a mission hospital in ethiopia.t is a textured 650-page narrative set amid that country's turmoil in the '60s and '70s. its stories ever medicine, doctors and future doctors at the hospital all illustrate what the author calls the samaritan role of the healer. he went from med school in india to boston, tennessee, text, then stanford. he was born and raised in ethiopia to parents originally from india and from its orthodox traditions. faith w a big part of life for this and other expatriate communities in the ababa of his youth, which may unwittingly shaped some of the characters. >> what really inspire you to write the book, wanted to write a book to get people perhaps interested in medicine. but there was so much in the book about faith and different types of faith. how do you come to have so much of this, of another theme in your book? >> you know, to be honest answer, i don't really know. it all evolved that way, and i think when you're in medicine, you agonize over matters of the faith. >> reporter: the conflue

there was a mother in ethiopia whose baby was crying out for food, and you don't know -- and she had no milk in her breast and had no food. i thought there cannot be anything more painful than to it not be able to answer a child pasquale for food. what struck me at the time connecticut and now and then was there was enough food in the world for everyone to get access to something to eat. during the food crisis a couple years ago, there was enough for the food in the world for everyone to have many kilocalories. but a tsunami blue tins of hundreds -- tens of millions into concrete. it is not quite rocket science. lockedations have not unlik the keys. many nations have salt i agree. it is on one level quite simple. people need access to an adequate amount of nutritious food. >> you can see this entire friday at 7:00 p.m. eastern here on c-span. >> tomorrow morning,ylan mui discusses the latest projections for retail sales this holiday season. then george liebmann on youth unemployment. then bradford fitch talks about the power of lobbyists have here in washington. plus, your emails and

jann know when to ethiopia with care on a trip there. she wanted to read that especially around her trip. >> what is the present rating? >> he is reading in excellent biography of of bon hopper that i am an anxious to get my hands on. >> we got that at booktv and will cover that at some point. laura bush is the founder of the national book festival and the author of "spoken from the heart". she was first lady for eight years as well. thank you for being at national book festival. >> now back to robin who is out and about here. >> i'm holding the the sense and no -- "the essential engineer: why science alone will not solve ou global problems" henry petroski, welcome and tell us what is the reasoning behind the subtitle, why science alone will not solve our global problems? >> we hear a lot about the global problems climate change and we also hear a lot about the importance of what science will do to help alleviate these problems or out rights all them. the history of science and technology teaches us that science and scientists generally

graduate school in ethiopia, she said that she had no energy for it. she came out to take the test. some in the education ministry saw the score and they called in the friend. they wanted to know who that girl was. my friend, alice, they said. just a day, a tiny moment of faith. he had gotten a letter from the american college of pittsburgh. young people from war-torn countries. he said, you get one of those scholarships. it turns out there was a female professor that was moving from president in wisconsin that wanted the girl. alice winds up in wisconsin and of late thursday she is told she as a scholarship, leaving for america in two days. mom, i am leaving for america of. >> we have 13 families in this book. you have a divided into different sections. i want to talk about this one family. from vietnam. and thailand. talking about those difficult situations, 140 people floating in the ocean on a boat that is 6 feet wide and 18 feet long. >> big enough for one-third of those people led most. what happened was, as they floated the engines died and pirates would attack them. they wou

jann know when to ethiopia with care on a trip there.she wanted to read that especially around her trip. >> what is the present rating? >> he is reading in excellent biography of of bon hopper that i am an anxious to get my hands on. >> we got that at booktv and will cover that at some point. .th . the national book festival and the author of "spoken from the heart". she was first lady for eight

jann know when to ethiopia with care on a trip there. she wanted to read that especially around her trip. >> what is the present rating? >> he is reading in excellent biography of of bon hopper that i am an anxious to get my hands on. >> we got that at booktv and will cover that at some point. laura bush is the founder of the national book festival and the author of "spoken from the heart". she was first lady for eight years as well. thank you for being at." the program runs just over 30 minutes. >> howa -- i'm dylan. >> i have to warn everybody that i'm wired. everything that you say -- >> she was doing all of the stuff for you. you weren't noticing. >> this is a lifestyle. >> yeah, it's a lifestyle thing. it's surrounding her. >> i figure you need to warn people. anything that -- maybe i should be wearing a thing. >> you should wear a sign around your neck, i'm wired, be careful, i'll put it on the front of the "huffington post." >> thank you. >> if you are greek, you are in. [laughter] >> that's great. >> thank you very much. >> thank

jenna took a trip to ethiopia. >> what's the president reading? >> she's reading a new biography of bonhoper. >> we just got that at booktv. we will be covering that at some point. laura bush is the founder of the national book festival and the author of spoken from the heart. by the way, she was first lady for eight years as well. >> thank you so much. thank you for covering the national book festival. >> next former white house deputy chief of staff karl rove talks about his memoir "courage and consequence: my life as a conservative in the fight." he spoke about it in austin. >> thank you, brian. [applause] [applause] >> first he said i didn't need an introduction. then he gave me a hell of an introduction. thanks for those very kind words. i want to first of all thank the methodist church. methodism has a way of being broad minded. i appreciate it. i think it's the beginning of the book festival. when the book festival started 15 years ago, i remember it well. laura bush was very nervous about kicking off the new enterprise. we had endured mont

ancestors of humans may have used tools million years earlier before we thought >> this area of rural ethiopias regarded as the cradle of mankind. home to some of the eldest known remains of modern man's anceors. scientists have been looking for clues he for decades and they've made a major discovery about our ancient ancestors. researchers from the california academ of sciences provided with us this video. >> we discovered two bones that clearly indicate they have frontal inflicted mar on them. >> these fossilized animal bones show signs of primitive stone time they were likely made by sharp rocks to break the bones open to extrac marrow for food. until now the oldest evidence of butchering dated to b.35 million years ago. >> meaning they pick up tools million years than earlier thought. on our ancestors were more advanced but able to use tools but they ate meat. >> this species played a very critical role in our evolutionary history. this bridges the first hominids. >> it was made from a short distance from the oth discovery, oldest and complete juvenile skeleton was unearthed in 2000. they

and he wasn't running in ethiopia. local officials asked him, are you going to run? yes, i'm coming back. we don't know exactly when he'll be back competitively, but he is not retiring. he's unretiring, he's not retired. >> now, i have to say, when we were off air in our last half-hour, walking around. there's a man walking around here, and he's absolutely huge. >> well, it was our producer who is a big boxing fanatic who did this interview with david hayes, who, on sday night in manchester, in the third round, he defended his wba heavyweight belt, and now it's a question of which klitschko is he going to fight. vitaly and vladimir hold all the belts, and they want to see a reunion fakes fight. maybe americans will again become interested in heavyweight boxing. at the moment, they're not particularly worried. so hayes has been off, when are you going to fight one of the klitschkos? >> when the weather's good enough to do t. it's an open-air stadium. in my opinion, i believe wembley stadium would be the right venue for such an event. so whenever the weather -- wheneve

it especially bothers her because her youngest daughter was adopted from ethiopia. >> raising a blackhild in napa can at times be difficult so really hateful images like this can be difficult. >> reporter: napa is a white community and bristow says she has african-american friends who are uncomfortable coming here. she believes this art reinforces that perception. >> looking at the mural, it's hard to determine which part of the mural is, uhm, a part of napa history that we're proud of versus part of napa history that, uhm, we're not proud of. >> reporter: the mu sake is a selected visual history of the napa valley shows chinatown burning, a prostitute, steam engine and local harvest. we were unable to contact the artist but when this was first unveiled in 2005, it was reported alan had been given artistic freedom and the point was made that artists pushed society to take an honest look at unpleasant things. we found people who think that's true today. >> if it's part of our napa history and this is about napa, that's kind of how i feel that it's -- it's part of t i'm glad it's over i

the men's time was won by gebre gebre mainian of ethiopia.ed chilean miner needed five hours and 40 minutes but made it to the finish line. when we come back this morning, another look at this morning's top stories and just 47 shopping days until christmas but retailers are bringing out the holiday bargains now. you don't need a rematch, but a rethink. with lunesta. lunesta is thought to interact with gaba receptors associated with sleep. lunesta helps you get the restful sleep you need. lunesta has some risk of dependency. when taking lunesta, don't drive or operate machinery until you feel fully awake. walking, eating, driving or engaging in other activities while asleep without remembering it the next day have been reported. abnormal behaviors may include aggressiveness, agitation, hallucinations, or confusion. in depressed patients, worsening of depression, including risk of suicide, may occur. alcohol may increase these risks. allergic reactions such as tongue or throat swelling occur rarely and may be fatal. side effects may include unp

the first to finish of ethiopia completed the 26 mile course in 2:08.14.nd the fastest, kenya at 2:28.20. >>> the estimated 2 million spectators watching the marathon got to see another winner. a man that spent much of his summer trapped a half mile underground. that story tonight from nbc's john yang. >> reporter: 12 miles in and looking good. triumph wasn't only at the finish line it was just being at the race at all. >> hitting those high-fooifs so many time your hands get blistered. he ran in the bright sush of the marathon, less than a month after being rescued from a half mile beneath the chilean desert. he ran as many as six miles a day in miss mining boots to stay in shape physically and mentally and in between, he sang elvis songs ♪ return to sender ♪ address unknown >> reporter: with a record 43,000 competitors today, there were plenty of stories. in the wheelchair division, david wear. he won by two seconds. among the women, chile was second in the first marathon, the best finish by an american woman since 1990. >> what's lined up next? >> a nic

orgy beauty.: >> guest: okay, ethiopia. probably my most favorite story that i learned in doing this book was i didn't go to ethiopia until very late in the reporting, and before i went i learned that in 615 s.d. when the prophet muhammad was a 40-something rich trader preaching to his own people inow mecca, in saudi arabia, theyh kicked him out.t. they didn't want to hear thisear message of one single god, and he fled with most of his followers 210 miles away to medina, the city of the prophet. at that same time, 615 a.d., islam wasn't really a religion yet. he sent a dozen of his followers to africa. whysome because he wanted them in the safest place he could think of, and that was in the court of a christian king.o and his own daughter was one ofr these 12, right? so they go to the court of thego christian king, and this is one of the earliest cases of political asylum we have inum t history.w and they say to the king, theys tell the king a story to try to safeguard their passage.afeg they tell him the story of the virgi

jenna just went to ethiopia on a trip there, so she wanted to read that especially around her trip. >> do you know what the president's reading? >> he's reading a very excellent biography of bonn offer, a new biography that i'm anxious to get my hands on as soon as he finishes. >> and we just got that at m booktv, and we willy be covering that at some point.h laura bush is the founder of the national book festival and the author of "spoken from the heart."nd t oh, and by the way, she was first lady for eight years as well. thank you for being here with us. f >> thank you so much. thank you for covering the national book festival. >> every weekend booktv brings you 48 hours of history, biography and public affairs. here's a portion of one of our programs. >> why when we hear the president and others talking about the fact that we must make government efficient for the people did our founding fathers actually design the government to be inefficient? ask yourself that question. because this is a model for inefficiency. but it was done deliberately. why? because in order to have basic lib

stone, with one of his books, and the national book festival, a great book about twins but also ethiopia. one of the books given to me by booksellers, a book about the civil war, by robin beara. george is reading a biography about bond hopper. i am usually reading the newest books by respectable lawyers. i will be at the texas book festival in late october. i hope any of you who have a chance can come to the festival. thank you all very much. i appreciate it very much. thank you all. [applause] >> i see what you mean by readers in chief. wonderful to see you again in person. we thank mrs. bush for being here. signed copies are being offered. one more vote of thanks for the inventor. [applause] here's stacy schiff just being introduced talking about her book cleopatra. [applause] >> thank you for turning out. i suspect you are all melts out there. because i'm melting up here. if you referred from the remarks that i have no life of my own, you are correct. but i have been through this biography business a few times. and i have the follow observation to offer. no matter how wisely, how care

it became easier and some programs were instituted that african immigrants from nigeria, ethiopia, every country, have taken advantage of. so we have seen an unpress departmented wave of immigration. the numbers are still not huge yet, but the impact is starting to be huge. a few years ago, harvard professor skip gates of the beer summit fame, you remember the famed beer summit. he and lonny, another name you might recognize, did an informal study at harvard. they looked at the list of incoming black freshmen, and just picked off the african surnames and found that was more than half of the incoming black freshmanmen at hard record. so the sons and daughters of immigrants are doing very well. the best educated group of immigrants coming to the united states today, the african immigrants. better educated than the asian, south asias, europeans, anybody, the best educated group. they don't come with a lot of money but come with a lot of education, intact families, educational aspirations and they're going to have a big impact in years to come. as the other component of emergent group was bi

that's right, he's from right here in queens. [ applause ] i'm just kidding, he's from ethiopia, butnderstand? you show up to cheer on these marathon runners, and everyone thinks you're nice and the gym and watch a stranger on a treadmill and everyone thinks it's weird. [ laughter ] did everyone have a good end to daylight savings yesterday? [ cheers and applause ] that was fun. not the same -- not the same now that your phone changes the time automatically. you know? it kind of takes that feeling away. you know, one of the best feelings in the world. you're like "it's 8:00. oh, wait, no, it's actually 7:00! no, it's actually 8:00. [ light laughter ] yeah, it changed. bummer. that's a mind bender." well, george w. bush is on the big book tour this week. during an interview with "usa today," bush said that he was, "blindsided by the financial crisis." bush said he was also blindsided by the fact that he knew the word "blindsided." [ laughter ] i don't know if you saw this on his trip to india yesterday. president obama said that he has to make some mid-course corrections if he wants t

easier and some programs were instituted that african immigrants from nigeria, east open ya ya ya -- ethiopia. the numbers are still not huge. but the impact is starting to be huge. a few years ago, harvard professor skip gates of the beer summit fame, you remember the famed beer summit. he and lonnie gineer, another name that you might recognize from the past as another harvard professor, did an informal study at harvard. they looked at the list of incoming black freshmen and just picked off the african surnames. they found that was more than half of the incoming black freshman at harvard. there have been more rigorous and scientific studied that have confirmed the same thing. so the sons and daughters of of immigrants are doing well. best educated group are the african immigrants. better educated than the asians, south asians, they don't come with a lot of money, but a lot of education. in fact, families educational aspirations they do very well. i think they are going to have a big impact in years to come. the other component of the group is biracial americans. we forget only in 1967 in th

it especially bothers her because her youngest daughter was adopted from ethiopia. >> raising a black child in napa can at times be difficult so really hateful images like this can be difficult. >> reporter: napa is a white community and bristow says she has african-american friends who are uncomfortable coming here. she believes this art reinforces that perception. >> looking at the mural, it's hard to determine which part of the mural is, uhm, a part of napa history that we're proud of versus part of napa history that, uhm, we're not proud of. >> reporter: mosaic is called a selected visual history of the napa valley and also shows chinatown burning, a prostitute as well as a steam engine and the local harvest. we were unable to contact the artist but when this was first unveiled in 2005, it was reported alan had been given artistic freedom and the point was made that artists pushed society to take an honest look at unpleasant things. we found people who think that's true today. >> if it's part of our napa history and this is about napa, that's kind of how i feel that it's --it's pa

became easier and actually some programs were instituted that african immigrants from nigeria, from ethiopia, from really every country have taken advantage of. and so we have seen an unprecedented wave of immigration. the numbers are still not huge yet, but the impact is starting to be huge. a few years ago harvard professor skip gates of the beer summit fame, you remember the famed beer summit, he and another name that you might recognize from the past, and other harvard professor, given informal study at harvard. they look at the list of incoming black freshmen and just picked off the african surnames and found that was more than half of the incoming black freshmen at harvard. there have been more rigorous, more scientific studies that have kind of been from the same thing, so the sons and daughters of these immigrants are doing very well. the best educated group of immigrants coming to the united states today are the african immigrants. better educating the asians, the south asians, the europeans, anybody. the best educated regional group. they don't come with a lot of money but they com

. >> this old -- 100-year-old tree uprooted and fell on my husband's truck who's away in ethiopia. >> reporter: that does not look good. >> no, it does not. he's going to come home to this monday. >> i stood on my porch when the first tree fell. and when -- it was like the wizard of oz. >> reporter: and folks who woke up said it was extremely loud. there were all kinds of things that were blowing around and falling down. you can see behind me herethis is one of just many trees in the area. that snapped in the wind. we saw poles, big light poles that snapped over. a lot of damage in this very small area. again, we're talking about the shopping center. we're actually standing in the shopping center parking lot here. the shopping center with the home depot in between rhode island avenue and brentwood road just a short distance away, just down the street, the brentwood postal fality, they had quite a bit of damage as well. what we're hearing from folks is that it really didn't last all that long. but while it was happening, it was pretty scary and pretty powerful. barbara, back to you. >>

i don't know if he's been a national book festival writer, but it's a great book about twins and ethiopia, and then i read a book given to me by book sellers on my book tour, my name is mary sueter, historical fiction about the civil war. i recommend them. george is reading the new biography of bonhoffer. i'm reading that next. i'm usually reading the newest book by book festival authors. i'll be at the texas book festival in late october also, and so i hope any of you that have a chance can also come there for the texas book festival. thank you very much, i think my time is up. i appreciate it very, very much. thank you all. god bless you all. thanks a lot. [applause] [applause] >> i think you can see what we mean, and i thank you so much, mrs. bush it's wonderful to see you here in person and we thank you for being here. signed copies of her book is being offered bind this tent. please, ladies and gentlemen, one more bode of thanks for laura bush. [applause] [applause] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> laura bush founded both the national book festival and the texas

jann know when to ethiopia with care on a trip there. she wanted to read that especially around her trip. >> what is the present rating? >> he is reading in excellent >> a new biography that i'm anxious to get my hands on as soon as he finishes -- my >> host: and we just got that oo booktv, and can we will be covering that at some point. laura bush is the author ofna "spoken from the heart." oh, and by the way, she was first lady for eight years as well. [laughter] thank you for being here. >> guest: thank you so much. thank you for covering the national book festival. >> garland tucker iii recounts the 1924 general election between john davis and calvin coolidge, the last time -- according to the author -- that both parties fielded conservative candidates. mr. tucker discusses his book at the john locke foundation in raleigh, north carolina. this program is about an hour. [applause] >> thank you very much and especially to the john locke foundation for inviting me today. i've been looking forward to this. they were very generous in givi

it's historical fiction also about ethiopia during the time of holly scilas and a fascinating story abouty twins, barbara and jenna are reading it right now. barbara went on a trip there. she wanted to read that around his trip. >> do you know what the president is reading? >> she's reading an excellent biography of bonhoper. i'm anxious to get my hands on it. >> we just got it at booktv. we will be covering that. laura bush, the founder of the book festival and author of "spoken from the heart." by the way she was first lady for eight years. >> thank you so much. thank you for covering the national book festival. >> every weekend everytv brings you 48 hours of history, biography, and public affairs. here's a portion of one of our programs. >> i'm in charge of globalization. i was born at a time when large numbers of african countries had just gotten their independence, were getting their independence, or were independent for a while. and that entailed in africa in the context that i was born in, and later i found out, places in asia, there was the people that took over power very quickly

stone, with one of his books, and the national book festival, a great book about twins but also ethiopia. one of the books given to me by booksellers, a book about the civil war, by robin beara. george is reading a biography about bond hopper. i am usually reading the newest books by respectable lawyers. i will be at the texas book festival in late october. i hope any of you who have a chance can come to the festival. thank you all very much. i appreciate it very much. thank you all. [applause] >> i see what you mean by readers in chief. wonderful to see you again in person. we thank mrs. bush for being here. signed copies are being offered. one more vote of thanks for the inventor. [applause] this event was part of the 2010 national book festival in washington, d.c.. for more information, visit loc.gov/bookfest.hinkinwhen >>> every weekend book tv bring you 48 hours of history, biography and public affairs. here is a portion of one of our programs. have any >> why are white people called caucasian? at denney if you ask your cells that? enis whknow why? no. and this is why -- well, it'sn

sure if he has been a national book festival writer or not it is historical fiction also about to ethiopia during the

[laughter] ethiopia is a continent in africa and this and that. in negative kafeel original human beings were born there or something and we all -- [laughter] and so i thought what is he talking about? [laughter] so, but here's the thing. there was little minor things like that, and sometimes some adults, but i never felt -- and this is curious. i think i know why, but i never felt it the way that it was meant. and i think the reason is because i always thought that those people were deficient in some way. always, even as a little one. i thought they were deficient. had a big sort of racial moment when i was working for some white family just before i got my job as a page. i was working after school just doing housework at $2 a week, one of which went to my mother and the other like keep. but she had some complicated for me complicated equipment like a vacuum cleaners. never saw one, and the stove. and i didn't know how to work it and she would curse me out every now and then. [laughter] , i have to quit my mother's to mean, so she said quit. but

i was watching an image on television of a mother in ethiopia whose baby was crying out very weakly for food. she had no milk in her breasts. she also had no food. i thought, there cannot be anything more painful than not being able to answer your child's call for food. what struck me at that time, and now, and then, was there was enough food in the world for everyone to get access to something to beaeat. during the food crisis a couple of years ago, there was enough food for everyone to have 2700 kilocalories. yet, a silent tsunami threw tens of millions of more into abject under. -- hunger. a solution to hunker is not quite rocket science. many nations have unlocked the keys. many hungry nations have defeated hunger. it does not require some brazen scientific breakthrough, like discovering a cure for a rare cancer. it is on one level quite simple. people need access to an adequate amount of nutritious food. >> you can see this entire event that the -- with the u.n. world food programme director on friday at 10:00 a.m. on c-span. >> take a look at the new members of congress with the c

she said ethiopia is a continent and africa and i think the original if human beings were born thereor something. and so, i thought what is he talking about? [laughter] but here's the thing, there was little minor things like that. but i never felt -- and this is curious. i think i know why, but i never felt it the way it was meant. and i think the reason is because i always thought that those people were deficient in some way, always, even a pivotal one. i thought they were deficient. i had a big sort of racial moments when i was 13 for some white family, just before i got my job at the page, i was working after school just doing housework at $2 a week, one of which went to my mother and the other i could keep. but she had some complicated -- for me complicated equipment like vacuum cleaners. never saw one. and the stove. and i did know how to work it, so she would curse me out every now and then. i told my mother, mom, let's quit. he said go to work, get your money and come home. you don't live there. i don't have an employment problem since. it was not my life was not there. and a

. >> host: we haven't talked about ethiopia. >> guest: ethiopia, okay.i didn't go to ethiopia until very late in the reporting. and before i went the prophet muhammad was preaching to his own people in mecca, they kicked him out. they didn't want to hear the message of one single god. he fled with most of his followers 210 miles away to what's now known as medina, the city of the prophet. he send a dozen followers to africa. why? that was the king of ethiopia. his own daughter was one of these 12; right? so they go to the court of christian king. and this is one of the earliest cases of political asylum that we have in history. they say to the king, they tell the king the story to try to safeguard their passage. they tell them the story of the virgin mary, giving wirth to -- giving birth to the baby jesus, which is in the koran. it was not the capitol at the time. i was there a few months ago. the followers of the first ascendants are still there. the story of coexistence of christianity and islam is long and powerful. not in we believe the same thing, b

course, they are familiar with what is happening in zimbabwe, a small yach -- somalia, eritrea, ethiopia. one thing that i've been , acerned with thiis the lra lord's resistance army, starting in northern uganda and it has spread to rwanda, eastern congo. it was not until a few weeks ago that we passed, signed by the president, a policy to take out the head of the lra. i would like to get your position, and for the members of the committee who might be new, he started 30 years ago in some people call up the child soldiers, 13, 14 years old, and they are trained and they have to go back and murder villagers and parents. what is your level of concern and your interest in implementing the direction we gave in the law we passed concerning the lra? >> i agree with you. i need to learn more about the lord's resistance army, but what i know from my previous assignment as director of operations on the joint staff, and what i learned on open source, is a horrific situation. as we discussed yesterday, i look to learn more of that personally and find ways that, if confirmed, africom can contribute

and i was watching an image on television of a mother in ethiopia whose baby was crying out, very weakly. and she had no milk in her breast. and she also had no food. and i thought there can't be anything more painful than not being able to answer a child's call for food. and what struck me at the time, and now, and then, was there was enough food in the world for everyone to get access to something to eat. during the food crisis a couple years ago, there was enough food for everyone in the world to have 2,700 kilocalories. yet a silent tsunami through tens of millions of more into abject hunger. what also struck me is the solution to hunger is not quite rocket science. many nations have unlocked the keys. many hungry nations have defeated hunger. and it doesn't require some great new scientific breakthrough like discovering a cure for rare cancer. it is on one level quite simple. people need access to an adequate amount of nutritious food. but what struck me is a nobel prize winning work exploring famines and what caused them, is actually familiarens are often caused by a lack -- famine

we have done the same kind of product in ethiopia in accused scale, restoring 800,000 acres of land over time and supporting many people to be able to eat. we think there is a tremendous power in community-based solutions to the climatic problems that are being faced. the ninth is partnerships. this is an error. if we could not do what we do without the private sector. what the great delivery companies in the world has helped us with -- one of the great delivery companies in the world has helped us with warehouse space. we asked about the nutrition to meet the specific needs of the children in gaza. we do not have that expertise. we are linked with unilever, craft, and heinz. in dubai, the humanitarian cities is a powerful addition to this. i just want to mention the partnership and our millennium billets partnerships that can really change the way we do things. the ninth thing is the power of the individual to change the face of undehunger. in haiti, the needs were huge. we were desperate to raise the money very quickly for what we needed. we talked to one of the on-line game companies.

i was watching an image on television of a mother and ethiopia whose baby was crying out very weakly for food, and she had no milk in her breast and she also had no food. i thought, there cannot be anything more painful than not being able to enter a child call for food -- not been able to answer a child's call for food. there was enough food for everyone to get access to something to eat. during the food crisis a couple of years ago, there was enough food for everyone in the world to have 2700 kilo calories. tens of millions have been an abject hunger. what also struck me is the solution to hunger is not quite rocket science. many nations have unlocked the keys. many hungry nations. they have defeated under -- hunger. does require a great scientific breakthrough, like discovering a cure for rare cancer. people need access to an adequate amount of nutritious food. but what struck me is a work exploring famines and will cost them is actually famines are caused by a lack of access to food. in fact, in a famine in 1974, there was food in bangladesh, but people cannot afford it. their li

i have never seen anybody hop in boats and wrote thousands of miles to go to ethiopia. i think is going back to restore our common sense and basic values and our pride. actions speak louder than words. until we do that, we are hypocrites. we talk about china. i have never seen anybody say i cannot wait to move to china and lived in a hut. we are not living up to our potential. host: thank you, walter. eets.ll mix in a few tw host: fredericksburg, virginia. the democrats. june. caller: thank you. you don't witness the greatness of america until you come from somewhere else. i came from sleeping on a mac to living in a 10-room house. -- from slipping on a mat. you are able to do anything in america. i am very grateful. so many people don't appreciate the greatness of this country. host: what is it that makes america great? caller: the most important thing is the free system we have come from poverty to middle class to the top 2%. there is poverty in other places and there is no room for growth. in america, if you work hard, you come from poverty, you can move to the top 2

ethiopia wasn't looking at china that that way.they were trying to have summits to- declare a multi polar world is coming and china and india together will usher in that era. it's not that america wanted it here. now things have changed a little bit and india wants to be much more naval power. and that is something that they see much more as their role. they really played along with this seems so simple but the u.s. and australia will balance and try to workout that way. india is seeing itself much more again having this central presence overseeing the growing come pensionty of commerce trade. if the united states wants to be a part of the role in that. india welcomes that help but it's not the way i think you were sort of raising it. ah, america would like to see stability and therefore let us sponsor. india sees itself much more centrally. and then you can apply that to any other pressure. not not, somehow brand new. >> what should their priorities be. should they sign on to the i.e.a of the sanction or not? should they stop. if

>> guest: it starts going south first of all with the invasion of ethiopia, that kind of stuff.you know, mussolini in a facetious way, one of his big problems is that he gets on its realism bandwagon right at the moment when into realism is no longer fashionable. and so that was really condemned. but what really ruined his reputation is not season. and understandably so. but it's a much more interesting and complex story. one of the things, you know, i learned a lot of things working on this book that at one of the things i found most fascinating was personal, among professional historians that jesus debate about whether german nazi-ism is fascism at all. and this was a debate that we had a time and a debate without ever since but i think it's probably fine as a matter of generalization to say they're both fascism and leave it at that that is not a cut and dried are you italian fascism is more interesting to me as someone who grew up on the other west side of manhattan, italian fascism was not anti-semitic. mussolini always sidat .. could never be anti-semitic because they were

some of our work also helped secure the release of a doctor, a political prisoner in ethiopia. we condemned the persecution and sought to bring peace to darfur. work to secure the release of the first egyptian blogger to be jailed for his online writings and established the congressional commission on divided families to reunite korean americans with their north korean relatives. we fought to protect iraq's christian community from increasing violence and led efforts to combat the rise of global anti-semitism. we fought for women's rights around the world, basic education, health services and access to family planning. we stood up for our allies, poland, armenia, greece, ukraine and georgia, and increased oversight of the united nations' relief and works agency and demanded accountability in u.s. assistance to the west bank and gaza. we successfully changed policy on proposed arms sales to saudi arabia, protecting u.s. forces in the region and preserving israel's qualitative military advantage. we delivered eyes in the sky and the radar system to defend the state of israel. and

. >> it starts with the invasion of ethiopia. you know, mussolini and i mean this in a facetious way -- one of his big problems is he get on the imperial bandwagon when imperialism is no longer fashionable and that was really condemned. but, you know, what really ruins is his reputation is nazism and understandably so. but it's a much more interesting and complex story. you know, one of the things -- you know, i learned a lot of things while working on this book. and one of the things i found most fascinating was -- first of all, among the professional historians, there's a series debate about whether german nazism was fascist at all. ... all. and this was a debate that we had a time and a debate without ever since but i think it's probably fine as a matter of generalization to say they're both fascism and leave it at that that is not a cut and dried are you italian fascism is more interesting to me as someone who grew up on the other west side of manhattan, italian fascism was not anti-semitic. mussolini always said that we coul

ethiopia voted against us 83.3% of the time. we rewarded their opposition to the things that we hold dear by giving them $455 million. india, $100 million, they voted against us about 9% of the time. -- about 89% of the time. indonesia, the president just visited, seems like he got a pretty good reception but when it came to his positions, they voted against him about 80% of the time in the u.n. but we did reward them with about $190 million. now people are out of work, they're struggling, they're trying to make ends meet as best they can and yet we're just giving money away hand over fist like we were just the richest folks in the history of man kind, that we got money to burn. we're just throwing it away. as i said previously, and it continues to be true, you don't have to pay people to hate you, they'll do it for free. it's that simple. why keep paying billions and billions of dollars to couldn't areries that despise us that oppose everything we believe in, that oppose our love of freedom and liberty, that oppose our belief i

i was watching an image on television of a mother in ethiopia whose baby was crying out very weakly for food. she had no milk in her breasts and she also had no food. and i thought there can't be anything more painful than not being able to answer a child's call for food. >> what struck me at the time and now and then was there was enough food in the world for everyone to get access to something to eat. during the food crisis a couple of years ago there was enough food for everyone in the world to have 2,700 calories. yet a silent tsunami threw 10s of millions of more into abject hunger. >> what also struck me is the solution to hunger is not quite rocket science. many nations have unlocked the keys. many hungry nations. -- have defeated hunger. it doesn't require some great new siving break through like discovering a cure for rare cancer. it is on one level quite simple. people need access to an adequate amount of nutritious food. >> forlte motion relating to the war in afghanistan as printed in the order paper. to move the morks i call mr. tim jennings. [applause] >> thank you, mr. sp

they are familiar with what is happening in zimbabwe and in somalia, the problems between ethiopia. one of the biggest things i have been concerned with and personally involved in trying to do something about is the lord's resistance army. it has spread -- it has spread through rwanda and eastern congo. it was not until a few weeks ago that we passed and signed by the president a policy of this country to take out joseph cody and the lra. joseph coneys started about 30 years ago, and some people call it child soldiers. the first thing they have to do is go back to their villages and murdered their parents and. this is really something that people do not want to talk about it. what is your level of concern and interest in implementing the direction of the laws that we passed a few months ago concerning this? >> i agree with you. i need to learn more about alert -- about the lord's resistance army. what they do know, the director of operations, it is a horrific situation. i look to learn more about that. if confirmed, africa command can contribute to the solution to that problem. i am

they are familiar with what's happening in somalia and the problems between ethiopia.one of the biggest things that i've been concerned with and personally involved in trying to do something about is the lra, large resistance army, starting in northern uganda and it also spread fro rwanda and eastern congo. it was signed by the president to take out joseph coney and the lra. i want to ask you and members who might be knew, joseph coney started about 30 years ago, and some people call it the child's soldiers, little kids who are 13-14 years old, and then the first thing they have to do once trained they have to go back to the villages and kill their parents and if they don't, they cut their lips off. this is something not talked about, but what's your concern in the direction of the law we passed a few months ago concerning the lra. >> senator, i agree with you. i need to learn more about the large resistance army, but what i know from the previous assignment from the directors on the joint staff and what i read in open source, it is a horrific situation and as we discu