to think of it as part of our nation's mortgage payment, one of our nation's obligation as a government to ensure that our military is fully funded, that they've got the equipment, the logistical support that they need, that their housing is the best it can be, that they've got the facilities are the very best they can be, and this is one of those obligations we've got to take care of. we are in this bill, in all the appropriations bills, mr. chairman, brought to the house for the first time, this new republican majority, this conservative majority is for the first time, money that has been left in the treasury unspent in previous years was just spent in other areas. for the first time, under the leadership of chairman hal rogers of kentucky, our subcommittee and other subcommittees are returning that unspent money back to taxpayers to reduce the deficit. chairman rogers and the leadership of the house, speaker boehner, our republican leadership, all of us are committed to bringing the nation -- doing everything in our power to get back to a balanced budget, to reduce federal spending t

ultimately madison said no nation no nation can preserve its freedom in the midst of continual work for yet here we are in the midst of perpetual warfare against terrorism with our current president telling congress that he doesn't need their approval for a billion dollar war in libya that puts american soldiers in harm's way and really has nothing to do with terrorism but as psychologist abraham maslow famously noted when your only tool is a hammer every problem out there looks like nails and even though some progress is made trust obama with perpetual war powers to defeat terrorism. we're going to next president will he or she be trusted with the wheel two americans were machine. in an interview last year with journalist bob woodward where president obama perhaps without realizing its application to himself so. war is fell and once the dogs were on leashed you don't know where it's going to lead and tragically right now our congress in a republican led effort but with very little resistance from democrats is doing everything it can to prevent the dogs of war. well unfortunately that i

of the nation state. more and more of the problems that we ought to do with, whether in his financial movements, whether it is held, whether it is climate change, whether is affirmation technology -- all of these things require region across borders to cooperate in order to solve problems. that is changing the nation know what -- the nature of what our system is. i like to compared with industrialization, which really created the modern nation state. to harness these great corporations that were building all this economic power, the nation's state had to be more powerful. globalization is having the same effect, but in the opposite direction as industrialization empowered the nation's state, globalization is eroding the power of the nation state. two points about this -- the financial crisis of 2008, it certainly demonstrated to us that we have a single world economy. the reaction to the crisis also demonstrated we do not have a single way to solve the problem. we fell back on the nation's state system an

the gerald ford reporting on national defense in 2010 a special mention the judges for the national defence selected andrew tillman and brendan's staff writers for the military times has special mention for the 24th annual gerald r. ford plans for distinguished reporting on the national defence and i know one of them is in the room here. i don't know if brandon is. if you could stand up we will give you a round of applause. [applause] thank you very much. >> thank you, steve, and congratulations to this year's winners. the guest speaker to be served president ford as national security adviser former lieutenant general in the air force has been a trusted advisor to the president stretching from richard nixon to barack obama. he's a graduate of west point and earned his ph.d. at columbia university. brent scowcroft is willing to publicly oppose presidential policies with which he strongly disagrees. although he served as the chairman of the foreign intelligence advisory board president george w. bush, he openly opposed the president's plans to invade iraq in 2003. he predicted the u.s. would

as industrialization empowered the nation state, globalization is eroding the power of the nation state. and -- two points, well, let me just -- the financial crisis of 2008 certainly demonstrated to us that we have a single world economy. the reaction to the crisis also demonstrated we don't have a single way to solve the problem. we fell back on the nation state system and sort of haphearted g20 to try to deal with it. the other thing which illustrates it which get me into the current situation is what we endearingly call the arab spring. this is an explosion of people, popular sentiment, which sprang really from the self-imlation of a fruit peddler in tunisia who was humiliated by the police. now, this is something new. and it goes to the heart of globalization. because for most of mankind's existence, the average person didn't know much about anything that was going on beyond his village or maybe the next village. he lived like his father did. he expected his children to live like -- history was on timeless, seamless continuity. now, virtually everyone in the world is within earshot

and senator coons has already become a staunch defender of our national security and our nation's intellectual property. i very much look forward to working with them and my other colleagues on this important bill. all of us in the senate have the privilege of visiting with and supporting our troops. we all know the sacrifices that they make for our country. we all want to do everything we can to ensure that their equipment functions properly and that counterfeits do not compromise our nation's military readiness or their capability. passing the combatting military counterfeits act of 2011 will be a valuable step towards these important goals. i thank my colleagues and i yield the floor. the presiding officer: morning business is closed. under the previous order, the senate will resume consideration of s. 679, which the clerk will report. the clerk: calendar number 75, s. 679, a bill to reduce the number of executive positions subject to senate confirmation. mr. schumer: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from new york. mr. schumer: i ask unanimous consent that not withstandin

the first constituted part of are national components and were raised under the national umbrella. they have no for an agenda or foreign connections. they were against any foreign intervention under any pretext. they do not want to be marginalized. they want justice. many issues were raised. for instance, there are cumulative issues dating back three decades since the confrontations of the muslim brotherhood. that was a dark phase, and we are still paying the price for that time like being refused government employment, for example, or not being given security clearances. in other words, we held certain individuals responsible for their mistakes, which is not right. we have started to solve this problem. i have heard things for other delegations, but i mentioned two in particular. as i said, we have started to solve the pending issues, and we will solve them completely. we cannot continue living in the shadow of the dark phase of our history that happened three decades ago. these issues relate to the justice and injustice of course that citizens can assist you with and there are ot

we are a generous nation. and what has become of our ability to help is that we have a federal government that continues to saddle us with more and more debt. more and more taxes and regulation, making it much more difficult to make the profit that we could then turn around and help our communities with food, with the basic services that our churches, our charities, and many other organizations in our local communities provide. instead of us always looking to the government for that assistance, let's back off of the american people and let them help themselves when they are capable and when they are willing to do it rather than continuing to put them further and further into debt which -- the democrat party talks about where are the jobs? well, government doesn't provide jobs. the private sector, people in our communities, entrepreneurs, people that want to expand their businesses, to provide a job for that family that needs to provide for their children. they need the jobs. and there's not going to be enough

and the effect of global warming on our treasured national parks. coming up next. >>> good evening, everyone, i'm scott shafer sitting in tonight for belva davis. welcome to "this week in northern california." joining me on our news panel tonight is rachel gordon, city hall reporter for "the san francisco chronicle." ana tintocalis, education reporter from the "california report" on kqed public radio and wyatt buchanan. sacramento bureau reporter for "the san francisco chronicle." wyatt, let's begin with you. it's been a few days since state legislators found out they're not going to get paid until they passed a balanced budget. how do they like working for free? >> they don't. nobody is happy about this decision, but the reactions came in different ways from different folks. mostly democrats came out and criticized it. republicans stayed either quiet or said, you know, okay, this is -- we're okay with this decision. we need a budget. there were a few democrats who said that, too, but there were some really fiery language from some democrats. >> now

national guard and reserve equipment, $1.5 billion is included to fund equipment shortfalls in national guard and reserve equipment. intelligence surveillance and reconnaissance, $50 million is included above the request to continue to fill gaps in d.o.d. i.s.r. equipment. israeli missile defense systems. $130 million is added to increase israeli missile defense. $50 million included to continue the the committee's efforts for sbir phase three transition. historically black colleges and universities, $20 million is added to continue military research at historically black colleges and universities. the bill includes $80 million above request for the footprint of deployed units and $10 billion above the request for other programs. it provides $18 billion for operations in afghanistan and iraq. the bill ensures that troops have a central force -- have essential force protection and provide the meaners in afghans to provide their own security. the bill includes $12.8 billion to train afghanistan's national security forces. while the bill provides essential support for our troops, i remain

, we are the greatest nation on earth. we have the greatest democracy in the world. how could you look at the women in iraq or afghanistan or iran who are raped as a tool of war, who are not allowed to be he cade. who are forced to dress in clothing that you can't see anything of them because they are second rate citizens? nowhere do we have a democracy that is safe when you can demoralize half your population. >> you still center to make the tellectual leap for relieving the situation of misery or as the case in the sudan, split government and so forth. relieving it through war. and -- that's a terrific ladder to get up, to see war as relieving that rather than compounding it, because you're going to make -- you're going to probably make more enemies on all sides. >> it is -- >> and look militaristic. [everyone talking at once] there are other ways to attack the problem that are far more efficient than fleeing into the war bag! >> there are some terrible countries that you can change those countries, more trade, opening t

so how could the natural scenery be used as a reflection of the strong nation? but what they called the national wonder and asking those two pay so they could show the world the singular landscaped other that some bumbling englishmen would represent. [laughter] and previous generations of the untamed landscape the hostile environment now became the object of national pride. they began to plant america's landscape. until then they concentrated on historical moments i was a lawyer thomas cole and others as nature becomes the object of national time. what does it mean today? i think if you go to mount vernon and you see the shrubberies entirely planted the native species and john adams and quincey are in the same sense. summers 1796 adams was redesigning his garden because he was approaching and tuesday in his life that washington was considering to retire and office of president himself because that is a picture of his farm. but they had several plows and acres and only around 500 acres but nevertheless very much inspired by what he has seen on the guardian tour.

canada's national -- natural environment shapes our national and density.government has expanded protected lands and marine areas to an unprecedented extent so that future and current generations can continue to enjoy them. in this, the 100 anniversary year of the national park system, our government will create a significant new area. this will move sticklers toward establishing an urban national park in the rouge valley of eastern toronto. looking to the future, our government will engage a broad range of stakeholders on the development of a national conservation plan to move our conservation objective forward and to better connect all canadians with nature. >> it will support a major new clean energy projects of national or regional significance such as the planned lower churchill electricity plant in canada. it willing gauge the provinces, territories and industry on ways to improve the regulatory and environmental assessment process for resource projects while insuring meaningful confrontation with the affected communities including aboriginal communit

s better life index to determine what the happiest nations on the planet are the u.s. didn't even crack the top ten were not even in the top ten of happiest countries in the world and so they examine quality of life things like health education housing the environment jobs community work life balance between the two and income to figure out what truly makes a nation happy so let's take a look at the five top happiest nations in the world all the way happier than we are here in the united states and as you'll see for a good reason at number five the netherlands ninety one percent of the people living in the netherlands are satisfied with their lives the highest ranking anywhere in the world that might be because the dutch citizen spend an average seventy percent of their days not working but instead on personal care leisure activities eating and sleeping sixteen hours a day. how much time do you spend every day doing this or just. a number for australia seventy one percent of the citizens in the land down under trust their political institutions here in the us only fort

indeed, we are a nation at war. our volunteer force has been stretched by combat that has lasted nearly a decade. we owe it to them. oh to their families to insure that they have the best leadership, the best training, the best equipment, the best benefits, the best health care that we can give them. i pledge to them and i pledge to you that every deployment decision that i make will be mindful of the stresses on our men and women in uniform and on their families. third, i have reached out to former secretaries of defense both democrat and republican. i ask for their advice. to a person, they impressed upon me how important it was to stay focused on the management of the pentagon. this is the biggest enterprise in our government. it requires focus and hands-on management. which is the only way i know how to do business. fourth, i sat down with many of you and have known many of you throughout my career. because i really do believe that congress has to be a partner in this role in the protection of our country, i am

it means more stable nations and fewer threats to our national security. working to eliminate food and security across the globe for innovation, hard work, and partnerships will provide incredible economic benefits and natural resource enhancements to developing and developed countries alike. it will increase political stability in conflict and poverty-stricken areas and with countries around the world in our global community on a path to future prosperity. agriculture's role goes beyond feeding and clothing to the world. producers are increasingly being called on to provide renewable sources of energy as well. in the united states, we are looking to biofuels in particular to help confront the challenge is providing adequate sustainable energy supplies generating economic growth in rural communities and mitigating the impact of climate change. in some cases, the symbols can be met by biofuel production in the rest of the world. as the fao project has shown, by a energy production and use in the developing world is not automatically good or bad. instead, wh

brennan add mid decade designed and built the nation's first national counterterrorism center. following his c.i.a. career, and prior to joining the obama administration, mr. brennan in the private sector was the president and c.e.o. of the analysis corporation and the chairman of the intelligence and national security alliance, an association of public and private sector national security leaders. but for anyone who knows mr. brennan, there is something greater than than the sum of these parts. stated simply, the nation does not have a harder working, more tireless public servant. a person of absolute integrity dedicate to keeping this country safe. it is my pleasure now to present to you john brennan. [applause] >> thank you very much, and good afternoon, everyone. thank you for being here today. and thank you, dean, for your warm welcome and for your decades of service in government, global institutions and here. it is a special pleasure for me to be introduced by john, a friend and colleague of many years and one of our nation's greatest intelligence professionals. while as

national defense. it talks specifically about this nation and what the responsibilities of this congress in regards to national defense. i said earlier what does trouble me is that in this our chairman did a great job of not putting funding in to fund any more incursions into libya, but it doesn't restrict it right now. there's going to be discussion on libya coming up later today. with you i got to give credit to the chairman of the committee of the subcommittee in regards to appropriations that they really have crafted a piece of legislation that has bipartisan support in that committee. has bipartisan support across the board in regards to where we need to go. in regards to keeping this nation safe. against threats known and unknown in the future. so with that i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from florida, mr. nugent, reserves. the gentleman from florida, mr. hastings, is recognized. mr. hastings: thank you, mr. speaker. mr. speaker, i'm very, very pleased to

-- [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2011] >> leon panetta testifying on capitol hill to be the next defense secretary replacing robert gates. if this committee approves him, his nomination will go to the full senate for a vote. watch this hearing on line at c- span.org/video library. a couple of and we are covering to tell you about. at two o'clock eastern, a discussion on the financial state of medicare and social security. the two public trustees for the social security and medicare programs are scheduled to speak. george mason university hosts discussion with live coverage on cspan 3. also this afternoon on c-span 2, the american arab anti- discrimination committee is holding its national convention. panels include political unrest in the arab world, relations between islam and other religions, and a forum on civil rights for its live coverage is at 1:30 p.m. eastern. >> this cspan networks, we provide coverage of politics, public affairs, nonfiction books, and american history available to you on television, r

look at these wealthy populous nations of western europe. i believe it's a good thing to get rid of gaddafi. does america have to do everything? people say we are e indispensable nation. that's a terrible burden to impose on ourself. we cannot afford it and it cannot be done effectively. let's get people who can dispense with it. my friend, the ranking member of the appropriations committee said, we have to do this because nato can bomb but they can't suppress. what a great bunch of allies, they can bomb on armed people but if they shoot back they got to come running to as you. yes, i want to send a messageto nato. gaddafi's a bad guy. if england and france and italy and germany and spain and the netherlands and scandinavia can't together muster the military force for this weakened poor nation, then let's re-examine the value of this ally. there was in the "king and i" when he says, if the allies are weak might not -- it's time for them to step up. this is not to protect gaddafi. it's to say that america can no longer be asked to be the one

i think you will have those rules with any nation, with any evolves nation state, in saying that what you just did was a foul. why? and we do not expect that kind of behavior again. what remains is ambiguity. he did not know to talk to. there is sufficient gap between the responsible officials that you can talk to and the potential actor. in this case, the attrition still remains foggy. the responsible officials could say, "i have no idea what you're talking about." this is a new era of statecraft. we have to figure out how to bridge that gap between responsibility and the action. >> but that is why i suggested briefly that you could look at the response. if you at least have it in a country, right? you can look at the responsibility as not a failed state, but the opposite of that. it is the country's responsibility to provide rules of the road. and they cannot just say, "oh, i do not know what happened." >> that will have to be the rules of the road. the implications, though, 17% of the computers that attacked were in the united states. with that scenario, if the estonians did not ha

and in the very capital of the nation. the. residents are still fighting the federal government for full voting rights and to represent taishan in congress the residents of the district of columbia have never had the rights that are persist or to apply to everyone else in this country the limits to their rights stem in part from civil war divisions that steffen only part of it before that. people never thought of blacks at all but scholars argue though the war may have ended slavery it was far from ending racism with washington d.c.'s large population of newly freed black citizens at the end of the war to limit their influence political elites pushed to curb voting rights for. everyone presidents are still fighting that legacy today. this is fabulous just like standing up for soy. and the tea party protests that have swept across the u.s. have reenergized to rally behind states' rights reminiscent of confederate rhetoric one hundred fifty years ago when you look at source software clee of how they line up and indeed there are e

i think when the founders of this nation crafted what our nation would be. they considered not only our political rights and freedom as important as those things are. they considered also our economic freedom. they said we wouldn't be lead by a king or central government that told us what to do and how to get paid for it. but instead each choose our life course, not just federal representatives. and by virtue of this, they made it the place on the planet that every entrepreneur and freedom lover wanted to come here. it made us who we are, and our economy outperform from europeans and other. and we are a great nation because of the early pioneers, because of the founders in america. i believe in america, i believe in free enterprise, i believe in capitalism. i believe in the constitution. [applause] i believe in the constitution. by the way when the founders said we would have certain powers at the federal level but preserve at the state level all the powers not giving to the federal. that 10th amendment is one that i think that barack obama hasn't read. i kn

and to realize what he did for this nation, and he put this nation into debt.ebt so that we could be free. and 100 years later we put ourselves into debt again so that we could remain free as one nation. and he said in world war i and world war ii we put ourselves in debt yet again so that we could preserve the cause of freedom all over the entire world. and you've asked us, mr. president, to come in today and give you more money to put us further into debt so that we can buy ourselves more things. and if that doesn't put into sharp contrast what we are doing as a nation and the moral decisions that we face as a nation, i don't know what does. um, sooner or later, folks, we just have to say no. sooner or later you just have to make the decision -- [applause] have to make the decision to simply stop spending the money. i appreciate everything that y'all did in my race. i know there's some folks from south carolina here, thank you. there we go. for everything that you've done, please, there is no more election, there is no election more important than the 2012 el

national security. it seems almost quaint now to think that people would spend so much time making that decision. and then of course when the first, when a stay was granted to prevent continued publication, that's when elseburg took the papers to then 40-year-old-- to the "washington post". and eventually 19 newspapers over the whole period of time. >> brown: and did it have an immediate impact in the culture, in the politics of the time? >> well, i think the key thing, jeff, was that this moment came in the midst of this intense hatred between the nixon administration and the media. there were investigations of reporters sources that were being taken before grand juries. spiro agnew, remember him, was giving speeches against the press. you know, his illiterative references to the limousine liberals, the mattering nabo b's of negativism and so on. and in a sense the pentagon papers fell into the laps of the nixon white house it didn't hurt the nixon administration. >> it wasn't really about them. >> it

that's another key national security position. now, in this case, what makes it even more egregious, she is reported unanimously by both the judiciary committee but also by the senate select committee on intelligence, reported unanimously by all republicans and democrats in two key committees. her nomination has been supported by former justice department officials, including former attorney general mukasey who served during the george w. bush administration. now, i have a two-month delay. she should have been confirmed right after she came out of the intelligence and judiciary committee. the national security division has been without her leadership, and they've been without another key member, virginia seitz, another superbly qualified nominee, bipartisan support, who should have been confirmed before the memorial day recess, blocked from confirmation by senate republicans. now after seven weeks of obstruction, we'll finally get to vote on her. and the senate judiciary committee has considered two national security-related bills

opposed to nation building in afghanistan. listen to manchin. >> the numbers that i have heard and that i have seen has been given to me. we spent 443 billion to date. we're on track to spend another 485 billion. that's almost a trillion dollars. we can ill afford that type of expenditure and have a country that doesn't have an economy, doesn't have an infrastructure and by all accounts have a corrupt leader. you can't continue down this road and think you're going to get success. >> he says another half a trillion dollars between now and the end of 2014. is that money well spent by u.s. taxpayers? >> after the russians left afghanistan, the taliban took over. they took women in soccer stadiums and killed them for sport. they invited bin laden as the honored guest and we looked the other way. they blew up statues of buddha figures and hijackers were given less than a million dollars to kill 3,000 americans. how much money have we spent since -- >> you don't think that hamid karzai and his 300 military and police forces are cap

[captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2011] >> house speaker john boehner spoke last night in ashlands, ohio, at a memorial dinner honoring john ash brooke. he discussed republican substantial for job creation and reducing the national debt and took questions from the audience, this is 25 minutes. >> thank you very much. it's hard to stand there and have people applaud me. just a regular guy with a big job. peter, thank you for the introduction and thanks for the great job that you're doing with the ashbrook center. i'm honored to have a chance to speak with all of you tonight at this great event held in honor of a great man and a great ohio ann, john ashbrook. as most of you know, tonight was originally supposed to happen a couple of months ago, but we had to reschedule because i had to be in washington for the final negotiations on the bill to keep the government running and finish last year's budget. so i was supposed to be with all of you that friday night, but instead i spent the day on the phone with president

for example, i brought up the navajo nation. this is a treaty responsibility of the united states in which we forbade different groups from even raising to take care of a window pane or create economic certainty. we have to take care of our own and not help everybody across this world. that's why i rise in support of my amendment. . mr. kingston: mr. chair, i yield back the balance of my time. i do want to point out some of the things that this program is doing in pakistan, haiti, the sudan and afghanistan and i will submit that for the record at the proper time. thank you. i yield back. the chair: the request of the gentleman from georgia will be handled in general leave. the question is on the amendment offered by the gentleman from arizona. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. in the opinion of the chair, the noes have it. the gentleman from arizona. mr. gosar: i ask for a recorded vote. the chair: pursuant to clause 6 of rule 18, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from arizona will be postpon

national security. when i was a little girl i left -- loved to go to work with my daddy. if we passed a used car lot, and they have the sign out front that said "we told to send out." -- "we tote the note." he explained that one to me, and he said baby, don't you ever let anybody tell your note. -- tote your note. apparently, the federal government did not get that message because we have nations like china toteing our note. when you look at our publicly- traded debt, china and owns 25% -- taino owns 25% -- china owns 25% of that publicly traded debt, japan over 20%, the united kingdom 7%, opec owns 5%, and we know who makes up opec -- ecuador, bahrain, iraq, kuwait, algeria, nigeria, libya, and iran. they own 5% of our debt. let's look china alone. every day the u.s. government cuts a $119 million check in interest to the chinese government. was that, they can purchase two joint strike fighters every single week, and at the end of the year, they have enough money left over to buy a shiny aircraft carri

there are european nations, developed wealthy nations just across the mediterranean. why do they have to have america come nearly 4,000 miles to do it? and it not just libya. this is defining. are we going to go forward with a situation in which america undertakes to defend everybody in the world everywhere even when they are not greatly threatened as is the case with nato or with missile defenses against nonexistent missile threats from iran, or do we say that we will bear our fair share but not more? we have got to stop subsidizing the rest of the world. particularly now. and when members from the appropriations committee come up and tell us, you got to go and do this, but let's cut police in massachusetts, let's cut housing in ohio, let's cut transportation in california, we cannoteduce our deficit in a way that allows us to maintain any concern for the quality of life here if we continue to spend money promiscuously over there. let's go beyond that. we're not just talking about libya. what about the paradox in afghanistan where we will spend $100 billion a year an

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and here's what's coming up tonight on the big picture our nation's pathetic excuse for a health care system grow in north carolina man to rob a bank just so he could receive medical care in jail so what does this say about america the richest nation on meanwhile justice was not served last action discrimination lawsuit filed by over eight million women against wal-mart so why did the nation's highest court side with the retail giant is no case of corporate preferential treatment but a supreme court. you need to know this the libyan war has cost our nation nearly eight hundred million dollars so far and we're likely top top a billion dollars by the in the september and ninety days into the conflict there's still no formal declaration of war from congress so what we throw hundreds of millions of dollars in underclothes war with no clear end game our nation struggles to meet its obligations to americans right here at home and there's no more clear example of our country forsaking its citizens in the case of james richard earlier this month a month of her own was arrested after he tried

and the reason that i am running is because this nation has become a nation of crises. we have a moral crisis, we have an economic crisis, we have an entitlement-spending crisis, we have an energy crisis, we have an immigration crisis, and most of all, we have a deficiency of leadership crisis in the white house and we ought to change it. [applause] i did not get the memo. one of the reasons that i have been inspired to answer this call has been because the american people that i have talked to and the ones that i have listened to are tired of this national nightmare we are on right now. this economy is not growing. we have a lot of problems. i do not have time to go through all the things that i would do, so let's talk about one of the biggest crises that we have -- the economy. one of the first things i would do as president would be to ask the united states congress to give me a bill that would contain the following elements in order to boost this economy. number one, a maximum 25% tax by all corporations and all individuals. maximum 25%. [applause] we are the only n

[applause] ♪ [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2011] [captioning performed by nationaltioning institute] >> run, rick, run! run, rick, run! run, rick, run! ♪ ♪ >> and republican presidential candidate tim pawlenty will be in chicago, laying out his plan to overhaul the federal tax code. live coverage from the university of chicago begins at 11:00 a.m. eastern on c-span3. after more than a week of de nials, anthony wiener admitted that he sent suggested emails. he said he would not resign. >> thank you very much for being here, and good afternoon. i would like to take this time to clear up some of the questions that have been raised over the past 10 days or so and take full responsibility for my actions. at the outset i would like to make it clear that i have made terrible mistakes and have hurt the people that i cared about the most and i am deeply sorry. i have not been honest with myself, my family, my constituents, my friends, and supporters, and the media. last friday night i tweeted a photograph of myself to a woman of seattle. once i realized i posted it to twitte

security well the issue there lucy is that when you are working you know with all of these nation. these nations actually give us permission to operate in these territories you know yemen pakistan all of these places have considerable difficulties either through revolution or through you know practically a failed state in the case of pakistan where you still have permission from the local government to do this you know if i were a person you know as you describe of course i'd be angry of course i wouldn't wouldn't like that but the problem is if you you know it's a question of national interest and it's a question of working through each of these particular areas and making sure that we take care of taking eliminating those those folks who are going after us because if we don't eliminate them we're prevent them from doing what they set out to do we're going to have a bigger problem with the world with terrorism right well unfortunately we're out of time but i do have to say that even though these nations may be giving us covert permission to attack on their lands or that they're al

it is a cornerstone of our nation. it is a cornerstone of our social fabric to define marriage as between a man and woman. the co-authore of the marriage? in minnesota. [applause] we cannot be a successful and continue to be a great nation unless we are secure. people will not dream or take risks or deploy capital or invent or do things unless they feel secure. as a nation, we need to remember that the first and most important responsibility of our federal government is to keep this nation safe and secure and our people secure. [applause] let's remember that the individuals and the mindset that perpetuated the horrible acts of september 11, 2001 and killed 3000 or so of our federal citizens, that mind-set still exists and they could have killed 30,000 or 300,000 or 3 million. as soon as they get the capability, they will try. we need to make sure we stand strong and diligent and diligent to make sure those threats are identified and called by name and defeated before they operate against the united states of america. [

we thought we knew the nation of we'd fight and die for the nation that we raise our families it is no longer the america we once knew our nation is on a march toward catastrophe and it will not move off this path on its own we must take back control and restore the america that our founding fathers and vision for a book is written fifty years from now asking why average americans like us did nothing as our nation went crazy it's time for all of us to wake up. that's the big picture for tonight for more information on the stories we covered visit our websites tom hartman dot com and archie dot com also check out our youtube agency youtube dot com slash the big picture our t. and youtube dot com slash tom and this entire show is available as a free video podcast on i tunes and don't forget democracy begins with you when you show up tag you're it all sort of a. wealthy british style sign it's time to. market why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy with much stronger for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into kaiser report.

we're the number 1 exporting state in the nation. we have a balanced budgetto boot. [applause] let me tell you -- that is what happens when conservative leadership that is willing to take a beating from the liberal left and their friends in. the media we happen to be a bunch of happy warriors working together and sticking to our guns and those conservative values. [applause] i have distilled my economic agenda down into what i consider to be some pretty simple guiding principles. number one is don't spend all the money. [applause] #two is keep the taxes low and under. control [applause] 3 is have regulations that are fair and predictable so business owners know what to expect from one quarter to the next. [applause] #four, reform the legal system so that frivolous lawsuits don't paralyze employers that are trying to create real wealth. [applause] that is what we have done. over the last 10 years, we have followed that simple recipe. we have stopped lawsuit abuse. we have one of the lowest tax burdens in the nation. our per capita debt is limited. we keep adding jobs

the reason i am running is because this nation has become a nation of crises.ve a moral crisis. we have an economic crisis. we have an energy crisis. we have an immigration crisis. most of all, we have an efficiency of -- a deficiency of leadership crisis in the white house, and we are quite a change it. i did not get the memo. one of the reasons that i have been inspired to answer this call has been because the american people that i have talked to and the ones that i have listened to are tired of this national nightmare that we are on right now. this economy is not growing. we have a lot of problems. i do not have time to go through all the things that i would do. let's talk about one of the biggest crises that we have, this economy. what would be one of the first things that i do as president would be to ask the united states congress to give me a bill would contain the following elements in order to boost the economy -- a max 25% tax by all corporations and all individuals, max of 25%. we are the only nation on the planet that has not lowered its top corpor

national security leaders. who knows mr. brennan there is something greater than the sum of these parts. the nation does not have a harder working, tireless public servant, a person of absolute integrity, dedicated to keeping this country safe. it is my pleasure to present to you john brennan. [applause] >> thank you and good afternoon. thanks for being here today and thank you, dean einhorn for your welcome and decades of service in global institutions. the land as a special pleasure for me to be introduced by john mclaughlin, a friend and colleague of many years and one of our nation's greatest intelligence professional. john was referred to as the world's smartest man and was frequently introduced that way and no one debated the point. he is also the world's nicest man and that is something people don't know. he is the world's greatest magician in my mind. if you haven't seen his magic you are missing out on something. it is a pleasure for me to be here at the school of advanced international studies. and in