i can speak to you or you understand, but in germany or france or egypt, they won't understand it. so i'm rearranging my life. i can still write. >> georgie anne geyer's newest book is "predicting the unthinkable, anticipating the impossible" thank you for being on booktv. >> thank you. >> .net, booktv interviews rick bragg while touring birmingham, alabama as part of our cities tour of the king of the landscape of the southeastern cities. airports are not workers of the foothills foothills of north alabama. >> those people in the cover her workers from kind of the dark ages of the cottonelle in my hometown. those are folks who had survived the 20s, 30s, 40s and into the 50s when it is a brick oven and summertime, when the air was safe pick with fine cotton, that would fill their lungs with cotton favor. they would hang out the windows, trying to get a breath of air. kids would read by in cars and wagons and he is and it would scare them death. these were people that lost their thinkers, hands and arms to the machines and work for it. they had to work because they came down out of

tavis: i don't live in greece, i don't live in germany or france, i live in the u.s.a. what does this have to do with me? >> in the short run, the stock way up and way down every day because the u.s. market is afraid that if greece defaults on its debt which sounds like it has nothing to do with you, but they don't pay back banks money they owe, and those banks then possibly fail and the banks are mainly french and german banks, and our banks have all kinds of interaction with their banks so our banks start to fail or have runs on them and get attacked in the stock market so all of a sudden what we have is a reprival of the financial crisis of 2008 where the financial system is paralyzed. so, i mean, i think what you're watching is act two of the same financial yises. crisis. act one was all these bad debts accumulated in the system but accumulated in the banks. governments everywhere assumed the debts and now the question is, are governments not credible, and when that happens, it creates a very fragile economic environment. so your ability to do what you to for a livi

mainly germany or france certainly if you put tougher sanctions on syria it will certainly isolate the country and this is the goal of these are western leaders who have said so that they do want to show that president assad there is increasingly increasingly isolated out has to be noted that of course russia has said many times in the past that it's taking a very very careful approach to prime minister putin have met his account french counterpart francois fuel and their prime minister putin had said that russia again is very careful in this scenario and also that the conflict that they're seeing in syria is certainly not one sided and by imposing more sanctions and calling. for tougher restrictions on syria it certainly seems like you're taking one side and also our foreign minister sergei lavrov again stress the big do not want to see this drama decision of the syrian story to be used as a basis for any form of military intervention essentially russia is saying is that they don't want to see a repeat of that maybe a scenario for now they're seeing of there are signs that are leading

the strings attached in greece, not popular in greece, not popular in germany or france, so all of the same domestic political problems that t.a.r.p. created in our country, we're seeing play itself out here. and remember these aren't states, these are countries trying to act as a collective financially, that's what makes this tricky. so the president is very much sort of a cheercheerleader, if will, an adviser, a mediator, but he's not playing a central role because this is about the europeans, bailing out europeans. >> when it comes to what's taking place in greek last week, they thought they had a deal to save greece from bankruptcy. now greece's prime minister who is in political turmoil himself says he's going to put this deal up for a nationwide vote, so how do we expect that to play out? >> reporter: it's funny, thomas. as literally as you're saying this idea that the prime minister of greece is going to put it up for a vote, now the prime minister is saying he's going to pull back on that plan, which of course would make the european leaders in particular french president sarko

france. >> if they do not recognize the importance of just doing a plan, why is it that the markets germany or england or france. we do not have a plan. >> alan simpson spent 18 years in the senate, a time when things were done differently. he says he despairs of a political culture that concentrates on scoring points and not tackling issues. >> what can we do to screw the democrat party or the republican party or dump something on obama that he will have to veto. they push one in there with the taxes on the rich. it is not fun to watch. i would not add it. it is sad. >> disappointed with politicians and they tell you to fix the country's problem seems like it is at the heart of the tea party and the occupied movement. >> i do not know what it is useful. it comes from discussed. i would like to ask the question of not how much the guy is worth, but what does he give to charity? if a guy is making $17 million a year and coughing up 30% of it to the salvation army and planned parenthood and things they believe in or whatever it is, i have a more charitable view. if they are just off to get their

are the timetable and so on because let me tell you why the rating agencies don't miss with germany or france or great britain. because each of those countries have a plan. all these people are waiting for is a plan. you can decide how many teeth you want to put in the jar, but just do a plan and you'll see dramatic effects around the world with the rating agency. >> i agree with you very much. one question on the support. but in a very much time here. the concern somehow does this come, that with the election, if they are to put it in rough terms, it would be a death spiral. that is people currently -- insurance companies go packaged for sale policies to the most healthy. so the most healthy people like these new policies, leaving the less healthy and medicare. the more sicker people in medicare and they go out there not because the sickest repair. i think if somebody gave a lot of thought to. some have raised the question. >> some every state, but we don't think it's true of our plan. we think we have avoided that possibility by the rules that we put in, any plan on the exchange would have

because let me tell you why the rating agencies do not mess with germany or france or great britain. because each of those countries have a plan. all of these people are waiting for is a plan. you can decide how many teeth you want in the jar, but just do a plan. and you will see dramatic effects around the world with the rating agency. >> i would agree with you very much. one question. concern that some have is this -- that with the election, that to upt iput it in rought terms, spiral,b e a death that insurance companies will package to the sales and policies to the most healthy people that will buy the new policies, leaving the less healthy in medicare. the more that happens, the more sicker people in medicare, then medicare costs go up, up,. up. some have raised this question. >> some have raised it, but we do not think it is true of our plan. we think we have avoided the possibility byt the rules we put in. any plan on the exchange would have to accept anybody, and they would be compensated on a risk adjusted basis. they have more for people that are older and sicker. therefore,

let me tell you why the rating agencies do not mess with germany or france or great britain. each of those countries have a plan. all of these people are waiting for a plan. you can decide how many teeth to put in the jaw, but just do a plan. you will see a difference around the world with the ratings agencies. >> a concern some have is this, with the election, there would be a debt spiral. insurance companies will attack sales policies to the most healthy. the most healthy will buy these policies, leaving the most -- the less healthy in medicare. the more that happens, the more sick people are in medicare. medicare costs go up because the sick is are there. i am shore -- medicare costs go up because the sickest are there. >> we have avoided that possibility by the rules we put in. any plan has to accept anybody. they would be compensated on a risk adjusted basis. they got more for people are older and sicker. they have no incentive not to serve those people. >> you have all made a tremendous contribution to this country. thank you. >> the time of the gentleman has expired. t

talking about is something that is like the system in norway or from other denmark or sweeteners or france and germany for that matter are democratic socialist nations so what is it or why is it that these nations that are democratic socialist call themselves that you know everybody understands that they have higher health care results they have lower wealth inequality they have fewer social ills. they're all around happier why is it that americans don't get this. well you know in this country we have a history of the idea of the rugged individual so americans are very tied to the idea of individual rights and democracy and the good thing about democratic socialism is we actually believe that that's very important but if you look at american history the government was always there supporting the corporations and making money and corporate welfare was happening all the time so we need to what's so exciting about occupy wall street is it's drawing attention to that fact and it's really saying that you know ordinary people having the kind of things that allow them to take part in our society you know hav

mismanaged their contras and they haven't got all those benefits from a larger market while france germany or have benefited large from this common space if you talk about russia integrating with its close neighbors to see if. you know the right if you basic reasons world will benefit russia kazakhstan belarus and maybe other countries that join this integration union future first of all you have to look at the map russia is a large territory that connects asia and europe and basically europe is of europe is a developing region very fast given treats integration momentum and also asian conscious developed very frost's or russia kazakhstan. they can become this kind of bridge between the record by developing regions asia and europe developing due to its integration moment no. you know it's this a pioneer in the here it would help overcome the world's financial difficulties are really sticky. you know so if we talk about financial difficulties we have to understand that united nations of the united states and european union faces a tremendous challenge in its development and of course russian o

europe has germany, france, italy, yes, europe, or the old country, will never lose its value because leading economic indicator project that europe is increased in age over time. fake a nap 592, meet your lover at 4, meet your mistress at 5, meet your lover's mistress at 6, chee chee, a thousand of the strangest -- >> act now and we will throw in greece. even if you do not act now we will throw in greece. please, just take greece. all this can be yours for just one easy payment of $1.4 trillion. won't you let us continue to exist? invest in europe, the culture, history and fun are -- -- (cheers and applause) >> stephen: thank you very much welcome back. folks, i don't know about you but i am sick to death of the media hounding herman cain over his sexual harassment settlement with two or three of his former employees. and now one of the settles might go public just because her lawyer claims that herman cain broke the confidentiality terms of the agreement by commenting on its specifics. hey, cain didn't comment on it he went on tv and gestured on it, and held a press conference, and

lives would live with france or germany or live there i love it either. this or.the love and the practice a little bit of a little easier let's here to celebrate luck it's a little bit it's always a living although. there are some of the living and they have been it's like it's. and finally to the ice where outlands won their fourth cold shell game in a row after coming back to grab the last minute went up in a strength rating must a region that's not invincible and since impossible for powers. thank you both moscow region side started the game cautiously think in defense first the food that is arena had to wait seventeen minutes until their luck was broken and it was limited those had to believe yeah nice go us first shot from the blue line was blocked the defeated defenseman fired once again to send the park home one nothing to add one and that's how we finished in the first period in the second host we just took possession and were piling on the pressure second equaliser while the yellow and blues helped the home team by collecting penalties but they failed to

we no longer broadcast to france or germany or western europe because there is not a need to. when you have so much money, you want to reach key audiences. one of the reasons we drop a language services because it really is not -- in croatia for example, there are about to join the e help -- the eu. they are already a member of nato. things are going well for croatia. china is another story. my feeling is there is a very great need for our voice to be heard in china. we are like to be looking at creative ways to try to reach more of the chinese people with voice of america. i would expect that would include not so much short wave radio which our data shows is really not reaching very many people any more in china. it's still reaches some. more in terms of satellite television, we will be doing a lot of work on the internet. we will use internet circumvention techniques. many look at the arab spring and saw that the real media force there were things like facebook and twitter. that was accomplishing many of the goals of things like voice of america. given that, why should they

europe has germany, france, italy, yes, europe, or the old country, will never lose its value because leading economic indicator project that europe is increased in age over time. fake a nap 592, meet your lover at 4, meet your mistress at 5, meet your lover's mistress at 6, chee chee, a thousand of the strangest -- >> act now and we will throw in greece. even if you do not act now we will throw in greece. please, just take greece. all this can be yours for just one easy payment of $1.4 trillion. won't you let us continue to exist? invest in europe, the invest in europe, the culture, history and fun are hi. kristin. and, you... (camera flashes) yoleine...yoleine.! what do your friends think of your car? they think it's cool. well, what did they say about it? ah, that it's cool. (laughs) does your focus match your personality? yes, it does match my personality. it's very classic. it's funny. it's quirky. it's sleek. it's shiny. it's practical. and, it's smart. (laughs) -- -- (cheers and applause) >> stephen: thank you very much welcome back. folks, i don't know about you but i am sick

or italian debt to the extent we saw in greece. this would leave the largest banks in the world, the major banks in france and germany tech -- technically insolvent or bankrupt. >> the flip side, dr. christian schultz a former e.c.b. economist, says systems are now in place to fleevepbt lehman brothers collapse. >> it's true we can see stress in the money markets. all show banks shouldn't lend because the e.c.b. is supplying banks with unlimited liquidity. but they are actually taking the liquidity back to the e.c.b. that must -- on the other hand it's different, because when we had the lehman disaster, we didn't have the policies in place to save the stress. >> a quick flash of the markets. markets all over the world are down, down quite substantially. asiaa followed suit and european markets are following suit. they are simply worried about the debt crisis in the euro zone and many are saying it's on the press pus -- precipice. or it could be the periphery is on the precipice all eyes on spain. >> you're on the periphery now. >> i am. >> let's take a look at the impact of the euro zone crisis in feign. -- in spain. heavily among the y

france and germany to be kicked out of the e.u. why are those two countries france and germany in particular they're so keen on on saving saving greece or keeping them in the euro zone despite saying that greece is free to leave if they want. let's me be clear i did not show interest in saving greece as saving their own banks and saving their home projects greece is due to really care about going to find out that greece really is a service for the new you are being projects but also it's right for the economy because. german and. french banks i have any involved in so there are really concerns and so in this case they were sure strict about of b. because they saw that the referendum. the whole thing forward this is a serious serious chance that the greeks would say no and who really the end of the whole rescue operation ok earlier you were you brought up italy and again let's bring up the board contagion that has been mentioned since the start of this crisis what is your. opinion on what is going to happen next italy you mentioned what about portugal what about spain what are your predictions on those. well views in store for joy even t

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we no longer broadcast to france or germany or western europe because there's not a need to, and when you have just so much money, you want to reach the key audiences, so one of the reasons we sometimes drop a language service is because it really isn't -- croatia, for example, is allowed to join the e.u., already a member of nato. things are going relatively well for croatia, and there's a lot of free media there. china's another story. my feeling is that there's a very, very great need for our voice to be heard in china, and we're going to be looking at creative ways to try to reach more of the chinese people with voice of america. i'm expecting that that will include not so much short wave radio, which our data shows is really not reaching have many people in china, though it still reaches some, but more in terms of satellite television, doing a lot of work on the internet, and we will use internet techniques to ensure people are able to see what we putt on the internet even when there are attempts made by the government to prevent them from doing so. >> guest: many americans looke

setting great atmosphere that's the way to greatness is over there over here we're going to get france or germany or you. know i believe either. this or. the end of the bag is a little bit of a little easier for me as you do so. it's a help but it's always a big goal and their help so that's what they're doing and they have to feel it's like it's. but it hurts the eyes now and afghans were on their fourth crotch elbowing in a row off the coming back to grab the last minute when a stunning freighting muska region dobby starting its yes consent for ports. thank you both plus the region saw it started again cautiously thinking defense first the food back street is arena had to wait seventeen minutes until a deadlock was broken and it was the visitors had to believe yeah nice to us pressure from the line was blocked the fifteen of the council inquired once again to send the box home one nothing top one and that's how it's been used in the first period in the second post you just took possession and was piling on the pressure signee the wiser while the yellow and blues helped the home team by collecti

let me tell you why the bridge and agencies -- rating angencies do not mess with germany or france or great britain. they have a plan. these people are waiting for a plan. just do a plan. you will see dramatic affects about the world with the ratings agencies. >> i agree with you. i do not have much time. a concern some have is this, with the election -- to put it in rough terms, people currently -- insurance companies will package sales to the most healthy. the most healthy people will get these new policies, leaving the less healthy in medicare. if more of that happens, the more sick people in medicare. medicare cost will go up, up, up. this is something you give thought to. >> some have raised it, but we do not think it is true. we think we have avoided that possibility by the rules we put in. any plan on the exchange would have to accept anybody. they would be compensated on a risk-adjusted basis. they have no incentive to not serve those people. >> i want to thank you all very much. you have all offered a tremendous contribution to this country. thank you. >> the time has expired

party refuses to take part in the us which i personally think that if the ruling party in france or britain or germany refused to participate in debates during a campaign it would be doomed but in russia they're better off without to be because i think they know what they're doing yes they're better off why is russian mentality different. can you imagine what it's like to hear all the parties criticize united russia for what they've done over the past ten years. not a single person would stand that this would straight away make them look bad so i understand why they refused to take part in debates. all right you three old to get into this day do ninety thousand and three and two thousand and seven. what lessons have you learned and what makes you think this time will be different. with the lesson we learned was that we really have to monitor the voting process more closely prior to the day of vote curing the vote and especially the counting process all the nights following the vote that is why we are joining efforts with other parties in coaching our monitors. cause we need to monitor everything more

really amount to, i mean, what are the -- what specific concessions have governments made in france or germany to the u.s. because of a more or less popular american president? i mean, sometimes it doesn't really amount to much in concrete policy terms. governments make these judgments, i think, for their own reasons. >> professor dueck, do presidents get credit for less than major or different foreign policies such as president bush in africa where he increased aid to africa, he increased the aids budget, etc., do they get credit for to more or less sideline issues, and is that fair to call them sideline issues? >> yeah. sometimes they don't get as much credit as they should. i think if you remember the 2008 republican convention, a lot of attention was put on that initiative because i think the bush administration was rightly proud of it and wanted to highlight it. and they knew it was something, also, that was not especially controversial. so, but, you know, at the end of the day you have to say that the defining decision under bush was the invasion of iraq. he's going to be judged on that

our liking that you can see with the greek people looks like france and germany have given griese an ultimatum they could leave the euro zone or pay their play by its rules rather so what's worse for the greek people at this point. to see through that what was it disgraceful noncredit all led by france germany france that mr and mrs merkel said that if you're ever in the results you know to the agreement of brussels that last week we talked of this to be a no the euro zone and in fact the rule would throw you out of the euro zone this is a non-critical thread because there is absolutely no way legally to put that to begin with and secondly financially economically if any member of the eurozone even little problem of the greeks is thrown out the whole of the eurozone collapses so my message to the greek people indeed to all because in europe is do not take such incredible threats seriously really mean nothing. so what could be the consequences of the greek crisis for the year and for the global economy. this is not a greek crisis this is a eurozone crisis is which is being felt most harshly in greece because greece is that we l

france and germany took action with this message to greece play by the rules or get out the greek prime minister made a cameo appearance in can return to athens and cancelled an improv referendum that would have more last allowed the public to decide if they stay or if they go when it comes to the euro or perish the thought that they should be allowed to decide whether they want these things euro leaders say it is up to greece to or should look like this if greece is an independent country and i just want to say they are perfectly free and i don't want to give any idea that we are trying to get involved in greek domestic politics. but france has given some exactly that idea it is no longer an independent country and has been for a while the conversation is always on what we need to do to satisfy our creditors demands and our creditors are the people who are going to determine whether we survive or don't survive and the so-called backbone of the eurozone could be trying to save its backside with a statement from sarkozy that those who break deficit rules should be punished some with sanc

kind of cooperation but at the end of the day the greeks are small potatoes compared to, say, france, or germany. a small country. it is their debt which is so huge that $480 billion or so euros is so big it threatens all of us. >>shepard: been to santorini? >>gerri: i should go back now. >>shepard: if they go back to the drachma, you can drink cheap beer. >>gerri: i'll drink beer any time. >>shepard: switch over to the gerri willis for fascinating business news. and there were 397,000 new applications for jobless benefits, which is 9,000 fewer than the week before, and only the third time it has fall be below 400,000 mark since the month of april. and we are told it means businesses are laying off fewer workers. so good news. fox news is america's election headquarters and a lot of finger-pointing in the wake of the herman cain sexual harassment scandal and backtracking. the campaign accused rick perry's staffer, i, kirk andersn of leaking the story of sexual harassment. this guy, anderson, used to work for cain as an advisor on the 2004 senate bid but, today, on fox he denied he leaked anythin

analyzing this in different ways some of them perhaps saying the france and germany have basically said you either play by our rules or you get out and greece has decided that this is the way to go that they don't one of the eurozone a lot of different debates going on here of skeptics saying that you're just moving the problem down the road that eventually greece will have to default bureaucrat saying this is the only way to save the euro nicholas sarkozy calling it the beating heart of europe and that we will never let it die and that is going to be what a lot of these leaders are speaking about in these final sessions of the summit comes to an end on this second day with that said emerging economies worried about their own voice that they agreed the brics that they would try to help the eurozone they would give money to him and to agreed on a final sound but they have a condition and president medvedev made it very clear that it's not a hidden agenda they want their voices to be heard they want more say in the i.m.f. and other financial institutions of course the g twenty was created to widen the spectrum to have n

to be hearing from critics over the next couple of days is that the euro backbone or so mostly germany of course and france is basically has basically told greece that it sent listens to its people many people know that if that referendum went ahead it most likely it would be a no vote out so we're going to be hearing a lot about that most likely over the next couple of days and with that said the brics countries they met on this first day of the summit and there of course they discussed the euro. prices even though it doesn't particularly directly affect them they did promise that they would offer money and help the eurozone they have been agreed on this some of president medvedev boys out very clearly without hiding that there is a condition on russia and its partners of the brics giving money to help the euro say afloat in that is that their voice really needs to be heard within the i.m.f. and other financial institutions let's not forget that the g twenty was created at the height of the financial crisis in two thousand and eight and it was meant to widen the spectrum of countries that put in their voi

or will it go? that's what germany and france want to know about greece and its membership in the european union. the leaders of those countries are holding emergency talks with greece's prime minister. they want clarity on whether greece will leave the e.u. the pressure comes after greece sparked panic in global markets by saying it will hold a referendum on the bailout package designed by the e.u. and the international monetary fund. the next installment of bailout money, which was due this month, is now on hold until after the greek vote. now scheduled for december 4 or modest job growth for the private sector-- that's the upshot of today's report from a.d.p. the payroll processing firm says 110,000 jobs were added at private firms last month, slightly more than expected. a.d.p. also revised its september numbers higher, to 116,000 positions added. on friday, the labor department releases its report on how many jobs were created in october. >> tom: harvest season is over, and the crops may be out of the fields, but the booming business of agriculture underpins an iowan economy growing faster a