through in amsterdam are almost identical of the screening procedures we go through in los angeles, chicago or here in atlanta. meaning that this kind of device, whatever it was, could easily get through security at any major airport. and that has got to be very, very troubling, specifically for tsa officials today. >> larry: do we know, drew, why he was in amsterdam? >> we know he was flying from nigeria to amsterdam on a connecting flight. he had about a three-hour layover there. one of the passengers said they did notice this man pacing. didn't say pacing oddly, but pacing during that layover in amsterdam but that wasn't enough to alert authorities to do any further screening. >> larry: we'll pick up with this panel in a few moments. what is president obama's reaction to this yesterday and today? ed henry will tell us right after the break. >> larry: right back with the panel. president obama is in vacation in hawaii. what briefing has he being getting? ed henry joins us. what is he saying and getting? >> reporter: larry, behind the scenes this president is getting a lot of information.

. >> larry: jackie's going to say, hello, detroit and we'll be in chicago. >> no, no. >> larry: back with more of the jacksons, the show premieres sunday. welcome to the now network, population 49 million. right now 1.2 million people are on sprint mobile broadband. 31 are streaming a sales conference from the road. 154 are tracking shipments on a train. 33 are iming on a ferry. and 1300 are secretly checking email on a vacation. that's happening now. america's most dependable 3g network. bringing you the first and only wireless 4g network. right now get a free 3g/4g device for your laptop. sprint. the now network. deaf, hard-of-hearing and people with speech disabilities access www.sprintrelay.com every time you take advil liqui-gels you're taking the pain reliever that works faster on tough pain than tylenol rapid release gels. and not only faster. stronger, too. relief doesn't get any better than this. advil. >> larry: according to sony pictures, the michael jackson rehearsal film "this is it" has raked in more than $250 million in worldwide ticket sales. here's a clip. ♪ ♪ >>

we'll be in chicago. 4r67 back with more of the jacksons. the show premieres sunday. don't go away. >> larry: according to sony pictures, the michael jackson rehearsal film "this is it" has raked in more than $250 million in worldwide ticket sales. here's a clip. ♪ ♪ >> larry: was that hard to look at, tito? >> actually, this is the first i've seen of anything of the film, and that wasn't too bad, because it's michael's musical. >> larry: was it hard for you marlon? >> it's hard for me. >> larry: he died soon after, right? >> yes. you look at it and -- >> larry: he looked so good. >> i'm sorry? >> larry: he looked so good. >> he looks great. you can't believe he's not here with you anymore. >> larry: was it hard for you, jackie? >> i enjoy every bit of it. just seeing him doing his thing in the film. >> larry: you, jermaine? >> i was excited about seeing him preparing for what was going to be the most incredible show and just to say he wasn't giving 30%, he was just going through the motions and make sure everybody else knew what they were supposed to do. >> larry

. >> larry: chicago, hello. hello? >> caller: hi, hello. two-part question for the panel. why are americans so fascinated by celebrity sex scandals? christine brennan criticized tiger's statement, but isn't tiger correct that he's dealing with a personal, private matter? >> larry: technically, what is it our business? >> i think it is because, a, he wants $100 million a year in endorsements, so we got to buy into the fact that this is a good guy. he pitches them on, hey, i'm a good family guy. he runs a school. we're supposed to believe that he's a terrific guy and he messed up here. >> larry: david, if gillette has a commercial scheduled to run tomorrow, do they run it with tiger shaving? >> absolutely. and i disagree with the premise that because tiger or any other athlete has unique and extraordinary athletic prowess they give up their right to privacy. this is a private story that has been exploded into the public airwaves because we're fixated with scandal. and at some point here's hoping america gets sal

the tone was like something out of a chicago backroom gentleman's club, lend or else. it was strong arming. the tone should really be let's work together. let's strike a balance to assure your long-term health and that the long-term health of the economy. >> larry: professor reich, puzzling. key people in his administration are wall street insiders, aren't they? >> many of them aren't. tim geithner was the head of the federal reserve from new york city, put there by the major bankers. others that have ties to wall street. but the fact of the matter is, larry, that this administration has tried to damp down, camp down, regulate wall street. but it needs to do much more. it's not a matter of tone. it's not a matter of the right choice of words. it's a matter of deeds. wall street is not responsible. wall street has demonstrated irresponsibility again and again. and to be on the verge of awarding $20 to $30 billion of bonuses to its top executives in the face of all of the money from taxpayers that went to wall street which the inspector general of the t.a.r.p. fund says

in chicago, laura schwartz, former white house director of events during the clinton administration. good to see her again. joe pea throw, former secret service agent, author of the great book "standing next to history." all right, congressman thompson. what did you learn today? >> well, larry, we learned that procedures weren't followed. the director admitted that there were things that happened that should not have happened. we also learned that they have been fixed. we learned now that there's an expanded system of security. and theres's a layered security in place. more equipment will be available and better training for those individuals who will be working white house security. >> larry: you asked the couple to appear today. they did not. are you going to subpoena them. >> we will make that decision next wednesday in our neck committee meeting. we set the motions in place for that to occur. and i assume our committee will do it, larry. >> larry: will you vote to do it? >> by all means, i will. >> larry: the representative peter king accused the white house of stonewalling by bl

i flew back last friday to chicago. it was one of our refurbished 67 aircraft, with our new seating and the best -- the very best -- business cabin configuration of any u.s. carrier. it is a great improvement. i know it is appreciated, by our customers and by our employees alike. we continue to strengthen our global and national service, as we did in october, to the partnership with continental we forge one united brought them into the star alliance. we added destinations, including new york and a significant presence in the caribbean from their hub in houston. this is the first time a major airline has shifted alliances. -- the benefits of the global alliance are important for our major carriers. in this industry, alliances are vital. offering our customers shared frequent-flier programs, a seamless connections, and access to member lounges. if there were any doubt about the importance of alliances, but you only need to look at the efforts to recruit japan airlines by the other two global alliances. one world and sky t

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

guest: well, your caller from chicago bring up an interesting point. there is a significant debate of how to deal with this situation when you have 60 people and one person can stop it. in addition to nelson, earlier in this process we saw senator lieberman, an independent of the democratic caucus, and he had issues with the public planç and medicare buy-in and he was able to change those. there were people calling in for lieberman to be stripped of his membership. and if he's not going to vote with us, we need to take this away. he made the changes and will vote for them. the problem with punishing people or threatening people, you may need them later.ç and again i made this point earlier, but this is a political process now, not just about health care but also about i]the larger politics of the senate and congress. where çyou need to hang on to never vote with you again or ll- will become a thorn in the democratic party side. to the point that having them in the caucus is no longer valuable in any way, then throwing anyone out or punishing them

of chicago have unemployment rates of over 20%. it is obvious to me that the city of chicago, the state of illinois and indeed the nation needs this bill. i'm proud to support it and yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the gentleman from massachusetts reserves. the gentleman from michigan is recognized. mr. camp: at this time i'm prepared to close if the gentleman has no further speakers. i'll reserve my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves. the gentleman from massachusetts. mr. neal: mr. speaker, we're trying to just assess how much time is here if you could give me just a second. mr. speaker, i'd like to recognize the gentleman from michigan, mr. levin, for three minutes. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from michigan is recognized for three minutes. mr. levin: i think it's important that we look at the facts here, the gentleman from texas and others who have raised issues on real estate. and these are the figures that's been compile

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

space center, as well as davy crockett park in tennessee, pompeii's pillar, and the lincoln park zoo in chicago. we also have one of our favorite traditions on display, the gingerbread masterpiece by our brilliant chef and his team. this year we included something different. in addition to the gingerbread white house we also have the white house kitchen garden on the south lawn, a shadow box that lets you look into the gingerbread white house and view the dining room. there is also a boat replica, so that is a new edition. we opened the doors last night to the first of more than 50,000 visitors who will come to the white house during this holiday season, and is safe to say everyone was really impressed. i heard you all party in last night. you had a great to time. for many people a visit to the white house is a once-in-a- lifetime experience. is it is made more magical because of your hard work. i want to take a moment to thank our volunteers who spent so much time making this white house a special treat. we hope you had as good a time as it sounded like last night. your work has transformed th

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

good afternoon everybody, you know that i am from chicago, so let me first say that when the place i left is covered with snow, i finally feel like home. i am sorry to drag you out in this weather, but i want to speak briefly about the significant progress we have made on two challenges facing the american people. the health care and our dependence on fossil fuels. with health care it now appears that the people will have the vote that secures for them to have health care insurance and affordable options for those who do not. i want to thank senator reid and every senator that has been working around the clock that made this happen. there is still work to be done, but today is a major step forward for the american people. after a nearly century long struggle, we are on the cusp of making health care reform a reality in america. as a legislation being a part of the process, but may i add that landmark amendments make it stronger. there will now be penalties for insurance w3companies that arbitrarily jack up rates on consumers. and while they will be prevented on conditions once the ex

it was published by the chicago public library. i went over it very carefully. >> i access it on google. did you read it all? >> yes. i read it all multiple times. i came very close to memorizing it. >> of sick was a? >> each one was 500 pages. -- how thick was it? >> he got very upset with the secretary of state. the interesting thing about him in his controversies with buchanan was his ability -- inability to fire the man. he was called cowardly face to face. i think that was not an unfair characterization. nevertheless, -- > >> talk about the diary itself. how much did he do everyday? did you get any senseÑi on the time of day she wrote in the? >> he started the diary because he was upset because of the confrontation with the cannon. he goes home and writes the whole thing out. he says now that i have done this i think i will continue to do it. sometimes it would be brief and other whatimes it would be fourr five pages. it was a tremendous undertaking because obviously she was a very busy man, but he was a workaholic. she would

this is a case arising out of chicago, which has a handgun ban and some other restrictions. and there are a number of interesting aspects to the case, but basically if the court torp say it only applies to the federal government, the second amendment would be far less effective than most people think it is. host: based on what the court has said so far, any indication of how they're going to rule in that one, the leaning of the court so far in this? guest: based on the fact that they talked in that case like it was a fundamental right, which is the type that the court usually says is incorporated and applies against the states, it would be surprising to a lot of people, to most observers, if they did not also say that it applies to the states as well. host: here's a call from warner robbins, georgia, and ivan on our independent line. hi there. caller: hi there. good morning, gentlemen. just had a quick question, and that is, concerning the text messages, i was in the military, my wife was in the military also. for them to say to him that to be able to use this phone for a te

like this failed bolt in chicago, the chicago transit authority could spend another $6.5 billion just to bring their system up to a state of good repair. and they can spend that money very quickly with a huge multiplier effect. why can't the economic team at the white house understand that? their pointy-head theories about, oh, infrastructure takes so long and it doesn't have a good multiplier like giving people money and with holding or green grid, whatever that is, where a money hasn't been spent, they can't -- somehow this is too old school for them, fixingsing up our country, putting it people to work, manufacturing and construction jobs. we have 160,000 bridges, 160,000 bridges, on the federal system that should be posted. the american people should see a big sign saying, danger, the bridge over which you are about to drive is either weight limited, structurally deficient or functionally obsolete. 160,000 bridges. now, if we began a program to replace those, it doesn't take long. look how quickly replaced the bridge in minnesota. it doesn't require lengthy environmental impact st

i read the version published by the chicago public library. i went over it very carefully. >> google has got it. you can watch it on your computer. did you read it all? >> oh, yes, i read it all. multiple times. i took notes from it. i came very close to memorizing it. >> if you had the four volumes, how big was it? >> each was 500 pages. >> you that 2000 pages of typed diary. >> >> james buchanan was considered our worst president. very disloyal to polk. and he had an inability to fire the man. he cannot abide face-to-face confrontation. he was almost cowardly face-to- face, and i do not think that was an unfair characterization. i do not recall what we were -- >> let me go to the point -- diary itself. the four years of his presidency, how much did he do every day? did you get any sense of when he wrote this? >> he broke this late at night. he was upset with a confrontation he had in a cabinet meeting with buchanan. he goes back to his office that night and he writes the whole thing out. and then he says, well, now that i had done this, i wi

brown the time that book came out, i was in chicago and our ran into a woman who was about 22 years old. she came up to me and said he lived in washington, don't you? she said, do you know katherine graham? she looked at me as if she was seeing -- that book was able to speak to someone of a total different experience who was not a billionaire who would inherit a newspaper. the book does a couple of things that really stand out, how did you motivate children. i asked how his father was able to motivate his kids to do so much in life. he told me a little bit about that, which is captured in the book. his father came to him at a crucial moment and said ted, you can do what you want with your adult life, that decision is open to you, but you should know that if you do not use your life to do something serious, i will not have a lot of time for you, because there are other siblings of yours who will. he writes about what enormous influence that had on him. that is the kind of lesson you can get from reading this book. many people probably think this book is all about politics. it is more abo

i went to law school at northwestern and did my undergraduate work at the university of chicago. >> any difference from growing to a midwestern school? >> i think that there is. every school has its virtues and its strengths, but the northwestern really had a fine law school and still does. and there are good schools all over the country. i learned that from then hiring law clerks. i've hired from many different schools and have done a magnificent job, even though they think we're not from the ivy league. >> i read that you were the top stated in the history of the northwestern law school. is that still the case? >> i have been told that it is true. i do not know about the record since then. but i was told that that was the case. >> with all your experience -- northwestern law school, your job as a clerk here, service and the seventh circuit, and your father was an attorney -- where along the way did you get your philosophy of the law? >> it is a combination of many things. the combined to give you your views of what a lot is. a lot of that is just the result of your reading and a lot o

on the community reinvestment act and the shakedown of lenders and a lot of that that took place in chicago and that's been documented i think pretty well in the media, there's an expression used "get in their face." and we read articles about how acorn and their operatives bragged about going in and shoving a lender's desk off to the side and surrounding him and getting in his face. i remember during the campaign when president obama said about three weeks before the election to his supporters "get in their face." now, that echoed in my ear as something that maybe was lifted right out of the handbook of acorn. and there's another phrase that happens to come back and echo in my ear, and that is i left it out of the fox news report -- i lifted out done by megan kelly on acorn, a special that was done a month or so ago when she was interviewing wayne rafke and she asked him about the script of the mission statement of acorn. and in that mission statement it said "share the wealth." share the wealth. exactly the language that president obama used when he was confronted by joe the plumber. so i

the blacks could not go anywhere. >> in 1893, chicago had this great world's fair. so they created this fair, they had a separate negro building for exhibitions from tuskegee and other black schools in the south. it would be segregated, but on display. the other question is, do you have a black man speak to a wide audience? -- white audience? booker t. washington was invited by the trustees of the fair. they wanted to give the opening ceremony at the negro building. it was high drama. a black man was going to speak to a largely white audience, and there was a separate jim crow section, blacks in the audience, segregated. he was well known throughout the south and in the north as a leader and educator of african- americans. he was basically a -- he believed that education was the key to success and that african- americans needed to basically get their jobs in the trades, something of an industrial education idea. >> where was w.e.b. dubois? >> at the time of the address, he thought was a good idea. his opposition came several years later. at the time with the atlanta

>> i was in the chicago region just a few weeks ago. they have a wonderful feature of their mobilization for the sense is that i think is a model for other regions. a group of local on patients got together, offered small grants to communities throughout illinois to help them advertise the census. that has filled a gap in that region that needs to be killed and other regions. state and local governments are in hard times right now. many of the staff that we used in 2004 are reache0 for at react there now. the activities of private foundations are filling adapt. chicago is a wonderful example of that i think. >> we have a question on the phone. >> thank you. in talking to some of the local liaison, they have a number of frustrations with address canvassing and the master address file. 01 is obviously the short deadlines, which cannot be helped. the information they have gotten back from the census bureau is murky in terms of what new addresses had been added. they are particularly concerned with units that have been converted. multi-use

richard himes, office of evangelism, archdiocese of chicago, chicago, illinois. the chaplain: lord god, on this day, catholics honor jesus' mother, her own conception. especially today at the shrine of the emack late conception in washington which she is honored . god of peace and justice, 68 years ago today from this chamber, president franklin roosevelt asked congress for the permission to respond to terror inflicted on our country in pearl harbor the previous day. sadly, lord god, terror continues today. individuals, groups of individuals and even some nation states imagine terror, prepare for terror and conspire for terror. however, the necessity to protect innocent people, the right of communities to live in peace, the expectation that people can live with differences and in harmony remain deep desires for americans and for many others of good will. guide our nation with right judgment and courage, encourage all who labor for an end to terror. we shall never see seeking your inspiration and our endeavors to work for peace and justice. amen. the speaker pro t

i did show one dog that i had one time, for a period of time, a bassett hound and in chicago, the american kennel club, at one of the shows. it's quite an experience to do that and it's well-run and well-regulated. the american kennel club has take then lead in promoting responsible dog ownership and breeding practices as well as supporting thousands of volunteers across the country who teach safety to dog eeners in order to maintain the high standards for which the american kennel club is known they conduct over 5,200 kennel inspections each year. and as mr. price mentioned, youth ages 9 to 18 are enrolled in a national junior organizations, which helps communicate the proper handling of dogs and allows them to participate in shows at an early age. it's also created a canine health foundation, focused on the genetics of dog diseases and clinical study. the club annually awards over $170,000 in scholarships to veterinary students and veterinary technology students. they've helped reunite thousands of dogs with their owners through its companion animal recovery program. the club has been pa

host: the front page of "the chicago tribune." illinois to take detainees. next call is from laura in texas on the republican line. good morning. caller: thank you for taking my call. i have to say it would have to be ron paul, hands down. the reason why i would say this is he is truly for all americans and he is trying to hold the federal reserve accountable. and by doing that -- if we could just tax them we could take care of all of our problems. by doing that he is saying, no, you don't run america, but americans run america. i wish we could get back to that. republicans and democrats are one party. we need a true second party, ron paul. host: the latest on the copenhagen conference on climate change. rich nations step up pressure on beijing. developed countries like the united states are pressing china's delegation to submit to independent monitoring and formal targets. the other headline this morning in "the washington post." coordination stalled talks on global warming. they said the walkout may not delay deal. negotiators hope to have an agreement by

citizen who attended terrorist training camps in pakistan was living in chicago and planned attacks abroad. we've learned that he was not only planning future attacks but has now been charged with leping to plan the 2008 attacks in mumbai, india. and just over the past few days we're learning about five young men in virginia just outside where we sit here today who traveled to pakistan reportedly to link up with members of al qaeda. it appears these young men were radicalized just miles from where we sit here and 9 danker we are seeing more and more of these cases, more individuals ooh self-radicalize oesh the internet versus being actively recruited by al qaeda. individuals turning radical extremist thought and then turning to terrorism. mr. smoty, in my home state of texas, in the united states, illegally in this country and living in texas was arrested for plotting to blow up a skyscraper in dallas, texas. according to the fbi, smoty made a decision to act to commit a significant conspicuous act of violence under his banner of subjihad. smoty is one of several recent cases of lone wolf

it was published by the chicago public library in four volumes, and i had all four volumes. and i went over it very, very, very carefully. >> i accessed it on the -- google has got it on there. >> yes. >> watch it on your computer. did you read it all? >> oh, yes, yes, i read it all multiple times really. i went over it and over it. took notes from it. i really came very close to memorizing it. >> if you had the four volumes and stacked them up, how thick was it? >> each one was 500 pages. >> so he had 2,000 pages of typewritten diary? >> uh-huh. >> and how often -- and this is only from the presidency? >> yes, he began, he actually got very upset with his secretary of state, james buchanan, later president, often considered the worst president of our history. he was a terrible secretary of state, and he was totally disloyal to polk and the bane of his existence. the interesting thing about polk in his controversies with buchanan was his inability to fire the man. he couldn't handle face-to-face confrontation. don graham in that review we talked about, called him i think cow

daniel is joining us from chicago. daniel? >> good morning. caller: just real quick, on the lincoln amendment, what's the down side to them regulating the insurance executives? host: well, the obvious. caller: sorry, maybe i just said it wrong. host: let me ask you, what do you think the dune side is? caller: i don't know. i'm a little confused. it seems like it is good and positive, but i am not sure what the down side would be, and if there was a down side, and i knew what it was, i would know which direction to go. host: roger wicker, one of those that voted against the lincoln amendment, will be joining us to talk about that. he's with us at 9:30 eastern time. roger is next from brooklyn. good morning, roger. caller: how are you doing? host: fine, thank you. caller: i have a couple questions. host: sure. caller: one, i feel that the president should endorse the public option because it is a good way of cutting costs for the middle person -- for the middle class. also, i feel if we are -- if we don't get a option, i feel members of congress

let's go to chicago where which is on the republican side. caller: i think this this is a lose/lose for the country. they are all former communists -- not former, but they are progressive communists. they read these books by -- one guy who was in jail, she is -- and she is married to a woman. they are trying to ruin our country. host: taking a look at what the healthcare bill means, "the washington post" says "nearing the finish line." let's go to henry on the independent line calling from hot springs village, ark.. caller: lobbying means influence. influences' bribery. bribery occurs -- influence is bribery. these companies hire these people to influence which is to ride. they should be put into jail. my second comment is on the healthcare plan. the over 2000 pages or so confusing that if they took and read the first page and then read it 10 more, they would be unable to explain what was on the first page. this is going to be so controversial that the supreme court is going to have to be the umpire. they will have to decode all the stuff in

president obama worked as an organizer in chicago. i know that he gets host: it if he gets it and is doing a great job, then why did 10 congressional balack caucus members decide to boycott this vote? guest: understand, we are members of congress. we have a responsibility to make sure that our legislative proposals are put into place. oftentimes there are ways you have to make sure that happens. i am very proud of the fact that 10 members decided they were not going to vote on a bill. they had specific reasons. i don't believe any member has said anything negative about the president. those have been a primary headlines in the press. we're talking about working together with the president to make sure all the economic issues which the financial services committee has jurisdiction over are dressed in an inclusive way. host: weather concerns that the white house was not listening enough? did that prompted the boycott? we were their concerns? guest: i believe that the boycott is very clear. some of the comments have been that we wanted t

from the university of chicago. i want to thank all of you for coming and i would first recognize mrs. bourne and then go down the line 3 and you are recognized for as much time as he may consume. [inaudible] [inaudible] congress passed a statute in 2000 that eliminated virtually all regulation of the over-the- counter derivatives. it was called a modernization that. because of that statute, the federal or state regulators currently has oversight responsibilities or regulatory powers over this market. the market is totally opaque and is often referred to as the dark the market. it is enormous. in june of this year, the reported size of the market exceeded $600 trillion in value. while over-the-counter derivatives have been justified as vehicles to manage financial risk, they have not practiced, spread, and multiplied -- they have in practice bread and multiplied risk throughout the economy. lack of transparency and price, excessive leverage come rapid speculation, lack of adequate capital and provincial controls, an

here is chicago. doris? caller: senator lieberman showed his colors when he supported john mccain in the primary. i have no clue why the democrats allow this man to keep his chairmanship and to caucus with democrats. he is really a republican. we have a progressive majority in both houses, but party is being controlled by right-wing corporate democrats. host: wouldn't you agree that senator harry reid has needed his vote? caller: no, we need reconciliation. will not get nelson, senator lieberman, senator lang can. there is a good democrat considering a run against lincoln in the primary. the people in arkansas need to look at him and get rid of people atblanche lincoln. these people really republicans. we have allowed the democratic party to move to the right and if we do not look out for the people and get these corporate democrats out of the party, we're looking just like the republican party host: to inverness, florida, an independent named richard. caller: james ross? host: please turn down your televisi

their basic mistake was to not really understand the degree of this recession i was in chicago to give based beach last week. i talked to upper-middle-class people and i saipast, people who knew people lost their jobs and virtually every hand went up. it is an interesting recession because of its people who have never been unemployed before at the same time, it is people who thought they were richer than they were. these are people who call into cspan and otherwise. the type of stimulus he did which was a very interesting stimulus which was phased in over several years was not something that franklin roosevelt was done. it had to be the equivalent of the shuttle ready stimulus to get these people -- shovel-ready stimulus to get these people to feel that he cared about them. i think he will turn the next year into a big economic driver. he will also address the deficit budget. many people are worried about the size of the deficit host: newcastle, pa., good morning. you are calling on the republican line? caller: yes, i am. this has been a terrible, terrible year for our country. there a

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

host: next is a call from chicago, edwin, independent line. caller: it has been a couple of months and i talked to you last. when i talked to you before it was a reference to open phone and i wanted thank you for taking it and bringing it back and i wish you would ask the other commentators to go to open phones because there are a lot of things we want to talk about the size of the problems we are having. the second thing i would like to say to the congress and the senators, they have had their opportunity to be on stage -- watching c-span, it is like a stage play. now the time is to be concerned about the american people. forget about your pride and how much power you have. that is not important. we have to take and help the people will need help and those people who are constantly calling in saying, kill this bill, we know that if this bill doesn't pass and then they tweak it later, it will never pass. so i am asking the senators, stop playing with the american people and do what needs to be done to help everyone. and i hope you will have a