our victory becomes a source of victory for all the spirit south america, east america, north america, central america -- it does not make any difference. it is very important. the clock that is ticking for the peaceful unification of this region. i cannot like the idea about south america. what about central america? i am talking to you like this because i want to write to tomorrow. [laughter] and i will point this out to you. you may know for a fact i don't just fall. i act. >> good. >> thank you very much. >> thank you. i think you are making a very important observation. i want to remind you that in the first year of this administration, president obama went to guyana and he made statements about the importance of africa -- went to ghana and made statements about the importance of africa to this administration. secretary clinton spent 11 days in africa covering six countries. probably more than the previous administration had spent in the duration. and she went to talk to the women in the refugee camps, and she met with different groups, and and she addressed some of the relief in

>> bank of america.ading from your testimony. >> right. >> you assert fdic has a continuing stake in the financial well-being of those insured depository institutions. >> right. >> okay. so what was the view ever the fdic at the time the bank of america proposed to acquire merrill lynch? was that a good business decision? was that a risky business decision? >> right. >> were you aware of the fact that they had unprecedented losses, by the way, without unprecedented federal regulatory intervention? >> well a couple of things. we are not the holding company regulator. the fed is. we do not approve mergers answers acquisitions. the fed does. we're also not the primary regulator for bank of america. we insure them vshgts backup supervisory authority. in terms of the more intimate knowledge of that situation would come from the fe and the occ. as backup supervisor frankly we must rely on the primary regulator. if there starts to be troubles we move in, but without red flags. and, no. as with those caveats i w

this is not just america's war. since 9/11, al qaeda as safe haven have been the source of attacks against london and iman and bali. the people of the government's of both afghanistan and pakistan are in danger. and the stakes are even higher with a nuclear arms pakistan because when al qaeda and other extremists seek nuclear weapons and we have every reason to believe that they would use them. these facts compel us to act along with our friends and allies. our overarching goal remains the same, to disrupt, dismantle, and defeat outcry in afghanistan and pakistan and to prevent its capacity -- al qaeda in afghanistan and pakistan and to prevent its capacity in the future. to meet that goal, we will pursue the following objectives within afghanistan. we must deny al qaeda a safe haven. we must reverse the taliban's momentum and denied the ability -- to deny them the ability to overthrow the of government. and we must strengthen the afghan security forces and government so that they can take the lead and responsibilit

>> well, religion it capitalism coexist the way they do in america.you have businessmen in america who are evangelical or fundamentalist or church going. it's the same in the muslim world as well. what makes the difference is capitalist muslims who are integrated into global economy tend to favor interpretations of religion that support their economic activities and serbs their interest. in other words they don't favor extremism because extremism is not good for business because extremism does not interfere with their integration into global economic trends so when we look at countries like turkey, dubai, malaysia and india we see class is getting enriched by the global economy that see the future and interesting global economy are religious, with the kind of religion they follow is in some ways globalization friendly, so it's conservative, it is pious, but it's supports capitalist activity and living harmoniously with others in a global economy. >> what ramifications to the business class have in american foreign policy? >> well, we don't pay as much

lots of south america and latin america, things look up. europe is having a hard time and the united states is having a hard time. but the question, this person said, is what happened to capitalism. you know, this talk of regulation, that the bailouts and whatnot, there's just a real fear about where america is headed in this regard. you see that reflected in some of our major companies, too, who don't like the uncertainty about health care reform, don't like the uncertainty about energy policy, about tax policy. i've spoken to c.e.o.'s who say, hey, where is the impetus for economic growth? we don't see it in the united states. there's no real impetus for investment. this is a real point of contention right now, as the administration is trying to get the private sector jump-started to create jobs again, get consumers spending again. so i think one of the trends -- and adam spoke to the politics. but on the policy side there's a real question about role of government, effectiveness of government with regard to the economy worldwide, and a l

>> bank of america. depository, merrill lynch an investment bank. >> i'm reading from your testimony. >> right. >> you assert fdic has a continuing stake in the financial well-being of those insured depository institutions. >> right. >> okay. so what was the view ever the fdic at the time the bank of america proposed to acquire merrill lynch? was that a good business decision? was that a risky business decision? >> right. >> were you aware of the fact that they had unprecedented losses, by the way, without unprecedented federal regulatory intervention? >> well a couple of things. we are not the holding company regulator. the fed is. we do not approve mergers answers acquisitions. the fed does. we're also not the primary regulator for bank of america. we insure them vshgts backup supervisory authority. in terms of the more intimate knowledge of that situation would come from the fe and the occ. as backup supervisor frankly we must rely on the primary regulator. if there starts to be troubles we move in, b

lots of south america and latin america. europe is having a hard time, but they questioned this person said is, what happened to capitalism? this talk of regulation, the bailouts, there is a fear about where america is headed. you see that reflected in our major companies who don't like uncertainty about health-care reform and energy policy. i have spoken to ceo's who say where is the impetus for economic growth? this is a point of tension as the administration is trying to jump-start the private sector to create jobs. i think one of the trends on the policy side is there is a question about the role of government with regard to the economy worldwide. a lot of that is looking at the u.s. and wondering what is happening. >> the outside world always looks to america, particularly at this time. we heard from peter about elections in iraq and brazil. you will be taking up with your own campaigns. are there any lessons you can pick up from other campaigns that have just been fought and around the world? >> if you look at south am

we're going to finally step in on the side of the consumers of america, the families of ameri america, the ones that are so often turned down because of preexisting conditions, turned down because the companies canceled them when they start really running into high medical bills. for the first time, these people will have legal rights created by this bill to stand up and be covered and to be confident at the end of the day that they'll have the coverage they paid for their whole life. it's an amazing thing that we are considering. in the middle of it, with all these speeches and all the press releases and all the charts and all the time, it's sometimes difficult to focus on the historical impact of what we are about to do at 1:00 a.m. on december the 21st, 2009. but if we do this and do it right, if 60 senators step forward as they -- i think they will, commitments have been made -- we will make history t. will bmake history t.will be rea that the first time in memory the united states senate has voted for comprehensive health care reform. critics will still be there and they'll say t

go to the bank of america and say, let's settle this or did the bank of america come to the s.e.c. and say let's settle this? >> i don't know the answer to that, congressman. typically settlements result from a, you know, both parties coming together and discussing the possibility. >> someone initiates it. and if you don't have the answer today, i would appreciate if you would make that available to the committee. >> certainly. >> all right. you based your decision on the fact that there was a precedent where $38 million was fined in another setting. now, you know that the s.e.c. historically when you were not a member of the staff was reducing its enforcement actions dramatically. in fact a recent gao suddeny indicated the enforcement actions had been reduced by some 80% and the disgorgement actions by some 60%. presuming those figures are indeed accurate, i may be off a little bit, you're basing a decision on whether or not to impose a fine on a very anemic s.e.c. that was not doing a good job of enforcing the law. so i guess my real question to you is if something is substantive

[singing of "america of the beautiful] >> ♪ america, america god shed his grace on and crowned by goodherhood from sea to shining sea ♪ ♪ [singing of "america the beautiful"] ♪ [organ music] [singing of hymn] ♪ [military commands] [organ music] ♪ >> senator edward kennedy was laid to rest at arlington national cemetery next to his brother's. the ceremony ran about 25 minutes. >> there is a certain fitting ness having a burial at the dying of the day because we know the sun will come back again tomorrow. as we think of teddy, we know that his new life begins. and as we look at this great family, we are sure new life is already beginning and new, great things are happening. mr. vice president, vicki, members of the family, it is for all of us a very special time in our own lives, in your life, in the life of our country. so we began in the name of the father, and of the sun, and of the holy spirit. dear friends in christ in the name of jesus and his church, we gathered together to pray for edward kennedy, that god may bring into everlasting peace and rest. we share the pain of loss, of t

america cons do every job. i look at my family and neighbors and hard to come up with a job that we haven't done and that includes processing meat. i have done a fair amount of it myself, but if i look at the meat processing around my neighborhood 25 years ago and about that era of time, if you wanted to get a job in the packing plant around my neighborhood, you had to know somebody to get in. these weren't union jobs but had to know somebody to get a job like that because they paid well. the benefits were competitive with any place else. i watch people grow up and maneuver and position themselves to go through school so they can get a job at the packing plant just a way the miners got in line to mine some coal or steel workers lined up at the mill in generation after generation went to work at the steel mill. these are proud jobs and there's dignity in every kind of work that's necessary to be done. but the time 25, 30 years ago when you had to know someone to work at the packing plant and the job paid about t

you can find thousands of them across america. how else do you lose 14,000 people a day who lose the insurance they thought they had or wanted. the fact is that this wasn't easy for franklin roosevelt when he tried to do it, mr. president. it wasn't easy for harry truman when he tried to do it. it wasn't easy for bill clinton when he tried to do it, and some of us were here and tried with him, and we understand how difficult it is. but you don't sound retreat. you don't ignore history and say we're going to be better off by giving in to 40 people who are trying to destroy a presidency and simply can't stand the fact that there are 60 votes here and there's a president who's got an agenda to fix these things, so the best thing they can do is try to stand up and stop it. some of our progressive friends have said we, you know, because it doesn't have the public option, we ought to do that. you know what it does have, even though it doesn't have a public option? it has a not-for-profit structure that has the ability to be able to driv

this bill extends the coverage of health insurance in america. currently there are 50 million americans who don't have health insurance. they are people who've lost their jobs. they are folks who work for small businesses and can't afford health insurance. they are people who've tried their best but they just can't get health insurance. 50 million of them. imagine if you will, to sleep tonight if you were a father or mother with a sick child and have no health insurance. imagine thinking for one frightening moment waking up tomorrow morning to face a diagnosis from a doctor of the serious illness or to be involved in an accident that requires medical care and having no health insurance. 50 million, one out of every six americans has no health insurance. this bill will change it. 30 million americans are going to be covered with health insurance that currently don't have coverage. 50 million in the lower income categories, the working poor and lower income folks will go into medicated the state level 15 million will go into private health insuranc

one was south america but the other area was in north asia.he area of northern china, the russian empire, korea, manchuria. he thought it was key for the future oameric b to have americs big stick out their in northern asia but he was frustrated because congress would not provide him the troops to wield his big stick. knowing that he could not get american troops out there, he looks for a surrogate. he looked at the japanese and he said, the japanese soldiers are the most dashing fighters in the world. he had his cabinet -- demonstrated jiggetts to hold some that the practice three times a week. the broad u.s. army generals into the white house and stage matches and gave lectures about how japan is a rising rates and there's someone to be trusted. roosevelt was told by his secretary of state that he would never get a treaty through congress that would allow him to ally with japan in north asia. so, he wrote secretly, you know the senate is not a good body for making treaties. i will make a wise foreign policy on my own. so in the summer of 190

go to the bank of america and say, let's settle this or did the bank of america come to the s.e.c. and say let's settle this? >> i don't know the answer to that, congressman. typically settlements result from a, you know, both parties coming together and discussing the possibility. >> someone initiates it. and if you don't have the answer today, i would appreciate if you would make that available to the committee. >> certainly. >> all right. you based your decision on the fact that there was a precedent where $38 million was fined in another setting. now, you know that the s.e.c. historically when you were not a member of the staff was reducing its enforcement actions dramatically. in fact a recent gao suddeny indicated the enforcement actions had been reduced by some 80% and the disgorgement actions by some 60%. presuming those figures are indeed accurate, i may be off a little bit, you're basing a decision on whether or not to impose a fine on a very anemic s.e.c. that was not doing a good job of enforcing the law. so i guess my real question to you is if something is substantive

that is an investment in america. and i assure my colleagues that this committee on transportation and infrastructure will continue its vigorous oversight, accountability and transparency. every member has received this report from our committee, 14 categories of progress for each state under these key programs. you can track how many funds are associated projects are completed, how many are under way, total job hours create and sustained and total payroll created and sustained for every state, every month. we're making this clear that we are investing in america and we will continue to do this under the jobs for main street program. the speaker pro tempore: the time of the gentleman has expired. who seeks recognition? the gentleman from california is recognized. mr. lewis: i recognize the gentleman from georgia, let's see, jack kingston, i think it is, for two minutes. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for two minutes. mr. kingston: i thank the gentleman for yielding. madam speaker in january, the

in america, you're right.uirements on the propegsal -- professional health care is appalling in california where my sister in law is a nurse touf go through these hoops to be an american graduate and quality of life yourself for a nursing profession. and they say to hell of it let's get a fill piano over here. so they're importing nurses because they have these state mandated nursing ratios to patients and it's a per verse system in which we need more health care workers but because they have such a regimented licensing thing we can't develop them domestically. >> the latest issue is january 2010 issue and you can pick it up. matt is the editor in chief. thanks for your time. up next, arrest in iran on several fronts. the guest, coming up. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2009] @ >> a look at climate change, on reducing the effects of greenhouse gases. and lawrence sullivan. on afternoons. -- afterwords. >> political congressmen tator al

taiwan or africa or latin america, even here in america.ountry, but still, a lot of poor people. a huge gap, rich tempore. this is unhealthy. -- a huge gap, rich to poor. it is held -- unhealthy. they are also human beings. they might be in a more happier sort of state. the whole of the american people to get it. i think american, i think the idea of freedom, liberty, equality. i think these are human values. since my childhood, of course, i do not know much, but when we heard america as a chairman of liberty, freedom, democracy, and then perhaps maybe also that watched. on some sort of level for america. i just told this morning, actually when received the gold watch from president roosevelt, i carried it with an american military uniform. i remember seeing the uniform. with that watch, actually, president roosevelt with the letter and a picture. so as a child, i have a keen attraction to this watch, not of that letter [laughter] you see, even i did not see that letter, and nobody told me what it contains. [laughter] so that looks really l

we want them to note the rassa of america -- the wrath of america. at every madras around the world and to the future ramzi yousef and khalid sheik mohammeds, let them know until the day we die, that we will trail them until the end of time. finally, when thcmuhammed and the jihadists the load to kill every american and every jew, when they go before the judge, let us hope that the wheel of fortune is for law and order and not a friend of terrorists, that we put them all on the paradise express and send them right up to the side of allah. god bless all of you. >> usa, usa! >> ladies and gentlemen, i want to reduce four of eight whifathr is who make up the band of dads. each lost a firefighters' sun on 9/11. they stayed there and helped and served for weeks and months after the terrorist attacks. lee and terry. dennis, george, jack. [applause] >> thank you. i was asked to come up here to say a few words about what this group of dad's did. it's a powerful story. when i got there i met a lot of fathers and sons looking for their dads or their sons. i me

this bill extends the coverage of health insurance in america. currently there are 50 million americans who don't have health insurance. they are people who have lost their jobs. they are folks who work for small businesses and can't afford health insurance. they're people who have tried their best, but they just can't get health insurance. 50 million of them. imagine, if you will, going to sleep tonight, if you are a father or mother with a sick child and have no health insurance. imagine thinking for one frightening moment of waking up tomorrow morning to face a diagnosis from a doctor of some serious illness or to be involved in an accident that requires medical care and having no health insurance. 50 million. one of every six americans has no health insurance. this bill will change it. 30 million americans are going to be covered with health insurance that currently don't have coverage. 15 million in the lower-income categories -- the working poor and lower-income folks, will go into medicaid at the state hrefplt 15 million will go into priva

caller: good morning, america. i do not want $500 billion taken away from the medical coverage of seniors. i do not want my tax dollars to pay for abortions. sunday c-span had a lady on from alternet, but i would call what altered minds -- call it aletered minds. if you listen to what the left is saying, you can be on single payer when you are young and healthy, then shifted over to another plan when you are older. 10 minutes of her spitting out standard -- standard leftist talk, she made a comment about the fact that her hands were tied by the insurance companies. i have got to believe that these companies are going to make the huge killing off of the american people. speaking of, how in the world can we pay for something for years without using, like they're talking about? waiting until 2013 for the benefits. i am stunned when i watch the news every day. i cannot believe that our country is doing host: ok. thank you. sorry about that, dean, let's go to nick on the democrats' line in manhattan. in manhattan. . hos

a discussion on the roles of muslims in america and the world. later, a former cia intelligence officer on u.s. strategy against al qaeda in denniston and started at 8:00 p.m. eastern, remembering the lives of women -- william f. buckley jr. and senator ted kennedy. >> and now the annual christmas tree ceremony at the vietnam veterans memorial on the national mall. this portion of the event is about 20 minutes. >> is to recognize some of the people here today, especially want to thank everybody here from rolling thunder and a motorcycle community. they were here and they brought handwarmers. that shows the type of leadership we have with rolling thunder. we wanted to make our board member, john dibble, and then a hard-working volunteers that keep this in more up and running. the government was close touch with the vietnam veterans memorial was (and our volunteers opened the kiosk and we were open for business and the park service removed the snow. we want to thank the xerox today as well for our ceremony and giving us the money to have the ceremo

we didn't see that in bank of america today. the stock was strong. there was a lot of call activity. but, you know, that was just -- that's natural, that's normal. that's real call activity. >> bank of america is in the books and you mentioned, we are all looking ahead towards who's next. wells fargo is certainly one of the names out there. >> war len buffet who owns 7% doesn't think so either. this stock has underperformed other banks. it's the only large bank down on the year, down 9% year to date. it's kind of troubling, stuck in a range here. and i think that t.a.r.p. is a very big overhang. you know, that said, listen, i think once they do it and if they do it like the ceo says in a shareholder friendly mannering i think this works out pretty well for your investors of wells fargo. so one of the things i want to do, rather than buying the stock right here, i want to do a risk revers reversal. i'm going to pay 10 cents for that. i'm buying the april 30 call for $1.45. and to finance that purchase i'm selling the april 23 put for $1.35. so net, ne

america's ideals and the world's ideas.not only in the heart and minds of our countrymen, but in the hearts and minds of millions of the world's people, in both free and oppressed who look to us for leadership. obama's ideals for a large extent with the ideals that underpin the activities of the nobel committee throughout 108 year history. to strengthen international institutions as much as possible. to reduce the importance of arms and open a the nuclear armaments altogether. to promote dialogue and negotiation, and in the last few years, take protective measures to meet the climate threat. looking at the history of the nobel peace prize, we have several examples of awards to persons or institutions that have achieved from the mental agreements or are the result that have stood the test of history. we will find at least as many efforts that have gone to those that tried to bring about from the changes in international politics, but the result was still unclear at the time when they received their awards. the prize game whe

has anybody answered the kissinger question for america? >> i think it's an evolving question. >> can you name the presidents of europe? >> eric can. [laughter] >> i know who wants to be the president of europe. >> well, he didn't get it. >> i know. >> i think it's not a pressing question as far as america goes, because i think europe is a trusted place in this country. they think -- you know, we didn't agonize very long about going in head-long into military conflicts in europe in the last decade, because it was europe. while we young our hands, while there were exponentially more devastating genocide being committed in africa. and not taking a position, it's just a way of highlighting the deep connections between. so i don't think we worry much about europe. i think as europe integrates and becomes more powerful, we may over time, because i don't think the average american thinks of europe in the way that europeans want to. >> actually, one of the concerns about the obama administration in europe anyway has been that he tended to take his

take care of everybody in america. jimmy carter once said that the people that work should live better than those that don't. i caught that when he said that. it seemed a little odd to hear from thank from him and i don't know that he efforted to live by it but he said that and i believe that as well. this bill is another class leveler. it's another take from the rich and give to the poor. it's a class envy bill. it's born out of spite and born out of class envy and it's driven by ideology and it's driven by the idea of social medicine. and today i was asked a question to answer a series of questions that were requested by a publication here on the hill and it was, what is the biggest problem republicans have? mr. speaker, my answer is fighting off marxists and socialists that masquerade as liberalists and democrats. this is a socialist eath and that's one of the reason why the blue dogs have gone underground and become ground hogs. the shadow of socialism has pushed them underground and they're not out here fighting f

when america starts a war, when america is involved in a war, we are so strong, so powerful that the only way to end a war is for us to end it. there is only one way to end the war that america's involved in and that's for us to decide as a country, enough is enough, we're done. we spend more on our defense than all other countries combined. and the result of that is that these decisions are made by us, often by the people in this room, often by the president. and it's up to us to decide when enough is enough, when enough people have died, when enough money that has been lost when the price has been too high. i submit that we reached that point in iraq a long time ago. we reached that point in afghanistan a long time ago. in the case of afghanistan, within two months after 9/11, we had expeled the taliban government from the capital. we had expeled al qaeda from the country and our enemies with no longer in afghanistan at that point. they were in pakistan and remain there today. not a secret. everybody niece it. within two months or three months after 9/11, we had won our victory in

taiwan or africa or latin america, even here in america.lthy. -- a huge gap, rich to poor. it is held -- unhealthy. they are also human beings. they might be in a more happier sort of state. the whole of the american people to get it. i think american, i think the idea of freedom, liberty, equality. i think these are human values. since my childhood, of course, i do not know much, but when we heard america as a chairman of liberty, freedom, democracy, and then perhaps maybe also that watched. on some sort of level for america. i just told this morning, actually when received the gold watch from president roosevelt, i carried it with an american military uniform. i remember seeing the uniform. with that watch, actually, president roosevelt with the letter and a picture. so as a child, i have a keen attraction to this watch, not of that letter [laughter] you see, even i did not see that letter, and nobody told me what it contains. [laughter] so that looks really like a child, watch very beautiful. so i kept it sends them. occasionally, a sens

talk to corporate america and the c.e.o.'s and listen to them what the insurance companies are saying to them, how they are jacking up their rates on their employer-sponsored group policies, and oh, please pray that you are not an individual who can't get a group policy and you're having to go out there and try to find an individual policy because the likelihood is that you're not going to be able to afford it. so cost is critically a factor here, and it's a factor also to the united states government, because we cannot -- the u.s. government cannot afford the cost of medicare as it keeps exploding into the future. we have to bring these costs under control. and when you mix that in with the horror stories that you hear of 46 million people don't have health insurance, but when they get sick, where do they end up? the emergency room. they get that care at the most expensive place, and the rest of us pay, and that is a hidden tax on average in this nation. that hidden tax is $1,000 per family health insurance policy, and i can

>> bank of america.he bank is a insured depository, merrill lynch an investment bank. >> i'm reading from your testimony. >> right. >> you assert fdic has a continuing stake in the financial well-being of those insured depository institutions. >> right. >> okay. so what was the view ever the fdic at the time the bank of america proposed to acquire merrill lynch? was that a good business decision? was that a risky business decision? were you aware of the unprecedented losses without the federal intervention? >> we are not the holding company. we do not approve of this, the fed does. we make certain that we have a supporting supervisor authority. we think a better cover of this would come from the fed. we must rely on the primary regulators. with those capriotes -- caveats, i did not know that merrill lynch was facing such major losses in the third quarter. >> we have a bill that is pending before the house of representatives today, that would constitute a major overhaul and would finally allow oversight o

seniors in america.ere are other examples like that. the general accounting office came to us with this and said we've got to do something about this. there's fraud in the home health care program. i don't want to single out home health care. i'm a big fan of home health care. big, big fan of home health care. they do really good work. but we want to take out the fraud. the excessive payments are fraudulent. isn't that a good thing to do? doesn't that also help extend the solvency of the trust fund? isn't that helping patients, not hurting them? that's what we're doing here. and there are other examples like that. in fact, home health folks came to us and said make some of these changes because it's much more efficient, we could get better care and the result is there are fewer dollars going to the home health care. we also added a provision for rural home health care. rural america needs extra help, rural health care. we had an extra bonus in for rural health care. so my point very simply is when senato

, on top of the baseline bills in america. the baseline funding bills, in addition to the stimulus, are in double-digit increases in bill after bill after bill, far more than bush ever had. he was criticized for reckless spending. he never had the baseline spending increases that have been passed this year just a few months ago, a few weeks ago in some cases. this year, as of september 30th, we acknowledged and accounted for a $1.4 trillion budget deficit in one year. one year, $1.4 trillion, september 30th. the republicans never had a deficit so large in one year. and in next year, there's projected to be over $1 trillion and average almost $1 trillion over the next 10 years. and in the years eight, nine, and 10 of the president's 10-year budget, the deficit goes up. it's not going down. it's going up. and so, therefore, we end up with a debt that according to our own congressional budget office hired by the congress, the majority are democrats, they approve a budget director, and he tries to do a good job of giving us honest

again, but to the point of this debate, it is also imperative that the people of united states of america send a message to iran that the aggressive repression of a free press in iran will not be tolerated in the form of of normal relations with the united states of america. either diplomatically or economically. at this point the committee to protect journalists reports there are some 23 journalists

she writes about what it is like to be pour in america, -- poor in america. there is definitely a lot of anger about the economy, unemployment. it is something that barack obama will have to get his hands on. host: how long did it take you to get this list together? guest: about three weeks. host: taking a look at paul kennedy, a historian from yale university. guest: it does seem like we are at this historical moment when american power is declining. maybe he just wrote his book too early. host: college park, maryland. good morning. caller: this is a very sad day in america. since barack obama has been collected, the election of -- elected, the election of 2008, america needs to get a grip. how long is it going to take? america has to realize bush was there for eight years. he did a lot of damage when he was there. all they can see is -- it is a black man, all the negatives. america has blood on her hands. we cannot keep going to other people's countries and try to set up a democracy. that is all i have to say. host: thank you. guest: no question, obama came

invasion in central america and the like. but this group of intellectuals which includes some of the most distinguished in the u.s. and western europe, shifted their view and took the position that intervention after the end of the cold war could now be viewed increasingly as a humanitarian action that seeks to protect minorities against oppression and ethnic cleansing, seeks to remove dictators, seeks to promote democracy, and it was, the view was taken by many that intervention ceased being a predatory, environment act which is how it would seen, i think, by many during the cold war and was seen as a truly altruistic act. and it was a situation in which there wasn't too much intervention. on the contrary, there wasn't enough intervention. the unwillingness or supposed unwillingness of the u.s. to become involved militarily in certain conflicts, that was seen as an act of sort of cynical rail politic whereas when the u.s. acted in 1995, in kosovo in '99, more recently in iraq, of course, in 2003 and afghanistan as well, that

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this larry is one that came over from south america.ought them into this country in southern florida. there are poison glands right back there. >> get it away from me! get it off of me! >> larry: it's okay. >> it's a toad. it's a toad. >> larry: it's okay. >> i don't like toads either. >> larry: you're okay. he didn't bite you. get it out of here. that's historic, folks. bring on the cockroaches. >> put that on larry's jacket. that's what i do. that's a nice one there. don't let him get in your hair because he'll lay eggs. >> larry: he will lay eggs? >> well, she. no, he's the male. let him go down your shirt. he's gone now. >> larry: where is he? he went down my shirt? get him out of my shirt. >> reach down in there. don't be bashful. get the thing before he gets -- you got him? oh, good. >> larry: imagine if i went home with that. >> your wife wouldn't like you. >> larry: cockroaches, they are unusual, right? >> they say they could survive nuclear attacks. this is the mad gas scar hissing cockroach. hear it? [ hissing ] >> i put these

america will be a part of a fast start funding that will cramp up to $10 billion by 2012. secretary of state hillary clinton made clear that we will engage in a global effort to mobilize $100 billion in financing by 2020 if and only if it is part of a broader accord that i have just described. mitigation, transparency, financing. it is a clear formula, one that embraces the principle of common but differentiated responses and respective capabilities. it adds up to a significant accord, one that texas farther than we have ever gone before -- one that takes us farther than we have ever gone as an international community. this plenary session, we're running short on time. at this point, the question is whether we will move forward together or split apart. whether we prefer posturing to action. i am sure that many consider this an imperfect from work that i just described. no country will get everything it wants. there are those developing countries that want aid with no strings attached and no obligations with respect to transparency. they think the most advanced nation shoul

we have fought for america. that is why there was the political sacrifice and some people say that's your job, to vote for the tarp, not willingly. we didn't want a fat cat bill. we didn't want a bill that paid people to stuff their pockets. we wanted to ensure that businesses stayed open. that we had the opportunity for small businesses, my friends and neighbors, my constituents, to get money to keep those jobs. all right, it wasn't perfect. but the numbers don't fib. we did create jobs. we kept businesses open. the president has gone to the mat by saying to these fat cats, and look, we are in a capitalistic system. i understand that. but he's gone to them and said, you have to lend to small businesses. mr. speaker, we have done a lot and in doing a lot we have provided the opportunity for the kinds of dollars coming to the district so let me just say this. $48 billion in highways, transit and other infrastructure. we are going to be able to stop the bleeding by keeping our teachers, our police, our firefighter

i have been to 32 states and i have seen thousands of people working around america building america's infrastructure. our money is out the door. thousands of people have gone to work and we will finish up these projects next year. this was an 18-month program. as winter comes on these projects will start up again. people will go back to work and we will have made announcements about high-speed rail and our grants. when it comes to dot i know what is going on. you can see specifically state by state the number of projects that have been funded. we have worked hard on this. our money is out the door. people have worked all summer and many people were on unemployment in january and february. they had good paying jobs and because of winter it they have to suspend. we have done our job at dot. >> [inaudible] it may not be the best way to jump-start this national plan of a high-speed system. >> tell me what your question is. >> the number one decision is to give the money that will create the most jobs. that does not make the argument that you're giving the money to the best systems. >> whe

she writes about what it is like to be pour in america, -- poor in america. there is definitely a lot of anger about the economy, unemployment. it is something that barack obama will have to get his hands on. host: how long did it take you to get this list together? guest: about three weeks. host: taking a look at paul kennedy, a historian from yale university. guest: it does seem like we are at this historical moment when american power is declining. maybe he just wrote his book too early. host: college park, maryland. good morning. caller: this is a very sad day in america. since barack obama has been collected, the election of -- elected, the election of 2008, america needs to get a grip. how long is it going to take? america has to realize bush was there for eight years. he did a lot of damage when he was there. all they can see is -- it is a black man, all the negatives. america has blood on her hands. we cannot keep going to other people's countries and try to set up a democracy. that is all i have to say. host: thank you. guest: no question, obama came

but there was another kind of gold in america, more precious kind than the gold coins. it was freedom, and there was opportunity. blessed with these conditions and hampered by much less disabling forms of anti-semitism and discrimination, then jews had been accustomed to growing with, children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren of these immigrants flourished. and not just in material terms, to an extent unprecedented in the history of their people. what i'm saying is that the jewish experience in this country as an eloquent testimony to the infinitely tested the virtues of the traditional american system. surely then we jews have an obligation to join with its defenders against those who were blind or indifferent or antagonistic to this philosophical principles of moral values, social economic institutions on health and vitality, traditional american system contents. in 2008, we were faced with a candidate who ran explicitly on the premise that the traditional american system was seriously flawed and in desperate need of radical change. as he said on october 31,

in america, race still resonates. >> you don't think people have the right to say what sort of neighborhoods they'd like to live in? >> absolutely, but i don't think that people have a right to say, "we don't want black people in our neighborhood." given race in america, you never really know whether it is or isn't there and to what extent. but it probably is one of the issues, and it's also the one issue that the press hesitates to talk about. >> male narrator: tonight a frank discussion on race and the media. what color is the news? should race define which stories are newsworthy? who makes these decisions? examine how journalists wrestle with these questions next on what color is the news? the coverage of race in america. funding for what color is the news? was provided by the ford foundation, a resource for innovative people and institutions worldwide. >> i'm beth courtney, president of louisiana public broadcasting. >> and i'm jack hamilton, dean of louisiana state university's manship school of mass communicatio

did you know one out of four realtors in america have no health insurance? i didn't know it until they came to see me. well, this gives them a hand, gives them a tax break as a small business to provide health insurance for their people. so, madam president, i'm going to reserve the balance of my time but i will tell you, we're here today, we're burning the hours off the clock to vote at 1:00 a.m. in the morning. it would be more humane to the people who work here, to the members of the senate and their families for us to reach a gently and gentlewomanly agreement that we will -- gentlemenly and gentlewomanly agreement that we will have this vote at a more reasonable time. if we have the 60 votes -- which i think we have the commitments for -- then we can decide how to move forward. we've had a long, arduous, sometimes taxing debate leading to this moment. i think it's time for a vote, and the sooner we can reach that vote, the sooner the american people will know whether we succeed or fail in bringing stability and security when it comes to their health ins

one of america's most symbolic structures. order online at c- span.org/store. . . >> michael fauntroy, how would you describe what you do for a living? >> i am an educator at george mason university. i teach graduate students courses in american government and urban policy and that sort of thing. i'm also interested in a larger world. i try to do as much media as i can and write a little bit, columns. i am somebody who is trying to go beyond just the ivory tower walls of academia to speak to a large audience. that is a good deal of it. "the huffington post" and my own web site came about out of some frustration and i am writing columns and submitting them all across the country. not one was published. i got one published by the "topeka capital journal" years ago. i was so frustrated,i decided to go out and write my own columns on my own website. i knew someone who knew somebody at "huffington post." the next thing you know i was there. that opportunity has opened up other opportunities. >> give us an example of what that does

america has the best health care in the world if you can get it. but for far too many people, access to care is out of reach because they lack insurance, and this is just not acceptable to physicians who have had high quality care and often fragmented system that doesn't work for them or the patience -- patients. this will include better disease management and prevention. it will further the development of research that can help patients and physicians compare treatments and make better informed medical decisions. it authorizes grants to test alternative medical liability reforms that show promise and benefitting patients and reducing the impact of the defensive medicine. over the past few weeks, the ama communicated closely with members of the senate about items we support and items of concern in the senate bill. we are pleased that the manager's amendment addresses several issues. for example, the bill increases payments to primary-care physicians and general surgeons and underserved areas will no longer cutting payments to other physicians. it e

now, in america, in real america, that's the area outside the beltway of washington, if you don't pay your bill on time what happens? what happens? you get an interest penalty. what happens? somebody says, hey, you're behind on paying your bill. what happens here? nothing happens except it will come november of 2010, i predict, because i think americans have had enough of what's happened here. so what happens here is they didn't do their work. they didn't finish the process, they didn't pass the budget. they didn't meet the dead lines. so now we punt it into 2010. for the budget year we're already in. both parties have done this. it's why we need to reform the process. but, hey, they control 60 in the senate. that gets you past any filibuster. 60 votes. they control the house with a huge margin. and the white house. and not even with those margins, with single party powerful control of both chambers of congress and the white house could they pass the budget bill. that's why you had the omnibus at the end of this week where they lumped six of them together and jack up the spending by 1

god bless america and god bless this movement, go team america! [cheers and applause] >> i tell you what. we are going to bring her back up one more time. [cheers and applause] she's going to make a very special introduction born of our guest of honor here today. michele bachmann! >> are we ready for the great lady that we've all come to see? [cheers and applause] we are rolling up her sleeves to hear from the freedom side! not only is she the most listened to female in talk radio, she's also "the new york times" bestseller author of what all of you are, their power to the people! [cheers and applause] phobos welcome. and not to mention she is drop dead gorgeous, and smart. laura ingram in mac [cheers and applause] >> hey everybody. how are you? o. stop. [cheers and applause] >> were at! >> i'm here to talk to you about some of my favorite christmas stories. and i'll let you in on media back, every single one of you, all those cute little cameramen back there. i want you to listen up, get your hot chocolate coming or flask ready because i've a sto

that is an investment in america.i assure my colleagues that this committee on transportation and infrastructure will continue its vigorous oversight, accountability and transparency. every member has received this report from our committee, 14 categories of progress for each state under these key programs. you can track how many funds are associated projects are completed, how many are under way, total job hours create and sustained and total payroll created and sustained for every state, every month. we're making this clear that we are investing in america and we will continue to do this under the jobs for main street program. the speaker pro tempore: the time of the gentleman has expired. who seeks recognition? the gentleman from california is recognized. mr. lewis: i recognize the gentleman from georgia, let's see, jack kingston, i think it is, for two minutes. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for two minutes. mr. kingston: i thank the gentleman for yielding. madam speaker in january, the presi

are all over america have old pipes, schools all over america are drafty and need windows replaced and the paint peeling in many of them. not all of them but many of them. and any school teacher or any principal or any school kid can tell you that. we need people to do the work. we have people who are willing to do the work and we have things that need to be worked on. what we have to do is bring the two together, invest in transportation including transit, urban transportation, light rail and schools. this is an urgent problem, it needs fixing and people need work, let's pay them to do it. state and local government relief. now all over this country states and cities and locates are having to cut back on services that they provide to their citizens. governor arnold schwarzenegger neglecter has taken the public circle and said, without the stimulus package 100,000 teachers in california would be out of work. so that was an example of a good thing. but it's not nearly enough. we need more to be done because in this era and in this time we see local governments having to lay off police o