joining me now is congressman chaka fattah, democrat from pennsylvania. congressm mman fattah, thanks f being here tonight. >> thanks very much. you're talking about the subject on everyone's mind across the country. i visited a plant right outside of philadelphia. 6,000 people working. it's a boeing plant, believe it or not. you might not hear this from some of my friends on the other side, but the president gave boeing the biggest contract in history, $35 billion deal. they got three shifts working, got a weekend shift. they are hiring, and when people get a chance to go to work and make a living and pay their bills, it helps the entire economy. we need to pass the jobs bill, and i think that congress is starting to hear the message because the senate says they are going to tee this bill up. senator reid wants to move it forward aggressively, and i know that jon kyl is retiring from the senate, but hopefully he'll be around to see this bill become law. >> absolutely. >> and the president is not a take it or leave it. what he wants is his proposals consi

fattah of pennsylvania. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from pennsylvania is recognized for two minutes. mr. fattah: if we could have a vote, every member of this chamber would cast a vote in the affirmative. what we are asking to do tonight is choose between tens of thousands of jobs for americans who desperately need them and a limited amount of disaster relief. that is not a fair choice. and i guess the majority wasn't happy with the polling that showed only 12% of the public think congress is doing a good job and we are trying to get into the single digits. what we need to do is to do our work. now, this isn't a program where ford motor company borrowed $4.9 million to put people to work in michigan, illinois, kentucky, missouri and ohio. this is a program that's working that taxpayer money is paid back through the loan guarantees. national association of manufacturers in today's national journal says that we now as we have, lead the world in manufacturing, with 21% of globally manufactured produc

i think the palestinians, unfortunately, have been divided between hamas and gaza and fattah in the west bank but i think the west bank palestinian authority had done a good job over recent years. the israelis have acknowledged, you know really building up their mechanisms. i have been covering this issue so much that i try to avoid calling balls and strikes every week. it is usually one ball or one strike. my feeling is it is really time for us to be telling the -- both parties to be using our leverage with israel, and with the palestinians, to really get on with it. this is really getting long in the tooth. it is not serving anyone. certainly not us. we shouldn't be in the middle of this. this israeli government should be putting a peace plan on the table. palestinians should be doing the same. and it is really time to finish this thing. tavis: for those who have not followed this as closely as you have over these decades and have become the expert that you are on these issues, but yet hear all the time in the news media that this thing will only be resolved with a two-state solution.

of the world community by authorizing even more settler homes in disputed east jerusalem a senior fattah tells arts and united states should stop giving israel preferential three. it's very important what the european are saying because. you're going to come through actually members of the security council and i think it's an important message for us that it was imperative of the european. saying blau done this move to the united nation is very legitimate and we hope this will reflect itself on the voting by the european governments and brought to a lot of both france and britain the americans have asked us. to stop proximity talks which we did direct talks which we did indicted talks which we did and they have decided to end the freeze over several months and what they're called the moratorium on this issue has totally push the whole of talks into total collapse the companies that has said that the jewish settlements in the but as you know that is an obstacle to peace they are not legitimate and so on we ask them today the european union the united states israel is announcing these supp

journalist told us that on his really sentiments been brewing in this country for months mohammed abdul fattah told me it's no surprise the mob targeted the embassy. but there is a lot of anger at what israel did recently which basically very crossed the border from israel into egypt killed a number of egyptian shoulders and they promise investigation and nothing has not been delivered yet ever sense there are spin huge huge demonstrations and a sit in there for a few days outside the israeli embassy the minus traitors asking dejection government to at least expelled israeli ambassador from egypt this is not the first time that israeli troops kill people all soldiers in the border area egypt's public opinion has been liberated and that means they're not going to pay silence again when israel commits any act of thuggery on its own our border or the people living on our border and that's what has brought down what happened last night so we have to look at the motivation to make a strategic solution to what has actually been happening. and we take the rest the world is of more use who brief in li

fattah is coming to u.n. through president abbas even though the president said negotiate peace with israel. why would the palestinians do that to the united states' vital national security interests and america's best friend in the region, the jewish state of israel, because they are refusing to make an geement to live in peace with the jewish state. we will withdraw aid from the palestinian people and people will suffer. and must withdraw from the u.n. and go to the u.n. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. for what purpose does the gentleman from illinois rise? >> permission to address the house for one minute. >> it has been more than nine months since the december 19 beautyal crackdown on the opposition in belarus. human rights of the citizens continue to be denied. nine political exist -- prisoners exist. they remain in prison and the president is using them to bargain for economic assistance with the international community. and leader of the united civic party describes the condi

vented anger out against the israeli embassy let's talk about that let's talk about how did bill fattah joining us live a journalist joining us on the line from cairo now very good evening thanks for being with this the egyptian government's promises need to keep all the embassies in the country safe from now while it didn't succeed for a while last night does it look like they can deliver on the pledge. well i hope they can deliver on their pledge and in respect of international law and international standards and i think this would be something for international law experts to elaborate on but what i can. deliver is we've got to understand why hundreds of thousands of angry gyptian you last night had gathered outside the embassy many of them. like spiderman went on top of the building. kill like fourteen fifteen stories to reach of the israeli embassy and take the flag out of it that means there is a lot of anger at what israel did recently which basically they crossed the border from israel into egypt killed a number of of rejection soldiers and they promise investigation and nothing

and egyptian journalist one hundred abdel fattah told r.t. that tensions between his country any israel have been growing for months but says that cairo has done very little to stabilize the situation there is a lot of anger at what israel did recently which basically they crossed the border from israel into egypt killed a number of egyptian soldiers and they promise investigation and nothing has not been delivered yet ever sense there are spin huge huge them on the stray sions and the sit in there for a few days outside the israeli embassy the minus traitors asking the egyptian government to at least expel the israeli ambassador from egypt vision government so mistakingly has not responded to the will of them on a straight is for weeks after weeks they have not been serious enough to respond to the public opinion and because of this in action those them on the straight of thirds along to their own hands and expel the israeli ambassador out of cairo there have been very keen in keeping everything in place as much as mubarak did but then you v

we know that al qaeda senior leadership in the fattah region in pakistan is looking increasingly at kidnappingansom as a way to raise money. >> al qaeda isn't the only issue. it has morphed and there's the lone wolf question. if there were confirmation on this report from pakistan, we don't know that there is. there isn't confirmation yet as far as we know. what would be the way the money would move around to finance three or more suspects who have made their way to the united states? >> well, i don't want to speculate particularly on this case. >> hypothetically. >> not just hypothetically. what we have seen and what is some recent information that we have obtained has confirmed is that al qaeda raises money, keeps very careful tabs on the money that it is raising and very careful tabs on how they're spending the money on salaries on fuel, on equipment. they keep track of their money like a company that is under financial stress would keep track of its money. and so for the development of a plot like the one that we're concerned about today and plots that we have been concerned about over tim

we are pleased to have congressman chaka fattah. he's the ranking member on a cjs subcommittee on the house. congressman? >> thank you, senator. well, the general said he was proud to have flown a few of special commissions. he actually commanded two of them and he is commanding nasa in a way that i think today you see the decision package come together, and as an appropriators, i know that we are pleased to see that they authorize this and the administration have come to an agreement that clearly identifies the president's goal having us move from, you know, exploration in terms of the low-earth orbit to deep space two mars as the target and this embrace on the commercial program is very important. i am making now this decision around the launch system and really positions nasa to move forward aggressively and i want to thank the administrator for his leadership. i know that some of the on the hill can be challenging, but this is rocket science we are dealing with. it is somewhat complicated for those of us in the political realm,