i could not have stopped the war in darfur by myself. there is still a war in darfur.e dying everyday out there. i could not have stopped the war in kosovo. i was a very junior officer at the time. i was driving dick holbrook around. it's his job to stop the war. it doesn't change how i feel i could have done more for a specific village or specific group of people. what i've had to do is reconcile those feelings with this larger context. i'm trying to forgive myself for my failures. >> what are you learning about ptsd that you think the rest of your fellow citizens still don't get or need to be made aware of? >> i would say that a lot of people who come back from a traumatic experience are going to be just fine. the vast majority of us are. we might need some treatment, we might need medication, we might need talk therapy. for anybody who is hurting out there, i would say, look, there is a road home. don't be afraid to ask for help. we all need to get beyond the stigma of asking for health. mental health is nothing more than health care. if you broke your ankle, get a

we split up just before i went back to darfur. and i met carol a few years later, and we've been married for six years now. >> did she save your life? >> she did, absolutely s and she's recognized for it. we still talk pretty regularly. any other questions? sir. tom. here comes the microphone, so -- >> ron, it -- is this on? >> it's just for the tv. >> okay. in the years since you first went to the v.a., have you seen what kind of progress have you seen on the, on behalf of the v.a. and also perhaps in their willingness to work with nonprofits like your veterans' writing project? i know there are signs of change across the country and new funding coming out of the v.a. for nonprofits through supportive services programs and things like that and wonder if you do get some small sense of hope there, that this big dinosaur may be making some important changes. >> thank you for the question. i do see -- >> [inaudible] >> could you repeat -- >> could you guys hear the question? tom was asking is the v.a. getting better at what they do.

i was in darfur and central africa. when i arrive in darfur 200,000 dead and 3 and a half million displaced. when i left there were 300,000 dead. i felt like i failed in my personal mission and also the task given my the wrus to me to help stop the war. >> how do you help not take all that on? you're only human. sorry is that impossible? >> for me it was impossible for a long time. i couldn't separate the task from myself. i felt i had failed. over time i've come to understand that there is nothing i could have done that was different. there were some villages that maybe i could have fought harder to get into to protect the civilians there. to keep the village from being burned. but the fear -- the knowledge really that if i took a certain action, that i would lose my status, my ability to stay in that country and do the job, maybe the whole team would lose status. in koes voe a woman tried to hand me her baby. take my child away she said so thor e er is er is serbs won't kill him. i will never forget that. the feeling

iraq, afghanistan, kosovo, sudan, and darfur. i opened the second peer, picked up the pistol off the seat, it felt good in my hand. i pointed it out the wind shield with the magazine resting on the windshield and curled my fingers and imagined pulling the trigger there wasn't anything to shoot out and even if so i am left handed so it wouldn't have been a shot. who else could have hurt doing this? my wife, maybe. my sister, maybe. i thought what i was going to do would leave a whole in lives. i thought about someone having to clean up the truck and thought maybe i will do is outside. but the clarity passed and i was overwhelmed with a sense of sadness. i failed to stop the wars and so many people were dead because of my failures and images were rushing in. 45 dead, raped man, and a man with red rimmed eyes and a mutilated family near cynic. i picked up the pistol, my hand were shaking, i loaded it, put down the beer and put my hand on the safe. the pistol was ready, i shifted it to my right hand and looked at it lying on high han

iraq, afghanistan, kosovo, sudan, and darfur.i opened the second peer, picked up the pistol off the seat, it felt good in my hand. i pointed it out the wind shield with the magazine resting on the windshield and curled my fingers and imagined pulling the trigger there wasn't anything to shoot out and even if so i am left handed so it wouldn't have been a shot. who else could have hurt doing this? my wife, maybe. my sister, maybe. i thought what i was going to do would leave a whole in lives. i thought about someone having to clean up the truck and thought maybe i will do is outside. but the clarity passed and i was overwhelmed with a sense of sadness. i failed to stop the wars and so many people were dead because of my failures and images were rushing in. 45 dead, raped man, and a man with red rimmed eyes and a mutilated family near cynic. i picked up the pistol, my hand were shaking, i loaded it, put down the beer and put my hand on the safe. the pistol was ready, i shifted it to my right hand and looked at it lying on high hand

it's interesting, if you compare this to the darfur example, even though darfur is not getting massive amounts of attention, right, across the news, where it is getting attention is amongst certain key political constituencies in congress, the african-american community, ee ven gall call cumulatikmucumulc evangelical community and the defense department and state department and just as critically in congress. so there you end up with pressure effectively on the government to take a more forthright posture. i don't know if aggressive is the right word. there we get the u.s. government in september of 2004 identifying the events in darfur genocide. as sarah said, this goes to explain in part reaching david's point the lack of political will. there is no -- there is no political pressure mobilized really in any way. now i think one of powers -- one of her main points always is that leadership could have mobilized, that pressure. that presidents don't have responsibility to be buffeted in the wind by, you know, sentiment on the ground. >> i think it was delaire was mentioning or power, onl

. -- darfur. >> they were told they were being monitored. and still, a number of breaches continued. market is expecting it, too. they will take a provision of over 5.5 billion euros in the second quarter. there excluded from dollar clearing. be prohibited mainly in the area they breached, portland gas transactions -- oil and gas transactions. thank you for coming in on this tuesday morning. she would be staggered by the size of the fine -- should we be staggered at the size of the fine? >> is a bit like the credit suisse filings. we got used to it. that is what the market will say today. there is a conference call at 7:00 with the chief executive. >> doesn't matter to the bank -- does it matter to the bank? >> of course. it will take them off one percentage point. holding back on the dividend, of course. what does it do to the reputation? you do not want that kind of thing when you are trading on your reputation. >> talk to us about the to or de fraud.- tour how hard is it to win new business? does it impact the bottom line? are we being my

it is important to know the woman who called me in darfur was marine. this affair that i was seven was just the last drop. since before went back. [inaudible question] >> she did. absolutely. she is recognized for it. we still talk pretty regularly. any other questions? here comes the microphone. >> is this on? since you just went to the va, have you seen -- what kind of progress have you seen on behalf of the va? also, perhaps in their willingness to work with nonprofits like the writing project i no there are signs of change across the country and new funding coming out of the va for nonprofits through supportive services programs and things like that. wonder if you get some small sense of hope there that this big dinosaur may be making some important changes. >> thank you for the question. i do see -- could you guys here that? could you hear the question? is the kaytoo getting better at what they do? the supervisor was laughing at me. the answer to the question is yes. remember, the va is not one organization. there is the benefits organization which

the seeds of what happened in darfur, which we've spent a lot of time thinking about and talking aboute degree are -- were set because of climate change. there are places where resources are diminishing because the weather is changing and because people don't have access to liveable conditions. this creates strain and we're going -- we're seeing really the beginning of that. >> do you think there's enough emphasis in preparation for that in the same way the top humanitarian at the u.n. is saying, political leaders you need to look toward or craft a path to peace. is there the same sense of alarm around climate change as being you know, a major factor? >> i think there's a growing awareness but as your question infers, there's a very defensible to say that not enough attention has been paid to this. and clearly it's behind the curve. and it's going to increase. it's not while politicians debate you know, whether climate change is real, scientists do not. overwhelmingly, they say, it's happening and it is happening in a manner that is going to make resources less common and it's going to

very good about telling other countries that they must accept refugees from syria or ethiopia or darfur, but when it comes to a humanitarian crisis on our own border involving children no less, you hear this nativist, isolationist voices saying that, oh, just ship them all back, send them all back. and what's clear is that each one of these cases needs to be evalua evaluated. they need to have due process. and choking the funding to allow that process to go forward isn't going to expedite the removal of anybody. we need to fund the president's request to try to help process these children, find out who does qualify for refugee status or asylum and try to connect these children with their parents. >> mark potter, as i said, was along the border and in the rio grande. and here's an excerpt from one of his reports this weekend on this dangerous crossing. >> this afternoon, we're along as they find a group of mothers and kids from honduras who traveled 13 days before crossing the rio grande. among them, a nervous little girl, 7-year-old amy who says she's alone here without relatives hoping

and so when he went to darfur to cover the genocide there, it was the same.for those people, you know, to find out exactly what was happening to them, what they were experiencing. he did that with blind orphans in sierra leone. he always was looking for something that was a way in to a person's life that would enable the viewer or the realizer to relate to these people and to show that these are not just some foreign person fighting this an obscure war. of -- in an obscure war. these are people just like us that are just dealing with the situation that they've been dealt. so that's what he did everywhere he went. the, you know, restrepo, the film that tim made with sebastian sebastian younger, i think it was one of the most anticipated pieces he took place in, and you can definitely see the hand of tim in that. because it doesn't have the conventional voiceover narratives that we associate with those sorts of documentaries. there's no voiceover at all. there's no music. it's very, very straightforward. tim and sebastian mostly alternated over the course of a

that darfur story certainly twoin watch. ma us in, thank you very much indeed.e east . fighting into its fourth week in gaza. more than 1,000 palestinians and israelis have been killed so far. charlie rose sat down with the leader of hamas. what did he have to say? >> guy, unsurprisingly, he was not giving any ground, not accepting responsibility for starting the current round of fighting between israel and the militant group hamas in the gaza strip. he said until such time as gaza is freed from israeli shackles to paraphrase him, then there can't really be any talk of a truce. >> we are actually enemies. we are enemies. the solution doesn't start with - the solution starts with the communities to say to the israeli -- enough is enough. how can i trust my enemy? we have v a number of negotiations. the negotiations were -- >> of course we can see those negotiations are -- have come to nothing on a number of occasions just by hopes these lulls in fighting would translate into more prolonged cease-fires. he says all the fighting that is going on is israel's fault.

secretary of state colin poul said genocide was taking -- colin powell said genocide was taking place in darfur, the united nations should initiate a proceeding in the international criminal court against isis for crimes against humanity. the time to act is now. . the speaker pro tempore: the chair recognizes the gentleman from alabama, mr. brooks, for ive minutes. mr. brooks: mr. speaker, the june jobs report says, america reas unemployment rate dropped -- america's unemployment rate 1,115,000 .1%, while new part-time jobs were created, a staggering 827,000 full-time jobs were lost. americans labor participation rate remained at 62.8%, the worst since president carter. a recent center for immigration studies report, based on data from the census bureau and homeland security and labor departments, offers a startling and sobering insight concerning people in the 16 to 65 age bracket. so startling that i instructed my staff to double check the report's data, and it checked out as factually ackcra. first, the report determined -- accurate. first, the report determined the american economy created

affirmed to me -- we are going to discuss cbs long-term budget outlook suffers i want to thank director, darfur and their team for their hard work. this is a very important piece of work to see the odessa mayor pleased to receive it again. i have to say your report is sobering. just take the first line. quote between 2,002,000 of the federal federal government recorded the largest deficit relative to the size of the economy since 1946 causing debt to soar" math. later it says quote with deficits as big as the one cbo projects federal debt will be growing faster than gdp at path that will be ultimately unsustainable" math. that pretty much says it right there. it's unsustainable. the national debt is already bigger than our economy. yet it's going to get even larger air economy is going to get weaker. people already can't find work and yet there will be even less opportunity. the average numbers of hours worked is shrinking. we know what the problem is. spending keeps growing. our economy can't keep up. that debt is weighing down working families in over the next 20 years were spending will grow

president bush and former secretary of state colin powell had when they said genocide was taking place in darfur. the united nations has a role. it should immediately initiate proceedings in the international accord for isis for crimes against humanity. i will close today by reading the final two paragraphs of the "wall street journal" editorial. it said, quote, today religious extremism is almost entirely islamic. while isis purge may be the most brutal, islamists have driven thousands of coptic christians from homes they have occupied for centrist. the same is true across muslim parts of africa. this does not mean all muslims are extremists, but it does mean that all muslims have an obligation to denounce the extremist who murdered in the name of allah. too few imams will speak up. as for the post christian west, most elites may now be nonbelievers. but a culture that fails to protect believers may find a lack of self-belief to protect itself. the british parliamentarian and abolitionist who abolished slavery famously told his colleagues as i they will house and administration, having heard al

as president bush and former secretary of state colin powell said when they called a genocide in darfur because this is genocide. for the seek of these communities and for the -- for the sake of these communities, president obama -- president obama must speak. president reagan consistently made human rights a religious freedom, a hallmark of american diplomacy. he famously described in the u.s. constitution, we have made not only but ourselves but for all of mankind. the words in the document transcended in time and place. there is no more urgent time and place but to speak out, given what's happening to christians and other religious minorities in iraq. we have seen during this congress where everyone here is serving and during this administration, we're seeing the end, the end of christianity in iraq and soon we will see the end, the end of christianity in the middle east, where it all began. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. the chair recognizes the gentlewoman from california -- i'm sorry -- connecticut, ms. esty, for five minut

and sudan you had a half million people in darfur. you're going to accuse israel, the jewish people of genocide? we are a people who experienced it, six million wiped out. in may, 1944, we had 10,000 people exterminated every day in auschwitz. and people and international leaders are going to accuse israel of genocide when we are doing everything to make sure civilian casualties that -- that their civilians are not hurt? go look at the u.n. report that was done. when all the dust settled, the libel against israel remained. and it stay there is for years, but when all the dust settled the u.n. did a report, there were 54 people killed, and 51 were armed. according to a u.n. report. check the facts. so let's wait until everything ends before people rush to judgment about israel's actions. you will see exactly what i said yesterday, that no military has done as much as israel has to avoid civilian casualties on the other side. >> about 20 minutes left. lots of people with questions. howard. dome, wondering what's the state of the stockpi

known not just for starring roles in ocean's 11 and gravity, but for his humanitarian efforts in darfurays the mail's lie involves larger issues, the irresponsibility in this day and age to exploit religious differences where none exist is at the very least negligent and more appropriately dangerous. a moral victory for the academy award winning actor, but some wonder if he only made the drama bigger. >> he's a social advocate. is it just keeping with his persona. >> i might have just zipped it and moved on. everybody to take is talking about this. it's a huge store richlt when it came out a couple days ago, nobody noticed it. nobody cared, only george. >> regardless, clooney now joins a small group of celebrities who have stood up to the paper and won including j.k. rowling and elton john who both successfully sued "the mail" for liable, not the chance to set the record straight on a number of lingering rumors. yes, he is engaged. no, they're not getting married at downton abbey and no, he won't be the next governator of california. the apology came on page two today. in it they blame