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As someone who lives in austin, its nice to have this weather. I am welcoming it. I was hard all summer long. I was very excited to get to interview david westin, somebody ive admired from afar. And he has written exit interview, a book i hope you all get. If youre watching this at your home or you are here in the audience, its an extraordinary book about his time running abc news in 19972010. He was therefore all of the big moments of our recent history, and of all personalities and the broadca...

That is true. He was the godfather for a whole new generation of 12 lawyers. And also tony of course went on to defend them and other things, when they were subjected to one police raid after the next. [inaudible] thats a good testament to tonys skills. And by the way, thats michael adjusted up, another great hero from seven cisco. A great photographer. Michael s. Bennett longtime photographer for the 49ers went back to the first days with joe walsh and montana. Made were beginning to see them a...

Here are the numbers to call you can also find us online. Send us a tweet. Or join the conversation on facebook. You can also email us. The Washington Times has this headline and in the Washington Post we would like to hear what you think about this bill. We will be digging into it more, going over some of the details. If to give us some perspective is pete, a staff writer with the the hill newspaper. Thanks for being with us. Guest hi. Host they talk about the House Republicans balked at first....

Bob, lets begin with opening day at noon. Guest there was controversy couple years ago, a couple members in the house did not realize when they would do the swearing in. They were by a Television Screen and thought they could get sworn in that way. That will not happen again. They will get sworn in. A first vote they will have is for the house speaker. House republicans have chosen john boehner and the the democrats have chosen nancy pelosi. Thats the first order of business. There is some drama...

It appears that their only priority is to help those who have the most. They brought the house to a new low last night. The banner of this beakers in god we trust the speakers chair says, in god we trust. We cannot serve false promises are false guarantees. Many of you know that my cousin, john, was killed in 9 11. I would say dozens that Congress Needs to know. They were destroyed by Hurricane Sandy. It did not stop my family and his neighbors to go out and sit through the feets of sand to find...

Here we are with a loggerhead moment in these situations repeat themselves through time and there is a quote from a minister of france that said 01 on not to be obstinate. Of less you ought to be then you ought to be an unshakable. That is a good phrase for the moment we are in right now. With the president that he ought to be obstinate should be unshakable. By collecting quotes and i probably will the rest of my life. Whether a window into a moment of history but a well phrased thought with the...

If we use them as a kind of historical lands and focus on the period from the 1960s to the present, the last half a century or so, that can tell us a lot about how we as a country move from a relatively liberal political heir to a much more conservative political air. Whether that is changing, were in a shadow of the 2012 election, we dont know yet. I think its still too early to tell. But certainly the last generation or two of american politics has been dominated by a more conservative orienta...

Now everything private about us is not in the house. We we have to find out ways to protect things that we care about and so forth. So we talking about . Well, the names of the organizations of the services that we are talking about, who are we talking about . We are talking about not only states, but think about it, private data affects 800 Million People. It will be the Third Largest nation in the world after china that has its own currency and economy. And yet, there is no revelation about wh...

Doing socalled lowlevel kinds of crime but eventually became the crime boss of new england with his headquarters on federal hill in providence, rhode island. Sometimes people think mob guys are thats not true at all. They have people are incredibly intelligent. They pull some scams for example, on wall street that would make Bernie Madoff look like a piker. But, of course, they had a traditional kind of socalled organized crime which were shaking young people, extortion. Of course, they viewed a...

Donald barlett, when did you and james steele start working together . Guest 1971. Host how did you meet . The newsroom of the Philadelphia Inquirer. It was interesting. We were both hired. Guest we actually arrived on the same day. Guest same day. We never knew each other and had almost no contact area are firstyear. Host who teamed you up . Guest someone at the paper, the paper and recently changed ownership, and he was very interested in projects, investigative projects, enterprise journalism...