the american original. for over two decades, for the l >>> issue one, the american dream. >> the economic expansion that began in the middle of last year is proceeding at a moderate pace. supported by monetary policies. we will and fiscal policies. we will continue. >> america is recession weary. now in its third year since the meltdown and more bad news this week, item, jobs vanish. employment last month dropped 301,000 workers. item, banks busted. 96 banks have shut down so far this year on track for the highest number in 18 years. item, markets wobble. the dow fell 6.6% this year. the s and p has dropped 5.0%. item, confidence plunges in june. from 62.7 to 52.9 on the comforts board index. 10 points in one month. item, retail sales, manufacturing, auto making. all down. >>> little wonder that the fourth annual metlife study of the american dream shows that the percentage of americans who believe the u.s. economy will be the same or worse than last year is 67%. two out of three people, which is consistent

identify their ancestry as flim noe american, making it the second largest asian-american communitythe united states and whereas earlier this year california star leyland yi passed the bill sell -- acknowledging the importance of flill -- filipino americans in our history, now be it resolved that gavin newsome, mayor of san francisco, in recognition of the bonds between the philippines and america do hereby proclaim october, 2009 as filipino history month in san francisco. i'd like to give this honor to our deputy general consul, santos. at this time i'd like to welcome my colleague and friend lisa ongoing who -- ong who serves as liaison to the office of community affairs. lisa? >> thank you, hydra and thank you call -- all for being here today. i know the circumstances in getting here might have been a little more difficult for some of you but i do appreciate you coming out on behalf of the mayor to help celebrate filipino american month. the mayor was here earlier to stop by and say hi and make sure everyone recognizes the importance of of the filipino community in the united sta

writing an african american character. you have to think about, too, this whole idea of political correctness has both an up side and a very bad down side. one of those is people tend to be very cautious and not want to try things like that. i eventually through my relationship with danny glover pulled it out of my drawers -- out of the drawer, desk drawer, and read it and danny was instrumental in saying, let's do this. let's just do this. but, again, it was me working with some african american actors and i actually had it vetted by august wilson, read it and checked it out for me and there's another fellow who wrote soldier's story, charles fuller, took a look at it for me. i wanted to make sure my bases were covered. but this new play, what i did was, i feel comfortable writing the characters, but you are never sure. one thing that happened was steven anthony jones helped me a great deal with the african american character. we took it to sundance and what happens when you go to sundance is you bring some actors and som

indian, american indian aids project and the american indian health center to celebrate five outstanding local heroes for their work in the san francisco bay area, american indian community. now therefore be it resolved that i, the mayor, do hereby proclaim november, 2009, as american indian heritage month in the city and county of san francisco. at this time i'd also like to recognize the offices of several elected officials who are providing certificates of honors to all of the awardees this evening. the office of senator mark leno, assemblyman tom amiano and speaker of the house nancy pelosi. i'd also like to thank helen walkasou of friendship house, john ben with a of the american native -- john ben with a -- jonbenet, lindo brian from kqed and mark espinosa from the native american health center. and i'd like to now introduce mark espinosa, executive director of san francisco native american health center. >> good evening, everyone. welcome. i'd like to congratulate all the winners tonight as well as thank all the sponsors for this great event. native american health center of san f

who is an american? how do we sort of coexist in this post war period where the people from that community are by and large marginalized, yet you have this whole kind of other thing happening where it's -- the war has been won, this is like new things, television is happening, advertising, this whole advertising thing is happening. so you have these marginalized peoples and what happens, is it possible to develop a kind of at that moment a cross-cultural community? is it possible to have kind of a multi cultural community that emerged from that moment? and so, in particular, that's what i wanted to explore. and part of the back drop is there was this extraordinary jazz scene happening in that area. there's this wonderful book called fillmore harlem west and also there's several other books that are about that particular era. but that's all happening too, people like billie holiday, count basie, duke ellington, they were all playing in the fillmore district, bop city, plantation club, jack's tavern. that'

african-americans and asian- americans. do you novak when the agent exclusion act, the chinese exclusion act was before congress in 1870, the first national leader to speak out against that was frederick douglass. the same man who fought against slavery. do you know that when the chinese exclusion act was voted on in congress, there was one black senator named blanche bruce, the only african-american in the u.s. senate, voted against it. similarly, we work side-by-side for semel -- civil rights and improve public education. in '86, and laundry owner sued the san francisco board of supervisors for a racially discriminatory law, and it brought equal protection to minorities, and that overturned the 1857 dread scott case, which held that minorities were not protected by the u.s. constitution. we have the landmark case of brown harris is board of education, 1954, to thank for equality in education. -- brown v. board of education. seven years later, the chinese community here worked shoulder to shoulder with the african- america

they're creating american jobs to produce american power. a tour with the veterans of our country about american power, about how we can create jobs here and not send hundreds of billions of dollars to foreign nations' treasuries and those nations are unfriendsly to the u.s. that's the change -- unfriendly to the u.s. that's the changed thinking, not the failure of the past that drained, that lost eight million jobs do. we go back to those failed policies or do we transition over to what has been the road to recovery, albeit not as fast as we would like, but it's progress, it's movement in the right direction and its innovation and -- it's innovation and it's embracing the american intellect. ms. wasserman schultz: thank you very much, mr. tonko. i want to add a couple more thing things and then i know mr. schauer will close us out. one of the things that i think it's important to note that we also have done, because deficit spending is -- deficits are really an issue and deficit spend something an issue, we -- when we took the majority back

i already have the american spirit. i am proud to be here and i really appreciate the spirit of committing to things and being honored and being collaborative. when i flashed back to my career, i think about what an artist can do is a teeny tiny thing. i want to contribute to the hall human society. what art can do is just this tiny bit. >> your invitation has already proven to be a great success and we really look forward to spending time with your sculpture. thank you for being part of "culture wire." >> thank you for being part of this project. >> thank you for watching. join us for future episodes. you can>> many people are not af this building was built in 1936. as a board to preserve the history and make the students aware of that history. the partnering between sfmoma and the arts commission means they will be more aware of the artwork that we have here, the artists that painted a, and the history behind this itself. >> students came from george washington, and it was wonderful to have them on a panel. people fro

americans deserve answers. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2010] >> tonight, the final debate between four candidates in michigan gov.'s republican primary debate. it is followed by a rebates -- the debate by those running

they were the architects of the american and russian space programs. in the battle to reach out to space. and make their first attempts to reach for the stars in their childhood as a boy in the soviet union so gay designed simple ideas but as time went by he came up with a more sophisticated rocket propelled craft as for venice at the age of twelve he created a prototype rocket by equipping a crate with fireworks he also built a walking wagon that he launched in his hometown and apparently this wagon in the ad had. rockets he had made on it and it. ran down the main street of his hometown and. who was von braun's long time private secretary says venet attracted police attention many times for firing things into the air nowadays buckbee often takes people on a tour of the space museum in huntsville where each exhibit is related to von braun . but the best storyteller of. exploits is his only daughter natalia she wrote about him in three volumes of memoirs simply titled my father. with these this is a picture of the first soviet rocket it was launched on

and it was the health center and nailtive american aids project together -- native american aids project together that really helped me to be where i'm at today and without these two organizations, without these two women, i wouldn't be where i'm at today. so it really is with deep respect, i thank these two ladies. so thank you. and now mark would like to say a few words about kathy. >> thank you. about three years ago kathy was hired at the native american health center. i didn't know her at the time or at least i didn't think i did. we started talking about the old days and how things were and it turned out she knew my mother and we talked more and it turns out she remembered me as a kid. during the longest walk. and i thought, wow, that goes back 1978. i'm 45 now. that story that you're under 40e isn't going to work anymore. no, honestly i think, you know, what we do at the health center as well as nap is provide services that are needed for our community and the city as a whole. with the recent budget cuts and cuts to the h.i.v. programs and dental and medical, it's apparent that we

it's time for us, the american people, to restore the american dream. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. for what purpose does the gentleman from north carolina rise? >> i ask permission to address the house for one minute and to revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. >> thank you very much. mr. speaker, i rise to express my strong support on social security. this year we celebrate 75 years of this critical program and must reaffirm our commitment not only to protect it but to ensure its continuing viability. american senior citizens have lived through wars -- they pioneer technologies in communication, transportation and industry. and these remarkable achievements demonstrate the strength and character of our older americans, underscoring the debt of gratitude that we owe to generationes that have given so much, a generation that includes my own parents who are celebrating birthdays this week and next. unfortunately, the recent recession has reminded us that economic prosperity is never a guara

pakistan is virtually the whole population regard their interests as very different indeed from the americans but in the wider context of what i suppose we're still doomed to call the war on terror america simply cannot get on without pakistan this is a matter of scale in pakistan is six times the size of afghanistan or iraq it has one of the biggest and most effective armies in the world it has nuclear weapons it has a huge d asper in britain and therefore in europe. and when it comes to controlling terrorism against the west i stress against the west in the west not in afghanistan pakistan has in fact been an indispensable and very useful ally in tackling al qaeda so america simply can't do without them even though when it comes to afghanistan and the afghan taliban pakistan continues to follow what is in effect a very different agenda dan i'd like to go to you in dubai that's a very good point a different agenda i mean of course the united states and pakistan have mutual interests on a number of things but not on everything i mean a lot of people within the even the political establishment

it's going on all over the world it just seems like america or the americans or american citizens are just kind of sleeping right now i don't know i don't know if they understand what's really going on in the world or how it effects affects them or affects us because on american citizens we have to remember that. america is this model for democracy you know we become just like people in third world countries. look to america and say you know you guys are really seem like you got it together you know. it's not really together it's just a facade of you know everybody is the make up is there but behind the make up is kind of like kind of like chaotic if it's not a democracy here in the united states what is it that's a good question it's a good question. when people can speak up when they can have a peaceful protests. about injustices that's in the community is for something as small as from police brutality to what's going on and with the oil spill. and be active when you have the people dissatisfied what was going on with the policies then you have to wake up in the morning president o

to the american people. they forced down the throats of the american public a bill which is now law that was designed to fail. designed to fail, america. why do i say that? it was designed to push people off of private health insurance. designed to push people into a, what's now called a public exchange. that's going to force people into more and more government. it's designed to lead us just before obamacare was passed into law that he said he wanted to go. where everybody in this country would be on one insurance policy. one pool is what he said. that means socialized medicine, where bureaucrats here in washington, d.c., direct the health care for everybody in this country, that tell doctors like myself -- i'm a general practice doctor -- how to practice medicine, who we can give care to, what tests we can do. and in fact, right now today the federal government tells me and other physicians across this country whether we can admit a patient that's on medicare to the hospital or not. it's not determined by

accent and the american people will take an american accent in a better way that's right well george bush proved that you can fool the american people into accepting anything if you stand adama and he sounded deep south and in texas enough so he said look george bush we're going to completely destroy your economy and you're now left with nothing and everyone bought into it now you've got tony hayward's got that kind of british accent and of course i was like oh no it's foreign we don't accept it so they put in an american what's his name dudley robert dudley robert dudley so he'll get on there for b.p. and say well the girl goes completely destroy what we totally eviscerated and we bought a joke. i mean and we're occupying your country and you know a bunch of peasants now but does american accent suits ok and they're going to be like. we're peasants i feel like i could have a beer with him. well this however you know they're going to have an american accent to explain to the population of america which is suddenly interested in b.p.'s role in the release of the lockerbie bomber but o

we raised a flag the american flag on the surface of the moon congrats. i really believe that the soviet union drove the us to the moon and are in our day and we did that in the sixty's and i think it was because there was serious competition between the two countries and. didn't get to see strong take the first step on the surface he died in one thousand nine hundred sixty six during summer. his anonymity died with him and his identity was finally. triggering a wave of the. streets when the. monuments and plaques run failed in his own even. after reading. that he never realized the work could be done by just one person. my father like to say that people can travel into space issued by train he was absolutely sure that outer space was not empty and people must live and work there he said. seeing americans and russians in space together. in one hundred seventy five the so he. put an end to the space race. less than five meters. i like. most of all like the trickle of chocolates a location. was part of the apollo project and visits this museum he remembers

financial regulatory reform legislation, and as the chairman of the federal reserve testifies about the american economy before congress, we have a conversation with the secretary of the treasury, tim geithner. people ask two things about this financial reform legislation. number one, will it prevent another crisis? number two, does it speak to, in terms of capital requirements, and risk and leverage, the very things that caused the crisis in the first place? >> i've always said that the centerpiece of any reform is capital. stronger capital requirements. constraints on leverage. forced to institute more stable funding. that's the most important way to prevent future financial crises and it is the most important test of reform and what this bill does is provide authority that the government of the united states did not have to make sure we can set and enforce those capital requirements on these institutions, not just the banks but the large institutions, complicated institutions that are the big global leaders in these areas like goldman sachs, like morgan stanley, like g.e. capital, not just ci

bush was particularly lawless i don't think there's ever been a time in american history when we had the highest officials in government so flagrantly break the law and show no respect at all for the rule of law they just created laws just out of whole cloth they created laws in secret behind closed doors that were in them a cold to american democracy and and shameful to our international image some of those laws for instance redefined torture so that it made it ok for the c.i. a to brutalize prisoners and detainees. supposedly even doing it legally for instance allowing waterboarding to be done legally one in fact it is a violation of international law and u.s. law but it didn't matter provided that they did these laws in secret do you realistically with all due respect i think you're going to be successful. i take the long view i think that to do nothing is a travesty because of the damage that's been done to our country and to our reputation around the world we the people we the american people. have to come forward and say enough is enough we've had enough of the impunity in the

between american people. i don't think the american people will stand with them, but will stand with these policies we are offering now in this moment forward on making it in america. and i just have to ask the question because it is really startling if you think about, you laid out all of the things we did to try to stabilize the economy and all the actions were -- were undertaken and have been undertaken where we can make products in america and lools enable our communities, workers and businesses to make it in america. and every once in a while, they turn on the tv and hear our counterparts on the other side and they sigh over and over again and if the american people won't notice, where are the jobs? where are the jobs? the reality is we are putting the bills on the floor and you are voting against the jobs. so don't -- there's this idea that they insult the american people by suggesting that somehow the jobs are missing. you are voting against the jobs and now you have a chance to join us. . mr. garamend

not only do these -- did these funds help american families, they help the american economy. one reason there is not enough jobs right now is weak consumer demand. c.b.o. has found that extending unemployment benefits to be one of the most cost effective and fast acting ways to stimulate the economy. every dollar in unemployment benefits creates at least $1.64 in economic activity as opposed to the 29 cents the bush tax cuts would generate if extended, according to a chief economist of moody's -- moodys.com. the c.b.o. projected that the restoration of emergency unemployment compensation act of 2010 would cost $33 billion which works out to be about $2,200 per unemployed person, of those people. this is roughly 7/1,000th of 1%. yet the republicans now want to claim fiscal responsibility. providing these benefits is fiscally responsible and more than that, it's a moral responsibility. in the month of may, the state of pennsylvania had a 9.1% unemployment rate and in my area in southwest pennsylvania we see many economies that are still hovering arppeds the 10% mark. while i wa

i irish american. i didn't know what a pure american was. none of my friends were pure americans. a lot of my friends were lebanese and from syria. i had yewish and irish american friends. all of our identities were mixed. my sense of being american was being in a mix of things. >> margaret could you also reflect in a prior conversation you talked about your father had a sense of where he came from and it was a little more difficult for your mom to articulate that? >> sure. mother's side is irish american my father come from a different heritage. he is a genealogy. he traced his family all the way back to the times when they moved from spain to a region of france. that's where his family came from as peasants in 1850. and for generations, his family members had been going back to this place to visit their distant cousins. they knew exactly where it was. i was thinking that was a year after my irish american family came here. why don't my irish american family know this information. i want to try to find out what it is. i didn't know at that time what i was undertaking. i heard it

he was an enslaved african american. he worked for the owner of a foundry and was selected to test the bronze statue. he figured out how to disassemble the plaster model by attaching an iron "to the statue's head and gently, ever so gently lifting the top section until a hairline crack appeared. the crack indicated where the joints were located and he then repeated the operation until the five different sections of the statue were discovered. we know about philip reed because the son of a foundry under shared this story back in 1869. it describes philip reed as an expert an admirable work and and highly esteemed by all who knew him. we stand here today not only because of philip reed but for other enslaved african americans like them who worked tirelessly and sacrificed in the face of strife. these plaques in their own right will serve as a symbol of their sacrifice and will be seen by visitors will enter the building for evermore. in closing, i would like to personally thank the members of the slave labor task force, ch

and mexican americans? why is one often more conservative? >> it is very simple. the cuban americans have been very successful in presenting the point of view in washington. they know how washington works, and they have been able to protect people coming from cuba, so if you are a cuban, and you get into the united states, and you are able to touch u.s. territory, you can stay here legally, but if you are a mexican during the same thing, you are going to be detained and deported. >> what the think about that? >> it would be great if mexicans could have the same rights. it is a difficult situation because cubans are escaping from a dictatorship, and most mexicans and central americans are coming for economic reasons. i think the united states has the right to protect its borders, but we have to change the immigration system. it is not working. it is not right that some have certain rights of others are different. i understand why cubans are doing it. i am in favor of protecting both. >> you lived among a lot

a strategy to boost american manufacturing. for generations, for generations, americans have looked at our manufacturing sector as a source of economic vitality. a source of good paying jobs and a source of pride. almost has always been proud to be a country that makes things. somewhere those jobs and that pride are a thing of the past, but democrats don't believe that. and we are committed to the make it in america agenda will encourage bills to make it in industry and improving manufacturing infrastructure and innovation, strengthen the america workforce, and create a level playing field for american manufacturers that compete worldwide in this flat world of which tom friedman spoke. n america agenda is made up of a range of bills that will come to the floor in the coming weeks, including enhancement act which passed the house on wednesday. it makes it easier for american companies to get the materials they need to manufacture goods here. the sectors act which passed this week, it foreigns -- forls partners to train workers n

still americans are without jobs. but this congress didn't stand still, the democratic leadership in this congress didn't stand still. we passed significant job legislation. first the stimulus package that created jobs across this country, saved or created 3 1/2 million jobs around this country in every single state, in every single congressional district, so that americans could continue working. but we said that wasn't enough. we need to be on the progress of building up our economy and creating more jobs for the american people, creating jobs that are about the 21st century, making sure that americans don't just get extended unemployment benefits, which i agree we ought to have done, it was the right thing to do and it was wrong for republicans to say that people who receive unemployment benefits don't deserve that because somehow that keeps them from looking for a job, those around the americans that i know. the americans that i know get up every single day, they want to work hard and they do work hard to take car

the first homeland event, our native american american indian warriors.speaking foreign language] >> all right, there you have it. how about a big round of applause, our men traditional dancers. thank you very much, gentlemen. next we're going to bring out another society of men and boys, another healing society of the grass dancers. and they are from the northern plains, the northern regions and the northern south dakota, montana, all the way up into canada and we're going to call up on the native american aids project for the grass dance song. michael is the lead singer. when you're ready, michael. grass dancers, let's give them a nice welcome. our grass dancers. >> all right, there you have it. our grass dancers. how about that? all right now we're going to go into our contemporary style of dancing. that's our fancy men's dance and we're going to start with our fancy shawl dance category. we have a couple young ladies, three of them that are going to come out. this is a modern style, contemporary style. it evolved into 1950's to present and they danced

the americans with disabilities act of 1990 was enacted to protect all americans from discrimination on the basis of disability. i am proud that we are able to look back on the passage of the americans with disabilities act and recognize the importance of this legislation and the changes made in american society, but our work is not yet done. the law must continue to evolve. we must continue to revisit the ada and to examine whether it is accomplishing its purpose. where we find that it is not, we must be willing to make changes. one recent example occurred in the last congress when we passed the americans with disabilities act amendment of 2008, which was assigned by george w. bush and went into effect into the asinine. this restored the ada to congress as original intent by clarifying the coverage of anyone with disabilities and over rowling -- overruling a court decision that anyone with a disability would list their aid it simply because the treatment was available. we hope that this kind of determination and cooperation will continue into the future so that individuals with disa

they depict native, latino, asian american, and african- american heritage and culture. >> that artist was talking about the history coming alive. that is what we want for the students here. i also think they might share that with past alumni and the community, so they could no the treasure that we have here in the schools. many people have the same experience i did when i first walked into this building three years ago, being the new principal. the grandeur of these murals is fantastic. many of the students who have come here have come here and are very proud of these murals. they're so happy that they're still here and are being preserved. >> to learn more about the civic art collection, visit >> welcome to "culture wire." on this episode, we visit with one of the arts commissions very special teams. >> the asia-pacific island cultural center receives help from the census but our commission. john mean today to talk about in off festival is the executive director. welcome. i understand this is the 13th annual festival. can you tell me the name? >> the name is a celebratory name. we al

elderly asian-american victims allegedly committed by african-american youths has raised the questionwhether the growing interracial tensions in cities like san francisco and oakland are partly to blame. i think most of us hope that the election of president obama would transcend the racial divide. however, even if this divide were somehow overcome, it would not address the racial divide amongst minorities in this country. the reality is

everybody already knew but is this just an excuse to not question the war effort itself next are americans america's wealthiest and most highly taxed are notorious for avoiding paying their taxes at all with tim geithner announcing that the obama administration will allow the bush tax cuts to lapse meaning tax increases for the job earners is there any way to make them pay or is it time to head to something a little more simple something like a flat tax we're going to bait that issue and it is a llama phobia it's on the rise in america with some groups going so far as to advocate for the burning of the koran we'll have a pastor from the dove world outreach center go head to head with a palestinian blogger who says that they are spreading a message of hate and next it's time to look at all the latest news from the relationship world everybody knows that what happens in vegas stays in vegas but apparently women are more likely to follow this golden rule and who knew the many women also like to keep their clothes on while having sex we'll get to the bottom of the strange phenomenon but now le

i wish all americans have the independence day. as fireworks simulate the rockers there, i hope we will pause and think of the men and%+ women in uniform -- the rockets glare, i hope we will pause and think of the men and women in uniform. we're grateful for their service. may god bless them and may god continue to bless our nation. thank you. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2010] >> tomorrow on "washhngton journal" -- blake hounshell discusses tyrants and dictators and their threat to world wide peace and stability. paul harrison joins us from the environmental defense fund, examining long term proposals for restoring the gulf coast reason. and peter decoursey

heritage month, every month can be african american heritage month.ry month can be seen the demise of. every month could be irish american, every month could be women's history month. don't you agree with me? [applause] this is a place where we all call home. we recognize there are a lot of issues in our communities these days, but this is a place we all call home, so the message that the apa heritage celebration committee would like you to take with you after this celebration is that we believe heritage and culture is something that we are proud of and something that we can all share. there is common ground in many traditions and common values among communities of all colors that we can all appreciate. we, the committee, are committed to take every opportunity to invite all communities to come together in occasions like this, to connect, to open doors ..., to get to know each other more. we need to do that in this city, and i know that today is not the first day, but every day can be the first day of forever. i want to thank you for coming as we cele

sort of sharing a hamburger with the american president so maybe the american president barack obama wasn't very pleased that it should be at that moment. it could be a decision that the director of the f.b.i. said we could delay perhaps he thought they might fly the coop if they didn't do something quickly but anyway they were there was one shot of the two heads of government cheerily sharing a hamburger about three days later. this is a humiliating story for four from moscow the ten eleven of their agents picked up one got away to cyprus. but that can't cannot have been available and very embarrassing for moscow and let's talk about that one that got away what do you think could have happened to him if he skipped bail was gone that oh one has to remember cyprus he got to sort of cyprus where he was arrested and some magistrate with more as presume a bigger bank account than he's got brains gave him bail despite the protests of the american consul inside the courtroom. as soon as you go bail he vanished well for obvious reasons i mean there are a lot of wealthy russians who live in

agriculture businesses don't want americans working for them. which translates into workers needed a spanish language sign definitely aimed towards immigrant workers a foreign based workforce that's making sure that these strawberries make it to your table there's no need for interviews or long applications undocumented immigrants simply show up at a field and they're hired many people including former president george w. bush i mean immigrant workers do the jobs americans refuse to do at a farm in oxnard a city just north of los angeles neighbors aren't convinced the average american could step in their shoes not even for a day is to hiring them for. why a person is too hard. i haven't seen any american here working here in the field said you'll get it all came into this country illegally through the southern california desert he makes a dollar ninety for every box of strawberries he feels and now in an effort to employ out of work americans and obviously to prove a point the united farm workers union is embodied in american citizens to take th

well doug a son in just the border region is also a huge country and if the americans were unable to successfully fight the taliban inside of honest on where they have a pretty powerful presence how are they going to be able to attack the border regions the fata region inside pakistan successfully given all the the factors that have been mentioned earlier on this program that pakistan has an air force an army and also has nuclear weapons and you certainly cannot remove pakistan from or secure graphy it will always be where it is between afghanistan and india and and on the commanding heights of the gulf so the u.s. needs to look at this very carefully before it goes down this very dangerous spot of trying to save yourselves by provoking some kind of a military conflict with pakistan i think this is also ok fear and i actually lied because we're almost running out of time you want to finish you want to have a last word anatole go ahead. i just want to back up shooter and say that actually most of the american soldiers i know do recognize the appalling take pictures of a direct attack

i just want to back up sugar and say that actually most of the american soldiers i know do recognize the appalling dangers of a direct attack on pakistan i think there are two circumstances in which this would happen the first if that was if they really had actionable intelligence concerning bin laden and zawahiri then i think they would launch a rate to get them the second is if of course there's a serious terrorist attack on the united are i knew i knew someone was going to have to jump in here and i talked to john here many thanks to my guest today dubai london and washington and thanks more viewers for watching us here r.t. see you next time and remember process. and you can see. i feel. there's no end in sight for russia's exceptional each way which continues to claim dives and increasingly threaten the environment and protests. an international space station ops ten minutes since it first became eligible for russian to go to support systems don't feel. abandoned to be adopted on t.v. the concept of a people see this kind of on the street these people children give them the hope

accent and the american people will take an american accent in a better way that's right well george bush proved that you can fool the american people into accepting anything if you sound a dumb and you stand a deep south and in texas and so he said look. we're going to completely destroy your economy and you're now left with nothing and everyone bought into it now you've got tony hayward's got that kind of british accent and of course i was like oh no it's for him we don't accept it so they put in an american what's his name dudley robert dudley robert dudley so he'll get on there for b.p. and say well the bill goes completely destroy what we've totally eviscerated the big budget you economy and we're occupying your country then you're all bunch of peasants now but does america not san soo it's ok. and you watch the kaiser report in just fifteen minutes time here on r t but for that let's take a look at russia close up as we take you to another part of the world's biggest country. and today we're just two hundred kilometers from moscow in the cold. region the center of russian scien

americans are angry at the expenditure of this way abroad in iraq and. afghanistan but also the expenditure of seventy five billion a year on the so-called security intelligence industrial complex which is a two fold increase from the time before nine eleven and when people say after nine eleven everything changed well yeah it sure did but not to the good former cia analyst rama govern there now let's turn to some other stories from around the world and i'm going to rancho rains in china have triggered a landslide which is left more than twenty people missing thousands of civilians were evacuated from their homes many houses roads and bridges collapsed almost a thousand people have died so far this here in the worst flooding to hit the country in a decade forecasters say more heavy rains are expected this week. while giant b.p. suffered a record loss of seventeen billion dollars in the second quarter of this year in the wake of that some oil spill in the gulf of mexico downstream came as b.p. boss tony hayward took the decision to step down bob dudley wh

elderly asian-american victims allegedly committed by african-american youths has raised the questionwhether the

to win all of these movies used to be about american exceptionalism americans save the day save the entire world and all of a sudden we don't do that anymore i think the bigger question here is whether this whole concept of american exception exceptionalism still applies and still exists i mean the world today in two thousand and ten is not the same world that we used to be in one nine hundred forty s. and it's a lot more difficult to sell this idea of an america as a uniquely special country that ranks in the international hierarchy somehow as above the rest based on the fact that it's america all alone there are other democracies there are foreign policy to. issues that america makes that you know isn't well accepted by everyone around the world and so perhaps the bigger question to be asking here is whether we should still hold on to this notion of american exceptionalism in today's day and age well it looks like hollywood has let it go and who knows you know captain america is the first victim who knows what a great american comic book hero is going to be ok i'm just i am excited at th