a forward united states' position for united states military position on this and other conflicts in the region is the best way to move from the period we're now in mutual shouting of nationalism upsurge of territorial conflicts whether a more fruitful approach is one in which the nations involved in these territorial disputes and that extend from china japan and korea to as you and find ways to sit down out of the out of the glare of of the demonstrators and out of the glare of the media and work out i solutions out of right. and i think of course the peoples of the people's republic of china and i think the other nations in the region do want a negotiated settlement they don't want a rise of military tensions that's now what they really want net certainly not what the people's republic of china's foreign policy has been signaling i think though that we have to step back and look again to the obama administration and see the u.s. role here and see it clearly when the u.s. said it was pivoting towards asia what they really meant is that they were reaping towards asia because that was

we have a quarrel over the content. >> rose: it's not just israel it is not just the united states. it's russia, it's china, it's some of your friends have all said they do not want iran to have either a nuclear capacity or nuclear weapons. and that's the same argument that the state of israel makes. >> people must gather in other places and solve this problem. whenever the united states government decides to change its behavior toward iran, it will be resolved immediately. and it's interesting that the zionist regime has more than 250,000 a-- atomic warheads, nuclear warheads and they have threatened us repeatedly. >> rose: but they have never used any nuclear weapons. >> and we never say that we were worried. during the 65 years, they have initiated, the zionist regime has initiated five wars. we have not initiated a single war. five wars that were purpose traded by the zionists. which war did we start? >> rose: if there is an attack by the israelis, would you consider that-- would you retaliate against the united states if there is an attack by israel? >> well, by the principles o

as the previous speakers mentioned, we paid a visit to the united states last february. governor brown proposed that we set up a working group for the u.s., a state, and china provinces to cooperate. we call this a working group, a joint working group of provinces and the states. at that time, the vice president made a very good, very positive response for the proposal. after the vice-president returned to china, we worked very hard on the proposal and my visit this time is to further the proposal. to make further follow-up of the proposal. yesterday morning, the delegation was in sacramento so we had a very good and successful and fruitful discussion with the lieutenant governor newsome and secretary ross. we believe when the working group is set up, it will tap the cooperative potential between our two sides while in many areas such as infrastructure, new energy, biomedicine, electronics, information industry, agriculture, and high and manufacturing. mayor lee echoed positive statements to our proposal before we came to this seminar. we had a very good meeting with mayo

where's the evidence of the united states involvement in syria i mean obviously the united states would love to see assad fall but we're not entirely happy about what the consequences of that might be and that is a continuing conversation that is taking place in our state department at the moment the idea that the united states knows what it wants to achieve in syria is ridiculous well herb if you want to see in all fairness sure because we want to hear in all fairness the secretary of state that says assad must go so the united states does have an interest in the fate of syria one way or another ok and what is the united that is another city in the middle that it wasn't really something everybody wanted to ease please every time the united states says somebody has to go you know what they do eventually john in boston you want to jump in. yes yes i want to go back through a couple things first of all i want to go back to something herb said he said that the idea of isolationism is nothing new in american politics well it's true i said recently it's new it hasn't made its appearanc

should have found another shaw for around the united states should have created a clone of hosni mubarak the united states should have basically supported any dictatorship that lost the support of its people if it were better for israel and unfortunately you know you see the same sort of anti-democratic for and desire to support israel even in the united states i mean you should play that clip of where the democratic party delegates at their national convention are saying we don't recognize israel's illegal annexation of east jerusalem we don't want that in our democratic party plank and yet they were steamrolled by people within the democratic party who simply passed that resolution anyway and so this is neoconservatives smart yeah it's the same type of mentality that this guy this guy has are merely those that might read behaved as they don't and you taishi fair time ruthie please jump in. they were not steamrolled by other members of the democratic party that fiasco at the democrat it were invention was. born i reckon that you have the island nation it was. a way the israel lo

we love the people of the united states. you perhaps, sir, know this better than many. we love all people. we wish for paets and friendship to be everywhere. there must be relations beeen e uited states, to allow an exchange of people there are millions of iranian-americans living here. and they are some of the most, amongst one of the most successful immigrant classes to the united states. so the world request no longer be managed through conflict and warfare it can only be managed through friendship and love. and we are quite ready to help. >> rose: mr. president, on behalf of norah o'donnell and me, thank you. finally there is this. the president of the united ates barac obama in a speech at the united nations talked about the same issues. >> it's been less than two years since a vendor in tunesia set himself on fire to protest the oppressive corruption in his country. and sparked with what became known as the arab spring. and since then the world has been captivated by the transformation that has taken place. and the united states has supported the forces of change.

i am here not only to pledge the united states commitment to these principles, but also our support forthe united nations robust efforts to strengthen the rule of law worldwide. >> dozens of people rallied in saudi arabia on monday in two separate protests urging u.s.- backed monarchy to release their jailed relatives. a number protesters were detained after being confined to a desert area and kept without food or water for a day. an anti-islam at referring to muslims as savages has been posted in 10 subway stations around the york city. the ad reads -- it was sponsored by the pro- israeli group american freedom defense initiative, which is also known for opposing the creation of a muslim community center near ground zero. on monday, the council on american islamic relations visit in new york subway station where the ads were being displayed. >> i have mixed feelings about it. it is disgusting, despicable. i laugh to laugh as well. the use of the words savage is classic. just being out here and didn't public about our fate and city, we're trying to unify rather than divide. -- just bein

japan security treaty and would protect you under it so i don't think it can be said the united states has maintained neutrality on this on the other hand it's also the case as bruce has suggested that a number of statements did come out of the pentagon out of the state department saying. the united states doesn't have an official position on the islands themselves but if we go back historically if we go back to the disposition of these islands and. other territories after world war two we have to pay attention to the crucial crucial role that the united states played in making all of the territories that we now are looking at this was the san francisco treaty of one nine hundred fifty one china was excluded from it and in that treaty what the united states did was to create all across the asia pacific a series of decisions about ownership without at any point spelling out the latitude longitude specifics of where the boundaries ended only burns very interesting for we're going to go to a short break we'll return to history here after a short break we'll continue our discussion on the

this was unacceptable to the united states. on those four points, i know some of you will disagree with this strongly -- on those four points, this was not a good deal for the and it states. they went ahead with much tougher sanctions. then you have an effort in december, 2010, to revise the diplomatic process. iran came to the meeting saying their condition was that sanctions should be lifted and its right to enrich should be unequivocally recognized. the iranians stopped negotiating because the and it states wanted to have a modified deals what agreement. they said we will not talk to you until you lift all feel sanctions and recognize our right to enrich. war talk starts building. he had his real seeking more and more wanting to know what is going on. it had a meeting in march between president obama and netanyahu. then you have three meetings, in april in istanbul, may in baghdad, june in moscow. there were talking very concretely -- no longer rhetoric, the logger saying capitalism is destroying the world -- they are talking

in the united states senate who fought for civil rights. who fought for voting rights. who stood with us. who met with us on the day we marched on washington almost 50 years ago. you had people like one of the great leaders of the united states senate and now these leaders are not -- even the nominee who said one word -- not one word about what they're trying to do. >> eliot: it is fascinating because you're right. i remember even in new york, not even in new york, rockefeller republicans who were more liberal probably than democratic party today. >> you could have rockefeller you had so many other republicans. some had federal judges that were appointed by eisenhower that were much more progressive. >> eliot: right. and yet now the drive to win a misguided drive to win and i think their math is wrong. their legal thinking is clearly wrong. underlying ideology is wrong. they're willing to pass legislation through the states that will prohibit people from voting even though they acknowledge there's not a single shred of evidence of any fraud

texas is six times as large as the entire united states population. we in austin especially are familiar with the tyranny of the centralized government in austin itself called the state government that often seems determined to deprive the city of austin of autonomy over matters that we hold near and dear. to the extent that federalism does stand for principle of decision making at seven national levels and allowing people to participate in decisions that affect your lives , than any modern constitutional convention weather at the state or national level would have to address this what kinds of protected attali to you want for states and what not. these are all wonderful subjects for convention or for any sort of natiol conversation that we are not having. >> my question is based on a lot of the things you said. i wonder what your take is on who would support the kind of things the you're talking about given the fact that you have kind of a lot of people clamoring for change with the occupy movement and the tea partier. >> very good question of very co

particularly in the united states. just to give you a little bit more context, as you noted, tanisha is the birthplace of the arab spring. the government ought to be more moderate. something we could depend on. in fact, we have seen extremist elements that work there. at the u.s. embassy there, as well as the nearby schools. the latest word we are getting from them is that security forces have done their jobs. over in sudan, the one-time home of osama bin laden. extremist elements thereto. a u.s. embassy targeted. protesters scaling the walls. the latest word from sudan is that the protesters have been expelled. let's go to lebanon now. very special this weekend being visited by the pope. trying to express a feeling of unity between the christian world and the muslim world. two symbols of the united states capitalism targeted more than the lebanese city of tripoli. one attacker was killed, 25 people were injured while police withheld that. in yemen yesterday, we saw the u.s. embassy assaulted by protesters. contacts on

what the united states has historically been very aggressive the united states has long been the dominant oil power in the middle east and parts of africa and in parts of latin america so china as it overtakes the united states as the leading oil importer has no choice but to be assertive to be aggressive in places i don't think this is because of a desire to to confront the united states but the sheer necessity of providing energy for china's booming economy michael i have a quote here that i think proves proves your your your statement my guidance is clear about america declared in canberra australia last year. as we plan and budget for the future we will allocate the resources necessary to maintain our strong military presence in this region and quote can. this can this strategy voiced by mr obama will lead to a new two new arms race or don't you think or do you think chinese the chinese will not respond to such words. i don't see how the chinese cannot respond to those words after all we're not talking about the area of the pacific off the american coast we're talking about areas of t

for see the overlap is the united states and israel both status quo powers. challenging both left and islamist of movements in that part of the world. military industrial complexes of the two countries are closely intertwined israel has and united states supported certain governments in insurgencies and others and. cooperate in intelligence gathering and covert operations if you go down the list but. you know i think that while certainly the pros will lobby and plays an important role i think the main factor is they perceive fluence of interest and i think the long term it actually hurts this is where i want to. go because it encourages a backlash by extremists ok i think the perception is that israel is an ally ruthie what do you think about and also it's ok i think it's appalling that we should call the alliance between the united states and israel a perceived none of you has mentioned the share democracy shared values of freedom what about the palestinians those are the american society. what about their democratic right i'll tell you about the palestinian

of the united states ambassador on 9/11. there is no apparent to it. he was absolutely murdered. lib al-libi -- libyan officials made an arrest. no one will confirm the information. u.s. officials tell fox to be "cautious," about reports of arrests. according to reuters, quoting libya's interior minister four men are in custody and under investigation suspected of helping events at the u.s. consulate. "helping." f.b.i. and others are on the ground in the early stages of the investigation. top priority here? find out whether the strike on the consulate was a planned assault by terrorists rather than a rampageing mob angry other antimuslim video. catherine is in washington, dc, first on the reported arrests. >> this afternoon, the intelligence community is trying to knock down the report. this question was put to the state department. i saw the press reports before i came down. i was not able to confirm them. obviously, it would be a good thing if we are moving forward on this. >> the state department confirmed the investigati

but it's also good for every state in the united states. and stands to benefit every state, every state. i repeat, stands to benefit from the opportunity to sell more goods and services to russia through pntr. so we've got to get it right. let me conclude by saying this. i'm the ranking democrat on europe. and as i go and talk to a number of nations, who used to be part of the ussr, some who still have conflicts with russia, one of the things i want to talk to them, what do you think? are you happy to be in the w.t.o.? they said yes. should we get rid of jackson-vanik and they all said yes that it sends the right message and compels russia to play by the rules. and we then have a referee in which to make sure they do that. so i'm hopeful that we can get together and before we leave here, we pass pntr for russia, because every single day that we don't, we're losing out on creating jobs here in america. so i yield back, mr. dreier. i look forward to working with you and hopefully we'll get this done. mr. dreier: i thank my friend for his thoug

and the united states society. i lived when i was a young student between 1978 and '85 in the united states. these were student days and these were good days and my family was with me. i want the relationship between the two peoples of the united states and egypt to reach the highest levels of communication and love and respect. respect, mutual respect. this is a message that i want to be clear, very clear, for the egyptian people and they know that and they love this and for the american people. i hope that this visit is the beginning of a relationship of mutual respect and the relationship of not intervening in the affairs of the other party as well. >> rose: when you were a student at southern cal-- (laughs) -- did you ever imagine in a moment that you might become president of egypt? >> i was busy, very busy at the time studying and i was very much interested in political affairs and the situation in egypt and i always thought about the egyptian people and how i could benefit my nation and my country and i want

protesters outside the united states embassy. it's, as you can see, it's a very, very tense situation. the violence in libya and in egypt and the president's response quickly becoming a big campaign issue in the race for the white house. with us now the former new york city mayor and one-time republican presidential candidate, rudy giuliani, who's supporting mitt romney. mr. mayor, thanks very much for coming in. >> thank you for having me, wolf. >> let's talk a little bit about the political fallout from this awful situation in egypt and in libya. first of all, listen to what mitt romney said today. >> a terrible course for america to stand in apology for our values, that instead when our grounds are being attacked and being breached, that the first response to the united states must be outrage at the breach of the sovereignty of our nation. an apology for america's values is never the right course. >> president obama later responded to that in an interview with cbs news. listen to what he said. >> there's a broader lesson to be

[applause] if i am president of united states, and i correct that -- when i am president of united stateswill not cut our military budget or our commitment to keep america's a literary second to none in the world. [applause] this is an election which is a dramatic choice for the american people. a question about the soul of america. what is america going to be? we know of course the president has laid out his plan for the next four years. if you watched the convention or read about the speech, you know what he said. he said, we are going to go forward. i think for ward is a better term. but he had no new ideas. he had no new plan for how is going to get the economy going, how you will create jobs. instead, it was a repeat of what he said four years ago. is going to bring the deficit down. of course he did not. he doubled it. he said we would get more people working. his plan is another stimulus. how did that first one to go? how about a hundred billion dollars? how much of that did you get? clunkers. he has won a new idea. one thing he did not do. he said he will do in the next four years

world war ii and the birth of israel and the cold war confrontation between the united states and the soviet union in particular put us front and center certainly in iran and the arab states. it did not really carry over to afghanistan. in spite of its poverty and some of its hardships, and it was a nice assignment. not too much going on. it began to change it after the fall of the king in the early 1970's. it changed rather significantly more with the ascendancy of the communists and it changed dramatically with the soviet invasion of afghanistan in 1979. then we noticed. as someone who has practiced in the foreign-policy arena for decades comedown i would just remind you that, when administration's face complex situations, they come not as simple sorrows but often in battalions. the carter administration, in late 1979, of course, was also wrestling with the repercussions of the iranian revolution with the american takeover, the efficacy in a slum of bought with the loss of two americans, all of that november 1979. of course, in december, the soviets were in afghanistan. a number of

issue which is gotten the united states into a lot of hot water given that the u.s. policy and throughout the middle east as a result is in shambles in fact but the united states has been putting tremendous amounts of money into israel just as it has into egypt for years as part of that security arrangement that goes back to the one nine hundred seventy nine peace treaty between israel and egypt and you had and if all these years the united states has been looking upon this as a security investment i think that three billion dollars is really not the true figure because the united states also is assisting in the development of israel's iron dome which is their anti rocket system and tremendous amounts of money have been poured into that and as a consequence the the united states also has more than a billion dollars worth. of its own equipment in side of israel so that has to be maintained so the figure is probably much greater than trying to then three billion dollars to just to assist the military itself how do you think this money helps to contribute to stability i

. >> this is not a case of protests directed at the united states at large or at united states policy but in response to a video that is offensive. >>chris: you do not believe that? >>guest: absolutely. in fact, it is the case. we have had the evolution of the arab spring the last many months. what sparked the violence was the airing on the internet of a hateful and offensive video that has offended many people around the world. our strong view is there is no excuse for violence, it is absolutely reprehensible and never justifyied. but there are those who have reacted with violence and the governments have increasingly responded and protected our facilities and condemned the violence. this outrageous response to what is an offensive video. in question that in the past with "satanic verses," and cartoon of the prophet mohammed, there have been protesters that have sparked. >>chris: critics say this outpouring of outrage against the united states has everything to do with the u.s. policies. that we are disengaging from that part of the world, we pulled out of iraq, we pulled out of afgh

and europe -- united states and europe. >> the big winner in the prospect of this deal is the transatlantic relationship. i don't mean to sound too high mind butic thatting the largest aerospace and key fence -- but taking the largest aerospace and defense and giving it a big stake is good for the political international relationship. you know, setting aside shareholders issues and customers issues it realizes to your point the sort of values that we were after in better ingrating the defense industrial of the two. >> it's powerhouse in terms of product spread but it will have a complex ownership structure. this company going to end up being if it eu nights, as successful -- unites as successful as it is on paper now. >> that's going to depend on how successfully it can be managed. it will require a necessity a complex capitallation. it will have dual listing. >> there's french and german government ownership. >> there will be at least golden shares. it's not clear by the way whether -- in fact they have indicat

constitution unless you think foreign nationals who are on foreign landfall within the protections of the united states constitution and that is an absurd argument, mr. speaker. the foreign nationals on foreign land, do they have the right to vote? do they assert states' rights under the 10th amendment? can they claim cruel and unusual punishment? you go to iran, if you're an iranian, you go to iran and you assert your fifth amendment right to miranda and right to counsel and see what happens. mr. speaker, i'm almost out of time. but i do want to say this and i'm going to say this from the bottom of my heart, what's left of it having been a prosecutor for 16 years, but i want to say this. on tuesday, mr. speaker, and i believe you were with us -- mr. smith: i yield the gentleman an additional minute. mr. gowdy: i believe all of us were on the steps of the capitol and we came together to remember 9/11 and what we lost and what we still grieve for as a nation and, mr. speaker, what we found as a nation in the aftermath of 9/11 and republicans stood with democrats on this, the steps of the people's house

the united states ambassador to libya, christopher stevens, may have been the victim here. n you tell us any more about it this morning? >> reporter: we have not confirmed that. we've talked to all the top state department officials. i should point out that we were here all night, and there was a report, of course, that a diplomat, that a u.s. employee and then a diplomat, had been killed. and even that was not confirmed here till shortly after 10:00 eastern. so they have, under law, official policies of not confirming anything until they have notified families. they then finally did confirm that, as i say, after 10:00 that it was a diplomat, but not that it was the ambassador. so the first word that it was the ambassador came from richard engel and his sources in cairo. of course, any loss of life is dreadful. the fact that if it is true and it was ambassador stevens would certainly escalate this, willie. this is a tragedy and a huge issue for the u.s. government to deal with. obviously people are going to be very angry here in the united states given everything that was in

a united states ambassador in libya dead today. the obama administration taking steps now this hour to beef up security at embassies around the world. after this veteran diplomat christopher stevens along with three of his american staffers were murdered by a mob in benghazi, libya. the attack yesterday was apparently triggered by a film, a film produced by an american by the name of sam basil. considered by many to be highly offensive to islam. again, a film. these murders taking place in a country that the united states helped to liberate from the dictator moammar gadhafi and a mob attacked the embassy in cairo, egypt, yesterday. climbing the embassy walls. tearing down and ripping apart the united states flag. it's unclear if the attacks were koord natded or plans to con side with the 11th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks here in america. but moments ago, our president obama spoke out about these killings. >> the united states condemns in the strongest terms this outrageous and shocking attack. we're working with the government o

the president declared they were going to be a non-nuclear weapon state and negotiated with the united states and russia to dismantle all of the weapons and then take what remained of them -- uranium and other components that remain dangerous -- and reduced those to a non-dangerous state. that was a really historic decision. in fact, it followed on an earlier one, which was 20 years ago he also closed the nuclear weapons testing site, the largest nuclear weapons testing site in the world. more than 450 explosions. he actually did that before kazakhstan became independent. a decision saying, enough is enough. i hereby decreed that this place is closed. it has been closed ever since. >> one of the things you are saying -- and the history is fascinating, because just backing up a little bit -- kazakhstan was kind of like a state within the soviet union. so people can kind of grabs ahold of that. but he made a very -- the current president made a very, very bold statement to the world by saying this place is closed. >> he made a bold statement by saying the testing grounds is closed, made a net o

and the united states has put together a broad based regime of sanctions against the iranians. me, there have been problems with the relationship between added states and israel. much of it is over this question of israeli settlements in the west bank and what that means for, alternately, a two- state solution and peace between israelis and palestinians. certainly cover -- governor romney has a different perspective on that the president obama. i think we are all committed to israeli security, without a doubt. host: republican line, tx. quick question? caller: thank you, c-span. i have a perspective that is different. i grew up outside the u.s. my perspective is we let these countries evolve. there is somewhat of a democratic said up -- set up coming up. when we go overbearing and take this neo-colonialist approach that some people perceive over there, i think that is what gets into trouble. host: we just have a minute or two left. your response? guest: i think the right thing to do is to wait for the egyptians, the technicians to -- tunisians to ask us. that is what has happene

face to face on the coach now the united states has wanted to race. on. to. come down as well as anybody and maybe the citizenship if you want to this is just made it into a very dynamic situation where. tempers. in. this situation will be down in the coming days. leading our coverage of the anti american on the rest reports of clashes erupting in afghanistan and pakistan as people demonstrate there and go with the less it's all on her twitter feed. on the school. well more now on the tense situation in pakistan with a she's from the national this forum the country's first political lobbying group now the demonstrations we've just been hearing in pakistan have till today being peaceful what way is it going to go now do you expect an escalation. well there's a possibility of an escalation of course we have to understand one thing to these demonstrations really are not really directed at the film itself they are a result. over the past few months and years there has been an organized campaign to insult and humiliate islam particularly in the united states and t

or red light flashing for the national security lead in the united states that they need to take a deep breath take a big long rethink about the broad strategy that they've been following with regard to national security policy it has not worked it is backfired and has made the united states much more vulnerable to the threat of terrorism in the future and in view of what's happening in libya should it be reassessing its security emergency security for its officials it's a it's a embassies abroad as well. well i don't have any specific recommendations for the protection of u.s. diplomats but but i must say it would probably make sense to pull back from the most vulnerable areas until the united states has in fact done this rethink and has tried to sensibly signals that it recognizes that has made some serious mistakes i think that's what's really called for the situation how much political influence do you think washington is now said to lose in the region after these protests it's difficult to know how long they'll go on but if they die down relatively quickly next couple of days what'

we allow five chinese companies to operate in the united states. we need to use our trade policy to incentivize countries like china to open their markets and play by the same rules but what we shouldn't do is have protectionism that is simply designed to aid manufacturers against fair and healthy competition. [applause] >> thank you. >> you are watching booktv on c-span2. forty-eight hours of nonfiction authors and books every weekend. >> you are watching booktv on c-span2. next weekend down here on the national mall the national book festival will be taking place. this will be the twelfth annual. booktv will be live on c-span2 but if you are in theory and want to stop by and gravel booktv that come and see us by the history and biography tent. here on booktv on c-span2 we want to introduce you to offer elizabeth ames who has written a book with book with steve capitalism will save us: why free people and free markets are the best answer in today's economy". first of all tell us about yourself and your personal experience particularly when it come

this is a picture of the plane that brought the bodies back to the united states. back to their families. both the president and secretary of state will speak at the ceremonies and family members will be present. u.s. ambassadors chris stevens, foreign service information management officer sean smith. and former navy seal tyrone jones and glen doerty were providing security for ambassador smith were all killed in tuesday's attack in benghazi, libya. meantime angry protests spread today throughout the muslim world including jerusalem and the west bank along gaza. u.n. peacekeepers were also attacked by protesters. no casualties reported. in tunisia protesters stormed the u.s. embassy setting fires and battling with tunisian security forces. two people were killed. another 29 injured. in all protests broke out today in at least 17 nations from north africa across the middle east to indonesia. all the demonstrators voicing outrage against that film made in the united states that ridicules the prophet mohammed. nbc's jim maceda is in that country. we hope to have him j