do to help greece with 2020? how can we take account of national peculiarities to ensure that such problems do not reoccur? >> the strategy of 2020, our idea is to have national programs but horizontal, the european community-wide programs. that ask every member state to put specific objectives, simply defined objectives, taking in account the difference situation. greece has a specific situation to date. and we're very attentive to that. greece will go on benefiting from commercial funds, because greece is one of the countries benefited from those funds. and this is apart from the european union strategy. but it is important to understand why people and countries like greece have to correct it deficit and their excessive debt. the interest the country's paper that is money that they cannot put in their hospitals are in their schools for the future. it is not because we are are rigid macro economic discipline, it is also because we are thinking about the social expenditure and addressing the concerns of people th

when it comes to greece and spain, is difficult. spain also has big macro problems, financial policy, especially in the construction sector. spanish banks are doing very well. the spanish problem is manageable. of little more difficult because of greece, the administration is not working -- if at all report which is monitoring the grease administration, and even the minister does not know the data, that is the feeling. that is a problem. i think it is a danger for the eurozone, but we have to keep in mind that there is a stability and growth pact. in spite of the crisis, you may say that we are quite well. we've brought down deficits and debt for most of the countries. as long as the confidence in the overall stability and growth pact is not lost, i think that we can cope with that. but i will not deny that there are certain risks, and we have to be careful and know that there's some critical discussion starting from some european countries looking to the stability and growth pact. then we have to be alert and not let it go. >> alic

we believe that greece is now taking the proper measures and we should support greece in the enforcement matters. . .. the u.s. are paying a lower level than the germans even though the german public finances are in better shape than the americans. this is an urgent reason to do this. >> thank you very much. >> not contemplating at this stage the measures you have been suggesting and it is not appropriate to link these proposals to specific situations today. it could, in fact, elect -- let's be honest about this. these countries have a specific obligation that comes to implementing conditions of the prospects. it is important for them and the results of their economy but also important -- at this moment, suggesting there would be a solution outside the efforts -- not the best way to help our good friend to implement discrimination measures. >> thank you very much. >> [speaking native tongue]] acquistion. we think the approach you have taken is very presidential. and basically making sure you are very powerful. -- how you deal with that is a puzzle for you but there seems to be some sort

the king of greece, king george of greece, i believe, king peter, young king peter of yugoslav ya, foreignf russia stayed here. winston churchill is there, harry truman and his family, their signatures are there for when they stayed for f.d.r.'s funeral in 1945. blair house is really an important asset in foreign affairs. we want to put our best foot forward. we want to make whoever comes to this country feel welcome and happy to be here. and with a house like that, believe me, it really has a psychological effect. >> sometimes there are as many as 25, 26, 30 visits a year, and, of course, some of them go on for three or four days. so it's quite a task. housing leaders, and making sure that every single need they have is met. you know, diplomacy doesn't happen until two people engage. and our staff here is involved in diplomacy. they are all diplomats. and just by nature of what they do, offering personal service and caring about someone who's arriving -- and it's not even on a political level. it's our gracious -- what we hope is our gracious hospitality to a world leader, to a leader fro

of a project we did last year, and he went on from there to work for us on the student protest in greece. he covered that, and it developed into a profit for the pulitzer center. in the spring, we decided it would be good for him to go to iran to cover the he elections reagan -- elections. as a general rule, we are not about covering elections, because we see that as something the news media does do. there is a conventional media that still -- we still devote resources to those issues. we knew that he was extraordinarily well-versed in iranian and culture. he has done some extraordinary writing on iran and became fluent in farsi and had a wide range of contacts in that country. our hope is going in was that he would be able to report not only on the e election but the context behind it in a way that many reporters would be able to do, so we were pleased to work with him and work with editors to know that he would have outlawed and the american and european media. we were less pleased that a week after the election, that on his way out in with his visa had expired, he was tak into custody

the king of greece, and believe. young king peter of yugoslavia. minister of russia stayed here. winston churchill was there. harry truman and his family. their signatures are there for when they stayed. but was in 1945 at fdr's funeral. blair house is an important asset in foreign affairs. we want to put our best foot forward. we want to make people feel welcome to. with a house like that, police, it really has a psychological effect -- believe me, it really has a psychological effect. >> sometimes endure as many as 25, 26, 30 visits a year. some of them: for three or four days. it is quite a task. making sure every single needed they have is meant. diplomacy does not happen until two people engaged. our staff is involved in diplomacy. just by nature of what to do, caring about someone who is arriving. it is not even on a political level. it is what we hope it's a our gracious hospitality to a world leader. it is very personal and meaningful to them. the honor is steeped and intense, especially in times when we are hosting the president-elect befo

because quite frankly, most of my friends and they remind me of the generation i grew up with in greece. there are a great many similarities. why would i gravitate towards someone who comes from a different background and look at me suspiciously for being who i am and being union married, i'm 28, which i was at the time, all of these things don't fit in. so i'm very wary of saying i say this happened because i saw this. because what i'm seeing is tempered by who i am. >> i don't think we know. i think the only thing we do know that the government behaved in such a suspicious manner that it is natural to suspect they did steal the election. they announced a landslide win for ahmadinejad about an hour after the polls closed which is ridiculous in a country that had paper ballots. there were a number of reports that ballot boxes were taken away from the polling stations instead of people having counted the ballots which had been the normal procedure. and when he talks about the changes in the society and the kind of creeping oppression, it caught us by surprise, because iran did have relat

>> simon: if you're treated as second-class citizens here and you are greek, why don't you go to greecewe love our country. we are born here. we want to die here. we feel that our mission is here as it has been for 17 entire centuries. >> simon: 17 centuries? >> bartholomew: 17 centuries. and i wonder why the authorities of our country do not respect this history. >> simon: to better understand the patriarch's frustration, he suggested we head off on our own mission, 500 miles east of istanbul to a region called cappadocia. we launched our search for this christian history in a hot air balloon and came upon one of the most bizarre and dramatic landscapes on earth. from above the clouds, it looks like a city of stone. and when you approach the cliffs you see doors and windows carved by hand into the rocks eons ago. it's extraordinary enough from the outside, but open one of the doors and step inside, and you enter a world of unfathomable beauty. chapels with frescos painted while rome was still ruled by the caesars and bethlehem and nazareth were dusty little towns. are there any christi

is save their posts to cd's or flash drives, and they distribute them to independent libraries or greece they also print, photocopy, and bring their posts to impromptu publications, which according to some bloggers are passed hand- to-hand. finally, it is clear that the emergence of this a vibrant blogger community is evidence of a generational shift. even a country as isolated as cuba has been slowly been moving into the 21st century. >> great. thank you very much, carlos, are those comments. we will let uva make a comment. >> thank you. i want to add some comments. email. most cubans do that access to email and the internet, and that has resulted in a lot between cuban's and cuban americans, and there is been a lot of reunification of families. -- between cubans and cuban americans. more than 100 emails of family, friends, colleagues, and there is an interchange of information, of text, of photos, some trivial, like "happy birthday" or "happy mother's day," and others with more interesting content, but it has helped unite families inside and abroad. something we all take for granted, b

so i'm half english and was born in greece and loved english when i was about 10.that opened up to learning arabic at the university and then i went to iran and learned peshian and now i'm trying to learn turkish in istanbul. i run as far as i could without totally leaving the discipline -- we are basically no longer in the age of the old foreign correspondent who would sort of perish somewhere or live a world of exotic capitol and get the job done by his local contacts. they are absolutely crucial today. more so than ever. but certainly the budgets that used to allow that kind of life no longer exists. so for someone who is bicultural and more greek than english it's been a real challenge trying to follow this path of journalism which involves basically learning foreign languages, understanding foreign cultures, not to say i am going to give you the low down on what's going on but hopefully cover a culture with slightly greater sensitivity than what would have happened if i didn't speak the language. now this is a problem on both sides of the spectrum. on the one

because quite frankly, most of my friends and they remind me of the generation i grew up with in greece. there are a great many similarities. why would i gravitate towards someone who comes from a different background and look at me suspiciously for being who i am and being union married, i'm 28, which i was at the time, all of these things don't fit in. so i'm very wary of saying i say this happened because i saw this. because what i'm seeing is tempered by who i am. >> i don't think we know. i think the only thing we do know that the government behaved in such a suspicious manner that it is natural to suspect they did steal the election. they announced a landslide win for ahmadinejad about an hour after the polls closed which is ridiculous in a country that had paper ballots. there were a number of reports that ballot boxes were taken away from the polling stations instead of people having counted the ballots which had been the normal procedure. and when he talks about the changes in the society and the kind of creeping oppression, it caught us by surprise, because iran did have relat

we had this in greece where part of the preparations for entering the e.u., everyone studied in england or italy. west is good and east is bad, backwards. in our case, islamic, therefore, bad. this is an argument that can be used in turkey. but it seems that turkey is becoming increasingly comfortable with who it is. you have new debates about the minorities and you have armenia and turkey. you have the turks to criticize and the head of the o.i.c. and nato -- it's a very interesting and subtle game that is being played and the ultimate question is, is this looking after our own interests as well as cultural or is it fully a cultural agenda of, we're finally coming home and i don't think anyone can give an answer to right now. >> thank you all for coming and thanks for the questions and thank you for these excellent presentations. [applause] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2009] let us debate our differences ss medicare for the future, and that's what's going to be is co. they want us toight states that domestic abuse ise e problems in bitterly, bitterly know, one ofi

the king of greece, king george of greece, i believe, king peter, young king peter of yugoslav ya, foreignd here. winston churchill is there, harry truman and his family, their signatures are there for when they stayed for f.d.r.'s funeral in 1945. blair house is really an important asset in foreign affairs. we want to put our best foot forward. we want to make whoever comes to this country feel welcome and happy to be here. and with a house like that, believe me, it really has a psychological effect. >> sometimes there are as many as 25, 26, 30 visits a year, and, of course, some of them go on for three or four days. so it's quite a task. housing leaders, and making sure that every single need they have is met. you know, diplomacy doesn't happen until two people engage. and our staff here is involved in diplomacy. they are all diplomats. and just by nature of what they do, offering personal service and caring about someone who's arriving -- and it's not even on a political level. it's our gracious -- what we hope is our gracious hospitality to a world leader, to a leader from another coun

they describe bridges and pottery that was refined is anything from greece or rum. later settlers went to come later exports of going to the amazon area never find any of these things so most historians, all of this misfeasor account, they seem they were products of the conquistadores furtive imagination than they were just like calderotta, an illusion and in this case to justify to the monarchs the disastrous nature and they want to embellish them. fawcett thought that their worst to much similarity to dismiss. he wondered also had disease perhaps decimated these population and was a possible the jungle had simply consume the remnants of the settlements. at one time when he was in the bolivian floodplains he was climbing in large earth mound and when they look down on the ground he saw something sticking up. he bent down and picked it up and it was a shard of pottery. every where he began to scratch on the surface of this large earth mound in the believe in floodplain to begin to find pieces of broken paulk-- pottery. this was a period before carbon dating so there

just to show you a couple of examples of earlier documentary photography, the work of jp greece and lewis stein tended to show either context or face is, but both. baritone like that of walker evans was cool and ignorant in comparison to the emotional key and seductiveness of lang langlange's. people are usually photographed frontally, immobile, sometimes dignified but never flirtatious, conversationally, or expressive weird evidence coolness was an entirely gendered manner. he had a favorite phrase. he referred to photographing babies as a synonym for selling out artistic integrity. lange wanted personality, activity, and emotion in her photographs. moreover, there are no lange photographs of unlovely people. no doubt she may have passed over some subjects, but more importantly she made her subjects lovely and if we have time in the questions i contact you about how she did that. the understanding of portraiture she took from the studio, which in her words is that a portrait is a collaboration between photographer and a subject. and that therefore as a result objects have a perfect right

the king of greece, and believe. young king peter of yugoslavia. minister of russia stayed here. winston churchill was there. harry truman and his family. their signatures are there for when they stayed. but was in 1945 at fdr's funeral. blair house is an important asset in foreign affairs. we want to put our best foot forward. we want to make people feel welcome to. with a house like that, police, it really has a psychological effect -- believe me, it really has a psychological effect. >> sometimes endure as many as 25, 26, 30 visits a year. some of them: for three or four days. it is quite a task. making sure every single needed they have is meant. diplomacy does not happen until two people engaged. our staff is involved in diplomacy. just by nature of what to do, caring about someone who is arriving. it is not even on a political level. it is what we hope it's a our gracious hospitality to a world leader. it is very personal and meaningful to them. the honor is steeped and intense, especially in times when we are hosting the president-elect befo

thank you, warren, greece, rebecca for being here today to kick this off. thank you. [applause] so, we've covered capitol, we've covered contracting and counseling, and through those we at the sba have helped small business is come a long way in 2009. but what about now? the president said, i'm going to quote, we will not rest until businesses, small businesses are investing again, businesses are hiring again and people have worked. and each recession, we know that job growth lags behind the econ money. so we are seeing the economy take off, and we are focusing on how to make sure small businesses have the tools and incentives they need to create jobs and to create them as quickly as possible. so what are we doing? the first thing we did is we listened. and some of you actually were in attendance or have seen that tama geithner and i held a forum last month on small-business lending and that, in turn, set the stage for the small businesses jobs summit where tim and i had another forum. we had a small businesses there, banks, community banks, large banks, and that cont

recently that killed a bunch of people was the oldest greek city state ever found, a colony of ancient greece built in what is now northern afghanistan. host: ofville, north carolina, steve, good morning. caller: 5 questions about the culture of a waziristan. are these people committed to the global jihadist, which always makes al qaeda welcome there? or is there a sense that there are foreign fighters picking a fight with us? guest: is always the hope. our trump card with are tired -- with our credit is that eventually they step on -- witor trump card with al qaeda is that eventually they step on people's toes. they eventually crank of the locals. the problem in waziristan is that they have been there long enough that they seem to have become part of the local life, the local culture. the question is, at this point after 25 years, are members of al qaeda seen as outsiders in waziristan? apparently, they're not. they're seen as part of the local scene. was your is dan, i think my generally as a culture just once -- waziristan, i think, generally as a coach as was their independence. they do n

then he went on to do work for us whenever student protests in greece. he covered those and that developed into a project for the pulitzer center. in the spring, we decided together that it would be very good for him to go to ron and cover the elections -- -- to iran and cover the elections. the pulitzer center is not generally about falling -- covering the elections because we see that as something that the news media does do. despite all the cutbacks, they devote resources to those issues. in this case, we knew that iason athanasiadis was well-versed in iranian politics and culture. his exhibit on children, his photographs he presented was displayed at the wilson center and across the country. he really has done some extraordinary writing and photography on a riran, became fluent in farsi, so our hope going in is that he would be able to report not only on the election but on the context behind in a way that many other journalists -- that were coming in with a lot -- without the kind of background he had would be able to do. we were pleased to was able

one left and went to greece. florida has been handicapped on the practice courts in the last thee years. they have not had the kind of competition day in and day out that makes people better. so that has gotten thinner and thinner with these injuries. shipman has the knee problem and probably would have played tonight. i think they said before the game, he could have played if they needed him. it's important for murphy to get more minutes and important for a kid like mcclanahan, florida's two guards averages 30 minutes per game, boynton and walker. they have to get more help in the back court. a game like this is critical for your basketball program to get guys more comfortable on the floor and more playing time. matt: murphy checks out and macklin comes in for him. murphy averaging only eight minutes a game and he's one of the aforementioned injured ball players. you can tell he's still got the padding on his shoulder. he has an injured shoulder that's forced him to miss action this season. >> but florida extend

and also greece, a hot spot that is an emerging market with an enormous amount of debt.s like this around the world. the problems in dubai have been a wake-up call for the investment community to take a step back and relook and refocus where our money is allocated. host: art is joining us. caller: good morning c-span and thank you for your service and say hello to your guest, i watch him on charlie rose, and he does a great job. the comment i have on dubai and how they exploit the workers over there. the poor workers are treated so badly. and all of these big buildings that are built are built by those workers with no rights and almost get no pay at all. and the same with the rest of the middle eastern countries like saudia arabia and how badly they treat their workers. and one more comment i was trying to make earlier, trudy was on your show and i couldn't get through about the needs of the local people in afghanistan or pakistan. i mean for example, pakistan now there is no sugar. there is a shortage of sugar. so why can't u.s. send sugar and the local people know it's

one yes, i see the folks who are airline greece oftentimes now commute to their work.and the thing that's happened in buffalo where you had a tampa based pilot and it concerns me that we are talking about being well rested for the start of the flight, not just being able to say okay i can take a nap on the plane if that is the way the rule changes but to be well rested when the flight begins. how important is it that the crewmembers spend the night before they start on their leg, in their home, in their home bed? it worries me that we are flying people from tampa to buffalo to go to work and that that is the first part of their segment and then they are actually going to start flying when they get to buffalo or get to a plan that. i experienced this all the time and in talking to crewmembers how many people don't live in atlanta for example. delton has cut their base there. there are a lot of crewmembers that fly to a plan to go to work. is this something that is going to be addressed about the initial getting to work, committing to their job which has to also increase

to project that the treasury bond by 2015 could have the same credit rating as that of estonia or greece. this is not a future that we want for our country. we must change course and change course fast. as you know, the treasury bond is the anger to the world's global financial markets. if it is allowed to slip, we do not know what will happen, but it will not be good, and it could even make the current financial recession look like a slide show. i'm glad to announce that the vast majority of blue dogs, a fiscally responsible democrats in congress, support the proposal. we are looking to persuade other members to join us in this fight because it is absolutely vital for the future of our country. finally in closing, mr. chairman, to quote the nike slogan, because this issue is even more important for our young people than it is for anyone else, as the nike slogan says, "just do it." thank you, mr. chairman. >> thank you, congressman cooper, and thank you for your powerful and persuasive testimony here today. next, we'll go to congressman wolf, who has been a longtime leader in this effort

just to show you a couple of examples of earlier documentary photography, the work of jp greece and lewis stein tended to show either context or face is, but both. baritone like that of walker evans was cool and ignorant in comparison to the emotional key and seductiveness of lang langlange's. people are usually photographed frontally, immobile, sometimes dignified but never flirtatious, conversationally, or expressive weird evidence coolness was an entirely gendered manner. he had a favorite phrase. he referred to photographing babies as a synonym for selling out artistic integrity. lange wanted personality, activity, and emotion in her photographs. moreover, there are no lange photographs of unlovely people. no doubt she may have passed over some subjects, but more importantly she made her subjects lovely and if we have time in the questions i contact you about how she did that. the understanding of portraiture she took from the studio, which in her words is that a portrait is a collaboration between photographer and a subject. and that therefore as a result objects have a perfect right

greece, ireland, potentially spain, maybe austria. where they basically have run up so much debt as a result of not running proper fiscal policy that they are essentially collapsing. we have the unique luxury of being able to monitorize our debt because we are the world currency. but even that luxury and strength cannot confront and stand up to the debt numbers that are copping at us. we know that for a fact. and we're being told this. we're being told it by independent groups, moody's just put us on a special list. there are 17 industrialized nations which they have in a certain category in rating bonds. they have decided that mongse those 17, the united kingdom and america won't be on a special group. they haven't put us on a warning or watch list. but they have given us a new title. i think it's called relevant or something. it's reflecting the fact that there's -- they know the problem's coming unless we address it and atres it soon. the -- and address it soon. the issue, of course, is, why don't we do it in regular order? i mean,

to i would like to see if the victim of greece and the defendant agrees, that a man ought to be surgically sterilized, we can forget about the whole thing. guest: that is a provocative statement. we have seen a very significant move in that direction in as many years. there are many courts now, and judges are increasingly using community service, having offenders into unpaid labor or making restitution to their victims. sometimes we have programs called restored of justice. we need to be creative in general about how we deal with some of these problems and what directions we want to go. host: one final point from a viewer who sent in this tweet -- guest: i think many judges would agree with that. many judges feel like their hands are tied. that does not tell us anything about who that person is and what their crimes are all about. host: thank you for joining us. >> the u.s. senate in session, a couple of procedural votes for health care -- before health care wraps up in the senate. mandating the purchase of health insurance falls outside the scope of congressional power. the senate is live

greece, ireland, potentially spain, maybe austria.cally have run up so much debt as a result of not running proper fiscal policy that they are essentially collapsing. we have the unique luxury of being able to monitorize our debt because we are the world currency. but even that luxury and strength cannot confront and stand up to the debt numbers that are copping at us. we know that for a fact. and we're being told this. we're being told it by independent groups, moody's just put us on a special list. there are 17 industrialized nations which they have in a certain category in rating bonds. they have decided that mongse those 17, the united kingdom and america won't be on a special group. they haven't put us on a warning or watch list. but they have given us a new title. i think it's called relevant or something. it's reflecting the fact that there's -- they know the problem's coming unless we address it and atres it soon. the -- and address it soon. the issue, of course, is, why don't we do it in regular order? i mean, that's our job,

there's a greece period as you know. senator cardin is going to come back so that we can hopefully get the to last senators and here but if you want to truncate a little bit it is your choice. >> i will do that. >> i want to thank you for rustling what i find to agree with the several statements made on the complex problems and difficult problem because it involves the lives of the folks that are just the best among us and i also want to thank queue for the patience to wrestle with us on this issue and the ability to do that and i can't think of three people who would be better than i would be happier to see russell this problem than the three of you. i want to agree with what senator casey and others said. the number one problem here there's a lot of problems. so i don't minimize any but the number one problem is do we have a partner in the afghan government for success? that to me is the key question. i spent time, two trips to afghanistan, met with folks and talked to them. that's the number-one problem on my mind and

greece, ireland, potentially spain, maybe austria.asically have run up so much debt as a result of not running proper fiscal policy that they are essentially collapsing. we have the unique luxury of being able to monitorize our debt because we are the world currency. but even that luxury and strength cannot confront and stand up to the debt numbers that are copping at us. we know that for a fact. and we're being told this. we're being told it by independent groups, moody's just put us on a special list. there are 17 industrialized nations which they have in a certain category in rating bonds. they have decided that mongse those 17, the united kingdom and america won't be on a special group. they haven't put us on a warning or watch list. but they have given us a new title. i think it's called relevant or something. it's reflecting the fact that there's -- they know the problem's coming unless we address it and atres it soon. the -- and address it soon. the issue, of course, is, why don't we do it in regular order? i mean, that's our j

it got to 190 greece -- up to 109 degrees in san jose.emands shot up and the lights went out. the weirdest phenomenon of rolling blackouts became a feature of california. the silicon valley have a look -- the silicon valley had the electricity supply of a third third world nation trade electricity prices skyrocketed -- a third world nation. electricity prices skyrocketed. billions of dollars were lost by the state. gov. gray davis was kicked out of office. so how did such a badly designed bill become law? that is where the process gets really scary. why? because it was an exemplary process. they had hearings and meetings and they visited other jurisdictions. there was bipartisan cooperation. their work until late at night. they did such a good job that the law passed unanimously. as you know, nothing passes california legislature unanimously. no one voted against it. so what was the problem? legislation. they did not design it to work in the real world. they crafted a bill that could pass. they wanted to get as many votes as they could ge

they are role models and i understand by the end of this year, greece -- i talked with the prime ministerthe greeks have finally done what they're supposed to do and they will come on board. but if it had not been for that legislation, we would not have been in a position to lead on these people. could you comment at all on how that has helped and in terms of the public diplomacy? >> thank you, senator, i know you have been a terrific leader, supporting this program and we thank you for that. these the probe -- a visa waiver program is an important instrument of cooperation with our allies. from a security perspective, it has helped to introduce, expand, and accelerate a host of improved security measures. we talked about in this morning. we have enhanced passport requirements that are now standard, not just with visa waiver countries. verifiable standards at airports, aviation security, and greater cooperation on an array of law enforcement and security issues. moreover, nearly every country now reports lost and stolen passports to interpol. they do that according to interpol standards.

recently that killed a bunch of people was the oldest greek city-state ever found, a colony of ancient greece built in what is now northern afghanistan. >> host: fayetteville, north carolina, steve. good morning. >> caller: yeah, good morning. my question is kind of about the culture of by sirh stand. are those people, are they kind of committed to that global jihad, or -- which would kind of always make al-qaeda welcome there, or is there a sense that they could come to resent foreign fighters kind of picking a fight with us and then bringing us up into their mountains? >> guest: well, that's always your hope. i mean, our trump card with al-qaeda has not been anything we've done, it's that eventually they step on people's toes. that's the story of what happened in western iraq in anbar province which was a naturally receptive area to al-qaeda is they eventually cranked off the locals who got mad at them other issues of marriage. the problem in waziristan is they've been there long enough that they've become part of the local life, the local culture. at this point after 25 years, are members