the american dream and believe that the american dream should be for everybody, not just the few at the top, this is your chance. if you're a temper, a policeman, a street worker, a you sewer worker or you're unemployed, a student, i don't care, as long as you're not one of the filthy rich at the top who don't give a damn about anybody else this is your fight this is our struggle to restart american dream it's time to get wall street out of the middle of the economy and get them on the sidelines where they belong and get a democracy restored that works for main street. >> you know, verge, the lines of division are well defined. today, republicans introduced the real american jobs bill. i mean this bill has a balanced budget amendment. they want to repeal the health care bill. they want to repeal dodd-frank. and of course they certainly want to go after unions and bust up labor unions and go after labor. will this bill do anything to create jobs, in your opinion? >> look, in the words of tim barren, a local radio host, what it is a pantload, a sad, pathetic joke on the american peopl

some of them are honest to american.hy have they been excluded from the political debate as though they do not exist? it's because politicians have wanted to persuade us all that we're doing rather better than we are and they have ratchetted us into this great lump of classlessness called the middle class. anyway, i shall be looking for the truth, i shall be out looking for the working class. now when we come back we're going to have an extraordinary discussion with two of the most gifted and talented men in washington about america and the world. where it's been, why it's changed its position in the world and peoples attitudes to us as our stature has changed, if not declined. be right back. you'll find it compelling, i assure you. >> many have spoken out on the need to transition to a clean energy feature. we are acting. by 2020, we are committed to reducing, offsetting or displacing more than 15 million metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions through greening our operations, and offering more low carbon electricity in

herman cain says the protesters are un-american. >> there's nothing more american than the type of protests that are going on. people are basically seeing inequality here. the system is rigged against them and they are saying enough is enough. we want to change the system. we want fairness. we want equally of sacrifice. we want the billionaires and millionaires to pay their fair share. that's what this is about. >> is this protest absolutely paralleling that of the middle class and what union workers have been all about all of these years? >> absolutely. this is exactly the same thing. we are fighting for fairness right now. the middle class is shrinking in this country. we have so much unemployment right now. the good jobs are being sent to mexico and are we to sit by and say nothing about it? and finally people are protesting. they are saying the rich are not paying enough, that the system is rigged against us, that wall street is crooked and they are right. everything proves that and the answer is we have started a movement and we have to keep the movement going. this is what we need to

next american economic boom. it is the energy underneath this country and the quickest way to give our economy a shot in the armed is to deploy the american ingenuity to tap the american that if bureaucrats are told to stand down. the dependence we have today on foreign oil from hostile unstable middle eastern countries. it will allow us to grow jobs in our economy here at home. that untapped supplies of natural gas, of oil, coal. america is the saudi arabia of col. supply. 134 billion barrels of oil, nearly in natural gas. we have the resources we need to fuel our cars, our homes, our power plants. in pennsylvania, west virginia, ohio. and texas and oklahoma and alabama, kentucky, throughout the american west and of course up in alaska. obama and is overreaching environmental agency, this environmental protection agency, won't allow american businesses and american labor to draw on even a fraction of this domestic energy owned land. the one hand, the obama administration opposes fossil brazil to drill offshore a

anniversary of our nation's war in afghanistan quietly came and went and is now the longest war in all of american history and despite ten years of this continuous warfare our nation seems no closer to reaching any sort of responsible conclusion or any way to bring our troops home in fact things seem to be getting worse this past august was the deadliest month in the entire ten year long war with seventy one u.s. soldiers died and so far two thousand and eleven is on pace to be the deadliest year in the entire war surpassing two thousand and ten is the deadliest year which surpassed two thousand and nine is the deadliest year in the war as in over the last three years violence confronting our troops in afghanistan has gotten worse and worse and worse and last week the former commander of the coalition forces in afghanistan retired general stanley mcchrystal brought more bad news speaking at the council on foreign relations mcchrystal said that we are maybe a little better than halfway toward reaching our goals in this war he went on to say this about the planning going into the war quote we didn't

therefore, the collision of african-american international interest and american public policy has a very long history, especially when we consider american public policy in that regard as prescribed by the white majority. the black american tradition, which is what i like to call it, encompasses this collision between african-american claims or what i have called claims to outside law and american public policy on north american territory as from the late- 1500's to the present day. that is to say from the earliest revolts against slave revolts in the first spanish forts that were founded on the north american continent. moving into the 20th century, we can talk about selected events, where international interest intersected with u.s. policy, resulting in important consequences for african- american freedom interests. in the united states, both in limiting international strategies as a source of domestic african-american leverage toward greater rights protection and in extending the potential of such strategies toward greater rights protective leverage in the united states. through

." >> every weekend on american history tv the people and events that document the american story. this weekend picketing, protests, arrests. occupy wall street? no. the national woman's party and the woman's right to vote. a panel discussion on the advocates for women's suffrage, and archival film from abc and the army signal corps. also, a look at the young harry truman and the 12 years he spent working on the family farm. look for the complete schedule at c-span.org/history or click the c-span alert button. >> tonight, vice president joe biden was the keynote speaker at the 2011 democratic party convention in orlando. both he and debbie wasserman-schultz talked about the 201 elections and the -- 201 elections and the candidates. this is abouten hour. >> thank you so much. good evening, democrats! are you fired up? are you ready to go? we're ready to keep this state blue for barack obama and joe biden, aren't we? i am so proud to be here tonight in my home state of florida, and thank you so much, rob smith, for your introduction, for your leadership, for your commitment to our pa

put millions of americans, mlings of americans back to work -- millions of americans back to work. so in the same way we have the land to attract these new plants. we also have roads that have all these potholes in them that knee to be filled. we have bridge -- that need to be filled. we have bridges, we have water systems that need to be repaired. we have plan for a transit system that could connect detroit with the suburbs, help people get to jobs in the suburbs, help folks in the suburbs come to detroit and enjoy themselves. but we need matching money to be able to do that. what families have told me is that they moved out of detroit for a couple simple reasons. number one, they didn't feel safe in the city. so it didn't matter how many economic development incentives we provided businesses, few businesses would take those incentives if they felt that their office would be broken into or their employees would be robbed. similarly businesses who had to hire a large number of people, folks that they didn't know, they were concerned that the detroit public schools really didn't gra

as american pie. it is an act for which our great nation was conceived. it required great courage to do what they did at the boston tea party. it required great courage for the great american henry david they areow to refuse -- thereux to refuse to go to war against mexico in 1849 and that gave birth to the antiwar movement that continues today. the equalities that we as americans enjoy today are the result of those great, courageous americans that fought for our liberties, mr. speaker. the women's suffrage moment -- movement went from 1848 to 18 -- to 190. generations -- 1920. generations of courageous women marched, they fasted and they were arrested. finally, in 1920 the 19th amendment gave women the right to vote. it took more than seven decades of civil disobedience to achieve the change that they sought. let's not forget, mr. speaker, that abolition of slavery, the labor movement and the eradcation of child labor. the civil rights movement and the environmental movement are all -- all used civil

the american people have to make a judgment as to what is important to them. >> when the american peopleook in, they see this increasing dysfunction in this building. at the same time, congressional approval amongst people is at 14 .the lowest since we have been taking those polls. >> i agree with that. >> count you among the 14%? >> no, among the people agreeing on the way congress is conducting itself. >> occupy wall street, they're spreading the protests to other cities. they're expressing frustration, fears of the joblessness, do you support them? >> i support the message to the establishment, whether it's wall street or the political establishment or the rest, change has to happen. we cannot continue in a way that is not relevant to their lives. people are angry. >> i just want to get your reaction to some comments by eric cantor today, he said, i'm increasingly concerned -- >> -- about the growing mobs, occupying wall street and the other cities across the country. and believe it or not some in this town have actually condone the pitting of americans against americans. >> i didn't

americans had gone soft. i guess he wasn't talking about how hard it is for millions of americans who are trying to get a job or stretchy too small paycheck to the week. as each of you looks beyond this and did shushan, their life before you, i know you face many difficult questions in a world fraught with uncertainty. america is in an economic crisis which we've never seen in our lifetimes. europe is struggling with the greatest economic crisis since the cold war. the very definition of the european union. around the world we see a people and change. our next president will face extraordinary challenges that could alter audacity of american and freedom of the world. today i want you to join me and looking forward beyond the next recognition jay, beyond ring weekend to four years from today, tober seventh, 2015. what kind of world will we be facing them? will iran be a fully activated nuclear weapons state threatening its neighbors, dominating the world oil supply with stranglehold on the street of partners i

americans are asking for all of that and i'm saying, let's trust the american engineers to provide all of it. >> what next? are you going to meet your deadline? are you going to meet the time line you wanted given this new testing mandate? what is next? if i was an investor, i would be thinking, wow. hundreds could be killed. this is a public safety problem. >> we're working very hard and making sure we deliver and the fcc mandate to us to build the network on schedule. i would say that not only are we confident of making those commitments, we think we will cover 260 million americans by the end of 2014, a year ahead of the mandate, and we're able to do it because for the first time in the industry, first time anywhere in the world, the relationship we have with sprint. think about next year when we launched our network. i will give you an example. my family gets excited. my friend excited. today, if you want unlimited data and text on your cellular phone, go there. you can get a package anywhere you can get a package anywhere from

this power is told to overthrow the jews were captured by american. and welcome to the show everybody thank you thank you very much for being with us first of all the world financial center wall street is in the grips of projects which are called occupy wall street i mean this is the motto of the protesters do you think they will they will influence. financial policy or american government can afford to to ignore these so i don't think they'll influence the obama financial policy if you bomb a financial policy has been drafted by wall street. his cabinet has all those key financial advisors or handpicked by citi group or called and sachs more so even in the bush administration so it's a wall street president so you could start to finish. after the collapse of the soviet union which we both witnessed the us conservative strategists and they they dreamed of the twenty first century being the century of american dominance of the american century but a your recent book is titled the hours of money wall street and the death of the american century so can w

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now it's happening for your generations of arab americans. felt at the board of supervisors that we welcome and celebrate our diversity. we do our best to understand, to dialogue, and to create more understanding. we celebrate that. that is our strength in san francisco. that's why we have these wonderful celebrations. thank you to the ensemble for sharing your music here and creating a cultural connections. [applause] thank you. we have a wonderful city of san francisco. i know that we pride ourselves in being an international city. begins with celebrating all the diverse cultures and making sure everyone is recognized, that we have our education institutions reflect that, our cities, official events, reflected that but i know i have benefited greatly, not only as an attorney, but as someone who has worked in the city to have worked with so many leaders of the arab-american community. the business leaders have done very well here. knowing, also, the challenges that you face -- i also know there are so many examples of arab-american leadershi

american resources, american funds for american infrastructure. think of what this also does for our manufacturing. when you create that kind of demand for steel and concrete and that kind of demand for equipment to be purchased over a long time, this is a real jobs plan. we don't need to be going back hat in hand to other countries and say, please, let us borrow more from you. we don't need to be having class warfare. we don't need to be saying, let's attack people making a certain amount of money. we don't need to be saying, let's take these corporate jets and use it for a lousy 1:45. this is not a jobs plan. america wants us to work and america wants us to use our resources. america wants us to stop funding both sides of the war on terror. we can do it and it doesn't take a superplan to do it. it just says that america has all the resources. i call upon my colleagues to continue to push for ways that we can free up american resources, stop saying no to american jobs, stop simply using political rhetoric to block these things. but really create

with the american economy. in fact, in my judgment, it destroys more long-term jobs than it claims to create. some history is in order. in november, 2006, america's unemployment rate was 4.5%. that's right. 4.5%. less than half today's rate. in november, 2006, democrats captured congress and gave us house speaker nancy pelosi and senate majority leader hairy reid. in november -- harry reid. in november, 2008, president obama was elected. for two years democrats completely controlled america's economic policy. the result, between november, 2006 and november, 2010, seven million american jobs were lost. america's excellent november, 2006, 4.5% unemployment rate deteriorated to 6.8% by november of 2008 and degenerated further to 9.8% by november, 2010. for almost five years, america's job creators have been hammered by job-killing policies. america's job creators are reeling from obamacare costs. america's job creators are shell shocked by job-killing national labor relations board that sues to kill south carolina

american college student. over that junior year abroad, most exciting thing and a month later locked up for murder. this has been a tragic case for the knox family and amanda knox. >> tell us about the makeup of the jury. >> very different from the united states. first of all, we call it a jury. this is really an appeal of the original case. in the united states, of course, you have a jury trial and then judges review the trial to see if it was a fair trial. they don't rehear the trial. in italy, you get an initial trial. she was convicted at that trial, and then the case goes up on appeal, but there are six lay people. therapy not trained lawyers. just selected-like jurors, and then there are two judges who sit on the appellate jury. and they rehear the case. now, they don't have to hear all of the evidence. they can select the evidence they wish to hear. so it's a shorter procedure than the initial trial, but it's really like a second trial, and they have reheard pretty much the entire case. the important pa

and the story of the loyalist refugees shows how american people and american ideas have made their markon the wider world, but also perhaps show us how we need to bring things from that wider world back here to america in certain ways. so the strings of our -- the strength of our country, it seems to me, is, you know, founded in our wonderful unity. but the beauty of it resides in our diversity. is with that i -- so with that, i see there are people with questions. [applause] >> those loyalists who were religious, particularly those who professed christianity what biblical and/or other explanations were given to justify their taking a stand by remaining loyal to their original national roots there is? >> so the question, if you couldn't hear it is about religion and the american revolution. so anglicanism, you know, there was some correlation between anglicanism and loyalism. in particular you find clergymen who have, of course, sworn an oath of sorts to the church of england which is the established church of which the king is the head. so for these people there is definitely an elemen

so look, i have confidence in american businesses and american technology and american scientists and entrepreneurs being able to win that competition. we are not going to be duplicating the kind of system they have in china where they are basically state-run banks giving money to state-run companies. and ignoring losses and ignoring, you know, bad management. but there is a role to play for us to make sure that these companies can at least have a fighting shot and it does mean there are going to be some that aren't successful and it is going to be an uphill climb for some. and obviously it is very difficult for all companies right now to succeed when the economy is as soft and weak as it is. >> solyndra in particular warned your administration government-backed loan, $500 million, from that company may not be a wise use of taxpayer money. in retrospect do you think your administration -- for solyndra to proceed. >> i will tell you that even for those projects under the loan guarantee program that ended up being successful, there are those in the marketplace who have been doubtful. i

the supposed americans celebrated. it was on very briefly on the media and since then, there has been a ban on, a virtual band -- >> that's because they were muslims. >> what do we do about this? >> well we just have to speak up up and tell -- not everybody can do this. some of us are constitutionally more suited to combat. i don't find it pleasant that i cannot go to a college campus without bodyguards and i'm not the only conservative. you have got to keep speaking up until people wake up. unfortunately, what it usually takes is an atrocity although we have had atrocities. we had major hasan who was screaming, i am a terrorist, i'm a terrorist and was promoted while screaming that from major to captain. even after he had killed 13 of our soldiers, unarmed, the head of the army, casey, said that it was worth it for diversity. it and is it worth it? but the issue is very much -- we have a little pamphlet called islamaphobia which describes it. this campaign is to prevent people, and of course the news media spoken some

it troubles me as an american. south and midwest. the tour is not about islams. it's about america. >> and the issue also is not islam. it's the most fundamental islam. you know, i'm a muslim. all my friend are muslim -- not all. the point is it's not fundamental islam. there's a particular group of people who hijack the religion. this is not the rest of the muslim population. >> i'm going to tell you what i now know that i didn't know last week. [ female announcer ] that's the all-natural sugar she puts on her grapefruit. but is she eating sugar this week? maybe she wants the all natural, zero calorie stuff. but if you're wrong, you're insinuating she's fat. save yourself. it's only natural. exclusive to the military. and commitment is not limited to one's military oath. the same set of values that drive our nation's military are the ones we used to build usaa bank. from free checking to credit cards to loans, our commitment to the military, veterans, and their families is without equal. ♪ visit us online to learn

american men. these vietnamese women were participating in it, not because they aspired to be prostitutes, but because the war so unsettled the countryside, created 5 million refugees. families are struggling, and often the last best hope for a family was a prostitute out their daughter. american soldiers didn't seem to pay much thought to that. not all of them certainly, but a lot of them. and so there are bitter consequences. as far as the drinking is concerned, drinking was rampant in vietnam. i think a lot of attention is paid to drug use because americans at the time, the world over were experimenting with pot and other drugs. that drug culture carried into the vietnam war. but trading was absolutely pervasive, and essentially encouraged because the u.s. military was the prayer out of. there were at times delivering beer to men in the field. it was available by the case. there was a ration program that set limits on what american soldiers could buy, but it was a shocking quantity, something li

he does have a mandate to restore the american dream and to restore the american middle class. but his mandate was based on bringing everybody together. so if he is deliberately going out there dividing people up rather than saying, how do we make america work for everybody? that's what i'm all about. that's not the message we're hearing from the president. that's not the message that president clinton delivered to get the only successful re-election for democrats since fdr. he raised taxes in '93. and then he paid a price for that in the '94 congressional election. not in the budget deal he didn't raise taxes. in fact, he had targeted tax cuts. >> your thoughts about what kind of a campaign he should run. see if you can define -- i know you are not a political by but point of view guy but what would you like to hear the president say you personally for the next year or so as he runs for re-election, what do you want to hear? >> i don't want to hear anything. i want to see action. >> okay. >> i want him immediately to start doing a number of things. he's turned back the -- he's

if you ask americans, americans do not like it. the new "new york times"/cbs poll says two-thirds of americans want wealth, wealth and income to be distributing more evenly in our country. 66% say they want that. incidentally, there's also some really, really partisan news in that poll as well. when you ask americans about whose interests the obama administration is acting in, it's pretty evenly divided among people who think he's favoring the rich, favorering the poor, fovoring the poor. if you ask the same question about republicans in congress, you get a very, very strikingly partisan answer. only 9% of people think that republican policies help the middle class. 69% of people say republican policies, the policies of republicans in congress, help the rich. and, again, the rich are doing great. really great. the rich are doing greater than great. greater than they've ever done ever. so today waking up to this new data in the newspaper, the republican party put out its congressional budget guy, congressman paul ryan. paul ryan fam

this means american jobs, good-paying american jobs. these agreements constitute a signature jobs bill, a jobs promotion bill. south korea is a critical u.s. ally in asia and one of the fastest growing economies in the world. multiple agreements have occurred throughout asia over the past few years while american workers have sat on the sidelines. this agreement is the largest free trade agreement for the u.s. and could have an increase in our exports by $9.7 billion according to the international trade commission by lowering tariffs to goods and services. we must pass this agreement in order to gain leverage in asia and to show support for one of our key allies in asia. this expansion of u.s. engagement will serve as a platform to build further commercial relationships, creating more jobs for american workers by opening more markets. upon implementation, more than 1/3 of louisiana's exports will be duty-free and that's just a starting point. this alone will give louisiana companies a significant advantage over consumer products made in

i think clarence is right, african-americans want this president to succeed as do most americans in that he has that as an advantage. >> the difference of wanting to succeed and getting out and voting so the enthusiasm three years ago may not be there this time around and that could cost him. >> barack obama won the black vote 24 to 1. mccain got the same share as david duke got running for governor of louisiana. african-american voters gave barack obama 25 or 26% of all his votes. the question is, are they going to come out and as they did and be 13% of the electorate, or will it drop off a little bit and percentage go to 90%, which that case would be -- >> okay, hold on! >> make any kind of difference. >> running against him makes a big >>> he does not have my vote. >> latino political activist armando navarro voted for president obama in 2008. but he will not vote for him in 2012. miss his frustration has trainingled down to the latino population at large. why? item, immigration. the president promised to make immigration reform, that is a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants, a

if you were an active enemy combatant, if you're actively advocating the killing of american americansa movie of him calling for the killing of americans, we know that he was advising the terrorists who killed 13 americans and wounded 33 at ft. hood. he wasn't in american courts. he wasn't in chicago or new york. he was running around yemen plotting the killing of americans. if you do that, you are an enemy combatant. if you're an enemy combatant, you're subject to military action. you're not subject to going to court. this is not a criminal procedure. this is a war. we have a long precedent for this. you are called a traitor. if he had shown up and turned himself in, then we would have owed him due process as an american citizen. we would are tried him as a traitor. i think we would have convicted him. he has no defense if he's actively trying to encourage the killing of americans. the president was exactly right legally and he was exactly right morally in killing somebody who was a threat to everybody. >> one final question. give me a yes or no if one of the other republican candidat

are being quiet no more so as progressive groups and leaders try to take back the american dream will another new party emerge in the us. and it's not just wall street that's fallen victim to big business and fluids it impacts all aspects of life from the flu to the medicine you take so is there a cure all the ranger mike adams diagnoses the ills of corporate greed. it's wednesday october fifth eight pm here in washington d.c. i'm liz wall and you're watching our t.v. . from new york to boston chicago and l.a. occupy wall street protests continue to grow in numbers across the nation and say the grassroots movement is expected to grow. so exponentially with key unions joining the rally in the big apple some of those joining in the united federation of teachers workers united and transport workers union local one hundred these organizations have already indorsed occupy wall street but their presence and physical supports a day as making the voice the protest louder and stronger and while the mainstream media efforts mocked the protesters for being scatterbrained hippies they may now be

go and ask an american diplomat if there is been a reduction in the queues or in the visa applications of pakistanis going to the u.s. and the answer probably will be no. i mean there is that disconnect there is a lot of media hype people are reacting to the information which are which they are being fed and that information is that us is doing something which is completely detrimental to pakistani interests and now some of that is genuine as well i mean there is that complete disconnect and i would say that it's a very very very typical you know kind of juncture towards the end of pakistani u.s. alignment i mean the pattern has always been that there is a crises which brings the two nations together there is a lot of music and dancing in the air and there is strategic convergence and tactical divergence and as we move on at the end of eight or nine years or at the end of a decade there is tactical you know convergence and there is strategic divergence and that is where we are at the moment ok that is a value that is another very limited in the premier that doesn't bode very well if i

>> guest: american history of the vietnam war mechem american society triet >> her new book is published by the university of north carolina, armed with abundance consumerism and soldiering in the vietnam war. thank you for joining us at george mason university. >> thank you. >> the age of 25 had this best seller and he's very brash and thinks he knows everything and sometimes he really does. in 1785 to he decides what's wrong with america and he's spot on. the problem is under the articles of the confederation, the federal government didn't have enough power so he writes this pamphlet called sketches of american policy and when he has an idea he does something. he takes it to mount vernon and he takes it to george washington, and washington wasn't a college guy. webster was a yale man and madison was princeton and john adams was harvard. washington wasn't a college guy, he was impressed on the interesting idea and he's a great delegator so he said i will give it to mr. madison it seems possible. he gives it to madison and once the pamphlet becomes instrumental in the drafting of the con

by the time the over in the 1970s, half of all african-americans were living outside of the south. that's a massive relocation of an entire people. and so this is in some ways the universal human story of longing and fortitude and courage that is what, in some ways, made the country what it is. what these people did, though, had a different tone to it because these people were defecting a caste system that existed within our country, a system that controlled their every move. in some ways they were defecting and speaking political -- seeking political asylum from a world that's almost unimaginable to us today which is why i wanted to be able to understand what it was that they left and understand the magnitude of what they had done. these people were, in some ways, forced to become the only people in our country's history to have to leave the land of their birth and to go someplace within the borders of their own country just to be recognized as the citizens to which they had been born. so i want to say a little bit about some examples of the absurdity of the world that they were l

jobs. 2.8 million american jobs. and i remember because i was in the house when that debate took place, and i heard the same they think then as i hear now. members of congress getting up and talking about all the new jobs that were going to be created. well, it wasn't true then. it is not true now. how can you defend a trade policy based on the same principles as pntr with china when that policy has cost us 2.8 million jobs in the last year alone? and then we got nafta. many of us remember all the rhetoric around nafta. my goodness, we're going to open up the entire mexican economy for products made in the united states of america. we're going to be selling it in mexico. does anybody in america believe that that policy has worked, that nafta has worked? the facts are very clear, again according to the e.p.i., they found that nafta has led to the loss of 680,000 jobs. so the simple reality is you don't have to be a ph.d. in economics to figure out that if a company has the option of hiring somebody in a low-wage count

and that's just 5% more americans. but how easy is it to find american? and what would it cost? take me downstairs. >> let's do it. >> reporter: we inspected every corner of the house, the nails, the staples. so this staple here came from -- >> georgia. >> reporter: windows? >> montana. >> reporter: even the steel rods holding the house in place? illinois. hard to find but you found it. >> we did. >> reporter: next stop, the bathroom. where's the tub from? >> i knew you were going to ask that. >> reporter: aqua glass from oregon. the fixtures? moen from north carolina. and his son jake screwing in the electrical outlet box. the wire from georgia. but right in the middle of the tour, the dead end. they tell us about the day they were laying the foundation and needed j-bolts to hold it in place. they couldn't find them anywhere in america. and we asked, what is a j-bolt? so they've got them right here? correct? so what did they do? they rushed in steel from utah and hired a machinist right around the corner to make the bolts. they worked the phones for us to confirm that everythin

smith is the african-american we've def? >> the african american way of death is a way of thinking about death as not just deaf but connected to freedom and to the struggle for civil rights. in the book until the story about how the connection between def and freedom so essential to an african americans understand of funerals and deaths of that is it hasn't been considered in quite the way i do in the book before but it is essential to our understanding of the civil rights movement and also the history of african-american entrepreneurship. >> what is the story? >> it goes back to slavery and the african-american culture, they call a funeral home going, and in the book i trace the story beginning there and in the west african and transatlantic slave trade, african slaves who try to escapes often jump in the ship on the middle passage and the call it the home going because they believe their spirits would go back to africa, they literally go home so the home going concept began in the state delete the slave trade i begin their

say protesters angry at wall street greed and economic depression all to the streets of american cities but they are searches have been cracking down on the demonstrations despite washington support of resolutions of this and. every soldier three people are killed and one hundred eighty injured as thousands of christian protesters clashed with police on the streets of the bipolar months of rising tensions as the country's revolution between radical muslims and christians including outskirts and transfer. of the woman in western media reported as being obliterated by a bus on assad regime and syria appeared on television centrism live and crowd sourcing and embarrassed by leading a. class here's over possible for example sponsored by the e.u. emergency measures with france and germany agreeing on a plan to shop in europe to find trying to stabilize the euro zone it was probably grounded outlets came to me as a boiling point as right as protest video card approved by the government to secure rescue problems. they do us and pakistan friends oppose drawing peace love out of his guests for a

thank you to those of you- americans. earlier, the filipino community south of market has been industrious. in fact, they have been such a vibrant part of our communities that it. down there, you'll see many of our streets are named for filipino national heroes. people like the names that continued to ring as to go through and recognize some of those streets. i also want to thank the san francisco filipino culture center and all of the filipino community organizations that have worked with our city around the years protecting in supporting filipino families, the arts and education, and also our valued neighborhoods across our city. there are so many neighborhood organizations that have sprouted up, but there are many, too, that have been there for long, long time. i want to thank the philippine news, the filipino whelm -- filipino womens' network. by the way, the network has been instructing me about -- to make sure that i know what pinay power is in san francisco. thank you. i said it wrong. you see, they're still teachi

hawaiian farmers started growing products that american sailors wanted to eat. potatoes, cattle and things like that. commercial development of the waterfront especially in honolulu. this typical relationship going on with the west coast of the united states. the honolulu waterfront was built using timber from the pacific northwest. the change in terms of the culture. both commercially and in terms of religion was radical and had do with the christians and the sailors. >> host: why was 1898 so important? >> guest: that was the year of the spanish-american war and the year the united states annexed hawaii and takes over the philippines and invade cuba and the philippines, takes over guam and puerto rico. the year we became an empire and the year we became who we are now. and hawaii is part of that. there was a cute debate at the time because we love to bicker. a lot of people who objected to becoming an empire and acquiring colonies saw it as a betrayal of our original ideals. the ideal of government based on consent of the government. the majority of the hawaiia

in american factories by american workers who then took that money as pay and bought more american made stuff in stores making so in things made by americans the money kept circulating from hand to hand from business to business for years all the while staying right here in the united states so a dollar a stimulus back then could over many years produce many many dollars of stimulation of the economy but with the obama stimulus since so many of our factories have been packed up and shipped off to mexico china vietnam and dozens of other low wage countries over the past two decades because of so-called free trade the money american spent buying things is not going back into american businesses anymore so it ends up stimulating the economy of those other countries instead of ours and even once spent here for products ostensibly made here the profits often end up offshore because of so-called free trade for example if people went out and bought a new cd and ninety seven percent of that money went offshore if they went to a movie seventy five percent of that money went offshore or if they j

speaker, americans are hurting. and there's nothing more important right now for every member of congress than fostering job growth for the american people. house republicans have been focused on this since day one. we passed more than a dozen pro jobs bills that is awaiting action in the senate. we have passed a -- america must lead the world out of this global recession. and i for one believe if we get a couple things right in washington we will see our economy turn around and therefore the world economy turn around. in the house we believe in helping small business. we believe in free trade and shrinking bureaucracy. measures have already passed the house with bipartisan support, i might add, mr. speaker. only to solve in a democratically controlled senate. mr. speaker, democrats and republicans invite the senate to join our efforts. mr. speaker, american can't wait. it's time for the senate to help restore our economy. thank you, mr. speaker. i yield the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the chair rec

they were too ambitious to join the american dream. blame them. >> and she fails to mention that she, of course, got a loan from fannie and freddie for her own very lavish home. but this is an old narrative from the republicans. this whole idea that the liberals are pandering to the poor and it's the poor people's fault that the economy is in such dire straits, because they always have their hands out. you heard, of course, for instance, newt gingrich talking about president obama being the greatest food stamp president ever. >>> up next, suspicions confirm. what do tea partiers think is the most important amendment in the bill of rights. that in the side show. you're watching "hardball" only on msnbc. [ toilet flushes ] i come in peace... i come in peace. but you go in pieces. [ female announcer ] you can't pass mom's inspection with lots of pieces left behind. that's why there's charmin ultra strong. versus the ultra rippled brand. so it holds up better for a more dependable clean. fewer pieces left behind. i go in peace. yes, you do

the american people will decide that they want to believe an american optimism over american division, that they believe in someone who believes america's future can be greater, not someone who is trying to divide an ever shrinking pie among the american people. it has really been in the end an easy decision for me. i know that america needs a new course and i wanted to be with a person who i believe will be the best person to lead america on that course, and that as governor mitt romney. i am so pleased to be here. hindemith, thank you very much. >> thank you. thank you, chris. let me turn to questions that you have. [inaudible] >> governor perry was introduced by someone the question the mormon faith. what he think of the tactics of attacking some one's faith? and governor romney, you have been silent to now. what do you think? >> my answers the same as those in new jersey who disparage both parties my position -- my appointing a muslim judge. these types of religious matters have nothing to do with someone's ability to lead. you have to evaluate their record, their character, and t