between the united states and chile on clean energy. we will have an announcement when we do our press conference after my bilateral meeting on clean energy partnerships. we are making important progress when it comes to exchanges on cancer research. we continue to have a robust trade regime with chile. and by the way, chile has entered into interesting partnerships not just with the federal government, but state governments like california. so i think the relationship that we have with chile -- which, by the way does not fall in line with u.s. foreign policy on every single issue, but it's a respectful policy. chile is an important partner. that's the model we want. partnership. the united states doesn't dictate how chile should view its own interests, but we have achieved great cooperation. and i will be looking at the president of chile giving us further advice how to take the kind of relationship we have with chile and expand it with our partnerships throughout latin america. >> about latin american countries, giving your hand on le

and we continue to have a robust trade regime with chile. and by the way, chile has actually entered into some very interesting partnerships, not just with the federal government but also with state governments like california. so i think the relationship that we have with chile, which by the way does not fall in line with the u.s. foreign policy on every single issue. but it's a respectful policy. chile is an important partner. i think that's the model that we want. partnership, the united states doesn't dictate how chile should view its own interests, but, in fact, we have achieved great cooperation. and i will be looking at president bachelet at getting us to further advice in terms of how we can take the kind of relationship we have with chile and expand that to our relationships throughout latin america. >> not only about chile, but latin american countries, giving you a hand against less democratic countries. >> the point is that i think chile is leading by example. so i am using chile as an example. whether the same is true in brazil,

chile was doing the exact opposite. they doubled the money they spent on education between 1990 and 2004, i think. deregulate the labor. they went back and regulated labor markets more than ever. at least in 2004, i think it's still true, the highest minimum wage in south america. they spent more money on transfer of technology, how they created the salmon industry. the government invested money to the salmon farming research and they employed 100,000 people. so this is the point i'm trying to make which is that, you know, you -- globalization is not inevitable. we have made some very hard choices. they are bad choices. people have known what the results are going to be, and that's exactly what we've got. [applause] >> i would like to ask the first question to each of our authors and then opening it up to all of you. kim bobo, wage theft in america. as i read it seemed to me that the book is about the way the neoliberal world that john just described is cheating on the old laws that were passed in the 1930s like the fai

what we have seen all over the world beginning really in chile in 1973, but sort of really deep here in the united states in the reagan administration is the currency. that seems paradoxical if you are making the currency stronger, making it basically more expensive to buy abroad. but what does here, and it does kill inflation which is the point and that of course is a good thing. but by making it too strong, what you do is you kill your domestic manufacturing and that's what we have seen over the last 30 years your sort of this gradual death of our domestic manufacturing base as a good flow into our country that are now cheaper because the dollar is stronger and goods that flow out of our country into countries like argentina, countries like brazil, all over the world, people can no longer afford or don't want to buy because there is artificial inflation of the price. that of course it works both ways so it's not just the united states. 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,

the book soon after it came out, and my eighth recollection as i had the book with me when i was in chile in 1973 when the military coup overthrew the government of salvador yandi and i stayed on for six years to write about the penalty dictatorship and that book, in your book i think this is the distinction would have been among the books i had to burn in order to be able to stay and chilly along with all the books about yandi government, the socialist of chile who was overthrown and introduced 17 years of dictatorship by the right-wing penoche regime. and that was an amazing experience that when books are for an american, north american like me that books would be burned and in order to stay in a country he had to perjurer library so i think that is a distinction that of the books that were so good that they were threatening to penoche were the ones that had to be kept here in the memory and not on my bookshelves, and yours was among them. >> guest: it is not an innocent book. it is guilty. and it is an honor to be guilty from the view, the point of view of the dictatorship. you have be

that i told soon after it came out and my recollection is that i had the book with me when i was in chile in 1973 when the military coup overthrew the government of salvador and i stay on her for six years to write about the peanut shea dictatorship and that the book, your book i think this is a distinction would have been among the books that i had to burn in order to be able to say in chilly along with all of the books about the government, the democratically elected socialist president of chile who was overthrown and introduced 17 years of dictatorship by the right wing regime. and that was an amazing experience that books before an american like me, the books would be burned and that in order to say in a country you had to perjure library cell i think that is a distinction that the books that were so good that they were threatening to it pinochet or the ones that had to be kept in the memory and not on my bookshelves and yours was among them. >> guest: is not an innocent book, it is clearly guilty and is an honor to be from the point of view of the pinochet or any one of them. >> host

when you have leaders of -- freely elected and democratic governments like chile, for example, going to havana to kiss the ring of fidel castro because that's basically what they were doing, it doesn't elevate the president of chile to the level of fidel castro. it lower them to the level of fidel castro. it helps fidel castro. or when you have a summit meeting like in brazil not too long ago where all these presidents of latin america get together and all they do is criticize the united states. that's all they did. they were lucky, frankly, that this received zero coverage in the u.s. media because if it had been covered, it would have just added to this bad image that latin america has in this country. so when latin americans why don't we get more attention from the united states, listen, glad you don't. [laughter] >> on that highly positive note. let me thank our speakers for their excellent comments. [applause] >> for more information on the book, "the threat closer to home, visit the publisher at simonsays.com and search the title. >> today on in depth bill ayers joins a three h

organization we are ranked 37th on overall health systems' performance behind france, canada, and chile, just to mention a few. we rank 24th on health life expectancy. and we ranked number one, by far, on health care expenditures. between 2000 and 2007 the median earnings of maryland workers increased 21% yet health insurance premiums for maryland families rose three times faster than the median earnings of that same time per. so we can't afford the cost of health care in america. it is crippling our economy, our budgets are not sustainable. we're having a hard time figuring how we will by down the federal deficit and when you look at the projected numbers if we don't get health care costs under control it will be extremely difficult to figure how to balance budgets in the future and we need to bring down the cost of health care if america will be competitive in the international competitive environment. so for all those reasons, we need to do it. yet we know we have 46 million americans despite how much money we spend who don't have health insurance. that's 20% higher than eight years

is a distinction would have been among the books that i had to burn in order to be able to stay in chile yibin after all the books of the government the democratic president and that was overthrown in after 17 years of dictatorship by the pinochet regime and that was an amazing experience that for an american north american like me, that's the books would be burned and in order to stay in a country you had to purge your library. i think that is a distinction that the books that were so good that they were threatening to pinochet were the ones that had to be kept here in the memory and not on my bookshelves and yours was among them. >> guest: it is not an innocent book. it is clearly guilty. yes. >> host: yes. >> guest: from that point* of view from any one of them. >> host: you have been accused of being a pamphleteer because that and there's a lot of criticism as a result. and i was offended by because i know the book very well and your work very well and i know it is compelling literature. yes. you definitely make your point* of view very clear but i wanted a quote from a mexican and w

we make and year chile at our little league games. who what will be included? what about convenience stores you make these poll into the mom and pop gas station? you can get elk sausage what type of requirements that we place and where do we stop? has anybody thought about it? as we as a committee the to have better definition as to who is in and who is out? total silence. >> congressmen at the risk of your wrath come i just don't think through safety is something that is determined by scale or size of company. i run a train association has very small number several be extremely challenged to comply with this regulation we also have big members but after the last summer outbreak we also found some of the issues and places people were getting sick were the very smallest restaurants we have got to have a system that will take care of ... >> there is a difference between food-processing and food handling. the people of pure love to talk of the foodborne pathogens and sicknesses predominantly deals with the handling of through. right? not so much always the process

dart that schwab sent their way by starting negotiations with the p-4 which is singapore, brunei, chile and new zealand which has already been taken as part of a sign of the obama administration interest in getting forward in some sort of regional approach. my only feeling from the united states' position and not speaking in any sense or knowing how the indian government would react to this would be that the united states should really move, i think, aggressively at least behind the scenes to reinvigorate apec, and as others have pointed out we've got to by chance, we've got a series of three meetings, the first meeting in apec is chaired this year by singapore and then japan and then the united states in 2011. and i hope when the administration gets its act together and can face down house democrats that it will take advantage of that. the singaporeans are trying to get the obama administration interested. the japanese are interested in following through on theirs, and from a political point of view some advance before he goes into an election campaign would be something, it seems to m

the last experience in free banking was down in chile with pin shea. it was a disaster to that country, almost a quarter century to pay back the debt that resulted from that. we didn't learn those lessons and we deregulated. p it was bipartisan. it was both partyies taken up in this ewe foreya over deregulation. the basic point is that there needs to be a balance between the government and the market, and that balance was lost. now, in terms of encouraging homeownership, yes, the government did encourage homeownership, but it never told banks go out and lend money beyond their ability to pay. it never encouraged predatory lending, and it was clear that the banks with engaged in predatory lending or at least some of them. there were efforts made to stop that predatory lending, but those in the financial sector were making so much money, used all the political pulls they could to stop this legislation to restrict predatory lending. the irony, of course, is that the banks have been bitten by their own greed. they have been hoisted by their own greed. that

tuesday the president will meet with the president of chile at the white house. on wednesday the president will hold a town hall meeting -- telhami in here at the white house in the east room on health care which will be broadcast on abc during primetime. on thursday the president -- i believe it is taped. i think it's taped at eight and broadcast at ten if i am not mistaken. >> [inaudible] >> i assume so. thursday the president will participate in the service event in washington, the president will also host a small group of senate and house members from both sides of the nile. at the white house for immigration meetings the meeting is to continue the conversation with hopes of bringing the beginning debate in earnest later this year in the evening the president will host a picnic for members of congress and their families on the south lawn and next friday the president will meet with german chancellor merkel here at the white house. >> the house resolution, it asks for direct combination of the government, the government in iran use of, violence against protest

to the grocery store and i buy food in a global marketplace where those melons might have come from chile or that spinach might have come from mexico, that they have the best and the brightest addressing food safety. well, they've already flunked that several times just in the last three years and we all dealt with the consequences of it. but think about what we're getting ready to do. we're getting ready to make it worse. we're getting ready to take an agency that has a seal of approval, a gold standard and we're getting ready to say: ok, we want you to maintain that gold standard on drugs and food and biologics and medical devices, but we understand that you can't hold tobacco to the same threshold. we want you to ignore the fact that tobacco kills and we just want you to regulate as we prescribe it in legislation. now, how is that? how does 1256 prescribe this in regulation? let me turn to this. it is called my continuum of risk. and it basically starts to my right, your left, mr. president, and it has nonfilterred cigarettes. and you remember those. nonfiltered cigarettes had a risk o

the artist in chile stamping a return and dress on problems that are fundamentally internal and homegrown. in saudi arabia and discussions with a normal of informants and acted as we found that the criticism of the ironic threat especially the fear of spillover from iraq provided a convenient pretext for deferring on internal reforms, the logic here was that the threats in the saudi press better focus on the persian, means the less space that can be devoted like women's rights and reforms are what this means is that the tone and style of the policy matters, and this is currently a matter of debate in the presidential elections. at least some observers have argued that the best thing for some arab regimes would be the reelection of aqua data job because he is such a convenient bogeyman. because this ironic threat in the minds of many arab leaders as a symbolic and an ideological one, because of this disagreement, disarray, arab result has not materialized according to u.s. designs. this ambivalence has been worsened by what many arab states perceived as conflicting signals about u.s. polic

there is some tension in the way title seven of law has developed and so the question judas' prevent chile where the question is through judicial behavior is whether the court will seek to of the justice brennan strongly urges it to do which is to find some way to reconcile and eliminate this tension and not have the two be at war with one another and it will be very interesting to see whether they can do that. if you look at the apr arguments in this case was argued in the courts last sitting in which 10 cases were argued in april and there were two cases that remain undecided. this case in a baking regulation pre-emption case called cuomo against clearing house. and justice kennedy has not written yet from a pro. and so i think there is certainly a fair possibility that this would be kennedy opinion. that will be really interesting because he is somebody who is extremely skeptical of government counting by race, but , on the other hand, he and the chief justice as you recall parted company two years ago in extremely important case called parents involved, the seattle and louisville schoo

and only 13 parts and chile have fda labs. i hope my colleagues will forgive me but the close the fda in lab empire state of texas located in arkansas. in houston isn't the only import area and texas and cities like laredo is one of the largest block ports of entry in the world imports from mexico literally trailers, thousands of travelers on a weekly basis. it seems unwise and unsafe to have the lab for the empire state of texas hundreds of miles away in another state, the location of labs need to be evaluated and reports submitted to congress on whether the labs are located where they are most needed a. discussion draft allows fda to assess current lab locations and relocate labs as necessary and i like to hear from the fda on whether they have plans to evaluate current locations. congress also is to allocate funds to the building of more fda labs and employees to see the budget allocation of funds for laughs so it insures the food supply of any to build more labs in areas where food imports are arriving such as houston's of

analysts on wall street and say no and that is critically important because from 2005 onwards at chile's jpmorgan worked brilliantly and there was a huge chorus of criticism from equity analysts saying why are you lagging behind? we thought diamond was this wonder kid he was going to come in and solve the problems, in fact, it revenues ain't that great. now there were other banks who were responding to that intense shareholder stock market pressure and saying, yes, we have got to try and start chasing after credits revenues as fast as we can and there was this real what people used to call goldman and become everyone wanted to be like goldman sachs. diamond on a number of occasions actually said it no we aren't going to go down that route and beat everyone a purely to chasing after the quick and easy pm el. but again it doesn't mean they made mistakes and i do want to paint these guys as somehow provide angels because they have made mistakes but there were decisions taken which i think was a very instructive lesson. >> [inaudible] >> in terms of what was going wrong? >> yes. >> well, for

at the other end of pennsylvania avenue, president obama meets the president of chile and told a news conference in the rose garden. live coverage at 12:30 p.m. eastern time. at the national archives and the new material, including audio tapes from the nixon presidency will be released today. it is tuesday, june 23. the focus for the first half hour on the economy, some headlines and stories pointed to mixed signals. we are asking the question because these and other headlines -- first, from page of "usa today" showing americans see better times ahead. the deadline is mexico, missouri. americans say they are still in a tunnel but more are beginning to see a light at its end. meanwhile from the front page of "the financial times," pessimistic executives cashed out of shares regarding stock shares. it's a growing pessimism about any prospects of global economic recovery shan't stock and commodity prices tumbling yesterday, while new data showed leading u.s. corporate executives were cashing out at a record pace. further in the story, share sales by so-called company insiders are outstri

of the 8% 4% and chile have access and have not availed themselves of coverage entitled to so we need to do a better job there but we really have programs available to 96 percent of the people and our state. we absolutely are not happy with that and we need to close that gap and we would like to have everybody covered the part of this is making sure you that availability to everyone and i think we've done a pretty good job of making that happen. some of the vehicles is what we call the minnesota comprehensive health association or someone who has not covered now and doesn't qualify for coverage is covered as results of a pool which is a cooperative between the health insurance in the state. and, of course, of the schip program so we have lost apprenticeship to attain a the same and between private insurers to get people covered so there is an example of how you get access and how you get people covered. we're working that already and we feel like we have got very good partnership with government to make that happen. the blue cross plan it that i belong to has just also launched a seri

women in a class of one of 500, one of nine women in a class of more than 500 and one professor at chile will asked her to justify taking a place that would have gone to a man in that class of harvard. nine women, 500 spots and someone actually esther to justify the line that she was there. and suppose you could justify now by saying she is now on the supreme court. later justice ginsberg was passed over for prestigious clerkship despite her impressive credentials. looking at judge sotomayor's on record as a lawyer, prosecutor and judge the you can see we have come a long way. she was confirmed by the senate for the district court would, she was nominated and that plan by the first president bush and confirmed one the senate for the second circuit and she now faces confirmation hearing before air judiciary committee and the confirmation again for position with the united states be one. which, after learning about with judge sotomayor's, her background, her legal career, her judicial long record like summoning of my colleagues i am very impressed here and she is president of, words, of th

a multi chile and other health care takeover is an extraordinary proposal in light of where we are. we don't have the money. we know we are printing a lot of money now and we've doubled our money supply. the federal reserve appears out of control. but we are in very dangerous waters as a country. we don't need to be expanding government any further and borrowing money. we can recapture money that is already on the table in this t.a.r.p. and get over 20 million americans in short in half the time the obama administration is talking about and not spend new money. so, we have got to look at proposals like this that don't put this further in debt. we don't have the money they are going to pay for it with new taxes or borrowing which will make america more expensive place to do business which means more jobs will go overseas. >> this notion that you have to introduce a new government program to solve the challenges that we have that are real in their health care is just falling. it simply isn't true. there are wonderful ways to improve the system and utilize the money that we currently s

i don't think that hamas or fatah have put together a platform that chile talks about what a future palestinian state living the look like and that is one of the main reasons when we see them in the position they are today. >> a question right over there. >> just to step back for a second, when you were discussing at the united states policy vis-a-vis fatah and propping them up, as you know both of the previous administration and the current administration one of the episodes of success that every policymaker can point to is the mission by it lieutenant-general keith data and to provide security of my training, and coordination for the palestinian forces under president abbas and prime minister fayad. considering we are actively training and least one faction to be properly professional and paramilitary outfit, since that is an assigned that has minority support among palestinian people and on the ground hamas mesa big deal at of the army etc. etc., in what way is the united states showing up its position as being either seen as honest broker or otherwise seen as somehow facilitating peace, as