he is a graduate of the george mason university school of law. he received his master's degree from the university of pennsylvania. in 2002 he received his bachelor's degree from dartmouth college. mr. wiser has been a staff attorney at the aclu. he has litigated several cases in which the government has invoked the privilege, including a challenge to the cia's abduction of an innocent german citizen, and a suit against a private services, and then -- company, and a case on behalf of an fbi translator accused of misconduct. he was a clerk to the u.s. court of appeals. he is a graduate of harvard college. i have a fondness of the new york student -- school of law since my son is a student there. i welcome all of you. it is -- each of your statements will be made a part of the record. i would ask you to summarize your testimony in five minutes or less. before we begin, it is custom mini for committee to swear in their witnesses. do you swear under penalty of perjury the testimony you will give is correct to the best of your knowledge? let the recor

she's at george mason university law school. and there is -- this reads like a novel. there are no footnotes. it's compelling story of a 12-year-old boy who's a slave in concord, massachusetts, literally on the eve of the british coming through. the night of paul revere's ride. >> and it's nonfiction? >> it's nonfiction and it's based on archival research. and it follows peter's story. he escapes on the eve of the revolution. and he joins the continental army, not the british army. most blacks who did escape joined the british army because the british were known for abolitionism and they were antislavery. and it parallels another slave who escapes around the same time in the same geographic area who joins the british, and that slave ends up back as a slave after the war and peter doesn't. so he fights in the war. he's almost like a zellig, woody allen's zellig. he is at some of the main events at the revolution, the major battles and it has a happy ending. he does become a freed black in new england at the end of the war. >> and finally comanche's empire. >> this is th

the george mason law review he received his master from the university of pennsylvania in 2007. in 2002, he received his bachelor's rieg in economics in anthropology from dart -- dartmouth university. he's litigated several post-9/11 civil liberties cases in which the government has invoked the state secret privileges including al-massry vs. united states a challenge to the abduction, and torture of an innocent german citizen, mohammed v. jepson for facilitating the cia's rendition of torture of five muslim men and edmonds department of justice a whistle blower retaliation suit for a translator fired for reporting misconduct. he's a graduate of harvard college and new york university school of law. i must have a particularly off the top of my heads in of new york school of law since my son is a student at the new york university of law. i'm pleased to welcome all of you. it is now my -- each of your written statements will be made part of the record in its entirety. i would ask that you now summarize your testimony in five minutes or less. to help you stay within that time limit

grossman is a graduate of the george mason university school of law resurgence in your article editor to the lardy. receive his master's degree from the university of pennsylvania. in 2002 he received his bachelor degree in economics and anthropology from dartmouth college rate edited the dartmouth review. ben wizner has been a staff attorney at the aclu since 2001, specializing in national security human rights and first amendment issues. u.s levigate several civil liberties cases in which the government in-- in both states the chris provision including the cia detchon detention and torture of an innocent german citizen. mohammed rafiq jepsen iysoo against the private aviation services committee for facilitating the cia rendition to torture of five muslim men and edmonds versus the department judgement whistle-blower suit and the behalf of the fbi translator pfeiffer reporting serious misconduct. mr. west was a law clerk to the honorable stephen reinhardt of the court of appeals for the ninth circuit. is a graduate of harvard college in new york university's school of law and i must

dan, recent graduate of dickenson college and i attend george mason for my master a recent debate that's been coming up recently has been the issue of assisted reproductive issues how would you tackle those issues from a conservative standpoint. >> tackle them saying in vitro fertilization -- >> it's a more feminine issue but i want to be sensitive but politically correct also. >> that's a tough one because conservatives disagree on that. we all have many friends who particularly women -- we have many friends who can't have babies and have tried in vitro fertilization or surrogate moms. you can look at modern cases, you know, the mom who had eight kids or whatever, you know that's a tough issue, too. i don't have a firm position on it either because i don't particularly like the idea of the government coming in and telling her how many kids she should have. it's irresponsible. i have four kids i can't tell you how many people in the grocery store would like at me and say, are you kidding? you're having another one? you know, it's like it was so irresponsible to have four so where does th

a former george mason pitcher out of robinson high school in fairfax. here is elijah dukes that was a slider. there they are. the whole family. >> rob: nowhere to put them. >> bob: guzman, johnson, dup aboard. zimmerman struck out. elijah dukes came into the game .300 this year with runners in scoring position. fastball runs right back to the outer half. >> rob: camp throws side arm. he'll bring this as a two-seam fastball. watch it sink back over the plate what we would kala raido. >> bob: this is a battle now. >> rob: got to be ready for anything if you're elijah. >> bob: tried the same pitch. missed a little low and away with it. 1-1 game. nats outhit the blue jays. fighting another a. l. east team here. now the situation has turned itself around because camp does not want to go to 3-2. josh bard, switch-hitting catcher on deck. nationals want that scoreboard to change right here with one out. got him on a front door slider. the nationals have made two outs this inning by not swinging at 3-2 pitches. that was nasty. >> rob: well, he comes around the

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mason university. then a discussion on the end -- economy and world markets. later, director and producer talks about a film, shouting fire, stories from the edge of free speech. that is live at 7:00 a.m. here on c-span. how c-span funded? >> it is publicly funded. >> donations may be? >> it gives its funding through the taxes? >> i don't know. >> 30 years ago, america's cable companies created c-span as a public service. a private business initiative, no public mandate, no public money. >> defense secretary robert gates as he addressed a conference of senior defense officials from the persian gulf countries. he spoke about it around nuclear weapons program and the situation in iraq and afghanistan. he is introduced by general david patras --. trieste. petraeus. having had the privilege of meeting him i realized from the outset that this was a leader who got it. this was hours before he left to go to iraq. i have been privileged to work closely with him in iraq and then of course and the central comman

mason university. then a discussion on the economy, unemployment and world financial markets with peter barisi from the university of maryland. and then the producer talks about a film, shouting fire, stories from the edge of free speech at 7:00 a.m. on c-span. how c-span funded? >> it is publicly funded. >> donations? >> government? by mike it gets the money surtaxes. >> i don't know. helices been funded? 30 years ago, america's cable companies created c-span as a public surface -- service. no government monday -- money. president obama and german chancellor angela merkel had a press conference. they discuss the future of guantanamo and global china -- climate change. it is my pleasure to welcome angela merkel to the white house. we had a very productive discussion in the oval office. our country serve together in afghanistan. in recent months i have come to appreciate our partnership with chancellor angela merkel. i value her wisdom and her can or. i admire her for her leadership and pragmatic approa

mason university. and discussion on the economy, unemployment, and world financial markets. later, director and producer -- and talks about her film. that is live at 7:00 eastern a.m. on c-span. >> analyses been funded? >> publicly funded. >> des nations, maybe? >> government. >> taxes.

mason university. then a discussion on the economy, unemployment and world financial markets with peter morici of the university of maryland. and later, liz talks about her film, shouting fire, stories from the edge of free speech. that's live at 7:00 a.m. eastern here on c-span. >> sunday on c-span 2's book tv. former reagan analyzers on why the president believed destroying nuclear weapons would bring and end to the soviet union. >> nicholas talks about his two years in pakistan. he sits down with ralph peters. and next weekend for the holiday, three days of book tv starting friday morning at 8:00. including a historian and author. life, sunday from george washington's mount vernon estate. the entire schedule is on line, including streaming video and easy to search archives. >> and now, washington national's president stan kast en at the national press club. he talks about the team which moved to washington in 2005. >> good afternoon. welcome to the national bless club. i am a reporter with u.s.a. to

he will be jack goldstone of george mason university at about 745 a.m. eastern. in the meantime we will get an update on iran now joining us by phone from to buy. -- from dubai. is the middle east correspondent for the los angeles time. when did yoyou last leave iran? guest: friday morning. the situation in iran is extremely tense right now. it appears the protests have died down. there was a series of mass protests as well as sporadic rioting, clashes in the streets among security forces and demonstrators as well as the sydney-official pro-government militias. -- semi-official pro-hamas militias. there is a sweeping crackdown. supporters of the mousavi . there are many people being harassed. many people have heard the news. yes debate eight staffers of the british embassy, local iranian staffers have been arrested and presumably some continue to be jailed on charges or accusations that they were fomenting this recent unrest. host: it says the government is deeply concerned about the arrest of british employees in tehran. if it is getting in the quieter on the st

>> i am with the washington post, conflict analysis at george mason university and abolition 2000. >> you have 3 business cards. >> they don't read them. >> this response to the other question, as a parallel process, as a complementary and supported process to bodies of knowledge and public transformation and second order change, this is wonderful work and i appreciate the publicity and imagery that you are doing. what about the enemy's? the body of knowledge in the field of conflict analysis and other processes, so we do not have to think we have to resort to war. for any conflict we can come up with non-violent strategies, the underlying issues and conflicts. and the millennial generation coming up, that have signed on to this, had that on his show and in communication with people all over the world on the internet, they are thinking about the other -- to support -- >> thank you for that. on the technical issues, we received a briefing yesterday from bruce blair, of the coordinators' of the global zero enterprise, and he made be interesting point that there really isn't the case in

editor of the george mason law review. he received his master degree of government from the university of pennsylvania in 2007. in 2002, he received his bachelor's degree in economics and anthropology from dartmouth college where he edited the dartmouth review. he specializing in national security human rights and first amendment issues. he's litigated several post-9/11 civil liberties cases in which the government has invoked the state secrets privilege including al-massi versus the united states the challenge to the cia, abduction, torture of an innocent german citizen, mohammed jepson a suit against a private aviation company for facilitating the cia's rendition to torture of five muslim men and edmonds versus department of justice a whistle blower retaliation suit on behalf of an fbi translator fired for reporting serious misconduct. he was a law clerk in the court of appeals for the ninth circuit. he's a graduate of harvard college and new york university school of law. i must say have a particular fondness of new yor

mason is passing through the convention -- pushing through the convention. it was a natural rights statement. mason said that government would tolerate religion, and he saw it not as something as some thought something the government tolerates, but a natural right of conscience. >> three years later, he is elected in 1779 to the consul congress, and there, is one of the experiences that i think as a lot to do with his own ultimate constitutional views eight years later. >> by that time, the continental congress is a functioning, coherent body that seeks to embody the nation. after that, it becomes a [unintelligible] rather than a chorus. it is pretty clear to madison that the states, themselves, are selfishly defending their own interests and did you begin with some sort of the assumption that there is a thing called the people that is a coherent whole, when you confront reality of the, you realize that that is an illusion. there are a series of interest groups that function according to their own pattern and their own interests. you can bring that romantic

four state constitutions quoted george mason's declaration of rights, all men are born equal, free and independent, which jefferson was reading in the philadelphia paper when he was writing the declaration, and which had been -- mason had said two years earlier, so mason is a character by the way, because he's washington's neighbor and political cohort, and also then they fall out during the constitution, washington is a federalist and mason an anti-federalist. jefferson is a character in all of that, but -- and so he comes in and out of the narrative. hamilton is definitely in the narrative and partly because he's john lawrence's best friend and another reason hamilton is in the narrative, because he starts being the one who is actually implementing -- well, he's supporting robert morris' idea for a stronger -- and the farmer's idea, john dickinson's, it was their idea for a stronger central government. hamilton comes on board their program, starts supporting it in 1780, supports is again during the constitutional period and when robert morris is -- turns down the obvious offer to bec

to hear about james madison, you hear about george mason as a the architects of the bill of rights. nobody knew who wrote this treatise -- everybody thought it was albert jerry and then a legal scholar, i think it is mercy's great-grandson, charles warren in about 140 years later found her a letter to kathryn mcauley, the radical british historian and mentioned earlier, it is in her handwriting in she says here is a draft of the tree this and that is going to be published to -- she is the unsung architects of the bill of rights. we did not know that and people still don't know that today. anyway, women are finally finally going to be able to put things in their own names around 78 and because they are capping the british tradition, they loved everything british, the close, the fine line, the salons and the party is coming even beginning to think about performing plays so they want to have women a riding like the women in salons in london. so by 79 the mercy is very discouraged, the constitution does pass in the bill of rights doesn't get ratified until 1791. is very discouraged and

i think a historian named peter who taught at george mason university and has written extensively on washington nailed down probably the cause and it was i guess a bacterial infection that caused a swelling which essentially led to just a very slow suffocation of washington. he developed a sore throat i think at first he thought it was nothing more than a sore throat that would last for two or three days. went to bed that night woke up about 2:00 in the morning and realized that he was desperately ill and died probably 17-18 hours later. >> jay-z watching in st. petersburg, florida e-mailed this question did you come across any info that could be construed as medical doctors facilitating the advancement of washington's death? >> no. physicians were called in and they engaged in bleeding early that morning. certainly didn't do him any good but i doubt that it caused his death. there was some debate in the afternoon about doing what would essentially 3w a tracheotomy -- be a track yotmy and remember -- tracheotomy and remember they didn't have anesthesia at the time. it was an operatio

>> i'm from george mason university. the purpose of naqoura funds is to deter other states from giving nuclear-weapons and you are relying on a jury thatç haa lot of flaws. deterrence sometimes breaks down. i think it was george kennan who said that deterrent to such a great idea that it has become contagious. and lieutenant robert green said deterrence is making a war less likely by making it more likely. if our purpose is a theory that is what, then -- flawed, then what about alternative strategies? it works best when it is accompanied by drastic attention reduction, so we may want to switch to a policy of mutually shared survival. can you comment? >> well, i think those are useful thought. as i said before, the u.s. and russia and leaders -- military leaders in each of our country's need to reassess the role in light of changed circumstances. we can argue about whether deterrence worked or was flawed. i happen to think that it was more flawed than worked in the cold war years. looking ahead, nuclear weapons do not h

. >> [inaudible] george mason university. if the purpose of nuclear weapons is to deter other states to get nuclear weapons. then they are relying on a theory with a lot of flaw. i think it was george cannon that said deterrence is a scheme for making nuclear war less likely by making it more likely. if our purpose is a theory that's flawed, then what about alternative strategies, alternative routes. it was said that if deterrents work when accompanied by drastic deterrent reduction. we may want a policy of mutual survival. any comments? ñl >> well, i think those are thoughts. i think, as i said before, the united states and russia and leaders, military leaders in countries need to reassess the role in light of changed circumstances. and we can argue whether deterrence worked or flawed. i think gxwit was more flawed t worked in the cold war years. looking ahead, nuclear weapons do not have the value they once were thought to have. and we need to recognize that today nuclear weapons are more of a liability than an asset in m

>> i'm from george mason university. the purpose of naqoura funds is to deter other states from giving nuclear-weapons and you are relying on a jury thatç haa lot of flaws. deterrence sometimes breaks down. i think it was george kennan who said that deterrent to such a great idea that it has become contagious. and lieutenant robert green said deterrence is making a war less likely by making it more likely. if our purpose is a theory that is what, then -- flawed, then what about alternative strategies? it works best when it is accompanied by drastic attention reduction, so we may want to switch to a policy of mutually shared survival. can you comment? >> well, i think those are useful thought. as i said before, the u.s. and russia and leaders -- military leaders in each of our country's need to reassess the role in light of changed circumstances. we can argue about whether deterrence worked or was flawed. i happen to think that it was more flawed than worked in the cold war years. looking ahead, nuclear weapons do not h

callerguest: first, i work for e merc cato institute at george mason and we are nonpartisan. my facts about the great depression, i get them from reading academic articles, and in particular, reading the work of christina romer, president obama's own chairman of council of economic advisers, and she has shown very effectively that what got us out of the depression was not spending that monetary policy. there is a lot of literature showing that the spending in the war did not get us out of the depression. even paul krugman, the most recent nobel prize winner, has acknowledged spending in the great depression is not what got us out of the depression. so i had actually read a lot of articles. i think i am pretty well informed. as for recovery.gov, the data that you see is not actually tracking the money. there is a competing website called recovery.org, and they are a private business who tracks the money. they have been doing this for 10 years. they had even offered their help to the obama administration. it seems, like every other administration before, wants to reinvent the w

. >> lou lou mason. something is going on over here. you all say this is the radio. you have to come meet me with the money. >> new tonight, taunting the five dispatchers in prince george's county. >> a man admits he's using a stolen radio. >> firefighters and paramedics rely on those radios to locate those in trouble. but for ten hours today, the radios were tied up with taunts from a man who demanded a reward for the return of the missing radio. andrew stack with more on the story reported first on wusa9.com. >> reporter: this is what fire dispatchers are contending with. >>. [ inaudible ] >> reporter: music , singing and abusive taunts clogging their vital air waves. >> we at your ma ma's house. >> reporter: a man repeatedly tortures dispatchersusblioiv ausehe fact that itio could le.ife their >>e. ma knows where i live. my papa knows where i live. nt.efrho gs wame whe i l t.>> reporter: fally after several hours, he seems tology cooperate with dispatchers -- wiing to cooperate with ditch patchers. >> i apologize when he gets up th he's so sorry. i'm terribly sorr

one historian named peter who taught at george mason university has written extensively on washington nail down probably but cause of the a bacterial infection that caused a swelling of the epiglottis which is essentially lead to just a very slow suffocation. he developed a sore throat up first the thought it was nothing more than a sore throat that would last for two or three days then went to bed and woke up at 2:00 in the morning and realized he was desperately ill and died probably about 17 or 18 hours later. >> host: st. petersburg e-mails the question did you come across any, underlined, information to be construed as doctors in advancing his death? >> guest: positions were called and and dazed positions in engaged in bleating fat morning it did not do him any good but i doubt that it caused his death there was some debate in the afternoon about what would be doing essentially a tracheotomy. they did not have modern and disease at the time, it was an operation that the ball or physicians did not routinely perform. they refused to do it. whether they could have done it successful

he is now at george mason university school of law in arlington, virginia. >> i was primarily tasked with advising the judiciary committee, principally senator specter, who was chairman of the committee, as well as the other republican members of the committee, both in terms of setting up the hearings and briefing the members as they prepare for the hearings. also as staff director of the committee in setting of the staffing, we had considerable staffing hired prior to the hearings. the size of the committee when i was there, there were around the 60 plus lawyers and supports and professional staff. not all those people were working in the hearing. we hired separate people just to work on the supreme court hearings themselves. we had a full legislative agenda we were working on. chairman specter was quite an active chairman. >> what was your relationship with him during the nomination process? >> it was a great relationship. he was a demanding chairman. he really wanted to be prepared for the hearing process, so we went through a great deal of work in terms of preparing him to make s

mason university school of law in arlington, virginia. >> well, i was primarily tasked with advising the judiciary committee principally senator specter at that time, who was chairman of the committee, as well as the republican members of the committee both in terms of setting up the hearings and getting the hearings rolling and briefing the members athey prepared for the hearings, and also as staff director of the committee in setting up the staffing because we had a considerable staffing hire prior to the hearings. >> what was the size of the committee? >> the size of the committee when i was there, i think there were around 60 plus lawyers and prostaff. we hired separate people just to work on the supreme court hearings themselves but we obviously had the continual work of the committee. we had other nominations, we had a full legislative agenda. >> what was your relationship during the nomination process? >> it was a great relationship. at least i would like to think it was a great relationship. he was a demanding chairman. he was somebody who wanted to be prepared. so he went th

mason school of law and arlington, virginia. >> i was primarily past with advising the judiciary committee, specifically senator specter, as well as other republican members of the committee. in terms of getting the hearings rolling and briefing the members as they prepare for the hearings and also the staff director of the hearing, we had a considerable staff and higher prior to this. >> what was the size of this committee? >> there were around 60 plus lawyers and support staff and professional staff. not all of those people were working on the hearing. we hired separate people to work on the supreme court hearings themselves. we had a full legislative agenda that we were a working on. chairman specter was quite an active chairman. >> what was your relationship with him during the process? confirmed, the 17th chief justice in the history of a country. and the john roberts as the 109th justice of the supreme court of the united states. judge roberts, thank you for agreeing to serve. and congratulations. >> thank you, mr. president. by his wife martha, who was a law librarian when he first

mason university. the 25-year-old school is owned by the kingdom of saudi arabia and feared by some in the community. >> our concern which mr. murphy, the planning commission, has called a distraction is that there is an institution operating in our community right now which is raising the next generation of terrorists. >> reporter: it's a startling accusation the principal denies. >> if you have statements like that, wouldn't it be better if you come to the school, verify it for yourself. look at the boo, okay. come. look at the books. look at the teaching. this is the classroom. >> reporter: others who live near the school say they're concerned about more traffic on this narrow two-lane road. >> we went down and counted all the cars and the parents arriving to pick up students at the alexandria campus. and for that to be happening on this road is frightening. >> reporter: the academy has two campuses, this one for up to 200 children, pre-k through the third grade. another on leased property in alexan

mason university. the 25-year-old school is onlied by the kingdom of saudi arabia and feared by some in the community. >> our concern, which mr. if you are if -- murphy of the planning commission has called a distraction that there is an institution operating in our community which is raising the next generation of terrorists. >> it is a startling accusation the principal denies. >> if you have statements like that, won it be better if you come to the school, verify it for yourself, look at the books. okay. come, look at the books. look at the teaching. visit the classroom. >> reporter: others would live near the school say they're concerned about more traffic on this narrow two-lane road. >> we went down and counted all the cars and the parents arriving to pick up students at the alexandria campus and for that to be happening on this road is frightening. >> reporter: the academy has two campuses, this one for up to 200 children, pre-k through the third grade, another on leased property for the older s

you moving to arlington, virginia, at the intersection of columbia pike and george mason drive. all is a go. little volume in this area. and finally, the dulles toll road, no incidents, no accidents to report from the greenway to 495. it's 6:39. >>> we're back at 6:43. your living green tip. using a lot of heat with a shower loses energy. a lot of heat is lost from the shower head. you can insulate piping to prevent the heat from escaping and saving energy. the water heater won't have to work that hard. and less energy means less money for you. for more, go to wusa9.com and click on "living green." >> thank you. >>> at 6:43 a video involving president obama has quickly spread on the web. kristin fisher has the clip people are talking about. good morning. >> reporter: hello. good morning. well, you know, any time anything goes even slightly wrong in a presidential press conference, it is a story. but it's especially a story if that something is the teleprompter for president obama. sorry you're looking at the screen right now. that's for a story coming up in just a second. but th

that is coming out of the latest data out of george mason university. >> you are coming back in 30 minutes saving us money on how. >> the effective powers of haggling and how it can save you a ton of money. >> that's a tough thing for some of us, i'm included. >>> senators introduce a bill to prevent long waits on airport tarmacs and the shuttle "endeavor" crew will make a sixth takeoff attempt. you are watching 9 news now. >>> welcome back. looking at route 4, route 5 and crane highway. this area is incident and accident free early this wednesday. it is angie with the realtime traffic report coming up. >>> in the news now at 5:10, a bill being considered in the u.s. senate would limit the amount of time airline passengers can be stranded on the tarmac. it would require planes delayed more than three hours to return to the gate to give passengers the opportunity to guess embark. passenger rights advocates hail the idea which is opposed by the airline industry and airports. >>> crews recovered the body of a third and final person missing after a weekend mudslide in utah. the 13-year-old was

he is an assistant professor of law at george mason. thank you. back to your calls on race and gender. a democrat, do you think these issues matter? caller: i feel one of the things being overlooked is the fact that all of the lawyers who are questioning her decision in the new haven case are overlooking the obvious mandate of title 7 which says even based on a certain supreme court case, even if a valid test is used if there's discrimination or what is called adverse impact which means that any group that gets less than 80% of the major group in a pass rate needs to consider alternatives so that there is non-discrimination. host: whoops, we seem to have lost him. we will move on to north carolina. caller: i just wanted to answer the gentleman's question from virginia when he asked about republican sessions' gpa. we have seen a videotape of judge sonia sotomayor and she proudly said she was a benefit seabury digit beneficiary of legislation and it is how she got into law school. i'm getting unnerved about everyone calling in, saying let's look pas

next, we have ilya somin, assistant professor at george mason university school of law. his research focuses on constitutional law, property law and the study of popular political participation and its implications for constitutional democracy. he currently serves as co-editor of the supreme court economic review, one of the country's top rated law and economic journals. after receiving his am a in political science from harvard university and his law degree from yale law school, he clerked for judge jerry e. smith of the u.s. court of appeals for the fifth circuit. i look forward to your testimony. thank you for being here. >> thank you very much. i would like to thank the committee for the opportunity to testify, and more importantly, for your interest in the issue of constitutional property rights that i will be speaking about. the founding fathers, protection of private property was one of the most important reasons for the establishment in the first place and president barack obama has written our constitution places the ownership of private property at the very hea

an economist at george mason university is here to talk about that and the local economy. how hard is it, doctorrer for someone unemployed in the washington area to land a federal job. >> of course these jobs are fairly high education requirements and skills requirements. so they are not for everybody. most of you are unemployed workers are coming out of retail and construction sectors but there are some who we think of white collar workers, educated and who have been laid off from private sector jobs and they probably qualify but there's not that many jobs and a lot of people that want them. so it is a long process and may take three or four months to work through the bureaucracy. >>> looking at the local job market you just crunched new numbers and we have some new numbers coming out today. >> correct. >> how are things looking? >> we are losing jobs which is unusual for the washington, d.c. area. we have had six months of losses. they are not big, 35,000 fewer job than a year ago. they are predominantly on retail and construction but every sector has lost jobs except fo

. >> >> i am from george mason university. we expect almost for sure inflation. what is the plan in preparation for that? >> when i was at the treasury, i went eight years. and i do not think it would be a very good time to start. i think this goes to the issue i addressed in the speech, and i commented on in the last question. getting the economy going again has to be the first priority, but it is necessary to not be stimulative any longer than is necessary. that goes to budget policy, and it goes to the exit strategy for the central bank. i would not try to argue with you about inflation forecasts. i would say that if you look at the experience of industrialized countries, inflation acceleration typically, almost universally, have one or two of your predecessors. either substantial supply shocks, and that is quite comprehensive energy policies are important, or periods of below-normal unemployment and an overheated economy. the prospects have been overheated from this point that do not appear to be most urgent. i would also note that market indicators, such as

we'll be hearing from many of his colleagues and contemporaries, from moral an safer to actor george clooney toed to cop he will who explains how cronkite came to be america's town cryer. president obama among others will share his thoughts about the end of a broadcasting era. and more. first here are the headlines for sunday morning, the 19th of july, 2009. two light rail trains collided yesterday afternoon in san francisco. at least 47 people were taken to hospitals. four with serious injuries. the crash is the third major transit accident in the united states since may. the taliban has released pictures of an american soldier the group captured last month in afghanistan. the pentagon has not yet released the name of the missing servicemen who reportedly walked away from his base on june 30. on the tape he talks about how much he misses his family in america and says he's scared he'll never see them again. the u.s. military confirmed the man to be the missing soldier and condemned the video as propaganda. as you've just heard tomorrow is the 40th anniversary of mankind's great step

begin with our maps on george mason drive near arlington hospital. please watch for crews. we will take it to 66 eastbound through manassas. a clear commute and in maryland 270 southbound. it is smooth from 121 to the split. >>> it is one of washington's most prestigious and notorious addresses. the watergate hotel failed to sell and neighbors fear that it will continue to sit vacant. >> $25 million opening bid. >> reporter: the auction house was jammed, the bidding was not. >> get it? >> $25 million. >> at least ten people anti-ed up $1 million for a chance to buy the watergate hotel but the banks opening $25 million bid scared them all away. >> any more, sell it 25 million. we thank you for your attendance today. >> reporter: some have the watergate burglars sleeping in the hotel just before the scandal that brought down president nixon. whatever the case it long ago lost its luster and has been vacant since 2007. a victim of the financial crisis and well to do neighbors who were particular about what moves in. >> i do hope that the few years left in my life the hotel wil

let's go ahead and begin with graphic and let you know near arlington hospital and george mason drive and 16th street crews are taking away lanes as needed. glebe road is the best bet. moving to 666 eastbound from gainesville to centreville. lanes are wide open. drivers are moving at speed. here we are tracking the head lights past 234 manassas. on northbound 95, not finding any problems. drivers make their way from fredericksburg to the beltway. andrea, over to you. >>> is metro's train control system failing to do its job? metro says the system is working fine. however, a published report is raising disturbing questions about the safety of metro riders. 9 news now digital correspondent, armando trull is live at the greenbelt station with more. >> reporter: according to the report in the "washington post," which is this in this morning's post, metro discovered a lot of problems including the one here at the again belt station. an investigative story in today's "washington post" suggests that metro's train control system, that is supposed to prevent crashes, is now function -- is malf

he is a george mason university graduate, an avid sports fan and above all a big 9 news now watcher. best wishes to you on your 30th birthday today. thank you for being part of our morning team and joining us every morning. over to andrea. >> go to kristin right now. what's hot on the web? well, we have all probably seen video of california governor arnold schwarzenegger holding a knife or probably much worse during his days as the terminator, but it's not something you would expect to see now that he's a governor, right? that is unless he is talking about slashingthe state etbu e y erfocathrn buorrnposted this his or his twitter page. its readhere's a video i just shot for my twitter followers. let's watch it. >> hey, guys, i just want to say thank you very much for the things you are giving me. we talked about making cuts in the budget, getting rid of some of the state costs and then all of a sudden you come up with the great ideas why not just sign the cause and sell it for more money. that's what we are going to do. the id ea s.ve megimore s.eaid weideas. schwarzenegger saschwa a

and george mason and george washington are founding members. and they talk about their militia as a well-regulated militia. the problem is that there isn't any law regulating at all. so clearly the phrase has additional meanings beyond regulated by law. that said, the militia as an institution in the 18th century was the creature of colonial and then state law. people didn't just put together militias. this is one of the misconceptions that folks in the militia movement during the 1990s had. people didn't just throw together militias. the state divided everybody up, told everybody what company they belonged to. the state appointed the officers. what they did in the revolution was take that state-regulated -- that crown, that royally regulated institution and turn it against the state. and when antifederalists and federalists anticipated how an insurrection or a revolution might recur, that's pretty much what they were anticipating. what they were anticipating not individuals coming out of the woodwork. what they anticipated was the people gathe

she's at george mason university law school. and there is -- this reads like a novel. i mean, it is almost fictive in its style. there are no footnotes. it's a compelling story about a 12-year-old boy who's a slave in concord new hampshire -- concord, massachusetts literally on the eve of the british coming through. the might of paul revere's ride. >> and its nonfiction? >> and its nonfiction and it's based on archival research and it follows peter's story. he sleeps on the eve of the revolution. and he joins the continental army, not the british army. most blacks who did these could join the british army because the british were known for abolitionism. and they were antislavery. and so -- and it parallels another slave who escapes around the same time and same geographic area, who joins the british, and that sleeve and is up back as a slave after the war. and peter doesn't. so he fights in the war. he's almost like selig, woody allen's selig. he is some of the main evens the american revolution, the major battles and all of that and it has a happy ending. he does beco

. >> this is part of our political history less and robert dudley and eric shriver to jeff george mason and they are very into politics. and this book is in every close election in american history from thomas jefferson and john adams of the way to bush and gore. in some ways it is almost like redcoats revenge in terms of what might have been if the election had gone differently, is a great way to look at a lecture on history and is fun and accessible and the authors are great can i tell us very quickly about potomac books. >> potomac books is in virginia by the airport and we are in trade publisher, with a military history, we do political history, current events and a lot of great stuff appearance in non. >> elisabeth, senior editor with the town of books. >> join the conversation "what the heck are you up to, mr. president?: jimmy carter, america's "malaise", and the speech that should have changed the country", news editor at the washington post accounts of the political careers of the john robert and ted kennedy, he profiles each kennedy brother and reports on a new generation of k

temperatures in the upper 80s and sunday 90 degrees and it is family day at leg mason for the tennis tournament and we could have some thunderstorms. >>> let's get a traffic update with more. >>> we want to take a live look at the george washington parkway. the ramp to the inner loop is closed due to an overturned vehicle. as you can see in the center 0 the screen. emergency crews are on the scene and delay begins at is turkey run. to 395, no problems from the beltway to the 14th street bridge. keep in mind once you are in town 14th is closed between constitution and pennsylvania avenues until 6:00. over to the graphics right now. the beltway is clear between prince georges and montgomery counties. in other problems or incidents to report at this time and a live look at chevy chase. they are having a police investigation at bradley boulevard and arlington road. the alternates are fairfax and wisconsin avenue. back to you. >>> on-line retailers want to make their services as consumer friendly as possible. that includes catering to people who want to know e erwh their order is every st

mason and grace. ready? on your mark, get set -- go! >> yay! >> yay! i'm the last one! >> the champion of the first-ever "today" show sacrifice lake george invitational, nick and emily. congratulations. >> they're going to have that for the rest of their lives. >> i want to eat those marshmallows. we'll be back after your local news and weather. >> live, local, latebreaking. this is wbal-tv 11 news today in baltimore. >> good morning. i am mindy basara. police are looking for whoever shot and killed a pair of teenagers in the highlands neighborhood. the shots were fired actually after the o'clock and north conkling street. one of the victims, an 18-year- old was shot in the body and died en route to johns hopkins hospital. >>> let's get a final check of the morning commute with sarah caldwell. >> busy ride out there, not as far as delays go, but incident- wise. fayette closed at lucerne, an accident there for some time. we're dealing with other problems related to the storm. downed tree, and park heights at greenspring valley. not too bad, 13 tminutes on the outer loop

mason and grace. ready? on your mark get set -- go! >> yay! >> yay! i'm the last one! >> the champion of the first-ever "today" show sacrifice lake george invitational, nick and emily. congratulations. >> they're going to have that for the rest of their lives. >> i want to eat thosely >>> 8:25 is our time. actually 8:26. 72 degrees under thick clouds above the nation's capital. we'll get the forecast. i'm joe krebs on this monday, the 27th of july. in the news today, montgomery county police discovered a body in a burning minivan. officers were called to bradley boulevard in bethesda. police say what appears to be the body of an adult was found in the driver's seat. it's unknown if foul play is to blame. no other accident was found at the scene. we're going to come back and look at weather and traffic. >>> welcome back. i'm chuck bell. it's a cloudy start in the washington area. a couple of sprinkles crossing out of the annapolis area over the chesapeake bay bridge on the eastern shore. temperatures around town in the low to mid 70s now. our forecast and high upper 80s

steven barns worth assistant professor at george mason university to break it down and alook ahead. what is your take. >> good morning. i think both the republicans and democrats have put forward democrats to make themself as a center candidate. virginia is not going to be overwhelmingly democrat or republican, so the real decision in virginia is always made in the center and both of the candidates have shown they're going to campaign for the center. >> and virginia for the first time in 44 years went to a republican president and one of the things that came out during the debate, there seem to be a lot of focus on federal issues, on national issues. >> i think because there is relatively small difference idealogically, they're trying to run against more polarizing figures. for the republicans, they want to run against president obama and for the democratser they want to run against president bush. and it was striking how much conversation there was in the debate and in the campaign so far about washington politics, trying to get the effort to try to link the republican candidate to