written, the following the presence of loved ones is more important during a hospital stay than any other time. that s what the president wrote. we want to bring in janice langbehn, become an advocate for hospital rights after the death of her partner. thanks for joining us. what did the president say to you during that phone conversation? well, thank you for having me, peter. the president said he knew of lisa s story and how outraged he was by how we treatsed and apologized for our treatment, and then proceeded to tell me about the memo he was going to be issuing after speaking with the people from air force one. your partner suddenly collapsed before a cruise out of miami. this happened in february of 2007, i believe. 23 you can tell us about your experience in miami s jackson memorial hospital back then, and why it was so outrageous, that there was such a need for change. well, my first as soon as lisa got off the ambulance, i
like the s.e.c., on the theory that the federal law should be only enforced by those federal agencies, not by states. to create uniformity and a national approach. that argument is valid. to an extent. but not to the extent that state officials and prosecutors like myself and other attorneys general, have been completely deprived of authority in most states. and the point here is, dylan, that there should be a criminal investigation. no question about it. this deal was consummated in february of 2007. the s.e.c. under the prior administration was completely awol. and now hopefully we will see a reinvigorated and re-energized securities prosecuting agency at the federal level. and more authority to the states as a result of the reforms now going through congress. i m going to wrap this up. naomi thank you for the time. mr. blumenthal.
been made in iraq since the surge was under way in february of 2007, a dramatic decline in violence, and a dramatic decline as you noted in the number of forces we have, just under 100,000 now. we are due to get down to 50,000 as per the president s directive, come september 1st, and then be completely out of iraq of course by 2012. simultaneously though we ve obviously seen a downturn in the security situation in afghanistan. that s required the president to send an additional 30,000 u.s. forces. the coalition is sending another 10,000. we ve got about one-third of the u.s. surge in there right now, a little over 10,000 forces, and we ve seen the initial stages of what is likely to be a 12 to 18-month campaign, nada lee, marja thus far very good. we re now getting into kandahar. going to be much tougher as the secretary noted this week. there are going to be difficult and deadly days ahead for our forces. what is the metric by which
morning and you had chris dodd on, and you asked him about the banking bill, listen to his response. i became chairman of the committee 36, not months, ago, and when we started holding hearings on this in january and february of 2007, these matters had been going on for years. i didn t disagree there should have been far more oversight and accountabili accountability, but my chairmanship only began months ago. he makes a good point, but he s been in the senate a long time and been on that committee for a while, and he s on the committee during a period of deregulation, fewer rules for wall street. americans look at somebody who has been on the committee, the most powerful committee with oversight of the banking system on that committee for 26 years and he said, wait, i ve only been running it for 36 months and this is what i think we should do to clean it up. the entire time that chris dodd
we preview steven stanton s incredible story of torment. the outside doesn t match the inside in a very real way that is not easily understood. courage and change. susan stanton is here next on larry king live. good evening, i m jeff probst sitting in for larry tonight. susan stanton was born steven stanton. he was a husband, a father, and a 14-year city manager of largo, florida. in february of 2007, it was revealed that steven was pursuing gender reassignment. the cnn presents documentary her name was steven, follows susan s physical and emotional transformation. it debays saturday on march 17th at 8:00 p.m. eastern and reairs