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from san bruno wayne friedman, abc 7 news. >> overseas in pakistan a grim first.hat may have been the first suicide bombing by a woman. at least 41 people were killed and dozens of others wounded in the attack. rescue workers rushed to the scene to help people at a nearby hospital. pakistani military officials say they threw hand grenades into the crowd and then blew he was up. twice claimed victory over the taliban and al-queda fighters. the bombing though seems to indicate this is not the case. in neighboring afghanistan a brief respite for u.s. troops. they may not be home for the holidays but that doesn't mean they still can't celebrate christmas. there's a christmas tree and a christmas turkey for all and a chance to just kick back. in iraq some troops had more solemn moments attending services at our lady of salvation church in baghdad. there was also a show of solidarity. 68 people were killed in an attack at that church back in october. a beaming president and first lady. >> merry christmas everybody. michelle and i just want to take a moment today to send

it was approved by judge paul friedman. i brought this decree or his opinion, excuse me, madam speaker, with me to the floor tonight. and if those might think -- and i say this is a modern day version of slavery reparations, i would point out that in the case, the first words in the opinion of judge paul friedman are this, 40 acres and a mule. 40 acres and a mule. madam speaker, he goes on to lament that he can't fix all of the wrongs that come out of slavery and the segregation in one civil rights suit. one can read between the lines that he's sorry that he can't fix it all, one can read between the lines that he may well be glad to hear a pigford two proposal come before him so he could ratify it once congress has appropriated an additional $1.15 billion. here is what judge friedman wrote about the pigford settlements, these $50,000 settlements that were paid out to black farmers for -- they had to meet four criteria. had to be african-american, they had to have farmed or wanted to farm, they had to have believed they wer

realizing it's really gone. >> wayne friedman, abc 7 news. >> othernews, work on that sewer line that ruptured in marin county is wrapping up but it turns out much more raw sewage spilled than anyone initially imagined. the total is nearing 3 million gallons. the general manager of the rock valley sanitary district blames wednesday's spill on a 30-year-old sewer pipe that failed. another 840,000 gallon spill is blamed on construction debris that clogged the line. >> rags were in there. we have large pieces of drive, black asphalt drive. piece -- big big chunks. >> jmp construction of south san francisco say it's cleaned and video inspected the line prior to being placed in service in august. some place the blame on the district for turning off a pumping station just before storm water filled the pipe. there's gift-giving to those you know and gift-giving to those who don't. charity was given way up along with o'doul's. lillian kim has the story. >> the toys kept coming. some chose to drop them off by foot others took advantage of this curbside drop-off. >> little boys and i thought it

wayne friedman tells us about a local company and the sweet taste of success even in hard times. >> it has old-fashioned products and old-fashioned employee values. >> i am a new by. >> so says cheryl seoul, the sales manager. she's been with the company 14 years and out there on the is assembly line, only a mere 35. >> what did the recession do to this place? >> a bit of a bite. >> just hours cut back at worst. in the time of economic woes, this would be a story of economic wii. she's hired 8,000 seasonal employees this year. >> i need it because christmastime and i have children so i needed it. >> she's been out of work six months. look at her now. >> i have a number of employees that started out seasonal and went and became management. >> this is the time of year when production is a dizzy pace. 7,000 pounds of chocolate for a million pieces of candy every day. americans and their sweet tooth. >> what goes in the center, the purchasing power goes bananas. >> if you want to go old school? the bonbon room. >> the most trusted and tested employees. >> how long have you been working her

abc 7's wayne friedman was asked to show us some of his favorite stories of 2010. one at a concord drive-in last summer. >> in an era of digital bits, multichannel surround sound and 24/7 streaming, let's not underestimate the safe and seductive lure of going retro. >> how are you tonight? >> they are entering a time warp in a thriving antique in concord. >> we came here, tried the projector and still works. we thought what the heck, let's try it again. >> no, no, no. no experience like the drive-in. once you've gone to the drive-in, you get hooked on the drive-in. >> if it's retroin looks, it's really retroin staff. >> linda went on her first date here, then her husband proposed to her here. >> did anything else begin here you want to talk about? >> no! (laughter) >> it's true she did go into labor watching a movie here and now her little girl has grown up to be the manager. >> at home she's mom and at work for the sake of work we have to say first names. >> when she started, i was her mom. >> drive-in movies peaked in the 1950s and '60s. there were 272 screens in

wayne friedman has the story. >> for as long as science has study life, one combination of elements isnsistent. carbon, hydrogen, sulfur. the building blocks of life. you'll find it in every person, every bug, every plant. >> all life has a system. that's all we know. >> or all she said we knew until dr. wolf simons research paper went public. now add arsenic to the mix. she discovered a microthat replaces phosphorus with it to use arsenic to make dna, facts and proteins. it's one of a kind. >> a colony, individual colonies. >> of? >> of microbes that can live on extremely lie levels of arsenic. >> this is a subtle but major discovery, one that will alter science according to her colleagues. >> is she on to something? >> she is. very much so. >> if it's proved and really shown to be a distinct form of exchange of energy, then it's really another form of life. so we're looking at something as alien as if it had arrived here on a meteorite. >> in fact, dr. wolf simon found the microbes without ever leaving the state of california. >> if you want to look for something interesting on earth

from concord, wayne friedman, abc 7 news. >> a bay area band that's been making great music for decadesforms tonight. ♪ >> up next, don sanchez sits down with members of tower of power for a look ♪ [ female announcer ] yoplait's real fruit and the goodness of dairy... gives you a little slice of happy. and happiness comes in 25 delicious flavors. explore them all. yoplait. it is so good. now the yoplait you love in a new four pack. try it today. >> the east bay band tower of power with sold-out gigs at yoshis in oakland. a true suck sells story in its 42nd year. don sanchez sat down with three of the musicians and gives us a taste of that east bay sound. ♪ >> what is hip? surely tower of power forever. same song in 1977. faces may change over the years, but this band has been together for 42 years. mick joined in 1968 when they were called the gotham city crime fighters. >> batman and robin. our first single was who stole the batmobile. it was not a big hit. >> gillette's original drummer and they met at yoshi. the neighborhood is familiar. >> we've played up the street at beyond broadw

just a lot of work. >> from the rapidly disappearing trans bay transit terminal, wayne friedman, abce complaints because it doesn't shield people from the weather like the rain we're getting ready to have. >> we had a bit of a break yesterday. not too many showers. mainly in the morning but today the opposite. we've got the break now and by later on this afternoon steady rain, gusty winds along the coast. a live look outside. high definition emeryville. still the numbers mild due to the south wind but that's going to create gusty conditions later on. i'll tell you about it coming up. >> also coming up, san >> also coming up, san francisco's union street, the - hello! - ha! why don't you try a home cooked meal... with yummy hamburger helper? oh! tada! fantastically tasty, huh? ummm, it's good. what would you guys like? hamburger helper. what?! one pound... one pan... one tasty meal! with not having enough food. that's why i've teamed up with feeding america and hamburger helper®. when you buy hamburger helper® you can help feeding america deliver a meal to a local food bank. visit thi

here's what we know. >> anderson, let me jump in here. >> judge friedman put in his decision, he wrote 40 acres and a mule in his decision. i'm not making that up, that's the code words for reparations. and he also said -- >> i've read that decision, and he just -- sir, i've read that decision and he just used that in a recitation about the history of the interaction between african-americans and the u.s. government and the usda. he wasn't equating 40 acres of mule to this program. >> let me say, anderson, he laments that -- all the wrongs in one civil rights case. >> i want dr. boyd to be able to respond. >> let me talk here. the farmers deserve this restitution. it's long, long, long, long overdue for the black farmers. this is not a rush to judgment. mr. king has known about this issue. i have testified before him many, many, many times before. and this case is about african-american farmers who farmed or attempted to farm who was discriminate the against by the united states department of agriculture and i can tell but discrimination because i had a county official to spit on me an

brought before the board earlier this year when the excellent middle east reporter, norah barros friedmanprogram had her hours cut in half and subsequently had to leave kpfa because she couldn't live on a halftime income. so it's things like that that convince me that the board ought not to take sides in this particular controversy. i would say, too, as regards to the language of the resolution, the layoffs are creating conditions that undermine the democratic spirit. i have no idea what's meant by that. this is a labor management issue. it's between management and the c.w.a. by the way, let me add that the majority of workers at kpfa are unpaid. i'm unpaid. the vast majority of us are unpaid. the c.w.a. didn't want us -- the prior union represented paid and unpaid. so i would urge you to not to vote on this, or at least wait until you've p -- you have a chance to get a full set of opinions on both sides on this issue. thank you. >> i'm going to ask you to vote against the kpfa resolution and i'm particularly going to ask you to vote against it in steve connally's memory. if he were here,

>> you print more -- this is milton friedman's famous -- in the end, helicopter theory. be inflation because one of the things you have to do, one of the things you most have to do is the fundamental problems, consumers have so much debt. they're crushed under this debt. they can't start spending again until they're debt free. inflation is a tax on creditors and a way to say, everybody is going to have a debt reduction and everyone who holds cash is going to contribute 3%, 4% of their cash and everybody who owes cash is going to gain a 3%, 4% benefit per year. we'll do that until the debt levels are down. >> not to make this a -- did you think the qe ii idea of the fed basically printing enough money to buy back bonds, was that a good idea? >> that was indispensable and may have to do it again. >> it's not enough basically. >> you are sounding kind of like a democrat. >> david is sort of fair about this and analytical about it. milton friedman who i debated once was certainly not a democrat. certainly not a progressive. he was right about the uses of monetary policy. the

next, mark friedman. mr. friedman is thus the co-founder and ceo of pacific ventures. next is marcia brown who i've known for many years, very active, very helpful, dedicated servant, public service to people in montana. she is currently the chief operating officer of the national center for appropriate technology in butte montana, sometimes we say butte america. next is maestas with of the rand foundation. and finally is bonnie shelor, is that correct? >> it is. >> senior vice president for human resources at the health system -- >> [inaudible] >> okay, we are not in france. [laughter] i would ask each of you to summarize your statements about five minutes roughly and your statements, prepared statement will be automatically included in the record. mr. goss, thanks for coming. >> thank you, mr. chairman, ranking member, senator bunning. this is a great pleasure to talk to you today and i just also want to see it is an immense pleasure for many years now to work with a fantastic staff that you all have on developing material for these hearings and legislation and every

. >> rose: that's sort of tom friedman's argument about the world is flat. >> yeah, and, you know, the west consumers are no longer consuming. the west consumers are saving. the demand is not there. the west financial system is no longer extending the credit it was once able to extend. so we are seeing a change in the way the world really-- a really mammoth change in the way the world works. >> rose: we have also seen reports that asian neighbors of china are nervous. should they be nervous? all near neighbors of great rising powers are always nervous. this was true of everyone around germany in the 19th century. it's true of everyone around china this century. >> rose: does that mean that in the middle east we should say to iran, we recognize iran. we recognize your sphere of influence in the region, so, therefore, we should-- >> they have been-- iran hasn't got the rising power g.d.p. status of china or, say, japan, before it, as the united states had as it was rising in the 19th century when it was being recognized by europe. i mean -- >> you also have an interesting argument to mak

the second thing is milton friedman proved and got a nobel prize for proving it was the federal reserve, not someone else that was response you believe for the great depression, the huge bubble that popped and exploded on the american economy after the roarin'20s. >> t secretary of the treasury is tim geithner. tim geithner and bernanke are the best of pals, even though neither one of them is really -- really moves in social circles in washington, d.c. it's kind of an odd couple, but they have coupled, and they are the ones that are really engineering u.s. finance and economic policy. does that make you comfortable? >> it sure does, compared to the alternatives. tim geithner was involved with the federal reserve bank of new york, which is how he worked with bernanke. but i will say this. the federal reserve system saved this economy, it saved the financial system in the last several years. the whole banking system was frozen for various reasons, including a huge amount of bad loans. you couldn't get money into our economy through the banking system because they wouldn't make loans, simp

. >> what used to be a site of play land at ocean beach in san francisco, wayne friedman, abc 7 news. >> only attraction like that that disappeared in the sands of time, the drive-in. >> i missed that. >> with the families. >> exactly. what a moment. >> it was fun. >> it was. >> i can remember ocean beach when it used to be so much fun. all the playlands and activities. >> she only saw pictures. >> yeah! i'm trying to figure out what days that was. >> what year it was. >> 2001? >> oh, yeah. (laughter) >> good answer. i like that. >> i'm here to help. >> yes, you are. ballmer peak and the berkley hills are looking across the city. and bay bridge you can see still lit up and now we're so -- the ferry building is still there. that will put the holiday season in mind. and live doppler 7. we have some clouds moving in and some light rain already. this is just the storm before the storm. so not a lot of rain in there but most in the north bay. we see a little down as far as novato and then up the highway into ukiah and over into mendocino county. a little light rain so still just now starti

>> yeah, andrew jarecki, who directed "capturing the friedmans," which is a great documentary. >> jimmy made a documentary before he cast the movie, right? or showed you guys -- >> yeah, no, he made it -- kind of during his research and writing the script, he interviewed her family members and their neighbors and anyone who was willing to talk about what had happened and so, it was about 20 minutes but it was great research for us and it informed him and all the people in the documentary were for the script as well. >> jimmy: and to even make it -- even more freaky and creepy, there was a rumor that the guy -- the real guy that it's based on, saw that you guys were making a movie and visited the set and you didn't know he was there? >> yeah. >> jimmy: what? [ audience groans ] >> there was a -- yeah, it was weird. there's this whole -- >> jimmy: he's not here, is he? [ laughter ] >> you never know. >> jimmy: are you in the audience? >> oh god. >> jimmy: wait, i think i know who he is. he's the guy who tries to start a wave and no one wants to do it. [ laughter ] have you met him? there

>>reporter: from mon0lake, wayne friedman abc 7 news. >> when you watch television there is a notable, noticeable difference when the commercials come on. i have heard complaints about this many times. they are louder. >> flame grilled feast. >> but not for long. congress today passed a bill to ensure the commercials are the same volume as the programming you are watching. it was written by palo alto congresswoman who says it's the most popular bill in her 18 years in congress. it's expected to be signed that law by about the president. >> we have to shout more. >> we have the forecast. >> there's rain around the bay area right now but light rain. hears live view from the high definition east bay camera at emeryville and appears to be pretty calm and dry in emer emeryville right now but we have had rape scattered about the basement light rain and showers so far and could be wet pavement. here's live doppler lots of green and moisture in the atmosphere and some is actually hitting the ground no now. we haven't had report of heavy rain. most of the rain is confined to the north bay for

friedman in the new york times keeps banging on this nail, saying the us--and you could include canadaad it easy for so long that we're not worried about innovation anymore. we're not worried about hard work. we somehow think it's all going to come our way. meanwhile, these other countries--india and so on-- are busy, busy, busy. is that your impression? - um... i think it's an oversimplification, but i think for sure we have been lured into a false sense of security. innovation, tenacity, sacrifice--these are the things that build great economies. i think other countries are at a stage in their development where that's perhaps more the rule than the exception, but i would never underestimate the north american entrepreneur, and i believe that, as i said earlier, with the right kind of resources, you will see a lot of great innovation coming out of north america. - and would you also say that the cold shower on wall street didn't last long? they didn't get punished very much. that's a feeling that's out there, and they're back to partying. that's not very reassuring. what's your take o

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more on today's take down from abc 7 wayne friedman. >> on the theory that what goes up must eventually come down here is today's first love tap on bay area landmark. now another right on the numbers. >> we are taking down a piece of history and making way for the next chapter. >>reporter: the piece of history is a transit center which came to be the terminal for the bay bridge. in the 1940's 400,000 people would pass through here any given da day. about on this day however considerably fewer stood around to watch. >> i was kind of avoided it. >>reporter: how come. >> kind of smelly. disgusting building inside. >>reporter: so you feel sentimental watching it go down brick by brick. >> no. no. i love demolition. >>reporter: based on that reaction they should have been cheering for bob to wield the light touch with the ball. can you put it open a spot. >> pretty much. >>reporter: who throws the tighter ball, you or tim. >> good question. >>reporter: the new building they say will be an architect 1 democrats and republicans when it opens in 20 17. high speed train and future people where a

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judge friedman estimated the average debt would be $100,000. and the debt forgiveness at $100,000 would automatically send a check to the i.r.s. for $25,000 to pay the tax liability that comes from the debt forgiveness. it would become a tax liability for those individuals.giveness. his estimate, $187,000 500 per settlement believing that the applicants or at least presuming to believe that the pigford settlement were applicants were engaged in programs. now i can tell you whether we can get a deesnt insight into whether there is actual farming that are ts predominantly part of these pigford settlements, the 14,000 that have received their settlements and go back and look at all the data and check their address, their contact information, the amount of the check, how much got sent to the i.r.s. we can look down through there and we can see what percentage of them had debt with the usda that was written off and we can take a look at the addresses and see if some of those who have analyzed those more deeply than i, if you take out a map and start

and when i read about the lotteries, tom friedman wrote the article about the lottery and i read it in "the new york times", i thought this is it, this is a metaphor. it wasn't spoused to be about charters although that is what some of the critics talk about. but it is about kids shouldn't have to win a chance at a great education. >> rose: we conclude this evening with clay christensen, the popular professor at harvard business school talking about life and teaching. >> then i asked the student that you also need to come to class having prepared to show clay christensen what's wrong with his theory. and as i try to engage them not just to tell me what it does, but what it doesn't do, i walk out thinking holy cow, i can't believe they paid me to learn from my students. >> rose: exactly. shelton, guggenheim, christensen. when we continue. >> funding for charlie rose was provided by the following. meals for the needy. or maybe you want to help when the unexpected happens. whatever you want to do, members project from american express can help you take the first step. vote, volunteer, or

[applause] >> we are pleased to introduce helen friedman the national executive director of americas for a safe israel. helen will discuss the arab efforts to rewrite jewish history in the middle east. [applause] >> thank you. it's such a pleasure to be here. i want to thank joe kausman to participate in this very important conference. i want to say of all the speakers who have been so impressive so far, the one i guess i shouldn't say this -- that i like the most was him because he said israel is strong, israel is powerful, israel will live. it gives us courage and hope. unfortunately, when we listen to the talks about the hatred, the anti-semitism, the anti-zionism and all the rest of it and all of it is true and the threats and the horrors that we're facing are all true, still, it's wonderful to have that positive attitude of strength and growth. and israel is the miracle country. it is and by the way, i happen to know one of those 55,000 family members, a friend of mine, yes. anyway, here we are at the pro israel conference and the name "pro-israel" is well chosen because we're a

i'm tom friedman from the new york -- "new york times" and i want to welcome all of you here. again, i want to thank our touracos for getting us together. [applause] this is a great weekend. to martin ended and the brookings institution, thank you as well. [applause] we have a really great panel this evening to talk about issues of politics and culture and society between the united states and israel. to my right is a philosopher who teaches at the hebron university at nyu. -- hebrew university at nyu. next to him is a columnist extraordinary. man to his right is david collins from the "new york times" and to his right is a man from the new republic. i have been having conversations for the last few minutes. i'm struck by the number of israelis who say, what is this tea party? and i'm struck at the number of americans who asked me, tell me about lieberman. it really strikes me as a moment that wear for a first time in a long time there are new leaders crashing to leadership in both countries will not only do not know each other, but are really unknown to their respective allie

i respect tom friedman very much, but i respect tom jefferson even more. thomas dickerson, that would be. he wrote, -- thomas jefferson, that would be. he wrote, "i find that the harder i work, the more luck i seem to have." in many cases, the counter- terrorism community helps to make its own luck. now, again, we have not always performed in the counter- terrorism community as well as we liked or as well as we should, that was certainly the case on 12/25. but the system has helped us reduce the likelihood of some of the tax being successful. no single tool, intelligence, law enforcement, defensive measures, offensive measures, will stop all of the attacks, but as a whole they create a system that reduces the likelihood of terrorist attacks, and that is the luck that we are helping to make. we did the work behind the scenes. it did that reduce the likelihood that his bomb would be effective? in my view, it did. the times square bomber was not found ahead of time, but did we put tools in place that would reduce the likelihood that his bomb would work? absol

to think, was there anything you can remember from the university of chicago in any of the milton friedmanfill up on them thanks to her advice. absolutely. anything that will get you green in 2011, i will eat some. >> people uscabbage. can you use that? >> cabbage or kale, they kind of greens, supposed to be looks like money so it will bring you money. >> you was a bit worried about this prune cake here. >> what do you think? >> actually pretty good, really good. it really is. >> added benefit, you know, keeps you regular, you know. >> you call this from now on uncle larry's prune cake. >> that's what i call it, uncle larry's favorite prune cake. >> it's great. >> new year's time for remembrance, too. >> like a spice cake. >> yeah. >> except with the prunes in it. >> the grains, the prunes, black-eyed pace. >> no better way to start the new year. have a great day, everybody. your local news is next! ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, san jose's animal care center needs your help. right now, the r- capacity... >>> good morning. it's 8:55. time for news headlines. >>> san jose animal shelter is over capacity

. >> my name is richelle friedman. i'm with the coalition of human needs. i am deeply concerned with the fiscal commission did in relationship to domestic discretionary spending which has been very, very small contributor to the situation where we are in. i know the first round the commission said let's get back to '08, which is a deep cut by 15, but in the second round at the behest of republicans it was moved to 2013. at the rate we are going if we don't do the appropriations bills in this lame duck, there's going to be a push by republicans in congress to go to a late next year. i very much appreciate that mr. heflin has come out strongly think that domestic discretionary is deeply cut in the fiscal commission package. on the other hand, there seems to be little little push to do speak with her to talk about taxes and not spending. do you have a question? >> yes. it seems to be very, very little impetus on a side, particularly of house republicans to do anything that calls for a tax increase. so i want to know what people think as were talking about well

i don't often agree with the columnist by the name of thomas friedman. but he has a column today that i think everyone in our collective body should read. it's aptly titled "still digging." here he writes, "given where we need to go, this tax deal" -- this tax deal, scholarship deal, unemployment deal, tax holiday deal -- "is just another shot of morphine to a country that needs to do things that are big and hard and still only wants to do things that are easy and small." he concludes, "economics is not war. it can be win-win. so it can be good for the world if china is doing better, but it can't be good for america if every time we come to a hard choice we borrow more money from a country that is not just outsaving and outhustling out us but is also starting to outeducate us. we need a plan." i couldn't agree with him more. i was part of the deficit commission. have taken a lot of criticism for saying weengdzed to have that debate on the -- we needed to have that debate on the senate floor. still think we need to have that debate on the senate floor. bu

cynthia friedman lost $3 million and they join me from new jersey. you two were victims of bernie madoff. what does this do for you? two years and a couple of days after you first got the news that you had been fleeced of money that you had invested with him for years. how do you feel today? >> good afternoon. we're gratified that the trustee had the settlement, suing up to $80 billion, but what doesn't give -- what the press does not cover is the fact that there are hundreds of innocent parties who are old, impoverished, can't afford lawyers who are terrified currently getting sued by the trustee, and this is not fair. the fact of the matter is that the trustee has now recovered or will shortly about $9 billion from various parties and the allowed claims are only $6 billion. so what's happening to the other $3 billion? is it really necessary to sue people in this particular case who can't afford to pay any money in just because they're innocent victims and their own particular situations led to this? >> we should clarify this for our viewers, there

and fortunately we are supporting many of the people to support terrorist groups and i think tom friedman was exactly right in his op-ed that we have to break our dependency on overseas oil. finally we have to develop more expansive but tailored local initiatives in concert with hope nations -- host nations to destroy the al qaeda entities that have taken root in yemen, somalia and elsewhere. and finally we have to recognize that only by destroying the organization's leadership, which i think we are doing an effective job of doing, but unfortunately that is only one dimension are one side of the coin. what we have to do with equal capacity, with similar resources and with similar priorities is also disrupt the continued resonance of al qaeda's message. only by doing both of those things will we be triumphant against this enemy. thank you very much. [applause] >> thank you very much for his. we are now going to move to the next panel and the panels will come up and i encourage you during a coffee break if you have questions for bruce to try to grab him and talk to him for that excellent pr

i don't know how many of you read tom friedman's brilliant memo the other day in "the new york times" posing as if it were a wikileaks producer of information from the chinese embassy back to home, but you have to read it. it's brilliant and it tells a story of how we are sort of shooting ourselves in the foot and you may say to yourselves why is this relevant to what you're trying to say about the dialogue? i'll tell you why, because china makes its own assessments about us just as we make them about them. if one of their assessments is that the united states is sliding in this direction rather than that, that will have an impact on leverage and on cooperation and on the future. that's why i introduced legislation to provide visas to immigrants, to immigrants who have a significant amount of capital, and entrepreneurs whose start-up ideas have the ability to be able to create new jobs and attract u.s. investment. so this is critical for us. in addition, we also need to create new and strong incentives for the building blocks of economic competitiveness. roads, simple things, roads an

i'm tom friedman from the "new york times". you all here, and first of all again thank our terrific hosts for getting this together. it's been one great event after another, so thank you so much. [applause] it's a great weekend, and to martin and dick and the brookings institution, thank you all as well, so great to be here. [applause] so we have a really great panel, i think, this evening to talk about issues of politics, culture, and society between the united states and israel. to my right is marsha, a philosopher and teaches at the university and nyu. next to him is a columnist extraordinary. to his right is my colleague david brookes from the "new york times". i've been just having a little side conversation with people for the last few minutes and yesterday, age i'm struck at the number of israelis that ask me, what's this tea party? i'm struck at the number of americans who ask me, tell me about lieberman, and it straiks me as a moment -- it striebs me as a moment for the first time in a long time, there's new elites cra

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and fortunately we are supporting many of the people to support terrorist groups and i think tom friedman was exactly right in his op-ed that we have to break our dependency on overseas oil. finally we have to develop more expansive but tailored local initiatives in concert with hope nations -- host nations to destroy the al qaeda entities that have taken root in yemen, somalia and elsewhere. and finally we have to recognize that only by destroying the organization's leadership, which i think we are doing an effective job of doing, but unfortunately that is only one dimension are one side of the coin. what we have to do with equal capacity, with similar resources and with similar priorities is also disrupt the continued resonance of al qaeda's message. only by doing both of those things will we be triumphant against this enemy. thank you very much. [applause] >> thank you very much for his. we are now going to move to the next panel and the panels will come up and i encourage you during a coffee break if you have questions for bruce to try to grab him and talk to him for that excellent pr

[applause] >> we are pleased to introduce helen friedman the national executive director of americas a safe israel. helen will discuss the arab efforts to rrite jewish history in the middle east. [applause] >> thank you. it's such a pleasure to be here. i want to thank joe kausman to participate in this very important conference. i want to say of all the speakers who have been so impressive so far, the one i guess i shouldn't say this -- that i like the most was him because he said israel is strong, israel is powerful, israel will live. it gives us courage and hope. unfortunately, when we listen to the talks about the hatred, the anti-semitism, the anti-zionism and all the rest of it and all of it is true and the threats and the horrors that we're facing are all true, still, it's wonderful to have that positive attitude of strength and growth. and israel is the miracle country. it is and by the way, i happen to know one of those 55,000 family members, a friend of mine, yes. anyway, here we are at the pro israel conference and the name "pro-israel" is well chosen because we're all sup