ted olson who successfully argued for george bush and mr. boise. they are working together in the fight for same sex marriage. once again, senior political analyst, gloria borger. >> we now need to resolve this election. >> reporter: it was the historic case that decided the presidency and divided the nation. olson and boise were the ones on the supreme court battling it out. that was then. this is now. on the streets of new york, they're talking anything but the law. >> it's called crazy heart. jeff bridges. >> i know. i haven't seen that. i want to see that though and "avatar." >> they've come a long way. >> let me play a little game with you. great lawyer. >> ted. >> david. >> that's too easy. >> reporter: the adversaries are good friends. when we asked to meet with them, they suggested a personal spot, david boise's apartment in new york city. >> if anybody had said to me nine years ago that i would be interviewing the two men who fought each other tooth and nail in bush versus gore on the same side of a constitutional fight, i would have said

olson: yes, sir. mr. bishop: we talk a lot about the industrial base, a term not a lot of people understand. as i define the industrial base, i want to say that the kinds of people, the kinds of jobs that put a man on a rocket and shoot him to the moon are the same kinds of people and the same kinds of jobs that build our missile defense against those who wish to attack this country. that is our industrial base. last year this country engaged in some significant, and i think unwise, decreases in our military missile defense system and it had the effect of putting our industrial base in disarray. however, if now nasa goes through with this, i think unwise and nay eve approach of canceling constellation, it's going to destroy that industrial base which means you will no longer -- not only will you not have the ability of putting man in space quickly with a program that works, if indeed our projections of the threat of countries like north korea and iran are underestimated, we will have no capacity to ramp u

olson: you made some great points. $51 million to put our astronauts on the soyuz. that contract has been signed through 2013 and highly unlikely that with the intenth con cancellation of the constellation program. probably will be 2015, somewhere in that window. the russians, you know, they got it down. and you know, it was 20 million last year. now that we're in the throws of the constellation having this gap, it is up to $50 billion and who says what it is going to be after the contract expires. we have ourselves in a big pickle and we need to stick with the program of record. and madam speaker, i like to thank my colleagues who have joined me here tonight and i saw my colleague from houston here. it's just stunning that this decision has been made and again the manner in which it was made. no one at nasa, no one at the center, not the director of the johnson space center, he was not consulted and had no input in this decision. across the center, again, congress, no one had any inclination of what was going to happen and saw that the constellation program had bee

olson, for five minutes. mr. olson: madam speaker, i ask to address the house for five minutes and unanimous consent to revise and extend. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. olson: madam speaker, i don't know have a lot to say what happened last night. i'll let the numbers speak for themselves. for over $500 billion in medicare cuts for seniors. over $500 billion in new taxes for small businesses. in my home state of texas over $24 billion in unfunded medicaid mandates. this is not the health care reform that the american people want. they want us to work together and come together in a bipartisan manner to have real solutions for their problems. we want every american to have access to quality, affordable health care. and unfortunately the majority didn't want to deal with us. but this isn't over. they got to get passed through the senate, there are going to be multiple lawsuits across the country, and they are going to have to answer to the american people in november of this year. i found it very

admiral olson, we catch somebody in yemen, where do we send them? >> sir, that's a question on so many levels we would have to go into a closed session. >> fair enough. last question, general petraeus. hugh indicated in the past and i think very reluctantly, that gitmo, the jail, is counterproductive to the war effort and if possible, should be closed. could you tell me why you believe that? >> it rightly or wrongly and probably wrongly, because i think that that facility, and many of you have have developsisted it, actually has conducted in an appropriate manner, but at the very least, it has a symbol attached to it, that is one that is used in our area of responsibility, against us. it in some cases is even lumped in to abu ghraib. completely different case, there's no reason to do it, but again, it has become april conic in certain -- iconic in certain respects. >> and one last very simple question. isn't it true that some of hour heals renews to turn prisoners over to us, if they believe they could work their way to gitmo? >> sir, i do not know

chairman, welcome to admiral olson and general petraeus. and thank you, very much, for your leadership and distinguished service to our country and also thanks to the men and women that you lead and also their families for the support that they give our troops. we are really grateful. general petraeus, afghan forces are taking an important part in operations. many times lead and even in making up the bulk of forces involved. again soldiers and police force, must not only expand greatly in a short amount of time, but, they must be trained to a higher standard in order to -- for them to gain the trust and confidence of the people. i believe well trained and properly sized afghanistan national army and police forces are a prerequisite to america leaving afghanistan. my question to you, general, what are the most difficult obstacles to successfully building the afghan national army and police forces and how are we coping with these obstacles? >> senator, you are exactly right. this is a critical element, component of the overall strategy. among

admiral olson and general petraeus, as other members of the committee have said, i thank you for your service to our country and for your testimony today. you know, aim proud north carolina is part of the training center of fort bragg and as you know, all special joint operations combat are trained to obtain the skills they need on the battlefield. several months ago i had the opportunity to visit this facility and i witnessed the great training that has taken place there. i understand combat medics need to have the capability to perform complicated procedures often in the dark, in the middle of the night and under hostile live fire conditions in remote locations. i also understand that the dod sees tremendous value in live tissue training. especially since they are faced of the task of taking these young men and women with no prior medical schooling and transforming them into combat trauma specialists in 26 weeks. while simulators may hold promise according to the office of the secretary of defense, simulators currently lack the realism and the ability to

olson, for 60 minutes. mr. olson: madam speaker, tonight my colleagues and i would like to share with you, the american people, our deep concern with the effects of the president's budget on nasa. by overwhelming -- my overwhelming concern with the decision to cancel the constellation program, there are several reasons why this is bad for america which my colleagues and i will go into more detail over the next hour. madam speaker, constellation was and is the right path forward to maintain america's leadership in space. just this past week, the constellation program successfully completed its preliminary design review. this is a milestone toward future development. this is a major milestone that should be noted and applauded by all of us. in addition to the successful test launch of the aries 1x rocket back in september. mr. speaker, i'm going to talk about a couple of issues tonight. national priority. national security. and how important nasa and human space flight is for that. inspiration for our youth and o

scott olson on the mound fortunates, looking good a strikeout here, one of four in five innings of work, gave up just one earned run, trying to become the nats' fifth starter, making a case for that this afternoon. bottom of the first now, the all-star, ryan zimmer, gets this one, drives one to the opposite field, a throw-run jack for zimmermann. nasa up like that zimmermann, four rbis in the ball game. bottom two where we go, desmond at the plate, having a real good spring, looking good here, a man on second, takes the time and chops one up the middle. that going to be an infield hit. 9-3678 they only have five more spring games before opening day april 5th. >>> golf now, last year's arnold palmer invitational was pretty special. you remember, tiger woods playing in his third tournament after knee surgery. on the dark, final hole, first event of the season, you remember the first pump, right? >> long time ago. >> arnold palmer invitational different without tiger. the final round was postponed because of rain. mr. arnold palmer checking out the action in the golf cart there the par 5,

scott olson got roughed up to the tune of 12 hits, six runs, four innings as the nats fall 6-2. gilbert arenas is charming and has a smile that lights up china town and he maybe thought that and his status would be enough to keep him out of jail. but that now appears doubtful. in a scathing 61-page sentencing recommendation to the judge, federal prosecutors today recommended three months of jail time for the wizards star stemming from his locker room gun incident. gilbert's inconsistent testimony and his lack of contrition since the events occurred, the u.s. attorney writing that arenas has shown little genuine remorse for anything other than how the incident may affect his career. if any other individuals without fame, power and wealth of this defendant brought four firearms into the district, the government would seek their incarceration and the court would almost certainly give it. wizards hosting charlotte tonight. vazquez with some time on his hands these day taking it all in. wiz down three. that is cold blooded, folks. ties the game. sends it to overtime in which the wiza

former "baltimore sun" white house correspondent lynne olson discusses her book, "citizens of london." [inaudible conversations]

. >> matthew olson. one which you revisit munich as to whether it was a lot of compromise. at all your logic clearly but it seems to mean that they paid the price of the compromise. wasn't invited to participate in negotiating a compromise which would seem to me would indicate a rottenness. >> that's very true and most of the compromise and extent of this, almost most cases like in czechoslovakia. they even came to munich and weren't allowed to participate or even present their case so at the compromise here was definitely on the expense of this party and that i think almost the usual case. but there are cases, of course, of compromises which are dealing only with two parts. i don't know if that is the answer to your question and war and missed something. >> please identify yourself. >> mike, when you say we should can you identify the we? and how you go about accomplishing and that happy state? >> the way you do, we the people of. we the human beings who care about morality. we the human beings who care about decent behavior. it is that we. who am i to speak of anyone? i c

lynne olson and i have not only learned to make our sources lives miserable right here at the university of arizona, journalism department now school, but we also joined the noble tried of animals reporters for the associated press as a former professor of your. lynne quickly joined ap's hot off squad new york and then worked in the moscow bureau during the much miss medieval in place. she worked at the "baltimore sun" which has now been set. [laughter] 1981 she went straight to be a free lancer and unlike most freelancers, she made a great life out of it. and the secret is, among other things, her reporters ear further rightwards. i'm going to read a couple of points from the end that will explain the title of the book. .. >> >> take a subject we did not know we were interested in and keep us riveted. so tell us about this book at 140 characters? [laughter] >> i got a question. you focused on edward murrow. perhaps the most crucial. succeeded joe kennedy. what do you think the world would look like today if that little pack of americans in london had managed to convince people back home

ted olson and david boise who battled each other now on the same side. we're going to tell you about the controversial issue that has brought them together. that coming up, john. >> looking forward to it. thanks so much. >>> we have a lot of beat reporters in town. they cover the white house, congress. we consider pete dominic our off beat reporter. >> thank you very much, john king. >> you are most welcome. >> the most obvious question is what's next. we asked the following to the people on the street. >> what do you think the most important issue should be right now? >> it's so important people have jobs. it makes them feel like they're somebody. >> if you don't have a job, you feel insecure, you feel like you're not doing -- like me basically. >> i guess creating jobs would be the most important thing. >> you look like you have a job. >> yes, i do. >> can you give me a job? everybody today has been saying jobs. i think for you, probably hair care would be something i'm not concerned with. >> no, i would stick with the health care. >> you're very vague

olson sees momentum move in his direction. >> we have a shot to have independents crack open the doors and start forcing some real change. >> reporter: newly independent nancy coridini agrees. >> i think it's going go to snowball. it's not going to stop. >> reporter: casey wian, cnn, santa barbara, california. >>> one final note. in 2008 independents were not allowed to vote in 18 presidential primaries. that is flat-out wrong. their tax money was plenty good enough to help pay for elections. this is called taxation without representation. a few years back you may recall in boston the colonists expressed their disapproval. >>> one thing i do in the situation room on cnn is read e-mails from viewers. angela writes, what's happened to our country? where lies and cover-ups seem the norm. whatever happen to honesty, good morals, respectability and good values? why did putting yourself first to make a big profit at the benefit of cheating others become the norm? the system's not broken but the people running it are. we need to limit how long politicians serve. nathan, what truly seems broke

and i did it because our corporate attorney, bill olson, said, "you don't have to ask the family for permission, but it's a good idea." so i went up and met with him. he was in the luce foundation offices in manhattan. and he was a nice fellow, quite gruff, and he heard me out. and he said, "well, i don't agree with what you're doing, but she'd like it." so, i could use the name. >> why didn't he agree with what you were doing? >> because he was something of a rino, to put it kindly. >> and that is - what's that mean? >> a republican in name only. he really was not conservative on most issues. he didn't really get this notion that, you know, women's groups - the so-called women's groups - don't represent most women in america. they certainly don't represent the kind of women that we work with at the clare boothe luce policy institute. but he had enough of a sense of what mrs. luce would have thought to say, you may use her name, even though i don't agree with a lot of your policy positions. >> who was she? >> she was a remarkable woman who was way, way, way ahead of her time. died in

eastern and features former "baltimore sun" white house correspondent lynn olson discussing her book world war ii citizens of london. [inaudible conversations] >>> book editors discuss the future of publishing including digital books. the panelists include richard eoin nash of soft skull books and colin robinson publisher of verso books and the new press. the mevel house of brooklyn hosts this 90 minute even to. >> good evening. i'm dennis johnson, the co publisher of millhouse and would like to welcome you here for the third event in our publishing in the age of blah, blah, blah series that talks about different aspects of change in what is obviously have a historic moment in the history of book publishing. the conversation so far was being controlled by conglomerate types and device makers and retailers and gadget heads but precious few card makers and political muckrakers, the kind of people we like here. so this series of talks from an independent perspective. in fact, let me update you. next week we are doing another in the series that was supposed to happen last week but snowma

. >> admiral olson, general petraeus, since you mentioned the culture, i believe that we must draw upon foreign language capabilities. there seems to be an emphasis in the department of defense to improve those capabilities so that we can better perform counterinsurgency and stability operations. admiral, general, what are your impressions regarding the efforts to develop service members' cultural knowledge skills to better develop traditional and non-traditional war fighting activities? >> i applaud the efforts of the department's services to increase language skills in regional expertise. i think that they are progressing in that regard. they are demonstrating a much better sense of projecting a relatively shallow level of regional skills across a broad force. we are still challenged to develop true expertise and native-born regional skills, if you will. but discussions are taking place. i think that the latest budget submission highlights those requirements. >> i also agree with the need, not just language, but cultural awareness of appreciation as well. a number of initiatives have

my question is, admiral olson, can you provide your view on the educational needs of our special forces and how public and private universities can assist? and are you interested in creating a fellowship in counterterrorism and public policy for members of the u.s. special operations community? >> in what you've highlighted it's really a good example of how the military and the academic areas are working together. the support -- the kind of relationship that we've developed enables us to in areas where we simply don't have the capacity within the military forces to perform that kind of training, that kind of education. certainly we would support an effort to create similar kinds of fellowships for specialized kind of education as you described. >> you know, in that area around fort bragg area, the unc system has 16 public universities with fayetteville state, nc state, chapel hill all within a very close and then we have some excellent private universities, too, such as duke university and wake forest that does excellent work, too. so i think this mou will go a long way to helping from

>> barry: one of the greats, lute olson. one of the great guys, who taught me ray lot about this game. >> marcus: watches this practice is like watching a basketball clinic. >> barry: inducted to the hall of fame, 2002. won this conference 11 times ask, and the jewel in the crown, the national championship. got to mess his hair up after that game. joo a.j. came over and tossed the hair around. the thing i loved about coach o., the kind of player that fit into his system, richard jefferson, and he saw some of the guys perfect fits. >> barry: he used to let his players vote on whether or not they wanted to accept a recruit, when the recruit made his visit. perpetuated itself. >> marcus: coming off three on the baseline. >> barry: rebounded to horne. good look. >> marcus: got the shot he wanted. >> barry: that time, williams, fogg was behind him. williams knocked it out of bounds. sixth turnover for the cats. >> marcus: i think that pass was f for -- i thought it was for me. derrick williams. >> barry: roll, up top. anderson, w

olson: the process that the democrats will use to ram through their government-run health care program through this house is truly deplorable and like leeling unconstitutional. -- and likely unconstitutional. article 1, section 7 of the constitution clearly states that both chambers must pass their bills by a vote. then, the bill sent to the president for his signature before we can reconcile a bill here in congress. it's unconscionable to disregard these principles after the american people have clearly said no to this plan. they told congress to go back to the drawing board and find a solution. it's wrong to flaunt the constitution and the will of the american people by forcing this proposal down their throats. madam speaker, it will be a sad day for this institution and our great nation if a proposal of this nature comes to the floor of the house under these circumstances. i yield back my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. for what purpose does the gentleman from new jersey rise? mr. payne: to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without