it doesn't just affect louisiana. for the time being it does, but in the future it would affect a lot of other states, and that's the right thing to do. because nobody should be punished for having a disaster. why would you punish? this money, this $400 million, is to protect the poorest children in my state. children who lost their parents in the flood, their grandparents in the flood, children that lost siblings in the flood, children that are still not back in their houses. why would we punish these children, these disabled people, the poor people on medicaid because the federal government's levees broke? why would we do that? i don't think we want to. so i'm not going to stand by silently while the people of louisiana are criticized for asking for something in a public way, describing our situation, expressing that we are unique among the states in this and asking for assistance. i think the white house understands this. i know that kathleen sebelius understands this. i'm most certainly confident that the leadersh

and then settle louisiana. madison said he could -- announced that he would have 200,000 citizen soldiers on the mississippi before napoleon could get his troops over here. so combined with the french -- with the haitian uprising and now he was getting his -- he was -- he was getting defeated in spain, the english had intervened in spain and were pushing the french out of spain and he realized he had too much -- he extended his forces too far and too wide. and he said, literally, that hell with the colonies. hell with coffee. hell with all the products and sugar of haiti. and he decided to let that territory go. [inaudible] >> it went both ways. there were hints. the problem was that talleyrand who's this wily foreign minister was getting involved in the negotiations. and napoleon didn't trust him. and the americans didn't trust him. so this thing went around in circles and it was finally the goes between napoleon's own representative and monroe that settled the deal. [inaudible] >> yes, sir. >> yeah, you menti

and that is in part, i think, the story of louisiana. and i think it's been true of some other states as well. it obviously takes a collaborative effort in the various states. it doesn't happen, obviously, with just one constituency pushing for reform, and it takes some leadership in the legislature of the kind that senator jackson furnished in louisiana. or was furnished by a well-known representative, senator alice in texas. [applause] >> i don't know if senator alice is in the audience, obvious he some of you, maybe that is senator alice clapping. [laughter] >> but i suspect if someone else from texas. and it also takes, if you look for example, at some jurisdictions that it had reform, it takes media focus. georgia legislation in 2003, which i declared a failure in my remarks earlier, would not come about at all, i suspect, if it hadn't been for the atlanta journal-constitution and the focus that was brought to bear. what happened with the las vegas sun journal, i think it is, in their exposÉ about the situation in nevada. and it al

fleming just said about the louisiana purchase, he's from louisiana. but what this new proposal that poth because ma has put forward is going to extend the louisiana purchase to every state. now the government is going to -- the governor is going to love thatch. the state legislature is going to love that. it's going to take some of the financial burden off them for health care costs that are skyrocketing because of the federal government. but what it's also going to do is put a heavy burden on all taxpayers in this country. the taxpayers are going to hate the louisiana purchase. and it's just a cost shifting, basically from a state level to federal level and it's, again, it's a federal takeover of the health care system. to get the states, as well as private insurance, out of the health care system. i appreciate dr. fleming bringing up the louisiana purchase. dr. boozman, i yield to you whatever time you may consume. mr. boozman: i agree and the problem, that sounds good in the sense of taking additional role by the federal government, paying for thes

he's from louisiana. he knows many people in louisiana doesn't have healthcare, and he knows what it's like to want healthcare and need healthcare. i mean, we do have a charity hospital in lafayette, and it's full of capacity. let's just look at the whole congress as a whole, because no matter how one of these elected officials vote, it affects the united states. the tea party, anyone who supported that tea party, one of our elected officials, don't need to be elected. and because the views is within politics, this is why the tea party is trying to build something. a lot of people's not looking at that. i watched the cpac yesterday, and i could not find a black member, anybody sitting in that audience that was black. it's about white power or black power, and yeah, they might have a few black speakers up there, but you didn't see anybody black in that audience. now, if anybody can prove me wrong, show it on c-span. host: we'll leave it there. yesterday the president was in nevada to support harry reid. th

in louisiana, katrina had so many devastating effects. and highlighted among those effects was the awful treatment of our citizens and the total dismantling of the criminal justice system if new orleans. but katrina also had some positive effects. katrina also have some positive of facts and what of those had to deal with our constituents realize saying that indigent dissent was not just something that happened to the criminals in the part of town that i didn't live then, but it broke down the barriers of them vs. us. the national spotlight, it prodded and legislators to realize that reform was something that had to be addressed and had to be addressed now. but it was much easier for legislators to make those choices because they have the constituents at home who somehow now realized that the devastating effects of floodwaters' did not just limit themselves to those that are indigent. that those waters washed away so many barriers and so many protections that the average citizen in held dear. the fundamental principles again were embraced

>> you know it's big storm, kelly, when it's largest than texas. >> yes. >> heavy rain moving into louisiana,ar kansas. moving toward maryland. we have tonight, tomorrow being tomorrow night to get anything done you need, to but this is through the day friday into saturday, nasty winter storm headed our way. again, though, you have through the early part of friday, no problem. and then saturday, staying messy around here. a cold, blustery day sunday, and it looks like yet another storm due in toward the early part of next week. this one will be big friday night. >> so this is definitely going to warrant a trip to the grocery store. >> beat the crowd, go tomorrow. >> i'm going tomorrow morning. >> that's it for us. thanks tore watching tonight. don't forget go good morning maryland tomorrow at 5 a.m. you can catch us any time on abc2news.com. have a great night. hey, there's canadian kirsten, the new girl. she's from a foreign country. [ slowly ] nice to meet you. [ canadian accent ] i'm so excited to be a california happy cow. ooh. anyhoo, i'm looking forward to getting to know ya. [ birds c

the louisiana purchase for $15 million -- >> i think i was just louisiana. but i-india got bigger with the whole territory. >> it was such an obvious benefit to the country that he had to do it even now he thought it was unconstitutional and so he's decided to keep quiet about it and he decided not to make his constitutional judgments known. but if the people were in support of the purchase as they were that that almost made it okay and made it legitimate even though he thought it was unconstitutional. >> he also refused to comply with a judicial subpoena, so again, independence from the court. i'm not going to comply. it was nixonian, but jeffersonian. >> a lot of his arguments reappeared during the clinton investigations, but we didn't know them. no one cited back to jefferson's attempt to disobeyed subpoenas from the supreme court justice of the united states at that time. >> we need to talk about the bribery pirates. >> is that you're going to say sally hemmings. >> now, the barbary pirates i've always found the piracy interesting and read about the days

flooding in texas and louisiana, especially along i-10, i-20 and i-40. and slick on i-5, from northern california up to washington. >> if you are flying today, expect airport delays in houston, new orleans, and dallas. on the east coast, boston, new york and philadelphia and seattle out west. >>> toyota's sales fell last month, after the company stopped selling eight models because of defective gas pedals. the automaker sold almost 15% fewer vehicles than a year ago. >> then, there's the surprising challenge to toyota's claim it fixed the pedal problem. >> reporter: hundreds of toyota owners have said the same thing. coming from one of america's most renowned computer geniuses, it got attention. steve was woz says the flor mats are not an issue. >> i think it's software that caused it. acan't cause it every time on every frip. but i'm sure it will happen again. >> reporter: wozniak says he can solve the problem by hitting the brakes. but when it happens, it's a surprise. wozniak said he could not get through to toyota or federal safety officials when he

why the people of louisiana couldn't get through to her? >> sean: i under stand did you have any concern that she as a u.s. senator, talking about the security of' elected official? >> like i've said in my statement, i could have used a different approach to this investigation. and you know, i think going forward i'm that try to be more thoughtful about how approach these things for sure. >> sean: you said on reflection i could have used a different approach particularly given the sensitives that people understandably have about the security of a federal building. in retrospect are you saying you wouldn't use this method in the same way the next time? >> i think, while i continue to do sort of undercover videos i have to be a little more careful, a little more thoughtful. i have to sort of investigative tools i use i have to think about it. >> sean: one of the big questions if you look at the reporting on this, people almost immediately referred to this as louisiana watergate. because you were going near phones. did you or anybody with you,

think of the louisiana purchase in the health care bill. what happened in nebraska during the health care bill. the end of the day republicans or democrats like to bring money home. there's not a money spare as you can see in these budgets. this budget is an increase of 35% of the deficit in one year. i know that one of the things the administration does is point back to the pref president to blame him. at some point they have to take responsibility. the budget they are proposing in here for 2012, 2013 and 24 between there is going to be no one -- and 24 teen there is going to be no one to blame but themselves. >> greta: you said the other guy left you a mess but you accepted the job and said you could fix it. >> president bush inherited a recession as well not as severe in any way but every president has to deal with something like this. >> greta: health care, dead or alive? >> dead. >> greta: why? >> i think president obama has said, in the state of the union speech we have a new senator in town from massachusetts the writing is on the wa

to her left is senator lydia jackson, who is a member of the louisiana state, louisiana senate and has been since 2005. senator jackson previously served a term as a representative in louisiana. and then to her left, nancy diehl has been and was a member of the wayne county prosecutor's office for 28 years. her last position there until she retired last year, 2009, was as trial chief. so please welcome our panel. thank you for being here. [applause] so most of us have either seen firsthand or read about what happens when there is incompetent counsel. we've witnessed it, we've read the stories, we've heard the stories about people like eddie joe lloyd, who served 17 years for a client that he didn't commit in michigan. or people like roberta miranda in nevada. i've been practicing that. mr. miranda was assigned a fresh out of law school attorney for a murder charge. after serving 14 years for the crime, he was exonerated and was successful in the lawsuit of achieving a 5 million-dollar verdict against clark county for wrongful conviction. but are the stories that we see and hear and rea

louisiana purchase for, i think it was just $15 million. >> host: i think that was just louisiana. i think it got a little big or. >> guest: it was an amazing benefit to the country that he had to do it even though he thought it was unconstitutional, and so he decided to keep quiet about it, and he decide canned not to make his constitutional objections known but that if the people were in support of the purchase, as they were, that that almost made it okay, that made it legitimate even though he thought it was unconstitutional. >> host: he also refused to comply with the judicial subpoena. so, again, independence from the court. i'm not going to comply. i mean, it was nixonian but jeffersonian. >> guest: in fact, a lot of his arguments reappear during the clinton investigations, but we didn't know them. no one cited back to jefferson's attempt to disobey subpoenas from the supreme court chief justice at the time. >> host: we can't believe without talking about the barbary pirates because it's all so pertinent. >> guest: oh, god, i thought you were going to say sally hemings. >> ho

and years after the supreme court had ruled that segregated schools were unconstitutional, louisiana was finally forced under a federal court order to implement a desegregation plan for the new orleans public schools. how frightened but how brave was a 6-year-old girl who took that test and qualified to become one of the first official african-american students to attend this all-white school. and although she was only 6 years old, mr. speaker, and the lone black student at the school, she never missed a day. attended each and every day. ruby, a jewel, bridges, bridging a cultural gap. i'm so honored to support this resolution honoring ruby bridges. and with that i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from wisconsin. mr. petri: mr. speaker, i'm delighted to yield such time as he may consume to my colleague, the representative from new orleans, louisiana, joseph cao. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. cao: thank you very much. mr. speaker, i rise today to request my colleagues to join me in supporting house resolution 901. in

so now this disaster relief i'm giving to louisiana, the $300 million, every state will get that. the medicare help i was giving to nebraska, every state is eligible for that. >> it violates economics101. it adds to the problem of the future and mort gauges our future so the president can -- it mortgages our future so the president can win votes today. megyn: a fox news alert. we are getting word from capitol hill. congress just wrapped up its questioning of transportation secretary ray lahood. the committee taking a quick break, and in moments the president of toyota will face the heat. we'll bring you the highlights of those remarks as they happen. the host of "pardon the interruption." he might want to say pardon me to a colleague. espn suspended tony kornheiser fear someoff color remarks he made about hannah storm. but did he cross a legal line? >> she has on a tight shirt so she looks like she has sausage casing wrapped around her upper body. tragic. wow. and not just any brand...dannon. yay! introducing dannon dollar packs. creamy, tasty yogurt with calcium and vitamin d pri

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i am proud to represent the louisiana second district. they write, when the city was full of water the saints were with us. when the city was full of despair the saints were there to encourage us. when the streets were passable once again the saints were walking around the city looking to help. when the future looked cloudy, the saints kept cheering us on and we began to realize that cheering for the saints was in fact cheering for our shared future. the saints have become a symbol of a city where pulling together can be a celebration every day. mr. speaker, new or lienians are reminded of the plight of the people of haiti. but for this weekend inspired by mr. howser and so many like him we will cheer on our boys this sunday with the president. who dat? the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman rise? mr. inslee: to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman from washington is recognized. mr. inslee: mr. speaker, america is in a great race with china to see who will be pre

the louisiana purchase is still in it, as i understand. mr. kingston: there is special interests for louisiana, connecticut and michigan and those are the deals we know about because those were more visible but you can imagine all the other stuff in there, hospital wings that will be built. mr. akin: hospitals -- my understanding is the hospital is in connecticut. medicaid dollars, vermont, massachusetts, new jersey, drug companies, extra cash for union health care plans. i have a list of some of these. montana coal miners, florida seniors don't have to pay ta medicare advantage. medicare is being cut, but in florida, not cut there. if you are a union guy, it's not. and then there's north dakota medicare payments. hawaii hospitals are exempt from the cuts. and longshoremen, but there are a bunch of these special deals in the program. mr. kingston: special interest groups have been all over the health care bill. mr. akin: exactly. that's the situation. and i guess the other thing is, i think the american public is worried about this job thing.

the storm and the footprint of the storm there is a lot of moisture coming into this storm through louisiana, alabama, the deep south, coming up into the tennessee valley and yes, it is rapping poo the colder air for the middle central plains and up into the northern plains but look the rain has already come up into parts of the carolinas, the higher elevations for western north carolina already beginning to see some snow. so a couple of things here, the storm is already very organized and it may just be trying to get here a little bit earlier so we are kind of going with that same scenario that it begins to move into parts of the area sometime tomorrow morning. the winter storm warning has been issued for everybody. this hasn't changed from yesterday. we are still expecting a lot of snow from this. runs through the day on saturday and into saturday evening. sue is outside and downstairs -- or upstairs and outside to give us an idea of what we know so far and what everybody really wants to know, just about how much snow we think we are going to get out of this, sue. >> reporter: we will show

we got a cornhusk your kick back, the louisiana purchase -- cornhusker kickback, the louisiana purchase. they handed out waivers to lobbyists and left and right. more than 40 lobbyists work at the top levels of this administration. most members of congress do not get to read the bills before they have to vote on it, but less to pledged that a bill would not be signed into law until we have a five days to read it online. it is easy to understand why americans are shaking their heads when washington has broken the trust with the people that these politicians are to be serving. we are drowning in national debt. many of us had had enough. -- have had enough. [applause] >> now, based on principles in all of this, it is easy to understand, it really is. the seat would just love for us to believe this is way over our heads. somebody in tennessee, and alaska, she will never understand what we're talking about here in washington, d.c. when our families, small businesses --we start running our finances into the red, what do we do? we cut back and tighten our belts. we teach our children to live w

for example, the louisiana purchase. >> host: we're going to get to that in a minute. but explain that prerogative. >> guest: jefferson thinks that there's not a power in the constitution, the president still has this extraconstitutional power to do something in the best interest of the country, to save the safety of the people and what's the check? ps for popular support after he's done it. >> host: the people will okay it. he became a party leader. he found a patronage, you figure that one out. but also the party power was interesting when he came to office. he used the power and who cannot up with carry out the loss. >> guest: jack, it's interesting. he's a guy who do not believe that the supreme court of the last word on the constitution. he thought he could use his executive powers. >> host: sounds radical today. >> guest: jack, sounds radical today. he thought the alien sedition act were unconstitutional because they restricted the free speech of critics of the government. he just been one of them before he was elected, critic of the government. when he came to o

, seniors in -- an exemption for louisiana, seniors in florida. the cadillac exemption started out as a carve out for union members which is scandalous why should a union member be exempt and his next door that neighbor have to pay it this is worse now we are abolishing it until 2018 you and i know no congress going to enact it eight years from now if a congress today is not going to enact it. it is not going to happen it is a way to purchase one, two or three votes in the senate and house and that's corrupt. this is longer about reforming in the name of the nation it is about getting a win for the sake of a win. >> greta: that may be unconscionable. >> uncon -- unconscionable but conscience isn't a big item here in washington so i'm not surprised this is going on. >> greta: pleasure. stunning new information about that harvard-trained professor accused of murdering three colleagues at the university of alabama. february 12th, amy bishop allegedly opened fire killing three and wounding three. we learned about bishop's dark past in 1986 bishop shot

let's look at the coverage with the storm itself over southwestern louisiana. look at all of the rain is producing. it will track east north east, intensify rapidly and that will be our small maker. in advance of that reality, the weather service has issued a winter storm warnings in effect from 10:00 until 10 saturday night. we expect this note to move into the area around noon. it will get steadier and heavier as a overspread the area. heavy snow tomorrow night with increasing wind and visibility reduced. the snow will fall at a rate of 2 inches an hour and will pile up. weare thinking 16-24 inches announced in the areas indicated. but notice the lower part of the screen. snow and sleet mixed. where the fleet mix then, that will knock down the polls, but we are not sure how far it will go or how much sleep will work in. we'll get a better feel once the storm's track is determined trade it may surprise you have a lot more information share but we will wait a few minutes to do that. >> thank you. while the impending storm is prompting school districts to make t

akin: louisiana purchase? mr. hoekstra: louisiana purchase. and we have the deal for nebraska that says even though you as a state, you are pretty healthy, you are only at 5% unemployment but you don't have to pick up the unfunded mandate that the other 49 states are going to get. the other 49 states, including the state of michigan are going to pay for your unfunded mandate because i need your vote. so you get your deal. mr. akin: what do you think the public thinks about that kind of thing? mr. hoekstra: we know what they think because we saw it a couple of weeks ago in massachusetts where they said this is absolutely wrong and we're going to stop it. and effectively what the people of massachusetts did on that momentous tuesday night, they had the opportunity to change history because after watching this house and this senate for 12 months and this administration, they said, no more. they effectively recalled their democrat senator and replaced it with someone who they believed would listen more closely to their demands and their desires an

as louisiana rivers and wetlands, the deltas and the ivans. we chose danger on her trail with our greenhouse gases, are man-made river challenge and are chopped up wetlands at our own peril. on august 29, 2005, nature charge. out of the gulf of mexico and louisiana and mississippi an area roughly the size of england where mincemeat. now i doubt there are many scientists who would say that katrina or rita, wilma or even ike were caused by global climate change. i think there were very few who'd say that they were not exacerbate and fueled by abnormally high surface temperatures. detainable from a category one hurricane to a category five in just a few days. wilma did in just one day. so why would the gulf of mexico abnormally warm? the precautionary principle says we must not assume it was an accident that we must ask what is going on. there are very few scientists who would not agree that hurricanes and floods, storms and droughts will become more frequent and more fears, as the atmosphere and oceans with their three-year lag our warmer still

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lineman from indiana and louisiana are on their way over. >> we certainly believe that, if we see power outages in excess of 100,000 customers, it will be several days before we can get everybody back >> bge adds that she should never assume that they know that their power is out. call 1-877-778-2222 to report to the outage. >> police say they were approaching a group of men on the 3700 block of oakman avenue last night when one of them opened fire an officer fired back, shooting and killing one of the men. >> this is the kind of heroic action that the men and women of this department are willing to do to take bad guys were put bad guys in jail that have these guns in the streets of our city. >> the 20-sheet -- the 28-year- old police officer is under iraq war veteran. we will have an extended hour- long version of the news at 6:00 p.m. we invite you to stay tuned for our special snow patrol coverage. >> with that in mind, we want to take a live look outside. the snow is still coming down. our lives now patrol team will continue right after this. some people don't notice the difference

. >> now the day of the game, prices might go back up because rumor has it that everyone in louisiana is going to be driving to south florida so i wouldn't wait until last second. >> reporter: in another era, ticket brokers had another name: scalpers. but, bit by bit, the state laws that made scalping illegal, are off the books. florida dumped its anti-scalping law in 2008, and today 38 out of the 50 states allow some form of ticket re-selling. you can thank the internet for that. the advent of stubhub, ticketmaster exchange, and sites like lipman's let anyone join the ranks of ticket resellers. and buyers can easily see exactly what the prices are at any given moment. the marketplace for super bowl tickets has also changed over the years. in the '90s, prices were set primarily by corporations, buying blocks of tickets for executives and clients. but with the recession, veteran brokers like lipman say the fans now set prices. which can lead to some wild volatility. case in point, last year's super bowl, pittsburgh versus arizona. >> a lot of ticket brokers would dump their inventory,

louisiana native said he got log jammed was arrested. when asked how much he was fined, jamison smiled and said they got me. news tonight, interview former broncos to be their strength and conditioning coach. roman has four super bowl rings, but is an admitted steroid user who is linked with the balco investigation. as clinton portis continues to recover. the injury has not affected his speech. in particular, his pension for using that speech to controversy. the runningback was at the super bowl over the weekend, guesting on the pregame show, and in doing so, had some not so flattering things to say about lavar airington, that airington was jealous of paraties portis and the money he made. >> all of a sudden, lavar felt it was competition and he loved it. he felt like he wasn't the main money guy. i think it was the wrong attitude. >> well, the thing is, lavar has a radio show here in dc these days and when you pick a fight with a man who has a microphone, be prepared to get hit back, when lavar did yesterday, railing against portis, inc

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online ticket sales, the majority is being bought by people in louisiana, as opposed to indiana. here's j.w. stewart of espn news. >> good morning. i'm j.w. stewart with this espn news update. rebron and the cavs visit the heat. first quarter, heat throw the ball away. j.j. hickson makes them pay. throwing down on d. wade. hickson with 12. wade would get a measure of revenge here in the first. tagging and hitting. he had 24 points in the game. only six in the second half. second quarter, shaq comes up with the steal. gives it to danny greene. up top to lebron. he had 36. and the caves have won fenn in a row. >>> alexander ovechkin and the caps have won 11 in a row. meeting up with the rangers. 15 seconds left in the second, ovechkin. with one hand, he beats henrik lundqvist. worth another look. going five-hole on michal rozsival. that's ovechkin's second goal of the game. third period, 5-5 game. caps on a powerplay. poti's shot and save. niklas backstrom will score off the rebound. backstrom, part of a five-point night. and the caps have won 12 in a row. >>> the ottawa senators o

." >> remember william jefferson, the crooked louisiana congressmen who stashed thousands of dollars in his freezer, claiming he was not taking bribes? he's in prison now. and i'm starting to miss him. in fact, i'm starting to miss the really old days, those maligned boss tweed cigar-smoke days when politicians took bribes and made shady deals in twisted alleys. how can i possibly get nostalgic about graft? because it was cheaper than the way congress runs itself today. back then, a legislator would shove a $5,000 bribe into his own pocket to keep for himself. that was cheap. today we're bankrupted by politicians trying to bribe us with our own money. nowadays, our politicians look more honest, jefferson aside, but they seem less responsible. congressmen are promising trillions of dollars in programs that the american taxpayer cannot afford. the budget deficit has hit 11% of g.d.p. that's almost twice the level it hit in the 1980s, when democrats lambasted president reagan for cutting taxes. the disgraced administration of warren g. harding actually slashed the national debt. our deb

that's what's left over from the louisiana purchase, this big, open public domain is just systematically being ripped apart. so pinchot and he over the course of the next seven years set aside an area almost, not quite, but almost the size of france. its national parks, national forests, national wildlife refuges that they do most of it by executive order. the congress stops and eventually near the end. just before they stop them, roosevelt and pinchot set aside another 16 million acres. they have these ranges bring in the maps. roosevelt describes if you put in the upper flathead valley? i remember being up there once in seeing this magnificent herd of elk. let's include. they are drawing the boundaries all over the west and creating -- these of why these original force rangers were called our ranges that they were in on creation. they are drawing the boundaries that they were out of jail and given these huge magnificent forest for them to take over. so they create these national force. but there is pushback that there is tons of pushback. women become this is the end of the gilded age.

for what purpose does the gentleman from louisiana rise? >> i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman is recognized. mr. fleming: mr. speaker, the same team that brought america the job killing, tax hiking, cap and tax legislation appear to be at it again. just last week representatives waxman and markey began committee action aimed towards giving e.p.a. unprecedented power to enact oppressive regulations on hydraulic factoring, the technology that helps us reach natural gas which has been proven safe for 60 years. this would have a far-reaching energy impact on consumers alike particularly in formations such as the hainsville shale in my district which depends on hydraulic fracturing. in 2008 production pumped $4.5 billion invf louisiana's econom and created over 32,000 jobs. adding additional layers of regulations to hydraulic fracturing would not only result in sharp increases in costs to small and independent producers, it would dramatically decrease output and

host: massachusetts, republican line, with the doctor and congressman bill cassidy from louisiana. caller: good morning. good morning, steve. i want to know what this year at 10:00 is supposed beyond -- what are they fighting over? do you know? guest: put simply, 50% of our national economy is devoted towards health care. there are true needs. i am a physician working with the uninsured for 20 years there clearly is a need for reform. to many of my patients have medical needs not addressed. but there are philosophical differences in the direction we should go. but the most conceptually, the bill's advance by the -- bills advanced by the administration and the democratic house and senate would increase the size of government and introduce more involvement of the government into your health care decisions. republicans have a veered away from that and said that no, a decision made about a person's health should be made in the exam room, and a discussion between a patient and her physician as opposed to a bureaucrat in washington, d.c. we all agree that there needs to be reformed. what

it's in the form of heavy rain that's developing across texas, especially into louisiana and now moving into alabama and beginning to take shape across parts of georgia. this is all stretching up towards the carolinas where temperatures are certainly cold and cold enough for snow, at least north of virginia. how far north does this moisture get? we'll talk more about that in a second. know this, the rains over the next 48 hours are going to be pretty potent from new orleans up through columbia, south carolina, and in through charlotte as well. maybe two or three inches of rainfall. as we get to tomorrow, though, high temperatures forecast for d.c. and atlanta are in the mid-30s and that is cold enough for snow. so the national weather service has upped their winter storm watch in the baltimore-d.c. area to a winter storm warning. 10 to 20 inches is what we were going for earlier in the day. the national weather service has upped that in their warning language to forecast 16 to 24 inches of snow. it was just the third week of december of this past year where we saw similar amounts. that

robert came to our program from louisiana state university. he was a junior. and he went back to school and edited the school paper and then for a while he thought about getting a masters in business administration. but "the washington post" saved him from the fate of personal wealth by recruiting him as a reporter for the "post" and now he labors under the slave wages of journalism. what's left of journalism. thank goodness "the washington post" or there might be more problems right here in washington, d.c., with journalism. i not only am pleased to introduce robert and jon jeter here but i'm now jealous because i haven't written a book. and i'm pleased that he has done so. the only thing i ask is i get to ask the first question after they make their presentations. and by the way, with the exception of a few exceptions i will represent all white people here. i know that you're always -- what do black people think about this. you can ask me what white people think about this. thank you. [applause] >> good evening. first of all, jon and i wrote this book -- we'

. >> host: last call, louisiana. this is bobby on the republican line. good morning to you. ical kind of fellow. is it necessary to achieve all the reforms we talking about, to create an entirely new branch of the federal government to compensate for this? guest: it i don't have the easy answer to that question. there is a bunch of the functions we have to have agreed although i am someone who would have liked to have seen a government insurance option as a backstop around the country, and the plan does not have that. the private insurance plans that would be offered -- even there, a >> even resorting to a world where it is private insurance, we have to have a structure called the insurance exchange that can make it so you have a panel of options available to you. if you have no insurance or access through an employer, it feels that in order to have reform, there are new rules for government, of rules to get rid of pre-existing exclusions and enforcement, and then we have a substantial number of programs trying to improve our health care statistics. we don't have time the in

people focus on louisiana, but they don't always remember that the southern part of mississippi was just ripped apart. three days after the storm haley barbour and his associates were on the phone to companies in asia assuring them that they would clean up the situation. now they use that as a selling point to other foreign companies to want to invest. so i think they would say that all of the money they have spent, even on the toyota plan that has not opened yet has been worth it for what it has done for the image of mississippi. >> right. we have seen a number of cases where the cost per job, if you will, we talked about one at 147,000. other ones have been as high as 300,000. $300,000 per job created. is it enough passage of time for us to relieve the back on that and say, that was a at was a god investment? >> there are a couple of good examples where it was a good investment. one is ohio. governor rhodes went to japan. there were no promises made, but essentially when honda was ready to build in the united states they went to ohio and said we would like to put a motorcycle plant her

well, a louisiana man has the answer. a strap on chas tau -- chastity belt for dogs. it has a longing system and a meshable wash pad for the bit ch in your life. the company slogan, when the heat is on, lock it up and stop it which also happens to be my motto in the sauna. we went to a ref from the canine community for reaction. >> like we an -- can understand him. go home! how do they get into our country? anthony, best idea or worst idea ever? >> they were using them on the kardashians and it was nice. but it is a silly idea. it looks silly. why 8 buckles on this thing. that poor fido will be like me with my first bra. >> you don't really need -- >> that is like doggie bondage. >> i think the dog had a better chance of flying a plane. >> isn't this more humane than the other option? >> i talked to mcgruff the time dog and he thinks it will take a bite out of the rate. they don't do preliminary research. >> i find any dog that wears a trench coat -- i find them trustworthy. >> i don't want to speak out of turn, but there is reason he said that. >> mcgruff does not ca

residents of the louisiana community say the plants here are making them sick. they are sounding the alarm to anybody that would listen. we put up signs around town asking them if they wanted to talk about it, and they did. >> reporter: how many people had themselves or a family member affected in some way through illness or something else because of what they believe to be chemical plants? >> i had one kidney removed. >> i go to die go have a hysterectomy like most women there. >> reporter: you did? >> yes. >> reporter: you did, too? >> yes. >> reporter: i could not believe what i was hearing. >> they have no ill effects on the community. >> reporter: it was not until 1988 where they tested the blood of 28 residents, and what they found were levels of known car sen gins. >> it's not being stored not only in their fat, but also in their pancrease, and in their liver, and you will see die beteas and liver cancer, and in their kidneys and brains. so are there going to be adverse health affects? yes. >> reporter: but even after the 1988 study, there was no federal

when it comes to colombia, they have gross domestic product -- product about the state of louisiana. we are already getting their coffee and their drugs. that is all they have to offer. and to bring -- all of this to allowed into this country all of this low-skilled labor. i don't know if they are not try to soften us up so we will all be groveling for low-wage jobs. host: your concern, surely, is the straight agreement facilitate growth in low-skilled labor. caller: obviously. we have millions of people who are educated and trying to get jobs and they can't. all of the illegals, they are taking the jobs that are available there -- available. i can understand that because the people giving them jobs, that is all they can afford. host: taking your calls about whether u.s. trade agreements boost jobs. president obama reconvening a meeting on health care. the white house plans to televise the health care meeting. the president making these comments in an interview with cbs news. >> what i have been doing this consulting with the leaders in the house, leaders in the senate, from the demo

visalia, louisiana. caller: your last caller made a valid point about being with gays in the military. i have family members who were in different branches of the military. i had friends -- not family members -- who were gay and they were kicked out for it. there is no reason for this prejudice. prejudice in this country is ridiculous. we need to stop worrying about whether or not he or she likes another he or she. we need to wake up and start being a regular people, encouraging each other. get over it. we got over having blacks, women in the military. why not gays? they do everything we do. just because someone is gay does not mean that they are weird, alien, cannot do things. host: racial and women integration did not happen over -- overnight. why is there a push right now to get this done so quickly? guest: for one thing, there is a big difference between them. taking minorities into the military, it was easy to see where they were. gays and lesbians do not look any different, so it is difficult to se

it was a hodgepodge of louisiana purchases and nebraska compromises. what with surprises me, and we had the report from savannah guthrie earlier this morning, it seems that the jobs bill, now, may be the same thing where democrats went out and said, we're going to do a jobs bill. well, what's in it? we're not really sure. here are our talking points. >> i think there's that little sense of, we're going to tell you you want to hear first and we'll tell you what you need second. i think the president is up it a little bit. and it's not a bad thing. we talked about it's a little bit of a wake-up call. and i think that's a good thing. but i do wish that, and this goes back to what we talked about the state of the union message, part of being a great leader is being a great communicator. and that's what the president has going for him. and i got a shot of that at the state of the union. i know, mika, you felt like it was just another big speech. but that's a part of it, telling people exactly what you're going to do and how you're going to do that and getti

and louisiana blue crab meat. the best crab meat in the world. we're going to stir that up a little bit. put that in our casserole. we're going to top that off with a little buttered bread crumbs. >> just a little something-something. >> we're going to finish it in the oven, 350 degrees for half an hour. >> that's a good start. we should tell everybody. you can get the remember byes an ouwebsite at abcnews.com. what do you have here? >> green onion and shrimp dip. a little mayonnaise. >> how did you say that? >> gulf shrimp. seasoned with chef emeril's essence. a little green onion celery. lemon juice. lemon zest. little kosher salts. white pepper, cayenne. >> what's this? >> worcestershire sauce. that's it. >> that's easy. >> it is. >> good eating like this. what do you have here? >> i have a kicked-up saints are going to bin spinach and artichoke dip here. base of milk. cream cheese. >> more cheese? >> jack cheese. >> parmesan cheese. and artichokes to be healthy. and you have to have some bacon. stir this up. bake it up for 10 to 15 minutes. >