knows that there's a form our preventing them from moving freely in autonomous lee of course that citizenry is going to hate resent that foreign country from doing that so the more that we impede democracy the worse it ultimately becomes the united states because the more anti-american sentiment there is in the citizenry's and we can only suppress democracy for so long adventure only they're going to have their say and when they do the behavior that we've engaged in and continue to engage in preventing them from living for you and democratically is really going to come back to haunt us on the longer we do it the worse it's going to be definitely something that needs to be sad are you're right you know eventually the consequences will not be glenn thank you so much for joining us tonight always a pleasure thanks for having me. all right coming up next on the share a poem from one of our viewers and you said it i read it and the taliban is opening up a political office in qatar and the u.s. reportedly will release taliban detainees being held a good moment exchanged so was it all mean for the

countries the result will be very bad for the united states because the need the beliefs among the citizenry in that country is very anti-american it's anti israel they believe that the u.s. and israel israel are the two greatest threats to peace they believe that it's ok for iran to have nuclear weapons even that it would be a positive for them to do so that the u.s. should be able to exploit middle east resources the way it's been doing it has no chance he said if the people's views in these countries were able to be honored democratically rather than suppress to the dictators that we install not only would we not be able to dominate the region we would be expelled from the region and so that's the reason that we've always wanted dictators and not democracy in these countries and that's the reason that even people like john alterman are now being forced to come out and say well look democracy would be really bad for us because the thing that the people the things people in these countries believe are antithetical to our interest and they have no choice basically but to admit that they neve

so i had in the back of my mind about doing a book from the perspective of the american citizenry and what they saw and went through in those 31 days, the first through the 31st of december 1941. it changes everything. >> in some ways, it is a book about roosevelt, isn't it? >> yes. >> what did you think of roosevelt? >> i came to the conclusion that he was a singularly marvelous wartime president. an interesting present -- question, too. because franklin roosevelt and what were ii, the world did not think of the american president as the most important person in the world. there were british monarchs, popes, and other leaders who may be thought for a small time. but in his time, nobody thought that george washington with the most and portents in the world, or abraham lincoln. but starting with president roosevelt and continuing with electing president obama, we viewed the american president as the most of or in the world and it starts with roosevelt because he similarly, churchill, shanghai scheck, and others, leads the allies against the evil of axis power -- chaing kai shek. i have

the citizenry one that of that regime out of there and their only recourse is violence so is this fair is it is simply the way life is if you want to oust a brutal dictatorship that is a pressing its people the only way to do that is violence and that's just the way life is. as also syrian authorities released a top al qaida. and they say in retaliation for washington's has to take a assad government nor can we expect if the situation going to just get more bonus highwood west and pressure i think so when i think that and sacked it you know when you when one one of these dictatorships becomes the target of u.s. regime change it actually can solidify its power by rallying people to it's caused by saying look here we have another instance of a us intervention in our affairs and that's why i say the best thing the u.s. could do which of course it's not going to do but the best thing you can do is just butt out stop being the world's policeman because we all know what the aftermath of this is that the u.s. doesn't care what kind of regime comes into power after that we saw that with the ir

he has decided to betray the majority of the citizenry in order to accrue for himself. on many levels, most of us are probably clueless. i don't think obama is clueless. and in some ways that makes an even more guilty. >> host: mr. hedges writes in "the death of the liberal class," election obama was more one more trial of illusion of substance but it was a skillful manipulation and betrayal of the public by corporate power elite. we mistook style and ethnicity, and advertising tactic pioneered by calvin klein for progressive politics in genuine change. john is in chicago. john, you're on booktv. >> caller: mr. hedges, so nice to listen to you. i do feel that you disparage the democracy in the united states. i've been working on a southside chicago for about 15 years and i think the promise that has been made, in my area, is substantial and been done in a democracy. i feel that obama has all sorts of problems. yet at the same time i think he is a leader, of significance. and i'm sorry that you seem to be against democracy being practiced in the united states. >> guest:

the death of martin luther king, our nation has prosperity for a handful while huge swaths of the citizenry asked to do more with less. to bring the focus to the suffering, my team and i travel 3,000 miles across this country, over a week's time. i shared it with my friend doctor cornel west. we must -- and that those struggling on education -- met those struggling on education, housing, food access, we met with labor, veterans, -- we met with groups taking unprecedented action. we met with organizers trying to continue the legacy of doctor king. >> this is ground and 04 poverty. >> we met with the homeless and the forgotten on the fringes of society. we held meetings with the thousands in attendance and faced the fire with those to disagree with us. -- who disagreed with us. [unintelligible] but we started where we should have, on a native american reservations. >> when i left my home i was 27 years old. even the little kids now. there is only about 100, maybe. maybe more. tavis: reservation surrounds the sacred body of water but even here there is disparity and the trampling of the native

but even before then, we have seen warren's exemplary citizenry and his philanthropy being exhibitedghout our whole education system. and that is why our school district unanimously supported this resolution. i have been at very, very many occasions and events and celebrations where he and his family's philanthropy and interests and support for not only improving education for everyone, but for focusing on the gaps were kids are at, where they need to get more support to catch up. again, demonstrating his understanding. most recently, some of you join me in a yearlong effort to reform our pension program in the city. i cannot tell you how wonderful it felt to work alongside warren and commissioner elsbernd and so many of our labor representatives to do something for our city that demonstrated his love for our city, making sure that we're not only taking care of education, not only creating an exciting love for music, but also taking care to make sure our city continued its success. part of that success was an expertise that warren already had, the financial success of the city. that

they issued a report on all things liquor and the advice of their boozey citizenry, try not to get wasted every day of the week. we suggest all individuals take at least two alcohol free days a week. that's a lot. the current government focuses on maximum alcohol that can be safely drunk if people don't get that. they don't know how many units are in a glass of wine and so on. hence the suggested two-daybreak from booze. how are the brits responding to the advice? let's go live to london. >> good so see john gibson getting around. is the uk simply saying, we give up. our country is full of drunks so drink five of seven nights, please. >> this is like the trailer park mom in real life. if you want to burn stuff, do it in the parking lot. two days should be nothing. two days should be normal. instead they are like, we are really good at drinking. >> i don't know, gavin. i look at this. you are an accomplished alcoholic. it is hard. >> that's not possible. i think we are already cutting doctors a lot of slack. we don't drink at work. well, a few drinks at lunch, but none of us are drunk now.

make videotape of our operations and the presidential libraries available to the press and to the citizenry? >> short answer, yes -- >> see, d.v.d.'s. >> let me explain, we're doing will already. i'll send you over to the new materials we have. we have a wonderful partner, a public private partnership called the foundation for the national archives. when you come you'll discover not only this beautiful rotunda you'll discover and exhibit on american history called the public vaults' exhibit which is the best exhibit of its kind in the world. we have at least we have evidence of people discovering it because the lines outside the archives are extraordinary. >> you get students, journalis, historians, some of them only want to engage in gene loaning cal research -- >> the geneiologiologists, this is the largest single contingent of folks use the archivists, they're wonderful people, they come from many different aspects, but, yes, they are. >> you have interactive exhibits? >> the entire public vaults exhibit is interaction itch -- interactive. >> getting the -- all of this material on the we

make videotape of our operations and the presidential libraries available to the press and to the citizenry? >> short answer, yes -- >> see, d.v.d.'s. >> let me explain, we're doing will already. i'll send you over to the new materials we have. we have a wonderful partner, a public private partnership called the foundation for the national archives. when you come you'll discover not only this beautiful rotunda you'll discover and exhibit on american history called the public vaults' exhibit which is the best exhibit of its kind in the world. we have at least we have evidence of people discovering it because the lines outside the archives are extraordinary. >> you get students, journalis, historians, some of them only want to engage in gene loaning cal research -- >> the geneiologiologists, this is the largest single contingent of folks use the archivists, they're wonderful people, they come from many different aspects, but, yes, they are. >> you have interactive exhibits? >> the entire public vaults exhibit is interaction itch -- interactive. >> getting the -- all of this material on the we

>> it is the fulfillment of a citizenry being able to live out the meaning of our founding documents. life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. and everywhere i've gone in this great state we've gone 160-plus public events. i feel it, and i sense it, and people take that very seriously. you know what else they take seriously? they take seriously the idea of real leadership. i've heard a lot of obfuscating up here, the blame game, talking about gays, talking about unions, everybody's got something nasty to say. you know what the people of this country are waiting for and the people? they want a leader who is going to unify. who's going to bring us together. because at the end of the day, that's what leadership is all about. it's not about taking on different groups and vilifying them for whatever reason. it's about projecting a vision for a more hopeful tomorrow. that's why there is no trust in this country today. and that's why, as president, i'm going to attack that trust deficit just as aggressively as i attack that economic deficit. because with no trust, i can't think of anythin

bring out the good things from this discussion, it is that we get out a better education to our citizenry. and that i can see it is important. thank you. supervisor kim: thank you. >> good afternoon, supervisors, committee members. i am strongly against their current system of -- the current system of ranked-choice voting. i believe democracy works better when people go to the polls to say who they want to have as their leaders and not who they are willing to settle for. i'm not that crazy about the results i have seen, either. i look at this past election where we had all the controversy with mayor lee. we had so many exciting asian- american candidates. we had bevan dufty, a gay leader of the community. we had a perfect storm for good turnout. i do not remember these numbers but the turnout was something like 14% and there were 14 candidates. 1% per candidate. it seems that was an indictment. a lot of the problem is a number of candidates you have and i have seen some proposals that would reduce the number by changing campaign finance instead of having the runoff. let me tell you how yo

make videotape of our operations and the presidential libraries available to the press and to the citizenry? >> short answer, yes -- >> see, d.v.d.'s. >> let me explain, we're doing will already. i'll send you over to the new materials we have. we have a wonderful partner, a public private partnership called the foundation for the national archives. when you come you'll discover not only this beautiful rotunda you'll discover and exhibit on american history called the public vaults' exhibit which is the best exhibit of its kind in the lease evidence of people discovering it because the lines outside the archives are extraordinary. >> you get students, journalis, historians, some of them only want to engage in gene loaning cal research -- >> the geneiologiologists, this is the largest single contingent of folks use the archivists, they're wonderful people, they come from many different aspects, but, yes, they are. >> you have interactive exhibits? >> the entire public vaults exhibit is interaction itch -- interactive. >> getting the -- all of this material on the web so that we can move it o

>> i think it should eventually extend down to the citizenry because we as citizens rely on cyber space so much for commerce, for our banking, for all kinds of things that are very, very important to us. and as we become more reliant on that, then it becomes more important that it work properly, that we don't give the advantage to the bad guys. and that's the problem today. in today's environment the bad guys have all the advantages advantages. >> but when we look at it from a prioritization standpoint, who are sort of the first block of folks who are going to be covered by this and then, you know, what are the subsequent elements? >> i think since 90% of the critical infrastructure in this country is in private ownership, that will probably be the first area of focus as far as establishing standards. and then at some point in time you reach a tipping point where they become defacto. you know, if you think back many years ago, some of us are old enough to remember, you know, the fact that the three- pronged plug became electrical -- part of the electricity equation. we've reached a tipp

government we must control our government and that's only possible with a well educated and informed citizenry and as tombstone jefferson wanted it known that he was the founder of the university of virginia free college more than he wanted people to know that he was the third president the united states that's how much he cared about education education is a part of our commons therefore it's our responsibility through a government made up of us to educate our kids and our last comment today is from our viewer rant line come at almost every advancement human history has been through our military that's how we develop new technology the fact that the military is going green is extraordinary and i'm so glad the president talked about this through the united seeing the joint chiefs of staff chairman talking about it on the stand and i thought the moment has come at last we are going into the suits her heart by. i completely agree and i think it was one of the most overlooked parts of the president's speech our military is the single biggest consumer of oil on the planet if it goes green it could

and so there was this idea that in order to have a democratic society you needed engaged educated citizenry so the idea that dartmouth was actually going to be privatized as a contract was the first time that the idea began but of course. as you know and i got to say you great book on equal protection that you wrote that really delves into the santa clara versus pacific railway case that's the first time ever that the idea of a corporation having constitutional rights made its way into the supreme court process and and not a decision yeah yeah yeahs your answers which was so bizarre because for so long everybody said oh yeah this was decided by the supreme court it's actually now been decided but it will not it's not in santa clara and i will confess in law school that's what we were taught and we're at the head note in and just sort of went through what we do know though tom is that there have been a series of court cases after santa clara where the issue was briefed it was argued and not merely acting upon president the court did create the legal doctrine that a corporation is a person ju

used as a justification for military confrontation in the region which i don't think any of the citizenry of either ran or the u.s. or france or any other country really wants at this point some might argue that iran's naval exercises were just an old fashioned display of military strength rather than one of nuclear russia's military has said iran is incapable of creating a strategic missile so it is around really the threat it's being portrayed as. i think iran would like to portray itself as strong on the international stage and i think other people in the region who who are interested in their security would also like to. other countries don't understand that that iran will be the same type of military confrontation that the save the us face in iraq it's going to be quite a different type of confrontation but i think really when we talk about military confrontation in iran we have to start thinking about iran's strategic allies in the area and the possibility of a much larger war that would draw in oil and it's from from all over the region really and start something much much bigger t

contraceptives is that something you're at all concerned about is has a right never questioned the citizenry that's right if rick santorum were dictator he'd let states ban contraceptives no more condoms in kentucky no more birth control in alabama back in october santorum railed against contraceptives saying one of the things i will talk about that no president has talked about before is i think the dangers of contraception in this country it's not ok it's a license to do things in a sexual realm that is counter to how things are supposed to be. there's a reason why as santorum said no president has talked about this before because it's already been settled in one thousand nine hundred sixty five in that griswold case the supreme court ruled seven to two in the case of griswold versus connecticut that americans have a right to privacy and that state laws banning contraceptives by a late that right to privacy justice hugo black to senate in the case saying that since nowhere in the constitution is the word privacy written then americans really don't have a right to privacy and hugo black bee

people unfortunately seem indifferent to what's going on and so when there is indifference on the citizenry the authorities feel that they can get away with that and more and so it becomes a boiling frog issue you know there is that the metaphor that if you drop a frog in boiling water will jump right out but if you drop a frog into cold water and start turning up the heat that problem will it's death now it seems to be what's going on with the american students read their being boiled to death and they don't realize that a few people are realizing now what i do at the refugee dot com is we set up scenarios contingency plans for a possible in the jobs of central fat tail hands and such as the break up of the euro's such as hyperinflation america such as what to do more to meet america if united states becomes that lee and told our country to live it now a lot of people say what is the best place to live in the outside of the ad states but that is that's like saying you know what's the best suit to wear to church you know it depends on who you are how tall you are i'm sure you are your weigh

>> it is the fulfillment of a citizenry living out the lead think -- living out of many of our foundinguments. life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. we've gone too many public events, and everywhere i've gone, i feel it in my sense is that people take that very seriously. you know what else to take seriously? that takes seriously the idea of real leadership. i've heard a lot of intoxicating appear, the blame game, talking about games and unions. you know what the people of this country are waiting for? they want a leader who is going to unify, that will bring us together, because at the end of the day, that is what leadership is all about. it is not talking about vilifying but projecting a vision for a more hopeful tomorrow. that is why there is no trust in this country today and that is why has president, i am going to attack that trust deficit just as aggressively as they attacked that economic deficit. with no trust, i cannot think of anything more corrosive longer- term for the people of this nation. >> we are going to leave it there. [applause] thank you, john and an anti. w

i'm obsessed with the role of government in building a better country and educated citizenry and i'm obsessed with democracy. i am a political junkie. and this show is my fix. i hope it will be yours too. come on inside. [music] >> so here in the war room our goal is to bring you behind the scenes with access to stories you never have seen before. we got an all-access pass into president obama's war room. his 2012 headquarters in chicago. i sat down with national field director jeremy bird, who is the man leading the campaign foot soldiers. >> you know, a lot of people would say don't spend any resourcessources in 2011. let the republicans duke it out then build the campaign in 2012. we made the strategic decision to say we will never stop. we'll just keep it going. >> my exclusive tour of the obama war room is coming up later in the show. and we'll also be joined by robert gibbs problem's former press secretary and democratic campaign insider. now, let's head--let's head to our boots on the ground into tampa, florida where current tv correspondent david schuster has the latest on wh

indeed our democracy depends on an educated citizenry. let's take a look. 100 american kids entering high school, what does fate have in store for them? 25 out of that hundred won't graduate from high school, a total of 50 won't go to college. that's half the class that won't go on to higher education. 50 will attends college, but only 22 will graduate within six years. meanwhile other countries are outsmarting us. on a recent international test, u.s. students ranked only 15th in the world in reading, 15 in science and 31st in math. what's odd is that we have been outstanding most developed countries by a long shot. in 2007, we spent over 10,000 per student versus the $7,400 average for rich countries. highway can we spend so much money and have so little to show for it. we'll have a special ending of time essay, we'll examine the roles of teachers, testing and testing. and we'll ask the man who spent millions of dollars trying to fix education about how he's spending his money. microsoft founder and philanthropist, bill gates. south kore

this is the most engaged citizenry in america. south carolina there will be stuff below the radar screen, above the radar screen, bring the... bng all the wen and children inside because it will get ugly. >> rose: how do you see it, mr. dowd? >> i think huntsman may finish second. second in this race. >> ahead of ron paul? >> i was talking about this with senator gregg who was part of the bush 22000 effort and the day before new hampshire our tracking polls showed us down by ten or 12, we lost by 19. the last driver of that race was independent votes that basically decided they'd totally turn and they went... bu won republicans but heost independents dramatically. think the independents have moved, in my view, inthe last 36, 48 hours, in a big way towards jon hundredthsman. think haze the potential to finish sond. if he finishes second it throws another mony wrench in this. i don't think he c have a he impact in south carolina but it does change the dynamics of this race. as paul said if he's to rise up to second. >> rose: senator