economic development agenda that we all care about right daphne why show a fellow at the institute for policy studies thanks so much for joining us and sharing that perspective. and moving on now to the way america will be perceived in the future we are coming up on a ten year anniversary of the terrorist attacks of nine eleven just how the sixth year anniversary of hurricane katrina and we have some perspective now about the way the wars we are involved in started and in the last year or so some key players in all of those events have come out with books their versions of history as it unfolded the problem is much of those so-called historic accounts are at odds with one another well for more on this i asked former cia analyst ray mcgovern to talk a little bit about the impact that these books could have the fact of their opinions and their thoughts about this are clashing here's what he said. well they're totally self serving of course surprise surprise and the worst thing is that there are very few people to put them into context and perspective. dick cheney was one for merrily responsible for sta

economic development agenda that we all care about all right daphne why show a fellow at the institute for policy studies thanks so much for joining us and sharing that perspective. well i want to turn now to some other things going on in this country you know perhaps he was a feel for the pulse of the nation these days there are of course a number of fact a number of factors to consider but i want to look i just mentioned president obama's approval rating for the third week in a row it is that it's lowest in his presidency you take a look you can see forty percent this includes a two day low of thirty eight percent during a couple days last week the economy of course of primary concern for people from both parties in many cities across america the struggle is manifesting itself in the form of extreme violence especially from young people who feel they have no prospects for jobs or otherwise in the future one of those cities is milwaukee wisconsin where earlier this month there was massive violence in the form of riot. you're looking now at cell phone video taken at the wisconsin state fair in milwaukee

obama doctrine i'm joined by phyllis bennis in washington she is project director at the institute for policy studies in paris we have to he is a libyan political analyst and another member of our crosstalk team yellin the hunger all right phyllis i'd like to go to you first you know we're both americans and we're used to having presidents having doctrines when it comes to foreign policy and we had harry truman we had a universal policy you know universal doctrine that is if you support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation ok john f. kennedy pay any price bear any burden to assure the survival and success of liberty we all remember that one and we should it's a good saying george w. bush had his own to the ultimate goal of ending tyranny in the world now mr obama a few days ago had the following to say let's discuss if this is his doctrine. america should not be expected to police the world particularly when we have so many pressing concerns here at home is that a doctrine should it be a doctrine should it be embraced and is it being acted out phyllis. well i don't think that's a doct

thinking of which budget cuts are going to come down hard on them it's a new report from the institute for policy studies and it shows that out of two thousand and ten the hundred highest paid corporate chief executives in the u.s. twenty five of those took home more than in their c.e.o. pay and their company paid in federal income taxes now these are some of biggest corporations in the world we're talking about the rise of boeing honeywell of general electric evade ford motorola and dow chemical and all the twenty five c.e.o.'s averaged around sixteen point seven million dollars in salary that is well above two thousand and nine southbridge of ten point. million then when tax time did come most of the companies actually came out ahead collecting tax refunds from the i.r.s. the average of three hundred four million dollars so far we get into what that means let me just give you two more statistics in the report that my kitchen fuming at eighteen of the twenty five companies operated in subsidiaries and offshore tax havens and twenty of these twenty five companies also spent more money on lobbying and the

for future reference. third guess is a policy analyst at the institute for economic policy studies focusing on energy in regulatory issues and examines energy prices and in particular with cap-and-trade legislation and the trouble with environmentalism has appeared on many programs locally as well as serving as an associate for a charitable foundation please help me in welcoming nec. [applause] >> thank you for coming here today. for what truly promises to be an educational and promising event with our speaker. when a about these issues and studying them for awhile as a global recession hit you have seen a shift from the green movement warning against the catastrophic consequences of climate change but shifting to the green jobs position moving to the clean energy economy. these policies have such far reaching implications on businesses in households to rest on the shaky sets of assumptions when it comes to global warming we may be more blunt but it is troubling. the policy here in the united states to drive the price of energy ups of people use less those that restrict consumer choice and ignore the trade-off whe

allison's center for forei policies purity is also the deputy director of an institute for international studies. jim is a historian, a teacher, a prolific writer, and focuses on developing a national security required to secure the interests of the united states car protecting the public, providing for economic growth, and preserving civil liberties. he is a columnist for the "washington examiner." his columns run in every major paper in america, not to mention appearances on cable networks. in his spare time, he has written six books, including one textbook on homeland security. he joined heritage as a research fellow in 2003. he is a 25-year veteran of the army where he rose to lieutenant colonel. he was the head speech writer for the army chief of staff. before retiring, it was the executive editor of "joint force quarterly." is a graduate of west point, a doctorate at georgetown, and a national bagri in a strategy from the u.s. for college. early in 2005, he said that -- michael chertoff said that " homeland security two. no" was the most red paper in the department of homeland security bec

hosting our discussion this morning is the director of our center for foreign policy studies and deputy director of the institutegy, the department of the army historical advisory committee, and a senior fellow at george washington university. he served as a visiting professor at georgetown university and has authored several books. as well as co-offering with many of our colleagues here. please join me in welcoming my colleague. jim? [applause] >> let me thank all of you for coming. numbers are important. they can be horribly abused. why are we worrying about terrorism? you are more likely to get struck by a meteoric than a terrorist. we should not be spending money on this. all of those numbers are true and totally relevant hang bank terrorism is not about killing people. 9/11 is an aberration. terrorism was never about killing people. it is about threatening a way of life. you treat it differently than a car accident, so it is significant because there are people out there threatening our way of life. some out there like to kill us in the tens of thousands and millions which are big numbers that will make a d

for the american people and the choice will be very stark and will be very clear. >> gretchen: economists and director of economic policy studies at the american intersurprise institute proposal. kevin, thank you for joining us. >> good morning. >> gretchen: so one of the things that we've heard from the president, kind of a sneak peek at his jobs plan now that he's going to announce in three weeks is more stimulus. he's talking about construction infrastructure spending. good or bad? >> yeah. it's bad. it's not going to work. it's not going to have much of an effect, or at least a neutral. the fact is they talk a lot about shovel ready projects last time and the president himself conceded there aren't any of those things. it takes years and years to get permits. so if they're worried about job creation this year, there is no way that construction spending is going to help. they're in a hole, they need to stop digging. >> gretchen: we asked you to say no effect or positive effect. you say no effect. nothing. will do nothing. he's also talked about -- let's go back to the grand plan that i proposed to speaker john boehner and by the way, blaming boehner for not accept

for more on this of joined by william a goss. as the chair and senior fellow in governance studies at the brookings institution and a former policy adviser to president bill clinton welcome good to be here rather have you with us are first of all this is bipartisan in fact it looks like the numbers of democrats who are not holding to town hall meetings a slightly higher than that of republicans it's absolutely correct sixty something versus fifty and change. what in your mind is this a symptom of in the largest sense. and if i may how unique is this at this point in time versus say a decade or two or three ago well we're at a nearly unique moment in modern american history where trust in government is at an all time low or pretty close to it and so is the public regard expressed in public opinion surveys for the congress of the united states and this is truly on a bipartisan basis the approval rating for republicans in congress is rock bottom but it's not much better for democrats and the american people right now have a very simple sentiment which i can sum up as follows a plague on both your houses and so the vision of the peop

policy institute did a study saying that there are few companies that moved out of state. >> i still remember those days when chevron moved. bank of america moved. these were huge partners for many decades. they were icons, if you will. they moved. what may not be as clear to people is what companies are located in silicon valley and brisbane that are not here. i would have thought they would have moved here first, but they are not here. when you look at those companies like google or hp or other silicon valley's, that is why i went down to talk to the silicon valley leadership forum. there ceo's -- their ceo's had a chance to coordinate with us. they were telling us why they would not moving to san francisco. that gave me another agenda that is not corporate welfare. what can we attract here for them? the key is education. we've got to have an intelligent work force that keeps them wanting to be here. that is the number-one thing. that is why i investing so much time in creating a strong connection with our city college, school district. they've got to make sure we have a very integrated education system. that will be a key for many years to come. they tell us in no uncert

the director here at heritage of the allison center for foreign policy studies as well as the deputy director and kathryn shelby cullom davis institute for international studies. jim is historian, teacher writer, i might add a prolific writer. he focuses on the national security required to secure the long-term interests of the united states, protecting for the public, providing for economic growth and preserving civil liberties. he is a weekly columnist for the "washington examiner". his op-ed columns run in about every major paper in america not to mention his appearances on all the major cable networks. in his spare time he authored six books including, mcgraw-hill textbook he coauthored on homeland security. he joined heritage as a research fellow in 2003. he is a 25-year veteran of army where he rose to rank of lieutenant colonel. served in europe, korea and united states. head speechwriter for the army chief of staff. before retiring he is executive editor of joint force quarterly. he is a graduate of west point. has a master's degree and doctorate from georgetown and a master's degree on strategy from the u.s. army war college

our douglas and syrup allison center for foreign policy director and said that the director of our cabin and shelby colin davis institute for international studies. he's a member of the national academies board on army science and technology, and the department of army historical visor committee as was being a senior fellow of the george washington university homeland security policy institute. he has lectured and and professor at some university campuses. he is army career, he was lieutenant colonel serving in europe, korea and the united states and was later executive editor of joint force quarterly. he has authored several books including the one he co-authored force you at heritage, winning the long war, lessons from the cold war for defeating terrorism and preserving freedom. please join me in welcoming my colleague, jim care pharma. [applause] >> here's the course of action. i'm going to introduce carcassonne bartlett who is a great, safety words and to some questions and answers. we'll do that for about half an hour and in what i'll do is i will introduce the panel and then the panel will speak on each will speak for about 10 minutes. the

douglass and sarah allison's center for foreign policy studies and deputy director of the catherine and shelley: davidson institutee, and a senior fellow at george washington junior -- george washington university homeland security policy institute. he has authored several books, including private sector public course, contracting and con tracked iraq, as well as co- author and with one of our colleagues here, winning the long war, lessons from the cold war for defeating terrorism and preserving freedom. [applause] >> let me thank all of you for coming. numbers are important and they really matter. they could also be horribly abused. there is an argument about why are we are worried about terrorism? if you look at the statistics, you're more likely to be killed by a meteor that a terrorist. this is way overblown. we should be spending money on this. all those numbers are true entirely irrelevant. terrorism is not about killing people. 9/11 is an aberration because, per-capita, it is one of the most horrific terrorist incidents in modern times. terrorism was never about killing people. it is about threatening a way

director of the douglass and server ellison center for foreign policy studies and is the deputy director of our kathryn and shelby cullom davis institute for international studies. he's a member of the national academies more on army science and technology and the department of the army historical advisory committee as well as being a senior fellow with the george washington university homeland security policy institute. she has lectured and then a professor of several university campuses, his army career, he was a lieutenant colonel serving in europe, curry and the united states, and was leading executive editor of the joint force quarterly. he's offered back several books including the one that he co-authored for us here at the heritage, winning the long war, lessons from the cold war for defeating terrorism and preserving freedom. please try me in welcoming my colleague, jim? [applause] >> in the course of action i'm going to introduce congressman berman, who believed it is a few words and question-and-answer. we will do that about half an hour and then but i will do is introduce the panel, and then the panel will speak to each of t

posting our discussion is james jay carafano, director of allison for foreign policy studies and is deputy to her to the shelby: davis institute he's a member of the national academies board and army science and technology in the department of the army historical committee is soliciting your fellow at the washington home of security institute. he's lectured and then a professor southern university camps is. he was lieutenant colonel carafano serving in europe and the united states. he has authored several books, including when he co-authored co-authored for us here at heritage, winning the long war, for those who are. please join me in welcoming my colleague, jim carafano. [applause] >> okay, here is the course of action. i'm going to introduce congressman bartlett who has agreed to say words and do some question and answer for a hour. i will then introduce the panel and then the panel will speak for about 10 minutes amenable to a question-and-answer period and congressman bartlett graciously has agreed to stay as long as he can and participate in a q&a as well. we always started at heritage, but we end on time. so i will be r

institute of policy studies. general electric, ver rightston, ebay paid their exectives and average of 15.8 million and received tax refunds in the hundreds of millions of dollars. forxample last year, verizon gave its ceo an $18 million package and got $705 million as a tax refund. a new survey shows employers announced plans to cut more than 51,000 jobs this month. challenger gray and christmas, that firm says that number is down 23% since july. the number of government layoffs nearly doubled as federal, state and local agencies are looking for ways to get their budget. >>> a career fair is being held in oakland. it runs from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. it's being held out at the county of alameda training and education center on 12th street? oakland. admission is free. anyone who attends will have a chance to interview with companies that include verizon, wire les, dollar tree and clear channel radio. >>> 7:36. a man from arizona, they lucky to be alive this morning after a bizarre gardening accident. this video is graphic. the 86-year-old man was gardening the on his home and he fell face first, landing on his garden shears. they lodged in eyes eyes. the person woul