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now he's living in chicago that the time that he doesn't like chicago, which opens to be a home town and i know you spent plenty of time in the upper midwest. but he and his wife, maureen, were plaine east coast folks and did not enjoy their time in chicago that much and were eager to get back to the east coast especially washington. so here he is, having just lost the chance of being solicitor general, being offered a lifetime appointment to a prestigious court of appeals, the seventh circuit based in chicago, and he decides he's going to wait. he's quick to hold out in hopes that he's going to get a job on the federal appeals court based in washington, d.c.. >> host: he really wanted -- >> guest: he knew because his forte was administrated wall and that is what the court in d.c. handles most of the issue is taking a chance. he had an offer in hand versus one that might not come, but they did. and just a few months later in 1982, he was officially appointed by ronald reagan to the u.s. court of appeals for the d.c. circuit. >> host: said he didn't get to the solicitor general but he

he's living in chicago at the time but he doesn't like chicago, which happens to be my hometown. but he and his wife maureen weber east coast folks and they did not enjoy their time in chicago that much. they were eager to get back to the east coast, especially washington. so here he is, having just lost a chance to be solicitor general, being offered a lifetime appointment to a prestigious court of appeals based in chicago and he decides he's going to wait. he's going to hold out in hopes that he's going to get a job on the federal courts based in washington, d.c.. because he knew, his forte was administrative law. he's taking a chance. here he has an oscar in hand errs is one that might not come. and just a few months later, in 1982, he was officially appointed by ronald reagan to the u.s. court of appeals for the d.c. circuit claymont so he didn't get to be solicitor general, but he got at least -- i would say second place. the d.c. circuit is considered to be the second highest court in the land by some people that it's equal with other circuit -- federal circuit courts, but

he was born in chicago, lives in chicago now. >> he was born in the states. he lives in chicago now but actually born, his mother's from philadelphia. grew up in pakistan went to military school there and comes back to the states as a teenager. so he's really born and partly bread ibreadth in the states. he's an interesting profile from extremists and other cases. he's older for one thing. he's 49. he's a businessman or at least a cover as a businessman. >> lehrer: what kind of business. >> an immigration business, immigration consulting business that had offices in chicago, toronto, new york and opped one opened one in mumbai. >> lehrer: any evidence he actually did anything. >> some people came to the states for the business. it was basically a front but seemed to have unlimited resources to travel. he's also someone who is accused of having trained in the extensive camps that was operated out of pakistan earlier in the decade and where many westerners were trained and then sent out on plots against the west. >> lehrer: this is a serious group, is it not, t

brown the time that book came out, i was in chicago and our ran into a woman who was about 22 years old. she came up to me and said he lived in washington, don't you? she said, do you know katherine graham? she looked at me as if she was seeing -- that book was able to speak to someone of a total different experience who was not a billionaire who would inherit a newspaper. the book does a couple of things that really stand out, how did you motivate children. i asked how his father was able to motivate his kids to do so

brown the time that book came out, i was in chicago and our ran into a woman who was about 22 years old. she came up to me and said he lived in washington, don't you? she said, do you know katherine graham? she looked at me as if she was seeing -- that book was able to speak to someone of a total different experience who was not a billionaire who would inherit a newspaper. the book does a couple of things that really stand out, how did you motivate children. i asked how his father was able to motivate his kids to do so

i was in chicago last week. it's pretty compressed. go to all of our sites. but it's exciting. actually, the book is very accessible for those -- i went to chicago, spoke at the economics club, the first question is, i thought i was going to hear a balanced view about this, you know, you're all on the same side, it was me and john roe from excellence, so there's a lot of skeptics out there and that's what the book is really designed to do, to milwaukee something accessible for the skeptics. >> well, it's the best explanation of market forces and cap and trade that i've seen. it's so short and cogent, but it really works. i can't hang around long but i wanted to come by and say -- >> well, have something to eat. >> i will. >> thank you. >> hi, lisa. >> the new look. >> thank you so much for coming. >> my husband keny. >> francis,fies to be here. >> so sorry. running a few minutes late. >> no, no. no stress. to the extent that i'm stressed, i'm stressed anyway. >> to, you shouldn't be. >> how is everything with you. >> good. >> we're on microphone. >> so we don't have much to tal

more disruptive to people in chicago to have the president there. plus, he is going home to his regret it appear to be more expensive but if present reagan could go to california to his ranch, he owned a ranch, in recent years, most of our presidents have had their own states. they have had their own place to go to except bill clinton. neither does barack obama accept the house in chicago. the cost is higher. the cost for air force one to fly to hawaii is higher. people have to understand that this is president barack obama's longtime home. whether the costs are too high, early people to judge for themselves. it is very expensive to fly air force one and to provide security out there. at the same time, it is genuinely his home for many years. there is another reason why he should go there in his own mind. host: lyndon johnson had a ranch. ronald reagan had a ranch. george bush i and ii had them and kennedy had no england. how much of the cost of going to this $4,000 per night condominium is picked up by them and how much is picked up by the governme

from sports net chicago, here is dan higgins with the story we called gridiron guardian. >> i think god has put people in the right time and place for things like this situation like this. we didn't pass the buck. >> two defensive line men and two teammates united in a goal to establish nfl supremacy. away from football there's another purpose that unites them. in a place a world away from soldier feel. >> during the off season the two bears were joined by teammate tommy harris on a special trip to nigeria for willie and who say born in to royalty, the africa journey was a home coming. >> this trip was two fold, we wanted for have a football camp where we were teaching nfl style football to youth and have a mel clinic where we were servicing world cities in -- outside of laos and the capital of nie jarya and it worked out well. >> they don't care about the football side. it is more like our sons are back. they are back from the united states and their long extended visit and they are back home and we get that kind of love and it is hard to explain, like a love that a mother has for thei

problems -- chicagos problem to. they have dumped their problems year before. guest: and keep the money for themselves. caller: when they got the money for the projects in the city, they moved a lot of their housing project residents to our -- they are not -- we are dealing with problems created in chicago and moved out here so there is a lot of state politics involved in this. but, i don't know if it is necessarily more dangerous because they are here but i am very concerned about the rights that the people have now they are in this country. guest: the more rights they have, the more activity is involved and the more family members and friends will be able to visit these people. we are dealing with 100 of the most incorrigible of the incorrigible. people who are so violent, according to department of justice standards and dod standards, that they cannot give these people either a military tribunal or trial in federal court system. so you would have an increase in traffic of people going right by our house is on high

i'm just retire indeed february and living here in chicago. i can see exactly what's going on in the country, because we have these problems of nobody's in charge of making sure that the nashedse and businesses are up and going. we have situations on the south side as everyone knows where there are no jobs and the kids are killing each other, but you can walk down our streets going downtown and everyone from somewhere else owns the business. so it makes you wonder who is in charge of our domestic snoil no one is in charge of making sure that american citizens are working and owning businesses. it seems like everybody from everywhere else own as business somewhere down here. but where are the businesses for the neighborhoods and the people who were born here? host: sorry about that. i thought you had finished your thought. we've got a tweet here from lynette. she writes the country would be better off if the president, senate and congress would just take next year off. that's unlikely. next up is clifton heights, pennsylvania, abdul on our line

. >> lehrer: and still to me on the "newshour" tonight: the terrorm indictment in chicago; oupatchwork nation series; ray suarez on e state of the economin tractor country; and e music of piano man richard glazier. that's after a judy woodff report on thglobal warming negotiations in denmark. >> reporter: if the clime change summit inopenhagen loed to be just another chance fodiplomats to talk, but get little done. today came a raling cry from one of the topembers of e s. delegation. the head of the vironmental protection agency lisa jkson is in denmark. >> if we do noact to reduce greeouse gases, the planet we leave to theext generation will be a very different pla than thene we know today. >>eporter: other countries have gone ouof their way to show the debe is urgent, the stakesigh. leads of the maldives-- a chn of islands in e indian ocean-- staged a cinet meeting under water to emphasi fears of rising sea levels tt could literally wash away their nation. nepal's cabinet ok to the frigid heights of unt everest to declarehe melting himalayan glaciers pose a thre to them. all this in

that means there's some corruption when we saw blagojevich in chicago. he did it in these monogrammed envelopes where w.h.c. was stamped was stuffed with $100 bills. he said i never bought a man who was not for sale. so clark buys his senate seat and promptly leaves montana. he goes to new york city and he wants to be one of these gilded age titans. he builds 106-room house in manhattan a few blocks where these other guys are living, these guggenheim and these powers. mark twain who was still kicking around said about your former senator of clark of montana. he's the most disgusting creature that the republic has yet to produce. so clark spends his one time in the united states senate mostly living in his 106-room palace in manhattan and he has one great passion in the senate. do you know what it is? stop the national forests. so he's one of roosevelt's villains, too. these are the people he's fighting against. clark is a democrat, by the way, roosevelt is a republican. so the parties have flipped in many ways. clark's little asterisk is he cofounds las

i'm just retire indeed february and living here in chicago. i can see exactly what's going on in the country, because we have these problems of nobody's in charge of making sure that the nashedse and businesses are up and going. we have situations on the south side as everyone knows where there are no jobs and the kids are killing each other, but you can walk down our streets going downtown and everyone from somewhere else owns the business. so it makes you wonder who is in charge of our domestic snoil no one is in charge of making sure that american citizens are working and owning businesses. it seems like everybody from everywhere else own as business somewhere down here. but where are the businesses for the neighborhoods and the people who were born here? host: sorry about that. i thought you had finished your thought. we've got a tweet here from lynette. she writes the country would be better off if the president, senate and congress would just take next year off. that's unlikely. next up is clifton heights, pennsylvania, abdul on our line

this isn't just a problem for the city of chicago. new filings in cook county, namely suburban areas, were down 4.6% last quarter. the problem, unfortunately, is migrating to the suburbs. all of the so-called collar counties around chicago have had massive increase in foreclosure activity. kean county, a near-in county to the city of chicago, saw foreclosure filings increase 97% in the last quarter over the comparable period last yeemplet i know the administration is work on this. the home affordable modification program is helping some families. i know the treasury stepped up, naming and shaming, hoping that it will provide more data to the public on which banks are actually trying. some are, not much, but some are. many are not trying at all to renegotiator mortgages, though people are facing foreclosure. no matter how much the treasury department leans on these bankers, the big banks that service most of these troubled mortgages simply have not stepped up to the plate. treasury reported yesterday that 3.3 million families are eligi

, and sat on the boards of two organizations that provided funding to acorn's chicago chapter. just last year, his campaign misrepresented that it had paid more than 800,000 to an offshoot of acorn. the obama campaign initially said that they used this for polling. there really use the money for the same types of voter registration project that have mired acorn in criminal investigations in at least 12 states. the president's ties to acorn take any conclusion that the justice department may reach with regard to whether or not to investigate and prosecute acorn employees. that is why i requested date the attorney journal -- i have requested that the attorney general appoint a special prosecutor. congress also has an obligation to investigate the apostle -- the possibly illegal conduct of acorn. acorn has received $53 million in federal funding. it is disappointing that that is a pat -- the democratic majority have taken no steps investigate the wrongdoing, even though the majority of the senator -- of congress people have voted to ban the acorn from federal funding. so far it ha

so it's nice to have an excuse to be here when i'm supposed to be in chicago on monday, tuesday. my paper i think has a fairly simple point that was also made in different ways by philip that the previous panel which is that the assumptions and premises that policy makers bring to bear, whether on predictable events or ones on a high probability or ones that are utterly surprising attempt to be very important in the way they filter information. i go on to talk about concepts and metaphors and how we sort of build up our assumptions. but the simplest line in the paper is the one about the plastic dummy that has sand in the bottom. those are the assumptions and we push the dummy over, it comes straight back up. now, in the paper i take four case studies fairly briefly. one is 1945, the shattered world of 18945. the second is the fall of the berlin wall and the collapse of the soviet union that we've been talking about, and 9/11, and post cold war north korea. obviously, as an historian i bring to bear a different perspective external to the world of policy making and by virttu of w

we get that from lynn sweet, washington bureau chief and columnist for the "chicago sun- times." lynn, welcome back to the program. there were several states sort of in the running for this. how did the administration decide on this facility in illinois? >> well, talk about having a home state advantage. that would be it. the objections in some of the other states, michigan, kansas earlier in the running. when the administration got serious about this in november , late october, the path for illinois was just cleared for them. senator durbin, the senior senator from illinois, number two man in the senate, a democratic governor were champions of the project. so were the people from thompson which you just showed. there was just an easy glide path for acquisition of this little used prison. >> warner: when administration officials say this is going to be super secure, how secure? i mean, what extra measures are they taking? >> they're going to build another security wall around the prison. the prison already was built as a maximum-security prison. they have a whole list of upgrades

yeah, i need an earlier flight out of chicago. i feel like some of you don't respect me. because, ah... because of the hat. [ horns blowing, clanking ] just get me on the next flight out. hey, me too. ♪ - hi. - just made it. we know why you fly. we're american airlines. >>> our accra halftime report continue, boston college up by six at halftime over miami, 31-25, they went on a 12-2 run to end the 30 minutes courtesy of plays like this. how about a little jackson for two? >>> we had four ties and three lead changes in the first 20 minutes. mike, it's no secret about the first 20 minutes rebounding the basketball? >> mike: no question. i thought miami got off to a good start trying to establish things in the post and mcgowan stepping in. and doing a nice job coming out and establishing himself offensively getting into a nice rhyt rhythm, six points for him. bc missed 27 shots in this game but got them back. and right there, the drive inside and miami unable to coral things inside and southern finishing up a shot and reggie jackson a strong finish for bc and that really

[laughter] new york, washington, chicago los angeles that is who we are that is what we are. that is our destiny and let's and paying tribute to a man that taught everybody about the game. >> and then a dream comes true for one high school baseball player a story that will warm your heart holiday season. >> hello and welcome to this special edition of net impact. i'm art fa nel. this is the best of 2009 report where we look back at some of the stories that touched most and kept us talking. like the first report that we called a father's tribute when we went under the lights on the biggest stage in major league baseball where yankee catcher jose molina could not help but reflect on the death of his father. this year was particularly emotional for all of the brothers. we begin the coverage of a truly remarkable story. >> they are the quintessential baseball family, the molinas ben gypping jose and yadar, a rare feat three brothers playing ints. the backbone is gone. ben molina santana passed away at at the age of 58. >> it is like somebody take your heart and threw it in the tr

from sports net chicago, here is dan higgins with the story we called gridiron guardian. >> i think god has put people in the right time and place for things like this situation like this. we didn't pass the buck. >> two defensive line men and two teammates united in a goal to establish nfl supremacy. away from football there's another purpose that unites them. in a place a world away from soldier feel. >> during the off season the two bears were joined by teammate tommy harris on a special trip to nigeria for willie and who say born in to royalty, the africa journey was a home coming. >> this trip was two fold, we wanted for have a football camp where we were teaching nfl style football to youth and have a mel clinic where we were servicing world cities in -- outside of laos and the capital of nie jarya and it worked out well. >> they don't care about the football side. it is more like our sons are back. they are back from the united states and their long extended visit and they are back home and we get that kind of love and it is hard to explain, like a love that a mother has for thei

>> i write for the chicago business in chicago and a further ahead behind of other major cities particularly after stopping the use of becor and. does that have been the fact? >> i was in the chicago region a few weeks ago. it has a wonderful feature of the demobilization that should be a model for other regions that a group of local foundations have gotten together. they have offered small grants to communities throughout illinois to help them advertise the census to their local community. the joyce foundation and others. that has built the gap in that region. it needs to be filled in other regions. state and local governments are on hard times right now. the staff that we used in 2000 for about reach are not there now because of layoffs. we are relying on volunteer activities at a greater rate than we did in 2000 and those activities of private foundations are filling a gap and chicago is a wonderful example of that. >> we have a question on the telephone. >> thank you. i am with the cincinnati enquirer. >> and talking to some of the local liaison three have a number of frustrations with t

he said, we are more than fine, we have been bought by a big bank in chicago. i asked, why are you fine? and he is an older man, and he said, i had been through this three times before. i suspected that he got humbled 25 years ago in the early 1970's. and he never forgot that lesson. it is in times like that that we understand why experience and learning from experience is so important. that is not a meaningless triviality. experience matters because there are things that you only learn when you have been humbled. you cannot explain to a 28- year-old that things are going to get bad. it is not going to sink in. but to this man whom i was speaking to, who saw it firsthand and dealt with that, and i am sure went through all manner of crises before, it is a lesson that he kept with him. colin powell, before the iraq war, he was the in-house skeptic, because he had been through vietnam. he had made the decision that others had not. he had never forgotten those lessons. there is another case of someone who appropriately was humbled and learned from experience. and y

they will be talking from science centers all over the country from boston, new york, california, chicago, and the denver museum of nature and science and the st. louis science center. let's talk to our panelists. we will begin with you, bus. zz. you might have to leave us before the end of the program. is it a late lunch? [laughter] >> it 1600 pennsylvania ave. [applause] >> he would leave us? a couple of months ago, you said you thought we would need to inspire through more than we do are doing now. you thought the way to do that with -- is with the mission to mars. you used the term "to homestead maersk." >> it will not happen within a decade. it will not require breaking the bank right now. we can maybe save some money by realigning what we are doing and make a gradual course. we have lot of experience on the moon and and we had been planning on going to amrs. we can take that experience and communicated, helped work with the international nations. will they come together? i don't know. we have an umbrella organization that is over the international space station. we need to start the

citizen who attended terrorist training camps in pakistan was living in chicago and planned attacks abroad. we've learned that he was not only planning future attacks but has now been charged with leping to plan the 2008 attacks in mumbai, india. and just over the past few days we're learning about five young men in virginia just outside where we sit here today who it appears that these young men were radicalized just miles from where we are here. we are seeing more individuals who are self-radicalized over the internet rather than being recruited by al qaeda. they develop extremist thought and then turn to terrorism. one in my state was illegally in this country and was arrested for plotting a conspicuous act of violence. he is one of the several recent cases of lone wolf plots. we need to give officials the tools they need to find these terrorist plots. we must not forget that we are still under attack and that the threat is very real. waiting until terrorist acts occur and innocent men and women and children are murdered is not an acceptable answer. we must deal to detect and intercept

. >> lehrer: this isn chicago >> in chicago. and there were allhese signs that said,war is not an opposition." and i tually started my speech saying i disagree withhose signs. sometis swar an option. world war ii had to be fout. the self war ipart of the reason why i can snd here on is podium. the estion is are we fighting the right wars in the ght ways and so in at sense, even in my opposition to iraq, for exple, evidence alws very clear about the ct that us going after osama n laden , dismantling al qda, us making sure that people ro who are willinto leslature --laughter nntz have tbe stopped. mytion on something like rwandait makes sense for us to inrvene in genocide or humatarian efforts. those are viewes that are rm consistent. obviously, thexperience of the la . year being presidenteepens and enrich that general philosophy. buit's one that i have held for some time. >> lehrer: you brought tho into the presency. they were just hone by ts experien. >> absutely. i thk if you look at my previous speeches and itings, th're fair

is to transfer up to 100 guantanamo terror suspts to the thompsocorrectional center 150 miles west chicago along the miissippi rir. illinois was officially notifiedn a letter from the secretaries of statedefense and homeland security us the attoey general and director of national telligence. after a briefing at thwhite house, governor paquinn and senar dick durbin told reporters why they enthusiastically back the move. >> this is a great opportuty. our ate unemployment numbers, the most recent es, were 11%. in some parts of the state like northwesterillinois, even higher. people are desperate f good jobs. this jobs we're talkg about here are some of the best . over 3,000 n employees in this area, half of them om local people. >> warner:ut the senate's top republican mch mcconnell said the plan wod make illinois a target fo terrorists. >> gitmo-norths something the american peoe are early opposed to. it is outrageouso suggest th this is a good sort of federal government jobs program. warner: he also notedhat current law rs bringing to u. shores any long-term prisoners eaarked for indefinite

he was on the payroll of the joseph kennedy foundation and merchandising with kennedy in chicago. he of course was supporting ted kennedy in the primaries over jimmy carter in 1980 and of course as we know senator kennedy lost that lead to jimmy carter and the kennedy family was furious with carter in 1980 because he ran with the fall was a very vicious campaign against senator kennedy. and corydon took upon himself to extract meat extract revenge, and so he secretive the campaign briefing documents, the carter briefing votes out of the white house and gave them to bill casey who by that time was running the reagan campaign and as a matter of fact casey put corydon on the reagan campaign. here is a guy just worked for ted kennedy, had a background working in the communist party politics, labor politics, had been at arrested numerous times for running scams in the midwest and all sorts of criminal activities. and of course governor reagan doesn't know this. the irony is the briefing books which when i interviewed president carter he believes to this day he lost because the reagan c

. >> lehrer: this is in chicago >> in chicago. and there were all these signs that said, "war is not an opposition." and i actually started my speech saying i disagree with those signs. sometimes swar an option. world war ii had to be fought. the self war is part of the reason why i can stand here on this podium. the question is are we fighting the right wars in the right ways? and so in that sense, even in my opposition to iraq, for example, evidence always very clear about the fact that us going after osama bin laden , us dismantling al qaeda, us making sure that people ro who are willing to legislature -- slaughter nntz have to be stopped. mydition on something like rwanda, it makes sense for us to intervene in genocide or humanitarian efforts. those are viewes that are farm consistent. obviously, the experience of the last . year being president deepens and enriches that general philosophy. but it's one that i have held for some time. >> lehrer: you brought those into the presidency. they were just hone by this experience. >>

went to the university of chicago when it was still a big 10 football power, in 19341. graduate -- 193 -- graduated 1935, he already published a paper in technical economics in 23ee and went to harvard for graduate school and published another ten in the years he was in graduate school. and each one was more formal and math met call than the last. it really changed the whole discourse of economics in a fairly short period of time. >> lehrer: discourse -- i'm sorry. >> no, no. discourse meaning the way that they described the economy, the way they thought of it as a system, the way they behaved. and basically he took the keynesian insights and translated them into a mathematical form that permitted the measurement and manipulation of things. >> lehrer: you called him a mixed economy welfare state liberal. what is that? >> well, that's the opposite of milton freedman which is a kind of entrepreneurial capitalism, libertarian. these guys were remarkable. freedman was born in 1912, samuelsson 1915. samuelsson had life easy. his father was a pharmacist, a small businessman,

went to the univerty of chicago when it s still a big 10 fooall power, in 341. graduate -- 193 graduated 1935, he already pubshed a paper technical economics in 23ee and went tharvard for graduate school and published another ten inhe years he was in graduate school. and each one was more form and math met call th the last. it really chged the whole discourse of economics in a fair short period of time. >> lehr: discourse -- i'm sorry. no, no. diourse meaning the way that they described the economy, the way they thght of it as a system, the way they behav. and basically he tk the ynesian insights and trslated them into a mathematical form that permitted the asurement and manipulati of things. >> lehrer: you callehim a mixed economwelfare state liral. what is that >> wel that's the opposite of milton eedman which is a nd of entrepreneurial capitalism, libearian. the guys were remarkable. freedman was bn in 1912, samuelsson 15. samusson had life easy. his fatheras a pharmacist, a all businessman, prperous family in the midwest until they lost some money in the dep

forecasters also warned flights would be delayed or canceled from chicago to denver. hundreds of police officers turned out in tacoma, washington today for a memorial service honoring four of their fallen. they were shot and killed last month at a coffee shop. later, police in seattle killed the suspected gunman. today, a procession of hundreds of police cars moved from an air force base down streets lined by somber crowds. the memorial service was held in the tacoma dome. the u.s. government will pay american indian tribes $3.4 billion to settle a suit over royalties. the deal ends a 13-year lawsuit brought by the tribes. they claimed the interior department cheated them out of billions of dollars in oil, gas and timber revenue dating back to 1887. the proposed settlement must be approved by congress and a federal judge. wall street had a down day, over a new case of jitters about the global economy. the dow jones industrial average lost 104 points to close just below 10286. the nasdaq fell 16 points to close a fraction under 2173. those are some of the day's headlin

better than derick rose which is saying a lot, number one pick in the nba draft, derick rose of the chicago bulls. >> steve: defended by tyler honeycutt. >> marques: xavier henry is a good player. like him a lot. he could really use another year of college basketball to make him even better. >> steve: xavier -- maybe not. >> marques: maybe not. he's addressed that issue. a lot of people assume that's going to happen but do what's best for him, his family, the university. kind of looking things over, evaluate the situation. >> steve: kansas has their biggest lead of the afternoon at 15. >> marques: talked about all the nba personnel in the stands this afternoon. mike dunleavy, mike dunnly, looking at guys like xavier henry, sherron collins, the senior. >> steve: eight seconds on the shot clock. here goes sherron collins. long. lee rebounds. nice save to morgan. xavier henry one of the most talented freshmen in america, hitting the three. whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa... what are you doing? put... the jug... down. put it down... this one's cheaper. listen, your engine is the last place y

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i live in chicago which i have the luxury of being a diverse economy. we have manufacturing, most of what i do is in cni lending, manufacturing, the people own the business. >> woodruff: i'm sorry. cni. >> commercial and industrial. lines of credit, equipment. when you think of people who make stuff. i say if you could punch holes, bend metal we loan money to you. now that's expanded to people who design clothes or people who bake cakes. entrepreneurs have a wonderful spirit about them and they fill really well into community banks but where i grew up in western colorado predominantly you did two things. you built homes or you lent money to restaurants and bars. so, you know, if that's what you do in your town, that's what you do. i think you hear from bankers who said that's what the woman in brighton, colorado, if you're the front range of colorado it's not surprising to hear that. it's also economies of scale. if you only have.... >> woodruff: is that the balance that karen petrou was just describing? >> i think as you grow your institution if that w

eric crane, chicago business. can you talk about whether chicago is any further ahead or behind other major cities, particularly after stopping the use of a.c.o.r.n. to help, did that have any effect? >> i was in the chicago region just a few weeks ago. chicago has a wonderful feature of their mobilization for the census that, i think, is a model for other regions, and that is a group of local foundations have gotten together, offered small grants to communities throughout illinois to help them advertise the census to their local community. this is the joyce foundation and others. that has filled a gap in this, in that region that needs to be filled in other regions. state and local governments are on hard times right now. many of the staff that were used in 2000 for outreach aren't there now because of layoffs and other things. we're relying on volunteer activity thes at a greater rate than we did in 2000, and those activities of private foundations are filling a gap, and chicago's a wonderful example of that, i

my favorite memory is being in an elevator with you and timothy leery in chicago 1991. [laughter] >> i can't believe that. i remember -- >> the convention in '91. >> i don't recall that because i was at his home one time, and he had, like, a little reception for me, that was pretty wild too, but i don't remember the one in chicago. >> it was just the three of us in an elevator. well, more memorable to me than you, but love your work. thank you. >> thank you. >> appreciate you doing this. >> glad to see people interested. >> it's motivating. >> thanks for coming out for us. >> good to be here. >> what do you need for us to run in 2012? [laughter] >> well, it's too early to talk about that. [inaudible conversations] >> oh, are you? getting the attention of a lot of people these days. i'm glad your generation is looking into it. if they don't destroy themselves it'll take us a little bit longer to make sure we get rid of it, but they're likely to self-destruct. >> good meeting you. >> all right. >> hello. good to see you. >> hello. nice to see you. >> i'm the only old geez

he is trying to get a lot of wind out of north dakota and then to chicago. one of the issues is the cost for the region. what we are suggesting is that congress needs to eliminate the entire structure of planning and cost allocation. the states can ultimately solve the problem but if they cannot, the pressure should be there to allow the federal government to step in. >> thank you. i was author in 1992 of the wholesale transmission access provision. for the very first time, they have the ability to force the utilities to stop blocking the requests for the non- discriminatory access so that there could be more competition in that area. they built upon the new law that i created, issuing a generic order on transmission access, which is a historic order. and based upon my 1992 law. i am very sensitive to this issue. we should not take this to something that goes beyond what this needed. part of the problem in massachusetts and new england is that -- this is your predecessors. the one who has just left office. pre-empting the state and local governments from gra

but we always sit in chicago. >> what was your experience sitting on the seventh circuit? >> well, i learned a great deal. an awful lot about federal law, of course. i served with some awfully good judges and learned a lot from them. in that picture, for example, tom fairchild was the chief judge for years and i learned a lot from him and p others of my colleagues. >> so what's the difference between the circuit court of appeals and the supreme court? >> well, in the circuit court of appeals you are more bound by precedent than in the court of appeals here. if there is a decision or an tean -- opinion, the court of appeals is really required to follow it whereas in this court there are many more open questions that have not been really finally resovepled -- resolved. we have more of a duty to decide things that have not been faced before. >> let's go into your main office here. you've been in a lot of offices. >> right. >> does the atmosphere that you're working in matter to you much? >> actually it doesn't. i enjoy the office and i have a wonderful view of the capitol tha

how far is that from chicago? caller: think about 100 miles west of chicago. host: and say they go ahead with this plan to move some of the detainees or all of them though to this prison in thompson, illinois. õdo you feel more concerned you area of the country might come under attack from terrorists? caller: no, i feel the whole country will be under attack by administration because they're terrorists so they'll accuse all these citizens from this and now they don't have to keep the lawyers away from them. they can do it right here in illinois. host: gene new jersey ft. lauderdale? caller: good morning. what really concerns me is the air space that we have áo protect where as in cuba the cuban government takes care of air space and people are well aware how dangerous it is to fly over cuba. the other (art is, down there in by guantanamo that's covered by our navy and our air force, and being that this place in illinois is so much in open space, i liking it to what happened in new york. how long it took them to get in any type of sense out of a presidential

let's try chicago. caller: i support the president. he told us throughout the campaign that he wanted to bring people out of iraq and put the focus on afghanistan. he repeatedly defined to the fact that we had abandoned afghanistan for the last eight years. we do not like to have to go to war. i am not a person who is generally for war. he has literally stepped into a mess that was created by people who were not paid attention to this mess in afghanistan, which was started on september 11. the main issue for obama is that buafghanistan is an ax to pakistan. there are a nuclear state. i think we must have a presence there. anybody who thinks that this man enjoys doing this, he does not. he has to do this. he is the president. host: what did you think about the president leonel the time frame? caller: i am thrilled that he laid out a time frame. it has to be defined. people have got to have some hope. we do not intend to occupy their country. we simply want to provide some stability. afghanistan is an extremely difficult -- like they say

they surrounded the chairman of the ways and means committee in chicago and now the leader of that group is a member of congress. and then there was the luxury tax on those over $100,000 other historic mistake. because of raised about half the taxes it was supposed to and nearly sank the boating industry and opposed 7600 people out of jobs. so ask my friends from oklahoma and wyoming. it's going to be a lot harder for congress if they try to fix all this health care system at one to come back and repeal it then it was too repeal a boat tax. don't you think that we ought to take the time to avoid another historic mistake? >> i would answer my colleague from tennessee as a practicing physician. when i see the historic mistake were going to allow the federal government which carrier you are going to get. we're going to divide the loyalty of your physician and no longer will you be able to get 100% advocate for you they will be an advocate for the government over the government says. because in this bill the one that's going to come has three different programs that puts government bureaucra

the erie clinic in chicago, alivio medical clinic in chicago. good, clean, modern clinics with people dedicated to health care and dentistry who can help these people. we envision 10,000 more community health clinics as a result of this bill, at least 10,000, and thousands of primary physicians to be there to help. and that will mean that we will be creating across america a network of care and peace of mind for people who otherwise have few places, if any, to turn. i think the day will come soon when this bill, after it's passed, will become evident to america in terms of what we set out to do and what we achieved. and if history serves as it has in the past, many of today's critics will not dwell on the fact that they voted no but rather say i had some problems with it and i guess it worked out okay. they may be afraid to acknowledge that now. i think ultimately they will have to. this is clearly an idea whose time has come and it has come because we have a president with the courage, the political courage to step up and make sure that we not

i'm trying to think about how to stop violence in the chicago public schools. and i know a lot of at stopping violence, and i think the entire checklist of all the things that i think that possibly work, that are politically viable, that we can actually do, that will stop violence or less in a year, and i think we don't have any thing. i can't think of one thing on the table. i will ask the blog readers. i don't know. maybe the blog readers have an idea. it's hard. but i can imagine, you do, it just went up today. there were 70, 80 with an out. >> it's hard. if it were easy, but -- so that's where, you never know where the next great ideas going to come from. i don't want to make it sound like i don't think great ideas ever come from people within an area. it helps to know the institution to deal it. but i think oftentimes the really great ideas come from the outside in. >> so one of the early places in the book, i wonder if this is really accurate, team and the very first vignette. is about drunk driving and drunk walking. you make the point that if you look a

evanston is a great town north of chicago. i enjoy going up there and have a lot of friends there. david had insurance when he needed it, but it ended up costing him his financial health. he's a freelance videographer. he was paying $4,500 a year for health insurance when he was health insurance when he was $4,500 a year for health insurance when he was diagnosed with cancer at the age of 48. david buckley had a surgery followed by chemotherapy radiation. he managed to rid his body of cancer. but that battle ended and another battle began. david's insurance company agreed to cover his cancer treatment but only after three solid months of investigations of his application for health insurance to determine whether they could find in that application a pre-existing condition, which would eliminate any responsibility to pay for david's bills. they couldn't. after covering his cancer treatment costs, they did the next thing that insurance companies do, they raised his premiums and they didn't just raise them a little bit. in the year following his cancer diagnosis, dave its insurance ra

then the lakers went home for a day before heading to chicago. then after the lakers beat the bulls, they stayed in chicago before bussing to milwaukee for our opening act. kobe bryant, bad finger and all, not pictured, had 42 on thursday. michael redd, nice move to the baseline, laid it in. bucks up four. re redd's seventh game of the year, that's it. andrew bynum dunks. tight game at the half. jam of the night belongs to hakeem warrick. he went to syracuse. thought i'd get that in there. going to overtime now. 95-95. >>> sixers trying to win back-to-backs for the first time since october. cavs in town. cavs up three. lebron james. get out of his way please. and then go the other way. lebron can do that. he swats sam dalembert. actually, his shot. third quarter, tied at 72. andre iguodala, from allen iverson. close game through three. in the first half, lebron. did he kick that? he didn't do it. sit in the corner, hit a three. then, lebron again. he had 36, a game high. cavs have won four in a row. this one on the road. >>> turkoglu playing in o

they went to chicago. >> that's when i finally felt like you can enjoy life now, we've made it. you can relax now. you know, it's yours, so, you know, i always, like, wanted to have a house i could have friends over and stuff, and every day, like, since we had the house, i always have people over, there's not like one day where my mom is not cooking for everyone. but in bosnia, it's just like that. you always have family over, friends over, you're grilling. >> reporter: and from there, life was good. boggio starred in soccer, and now he's getting plenty of playing time for the fire. >> i can't really describe like how you feel, like -- because you, like, you remember, when you go back, it all comes back to you like everything happened yesterday, and its just like, you know, it's -- you try to make it happy where you get to see your family again, but as soon as like that goes away, like, wow, like i left all of this behind. what if i didn't have this sort of future? >> reporter: and so you can understand when the practices get long and the guys get sweaty and the work seems diffi

i'm trying to think about how to stop violence in the chicago public schools, and i know a lot about stopping violence and i think for the entire check list of all the things i think could possibly work that are politically viable, that we can actually do that will stop violence or less than and we don't have anything. not one thing on the table. i got to the point i asked the bloggers meeting would have ideas. it's hard. i can imagine -- >> guest: just today there were 70, 80 comments per our -- >> guest: a target so that's -- you never know where the next great idea is going to come from and i don't want to make it sound like great ideas never come from people within an area. but i do think that oftentimes some of the really great ideas come from the outside. >> host: one of the early places in the book where i scratched my head and thought i wonder if this is really accurate came in the very first vignette. it's about drunk driving and drug walking and he make the point if you look at the data and compare miles driven drunk and models walked drug people die anyhow your rate than w