then i had this whacky idea which was to put together a band of vets back from either afghanistan or iraq or whatever and maybe put a band together. they went what? and then they apparently said yes. so i met this lovely man at walter reed who runs a program there called music call where they teach them to play musical instruments or help them to recover their ability that they might have lost >> jon: right. to play amuseical instrument. so i went down to walter reed a few times with my good friend. we put together a band of 12 guys. they were amazing. >> jon: i mean, people were bonkers. they went bonkers. >> these guys are so beautiful. i love them so much. >> jon: you did a great job with it. ( applause ) now, you're going back on the road with the remaining members of pink floyd, right? you guys are going. >> this is how he makes his living. that is funny. >> jon: you got to point certain things out. where are you going to start with on the international tour? >> well, we're just doing europe now. i think i may have squeezed both north and south america dry. >> jon: really? i've been

soldiers have returned from iraq or afghanistan in body bags and last year suicides by american soldiers surged to three hundred forty nine historic high the u.s. military has had decades of experience in areas like asia latin america the middle east and africa however experts say if leaders in washington don't begin learning from the past the only foreign policy factor that will continue changing is the geographic location of america's fatalities and repeated mistakes reporting from new york. r.t. . and exactly one week israelis will head to the polls as the country holds a snap parliamentary election with the situation in the middle east heavily dependent on the outcome the whole world will be watching the vote closely so don't miss our special coverage next tuesday. how will withdraw develop. isolate can there be peace with gaza what's next in relations with america will not in yahoo survive his snuff election on january twenty second. israel decides what our country. france says it will significantly boost its intervention force to mali with the total number of troops deployed to the

counting and ask yourself how many orphans are going to bed with clenched fists tonight in afghanistan or iraq who grow up willing to fly a plane full of children and how many trillions are we prepared to spend on inventing that you can. do everything go to school and not just go to school but excel in school work really really hard and i graduated and really had the feeling a lot of the time very consciously in my head that. i might as well. you know i mean. was there reason for me to be in debt good evening of all the time bombs on the american economy set to explode with dire consequences this is a big one staggering debt from student loans everyone is told a college education is a way to get ahead college tuition as though keep going up so does the borrowing and we just hit an awful milestone our nation's combined student loan debt has now hit. one trillion dollars that averages out to twenty four thousand per student it's now larger than credit card debt in this country and it comes just as an entire generation is just starting out i was. i. was. going to. get a year ago anybody would hav

it is it's absurdly large it's far more than the number of americans who've been killed in afghanistan or iraq or in these wars and you know it's far more than any other civilized country in the world if you go to places like britain or japan or france the number of people killed each year with firearms may be one hundred or something like that it's not thirty thousand so i think there is a growing recognition that this is gotten out of control i think you will always have people who like to hunt fine you know like to go to firing ranges and shoot but the tremendous proliferation of weapons is something i think that will have to be controlled certainly an interesting and important discussion to it's i have as you know conversation around guns continues to go strong here we appreciate having you on the show eric foner professor of history at columbia university thanks so much good to talk to you sure and here's something interesting there's been a rush on guns and ammunition of ever since the sandy hook massacre guns are big business it seems especially in nevada where tourists are increasingly

understand this is an ancillary job and there is a high revel of rotation of people coming back from afghanistan or iraq, whatever the case may be, but we also reach out to squadron level training. it really comes down to meeting with your cooperating agencies and training together on a frequent basis and having good and open dialogue. >> as i look back at that map here, knowing we were heading into that time of year where we're going to hit significant fire weather and knowing northern california as we are now but eventually southern california, one of the most effective ways to stop the fires from growing is that initial attack, which means we need to be able to quickly put resources up in the air and move them. i guess my question is from a national guard perspective, from a naval perspective, with the helicopter resources down there, do you feel you would be able to quickly move those resources and you have the agreements in place. we'll start with the national guard and work on our way down. >> although we're advertised as a one week a month and two weekends a year, i've got crews on pretty much ev

and that's what the death for america is all about so poor the dollar by killing there so it afghanistan or iraq because they're well let's talk about the fee currency that is behind this whole you know friend of the over extended us military said he had doubts he asked so how long can the us hold the world ransom with the dollar this he wrote in october two thousand and twelve i've been waiting for the perfect time to talk about it he says that given its magnitude and the lack of political will to deal with the problem of debt and public finances the u.s. is now deploying its f m d's financial extortion monetization and devaluation to finance its requirements he says it's a form of extortion to print so much money to back all these debts and to bail out the banks because it drops the value of your investment by all your bonds china owns trillions of dollars of u.s. bonds so they keep doubling down having to purchase more to dollar cost average all of their purchases of u.s. treasuries that's correct printing all that money to keep the china debt rolling. inflationary we already see inflation as

1.7, 1.7 million of you have walked across the scorching sands of iraq or been in those godforsaken mountains and plains of afghanistan of you, just having served one tour, many have served two, three, four, five, the last time of the 23 or 4 times that i have been in afghanistan or iraq. i was flying in, i went into the cockpit, the load master was there, i said how many of you is this your first tour? nobody raised their hand, i said second tour, one, third tour, two, fourth, fifth, two. ladies and gentlemen we have never, never, never in the history of america asked so much of a generation. and you have met it with incredible pride. the joint chiefs of staff has prepared you in a way that always sort of takes my breath away every time i see you. one of the great honors of my life has been to visit many of you when you were serving abroad, from the mountain tops of remote fobs above the valley, watching six of you sit up on a mountain top and get shot at every single night, and day in and day out. to a striker brigade watching you wipe off the blood from a wounded comrade, and go back out again and again and again.

omar said the militants will fight to the end and this will be a long war, more dangerous than afghanistan or iraq a fighter from a tribe who lives in northern mali. you saw him here this summer. he said the fighting in some towns in northern mali has been fierce over the weekend and he said something important for american policymakers to consider. his friends who are not islamists are being paid by omar, the man you saw a moment ago, paid to fight, and they're taking that money and fighting against the french. the united states has already tried to help mali. united states trained malian army commanders, some of whom defected to fight with the islamists. so if the united states becomes more involved in the war, will islamists threaten the united states directly? >> i think we're all well aware of the requirement to be vigilant about our own security, including in the homeland, but that's why it's so important to get this operation done and get it done right. >> "outfront" tonight, the defense department's former africa counterterrorism director, jeff porter, he has briefed the fbi on the situati

. >> we've seen now potentially hundreds of thousands of veterans who may be returning from iraq or afghanistan with posttraumatic stress disorder. one in five folks coming home. >> the whole virtual iraq/afghanistan exposure system is a set of scenarios like villages, afghan villages, iraqi villages, city environments resemble middle eastern context and we can pop a user into any of these environmentses that match what their experience was. >> the idea is that you need to go over and over what happened to you as if it's happening again. and in a safe environment. so that you learn and your brain learns, if you will, that you're no longer experiencing the traumatic event. >> how did you first thing, wait a minute, i'm doing all of this after they come home. what can i do before? >> it was sort of a logical process where we had to study the process, we had to interact with a lot of patients and we had to see that pain. you know, you think to yourself, well, why don't we do a better job on the front end so we can put ourselves out of a job on the back end. >> strive is an important research proje

it spent trillions of dollars and has not been able to accomplish its objectives, whether in afghanistan or iraq. it is very clear the americans are more interested in these days in nation-building at home. these are important contexts to bear in mind. hopefully the iranian regime will change. hopefully the administration will take diplomatic seriously. or that sanctions really changed the ingraining government's mind and they change course. clocks for diplomacy for sanctions are not synchronized with the clock for building iran's nuclear capabilities. it is possible iran may go on a clear before any of these things take effect. before sanctions produce the results. then we are left with two choices -- we either find a way to contain and deter a nuclear iran or we go to war with them. if the go to war, them have to be prepared for what that war would entail. it may very well be that it will be far more costly. we started sectarian war in the middle east. the shia sunni war was our doing. [applause] it is another war that is equally intolerable. thank you. [applause] >> charles krauthammer, you h

here guys knew it would be an anomaly if we found a soldier suddenly alive in afghanistan or iraq. so i think it was the anomalous nature of it that led them to this story. >> what was amazing to us and what was relevant is the idea that nowhere on american television had a returning soldier returning from war been portrayed. and obviously in very circumstances in the case of our character, but that was something that really interested us but it felt like a good way to dramatize a lot of the questions we answered on "24" in a more knew answer fashion ten years after 9/11. a lot of questions that weren't clear then are even more complex now. what do we have to be afraid of? what's the price of our security? and these are the characters we created to ask those questions. >> and michael, with "the queen" what prompted that? it came from another deal. it was a trilogy of films. the deal was a film made for british television about the supposed deal that was made between tony blair and brown before they got into power with the labor party. and the deal, the first one came along at a tim

as we leave afghanistan, i think we have to understand that as we eliminate requirements in iraq or afghanistan for the military standpoint, we're actually adding to requirements on the diplomatic and development standpoint. we have to make sure our diplomats have the resources they need, so there a mission-driven entity, as senator menendez said, and not a resource-constrained entity. >> p.j. crowley, speaking the truth, as always. thank you for your time and wisdom, my friend. >>> after the break, the white house gives john boehner a blessing to push through a temporary suspension of the debt ceiling, but will republicans fall in line? we'll discuss the gop's deficit dilemma when luke russert joins us next on "now." jenna shared her recipe with sharon, who emailed it to emily, who sent it to cindy, who wondered why her soup wasn't quite the same. the recipe's not the recipe... ohhh. [ female announcer ] ...without swanson. the broth cooks trust most when making soup. mmmm! [ female announcer ] the secret is swanson. mmmm! itbut sleep train's huge foyear eends sunday. salels, get beautyrest, p

let's say the war in afghanistan or iraq that was on the credit card. p or down. so there's a unity between spending money and the obligation to pay debt. >> stephanie: yes. somebody said yesterday that if there was a foreign entity killing 10,000 americans a year we would be in a war somewhere. so when we talk about gun violence in the united states -- here is joe biden yesterday. >> i want to make it clear that we are not going to get caught up in the notion unless we can do everything we're going to do nothing. it's critically important we act. the president is going to act through executive orders executive action can be taken. we're compiling it all with help of the attorney general and all of the rest of the cabinet members. as well as legislative action we believe is required. >> stephanie: so you can imagine that has already caused the right-wing to freak out. but it is not a national emergency what is happening with gun violence in this country? >> when you see 20 young children, first and second graders, kindergarten get slaughtered with the se

we need to do nation-building, not in afghanistan or iraq, but at home, here in america. i yield back the balance of my time. the gentleman from virginia is recognized for one minute. >> mr. speaker, what we know with certainty about the bill which passed the senate? we know it has bipartisan support. that is encouraging. i am a republican that makes the point that revenues must rise. it would surely help our economy. yet we also know with certainty that it fails to address the threat facing our country, uncontrolled spending. it fails to reflect the balanced approach that was advocated by our president. we find ourself with a bill that reflects the spirit that invades this town. the time to confront our spending addiction is not now, it is later. we will do the right thing then. leaders in washington continue to overpromise. they are like salespeople who tell customers they can pay -- they can have a $30,000 car but only paid $18,000 for it. who does not like that deal? the cost will be paid by their children, the next generation of americans. there is a better way forwa

. >> to use the term military activism, i am not sure how he defines it no more afghanistan or iraq come i think of american leadership but the most viable contribution made are things that don't have been with the extraordinary degree from the end of the korean war. navy than to increase the defense budget may be bought some nuclear weapons i prefer the bet that we did make to get the japanese to pay more and i am proud of the fact i was under the secretary for mr. cheney with a $25 million cost we had positive balance of payments. [laughter] and it said heavy diplomacy but we were successful was because the japanese needed as. and it has been there almost since the british abandoned an when saddam invaded kuwait i worry the rebalancing may not be rebalancing moving from the middle east i can understand the desire and spent a good part of my career and one job you did not mention unfortunately the middle east will not leave us alone. americans had victoriously short memories except with war. and hasn't great advantages. we're all better off for at it but we don't like vacations as much

when i hear it, i think no more afghanistan or iraq. not that we necessarily get a choice in the matter. but i think about it in terms of american leadership when the military is just a part. but the most valuable contributions made by our defense program are the things that don't happen. we have had an extraordinary degree in stability in northeast asia for 50 years since the end of the korea war. maybe we would have had difficult if we let japan on the own to increase it to 5%. maybe they would have bought a few nuclear weapons or the creerns would manage to get along with them. i prefer the bet we didn't make. i'm in favor of the japanese to pay more. i'm proud of the fact when i was undersecretary for mr. cheney we got them to pay the $55 billion in desert storm. we didn't pay anything. we had a net deposit. one reason we were successful because the japanese needed it. the people in the persian gulf are too weak to manage on their own. they need us. i'm not sure we will be there when they need it us. we have within there ever since

soldiers have returned from iraq or afghanistan in body bags and last year suicides by american soldiers surged to three hundred forty nine historic high the u.s. military has had decades of experience in areas like asia latin america the middle east and africa however experts say if leaders in washington don't begin learning from the past the only foreign policy factor that will continue changing is the geographic location of america's fatalities and repeated mistakes reporting from new york. r.t. . online for at the moment crying wolf in russia the threat is real this time no republican side bierria to rise and hunting the animals down their fullness for livestock. also online the dreamliner that can take you to your worst nightmare as the list of problems with burns brand new aircraft continues to grow with complaints of fuel leaks becoming more common and find out more about that. violent clashes between police and protesters have flared up in bahrain once again as an outraged crowd went to the funeral of one of the activists elderly man died off to inhaling poisonous gas at a previo

or information from. the day after this really started for most of all to when you see what's happening with what has happened in iraq or in afghanistan surely if you will if you spread to the region and if he lasts long it's going to be a problem comparisons already being made to the usa as experience in iraq and afghanistan conflicts that were initially supported at home out of a sense of patriotism and support for the troops but it turned into lengthy and costly and deeply unpopular wars at home now is this mission creep and it becomes only driving on the terrorists as some ministers and even themselves seem to be saying. that it's going to be a failure because you cannot drive out all the terrorists. and many soldiers die and there are attacks in paris when public opinion will shift the way it has done for other wars either was started by france or was started by them by the u.s. nevertheless french president francois hollande remains committed to the french military offensive in mali making grand statements that the french intervention won't tens until a legitimate authority in the country is restored but many french people are b

if this were afghanistan or iraq, nobody would be talking about offsets. it would have been approved yesterday. this is our own country, and there was an urgent need to address the catastrophe that occurred in the aftermath of hurricane sandy, and i hope we can all come together and avoid a big brouhaha on the house floor and get this emergency i assistance approved as soon as possible and i will do everything i can to aid in that effort, thank you. >> just quickly, want to welcome you both. you make a wonderful looking distinguished couple there. butter up my chairman and my ranking member any chance i can. >> just so you know, tom, we need to be careful. cynthia is watching every move ore here. >> she's a good friend and i know her well. and they're both good friend. >> thank you for pulling me back there, mr. chairman. seriously, i have had the opportunity. i want to thank both of you and through you the staffs of the appropriations committee. i know how hard they have been working. product took a long time to arrive from the administration, work throug

i have been critical of certain policies in places like afghanistan or iraq, but let's keep our differences on the policy level. let's acknowledge the fact that secretary clinton and her colleagues are honest policymakers trying to do the best job they can in a typical set of circumstances. let's not question their motives. let's focus on genuine policy differences. i have those policy differences with this administration. it is crazy to me to engage in all of this conspiracy theory and name-calling. >> what do you think will be the biggest -- host: what do you think will be the biggest concern, or two, with this administration? guest: my concern is that you will see more retreat and retrenchment from this administration. my concern is that the administration pursued a fairly activist for policy in its first few years in office. but now, there is such a focus on our direct -- domestic problems, and on our debt, and they are real problems and we need to address them. but i'm worried that we will step back from our leadership role and if we do that, the consequences could be tragic. the world

more than a quarter of a million, 280,000 women, have served in iraq, afghanistan, or neighboring countries in support of those two wars. susan mcginnis is in washington with more. good morning, susan. >> good morning, anne-marie. today's announcement overturns a 1994 ban on women serving in battlefront operations and it opens up about 230,000 military jobs that until now were closed to women. the new pentagon policy makes women eligible to serve in army and marine infantry units. there's also the potential for them to be part of an elite operations team like the navy s.e.a.l.s and other forces. >> working side by side with special forces teams with pretty cool. >> but in order to join women must be able to withstand the rigid strength requirements with those units. >> there are jobs women can't do physically because they don't have the physical strength to do it. >> the pentagon is opening the door to more women being killed or wounded in action. conflicts have cost more than 130 women their lives and more than 800 have been wounded. dawn halfacre lost her arm fighting alongside an infantr

soldiers have returned from iraq or afghanistan in body bags and last year suicides by american soldiers surged to three hundred forty nine historic high the u.s. military has had decades of experience in areas like asia latin america the middle east and africa however experts say if leaders in washington don't begin learning from the past the only foreign policy factor that will continue changing is the geographic location of america's. and repeated mistakes reporting from new york. r.t. of course coming here from the heart of moscow and stripping protesters of the citizenship police brutality. twitter posts just about everything so far and in the latest incident. during a demonstration. we haven't felt safe for some time even in. the u.s. secure there was warned freedom of information the activist aaron swartz he would kill himself stay with us for more on the life and legacy of the twenty six year old and just to. see the story and it seems so you think you understand it and then something else. and realize everything. is a big issue. with . science technology innovation all the lates

instead of people having to serve three or four times a going overseas, fighting in afghanistan or iraqwe can utilize our military and military intelligence to help on that. along with the good people that get across our borders, we get some very undesirables. i think terrorists are probably coming across our borders and we do not realize it. another point i would like to make, i don't think abortion should be used as a form of birth control. i can understand situations of or rape, then i would agree. i don't believe it should be used as birth control. the other point is our president went into this country on his first term talking about working on our infrastructure. we have a 300,000 bridges in this country that failed at a rate of one per week. if you put 10 people on those 300,000 bridges that we have in this country, that is 3 million jobs, not including raod structures -- road structures that could be worked on. we have a deplorable. host: so you agree with democrats on interest spending? caller: i do. this country ought to be number one as far as that. i don't have any problems

soldiers have returned from iraq or afghanistan in body bags and last year suicides by american soldiers surged to three hundred forty nine historic high the u.s. military has had decades of experience in areas like asia latin america the middle east and africa however experts say if leaders in washington don't begin learning from the past the only foreign policy factor that will continue changing is the geographic location of america's fatalities and repeated mistakes reporting from new york. r.t. and we will be back with much more news after a short break. well . it's technology innovations. developments around russia we've. covered. sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you. are welcome to the big. news today. these are the. operations. thanks for joining us so the u.s. justice department has dropped charges against the late internet freedom activist aaron swartz the twenty six year old committed suicide on friday he was facing decades behind bars of accusations here il

when it comes to our foreign policy in palestine as well as in other countries whether it's iraq syria afghanistan or pakistan there's a major bias where our newspapers are not being object do we just siding with whatever the government says journalism is supposed to be objective you cover a story you hear both sides and you report the facts you don't report the one side as facts and ignore the other side and this is a major problem going on in this misinforming our fellow citizens in this country i would like to make it related to the topic you were talking about before with hurricane sandy we give israel billions of dollars yearly and we're not able to pass a bill to give money to our fellow citizens in new york or new jersey who were affected by hurricane sandy who have lost their home and still have no power why is it that we can't provide help to our own people but we giving billions to israel and this is a major problem and i believe the media plays a part in this misinformation misinforming americans about the foreign policy in our support of israel and make it look like it's necessary for our

soldiers have returned from iraq or afghanistan in body bags and last year suicides by american soldiers surged to three hundred forty nine historic high the u.s. military has had decades of experience in areas like asia latin america the middle east and africa however experts say if leaders in washington don't begin learning from the past the only foreign policy factor that will continue changing is the geographic location of america's fatalities and repeated mistakes reporting from new york. r.t. or so a lot more international headlines coming your way shortly of course including the world update hoping you can stay with us. you mean speak your language. programs in documentaries in arabic in school here on the t.v. reporting from the world talks about six of the ip interviews intriguing story for you. then try a small t arabic to find out more because it arabic t.v. don't call. oh shit. oh shit oh oh oh please. please. don't speak. you know. i wish. things i missed some good. luck. just see them on and on. and on out of my mind i'm a little. mission. critical three. three arrangement

soldiers have returned from iraq or afghanistan in body bags and last year suicides by american soldiers surged to three hundred and forty nine historic high the u.s. military has had decades of experience in areas like asia latin america the middle east and africa however experts say if leaders in washington don't begin learning from the past the only foreign policy factor that will continue changing is the geo graphic location of america's faith holidays and repeated mistakes reporting from new york or in a portland arts. and still ahead for you this hour i made mounting. a court in the u.s. drops its piracy charges against prominent internet speed them up because our schwartz who took his own life on friday. is the u.s. really that nervous about china's nuclear arsenal two also one is a potential strike or is it just trying to keep its own atomic store in time we'll bring you an expert opinion on that in just a few of. those further turbulence in bahrain where another peaceful rally has been brutally despised by security forces to crowds gathered at the funeral of a protester who was

soldiers have returned from iraq or afghanistan in body bags and last year suicides by american soldiers surged to three hundred forty nine a historic high the u.s. military has had decades of experience in areas like asia latin america the middle east and africa however experts say if leaders in washington don't begin learning from the past the only foreign policy factor that will continue changing is the geographic location of america's fates halliday's and repeated mistakes reporting from new york. r.t. . up to twenty people have been killed by a double blast in syria's northern city of aleppo that rocked a university that the building is believed to have been housing refugees of course has the details. unconfirmed reports suggest that twenty people have been killed and dozens more wounded syrian state television is calling it a terrorist bombing although from activists there on the ground they say that at this point because it is unclear we are hearing from some sources that there were two explosions in near the university's adorns but it is not immediately clear whether the blasts w

afghanistan. >> as a veteran, that passion to serve your country really never leaves you. >> axelrod: so this feels just like another way to be in service. >> most definitely. >> axelrod: unemployment rates for veterans returning from iraq ornistan are a full three points higher than the national guard average. former army staff sergeant shawn murph seheading up teach for america's efforts to recruit more vets. >> we value leadership, commitment to service, ability to motivate, influence folks, organizational skills. >> reporter: cardoza high is an inner-city school with inner-city problems, foreign terrain, perhaps, for a wide whitekid from the san francisco suburbs but not this combat veteran. >> one of my favorite students was killed in gun violence. >> reporter: that student was aeb-year-old lucki parnell. she was about to graduate when she was shot sitting outside her home two years ago. >> it was tough. because you know what it's like with your military experience, but i never imagined i'd have to face that again as a teacher. let me hear from someone on this side of the room. >> reporter: a newcomer to the classroom, it was his years on the battlefield that allowed brian thompson to give his students what few other

soldiers have returned from iraq or afghanistan in body bags and last year suicides by american soldiers surged to three hundred forty nine historic high the u.s. military has had decades of experience in areas like asia latin america the middle east and africa however experts say if leaders in washington don't begin learning from the past the only foreign policy factor that will continue changing is the geographic location of america's fatalities and repeated mistakes reporting from new york arena r.t. . more stories for you online including. with washington's move the trade to rebels in congo looking likely to extend the conflict you can read a personal opinion saying america's only focusing on the mineral rich african continent to come to china's growing economic. and russian internet security experts revealed details of a new global scale of a virus capable of snatching top secret data from diplomatic and even government networks around the globe we have the full story all fully. the u.s. justice department has dropped charges against the late internet freedom acts his irish was ther