i mean, we can weigh in, but just to cite your malta issue, that's not something where the u.s. government would have a veto process. that's one where we would have a voice among many other nations in trying to cause that to be successionfullycessfully agreed correct? >> i would have to get our legal experts to weigh in on that. i'm frankly not competent to answer that. if you'd like i'll get that for the record though. >> i appreciate you all being here. i don't know whether you're being here as good soldiers or whether this is something you're passionate about, but you certainly are people that i respect, and i'm very neutral on this. i'm here to learn. i've been to every one of these hearings, and certainly there are people in the audience, senator warner and others that i respect greatly in addition to all of you. i do want to say to you, mr. donahue, who i know well and certainly have worked closely with, your comment regarding the veto on the climate issue is categorically incorrect, and i would like for the record for your legal person to give us an opinion to that correc

, but never enters malta's territorial seas. even though the convention allows for such transit without interference by coastal nations, malta's resource authority has threatened legal action if the cable operators do not obtain a license and pay a significant fee. not only do these fees add unforeseeable costs, they raise the specter of coastal nations imposing similar requirements for the sole purpose of raising revenue at the expense of the cable operators and owners. by signing on to the convention, the u.s. will have an enhanced ability to effectively support american parties to such disputes and enforce the treaties expressly-stated freedom to lay and maintain submarine cables without else to, taxation or fees levied by coastal states. once the u.s. is party to the convention, verizon and other use telecommunications companies can work with the appropriate u.s. agencies, and the life of a cable system. and the convention -- and the more specific and reliable law and the convention will provide tangible benefits to specific

even though the current agreement allows for transit, malta's resources threaten legal action if a license is not paid and the fees add additional costs and raise the spector of coastal nations imposing similar requirements for the soul purpose of raising revenue at the expense of the operators and owners. by signing onto the convention, they will be able to enforce the treaty's freedom to lay and maintain submarine cables without fees lev vieed by coast states. companies can work with the appropriate u.s. agencies to enforce the freedoms to lay and repair cables saving millions of dollars over the life of a cable system. this will improve and put u.s. companies on a level playing field for operating level playing systems. in conclusion, the convention will provide sconfidence that under sea investments are prote protected. it will provide tangible benefits for critical submarine cable infrastructure. verizon urges the senate to ratify the convention. >> thank you mr. chairman. >> thank you very much. i apologize for having had to step out for just a minute. um, i think you will be able to

of europe but at the same time i mean every normal thinking european will face of the german french malta or the german french allies alliance is the key alliance for europe and if this breaks apart then the whole european idea that the german french motor and the german french alliance and corporation is very important and if you look back to the police or past even twenty years you always have seen even attempts even by the french to say that if things will go bat let's start to create the common a common state together those germans in order to safe europe what i would argue is that in germany and in france is a dia of keeping this europe as it is even strength and it's it's key it's still without us turn it if and it will stay for a couple of time is there such a thing as euro skepticism i mean as a serious thing in germany is there sort of a year for the business market for example i don't protect it in germany because the germans so far have won from the oral because germany is producing something here on its territory. other than other countries in europe who do not do this and ger

and some of us, leslie and i, were in malta together in december 1989. some of us have may have thought in '89, '90, '9 when the first president bush joined them the cold war had ended but in fact, it had not. what happened was is that these two historic figures gave us an historic opportunity to end the cold war forever. and we didn't do it. by the 1990s, the mid-'90s, a new or renewed cold war, however you want to look at it, characterize american-russian relations. for example, in august 2008, in georgia, the former soviet republic of georgia, there occurred a war known as the russian-georg russian-georgian war, but we had armed and created the georgian fitters. that was as close as we came to a nuclear war with russia. it was every bit as dangerous as the cuban missile crisis. that was cold war at its worst. and why would obama have asked for a reset -- a reset of the relationship with russia if he didn't think something had been lost? so the question becomes, who lost the historic opportunity that gorbachev and reagan gave us? the prevailing view in

joke it's a good thing he's headed to an impregnable island fortress teaching a two-week course in malta. >>> high-profile couple tom cruise and katie holmes are divorcing. great deal of speculation about the terms of their separation now. it is a role tom cruise has played before and here's gloria riviera. >> reporter: from a fairy tale wedding to the battlefield of divorce court katie may have won round one asking for sole custody of their 6-year-old daughter surrey. in a statement she said her daughter was her primary concern leading some tabloids to speculate scientology is behind the split. but the famously doting dad may now be fighting back radar online is saying he will file for joint custody in california, a custody battle could get messy. >> every bit of garbage in your life before marriage, after marriage is going to come out. not to mention the damage it's going to do because it's a little 6-year-old girl. >> reporter: it is widely believed a reported prenup agreement would give holmes at least $3 million a year for each year she was married. plus child support. >> insane to

and in your testimony, you cite malta's attempt to assess a fee or a license. you talked about a vietnam carrier that had done 106 miles worth of damage to your cable. do you have another example? are those the two examples you're referring to in some nations, or are there other examples that come to mind? >> there are other examples for sure, senator. just one is in india. even though we don't cross into their territory, they require the cable laying and maintaining ships to put into port, and they assess a fee against them. it's against the convention, but they do that. and so we have to take legal action, or we just have to pay the fees. so those are three examples. >> so the convention exempts you from having to pay a licensing fee or some type of arbitrary fee to maintain your cable or to lay your cable? >> right. that's all laid out in a framework that we can rely on versus having these unilateral actions that have occurred in many places. >> does the sea bed authority or the assembly or the council have to issue a license to lay a cable? >> i would have

and israel malta wow any breakthrough to come out of the talks. i don't think you can expect quite a lot from from the moscow talks and i think that is where all will continue to fall so washington not to make any kind of headway with iran what. is robust fear that there might be some prospects of a solution between the obama administration and to her own so is doing all it can and obama from now will release from up with seen until now has gained the reputation of giving in and not being very strong when it comes to confronting these really are pressures so now in an election year and especially when obama is trying to get the support of the conservative jewish votes i don't expect anything significant will happen from now at least until the elections take place the sanctions which the american administration has imposed to some extent that has been a factor in preventing the israelis from actually going ahead and launching a strike it's always possible that israel especially this current government mark go ahead and launch a strike and this is s

malta is an island nation in the mediterranean.roberts has refused to answer questions about the health care opinion. but says he hopes the court will be remembered for protecting equal justice under the law. >>> several different advocates held to celebrate the supreme court's ruling upholding president obama's health care plan. they held a rally saying that if ruling will help millions of americans. >> so this will be a virtual marketplace where those who don't have insurance and may not feel they can afford it can go and actually compare plans, apples to apples because we know it's a confusing health care market and there will also be health care subsidies for them to be able to afford it. >> reporter: the advocates say the law the court upheld will provide every california with health care. >>> coming up, we'll show you an emerging alternative kind of health care one that may save a lot of people a lot of money but it comes with a warning from consumer groups. >>> both the u.s. house and senate voted to extend a cut on student

the eu also okayed aid to malta for air malta.s of headlines coming along here. >> final word from erik, we talked to randy about stocks in california. i mean, i suppose it's like cyprus, you know, to the eu. it's not a big deal. probably a big deal if it was california, but the -- the difference is, when a section of the united states gets into problems, it is part of the united states with a brady bond and that's what we need to recreate in europe, right? >> exactly. nobody is talking about this or the fact that california is in -- bonds are in default at the moment. nobody's talking about that as presenting a risk for the dollar. that the dollar will collapse as a result of that. that's why the flight to safety means essentially a flight into dollar denominated assets, which is benefiting munis and a variety of other dollar assets as well. that's exactly the problem in europe. we don't have that feeling that the whole structure is underpinned by a set of arrangements that mean there is no circumstance in which the euro will col

chief justice and yet who joked today he will be spending his holiday on an impregnable fortress on maltadoes it really make sense for republicans to -- how he has been about the issue? >> i don't think they can vilify john roberts because they have been praising him in such ways since 2005. you can't walk those sort of things back and guess wh-- what are you talking about? >> mitt romney's uniquely cape l of revising history on these things. they're free to say whatever they want about john roberts and some of them already are. the fact of the matter is he proved he is exactly what he said he would be. he said he was gog to be the umpire calling balls and strikes. people on the right hoped he would be another scalia. and in many cases, he has been, but in the most important case of the roberts court, he has taken the integrity of the court and his own integrity more importantly than he does the politics and at least somebody in this town is doing çit. >> it's a relief. professor dyson, much like mandates going back to what's happening in colorado, mitt romney was a believer in manmade g

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a group of human rights lawyers from the u.s., britain, sweden, and malta document countless acts of terror perpetrated against the afghan people. >> 25 years later, the current house minority leader and former speaker was honored on the house floor by republican and democratic leaders. once the tributes or for any part of her career in the house on line at the c-span video library. >> pulitzer prize-winning author traveled the globe to research his new book on barack obama, visiting places like kenya and kansas to examine the president's family tree. we will give you a preview with exclusive pictures and videos, including our trip to kenya with the author in january 2010. join us on sunday it 6:00 p.m. easter and later at 7:30. your phone calls, e-mails, and tweets on c-span 2. >> "washington journal" continues. host: ramesh ponnuru, senior editor at national review, thanks for joining us this morning. guest: glad to be here. host: attorney general eric holder is going before many committees now. darrell issa has said with republican support he would like to move forward on holding

one called margo's pizza in malta, white truffles and 24 karat gold leaf $2,4. $1,000 with caviar.diamond ring. get engaged or give tight somebody special. whatever. pizza getting ridiculous. >> it's supposed to be cheap and good. >> got to get the $1 slices. >> amen. >> louis vuchitton known for ba. a new bag, a louis vuitton condom that costs $68. it is a knock-off. it isn't endorsed by -- >> you think you are getting the real thing, you are actually getting the shaft. >> it has -- louis vuitton logo, created by georgia republic architect, for world aids day in december. >> not, you know what it? is safe sex. >> keep it cl >>> this morning on "world news now" -- new charges against lance armstrong. >> dogged by doping allegation for years, this latest investigation could cost him all his titles. the full story on this thursday, june 14th. >>> good morning, everybody, on this flag day, june 14th. a holiday. >> impressed you knew that. >> it says it right there. ha-ha. that tipped me off. >> my mom has got all her wafla in the garden. good morning, i'm rob nelson. >> good morning,

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. >> he is going to an island in malta to get away from it. go teach a course in island fortress in the middle of mediterranean. >> gregg: i got a big laugh. i'm going into hiding. no kidding. david, great to see you. >> heather: justices announcing they will not prosecute a man after eric holder was the first sitting cabinet member in history to be held in contempt of congress. they say he is withholding documents in the operation of fast and furious. doj insists this is not a criminal matter. saying the documents were sealed by the president under executive privilege. as you may remember, fast and furious cloud guns to be trafficked into mexico in hopes of tracking the weapons to drug cartels. hundreds of guns vanished and some of the guns surfaced at the scene of a murder of a border patrol agent. >> in mexico, voters head to the polls tomorrow to choose a new president. the election comes as the drug war in mexico intensifies with more than 50,000 people killed in the last six years. the candidates making their case for stopping the violen

yesterday at a judge's conference he said that he would be traveling in malta for a couple of weeks jokinghat it's a "i am preg nabl island fortress and may not be a bad place to take a break for a while." terrell. >> whit johnson, thank you so much. >>> as whit reported, the health care law now certain to be a central issue in campaign 2012. cbs news political director john dickerson is here with us. >> good morning, terrell. >> governor rah romney's campaign raised 5 -- is this issue going to be a factor heading into the election? >> it is. as you say, it's gotten him all that money. to the extent that conservatives were slow, conservatives were already lining up behind governor romney. but now they're really rushing because they know that only by electing him president that's the only way the affordable care act is going to go away. he solidified his base, he's raising money. so it's good news for him on that front. the question is how much beyond his base he can use this issue. >> does it push independence, john, in his direction? >> that's the really big question. we know from polling

we were able to help her get to malta for medical treatment from the horrible, horrible burns that she had suffered when her employers had tortured her because she refused to use corporal punishment against their children. she left ethiopia hoping for a better life, a better job overseas. she traveled to libya. she was working as a maid and exactly as the caller said, her passport was taken. physical abuse. in this case, cnn reporters were at the gaddafi palace for the post-revolution story, filming the dictator's residence. she was in the quarter, horribly burned. this does not excuse what happened to her. to me, that is a picture of hope. it has to be a picture of hope for all of the women that we see in the middle east. we do not want to clean up the situation, for bangladesh banned indonesian women simply to open up another set of a equally vulnerable, exploitable people from ethiopia. the caller has a very good point. we have to remember that these are not statistics. when we talk about 27 million people, we're talking about 27 million individual stories like this young lady who j

somebody and they're -- it's going to take three days to get the plane part they need to get us off of maltaand i said, i said, my god, nora. that's a life well lived. three days. it may have just been the greatest excuse ever to skip a business meeting. >> right. >> but if it was, it was even the -- even the excuse. >> the saddest news, the last two years, was she wasn't going to be on long island. she was in l.a. and europe filming and writing. so, the life went out of it. you knew you would not have as good a time because she was not there. just think of the way she was working up until the end. >> yep. >> as arianna was saying, you know, and mike barnicle, she was working on a play, she was working on projects right up until the end of her life. i love what heilemann also found, that her sexual fantasy was for a man to make love to her, not for her mind. >> yeah. mike, she said in my sexual fantasy, nobody's ever attracted to me because of my mind. but you were -- you were talking about how she squeezed every like every second for all it was worth. >> oh, i mean, joe, you meet very few p

malta. >> you don't give up sovereignty without a civil war. if that tries, you've got a problem. i was trying to remember where i read that. it was ottawalely a very good article. >> why don't we take a look at the markets this morning. as we told you the european markets they're trading higher. the dow futures are up 120 pointses, the s&ps by more than 13 points, and, again, you're talking about moves across the board here. so these are some significant moves because the worst-case scenario did not take place. this does give at least some temporary relief to the markets. also those chinese numbers were better than had ha been anticipate and that's part of what was weighing on things. you take a look and see the markets continue to look higher. the spain index. you can't count this as a victory at least for today, at least for this morning. the long-term implications, it's hard to say exactly what's going to half. there are plenty of skeptics out there. right now why don't we take a look at what's been happening in asia overnight. nikkei was up by almost 2%. south korea was up by

this is a young woman who we were able to help escape from libya last year and get to malta for medical treatment from the horrible, horrible burns that she had suffered when her employers, the qaddafi family, had tortured her because she refused to use corporal punishment against their children. she left ethiopia, as the caller mentioned, she left ethiopia hoping for a better life, a better job overseas, traveled to libya and was working as a maid, as a nanny, and the passport taken, physical abuse, etc., in this case a cnn reporter and his crew was at the qaddafi palace literally for one of fight this. our women are those classic postrevolution stories of filming the dictator's residence. and huddled in the corner horribly burnt was this young woman. you see the smile on her face now. it certainly doesn't excuse what happened to her. but i think to me that's a picture of hope. it's a picture of hope and it has to be a picture of hope for all the east openian women we see in the -- ethiopian women we see in the middle east. bag la derby and indonesian women we focused on previous years

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malta. distribution -- it does not run into broad bank ingestion. if i invited you to a yankee game in new york city and we wanted to go on-line, you would have trouble in yankee stadium connecting with a broad ban supplier that did not offer or have a real signal limitations. over the year broadcast symbol could touch everyone in that stadium simultaneously. it is a vastly superior system. >> i think we all understand the need for more spectrum. i think they are moving forward on a rule regarding the dish. this recently acquired it to go out on a wireless network. what is the status of this item and when will they issue the final order in your opinion? >> we first went through a waiver process. we were denied that waiver by the fcc. we went to a rule making process that is complete and the sense all the comments are in from all the parties who might be affected he their positive or negative way by entering into the wireless business. the rule making is now having to be decided by the commission. we are hopeful they can do that by the end of the sum

bloody war with no victors, a group of human rights lawyers from the united states, britain, sweden and malta documents countless acts of terror or perpetrated imeps the afghan people. >> twenty-five years later, the current house minority leader and can former speaker was honored on the house floor by republican and dem crangt leaders. watch those tributes online at the c-span video library. >> next, from today's "washington journal," e.j. dionne discusses his book, "our divided political heart: the battle for the american idea in an age of discontent." >> host: e.j. dionne writes for "the washington post," he's the author of a new book called "our divided political heart: the battle for the american idea in an age of discontent." thanks for coming in this morning. >> guest: thanks so much for having me in. >> host: you start off by saying fear of decline is one of the oldest american impulses. fear of decline, why does that scare us so much, and why does that matter? >> guest: it's funny because i begin the book talking about the decline, and it's not a declinist book at all. i think that,