keach hagey is with "politico." we have a few minutes left. ms. hagey. >> host: how committed is the obama administration to voa and public diplomacy compared to previous administrations in your experience? >> guest: well, i'm the new guy, and i've been hired during the term of president obama. and my sense is warm support from the administration for what we're trying to do. but, again, i vice president had much -- i haven't had much time yet to really learn the nuanced, more complex answer to that question. my sense is that they favor what we do, they understand it. i'm very, very supportive of and pleased that walter isakson is the chairman of the board of the broadcasting board of governors. he's a great american and a very wise person. he was, by the way, at one point president of cnn, and i was working for him then too. >> host: and where do you think is the most fertile place for what voa does in today' world? >> guest: you actually raise an interesting question because we debate amongst ourselves, which is more important; to have more peopl

last week we talked with david ensor of doa, and now talking with brian conniff, and keach is joining us again this week. what is the mission of the middle east broadcasting networks, and what are the networks? >> guest: okay. that's a good place to start. the nbn, middle east broadcasting networks is the corporate name for the stations. their mission is the same of all broadcasting which was to broadcast accurate news and information, and news about america that dispels some of the distortions that exist out there. we're a generallistic organization, and funded by the u.s. government, but we're not the government's mouthpiece, and we're not a propaganda organization. we use a variety of different programs to accomplish our objectives. as i described al hora is tv, and they reach the audience in the middle east. >> host: what's the budget, how many employees, and where are you based? >> guest: it's a diverse organization, the budget is $110 million including for two tv stations. there's the al hora pan arab channel addressing 2 # countries throughout the arabic speaking middle east, a

. >> host: just to kind of peg off with what keach was asking about china or iran, if you use facebook or twitter or other platforms, aren't those easier to shut down than short wave radio? >> guest: no, actually, they are not. there's always a way of circumventing it and there's always another website and another way of working around it, so while you can stop a particular route, and you can censor a particular way of downloading the internet, people are enormously creative. the chinese people, russian people, and others, and they are good at finding our message, and we have creative people ensuring they will be able to. it's a cat and mouse game if you will, but the mouse has plenty of ways of getting around. >> guest: so here in the u.s., we, of course, by law can't consume voice of america. we spend a lot of the career overseas, most recently at the u.s. embassy in kabul. how do people perceive america in the countries where you worked as a journalist and dip plo malt? diplomat? >> guest: well, i was very impressed how voice of america and radio freer europe, our sister network, we

protestors vow to keach -- keep up the pressure until military rule is transferred to the citizens. >> they have no right to claim any authority to make any decisions in this country ever again. >> u.s. officials are trying to win the release of three american college students accused of throwing firebombs at security forces. one of the three called home and said they are in good condition. >>> it looks like on this holiday investors have very little to be thankful for. stocks in the u.s. and europe have tumbled this month as concerns about debt and deficit problems are on both sides of the atlantic. the markets are closed. the stock market will shut down three hours early tomorrow after being open. and in the last session the dow sank 236 points while the nasdaq fell 61. >>> the average rate on the 30- year fixed mortgage is hovering above its record low for a fourth week but those low mortgage rates have done little to boost home sales or refinancing. freddie mac says the rate on the 30-year fixed loan fell to 3.98% from 4% the previous week. >>> black friday is tomorrow. the busies

syracuse university fired assistant basketball keach bernie fine.s after a third man came forward to accuse fine of child molestation. incriminating phone calls between his wife and an accuser have surfaced. >>> an endorsement from new hampshire's largest newspaper. they believe he has the conservative credentials to win the republican nomination. now back to msnbc undercover. >>> it's a thursday night in detroit and investigators with the fbi's human trafficking task force are in the middle of operation cross-country, a national crackdown on the juvenile sex trade. >> they should in the command center have a packet on each individual. >> so far the team has already pulled two underage girls off the street, then they get a lead on another possible juvenile. >> she's got a girlfriend. she's going to send a girlfriend for a walk. >> undercover officers set up a date with the girl and then move in for the arrest. >> hello, police department. are you here by yourself? >> inside the room, detectives find a young woman who goes by the online name of tonya

>> how do you keach your turkey noise is. >> we represent the open pan cooking method at 325 degrees.t pan, on a rack, basting it, keeping the oven door shut the entire time, tenting the breast with foil over the breast. use a meat thermometer to make sure the thigh gets to 180. when the breast is up 165, you will have a tender juicy breast. >> if you pull your turkey out and it's dry. is there anything you can do to save the turkey? >> call butterball. >> what i would recommend is using the drinks to make great gravy. >> then marinate the heck out of it. >> my mom used to stuff the turkey with the stuffing and stick it in there but there's that old fable that says, you know, it's not healthy. you shouldn't do that. stick it in an aluminum foil. is it healthy to stuff? >> it's fine as long as you check the temperature and get that stuffing up to 165 degrees. that's a personal preference. >> caitlin o'rourke from the butterball turkey hotline says stuff it, frank. >> caitlin, happy thanksgiving. thanks for your expertise. >> thank you. >> we are going to chat with her in another hour t

they say they need $2.50 a pound to keach up account cost of living. >>> -- to keep up with the cost of living. >>> a woman texted the man who stole her sister's car. how she got the car back. >>> starbucks cheating customers on the price of coffee. coming up. ,, ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, ,, to the thief helped her gett back. >>> we are back at 5:23. a bay area woman not only reached out to the police after her car was stolen; a text message to the thief got her car back. monica salazar left her keys in the ignition when she parked it at home. a thief jumped in and took off with the car and her cell phone. her sister said, let's text that phone telling the thief that her mother just died. that prompted the man to call salazar and it turns out, his mother had died recently, too and he was a drug addict. >> he also just lost his mom and was scared and was hurt and was reaching out for help to a complete stranger whose car he just stole. so just imagine the risk he was taking. how hard was it for him to reach out for help? [ crying ] >> well, he did. it took throw phone calls, but the man -- it

keach hagey is a reporter for politico.hank you both for being on "the communicators." >> guest: thank you for having me. >> our purpose, our mission is to describe journalistically the events of the day. there's nothing that says we have to present the american foreign policy. but -- i mean, that's a huge reason why we exist because people want to know what is the american position? they want it explained. and they want to know how it came about. they want to know is it unified? they want to know all those answers. they're not getting from local media. >> "the communicators" tonight at 8:00 eastern on c-span2.

keach hagey is with the "politico". >> remarks from the president and ceo of the blue cross-blue shield company, scott serota, talking about the changing role of health care delivery and what issues providers, purchasers, and consumers face as the health care law is put into practice. this is about 45 minutes. [inaudible conversations] >> good afternoon, everybody. let me welcome you to u.s. chamber. it's my pleasure today to introduce our distinguished speaker, scott serota. scott is the president and chief executive officer of the blue cross-blue shield association. the blue cross-blue shield is a confederation of 49 locally operated blue cross-blue shield companies. the blue system insures nearly 100 million americans or roughly about one out of every three of us across the country. scott has been president and ceo since the year 2000 after serving two years as chief operating officer before that, and prior to all of that, he was executive vice president for system development, responsible for new business, strategy, and the blue technology evaluation center, which is the nation's le