only the united arab emirates tallied the outright majority view of the united states when obama took to the podium and cairo he was talking to a skeptical arab world and in egypt a clear 70% of the public who the unfavorable opinion of the united states 70 percent of egypt according to poll ratings no single speech could eradicate years of trust he told cairo nor could i answer in the time that i have all of the complex questions that brought us to this point*. of course, obama's outreach too not begin in cairo already in january when week after the inauguration obama chose to address the audience by giving the interview on a satellite television station. already he was speaking of a new partnership based on mutual trust and mutual respect and interest and showed a willingness to criticize america's actions and all too often in the united states it starts by dictating and we don't know all of the factors involved in he had knowledge to the depth of the strains in europe -- relations when there was no reason in america could not restore the same respect in partnership america had with

and actually in the united states you don't really have the death penalty. don't. and it is less and less used but the united states together with iran, china and russia and cuba are the only countries in the world that do. none. countries of western europe or canada or others have the death penalty and i'm very happy that in mexico we don't have it and i hope and i will do everything i can to ensure that we don't have it again and not be used. i don't think it is a great idea. chris: the final point the myth he talks about the neighbors can break their drug habit. we are returning out of time but if you want to elaborate on that. guest: i did touch on it a little earlier. the point there being that everyone acknowledges that as long as u.s. demand for drugs remains what it is the supply for the demand will originate somewhere and some of it will come through mexico if only because we share this 2,000-mile border with the united states and we also share a border with the countries or with the region of the world where those drugs are produced. south america,

it is not just that in the united states, is it? -- the debt in the united states, is it? i am not persuaded that the domestic demand is going to rise in china and brazil and, thus, sustain this. if the u.s. is going to grow at a new level, aren't we going to see commodity prices declined? -- commodity prices decline from these current levels? >> do you want to go first, hans? >> why is it happening? let me first say why it is not happening. many people think that this was happening because of export growth, because of peter manipulation of currencies or through other -- because of peter manipulation of currencies or to other factors, such as stimulation in china, for example, these economies were igrowing by exporting. that is a mystery of the data, in my opinion. -- a miss reread of the data coe out in my opinion. i would say that line of thinking is another danger because the trading system as we know it. we talk about protectionism and we talk about limiting the imports. there's a lot of discussion about rethinking export growth, which could also be against the trading

not just the united states. monetary policy was the source of housing increase in the united states, it seems reasonable to expect that international perspective that those houses would have rise as well. is that the case? with the respect of the magnitude of house price increases,economists have found that only a small portion of increase in the housing prices in this decade can be contributed to the housing policy. this can be used in models that make no use of economic theory. to demonstrate this finding in a simple way, i will use a statistical model that summarizes the historical interfaces of the housing model. this model is similar to economists that seek to analyze the evolution of data series over time. the model incorporates seven variables including measures of economic growth, inflation, unemployment and house prices and the federal funds rate, and it's estimated using data from 1997-2002. for our purposes the value of such a model can be used to predict the behavior of any areas studies, assuming th

and people have suggested that he would like to deal with the united states a way similar to the the way mainland china deals with united states. the problem is, of course, you don't have human rights, very give human rights record in cuba and in these from the u.s. perspective it is really don't have democratic elections and i was in the most powerful organizations in cuba right now are the cuban communist party and still the cuban military. cuban generals have made millions of dollars off of the recent increase in tourist trade to cuba and i am not sure what i certainly don't think that those groups want to see a normalization of relations with united states that would in any way threaten their position but once the castros have gone from the scene, events may very well force their hand or just simply be too powerful for them. who knows? i don't have a better crystal ball than anybody else, but i really do think that there are lots of people who wouldn't like to make money in cuba and that capitalist incentive i think over time will become even more powerfu

in the united states we have the high-paying jobs here in the united states. host: how can this be done? caller: i am not certain about how you can do this. it seems that corporate america would rather pay the lower costs, then keeping the labor here in the united states. the government may be able to find a way to keep these jobs here in the united states. host: thank you very much. the "richmond times dispatch." they have a report on the comeback of the stock market, and how the seemed unimaginable. that is one take on the economy. baltimore, you are up right now. how are you doing? caller: i would say the number one policy issue for me is afghanistan. and there is the economy and jobs. i have done quite a bit of reading. this is reminding me of vietnam. i think that this is taking so many resources from the country and it will be hard to address any other problem. we are approaching this in the middle east, and this is not helping to solve the problems over there. more money should be devoted to domestic problems. i would like to see a lot done with public t

guest: the united states is best served by multilateral action. xample, the united nations peacekeeping force in haiti has been let for a number of years successfully by brazil. host: they were there when the earthquake happened? guest: they began the first efforts to help the haitian people. it would be good to work with the brazilian people brazil is an increasingly wealthy country and they have experience in haiti so do not take the american legal the target bring in other countries and work out a common approach, a common policy. host: we are talking about latin american policy and your calls and comments are welcome we will get to your calls momentarily. on the issue of the war on drugs in mexico, an issue that plays out regularly on the screens of american television, one article talks about the spanish quagmire. here's a brief comment in this piece about what is failing but the mexican drug order the mceuen drug war is a costly un winnable and predicated on the mets. there has been distorted statistics to bed history how -- there have been d

statements indicate that japan all along was intending to include the united states. w would you discuss the steps that the united states has taken to strengthen the relationship. the various set of relationships with china. the secretary can start there and secretary gregson can follow. >> we are working with the japanese to distract the alliance. secretary clinton met in honolulu yesterday and celebrated the 50th anniversary of the u.s.-japan security treaty. they recommitted to strengthening the alliance. i think it was good news. pars>parse> >> secretary greg? >> penning is the continuation of the realignment with the build up of u.s. forces in guam. the guam program also includes near continuous presence of japanese aviation and ground forces in guam and training. we look forward to rapid implementation size a way to adapt and transform the military and security aspects of our alliance for the new century. >> back to the missile test and this may be for admiral willard or secretary gregson. given the arms sales going through and the context of the missile test, do

this attack took place over the united states soil. hink the handling by the fbi is entirely appropriate and i would like to bring to this committee's attention the fact that the fbi has done excellent interrogation in the past. the subcommittee of which senator kyl and i participated have a former fbi agents testified going back to the 1993 new york city bombings, where the interrogation done by the fbi really brought about convictions of a number of people, including the blind sheikh, people who are serving time in prisons in the united states who were part of trials here in the united states. so i believe the handling of mr. abdulmutallab is entirely appropriate, and i think people should understand that. i am concerned about the no-fly list. i believe the definition of who would go on the no-fly list is highly convoluted, takes a philadelphia lawyer to interpret, and i have been told by director blair that it is being reassessed and hopefully will be redone. petn is becoming the expose of the choice. i suspect we are going to have m

going on to establish a uniform rule of naturalization of the united states. we have nationalization and -- naturalization and bankruptcy laws. to fix the standards of weights and measures to provide for the punishment of counterfeiting of the securities and coin of the united states. this is one of the few constitutional criminal justice things the federal government is supposed to be doing. most laws the federal government has on its books are unconstitutional because we don't have the authority to do them. to establish post offices and post roads. post roads in the founders' time were the highway system so we do have constitutional authority for federal roads. to promote the progress of science and useful arts by securing for limited times exclusive right to the respective writings and discoveries that means patent laws. we have constitutional authority for patents. to constitute tribunals inferior to the supreme court. folks, there's only one federal court established in this document, the supreme court. every single federal court, every federal judge serve

government. -- tribes against the united states government. they abortion water rights among the three of them to over 110,000 acre-feet of water and they draw more than half a billion dollars of the taxpayers of the united states, mainly from the development of those water resources. from the outset, i believe that the controlling issue in approving any of these claims is simply this. is it cheaper to settle out of court to go to trial? to answer that question, we must turn to the attorney general. the attorney general is presummably involved in these negotiations. he commands the legal expertise to judge the soundness or weakness of the government's case. and he's the official of our government directly responsible for representing the people of the united states in this litigation. yet when these bills were brought to us last fall, the attorney general's office was completely silent on that question. in fact, the administration expressed many reservations about the technical aspects of these bills, which leads me to believe that these are no

and actually in the united states you don't really have the death penalty. re are some states like texas that do and there are many others now a don't. and it is less and less used but the united states together with iran, china and russia and cuba are the only countries in the world that do. none. countries of western europe or canada or others have the death penalty and i'm very happy that in mexico we don't have it and i hope and i will do everything i can to ensure that we don't have it again and not be used. i don't think it is a great idea. chris: the final point the myth he talks about the neighbors can break their drug habit. we are returning out of time but if you want to elaborate on that. guest: i did touch on it a little earlier. the point there being that everyone acknowledges that as long as u.s. demand for drugs remains what it is the supply for the demand will originate somewhere and some of it will come through mexico if only because we share this 2,000-mile border with the united states and we also share a border with the countries or with t

how can the united states pay for this? much when you were at the state department -- how much of the state department's budget went to the western hemisphere in general? can you give us a ballpark figure? >> guest: it's not so much of the budget of the united states. but it's looking overall at the u.s. budget. last year the u.s. bilateral support to haiti was in the range of about $250, $275 million. that will probably -- certainly go up because of the cost of the -- of the immediate emergency support the united states is giving. but more importantly, when in 2004, aristide left the country and there was a change in government. there was a big effort to enlist the international community through the coordination of the world bank through a major donor's meeting. to pledge more than a billion dollars in additional short-term support for haiti. and this is probably what's going to be needed here. in terms of the united states, the u.s. will be an important contributor. but it won't be the only one. it's not going to do this

it is not just that in the united states, is it? -- the debt in the united states, is it? i am not persuaded that the domestic demand is going to rise in china and brazil and, thus, sustain this. if the u.s. is going to grow at a new level, aren't we going to see commodity prices declined? -- commodity prices decline from these current levels? >> do you want to go first, hans? >> why is it happening? let me first say why it is not happening. many people think that this was happening because of export growth, because of peter manipulation of currencies or through other -- because of peter manipulation of currencies or to other factors, such as stimulation in china, for example, these economies were igrowing by exporting. that is a mystery of the data, in my opinion. -- a miss reread of the data coe out in my opinion. i would say that line of thinking is another danger because the trading system as we know it. we talk about protectionism and we talk about limiting the imports. there's a lot of discussion about rethinking export growth, which could also be against the trading

when asked what is your view of the united states and afghanistan? ng to the bbs, 68% of afghans think that -- the united states and afghanistan is either doing a fair, good or excellent job. when asked the same question about nato staff, 78% of afghans say that nato is doing a fair, good or excellent job. when asked would you be prefer to be ruled by the current government, 82% say the current government and 4% say the taliban. that's not surprising because they have had previous rule by the taliban. 0e7 taliban usually gets % support. who is the threat to your security, 8% say the united states and 82% say the taliban. is the government doing a good job? in 2009 71% said yes. and was it mostly good, again, according to the bbs, was it mostly good or very good that the united states overthrew the taliban. this is last year. 69% say yes. the final and perhaps most astonishing figure, what is your view of the united states military? this is last year, from the bbs. 63% strongly support or somewhat support the u.s. military in afghanistan. i think those

for the united states recognize east germany as the subject of the international law and member of the united nations. it will be no problem. the problem that soviet union and my father did push through that we are the world leader, and we have our allies and we have to be respected and recognized as equal. and you know that americans not want to recognize anybody as equal, so say no. all the problem as i remember was about who will check american papers. it will be east german official over soviet official? america's will never show our papers to east german officials. and they can quarrel over this forever. so i think murphy was very good diplomat at. [laughter] >> host: i don't think diplomats are getting something. but i think in his mind was it will be better to our relations if khrushchev will come without conditions. and of course, it was really better for these relations when making. and when you talk about this long trips, it was part of the time. i remember each visitor to the soviet union have a long trip around the soviet union. president have to go to the end of his. and i

and drug demand in the united states. is the u.s. willing to send the army into the projects of chicago, into the projects and tenements of new york, in los angeles, to do away with drug consumption there? i do not think so. i don't see any reason to believe this will happen. so the notion that maybe one day the u.s. will do this, and when it does, then the supply of drugs coming through from colombia or even being produced in mexico will dry up because demand has dried up. up. i quite frankly that is an ahistorical, foolish and e ignorant view of history. chris: chapel hill, tennessee, independent line, tony. john: thank you and thank god for c-span. i'm so tkhrad we have it. -- glad we have it. my question is, by the way the people interested there is a back by gary westbound called dark alliance. it will tell you a lot about the drugs passed through the country and within more thing, if we do stop the war on drugs, the sheriff deputy and police department and c.i.a. and f.b.i. won't be able to confiscate people's houses and money

d the white house state dinner at the invitation of someone at the pentagon or other agency of unitedt. you claim that this is a misunderstanding or a miscommunication. are you willing to forgo any financial gain that may arise through this incident including appearances, books, bees, or television opportunities such as any reality tv shows? >> i am only compelled to respond to questions are on the circumstances. i respectfully decline that answer your question. >> i think that these witnesses have a right to invoke the fifth amendment against self- incrimination when it relates to criminal activity. something that would incriminate them in a criminal proceeding. i also think that they me be offering the fifth amendment question that do not so involved such jeopardy. i ask that we consider what response we should have to these witnesses. thank you mr. chairman. >> thank you very much. i thank the witnesses for their testimony and the members for their questions p. i would remind the witnesses that the member of the committee may have additional questions for you and we will ask you to

you see it in places -- other places, what happens when the united states and the meat getsk -- united are trying to get a -- guest: i believe that actually it israel is the first to have this technology. it is something that would be easily duplicated, or could be easily duplicated. it does sort of change the dynamics of how you go to war. i think the concern of some is that it is too easy. it is too easy to push a button and launch a missile. it takes a lot of the document -- a lot of the human calculus out of war. why does the cia used drones so much, why does the obama administration rely so heavily on the dron program? it is in their minds the only solution, because they're not going to send troops into pakistan, because it would not be accepted in pakistan, because it is a sovereign country and yet they have been able to get the pakistanis to approve the drug program because it is seen as a lower risk solution -- approved lothe drone program because it is seen as a lower risk solution. host: a what -- hawaii, a republican lin

terms of those goldman sachs figured that if you look at the standard of living per head in the united states compared with china and 2050, the chinese standard of living will be only a bit over half that of the united states. so it will still be a much less material economy and the american economy in 40 years time. and so i think this is a long and very complicated process. we have never witnessed a process like this. this is completely novel. the western world has always been shape by dominant powers which are both very large economies, and have got very high living standards. the rise of china and india is a completely new situation where the largest economies will no longer be rich societies. and that i think is going to have you know, all sorts of implications which difficult -- all sorts of difficult things, all sorts of implications. so i think it's quite a long process we're looking at. but maybe certain stage that we reach quite quickly that i think the global financial crisis is really about the inability of the united states any longer to underpin the international economic and ha

the fore. i think independents might. in many states in the united states today, there are more registered independents or unenrolled or the states have different names for them. who are not affiliated with either party. and i think there are more people -- i'm not the only person who is fed up with the high level of partisanship, and i think, you know, there have already been independents elected governors in some states, some local communities are getting rid of party designations for, you know, races for mayor and city council, so i think we may see slowly perhaps a rise of the independents politically. >> thank you. >> hi, i'm from washington jefferson college. you actually already answered two of my questions, but i guess i was wondering, since barack obama already, you know, tried to enhance the role of the congress, by letting them do what they're supposed to do, do you think that he will continue this encouragement and have them keep doing what they're supposed to do or do you think that the criticism of what he tried to do will maybe stop hi

the taliban will not be defeated and it will outweighed the united states. but what if the taliban weren't our enemy? what if the solution to this problem? what i would say is we need to distinguish between the taliban which is a local insurgency and al qaeda which is a worldwide insurgency, terrorist group, that's targeting the u.s. that's a big difference because when you're a guerrilla group you hold territory. and when you hold territory, you can be deterred a lot more than you can be if you are a terrorist group and you don't -- you can't be threatened. we don't want to repeat what we did in the cold war, but it seems like what we're doing, remember when we thought all communist with the same? but then, there was a chinese commies and then it was a soviet time it is. and then it was of course common like tito which we eventually kind of the chinese and the yugoslav communist, we sort of made friends with, at least to some extent to prod our soviet enemy. in fact, richard nixon made friends with the more radical chinese in sort of not analyze, but a loose

and to recognize the losses suffered by the united states -- united nations. the un has made enormous contributions to haiti over the years. they lost many outstanding people on the ground. we offer profound gratitude and our condolences to the un and to the families of the deceased. we have also felt that tragedy personally in massachusetts with a loss of britney. i know personally the agony of her parents. first, and trying to find out what her fate might be an out and try to recover their daughter's body. the task before all of us remains far from over first, we must continue the ongoing effort to meet patients' immediate need for food, water, shelter, electricity, and medical care. so far, thanks to un peacekeepers in u.s. forces, the security situations have allowed this to go on its helium. we have begun to reverse the poverty that plagued haiti long before this tragedy. we cannot be satisfied to simply restore haiti to the unsustainable conditions of the past. on january 11, haiti was already the poorest country in the western hemisphere. even before the

but by and large, the muslim migration to the united states is already middle-class. whereas in europe the issue is whether the muslims in europe can achieve middle-class status. that issue of upward mobility is not a barrier to muslims in the united states. they are educated. their integrated into the economy. they are by and large well-to-do in many ways. they are indices for the wealth as a community, actually exceeds averages of many other ethnic groups in the u.s. so it's a very different, if you would, environment between these two. >> is the use of the middle-class and above significantly more inclined towards a democratic viewpoint, or are they more influence by the elders believes? >> i think there's definitely a globalization of information and culture does favor by and large democratic decimation. in other words, you have the youth and are acting much more through mediums of internet and modern technologies with the global culture. that obviously means that the current youth unlike a generation ago is not insular. the muslim world is not albania. there is no

it was because of haiti's defeat of france and their need for cash that the united states was able to buy the louisiana territory, the same as the louisiana purchase, which therefore opened the west to the united states and louis and clark then went throughout the continent. so if you look at it, haiti has had a tremendous amount to do with our development as a nation and so we now owe a responsibility and i believe to our long-standing friends in haiti and so i know that we are on the right track, the congressional black caucus will continue to monitor and to ensure that we have a thorough and an efficient response as we've seen. we're pleased up to this point and we will be at the forefront and so once again let me commend the chairperson of the congressional black caucus and all the members who have all joined shoulder to shoulder to say that we will march until we ensure that haiti will once again be able to come back again. they have the resilience, they have the spirit, they have the determination, so we know that it will come back, but it will have to be with the assistance of

every visa applicant who comes into the united states embassy in the fight for a united states visa, his or her name is run against a complete database that includes entries from the fbi, entries from homeland security, entries from the terrorist screening center, entries for dea. we take entries from all these agencies daily and load them into our database and so no one who applies for a visa, no one was issued a visa without a complete scrub against the full interagency database and additionally, there also scrubbed against the complete dhs and fbi fingerprint science of individuals who are concerned with those agencies. so we ran this complete screen. then, anytime someone is moved up so to speak on the screen list for either of our partners within the national security, that information is immediately transferred to us. we then run that new information against our list of issued visas to see if those agencies have obtained new information that they have not been made available to us earlier. and then we found that. and if that phone has moved up on that list, we then moved to revo

all of them are dedicated to the safety of the united states. as john has indicated, here we simply had a systemic failure. dhs uses the list as the cornerstone of our efforts to prevent suspected terrorists from boarding airplanes bound for the united states. second, we will establish a partnership on aviation screen technology between dhs and the department of energy and its national laboratories. this will allow government to use the expertise of the national labs to develop new and more effective technologies so that we can react not only to known threats but also proactively to anticipate new ways by which terrorists can seat aboard our aircraft. third, we should accelerate the point of advanced imaging technologies so we have greater capability to detect explosives like the ones used in the christmas day attack. we currently have 40 machines deployed throughout the united states. in 2010 we are scheduled to deploy 300 more, and may deploy more than that. the tsa does not conduct screening overseas. the christmas day incident underscores tha

i believe that the united states should work to establish conditions for assistance and to insist thoseonditions are met through institutions like the united nations and the world bank. we should help those institutions target the reforms that are feasible and essential and to set the conditions which will -- which will use the leverage that assistance provides to get those reforms effectuated. and the u.s. should work quietly behind the scenes to use its political influence to make sure that the haitian institutions do indeed adopt those reforms and embrace them. and the u.s., of course, should be contributing directly and substantially to both u.n. and world bank. and i would suggest the u.n. should take the lead in supporting elections and promoting political reform while the world bank takes the lead in supporting economic and social reforms. finally there are a couple of things that the united states is uniquely positioned to do by reason of its proximity. these involve trade and immigration. senator kerry, you already mentioned a very generous preferential access haiti has to the

so what does the united states ever do about that? i really done know. >> and another disturbing trend for those of us who are from the border and have lived there a long time, something that marks, i think, quite a difference in what's going on today is the growing role of spectacle and the very public use of violence and of terror tactics. >> believe it or not, there are extensive numbers of narco blogs. there are hundreds of youtube videos made by drug cartel people that you can access, go over to the austin public library and you'll see the pictures of members of the cartel. you'll get to hear a nice narco credo in the background. and a lot of times after people are killed in the streets of juarez, let's say, the group that did the killing will put up a banner explaining why they were killed, okay? and threatening the opposite cartel. it's a very scary situation. what you have is sort of the propaganda arm of the drug cartels. they see this as a quasipolitical struggle. they need to control public opinion. so that shows you how pow

you don't want the united states to be attacked. focus needs to be on, why is the system not working right and, are the right people in charge of it and you know, the politics are irrelevant here. after september 11th, you know, i was reporter in new york city covering new york city and covering the giuliani administration and, in weeks and months after that, that i was a reporter and that they were, government, it was this weird period covering what had happened and we were, i was just, sharing information about what had happened. and i think that it's unfortunate when politics sort of interferes with really what's important, which is making sure that the are solid and that we prevent, the next attempt at being successful. >> host: jody in michigan on the independent line, good morning. >> caller: get morning, greta, good morning, eric. thank you for c-span. i had just a few questions i wanted to ask and maybe a solution. we have all these things in place that eric talked about this morning and everybody seems to be having a hard ti

number one is we need to recognize people coming into the united states and troubling to the united statesfrom overseas this is a privilege, not a right so if we get information that people may pose a threat to the united states we put them on a no-fly less or selector list and if they want to come here they've got to go more in-depth interviews. the second thing if they come here and commit a crime absolutely the terrorism act. charge them to the full extent but put them through a military tribunal. take them out of the civilian court. they do not deserve the rights and privileges that the civilian court system provides. the third thing, and this is i think an important point that you make as for americans to become traders, the spokesperson for bin laden who's an american, the d.c. five who left the u.s. sometime i think in november and went over to pakistan to practice jihad, these individuals need to be treated as the traders that they are and we have to accelerate and removed the barriers to dealing with these individuals and in the fourth point the recommendation made to the presiden

in the united states. every president in the middle east there is for lies. the problem is not to rid al qaeda. everybody looks up to the united states and wishing united states can change that system to make a free democracy so every country. yemen, tomorrow. so mall you. if you remember, all these leaders is dictators and they have a benefit from having organization like this going to keep democracy against them. we need democracy and liberty from the middle east from the leaders not from the people. you watch and see what will be. unfortunately, people in america don't realize it's the true picture in the middle east. not just saudi arabia but all middle east. host: where are you from originally? caller: i was born in egypt but i fought against russia in afghanistan and i don't realize all this is political to me. the problem truly believe me is the leader in those country. presidents are not for democracy. host ho thanks with the call. this weekend "new york times," a list of reuben writing in a clear s

s from the united states. in these and so many related ways, i'm proud that the united states has played a leading role, either through our government's foreign assistance programs, or through the programs and examples of civil society like many of you represent. attorneys and businesswomen have partnered with women around the world as mentors, trainers, co-collaborators, to share their practices, exchange experiences, and provide support. in addressing women's access to justice, we realize that raising our voice for equal rights and equal treatment under the law is necessary. but it is not sufficient. passing laws is important, but it is not nearly enough because laws must be backed and enforced by effective and responsible governments. judges and legal practitioners are in critical positions, not only to influence how laws are made, but to help ensure that they are indeed enforced. there is so much we can do to support women who are changing the world for the better through the legal profession. the beijing a

there is a joint effort going on between the united states and the vietnamese government. to date in terms of resources dedicated by the united states on this effort roughly $4 million. just recently announced the contracting of 1.7 million, 1.69 to be more precise for the construction of a secured landfill. now i've been to the facility, and what has been done to date is effectively a containment effort. a way of trying to limit public access to contaminated soil, water, lakes, ponds as well as the creation of a catchment area to catching water that would be contaminated with dioxin so that does not spread further in the ecosystem. but this has now created a new situation which is say having contained the problem they are moving to clean up, and they're at least the last i heard is the question was do you just try to clean it up right away or basically move the contaminated soil out of the area and find a way of cleaning it up later. appears to have chosen to do the latter. that is to say move it to an area in a secure landfill and then find a way of trying to remove the d

host: when taking a look at the united states, it is under switzerland and canada. and above denmark and chili. host: that's right. for the first time the united states is second place in north america in terms of economic freedom. canada is freer. host: is this because of efforts such as the tarp funds that were distributed and the stimulus? guest: that's right. host: that are there others? guest: it was the underlying factor that just went into so many of the other variables. there are ten variables in the index. tarp. that is the government intervention into financial markets to break contracts, to regulate pay, to essentially take the aut motive industry and put it under the protection of the united states government. from one perspective people can say, well, it was something we needed to do. but when we're looking at the index, we're comparing 179 countries against standards and they're all held opt same standard. the united states is on the same as bangladesh and we found that this intervention just contravenes so many of the principles that are in the index t

outside the united states, d.h.s. overnments and airlines to advise them on which passengers may prove a threat and require security measures for flights inbound for the united states. t.s.a., of course, does not screen people or baggage at international airport. regarding the christmas day attack, abdulmutallab should never have been allowed to board this plane with explosives. the interagency to fix these vulnerabilities is well underway, and we are all working on it jointly. we welcome at the department the opportunity offered by the process described by admiral blair and director leiter to contribute to improving the federal government's ability to connect and simulate intelligence, and we appreciate the work that they have done and the ongoing relationship that we have. we are also focused on improving aviation screening and expanding international partnerships to guard against a similar type of attack. i have submitted a longer written statement describing the various d.h.s. programs are at work to keep terrorist

this happened throughout the united states. his is a place like southwestern texas, where they see the real wages dropping before the legalization. this is it a really dramatic increase, and this is tearing at time of economic downturn. what we then look for, is that over time, the earnings were helping the native workers as well as the undocumented workers. l as helping the undocumented. this is very significant again, this is survey results that would, have been well documented and well studied over the last 20 years. the other interesting feature that happens right after legalization, is actually a major dropoff in undocumented migration. and apprehensions across the border. we've spent billions of dollars trying to achieve these types of numbers. these numbers were achieved with the republican president, and a bipartisan support in congress, bypassing legalization. we saw dramatic downturns right after legalization of obviously the flow of the undocumented that sustained themselves up until about '94, when there was the begi

as president obama stated, the relationship between the united states and china will shape the 21st century, which makes it as important as any bilateral relationship in the world. but this development occurs as new challenges emerge. our newest security issues cover a very wide range. these include economics, regional areas of tension, terrorism, proliferation, interview supplies, piracy, the effects of climate change, and disasters both man-made and natural. our increasingly interconnected world and, demand for resources require cooperation and integrated solutions. since the committee's last hearing on this topic, we have seen several significant developments, some positive, other troubling. many are documented in the secretary of defense's annual report on military powers of people's republic of china. on one hand, we have several positive examples of china's contribution to international peace and stability. we are encouraged by china's support for un security council resolution 1874, and its efforts to support the denuclearization of the korean peninsula. china is also developing an e

guest: the united states is not as popular as the president is . he united states is not as popular as the president is in some countries. but i think we are holding our own in the region. i think the president's should try to find time to the region. it would be a very exciting visit. in brazil, oden cried, chile, colombia -- are quituruguay, ch, colombia, it would be a very good visit. host: washington, go ahead. caller: are you aware of the president's -- the brazilian president's speech in copenhagen where he said, the problem is the white people in the world. the second question is there is a country -- a company in brazil that is an offshore drilling company that in june, the obama administration gave a $15 billion loan to and i think is quite ironic that in february, george soros bought majority shares in that company. effectively, this administration has paid back george soros for getting elected with taxpayer funds. guest: i do not know anything about the second issue, but i can comment on the first. the brazilian president is a colorful, c

i remember thinking that there had been a cuda-at that in the united states. -- coup d'etat in the unitedates. but a watershed memo for me in our country in a country that has some semblance of a democracy that presidential authority was under law. the next excerpt concerns what happened at the center when i and a couple of others decided we would represent the first people taken spoke custody under the military order. the november 13th order pushed ccr into action. it was this document that made us begin the historic fight for the rights of those who a few months later would be imprisoned at guantanamo. it was not automatic that ccr would take on the cases of those jailed under this order. and it was not immediately clear that those cases -- what those cases would be about. at first most of the focuses of ccr, the media and the experts was on the draconian ad hoc provisions and the aspects of the president's order. few of us paid much attention to its indefinite detention aspects. we began a discussion about representing the first people detained or tried under the order. it was not the

speaker a message from the president of the united states. the secretary: mr. speaker. the speaker pro tempore: madam secretary. the secretary: i'm directed by the president of the united states to deliver to the house of representatives a message in writing. the speaker pro tempore: under the speaker's announced policy of january 6, 2009, the chair recognizes the gentleman from iowa, mr. king. mr. king: thank you, mr. speaker. i prishte being recognized here on the fleur of the -- on the floor -- i appreciate being recognized here on the floor of the house of representatives. i was listening to my colleagues speaking mostly about the national health care act and what this could mean. i'd like to pick this up from the place where todd akin left off and that would be the importance of the state of massachusetts. i do not believe it can be overstated, the impact of the election returns last night, the -- i listened to carl cameron on fox news who is, i believe, very well informed and probably deeply researched individual and he said that this is the most important congress

every visa applicant who comes into the united states embassy in the fight for a united states visa, or her name is run against a complete database that includes entries from the fbi, entries from homeland security, entries from the terrorist screening center, entries for dea. we take entries from all these agencies daily and load them into our database and so no one who applies for a visa, no one was issued a visa without a complete scrub against the full interagency database and additionally, there also scrubbed against the complete dhs and fbi fingerprint science of individuals who are concerned with those agencies. so we ran this complete screen. then, anytime someone is moved up so to speak on the screen list for either of our partners within the national security, that information is immediately transferred to us. we then run that new information against our list of issued visas to see if those agencies have obtained new information that they have not been made available to us earlier. and then we found that. and if that phone has moved up on that list, we then moved to revoke t

they really -- in the united states. they really do not, i think, did not understand the depth of dr. king's spirituality. and the spirituality of the young men and women who were with him in this effort across all lines. we are hurt as a nation because of that. >> >> we are meeting a few blocks from where the world trade center stood. one of the consequences of that day has been a rising fear and misunderstanding of the muslim community i. is there something to be learned from dr. king in helping those slum community faces the situation that is -- how the most frmuslim community faces te situation today. >> absolutely. there are many that stories about our young people these days -- the kind of discrimination and suffering of our children -- post 9/11 children have gone through and have gone through great hardship. they face it regularly. they are called terrorists and all sorts of names. this feeling of anger at being mistreated and unfairly targeted is the natural reaction. we need good role models. we need to give our

because it didn't have to be the president of the united states of the it could have been somebody else rights -- >> were you there? >> on advice of counsel -- >> are you here right now, mr. salahi? you got to get an answer from your attorney on that? your attorney bobbed his head up and down when my good friend from pennsylvania was discussing the possibilities that someone from the white house should be here also here testifying. you can do it all you want. you aren't going to take the heat of your clients. no one's going to take the fall for them. there may have been something wrong going on and maybe the white house made a mistake, but they're not here to plead the fifth. >> mr. pascrell -- >> i'll continue. mr. and mrs. salahi, i believe the entire committee wsh we can move from the fake natur and concentrate on the security breach, itself. (ç to folke froma pattersonç newç jerseyh those hats on top of your head, i wonder if you would have those hats on top of your head, i wonder if you would have t(asç you swished through in ft of the cameras. qççyour presence is required o

langhorn's heroism was keeping with the highest traditions of the military and reflects great credit on himself, his unit and the united states army, closed quote. mr. speaker, in continued tribute to private first class langhorn's bravery and self-sacrifice, the members of the united states army seventh squadron, 17th cavalry, past and present, has ensured that his life and legacy lives on. as noted by retired sergeant major tony morton, president of the seventh squadron, 17th air cab association, all troop assigned to the squadron must, quote, earned their spurs, closed quote, to the completion of a grueling three-day series of tasks known as the spur ride. it is notable that completion of one of the station requires that a soldier has a detailed knowledge of the service and sacrifice of private first class langhorn. a requirement that according to sergeant major morton serves to ensure that private first class langhorn will go on in this squadron as long as this squadron is flying the colors, closed quote. in addition in 2008, the squadron cut the ribbon on a conference center named after private first class langhorn and t

it was a major problem for the united states. another thing they can talk on, afghanistan is a nation [unintelligible] in 1747, the federation was founded. that makes it an older nation than the united states. it is not a lack of nationhood. it is that it has had a weak central state. there is nothing really wrong with that. the central state has been part of our problem. related to that, the most popular institution in afghanistan, scoring these enormous high numbers was the afghan national army. when asked which institution do you most admire, a 82% say the afghan national army. it is seen as an institution that is really doing good work.

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the arts are flourishing in the united states. in this country, nationwide were almost -- london has tears orchestras. but here in the united states, in small cities, and yes, during the economic downturn a lot of those orchestras have been in trouble and had to cut back. they are suffering. but the truth is, these are institutions that by and large are supported by corporate largess that the whole idea of creating wealth is if you like the good things come if you like place, if you like concerts. if you like paintings, if you like sculptures, if you like beautiful homes, not of this can exist unless wealth is created and accumulated. and then used wisely by people who actually want to support it the government idea of great artistic expression usually tends to be -- is one of the reasons, one of the things that so peculiar, the national endowment of the art was created in 1967 by president johnson. and if you look at the record of great artistic achievement in the united states since 1967, i think there are very, very few of those

our goal is to identify arrest and remove every serious criminal alien from the united states. gely because we didn't have the resources or presence to be in every jail in the united states. as most of you know we have a tiered system. there is a federal system, large penitentiaries. then there's an even larger state system or state penitentiary's and finally there's the largest system of all, the local jails and prisons at the county and city level. with the advent of securer communities, and the placement of biometric identification in state and local jails by i.c.e., we have for the first time can surely contemplate removing most criminal aliens as they come through our criminal justice system whether it is that the federal level or the state level and it is a sea change in enforcement and it is going to bring about a sea change in the way we carry out our business. i think you will see a very very sharp increase in the coming years in the number of criminal aliens removed from the united states. a very quick word about securer communities. the reason it is changing things is

in their path on the way back into the united states. but we have since the incident we have had numerous conversations with the ceo's of carriers, the secretary will be meeting with the head of-- in geneva on this trip she is going to today after the hearing with you, and we will be having a discussion with airline carriers as to how we can all work together to improve the security of the system. >> carriers have indicated that information regarding passengers visas dad this is not available in real time when a passenger checks in at the airport. we will actually be taking addresses and other similar problems. >> so, the visa revocations and these are refusals or did nylz are checked prior to boarding an individual. bair check this part of the preflight screening process that is ongoing and has been ongoing for some time. >> okay, so do you think there is an issue with them not having this visa information in real time? >> the state department uploads all of these issuances that it makes to databases that are coming that we share with th