attack mode draw the united states into that war probably prematurely and force the united states to get into a war because an iranian counterattack would almost undoubtedly be targeted against the united states as well as against israel so the united states would be drawn this route course i think such an action without an american consent would cause the great damage to israeli israel's relations strategic relations with the united states for an extended period of time do you think that the past sanctions recently declared against iran are enough to satisfy the israeli government not to launch a strike the might satisfy it for for time being i think the general. attitude in israel is that these sanctions are not enough and they're not going to convince iran even if they would be much for would not convince iran not to continue its nuclear weapon project how do you measure iran's capability to launch a plan to attack iran as a cup ability of launching a missile attack on israel direct attack on israel. with few hundred thousand sites what would be the effectiveness of such an attack and what is the accuracy

anyone who would sit there and we didn't put uput called the president of the united states an f'ingrtz you are an f'ing jerk. you are a turncoat. that's all i have to say. >> greg: he is out of lock step, the left hates it. >> bob: i just said it about him. you don't call the president of the united states an f'ing liar. >> eric: bill maher calls the vice president another word. >> eric: i would never use it. >> bob: i would never use that. not to a president. >> it's a double standard. >> dana: lot of people feel that way. it's all bubbling up inside. i want to go on to something else. he pointed out an issue of not paying your fair share. and the "new york times" gave the full treatment to one of america's coolest companies. which is apple. not alleging anything illegal but suggesting they weren't paying as many taxes as they should be. greg, at this point, does apple feel like they have fallen far from the tree? >> greg: nicely done! i don't know ifhe numbers were actually right on this. but let's say, apple has been getting away. they claim that a is cool. no one questions their

china accounts for 90% of rare earth production. 5% comes from the united states. an equally small amount comes from russia. china in forces tough limits on its rare earth exports. critics accuse it of deliberately driving prices. a complaint was filed with the world trade organization last month. china says it will implement what it calls a reasonable price mechanism, but also give the government more control over the sector. >> some business news now. a japanese newspaper is reporting that sony plans to sack 10,000 people worldwide, 6% of its global work force. half the cuts will be in the chemical and lcd operations. the company has experienced a loss of 2 billion euros for the last business year, marking four years of losses. the european stock markets were closed because of the easter holidays, but new york was open. the dow jones industrial average down 0.5 -- 0.75%. and the euro is trading at $1.3115. for the price of 811 million euros -- no details have been released about the nature of the patents, but industry insiders say they most likely involve social net

new american leadership in place there is a think there is a fear in the united states that that is what we are going to do with an israeli attack mode. draw the united states into that war probably prematurely it would force the united states to get into war because an iranian counterattack. would almost undoubtedly be targeted against you know the faith of or against israel. so you know that it would be drawn this route course i think such an action without an american consent would cause agree damage to israeli relations strategic relations with the united states for an extended period of time do you think that the harsh sanctions we simply declared against iran i mean up to satisfy the israeli government not to launch a strike they might satisfy it for time being i think the general. attitude in israel is that these sanctions are not enough and they're not going to convince iran even if they would be much for would not convince iran not. to continue not to pursue a nuclear weapon project how do you measure iran's capability to launch a counter attack iran has a couple of beauty of launching a missile attack on

only needs the united states to grow is also i think an extreme point of view i believe that china i think there's now and just simply by growing internally in the same way that the united states grew internally in the twentieth century ok joshua jump in go ahead. i think there's an important point to make here when making this parallel if you look at post world war two me the us had about forty percent of the mean factoring exports in the world and so to say that you know. that the u.s. is in britain's place today i mean the u.s. economy today is relatively strong compared to that and china only has twenty percent of world exports and to me that's largely driven by exports so i wouldn't say that you know the u.s. is headed towards decline in the same way that europe may have been after world war two and i think you are a good point that there are a lot of other factors quality of life. of living that that are favorable for developed countries or vs is going to maintain or improve ok martin i think you we could spare to say of the last thirty over the last thirty years we're going to

united states of the world as against israel. so the united states would be drawn this route course i think such an action without an american consent would cause a great damage to israeli relations strategic relations with the united states for an extended period of time do you think that the hostile instance we simply declared against iran i mean after satisfied the israeli government not to launch a strike they might satisfy it for time being i think the general. attitude in israel is that the sanctions are not enough and they are not going to convince iran even if they would be much else or would not convince iran not. to continue not to pursue. nuclear weapon project how do you measure iran's capability to launch a counter attack iran has a couple good duty of launching a missile attack on israel a direct attack on israel with few hundred shahab me science what would be the effectiveness of such an attack what are what is their accuracy of these missiles i don't know all. but i don't suppose we would be worse off than we have been in ninety ninety one when we were under iraqi missile attack them it was cost and no one actually

would almost undoubtedly be targeted against the united states as well as against israel so the united states would be drawn this route course i think such an action without an american consent would cause the gree damage to israeli relations strategic relations with the united states for an extended period of time do you think i passed sanctions recently declared against iran are enough to satisfy the israeli government not to launch a strike they might satisfy it for a full time being i think the general. attitude in israel is that these sanctions are not enough and they're not going to convince iran even if they would be much else or would not convince iran not to continue. your weapon project how do you measure iran's capability to launch a counter attack iran has a cup ability of launching a missile attack on israel a direct attack on israel. with few hundred shihab me science what would be the effect of missile suction what are what is the accuracy of these missile i don't know all. gone supposedly would be worse off than we have seen in one nine hundred ninety one when we were under iraqi missile attack the image was cost no one actu

well, the good news is, he was given the waiver, came back to the united states. he's an example of a dream act-eligible person. you know what he did when he came back to the united states, mr. pearce? i'm about to tell you. he immediately enlisted in the united states army. he completed basic training, and then he was sworn in as an american citizen. today, oscar is serving our country and his country, the united states of america, in afghanistan. now, you've criticized the dream act as "some liberal dream of creating an american military staffed with foreign soldiers." do you consider oscar vasquez a foreign soldier? >> mr. durbin, you know, oscar is a good story to use, the exception was made. that's exactly what i'm talking about. those exceptions ought to be carefully thought out, not just a blanket amnesty or support. there's a cost to the american taxpayers for all this. you know, if you want to make exceptions, i'm okay with the proper exceptions and i think oscar's probably one of those that met all the criteria that any american would be proud, and certainly i'm

. >> in the united states, an 80-year-old passenger with little flying experience has successfully landed a small plane after her husband suddenly collapsed and died at the controls. ellen collins remained calm and guided the cessna twin engine aircraft on to the runway at a northeastern wyoming airport. she was praised for landing the plane with one engine out of fuel, other running dry. her husband, john, died of a heart attack. >> james bond, ruthless, charming and evading certain death against all odds. now it's the turn for the 50-year-old film franchise to make its own spectacular comeback. work on new films was suspended when m.g.m. faced problems in recent years but the special agent is back with a new film due to be released later this year. the bbc has been given a first look at the film in action. our entertainment correspondent got that rare opportunity. >> bond is undoubtedly a british icon and so it seems appropriate that for this movie unusually, much of the film has been taking place above and below the streets of the capital. five months into filming, daniel craig says he

united states and right no given that the united states has created a new platform with the so-called arab need to the gulf cooperation. hillary clinton was at this new forum putting the united states in an active alliance with the g.c.c. this demonstrates a continued to be of strategy where the united states is working with its so-called regional allies to maintain its own national interests overseas and in fact when there were protests against mubarak it was after all frank wisner jr who was sent is the only boy to talk to mubarak and to try to find a strategy to lengthen mubarak's tenure not to ask him to step aside in fact frank wisner jr in his memorable television up link to the munich conference said that he had discussed a democratic transformation with saudi arabia you know all ironies intended imagine that that an american is talking about democracy with riyadh regarding a protest movement in cairo it's ridiculous. and you know where you come out on that because of course you know some countries some people in the arab middle east can have the arab spring the arab awakening but some can bahrain's a good example they can't ok so what you know that is again a good start is to pow

united states. so i want to start off with our panelists with a fairly open-ended question. which of these stories should we believe? the united states as an emerging export power house, or the united states as a nation that really is at a serious competitive risk. i'd like to start with sam allen among the many hats he wears is the chairman of the council on competitiveness, which was a group established in the mid 1980s led by chief executives and they have done work on this over the last 20 years. we'll start with you, sam. >> at risk being in washington, d.c. and answering this way, i think the answer is yes and yes. i think both are true. if i look at our company, john deere, we'll be about 32 billion this year, 50% of it is in the u.s., 50% is outside the u.s. we are from 2010-2018 going to double the size of the company and a lot of that will come outside of the u.s. about 50% of what we do outside the u.s. we export from the u.s. i think one of the things and why there could be a manufacturing renaissance here is there is this combination of both going through the '09 financial crisis, every one of the companies here 18 free market

secondly, the united nations does not have an arm as embargo because they could not get agreement at the security council. we have an arms embargo. the united states have an arms embargo. and we're asking for details on working with the government of cypress and of germany, who are looking into this right now. and of course i will respond with any information that i might have. and thirdly, we are doing everything possible and working as closely as possibly with everybody else to try and get the opposition groups to unite. in my last conversation with kofi annan, this was very much on his mind, how to bring them together through either an umbrella or through collaboration around the table in order that they can put aside the differences and come to a common view. and i know that in istanbul this was one of the big issues. so we're continuing to engage with them and to engage with our colleagues across the world to try and support that unity of opposition. but it is my view that at the moment the kofi annan six-point plan is where we have to concentrate our energy. it is where we finally have a security council resolution we can all get behind and

confederate founders, in fact, set out to make shotgun that had never existed before in the united states. an explicitly pro slavery country. secessionists, constitutional, constitutional and restorationist rhetoric obscured radical new ends. theirs was a country that defended slavery, rejected democracy, and scorned the declaration of independence. it rejected most of the principles americans value most highly. secession was the south's big gamble on the future of slavery. and they didn't have to do it. pro-slavery southerners could have played a wait and see game as many unionists advised, but for those mostly deep south men who orchestrated secession in the fall of 1860 and winter of 1861, the election of abraham lincoln presented a risky but desperately sought opportunity to bring the crisis of slavery to a head. and with secession, those men went all in. with war came the reckoning. i think it's hard to exaggerate the drama of what ensued in the confederacy once the founders were free to pursue their dream of a slaveholder state. once war ban the south-pro slavery and anti-democratic exp

united states. and again, the criminal law was invoked. this time in an item that was absolutely actually collude with barack obama. because in 2000, his group, al qaeda, bombed the uss "cole" killing 16 u.s. navel -- the barge carrying the explosives was overloaded and sank. and then became september 11, 2001 and we were told that we were at war. about 15 years after islamists had made it clear that they were training here for war with us and five years after osama bin laden had made it official with the declaration of war. now if islamism were simply about folks who wanted to blow things -- blow up things and people, that would be bad enough, but it might be something that we could deal with, after all we have an intelligence network that sometimes, although not always -- but violence is not the ultimate end, it's simply a means to that end. an end is the comprehensive frame work that has spiritual aspects to be sure, but is supposed to regulate all behavior, economic, social, legal, military and political, because it is all encompassing and lar and lay

it is not as if the united states was acting as a neutral broker. i don't believe the united states is seen as an impartial broker. it was just announced that it won't deal with the ambassador designate in iraq because he is too close to maliki. this is a serious thing. becae

united states said it violated istria obligations. the international court of justice about against the united states. the united states had, in fact, violated obligations and issued an order to the united states to halt the execution and the other aliens on death row in the united states who also were in the same situation. president bush issued an order to the governor of texas. adjusting to the address but of a letter. president bush issued an order to governor rick perry asking him -- effectively ordering him to stop the execution so that the united states to come into compliance with the vienna convention and the international court of justice decision. texas refused to obey it and actually was sued in the supreme court and ultimately the u.s. supreme court refused to stop the execution. mr. medina was executed shortly thereafter. in that decision the supreme court said that even though the united states has signed the vienna convention their required these kinds of warnings, congress still had yet to do something. congress had to act to put it into effect. until congress did that the courts were not going to get into the business of enforcing the treaty, even i

health, national security, our moral authority in the world and the leadership that has made the united states anxemplary nation. we are borrowing a billion dollars a day from nations that don't share our values to bring in oil. some of them are outright hostile to us. because of our addiction to oil and carbon funding both sides of the war against terror and if we were able to keep that $750 million at home every year plus not spend the money that we're spending on the military on these oil wars 13.3 trillion that these wars are going to cost us, and those ultimately have their addiction in oil. if we could invest in police transportation hospitals, we wouldn't -- and plus -- the biggest threat to public health in this country today is coming from coal. according to the harvard school of public health we are spending $345 billion a year, ten times what it is going to cost us to put in the obamacare because just of ozone in particular. you have mercury coming interest those plants that has poisoned every fresh water fish in america. one out of every six american women now have dangerous levels of

attempt to think differently about political and economic liberation for african-americans the united states is an incredible place and stands out among other nations in the world and i had an opportunity to be reminded of how great this place is in my family reunion in alabama in the city a out more alabama. is the county that my family plantation was so we stand here before you as a descendant of slaves from the escambia county alabama. >> slavery reconstruction, jim crow, the civil rights movement, this is my family story struggling and fighting for humanity and freedom and context and the culture that was saturated with injustice and the humanization. what is so amazing about this narrative and this story is that not only does my family who not know where the plantation is in escambia county, we now own that and there are members of my family currently living on it as free people who have property rights to a, codify and protected by the triet now how many countries in the world is it possible to have a group of people who were once leaves on a piece of property a few generations later own the

got financial woes that the federal reserve the entire the entire system that holds the united states as a state as an enterprise is on the verge of collapse so americans are tired of in their work and work and we cut and it's afghanistan and so now afghanistan has announced that they're going to cut back on their military because they simply can't afford it what does this mean for the u.s. mission there well a couple things first off the afghan army is largely supported something like ninety percent of it is funded by the united states and nato so when they say afghans are cutting it back to the afghans are cutting back just whatever tiny and marginal piece of it but i think what it actually means strategically for the afghanistan is that they have succumbed to the idea that the taliban will take over the south and the east in the end which anybody can do with anything about this issue knew that that was going to happen sooner or later so the government is perpetuating to the taliban they're capitulated to the insurgency and they're going to allow them to have the south and the east and the afghan ar

this is three years before obama is elected as president of the united states. an he gave. i met all these young radical people of color, really radical, communists, anarchists. it was like what i need to be a part of. i spent the next ten years of my life working with all a lost people that i met in jail trying to be a revolutionary. i was a nationalist and the veterans came down the rodney king verdicts on april 29. by august i was a communist but still he gets his position of power. i'll ask you the same question. what does it say about the president's judgment? >> i think it says a lot about the president's judgment. two of the chairmen, they had close ties and long been fans of van jones. i call him anthony jones. he made up van because everyone cool and radical had a one syllable bole name. in the same article, he said i gave up the cheap, i gave up the cheap satisfaction of deep satisfaction for the radical ends. look, i stopped calling myself as a communist but i kept believing all these same things. he saw green jobs, the kernel of capitalism destruction.

would that require specific statutory authorization from the united states congress if we had not had a declaration of war or an attack upon the united states? >> well, again, let me put it on this basis. this administration intends to operate pursuant to the war powers act. and whatever the war powers act would require in order for us to engage, we would abide by. >> and, again, mr. secretary, thank you for putting up with me as i just try to stumble through this and understand it. but as i read the war powers act, it has those three requirements. are there any other requirements in there that you're familiar with that i'm leaving out or not reading? if that's the case, then, again, i just come back to if there's no declaration of war, no attack upon the united states, and if we're going to comply with the war powers act, would that require specific statutory authority by congress before we took military action? >> again, under the constitution, as i indicated, the commander in chief has the authority to take action that involves the vital interests of this country, but then pursuant to the war powers act we w

this is three years before obama is elected as president of the united states. an met all these young radical people of color, really radical, communists, anarchists. it was like what i need to be a part of. i spent the next ten years of my life working with all a lost people that i met in jail trying to be a revolutionary. i was a nationalist and the veterans came down the rodney king verdicts on april 29. by august i was a communist but still he gets his position of power. i'll ask you the same question. what does it say about the president's judgment? >> i think it says a lot about the president's judgment. two of the chairmen, they had close ties and long been fans of van jones. i call him anthony jones. he made up van because everyone cool and radical had a one syllable bole name. in the same article, he said i gave up the cheap, i gave up the cheap satisfaction of deep satisfaction for the radical ends. look, i stopped calling myself as a communist but i kept believing all these same things. he saw green jobs, the kernel of capitalism destruction. if you look

act since the group was disarmed. >> there has not been an act of terrorism by the mek against the united states since they gave up their weapons to us. is that right? >> we do not allege that there was such an act. >> do they have the capability today, 2012, to engage in such a terrorism act against the united states? >> we have not come to a conclusion on that. >> you don't know whether they can -- i mean, you're the guy who is supposed to tell us about terrorism and the world. you don't know whether tek has an ability to commit a terrorist attack against the united states? >> mr. poe, no one has been in to inspector otherwise investigate what is in the camp right now and we also cannot rule out the possibility that the mek may have weaponry elsewhere. >> well, you don't know that. you don't have any evidence that the mek has a stockpile of weapons some place. you have no evidence of that, do you? >> i can't go into the intelligence record on that in this setting. >> well, let me ask you this. since i have seen all of the intelligence that you have furnished this committee, myself, ranking she

united states signing an agreement that the jackson very commitment is still there it's nonsense isn't it we don't think makes a lot of sense to every u.s. administration since the clinton administration wanted to abolish it and they couldn't for some reason well there wasn't a compelling reason we have a most favored nation agreement in place well i'll give you one no one best reason all the jews that wanted to go i mean there's no right. there wasn't a compelling reason in the past or since science in ninety two when russia was declared to be ready for whenever it occurred to be in compliance with jaxon van and both its requirement. for a free market economy and for free movement of people. but as long as we have this bilateral agreement and in long as russia was not a member that there wasn't a compelling reason as soon as it became apparent that russia would join the euro there was an imperative for. the united states to lift the jackson ban of a minute because it means while it's in place we cannot extend unconditional. permanent normal trade relations to russia and that's a requi

transactions and in particular in a trade for oil back in one nine hundred seventy three the united states made an agreement with saudi arabia to trade to do all trade in u.s. dollars and is greatly benefited the united states but recently we've seen for take a lease on these emerging countries that you talked about they stood up and say why should the u.s. dollar continue to have preeminence for example china but i mean that this project into china will have the largest economy in the world i'm here to one sixty or so china sitting there and they're asking well russia and our currency how the moral place on the global stage and so we started this city a lot of these agreements come into place for example china russia have been trading with each other in their own currencies for over a year and then just a few months ago we saw china and japan the second and third largest economies on the globe reach an agreement where they would start promoting the use of their own currencies and trade with one another so we're starting to see this huge move away from the u.s. dollar. and now also want to talk ab

. >> the president of the united states an antichrist on tonight's show.hen fox news takes to task. >> he's the one with the most. >> we do not agree what the highest office of the land, the most important figure in the world going on comedy shows. >> we'll break down this new fox attack, another fox attack yet again, and in the studio today we have the producer and director of a film that takes the l.a. riotses and calls them the hip-hop riots. >> what happened is-- >> it's going to happen tonight. >> you know what time it is. it's go time. >> it's "the young turks." i just learned that walter cronkite's boat was called "the assignment." so when he was not there he was out on assignment. cenk uygur is on assignment. mitt romney won delaware, road rhode island. a huge night for mitt romney. this is what newt had to say. >> governor romney is not the nominee at this point. he cuss not have the majority of the delegates and i think it's a little bit presumptuous. there's a different between the frontrunner and the inevitable. he's mistaking the two. >> 12 ho

houston consulted with his political mentor, andrew jackson, then president of the united states and an expansionist, who was at least aware of houston's intentions as early as 1832. houston wrote of enlisting indians in u.s. territory as auxiliaries in the event of a change. president jackson named houston his envoy to the pawnee and comanche tribes. and most compelling, houston wrote president jackson describing conditions inside mexican texas that could, if properly managed, promote the acquisition of texas by the government of the united states. he's no longer even trying to be coy. given the contents of these documents, there's no doubt that houston had committed himself to fomenting rebellion in texas, a rebellion which would culminate in texas becoming part of the united states. right. let's fast-forward four years. it's march 1836. houston's long-anticipated change had begun with the "come and take it" fight at gonzalez. early in december, a texan volunteer army forced the surrender of mexican general martin perfecto decost and his centralist force in san antonio de bexar. in fe

united states signing an agreement that the jackson very commitment is still there it's nonsense is it we don't think it makes a lot of sense to every us administration since the clinton administration had wanted to abolish it and they couldn't for some reason there wasn't a compelling reason we have. a most favored nation agreement in place i believe in what was best reason all the jews that wanted to go i read israel right. up there is. the. there wasn't a compelling reason in the past or since one thousand nine hundred two when russia was declared to be ninety four when they were declared to be in compliance with jaxon van eyck both for its requirement. for a free market economy and for free movement of. but as long as we have this bilateral agreement and long as russia was not a member of the w t o there wasn't a compelling reason as soon as it became apparent that russia would join the w t o there was an imperative for. the united states to lift the jackson bannock a minute because it means while it's in place we cannot extend unconditional. permanent normal trade relations to rus