. >> people to not want to think about roosevelt's conservation as a policy as much as a passion. he put aside almost 240 million acres of wild america. as people are talking about environmentalism and grain movements, roosevelt is becoming the key figure to understanding. he was the only politician who understood biology and understood birds, migratory patterns, mating habits of deer and elk, and actually did something. >> sunday, the first of two hours with douglas brinkley on "the wilderness a warrior." you can download the pdcast, -- podcast, too. >> how is c-span funded? >> i have no clue. >> government grants? >> advertising for products. >> public money, i'm sure. >> my taxes? >> 30 years ago, america's cable companies created c-span as a public service. no government mandate, no government money. >> now senators durbin, gregg and talk about the measure that would provide rebates for consumers to trade in vehicles with low gas mileage for more fuel-efficient cars. from earlier today, this is about 20 minutes. mr. durbin: mr. president, i know there is controversy involved i

and why i was fortunate enough to be reelected, but the only president since roosevelt. do not clap, this is serious. al from reserves a serious speech. it is important that you understand the role he played. what did jimmy carter and i have an 76 and 92? we had to of the three factors you had to have to win. self-serving, but i think that the context at the time, we were very -- we were better candidates. we have lousy conditions when the other guys were in. we were able to prevail. they still have the culture. -- they still had the culture. the nra took out 1215 of our house members. now look -- 12 or 15 of our house members. now look. our bases began the even not. there were two reasons for that. one of which fall from -- al fro m and bill clinton had nothing to do it. we were growing more reverse. therefore, there were more communitarian and less tolerant of the politics of division. the other factor he had a lot to do with. the government must at the two car parade, because they believe the government could perform and have a role to play in giving us a shared futur

. >> people do not want to think of roosevelt's conservation as a policy as much of a passion. he put together almost 240 million acres of wild america. as people are talking about environmentalism and green movements, roosevelt is becoming the key figure to understand. he was the only politician of his day who absorbed darwin and understood biology, understood birds migratory patterns, understood mating habits of elk and antelope, and actually did something. >> sunday on "q&a," the first of two hours with douglas brinkley on "wilderness warrior," tonight at 8:00 on c-span, or listen on satellite radio, or download the c-span podcast.

. >>> people don't want to think of roosevelt's conservation as a policy as much as a passion. he put aside 240, almost 240 million acres of wild america so now as people are talking about environmentalism and green movements, roosevelt is becoming the key figure to understand because he was the only politician of his day who absorbed darwin and understood biology in understood migratory patterns and understood mating habits of the year and elk and antelope and actually did something. >> sunday on q&a the first of two hours with douglas brinkley on a wilderness warrior. sunday night at eight on c-span, or listen on xm satellite retial or download the c-span's podcast. >>> topics at today's white house briefing include u.s. policy towards iran following the nation's presidential election, legislation to overhaul the nation's health care system and yesterday's senate resolution apologizing for slavery. press secretary robert gabus speaks with reporters for a little under an hour. >> good afternoon. let me take ten seconds to get organized. let me quickly go through a week ahead f

roosevelt is becoming the key figure to understand. he was still a politician of his day who absorbed darwin and understood biology and migratory habits of birds and mating habits of a deer and elk and antelope and actually did something. >> sunday, the first of two hours with douglas brinkley on "wilderness warrior." that is tonight at 8:00 on c- span, or listen on satellite radio, or download the c-span podcast. >> this week on the prime minister's questions, prime minister gordon brown discusses public spending and proposed parliamentary changes. nicolet criticizes the regulatory role in the financial crisis. this is the last session for speaker michael martin, who resigned today, june 21 come in the wake of issues. that is tonight at 9:00 eastern on c-span. now, and reporters roundtable on the news of the week from "washington journal." this is just over 35 minutes. communicators." >> "washington journal" continues. host: we want to welcome jon- christopher bua, white house correspondent for british television. tony blankley is her

but you do know whether it's wonderful books about franklin roosevelt, about the depression, or whether it's about the end of the american century and where do we go from here in our relationship with china and so on. one does know that the richly formed bed of understanding, which history gives us about america, is something we absolutely need as we go on into a difficult future. it was cicero who said, i regret to say plagiarized it from jefferson and lincoln, know not whether they can go because they know not whence they came. and i think whatever we can say about the 44th president that's not a problem for him and with our new campaign to abolish social studies, hey, a whole new light in american history. life before us. at any rate, we know whatever is in store for the american future. it is certain that the end of one particular story, but the beginning of a new and i'm confident to say spirited and noble chapter. thanks. [applause] >> thank you. thank you. >> i think most of you know how this works. please raise your hand. we will get a microphone to you, and who would like to st

historian douglas brinkly on teddy roosevelt and his leading role in the early days of the conner is ation movement. >> he was op op not by modern terms a holistic, you know -- he was he believed in hunting, but he did not believe in hunting so you make a species extinct. yes, he cared about butterflies. he cared about wildflowers. he wanted to make sure we had a place for that in modern society. >> sunday on q&a, part two on the wilderness warrior, thee theodore roosevelt and the crusade for america. download the c-span podcast and watch part one of our interview with douglas brinkley at c-span.org. host: joining us from new york to talk about the future of american capitalism is joseph stiglitz, and he has an article in the july issue of "vanity fair" magazine called "wall street's toxic message." when the current crisis is over, the reputation of american-tile scap capitalism will have taken a beating, because of what washington practices and what it preaches. disillusioned developing nations may turn their backs on free markets warning nobel laureate joseph stiglitz. what is the

. >> people do not want to think of roosevelt's conservation as a policy as much as a passion. he put aside millions of acres of while america. >> from crater lake to dallas tower and the grand canyon, president theodore roosevelt was on a mission to save the west. >> so now as people are talking about environmentalism and agreed movement, what has evolved is -- he was the only politician of the day who understood biology and understood birds migratory patterns, and mating habits of deer and elk and antelope, and actually did something. >> sunday on "q&a", the first of two hours with douglas brinkley. sunday night at 8:00 on c-span, or download the c-span podcast. >> obama has announced a number of proposed changes to the financial regulatory system. the plan would create a way to dismantle large financial companies and, for the first time, impose regulations on certain types of transactions. this is 20 minutes. [applause] >> thank you very much. please, everybody be seated. since taking office, my administration has mounted what i think has to be acknowledged as an extraordina

. >> people don't want to think of roosevelt's conservation as a policy as much passion. he put aside almost 240 million acres of wild america. now as people talk about environmentalism and the green movement, roosevelt is becoming the key figure to understand because he was the only politician of his day to absorb our one and lenders to biology and understood birds migratory patterns and mating habits of the year and help and antelope. -- mating habits of deer and elk. >> that's tonight at 8:00 on c- span. you can listen on xm satellite radio or download the podcast. >> this week on "prime minister's questions," gordon brown discusses northern island and proposed parliamentary changes. the government's role is criticized in the financial crisis and this is the last session for speaker michael martin who does -- to resign today in the wake of issues over mp expenses. that's at 9:00 eastern on c- span. >> on friday, hundreds of hispanic clergy and community leaders gathered for the annual hispanic breakfast. among the speakers was the house minority whip, eric cantor, gov.

some of our greatest presidents of the 20th century, teddy roosevelt, franklin roosevelt, and harry truman, or advocate for health insurance for all americans. president clinton fought hard for the administration proposal. those initiatives may have failed, but the hope that inspired them was never defeated. the time has finally come to redeem that and to deliver true health reform. in my conversations with colleagues, i am getting the sense there is now a willingness to tackle this issue and to resolve the problems and bring forward a much better health care system for all americans. with president obama and the white house, we now have the best opportunity ever to enact health reform. i'm determined that we not let this opportunity slip from our grasp. i look forward to this morning's testimony and continue with urgent, pragmatism, to send help reform legislation to the president for his signature this year. i want to recognize the ranking republican member of the committee. >> thank you. >> we both attended summit this year. in both those summits, i said that the republicans in the hous

and why i was fortunate enough to be re-elected but the only president since roosevelt. don't clap. this is serious. al from deserves a serious speech. it is really important that you understand the role he played. now, what did jimmy carter have in 1976 and 1992? we had two of the three factors. i think we were better candidates and we had lousy conditions. when the other guys were in. so, we were able to prevail. but they still had the culture. and a lot of what happened to us in 1994 was about culture. the n.r.a. took out about 12 or 15 members of our house. now look at what began to happen in my second term. our bases began to even up. and there were two reasons for that. one of which al from and bill clinton had nothing to do with. america was growing more diverse racially, religiously, culturally. and, therefore, by nature, more communi communitarian and less tolerant of the politics of division. the other al from had a lot to do with. people didn't believe president reagan's lines any more about government messing up a two-car parade because they believed government could per

henry wallace was roosevelt's vice president at the time. talk about a book. henry wallace was a genius, probably one of the smartest men to ever hold national elected office in the united states. he was a plant geneticist by training. dabbled in astrology and metaphysics and was extremely liberal and a little weird and the party bosses in '44 thought we need to replace him and so they did. all the candidates were either too liberal or too conservative so truman got picked. reporters joked it was another missouri compromise. [laughter] >> we all know what happened on april 12th, 1945, franklin roosevelt died and harry s. truman became president. he had been vice president just 82 days and had met with fdr just twice outside of cabinet meetings. in all that time. his presidency, of course, encompassed major events in the 20th century, the end of world war ii, the cold war, mccarthyism, the united nations. flash forward now eight years, almost, to 1953, january, 20th, and dwight d. eisenhower is inaugurated as president. and just as he was back in that summer of

truman kind of rehabilitated hoover's reputation after roosevelt died, they changed the name what was it boulder dam back to hoover dam and so they had become quite close but then in the election of 1952, truman again invoked the name of herbert hoover as comparing eisenhower to hoover. the democrats ran against hoover for 30 years and, you know, with some success so harry wasn't about to stop. so i think they had tiff at the time because there's no record the two saw each other while harry was upstairs and herbert was downstairs. and i always wonder how they managed the staff of the waldorf must have been pins on needles all week trying to keep these two apart not to mention doug mcarthur was six floors up. they ate at all the trendy restaurants and they went to the 21 club and shortly after they got there, another diner came in. it was the governor of new york thomas dewey. [laughter] >> which presented a problem for the maitre d' and they were lucky, they were able to seat dewey and truman far apart. everywhere they went in new york by the way they took cabs. harry parked the car a

number one, because they were very angry at roosevelt -- roosevelt and -- well, actually eisenhower -- i'll continue -- anyway, because what happened at yalta, in essence, they felt the many serbs felt yugoslavia had been given away to the iron curtain by the democratic leadership. so -- and they really loved general dwight d. eisenhower because he had liberated the prison camp, german prison camp. so many serbs including roddi blagojevich were staunch republicans and that affected him for dwight d. eisenhower passed it on to richard nixon so in this blagojevich home where only serbian were spoken, the republicans were the party of choice except his mother was second -- first generation. she had been born in the united states and her parents were from bosn bosnia. they lived in thomas keen's ward out on the northwest side and she had a job as a ctia ticket taker which she probably got as a political job so she was a chicago republican. so there was always sort of this clash -- i mean, chicago democrat, sorry. there was this clash between the democrats and the republicans. his brother

>> historic douglas brinkley on teddy roosevelt and his leading role in the early days of the conservation movement. >> he was not what we call by modern terms a kind of holistic-- he believed in hunting, but he wanted, he did not believe in haunting so you would make a species extinct, so yes, he cared about snail darters, he cared about butterflies, he cared about wildflowers. he wanted to make sure we had a place for that in modern society. >> sunday on q&a prior two of douglas brinkley on the wilderness warrier, theodore roosevelt in a crusade for america. sunday night at 8:00 on c-span or listen on xm satellite radio, del mugged c-span podcasting watch part one of our interview with douglas brinkley at c-span.org. >> rath remarks now from the president of the washington nationals baseball team, stan kasten. we talked about the process of developing the team which came to washington in 2005. from the national press club, this lasts about an hour. >> my name is donna leinwand and i'm a reporter with "usa today," and the president of the national press club. we are the world's leading pr

. >> people don't want to think of roosevelt's conservation as much as a policy as much as a passing. almost 240 million acres of wild america. so now as people are talking about environmentalism and the green movement, roosevelt is becoming the key figure to understand because he was the only politician of his day that the board darwin and understood biology and understood bird migratory patterns and understood meeting habits of deer and elk and antelope and actually did something. >> sunday, the first of two hours with douglas brinkley on wilderness warrior, sunday night at 8:00 on c-span or listen on xm satellite radio or download the c-span podcast. >> there is still time to get your copy of c-span's 2009 congressional directorate. with information on house and senate members, cabinet, supreme court justices, and the nation's governors, plus district maps and how to contact committees and caucuses. $16.95, on line at cs -- c- span.org/products or call 1-877- on-c-span. bamako washington journal" continues. we are host: continue with our conversation on health care reform from -- w

he then was put on the district of columbia court of appeals by president roosevelt and then he was back into the administration secretary of treasury and then truman, he and truman struck up a friendship and he was appointed to the courts by truman at a time when there's a lot of in-fighting on the course, a lot of conflict. vincent was known as a very affable person and seem to get along with people on both sides of the political aisle social and thought he would be a good person to bring some peace to the courts in unanimity to the court -- it didn't quite work out that way but that was the intended reason for appointing him. >> why did and it worked out? >> in the book we tried to explain the major reasons, one is the members of the court did not think that justice vinson was their intellectual equal, many, one was felix frankfurter who have been a harvard professor of law and in the roosevelt administration. so he was a much more down-to-earth kind of person, here is the issue, here is the opinion and didn't read these long floury some of opinions explaining why the court was doing

it's the same situation when president roosevelt was president. we found six nazi spies onlyly -- on long island. and i believe five of them were executed, a sixth one cooperated. it was all through a military tribunal. what is it that president obama sees that president lincoln and president roosevelt and really all our entire u.s. judicial history, all the judges, have signed off on it. why is that -- it that suddenly we want to go over to afghanistan and iraq and give miranda rights to prisoner of wars. therefore -- curve 30 more seconds. mr. lewis: i yield an additional minute. mr. kingston: i thank the chairman. therefore the first thing they are going to be trying to say is i am not going to say anything until you give me lawyer. then they are going to come home to america and they are going to be all lawyered up. it is going to cost taxpayers money. it's going to hurt our investigations and our interrogations. we are not going to be able to get the intelligence that we need, the background information that will prevent future terrorist atta

theodore roosevelt and [unintelligible] you can download the podcast and watch part one of the interview with douglas brinkley on c- span.org. >> this week on "prime minister's questions" -- gordon brown discusses the fate of british officers in iraq. he answers questions about u.k. jobs in government spending. we will also show you the ceremony to show you the welcoming of their new speaker. he provided over the first question time since being elected monday. if that's tonight at 9:00 eastern on c-span. >> a look now at efforts to develop a effort to secure the nation's computer networks. they will discuss the obama is recent recommendations and other proposals as well as balancing cyber security concerns with privacy issues. this event is hosted by the washington d.c. office of google and the center for new american security. >> it is my great pleasure to welcome you here today and what steps the united states should and perhaps should not take to protect it. we're pleased to team up with google and we appreciate them hosting us here. combining their cutting edge expertise and informat

federer roosevelt and the crusade for america. sunday night at 8:00 p.m., or listen on satellite radio, down lied that c-span podcast and watch part one c-span.org. >> "washington journal" continues. host: joining us is congressman jay ainsley, a democrat from washington and one of the strongest proponents of the legislation moving on the house floor. we want to go to a clip of president barack obama talking about the importance of congress coming together to pass this legislation. >> now i urge every member of congress -- democrat and republican -- to come together to support this legislation. i can't stress enough the importance of this vote. i know this will be a close vote in part because of the misinformation that is out there that suggests there is somehow a contradiction between investing in clean energy and our economic growth. but my call to those members of congress who are still on the fence, as well as to the american people is this -- we cannot be afraid of the future. we can't be prisoners of the past. we have been t

and -- roosevelt and -- [inaudible] >> well, eisenhower -- but what happened at yalta, in essence, they felt the many serbs felt yugoslavia had been given away by the iron curtain by the democratic leadership so they -- and they really loved general dwight d. eisenhower because he had liberated the prison camp, german prison camp that rode blagojevich found himself in. he had been captured and spent four years in a nazi prison camp so many serbs including rode blagojevich were staunch republicans. and that affection for dwight d. eisenhower passed on to richard nixon. so in this blagojevich home where only serbian was spoken, the republicans were the party of choice. his mother had been born in the united states and her parents were from bosnia and she was a democratic. they lived in thomas keen -- do you remember alderman thomas keen ward and she had a job as a ticket taker that she probably got as a political job so she was a chicago republican. so there was always sort of this clash. >> chicago democrat. his brother remains a staunch republican. he probably wishes he had never joined

you can join the fan page or add -- hard to believe -- add teddy roosevelt as your friend. follow teddy on twitter at teddy26nats or check out our notes at natstown mlb. there's kearns. >> i do twitter. >> i can send a text. that's about it. >> that's all you have to do. that's what twittering is. >> i don't have one of those phones that's a quick type, if you know what i mean. >> maybe you can work something out with the iphone people. >> that's okay. you don't want to get too tech no on me. do you have a crank phones at home? remember the waltons on tv. they still had that phone. >> i'm not ready for twitter. >> you have a jitterbug phone. >> what does that mean? >> for like senior citizens. >> if the shoe fits. you haven't seen the jitterbug commercial? >> nope. it's like a phone with big numbers and not a lot of bells and whistles. 2-2 to kearns. the ball gets away, but the runners have to stay. now it's 3-2. >> try to steal a soap dish out of the clubhouse and the metal detector stopped me. >> you're kidding. i would imagine a soap dish in that clubhouse is probably ma

acres of wild america and son out as people are talking about environmentalism and green movements, roosevelt is becoming the key figure to understand because he was the only politician of his day to absorb darwin and understood biology and understood the birds, migratory patterns, and understood it mating habits of deer and elk and antelope and actually did something. >> sunday on cue and egg, the first of two hours with douglas brinkley on wilderness warrior, sunday night at eight on c-span. or listen on xm satellite radio or download this c-span podcast. >> now a house hearing on business practices that made insurance companies to cancel or deny health insurance, will hear the stories of people whose individual policies were canceled while they were dealing with serious medical conditions. followed by a panel of health insurance executives. partis tupac of michigan chairs the subcommittee on oversight, this is about three hours. >> the hearing will come to order. today we have a hearing entitled termination of individual health policies by insurance companies. the chairman, the ranking mem

they're not real nice to teddy roosevelt. >> johnny: that was a nice gesture to welcome bruce -- >> if things don't work out here, you could be his adviser. you could be down there. >> rob: he needs to win just one. i don't comment on a president again. >> johnny: brandon phillips -- >> rob: i spent a few months in milwaukee watching -- the games got so long watching sausages. >> johnny: they were knocking people over -- >> rob: he was just playing. >> johnny: sausage was well done after that analive. 1-2 the count to brandon grounded to a double play. phillips with a fly ball to right. that's the second qui

now, as people are talking about environmentalism and green movements, roosevelt is becoming the key figure to understand, the only politician of his day to absorb the darwin, understood biology, understood birds and meeting habits of deer and elk and antelope and actually did something. >> sunday, the first of two hours with douglas brinkley. >> this is c-span's "america and the courts." next, commencement addresses by anthony kennedy, elana kagan, and leah ward sears. this is at stanford university last sunday. [applause] >> thank you. thank you very much. president, my fellow students, citizens of the world that my seat to come ever closer to the idea and reality of a rule of law, and especially graduates in the graduating class of 2009. thank you very much for inviting me to participate in your commencement. i suppose there are a number of witnesses where i have become a willing accomplice. each of you has your own story, a unique story of your years at stanford. that story is bound up with your pants, your family is, at your loved ones who have sustained you hear. you have alrea

it was used very well by the roosevelt administration during the new deal. a badly undermined -- by the people running it. they gave a huge amount of money to banks. there is a huge risk of both perception and reality with having the entire financial deregulation going on now, being done by these people with very close ties with people to wall street like geithner and sommers. there is a feeling that the deregulation does not have any teeth in it. these are not being properly addressed by regulations going on now. host: our guest is kevin baker, a contributing editor -- a contributing writer for harper's magazine. one person writes, i understand quite well and a comment that says you are 100% correct. obama has blown it. he had a mandate and retreated on every major issue that that matter to democrats. guest: it is to opaque for me, a lot of this stuff. i think it is unnecessarily complex. all of the stuff going on right now with health care, single payer taken off of the table, talking about coming up with coke-ops --co-op's, forcing people to buy insurance

they also right that he paid home -- two democratic icons such as franklin roosevelt and singled out gop men also. west virginia on our democrats line. caller: thank you for c-span. i book like to talk about our mountaintop removal issues. currently, there has been approximately 1 million a. of mountain range removed down here in west virginia by the practice of mountaintop removal. they go in and remove the entire mountain range down approximately 1,000 ft.. what this does is it theforests deforests our mountains. more than 1,200 mi., 62% of all the streams in west virginia are impaired, most contaminated with heavy metals. people really need to look at this situation. we don't have to do mountaintop removal, we can do underground mining, we can use contour or height walt mining. this whole cleaning process that they do, it contains toxins, the same thing that occurred in tennessee. these things are permitted to hold in excess of 10 billion gal.. in the buffalo creek in 1972 in logan county, west virginia, it failed and killed 125 people and destroyed 4000 homes. it cost over $400 m

teddy roosevelt, harry truman, jimmy carter, bill clinton, they all called for it. while some reforms have been made, efforts at comprehensive reform that covers everyone in brings down costs have largely failed. part of the reason is because of the different groups involved such as doctors, insurance companies, and others could not agree on the need for reform or the shape it would take. if we are honest, the other part has been opposition that has used fear tactics to take any efforts to achieve reform as an attempt to socialized medicine. despite this long history of failure, i am standing here because i think we are in different times. one sign that things are different, the senate passed a bill that will protect children from the dangers of smoking. [applause] this went nowhere when it was proposed a decade ago. [applause] what makes this moment different is that this time for the first time stakeholders are aligning not against but in favor of reform. they are coming out -- coming together out of a recognition that while reform will take everyone in our health

he put an empty milk carton back in the fridge, leaves his wet towels all over the roosevelt room, and were pretty sure he called the toilet and didn't tell anybody. -- clogged the toilet and didn't tell anybody. [laughter] i must say the whole thing was worth it. inside the obama white house is my favorite new show. there is something really compelling about the main character. a wonderful narrative'. in fact, the show has been such a hit that all of you guys now want to comment tape one in my house. abc is planning one called "dancing with the czars." [laughter] nick at nite has a new take on an old classic, leave it to a uighers. -- "leave it to uighers." i thought that was pretty good. these shows all be competing directly with governor schwarzenegger's new reality series, i'm a celebrity, get me out of here. [laughter] that's how i feel tonight. it's nothing personal. but this dinner conflicts with my day and night. -- date night. i was posted well with michelle for thai food in bangkok. [laughter] but i have been doing a lot of traveling. i just returned from a trip abroad, as yo

we need to do what franklin roosevelt did. he declared this country bankrupt, and great organized it vas -- with infrastructure projects. then he had an exchange rate system. until we do that, we will suffer the consequences. and hosthost: 2 new york next. caller: talk is cheap and actions speak louder than words. i heard president obama, i don't call him met me -- my president. last week in a speech he made, here is iran fighting for democracy and he is not doing a thing. he is taking the easy way out, straddling the fence. i then worry, like you said inflation, hyper inflation. the cbo tell them not to spend the money. he was a community organizer. he does not know anything about how to run a business. these people do. have a wonderful weekend. thank you. host: to michigan on the democratic line. caller: if you are living in michigan, ohio, we are in a recession. the country needs to -- the republican party needs to help this president bring this country back together. they stood on the fence when bush, cheney, and that gang

teddy roosevelt is our hero. the bull moose party of 1912. i have a request into question, congressman. my question is that would you join our moose herder's and designate bill cohen as the spokesperson and keep him in mind for president for 2012. my question about palestinians -- why can't they join the surrounding countries? you know, jordan, syria, egypt, instead of being their own country? guest: well, i am not sure any of the countries want the palestinians. they like them as an arguing point, but i am not really sure that jordanians really want the palestinians. i am not sure exactly what would be the position that they take when you ask that very simple question because the palestinians

. >> roosevelt was the only politician of the day that absorbed darwin and bird migrating patterns and understood deer and elk. >> sunday on "q & a",. >> "washington journal" continues. >> on this thursday morning we are pleased to welcome columnist, george will. >> glad to be here. >> there is so much and i talk about your column, on sundays and thursday, and the topic today is tobacco. and why did you choose it and what is your point? >> i have written it over the years, because we're trying to deal with a product that's legal and deadly if used as to be used. it's curious, we are regulating the truthful communication about information of a legal product. it raises all kinds of problems. it seems to me one of the great successes of government. that half the population 50% woke up and lit a cigarette, and that's a good thing now it's 25%. and there are many tremendous public health benefits. and what got my attention, congress powering the food and drug administration to regulate tobacco. and the president said it's changed, it's not how washington used to work. it's exactly how washi

the first democrat to do so since franklin roosevelt. in his second term, he accomplishes what appears to be impossible. the passage of a balanced budget that provides the nation with the first surplus in 30 years. those successes, products of a startling different brand of democratic politics, begin to see progress is the world over. he begins a global dialogue with british prime minister tony blair and a host of other leaders. the third wave movement. the new democratic movement and continues to emerge in the new century, developing a deeper vaults of new ideas and talent. a new generation of leaders claims the mantle of reform, proving that ideas matter more than ever hillary rodham clinton -- more than ever. hillary rodham clinton, gen and appalling tunnel, bill richardson, bill ritter, can salazar, mark warner, and dlc leaders all make their mark on the national spotlight. the new dlc chairman harold ford, jr. continues to speak out as one of the nation's up and coming senators. rahm emanuel leads democrats back into the majority on

he started out quoting teddy roosevelt. he went on to cite how the department was engaged with the issue of politically abusive conduct. a junket had been arranged, taking members of congress to play golf at st. andrews. it was arranged by a man and he said this had been fully investigated. i subsequently discovered that my friend mr. mukasey did not know that one of the participants in this golf junkets that he cited was his predecessor, john ashcroft. the week he gave that speech, the single most prominent report in the american press of corruption related to the united states department of justice. it was a no bid consultancy contract, multimillion-dollar consulting contract awarded by the u.s. attorney in new jersey, then preparing his candidacy to be governor, to the same john ashcroft. never investigated or addressed internally by the department of justice. in the speech, i think, judge mukasey went on to say, "let me be clear. politics has no world in the investigation or prosecution of political corruption or any ot

franklin delano roosevelt had a c-average in high school. and a c-average in college. john f. kennedy had a c-average in high school, and a c-average in college, the next one won't surprise you, george w. bush had a c-average in high school, and a c-average in college, but this might surprise you. bush's c-average was one point higher than senator john kerry's c-average! [laughter]. >> al gore flunk gd out of his first college. and squeaked through his second. with a c-minus average. dick cheney the famous vice president flunked out, too. when his sat scores in language and math are added together, the legendary progressive senator paul wellstone scored 800 as a total. now, it is true that in his day, the match was only 1600 and now i believe it is 2400, still that is a 50 and america's global computer dominance rose as i told you from men without college degrees. ted turner, founder of the worldwide news service cnn, dropped out of -- dropped out freshman year and william faulkener, one of our nobel prize authors got a d in english in his freshman year in college. and, droppe

for warren, for black, one of the leading new deal senators, for a chief adviser to franklin roosevelt, parker goldberg, secretary of labor, secretary- general of the afl-cio. these were people in the newspapers and the press who were well known nationally before coming to the court. what difference it makes when they debate. do you want people or not to have political background? sabain the third thing that strs me is the democratic face of the court. in obvious ways, we had women on the court that we did not have in 1969. thurgood marshall's on the court. we will shortly have the first hispanic justice on the court. is interesting to recall that in 1969 it was exactly 1 roman catholic, one jewish justice, and all the rest were protestants, protestants and it is cotillion. the majority of justices now are roman catholic, two jewish justices, and when souter leaves, there will be exactly 1 protestant. i am not suggesting you can trace a cause and effect between the justice's religions and how they vote, but it is an interesting way of commenting on how the court reflects the changing o

. >> historian douglas brinkley on teddy roosevelt and his leading role on the conservation movement in the early days. >> he believed in hunting. he did not believe in hunting so that you make a species extinct. he cared about butterflies, what -- while flying hours -- wild flowers. >> this will be on sunday at 8:00 p.m. on c-span and title " q&a. " you can watch part one of our interview with douglas brinkley on c-span.org . .

we have seen the famous images of franklin roosevelt seated behind his desk at the oval office signing new deal programs in law. but at same time so few americans knew that behind that desk our president sat in a wheelchair, his legs paralyzed from his own battle with polio. today in parts of africa and south asia, hundreds of children still develop polio. while developed nations receive the vaccines, this is a luxury for rural villages in places like india, nigeria, afghanistan and se somolia. leading the charge over the past decade denise johnson serves as the acting chief of the c.d.c.polioer ratification branch. before she was directed to do this, she was a member of the c.d.c. family violence prevention program. she oversaw the -- through community and social change initiatives. this is around the time that congress passed the violence against women act which is one of the proudest achievementses my friend and predecessor vice president biden had in the senate. when asked why denise was sought to work in the polio project, one person said that she did a good job from keeping child

she is in the next roosevelt as long as she votes i don't care what she is. but i think she is probably excited about this semester. >> she was going to work there any? >> oh, yeah. it's been arranged for a long time. i just adds to the excitement level. >> you know him, right? >> very well, yeah, very well. in fact i -- it's funny because i wrote about him extensively in the book, never an tess paying he would -- -- never anticipating he would switch parties. but at home i'm being accused of plea send tating his -- precipitating his switch to hype my book sales. but i have known him a long time, three decades as a matter of fact. it's going to be a great year to in the pennsylvania next year. >> how do you think the democratic leadership -- >> i don't know he will have an opponent. successback is acting like he's running but i'm not sure he will. the republican side is yet to be determined. added to that ills-is the guy that broke the camels back to get specter out of the party but it would be shocked if he was the candidate. >> i don't know. i spoke to him

in a session in the roosevelt room in a meeting last week with some governors he tried to steer the debate away from government in washington to the states. he will travel to wednesday tomorrow. it will be a town hall meeting including questions from online communities. good morning, maryland. caller: yes, this war was a lie. how dare we invoke our views on any other country? if anyone had stepped in during our civil war -- how? i'm just appalled. that we were even there. and why isn't bush being tried with some sort of treasonous acts for line to the american public? i have to go. i'm so disgusted. thank you. host: the decision yesterday was off5-4 by the supreme court on the hartford fire fighters. it was 5-4. sonia sotomayor's decision was overturned. she is the supreme court nominee whose confirmation hearing begins july 13. this is the headline from the home town newspaper. a slim majority finds the bias -- pictured on the front page are some of those firefighters who brought the lawsuit up. it was a decision yesterday by justice kennedy, writing for the majority. new jersey, on the p

franklin delano roosevelt did the speech in 1932, and even performed -- and even tougher time than it is now. here is what he said to a class in 1932. he said that yours is not a task of making your way in the world, but the task of making about remaking the world which you will find before you. so will you, which then all this difficulty, there is incredible potential and promise. york tasked with finding that promise. -- you are tasked with finding that promise. young lawyers are to play an absolutely pivotal role. whatever difficulties might be facing, it is true, also, you have the ability to participate in transformational work that will take full advantage of your abilities, and i hope to get the chance to do that . it is hard to turn your back on security and lucrative opportunities, even if you thought that that is not where you wanted to be. it was hard to look for some other things. what i hope, actually, is that as the bonuses become a little less big and financial security seems little bit less than it has in recent years, it will have this silver lining. it will say, what

palin to vice president joe biden -- i do not think he is a much better -- he is not harry truman or roosevelt. host: let me get you to respond to what this historian, robert writes. "despite his reputation for occasional gaffes, he has been an effective point man on obama's iraq, afghanistan and pakistan policies, the recovery economic plan, the selection of sonya soto, among other things. -- sonya sotomayor. caller: people were looking at a circle, should the vice president be able to fill the rest of the circle for the presidency? i believe so. joe biden has gotten very-- joen has very good qualities and assets he brings to the administration, but as others have said he needs to speak before me thinks because he is not the president. he is there to help the president be successful and not be a joke for comedians. host: from the associated press an update on the situation in iran. president ahmadinejad says his reelection was real and free and cannot be questioned. he made these comments during a press conference, his first since the government announced that he was reelected to a second ter

now as people are talking about environmentalism, roosevelt is becoming the key figure to understand because he was the only politician of his day who absorbed darwin and understood biology and birds migratory patterns, and mating habits of deer and elk, and actually did something. >> sunday on "q&a, the first of two hours with douglas brinkley. sunday night at 8:00 p.m. on c- span, or listen on xm satellite radio. >> the senate judiciary committee held a hearing on june 16 to discuss the rates phone companies charge for text messaging. witnesses include representatives of verizon and at&t as well as consumer representatives. this hearing was chaired by the summer consumer rights subcommittee. it is -- chaired by the consumer rights subcommittee. it is just under 90 minutes. >> good afternoon. this hearing will come to order. today we will be examining the state of competition in the cell phone industry. the enormous growth in the use of self phones means that maintaining competition in this industry is more important than ever. -- the growth in the use of cell phones means of mainta