tonight's evens a celebration of the achievements and accomplishments of asian-americans in the state of california and our nation ok'ing. -- ok. i would like to introduce our host for this evening. very well known as the first asian-american mayor in san francisco history. mayor lee championed balancing the budget to keep san francisco safe, solvents, and successful. he reformed city pensions. his focus is on economic development, job creation, and building san francisco's future. a great job, especially for helping out families. we want to keep families here. i also wanted to mention a little bit of his past. he was born in 1952 in the beacon hill neighborhood of seattle, washington. his parents immigrated to the u.s. from china and the 1930's. his father fought in world war ii and worked as a cook. he passed away when the mayor was 15. his mother was a seamstress and a waitress. mayor lee has five siblings, he graduated from college in maine, he also went to uc- berkeley law school and finished in 1978. he and his wife have two daughters. i also want to mention, prior to becoming mayor, one of the key points i

american legion's hosting more than 200 job fairs throughout this nation. american legion service office are working day and night to help veterans understand their va claims and file applications that won't get stuck in a massive backlog. the american legion is in your district, your hometown and your neighborhood. for nearly a century this organization has filled the spirit of its federal charter in ways they can't easily be quantified. the suffice it to say that millions of volunteer hours are put in for legionnaires, millions of real dollars are raised to help veterans and their families, and millions of lives are touched every year all through america by the american legion. by the end of my year of office i was been more than 300 days traveling the nation, and sometimes beyond, visiting veterans, active duty troops and patriotic americans everywhere. i have a rare and unique opportunity see the faces into the stories of those who have sacrificed on behalf of our nation. they will asking what the american legion is doing for them today. and they will as

independence today a new reality is gradually emerging in latin american and caribbean nations they have more freedom today to determine their future president hugo chavez in recent victory will definitely help latin america and the caribbean to continue on the path of change. but this election has been the closest that venezuela's opposition has ever come to victory some say the people are venice there are a tired of the present government what do you make of it but. the truth is a one point advantage already counts as victory politics as well as in there's no such thing as a greater victory no matter if you are one point or one hundred points ahead with a victory is a victory i think what we have seen in venezuela was this there had been considerable efforts invested to prevent hugo chavez from winning the election but all in vain i see it as a fiasco the entire right wing trend which had been supported by the united states and europe this was that of the following that sampling of president fernando hoover and there in white there was speculation that we're into a new era of how likel

lou: it troubles me deeply to think three or 400 americans with national security responsibility of different levels, watched and listened to this. i'm leaving the president and political civilian leaders out of this. how could it be they could watch and listen to more americans die? >> i think there needs to be a congressional investigation. i don't think we are in a position to guess the tactical decisions. lou: at i am in a position to ask the question. second-guess is not inappropriate expression. the american people have a right to know. i will not fall into the nonsense of the administration to ask questions that are the right to the american people. >> no, no, no. some people say they should have dispatched special forces. how do you know, ? maybe they should have. knowing this was a dangerous region or libya was high threat posed, repeated requests for security enhancements, why weren't people ready already? lou: your second-guessing that. why were people expressing themselves before this occurred? >> i cannot agree more. >> my experience is no politician wants to take a chance the me

we don't play politics when it comes to american national security. >> late today the c.i.a. responded, "we can say with confidence that the agency reacted quickly to aid our colleagues in the terrible evening in benghazi. moreover, anyone at any level in the c.i.a. told anybody not to help those in need. claims to the contrary are simply inaccurate." nevertheless, bret, our sources were on the ground during the attack. >> bret: especially after that quote from the c.i.a., there will be people questioning your source. how solid are they? >> guest: as good as they get. >> bret: on the ground. >> reporter: on the ground. >> bret: thank you. three republican senators want to see the surveillance video from the benghazi attack. john mccain, lindsey graham and kelly ayotte asked the heads of the pentagon, c.i.a. and justice department to declassify the images. we have not heard response of yet. please join me this weekend for special look at the libya scandal and updated "special report" investigates benghazi, new revelations. can be scene at 1:00 p.m. satu

us cooperation programs will make the nicaragua and even call for using force against latin american nations and the das to hand up for our independence but that is why terminating any form out of the cooperation of people is bound to have and negative impact on the curriculum that is exactly what makes it so important for us to ensure that our nation should no longer be dependent upon this sort of conditional cooperation with the that the united states well the european union the us has essentially pursued a policy of racket all of these are very nicaragua and its people this is unfair they are and undemocratic they're not supporting liberty they're promoting servitude this is what prompts us to get the canal done as soon as possible it would relieve us of our present dependency upon the u.s. and we were and they're hedging monic policies one of our men that are in the united states is all set for a presidential election where any god was expectations in this regard. i believe this is an election where the american people should vote for their government to commit itself to a peaceful forei

celebrate the independence and the self determination of numerous central american and south american nations where so many of our residents come from and where our immigrant population came from. there are two important characteristics of the california latino community that we all know, but it's worth repeating. it is one of the fastest growing populations in our state. that's a fact and it's a very young population. good for young age. well, you know the latino heart and soul of our city is represented through those of you here tonight in attendance and through our 2012 distinguished honorees that represent the diverse latino populations in san francisco. from your accomplishments in business, big and small, to the joy in entertainment that you provide us through your artistic accomplishments, and from your pursuit for social and restorative justice through community service, your essential coverage in the media, your commitment to education and to health and assures every one of us reaches the true heights of our potential, and lastly to the innovators constantly looking for new ways to m

nation's numbers. but despite the satisfaction that americans took in their robust population, the nation's strength in numbers left it vulnerable to a critique of morals. throughout the first quarter century of u.s. independence britain's and americans had chased each other about questions about population, its regulation, its limitation, its optimization. even as white americans claimed to need enslaved americans and african-americans to their labor force they coveted indian lands to cover the nation's people. british interfered with and criticized u.s. plans on both counts. on the continent british continued to cultivate diplomatic and economic ties to native americans supporting the rival population from who the united states perceived the greatest threat. on the ocean britain controlled atlantic shipping forbidding the atlantic slave trade after 1807 and harassing u.s. merchant vessels. meanwhile at sea britain's traditional goal of population limitation because usually british it fought on their small aisle, their main worry was too many worry but on the seas the royal navy needed every hand it c

american. in this country, more than any other, you get to choose the song of your nation, and the song of your life. get your song back. put it in your heart as it is in mine and get your mojo working again. you cannot prepare for defeat and expect to live in victory. shake it off and step up. through adversity comes great opportunity. the information age that saw this nation lead the world in a way so remarkable was led by giants such as general electric, hewlitt-packard, ibm, and microsoft, all of which originated in tough times. they didn't just hunker down. they just didn't hang on. they just didn't survive. they went out there and conquered that storm, and that's what you have to do. anything is possible if you believe and if you have faith. they can want -- cannot uproot you. they cannot break you. they cannot topple you. believe you are called. believe you are chosen. believe you are equipped. believe you can because you can. you have done it before, and you will do it again. listen to this creed. do not choose to be a common man. it is your right to be uncommon. if you can seek opportu

imagine what you think about that ok who's national interests are being served here what are american national interests here well. in their language learning about. tony there is two thing i think there is that when talking about just going back to the turkey and talk about there is national honor and there is national interest i mean turkey is a national honor is there when it's it's let's say attacked by syria when it was shot down by syria it want to show that it's protecting its own people and it will send its army to the to the border but very and there is national interest there is when. if you into if they intervene in syria and if in syria turned into a. protracted or longer a civil war or for years then they would have to take responsibility for for that and there is also. i would mention there is also the economic dimension to this if if if turkey intervene in syria and that would damages economy that might draw it spoil it sort of on their arab street also so i think the dimension of internet national interest sometimes coalesce with the national honor of the country a good market

the official republican view that population was essential to american national strength became one of the most enduring legacies of the war to read by the time that u.s. british tensions reached the breaking point in 1812, americans reveled in the connections between population strength and territorial spread that nellis is regarded to the country as a source of evil. furthermore, americans argued that romantic love has exactly the opposite of the tyranny and oppression predicted by malfis ne u.n. freedom and the most exalted a motion was romantic love. as the virginia plantation owner and american political theorist john taylor explained at, malthis was in favor of resorting to the lock law. he said it teaches us in the english system one must devote one party to death by famine or the necessity of living above have the lives without affection. according to taylor england was offering deep a stark choice between starvation on one hand or marital delays, population limitations and the emotional precision on the other to retain their even went so far as to use opposition to malthus as

and billions of dollars, is that worth it when it comes to looking at the most core issue of american national security? certainly the death of osama bin laden, the evisceration of al qaeda at the mid-and senior ranks had nothing to do with the troop surge in afghanistan. that's central intelligence agency's drone program in afghanistan. so we did some good there, but with all that good work, did the price in american lives and dollars? and i don't think so. >> host: last call for our guest comes from mike in syracuse, new york. >> caller: hi. thank you for taking my call. my question is, what do you think that the war in afghanistaning going to do to the delicate turmoil of the situation that has been going on for almost 2,000 years over there? >> guest: well, look. there's been an awful lot of tribal factional fighting that has occurred in afghanistan, as you note, for centuries. our presence there isn't going to end that. and in fact, as our troops start coming home, you'll once again start to see various ethnic groups, various tribal alliances, starting to jockey for power. much as they ha

london embassy for exactly four months now despite being granted political asylum by the south american nation he's unable to leave the building because of britain's threat of arrest or extradition for more and julian assange has legal battles as well as the episodes of his interview program that was broadcast here on r.t. go to our website r.t. dot com. and straight to cairo now to start of the r.t. world update it's the central square there of course to reus where and now occupied by several thousand protesters angry of president morsi and his supporters for trying to dominate the drawing up of a new constitution it follows violence last week when morsi is backers classed with anti government activists leaving dozens injured the one hundred member assembly writing the new charter is picked scuse me is full of people from the islamist party of the muslim brotherhood who are supporting the president. at least nineteen people were killed in northern afghanistan when a roadside bomb detonated under a passing bus it's fifteen more were injured the passengers were traveling to a wedding now at thi

london embassy for exactly four months now despite being granted political asylum by the south american nation is unable to leave the building because of britain's threat of immediate arrest and extradition. from orange in the sunders legal battles as well as all the episodes of his own interview show broadcast here on ati go to our website r.t. dot com. other international news in brief now in our world updating caro's central time here the square is occupied by several thousand protesters at the moment angry that president morsi and his supporters to try to dominate the drawing up of a new constitution it follows violence last week when morsi is back it's clashed with anti-government activists leaving dozens injured the one hundred member assembly writing the new charter is packed with this illness from the muslim brotherhood who support the president. at least nineteen people were killed in northern afghanistan when a roadside bomb detonated under a passing bus fifteen more were injured the passengers were traveling to a wedding no one has claimed responsibility and it's not yet clear if th

lot of my research was pulled from the no no boys and resistors was pulled from the japanese american national museum. my wife and i went down there and they have on file a bunch of interviews with people, frank ami, a variety of folks who were part of the heart mountain resistors and also the no no boys. these interviews were done by frank chen, frank abe and other folks and they are all on file. i used those to make sure i created real live characters. hope that answers the question. >> who else wants to ask a question? . >> when you do research, are you able to compare the (inaudible). >> i have to admit i haven't done as much research into that area because there were germans also who went through the same thing and no i didn't. that certainly is a story that should be looked into. i know in my early works, a character would say why didn't they do this to the germans and italians but at the time i wrote this play, i wasn't aware that the other things were going on in the country also. so i don't know a lot about that. . >> is there any one or any group that you studied in particular for yo

london embassy for exactly four months now and despite being granted political asylum by the south american nation he's unable to leave the building because of britain's threat of arrest or extradition from war and julian assad has legal battles as well as all the episodes of his exclusive r.t. program just head to our website r.t. talk. or the heading now into northern afghanistan to start of the r.t. world update it's where nineteen people were killed when a roadside bomb detonated under a passing bus fifteen more were injured and the passengers were traveling to a wedding at this point no one has claimed responsibility it's not even clear yet if the wedding guests were the intended victims. suspected al qaeda government have attacked a military base in southern yemen killing at least thirteen soldiers and losing the same number of their own men the battle started with a car bomb blast before militants continued their offensive on the coastal base from sea the region has seen fierce fighting between the army and al-qaeda as the country tries to control the militants. the u.s. military chief in j

julian sanchez declining health and the wiki leaks founder it's been holed up inside the south american nations embassy in london now for four months and the famed secrecy advocate has apparently been losing weight ecuador is now asking the u.k. to guarantee his safe passage to a hospital if his condition worsens the british authorities say a science will be arrested if he sets foot outside the building that is constantly being under police surveillance it was a blur is wanted in sweden for questioning over allegations of sexual misconduct he's concerned he'll then be sent to america to face prosecution of with the release of thousands of classified military and diplomatic. regions of striving for independence all over austerity torn europe of fresh inspiration in their breakaway campaigns scotland's deal with london to hold an independence referendum has others ready to follow including the likes of catalonia. examines the true. it's a changing in europe nationalism bred by ways of crises has swept across a once united union scotland's just being granted the historic right to choose whether or

london embassy now for exactly four months and despite being granted political asylum by the south american nation he's unable to leave the building because of britain's threat of a media to arrest an extradition for more and julian assange has legal battles as well as all the episodes of his own interview show broadcast here on our t.v. just head to our website our team. hasn't been easy yet on t.v. . it is to get the maximum political impact. the source material is what helps keep journalism honest we. we wanted to present. something else. this is our libyan army units have launched an operation to clear out support of the old regime from the town of bani walid the area which used to be a colonel gadhafi stronghold has been under siege for the last two weeks thursday's attack on the city saw around a dozen people killed activists and journalists who can't chandan says those behind the latest assaults should be punished. i'm getting numerous in europe well actually reports from residents of bani walid that indeed the first so-called non-government they call themselves a state obviously is not a s

london membership for exactly four months now despite being granted political asylum by the south american nation is unable to leave the building because of the threat of an immediate arrest and extradition for more legal battles as well as all the episodes of his own interview show broadcast here marti at our website party talk. now to other international news and brief central to his square is occupied by several thousand protesters angry president morsi and his supporters are trying to dominate the drawing up of a new constitution that follows violence last week backers clashed with anti government activists leaving dozens injured one hundred member assembly writing the new charter is packed with the mists from the muslim brotherhood who support the president. at least nineteen people were killed in northern afghanistan when a roadside bomb detonated under a passing bus fifteen more injured passengers were traveling to a wedding no one has claimed and it's not yet clear if the wedding guests were the intended victims. of the u.s. military chief in japan has imposed a night curfew on personnel

london embassy now for exactly four months and despite being granted political asylum by the south american nation he's unable to leave the building because of britain's threat of arrest or extradition for more and julian assad his legal battles as well as all the episodes of his own interview show broadcast here on r.t. just go to our website. and into the world we go here on ars he will stop with northern afghanistan where at least nineteen were killed when a roadside bomb detonated on the bus fifteen more were injured the passengers were traveling to a wedding at this point no one has claimed responsibility and it's not yet clear if indeed the wedding guests were the intended targets. the u.s. military chief in japan has imposed a night curfew on personnel it follows the arrest of two american officers suspected of raping a japanese woman on the southern island the u.s. military in japan has a history of alleged criminal behavior which would certainly cause tension between the states for decades. back to one of our top stories here on r.t. of the possible deal between b.p. and rosneft good to s

agreed on some of its most extreme crisis fighting measures the effects of which as arches american national reports have proved somewhat underwhelming. measures approved by european union leaders these day in ago were designed to tackle the debt crisis the german chancellor angela merkel described as europe's worst economic crisis since the end of world war two e.u. has spent months hammering this package out of the venture it was proclaimed in false hopes to first save greece by writing of powerful feats that which are mounted that at that time again to one hundred sixty percent of the countries did. and the second aim of this package was to protect other european countries from this financial instability too and for that purpose it was decided that to more than double the european union bailout fund also known as european financial stability facility we've been hearing skepticism already that but a year later it's clear that not only has the crisis not drawn back but also the european financial climate has worsened with more and more countries now joining greece and experiencing financial

they are saying that it is the only real territorial threat to the american nation-state. you, yourself, said in the 1970's that we had a "hemorrhage on our borders." yet today you have backed off any immigration reform, such as the balanced a highly crafted simpson-mazzoli bill. why? what would you do instead today, if anhing? >> this is a very serious oblem in our country, and has to be dealt with. i object to that part of the simpson-mazzoli bill which i think is very unfair and would prove to be so. that is the part that requires employers to determine the citizenship of an employee before they're hired. i'm convinced that the result of this would be that people who are hispanic, people who have differe languages or speak with an accent, would find it difficult to b employed. i think that's wrong. we've never had citizenship tests in our country before, and i don't think we should have a citizenship card today. that is counterproductive. i do support the other aspects of the simpson-mazzoli bill that strengthen enforcement at the border, strengthen other ways of dealin

situation where clinton and sandy berger and al gore are telling them the biggest threat to american national security are these ragtag guys on a mountaintop in afghanistan who have managed to kill fifty americans in the past eight years they were right but you can stay if you as you put it that way which is how they were hearing it the bush administration was hearing it but those with those of the ragtag guys who took down the soviet union know they work see that's the thing they are worth that's also one of the myth ologies in law and was not a sort of in law. it was part of what was called. the arab contingent you know you had in terms of dealing with the the soviet union you had this group of mujahideen who were the the indigenous population and they were really the fighting force then you had the arab militia could be and that group the bin ladin was on the rest were really almost. comical really i mean is this was this was the charlie wilson's war thing right and you had which of those groups was charlie wilson where we supported. the indigenous population which it had to get and the i

is becoming a nation of freelance workers. americans are finding new jobs, but many are not getting traditional positions with benefits. less than a decade ago, 16 million people were working independently as freelancers. today, that number has almost tripled. allison worrell begins our week- long look at the freelance nation. >> reporter: nearly one out of every three americans identify themselves as freelance workers and those jobs span all fields, from nannies to nurses, to web designers and lawyers. while it's a trend that cuts across all income levels and fields, college graduates in creative fields, are leading the charge. there's even a t.v. show about it-- m.t.v.'s "underemployed" debuts tomorrow. it features a group of 20- somethings struggling to make their mark in the professional world. a professional world, where many part-timers are still hoping for full time work. just last month, over 8.5 million americans who wanted full-time positions were stuck in part-time jobs.

and he is healthy for this state of the american nation. i profoundly disagree bribe believe america is exceptional and deserves the exceptional president. my greatest issue with the obama is it his interview were he was directly asked whether or not he believed in american exceptional the semper pro his response was telling. yes. i believe in america and exceptional was so much like of british might believe in british exceptional as of. ladies and gentlemen, there can only be applied exceptional progress would appear with that statement that his actionsand the administration they have subscribed fully to the doctrine of relativism that there is no one superior to any other. we should not consider one way better than another. not only do i think that is weak but i think it is wrong and it is not a sign of a nation that has done so much for the world and is the model to which every nation should and must aspire to five. >> with 84 we here. i have a 20 year-old son and that is interested in politics. i also work in the student housing industr