they're looking at african-american males. and as professor nogueira said, they have very specific needs. and so how this is working is looking at them as individuals, looking at the issues that they face as african-american males in oakland. the fear that teachers have of them or shop owners have of them or as president obama said, the doors that lock as they walk by. that's a very different life that they lead than, say, a latina female. her issues that land her at the bottom of the achievement gap are very different. so looking at this, what they call targeted universalism, is trying to identify the needs of these kids. so it's jobs. it's confidence. it's mentors. it's role models. it's father of coursefigures. giving them those things that they need as african-american males is what the district is trying to do now and that is very different than the no child left behind approach of, okay, just throw money at everyone at the bottom of the achievement gap and see what happens. >> let me ask you about that. for people who lo

native american students have been on campus for almost 200 years. >> native american students have been on campus doing what? >> guest: as students for 200 years. >> host: how are they able to be on campus this? >> guest: that's the beginning of the book. the first attempt to build the college for the native american students is about 210 years before the first attempt to build a black college. it graduates almost 200 years for the first native minister, probably 150 years before the first black minister. that sounds like native americans are privileged. in fact, part of the story the book is precisely the role of the university and conquest. it's precisely the role of colonialism that explains the early presence of native student on campus paper says the bible explains how universities turn to the slave trade to fund their enterprise. >> host: when you say the conquest, from what i was reading inside the part of the conquest was this big as these are people that are inferior and we have to educate them or trainman or somehow make them on savage lake. i am speaking in reference to the n

and washington -- dispc the american people. -- d.c. and the american people. and so it is indefensible on the merits. and so this whole process is designed not to debate it on the merits. it's designed never to have that debate, because, as i observed earlier, the old adage -- and my friend, senator lee will recognize this from his days as a litigator, as will the chair -- the old adage in the courtroom "if yo you have the f, pound the facts. if you have the law, pound the law. and if you don't have either, pound the table." so if you're defending obamacare, if you're defending exemptions for giant corporations and members of congress that don't go to the average american families, you don't want to talk about the facts and you don't want to talk about the law so you want to pound the table, you want to talk about shutting down government, you want to scare people, you want to threaten to cut off the funding of the men and we feel the military, which is grossly irresponsible. i think congress should never, ever, ever imperil the salaries of the men and women w

let's get it done for the american people. i think the american public demands that. let's have solutions. mr. speaker, i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. the chair recognizes the gentleman from pennsylvania, mr. thompson, for five minutes. mr. thompson: thank you, mr. speaker. mr. speaker, the president in his remarks to the country yesterday demonstrated a willingness for diplomacy and negotiations. sadly any leadership he reflected in his remarks was a willingness to communicate and negotiate with the terror states of iran and syria and not the united states house of representatives. what the president also made clear was his unwillingness to serve the will and concerns of the majority of american citizens, feaments, and businesses when it -- families, and business when is it comes to their health care. health care is one of the more intimate issues in america. there should be no surprise of the emotional reaction, rejection, by the majority of the country when this legislation is passed unilaterally by one party without adequate deba

we want to shape the american story as we have shaped the american story.ou know, so people can think, i'm in new york, right? wake up for breakfast i'm going to have a bagel. for lunch i'm going to have tacos, and for dinner i'm going to have kebabs. that's the american story. we're shaped through food, culture, language, dress, what it means to be american. >> this is a question for all the performers. how do you move from the margin in terms of the mainstream. is this a consideration because you're up against shows like "24" that had millions and millions of viewers, and so self media reputation is important, but are we making an impact without getting to those kinds of numbers? >> negin, do you want to pick that up. >> there are two things that i feel responsible for as a comedian and filmmaker. one is to have mainstream jobs. every on this panel has worked mainstream culture, writing and directing for nickelodeon or comedy central. it's important-to-have a presence at that table. because when you see subtle bigotry creep into monday logan jokes, for ex

off a suicide attack what a somali american. >> and an american who had some political disagreement with the leader of the group and he was killed. so this is not a new thing. and i think this kind of incident about a shopping mall. americans morphed their definition of terrorism after 9/11. this is sort of the old school traditional definition of terrorist. >> when i turned on the tv and saw breaking news and west gate mall i assumed immediately it is in the united states. this is a sharp reminder that terrorism is a global problem. that's why what happens over there matters here. it doesn't stay over there. it's what you just said. i can't think of anything that's more relaxing or more ordinary than going to a shopping mall. >> this one, as we know, as she has been reporting, it has touched many of the officials, the foreign minister, who you were quoting earlier, one of her daughter's friends was killed. >> kenyetta had a nephew there. >> and people in cnn have relatives and friends out there. be interesting to know if i can ask nima a question. you heard what the foreign ministe

the people who threaten american children, american soldiers, american lives. mean, the problem is that when you talk about vital american interests, there are a majority of americans in this country who doubt that the rodeo clown in the white house and his clown car of humanitarian interventionists, the left wing idealogues like samantha power, susan rice, john kerry and valerie jarrett have no idea what the hell they are doing. >> you know, michelle. >> americans -- treasure on it. they are incompetent and it uh costs more american lives. >> listening to someone like you, the far right that backed president bush going into iraq saying our strength, our voice should support democratic efforts in the middle east. now because of oh your hatred of obama you are turning your back on americans in the larger world. >> excuse me. >> wait a minute. this is going to be a small attack, no boots on the ground, not about regime change, days not weeks. that is ineffective. it is not a strategy. >> we don't -- >> we are arming the enemies of our allies. >> we are talking ab

on the part of the americans. >> of course it is. >> so the americans are not acting out of weakness.hat is with reference to iran. the way the arabs are perceiving this issue is different. don't forget, we are in the middle east. nothing is simple. he arabs believe the great existential threat to them is iran. now what they are seeing is iran and its russian ally have one over the americans, and the biggest chip in this negotiation has been iran. the strikes would not have changed anything on the ground as far as the future of the civil war is concerned. however, it totally could have backtracked the u.s.-iranian rapprochement. >> thank you for really only illustrating how clever -- for brilliantly illustrating how clever the foreign policy of the americans and french has been. i do believe that the strikes would make a difference. they have been used as part of the military strategy, bombing forces on the ground, and we know perfectly well that if we managed to prevent aside from using the chemical weapons -- assad from using the chemical weapons, his army would be weakened. >> they

off a suicide attack what a somali american. >> and an american who had some political disagreement with the leader of the group and he was killed. so this is not a new thing. and i think this kind of incident about a shopping mall. americans morphed their definition of terrorism after 9/11. this is sort of the old school traditional definition of terrorist. >> when i turned on the tv and saw breaking news and west gate mall i assumed immediately it is in the united states. this is a sharp reminder that terrorism is a global problem. that's why what happens over there matters here. it doesn't stay over there. it's what you just said. i can't think of anything that's more relaxing or more ordinary than going to a shopping mall. >> this one, as we know, as she has been reporting, it has touched many of the officials, the foreign minister, who you were quoting earlier, one of her daughter's friends was killed. >> kenyetta had a nephew there. >> and people in cnn have relatives and friends out there. be interesting to know if i can ask nemma a question. you heard what the foreign minist

the productivity of the american orker is way up. yet unemployment remains high and wages remain stagnant. how can that be? when corporate america is doing so well? when investors in the stock market are doing so well snl when objective measures show that the productivity of the american worker has increased significantly, but the american worker, in terms of their ility to live and pursue the middle-class dream, has in many ways left behind. these are questions that i'm hopeful this congress will confront as we fight our way through sequestration and deal with the debt ceiling and the tential default, god for bepbid we have to confront next month and work our way throo a military strike in syria, let's not forget the fact that what makes america great is the capacity for people to work hard to purchase a home, to raise their family and in safety and security, with the ability to live a life where they provide for themselves and their families and able to hand to it a generation of americans that an behind and hopefully america is th

>> americans are tired of war.'s been ten years and over a trillion dollars of taxpayer dollars spent. more importantly over 6,000 american lives lost. yes, is america reluctant to -- >> you're not answering my question. he telegraphed it would be unbelievably small. then walked it back. >> he didn't telegraph, john. >> yes, he did. >> the american people want to know what to expect. secretary kerry was telling them what to expect. >> no boots on the ground. >> not a drawn out war like iraq or afghanistan. >> no boots on the ground, no regime change. unbelievably small. what do you expect to accomplish? >> to maintain america's credibility in the world. make sure the world knows when we say something we mean it. when iran is watching, when all our friends and allies in the region are watching -- >> let's talk about credibility. >> one at a time. >> the first gulf war -- >> let's talk about credibility, okay? secretary kerry said we are dealing with adolf hitler and our response will be unbelievably small. >> a pinp

the american people don't want the government shut down. and they don't want obamacare. [ cheers ] the house has listened to the american people. now it's time for the united states senate to listen as well. >> we can only hope they do. after today's smackdown on his health care law, well, president obama just threw a temper tantrum. >> they're not focused on you. they are focused on politics. they're focused on trying to mess with me. [ applause ] >> they're not focused on you. >> no one's trying to, quote, mess with you, mr. president. they want what is best for themselves, their families. obamacare is not it. we bring in our distinguished studio audience. just for a sign of fair and balance, how many of you support obamacare? one, two, three, four, five. six. i should have known. that goes without saying. how many oppose? three, four, five, six, seven. stacked audience. all right. here we ego. eight if you include me . here's the first question i have. is any of the president's promises, you carry this law with you. i don't know if you s

many americans showed courage and great during those war-years. they worked in factories, volunteered in scrapped drives, gave blood to the red cross, and many joined the armed forces. some of them might have been your parents or grandparents. despite their eagerness to become involved in the war effort many women had to overcome gender issues as they tried to do airport. but african american women faced double barriers. because of there gender and their race. as african american women applied for jobs at war plants, they were reminded time and again that they were not welcome , if not because of there gender because of the color of their skin. when some african american women tried to register with an employment agency in the nation's capital in 1942 they were told that the agency had not yet started taking in negro women. when the a couple of african-american women responded to an ad for civilian physicians at an army camp in 1942 they received letters telling them to report to work. when they arrived at the facility, they were told negro's cann

most americans thought the same thing. we all want a better life for our children, safer life, more moral life. we all want a spiritually higher life. we want a lot of the same things. proclaiming vote on the other side don't want those things and are actually nasty deep in the corps because they disagree with you is a way to silence the debate and it seems one side of the political aisle has taken the monopoly on that. >> host: you write we spent decades being cowed by the publicly correct. the race beaters, class warriors, secularists and scaremongering suggs. we bowed to their wins, we tried to be polite, they spit in our faces and blamed us for debasing the level of our national discourse, tried to minimize the number of voices in the political arena and we have gone along with it because we power line for a time when americans could all share their hopes and dreams together rather than quarreling over what separates us. we want each floor of the pseudonym, they want the opposite, from one many. >> guest: diversity to

the american people sent us here to govern. they sent us here to make sure that we're doing everything we can to make their lives a little bit better. to create new jobs, to restore economic security, to rebuild the prospects of upward mobility. that's what they expect. and they understand that there are differences between the parties. and we're going to be having some tough fights around those differences. and i respect the fact that the other party is not supposed to agree with me 100% of the time, just like i don't agree with them. but they do also expect that you don't bring the entire government to a halt or the entire economy to a halt just because of those differences. that's what they deserve. they have worked too hard for too long to recover from previous crises, just to have folks here in washington manufacture yet another one. that they have to dig themselves out of. so congress needs to keep our government open. needs to pay our bills on time. and never, ever threaten the full faith and credit of the united states

a american muslim and a proud american is something wear trying to instill in our children.omeone who looks like me needs to be seen ^py an american it shouldn't. something that i'm ashameded of. it should be something i'm proud of to live in a country that embraces people of all back tkpwroupbsd an people of all faiths. >>> are you saying your kids can be bullied? >> absolutely. our kids in new york -- i run a social service agency. we have case of kids being bull tphreud school. kids who don't want to go to school anymore. kids who ask us, do i tell people if i'm muslim. our message is you should be proud of who you are. we need to keep our school systems and government accountable to make sure that our kids are safe and that our people are being served fairly and most important keeping government agencies like the nypd accountable for the unwarranted surveillance of an entire community and not based on any leads but based on seeing islam or the fact that we practice islam that we're some of sort of enemy to the state. i think if we're going to keep new yorkers safe we nee

by a margin of three to one, the american -- all americans recognize the plan is senseless. some feel more strongly than others. this senseless plan to hold the government hostage to defund obamacare. mr. president, as i said here yesterday morning, cnn, cnbc in separate polling show 59 -- the same number in both polls -- 59% of the american people support obamacare, and even a larger number of people think the government shutdown is the worst idea that ever came along. as one republican senator said, the dumbest idea he ever heard. so imagine, mr. president, their reaction, the american public, once they see the dark economic outcome of a shutdown. i've told you how they feel. but they can see in their mind's eye, they're losing their jobs, their family is losing jobs and unquestionable economic downturn. confucius, famous chinese philosopher, offered a warning a long, long time ago, mr. president, when he said -- and i quote -- "when anger rises, think of the consequences." i realize generally the republicans are still upset, mad, angry that they lost the election of 2008.

that americans do not spy on americans in american territory, as if that was the only thing that mattered thought it was interesting that mark zuckerberg of facebook said, that is no interest to us if we are building an international business. americans have not quite understood the anger of other germany,or example, that americans feel free to spy on others around the world. you just have to reverse that and think about it the germans or the chinese were spying on them. then you get to this further dimension that it appears that with the nsa had done was to weaken the systems under which everything is kept secret. the banking transactions, medical transactions, by building the so-called trapdoors. the cryptologist's said that if you could build a trap door that the nsa could get through, so could the chinese, or criminals. so the weakening of the security of the internet has international implications which are beginning to be felt. >> why did you choose to elaborate with "the new york and propublica? >> we had to find american partners. it was clear our reporting would be made very diff

american revolution. there's an active -- happening on southern campuses in the aftermath. >> host: really? >> guest: yeah. college faculty and college students actually debate the question of slavery quite a bit. >> host: in such universities that we would recognize today. we talk lot about northeastern university. let talk about the southern university. south, georgia, north carolina. university of north carolina has an ab list nation speaker at one of the graduations. and, you know, this is in their early 19th century. then the she's published it and circulated around the united states. >> host: are these individuals who live in slave-holding states in "ebony and i i ivy." are they abolitionists? is it a free exchange of intellectual debate and discussion? >> guest: yeah. it it's a free exchange of intellectual debate and discussion. it's driven by app legislationist or people uncomfortable with the notion of slavery as is. and so, you know, the new york which is made up largely as slave holders and es

has listened to the american people. now it is time for the united states senate to listen to them as well. >> webbings only hope they do. after the smack down on the healthcare law president obama through a temper tantrum. >> they are not focused on you. they are focused on politics. they are focused on trying to mess with me they are not focused on you. >> no one is trying to quote mess with you, mr. president, they want what is best for themselves their families. obama care is not it. now with reaction we bring in our distinguished studio audience. just for a sign of fair and balanced how many of you support obama care? >> 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 -- i should have known. how many opposed? >> 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. stacked audience. 8 of you including me. here is the first question i have, why is -- is any of the promises you carried this law with you, i don't know if you sleep with it. it is scary. is the promises the president made fulfilled in this bill? >> absolutely not. >> chances are you won't be able to keep your doctors or ho

in england, african-american nurses cared for pows.some believed they were intentionally assigned to pows a job other nurses didn't want. stir in the world war ii years, generally the site of a military uniform commanded respect and special treatment, but that wasn't always the case, especially when the uniform was worn ipod women. luis miller had been serving overseas at a black nurse a unit. towards the end of the worse she traveled back to her home in the united states, we've experienced firsthand the insults of racism and her army uniform didn't shield her. during a layover at an airport coffee shop, she was told she could eat the shop, but only in the back of the room. luis said she left the shop without sert because in her words, i know that i could be alleged in a u.s. uniform as well as the man in overalls. we've experience with racism didn't and that the terminal door. just as she settled into a seat for the next leg of our trip, the flight attendant asked her to move to another seat. the way passenger didn't want to sit by he

with the american sense of exceptionalism and most americans don't most americans are proud of their country and proud of themselves as russians are but it doesn't mean that we're all exceptional as i think that there is a strain of exceptionalism in the united states but would say maybe even in your country one could find a little bit of that i think that what is important is what you just said that we need in our expressions particularly in public even though we have criticisms of each other and it's important obviously if we have criticisms to express them i think respectfully and politely and we ought to try to find ways as politicians find it very difficult to do to find the areas of common agreement we have a lot of people in this country over the years have come either to distrust or dislike president putin but that doesn't represent the national opinion that represents the opinion of individuals you are probably bombarded with many different opinions on the part of the united states most of them with respect to president putin at these days have been unfriendly although i can

the americans would take all or part of the woods and the germans would take it back and the americans take it back from the germans and on and on and on until finally on june the 26th, 1918 the americans took the woods and held them for good this was the first major military encounter between american and german troops in the war and it was the first major tree for american troops in the war. it was such a factory in fact the general pershing, i don't know how much you know about the man but you could accurately call him stonefacestonefaced. he was not given to making bold pronouncements or frankly even smiling very much. he issued a jubilant statement that the deadliest weapon in the world is a marine and his rifle. as a result ever since belleau wood has been tremendously important to marines. general aphis the commandant of the marine corps told me it was the birth of the modern marine corps but it was very costly birth. in fact the bill was just a little bit under 10,000 casualties and of course in three weeks. one of those casualties on june june 12, 1918 was captain lloyd willia

three in ten americans have a favorable opinion. nearly four in ten americans, unfavorable.z still largely unknown. more than a third of americans still don't quite know who he is although they are getting to know him more in this debate. so all the key people involved, the president, the house speaker, even the senate democratic leader harry reid not held in very high esteem. i want to end as we look right here, they're not held in high esteem when the american people want them to do this, fewer than three in ten say it's a good thing to shut down the government. nearly seven in ten say what could happen in just a few hours is a bad thing. >> yeah. they don't want the government -- nobody actually wants the government to shut down, although it could shut down over these disputes. john, thanks for those numbers. >>> just a little bit more than six hours to the shutdown deadline tonight. been there, done that. the former house speaker newt gingrich was involved in two government shutdowns at the end of '95, early '96. he has some advice. ♪ norfolk southern what's your functio

people so american people here somehow the iranians the people of iran and the american people have to come together and understand that they're both being harmed and this message has to be conveyed and in this age of internet and communication fortunately it's not so easy for the washington political elite to cover up their actions to mislead the people the word is getting out there and it's just the syria war was stopped and i think temporarily pretty much because the american public were not behind it the wizened up and i hope and as well i mean you know i don't know you know if you're going to say that you say that about why you have to wait let me go to tell you before we go to the break you know once you have the same people that brought us to war in iraq or the ones talking about iran i mean it's remarkable the regular experts on both countries. this is a this is a failure of the news media in washington d.c. i see the same experts i don't see medea benjamin co-founder of code pink on c.n.n. on m.s.n. b c on fox t.v. continually over and over talking about the failures of the

i am american, i am not american. arab-american felt like it never fit. one of the things i learned in the journey of writing this and the play that i write before it is there is no -- you're not going to find an answer. identity is this, we are all mixed up. it depends on what you -- the book came out of a play that i wrote. we entitled to play "palestine" is a did not know what to call from ai got an award feminist organization. if i called the play "woman," what i have gotten an award from palestinian organization question market i? that argument cuts to different ways. it is a beautiful mosaic. it is a beautiful mix and one does not necessarily have to figure out, one can embrace all aspects of it is part and parcel of who you are. and i get that. on the other hand, if one does not figure something out, then one lives in a state of confusion and i do not know if that is where we want to be either or you want. >> is tricky because what happens is even -- i learned this i questioning my father. was i came of age and that in high school and college in th

it's sort of an amazing moment to study the american -- the american sort of imagination, if you willple fbts of that day are so resonant right now. just the emotional turmoil people are going through, business ramifications discussed here to political ramifications. how we've created a very large, far reaching national security state that is, you know, learning new information every day about. this week we're seeing a real backlash, i think, to all the stuff that emanated for that moment. for the first time, i notice no one is citing 9/11 as a reason to go into syria overtly. no one saying we can't have another 9/11 on our hands but it's clearly in the backdrop of everything we're talking about with respect to what are the ramifications. can we get into a war based on faulty pretenses. it's still with us. >> al qaeda men as, what happens to america when it intervenes in the middle east. it's a lose lose proposition. that is a powerful line of argument for american public. not just war weariness but general sadness. >> his sort of vague threat of all actions will be on the table if yo

t's americans. americans and europeans as well for the legal prostitution. but then you have these young girls that get caught in this system that are sold into trafficking by everybody that comes in contact with them. sometimes it's their own family members. nd so this shelter, run by maria, tries to rescue these girls, young girls and salvage their lives and as the saying goes, save their hearts. time doesn't permit me -- only go an hour, as you know, mr. speaker, we can't have filibusters in the house of representatives. sex o focus on how trafficking, human trafficking of children affects americans and what maybe some things we need to be aware of. and i've changed all the names of the girls because i respect their privacy, but abigail was born in miami. her father was a costa rican. her mother was from new york. mr. e age of 5, 5, speaker, her father became sexually assaulting her. at 8, she had her first injection of hair win to keep her -- heroin to keep her quiet during sex. she was removed from public school and kept out of school because teachers w

barack obama saying he understands the deep american skepticism. russia's president skept cal as to who used chemical weapons in the suburbs of damascus. meanwhile, over in moscow, russian activist alexi novalni campaigning to force a runoff for sunday's race for mayor of moscow. speaking of election races, could well be losing battle for kevin rudd and labor party. they race to be chief of office in australia's general election, where the conservatives, led by tonny abbott 0, enjoy a comfortable lead in the polls. u.s. urged nonemergency personnel to leave beirut and turkey due to threats and being advised not to travel to lebanon or southeastern turkey. those stories and much more for you at the top of the hour here. welcome back or welcome if you're just joining us this is "the world this week" and we are craig from "the atlantic" and elisabeth from "the sunday telegraph." how do you translate this from french? international posts? >> yes, international posts. >> something like that. with us as well le somlier and we are talking before the break

to black americans?> no. i don't see that. >> they want to take food out of the mouths of hungry men, women and children all over america. >> i understand people's frustration. i really do. ♪ don't you forget about me >> my goal on this program tonight is to reach out and hopefully touch you in your living room and appeal to your very best sensibilities and your compassion. we as americans, we're pretty much a compassionate country, compassionate society. something bad happens to your next door neighbor, are you there, in a conversation, in some way you feel i can't believe that happened to charlie. that kind of attitude. you know what? in congress they don't have that attitude. they're not like your next door neighbor, vice versa. this is a live picture right now on the house floor. there is a very serious debate taking place. at this hour your elected representatives are debating to cut a food stamp bill known as s.n.a.p. by a whopping $40 billion over the next ten years. for the republicans this is th

exceptionalism but i wonder if it puts american diplomacy at odds with the american public discourse because on one hand pretensions always have to read to re bad idea of america special of all but in diplomacy you can't really advance anywhere without recognizing the. your opponent whether it is in the case of russia or in the case of syria for example and when it comes to the united states of america secondly outlawed the syrian government the syrian president as a legitimate partner in negotiations when i think we've been concerned some of the actions that president putin has taken to promote russian nationalism and some of what he's criticizing may be the other side of the coin i don't know i say that with deepest respect because i'm an admirer of many of the things that president putin has done but i think that we ought to go back to the negotiating table and the negotiating table between russia the united states and my experience has almost always been a place to resolve issues on the basis of a realistic understanding of the situation and the production of practical innovative

it definitely puts american lawmakers in a bind and it puts american companies in a bind in terms of their global market share. it will be interesting to see what happens over the next

the american consulate in turkey. brianna pressed him on whether or not he's prepared to go it alone. >> reporter: president obama down played the possibility of this turning into a long drawn out unilateral war between the u.s. and syria if the u.s. takes military action and syria uses chemical weapons yet again saying that would mobilize the international community and create a broader response. as congress considers a resolution that would authorize a strike, there's a big question that remains about whether president obama will go ahead even if both chambers of congress, the house and the senate don't okay it. on the resolution to authorize the use of force, one of the big challenges isn't just republicans, but it's from some of your loyal democrats. it seems the more they hear from classified briefings that the less likely they are to support you. if the full congress doesn't pass this, will you go lead with the strike? also senator susan collin, one of the few republicans who break with her party says what if we

not a single american airplane got in the war. not a single american tank got in the war. hand grenades and ammunition and so forth we got from the british. we had at that point what by 1918 was the largest armaments industry in the world. almost immediately after the armistice and the end of the war the government started canceling contracts. when i say canceling 19 just like this. without warning they pulled them, factories were left literally with production lines still half full, thousands of workers were let go without warning. in a state like connecticut relief valve this because it had so many of these kinds of plants. companies were left with factories, buildings, plants they had built to produce armaments. what do we do with the machinery? at least give us a tax credit to carry these in case they are ever needed again. the government wouldn't do it. the result was in almost every case these companies, everybody from remington arms to you name it simply tore down the factories, gutted them because they didn't want to carry the expense of them. the result was by the

i don't see the connects between the japanese-american and the african-american community after world war ii. the people of japanese people came back to the community particularly on fillmore street and they were weren't shunned they were welcomed back and during this period of significant from 1950 to 19 you only saw an african-american business or a japanese-american business along fillmore there was no ralph lawyer republican. i think it's important for us who live in 2013 to recognize and remember the fillmore of that day without that history we can't respect it. but i want to say that marcus books and it's current owners were not only the leaders 90 for the african-american but for the j. community and those folks were really mad that people were displacing their grandparents and they were forced to leave their homes in the world war ii era. so kind of the training that many of them received by reading the books and ref the support from marcus books and the community against eviction cain was established in 1973 to formerly oops the efforts no, the town. i don't think it takes aw

it's polarising american society. we have tweets coming from every witch way, and not necessarily -- here are some: >> this is a complicated topic. remember this is a live conversation. tweet us. >> over 150 years after the civil war began many states grapple with whether the confederate flag has a place in society. for some it represents a legacy of slavery and racism. others argue it celebrates southern heritage. here on private property off the i-95, virginia flaggers plans to fly a 12 by 15 foot confederation flag. 23,000 people signed an online petition in protest. how can americans reconcile with the flag's layered history. joining us to deconstruct the controversy is hilary fementon, michael givenons, commander-in-chief of the sons of confederate, and the creator of the i95 petition i mentioned. >> we reached out to the virginia flaggers group and they declined to appear. >> hillary, people view things in life through different lenses, they have different experience, histories. when you see the confederate flag

this is an american issue. these people are not wondering and worrying about they are a registered democrat or republican. they're worried about how they pay their mortgages, the education for their children. it's no way to live and it's unnecessary. madam speaker, we can't afford to lose any more jobs about a well-intentioned but failed policy that is obamacare. we need to stop this train wreck now before it cost any more american jobs. thank you and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from new jersey seek recognition? without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. pallone: madam speaker, i rise today to recognize the 22nd anniversary of the independence of the republic of armenia. on september 21, 1991, or meania gained its independence from the soviet union and the caucus' region saw new opportunities as well as new challenges. i'm proud to say that the republic of armenia has taken on those opportunities and challenges with great success, and now is

actions in syria the threats of made things more difficult and of course there are also the american sanctions on the iranian central bank the united states has been trying to make ordinary people in iran suffer by placing an effective embargo on the iranian central bank medicine in this country has become much more expensive some medicines are almost impossible to import or when they are imported the price has gone up dramatically so as a result many ill children and especially cancer patients and women have died so there's a great deal of anger directed towards the united states right now any run and but i think the important thing really is that recent events have shown that the united states is not really as strong as it. presents itself to be obama it was clear was a looking for a way out of this situation and he should be very thankful to the russian president for providing him with a way out. it was clear that no one was going to accept any strike on syria the united states has already played a very immoral role in syria in the sense that it's been breaking international law a

what would you learn, what would you advise american policy makers today about american leadership in the financial institutions globally based on your experience. were there any good examples of cooperation? everyone knows the story about the sfa. but some good things happened that weren't told and what have you learned about american leadership in the process? >> i will say this, read "on the blink." what happened, how it happened, when it happened. that story is told because i think the crisis in many ways, it brings out the worst in some people, but it bringings out the best in my people. -- many people. great developed nation and kpopgs in the way you work together. it's between the time lehman went down and we got the t.a.r.p. legislation, the republicans and democrats working together to stave off disaster. you also had -- this was not just the u.s. european banks were teetering. six different countries came into rescue their banks. when the g-7 met and deal with that, that same weekend where we flip the capital and the banks, it came together with a -- with a multiple point pr

if the rebels win, will they be american allies? assad's definitely not an american ally. but i'm not convinced anybody on the islamic side, the islamic rebels will be american allies. >> it seems to me, senator, that what the president is saying in that drafted resolution that he's lyde congress to authorize, that the united states must draw a line at the use of chemical weapons, any weapons of mass destruction, in war, that you simply cannot allow it and that if we strike assad and he uses them again, i heard secretary kerry say that the united states might strike assad again if he uses the weapons. why not draw that line in the sand as the president wants you to and say we can't allow wmd to be used? >> i think the line in the sand should be that america gets involved when american interests are threatened. i don't see american interests involved on either side of this syrian war. i see assad, who has protected christians for a number of decades, and then i see the islamic rebels on the other side who have been attacking christians. i see al qaeda on one side, the side

the american people was this sort of american unity that was constantly being manufactured by the american media and then american government and you alluded to that in the in the first part. but manufacturing unity is not just the political topic or wasn't just a political task is it's also an economic project that it was relatively easy at a time when your economy was growing and the credits were cheap but obviously this is a major challenge one the can all make times a bit rough again the united states of manufacturing unity as the political and economic value and also it's pretty dangerous when you lack unity in your country you know public protests and disenchant been very big population that's that could lead you to civil war and not just the united states but any other countries well sure sure no it is very dangerous but the conditions that were present for creating national unity of course are no longer there just as they are no longer there in russia so world war two was central for both nations in terms of creating national unity will hopefully. we won't have world war three but