not just the details of policy but fundamental principles of social justice and the character of our country. i thought about that sprays quite a bit in recent days. the character of our country. one of the unique and wonderful things about ameri

. >> there has to be a rebellion between the people who have nothing and the people who have it all.everything was being handled by the secretary. this is an intelligence operation. >> where is our money? >> i don't know. tavis: ouch. let's jump right into it. what is the price we pay for our love of capitalism? >> the price we pay is that we now live in a country where there is a foreclosure filing once every 7.5 seconds. tavis: seconds? >> seconds. one out of every eight homes in this country now are in delinquency or foreclosure. it is not just the housing market. because we have allowed the money to be redistributed to very few people at the top. almost like a pyramid scheme. a ponzi scheme. the few guys at the top have more financial wealth than bottom 95% combined. combined. 1%. more than the 95%. absolutely insane. we're talking about we love living in a democracy. we love living in a country with equality. where is everything. call all the shots. and construct a country where we still have outrageous poverty rates. especially with kids. high school dropout rates in our cities

retreat and who become fearful and who cut themselves off from the people around them. and you'll see little pockets of the community that suffer when people do that. so ultimately i think it's a very inspirational story because you get to see our capacity of improvising our way out of very complicated social situations when there's a willingness to do so. and so with that, i'd like to take a few questions, if i could. i know sometimes asking the first question can be tough. i see some familiar faces who were at the carter center when we launched the book about a month ago. and it came to this moment and i was kind of anxious, you know, is anyone going to ask a question and this young man bolted past 300 grownups to the microphone and he pulled out a piece of paper and he said, my name is so-and-so. it was clear he didn't speak english very well but he had everything written out so he didn't make a mistake. my name is so-and-so and i'm from nepal. i live in clarkston and i want to know how can i join the fugees and everyone sort of clapped and luma said, well, you know,

who was part of who my parents were. everyone of my uncle served in world war ii. and the media today is full of stories about how desperate the situation is in afghanistan and i brought with me for fiv different newspapers all of which have a story on page 1 about how bad things are in afghanistan. you could take the word afghanistan out of the article into years ago the word would have been ira well gets what? they won the war in iraq. soldiers, sailors cordesman and marines of the united states of america won that war and yet you would not know that from the media because as soon as the war turned around thstop covering and today all the bad news is coming out of afghanistan. i would like to remind young peop who dt have the blessing that i did it grow up with parents and the greatest generation that in world war ii, and i went back and check because they knew what was going to be here tonight, i went back and check on this day in94 the operation, the first american offensivef world war -- remember pearl harbor had been bombed seven nths before. america lost eve

then we have a doctor who is a real-life southern dandy who lis in the french quarter very well known figure in new orleans, doctor looks. he is a former health commissioner of the city of ne orleans and a frequent customer at the restaurant. and i have him here with one of his favorite waiters. and then finally, we have denise when the book starts and she is a social worker living with her money, her niece and her grannies in an apartment in midcity. and in researching "a.d.," i found through denise to a radio show being interviewed and she talked about her experience living in the convention center and which had to say about her expenses there were really counter to what a lot of people had heard about it being all of this violence going on there with rates and gain members shooting each other and stuff. she actually was talking about how when she was there, the gang members who were there were actually acting as a calming force and agreed to have a truce and were protecting the women and the children and making sure that everyone hadnough food and water. so it was really important

who is he?lassmate in high-school who suffered from deep depression andilled himself in ou junior year. he was a very kind friend to me. as i said, i was the only jewish boy in my school at that time. when one of the other boys who wasn't very nice, i won't say in the name, boy said something to me, call me a dirty jew, my friend, james, swung his book bag, those green book bags, swung his green book bag around and around and hit him in the face. i don't like violence but i said he will never say that agai hi was hunted that he ed. life is fragile, rich or poor, white or black, life is fragile. i was startled, fred rogers, who to me seemed like any turtle young man, is calling me up, he lled me up to ask me how my mom was doing. he didt tell me had cancer, that he was dying. time was stunned when he died, i thought he would live forever. wanted him to live forever. none of us can. that is why i always said, especially young people, you have very i ideals, people say be patient, get your business

lives and who dies of.in segment of the conservative movement, and that is certainly who was at this event over the weekend. and it played well. that part of the race, and why huck ame won 2-1, he can deliver those kind of lines and get head-nodding. that's his background. that's the world he certainly comes from. >> you're preaching to the choir. >> very well-done. >> thank you. >> he gets up there, jumping on fire and brim stone, and no wonder people are eager -- i'll vote him out of office, those rat finches! >> but a lot of christian conservative leaders still are going to harbor the same doubts about huckabee they had last time, and that is gives a great speech, connects with the base, but can he win a general election? and that's the sense i got talking with the folks saturday. >> who won the value voters summit before last year? do you know? just doing a little pop quiz here. >> sure. 2007, huckabee won it, actually. that was the big preprimary votes. huckabee won. actually, romney also was right the

i believe it was senator boxer who was on last night in our coverage who said that if people are preparedike government run insurance, and these members of congress should forfeit their insurance because it is run by the government. if you don't vote for this or don't participate in the conversation in a sincere fashion, then give up your government-run insurance that you are provided as a member of congress. i thought that was excellent. >> and to be honest, maybe they have advocate for giving up medicare and social security and veterans affairs. >> and the list goes on that the government is involved in that somehow turned out to be good. >>> up next -- how will ellen degeneres do as the next judge on "american idol"? talk about controversy, david. some of paula's loyal fans going after ellen. >> wow. we'll have that plus some other stories that are making us say, no way. ♪ bicycle, what are we waiting for? the flowers are blooming. the air is sweet. and zyrtec® starts... relieving my allergies... 2 hours faster than claritin®. my worst symptoms feel better, indoors and outdoors. with z

died. -- honor of those who died. people will capture storys from world war ii veterans as part of the national veterans history project and at rfk stadium more than 250 people will sew quilts for the children whose military parents are stationed overseas. tell us how you are marking that day and how this day effects you. >>> there is more coming. we will look at the fall out from this week's major presidential speech on health care plus the secret to selling your home from a local expert and a reality show style. mi breyaubrfrom real estate teonintien when we return wh fa >>> the prince georges county fire department is investigating the explosion in capital heights, hampton overlook and was filled with chemicals used for water treatment. >> in river dale maryland police are investigating a deadly hit and run it happened last night along annapolis road, 36-year-old jose perez was hit and killed by a chrysler. the driver drove off. >>> the force cannot continue its all hands on deck. that is because it violates a dc p

who don't have insurance get it at a price they can afford. the public option within that exchange is certainly a valuable tool. >> the reality is as a political matter, you cannot get republicans to sign on nor can you get moderate democrats, maybe ten or 12 of them to sign on if the president fights for a public option. true or false? >> look, why don't we let the president speak and make his case and then we can have this discussion. i believe there's an enormous consensus around a broad number of issues to make a great gimps for people who have insurance and people who need insurance and we have to build on that. i think the president will be able to do that on wednesday night and we'll go from there. >> what about the idea of a trigger, which is to say you can introduce a government plan into state if the private insurance market doesn't succeed a driving down prices? does the president think that's an idea worth considering? >> well, i'll let the president address the specifics on wednesday, david, but, again, the goal here is to create

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who stays, who goes. tonight, what it looks like, what it feels like through the eyes of marines. day in, day out, very difficult conditions for them. constant danger. yet the troops of this patrol base will tell you they feel they are accomplishing something. michael ware is in kandahar for us where that waiting game is deadly serious. and dr. sanjay gupta is with an elite army chopper team. medics who fly low and fast under hostile fire to save lives. as we mentioned tonight, in washington, president obama went to battle for his vision of health care reform. for the first time he really took ownership of it. he called it his plan, a plan he says will not increase the deficit, and he says would actually save money over the years. we'll check out the facts tonight with the best political team on television. keeping the president and the opposition honest. we'll get your reaction with the cnn instant poll. but first, an extended sample of the president's health care address tonight to the joint session of congress. listen. >> i believe it makes more sense to build on what works and

who in and of himself is a great united states congressman and who continues the kennedy tradition of fighting for those causes that other people do not want to fight for. and to bring the attention to those who are most in need of health in our -- help in our country and world. it's my honor to recognize the great congressman from the state of rhode island, patrick kennedy. mr. kennedy: i want to thank my good friend and colleague, ed markey, for organizing this special order and all of my colleagues for the wonderful tribute that they have given my dad tonight. and i can just say he loved people in public life because they were willing to go out and face the elements and weather the scorn of public opinion in order to stand up for what they believed in. and that's why he really admired political figures and especially in a time that when political figures aren't very revered. they are pretty much down at the bottom of the public opinion polls in terms of most professions. but he knew what a difference it meant to have people of good faith and conviction be involved in the political

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who was that and who was the person? >>uest: the reason why i chose a religious person, i am not religious in the sense thatight orthodox jewish grandma uld like me to be. but she got something in to meet the spirituity. my mom did too. in different ways. and i have always been drawn to people w if not religiou spiritual people. and i guess that is one reason i did this. i got my little car in harvard square. i had come back from paris at that te. nablus just on the verge of going back to grad school at harvd to appease my father's anxiets anbecae actually wod have loved to spend my life has an english professor at a place like harvard. and at that e our love to spend my whole life. it will not sound very cool to the youngeople, but i would love to a semi life -- spent my life teaching shakespearean sonnets and teaching came later than hamlet with young people and ges my favorite modern poets. mess soon as i reaabout those three young people being muered by the ku klux klan in mississippi, i thought, that could be me. th

you have people who are watching this on tv who were victims. their lawyers and probably themselves are trying to figure out where does this tangled web lead to, and if we follow in this direction, there may be assets out there that we have not yet tapped into. although people may only get pennies on the dollar by pursuing that, it is still something. that is why i think that question is enormously important. if we have any role here, it is to protect the public. i think you are saying beyond any shadow of doubt, the federal government, with this agency that is supposed to protect the public, failed miserably. so that we try to figure out how this committee embraces this very difficult issue and picks up the mantle for these poor people and helps them do what we should have done years ago, which is protect them. >> one thing i can say, in the course of our investigation, we had communications with federal prosecutors who were working on the prosecution of folks related to the madoff ponzi scheme. i can tell you that they are working earnestly to

we'll talk to a democrat who says it's time to go, and a republican who wants to give general mcchrystalroops he wants. >>> plus, different channel, same results. remember those inaugural balls last january when the new president danced exactly the same dance with exactly the same steps in ball after ball after ball? well, that's what yesterday's tv blitz by president obama reminded me of. the president saying exactly the same thing, making exactly the same points, in show after show after show. so what, if anything, did the president achieve yesterday? >>> and you wouldn't think things could get worse for john edwards when we read -- we read over the weekend he's about to admit he did father rielle hunter's child. after that, more uncomfortable details. and you have to ask, what was he thinking when he ran for president? what would have happened if edwards actually won the role the nomination for president? what would have happened had he actually won the democratic na

greta: who wrote the lyrics? and for what purpose? >> we do not know who wrote the lyrics. do know there was a teacher that was in charge of this class that war to with the students on this performance. that teacher, according to a letter by the district, has since retired. greta: now, we are blurring the face of the children to protect them, but how did this go to you to prove who put this on youtube? >> apparently -- how did this go to youtube? >> apparently, this was part of the celebration of various activities. the celebrated abraham lincoln, george washington, groundhog's day, mental-health month, valentine's day, and this was just one of those skit. the skit was then performed again about one month later in march, when there was a women's history event. the students then reprice the step for a guest, -- we prized -- did the skit for a guest. apparently, someone had seen it prior to its removal and make a copy and posted it on youtube. -- and made a copy. greta: what is the reaction in the community to the lyrics of this song? our people backing up the school because

if you are in small units traveling around the country, how are you going to know who's who? >> this is the cover of the "week" magazine. it has uncle sam wading through the mud in afghanistan. the question is, can the u.s. ever tame afghanistan? is this approach the right one? >> i'm not sure the strategy has changed. i just heard david axelrod say the main strategy is to disrupt the taliban, disrupt al qaeda, that's the place from which the attack of september 11 emerged. i hope they remain focused on that goal because that is a worthy goal, a necessary one and probably needs more troops. i think the president in this instance is living up to his campaign promise. i support him completely. i think he's the got the right focus. i think we have no choice. we can't become afghanistan-centric. >> you say the primary thrust is eliminating al qaeda. harold, general mcchrystal has made it clear. the mission is protecting the population. this is a counterinsurgency strategy, right, but there's a lot of work that goes into protect ago population with this kind of culture of poverty,

anyone who has read -- mr. holmes. they were the footprints. he is the reader for life. >> what have you alws wanted to read but haven't? >> what have i always wanted to be but haven't? i do have a list of books of want to read. .. this story of these doan, all these sorts of chinese and japanese indian classics have become more interesting to me as i've grown older and a lot of them tend to be spiritual books. i have read often on earlier but it is become more meaningful as i have grown old there. i think t important thing is to keep expling, keep trying new books for kobett said as you get older you come to a time when you want to go back and reread books. i was a kid in the red and the karina aah. what did i know about mriage and desire or infidelit or any of these themes? ese are things that you onl expdrience when you grow older as an adult and you have gone through a certain amount of vinghat you can go back and reread these books and see much that you did not the first tim through. some people said you can't really understand henry jes u

who have to fire a weapon. i want to knows how many contractors are peeling potatoes and how many are firing weapons. which would bring me to black water now known as "z". since you made your disclaimer about your opinion, you know how it's not exactly the opinion of your bosses. what is your opinion on black water? guest: ok in the total number of contractors working in iraq and afghanistan, approximately 15,000 in iraq are considered armed security contractors, for the purposes of providing security specifically. and in afghanistan that number is 5,000, and those numbers are recent. the potato peelers would fall into the category of base support, and more than half of the contractors are base support. that provides a sense of how many contractors there are, in iraq 11% of all contractors are armed-private security, and in afghanistan it's about 8%. as far as blackwater, it does not have and has not had over the last years a contract with the department of defense to provide armed security in iraq, and i belie

those who steal, those who are corrupt, they cut off their hand, rather than here, where people who can bribe judges and police get away with things. >> reporter: yet marta, who like many indonesians uses just one name, voted for the secular president. so did his neighbor, samsuddin, who praises a government initiative that's helped the poor. >> ( translated ): number one is cash for poor families, and the second is cheap rice. we get $10 a month in cash and 15 kilos of rice. we are a muslim family, but we are not that strict. i voted for the party that is already helping people. it doesn't matter whether it's islamic or not. >> reporter: that kind of sentiment has moved islamist parties to the center. >> people understand now, campaigning, that "we are muslims, we are an islamic party, this is a sharia platform" does not sell. people ask, "tell me what else, tell me in reality, what will you deliver beyond the slogans?" >> we don't name it sharia, because if you name it sharia people then from beginning suspicious to see. >> reporter: fahri hamzah is a member of parliament with the mos

was an indian from north dakota who grew up on the reservation who is now, in the greatest of all ironies the superintendent of mutt -- of mount rushmore national memorial. interpreting not just the recent history of the carving into the sacred black hills, sacred for so many different native peoples, the bust of four american presidents, but also met to launder and complicated native american history of that place and the more complicated intersected -- intersection of the white appropriation of the black hills from the native peoples. that is part of the glory of our national parks services. we have been able -- we have been willing to expand the idea from saving natural scenery, archeologists -- archeological sites, natural habitat, sites that show political and military history, to the symbols of our country like the statue of liberty, the lincoln memorial and not rushmore. but also places like a slave cabins, people may be comfortable life of a slave owner possible. we saved central high school, still a central -- still a working high-school in arkansas. so was the place for japanese

who do you believe? "issues" starts now. >>> shocking and revolting actions ignite a firestorm of a family feud. the whole world knows this by now. mckenzie phillips says she had sex with her own father, rock legend, john phillips. she paints a sickening question claiming daddy pulled her into a frightening world of drugs and forbidden sex. she revealed what she calls her darkest secrets to, who else, oprah. >> i woke up that night from a blackout to find myself having sex with my own father. your father is supposed to protect you. your father is supposed to protect you. not [ muted ] you. >> mackenzie's horrifying allegations are dividing her showbiz family. especially since john is dead. and he cannot defend himself. stepmom, michelle phillips says, you lie. take with a grain of salt anything said by somebody who had a needle in their arm for 35 years. mackenzie was back on oprah today, but this time sister chynna came along who backed her up. >> i'm proud of my sister. you know, am i exceedingly joyfu

so, take a look at everybody who was evacuated then and everybody who came back in the building.hey'll take that against the computer list, for the swipe cards and compare the two and that's probably how they came up with this list of persons of interest, which i call suspect lite. >> right. right. >> we'll. >> he keep the calls coming you come up with great questions as we walk through this together, what could have happened to this young woman set to be married sunday. the same day her body was found. so call in 1-877-tell-hln. we also know this. authorities went to annie le's home. what evidence were they looking for? @roñúíxÑ<pt÷í÷íñí÷uñdlll >>> welcome back. we are continuing our conversation. the unthinkable, a 24-year-old girl, annie le, set to be married sunday yet her body was found stuffed in a wall at yale university where she was studying to be a pharmacist. we have new video, from abc news, home video of annie as you see her, it looks like she is just enjoying herself, playing, smiling. all accounts, she's just a beautiful person inside and out. so, again our hea

who were in their stores, in their cars, who were shopping, who were on their way to a party. were people who supported the government, either mr. ruval amin, who lost his own son is one of my friends. >> charlie: i know. >> we're friends. however. this is a prestaged program, and it was encouraged by some people. and an effort was made to put a positive spin on an illegal act, and some british politicians as well as some american politicians and some media were also trying to turn an illegal act into a legal act, and that was not right. the purpose of elections soto make sure no one goes on the streets. >> charlie: the purpose of an election is to make sure no one goes on the streets? >> yes. because the result of election is meant to demonstrate that the rule of the majority is what carries through. now, without elections, people will have to go on the streets and fight with one another to decide who wins and whoever wins on the street fight will then take over the country buthat's exactly why we have elections. in order to channel the process through a popular vote to decid

it's being a jerk who's wrong on the facts. we must reclaim this land from the, yes, sir, from the morons. all that and more now on "countdown." >>> good evening from our very temporary accommodations in new york. the memo having instructed those who were against health care reform to, quote, rock the boat early in the presentation, to yell out and challenge the statements, to rattle him, get him off his prepared script and agenda, stand up and shout and sit back down. our fifth story on the "countdown." republican congressman joe wilson of south carolina apparently taking that advice, mixing in his long-standing anger management issues and mistaking a presidential joint address to congress for a town hall meeting. later in this news hour, my special comment on congressman wilson's behavior and the true problems therein. we begin with the latest details. mr. wilson today apologizing, but only reluctantly and only under duress for having shouted at the president of the united states, "you lie." >> well, i last night heard from t

>> these people are who obama is. say look -- sean: oh, yeah, i was abused too. >> but we knew nothing about him except his associations. >> and that's the point. a lot of times people tried to warn everybody you do not know what you're getting. this is a jack in the box surprise and now we're just discovering what's coming out. >> we know barack obama was a community organizers. these are the kinds of people you meet when you're a community organizers. i've harped on this so many times. we're the people that actually create jobs and you got these nut cases telling businessmen how to run their businesses. they've never melt a payroll or -- sean: are all of you surprised as i am that he knows their background, the information we gathered for this special tonight is available on google now. in their old books. >> you can google it and find out sean: that's the point. not like i had to do deep investigative reporting. >> von -- van jones was not alger hiss. he was out there being van jones for more than a decade. >> it s

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who he's talking about? >>> also the latest on the angry anti-obama pastor. >> i'm a chief architect. >>> and the whisperer, all this and more on your national conversation for thursday, september 10, 2009. >>> hello, again, everybody, i'm rick sanchez, with the next generation of news, this is a conversation, it is not a speech and it's always your turn to get in involved. this is a big part of the news today. >>> the reforms, the reforms i am proposing would not apply to those who are here illegally. >> congressman joe wilson of south carolina has made a name for himself and for all the wrong reasons. today is congressman has had some explaining to do because he screamed "you lie" during a nationally televised address to a joint session of congress. and as far as we have been able to tell has never happened before, at least not under those circumstances. let me put it into perspective, it was an elected member of congress aiming an insult president at the president of the united states in a joint session o

guess who the winner is?ongresswoman -- jean schmidt of ohio, whose smearing of jack murtha of pennsylvania as a coward on the house floor was the high mark for the bush administration's controlled society. a tea party event monday in cincinnati. . >> he cannot be a president by our constituency. >> if it were not bad enough that schmidt is a mean-spirited, unhammy person who seems bent on spreading those emotions, she's also a complete hypocrite. in july, amid rumors she was a birther, she released a statement saying she believed the president was a natural born citizen of the united states. so she was either lying then or she was lying at that fool at that tea party. either way, she's a pandering, manipulative liar and should resign from the house of representatives. runne runners-up, sports editors of "the oc register." every columnist and commentator will write something so bad, so inappropriate the editor will have to kill it. mr. bean and mr. haarmanson and mr. shale failed to do this. mark whiker went

if you already have insurance and it seems that there are a lot of people who are worried who will losehis plan, but understand this plan, if you already have insurance, you're set. nothing changes. you keep your insurance. you keep your doctors. and you're blessed. this plan just puts in place some basic rules of the road to protect you from the kinds of abuses and unfair practices that we've heard. under this plan, insurance companies will never again be allowed to deny people like debbie and her son coverage for preexisting conditions. sounds like a good thing. so whether you have breast cancer, diabetes, asthma or hypertension, or even just had a c-section or some mental health treatment, that you had in your past, none of that will be a reason to refuse you coverage under the plan that my husband is proposing. because when you're fighting an illness, he believes that you shouldn't also have to be in the process of fighting the insurance companies at the same time. a basic idea. under this plan, insurance companies will no longer be able to drop your coverage when you get too sick o

who would like to be sick tomorrow? who would like to be patient by someone who is endorsed?when you answer those questions as know, you begin to rethink about what is happening in the health care in non system so that we turn it into a system that helps you obtain the answers that to ask for. saying that really changes the trend. hospitals are no longer the center of the universal health care delivery. they are very important. they urge as part of the peace. you can even make an argument that the more hospitals we have and the more beds we open up, the system is failing. i want to talk a little bit about what he said. the first is the peace that has to do with health insurance reform and health care reform. -- it is what i call healthcare delivery reform. their two separate concept but equally important. but take the easy part first produced the easy part is health insurance reform. i hope you are laughing. you know how difficult it is to do this, but believe me, it is the easy part dealing with getting people injured. we have heard it -- insured. we occurred about insurance

a new study on who is working and who is retiring and who is not.he story points out the 14 million americans looking for work a number expected to rise in the jobs report friday for august, a lack of turnover is making it a tough market. pointing out that four in 10 of those workers over 62 saying because of the economy they have delayed retirement. the headline in the new york teams a reluctance to retire means fewer openings. jimmy joins us from colorado city, texas. caller: good morning, steve. appreciate c-span. i would -- i'm a 70-year-old man and i have cancer. i would like to tell you what i think myself about the government. there is only two things these people stand for and that is party and pockets. also, what the problem is, too, they all need to be in a rest home. they can't make good decisions. i think the american people have woke up finally. anyway, and this tea party, when they go what they need to do is carry some brooms. that is to say to sweep out what we've got right now in our government. and i appreciate your time. host: jimm

i know and people who graduated from harvard who do not know anybody who can write them 8 recommendation. -- a recommendation. that is what hbcu's do. >> also pbi's, a lot of which are community colleges. >> let's start with -- >> we have a lot of ground to cover. i hate to cut you off. i will circle back to the connection between education and the economy. i wanted it harvey lawrence in here. you serve as president and ceo of the brunell corporation. >> i think education is incredibly important. financial literacy is something that is woefully lacking overall in our community, not only young folks, but with many adults, because he can employ 250 people, but many of them are entry level. a large part of financial literacy is known what a budget is and how you live within a budget. in terms of education, i work in a community that is an e merchant committee, meaning that is a committee on the rebound. -- a community on the rebound. we operate a health center, several health centers. that has been our inroad into economic development. we also saw in our community that our youth were in tro

young girl who wins, young lady who wins the award.eilianism, beyond politics. he doesn't do everything he does thinking about how is this going to serve me? >> first of all, anything it possible. >> right. >> but i don't look into every action of any president whether it was president obama or bush or clinton and say, hmm, there's a political angle of him making this comment. >> i've been doing this journalism thing my entire life. i always look for the ankle. you think he just said what everybody else is thinking black or white. >> sure. i've had instances of interviewing politicians where you're talking about things that are not related to the subject and frankly you're not going to report elsewhere, and the there is a part of the give and take. >> let me talk about something else now. two stories about racism i want to tell you about now, both in the news. one is the macro version, the big picture. the other is the micro version, a more focused first. first the macro. former president jimmy carter saying opposition to president oba

who else would be better at it than ones who help create it? >> "capitalism: a love story." michael moore, you're welcome back. i appreciate your time. nice to meet you on the tube on "the ed show." >> thanks for my first appearance here. i appreciate it. >> you bet. thank you. >>> next up, the escalating war in afghanistan. the war council meeting at the white house just wrapped up. i'll get the details from cnbc's john harwood in a moment. >>> coming up, eric cantor says democrats aren't listening to the people back home? he thinks democrats aren't offering families real solutions on health care? >> she needs to get this operation quickly. she has no insurance. >> existing programs that are out there, charitable organizations, there are hospitals here who do provide charity care. >> i am never going to stop playing that tape. i'll show you the latest from the minority weasel coming up on "the ed show." access to favorite courses chef's meal with pommes frites perhaps a night at the theater with extra special seats additional hotel night, our treat your world in perfect har

but th fact is that those are obably just the people who most want to retire.d it real goes to sething that occurs much befe they get to rirement age. that is, failure to treat the r exampleas part tim workers with some respect, as part time workers, some respect for the family and for the work th're doing. onof the more controversial parts of the stimulus ckage washat there was aequirement to get certa kinds of money for unemploymen insurance that you -- that e states begin to exct part tim workers where there wereovernors that id i would rather not tak the money at allhan to begin to rewa part time wkers. they're t thinking abouthe fami! they'reot thinking about won! >> and i think a lot of folks who are 62, 63, if you worked a few more years it might not pass on such a hug debt to your grandchildren. the ct is, this is ann a huge issue and right -- and this is a huge issue. ifyou increase benefits at t part time level you are going to maket tougher and touer for employers to have part time employeesnd lose these jobs that these women need. bonnie: up untilhe

who really knows?maybe they were fighting and they don't want to own up to it. >> there were people on the set and there were certainly photographers who follow every move that katie holmes and tom cruise make and those photographers really never caught them fighting. those photographers found them sitting in a park relaxing and maybe they weren't smiling as if they were elated, but they certainly weren't angry. so we reached out to everyone and we found out there was no such fight. >> you took on "star" magazine that jessica simpson had reportedly been paid seven figures to write a tell-all book about her boyfriend. >> complete nonsense. she has no desire to write about her past relationships and certainly she's not going to expose this to the world for what was deemed a $5 million pay kay. >> you challenged perez hilton, the gossip blogger for reporting that michael phelps the olympic champion was to blame for a car crash that he was involved in. >> perez in big letters wrote that it was michael phel