and non christians.opened the church and the target of the outreach are the choir members themselves. >> it maybe a slow process, the members testified the black gospel workshops are making them better persons and some convert to christianity. >> i used to have low self-esteem. i studied philosophy and did my rituals but nothing worked. within 1 year in the choir, i learned about jesus when i studied the lyrics of the songs. now i am a christian. i am more patient with children and more confident about myself. >> i am not a christian. but as i study the words of the songs, i am finding new meaning in my life. >> today there is a black gospel choir in 50 churches all over japan. they call themselves the hallelujah gospel family. twice a year they come together in a concert where they share the message of christ through the gospel music they sing. >> 100 percent of the people who step into these choirs are being touched by the spirit of god. god is at work in a mighty, mighty way in japan. >> lucille talus

i'm a christian nation issue, is this a christian nation we are fighting for. the evangelical said absolutely not. if the government has the power to make this a christian nation, they have the power to make it a presbyterian missionary baptist or methodist or god forbid a catholic nation or anglican nation. they said the government does not have this power. government has no power to regulate religion in that manner. and so their petitions to the government would say things like we are fighting religious liberty for, mohammed dantz and christians of every denomination. other tax about infidels and goes on and on. i do they're not not a lot of turks in 18th century virginia. but these people understood we are creating a nation for the long-term and these people have every right to religious freedom in the same we do. they also thought and especially john leland, one of the great leaders, one of the most popular preachers in virginia at the time thought it was an oxymoron to talk about a christian nation or maybe an abomination. he then said is vacating tolleson

at a christian nation.we have john's evidence here that suggests in virginia there was clearly no emphasis at least from jefferson, madison and all the evangelical but those who supported them that they are trying to create a christian nation. so let me just for the sake of time here, let me throw out four or five very quick conclusions that i have drawn about the role of religion in the american founding, the religion of the founding fathers and so forth. the book is divided into three parts. the first thing i do is try to trace the history of the idea that america was founded as a christian nation or america is a christian nation. i traced this from 1800 other way to the president and the first four chapters. the fourth chapter deals with what i call the christian nationalists. some of you may be familiar with these people. insight david argus, peter marshall and david manual and so forth. i try to, as an historian, give them the benefit of the doubt wherever possible, but i try to lay out their views. of

at a christian nation. we have john's evidence here that suggests in virginia there was clearly no emphasis at least from jefferson, madison and all the evangelical but those who supported them that they are trying to create a christian nation. so let me just for the sake of time here, let me throw out four or five very quick conclusions that i have drawn about the role of religion in the american founding, the religion of the founding fathers and so forth. the book is divided into three parts. the first thing i do is try to trace the history of the idea that america was founded as a christian nation or america is a christian nation. i traced this from 1800 other way to the president and the first four chapters. the fourth chapter deals with what i call the christian nationalists. some of you may be familiar with these people. insight david argus, peter marshall and david manual and so forth. i try to, as an historian, give them the benefit of the doubt wherever possible, but i try to lay out their views. o

the alabama legislature is composed of almost all christians. to one critic the state's tax system stand the christian principles on its head. >> the moral principles of judeo-christian ethics demand that our taxes raise a level of revenue embracing the reasonable opportunity of all and that the burden be allocated in a moderately progressive way. >> reporter: susan hamill is seminary trained, a united methodist, a tax attorney, and a law professor at the university of alabama, and she's made a name for herself crusading for tax reform in alabama based on judeo-christian ethics, the bible. >> the bible, first and foremost, absolutely forbids oppression -- this is where i got started with this -- forbids oppression. what is oppression? oppression is taking a person who's already down, who is struggling, who is vulnerable and making their situation worse, actively doing so. >> reporter: the idea that those who write our tax laws should be in any way guided by religious beliefs has been greeted with a degree of skepticism by some leading economists

population is christian obama is a christian he's a church goer the white house has a massive christmas tree on its lawn during christmas every single year they do an easter egg roll to celebrate easter obama regularly quotes scripture and references his faith in political speeches so let's not sitting here and act as if the christian population is somehow being neglected by our president and just when you think about conversation can't get any more questions co-host steve doocy decides to jump into the mix. yeah of course the white house historically does have a white house easter egg roll but they didn't issue an official proclamation like they did for ramadan just now there's the president with the easter bunny screenwriter i think he did. briefly in his we can address that weekend of easter in passing but still nothing big christian it is christianity's holiest and the secret likely to the coming as the obama white house power got to issue an easter proclamation we get it now of course they don't mention the easter prayer breakfast or the fact that obama attended church on easter su

up. >> bill: christians pray for mr.ler and possibly offer up communion for him. george will thinks the storm is hyped. >> whatever you may say about journalism, it shouldn't subtract from the nation's understanding and shouldn't contribute to the manufactured synthetic hysteria that's so much of a part of life. you sort of agree with mr. will here, right? >> i want to be very, very careful, hurricanes are dangerous things and they're no fun to go through and if you come out of it in one piece and your house comes out of in one piece, it's no fun living with no electricity for a day or a week, a month, whatever it is and i speak, unfortunately, from personal experience on that matter. but i can't help but thinking, bill, that one of the reasons and frankly, one of the major reasons that this hurricane got so much attention was because it was heading for the center of the universe. it was heading for where media elite journalists live. it was heading for new york city. and i guarantee you this, if this same hurricane -- n

and, of course, there is the concept of the people of the book in the koran which includes christians and jews, and muslims also sort of, you know, they believe in the old testament. so there is this interfaith notion in islam. now, whether muslims follow it in their daily practice depends, of course, from individual to individual. there is a renowned comparative scholar, karen armstrong, and i love the quote that she has. the koran is adamantly o opposed to the use of force, it recognizes the ability of all rightly-tided religion and praises all the prophets of the past. she's an ex-nun. she's written a book on the islam prophet muhammad, i mean, just incredible stuff basically. there's a lot of, you know, mercy and forbearance are two qualities that are so commonly mention inside the koran -- mentioned in the koran. for example, the unity of mankind is something else that's mentioned very commonly. the koran again and again asks the prophet muhammad not to exert pressure in the name of religion. it urges muslims not to refuse any proposes for -- proposals for peace. one can go on an

several times a day many people to put two and two together and think that maybe this right wing christian terrorist was strongly influenced by her writing. and nobody wants that kind of connection on their track record so an attempt to save face pamela geller responded to all the news outlets who made the connection between her material and that of the norway bomber but that response isn't exactly what you'd expect the inner most recent post on her blog atlas shrugged geller talked about the summer camp the grave opened fired on and she called the labor party's summer youth camp and indoctrination at training center she explained that it promoted anti israel ideologies and then taylor wrote the camp was run by the youth movement of the labor party and used to indoctrinate teens and young adults she went on to say grave it was targeting the future leaders of the party responsible for flooding norway with muslims who refuse to assimilate who commit major violence against norwegian natives including a violent gang rapes with impunity and who live on the dole all done without the consent of n

an orthodox view of christian y christianity.e're coming together not to make speeches or to preach but rather to pray. to pray for the nation. >> respond to this, barry, the american family association, let's hear what he has to say. >> hitler discovered that he could not get straight soldiers to be savage and brutal and vicious enough, but that homosexual soldiers basically had no limit is of the savagery and brutality they willing to inflict on whoever hitler sent them after. permits in my judgment should not be granted to build even one more mosque in the united states of america. not one. we ought to be done with the building of mosques in the united states of america. president obama is half white and half black. herman cain is all black. he's authentically black. he is the real black man in the race. that's why president barack obama nurtures this hatred for the united states of america, and i believe nurture as hatred for the white man. >> barry what do you make of this character? >> well, this is really fringe material,

i was not an anti-christian bigot and that i, in fact, felt like a christian myself. (anderson) and you were brought up in a catholic family. yeah, i was raised as a catholic, you know. and of course, i left the church at the age of 13 or 14. as most ex-catholics that i speak to, you know, they sort of leave the church at around that time. and i've always felt there was a, you know-- there's a basic conflict between what the church tells you and what your body tells you at that age. and if you're smart, you'll listen to your body. (paulson) and you mentioned that before this controversy, you were relatively unknown. yeah. a little more than a decade later, you are widely known and widely respected. so was that controversy a blessing or a curse? both. you know, why couldn't it be both? yeah. i mean, that's--but that's the nature of my work, that there is a lot of conflict and contradiction within the work, and certainly the way it's been perceived and seen, you know, outside of the studio is also conflicted. so who would be some of the artists that you looked to for in

or liberal christians on either side. >> let me ask about precisely that.ad just enough sunday school in my childhood to know there actually is a set of arguments not only in christianity but in many world religions about the particular ethical, moral, religious, even sort of god-based justice relationship that we are meant to have to money, right? so when i hear you say i'm more concerned about the money, part of what i'm asking is is there a way that, in fact, progressives who may not have as much money, might in fact be able to employ the tool or effectiveness of a religious argument about, for example, fairness, stewardship of the earth, caring for one another. these are the kinds of believes that it feels like animate so many world religions. >> i think that's absolutely right. you can find the golden rule to do unto others as you would have done unto yourself and to love god in 26 different religious traditions, and ending the poverty that kills, healing the earth, working on peace and nonviolence, these are fundamentally core issues for the muslim co

. >>> i want to bring in christiane amanpour, the anchor of abc's "this week." and, christiane, as we heard martha report there at the top of that phone call, the president received last night on this, you learned the briefings continue today, and the president issuing a statement. >> that's right, the white house says the president was, of course, briefed several times, and then he did issue a statement and, of course, he said that he and all americans mourn the loss of these american service members. he sent out his sympathies to the families of those who were killed and to their loved ones and he talked about how it reminds everyone of the sacrifice that these people are making for afghanistan and for a free a a more peaceful afghanistan, and he included in his remarks a remembrance of the afghans who also died alongside the americans in that terrible attack. >> and, christiane, in the bigger picture here, what does this mean for the state of play in afghanistan? >> well, david, you know, there have been attempts to paint sort of hopeful and positive messages

it was a heavily christian influence revolution with christian sermons promoting the revolution.re debating and chatted about the conflict and needed to chat about it a lot to explain to people why they should give up this very pleasant existence being a colony of great britain. it was a principle that was being received and also the american colonists -- most of our founding fathers had been here for several generations. egghead grown away from the old country. thomas paine was an exception which is why he never fully understood the american revolution. he wrote the influential book common-sense promoting the revolution. it was a revolution of ideas. that is not been a kick french pessimists' running around with pipes on heads and tramping through the streets while slaughtering priests and smashing stained-glass windows at notre dame cathedral. that is mob behavior. >> host: jamie from santa fe, why is c-span giving a platform to this device of women? she claims to want to discuss the issues and names for book "demonic". unless the issues involved a biblical showdown between goo

i have some credentials when it comes to christianity. i was born into christianity. i was baptized into christianity. no one can say that i'm less a christian than anybody else and i'm no more a christian than anybody else. we have had 100 years of terrorism perpetrated by the kkk on jews and african-americans and others in this country, a hundred years which brings me to my point. mr. chairman, i love you, and i love all of my friends here today. i do not assign any malice or forethought to anybody. i don't believe anything has any degree of ben nevada lance associated with it, but i tell you it's not enough for things to be right, they must also look right. it may be right, but it doesn't look right when we take on islam and allow this to take place and we don't tell the truth about the abuses associated with the kkk and christianity. christianity according to the kkk is the reason why they do what they do. why not include the kkk in this discussion today? why not have a broader topic that does not focus on one religion. it doesn't look like, mr. jasser, when we fo

>> well, barack obama is a christian but not the right type of christian for david barton. again, they are saying this nation is founded as a fundamentalist christian nation. we they have deviated from that and i would think they think barack obama is a significant deef nation wp we need to institute public al values and inject them into other societial institutions and one way to do that is through politics and getting the right people in there. i think that is what is happening with this flirtation between rick perry, david barton and the outer periphery of the religious right in this country. >> well, forest, there are many that are going to be in washington, even with the hurricane coming behind us, thank god it will not interfere with the march and probably not sunday. and others that will be in texas where the weather is mild. but it also seems like the idea of democracy is also mild. >> joanne reid and forest wilder, thanks for joining me. >>> coming up, if you love bombing, dick cheney is your man. he brought america to the dark side and he is is refusing to apologi

i want to see romney go out and tell the christian conservatives, hey, i'm your guy.hael eric dyson, what does it mean now that there's an evangelical christian up there against the mormons. i don't think the hard christian right in this country will go with a mormon in any way, shape or form if there's an acceptable candidate from your faith. your thought science. >> you're right, ed. the reality is the evangelical right is concerned about a narrow conception of religious, even a more narrow conception of christianity. there's no way they will side with mitt romney as a mormon against the identifiable brand, the one they know, which is rick perry. this guy preached jesus to 30,000 people in a stadium. he continues to i think in a dangerous way fuse church and state. i think this evangelical plays strictly to the conservatives in his party, and there's no way they will in contrast to that evangelical ethic he he spouses embrace a man whose religious outside the parameters that's unknown to them. >> somebody likes the guy town there. he's been elected three times gover

why is this really a christian-only event. i asked the organizers about this, and they said, well, the event's open to anybody, any faith that wants to come. but i can tell you having watched the first hour or so of this gathering, this is a decidedly christian event. the prayers that are being said on stage are to jesus and there is certainly a christian-only message coming from the stage. having said all of that, rick perry is very unapologetic about it, despite the fact that there are protesters outside this stadium at this very moment, you know, not as large a crowd as what's inside here, but they're also gathering to have their voice heard. they're saying that this isn't -- this isn't really what the governor of texas should be doing, that in the words of one protesters outside, nobody elected him pastor. >> and just very quickly, jim, this is -- how political is this, really, is this event, given that he is possibly going to run for president? >> reporter: you know, that's going to depend, i think, in large part, on what

well jew deyo christian be pushed aside for personal autonomy. is the jesus of bethlehem destined to be side lined by the doctrine and practice of personal autonomy. are we all going dutch? >> we'll ask these experts. paul sar bin, and steven plo ploerow. rabin, and steven ploerow. ploerow. >> plott row. if. for such a small word it packs a wallop. if i live to a hundred. if social security isn't enough. if my heart gets broken. if she says yes. we believe if should never hold you back. if should be managed with a plan that builds on what you already have. together we can create a personal safety net, a launching pad, for all those brilliant ifs in the middle of life. you can call on our expertise and get guarantees for the if in life. after all, we're metlife. this program has been occasione urnal of february 28th, 2004 called going dutch in legalizing prostitution, and soft drugs. >> are we discontinued to do the same. why do you those are the kind of issues that you select. that is a basic recap of your proposition of the peace. do you want to

the evangelical christians and the born-again christians together constitute, get this, 26% of the national electorate. the evangelical christian share alone of the national vote in 2010's midterm was 30%. so rick perry is now in, and his star is rising. he's only 3 points behind the front-runner, former massachusetts governor mitt romney. ram knee is polling at 21%. perry 18%. perry's strength, get this, texas is booming and perry has been governor of texas for lever years. he assumed the governorship when it was vacated by george w. bush when w became president. as governor, perry balanced the state budget and has been reelected governor three times. in the 2010 governor's race last year, perry garnered, get this, 55% of the vote, a big win! today, texas's economy is the second largest in the nation. second only to california, ahead of new york state. the federal reserve bank of dallas found that since june 2009, texas added 265,000 net jobs out of 722,000 nationwide. that's 37% of all new u.s. jobs in the last 25 months. >> there is still a place where opportunity looms large, in this co

security is light in a lot of christian communities in the north. are in a real disadvantage. while we have admiration for the courage of those christians that extra stayed. their numbers are dwindling. over 1 million christians have left over the past several years and they are in serious danger of extinction in iraq. shannon: is this a local issue and we have to say handoff. >> the international community should be working side by side with the iraqi government to help them bolster security, train more police. provide assistance and aid to communities that are largely christian or religious minority in their orientation. there are thing the international community can do to give the iraqi government capacity it needs to increase security, but also to pressure them to do so when the need arises. shannon: you have to have admiration for these people knowing they are risking their lives going to their house of worship. it sets an example for others around the world who live under different circumstances and the freedoms we have in the u.s. for shire.

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he'll in the spotlight at a christian prayer rally. there is good news for some federal workers, congressional leaders did reach a deal on temporary funding for the federal aviation administration putting an end to a two-week furlough of 4,000 -- 74,000 workers and pay gs the way for tens of thousands of those not getting construction workers have not been getting to work. congress hopes action like that will help their image. the new cbs news new york times poll has disapproval rating at 82%. the deepening economic crisis is of course casting a big shadow over the re-election bid and will remain a challenge through election day. mark murray is the nbc political director and joins me now. mark zandi said there were some things policy makers can do but we've seen no sign of any kind of will to kproe nicompromise, opposite effect. he's talking about veterans unemployment, which is at a higher rate than everyone else's 13.3% for veterans since who are returning since 2011 as -- rather since 9/11. >> you'll see the president pull out a who

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he talks about, quote, christian agnostics and christian atheists and welcome to join the anti-islamic campaign. that is culturally european. that is what he means when he says christian. i compared "new york times" coverage of this guy who they leaped to the conclusion of calling a christian without having glanced at his manifesto to find out he doesn't believe in any god with how they covered the shooting in fort hood. in seven articles on nexus the guy's name who is accused shooting, major hasan, i put in nexus, hasan and fort hood. found seven art cycles of "the new york times." only one used word muslim one year after the shooting after the cat was out of the bag. >> host: from how to talk to a liberal if you must. here is a traitor. you write during my recent book tour, this is from 2003, during my recent book tour i resisted persistent, illiterate request that i name traitors. with a great deal of charity and suspension of disbelief i was willing to concede many liberals were merely famous idiots. in addition i was loathe to name names. >> guest: fatous. >> host: i'm sorry? >> g

that it's not just that the tea party is only about wanting a christian nation it's that the organized elements of the tea party are about that the rest as most tea party people will tell you is a is a really difficult movement to nail down you they don't know you or they don't want to admit that they are about any one single issue so that they can kind of move around a lot and not be held accountable and at the same time call for whatever they want but that the organized elements for the onus that were there before they were the you know kind of christian coalition elements. read the anti-abortion elements definitely the anti-gay elements and those because they already had such a good organization before and they had networks of support when it came time to as is now used as a verb primary even candidates within their own party. they already had the infrastructure organizational infrastructure in place to bring to bear the primary pull and that means that those groups could start to control the conversation within the tea party and tea party candidates or or of those who want to tea p

are the ones who make a difference, and this year, there is a combination of christian conservatives and tea party activists, sort of sevan jellicals, if you will. >> reporter: governor perry is expected to announce his decision but he is already off and running. in the latest pew poll he is beating out the front-runner, mitt romney, 22-50% among republicans covering the race. >> still ahead, america's last athletic shoot maker under threat from foreign competition. juneau's journey, inside america's billion-dollar mission to jupiter. and american sheriffs under siege from anonymous computer hackers. those stories when the cbs evening news continues. cc cc including infections, tuberculosis, lymphoma, other cancers, and nervous system and blood disorders have occurred. before starting enbrel, your doctor should test you for tuberculosis and discuss whether you've been to a region where certain fungal infections are common. don't start enbrel if you have an infection like the flu. tell your doctor if you're prone to infections, have cuts or sores, have had hepatitis b, have been treat

and tonight, for christian parenti's look, "tropic of chaos." we welcome them for that. so i do welcome you of brad ran and melissa muscatine who have just recently bought the bookstore from barbara made and carla coe in. we are excited to have them on board. thank you and welcome. for those of you new to the store, i will just quickly go over the format tonight and that is that christian will talk about the book i read a little bit from it and it will open in that to you for q&a, which we look forward to your input and the one thing we ask is if you get to this microphone in the middle here, it will keep a talk audible. we are recording tonight and so we welcome the c-span audience as well. and it comes time for q&a will field them from this microphone. and that is how wilco. it's usually good idea to turn off your cell phones in a small space the ring campaign does resonate. but again, welcome and thanks for being here. christian parenti, "the nation" cantor became editor, visiting scholar at the suny graduate center here tonight to talk about his book, "tropic of chao

party meetings observing them for two years he's figured out what it is that they really want a christian nation he writes while the cameras are on a large rallies the talk is all about fiscal responsibility taxes tarp deficits when the lights are off fall about jesus with god thrown in on occasion for israel so let's see some more proof the sea of social and not fiscal conservatism is the conservatism is the tea party's real goal joining me to discuss this is a sour blogger at the a want to thank you so much for joining us tonight and if you could start by telling us about yourself why it is that you were going to tea party rallies for two years is it because you believed because you thought maybe you wanted to be a tea party member or were you trying to infiltrate per se. i would say and as i said in my article i would say that i was originally sympathetic to to the tea party movement as i saw it described. in the kind of meeting. the meeting announcements that went out at the time i was in north dakota. and that was you know it's not a it's not a large state it's not a particular state

[laughter] to sell our christian wears. to them it just seemed like god was on their side, and a gift from god. if you put that in a made-up story, i mean, it just wouldn't work. it just is unbelievable. or like, you know, about that story about john adams and thomas jefferson died on the same day, and it's the 50th anniversary of the declaration of independence. it's july 4, 1826. if you put that in a novel, that would be so laughable. [laughter] but, you know, it is fact, and, therefore, it can be as plausible as possible. intimate, fiction. [laughter] >> i know i am a groupie and a pre-order everything you write, as soon as i hear it is coming out. >> thank you very much. >> however, this one -- >> where is this going? [laughter] speedup when it came out, with the title and content i had no idea what you're going to be writing about. and it's just like we're -- >> that's because i hate subtitles. go on. [laughter] >> what inspired you to use that title? >> oh, it is, it's a quotation from a letter written by one of the f

to me, you cannot be a christian and a support abortion or be a christian and support all of the stuff on gay-rights. can it is clear in the bible about all of them. the bible, if you will read it, responsibility and on up. i also truly believe anybody that believes in evolution cannot be a christian. guest: thanks fo the call and your firm convictions. one of the things i really li is to see people who know where they stand and tak that stand unapologetically. thank you for that. at concerned women for america, we take strong positions on issues and let the chips fall. we do not condemn other people. we walked a fine line for fighting for what we believe in and working to make sure that the things we believe should be in the laws of this country. we lobby for them on capitol hill. we think that is our responsibility as citizens and christians. we stand a very firm on the issues that you talked about. we tried to do that without trying to condemn other people and without taking stances that would be fensive. we try to walk t fine line and be strong about our own personal beliefs and be

churches nearby attacks on christians have led to over a million fleeing the country since the us led invasion in two thousand and three with bombings increasing again recently. violent clashes are continued in pakistan city of karachi since monday twenty six people are reported dead dozens more wounded much of the fighting has been carried out by armed gangs each supported by one of the country's main political parties officials have said up to three hundred people were killed in karachi in july alone one of the deadliest months in the country in decades the city which also has a long history of ethnic and religious violence has deployed additional police and paramilitary troops to tackle the latest arrest. and israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu has agreed to discuss a possible return to pre one thousand nine hundred sixty seven borders with palestinians the country's been occupying land in the west bank where palestinians hope to build their own state since the six day war follows netanyahu is consistent rejection of the same. proposal put forward by. many in return would be

ability to write the scripture but it seems to me that faithful jews faithful muslims faithful christians understand in all of those traditions that god loves the least and the poorest and the last and calls us to be part of healing the planet which is also a student here that's right. and it was the inciting incident for your arrest in the rotunda of the. so-called crisis. exactly when the president came on the air and spoke and they enter spoke after. a group of our staff got together and said what role should we be playing and we had just listened to a really courageous individual by the name of john raines former faculty member at temple one of the freedom riders he came to speak to the common cause staff and he really inspired us he talked about his days of getting on a bus as a white graduate student aged twenty seven going down to arkansas fifty years ago getting arrested. and he reminded us that he had just been reinvited arc and so he was brought in as a hero fifty years later he was honored for his presence and it just inspired the staff to say what can we do to visualize or mid

rush is going to be so much brightened if you knew more about songs from phones to christians. he's from stunts on t.v. don't come. from. morning news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from this.

isn't there any conflict or differences among christians. or between christians and jews but if it were going to get in sunday are saying. if i have a sound been grueling to somebody from the quality of. the same quality of prophets come on to us from our law he would be able to give us the truth of the religion. of the love to be able to present the truth of religion then there will be no gap no difference all i see here you know this you are no longer your holiness then we'll see that christians jews muslims cattle leaves protestants we'll let me ask you for the same language john howard because the entire human community is sick and well being and has. asked the way to salvation is only one path ok thank you for your food and know your time is precious we've got five or ten minutes more if we may of your time or a few more questions i want to ask you let's focus on china fast developing country actively promoting itself here in iran at the moment how do you see iranian development both ways do you think you'll be selling more of your ener

she's carrying it too far as part of her political agenda, this idea of running as a christian.aying i am one, but running as one, seems to be new to american politics. >> yeah, i think with michele bachmann, it's one of the first candidates on the national stage whose ideology is driven by a christian theology, and in the new yorker story that came out, she studied under very, very radical people. people who have questioned whether slavery was really all that bad, folks who talked about christian readings of the constitution, she is way, way, way out there. >> let's take a look at some of her more notable quotations, let's take a look at these right now. here they are. >> we know there was slavery that was still tolerated when the nation began, but we also know that the very founders that wrote those documents worked tirelessly until slavery was no more in the united states. men like john quincy adams, who would not rest until slavery was extinguished in the country. >> why would somebody say that? i don't chalk that up to ignorance, i chalk that up to a weird ideology that say

good morning, christiane. i want to ask you, given the magnitude of t ts tragedy, does this change the course of this very unpopular war either politically or mililarily at all? >> i think it does a few things, precisely because they're so elite. precisely, because the majority of those killed were members of the same kind of team that took out osama bin laden. number one will give a big psychological boost to the taliban. number two, these deaths come right at a time when the united states is talking about pulling back troops, the surge troops, and where a lot of focus now is going to be on these kinds of special forces attacks. u.s. troops not based on the ground in that part of afghanistan, so a lot of it relies on these special forces. that's a big blow. at the same time, it comes at the time of a rash of assassinations of pro-american, pro-karzai officials in kandahar, the one place the united states is talking about solidifying and doing a much better job. there's s en some hope about the future of afgha

christian wulff's position is largely ceremonial but he does not use the intervening policy issues. now he is weighing in on the leadership of angela merkel. >> the german president may have no -- might have no political power but his words have such. christian wulff criticized the ec before paying billions to support highly indebted eurozone nations. >> i consider the bulk buying of individual state bonds by european central bank politically and legally questionable. >> the german president slammed the leaders for their handling of the debt crisis by taking on more debt. >> those who tried to clean up the effect of bad speculation and decades of bad mismanagement are just passing debts on to the next generation and burdening their future. >> chancellor angela merkel who is in -- receiving a prize, reacted by praising the euro. >> this is the basis of our joint economic success and a symbol of the political unification of our continent. >> german lawmakers are set to vote and changes to the eurozone rescue fund in september. the chancellor will have to step up her efforts to win sup