i'm algernon event today my guest in the studio is john kerry. has the state and the biggest names of the political and financial world have gathered in seoul this week for another g. twenty summit they're discussing the possible ways overcoming the global economic imbalance which actually is blamed for the recent financial crisis the g twenty probably has the weightiest opinion on this matter which is confirmed by john keratin the founder and director of the g. twenty and the g eight research groups. the g twenty was born just two years ago was an attempt to bring together the financial elite of the leading economics the aim was to brainstorm ideas on how to overcome the financial crisis the forum has quickly gained in value today the participants will try to come up with a decision on global imbalance imagine economies are blaming the developed countries for this saying very exorbitant appetites for cash make the balance even bigger now the g twenty has to go forward and make some difficult decisions. it's a good. welcome to the show great to b

washington post" in kabul, and margaret warner talks to senate foreign relations committee chairman john kerry. >> ifill: then betty anne bowser goes to new england for an update on the first state to pass health care reform. >> here in massachusetts health care reform has been up and running for nearly four years. for the most part, people like it. >> suarez: kwame holman reports on the return of congress, and charles rangel's decision to walk out of his own ethics trial. >> ifill: and what can a lame duck congress hope to accomplish? we look back with congress watcher norman ornstein and historian richard norton smith. >> suare: and jeffrey brown talks to author stacy shiff about cleopatra, the egyptian ruler who has captured our imagination for more than 2,000 years. >> rome is looking at... well mannered rome is looking at her as the stuff of decadence, as this decadent wild queen. >> ifill: that's all ahead on tonight's newshour. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: and... this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions t

all the major presidential candidates at the time are for the war, john kerry is for. john edwards is 40. joe lieberman is for it. and howard dean is kind of saint himself, if this war is kind of crazy, it doesn't make a lot of sense for us to unilateral and then iraq. so he starts going to party gatherings in iowa and saying this stuff. and people start cheering. and they get kind of into it, and they say, dean is onto something. but no one really knows who he is. so there's this key moment in the book, 2003, he said he state democratic party gathering in washington, the annual winter meeting in washington. he flies and i read i. he meets with his supporters, he meets with his aides about half an hour before he sets the stage and he says what am i going to talk about. his campaign manager who's a bit of a bomb thrower, i will talk about him any second, rancheria brown's campaign against clinton is always a hopeless insurgent, never wins but always stirs things up. history will repeat itself soon enough. in any case, he says you've got to pose these questions about what

. >> suarez: coming up, senator john kerry on afghanistan and more. that's followed by health care reform in massachusetts; the return of congress, and the trial of charles rangel; lame duck sessions from years past; and the life of egyptian pharaoh cleopatra. but first, the other news of the day. here's hari sreenivasan in our newsroom. >> sreenivasan: the government of ireland confirmed today it is in talks with other european union nations on how to handle its enormous debt, but irish officials insisted they do not need a bailout. and a spokesman for the european commission dismissed talk of other nations pressing ireland to accept help. >> too say... to say that these contacts constitute in some press reports negotiations of a bailout in this kind of exaggerations, i think there is a big, big distance. no, we are in close contact and regular contact. it has to be. it's only normal. there is no news in that, but nothing beyond that. >> sreenivasan: ireland's national deficit soared after it rescued five banks from huge real estate losses. in anothe

john kerry's message echoes that of the u.s. president during a nato summit in lisbon odia this month barack obama said rubber stamping the deal this year is crucial for national security and for the warming of relations with russia the treaty would see the nuclear arsenals of russia and the u.s. slashed by almost a third also come into force it has to be ratified by the u.s. senate and republicans are trying to stall the process saying there are more pressing problems to deal with investigative journalist to wayne madsen says some republicans are in favor of signing the treaty but that president obama still faces a daunting task to persuade the rest it is. unfortunately if we don't pass the start treaty and this congress it's going to be thrown into a senate where the republicans are going to have an increase majority people like senator john kyl and senator john mccain both from arizona will have a lot of influence and less so people like senator lugar who's been forcefully arguing he's a republican of course he's been forcefu

if you look at what john kerry one, they are all held by democrats -- what john kerry won, they are all held by democrats. >> thank you for a much for that. it segued into the commentary i want to make which is why what could have been a mild wave turn into a historic tsunami. i discussed the intellectual forces at work in a piece i wrote online that appeared a day before the election, so i would encourage you to take a look at that. i want to focus more on the nuts and bolts. there are two types of seats that swann back. -- swung back. there are the seats picked up by democrats. many of them slipped back into the republican pattern this time, but the others are seats dominated by the group i have been talking about, and that is the white working class. i want to focus on that and see what happened. according to the polls, the white working-class voters for republican side -- by 69%. this was much stronger than any other group. republicans carried whites with college degrees by 18 points, but that becomes even more striking when you compare that to the 2008 poll. republicans carried whi

george bush beat john kerry but because president obama is urging them not to get involved.is subsequent attacks on this outside spending. the fact that david brock, a democrat who has access to this type of funding is getting involved with potentially a white house green light is significant, i think, going forward. >> not even referring to brock. to what degree is there a white house green light? >> the white house has been very careful. president obama ran on the idea of changing the way that politics worked. part of that was changing the influence of special interest money in the political system and for him to be seen as dialing that back when he has already been criticized on that front for opt onning out of the public financing system in the 2008 campaign and has attacked so aggressively the u.s. chamber of commerce and some of the republican-alleyed republican-allied interest groups. i think we'll see subtle signals it's okay to give again. perhaps we'll see donors in support of his 2008 campaign giving to one or more of these types of groups. >> the devil's advocate

and john kerry, a war hero, who has exposed himself to enemy fire who's been out there, been injuredr, is talked about as if he was a deserter. there's not a democrat who has ever questioned john mccain's service in terms like that. there's a huge, huge difference between the departure points of those two discussions. >> i think you can find people who cross the line on the fringes on both side. the difference is that on the right, they have taken those people in the fringe and promoted them and put them in charge. you did have the arkansas project. when bill clinton was in the office that he had an airstrip in arkansas and he was a drug dealer and killing people and all this sort of stuff. but it was the fringe. you can find people who say crazy stuff on the fringe. but those people then became the swift boat people that ran the campaign against john kerry who became the citizens united people who then ran the entire, for example, 2010 midterms in terms of what the ads looked like. you get promoted from the fringe on the right. on the left, you stay on the fringe. >> and it gets pro

from boone pickens to john kerry, joe scarborough to dr. sachs.eign oil. >> we need to break opec. half of these people are there because of us. we created opec by protecting them so that saddam hugh san and others didn't take them over a long time ago like kuwait, now big investers in other countries outside the united states. they don't want to invest in the united states because their frp their return isn't good enough. >> we put all the firsz of the oil well. they're out there saying i would rather invest in china because the return on the investment is better. as an example, with ear going to leave iraq and that's going to be it. what do we do? it's going to blow up. guaranteed that iraq stake en over by arepublican. what happens with opec is an all-time classic. these 11 million -- not nice to say it, but it's all men. these 11 men sit around a table and fix the price of barrel, a. the way we run this country is an absolute disgrace. senator kerry who is a friend of mine, and i was just listening, talking about all this stuff, they've been i

because the leadership of john kerry and dick luger, there have been 18 hearings on this subject.briefings. it has been fully and carefully vetted and has the full endorsement of our nation's military leadership, our vice chairman of the joint chiefs of staff and will confirm that this is in our national security interests. my administration is also prepared to go the extra mile to ensure that our means we are not able to verify what is going on in the ground in russia. if we delay indefinitely, nonproliferation and america's national security will be weakened. now, senator reid said yesterday there is time on the senate calendar to get this treaty ratified this year. so, i've asked vice president biden to focus on this issue day and night until it gets done. it's important to our national security to let this treaty go up for a vote. i'm confident that it is the right thing to do. the people around this table think it's the right thing to do. i would welcome the press to query the leadership here, people who have been national security advisors, secretaries of state and key advis

a former strategist for the democrats and an adviser to al gore and john kerry joins us. peter, thank you very much for your time. how bad do you expect it to be, and why is that? >> i think it will be pretty bad for the democrats. the fact is that most folks believe that the house of representatives will switch from the democratic to republican party. they think there is even a possibility if republicans run the table that they can pick of the 10 senate seats needed to switch the senate from the democrats to the republicans. that is a little less likely but still possible. what you have here is you have the economy. you have a situation where the american people in 2008 were angry and scared and want to change and elected barack obama, and in 2010, and they are angry and scared and now want change. the pendulum has swung very far, very fast, and i think voters are coming out, especially those who are against barack obama, and i am not sure if the folks that voted in 2008, there were 15 million new voters, in that year, and we are afraid that those voters will not turn ou

if you look at a seat that john kerry won with more than 54% of the vote they are all held by democrats >> thank you very much john for that illuminating series of maps or good segues very nicely into the commentary i want to make on the house, which is why what could have been a mild wave turned into a historic tsunami? i discussed the long-term intellectual forces at work on a piece that i wrote on national a few on line called day of the democratic dead that appeared today before the elections, so i would encourage you if you are interested to take a look at that. i want to focus on more than nuts and bolts. there are two types of seats that swung back primarily, john identified one said very clearly and that is the republican seats that were picked up and left, to elections by democrats. many of them, not all of them but many of them slipped back into the republican pattern at this time, but the other seat are seats that are dominated by the group that i've been talking about throughout this election and that is the white working-class. i want to focus on that again. what happened h

and senate foreign affairs chairman john kerry, who's been pushing the issue in the senate, is expressing hope that there's still an opening to act in the lame duck session. however, winning approval of the treaty will only become harder for the white house next year when democrats will have six fewer seats in the senate. the white house did a lot of work courting senator kyl for his vote, and they are not going to get it at least for now. >>> for the first time since leaving office, former president george w. bush and dick cheney shared a stage together in dallas yesterday. the pair reunited for the groundbreaking of the $300 million bush presidential library on the campus of southern methodist university. there bush said that a new public policy institute, a tax to the library, would not be used to second-guess president obama. >> and i believe that the ultimate responsibility of a leader is to not do what is easy or popular but to do what is necessary and right. the decisions of governing are on another president the's desk. and he deserves to make them without criticism from me. [ app

senator john kerry is leading diplomatic effort on possible peace agreement as for the students manyre clearly a bit stary eye. campus leaders operate issue hope cleany appearance will have a much deeper impact. >> hawj group of people might otherwise not be committed and passionate about the issue will get a chance to see something that will help them learn about a conflict in sudan that is not always widely talked about. but someone like george clooney can care about. >>reporter: he made the trip to stanford amid a very busy schedule. he's prepping for new movie that begins shooting in february. at stanford university, lillian kim, abc 7 news. >>> murder charges were filed today against the man accused of killing san francisco fashion design kate in her russian hill apartment. we learn more about the events that led to the arrest at 43-year-old gary holland last friday. he was want kering into the sale rock inn when he fell asleep in a park across the street. hotel manager mentioned holland to a cop who happened to be eating at the inn restaurant. i have. >> police captain happened

with them so he's i agree with him on that point but he's not quite a lone voice in this senator john kerry recently spoke about what he calls a culture of know nothingism among americans now he blamed right wing media and talk radio for those who do you think is to play. well i think it's not just the right wing media i think. in example is the the islamic mosque controversy in new york city which i wrote about a couple of weeks ago americans tend to not travel they tend to not learn foreign languages and america is very isolated from the rest of the world and it's really an educational problem but it is true that the republicans have used the issue of trade in their advertisements the fact is that everything is made in china and in addition to that the u.s. has been doing providing substance. he's for it's own products like cotton. since the end of world war two so it's part of a global economy the u.s. is in a global economy and they have to compete like like everyone else and not look for excuses i think that may or may us no continue with her comments go ahead well mayor bloomberg you

reduce nuclear weapons that's the call from the head of the senate foreign relations committee john kerry says the atomic cuts treaty with russia should be ratified before the union acted and republican dominated senate gets the chance to block it new start he is quite simply a commonsense agreement to control the world's most dangerous weapons and then have stability between the two countries two countries that present us over ninety percent of them and what are completely opposite irresponsible decision it would be if the united states senate just got bogged down in politics and walked away from this moment unwilling to make that kind of decision that offers the kind of leadership that the world and i think certainly the american people expect us to make. kerry's message echoes that of the u.s. president during a nato summit in lisbon that he this month. said rubber stamping the deal this year is crucial for national security and the warming of relations with russia the treaty it would see the nuclear arsenals of russia and the us national almost a third to come into force it has to be

approval of a key arms reduction treaty with russia is heating up in washington democratic senator john kerry is urging the house to ratify the latest arms reduction treaty before the newly elected congress is able to block it next year in. the new start he is quite simply a commonsense agreement to control the world's most dangerous weapons and stability between the two countries two countries that preserve us over ninety percent of them. just think of the statement it makes. to those countries contemplating where around may be going when the countries that possess ninety percent of these weapons begin to dismantle more weapons and provide intrusive verification steps between us for how we will both behave what an important statement this motion element of time with respect to a rainy and behavior with respect to north korean behavior and what a completely opposite irresponsible decision it would be if the united states senate just got bogged down in politics and walked away from this moment unwilling to make the kind of decision that offers the kind of leadership that the world that i think

heard so much about this so much about the importance of this treaty if you look at hillary clinton john kerry you know lugar if you look at joe biden even they all talk about how this is so important for our nation's national security but that's the exact same argument that you hear all the lies coming from from people on the right from the john bolton's the john hughes of the world from the heritage foundation's mailers that are saying that this is a threat to our national security so i just wonder if maybe we should stop using that word if there is a just a more you know a calmer way to go about it than to always ring the alarm bells ok so you do have these far right pundits in the weekly standard in the heritage foundation spreading all kinds of fear about what this treaty would do and then so who do you trust do you listen to what those guys are saying or do you go to the military establishment of the united states where the joint chiefs of staff think they are you unanimously behind this treaty how about former secretaries of state and secretaries of defense you have jim baker and colin

example the eric sprott up in canada or his chief analyst john embry they've said they've come out john kerry came out and said he guarantees hyperinflation now the only way he could guarantee hyperinflation is if what these golden summer vigilantes as i call them get these huge orders and force physical delivery and to bust the comebacks there's a lot of discussion about whether you can bust a come x. . because now they saddle up and cash etc now are these precious metals vigilantes. can they bust can they bust the markets and bust the price oppressions games by taking physical delivery and forcing the issue do you see it happening is this a trend that. can we take some stock in i believe we can also agree dude off the comix i mean when you go back to one thousand nine hundred warren buffett arguably one of the richest men in the world one hundred twenty nine point seven million ounces of foreign silver the comix had two hundred eighty million ounces at that time he only got ninety million off the exchange initially so they made him or he didn't make community but he said i'll give you more

address some of the issues that we have raised and i look forward to continuing to work with senator john kerry, the department of defense and department of energy officials. where are we on this and how big of a set back is it? back with the panel. >> hillary clinton talked about the pause button and they want to get back to the re-set button sometimes it wants to you reach for the mute button. >> bret: that was good. >> probably too hard. the real problem fundamentally they are trying to squeeze in too much. all of the sudden in the lame duck session the administration's top priority. i think that has to do in part what the president was saying overseas last week and what he hopes to be saying in lisbon this coming weekend, talking about the fact that start is going to be ratified, that he said it is going to be ratified. there are a lot of things that the senate has to do that congress has to do. there is not a lot of time to do them. chief among them is our tax cuts. there is also unemployment insurance. there are a series of things that need to get done. this is now a priority for the pres

then john kerry and john edwards the next day repeated the charge. one in committee hearing, and one of them in the speech, kerry. at the end of the day, it was repeated by the intelligence committee. every one had said bush had lied about the presence. however, every one of the five people looked at the same body of intelligence, and every one the five, kennedy, daschle, kerry, edwards, and harmon had themselves said that saddam had wmd. even kennedy, who was one the five that voted against the war. we must use diplomacy, not force. there were others who joined in. there was a letter that we received in december of 2003, signed by -- excuse me, 2004, signed by senator bob graham, chairman of the senate intelligence committee. a bipartisan letter that said saddam has wmd. why are you taking so long? a year later, bob graham was calling for bush's impeachment. now when this attach, and it was an attach. you don't have five big dogs in the democratic party make that kind of an attack in two days time without there being pull thought, some smart guy came

norman schwarzkopf, john kerry, mayor rudy, fi rudy giuliani ooe want out there?the way you introduced is it it sounds like more early detection. that's my understanding it's another scan the doctors want to do another test they might get sued if they don't. psa test is never shown to save lives. it's very controversial. my doctor says you have to get the test. false positives they do surgery they don't need it. >> grow your strash grow i'm robert shapiro. over a million people have discovered how easy it is to use legalzoom for important legal documents. at legalzoom we'll help you incorporate your business, file a patent, make a will and more. you can complete our online questions in minutes. then we'll prepare your legal documents and deliver them directly to you. so start your business, protect your family, launch your dreams. at legalzoom.com we put the law on your side.

coming up next, 11 news with john kerry, your sunday gardener. >> this is my idea of a cactus. these will get quite large given time. >> they will. you cannot believe the diversity in this family of plants. >> they work very well in the house. >> we will talk about it all, sunday gardener. cactus >> good morning. welcome to your sunday gardener. this is my kind of gardening. where you can ignore the plan. >> kind of. >> we are going to talk about cactus and succulent. minimum, low maintenance plants. >> this is a great way to get children involved. they love these plants. they are great for dormitories or places without a lot of light. >> will kids could stay away from some of these. >> [laughter] >> i have been stabbed a couple of times. what did you learn the other day? >> the horticultural society talked about great container plants. he really honed in on some of these plants. one thing that i did not know is that many of these succulents, they grow more in the winter than they do in the summer. we want to keep a closer eye, making sure that we water them from time to time.

it could be john kerry. it could be van jones. it could be andy stern. richard trumpca. president obama. have you ever wondered who is at the other end of a blackberry? no president ever had that. that was a security risk. why did we spend so much money? who does he need to talk to? who is writing the damn speeches on the teleprompter everywhere? if you come to a show, you'll see it in a movie about stages and stage performers. even moulin rouge, favorite movie of my family. two story. what is happening on stage, and then the one behind the stage. you don't see what is happening behind. but the story that they're telling on stage and they're acting out, you know. the government needs to spend more money to stimulate the economy. no, no. we need more government intervention. those evil rich people won't spend their money. we need more taxes. all that. you know this story line. how much is real, how much is orchestrated? only one way to find out. you have to look behind the curtain. we have shown you people taking the country apart piece-by-piece and we showed it to you in

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senator john kerry is making dim tick effort for a possible. >> they hope clooney's appearance will have huge impact. >> people that might not be committed will get a chance to see something that will help them learn about the conflict in sudan that is not always talked about. >> he made this in stanford amid a busy schedule. he begins shooting a new movie in february. >> is someone making a play for yahoo? the bloomberg business report is coming up. >> whether u.c. or csu, expect to pay more to attend. the new proposal that students and faculty feel at the college system. plus san francisco officials want to make it more affordable to be trendy. next the change that could accelerate the foot truck fad. lots of lotions promised healing. this one actually does it. [ female announcer ] gold bond ultimate healing lotion. nothing feels like it, smel like it, heals like it. gold bond. this stuff really works. >> welcome back. your california forecast, you see the rain eureka, chico and tahoe. 45 tahoe, sacramento 61 with increasing clouds. low to mid-60s fresno, sunshine. low to mid-70 l.a. a

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