in the netherlands, cycling is inherently more safe than in the u.s.a. because all car drivers are also cyclists. 60% of the people in the netherlands cycle at least three times a week. 80% at least once a week. so all the car drivers are also cyclists and they know as they turn right that there is an 80% chance that they will cut off a cyclist if they don't look. so there is also safety by numbers. one last thing and that is about liability. when i hear about cycling in the u.s., people say, oh, but cycling is so dangerous. and then we say, no, cycling is not dangerous. cyclists hardly ever cause accidents. cars cause accidents. cars cause facilities and in the netherlands we have the philosophy that car drivers should realize that they're in a machine that can kill. and also from that on responsibility in taking liability. if a car drives over a child on a bike, no matter what happens, he is 100% liable for whatever happens. and even in the other cases, when a car goes in the collision with an adult on a bike, still there is at least 50% liability for t

coming up in the program, the incredible journey, how a triple amputee and war veterans ran across the u.s.a. and reasons you ne never know what you'll find in your attick. leaders of the g-20 will plan against irresponsible risk taking those countries must not devalue their currencies. the debate has dominated the summ summit. trade imbalances to produce world growth. they are working on a modernized imf. joining me from seoul, you followed this from start to finish. it is an agreement of sorts, isn't it? >> there have been reports late into the night. as widely expected, this has been followed round after round by this broad agreement. not a bit of it, we are told. president obama when he addressed the media gathered here, he said he was battled by much of the press coverage. >> in broad agreement on the way forward. the agreement based on the framework brought forward by the united states as we are doing for the united states and going to cut our deficits in half. as i said going foertd, no nation should assume their path to prosperity is paved strictly with the united states. >> some say

meanwhile, the u.s.a., britain, and japan are locked into weak recoveries. ey need to boost exports. the u.s. elections, there were calls from the unions and the tea party to launch trade sanctions against china. so america proposed this week to cap the trade surplus with the country's exports, more than its inports, of the likes of china at about 4%. and went to india to get them outside. >> india is not the only emerging power in the world. but relationships between our countries is unique. for we are two strong democracies whose constitutions begin with the same words, the same revolutionary words. "we the people." we are two great republics dedicated to the liberty, justice, and equality of all people. we are two free market economies where people have the freedom to pursue ideas and innovation that can change the world. >> china is not in the mood to be dictated to. china does not want to limit its options. that's the most part of it. exports are stabilize the country and stabilize tom nist party rule. that's also important. they don't want to do a bilat

now the mail. >> the reason president obama avoids talking about jihad is because he believes the u.s.aas brought some of the muslim hatred on itself. before molly saw congressman bachmann's analysis so they are close. >> after watching the president for two years i can't make out what really stands for. >> if the real obama would reveal himself it would scare the pants off many americans. >> bill, i think your comments about president obama and jihad were unfair. it is a complicated subject. >> i am conservative but think the president's handling the jihad question well. >> you were a huge hit on maher's show. you are winning them over one liberal at a time. >> never before has bill maher had his hat handed to him like that. and he didn't even have a hat. >> you are wasting your time dealing with maher interview a potato it will be more stimulating. >> i heard you say you would raise his ratings, you are right you did. signed copy of pinheads and patriots on the way. finally pinheads and patriots tv. as you may know prop 19 in california which would have legalized pot lost big last wee

, because i should be able to fly to flag wherever i want to, this is the united states, this is the u.s.a. flag. >> cody was not the only one. this has kicked into high gear. with support pouring in from across the country. >> a lot of people that i don't know at my house, just wanting to talk to us. >> reporter: in a show of support, 500 motorcycle riders, many veterans will escort him to school tomorrow morning. many coming from out-of-town and out-of-state. arally possibly drawing hundreds more planned before the first bell. cody's dad is saying that people are not ready to give up this one. >> we needed to have a great awakening. the sleeping bear has been awoken. she is here to eat. he wants what he wants. we want our flag up, here or at the school. >> reporter: the district is facing a lawsuit and potential up rising on the doorstep tomorrow. promises this is the last time cody or any other student will be told to put away the american flag. >> we're going to make sure that it doesn't happen again. >> some of the riders are coming from the east coast. they left yesterday and members

several pieces of testimony were thrown out and because they were detained outside the u.s.a. >> galani was subject to interrogation some looked at as torture. >> the continued existence of the guantanamo bay facility is a major embarrassment for president obama. however, the mere suggestion that might receive a more lenient treatment in the public courts means the officials may be rethinking their strategy. >> the governor expects the country to be offered a substantial loan. patrick said the loan could amount to tens of blings of euros. he was speaking as the irish government prepares to open its books to teams arriving to talk about the debt. >> the focus of the debt crisis is switching from brussels to dublin. a team of international officials are traveling to the capitol to consider a bailout involving tens of billions of euros. the republic's bubble has burst and its banks are heavily in debt. the irish government has admitted for the first time hit that might need emergency financial help. but the prime anyonester insisted his country is not being pushed around. >> there is no di

it served not only to have the underground service announcement agency, the u.s.a., as you see those markings along the street, for the public to understand these markings -- it is precisely to guide those contractors as permitted by the city, public and private, so that they are aware of those utilities and are sensitive to the utility's beneath the ground when it comes time to excavate. as the case may be, despite the best efforts and past practices, they always need to be updated in proof. the highest level of interruption has been gas leaks that result from excavation. this can happen in many districts throughout the city. we have made it a high priority for that event to occur. we have periodically revisited with all of the contractors and staff from the public utilities commission, the port commission, any of the staffing people that do project management we have a very old city. if anything, we had a tremendous amount of utilities underground. there contractors are being contacted and we expect to have

the u.s.a. bid committee estimates that particular ticket sales alone will generate over $1 billion and as visitors are expected to spend an additional $5 billion on accommodations, transportation and communications. the license and sponsorship of the tournament will bring revenue into the country and the spotlight on the united states will encourage investment in our economy. i commend the gentleman from maryland, mr. van hollen, for offering this -- for authoring this important resolution and i urge all of my colleagues to join me in expressing strong support for the 2022 world cup bid. mr. speaker, i now reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman reserves. the gentleman from illinois. mr. manzullo: i yield myself such time as i may consume. and rise in support of h. con. res. 327, bipartisan measure recognizings the efforts of the u.s.a. bid committee to bring the world cup to the united states. on december 2, the executive committee of the international federatio

we had bruce springsteen having to demand that the republicans stop using born in the u.s.a. because, as he pointed out, this is not a patriotic ballad. and there seems to be kind of a surface-level reaction from politicians, a certain art, wanting to latch on to it. and yet the message of the candidate is something that no politician would embrace, and i understand that-- for those who haven't seen it, it has to do with an idealistic young man who says what he believes in as long as he's not likely to win. and then things change. the fundamental theme of the movie was to take a hard look at how we get people elected in this country. and that was what the real point of the movie was. the other was the characters to embody that theme, and the kind of the faustian bargain that people make going into politics, when they think, "i can be-- i can maintain my integrity. i can maintain a level of truth." but they have no idea what happens when you enter the political system. it's so full of compromise, and now more than ever, insidious, devious stuff to-- rather than tell the people

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but, the stat that really startled me this week, i think it was in "u.s.a. day," that the number of federal workers making more than $150,000 a year has doubled under president obama. we're paying an enormous amount of money for the public sector workforce. >> an enormous amount of money and unreasonable amount of money. and, in fact, the private sector working men and women in the private sector who are the taxpayers paying for those public sector jobs are making 10% less on average than federal employees. and receiving far, far worse benefits, the superior benefits of retirement programs for federal employees are extraordinary. but, you know, bill, if i may. as we focus on about 3 million federal workers and reducing 300,000, the real story in many cases in terms of government employees is at the local level, which, over the course of the past 40 years, has grown about just about 50%. it's an amazing. >> bill: that's what i'm talking about, i know. >> it's insane. >> bill: that's what i'm talking about. you have to get that under control. that's bankrupted

our last two come from just about as far apart as you can be in the u.s.a.. t they represent the same state of mind. tea party country. . >> i'm provide to be called senator tea party because i feel like i'm giving a voice to people who are very frustrated that washington is not listening. >> bret: jim demint started to earn that moniker before the tea party was a household name. elected to the house in 1998, then to the senate in 2004, demint quickly earned a reputation as a pork buster. >> they are fed up they've had enough of government spending and bailouts. breath breath this 2008 he stepped forward -- >> bret: in 2008 he stepped forward voting against tarp what turned out to be president bush's bank bail out. a vote many cite as the moment of concept of the tea party movement. three months later demint led the crusade against president obama's trillion dollar stimulus package. that effort failed. but left demint more determined to chain the culture in washington. >> it is like blasting rock. it is not graceful. >> bret: your critics would say perhaps you

our last two come from just about as far apart as you can be in the u.s.a.. represent the same state of mind. tea party country. . >> i'm provide to be called senator tea party because i feel like i'm giving a voice to people who are very frustrated that washington is not listening. >> bret: jim demint started to earn that moniker before the tea party was a household name. elected to the house in 1998, then to the senate in 2004, demint quickly earned a reputation as a pork buster. >> they are fed up they've had enough of government spending and bailouts. breath breath this 2008 he stepped forward -- >> bret: in 2008 he stepped forward voting against tarp what turned out to be president bush's bank bail out. a vote many cite as the moment of concept of the tea party movement. three months later demint led the crusade against president obama's trillion dollar stimulus package. that effort failed. but left demint more determined to chain the culture in washington. >> it is like blasting rock. it is not graceful. >> bret: your critics would say perhaps you don't

we'll be right back with check as the factor continues all across the u.s.a. ll around the world. >> bill: back ever the book segment tonight, reality check, we have a shocking development in check one. as you may know congressman charlie rangel in trouble for dodging taxes and setting up deals in real estate and doing other things congressman should not do. after long delays rangel's ethics hearing began today. he showed up without a lawyer and then did this. >> with all due respect, since i don't have counsel to advise me, i am going to have to excuse myself from these proceedings because i have no idea what this man has put together over two years that was given to me last week. and i just hope that the history of this committee in terms of fairness will be judged for what it is. >> bill: why didn't the congressman get a lawyer? that's one question. now after he bolted, the ethics panel held the hearing without him. that is not a good sign for the congressman. and check will keep you posted. check two, the far left continues to slime the tea party by using t

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what's increasingly evident is that shale gas is overwhelmingly abundant right here in the u.s.a. >> aubrey mcclendon: in the last few years, we've discovered the equivalent of two saudi arabias of oil in the form of natural gas in the united states-- not one, but two. >> stahl: we have twice as much natural gas in this country-- is that what you're saying-- than they have oil in saudi arabia? >> mcclendon: i'm trying to very clearly say exactly that. >> stahl: aubrey mcclendon is the c.e.o. of chesapeake energy, the largest independent gas producer in the country. he's on a mission to get us off foreign oil and dirty coal. gas has nearly half the carbon emissions of coal, and no mercury. but natural gas is still a fossil fuel. >> mcclendon: so is it perfect? no. the answer is, it's not perfect. but for the next 20 years, natural gas is probably our best bet. and the good news is, we've got it. and we've got as much of it as anybody else in the world. >> stahl: look at a map of shale formations across the country, and you'll see that there's production or exploration in over 30 states

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the u.s.a.-- c.i.a.archs peeled to the white house, and the white house felt it should be the station chief. it distracted a lot at an early stage. it wasn't a fight or issue that i sought. it was one i inherited. in retrospect i wish it hadn't come up so we could have gone on to other things. >> rose: it sounds to me like perhaps other people understood bureaucracy better than you did, or the way things work in a political world. is that a fair assessment? >> i'd say that's fair. if i-- i'd say the things that i was trying to do that turned out to have not been entirely politicalry correct were for the improvement of the intelligence community as i saw it. maybe i was a little naive on some of the bureaucratic political aspects of it, but i think they were right from the point of view of integrating. and i think they'll eventually come to pass as we get our intelligence agencies tighter and better integrated. maybe i was a little bit early. >> rose: the idea, also, is that i have read, sthaubl-- is that you believe-- what you were most disappointed about in terms of not being there,

we cannot find products from the u.s.a. to purchase in the major chains. we are finding some things at local craft fairs. today is small business saturday here around however most small businesses purchase their products from overseas. i looked at a swim suit at a major chain store for $100 this summer and i thought we could make that in the u.s.a. for that price for the store to sell. in missouri only 4% of our food is grown for ourselves according to a show you saw on a pbs station and i think we could do a lot better providing for ourselves. people can't get jobs should go back to growing our own food, sewing our own clothes, pherpbding our clothes and that would send a message. host: thank you for that call. we found this ad click on detroit.com and it talks about the small businesses that rebecca mentioned. small businesses say saturday is their day. organizations and consumers join to support small business. many advocacy public and private organizations hope to raise awareness of the importance of small businesses to community. it is called small bu

there's nothing been made in the u.s.a. for probably over 10 years. all our jobs have been shipped overseas. so the triad area, we are just boycotting any kind of shopping at all. spending any type of christmas or anything. we're going to do that with our families. host: do they still make anything in winston salem? i know they used to make cigarettes there a long time ago. caller: no, sir, rfrpblt j. reynolds has moved out. north carolina has always been the furniture capital of the world. our furniture is made in china. our textiles are overseas. this has been going on for years. so what we have decided to do here is to boycott this. and the people of the triad are going to boycott this. we're not shopping. there's nothing made in the u.s.a., our jobs have been taken away from us not under this presidency here. it's been taken away for years. host: all right. we got the point. thanks. guest: well, obviously this issue where you buy your products is a big one. last year my family and i made a very tough decision to decide to not exchange presents for

. >> at the end of world war two by one count there were 63,000 registered members of the communist party u.s.a 10,000 in the military. many on the left were convinced that history, like biology and physics governed by scientific laws, just like others are pulled to the ground, they believed that capitalism would ultimately be overthrown. >> they did become convinced on the understanding of history that was beyond the united states of america. >> they could bring themselves to the country. >> former commune of the agents with charges of communist agents. >> a hearing, a "time magazine" editor named whittaker chambers says how was seduced by marxism and soon he became a courier for a soviet espionage wing that included important officials in the u.s. government. >> chambers listed six or eight of his confederates. one of them was alger hiss. he was one of the bright young men and all the excitement of the new deal in 1933. and 1945 was the temporary secretary-general of the united nations conference that was held in san francisco. it was in effect the first secretary-general of the united nation