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be printed similar meetings have been held in high court and lugansk both for and against it rise ation in the town of lugansk hundreds of people have gathered in support of should rise ation now they presented an ultimatum to kids what they're saying is that they want that status of the russian language to be recognized and then went to a referendum to be held there was a calling on the government to give amnesty to all the people that they have a risk. the same time the ukraine army has been massing in the eastern regions of ukraine as the recently surfaced images show here as you can see on the news were published by red novice to their indicating troop positions around the city of slavyansk a source in russia's defense ministry said all in all they think around fifteen thousand troops maybe hundreds of armored tanks and vehicles are there as well the pictures we have the week calling to the source that's enough to level the entire city jenna's grown phillips's in the area for up to. so we're here about sixty kilometers to the east of us at your study and scott what we can see here i

is a power forget his ations donald kennel tom watson of i.b.m. we included george kennan he famous. diplomatic scholar of washing i believe on the i'm going to i'm going to have had to be here where you go to a very short break and after that show break we'll continue our discussion on containment state. it's four forty eight and. mr president welcome. it's eleven thirty am. it's one more forty five pm. place. we are proud to be bolivia it's. plain. to leaven pm ok almost twenty hours eva golinger reveals the of the side of presidential life in a new special project from a to. speak your language or not a day and look for music programs and documentaries in spanish more matches to you breaking news a little turn to angles kids stories. you hear. lynch all teach spanish. visit i. placed series of explain the try to players play polo i'm going to be claiming your name you know like for instance you're taking everybody and play ball out the weapons. like the payment to. play the thing that's setting all time place cases into the most elite let's pla

we are still in what we call backward ation oil so the front month premium is so high. i think as soon as the troubles in russia resolve oil comes crashing down hard. >>thank you. good to have you on the show. >>thank you angie. sanctions that cut off business, freeze assets and ban travel are in place against 15 more russian government officials. that brings the total to 28 as the u.s. and europe attempt to get the president of russia to desclate the conflict in ukraine. i think the hope of the sanctions is that some of these guys are going to turn around to the friend vladimeir putin and say vlad, this is really hurting our business, can we scale it back a little bit. that's the scenario we hope will be affected by the sanctions. among businessmen targeted by sancations the president of the russan state oil company rosneft who has worked for putin since the early 1990's/carol saivetz a russian policy and researcher at mit tell us... it will take time to know if the sanctions are working.but there are signs the russian economy is slowing. chuck coppola joins us me this

acknowledge is that of the social programs were begun in good faith in the lyndon johnson administradministr ation the so-called great society but he acknowledge is now that we didn't take into consideration human nature. giving people a check and providing women with checks when they have babies out of wedlock was not only good for them it wasn't good for the country. we have moved a long way from john kennedy's admonition ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country. >> host: you believe people should remain engaged with government and politics? >> guest: absolutely or it wouldn't be writing my syndicated column. you shouldn't expect more out of government than it can deliver and less out of yourself than you can deliver. things like character and virtue and integrity cannot be instilled by government. those are mere -- moral and spiritual issues. like table manners, you have to be taught not to draft a bill to the table. when i was growing up not to mix your peace with your potatoes. you have to be taught certain things. manners, conducting yourself around adul

was a power forget his ations donald kennel tom watson of i.b.m. we included george kennan he famous. diplomatic scholar of russia i believe on the i'm going to i'm going to have had job here where you go to a very short break and after that show prickle continue more discussion containment state. everything. that you know the price is the only industry specifically mentioned in the constitution and. that's because a free and open press is critical to our democracy albus. in fact the single biggest threat facing our nation today is the corporate takeover of our government and our press we've been hijacked and for. transnational corporations they will profit by destroying what our founding fathers once told us about my job market and on this show we reveal the big picture of what's actually going on in the world we go beyond identifying the problem trucks and rational debate and a real discussion critical issues facing america to find her job ready to join the movement then walk a little bit of. a . look. it was a terrible day on a very hard to make

another key factor; denominationalism, every time you get a lot of ationalisms you know you're talking sociology so you might as well get used to it here. but it's just the way the previous three factors have created an environment and how people organize. in other words, we don't really have anyone major church, what we have is many denominations, no establishment clause, free exercise allows again for a level playing field. so, lots of different choices and volunteerism simply means that people voluntarily can go to a religion of your choice, voluntarily they can get up out of that pew and go somewhere else if they're looking for some other answers that are not getting there or some other experience, or they can even start their own religion, or they can participate in no religion what so ever and that's the incredible nature of life here in this country. so what these four factors do, is they create an environment, a social environment that is very diverse. and that's why i like to bring in this idea that i already leaped into already in the class, that of religious ecology. i like

sentiments associated with ationalism led to -- >> you're telling me to people like you study war? >> you have to. >> the ability to move -- >> he a man who preceded him in the army how to operate , what weinous terrain call today combined arms capability. that is infantry. battle is the game of rock, scissors, and paper. it's how you combine them. seapower, land power, and cyber power. it's how you combine this capabilities to gain and exploit the initiative. it is part of the application of all elements. napoleon understood how to use combined arms. he had a great understanding of avoidional maneuver to defended inlly turn these out of prepared positions. understood -- >> that me go through three things. >> war is always human. what really fundamentally drives the conflict? -- >> what is driving . it's the fear of evisceration or distraction. a political order that doesn't have room for them. we'velso a sense of honor >> i think this helps to explain the rise of the muslim buzzer brotherhood. -- the muslim -- in iraq the only people organize of the x patriot iranians are like fis

activists are calling central coup established authorities illegitimate and calling for the federal is ation of the country where if an ocean reports. we see tensions are escalating in at least three bixi chased off eastern ukraine in donetsk known as the region's industrial capital and in its in ukraine's biggest city off of protesters who claim they do not recognize key as new authorities and they refuse to consider them as legitimate and legal power of ukraine occupied the regional governments buildings they put their russian flags on top of it and they have been asking for their rightful saw the terminations to be implemented calling on referendum crimea style referendum to be held as soon as possible donetsk region this fastens a digital very important industrial area of the country was the first to follow crimea to ask for this type of referendum they want more independence from kiev and some of people and some of activists in these regions want even to become part of russia and another is new craning city of lugansk a separate group of for task has made its way into national security

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to be printed summit meetings have been held in how cold and flu guns both for and against it rise ation in the telling of the guns conscience of people have gathered in support of should arise they should not they presented and ultimatum to kids what they say is that they want the status of the russian language to be recognized and then went to with the intent to be held there also calling on the kiev government to give amnesty to all the people that they have a risk. satellite images obtained by the russian media show the ukrainian military bolstering its forces in the eastern provinces according to a source in russia. street defense thousands of soldiers tanks and armored vehicles are currently stationed outside slovyansk enough to level the entire city now on thursday up to seven people were killed when the army launched a crackdown on anti-government protesters in the region journalist graham phillips sent us this report from the area. so we hear about sixty kilometers to be east of us at your study and school what we can see here is the trail me of so oppositions they've got these

are to be printed summit meetings have been held in high court and guns both for and against it rise ation in the tone of the guns comments of people have gathered in support of should rise ation now they presented and ultimatum to kids what they say is that they won the status of the russian language to be recognized and then twenty with the wind and to be held there also calling on the kiev government to give amnesty to all the people that they have a risk. and in their restive didn't ask region and another sell the fans to point came under attack on saturday night one activist was kidnapped and several injured around a dozen attackers were reportedly dropped in by helicopter and they are believed to be either gives national guard or radicals from the right sector a neo nazi movement that's as the army maintains a blockade in the area as graham phillips reports. so we hear about a sixty kilometers to the east of recent years to the amscot what we can see here is the israel may have set up positions they've got these armored vehicles parked across the road we've got to here we've got to f

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that's the brutal reality of those irresponsible and reckless actions of the moment first realize ation is the only way is the only sustainable way for ukraine to function as a unified states ukraine exists only as an independent sovereign country that needs to be respected but we need to move forwards and we need to understand the delicate and sensitive structure and makeup of ukraine and that's why federalization is the only way forward for the country moscow expressed concern kiev could be using mercenaries to quell unrest in eastern ukraine but one hundred fifty western military contractors reportedly have been brought in for a private security firm graystone. has more in a span of less than two months we've seen washington go from cheering for protests with takeovers of government buildings in kiev to exactly the opposite now trying to help quell the uprising in the eastern part of ukraine. moscow has accused the us of sending mercenaries disguised as ukrainian special task police to crackdown on protesters. on its website greystone says it's providing various security services det

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he put everything into a piece in 2009.ation the cap and trade. i thought it was not an adequate approach at the time. it did not go far enough. it was very insider-play. it was all very political transactional. we will give you a little bit here and there. we had a several hour briefing this.how they would do it seemed to me outlandish. when i suggested in 2009 with notice or mobile -- discernible effect, let's be competitive and that takes us out 20 or 30 or 40 years to show the american people what this is about. it went deeply technocratic. this cap and trade. no one understood it accept our energy bills would go up. there was a very unfortunate however one judges in outcome. that effort collapsed and with the loss of the house in 2010, this has been off the front burner since then. now the administration is waking up. secretary kerry has made a lifetime of his local career saying this is important. he is right about it. the know him and they're trying to ring it forward. in the dayly late but they should make that extra push. i am waiting for

duke and duchess are in the middle of a three-week tour to ation trail yeah and new deland. it's their first official tour with baby prince george. >>> the city of oakland has updated a misspelled "stop." we showed you the intersection of mlk and arlington last week. it was clearly spelled wrong, s-0-t-p.. now it is fixed. coming up, police are cracking down on the 4-20 celebration today. and a bay area tech company is celebrating a very big deal. the money >> welcome back. we are starting this half-hour with a look at the weather with meteorologist lisa argen. >> good morning. >> good morning. there's a bird and spider. you can't see it. the spider is goon. notice it is clear out there. we are looking at low 40s for petaluma. the coolest numbers. 51 in livermore and the forecast as you head through the day today, in san jose and the rest of the bay area will be warmer. in fact, the upper 70s for san jose. parts of santa clara valley getting close to 80 and at our coast ability wit of ellerby bit of fog but it will be warmer with sunshine. low to mid-60s. about 62, 63 up aro

approval, that we will allow the two epa representatives to leave, but if we do not have a disaster noon,ationdnesday by then what they have seen here today is just a sesame street picnic. [applause] >> two days later, lois called the white house. amazingly enough, scroll to made them work. >> an emergency to permit the federal government and the state of new york to undertake >> and she said, and we will grant temporary relocation. like --of a sudden was i swear, the birds were singing -- until we can get permanent relocation money allocated. this is for the homeowners and all their hard work. >> at last, president carter came to love canal to sign the agreement, buying up the homeowners. >> the whole question of the disposal of hazardous waste, especially toxic chemicals, is going to be one of the great n-terminal challenges of the 1980's. there must never be in our country another love canal. thank you very much. >> that was president jimmy carter. throughout the excerpt, lois gibbs and others who led the struggle to take on poker chemical in love canal, a community in niagara falls, new yo

over asked him ation of russia as that's rather essentially see the russians as more of anatomy down to what the obama is trying to do with the boston bombing is deflect attention away from the manifest failure of the f.b.i. the european the i resulting from its wilful ignorance about the jihad threat and so the russians are an easy and convenient scapegoat for him to blame. america. now i. welcome bong this is the international a you want to fish are responsible for reporting on violence against women have denounced what she calls a shocking sexist culture in the u.k. she was previously barred from entering a british entire immigration detention center that sas should try to investigate a raft of complaints made about patient abuse and a lack of medical care the facility they send to has been creating controversy throughout its said chain gangs of operation these haney's have repeatedly accused gods of physical assault and sexual abuse and have gone on hunger strike numerous times to protest against their living conditions yells word is run by the psycho group which has been involve

and just a rehash or you are news just in pro federal is ation activists have reportedly seized a securityheadquarters in the eastern ukrainian city of kramatorsk only one person said to have been inside the building when activists arrived it was the night guard kramatorsk was the first city to come under attack when he have unleashed an offensive against anti-government protesters who've been occupying buildings across the country's east more details at the top of the hour. latest edition of sophie co coming up here on r.t. international stay with us. your asian media forum diamond of journalists politicians and public figures from east and west are writing opinions confrontation abuse the quest for compromises and new possibilities for you world affairs your asian media forum people put forth the twenty fifth. kazakhstan. you know people always say democracy should mean power by the people of the people hopefully sometimes for the people but when this people power system gets discussed it basically boils down to voting and being able to stand around with a sign but that is a very narrow

i is a very different interpretinterpret ation from yours previewing congressman schiff made reference to signals intelligence. if we know what the station chief elf and why that would not be significant he is the guy on the ground. he is the one that is closest to it and if you ride up the issue with those that are familiar with the full context of that is again misleading here today. you said there was no politics or changes done for political reasons yet when we look at victoria newlin. she said she had serious concerns and this is another talking point about members of congress making assertions to the media that could be used by members to beat the state department for not paying attention to agency warnings. that is clearly concerned by the state department about their reputation. we also have for instance a memo to ben rhodes among others. there is information of a particular and congress. this is a response not only from the house intelligence committee but also the guidance we need to brief members and correct the record so clearly the administration wanted to use this for pol

. >> i think everyone in the room , and part of the reason they came to hear this 99% --ation, is that the which is an in elegant measure of those were not super wealthy -- but the 99% are hurting. there is income inequality. you are agreeing with that. >> the next question is what to do about it. there's a perception that you want to address. there is a perception in the country and san francisco particularly that the people who make this great wealth essentially don't give a dam. dam, and i'mve a concerned about what is happening to the one percent. but san francisco doesn't like the experience of becoming a suburb of silicon valley, and that is what is happening. >> i feel like san francisco, relatively speaking, is thriving as a center of job creation. how is it becoming a suburb? >> because the people in silicon valley are living in seven cisco more and more and more. this is a trend that will continue. why not? it is a great city. been for culture and a beautiful bay. the economic fact is to drive up rents about ernie percent. 30%.out there's not much you can do about that. it is

relationship with the government. , "deathe recognize that begins his stand up against the fashion,ation in some i think it will only get worse. i will pass this on to adam of the new york times. [applause] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2014] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] >> good morning. i cover the supreme court for the new york times and it is a pleasure to share the stage. he is one of the bravest and most important journalists of our day. i hope to cover the request he has at the supreme court to review his case with the disinterested detachment you would expect from the new york times. an area where i've practiced as a pressler for maybe 14 years before turning to reporting. if i were still wearing that old hat and i was allowed to have an opinion, i might say the issue of jim by the obama administration is a scandal. let me introduce our panelists. as you might expect from my background, we will try to set some legal framework for the discussions that will go on today. forly, you could not ask better experts on all of this. .o my left

[captioning performed by ational captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2014] >> a number of bills including a couple with ukraine, $150 million in aid for ukraine, as well as codifying and expanding russian sanctions, and another bill they'll consider this afternoon authorizes up to $10 million for radio free europe and radio liberty to increase their broadcast into eastern ukraine and into crimea. they are back at 2:00 and legislative work at 4:00. all of that here at c-span. also at 2:00 p.m. eastern, general motors c.e.o. testifies before the house energy and commerce committee. it's the first of a couple of days of testimony for her on capitol hill about the recall of over four million g.m. vehicles over ignition problems. that will be live this afternoon on c-span3. also at 2:00 p.m. eastern we get a preview from this morning's "washington journal." on the phone, ms. yeager. thanks for joining us. tell host: tell us a little bit about the hearing today and the rest of the week. what are the topics? covered? thehat happens today is committee on the

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one of the things we talked about that stage is one of the is --ations right now that is putting it mildly. if we had a better relationship we might have -- the process might work better. >> i was chief of staff for the first president bush. i may be mistaken but i think the numbers we had where 175 republicans and 260 democrats in the house. and 57 -- andcans 57 eurocrats. a very huge margin of opposition party. ae difference was there was president there that wanted to get things done. and just to remind you against that set of odds, this is a president who passed a five-year bill, thee clean-air childcare bill. the ada with the help of negotiating with senator kennedy. a small welfare package, the fact is that a president that is willing to be engaged and make all the difference in -- can make all the difference in the world. one of the statistics i find interesting in that whole cycle of doing the budget, the chairman of the ways and means -- theee was congressman congressman from illinois. the president had him into the white house 26 times. to work out details. if you go back and loo

. $.44.ations coming in and all about the global volume. how much sales do they have? america. it was international that helped drive coke sales up two percent. >> good morning, everyone. all of our interviews on our digital media. look for us on bloomberg radio and bloomberg television plus. our guest host, providing tax was among tax day, is the former omb director. a bloomberg view: this. -- a bloomberg view columnist. is that enough intro? >> a good intro. he likes his coke. coming in with expectations. sales were better than estimates coming in at $10.58 billion. about four percent lower year on year. the company also saying that a full on your purchase program at $3 billion. we will go to cannes, who works for bloomberg industries. a team of 100 analyst to provide research data 120 five industries in that sector. when you look at coke, the numbers came in and the revenue was not deep. the real issue is, we are drinking a soda. what is do about that? >> you hit the nail on the head there. the key to the conference call will be, just how do you improve growth and r

police actually responded with throwing those all the golf balls back at the protest this this issue ationis still very tense we do know that president got a call which urged the opposition to hold negotiations with with members of the government we do know that some talk has held but there has been no information about what these talks were about they were held behind closed doors and as of now there is no political solution political decision just sold this ongoing crisis the situation is still very tense the assault may happen at any moment we can see a water cannon standing in the middle of police lines that have no form a you letter around this war account which suggests that they may be forming something of a formation to assault to to try to push the protest. again back to the independence question. we're still following the developments and we'll see how the rebels but right now right now it's monday with grenade situation pretty much unexpected unpredictable and nobody knows where it's going to go. but the bio also believes that it was ethnic cleansing or spores of it was an attem

who's a power forget his ations donald kennel tom watson of i.b.m. we included george kennan he famous. diplomatic scholar of washing i believe on that i'm going to i'm going to have had joe be here when you go to a very short break and after that show frank will continue one discussion containment state. everything. that you know the price is the only industry specifically mention in the constitution. that's because a free and open press is critical to our democracy albus. in fact the single biggest threat facing our nation today is the corporate takeover of our government and our press we've been hijacked and for. transnational corporations they will profit by destroying what our founding fathers once will just i'm tom hartman and on this show we reveal the big picture of what's actually going on in the world we go beyond identifying the problem try rational debate in a real discussion critical issues facing america five ready to join the movement and walk the. world with. science technology innovation called the least a melon minutes from around r

ation? is it a civil right? is it an economic issue? let's start with governor barbour, a guest to our state. >> thank you, for me 1965 happened to be the year i graduated from high school, and so i'm glad you didn't ask me to comment on the policy that we had there. [laughter] but look, in our country we have always been a country of immigrants. my great-grandfather came here from ireland, and we http://upload.youtube.com/clos_0 can look around the state of mississippi where we don't have the kind of immigration, and in the mid-'60s when this was going on, we did not have the kind of immigrant of today. we had yugoslavs who fled the turn of the century. we had syrians who fled at the turn of the centuries, christians who had tried to escape and ended up in our neck of the woods. he couldn't get in new york. they and came up the river. the purpose you talked about is obviously something that has to be part of immigration policy. it has been mentioned, i cochair the immigration reform task force for the bipartisan policy center. equity i

for deflation where you have we where you have people switching from profit maximisation to debt as ation as economists richard could call it or someone like high minsky would say effectively it's a long term balance sheet repair mechanism and if you think of it the e.c.v. is the key playmaker in europe it can't do it right money printing because of article one trick two three of the master treaty the fiscal compact starts stops european nation states just building roads and just increasing government expenditure that way and so really you have to look at innovative off balance sheet options so effectively to q e in the question is can this work number one and number two what price do you set these assets at so you know it's pretty easy to to buy a buyer sovereign debt but you know can you can you really. measure and accurately price irish commercial paper if you're the european central bank so quantity is not the issue it's quality as and you see the board member talked about recently and therefore the price so that's it that's a big issue going forward and it's not clear the e.c.b. as i

rising income inequality which is also socially destabilizing so this all goes back to market appeal ation and what the fed's been doing since two thousand and eight it's all related so it's i could argue that any one of these things could happen you know financial workfare deflation inflation social unrest the point is they're all bad this is what you get when you manipulate markets now jim you mentioned of three other times the international monetary system failed nine hundred fourteen one nine hundred thirty nine in one nine hundred seventy one but how did the threats of the upcoming collapse differ from the threats of these past three failures was a great questionnaire and the main difference is this one will be bigger and worse than all the ones before the reason for that is capital markets financial markets in general are aware of called complex systems we don't have time to give a physics course on complexity theory although i talk about it in my book of the death of money and i hope readers get a chance to read those chapters but in a complex system when you grow the scale of the s

outspoken about as well which is fukushima and the nuclear crisis in japan there's so much dissin from ation out there how. what is the severity of the crisis right now as you see it the crisis is much more severe they were led to believe documents have been coming out over the last two years showing how the utility and the government deliberately suppressed vital information did you know that even as the action was progressing and they said don't worry everything's under control they were contemplating evacuating tokyo evacuating tokyo i mean the mind boggling but that's how severe the accident was now right now we have three melted reactors it will take forty years by their estimate to clean up this disastrous accident and it could start again anytime soon a small earthquake could tip it over and the accident starts all over again i mean that's it really is insanity nuclear nuclear insanity really like i said before the break and as you mentioned you know that's a conservative estimate forty years for the clean up there are so many conflicting reports are coming out the seafood safety e.o.

over asked him ation of russia as a threat essentially seeing the russians as more of anatomy down south. trying to do with the boston bombing is deflect attention away from the manifest failure of the f.b.i. and the failure of the f.b.i. resulting from its wilful ignorance about the jihad threat and so the russians are an easy and convenient scapegoat for him to blame. the chance of us. not about work per use paper i'm the deputy editor in chief of. mission to put out he couldn't tell me what material he had for me. yet about i work with journalists because it is my colleagues know that i dance in the big ballet it's not always easy to combine my work and the ballet though and sometimes i have to leave the newspaper if i'm needed urgently i mean that. we hired a new employee recently i said i'm off to the show now she asked what are you going to see i explained i was dancing in the big ballet she said but you're not that great and i told her i'm just really beautiful that's why you haven't noticed or she was really surprised big ballet while the girls. went to atlanta joined us it was a

representative of a great country can imagine what american reaction to it would be if and militarily his ation expand it towards american borders so what's the way out i mean the only way out is not to expand towards russian borders anymore no. well frankly i have never thought that it was a good idea to think about or talk about extending nato to ukraine and georgia. for quite different reasons georgia still has internal problems and we shouldn't take on any ally that you know has resolved internal problems in the case of ukraine the majority they want to be and i don't know why nato would want it and i'm pretty sure that practically speaking nato will not accept either ukraine or georgia so frankly i don't think that that was ever a practical responsibility i think russia overreacted to that prospect and i would have advised much earlier simply put to you know nice by giving assurances that it won't happen and i certainly would hope that assurances like that can be given today however let me point out that with ukraine. the sort of pressures that russia was putting on. ukraine. cutting trade

fail that these bankers must be saved at all costs and their and our financial ization our adam is ation of our economy and globalization must be saved at all costs but let's look over to where power might be shifting we don't know what's going to happen post collapse of the us empire the complete collapse we don't know where it's going to be vietnam's punishment for corrupt bankers death in the past five months at least three vietnamese bankers have been sentenced to death their crimes amount to just one percent of made offs whole the sentences all for sharp contrast between how the west handles financial crimes i prison terms and sometimes just a fine and how some east asian countries do it china also executes those convicted of economic crimes though it's unclear. how many so max before they send these vietnamese guys to the firing line what they do is they stuff a lemon in their mouth and then they send them to the firing line and they get gunned down yeah i'm curious what the lemon is about or what the. how that signifies but executing bankers is a deterrent and so in these countrie

syria were recruited through social media that's according to a london based think tank wilderness ations found that most of them are now fighting alongside al-qaeda linked groups against the government of president assad r.t. sarah firth reports. perhaps more than any other conflicts in the past do you think social media play a key role when it comes to what is taking place in syria both. guys they should media platforms and share information and pictures often in real time but some of the discussions and debates that are being had online will certainly raise them eyebrows we've seen advice passed around on how to cross borders some even bearing into bizarre territory with one user asking if it's possible to do jihad in half a year another asking if it would be ok to travel to syria with their family but we're joined now by per school and social media commentator may and may thank you so much for joining us today how important do you think this research is if we look at the social structure of the british for example muslim community eighty percent of british muslims on or below the pove

cannot be thought of as one that is stabilized with all these these rumors of greece's sister blaze ationimpending rebirth are just part of a sinister the political game that is being played by the powers. being your prior to the may european elections and you will see that when the elections are out of the way we are going to see further talk of the continuing shrink and stagnation of the good exceptionally calm scary stuff now young as i was asking what happens if some a vent like the ukraine crisis negatively affects european growth so much that we get a recession the periphery again now basically what happens if the greek economy in greek political stability go away. we do know don't you that the european union has not managed to overcome the eurozone crisis that what it has managed to do is to. stabilize financial markets while underneath financial stability that tectonic plates to europe are shifting in terrible ways condemning whole swathes of the of europe into recession in italy in spain in various economies of those parts of the pretty free while at the same time the whole of th

is going to read it or if i get arrested the police are going to be really mad from ation if you live in a free society i've always said that you have to worry about what they're going to find out about your personal life the government well in these situations yeah you're going to have to be very very careful because that's where the country is headed the technology is moving so rapidly and the courts to be also the on again i've been a civil rights attorney for over forty years the courts of always been lagging behind technology and understanding it and by the time they make a crazy decision we've lost a lot of freedoms i'll have to see if the courts can keep up with technology this time john whitehead president of the rather for it institute thanks for. another day another senseless shooting in the us a disgruntled fed ex employee went on a shooting spree this morning in kennesaw ga the shooter who has not been named shot six people around six am this morning and was found dead three hours later and a loading bay from a self-inflicted gunshot wound all victims were taken to well st

based on the cumulative progress toward maximum employment since program,ation of the and the improvement in the outlook for the labor market, fomc began reducing the pace lastset purchases december, stating that if broadly information supports the committee's expectation of ongoing marketment in labor conditions and inflation moving back toward its longer term objective, the committee will likely reduce the pace of asset purchases in further measured steps at future meetings. purchases are currently $oceeding at a pace of 55 billion per month. consistent with my theme today, fomc statement underscores that purchases are preset course. the fomc stands ready to adjust of purchases as warranted, should the outlook change materially. at our most recent meeting in reformulated its forward guidance for the federal fund rate. the main motivations for this change was that the soonloyment rate might cross the 6.5% threshold. is also welllation suited to help the fomc explain policy adjustments that may arise in response to changes in the outlook. i should note that the change in guidance did not

given that today's $17.5 trillion debt exceeds our .ation's annual economic output a lot of people do not realize that. we are just spending ourselves into bankruptcy. it's pretty clear we have a debt problem in this country and that all of the president's populist talks about the b distribution of wealth and making sure the so-called rich pay their share -- the redistribution of wealth and making sure the so-called rich pay their share -- gets what -- guess what? tot's not going to do squat restart our economy and complete paychecks for american workers. bottom line, if we're serious about taking on the economic challenges facing our nation today and reforming the tax code, we need to rebuild the system in a way that would spur economic growth, jumpstart job creation, and once again restore prosperity to the american people. i think we've got to get to work , and, hopefully, in the near future, we will be able to get to work on these types of matters. i intend to see that we do, and we've got to straighten out this colossal mess. for you young people, your future is being bartered ri

next, i would like to present our guest with the traditional .ational press club mug >> oh, i'm going to sell it to my parents. [laughter] >> i'm going to arrange that we give a mug to your parents. [laughter] so don't leave without it. [laughter] we're going to arrange two mugs for your parents. [laughter] last question. let's presume that jon stewart is watching us here on c-span. please explain to him why he, too, should speak at a national press club luncheon. >> he won't do it? >> i don't know. here.n, lewis let me tell you, you're really going to want to do this. .he pay is unbelievable to think it worked here an hour and i'm getting a hundred $50,000. and access to a really nice condo downtown. it was right across from the verizon center. free tickets to both the caps and the wizards game. by thery meal was comped press club. they give you a credit card, you really, lew. didn't want to do it. it, you'll get a kick out of this. you really will. if you do do it, i need 10%. [laughter] [applause] >> thank you. thank you. thank you so much for coming today. we have three minutes. >

the issues with ukraine, do asian countries need to look at russia's actions in ukraine and an ex-ationf a piece of ukraine and wonder if the u.s. will continue to honor its defense contract and defense agreements with its allies in asia such as japan? >> you know, it's no coincidence that we're visiting three of our five treaty allies, japan, philippines, south korea. they looked at what happened in ukraine, but also looked at syria, and they're very concerned, because in syria, the president said he wanted to use force but needed to go to congress. so the japanese and south koreans in particular have wondered whether president obama needs to get the approval of congress before he can honor mutual defense treaties with japan and south korea. that has made them nervous and i can certainly understand why especially because of the president's response in ukraine now that really been indecisive and inadequate. >> the t.p.p. beginning negotiated, what is the likelihood that the transpacific partnership agreement is includified before obama's terms ends. >> there's a chance of that, but only

vermont tends to be seen, we've got is the best congressional or ation, all democrats democratic leaning. we have an independent as you know. in vermont we change governors and have since 1963 every time we elect a new governor. even in blue vermont. so my point is voters hold governors to a different standard than they do congressional candidates. they're asking a different question. do we trust these people to manage our budgets, to keep our roads open, to have great schools, and to create jobs for the middle class? because that's what we do. that's what we do all day long as governors. so i would argue that most of this national stuff doesn't have that much effect on governors races. what matters is do you have candidates that will inspire the confidence of voters for you as a chief executive to run the state? very different question than what happens in d.c. >> the legislature just passed a bill requiring the labeling of gmo's. whent do you expect to sign that and what consequences will that have and do you see other states following vermont's lead? >> i never comment too much on whe

. -- such ation, to have high-ranking former obama official call out a part of the law that hasn't been implemented yet cast all kinds of doubt. we wondered if he had inside information or if he thought it was even important. and then yesterday, with nancy on cnn, saying that this is an important part of the law, it was clear that there was a vacuum for democrats there. someone needed to step in to mount a defense. someone like even hillary , another high-ranking official we expect to run for president, it was important for someone for the left to come in if the mandate is still alive. host: numeral show the viewers now the defense that you are talking about from nancy pelosi yesterday. [video clip] the clientsnow who of robert gibbs are or what his perspective are -- is, but we are celebrating the fact that 7 million have signed up. not counting the 3.1 million on the policies of their parents until they are 26. not including over 3 million, probably closer to $5 million on medicaid, bringing close to 15 who now have quality, affordable health care. for those of us who made this indivi

>> chairman of the republican ational committee.do you feel this has changed over time and where were you years ago and come to it or places where you see it as the party has changed either in a way that you would approve or or disapprove of? if could you talk about that over time. as this issue has -- i think become more and more heated. >> i would be very honest with you. i didn't have much in the way of views on this growing up. 50 years ago when this passed. wasn't much of an issue in mississippi because of the issues i touched on. nothing like texas or border states. look, i was raised to believe we are a country of immigrants. my own family, every family here for that matter. nd that we're better for that. my party is a big party. remember the two party system, both parties necessarily are broad coalitions. and both of them are much broader than a lot of people like to admit. r give credit for. there is a diversity of views. i have to say that my views about immigration policy are just pure and simple. it is in the best intere

president obama's own administradministr ation has concluded that approving keystone would not significantly impact net carbon emissions anyway. improving the project wouldn't have an adverse impact on carbon emissions so you would think washington democrats would join the large majorities of americans to say that keystone is a good deal for our country. you would think they would jump at the chance to advance sound policy that's already been thoroughly vetted, but then you would be missing the point. because democrats opposition to keystone isn't really about policy at all. they are basically surrendering the policy argument a long time ago. that is not really what this is about for them. remember this is the same party that effectively conceded that's its agenda for the rest of this year was drafting a campaign staffers the whole agenda for the rest of the year drafted by campaign staffers. they said that. so for them this is more about politics than symbolism and the far left has apparently decided that killing keystone is the symbolic scalp that they want. in fact they are demanding it.