the colgan air accident and the loss of air france for 47 remind us that we cannot rest on our laurels of the great state the record and we must remain alert and vigilant to the challenges of our system. with got to continue to enhance the air safety and within the system. this is a business where one mistake is one mistake too many. so, senator dorgan, senator demint and members of the committee this concludes my prepared remarks and i would be happy to answer any questions you have as a follow-on. thank you. >> administrator babbitt thank you for being with us. next we will hear from the honorable calvin scovel. mr. scovel you may proceed. >> chairman dorgan, ranking member demint, members of the subcommittee we appreciate the opportunity to testify regarding the faa's roehl. safety is a responsibility shared among faa aircraft manufacturers, airlines and airports for the together all for it for me series of overlapping controls to keep the system safe. the past several years have been one of the sake its periods in history for the aviation industry. however the tragic accident in fe

the air accident and loss of air france remind us we cannot arrest on our laurels we must remain alert and diligent to our challenges. we have to work to enhance the air safety within the system. this is a business where one mistake is one mistake to many. senator dorgan, a senator demint and members of the committee this concludes my repaired days prepared remarks of a happy to answer any questions you may have. >> thank you very much for being with us will now hear from calvin scovel and you may proceed. >> chairman dorgan ranking member demand and members of the subcommittee we appreciate the opportunity to testify safety is a responsibility shared among faa aircraft manufacturers airports and together all four for a series of overlapping controls to keep the system safe. the past several years have said what of the safest periods however the tragic action and teach accident of 3407 underscores the need for constant diligence is among the part of all stakeholders last month and tsb held a preliminary hearing into the accident in which some evidence suggested pilot fatigue may have c

actually, more air marshals have been arrested since 9/11 than have been arrests by air marshals. this is an agency that's grown by just 33 before 9/11 to over 3,000 now. now t.s.a. is doing at airports like what other local law enforcements are doing and many are doing on aviation security are more than enough. we need to realize that we cannot make everyone totally safe even if we spent the entire federal budget on security. . i have chaired the aviation ski for six years, but as one former official told me, this air marshal agency is guilding the lilly. the "wall street journal" said in an editorial a few months after 9/11, quote, we would like to suggest a new post-september 11 rule for congress. any bill with the word security should get double the public scrutiny and four times the normal weight should all become law under the phony guise of terrorism. that was from the "wall street journal." and they noticed every department and agency was requesting additional funds and using the word security to justify unnecessary appropriations. everyone on both sides of the aisle would

in fairness, about 50%, perhaps a little more, of the air passengers based excuse me, the air miles for flights that are made are done by the commuter carriers. we want to make a safe industry, and overall as you indicated in your introduction, we enjoy a very safe aviation industry in the united states. the objective is to raise that even higher. not only with the regional carrier, but the major carrier as well. we just recently investigated two, two major air carrier accidents. one in december, one in january. where we lost the entire hall of the aircraft. thank goodness no one got hurt. everyone got off. we are looking one with our partners, our counterparts in france right now where the outcome was not as successful. >> my time is about a. i want to say that i have read all that i can read about this particular accident in buffalo, and i know that we put, you know, we put a magnifying glass on this and look at every part of it. but i was stunned, frankly, learning what i learned. and i wondered, is this a complete anomaly? is a just happenstance that in this cockpit, below 10000 fee

i represented the air of men in the legislature. i became very familiar with the generals leadership both on the base and off. the general and his wife were more than ambassadors for the air force. there were forces of the good for the community. in october of 2005, the general returned after two assignments in colorado. during this time, our armed forces were really coming to grips with the challenge of treating men and women returning from iraq with the ptsd and traumatic brain injuries. gen fraser was commanding -- was involved in a round table so we convene to discuss how we deal with the health care facilities, and how our i ability to deal with the challenges -- our abilities could deal with the challenges. i learned about a project, it is called home town healing. the air force medical wing determined it was capable of treating wounded warriors in alaska. we brought them back to alaska, and under the general's watch, it is something we are very proud of. the hospital was voted the best in the air force. alaskas is known for t

same thing in the air force. the air force can't even put together a short-term plan where they pretend that things get better. that fantasy on the right hand side, it is absolutely guaranteed that that airplane will not come in at the cost and numbers that they are pretending, it will not rescue them from their aging problem, nor from their shrinking problem. we can talk about this later, but there are solutions. thomas christie and i talk about how to address these problems at great length in the chapters in our book. i will give you an example for the sake of illustration. the first one, getting rid of the pork. in addition to the $800 billion that congress add to the defense budget since 2001, despite the wars in iraq and afghanistan, congress also added $770 billion for the non war parts of the budget to attempt to address the shrinking, aging problem that it didn't address. one of the ways we waste and all that money was congress blew away $70 billion on pork. notice also at after the reforms that the democ

it will also hear from the air line pilots association and mr. scott -- scott mauer representing the families of the continental express flight 3407 which crashed on february 12th of this year in new york. i do want to say as well as mr. this hearing and that i had intended it and wished to have representatives of the carriers themselves at a hearing and so we did not accomplish that today. i am not minimizing and all other representatives of the 80 a but i will wish to expand invitation and have representatives of the airlines themselves here within the next month or so. it is important i think that they wouldn't accept an invitation to, and so i will extend those invitations again. in this country i think it is safe to say that we have a remarkably safe system of air travel. it is not my intention with hearings about aviation safety to alarm anyone about taking a flight to on a regional carrier when our carrier. we operate aircraft all across this country everyday and provide critical air service to many people who would not otherwise have that

when i say air power rod, i mean air power route across the marine corps, the navy and the air force, so this is not a diatribe against the air force. i just want you to know that. what i am saying here applies in full force to the other services, so think of this as purple what. the roots of the rock are very simple and plain. at the top of the list, they're very closely interrelated. these are not independent problems. but you really have to focus on the question, before world war ii and american air power, we have always focused on the wrong mission and we have done that for a number of bureaucratic reasons and incentive reasons. we have focused purely on the idea of strategic bombing, which is dominated by the theology of an italian general from world war run -- world war i who wrote the seminal book on bombing. he presented his theory which the u.s. air force jumped on with glee and has adhered to ever since, the idea that by simply bombing the enemy, you could win wars without any land forces at all. that is an appalling lease to the idea and you will see why as we go through th

jennifer. >> why would you ever be using a b-1 bomber for close air support? white size bombs were they dropping? >> we use an array of their craft in support of our troops on the ground. i thank fa-18's were involved earlier in the incident. eventually they had to come off. this was an incident that went off over several hours and requires a number of aircraft to come in. not one aircraft could do it for the time this left it. i would direct you to the air force and direct you to afghanistan to speak from a tattoo perspective about why the deployed which aircraft at which time, but i think given the amount of time this entire incident lasted, it required calling upon available aircraft to provide close air support the troops on the ground needed. yeah, joe. let's finish this up. >> to specify, was there any other incident or part of this incident or the investigator found fault, or was it all about the bee one's actions in this? >> you know, i think i have probably spoken more than it is fair to the investigator at centcom in terms of them to terminating when

he was the deputy commander of an air wing during the first gulf war and he was the commander during the second gulf war. he's had the duty of occasional penance working in washington in a variety of jobs i have the honor and pleasure of working with him when he was the deputy j3 during the '90s. and he then became after his service in connection with he became the director of the joint staff, which is the critical position as i'm sure most of you know in making that remarkable organization work as well as it does and thanks to his efforts and the efforts of a lot of other people and to goldwater-nichols law. he was then commander -- he's had two -- i still call them syncs jobs, two commanders and as all know 'cause you wouldn't be here otherwise, he's the commander of the pacific command. it's a real pleasure to have the opportunity to hear his insights into the military and indeed the larger american strategic role in that critical part of the world. admiral keating, welcome to the atlantic council and thank you for doing this. [applause] >> thank you all for this great opportunity

play a big role in making sure that we get cleaner air and green energy. we got the department of energy, of course, the department of labor, the u.s. army corps of engineers, the bureau of indian affairs, the bureau of land management, all these federal agencies are going to take part in trying to put this bill into action. but that's not all. not even close. we've got the offsets integrity advisory board. we also have the carbon market oversight interagency working group. that are going to try to help control who gets these carbon credits and who doesn't, how they can be traded and how they can't and where in the world these offsets are going to be. don't have to be in the united states. we're going to see billions of american tax dollars being shipped around the country, around the world, whether it's replanting forests in other parts of the world, they're going to help clean up our air. i'm sure our constituents want our money sent overseas to help plant trees. but that's not all. we have the consumer refund fund that's going to be outlined here. we go

the federal air marshal system is operating. when you compare it to israeli security, those are two of the critical pieces of in-flight security in place today. the physical security on board is dramatically better than pre- 9/11. host: to our republican line in new york. caller: i have one common. ever since we have all this hassle at the airports i have just stopped flying. i am about to do the same about not going to canada because of all the security there. sorry, but iyou or fencing me in and taking away my freedoms. guest: one of the problems we have had is because we have previously had people show up at checkpoint anonymously, it gives us the feeling that everyone is treated as terrorists. that is extremely unpopular . this will givet.s tsa the chance to change screening in focus on people who are high threats. it should make the security process smoother. host: the business travel news wrote last week about the house passage of the transportation security administration, the authorization, claiming the bill would return

of aircraft air force is hereby increased by $510,200,000 of which, a, $110 million is to be available for the procurement of mq-9 unmanned aerial vehicles and, b, $400,200,000 is to be available for c-130-j aircraft. the amount otherwise provided by section 2014 for research development, test and evaluation defensewide is hereby increased by $1,200,,000,000 is to be available for the ground-based midcourse defense system, $237 million is to be available for the airborne lacer program, c, $177,100,000 is to be available for the multiple kill vehicle, d, $165,900,000 is to be available for the kinetic energy sector and, e, $20 million is to be available for the space tracking and surveillance system. b, offsetting reduction. the amount otherwise provided by section 3108 for -- 3102 is hereby reduced by $2,600,000,000 to be derivinged from sites that are projected to meet regulatory milestones ahead of schedule or are at greatest risk to be unable to execute law and fiscal year 2010 funding as planned for fiscal year 2010. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from virginia is recognize

to the army and air force? closed quote. none of them have been able to answer the question but all of them stated there was no new study or analysis conducted that countered the existing plan or reduced the rocket requirements for 78 joint cargo aircraft. what has happened as a result of all this is that the congress is now left to debate the puts and takes in the budget with when there has been no vetting of the underlying policy or strategy. this body, not the executive branch, is charged with the constitutional mandate to raise and support arm >>s -- armies and navies. i'm extremely troubled that these decisions have been made in the vacuum and appear at least on the surface to be informed by nothing other than top line budget pressures. i want to be clear that my frustration's with the department and not this bill. in fact, given a little information that we have received, i believe our members on both sides of the aisle are really excellent staff have done an amazing job. as i've said on many occasion, the house armed

my dad was with the army air corps group that went from north africa into france and germany. but a lot of people talking about the russian effort. with our effort to go after the energy resources of germany, the bombings in all cordors, getting them out of north african africa and stuff, didn't that happy and could you expand? thank you. guest: sure. that's a great point. one way the soveyts were hated by the western powers is the strategic bombing campaign that they could concentrate on having their air force just provide close air support for their armies along the eastern front and the campaign to bomb germany abserbs about a million plus german soldiers for antiaircraft duties and things of that nature, plus much of the german air force is redeployed home. this definitely aided the soviet 81 an. no question about it. the commander of the strategic air forces in europe at that point initiated the oil plan which was designed to basically destroy germany's oil refining capacity and paralyze their effort that way because, fuel was so important. and that is really to some exte

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yes, there are some people that have received satellite, 20% receive their local stations over the air and if you are one of those and get your local stations over an antenna you need to prepare because those stations over the air will not be analog anymore. but the great bulk of the satellite people have nothing to do and that is also true of cable. >> we have facts and figures from the national communications agency and we want to have to explain a little bit. so far, 32 million approved households have received or have transitioned. what does that mean, approved households? >> it means they have applied for a coupon to the commerce department and that application has been approved. that means that once it is approved day are mailed coupons in the mail and will receive them in about nine or ten days. >> and this is the actual coupon people will receive, it's just like a credit card. >> it looks like a credit card only usable ones and is good for $40 so when you buy a converter box you take that and it's used essentially as credit for $40. >> so 32 million times $40? >> a household is

we're combining with the japanese air self-defense force in our air force in japan to have a combined operation center which would be very important for us and so on and so sóon. all through those 18 other parts of the dpri. on track, generally well-funded and very beneficial to us across-the-board. and we believe to japan's self-defense forces. now, the area where everyone kind of -- they go yeah, well, what about guam? the previous administration, president bush, the current administration, president obama, secretaries of state and secretaries of defense from both administrations have reaffirmed our national commitment to get aip done. got it. loud and clear. it's going to take some money. it's going to take some time. there is an understanding that just -- working inside the defense line at guam won't get -- defense line, inside the department of defense properties won't just get it done. there have to be structure in guam. those who have been the pleasure of going to guam understand it's a country of, i think, 175,000 people. we're going to move another 15 to 18,000 marines and i

jim may, president and chief executive officer of the air transport association of america. you and i have discussed all of the issues that have been discussed this morning, the same is the case with mr. cohen. let me say to all 4 of you that your entire statement is part of the permanent record and we ask that you summarize your remarks. please pull that very close and turn it on. >> thank you, mr. chairman, good morning. let me share my condolences with mr. mauer and other representatives of the families that lost loved ones aboard the kogan air flight. is this terrible tragedy. the airline industry safety is our highest priority. we try very hard to assure that we never compromise safety because of economic conditions, we work closely with all members of the aviation community including regional airlines, achieve extraordinary records, no fatalities for mainline carriers in the past number of years and it is in that spirit that i appeared before you today with the understanding that no accident is acceptable. we have a responsibility to understand, through rigorous and se

colonel straten was trained as a navigator on an air force k.c. 135. in his honor, one of thighs massive aircraft flew low and slow over arlington cemetery, over the flag-draped coffin of one of air force's finest. i gave his life helping the afghan people to know dignity of a life lived in freedom. he was assigned to the joint staff at the pentagon here in washington, d.c., and he served as the commander of the pan share provincial reconstruction team in afghanistan. on may 26, 2009, mark died at bagram air field of wounds that he sustained from an improvised explosive device, what we call an i.e.d. mark had strong texas ties. he graduated from texas a&m university in december of 1991 with a degree in political science. and while at texas a&m he was a member of squadron 1 of the corps of cadets. he has numerous air force commendations including the purple heart and the bronze star. he's remembered by friends as a man of unquestionable character and loyalty. he was a patriotic individual who exemplified the spirit of the american airmen. lieutenant col

it pollutes the air we believe -- we brief. of the nation that leads in the creation of a clean energy economy and leads the global economy. now is the time for us to realize this. now is the time for us to leave. the energy bill that passed the house will create the incentive that will spark the clean energy transformation in our economy, will spur the development of low carbon, everything from wind, and thermal power and a cleaner coal. it will reduce heating costs in the winter and cooling costs in the summer. it will make possible the creation of millions of new jobs. we are already seeing investments -- proof of the investments. people will be employed to build a new solar plant, that will create 1000 new jobs. in michigan, investment in wind technology is expected to create over 2600 jobs. in florida, three new solar projects are expected to employ 1400 people. the list goes on. this legislation will finally make a clean energy profitable kind of energy. that will lead to the creation of new businesses and entire new indu

before virgin atlantic started air travel was an elite form of transport. now it's more affordable and everyday part of our lives. aviation links up businesses and families, without it, economic grolt and cultural exchange and development assistance would be significantly hampered. i have no doubt aviation will lead the way in helping economies to recover from the current crisis. but it can only do so if industry remains viable and competitive. i understand that it is tempting for regulators to say, well, we've given dispensation to one airline, we should do likewise for others as they have done previously. but they must resist that temptation. each anti-trial fabrication must be considered on its own specific merit. and considered on its merits, it's clear the application for the merger between british airways and american airlines must be rejected. a line in the sand needs to be drawn. i'm not saying that all consolidation within the airline industry is a bad thing. while consumers may stand to benefit if complementary networks buy carriers that are not d

listen to what happened after the clean air act of 1990, the amendment. exxon coal monterrey 2 closed by market conditions brought about by the clean air act. the next one, zigler coal, market conditions by the clean air act amendments. we also have this one, monterrey 10, market conditions brought out by the clean air act amendments. and many more on this report. what a cap and trade bill does is cap fossil fuel use. it says you cannot use this anymore. what is a fossil fuel? it's coal, it's natural gas, it's crude oil, it's what we use to create the strongest economy in this world. and if you cap it and we have electricity demands go up, only one thing can happen, higher electricity rates. now, my friends on the other side were serious about carbon dioxide. in their bill they would forcefully push for the expansion of use of nuclear power. but is there in their bill, no. nuclear power emitts no carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. that's why many of us on our side really questions the sincerity of our friends on the other side because there's no major pr

this flight was operated by colgan air. the plane was operated by captaining co-pilot, both of whom had committed fairly long distances to get to work and were found to have had little rest before the flight. the co-pilot revealed her experience in flying in icy conditions in the transcript of the voice recording that i fred and i am sure my colleagues have as well. the captain had previously failed a number of flight tests. we will hear from the ntsb which has been investigating but it sounds like the captain just made the wrong decision at the wrong time, flying in very difficult icy conditions. at i worry when i have looked at this, and read the transcript of the cockpit recording and all of the other issues, that there are issues here of fatigued, training, commuting and perhaps salaries that could have played a role. i am concerned about the airlines and the faa's ability to prevent inexperienced pilots from flying planes they might be less familiar with than they should be organized the weather for example, when they

i didn't know until we were getting off the plane this individual was an air marshal. not a hawaiian shirt, does somebody, they have formfitting close now that you just cannot tell that the individual is a lot and horsemen officer. the other thing to point out there are a lot of others who are not air marshals and sometimes they acquire them the courtesy of reporting so if you are an fbi agent or secret service and you are flying armed they will give them a little bit of special courtesy so you may be seeing fbi and the air marshal were as the air marshal in those cases were not able to identify. >> host: yellow springs, ohio, good morning on our democrats line. >> caller: yes, sir i have a question. a couple of years ago i travelled to florida. i was going to see my sick sister and after i went to security i was singled out, i was pulled and told to step aside, and i.com but what was so humiliating about the experience is everyone is going by, they are looking at you thinking you did something wrong my only crime was that i bought a one-way ticket because my husband w

air and naval superiority know they cannot possibly stand up to the u.s. naval and air capabilities and then have watched in lebanon and iraq and afghanistan as insurgent groups and terrorist groups have been able to make inroads against more superior conventional power and have gained a lot of lessons from those kind of observations. in the key focus for them especially given a look at the u.s. as their main adversary from a kiefer of this is defending their regime and encountering what is a superior adversary in the u.s., so did terence is of great importance. it is a matter of public statement and exercises and those are all geared into word from a very high cost if they are attacked. it may have a per feel defense which they look back and recall of a ford the plans whereby they used proxy is and militias and other types of kind of unconventional capabilities to project their power and as a defense against invasion and then in case of invasion in mosaic defense whereby they want to conduct in and run and guerrilla tactics and also use strategic patients

in the 50 air strikes we had a total sum of zero successes. we didn't get saddam or his sons or the brothers or any of the people on the deck of cards. as we went in the war it was failure after failure. i would estimate about 250 civilians were killed in the air strikes that we did have against saddam hussein. but i truly felt that we did the best job that we could. i then left the pentagon on the 11th of april of 2003. this was days after the statue of saddam fell in baghdad. and in all honesty, a week later, i was standing in a crater in basra in an air strike in which we had targeted chemical ali because of his gassing of the kurds in 1988 and i stood facing this man. he was in his 60s, i guess, maybe older, with fingernails just really worn down and browned hands. and he told me how two families had been wiped out in that air strike. and his kids were killed and his grandchildren were killed, and he was a doctor. his son was a doctor. his wife was a doctor. and on and on. and that was a difficult moment, but it was also a moment for me wh

they are now conducting air exercises, and that's been so well to get that other key? he made these comments put on like a global spotlight until what are his concerns? >> i don't know this he views, frankly, this elections and the fallout and the unarest of the crack down that is followed as pout a business reality -- obviously you heard from the president yesterday, he said we deplore the crackdown and the crackdown of treatments of iranians who are desperately seeking a dword and how the election. and how it was handled, but obviously the government must sake d -- in dealing with the turmoil and its midst, so i don't know that we have seen any tournl threat that's been exposed as -- it does seem externally that either one, east and west border, that the afghans on the east and the iraqis on the west are do seem to be paying close attention to this it. and they have elections in the not too distant future in august in afghanistan and january in iraq, and i think it obviously puts more pressure on those governments and us and the international which community to make

air and marine. which provides critical air support to c.b.p. officers and border patrol agents. this air support is an unrivaled resource in our fight to keep our borders safe. unfortunately, i have repeatedly heard frustration from agents in my district that air resources are in short supply and are often not available to agents on the ground. mr. chairman, it is important that we work to resolve this issue whether by better management of existing resources or by increasing those resources. therefore, as this bill heads toward conference, i ask your support in making sure these important questions are addressed and answered. mr. price: i appreciate the gentlewoman's strong commitment to securing the nation's borders and her hard work on this issue. as a member from the -- from a border state, i assure her i'll work with her as the bill moves forward to make sure they provide information about how they provide air support on the border and how to increase effectiveness at the border. ms. kirk patic: reclaiming my time -- mrs. kirkpatrick: reclaiming my time, i'd like to thank th

so many people died of 2003 because of lack of air conditioning. we don't want this artificial air. you should see what air conditioner sales did between swe and 2006 in france and the political process adapted. where you could go if it was hot that had this wonder called air conditioning. and mortality dropped dramatically. we saw the same thing in chicago. the great heat wave of the mid-1990s resulted in 700 excess deaths in one weekend. a similar heat wave took place a few years later and excess death toll was minimal. the city adapted. elected officials does not do well when bodies fill up in the street when it gets hot. but back to the climate of extremes. i have two more examples. of simply not checking the facts. these two are shocking to me and will demonstrate the bipartisan nature of this particular climate of extremes. my favorite here is something called warming island. now, you may remember this story from a couple of years ago. this is john collins rudolf writing in the "new york times" january 16th, 2007. a peninsula long thought to be a part of greenland's main land

you should tell the story about the camera. >> c-span just got on the air. they were showing only what was going on in the house of representatives. >> with cameras owned by the house. >> they could not have anything else on the air except for the house session. our founder went to brian and said, what if we give you some cameras? which reminds covering some of close-up encounters? -- would you mind covering some of the close-up encounters? from there it just built and the relationship that stronger. >> i was working out of a bureau in the 1980 pugo. -- 1980's. we covered the kids on "close- up. it was a marriage made in heaven for the close-up program. >> it was more like a marriage made in a board room somewhere. our ceo at the museum was good friends, and i do not know what other connections he had with the close-up founder, but at the place where the freedom of former museum developed enough television capacity to help the show be of service to close up, we got recruited to the cause. it was a johnny come lately thing. that was about 14 years ago. >> c-s

madam president, as some of my colleagues know, the paris air show kicked off this week. the air show showcases many impressive displays of aviation, technology, and innovation. but there's something else that's going to be on display at this year's air show: the fruits of some 30-plus years of direct cash advances and illegal subsidies to the european aerospace company airbecause. foairbus, the european government who created airbus to specifically compete with the united states have aggressively funded, protected, and promoted their venture. since 1969, the european governments of france, germany, spain, and u.k., have supported airbus' commercial aircraft development with over $15 billion in launch aid. those are high-risk loans at no or low interest with repayment contingent on the commercial success of the aircraft. now, according to the ustr the amount of launch aid airbus has received during the lifetime of that company, if it was repaid on commercial terms is well over $100 billion. madam president, such massive market distorting subsidies are allowing airbus to o

it's my great pleasure to rise it to recognize the invaluable service by the women's air force service pilots during world war ii. their history is one of many surprising and impressive stories that helped define a generation. the early 1940's, as it became apparent that the united states could not avoid the wars that plaguing europe and the far east, many accomplished pilots volunteered their services to our country. they were thanked for their offer but refused because they were women. their argument that women -- female pilots could free up male pilots to serve in combat roles was initially dismissed by the army air force's leadership. yet two of our nation's most female pilots, jacklin cochran and nancy harkin love, persevered and continued to lobby for the ability to use their exceptional skills in service of our country. as the nation mobilized it became clear there were not enough male pilots in the country to fight the war and man the home front. as the iconic rosie the riveter began to build her tanks and planes, the army set up two squadrons of women pilots to assist in the w

he airs it out which is what yogi berra said one year. he said, they're ducking pitches that got me into the hall of fame. nolan reimold has that old- fashioned, you hang it up there, i'm going to hit it hard somewhere. >> jim: wieters will take the ball in the air to left field, it is on the warning track, it is at the wall, and good-bye home run, numero uno, matt wieters. >> jim: i guess that answers our question whether the ball carries. he hit it high, again, it's only about 360 out there. not a bad pitch, but he just goes out and covers the outside corner, gets it in the air. right here martinez is going to go back and back and back. first row souvenir. >> gary: fans already want a curtain call. koji uehara mighty happy he got it and how about that fan. here's andino. and the orioles back on top 3- 1. first career home run by matt wieters, and if you're the fan that caught that, you're darn right you're excited. i don't know if matt will get that back or not. probably at this point he doesn't care. andino over the screen. redding doe

they are the women in the air force, the women air force service pilots known as the wasp. it's a story of gender bias, mr. speaker. the notion that flying is a man's work. it's the story of culture bias, the belief that a woman's pce is in the home. it's the story of injustice. the notion that women could apply but never qualify. it's a story of inequalities and inequities. the notion that women could have rank but not always have their rank respected. mr. speaker, it's a story of never say never. a story of persistence pays off. a story of success because of some, and a story of success in spite of others. it's a story of how a famous pilot, jacqueline "jacky" cochran became the first commander of the w.f.o. in 1942. that's the women's flying training detachment. it's the story of how a test pilot, nancy love, became the commander of the w.a.f., the women's auxiliary flying -- ferrying squadron in 1942. it's the story of how the w.f.o. and the w.a.f. merged in 1943 to become the wasp. the wasps would go on and fly 60 million miles. they would fly every type of aircraft. t

plus, co 2 is heavier than in the air. it is not even in the air. it sinks to the ground of the bill is a one-party rule. they're going to church indiana. republicans did set to pay more. californians will not -- all the democratic states probably do not have any co2. it is corrupt and crooked. nancy pelosi's father was pretty good, and so is she. guest: my view on this, from a political perspective, is that this is an area where republicans can either choose to lead or they can cater to the worst. there will be telling people like this caller and others to do not believe in global warming that they are just wrong. they could assert a very important role for themselves in this debate, republicans could, by telling people that if you do not believe by global warming, you are wrong, and we need to articulate this. instead, they have catered to the worst intentions. that is, tell people who believe global warming is a hoax that they are right, it is a hoax. that serves the detriment on their own party on critical issues like cap-and-trade. >> "washingt

i apologize to you on the air. your name is humid ali. you have a right to be called whatever you want. i apologize to you. >> he's appeared in several critically acclaimed films such as "deliverance" and runway train for which he received another academy award nomination. >> i'm right here. come on. going nowhere. come on. >> voight has always maintained high standards in his film work by choosing meaningful parts that promote worthy causes. >> mr. president with, all respect, sir, what you're asking can't be done. >> mr. president? >> get back, george. get back. do not tell me it can't be done. >> good 0 to see you. jon, jon voight. >> how are you doing? >> i'm doing good. >> a staunch supporter of our troops and himself a veteran of the army are, his extensive charitable work includes support of the center of friends for american veterans. it has a special bod and affinity with jon voight because he has been a financial supporter of the organization's programs in support of homeless veterans. >> ladies and gentlemen, please welcome jo

while air borne divisions parachuted behind enemy lines. but all did not go according to plan. paratroopers landed miles from their marks, while the fog and clouds prevented allied planes from destroying the guns on the cliffs. so when the ships landed here on omaha, the an unimagined he will awaited the men. many never made it out of the boats. and yet, despite all of this, one by one, the allied forces made their way to shore. here, and at utah and juneo. golden sword. they were americans, british and canadian. soon, the paratroopers found each other and fought their way back. the rangers scaled the cliffs. and by the end of the day, which we stand was free once more. the sheer improbability of this victory is part of what makes d-day so memorable. it also rises from the clarity of purpose with which the war was waged. we live in a world of competing beliefs and claims about what is true. it's a world of varied religions and cultures and forms of government. in such a world it's all too rare for a struggle to emerge that speaks to somethi

it sucks all the air out of the white house. they need to move forward. it's great tv. >> i don't want our enemies to see nothing happen. >> on book matters, did you see that in the book i adopted your washington read discussion right up front? no index in the book so a chris matthews can't -- how. >> how do you go to a library doubt were. >> you can't take a look on what page -- i gave you credit. >> they mentioned me and they take a shot at me i get bat. if they don't mention me i get angrier. i don't know which makes me angrier. >> i'm going do introduce you do my wife. come here. >> i'm not embarrassed bat it. come here. >> meet my very good friend. kitty kelley. >> how are you? i'm mike smerconish. how are you? >> yeah. [laughter] marvelous. >> thank you, cheers. >> wait, chris. right here. right here. woody,

chairman can we ask you to keep the air-conditioning on of the weekend? >> we are already doing that. >> see would agree to administrator he is. >> i do have a question for the commissioners and a follow-up for eloise. for all the commissioners, how concerned are you that essentially 18 stations, i don't know if they are handing in their licenses will not be broadcasting. there will no longer be a primary signal. aidid bannack concern for some time both in canada and the u.s. that some tv stations would stop broadcasting altogether. it seems like essentially what we are seeing so how concerned are each of you about that? >> i am concerned whenever any broadcast station goes dark, or shuts its operations down in terms of diversity and competition that you heard me talk about until i am blue in the face. the disappearance of another newsroom or whatever, that is a net loss for the american people, no question about it. >> i am very concerned as well. i think it is almost a perfect storm for the broadcasting. it is an unprecedented downturn in revenue due to

the colgan air capt. in fact had five failed rise and in a 2004 crash, another captain had an astounding seven. airlines say they didn't know about these check ride, in part because 1996 law designed to correct that problem as dangerous gaps, when the faa has been warned about four years. oakland township in michigan. tanya, good morning. caller: i never thought i would say i missed the good old days. it has just been up holland the last eight or nine years in our country house everyone -- how everyone is rushing to make a buck and the customer is bottom on the line for receiving attention. particularly incensed when i read that major airlines slide through other countries and have mechanics that are inexperienced working on the plains. and how of repair schedules are not maintained with any honesty, i guess is the word i really wanted to say. i think everyone is rushing to make the bulk and the poor customer is out here in limbo because even when they tried to pass laws so that the airplane's would not i

naval and air capability. and have watched in lebanon and then in iraq and afghanistan as insurgent groups and terrorist groups have been able to make inroads against more superior conventional power. and they have gained a lot of lessons from those kinds of observations. the key focus for them, especially given they look at the united states as their main adversary. a key focus is defending their regime and countering what is a superior adversary in the united states. so deterrence is a great importance. it is a matter in public statements and exercises, those are all geared towards threatening a very high cost if they are attacked. they have a peripheral defense which they look at, we could call it a forward defense, whereby they use proxies and militias and other types of kind of to project their power. and as a defense, a forward defense against invasion. and in case of invasion, a mosaic sense whereby they want to conduct hit-and-run and guerrilla tactics and also use their institute of strategic patients

last week the secretary of the air force said the air force would be presenting to the secretary their plan going forward with regard to the tanker. >> i would walk you away from the notion that there is one briefing or one meeting that is going to determine the course of the tanker replacement bidding process. the secretary is engaging, has been, and will be engaging in a number of meetings about this, and i do not know when the next one is scheduled for. i think the idea was always that he wants to push out and rfp as soon as possible, and we hope that will take place in the coming weeks. that is what we hope to be the case. >> not the meetings -- >> i will check and see what where we are in terms of the meetings. his desire has been spring. he was here we are in the summer. we want this to commence as soon as possible. >> we will kill you on it tomorrow, so you might as well grill is it today -- we will grill you on that tomorrow, so you might as well in choir today. -- inquire today. i am sure that in our operations meeting in brussels, it will,. kuntsevo will be a subject of discu

decision to cancel the plan to auction slots they three new york air ports? >> i hadn't heard of it and if it's true, i think it sounds like a dreadful mistake. j.f.k. is full, that's very convenient for those people who are flying and have slots at j.f.k. the only chance for other carriers to get in there is for slots to be auctioned so i'm not sure who comes up with these ideas sometimes. >> aviation safety is in the news this week as the national transportation safety board investigates the crash in buffalo, new york. do you think the issues that have come to light, including pilot pay, training and commutes need action from the airline need action from the airline industry? >> well, look, obviously, if there's an incident airlines and the f.a.a. -- thank you very much -- airlines and the f.a.a. need to look at every single incident to see what lessons can be learned from them. i think fully the most domestic airlines, most international airlines are extremely well run, at virgin we are proud of the fact that we have run an airline for 25 years without inc

in fact more have been arrested than the number of people arrested by air marshalls. we now have approximately 4,000 in the federal air marshall service, yet they have made an average of 4.2 arrests a year since 2001. this comes out to an average of about one arrest a year per 1,000 employees. let me make that clear. there are thousands of employees not making one arrest per year each, they are averaging slightly over four arrests each year by the entire agency. in other words, we are spending approximately $200 million per arrest. let me repeat that, we are spending approximately $200 million per arrest. professor of the university of pennsylvania wrote last year about the money feeding frenzy of the war on terror. he wrote this, nearly seven years after september 11, 2001, he wrote this last year, what accounts for the vast discrepancy between the terrorist threat facing america and the scale of our response? why absent any evidence of a serious terror threat is a war on terror so enormous, so all encompassing, and still expanding the fundamental answer is that al q

it was the largest air recovery attempt in this country's history. it seems always when we deal with air traffic safety, it is always a tragedy that moves us to the next page. i appreciate you being here. i am very, very sympathetic for personal reasons, but as i was listening to the testimony, mr. cohen, i feel like you are on the hot seat, and i appreciate you being here. as i was listening, i asked my staff, because all associations of conferences and meetings and so forth, so while you were testifying, i said go and get me a copy of your last conference which was held in mid-may. it was a five day conference. this is now two or three months after the significant incidents in the regional airline's history. but yet when i look through the conference agenda of 4.5 days, i see very little mention of safety, except in the last couple of days. i am assuming through the discussion of the conference you had conversations. i know as a former mayor, when the katrina disaster happen, we spent the whole conference on because of the importance of safety in o

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i was a marine for 10 years and the air force. the thing is, once we go into battle, we go in to win and we do not apologize to anybody for our actions because those people took hour heads off. i don't think we should be apologizing, i won't call it torture, but we should apologize for winning a war and doing it by any means except outright murder. i wondered what your feelings were. >> host: do you anticipate your book would come out during this debate about torture? >> guest: no. in september, and i thought it would be a pretty quiet time. it turns out, not exactly. to our caller's point, save for your service in the marine corps and the air force. it goes back to how we want -- 2 points. when you are fighting an insurgency, very few of them come about through military victory. this notion that you can throw more troops or tanks or airplanes or ships is a false notion. we are dealing with an adversary that does hide in the shadows, by day runs the tailor shop and by night is planting bombs by the roadside. it is not one where yo

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somewhere between 40%, 45% of the close air support missions that are flown are flown in support of our allies and partners. it will also involve a much greater degree of integration of military operations by the general and presumably general rodriguez to avoid getting into situations as much as we possibly can involving not only our troops but the troops of the other contributing nations where we have civilian casualties' credit -- and other civilian casualties. >> what did it find? where american forces responsible in any way? >> there is responsibility. i thought the ambassador weeks ago said that we may never know how many, and certainly as i have looked at the investigation, there are some estimates, but i agree with what he said. i do not think we will ever really know how many. there were command and control challenges, chain of command challenges, training issues that we have to address, as well as you may remember there were changes that general mccarren made in january as a result of incidents last year, and we have evolved through those changes. there are additional changes