then seeing those two guys who did it. >> did you know ben wilson? did you know him? >> reporter: after the shooting cousins billy moore and omar dixon were taken into custody charged with murder and attempted robbery. moore was later sentenced to 40 years for pulling the trigger and dixon 30 years as his accomplice. on the day that benji died his simeon teammates decided to play their first game of the season without no. 25. earlier in the day students sobbed at simeon simply overwhelmed with grief, but benji's mother stood tall in the gymnasium. >> so today i speak in love of all of you who keep benji's memory and dignity and be strength v and strength and love alive -- strength and love alive. >> reporter: the wake was held on the gymnasium floor and 8,000 people came to see benji lying in his no. 25 jersey. the line stretched blocks outside of the school, mourners waited seven hours. >> i still have dreams about him like, you know, he came back and he was able to play again, but just dreams. >> sometimes i sit down and, you know, when i'm going through things, you

ben was rising. and then it became midnight at midday. >> at 12:37 on november 20th, ben wilson was walking with shaquan the girlfriend and mother of his ten week old son, brandon. they were a block from the school, students like to gather at a small store around lurch time but bengie bummed into two freshman from cal la met high school on the sidewalk and they pulled out a .22 caliber high school and shot him twice and one bullet piercing his' orto and the other one went into his liver. >> i don't know the story to this day. i have never tried to seek out the story because the is taken to st. bernard hospital. and while the chaos continued at simeon, bengie's brothers were miles away with a sibling connection that still haunts them. >> i was in library class and i heard somebody say i got shot. i got shot. i was in library class and i was like i'm going crazy but -- then i thought about cane and andal and cane slew his brother. right there something let me know that he got shot. as a matter of fact

let's get more on ben bernanke's testimony. let's go to our senior economics reporter steve liesman. steve? >> mark, hampton gave us a lot of details and if i had to boil it down to one important phrase, he said that the fed will remain exceptionally low for an extended period. those are the words the market needs to hear. if i did it on a scale of 1 to 10, with 10 being more dovish than expected and 1 being as dovish as expected i'd say it's bat 2 or a 3 which is just a little more dovish than expected and some analysts speculated this morning that one of the reasons for that is because of all the sort of mechanical things the fed had done in terms of the supplemental financing program and the discount rise last week that the fed is a little bit afraid may give the impression is the beginning of a tightening cycle. it's trying to give the impression that it is not. a couple things here on the reagan la tri front. the fed saying it welcomes disclosure after an appropriate delay of institutions that borrow from the special facil

then seeing those two guys who did it. >> did you know ben wilson? did you know him? >> reporter: after the shooting cousins billy moore and omar dixon were taken into custody charged with murder and attempted robbery. moore was later sentenced to 40 years for pulling the trigger and dixon 30 years as his accomplice. on the day that benji died his simeon teammates decided to play their first game of the season without no. 25. earlier in the day students sobbed at simeon simply overwhelmed with grief, but benji's mother stood tall in the gymnasium. >> so today i speak in love of all of you who keep benji's memory and dignity and be strength v and strength and love alive -- strength and love alive. >> reporter: the wake was held on the gymnasium floor and 8,000 people came to see benji lying in his no. 25 jersey. the line stretched blocks outside of the school, mourners waited seven hours. >> i still have dreams about him like, you know, he came back and he was able to play again, but just dreams. >> sometimes i sit down and, you know, when i'm going through things, you

elizabeth: g'night ben bob grandpa: g'night everybody. jim boight. vo: geico. 15 minutes could save you 15% or more. >> trailing north carolina by 1 thanks solely to alex montgomery who has all of her team's points. >> three for five from the floor. great start. taking it strong to the basket. >> alex montgomery has one three and a couple of twos. taking on florida state and duke, a combined 3-23 from the floor. 3 for 15 outside of the arc in the last two games here. so tonight she is already having a better game offensively than she did the last two times that she suited up in white. >> taking her first shot. drawing a foul. >> it is a terrific combination of inside/outside play for machelle joseph when alex montgomeryly is knocking down the three and playing with versatility in her exhanded offensive game. just a matter of time before she gets going. >> leading the acc from the free-throw line shooting 82% for the year. >> tremendous leader. focus and attention of all of her teammates. when she speaks they listen. i think half of them are scared of

are we talking ben bernanke, jobless claims, durable goods data? stay with us. >>> "squawk box" is up in just over nine minutes. carl haas moved down to washington where he's going to be hosting the show today. hey, carl. >> sounds like -- >> if he can hear me. carl, can you hear me? are you up and running? i'm not sure he can. we'll try to get down on carl. anyway, that is where the program is coming from. >> all right. very good. it looks like carl is having some fun over there in washington. let's bring in david kotok for a little bit more fun. he's actually in sayre so ta, florida, right now. and let's talk about what carl is about to cover. it's this huge health care summit in washington today. this is a six-hour long event with the president, democrats and republicans. >> it's a huge issue, a manu mental issue and it involves so many emotional parts and political parts. the monetary economic debate is over who pays who, so somebody has to pay it and somebody gets the subsidy. that's the politics of money side. the politics of appealing to peo

he has already placed a probe into ben's brain. ben is awake. dr. cho is here from neurology. i want to show you again the tremor, and then dr. cho will go ahead and where this electrode is placed, she'll adjust the current to hopefully make ben's tremor go away. so, ben, if you would lift up your arm -- >> touch your chin. touch my fingers. touch your chin. okay, here's the cup. bring it to your mouth. return the cup, okay. so, now we're going to try to see what the threshold is. >> and now with the electrode already placed in ben's brain and this contraption around his head important because it keeps his head very, very still. look at how the tremor has disappeared from ben's hand, and that is stimulating that deep probe in the motor area of his brain that now controls the left side. the right side of his brain being the operative side and look at how that's going. now i'll call in dr. alterman for a second, because ron, obviously, the stunning thing here is that you are operating on an awake patient. >> right. >> we don't normally think of brain surgery with a patient awake

host: let's go to maine, where ben as on the independent line. caller: senator cardin, thank you, and i want to let you know as a person who seems to have no voice, i want to let you know i feel you are doing the right thing. again, thank you. guest: thank you for the comments. this is certainly an issue that has been around for awhile, time to get it done right. pete host: howard, a republican line from california. caller: good morning, senator. can you give me a quick explanation of what you mean as the public option, and then i have a follow-up question. guest: the public option as originally proposed means there would be a plan that would be sponsored by the government -- it would not be subsidized by the government. it would be a plan where the premiums would pay the full cost. but it would not depend upon private profit motive. it would have a guaranteed benefit. it would be here forever. you don't have to worry about a private insurance company leaving the market. it would be here and be a reliable plan, and affordable plan, and would be a

when i found out, i went be serk. >> ery as a we seen ben on the floor by himself. that's what brothers do. >> they weren't supposed to. i don't like to talk about that but they had to see him. >> they was telling us that he's in stable condition and kenny allen pulled the sheet back and we saw him. we had to see him and we knew he was gone. >> reporter: early the next morning the day his senior season was supposed to start ben wilson was pronounced dead at the age of just 17. even president ronald reagan called the family to offer h is dead. >> involved in extraordinary young man. >> he was gunned down. >> it's not how long you live. but how well you live. >> then i seen my brother in that casket. oh, tried to wake him up like man, you ain't dead. get up, man. get up. get up. you ain't dead. get up. then seeing those two guys who did it. >> did you know ben wilson? did you know him? >> reporter: after the shooting cousins billy moore and omar dixon were taken into custody charged with murder and attempted robbery. moore was later sentenced to 40 years for pulling t

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ben? >> so one of the things that i think that they are favored for we have to bring together not just one segment or society but everybody. and a theme to have a global redesign initiative is about how we will make it in a bipolar world and how are we going to make decisions. if the view is that we're going to uncertainty and that we go to a world that is basically more unpleasant than we have seen before and we have to -- to rel on that, what we need most is not just concepts but it's a concept of how we're going to make decisions. >> uh-huh. uh-huh. >> the g20 was, of course, great. if you read pittsburgh it was a fantastic declaration. it was the end of the world war ii. it was the shift of power to the new reality but since then it's a prettyw3 silent around what te of mechanisms do we have. i think that a global redesign is something that we need to haveç in order to deal with th uncertainties that you have brought forward.i] you have brought forward a truckload of uncertainties t

ben bernanke suggested we'd be better off if china saved less and we saved more. tonight's commentator is also worried about our largest trading partner. he's leo hindery, managing partner at inter-media partners, and chairman of the u.s. economy smart globalization initiative at the new america foundation. >> america's great recession has turned into china's great opportunity. american companies have cut both their payrolls and their capital spending and have driven business to china at the same time that chinese manufacturers are boosting their global competitiveness through massive subsidies from their central government. in just the last year, chinas share of our nations trade deficit in manufactured goods jumped from 69% to an almost unbelievable 80% today, while its share of u.s. imports overall increased 20%. no responsible american economist disagrees with president obama's assessment that china's currency is significantly undervalued compared to the u.s. dollar. yet currency manipulation is actually just the tip of the chinese trade iceberg. something on

. >> more on the markets now with ben liechtenstein. ben, we've seen choppy trading in stocks. >> we are seeing a lot of chop trade, a lot of whip associated with it, markets coming off the lows. the news started to release about greece, i think we'll probably continue to trade under this cloud until we get some sort of certainty. uncertainty doesn't provide for a stable environment. >> what are you hearing from the trading floor as far as the selloff we've seen from january. could there be more to come or is it over? >> we're focused on a couple of key technical levels, looking at 1080. if we can get above it and make a hold, i think we'll see the bottom and have a floor, otherwise we'll test the extreme low of 1040. i'm a big one that always says that good lows always get tested. i'm in the camp that we'll look at that low and reevaluate whether that is a bottom or not. >> we'll see what happens. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> coming up on wednesday, we get earnings from boston scientific, coca-cola, intercontinental exchange a

i think it's a buyout candidate. >> neil: ben, what do you think? >> i think everybody knows the story i'm telling. it's extremely closely watched stock, but i think it's incredibly great company. i wish they would make the buttons a little bigger so us old people could use them. the buttons would have to be as big as strawberries. >> neil: you and me both. what are you doing? >> i stick with the diamonds. i don't think i can outperform the diamonds. it's going to be a rocky road but a rocky road for everything from now on. >> neil: it's been a robbery road for a long time. do you see it changing soon? >> no, i don't. i think the situation is quite scary. recent gdp numbers weren't bad but scary stuff. >>> the stock is fine if you want to do the homework but i agree, rocky is horrible economic data perhaps a double dip. if people want to make money in the markets they have to be careful. >> neil: the concern is some of the late data we got,

gloria bornlger is here along with "fortune" magazine columnist ben stein. also joining us split cal analyst david gergen. let's go to our senior congressional analyst, dana bash. you are outside the old ted kennedy office where scott brown will have his new office. we are waiting for him to be sworn in. >> reporter: that's right. let's start with what's going on. i just moments ago walked with scott brown down inside this building as he made his way over the capitol. and he went inside to the cloakroom and we are awaiting for him to come out on to the senate floor to be formally sworn in. big picture here. to officially give the republicans the 41st vote and deprive democrats of that critical supermajority. now on that issue before scott brown even made it into the building here myself and several other reporters caught up with him as he drove up and he got around to the back of his truck and pulled out his certification papers to make sure that hay brought those in because that's what officially will allow him to be a united states senator today and as we

but with all of its ongoing problems, ben tracy tells us, the company could be facing a big financial hit for the cost of repairs and lawsuits. >> reporter: while toyota may be facing a daunting mechanical problem, it is also facing a mounting legal one. in los angeles, today, peter uno talked about losing his wife. this past august, he says her camry suddenly accelerated, crashing into a telephone pole. >> my wife should not die. please, bring back my wife. please. >> reporter: his lawsuit joins more than a dozen others across the united states and canada, many seeking class action status for victims of sudden acceleration accidents. meanwhile, fallout at dealersh dealerships continues. service centers are packed with customers looking for replacement parts, yet car shoppershoppers are hard to fin. it's estimated toyota dealerships nationwide could lose as much as $2.5 billion per month because 60% of their inventory is affected by the recall. cities are now caught in the middle. longo toyota is not only the largest toyota dealership in the country. it's also the largest sales tax ge

old friend ben stein. economist, best selling author. dr. james rohack. dr. bern dean healey, former president of american red cross. dr. paul song, radiation oncologist and member of physicians for a national health program. how do you think that went today, ben? >> i thought it was a very impressive show. i thought it was a show of civility, intelligence. i though the points of view were put across. what i think was sort of kept away, in addition to the points that the two doctors before us just made was, basically at the end of the day if there's going to be a health plan it's going to involve higher-income people paying money to lower-income people. i think that is sort of being sugar coated. we have, i think, have to wrap our minds around the fact if we're going to take care of everyone around this country there's going to have to be higher taxes on well to do people. >> the problem is if you look at the senate bill it's not scheduled to take place until 2014. the house bill isn't going to go into effect until 2013. in that time over 45,000 americans are

army brigadier general ben hodges of the southern region command in khandahar. >> woodruff: general ben hodges, thank you very much for talking with us. let me just begin by asking you if the fight for marjah is over. >> i think that the fighting is going to continue for a few more weeks as the marines an british soldiers an afghan army and police continue to clear out the remaining villages and agriculture areas where we don't yet completely dominate. i think that the majority of the enemy has either been killed or driven out or blended back into the population. there were certainly i had caters as we were getting ready to commence this operation that a lot of the taliban senior leadership were trying to get away from there because what was coming was pretty much inevitable. there will be some sporadic fighting, i believe, some tough areas where there are still a few holdouts. i think most of the significant operations will have subsided. >> woodruff: you mention that the taliban has either left the area or faded into the population. what new have you learned about the tactics and the

no one came close. >> reporter: ahead how benji wilson's life changed in less than a second. >> ben's thumb was rising and then at midday. >> reporter: a horrific crime on these streets in chicago is remembered 25 years later. and werhanger a... hen. you only one... whicwoulsaveeasy ooh, you - rry yourr li ... mumb ho is iff? youthe r bes mu wellcoul try eat r ta offple rewe mi. whshe g abi kn it d com ers. ow yd me wausta u! b the xcus. at!? greawichanks ♪ou dhave so nice ♪ >>> take a look at san francisco 49er eric heitmann and you'd never know that off the field he's a pianoman. here's comcast sportsnet's bay area's brody brazil to show us. >> reporter: this is the side of eric heitmann people know, an offensive lineman for the 49ers since 2002. and this is the side most would never expect, at 6' 3 315 pounds he's got the frame of a football behemoth with the hands of a beethoven. >> my mom made me take lessons about 10, 11 years growing up as a kid. right around when i started playing football, football became more of a focus for me and piano you put on the back burner a littl

but ben bernanke will come back and testify on the hill today. yesterday he pledged to continue record low interest rates for, in his words, an extended period. >> one of the greatest challenges of extraordinary policies that we've both taken is at some point, we want to return to a more normal stance and finding a way out that's credible and understandable and clear is very important for confidence. >> today's senate banking session and the fed's semi-annual report on monetary policy and the state of the economy will begin at 9:00 eastern. i don't know whether we're going to do that music or not. i don't know whether we were going to, but -- >> we are now. >> but i requested it and i think the import and the serious and the gravity and the gravitas of the person we have down there, i think it's a legitimate thing to -- >> really? because the same laws of gravity apply here as they do in new york. >> across -- we learned that. probably across the entire universe and all the multi verse, carl. but you're looking fine, my friend. thanks. >> are you

stocks edged lower after those comments from ben bernanke. the dow lost 20 points, the nasdaq fell three points, and the s&p 500 dropped two points. speaking of the dow, the 114- year-old index has a new owner: the c.m.e. group. the chicago exchange is joining forces with dow jones, for dow's stock indexing business. the deal's worth $675 million and gives the c.m.e. a 90% stake, with dow jones and its owner newscorp keeping the rest. german politicians, euro zone finance ministers, and french president nicholas sarkozy spent the day working on the greek issue. so far, no decision on how to handle greece's debt. the issue tops the agenda at tomorrow's summit of european union leaders in brussels. treasury secretary timothy geithner says the u.s. financial system is healing, but there's a lot of repair work ahead. his comments came from a prepared statement summing up how the administration worked to stabilize financial markets over the past year. still ahead, will airlines stocks soar higher this year? we ask our "street critique" guest juliu

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how do you think that went today, ben? >> i thought it was a very impressive show. i thought it was a show of civility, intelligence. i though the points of view were put across. what i think was sort of kept away, in addition to the points that the two doctors before us just made was, basically at the end of the day if there's going to be a health plan it's going to involve higher-income people paying money to lower-income people. i think that is sort of being sugar coated. we have, i think, have to wrap our minds around the fact if we're going to take care of everyone around this country there's going to have to be higher taxes for it on well-to-do people. >> larry: dr. song, what did you think of today? >> the problem is if you look at the senate bill it's not scheduled to take place until 2014. the house bill isn't going to go into effect until 2013. in that time over 45,000 americans are going to die each year because they're uninsured. the number of medical-related bankruptcy going to increase by over 50%. a lot of people are going to be suffering and lost dur

. >> sreenivasan: wall street racked up gains today after the federal reserve chairman, ben bernanke, said interest rates need to stay low. the dow jones industrial average gained more than 91 points to close at 10,374. the nasdaq rose 22 points to close near 2,236. public and private sector workers walked off the job across greece today. it was the second 24-hour strike in the last two weeks aimed at a government austerity plan. demonstrators clashed with police in athens, after a peaceful march had ended. they were protesting plans to cut government spending because of a debt crisis. greece has announced wage freezes, bonus cuts and pension reform over the last month to save almost $7 billion. the u.s. house has stepped up the pressure on health insurance companies. it came a day before the president's bi-partisan summit on health care reform. health correspondent betty ann bowser has the story. >> this meeting will come to order. >> reporter: the target at a house hearing today was wellpoint-- the parent company of california's anthem blue cross. >> corporate executives at wellpoin

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and we have four people in the operating room that we were very fortunate as a country we had hey, ben bernanke, tim geithner and sheila bair at head of the fdic. i know a lot of people in finance and business and government. i cannot think of four people who would have done a better job to get us through that. it is fashionable to look back and look at one little aspect of what was happening our country's financial system froze up during that period. some of you were at a party i was at september 2008 when the talk of what are the money market funds save? when you have 3.5 trillion of funds held by 30 million people who on a sunday night worry about whether they can get their money, that was half of all deposits. you have a panic. you have commercial paper frees up entirely and some of the biggest companies in the united states that are described, worried if they would be payrolls in a short period of time. the six largest bank in the country with domestic deposits washington mutual and the third largest bank, wachovia, needed of shock on a monday morning to survive. most interesting,

ben bernanke will speak to the senate committee later this morning. the president of toyota will stay put. some executives have resigned following the scandal of the recalls. akio toyoda is the only person that can save toyota. he said the as a personal commitment to restore the trust of customers. blockbuster is closing at least 500 doors. it is looking for ways to restructure almost $1 billion of debt. consumers are turning to netflix and red box. back to you. >> thanks. >> coming up, in the look at your morning commute with traffic and weather together. >> the hockey venue at the olympics turned into stars on ice. see if team usa stays in contention for its first gold medal hopes. we will show you ♪ hey bets, can i borrow a quarter? sure, still not dry? trng to shrink them. i lost weight and now some clothes are too big. how d you do it? simple stuff. eating right and i switched to whole grain. whole grain... [ female announcer ] pele who more whole grai tend to have a healthier body weight. multigrain cheerios has who gins and 110 calories per s

.  maryland senator ben cardin. "washington journal" starts now. . . we are also on e-mail, journal@c-span.org, and on twitter, and on facebook. we are looking at lending. let us check out this "the wall street journal" article. that is according to a quarterly report of the federal deposit insurance corp., fdic. we are asking you, have you tried to get a loan recently, any type of loan, and have you had success going to a large bank or perhaps it -- a small or local bank. one of the gramm milestones, the number of u.s. banks at risk of failing hit a 16-year high. that is from "the wall street journal." looking at some other financial stories. troubled lenders at the highest level since 1993. let's go to jack who is calling from the democrats lined from manhattan. have you tried to get a loan recently? caller: i got a credit card loan recently. i have stellar credit. no issues for may. i'm just going to comment that it is really a disgrace that we bailed out the banks to the tune of billions of billions of dollars, and they are so tight with their lend

it was ben franklin, that's what they meant by militia. not our reserves now. they did mean individuals that would stand up when the bad guys would come to town. let's see. go to the next two on the second amendment and guns. generally support the right to bear arms. the government should regulate arms via registration requirements and other regulations is the next choice. then gun control is essential. and must be strengthened if gun violence in the country is to be eliminated. this one drives me nuts. the stat in england when they banned guns and took them away, gun violence went up. this is the argument of bad guys get the guns. does anybody take the last two, anybody here? good for you. you get gold stars! here is the next one. speech and property rights. the government shouldn't restrict speech. media, or the internet. rights of free citizens who don't violate other rights must be protected. private property should be protected at all times. who said yes to this? this one is important. we're facing both of these things. we're facing private property should

>> we have ben with us. we want to introduce you to ben who has a tropical hat on. where would you rather be. >> i am looking forward to going to spring training in fort meyers. >> this is my second trip. now we have the milk, the guacamole for the super bowl. the orange juice, the frozen fruit because my daughter loves smoothies. we have that in here and a couple of paper towels. cream for my and my wife's coffee and my son's birthday is next tuesday so we have to have brownie and stuff for them and my daughter macy loves those, too. we are set for the weekend and  birthday parties and things like that. >> you were just inside and clearly found the things you need, except there were some things that were missing. what did you see a shortage of? >> there was no ground meat of any kind. no ground turkey. i wanted broccoli and callly flower. none of that i had to get it bagged. no bananaens. what else, some apples but i didn't get any of them. but the shelves are pretty bare, especially if you are looking for chips or super bowl related items. not much. >> you are in

ball ends up in the hands of ben hansbrough. he buries the three-pointer. he had 21 minutes. irish upset georgetown 78-64. it was a crazy finish for george mason against north eastern and one that left head coach arguing the call after the game. after leading by four with less than 3:00 to go, mason watched the game slip away with two north eastern free throws. patriot center. mason nation going crazy today. second half, patriots down two. luke hancock has the ball. mike morrison there for the alley-oop. one of five assists for hancock on the day. less than 15 to go. drives the lay-off off the mark. morrison misses the follow-up slam. trying to win it for the huskies. he shoots and misses. refs call a foul. take another look at this. ryan pierceson hits allen on the arm. because of that he gets three shots. allen under pressure though. he is so precise. makes the first one and the second one. misses his last attempt. a nail-biter 50-48. pats have won four in a row. >> in the district, american hosting lafayette. under 5:00 to go in the first. eagles are up 16. daniel munoz ge

. >>> ben cooper, the women will take center stage on the ice in the pot -- in vancouver, the women will take center stage on the ice. in alpine skiing, the women will try to finish the giant slalom per it was the pope -- postponed yesterday. american lindsey vonn crashed. she broke her finger during her run. she will compete friday. still ahead, a final look at our weather are you making it easier for bacteria to grow on your dentures? you are if you use toothpaste instead of soaking them in polident toothpaste is abrasive on dentures look, scratches where bacteria can collect and grow and bacteria can cause bad breath that's why i recommend replacing toothpaste with polident only polident is proven to clean without scratching and kills 99.9% of odor causing bacteria don't scratch your dentures clean use polident every day >>> coming up tonight, one of our viewers spent $6,000 on faulty hearing aids. when she asked for a refund, the check bounced. we will see the drama that unfolded when we stepped in. our report is tonight at 5:00. >>> in church they say t come as you are. one virginia

carlton scott knocks it away, into the hands of ben hansbrough. he came up huge for notre dame. the irish upset georgetown. hoyas at west virginia. hey, to foggy bottom. karl hobbs always energetic. first half, tied. sloppy pass. gary reen steels it the colonials hustle back, force a turnover. gets the loose ball to dwayne smith for the dunk. gw up by two. later in the half the colonials were up by four. off the charlotte miss, jabari edwards grabs the rebound, almost throws it away. taylor nails the tee-pointer. taylor with 16 points. the colonials beat charlotte 75-70 and clinch a spot in the a-10 tournament for the first time since 2007. >>> it was a spirited nascar nationwide race tonight in vegas. ken harvick told his pit guys they looked like a bunch of idiots, but they rebounded to earn him his first nationwide win. danica patrick in her last race spouted off about the driver that caused her to wreck. danica patrick will take a four-month break to return to indycar racing. halfway through the race, michael mcdowell was down a lap in the way. caused danica to lose control,

i think ben nelson in a way that he won't recover. it's over for ben, gentle ben. for the louisiana purchase and the nebraska compromise or the nebraska kickback or whatever they call it. isn't it fascinating, people in the state saying, keep the money, we're offend by what you did, and we're going to run you o out of office. and mary landrieu getting emotional on the floor because she and these other moderates under extraordinary measure. >> that's so much what politics is, getting money for local projects, getting money for your people, but $100 million, and folks are saying, no. >> she was bragging it was actually $300 million. >> that's the amazing thing, to go back to your constituents and say, i got this money, and for people in these times say, we don't care about the money, we don't care about that, we're more concerned with the process and more concerned about a deal that got us there. >> we've been talking about conservatives for the past year, mary landrieu, trouble because she voted for the health care bill. ben nelson, trouble, because he voted for the

cnn's ben wedeman is following developments live from kabul. good morning, ben. and these blasts, literally shook you out of bed? >> yes. the blast occurred at 6:35 in the morning on the friday morning, friday is the weekend here, we expected a quiet day but we were all jarred out of bed. our villa is less than a mile from the site of the blast. we rushed there and the action was ongoing. there was gunfight, gun battles going on in the street between the attackers and afghan police. this was not just one bombing. it started with this car bomb. a massive car bomb. and then it was followed up by suicide bombers and also gunmen dressed up in afghan security uniforms. the situation now seems to have called down a bit. we saw investigators both afghan, french and american, going over the scene, but as we know, there's no question about who is behind the bombing. the taliban wasted no time to claim responsibility for the attacks. christine? >> ben wedeman, thank you so much, ben. >>> women could soon be on the front lines in afghanistan and iraq. the top army brass con

we have ben bernanke. we have tim geithner, and we had sheila bair, the head of the fdic. and i know a lot people in finance. i know a lot of people in business. i know a lot of people in government. and i can't think of four that would have done a better job of getting us through that. now it's kind of fashionable now to look back and pick out one little aspect or another of what was happening then, but our country's financial system froze up during that period. some of you in this room were at a party i was at in september of 2008 when the talk was, are our money market funds safe? now, when you have 3.5 or more trillion of funds held by 30 million people, who on a sunday night are worrying about whether they can get their money, that money was half of all the deposits held by u.s. banks at the time. you have a panic. you had commercial paper freeze up entirely, and you had some of the biggest companies in the united states, and some of them are described in this book, to worry about whether they're going to meet their payrolls in a short bit of time. you had the sixth l

by then treasury secretary hank paulson and ben bernanke. t.a.r.p. was supposed to be used to counter the mortgage crisis, not to bail out the big banks. do you believe mccain was misled? >> no, i don't, monica. the night before on nbc nightly news, you may remember john yang had a record that feerchbd john mccain saying because of his experience, he was best equipped to rhett republic arizona. now, in western inventory knack ewe lar, this ain't john's first rodeo. when he suspended his campaign to go back to washington to sit face-to-face with those decisionmakers, now a couple years later, he's telling us he was misled? i have to tell you, this is isn't revision of history. that sounds more like john kerry in 2004 than the john mccain i used to work with. >> and the mccain camp is attacking your spending record. they have a radio ad saying you talk like a conservative, but you spend like a liberal. they're citing your vote for the bridge to nowhere. you supported the 2003 medicare prescription drug benefit. what do you think of those ads? what do y

all that came up at a senate hearing today with fed chairman ben bernanke. >> we have a situation in which major financial institutions are amplifying a public crisis for what would appear to be for private gain. i want to ask you here whether or not you think there ought to be limits on the use of credit default swaps to prevent the intentional creation of runs against governments. do you have any quick comments on that? >> using these instruments in a way that intentionally destabilizes a company or a country is... is counterproductive, and i'm sure the sec will be looking into that. we'll certainly be evaluating what we can learn from the activities of the holding companies that we supervise here in the u.s. and joining me with the latest on all this is roben farzhad, senior writer for "bloomberg business week" magazine. in general terms first, what exactly is chairman bernanke promising to look into? >> this has for the better part of the decade been the great big unknown, this world of derivatives which are largely unregulated secondary investment vehicles. they're almost train

thank you, ben. >>> also in l.a. this morning is brian oxman, an attorney for the jackson family and longtime friend. good morning to you, mr. oxman. >> good morning, maggie. >> involuntary manslaughter up to four years in prison would that satisfy the jackson family? >> wow, maggie the thought of that is just staggering. i don't think it would satisfy anybody. the millions of fans around the world. that is just a slap on the wrist, maggie. it is a slap in the face because michael jackson was someone who we knew was in danger of being brought to his knees, brought to his death by the use of these medications. i warned. the warning was one day michael jackson would wake up dead. i was really angry that this was happening to him and low and behold he dies from this and then they say, oh they really didn't mean it. it's involuntary manslaughter. i think the family will be very very upset. >> let's talk about what manslaughter means. it means that prosecutors believe that dr. murray took a reckless action that risked dea

for herself the aftereffects of one of the strongest earthquakes in history s i would like to go to ben, refused to be evacuated from the hotel in hawaii, and they are one of our favorite bounty hunters. come on, honey, sit down next to dog, and bring us back to the very beginning. dog, can you hear me? tell me, when you first got word, did you hear the sirens? is that how you woke up today. >> dog, you read me? hello. i hear beth in the background. can you hear me? >> hello. you look great, dog. all right, we were going to get back to dog as soon as we get that skype problem worked out. you know, that was amazing, this must help you scientists as well, the interconnected nature. and i mean, that skype was a bomb. and we had great connection, and it was the internet, the twitters and the face books, and all of the other social networking systems out this, that allowed people to be up to date and find granny, and maria in the little town where she lived. >> that's right. >> this is a fox news alert from new york. i'm marianne rafferty, the first tsunami has now hit japan. the associated

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. >>> as he was sworn in for his second term as head of the federal reserve ben bernanke said he is worried about the pace of our economic recovery. he told his staff today the economy is growing but there's still too little bank credit, too many foreclosures and too many people unemployed. meantime treasury secretary tim geithner says congress can claw back what he is calling an outageus new amount of bonuses for aig employees. they are all set to pay out bonuses despite being bailed out by the federal government last year. tim geithner says the government can recoup the money by instituting the new bank fee that president obama called for in his 2011 budget. but aig says those bonuses were negotiated before the company asked for the bailout. what do you think about that? is it an outrageous failure of policy or do the aig employees deserve the bonuses, after all they were promised them. send your e-mails to me. >>> winning the seat of senator ted kennedy. an attorney wants brown to be sworn in tomorrow. once he is sworn in, brown will end the democrats majority in the u.s. senate. but pre