all right we've talked currency wars we've talked trade wars we talk actual wars now let's talk about some business related to legal wars and i have our producer to be sure coping us in studio to help me out as well as shannon john our other producer in the control room to give us your insights as well because maybe remember the story maybe you don't but back in august abercrombie and fitch the clothing company said that they would actually pay the situation as in the character on jersey shore not to wear their clothing here's a little bit of insight into why. i'm a guy and i know that's just doesn't work like that and i know i know some i know stuff that you don't know so he was wearing abercrombie sweats and abercrombie said that basically that the jersey shore is ruining their reputation and i don't know how that's possible but now this situation has fired back and he's actually filed a lawsuit against abercrombie and fitch saying they infringe on his g t l and situation remarks and capitalize them unfairly capitalize on them unfairly with clothes so what do you think does he have

we have world war to end. war and we have to follow through on the glory of that and actually end war there was no military industrial complex to speak of the farmers had more pull in washington and they wanted the europeans to stop buying weapons and to start by grain so it was a very different world but the thinking that the peace activists went through at the time about how we would get away from war which was not through something like the united nations not through something like nato not through any of the paths we're currently pursuing but through a completely different approach of outlawing war as a crime and establishing a court it would not be then a servant of the league of nations or now as with the i.c.c. a servant of the united nations was an approach that i think we have to get back to what you think it would be enough because you think the way that now we fight wars right we have cia conducting drone strikes in other countries where it's entirely secretive operations they won't even tell us whe

to go with the war. well i think that if you mean the same thing as around two thousand to two thousand and three i think it's very similar but i think the bar has been lowered their you know you're not required any longer to claim that they actually have nukes in or about to almost within forty five minutes you can now get away with just claiming that they're working on programs and they might get there some day and that means need to go in preemptively and if it's done in a way that risks few u.s. lives and relatively few u.s. dollars there may be little resistance certainly there is no congressional resistance to going to war without congress as we've seen with libya so there was no need to to go through the same routine of lying to congress that that bush and cheney public with. that was david swanson author of the book when the worlds out lot of war well shifting gears a bit despite the issue issuing of this year reporting the potential showdown that might come of it we have we here at hertz you hav

commander had latitude in deciding how to fight the war. this was true for westmoreland and his eventual successor. this was not come his latitude wasn't has concluded a good thing. there were many weaknesses in the strategy, he said, which in the numerous senator really it ablaze played into the hands of the enemy. for one, chasing around the countryside was fitial. general philip davidson, westmoreland's chief officer said that westmoreland's interest always plays in the big unit war. pacification for him and said davidson the search and destroy operations favored by westmoreland accomplished little in providing the secure environment which pacification required. the measure of merit and the war of patrician was body count. he underestimated the staying power calculating that if he could inflict enough casualties and the communists they would lose heart and cease their aggression against south vietnam. instead the any proved willing to observe enormous losses and still keep fighting. thus the progress that westmoreland claimed racking up

still going on the wars current if you look at the research done on world war two korea vietnam vets you see onset for post-traumatic stress for those veterans oftentimes occurred up to eight ten twelve years after they returned home so the onset of. says that the same thing who we believe was forgotten brain injury which basically the amount of hits our guys are taking that they're protected in armored vehicles thank god they're coming home from stuff that their predecessors who fought in previous wars would not have survived but what happens is they take a tremendous shot to the head in those attacks which can be very late in terms of the onset of the injury so traumatic brain injury may be something that we see five ten fifteen years from now that we're not recording right now so it's very scary the scope of this and what made it home and it was so interesting opportunity a go which arguably has you know some of the best weather in the country so a lot of veterans are there freshly homeless veterans vietnam veterans are every rather thousands of them but it's not just the two wars

war. the author reveals many citizens on both sides of the civil war for a host of personal and political reasons. she talks about the lesser-known influence in the work dissension with pulitzer prize-winning historian, eric foner. >> i'm very happy to be speaking today with amanda foreman, the author of the new book, "a world on fire" britain's crucial role in the american civil war, which has gained a great deal of attention come a fascinating book about a nice conversation about britain, the american civil war and writing about civil war history. so hello, amanda. >> guest: hello, eric. >> host: i will begin by asking if someone said there's about 50,000 books on the american civil war out there. when and why did you come to a conclusion you have something new to save the? how did you get into the book and get interested in why did you write it? >> guest: well, my first book was about 18th century touches and because of that often the very first question i get when i'm get when i'm on t

you can take the example of world war i and world war ii, vietnam war and subsequent wars which are againmentioned. and i have interested in exploring in more detail and in a more expensive way how this comes about and how it might interest that vicious circle of war be getting more. that is at least a beginning sensitive. it is always important to have a new project with which one is moving ahead. >> is the scholarship activism? this is a too flowing together? how does that work for you? it's not always an easy merit. >> that's right. i said i try to have a balance between them, but it looks that conflict along the way, perhaps still do about how much to do and how much the other. i know i am bound to both of them. i tell what for me was a moving experience with a good friend who is a professor of chinese history at dl and she developed a cedar lake lung cancer. she called me in to see here and i thought she wanted to talk to me about this process of dying as i studied so much that related to it, but it totally underestimated her. it was her after my after my hero shema talk i had been v

that whole time being for the war, being against the war, being confused about the war. why did you do this, why did i do that? we just agreed that we were a couple of kids that hurt each other because we just didn't know how to articulate what we were going through. >> how had she changed? >> she had had a very successful law career, and now married and she had gone to the cordon bleu cooking school. she hasn't changed at all. the only difference was that she was talking to me this time. >> and you live where now? >> i live between -- about an hour east of seattle. >> we're going to go back to the war in a minute but what have you done for all these years? >> i was in business basically. i went to work in the lumber business. then wanting to write books i thought well i'm going to have to try to do something. i had this bright idea that i could do consulting and managed to get myself going in a consulting business, strategy for large corporations and ended up focusing on energy. the problem with that is in between consulting jobs i can write books. because in between co

world war three in. europe and around the world as part of the currency war and we'll be talking about that with james records after the break but it's already started europe is now in a war they're conducting a currency war and germany you know was pull out of the euro completely but it'll be a reunified germany were three thousand tons of gold oh yeah that's right that's the whole point of it was a good well speaking of the gold ok now angela merkel's party suggested italian gold sale raised by c.d.u. lawmaker ryan niche post says so italy according to. a lawmaker in german chancellor angela merkel's party says italy to lower its debt by selling gold reserves so this is again over and over we see this brought up in this european debt crisis that somebody should get rid of their gold and now they're trying to use this as a weapon their excusing each other that they have to get rid of their gold get take his gold take their gold. twenty seven hundred tons of gold the really big position and i make this p

the subject today is presidents bush and obama, war crimes or lawful wars? there are systemic forms of censorship. they often serve as powerbrokers. in our country, they are into the cold to the first expression of the first amendment. if the taboos are broken, we can then discuss them. then we can address them straight forward. fair labor standards, the rights of commerce, and many others throughout history. then we are able to discuss and debate. today, we have many taboos in our country. the legal profession itself. it has turned its back, in my judgment, on a lot of taboos about the rule of law. in our debate, we have some of the most of knowledge in this field, which i will introduce. the function of law is to discipline power. it is to make sure that power is fair and accountable. when the use of force and power goes beyond the reach of the law, the system of the rule of law begins to break down. it begins to shatter. it is interesting, however, that want to route lonaw their legitimacy in the law and they are always trying to argue that in our society

, the 80 year war, 100 year war the 20th century we had the six-day war. if you have 70 new war started every year you have occurred if working its way downward 1500 from the present in however there is one curve going in the opposite direction. if you look for most history not have any wars are started but how many more are killed once it begins in that those in the other direction they should got better and better larger numbers of soldiers until 1945 that does the abrupt u-turn and since then for the first seven history have been less numerous and less deadly per year of four and if you combine the figures in multiplied the number of wars by the deadly this you get a zigzag curve but the last point* represents the last 25 years but the last 50 years hit the all-time low over the last 500 years. of phenomenon called the long piece of elastic 2/3 of a century is the unprecedented declined the wars between countries and here is some statistics they don't need a graph because it starts at the numbers zero. no wars between the united states in the soviet uni

war. we had two things going for us. even though we were not to plea convinced there would be the war in the pacific, we still had some folks in the navy who had begun development of a new class of submarines. and oddly enough have more comforts a lot of people think of the german u-boats and those were extraordinarily effective by the machine but the new class of submarines that were on the drawing board in the 1930's were far superior even than the u-boats. the first was the class. they could buy the brand go further and have much more by power than anybody that had come along. the one thing we didn't have when the war broke out in december of 1941 was the submarine skippers who could fight the kind of war that we needed to fight which gets the japanese into the pacific. it's not their fault. they've been taught a whole different way to run the submarines but once the unrestricted warfare was declared, thankfully we had some officers who stepped to the forefront, and adopted the submarin

korean war, vietnam war.ce 2000, about 1% of the total population has served in the armed forces. the consequences of this are discussed in a number of pieces we have set the table. first of all, "time" magazine. the cover story, "an army of apart." here's a little bit of what mark thompson wrote in a blog piece. he writes -- ullen, a quote --len, this subject also explored in other places today. if your interested in more reading about it, there are certainly other opportunities. first of all, the editorial page of "the washington post." open " the forgotten one% -- 1%." forgotten o host: he goes on to talk about the policy perspective. host: a discussion about the use of our military. one more article and then we will get to some of your calls. that's the front page of "usa today." "today's congress has fewer veterans." gregory korte has written the story. he quotes donald zillman. host: that's the backdrop for our question. is america's military the forgotten 1%? let's begin with gary in oklahoma, libertar

bush told the public, before the iraq war, that "war crimes will be prosecuted, war criminals will be punished, and it will be no defense to say i was just following orders." and as you know, the just following orders in defense was rejected at nuremberg, and we helped create a precedent. now, president obama, as you heard me ask bruce, went to the cia and said, i understand that you're following orders and i am not going to allow employees of the cia to be investigated and prosecuted. do you believe that president obama was correct or is he in violation of the basic principle? >> matt mead vociferously defend president obama. i think a lot of other people misconstruing what he said. it did not say that i am convinced that law was broken, but for some crass political reasons or because you are "just following orders, i am not going to prosecute," that would be troubling. i think after the campaign, having come into office, having gotten access to all information, including previous investigations by the justice department, he must have been advised by his senior legal advisers that th

at the lead up to the iraq war. very good that there could have been political spin to try to make it more saleable to the public but when one looks at the lead up the estimates given for how much it would cost were rather low and estimates you had officials talking about how the reconstruction of iraq could pay for itself that iraq could sell oil on the market they could have still rode reconstruction so it is i think that people just didn't. foresee what ended up happening in terms of this massive insurgency taking hold it's the law of unintended consequences that particularly when you have an enemy in a certain area you have to be wary that whatever action is needed taking in other theaters especially one that could have to protect attracting jihad which was noted in advance that could end up snowballing and end up backfire against you and that's what happened in iraq ok let's take media another campaign and really who care isn't because in any way contribute to graining the u.s. economically or is it just the wa

war in u.s. history and yet it's not a register of the top of concerns of americans in polls or questionnaires and sure the economy is in a horrible state people can't get can't get jobs they can't pay for their homes their lives are falling apart others are getting by watching reality t.v. reading about celebrity gossip i'm bothered by the troubles of the world but we have to remember that our immediate lives are. no more important no more horrifying than those that are living and fighting daily through war and this isn't an issue of politics you know where i stand in our wars in iraq and afghanistan our shadow wars in pakistan yemen and somalia one war based on a lie the other was no chance of victory and yet our generals and politicians allow troops to continue dying because they don't like the teens the word failed so i remember the troops every day because i don't want. our guys it's time for tonight's tool time award and so night goes to the godfather of pizza herman cain has not really bee

is stoking the war. america's war on terrorism going on for ten years now there seems to be no end in sight some experts think terrorists are actually winning about work i'm joined by counterterrorism expert carved in stone ross the man who wrote a book titled bin laden's legacy why we're still losing the war on terror and why it's a great thing i mean your whole book is about it just give us some key points about why you think the u.s. is losing the war on terror i think that means to look at is the u.s. is capacity to stop terrorist attacks as well as its resilience in the face of an attack compared with the end user ability to strike the problem isn't that al qaeda has become more potent it's not clear that our plate has been significantly weakened it's not clear it's become more potent the problem is that the united states has been significantly eroded over the course of the past decade the economy is of course a chair bills with a massive national debt now not all of that is by any means attributabl

, the vietnam war, the ron iraq war. in the last ten years the figures had the floor. basically a narrow little strike . you can see the picture. i will describe in numbers. in the -- during the worst years of world war ii the death rate from more was about 300 per 100,000 per year. during the late 1940's and early 1950's, it had fallen to about 22 her when hundred thousand per year. in the last -- this past decade, it has been at one-third of a death per 100,000 people per year. using a constant yardstick of battle deaths, and this is the phenomenon that i have been calling the new peace. it would be a bit of an exaggeration, but not too much of an exaggeration to say that the dream of the 1965 singers is almost coming true. that is the world is almost putting an end to war. the immediate causes of the long peas in a new peace? well, one influential hypothesis came from emanuel in 1795. his essay, perpetual feast. interstate trade and an international community all would drive down the likelihood of war. recently a pair

without waging wars another country the first of all war is sometimes necessary often not i think that for example in afghanistan. you know the the united states had to dislodge the taliban regime that was supporting al qaeda giving them sanctuary the iraq war obviously i don't agree with nor the word libya so so resilience is not something that becomes the end all and deal but i think it is it's an important part of what we do in the twenty first century because you're not going to there's no guarantee that terrorism can never strike thank you you thank . wealthy british scientists say it's not on. the market say find out what's really happening to the global economy for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines to cause a report on r g submission free to critique priests for charges free. range missiles free. three stooges priests some old free blog template video for your media project a free media gun to our teeth dot com. at least thirteen people are killed and more than a thousand injured as security forces launch a major assault on protesters in cairo's tahrir squ

we addressed longstanding issues from past wars, agent orange, gulf war illness, combat post traumatic it easier for hundreds of thousands of veterans to receive the benefits they earned. no president since franklin delano roosevelt has done more for the nation's veterans who answered the call to general quarters at pearl harbor, who turned the tide at midway, who captured hitler's eagle's nest, outflanked communist forces and inchon, fought in the tet offensive, liberated kuwait and toppled hut saddam hussein, drove the taliban into hiding and brought osama bin laden to justice. [applause] we could not ask for a stronger advocate for veterans and for the men and women who serve today in uniform who will be tomorrow's veterans. ladies and gentleman, it is my great personal and professional honor to present to you our commander in chief, the president of united states of america, barack obama. [applause] >> thank you. please, be seated. thank you secretary shen secchi for your extraordinary service to our country and your tireless commitment to our veterans. the secretary of defense, le

that just led to the war.this all continued, but it's important to note they are having problems with torpedoes could they simply wouldn't explode, one of the higher ranking members of the submarine command was an engineer who designed torpedoes said he was reluctant to admit there is any problem. mush martin was not reluctant to admit there is a problem. even went to charles lockwood the commander is very specific and pitched a fit in his office about the situation with torpedoes. after that he called his wife and said you've married a failure. and he honestly thought at that point even though charles lockwood is a big man, whose most famous submarine skipper in the world. he was convinced they would run him out of the navy because all the complaining about torpedoes. turns out i was one of the things that push the navy to go ahead and do something about torpedoes. and they did get better after that. he ended up with a total of five patrols in only 10 months. he was one of the most prolific skippers in the na

you can take example of world war i and world war ii, the vietnam war and subsequent wars which i already mentioned. and i'm interested in exploring in more detail and in a more extensive way how this comes about and how we might this vicious cycle of war begetting war. that's the beginning sense of it. and it's always important to have a new project with which one is moving ahead. >> and is this scholarship -- is it activism? is it the two flowing together? how does that work for you? it's not always an easy marriage, scholarship and activism? >> no, it isn't at all. that's right. i say that i tried to have a balance between them but i had lots of conflict along the way, perhaps still do, about how much to do of one and how much the other. well, i know i'm bound to both of them. i tell what was for me is a moving experience with good friend named mary wright who was the professor of chinese history at yale and she developed a fatal lung cancer. and she called me in to see her and i thought she wanted to talk to me about that process of dying that i studied so much that related to it and

without waging wars in other countries. first of all war is sometimes necessary often enough i think to for example in afghanistan. the united states had to dislodge the taliban regime that was supporting giving them sanctuary the iraq war obviously. don't you agree with nor the word libya so so resilience is not something that becomes the end all and be all but i think it is it's an important part of what we do in the twenty first century because we're not going to do is no guarantee that terrorism can never struck thank you thank you. if. the effects are and. if the became a. if you move from constant pressure. for instance on t.v. don't come. wealthy british style. sometimes. markets find. find out what's really happening to the global economy for a no holds barred look of the global financial headlines to name two kinds of reports. the headlines on our t.v. fresh clashes between protesters and security forces have flared up in cairo as protesters now enter the day they are dressed as seen at least twenty two killed and

and in the 11th year of the war in afghanistan it's not a war on terror. it's a completely kind of war over the years and if i united states took many important measures over the years in an attempt to corporate turbans and increasing security, using all kinds of measures that are enhancing the capabilities of the intelligence community but the reaction was the most important one in the, you know, eliminating the threat and by the way, today using tongs, targeting specific individuals in the al qaeda network rather than thinking about them as these kind of you have to deploy and the u.s. saying to enter the war again. now how many -- in israel is the war model the one that is usually you used or all four of the models that you identified? >> mostly the policymakers are run of the world. the democratic settings, they are being held accountable by their constituents. that's when i started doing research after the second intifada. and i remember i came to the u.s. and 04 at the last stage. it's looking for an answer and when you see the policy maker who is ta

veteran and answer war activists. well it didn't take long for two thousand and twelve presidential field for the g.o.p. is still wide open and as we could have predicted one of the front runner runner as it is embroiled in an alleged sex scandal with political breaking the story that several years ago two of herman cain's employees at the national restaurant association received settlements after accusing him of sexually harassing them and this is a story you will think just about everywhere now we want to look at it a little differently and after a couple questions first of all how big of a deal is this and has political correctness gone too far r.t. correspondent liz wahl has this report. yes. the question that. ok going to the media fascinated by cain's alleged sexual harassment scandal headline after headline is he denying the cash payout to the chair with what is this made people think of herman cain cain's accusers have yet to come forward to tell the public what exactly happened yet the media remains fixated o

king was an opponent of the vietnam war. he said it was an unjust war.here were people who were trying to join the civil rights movement would be anti war movement. king, who would not been political, it is becoming more political. there are people inside the civil rights movement who recognize that johnson has been supportive in terms of civil rights. why are you, dr. king, challenging this administration ? king says he feels safe moral imperative to say that this is part of an injustice that is being perpetrated by america. america is on the bronx side of world history in pursuing -- is on the wrong side of world history in pursuing the war effort. he is out there speaking against it. a year before he is assassinated, he is at the riverside church in new york making a speech that gets a lot of attention. he is at the national cathedral in washington, d.c., speaking against the war. it becomes part of the energy that surrounds him. it puts them in a position of being an opponent of the johnson administration. >> syracuse, n.y., this is ralph. >> thank y

, the civil war, world worli and world war ii saw infringements on personal liberty, on free speech. we didn't see things like that. in fact, what i would say is in the last ten years political speech and political activity actually blossomed. you don't need to see four people in funny outfits in front of the heritage foundation to prove it. although i would say i don't draw them out like i used to, and you certainly don't draw them out like you used to -- [laughter] general meese actually said to me how many protesters are out there, and someone said four. he said, four's almost an insult. [laughter] he said, almost. i would say four is an insult. [laughter] but i think in the last ten years it's not because of anything the government did because of technology, because of social media, twitter, all kinds of -- political speech has actually exploded in the last ten years, it's not receded. and the result you see it all around us, but maybe the most important one is in the how contested are political -- our political elections are. elections, i think, are the most important check on a

any sort of all misty and mitigating a war in fact a sort of stampedes the government toward war becauseif you don't prevent any diplomatic contact with a country that's in the crosshairs there's no way of resolving and the difference so it looks like the entire. effort is to push toward war with iran. thank you paul for your thoughts on that i was former reagan administration official i'm calling after paul krugman robert. and we will continue to follow this story as the drama begins to be a router of our question of we would like to ask why the united states involved and so many interventionist qualifier. war propaganda coming out of our ears in this town and it's those institutions like the heritage foundation that are that are the force behind it and it's those institutions pushing for war abroad so why are political leaders fighting for the agendas of these pro-war lobbying groups will have in-depth coverage of these neo con powerhouses so stay tuned as we continue to report on this story well the man dubbed the merchant of death now faces a sentence of life or behind bars after a j

and his feelings of the conduct of the yom kippur war war? when he left the at military?gave to interviews to american newspapers. >> 1973? i do not remember those interviews. i was seven. my english now is not that good. [laughter] now? >> host: let's talk about the yom kippur war and how he felt about that. >> guest: but first he did something the first act in the public career he took five small oppositionfi pa parties to create a big one and by doing that he gave them a real meaning to the israeli democracy after decades, in than baking to form his government the yom kippur war war was a t terrible war the israeli leadership allow that country so they ignored all the prewar science and actually allow of the israeli army however the crossing the suez canal it was a bigger battle managed to bring the change in the war with the israeli forces 100 kilometers from cairo with no e egyptian force to stop him and that was after being caught by surprise. so this is one of the biggest victories that the adl of the israeli army had ever. he lost good friends of the war his frien

i was ugly, world war ii skippers and how influential the have been in the way the war was conducted and how they're a will to win the war. people don't realize that no time in world war ii was the submarine force any more than 2 percent of the total labour force. it is sink or 50% at the end of the shipping. we lost 30200. fifty-two submarines. they also have the highest casualty rate. we think about the marines, extremely brave men and loss of life almost all of submariners who went to war died in the submarines. but in getting through that and reading about him, well, i have to find his biography. have to find out more about this man. one of the most fascinating characters. i love to read. the cocaine did a very good book, but it is more about wahoo . they yell when it was almost on that last patrol, it literally was taken off the boat at the dock at midway and watched sell away. he wrote a very good book about the listed man's point of view. an important part. not a biography. what the -- what made them and real. on a sucker for restored. >> we have this book called the deal from

are lawful wars or war crimes. arguing in favor of the war crimes position, attorney and constitutional scholar bruce fein and u.s. army intelligence officer lieutenant colonel tony schaeffer arguing against the war crimes charge are david rivkin and lee casey, both with the baker and hostetler law firm. this is almost two hours. [inaudible conversations] >> good day to all of you. today we are sponsoring through the center force duddy of her sponsored by the third in a series of debates on taboos. we define taboos as significant subjects that are not often discussed in political, electoral or mass media circles. the subject today is president george w. bush and president rock obama, war crimes or lawful wars? all societies have taboos. they are systemic forms of censorship. they often serve as the powerbrokers in any society and in our country, they are antithetical to the full expression of the first amendment. if taboos are broken as they have been in our past, we then can discuss them. if they are problems we c

not one war millionaire it was made out of world war two now we've got these war millionaires you know basically bragging about it live in a high you know fancy pants what has happened in the psyche of america. i mean can you imagine any president or any current politician giving a speech where they say not one more millionaire is going to be made as a result of this war i think that embarrassment that you're going to make money off what f.d.r. called this war disaster because it is a disaster it's not something that ever makes any society stronger it always is about tearing down. the idea that it's an embarrassment to run after it basically it's basically a gigantic version of what's called ambulance chasing right like can you imagine you know any politician standing up to that i think that has been the real change in the psyche here are these companies have been so effective at using the money that they mostly get from us right from the taxpayer almost all these companies and almost all of their money from taxpayer funded contracts they have been so effective at taking that money sho

how they were able to win the war. people don't realize that at no time in world war ii was the submarine force any more than 2% of the total naval forces in the south pacific. and yet submarines sapg over 50% -- sank over 50% of the enemy shipping that was sunk in world war ii. we lost 3200 men, we lost 52 submarines in that war. submariners also had the highest casualty rate of any branch of the service. we think about the marines who are extremely brave men, and we think about the loss of life. almost 25% of the submariners who went to war in the pacific died in those submarines. but in thumbing through that, in reading about mush morton, i, well, i've got find his biography somewhere. i've got to find out more about this man because he's one of those fascinating characters that just, i love to read about. i couldn't find anything. dick o cain did a very good book called the wake of the wahoo, but it's much more about wahoo and her crew. the yeoman on the wahoo who was almost on that last patrol, he literally was ta

war would change a lot closer round as a large country it's probably has more capability. because even. the top of the key will do destructing all flows from the strait of hormuz and we don't know what the reaction of other countries would be you know if we were to see that this is another hoax another hoax excuse by the americans to go to another war then support for the united states will dry up i mean i mean it's already drying up and the spin masters in washington or pushing it i mean who is going to believe this what him what has washington said in the last ten or twelve years that was true. well i think a lot of people were they that have a valid point to an extent but what i want to talk about china there are some who are sorry that the u.s. wants to isolate iran to put a damper on its economic relations with china and also on the other side of this will not forget china relies pretty heavily on iran it's the country's third largest oil supplier so what do you think is the role of china in all of us. well learned as you know back before the story of the attack in li

cold war the u.s. spends on average thirty five billion a year that number today is estimated to be at fifty five billion a year so why on earth do we still need to spend so much money on nukes and in time of economic uncertainty and during a global push for nonproliferation and what are the iran war hawks have to do with it joining me to discuss it and weinstein national security reporter for mother jones adam thanks so much for joining us tonight as i mentioned earlier this week we highlighted your report on the show and we had a lot of questions from viewers when it came to the finding the fact that we used to spend thirty five billion now it's fifty five billion is that inflation adjusted yes that is inflation adjusted a lot about the question that we've got as well and those are actually i believe one thousand nine hundred dollars there are. arms control association reports. just being able to track down these budgets is so difficult because it's spread out across a number of agencies and also a l