it is insane and by the way craigslist, the "new york times," people approach the "new york times" and other newspapers with the idea of the digital classified. newspapers used to get one-third of their advertisement revenue from classified advertising. before craigslist was born it was proposed to the "new york times" and others to create a digital consortium to sell classified ads on line. oh no, we don't have to do that. hello? so again, this is the whole engineering point i was making. you did not set out to disrupt and kill businesses. you are disrupting people. inevitable the digital world this rubs them, the internet is robes them in either leaned forward and figure out what the hell you do about it and it would have been better if he thought about leaning forward ten years ago the now. yes, sir. >> i have two comments. one is, i was here recently and nobody asked me if i am indian. the other, and i have is, the internet is not actually free. i pay $10 a month to access the internet. now, the content may be freed but the issue is, i don't mind paying for the internet but i do ha

the gentleman from new york is recognized. mr. engel: madam speaker, i rise in strong support of this resolution. i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from new york reserves. who seeks recognition? ms. ros-lehtinen: madam speaker, i continue to reserve. i would like to ask my colleague from california if he has other speakers on this resolution. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from florida reserves. the snafment new york. million engel: we have no other speakers. ms. ros-lehtinen: with that, i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from florida yields back her remaining time. the gentleman from new york is recognized. mr. engel: i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from new york yields back his remaining time. . the speaker pro tempore: those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. in the opinion of the chair, 2/3 of those voting having responded in the affirmative, -- >> madam speaker, i request the yeas and nays.

i would not have held it in new york. new yorkers have taken a real beating, ever since september 11. traffic problems. remember, new yorkers who lived and worked near ground zero were asewered by the epa that it was safe and it wasn't. people suffered diseases they shouldn't have suffered because they got the wrong information from washington. but the decision was made. we're fully in support of the decision. we will do everything possible to make sure that trial runs as smoothly and safely as -- >> but you would not have made that decision? >> no, i wouldn't have done that. >> larry: even though the crime was committed sneer. >> well, i agree with the fact that this case is being handled by our civilian courts and not a military trial. but i just think because of the impact that the attack on our country, on september 11, 2001, had on that region, still struggling to get away from it. we still haven't been able to rebuild the area at ground zero. i would have picked another venue. but it's not something that we cannot c

certainly for new york. we have a very generous -- we have a very generous medicaid plan, and if the only way states can recruit resources is through adding additional medicaid patients, new york's going to come out on the short end. overall like the health care plan in the house, and i only wish we could have the public option or age 55 medicare requirement. but it's very difficult. it's in negotiation, and we've got to lower the costs of health care. it will be 10% of our gdp before long. >> larry: i look forward to many more visits with you. one or thing. do you agree with the decision to hold those accused of being responsible for 9/11, hold those trials here? >> if i were making the decisidecisio decision -- a very dear friend of mine, we went to college together. i would not have held it in new york. new yorkers have taken a real beating ever since september 11th. traffic problems. new yorkers that lived and worked near ground zero were assured by the epa it was safe and it wasn't. people have diseases

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 kennedy was. and i just -- you know, the credibility and also of the orange alerts and we had a discussion about that. host: well, the caller has raised a number of issues. guest: to take the ted kennedy example that underscores the point i made earlier. there are people who are on the list who shouldn't be and those who are and -- not on the list and should be. obviously there was a man named ted kennedy probably connected to -- there's a world of difference between the blinet sheik and khalid sheikh mohammad. he was the latter was the master mind of 9/11 and therefore an iconic figure, so for the reasons i said trying him in new york host: nex

i won't tell you much about his new book, "strength in what remains," but the "new york times" wrote of it that mr.. has a casual mastery of complex topics in this book is perhaps as finest an examination of the nature human charity and good will. as the "baltimore sun" said, tracy kidder is a master of nonfiction narrative. please welcome tracy kidder. [applause] >> thank you. it is nice to be here. i am going to talk a while and readed little and then i'm going to show you some pictures. i am afraid that this story has already been told but i'm going to tell it again. a young medical student named deogratis merely survives the onset of civil war in his native country, this mali's central african nation of burgundy. he survived because he left the door to his room open and the men who would have killed him assumed he had already fled. he made a six month long escape from burundi, and then from the genocide in rwanda and back to burundi and by accident he got transported to new york city. he arrived at jfk with $200 in his pocket, no english, and these the obtained under false preten

york, a judge in new york for the u.s. district court of the southern district of new york who is determining whether to the approve the settlement or not. >> host: and that's denny chin. >> guest: that's right. denny chin in that court. and he -- so he received the comments or the revised settlement, and it would seem that this settlement might be the end of all of this but, no, not by a long shot. there's going to be some significant regulatory hurdles that google and the authors guild and the association of american publishers will still have to clear. and that is that the justice department will still have to review this revised settlement, and as well as the public. the public gets a chance to weigh in and tell judge denny chin we like this or we don't. and you can pretty much expect there's going to be a lot of criticism because we're already hearing it from competitors and from organizations like the internet archives. they are all saying that there are some key issues that are still not addressed, and those key iss

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

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.

if you live in new york. if you live in texas or mississippi or california or in fact 38 or 40 of the 50 states it just doesn't happen. there is no -- there might as well -- you might as well be disenfranchised in the presidential election, and it's wrong that grass-roots politics should not be worth doing in all those parts of the country. if this national popular vote plan goes through, and it has been adopted, by i guess five states now so far been quietly kind of under the radar, if it reaches its goal of 270 and we do have either the next election or reelection after that a real popular vote, presidential election this would really energized american politics in an extraordinary way and trickled down to all levels of political involvement, and it will reduce the power of money. right now money is a huge determinant of elections and that is partly -- that's not because well, this would not change the amount of money candidates and campaigns would raise. right now they are raising every dollar they can and

but with paul, he actually went to new york when he was in new york after his death. he visited with the widow. and he expressed his sympathy. and what does this -- what does this tell me? and what it tells one that the culture of death is bigger than putin. it's even bigger than putin. >> joining us now on book tv is morgan. you are here at the national book awards. do you have any finalist? >> i don't. but i'm on the board of the national book foundation. so i'm very excited that we are celebrating our 60th. we had our contest to name the book. i have the honor of announcing that tonight. so it's an exciting night. >> well, let's talk economies. what's the economic situation for grove atlantic right now? >> grove atlantic consistents of two old, grove press founded in 1951 and atlantic founded in 1917. we are privately owned. myself and a couple others of my fames. -- families. we don't have the pressures. we also do about 50% of our business off of our old list. henry miller, samuel bucket, that gives us a kind of stability. it's tough out there. i was just saying

because in new york there's an exhibit on lincoln in new york at the new york historical society. so that was an incredible way to look at that exhibit. and i also read "ida." the book of idab. wells. right now i just started the help. which is totally different. it's fiction. i don't normally read fiction. but it's a good read. >> the author, she's the editor of "letters from black america." thank you so much. >> thank you. >> author robert, give us an update? >> well, i'm doing the fourth one. third one i got the international book award here. and well, this is a long book. and i'm sort of in the middle of it now. you know, lyndon johnson, president, civil rights, vietnam, turning points in american history. that's an interesting book to do. interesting for me to try to do it. when do you see it being finished? >> i think i have two more years. >> how many years have been devoted to lincoln -- lyndon johnson? >> well, i started, "power broker" came a out in 1974. i started in '76 on lyndon johnson. i want to add it up, 33 years. >> what first sparked your interest in lbj? >> goo

i was able to get an agent in new york. he looked at the various entries and said you really have to do a lot of research. my father wrote them helter-skelter. so jim and i had already started off working together. i said would you be interested in and joining me in this endeavor. thank goodness he said yes. it started to work together. we were very happy when a we got a particular publishing house. we have a great group. this is the end result, and these only came on the market last tuesday. it's already receiving national attention. we are thrilled to say the least. >> there was another question. >> we thought the greed of wall street's was behind us. then we came along with the bailouts and stimuluses. now all of a sudden we read that the executives of many of the large financial concerns and manufacturing concerns are making more money no than they made before. your father certainly was not a greedy man. in those days i guess we did not know much about the ponzi schemes. i don't think that was in existence. we do not kn

in new york. it is more at the state level but to get any benefit for the deduction. i think 529 plans are but excellent planning opportunities because the earnings in the plan are not subject to current tax and when the money is withdrawn, if you spend it for education, there is no tax on any of the withdrawal as long as it is spent for education. i think they are absolutely phenomenal planning opportunities. if you are in a state that has a prepaid tuition plan because there are different kinds of 529 plans, they are broken down into savings plans and prepaid tuition plans. if you can do the prepaid tuition plan and your child will go to school in the state where you reside, which would be to your in your case, that is a really good deal. the 529 prepaid plans are disappearing and the states are getting killed on this because you are contributing now on an actuarial assumption and they are guessing as to what the tuition will abate when that child gets in there. given the financial difficulties

and it got easier to be a columnist outside new york actually. and then of course i really only went on line it must have been in 2000, no, 1998 or 1999. jeffrey sinclair, mica whiteaker said we obviously have to do that. what are our work habits now? at the typewriter away it was these electric ibm, and i thought i will have you out in a little bit. i haven't gotten the poor things out. feel treacherous about it. and here i am with the mac, you know, with a laptop. i am a hunt and peck guy, two or three figures. no all ten fingers for me. just hammering away at the keys. people used to laugh at me because i used to wear the imagery, where the character of the keys where i would hit them hard. >> and his book the making of americans democracy and schools, e.d. hirsch argues using charnel senter teaching methods instead of focusing on academic content is a problem with early education. 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 di

headlines from the two new york tabloids. "new york daily news." bomber's package. he allegedly hid his equipment in the sir rippiyringe and chem the underwear and goc tcgotcha. he sewed bomb into terrorist's clothes. caller: good morning, steve. how are you? host: good. >> about the senators reforming themselves, i feel that the 60-vote threshold to cut off debate or stop the filibuster, i think we should leave it because as a result it results in much more chance of compromise instead of rash decisions being made. i think because of that debate, the american people get to hear it before something is passed. host: do you think it slows down the process or is good for the process? stpwhrao i thi caller: i think it is good for the process. you could say it is better just to have s1 51-vote majority butu would have less thapchance othe things getting in there. the founding fathers wanted the senate to be a place where debate and compromise works. it works with the democracy. if you don't have that you would have a dictatorship. host: "new york times" sunday magazine l

he ran for mayor of new york but he never won an office. intellectuals in office have a very mixed track record. thomas jefferson's presidency is a mixed bag and so is james madison's. woodrow wilson's was a disaster. they are different skill sets. we would not expect our politicians and mostly they do not perform at the level of discourse of our and intellectuals. glenn beck is another thing. the media always changes. when i started off, it was three networks and pbs. daily newspapers were important things. i remember "lief"anfe" and "loo magazine. "time" magazine had content which it does not have any more. "the economist" is still recognizably what it was like in 99 -- 1976 and 1977. "time" and "newsweek" are going donw. th-- going down. the world of media changes. you do not have to track its every mutation. it is an attractive to wring your hands and say woe is us. the answer to the political thing is do the right thing yourself. build it and they will come. >> another question. >> whichi havdo you agree with e will when he said [unint

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 kennedy was. and i just -- you know, the credibility and also of the orange alerts and we had a discussion about that. host: well, the caller has raised a number of issues. guest: to take the ted kennedy example that underscores the point i made earlier. there are people who are on the list who shouldn't be and those who are and -- not on the list and should be. obviously there was a man named ted kennedy probably connected to -- there's a world of difference between the blinet sheik and khalid sheikh mohammad. he was the latter was the master mind of 9/11 and therefore an iconic figure, so for the reasons i said trying him in new york host: nex

mccourt taught in staten island and at new york city technical college and at the university of new york. it was in his 60's that he sat done and chronicled his childhood memories. despite his insistence that it was a modest book, modestly written, "angela's ashes" became an overnight word of mouth success. it became a motion picture. he received an award for his work. he passed away this past july 19 and today we honor the contributions he made not only to the educational system but to american culture and literature. with that, mr. speaker, i'd like to reserve the balance of our time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from utah reserves the balance of his time. the gentleman from massachusetts. mr. lynch: thank you, mr. speaker. the measure before us, as eloquently reported by the gentleman from connecticut, mr. courtney, and also co-sponsored by chris murphy, honors francis "frank" mccourt, who was born on august 13, 1930 in brooklyn, where his irish immigrant parents had hoped to make a better life in the midst of the great depression. mr. mccourt and his family relocated to lim

central new york. thank you for coming to speak with us and look for during her testimony. i want to thank -- bank the local 267. they suffered serious losses because of the madoff scandal. all the headlines have been full of wealthy and prominent investors who lost money, the pension funds of approximately 60,000 union workers and retirees in central and upstate new york were also exposed and suffered great losses. central new york unions lost at least $350 million, and as mr. lancette will tell us, local 267 loss $30 million. it is important to help them recover some of the funds that they have laws. the investor protection at could have provided the means to do that, but i as the chairman to continue to work with us after full regulatory reform has passed the full house. currently, sipc as allowed to advance only up to $500,000 per fine, not per individual in a pension fund. bondsman to the support the retirements of hundreds of thousands are only eligible for the same investor protection as one per

again i refer to the new york sometimes -- refer to the "new york times". >> the senator from arizona state thd case very well and it will continue to be stated. they are cutting medicare to fund a new government program. they are taxing the american people through drugs and devices and their own insurance policy needs more money so the government can have a larger hand in health care. at the end of the day, the american people realize now they are going to pay more and the quality of their health care is going to go down. it is no more obvious than the current amendment on slashing money to nursing homes or hospice or any other program under medicare. this is wrong, it should be stopped, and the american people's voice should be heard in this debate. i thank the gentleman. >> it has been a great time and we are going to do it again a lot between now and the time when the vote is forced. >> the gentleman's time has expired. >> mr. president. >> senator from arkansas. >> well, thank you, mr. president. i am very proud to come and join in this debate on an issue that i think is critical

from new york, mr. king. you know, this bill is really pretty simple and it's really just about transparency, disclosure, and sunshine. $700 billion of taxpayer money was made available last year in order to provide a rescue plan for the financial system, which was troubled at that time. we all know that much of this money has gone out, but what we don't really know is what it has gone to do, what it is being used for, where it is being employed. there are those who will say that, well, because they are dollars if you put dollars into a given financial institution, they're fungible and you don't know which dollar went to what. i understand that that has some legitimacy. but the point of this bill is, let's disclose and make available what we do know. there's a lot of information out there, as the gentlelady from new york suggested, which is in multiple agencies and multiple placesing -- places, and it's not available to members of the house or members of the congress so we can make an effective determin

enemies in a new york federal court. we wish to add to your rally the perspective of our own personal tragedy which, in many ways, has come to symbolize the depth of inhumanity that has swept our planet in the 21st century and the sense of urgency with which this planet is watching your rally in new york city. a rally that may very well hold the key to the future of open society. we who witnessed the darkest side of hell and have since spent every moment of our lives studying the anatomy of terror, we refuse to accept the strategy of normalization that attorney general holder's decision represents. i'm going to repeat that sentence. we refuse to accept the strategy of normalization that attorney general holder's decision represents. [cheers and applause] terror is a crime against society. and should not be tried in the same court as crimes against individuals or against a particular country can. let us make it perfectly clear, we are not concern canned about the safety issues that this trial poses to new york city. we tr

and here in new york, s.e. cupp the conservative columnist of "the "new york daily news". obama pressed wall street bankers urging them to help rebuild the economy. listen to what he said. >> my main message in today's meeting was very simple. that america's banks received extraordinary assistance from american taxpayers to rebuild their industry and now that they're back on their feet, we expect an inordinate -- extraordinary commitment from them to help rebuild our economy. >> larry: let's start with miss cupp. what do you make of it? >> well, there's a couple of problems. tough talk is great, larry, but a little disingenuous when we're looking at a health care bill that's going to strangle small businesses. that's one. two, you know, i -- i -- i think this is a bit of a dog and pony show. these bankers are in a really tough spot, getting pressure from regulators not to lend, and now obama is coming in and saying lend or else. you know, the lend or else is what got us here in the first place. lending to unqualified borrowers. >> larry: what does he do with all of the peo

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

king from new york. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from new york is recognized for four minutes. mr. engel: i thank the gentleman, my good friend from texas, for yielding to me. i appreciate the comments made by mr. rogers as well. mr. speaker, this bill rights a wrong. it's a very technical bill, but the bottom line is that 35 loyal and hardworking federal employees stationed overseas working for america are being treated unfairly and the bill corrects this. when i was in ireland at the customs post, hi a chance to speak with some of these employees and i became convinced that they were not being treated fairly. so i rise today in support of my legislation, h.r. 1517, the conversion of certain overseas customs and border protection employees. i would also like to give special recognition to my colleague and friend, representative peter king of new york, for the hard work that he has put into this legislation as well. h.r. 1517 would grant the commissioner of the u.s. customs and border protectio

his book was a "new york times" best seller. richard brookhiser wrote his first story in 1969 when he was 13. he became the youngest senior editor at age 23. in his recent book, "right place, right time", richard brookhiser tells the story of his friendship with william f. buckley jr. he offers an eyewitness account of the conservative intellectual and political ferment that he their chirred and lead. before we began, please make sure that your cell phone are switched off and placed in me in welcoming our guest. [applause] >> it is a pleasure for me to be invited to this event. as a guy who works in this liberal city i am sincere because it is a pleasure for me to be invited anywhere. it does not happen very often. [laughter] [applause] to give you an idea of the strange existence a conservative has in the city, for the longest time, the offices of "national review" was located above a rap music studio. the most interesting part of this juxtaposition is when the weather would get warmer and we would open up the windows, this unm

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 protect khalid sikh muhammad when he could have been tried down at guantanamo bay just doesn't make any sense. no one believes that that makes sense. lastly, to send people to yemen and this other place. i think will endanger the country. the speake

others say because john messed up in new york. and in ohio and in new jersey and other primaries. but there wasn't a good, acceptable backup which is why it took so long to fire john in 1980 because there wasn't anybody of john's stature. and the other thing weighing on reagan and actually mrs. reagan as well was the fact that john had had all these friends in the national media and reagan's campaign in all of '1979 and '80, bad press, the age issue is still there. and he doesn't need another spat of bad political stories, you know, by firing his campaign manager because if he fires john, that means john's two top aids, charlie black and jim lake are going to go with him. so they arrive at this strategy to fire him of the day of the new hampshire primary, believing they will win the primary and it would minimize the story and because they found an acceptable alternative. it's a very long question to -- a very long answer to a good question. >> when you read craig's book you get to this roughly 100-page section where almost every page you're saying, why isn't he firing him? why isn

also from central new york. today gallup like to discuss the direct relationship between sipc and bernard madoff's ponzi scheme. sipc today provides coverage to individuals with an individual and of $500,000. my members pension funds have no real coverage. my members, like millions of workers across the country, rely on pooled coverage which sipc does not currently protect. when i was elected in 2005, the madoff investment was approximately 30% of our pension fund. we receive regular confirmations that our money was invested in s&p 500 cos. while the return on the account slightly trailed the s&p 500 index, we were assured that the strategy offered adequate there's a versification and lower volatility. we believe that the u.s. securities markets monitored by the securities and exchange commission provided protection for our members. the plumbers and steamfitters local 267 benefited fund had out market value of approximately $34 million invested with madoff's direct brokerage. local 267 had $6.5 million invested

is a fixture in the new york publishing world. he steers riders for concepts that will strike riders says gladwellian. there's that phrase again. the go to publishing parties? >> i am somewhat reclusive. when you are setting someone up, you pretend they are a fixture of publishing parties. >> what about someone calling you in india? >> -- calling you an idiot? >> that was some and i wrote four years ago. it is of that he would now call me an idiot. i think he meant that facetiously. >> stephen pionker, you have answered him in "the new york times review of books." you say his comments say he is unhappy with your spelling and with the fact i have not joined him on the lonely eyes glow of light of fundamentalism -- lonely vce loe of -- the lonely ice floe of iq fundamentalism. >> some of his criticism of my riding comes from a very particular scientific and ideological perspective at all clear to people who think about intelligence and i do as well, we are somewhere along the continuum. how much of a major guide are you and how much

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

he's won new york and connecticut. the next primary is in wisconsin and he's surging and he looks like he might beat carter again in this primary. president carter goes on national television that very morning to announced a, quote-unquote, major breakthrough. a lot of you will remember. and he unexpectedly wins the wisconsin primary at a time when people thought kennedy might pull it off. and there was no major breakthrough. and there was never an explanation why there wasn't a major breakthrough. i still remember david broder, the grand old man at the "washington post," wrote a piece, a column just eviscerating the president and basically accusing him of no uncertain terms that he was using the plight of the hostages to advance his political fortunes. and that actually there was polling data that came out in october of 1980 that said the american people by a vast majority said if we had to make any concessions, whatsoever, to the iranians to get the hostages back it would be better for them to stay there than to make

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

my final story is a new york story. if i may new york died. whenever i go back to new york and i'm walking of one of the great avenues, usually park, and i'm admiring all of the buildings and watching the humanity go by and i always stopped at one of the crosstrees to buy a hot dog from the hot dog peddler, one of those new york dirty water dogs that some of you are familiar with. but it has to have the mustard and relish. that is what makes a new york hot dog. and i do it all the time. and not too long ago i was walking up park avenue and i was going to crawl -- follow my traditional pattern of going over to the hot dog peddler and i did and i walked up to him and i ordered my hot dog, mustard, and in and relish. and as he handed it to me he said, i know you. the u.n. general powell purified -- you are general powell. if and he handed me the hot dog and i handed him the money and he said, no, general, you cannot have to pay me. if you cannot pay me. i have already been paid. america has paid me. i am here purif. i never forget where i come fr

i am a new york times junkie, said that is always the first place i look. i am also fond of google news, and i have keywords there so i can track things i want to follow. the roof is a great news and opinion site covering african- american issues. that is owned by the "washington post," and i do some work for them, also, so i follow them partly for personal reasons, partly for professional reasons. and throughout the day, not with any particular structure, but helping -- the huffington post, looking at blogs by professors. >> do you go to a conservative website? >> there is one called the next right, a blood, and it feels like people who are here. people in the 30's and 40's who are simultaneously very committed to this excess of republicans, but to my mind, i am quite moderate, so there is a lot of overlap. republican rhetoric is among the most divisive stories, so going back to the last election, what was most alienating in the election were these moments where palin in particular was talking are real americans, and i think of myself, to going in kenya, a

and here in new york, s.e. cupp the conservative columnist of "the "new york daily news". obama pressed wall street bankers urging them to help rebuild the economy. listen to what he said. >> my main message in today's meeting was very simple. that america's banks received extraordinary assistance from american taxpayers to rebuild their industry and now that they're back on their feet, we expect an inordinate -- extraordinary commitment from them to help rebuild our economy. >> larry: let's start with miss cupp. what do you make of it? >> well, there's a couple of problems. tough talk is great, larry, but a little disingenuous when we're looking at a health care bill that's going to strangle small businesses. that's one. two, you know, i think this is a bit of a dog and pony show. these bankers are in a really tough spot, getting pressure from regulators not to lend, and now obama is coming in and saying lend or else. you know, the lend or else is what got us here in the first place. lending to unqualified borrowers. >> larry: what does he do with all of the people out th

the gentleman from new york, mr. rangel -- mr. rangel: i ask that all members may have five legislative days to revise and extend their remarks and insert extraneous material in the record. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered. mr. rangel: in addition, i along with ways and means ranking member david camp, have asked the nonpartisan joint committee on taxation to make available to the public a technical explanation of the bill. the technical explanation expresses the committee's understanding and the legislative intent behind this important legislation. it is available on the joint committee's website at www.jct. gov. and it's listed under document number jcx-709. the speaker pro tempore: will the gentleman suspend for a minute. the gentleman will continue. mr. rangel: i'm ask unanimous consent at this point in time i rise in support of h.r. 4154, a bill that will provide permanent responsible estate tax relief to taxpayers. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered. the gentleman is recognized. mr.

a guy by the name of silas wright of new york, who died young, and therefore we don't know much about him, but he was a real giant of his time. john c. calhoun wanted the democratic nomination. and polk's fear was that if these guys all thought that he was going to be in the presidency for eight years there was no way in the world that they were going to get behind him in the election of 1844 and he needed them because he knew he was going to have a very close election against henry clay, which he did. >> how many political jobs did he have before he became president? >> elected to congress at age 25, spent 14 years in the congress. he rose up to the chairman of the ways and means committee, which interested me of course because during my "wall street journal" days i covered tax policy in ways and means, spent a lot of time hanging out there. never thought about james polk during those years. served as speaker for two terms. then he was importuned to go back to tennessee and run for governor. didn't really want to do it. loved the house, liked washington, but the democrats were losing

their troops had overarm long island, new york, westchester and most of new jersey. thousands of american troops had deserted and the british chased the remnants of washington's army across new jersey over the delaware and into pennsylvania. redcoats were in sight of the american capital philadelphia. congress fled to baltimore and began debating terms of capitulation to the british. the war was over. unless washington could come up with a miracle, and he chose a young college student, lieutenant general james monroe, to help make a miracle happened. they all crossed the delaware during a blinding snowstorm on christmas night only six months after we had declared independence. in trenton 3,000 haitian mercenaries had spent the evening celebrating, and because the snow storm they went to sleep without posting centuries. at dawn the next morning monroe and his squad sneak up to the cannon emplacements at king street in trenton, the main street washington would have to come up with his troops to capture the town. a haitian soldier happened to step outside to do you know

host: not one interview in "the new york times"? caller: not one. host: what made you pick up the book? caller: i saw it on the "the new york times" list. host: thank you for all of your calls. there is more online. we have a great lineup this weekend. every weekend from 8:00 a.m. saturday until 8:00 a.m., on monday morning. 48 hours of "book tv." double about doing for us. we fullbacks tomorrow morning. -- that will about do it for us. have a wonderful day and emory christmas. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2009] " coming up today, michelle obama presents the white house's christmas decorations. there is a forum on the political landscape. later, our look inside blair house. in the mid 1990's, "newsweek" named omar wasow one of the people to watch in cyberspace. he helped found a charter school in brooklyn. sunday, he talks about his career studies at harvard and what is ahead. and now, first lady michelle obama and the ceo of toys for tots. the first lady

here is "the new york times." it is unclear whether the house and senate will appoint a formal conference committee or just work out differences in negotiations with the democratic leaders and committee chairmen from the team -- two chambers. in any event, white house officials expect to play a huge role. it also says here that -- the senate would expand eligibility to 133% of the poverty level, $29,000 for a family of four. many am plants for low-income people prefer a house approach. that's another difference between the house and senate bills. this is ohio, ed, on the republican line what, do you think? caller: it's a lousy state of affairs this country's got themselves in. how can anybody watching what's going on in washington now not feel abused that our tax money is being favored upon certain states before votes. i call -- i agree with the lady that just called on the democratic line. i have called my senator here, sherrod brown, and he gives me this flubflub answer that means nothing to me, and he will not

also from central new york. today gallup like to discuss the direct relationship between sipc and bernard madoff's ponzi scheme. sipc today provides coverage to individuals with an individual and of $500,000. my members pension funds have no real coverage. my members, like millions of workers across the country, rely on pooled coverage which sipc does not currently protect. when i was elected in 2005, the madoff investment was approximately 30% of our pension fund. we receive regular confirmations that our money was invested in s&p 500 cos. while the return on the account slightly trailed the s&p 500 index, we were assured that the strategy offered adequate there's a versification and lower volatility. we believe that the u.s. securities markets monitored by the securities and exchange commission provided protection for our members. the plumbers and steamfitters local 267 benefited fund had out market value of approximately $34 million invested with madoff's direct brokerage. local 267 had $6.5 million invested

i'm james brown in new york with scores from the nfl. the saints clinched the nfc south and remain unbeaten. the patriots lead over the dolphins and jets is just one game while cinci have afully game lead over the steelers. san diego wrapped up its 7th straight victory while the bough -- cowboyed drops into a tie with the eagles in the east. log on to cbssports.com. >> pelley: now a few minutes with andy rooney. >> rooney: the letters i get come in four general categories. it may be more or less, but say four. one-- i get a lot of good letters. they're the best kind; they're from people who liked something i said. i can always take that. two-- i get letters from someone trying to get me to promote something on "60 minutes." i never do that. never have. three-- i get letters from people who are mad about something i said. they usually think i was wrong. four-- i get a lot of letters about what i look like, letters pointing out something about my appearance. recently, i made some remarks about our mail and the u.s. postal service. a lot of

and here in new york, s.e. cupp of new york daily news. president obama urged bankers to help rebuild the economy. >> my main message in today's meeting was very simple. that america's banks received extraordinary assistance from american taxpayers to rebuild their industry and now that they're back on their feet, we expect an inordinate -- extraordinary commitment from them to help rebuild our economy. >> larry: let's start with miss cupp. what do you make of it? >> well, there's a couple of problems. tough talk is great, larry, but a little disingenuous when we're looking at a health care bill that's going to strangle small businesses. that's one. two, you know, i -- i -- i think this is a bit of a dog and pony show. these bankers are in a really tough spot, getting pressure from regulator not to lend. obama is coming in saying lend or else. you know, the lend or else is what got us here in the first place. lending to unqualified borrowers. >> what does he do with all the people out there who need mortgages and need money? >> i understan

marinette, new york, karen on our democrats line. caller: i'm calling because i'm getting really frustrated and angry with the republicans on practically every issue, including this one. i think that obama did the right thing. immediately the republican peter king, you know, they start ratcheting up the fear in people. i think you gather -- he gathered intelligence to make the statements. no, it is not easy. in the bush administration, everyone seems to forget that prior to 9/11, cheyney and bush were aware -- cheney and bush were aware of the events that happened and did absolutely nothing. i don't believe obama did. new know, the republicans are coming up with every piece of crap that they can find in there about to put him down and the administration down. i am not saying that they should investigate more fairly napolitano. i don't think her response was appropriate. and she may not be the right person for the job, but most definitely the republicans have to look at themselves to see what has brought all of these events including

front page of the ""new york times"" it's expanding inside pakistan. this happened two weeks ago. cia sharp shooters killing eight people. >> what do you know about this? >> again, i know nothing classified. i've had some experience in el salvador where we had an insurgency there in the early 1990s. what you need to do is go after the leadership. the leadership of the insurgency is extremely important. that's what i think the drones are being used for. because they are across the border hiding in parts of pakistan and the other part that this is going to happen here, i think, as far as the plan, is to bring the pakistan and nato coalition forces closer together along the border with pakistan. and starting to coordinate their actions. i think this is absolutely essential. because this is much more than just an afghanistan problem. it's a strategic problem for the researchen. the drones are part of that. you are going to have a counterinsurgency, but counterterrorism. you need to blend both together. i think that's what's going to be happening now in the

[laughter] >> i'm graham mccauley from the bronx, new york, i'm here in nashville, and i've just finished reading david

and i'm in new york today, so i can attest to that. but yet the little bank, the little bank owned by people throughout this country like the publisher down in sarasota, they're on the ropes because they can't get the money that the big banks that helped elect president obama got. and i can assure you that in -- if mccain had been predicted to be the winner of the last election, mccain would have gotten the same money that obama got. it makes no difference democrat or republican, they bribe them both. so that's why we are at a state of revolution, and that's why i want you to read the book, "whores," because we need to wage that second revolution or we'll have no country yet. >> host: larry klayman's been our guest, he's been joining us this morning from new york. thanks for being with us. >> guest: you're welcome. thank you, god bless. >> larry klayman is the founder of the public watch dog organizations judicial watch and freedom watch. to find out more, visit freedomwatch.org. >> we're at the national press club's author night, and

pat's was one of the glass tables in new york that had monogrammed matchbooks. this will soon be a crime. she had these. she did not blow a puff of smoke into the mayor's face but was pretty close to the mayor's face and, mr. mayor, man spoke in my own house? that is a mild example of what she could do. >> talk about bill as a writer. you have surprisingly mixed things to say about him as a writer. >> i never liked his fiction particularly. i just never did. it was john r. fiction -- genre fiction. i think some genre fiction is wonderful. certain things i love. bill's spy novels ever did that for me. bill was a mster o master of th syndicated column. he wrote a lot of them. if you get the best of those, that is a murderer's row and they are so varied. they can be analytical or appreciative or on the attack, they can be melancholic, he had a lot of different voices that he could summon. he could also do lager essays very well. but i remember one -- it was about the effective end of the latin mass in the catholic church and how that paid him. it was a very moving