host: we will listen to read from new york city. on twitter. we will listen to greg from new york city. caller: i love the debate we're having here. mr. solomon, i love your intentions and intelligence. mr. tapscott, i find you are skirting any solid question with any value towards the american public. i have three questions for you. first, the beginning of the u.s. when the boat came over and basically was welcomed by the natives of there in new england. and talked how to live on this land. yet the result of that kind this was turned back them with murder and mayhem. the country moves toward. you brought up barry goldwater and want brown points for the civil-rights movement. the white democrats did not want to pass it down south. we wanted to do it.

in the country than new york city. that said, i think the city to try cleedcleed in civilian khalid sheikh mohammad in in civilian court. as i say. it's -- point two, there's no question. khalid sheikh mohammad is a very, very skilled person in propaganda and is going to use that flosm incite people in the united states and argue his point of view. if there's ever a reason to contest a military commission, it seems to be the reason is to tocks i mean i think we're going to come to regret that decision very much. host: pittsburgh, pennsylvania, pat on our line for democrats, go ahead. caller: good morning. i wanted to ask. i'm glad the guy just talked about the trial. in new york. khalid sheikh mohammad, the blind sheik was tried there, and we were able a handle that. yauns why we can't show the world that we can handle terrorism. and my next point is ted kennedy was turned away on a no-fly list about five tiles. now how can you -- the problem is with credibility. i'm sure most of the people in that airport knew who ted

he grows up a son of privilege in new york city. he's fascinated by bugs, insects, the outdoors but he's told as a very young man he probably won't live to his 21st birthday. he's a sickly child. he's asthmatic. he has all manners of ailments and he's nearsighted. he wears spectacles. he's scrawny. he's almost anorexic. he's told if he does want to live to his 21st birthday he probably shouldn't go outdoors. and roosevelt wills his way to strength. he says in his autobiography, i will will myself stronger. he was afraid of the dark. he was afraid the trees. he was afraid of horses. this most robust and male of our presidents was basically this very scared child and he wills his way to strength. he goes to harvard. he falls in love with this beautiful woman, and he leaves harvard and he starts his political career at a very young age. he joins the republican party. then he said was the least corrupt of the two corrupt parties as he said in new york, the legislature 100% corrupt but 98% corrupt. he had family wealth so he could afford

york city. he arrived at jfk with $200 in his pocket, no english, and these the obtained under false pretenses although that has been long since fix, no friends or relations and memories of course so fresh that he sometimes confused past and present. his first trip on a subway, he got lost for most of the day. at night deese lupton central park. then one day sit-in near despair he delivered groceries to a small catholic church or the mat and it acts contemplative none that decided what he needed was a family and said that defined him one so doggedly that sometimes deo wished he would quit but finally succeeded. he was essentially adopted by childless american couple, painter and sociologists, neither young nor rich but big hearted interbraid obviously and less than two years after landing in new york, he was enrolled as an undergraduate at columbia university. i was struck by the story the first time i heard it, struck by its various remarkable features, by its strum of course. among other thing

to new york city, to add insult to injury. to give them a bully pulpit, [unintelligible] let us first honor those brave men and women in far off afghanistan and iraq who are pouring hot lead into the valleys of death because these jihadists bill warship a religion, they worship the cult of death. it is death they want, then death we should give them. let them go straight to hell. to those men and women, those cia operatives in pakistan and other countries, often times anonymous, killed in action, never to be recognized, we universally salute them as they follow the enemies until the end of time, until every last one is killed and extinguished. ladies and gentleman, as we see, [unintelligible] if they want to jump on the paradise express' and go on thea up tollah's side, let's speed up the process. to the brave men and women of the nypd, the new york fire department, the court officers, the federal marshals, the best deep -- the fbi agents, all of those who will be charged with our public safety when they are brought here, they

the people who live and work in new york city are victims, too. the people who live and work in the united states of america are victims, too. and we are tired of being victims. we need to tell eric holder that we will be victims no more. [applause] >> no more! i thank you on behalf of the cantor fitzgerald families and the euro broker families. we are united with the firefighters and the police officers and the military. [applause] >> anyone who tells you that the civilians are not part of this are not telling you the truth. the 9/11 families stand united against the decision to try these terrorists in new york federal court. [applause] >> you can find a handful of families who disagree but those are not the majority. and last time i looked, this was still a democracy. [applause] >> help us tell our government that the majority rules, and what the majority wants, is these trials out of new york federal court. go tell your congressmen. go to your local offices. get your friends to do it also and let's change this decision now! [cheers and applause

in the country than new york city. that said, i think the city to try cleedcleed in civilian khalid sheikh mohammad in in civilian court. as i say. it's -- point two, there's no question. khalid sheikh mohammad is a very, very skilled person in propaganda and is going to use that flosm incite people in the united states and argue his point of view. if there's ever a reason to contest a military commission, it seems to be the reason is to tocks i mean i think we're going to come to regret that decision very much. host: pittsburgh, pennsylvania, pat on our line for democrats, go ahead. caller: good morning. i wanted to ask. i'm glad the guy just talked about the trial. in new york. khalid sheikh mohammad, the blind sheik was tried there, and we were able a handle that. yauns why we can't show the world that we can handle terrorism. and my next point is ted kennedy was turned away on a no-fly list about five tiles. now how can you -- the problem is with credibility. i'm sure most of the people in that airport knew who ted

city, two, would put pressure on new york city. you will see stories in the paper as you vote for this bill, you will see stories in the paper of snipers on the rooftops, tanks, khalid shake muhammad will be in new york city for -- khalid sikh muhammad will be in new york city for four years. four years or more. moussaoui was in northern virginia for over four years. he will be -- he will say things and do things that will be unconsiderableable. as you vote for this bill, you are in essence allowing that to take place. it's crazy. it's absolutely crazy to think you can try khalid sikh muhammad. then they are going to bring others in. so muhammad gets civilian trial when a young 19-year-old person in the army, man or woman, who does something wrong, has to go through a military court-martial. for that reason the bill spends too much, but for those reasons, and i believe that by bringing khalid shake muhammad and the others here, we may very well endanger people and bring about another attack. secondly, to spend all that money to pro

york city. i am particularly honored by the presence of several renown authors, the wonderful alex fleming, whose latest book is a biography of martin luther king, jr. a dream of hope. the naval historian paul silverstone is here tonight, and one of america's great historians is here, thomas fleming. his new book out is the intimate lives of the founding fathers. i wonder what that's about. [laughter] i am particularly honored by having you all here because i know that some of you sacrificed the $15,000 a plate fund-raiser for president obama to might. i can only offer you food for thought the price is right. i'm sure you've all seen the famous painting of george washington crossing the delaware, and you probably remember there's a soldier standing behind him with the american flag in his arms. well, that soldier, that officer is james monroe, and there were two symbolic reasons the artist, john trumbull, placed monroe with washington as one of the only to important figures in the painting. one

york city. >> hello, new york city. can they hear a salmo us? >> been morning. -- good morning. next i can hear you. >> one will have been with china -- what will happen with china? [unintelligible] >> i think that we should be positive about the growth in the chinese economy. the chinese are lifting millions of people out of poverty, which is a very important goal. we know that there are many problems the chinese economy pose, not lead to the united states but to mexico and others -- the chinese economy poses, not only to the united states but to mexico and the others. here we are in the midst of an economic crisis, and we need all the growth we can get, because that will help every country be able to overcome this recession because we are so interdependent. i think it is also important to say that i think the north american markets of which mexico is such a central part under nafta, is going to remain strong. the fact that food can be manufactured and assembled in mexico, cutting down on transportation costs, cutting

the manhattan institute in new york city posts this 45 minute event. >> i have this -- i didn't choose this picture. it just happened to be one of put on for the discussion period, which by the way is always valuable here at the manhattan institute and so i'm not going to exceed my 20 minutes. i want to be sure we have plenty of time for a question period. but that was an awfully pleasant picture to put up before i have my more sober graphs, and that -- i don't know whether any of you have actually seen it. it is a 42-foot wide mural that dominates shepard hall city university, and it was done by ed wim slash field in 1904. it's called the graduate. and you can get the image of the idealism that expired particularly new york state at the turn of the century and how successful it was then. some of the themes of this new book, the making americans are new to my riding and i will connect some of them with the more familiar ones of low student achievement, and equality of result, disturbingly low level of civic commitment. now the historical context for what i'm going to say is a less beau

. >> we have been watching this in new york city. in the past 45 minutes i have watched this snow come down at a terrific rate. it picked up rather dramatically since about 4:00 p.m. light snow flurries. you can see how heavy it is. quite a tremendous snowfall rate. the traffic has staperred off. new york city is expecting between ten and 15 inches of snowfall as this classic nor'easter moves up the coast. from the mid atlantic where it has shut down quite a few interstates. in virginia alone they have reported more than 4,000 traffic accidents. this area of low pressure treks towards the northeast. from philadelphia to boston, between ten and 24 inches of snowfall. the nation's capital will rival the snowstorm of 1922, the knickerbocker storm that produced 28 to 33 inches of snow. >> cnn will have complete coverage of the storm at 10:00. right now stay tuned for "larry king live." >> larry: tonight, president obama slams the money men. >> i did not run for office to be helping out a bunch of fat cat bankers on wall street. >> larry:

barnes & noble in new york city host the hour-long event. >> good evening, everyone. i am portia and i am the editor of the 35th anniversary edition of the black book. in 1974, toni morrison was a senior editor at random house and "the black book" was her project. and she described the purpose of the book to create something that might last, that would bear witness to the quality and the variety of black life. well, thank you all for being here. doctor bill cosby's original introduction opened, supposedly command, a 300 euros blackmun had decided to say when he was about 10, to keep a scrapbook, a record of what it was like for himself and his people in these united states. well, this is that a scrapbook, and everyone associated with it has been inspired by the more than 500 articles, photographs and posters data contained. from doctor morrison, who was inspired to write but love it from an article on page 10. it was written in 1856 entitled a visit to the slave mother, killed her child. the esteemed collector's morris levitt, roger berman, an obvious he burnet smith

in cold furry, my daughter said thanks a lot mom, for ruining my reputation in new york city. i knew the story was true. more than that, i recognized his feelings, and not just in my daughter. i could imagine myself in his place. not fearing the eyes of strangers, fearing not the darkness of the park or what might happen to me if i surrendered myself to sleep there. but the destain or pity of strangers who would never be anything but strangers. feeling this, i thought i could find a way into his story if he decided he would let me tell it. as he did. somehow it seems important to say that i don't deserve that compliment. others do, others that have the grossly inequitable distribution like civil wars and genocide aren't accidents with histories that can be unearthed. these writers focused their books on large group of people. they may cause individuals, but as a rule they do this in order to illustrate points that they want to make about what seems more important to them. which is the fate of populations. i respect the motives that often lie behind that kind of writing. i've l

it doesn't cost 37 cents to really move a letter from new jersey to new york city. it probably costs less. but the average is 37 cents so someone request mail a letter from south dakota. that's great. we september that. that's the way it should be. if you do the same thing off the coastline of new jersey, that's going to undermine the economics from the east coast because it hasn't factored into cost of transmitting that energy 1500 miles all the way into the east coast market. the question becomes how many new jobs will be created alonching the east coast of the united states if there is no incentive any longer. because he's almost bound by his obligation to his share holders to take all of this inexpensive but subsidized energy. >> how do we square this circle so that others on the disincentive to produce renewables. >> broad based fair rates. the people using the power are paying the cost sf i looked at this last year alone the price difference change from 20-30 miles an hour. >> it would be cheaper to use a wind farm operating in the plains 40% of the time. it's

after that, a rally in new york city concerning the upcoming terrorist trial, and malcolm gladwell. on december 7, 1941, a surprise japanese attack on pearl harbor left 2003 hundred 90 americans dead. the national park service has been collecting survivors -- 2390 americans dead. the national park service has been collecting survivors' testimony. >> we waited at the largest aircraft carrier. monday, the ship was scheduled to come back to the states, and i would have gotten out, and i saved $400 to go to medical school. the day before was non-eventful except i did not go ashore because honolulu in those davis was not a favorite port because there were no women. -- in those days was not a favorite port because there were no when then. people said, what are all those planes terrain on a sunday morning -- doing on a sunday morning? about the time i looked up, i was almost positive there were six of them coming information. i saw the bomb dropped, and then i saw this huge red plane and black smoke, and i thought, those are real bombs. i thought somebody really made mistake. about the tim

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. choice in coverage has made a difference in the lives of more than 10 million americans nationwide. beneficiaries in every state have benefited from medicare advantage. let me just show you some things here, and since it's very difficult to read on television, i'm sure, let me go through all these states. these charts show the estimated impact of current medicare advantage payment reform -- the payment reform proposal we have here. i'm going to list the state

host: we will listen to read from new york city. on twitter. we will listen to greg from new york city. caller: i love the debate we're having here. mr. solomon, i love your intentions and intelligence. mr. tapscott, i find you are skirting any solid question with any value towards the american public. i have three questions for you. first, the beginning of the u.s. when the boat came over and basically was welcomed by the natives of there in new england. and talked how to live on this land. yet the result of that kind this was turned back them with murder and mayhem. the country moves toward. you brought up barry goldwater and want brown points for the civil-rights movement. the white democrats did not want to pass it down south. we wanted to do it. as a kid in 1964 i remember, eight years old and barry goldwater's speed all the racist haiti can. i hear many conservative, right- wing republicans always want to: barry goldwater, yet you never go back to his change of heart. the same meeting with mr. kkk byrd that we know from west virginia and

host: new york city on the republican line. caller: i have lived in new york city for most of my adult life, not all. all your words some fantastic, but the reality -- your programs have been an unmitigated disaster for the black community. start with the fact that the black community has largely supported the programs that have caused a meltdown with the fannie mae and freddie. freddie talk about the programs that have encouraged the breakdown of the black community. i did tremendous work with a group called new york youth at risk who work with the most at risk members of community. the stuff that held these kids back had nothing to do with the programs you are talking about the greatest metric you should focus on is single-parent families. it has nothing to do with government progress. it does have a tremendous moral program -- breakdown of morality within that community. hollywood encourages that. here is an interesting statistic. if you take away the metric that has to do with single-parent -- primarily the mother families

the plight that i am going to fly from the region in in new york city. -- fly originate in new york city. that flight from san diego to new york city that and make every week to get on my flight -- how is that factored into safety regulations or is it? is it just not counted? >> currently, it is not counted. commuting, what do not think the majority of pilots communique kate -- to meet -- commute, they would commute based on short- term events. it may be new piece of equipment in another area. they would commute within their own system. if you the commuting, you will find the vast majority is limited to their own systems. one had a base in [unintelligible] and new jersey. there would commutes on their own airline. longer distance commuting is something different. it does not count. i committed myself for five years. >> i am not questioning anybody is professionalism. i understand the issue of living away from home. all listed at here. flying back and forth even halfway across the country every week is a hard work. it is tiring. it is exhausting. you start to weaken. you feel you have not

and the legal in that category is certainly the campaign for fiscal equity from new york city. but again, can at least indirectly touch upon resources education program. however, i interpret your question asked, could we really bring a success suit based upon the disparity, the disparities between minority and nonminority, and between poor and nonpoor, which the core of the achievement gap. and which goes to the no child left behind act. my colleagues argue that the new accountability standards established under the no child left behind act, now provides the law and civil rights litigator with the measurable standard exactly what is a quality education, which courts have refrained from doing because they said courts are not in the business of education, as well as a measure to determine what was the violation from a non-violation. . . , congressman scott, that you could help address the question of the achievement gap in the upcoming reorganization of the esea by creating a private right of action in the no child left behind act. without a private right of action, there's no re

you fast forward to my first job at a big firm in new york city. i learned so much from that experience. but i have a feeling this is in quite where i should be. i need to go back to my roots and to a place where i can have impact, where i can be of service on a daily basis. that money to go to washington and to work in government for the house judiciary committee. this is something that will stay with me all of my life. you get to work. i worked on the big pieces of legislation. i have learnt a lot from that. one instance i will always remember. a woman called me. she was in fear of her life and never son's life. she was trying to figure out how to get through the system in boston. i talked to her and helped her get an advocate in court. she later wrote me in sending a card to thank me because she was able to get out of those circumstances. she made a donation in my name to a shelter. this was a woman who was just struggling to try to get by. it touched me so deeply that i was able just threw that job i had a commitment to public service by an opp

san diego and new york city. that flight from san diego to new york city the make every week to get on my flight, how is that factored into safety regulations, or is it just not counted? >> no, is currently not counted. commuting, walt i do not think the majority of pollock's commute, it is difficult. -- while i do not think the majority of pilots commute, it is difficult. maybe a new piece of equipment was offered and the didn't want to move children out of school. i think if you look get commuting, the vast majority is commuting on their own system. i think if there were as a base in virginia and new jersey for colgan. there is a variety of ways you can do that. lagered distance commuting is something different. -- longer distance commuting is something different. i commuted for five years. i wanted that. >> i am a question in anybody's professionalism. i understand living away from home. all of us do that here. but i would tell you flying back and forth even halfway across the country every week is hard worker

san diego and new york city. that flight from san diego to new york city the make every week to get on my flight, how is that factored into safety regulations, or is it just not counted? >> no, is currently not counted. commuting, walt i do not think the majority of pollock's commute, it is difficult. -- while i do not think the majority of pilots commute, it is difficult. maybe a new piece of equipment was offered and the didn't want to move children out of school. i think if you look get commuting, the vast majority is commuting on their own system. i think if there were as a base in virginia and new jersey for colgan. there is a variety of ways you can do that. lagered distance commuting is something different. -- longer distance commuting is something different. i commuted for five years. i wanted that. >> i am a question in anybody's professionalism. i understand living away from home. all of us do that here. but i would tell you flying back and forth even halfway across the country every week is hard worker

we will hear now from new york city. ralph is on the line. go ahead. caller: yes, i just wanted to thank you very much for what you're giving to our country, for your service. i was also curious, is there still a sense in afghanistan -- do you get 8 cents for the list of the for the help that we brought them the time? guest: yes. we have cleaned a lot of things up around callable from out when they came. we are helping a lot, and afghans appreciate it so much. host: we are joined by your father. go ahead and talk to your son. caller: good morning. merry christmas. host: what is it like to have your son away? tell us about your feelings this christmas morning. caller: sad about him not being here, but we are all proud of what he is doing. host: petty officer thorn, guest: the guest:-- go ahead. guest: i wish i was home to be there with you all to eat some home cooking down south. caller: we wish you were here, also. we will be thinking about you. host: thank you. thank you for joining us this morning, and mary christmas to you, and good luck as well. we

. >> you live in new york city in the west village? do you intend to live in the united states for the rest of your life? >> i don't know. i like it here. i love this country and have all my friends here. if i ended up in europe when they are back in canada, i would not be terribly surprised request year earlier, there are four of them, all on the new york times best-seller list. they are still on after 10 years. malcolm gladfwell, thank you for joining us. >> thank you. c-span3 c-spa[captioning perfory national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2009] >> for a dvd copy of this program, call the number on your screen. q&a programs are available as cspan podcast. s. up next live, your phone calls and comments on "washington journal." the u.s. house of record of of this begins the working day with general speeches. -- house of representatives begins the working day with general speeches. >> this week, the senate continues debate on health care bill. see it all live on our companion network, cspan 2,

that was the same year it happened that a group of environmental lawyers shared office space in new york city and that was the beginning of the natural resources defense council. like the epa, the nrdc is dedicated to policies grounded in sound science, the rule of law and the public interest. over the past four decades, we have journeyed together on a mission to safeguard our earth. seldom has that mission brought our goals more closely in alignment than it has under the tenure of lisa jackson. with lisa watching, the epa has used the authority it has to question mountaintop removal and to require special permits and special scientific scrutiny of those who would remove mountains to get to coal. with lisa watching, the epa has restored protections against pollution in a number of waterways that have been put in a kind of legal limbo by supreme court desomething'ses and with lisa watching, the epa has moved swiftly to call carbon emissions for what they are, a pollutant that is warming our planet and must be checked and must be regulated. seldom have we walked more closely together in fa

and we read about sotomayor's walks in new york city and her family. and anyone can bring up. speeches she made a long time ago. and then you try to with hold themselveses as much as possible. i agree with atcham we saw a morely reden of that from justice sotomayor. it's in the end, he is the person we have to thank for this umpire met for. which is not understanding the court. and the real problem westbound this is that the conversation process because it happens under big lights in washington and there are these day night hearings. it could be a touchn't moment. but it completely isn't. and so there's this disconnect. on the one hand you have a amount of worming and coming down from the mountain but before you goat the demourt this moment where your -- we're talking about different threads of injured. perhaps we could get really interesting on explaining some. that's why the plit story gets told so often. we completely lose that opportunity. i'm really ununcertain to doing that. but i'm looking forward to everybody's thoughts. thank you. [applause] >> we're going to throw th

york city or on the east coast, that when it failed for them was when it ripped my world apart. >> suarez: you didn't have a sense of that before? >> i had no sense of that whatsoever. i didn't, i've never even heard the word derivative before and didn't understand the implications of that. i have a much better understanding. as a small business owner, i'm a little bitter and a little angry that those individuals have been bailed out and their interests have been protected. and yet, mine have not or my peers here. >> i don't feel recovery in this economy as we knew it several years ago for years. >> suarez: barbara jenkins gibson owns a christmas specialty shop. she actually had a good year. she says people cling to tradition even during hard times and they can spend less than $10 and walk out of the store with a nice gift. >> it's a good opportunity to get better at what we do. when its really good, on a constant basis you don't take the time, you don't have the time, to really fine tune a lot of your systems. >> suarez: holding on by a thread, steve lamb is optimistic a recovery will bl

>> new york city i wish he would write more letter torkts middle east and the people of pakistan and iran instead of ending in more troops. we need more letters and more talk. we left vietnam in a terrible situation. it's unified. there was no domino tier row. the domino was towards capitalism and the west. but korea, it's divided and we spend all this money. it's about time we wrote letters. more letters and trade. the best things in the world is to come home from korea. >> larry: ben? >> kim jong-il is probably the evilist person on the planet. he starves people by the millions and he lives the life of an international play boy. the idea that you can change him by writing him a letter is comical and the idea we should not be defending south korea against him is comical. i don't know where the idea has come from. it's comical. >> i think the issue is really one of engagement. adds ben well knows, his former boss, president nixon, engaged with a bad guy oning schi that. the issue is whether or not we are going to engage. writing a better of picking up the phone? i'm not going to spea

also, the trial in new york city for the terrorists. i see a lot of bad things coming from this, and health care. when you have 10% unemployment rate and imposing taxes, how is this going to help? this is the nationalization of health care. i think the country is moving in the wrong direction. i am proud of the tea party movement that has occurred. this is a waking up of the american society. and there were mentions of the polls, how they are not defining for presidents, and i have to disagree with this. this is an indication of what the american general public is feeling. host: thank you. robert slicing her -- slashing her -- schlesinger? guest: polls are a reflection of the american public, but oftentimes they changed their mind. it is like we are watching one football play per day. they dropped the past, do we fire the coach, offensive coordinator? then the next day the team is rolling. you have to sit back and see how things play held a little bit. host: talk about how healthcare has been a defining moment in the decade. guest: the

he has been a friend to some the new york city finist chefs. she's an activist in the fight against hiv and aids. and we're honored to have her as part of our panel. [applause] : >> surely, you've been quite of bit of yourself. and what was your driving force? >> i was thinking the way he was talking office slavery. in 1930 when i was about 8 years old. it was 65 years from the end of slavery. now i'm 87 years old, and it's 65 years since the world war ii. now put those two things together. you have two parts of history that effected the african-american tremendously. fighting out of slavery, going to reconstruction, going through the lynching, then world war ii, opening the door. integrating the military, civil rights movement, and what you want to ask what i mean about the post-racial society. there's a post-segregation society. because when i was a young kid, segregation was the law of the land. i went to the black school. i went to dunbar high school in washington, d.c. great school. and since our schools are great. because we made them gre

new york city is moving almost like normal after getting nearly a foot of snow. the big apple got off relatively easy. many places in the northeast received more than twice as much, setting one-day records. airports are slowly getting back to service. and you tillty companies are hard at work in the carolinas trying to get the lights back on for about 46,000 customers there. one thing the massive storm did not slow down is the u.s. senate which is in session right now. democrats are intensifying efforts to pass a health care reform bill before christmas, the first of several key votes is scheduled to take place about 3 1/2 hours from now at 1:00 a.m. eastern. cnn will have live coverage of that vote. join me and our chief medical correspondent, dr. sanjay gupta, for our special at midnight eastern. we'll look at what's in the bill, what's out, and what it could mean to you. you can go to i-report.com and leave us your thoughts on this senate bill on health care, what it might mean to you, and frankly whether or not you even understand it. share your thoughts and

york city. >> well, i think what concerns me the most is that actually i think the decision was not fully vetted and thought out in terms of what the potential consequences would be. i have no doubt as to what the attorney general's attention are, but he's not the final judge so to speak and someone else will be making that decision. for example,

new york city to buffalo. in essence, what we have been hearing is that the pilots may be were ill-prepared to fly the plane. guest: thet( safety board looked at that accident with 50 fatalities, and within three months of the accident, we held a three-day public hearing, and there were a lot of issues that came out during that hearing with respect to training, with respect to the flight history of the pilot, with respect to their experience in certain conditions. also, the commuting. these pilots were based on the east coast and the captain was commuting from florida and the first officer was commuting from seattle. i think there has been a lot of attention since the public hearing focused on some of these issues. i think we think that that is very important. the captain was older, the first officer was fairly young. we are looking very closely at their experience. we are beginning to wrap up that investigation and we will be holding our board meeting on february 2 to release the probable cause an additional

frank has a nice connection in new york city now. right-hander, southern offensive rebound and the putback! the first opportunity to be converted on. they really established themselves on the offensive glass, they need to see something good happen as a result o. frak haith will go to the bench. we will look at malcolm grant in a minute. you establish your offense, you do it with the referees an starts to show on itself. right hook won't go and goes the other way. a foul. that will be on collins, his first personalment malcolm grant comes in wearing number 3, transfer from villanova. checking in audrdrian thomas, number 30. working on grant. shooting the three. jackson in the corner. jones on him. in that zone. reggie johnson, the big guy from south carolina with the basketball. >> mike: so far, made a nice presence on the floor an defensive presence. checking in for boston college, evan raf vvenel, number 24. they like this guy, big three-point shooter. off the binge against minnesoen in the last game. johnson, his first two. >> mike

all the critics of the war are daut pelosi democrats from cambridge and new york city. the supporters are sarah palin republic and. the people he has to convince are his natural constituency. palin is just looking for a chance to say he is covering it up. the politics in this are terrible. yes? >> you mention that we do not know and there have been no credible reports. there have been reports over a number of years that he has not stayed in above iran what is going back and forth. there were reports in the 2004 and photographic evidence. the had seen him there in january 2009. how do you analyze those reports? >> i want to be absolutely explicit. the last time we had a solid piece of information about where osama bin lawn was was eight years ago. -- osama bin laden was 8 years ago. he said it has been a few years. senate -- gates has been my boss in more organizations than i can remember. it has been eight years, mr. gates, since we have had any idea. has he been in iraq? i do not rule it out. al qaeda has been able to operate in iran on more than one occasion. we do no

in new york city, you see them cleaning buildings at night. you cannot get native-born americans to do that kind of work. it is a very complex issue. guest: i think the most important part is getting the exchange rate right with china. we have not had a consistent position. we would like china to raise the value of their currency but -- >guest: the white house is too busy getting down on it. guest: if the obama administration wants china to raise the rate, they have to say this. we can do this unilaterally. you have low value for the l uan. guest: administration has convinced the american people that is china's sovereign right to set the value of the dollar. guest: it will have two in packs. it will raise the price of chinese imports. that is a negative thing. it will be more incentive to purchase domestically produced goods. guest: economists say that things would be more expensive at wal-mart. are you better off making $15 an hour in an american factory paying $30 for a coffee maker or being unemployed and being able to get the coffee maker

hollywood, milwaukee, and recently here in new york city. when you think about, it's not civilian. taliban is not civilians. so book goes out of his way distinguish from the real people from those who are armed or intended to cause problems. i know many of you who are in the room, you know that i value not just the strength by many gifts as my role models and applications for my ins ration. i spent hours with me sharing my own. and tonight i would like to do is what the book does best. which is talk not about my journey, but also the people who live in these great countries, afghanistan, pakistan, darfur. it's their story that has changed me. it's their story that i hope will change you. dealing with everyday hardship that i can't imagine. even having witnessed it myself. and we have to continue to value the same things that we have done. compassion, generosity, gratefulness. the journey started in ethiopia. i was making a film there for pbs. i visited with with sick children in southern ethiopia. i was there to document the work with the children. after several days on the road wi

new york city to buffalo. in essence, what we have been hearing is that the pilots may be were ill-prepared to fly the plane. guest: thet( safety board looked at that accident with 50 fatalities, and within three months of the accident, we held a three-day public hearing, and there were a lot of issues that came out during that hearing with respect to training, with respect to the flight history of the pilot, with respect to their experience in certain conditions. also, the commuting. these pilots were based on the east coast and the captain was commuting from florida and the first officer was commuting from seattle. i think there has been a lot of attention since the public hearing focused on some of these issues. i think we think that that is very important. the captain was older, the first officer was fairly young. we are looking very closely at their experience. we are beginning to wrap up that investigation and we will be holding our board meeting on february 2 to release the probable cause an additional

in new york city today. we'll talk more about both of them and their role in a moment. it is our job to discuss the findings and help policy, government and all of our institutions to reflect them. it incorporates essays from a wide range of cultural leaders, not just the policy wonks. by bringing those perspectives together, it makes it a unique document. that is one of the many ways, the first lady of california, lead this effort she went out to talk about -- talk to real people about how this is affecting them on the ground. we are grateful to maria. she is inspirational. she brings a human perspective to talk about the important policy issues we are debating. she brought inspirational and intellectual leadership to the project. rededication -- -- her dedication convinced us that some family change is necessary. leslie miller and olivia morgan also worked with us. we are grateful to her. in 2004, as we were developing our first policy agenda, which began at the park -- a process as defining the future dir

were we at war when the bush administration reduced new york city's anti-terror funding by $80 million on the ground that there were no national landmarks there. the bush administration and its gop allies didn't move forward with a democratic proposals to inspect cargo containers and shipping containers that were coming into the u.s.? look, we could play a very partisan game about failures on both sides. what we really need to do now is to try to think about something that's proactive instead of reacting to the last terror attempt. >> larry: s.e., if it is a time of war, why criticize the chief executive? i thought we all band together. >> well -- well, sure. of course i'm not rooting for obama to fail or to the country to be attacked. that's outrageous. but i think it's my patriotic duty to question the president when he comes out four days after we've been almost attacked -- and by the way, this was not a failure. they succeeded. they succeeded in terrorizing us. four days after the fact. and basically says, well, we're going to look into this. then his secretary of homeland security

until you see what it costs us when we fail these kids-- in new york city, jail: $60,000 a year. >> cooper: $60,000. >> canada: juvenile detention-- $100,000 plus a year. we're spending the money on these kids and we're not getting anything in return. ♪ >> cooper: canada has long argued investing in the harlem children's zone would show a return and, now, for the first time, there's scientific data to prove it. >> dr. roland fryer: he has done a remarkable job. >> cooper: dr. roland fryer is a professor in the economics department at harvard. he's conducted the first independent, statistical study of geoffrey canada's efforts to close the racial achievement gap in his school. what is the racial achievement gap? >> fryer: black kids in our schools are not performing at even close the rate as white children in our schools. the average black 17-year-old reads at the proficiency of the average white 13-year-old. four year difference in effective reading skills-- that's huge. >> cooper: but when dr. fryer analyzed four years worth of promise academy test scores, he discovered something remark

and ameet back-and-forth between san diego and new york city. that flight from san diego to new york city that i make every week to get on my flight, how is that factored into safety regulations or is it? is it just not counted? >> no, there currently-- is currently not counted in commuting, while i don't think the majority of pilots commute, it is difficult. pilots in the traditional times whitcomb null] based on some short-term event. in other words may be a piece of equipment was offered in another domicile and they would bid that domicile so they would commute within their own system but i think if you look it to meeting you will find the fest majority is limited to commuting and do their own systems so for example in colgan i think they had two bases. they have a base in virginia and the case in new jersey so if someone took an assignment in new york then they would commit on their own airline or in a variety of ways. long-distance commuting is something a little different. but no, it does not count and pilots, we have depended on professio

eight people who attended eastern law schools situated between new york city and boston and the delete midwestern law school. and, nine whose last job was judge on a federal court of appeals. i think we are terribly disserved by appointing people exclusively from the federal courts of appeals. i think we ought to find lawyers and politicians in all walks of life coming to the court but while it would be desirable to have more representation i think it just proved to be too difficult for judges to work together. courts that have a lot of people tend not to have a majority opinion. >> would you comment more on the increasing role of partisan politics in confirmation of supreme court judges and in particular on how you think over the long term that may affect respect for the court? >> on the first half of the question, the partisan nature of the hearings and hearings now for courts of appeals are corrosive. they are terrible, and for the most part they are unnecessary. and i think that is just a bad situation. both parties think the federal courts are just too important, but think of the

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 bon 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 much of which is never going to be returned to taxpayers is the height of hubris. the president ought to force wall street not only to return all that money but also with interest. and to, as i said, break them up. break up the big ones and resurrect glass stiegle. >> larry: larry, do you think government has no say in this at all? >> of course they have a say in it. you have to regulate against f

guest: there is a chapter where i describe horse manure at new york city, turn-of-the-century. it is part of history. host: you are also quoted as saying that most textbooks are not only dumbed down for kids, they are dumped down for teachers. guest: they are, and the answers to get better teachers. we have good teachers, and we need to appreciate them, and we need to have a new kind of teaching. the old model is the expert standing in front of the classroom lecturing. that does not work in the information age. so we need to create a learning environment. we generate excitement. we are adding exponential knowledge. so if you are in the classroom and you, a student, ask me the question, and i know the answer, that is the end of the question. if you come back and report to us, then we have everybody together. and we have a lot of people terrified. learn. let's all learn together. and then school becomes exciting. host: if a poet writes you a letter, pay attention. >> yes. i was an editorial writer. newspaper editors do not write their own, but i like to do that, occasionally. one

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 much of which is never going to be returned to taxpayers is the height of hubris. the president ought to force wall street not only to return all that money but also with interest. and to, as i said, break them up. break up the big ones and resurrect glass stiegle. >> larry: larry, do you think government has no say in this at all? >> of course they have a say in it. you have to regulate against fraud