starts leaping up and down and tapping and he said this and ready soon you've got to imagine the gulags as the words evil empire. so they finally spoken the truth and their designated it and it made a difference. >> what do you think of that ideology that the approach to what's happened right now in iran. iran is a good example and i was critical of obama. remember june, 2009 when the street first erupted and even that democrats were astounded and he made a series of the stronger statement, but he would have probably treated iran like he did with solidarity. he would have sent people of iran who want freedom and liberty, we are with you and we stand at your side. we support you and we have the support of the united states. we don't have to aim the freedom fighters who ever they would be. just as they didn't give the missiles and tanks to the solidarity movement but ask anybody from poland in the 1980s he was doing solidarity weeks. that was extremely powerful and invigorating and obama should do that because we've are the shining city on the hill. so they conveyed that message to those

bush aide execution of the gulag has left a comment to what the online thing in the knee before dying of a concert on the terrific dad has sparked calls for a moratorium on capital punishment and when it's normally takes an average of six minutes for a prisoner to dine on to the receiver lethal injection but the place look as if to fixed lines. don't stop keep dying in extreme pain for three minutes walk to the drunks were administered all season a part time how small the story. america is among the top five nations that leave the world in executions. they are reset lethal injection gone back to typical execution should take it that way about six and twelve minutes to forty three minutes of the universe blinds were closed because something was going so wrong is casting a spotlight on making him the map it's behind capital punishment in the us the american and the world is getting a close up the courage to look at the depth of the anti really operates and what we're seeing is ugly. on tuesday oklahoma in me clean unlock it died a slow and people that after his lethal injection was admi

gulag. she was. the opinions that great i do. it used to access keys on it. we do . the i would like to national german government was outraged by the nasa surveillance to the senior up but now has been accused of trying to disrupt a probe into the us spying on its citizens. a parliamentary body doing the investigating as reporter we've been forbidden from questioning edwards noted the key witness an inquiry panel comes after chancellor merkel's visit to washington as her teeth and all for now reports. it did seem that unity here and jimmy. they wanted to see a full investigation into everything that is being done and it now seems that the german government themselves have changed their position on our face and the noble going to look and see what they once referred to as stars the tactics that they know while winning team that these cuts by the hound are full the bill came in to say that they would be a new respond treaty between germany and the united states the unsaved we don't achieve the kind of joke even so in that cold mrs merkel can find from dc we know what

i thought about the gulag of the russian mine, how we end up with dictators, we have opportunities and reformers. then i was thinking the first man of the 20th century tried to go forward with democratic changes or humanistic changes and yet he kept coming back to his own despodic past and some of the stalin esque matters, even if he denounced stalin. >> you told a story about your great grandfather and he adopted your mother when your grandfather died. most americans think of him in standard images, in slamming the shoe on the table in the united nations or the cuban missile crisis. you write, as you said about the reforms. that she instituted after stalin's death, that the thaw in the soviet union led to gorbachev and the soviet union. >> absolutely, as much as he wanted to caping, and he wanted to change, he wanted to change the dictatorial system. he started the exchange in the festival of use, and for the first time the soviets saw foreigners, and they were not evil as the stalinist was telling everybody. suddenly when he came to the united states, the first time in 1959, travelle

. >> when you came back and said it wasn't camp, it was a gulag what did he say to that?e said i saved $50 on that camp. you get what you paid for. >> you are a dad. in writing this book and thinking about parenting lessons there is a lot of parenting wisdom. we talked about helicopter parents. what kind of dad are you these days given the upbringing you had and the environment in which people are raising children? >> i think you take the good things from your parents and leave a few things behind. my wife and i i think we are good parents. if your kids aren't listening to you you have to turn to someone who they actually might respect. my son, george, who is 4 worships the new york police. every so often we walk by. when he is good we go in and the cops are great and give him a patch and he feels like he is one of the cops. every once in a while he hits his sister and we are like george we have to take you downtown. >> do you put him in a squad car? >> we have taken him to see the jail. they are like you can see the jail. like show him the jail. >> you need to show him t

and karzai is not the only afghan leader who kept a foot in another world project gulag like iran afghan intelligence services detention and interrogation bridge is now in your way is referred to as the torture ichi human rights with force documented widespread portrait now they do this at the facility that you've read when the u.s. went into afghanistan the cia would put it in to help seize on the heart then as head of interrogation he took care of so to speak thousands of prisoners captured by u.s. forces a senior afghan official told the washington post that full on life used his position that all bible store in which his business families were routinely forced to pay ransom but there would be so this man was allowed entry into the united states and now found home on the outskirts of los angeles entry situation in the united states is one hundred percent political in the politics is not did you commit human rights abuses did you commit torture the real political criteria is did you serve in function as a proxy for the united states or those who committed great criminal acts at the ver

we're not hooded, taken out of our homes and thrown into gulags. this man is going to mount a defense. we will see how credible he is. god forbid this young woman is going to have to get up on a stand and talk about what happened between the age of 15 and 18. this is an amazing case. i can't thank the three of you enough for putting a lot of light on this, legal light. >>> we had a story that came across our radar. it invovs actual radar. why on earth are you that close? and guess what, nearly one mile, apparently this happens a lot, and it might start happening a lot more. i'm going to tell you why, what happened and what might happen in the future next. if you ask me about shingles, i'd say, did you ever have chickenpox? 1 in 3 people will get shingles in their lifetime. guess which one i was. >>> the faa is investigating another near miss and we i say near, i mean really near, between two jetliner. this happened in houston. this happened after another close call that happened in newark. it is enough to make the flying public a little uneasy. esp

it was a bleak gulag where some 40 tiananmen square demonstrators were being unjustly detained. we saw firsthand the price paid by brave and tenacious individuals for peacefully petitioning their government for freedom. and it was not pretty. they looked like walking skeletons of auschwitz and they worked grueling hours making products, some of which ended up in u.s. markets. mr. speaker, for the past 25 years, the tiananmen demonstrations have shaped the way the chinese government deals with dissent. despite the country's stunning economic growth over the past two decades, beijing leaders remain terrified of their own people. china's ruling communist party would rather stifle, imprison or even kill its own people than defer orem brace their demands for freedom and rights. the president's tenure of president, started with so much promise of new beginnings, has instead ramped up the repression. china today is in a race to the bottom with the likes of north korea. last year was the worst year since the 1990's for arrests and imprisonments of dissidents. over 230 people have been d

they despise the idea of closing down gulags and allowing internal migration and external news chg.and the point they make is look what happened with stalin. you let in some jerk after, and you bring down the revolution. i've got my father's blood, i will see things through and make the revolution conclude through a generation to the end. in fact, one of the things they have, they have ten commandments. there's ten commandments that run north korea. it's not the constitution which is a western art face for -- artifice for appearance purposes, and number ten is korean revolution will be followed through through the generations. it speaks to their fascist fascination with blood, they are the only ones who can really bring koreanists to the world. >> there's this weird paranoia every time that succession is brought up where it's like, oh, we're not a dynasty, it's not, you know, these people were voted in, but clearly they weren't. i mean, why even pay lip service to this idea that there was some sort of fair election or -- >> well, it's not a fair election, no doubt, but it's a fair c

instead of being shipped off to a gulag, i am going to the vanity fair after party. that's right.is is america, where everyone can be a pussy riot. this is one of the coolest things. thank you mr. president. thank you, mrs. obama. thank you white house correspondents dinner, and thank you, c-span viewer. [laughter] good night, everybody. thank you. [applause] >> our coverage of the annual white house correspondents dinner continues with the scene at the washington hilton hotel as guests arrived. >> it is 6:30 on the east coast. a live look inside the washington hilton, just north of the white house. barbara walters and the crew from nbc and the today show are among the media people there. it is still about one hour and 20 minutes until the beginning of the program, where the president arrives and the program begins. andix: -- 7:50 or so, president obama is set to speak at 10:15. joel mchale at 10:40 eastern or so. celebrities, lots of politicians, a guy dressed up as uncle sam came by a short while ago. on c-span chat we are watching what you are seeing. there he is now. duck dyna

there ate 40 activists that terrible gulag. they wouldn't let us meet with them. they looked like auschwitz inmates. it was a terrible observation that both of us made while we were there about the mistreatment. bill clinton when he ran against president bush made the point was caughtught bush so iing -- catering, say this as a preference that i not seen this is a partisan issue. but if someone enables these horrific abuses they need to be called to task for it. intobill clinton got office we had the votes to take chinaation status from because of the human rights abuse that was getting worse by the day. he said don't quote on that. i will issue an executive order. it was a great executive order that mentioned all the human rights benchmarks, including significant regressing each of those areas. halfway through the year of review i traveled to beijing. i was told by chinese leaders they are getting the conditionÀa la the, this was a bluff. i didn't believe it. i had a letter signed by 100 , 100 democrats and republicans presented that, and the chinese official loo

doesn't mean you have to round up people and put them in gulags, although that clearly has been done. the european socialists borrowed heavily from marx. i think the progressives at the turn of the last century borrowed from marx. this whole distributing wealth and radical egalitarianism and so forth, these are all marxist. but that said, marx talked about the withering away of the state. the problem is as lenin himself said, we can't figure out how that works. the state never withers away, in fact, the state becomes oppressive, horrific and all powerful. >> host: and once the state is under the control of the proletariat, its objectives will generally include the following ten tenets: yeah. i'd say that we've covered, what, six or seven or eight of those? that's there marx. and the communist manifesto. and that's, those are his ten planks. and i think six or seven of those you just mentioned we've adopted. so, look, the so-called progressives and the progressive era, these people clearly rejected -- but let me put it to you this way, you cannot be a utopian statist and support increa

karzai is not the only afghan leader who kept a foot in another world haji gulag michael ran afghan intelligence services detention and interrogation branch is now in bigger ways he's referred to as the torture each human life with boys documenting why but portraying how they do this at the facility that he ran when the u.s. went into afghanistan the cia put him to help seize on the heart then as head of interrogation he took care of so to speak thousands of prisoners captured by u.s. forces a senior afghan official told the washington post that bull i used to station that old tribal store in which his business families were routinely forced to pay ransom but there would be so this man was allowed entry into the united states and now found home on the outskirts of los angeles. the situation in the united states is one hundred percent political and the politics is not did you commit human rights of you did you commit torture the real political criteria is did you serve in function as a proxy for the united states and those who committed great criminal acts at the very moment that the us and its f

oppression and degradation that occurs in the north korean regime today. 200,000 north koreans are in gulags around the country. freedom of religion, freedom of political practice all repressed and the terrible, terrible suffering, preventing the reunification of korean families, even to visit, the complete lack of humanitarian regard by this brutal regime is something we, americans, cannot ignore and we hear in congress have an obligation to address. so i commend the house foreign affairs committee today for adopting unanimously this important piece of legislation and eagerly look forward to passing it when it comes to the floor. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the time of the gentleman has expired. the chair lays before the house a communication. the clerk: the honorable the speaker, house of representatives, sir, in light of my recent appointment to chair of the house select committee on the events surrounding the 2012 terrorist attacks in benghazi, i hereby resign my position on the house education and work force committee. i think my committee -- i thank my committee colleagues,