political consultants told him to god -- $2.50 a gallon and his political consultants told him to go out and start making speeches about energy. i do not know if you remember the president's solution. does anyone remember the obama model? algae. the president said we need algy. we are thinking about having volunteers -- the president said we need algae. we are thinking about having volunteers at gas stations which bottles of algae. i want to talk about energy because it is a perfect example of a strategic change and how we should be thinking on a national level. if we would have a determined effort to open up federal land -- we all in alaska and it is twice the size of texas.

we all one-and-a-half times the size of texas. we could give the environmentalist half of texas for polar bears, glaciers, mountains. that would leave you an area the size of texas to develop. in north dakota, the new drilling technology has increased the amount of available oil from 150 million barrels to 240 billion barrels. they could have 500 billion barrels in north dakota alone. in that context, we could become energy independent. this would allow us to say to the europeans, the chinese, the japanese, that the straits of hormuz are a problem for you, not us. it would [applause]

-- [applause] it would allow us to say to saudi arabia, we are prepared to exert as much pressure as needed to allow you to stop. [applause] an american energy program does more than that. the unemployment rate in north dakota is 3.5%. that overstates it. there are 60,000 energy jobs -- there are 16,000 energy jobs they cannot sell because 3.5% have the wrong skills. i advocate that we change unemployment compensation so that you could -- you should be learning while we are paying. [applause]

we should never again give people in 99 weeks of money for doing nothing. in 99 weeks, you could earn an associate's degree. [applause] keeping energy in the united states would strengthen the dollar and create several million american jobs. it would increase the revenue for the federal government as people are put to work. nothing is a bigger step. i say this as the only speaker of the house in your lifetime to author four consecutive balanced budget. debt. -- $405 billion in debt. if we are prepared to control spending and we are prepared to reform government, nothing is a bigger step to a balanced budget than to take somebody off of food stamps and off of

unemployment and off of medicaid and public housing and put them back to work paid taxes and taking care of their families. [applause] finally, having an american energy program would allow us to take all of the royalties. if we develop our capability in federal land and offshore, royalty payments would be $16 trillion to $18 trillion to the federal government. that's about the size of our national debt. if we were disciplined, we could balance the budget on an operating fund basis and put all the royalties into a debt reduction fund.

in the lifetime of the young people here today, we will have paid off the entire national debt. [applause] the right energy program would allow you to stop worrying about the chinese. while keeping employed and bringing the price of gasoline below $2.50 per gallon. that is a strategic energy program that makes sense for america. [applause] for anybody who says we cannot get the price of gasoline down, with an 11% increase in production, prices dropped from $7.90 a gallon. to 205 -- $2.50. i am being cautious by tried to

get to $2.50. -- i am being reasonable. [applause] let me focus on the central theme of the national rifle association. the right to bear arms comes from our creator, not our government. [applause] it is one of the unalienable rights and alluded to in the declaration of independence. it does not grant the right to bear arms. it acknowledges their pre- existing condition. the founding fathers knew this for a practical reason. when british troops arrived on lexington and concord expecting to force the peasants into

surrender, something they had done quite well in ireland, scotland, wales, and england, they found they were not up against peasants. they were up against americans. they were up against trained militia. they were up against people who work sure the land of the free or the home of the -- and the home of the brave. without being the home of the brave, you would not remain the land of the free. [applause] many of you know i like wayver -- wayne very much.

i like your board and i know almost all of the board members. i hope none of them will take a person when i say that ii think the nra has been too damaged. --timid. let me explain what i mean. the gingrich presidency will submit to the united nations a treaty that extends the right to bear arms as a human right for every person on the planet because every person on the planet deserves the right to defend themselves from those who would oppressed them, exploit them, raped them, or kill them. [applause] it is not be enough to be

against the small arms treaty that keeps us psychologically on defense. the time has come to win the following proposition -- far fewer women would be raped, far fewer children would be killed, far fewer cows would be destroyed if people everywhere on the planet had the right to bear arms and far fewer dictators would survive if people had the right to bear arms everywhere on the planet. [applause] let's take the george soros and hillary clintons had gone very the represent a world in which he leads to disarm the rest of us aware helpful when he leaves turn sour and when evil reappears. we represent a world in which we trust in the basic decency of millions of people and we believe they can, in fact, protect themselves and they can be armed with safety because

they are in charge of their life because god has made them sovereign, not governments. [applause] remember -- i want to close with this but i want you to think about this and put it in your hearts -- our declaration of independence did not say we americans. it is a universal document. we hold these truths to be self- evident, that all men are created equal, not all americans. and that they are endowed by their creator, the reference point there is to all men, not to americans. we don't need to go across the planet trying to impose a american values but we do need to go across the planet and advocate human values and of those human values are best captured in the declaration of

independence, the constitution, and the federalist papers. we have an obligation to reach out to our fellow humans and say to them," if you had the right to bear arms recognized, it comes from god, if you had a government that recognize your inherent rights and the government realize you are a citizen, not a subject, a government which understood is government that needs to be limited, not people, then you two would have a chance to pursue happiness, you too could fire those you loan power. " it is not enough to watch people move from one dictatorship to another. to watch libya, egypt, iraq, syria lurch from disaster to disaster. we should think about people and we should help people understand that they are endowed by their creator and we should say to the

second amendment that it is an amendment for all mankind, an amendment which would improve all mankind. with your help, this is still a more open nominating process than anyone in the elite media believes and with your help, if the good the chip -- get a chance to go to newt.org i would like your help to lead an effort across the planet to make sure the right to bear arms becomes permanent and is a human rights everywhere. this will guarantee safety here in america. thank you, good luck, and god bless you. [applause] >> thank you, mr. speaker.

the gingrich treaty, i like that. our next speaker spent -- [applause] >> thank you, thank you. thank you. thank you very, very much, chris, i appreciate the kind words. it is great to see you and great to be here again at another nra convention. i am very excited to be back under a little different circumstances than when i signed up to come here. i wanted to come even though, as chris mentioned, we are no longer in this race for president in 2012. i want to come to say two things, really. number one, thank you. thank you for being an organization and a group of

people who, even outside of this organization, go back out into your communities and fight for those rights that you heard the two previous speakers talk about so eloquently. talk about those rights that are unavailable, talk about the rights that make this country the greatest country in the history of the world. the national rifle association is not just an association that protects the second amendment. protect fundamental freedoms of which the second amendment guarantees that they are protected. that is what you folks do and i am here to thank you for doing that. [applause] i was supposed to come today with my wife, karen, as she was scheduled to speak at a luncheon earlier and as many of you know, we had a little hiccup over the weekend, over easter weekend.

our youngest, our little girl, isabella, bella, ended up being second in the hospital for several days. she is out of hospital and on the man that i want to thank everybody for your prayers for her and her family. [applause] -- and our family. [applause] karen -- she is still not nearly one other presents a karen did not feel comfortable flying across country. you've got the short end of the stick. you just got me instead of me and carry. when it comes to gun rights advocates, i have to say that i don't hold a candle to my wife. chris is right, i am a hunter and got under but she owns with more guns than i do. [laughter] [applause] she gets a chance to shoot them more often than i do. you all hopefully will have an opportunity in the future to get

a chance to talk to her and hear her passion. let me assure you, it is a passion for the second amendment. karen and i are like members of the nra and we wanted to announce today -- i talked to crest -- now bella is a life member of the nra and i hope it is a long life. [applause] i just have to tell you that on the campaign trail, it was fascinating. we got a chance to talk about american values. and not just talk about them but try to demonstrate them. i enjoyed the opportunity to go out on several occasions to demonstrate the importance of our rights. one of them was the opportunity to talk about the second amendment and we did several hunting trips, a couple of them in iowa. we have the national media trailing along with this as we went on a bird pont.

pontiff in central iowa and it was very exciting. my 19-year-old was at his first pheasant hunt. he knocked one right out of the air and it was on fox news within two hours. it was great. [laughter] [applause] we had an opportunity to showcase, in a very important sense, the right to bear arms and the importance of this tradition and these rights in our country. i also took to going to some shooting ranges and taking part -- target practice as part of a town hall meeting. we had several those scheduled and enjoyed doing that. we tried to drive home the point that this is an important part of who we are as americans. it is an important part of something to be showcase, not hidden of our important these rights are and have to be protected.

we had a great time on the campaign trail and i just want to thank everybody was involved in that for what they did to support me. as i have said many times, in doing 385 town hall meetings in the state of ohio, going to over 1000 of those meetings across this country, what i talked about on the campaign trail, i talked about the foundation of freedoms and i talked about the declaration of independence and constitution, our rights case from a creator, not from the supreme court or the president or the congress. when i talked about those things and i talked about the integrity of the family and how we had to have both constitutional rights, face, and family because the most important of the constitutional rights, the one that all rights come from, is the freedom open religion.

-- the freedom of religion. i talked about all those other rights spring from that. if you have the right to speak and assemble but you cannot say or assemble for what you believe in, then those are hollow rights. i talked about the integrity and the boards of the family in america. we had to have a family that was strong to import those values. to the next generation, the values of freedom and opportunity as well as virtue that is necessary for good and wholesome society. i talked about how poured it was for good and decent americans in order to have limited government because you cannot have limited government if you don't have strong families. you cannot have limited government and people are not behaving well. government gets bigger as families break down and society breaks down because there is a lack of virtue in it.

those are simple things that as across this country and talk to people, like the folks here in this room, i got a lot of nodding had sent people understand that is the reality of the situation and yet we don't have a lot of folks in this country who run for political office to talk in those very plain terms. i got those plain terms by traveling around this country and listening to the people because they very clearly and plainly said that to me, how important these basic american values. this country was not built from the top down by planners and experts designing systems that work in america. no, this country was built by the bottom-up by people like the ones sitting in the tears in this room who understand what it is like to build a great country one family, one church, one community, one civic and community organization at a

time. that is what makes america great. we are a bottom up society, not a top down society. if there is anything that is at stake in this election, it is just that. whether we will be a country that will be ruled from on high country like rulea back in 1776 when faced with the tierney of those on high ruling them said that we will not stand for the spirit we will declare independence and we will fight and i am hopeful that each one of you will engage that fight over the next six months to make sure we defeat barack obama in the general election [applause] finally, i want to affirm what you are doing.

i want to thank you and a firm you. what you are doing is absolutely vital, talking about freedom, talking about the essential elements of what made this country great. you are an organization that has been a beacon, a beacon on this issue for a long, long time. this is about america's freedom and there is no organization i know out there that talks about it and focus is on it and does a better job of communicating it than the national rifle association. i just want to say to you as someone who went out with no chance of ever even making a blip on the political scene over one year ago -- everyone said what are you wasting your time. you will not have any money and no one knows who you are. what i found it is this country is still an amazing country. and that opportunity is still alive and well in this country.

that is because there are people like you and organizations like this across this country who hunger for an america that believes in what made us great. when ronald reagan left office in his closing address issued a warning to the american public. the warning was -- his concern about whether americans going forward were learning about who we are as americans. , what it meant to be an american. in this administration, a deliberate effort to try to redefine history. winston churchill said the debate is not about the future, it is about the past. we have seen from this president is redefining america as a country that is broken and always has been. a country that is unfair where there is not an equality of

opportunity, a country that has done horrible things around the world that we have to apologize for. he is trying to redefine who we are an's of the government as the solution to those problems. what the nra does so effectively and we as american citizens have to demand and fight for is to tell the real history of america. the real story of america which is a story that barack obama list all these programs. he listed social security to medicare to welfare to on employment insurance and said america is a better country because of these entitlement programs. he says i will go one step further, america was not a great country until these programs. you know, ladies and gentlemen,

america was not a great country because government created programs to run your life. america is a great country because it was founded great. in a god-given rights and free people. [applause] and that freedom is at stake. as governor romney talked about with respect to the supreme court, a 5-4 court, if this president is reelected, that 5-4 court may be 5-for the other way and the things we take for granted in america will no longer be taken for granted.

does anybody have a doubt what the decision would be on obama kerri president obama had five votes on that court? and what the meeting would be for the constitution and any limits on power? we heard from justice ginsberg. she was as the question whether she would recommend the american constitution for a country starting or try to draft a new constitution. she said she would not agree should recommend the south african constitution because it was more up-to-date. she also gave a lecture not too long ago where she talked about all of the court cases that she would overturn or that would be overturned if they were able to get that fifth of those rich listed a whole point of them but to spend most of the time talking about one case and that of course was the helen decision. she talks about that case as the

principal case that she would like to overturn. this election is the most important election in your lifetime. it is vitally important for the second amendment but it is important for all of the amendments and it is important for the very foundational principles and freedoms of our country. as always said earlier, you are all in. berets and i drove around iowa in a pickup truck with a guy named schock - chuck for months on and with no chance of winning is because karen and i and our family felt we had to be all in. this was not a race -- [applause] this is not a race i felt comfortable sitting on the sidelines. i had to do everything i could.

i ask all of you to do everything you can. i know there will always be complaints about not liking one candidate or another or they as a rigid are not as good on certain issues. we've got to win in this general election. we got to elect conservatives in our primaries, constitutionalists. in our primaries and make sure they are elected in the. general the we have to be all in and i pledge to you that even though i am no longer in this race, i will be all in between now and november. i will do all i can to make sure we elect republicans, conservatives up and down the ticket and with your help, we will make that happen. thank you all very much. god bless you. god bless the nra. god bless america. god bless you, thank you. [applause]

[cheers and applause] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2012] >> president obama visits tampa to highlight trade with latin america. the president also announced a new initiative called the small business network of the americas to promote job creation in small and medium-sized enterprises and encouraged trade among these businesses throughout the western hemisphere. following this stop, the president flew to columbia for the summit of the americas. this is about 20 minutes. >> i'm the president of florida structural steel. we are located here in tampa with two fabricating shops as well as our corporate office. we have been here for 55 years.

we employ a little over 200 individuals and our operations in tampa. we have tanks that could fit a football field inside. we also fabricate large steel highway bridges. for instance, all the bridges over 10,000 tons we did right here out of tampa. we have been in a growth mode for four or five years now but the good news is, we see that continuing. the free-trade agreement is instrumental in our growth by supporting our export business.

we continuously are involved in central, south america, and, in fact, have opened the support offices in guatemala, panama, and columbia, south america. this year, out of this location in tampa, we have shipped projects all throughout central america, the caribbean, three projects in africa, two projects in saudi arabia, and we have another large project now coming up in panama as well as one developing, a large one developing in ecuador. we are truly in a global economy. with that, tampa tank, fla.

structural steel along with the port of tampa and the city of tampa are honored to welcome the president of united states, president barack obama. welcome. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> thank you. hello, tampa. . [applause] it is good to be here in tampa, good to be in florida. i just got a tour of this magnificent port. i was hoping to try one of the cranes. [laughter]

the secret service would not let me. they don't let me have fun. there were more concerned about your safety than mine. [laughter] they did not want me messing anything up. i want to thank david for that introduction. i want to thank mayor buckhorn for welcoming us to tampa and an outstanding member of congress, kathy castor, for joining us today. [applause] if you have chairs, feel free to sit down. some of you do. it is warm in here. i don't want anybody dropping off. i have been talking a lot lately about the fundamental choice we face as a country. we can either settle for a country where a shrinking number of people who really, really well while a growing number are struggling to get by or we can build an economy where everybody gets a fair shot and

everybody is doing their fair share and everybody is playing by the same set of rules. part a building that economy is making sure that we are not a country that is known to us for what we buy and what we consume. after all, our middle-class was built by workers who invented products, made product, and sold products, the best in the world, all round the world. our economy was thriving when shipping containers left ports like this, packed with goods that were stamped with three proud words --"made in america." those exports supported a lot of good paying jobs in america including right here in florida. that is the country i want us to be again and that is why two years ago, i set the goal of doubling american exports by the end of 2014.

today, with the trade agreements that i have signed into law, we're on track to meet that goal. soon, there will be millions of new customers for american goods in south korea, and columbia, in panama. there will be new cars on the streets of seoul that are imported from detroit and toledo and chicago. that is progress. i want to thank two key members of my cabinet who were here today, labor secretary hilda solis is in the house -- [applause] and u.s. trade representative ron kirk because the work really hard to make this happen. [applause] one way we have helped american business sell their products around the world is by calling out our competitors, making sure they are playing by the same rules. for example, we have brought

trade cases against china at nearly twice the rate as the last administration. we just brought a new case last month. we set up a trade enforcement unit that is designed to investigate any questionable trade practices taking place anywhere in the world. we will take action whenever other countries are skirting the rules, breaking the rules, and putting our workers and businesses at an unfair position we will also make sure you have access to more customers. 95% of the world's consumers live outside our borders. we want them buying our products. i am willing to go anywhere in the world to open up new markets for american businesses. that is what i will be doing right after this visit to tampa, i am heading to columbia to take place in the summit of the americas which greece together leaders from the caribbean and from north, south, and central america.

everybody here knows how critical this part of the world is to our economy and to creating jobs. a lot of the countries in the region are on the rise. in latin america alone, over the past decade, tens of millions of people have stepped out of poverty and into the middle class. they are now in a position to start buying american products. that means they've got more money to spend. we want than spending money on american-made goods that american businesses can put more americans back to work. in car exports in the western hemisphere are up by 46% since 2009 parent [applause] that is important to tampa. tampa is one of the biggest ports in the country. a lot of the business being done here has to do with trade between us and latin america.

the fact that it has gone up 46% since 2009 is a big deal for tampa. florida exports to this region are up nearly 30%. we now export more to the western hemisphere than to any other region in the world. exports support nearly 4 million u.s. jobs. this is one of the most active trading relationships in the world and you see it up close here at the port of tampa. every year, more than 2.5 million tons of fertilizer go from here to farmers in the caribbean and central and south america. engine oils that are produced not far from this port get shipped to countries throughout the hemisphere. everything from recycled steel to animal feed gets sent from a year to customers all across latin america. while i am in columbia talking with other leaders, i will be thinking about you.

i will be thinking about how we can get more businesses like david's access to more markets and more customers in the region because i want to sell stuff but i want to put more americans back to work. [applause] one of the new things we are doing is launching something called the small business network of the americas. obviously, a lot of exports that leave from america to other places are big businesses and that is great. we want their big corporations successful and selling products around the world because we have a lot of small businesses that are suppliers to them. we also want our small and medium-sized businesses to have access to these markets. this initiative will help our small businesses, latino-owned businesses, women-owned businesses, african american- owned businesses. we want every business to be able to access these new markets and start exporting to

these countries. this will make it easier for them to get financing. it will link them up with foreign buyers who are interested in their products. i have always said that the true engine of job creation in this country is the private- sector, not washington. our job in government is to help businesses grow and to create platforms for their success. that is one of the reasons i have cut taxes 17 times for small business. [applause] that is what i fought to tear down barriers that were preventing a entrepreneurs from getting funding. that is what i have travelled around the world opening new markets so that american businesses can better compete in the global business place. [applause]

ultimately, this is what america is about -- we are a nation of doers and a nation of builders and we have never shied away from competition. we thrive on competition. if the global playing field is level, america will win. so long as i am president, i will keep on doing everything i can to give our workers and our businesses the opportunity to succeed. [applause] that is how we will make this recovery felt by all people. that is how we will make sure we build not just from the top down but, bottom up and in the middle out. that is how we will make sure that everybody has a fair shot. we will make sure that anybody who wants a job can find one and anybody who wants to succeed and live out the american dream has the opportunity to do so. [applause]

we've gone through three very tough years with the global financial crisis. it is the worst crisis we have seen in a generation. as i travel around the country and talk to our workers and their businesses, you cannot help but have confidence. we don't quit. we are resilient. we stay with it. we are the most inventive country in the world. we've got the best on to careers in the world. if we got the best universities in the world. we got the best research in the world. we got the best infrastructure in the world and we will keep at and make sure that the 21st century is the american century just like the 20th century. thank you, everybody. god bless you. [cheers and applause] ♪

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>> it has been nearly 10 years since the release of the third volume of the years of lyndon johnson and in a few weeks, the fourth volume will be published 1980's passage to power. >> this is really a book not to just about lyndon johnson bought about robert kennedy and jack bennett -- kennedy and the interplay of their personalities. it is a very complicated story. aboutt think people know these two complicated people, robert kennedy and lyndon johnson. i had to really go into that and try to explain it because it is part of the story all the way through the end of the johnson presidency. chronologically, at the moment,

johnson is passing the 1965 voting rights act and that is where a up to now. >> wants the rest of this interview and other appearances online at the cspan video library and watch for our upcoming "q &a" debut on sunday may 6. studentcamr's competition as the students what part of the constitution was important to them and why. the third prize winners selected article 1. ♪ >> i have roots in iraq and iran has many beautiful cultures and many beautiful people. ♪ definitely, many people will get killed if a full-blown war is

between the u.s. and iran. ♪ >> the president has given the ability to be commander-in-chief under the constitution. he is in complete control the military and civilian control the military was something the founders were interested in. they did not want the military controlling the government or rather the civilian leaders of the country being in control the military. the commander-in-chief power was important to them. but then as a check to that, congress would be the only entity that would be able to formally declare war. as commander in chief, he ordered troops and movements of the congress would be the only ones that could declare war. administration, he sent the navy to deal with the barbary pirates in north africa without a formal declaration of war. the first formal declaration of

war came in during the madison administration and he very reluctantly was drawn into the war. it was spurred on by a group of war hawks and members of congress who felt like the national reputation and prestige was being sullied by the british overseas. from early on, in the history of the u.s., you have presence dealing with congress in determining how military power should be exercised and controlled and i think the founders wanted it that way. they wanted this relationship where the branches would be watching over each other. for the purpose of not just derailing a program or trying to bring down a president or bring down a party or win the next election but to fight for the liberties of the american people. ♪ the end result is we have not had a formal declaration of war since we declared war on germany and japan and the access -- and

the axis in world war two. we have been involved in any military action since then but not of them actually went through the process of congress in declaring war. congress, as -- has a numerous occasions, tried to bring lawsuits against the president to determine whether his actions were constitutional. >> this is the headline from yesterday. congressman kucinich, why did you file suit in federal court? >> this is a constitutional issue and any constitutional issue has to be brought to the federal court if it is in dispute and you want to get a major issue resolved. in this case, it is our contention that the president of the united states violated article 1, section 8 of the constitution when he proceeded to order an attack against libya absent a vote by the united states congress. >> as an american, i'm thankful

for them dictating that congress should have the power to dictate war and protected from one person declaring war. in recent history, the presidents have initiate military action against countries without declaring war. therefore bypassing the members of congress and the consequence, circumventing the will of the american people. as an iranian, i am concerned that a president either now or in the future may initiate military action for political purposes. with our consultant -- without consulting congress, the president may not consider all the consequences of a war against iran. >> one person making a decision [inaudible] especially of that concern sends young people to war.

entering a war should be a decision where many people get involved in that decision which is congress', which is representative of the people. >> the issue of libya has brought the issue to the forefront of debate. >> the constitution was designed to be a check on the power of our government. hence the term enumerated powers. each of the three branches is very limited powers with congress having its own unique role of powers. one of which, and poured one of which is the power to declare war. my focus this morning will be on the aggregation of the constitutional and statutory responsibility by the president in regard to his actions on libya. in other words, the authorization to use military force is given to the president

by this body and none other. it is in accordance with our constitution that we are here serving our sworn constitutional duty and telling the president that he does not have the support nor the authority that he claims to have in order to continue military operations in libya. >> some contend the actions in libya was necessary based on the circumstance even without congressional approval. to illustrate the gravity of the situation, i asked my partner to use his skills with motion graphics to dramatize or-related images. >> there is a definite danger to people living in the cityies against gaddafi. quick action had to be taken. he found a way to do it without breaking a law. he did not officially declared

war. he help them do whatever they needed to do. >> does that correspond with what the constitution says? >> no, the spirit of the law? no, the letter of the law? yes. >> we know it is not a war but is there a loophole? >> lexi said, -- like i said, it did not go outside the spirit of the law but i think is one time it was justifiable. lack of action would have caused more harm than the opinions may differ but the constitution is still the final of the land. >> if we ignore the constitution, it is only -- it is not only apparel at this moment but it sets a precedent about what shall be the united states policy in yemen, sudan,

syria, any place around the world. if we don't pay attention to this, but we don't contemplate the wisdom of the founders and divide the power within the government, we give away the country. ♪ >> go to studentcam.org to watch all the videos and continue the conversation on our facebook and >> twitter pages> next, live, your calls and comments on "washington journal." then there will be a brookings institution forum on the housing situation and then the head of the consumer financial viera talks about mortgage rules. >> our specific mission is to want to see to it that human rights remain aches -- an essential component of foreign policy and that when we are

evaluating our foreign policy moves globally, human rights can never be the only consideration but it has to be part of the. dialoguethe >> the president and ceo of the foundation for human rights of. >> whether we are talking about torture and the war on terror or the recent policy with russia and the upcoming issue of whether or not the u.s. congress should pass the accountability act. we don't need to go into the issues of the policy but whether we will stay on record as saying human rights matter. the matter in russia. the map -- the matter >> in >> more sunday night at 8:00 on "q &a." >> this morning, the foreign- policy staff writer has the latest on the north korea failed rocket launch.