exit question, in libya has or pat buchanan? >> yes, he has, because he doesn't know the end game and the end game may require boots on the ground in libya, and whose boots will they be? >> another? >> i think he's handling it quite well. there may be boots on the ground, they will not be american boots. the allies will have to pony up for that if that's where this is headed. >> he seems very reluctant to talk about regime change, lest he look like president george w. bush but that's what we're engaged in here bus he knows that no-hitter outcome will be very band for the united states, but i don't think they're prepared for any of the outcomes, john. and this administration has not talked about libya in the greater context of what is going on in the broader middle east. >> what about nato just dropping a bomb right on gaddafi's compound? >> they did that. >> they've tried that. >> what do you mean they tried? >> yes, missile on his head. >> i'm talking about over the head flight. >> anything is possible. i don't think that that

question, why did president obama wait so long to squelch this controversy, paryial-birth swell pat buchanan he already put out a certificate of live birth, hassled by a bunch, and then donald trump began pounding it and pounding it and saying, where is the original birth certificate? and the issue metastasized. three they say they don't where he was born. it was beginning to meld into the independents and damaging obama there belatedly after a lot of people in the center said, for heaven's sake, release the birth certificate. this is a tremendous victory for donald trump. >> why did not he do it after the first round. >> i think he feels it was beneficial. >> he didn't want to dignify the issue? >> that could have been it. but let me say this. donald trump won this battle hands down. he grabbed this issue, he went to the top of the polls among republicans, then he gets the president of the united states forces him to march into the white house press room and reverse a decision he took o and a halfearsag >>eleanor, u knockedown negative stories right away. >> it's a basic political rule. why

. >> in about 50 minutes from now, former speechwriter for president nixon including pat buchanan and the perception of the 37 president. we will have that 411 cspan at 2:00 p.m. eastern. story on wireless is frankly a bigger one for the impact on the economy at large as opposed to the macroeconomic question of whether a given set of carriers builds out. >> and the president's chief technology officer on wireless mergers, the demand for spectrum, and expanding brought with the u.s. joins our guest reporter tonight at 8:00 eastern on "the communicator's," on c- span 2. >> to night, u.s. labor leaders discuss the future of labor unions including recent republican efforts to curb collective bargaining rights. >> the republican party's near pathological drive to crush organize level even at the cost of further wrecking the economy and disabling democracy has reached epidemic proportions. >> that is on c-span at 8:00 p.m. tonight. on c-span 2, a look at the balance of states' rights and federal authority as well as the legacy of brown vs. board of education. >> i would say and correct me i

it has pat buchanan in some ways, and it has sal linsky's successors on the others. but it's interesting how robert putnam, a famous sociologist at harvard road report, and later the book, bowling alone, about social isolation in america, had been working for a number of years on assessing the impact of diversity on civic engagement and democratic participation. he did not like the results he got. essentially, he said that it -- places with the most diversity in america were those with the lowest levels of social trust, the lowest levels of social engagement. people tended to hunker down, basically became couch potatoes. they didn't go out and go to the local cake sale or join the rotary or the knights of columbus, or whatever have you. community life withers and people tend to hunker down in order to escape the friction that develops an excessively diverse places. yet, the times promotes diversity as an aggressive creed, and this is not just diversity of personnel policy that diversity as a demographic reality. .. >> dealing with islam. i'd like to say that -- anoth

former speechwriter for president richard nixon, including pat buchanan, reflect on their careers and how they helped shape the public perception of the administration and policies. it is co-hosted by the richard nixon foundation and george washington university. live coverage begins at 2:00 p.m. eastern tomorrow. >> the c-span networks provide coverage of policy, public affairs, non-fiction books, and american history. it is all available on radio, television, on-line, and on social media at networks. find are content through the video library. we take it on the road with our bus, bringing it to your community. we are now available in more than 100 million homes. created by cable, provided as a public service. >> republicans can win a the 2012 election if they can make it about politics. there were several stops in new hampshire. our is considering running for president in 2012. and he has some remarks. this is about one hour. [unintelligible] >> welcome. this is my wife. >> hi. i have a wife of [unintelligible] [unintelligible] how are you doing? great to see you. thanks for having

maybe pat buchanan doesn't know. but it goes all the way. but there's a man named colby, edward colby, who was a member of this profession. they were called nigger breakers. and frederick douglass, who's one of the unruly black men who was sent to him to be disciplined. and the life and times of frederick douglass. he talks about how he turned the tables on this guy. so guess who lives in everett colby's house now. donald rumsfeld lives in this guy's home. that was in the "washington post." so what i'm saying is we have these neoconfederates. i'm beginning to wonder who won the war. i came up in the car yesterday by the national archive and robert lee's picture is just as big as lincoln's. and i guess when we get more tea party in there, it will be larger. but anyway, we have these people and i think as an african-american and being acquainted with the african-american tradition i can read the signs, i can read the language and i can decode things. so when senator demint wanted to bring barack obama, i knew exactly what that meant. and i wan

>> a couple of weeks ago i was talking to pat buchanan, not necessarily the friendliest -- >> [inaudible] >> he's like i'm writing a book and i'm writing a book that if republicans can't figure of the latino vote to there is not going to be a majority party for the next two or three election cycles. that's powerful. so i have a couple of ladens i introduced him to. >> on the heels of the white house visit it seems that when celebrities come to town it is every journalist will come, we get to plug in and ask what the first to the questions we want to ask. i'm curious to know how effective it is sort of behind closed doors with the lawmakers because barack obama the celebrities all the time. so, the sort of influence having a celebrity and actor coming in -- >> i think what we discovered is jesus intimately involved. she literally goes in and locks on doors and talks to people and really motivates them to register because she understands the mechanics of it but then is able to translate that to politicians and they are not used to having you back to the understand the issue and you are hol

pat buchanan in 1996, a lot of coverage there. one of the things about iowa is that candidates who might not be able to afford it will get the attention of the national media can come to iowa and meet with the activists here and get that kind of attention. they can leverage that. i love becomes -- iowa becomes somewhat of a mechanism to level the playing field. that is one of the selling points. >> you do have the opportunity to press the flesh and do a grass-roots campaign. you do not have to have a lot of money if you are willing to go out and meet people. parts ron paul announce his exploratory committee and i look the other day. i think he did that for a reason. >> let's go to joe in ohio. good afternoon. >> good afternoon, jim. how is everybody doing? >> we are doing good. it is dan and ed. jim is under the weather. >> when mr. obama won the election, even in europe everybody was crying. like martin luther king, they said that history was finally coming true. i cried. i thought it was beautiful how the world is. when he and h

. >> you are talking to pat buchanan. >> ok. >> he said i am about to write a book. >> it is very interesting. they will come. these a the kind of questions we want to ask. i'm curious how looks behind closed doors with lawmakers. barack obama is there all the time. self assessed the influence of having a celebrity and actor. >> what we discovered is that we are very intimately involved. it motivates them. she understand the mechanics of it. she is able to translate it to politicians. we actually talked to people in colorado or hello. that changes the equation. >> how can i talk about this? how can i talk about this in a different way? we were the only ones in the room. this makes a palpable difference. >> i got into use reusable -- then to use reusable bags. i europe and its collapse on the lower east side. the degree up in a flat on the lower east side. -- i grew up in a flat on the lower east side. i show up these meetings. sometimes i get the opportunity to walk in because i'm a celebrity. sometimes i walk up and they go she is an actress-vist. [laughter] >> you have met president obama.

among the participants is former white house aide pat buchanan. the forum is co-hosted by the richard nixon foundation and george washington university. it's live at 2 p.m. eastern on our companion network, c-span. tonight on the c-span networks, u.s. labor leaders discuss the future of labor unions including recent republican efforts to curb collective bargaining rights. >> the republican party's drive to crush organized labor even at the cost of further wrecking the economy and disabling democracy has reached epidemic proportions. >> that's on c-span at 8 p.m. tonight, and on c-span2 a look at the balance of states' rights and federal authority as well as the legacy of brown v. board of education. >> i would say, and correct me if i'm wrong, that brown v. board was to protect the peace and prosperity of the people. and if that's the federal government overstepping its bounds, i don't see why the federal government's there if not to protect the peace and prosperity of its own people. [applause] >> man. well, i must say for being a student at the