ism portsmouth commissioner mckracken krampert others nuss in sync grading alvis i did the deed that merely duplicates the work going on by the government accountability office. we do expect to review those and synthesize them and use them to inform your work. i look forward to hearing what the commissioners finding help that we don't know about an inch shorter expect the witnesses this morning will insure us and the investment in narrative these was a worthwhile decision. we in congress as sponsors of the comish need to hear about any challenges or hindrances the commission faces in conducting its work. i'm concerned the commission will not able to fulfill its mandate without a semipermanent presence in theater and perhaps you'll feel a little bit about that today. cordy to report the commission is only taken two trips to iraq and afghanistan. i'm concerned the current one-year mandate might above responsible government officials and contractors to wait it out. this charge is too important to suffer defeat and i don't want to see a lack of subpoena power to deter the commission from

host: our next call is angela on the independent line, from portsmouth, ohio. angela, you are on the air with us. caller: yasseah, well, this country was built on tobacco. host: can you turn off your tv, angela? caller: i can turn it off. host: thanks. caller: i am sorry. this country is built on tobacco. and there is a lot worse things than tobacco. our president smoke's tobacco. host: thanks for your call, angela. our next caller is brian from the democrats' line, birmingham, alabama. caller: yes, i think that any regulation should be, of course, it will scrutinize -- it will scrutinize -- well scrutinized. i have had a heart attack, i am 37 years old, and it is simply because i was dumb enough to smoke cigarettes. host: what do you think would have stopped you? what would ban -- it would that have changed your attraction to smoking? caller: no, i think that ultimately you pick it up somewhere along the way, and you are hooked to. that is all there is to it. so i do not know what would change to stop me from putting a cigarette in my mouth. host: thank you fo

. >> host: monday at the cafe espresso in portsmouth and hampshire, were you there? >> guest: i wasn't there. i was with obama the whole time. this is somewhere else. >> host: this is just 24 hours before the polls opened. one of the early morning even senator clinton was conducting. here is what happened. >> it's not easy and i couldn't do passionately believe it was the right thing to do. you know, i have so many opportunities from this country adjust don't see -- want to see us fall backwards. you know? [applause] this is very personal for me. it's not just political, it's not just public. i see what's happening and we have to reverse it and some people think elections are a game and it's like who is up or who is down. it's about our country and our kids futures and all of us together. some of us put ourselves out there and do this against some pretty difficult odds and we do need each one of us because we care about our country. but some of us are right and some of us are wrong. some of us are ready and some are not. some of us know what we will do on day one and

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he got on the train in portsmouth and ran up to london, got to the development studio. the kid doing the developing was so anxious to see these pictures that he overheated them, and the emulsion melted down and they all came out blurry. only eight of them came out. the kid ruined all the others, and capa was just furious because he's shot clean. but it turned out that that blur to these pictures suited perfectly omaha beach, so that's undoubtedly the most famous picture from the invasion. c-span: when you go in the book stores today -- i just happened to walk by a book store this afternoon -- and it's just full of d-day books. what's different about this book that you've done from all the rest, and what's new in here? >> guest: well, first of all, it's based on a much broader set of interviews than anybody else's. i mean, i've done four or five, 10 times as much interviewing as anybody else, and it covers every level. my interviews on d-day begin with the supreme commander. i spent five years working with him, interviewing him, and it goes down to the lowest private. an