the united states used to be a leader in the market. walk us through the market and how we were and china ended up and why are the minerals critical? >> molly corp has been in business for 57 years. we were founded in 1948 and produced in 1952. we were the largest and almost single producer in the world until china discovered rare minerals in their country in the late '70s and '80s. china has in a unique position and they began to pull those products or pull the ores out of the ground and process those products to the world. they flooded the market and lowered the prices. that caused us to slow down production in mountain pass, california. that brings up the issue of market share. china recognized this set of minerals as being strategic and forming the foundation of the industrial base within their country. they have exploited that to the maximum extent. i have to admit, they have done a tremendous job. >> are there any alternatives to the rare earths? if china tops tomorrow, are they easily substituted? >> they are not. many are not sub

united states. the 107th congress authorized the use of force. the president of the united states signed the authorization into law. and for a member of the house who is opposed to the war on very sympathetic such views then the proper remedy is to pass legislation to mandate withdrawal to the congress under regular order. like-wise vote against -- ask for an additional 30 seconds. mr. berman: i yield the gentleman 30 seconds. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. ackerman: supplemental appropriations to fund the war. what members are not be able to do is waste three hours of the house to debate a resolution founded at best on a mistake and the willful -- that we authorized this war by a 421-1 vote can be dropped into a memory hole. this resolution deserves to fail. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. who seeks recognition? the gentleman from ohio. mr. kucinich: i would like to respond to my friend that the authorization for the use of military force, which passed september 14, 2001, had in its provision

now, they want us to leave afghanistan in 30 days without giving this new strategy a chance to succeed. the president of the united states is indicating he wants us to stay there for 18 months. why won't the president fulfill his own commitment he made publicly? are they so afraid they would undermine the president? we have an opportunity to let general mcchrystal apply the successes in iraq to afghanistan which i might add, my friends on the other side of the aisle, opposed and possibly stabilize the country. we must let the strategy work and achieve the success like we had in iraq. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentleman from ohio is recognized. mr. kucinich: i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves. the gentlewoman from florida is recognized. ms. ros-lehtinen: thank you, madam speaker. now i'd like to yield a minute to the gentleman from florida, another florida colleague, mr. rooney, a member of the armed services and judiciary committees. the speaker pro tempore: how long? ms. ros-lehtinen: one minute. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is

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as you probably know we measure ourselves very often by how you and the united states judge us or perhaps more importantly how we think you and the united states judge us. here we had other countries watching as well. the british press savaged canada in the first few days of these games. and people here were quite hurt by that. and quite angry. so yeah, there was a strong feeling right from the beginning from 2003 when vancouver got the bid that there is this perception out there, throughout the world of canada as being wintery and kind and gentle. and not necessarily inaccurate and not necessarily bad things. but i know a lot of people here wanted to expand that a little bit beyond the stereotype. but the closing ceremony said, you know what, that's the stereotype. let's have fun with it. we can't fight it all the time. nd on this day, a day of triumph for canada, yesterday in this country t was a good day to show that we can make and take a joke. >> woodruff: briefly, do you know whether you can make and take money off of this these olympics. is anybody talking about that yet? >> oh, we

used to defend israel? half. 41, in a world full of problems, the united states has used its veto half the time to turn backsault on israel. as these instances indicate, the united nations has a long pattern of unfair and unwarranted criticisms and condemnations of israel. but shameful history of bias reached a new low this past september when the united nations backed gold stone report on the conflict in gaza was issued. that report correctly and courageously condemned as irredeemably biased by both the obama administration and the congress could be looked at just one more outrageous example of the united nations discrediting israel. that would be wrong. goldstone's work is something more sinister. it is representative of a broader pernicious effort to challenge israel's fundamental right to self-defense. it is fueled an international campaign to abuse and pervert international laws aimed at preventing genocide. think about that. doctrines like that of universal jurisdiction, which were created with the express intent of eliminating borders, to hunt down and prosecute those that commit the most heinous cri

us in the last 8 1/2 years. this 2001 resolution allowed military action, quote, to prevent any future acts of international terrorism against the united states, unquote. those of us who support withdraw from afghanistan may or may not agree on a timeline for troop withdrawal, but i think we agree that this debate is timely. the rest of the world is beginning to see the folly of trying to occupy afghanistan. the dutch government recently came to a halt over the commitment of more troops from their country. in britain, public outcry over the war is growing. a recent bbc poll indicated that 63% of the british public is demanding that their troops come home by christmas. opposition to the war in germany has risen to 69%. russia has lost billions of dollars in the nine years it spent attempting to control afghanistan. i suppose nation building in afghanistan has come at the destruction of our own. the military escalation cements the path of the united states down the road of previous occupiers that earned afghanistan its nickname, as the graveyard of empires. one year ago last month the report by the carnegie endowment concluded, quote, the only

approved for use in the united states, when that same product is actually manufactured elsewhere, it is not manufactured with the exact same specifications that is manufactured for use in the united states, and that can have very important implications for patients. if it is a different formulation, different bio of quifflepts. it may require a different dosing schedule. it may be formulated even with other components. and of course the labeling for use may be different from what f.d.a. reviews and approves. so we need to have a program that can really get into that level of analysis to assure that patients get what they need, that their health care providers as well as the patient understand what may be different about these drugs even though they have the same name so that they are used properly. and then l is the problem of outright counterfeit drugs, which is an enormous problem, and it is growing. so i think that this whole arena of import safety could not be more important and pressing to the work of the f.d.a. and the safety and security of the american people, and i hope we ca

the former head of mi5, which he made yesterday, can the prime minister tell us when protest were made to the united states over the barbaric use of torture? wended mi5 officers know what was happening? and is it not quite clear from our experience in northern ireland that torture, such torture was used in the united states, is counterproductive and would not help in the fight against terrorism? >> we do not support torture. we do not condone torture. we condemn torture. any instance where allegations are made about torture, these will go to the proper authorities to be investigated. >> thank you, mr. speaker, last week 170 families in my constituents learned they had not been offered a place at a local high school in my constituency. that means there are many boys and girls in my area who are the casualties of unfair mission system that has condemned them to go to schools that are unpopular miles away from their homes. will the prime minister look at my bill that sets out proposals to do with this issue? will he take the steps necessary to ensure that no child gets left behind in this way against the? at

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the united states postal service. they came to us and said, congress, if you really want us not to mail this, you've got to define what a nonmailable material is and you've got to ask the list. that's what the pact act does. you can no longer mail tobacco through the mail once this becomes law. so it's going to make it very, very difficult if not impossible for internet tobacco sales to continue. a second thing that it does, is that transaction that i described where you buy something cheaply and don't pay taxes on it or pay a lower tax than you are supposed to is already a violation of the law. but effectively those violations are never prosecuted because under the jenkins act, which is the structure of the law that enforces this, it's only a misdemeanor. that's going to change. in this bill it's going to become a felony. if you think you're going to skirt the law by driving to your neighborhood indian reservation, buying boxes and boxes or cases and cases of cigarettes, not paying taxes on it, well, now, that's a violation of the j

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>> that's correct but that does not preclude them from being used in the united states and the expertised will be used in the united states. 1. i do want to make because i have heard some criticism of the fact that interrogation by fbi agents in detroit. the fact of the matter is our agents are very expert, they go through new agents class. one of the key areas that is covered is interrogation and many agents have come in and spend a great deal of time as police officers. that's what you do day in and day out. i might also add that we have had some major success, some fairly run around. an individual by the name of george perrault was selected by the military to do the interrogation of saddam hussein so i do have the expertise on the ground that day to a very good job and it would only augment what we do for a number of years. speegap the afghan risk i don't suppose you get on the joint terrorism task force without being seriously experienced. >> generally that is the case. we have a lot of experience on that task force. >> thank you, mr. chairman. my views are as followed. i do want to

us. the united states military is engaged around the world. withdrawing combat troops from iraq it as builds up troops in afghanistan. it is partnering with pakistan in an aggressive counter-terrorism campaign, including drone attacks in the tribal areas. it is working with the yemeni government to counter a reinsurgent al qaeda there and u.s. troops are still in hate for the humanitarian relief efforts. but the military must do more than respond to the conflicts of of the day. it must prepare for future wars and shifting security environment. the person at the pentagon who spends the most time working on these issues is michele flournoy. she is the undersecretary of defense and the highest reasoninging female official in the defense department. i am pleased to have her with me. tell me what it is that do you at the pentagon, how you define this responsibility? >> well, my job is to advise the secretary of defense on all matters of policy, ranging from current foreign policy crises of the day to how we use the military as an instrument of nati

russia, a couple years later use that as an excuse for going into south ossetia in georgia and perry did the same bank which that the united states and the allies used in 1999. that is the system regressed. them there is of reputation. you may say it is a superpower we are much higher so the diplomatic might should be up there. the one thing you might consider that henry kissinger said it is lonely at the top of there is only one superpower there will be a natural balance. maybe they graph will be tilted a little bit but what we see during some periods of time with the united states is plainly violating international law that would have been the saturation with the white house torture memos the extraordinary rendition policy and the waterboarding of some individuals up there 175 times or more. at that point* our reputation took such a hit the diplomacy was suffering greatly in the congress recognized this and during the campaign of the last presidency the candidates recognize this also legal advisers some have to recognize there is a reputation that the united states benefits. we're at our strongest diplomatically when we leave b

while energy use in the united states has skyrocketed for 30 straight years, denmark's energy use has not grown at all. in 20 years, its economy has grown 78% while cutting its carbon emissions in half. >> many people have said that is impossible, that cannot be done. but we have done it. >> reporter: taxing energy, subsidizing alternative technologies has not only reduced denmark's dependency on oil. it's created thousands of new jobs. and left john ebbinghouse feeling a bit more danish every year. >> i feel privileged to know how i can make less of an energy footprint than your average person. and i'm the one who gets to reap the benefits of that. >> reporter: for "worldfocus," john larson in copenhagen. >>> as we continue our look at the new denmark, let's look more specifically now at where that country is cutting harmful emissions. decades ago, denmark became a pioneer, a pioneer in wind power which now accounts for fully 20% of its energy production. denmark is in fact a world leader in wind power which, as you'll see in john larson's next report, has gone far beyond a governmen

entity, individual data obtained from the census is protected under united states privacy laws and cannot be disclosed for 72 years all used against by any person, government agency or court. given the years and safety of the 2010 census, every person in the united states, clubs individuals in puerto rico, american samoa, guam, the northern mariana islands, the virgin islands and all other u.s. territories should also take time to out the firm and be count -- to fill out the form and be counted. people in rural areas should be counted in the census because they are at greater risk of being undercounted in the census. this is extremely troubling considering the fact that the census officials estimate that every individual who's not accounted for in the census loses about $1,500 per year in federal aid for their community. by taking just 10 minutes to complete the 2010 census form, we can help ensure that everyone in america is properly served. house resolution 1096 expresses support for the designation of march as census awareness month, which will raise public awareness about the importance of completing the census. mr. sp

as high, when the scale of death was unprecedented, 50 million died airing that war, the united states did not useture as a matter of the from and policy. in fact it's interrogation program was extremely effective. there were german linguist chosen and trained very extensively. we got there he could information from german p.o.w.'s in particular so no i don't think it is necessary to use these things. i think that country can be protected while keeping within the law. i absolutely believe that. one of the most vicious attacks of effects of the state of exception and the former vice president's statements is, they leave among the american people the impression that they can't be made safe without a legal techniques, and that all of these ideals that we like to say are so close to the heart of the united states and its founding documents that distinguish us are in fact a kind of national decoration that we have to discard, we are forced to discard when the country comes under threat. and i think that is absolutely wrong. i don't think that is true. and i think one of the most awful consequences of t

us. inside the united states we're lagging. some communities aren't using broadband or don't have access to broadband in numbers that are significantly higher than others, rural americans, kids, low-income americans, seniors. but the critical thing is is that the costs of digital exclusion, the costs of not being on our broadband grid are high and getting higher. >> brown: how should we think of broadband access now? is it like the phone? is it replacing the phone or broadcast tv now or sometime in the near future? how do you think about it? >> in terms of universal service the answer is yes. we recognized with telephone service electricity, other services that they were essential for our economy, essential platforms for innovation and job creation, and they needed to extend everywhere geographically in the united states and that we needed to set a policy that made sure that all americans adopted it. broadband is exactly like that. >> brown: why has the u.s. been slow on this? why have we fallen behind in. >> it's a good questio

the former head of mi5, which he made yesterday, can the prime minister tell us when protest were made to the united states over the barbaric use of torture? wended mi5 officers know what was happening? and is it not quite clear from our experience in northern ireland that torture, such torture was used in the united states, is counterproductive and would not help in the fight against terrorism? >> we do not support torture. we do not condone torture. we condemn torture. any instance where allegations are made about torture, these will go to the proper authorities to be investigated. >> thank you, mr. speaker, last week 170 families in my constituents learned they had not been offered a place at a local high school in my constituency. that means there are many boys and girls in my area who are the casualties of unfair mission system that has condemned them to go to schools that are unpopular miles away from their homes. will the prime minister look at my bill that sets out proposals to do with this issue? will he take the steps necessary to ensure that no child gets left behind in this way against the? at

>> is very old and the united states and used as early as the early 1820s. there is one legend it comes from the lobbies of the willard hotel and exist further back in american history and that but a term used in england before it is used here but you find it as early as the 1820 sparc a lobbying is as old as the government from the minute it opened, there were individuals pressing for claims asking for compensation for pensions for the revolutionary war service protected by the first amendment and that is something of a lot of people don't understand so in the 1870's when reporters are calling for the abolition of the lobby, hello? you just cannot do that. the lobby for the abolition of the lobby is an interesting exercise pointed out by many advocates sam was one of them. he was an impassioned testimony before the house ways and may days when it ways and means committee and its regard in london there were lobby agents that had a time and place to lobby before members of parliament. it is very old. >> if you look at different political dictionaries you find

instruct the united states executive directors at the international monetary fund, the world bank, the inter-american development bank and other multilateral development institutions to use the voice vote and influence of the united states to cancel immediately and completely haiti's debts to such institutions and for other hurps. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to the rule, the gentleman from new york, mr. meeks, and the gentleman from california, mr. miller, each will control 20 minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from new york. mr. mix: madam speaker, i ask unanimous consent -- mr. meeks: madam speaker, i ask that all members have five legislative days to revise and extend their remarks on this legislation and insert extraneous material thereon. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. meeks: i yield myself five minutes. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for five minutes. mr. meeks: -- the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman will suspend, please. if we could get some order. if -- will people please take their conversations off the floor. the gentleman will proceed. mr. meeks: today, madam speaker, we consider an issue close to all of

united states than anywhere else. >> rose: how much of that is to do with labor costs? >> virtually nothing on labor costs. on taxes and capital. >> rose: you are encouraging the united states government to use tax incentives for the development of business in the way that most other countries do because you argue that the american state and federal tax rate it is larger than almost everybody except one. >> yes, i do. and there's really two things. i don't think the united states government ought to have an industrial policy where the government picks the wining and losing industries. i don't think that's the right thing. but i think that having a general policy around encouraging investment, particularly in r & d, the life blood of where the 21st century industries are going to be, is, i think, important. i was in france last week on this trip, and i met with christine lagard, the minister of finance. she told me if i put a factory, r & dfactory in france they'll pay for 50% of the r & d. the prrx an dtax credit is down to 20%. that's a big difference. >> rose: 20% tax reduction on every dollar you spend. >> versus 50% in france. so it makes you think about where you want to put your next j

united states and russia will deploy. it's significantly reduces missiles and launchers. but the same place and new verification regime. and it maintains flexibility we need to protect us to advance our national security and guaranteed our unwavering commitment to the security of our allies. with this agreement, the united states and russia, the two largest nuclear powers and in the world also send a signal that we intend to lead by holding to our own commitments under the nuclear non- proliferation treaty. we ensure that other countries meet their own responsibilities. >> how is this being seen in moscow? we have this report. >> russia still has the most fearsome nuclear arsenal on the planets. nearly 3000 warheads mounted on intercontinental missiles like this that can strike anywhere in the world. today, it agreed to get rid of it least one-third of them. at such an historic moment, you expect russia's foreign minister to sound more excited. >> during today's telephone conversation between the presidents of russia and the u.s.a., we are satisfactorily expressed an and the outcome of the negotiations. >> russia's motivation for signing the treaty is rather different

the president of the united states will show the american people that he has led us for a change to doing important things that have not been done for decade after decade after decade. with the help of this very, very talented leadership team, especially speaker pelosi. we were able to get his agenda passed through the house of representatives, and in conjunction with the senate, so that that legislation will be before him for his signature. he reached out to the republicans. we so badly wanted them to work with us. they said no. we had to do it themselves. it would have been better if we worked together, but they said no to the american people, no to change, no to health insurance for the uninsured, no to the desperation of people who could find no way to get access to the doctors and medical help that they needed at a time of crisis. we are here to say yes to the american people, and the democrats had to do it alone, but with president obama and speaker pelosi, tonight, we did it. i want to now yield to my fellow chair member, george miller, who has been a champion not only for health c

they are eagles that are be used for workers in the united states -- illegals that are being used for workers in the united states. host to you in a number of other people of cause -- called for closing the borders, does that just seal off the problem of not actually deal with the problem? caller: if we could bring your board -- our boys home in stationed along the border, there would be a lot less people coming in. the illegal immigrants found in this country should be sent back. they're not helping this country at all. many of them are bringing drugs in all the time. we saw what happens to the border patrol, the one that shot the legal coming across the border with drugs. they were put in a federal penitentiary? this is ridiculous. host: california, democratic line. caller: i agree with the previous caller. they could also be used to deport all of the legals -- the legal -- illegals here. drug companies are making big money of this already. people are addicted to prescription pain medication. people are out of their head on these premeds. -- pain medications. for years we have known

united states. it's a lot different than saying we're going to invade and that's why the authorization of the use of force resolution in the united states resolution authorizing the use of force if he failed to comply with one less set of demands for the united nations was so important. >> host: what do you think of the term neocon? >> guest: you know, i'm not certain exactly what it means. neoconservatives was originally a domestic term. i think quite by irving kristol and it was a liberal who's mugged by reality. i think it has been used in a different way to apply to foreign policy -- a foreign-policy school that says the expansion of democracy is in the security interest of the united states. that a world that is more democratic and more for he is also going to be a world more stable and more peaceful. >> host: do still try to president bush regularly? >> guest: i do. i tacked to it every couple days in e-mail every day. >> host: what are you reading? >> guest: i'm reading too much right now. and we did a book about letters. in fact, you think you ought a program on it. i'm suffering to see your

the resolution specifically declares that the united states would not use nuclear weapons first, regardingm as a deterrent against attack until their eventual complete elimination. the resolution also calls for more agressive multilateral negotiations toward disarmament. greater cooperation with russia toward dismantling cold war nuclear warheads, a reaffirmation of the moratorium on nuclear testing and a ban on weapons in outer space. nuclear nonproliferation is one of the pillars of the smart security approach that i've been advocating from this chamber for years, mr. speaker. smart security means using more brains and less braun to keep america safe. it treats war only as a last resort. it demands that we stop equating security and aggression or belligerence. it advances our security goals through humanitarian rather than military means, more development aid, more diplomacy, more conflict resolution and a more vigorous commitment to stopping the spread of nuclear weapons. there can be no winners in the nuclear armed race. we cannot afford to get this one wrong. i hope our president trea

us in the last 8 1/2 years. this 2001 resolution allowed military action, quote, to prevent any future acts of international terrorism against the united states, unquote. those of us who support withdraw from afghanistan may or may not agree on a timeline for troop withdrawal, but i think we agree that this debate is timely. the rest of the world is beginning to see the folly of trying to occupy afghanistan. the dutch government recently came to a halt over the commitment of more troops from their country. in britain, public outcry over the war is growing. a recent bbc poll indicated that 63% of the british public is demanding that their troops come home by christmas. opposition to the war in germany has risen to 69%. russia has lost billions of dollars in the nine years it spent attempting to control afghanistan. i suppose nation building in afghanistan has come at the destruction of our own. the military escalation cements the path of the united states down the road of previous occupiers that earned afghanistan its nickname, as the graveyard of empires. one year ago last month the report by the carnegie endowment concluded, quote, the only

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possible by the national captioning institute, inc., in cooperation with the united states house of representatives. any usethe closed-captioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the continues. host: i want to tell you about him before we get into the discussion about policy in process on health care. in the 1993 was part of a working group for president clinton's task group on health care reform. as you can imagine, he has been very much involved in the debate. guest: thank you. host: this morning we have been all over the top rita. house democrats looking at this to pass obamacare without a vote on senate bill. this will be hard to understand for people on our end of washington, but what exactly is this concern in healthcare? guest: if they do not feel like their members to pass the bill, they will go round the rules and possibly the rules committee. i would not support that approach. i think that the bill is too important to the american people to do it in a way that the american people are not comfortable with. already we have a pretty part

that makes us the united states of america. god bless us and god bless the united states of america. [applause] [applause] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] ♪ ♪ [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> follow the continued health care debate online at c- span.org/healthcare. you'll find hundreds of hours of video and from markups to the signing ceremony. one of our guests this morning was the founder and editor of " the weekly standard." this is 40 minutes. this for a [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2010] host: mislocate inside the archives here in washington d.c.. -- this is looking into the archives here in washington d.c.. and we welcome bill kristol from the codey standard -- from the "weekly standard". has the government fulfilled its mission to educate the fish -- the people? guest: its vision is not really to educate the people. about 92% of th

it was used tremendously in the united states. you can see old video or film footage of people dancing and clouds of ddt and swimming pools with clouds of ddt often are held them. people at picnic tables. so it was very widely used and the which was studied and studied, nothing more than tangential and speculatively next to the diseases and cancer and so forth were ever established. there were concerns about eggshells and we can get into that if you wish, but again a lot of conjecture, not a good solid proof. >> host: and we will get into that but good evening. this is book tv in primetime. and tonight's discussion, life call-in program is about rachel carson and her book, "silent spring," published in 1962. we are joined by paul driessen we've been listening to. he's a senior committee of constructive tomorrow we with congress for racial equality. he has a degree from the university of denver, be a infield ecology from lawrence university, and this is his book, "eco-imperialism: green power, black death." and we are also joined by

the united states has used the nuclear weapons. we're the only one to have used that. president truman said -- it suggests that some americans at some point have understood nuclear weapons as it useful tool. our nyposture has reflected some version of that basic underlying recognition. through the cold-year awards, the united states maintained and expanded its nuclear arsenal to the point where we could make we could do this thousands of times over. it did seem the actual destructive power may have exceeded any immediate strategic purpose. but nonetheless, the comprehension that nuclear weapons were an essential part of american strategy persisted for more than 50 years. it is only in recent years we have come to rethink that. i do not know whether global zero any particular force level, larger or smaller than what we maintain, is necessarily the correct answer. i am sure the measuring stick for figuring that out begins the global understanding of american strategy. the world is changing profoundly. most were some way, did most recent -- the press been americn decline.

they decided it is so effective against mosquitos we can get rid of malaria in the united states. it was also used a lot for agriculture. >> what are the effects of ddt? >> you want to talk about real scientific evidence, slim rashes on your skin. ddt is the most studied chemical in history. >> because of "silent spring"? >> partly but "silent spring" was following after rachel carson's death by defense fund to launch the environmental movement, to give it a power base of funding that it had never enjoyed before. those things in combination and the pressure got it banned in 1972 under president nixon but in the meantime it was used all over the world, you can see old video or film footage of people in crowds of ddt being lofted around in picnic tables. it was very widely used and the it was studied and studied nothing more than tangential and speculative links were ever established. there were concerns about eggshells. we can get into that if you wish. a lot of conjecture, no solid proof. >> this is booktv in primetime and it is a live call-in program about rachel carson and her book "silent sprin

united states. i'm a veteran rumor of war. i use that for. my comment in question to you is, there is of a middle is a great middle class in the united states is why we are such either have it or you don't in mexico so there is definitely a class system. i wonder if you would comment on those flowing from mexico. >> or kos be one of the thing that i've been puzzled about is there is that i in, and by northern mexicans i am speaking the, as we work our way west to east's human development index had it is in those mexico city it the winter solstice holiday celebrated one thing. i have yet to meet a single person more than one when you go over 80% of the people that i've in the united states in many cases for a year story was about a by the most common method i found up to legal cross, went to las vegas a because he wanted to learn english more leverageable skill for him in mexico. he was very excited to be able he was a college graduate who's he wanted to go across a year, but is now living an internal dynamic taking is hard for me to capture an

us live from the london bureau with the latest. stephanie, according to that "wall street journal" report, there was no clear indication when these two suspects left the united statesnce they were using fake passports they continued to use fake information to leave the states. >> well, there's no way really to know. certainly they could have slipped out with new forged papers or they could still be in the u.s. it's unclear why they were there in the first place from this report. it's interesting. these are two of the 26 suspects the dubai police have named. they have pictures of them. they are asking the international community and interpol as well specifically to track down these suspects and bring them back to dubai for a trial. the police say they are 99% certain he's behind the attack. they are not confirming or denying the reports. they are very pleased he's been killed. he was wanted for gun trafficking into the gaza strip and also for killing israeli soldiers. tamron. >> i guess the fascination with this story continues in that, stephanie, you and i were talking about the popularity now even though they have not taken claim for it. let's show a picture of th

united states. it's still an issue. why is it so hard for us in the united states and even in mexico to create or design a creative policy? why is it that the united states, our government is not able to even a creative policy but one that works? why are we not able to do that? the most powerful and perhaps most wealthy nation on earth? why? >> the question to rephrase it slightly is what are the interests that are in favor of maintaining the current policy? can any of you address that? don't feel compelled but if you can please do. >> well, yeah, i will. there are interests that benefit from the status quo. certainly the meat packing industry in the united states benefits from the status quo, the chicken and poultry processing industry benefits from the status quo. certain agricultural interests to and the status quo is that you can haulier undocumented aliens for a lot less money with a lot less benefits than you could american workers. one of the great myths the throne about about this is that people from el salvador and mexico do work that

us to fill it out and mail it back. >> lehrer: so why haven't they all done in t? why won't everybody do it? >> we are a busy lot here in the united states. all of us think that we're working harder and that we were busier than we used to be-- whether it's true or not, it doesn't matter. we certainly believe that. so part of it is , you know, all of us tend to get a form and sort of put it aside and say, "i'll get it it over the weekend something like that. a lot of it is that kind of put ago procrastination, putting things off. we do know there are other causes of this as well, and we've worked on some of those with this 2010 design. one of them is language barriers. we have a new set of immigrant groups. they bring with them a lot of different language from their native cultures. we have a lot of language assistance guides that are trying to attack that problem. this is a census done in 59 different languages, believe it or not. the l.a. school system has kids that speak over 120 different languages. we have to be language sensitive. >> lehrer: is immigration neutral? in other words, is an illegal immigrant behind one of these doors th

that is what makes us the united states of america. we have now just enshrined, as soon as i sign this bill, a core principle that everybody should have some basic security when it comes to their health. [applause] it is an extraordinary achievement that has happened because of all of you and all the advocates all across the country. thank you, thank you, god bless you and may god bless the united states of america. [applause] thank you. all right, i would now like to call up to the state some of the members of congress who made this day possible and some of the americans who will benefit from these reforms. and we will sign this bill. [no audio] ygÑ[applause] >> there are a lot of hands of so this will take a long time. [laughter] i did not practice. [no audio] [no audio] [applause] [applause] [no audio] [no audio] [no audio] [no audio] [no audio] [no audio] [no audio] [no audio] [no audio] [no audio] [no audio] [no audio] [no audio] [no audio] [applause] [no audio] [no audio] [no audio] [no audio] [no audio] [no audio] [no audio] [no