Minutes. I am your moderator and a host. I want to thank our hosts, minnesotas aarp and credit unions, for making these possible. Minnesota agora, thank you very much. There is a lot of work that goes into organizing these forums, and i think this has become a minnesota tradition. We had a coin toss. Governor walz won. He chose to go second. Kent will be the timekeeper. First opening question, youve talked about a vision of healing minnesota. Can you give a more specific vision of what that means right now and how you would heal minnesota in the next four years . When i see patients in the office, we cant begin the possibility of healing until weve asked the right questions. If somebody said, ive got chest pain, i to be a fool to say, this is what we are going to do. We are here today together. We are asking the questions and saying, what matters to you . Through the process of asking those questions and having conversations, learning, listening, that is the way we are going to heal mi
[applause] [inaudible conversations] next, on booktv, after words with theresa payton, this week Cheryl Chumley and her first book, police state u. S. A. how orwells nightmare is becoming our reality in may, the Washington Times reporter argues that governments desire to to monitor and control the public is greater now than ever before. Traffic light cameras, drove monitoring and more amounts to a police state that must be rolled back. This program is about an hour. Host cheryl, and its a pleasure to be here with you today and ive really enjoyed your book, step two. I am a data junkie by nature and i just love the opportunity to talk with people about how to protect their data. With so many modernday privacy issues coming up in what i love about what you do with the book on it so was research, so thought of as though provoking. So im really excited to have a conversation about what do people need to know and if there actually anything we can do about it . He gave me a little help here
We will holdfast for a strong. It passed on a bipartisan basis here. It is an important piece of legislation that has expired. We must pick up the farm bill. Which is a revolutionary piece of legislation that will save the country up to 24 billion. We will again take things up for the United States Postal Service and make things whole. Also the victims of hurricane sandy. These were debated in the senate. We have to take prevent costumes and preventions before another hurricane sandy. Thousands of homes and businesses were destroyed in new york, new jersey, and new england, and 10,000 americans were left homeless. We have a responsibility to rebuild their lives and their communities. As we have done with those who are victims of fire and other natural disasters and other parts of the nation. We will consider changes to the senate rules. Because this is a matter of additional debate, we reserve the right of all senators to oppose changes to the senate rules. It is my intention that the
And you can join the conversation by giving us a call, 202, 585, 3881 for republicans, 2025853881. For democrats, 2025853880. For independents, 2025853882. Facebook or us on send us an email. Journal cspan. Org or twitter. Com cspanwj to send us a tweet. Action prompted at embassies, that is the headline. Based on unspecified information, the warning comes after the state department ordered the closing of 2100 embassies in the Arabian Peninsula. Let me read to a portion of this. The part in the state warned citizens to the continued potential for terrorist attacks, particularly in the middle east or north africa. Host that is from the state department. Matt lee, who follows the state department for the associated press, is with us on the phone. What news can you tell us . Caller there is not much new that we know since thursday or friday, when we receive the notice of the embassy closures. The alert came out on friday. Right now we are kind of in a wait and see mode to see what, if any
Closed as of today. Those include iraq, egypt, and libya. The state Department Says al qaeda and other groups might be targeting u. S. Government or private american interests. That travel alert is set to expire at the end of the month. This morning on nbcs meet the press, two senators talked about the situation. Senator saxby chambliss, the Top Republican on the Senate Intelligence committee, talked about the alert. Iowa senator dick durbin talked about the embassy security. We will take a look at that now. The chatter out there chatter means conversation among terrorists about the planning that is going on. Very reminiscent of what we saw pre9 11. We did not take heed on 9 11 the way that we should. I think it is very important that we do take the right kind thelanning as we come to close of ramadan. We know that is always an interesting time for terrorists. We are also, what, 38 days, 37 days away from the september 11 anniversary. Are paying very, very close attention to the chatte