the sun was a visible except on sundays. >> host: what years were you and argentina? >> guest: three years and ba'ath but then i was obliged. >> host: you were there in the years prior to the koop? >> guest: yes. yes. of course, and a few months after that two but i was obliged to leave -- to leave argentina because i did not like to be there. i was obliged to go out. you cannot distinguish the difference between courage and madness. i was levying in such a way i was going to be killed. >> host: i like to bring in some background about that because one of my books is called the condor years about operation condor. and it describes in great detail the period you were living in argentina and the amazing thing there is absolutely no exaggeration and your feeling it was madness to stay on in argentina at least 22,000 people were killed at the period by the military, particularly after the military coup happened. operation condor was an operation to kill people from other countries who sought exile, people like you. i wanted to ask you then most of the year koreans who wer

and this was culture. >> host: what years were you in argentina? >> guest: publishing marcha three years and a half, but then -- >> host: you were there in the years prior to the coup in 1976. >> guest: and some months after but i was obliged to leave because they didn't want me to be in prison and i was obliged to leave argentina because they didn't like to be -- i was obliged to go away. there is a plant in which you cannot distinguish the difference between madness. so i was leaving in such a way -- >> host: i would like to bring in background about that because one of my books is called the condor years and it describes in great detail the period you were living in argentina and the amazing thing there is absolutely no exaggeration in your feeling that it was madness to stay on argentina at least 22,000 people were killed at the period by the military particularly after the military coup happened. operation condor was to kill people from other countries who had sought exile, people like you and i wanted to ask most of those killed in this perio

and all of this was culture. >> host: one years for you in argentina? >> guest: publishing almost a three-year four years, but then i was obliged. >> host: you're there in the years prior to the coup in argentina. >> guest: yes and some months after the coup, but i was obliged to leave uraguay because i didn't love to be in prison and i was obliged to leave argentina because i did not like to be dead. death is boring and i was obliged to go out. two go away. the point which you can't distinguish the difference between courage and madness so i was living in such a way that i was going to be killed. >> host: well, i would like to bring in some background about that because one of my books is called the condor years about operation condor and it describes in great deal -- great detail the time in your living in argentine -- argentina and the amazing thing. there's absolutely no exaggeration in your feeling that it was madness to stay on in argentina at least 22,000 people were killed and the time by the military particularly after the military coup happene

i began their relationship with someone who started out as a dear, dear friend, from argentina. it began very innocently, as i suspect many of these things do come in just a casual e-mail back and forth, advice on one's life there and one's life here. but here, recently over this last year, it developed into something much more than that. and as a consequence, i hurt her, i hurt your wall, i hurt my wife, i hurt my boys, i hurt friends like tom davis. i heard a lot of different folks. host: some of the headlines from the new york tabloids. "run away governor." "daily news" says "buenos airhead." the question that we are asking, the private lives of public officials. what is your take on this? caller: i think the politicians should concentrate on the few morals that government should concentrate on, one of which is stealing, which we have plenty of in the government, and leave the other morals to the churches and the preachers and the general public. i think that politicians have plenty to clean up without worrying about extramarital affairs. host: john, thank you. gail collins w

you see that in argentina. this was really the crux of their problems that they made their peso equivalent to a dollar. for every peso they printed, they had a u.s. dollar in reserve. inflation plunged to zero overnight, but it also killed the domestic manufacturing industry. the third thing is just usery, its debt. it's the fact that not only do credit card companies charge is 30% on our credit cards but essentially the world bank and international monetary fund and the u.s. treasury, wall street, charges countries like brazil, argentina, mexico, turkey, charged in these usery is a rates 25, 26% on the bonds that they sell to finance usually products, services, bridges, dams like this which only serves there is a. so this is another way in which the game is rigged. we talked to this in the book out essentially the whole world is somewhat become a payday loan store. we are loading money to a lot of these countries and essentially coercing them into paying us you syria's interest rates on this money. everlasting

. >> did your wife and family know about the affair before the trip to argentina? >> yes, we have been working through this thing for about the last five months. i have been to a lot of and -- c street one hours in washington believe it or not a christian and bible study, some folks s of members of congress part questions and i think there were very important. i have been working with them. in in the back of the room, i would consider him a spiritual giant. hang on in an incredibly dear friend. he has been helping us work to this subject over these last five months and i want to say thank you for being there as a friend. >> [inaudible] the first and only time you have been fatal? >> yes. >> did you break off the relationship? >> interesting how this thing has gone down the, john. to give you a more detail and then you will ever want, i met this person little over eight years ago. again very innocently and struck up a conversation and i don't want go back to the bubble of politics, this is not justified because what i did was wrong. wait, one question at a time. and

stuff argentina becoming like this. if there's 100 of the world and country's poor share in common is the dictator or somebody controls the legislature so it's hard for the people to write reform legislation and control the media. i don't mean to suggest there's a dictator in the united states that controls both of those there is a broad class of the wealthy of the court corporations that do a good job of controlling the entities and they don't do it as if they meet late at night with commissions. they don't have to. they have the same motivation, to make a profit and so when you turn on any cable news network news program other than pbs is corporate sponsored. they can't say anticorporate messages because the corporations are finding their entire program and corporate and owned and the corporations are some of the biggest lobbyists in washington. not necessarily on the finance front but all the issues important to them as media companies with regard to the media concentration, whether they have to pay for free airtime,

a position of monetizing our debt, we will face an unprecedented disaster an got way, perhaps of argentina and tripling the debt in ten years seems to me to be a risky approach. we've seen the united kingdom which was recently warned about its credit rating and perhaps that's the coal mine for our nation's own future. thank you, mr. chairman. >> thank you very much, sen. mr. secretary, the floor is yours. it's a pleasure to be before you, my first time appearing before you about the treasury's budget and i look forward to having a close working relationship and i look forward to having to answer the very important questions you raise in your opening statements. while we see some initial signs of economic improvement, and i think you could say that the force of the storm is weakening a bit. and although the financial system has begun to heal, our country faces substantial economic and financial challenges. the president and administration are working to meet these challenges and we're working hard to get our americans back to work and to get our economy back to a growth path again by commit

mark sanford last week in the revelation of his affair with a woman from argentina. south carolina's governor's wife, according to some, the sanford affair is evidence that there -- they need to be electing more women. what are some of the political fallout from this? guest: it is hard to get beyond a hypocrisy. he is somebody who was railing against president clinton and the late 1990's, and now is engaging in the same type of issues that he was railing against president clinton for. gov. sanford was not doing a project a good job for his constituents. south carolina has record unemployment numbers right now. he rejected stimulus funds. the unemployment rate and a minority population in south carolina is extremely high, 20%, 30%. what we saw from the governor both on the affair issue and stimulus issue is that he was politically grandstanding. he was taking positions that reflected a moral code that he wanted to sell as political gamesmanship. it wasn't he sought -- it wasn't something he believed in. the moral code was something he was trying to push on to others.

you look at the war in argentina, you cannot say that. you look at the holocaust, what would have happened if we said, turned the page and forget about it. >> do you have any people working for reporting from iran in any way? panama we do report on iran. we have done work on the limited access oft ns we do quite a bit of reporting on that. i welcome you to look at our web page. >> i like to close within up be questioned. when investigating human rights violations, have you ever observed humanitarian acts by the parties involved? >> yes, absolutely. i was in iraq, standing in a hospital. we had gone in because we had information that there were some iraqis that had been injured by air strikes in the war in 2003. i must have been there in june of 2003. we are standing there with the head of the hospital, just at

sanford and maria in argentina, his mistress. caller: good morning, i did not think we're going into iraq to win anything. i do not think relieving because it is a democracy or a place where people will no longer be a press. i think the obama administration realized it was pretty much a lost cause. we just wanted to conquer it and make it of an extended part of the american empire. i have the uncomfortable feeling that obama will just move troops into parts of iraq and afghanistan. what worries me is the way that obama soft-pedaled ahmadinejad's election. i have the uncomfortable feeling that these two will be big buddies after we leave and our influence is removed from iraq. what is obama's foreign-policy banks now we have iran and iraq which could easily become hostile to us again. there would be a formidable alliance. i am confused. i think obama should have taken a stand and come out against ahmadinejad. i think he should offer really strong support for the freedom fighters. it is good that he is pulling troops out because we

[inaudible] >> came from argentina and number of years ago. >> we have made very important friends. >> what do you do? >> that is a good question. >> i on a company that distributes prepaid debit cards for banking. it started as an instrument for remittances but in the up being like everybody else -- more than 4500 people in the united states. [inaudible] i'm trying. >> morella is famous -- >> [inaudible] >> terrific. don't tell that to my wife, please. >> at other times it is more terrific. >> she allows me to keep my wife happy. mirella has a collection she says she can always be happy if i bring her something in a little red box, so that's the way to a woman's heart is a little red box. >> this is no prospect for him with our line in the race and arlan will be a fun racing vehicle. the only person who may stay in with credibility on the democratic side is sestak, and he may do it. >> sestak? >> yeah, congressman sestak. >> [inaudible] >> i don't know. >> [inaudible] >> don't they all? which one of them don't want to be president? >> good point, yeah. but he seems to really be -- sa

mark sanford last week in the revelation of his affair with a woman from argentina. south carolina's governor's wife@@@@@@@ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ evidence that they need to be electing more women. what are some of the political fallout from this for the republicans and for politicians in general? guest: well, it is hard to get beyond the hypocrisy. the governor was reeling against governor clinton in the late 1990's and is now having those same types of issues. one of the things that bothers me that is often lost is the fact it gov. sanford was somebody not doing a particularly good jobs for his constituents. south carolina's record unemployment numbers are in now. he was at the forefront of rejecting stimulus funds of the obama administration had been pushing. the and women rate amongst minority populations in south carolina -- the unemployment rate amongst minority populations in south carolina is extremely high. what we saw from gov. sanford, both on the affair issue and on the stimulus issue, is that he was politically grandstanded. he was simply taking positions t

>> and it is going to leave our country much like argentina was a few years ago when it was once one of the most prosperous nations on the face of the ersberg of the argentines were like rich texas oil people they swaggered around and than because of fiscal mismanagement of their governments they went into a financial decline and have not recovered since. the united states is well on the way to doing that. this crisis that we have has resulted in payments of 12 point* $8,000,000,000,000.02 try to salvage the problems that have developed. so in my book "right on the money" i began talking about welfare in general and i quoted something i found very interesting from john d. rockefeller was considered the wealthiest man on earth when he owned standard oil company and all affiliate's. somebody said mr. rockefeller, how much is enough? to which he replied it just a little bit more. [laughter] if you are involved with money it is never enough so i point* that out in this book "right on the money" we need to give ourselves some perspective a man's life is not consists of the abundance of wh

argentina, the high elevation of ecuador. being taken out of the box and the penalty kick, the shot is stopped and they failed to put home the rebound. and stopping this one as well, it keeps the game tied in the 59th minute. and then ripping the shot, ecuador with a 1-0 lead. and the 83rd minute and the ball played in the box and palacios, and they gain three crucial points. when we come back on "espnews," kids out of college struggling to find jobs, but not mark sanchez. he is a multimillion air without taking the snap. and the red sox and yanks, decided by a run. ♪ ah, man, love that drinkability. drink-a what? drinkability. it's what makes bud light so incredibly refreshing. it's like a wave of refreshment, gently washing over your whole body. it's getting bigger. here comes the refreshment. [ sfx: screaming, wave splashing ] whew. well that almost never happens. easy drinking, always refreshing. bud light. the difference is drinkability. [ sfx: hairdryer ] no hard feelings. >> the world he is biggest sporting event retur

we had bailouts in brazil, argentina, russia. and now we've had -- you might call it the mother of all bailouts here in the united states. >> next up, host: st. louis, missouri, dan, thanks for waiting. caller: sure. no problem. hi. i was wondering if you think -- they are considering more sustainible economic decisions where as sustainibility means decreasing the disparity between the hierarchy of people in different -- society -- the u.s. is going to make more sustainible decisions with more socialistic economic policies or more free trade capitalist policies if the goal is to decrease the hierarchies in our society? >> joseph stiglitz? guest: one of my concerns in the past is we have not focused adequately on sustainibility ethey are in in the sense of environmental sustainibility or social sustainibility. we haven't looked at these broader issues. one of the problems is that some of the things that are scaresest in our society we treat as good. air, having an atmosphere that works, avoiding global warming. we get to pollute w

would have said, that was really bad back then, but let's get past it, look at the dirty war in argentina, you can't say that, look at the holocaust, what would have happened if we had said that turn the page and forget about it, that is not acceptable. >> because human-rights watch have any people working or reporting from iran in any way? >> do we have people in iran? we do reporting on iran. we don't know who is in iran right now. we have interestingly done work on the limited access of the internet to iranians. every year we have dinners in which we half for human rights defenders, and one was an individual who was thrown in jail because he was blogging about the awful human rights conditions that they were facing in iran and the things the government was doing, we do quite a bit of reporting on that. i welcome you to look at our web page. >> our members know i like to close with an upbeat question if it is at all possible and sometimes it is not. somebody wrote a very nice question, when investigating human-rights violations have you ever observed humanitarian act by the parties invo

i don't want america to become argentina. so i will be spending time this summer reading -- focusing on the history because as winston churchill once said, the farther into the past we can see, the farther into the future we will be able to predict. >> to see more summer reading lists and other program information visit our web site at become -- book tv.org. >> washington post reporter bradley graham appeared on c-span washington journal to talk about donald resumes field. >> host: bradley graham covered the pentagon for the was post-for many years and now out waive book that goes on sale today on donald rumsfeld. how did donald rumsfeld view the role of a government official, a public service? >> guest: he was very interested in public service from a very young age. inspired in college, actually, senior year, whenned a lie stevenson came to talk to his graduating class princeton, urging the students to use their educations and put them to work in public service and not long after that, rumsfeld rang -- ran for congress, and

practicing in some cases amphibious landings, the amphibious landings would not be targeted to brazil argentina and in this particular concern and one of the statements iran feels it is on the in mitchell of and the justice level in terms of supporting so-called reg is resistance in lebanon and palestine. and various gcc summits, is it still does circulates is america attack by iran and iran one without firing a single bullet or shedding a single drop of blood. >> thank you, says there were a few questions we will have respond barrett wanted to questions after that. >> a couple of points. i definitely agree with most of what to said. i would suggest that whether it is the u.s. acting without israeli collusion or israel acting by anselm israel in the united states will be considered to be inclusion certainly by iran and i ron will try to promote the perception in the arab world so i'm not sure as far as perception is concerned and in deference between just israel attacking in the u.s. attacking if that were to come about. we should expect that when israel will be brought in one way or another. t

medicaid, social security, bankruptcy, if we are not careful, i don't want to america to become argentina. .. >> in 2004, dorothy rabinowitz was a guest on booknotes to talk about her book, "no crueler tyrannies," accusation, false witness, and other terrors of our times. it combines s

kirchner in argentina was recently intercepted by authorities before reaching its intended destination. castro has purchased advocates and spies through the years via the always present threat of blackmail after trips to totalitarian cuba where the regime tapes visitors in compromising situations. as confirmed by interior ministry defector and a cuban intelligence defector. castro also serves as a banker for illicit money possessed by those who seek to avoid the detection by the anti-money laundering connections. it matters not if its source is political corruption or narcotrafficking. through his mastery of anti-american marxism, leninism, he's conned others into being spies. no other state sponsor of terrorism, no other state in fact has had more spies arrested and convicted in the united states in the last decades as fidel castro's dictatorship. let us remember one of the top analysts at the defend intelligence agency who was arrested in 2001 and subsequently convicted of espionage in federal court and whose treason led to the deaths of many, including u.s. special forces sergeant g

you try to do it on a global basis, and argentina could lead lower rates and estonia could need higher rates and how the balance the leaves? post co what are the chinese asking for internal their correct -- host: whether the chinese asking for for their currency? guest: they are concerned that they own treasury bills denominated in dollars, and if the value of the dollar would decrease, the value of assets would decrease. so, while this has long been a problem, they have been more vocal about recently. listeners woodnotes that the last couple of weeks we have not heard this from china because the dollar has gone back up. so all the sudden interest are different. but it is a valid issue that as china becomes a bigger player in the world economy, why should they always land and other people's currencies? i would not be surprised if someday, not immediately, the chinese say if you want to borrow money from us, you repay it and -- so we have no exchange-rate risk. host: did the europeans ever had that aspiration for the euro? guest: some have suggested that. the euro has been very strong a

finally, south carolina governor mark sanford is telling the newspaper that he was in argentina during his unexplained five-day absence, not hiking along the absent -- not hiking along the appalachian trail. he told a state newspaper that he arrived at the airport today. he said the last minute decision was because he wanted to do something exotic. governor sanford said he returned after a five-day absence because the trip turned into more of a fuss than he ever expected. those are some of the latest headlines on c-span radio. >> "washington journal" continues. host: our guest is "wall street journal" reporter sudeep reddy. thank you for joining what is today's meeting expected to do? guest: the fed releases a statement at 2:15 today after its meeting, and it will be the typical statement outlining its views on the economy, but also its prediction on what it expects to do with policy. this has been a very long paulist -- this has been a very long process for the fed from the beginning of this financial crisis in the beginning of the summer of 2007 when it struck home mortgages, mortgag

sanford admitted -- continued his admittance with the affair with the woman from argentina and apologizeed to his cabinet. also this morning from the associated press, the united states has announced a new drug policy for open yum rich afghanistan saying it was phasing out funding for eradication efforts and using it for drug interdiction and alternate crop programs instead. good morning, and welcome to the washington journal. we begin this morning's program talking about the latest developments on iran with sir richard dalton, former united kingdom ambassador to iran. he was at that post from 2002 to 2006, and he will be talking with us in just a few seconds. the numbers, if you want to get involved in the conversation... you can send us an e-mail, and you can also send us a message via twitter. that address is c-span wj. >> first we want to look at a couple of headlines from the brittish newspapers. "the telegraph" has this. iran election protestors worthy of execution says the cleric. this is from yesterday's speech prayers at tehran university by ayatollah khomeini, who says the regime

you here in zambia or mozambique would add kind of socialistic economies but also in argentina where it was more based it was what they call import substitution so basically everything that the country needed, they may. and so these kinds of economies generated, that kept out foreign goods so there wasn't that much on the shelf, wasn't that much choice but everyone was working, producing these goods. so there's a trade off there that i was trying to get you, and how that relates to the second quote about -- what was the second quote? >> you don't want to much -- >> right. is chile's economy after 1990 had one real guiding principle in mind, productivity. every dollar you spend, every -- the entire economy was geared towards producing something. you know, as spending money on investing money in productive workers. production, it sounds sort of unsexy in 2009. you know, it's not speculation. it's not gambling on your housing price is going to double over five years. every day making something, you know, making something that requires skills, skilled labor and selling it. so this is the

some cases amphibious landings now the amphibious landings would not be targeted towards brazil or argentina so there is this particular concern. in one of your statements that iran feels it's on the role in the run on the image level and on the justice level in terms of supporting so-called righteous resistance in lebanon and palestine, at various gcc summits,sick joke that circulates is that america attacked iraq and iran won. without firing a single bullet or shedding a single drop of blood. >> thank you. okay. since there were a few questions within that, we'll have you respond and then we'll move on. just one or two questions after that. >>. >> a couple of points. i definitely agreed with most of what you said. i would suggest that whether it's the united states acting without israeli collusion or israel acting by itself, israel -- israel and the united states would be considered to be in collusion, certainly by iran, and iran will try to promote that perception in the arab world. so i am not sure there's going to be as far as perception is concerned a big difference between just us ril

.-7 6'7" from argentina. young up and comer taking on lleyton hewitt. o when you're that big, you can hurdle over the net with ease.he hewitt won this thing in 2002. once the top player in the world. but he hadn't beaten a top five player in four years. he took first two sets three and five. and here's a crucial point inal set three. earns the break at love. hewitt now serving. one game from the match. the unforced error. del potro breaks back. it's 5-5. hewitt breaks again to go up 6-e and now serving for the match.he aussie, aussie, oy. he's a fighter, layton hewitt. he downs del potro. he loves playing in england. says it feels like a second home. another major, major sporting event in south africa, the confed cup. u.s. against brazil. do the americans have any chance? chance? alexi - why is it raining? - ( nextel chirps throughout ) - lose the rain. - roger that. no rain.no rainbows. ( chattering over nextel phones ) - could you tell us what's going on? - yeah, the cake is en route, - the tulips just arrived, and the groom is-- - he's getting cold f

i developed a relationship with a -- what started as a dear, dear friend from argentina. it began very innocently, i it -- as i suspect many of things do. just a casual e-mail back and forth in advise on one's life there and advice here. but here recently as last year it developed into something much more than that. and as a consequence, i hurt her, i heard you all, i heard my wife, i heard my voice, i heard friends like tom davis and a lot of different folks. host: we want to go back to the question of private lives for public officials. of "the los angeles times" says another gop bomb shell. we have a line to set aside for those living in south carolina -- 66-0184. phone lines are open for democrats, republicans and independents. you can send us an e-mail or you can also send a twitter comments. another headline from "the atlanta journal constitution, " coslet confession for south carolina governor. an open "the washington post" begins with this sentence, wow, was that a press conference. from the style section. the front page of " the new york times" has more on a stor

i've developed a relationship with what started as a dear friend from argentina. it began very innocently as i suspect any of these things do in just a casual e-mail back-and-forth in advice on one's life there and here. but here recently over this last year it developed into something much more

i don't want america to become argentina so i will be spend a lot of time this summer reading -- focusingn history because as winston churchill once said, the farther end of the past we can see, the farther into the future we'll be able to predict. >> to see more summer reading lists and other program information, visit our website at booktv.org. >> here's a look at some of the upcoming book fairs and festivals over the next few months. one of the advice columns that she read from time to time that i thought i was