The Stephanie Miller Show - Feb 18 2010

February 18th, 2010

• Rep. John Yarmuth (D-KY) calls in at 6:05am Pacific to talk about health care reform.

• David Bender, host of “Ring of Fire” with Robert F. Kennedy and Mike Papantonio, joins us in the 8am Pacific hour to talk about the news of the day.

• President Obama hailed Wednesday’s one-year-old economic stimulus law as a solid accomplishment that staved off another Depression and kept up to 2 million Americans on the job. Still, with millions still out of work, Obama acknowledged that to them, “It doesn’t yet feel like much of a recovery.”

• The Transportation Department plans to open a formal investigation into the 2009-2010 Toyota Corolla over potential problems with the car’s power steering, a department official said Wednesday. The preliminary investigation is expected to be opened today and involves an estimated 500,000 vehicles.

• Eight U.S. missionaries charged with child kidnapping in Haiti returned to the U.S. aboard a military cargo plane early Thursday after nearly three weeks in a Haitian jail. But two others remained detained in an ordeal sparked by the group’s attempt to take 33 children out of the earthquake-stricken country.

• Tiger Woods will speak publicly Friday for the first time since his bizarre, Thanksgiving night car accident, beginning what his agent called “the process of making amends” for the sex scandal that sent him into hiding for three months.