this is -- it is now december and the way the system is broken is, my busiest time as a surgeon in wyoming is at the end of the year, people who met their deductibles, who have insurance, come into the office and say it's time for my operation, i have to get it done before the first of the year because of my -- my -- my deductible. it has been used up. and i want to have my operation that i'm not going to have to pay for. we have the incentives all wrong, mr. president, in this country in terms of health care. so we do not health care reform. but i don't think this bill is the way to do it, which is a government takeover of the government system in america. mr. baucus: mr. president, i've got to address that one. my colleagues want to speak. i think it's worth repeating over and over and over again. this legislation is designed to retain uniquely american solution to health care, roughly half public, half private. it's designed to make sure that patients can still as they should, choose that your own doctor and doctor they want, primary doc specialist, no gatekeeper and that sort of stuff.

three days later he is escaped while they were at a wyoming hotel. cox fled back to colorado and was killed in a shoot-out with police. >> he had a pistol, and he was holding it to his head and they were yelling drop the gun, drop the gun. >> kilgore's father says his daughter broke off her engagement with cox last sunday. >>> mexican police say they have captured the head of the notorious drug cartel. carlos beltran leyva was arrested wednesday. authorities say leyva was taken into custody after he showed a fake driver's license with an alias they knew he had been using. his arrest comes just a week after his brother arturo was killed in a shoot-out outside mexico city. >>> iran has issued an ultimatum over its nuclear program. it's threatening to enrich nuclear fuel on its own if the west does not renegotiate a u.n.-backed deal by the end of january. this demand came two days after iran defied a deadline by the u.s. and other security council members. the west has been trying to get iran to swap its enriched uranium for nuclear fuel. the concern is

it would be more like deciding there had been homesteading in the west, so let's reserve wyoming andconcede u.s. -- concede -- contiguous states for cattle ranching, and then the cattle would die off because it was too cold. it would turn out that it was not use that people find particularly useful. >> chairman genachowski launched a proceeding to look at the future of media and how it is affecting journalism and newspapers that. what that would do with respect to broadcasters or cable companies or any company they have regulatory effect on. does this seem like a wise policy? >> the industry that is most concerned about this is newspapers. it is a great question. the landscape as we know it is changing before our eyes every day. this is exactly the kind of thing the fcc should be talking about. what they should do about it, i don't know. there may not be any good answers here. there may be only a limited role for the fcc to play, but it seems to me the right question to ask. the media landscape keeps changing, and the local news we have all come to rely on is becoming harder and hard

and brought in territory that represents the three states -- washington, oregon, idaho, parts of wyoming, ponce to montana -- parts of montana, and texas came into his watch. that whole swath of territory was not american when he took over the presidency. it was america's when he left the presidency, and he accomplished that in a single four-year term. >> what are the lessons that he left for today? >> there are a lot. one of the big lessons was if you take the country to war, make sure you do not do it under any pretext. we have seen that in our own time. a lot of people believe that george w. bush was not totally forthcoming withhe american people. lyndon johnson was not forthcoming about the gulf of tonkin incident, and james polk was not forthcoming. he maneuvered the country into war without telling america that his undlying aim was territorial expansion. when that became clear, it sapped his political standing significantly. >> was the unpopular when he left office? >> he was a president with a great deal of iron will and a great deal of determination to get what he wanted. he was

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. >> kimberly, what happened in wyoming with the cell phone.urning a phone call and this is many years ago and i lock up and one of my kids yelled at me dad, hurry up. a trailer truck was coming at me, a two lane highway. i wouldn't be here tonight. it is bad. and people said to me, what if they are just looking at it and not texting. still, you are looking your eyes, you are supposed to be looking at the road. >> kimberly: don't take your eye off the road. >> keep your hands on the wheel and your eyes upon the road. >> kimberly: and what ell. >> and the think about drunking while driving -- drunking while driving. >> you are right. >> you know what i'm saying. >> it is the same thing. [ overlapping speakers ] but. what can i do with this group? >> kimberly: i don't know. >> the same kind of thing is that that your attention is taken away from the road. >> whether drinking or texting or look at t. >> what about even cell phone calls. talking on the phone while driving, same thing? >> because you have to -- >> i don't want to get -- i don't thin

i yield to the gentlelady from wyoming. mrs. lummis: i have -- i appreciate the remarks of the gentleman from iowa, i have a couple more questions for you. when you look at the fact that in the health care bill, the senator from nebraska sought an exemption from the impacts of medicare expenditures, or rather medicaid expenditures in his state, the amish sought an exemption because their religious freedom requires them not to be mandated to have a certain health insurance program placed upon them. there were other exemptions. the unions went to the white house recently because they wanted to be exempted from the cadillac insurance plan tax that was going to help pay for the senate bill to create socialized medicine. and then there was the citizen who asked, if this was such a great bill, why do so many people need exemptions? could that be part of the reason, the very simple question, this was such a great bill, why does everybody want to be exempted from it? could that have anything to do with tonight's election results in mass

you just saw john king in state 49 which leaves one, wyoming, for next sunday.t c nfrnlths nfrnlths kn.com cnn.com/stateoftheunion. >>> up next for our viewers here in the u.s. is howie kurtz and his reliable sources, grading the media's performance in 2009. >>> i'm gloria borger. john king is off today. this is "state of the union." >>> a pair of high profile stories raise new debate over checkbook journalism. where is l

a little bit warmer in cheyenne, wyoming with 28.ut plenty of sunshine in parts of the four corners and back out west, looks pretty good. on monday expect that frontal boundary to come ashore. snow possible in the sierra nevada. natural plains, parts of missouri, jefferson city, might have light snow to deal with through the afternoon hours. possibly heavier snow away from some of the main roads. more coming up right here on cnn sunday. thataboy. [ male announcer ] prilosec otc. heartburn gone. power on. wait. fedex has ground shipping? oh, that's right. you just woke up from a 23-year coma. yeah, it was a long one. did i miss anything? uh, the cold war ended. [ man ] pluto's no longer a planet. culture club broke up. the berlin wall came down. wait. the club broke up? i never saw them live. that was too soon. what have i done? [ male announcer ] we understand. you need it there fast. fedex ground. [ female announcer ] most people make resolutions... based on what they see on the outside. ♪ this year, focus on what's inside... and le

wyoming, for next sunday. check out cnn.com/stateoftheunion where you can see what we learned when we traveled to your state. john will be back next sunday and every sunday at 9:00 a.m. eastern for the first last word in sunday talk. until then, i'm gloria borger in washington. thank you for joining us. >>. ♪ there's something that i want to tell you ♪ >> larry: tonight, tyra banks, from top model. >> the reason why they paid me what they paid me was because i moved the product. >> larry: to media mogul. >> i finally figured out that my brand is beauty inside and out. >> larry: she dares to bear her real self to the world. >> yeah, it's kinky, exactly. >> larry: tyra banks shows and tells. >> i'm over my last name. >> larry: so what are you now? >> just tyra, just call me tyra. >> larry: next on "larry king live." >> larry: good evening, what a pleasure to welcome her back. tyra banks -- since this show she's become major. she appears here in january, 2007, look what's happened to her since. host of the tyra s

is a ranger and brooks sends out a piece that he wants to repeal the tax on all of the ranges in wyoming. cody being a rancher will love that. cody is a rancher but gets a piece from brooks saying brooks wants to repeal the dawn of laws on their ranches in wyoming. cody is not going to like that so that is why we get back to trying to learn as much information as we can about each individual voters we can target them with the right message because if you target the wrong message, cody is gone. you can send him ten pieces. after that you are not getting his boat. so if you can build your universe large enough to where you can do issue specific mail, issue specific phones and specific contact messages your chances of getting those folks to support your candidates or higher than just getting the generic meal peace support cody and then you list 19 reasons why he is great and expect him to go through and pick the one they want to identify. if you do a good voter registration program and a good soldier id program you should be able to communicate with these folks hopefully on an issue by issu

half of these 15 basic laws are south dakota with only three of the laws, arizona, north dakota, wyoming, va., vt., pennsylvania, ohio, and nebraska. as i said earlier, it does not make sense in this area we have virginia, which is a red state, bordered by the district, which is our top area in the green category and maryland with a green rating, when all the thousands of people every day across between those dates, yet there are not covered by the same important traffic safety laws. in ohio, the governor included a primarily -- a primary enforcement seat belt law this year. in a conference on the budget bill, it was stripped out. as a result, hyatt dropped to the red category. we're hopeful the government -- the governor will try again to get a high primary enforcement seat belt law. the report clearly raises the question of what can we do to accelerate adoption of traffic safety law. timing is everything in the time is right to increase pressure on states and put pressure on congress to take a leadership role. congress has successfully done this in the last three decades. the reason we

they followed an extensive manhunt 70 miles away in laramie, wyoming. police began searching for him after the woman was found safe in a hotel. effective today the leading tobacco producing state, north carolina is the latest to ban smoking in restaurants any smoker or establishment refusing to obey the law will face penalties. and financial problems are not keeping dubai from reviewing the tallest skyscraper. the dubai tower contains 57 elevators, over a thousand apartments and 49 floors of office space. the massive building which also includes a hotel can be seen 59 miles away. the building is set to be unveiled on monday and could be the last of the giant projects that brought dubai into global fame. those are your top stories right now, shannon, back to you. >> shannon: that's amazing 59 miles away. >> reporter: enormous. >> shannon: i think we need to do a road trip and check it out. thanks, caroline. well, more details merging about life in nigeria, the birthplace of umar farouk abdul mutallab, the man aboard the plane on christmas day. >> two imp

one of them yesterday, chuck yeager, of a much will be heard and alan simpson, former senator from wyoming the third is someone i have known for a long time, representative mickey edwards who served on the house of representatives, a republican who served on the appropriations committee at a time when the budget committee was in its infancy. he is now vice-president of the aspen institute and he is someone who has been a regular guest at the washington center. .. >> i'm very pleased to be back here. i'm going to say, i got here in time to hear most of the admiral's talk, and you know, what a great feeling is to know that we have people like that who are playing such an important role in our national security. i was also -- i told jim albert, i was impressed by the questions that were after now i'm terrified of the questions you're going to ask me. but let me just start by making a couple of observations. we had an earlier session, long ago, i guess it was right after the president was elected, and the topic i don't remember off what the title was, but it had something to do with the obama

wyoming has a huge amount. we have not even put pipelines for the natural gas here in utah.a, and i believe muskeo has a huge amount of natural gas -- and i believe mexico has a huge amount of natural gas without going into the ocean. why is this all focused on venezuela? guest: very interesting question and i agree with you entirely. we should be looking at a comprehensive hemispheric energy policy that would reduce our reliance on venezuela tow -- totally and completely. that would include canada and i did not know there was damaged natural gas in the far west, but burn them in. -- bring them in. our big partner should be brazil. brazil has made major oil and gas discoveries over the last two years. it will be coming on line in the next three to five years. that should be the core of our hemisphere to energy policy. host: a headline reads, u.s. faces resistance to his line am. what is china's presence. guest: the chinese are very sophisticated. they understand they cannot do with the russians or the iranians appear to be -- or what the man is relenza appear to be doing. to

very democratic states and they have governors in places like wyoming and a number of conservative andor senate seats we don't see it often and increasingly we don't see that at all when we live in the polarized washington politics i think we're all watching because we remember there was a house special election in massachusetts not long ago where now congressman won but it was a surprising raise. we're all looking here to see is there going to be some message of dissatisfaction even in a democratic state but it's difficult to imagine republicans winning. if they do that will send chills. host: snapshot on january 19th? guest: i would be astonished if republicans didn't win but it's astonishing how many republicans we've had in new england and i think it's voters own way to have a check and balance. if you have on other when he will ming democratic legislation then they like a republican to balance it out. caller: good morning. steve, good morning gentleman, speaking from the people's republic of california. stew you made a very interesting point saying governors from new england, repu

host: rock springs, wyoming, democrats line. caller: i do h&r block. i work at wal-mart.own taxes. i have never tried to attacks -- turbo tax. how do you prepare your taxes, anyway? guest: how do i prepare my taxes? well, first, i am a tax lawyer with a max -- masters in taxation from law school. i have a background in tax law, but also as i said earlier, i was in the business of preparing taxes. it has sort of been in my blood since 1975. i prepare my son's taxes and every year i talk about how i'm going to show him how to do his, and somehow, the transition has not occurred yet. i think that really speaks to just how complicated it is. for many people, it is not necessarily complicated, but they are afraid of it. i had many clients who could very easily prepare their own taxes, but they were afraid of making mistakes and would rather go to a purveyopreparer and paya little extra. host: when someone uses a professional preparer, who is culpable if there are mistakes? guest: there is a penalty on preparers for negligence or reckless disregard on regulations, for -- or for

wyoming has a huge amount. we have not even put pipelines for the natural gas here in utah.canada, and i believe muskeo has a huge amount of natural gas -- and i believe mexico has a huge amount of natural gas without going into the ocean. why is this all focused on venezuela? guest: very interesting question and i agree with you entirely. we should be looking at a comprehensive hemispheric energy policy that would reduce our reliance on venezuela tow -- totally and completely. that would include canada and i did not know there was damaged natural gas in the far west, but burn them in. -- bring them in. our big partner should be brazil. brazil has made major oil and gas discoveries over the last two years. it will be coming on line in the next three to five years. that should be the core of our hemisphere to energy policy. host: a headline reads, u.s. faces resistance to his line am. what is china's presence. guest: the chinese are very sophisticated. they understand they cannot do with the russians or the iranians appear to be -- or what the man is relenza appear to be doin

half of these 15 basic laws are south dakota with only three of the laws, arizona, north dakota, wyomingva., vt., pennsylvania, ohio, and nebraska. as i said earlier, it does not make sense in this area we have virginia, which is a red state, bordered by the district, which is our top area in the green category and maryland with a green rating, when all the thousands of people every day across between those dates, yet there are not covered by the same important traffic safety laws. in ohio, the governor included a primarily -- a primary enforcement seat belt law this year. in a conference on the budget bill, it was stripped out. as a result, hyatt dropped to the red category. we're hopeful the government -- the governor will try again to get a high primary enforcement seat belt law. the report clearly raises the question of what can we do to accelerate adoption of traffic safety law. timing is everything in the time is right to increase pressure on states and put pressure on congress to take a leadership role. congress has successfully done this in the last three decades. the reason we h

for now, bush on the democrats live from jackson, wyoming. what do you make of the race last night and what it means? caller: i tell you, when people start voting because of whose baseball team they are in favor of, this country is in pretty bad shape. we live in a fascist country. even the obama administration, who is being ruled by the pharmaceutical companies, the health industry, the insurance industry, they are the ones that have the say. we did not give out our message. the message should have been that we need a public option. nancy pelosi and harry reid fail the american people. when president obama took office, he put the war's black on budget from where president bush took time off -- he put the wars back on budget from where president bush took them off. obama's budget -- bush had it off budget. the american people do not realize that bush was going out and borrowing money but never giving us the real numbers. now we have the most dangerous thing in america today, black water. black water is a hidden army run by a a religious fanat

. >> host: next call butch in jackson wyoming. please, go ahead.you know the rules you've got to keep that volume turned down. we've got to move on to randy of williamsburg's virginia. please, go ahead. >> caller: good morning. happy new year. thank you for your efforts on behalf of those of us in the real world, michelle. let me give you an example of those non-for profits and hospitals and schools and how they are kind of connected in this mom for profit industrial complex along with the educational industrial complex. i own a small business called virginia is for education that has visited over 1,000 schools with a mobil facility that has its physical fitness and educational component all within this mobile trailer and not only do i go to school but i follow the children home into a depressed neighborhoods so that those children whose families don't have disposable income can come and principate and a health and wellness program on the corner that kicks the criminal element off and affords a healthy and clean environment for those people to be m

years, "unhinged" repoire and several of them so several dozen i would say sheila in green river, wyominggo ahead with your question, i am a great fan of michelle. i just wanted to let you know that i live in in that state so well, to the west. >> guest: thank you. >> caller: i wanted to comment a little bit on the butch in jackson and where i live and we are well and gas industry, but my sons worked there, that's how we make our living in this part of the state. jackson is tourism in the only thing that makes them survive is tourism peer down with our gas and oil and gives their tourists there so i don't understand the hatred there. >> host: where are you going with this? we know you were talking about but to call an earlier. >> caller: , global warming. all of that bs. >> host: michelle malkin, would you like to comment on climate change in current legislation? >> guest: welcome to another of the anger reported stories of the year, of course, at least domestically has been the climate gate e-mail scandal. and i think it is actually having a huge impact on the democrats pushed to pass th

i have not worked in wyoming yet. this experience you are going to go through is incredible. this is how i got started. this is how my partner, glen, got started. it is really terrific that all of you are here. i wish there were more republicans, but i can understand. the first thing i want to do here is give you a little quiz. everybody take out a piece of paper and pencil. you are going to be graded on this by me. doesn't count on your real grade. just to see how you do. thank you. so a national political environment quiz. the first question is what percent of americans own an i-pod or other type of mp-3 player. this is a telephone survey. what is the number? everybody put down your answer. i am going to call on people. what number? >> 20-29. >> 50 plus. >> 40 to 49. >> 40 to 49. >> ok. the actual answer is 47% of americans own an i-pod or other type of mp 3 player. three years ago it was 13%. give yourself a point if you got that one. next, what percent of likely voters in california think marijuana should be legalized to help solve california's fiscal problems? anybody he

very democratic states and they have governors in places like wyoming and a number of conservative andfor senate seats we don't see it often and increasingly we don't see that at all when we live in the polarized washington politics i think we're all watching because we remember there was a house special election in massachusetts not long ago where now congressman won but it was a surprising raise. we're all looking here to see is there going to be some message of dissatisfaction even in a democratic state but it's difficult to imagine republicans winning. if they do that will send chills. host: snapshot on january 19th? guest: i would be astonished if republicans didn't win but it's astonishing how many republicans we've had in new england and i think it's voters own way to have a check and balance. if you have on other when he will ming democratic legislation then they like a republican to balance it out. caller: good morning. steve, good morning gentleman, speaking from the people's republic of california. stew you made a very interesting point saying governors from new england, rep

half of these 15 phasic laws ars south dakota, has only three of the laws, arizona, north dakota, wyoming va vermont pennsylvanians ohio and nebraska, and as i said earlier, in the interview it doesn't make sense in this area where you have virginia which is now red state bordered by the district which is our top area, district of columbia in our green category in maryland with a green rating when all of the thousands of people every day to cross between those states and yet they are not covered by the same important traffic safety laws. in ohio governor ted strickland included a primary enforcement seatbelt law and his budget bill this year, and in the conference on the budget bill it was stripped down as a result of that ohio dropped to the read category and we are hopeful that governor strickland will try again to get ohio the primary enforcement seatbelt lauper cow the report clearly raises the question of what can we do to accelerate state adoption of traffic safety laws? timing is everything in the time is right now to increase pressure on the states and to put pressure on congress

host: rock springs, wyoming, democrats line. caller: i do h&r block. i work at wal-mart.out how to do my own taxes. i have never tried to attacks -- turbo tax. how do you prepare your taxes, anyway? guest: how do i prepare my taxes? well, first, i am a tax lawyer with a max -- masters in taxation from law school. i have a background in tax law, but also as i said earlier, i was in the business of preparing taxes. it has sort of been in my blood since 1975. i prepare my son's taxes and every year i talk about how i'm going to show him how to do his, and somehow, the transition has not occurred yet. i think that really speaks to just how complicated it is. for many people, it is not necessarily complicated, but they are afraid of it. i had many clients who could very easily prepare their own taxes, but they were afraid of making mistakes and would rather go to a purveyopreparer and paya little extra. host: when someone uses a professional preparer, who is culpable if there are mistakes? guest: there is a penalty on preparers for negligence or reckless disregard on regulatio

another alan simpson, former senator from wyoming. the third, someone i i have known for a long time, representative mickey edwards to served as a member of the house of representatives, a republican from oklahoma. he served on the appropriations committee. he served on the budget committee at a time when the budget committee was really in its infancy. he is now vice president of the aspen institute. and he is someone who has been a regular guest here at the washington center, and someone whose views are always, just spot-on, right on target. he is incredibly well-informed. he expresses himself with great felicity and also just a great guy. representative mickey edwards. [applause] >> i'm afraid to say anything after that, ross. well, i'm delighted to have a chance to be back in washington center, very,. >> use the mike. >> probably hear me anyway. >> this is live though. >> take this one? does that work? okay. i feel like, you know, i ought to be on "oprah" or something but, the washington center has been just an organization that i

montana, south dakota, north dakota, wyoming.the list goes on of special deals that were carved for special reasons, and the latest, of course, is the incredible, incredible action concerning unions being exempt from taxes that nonunion members will now have to pay in greater numbers. how do you justify favoring one group of americans -- this is union members -- for any reason other than you owe them political favors? and they have political influence? and so the -- so the negotiating went from the back rooms here to the back rooms in the white house. the same -- the same president that said that c-span in a completely transparent process would prevail here so the american people would know who is on the side of the pharmaceutical companies, who probably got the best sweetheart deal of anybody in this whole process. so, mr. president, i believe that the majority of the american people that said according to polling data, 48% of massachusetts voters said that health care was the single issue driving their vote, and 39% said they v

was started in 2006 to build upon that great precedent set by our forefathers when yellowstone in wyoming became the first national park. this will provide an excellent opportunity to preserve a very special and unique landscape for the people of st. croix and visitors to the island for generations to come. h.r. 3726 calls for the preservation of 2,900 lakers which include a caribbean dry forest, pristine coastal barrier coral reef system, and pre-colombian and posteuropean settlement. the property has a long agricultural history dating back to the 1730's where the danish estate house now listed on the national register of historic places was constructed much the farm is one of the last working cattle ranches on st. croix and one of the ranches instrumental in the development and exportation of cattle through the caribbean and the world. this would ensure the continued rearing of the cattle with a provision that guarantees a continued relationship with the university of the virgin islands to support ongoing scientific research. in addition to guaranteeing the protection of one of the most

wyoming has a huge amount. we have not even put pipelines for the natural gas here in utah.canada, and i believe muskeo has a huge amount of natural gas -- and i believe mexico has a huge amount of natural gas without going into the ocean. why is this all focused on venezuela? guest: very interesting question and i agree with you entirely. we should be looking at a comprehensive hemispheric energy policy that would reduce our reliance on venezuela tow -- totally and completely. that would include canada and i did not know there was damaged natural gas in the far west, but burn them in. -- bring them in. our big partner should be brazil. brazil has made major oil and gas discoveries over the last two years. it will be coming on line in the next three to five years. that should be the core of our hemisphere to energy policy. host: a headline reads, u.s. faces resistance to his line am. what is china's presence? guest: the china -- china's presence is there a commercially oriented at the time. the chinese are very sophisticated and know that they cannot do what the russians or