>> i'm with the water out of alexandria, virginia, i want to address legislative things but public engage meant. i think the most important things we can do in terms of communication with the hengs, is water

>> i'm with the water out of alexandria, virginia, i want to address legislative things but public engage meant. i think the most important things we can do in terms of communication with the hengs, is water is one voice. it's very important. when i say water, i mean water and waist water. it's very important that the message dare that i completely agree it has to be clear and distinct but right now we have echos and when we speak to washington there's an echo effect and we need to be one voice and i think that needs to be clear. >> thank you. yes? >> hi, i'm with the california public utilities commission. i watched the news last night and another senator was really claiming on the debate on global warming, gee, i think you're saying it's profitable for the green industries now and i'm thinking, of course it needs to be profitable and really the fossil fuel and oil industries that are making hundreds more times more profit and that's what drives this. if we could internalize externalities and middest oil and regardless of your political leaning if you or we could internalize that that's

the person who runs and owns the company, univision, born in alexandria, egypt, moved to israel, moved to france, moved into the united states, who is the mighty power ranger that he developed years ago, a very active democrat in the country, a big supporter of bill clinton, now owns the spanish- speaking network, does it mean anything? >> it means that this country is based on the acceptance of immigrants. this country is based on diversity, and this country promotes creativity, and what a wonderful experiment. when he was in this country, he was amazed by realizing that it does not matter where you come from. there is a sense of equality, so it is his story and my story and millions of stories that once you come to this country, everyone is equal. hundreds of years ago with the declaration of independence, we were promised that all men are created equal, and we can say all men and women are created equal. unfortunately, things are changing. i just came back from south africa, covering the world cup, and i was amazed and surprised to see how in only 16 years, south africans not only h

. >> yeah, it's a big epic, set in fourth century alexandria.osopher and astronomer. and she has a hot slave in love with her. and she has lot of her students in love with her. she was a teacher. but she only has eyes for stars. she's in love with her work. she is an astronomer. >> jimmy: and who directed this again? >> alejandro amenabar. he did "the others" and "the sea inside" -- >> jimmy: yeah, he's phenomenal. this was like, this was, like, the number one movie in spain and won all these crazy awards. and now it's coming over to the states. but it's a giant, i mean, like -- >> giant epic. it's like "spartacus" or one of those old technicolor movies except -- >> jimmy: were those -- i'm sorry because i cut you off. >> no, go on. >> jimmy: are those real people? i was gonna say because there's, like, thousands of people. >> yeah. yeah, that's why it's kind of like those old technicolor movies. because nowadays people cgi in the extras. but they were real extras. and we filmed it in malta. and there are thousands of maltese extras in the backg

volume of poetry is "so i will till the ground" >> my name is gregory djanikian and i was born in alexandria egypt, and came to this which when i was 8 years old. i have spent my boyhood in a small town in pennsylvania, williams port, home of the little league and my culturization to this country occurred in some ways on the baseball fields of that town. now i live near philadelphia, a city which saw the founding of this nation. i would like to read a poem called immigrant picnic which describes a july fourth get together of my immigrant family who with american families across the nation contribute to the celebration of independence. the poem-- poem also describes how we might contribute to the great melting pot that is the english language. that for many of us who have come from different countries, our difficulties with american i had yoms often lead town expected syntactic construction and surprising turns of phrase which enrich the language and by which we are enriched . immigrant picnic. it's the fourth of july, the flags are painting the town. the plastic forks and knifes are laid out

kitchen our "chef on a shoestrin shoestring", he's executive chef and owner of a restaurant in alexandria tomato salad, chicken with garlic and bay leaf and corn on the cob and berry tart. >> let's start with our heirloom tomatoes. >> i want to focus on ingredients. we shopped at the farmer's market for everything and when you taste the stuff you'll see how delicious it is. can you make a vin xwret? >> mustard in the bowl first. this is one of your signature things, farm fresh. >> absolutely. >> extract the flavor, don't take away. >> that's right, the flavors are so delicious, we're not reinventing the wheel, just buying the best tomatoes, the best the basil comes from my garden, we use the best irish butter, couldn't get any better than that. >> we have a little mustard. >> olive oil, balsamic vinegar. >> it's garlic season, the red romanian garlic is beautiful, a pinch of salt, a little whisk. >> you keep working on the tomatoes. >> we toss our tomatoes in. >> heirloom tomatoes, people say they're not the best looking things in the world but the taste -- >> i'm not the best looking thi

alexandria, virginia. brian. caller: a lot of your comments, figures, statistics, have been refuted by the nra and host: can you let our viewers know what you have read? caller: a lot of statistics, like the murder rate going up, is not true. the claims about the guns coming from the u.s. are not true. the next headline will be that they are using them to deliver the drugs, these black c hawks. host: what did you find? guest: we reported on it about one year ago. on the guns they have been able to trace, it was slightly under 90% better coming from the u.s. that was based on data from one year ago. host: what you make of that, brian? caller: hunting rifles have been the targets from the beginning. the gentleman earlier said it these guys are using military- grade, fully automatic weapons. this stuff about getting the a assault weapon ban going -- if only targets people who have a right to have guns in this country. guest: we have not done anything related to whether or not americans have a right to have a gun. we

host: michael, alexandria, virginia, e-mails. next is wayne county, ohio. re on the independent line. caller: i have been laid off for six months, no extension, i don't understand. i work construction. there are no jobs around here. 250 on a list of about 900. i don't know. host: what are you going to support yourself? caller: nothing. host: what of your prospects for the future? caller: not very good. host: had you thought about moving? are you going to stay where you are? caller: i can't give my house away, let alone sell it. you can't just drag up and leave. i could, but -- host: what do you see for the future? caller: i don't know what i see for the future. host: have you had periods of unemployment in the past. caller: two or three months, just through the winter when it was down. then back up in the spring and i went back to work. you drive around here and you see a bunch of idiots driving the foreign vehicles, and if half of the morons bought a foreign vehicle would have bought a domestic vehicle, you know, you got to take care of your country first.