hugo chÁvez es una amenaza pará obama?duras. destituye a zelaya que estaba tratando de cambiar las leyes del juego segÚn el mapa que le habÍa dado hugo chÁvez. hasta cierto punto fidel castro que lo admitiÓ que se reunió con zelaya y le dijo que lo que tenÍa que hacer, zelayh@univisi@ >> debe enfrentar barack obama al alba directamente? >> va tener que enfrentarlostarde o temprano . como lo enfrenta? ese es otro tema. pero sin duda estados unidos que quizÁs todavÍa no sabe la administraciÓn de obama ya estÁ enfrentada a hugo chÁvez y el alba. >> seÑ castaÑeda usted cree lo mismo? debe el gobierno enfrentarse en gobiernos como el de venezuela, bolivia, argentina? >> de enfrentarlo por supuesto que sÍ. pero no militarmente. sino llevando el debate polÍtico. del debate diplomÁtico en la arena pÚblica para mostrar que las posturas de venezuela, bolivia, ecuador, nicaragua no son positivas. no le sirven a amÉrica latina el problema es que los estados unidos esto no lo puede hacer sÓlo si lo empieza a ser sólo va a resultar nuev

roby chavez caught up with some of the fans. >> reporter: when the last seconds of the last redskins game this season ticked down, there was finally something to cheer about. it's over. >> it's pitiful. >> i'm really disappointed. >> it's the worst season i've ever seen. >> reporter: very few fans were around to watch however. by now, most are on the cowboys band wagon or wearing philadelphia green. . >> he fumbled the snap. come on. >> reporter: marcus cooper and his dad sat it out in a corner alone. >> it's sad. you know? i come down here expecting to see everyone rooting hard for the final game of the season and see everyone caring about the cowboys and the eagles. i thought we were in d.c. here. what's going on? >> we're like the only skins fans here. and the season has been kind of dismal, but towards the end things are starting to look up a little bit for next season. it gives us a little hope for next year. >> go cowboys! >> repo at the espn zone, the game was ban issued to the small screen. for die-hards, change can't come soon enough, starting with the coach. >> i expect tom

that said, i do think that hugo chavez is probably not and i may be wrong with this prediction, but in't think he's going to be around all that much longer because he is bending himself -- spending himself into a predictable financial crisis. he is so much in favor of populist policies that address the needs of the port and that is certainly not a bad thing at all. but by making and in use of major lenders -- making enemies of major lenders and turning to governments like iran and north korea, he is dealing with problems of debt to an inflation and i think he is not bright enough frankly to get himself out of of the fix he has put himself then. but also i would have to say that there are a number of countries in latin america that do not share chavez be used, ideas for the united states with the rest of the world. certainly the government of peru, the government of mexico doesn't and while in brazil under this has to deal with venezuela because it is close by i certainly think that actually this dilva is a very wonderful president of brazil. i think he has put his country on a path th

deepens the whole hugo chavez hole.united states is an empire and an evil force in the region, according to them. guest: president chavez has problems with other governments. 4lñhis army is not prepared to fight a war. he has been active in attempting to undermine u.s. interests throughout the region. he has not been successful there either. there are three or four governments that work with president chavez persia. you have a leader like you get a job as -- like hugo chavez who do not know how to govern host: what about lifting thei embargo to venezuela? guest: we would have to be very careful to provide support for the caribbean islands that take the torch and that once went to cuba from the united states. we need to have a plan in place to get economic support for those island countries. the transition in cuba which i hope would be democratic should not fall into the hands of either the very left or very rights in cuba. the organization of american states needs to be involved. host: what about other political parties

deepens the whole hugo chavez hole. the united states is an empire and an evil force in the region, according to them. guest: president chavez has problems with other governments. 4lñhis army is not prepared to fight a war. he has been active in attempting to undermine u.s. interests throughout the region. he has not been successful there either. there are three or four governments that work with president chavez persia. you have a leader like you get a job as -- like hugo chavez who do not know how to govern host: what about lifting thei embargo to venezuela? guest: we would have to be very careful to provide support for the caribbean islands that take the torch and that once went to cuba from the united states. we need to have a plan in place to get economic support for those island countries. the transition in cuba which i hope would be democratic should not fall into the hands of either the very left or very rights in cuba. the organization of american states needs to be involved. host: what about other political pa

hence also the comedy of errors in honduras where obama supported a chavez want-to-be while opposing constitutionality that would oppose a dictate according to article 239. hence also and i'm yite shocked that lebanon's recent demonstrations to syria. syria had been ostracized from the bush administration for its role in the assassination and obama administration is offering reconciliation and return of the u.s. ambassador. the pro-western lebanese know how to read wind direction, hence the recent astonishing visit of lebanese president to da mass cast to bend -- damascus to bend a knee to a man he knows is behind the murder. but now who is now the once again regional power as the obama administration resets relations with lebanon-syrian overlord. accommodation with enemies is not a free lunch. it has its price. and finally the policy of this expensive accommodation, iran, where obama has consistently upheld the legitimatey of the clerical regime insists on maintaining good relations with it and has been slow and often silent in support of the democratic demonstrators in the streets.

also the comedy of errors and honduras, where obama reflexively supported by hugo chavez won a be anons of nearly every constitutional institution in a country which had acted to dispose -- opposed a would be dictator according to the honduran constitution. quite shockingly, lebanon's recent demonstrations of fealty to syria -- syria had been ostracized by the bush a administration for its role in assassinations, and is now enjoying her representative posh mont -- a reconciliation. the lebanese know how to read the wind direction. hence the recent astonishing a visit of a lebanese president to damascus to bend an aide to president assad, the man he knows what's behind the murder of his own father. but who is now bell once again rising regional power, as the obama administration resets relations with lebanon's syrian overlord. the combination of enemies is not a free lunch. it has its price. and finally piece of resistance of this policy of expensive accommodation. iran, where obama has consistently upheld the legitimacy of the the-clerical regime, insisting on maintaining good relati

. >> hugo chavez? >> who is he hiding. >> some went to venezuela but that is not the issue there are much more serious issues with hugo chavez. >> what about the polish people? >>

i've been watching the redskins since 1964. >> reporter: roby chavez, fox 5 news. >> a whole lot more>> straight ahead at 6:00, the first few days of trading in the stock market this year could set the tone for the rest of 2010. >> it is called the january effect. we'll break it down and tell you how can you take advantage of it. fox 5 morning news is coming back in just two minutes. 

deepens the whole hugo chavez hole. the united states is an empire and an evil force in the region, according to them. guest: president chavez has problems with other governments. 4lñhis army is not prepared to fight a war. he has been active in attempting to undermine u.s. interests throughout the region. he has not been successful there either. there are three or four governments that work with president chavez persia. you have a leader like you get a job as -- like hugo chavez who do not know how to govern host: what about lifting thei embargo to venezuela? guest: we would have to be very careful to provide support for the caribbean islands that take the torch and that once went to cuba from the united states. we need to have a plan in place to get economic support for those island countries. the transition in cuba which i hope would be democratic should not fall into the hands of either the very left or very rights in cuba. the organization of american states needs to be involved. host: what about other political pa

. >> gregg: hugo chavez doing major saber rattling. he claims that he sent two jets to intercept a u.s. military plane. it entered venezuela airspace. the u.s. air force denying that it does not fly over another nation without pry consent and coordination. >> julie: president obama focusing attention on job creation as america heads into the midterm election year. president used his weekly address to acknowledge americans concerns over the economy. >> we need to rebuild our economy that our families can measure security again. too many folks i've talked to and whose stories i read tell me that they've known their own private reis session since long before economists declared one. they still feel the recession long after economists have declared it over. >> julie: they warn that it could remain in double digits until november. could jobs cost americans big when americans head to the polls? is there time to turn things around. john is with the staff hill paper. the employment rate is expected to real estate remain at 10.5% come next nove

indeed, chavez responded to friendly u.s. overtures by continuing to suffocate venezualan tkrorbgs continuing to cooperate with iran and rush and continuing to harass neighboring democracies such as colombia where chavez funded vicious narco-terrorists. in an editorial last spring, "the washington post" noted -- quote -- "this may be the first time the united states has watched the systematic destruction of a latin american democracy in silence." end of quote. meanwhile, pending free trade agreements with u.s. allies in colombia, panama and south korea still have not been approved by this congress. that represents yet another foreign policy failure for the administration and i sincerely hope the president urges democratic leaders to take action on these agreements sometime this year, preferably soon. implementing these three trade agreements would provide a boost to the u.s. economy and would also strengthen the u.s. position in two important regions of the world. i also hope the president resists the temptation to support pr

bill: you are invited to disney -- to dinner with chavez and obama but you could not make it.om afar? >> all for this campaign, i heard from barack obama that words matter and pictures are worth a thousand words. i understand, keep your enemies closer, but you do not have to spoon this guy. imagine how it breaks the spirit of a freedom fighter to look up and see barack obama with this pig. it is unbelievable to me. barack, he appears that he does have -- he likes to bully people who bully bullies. i do not know why he would want to be in a photo op with this guy from the sopranos. bill: what if you were the president, got helps us, and he walks over with his dopey book? what would you have done? hit him with the book? what would you have done? >> listen, i would have said committee tries to get anywhere near me with a book, i want him tackled. i want to duck and cover like the old bomb shelter thing. bill: what say you? >> they subpoenaed -- they're thinking of subpoenaing alberto gonzales. they're also going after the riccio del toro -- benicio del toro. the fact is, none of

marty chavez, are you here? where's marty? come here.[applause] while he is making his way here, marty was first elected mayor of albuquerque in 1993. he served one term, took a break to run for governor and then went to serve two more terms from 2001 through 2009. he served as chair of the conference of mayors water council, co-chair of climate protection task force, and he is also a trustee. he also played an instrumental role in the conclusion of our energy block grants in the 2007 energy bill. throughout his years of service he and his city won numerous awards, including 2007 may year posset climate protection award for a large city and world leadership award for utility. mayor chavez has the distinguished himself in the areas of water conservation, sustainability, development, and climate protection and other hit -- under his watch, crime and albuquerque decreased by 17%. please join me in honoring marty chavez for his commitment to the conference of mayors and the city of albuquerque. [applause] >> thank you so much, and thank you

continuing coverage going on in london and the very latest on this new bulletins that come in from chavez, plus the other news of the day, as the christmas day underwear bomber goes to court. he's accused of plotting to blow up a passenger jet on christmas day. now he's facing a judge. >> a lot of work to be done to make sure this case is prepared properly. >> tonight what happened when the suspect came to court? plus, terror case in new york city. investigators say at least one suspect tried to run. he didn't get far. tonight new developments in a suspected big apple bomb plot. >>> continuing coverage from london where now three people are under arrest with the security incident at london heathrow airport. it's our understanding the airport is operating as normal. of course, all of the tension around the world stems from the attempted bombing of a jet in detroit on christmas day. today the underwear bomber suspect, as they've come to call him, appeared before a judge on charges of trying to blow that jet out of the air. he had little to say for himself. investigators say that the nigeria

in the chavez who has been intent on damaging it.and here's a way in which we can express our support. both symbolically and material materially, without agreement. but of course, it is being held up because of the democrats, the influence of over the democratic party by the labor unions. so when one example is neglect. the other was sort of actively stated. i'm not sure that the crises are going to come in this hemisphere, which is what i think it's on a lower scale of urgency, although i think it is wrongheaded, the direction are headed. but i think the internal problems that chavez has will probably restrain him, but it surely isn't going to be the united states under this administration. >> my name is robert. i am from the soviet union. thank you very much for your interesting lecture. my question is, growing up in the wonderful regime of the ussr, we looked upon reagan's movement to dismantle or to break down the berlin wall as something extremely helpful, and unrealistic at times. and actually i watched the celebration of the b

. >> i understand you were invited to dinner with chavez and obama, but you couldn't make it so how did? what was your assessment? >> well, listen, all through this campaign i heard from barack obama the words mattered, a picture is worth a thousand words. now, i understand keep your enemies closer, but you don't have to spoon this mook, okay? >> on the other hand-- >> imagine how embraced the spirit of a freedom fighter to look up and see barack obama in a pod in a zoo with this pig, it's unbelievable to me. you know, barack it appears that he does have some part of it is a bully, but he likes to people who bully, but who bully bullies. i don't understand why he would want to be in a photo op with this player from the sopranos. >> bill: what if you were the president, god help us, and this guy walked over with this dopey look in front of the cameras, what would you have done, hit him with the book? what would you have done? >> listen, i would have said, if this guy tries to get anywhere near me with a book, i want him tackled. i want to duck and cover like the old bomb shelter thing. >

it may be in the form of making a postage stamp out of malcolm x, or naming a street after sesser chavezr including a book by noam chomsky in the reading list, usually optional, but the reading list. so i call them the manipulators of history, or the politicians of history who sort of take what they like and try to make it system, the greatest in the world, because we are so elastic and so able to achieve these reforms. right? that is something to there are get that they have it backwards. but it is true, i think, from my study and my experience, and maybe yours, that the greatest things that we enjoy aboutu our country were initiated by people who were considered radicals and french people at the beginning, whether it's in music, culture, art, politics. and i'm talking about things very simple like, what would be a good example? you know, the curb ramps that allow disabled people in wheelchairs to move around, well, that came from the americans with disabilities act, which had to be funded by the government. but it originated with people i knew from brooklyn who are antiwar activists w

hence the comedy of errors in honduras were obama reflexively supported chavez wannabe.e shockingly, 11 non's recent demonstrations of fealty to syria -- lebanon's recent demonstrations. the obama administration is offering consolidations -- reconciliations for the return of the ambassador. the recent astonishing visit of the lebanese president to damascus to bend a need to -- to ben a knee to the man he knows murdered his own father. he is now the once again rising regional power. the obama administration resets the relations with lebanon's syrian overlord. finally, the piece de resistance of this expensive accommodation, iran where he has consistently upheld the legitimacy of the thuggish regime insists on maintaining good relations with them and has been slow and often silence in support of the democratic demonstrators in the streets. the basic critique of this foreign policy is not just that it is naive and unseemly a stain on the american tradition of supporting democratic forces around the world, but that worst of all it has been a failure. we chose russia over eas

. >> sreenivasanwe have an update on veneelan president hugo chavez's moves to jum art the economy byevaluing the currency. that comes fromichael shifter ofhe inter-american dialogue. the start of a series of viewints on climate change leslation. judy woouff begins with peter molinaro of dochemical company, with more cversations follow. and get ready to respond to e president's ste of the union message tomoow night. find out h you can submit your own reactionideos to our youtubchannel, and your commts to our blog. all that and more isn our web site, newshourbs.org. gwen. ifill: and that's the newshour for tonight. i'm gwen ifill. >> woodruff: and i judy odruff. we'll seyou online, and again here tomorrow evening. thank you and od night. major fundg for the pbs newshours provided by: >> what the world needs now energy. e energy to get the economy humming again. the energy to tacklehallenges like clima change. what is that energy me from an energy compa? every da chevron invests62 million in peopl in ideas-- seeking, teag, building. fueling growth aund the world to move us a ahead. this

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it has always been the jewish aspiration we do not want to be killed before chavez. . . as to why this is my only event, 'cause i choose to. >> i want to thank the rabbi for a stimulating discussion and edwin for a very important book which 25 years later as you say still covers and offers a very powerful message for us. thank you. >> and thank you. thank you. >> edwin black is the author of many books including ibm and the holocaust. war against the weak and internal combustion. he's the editor of the cutting edge news. for more information, visit transferagreement.com. >> something asple as a checklist can reduce complications in surgeries. this is an hour. >> we're going to introduce you to our final guest of the morning, dr. atul gawande, who is a surgeon he has also been does in the debate over public policy on healthcare for a decade and a half now. he has in the past written a number of books including better a surgeon's note on performance, complications a surgeon's notes on an imperfect science and his latest book is called the checklist manifesto, how to get th

foreign policy which hugo chavez is involved in, and the policy for the next three to seven yearss7?ditions of the constitutional reality is it fell apart, it was an election where is the very end we accepted a clear solution to the issue. i think there was some improvement towards the end. it was the first time where empirical evidence leads over time to a maturation. that was the first example of a crisis. the other interesting thing is how the obama administration will submit to domestic concerns over pressing international concerns. columbia is a classic example of a country overcoming enormous obstacles in the name of freedom and doing it with great depth against an adversary in chavis, who is intent on damaging it. here is a way in which we can express our support, both symbolically and materially, because of the democrats, the influence wielded at the party. as we actively state, i am not sure of the crises in this hemisphere. which is why it is a lower scale of urgency. but the internal problems in venezuela, it is not going to be the united states. Ñi>> thank you for your in

several of these nations who are opposed to what the united states does -- hugo chavez from venezuelacompared bush -- compared obama to bush in his speech and implied that obama was as much as the devil as bush was. so i do the know to what extent the administration will be able to bring those countries into the fold. it underscores the challenge you have when you are working internationally trying to get a consensus agreement with 193 countries. that is a hard thing to do. host: what does on the agenda for 2010? is there another level meeting? guest: -- is there another global meeting? guest: there is another meeting. that is really going to be one of the top issues, and in some sense it is going to be determined by what the united states does here and whether we have a binding, the bill. that will be a key factor and there will be others as well. host: said this kind of -- so this kind of ups the ante? guest: president obama that with these other world leaders from china, india, europe, and other countries, and he personally invested in it being a successful outcome. whether he can

the president will sit down with ahmadinejad and chavez without preconditions but not so sure about republicans. he said i'll sit down and talk with republicans about this bill. again, great many ideas to offer, mr. president. i produced a summary of the 50 amendments that i introduced into committee and many of the ideas and said let's talk about some of these ideas. again, nothing, no answer back from that. in october, i kept trying to get other information out of my committee chairman, the subcommittee chairman on ways and means, mr. stark, my subcommittee chairman, mr. pallone, when can we see a bill and are we going to take some time to read it and understand it? when can we see this bill? you will have plenty of time. it will be coming along at some point. maybe a few -- maybe too complicated to read. that bill left our committee july 31 in excess of 1,000 pages. we went home to our august town halls during the summer and people didn't like a 1,000-page bill. they said members of congress won't read it, you won't accept the insurance for yourself, so we don't want it either. 1,-page bill

one recalls the president with hugo chavez receiving in the banking -- and receiving and thanking himor a gift that was a diatribe. it becomes almost as obligatory which was received by rhetorical bashing of the president by iran -- iran. just yesterday, castro accused obama of lying. generosity with respect to putin and shutting down a missile defense program in poland and the czech republic largely because that is what he wanted. it was responded to by a russian military maneuver a few days later that included a stimulated invasion of poland. i think we are often a pretty bad start when you get to the specifics. it seems to me that president obama has made a fetish out of a cliche. the cliche is engagement. obviously we talk to friends and adversaries. we talked to friends in hopes of encouraging them to support our goals and objectives. we talked adversaries in the hope that we will diminish the dangers that they opposed west. we did they pose to us. -- the dangers that day oppose to us. when you go repeatedly iran, which is proceeding and paste to develop nuclear weapons which wil

partnerships has the president or anybody from this administration in this effort reached out to president chavezng on the devastation to grant haitian illegal immigrants and legal visitors temporary protected status which would give them a chance to live and work third legally while their country recovers. >> i did not know where that is at this moment but i will check on that. >> i know you think of the one- year anniversary as a hallmark holiday, but nevertheless people will be telling that story in the coming days. how do you tell the story of the first year when you are talking to people about. >>çñr in the circles under my . >> just a visual. how you describe the year? what are the things you hit? what do you think in terms of lessons learned, adjustments that the white house will be making for the new year? >> the would describe the first year and i should, permission to revise and extend their remarks into whatever happens in the intervening six days. i think this president was sworn in under a series of circumstances that had quite honestly not be seen in quite some time. we had an econ

should hugo chavez have a voice in american elections? these are the questions we must ask if the supreme court's decision is allowed to stand. the court's decision flies in the face of a century of precedent, keeping corporations out of elections. by giving corporations the same rights as individuals, the court is handing corporations a blank check to decide elections instead of letting the voters do it. i urge my colleagues to join me in saying no to this decision and yes to democracy. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. for what purpose does the gentleman from minnesota rise? >> to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered. >> mr. speaker, i rise today to say welcome home to a group of minnesota heroes. the national guard's 34th infantry division known as the red bulls. many of the red bulls have begun arriving home from their most recent tour of duty in iraq. these brave minnesotaans have played a very crucial role in transitioning security, respons

. >> host: linda chavez with the christian science monitor. thank you for your time this 40. >> guest: thank you. >> and a programming note as we wait for the house budget committee to come back on house votes to continue looking at the trillion dollar budget deficit. tonight c-span live coverage of the state of the union will start at 8 p.m. with a historical look at presidents in their first year in office. and that's all by the president's address at 9 p.m. eastern. then the republican response by virginia governor bob mcdonnell, and their reaction. here on c-span2, we will simulcast the president's speech and offer live reaction from members of congress from a statutory holiday in the u.s. capital. >> the committee will reconvene, called to order. doctor elmendorf, we will continue with question and answer period, and i would now like to turn to my colleague from virginia, mr. scott, for his questions. >> thank you. dr. elmendorf, i would like to pull up the first chart. it's this one that you are looking at as you can see, this is a chart