mr. speaker? doughy. you were on dave last night. i was. it was great. did you have fun? i had a great time. oerve talks about dave, he s cold and this and that. he s not. he s a very likeable guy. in fact, we really hit it off. afterward we talked for about 30 minutes. and just personal stuff. then we went out and had a couple drinks. did you? no. i m lying. he is still there are very few things that i m excited about these days. you wake up at 3:00 a.m. long enough, as you know, nothing s exciting. sorry. john lennon is over central park in a flying saucer. tell him i ll be there tomorrow. yeah. but i was really excited about this. that was cool. it was great. did you a very, very good job. we should show the highlights. no. why don t we? i d like to see them. he was so good. show the highlights.
anniversary of operation desert storm which was a war that stopped short of taking baghdad and taking out saddam hussein. last night brian williams sat down with president george h.w. bush and his foreign policy team from that time. defense secretary dick cheney, vice president dan quayle, secretary of state jim baker and joint chiefs chairman, general colin powell. brian asked the president about selling the effort of america and the opinions of some that the war was about protecting oil supplies. mr. president, do you think americans would have responded if you had said, look, here are the stakes, we have a nation that runs on this black liquid. yes, this is for our vital strategic interest, if you want to call it oil, call it oil. i think that was vitally important, but i don t think this that was the whole message by a long shot. i mean, it was it was
a shakeup at the top of google, brian williams roundtable conversation with the national security team that served under george h.w. bush and led the country into the first gulf war. and then there s this. remember the ventriloquist lady? ms. arkansas. she was on with dave last night. the good times kept rolling. we ll show you what happened there. let s get to the news live at 5:30 a.m. at 30 rock in new york city. president obama is reportedly restructuring his economic advisory board to place a renewed focus on job creation. late their morning, mr. obama expected to name general electric ceo jeffrey immelt to head up the new board which will be focused on jump starting the private sector. ge, as you know, is the current owner of this network. at least for a few more days any way. in an op-ed in the washington post, immelt said he intends to reach out to labor and business leaders adding that there is
enemy, and that s what they re doing. if you were president right now, donald, would not have had this state dinner. i would say get off your plane, come to my office and let s talk. i would have, you know, sent him to a mcdonald s, if we didn t make a deal i d say go home. that from the fox morning show yesterday. i love that man. we showed you earlier in the week, miss arkansas, the runner-up at the miss america pageant. something special here. she should have won, she didn t. it s a great injustice. why should she have won? she does double-fisted ventriloquism. it s loads of fun. david letterman had her on last night. if any reason, miss america can t finish her term, this woman would jump right in. i say why can t we have both? if she has to have a hip replaced or something this is who you want.
house committees will now try to come up with proposals to lower health care costs, expand access to coverage and protect the doctor/patient relationship. there also could be a bid to expand insurance pools as the current law already allows. tennessee congressman steve cohen, a democrat, is apologizing for comments he made on the house floor earlier this week saying he never meant to call republicans nazis for their opposition to the health care law. everything i said was true, i think people agree it s true. there s been a message, it s been given over and over and over and it s a lie. i regret it s taken away from the health care issue. i was talking about the message and the process of delivering the message. i m sorry the jewish people and my colleagues got the wrong impression. i think the rhetoric should be toned down. congressman cohen speaking on the ed show last night. there are new reports this