military presence in cuba also deterred the fascists and the nazis from trying to turn cuba into a caribbean version of the channel islands. guantanamo became a flashpoint for cubin u.s. animosities. toward the end of the eisenhower administration win raul castro kidnapped and held hostage for a little more than a month 24 u.s. servicemen included 11 marines who were returning to the base from liberty in guantanamo city. now he justify this kidnapping on the basis of the united states about guantanamo to be used for refueling purposes by batista, his military -- refueling his military aircraft and also transferring arms to battista's forces after the eisenhower administration placed an embargo on all weapons sales to the cuban belligerence. as the relations between washington and cuba deteriorated following the installation of the revolutionary government which of course took havana on january 1st, 1959. guantanamo was viewed by both washington and havana with concern. castro believed that a u.s. invasion might begin at guantanamo. and at various times, particularly during the to the missile

delors left cuba nine years ago. she is one of thousands of americans are writing a daily flights from miami now that president obama has eased restrictions for visiting relatives back home. they come loaded with gifts -- clothes, medicines, choice. for the past 50 years, communist cuba has lived under u.s. trade embargo. even basics are considered luxuries here. >> this card should be -- this card should be in a museum. >> on key issues like the trade embargo, washington still demands q. but show signs of reform. -- cuba shows signs of reform. >> the embargo is embedded in our law. the president does not have the authority completely do away with it, even if he were interested. as president obama has said he would need to see more evidence cuba would change policies, release political prisoners, so many more issues. i think what we are doing is moving the ball forward. >> political prisoners remain one of the key stumbling blocks. the unofficial cuban human rights commission estimates there are some 200 dissidents b

but this is a first of our many broadcasts from cuba this week.is important for the cuban authorities to allow us here. we will try to give a comprehensive plancher -- picture of this country over the next few days if we can. it is a very compelling and thailand. it has a lot of problems. back to you. >> thanks. you can see more at 7:00 and 10 eastern on bbc american. coming up, after a military coup, when will the army allowed a returno democratic rule? it is an important day for the italy prime minister. they will decide the fate of a corruption trial of the man accused of corrupting a british tax lawyer. he was convicted last february of accepting a bribe and will spend 4.5 years in jail. both deny any wrongdoing. here as our correspondent. >> it is been a few years since he was accused of accepting a $600,000 bribe for giving false evidence that one of his trials. he was one of the consultants on offshore tax havens. the prosecution says he paid him for not revealing details on offshore companies in 1997 and 1998. there is evidence as an exper

and training doctors is pain great dividends for cuba. -- paying a great dividends for cuba. hello to you. president obama has been hosting at a televised gathering of 41 politicians from opposing parties, hoping to break the deadlock over his health care reform, now stalled in the u.s. congress. there were protesters outside and strong feelings inside. republicans think the president should abandon th current plan and start again. the changes were animated at times. >> we want and uniform treatment of all americans. i hope that will be an argument for us to go through this 2400- page document, remove the special deals, and treat all americans the same under provisions of the losses they will note that geography does not dictate what kind of health care they will receive. thank you, mr. president. >> let me just make this point, john, because we are not campaigning. the election is over. [laughter] >> i am reminded of that every day. >> so we can spend the remainder of the time with our respective talking points going back and forth. we were supposed to be talking about insur

tras la pausa, mas dos eso se suman a la condena internacional tras la muerte de un preso polÍtico en cubacon los vecinos por los fotÓgrafos. ltima univisionáánot univ-ultimn >> el ex vicepresidente de estados unidos dick cheney fue dado de alta. el exfuncionario reanudarÁ sus actividades en breve.los exÁmenes mÉdicos revelaron que habÍa sufrido un leve ataque cardÍaco. a medida que pasaron las horas se incrementaron en todo el mundo las redacciones por la muerte del preso polÍtico en cuba. el propio gobernante cubano se refiriÓ al caso. >> la muerte del disidente orlando zapata tamayo, ha hecho llover crÍticas dentro y fuera de la isla. >> no habÍa necesidad de dejarlo morir, ha sido un acto cruel. >> en washington el apartamento de estado dijo estar profundamente entristecido.áánoú solicitÓ al gobierno de raÚl castro que libere a todos los presos polÍticos. >> lo lamentamos mucho, fue condenado a tres aÑos, pero en la cÁrcel tuvo problemas, muriÓ y la lamentamos muchos. en confrontaciÓn que tenemos con estados unidos perdimos a miles cubanos. >> negÓ que en la isla se torture, la tskúmy

viernes funcionarios de ambos paÍses discutieron cÓmo garantizar una migraciÓn legal y segura entre cubapo de washington pidiÓ tambiÉn la inmediata liberaciÓn de un contratista estadounidense que estÁ detenido en la habana. las conversaciones migratorias habÍan sido suspendidas desde el 2003, pero se reanudaron el aÑo pasado. ambos paÍses dijeron que las conversaciones del viernes tuvieron un tono constructivo, pero aparentemente el tema se vio opacado por nuevos conflictos. cnn, la habana. >> gracias ya estÁ por otro lado el presidente de venezuela se vbligadreconocer que tendrÁ que recurrir a sus enemigos polÍticos para enfrentar la crisis energÉtica. considera comprar electricidad a estados unidos y colombia, con el que mantiene roces diplomÁticos desde hace un tiempo, mientras se dice que Él hermano del lÍder de las farc, estÁ en h@not uni-fin de semtñÓ atraviesa venezuela dejÓ a hugo chÁvez por un momento sus diferencias polÍticas con lombia a fin de mejorar el suministro de energÍa. >> si el gobierno de colombia, si tiene un excedente de energÍa elÉctrica, y nos ofrece vendernos y

. >> la comunidad internacional condena a cuba por la muerte de un preso político en huelga de hambreaúl castro dice que lamenta su muerte pero él culpa a estados unidos. >> en la parte de atracciones de la florida una ballena mata a su entrenadora. >> este es su noticiero univisión co jorge ramos y ivisioelena salinas. isio ááno¿ero univisiounivisionáánot presidente de la toyota áá compadeció por fin ante el congreso de la toyota, expresó su amplio respeto. nuestro corresponsal lourdes nos dice como elivisioáánoeero univisioue disculpó ante el congreso y el pueblo de los estados unidos por los problemas de seguridad que fue forzaron la retirada de más de 8 millones de automóviles la empresa que fdó su abuelo indicó que crecieron demasiado rápidos.áánoticiero univisiounii problemas de seguridad descritos y haciendo profundamente cualquier accidente de los conductores de toyota, defectos en los carross vinculados por lo menos 5 muertos. toyota se pronunció absolutamente confiado que no hay problemas con sistema electrónico del acelerador. >> un miembro de vigilancia de la cámara dijo q

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work in cuba said that at that point fidel castro is immensely popular. he couldn't have overthrown him. he said why didn't kennedy pay any attention to that? because that was all unclassified information. >> host: therefore not important? >> guest: therefore not important so when he went to his generals and cia he said we have all the secrets. they don't have them. and of course that is what lyndon johnson said during the vietnam war. if you know what i know -- but you can't of course. >> host: at the bay of pigs the recent scholarship also suggested one of the reasons they went ahead with it is they also expected if not an uprising a successful assassination of castro street and the mafia working on the secret plots as well. a combination -- biskupic could do that without the invasion though. they treated it over and over. >> host: hundreds of times. >> guest: that's another example. president kennedy said there is no -- wind the cubin missiles were put in cuba, there is no conceivable defensive justification for the missiles being there so they obvious

. >> i'm in cuba. >> reporter: cuba was country number 34. his current total is 142, so he is 3/4 of the way through his list to break the world's record. his target is 200. >> all i know is i'm really tired. >> reporter: he has to travel by public transport, never by plane. eat street food and avoid hotels. so far he's been thrown into jail twice. >> in congo they took my t-shirt off me, my shoes and socks and took my glasses. i couldn't see. threw me in a room with mosquitos for a week. i had to pray to god i didn't get malaria. it wasn't pleasant. they thought i was a spy. >> reporter: another low points with way he was turned away at the border for not having a visa. >> i had to go back, get the visa, go all the way back. took me a week round trip, i'm crossing the border with a french guy. he said do you have a visa? i said i tried to get one last week. oh, they change the rules all the time. they gave him a visa. >> reporter: hitching rides on yachts and cargo ships across the sea he is keeping costs down. he learned people are generous

. >> i'm in cuba! >> reporter: cuba was country number 34. his current total is 142. so he is three-quarters of the way through the list to break the world record. his target is 200. >> all i know is i'm really tired. >> reporter: he has to travel by public transport, never by plane, eat street food, and avoids hotels. so far he has been thrown into jail twice. >> i was thrown in jail in congo that. >> took my t-shirt off me, my they took my glasses. i couldn't see. they threw me in a room for a week. i had to pray to god i didn't get malaria. it wasn't very pleasant. i think they thought i was a spy. when you look at me, i look like james bond. >> reporter: another point was when he turned away at the mr&y having a visa. >> go all the way on coaches and buses, get the visa, come back. it took me a week round trip. i crossing the border and a french border said have you got a visa? no, i haven't got a visa. i tried to get one last week. oh, they change the rules all the time. they gaye me a visa. >> reporter: catching rides on cargo shapes cross the seas, he is keepi

>> we are taking a hard look at all of our eight programs for cuba.hat we spend so that it assists those cubans fighting for freedom, standing up against the abuses of the cuban government. we are looking at everything. i cannot come before you and said that any program is sacrosanct. i want to be sure the we're getting our money's worth. with new forms of communication and new ways of getting information into cuba to help support the efforts of the people on the ground, i think we have to look at this expenditure like every other one. >> i appreciate the answer. i have a different topic on africa. our policy towards the rebel group in uganda that is now operating across three countries that continues to kill at an alarming rate. i have authored a bill that has 63 sponsors that would require more strategic attention and resources to address the violence. without getting into the weeds of this, how does responding to and seeking to end the lra's reign of terror it into your budget? does the administration have a plan and dedicated resources to address

work in cuba said that at that point fidel castro is immensely popular. you couldn't have overthrown him. he said why did kennedy pay attention to that? that was all and classified information. crusco therefore not important. >> guest: therefore, not important. when he went to his generals and cia people he said we have all the secrets. they don't have them. and of course that is what lyndon johnson said during the vietnam war: if you know what i know, but you can't of course. host collected the of pigs the recent scholarships' adjusted one of the reasons they went ahead with it is the expected if not an uprising, successful assassination of castro. the had the mafia working on the secret plots. it was a combination. >> guest: they could do that without the investigation the. they tried over and over. that is another example. president kennedy said linda cubin missiles -- when the russian missiles were put in cuba, there is no conceivable defensive justification for the missiles begin their. so they obviously are offensive just to attack us. well, there i

we talk of a question time and that is great in cuba. we learn again this week that there are no plans in the near term to hold a news conference we can and does overexpose the argument right now. >> the cherry picking up what reporters get to ask. none of them are from the white house press corps. they are mostly from a new york. >> the only person who could avoid the west -- he is the only person to avoid the white house prescorps. >> the only one has not been back. >> i think the low as a result of the week has been the house and senate to vote to increase the debt ceiling as if they don't have enough problems with that already. >> should we cut the governor -- shut the government down. ? >> mya high node was that as of monday -- my high note was that as of monday, many countries had signed themselves to the copenhagen accord. it is not a binding treaty but it gets to where we should have started the copenhagen talks. it is pointing us to a new treaty that is not the dysfunctional kyoto protocol. i think that is an important accomplis

every academic passport or average of listing cuba said at that point* bidault castro is enormously popular and said why did it kennedy pay attention? because that was done classified information and therefore not important. when he went to the generals and cia people they said we have the secrets. that is what lyndon johnson said. >> the one of the reasons they went ahead they expected not just that but the mafia working on the secret plots. >> guest: they can do that without the invasion. that is another example. president kennedy said when the cuban missiles were put in cuba, there is no conceivable defensive justification for the missiles being there. they obviously are offensive to us to attack us. there was a very conceivable defensive reason. castro knows they were there they were combining their crops and harvested he thought one was coming and he had to protect himself nerve may not in his interest to make himself a target for nuclear war but he went along with it because he thought there was an attack coming. so kennedy said there was no conceivable reason fidel new that and khrus

jfk, naval blockade of cuba confer with congress. >> guest: the finest moment in office was the cuban missile crisis, no authorization consultation of congress manages and engages in active war blocking the island of cuba is an active war and called it a quarantine but it was an act of war and he undertook that without any mission from congress and any attack from cuba. there was a longer-term threat attack by the change in the balance of power but the soviets were not gassing up the missiles to launch an attack on this either. >> host: lbj, the imam war funded, refunded, continue to be funded. nixon bombed the imam before the peace negotiations, no consent. so here we are and it's watergate and you can tell me if i'm wrong but to me it is unprecedented curb of presidential power in the history of the country by congress. and here presidents for all these years have pushed the envelope and as far as foreign policy, domestic policy and over the edge and what efforts he really wanted to create and it is for political information that curbs the president's foreign policy powers. don't yo

and without any attack from cuba.an, there was a longer-term threat of attack, by the change in about the power, but the soviets were not to launch an attack was either. >> host: lbj, the vietnam war, funded, refund, continue to be funded. nixon? bombed vietnam right before peace ago shenzhen's. no consent by congress. so here we are and it's watergate. and you could tell me if i'm wrong, but to me it's the unprecedented curve of presidential power in the history of our country by congress. >> guest: i think that's right. >> host: and hear president for all these years have pushed the envelope as far as foreign policy, domestic policy, on over the edge and whatever theory they wanted to create. and it is a two bit burglary for a political information. that curbs the president's foreign policy. i mean, don't you just find that, how do you get from their to there? >> guest: it is an amazing thing, because first of all, nixon -- it's good to talk about him because the constitution doesn't guarantee that that people won't

and jail has really focused world attention for the moment on the plight of political prisoners in cuba. they say there are about 200 here. the human rights commission puts it at that number, about one- third less when raul castro came to power. the cubans and says the are no political prisoners, the call them mercenaries in the pay of the united states. >> any more about the reports 30 other dissidents have been arrested for attending the funeral? >> this is what we're being told by the dissident groups and by the cuban commission for human rights. the potto was from a province -- orlando zapata was from a province on the other end of the island. what we are hearing isthese were temporary detentions. people were held or forced to stay at home to stop them from attending. we did not believe anyone has been arrested or charged. once the funeral is over, they will probably be let go. >>> police and dubai have identified 15 more suspects in the execution of a senior palestinian militant. it they have expanded the involvement to 26. they used british, french, irish, and australian passports

death of this dissidents in jail has focused world attention on the plight of political prisoners in cuba. they say there are about 200 official prisoners. that is about a third less from when raul castro came to power. >> michael, just briefly, are you able to tell us anymore about other dissidents who have been arrested to prevent them attending the funeral? >> this is what we are being told by other dissident groups and by the cuban commission for human rights. zapata was from a province of the other end of the islands, and what we are hearing reports of is that these were in effect temporary detention. the boat took up their -- people were taken up to stop attending. we do not believe anyone is charged in this period was the funeral is over, there will probably be let go again. >> thank you very much. were the main news. germany's evangelical church representing 25 million protestants has resigned because she was caught drunk driving. from berlin, we have this. >> the morning's headlines hinted at the drama to come. the night of alcohol, at this tabloid it declared. bishop margot kaes

he is one of the key black journalist who was in cuba during the cuban revolution. he's a friend and ally of mauka max. is a key domestic idea is something called freedom now party. and it is really going to be one of three black independent political parties in the 1960s. what is the freedom now party. the others the mississippi freedom democratic party led by the sharecropper from mississippi who was not allowed to be seated at the 1964 democratic national convention in atlantic city, new jersey. and the other is going to be the lowndes county freedom organization which is nicknamed the black panther party, which is in lowndes county, alabama. and that started with grass-roots locals and loud study with the help of sncc activist, especially stokely carmichael. what we think about bill worthy, he is interesting because he's a black our activist who's also a pacifist who actually went to jail in world war ii for refusing to fight in the war, but worthy want a foreign policy that is based on human rights. way before president jimmy carter talks about a foreign policy

it does need reforming but how you reform the security council which is a rubrics cuba and this happened to me, there are 50 members of the security council five permanent and 10 and nine per minute and out of that number of any given time, a five europeans. i would say i need your vote ambassador and he would say i cannot help you because the e.u. does not have a position. two days later i went to the same people and they say i cannot help you because we do have a solution. we thought germany and japan should be given their powers and the first country to object was italy to say this is terrible we lost the war also which is a strange campaign model. [laughter] the hard part is they have learned how to pass setian revolution -- resolution and we're about to see this and about to move to an arena where the initial sanctions on iran and whether those would be enforced or economic sanctions which would require multinational action and agreement. then there are those with military mandates with a peacekeeping operation. wrote think the un should have a standing army but i do think there sho

that's how, that's his way of entering the world as opposed to coming from cuba in 1943, the birth of ma-m-bo but she also has the rhythm of her childhood but that's how she enters the world and expresses herself and by having the generations we're able to tell the story in all of the different musical ways. >> he'll write the song and he has a garage band like a mac computer program and then he'll record the voice on top of that and then he gives it to us and we take it from there and add our over flavor, whether it's like instruments, we add harmonies on top of that and based on ideas what the story is telling or what characters are saying. >> once we're done with the songs we take the song that we have and you know we write all of the parts for the entire band and that's what the orchestrater does. develops a song and writes it to the (inaudible) every part you can hear. that's what we do. (music) >> we tried to reintroduce popular music. it works within the context of the show. >> that works within the show when you have to tell the story but you would also be unashamed of that in

we succeed in helping with the other countries involved and i'll include countries like venezuela, cuba, these controversial countries. it's just at this point all so stupid. politics are so stupid in this situation. there's no place for it. approximate if we do this, it will affect our character forever and build us into a better country and build our relationships with other countries better. >> larry: are you confident we will? so far we have. are you confident it will continue? >> we have to continue. there would be no excuse to not continue. and one of the most important aspects of that will be the media. i've never asked to be on television in my life before with the exception of auditioning for something i get paid for. i asked to be on your show today, and you said yes. that's what's important. to keep the eye on haiti, and not so important that i asked to be on your show, but that the eyes of cnn and fox news and everybody else and "the new york times" stays on this disaster, because it's drama has only begun. >> larry: we have a way of tuning in and tuning out. >> yeah. don't

places like cuba, iran, burma and north korea. it is safe to say that communism would have collapsed eventually but it was by no means inevitable that it would collapse when it did or that the toppling of one communist regime after another in 1989 would unfold as peacefully as it did. this leads me to the third misconception or myth that i would like to challenge. and that is the idea that ronald reagan won the cold war. now this is abuse that has taken hold since reagan left office and it is grown even more popular since his death in 2004. and a week of his funeral, the economist magazine ran a cover of reagan under the heading the man who beat communism. in the view of many and his admirers, reagan defeated communism through his uncompromising rhetoric that he was the man who was willing to call the soviet union and evil empire. and of course he demanded that transeventy or down the berlin wall. reagan gave tens of thousands of speeches throughout his career from the time he was in college right up until the end of his presidenc

sustained natural world that we depend on and aren't part of that there is a flawed view that went by cuba and all that stuff gets us into trouble, technology will see us do. even though it is the extracted attribute of technology, especially coupled with numbers result oriented to bring intelligence that got us into the fixed to begin with. and there is the flawed view that relies on the invisible hand of the market to be an honest broker. even though we know the market can be very dishonest. does the price of a pack of cigarettes reflect its true costs? not even close. how about the price tag on it lead tainted toys from china? i don't think so. and the price of a barrel of oil? last time i look the oil company for deploying army -- the oil companies were not deployed armies to the middle east to protect the oil fields, you and i were doing that with our taxes. our sons and daughters are doing it with their lives. the oil companies aren't paying their medical bills for all those folks breathing smog either. know are the building the seawalls our coastal cities will need to keep the warmi

but it was inactive for anti-undertook that without any permission from congress or any attack from cubanow there was a longer-term threat to by the change in the balance of power but the soviets are not gassing up the missiles. >> host: lbj, a vietnam war? it continue to be funded. nixon? in vietnam right before a brief negotiation here we are. it is watergate. but then the curve of presidential power by congress in here presidents for all these years have pushed the envelope to foreign domestic policy over the edge. it is a two bit burglary for political information that curbs the president's foreign policy powers. how does it get from there to there? it is good to talk about because it is not guaranteed bad people will not be elected, the constitution helps us with the

cuba alleges the man is a spy. and officials with the pennsylvania school district are saying sorry after it's revealed that laptop computers leased to students had the capability to record them via web cam without their knowledge. the school system says the feature is only used when the computer is listed as lost or stolen. this is the "washington journal" for february 20. in 45 minutes, we will talk about politics, especially relations between the white house and the senate, but in our first 45 minutes, we want to hear from you specificly about your legislator, and specifically to that, does your member of congress deserve re-election? here are the numbers. 202-737-0001 for republicans. 202-737-0002 for democrats. and 202-628-0205 for independents. again, does your member of congress deserve re-election? if you're willing to tell us who that is and why or why not, you can go ahead and start dialing now. the "wall street journal" has a story about the tea party and its influence, but within that story, a fact rele

caller: the entity that would be b, missiles in cuba.u get your funding? guest: we get over half of our funding from individuals. we get funds from other foundations. we are nonprofit, nonpartisan, we are what i would call a small conservative group in that we're pushing for a conservation of a core curriculum and a return to traditional approaches to education. it looks like north dakota in washington d.c., right now operated as knowing a lot. caller: i ask that question because the examplesñr that you said were things that were definitely anti-liberal. i am wondering how objective your group is. guest: i think we are not saying that it is a bad thing or a good thing to be a liberal or conservative. we are pointing out, and this has to do with reams of evidence that shows the political identification of college professors, that it could be, and this wouldÑi bear further scrutiny, it could be the fact that some of this impact of college on people's beliefs and those issues has something to do with who is teaching them there are other imp

not one of them is in cuba. can america say that? while lee is watching obama takes a huge step closer to the presidency. and an african proverb comes to mind. one that has black countrymen often try to outdescribe their dilemma in the post-apartheid era. got a stone but didn't get a nut to crack got a nut but no stone to crack it with. south africa i-black majority government built new homes for the people but left them without money to pate rent. provided them with running water but shut off the tap when they couldn't pay the bill. replaced the names of white segregationists on the public schoolhouses with those of black liberation heroes but didn't replace the shoddy roofs. what are companies to hire plaques but permitted them to slash their wages. and so it goes for the new south africa, where a small white minority continues to inhabit a splendid country, a splendid country that is for all intents and purposes canada. while three-quarters of the population resides in a country with living conditions similar to those of kenya or

don't think it's realistic to expect that everyone will continue to be engaged, but right, i think the cuba two games are there. i don't think there'll be that much recidivism that is all lost. >> what did your mom do on inauguration day? >> you know, she is of that generation, she, i don't know. it's hard to describe it but she was very happy. but by then she had her life-sized cutout of obama. [laughter] >> that's cute. >> if you go to her house you have to pose with him spent where did she get that? >> she got it, i'm not sure where she got it, but i saw one in washington and i try to buy her one day. that probably was an indication of how the election is going because i said about one of those cutouts. they said we're out of we have plenty of mccain and plenty of hillary. [laughter] >> i said might be something to this. but she has won. >> you mentioned a second ago about kind of having the heartbreak. you are old enough to remember the more symbolic campaigns, whether jesse jackson or barbara jordan even come or other people. what did you do to kind of, i mean, not delight it would be

had a useful talk a few years back with the leader in venezuela, several visits to fidel castro in cuba, conversations with arafat both in ramallah, gaza, when he came to washington, came to my office downstairs looking for money from the foreign operations subcommittee; have made many trips to seer kwrarbgs got to know hafez al asad and bashir assad, one of six senators who visited syria about a month ago to talk to president bashir assad about the possibility of a peace treaty. i believe syria could hold the key to peace in the mideast. only israel could decide if israel wants to give up the golan. they ought to make that decision without any pressure from the united states or anyone. but if israel should make that decision, there could be a great deal gained in terms of having syria stopping the destabilization of lebanon, stopping the support of hamas, stopping the support of hezbollah. and it is a different world today than it was in 1967, when israel took the golan. it's not the same strategic importance. the point that i make is i think diplomacy is the way out. but sometimes the

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hear from north dakota, here is a question for you -- caller: the answer to that would be missiles in cubaion of a core curriculum and a return to traditional approaches to education. it looks like north dakota in washington d.c., right now operated as knowing a lot. caller: i ask that question because the examplesñr that you said were things that were definitely anti-liberal. i am wondering how objective your group is. guest: i think we are not saying that it is a bad thing or a good thing to be a liberal or conservative. we are pointing out, and this has to do with reams of evidence that shows the political identification of college professors, that it could be, and this wouldÑi bear further scrutiny, it could be the fact that some of this impact of college on people's beliefs and those issues has something to do with who is teaching them there are other impacts on public opinion and we will not sit here and say it is all because of that. if you teaching college the way i have for 10 years, it is pretty clear who dominates the academy. host: this book is "choosing the right college per-q

this is one to free cuba. thank you, barack obama. -- this is going to freak you out.sked if i could ever say anything nice about barack obama. i disagreed with him 100 percent, but i will say something nice about him. he did not intend this, but the outcome of his election has got people involved in politics. politics is not a dirty word. it is in the constitution that we get out and do this. i am in a minority here because i have been a political junkie since i was a teenager. that is a different experience than most people have. a very wise friend of mine in politics told me about the rule of 51. if you are on a to run a race, you have to have 51% to win that race. if you're going to be an elected body, you have to have 51% to get your legislation passed. i do not have to ask how many of you vote on a regular basis. everything would go up in here. how many of you are thinking of running for political office? a show of hands. >> we got a lot of hands, but it is not nearly enough. there are about 50 or 60 hands raised. personally, i would like to see that up to a hund

not the door, perhaps some other place in cuba -- not guantanamo bay -- not new york. really be talking most about is the long and what we would change the law back to. host: let me ask you. it just theoretical. if they were to say a location near tucson, how would you feel and the folks around you would feel? caller: if they are going to do it in america -- the issue bomber, he was on a plane, it was different. but these people were caught in another country and put in guantanamo pay. that is the difference. a lot has changed. we need to make it where we can fix it even if it is offshore. let us take it to switzerland or someplace neutral. host: a broader peace on attorney-general eric holder and a decision on where to hold the trials. the front page of "the new york times." an extensive backgroundok piecen the attorney general. they write in this piece that the coming weeks could determine the ultimate shape of the obama era detainee policy. it also define what sort of attorney general mr. holder turns out to be. part of the story and " the new york times." -- part o

instead, i ask that we honor the lives lost and redouble our efforts to turn their dream of a free cuba into a reality. thank you, mr. speaker. the gentlelady's time has expired. for what purpose does the gentlelady from the virgin islands rise? mrs. christensen: to address the house for one minute and to revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentlelady is recognized. mrs. christensen: thank you. we want to provide health care for every american. today i am extremely disappointed to show my consternation of the inexcusable treatment of the millions of americans living in the u.s. territories that we see in the president's proposal on health care reform. rather than working to provide quality, affordable care to all americans it would leave roughly 4.5 million, a disproportionate number who desperately want or need health care. leave us out in the cold without the same consumer benefits that other americans would receive without adequate medicaid funding and thus without the same comfort that comes with knowing that you and your family will have qu

he is one of the key black journalists in cuba during the cuban revolution. he is a friend ally of malcolm x. his key domestic idea is something called the freedom now party and it's going to be one of three black independent political parties in the 1960's. one is the freedom now party and the other is the mississippi freedom democratic party led by guerini lou hamer the sharecropper from louise phill mississippi who was not allowed to be seated at the 1964 democratic national convention in atlantic city new jersey. and the other is going to be lowndes county freedom organization which is nicknamed the black panther party, which is in lowndes county alabama, and that started with grassroots locals of towns county with the help of sncc activists, especially stokely carmichael. and when we think about william worthy piece interesting because he's a black power activist who's also a pacifist, who actually went to jail in world war ii for refusing to fight in the war. but he wants a foreign policy that is based on human rights. we before president jimmy carter t

he told president kennedy that he had a destroy post cuba ready to file, which kennedy replied, burkent to get involved. to which burke responded, mr. president, we are involved. well, anyway, he was not allowed to fire and he never wanted to talk about it after that except privately. a revered admiral burke retired in august 1961. in his biography, professor potter describes 1962 hou first attempted to persuade him to join me in found in a strategic group is a part of georgetown university. i told the burke it might be called the center for strategic studies, bader added international commerce in my doctorate in history from georgetown, got the blessing of father edward bunn who thought i was an episcopalian. i came to know -- i came across myself very well. [laughter] i can't know admiral burke when my -- burke turned me down the first two times. i bet didn't bother me. i didn't have any experience. i was dating a navy junior who loved those white navies and not those west pointers would grade gold vitamins. she was a navy many times over, admiral sample was lost at the end of the p

case got into federal court, a young lady who was a criminal defense attorney got $100,000 to go to cuba to interview witnesses and this was a person who not only was not guilty, he was innocent. he was completely innocent and he spent all those years on death row. and i guess the most interesting thing is that the county got slapped with about a $5 million lawsuit, and i had mentioned phil cohen was the public defender now, he wasn't at that time, and at that time, they did allow brand new attorneys, baby public defenders, to do murder casements. not anymore, not under phil's regime. they have a murder team. so in 2007, the chief justice decided to create the indigent defense commission, and one of the reasons is the review journal, our paper in las vegas, which is probably the only paper right now that's pushed, did an expose on what we call the conflict attorneys. those were people appointed to represent indigent defendants and when there was conflicts with the public defender's office. and it was the -- the judges were appointing friends and relatives and it wasn't working pout very

as the astrossities he fought against remain the reality of cuba today, we must continue to fight for human rights and their release of all political prisoners. and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back his time. for what purpose does the gentleman from washington rise? >> unanimous consent to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered. mr. larsen: i rise to recognize the auto task force in combating vehicle theft in my district. recently the task force is recognized as the top auto theft recovery in my state. so while vehicle thefts across the state decreased by 20% in 2009 and they led the way with a 29% decline, the auto theft task force is an example of law enforcement agencies working together to make a real difference in our local community. the team is made up of detectives from monroe, mariesville and the sonoma sheriff's office and most recently the tribes. through this partnership, the task force disrupted the chop shops tracking down stolen vehicles, arresting those responsible and making sure that the

he is one of the key black journalists in cuba during the cuban resolution. he's a friend and ally of malcolm x. his key domestic idea is something called the freedom now party and it's going to be one of three black independent political parties in the 1960's pier one is the freedom now party. the other is the mississippi freedom democratic party led light for any domain or the sharecropper from louisville, mississippi, who was not allowed to be seated at the 1964 democratic national convention in atlantic city, new jersey. and the other is going to be allows county freedom organization, which is mixing the black panther party, which is then allowed county alabama and that started with grass-roots locals with the help of sncc activist, especially stokely carmichael. he is a activist who is also a pacifist who went to jail in world war ii for refusing to fight in the war. the worthy once a foreign policy that's based on human rights. way before president jimmy carter talks about a foreign policy based on human rights, william worthy was talking about this. an

the position that the writ of habeas corpus was not available for detainees in guantanamo because cubadicate the status of prisoners of war. -- adjudicate the status of prisoners of war. prisoners of war may not be interrogated and the purpose of investing this category -- inventing this category was to permit forceful interrogation. the government is taking the position that they are prisoners of war and the courts cannot entertain and we can interrogate and we can disregard international law with respect to that interrogation. one thing that will be a step forward if the detainees are moved to illinois will be that that question will reach a federal court. i have a very little doubt about what the outcome will be. >> i think that may have to be the last word. i would like to thank you at the panelists. >> i just want to point out that john gibbons not only won that case but he was the judge and a zero for the third circuit. jeffrey toobin want to thank -- i want to thank jeffrey toobin and all the panelists and audience for being here today. thank you very much. [captioning performed

countries in the region formed a new regional alliance that left the united states out and included cuba, flexible. there have been divisions over honduras, some would say disappointments with the u.s. over honduras. there have been divisions over the bases agreement with columbia, disappoint fans from some countries. also, so there were -- in some cases, these countries are forging economic and political relationships that supercede relations with the united states, and some say go against the u.s. interests like brazil and iran. so does the delighted states at all feel perhaps that this is in its efforts to sort of stop ordering the region around, it's also beginning to lose influence in its region? >> i don't think so, and if you actually go back and look at the history of the relationships between the united states and the region, i can think of many periods where there was a far greater dissonance between the united states and the countries of latin america. and we can go way back if you want to, but we don't have time to do that. but certainly nineteenth-century, the united states

he told president kennedy that he had a destroyer off the coast of cuba ready to fire. which kennedy replied, burke, we don't want to get involved. to which burke responded, hell, mr. president, we are involved. well, anyway, he was not allowed to fire. and he never wanted to talk about that after that except privately. a revered admiral burke finally retired in 1961. in his biography of burke, professor potter describes in 1962 how he first attempted to persuade arlie to join me as a strategic group as part of the georgetown university. i told burke it might be called the center for strategic studies. i received my doctorate from georgetown. i got the blessing from father edward bunn who thought i was a catholic but i was episcopalian. i could cross myself. [laughter] >> i came to know admiral burke when my stepfather and george w. anderson who replaced burke as cno -- burke turned me down the first two times. that didn't bother me. i had the experience of dating a navy junior who loved those white mitts and not those west point with those gold buttons. there were four

he paid the ultimate sacrifice for his commitment to changing cuba's system.e commands our respect. no one has starved himself to death in a cuban prison in 40 years. surely the government could have intervened earlier to prevent this tragedy. his death is on their conscience. i continue to believe if we are truly going to do a better job, then we need to be closer to the cuban people and need to travel freely to the island to meet and learn from them and they from us. i hope that day comes soon so we can tell all the cuban people we remember the sacrifice of orlando tomaio. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from texas rise? mr. neugebauer: permission to address the house for one minute, revise and stepped my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered. mr. neugebauer: thank you, mr. speaker, last week, i was in my district traveling across the district to ask the people of the 19th congressional district how do we move america away from entitlement mode that we are moving towards and move back towar

hear from north dakota, here is a question for you -- caller: the answer to that would be missiles in cubasay? caller: what is the background of the intercollegiate institute? and where debt -- where do you get your funding? guest: we get over half of our funding from individuals. we get funds from other foundations. we are nonprofit, nonpartisan, we are what i would call a small conservative group in that we're pushing for a conservation of a core curriculum and a return to traditional approaches to education. it looks like north dakota in washington d.c., right now operated as knowing a lot. caller: i ask that question because the examplesñr that you said were things that were definitely anti-liberal. i am wondering how objective your group is. guest: i think we are not saying that it is a bad thing or a good thing to be a liberal or conservative. we are pointing out, and this has to do with reams of evidence that shows the political identification of college professors, that it could be, and this wouldÑi bear further scrutiny, it could be the fact that some of this impact of college on

he is one of the key black journalists in cuba during the cuban resolution. he's a friend and ally of malcolm x. his key domestic idea is something called the freedom now party and it's going to be one of three black independent political parties in the 1960's pier one is the freedom now party. the other is the mississippi freedom democratic party led light for any domain or the sharecropper from louisville, mississippi, who was not allowed to be seated at the 1964 democratic national convention in atlantic city, new jersey. and the other is going to be allows county freedom organization, which is mixing the black panther party, which is then allowed county alabama and that started with grass-roots locals with the help of sncc activist, especially stokely carmichael. he is a activist who is also a pacifist who went to jail in world war ii for refusing to fight in the war. the worthy once a foreign policy that's based on human rights. way before president jimmy carter talks about a foreign policy based on human rights, william worthy was talking about this. an

countries in the region formed a new regional alliance that left the united states out and included cubas over honduras, some would say disappointments. there have been divisions over the agreement with colombia, disappointments from some countries. so they are, in some cases these countries are forging economic and political relationships that supersede relations with the united states and some say go against u.s. interests like brazil and iran. does the united states feel perhaps in an effort to stop ordering the region around, it is also beginning to lose influence in the region? >> i don't think so. if you actually go back and look at the history of what they'd love relationships between the united states and the region -- history of the relationships between the united states and the region, i can think of greater periods where there was a far greater dissidents. we could go way back if you wanted, but we don't have enough time to do that. certainly in the 19th century, the united states began ticket as i began earlier in my remarks about the celebration of the 200 anniversary of th

got into federal court, a young lady who's a criminal defense attorney got $100,000 to even go to cubaent all those years on death row. and i guess the most interesting thing is the county got slapped with about a $5 million lawsuit, and i mentioned phil kohn, the public defender now that he wasn't at that time. at that time they didn't allow brand-new attorneys baby public defenders to do murder cases. not anymore, not under his regime. they have a burger king. so 2007, the chief justice bill maupin decide to create the indigent defense commission. and one of the reasons is the review journal, our paper in las vegas which is probably the only paper right now, that's published, had had an exposÉ on what we called the conflict attorneys. those were people who were appointed to represent indigent defendants, and when there is conflict with the public defender's office. and it was -- the judges were pointing friends and relatives and wasn't working out very well. so this exposÉ was brought to the attention of the chief justice, and he decided between them randy case with a big verdict and