joining me now national correspondent for the atlantic and author of "china airborne,"james fallows. mr. fallows, thank you for joining us. >> thanks for having me governor. >> the respect party seems to be in search of its soul if in fact it has one. what do you make of dick lugar being lossed out of the senate? that's hard to fathom. >> it really is incredible and there -- there is only one part missing from the pattern. the republican party really going as far right as it can in this cycle, which is mitt romneyening up as the nominee because he had to fend off challenges from the right. but the cycle in my political memory, most resembles of when i was a kid in 1964 when there was a struggle for the soul of the party and moving farther and farther to the right. so we'll see how this place out in the fall. >> there is within the base of the party, the sort of theological base that rick santorum appealed to and the ron paul libertarian piece, of goldwateresque, determination to go as far right as possible. how do you square that attention within the party? >> it is a challenge. neit

this is spectrum that has been lying fallow since 2006. so we will see what the antitrust review says and what the public interest review says from staff of the fcc. >> host: recent story in politico by brooks. this was the headline. broadcasters, fcc in spectrum turf war. is that a fair headline, in your view? >> guest: i read that story. i think when you read the story, it's not quite as inflammatory as the headline figures, but certainly broadcasters before the spectrum legislation was passed at a fear that the process would not be voluntary. meaning that they would not have the freedom to either relinquish spectrum that they have under the licenses or not. so the bill has been signed into law. it's clearly voluntary. the plain language of the act, they don't have to give up their spectrum if they don't want to. i think it will be hard in some cases to free up as much spectrum as has been advertised, sort of advertised 60-80 megahertz. that's a measurement of spectrum, tv broadcaster usually uses six megahertz of spectrum. in a city lik

and as always with fallows, it's a good read. >>> now for the last look.to take a long look at this photograph. it is quite extraordinary. what you are looking at is air force veteran brian callfarnlg embracing his wife. you'll note he has no legs and no right arm thanks to a mortar attack in iraq on september 11th, yes, 2004. he's thought to be one of the most grievously wounded airman ever to survive. he's now a thriving architecture student, but it is a vivid reminder as the united states marks memorial day this weekend, we must remember the war dead, but we ought not forget the war wounded. the correct answer to our gps challenge question is "b," china is not able to send a spacecraft to the international space station, but it has plans to put a man on the moon and has begun its own space station hoping to fill the vacuum left by the end of nasa's space shuttle program. thanks to all of you for being part of my program this week. i will see you next week. >>> hello, everyone. i'm fredricka whitfield with a look at our top stories. syrians are taking to

this week's book of the week is china airborne by the great journalist james fallows.hina for most of the past five years to write this inside look at china's airline industry, but it's much more than that. it's part travel log and a part detailed description of china's economic liftoff, and as always with fallows, it's a good read. >>> now for the last look. i want you to take a long look at this photograph. it is quite extraordinary. what you are looking at is air force veteran brian embracing his wife. you'll note he has no legs and no right arm thanks to a mortar attack in iraq on september 11th, yes, 2004. he is thought to be one of the most grievously wounded airmen ever to survive. he is now a thriving architecture student, but it is a vivid reminder as the united states marks a memorial day this weekend we must remember the war dead, but we ought not forget the war wounded. the correct answer to our gps challge

on the other hand, if our land is lying fallow and is not being managed properly, we have no choice but to step in and do something. my messages use it or lose it -- my message is use it or lose it and she was quickly what you can do. >> i appreciate those comments and some of the thinking i was doing to the comments section from both rec & park and the public comment is i would think it would be helpful to get much more specific long-term recreational management plans and budget that could be presented to this commission. also some specifics of around how financial resources are going to be secured for recreational activities, how does concession contracts would be developed and secured s rec & park wants to take them on. what are the recreational uses of the lake? we saw the one to have materials for, you might people to get staff for viet money for a but nothing round reel programming. we have not heard anything specific around that and how to implement not be accepted the lake merced -- lake merced watershed plan. so really for rec & park to come back and say as relates to the boat

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in the networks so we are not talking about customers or the network has built the spectrum lying fallow since 2006 so we will see what the trust refuses and the public interest review says. >> recent story in politico this was the headline, broadcasters fcc in spectrum turf war. >> i read that story. i think when you read a story it isn't quite as full an injury as the head line appears but certainly broadcasters before the spectrum legislation past the feared the process wouldn't be voluntary meaning that they would not have the freedom to relinquish spectrum they have under the licenses or not. so the bill has been signed into law, it is clearly voluntary, they don't have to give up their spectrum if they don't want to providing it will be hard to free up as much spectrum as has been advertised so it's advertised 60 to 80 megahertz that a measurement of spectrum atv broadcaster usually uses six said in a city like new york with 23 or 24 tv stations that would have to at least be ten so that's a lot of tv stations who would want to go off the air but maybe if there's money they would b

the board is a guy named eric schmidt two is the chairman of google and a bunch of journalists jim fallows freed's of caria are on the board academics and marie slaughter and i'm the second the president i had left the post that was floating around that looking to run anything else after writing the newsroom and was recruited to do it quote i did a lot of smart people there because the journalists academics policy wonks sounds it sounds actually fun i'm also curious about your thoughts on the since since you wrote a book about al qaeda and bin laden what belonged before bin laden was killed by president obama or his you know by by our military what are your thoughts on the current state of al qaeda since the death of bin laden you know i think there are much diminished you know obviously there's still a bunch of guys hanging around the pakistan afghan border who are capable of blowing things up but as a strategic organization that had them visions to really rattle the world i think it's. you know it's much diminished there are groups around the world that call themselves al qaeda that have

you could also on the lower terrace if you're not raising corn and beans, if you're letting it go fallow, it produces all kinds of youthful things. that's where you get the plants to make cordage. you can't go to walmart and buy string. you make your own, and you go to last year's fields where the plant produces it. mainly milk weed, common milk weed and indian hemp. then, an area we don't usually think of as being useful, but it was essential to the indians is the freshwater marsh. i'm showing you the plant there on the marsh. there are other things also, if you're really hungry, you eat marsh periwinkle and get protein, also a lot of shell, but you expel that out the other end. and then of course the waterways themselves with all sorts of wild fowl, fish, et cetera, and the more freshwater marsh you have and the more estuaries you have, the better you are. that's why the rich folks were in the coastal plains. they were able to get lots of stuff from the land and also lots of stuff from the water. all eco zones got huge. oh, go back a minute to the business of the plants. these are some

it's falling on fallow ground. first the challenge, risktaking. more importantly an incredible lack of capital. the average size, 250 million. the size of our firm. our current fund. the average size fund in michigan is 39 million, and not going to raise another one. they are there and we partnered in a place like silicon valley with small early-stage funds in states like michigan to start companies out of universities like university of michigan. we want them to take it through its first steps. we'll come in as the idea gets formed, get on a plane, spend time counting down ann arbor to grow. having that piece that gap, funded for firms of that size would make a huge difference for all of us in unleashing something we've already invested in as americans. so i applaud that effort. i think that will be well received. >> is it your perception, kate, there is someone there on the sidelines, ready to be invested and it's like a spigot we need to figure how to turn on? >> no.

if i don't grow food on this ground and this ground goes fallow, then you don't get taxes off of it.n't get taxes off your business, you can't finance the schools, finance your protection, fire and police, you can't give money to people that really need it. okay who are you going to take the water away from? you're going to take it away from hechhechi. you're going to take it away from the east bay mud. they don't put any water in the delta. >> reporter: for every day californians such as wade gomes does this fight really matter? >> yeah it matters, i want to find out where all that garbage is coming from. it's important to have clean water. >> later this year the state of california is expected to follow through on the recent federal findings and issue new rules about getting and keeping clean and fresh water in california waterways. >>> welcome back we have fog right along the coast. that fog is going to push inland. this is how you know the fog is pushing in. check out the wind reading out in alameda. 23miles per hour out of the west. so it is coming straight on shore. it's blowin

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joining us now, national correspondent for the atlantic, james fallows, author of the new book "china story that you chronicle here, and i get asked why you decided to write a book about china's air -- >> i mean -- >> you love it. a real love of yours. >> yes. >> i enjoy doing that but i also thought after being in china most of the last six years this was a way to tell the big story of china. essentially, are they going to make the next step from being a low-wage ecostructure to being a really rich country? one of the industries they're pushing on like crazy and whether the going to work or not. >> what are you learning whether it will? >> i think it's much more a dicey proposition than most americans think. the last ten years the idea has been what china wants, china achieves by snapping its fingers. it's a lot easier thing to build a giant stadium, even pull off the olympics than have a complex industry like building boeing aircraft or having pharmaceuticals, another one they're pushing, and also the role of the military is actually the most important impediment of what they're try

. >> james fallow, examines the growing aero space industry in china. >> and historian profiles the life of thomas jefferson's daughter, and offers new insights into the role of women during the time. look for these titles in book scores this coming week, and watch for the authors in the near future on book tv and at booktv.org. >> several years ago when the queen was at one of her yearly garden parties at buckingham palace, making her wail through a crowd of nearly 9,000 people, and greeting a selection of guests, she was asking such standard questions as, have you come far? when one woman looked at her, and said, what do you do? several days later, at a friend's birthday party, the queen described the exchange and confessed, i had no idea what to say. it was the first time in all the years of meeting people that anybody had ever asked her that question. well, my job in writing "elizabeth, the queen" is not only to explain what she does but to tell what she is really like and take the reader as close as possible to elizabeth the human being, the wife, the mother, and the friend, as well

if i don't grow food on this ground and this ground goes fallow, then you don't get taxes off of it.get taxes off your business, you can't finance the schools, finance your protection, fire and police, you can't give money to people that really need it. okay who are you going to take the water away from? you're going to take it away from hechhechi. you're going to take it away from the east bay mud. they don't put any water in the delta. >> reporter: for every day californians such as wade gomes does this fight really matter? >> yeah it matters, i want to find out where all that garbage is coming from. it's important to have clean water. >> later this year the state of california is expected to follow through on the recent federal findings and issue new rules about getting and keeping clean and fresh water in california waterways. >>> welcome back we have fog right along the coast. that fog is going to push inland. this is how you know the fog is pushing in. check out the wind reading out in alameda. 23miles per hour out of the west. so it is coming straight on shore. it's blowing pr

and also david frum, james fallows of the forthcoming "china airborne" a former speechwriter for president carter and "new york times" reporter, returning to the program, katherine rampall. let's start with what we saw this week. first i think we should stipulate before the discussion is that the facts are incredible difficult to discern. partly because most of this is very much locked down by the u.s. and china and the u.s. government hasn't been forthcoming about what the details are. and emily parker wrote this great piece in the "new republic" about the new factor. what was formerly would have been a one-to-one diplomatic behind closed door deal was being undermined on twitter because chen was talking to his friends, who were taking to the internet and reporters were saying chen is telling his friends who are going on twitter saying that's not the deal at all. i don't like this. and jim, that struck me as a new dynamic in this very tense and awkward relationship that we're seeing played out. >> you opened the segment saying what we talk about when we talk about china. what was charming

and medical centers partnering with corporations so we can develop all these drugs that are lying fallow. the senator from indiana, rich bullseye listened and began complaining of the floor of congress that we have 28,000 ands that are not being developed. they are just lying there collecting dust. we spent $30 billion collecting. thirty billion in 1980 dollars. so he convinced his fellow senators and congressmen that we need a lot to ease cooperation of universities and private corporations. he was successful under a strange pattern because initially the law was voted down. initially congress wanted no part of it and more importantly very powerful senator russell long was against it. following his lead senators voted it down but even though he lost, you went on to lose the election. not a good year for him and jimmy carter was a lame duck. at the end of the year there was an emergency congressional session called specifically to financial legislation and he wanted to reinvigorate his law. he wanted another try at getting this passed. bob dole was his partner. he was worried about long.