for the achiever in us all. ♪ >>> general colin powell and a host of african-american doctors gatheredrt of a national effort to reduce heart attack and cardiovascular diseases. >> reporter: some of the countries best cardiovascular surgeons gathered this weekend to bring better health care to minorities including women. >> women may not have chest pains, shortness of breath, abdominal discomfort, neck discomfort. >> reporter: they are members of the association of black cardiologists or abc for short and they gathered for the first are gala at national harbor saving hearts for generations was the theme. . >> reporter: local business

everybody and yes yes the problem is that until once again ideally a decade ago china was there with general powell one. fast draw in contra but still mainly involved in this the mystical problem in the recent decade china became the second global economy and the situation in china affects the rest of the water this is a new situation this is a new situation for the world this is a new situation for chinese leaders and they have to exhaust their domestic anomic policy because previously they were making decisions taken into account all the domestic interests now days they have to recognize that situation has changed and any decision in china affects the rest of the world affairs. labor effects employment effects the growth of the quantum in new york when asia in africa in north america and china needs to become the one of the call police is in the global game so and there is of pause in favor of all chinese comparable populations of business or the government well the chinese themselves seem to be rather skeptical about the real motives of the us pressure on china here's a quote by being a director

. >>> general colin powell and a host of african-american doctors gathered this weekend as part of al effort to reduce heart attacks and cardiovascular disease. >> bruce johnson emceed the gala and shared his personal experiences as a heart patient. >> reporter: some of the best cardiologists gathered at national harbor this weekend. their mission to bring better health care to minorities including women. >> women may not always have chest pain. they can have other symptoms like shortness of breath, abdominal, neck discomfort. >> reporter: they are members of the association of black cardiologist or abc for short an they gathered for the first ever gala at national harbor, saving hearts for generations was the theme. >> 6 million people -- [ inaudible ] >> reporter: local businesswoman sheila johnson was honorary chair. >> we have to be able to build in exercise, whether it means carrying the groceries up three flights of stairs we can park further away. we can decide to bike to work. >> reporter: an estimated 1 million people will have heart attacks this year, half of them will die

ourselves when's it going to be over when will the generals finally stand up and i say i watched general colin powell meet the press a few weeks ago say that he himself is is one of the few generals who are kind of curious to what the overall goal is even though even the former joint chiefs of staff commander doesn't have an idea we're doing so i think that this is overall a situation to say it's time to get out it's time to bring the troops home it's trying to bring the war to an end and all people have interests in mind it's costing us something like four to six billion dollars a week and it's only going to get more expensive as the years go on. i want to thank you very much for joining us and you know you say that we only we only hear like we're thing of the generals perspective and for some reason that's not something that our media questions and often i think that we need to have more questions more answers being given to us as to why almost ten years and we're still in this war thanks so much. thanks for having on the program. all right still to come tonight the online world can be harsh but on

of republicans support it we have conservative leaders that has that support the dream act general colin powell we have former governor huckabee we have faith groups educate education groups that are all in lock so what is it about it that's holding him back i mean how do you feel about calling it extreme being called an extremist organization well you know i think when you're looking using the when you're losing the argument you simply resort to tactics by using labels like a racist and extremist let's focus on the i don't think he's losing but the dream act is losing so tell me exactly dream and who is working against that if the majority of americans can in fact support what the majority of americans do not support a path to citizenship which is really you know why because the amnesty is fundamentally unfair to those who have who have come here illegally it rewards those who have broken the law which the dream act would most certainly do it. they were going to remove the movie ok went on yet you made the same point earlier after he's holding . himself there are some of the american opinion i

retired general and secretary of state colin powell was among the recipients [ inaudible ] you see sopeople coming across the stage who have overweight problems. >> reporter: bruce johnson emceed it and shared the story of his own heart attack and subsequent recovery. you may know that your nose plays a big role in your ability to taste, but now researchers at the university school of medicine say receptors for bitter tastes are also found in the muscles of the lungs and airways and their report finds the muscles relax when they are exposed to bitter taste and that discovery they say may lead to better treatments for diseases like asthma. today republicans and democrats are focusing on the smallest state in the union, that story is coming up. one of the best known key resorts in the rocky mountains is open for the 2010/2011 seasons. >>> let's see who's sell britting birthdays today -- [ electronic humming ] [ announcer ] complete opposites... in complete harmony. introducing the sport hybrid. [ engine revving ] ♪ [ dance rock ] ♪ hey ♪ [ woman vocalizing ] the combination only honda c

shovel the pro-democracy activist and a tree critic was sentenced in general to an eleven year term for inciting the subversion of state powell. the russian rocket with the u.s. astronaut and two russian cosmonauts on board has blasted off successfully for the international space station it's the first flight for the soyuz spacecraft and it's due to reach its destination in a couple of days. was at the baikonur cosmodrome for the launch. baikonur has been the site of rocket launches for about fifty five years this year its anniversary it's also been the site of soyuz launches for decades with garren three from here and now this soyuz rocket is an advance upon a long line of previous ones one thing that hasn't changed over all the decades is the people of flying the humans crews that go inside it the three men in this crew had been training for two years long an extensive training period the captain alexander kaleri experienced cosmonaut this is his fifth trip up into space script. and of flight engineer on board this is his first trip into space and the third the u.s. astronaut scott kelly it's his third trip into space and i

powell. i don't want to undercut the general at all, but at some point, they trust those guys. they say, listen, let's just work this out so we can have peace. you'd have a better shot. so it's a very complicated issue. again, you're right, but to deal with it in terms of race and religion puts us in a very sort of complex and much more difficult place to ever solve. than just saying let's work on it from these borders that for some reason were established 56 years ago. i find that to be part of the trouble. >> the only footnote i would add is there's one way to conquer the unifying vision is in the form of these negotiations that are supposed to be occurring now. this is the race, you know, whether diplomacy will overcome -- but these negotiations in terms of the relationship between the north and the south, once the south is an independent state, which it will be one way or the other. and so that is a place where -- you know, how security arrangements are met. how they deal with all the complicated issues of banking. 20% of the people in the north and the south depend in some

generals. there's only one commander in chief. >> isn't that interesting to hear powell from the past is brought in by obama as an outside adviser. the problem here was the military would not give the president options and he demanded them in microscopic detail has laid out exactly who said what and the president pushes bob gates, the secretary of defense, and says, look, you promised me another option. yes, mr. president, we owe you another option and he never gets it from gates. so the president designs his own. >> and, in fact, rahm emanuel, who we know is now trying to launch this campaign to become mayor of chicago, but there as the rather profane chief of staff he says that the -- that president obama feels boxed in. he says it's bs that between the chairman and petraeus everybody's come out and publicly endorsed the notion of more troops. the president hasn't even had a chance. >> i don't think they conspired but i think the senior military leaders out of conviction felt they needed more troops. the 40,000 troop option was the only one. the commander in afghanistan from 2003 to 2005 has w

generation broadband. i think that was the most significant thing i was able to do. >> mr. powell? >> during my tenure, the internet was emerging as a central condition platform. we worked very hard to reorient the agency toward an innovative, broadband focus across everything we did. most of our initiatives in telecom policy, wireless involved on focusing the or in -- opened agency on where the girl was going, rather than looking to where it had been -- opens the agency to focus on where the world was going, rather than to looking where it had been. on the television front, the dtv transition was completely stalled. i was very proud of the volunteer plan we put together to help get that moving and ultimately lead -- ultimately led to the return of that transition. i also did the do not call database that allowed people to get people to stop calling them at dinnertime for services. >> i have three things. first i want to say this. i bet i speak for my friends here and for other people who have held our job, what a privilege it was to be chair of the fcc. not only is this a great co

powell is a walking history of -- >> larry: war. >> -- the united states military, going back to vietnam, everything. >> larry: do generals have to like -- talk about guts, truman fired mcarthur. >> that's right. in the book, one of the themes is the generals won't give the president options. he, at the meeting. i mean, think of this, the white house situation room, in the basement. i've been in that room. it's elegant. no windows. big black chairs. and they're sitting there. and the president said, you told me you were going to give me three options today. you're only giving me one. and the chairman of the joint chiefs says, yes, and the president turns to gates, the secretary of defense, and said, bob, this is unacceptable. and gates says, yes, mr. president, we owe you that option. they never give it to him. he has to figure it out himself. >> larry: "obama's wars" is the book. bob woodward is the guest. we'll be right back. >> larry: there's no slow news day anymore. >> leon panetta is quoted as saying this is a crazy kind of war. >> larry: it's a crazy kind of world. >> it's a crazy kind of world. exactly. >> we all know and

general. >> this week on "the communicators," reed hundt, kevin martin, and michael powell on regulating broadbandoadcast indecency, and the fcc. tonight on c-span2. >> the keyspan network to provide coverage of public affairs, non-fiction books from an american history available on television, radio, online, and and social media networking sites. find our content any time for our c-span content library. we take our content on the road bringing resources to your community. washington your way -- the span networks now available in more than 100 million homes. created by cable and provided as a public service. >> the conversation now about the declining water supply in the southwest from today's "washington journal" and is under 45 minutes. barringer is the national environmental correspondent for "the new york times." thank you for being with us. i want to talk about a situation in the west with water. he recently wrote an article that the headline was water in the southwest was headed for a day of reckoning. what is the situation? guest: basically, along the line of the rockies there has been in a

colin powell was on meet the press recently and he said it was difficult for him to determine whether we are winning or not. that is the fault of policy makers for not requiring the generals to establish a very clear benchmarks for success. finally, i would say that the arbitrary timeline we have established for pulling our troops out, a political time line, is ill advised. if we're going to be there, we need to be there to win. otherwise, that harms the american troops and it is unfair to the american people. we need to maintain security and make sure this does not become a training ground for terrorists. >> i went to afghanistan in february of this year. i wanted to see for myself if this is something we should be doing. one of the encouraging things i saw -- we also went to pakistan and had the opportunity to meet with pakistan army generals. there is no question that the cozy relationship has developed between the pakistan army and the taliban. i wanted to hear their point of view. i came away convinced that because the taliban had almost captured islam a bad -- islamabaad, that they had to work with the army. the mission is this, to diminish the ability of al qaeda a