considering american foreign policy and the united nations it's not such a departure from the past the united states uses international law invokes international law when it's useful and ignores it when it's an obstacle. the first iraq war was authorized by the united nations security council and the first president bush used as an argument that he didn't need congressional authorization that well the united nations security council has the rights that congress didn't except that there was a fight and eventually there was congressional authorization so the united nations nato none of this replaces the constitutional requirement or the war powers resolution requirement that the president get explicit congressional approval unless the unless the united states or its armed forces are under attack and as was pointed out there are multiple provisions of the war powers resolution one of them affirms that the president must get authority to vance unless there's an attack on the u.s. and its armed forces another one firms that u.s. forces must be withdrawn in the absence of an attack if there is no congress

the united states military. and i can tell you that. because i was serving at the time when my friends who were in tank units at use golf carts to practice tank tactics. i can tell you as an exhibit is officer when we didn't have enough money to buy tools to repair our house is orie enough money to get to rebut paper for some of our soldiers we didn't have enough money to buy ammunitions so the guys could stay out on the rifle range and we find ourselves going down the exact same path. and the united states military in the 20th century to today you see this ready for world war i and we go all the way down to the bottomless pit. in the literature and that backup for world war ii and go back into a bottomless pit. if we don't have a steady state and then a plus or minus, and then we lose an opportunity to ensure that we protect america for the future that our children and grandchildren. we took the road map or the respective areas of operation and combat and commander area responsibilities and look at the threats to their and that is the c

despite all these may be political cern concerned that they should be released why do you think united states a mission the cold war you mentioned that we're past the cold war you know another country that the united. bates is you know still filing and mending tensions with over the decades is a chorus russia and we start a united states and russia negotiate a swap of events when that whole scandal according to some broke a while back and a slot agent you know the u.s. or russia doesn't like it they negotiate up and not there because there is no comparative political lobby of exiled russians who would oppose it as there is in the case of cuba you don't have a political block because you know it's not just that they have money and political clout it's that miami please approval role in the presidential election need to win the state of florida if you're going to be nominated president presidents are laws to to go against what so on would think is the prevailing public opinion in miami even though that's a red herring because we know that president obama was elected president didn't carry the s

related to that is, there's a perception in the united states with some justification, not necessarily entirely justified that china is different. there are indian state-owned enterprises without getting into too much detail -- the idea that the indian government guides them in some ways sort of obviously falls on contact either the government or state-owned enterprises so don't have an equivalent in terms of size coming down the pike or anything of that nature so dan's policy -- what dan has referred to very eloquently over and over again is historical u.s. policy is going to rule in most of these cases. we're not running huge trade deficits with the brazilians. we run a -- a relatively small trade deficit with india. all that other baggage doesn't come in. in that sense china is different. i don't mean it's so different that we have to treat them differently and discriminate against them and i'm not sure we have to worry about globalization of u.s. policy. u.s. policy is generally fine. the question is, whether it's fine with respect to what is now the world's second largest economy

and advance the national security interests of the united states. not to enforce, to quote the president, the writ of the international community, end quote. not -- nor because of the united nations -- nor because of the arab league. yet these are what the president has repeatedly pointed to in justifying sending u.s. forces into action in libya. but what he has not done is explain to the american people and to congress how the situation in libya, if allowed to spiral out of control, poses a threat to u.s. national security interests. it is an increasingly important region, mr. speaker, with implications stretching into other areas that are vital to our nation. little if any details have been provided in response to repeated questions regarding u.s. goals, the scope of the operation, and other issues of direct relevance to our national security. it is an open question as to whether the administration simply won't tell us or whether they just don't know the answers. members on both sides of the aisle are increasingly frustrated. and i share that frust

she has been at the united states six times, but this is the first state dinner.t was their relationship? >> i think this particular visit is laden with symbolic importance, and that the relationship between the united states and germany has gone through something of a rough patch. germans are asking why obama has not been to berlin. has the united states to some extent lost its european calling? obama wanted to send a clear signal -- we stand by you. this relationship is important. it is not as if with previous visits they were downgraded. it is that this one comes at a very important time in obama's presidency and merkle's chancellorship. >> we will go to the republican color -- a republican caller. >> i wanted to let you know that your comments are very much appreciated. you handle calls very well. we really enjoy you. you are a great host. i want to ask your guest -- the euro has been so strong for the last few years, with the exception of the last two years. it has been a strong currency. all of the social benefits that germany offers -- how come german expor

serving the interests of the united states. and demonstrating the high caliber of the american system of free enterprise. system which from this new round here is something into the trade of the world oil. one of the material that is making a truly great contribution to our modern civilization. one of the reasons the reason for the primary one from invasion of iraq is to ensure u.s. control of her being a major interview resources of the world in the embassy in brooklyn inside baghdad is a city like no other embassy in history and the world we're not building the embassy in syria right can make a huge presence around with an intention to leave their building with intention to maintain control. since two thousand and three the u.s. has built dozens of military bases in iraq in two thousand and eight the u.s. and iraqi governments signed an agreement that states that all foreign troops should leave the country by two thousand and eleven. the agreement also says that the u.s. will not seek permanent basis or a permanent military p

when the united states forces were there. and, of course, the israelis had gone in and taken out their nuclear program well before that. it was chemica and biological weapons that the u.n. was particularly concerned about and that saddam hussein's regime refused to tell the u.n precisely what had happened and stockpiled. now, we know saddam hussein had them, we know he used them on his own people, we know he used them on the iranians. when the war ended, there were not large stkpiles found as the u.n. had assumed he had becaushe had refused to indicate that he did not. what they did find, the duelfer report found this, was precursors for chemical weapons and biological weapons. the competent people who kn how to do it and had done it previously together. and dual-use facilities that would enable them to have stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons within a matter of weeks according to the dell fur report. so it really didn't make a lot of difference that there were there weren't stockpiles as long as you had the ability

there is a perception in the united states with some justification that china is different. there are interian state owned enterprises without getting into too much detail. we don't have an equivalent in terms of size come down the pike. we don't don't have an equivalent in the nature. what dan referred to very eloquently over and over again is the u.s. policy will rule in most of these cases. we're not running huge trade deficits. we run a small trade deficit. i'm not sure that we have to worry about globalization of u.s. policy. u.s. policy is generally fine. the question is whether it is fine with respect to what the world's second largest company. it is treated as a rival from japan politically differently in the city. >> yes, back there. >> i used to work at world bank. i had a couple of questions. don't we need to worry about the law of unintended sequences. if we try to overcorrect something, it may go in a different way than it does for reali reality. you make the point this is a spre small part of the economy. where it is going to be, that is one point. there is quit

if you made a list of those countries important to the united states, the united states didn't recognize their importance, this wish you would be at the top of the list. incredibly important. not only its role as a leader in southeast asia but its role increasingly beyond southeast asia in the middle east and beyond. we are finding the experience of indonesia in the last several years speak extensively and importantly to countries in the middle east that are struggling with a number of very trying and difficult domestic issues. we have been very pleased at the progress we have seen with the government working closely with the foreign minister, we have made a number of decisions about partnerships about how we work together on maritime security, a range of economic initiatives. we are beginning to see a degree of progress in relations between washington and manila that have been difficult to get traction and refining their attraction as we go forward. everyone appreciates the important role that singapore has played. i will talk in a moment about the posture in which the united states at

when we come back i would like to move into more current affairs and the united states relationship withchina. we will cover all of those issues are former secretary of state henry kissinger in his new book "on china" when we come back. >> host: we are regional by former secretary of state dr. henry kissinger who has a masterful new book out called quite simply "on china." dr. kissinger, let's talk about more current events, particularly as they relate to the united states relationship with china. it's very complicated now. i remember when it's working for president nixon in the early 1990s, he said it's interesting because when kissinger and i opened relations with china in the early '70s, it was all about strategic issues, which we talked about before the break. he said now in the early '90s he said now it's almost all about economics. i think now in the 21st century it's a combination of both, strategic and economic. when you look at china's incredibly rapid economic rise, are you stunned or are you surprised, or not at all? >> guest: i'm surprised, and so would nixon be in any of us

at the president of the united states and the free world. leaving him there and definitely is not an option. if someone would argue that we don't have a vital interest before, we have one now. one of his main motivation is going to be retaliation, and guess who is going to be against. letting him linder indefinitely while the president brings his hands about what to do that is not a good idea. he needs to go. >> as you look back, you think your foreign policy approach would have more in common with george h. w. bush or george w. bush? >> collected believe i would have my own foreign policy, and that it would reflect on the best of the successes of our country. and there are positive examples in both of those administrations from challenges as well obviously. i don't think it is one or the other. a thick there are strong and positive elements in both. these are complex issues and complex parts of the world have lots of nuance. to suggest a doctrine for the region that is cut her is under utilization of our ability, capability, and are thought

her daughter had been brought to the united states at the age of 2, had grown up in the united states. all her brothers and sisters were born here as well. and her daughter had been accepted on a music scholarship. it turns out she was an extraordinarily talented concert pianist. and she was graduating from high school, and she had been accepted at juilliard school of music in the manhattan observatory school of music. and in filling out the application, there was a question about her daughter's citizenship. since she brought her daughter here on a visi visitor's visas t that at the age of 2 and never filed any papers, she wanted to know her daughter's status. her daughter's status was very clear. she was undocumented. the law was also clear that. this 18-year-old girl was told she had to leave america. there was no recourse. and should i wasn't even being sent back to korea because the family had transited from korea to brazil to the united states. they wanted to ship her to brazil, a country she was not even aware of and a language she didn't speak -- portuguese. and in that situati

us or united states government last. century color revolutions are technologies not all the u.s. provides to instigate change in certain countries some opposition movements get a direct cash supply for example wiki leaks cables show that the state department has for years secretly funded syrian anti-government groups it's done in general to create a world that is more aligned more specifically more controlled doing away with the views of the united. and i'm now looking at the state department website that promotes grants for those willing to bring about change in communist cuba and here's one of the requirements i'm going to read this it is preferable for these personnel to speak spanish fluently possess solid understanding of the cultural context and have prior experience on the island in order to maximize their effectiveness in this unique operating environment and of quote sounds very much like recruiting agents but instead of doing it the traditional secretive way the us does their right out in the open on their website health most often comes with strings attached many say op

absolutely i mean i think the bigger difference between united states and western europe is largely about the political system so even before the disastrous citizens united supreme court case the united states we had relatively pay to play politics as against the europeans i think on both sides of the atlantic inside the united states as well as in western europe the financial industry in some cases rightly and some not so fairly enjoys about the same level of popularity that major diseases usually have the difference is that american politicians get their money from powerful lobbies and are much more beholden to corporate interests even when their own popular and the europeans with proportional representation publicly financed campaigns are not quite as much under the sway of the sway of transnational business and so they do a little more legislative responding to what their constituents actually want and many of our politicians are a little bit less worried about that because they all face the real primary which comes before every election which is called fundraising or a very slight ch

world that is a more aligned more specifically more controlled we align with the views of the united states i'm now looking at the state department website that promotes grants for those willing to bring about change in communist cuba and here is one of the requirements i'm going to read this it is preferable with these personnel who speak spanish fluently possess solid understanding of the cultural context and have prior experience on the island in order to maximize their refractive miss in this unique operating environment and of quote sounds very much like recruiting agents but instead of doing it the traditional secretive way the u.s. does they're right out in the open on their website help most often comes with strings attached many say opposition leaders in libya who now get financial and political support from washington are sure to get instructions on how to return the favor essentially. but end up. with. agents of the u.s. government even if they don't necessarily think it's going to check on r.t.e. washington d.c. . now today president obama meets with top senate leaders on the de

it's all because we're going in the wrong direction we've had three years of budget cuts in the united states now most of it's at the state and local level but when you aggregate all those state local cuts they've been tremendous we've been laying off government employees by the hundreds of thousands for the past couple of years since the start of the recession in two thousand and seven government employment at all levels in the united states is down by a quarter million so the idea that it's too much spending on public sector hiring is just a myth it's exactly the direction we need to go ok one thing i want to ask you just a little bigger picture because the euro zone has been a hotbed for debt crisis we've seen this in greece also portugal of course and spain it had problems as well you know the e.u. is not the united states but this is a global economy we saw u.s. stocks tumble today on the news out of greece and it does according to analysts give a lot of concern about u.s. thinkers so how does what we're seeing in the euro zone affect the united states economy. but the two thousand and f

we have been managing our own affairs since the mid nineties when the united states set up the no-fly zone to protect the kurdish skies from saddam hussein's regime. that allowed us to have our first elections in 1992 and put together our government and parliament and build our security services. >> you have your own army? >> we have our own regional defense force. we have very strong security services and a good working relationship with our society and i think that is the key. the information sharing between the kurdish public and the kurdish security services is one of the main reasons as to why kurdistan today is safe. >> what goes back and forth between those groups? >> there is a trust. the citizens know the authorities at the end of the day, with all their faults do care about the people. there's a great channel of communication. for example, if there is any suspicious activity, it will a immediately get reported to the act -- to the authorities. that kind of trust is only started to be built in other parts of the country. >> of the world indeed as well. one of our congressman

use of the united states i'm now looking at the state department website that promotes grants for those willing to bring about change in communist cuba and here is one of the requirements i'm going to read because it is preferable for bees personnel to speak spanish fluently as a solid understanding of their cultural contacts and have prior experience on the island in order to maximize their a fact it is in this unique operating environment and of quote sounds very much like recruiting agents but instead of doing it the traditional secretive wary of the us goes there right out india on their website help most often comes with strings attached many say opposition leaders in libya who now get financial and political support from washington and are sure to get instructions on how to return the favor essentially eight years. with her. u.s. government even though it's necessarily. going to shut down our t. washington d.c. . well we have more on washington's less subtle involvement in other countries later this hour here on our to you as the u.s. is about to start its troop withdrawal from af

well not really i think the negotiating ploy of the united states at this point is to in a way have it both ways on one hand you know they're suggesting to the american people that we're really in the process of getting a political settlement here and we've succeeded in getting talks started of course that's not really true they've had preliminary contacts in which the taliban have made it clear that they're not going to sit down with the karzai regime particularly when the united states is not offering a timetable for withdrawal and so on the other hand what's going on is the united states is trying to put pressure on the tele band to comedy us interest us position the taliban should reach a settlement with karzai while the united states continues to have troops there to provide you know what they were guard as an insurance policy that's really not a viable position no independent analyst of the war and of the taliban regards this as a realistic negotiating position and so there's really kind of a flimflam going on with regard to these negotiations or these talks with the taliban in a

have to jump three tons to say and as you hear about the statewide ten day manhunt here in the united states for a known terrorist i'll tell you all about it and the terrorist who is still on the loose and tonight still a take. it japan didn't have its hands full with one militant down nuclear plant actually six at fukushima it certainly does now with another nuclear power plant on the verge of melting down about three hundred miles southwest of fukushima since the manjoo nuclear reactor prototype fast breeder reactor filled to the brim with plutonium the deadliest element on the face of the earth and last year a three ton device of some sort fell into the module reactor blocking access to the nuclear fuel rods in the reactor core and despite several attempts as yet to be recovered another attempt will be made next week to clear those three ton object from the reactor the critics question that the procedure is extremely dangerous and can trigger it could trigger an explosion in the nuclear fuel rods one ominous sign of just how dangerous the situation is a top manager at the plant just recen

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the united states troops.t is untea nible -- undeniable that gaddafi is one of the most notorious terrorists of our time and the world will be a better place when he is gone. but at the same time there is no shortage of dictators who should be removed from power. assad is butchering his own people as we speak. iran under ahmadinejad sponsors terrorism around the world. he persecutes religious minorities, and is working to develop a nuclear bomb. moreover, the president has not outlined the purpose or the scope of our action in libya. is the objective of the removal of gaddafi from power? if so, who will replace gaddafi? and what assurances do the american people have that the alternate will be any better -- alternative will be any better than gaddafi? house resolution 292 accomplishes four objectives. first, it establishes that the president of the united states, president obama, has not asked for congressional authorization for a military involvement in libya, and that congress has not granted such authority.

one is that when the united states does public diplomacy we do not make it about the united states. i think if we end up trying to sell our policy weather in iraq or israel, palestine, we are not going to wait on that one, but we do put it in the court when we make it about the killing of the muslim noncombatants. also we should be elevating credible voices that make this the statements that condom al qaeda and hear this is a particularly difficult issue for congress however because many of the credible voices are anti-american so you might have a quite sheik who says you shouldn't kill muslim women and children al qaeda is wrong and evil but you should go to iraq and kill american soldiers and of course i understand why we do not want to support anyone making that statement and if you are trying to reach into the radical community someone who is on the other extreme is not going to have any residents there so with credibility to condemn al qaeda are going to have the use we often disagree with at times quite strongly. >> you cite public diplomacy again walk me through that, the pub

roach in the supreme court of the united states. i think it is clear from all of the precedents that a first to invent and a first to file provision is unconstitutional because it adds a layer of compliance in winning the race to the patent office for someone who already has that right. let's vote no to uphold our oaths of office under the constitution of the united states. the chair: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentlelady reserves. ms. kaptur: yes. i would like to inquire as to remaining time on both sides, please. the chair: the gentlelady from has five minutes. the gentleman from texas has 3 1/2 minutes. the gentleman from texas voiced. mr. smith: mr. chairman, i reserve the balance of my time. the chair: the gentleman reserves. the gentlelady from ohio. ms. kaptur: yes, i'd like to yield a minute to the gentleman from nebraska, mr. terry. thank you. mr. terry: thank you. the chair: the gentleman from nebraska is recognized for one minute. mr. terry: mr. chairman, since the founding of the republic, our patent system ha

from 2000 until 2007 i served as an assistant united states attorney with the united states department of justice. working in the united states attorney's office for the district of california. in 2005, i became involved in the investigation and prosecution of a group of individuals who were involved in a seditious conspiracy to wage a war of terrorism against the united states government by murdering u.s. military personnel and jewish persons in southern california. these individuals were members of a group that was created within the present system in california. today, i intend to discuss this group and their seditious conspiracy. let me begin by discussing kevin james and j.i.f. in 1997, he founded j.i.f. while serving a prison sentence in california. james remained in prison throughout the conspiracy and the resulting investigation. james priest that it was the duty of members to target for violent attacks any enemies of islam or infidels. james identified these infidels as the u.s. government and jewish and non-jewish supporters of israel. james recruited fellow prison inmates to

under the original petraeus plan, the united states and nato would have deployed an afghan police and military numbering 400,000 by 2014. having trained together for a year or more, these afghan units would likely endure the stress of combat and deliver victory in 2015 or 2016. unfortunately, the president has rejected his general's recommendation and decided to leave early. withdrawing one u.. brigade combat team right away. our nato allies express quiet concern about this departure. u.s. and local commanders will have about 12% of their combat power taken off the battlefield right away. the president will then remove two more brigade combat teams by the election day in 2012, leaving u.s. and local commanders with only 66% of the current combat power. these actions will severely strain the afghan police and army, just as afghanistan prepares for a new presidential election. it also provides some hope for the taliban whose strategy may be a 12-month rest and refit of their operations to then reenter the battlefield against a much weaker enemy in 2013. we learned a painful lesson when

not terry the head of the united states state department and so getting. our ways but you'll see the consequences i don't know i never heard of using the army is a poverty reduction tool or the state department was conned lisa writes know about the poverty reduction poverty creation made but i don't see a lot of them what they did and how a seven able to get their support in order to you know lots this program that you say has no no going well about it you know how it is sad ron we all know this power i hear in their. cash it's cash under a lot condo resources paid a fortune by chevron as a board member and it's very interesting that she goes from secretary of state from sharon's board to secretary of state and then back into chevrons payroll the question is did she ever leave sharon's payroll in effect because george bush put the heat and her state department with tremendous heat on ecuador tremendous you know there were over these over these cases and tremendous heat on ecuador for trying to put the. put the would get some justice from the oil companies

at different times has been intensely critical of the drone attacks and threatened to throw the united statesand current opinion about the use of drone attacks? do you support it? do you understand it? are you 100% behind the united states when it comes to the use of these drones? >> well, the president raised the civilian casualty several times, a, because he's saying that we should focus more on the safe haven where the terrorists receive their financial means, equipment, and also their training and that's the main cause of the terrorist activities. and b, he's saying because the more we do the civilian casualty there is possibility that we'll lose the support of our people and also the opposition forces may take advantage of that. and that ultimately will undermine our main objectives, our main afghan government

career and then the needs of this should come as no surprise the united states. terrorism terrorism a different policy one of the. humanitarian short humanitarian mandates which in fact is also because you do not come to the rescue of millions with the two still follows french. let's talk about some of the interest in bahrain because as hillary clinton secretary of state clinton clinton made no secret bahrain is seen as a very important partner and one of the reasons why that is that there is a naval base there the u.s. fifth fleet is stationed there and from what i hear from basra needs by looking at the construction they believe that the u.s. is expanding its naval base there that it's growing that they're building upon it and they also say that the united states used a u.k. air force base in bahrain to fly planes out of and used that base so i want to ask you if you did see those as being some of the largest interests in the region. well absolutely the whole if you look at it from the geopolitical perspective with objectives of the united states that this. is

growth in india is good for the united states. it is no threat to the united states, and the more successful they are in putting in place reforms to help a lot future growth, the better it will be for the united states, just as is true that we benefit greatly from the sheer scale of indian talon we have operating in the u.s. economy, the ideas and innovations they bring is good for our economy. as president obama was so successful in doi in india, you can point to the tangible benefits that come from more investment opportunities and they understand it better. >> this morning there was discussion on the world economy on current account deficits and so on. one point that was made by several speakers is that india contributes to world a man. >> as do week. >> in terms of absolute size, maybe you want to reduce your as a little bit. >> you are right. let me step back and make a general point. for the world economys a whole, to grow the kind of highest, most sustainable level possible, we need to see more balance across the economy as

, he says the trip was more about here than there. >> i think the trip of the president of the united states to do with the 860,000 puerto ricans that live in the state of florida, maybe the nearly 400,000 that live in the state of pennsylvania, two key battle ground states in the upcoming. money will do good, too, million and a half, but let's put it in context. he didn't speak to puerto rico, the unemployment rate is twice as high as the rest of the nation of united states of america. they have an economic engine that stalled, has broken down. 30,000 employees fired. they have severe economic -- i would have thought he would have gone there to speak about how it is you improve the socioeconomic conditions of the people, but if it is a campaign stop, there's nothing wrong with that, presidents have done it before. it is nice, he visited people in a sun filled island and i am sure there are wonderful photos taken. >> that's tough words. that's how you view it, as essentially the president going to raise money, help himself politically. seems like you have a cynical view of the whole thing. >

journalism our founding fathers knew this that's why the only industry mentioned specifically in the united states constitution is the press they knew that our democracy couldn't function without a fourth the state of journalism and thanks to the rise of corporate media monopolies and patriot act policies that swash journalism and whistleblowers as we see in the cases of the new york times reporter james rising has been spied on by the cia and former n.s.a. official thomas drake who blew the whistle on government waste and judith miller of the new york times shilling for bush's war in iraq investigative journalism in america it's pretty close to flat lining it's a shell of what it used to be so as the newtonian law of politics we have it something has to fill that void. it's like something has to fill the void of nature and that something is little security and anonymous and wiki leaks but this isn't a phenomenon a place exclusive to the united states it's occurring all over the world from tahrir square in egypt where democratic revolution was ignited thanks in part to government abuses exposed by

with the united states. 90% of our experts go to the united states. 90% of our oil goes to the u.s. 90% of the tourist that visit mexico come from the u.s. and so on and so forth. obviously, all of our immigrants are in the united states by definition. there's a very open economy. so mexico can't be an interspective closed off character. we don't have the traditional mexico way of being in our mind when in our everyday life we're an open economy. >> i want to return senior castaneda to mexican phobia and the fear of the foreigner. with the growing middle class in mexico, as that changed? >> it hasn't changed yet. it's beginning to change, but we are still very much immersed in the fear of the foreign and in the notion that we've always been victims of the past or in the past that we were conquered by the spanish in 1519, 1521, and humiliated and exploited by the spaniards for the following three centuries. then during the 19th serge -- 19th century with texas taken away, then the united states invaded us, then the french invaded us in 1963, then the americans invaded us again in 1914. a

i think we should not trust the united states to vehicle but we should trust ourselves if obama was not to veto the declaration of a palestinian state would he not face political pressure at home i mean after all there is an election that he wants to win you know every politician is interested in continuing but i i think obama really wants. peace in the world and especially in this region which affect in a way in the middle east in the wall of the old world in a way so i believe there's a will most first of all concerned with the wind being in windowing of his own people but he's also not interested in continuing the missions in the vision it took upon him so when it took off what is your reading of the relationship between obama and israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu there were many who stayed there netanyahu his recent visit there saw garner backtracking on what he got he said and essentially becoming a puppet of netanyahu you could see the there was not a lot of chemistry in these. thing i think not too much would be to this kind of music would you say that the relationship be

the united states is now involved in two military actions in the region. in libya and yemen. but syria is a country where the u.s. has done very little to intervene. so where do we draw the line? it appears tonight that there is simply not any clear answers to that question. i'll have more on all this in just a moment, but first a look at the other stories we'll be drilling down on tonight. >>> did anthony weiner break the law? a prominent law professor says it's possible. never mind if the congressman is forced to resign, can he wind up in jail. >>> and wikileaks. a rare glimpse inside an operation that spills other people's secrets, but guards its own until now. just how reckless is julian assange. >>> and then a new breed on capitol hill. we talk to a keen observer who says we've never seen anything like these new lawmakers. >>> but first, fresh outrage in syria over the murder of another boy, this time a 15-year-old. he was a friend of 13-year-old hamza al katib. you remember the video of the tortured body brought children into the streets of syria and tonight more protes

it is really quite amazing, the extent to which israel is a taboo subjects here in the united states.> host: why? >> guest: well, my view is that the strongest supporters of israel here in the u.s. states want israel and the united states to have a special relationship. they want the united states to give israel large amounts of material and diplomatic assistance, and they want us to give that assistance unreservedly. in other words, without qualification. we just give it to them no matter what they do. this is what makes this relationship so special. so we have this large interest group who we call the israel lobby that has worked overtime for decades now to put the yet is states in a position where it supports israel unconditionally. now, if you have an open debate where israel is criticized for pursuing policies court this role is criticize in ways to make it clear that american and israeli interests are sometimes at odds with each other, then you begin to question the special relationship. you begin to say, why are we supporting israel in an unqualified way when the interest of th

narrator: over 300 million people live in the united states. and each person uses an average of 100 gallons of water every day. man: what it takes to actually make clean water is somewhat a mystery to most customers. woman: so how does water get from the river into your house, or here at school? woman: somebody has to bring that water to us, and somebody has to take it away when we're finished with it. man: the water infrastructure is vital for disease protection, fire protection, basic sanitation, economic development, and for our quality of life. man: you just can't visualize all the assets that are under our feet. we have about two million miles of pipe in this nation. if you're walking around in an urban area, you're probably stepping on a pipe. man: our grandparents paid for, and put in for the first time, these large distribution systems. woman: and in many cases, it's not been touched since. man: we're at a critical turning point. much of that infrastructure is wearing out. narrator: our water infrastructure is made up of complex, underg

hugo chavez has accused the united states has been the first state-sponsored terrorism, end quote. president chavez is also called sanctions against iran a legitimate and venezuelan government will back iran under any circumstances without conditions. there is little question venezuela's behavior is questionable. the question is how is the u.s. government should respond to these activities in the future. what options are available should we continue to impose a mnemic sanctions that are merely cosmetic or should we impose sanctions that truly impact venezuela's ability to threaten the united states of america. before you begin the analysis, to express my deep frustration with the administration. it has frustrated the work of the sub and a better presenter read witnesses as requested. instead, it sends only witnesses said police are quote, i'm quote appropriate. it does so without any regard to the judgment prerogative of elected representatives. this congress and especially the oversight government reform committee has a constitutional obligation to oversee management, efficiency a

persons, united states persons, american citizens. based on the latest intelligence and law enforcement actions, we now operate on the assumption that individuals prepared to carry out terrorist attacks may be in the united states now and could carry out acts of violence with little or no warning. so we have been dealing with an increasingly diffuse source of terrorism and increasingly smaller methodology of attack. what do they mean by that? the big spot, the big conspiracies that involve years and years to develop, to get people into the country, to train them at flight schools, to be able to website -- weaponize commercial air carriers, those are not the types of plots that we see now. what we see now are more diffuse, smaller, involving a single person, and as we know, it is very difficult if not impossible to stop a single person if there is no one with him that person is communicating, sharing information, plans, or spots. the-fox. there is nothing to interrupt until something actually occurs. so as we move forward, we believe t