reminiscent of the cold war earlier i posed that questions ivan eland senior fellow for the independent institute take a listen. no i think it's campaign rhetoric and i think it doesn't really square with the facts too well and i think people probably should be criticizing romney for his lack of knowledge of foreign affairs rather than for barack obama saying the obvious politicians in america always get in trouble for telling the truth that's when they get in trouble so that's why they don't do it very often in. telling the truth in this case that it's easier to get an agreement after an election than before it is certainly true. certainly that is true and he was just speaking the truth. now this statement that russia is the number one threat in the u.s. i mean obviously al qaeda you would think that it's a no brainer that they would be a bigger threat than russia but so when somebody like g.o.p. presidential candidate romney. pens of russia up against terrorist groups what do you think that says about his foreign policy of yours well he does have neoconservative advisers and that's gives us som

case i've been pleasure to have you on the show that was ivan eland senior fellow for the independent institute of. meanwhile the pentagon is resurrecting a project former secretary of defense robert gates had taken off the table long ago the u.s. congress and the pentagon have come up with the plants of building newer versions of the b. one bomber the plane used in the libyan air strikes now take a look at this these are are just depictions of what the top what a top secret long range strike bomber will look like the estimated price tag for these leaner meaner machines five hundred fifty million dollars apiece now the air force has said that the plane may or may not be given a nuclear mission in the future and mary may not need a pilot so in layman's terms a drone carrying a nuclear warhead now defense secretary leon panetta went as far as to call the idea for a newer fleet quote critical to our national security this well he delivered a bleak budget testimony on capitol hill this was last month however critics wonder why such plans are needed at all when our fleet of bombers are currently und

you know that's what amounts to and that was ivan eland senior fellow for the independent institute. all right let's talk about the new technologies that are being developed and expanded and used across this country college spying big brother and extended reality show they're all a part of these technologies are here to stay and they're only getting more intricate and more developed so to find out what this means on a broader scale i spoke earlier to chris to go in a graduate fellow at the center for applied a cybersecurity research and we started talking about some of the things already there use face or facial recognition and it's increasing presence everywhere including facebook so i asked you know should people even be surprised with this new feature on the so popular social networking site here's his response you know i think you should be surprised that facebook is using the data that you give it to help you i think the surprising thing here is how much data has it in the hands of the government and unfortunately the way the law is in the united states once you hand over your d

what are called the independent institute island islands those are island i've been left kind of cut straight to the chase here this is about china right. ideal location for both manned surveillance plan planes and unmanned drones what do you foresee that this will look like if this is indeed the next sort of future in diego garcia well i think it could be done in stages you don't use learner runways for drones and that sort of thing you do for if you were to put like fifty two heavy bombers like we have in diego garcia or other bombers that we have there and so i think you know this could be ramped up over time they. seem to think this has been thoroughly discussed they were kind of caught unawares by this would certainly at the lower levels is being discussed and it could be a plan for the future is a part of this simply the u.s. government or the pentagon trying to send a message or is this actually just the next strategy in terms of no it's military defense well i think they're trying to send a message to china and they may have been trying to send a message to the australians th

by the coast but there were millions spent they had to i think tank in colorado called the independent institute which set organizers to hold tea party rallies to put out talking points against betsy markey they had ads that didn't show up because their issue ads against betsy markey for you know killing jobs and passing obamacare they had three different bus tours that would toward the state colorado is what. will they get different names there's one called remember november. too much spending you know this is kind of a big names and they would put foot they would focus on betsy markey district touring through their district holding rallies denouncing betsy markey promoting cory gardner so you know if you're a journalist two years ago you're saying ok well there's only five thousand dollars because they're looking at one check given to cory gardner but if you look at the big picture there's millions and millions and millions and this was duplicated in races all over the country from florida virginia new hampshire really everywhere is there any way to stop. well you know on the other hand is the

always been there for each other was book about this with ivan eland the senior fellow at the independent institute a little while ago and i asked him if this expansion is aimed at china here's his take. it's one more step in containing china. that's really why there's still probably why all these alliances are being expanded for bases more training etc and in that area there's been a lot of criticism from both sides and people in australia are not happy about this and people in the us as well and i want to put it on screen recently the former national security advisor zbigniew that for presidents he did an article interview with us late and i want to put up what he said first he said a little bit sarcastically he said i was not aware that australia was about to be invaded by papa new guinea or by indonesia and he went on to talk about china and saying to define our engagement in the east in terms of china is a mistake we have to focus on asia but not in a manner that plays on everyone's exam anxieties becomes very easy to demonize china and they will then given eyes us in return is that what they

. >> you speak about organ up -- organ donor ship, and this is from 1999, the independent institute at oakland, california. >> people have the right to sell their organs, and they should have the right to leave their organs to their heirs. my doctor was trying to get me to stop smoking. i said, what sense does it make to put pink lungs in the ground? [laughter] i said, i told him -- when you die, you should go out in a big bang. that is -- everything should be wrong with you. you kind of feel sorry for the guy who died of one thing. you know, heart attack. his liver is good, he didn't drink enough. lungs are good, he didn't smoke enough. now, if i could bequeath my organs to my daughter, i would have an incentive to take better care of them. >> why can't we sell the organs? >> it is a violation of private property. my test of if i own something is if i can sell it. to sellhave the right them because they belong to someone else. i believe that having a market for organs would be very good for people who need this. there are huge lists of people on the organ transplant list, that are not

this is from -- let's see, 1999, the independent institute at oakland, california. let's watch. [video clip] >> i believe people have the right to sell their organs. i believe that people should have the right to bequeath their organs to their heirs. matter of fact, my doctor some years ago, he was trying to get me to stop smoking and so i told him, i said you know, what sense does it make to put pink lungs in the ground? i said -- i said -- i told him that you know, when you die you should go out in a big bang. that's the (inaudible) way. that is everything should be wrong with you because -- yes, and you kind of feel sorry for the guy who died with just one thing you know, a heart attack. because his liver is good it means that he did not drink enough. lungs are good, he did not smoke enough. now, i was telling my doctor, i said now, if i could sell my organs. if i could bequeath my organs, let's say to my daughter i would have incentive to take better care of them. >> why can't we sell our organs? >> i don't know. that is a -- i think that it's a violation of private property

we turned to the independent scientifically driven institute of medicine and asked them to make recommendations to us, they came back with eight various health benefits domestic violence screening, mental health visits and the full range of scientifically contraception services. we promulgated their rules as a strategy as an interim rule and added a religious exemption and to be informed on what language should be used we looked at the 28 states that have some kind of contraception mandate in place right now. often for a decade or more. operationally right now. and we included language that was used by the states in the majority of cases that have an exemption, many states do not have an exemption at all, that language was put out and finalized in february and -- and an additional acommendation was made. we announced that we would have an additional year for religious based organizations who had a religion us -- i mean an objection to the provision of confr -- of contraception, and we will allow them to uphold their religious predomes not -- freedoms, not pay for or provide contraception. but s

the legislature came to the independent institute at that time and janitors was president and they saidwe are interested in a flat tax. would you come up with a neutral flat tax for colorado? john came to me and i came up with the best number i could -- 440%. we met with leadership and they said, we are not sure about 4%. we will set it at 5%. john, bless his heart, said no. he does the higher. we do not need another tax increase. we will defend pork -- 4.2%. we were proven right. the effect of that 5% was colorado did capture the windfall. i know that economics is boring. economics is a dismal science, right? [laughter] this is important stuff. you need to understand what happens. essentially, and colorado, we created one of the best tax climate in that country. we created one of the highest rates of economic growth in the 1990's. a lot of that was a result of a more efficient tax system and by the way, more equitable. that also shifted the tax burden to the upper income group because we broadband the base -- broaden the base. >> have been the media cover taxes in a way that is not dis

[the captioning on this program is provided as an independent service of the national captioning institute, inc., which is solely responsible for the accurate and complete transcription of program content. cbs, its parent and affiliated companies, and their respective agents and divisions are not responsible for the accuracy or completeness of any transcription or for any errors in transcription.] i knew it'd be tough on our retirement savings, especially in this economy. but with three kids, being home more really helped. man: so we went to fidelity. we talked about where we were and what we could do. we changed our plan and did something about our economy. now we know where to go for help if things change again. call or come in today to take control of your personal economy. get free one-on-one help from america's retirement leader. business dealings. >> if these charges are true, john leopold is not fit to hold office. >> the aclu calls it illegal. >> it's beyond appalling. it's complete perversion of the political process. >> the information included criminal records, medical records,

[the captioning on this program is provided as an independent service of the national captioning instituteponsible for the accurate and complete transcription of program content. cbs, its parent and affiliated companies, and their respective agents and divisions are not responsible for the accuracy or completeness of any transcription or for any errors transcription or for any errors in transcription.] [captioning made possible by cbs sports, a division of cbs cbs sports, a division of cbs broadcasting, inc.] jim: abell is the first native kentuckian to play for indiana since 1987 and he was wearing a kentucky uniform while the man handling the ball for kentucky, teague, out of indianapolis, wore an indiana uniform. clark: a bit of irony there. tough matchup here. jim: miller, hulse defending. kidd-gilchrist on the way up. jim: you put a smaller guy -- clark: you put a smaller guy, even a bigger guy will have trouble keeping him off the glass. he goes like he's starving every time. jim: third on shhe -- sheehey. kidd-gilchrist at the line. when we were watching the brackets come down, we w

[the captioning on this program is provided as an independent service of the national captioning instituteponsible for the accurate and complete transcription of program content. cbs, its parent and affiliated companies, and their respective agents and divisions are not responsible for the accuracy or completeness of any transcription or for any errors transcription or for any errors in transcription.] [captioning made possible by cbs sports, a division of cbs cbs sports, a division of cbs broadcasting, inc.] jim: abell is the first native kentuckian to play for indiana since 1987 and he was wearing a kentucky uniform while the man handling the ball for kentucky, teague, out of indianapolis, wore an indiana uniform. clark: a bit of irony there. tough matchup here. jim: miller, hulse defending. kidd-gilchrist on the way up. jim: you put a smaller guy -- clark: you put a smaller guy, even a bigger guy will have trouble keeping him off the glass. he goes like he's starving every time. jim: third on shhe -- sheehey. kidd-gilchrist at the line. when we were watching the brackets come down, we w

[the captioning on this program is provided as an independent service of the national captioning institute, inc., which is solely responsible for the accurate and complete transcription of program content. cbs, its parent and affiliated companies, and their respective agents and divisions are not responsible for the accuracy or completeness of any transcription or for any errors in transcription.] [captioning made possible by cbs sports, a division of cbs broadcasting, inc.] creighton over alabama. lehigh shocking duke and we'll see if this comes down to the last minute. north carolina won by 19 also today. defeating vermont. clark: just right up there with one of your most compelling second-round days, isn't it? jim: i think it might be the best. [whistle] there's a foul down low and it's called against xavier's backup guard dee davis. it will be a 1-1. clark: he's trying to wrestle with cooley because of the switch. see, they switched on the screen and davis down there trying to wrestle with cooley and giving up an awful lot of size and weight. there it is. davis took the worst of it but

technology destruction of traditional forms of media has led many to believe that independent thoughtful media institutions are on the decline and there are not enough readers to support serious reporting and analysis. obviously this young man we are all grateful for putting his money down on the contrary point of view. my sense is of all the forms of writing that are so spectacularly good, this kind of green tea s.a. for highly motivated readers seem to be in the sweet spot of what your best that. and they're getting everything. what do you think? is he right? is this campbell a good one, are we not going to have the new republic which is almost 100 years old 15 years from now? >> absolutely thrilled. i missed the meeting workers used to lay out his vision because i was coming in here, but people live absolutely delighted. suddenly it feels like this destitution which has been my home for 20 years, and just nurtured, everything that i've loved about writing, but before this and not sure i would have said that it would have continued and 100 years. suddenly there is a great sense of optimism because chris

[the captioning on this program is provided as an independent service of the national captioning institute, inc., which is solely responsible for the accurate and complete transcription of program content. cbs, its parent and affiliated companies, and their respective agents and divisions are not responsible for the accuracy or completeness of any transcription or for any errors in transcription.] [captioning made possible by cbs sports, a division of cbs broadcasting, inc.] creighton over alabama. lehigh shocking duke and we'll see if this comes down to the last minute. north carolina won by 19 also today. defeating vermont. clark: just right up there with one of your most compelling second-round days, isn't it? jim: i think it might be the best. [whistle] there's a foul down low and it's called against xavier's backup guard dee davis. it will be a 1-1. clark: he's trying to wrestle with cooley because of the switch. see, they switched on the screen and davis down there trying to wrestle with cooley and giving up an awful lot of size and weight. there it is. davis took the worst of it but

institutions. there is an independent body outside the board.there are a variety of arrangements in place in the 28 states that have this law already in place and we intend to be informed by that when we impose the rules. whether it is through a third-party administrator or a side-by-side plan as operates in georgetown or many other hospital arrangements, we will offer a variety of strategies to make sure religious libertys are respected at the same time millions of women who work in the institutions and spouses of employees and daughters of employees have access to these important health. >> i know my time has expired. i'm not sure that will work. i yield back. >> i thank you. we are voting. we are going to go one more five-minute and break and come back immediately after the vote. the chair recognizes mr. waxman for five minutes. >> thank you. madam secretary, welcome to the committee. >> thank you. >> i must say in the decadess that i have been in the congress, you are one of the finest secretaries we had in the health and human services. i'm

patrick bashon, president of the democracy institute, a washington based independent policy researchanization. thanks for coming on to the bbc "newsday." we've seen lots and lots of smiles but in theory, both of these men, president obama and the british prime minister are on completely different spectrums. >> you have a liberal and a conservative in the european sense and yet it's in their mutual self-interests to be buddy-buddy during this trip. president obama gets the plus of having a popular foreign leader who will happily trail him around and swing electoral states like ohio and prime minister cameron having a tough time at home gets to play the statesman and fly on air force i. it's lots of fun and lots of great pictures and obviously the optics, the visuals are great, the wives looking great, coming over great. >> this all sounds very great but if we were to be a fly on the wall, what do you think we would or wouldn't be hearing? >> i think we'll be hearing a lot more disagreement than the apparent, from the news reports. they completely disagree on economic policy. they have

[the captioning on this program is provided as an independent service of the national captioning institute, inc., which is solely responsible for the accurate and complete transcription of program content. cbs, its parent and affiliated companies, and their respective agents and divisions are not responsible for the accuracy or completeness of any transcription or for any errors in transcription.] i knew it'd be tough on our retirement savings, especially in this economy. but with three kids, being home more really helped. man: so we went to fidelity. we talked about where we were and what we could do. we changed our plan and did something about our economy. now we know where to go for help if things change again. call or come in today to take control of your personal economy. get free one-on-one help from america's retirement leader. . >>> this is 9news now. >>> it certainly would not be march madness without upsets and it was certainly david over goliath earlier as bcu moves ahead against wichita state. but come tomorrow afternoon, all eyes will be on the georgetown hoyas as they take th

technology disruption of traditional forms of media have led many to believe that independent thoughtful media institutions are on the decline and there are not enough readers to support serious reporting. obviously this young man also grateful has put his money down on the contrary point of view and my sense of all the forms of writing that are so spectacularly good at this kind of brainy essay for highly motivated readers both law trained and not seem to be the sweet spot of what you are the best at an and good at everything. is this gamble a good one or are we not going to have the republic which is almost 100 years old, 15 years from now? >> i missed the meeting where he laid out his vision because i was coming out here but people are absolutely delighted and suddenly feels like this institution which has been my home for 20 years and nurtured everything that i have loved about writing but before this i'm not sure i would have said it would continue 100 years and suddenly there's a great sense of optimism because chris hughes combined obviously the resources and familiarity with social media to allow j

>> well, they do not trust anybody, and they want to call themselves independents, because they don't like the institutions. they don't like the banks or the political parties or us, as you know from covering the financial issues, so people are mad and identify themselves as independents, but they are conservative. 15 years ago there were no state organized parties in the county level in alabama and mississippi. at the state level it was mostly democrats and now republicans everywhere, the county sxhisher in and the congressional races, and governor romney has a lot of the local endorsements. hayes the governor of mississippi and does that help him organizationally where people say he is from massachusetts and he is a mormon and he says cheesy grits. >> yes. and can he get the passion vote versus romney's organization vote? that is two great states to watch it play out tonight. >> amazing and fascinating results so far from what john told you from the exit polls, and more information is coming in and of course we will share it with you as we have the polls closing. >>> well, today, mitt romney took a slam

[the captioning on this program is provided as an independent service of the national captioning instituteis solely responsible for the accurate and complete transcription of program content. cbs, its parent and affiliated companies, and their respective agents and divisions are not responsible for the accuracy or completeness of any transcription or for any errors in transcription.] clark: one of the best types to shoot the three-point shot is off an offensive rebound because the defense is in the paint, and presence of mind by henson, and an easy look for bullock. jim: two at the line for kendall marshall. second in the nation. the only man with the better average assist per game on tuesday night in dayton, scott machado of iona. the gaels really looked so strong for a half against b.y.u. before the cougars pulled off the biggest comeback in ncaa tournament history, from 5 down to win. clark: hartsock carried them offensively in that second half. it was quite fascinating to see that kind of turnaround. can creighton have a similar turnaround? down 17. the only way it happens is if they'r

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institute when it started, coke others. some of you may know that the cato when it's done independently in the coat others are now suing the o institute to get it back to be a totally controlled coat brothers operation. americans for prosperity is the most active political organization today, all funded by the co-brothers. freda marks, dick armey's organization. john kasich of ohio, coke brothers brought stock. same with scott walker in wisconsin. everywhere in california couple years ago there is a measure prop 23 in the ballot to repeal the new clean car standards put in by arnold schwarzenegger that measure to repeal those standards, which last totally funded by the coat weathersbee legislation west virginia to overturn the new mining safety rules put in place after that last mining disaster. the effort to overturn mining safety regulations funded by the coat or theirs. i have in the book of peach with 53 different organizations. a lot of them by the way a research centers on college campuses around the country at all for the purpose of disputing the existence of global warming and fighting to do away with any government

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she is an independent lecturure on topics related to early 19th century american in white house history. institutions she has spoken for include the smithsonian institution, society of the cincinnati, american institute of architects, national trust for historic preservation, pca, aca, national society of coclonian dumbarton house and the smithsonian gallery. welcome leslie jones. >> good evening. thank you for choosing to spend your thursday night here with us at the maryland historical society. that was a very generous introduction. thank you, mark. we are going to go ahead and get started. i believe i'm queueing to you for slides. thank you. oh, the terrible velvet curtains. the madisons decorate the white house. this image right here on the very front is actually the earliest known published image of the white house from a travel book. at this time when the madisons came into the white house, only part of the white house was finished. before the british came marched into washington and ended up burning the city to the ground. next slide. its original architect james hoebin won the competition set

it demanded a sense of political will internationally to stand firm, to build institutions of high credibility and independence. and created, you know, a long experience of negotiation and of -- of trying to corral the international community around the creation of courts that really needed the support of the international community to be successful. >> now, the other major institution which you discussed in your book is the international criminal court and you were the lead u.s. negotiator in negotiating in rome the statute that lead to the creation of the court. give us a little bit of the insider feel of those negotiations. what were you trying to achieve and now looking back 10 years later, the u.s. is not a party to the court. there's lots of controversy within our own country about the wisdom of whether or not to join the court. what's been the legacy of that? >> president clinton stated six times publicly during his presidency that he wanted to see the permanent international criminal court built and in one of those statements he said i want it built by the end of this century. so those were my instruct

years since he first came to power is dismantle russian political institutions basically dismantle the elections and destroy the independent media. so nobody else has an opportunity to speak to the people, nobody else can actually get popular. it's a scorched earth strategy that he's employed. >> but from what your book says, you believe that his demise is about to begin. how is that? >> i do. the movement is huge. i think the movement is much larger than most people here and even than russia realized. last time there were protests in 98 city as cross the country. in small towns, population, 140,000, 120 people come out. that's 0. points 1 prr.1% popul city and they're really fed up. i think one other important thing about the protest is that everything that used to play well for putin, everything that used to work for him like his many vulgar jokes has now really started to rile people up so it's now working against him. he doesn't realize this. >> masha, certainly he's not a dictator like stalin or khrushchev or brezhnev were, right gentlem right? >> it's hard to rank dictators on a scale. it's dangerous for people in op

institute based in washington, d.c.. now, as many of you may well know, we are an independent in every international research institute dedicatedo research on arms control, disarmament, but also of transnational security issues. i think many of you might be familiar with the annual your book that provides authoritative information data and analysis on security and conflict, military spending and armaments, nonproliferation, arms control and disarmament issues. would you may not know is that sipri is increasingly present in the major decision making centers of the world to read a few years ago sipri opened an office in beijing and china and since we have an office here in washington, d.c. to but i must say we are delighted we are co located within institute in the center. the aim of the office is to bring new global innovative voices to the security and foreign policy debates across north america to strengthen cooperation between european, american and international experts and institutions, and we will be bringing our colleagues from stockholm to this side of the atlantic by organizing the events and roundtable discussions like

the white house senses a winning issue. 64% of those all important independent women voters believe employers, even religious institutions should be required to cover contraceptives. still, house republicans are working on a bill to overturn the president's new rule on contraception coverage after a senate measure to overturn it failed this week. do you worry that passing similar legislation in the house would create a backlash against rpublicans by women voters? >> i think the american people are concerned about the government's infringement on religious liberty. >> reporter: boehner and several other leaders denounced limbaugh's comments. as one conservative put it, sometimes limbaugh helps us win debates. sometimes he helps us lose them. guess which one this is. >> thanks, nancy. for more on this and the run-up to the big super tuesday primary just three days away, let's go back to washington and john dickerson. great to have you with us. good morning. >> good morning. >> how are limbaugh's comments going to play with the gop? is it going to be a problem for them? >> in terms of the republican primary, it probably won