jim is a forceful champion. never orgetting what it is like to risk his own life during two combat tours during the vietnam war. jim will be my principle intelligence advisor and the leader of our intelligence community. our intelligence community has made great strides. we have struck major blows against the leadership of al qaeda and its affiliates and disrupted many plots in our country and saved many american lives. as we saw in the failed attack in detroit that we need to do better, constantly evolve and adopt and improve. that is why i ordered a series of things to strengthen our community earlier. i will be looking to jim to insure we have the most efficient community as possible. it must be anne -- acted upon decisively. that is what i expect as president. that is what our national security demands. in short the intelligence community needs to work as one integrated team that produces timely and accurate spgs. this is a tough task. but this will be jim's core mission. he is imminently qualified and has m

i'm jim lehrer. b.p. is now collecting more than one million gallons of oil a day from the gulf spill , and their c.e.o. will step down from daily oversight of the disaster. >> brown: and i'm jeffrey brown. on the newshour, damages will reach into the billions. the man in charge of the claims fund said initial payment elizabeth made within 60 days. >> lehrer: then judy woodruff gets an update on the bloodshed in krygyzstan. >> brown: ray suarez looks at the new -- obama administration's pressure on china over their currency. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> this is the engine that connects abundant grain from the american heartland to haran's best selling whole wheat, while keeping 60 billion pounds of carbon out of the atmosphere every year. bnsf, the engine that connects us. >> and by the bill and melinda gates foundation. dedicated to the idea that all people deserve the chance to live a healthy productive life. and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundatio

celtics either, jim. >> lehrer: okay. all right. president obama has escalated his rhetoric on the oil spill, used some profanity and other tough words. is he doing the right thing? >> i think it was a gaffe from president obama this is a gaffe-free president, gaffe free president so a great dehe agree, you could count on yun hand the mistakes he made on that long slog two years running with microphones at the ready all the timement i thought looking for whose ass to kick was not authentic, was not-- it appeared contrived, to answer the criticism that he hadn't been angry enough that he hadn't shown enough passion. and the white house has played been-- been playing catch-up. i think they've done it better with 245d allen. the coast guard admiral out there i think he is a very effective spokesman. i do think there is a sense, the president's own involvement now and continuing involvement which they have somehow downplayed at the outset. >> lehrer: how do you feel about the language issue, david in. >> well, when i look at the problem

you know, jim, about all those i.g. reports back as late as 2008 that said sex, booze, trips gifts , the revolving door coming right out of the industry, going in as a government regulator, and then the door revolves again, and they go right back into the oil industry. so ken salazar has been trying to clean it up. >> lehrer: senator barrasso, what about b.p. specifically? house democrat ed markey said the other day-- and i think he repeated it again today-- that he wouldn't believe anything b.p. said now. it didn't matter what it was, he wouldn't believe it. do you feel the same way? >> well, first let me say with regard to minerals management, ron widen, democrat, john barrasso, republican, introduced a bill two years ago in 2008 to try to clean up the sorts of things that senator nelson has talked about. so i agree we need to do something there and some of us have been trying to do that 0 for several years. i am skeptical of what i hear from b.p. we've heard estimates at the beginning that continued to grow so i don'

i'm jim lehrer. b.p. used giant shears to slice a broken pipe on its damaged oil well. >> woodruff: and i'm judy woodruff. on the "newshour" tonight: officials said they'd know within 24 hours if the latest effort succeeds in capping the leak. we explain what they did today and what's next. >> lehrer: then, jeffrey brown has an end-of-the-school year education update on budget cuts, layoffs and a new teachers' contract in washington, d.c. >> woodruff: betty ann bowser looks at the health implications of a shortage of fresh foods in the rural south. >> the mississippi delta has some of the richest farmland in the country. but a lot of what gets grown here, doesn't necessarily get eaten here. >> lehrer: ray suarez wraps up his recent reporting trip to china. >> woodruff: spencer michels reports on the campaign against hepatitis-b-- a deadly disease afflicting millions of asians worldwide. >> about one in 20 people in the world are chronically infected. one in 20. 10 times more than people in the world are i

i'm jim lehrer. the u.s. commander in afghanistan, general stanley mcchrystal, was summoned to the white house tomorrow to explain his criticisms of administration officials in a magazine story. >> ifill: and i'm gwen ifill. on the newshour tonight, the general issued a swift aapology but his comments drew fire from the pentagon and the white house. >> we look at the fallout with mark thompson of "time" magazine and retired generals dan mcneil and merrill mcpeak. >> ifill: then judy woodruff gets an update on how the government financial rescue program is working from congressional watchdog elizabeth warren. >> lehrer: on the oil spill story, the obama administration vowed to appeal today's decision blocking a six month ban on deep water drilling. we have a debate. >> ifill: and spencer michels reports on privacy concerns over cell phones that track and share users' whereabouts. >> if you are publishing your location to the world, anyone including a stalker or a thief or the government or an advertiser or any

. >> jim lewis: they can disrupt critical infrastructure, wipe databases.know they can rob banks. so it's a much bigger and more serious threat. >> kroft: jim lewis is a director at the center for strategic and international studies, and he led a group that prepared a major report on cyber security for president obama. what was it that made the government begin to take this seriously? >> lewis: in 2007, we probably had our electronic pearl harbor. it was an espionage pearl harbor. some unknown foreign power-- and, honestly, we don't know who it is-- broke into the department of defense, to the department of state, the department of commerce, probably the department of energy, probably nasa. they broke into all of the high- tech agencies, all of the military agencies, and downloaded terabytes of information. >> kroft: terabytes? >> lewis: a terabyte is... it's hard to say. the library of congress, which has millions of volumes, is about 12 terabytes. so we probably lost the equivalent of a library of congress worth of government information in 2007. >> kroft

jim nussle, the direct of office and management and budget at that time in the last congress recently sent me a letter and endorsed the bill that i introduced in the congress and senator tom carper, democrat from delaware, and senator tom coburn had introduced in the senate. and the goal of the o.m.b. was to dispose of $9 billion in unneeded real property. can i have some additional time? ms. foxx: absolutely. i yield another 30 seconds. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. duncan: and director nussle wrote at the time i introduced that bill with congressman moore he said to reach this objective i believe we must improve and streamline the current process the federal agencies face in disposing real property assets. therefore i applaud your introduction of h.r. 3049 which would establish a five-year pilot program for expediting the disposal of properties no longer needed by the federal government. we have got to wake up, mr. speaker, and realize that private property is the

i've been in the congress, jim was in the congress for a long time. we know that the congress is a deliberative body, not an executive body. if you need a military decision you may not want to call on a body that can't decide whether to take something to the floor for six months, let alone what it's going to do on the floor as a means of defending that setting. so the court ruled in hamdi, obviously, he's an american citizen, he's going to be accorded rights and while he was an enemy combatant, and susceptible to being detained until the end of the conflict, he was still accorded the idea that he could have certain rights to protest and to challenge the conditions of his detention. particularly the reasons for his detention. the next case -- i realize i'm acting like a senator here, once a senator gets the floor, only god can take him off the floor, isn't that what they say? with the hamdan case, he was slated far military commission and the supreme court of the united states indicated there was not a clear authorization for military commissions in th

crow laws and to make clear that the vestiges of jim crow and slavery would be affected by the future congresses. today's commemoration of the naacp's 101st anniversary occurs as the organization prepares for its convention, one nation, one dream, the title, to be held in kansas city, missouri, on july 10 through july 15. at that time hundreds of naacp leaders and members will consider bowled and innovative a-- bold and innovative approaches tackling the 21st century. among those leaders will be benjamin todd jealous, the president of the naacp, the current chairman, roselyn brock, former chairman, washington bureau director, hillary shelton, and wendall anthony. all exhibited the fearless dedication on building on the naacp's great legacy. this includes many great heroes that we know, dr. martin luther king jr., who abust is in our capitol rotunda, coretta scott king, his widow, rosa parks, medgar evers, benjamin hooks. and i must mention, a.w. willis, johnny turner and others. that you are unwavering commitment to promote civil rights for all americans is a great tradition that the

and jim is a forceful champion of his fellow intelligence professionals.ever forgetting what it was like to risk his own life during two combat tours during the vietnam war. he will be my principle intelligence adviser and the leader of our intelligence community. our intelligence community has made great strides since the 9/11 attacks. guided by good nks we struck major blows to al qaeda and we disrupted many plots and sade many american lives. but as we saw with the failed attack over detroit we need to do better. that's why i ordered a series of reforms to strengthen intelligence earlier this year and that's why i'll be looking to jim to ensure that we have the most capable and efficient intelligence community possible. intelligence must be collected and analyzed quickly. it must be shared and integrated effectively and it must be acted upon desice illinois. that's what i expect as president and that's what our national security commands. in short our intelligence community needs to work as one team that produces quality, timely, and accurate intelligen

we'll be in 3d. >> safer: god help us all. >> cameron: ( laughs ) exactly. >> safer: movie making, jimmeron once said, is war, a constant fight against the countless things that can go wrong in a world of big money and big egos; where, after four years, just birthing the movie is about all a director can think of. what is the next thing, after you... when you finish? >> cameron: i haven't decided. i haven't decided. you know, i think you don't ask a woman if she wants to have another baby at the exact moment she's having a baby, you know what i mean? >> safer: you sure don't. >> welcome, presented by lipitor. >> at the traveler's championship today. bubba watson defeated watson in a sudden death play-off, his first career play-off victory. in the first round ever the world cup, germany eliminated england 4-1 to advance. and argentina also advanced beating mexico 3-1. for more sports log on to cbs8.com. i should've been doing more for my high cholesterol. ♪ you should've listened. you're right. now i'm eating healthier and i trust my heart to lipitor. [ male announcer ] when diet and ex

jim glantz, i want to start with you. i'm hoping that you can explain a in a little bit more detail what the blind sheer ram is. >> hi, gwen, yeah. the blind sheer ram is previously obscure device that is sort of the last finger in the dike. when you have an explosion like this. what it's supposed to do is move across the center of that blow-out protecter, sheer the drill pipe and then some seals on it. it's a very strange little device that is supposed to seal off that well and keep the volcano of gas and oil from coming up the well. what we found in our piece today is that as early as 2001, studies showed that if you had just one of those blind sheer rams, you had a real chance that part of the hydraulics feeding it, another obscure part called a shuttle valve, would represent the largest amount of risk. in other words, it would be sort of the place where things would most likely fail if they did fail. we don't think we found, so to speak, the o-ring or the piece of foam in the shuttle disaster yet. but we do think inve

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i'm jim lehrer. the attack on a gaza-bound aid ship drew more protest today as israel defended its naval blockade. >> ifill: i'm gwen ifill. on the newshour tonight, we examine today's developments including an escalating war of words between israel and the government of turkey. >> lehrer: then on the oil story, spencer michels has the latest on bp's efforts to contain the spill amid growing anger from local residents. >> here in the fishing village, people are deeply disappointed that the latest attempt to stop the leak failed and they are junior afraid for the future. >> ifill: we weigh the prospects for bp's future after the oil giant suffered big losses on world markets. >> lehrer: then ray suarez reports on another of china's public health problems. the dramatic increase in obesity. >> suarez: rapidly rising incomes, less strenuous physical labor and lots of new foods have contributed to a fatter china. >> lehrer:. >> ifill: geoffrey brown looks back at 30 years of cable news and ahead to a chan

now, back to jim. >> lehrer: now, the turkey story-- a u.s. ally in the middle east starts going its own way. kwame holman reports. >> holman: along the waters of the bosphorus, istanbul has been, through centuries, the symbolic frontier between east and west. once the seat of christian and islamic empires, the modern turkey finds itself again straddling two worlds. this week, at that ancient crossroads, turkish prime minister recep tayyip erdogan moved to strengthen his role as an emerging leader in the islamic world. >> turkey definitely feels more self confident these days. >> holman: omer taspinar is a professor of international relations at the national defense university. born in turkey, he's now an american citizen. >> there's a sense of, basically, patriotism and nationalism in the country. and this government wants to follow a more independent foreign policy. in that sense, i don't think what we see is really an islamization of turkish foreign policy, but more a nationalist and self-confident and increasingly independent foreign polic

i applaud jim brewer. -- a jim brewer -- she is trying to take her state back. the federal government has not south carolina can do a couple of things. we can hold our employees -- employers accountable. who they hire is who they say they will hire. we will enhance our immigration laws with some common sense additional things like what they did in arizona. we can implement a plan where we train our local and state law-enforcement officers on how to enforce immigration law in south carolina. we are doing it in charleston and buford. it is actually working. destiny. >> you say that workers earn $86 -- $186 million a year. say that we did for all of thee. all of these illegal immigrants, who will fill these jobs? a lot of them are hard labor jobs. >> i hope that they would the south carolinian. the last i checked, it was 11.6% unemployment. we are looking to put people back to work in south carolina. bless them. this nation is a nation of immigrants. we have laws to do that. if you want to come into this nation and do it legally, god bless you. if you or knowingly

jim, on the democrat line. caller: why do you think hindsight is 20/20 when it is nothing but your opinion looking back? host: tie that in to u.s. intelligence.. it sounds like you have something on your miid. caller: hindsight is 20/20 -- guest: i think i get your point. there are still the judgment and opinions involved when you look back to write history. there is no doubt in many of these situations you have a lot more facts available to you and retrospect than you do when you are carrying these things out. and i know from my personal experience, ambassadorships, when you are carrying things out, you never have the benefit of the complete set of facts. there are always important things that you do not know but you have to make assumptions about, as you go forward. you can still make errors of judgment as to what the significance of something nce. i would not argue with that. host: you finished your career in the bush administration. what was your focus? guest: i was at the department of state. we have 57 be

i've been in the congress, jim wain the coness for a long time. we kw that the congress is a deliberative body, not an executive body. if you need a military decision you may not want to call on a body that can't decide whether to take something to the floor for six month let alone what it's going to do on the floor as a means of defending that setting. so the court ruled in hamdi, obviously, he's an american citizen, he's going to be accorded rights and while he was an enemy combatant, and susceptible to being detained until the end of the conflict, he was still accorded the idea that he cou have certain rights to protest and to challenge the conditions of his detentn. particularly the reasons for his detention. the next case -- i realize i'm acting like a senator here, once a senator gets the for, only god can take him off the floor, isn'that what they say? with the hamdan case, he was slated far militaryommission and the supreme court of the united states indicated there was not a clear authorization for military commissions in e law for the pr

g-8 do you host: jim gibbons got 27% of the vote. you were saying harry reid is this mild-mannered person yet very aggressive. does his son reflect those same characteristics? guest: from what we can tell, i have not covered rory reid ne near -- nowhere near as closely as father. but the same political machine. harry reid has certainly helped his son along the way to become the clarke county commission chair just a couple of years ago, and it now becomes -- i think you see them certainly operating hand in hand. but what rory reid needs to do is to establish and sell as his own political force. you will not see the two campaign to the other, especially given the fact that every need remains relatively unpopular in the state. host: i heard one commentator yesterday, by the bennison was on yesterday, noting nevada's population has increased by one- third since harry reid last ran for reelection and many of these voters, would throw the bum, have not voted for harry reid before. guest: that is of relatively common problem for senators wh

host: what do you do in baltimore, ohio, jim? caller: service connected 100% disabled veteran, retired from being a car mechanic for a number of years and now i'm a house husband. my wife works. host: georgia, independent line. scott. caller: good morning. the quick point. everybody has been bashing mr. moore, and i would like to join in, too. you really need to add to defy him for what he is. he is just a far right wing republican. that is his viewpoint, and it has always been that. he is pretty much wrong on everything. host: we have never hidden his viewpoint. as you know as a regular watcher of "the washington journal," we have people from viewpoints from a to z on this program. caller: well, yes, somewhat. i guess the problem is, like other people have said, sometimes when people are trying to make a point, a kind of get cut off and he gets to redirect it. anyway, real cloak -- quick, he and a lot of other people want to go with this flat tax, it is not fair, everybody should pay the same amount of tax. comrade, they don't b

i'm jim lehrer. the latest effort to contain the oil spill resumed late today after robots freed a saw that was stuck in a pipe on the damaged well. >> ifill: and i'm gwen ifill. on the newshour tonight, as evidence of oil spill spreads throughout the gulf state, we get an update from the head of noaa. >> lehreh: and spencer michels reports from a louisiana town where the spill threatens the oyster industry. >> reporter: while fishermen in plaquimines parish say they've worked through the anger, the anger lies just below the surface. >> ifill: then wood examines the issues of israel's efforts to maintain the blockade of the gaza strip. >> lehrer: ray suarez reports on china on the largest-ever world's fair. >> reporter: nearly $60 billion later, shanghai has thrown its doors open to the world. >> ifill: and jeffrey brown closes with a conversation with two authors married to each other, both writing about happiness. >> lehrer: and that's all ahead on tonight's newshour. major funding for the pbs news

i'm jim lehrer. plumes of oil have been detected deep underwater, far from bp's ruptured well. >> woodruff: and i'm judy woodruff. on the newshour tonight, president obama said if b.p.'s ceo hayward worked for him, he would have fired him by now. we look at the company's legal liabilities. >> lehrer: and then ge we get an update on health care from susan dentzer, editor of health affairs journal as the administration pitched its reform to senior citizens. >> woodruff: jonathan miller of independent television news reports from capetown, south africa, on drugs, poverty and gangs in the shadow of the city's world cup stadium. >> i don't mean anything to my own family. that's why i look up to these guys. to show me the way. >> lehrer: ray suarez looks at a violent week in afghanistan just ahead of a major nato operation. >> woodruff: and geoffrey jean michel cousteau about the environmental disaster in the gulf. >> my hope is that this is the kick in the butt that we needed for change. >> lehrer: that's

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. >> warner: thank you, jim. jim risen of the "new york times," thanks so much. >> suarez: among the deposits are some called rare earths. there's a global race to mine those rare earth elements. kira kay reports on what that means for the u.s. and others. >> reporter: from the air, the frozen landscape of canada's northwest territories looks as remote as any place on earth. but in this vast uninhab ied zone there's a kind of 21st century gold rush underway. after landing on the icy surface of thor lake.... >> very nice to meet you. >> reporter:... i met chris peterson, a geologist with after loan rare metals company. he's out here looking for very valuable minerals he believes are under this lake. >> those gray specks are rare earth minerals. i mean they're very non-december crypt not sparkling and shining like gold or anything. they're just as important. >> reporter: rare earths are the elements at the bottom row of that periodic table studied in high schools around the world. 17 in all. peterson took me out to

jim and i thank the gentleman. the chair recognizes the gentleman from texas. >> thank you, mr. chairman.+ let me go back to a rhetorical question i proposed in my opening statement. everyone with the exception of mr. mckay said, if there is any idea that would stop that leak from occurring in the gulf of mexico, is there something you could share with us that has not been tried that will bring a rapid conclusion to this. we know bp does not have that idea. to many of the rest of you? >> we have provided our experts to assist, congressman. i am not aware of any ideas. >> no ideas or suggestions that have not been taken up. we know that bp has not been to the white house to talk to the president. have any of the rest of you had conversations with the white house about the management of the situation in the gulf? mr. tillerson rrmark >-- mr. tillerson? >> that was a very brief conversation. >> with the president or with his advisers? >> with both. >> let me ask you a question. a week ago we went down to the gulf and had a hearing on the investigation. we heard from workers on the

i will be looking to to jim to make sure we have the most capable and efficient intelligence community we could. our national security demands it. our intelligence community needs to work as one integrated team to produce quality, timely, and accurate intelligence. this is a difficult task, but this will be the core mission. he is eminently qualified and he has my complete confidence and support. he also understands the importance of working with our partners in congress. as he has said, not only to appear when summoned, but to seek member's advice and consent. the senate has voted to confirm him for the senior positions on four separate occasions. it has done so overwhelmingly, each time. given his unique experience, i urge the senate to do so again as swiftly as possible. i've spoken to the appropriate senate leaders and have indicated that i expect this nomination to be completed during this workshop period. this cannot fall victim to the usual washington politics. as we go forward, my administration will continue to work with congress to ensure that jim and all our insurance profes

. >> jim dobbin. >> about 1.5 million people suffer from involuntary tranquillizer addiction as a result of medical prescribing, and it totally ruins their lives. will the government consider investing in cost-effective, supportive, long-term withdrawal treatment programs to enable them to lead normal lives, come off benefits, and go back to work? >> let me praise the honorable gentleman for his interest in this work. i know that he is chairman of the all-party group that deals with this extremely difficult issue. the last government set up a review of addiction to prescription and over-the- counter medicines. we are waiting for the report to be come out and will study it carefully when it is. let me make two points. first, i think that there is a problem in our national health service more generally, in that we spend too much time always treating the symptoms rather than necessarily going to the causes. we could probably reduce the level of painkillers and tranquillizers if we did more through physiotherapy and other therapies to deal with the problem in the first place. secondly, all a

now, jim, i'm going to take questions at the end of my speech. jim, let me say that i carry around a card, didn't in you were going tt do it, on both sides, but let me -- some people you didn't mention. john boehner said, hhw does this create any new real jobs? there is no economic stimulus here, referring in 1993. and another dick armey quote is, it's not a recipe for more jobs, taxes will go up, the economy will sputter along, all this for the hollow promise of deficit reductions of lower interest rates. and has been pointed out by jim, economist armey was wrong on all counts. under president clinton pay-go helped turn historic deficits as i said into a $5. trillion surplus. and combined with economic growth, it can move our budget in the same direction agaan. some criticized pay-go for extensioning the exemptions on alternative minimum tax, and doc fix, and others that helped seniors facilitate their access to doctors. i understand that criticism. but it neglects the fact that a pay-go law without those exemptions would simply be waived again

jim renier wanted to see me. and you know what their executive decision was. the nation must redefine education as a process that begins at birth and recognizes that the potential for learning begins even earlier and encompasses the physical, social and cognitive development of children. education begins at birth and the preparation for education begins before birth. this whole thing -- this is the hard-headed business community of america said we've got pay more attention to early childhood development. we've got to put more emphasis on early childhood learning. they went so far as to say, we need to put emphasis on maternal and infant care programs so that children are healthy. that's what this is all about. it's about pre-school. because they said by the time -- as we all know, that brain development during early years that east the best time for brain development. by the team these kids get to kindergarten and first grade, they're so far behind we're always trying to play catch-up. you talk about middle school -- they've been behind before that. yes, you c

i say that it's authorized by jim mcgovern. this is what we have to do. what is so wrong requiring big corporations to do the same thing? what is so wrong saying we don't want foreign interests to influence our elections? these are american elections. we don't want china involved in these elections. i will not. or any other country. and we know that they can under the status quo influence our elections and play a role in our elections to these sovereign funds. i think the american people are right. there's nothing in the first amendment that says we can't ask somebody to stand by their words. we're not inhibiting free speech. we're just saying if british petroleum is going to run a swift vote ad against anybody here they ought to say who they are and not make up some name that somehow they're dedicated to clean oceans or to a good environment. with that i reserve my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves the balance of his time. the gentlewoman from north carolina. ms. foxx: thank you, madam speaker. i now yield three minutes to the disting

jim rex, also state senator robert ford, and state senator vincent sheheen. let's give a welcome to all three candidates. tonight's debate features the panel that will ask a series of questions to the canada. the executive vice president and a professor of politics at coastal carolina university. tracey bridges, a reporter, and our third panelist is anchor and reporter rusty ray. please welcome our panel. [applause] tonight's debate will focus on job creation and building long- term economic growth across south carolina. part one involves questions from the media panel and include questions that are submitted from viewers and readers of the morning news. each canada will have the opportunity to answer five questions posed by each panel member. the candidates will have one minute 30 seconds to answer the question. the other three candidates will have 30 seconds to rebukreviewee question. they drew lots to determine the order in which the candidates will answer the question. dr. rex is first. >> as part of your jobs initiative, fre ged's, the extension of unemp

i will be lloking to engine to make sure we have the most capable and efficient intelligence -- to jim to make sure we have the most capable and efficient intelligent -- and efficient intelligence community we could. our national security demands it. our intelligence community needs to work as one integrated team to produce quality, timely, and accurate intelligence. this is a difficult task, but this will be the core mission. he is eminently qualified and he has my complete confidence and support. he also understands the importance of working with our partners in congress. as he has said, not only to appear when summoned, but to seek member's advice and consent. the senate has voted to confirm him for the senior positions on four separate occasions. it has done so over mall -- overwhelmingly, each time. given his unique experience, i urge the senate to do so again as swiftly as possible. i've spoken to the appropriate senate leaders and have indicated that i expect this nomination to be completed during this workshop period. this cannot fall victim to the usual washington politics. as

jim racks. >> thank you for being here and the viewers who tuned in. need a different type of leadership and south carolina. we have relied for too long on career politicians who have really felt us. we hear about the gridlock legislature. ladies and gentleman, that matters very little. we need results. we need someone who has had the executive experience to get measured results. i have proven a last 3.5 years that we can move a public school system for in the worst recession we have seen in our lifetime with the governor who is neither hostile or indifferent to public education. i have enjoyed the debates with these two gentlemen. we have done this many times since this campaign started. i hope that the citizens of south carolina have noted the difference between the way democrats compete and republicans compete. this is not an r-raided campaign on the democratic side. [applause] i want to make one other comment. it has been honored to be a competitor with the gentleman. we have to be issued. it will be an honor to be your governor, also. [laughter] [

host: your comments are not really related to jim. but before we go can i just ask you real quick what the criticism from the obama administration from members of congress toward bp and how americans are viewing bp what is that doik to the imabbling of america in caller: i can see, you know, president obama when he first came in, i would say 95% of the people in britain would say what a fantastic thing. and now, it seems to be because of the mid-term elections that's going on, start to realize it's to do more with politics. host: we'll leave it there. thanks for calling in this morning. a call from england. i want to thank you for joining us this morning. appreciate your time. we're going to take a short break. when we come back, we're going to take a look at what's next in afghanistan. our guest is brian fishman, counter terrorism research fellow with the new american foundation. but first we want to take a look at the cartoons from this week. host: this is brian on your screen. he is with the new american foundation just back from a

there are any number of ideas, the paul ryan proposal, the jim jordan proposal, jeb hensarling has a proposal, many that are comprehensive in nation that will provide the glide path to a better economy and do it without raising taxes, so even though you hear frequently that the republicans are being shortsighted in the fact that they do not want to consider tax increases as part of an economic recovery plan, you're correct that most of us don't and the reason we don't is because we know we can recover this economy without raising taxes and raising taxes will slow our ability to recover and i yield back to the gentleman from missouri. mr. akin: thank you for the insight and wisdom you've shared with us. this is a graph of actually what happens over time and this is -- i was talking about, when you ere flying those old-fashioned airplanes and you wanted to not drive your airplane into the dirt, what you had to do was push the stick forward, to stop the spin. the plane was start to drive. when you had control, you could pull the stick back. that seemed counterintuitive. this one crazy p

i am delighted that jim leach is here who is chairman of the national endowment of the humanities and a former colleague of mine on our board. [applause] i will be introducing sam donaldson in a moment, but i want to say that his wife jan is here and we are delighted to have you here as well. [applause] we have the president of s iemens usa. we have several ambassadors with us tonight ambassador su from the republic of korea, will you stand please? [applause] the ambassador from the embassy of sweden is with us. [applause] the ambassador from japan is here. [applause] the ambassador from mexico is here and we are delighted to have him. [applause] i think the brazilian ambassador arrived. i did not see him personally. [applause] and we have the;djv charged affr from the embassy of south africa. [applause] i hope i have hit everybody i am supposed to. this is a wonderful evening. i want to thank joe gilde nhorn about his gracious remarks. i planned to be here four or five years and have stayed here 11 or 12. one of the principal reasons i have this because i have had the honor to work w