right and i think it's been interesting under the obama administration because there's been a lot of rhetoric about transparency and a lot of rhetoric about accountability but obama is just as addicted to using these private forces as bush was in fact in afghanistan he relies on them much more heavily and i think that you know it's it i think was inspired by the kind of reagan economic dock. and also under the clinton administration you know people would say oh well bill clinton is cutting the military budget and he's closing military bases and he's cutting the training budgets well that was partly true what he was actually doing was supporting a pretty radical privatization agenda and we talk about dick cheney and how running how laverton in the one nine hundred ninety s. and ever and everyone on the left talks about you know dick cheney halliburton there's insider stuff who you think gave dick cheney all those contracts when he was running out of or it was the clinton administration so you know this is a bipartisan game very much so i'm curious jeremy what quite your interest with r

to criticize the obama administration has drawn for office in afghanistan is not going very well probably will not be going very well keep the troops inside and quiet rather than criticizing obama from the outside now but in that sense you also have to wonder if this is an easy way out for general petraeus right he took over the war in afghanistan now so you could say this is also on his shoulders so now if he just moves on to the cia then he kind of gets to dump this project and just move on to the next thing move on to intelligence and also to. not a blanket. no question about it and you know iraq is not really one of the well no either you see the iraqi government involved in torture of civilians in iraq well the u.s. government of you know the way a lot of people who are doing the torturing of general betray us was in charge of training the afghan military and police and so he gets the blame for that because there's no started i don't want her but you also see the afghan government shooting at civilians who are demonstrating against your outcome and so you have set it up you leaves i

day has not been convicted of any crime i keep in mind that all of this happened under the obama administration president obama announced on day one that he would have the most transparent administration in history but it's become very clear that he hasn't kept true to his word on that when he even accepted a transparency award ironically behind closed doors perhaps to avoid any obvious questions from the press and makes you think about how much difference just one year can make or the word transparency started out as something that our government would strive for but ultimately became the enemy and all efforts were put towards protecting state secrets and fighting whistleblowers efforts so strong that both songe and manning are now facing serious criminal charges so the as the protests continue and the call for more transparency gets louder just stop and think for one minute today about how the u.s. government our government has changed the course backtracked and cornered itself when it comes to being honest with the world and just think that it all started with a video. oh not only is he quic

obama. administration is pushing for the supreme court to take on this case in terms of g.p.s. tracking on cars and we've seen a lot of these cases we've seen one here in washington d.c. we've seen them in california also we interviewed a man on this show a young muslim and asked her if he who found the device when he was going to get his oil checked and there is no reason but knowing this supreme court obviously there is a debate within the country. how do you think they're going to rule here so i'm not a legal expert so i can't tell you about how the judges are going to rule but what i can say is that i think it's alarming that the government has this view that if they place the tracking device on your car in a public place and they're monitoring where you're going in a public place they can monitor you for weeks or months at a time and in fact what these things circuit court said in which the government objects to the court said that when you can track someone over a large period of time you get a glimpse into their life and you just simply wouldn't get if you were just watc

you know the others within the obama administration honestly agree with what they're doing here or is everyone just his character speak out because if we look at p.j. crowley as the example he was forced to resign directly after he made his comments and peter querulous the very same cation when he when he finally did resign he made some comments that have become very prescient he said that in this current world we live in an information travels the globe quickly and people in other countries see what we're doing and the chinese come out a couple weeks later with this report that includes point of the treatment of bradley manning as evidence of human us human rights violations and this is not only embarrassing to president obama it's embarrassing the united states obviously we don't mean we say we talk about the markets in freedom and justice our constitution does not mean what it says when we when we're protected from clinical punishment when we're not punished more for trial obama and this this administration is showing the united states to be essentially a hypocrite and p.j. crowley

the obama administration and democrats and obama administration currently running on them are you ok pick one because some of the common. in a way them is that even democrats won't really touch that the issue anymore and i've been made a good point you know it's out of the obama administration that guns are now allowed in national parks and i mean that was a more liberal law so what are what are the anti gun laws that are being debated right now ok well first of all carol mccarthy is reintroduced another what they call the greedy campaigner calling of assault but on normal capacity magazines there are no initiatives underway to private sales and in terms of the private or the guns in national. credit that the administration wanted to have that was not right. it's not like they went to. school but they still did in effect what would you say to that ben do you think that he's getting some good cases david getting some good taste as far as half on guns right. gun owners' rights i think i think. he would have a problem with very commonsense laws very commonsense policy initiatives. like

well they've obama administration is just continuing the war strategies of the bush administration and in fact obama has increased the war in afghanistan dramatically he's bringing back into to the mix a retired u.s. ambassador who i first met and two thousand and two actually in afghanistan i was a part of the u.s. embassy in kabul afghanistan in late two thousand and one and two thousand and two and ryan crocker was brought in as our first chargé d'affaires he then went from there to iraq in two thousand and three for sure tour and then into pakistan is the us ambassador and then into iraq as the u.s. ambassador and then retired from there the being placed in what seems to be kind of the republican think tank called texas a and m. university where our current department of defense head but gates had headed up the george bush school of public administration or something like that then ryan crocker has been in there in an interim time until he was brought back in by the obama administration as well as you're saying you're saying that the obama administration is just continuing the ulti

sometimes well you know i mean barack obama talked to really good game arabs had really high expectations they thought this was a real break with the bush administration's policies but what we found out is on certain issues there's a lot of similarities and obama came with a lot of promises and he's able to deliver and i think people should hold him to account for that and i think better on civil liberties was one of his major campaign promises and this would be central to improving the relationship with the muslim world but especially on guantanamo not even close to meeting those expectations but i think it's a good reminder to the administration here that the world is watching when it comes to those policies and not just some of the pundits that you see here in washington d.c. and new york thank you so much for joining us for having. now today is the one hundred fiftieth anniversary of the beginning of the civil war the day the first shots were fired and it's safe to say that we've come a long way since that doesn't mean that our society is equal the fact that he want to know where african-americans really stand in america today let me give you some s

the obama administration what they are doing now is simply covering up what the bush administration did and i think that you know look if they were to . if this is all about politics really is what it comes down to so it would it would certainly result in some sort of call for an investigation perhaps i think that the best thing that the obama administration filter could do is just to get people not to talk about it and if we believe. that jason we can leaks then and do that this sort of logic i mean at the end of the day this information is coming out and it's almost the secrecy year under which has been operated in and sort of the refusal by certain administrations to confirm what's been alleged for years i would say is more of a black market in the eye of the administration than how they come through about what the truth in the beginning so what is going to i think you're absolutely right i think you're absolutely right i think this will be the only way that this can continue to be damaging for the obama administration is for the public in the media to. report on it and for the publi

every day i don't really think the obama administration and susan rice or really trying to reform the kind of management of the u.n. or the you know there have been a number of sort of overspending and corruption scandals on which they do very little i mean they are active and of late they've gotten security council resolutions they've wanted but i think that she's she felt a need to say to the house because it's a sort of a it's a commonly held view in congress that the you at least among republicans at the u.n. is you know corrupt an anti israel etc so she felt the need to say i knowledge that but it helps us but in reality she was there pretty much advocating for the un as it is and i think that's what sort of as a sort of in terms of the way that with the u.n. is run it hasn't really improved itself in terms of its management under the obama people because they're not trying to reform it so it's just a talking point it's just posturing. i think exactly i mean i think if you think about it's almost like they should be sort of in the middle that the u.n. should really really should

well i mean i think in the in the case of the obama administration they've really doubled down on some of the worst bush administration policies we now are addicted to this notion in the u.s. counterterrorism world that we can kill our way out of a problem and we see this war of attrition happening in afghanistan and i was just there recently where the u.s. forces are doing all these night raids and killing their way through the command structure of the taliban and they think that they're going to just be able to kill everyone and eventually that's going to bring peace well it's not going to bring peace it's only giving further motivation for more people to join with resistance groups or insurgent movements you know in the case of libya i think that we saw an incredible reactionary policy put into place by the obama administration i think it was a lot of blackmailing and cajoling that went on at the u.n. security council and the fact is that as much as people of the united states talk about how obama got this legitimacy from the u.n. security council five of the major powers in the wor

the obama administration of late has been trying to quietly ease saleh from s office. even though he's been a vital ally in fighting a potent al qaeda branch based in yemen's hinter lands. l in a bbc interview saleh warned that al qaeda had infiltrated the protestors' camps and that the west should s be wary. >> why is the west not looking at this destructive work and its dangerous implications foron the future? they're ignoring what al qaeda is doing in yemen, and they will pay the price. >> warner: on saturday, the obama administration applauded the statements from saleh and the opposition accepting the gcc deal. by late today two protestors were confirmed dead bringingin the death toll to more thann 140 in the last two months. for more on the upheaval andph uncertainty in yemen, we turn t christopher boucek, an associate in the middle east program of the carnegie endowment for international peace. he travels frequently to yemen. and barbara bodine, u.s. ambassador to yemen from 1997 through 2001. she's now a lecturer and diplomat-in-residence at princeton's woodrow

all agree must be cut, and we are talking about jobs, to note that in the first year of the obama administration more jobs were created in the private sector than in the eight years of the bush administration.

in two thousand and nine after the obama administration came on there was massive momentum towards climate regulation suddenly there was a real possibility of getting new good law passed and they went into high gear attacking obama from day one even started before the obama administration attacking any climate legislation they've run for years the summer hot air tours where they run what looks like a grassroots activist campaign around the country with a bus and t. shirts and hats and hand outs and little benson small towns in fact it's a corporate funded propaganda tour as i arrived in philadelphia for one of the forty it's who are events and i have peace railed against the climate change bill known as cap and tried. that look ok prosperity. this country is heading in the wrong track. and that's really actually stepping. back from troll i don't care all over. attack attack attack they were referring to this cap and tax as opposed to the term cap and trade term for carbon trading and went on the attack and declared this part of the obama agenda to impose new government regulations and grow

you know obama administration just did a good job of having a p.r. effort but i think it's mostly a p.r. effort you know what most of the world knows that nato doesn't do anything without us direction and u.s. management and that clearly is the case we're trying i think what we're trying to do is just fool the muslim world that it's the brits and the french and the other europeans who are bombing. but i think the muslim world is much smarter than there may know that the united states is behind the offensive but what do you think is the problem that well the problem is that is our reputation in the muslim world is is attacking muslim countries that have oil and it's certainly the case that libya is a muslim country and a country that has oil so we're making things worse for ourselves indeed we're confirming what osama bin laden has been saying about the united states for the past fifteen years if that's the case you know if we're not fooling the muslim world it's does seem that we may be fooling the media world in the united. states i've watched some

what i am going to do is focus on the obama administration's handling of the era -- arab uprising which has been effective in some way but it is planning to the weaknesses of this administration and president which are to embrace the conventional thinking and to be too cautious in responding to big opportunities that come along. obama began with an outdated and conventional view of the middle east. and defining the arab-israeli conflict. this was the classic american view of the region but i thought it was unfortunate. the bush administration had made the conceptual breakthrough after 9/11 in saying that the arab-israeli conflict was not central. the of problem was the stasis of autocratic regimes. the bush administration cannot pursue this to the end and it lost its nerve after a while. and understood the region differently. the obama administration started with the mistake of going back to the old philosophy. as a result, they were taken by surprise by this uprising. there are many people who was -- were saying that this was untenable. experts are trying to tell demonstration that cha

bad in bahrain they're bad in saudi arabia but they could get a lot worse and so maybe that obama administration wants to maintain the ability to exercise that soft power in the future and i hate once again to be sort of the like the cynical skunk here but i mean democratic movements haven't worked out for the u.s. or for liberalism in iran in one thousand nine hundred nine in the gaza strip for example so i'm not sure i do think it's kind of naive to say democracy always furthers the liberalism and u.s. interests particularly in the middle east see even go right ahead though those are those are those just told various analogies hamas won elections in actions and palestine as a reaction to the israeli occupation and to the corruption and autocratic rule of thought so. similarly around the the the mullahs the reactionaries and of hijacking that revolution in part because the u.s. backed the shah for so many years he was able to crush in marginalize the more democratic and moderate elements of the revolution so the ayatollah is rooted able to fill in the political vacuum and you know the longer we

obama administration will have . a more constructive. response to my request do you trust the obama administration. as a special rapporteur i have jurisdiction over one hundred ninety countries i don't trust or distrust any government i just deal with them in the same way and and and yes i. heard from the premise depart from the premise that all governments have to live up to their obligations under international law just one more question for you i know that in the past you have called for the united states to investigate and prosecute torture committed under the former president george w. bush and a lot of people seem to say you know it's in the past let's not reopen old wounds get in the way of you know national unity it war our maybe make our reputation abroad much worse based on what comes out of that our how do you respond well the torture convention international law more generally makes it an obligation of the state to investigate and prosecute every single act of torture in that case in that sense torture is different torture is

. >>> the obama administration denied reports that it has allowed bp to resume drilling in the gulf of mexico. it's been almost a year now since that deadly oil rig exploded. and bp needs approval from the federal government to start drilling at ten existing wells. a commission found bp along with transocean and haliburton were to blame. >>> good evening a ridge of high pressure in place. offshore flow and we had warm temperatures this afternoon. but we're starting to see some changes as this ridge here begins to we cannen. it's going to be pushed aside by a system that will bring us clouds, cooler conditions but no rain with this one. by the afternoon we are expecting cloudy conditions by your tuesday as we roll through midweek, we are going to see a decline in temperatures. 40s to possibly low 50-degrees is what we're looking at. your noontime numbers upper 50s low 60s. so again, this is the beginning of a dramatic cool down. the rain expected to come with that cooler air, that coming up at 10:45. >>> the california highway patrol started a first of its kind month long campaign to cu

probably was going to hurt our existence in the region so it's in the best interest of the obama administration and the united states of america to find new allies in these movements because these are genes these are autocratic regimes that been ruling these countries for over two hundred years not going to sustain in their current status matthew looked like you were going there for a second to hand go ahead. yeah i mean steven hussein have both clarified that that what they want to stop i mean first of all it might have still be a double standard relative to what we're doing in libya so that's the talking point here. but more importantly i mean i'm not sure exactly is going on inside the administration what i would guess though is is sort of nirvana iteration is sort of holding those cards things are bad in bahrain they're bad in saudi arabia but they could get a lot worse and so maybe the obama administration wants to maintain the ability to exercise that soft power in the future and i hate once again to be sort of the like the cynical skunk here but i mean democratic movements haven't worked

>> i actually think the obama administration has the power to promote change in cuba more quickly than perhaps even raul castro by its policies toward cuba. perhaps opening up travel to all americans, for instance, which is now banned. the obama administration has made good on his campaign promises to open up travel, full travel, for cuban americans living in the united states to visit their family. >> hinojosa: which is extraordinary. >> which is extraordinary, which is actually more important than i think a lof of people realize. but most americans still can't travel there. so i think if more americans started traveling there, that could create an impact. >> hinojosa: so when you were in havana, you saw a lot of americans in havana and the rest of cuba. who are they? what kind of americans are going down to cuba? >> well, there were more coming... there were more going there during the clinton administration, and a lot of people came. a lot of people came. they came with little league groups, they came with alumni groups from universities, they came... they came on tours of... you kn

. ♪ call 1-800-steemer that's the estimate from the obama administration, after more t in >>> 30,000eople may be dead in recent violence in libya the estimate from the obama administration after more than 2 months of conflict in africa. the u.s. ambassador libya has seen estimates from 10,000 to 30,000 deaths in moammar qaddafi's crackdown on protestors and fighting between his forces and rebels. >>> congresswoman gabrielle giffords is on her feet today spending time with her astronaut husband before his next mission. yesterday september 11 the hospital for the first time since being shot in the head four months ago. she walked onto a flight from houston to florida. giffords will watch the launch of the space shuttle endeavour. her husband, of course, mark kelly, will command endeavour's final flip space when it blasts off sometime tomorrow. >> what an amazing comeback. >>> the new chief federal judge in san francisco will be taking on some key issues in the prop 8 legal battle. supporters of the ban on same- sex marriage in california say former judge vaughn walker should not have s

. >>> the obama administration denied reports that it has allowed bp to resume drilling in the gulf of mexico. it's been almost a year now since that deadly oil rig exploded. and bp needs approval from the federal government to start drilling at ten existing wells. a commission found bp along with transocean and haliburton were to blame. >>> good evening a ridge of high pressure in place. offshore flow and we had warm temperatures this afternoon. but we're starting to see some changes as this ridge here begins to we cannen. it's going to be pushed aside by a system that will bring us clouds, cooler conditions but no rain with this one. by the afternoon we are expecting cloudy conditions by your tuesday as we roll through midweek, we are going to see a decline in temperatures. 40s to possibly low 50-degrees is what we're looking at. your noontime numbers upper 50s low 60s. so again, this is the beginning of a dramatic cool down. the rain expected to come with that cooler air, that coming up at 10:45. >>> the california highway patrol started a first of its kind month long campaign to cu

government spacecraft and didn't support commercial development as much as the obama administration, this administration has really pushed forward on this, giving, i think, $6 billion over five years to help these commercial spacecraft companies develop the capability to reach orbit. host: nasa's budget is about $18.5 billion this year. increase, decrease? guest: the bad news for nasa is it is going to be a flat line budget for the foreseeable future. the negotiating point that the administration perceives putting up on capitol hill, every budget cycle for the next five years is roughly where we are now. we're not going to see a big increase. we will see a shift of focus within that $18 billion -- more support for commercial, more earth science, less immediate manned space exploration, so it is a shift of focus under the same amount of money. host: from oklahoma, mike is on the line. please go ahead. we're outside the national air and space museum on the national mall in washington, d.c. caller: good morning. why is nasa continuinging as we go farther into the solar system, and i know