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air force academy in colorado springs. a well-educated broad minded liberal young air force officer looking after me, had lots of chats which me that i found very interesting and told me told me he was a liberal because he wanted to create in my mind and the impression i might have gotten from the media or the u.s. air force academy, right wing sort of strange radical fundamentalist. so he told me he was in favor of immigration but, he said, when people come to this country they should learn the nature. i didn't think he was speaking about comanche. i said i quite agree. everyone should learn spanish. >> settlement in the evolution of the united states from a hispanic perspective. our america tonight at 10:00 eastern and sunday at 9:00 on after words, part of booktv on c-span to -- c-span2. you still have time to weigh in on martha levin at liberty amendment. read the book shut, join the conversation on booktv.org and enter the chat room. here is a look at some books that are being published this week. fred siegel, senior f

air force had the most incidents. i believe in the previous year they had the most incidents as well. is in anything that suggests on the focus of group work why this is so the air force academy? >> good question. the air force reporting climate is very positive, and that's what we've heard in numerous visits there, and the doctor participated and can give you some specific examples. >> one of the things that the air force academy does well. they have a sexual assault response coordinatorrer who is well-known throughout the academy. her -- she and her team work overtime in getting in front of the cadet and just as an example of my experience with them, asking a cadet at the air force if you needed to report a sexual assault, what would you do? almost every single of them, in my experience, to a f said i would call 3-rbgs 3-rbgs 3-rbgs-sark. they knew her by name and because she gets in front of them within the first week that are there. at least if you have -- >> i think we didn't ask specifically about that number, but to echo what he said, we did hear that at the air force they are more familiar. they feel more comfortable with her. she has higher visibility. that is someth

at the air force academy in colorado springs and a very nice and well educated air force officer which i find very interesting, but he wanted to create in my mind what i may have gotten from the media in the u.s. air force academy with the radical fundamentalist. when people come to the country and they should learn the nature of the language. so i said yes i agree. everybody should learn spanish. there was no further argument on that, but it made me realize it's a broad minded, well educated, humane [inaudible] protestant's which starts with the spanish missionaries. >> host: you start your book in the 1500's and what is interesting to me is when you contrast the methodology of the english settlers in the north and of those that landed in puerto rico, tell about that. >> guest: it started by introducing livestock and there would be something there for them on the european colonies on the territory. it was in the first permanent english colony was established. i don't want to take anything away from the tremendous creativity and achievement of this anglo history and the stories of pion

i describe that the air force academy i can't tell you now. you know when that was but i always write my books in my head. i think about them for many years before i start putting anything down on paper and let the thinking sort of match her what -- until it is pretty corrupt. as far as the resources are concerned, i wanted to make the book on a human scale. i wanted to tell all of the stories about individuals. i don't think it was necessary to go over the u.s. history because everybody in the united states needs that year after year to study of american history over and over again. i didn't think it was worth taking the high level of analysis. so i looked for individual stories. it's always been my practice and probably terkel vice which my fellow professional historians would condemn i tried to find things that what never be found in any bibliography sort of wandering around the library shelves in books that would accumulate a lot of dust on them and obviously haven't been read from a long time. that's how i found some of the i think more v

air force academy in colorado springs and the broad minded liberal air force officer who was to look after me had lots of chats with me which i find interesting and he told me he was a liberal. he wanted to create in my mind an impression i might have gotten from the media u.s. air force academy sort of the radical fundamentalists can he told me he was fearful loss immigration. he said when people come to this country they should learn the language. i agree [inaudible] the kind of argument on that and it made me realize even a liberal, brough broad minded humane americans don't realize what the country's got, this alternative history which doesn't go from east or west or south or north but which starts with the spanish mission. >> host: you start the book in the 1500's and part of rico -- puerto rico and the methodology of the english settlers in the north with the three pigs that landed in puerto rico. >> guest: when they colonize they always started by executing livestock with the idea that there would be something there for them to eat. they were first european colonists on what i

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air force academy in colorado springs. nice well-very educated, broad-minded, liberal wasg air force officers looking after me and had lots of chats with me. and he told me he was a liberal. correct in my mind any impression i got from the media that the u.s. air force academy is very pugnacious lee radical,g and full of biblical fundamentalists. afraid of he was immigration. when people came to this country, they should speak the native language. quite agree.i everybody should learn spanish. but this is part of book tv this weekend on c-span two. an online at booktv tv's book love. -- book club. the website and click on the chat room. >> first of all, i was not elected. it did not make that much difference. i did notice the difference between being the vice president's wife and the president's wife. it is huge, because the vice president's wife can say anything. nobody cares. the minute you wait -- you say one thing as the president's wife, you have made the news. that was a lesson i had to learn pretty quickly. our progra

and is there anything to suggest why this is such a problem with the air force academy? >> the air force reporting climate is positive and that is what we have heard from numerous visits. >> one of the things the air force academy does is they have a sexual response coordinator who is well-known throughout the academy. she and the team work overtime in getting in front of the cadets. as an example of my experience, asking an academy cadet at the air force, if you needed to report a sexual assault, what would you do and almost every single one of them says i would call 333-sarc. they know her by name because she is in front of them. >> we didn't ask about the numbers, but to echo what was said, we heard at the air force they are more familiar with their sarc, and she has higher visibility. >> teresa beasley? >> i will say one of the benefits of a report and when you look across the service a d acadamies is you can apply to the others >> that is right. all of the people have hard sarc people. ms. beasley has been there the longest and has the a good institutional history. >

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more than half of the reported assaults occurred at the air force academy. >>> the u.s.ent of veteran affairs says there is a sharp increase in the suicide rate among the youngest male veterans. the suicide rated for male veterans between 18 and 29 increased nearly 44% between 2009 and 2011. va doctors say too many young veterans who get care for physical wounds don't seek treatment for mental health issues. >>> wall street is getting its first look at the nation's new numbers of jobs. >> wendy gillette of cbsmoneywatch.com joins us now. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. the labor department just released the unemployment report for december a few minutes ago. it shows the rate dropped to 6.7% lower than expected. but that appears to be because more people dropped out of the job market. only 74,000 jobs were added to the economy last month much fewer than expected. on wall street yesterday, the dow lost nearly 18 points. the nasdaq fell 9. president obama has unveiled a new effort to fight poverty. he is creating so-called promise zones in five economically depres

at the air force academy where two-thirds of the offensive sexual assaults occurred, offensive power potato slides. and the most notorious, two naval academy football players are facing court-martial for assaulting a female in mid shipment. those court-martialed were scheduled to begin in the next few weeks but now it appears the prosecutors will drop charges against one of them because the investigators failed to read him his rights. david martin, cbs news, the pentagon. >>> a missouri man is facing probation but no jail time after pleading guilty to child endangerment. the plea ends a contentious case surrounding an alleged rape of a 14-year-old girl. as teri okita reports, her family had hoped for a harsher sentence. >> mr. barnett truly regrets the actions to which he has pled guilty. >> reporter: 19-year-old matt barnett agreed to a misdemeanor child endangerment conviction for leaving a drunken teenage girl out in the cold back in 2012. that victim, daisy coleman, was 14 at the time. she said she went to a party where she was given alcohol and claims barnett, then 17, raped her.

at the air force academy where two-thirds of the reported sexual assaults occurred, offensive powerpoint slides were circulated among members of two sports teams. and perhaps the most notorious case: two naval academy football players are facing court-martial on charges of sexually breaking news tonight. david, thank you. well, the u.s. military pulled out of iraq two years ago but the war there never really ended. today a suicide bomber attacked army recruits in baghdad. at least 21 iraqis were killed. iraq's military is also fighting al qaeda extremists in the city of fallujah. today a human rights group accused those iraqi forces of firing mortars into civilian areas. elizabeth palmer is in baghdad tonight following all of this. liz? >> reporter: good evening. well, fallujah is sealed off but people can talk to us by telephone and they say things have been pretty calm today and the al qaeda-linked extremists have melted away either into the outskirts or maybe into the country side. anyway, say local people, the threat they posed was always very much exaggerated. al qaeda was an excuse

more than half of the reported assaults occurred at the air force academy. >> i am embarrassed and humiliated it didn't take long for the jokes about new jersey governor chris christie to start after the traffic jam controversy. check out this double punch from the new york daily news. >> all i can do is apologize for the conduct of people who work for me. i can't do anything else. i can't reverse time. >> from across the bay to around the world, the stories that matter on "kpix 5 news this morning." captions by: caption colorado comments@captioncolorado.com >> your realtime captioner is mrs. linda marie macdonald. >>> good morning, everyone. it's friday, january 10. i'm michelle griego. >> hi, everyone. i'm frank mallicoat. nearly 5:00 on your friday. get you out the door a little weather and traffic and perhaps a wee bit of rain over the weekend. >> a little rain coming our way but not today. i think we're going to look very nice as high pressure is building in overhead. that's keeping most of the clouds away except likely seeing a couple of patches of fog developing out toward the beaches.

were down from 80 down at 70 with fiscal year ending in may of those two-thirds were at the air force academye ahead. we will be right back. >> a major chemical spill leaving tens of thousands of west virginians without running water or without fresh drinking water. as the governor declares a state of emergency. via fed watches an investigation into the cause. we have the latest. lori: the federal government joins west virginia to declare a disaster and around the state capital of charleston asked after a massive chemical spill putting 300,000 tavis. the invesgation has begun in the meantime residents have been told tovoid using tap water for drinking , bathing and cleaning we now go to the scene with the report. >> don't make baby formula, don't pressure tea stall shower or wash, don't drink it. you cannot just boyle it is said to not use advisory. >> a chemical company to help process coal first notice day leaked last nit just blocks downstream of the water company. an unknown quantity probably thousands of gallons an agent used in the processing was found leaking from the taint into the ol

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. >> what are the three or four things you think are essential to annapolis and the air force academy, and to say the same thing to future air force -- future military leaders? >> the first is we tend to think war, and we tend to think we piece of to conquer a ground. war is about people. the army that wins is the one that thinks it has one. the one that is losing is the one that thinks it has lost. and the population decides which one wins. and that is very try tointuitive when you take them. go look at war. so that's the first thing. it's about people. you're not just moving stuff. you're influencing people. say the general must have a great strategy. i have come to believe you could do strategy pretty quickly. you and i could sit here in an hour and come up with a workable strategy. the geniuses implementing it. to implement it, you have to do a number of things. first, you have to articulate it clearly and constantly. and have it understood. people have to absolutely believe that you are committed to it and that you will provide the kind of focus -- if you stay here strategy diffe

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she joined when she was 18 and graduated from the air force academy in 2010, and says it has been veryd you can see that here. she was crawling while blind-fold it, part of an air force initiation process. now she is a contract manager for the air force and knows that being both an nfl cheerleader and a military officer make her a natural role model. >> i would hope that girls would look at me and know that they can, one, be serving their country, and still be feminine. i love that i can be a sea gal and an officer in the air force. >> and as different as those two rolls seem, alicia says they actually share the same discipline. >> you are wearing a uniform constantly. i go from wearing my air force uniform to my sea gals uniform, and i feel like i am always in the spotlight. i am held to a standard at all times. >> she says it will be a very special moment for her on sunday when the national anthem is played. she plans to be uniformed with the other cheer leaders but missing her hand over her heart rather than standing at attention as service members will be doing in the audience. >>

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the report points to scandals involving sports teams at the army, navy, and air force academies in theast school year. its urging leaders to do more to improve training and prevention programs. >>> last night an employee at an o'reilly auto sports store was shot and killed. the suspect went into the store, ordered the stores three workers to get down on the ground. one of the workers stabbed the suspect who then shot and killed him. there were two shoppers in the store at the time. they were not hurt. the suspect was seen running away later. >>> after going down for six years, california's prison population is expected to grow by 10,000 inmates over the next five years. that is according to the l.a. times. this new projection will complicate governor brown's efforts to obey a court order to reduce over crowding. the reason for the rise that is being debated. others cite crimes committed by felons or parolees that cycle in and out of the over crowded jails. >>> new mortgage rules take effect today aimed at reducing the risk of default and foreclosures. lenders must now determine that a

the report point to scandals involving sports teams at the army, navy, and air force academies during the last school year. it urges leaders to do more to improve training and prevention programs. >>> after going down for six years, california's prison population is expected to grow by 10,000 inmates. the l.a. times says the new projection will complicate governor jerry brown's efforts to obey a court record -- obey a court order. prosecutors dispute suggestions they are more frequently pursuing charges. meantime others cite crimes committed by parolees. >>> new mortgage rules take effect today. they are aimed at reducing the risk of defaults and foreclosures. a borrower can realisticically afford a mortgage long term. lenders also can't offer risky features like terms longer than 30 years or interest only payments. but the new rules don't require a minimum down payment so first time buyers have a better chance at getting that mortgage. >>> let's check in with sal for the commute this morning. so far so good. >> yeah, it is on the friday. hopefully it will be that way for the rest of

air force academy, full of strange, radical fundamentalists. he told me he was in favor of immigration. but, he said, when people come to the country they should learn the native language. i didn't think he was speaking about comanche. i quite agree. everyone should learn spanish. >> settlement in evolution of the united states from a hispanic perspective. our america at 10:00 eastern and sunday at 9:00 on after words, part of booktv on c-span2. online at booktv's book club time to weigh on in marc levin at liberty amendment. join the conversation, go to booktv.org and click on book club to enter the chat room. >> edmund phelps argues few major innovations have been made by isolated visionaries and insist most were the product of millions of people working on and promoting various ideas and technologies. this program is about an hour and 10 minutes. >> good evening and welcome to today's meeting of the commonwealth club of california, the place where you are in the know. you can find the commonwealth club on the internet at commonwealthclub.org

the report points to scandals involving sports team at the army, navy, and air force academies, duringast school year. and it urges leaders to do more to improve training, and prevention programs. >>> another new report from the department of veteran's affairs shows there's an increase in suicides among younger male veterans. the latest information reveals a suicide rate for male veterans between the ages of 18 and 29 has jumped almost 44% between 2009 and 2011. one doctor from the va says too many of the younger veterans are getting care for physical wounds, but they're not getting treatment for mental health problems: 7:17. the deep freeze that sent temperatures well below 0 in much of the u.s. is still affecting mail delivery. people living in several chicago neighborhoods say they haven't received any mail since saturday. >> i called this afternoon and was given the weather excuse, of course, you know the streets have been clear for two or three days, so i don't buy that anymore. >> the postal service says many side streets are unplowed and sidewalks are icy, slowing down male carr

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air force academy, you, full of strange radical, fundamental spirit he tells me he's a liberal and he tells me that he was for immigration. but, he said, when people come to this country they should learn the native language. and i didn't think he was speaking about comanche. so i said yes, i quite agree, everybody should learn spanish. >> "our america" saturday night at 10 eastern and sunday at nine on "after words." heart of booktv this weekend on c-span2. and online at booktv books club, he still time to weigh in on the liberty and then it. read a book and join the conversation. go to booktv.org and click on book club to enter the chat ro room. >> i would like to add a personal word with regard to an issue that has been of great concern to all americans over the past year. i refer of course to the investigations of the so-called watergate affair. as you know, i have provided to the special prosecutor, voluntarily, a great deal of material. i believe that i provided all the material that he needs to conclude his investigation, and to proceed to prosecute the guilty and to clear the

air force academy in colorado springs. , well-the very nice educated, broad-minded, liberal young airce officers had a chat with me. he told me he was a liberal. i did not want to create in my i had in myression mind of the u.s. air force academy as being this right wing, strange, radical thing. he tells me he is a liberal and tells me that he is in favor of immigration. but, he said, when people come to this country, they should learn the native language. i do not think he was speaking about comanche. i said yes, i quite agree, everyone should learn spanish. >> of the evolution of the united states from the hispanic perspective. part of booktv this weekend on c-span two. online on the book club, you still have time to weigh in. read the book and join the conversation. click on book club to enter the chat room. >> "washington journal" continues. joining us from pennsylvania this morning, mark zandi, chief economist from moody's analytics. let's begin with the big picture. you have called 2014 a breakout year. why? --guest: iwe will think we will get more growth, jobs, and unemployment

reports of sexual assaults at west point, annapolis and the air force academy actually fell a little, from 80 to 70 in the last year. but, officials said that may be due to peer pressure. >> sexual assault is a crime and has no place in our academies, just as it has no place in our armed forces. the academies are aware we develop the future leaders of the military. that is why it is essential the department instill in its future leaders a commitment to fostering a climate of dignity and respect. in a related development... the superintendent at the naval academy dropped charges against a second football player accused of sexually assaulting a female classmate last march. trial is pending for a third midshipman in the incident. president obama has tapped a former head of the bank of israel, stanley fischer -- to be vice chairman of the federal reserve. the nominee is currently a professor at m.i.t and holds dual citizenship in the u-s and israel. if confirmed by the senate, fischer will replace janet yellen, who's taking over as fed chair. a civil rights pioneer who helped spark sit-in

of those, almost a two thirds wet the air force academy. he defense department report issued today notes that alcohol is often a factor, and urges military leaders to do more to restrict and monitor drinking. members of the sexual assault prevention and response office spoke to reporters for half an hour. >> the new director of the sexual assault prevention or a response office, he has been on the job all up five days. the fabined today by road deputy director, and dr. elizabeth rip van winkle. general snow is going to make some brief opening remarks. u --metzler and dr. dover dr. van winkle is the expert to conducted the focus groups and they will be happy to answer your questions. please a state your name and your media organization before asking the question and we still have 30 minutes. >> thank you, kathy. good morning, ladies and gentlemen. as kathy indicated, i am at major general jeff snow and i am the director of the department defense sexual assault prevention, and i feel very fortunate to be joined by my esteemed colleagues here.

to communicate to young people of yale or if you are disod come to west point or annapolis or air force academy and say the same thing to future military leaders? >> absolutely. first off, and i will keep it fairly focused on things associated with war, the first is we tend to think of war and sometimes we say we are going to conquer a piece of ground or we are going to do something that seems very physical. war is about people. war is won in people's minds. it is won -- the army that wins is the one that thinks it won. the one that loses is the one that thinks it is losing or losing or has lost, and the population decides which side wins, and that is very counterintuitive when you try to take an imperial look at war, an empirical look at war. the first thing, it is about people, and so to the degree you are not just moving stuff, you are influencing people. the second is, we say the general must have or military leaders must have a great strategy. in reality i have come to believe you can do strategy pretty quickly, you or i could sit here in an hour and come up with a workable strategy. >> ro

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air force academy. used to fly f4 phantom jets in the military. to make sure there were no more passengers on board. >> five years ago today. sully sullenberger, i'm like a groupie of this guy. he's so the real deal. >> oh, yeah. >> he hasn't become a reality show star. he hasn't been on tv, television commercials. he's become advocate for airline safety. a best-selling author. a real deal, a to z, just class. >> he calls it the most harrowing three minutes of my life, he said. after that he suffered from insomnia, but he did go back to flying for some time. which is incredible. >> i think i would retire. but not this guy. >> >> they don't make them like that any more. just incredible. >>> coming up -- the quiet south korean town that comes alive on the ice. >> draws tens of thousands of hearty soles to the river to catch their own dinner. we'll show you on "world news now." >> announcer: "world news now" ♪ you're as cold as ice you're willing to sacrifice our love ♪ >>> if you're a fan of the cold and sushi, there's only one place to be right now

air force academy in colorado springs. ry nice, young air force officer have lots of chats with me. he told me that he was a liberal. he told me he was a liberal and that he was in favor of immigration. but, he said, when people come to this country, they should learn the nature -- the nation's language. i agree. everyone should learn spanish. our america, saturday night at 10:00 eastern. part of book tv this weekend on c-span2. in still have time to weigh on the liberty amendments. read the book and join the conversation. go to booktv.org. >> did i feel prepared? yes. i was not elected. it did not make that much difference. i did notice that the difference between being the vice president's wife and the president's wife is huge. ie vice president possible can say anything. nobody cared. the minute you say anything as president's wife, you made the news. that was the lesson i had to learn. pretty quickly. >> watch our program on barbara on c-span.org, or see it saturday at 7:00 p.m. eastern. our series continues with hillar

percentage of middle eastern students and i taught my first iraqi student that actually went to the air force academy and who lost his leg. and what i see is those people now, you have to understand the arab culture, that this is another way of negotiating society. where they are now, because they see this, they're moving out and waiting for the battle, the tribal militias to come back in. they're going to fight in the streets with al qaeda. maybe the government forces will move in, and they'll come back into their city. they're seeing this as another 2004 before the americans came in. the problem the that because the americans are not there to perform that buffer between the regular sunnis, who are not al qaeda types, because they are -- the regular sunnis are in conflict with the al qaeda types. because we don't have that negotiating stance there, we have -- now we have three people fighting all each other. and if the tribal militias, if those tribal leaders that align themselves with al qaeda, then we have a situation before 2006. >> so hold for me. because part of what i want to ask you, mark, al

graduate from basic military training in san antonio and later on in the month i'm headed to the air force academy in colorado springs. so i point is, i'm trying to mind the important work here in washington that needs to be done, getting ready for the budget but also trying to get out and about because i am learning as this audience already knows in great detail that our airmen, active, guard, reserve and civilian, underpins everything, everything that we do and they, we are extremely, extremely fortunate to have them. all right now let me shift to the three priorities that i have laid out for the air force. and the first, which is probably no surprise, it certainly has been a key part of my career and that is people and taking care of people is going to be job one for me going forward. now what does that mean to me? well it means that we need to continue our focus, if anything, kick it up a notch when it comes to making sure that we recruit and retain the right people into the force. that we shape the force, reshape the force, you might say, as we go forward, not only for our immediate need but

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there's an air force academy tradition for those graduates who pass away. it comes from the third verse of the air force song. i'll carry on that tradition by saying, captain stover, here's a toast. with that, i yield back, mr. speaker. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady yields back. for what purpose does the gentleman from pennsylvania seek recognition? mr. pitts: mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent that all members may have five legislative days to revise and xtend their remarks and to include extraneous material on h.r. 3362. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. pursuant to house resolution -- mr. pitts: pursuant to house resolution 455, i call up house resolution 3362 and ask for immediate consideration in the house. the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will report the title of the bill. the clerk: a bill to amend the patient protection and affordable care act to require transparency and the operation of american health benefit exchanges. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to house resolution 455, the amendment printed in part b of house repor