policy how could impact the potential for positive u.s. relations with the middle east and joined by the director of new internationalism project at the institute for policy studies phyllis bennis thanks for coming on good to be with you today so we just saw netanyahu kind of making the talk show circuit really with some hard rhetoric about how the u.s. needs to elect a leader that takes a red line with iran's nuclear capabilities and kind of dove tailing off of that i want to play just a clip from obama's speech about this issue. let me be clear america wants to resolve this issue through diplomacy and we believe that there is still time and space to do so but that time is not unlimited we respect the right of nations to access peaceful nuclear power. but one of the purposes of the united nations is to see that we harness the power for peace so obama is pretty much taking that yahoo's wishes pretty seriously we already know where romney stands on the issue why is it that the u.s. has such a why is it that israel has such a heavy influence on such a delicate issue well there's two parts to that question one has to do with this moment where in election cycle every

the team leader, a senior professor of the national graduate institute for policy studies, called the transport system situation bleak. but he said japan can help. >> translator: it's wonderful that japanese technology can help another country. >> back in japan, the team will work out a basic plan for providing help and seek ways to promote the export of railway infrastructure. >>> north korea has refused an offer of emergency relief supplies from south korea. much of the north was inundated this summer after torrential rains and a typhoon caused widespread flooding and damage. there was also loss of life. more than 500 people were killed or remain missing. north korea informed the south about the refusal on wednesday. south korea's unification ministry had offered emergency supplies worth about $9 million. they included 10,000 tons of wheat and 3 million packages of instant noodles. north korea said in a statement it does not need the assistance. it said it wasn't satisfied with the items. north korea refused an aid offer from the south after a similar disaster last year due to dissa

sitting down with an author a professor of philosophy and currently a senior scholar at the institute for policy studies injure a living thank you very much for joining back you are writing me you contributed to a book it's titled hopeless barack obama and the politics of illusion what was the illusion in your opinion and how did it get hopeless well obama of course campaigned on the idea of hope and the possibility of change but he was skillful in turning himself into something like a rorschach figure which anyone could see whatever they wanted to see the changes were not certainly ruptures with the past. they dashed at the expectations of virtually every constituency that supported them because they envisioned. transformations of american domestic and foreign policy that were far more far reaching than what obama actually. even attempted let alone achieved as far as foreign policy you're writing that president obama's wars could come back to bite him even the ones he didn't start but which you argue are his by now he pledged to withdraw from iraq and afghanistan he says that's what t.v.'s are doing in

i'm senior vice president the potomac institute for policy studies. nd thanks for taking time out of your busy schedules to be here, and also our guests that are viewing this on c-span and on the web. we really appreciate your presence in part of this discussion. this is an august audience here and now you're also here to hear this amazing panel of speakers which will get to very quickly. i had the opportunity to address the supply chain problem and particularly the communications supply chain while i was chief of the public safety homeland security bureau. i got with some of the folks in the audience writer on that and i appreciate your presence here. when i got here, stored talking to michael swetnam and relies the potomac institute has traditionally been involved in supply chain and other supply chain that is, the symposium seemed very appropriate and timely. timely. one of the major missions as he mentioned of the potomac institute is to elevate the policy discussion on matters of critical importance to the nation. so i'm not going to speak today.

phyllis bennis who directs the new barrier nationalism project at the institute for policy studies andainab salbi founder of women for women international. it assists women survivors of war. the taliban are claiming responsibility for an attack on a british military base in afghanistan this morning that killed two u.s. marines. unlike previous attacks, this time the taliban says it was in response to the same anti-muslim film that set off a swell of violent protests in other parts of the region. libya, egypt, morocco, pakistan, algeria, kuwait, india, iraq just to name a few. in tunisia yesterday protesters breached the wall of the u.s. embassy where two people have died and 29 others have been hurt. in sudan, meanwhile, demonstrators got both the u.s. and german embassies and managed to set fire to the latter. a 14-minute video on youtube called "the innocence of muslims." nbc news has decided not to show any images from the film. the man behind the film, an egyptian born christian koptic was taken into custody earlier this morning and questioned by federal authorities reportedly abou

joining me to discuss this is a terrorism analyst with the potomac institute with policy studies. thank you for coming in tonight. how did this low budget, barely watched movie by a fringe company in the u.s. cause this problem. >>in the way of thinking in the middle east especially with their ideology. that if you insulted the prophet, you would be killed immediately without even chance to repent from this. and additionally, the mohammed, they believe in the day of judgment, god or allah will send the sinners to hell and the one to come to protect them is prophet mohammed. and so they have more emotions and plus this -- simply the human life in the teaching, when you see they are killing some man because he converted, when you execute the killing ever a human being because he insulted the prophet mohammed, but this is what you can find in mainstream teaching, and so unless and until this form of teaching is stopped and changed, then we are having a major problem in the middle east. >> is there anything under the surface here beyond ala because it was like a tinder box that blew up. >> there we

the statstate county and miscible employees and are still waiting for a full response to this report. an economic policy institute study says educated government workers actually earned less than those in the private sector. they say when we examine total compensation costs, college educated public employees cost more than 20% less than similarly educated private sector employees. the earnings differential is greatest for professional employees, lawyers and doctors. citizens against government waste the nationwide between 2 2-$4 trillion short on their pension fund. back to you. tracy: thank you very much for all that. ashley: we heard from both presidential candidates, america must reduce reliance on foreign oil. learned america's energy independence is indeed growing regardless of who occupies the white house. the image department reporting u.s. oil production is at the highest level since january 1997 and on track to have the highest level of self-sufficiency and 21 years. 83% of the energy needs met in the first six months of the year and has declined by 3.2% from the same time last year. horizontal drilling in the

for educational endowments to increase policy holders. the government's postal privatization panel will carefully study their applications and make a final decision soon. a group of financial institutions from the private sector informed the panel last week that postal service expansion should be considered carefully. that's because the japan post group is not yet totally privatized. opposition from the u.s. insurance industry is also expected. >> brazilians are enjoying the road to economic security. car dealers, sold 3 million vehicles last year. european and u.s. auto makers were investing in brazil two decade ago when the nation wasn't politically stable. now japanese producers are trying to find their place in the market. our report from sao paulo. >> reporter: it's a week day morning at this u.s. car dealer on the outskirts of sao paulo. but the shop is full of customers. alessandro santos bought a new car last month for the first time. the car cost her $19,000, close to what she and her husband earn in a year. she's paying for it in installments. >> translator: it's so comfortable to drive. and it's affordable for me. the seats are very nice. the design really suits my taste. >>

. >> ifill: for more on the numbers and the politics, i'm joined by roberton williams, an economist and senior fellow at the tax policy institute. his 2010 tax study was the soce of e 47% number. a 2011 follow-up showed a slight down tick to 46%. and nancy cook, budget and tax correspondent for the "national journal." welcome to you both. bob williams, i'm very curious about this number, this 47% number. is it an unusually high numb? is it something that's grown, has shrunk? >> it's a lower number now than it was a few years at the height of the recession. 2008, 2009 slightly over 50% of americans paid no income tax. that's because the recession put people out of work. it lowered their incomes. we also had tax provisions that helped stimulate the economy. >> ifill: who do we think these people really are? we saw how judy broke down some of it. but are these people who honestly are not paying anything in tacks or they're just not paying income tax smz. >> the story is half true. it's true about the income tax but it doesn't address the other taxes people might face. 60% of these people pay payroll taxes because they're working. they pay the taxes t

institute for research middle eastern policy and author of spy trade how israel's lobby undermines america's economy and in san jose we cross to stephen's eunice he is a professor of politics and international studies at the university of san francisco all right folks cross talk rules in effect that means you can jump in any time when i like to go to you first a lot of people say that mr netanyahu is stepped over the line in meddling in american politics how do you respond to that i think he hasn't stepped over any lines in meddling in american politics i think that what he's done is doing is trying to protect israel and what he's been saying to president obama is that the time is running out for stopping iran's nuclear program and so what he's saying is listen if you guys don't do it i have to do it ok grant would you like to reply to that yeah that's that's not it benjamin netanyahu is the leader of a nuclear tipped country in the most volatile region soon on the planet we know from an f.b.i. report that was released in june that he's even had his own hands into nuclear technology smuggling to beef up that arsenal what he's saying is obama you don't have time to keep on with these economic sancti

for comment the american federation of state, county municipal employees referred fox business to a web post by the economic policy institute. their response? they say these claims are bunk and study study has rebutted similar claims, if anything, public sector workers most of whom have college degrees or higher, are somewhat underpaid compared to comparable private sector workers. as for federal workers the congressional budget office find they make more on average until you get to those with professional degrees. in that case they make more in the private sector. for all federal workers cbo says they make 16% more in total compensation than those working for private businesses. melissa. melissa: but, rich, the difference between, you know, what the citizens for government waste is saying and what the public sector workers are saying, how do they jibe those two sets of numbers? >> i know it is difficult when you look at different sets of numbers you're talking about different groups of people. it is hard to find something comparable for a policeman or a firefighter in the private sector. melissa: exactly. totally. rich edson, thanks so much. if we know that huge public pensions a

policy studies at the american enterprise institute, a conservative washington think tank. michael mcshane, though it wasn't all about money the teachers got a raise, rahm emanuel got a new evaluation system for teachers that he wanted, the kids are back in school. is it as the mayor calls it a grand compromise? >> i think it's definitely a compromise. how grand it is is probably a little bit up for debate. depending on how you look at the issue, if you are for more robust systems of teacher accountability that's definitely something that is part of this agreement. up to a third of a teacher's evaluation is going to be based on student test scores and as far as hiring teachers that only half of those that are in the pool that can be hired are-- those that have already been laid off, the other half, principals will be free to choose on tir own. >> suarez: professor darling-hammond in the past we've had recent debates in d.c., new york, boston, l.a., is this following a pattern and setting a pattern for coming negotiations in other big city school systems? >> well, it certainly might and particularly around the issue of teacher evaluation which has come on to the national landscape with incenti