about wilbur mills. mills told me that by the end of this week, he thought he would have something in shape to come down and discuss with you that he could present in the way of a packet that could be of interest. i told him i had read some articles lately that were a little bit disturbing that indicated something that was happening on the medicare and, indeed that, well, you know better than to the attention to those stories, and i said, i agree with you, wilbur. i just wanted to be reassured and he said, you know you cannot read everything you want, and this bill ultimately it has to have the mills stamp on it, and i said well, the president s view is that whenever you want to talk to him, that door is just wide open. he is happy to see you, and he said you just tell him again, as i told you lately last week that just as soon as i am ready to sit down and be able to present think to him that i could spell out that would make some sense and that would represent what would
george h.w. bush. and he was the only republican. he was the only republican. who came that day. and i always thought it spoke so well of both of them. it did. it spoke well of both of them. folks, we have to stay on the clock. one thing i learned in television, i know how to get off on time. thank you very much. you have a great day coming up here. [ applause ]. on our next washington journal, gretchen morgenson joins us. looking at some of the shortcomings of the home loan modification program, which was set up to help homeowners struggling to make their mortgage payments. then susan carlson of the minnesota organization on fetal alcohol syndrome about a new study examining drinking and drug use among pregnant teenagers. a after that, john jackson of conservation force talks about endangered species and big game hunting. plus, your phone calls, facebook, comments and tweets. washington journal is live each morning at 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. this sunday
. . . . instructions we ll get licked on that too. the only judgment i can make at this point is that mills will certainly try every device he can to get an agreement on a conference that would include king, reluctant as they might be because he d hate like hell to be on the house side of a conference where he and two republicans vote against two democrats to come out with a conference report. and geez, he starts i ll speak some business right now. you talk to i ll talk to you as soon as i get out of these independent businessmen. my thought would be that if we could get mills to agree that we would take it in confidence that would be fine. if not i would try to instruct the conferees. no, at the moment i share that view. but i do think this, that with the stories around the country today, we ve got something going on this damn thing. and god almighty, i hate to see that leadership join with mills as some kind of a wrapup that screws us quick
has announced it will issue its analysis of the bill later today and you can read more at thehill.com and watch the senate live this afternoon at 4:00 eastern on c-span2. this week on q&a robert caro. he talks about on power, his audio project looking at the evolution and exercise of political power in america. brian: robert caro, why did you decide to do, for the first time, an audio of what you are thinking instead of publishing? robert: when you write your book, hopefully it endures. sometimes you are doing a lecture and you say, that was worth saving. but the thing about lectures is, the moment they are over, they are over. they disappear. so when audible said, could we record two of your lectures, i said, great. brian: so it s audible.com for eople that do not know it. they can subscribe to that and get this hour and 42-minute talk that you made. it was from lectures? robert: it was the 100th anniversary of the pulitzer prizes. last september. so the neiman foundatio
everyone is on the same page when it comes to safety. fox5 bob barnard is live at the green belt metro station with more, bob. hey allison, steve, spoke to a metro ride erin sums it up foreeverybody it s easier getting work and staying off the road and riding metro. he says i m taking chances. it was ntsb a week ago good and federal transit administering over the weekend both blatting metro for not doing enough to ensure passenger safety since april 23 there s been eight smoke and fire incidents on metro ntsb blasted transit agency for safety oversight system fundamentally flawed. you mentioned paul wheat feld called the meeting of 650 metro managers and supervisor and people will be fired if they don t get on board putting passenger make it clear in terms of my priorities and expectations and fact we re running multi-billion business here with people s lives at stake and now federal government fts demanding retreatment for everybody front lines of metro system. there s