sarah palin's nonexistent natural gas pipeline. it was in her next-to-last issue. i did not quite close it up but i came close. i spent three weeks in alaska researching that story. without padding, my expenses came to $12,000. most magazines will not even pay the fee of $12,000 anymore. what is a writer to do? this is where i look at the gentleman to my right and i look at "the atavist" and i say this as my savior. this is where we can still do the kind of work i like to do. we do not have to make decisions on simply commercial but tell the stories that we want to tell and reach of smaller audience. he can make money because he does not have the overhead. i think that "the atavist" is one of the most important steps forward. they're very few people who support themselves solely by writing anymore. i have a lot of novelist friends who already said that the one thing that would never do is teach. i can find them now on faculties all over the country because they cannot sell their books. now they are teaching. likewise the work i am doing most nonfiction books are not written by peo

conference with sarah palin. you can see it at noon today or follow along at c-span.org. as part of washington journal, we'll talk about what's going on in campaign 2012 politics. in campaign 2012 politics. . 35,000 people have been convict as terrorists in 65 countries. that's over the past decade. vernon lowe, the author of king's council, will join us at 9 :15 tomorrow to talk about his work in the fields of espionage, especially when it comes to areas of the middle east, and that discussion will take place starting at 9:15. the journal starts at 7:00 a.m. tomorrow. we'll see you then. . >> sunday, on "newsmakers," ohio governor, john kasich discusses jobs. "newsmakers," at 6:00 p.m. and 10:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. >> there are many people in this town who would like to describe themselves as machiavellian. they have it next to their bedside. not many people would call themselves machiavellian. >> his name is synonymous with the selfish pursuit of power. miles unger argues that machiavelli's theories may have been a response to the corruption around him. tuesday, live on c-span

lost sarah palin. she does not want to be shackled by the presidency. she was to be free to work on fox and get the questions ahead of time. [laughter] >> maybe we should have bristol ask her questions. >> we can bring thomas and caroline. reset the table on the republican primary. >> hi look at as 2/3 of the republican party is really conservative and 1/3 is the old-fashioned republican party. this 2/3 that is that conservative, they want rick perry. or someone like him. whether it is him or michele bachmann. they want someone who represents the conservative movement and a big way. but this is really, the next six-8 weeks are critical for rick perry, because he has to show -- does he have the capacity to grow and develop beyond a candidate who has been enormously successful in a one- party state. after all, texas is a two party state. what is the republican party and the other is the tea party. if rick perry grows, matures as a candidate, i think this nomination is his. on the other hand, if he does not and he does not show that capacity for growth, and if the differential between say

that, the vitriol that comes from some folks. host: two weeks ago, sarah palin was campaigning for her ideas. we asked our viewers the question whether or not she should stay out of the presidential race. a lot of emotion back and forth, some even questioning why we ask the question. but i will ask you the question. is there room for sarah palin to get into this race? guest: yes, there is room for her in the race. she would get quite a bit of support from evangelicals. will she gets in the race? who knows? no one really knows, only sarah palin knows. i think she is getting end. i think there may be some room between rick perry and michele bachmann in terms of this crummy capitalism. we have. perry talking about his executive experience. we have michele bachmann who does not have the executive experience. sarah palin is able to leave and between the two and say, called out creek. on capitalism and some of the favors that have transpired. and the fact that she has some executive experience and has been on the national stage. michele bachmann does not have. she may be able to craft a path

. there was a mad scramble immediately after the capital building. i saw a young staff. i even saw sarah carrying a couple of books and having some difficult walking quickly but nonetheless evaluating as we are all attempting to leave the building not sure where all this was going lead. let me go back to the moment where you saw it do you remember whab your senators said? >> the their presence was a sense of disbelief and a sense of real concern that there had to have been a connection between what we were seing there and what we had just seen on tv. what was the connection and how was this all understood. i think there was tremendous confusion, a high, high degree of anxiety, a very palpable fear that something unusual in the extreme was going on. >> when you heard a plane was heading for the capitol, what did you think? >> we, at that point, i think the first thing most of us felt the need to do was to think of our own personal safety and that was, in part, what led to the mad scramble out of the building. the odd thing was, that we had no clue as to where we ought to go. and i remembe

am beginning to miss the wisdom of sarah palin. [laughter] their debate was called the thanksgiving family forum. i never seen a greater collection of turkeys. look at the top of their candidates. mitt romney, he said he would be in iowa tonight. we should have known he would change his mind. newt gingrich was that the debate, he had to run back to his most important people, the salespeople at tiffany's. herman cain, rick perry arrived a little late. they were in their tutorial class -- where is libya? [laughter] the republicans do have an impressive field. gov. mitch daniels, jeb bush. the only problem? they are not on the field. you'll work your four years ago. think of our field. joe biden, hillary clinton, chris dodd, president obama. do you think of their field. michele bachmann, rick perry, and rick santorum. four years ago, at this dinner, many of you were in attendance, at a young senator from my home state of illinois, who is 23 points down in the polls, spoke to you in words will never forget. with the promises he made in that speech, he began a journey that would change h

describe the deal, we will turn to sarah binder, a senior fellow here at brookings. she is an expert on congress and legislative politics. she will talk about the history of supercommittees. whenever congress cannot make a decision or force is up to do the right thing, they appoint a committee or a commission. sarah will describe that and talk about this particular committee and how it will operate. then we will turn to bill gale. he works with the tax policy center. he is the author of several versions of the deficit and 10 year projections. he can produce projections faster than congress. shockingly, he is going to talk about baselines. as it turned out, they are a big deal and completely unresolved as far as i can tell. then we will turn to henry aaron. he will say we have been all wrong and the president has it all wrong and congress has it all wrong. he will tell us what we should be doing instead. finally, we will turn to my good friend, william frenzel. you probably will not be as familiar with bill. he was in congress for 20 years on the ways and means committee. he knows as muc

to miss the wisdom of sarah palin. their debate was called the thanksgiving family forum, which is fitting, because i have never seen a greater collection of turkeys. >> your comment. >> great line about sarah palin. i have not spent much time watching the republican debates until a couple weeks ago, and i was dumbfounded. if i do anything this morning, i want to urge every american to watch more of these debates, because the more they watch these republican debates, the more they are going to be turned off by the extreme rhetoric. the more the merrier. as many debates as possible, and if i was the obama campaign, i would be sitting back and feeling pretty good. >> i thank you both for being on here. i have a quiz for both. this is the second quiz. what happens to the money in terms of donations contribute to the failed candidates. newt and herman cain know they cannot win, but they are already eyeing the campaign funds of the losers. >> they use them to pay debt, and if there is enough, they use it to influence other campaigns. sometimes they hold onto it to promote their own idea

and they're still bickering about this stuff the way they are. i think it points to what sarah was saying. these are really strong issues that are embedded in the politics and it will be hard to get movement. >> i think these answers come back the arrangement of the current debate. what you have is general agreement crossing party lines just among the panel. would you need a short-term stimulus and deficit reduction. yet the political process is unable, in the face of maybe things not quite as bad as they were two years or three years ago but still pretty lousy, to strike that deal. >> audience, if you have not turned this out, the politics in this panel is represented by the order of seating. [laughter] ok, so let's say they will get a deal. they have to get a deal. they can change the law and all that, but let's say that day -- less say they get $1.20 trillion. so that leaves $1.10 trillion, maybe half of the way to where most people think we need to go and it still will not stabilize the debt. so then what happens? what is next? >> next comes an election. >> yes, but after the e

either relieved or alarmed the sarah palin is not running for president. [laughter] >> i'd like sarah palin. i know sarah palin. i spent a couple of days in alaska with her before she ended up in this odyssey the last few years. i think she made the right decision for herself. i i think she can play a role in the upcoming elections and i wish her well. >> do you want her on the campaign trail with house republicans who are seeking seats they do not currently possess or once they try to defend? >> i think it would be very helpful. >> you suggested the president spends an inordinate amount of time campaigning. are you saying it is complicating your efforts to achieve results for the american people? >> let me put it this way. i have had my share of disappointments this year. this supported the president and i could not come to an agreement of the debate deal. disappointed that we could not pass stronger legislation in the house from some of my own colleagues. but nothing has disappointed me more than what has happened over the last five weeks. to watch the president of the united states

thought i would say this. i'm beginning to miss the wisdom of sarah palin. [laughter] their debate was called the thanksgiving family forum, which is fitting, because i have never seen a greater collection of turkeys. [laughter] look at their candidates. take mitt romney. he is said to be in iowa -- he said he would be in iowa tonight. we should have known he would change his mind. newt was at the debate. he had to leave early. he had to run back to his most important people, the salespeople at tiffany's. herman cain and rick perry were a little late. they had to take a class to learn where libya was. governor mitch daniels, governor haley barbour, governor jeb bush are impressive candidates. the only problem is they're not in the field. think of our field. vice-president joe biden. secretary of state hillary clinton. former senator chris dodd. president obama. now you think of their field. michele bachmann. rick perry. rick santorum. who is not feeling sorry for republican primary voters right now? four years ago, at this dinner, and many of you were in attendance, a young senator fro

next process we have is sarah jane, who wishes to discuss a topic for us to either support or become interested in. clarifying question? >> the different groups that go up here, can they be quick about it? it is a quick, 5 minute thing. >> i would say about a minute. >> 325 minutes? -- three to five minutes? >> ok. any more questions before we move on to each group introduction? if you are from a group in the area, do your point of information, and we will put you on the stack. come up and do it. >> i am up here first. make a note. you will have to come up here. i will just bring up and talk about what we are doing for the primary. i know we are going to get into more details later, but we are here today to talk about what we are doing. i will give a brief play out. we're going to be occupying the primary from friday january 6 through tuesday january 10, which is the day of the primary itself. the four day event is structured around to our time slots. these to our -- these 2 hoir time slots will allow groups from the region -- new york, boston, portland, and at burlington, and new ha

what each individual group is participating in. the next process we have is sarah jane, who wishes to discuss a topic for us to either support or become interested in. clarifying question? >> the different groups that go up here, can they be quick about it? it is a quick, 5 minute thing. >> i would say about a minute. >> 325 minutes? -- three to five minutes? >> ok. any more questions before we move on to each group introduction? if you are from a group in the area, do your point of information, and we will put you on the stack. come up and do it. >> i am up here first. make a note. you will have to come up here. i will just bring up and talk about what we are doing for the primary. i know we are going to get into more details later, but we are here today to talk about what we are doing. i will give a brief play out. we're going to be occupying the primary from friday january 6 through tuesday january 10, which is the day of the primary itself. the four day event is structured around to our time slots. these to our -- these 2 hoir time slots will allow groups from the region -- new

group is participating in. the next process we have is sarah jane, who wishes to discuss a topic for us to either support or become interested in. clarifying question? >> the different groups that go up here, can they be quick about it? it is a quick, 5 minute thing. >> i would say about a minute. >> 325 minutes? -- three to five minutes? >> ok. any more questions before we move on to each group introduction? if you are from a group in these move on to each group introduction? if you are from a group in the area, do your point of information, and we will put you on the stack. come up and do it. >> i am up here first. make a note. you will have to come up here. i will just bring up and talk about what we are doing for the primary. i know we are going to get into more details later, but we are here today to talk about what we are doing. i will give a brief play out. we're going to be occupying the primary from friday january 6 through tuesday january 10, which is t day of the primary itself. the four day event is structured around to our time slots. these to our -- these 2 hoir tim

bingham -- mark bingham deora frances bodley sarah bradshaw, marion britton thomas burnett jr., william joseph cashman georgine rose corrigan patricia cushing jason dahl joseph deluca patrick joseph driscoll edward p. felt jane c. folger colleen laura fraser andrew garcia, jeremy logan glick kristin gould lauren grandcolas and unborn child wanda anita green, donald f. greene linda gronlund richard guadagno leroy homer toshiya kuge ceecee lyles hilda marcin waleska martinez nicole miller louis j. nacke donald arthur peterson jean hoadley peterson mark rothenberg christine snyder john talignani honor elizabeth wainio deborah jacobs welsh. [bagpipes] [applause] >> vice-president biden president bush, president clinton, secretary salazar speaker boehner -- friends families, and all those that chose to take time today to share in the bittersweet celebration of this memorial dedication. thank you for honoring the memory of the passengers and crew of united flight 93 with your presence. 10 years ago we first came to this hallowed grounds. we were devastated. nearly broken. our lives

news because he rented a house next to sarah palin and has written a book that sarah palin and her many fans do not pay is so great but that may be good for you. i was reading it this morning. ayman mohyeldin was the face and the voice for many of us the biggest story of the year -- the arab spring. you saw him many years ago as a desk assistance. he migrated to al jazeera where he had a chance to do something that was a lifetime thing. it was truly transformational. he has cast that in and has gone back to nbc as a foreign cobblers -- a foreign correspondent. ollie a american media company would call and at international correspondent a foreign correspondent. anything that is not american is foreign. jim warren is the dean of the chicago press corps. one of the things that is ed -- that is fantastic about jim is you are one of the few people in the business who actually manages to know how to keep the best ad important of shoe leather and journalism, and how do you measure that with the new media, with twitter, with facebook? jim was the managing editor for the chicago tribune. we now

step forward and tell us what leaders they are. there are exceptions to that in sarah palin and governor harry. -- governor perry. if you are elected, will you commit to being a leader 360 days a year and for your full term instead of just when it is convenient? [applause] >> i cannot wait to get into the fray. i cannot wait to get there to ask men and women who share my philosophy that are truly patriots who will come in and head of agencies like the epa, that will go in and pull back every regulation that has gone forward in the last 5 years since 2008 and august whether or not they create jobs or they kill jobs. have men and women in the health and human service agencies who are committed to the tenth amendment. when we talk about a block granting back to the states and letting the states make decisions on programs like medicaid, i intend to have an individual as the secretary of education whose sole responsibility would be to dismantle the department of education and wipe it out, send those funds back to the state so that the members of the legislature in iowa can decide how

have a very interesting subject to talk about. sarah palin and todd palin and i have been conversing on sessions on the internet facebook. since the occupy wall street has started -- [unintelligible] >> debbie can you relate this to our topic tonight? what is your topic about tom dewey? >> my question is why haven't democrats put somebody else in office and sent barack obama back to africa? >> all right. let's go to pennsylvania. >> in 1944, i am a world war ii veteran. i still have a good brain. but i still remember things. i feel like 1944 -- it was roosevelt's time. i think dewey was a very smart person. they just wanted to keep him in office because they were at a board. i think if they were not in war, dewey would have won hands down. >> that is exactly as i said earlier. that was the conundrum. you could not know. it is interesting that that comment all these years later reflects what dewey believed. the strategy was that in a peacetime environment, as grateful as people were to fdr, they would have been willing to turn a page and embark on a different kind of domestic policy.

sarah palin- like candidate could be added to the ticket to appeal to the right? >> picking a vice president is a complex process and it is very personal to the nomination. i do not have any idea what the various potential nominees preferences are on that. we do not have any moderates are running. if you looked at to their records, their positions on the issues, there is nobody in their view would not get at least an 85% american conservative the rating. i did not think there will be any need to do philosophical balance. -- ballots. there are all lot of factors that go into the process. it is a useless exercise to speculate about it until you have the nominee and they began to process. >> there is a question from twitter that presumes that herman cain is a part of republicans looking for someone other than raw meat. do you expect there to be another before -- other than romney. you expect there to be another before this is over? there has been talk about newt gingrich. >> it seems to be a rotating circuit of anti-romney candidate. it was michele bachmann for a while. and everybody

be william jennings bryan. sarah palin might try to be. angry populist. they believe that a small greedy elite is after the majority of americans. bryan was representative of an anti-monopoly movement. a movement where people believed that corporate america was taking the country in a revolutionary direction. we have come to grips and come to peace with big business. we cannot imagine a society where that is not there. that was not true for bryan. >> we just looked at the desk that he worked with mary side by side. most businesses were like that in the 1870's and 1860's and 1850's. they were small partnerships and firms. that time before 1896 was a time of enormous industrial growth. colossal corporations. the pennsylvania railroad employing more people than the united states post office. these were corporations with enormous resources, enormous wealth, and enormous power. most people had experienced a very different america, one with small partnerships. the change was arresting. bryan was speaking to that massive transition in american society and life. >> i want you to listen to

grandchildren. >> marie kelly. ruth ellen ketler boris khalif sarah khan taimour firaz khan rajesh khandelwal oliva khemrat seilai khoo michael kiefer satoshi kikuchihara andrew jay-hoon kim lawrence d. kim mary jo kimelman andrew m. king amy king lucille teresa king robert king, jr. >> and my mother, lisa. i wish we had more time together. >> and my mother and father. your spirit lives forever. >> lisa king-johnson takashi kinoshita chris michael kirby howard barry kirschbaum glenn davis kirwin helen crossin kittle richard joseph klares peter anton klein alan david kleinberg karen joyce klitzman ronald philip kloepfer evgueni kniazev andrew knox thomas patrick knox rebecca lee koborie deborah a. kobus >> and my father, glenn, whose memory i honor by serving my country. >> and to the 10 australians on foreign shores, we miss you all. especially my brother, andrew. [applause] >> there was a family room just across the way, where families and friends came to write their thoughts, leave a photograph, and sign their name. a woman that lost her son wrote beside this picture -- to the wo

to have gov. sarah raskin to speak to us on a very timely topic, monetary policy and job creation. the suspect of job creation is constantly in the news. i will say it is the most pressing policy issue. i think we will hear about linking monetary policy and job creation. there will be time for questions and comments, but you need to write them on the index card, and they need to be legible. let me formally introduced our distinguished speaker. gov. raskin took her seat as a federal board governor. prior to her appointment, she was a commissioner of financial regulation for the state of maryland. she was responsible for regulating all types of financial institutions including banks, credit unions, mortgage lenders and servicers, among others. under her leadership, the commissioners played an early role in reform of the financial crisis including reforming the foreclosure process and combating loaned discounts and elevating lending standards. prior to serving as commissioner, she has a wealth of experience. she was managing director from a financial group and also served as counsel

disclosure of sarah palin's emails effected her children. younger people will be just as sensitive. young people may be more optimistic than the rest of us, but they harm people of all ages. the basic point, on filters, should be embraced. >> of one difference is it news consumption in the 1970's an 1980's was very passive. you may talk about one or two subjects, but it was not about spreading news. your job was not to take a story out of the "the new york times" and give it to 20 friends. the current generation is very read/write. i want to share with twitter and facebook and tell you my view. part of that is engaging in the public speaking activity. the critical more supportive. i think it is fantastic and and i extraordinarily important transformation. the news media increasingly says, how do we say things that other people will want to spread for us? how do we get people to take our message and shared with others? they play into this, too, but that creates a generation that feels much more connected in being critical about stuff than i think i was. >> a representative of father

sarah mclachlan. that was beautiful. for joining us today and for the perfect piece. this memorial would not have been possible without a strong and unwavering support of individuals, governments, groups, and foundations from across the country that have made personal and financial commitments to see it through. we welcome representatives of several of those groups. the first is chris sullivan, chairman of the flight 93 capital campaign and vice- chairman of the national park foundation. [applause] >> thank you, john barrett and thank you for all you have done for flight 93 national memorial. your leadership is remarkable. thank you very much, john. as a fund raising partner of the national park service, the national parks foundation is a privilege to work with a dedicated group of partners. the corporations, businesses, foundations, and other organizations, the law firm of porter right that did pro bono work and the land is committed to protecting is hallowed ground. yet nobody has given more than the relatives and family members of the 40 men and women of flight 93. they feel the

this afternoon. i would also like to acknowledge our co-producer sarah. not dispensing with those, but acknowledging those very real supporters, let me try to begin and tell you first of all how honored i am to be back here. at the national press club and how honored and delighted i am to be talking about the special messages, are common heritage. it directs our way. let us listen. let us listen. too often as a culture we have ignored this joyful historical noise. i am interested in that power of history and i am interested and its many varied voices. certainly, not those voices that have recently entered our studies. boyce is it suggested that american history is only a catalog of white, european. that is unafraid of controversy and tragedy, but equally drawn to those stories that suggest an abiding faith in human spirit. and the unique role this republic seems to play in the positive progress of mankind. that has been my mantra. you know, i have to admit that in a way, we have made the same film over and over again. each film asks one deceptively simple question. who are we? who are

name is sarah. advocate for nursing homes and residential care facilities. cuts to medicare and medicaid, i am about protecting our elderly in the medicaid and medicare facility. to know how proposes to balance the budget and still make sure our . >> that is a great question. the first question for you is you look at the constitution in the government's role to do that? [applause] is personal responsibility, not government responsibility. number three is if we're going to decided is a federal responsibility, we should be much more efficient with medicare which has $100 billion of fraud in it. some of it through nursing extended care facility. designed be inefficient. the average medicare patient in pays in $120,000 out $350,000. how long is that going to last? part a will be bankrupt. that is the hospital portion. something has to happen. a couple of things need to happen. paul ryan to call this heat said we ought to have system where people can use markets to help get the best deal they can. him is changing medicare. medicare is gonna change because cannot borrow money to keep

-- mark bingham, deora frances bodley, sarah bradshaw, marion britton, thomas burnett jr., william joseph cashman, georgine rose corrigan, patricia cushing , jason dahl, joseph deluca, patrick joseph driscoll, edward p. felt, jane c. folger, colleen laura fraser, andrew garcia, jeremy logan glick, kristin gould, lauren grandcolas, and unborn child, wanda anita green, donald f. greene, linda gronlund, richard guadagno, leroy homer, toshiya kuge, ceecee lyles, hilda marcin, waleska martinez, nicole miller, louis j. nacke, donald arthur peterson, jean hoadley peterson, mark rothenberg, christine snyder, john talignani, honor elizabeth wainio, deborah jacobs welsh. [bagpipes] [applause] >> vice-president biden, president bush, president clinton, secretary salazar, speaker boehner -- friends, families, and all those that chose to take time today to share in the bittersweet celebration of this memorial dedication. thank you for honoring the memory of the passengers and crew of united flight 93 with your presence. 10 years ago we first came to this hallowed grounds. we were devastated. ne