we'll have some of the detainees in france.endship is what is coming back into nato and taking two important command posts in the integrated structure. that's what friendship is about. we're here to work together and achieve results. we're not here walking hand in hand saying how much time did you spend with her? but do you think people are waiting to see us hand in hand sitting here looking in one another's eyes? of course not. they want us to achieve results on iran or north korea or whatever it is, where we see harmony. i'll tell you one thing, it's very easy to work with the united states president. >> mr. sarkozy speaks quite quickly so we can even get more done. [laughter] >> i speak fast, but you understand fast. >> we'll take one last question. we've got a mike? >> president obama, the ban on head scarves and veils for young girls in french schools and president sarkozy's position on the entry into the union is it going to hinder what you said in islam two days ago? >> i think this is a process >> i think this is a proc

the suffrage france that frances had lasted a lifetime and when france's. suffered an impeachment attempt in 1939, because of her failure to quickly deport the active labor leader, harry bridges, it was these women from a separate move when they came forward to speak on her behalf and that every point of the diversity in her life that is the case. she also had close female friends here in d.c. that were meaningful to her. avro harriman's papers here at the library of congress give us clues to the importance of his older sister, mary harriman. these two are the children of the famous robber barons, e.h. harriman. they are enormously wealthy and averell harriman is a friend and supporter to frances perkins to our whole career. the actually live together in a house in georgetown when social security act was drafted, so mary harriman is beyond a friend. she is actually at points supporting frances perkins because frances perkins remember has a husband who is institutionalized and for whom she has to provide care, so having wealthy free male friends who would he

as i have said i knew little about france's. spa i had the sense that she had done important things. i began to do a column that ran in a number of papers around the country where people could pose questions about the workplace problems and i got a letter from a man, a letter from a man who said he was locked into his office every night while they counted the money in the cash register ndps dead did i think that was on save? [laughter] well, it happen that we had just been writing about that terrible poultry fire in north carolina. i was aware of the triangle fire but i decided to call the historian at the labor department to get a little bit more information. i called the labor attorney who happens to be in the audience today, and he told me about the triangle fire but he told me something really important. he said, did you know france's. saw that fire? and that is what started me on the path. wet this point they were all these threads i am hearing. this is something that puts it all together and it became fascinated with the i

we will have some of the detainees in france. french is what? is coming back into nato and taking two important command posts. that is what french is about. we are here to work together to achieve results. we're not here watching and saying how much time did you spend with so and so? do you think people are just waiting to see as hand in hand sitting here looking into one another's eyes? of course not. they want us to achieve results. i will tell you one thing. it is very easy to work with the american president. >> president sarkozy speaks quite quickly, so we can get even more done. [laughter] >> i speak fast but you understand fast. >> we will take one last question. do we have a microphone here? >> president obama , the ban on head scarves and veils for young girls in french schools and president sarkozy's position, is this likely to hinder the new approach to is one he presented two days ago? >> this is a process. what i have tried to do in cairo was to open up a conversation, both in muslim communities, but also in non-muslim communities.

frances perkins achieved almost all of her agenda. she became the most successful social progress of an american history. how did that happen? >> over the years it's been very difficult to get progress of legislation passed in the united states like the kind they have in europe. there are many obstacles. frances perkins was one of these people from a very young age found a path through obstacles and a way to get things done. coming here as i first came to washington, d.c. in 1988 as a reporter for "the washington post" and i didn't know who frances perkins was myself and i took a tour of the sites of d.c. and one of the things that stuck in my mind is this huge labor department building named after frances perkins and i thought there are not that many government buildings named after women so i sort of stored away in my mind and in a little while as we continue in the trip along the mall tour bus driver said he had a joke and it was one american woman had the worst child birth experience? a long pause, frances perkins. she spent 12 ye

he knows that france is a friend of the united states.ll issues and hope to continue that. barack obama, welcome. welcome to your family. >> it is wonderful to be back in france, particularly on this day, because this day marks not only the triumph of freedom, but it also marks have the transatlantic alliance has allowed for extraordinary prosperity and security on both sides of the atlantic. the fact that france fully reintegrated into nato this year under president sarkozy's leadership is just one further indication of the degree to which u.s., french cooperation can help to underpin not only security in europe, but also a more secure and prosperous world beyond europe. i very much appreciated president sarkozy's leadership on a whole range of issues. he mentioned a number of them. france's leadership within europe in understanding the need for us to have tough diplomacy with the iranians, to reach out to them, but also insist we cannot afford a nuclear arms race in the middle east. our close collaboration on a whole host of issues with

in france. we will not replace one at of two civil servants who retire. this is one of the conditions for the effectiveness of our civil service and to improve that. i am fully aware of the huge financial need and that we're not in title to waste a single euro. we will push the reform of local communities. we will try to decrease the amount of local and regional local elected officials. we will request an effort from all communities. the government will face a huge challenge of transforming the french economy in it to a productive economy. what is at stake is the country itself, the citizens themselves, and the taxpayers themselves. the effort should be shared. there's also the issue of the reform of social security network to stop abuses. this is something that we will reform. we will also reform the pension system. 2010 will be an important year in that regard. everything will have to be in question. the age of retirement. all possibilities will be considered. the various stakeholders will mak

in the new growth model that france hopes for, that france is striving to set up cannot we need to get a greater role to labor and entrepreneurs, inventors come back to those who create -- inventors, to those who create. our scientists and artists -- in terms of articulating private enterprise will once again become considerable assets. this is the reason to try to answer all of our difficult questions. why is the gap so why? this is a question everybody is asking themselves. why is the gap still wide between our ideals and our social reality? why has this gap continued to grow over the past decade? no one, whatever their political stripe, at no one can refrain from asking themselves this country -- no one can refrain from asking this question? why are our parents are afraid for the future of their children? why is there such a dissatisfaction? there is a deep-rooted dissatisfaction. we need to not only had the courage to ask these questions, but also to answer them. the crisis has put the french model back in -- this model which allows us to absorb shocks is popular, but the crisis re

and the united states, between france and great britain, beef between france and canada. among these fallen soldiers, there was your grandfather, a sergeant in the american army, and two of his brothers. for all french citizens, mr. president, you are on two levels, through the office that you hold and for the blood that flows through your veins, the symbol of the america that we love, the america that defense the highest spiritual and moral values, an america that fight for liberty, for democracy, and for human rights. you are the symbol of an open, generous, and tolerant america. mr. president, mr. prime minister of canada, american and canadian soldiers have come to fight on two occasions alongside the british and french. what would have become of the world if you had not come? out of this question, the answer to which is so clear and so tragic, was born in europe. many coffins, we all understood that we had to put an end to the infernal cycle of vengeance that in every war planted the seed for the next war and brought european peoples to the brink of annihilation. so

in france, in a country like france where everyone can live according to their convictions and beliefs, we respect the individual, we respect women, we respect the family. i've also done a lot when i was home secretary minister of the interior to ensure the muslim community in france could practice their religion and creed like any other -- any other religion or creed in france. now, you belong to a newspaper i have a lot of respect for, which called for its readers to vote in the presidential election for my adversary and not for me. and what would you say to justify this? you said, well, be careful, president sarkozy is going to align us too much with the united states of america. and two years later, what are you telling me? the one subject on which president obama, president sarkozy don't agree, that should reassure you, you shoul be happy about that, no. of course we agree. we concur on the ultimate objective. what is president obama's objective? what is mine ultimately? is that turkey may play its full part, essential role as a bridge between east and west. that is an essential r

host: we've got shots up of the normandy cemetery in france. and we will be hearing from president obama as well as the french president and the british prime minister. and we'll go to that as soon as those gentlemen start speaking. first, back to the phones. chris on the line. good morning and welcome. caller: good morning. my respect to all the d-day veterans still with us. my dad was with the army air corps group that went from north africa into france and germany. but a lot of people talking about the russian effort. with our effort to go after the energy resources of germany, the bombings in all cordors, getting them out of north african africa and stuff, didn't that happy and could you expand? thank you. guest: sure. that's a great point. one way the soveyts were hated by the western powers is the strategic bombing campaign that they could concentrate on having their air force just provide close air support for their armies along the eastern front and the campaign to bomb germany abserbs about a million plus german soldiers for antiaircra

i lived in france. i'm just sorry for the americans listening to this that there was no translation because it was extremely touching to pay tribute. >> tell us about what he said. >> he talked about. he went through a tribute to the canadians and what they had done. he said for the canadians there was no need for them, their land wasn't in danger. there was no need to be taken overtaken fwi germans. but he also spoke about the fear that these young 20-year-old soldiers must have imagined when they were coming to shore and to see the huge guns facing down. he said they realized that they either had to fight to kill or to be killed. and he said imagine what these young sons of farmers and the young sons of factory workers must have felt in a situation like that when they were just 20 years old. and he talked about the broad expanse of the beaches. and he said at that time it was impossible to walk the beach and to feel the sand under your feet because there were so many dead bodies on that beach. >> than

instead, victory here secured a foothold in france. open a path to berlin. it made possible the achievements that followed the liberation of europe, the marshall plan, the nato alliance, the shared prosperity and security that flowed from each. so much of the progress that would define the 20 sentry on both sides of the atlantic came down to a battle for a slice of beach only 6 miles long and 2 miles wide. more particularly, it came down to the men who landed here, those who now rest in this place for eternity, and those who were with us here today. perhaps more than any other reason, you, the veterans of that landing, or why we still remember what happened on d-day. you are what we keep coming back. you remind us that in the end, human destiny is not determined by forces beyond our control. you remind us that our future is not shaped by mere chance or circumstance. our history has always been the sum total of the choices made and the actions taken by each individual man and woman. it has always been up to us. you could have done what hitler believed he woul

outflank the german position in france. at that point the allies are in the campaign they want, especially the americans. it is a mobile campaign, heavily mechanized and dependent upon vehicles, which the u.s. army was the most mechanized in the world at that time. designed to fight, slash and maneuver. sour seeing that by august of 1944. then paris is liberated which is a great political moment for the allies. and the whole advance was just rolling across france. the germans are in retreat. there is a lot of excitement that the world could be over by christmas. but this is too good to be true because of supply issues. the soviets had run that supply issues the farther they advanced in poland, parts of the balkans and the western allies had the same issue once began to advance across france. they had the material but they couldn't get it several hundred miles to the east where it needed to go. so, by the fall of 1944 the germans were able to recover, lick their wounds, set up fret strong defenses and stalemate the war on th

speaker, the franc's inquiry was a report done without having an interim report. the opposition asked for a frank style inquiry and it will look at the run-up to, the conflict itself, and the reconstruction and issues about reconstruction efforts. i think that's a comprehensive agreement that will take time, but it has to be done in the best possible way. i think he will accept if the committee needs the time to do it, should be able to have the time to do it. this is a full report on which we want to learn lessons for the future. that's the issue. what lessons can learn for the military, our diplomacy, and for country's reputation abroad for the future. that is that the essence of what we're doing. >> this inquiry is part of a process of holding the executive to count. this house is -- this house has mechanisms of holding executives to count. any members of the foreign affairs committee will experience the limitations of select committees holding the account. i find it extremely difficult to accept as a member of parliament why we're giving privileges to people o

but jefferson was most sympathetic to france and it took him a long time to become disabused of france. and adams, during that time, exercise a kind of diplomacy that kept the country out of war. this was the end of the 1790s. his administration. jefferson and his party would have gone to war against either france or england. it was touch and go because both of them were stopping american ships on the high seas. and so adams wanted to pursue a policy of getting peace at any cost because he said this nation is in no position to have another war so soon after the revolution. we couldn't sustain another war. so there were different -- that is of the major reason for the breach between them. but jefferson also thought that adams was exercising too much power as president and wanted a strong federal government and he wanted a weak federal government. what jefferson did was, first of all, wrote a letter to thomas thank you had written a book about the french revolution, and jefferson's letter of sympathy for thomas spain got a tended to the introduction of the book when it was published in a

does france have something simmer to a freedom of information act?>> i had access to everything. 50 euros rule, archival. it's 100 years for censorship. [inaudible] >> he was really good. he really rocks. and you don't just believe everything they write. my late friend richard cobb said the police are writing what they want their superiors to hear so you have to kind of crosscheck everything. and another one went to london. i had british police also. i worked out there. yes, it's all there. it's all there. gets harder in modern period, but now the vichy syndrome now we can find out about collaboration and vichy was before you couldn't because of these types of laws. >> i was wondering if you look into sort of if there was any different reaction his actions as to more normal and arcus action like shooting mccammon or something? >> the debate isn't who you shoot but if you shoot anyone. they said we will organize, we will grow in strength or we will be numerous. those people are influenced. i believe a single spark, that's what the deed was. it will ig

marion park, a huge park, the statue of frances marion, a statue of john c. calhoun. >> there is a story, i don't know if it is true, about george washington having a lucid dream that he shared with lafayette that the united states was going to win the war of revolution and see the borders of the united states extend all the way to the pacific ocean. is that true or that ms. ology? >> i think that is just methodology. washington certainly looked to the west. he owned 60,000 acres, he had fought to win in the ohio country. generally the midwest, what would later be ohio, indiana, illinois, michigan, wisconsin, washington's certainly hope that the united states would gain that area even after yorktown. washington proposed to rauchambeau a joint invasion of canada, rights to congress, in his letter he talks about all that great land in canada, securing the frontiers, securing the american national security by keeping great brittan out of canada in the postwar years. most southerners, i think, they were quite interested in what they called the southwest, what we

they did in france. in france so many people died in 2003 because of lack of air conditioning. to be an american invention. we don't want this artificial air. you should see what air conditioners sales did between 2003 and 2006 in france. and the political process adapted. shelters were set up where you could go if it was hot that had this wonder called air conditioning. and mortality dropped dramatically. we saw the same thing in chicago. the great heat wave in the mid-1990s had 700 excess deaths. a similar heat wave took place and excess death toll was minimal. the city adapted. nobody -- elected officials do not do well when bodies pile up in the street when it gets hot. adaptation occurs of global warming. i have two more examples of simply not checking the facts. these two are shocking to me and will demonstrate the bipartisan nature of climate of the change. my favorite here is something called warming island. now, you may remember this story from couple of years ago. this is john collins rudolf writing in the "new york times" january, 16th, 2007. >> and it's a cult. type

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we stand on a lonely wind swept point on the northern shore of france. the air is soft but 40 years ago at this moment the air was dense with smoke and the cries of men and the air was filled with the crack of rifle fire and roar of cannon. at dawn on the morning of the 6th of june, 1944, 225 rangers drufrpd o jumped off a craft and their mission was one of the most differ and daring of the invasion. to climb these sheer and desolate cliffs and take out the enemy guns. the allies had been told some of the mightiest of the guns were here and they would be trained on the beachs to stop the allied advance. the rangers looked up and saw the enemy soldiers shooting down at them with machine guns and throwing grenades and the american rangers began to climb. >> 50 years ago the first allied soldiers to land here in norm day came not from the sea but from the sky. they were called path finders. the first paratroopers to make the jump. deep in the darkness they descended on these fields to light beacons for the airborne assault that would soon follow. now, near

go back to poland and after the american revolution, there was a quasiwore b20 united states and france because much like we have the somali pirates now trying to capture ships and commerce off the horn of africa the french started capturing american ships because they didn't want the americans to do business with the british. so comment jefferson needed someone who knew the french quite well and as kosciuszko was made and on every citizen of france during the french revolution, after the xyz affair jefferson sent kosciuszko back to try and help win the freedom of these american sailors. so, he did go back to paris and did help get the freedom of these soldiers. but while he was there, he also met napoleon bonaparte. napoleon had been running around with all of his different conquests. he had just returned from egypt, where he had stolen a bunch of artifacts and murdered a bunch of the egyptians in doing so and when he got back to paris the first person he wanted to see was kosciuszko. he walked into his room in paris and said i urgently wanted to meet the hero of the north. kosciuszko

the air accident and loss of air france remind us we cannot arrest on our laurels we must remain alert and diligent to our challenges. we have to work to enhance the air safety within the system. this is a business where one mistake is one mistake to many. senator dorgan, a senator demint and members of the committee this concludes my repaired days prepared remarks of a happy to answer any questions you may have. >> thank you very much for being with us will now hear from calvin scovel and you may proceed. >> chairman dorgan ranking member demand and members of the subcommittee we appreciate the opportunity to testify safety is a responsibility shared among faa aircraft manufacturers airports and together all four for a series of overlapping controls to keep the system safe. the past several years have said what of the safest periods however the tragic action and teach accident of 3407 underscores the need for constant diligence is among the part of all stakeholders last month and tsb held a preliminary hearing into the accident in which some evidence suggested pilot fatigue may have c

has problems, france has problems. every country has problems. but the relate it, we're spend -- but the reality is, we're spending almost twice as much as any other nation per capita on health care. we should be doing far better than every other country on earth and that is not the case. the reality is that we're spending close to $2.7 trillion on health care -- that's 18% of our g.d.p. and the skyrocketing cost of health care in america is unsustainable, both from a personal point of view and a macroecomonic point of view. at the individual level, the average american today is spending about $7,900 on -- because of medically related problems. stop and think. a million americans going bankrupt because they can't pay their medical bills. on a personal level, what does it mean? imagine dealing with scerks dealing with diabetes, dealing with heart disease, and at the same time having to stress out and worry about how you're going to pay the bill. i am not a doctor. but i can't help but believe that it doesn't make one's recovery process any better

. >> i have been in a power plant in france, this has convinced me of the same position that you have we can reprocess this and by the time that we do this, the physical waste is very small. i remember asking a fellow, when you get down to the final product, there is nothing left to do with the energy. energy, and he said they store it in the green building outback. i looked at the green building and i asked what they would do if it fell. he said they would build another one. there is no underground activity. it is very small impact. however, the reprocessing plant itself is not cheap. there are those who said that it is fairly heavily government subsidized to achieve that goal. can you give us something about the -- or any of you -- about the economics of the reprocessing that goes on where you take the spent fuel rods and put them back through, if you will, and get an enormous amount of energy the second time? of energy the second time? and then it with small globules that you put in the green building. that is a very significance capital investment -- significanct capital investmen

the united kingdom and france and the united states. we need to share this experience in order to prevent further cases of tragedy occurring. we will always be at your side. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> president obama and german chancellor merkel anbd their joint news conference earlier today. looking ahead, the president next goes to france with stops in normandy, of which the president will mark the 65th anniversary of d-day. the president started his trip and saudi arabia before visiting cairo, where he gave an address to the muslim world. he will show you that speech this sunday at 10:30 eastern. the speech continues to generate action -- continues to generate reaction. we got some analysis this morning on "washington journal." host: let me share with the many of the editorials. they call it the cairo speech. pointing out that words are important. mr. obama was right when he urged leaders to say those words in public, but words are not enough. mr. obama, who has been in office less than six months, has a lot to do to fulfi

poland and after the american revolution, there was a clause i war between the united states and france because much like we have a somali pirates trying to capture ships, commerce of the horn of africa the french started capturing ships, american ships because they didn't want the americans to do business with the british, and so jefferson need someone who knew the french well and as kosciuszko was made an honorary citizen of france during the revolution after the xyz jefferson sent kosciuszko to try to free, when the freedom of these american sailors. and so he did go back to paris and he did help get the freedom of the soldiers. but while he was there he also met napoleon bonaparte. napoleon had been running around with all these different conquests and he just returned from egypt where he stole a bunch of artifacts and murdered a bunch of egyptians in doing so, and when he got back to paris the first person he wanted to see was kosciuszko and he walked into his room in paris and said i urgently wanted to meet the hero of the north and kosciuszko replied i'm happy to see the conquero

the same that they have in france and canada and cuba. we have the higher infant mortality rate than cuba does. >> how will a single pair plan remedy that? >> everyone will be on a single playing field. >> john, in new york city. what do you think? >> good morning thank you for c-span. the debate of healthcare is all over. nobody really talks about what prevention actually means. that is really what are we putting into our bodies. you think about all the packaged and processed foods. why would i pay for other people's habyits of not taking care of their bodies. >> thanks for your call. from democrats. what's your point? >> di definitely support single payer. it's an important thick that all the people ask themselves. which is more important? healthcare for people in this country or profits for insurance companies? if we could cut 30% off the cost of our healthcare, because they are draining off 30% of every dollar in our system. the worst part about it is it is self per pet ue waiting. the insurance companies can put under their healthcar

there were big time strikes in the town in the south of france with a great socialist on the 31st of july in 1914 lived. they found a package and i guess one of these bonds they should have been more careful about the white powder that was falling out of the package. there are two kinds of bombs. dynamite leveled the playing field. in the way that roadside bombs leveled the playing field now. invented by nobel of the nobel prize in 1865 and the others were irreversible bomb, you could buy chemicals together and they blow upon the table so they found this bomb in 1892 in november and they carry it downstairs, put it down, they notice that there was powder dripping out but they called the policeman and said we had better carry to the police station. it is still there and then go in and poppa down on the table and it blows up and their legs and arms sadly are everywhere, five policemen are butchered. emile left for london the next day, this is november 1892, his first attack, and he was on the list of suspects, was his brother. but they said he could not have done it even though he wrot

the plutonium that results from the reprocessing and france is not classified as weapons grade. >> okay. >> but that's the reason we don't reprocess it is because jimmy carter said the consequence would be weapons grade plutonium, so the americans are not going to reprocessed. and thereby, he forced the overseas and everybody else was way ahead of us on a technology we developed. >> sir, i would definitely agree that that was the public face of it much in the same way that three mile island was the public face of the demise of the new build in this country. but if you go back and look at the other factors that went into it, you had several attempts to build commercial reprocessing facilities at the time. frankly, the nrc for perhaps good reason to change the rules on them in midstream. by the way, you have to go back and reconfigure. that added precipitously to the cost. simultaneously, the overall economics began to fall out of the bottom, as we saw new plans go by the wayside. and it came to a point where just frankly was not, given that time, especially with ridiculously high interes

recently in france they, they enacted something we could call a three strikes kind of law which is if you are at home, wherever, and you download illegally, you get two warnings but the third time you're caught doing it, you are disconnected from the internet. and i think that sends a powerful message. and i think similarly there was a case recently, one in europe, against something called pirate bay. you know, there's a culture of people who kind of like to brag about being pirates, and there was a case, one that's being appealed, but it was a strong victory against this pirate bay web site. but this remains one of the biggest challenges to our industry and, frankly, to all creative industries, the fact that, you know, millions of people are able to download music and other, you know, films and television shows illegally and creators don't get paid, our song writers don't get paid, our arkansastists don't -- artists don't get paid, and it's created an incredibly difficult environment. you're watching an industry struggle through this whole period of transformation. >> host: but you t

>> what we found is there was a real commitment and priority in france, spain and japan. and the majority of upfront construction costs was born by the central government in these countries without the expectation that they would recoup these initial investments. and most of these countries, what they did was they build a initial trunk line in order to show success and then build upon it. the commitment followed with a significant amounts of money, and that model allowed them to begin initial construction relatively quickly than if they didn't have that large investment by the central governments. >> thank you. i'd like to ask you a question, mr. boardman, and hope that we can get a quick response. my understanding that foreign-owned manufacturers passenger cars, high-speed rail equipment are interested in competing for the $8 billion that are provided in the recovery act. what can we do to encourage more american companies to enter in the high-speed rail manufacturing market? >> mr. chairman, i was encouraged yesterday to see that in the field hearing that the d.n.i. had

down here, is the heat wave of 2006 in france, which i bet you didn't hear about.bout it. but, in fact, it was just about as warm as 2003. not enough people died to make headlines. here's the predicted warming. you can see the predicted warming in 2006 is just about the same as the predicted warming in 2003. a predicted number of deaths, i'm sorry and here are the observed number of deaths in 2003. what happened? people adapted. and they do it worldwide. they've been doing it in the united states. we in our cities, heat-related deaths have been declining for decades. heat waves are in our cities, the fewer people die. you know, we hear that it's the old and it's the infirm that die in a city in a heat wave. well, the places where the heat related deaths are tampa and phoenix. this is the oldest age distribution in the country. there is one city in the united states where heat-related deaths are going up. that's seattle. it has the youngest age distribution amongst population of cities that we looked at. but it also has the coldest summers. it's very clear where hea

and after the american revolution, there was a quasi war between the united states anm france because much like we have with the somali pirates trying to capture ships and commerce off the horn of africa and they captured american ships because they didn't want americans to do business with british. jefferson needed someone who knew well and kosciuszko was an honorary citizen during the french revolution, jefferson sent kosciuszko back to try to free, help win the freedom of these american sailors and so he help get the freedom of these soldiers but while he was there, he also met napoleon bonaparte. napoleon had been running around with all thighs different conquests. he had just returned from egypt where he'd stolen a bunch of artifacts. and murdered a bunch of egyptians in doing so, and when he got back to paris, the first person he wanted to see was kosciuszko and he walked into his room in paris and said i urgently wanted to meet the hero of the north. and kosciuszko replied, and i'm happy to see the conqueror of europe and the hero of the east but after talking for a while kosci

let me say as far as the franc inquiry is concerned it dealt with the run-up to the falklands war, what this inquiry does is deal with the run-up to the complex, the conflict itself and all issues of reconstruction after the conflict. i can't think of any set of events that can be excluded that are of importance. >> in the future of our relationship with the iraq and is highly surprising that we're dealing with in the your time and dealing not just with the run-up to the war but that conflict itself and the aftermath of the conflict that the inquiry will take time to interview witnesses, take time to take evidence in this report will be detailed. i have said and i repeat this, i have said that the report should be as comprehensive as is possible given the issues of national security involved. in other words, all but the most sensitive of information should be something that is reported to the house of commons and the lessons we are going to learn from the iraq events are going to be learn not just from the investigation but from the debates that was a place in this house when we receive

television production where we're the largest broadcaster in europe with brands like rtl and mc in france, channel 5 in great britain. we're very active in the magazine field, we're the largest magazine publisher in europe as well. tunnel -- we have a very large services company which provides all kind of media services from the reproductions of dvds, you know, all the way to printing of books to electronic payment services for google and microsoft and others. and then last but not least in the u.s. we have businesses such as random house which is the world's largest consumer book publisher based here in new york actually, and we have a number of printing and servicing concerns here in the u.s. and, of course, we have free mantle media which is one of the producers of "american idol" and other television shows here. so we have quite a spread of different media, and it's one of the larger media conglomerates in the world with north of $20 billion. >> host: and you're former executive vice president of random house. what kind of investments do you look for as president of bertelsmann media

france was facing the same decisions we were. they decided they did not want to be dependent upon foreign sources of energy anymore than we did. we have abundant supplies of coal and natural gas. they went the nuclear route. we have a complete government owned and regulated utility, it is easy to make those long-term decisions and stick with them. as mr. book talked about earlier, we allow the consumers to make the choice did we binge and purge and go from cheaper to more expensive. it is a very good. that the per kilowatt hour amortized is as cheap as anything. it brings about. that does not get talked about. one of the greatest policies we can look into is whether or not we can extend the life of the plants we have now. people talk about the efficiency being below hanging for its. those existing reactors are cash cows. the costs have been immortalized out. the costs are significantly cheaper than other fuel sources. the overall overhead for production is relatively cheap. it is obviously producing the zero commissions. -- is ob

france welcomes the idea that the council has given the committee that is in charge of monitoring the implementation that it has made it a panel of experts. this will be precious help to the presence of the council. it will enable us to do follow- up and assistance to those that he does. we must also draw lessons from this crisis for the future. i am thinking of the comprehensive test ban treaty, the usefulness of the detection systems are clear here. we must also work towards the rapid introduction of the treaty. we will be hosting a conference on october 14th on the treaty. i am also thinking about the upcoming treaty on the proliferation of nuclear weapons. we cannot forget the seriousness of the threat from proliferation. when we discuss increasing guarantees, we must consider states that may want to leave the tree. and we must call on north korea to take up the negotiations. they must make a strategic choice to reject once and for all its nuclear program, and to reestablish normal relations with its neighbors. its population will be the burst -- first to benefit from this. friend

news reported that airbus is seeking approximately $5 billion in launch aid from the governments of france, germany, spain, and the u.k., to now fund the develop must the airbus a-350 and the reports indicate that the deal could be completed within the month. well, madam president, if we want to keep a strong aerospace industry in america, we cannot let that happen. every time european governments underwrite airbus with subsidies, our american workers get pink slips. if we want to lead the world in commercial aerospace, our message to europe has to be strong and clear: no more illegal subsidies to prop up airbus and airbus has to compete in the market place just like everybody else. madam president, i am deemly troubled that airbus is considering pursuing, now, additional illegal trade-supporting subsidies that, in fact, have caused adverse effects on the american aerospace industry at the same time the european union is being sued in the world trade organization for those such practices. madam president, that's why i am writing to ambassador john bruten urging the e.u. to show they are se

recently in france, they enacted something that we could call a three strikes law. if you are at home and download illegally, you get to warnings. the third time you're caught, you're disconnected from the internet. i think that sends a powerful message. i think there was a case recently, one in europe against something called "pirate day. pete -- pirate bay. it was a strong victory against this website. this remains one of the biggest challenges to our industry, and to all creative industries. the fact that millions of people are able to download music and other films and television shows illegally, and traders do not get paid, artists did not get paid. it has created an incredibly difficult environment to struggle through this whole time of transportation. >> what is to prevent somebody from downloading in belgium right next door and send it over to somebody in france? with the internet so international, how you stop the file sharing? >> i believe what the french legislation is meant to do is to put pressure on local isp providers. i think that is a message that i

caller: in france. host: i have to admit, you are the first to pointed out. caller: that really irritated me. one of the rules of the flag is that it is not supposed to touch. it was the only one. there were three flags there. it was not just touching, there were three or 4 inches touching. host: this is the video that we have from yesterday. we will continue to watch it. it might have been in what was called the location inside. thank you for bringing that to our attention. we will go to atlanta next. should this deal between fiat and chrysler be blocked? ruth later ginsberg is fielding a question -- ruth ginsberg is feeling the question -- fielding the question. good morning. should this deal be block? caller: good morning. this deal, in my opinion, is a non issue. we have overlooked the source of the problem. trying to treat the symptoms. our main problem is that we have concentrated the source of this nation's power in the people who are supposed to be our employees. they are now dictating to employers will we are going to do. we have done that, in my opi

they show that the president who spoke these words was nicolas sarkozy of france. this is that the rebellion which is too soon to call a revolution is turning out to be the 3:00 a.m. phone call for mr. obama. as a french president shows up the american, his instinct in a crisis is turning out to be prescient. hear from "the washington post" -- we understand the reluctance to sound a tougher nut. however the crisis ends in may require rethinking of the ministrations strategy for iran. last couple of calls from an independent. caller: we had some very contentious calls that had to go all the way to the supreme court. i cannot imagine a foreign power getting involved in by- elections. we have a history weiran and we have installed the brutal dictator, the shah on those people. but we did not stop there. we gave iraq biological and chemical weapons to drop on iran, and they did, they used them. so why iran want our input -- and we probably have the cia working behind the scenes now. wish to leave people alone and let the mark up their own government and of their own wa