graduate school, which is the graduate school for the associated colleges of claremont, pomona college now. c-span: and what about students today and when you teach your history? do they--do they care? are they interested? guest: yes. again, it's back to my ideas there are different ways that people understand what it is to be human. there are always going to be people who understand that by looking at the past. they just have--it's just a cast of curiosity. and, yes, they always find them... c-span: now what courses will you teach them? guest: well, i'm teaching a course now on the impact of the enlightenment on american nation building. that's a--a seminar that i'm teaching. i teach the introductory course in 17th- and 18th-century america. i teach upper-division courses on the revolution and the writing of the constitution. that's, you know, a mix, but almost always 17th and 18th century. c-span: you say you've been at ucla since 1981. guest: mm-hmm. c-span: what's changed in 19 years of teaching at ucla? guest: i don't know that the teaching has changed. the--the quality of interac

. >> if you want to see how good health care is for the soldiers and ex soldiers, go over to claremontatches what's going on over there. >> peggy, do you think the government can run an effective health care system? >> i think if the government can take a letter from my house to california in three days for 44 cents, i think they can run an efficient, effective health care system but they need to work on it. we all know that there are a lot of deficiencies, a lot of waste in government. i totally agree that if we address the in efficiencies, we can do this. >> senator barrasso, what do you make of this argument? >> number one, for charity, i am concerned for her. the programs that are going to be actually unfortunately wae weighted against young people. people in wyoming in my state are paying $66 a month, that's going to go to $300 and some. i just got back from kuwait, seeing our soldiers there. i have been to the hospitals overseas in the war zone. the v.a. system where i worked when i was in medical school is not what i would consider the program for all americans. >> so you don't

and minxin pei, professor of goernment at claremont mckenn college.he has written extensely about china we inted the chinese embassy to particate in this dicussion but they declined. gentlemen, thank you bh for being witus. alim seytoff, let me begin with you. the uighurshave been in this region r centuri. werthe tensions just running so high that sothing was ivitable like this? >> th tensns have been rising veryigh because of the chinese govnment's political propagda of the chese people and chinese nationalism and prtraying uiurs especially after 9/ as terrorists, separatists and islamic radicals. so inhe minds of the chinese government, uigh people, their very presence in st turkestan o shin jiang is is a threat. there waso much racism going on. as a resulwe areitnessing at is happening in our homeland unfortunaly. >>woodruff: minxin pe, how do you describe wh's been going in this region in. >> well, this has been apart of china. in the mid '90s thesituation was mch worse. after a whi, things quieted down aittle bit. in the last f years, tensions ga

rob morgan is with me, claremont wealth strategies market strategist. also alex young, standard & poor's market strategist. do you look at investing that way in do you look at -- somebody said to me the other day you have to fish where the fishes are, which is what i wrote on the blog, because it was an interesting point. that's where the people are. 1.3 billion people. do you want to be buying companies that are actually exposed to the chinese economy in a way that will drive groelth? >> we probably wouldn't go company specific, maria. we'd probably stick with etfs that would go more in the country or region. but we would overweight international investing, and that's one of our favorite areas. >> real momentum in this market, alex. what's behind it? >> increasingly we keep climbing this wall of worry. there's plenty of things to worry about. but i think the key is expectations are still very low for the economy, for earnings, and corporate america's able to exceed those. economic numbers able to exceed those. and you're getting a lot of short covering

and bill bennett, the host of the national radio talk show "morning in america," a fellow at the claremont want to talk to you guys first about health care reform. it's reaching a decisive moment right now. james, first to you. if you go back to the barack obama campaign, and that was a long time ago, but there was a hard pledge he made there on the campaign website among other places saying this, and i'll read it to you -- no family will pay higher tax rates than they would have paid in the 1990s. that was during the clinton administration. >> right. >> but on the verge right now of nancy pelosi and democrats in the house get their way to have to break that pledge, isn't he? >> well, the democrats in the house get their way, but then you also have the senate and the president have not weighed in. it seems the strategy is to let this thing work through the legislative process. by the way, they're closer to getting health care reform than any time in history. this process has quite a ways to go in terms of evolving, but i think this thing is moving along quite crisply here. we're going to e

he's from moody's investor service and rob morgan of claremont wealth strategies. have you always been there, rob? >> you know, joe, i changed over a little less than a year ago. >> well, now that you're a clarify smont anybody above expectations is green and they're all green. we also got one that shows anybody that had lower revenues than last year, if it's lower, it's red. they're all red. so is it good or bad, rob? >> well, joe, i guess the good news is that we came into the earnings season seeing green shoots in the economy. and it seems like the overall earnings are saying, that could be sustainable. but a lot of it is coming through cost cutting. so we haven't seen much on the top line into things. and that's going to be the next step of this. we had the relief rally in the spring and now we're getting good earnings. that is good. but i don't think we're seeing that yet. >> all of these companies that have the green, many have earnings that were actually below last year, but above expectations. is that what we should focus on? >> well, certainly. coming into