>> guest: a mixture, i would say, of republicans and independents became independent because of their frustration with the social agenda. there would be a mixture. the starbucks moms and dads would be independence, but they might also be center-right republicans and center-left immigrants. it is a little tricky because the book is called the swing vote. i'm focusing of independent voters, but that is mostly who i talk to. there are also registered democrats and republicans to swing quite a bit here just haven't changed their registration or maybe they want to deal to vote in primaries. >> host: 20 percent of democrats across the country call themselves conservatives ideologically. something most people might not know. we should also point of quickly that we are using the word unaffiliated an independent energy. >> guest: i use the word independent to sort of be more accessible, but in most states the registration categories unaffiliated were unrolled. >> host: interesting. third group, younger people with speech to the facebook generation, people under 35. they are registered in the h

let's get to the typologies of the independent voters. you have the success of chapters on these states and within each of the state's you sort of identify a group, and the first in in many ways i think the most interesting to people the npr republicans who you associate with new hampshire but of course are everywhere who are the republicans? >> guest: the npr republicans are the people that we used to think about as the rockefeller republicans coming and i thought it was time for some of these names to be freshened up. obviously a nelson rockefeller has been gone for quite awhile, so the npr republicans, there are a lot of them in new england but they are all over the country as well. they tend to be more affluent, older, socially moderate, fiscally conservative republicans. they would be appalled by this birth control discussion and think abortion is a personal choice. they don't get into the socialist cuba they are fiscally conservative. they were turned off during the bush years by the mismanagement of government by the growth of gove

there a lot of independent voters in massachusetts. it is a liberal reputation. >> host: there are more liberals than democrats? >> guest: yes, there are. these would tend to be lower, middle class, manufacturing-based employees, policemen, firemen, teachers can be america first democrats in the midwest, and they are more socially conservative than probably any of the other groups. they are very concerned about the loss of manufacturing jobs. they were hit hard. for example in ohio, they were hit very hard by the loss of manufacturing jobs and i think barack obama, he didn't really carry this group in 2008 but i think he sees them and wants to add them to the coalition in 2012 and so i think some of his language about companies that create jobs here and not allowing companies to write off their expenses when they move jobs overseas, a lot of these things were brought up recently and are designed to appeal to this group. and i do think some of the things republicans have done in states like ohio and wisconsin with antiunion legislation

>> they are a mixture of republicans and independents prefer never have left to become independent because of their frustration with the social agenda. starbucks moms and dads are the independence but also center right to republicans and center-left democrats. it is tricky because it is called "the swing vote" focusing on independent voters but this is mostly to why talk to but also registered democrats and republicans to swing quite a bit. >> those that call those those conservative the people may not know but we use the word unaffiliated and independent interchangeably. yes. >> guest: but in most dates but that is how wide chose them. >> host: the third group? younger people? >> facebook generation people under 35. they are registered and the highest percentage than any other age group. they voted big-time four barack obama 2008 but it is a big question not so much especially giving how much but will they vote at all? mariane as voters over 60 barack obama energize them. and then raise the hope and then on the other cited inouye not letting lobbyists come to the white house instead come

can obama win the independent vote? >> obama is falling mostly short among independents.n i looked at the last gallup poll you had 50 percent of americans who disapproved of barack obama's job he was doing but among independents almost 60 percent. he has a big road ahead of him, barack obama in wouldn'tioing independents. it is fair to say republicans don't have a fair shot. they have a equally fair shot. >> president obama -- what about today, super tuesday. how many independent votes in all of these primaries and caucuses? >> wherever you see ron paul competing hard like in north dakotas where those folks are allowed to vote. he saw that no south carolina, iowa. that's your signal. if ron paul is on the ground it's independent state. he's oo crossover. >> democrats can vote in a republican primary. >> it is mischief making. we will see more go in the future. >> you think we will see a change in virginia wheith their process? >> i am a native virginian since 1970 candidates have been able to meet the bar and the fre threshold for getting on the ballot. virginians we don'

independents are a diverse group especially independent women. better with woman who work were single, woman who were more affluent. what the republicans have to do is tone down this rhetoric. right now i have heard women say we are trying to figure out how to put food on the table and republicans are talking about contraception. this is not what -- romney got dragged into that debate, too. he didn't come after limbaugh when he made those derogatory remarks. >> he could have taken it. >> here we go, guys. (talking over one another) >> thank you so much. coming up, see if you can figure out the word of the day before we do. stay with us. @? >> the hour flies by. {off-lineÑ] independence. very important. >> every day that we do the scramble and good work, gretchen. >> yeah, and they decide all elections so definitely a capital i. great show, guys. thanks for kicking it off for us early in the morning. >> absolutely. thank you. we'll leave it right now and hand it over to you. thank you to all of you at home for supporting us this week. we've had a

international and independent observer mean were named possible to conduct a vote of observers from european monitoring bodies say the regularities and other people immediately. while the opposition face serious electoral violations saying they'll be bringing people out into the streets once again to protest the results. three pm in moscow i match reza good to have you with us as we continue our official election coverage here on r t right here putin has won the presidential race to become russia's leader for a third term official results have given him almost sixty four percent of the vote let's go now live show skeet live for us in central moscow there so let's say putin has finished well ahead of his opponents give us the figures. yes we can say officially that russia has its president elect led even if we can has managed to go on a sixty three point six percent of the votes that is around forty five million people voting for the current prime minister for him to become president we also have the figure of the ninety's who got his closest rival who managed to go on a seventeen point two p

we have to explain we're independent independent. >> reporter: it tykes a lot of money. >> you've gotgo out and get rid of all your old equipment which is hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions of dollars worth of equipment, throw it away and put in a new digital projector for more hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions of dollars. >> we constantly change things. after we finish one project we start another. >> some of the smaller guys just can't afford it, you know, which it's not cost-effective for them. >> reporter: that's how these two got into the movie business in the first place. >> "ghost rider" played well us last time. >> reporter: the previous theater owner couldn't keep up when a big chain opened a complex nearby. >> when regal came and opened up, it took about 50% of his business. he struggled. he was an old operator. he wasn't a young guy. >> reporter: the previous theater owner's threat to abandon the business would have been a disaster for the landlord. >> he just fret much threw in the towel thinking, i'll ride this out as long as i can, i won't reinvest into the op

it's greater than it was in '08. >> that's independent voters. >> independent voters are turning very against all of the republican candidates in a way that did not happen in the democratic primary. >> that leads to the question, mitt romney is facing that, his favorabili favorability, among independents, how does he fix that? >> he needs to win and win strong. that's not going to happen in alabama. i don't see any indication that santorum or gingrich are going to drop out any time soon. both of their campaigns make the case, look, the path may be difficult for us, but romney has to win 50% of all the remaining delegates. the romney people will acknowledge that the campaign as it goes forward today could deny him the key number of delegates. and if you talked to the gingrich people they are already talking about how gingrich is going to go to tampa -- their the only ones -- >> no matter what. >> no matter what. and they say, gingrich is the only one who has run a w.h.i.p. operation. when husband with the house majority w.h.i.p. -- or the minority w.h.i.p. that says to me they're liter

independent women will be very important. especially states like ohio, virginia, florida, like nevada, states mitt romney has won. if mitt romney can keep this trend going and after april 3rd it is winner take all. so this race will take on a whole new dimension once we get into these winner take all states. this will be a race that will go on for some time to come. i don't think gingrich is going anywhere. paul is on a scale ven yes, sir hunt for delegates and santorum is staying in the race. car -- santorum got caught up making remarks about religion, women, contraception. i wonder if his comments on these oacial issues overshadow his these sedge at a time when americans care most about the jobs and the economy. >> there is no doubt that happened. look at his lead a week ago in ohio. and ity evaporated when he started talking about the issues. >> 18 points. >> the american people are worried about their economic survival, their family's survival. when gas goes to $4 and $5 and unemployment is high and bankruptcy is high, st

and so i think that independent people should be encouraged to be independent. and, therefore, continuity is a challenge. and look at, for instance, the cultural scene. you have a lot of people who do theater, who do dancing, who do poetry. all these people are independent. and not a whole lot sin veis in in these people. i think this is going to be bad for our descendents for the children if we neglect culture. there's a great potential for young people. i think we should encourage music, musicians and other people. so give more latitude to people who are independent. well, culture should be encouraged. otherwise, we're not going to be a cultural nation. so i think culture should not be compulsory. but everybody, of course, can be in culture. but you're right. you're absolutely right. a country that neglects its culture can no longer claim to be cultural. this is true. the lady in the front? and then we'll go on the other side. i work in school. i think for education we should dedicate ourselves much more on theory and practice and i think that we should send o

independents are smart enough to see that. not -- >> any time there is a vote on the economy and mitt romney has not taken the bait, to brit hume's point fhe were, he would have rejected what he did with health care in massachusetts and quite to the contrary, he's not giving in to the analysts who say he has to repudiate it. >> he loves the ryan plan and senior citizens don't care for that? one thing that affects seniors is medicare and the health care. the supreme court will be making a decision on obamacare and the reform health care plan. how, tony, do you think that they will change the narrative, the candidates, if we don't have a nominee yet, when that decision comes down? >> we likely will, i believe that decision's going to come in june. if we don't have a nominee by june 5, we have a serious problem. the reality is that health care is an issue unto itself. it is not mitt romney's record, it's what the american people think the president did itw t. every poll shows that the american people repudiate obamacare. >> gregg

could it become an independent force in and of itself? so, i think that these types of issues need to be carefully looked at before the decision would be made to go ahead. >> thank you very much. senator murkowski. >> thank you, mr. chairman. mr. allison, when we created the loan guarantee program, there were a number of terms and conditions that were inserted at implementati implementation, and i want to ask you three questions, i hope pretty brief. but one condition in the program is that there be a "reasonable prospect of repayment." in your opinion, what is a reasonable prospect of repayment? is it an 80% chance that it's going to be repaid, a 70%? is it higher, is it lower? where is reasonable? >> senator, that's an excellent question, and we actually looked at the history of that term in legislation, and it goes back quite a long way. but nowhere could we find a definition of "reasonable prospect of repayment." >> so, how would you define it? >> well, i think that's precisely the issue, how does one define it? i would say reasonable

how long does it take to let a contract to get an independent assessment, mr. secretary? >> senator, since this contract is not under my purview, since i don't let this contract -- >> i see. it's somebody else's responsibility. well, i want to tell you for sure that untilt we get that independent assessment, there should be no concrete plans made by the secretary of defense or the defense department until we have a chance to examine an independent assessment and then go through the authorization process for any expenditure of funds that need to be made in order to get this redeployment issue into some kind of sanity and believe me, we acted as is our responsibility because of our intense frustration about the lack of progress on this issue and now 2 1/2 months go by and they haven't let a contract to get an independent assessment by the way and we wanted it to be completed by the 1st of april, end of march which cannot obviously happen. i'm not going to continue to let you slow walk us on this issue. just put things in perspective on the f-35. again, we started this progr

why is the world superpower concerned with an independent journalist in yemen. well the united states has been waging a covert war in yemen for a number of years in fact president obama really escalated that koger war the first bombing of yemen that we know that president obama authorized was on december seventeenth two thousand and nine and the way it was reported in the press was that it was a yemeni strike and that thirty four al qaeda members were killed in that strike and because of this journalists are going to the scene taking photographs of the missile parts and then sending them to media outlets and ultimately to amnesty international the world learned that in fact it was that u.s. bombing because they were tomahawk cruise missiles and cluster bombs neither of which ever has in its arsenal and of course after revealed that. the wiki leaks cables that general david petraeus who have the time was the cent com commander had conspired with president ali abdullah saleh of yemen to cover up the u.s. role in those strikes in fact i guess any official said if s

i only want to spend money on independent expenditures. i'm not going to coordinate under the campaign rules with any particular candidate. therefore, it is unconstitutional for the government to still restrict the money coming into my organization. there's absolutely no answer -- so the argument goes, there's no anti-corruption benefit to restrict the money coming in if the money coming out is per se noncorrupting. the court agreed and tossed the limits on contributions to these types of pacs aside. and so from this decision the fcc created a new category of entity and it's a mouthful and i believe it was recoined here by our friend here as the super pac. >> i know why i came up with that term. >> the other name was so catchy. so let us move on to our other panelists. but from that creation story as it is, i just want to underscore three particularly troubling assumptions that super pacs are based upon. one is this idea that independent expenditures are noncorrupting. i mean, this notion is, quite frankly, ludicrous here and i know all ab

. >> steve, an independent in gaston, florida. go. you're up next. >> caller: yes, hello, greta. >> morning. >> caller: and senator spector. >> hello. >> caller: a pleasure talking with you. mitt romney accused rick santorum in one of his debates of supporting you which led to the obamacare. that was one thing that i wanted you to address. but most importantly, ten years ago i probably would have been a tea partier, you know, because i was the independent in the republican party that didn't want all the spending, especially in iraq. and now i think it's hypocritical of tea partiers to come out because there is a democratic president and come out and all of the sudden play this hard line, this debt game. we're not going to raise the debt when the republicans did it all along. and i was just wondering what you thought of that. and then the last thing was the word rhino, republican in name only. i've been called that for the last ten years. and now i'm just going to vote democrat. and if the republicans don't want me, you know where they

they declare they're independent and then go home.hat would send the message that people are tired. >> that's an interesting strategy. now, let me ask you though in terms of what's going on on the ground in the republican primary for those who will be voting, do you have a sense mayor, of why that gap has closed? is it because there is just an amen lot ofawful lot of spending by mitt romney? where is the gap closing? >> since i'm independent, i don't pay too much attention to that. but the way i see it you've got two dogs in a fight going at it, and they're both barking very loudly, and they're not saying anything that we haven't heard before. the sad news the most vicious of the two is going to win. and you're talking to the wrong person from that perspective. i don't get wrapped up in the political machine because in november i get to vote for who i consider to be the lesser of two liars from both parties. and a lot of people who were centralist agree with those terms. i havei havei have a dictionary at home, and the definition of a

independents have no political voice in california. and so my question is, do you see a way if that's an accurate hypothesis or scenario, a way for latinos to achieve significant independent political voice if the independents have really no voice at all? >> well, we're talking about a single member district election system when we talk about redistricting. so, you know, the question isn't really about whether you have a statewide voice or how you might express your statewide voice. i think the question is how are the district lines going to be drawn so people can come together and whether voters are going to act as swing voters between democrat and republican candidates or whether they'll mount their own candidate, i don't know. but i think the question is much more limited than that what you're in single member districts. >> i mean, this may be -- well, elvis has just left the building so he's not here to answer this question. but perhaps you can answer it, but lots of people are independents, but their actual voting behavior is quit

there were men who participated in the american revolution who signed the declaration of independence. they were very daring men. they had no money. they had to finance a war on their own signatures, essentially. and i think he was interested in the mechanics and the administrative details of how that was accomplished, most people, i think, when they read about the american revolution and the battles, they get involved in the military strategy and there's quite a lot of that. i mean, he does have quite a lot of information having to do with the war. but, also, the letters have to do, for instance, washington's letter has to do with administrative details on his farm later in life. and i think he was trying to show that the american founding fathers were actually people who lived and died just like anyone else did. on the far left, we have a piece that is signed by benjamin franklin. and benjamin franklin, among his many occupations, diplomat and inventor, he was also a printer. this document is a receipt for printing that is signed by benjamin franklin and it's a little bit later than

. >> richton, new jersey, walter, an independent. good morning. >> caller: good morning, senator specter. how you doing? >> good. >> caller: i want to ask you, what do you think can be done to make local people like yourself and colin powell and republicans that hold a more moderate view? >> the answer to have an aroused, informed electorate. let me tell you some of the details as to what happened to senator lisa murkowski in alaska. she was challenged by the tea party, and they beat her in a primary. and she decided to run as a write-in candidate. now that is unprecedented. strom thurmond did it in 1954 under very different circumstances. but in an unprecedented way, lisa murkowski won a write-in. now, do you know how hard it is to spell murkowski? if you write murkowski and you have ay instead of a i, they throw out your ballot. if you have a o instead of a u, they throw out your ballot. and she beat the system. which means that if you have an electorate which is informed and motivated, and that's what i'm trying to do with the boo

speaking of that, you know the independent vote -- and i know you are an independent, is the big challenge for the republicans at this moment. >> a registered democrat. >> you are confusing me. >> i am confused. >> i will get hate mail. okay. registered democrat, work for a republican and it may be an independent-leaning democrat? is that your -- >> what everybody wants. >> you ought to run. so could these republicans ever say anything to get your vote? >> absolutely. >> what could they say? >> first of all, which one? you know i think the democrats don't -- when the democrats ignore the fiscal pocketbook issue which republicans have dominated, they risk losing the hearts and minds of the voters. i think the republicans have a problem because they have gone so far into the deep zany zone in terms of social politics they could never win my support. most of them couldn't win my support. but i definitely see republicans that are not -- most republicans in california are not the whack jobs on the right. sot, you know, i worked for a republican who i think, you know, hell he was nor republican

go across the political spectrum, there are liberal independents, and conservative independents, mitt romney if he were to become the republican nominee would improve his number among independents. president obama right now is maxed out among liberals and democrats. they are already behind him, they are already supporting him. what that tells us when we look at a poll like this is when you get down to the fight for the persuadable independents, the moderate folks in the middle that get to decide every election mitt romney has an upper hand in this poll. megyn: rick santorum also beats the president with independents. the question i have for you chris i haven't been able to find a month ago numbers from bloomberg, but a month ago numbers from pew put it the opposite way. president obama was beating mitt romney by a significant margin with independents. the president's numbers seem to be going in the wrong direction over the past four weeks. what is it? >> reporter: part of it is what we just heard the president and david cameron talking about, in the rose garden. afghanistan has americ

the independent payment advisory board is an independent 15-member panel appointed by the president unless the president doesn't appoint it unless three of the president's chief advisors become the board, and if they don't decide to do it then one person, the secretary of health and human services, has the authority when this kicks in in 2014 to make all kinds of decisions that the recognize ream impact health care in america. i don't think and a majority of my colleagues don't think it's the way it should be done, so this bill in one paragraph at the -- i think on page 24, repeals that section. that is a good start. it is not the end-all be-all but it's a good start of regaining control of health care by individuals in the marketplace. the other thing it does is put in a medical malpractice reform that is long overdue. the president in the state of the union said he was for medical malpractice. i am told he said he's not for this medical malpractice. just like he's not against the keystone x.l. but he calls senators to oppose it when it came up in the other body. we need medical malpracti

freedom of the press for all except those who publish inconvenient truths and independent reporters behind bars in yemen at the personal request of the u.s. president an exclusive look at this case and of why you probably never heard of it until today. and nearly a decade after its inception the international critical to the criminal court has a limited first verdict but you know what we're not going to talk about that we are going to talk about drone war secrecy and transparency all in honor of sunshine a week. plus the brits may have burned washington back anything in twelve but these days the two countries are burning with love with one another but these friends with benefits may be sharing more than goodwill some nasty practices like secrecy torture spying and shady extraditions going to read examine the u.s. and u.k. special relationship. anything it's wednesday march fourteenth five pm here in washington d.c. i'm lucy cough and open you're watching our t.v. . well in honor of sunshine week we're dedicating today shows to the issues of government secrecy transparency justice and the r

a lot of these had to do with the revolutionary battles or signers of the declaration of independence. whether or not his goal was to obtain all the signers, i am not sure. it may have been. since he passed away before he was able to complete the collection, and not knowing, not having the opportunity to talk to him, i'm not exactly sure what his goals were, but we're very fortunate to be able to share in the collection as he has it. my favorite, one of my favorites, is this one signed by john hancock. and it's as the governor. a state paper essentially, a proclamation that he made, and for raising a regiment, i believe, yes. everybody knows john hancock thanks to the insurance company because they did so many commercials. when i asked the national archives to see the declaration of independent whereof course he signed quite large, and his reason for signing in such a large hand was so that there would be no doubt as to whose signature it was. you have to think that for the declaration of independence, if you signed your name there, you were essentially signing your death warrant beca

when independent voters see the nominee as mccain did caving in, it just shows weakness and independent voters just tend to flop the other way. >> absolutely. >> that's the problem with that scenario. this party is playing the politics of subtraction. politics is about the mathematics of addition. you add groups to your coalition. you don't pull them away. you don't say hispanics, out of here. women, out of here. and that's what this party's doing now, and they're just going to lose the independent vote. >> casey foster is one of my students from moorehead state university, and julie whitney from suffolk university. i'll show a short clip from june of 2008. i want to get your immediate reaction. let's watch. >> although we weren't able to shatter that highest, hardest glass ceiling this time, thanks to you it's got about 18 million cracks in it. and the light is shining through like never before filling us all with the hope and the sure knowledge that the path will be a little easier next time. that has always been the history of progress in america. >> casey, we'll start with you. that

an independent.hat do you think of the stand your ground lost? aws? caller: good morning. first of all, the report of this young man. my initial thought was another young black male. baby and already it existing criminal history. when the facts came out and i saw the photograph of this zimmerman guy. face, look at this guy's i see something dark. it was obvious he was looking for someone younger and weaker than him. host: arkansas. republican. you are lost phone call on this. -- you are our last phone call on this. caller: the morning. host: you have to turn the tv down. house puts the brakes on the transportation bill. republicans on wednesday held ranks in a vote on $109 billion transportation bill approved by the senate last week with 10 days left until current transportation funding house leaders say they plan to introduce legislation today that will continue transportation funding for 90 days. if approved, it would be the ninth extension since last plan expired more than two years ago. that is a

it's independent from seniors, independent from people with disabilities, independent from the voters and independent from legal challenges and appeals and independent from any accountability. it's time to give that independence back to doctors, to patients and to congress by voting to repeal this washington power grab. i urge my colleagues to join me in supporting repeal of the independent payment advisory board and to vote yes on this legislation. the chair: the gentleman's request to insert documents in the record will be covered under general leave. the gentleman from michigan, mr. levin. mr. levin: i yield myself such time as i shall consume. the chair: the gentleman is recognized. mr. levin: i hope everybody's been listening to this. what has become clear is this -- the republicans have a three-act play. first, repeal ipab. next, repeal the rest of health care reform. and finally, repeal medicare. it is so hypocritical to come forth and say that the efforts of republicans is to protect medicare when the purpose of it is to destroy it. that's what would happen if they had prevail

he was commander of the rebels who fought against indonesia to achieve independence. the campaign pledge of this national hero also focuses on antipoverty measures. >> translator: we achieved independence, so we can achieve development as well. >> reporter: he is 35 years old. in the previous presidential election, he voted for ramos. this time he is supporting -- >> translator: ramos hasn't kept his promises. many of us are disappointed, so we support matan dr. ruak. >> reporter: he gets his income from construction sites, however, he said the chance of actually getting a job is very low. on this day, he worked for the first time in two months. he only earned enough money to give each member of his family just one serving. he is surviving on the support of his parents and friends. >> translator: life is very tough. >> translator: that's the reality. >> reporter: many are living in poverty and are being left behind economically. there are not many differences in the candidates' campaign pledges. but the popularity of the hero of the independent movement is a sign of s

to facilitate a timely review, they hired the independent review panel. there was a peer review professor to help the panel formulate a scope of work to provide comments on the report. as you can see, we as quite an extensive number of questions, the panel was tasked with reviewing change management, risk-management, project cost schedules, and contingencies. i am not going to have gary griggs briefly on the recommendations of that panel. >> good afternoon, commissioners. i would like to give you a brief report of the independent review findings. we came out in early october and spent a week on the project meeting with the staff as well as reviewing quite a number of the project documents and reports. we again found hope that we are very impressed with the construction management team, our focus was the construction management team and the construction activity underway. when we found it to be a very comprehensive and well thought out tradition and of regional type of organization with the matrix input of special services working very well. in addition, t

bakersfield, california, josiah, independence. independent.aller: so many people from canada come to the u.s. because they have socialized health care and they have to wait weeks and years for health care. this is going to create so many problems for so many people. people are going to be going and abusing the system and going in for every little problem when they don't have to, stopping care for people that actually needed it. and as far the government mandating what we have to do, if they can mandate this, they can mandate pretty much anything else regarding coverage. people have to buy insurance to buy a car, but you don't have to buy a car if you don't want to. that's the difference. you can take public transportation. the difference between buying insurance for a car and buying insurance on your health is the difference between what you choose to do and what you choose not to do. host: thanks. congresswoman donna edwards, a maryland democrat has posted this on twitter -- next is a call from salem, pennsylvania. charles is a democrat. call

the south was the only one that was really fighting for independence and they won their independence through a referendum. becoming the newest country in the world, mid 2011. >> also cost 2.5 million lives. but that left behind these other regions who have similar complaints about the kind of discrimination that occurs in their regions. the darfurrians, the people where we were just vitting in the nuba mountains, blue nile and other regions. and they are basically uniting in an opposition to try to overthrow this government to change. >> rose: this is the government in khartoum. >> yes. >> rose: and so the civil war, if it comes, is it eminent? >> there is-- imminent. >> there is a civil war inside the sudan left behind by south sudan. >> rose: right. >> that already is a tremendously costly war. >> is it intensifying. >> it is intensifying because the government of sudan sees these guys as a threat to their regime. so they are increasing the use of the aerial bombings. they are starving these areas, hoping that through this, they will drive the people off the land and they'll take t

trying to talk you may have an independent media one case. or case by by any means popular i case but richard old wire was you know young kid u.k. citizen who was in violation of u.s. copyright laws and is now being extradited to the u.s. by the u.k. for violating copyright laws we're looking at photos of him right now i mean it would seem based on your independent press over in the u.k. that this kind of thing is an outrage. well i think people are very concerned about various issues to do with the extradition treaty and i'm very glad that you asked me about that because we believe that to some extent this may take part in some kind of discussions between the two leaders i can see that they will be given much precedence by the extradition treaty that the u.k. has with the u.s. . you know this terrible one sided affair where by nothing really needs to be put forward in the way of evidence for the british to have to hand people over prosecution in the united states and what keeps happening over and over again and the fundamental problem is tha

the independents will flop around on this. they are not happy with the president. they don't approve of the job the president has done. in fact, all of this talk about how the president has come back if you look at the latest job approval numbers, latest gallop numbers were 45 approve, 50 disapprove. he's still in that danger territory well below the job approval numbers of clinton when he was re-elected and reagan when he was re-elected in the mid 50s. >> what's your assessment of where the president is? >> the president was in the low 40s. in the low 40s several months ago, everyone said obama isn't going to win. now that he's ticked up between 45 and 50 approval ratings in various polls, he could win with another tick. if you look up around 70 plus on track, that's closing. things are moving in the right direction. when we worked in '96, we did a very similar thing. we declared the economy was coming back. obama declared the economy is coming back. people are looking at that. he's not saying that i think we're back to peace and prosperity the way we were at the

and i have been saying to them over the last three months that there is an independent review that's going to take place in tandem with the reviews that are going on. i'm visiting japan right after the 1st of april. i had assumed there would be some sort of preliminary report in from the study, ask then we're hearing that apparently there hasn't even been a contract left. i hope we can clarify this. my understanding also is that -- admiral, you can clarify this for me, that the navy has halted potentially about $3 billion worth of construction projects on guam as we attempt to sort all this out; is that correct? >> i don't know if that number is correct in halting it, i'd have to go back and do the research on that. there are some on hold. the specifics and what they're based on, i better check it out before i give you an answer. >> we are in a freeze and it's being misunderstood on guam. the situation in okinawa is one of probably the top two most volatile domestic political issues in japan. we need to get this going. i know there are continuing talks. we follow them every day in my

and john dunlap was the official printer of the declaration of independence. when it was issued on the 4th of july in 1776, they sent the approved declaration to john dunlap who would typeset it and he would print it and he printed 200 broad sides, which at that time was about the size of a regular newspaper sheet. there are only 25 copies of the original declaration still in existence. another couple autographs that are interesting is alexander ham i will ton and aaron burr. and they fought a famous dual, so the collector framed both of these autographs together and in the middle of it is a picture of the two of them fighting the dual. one is a letter of routine legal matters and the one from alexander hamilton is also a legal paper from 1795. this autograph by john quincy adams where he signed as the secretary of state and it's routine departmental business from january 16th of 1818. john quincy adams is one of america's great secretaries of state, arranging with england for the joint occupation of the oregon territory and obtaining from spain the cessation

and i want to say that i found the independent audit to be quite useful. it disaggregates the projects based on risk profiles, rather than programmatic origin. it discusses transparency and reporting shortcomings, reveals the concentration risk in the current portfolio. the audit further highlights the portfolio's reliance on state and federal mandates to force the creation of markets for certain projects and products, and it makes invaluable recommendations that we, and i think the secretary, need to consider. if there is one shortcoming to the audit, it is that it doesn't delve deeply into the history of these programs, which i think is essential to understanding how we've gotten into some of the difficulties that we are now facing. again, we're talking about three different programs here. you've got the first one that was section 1703 from the '05 energy bill. you have from the 2007 energy bill, the atvm. and then you have section 1705 from the 2009 stimulus. and while there are certain similarities between the three, there's some very important distinc