acts as if only it was the only software nation in the world you know basically the american government makes decisions everybody else obeys and who whoever doesn't obey is is declared an outlaw and sanctioned or punished or you know regime change or whatever and i think putin speech was a clear message that no russia is a sovereign nation you will respect this and if you don't well look at our shiny weapons. yeah there andrew i. mentioned to date let's go with 991 i mean if you look at american foreign policy from that time to the present all around the globe it just it punches down all the time on countries that could hardly defend themselves now they're come up with the situation could anyone spell and now we have what's going on with ukraine i mean there are countries that can say no and they have made it very clear that they will defend their sovereignty and what they define is their national interest and there is a word called diplomacy i know we haven't heard it much because it certainly hasn't been used much that's when diplomacy comes into play what do you want what do i want o

does the the american government has really increased the embargo the sank shows during the pun the bia that that should be condemned even by cuban americans in my ok you made a good point and i thought lou in government we will have 8 thank you we need to move on let me try to bring philip into the discussion and asked the question whatever happens well 1st of all for the by so you are shaking your head do you want to get in on some of what was said before we move on. well i agree with president zuma right that john is taking a few innocent every government under states that the response to cohen. sometimes intentionally sometimes unintentionally there is no evidence that cuba is to liberate we hiding what's going on in fact they have an extraordinary record in this case checking people and they've developed a vaccine that looks like maybe it helpful to the rest of the world ok and then we got we must absolutely now move on to ok 10 seconds john john i'll give you 10 seconds go then you get and then they have done this was eco they have done this with david that done this with chole

teaching civics is the most urgently important task in american democracy james madison said a popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it is a prelude to tragedy or farce and your efforts to educate young americans about the essence of american government and it's fundamental principles. we'll determine the future of the republic. polls show that young people are more likely to support authoritarian alternatives to democracy than the older generation. and yet those educated in civics and in the fundamental principles of constitutionalism are more likely to support institutions like an independent judiciary to resist overturning judicial decisions by popular vote and to support the essence of constitutionalism. and that is why your task is so urgently important and i am grateful for it and honor you for it. my task today is also important you have asked me to address a fundamental question. what would james madison think of american democracy today? and how can we resurrect madisonian principles of reason rather than passion at a time when they seem under siege? i

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house the migrants at the border, another planning to spend a lot of money on the central american governmentser and keep the help with the security, is this money well spent. >> absolutely not if i was one bof these countries and joe bin kamala harris offered to show up and fix s the problem with a buh of money i would tell them to get away because they would be a disaster for any migration issue, they want to blame the other countries because they can't look in the mere and wake up it's dedicated and purposeful undoing of the trump border security enforcement measures of what causes crisis, furthermore if you want to make the migration problem better and fixes going on in the countries, stop taking their youth, the hardest workers in their best and brightest their future families. these countries will never get better so long as the united states has an open border in inviting everyone in. it's a permanent disaster biden administration fault that this is happening in a terrible terrible way. gerry: what i don't understand you spend all this money to persuade people in honduras and guatemala

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and that's why the second sentence of the declaration contains the entire theory of american government, and we have to teach this to our students too. we hold this to be evident that all men are created equal. they're endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights. and whenever the government becomes destructive of these rights it's the right and duty of the people to alter and abolish it. so the right of revolution is an unalienable right which can't be surrendered because it's necessary to preserve the safety and security of the unalienable rights we retain and that right is embodied in the process of article 5 which you can see from the wilson draft wasn't actually specified until the very last days of the convention when they filled in the details about how many states were necessary for ratification. of course the right of revolution was central also to the convention because the constitution was illegal according to the pre-existing conditions of the articles of confederation. those articles required uninamty for amendment. it was justified because the right of revoluti

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but this is a lot harder to do because you are pushing against that engrained distrust of american government. can the government get it right. can the investments in roads and bridges and research and human development be effective enough to really produce economic growth and can they persuade the american people and the congress to pay for it by raising taxes. incredibly difficult thing to do. the democrats think that they can do it, but, boy, this is going to take a heck of a lot of effort over extended period of time. >> already the plan is coming under fire, not surprisingly, from the right, senator mitch mcconnell saying it raises taxes too much. alexandria ocasio-cortez saying it's not big enough. but what really interested me about president biden's speech yesterday is the framing of this as a test of democracy. implicitly reaching out to those republicans who often focus on the rise of china and the rise of authoritarian states. and president biden really making the case that this is a test of whether democracy can still do big things. let's take a listen and get your reaction. >> we

and will keep wanting a more active government even as the pandemic fades. because you know what, americans have been telling us that they do want exactly that, a more active government. take a look at our latest nbc poll. 55% of americans say the government should do more to solve the country's problems. this is a question, by the way, we've asked for decades. and it fluctuates back and forth, but right now it's been consistently in the mid-50s and the support across almost all demographics except for one, and it is republicans. what is noteworthy about these numbers is they've been unchanged for the last five years, meaning they've encampused the trump era. like any good politician, president biden is following what is popular. right now going big, keeping government active, it is popular. by the way, you just had a previous president who started talking up the idea of getting government more involved. at least this current republican party left who are they and what do they do? after all, former president trump encouraged this mindset. he brought out the era of big government and brought

a good excuse for especially governments like the british government and the american government to remain idle and do nothing in the face of a very visible. continued violation of human rights and civil rights which includes views of rights or should a listing in children. on the ground. now if one can forgive a british civil society or any of the mainstream media for not covering human rights abuses in the middle east it might be not only the duke of edinburgh's funeral but it by all of them be a huge corruption scandal breaking here about all being what do you make of the level of lobbying that emanates from from the middle east. be replaced by the german corbin refused on stage when they could be any seen before is leadership election to admit he was taking money from a known person who supported israeli interests in the middle east war i know i personally am going to write a book out of that so called lobby which i should say israel considers just the phrase anti-semitic. book about it now and to. aspects of this story me when i went into the material. this is a very. being going on f

one is the need for american business, american government, to disrupt the way we generate and use energy, to a cleaner way. and the other is the timeline from the natural world, which says, if you don't do that, the natural world is going to disrupt your world, and a very unpleasant way. we've got to win this race with the natural world and as americans, we gotta do it together. >> you started to get into it, but i'm going to ask for more details on how you think president biden's goals can be met, right? what changes need to be made? in terms of things we will see in our daily lives, is it electric cars, is it heating our homes differently? is it our factories are completely coal free? talk about the things we might see or need to see happen. >> there are five sectors that people focus on, kristin, which are electricity generation, transportation, manufacturing, the built environment, which is basically heating and air conditioning, and regenerative agriculture. but in the first 10 years, the most important thing we can do is clean up the way we generate electricity. and with the govern

. >> today he teaches american government. and the president hopes by sharing his story and others, things will change. >> that's the thing that pisses me off on this debate. i really don't want to get involved in politics. it is just so disrespectful. >> people like carlos. >> who works so hard. >> big dreams, work hard. >> a very candid george w. bush, and there is much more of our interview with the former president on our facebook and instagram pages. and there is so much more news ahead on tonight's cbs evening news. a blast of winter weather causes some big problems on the road. and a leading baby food company is hit with a lawsuit over the safety of its food. food. -sounds great. -sure does. shouldn't something, you know, wacky be happening right now? we thought people could use a break. we've all been through a lot this year. -that makes sense. -yeah. so... ♪ now's not a good time 3/5ths of nsync. are you sure? you have us booked all day. -read the room, guys. -yeah. right? a lot of people think dealing with copd is a

american people. i have to say that we all know our government has been just great at building programs. the time has come to show the american people that we can limit them to that. we can not only start things that we can actually stop things. about the defense budget. i raise a hope and a caution. as we restructure our military forces to meet the new threats of the post-cold war world. it is true that we can responsibly reduce our defense budget. and we may all doubt what that range of reductions is. but let me say that as long as i am president, i will do everything i can to make sure that the men and women who serve under the american flag will remain the best trained the best prepared the best equipped fighting force in the world and every one of you should make that solemn pledge. we still have responsibilities around the world. we are the world's only superpower. this is still a dangerous and uncertain time and we owe it to the people in uniform to make sure that we adequately provide for the national defense and for their interests and needs. backed by an effective national defen

well what most american government is doing right now is try to protect but by law to make it more secure than ever to bring back people along other than that also to clear our. district affected by tourism such as michael meehan and that it. came with a prayer so also this is working well it's working for me look out talking about the learned power but if you see this is different mega bucks in the last 90 days so there is progress there i don't think and i can't tell you that this is a matter of yes no i think people. must be prepared for along our country such as the effort because it's not only on ball on bullet or on military side or on the country into intelligence that you need also to consider other by misuse of like force or dimensions like one of the mansions. and that it would as we saw not only a military solution the. war on terror is not ordinary middle solution it's also social issue it's also economic cultural it awful in campuses even i don't cotton so native with food he is into this insurgency do you see how mozambique gets out of the situation. i think the main issue.

where cuba became sovereign focused on social justice and then after attempts by the north american government the u.s. government to overthrow the new regime subsequently allied with the soviet union. this week marks 60 years the 60 year anniversary of the bear fix invasion which is the only time in latin american history up until now that a u.s. organized invasion of a latin american country has been defeated the united states is has succeeded in eliminating every single government in latin america in the 20th century in the 21st century that it viscerally disliked the island in which i'm speaking to you now is the only one that defies u.s. control and many people here especially the older generation a very clear on. the u.s. president and japanese prime minister say they'll continue to work together to meet challenges posed by china. was the 1st world needed to visit the white house under the biden administration a summit focused on a wide range of issues including technology and the economy it was geopolitics that dominated the discussion. we committed to working together to take challenge

yet the american government stuck to an alternative point of view that for 2 years ago hale was arrested and charged with violating the espionage act and other related offenses as biden came to power the public anticipated changes in the drone assassination program but now media are reporting he aims to boost the armed drone exports to countries including those with poor human rights records john kerry r k o f o my cia analyst on the whistleblower told us the terms of the f.b.i.'s act they've hail with little hope this is really the worst part of the of the espionage act this is the reason why ed snowden can't come home this is the reason why i couldn't go to trial this is the reason why jeffrey sterling the other cia whistleblower was convicted because there is no affirmative defense we are prohibited by law from going into court and saying i did it but i did it for this reason and in the case of daniel hale this was a war crime he did it because he was exposing a war crime he's not allowed to say that and so he really doesn't have any chance of acquittal the best thing to do for daniel

that surprised me let's put it that way. : : : >> the thing about the american government really keeping those photographs from their own people is shameful. and you'd expect the soviet union to do that. >> sure. and, of course, that's the image that most americans have of the atomic bomb, that mushroom cloud the pilots of the enola gay saw as they dropped the bomb on hiroshima, but not the devastation it did on the ground. >> particularly the radiation burns. that's what they did not want people to see. >> right. what do you want people to take away from this book? >> oh, the horrors of nuclear war. that's really the agenda here as far as we're concerned. there are two agendas. one is that we exist to provide this information and material for research and teaching, and that's -- we leave it up to the people to use our collections to come to whatever conclusions they want. we don't tell anybody what to think, they should make their conclusions. but me personally, i have to say, think it's important we educate our younger generations about the effects of nuclear war. in japan we all agree

it changed how americans look at their government, and it changed how the rest of the world looked ate bay of pigs it would have been a cynical american who doubted he lived in a good and mighty nation led by competent men and engaged in worthy exploits. that was certainly a plausible view for americans 50 years ago, after world war ii. the bay of pigs may that view a lot harder to hold on to. had distinction of making the united states look both bullying and weak. what kennedy's shlesinger jr. wrote shortly after the invasion. not only look like imperialists but ineffectual imperialists which is worse and look like stupid ineffectual imperialists worst of all. in many ways the 1960s, that decade of questioning authority, began with the bay of pigs. this was the first step into the vietnam era even before vietnam. actually, what you may not realize, what i did not realize until i wrote the book, is how much the vietnam war itself owes to the bay of pigs. if we have time i'll delve into that later on. right now i want to go back in time. a few years before the bay of pigs and focus on

it changed how americans look at their government, and it changed how the rest of the world looked at us. prior to the bay of pigs, it would've been a cynical american who doubted that he lived in good and mighty nation led by competent men that engaged in worthy experts. that was certainly a possible view for americans 50 years ago after world war ii. the bay of pigs made that view hold on ardor trolled onto. they had to distinction of making the united states look weak. this is what kennedys junior wrote in his journal shortly after the invasion. not only look like imperialists, we look like it and fearless, which is worse. and we look like stupid imperialists, which is worse than all. in many ways, the 1960s, that decade of questioning authority began with the bay of pigs. this was a first step into the vietnam era, even before vietnam. actually, what you may not realize, but i did not realize until i wrote the book is how much of the vietnam war itself posed to the bay of pigs. if we have time, i'll delve into that a little later on. but right, now i want to go back bid in time, b