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f that the case, ithe president's aunt, who lis in kenya can't go back to kenya because there's too much focus her there, i think there is a lot of other relations in kenya and wouldn't they live under the same kind of fear and get the me kind of asylum if they came to the unitedtates? is that something that the presidt is for and with her getting asylum aft the court h said no, based onthe fact that a nephew was elected president and that would be a reaso as i read that law, i have a lot of questions that come one ofhem is, if his aunt gets asylum, wouldn't all of the obama relation get asylum if they just snuck into the united states and move into the white hoe ounds and none of them can go back to kenya anymore? i don't know. i'm sure there was favoritism involved. a court that would gra asylum than no greater basis than what i readere, then i think is one that should be questioned. if anybody thinks at robert gibbs said, no, there was nothinout the ordinary, no impropriety, no one from the white house had anything to say, and just let e court do what they did. rlly? i wou wonder if t

we are trying to build up a platform for kenya where you can literally click on a map of kenya or specific provinces and figure out who is doing what. you can have that have something that serves the state department as well as the open public. is a difficult thing to do. i have had conversations with a variety of private companies who want to do this for their own purposes. it is interesting to watch the conversation played out between government and private sector as to how we are exploring this in kenya. it will look like something in between what you and i are describing. you are absolutely right. emory slaughter is leading the s charge on a huge initiative. this is an outlook on how we joint development and diplomacy. a huge piece of this is how we address the kinds of questions that you raised it the short answer is, we are working on it. the administration understands technology as a tool for transparency and a mission -- and initiates -- and innovation. there is a new platform that can be utilized by people who want to develop competitions for crowd source solutions to global chall

it cannot excuse them for that, kenya?but you can't criticize the president on the moratorium. you can say of course, something bad happens 1 place, you stop at every hour? >> we should not be drilling offshore oil. the president that voted for should not be for that. before the well-i thought that was a horrible decision he made. >> larry: when he increased it. >> when we began drilling. where is the other party? where is the person that represents me and the millions of people like me. if he is for drilling and for afghanistan, where do i go? i do not have the tea party on the left. >> larry: you were surprised that he was not angry. when i interviewed him he said he was angry, but it was later in the game. he said what he wanted to do? you want him to jump up and down? >> i am not one of those people who complains he is not emotional. cradling and aigrette going why? that is silly. people do not want the law professor. they want him, i pity the full. who will soil the speech. i like it that if he is. i cannot fault him

and canyon, -- in kenya, he met with the leader in many key ministers. in south africa, i accompanied the vice-president to his extendeddmeeting with former south african president mbeki, the point person on sudan policy today. the vice president's trip was just the most recent example of high-level engagement by this administration in africa. the president's trip to ghana by president to the continent,_ africa's importance to the president and also to the united states. and last september at united nations general assembly, the 26 african heads of state. over the past year, the president has met in the oval office, most recently less than 2.5 weeks ago, a president surly johnson -- president surleigh johnson. and during the nuclear summit in april of this year, the president had bilateral meetings with the south african president j. kept summa -- jacob tsuma. all the presideet's senior farm policy advisers have followed his lead by traveling to the continent. the u.s. department representative to the united nations, ambassador susan rice, visited five a

kenya's president is asking the u.s. to lead a greater effort to stabilize neighboring somalia, a country without an effective government for 19 years. kenya's leader speaking today with vice president joe biden who is in the east african nation the birthplace of president obama's father to press for political reforms in the country and discuss the situations in somalia and sudan. finally, japan's incoming new prime minister named his new cabinet today keeping core members in miss but adding several fresh faces including a former model. the prime minister hreblgt said he will honor an agreement with washington to move a key u.s. marine base to a less crowded part of okinawa an issue that led to the downfall of his predecessor. those are some of the latest headlines on c-span radio. >> congressional hearings the senate judiciary committee holds a hearing on the decision producing exxon's liability in the 1989 exxon valdiz oil spill. that 10:00 a.m. eastern on pap 3. then we look at the activities of hezbollah in the middl

as you can see, our viewers can see, ranking at the top, kenya, 91% favorable. united states, 86% favorable. working its way all the way down to turkey that only had a 16% favorable rating of the american people. people. tell us a little bit about that in particular. how can you can have a 5% better reading of the american people and people that you talk to in the united states. guest: across the board, across all these questions we asked, kenyans have a very positive attitude toward the u.s.. part of that is due to president obama's personal connection. kenyans are very aware of the fact that his father was canyon. he is very popular there. that helps america's overall image. -palthough in truth, the u.s. gt pretty good ratings during the bush years as well as well as in sub-saharan africa. it was the one region of the world where america's image did not decline all that much during the bush years. he was relatively popular there, and america's image did not really suffer there in the way it did in many other regions. >> i want to show if we can do a side-by-si

border into kenya. thanks to the generosity of the united nations high commissioner for refugee, he was provided with food and assistance for 2 1/2 years there. fortunately, while he was in nairobi, he was introduced to a refugee coordinator at the united states embassy who along with two other citizens helped him move to the united states. an example of success, he graduated from high school in 2004 and graduated from the university in may 20, 10, with a degree in american studies. with his education, he intends to make a difference in the lives of those less fortunate. yes, madam speaker, stories like this attest to the success of our refugee program and given merit to recognizing june 20, 2010, as world refugee day. i just want to include that on that friday, we were at the state department, we had abdu and his family there, along with our secretary of state we celebrated and commended those who were involved in world refugee day. i urge my colleagues to support the bipartisan h.res. 1350. madam spea

feeding programs and secretary vilsack and i had the chance to visit a program and islam and the beer in kenya and we met with probably 300 kids that were in the school getting a little red cup filled with corn soy blend. we asked as many kids as we could what was the most important part of school for them and it was getting that cup of high-protein food. we have to just remember that our food assistance plays a critical role in supporting vulnerable populations around the world and at the same time, we have real opportunities to use local procurement to create the kind of markets for small-scale farmers that can help lift them out of poverty through their own hard work and ingenuity. so our future effort is doing just that. usda has invested in those types of efforts that as head of usaid so is important to both sets of tools at our disposal because again to address hunger, we really if we are going to win, we need to use every tool at our. >> you stated on several occasions that in development and specifically agricultural development women are central to usaid's goals and activities. what e

contacted for them, i work through the call of kenya -- california office. have been dealing with marine oil spills for 20 years now in kelli a one-year period -- now in california for one year -- for 20 years. there are teams made up a federal or state agency and a representative of bp. their job is to go out and evaluate shore impact. they will go out. if you look down here, there is a map. on the map, it will show where we have gone out during the scout. they will decide, we will take a look at certain segments. you may have eight or nine teams that go out. out here, teams will go out anywhere -- any way they can get out there. they will do a track line. they will show you where they have gone. then they will try to characterize what they saw. they had about 15% coverage of oil. it was about 10 meters by 1,900 meters. it is and emulsify oil associated with the vegetation. in the second area, they had about 6 meters by 700 meters and about 8%. the teams will go out in different areas and identify what they see. that information will come back to the comman

we went to kenya and met with 300 kids a new school, getting a little red cup filled with corn filler blend. we asked kids what was the most important part of school for them, and it was getting bad cup of hi-protein food. our food assistance has been critical in supporting populations around the world. at the same time, we have real opportunities to create opportunities for farmers to lift them out of poverty through their own hard work and ingenuity. the usda has invested in the status of efforts, as has usaid. it is important to have those tools at our disposal. we need to use every tool at our disposal. >> you have stated on several occasions that in agricultural development, women are central to usaid goals and activities. what specifically are you doing to promote this? >> that is a great question. usaid is one of the agencies that two decades ago started the drum beat that women and girls are critical to development. we know that we have seen study after study that shows every additional $1 of income that goes to a woman is far more likely to be invested in the children, improv