and they call them will be you lemay here we are in the middle of nowhere miles from any continent and we find substances and pollutants that have no business being here going to fill it q why did they were produced hundreds of miles away and are being carried by the current market don't bothers me most is that we are contaminating the whole planet from the clothing the remotest and wildest place that's. shocked by his own discomfort you wondered if the food wrapped in plastic that we eat every day were contaminated by certain substances. he puts more snails in bottles of water for forty eight weeks. those near us which were kept in the bottles produced much more embryos compared to those nails in the glass bottles there are compounds in the plastic material in these p. t. bottles that leach into the culture medium or the snails we do not know which compounds we haven't identified yet but they are clearly estrogenic. new wood all they must realize when we want to put a material or substance on the market it undergoes laboratory testing which enables us to show that it is harmless the r

now he's a trombone player for "lemay." wendell pierce is the real thing. raised right here in new orleans. and ladies and gentlemen, he is the survivor spirit. and that is what makes wendell pierce the best new orleans thing. he is helping to rebuild the city around questions of politics, of economics. he's looking in his neighborhood. childhood neighborhood of pontchartrain park. as president of the pontchartrain park community development corporation. which is building energy efficient and solar houses. he's trying to build grocery stores for the underserved lower ninth ward. this is complicated it's going to take a lot of determination, but wendell pierce i know you well enough to know you are exactly the sort of person to get it done. >> thank you very much. i really appreciate that. >> thanks for being here tonight. >> thank you. >> you and i have been political opponents at various points. there was a point where i was mean mugging you in green rooms in the back. one thing i know for certain about you, is that you have a profound commitment to this c

certainly general lemay who is a character in my book as well. you might call him the antagonist.you consider that the cia's job is to present intelligence to the president based on facts, not fiction, not speculation, that is what the u2 spy plane certainly did for us and that was an important notion. but at the same time, there were other elements of the government that were really pushing science as i right in the book and here is what i get into some of the more dangerous areas and the questions that i would like leaders to be able to ask of themselves about whether or not pushing science is necessarily a good thing. right around that same time, or if you back up a little bit, for a while after world war ii we had an atomic bomb. then when we found out the russians also had an atomic bomb in 1949 there was a big movement towards creating a bigger bomb, but thermonuclear bomb which is how these bugs got so high up. robert oppenheimer, father of the atomic bomb really opposed that on moral grounds. he said it was not a good idea to create a weapon that was larger than its target

air force general curtis lemay said that peace is our profession when he formed the mighty strategic air command of the 1960's. a lot of you young people don't remember when we had airplanes in the air 24 hours a day, seven days a week, constantly. when i went to grammar school, they used to teach us to dive under our desks, turned away from the windows, because we lived with the threat of nuclear attack. despite his nuclear command's awesome capacity for violence, it was a profound wisdom in the motto --"power in benevolent hands is a virtue, not a vice." president obama's policies often seemed reflective of an ideology that treats american power it as a principal adversary, not ally, to world peace. that flies in the face of both history and experience, and it resigns as to national decline. in the federalist papers, alexander hamilton spoke of the necessity of a capable military to defend the liberties enshrined in the constitution. president reagan had the courage to make hamilton's insight global. he recognize the profound wisdom in making peace america's profession. but he also