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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

. >> tomorrow on "washington journal," a discussion on u.s. foreign policy with barbara slavin of "the washington times" and jonathan broader. after that, a look at president obama's achievements in his first year in office from stephen helps of the brackings institute and dan thomason. that's live here on c-span starting at 7:5 a.m. eastern. in the mid 1990's, he was named one of the most 50 influential people to watch in cyberspace the since then he's completed blackplanet.com, helped found a charter school in brooklyn and explained new technologies on oprah. sunday night he talks about his current studies at harvard and what's ahead on c-span's q&a. >> in just over half an hour, a former british ambassador to the u.s. testifying on british involvement in the war in iraq. but first, a special presentation of our documentary, "the blair house -- the president's guest house" begins. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2009] >> the first blair home, the original part, and th

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

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

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

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

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

smith from the state of washington. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from washington is recognized for such time as he may consume. mr. smith: thank you, mr. speaker. i want to thank the speaker in this chamber for bringing this resolution so quickly to the floor. as we have now heard the tragic events of last sunday, we are here to offer our condolences to the families, also to honor the lives and the service of the four officers who were so brutally slain and to express our grief over their loss. they were ambushed early on sunday morning simply getting ready to go to work. it is a tragedy that has had a deep impact on our community. and i want to offer my condolences to all the people in lakewood, especially their police force and the city officials that have been so impacted by the tragic of this event. the four officers that were killed were part of the police force and all of the police officers in this country who so selflessly serve and protect all of us. they were sergeant mark renninger, who is a 13-year

host: welcome to "washington journal." in 50 minutes, the senate will gaveling to session and in 30 minutes they will vote on final passage of their aid hundred $71 billion health care reform bill. this is a key milestone in a months-long health care debate that has dominated capitol hill. senate democrats are, they have the votes to pass this legislation, giving president barack obama an important victory on this christmas a pretty road to health care reform does not end here. the senate bill will need to be reconciled with the house version which was passed on november 7 and there are key differences between the two bills. you can watch the senate bill in its entirety on our sister network, cspan 2. this morning, we want to know what you think about congressional efforts to reform health care. the numbers are on your screen ]zqjoining us on the russell ofe building rotunda, walk us through what will happen to that. guest: this is final passage. they will get out there and bvote on the health care bill are when it comes t

"washington journal" continues. host: we're joined by eamon javers. facing what else pressured to increase lending. in a meeting financiers will tell obama they're ready to step up to promote recovery in additional steps. what is the president going to tell them? guest: that they need to be lending to lend to credit- worthy businesses. these are the job creation engines of the u.s. economy. they can i give credit to expand and grow because the banks are so frightened by the global economic meltdown last year that they are unwilling to loosen standards. the banker is going into the meeting arcana caught in between. on the one hand, the white house is telling them to lend more, and on the other their bar regulators tell them to lend less. be careful you are not lending to those who cannot afford to pay back loans. that is what got us into all this trouble in the subprime mortgage meltdown. host: you said that white house political people like david axelrod are telling us to win more, but regulators say the opposite. t

i read "the washington post," "the washington times," the "wall street journal," aeupbd get clips from -- and i get clips from every newspaper in wyoming. and i get a couple of those newspapers complete. so i read a lot of news, but from a national perspective and one that's actually paying attention to what we're doing here, my favorite is the "wall street journal." earlier in the week i quoted from a cost article that i had found in the "wall street journal," and i was chastised for using them as a source. and then countered by a senator using wikepedia. you can go into wikepedia and you can do your own editing on that. i'm not sure that is a good source. i'd prefer to rely on the "wall street journal." there isn't any article or opinion that can't be quibbled with. that's just like the amendments we have here. but what i prefer to think is when an amendment or an article or a speech is given that we ought to be looking for the idea, the grain of truth, the juice of it that should be used, and we're not doing that right now. we're just doing amendments there and amendments here, and

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

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

i wish it never when in washington d.c. would read it. >> host: one of the events we covered was the tj stiles book the first tycoon. here's a look at what the author had to say during the booktv event recover. >> and he believed that we make process is impropriety not by a friend pursuing their own interests as fiercely as possible. and he firmly believes that it's almost my duty as a citizen, you pursue your interests and you fight for them. and he thought that's what everybody should do. but one of the exceptions to that is he was deeply patriotic. auntie named, he had three sons and he named them after he put it after sears, george washington, william henry harrison and can resend her belt. and so when the civil war came around, he tried to give his largest steamship which cost nearly a million dollars. he tried to give to the union navy and he said no. and the secretary of the navy said no. he was a little and he didn't link it would last that long. and so vanderbilt ended up being forced actually against as well to le

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

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

"washington journal" is next. guest: from the beginning we knew that the bill had to save lives, money and medicare. we did that, we knew we had to stabilize for americans who had it and stabilize for millions who didn't. tkw host: democrats say they reached the necessary 60 votes k to move forward on health care legislation. good morning on december 20, the legislation will continue this afternoon at 1 o'clock, and scheduled to work through the night and take a vote tomorrow morning to set a christmas eve vote on the bill. we will hear from the congressional quarterly reporter for a bit, but first our phones are open to you, we want to hear if you think that the health care bill is being rushed. with your numbers listed, and we are online and you can e-mail comments and twitter. let's look at yesterday's look on health care, and how "the washington post" looked at, seeing that they proposed ranks and ending months of division and clearing a path for passage. majority leader, harry reid, provided the 60th vote and

"washington journal" continues. host: 4 about the next 15 or 20 minutes we will open phones to take your calls regarding items in the news, the president's speech or some other things you may have read or heard this morning. if you want to get involved, here are the numbers. in "the new york times quoted this morning, senators pitch to women and two elderly on health care bill. it says the first commitment offered by the senator from maryland would require insurers to carry more screens in preventative care for women with no co-payments. "we often forgo those preventative screens because they simply cannot afford it or the insurance companies will not pay for unless it is mandated by state law." the first republican proposal offered by senator john mccain would strip the bill of more than $450 billion of proposed savings in medicare. the savings would curb the growth of medicare payments to hospitals, nursing homes, and other providers of care. you can tune into more of the debate regarding the health care bill on c

. >> the supreme court historical society hosted this discussion on tuesday in washington d.c.. you can watch this program again or other recent programs at c- span.org. a senator: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from arizona. mr. mccain: madam president, i -- i rise to speak on the bill -- the pending bill before us. one of the great pork barrel earmark-billed pieces of legislation that i seen come before this body. i'd like to quote from abc news by jonathan carl and def inn -- devin pryor, this is the season of pork, i quote -- "before returning to their -- excuse me. "just weeks before returning to their districts for christmas, congress is poised to give the gift of pork, roughly $4 billion of it. more than 5,000 earmarks were included in the $447 billion omnibus bill, funding pet projects of key members of congress from both parties in all regions of the country. senate will vote on the bill this weekend. independent analysis of the bill reveal a whopping 12% increase in government spending for 2010 while the inflation rate in the country remains near z

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

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

so far she has been able to push through her reforms because of the backing of washington's powerful mayor fenty without controls the school system. >> reporter: has he ever said no to you? >> no, no. >> reporter: never. >> nope. >> reporter: but the mayor can't help her now. to change how teachers are hired, fired and paid, ri needs support from the teachers themselves. >> i think there is an atmosphere of mistrust. >> reporter: george parker, a former math teacher is president of the washington teachers union. >> there is a belief that few of the fear that the chance of solution to improve in education is firing people. >> reporter: now for the first time since taking office, ri's plans may be in jeopardy. although she and the union have been negotiating since december, they have knot been able to reach agreement on a contract. she is offering the teachers a carrot, the chance to earn six figure salarys if their student does well. but there is also a big stick. tenured teachers have to give up job security for a year. then if their students do well, they get the money and they get

media off cliffs and "the washington times -- media outlets and "the washington times) has been a remarkable out in reporting in a number of countries around the world, so we see our approach as being a collaborative model on trying to stretch the available resources all of us have to reach new audiences and engage as many people as possible. i met him when he was a fellow at harvard almost two years ago, and we talk about profits we might do together, and the first project he did with us was looking at the eternal -- internal conflict in turkey as part of a project we did last year, and he went on from there to work for us on the student protest in greece. he covered that, and it developed into a profit for the pulitzer center. in the spring, we decided it would be good for him to go to iran to cover the he elections reagan -- elections. as a general rule, we are not about covering elections, because we see that as something the news media does do. there is a conventional media that still -- we still devote resources to those issues. we knew that he was extraordinarily well-versed in irania

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

uses, sort of symbol business in washington, so mold washington smoke and mirrors way of describing what this thing really cost. in order to bring this thing in at about a trillion dollars which is what the democrat majority wanted to do they have to use a lot of budget gimmicks. the senator from new hampshire is here and knows all about this because he's all of this very closely as the chairman of the budget committee for many years. but he can't have it back to one of the things they did is they started the tax increases immediately. so one january 1st of this year, next year, which is now 18 short days away all these businesses across the country are going to see their taxes go up in 18 days. at the amazing thing about it since many of the benefits don't start getting paid out for another 1479 days. so they frontload all the tax increases. so while these tax increases will be passed on immediately and by 2013 every american family is going to be paying, starting next year $600 up to the year 23rd team so every american family will feel the brunt of these additional taxes and a pr

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

the washington d.c. region was buried under nearly two feet of snow, forcing federal agencies to close today. and everywhere commuters had to brave icy roads and slick sidewalks this morning. those who opted for public transportation ran into delays in bus, commuter rail and subway service in several major cities. early holiday travelers were left struggling to salvage flight plans after thousands of flights were delayed or canceled. >> on a flight from boston yesterday at 3:00 and got here at 5:00 p.m. and have been here since trying to get to pittsburgh. right over there behind the christmas tree. >> we called up the airline last night. everything was totally fine. we arrived this morning. the flight was canceled. a lot of people confused not knowing what's going on. >> reporter: as the day went on, runways began to reopen and flight schedules slowly began returning to normal. >> brown: the blizzard also left shopping malls snow bound with merchants scrambling to recoup a critical weekend of lost busin

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