about six out of ten have a favorable view of the united states. there is a sense that u.s. the u.s. remains a superpower. there's even stronger public support for americans around the world. and while i can't dispute that some of the criticism of the united states are accurate in terms of the way it's acted around the world i think we can't discount the fact that publics around the world still generally not in every country have a very positive view of the united states well bruce any as you know when you say hold on when you say that when you say that. good point is that american foreign policy is an american culture is that mcdonald's is that disney i mean can you flesh it out a little bit with that it's a crime it's across that it's across the board i mean there is widespread appreciation for americans sense of protection of liberties for example the end. of the spying on america i mean but it's luck but it's it's all relative right i mean if you ask a question say just china or iran and or the united states how do you feel about they how how they protect liberties americ

britain ceased to be the dominant power and there was in the legion of power from great britain to the united states will we see something like what happened when holland was the great power but how holland shared power within lenin later england will the united states will the coincidence of economic interests lead to a kind of u.s. chinese alliance that would then dominate the world and if so would the world's people be able to challenge such great powers and how would they do that ok and challenge would likely do you think that is the. stream lee unlikely that would be a scenario. i think first of all i think america still the dominant military power you know world even china i think become superpower i agree that the clash between the residents. and the existing power will be intensified history have told us that. there's always happen more likely it's going to happen again and the most recent example is the u.s. and soviet union cold war and their world and up in the more dangerous position so i think china. and also china's. chinese dream is their party state dream and their party state only c

seas for its development so that doesn't make sense i think that this is yet another attempt by the united states to maintain its. status in the world and i think there's a bit of panic going on here in the united states foreign policy establishment because if they cannot break china up then the united states is destined if china is to become a moderately prosperous country and bring wellbeing to its citizens then the united states will be a second place just for a few of the different population i think so i think it was a bit of good or bad just it won't go ahead on. well i mean i think there's a lot more to the pivot to asia than simply containment of china i think that that's a very simplistic rendering of the idea and i wouldn't be i also wouldn't be overly sanguine about the ceiling issue fact that there is never been a threat to the ceilings doesn't mean that there never could be a threat and i think you know the united states has a legitimate interest in protecting the sea lanes in global commerce and it isn't just washington's interest you also have to consider several of the other count

we're the united states of america. we're the country that's always tried, not always successfully, but always tried to northern a set of universal values around which we have organized our lives and our aspirations. this crime against conscious, this crime against humanity, this crime against the most fundamental principles of international community and the norm of international community, this matters to us. it matters to who we are. it matters to leadership and to our credibility in the world. my friends, it matters here if nothing is done. it matters if the world speaks out in condemnation and then nothing happens. america should feel gratified. we are not alone in our condemnation an we're not alone in our will to do something about it an to act. the world is speaking out and many friends stand ready to respond. the organization for islamic cooperation condemn the regime and said we needed, quote, to hold the syrian government legally an morally accountable for this crime. our oldest ally, the french, said the regi

i think if the united states had done that in a very simple way the united states would now be in a stronger position. we would be discussing the conditions for resuming aid and we are in a situation now the united states didn't respect its own hall so that diminishes respect for the united states. i don't think just cutting off a little bit of aid here or there is going to fundamentally change the calculations and egypt and these discussions are not incredible because the united states didn't suspend aid at the moment it should have. my third point devotees i think as we try to understand the u.s. influence correctly a lot of people are going to the opposite conclusion which is that the united states has no influence at all which i also think is incorrect. tamara mengin for instance gulf assistance and a lot of people said well what difference does it make if the united states would suspend military assistance to egypt when the gulf countries are coming with billions in assistance and so forth? this is a very superficial understanding of the whole assistance question. egypt has been a count

i now live in the united states. his human capital we have in the americas compliments one another. this is the future promise of this hemisphere. that is what we have to bind together whether it is through the expanded trade agreement that will bind the countries that believe in the course set of values. it is providing the issues not been on the table with nafta in 1993 which we knew with the real the negotiations, we both knew those things with torpedo everything so we left them on the table. what a surprise. 20 years after, we are back to energy and labour mobility. these two issues can have a profound impact on the hemisphere's ability to grow and create a greater sense of community, which i think is the huge asset of the americas, especially when you look at europe and asia pacific. go to the love now to audience. [laughter] [applause] who would like to have the first question? over there. yourself and where you are from. do you have a microphone? >> [indiscernible] there has been a lot of talk and activity [ind

we are the united states of america. we are the country that has tried, not always successfully, always tried to honor a set of universal values around which we have organized our lives and our aspirations. this crime against conscience, this crime against humanity, this crime against the most fundamental principles of international community, against the norm of the international community, this matters to us and it matters to who we are and it matters to leadership and our credibility in the world. it matters if nothing is done. it matters if the world speaks out in condemnation and then nothing happens. america should feel confident and gratified we are not alone in our condemnation and we are not alone in our will to do something about it and to act. the world is speaking out. many friends stand ready to respond. the arab league pledged "to hold to the syrian regime fully responsible for this crime." the organization for islamic cooperation said we needed "to hold the syrian government legally and morally accountable

the united states actually does matter. and i don't agree with 100% of the things that the previous speakers said, and they're not going to agree with 100% of the things i said. but the great thing that unites us is that we have the first amendment that allows us to have that disagreement and to have an active discussion so that our nation can move forward. now, we don't always move forward. sometimes we move backwards as we've discussed. but each time we do that, we find a way to move forward. this can't happen in a country we're going to talk about now, china, because despite anything else they might be doing, they are not allowing freedom of speech. so i've got a display over on the side. who here knows what 61398 is? okay. you've probably seen the news story about the chinese government hacking american corporations, right? anybody? so 61398 is a signal core unit in the people's liberation army in china. this is a division of the chinese military run and financed by the chinese government. a company put out a really bril

to intervene in the affairs of other nations i mean it was the united states were really the gulf states under the umbrella in the aegis of the united states and other western countries that poured arms into syria and turning this into a terrible violent civil war real morass of desperation and ultimately it's these broader the broader impulse lying behind these policies the desire to push these core geo strategic interests no matter what the cost to the people of any particular region that we have to stand up against we have to fight against to give the syrian people and other people a chance to reclaim their own future and destiny because if we don't we can almost be sure to expect the same thing that's happened iraq libya all these countries we really do need to stand up against the military industrial complex and their takeover of the planet thank you so much you didn't hear organizer for the answer coalition always happy to be here thank you. don't go away guys when we come back we'll fill you in on everything alec anniversary convention in chicago. well the british. mark

your bootstraps nonsense but again ask the people of the united kingdom what the what the thatcherite policies did ask the people of the united states what reagan's policies did which destroy unions drove down wages and made the conditions for what we see today the casino economy did not exist until the right wing neo liberal consensus took power the washington consensus continues to dominate and it dominates both parties it dominates the so-called liberals the so-called conservatives democrats republicans it dominates the entire spectrum of debate so all of all of this we know we've seen it's been discredited and yet you still come on you're spouting that ideology i find it foolish and kind of embarrassing ok come on even come on air even even the great a hero of the left paul krugman is arguing that free trade is one of the greatest tools that we have here pretty so sorry you need to go yeah well you need to go out and take a look at the people who win the nobel prizes for socialist policies even they have given up on the old argument against free trade excuse me you were a target of a bomb really the nobel prize and i wouldn't pu

we want to welcome back our viewers in the united states and around the world. the president of the united states announcing he will, in fact, seek formal congressional authorization from congress, from the house and the senate before using military action against targets in syria. lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have been torn on this issue. joining us now, one veteran lawmaker in the house of representatives, the democratic congressman charlie rangel from new york. your reaction, congressman, to what the president said, that he has authorized the use of force, but before giving that execution order, he wants congress to debate the issue and to formally pass resolutions. >> i'm half satisfied. at least i know that the president of the united states is coming to the american people before he executes something that obviously he said he's already decided. it's the constitutional thing to do. the american people have to support him. how do they do that? they do it through the congress. so i don't see where america is threatened, i don't see where our national

issue of global flood nif accounts where the position of the united kingdom would be at least marginally different from the position of the united states if you believe in the notion of u.k. sovereignty especially when it comes to foreign policy can you name a single example of that i mean you know i mean there's a huge round about the role of the international criminal court going on there are differences on how to recognize the anti castro dissidents in cuba how to deal with some of this is a even at the height of the of the special relationship there was great rows between margaret thatcher and ronald reagan on a on a series of issues but more recently recently more. a bit more research before beginning this interview is not until you really know i actually i actually just bought a lot of research that's why i'm posing this question is probably the i know it's pleasant to you but i don't think this is a good pretext for its homonym attacks but nonetheless in one of your previous interviews you've been saying that one of the fundamental differences bits been american and european approach is that the united states wants to push democ

the united states has not gone so far with snowden as to allege that he's actually helped the enemy of course were he to go to the united states one just doesn't know what might happen but at the moment the charges against noton are under the espionage act and for theft three charges under the espionage act one for theft because finally the predicaments facing manning and mail snowden is suggesting perhaps the law is really going to crack down on these people and other whistle blows in the future is that it will whistleblowers now shut up because the law is going to really be very severe. well the united well they're not they're not shutting up for the moment i mean we've already seen what's happened to manning we've already seen what's happened to a sanj and yet here is mr snowden nonetheless in spite of all of that going ahead and being a whistleblower the simple fact is the u.s. authorities are taking very vigorous steps against whistleblowers. there are concerns about the way they're going about doing that but at the moment that doesn't seem to be preventing people from coming forw

that's you know china right now it's a couple little cup of course they won't fight the united states fight for that mud to budge eventually they will become a big tiger. it will be too small for the unit pacific ocean will be too small for them ok lynn you pointed out i mean the united states is a militant want to add something lynn go ahead jump in. yes yeah i just want to say what we exacerbate this problem also is the chinese growth growth in china economic growth the last few years the insane growth that they were enjoying it is unsustainable. globally countries everywhere in trouble in that it and unemployment is up living standards down so the expectation for the future will be disappointed so many countries will be disappointed. about their future prospects so that will intensify this scramble for the remaining resources so just to survive and just to placate they populations we will see more conflicts and the not just between china and usa ok dan it sounds like at the preamble to the first world war and the second world war. well as are to the first world war in the great dep

i think it would be best to say that the behavior of the united states and the allies is the greatest threat to the treaty because the united states and western powers have been treating iran normally not only unfairly but also. in a very disturbing manner the sanctions that have been imposed upon ordinary iranians and their attempts to make ordinary iranians suffer in order for iran to put aside its nuclear program are really pathological if you look at it objectively the iranian nuclear program from the very beginning was supported by western powers billions of dollars were invested after the revolution the iranians felt that they cannot throw that investment out the window and to this state there's been no evidence whatsoever that iran's nuclear program has been anything but peaceful so iran is working within the framework of international law the n.p.t. and the united states and its allies are violating fundamental human rights of the iranian people by trying to wreck the iranian economy and by trying to make ordinary iranians suffer ok tom would you like to reply to that in washi

the and i. the states are how many how many herbs do we have in the in the united states congress right now one matthew before we enter the program what's the future create what's the future of christians in the arab world. twenty seconds i mean if the general trend if the trend continues we're going to see less and less of them unless you know that things change quickly i'm not optimistic i'm sorry to say ok looks like we're into age of intolerance in this region many thanks today to my guests in washington and in london and thanks to our viewers for watching us here darkie see you next time and remember process talk rules. i grew up near me airbase. i dreamed of becoming a pilot ever since i was a child. and are going to approach the agro clarisse him in oh my. i love this place and by amongst. what defines a country's success. faceless figures of economic growth. for a factual standard of living. i would rather i asked questions to people in positions of power instead of speaking on their behalf and that's why you can find my show larry king. now right here on r.g.p. question more. blood bath

they didn't want to shoot innocent children, they didn't want to shoot their own people. >> the united states- >> the lifeless bodies dying and wrapped in slouds in areas where they did not allow people to go in. >> let's get brian in here. what wrp you going to say? >> the united states government has been on a course to overthrow the government in syria because it's an independent nationalist government. it was formally -- it was formerly a colnifment they did the same thing in libya. they bombed libya in 2011. they invaded iraq in 2003. we see war after war after war. what's the real reason for the war? it's not because one government has a better or worse human rights record. it's not about chemical weapons. the middle east possesses two thirds of the world's oil. the u.s. wants to show that it's going to control this resource rich part of the world. the bush administration and the obama administration are doing the exact same thing. using chemical weapons as a pretext to carry out an illegal acted of aggression against a sovereign country. the people of the united states by a margin of 9

britain is a good friend of the united states. st because they voted down any kind of military action, no military campaign, that still wouldn't mean necessarily that the british wouldn't support the united states and their response to chemical weapons, correct? >> no. the brittaons still diplomaticay and politically supports the united states. but it will not be able to participate in any military strike as a result of this vote. >> atika shubert for us in london. thank you. >>> coming up next, we will take you inside the mind of syria's leader, bashar al assad. including his mood swings. his temperament. and how apparently he's a fan of phil collins. we'll explain. we'll talk live with someone who's met with assad multiple times. do not miss that conversation. >>> plus, once again, a reminder. we are waiting for the president of the united states to speak. specifically regarding the escalating situation in syria. you are watching cnn's special live coverage. stay with me. [ female announcer ] it's simple physics... a body at rest

there is no appetite for that in the united states. good to hear from you once again. thanks very much for joining us. >>> so you just heard him say the united states should not go at it alone in syria. what about the u.s. congress? what's the fallout if president obama orders military strikes? i'll talk to a key member of the house foreign affairs committee when we come back. dad. how did you get here? i don't know. [ speaking in russian ] look, look, look... you probably want to get away as much as we do. with priceline express deals, you can get a fabulous hotel without bidding. think of the rubles you'll save. with one touch, fun in the sun. i like fun. well, that went exactly i as planned.. really? [ male announcer ] this summer, savor every second of vacation. but get your own cookie. enjoy a fresh-baked chocolate chip cookie at check-in and more, with rates as low as $99 per night at a doubletree. book now at doubletree.com/getaway. >>> the plan of attack threatens our national security interest by violating well-established international norms against the use of

boston built the first modern sewer system in the united states. ours was completed between 1877 and 1884. with this wonderful new sewer system, we were taking our filth and moving it out to the ocean. of course, all of this was untreated. in the 1960s, we were still pumping all of our sewage out to moon island, untreated. we would get swimmers here, never knowing, in the middle of summer, why you would have a cold. well, we were swimming in diluted sewage. melosi: the major way to deal with pollution, at least until early into the 20th century, was through the process of dilution. the assumption was that the capacity of rivers and streams, and even the seas, allowed for certain levels of pollution that eventually would purify themself. as we get later into the 20th century, it becomes clear that the volumes of waste made dilution unworkable as a single solution. and so treatment became the ways in which we deal with pollution. narrator: to protect public health, starting in the 1950s and '60s, there was a push to put in wastewater treatment plants

what can the united states do. i think david hit all of the hot-button issues on what is at stake for the egyptian people but also for the region. >> the big question, too, for this administration is, and i think david brought this point up as well, which is, you know, america has learned and doesn't seem to have the stomach for, trying to force its will on countries that don't want to do it themselves. >> absolutely. i think that one of the reasons for the hesitancy here was that there was initial hope that egypt could function as sort of a model of democracy in the region. now they're starting to recognize that it may demand action from descending into terrorism targeted at the west. >> all right. we're going to have dafna and benjamin stay with us. but louisa is a free lance journalist with the "global post." she joins me live from cairo. what are you seeing there, louisa? >> it seems the death toll from yesterday was significantly higher than what we've already seen. we've seen reports it was 500 plus. the count

another war being fought is a bronc saying that we used to have a kid payback's of the united states can't win a war whether it's iraq or afghanistan whether it's libya whether was vietnam so the people have lost faith in the military aspect of the government the policing aspects of the government and so they realize on the economic end that they're on their own only the too big to fail are there to be say. deposits you know when they move them they take them if you want your money in your own possession you don't have your money here this is a fact when nine eleven happened i know this personally i try to get my money out of certificates of deposit c.d.'s. and i call the fleet bank their gun now they fleeted away i get exe citi group or one of them bank of america bought them out and i wanted my money transferred to my local bank and they said no you can't get it i got shafted by m.f. global's scam when jon cause i'm brought down the company and they stole my money out of my segregated account so the first thing the golden rule if you don't have any gold you're not going to rule anyt

putin support for edward snowden has escalated in fact across the world and specifically in the united states people see edward snowden as a cert as a person who is exposing criminal activity in the part of the united states government in fact gran greenwald international in the guardian has exposed again in a most recent article a program called x. keyscore that allows intelligence agencies to carry out everything from dragnet service survey aliens to the reading in the content of all individual e-mails a program called prism and key score are a spying operation on a scale never before imagined in flagrant violation of the fourth amendment to the united states constitution the public does not support that and increasingly understand it the government is isolated in these operations the war on terror and these alerts and certainly embassies are designed to frighten people and to deflect their support from edward snowden from bradley manning or from those who have the courage to expose criminality and part of the ruins of the united states all right appreciate your thoughts on the subject alwa

thereof are citizens of the united states. whether that includes children of foreign parents is in dispute due to a legal debate over the meaning of "jurisdiction." despite that, it is being used by a growing number of foreign women to deliver here. in 2000, the centers for disease control and prevention reported that more than 5,000 infants were born here to foreign mothers. in 2008, the latest year for which data are available, the number was just fewer than 7,500, but many say those numbers are woefully underreported. here's how birth tourism works. brokers advertise, offering package deals to women who want to have their newborns become u.s. citizens. these women are often accompanied by their husbands, who are an integral part of the planning process. janan tashi reports for the inland valley daily bulletton and covering the ballooning trend as more women arrive to give birth in southern california. >> this is kind of a birthing package where everything is pre-set up for you and everything from where you're going to stay,

your bootstraps nonsense but again ask the people of the united kingdom what the what the thatcherite policies did ask the people of the united states what reagan's policies did which destroy unions drove down wages and made the conditions for what we see today the casino economy did not exist until the right wing neo liberal consensus took power the washington consensus continues to dominate and it dominates both parties it dominates the so-called liberals the so-called conservatives democrats republicans it dominates the entire spectrum of debate so all of this this free trade all of this we know we've seen it's been discredited and yet you still come on here spouting that ideology i find it foolish and kind of embarrassing well come on even come on air even even the great the hero of the left paul krugman is arguing that free trade is one of the greatest tools that we have. pretty so sorry you need to go yeah well you need to go out and take a look at the people who win the nobel prizes for socialist policies even they have given up on the old argument against free trade excuse me one hundred times that of a bomb really the nobel

he's returned to the united states. >> he's a private citizen, he returned to the united states, andt, nothing, ed that nada, zip. the trail goes cold, gone again. this guy who naturally we do not even have a real picture of, this former cia spy has disappeared yet again. he's still a wanted man in italy, as are the 22 other americans, or at least the 22 other american names convicted alongside him. even though he has now disappeared again, reportedly somewhere in the united states, we're not getting any explanation. now one of his colleagues in the cia who was convicted alongside him has come forward to tell her side of the story. her name is sabrina, she was also convicted in that italian court. she says that she and the other americans convicted in absentia in 2009 did not cook up this abu omar plan on their own. another cia in italy, the one who got immunity at that trial. the rome station chief, he was the u.s. official who was hell bent on that. misled their bosses that he was back in d.c. the rest of them, she says, officers like her were thrown under the bus. left out in the

service. [ man ] we are the united states postal service. [ woman #2 ] we are the united states postalmale announcer ] we are the united states postal service. and our priority is you. go to usps.com® and try it today. lou: a group of special forces veterans putting pressure on the speaker to investigate the bank ozzie's scandal. spending $5,800 to put a three big billboards with the message in john baker's home district. showing pictures of congressional leaders with the caption if for members of congress were killed in benghazi would we have a watergate style select committee today? good question. we will see the answer. and now making controversy all comments here is what lee daniels said if he thinks america has become more racist since the first african-american president. >> i think people are a angry that he is president they're showing their true colors and when danny strong with the words in the black man could be killed by a white man and get a rate -- away with it, trayvon martin had not happened. sadly i think so. lou: our fox news contributors coming thank you for being he

if the united states, president of the united states, who said definitively this will not stand and then flinches, imagine in terms of the nuclear capacity of the eiran. require a much larger military operation and p the united states president will not even -- the pinprick he was proposing and looking for a way out, over syria, which is easier to attack, i think the israelis today reck maze that the only way of stopping iran is going to be a strike on the part of israel itself, lit not get any help, saudis are scared to death about the eiranian nuclear program. we are going to enter a period now of high tension over that as a collateral damage. >> panel, stand by. we will bring the u.s. ambassador, former u.s. ambassador to the united nations, john bolton. the president's statement he wants military action in syria. but, first will go to congress for authorization. >> i believe the people's le representatives must invested. it is time on show the world america keeps our commitments. we do what we say. we lead with the belief that right makes might. not the other way around. uh-oh! guess

would not be doing himself favors with the rest of the world, certainly not with europe and the united states if protesters continue to be massacred in the streets, so how do you soften those blows? that being said, i think that the united states ultimately has an interest in seeing his government succeed. we do not want to have the brotherhood return to power. we saw repressive tendencies by the brotherhood. those would become hyperrepressive if they get back -- >> imagine if the brotherhood had killed people on the open street. yes, the brotherhood was not very democratic often. but killing hundreds of people is not very democratic either. >> right. no, it's terrible. we should -- we should stress that. and if the brotherhood had -- look, the brotherhood would have reacted in the same way. we saw there was a clear tendency in the way the morsi administration had been conducting itself until the point it was deposed. it's not for nothing that 14 million people came into the streets. on the whole, though, i think that this is one, and this might surprise you, this is one country and one area

that breech statement, he encopslated the profound, intellectual, and cultural ties that binds the united states and britain. in 1940, the fate of the world hung on the united states, and that summer, republicans and democrats would hold their conventions in preparation for the november presidential election. what are conventions? bands playing, parades, cheering, and politicians speaking. both of the conventions that took place in the summer of 1940, there was an elephant in the hall. not the republican elephant, but the nazi's elephant with an uninvited guest, and his name was adolf hitler. the question on everyone's mind was whether fdr wanted the party no , nomination again in 1940, and he refused to give a clear answer. mr. president, would you tell us now if you'd accept a third term, one reporter asked him point-blank? put on a dunce cap and go stand in the corner, fdr replied with a laugh. not even the members of his own family knew what his real intentions were. of course, one question was whether fdr deserved another four years in the white house. his attorney general, robert jackson,

and iran to say look this is the united states. committing these crimes against iran and so we can deal with them. but again you know there are. just as on both sides there are crimes of the committed on both sides and. the hope is that these historical grievances don't serve as. an obstacle or something that sabotage is what i really think is an opportunity right now for the u.s. and iran to beginning gaging of very serious timely negotiations to discuss some of the the really serious things that are happening right now and let's talk about this new opportunity that you're speaking about of course iran has a new president so go ahead and talk about how what role he plays in iran and the opportunities that he might offer to the united states in terms of finding those that those frayed relations yeah well i mean given everything that we're seeing in the region iran has in the recent recent weeks been sort of a rare beacon of hopeful news iran held an election in june in which. has an rouhani one overwhelmingly won in the first round

certainly understood the treatment of bradley manning was affecting international opinion of the united statesthe last thing the united states stayed was another controversy involving detention issues, even one involving one of our own soldiers. >> i want to play part of an exchange now bradley manning that happened between associated press reporter matt lee and state department spokesperson jen psaki when he asked her to comment on the verdict in the case. >> we have seen the verdict, which i know just came out right before i stepped out here. i would be on that and refer you to the department of defense. no further comment from here. >> for the entire trial, this building had said he wouldn't comment because it was pending, it was a pending case. now that it is over, you still are not going to comment? wax that is correct. >> can i ask why? >> because the department of defense has been the point agency -- >> but these were state department cables. they were your property. >> we just don't have any further comment. i know the verdict just came out and i don't have anything more for you. >> ar

, undocumented immigrants into the united states. nother myth says that the only motive behind immigration is poverty. why should we in the united states solve world poverty? we have enough poor of our own. let us take care of our own and let's not solve world poverty. that is not true. that's not the only motive behind migration and in fact the poorest of the poor almost never migrate from one country to another. they migrate within the borders of their own country. let's take europe. until the 1980s, early 1980s europe was a source of migration of outmigration i mean, people leaving europe and that was a wealthy and prosperous continent before they got into this mess which is a different story. germany, the richest among the rich and europe was exporting half a million people every year until the 1980s. so clearly the motivation for that was not poverty. south korea has a significant number of immigrants or immigrants to come to the united states. that is a rich country. bangladeshi women who are very poor, the poorest among the poo