explaining to do, squaring their votes for the kill medicare plan with a public that actually likes medicare. and right now, democrats are going to put senate republicans in the same corner, forcing them to vote up or down on ryan s plan. the senate voted 50-40. with just five republicans voting no. also it now looks as if john edwards is facing perhaps federal indictment. he is accused of using campaign funds to cover up his extra-marital affair. you see. is he guilty, or is this a stretch of the law? plus, diamonds are forever. newt gingrich being deep in debt to tiffany s threatens to become a killer story about character, his character. what kind of a guy owes a quarter million to buy diamonds? how is this for another mitt romney flip-flop? in 2009, romney called president obama s auto rescue maps tragic and a very bad circumstance for the country. now that they have proven a success and chrysler s paid back all of its loan, a romney spokesman says it was romney s
strategists convinced candidates not to support the republican plan to phase out medicare. it s a political death warrant. last night s defeat of a republican in a conservative new york state district is because of one thing, the gop plan to kill medicare. now, house republicans have some explaining to do, squaring their votes for the kill medicare plan with a public that actually likes medicare. and right now, democrats are going to put senate republicans in the same corner, forcing them to vote up or down on ryan s plan. the senate voted 50-40. with just five republicans voting no. also it now looks as if john edwards is facing perhaps federal indictment. he is accused of using campaign funds to cover up his extra-marital affair. you see. is he guilty, or is this a stretch of the law? plus, diamonds are forever. newt gingrich being deep in debt to tiffany s threatens to become a killer story about character, his character. what kind of a guy owes a quarter million to
policy fellow at the peterson institute for international economics and previously was chief international economics correspondent for the new york times. he was a journalist with the times for many years, first becoming acquainted with senator moynihan when he was reporting on new york politics and later as a correspondent in washington d.c. steve also served as the bureau chief for the times in new delhi, india, where he coveredded ambassador moynihan. steve hess is a presidential historenior fellow emeritus in governance studies at the brookings institution which he joined in 1972. he served on the white house staff of presidents dwight eisenhower and richard nixon, and he was an adviser to presidents jimmy carter and gerald ford. of his experience in nixon s white house as deputy assistant to the president for urban affairs, he once said, basically, i was the chief of staff to daniel patrick moynihan. [laughter] peter galbraith is senior diplomatic fellow at the center
senior diplomatic negative at the center for arms control and non-proliferation, steven hess, former adviser to presidents ford and carter, richard avenuage, lieutenant governor of new york, and new york senator charles schumer. it s about an hour, 40 minutes. steve weisman is the editorial directer and public policy fellow at the peterson institute for international economics and previously was chief international economics correspondent for the new york times. he was a journalist with the times for many years, first becoming acquainted with senator moynihan when he was reporting on new york politics and later as a correspondent in the washington d.c. steve also served as the bureau chief for the times in new delhi, india can, where he covered ambassador moynihan. steve hess is a presidential historian and senior fellow emeritus in governance studies at the brookings institution which he joined in this 1972. he served on the white house staff of presidents dwight eisenho
and he sang as he lived his life and as he did everything else. there s a song that i sang for him at one of his birthdays quite a few years ago, and i can t sing it now without thinking of him. it is about an impossible dream or somebody who dreams the impossible to make it possible make the impossible possible. the quest is what s important. and i have to say now that senator kennedy and this song will forever share a very special place in my heart. to dream impossible dream to fight the unbeatable flow to bear with unbearable sorrow to go where the brave dare not go to ride the unrideable to right the unrightable wrong to love pure from afar to try when your arms are too weary to reach the unreachable star this is my quest to follow that star no matter how hopeless no matter how far to fight for the right without question or pause to be willing to march into hell for a heavenly cause and i know i can only be true to this glorious quest that my heart will lie peacef