there's no discussion about mahmoud ahmadinejad prospects or that faction or this faction for the same exact reasons that i gave before, about not giving iran any pretext to interfere in their societies to any greater degree than iran already has over the last 30 years. with regard to yemen this time, yes, they did address yemen but in a unanimous support for saudi arabia's position as well as the yemen government's position and going over and beyond what has passed for conventional wisdom or established thought or informed opinion regarding what has been happening and has not been happening in yemen, you have something profoundly different and profoundly less than what the media has made out to be. the words "crisis" are individually used but this particular crisis thus for yemen pales in insignificance by comparison and contrast to five previous crises that yemen has dealt with over the last 80 years. the first being from the late 1930s and the early 1941 when they had three years of drought, the home of bin laden and his family. and when the japanese invaded indonesia and they dried

mahmoud ahmadinejad, you have the floor. >> in the name of god, please -- peace and blessings be on our muhammad and his pure household. mr. chairman, hon. heads of state and government, a gentleman -- i think the almighty god for granting me the opportunity to attend this important meeting. i also have the pleasure of expressing my sincere thanks to the government and people of denmark for this responsibility and for making excellent arrangements to host this event. the tremendous efforts of the secretary towards the success of the meeting deserves our utmost appreciation. friends and colleagues, the climate and the air and resources belong to our nations as a blessing of almighty god and equilibrium and cycle is the engine of dynamism in human life. any disturbance of the balance because of the gate of the implications and the entire cuban community. -- the entire cuban community. and -- the entire human community. this will leave daughter, the consequences on our planet. allow me to draw your attention to the following facts. greenhouse gases have increased 35% in the past decade res

if you took the attitude that mahmoud ahmadinejad is crazy, that might be foolish. he is a president of a country that has a lot of power. he has also denied the holocaust. you have to take it seriously and apply pressure against them so that he cannot harm the state of israel. that would be my answer. host: what kind of intelligence about their nuclear capabilities do we have in their country? guest: the united states and iran broke 30 years ago. we do not have diplomatic relations and the governments did not talk to each other. they do not allow americans to travel there very often. they do not allow their own citizens to travel to the united states. we do not have a relationship with iran. of all the countries in the world, we have the least diplomatic government to government contact. that is why i supported president obama in trying to move to make the negotiating table host: where we get the quality of the intelligence we have of iran? guest: we don't discuss intelligence and public. i'm a former government official and i can talk about diplomacy but one of th

ter president mahmoud ahmadinejad s proclaimed the winner amiwidespread allegatis of fraud, month zairey's pen stiing broadside denouncing the ahmadinejad gornment for its handlingf the post election protest. those rebukes found a wide audience in irannd amid the oppositionupporters around the world. like this rson in north viinia. >> i wanto say here.... >> warner: every eveninge descen to his basement and speaks to tech savvy rormed minded citizens back in hi native iran. his ten-minute videos counling tactics of resistance a posted on you- tube, facebook and gooe mail. his audience? the thousands ofoung people and others who s months after the eltion are still taking to the streets tehran and elsewre in protest they did today. thisan is a somewhat unlikely menr for them, an aide to ayatollah omeini in the eaiest days of the revolution he went on toelp found the revolutionary gud which is now the regime'main instrument f maintaining control. he says his aim is nothing less than bringing down at he calls the coups regime ahmadinejad and the supreme tre khammenei. >> the a of the movement

aftermath, continuing protests, and right up to this morning with the government of president mahmoud ahmadinejad shouting a defiant note to the international demand for pulling down its nuclear program. we are pleased to be part of this with two people who seem to know a lot about iran and how it has been portrayed in the western media. we have our writer, a photographer, and documentary filmmaker, covering middle eastern current affairs. he is a graduate of oxford university and a fellow at harvard university. he lived in tehran for three years while pursuing graduate study. he was reporting on iran's presidential elections last june on a grant from the pulitzer center when he was jailed at the direction of iran's intelligence committee and a held in solitary confinement. he was a consultant on a documentary for the bbc and frontline that aired earlier this month. barbara is one of the most experience diplomatic correspondents and editors in washington. currently, assisting managing editor at "the washington times," she is responsible for the world and national security coverage. she served pre

aftermath, continuing protest and right up through this morning with the government of president mahmoud ahmadinejadshouting a defiant no to the international demand for pulling down its nuclear program. and today's pavel we are very pleased tore part of this brings us two people which knows very much about iran, about the country's internal politics and how it is being portrayed in the western media. iason athanasiadis is a writer, photographer and documentary filmmaker covering middle eastern current affairs from his istanbul base. he's a fwrad wit of oxford university. he also lived in tehran for three years while pursuing graduate studies. he was reporting on iran's presidential elections last june on a grant from the pulitzer center when he was jailed at the direction of iran's intelligence ministry and held for nearly three weeks in solitary confinement. at tehran's evin prison. he was a consultant about a death in iran, a documentary for the bbc and frontline that aired earlier this month. barbara is one of the most experienced diplomatic correspondents. currently assisting manager at "the wa

mahmoud ahmadinejad in remarks earlier, they come a day after a protest for a moslem cleric who diedver the weekend. >> "washington journal" continues. host: jim gilmore joining us this morning, the new president and ceo of the free congress foundation curato. do you agree with the free congress -- with the politics of it? guest: the free congress condition is there to offer a bipartisan solution and other solutions for the country. i do not agree with what is going on with the health care program. this is an effort to nationalize health care and extract more wealth for people -- from people at a time of recession. the congress is out of touch with the people. the public does not support this bill. i think that we should not be supporting it, but the goal of the free congress foundation is to put people together and come up with positive solutions. by then that will help. host: is that your plant in health care in the next month as you take over this group? guest: 41 of the issues. we need to make for the free congress foundation a real player in the thinking of this country. we've g

do you consider the language used by a iranian president mahmoud ahmadinejad as genocide. we have called them outrageous but some certain legal experts called genocidal. do you agree? >> i don't feel equipped to make a legal judgment. i think the obvious is it is absolutely hateful and intolerable, and whenever you suggest or call for the elimination of a state or its people that is the worst kind of hate speech and one of the many reasons why our concern about iran acquiring nuclear weapons capability or nuclear capability, that is for peaceful purposes is so real and urgent. this is not an idle problem. i will let the lawyers judge the genocide question but it's a violent, vicious hate speech. >> i would like to ask a question from mark hammes, a friend of genocide intervention at work. what if anything can the women of -- when can the women of darfur see a reinstatement of the gender based services they lost following the humanitarian groups? >> i can't answer that with specificity, but i think what i can say is the humanitarian groups played a crucial role. unimed and

it comes to is days after iran's president, mahmoud ahmadinejad, says the country is considering scalingn with the iaea. more on the uninvited guests at last week by state dinner. democrat loretta sanchez of california says someone from the white house social secretary office should have helped the secret service clear people into last week's state dinner, saying, "even walmart has a greeter." ms. rogers did not appear yesterday at the house home security hearing on the matter. >> senators are continuing their debate of the health care bill through the weekend. our regular "book tv" schedule will be pre-empted during these senate sessions paired with "book tv" programming continuing after the debate. on c-span2, the only that were worked the full debate, unedited and commercial free. to read the senate bill and the house version, plus watch video on demand, the one line to c- span's health care hub. host: next guest is general george joulwan, who served from 1993 to 1997 as the supreme allied commander at nato. first of all, you heard the president's speech tuesday. will the new strategy