tavis: john chen, dana said that we have to recognize the fact that we can no longer dominate. let me ask you a direct and pointed question. if the 20th century belonged to the united states, does the 21st century belong to china? do we need to accept the fact that we won in the 20th century, but it belongs to china in the 21st century? i ask that because we all know that hu jintao, the leader of china, is headed to the city in a number of days to speak to president obama in a summit. does the 21st century belonged to china? >> first, i have a comment before you insert -- before i answer your question. i am glad i did not go to princeton, because i did not understand half of what dr. west said. i would never have graduated. i would not be sitting here. [laughter] i would first say to you -- i run around the world and i am fortunate enough to do a lot of business around the world. we beat ourselves up pretty bad. i think that is one thing we always like to do. i think there is a lot of countries out there who would love to be america. they love americans. and the fact of the mat

my thanks to all of you, david brody, david frum, john chen,ianian, cornel west, maria bartiromo, dana milbank. my thanks to everyone here. this terrific facility is a world class institution. a special thanks again to the good people at nationwide for making this possible. i'll see you tomorrow night from l.a. until then, good night washington. keep the faith. >> for more information on today's show, visit tavis smiley at pbs.org. >> hi, i'm tavis smile write. join me next time from l.a. >> all i know is his name is james, and he needs extra help with his reading. >> i am james. >> yes. >> to everyone making a difference -- >> thank you. >> you help us all live better. >> nationwide insurance proudly supports tavis smiley. with every question and every answer, nationwide insurance is proud to join tavis in working to improve financial literacy and remove obstacles one conversation at a time. nationwide is on your side. >> and from contributions from viewers like you. thank you.

[applause] the ceo of sybase and a committee of 100, our friend, john chen. [applause] i think want to start our conversation with dr. west. i do that because i was reading clips of some of your immediate appearances, one in particular, you were asked about this conversation. i thought we were friends. until i read this conversation -- we talked about how america can return to its greatness. i want to talk about -- we have three hours to drill down on this, but you took exception in the piece i read on a particular media outlet on the notion of america returning to its greatness. i want to let you unpack we have to say about that, but talk to me philosophically, politically, socially, culturally, how you see this notion of america's grade is and whether it ever existed and whether we can never return to it if it ever existed. >> thank you for bringing us together. we need to have this conversation at this moment at this history of this experiment called the united states of america. what i meant is that the very notion of a great nation is ironic because i co

i know brother john chen, i'm speaking clearly for you. >> i've got it. [laughter] >> he is a distinguished graduate of hong kong university. i want to be listed. this is not beating american down 3 -- alan to be lucid. when martin luther king gave his abilities, he is not anti- american, he was anti injustice in america. that is what we are talking about. [applause] for my canadian-born brother says he can see the answers in the problems, i'm not sure about that. i'm not sure about that. the reason is because i did not hear in your analysis and the talk about corporate power or wall street power, i did not hear any talk about mastering the political will from below and the ways in which it is suffocated, sometimes crushed by the powers that be. when we hear cry for her and help among poor people, we don't get a response. when we hear from investment bankers, we get corporate welfare. that's a big difference. [applause] >> i think it is about education. when you look at the differences of education in this country as opposed to the rest of the world, we a

i know brother john chen, i'm speaking clearly for you. >> i've got it. [laughter] >> he is a distinguished graduate of hong kong university. i want to be listed. this is not beating american down 3 -- alan to be lucid. when martin luther king gave his abilities, he is not anti- american, he was anti injustice in america. that is what we are talking about. [applause] for my canadian-born brother says he can see the answers in the problems, i'm not sure about that. i'm not sure about that. the reason is because i did not hear in your analysis and the talk about corporate power or wall street power, i did not hear any talk about mastering the political will from below and the ways in which it is suffocated, sometimes crushed by the powers that be. when we hear cry for her and help among poor people, we don't get a response. when we hear from investment bankers, we get corporate welfare. that's a big difference. [applause] >> i think it is about education. when you look at the differences of education in this country as opposed to the rest of the world, we a

i know brother john chen, i'm speaking clearly for you. >> i've got it.laughter] >> he is a distinguished graduate of hong kong university. i want to be listed. this is not beating american down 3 -- alan to be lucid. when martin luther king gave his abilities, he is not anti- american, he was anti injustice in america. that is what we are talking about. [applause] for my canadian-born brother says he can see the answers in the problems, i'm not sure about that. i'm not sure about that. the reason is becse i did not hear in yo analysis and the talk about corporate power or wall street power, i didot hear any talk about mastering the political will from below and the ways in which it is suffocated, sometimes crushed by the powers that be. when we hear cry for her and help among poor people, we don't get a response. when we hear from investment bankers, we get corporate welfare. that's a big difference. [applause] >> i think it is about education. when you look at th differences of education in this country as opposed to the rest of the world, we are failin

teresa kumar, dana milbank, arianna huffington, maria bartiromo, cornel west, david frum, and john s. chen. we are glad you have joined us. coming up now. [applause] >> all i know is his name is james, and he needs extra help with his reading. >> i am james. >> yes. >> to everyone making a difference -- >> thank you. >> you help us all live better. >> nationwide insurance supports tavis smiley. with every question and every answer, nationwide insurance is proud to join tavis in working to improve financial literacy and remove obstacles to economic empowerment, one conversation at a time. nationwide is on your side. >> and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. [captioning made possible by kcet public television] [applause] tavis: hu jintao is on his way to the usa. what's to we expect our government to get for us out of those conversations? what ought to be bringing back to is when the summit is over? >> open the market, with as played evenly, fairly, and transparently. by the way, it goes both ways. if you are a foreign entity and you want to invest in the

number of people from the bay area at the dinner last night including silicon valley software magnet john chen. minority leader nancy pelosi. live from washington d.c., allison burns, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> time now 5:13. state senator yee of san francisco is demanding an apology from radio talk show host rush limbaugh to the chinese community. yesterday on his radio show rush limbaugh complained about a lag in the translation in the televised remarks of chinese president. limbaugh gave his version of what the chinese president was saying. [ foreign language ] >> senator yee is saying rush limbaugh owes the chinese community an apology for what he calls a classless act. >>> the san francisco police department kicks off its annual campaign to make sure that asian-american businesses are not taken advantage of during the upcoming lunar year celebrations. city officials held a news conference in china town yesterday encouraging business owners to call the police if someone tries to extort money from them. today a similar safety awareness campaign will take place in the bay view and angle side d

. >> there were actually a number of people from the bay area at the dinner, including john chen, nancy pelosi and intel e xecutive. reporting live from washington, d.c., alison burns, ktvu channel 2 news. >> thank you. >>> 7:16. well, state senator leland yee is insulting rush limbaugh insulting the president of china and the chinese community. yesterday, on his show, lush rhumba complained about the lag in -- rush limbaugh complained about the lag in words from the president. >>> a new report says u.s. officials have determined e xactly who executed wall street journal report daniel pearl. according to the report by a team of american journalists and students, u.s. officials using vain matching technology identified the hand of the u nseen man who killed pearl video. reportedly it's khalid sheik muhammed. the investigation concluded that the four men convicted of p earl's killing in pakistan did help kidnap pearl but they were not present during his h eading -- beheading. >>> this week marks 20 years of the start of the gulf war and these are night-vision images of that first counter