it is written by michael hastings. good to have you on the program. thanks for your time. >> honored to be here. tavis: that is our show for tonight. see you next week. as always, keep the faith. >> for more information on today's show, visit tavis smiley at pbs.or.g tavis: join me next time for a conversation with michael mann on his new series, "luck." >> every community has a martin luther king boulevard. it's the cornerstone we all know. it's not just a street or boulevard, but a place where walmart stands together with your community to make every day better. >> and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >>

it is written by michael hastings. good to have you on the program. thanks for your time. >> honored to be here. tavis: that is our show for tonight. see you next week. as always, keep the faith. >> for more information on today's show, visit tavis smiley at pbs.or.g tavis: join me next time for a conversation with michael mann on his new series, "luck." >> every community has a martin luther king boulevard. it's the cornerstone we all know. it's not just a street or boulevard, but a place where walmart stands together with your community to make every day better. >> and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >>n this kind of case before, i have a pretty good idea of what i'm going to find inside of it. because these leather cases with gilding were actually what you got a nice cup from from the sevres factory in the 18th century. and this is a sevres cup from the 18th century. how long has it been in australia? that one is difficult. probably 100 years. - i'm not sure. - this cup we know, be

michael hastings of rolling stone with inside story about how department of home land security might have been involved in breaking up occupy wall street. the whole occupy movement all across the country was it coordinated, the tamp down of it by the federal government? find out tonight. >> warren buffet makes a great case for raising corporate travels and this is the brilliant gop honest. >> warren buffet should just write a check and shut up. >> we're going to shut chris christy's mouth up tonight showing him the real facts. you know what? it's go time. >> born free yes that's kid rock singing for mitt romney. here's what i don't understand. if this was a democratic getting endorsed by a guy like kid rock wouldn't it create an absolute uproar? i remember when everybody went x-rays, look at these songs by kid rock. roving gangster? that's terrible. black chick, white guy, i'm not sure republicans into that. single father, i hear they speak out against that all the time. early morning stoned pump. that what romney is? and cadillac? you never met a mother [bleep] quite like me? [bleep

first of aushlll, i'm not sure michael hastings read it, because i'm critical of both wars.n a broader scale, listen. this is a book about strategic leadership. it's also a war chronicle, it's petraeus' intellectual history, but what i want to show and the interest it's generating is leadership. i think petraeus gives us a great model for that. i'm not a spokesperson for him, and if showing a role model to other people in the world or other readers is a repugnant thing, then i'm sorry, but i think the values he holds and tries to instill in his organizations are valuable and worth pointing out. >> paula broadwell, west point grad, your book is "all in ch: education of david petraeus." thanks for being on. >> thank you, brooke. >>> back in florida, folks are still talking about mitt romney's win, but the race is hardly over. they swear they're going to keep going. heck, newt gingrich says he's going all the way to the convention. folks, that is end of august. where could romney lose his lead? where are his weaknesses going forward? lauren burgess is standing by. we're going t

joining me now, michael hastings, contributing editor to rolling stone magazine. been writing about this story and "rolling stone" has published the colonel's full, unclassified report his website. michael, thanks for being here tonight. >> thanks for having me, appreciate it. >> you talked to colonel davis, why is his report so important? >> is one of the most significant documents written about either the war in iraq or the war in afghanistan and reason is colonel davis is an active duty military officer. he is writing from the inside and he decided because things were just so bad and because the message we were getting from the higher ups was just so wrong, he risked his entire career to come out to say, in great detail, after just returning from afghanistan what exactly was going wrong. >> all right. now, here we have this colonel two tours of duty in afghanistan, two tours of duty in iraq, eight years as an army reservist, all of this he put at risk because he was so outraged, he felt we were not getting the right information? >> serious risk, very serious ri

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which let's face it isn't surprising but on friday evening rolling stone contributing editor michael hastings posted that unclassified report on the internet for all to see how this version is eighty four pages long and all i can say that is well worth taking the time to read davis charges our military leadership with intentionally being dishonest with congress and the public about what they claim to be signs of success or progress or momentum in the war in afghanistan he shows that throughout the command of a number of different generals and even after the troop surge and embers still show that violence casualties both military and civilian only increased so how can we say we have momentum or progress of even with more resources the violence is only going up and he documents through various interviews with those on the ground the reality of training afghan security forces and how they're failing also the opposite of what the officials say to congress and to the press it takes a look at how it is that a service afghanistan was sold is a good idea because the surge in iraq under the command of

michael hastings reports the department of homeland security has been watching the occupy wall streetprotesters. the report sums up the history of occupy wall street and assesses its impact on everything, from the financial- services to government facilities. those are some of the latest headlines on c-span radio. >> even a person who is a senator, even a person now who is president of the united states, faces a predicament when they talk about race. they face all sorts of predicaments. they faced the fact that there are an appreciable number of americans who are racially prejudiced. they face the fact that a much larger portion of the american popular it wants to deny the reality of race and even now. the harvard law professor and former law clerk to thurgood marshall on racism, politics, and the obama administration. he is the author of five books. he will take your calls, email and tweets for three hours on c- span2. >> with a firm confidence in justice, freedom, and peace on earth, that will raise the hearts and the hopes of mankind, for that distant day when no one rattles a sabe

michael hastings is having a hard time getting media attention, because he writes about national w correspondents who are paid by liberal hawkish think tanks. it is a must-read a book. there is also a great website. we did not spend much time talking about military spending. military industrial complex dot com -- unbelievable. we are talking about huneds of millions of dollars every day that even the alternative media hardly talks about. every day these contracts are given out. there is a list of these companies and what they do. that is another good resource. thank you so much, roger d. anderson margaret flowers, and the rest. thank you for coming. [applae] >> and thank you to rose, who was a fantastic moderator. this forum was recorded. please check on our web site next week. e mindful of the shelter at the end of the hall. please take your conversations directly outside. thank you for entertaining a diversity of opinions tonight. we hope we see you again. have a safe night. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2012] >> you h

report, the pentagon doesn't -- the afghanistan report the pentagon doesn't want you to read, by michael hastings. there's one by lieutenant colonel daniel davis, truth lies, and afghanistan, how military leaders have let us done. here's one from february 10 of this year 2012, roads to nowhere. program to win over afghans fails. in talking to some of our troops in forward positions in afghanistan, some were a bit down. particularly those who have been training afghans to farm. because we are sending around $3 billion for nothing but projects in afghanistan, including these type of farming projects, so people can make their own way. yet we were told they're training the afghans, they've been training the afghans, but the billions of dollars the united states government the obama administration has sent to afghanistan to help them develop farming projects, at least in this one region has never gotten past the corrupt regional government. so the projects where they could use these farming skills that are being taught don't exist. and they're not anticipated to exist. we set up a corrupt government i

department and myself always tried to keep haste, updating market conditions and stress scenarios as market conditions change. >> mr. chairman, can you have him pull the michael little closer? >> i am sorry. the scenarios you're referring to were effectively updated to incorporate more recent market conditions and apologies for the different numerology but the basic point once updated scenarios were to capture some of the more recent market volatility. >> did you have greater concern about the liquidity of market risk in august than you had in march? >> that is correct. >> did you express that to jon corzine and the board? >> yes. a series of meetings i became more concerned particularly in july. >> and that's an area that you did in august did you feel the company had the ability to meet liquidity needs should those scenarios play out? >> apologize. can you ask that question again? >> scenario three and four that you did in august requires use the law additional liquidity requirements should those scenarios play out. could you validate if the scenarios played out there was sufficient liquidity confirmed to sustain those scenarios? >> or. eventually these dis