of the un calling israel misuse of power in terms of palestine. so my question to you, how do you explain those psychologies i just gave you? >> the new york 23 race, which i think you're pointing to, is an example of division among republicans and conservatives. incidentally, there is a recount going on, and it may turn out that the democrats did not win. we don't know yet. so the whole, you know, premise may be false. that so-called division is not as dramatic as it seems. the woman who was nominated by the local county chairman as a republican was almost indistinguishable from the liberal democrats in all the positions she took. and that's why she was a challenge. there was no primary, you see, and there was no chance for there to be a primary challenge where she was nominated by what we called the boss is in a smoke-filled room. so the challenge that was mounted in the last that was an expression of the anger of people in that district, among other places, at the high handedness and arbitrariness of her selection. as for, i think you are talki

and syria, israel and lebanon, and the full normalization of relations between israel and all of its arab neighbors. and we are going to continue to pursue those objectives at the same time with the same vigor. >> right here. and please state your name at news organization. >> muna shikaki with a arabia tv. there is talk about terms of reference from the americans guarantees to the palestinians so that they can resume negotiations including the 1967 borders, changing some areas from b to eight, and perhaps releasing some prisoners. is there -- are there any american guarantees or terms of reference that you're preparing? >> we have been in discussions with both israelis and palestinians for some time regarding terms of reference for negotiations. we have closed many gaps between them, and why all admittedly important differences remain, we've made very substantial progress. and we continue to explore those, and i will pursue those on my next visit to the region, which will be in the near future, to continue the dialogue and that effort as part of trying to bring these parties togethe

israel had the right to do that. they were getting bombed.t of suffering in gaza and there's no commerce and all sorts of history and reason but the only way out of this is to talk to the future and how to resolve the conflict and bring it to an end instead of looking backward. host: how's iran factor into this? guest: huge. the israelis would rate it's a the number one threat to them. the public and the government views it. eye iran has funded and they're sort of exploiting the conflict and opportunities for their own strategic game. president obama said if we can resolve the conflict it takes an away some of the tools iran is using as interest to both america and israel. host: stories about possibly a ran leave the treaty. does that factor? guest: absolutely. there's a range of concerns most leading to the nuclear capacity. we strongly support what the president has been trying do diplomaticically to get iran to agree to an arrangement but if iran doesn't do that and chooses to defy the national community there needs to be international act

and syria, israel and lebanon, and the full normalization of relations between israel and all of its arab neighbors. and we are going to continue to pursue those objectives at the same time with the same vigor. >> right here. and please state your name at news organization. >> muna shikaki with a arabia tv. there is talk about terms of reference from the americans guarantees to the palestinians so that they can resume negotiations including the 1967 borders, changing some areas from b to eight, and perhaps releasing some prisoners. is there -- are there any american guarantees or terms of reference that you're preparing? >> we have been in discussions with both israelis and palestinians for some time regarding terms of reference for negotiations. we have closed many gaps between them, and why all admittedly important differences remain, we've made very substantial progress. and we continue to explore those, and i will pursue those on my next visit to the region, which will be in the near future, to continue the dialogue and that effort as part of trying to bring these parties togethe

it does not worry me, frankly, that israel has nuclear weapons.i think it is clear that they would be using them for defensive purposes. and only to try and protect their country. they will use conventional weapons well in advance. the real danger now is that there is a country that is emerging that has threatened the very existence of israel, and that is iran. how do you deal with that? iran is clearly doing whatever they can to develop nuclear weapons, and they have not only expansion in terms of israel, but they believe by a large that iran is -- i was in egypt several months ago. they. a hezbolla cell there. what were they going to do? they were trying to blow up the ship in the suez canal, because the revenues from tourism are the two major economic supports for that regime. with them being fairly elderly, they hope to destabilize the regime so that the muslim brother can take over. i have spoken to most of the arab regimes. they're really concerned about iran pose the expansion. -- iran's expansion. you have to measure, if you can, the level

and syria, israel and lebanon, and the full normalization of relations between israel and all of its arab neighbors. we will continue to pursue those objectives at the same time. >> there is talk about terms of reference from the american guarantees to the palestinians so that they can resume negotiations including 1967 borders, and release of some prisoners. are there any american guarantees if you are preparing or terms of reference? >> we have been in discussion with both palestinians and israelis for some time regarding terms of reference for negotiations. we have closed many gaps between them. and while admittedly important differences remain, we have made very substantial progress. we continue to explore those and i will pursue them on my next visit which will be in the near future. to continue the dialogue and effort as part of trying to bring parties together. in addition, some of the points he mentioned represent steps that israel can take, and we have encouraged action in that regard as a means of the above steps to create an atmosphere toward conducive and constructive neg

and syria, israel and lebanon, and the full normalization of relations between israel and all of the neighbors. we are going to continue to pursue those objectives at the same time. >> there is talk about terms of reference from the americans. they are changing some areas from the to a -- ba to a. are there any references that you are preparing? >> we have been focused in regarding terms of reference for negotiations. we have closed many gaps between them. while admittedly important differences remain, we have made substantial progress. we continue to explore those. i will pursue those, next visit to the region which will be in the future. it is part of trying to bring the party together. some of the points he mentioned represents steps that israel can take and we have encouraged action in that regard as a means of both steps to create an atmosphere toward conducive and did ago -- and good negotiation and as a way to move us toward the final result. >> i noticed you did not call this unprecedented. you came very close to that. is there anything different between what israel has outli

some of which don't have it you can see in the end of for comparison israel does not have it. why? although americans use it in december for hanukah and israel gift-giving -- gift-giving holidays are passover and rauscher sean and so there's not spending funds. they do not occur. china does not appear we could debate about that or three yes the japan has very few christians but a tradition to celebrate christmas the material aspect so you do see pretty clear december spending bump. it goes on around the world. the next question is a direct comparison there is a spending but above all these countries but who has the big spending bump? we have not answered that will buy to compare the size averaging across years across the different countries. across the year 2000, this is the average size of the december relative to the month around averaging across since the year 2000 and what you see is busy but it starts over 50% coming down to career or israel and where it is the united states? it is way down the list. with a red circle what about the 1990's? a similar phenomenon. 1980's is a si

israel's baambassadors to the u. and others were talking about the incursion. that appears to be hasan, but we have not confirmed it is, in fact, him. keep it here on hln for the latest on the ft. hood shooting investigation and today's other top stories. >>> the number of u.s. banks that failed this year just climbed to 120. five more banks went under yesterday. they've all been taken over by other banks, so customers can keep using their checks and debit cards. those five banks were based in california, michigan, minnesota, georgia, and missouri. this is the highest number of u.s. bank failures in one year since 1992. a federal fund to cover failed banks is running low. >>> a florida jury has convicted a man who said that he was too fat to kill. jurors rejected his lawyer's claims that he was too fat to run up a flight of stairs to shoot his former son-in-law. edward ates weighed 285 pounds at the time. the 40-year-old victim was in a custody battle with ates' daughter. ates' lawyer plans to appeal the murder conviction. >>> the suspect in a shooting spree at

israel is prepared to act. how does that change the situation? thathem and worry abot that. >> to do you agree? >> -- do you agree? >> i don't pretend to know what is going on inside of the heads of their leaders. our intelligence is very poor indeed. we don't know what is going on. >> we don't have a clue. >> somebody knows, i'm sure, but not us. we make it up as part of the political debate in this country. we make up what is going on inside of the inner councils. i say, let the israelis make their threats. i would say to them privately this -- you know and we know that the chances of your actually being able to knock out all or most of the nuclear capabilities is very slim. all you do it by going after it would be instead of setting it back in little but to give them the justification of coming after us in a worldwide campaign of terrorism. that is bad for us and it will be terrible for you. israel, make all the threads that you want but the only kind of action we would ever accept would be that they were on the verge of taking action against

but it hasn't led to love of israel or united states.it's a way of aggregating preferences and people come out with what they want. they want homosexuals to be put in jail or to marry. or they wantly square banned order ris to go up or not. or they want woman to vote or not vote. basically it's a process that i think is superior to the alternatives which is not saying much. but basically it's a way of aggravateding preferences and you get the democracy process. the mere fact of being democratic doesn't mean you come out with policy outcomes that are one use might prefer. they're basically what comes out of the process and it reflects the values and concerns and anguishes and emotions of people inside. >> on the spread of democracy first. i said in my talk i think this is one of the major changes that have taken place on a global scale since the cold war ended. it is, i' most cases, not in all. that calls for the people that benefitted from it. i think when the united states changed much of it's foreign policy outlook in part in response

it does not worry me, frankly, that israel has nuclear weapons. i think it is clear that they would be using them for defensive purposes. and only to try and protect their country. they will use conventional weapons well in advance. the real danger now is that there is a country that is emerging that has threatened the very existence of israel, and that is iran. how do you deal with that? iran is clearly doing whatever they can to develop nuclear weapons, and they have not only expansion in terms of israel, but they believe by a large that iran is -- i was in egypt several months ago. they. a hezbolla cell there. what were they going to do? they were trying to blow up the ship in the suez canal, because the revenues from tourism are the two major economic supports for that regime. with them being fairly elderly, they hope to destabilize the regime so that the muslim brother can take over. i have spoken to most of the arab regimes. they're really concerned about iran pose the expansion. -- iran's expansion. you have to measure, if you can, the leve

guest: we did not get a chance to talk about israel and their relations with iran.think israel would rather leave in eight peaceful middle east and be surrounded by enemies. i do not see any sign -- i am not an expert on military issues. i do not see any sign that at this stage the united states is interested in waging war against iran. on the contrary, i think the united states has been trying to reach out to iran and encourage them to sit at the negotiating table. host: omaha, neb. on the independent line. caller: thanks for taking my call. i am very interested -- he mentioned the fact that you were held eight months by the iranians in one visit from her mother. how did you make it through those days without any contact? can you tell me about that. it is very interesting to me. tell me about how you made it through those 24 hours one day at a time not knowing anything at all? guest: i spent 105 days in solitary confinement which is horrible. it has mental and physical pressure. i was interrogated eight hours a day. there were women guards

the first one is the water scarcity and walter challenge israel. it's happening today. the gap between the demand and supply is increasing at an accelerating speed. the second point that our research supports is that the old ways to do not work anymore. we cannot continue in a business as usual way. the third finding the we want to share with you is a hopeful one because we believe there is cost effective solution to the water problem however that solution is settled differently from the solution that we looked at in the past. it's distributed across the entire economy and that takes a completely new and radical approach we both have to adopt in order to overcome the water challenge. so the first question we ask yourself is the water challenge real and how big is the gap. >> thank you. how big is the situation and how big is the gap? let's consider first how much water are we using today? how much water are we using in the economy today and we calculate about 4,500 kilometers of water with strong across the economy this is for municipal use. 4,500 withdrawn. if we proje

an iran the next time there were either confrontation between israel and iran or between israel and one of iran's proxy's, and as your question suggested, roger, proliferation would not stop there. -- one of iran's proxies. it is a process. several of the sunni arab regimes, possibly as well as turkey, might reexamine their policies or positions. as bad as the middle east is today, the idea of a middle east with multiple finan errors on multiple triggers ought to be anyone's sense of a strategic nightmare, but the real question is, can you stop it? there are two ways. one is in negotiation, whether the iranians would agree to a ceiling on something we feel confident with. i have no idea whether that is negotiable. we will try to do so. it is right to try. we will see if we can get the russians and chinese to join the united states. again, given what is going on within iran and the politics, nobody here can sit and predict with certainty if the negotiations will succeed. would consider with certainty that the negotiations will succeed. the principal alternative is military force in my ow

it does not worry me, frankly, that israel has nuclear weapons. i think it is clear that they would be using them for defensive purposes. and only to try and protect their country. they will use conventional weapons well in advance. the real danger now is that there is a country that is emerging that has threatened the very existence of israel, and that is iran. how do you deal with that? iran is clearly doing whatever they can to develop nuclear weapons, and they have not only expansion in terms of israel, but they believe by a large that iran is -- i was in egypt several months ago. they. a hezbolla cell there. what were they going to do? they were trying to blow up the ship in the suez canal, because the revenues from tourism are the two major economic supports for that regime. with them being fairly elderly, they hope to destabilize the regime so that the muslim brother can take over. i have spoken to most of the arab regimes. they're really concerned about iran pose the expansion. -- iran's expansion. you have to measure, if you can, the leve

question about others -- a figure of a question about israel. >> there are actors that are not part of the negotiations that have a huge stake in the outcome of that. >> of course. of course. everybody is interested. everybody has a view. and i think -- i'limbert sure the iranians are well aware of that as well. it was interesting to me that in the last election campaign in iran, president ahmadinejad came in for some really heavy criticism from iranians because of his rhetoric and particularly his rhetoric aimed against israel. it seemed to be -- people seem to be saying, you are not serving the interests of our country very well. this is provocative. this is needlessly provocative and you are going to get us into a conflict that we don't need. so, you know, of course others are interested. and others see this. but again, i would be careful about making a sort of rigid category and say well, the arabs will say we'll never agree with the persians were the turks. we'll never agree with the iranians. i think we are seeing in the area a much more complicated picture. and one thing, and ot

doing whatever they can to develop nuclear weapons, and they have not only expansion in terms of israel, but they believe by a large that iran is -- i was in egypt several months ago. they. a hezbolla cell there. what were they going to do? they were trying to blow up the ship in the suez canal, because the revenues from tourism are the two major economic supports for that regime. with them being fairly elderly, they hope to destabilize the regime so that the muslim brother can take over. i have spoken to most of the arab regimes. they're really concerned about iran pose the expansion. -- iran's expansion. you have to measure, if . >> live at 9:00 a.m. eastern on c-span 2. now a look at how the so-called nuclear age has affected the presidency of the united states. this forum was hosted at the jfk library. it's about 1 hour 20 minutes. my mother described her hopes that it would be a vital center of education that will grow and change with the times. it's an honor to partner with 12 oernl national libraries to host this sim pose yum. this conference is all the more important and interes

palestinian leaders criticized her after she praised israel's decision to limit but not stop. >>> it's been so many months but i do not know. >> the daughter of a missing woman says she's afraid her mother may be one of six women found dead at a home in cleveland. nancy cobbs lives in the same neighborhood but no one has seen her in six months. convicted rapist anthony sowell was arrested yesterday -- make that saturday. that's just a few of the headlines we're working on. >>> let's do a time check. if you forgot to turn your clocks the way you were supposed to, you are up an hour early. it's 6:30 eastern right now. good morning. i'm robin meade. anything he can to stop a health care bill that include ace public option. yesterday he argued that kind of legislation would be worse than not getting a health care bill at all. a public option is expected on the senate floor soon. democrats need lieberman's support to avoid a filibuster. he is an independent. >> it's fascinating and troubling that it has suddenly become a litmus test. if you're not for government health insurance company, yo

. >> after the tragedy, the nation of israel mourned. the israeli team left munich the next day. the olympics, the world symbol of sport and competition, its motto of peace and harmony, would never be the same. >>> for a complete list of the show or for comments and questions regarding this program, send your e-mails to program, send your e-mails to bestdamn@foxsports.net. caption funding provided by fox sports net -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> welcome to macon georgia. university center is sold out and why not. the about bears are here and florida state is in town. s university center is sold out, the mercer bears have a pension for knocking off big names. florida state would qualify. the seminoles are off to a 2-0 start. it's florida state, mercer. hi, everybody. i know there's a lot of then going on in sports right now, but keep us on speed dile for the next two hours. i think this has the potential to be a very good college basketball game. >> i don't think there's any question this is a ter l. team that is experienced. a florida state team that is one of the intr

we're hearing concerns not only from israel but from many of the sunni-arab states. if the situation reaches the point where israel decides to strike iran, what should be should the u.s. position be? >> that's an easy one. i'm going to -- i think that while we have not exhausted all of the options, i think that there are still an opportunity to persuade potentially the iranians to the course of action. they are on sort and military force. although i agree with the president that that will always remain an option in the arsenal here. but i'm not yet convinced that it's beyond hope to try and deter the iranians from their current course. i certainly think the president was right to the course that he articulated in the campaign to at least sit down face to face with the iranians. for no other reason that if it means you're showing to your allies, that you're exhausted all other efforts and diplomatic opportunities before you take course, for example, economic sanctions or any other steps that you may take. at the end of the day, i think it's going to be important for t

israel's ambassador to the u.s. and other officials were talking about the gaza incursion. that appears to be hasan. but we have not confirmed that it is, in fact, him. keep it here on hln for the latest on the ft. hood shooting investigation and the day's other top stories. >>> the number of u.s. banks that failed this year climbed to 120. five more banks went under yesterday. they've all been taken over by other banks so customers can keep using their checks and debit cards. those five banks were based in california, michigan, minnesota, georgia, and missouri. this is the highest number of u.s. bank failures in one year since 1992. a federal fund to cover failed banks is running low. >>> a florida jury has convicted a man who said he was too fat to kill. jurors rejected his lawyers' claims that he was too fat to run up a flight of stairs to shoot his former son-in-law. edward ates weighed 285 pounds. the 40-year-old victim was in a custody battle with ates' daughter. ates' lawyer plans to appeal the murder conviction. >>> the suspect in a shooting spree at an orlando offi

clearly the president's statement with respect that are created from israel. even though i think as most people know, the president was articulating what has been u.s. policy for many years. it's just not part of the policy that has emphasized. i think what the president was trying to do in the cairo speech and by lateral communications was to try and move the ball forward. again, the president made it clear during the campaign that he wasn't going to wait to the last year of the administration to try to take on some of the challenges. previous administration, as you know, we have the conference in january of the last year that the president was in office. he appointed george mitchell special envoy, and made it clear that he's going to really take on this challenge. only a very difficult -- obviously a very difficult situation now. he's a good negotiating partner on the palestinian side. i think the president said expressly what had been u.s. policy. and obviously, that's as far as he got as far as the israeli pub p lick was the people who were upset. back ove

in israel. >> did your legs get sore? >> larry: yes. >> my wife got blistered and still not healed. >> larry: how's things going? >> traveling to malaysia and africa. and just got back from rwanda. >> larry: did you ever think about retiring? >> i tried to but i don't know what i would do with myself. >> larry: now, we have a bush baby. >> this is a bush baby. >> can you put him on his shoulder? >> larry: that mean it lives in the bush? >> larry: put him on my shoulders. is this a bush baby? >> we filmed the bush baby in africa. it's nocturnal. you see the eyeballs at nighttime out in the trees. they're not really big trees. they're pollinated, they defecate and pollenates is what it does. the bush baby, it's amazing mechanism. in the daytime, they sleep. what do they do? they sleep in a big ball, like 30 or 40 of them all together get in a big ball together like this, looks like a big blob. therefore, predators like birds of prey -- are you comfortable? >> larry: yeah, he's light. >> larry, this is a prosimian, by the wa

the short answer of why we have a double standard with respect to iran and north korea relative to israels the same as the reason we have a double standard with respect to france and england. the nature of of the person makes a difference. if sweden got nuclear weapons you might speak to the question, but it probably won't be a huge threat to us, whereas if north korea or iran has nuclear weapons, it is a serious issue. on the strategy issue, first of all, others in the room can probably identify the classic parts of the military plan but one is to identify the mission, which is not actually a strange. that is what we are trying to do, whether take that hill or win the second world war. that is different from the threat, which is who is trying to stop us from taking the hill, which in a sense is your question. it is quite different from both the strategy, which to my mind is the broad approach of how are we going to go about doing that, which lever are we going to pull, then the tactics. and in some cases these are issues of fact. my favorite, very interesting question -- usuallyç it is

iran who declares the holocaust never happened, he is building nuclear weapons and threatens to wipe israel of the earth. as i point out a chapter meets the globalist brzezinski, adviser to jimmy carter, that turned out well for hundred 40 days in the hostage crisis that ended the presidency has been one of the mentors to get barack obama ready for the presidency and persians the has been riding and i document for years seeing the united nations should control u.s. foreign policy. here comes president obama of the united nations speaks to the general assembly. noss part of american exceptional as some and he's the first president to cherish a security council meeting. what does this mean? security council going to dictate u.s. foreign policy? or more khaddafi and mahmoud ahmadinejad have equal vote? so i think these are the issues and raising in fighting "america for sale." thank you. good question. next question? don't be shy. yes? >> i heard one of the senators read that actually said that the federal government has the right to enforce such things as the health care, virtually anything i

we have seen recently that perhaps the sale of the 10 unmanned vehicles are going from israel to turkey and that relationship might be edging back on track again. certainly what there appears to be doing is lines in an intelligent. we have thrust and influence with these actors that you don't necessarily agree with that you don't have so they will listen to us. on the other hand, this plays very well with the muslim world. turkey is about to take over and they will need the goodwill that they can have. at the same time, turkey is increasing its place as a regional actor. it's got a nonprominent place in the u.n. security council and finally, domestically in turkey, this is playing out in a very interesting way. i saw a video before i came here of turkish protestors burning pofters of king ap duala reportedly over the recent saudi bottom barredment in yemen. now i have no idea why this is happening in majority sunni turkey, majority sunni secular turkey, but shows there are many changes happening throughout the region that perhaps are more under the radar than they should be. >> one last

the lopsided anti-israel report >> it is dangerous. >> so that would be number four or five as to have people, our breast and bite his comedy working as titans of industry to figure out a better mousetrap. >> exactly. i would end the subsidies. i would say we wish you the best of success, we hope it goes well, in terms of educational talent. you know, we hope the national science foundation's will help that we are not going to subsidize individual businesses. the problem is we have individual businesses, former vice president al gore who has made a very, very nice profit personally -- >> there was just an article on that that i just read about the billions being made by selling the carbon credit. >> is a very lucrative industry. i was great to find out from chris porter, he said actually and ron was the creator of this whole idea of carbon credits and carbon offsets. it was one more thing that could be traded on wall street. >> and you have wall street firms like goldman sachs or lobbying congress for cap-and-trade. they are interested totally financial. you have individuals like forme

if you take places like israel and singapore, they were able to drive much more efficient water systemase of singapore. we are setting standards and by pricing it in the right way. and that comes back to political willingness to do that. but it's not just that, also do we set standards that can be reused. do we set standards for environmental or standard. so it comes to -- it's not just. i wouldn't. the question go often times just goes to the one spot price. it's not just that. it's more than that. it's different regular laces that we all have to think about. and they need to come together in order to make it work. >> the making it, members of the audience don't need this assistance as much as i do, but i'd be very grateful if you could give me a sense of how much flexibility in the response to a more intelligent producing of this resource. one could access. or on the demand side. plainly, this math is very important. how limited are the options. we're speaking to one of your competitors, mike, the other day. he was telling me about precision agriculture, which is something i hadn't p

you might remember here netanyahu rejected president obama's demand that israel stop building settlementsthe west bank. president obama has said it is a necessary step to restarting peace talks with the palestinians. >> now it falls on the united states senate to take the baton and bring this effort to the finish line on behalf of the american people. and i'm absolutely confident that they will. >> a lot happened this weekend on health care. president obama yesterday speaking, as you saw there, congratulating the house after it narrowly passed a $1.2 trillion health care reform bill. it calls for a public option which might not get enough support to survive in the senate version as they try to put their two ideas together. a senate vote has not been scheduled yet. those are some of the stories we're following for you on this monday. hopefully, you're having a great start to your week. >>> you know the accused ft. hood gunman major nidal hasan is in critical but stable condition and just this morning there are growing signs he may is been embracing extremist ideas about islam. classmates a

i think that israel, however, does have a strong interest and fear of a riran. it is made none.here is an israeli lobby which has a big effect in this country. we also agree o write about its. it is part of democracy. there are lobbies for all sorts of things, some of more powerful than others. it is up to us to try to inform the public. and expect our government to deal not with what lobbies say, but with the facts. host: you have also written about this proposed shield legislation set to come before the synod. attorney general holder was asked about it last week in the justice committee -- set to come before the senate, this shield of legislation that is proposed. what is it? guest: this is a law that we give journalists protection from subpoenas by the federal government as they now have protection under state law. it is one of these things in which the industry itself feels it needs protection. my view of this is personal. i have a law degree. in law school i read about privileges, attorney-client privilege, doctor-patient, and so on. they were all given by the court. i thin

palestinian leaders criticized her this weekend after she praised israel's offer to limit but not stopewish settlement construction. >> i want to thank to get closure to this because it's been over so many months but i do not know. >> the daughter of a missing woman says she's afraid her mother may be one of six women found dead at a home in cleveland. nancy cobbs lives in the same neighborhood but no one has seen her for six months. the man who lives at the home, convicted rapest anthony sowell, was arrested yesterday. >>> those are just a few of the headlines. let's do a time check. 7:31. hope you're on time and you remembered to switch your clock. i'm robin meade. >>> senator joe lieberman says he'll do anything he can to stop a health care bill that includes a public option. yesterday he argued that that kind of legislation will be worse than not getting a health care bill at all. a democratic proposal with a public option is expected on the senate floor soon. democrats need lieberman's support to avoid a republican filibuster. he is an independent. >> it's fascinating and, frankly

gore vidal called him a fifth columnist for israel.gathered his enemies and ex friends by a wave of startling political metamorphosis. i haven't checked the bios of everyone speaking at the book fair but i am fairly certain the only speaker to have both written for the stalinist journal partisan review and won a presidential medal of freedom from george w. bush is the one in this room. mr. podhoretz's reason is sprinkled liberally if i may use that word with similarly seeming contradictions. he edited the first new left journal commentary, then bolted the democratic party when it nominated the water carrier george mcgovern for the presidency. he is an intellectual who thinks intellectuals have ruined the world. most fundamentally he was the key director of the great exodus from liberalism in the democratic party during the 1970s. as leader of a movement that became known dismissively at first as neoconservatism. even during his best days on the left mr. podhoretz was never a very politically correct liberal. among the first words that

remember, netanyahu rejected president obama's demand that israel stop building settlements in the westk. president obama has said it's a necessary step to restart peace talks with the palestinians. >>> those are a few of the headlines we're checking this morning. i wanted to check on you really fast here. morning, sunshine. i'm robin meade. >>> the accused ft. hood gunman, major nidal hasan is in critical but stable condition. this morning there are growing signs that he was embracing extremist ideas about islam. classmates at a military college say that they complained about what they believed were his anti-american views, including a presentation that justified suicide bombing. senator joe lieberman says he will start an investigation. >> in the u.s. army, this is not a matter of constitutional freedom of speech. if hasan was showing signs, saying to people that he had become an islamic extremist, u.s. army is to have zero tolerance. he should have been gone. >> we also want to take some time, though, to remember the people who were killed at ft. hood. 12 soldiers and one civilian. n

. >> if you look, israel tried that and it failed. that's why they no longer have it, either. >> paul, thank you so much for your perspective here. so let me pose the question to the rest of you watching and we hope that you will join the discussion here. do you think the military should lift its ban on women in combat? give us a call at 1-877-tell-hln or e-mail us at cnn.com/hln. you can add your comment to my facebook page as well. i'd love to hear from you. go to christipaulhln. dive into the discussion. you can text us, too, with your view. send it to hlntv. text "views a" for yes, women should be allowed into combat, or "views b" if you think they should not. thank you for giving your perspective on this. >>> all right. what does former baseball slugger sammy sosa have in common with the late king of pop michael jackson? well, take a look here. sosa is denying that he's trying to lighten his skin, as jackson did. but look at the two pictures side by side here. the soon to be 41-year-old he does look dramatically different than he

hasan will blame american foreign policy, they'll blame israel, the jews, they'll blame something. i would be careful to say that while harass. led to his acteding this wearing something he was going to find to allow him, to sanction his actions. >> stresswise, there are only 408 psychiatrists in the army and they're serving 550,000 active duty troops around the world. that is really a pathetic number. >> it is, it is. >> they are really suffering from post-traumatic -- >> the number of resources we have for mental health issues is woefully inadequate. as many as one in three are coming home with post-traumatic stress, severe depression. and these people are under severe -- >> thank you very much. to my panel, back in a minute with the queen of southern cuisine. paula deen. >>> what i'm fixing to do is fry up the macaroni and cheese. i'm going to wrap it in bacon and deep fry it. so here goes, y'all. >> i just gained four pounds watching that. paula deen went from a poor wife and mother with agoraphobia to the queen of southern quiz eechbl at first she couldn't leave the house. you

if there was not one drop of oil in the middle east and the united states did not arm israel in their wars, we never would have suffered 9/11. i do nothing anyone would have heard the name osama bin laden. we are going to be there for years and years. they talk about raising taxes on the ridge to pay for this war. they will be paying for it forever. thank you. host: the first official state dinner will be taking place in washington, "obama was big tent leaves out gop big wigs -- obama's big tent believes that gop big wigs. chief among for those not coming, john maynard -- john boehner and eric cantor. the president did not invite john mccain, even though mr. obama pledged a post-partisan presidency. -- presidency." we will have live coverage of the dinner giving way under -- getting way tonight at 9:00. there is also a press conference that will happen at 11:30 eastern time. the arrival ceremony was originally scheduled for the south lawn, it will be moving to the east room. lester, good morning from detroit. caller: good morning. listen, i do not have any problem with the rich being

i think that israel, however, does have a strong interest and fear of a riran. it is made none. there is an israeli lobby which has a big effect in this country. we also agree o write about its. it is part of democracy. there are lobbies for all sorts of things, some of more powerful than others. it is up to us to try to inform the public. and expect our government to deal not with what lobbies say, but with the facts. host: you have also written about this proposed shield legislation set to come before the synod. attorney general holder was asked about it last week in the justice committee -- set to come before the senate, this shield of legislation that is proposed. what is it? guest: this is a law that we give journalists protection from subpoenas by the federal government as they now have protection under state law. it is one of these things in which the industry itself feels it needs protection. my view of this is personal. i have a law degree. in law school i read about privileges, attorney-client privilege, doctor-patient, and so on. they were all given by the court. i th

hasan will blame american foreign policy, they'll blame israel, the jews, they're going to blame somethingl harassment led to his acting this way. something he was going to find to allow him, to sanction his actions. >> stresswise, there are only 408 psychiatrists in the army and they're serving 550,000 active duty troops around the world. that is really a pathetic number. >> it is, it is. >> they are really suffering from post-traumatic -- >> the number of resources we have for mental health issues is woefully inadequate. as many as one in three are coming home from deployment with post-traumatic stress, severe depression. and these people separate from hasan are under severe stress. >> thank you very much. to my panel, back in a minute with the queen of southern cuisine. paula deen. >>> what i'm fixing to do is fry up the lady and sons macaroni and cheese. i'm going to wrap it in bacon and deep fry it. so here goes, y'all. >> i just gained four pounds watching that. paula deen went from a poor wife and mother with agoraphobia to the queen of southern cuisine. at first she couldn't leave

you know, if it was not one drop of oil in the middle east and the united states did not on an aid israel in the war, we never would have suffered 9/11. i do not think anybody would have heard of the name osama bin laden. if we go in there we are going to be there for years and years and years. you talk about raising taxes on the rich to pay for this board we will be paying for it forever. thank you. host: front page of "the washington times clothes, looking at the other story in washington -- "the washington times", looking at the other store and washington, the state dinner. "while the white house is mum about who will be the invitees, word is already peaking -- leaking about who was not among the eight-listed chief on the non-attendees, top republican lawmakers. john boehner is on thanksgiving break eric cantor to not get an invitation to the dinner. the president did not invite his 2008 rifle, senator john mccain, even though mr. obama the candidate pledged a post- partisan presidency." we will have more on the dinner later this morning and we will have live coverage getting under way

george mitchell announces a deal reached with israel on west bank settlements. and the group single payer action makes recommendations on health care policy. eight weeks ago, army general stanley mcchrystal requested an additional 40,000 troops be sent to afghanistan. a white house says the president has now made the decision on the afghanistan strategy, and will announce it on tuesday night. you can watch it live on the c- span networks and our web site, c-span.org, with the simulcast on c-span radio. president obama speech from west point begins at 8:00 p.m. eastern time. dollars this thanksgiving holiday, we have four days of booktv on2 on, beginning thursday morning with featured book on history, public policy, and politics. you can see taylor branch on his newest book, and here from little rock novelist. why should these authors discuss their new book. and learn about government contract and your you also hear mom-and-pop or its for from the recent miami book festival. watch booktv on c-span23 to get the full schedule, go to the web site. you can also follo

the short answer of why we have a double standard with respect to iran and north korea relative to israel was the same we have a double standard with respect to france and england. the nature of the regime makes a difference. if sweden got nuclear weapons, you might speak to the question of whether it would annoy the norwegians but probably would not be a huge threat to us. whereas if north korea or iran had nuclear-weapons, it is a serious issue. of this strategy issue, first of all, that moral or probably other people in the room could identify the classic parts of a military plan. but one is to identify the mission, which is not actually a strategy. it is, what are we trying to do? whether it is to take the hill. that is different from the threat which is, who should try to stop us from taking the hill. and it is quite different from both the strategy which, to my mind, is the broad approach of how are we going to go about doing -- which lever are we going to pull. and then the tactics. in some cases, these are issues of the fact. a very interesting question. it is sufficiently easy to

and george mitchell announces a deal reached with israel on west bank settlements. >> eight weeks ago, army general stanley mcchrystal ol requested an additional 40,000 troops be sent to afghanistan. the white house says the president has made a decision on afghanistan strategy and will announce it tuesday night. you will be able to watch it on our c-span network and cspan.org, with a simulcast on c-span radio. president obama's speech from west point begins at 8:00 p.m. eastern time. >> this thanksgiving holiday we've got four days of book tv on c-span 2. beginning thursday morning we will feature books on history, public policy and politics. you can see taylor branch on his newest book, "the clinton tapes" and hear from two of the little rock noun. and learn about government contractors. you will see norman from the recent miami book festival. watch book tv on c-span 2. to get the full schedule, go to book tv.org. happy thanksgiving. >> now, comptroller of the currency, john dugan. he recently spoke at a meeting of the american bar association. it is 45 minutes. >> it is important t

what would happen would be there would be a coalition including probably in israel as low as zero states, united states, and russia to contain him. i think he was eminently containable and did terrible overall. nonetheless, because of this fear of nuclear weapons, sanctions were slapped on them during the 1990's which were the necessary cause more deaths in iraq than were killed in hiroshima and nagasaki combined. terrorism was beginning to be a problem both of these are put in two high order, of course, by 9/11, which said it was also massively exaggerated. i call a massive extrapolation. osama bin laden and al qaeda represented a fringe group of a fringe group in 2001. fairly desperately trying to keep their names on the map. they were rejected by most violent jihadists because they were crazy. they thought they were stupid and immoral. the texted 9/11 basically suggest that was the case and then a massive crackdown on al qaeda. al qaeda still continues to be persistent problem for some people. probably less than 200 people running around in pakistan, according to a fair number of anal

going to address this for israel or other countries? >> i think they're non- compliance has raised more tension. there are lots of concerns not only in the neighborhood but throughout the international community about their nuclear activities. the need to comply with their obligations. once i ron does that, if and when, it will reduce tension. -- once iran does that, if and when. >> of meningitis going to be visiting-- they're going to be meeting in brazil. it did does that diminished solidarity on the nuclear issue? >> the president going to brazil, that is an issue between the governor of brazil and the governor of iran. we would hope the governor would raise some of these concerns in those meetings. beyond that, i do not have anything to say about that. >> could you bring us up-to-date on the latest developments? >> many of you are aware that there was a statement made last night about taking in the absence. we welcome that he is going to take a leave of absence. except -- expected from implementation. this will allow some breathing

you remember that the southern hemisphere had its outbreak at a different team, and israel what was experiencingetty severe outbreak and decided that it needed vaccine first for its home country. when that happened, c.s.l. let us know that right away. we were immediately able to downgrade our projected numbers of doses of vaccines. at the same time we worked closely with the manufacturer so that as soon as they met their requirement for their home country, they were able to start making and shipping doses to us. in addition, as you heard, they also submitted additional data recently so that their vaccine can be used down to a lower age in children, and that was really recently licensed. >> i also in my opening statement talked a little bit about using this pandemic, this seasonal flu as well as the h1n1 to learn as to innovate, and i am wondering what your shots are in three particular areas? one is faster manufacturing processes, whether it is cell-based or other opportunities there, use of a djuvants and alternative methods of vaccine delivery, something other than injection or nasal spray. if

funny things about nato enlargement was that it was almost the only foreign policy issue other than israel and some trade issues that the clinton administration faced with a was a domestic constituency that made any classical political electorate as opposed to legitimate domestic interests in foreign policy. that was the fact that there were ethnic groups in the united states who were in favor -- fell in the central european country in asia. domestic policy and domestic politics and preferences have an impact. one thing that is striking in my mind is the change from a small group that cares passionately about the issue. boston is the -- bosnia is the classic case. there were almost 10 congressmen and some people in the world who were very interested in an aggressive policy for bosnia. as soon as we had an aggressive policy, you realized there were a lot of people with good or bad reasons opposed to it and there was the classic day when the republican-controlled house of representatives during the coast of the war boded against a greater effort -- against the -- during the kosovo war and vo

any democracy that chooses to treat israel as a suspect state to impose on israel false accusations and daunting deadlines for peace agreements should know that its actions ultimately do actions to the share values all democracies exspouse. i urge congress and the united states to stand against the report. i yield the remainder of my time. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from texas rise? >> request permission to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: so ordered. mr. poe: mr. speaker, it came on two pages, it has width stood the agets, the word shall is only 10 times mentioned. but enough to get one's attention. though taxthis law raise to this day it continues to create much praise, two great religious does it claim, the law of the 10 commandments is its name. a current writing 1,990 pages long has a socialist philosophy that is all wrong. difficult for the people to understand and troubling what big government doth demand. over 3,444 shalls does it alow. new massive taxes does it proudly tout. written in secret by the bureaucrats, for ex

furthermore, israel did all it could to a