the united nations population fund has for over 30 years supported, defends and whitewashed the crimes against women and children chen struggled to expose. that's why president reagan and more recently president bush defunded the u.n. population fund in an indefensible reversal, the obama administration has provided approximately $165 million to the u.n. fpa. mr. chen as we know was blinded by a severe fever as an infant. and is a self-taught lawyer. he garnered international attention in 2005 when he organizationed a class action lawsuit against local officials who are forcing women to undergo abortions and sterilizations to comply with china's one child per couple policy. there were as many as 130,000 involuntarily abortions and sterilizations performed in a county in a single year. in response to his heroic efforts to defend women and men from forced sterilization and women from forced abortion, mr. chen was sentenced to 51 months in prison on trumped up charges. >>> are corroborating his fears. chinese officials starting breaking in the homes of his family in the same village and r

and the results of it is the latest united nations population projections hasn't present trends, you know, accelerated or decelerated trans, that we will peak somewhere around 9 billion people or 7 billion. it could be as low as nine if we continue. and if we had a reversal, which is highly unlikely, so women everywhere are beginning to choose. the hope thing is based on women's choice. women's liberation save the world. [applause] if it turns out that women everywhere in every society gain independence and financial independence to do what they wanted, they stop letting their husbands play the lottery and have a couple quality children. when that happens, they went to the fertility rate, thank heavens. if we have reversed -- if we tighten still more, we could peek out -- it could peek or reach the end of the century below what it is now. there is a reversal, which is highly unlikely for obvious reasons, than we could go up as high as 15 billion or more and that would be disastrous. the problem is not the number of human beings. judaica take all 7 billion people. if you don't believe

the united nations population fund has for over 30 years supported, defended and whitewashed the crimesgainst women and children that chen struggle to expose. that is why presidents reagan and president bush defunded the u.n. population fund and then indefensible reversal, the obama administration has presided $165 million to the organization. mr. chen, as we know, was blinded by a severe fever as an infant. and is a self-taught lawyer. he garnered international attention in 2005 when he organized a class action lawsuit against local officials who are forcing women to undergo abortions and sterilization to comply with china's one child per couple policy. there were as many as 100 30,000 involuntary abortions and sterilization was performed in one county in a single year. in response to his heroic effort to defend women and men from forced sterilization and women from forced abortions, mr. chen was forced to spend 51 months in prison on trumped up charges, and subjected to house arrest. with beatings that continued. in response to his incredible escape, on april 22, and events that follo

the united nations population fund has for over 30 years supported and defended and whitewashed the crimesgainst women and children that chen guangcheng struggled to expose. that is why president reagan and more recently, president bush be funded the u.n. population fund in an indefensible reversal, the obama administration has provided approximately $165 million through the u.n. sca. chen guangcheng, as we know, was blinded by a severe fever as an infant and is a self-taught lawyer. he garnered national attention in 2005 when he organized a class action lawsuit against local officials. he they were forcing women to undergo abortions and sterilization to comply with china's one child per couple policy. there were more than 1000 -- 100,000 will abortions performed in a single year. in his effort to protect women and men from sterilization and women from abortion, mr. chen guangcheng spent several months in prison on trumped up charges and he was then put under house arrest where the beatings continued. he had an incredible state on the event of a brooklyn second. i chaired a hearing about m

united nations in new york. >> wrapping up some more top stories, the united nations warned more than half of the population of sudan faces food shortages because of conflicts with sudan. they say more than 5 million people are at risk and the shutdown of oil production has had a devastating attack on the economy. >> and the blind activist has telephoned for help from a hospital. he's been at the center of a diplomatic row. he asked for sanctuary last month. >> the vatican said it received an apology from an italian company that depicted pope benedikt kissing someone. president barack obama welcomed the l.a. galaxy squad to the white house on tuesday to congratulate them on winning their first major league soccer cup in november. among them, the star of the sight, david beckham. we report from washington. >> america's champion footballers traded boots for suits for their date with the president. but the dress code was formal but the mood was not as barack obama took aim at the l.a. galaxy piece youngest star. >> we also have a young up and comer on the team named david beckham. i have to say i gave david a har

in south sudan, there has been a dire warning from the united nations that more than half the population faces food shortages. the conflict would sedan is ongoing and the rainy season is fast approaching. -- with sudan, and the rainy season is fast approaching. " the mobilization continues. the fighting has died down in the last couple of weeks, but no one believes the problems are over. in january, south sudan shut down its own oil production. the sudanese president said last month's clashes make it difficult to go back. " they say they will destroy sudan. but we are the ones to determine it will will be reopened. we will not break open the pipeline unless there is a guarantee. >> refugees continue to arrive, a fling civil wars over the border. they're often -- fleeing civil war is over the border. they're often malnourished. these people are adding to a growing crisis. the oil shutdown has hit the economy extremely hard. aid agencies are warning that the rainy season is gone to make helping the most vulnerable even more difficult. ordinary people are suffering. for the moment, that see

the united states at treating its citizens the counter argument here is that cuba is a small nation while the united states is a big nation so it's much easier to give health care to smaller populations than larger ones so rather than comparing cuba to the united states let's compare cuba to new york city which has roughly the same population. in the last three decades seventy eight thousand seven hundred sixty three new yorkers have died of aids in that same time though only two thousand three hundred sixty four cubans have died of aids so what the heck is going on here well the new york times has figured out in a recent article in this issue the times writes other elements have contributed to cuba's success it has freedom of the universal basic healthcare it has stunningly high rates of hiv testing it saturates its population with free condoms concentrating on high risk groups like prostitutes it gives its teenagers graphic sex safe sex education it rigorously traces the sexual contacts of each person who test positive each cuban citizen has a doctor they can see for free if they miss a routine check up and that doctor is supposed to track the patient and find out why compare that

in south sudan, there has been a dire warning from the united nations that more than half of the population is facing food shortages. the, but with sudan is ongoing. the rainy season is fast approaching -- the conflict with sudan is ongoing. the rainy season is fast approaching. >> new uniforms and patriotic songs -- the mobilization continues. the fighting has died down in the last couple of weeks, but no one believes the problems are over. in january, south sudan shutdown its own oil production following a row over how much it should pay to transport oil through sudan's pipelines. the sudanese president said last month's clashes make it difficult to go back. >> they said that they would destroy saddam and bring us to our knees when we shut down the oil pipelines -- destroy sudan and bring us to our knees when we shut down the oil pipelines. >> refugees continue to arrive in the thousands in south sudan, fleeing civil wars over the border in sudan. they're often onerous. they have not been able to plan crops due to -- they are often malnourished. they have not been able to plant crops. lar

nations. and the united states is not contributing largely to that population. if we destabilize the amendment, we will be part of the problem. >> although we have a considerable number of people in this country estimated from 10 to 12 to 14 million who are in an ambiguous state because they were not born here and they were born in the united states without proper documentation. but the principle of the 14th amendment means that their children are recognized as citizens of the united states. >> so it stops with one generation. and we hope we can figure out what to do. >> i wanted to ask you a little bit about the book that you've written on women's rights, women's citizenship, the book of no constitutional right to be ladies and the obligations of citizenship. and in publisher's weekly, i was reading some of what they had to say about your book. they say that you link the women's exemption from civic duties, such as jury or military service to the denial of women civics rights such as suffrage, a jury by her peers, aid, citizenship and even her body. expand on t

, certainly from the population, the opposition who have suffered so much as a result of the government crackdown, and also from the international community. even the united nations secretary general, who basically discounted a syrian attempt at parliamentary elections, within the last two weeks. the syrian government has promised reforms, while also carrying out massive attacks on syrian population centers at the same time. which is why it's credibility is so questioned. what's been interesting is that even the government has started to admit that there are different kinds of protesters in opposition to it. there are those that are peaceful protesters, and those that are armed and those that may be affiliated with groups like al qaeda. and that's a big shift from a year and three months ago -- >> okay. >> -- when it claimed that any protester was a member of al qaeda and israel at the same time. >> ivan watson, thanks so much, reporting from turkey after spending some time in syria. thanks so much. monday night, anderson cooper reporting life from the syrian region as well. watch "a.c. 360" live from the syrian border with turkey. cnn, monday night, 8:00 p.m. ea

united states has a much different complexion. hispanics make up close to 17% of the population, the nation's largest minority group. african americans are 14% of the population. asians are 5.8%. >> this puts an exclamation point on a trend that we knew was coming. >> reporter: fry, who studies population trends at the brookings institution, says a 25-year influx of immigrants explains the change face of america, a change, he says, that will carry profound political implications as infants like veronica honoreveron veron hern. >> this will be really important as they start aging and voting in large numbers. >> the other people of the puzzle is the aging white population. the median age of whites in this country is 42. the median age of hispanics is 28. that's a big difference, scott, when it comes to which group will be having more babies. >> assuras: burma in southeast asia has long been one of the most oppress and i have isolated regime but military rulers have taken steps towards democracy and today the obama administration lifted most restrictions on investment and trade with burma and will send an ambassador th

we have wealthy nations in europe, with a large population, that, leave it all to the united states. and it is true. no one thing costs a lot of money. well, let me go back on, the weapons. as the price of the, ratification in the senate, of the nuclear weapons treaty last year, the republicans, to keep it from getting the 2/3 vote or give it the 2/3 vote insisted on spending tens of billions more over the years on enhancing the nuclear arsenal in ways the military doesn't think is necessary. tens of billions. >> there are cards on your chairs. fill out the cards. they'll be collected. we'll start feeding them into the debate. back to israel. the survey shows the obama administration's middle east policy has gained ground among jewish voters. with 58% approving. and 40% disapproving the president's handling of u.s. israel relations. while just last fall the results were that 40% approving. 53% das proisapproving. is this a referendum on the president's approach to israel. bill. >> improving, yeah. now, 58-40. which is bad. we have seen compared to general approval from jews. there is

took responsibility for the operation in libya to protect the civilian population because we had a clear mandate from the united nationsnd we got clear support from a number of countries in the region. none of these conditions are fulfilled when it comes to syria. >> and i want to read you something that was said about the future of nato as we move beyobtd afghanistan. this was written by our cnn foreign affairs correspondent, and she wrote the decade long nato involvement in afghanistan has produced what some have described as collective fatigue among european allies and questions about whether nato should be involved in conflicts outside of europe's backyard. what is your feeling? should state nato, when it's necessary, be involved in conflicts outside europe? >> they certainly know fatigue. on the contrary. you are never seen so many european forces deployed overseas and out of area than today, and in today's world our allies realize that territorial defense of our populations and our countries may very well start beyond our borders, like in afghanistan. we are in afghanistan to prevent the country from once again b

actually after the united states preventive services task force issued their recommendations that the national cancer institute asked for researchers to look more directly at the populationf women in their 40s to try and assess when -- you know, who was at highest risk, who should receive mammograms to try and address the question. women this their 40s, of course, do get breast cancer. >> does cost play into that, as well? >> it was not a question of cost. and the studies were funded by the nci just because there's been so much debate around this. and the other data until this point, the other data -- radiologists will tell you that the data up to this point was old and from outside the u.s. from canada, from europe. but mostly that the data had been collected in the '70s or '80s. so when mammographic technology was different. >> sure. >> and so let's look at current technology. let's look at american women. and let's -- but this is also one study. it confirms what came out last summer. but this is by no means the final word. >> belva: okay, so what harm is done by having these mammograms? >> what can happen is that -- so earnest brawley who wrote an accompanying editori

, certainly from the population, the opposition who have suffered so much as a result of the government crackdown, and also from the international community. even the united nations secretary-general who basically discounted a syrian attempt at parliamentary elections within the last two weeks. the syrian government has promised reforms, while also carrying out, you know, massive attacks on syrian population centers at the same time. >> that's ivan watson reporting. monday night, anderson cooper reports live from the syrian region as well. watch "ac 360" at the syrian border with turkey, monday night 8:00 eastern time. >>> students at boston university are mourning today. overnight a candlelight vigil took place for three students killed in a crash in new zealand. the three were killed when the van they were traveling in swerved off a road, and then rolled over saturday. five other students were injured. the group of study abroad students was visiting locations in new zealand where the lord of the rings movies were filmed. >>> right now, in arizona, crews are battling three wildfires. one fire now covers more than four square miles. and it's growing. for a time l

populated area. >>shepard: thankfully, no bomb this time. a potential turning point with iran, the united nations nuclear chief says iran is close to signing a deal that would restart inspecters. western leaders believe iran is trying to build nuclear weapons and want to look in the new plant. that will never happen. but tehran will delay. that is what they always do. it has always said the program is for generating energy and medicine, not bombs, but iran has been stonewalling the atomic agency and the announcement of a breakthrough comes on the eve of nuclear plants in baghdad. the chief correspondent is with us. so the iranians are cooperating. >>jonathan: a lot of the negotiators seem to thing it is great. what they say is that this seems to be a step in the right direction despite the fact that this deal would only allow the inspecters back in to one particular site. that is all it applies to. despite that the agreement has not yet been signed. the head of the atomic age believes it is "important breakthrough," and he says iran's chief negotiators is negotiating in good faith. >> this remain

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united states had parents who were members of minority groups that include hispanics, blacks and asians. white births accounted for 49.6%. between the years 2000 and 2010, minorities made up 92% of the nation's population growth, 92%. the changing dynamic, of course, impacts everything, including politics. in 2008, barack obama's victory was fueled in part by a 20% surge in minority voting, winning hispanic and asian voters by roughly a 2-1 margin, and nearly all of black voters. in 2004, george w. bush won re-election, despite losing all three minority groups to john kerry by at least 9%. those margins were much closer four years earlier, when bush lost the hispanic, black and asian vote to al gore. analysts say the concerns of minority communities will likely take an even more prominent role in domestic politics as this next generation reaches the voting age. your takeaway from all that is the trend is not good for republicans. >>> in business news, word this morning jpmorgan chase's trading losses were initially worse than reported. the figure is up to at least now $3 billion, that according to "the new york times." jpmorgan's stock opens down 2% this morning. and banker bruno iksom, the so-called l

international organizations, the united nationses population fund, for example, the office of the united nations high commissioner for human rights, the united nations children's fund, the united nations women and the world health organization have all said that abortion restrictions are not the solution because they put women's health and lives at risk and violate their human and reproductive rights. please, join us and these organizations who are familiar with the phenomenon of son preference and oppose h.r. 3541. i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves. the gentleman from arizona. mr. franks: i would now yield 2 1/2 minutes to the distinguished gentleman from new jersey, mr. smith. he's a member of the foreign affairs committee where he is the chairman of africa global health and human rights subcommittee. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from new jersey is recognized. mr. smith: i thank my good friend for yielding. mr. speaker, last year an undercover videotape sting operation by live action exposed several planned parenthood aphysical yates wh

population within the united states. some of which was real, and some of which was imagined. here in debaters burg where we celebrate diverseity those dark moments in the nation's history should give us pause. standing a few miles away from at same washington, d.c., where hoover was raised and ascended to extraordinary power, we should take this opportunity to learn from ken's they thorough and fascinatingability of the adult difficult times. in so doing we can recommit ourselves to the value of freedom -- the pows to be and checks of balances understanding these make for a stronger, not a weaker america. so without adieu, ladies and gentlemen, ken ackerman, author of young j. edgar. [applause] thank you. can you hear me all right? okay. thanks for the terrific introduction. i thank you very much. thank you to coming out on a beautiful afternoon here in gathers burg and staying here in the c-span tent. i know, there's a lot of competition. and thank you for c-span for being the best friend of non-fiction book writers. -- when i was first asked to be here, it was last november, and last november, you might remember the twitter and the whole washington area with

nation. there is nowhere for them to go. they cannot use their education. they are confined to a black market. an informal sector in the united states. and the most tragic poor should of this population are the 3 million or so who came with children. they have grown up here. they speak english. a graduate high school. some have struggled and even graduate from two-year colleges or even four-year colleges. we pay for them. we invest in the health and education while they are growing up. just at the time and they are about to enter the most part -- their most productive years, and to contribute to our economy, we say, there is no work for you to go. five years ago, the top graduate in greek and latin was a dominican who came here at age two. when he graduated as a valedictorian at princeton, he was ousted as an illegal migrant. he was forced to take a full scholarship at oxford university to study phd. we end up supporting one of the top graduates at our top universities rather than making use of his productive skills that we actually paid for. where does this leave us now? well, we are actually a lot closer to comprehensive immigration reform than people think. illegal migration is ac

population in the united states. next, former new mexico governor and now libertarian presidential candidate gary johnson. we will be right back. [captions copyright nationalable satellite corp. 2012] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] >> these men go through things and have scars that no one can understand except each other. >> what startled us was the relationship between harry truman and herbert hoover. they were such different men and into that form in this alliance -- ended up performing this alliance that neither would have anticipated. it became the foundation for a deep friendship. the leaders between them later in their lives are extraordinary. >> it may be the most exclusive club in the world. the private and public relationships of the american presidents on sunday at 8:00. >> i thought it was important to write a book that to people through the series. obama did not come out of nowhere. the tea party movement seemed to come out of nowhere. what was its origin? occupy wall street, i thought those were important things to take seriously, to look at a social movement perspective. >> former white house adviser van jones on soci

we have wealthy nations in europe with a large population that leave it all to the united states. no one thing costs a lot of money. we could save, well, let me go back on the weapons. as the price of the ratification in the senate of the nuclear weapons treaty last year, the republicans to keep it from getting the two-thirds vote or to give it the two-thirds vote insisted on spending tens of billions of dollars more on enhancing the nuclear arsenal in the ways the military doesn't thing is necessary. >> let me move on. let me also say that there were cards on your chairs. if you have yet you would like to pose -- questions you would like to pose, please, fill out those cards, and we'll start feeding them into the debate. let me come back to israel. ajc's survey show that is the obama administration's middle east policy has actually gained ground among jewish voters in the last year with 58% approving and 40% disapproving the president's handling of u.s./israel relations. while just last fall the results were 40% approving, 533% dis-- 53% disapproving. is this election a referendu

of fact, our country, the united states of america, is the most incarcerated nation on the face of the earth. not only in actual numbers, but also in proportion of population. if current projections continue, state and federal prisons will grow another 13% in the next year adding an additional 192,000 prisoners at a cost of $27.5 billion. in light of these challenges, the need for the second chance act is greater now than ever before. the second chance act is a commonsense response to reduce recidivism and reduce outcomes from people released from prisons, jails and returning to their communities. research confirms that comprehensive coordinated services can help formerly incarcerated individuals find stable employment and housing, thereby reducing recidivism. last month the equal employment opportunity commission offered guidance on employer's use of arrest and conviction records when making employment decisions. in its guidance, they cited that hiring policies that include blanket exclusions of people with criminal records have a disparity ratio impact and therefore violate title 7 of the 1964 civil rights act. the new rules call for employers to assess

we have wealthy nations in europe with a large population that's left all to the united states, and it's true. no one thing costs a lot of money. it could save, well, going back on the weapons. as the price of the radification in the senate of the nuclear weapons treaty last year, the republicans to keep it from getting or giving it the two-thirds vote, insisted on spending tens of millions more over the years on wasting it in the nuclear arsenal that others don't think are necessary. >> let me move on. let me say there were cards on your chairs if you have questions you want to pose. please fill out the cards, and they will be collected shortly. we'll feed them into the debate. let me come back to israel. ajc's survey shows the obama administration's middle east policy gained ground in the last year among jewish voters with 58% approving and 48% disapproving the u.s.-israel relations. over the last fall, the results were 40% approving and 53% disproving. is this election for jewish voters a referendum on president obama's approach to israel. starting with you, bill. >> improving, you, n

population and preventing it from establishing. this kind of reflects automatic reaction that we have to develop automatically. finally, i would say -- i would come back to the claim of the united nation. we have an important discussion in the united nations, and the major initiative by china and russia to increase the proposal to frame the discussion, classical arms control mechanism to favor more government control , the free flow of deprivation. this is also an issue on which we have to talk because we see having the u.n. we need to be sure. at the same time we would like to be able to focus or refocus the main purpose of that to replace cedras security in preserving freedom of information. that is why we really need to act together to get the debate. i should stop here. far too long. i think you. i hope the commissioner will not cut my head. absolutely not like that. thank you for your attention. [applause] >> and thank-you to csis for sponsoring this. for sponsoring this event and inviting as to participate. i will start by saying, i and largely echo of the comments that have been made, particularly in terms of the very strong working relationship between the u.s. and the eu on c

nation, in competition with other countries. it wasn't too many years ago when the united states was number one in the world in the percentage of its adult populationwe're something like 16th. that's going to hurt us. we have to do something about student debt. behind every one of these statistics are stories. i had students from the board of minscu -- the minnesota organization of colleges and universities -- and i had them in m my office. i said to them, how many of you work at least 10 hours a week while going to school. all of them. how many of you work 20 hours a week? most of them. how many of you work at least 30 hours a week while going to school? a lot of them. how many of you work 40 hours a week while going to school? how many of you work full-time while going to school? a few of them, a number of them. that's no way to go to school. time after time when i talk to kids, i hear their stories. mike flannery is a gad watt of hannepin technical college sms he was forced to take out college loans because federal loans were not enough to pay for his costs. he graduated with a total amount of debt of $34,750, from his associate's program. he is

we have wealthy nations in europe with a large population that say leave it all did the united states. no one thing costs a lot of money. let me go back on the weapons. as the price of the ratification in the senate of the nuclear weapons treaty, the republicans, to keep it getting the 2/3 vote, insisted on spending tens of billions of dollars more over the year on enhancing the nuclear arsenal in ways the military does not think is necessary. >> let me move on. let me also say their work cards on their chairs. yet questions you would like to pose, please fill out those cards and they will be collected and we will start feeding them into the debate. that might go back to israel. the survey shows the obama administration policy has gained ground in the last year, with 50% approving and 40% disapproving. last fall the results were 40% approving, 53%, disapproving. is this election for jewish voters a referendum? >> improving, yes. it is now 58-40, which is bad, and there is a reason it remains bad. the first year or two he picked more fights with israel. he has pressured the netanyahu g