what has been going on, mr. ford, he arranged from town hall meetings, and they came in big numbers, and whenever they explained, none of them they want to employment. what they did is brought people, and a lot of the people are fake, who do not represent the industry. the electronic waybill and blah, blah, blah. day, i am delivering a message. the protests will be right in front of city hall, and they are big. in these town hall meetings from a few weeks ago, they were called names by the taxi drivers. even somebody had been sent an email, and i sent a copy one time to mr. reiskin. "you are a piece of [beep]" we are ready to talk, but i do not have time here. five minutes. to solve that issue. they said, ok, let's do it online. the person, the medallion holder, and he is holding a card for 18 months, you do not get it for 18 months. before that, we used to come to city hall. there is a lot of trouble. i amthank you for having the meeting. >> anyone else? seeing no one. >> moving on to your consent calendar. >> the i

nixon and mr. ford when dinosaur roamed earth. remember my father says, why are you saying inflation is low when we go to the grocery store and see how expensive a pot roast is and my father said that was anecdotal. with respect to my sainted father, waste wrong. the anecdotal put together makes this statistical and any american who shops, buys gasoline, buys almost anything sees prices are up, up, up, and it's extremely discouraging and going to take a toll and by the way, unless all previous economic history is wrong, enormous amount of money the fed has been pumping into the economy will result in inflationary selloff at some point. >> and the dangers to your ben bernanke and deflation and home values and-- >> they're in their own world because they say that-- it's fomenting more of it. >> charles, i think they've made a tact here with keeping rates low for two years, they're doing this now and i think they're regretting it. >> there's no way you can keep interest rates at zero and not have commodity inflation, just on the very

in september this show gave mr. ford the nickname ambadassador, he really seriously no joke earned it. president obama called on the president of syria to step down, the syrians were not pleased. they told the ambassador he needed to ask permission to order to leave the capital. he went to the city where olive branchs greeted him. the embassies were attacked. so too was the ambassador's house. he also went to observe a peaceful protest by lawyers at the syrian bar association, a government demonstrator attacked him and it was caught on tape. he went to the funeral of human rights activist who died in the custody of syrian security forces. an hour after that funeral security forces trashed the place. later that month while driving through the syrian capital to meet with a leader, loyalists attack his convoy, reportedly threw eggs and tomatoes. robert ford stayed in syria another month after that attack. state department pulled him out when the media tageted him. he was home six weeks then went back to damascus. he's one t

mr. fordrgues there are unforeseen issues when western nations try to change the lives of millions by enforcing what they believe are universal human rights. he discusses these issues with former chief operating officer of human rights watch, council on foreign relations fellow suzanne nossel. >> host: high a rich. glad to be here with you this afternoon. really enjoyed the chance to read "universal rights down to earth." i'd like to start off by asking what drove you to training your lens on the human rights movement? with that made -- with me that a subject of interest for you? >> guest: most of my work has been in the area of civil rights and i've been interested in questions of rights for quite a long time. a little background. in the 1980s when i was in law school, there was a quite heated debate between legal scholars all on the left about the question of rights. and i was just a student at that time but found it very interesting between a group that has come to be known of critical lega

mr. ford talks about when western nations try to change the lives of millions in what they think are universal human rights. and he discusses this of the chief operating officer of human rights watch suzanne nossell. .. was just a student at that time but found it very interesting between a group that had been, that had become more critical and legal studies and another group mainly feminist leader kim as critical. the debate was about the status of the rights and legal discourse when the rights were good idea and whether they were and the critical legal position was one that became known as the critique of rights so they had a number of criticisms and concerns about the rights both which had to do with the worries about the way they shape the political consciousness away that they effected the political movements and the response from people became the rebel captivate critical was quite powerful and particularly civil rights from the dispossessed or subordinated groups in very small terms. i

mr. malaly, ford has announced it's bringing its production of ford fusions from mexico back to the united states as an example of insourcing. the president had an event at the white house about three weeks ago to highlight about a dozen companies that have insourced work back into the united states. but the other point on technology transfer that lyle mentions is also very true. and you see multi-national companies, and you see companies like boeing and general electric willing to give away some of this technology to get potential market share in large markets like china. and the challenge with that is that ultimately that means the production jobs are going to go overseas, the innovation jobs are going to go overseas, and we're going to be competing against that technology that we've been transferring to japan or to china. companies that stand up to it find themselves locked out of the market and i'll give you one example. general motors refused to make its chevy volt battery in china. and so the chinese authorities excluded the chevy volt from a list of cars that was eligible for a rene

ford. -- forward. [laughter] mr. carlin. [laughter] you can start by introducing your family, how was that? -- is that? >> [inaudible] >> please, come forward. [applause] [laughter] [laughter] >> my parents are here. for the first time in my life, i am of loss for words. i thought i had something to say, when he was reading everything, it brought it all back, how it went that day. i was glad to be there at led to help the little girl and her mother. it was cool. a great thing, i felt good. right now i'm choked up. thank you very much. [applause] >> your family should be proud. commissioners, anything you would like to add? >> thank you. >> last week, our good commander was under the weather. i am going to have her do this and have her bring up shawn, two people have spoken up for. shawn has become one of the best friends of the police department overnight. behold "it gets better" endeavor. i don't know that it can get better than this. >> i am truly honored to be here tonight, and i am sorry i wasn't here last week when some

mr. royce is now recognize ford five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman.to go back to that chart. government spending is a share of the economy and have that posted. the congressional budget office puts this together every year. they project, mr. chairman, the point at which the general fund transfers to entitlements equal the total tax revenue, you know, for the federal government. i would just ask you, is this projection sustainable? is this situation sustainable? >> new york i don't think it is. >> what -- what impact might continuing on this trajectory have in terms of interest rates? say, for a minute, that the bond vigilantes start to turn on us the way they did on europe based upon the projections? i mean what potential impact could that have on costs of borrowing? >> well, if market participant are not persuaded that the united states is on a sustainable fiscal course, eventually something will give, and that could be a financial crisis, something else. >> since this is a projected budget, what do we do? what responsibility do we have in order to e

which we have relative to this time last year is the bigger expectations for reform once mr putin is back president. ford has recovered from a three day low us concerns grow that a bad on the rainy and crude rate cuts apply slights which is trading over one hundred dollars per barrel while brant is that over one hundred eighteen dollars about your stock so high at midday after reese's problem of the future starting measures financial stocks are doing steamy well with bank of america up two percent apple rose one point four percent for the first time called five hundred dollars a share for falling back to four ninety nine dollars sixty six european shares closed in the black on monday after greece's problems are poor deeply unpopular as terrible banks were along the main game as across europe mining also high as strong we're all health groups because of copper and other metals and here in russia markets and high wycombe are succeeding the last five weeks energy majors and longer because the prices that stick on the index it's not just problems finished high on the news that european market share grew by f

joining us from paris, the united states ambassador robert ford. mr.hanks very much for coming in. you're in paris, because i had to leave damascus. why did you have to leave? >> well, wolf, thank you for having me on this afternoon. we have to leave syria basically because we faced security threats to our embass that were putting in danger the lives of our embassy staff, syrian and american, and putting at risk of lives of syrians who worked close to the embassy with there to be another large car bomb as we have seen in damascus. did you think elements of the syrian regime wanted to kill you? >> um, i don't know who's been responsible for the car bombs in places like damascus and -- we frankly it doesn't matter so much to you who's done it as much as in terms of the safety of the embassy having measures put in place to protect us. unfortunately the syrian government did not do the necessary, so we closed the embass after several weeks of ultimately unfruitful discussions with the syrian authorities. >> i take it this was your decision, you were fearfu

ford. >> let's go to chris conway. >> hi, mr. buchanan. i had a question. i think it's fair to say that in 1968 you were fairly involved in the republican party, but by 2000, you ran as a reformed candidate and expressed some kind of dissatisfaction with the state of the party. could you tell me what kind of shift you saw and what you see as the state of the party today? >> well, there were about three or four issues i ran on in '92 and '96. one, 20 years ago now, i said if we don't get control of our border, you can have 10 to 20 million illegal aliens in the country, which we do. we didn't get control of it. i said your trade policies are going to destroy the manufacturing base of this country. we're going to lose all these factories to china, and in the first decade 21st century, we lost 65,000 factories. i opposed the gulf war. i said, if we get in there, this will be the only american held war we fight. there will be one after another after another, and that's happened. i said we'll be in a cultural war of america, and it looks like that today. even th

mr. chairman, secretary chu, thank you for visiting the hand ford site and the bit plant specifically. you know it is one of the most complex and largest contaminated sites in the world, and our concerns about making sure we continue to get cleanup done in a timely fashion is of critical importance, not just to the state of washington but to the nation. are you confident with this level of funding that we will have that plant open and operational in 2019? >> senator, again, within the budget constraints, we're essentially working hard to keep the environmental management budget essentially went down .7%, but essentially flat. we are trying very hard to make some tough decisions. there is a protection of the columbia river, the waste plant -- the tanks and wtp. so we first feel that we're going to meet all of our legal obligations for fy 13 with this budget. but as you know and i spoke to you about this, there was an ideal funding profile for the plant which called for more aggressive spending this year, next year and the following years. just like in a commercial building, when you bui

mr. tonko, i had an interesting meeting with ford motor co. a couple of years ago and they said if we had an energy plan that would allow ford to determine to go gangbusters whether it will be biofuels, if we have an energy policy that countries like japan have an energy policy, the eu decided to go diesel, that would really help our business sector be part of global competition. can you may be talk about energy policy and the determinants for our country to really embrace one to allow our businesses to kind of move forward together? ford knew they had to build these cells, they could build the best a diesel car and were totally competitive in europe. the lack of us having an energy policy for our nation as large as ours left of them up in the air. >> companies would like to have clarity about what energy sources will be used, how the government will tax are subsidized different types of energy. the main issues there, frankly, our environmental as much as anything else. japan, for example, has decided to phase out its nuclear power because of

the stadium is ford field has 65000 seat capacity, where the lions play. the campaign put mr. romney on the 30 yard line, they put roughly 1200 chairs in front of him and put the candidate in the middle of this, right in the middle of an empty 65000 seat stadium. in a normal room, this sort of group might look like a large number of people. in this room it didn't. there is no shame in talking to 1200 people except when it looks like this. you know, bad optics happen you can't control everything. sometimes there are visual he'll mens of planned events that don't convey the message. sometimes the baby jams his fingers in the president's mouth. today, this poor guy tried everything he could possibly try to keep himself awake, while joe biden was talk ug b oh, know, losing owes oh like a puppy going in the dish, losing the battle. this guy is asleep. this stuff happens, bad optics happen. but a sleepy guy isn't something you can plan for. no advance person that guy looks like he's going to pass out let's put him behind the vice president. booking a 65000 event for 1200 people is n

ford's theatre.org. >>> next, abraham lincoln bicentennial foundation chairman discusses abraham lincoln and the freedom of the press during the civil war. as part of his talk, mr. holzer examines the reasoning of imprisoning of newspaper editors. it was co-hosted by the historical society of the courts of the state of new york. and new york state archives partnership trust. it's an hour and a half. >> thank you, judge. i have a feeling if i say thank you, judge, i'll get a you're welcome from 2/3 of the audience. it's daunting. but i've never spoken to a crowd of so many attorneys in my life. there's several i want to acknowledge, my daughter meg who is an attorney is here today. my cousin new york state inspector general ellen biben is here today. my old friend judge gene nardelli is here today. and it's wonderful to see all of you. one other person i want to mention because the subject for this evening is freedom of the press as you know. there is someone in this room who is actually a living hero of the fight for freedom of the press. formally of the "new york times." i just want to introduce and i know you'll all know her and the case judith miller. i want

that let detroit go bankrupt that if gm, ford and chrysler get bailout from the federal government "you can kiss the american automotive industry good-bye." mr. romney wrote the auto industry's demise would be guaranteed by bailout. now in another op-ed, this one in "the detroit news" mr. romney is trying to sort of defend and sort of walk back the whole let detroit go bankrupt thing. he's now saying that he still thinks it would have been right to let the auto industry in america go bankrupt. he also says that mr. obama saving the industry in the short-term actually made things much worse than they would have been for detroit. that was a hard line for mitt romney to be toeing a couple lines ago when he wrote that op-ed. it's a particularly hard line to be toeing today. >> full year general motors made a record profit. $7.6 billion. in 2011 it made its biggest annual profit in gm's history. $7.6 billion. >> business is booming for an industry once on life support. >> most profitable year ever in 2011 making $7.6 billion and that's primarily driven by one huge rebound in sales here in north america. >> life support seems nice. so even though

ford field, has a 65,000 seat capacity. it's where the detroit lions play. the campaign put mr. romney on the 30 yard line. they put roughly 1,200 chairs in front of him and put the candidate in the middle of an empty 65,000 seat stadium. in a normal room, this sort of group might look like a large number of people but in this room, it really didn't. there is no shame in talking to 1,200 people except when it looks like this. and you know, bad optics happen. you cannot control everything. sometimes there are visual elements of planned events that do not convey the or. this was an accident. booking a 65,000 seat stadium for a 1,200 person event, that is not an accident. they knew this was going to happen. there were pictures that ran in the local press before the event took place showing how bad the event was going to look. did the mitt romney campaign bail on the event? no, they did not. to add further injury to injury, they did not even fill the seats they put there on the field in the first place. even after jamming everyone into this teeny tiny sliver of the stadium to try to make it look like there was

ford field, has a 65,000 seat capacity. it's where the detroit lions play. the campaign put mr. romney on the 30 yard line. they put roughly 1,200 chairs in front of him and put the candidate in the middle of an empty 65,000 seat stadium. in a normal room, this sort of group might look like a large number of people but in this room, it really didn't. there is no shame in talking to 1,200 people except when it looks like this. and you know, bad optics happen. you cannot control everything. sometimes there are visual elements of planned events that do not convey the message you are hoping to convey. for example, the baby jams his fingers into the president's mouth. this poor guy tried everything he could possibly try to keep himself awake while joe biden was awake. he's losing the battle, like a puppy going into the dish. this guy is asleep. this stuff happens. bad optics happen. a sleepy can is something you can plan for. this was an accident. booking a 65,000 seat stadium for a 1,200 person event, that is not an accident. they knew this was going to happen. there were pictures that ran in the local press b

outside ford field, union auto workers protested still seething over romney's objection to using federal dollars to bail out the reeling auto makers g.m. and chrysler. >> let me tell you something, mrromney. our members gave up from 7,000 to 30,000 a year. to keep jobs in america. >> while uaw workers lean democratic they make a cameo in rick santorum's new web age. where you see array of blue color workers that gave birth to term reagan democrats, the santorum camp hopes to swing their way this tuesday's open primary. on america live, santorum gave preview of what he has in michigan tonight. >> i was out there fighting "no child left behind" he was out there supporting and going to plant parenthood rundraisers. >> the $4 million weigh of romney and pro-romney tv ads they have impact. romney squeezed in front of the real clear average of polling. today is the first day that romney led the index since valentine's day. a michigan split decision is possible tuesday night with romney picking up the popular vote win because of his suburban support and santorum may be picking up the most delegates because of his support everywhere else. john? >> john: steve brown, outside ford field for

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mr. president, there's an old political axiom that's attributed to thomas jefferson, more recently gerald ford, that says a government that is big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take it all away. those words took on a whole new meaning this last week when we found out that the secretary of the health and human services department, kathleen sebelius, was issuing new regulations with regard to the health care act that passed last year that would apply to religious affiliated universities, charities, and hospitals. and i think we have to remember exactly why it was that many of our forefathers came to this country in the first place. they came here in many cases because they were trying to get away from religious persecution in their homelands. and so they came to the united states with a desire to start anew and to assert that in this new government that they form, that they would protect freedoms, basic freedoms like religious liberty. and so in the declaration of independence, they say we hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, they'r

mr. chuck todd. >>> thanks, willie. do or die week for mitt romney. he is behind in polls, republicans are now openly talking about finding a new candidate. he has a debate and ford field speech to right this ship or, yes, it is that bad now. >>> the obama campaign hits rick santorum over a speech they say questioned the president's faith. he has to defend controversial comments he made about pregnancy in america. welcome to the scrutiny, mr. santorum. >>> and the deep dime, taking one of my favorite phrases and turning it into a new segment, today, how romney is both embrace and running away from his father's legacy. it is george washington's birthday, some places call it presidents' day. it is monday, february 20th n honor of chris matthews' obsession with this, we will stay is washington's birthday. get right to my first read of the morning, mitt romney's do or die week. romney now trailing in national polls and in the latest public policy polling, public polling out of michigan, he has got to reverse the momentum, catch rick santorum and stop the gop hand wringing. all comes down to this week for him. wednesday, the republican candidates meet for their only s