rebounding will be key for washington. washington only had twelve assists in the game against minnesota. that's a season low, they must do better for that. the grizzlies, their game is inside. number one in points and second chance points but they also have five starters that average ten or more and they get a lot of playing time. their bench has not been that productive, no one averages more than 17 minutes off of the bench. steve: lost to dallas, 107-101 snap ago three game winning streak against indiana denver and golden state and that was the 8th straight loss at dallas. jumpers still in play. picked up by conley. they won once in 15 tries at the american airlines center in dallas. buckner, good rebound. >>phil: this team likes to get out in front. steve: james ma son and hey wood on the offensive glass. >>phil: that will be important to win tonight. brendan haywood getting points on the second chances. steve: game tied at four. back to fill czar. wizards home tonight night in oklahoma city. gilbert wanted a foul and d

washington battling for the ball. gilbert is doing better. >> phil: he is doing a great job from the guard position. >> steve: flynn the rebound. first of two meetings between these teams. last year the wizards swept them two straight for the second consecutive year. washington has won four straight games overall and the last two here in minneapolis. >> phil: we have antawn jamison in his 12th year, lover love in his second year. i think similar players, they are not the biggest at the power forward position but they both rebound the ball extremely well. kevin love is averaging five offensive rebounds during the game. >> steve: brendan haywood scores on the dunk. the last time the wizards loss to this team was in 1997 here. here is love, pulls up for the jumper and hits. he has been extremely productive lately. >> phil: active is a better word for it. he sat out all of october and november. >> steve: gilbert has the rebound. arenas looking for some space. jamison will takes a 3-pointer and hit it. >> phil: each one of

washington going to the power play. sam gagner is boxed in for two minutes for tripping, and now the capitals looking for their first lead on the opening statement. ovechkin coming over to the bench looking for a new set of gloves. >> craig: once they get too wet you don't have a grip on the composite stick. he always has a dry pair available on the bench to get the better feel when he gets the shot away. >> joe: washington the number one ranked power play in the league on the road, 25%. laich is excused. lowballing a fan 12 rows in the seats. >> craig: they were hoping for a delay of game. they were going to talk about it here. the caps were hoping it went directly from the stick and up. you have to love that. bruce boudreau saying give them another minor. five on three for a delay of game. they will talk it over and say if it was deflected up and over the bench or not. pat quinn watching anxiously. here's the last look. the puck, the shot, oh, man that's too tough to tell. he's giving the oilers a minor penalty here.

the washington taking on the caps. the caps lead by 2 after the 1st period. >> joe: and we are getting going with period 2. there the is air canada center. the home of the toronto mapleleafs. an early whistle and icing call, 12 seconds into the middle frame. alex ovechkin was on the board. the 2 minute mark of this contest for bruce boudreau. >> greg: his 3rd season as a capitals open. winning 67-plus percentage of his games. lost 3 regulation games. >> joe: and the capitals squaring off with the lead. next up, tuesday night at the pepsi center in denver. i am auction to see the colorado avalanche in the flesh. >> greg: yes. they have good young players. >> joe: and ovechkin just missed the mark there. wait until you see the young teenager, on top to have game. >> greg: i am looking forward to him. i think he has already nine goals. he can obviously put the puck in the net. a turn around that came around a lot quicker in colorado than was expected. the caps control that draw. and there is brendan morrison. the kaberle

a good bounce for washington. a nice pass beautifully done. >> phil: he made that pass just at the right moment which an opening occurred between two defenders. >> steve: 8 assists for gilbert. 18 points for antawn. wizards regain the lead by 1. it looked like hollins got away from a shove. how come we can that and the official, who is 5 feet away, can't see that? that's a pivotal play. >> phil: that's a shot >> steve: so the lead seesaws and minnesota by one. a nice screen and boykins cannot convert. hollins wants the basketball. down low with jamison. jefferson short jumper not there. but a good rebound by ellington that time. jefferson inside. gomes. his open jumper is not there. >> phil: the timberwolves were shooting a better percentage to cover the second half points that they had. they were shooting just slightly better. they would have a much larger lead based on the number of possessions. >> steve: again, the wizards regain the lead. a slam by hollins, that gets the crowd up and cheering at the >> phil: t

so, not much was going on in washington. what was coming on was in the rest of the country, and monroe, like washington remember there was no television, no e-mail camano communications. the only means of communications with these newspapers, weekly newspapers that would come out weeks, often months late with the news. like washington, monroe did not won the presidency to become a markey with a monarch's sitting in his castle in a cocoon away from the people. he went out to meet the people and that's why he was so loved because he became a people president. he went out there into farmland, shook their hands, walked with them over their fields and became one of them as washington had done. these other presidents had sat in philadelphia and then later in washington as they do today, as to the congress men and women today. they sit in washington. they are isolated from people, they are not in touch with the people. monroe wanted to be in touch with the people, and as a result he found out what they wanted and provided for them.

so at that point i went into the washington bureau of the wall street journal. i had 10 glorious years covering politics and congress and the white house. >> and what'd you do after that? >> after that i ended up at "congressional quarterly" as managing editor. i spent two-and-a-half years in that job, and then seven years as executive editor, and then 12 years as ceo, president, and editor-in-chief of "congressional quarterly." >> and it was owned by a newspaper, the "st. petersburg times." >> correct. >> and it was sold recently to what organization? >> it was sold to the economist group of london, which also owns "roll call," which is a washington publishing company, focuses on congress, as did congressional quarterly primarily. and so the economist merged, the "roll call" and "cq," at which point they had two ceo's for one news organization. and i was the one standing when the music stopped. so on august 4 at 4:15, at the moment that the final papers were signed my job came to an end, and at 6:00 the next morning i was on an airplane to seattle to sort of de

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unfortunately ended up in the hospital in washington. he got a case of german measles, which killed many, many servicemembers on both sides of the war. he developed peritonitis from his measles infection, and he died in a washington hospital, was brought across the potomac river here to arlington as the first military aerial. things were so desperate at that time in the civil war, there were so many people dying, that there wasn't much time for ceremony or ritual at arlington. they would bring people over for burial day after day after day, and they went into the ground as william chrisman did with no flags flying, no bugles playing. all quiet off and not a chaplain to give them a cent of. so basically we're trying to keep up with the carnage from the civil war. when arlington began. during the war, things were so desperate that there wasn't any time for tombstones. they had headboards. they were made out of pine or walnut. painted white with black lettering. does, of course, had to be maintained or they fell apart. in the years after th

. >> steve: foul will be called on washington. they got it on brendan haywood. no, they will call it -- they can't call it jamison, they call it agiler, dominic mcguire makes the foul. corey brewer to the free-throw line. another sub par free throw shooter at 63%. he makes his first free throw. this is a minnesota team that ranked 23 in nba shooting coming in. they are shooting 58% from the night tonight. now 12-20. that hasn't been a problem. the problem has been offensive rebounding and second chance points. minnesota has 18 of them. that has been the big difference. that's the offensive rebounding. butler jumper is short. timberwolves by 4. they have only won 6 games on the year. three of them have been big. one at utah, one here against utah and one at denver. a lot of contact. another foul will be called. >> phil: the indeed play of inside play -- love tries to force it but dumps it off to his te >> steve: foul called on >> timeout font floor. another free throw is coming, 6:36 to play in regulation. the wiza >> steve: timberwolves lead the wizards by 5 now

washington national is closed. but one runway is open, and that's supposed to be open for complete traffic at 6:00 a.m. tomorrow morning. >> joe: skill scoreless at rexall place. to the center for o'sullivan. stone with shoulder to shoulder with urchina. >> craig: look he's the only one in the zone. all the other oilers behind the flu line. they are playing tough defense. that's the line struggling at home. you don't want to open it up. >> joe: every coach on the line has said it, you don't want to play run and gun with the guys in the white sweaters. backstrom angling through center, backstrom is there to defend. in the '80s i think they would have loved it. ovechkin blindly all the way back to point position. green, didn't keep that one in. >> craig: i didn't like playing in this facility, being a slow skater, and this facility, everyone was always faster than me. you end up taking penalty after penalty when you can't keep up. >> joe: what makes the ice so good? >> craig: the type of ice it is, joe. >> joe: off o

contractors to washington for a trial for a crime allegedly commited in a war zone. and baghdad, people in iraq have really wanted to know how is this going to play out. how is the u.s. judicial system going to handle this case? are we going to get justice? >> so judge ricardo you arebina ruled today. what did he say. he was the he sense of the ruling and what reasons did he give for it? >> he threw out the entire case. he dismissed the indictment against all five member. and the reason was he basically said that prosecutors crossed the line. and they mishandled evidence. what happened is after the shooting, the state department came in and said to the contractors, we want to know what happened. tell us what happened. and as part of -- as part of their contract they have to tell the state department. but that is a -- in legal terms a coerced statement. they're required to give it and so as part of the deal, you give us a statement about what happens, we'll use it for our internal investigation and we won't use those statements in any criminal prosecution. but what ha

london had a limited capacity and which to disagree with washington because washington was in the lead. we had a relatively poor input into pentagon decision making about which you have heard from other witnesses. therefore, there was a sense of frustration in london that we could not always persuade the americans to do what might be our preference because they were in charge and they were going to do their own thing anyway and we had him try to make it work on the ground. there was a sense of frustration in both places some things were going reasonably well but the police area was not one of them. frankly, in 2009, it still isn't one of them. it never became right and we never got iraqis to create a police force of the strength of saddam's. the police training exercise was actually run by an extremely competent british former chief constable, douglas brand, who the americans accused respected. he had hardly any resources to do with. he had to invent a training program which we eventually did with jordan which produced a far lower number of recruits going through the system in for a sh

these bureaucracies in washington impose upon all of us. the presiding officer: the senator's time has expired. mr. hatch: i yield the floor. mr. whitehouse: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from rhode island. mr. whitehouse: i know the senator from rhode island wishes to speak very shortly, and i will yield to him very shortly when he is present on the floor, but i did want to react to two points that were made by the very distinguished senator from utah, and i say that with true sincerity. he has been a friend to me since i have been in the senate. he sets a very valuable standard in this institution for collegiality and dignity and bipartisanship and scholarliness, and he comes from an extremely distinguished career prior to his distinguished career in the senate as a lawyer, a leader of the utah bar. so -- but i do think that as much -- as easy as it is to make fun of a 2,074-page bill, the house bill, which is not significantly different in scale from this bill, was reviewed, and if you look at the substantive language

or anything that represented washington, and i don't think you can get any farther away from washington than andy warhol. so this actually was tremendously effective for carter in raising money. it actually was credited, he credited it himself as being one of the financial turn arounds of his entire presidential campaign, selling these andy warhol prints. >> now, your day job you're a political strategist. do you ever tell your clients to invoke a celebrity endorsement? >> no, i really stay away from that. but, you know, in -- we live sort of in the age where obama and oprah were a team, and mike huckabee and chuck norris were a team. so it doesn't matter whether you're democrat or republican, i think both sides are very involved with hollywood and celebrity. >> jason killian meath, thank you so much. >> i say my job at fox news is to keep company materials because it really is, and i say that to young people. every once in a while fox will send me out to talk to a college campus somewhere. i'd rather go to kandahar, quite frankly. [laughter] and i'll say to young people i keep company

or anything that represented washington. and i don't think that you can get any farther away from washington than andy warhol. so this actually was tremendously effective for carter in raising money. it actually was credited -- he credited it himself as being one of the financial turn arounds of his entire presidential campaign, selling these prints. >> your day job you're a political strategist. do you ever tell your clients to invoke a celebrity endorsement? >> no, i really stay away from that. but, you know, in -- we live sort of in the age where obama and oprah were a team and mike huckabee and chuck norris were a team. so it doesn't matter whether you're democrat or republican, i think both sides are very involved with hollywood and celebrity. >> jason killian, authority of hollywood -- author of hollywood on the potomac. thanks so much. >> senators are continuing their debate of the health care bill through the weekend. our regular booktv schedule will be preempted during these rare senate sessions with booktv programs

barbara slater of "the washington times" an jonathan broder of g.q. weekly will be here to discuss foreign policy and then we will have steven hess from the brookings institution and dan thomasson of scripps howard news service to talk about president obama's first year in office. thank you for watching this edition of "the washington journal" and we will see you tomorrow morning at 7 a.m. eastern. coming up, the communictors, and at 10:30, a senate hearing on the backlog of d.n.a. evidence collected for unsolved rape cases, and later, a former c.i.a. intelligence officer on u.s. policy in afghanistan. tonight, on "america and the courts" encore presentations from c-span's supreme court week special. the supreme court jurn aferlist lyle denison an joan biskubic on covering the courts and appellate attorney maureen maloney on arguing before the court tonight at 7:30 p.m. eastern here on c-span. in the mid '90's, newsweek named omar wasow one of the 50 most influential people to watch in cyberspace and since then he has created the social networking sit

these plans collapsed, especially in rural areas, because washington, our wonderful people here in washington, decided to set artificially low payment rates. in fact, in utah, all medicare h.m.o.'s eventually ceased operations because they were operating in the red. and i fear history could repeat itself if we are not careful here. during the medicare modernization act conference, we mixed the problem. we increased reimbursement rates so that all medicare beneficiaries, regardless of where they live, be it in fillmore, utah, or new york city, had choice in coverage. again, we did not want beneficiaries stuck with a one-size-fits-all government plan, which, by the way, this monstrosity is. today, medicare advantage works. every medicare beneficiary has access to a medicare advantage plan if they so choose. one-quarter of them have so chosen and it has worked amazingly well. and close to 95% of medicare beneficiaries participating in the program are satisfied with their health coverage. but that could all change should this health care reform legislation currently being considered become law. c

this is the normal drill in washington. i think he'll be able to pull it off. >> brown: in fact, president obama had talked about this doing this as early as may and then there were reports that it was taking a while to fill the position or to figure out who the person would report to. >> there's a dispute in the white house and in the administration. i think that slowed things down. some people think it's best to leave the internet alone. let it be the wild west. let it continue to have a limited role for government and the internet community will find its way out of this problem. i don't happen to agree. i'm not sure where howard comes out on this. >> brown: why don't you agree? >> because we've tried letting the internet community solve this. we've tried seeing if it was a self-organizing global common. hasn't worked. it's just like the wild west. time to move in the marshals. >> brown: now you talked about the top tier, i think was what you said. governments. >> right. >> brown: you're talking about cyber spying? >> yea

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the horse arrived as washington did. and i decided i will take out the ending of this book i was planning and write a whole book about that ending about washington going home for christmas. so they're came a second accidental book. i was working after that on a book on world war ii a triple biography of macarthur, marshall and eisenhower who were interconnected during world war ii. chapter 11 dealt with a battle of the bulge. it became so long that it was on balancing the book. and so i took out chapter 11 and wrote 11 days in december about the battle of the bulge which happened to end the day after christmas. it became in effect the third christmas book. writing about the war again i began a book which i am still working on on the reelection of abraham lincoln in 1864. lincoln didn't expect to get reelected. he fought with a war going badly he was going to be free place and he was very fatalistic about it. it turned out the soldier boat during the war the first time there was a soldier vote for the presidency in wartim

welcome to the "washington journal." caller: yes. thank you. first i think it's ironic that all the black people calling this morning are calling sailing they are for racial profiling. but the ma sod, we were attacked because of our support of israel and the palestinians. host: christine, do you have any evidence of that? caller: yes, look at the 9/11 commission reports. now it's they are writing bills right and left because they have a strangal hold on both parties of congress. host: we're going to leave it there. she is starting to go off the rail. on our line for independents. go ahead. caller: you can look at what motivated highjackers at american highjack.com. host: in o'needa our line for democrats. caller: good morning. we're talking on the subject of hometown grill off here and all the things -- home homeland security we've learned we really haven't done no such secure this country. now i wonder if you're aware of executive order 12425 signed by your president last week that to me, we're going in the wrong direction. this executive orde

i wish everybody in washington, d.c. would read it. >> host: one of the things recovered was a book called teaching styles book, the first tycoon. here is a look at what the author had to say during the book tv and we covered. >> he believed we make progress as a society by everybody pursuing their own interest as fiercely as possible and he firmly believed it is almost my duty as a citizen you pursue your interest and fight for them and he thought that is what everybody should do. but what of the exceptions of that is he was deeply patriotic. and he named it to a foot, three sons after his heroes, george washington, henry emmerson and cornelius vanderbilt. [laughter] and so when the civil war came around, he tried to give his largest steamship which cost nearly a million dollars. he tried to give it to the union navy and giddy and said no the secretary of the navy. he was a little prickly. nobody thought the war would last that long. never going to have this expensive ship it's going to be a white elephant for the navy.

here is the front page this morning in the washington -- "washington post." they also have the health care story, but they also have a story about the imminent strike yesterday. and they also of a map on the front page of the "washington post" next to the story about the location of yemen and wear those air strikes to place. this morning in the "baltimore sun" they also look at the story from a distance -- different aspect. our question for you, though, this half hour is your favorite political story of the year. we will go to our first call from manhattan, and as we do, the year in cartoons. instead, democrats line, go ahead, you are first. caller: their christmas. host: thank you. caller: this health care story, we got no moderate votes. i think the republicans are to have their heads handed to them politically when all was said and done. there was no public option. if we would've had more bipartisan support -- this bill nelson from nebraska cost a fortune, his negotiation for this date -- for his stake, the medicare expenses being picked up by the governme

oregon, frank lautenberg from new jersey, patty murray from washington -- the state of washington, arlen specter from pennsylvania, mary can't well and mary landrieu from louisiana. they recognized how important this was. they recognized we were trying to solve major problems for people, especially in rural amplest i think it would be worthwhile to reflect back on the 2003 debate and remember the reasons this issue inspired such strong bipartisan consensus. you don't hear it at all from that side now. after the program has proven its efficacy and has proven that it works. we supported the medicare advantage program six years ago because we knew it was the right thing to do for beneficiaries and the same logic holds true today. we owe it to beneficiaries to provide a strong, adequately funded program that provides them with high-quality health care choices. during the finance committee's consideration of -- and by the way, every medicare beneficiary can go into medicare advantage if they desire under current

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clay believe in the concentration of power in washington. whereas jackson believes that power should be diffuse and spread out among the people as much as possible. that would talk about street construction -- all the democrats were in favor of strict construction of the constitution does the republican race today. or small government, that is a to republican -- that is a republican phrase today. >> what was the moment that led you to write a book about james polk? >> it is an opportunity to note that this was not my idea. the idea came from my editor, simon and schuster, legendary publishing circles as someone who loves american history. she asked me during the discussion we were having, what i was coming up with some ideas for books which she was not particularly enamored of, she says, we will come up with something. what do you know about the mexican war? i said that i was not a military historian but it was a period of very intense politics. give me a couple of weeks to figure out how i would shake it. i did, i sent your memo, and that i

king and the march on washington initially, the initiative march on washington in, what, 1963? so this will definitely be a historical year. all the things that our president has encountered coming into office, i think he has done a remarkable job trying to meet those challenges and bring the country around to some sustainable success this year. so i think this year will absolutely go down as a historical year, given all the context of the things he had to deal with as the first african-american president. >> thanks for the call. on the republican line we'll listen to greg joining us from union, missouri. greg, are you with us? we'll go on to gilbert joining us from alabama. good morning. caller: i feel that this will notÑi only be remembered as a historical year, but i feel this will be the tipping point of the world. three things that point in that direction is the war in afghanistan and the war in iraq. the rising unemployment and the copenhagen climate meeting. if these are not handled professionally, it will change the whole direction of the world. and i'm looking forward

washington book. they have been talking about doing a book about how politics has changed in the 24/7 news cycle. the ones that you from a historian. i want to take a look at that, because i think it is really important how partisanship has become so strong, fueled by the 24 our feet -- 24 hour cable process. whether you're listening to the left or right, they jump on each other. that has a detrimental effect on politics. i recently listened to a wonderful lecture on the book on franklin roosevelt. he talked about changes in the news media. everything is moving to talk tv. fox news is just talk, talk, talk. in this nbc is talk, talk, talk. -- msnbc is talk, talk, talk. talk is cheap, investigative reporting is expensive. >> thank you very much. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2009] >> for a dvd copy of this program, call the number on your screen. for free transcripts or give us comments on the program, visit us at qanda.org. >

i am in washington -- a washington lawyer who was asked to assemble a coalition of companies like a day, amazon, google, others, stakeholders, consumer groups, civil rights organizations, people who use the internet to help advocate for the federal communications communication, policies that preserve and open the internet. >> yes. netcompetition.org was formed three years ago. it is pro-competition, free- market oriented, and it represents broadband interests. literally the entire sector. some include large companies people know, the two cable using your line to connect to them to inspect the kind of content that is traveling over that line and make decisions whether to discriminate and favors certain content over other as long as it is lawful. that is actually the norm and telecommunications policy for decades and decades. it started most recently in the 1970's when there was only one phone company and someone went up to someone and invented a mickey mouse on the phone and wanted to attach it to an at&t line, and at&t said, no, you cannot do anything like that, you need to have one sea

"washington journal" is next. . >> we begin with a piece from the washington who writes after healthcare we need senate reform. you see the line for republicans, democrats and independents. host: 55 votes is not enough to win or anything close to it. it is enough to get five from 60. you need to shut down a filibuster. only then can a lobby pass. the modern senate is a radically different institution frómç the 1960's and the dysfunction over healthcare, absence of bipartisanship, useç of the filibuster to obstruct progress, the ability of any senator to hold theç bill hostage has convinced many inside and outside theç chamber that it needs to be fixed. from the weekly turnaround there is a piece byç two authors sayg a fine mess and they write the end game has unfolded and all eyes are on the unseamly process taking place in the halls of congress. rushed votes to minimize scrutiny and secret deals and outlandish vote buying using tax par funds. procedural maneuvers to shut off debate and the process has been ugly andç so ugly it is distracting both voters and legislators from

"washington journal" continues. host: senator byron dorgan from north dakota it says debates have stalled partly in an amendment that you offered to allow cheaper drugs to be imported from canada. what is the status of your amendment? will it be voted on? >> well, it is going on seven days but appears it will get a vote today. it's not just cheaper drugs but identical drugs sold in every other country for a fraction of the price it's sold to americans. you know, if this is a global economy how about giving the american people the freedom to access the identical drug, same pill put in the same bottle, fda-approved. the difference, american people get to pay two to three times the cost most other people in the world pay. i think it's unfair and they ought to be able to access these drugs from other countries. >> when he was running for president did you talk to him about these negotiation it's? and if so what did he tell you? >> yes. he was the co-sponsor of my legislation. my legislation has 30 co-responsers ranging

"washington journal" is next. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2009] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute] host: the "washington times headline" talks about the heated debate raging between democrats and republicans on the health care issue. we'll begin with your comments on these latest developments on the health care debate. as always, we welcome your phone calls, smales, and your -- e-mails, and your twitter comments. 202-737-0002 for democrats, 202-737-0001 for republicans, and 202-628-0205 for independentents. papers point out that on saturday, the session of the sixth day of the senate debate on the giant health care debate, felt in some ways like an ordinary workday as the senator debated the health bill in private and tried to thrash out differences in private. in the meantime, we want to put out that there is a piece available online at "l.a. times" -- latimes.com that said accupuncturists and others would be brought into the main sfream with the health insurance re

change the way that washington worked. he was going to change the way that deals were made in order to get legislation passed and there's a lot of criticism saying that the price is right, that they were willing to give autopsy lot n particular, you saw with ben nelson, getting a lot for his state for the state of nebraska so that they could get the 60 democrats to line up on this. >> and the white house saying that, listen -- >> good evening, john. you make up an interesting point there. because i remember one of the earlier criticisms that stuck for a long time was that as a candidate, barack obama said that we'll have every meeting opened. people will be able to watch everything that we do and that simply has not been the case. >> they say it's been a lot of transparency. everything that has played out in all of the deal making, if you will, that has been going on, there's been a lot of transparency and they say that, listen, this is what happened, whether it's republicans or democrats, this is what takes place, the ame

welcome to the "washington journal." caller: yes. thank you. first i think it's ironic that all the black people calling this morning are calling sailing they are for racial profiling. but the ma sod, we were attacked because of our support of israel and the palestinians. host: christine, do you have any evidence of that? caller: yes, look at the 9/11 commission reports. now it's they are writing bills right and left because they have a strangal hold on both parties of congress. host: we're going to leave it there. she is starting to go off the rail. on our line for independents. go ahead. caller: you can look at what motivated highjackers at american highjack.com. host: in o'needa our line for democrats. caller: good morning. we're talking on the subject of hometown grill off here and all the things -- home homeland security we've learned we really haven't done no such secure this country. now i wonder if you're aware of executive order 12425 signed by your president last week that to me, we're going in the wrong direction. this executive orde

reflecting on that yesterday afternoon in the midst of one of the toughest historic snowstorms here in washington, d.c., that hundreds of staff people were waiting at their post, doing their jobs on a saturday in the middle of a snowstorm when virtually every business around washington was closing down.

washington magazine named her one of three top guns of all the trade association heads in washington. in new york times wrote, in a city teeming with health care lobbyists, karen igagni is concerned -- considered one of the most effective. and she blends a detailed knowledge of health policy with an intuitive feel for politics. fortune magazine described her association's political program as worthy of a presidential election bid. we think that's a compliment. [laughter] no wonder that modern healthcare magazine ranks karen among the most powerful people in the field. in recent years she has been before congress on matters ranging from medicare to homeland security to patient protection into the all important issues of access and affordability. she's a prophet -- prolific advocate author of more than 90 commentaries and publications ranging from the new york daily news to the new england journal of medicine. she has been on all national network newscasts and every influential cable policy program. while health care is currently before the senate, we are fortunate that karen has broken

of concentration and power in washington. -- >> they were more in favor of concentration and power in washington. while was emerging was an increasing consciousness and concern about the slavery issue. the big party was really -- the whig party was more of the vanguard on pushing on the slave issue. if you go to massachusetts, those evolutionist were largely whigs. >> how many slaves did he owns? >> that is a great question. i did not go into that. Ñii did not get into him as a slave owner or personal life to the extent he would have liked. i think it is a fair criticism. >> what is donald cram writing a review on your book? >> i wrote a book and we talked about that. ñrhe was like his uncle. he was the godfather. he liked that book a lot. he took an interest in the fact that i was writing this book in seem to like the book of lot. he decided to review it. i was very pleased to have him do it. >> i have a clip from the interview you and i had. >> does bill clinton have relationship with any news person? >> i do not know tha

this is from " washington post -- from open quotes the washington post -- from "the washington post," and below that, "the financial times," obama facing a fight on job costs. a slow recovery is being faced. finally, in "the wall street journal" is a story by neil king. republican line, good morning. caller: how are you doing? i mentioned to this two years ago before barack obama got into office, that the only way to create jobs is to manufacture something. nancy pelosi was supposed to be on the top of this. i am not mad at you, i love chevron. i love chevron. but at the same time we have got businesses that are closed. they need to start drilling for oil. the deposits here in colorado are going to fill those refineries, pushing out the manufacturing towards close, having our own american gas made by americans, with their own businesses not made by anyone else but the other corporations that are owned by americans with american money. thank you. host: one twitter, -- world trade and trade is the lo most important creator we have. caller: if the question is how we can stimulate jobs, w

you talk about this war of attrition in washington. were that americans aiming for regime change and the british for the disarmament of saddam hussein? >> the americans acknowledged that if saddam hussein were to have a conversion and reveal and agree to all sorts of comprehensive measures, that in effect, even with him still there, you would have had a kind of a regime change. there was an acknowledgement in london, and tony blair said this in public once, grudgingly acknowledged inside of the u.s. administration, it could be possible in reaction to this concerted pressure of the international committee, which was resolution 1441, that it would not be necessary to go to war. another way of putting it was if saddam hussein had been clever enough, he could've done things that would have made it impossible to go to war. . and there was no further mystery or confiscation about what he had and what he did not have. the real problem, the real problem -- the core of the problem -- x> Ñ did draw, severl times, the attention of london. the mi

kent, washington, hello. >> caller: hello. how you doing, larry king? >> larry: fine. >> caller: my question is to your panel, i have a professional degree. and training and development. i have a bachelor's degree in management. they are talking about retooling. a person like me, how do i retool myself to get back into the job force? i have been out of a job almost would years now. >> larry: tony? >> i think that -- again, you don't have a choice. i mean, i think that's -- we have to come to the reality of. the old school in a different season where everything is going well, you have no choice. okay, i can go back to the old job. if that old job isn't there you don't have a choice. what you have to find is make a decision within yourself that says maybe life isn't happening to me. maybe this is happening for me. as corny as that sounds. maybe there will be a benefit here. because if it's winter, i have to prepare myself, protect my family, and create a future. i have to find an advantage. i can't tell thank you people that i know who came to the worst s

or anything that represented washington and i don't think that you can get any further away from washington and andy warhol and so this actually was tremendously effective for carter raising money and was credited. he credit himself as being one of the financial turnaround of his entire presidential campaign selling these andy warhol prince. >> khator date of tomorrow political strategist. do you ever tell your clients to invoke a celebrity endorsement? >> no. i stay away from that. but, you know, we live in the age where obama and obra were 18 and mike huckabee and chuck norris for a team so it doesn't matter whether your democratic or republican both sides are involved with all hollywoodian celebrity. >> jason killian meath, author "hockley but on the potomac." stat next call walter isaacson and ceo of the aspen institute and author of biography on albert einstein and benjamin franklin discuss his new book of essays. mr. isaacson's writings include a profile of world leaders, his thoughts on journalism and reports on his home town, new orleans. this is just over one hour. >> good evening.

what's been the dynamic of discourse in washington? what momentum are we approaching >> i think new presidents into the reality of washington, that it's a tough place to change cull turelly. there's limits as what presidents can do with their own coalition, even within their party, and then working outside their party. and they run up against the ambition of the other party. as congressman cantor -- he does well in the way he sort of breaks down some of the major pressure points on the administration. there are also what republicans have taken into battle into the midterm year, which is essentially a look at the status quo. do you like how things are going under obama? if not, how about a change? they're not really a party of ideas right now because they don't want to be. i think they will move into a period of time where they want to get more aggressive in presenting some contrast. right now they're happy to say look how high unemployment is, look how high the deficit. they're act more virtuous about the need to control the deficit th

i wish everyone in washington d.c. would read it. host: here is a look at one of the authors. >> we make progress as a society where everybody pursuing their own interests as soon as possible. he believed that is almost my duty as a citizen to pursue interests and fight for them. he thought that is what everyone should do. one of the exceptions is, he was deeply patriotic. he had three sons. he named them after his heroes -- george washington was one. and so when the civil war came around, he tried to? a large steamship's and given to the union navy. they said no. he was prickly. they never thought the war would last that long. the ship was expensive. so he ended up being forced against his will to lease it for large sums to the war department. host: t.j. stiles. you confine all kinds of video on our website. your favor nonfiction book of 2009. here is dennis in michigan. caller: merry christmas. there are a lot of nonfiction books the came out. i think the very best this year was "end the debt." or heard discussion about the differe

here is the front page this morning in the washington -- "washington post." they also have the health care story, but they also have a story about the imminent strike yesterday. and they also of a map on the front page of the "washington post" next to the story about the location of yemen and wear those air strikes to place. this morning in the "baltimore sun" they also look at the story from a distance -- different aspect. our question for you, though, this half hour is your favorite political story of the year. we will go to our first call from manhattan, and as we do, the year in cartoons. instead, democrats line, go ahead, you are first. caller: their christmas. host: thank you. caller: this health care story, we got no moderate votes. i think the republicans are to have their heads handed to them politically when all was said and done. there was no public option. if we would've had more bipartisan support -- this bill nelson from nebraska cost a fortune, his negotiation for this date -- for his stake, the medicare expenses being picked up by the governme

-- that you left washington? >> throughout 2002, it was not just my level, but other members of the staff, after saddam plannigng black spot, black hole, whatever you liket o say -- tliek toke tos say, it was possible for the american administration to say that they don't even agree on the concept of the aftermath. the most authoritative thing i can tell you is in the book. i found myself at a dinner in washington sitting next to vice- president cheney. and we hadn't had the crucial vote in the house of commons. he asked me what all this meant. i said, the prime minister has significant political difficulties in london, and it will be difficult to get over them. his reaction was quite dismissive. once you get by your political problem, and we get to baghdad, we will be greeted with cheers and flowers by the population, all this will be past history. you and the president will get the credit they deserve. there was a significant chunk of the administration that was not particularly concerned about the aftermath be

tomorrow on "washington journal," foreign-policy with the "washington times" and "cq weekly." after, a look at obama's first year. that is live at 7:00 a.m. eastern here on c-span. >> now available, abraham lincoln -- great american historians on our 16th president. a great read for any history buff. it is a unique contemporary perspective on lincoln, from journalists and writers from lincoln's early years to the flight at the white house and his relevance today. in hard cover and your favorite bookseller, and now in digital audio to listen to any time, available where downloads are sold. learn more apps c- span.org/lincolnbook. >> this week, an update on efforts by the federal communications commission to develop a plan to expand broadband in the united states. our guest is blair levin, leading up the initiative at the fcc. could you give us a status update on the report? >> sure. we have been doing status updates all along. september we laid out for the fcc kind of what we thought the state of broadband was in the united states. in november, we laid out the most significant

"washington journal" continues. host: joining us from new york, steve forbes, the author of "how capitalism will save us" -- former ceo. you indicate in your introduction that he began writing the book in 2007 before the economic collapse. what prompted you to write a book on capitalism at that time? guest: well, there's a lot of misunderstanding about what true free markets are. how they work and what rules are needed. in that sense even though most have a favorable view, it is like the proverbial fish not knowing that it is swimming in water. we have the system but people really do not understand how works. i thought the book with a question and answer format would be useful. then the disaster came along in the along2007, so we have to focus it on the fact that the whole idea of free markets and capitalism has taken a real hit. -- the whole disaster came along in 2007. the major economic disasters in the past 100 years have had disastrous government policies as the origin. host: as the crisis happened, tarp was pa

"washington journal"is next. . host: portion lent to panics actually showing a slight profit according to a new treasury report. the new assessment of the $700 billion bail out program provided by two treasury officials on sunday. ahead of a report to congress on monday, is vastly improved from the obama administrations estimates last summer of of $341 billion. smaller, larger of bail out. republicans? (202) 737-0001. democrats? (202) 737-0002. independents? (202) 628-0205. they write the officials said the government could ultimately lose 100 billion from the bail out program and new loans to banks and trade to homeowners and credit to small business. still it would lower the deficit forecast for this year which began in october to the 1 point 3 trillion from 1.5 trillion. report could camp down some of the both parties over the bail out. congressional leaders are planning to use some of the money for economic stimulus and job creation. of course draw they write the government's losses extend beyond that program a