you asked me if they had broken away from great britain, but canada did.and they allow those lines. the other interesting thing in this bill is in academia it remains in history a debate whether or not the revolution was an exercise and idealism or pragmatic economic undertaking they were still over the issue, and i think it was a combination of any good model or character that undertakes action usually because it is driven by something inside of the cycle that makes them want to do it but there is no one more driven and that we than sam

. >> gun control advocates talk about great laws in gun ownership if great britain.re's only one problem, they don't work. they seem to have made things even worse. we'll talk more about that and it happens to almost all of us, a close family or friend dies and we go through the grieving process and top american psychiatrists say you should take a pill for that. is this the latest way to cope with grief or to cut healthcare costs. >> ban adoption from one nation to the next. it's about to happen in russia. where moscow is going to approve a ban on american couples only from adopteding russian children. we just improved our trade relations with them, why are they doing this? have our relations with the putin regime deteriorated that much? senior fellow with the center of transatlantic relations at johns hopkins university. what is this really about? >> this is about vladimir putin playing to his base which is nationalistic and poor as he's losing moscow and it's about vladimir putin sending a signal to the united states that he does not want us interfering in russia's

he was one of 29 gold medals for great britain with 65 medals in all. this was his most successful -- this was great britain's most successful game. >> the u.s. soul singer known for "rescue me" has died. >> ♪ rescue me, take me in your arms rescue me ♪ >> fontella bass comes from a musical family and started performing at age six at a church choir. she died from complications from a heart attack at the age of 72. pictures have emerged of shoppers at a mall being over wave -- overwhelmed by a wave of water. three sharks and dozens of fish were sent flying. >> these onlookers were washed away when the aquarium they were looking at suddenly exploded. 16 people were injured, dozens of turtles and fish died. this happened at a shopping mall last week. >> i was just walking by and i heard the explosion of this water tank. >> this collapse. people pulled out. >> the bureau of supervision and administration is investigating why the aquarium broke. aging material is a likely cause. >> according to the initial investigation -- >> makes sense of international new

host: whether was your reaction in great britain to dunkirk? guest: churchill -- and churchill did this -- he made a defeat sound as if it was the ost heroic -- and he saeid evacuations, retreats are not victories, he was clear on this. but the way he said it made dunkirk sound like a heroic victory. and the british people came away saying, well, if we can do that, we can bloody well whip the hun. well, they had it backwards. they were running, swimming literally, home without their weapons, without their tanks and jeeps -- they didn't have generals then but trucks and rifles. they came back soaking wet with no weapons and church ill is telling the paoeeople that we'r now building up what will be the finest army in europe and we will go back. host: in 1940, mid 1940, he is prime minister of great britain. how big at that stage is the british empire? guest: well, it covered gee graphicically about a quarter of the left-hand mass and -- land mass and population. the population was about a quarter of the earth. india, subcontinent. commonwealth an

we have a constitution here that's different than great britain and canada. and there is a reason for it. historically. but that doesn't solve the immediate problem. the immediate problem is basically that you, any american, can get a semiautomatic rifle or pistol and all the rounds you want and you can get it in connecticut -- look, chicago is the toughest gun laws and they're gunning people down like five or six a day. >> the evidence is that doesn't work. i would add also there was legislation passed in the wake of the virginia tech massacre which allowed states and the federal government to share that mental health information. i do believe it can be a civil lints issue or can be a bureaucratic mess. but that was already passed. >> bill: if you were president obama's advisor, would you advise him to do anything, put forth any new legislation? >> i think some discussion of, like, the tweaking of the intersection of mental health and owning guns could be helpful, like i said in the wake of this past one, something passed and it was supported by the brady ca

. >> reporter: in 1982, the queen welcomed president reagan on his first stayed visit to great britaind it all looked so effortless. >> i'm so glad to welcome you and mrs. reagan to britain. >> reporter: but the files reveal how much anxiety the trip caused in britain, what type of clocks should the reagans be given as a gift. in washington, they were much more relaxed about the visit. among documents, there is frustration that the white house is taking weeks and weeks to reply to the queen's invitation to great britain. the british ambassador notes the president's staff is not well-organized and confusion prevails in the white house. the president had his own concerns. how should he dress for riding with the queen? the answer, whatever the president finds most comfortable. he took their advice. relations with britain's other leading lady were famously warm. prime minister thatcher called the president "ron" he addressed her as "margaret." together, they were political soul mates. >> i think they had a quite congenial, personal connection to each other. although what these documents sh

winston churchill, a small talking man deployed to great britain during the second world war to talk at the british people. the little talking person was. i could put in front of microphones or in the middle of parliament after which you would be placed in storage until another dramatic event happened and he was needed for more talking. the successful deployment is now seen as having been crucial in great britain defeating nazi germany and its own little talking man. i'm also picking of the entry for kitchen. if another room contains more knives did his room kid how that happens >> george w. bush. >> he's in the buck. let me find that esteemed gentleman. is he? >> he is. >> there he is. forty-third president of the added states who received the presidency as a gift for his 504th birthday from his parents, george and barbara. >> and the state of florida. >> using his connection to the supreme court has fire was able to pull a few strings to give his son the extravagant presents witchy accepted despite his disappointment over not receiving a ford mustang that he had repeatedly requeste

the two plan on striking a joint profit sharing venture for flights between great britain at united stateslta has been trying to expand to heathrow for years but limited gate space has kept that idea from taking off, pardon the expression. >>> speaking of taking off, flying in and out of sfo wasn't a problem this morning. tomorrow morning i'm going to guess it could be a different story. >>> clouds, rain towards the 6:00 flights damage may be already at hand because of the rain overnight check out our flight tracker tomorrow morning. hard to believe we have rain on the way when you look at vollmer peak towards east bay hills and mount diablo this morning not a cloud here. some of the clouds are lifting in san francisco, amazing my facebook page 7:20 eight i posted the sun sitting on top of the -- bay bridge, 15 minutes later cloudy. live doppler 7 hd, clouds and along the coast some of the fog inland everything else is dry. the air is dry that concerns me a little, that it is going to take this system a little while to moisten the atmosphere and then eventually, the rain will come over alw

you and the rest of the great britain crutch crowd can eat your goose on the stairs. how do you defeat something with such broad bipartisan support? john mccain was for it. george h.w. bush was for it. even former republican presidential nominee and disabled world war ii veteran bob dole left his death bed in a wheelchair to show his support. and, remember, congress is technically a downgrade from death bed. ( laughter ) for a minute, it looked like both sides might come together to affirm a universally shared value, but coming to the rescue once again, dr. rick santorum's imaginaryium. >> there are some very, very troubling provisions that could open up pandora's box that could directly affect many families in america. imagine the situation if now the state, those who are not the parents of these children, have the determination as to what is in the best interest of the child. >> stephen: that's right. reaffirming protections to the disabled equals the u.n. coming between you and your child. it's hard enough for parents to get the kids to listen now. just wait until

the same can apply to great britain which tries to attract the very rich people.t the same time, they're cutting the deficits and taxing. public spending in france's biggest, but it is one reason why household consumption is down and why we have a recession. you have to take all of that into account. depardieu is complaining about different tax system that has subsidized the french film industry which has made him wealthy and successful. >> a good point. jock, good point. -- jacques, good point. two nasa spacecraft will crash into the service of the moon. it is the planned end to the mission to look at the gravitational field. >> the moon as it has never been seen before. the images making up this video were taken by the space laboratories. the size of a small washing machine, they started mapping the gravitational field in tandem. they think the moon has a shallow or cross than expected, the result of asteroids and comets impacts. this could provide a better understanding about how moons and other planets evolved. running low on fuel, nasa took a decision to hast

the two plan on striking a joint profit sharing venture for flights between great britain at united states delta has been trying to expand to heathrow for years but limited gate space has kept that idea from taking off, pardon the expression. >>> speaking of taking off, flying in and out of sfo wasn't a problem this morning. tomorrow morning i'm going to guess it could be a different story. >>> clouds, rain towards the 6:00 flights damage may be already at hand because of the rain overnight check out our flight tracker tomorrow morning. hard to believe we have rain on the way when you look at vollmer peak towards east bay hills and mount diablo this morning not a cloud here. some of the clouds are lifting in san francisco, amazing my facebook page 7:20 eight i posted the sun sitting on top of the -- bay bridge, 15 minutes later cloudy. live doppler 7 hd, clouds and along the coast some of the fog inland everything else is dry. the air is dry that concerns me a little, that it is going to take this system a little while to moisten the atmosphere and then eventually, the rain will come over

a declaration of war on the two and a half million muslims who live in great britain. like full force of the way to women but no one here is going to a stadium. i love it. that it's time for the protest and around fifty people have answered the english defense league school. as a way of the atmosphere is tense as a lot of police presence. the more excitable and drunken aliments are arrested. as always and she raises militants all waiting for the e.t.o. . live a nazi salute. to didio is a mixed bag but tries to give itself an veneer of respectability so as to better attack as long as. its ranks there are feminists the rainbow colors of the gay community. and the star of david. some flags it's a mixture of sorts of people. like you apart from the clowns there's even a rabbi. rabbi. it's actually told me robinson in the disguise he chose to fool the police will remain incognito for as long as he could. but it. is now time for the fake rabbi to do his bit. if i can the crowd is remarkable tommy robinson's gamble has paid off. the leader of the vo can speak to his troops. w

a declaration of war on the two and a half million muslims who live in great britain. like the full support of the way to women but no one here is. often. it's time for the protest time around fifteen hundred people have answered the english defense league school. i was always the atmosphere as tense as large police presence. looks. the more excitable and drunk americans are arrested. as always and she raises militants all waiting for the. nazi salute. but didio is a mixed bag that tries to give itself a newer respectability so as to better attack islam. in its ranks there are feminists the rainbow colors of the gay community. and the star of david on some of the flags it's a mixture of old salts and people. like you apart from the clowns there's even a rabbi. but it's not a real rabbi. it's actually a disguise he chose to fool the police who remained incognito for as long as he could. put it down. just in time for the fake rabbi to do his bit. of the. effect on the crowd is remarkable tommy robinson's gamble is paid off. the leader of the video can speak to his troops

you like it as a model and even for england and great britain. so therefore you're in favor of spending cuts and tax increases because that's what they do and reducing deductions. all of that is good policy for the u.s. and good policy for great britain. >> i don't want to interfere in the u.s. potical debate i simply make the observation that having erskine bowles and simpson in the past that it's a balance plan and it's similar to what the u.k. has done and i think it's working. >> rose: how is it similar on the tax side, the revenue side. >> well, i don't want to get into details with the political debate but in the u.k. -- >> rose: what are you doing to raise revenues? >> we are increasing -- we have a national sales tax, a v.a.t. we've increased that rate from 17.5% to 20%. that was the big tax rise. i think it's less economically magi than increasing taxes on income. we have also as the bulk of the work we've done has come from reducing spending and entitlement and when it comes to business tax, far from increasing business tax i've reduced

and fact that they run contrary to connecticut and great britain is not contrary to the constitution. so i think, i think it's a hoax anyway because i think the court would decide the same way whether or not it cited foreign law. because i think the foreign law's in there for window dressing. >> host: the, the sort of the court in some sense what you're saying is justices may know what they want to do, and they're looking for support in whatever form they can find it, but it really doesn't have -- it's really not having an impact on what they actually decide? >> guest: i think that's right. >> host: um, i want to switch to a different, a different phase of your career. you served as solicitor general of the united states under president nixon. at the -- >> guest: mostly under ford. >> host: that's right, yeah. um, but under nixon as ill fell to you to file -- it fell to you to file a brief against the vice president to have united states, spire rue ago knew. can you mention -- there's some complex issues in that case, can you -- >> guest: well, yeah, there are all kinds of complicatio

they're already running it in europe, in france, in great britain. entire european experiment here has been one of tax hike austerity. even though they focus on the spending cuts, you're talking about a high tax area raising taxes even higher. we're trying to to do the same thing here. >> least the brits have the humility to acknowledge their mistake. they took the rate from 40% 050%. millionaires left the island. now they're coming back and dropping it to 45%. at least the brits have some humility. the french don't seem to have any. those socialists are going to go down with the ship. >> they're going to go down with the ship. when that ship goes down, there's not going to be any millionaires and billionaires left. they will have left and gone to switzerland. be great to get them over here. >> those millionaires that are fleeing france and britain, they're not going to california. >> no. >> the total combined tax rate there is now moving above 50%. they're not going to new york. combined tax rate is above 50%. and oh, yeah, they're not going to hawa

tonight great britain prepares to welcome a future monarch. but first from fox this monday night. the murder-suicide that has stunned pro-football. the kansas city chief players and fans warning after the linebacker belcher shot his girlfriend to death and then killed himself. there is so much more to this story. now we are hearing from both sides from both families for the first time. it all happened on saturday morning. somebody reporting a shooting at the home that belcher shared with his girlfriend. >> early 20s female. she has been shot about three or four times one in the chest, one in the neck and one in the abdomen. >> shepard: she was cassandra perkins, belcher's girlfriend and mother of his daughter. she died at the hospital. 10 minutes later as police -- after they responded to that shooting, they say they arrived at arrowhead stadium where the chiefs play. the team's general manager and the coach reportedly just gotten a call to head out to the parking lot and they say when they got there they came face to face with their player, belcher. he had a gun in his hand. he p

party that believes that being outside of this particular cuba would actually influence great great britain's influence would actually rise and we'd be able to trade more easily with the rest of the world because we're freed of these regulations so just to make sure i understand you're saying the economic independence so what in fact be much better for britain because you would be freed out of the regulations that we're saying yes and actually it shows the britain's been a great entrepreneurial business country where we trade globally and at the moment you can see that even from the government's own statistics they show that recently trade with the rest of the world has risen dramatically whilst our trade with europe has actually fallen and that's not surprising to ourselves because we see that the rest of the world will resent the east in asia or looking at south america or indeed the middle east and then there's going to be a great push in africa there are countries with rising populations and rising middle class that demand products and we have expertise that could and should be used tradi

what will the ambassador to great britain likely be doing over the next four years?handling relationships with one of the closest allies in american history. megyn: but doesn't it get kicked up to the secretary of state or above? >> i don't think so. i think the details on the ground that are taken care of by the ambassador on the spot. and it's not just a choice of what color to wear, it's a choice of what role to play, how to play the british vis-a-vis the americans. it is the plum diplomatic job and in the american diplomatic service. you are ambassador -- the court of st. james. you have a mansion right there on regents park. you're talking to the big powers of europe all the time. megyn: what determines whether you get the ambassadorship to, like, belize, because you raised me a lot of money and i want to give you payback, and ambassador to great britain? is it how much money you've raised? she's one of the top bundlers. >> well, there's one of the qualifications. celebrity supporter, top ten bundler. did you know that her brother served as the political editor

it's very easy now to just forget the degree of isolation, physical ice laying of great britain at that point. of course there was the empire, there was the commonwealth, there was the hope that one day the united states would become actively involved with its allies. but for that period he and britain are alone and that i think comes back to this thing of courage. >> its situation is extromly simple. you know, in politics and international life, most of the 20 ent century is complicated for most countries except for britain. in the summer of 1940 it becomes very simple. we are about to be bombed. we could be invaded there are no other allies, everybody has a sense of just gearing up for something really special. and so as allen said, you know, there is a man who sees that. and there is a country that is willing to ride for that. you goto years later, 1932, there is a real sense, you know, the war is dragging on, what is going to happen. we haven't got a victory, all the rest of it. the popular mood is different. but in 1940, it is a shining moment. and when churchill says in the second

is feeling the pinch of the downturn our own we live with a decade of debt and the failure to great britain to compete in the modern world while britain is actually not a member of the eurozone it should try and play an increasingly important economic pool in the world's most integrated market of five hundred million people that's according to lord green the u.k. minister for trade and investment britain is in the process of rebalancing its economy one of the things we learned from the financial and economic crisis was that we have been growing too much on the basis of concealment feel by debt and now our task is to encourage more companies to get into the international markets and i was to find a growth formula that's based more on trade and stronger investment what price is the u.k. paying for what some call to close of a relationship with the rest of the european union. i don't think we pay a price for that actually i think the benefits of the single market are very considerable it's very important for us to recognize that the single market is a market of five hundred million people it's

developing a story about the overthrow of the prime minister in iran by the united states and great britain. it was a really compelling story, and then i got this other script about iran and immediately i was drawp to it because it focus on things i was interesting in-- themes about storytelling, about the unintend consequences of revolution. in some way our relationship with the shaw is revealed to be similar to our relationship with mubarak. they appealed to our pro-western idea of what a leader should look like there and we overlooked the corruption, the croniness, the oppression underneath, and both were overthrown, and when both were overthrown the revolution revolutions that subsequently took place were not necessarily in our best interest. >> schieffer: ben affleck, a pleasure to have you, and good luck with the movie. when do you go back to the congo? >> in february, and you're welcome to come with me. >> schieffer: thank you. >> thanks very much. >> schieffer: and we'll be right back with the new senator from south carolina, tim scott. first we're gonna check our bags for free, tha

news reports vogue editor already an ambassador to fashion could be named a real ambassador to great britain or france. she was among the obama campaign's biggest fundraisers. >>> just weeks after winning re-election to her ninth term, missouri congress wam jwoman jo emerson is going to resign. >>> four other house republicans have been booted from committees they serve on. a gop leadership aide says they were out offed by the republican conference because "not team players." >>> it certainly wasn't the most high profile kennedy wedding, but joe kennedy iii is now a married man. the grandson of robert f. kennedy tied the not saturday in california. >>> things may be tense between senator mccain and john kerry but they were able to liten the mood as mccain joked by kerry's nomination to an obama cabinet. >> thank you very much, mr. secretary. >> you didn't hear the joke. he called him mr. secretary. it didn't take long for kerry to give as good as he got. >> tnk you very much mr. president. this is what happens when you get too losers. >> you don't see that very often. that's your morning dit

the bombers always got through. >> tommy people were killed and wounded in great britain? >> i think about 45,000 londoners were killed. at the end, the v2 rockets came. 60,000 people in a country of 47 million. you extrapolate -- that would be almost 200,000 americans. unimaginable numbers now in united states. >> physically, what did winston churchill do during that time? where did he live? how did you relate to london during the blitz? >> he, with reluctance, left no. 10 downing st.. which was of firetrap. if a bomb had hit, that would've been the end. he went underground. the underground war rooms were a little more safe. a cave with 200 soldiers, families, typists, generals -- as many of your viewers may know, it was just fascinating. the walls yellowed by cigar smoke over 20, 30 months. he hated that. when the bombers came and he heard the thuds, he would go to the roof, the worst place to go, and he would look in a flash and count 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 -- that is a mile away. everyone was saying "don't do it, mr. prime minister. the bomb is falling. get out of the car. talk

sure what you hurried up to the best seventy's getting more and more commercial but as austerity great britain you what can she afford to take god we've talked to many families about christmas time and it's something that they really struggle with a time when all the families are celebrating we've got rises in fuel prices we've got rises in food prices in the benefits and the support mechanisms that people have got. that they've got is all being cut back it's going to be really really tough for people this christmas pensioner lady isn't just worried about the plight of the elderly she knows she's far from alone and counting down to a down costs december twenty fifth you know where they've been going out but their wages haven't gone out and people without. a lot of people are. no benefit. no and with the bank of england's less than glad tidings of a triple dip recession on the cards struggling britons will be wishing for nothing short of a christmas miracle. see london. well egypt is getting ready to announce the results of a referendum on a new constitution that's after early tallies suggest t

in action but here is an older example of gresham's law in the seventy's an eighteenth century great britain was on a silver standard but when the master of the man sir isaac newton there is a fine looking fellow he established a new meant ratio of silver to gold which overvalued gold and undervalued silver and you can imagine what happened as i explained what happens under this law this is over began to disappear and gold flowed into the country now gresham's law can be applied not just to money but to more than that to perhaps politics and forms of capitalism as well where the cream never rises to the top in fact it goes towards the lowest common denominator but that's where some blogs are where the day. ok let's wrap up with loose change dimitri let's talk about central bankers it's your favorite topic out wrong there my favorite people there so alan greenspan very famous former one spoke out on whether a painless solution can be found to avoiding the fiscal cliff ever do sing us long term deficits take a listen. the presumption i'm going to have a plane with fruit from truth i think is f

party that believes that being outside of of this particular trip would actually influence great great britain's influence would actually rise and we'd be able to trade more easily with the rest of the world because we're freed of these regulations but at the moment you can see that even from the government's own statistics they show that recently trade with the rest of the world has risen dramatically whilst our trade with europe has actually fallen and that's not surprising to ourselves because we see that the rest of the world isn't the east in asia or looking at south america or indeed the middle east and then there's going to be a great push in africa there are countries with rising copulations and rising middle class that demand products and we have expertise that could and should be used trading with them. this is r.t. and thousands of people have marched through the spanish capital with the christmas spirit failing to quell anti austerity sentiment and this time the show of discontent was directed towards education cuts a spanish government remains committed to its strategy of austerity

believe that being outside of this particular about could actually influence great great britain's influence would actually rise and we'd be able to trade more easily with the rest of the world because we're freed of these regulations. and it's far from the christmas spirit in spain as thousands of people have taken to the streets of madrid protesting against austerity demonstrators left out at the government's cuts to the education sector saying this already drastically damages the quality of teaching spanish authorities are desperately trying to avoid the economic bailout state of other nations like greece portugal and ireland the country is nearly one hundred fifty billion euros. just ahead more revelations in a case which has been poisoning ties between russia and the u.k. the russian intelligence officer alexander litvinenko murdered in london six years ago turns out to have been a triple agent. and iran is that set to get nuclear talks back on track saying you won watchdogs latest visit was productive still not allowing you to inspect the controversial part and that's an achievement. i

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