c-span: what does adm who do? >> guest: adms company that all of us do business with every day of the week, whether we know it or want to or not. if you pick up any packaged foods, a you turn to the ingredients, he will look of those extremely hard to pronounced itemsn each description. those are made by adm, a lot of them. at adm takes farm staples, wheat, soybeans, corn, crushes them up and strips that every st ingredient they can think of. the way the company workedp until the late 10's, it was purely a crusher. it would crush corn, it would crush all of tse staples and th would make things like citric acid which you will find in soda pop, pepsi. they make wheat flour. they make sodium alumina. they make all of the little ingredients so you end u finding their food and everything from pepperoni to popsicles. what i have always found amazing is babies that are having soy formula are drinking adm products and once they graduate to gerber food, they still are so the get raised onhe taste of adm. in the late 1980's

c-span: bob strauss, how does he really to the adm corp.? >> guest: bob strauss, starting in the late 1960's when he and dwayne andreas went to the same fund-raiser for a senator from texas, bob strauss and dwayne andreas had been best of friends. they would speak by phone all the time and dwayne ultimately had him nominated to be a member of the board of directorsor him. in the course of this investigation, which was almost shakespearean, i mean you had the chairman's father of the immense power standing by as his son subject to a criminal investigation and the son who he had chosen to be his successor. bob strauss beatty-- played a behind-the-scenes role in bob strauss's way of doing business.

>> guest: because they had relationships or closed ties on some levels with adm. it is a book, it is a book that is not written-- adm comes out in this book looki pretty horrible and is their own words that hang them and the whole system of political contributions and influence looks as bad as anyone imagined e endpoint of that, they start laughingly calculating how much the fines will costs. .. media have to doackground checks on everybody. but ultimately, it does certainly make me very uncomfortable, and people who have read the book and talked about it, fery uncomfortable, that when the doors are closed and people think no one is listening,hat these corporate types, who when they are in public talk about first amendment, supporting expressing their politil views, when the door ios, what they're talking about is our business will do better if we pay these politicians, even if we are breaking the law. that is something that should give all of us some pause. c-span:we have a lot more to talk about. >> this book was published by random house, visit randomhouse.com.

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the consignmen event continues to mark at the dulles sportslpex in sterling from adm until noon, and mositems will be half price. time to check the weather with steve rudin. >>> it is still raining. not a tremendous amount, no flood watch or warnings or advisories'. we're looking at the rain that will essentially and early in the morning hours. then a little bit of clearing. depending on how much we see, that will determine how warm it gets tomorrow. outside, a little bit foggy. downtown, pennsylvania avenue, memorial bridge, jefferson memorial, not a nice evening. but the rain will hel keep things a little bit green as we quickly enter all of. -- as we quickly enter fall. at nationals park, 58 degrees, nearly 1 inch of rain. leesburg, 1.25 inches of rain, a little over 8 inches of rain in gaithersburg the past 24 hours. the high temperature at reagan national, 67 degrees, a morning low 61. that is below average this time of year. the record high, not even close, 96 degrees, 1930. in the 50's across the area, 58 leesburg, 57 frederick. in detroit, the football game, always a great ti

the israeli governnt has refused to adm the level of ffering and civilian deh that tk place in the gaza war. the accouability is a good thg. justice goldone is a responsibl jurist a investigator but the bottom line'sot to be, the israelis say it's asi mettic warfare, we can't help it. have to leave i there. thank you veryuch for joining us. >> thanks for having us. >>> as celebrations of rh hashan the jewish new year, begin this even, president obama issued a mesge renewing his call for pea between israel d its arab neighbors. and we're going to end t week with a difrent view of israel fe -- a peaceful and relaxin place on the dead a. for althe talk about how salt isn't good for y, those who believe in the curative powe ofhe sea and its salt beg to differ. o'sullivan of media ne went to have aook. >> reporter: man has lonsought to u nature's resources for their theraptic value. nowhere is this more visible than here at the dd people have come for thousds years to benefit fromhe minerals found in the muand the curative powers believedo be contained iits salty water. >> it is a bit itc an

he now adms that the program has failed the gay communi. a national program needs to face up this. and the ornizations working with men who he sex with men and gay men in jaica themselvesll have to accept responsibility for theailure to rede the high hiv prevence among men who have sex with men. >> a lot of ople are working on hiv know very well the realities of how infecons are higher in the gay mmunity. hower, the fuel and a lot of pressure, litical nor sure, religiou cultural, to ignore the facts. >> repter: she also believes that jamaica's sody law which criminaliz anal sex is driving the epidemic undergrou. >> men who have sex with men, for ar of being crimalized and being prosecuted and being found guilty der the sodomy law,retend that they're not gay, simply put. they marry fairly rapidly. th have children fairly rapidly to regularize thselves. and that is really a ticking bomb. >> reporte many of the gay men we m admitted to leading double lives. like this man who agre to go on camera if we concealehis identity. >> they d't know that i'm gay. because i don't act ga i don't

>> reporter: the villain, archer daniels midland, adm, the food behemoth. >> things are going on i don'tortrayal by matt damon. >> this involves price fixing. >> reporter: he's an adm squealer who blows the whistle in such high-frequency, only fbi watchdogs can hear him. >> it is not just liesing, it's sit trick, glukonate. that guy's out of a job. >> reporter: two agents, scott and joel, show up but they can't tell if whitaker's on the level or is just whistling dixie. >> what is he doing? i told him the camera was in the lamp. >> no. no. >> reporter: the guy's a yo-yo and he may be springing them along. so they conceal a recorder in his briefcase that reveals whether it's adm skulduggery or whitaker's skulduggery. since this whole case is on the record, even the most outlandish revelations are not hard to swallow, especially when everybody coughs up in this amusing, telling expose' that's larded with foot for thought. >> mark whitaker, secret agent, 0014. >> why 0014? >> i'm twice as smart as 007. >> and that's the "critic's corner," serving up another winner for "today." >> yes! >> wa

but even as he adms that, he's talking about spending more money. it's insany. i mean, george w. bush may have been radical with tax dollars, but barack obama is actually making him seem like a flitty new england miser. >> you have been quoted saying of george w. bush tha he fractured the conservative coalition, damaged the republican party, hurt america's image in the world, i think that at your -- at your book party the other night you called it the big trifecta. >> guest: perfect trifecta. >> host: all right. the republican party is not in love with hearing such criticisms of george w. bush. what is that about, what is the position of bh now with regard to the comeback of the republican politic party? you know what i'm saying, h does the republica party get away from bussms? >> guest: i don't know. again, i wrote a book five years ago predicting that george w. bush's speing was going to wreck the republicanajority and was going to cripple the u.s. economy. republicans loathed me for writing that book in 2004 -- >> host: did they? did they getad at you? >> guest: oh, my god, ye

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but a realistic view, i think, there are more problems in the banking industry than we are willing to adm admit. i think not forgetting that the problems originated in the financial industry an keeping our focus on the financial indust industry. stimulus paneckages anding else deal with symptoms but dealing with the cause and looking critically still at what policies are doing for the ba s banks, with the banks, should remain our number one priority. we do not want to replicate japan in the 1990's in which it took 10 years to deal with the banks because the banks were sick and the economy never really recovered it full growth potential. that is a very important lesson. host: in two weeks you can go to bock stores and buy carmen reinhart's book called "this time is different, eight centuries of financial folly." thank you for being here to share some of your scholarship on the history of global economic crises. our next topic of morning will be the increase of troop presence and goals in afghanistan following the defense secretary briefing on this yesterday. we will be be joined from the s

but a realistic view, i think, there are more problems in the banking industry than we are willing to adm admit. i think not forgetting that the problems originated in the financial industry an keeping our focus on the financial indust industry. stimulus paneckages anding else deal with symptoms but dealing with the cause and looking critically still at what policies are doing for the ba s banks, with the banks, should remain our number one priority. we do not want to replicate japan in the 1990's in which it took 10 years to deal with the banks because the banks were sick and the economy never really recovered it full growth potential. that is a very important lesson. host: in two weeks you can go to bock stores and buy carmen reinhart's book called "this >> earlier today, the labor department announced a rise in the upon the rate for august, from 9.4% to 9.7% as employers eliminated 216,000 jobs. vice-president biden commented on the latest figures earlier today as he spoke via satellite to employees of a manufacturer of solar panels in fremont, california. >> let me begin first by talk

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