if you go to amazon and type in common sense, you'll see there's the common sense of investing, the common sense of, you know, reseeding your backyard. there's a common sense for everything. >> host: second book? >> guest: this is my second book, yes. >> host: and, sophia rosenfeld, professor at the university of virginia and author of "common sense: a political history" has joined us here on booktv. >> we'd like to hear from you. tweet us your feedback. twitter.com/booktv. >> host: nathan hodge is the author of "armed humanitarians: the rise of the nation builders." mr. hodge, define nation building. >> guest: it's one of those tricky terms that nobody wants to own, and that's one of the reasons i chose to write about it. i'm using it in the way that people like george w. bush, barack obama or even dave petraeus would have used it which is this is a way of describing this kind of mission of armed nation building that we're involved in. it's been described in some ways as armed social work. and i'm trying to really tribe this phenomenon to the ordinary reader who might have this idea when

preemps the federal common law -- preempts the federal common law? >> i would refer to it as replacement. it refers common law across a variety of areas but it distinguishes between displacement of federal common law. presumption is against preemption of state law. but because of federal concepts of separation of powers the presumption is in favorite of law-making by congress and not law making by courts. and that means the standards are very different. it means if congress hazarded the problem -- >> what's your best case? >> milwaukee vs. ill-. they said that congress had addressed the problem. federal common law had no role to play. it is a process in which the state and the private parties can participate. they can establish principles for rule-making. and it would be inconsistent with that process if they could take a complete end-run and about and ask courts that congress has assigned it. >> this is a merit's argument? >> yes. it says that any federal common law action would be displaced by the clean air. >> is the argument that there in fact no

as i said before, we have a common policy to present a common question. we have shown evidence that would create a prima facia case. >> one thing you have not touched on is -- it you follow the advisory committee notes, you cannot use b2. you have to make the se under b3. about half the class is gone. they are not interested in presumptive relief. but everybody is interested in money. why do you say the presumpstive relief is more and the money is less? it should be the other way around. >> the advisory committee makes clear that whether or not an action or inaction is taken with respect to the class, it depends -- it does not depend on the number of people are adversely affected by that action. walmart employees would be included in the class under b2. the question is not who should be in a position to seek pre sumptive relief. >> mr. boutrous, you have four minutes remaining. >> mr. sellers has made clear that walmart can prevent women from seeking back pay. because of the nature of the claims, discretionary decisions were being implemented in a way tha

in common. i mean common in europe. i think that you should be closer to europe but something the. couple think of it because of normal life style relations but normal relations also come in i would see so they can think problems but they also can be decisions because. they can peace prospects for the future thank you thank you very much have a sam and thank you very much just to remind that my guests on the show today were added to the executive secretary of the russian polish group on difficult issues and. the chairman of the foreign affairs committee at the polish parliament the same and the third front from all of us here if you want to add yourself spotlight you can always drop me a line. with more firsthand comments on what's going on in and outside russia until then stay and r.t. and take a.

the common good is not in control. in bank regulation not in control of the federal reserve not in control of the department of justice which ought to be actively pursuing the greatest wave of financial fraud in human history and has done effectively nothing about it and therefore it's continuing. oh the people responsible for it are to a considerable degree still in control of the major financial institutions. are they doing what they were doing three years ago no of course not they have markets for. residential mortgage backed securities and collateralized debt obligations completely collapsed and will never be restored this is not coming back in the form that we had it five years ago and i call that they are doing other things of course yet now they are doing it with wheat and oil and gold and most are worried come up this they have the advantage of commodities is that you can make money on them in a very short term way and that it does not involve any sustained commitment to new production or speaking with james k.

allowed in our society we expect i think because so our common interests and common expectation are the final is a. and of the process of having the final opinion what was the case but it should be explained in complete the document and unfortunately the first attempt of the makes was. uncomplete it was not complete this is our opinion and this is the expectation we have to have. the process. given transparent but also completely. after we hear how you have a comment do you agree with that opinion you accepted model as this approach because it's really a reasonable approach and thank you to. the chairman. for these in the state of the nation committee report or as we call it here in russian marks. report really it was a report of the intonation institution chosen by both parties involved but then. somehow or was forward by the respective and bew investigation made by. two parts russia and poland separately they are all polish released so they pretty separated in investigation provided by the german prosecutor office here in russia and i guess in my in maybe can really finalize finalize

some are raw material exporters what is the common basis for a summit. and as i said i was a bit of a skeptic however i have to admit that i think that the initiative the president medvedev took in two thousand and nine could bring this group together as leaders. makes sense first of all within the context of the g. twenty these these are the after the g. seven this are the next large group of countries and particularly after welcoming south africa to join them in this past february to make five. they represent after all even now twenty percent of the world's output of g.d.p. and they represent forty percent of the world's population this is not an insignificant grouping but the question could be is this just symbolism. maybe an answer this question will be if for example today or tomorrow these leaders in china will work out a joint possession a joint idea that there will be later pushing in the framework of the g. twenty will this happen would you say well my my view about international politics is that. g five. twenties don't really have much signific

it went through the house of commons twice. you used the senate the pact with your friends -- that you packed with your friends and fund-raisers. you used the senate to defeat the bill that called for accountability so that we could have a climate change plan that would move us forward. it is such in this respect for democracy -- it is such a disrespect for democracy that is not acceptable. >> we have been strongly opposed to the bill. it has no achievable objectives. it just sets targets. you cannot achieve something with just targets. you have to have the measures that will achieve that. when it comes to climate change, we're working internationally on the copenhagen accord. it is a framework. we're working with the obama administration on a continental approach for integrated industries as the opposition asked for. we're going to invest billions of dollars in green energy. that is what canadians want. that is

i would say allowed in our society and we expect i think it also our common interests and common expectation are the final is the. process of having the final opinion what was the paste but it should be explained in complete the document and unfortunately the first attempt for makes it was. an complete it was not complete this is our opinion and this is the expectation we have to have. the process. given in very transparent but also complete way after we hear how you have a comment do you agree with that opinion yourself and not only say i should be surprised because it's a reasonable approach and thank you to mr chairman. this all these seem to stay to be asian comedian report or as we call it here in russian parole not. report really it was a report of the inclination institution chosen by boss of the parties involved. but then it somehow or was followed by the respective and the you are investigation made by. two pots russia and poland separately. published release of the participated in investigation provided by the prosecutor office here in russia and i guess in my in may we can really

as i said before, we have a common policy here and it presents a common question.e have shown evidence that would probably create a private fashion case under the product or practice of -- prima facie case under teamsters. >> one thing you have not touched on is, first of all, whether b2 is limited to an injunction. if damages predominate, then you cannot use b2 and you have to make your case under b3. one factor is that about half of the class is gone so they are not interested in injunctive relief, but everybody is interested in money. white is not the money -- why do you say that the injunctive relief is the thing and the damages are lesser rather than the other way around? >> is more than half of the class that is gone, is it not? >> nobody knows. they continue to have more employees added to the company cash, so i would not presume -- >> but nobody is leaving. >> people are leaving. the point is that the advisory committee note with respect to rule 23b2 makes clear that whether or not an action or inaction is taken with respect to the cost, which is the predic

all 308 members of the commons are up for election. here are some highlights of this past tuesday's debate with the party leaders. we began with the question on the economy from a canadian citizen. how can the conservative party justify a tax cut when canadian families are struggling to make ends meet? >> is the policy putting money in the pockets of wealthy corporations to have failed to share the wealth in the past? >> we are having an election because you could not tell the truth to the parliament about the money you are going to spend on jets, jails, and corporate tax giveaways. that is what this viewer cannot understand. we're in the middle of the biggest deficit in canadian history. you did not tell the truth to parliament. you are the first from minister found in contempt of parliament. you are trying to persuade canadians you are not cutting corporate taxes. you cut it down from 16.5%. no one can understand why that makes sense in the middle of the toughest deficit we have seen because of your waste and mismanagement. >> the co

one of the most important open space proposals in the project is the neighborhood commons. one thing that is lacking in the current neighborhood is a neighborhood gathering spaces that are centers of activity where people can congregate and hangout near their units. that is something that is generally lacked throughout the neighborhood, particularly acute. these neighborhood commons would the focuses of activity, small neighborhood pocket parks. they would be anchored by small cafes and other small neighborhood retail uses, like you would think of in a corner store. they are about a third of an acre in size and they are distributed around the site so that every unit is within a couple minutes walk of one of these small neighborhood commons, where they could meet their friends or just get a cup of coffee and a paper on a sunday morning if newspapers continue to exist. that is one of the major neighborhood gathering spaces. the other major open space intervention and amenity that is being provided on the site is a whole open space corridor that essentially would permit the si

why is that and what did you find in your study as it related to the kind of misconduct that was common? >> i think in order to get to that question, taking off on amy's story because i think it illustrates a common problem in prosecutors' offices around the country. but with what three simple reforms would do to help address that. that deals with the issues of transparency, accountability as you mentioned, jeff and the culture of prosecutors' offices. as both you and amy have said prosecutors are arguably the most powerful figures in our criminal justice system. they have a duty to protect the innocent and they also have a duty to convict the guilty and that powers that they have as you described, what charges to bring. what evidence to present? who are they going to charge with that crime? these are all extraordinary, enormous powers. and we give the prosecutors this power because we believe in our public safety. but along with this extraordinary power that we grant them, we believe that they are going to do so responsibly. and that's not what is happening in a lot of cases. you know,

as i said before, we have a common policy here, presents a common question, we've shown evidence thatwould probably create a prime prime ma fascia case. >> one thing you haven't touched on is this foirs of all the question of limited to -- >> yes. >> but if you follow the advisory committee's notes, if damages predominate, if damages predominate, then you can't use b2. you have to make your case under b3, and one factor here is that about half the class is gone, so they are not interested in injunction relief, but everybody's interested in money, so why doesn't the money -- why do you say that the, that the injunction relief is the thing and the damages are lesser rather than the other way around? >> well, n., it's more than half the class that's gone. >> well, nobody knows that because they continue to have more employees added at the company, so i -- >> nobody's leaving? >> there are people leaving, but more importantly, the advisory committee with respect makes clear that there is a, that whether or not an action or inaction is taken with respect to the class, a predicate to b2 cer

we have to implement a law we should be more similar we have in common. i mean common the europe. i think that you should be closer to europe but of course something for the. public figure because normal lifestyle relations but normal relations also something i would see. problems but they also can't leave the decisions because they sways and they can peace prospects for the future thank you thank you very much at a time and thank you very much just to remind that my guests on the show today were out of the executive secretary of the russian polish group on difficult issues and angie holan the chairman of the foreign affairs committee at the polish parliament to say and the third from all of us here if you can tell yourself spotlight you can always drop me a line who do that with more proof than comment on what's going on in and outside russia until then stay and r.t. and take care. i think. it's his it's.

. >> unlike judge our common and the judges in dept. 43 j judge bauer -- unlike judge bauer common the judges in department 43 are borden. there is no one to make objections or advocate for the people who go to these courtrooms, because they have never had them there. there is no lawyers, so what happens is i go into the courtroom, and i hide behind a broad-shouldered deputy so the judge does not recognize me, and i listen and watch. the judge comes in, and everybody rises, and the judge goes through the speech she gives to the defendants who have been waiting all weekend in many cases to get out because they are there for public intoxication or failure to appear for a warrant, so they have been picked up on the weekend. i will exaggerate. she comes up and goes, you are here charge, and you have the right to go to counsel. i will do the deal for you right now, and if you want a public defender, you can get a public defender. let's go. then what happened is a long line of guilties. guilty, guilty, guilty -- incontinent -- not guilty. no continent. guilty, guilty, guilty. i am an amateur

prosecutorial misconduct in terms of failure to turn over evidence is really probably the most common cause of misconduct. >> we have that issue here, so i want to come back to that. before i asked common you will have an opportunity to ask questions, -- before i asked, you will have the opportunity to ask questions. the next area i want to talk about are the courts and judges, and before i have shawn explain his experience with misdemeanor courts, where you just tell us -- he was described as a great judge, but he was violating everybody's writes everyday, and he was thrown off the bench. tell us that story. >> this is a story of a judge in upstate new york, and he is a judge in a place called troy, new york, which has historically been a beautiful day. -- beautiful town. he got the idea he wanted to help clean up troy. if you walk the streets with hank bauer, he is a celebrity. people are hanging out their windows, do you need an umbrella? he is that type of guy. i told him i was writing a book called "ordinary in justice," and you are one of the main characters, and he would pick u

another example is not a very common -- upper arm injuries are not very common. fortunately barbara took the sun as a problem. otherwise it wouldn't have passed and with shrinking markets, small markets for various rare diseases but even some reasonably common but not gigantic leap common things that is the problem. . the government has to do a lot of this. we don't have enough money to do all of this but will be important. just in general. basically some horrible things happen, of the divide between research and care coverage with evidence that we're working and point of care research for people remain in the health care system, that is changing and it will require a whole new policy to and do that. privacy issues, all kinds of issues will come up when we try to make a patient a research subject. that is important to think about. >> that does seem like where we are headed. with this emphasis on patient focused outcome, pain reforms that we talk about on the care side, how do we get better results for patients, becoming much more focused around data that involves

the one thing we share in common are feelings and emotions. this is the one area we fail so badly as educators, counselors and therapists. one of the commonalities as an educator and as a counselor is, i was, 10 years ago. i was working with native american students, i am from the midwest and i moved out here 6 years ago. prior to that, however, i was, the counseling department for a native american therapeutic school. we had 260 students grades 4 through 8. 75 percent were on special education ie p's. 90 percent were already enrolled in the juvenile system and in the drug and alcohol programs. later on, i would show up and be a counselor at the betty ford center with attorneys and other professionals. the one commonality that the children at therapeutic school and the professionals at the betty ford center had in common was no clue about feelings and how to be aware of their feelings and how to address them. what mr. dierck has done is one of the things that we as educators, it's the one thing we have missed. it's the absolutely one thing we

his program on any quality in the common good he's also the co-author of the book economic apartheid in america a primer on economic inequality and insecurity char welcome anytime good to be with you great to have you with us here char why is this so difficult to get anybody to talk about taxes particularly the media i. just it doesn't seem to happen i constantly find myself yelling at the t.v. as they're having these long discussions about well should we cut this or that who is the republicans want to cut more than ever grass nobody says let's raise taxes. you know it's clearly the option but it's not table you know here we are every governor and members of congress saying we're broke and the thing that's not of the table is simply even just reversing the tax cuts that have gone to the richest one percent and the offshore tax havens that have opened up loopholes for corporation simply if we reversed some of those we would be having to have this deep cut discussion this austerity discussion you know i was speaking with a kirpan a little earlier and suggested it really all began with

>> now from london, the prime minister's questions from the british house of commons. >> this week, prime minister david cameron offered in a bid on the situation in libya been specifically, commenting on the issues of arming libyan rebels and the support of the region. increases in university tuition fees and cuts in emergency loans for the unemployed. tackling. >> order, questions to the prime minister. jackie doyle price. >> here, here. >> moving along, >> i am sure that the whole house will wish to join me in paying tribute to major matthew collins and lance sergeant mark burgan from 1st battalion the irish guards. they died in afghanistan last wednesday after their vehicle was caught in a blast from an improvised explosive device. they were both hugely respected, passionate and dedicated soldiers, and they will be greatly missed. our thoughts and deepest condolences should be with their families, friends and colleagues. d, passionate, and dedicated soldiers and they will be greatly missed our thoughts and deepest condolences should be with their this morning i had meetings with minis

try and find common ground. the president is trying to make the right decision for the american people. i think public comments were important. as you in the media started to focus on what a shutdown would mean, not just the politics of it but the impact on the economy and the people in country. the president was saying let's get serious about this. we ought to be able to bridge the divide here. that was an important contribution to this. again -- >> chris: a lot of congressional democrats think he hung them out to dry. >> i would say if you look at the final package, i couldn't disagree more. the president is clear we need to reduce spending and we do in a smart way. as he said friday, there are of course things in there in other circumstances he wouldn't have agreed to. it happens in any negotiation. but we preserve what is important to us. community health centers, medical research, head start for kids. those were all on the shopping block and through the president's leadership we preserved them. >> chris: th

the most common, medication errors, the wrong dosing, the wrong medicine. followed by mistakes in surgical procedures, from leaving surgical tools inside the body, to operating on the wrong part of the body. next, infections acquired in the hospital. if patients have a choice, choose a hospital that uses bar codes to match patients with proper drugs. and if you are undergoing surgery, make sure the doctor marks the part of your body where they should operate. lonnie soul wished his doctors had. we spoke to him after he went on surgery for his right knee but came out with doctors operating on his left. >> it makes me mad. i got two bad knees, two knees that don't work. >> reporter: and these are costly errors. one study estimating medical mistakes cost the u.s. more than $17 billion a year. diane? >> all right, sharyn alfonsi, thank you. >>> and now we turn to the nail-biting negotiations in washington. anxious federal workers protested as the deadline drew closer. both sides are quick to blame each other. and in what is now a battle over just a few ball dol

russia suffered many terrorist attacks do you feel we're fighting a common enemy. was sure yes i am particularly sensitive to the problem of terrorism when i was eight years old we separate a terrorist attack on our home our sleep so i know how you feel when you are victims of these attacks which is blind and cowardly as they are violent i have absolutely no sympathy towards terrorism the best work as closely as possible to win this fight so. we're in the poem the head of the national front thank you for speaking with l.t. . this time it's silent for decades. twenty five years ago the entire fifty thousand population over ukrainian town of previous was a microwave to within three hours. plus now it wants to be recently some people started receiving faucheux just as telling them to pick up letters at this post office in virginia to. the stories of world com going. does have to be told to. me to the diaries are too close to all are today. if. you lose me soon which brightened. soon from feinstein christians. who threw stones on t.v. don't come. down load the official

the civil rights lawsuit alleged police were misusing the slot to basically clean up the streets common so we asked out of -- miss using the law to basically clean up the streets, so we asked how many people have been arrested for intoxication, and they got back to me and said, 5000 a year. he said that is a mistake. he said, you put a 0 on the end. i called him back, and said few double check this. we were curious about what was going on in san jose, and we started to lookin into these charges, and we also started to look at other discretionary crimes, the kinds which police are the arbiters of whether or not you reach a probable cause, and we found out san jose was busting people right and left for public intoxication or resisting arrest or disturbing the peace and all sorts of crimes, and the racial disparities were off the charts when we compare them to other cities. public intoxication, there were 57% latino people being arrested. we have 3% latino people in the city. where were these 5000 people going? they were going to department 42, where the woman judge was going guilty, guilt

puerto ricans in new york have almost nothing in common outside of common language with cubans in miami. politically cubans in miami, i'm from miami, group there, and we know that cubans in miami have tend today vote republican in just about every election. dough men cons in new york, necks cans in texas, california, south americans also come here. vote very differently if they do vote and of course puerto ricans are u.s. citizens, so immigration is not an issue at all for them as it is not an issue for cubans, since under at jump. act cubans can come and stay legally and don't have to go through the hoops that other latinos have to go through. >> let's talk about the mexican- americans and all except the cubans. these folks by and large are poor, working class, lower middle-class, 47% of americans pay no taxes. but they get an enormous withouty of benefits. food stamps, rent supplements, you get medicare, free education, so hispanics especially mexicans in the southwest are much more acclimated, big government people. and they're going to vote the government party. they voted between 6

it had passed the house of commons.no wonder the rest of the world is looking at canada and saying what the heck is going on? we have two parties running in this election who have flat lined our foreign-aid budget. that is wrong. if we are doing so well economically, as they like to climb, then we should be doing something about the poorest parts of the world. we should be bringing our troops home from afghanistan. canadians were expecting that to happen this summer. instead we are now going to be there another three years. we have lost our reputation on the environment. >> brave men and women fought and died in afghanistan. you have said we ought to stay engaged in afghanistan. you cannot have it both ways. no more, at four canadian soldiers. the one thing afghans want and desperately need is security. i think is right for canada to stay in a training mission, out of harm's way, helping the afghans defend themselves. you cannot have it both ways. the one thing they need is security. i want to make sure that afghans can