of the nation state. more and more of the problems that we ought to do with, whether in his financial movements, whether it is held, whether it is climate change, whether is affirmation technology -- all of these things require region across borders to cooperate in order to solve problems. that is changing the nation know what -- the nature of what our system is. i like to compared with industrialization, which really created the modern nation state. to harness these great corporations that were building all this economic power, the nation's state had to be more powerful. globalization is having the same effect, but in the opposite direction as industrialization empowered the nation's state, globalization is eroding the power of the nation state. two points about this -- the financial crisis of 2008, it certainly demonstrated to us that we have a single world economy. the reaction to the crisis also demonstrated we do not have a single way to solve the problem. we fell back on the nation's state system an

to think of it as part of our nation's mortgage payment, one of our nation's obligation as a government to ensure that our military is fully funded, that they've got the equipment, the logistical support that they need, that their housing is the best it can be, that they've got the facilities are the very best they can be, and this is one of those obligations we've got to take care of. we are in this bill, in all the appropriations bills, mr. chairman, brought to the house for the first time, this new republican majority, this conservative majority is for the first time, money that has been left in the treasury unspent in previous years was just spent in other areas. for the first time, under the leadership of chairman hal rogers of kentucky, our subcommittee and other subcommittees are returning that unspent money back to taxpayers to reduce the deficit. chairman rogers and the leadership of the house, speaker boehner, our republican leadership, all of us are committed to bringing the nation -- doing everything in our power to get back to a balanced budget, to reduce federal spending t

ultimately madison said no nation no nation can preserve its freedom in the midst of continual work for yet here we are in the midst of perpetual warfare against terrorism with our current president telling congress that he doesn't need their approval for a billion dollar war in libya that puts american soldiers in harm's way and really has nothing to do with terrorism but as psychologist abraham maslow famously noted when your only tool is a hammer every problem out there looks like nails and even though some progress is made trust obama with perpetual war powers to defeat terrorism. we're going to next president will he or she be trusted with the wheel two americans were machine. in an interview last year with journalist bob woodward where president obama perhaps without realizing its application to himself so. war is fell and once the dogs were on leashed you don't know where it's going to lead and tragically right now our congress in a republican led effort but with very little resistance from democrats is doing everything it can to prevent the dogs of war. well unfortunately that i

the gerald ford reporting on national defense in 2010 a special mention the judges for the national defence selected andrew tillman and brendan's staff writers for the military times has special mention for the 24th annual gerald r. ford plans for distinguished reporting on the national defence and i know one of them is in the room here. i don't know if brandon is. if you could stand up we will give you a round of applause. [applause] thank you very much. >> thank you, steve, and congratulations to this year's winners. the guest speaker to be served president ford as national security adviser former lieutenant general in the air force has been a trusted advisor to the president stretching from richard nixon to barack obama. he's a graduate of west point and earned his ph.d. at columbia university. brent scowcroft is willing to publicly oppose presidential policies with which he strongly disagrees. although he served as the chairman of the foreign intelligence advisory board president george w. bush, he openly opposed the president's plans to invade iraq in 2003. he predicted the u.s. would

, we are the greatest nation on earth. we have the greatest democracy in the world. how could you look at the women in iraq or afghanistan or iran who are raped as a tool of war, who are not allowed to be he cade. who are forced to dress in clothing that you can't see anything of them because they are second rate citizens? nowhere do we have a democracy that is safe when you can demoralize half your population. >> you still center to make the intellectual leap for relieving the situation of misery or as the case in the sudan, split government and so forth. relieving it through war. and -- that's a terrific ladder to get up, to see war as relieving that rather than compounding it, because you're going to make -- you're going to probably make more enemies on all sides. >> it is -- >> and look militaristic. [everyone talking at once] there are other ways to attack the problem that are far more efficient than fleeing into the war bag! >> there are some terrible countries that you can change those countries, more trade, opening

the first constituted part of are national components and were raised under the national umbrella. they have no for an agenda or foreign connections. they were against any foreign intervention under any pretext. they do not want to be marginalized. they want justice. many issues were raised. for instance, there are cumulative issues dating back three decades since the confrontations of the muslim brotherhood. that was a dark phase, and we are still paying the price for that time like being refused government employment, for example, or not being given security clearances. in other words, we held certain individuals responsible for their mistakes, which is not right. we have started to solve this problem. i have heard things for other delegations, but i mentioned two in particular. as i said, we have started to solve the pending issues, and we will solve them completely. we cannot continue living in the shadow of the dark phase of our history that happened three decades ago. these issues relate to the justice and injustice of course that citizens can assist you with and there are ot

we are a generous nation. and what has become of our ability to help is that we have a federal government that continues to saddle us with more and more debt. more and more taxes and regulation, making it much more difficult to make the profit that we could then turn around and help our communities with food, with the basic services that our churches, our charities, and many other organizations in our local communities provide. instead of us always looking to the government for that assistance, let's back off of the american people and let them help themselves when they are capable and when they are willing to do it rather than continuing to put them further and further into debt which -- the democrat party talks about where are the jobs? well, government doesn't provide jobs. the private sector, people in our communities, entrepreneurs, people that want to expand their businesses, to provide a job for that family that needs to provide for their children. they need the jobs. and there's not going to be enough

indeed, we are a nation at war. our volunteer force has been stretched by combat that has lasted nearly a decade. we owe it to them. oh to their families to insure that they have the best leadership, the best training, the best equipment, the best benefits, the best health care that we can give them. i pledge to them and i pledge to you that every deployment decision that i make will be mindful of the stresses on our men and women in uniform and on their families. third, i have reached out to former secretaries of defense both democrat and republican. i ask for their advice. to a person, they impressed upon me how important it was to stay focused on the management of the pentagon. this is the biggest enterprise in our government. it requires focus and hands-on management. which is the only way i know how to do business. fourth, i sat down with many of you and have known many of you throughout my career. because i really do believe that congress has to be a partner in this role in the protection of our country, i am

[captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2011] >> starting next month, we will be able to remove 10,000 of richards from afghanistan by the end of this year. we will bring home a total 33,000 troops by next summer. >> follow the timeline and search over 5000 entries online. this is since 1987. it is washington coming your way. president obama visited soldiers at fort drum in new york today and talk more about his plan for reducing u.s. troops in afghanistan. they testified afghanistan and pakistan. >> on tomorrow morning's washington journal, jim mcgovern will give his perspective on president obama's to production plan. it was pulled up a bipartisan budget negotiations led by the vice president perrin he serves on the house budget and appropriations committee. it is washington journal, each morning pain >> next, president obama visit fort drum in new york and discusses trip reductions in afghanistan over the next year. this has been one of the most frequently deployed division sent to afghanistan hi. these remarks are

and the effect of global warming on our treasured national parks. coming up next. >>> good evening, everyone, i'm scott shafer sitting in tonight for belva davis. welcome to "this week in northern california." joining me on our news panel tonight is rachel gordon, city hall reporter for "the san francisco chronicle." ana tintocalis, education reporter from the "california report" on kqed public radio and wyatt buchanan. sacramento bureau reporter for "the san francisco chronicle." wyatt, let's begin with you. it's been a few days since state legislators found out they're not going to get paid until they passed a balanced budget. how do they like working for free? >> they don't. nobody is happy about this decision, but the reactions came in different ways from different folks. mostly democrats came out and criticized it. republicans stayed either quiet or said, you know, okay, this is -- we're okay with this decision. we need a budget. there were a few democrats who said that, too, but there were some really fiery language from some democrats. >> now

national defense. it talks specifically about this nation and what the responsibilities of this congress in regards to national defense. i said earlier what does trouble me is that in this our chairman did a great job of not putting funding in to fund any more incursions into libya, but it doesn't restrict it right now. there's going to be discussion on libya coming up later today. with you i got to give credit to the chairman of the committee of the subcommittee in regards to appropriations that they really have crafted a piece of legislation that has bipartisan support in that committee. has bipartisan support across the board in regards to where we need to go. in regards to keeping this nation safe. against threats known and unknown in the future. so with that i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from florida, mr. nugent, reserves. the gentleman from florida, mr. hastings, is recognized. mr. hastings: thank you, mr. speaker. mr. speaker, i'm very, very pleased to

-- [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2011] >> leon panetta testifying on capitol hill to be the next defense secretary replacing robert gates. if this committee approves him, his nomination will go to the full senate for a vote. watch this hearing on line at c- span.org/video library. a couple of and we are covering to tell you about. at two o'clock eastern, a discussion on the financial state of medicare and social security. the two public trustees for the social security and medicare programs are scheduled to speak. george mason university hosts discussion with live coverage on cspan 3. also this afternoon on c-span 2, the american arab anti- discrimination committee is holding its national convention. panels include political unrest in the arab world, relations between islam and other religions, and a forum on civil rights for its live coverage is at 1:30 p.m. eastern. >> this cspan networks, we provide coverage of politics, public affairs, nonfiction books, and american history available to you on television, r

canada's national -- natural environment shapes our national and density.government has expanded protected lands and marine areas to an unprecedented extent so that future and current generations can continue to enjoy them. in this, the 100 anniversary year of the national park system, our government will create a significant new area. this will move sticklers toward establishing an urban national park in the rouge valley of eastern toronto. looking to the future, our government will engage a broad range of stakeholders on the development of a national conservation plan to move our conservation objective forward and to better connect all canadians with nature. >> it will support a major new clean energy projects of national or regional significance such as the planned lower churchill electricity plant in canada. it willing gauge the provinces, territories and industry on ways to improve the regulatory and environmental assessment process for resource projects while insuring meaningful confrontation with the affected communities including aboriginal communit

look at these wealthy populous nations of western europe. i believe it's a good thing to get rid of gaddafi. does america have to do everything? people say we are e indispensable nation. that's a terrible burden to impose on ourself. we cannot afford it and it cannot be done effectively. let's get people who can dispense with it. my friend, the ranking member of the appropriations committee said, we have to do this because nato can bomb but they can't suppress. what a great bunch of allies, they can bomb on armed people but if they shoot back they got to come running to as you. yes, i want to send a messageto nato. gaddafi's a bad guy. if england and france and italy and germany and spain and the netherlands and scandinavia can't together muster the military force for this weakened poor nation, then let's re-examine the value of this ally. there was in the "king and i" when he says, if the allies are weak might not -- it's time for them to step up. this is not to protect gaddafi. it's to say that america can no longer be asked to be the one

i think you will have those rules with any nation, with any evolves nation state, in saying that what you just did was a foul. why? and we do not expect that kind of behavior again. what remains is ambiguity. he did not know to talk to. there is sufficient gap between the responsible officials that you can talk to and the potential actor. in this case, the attrition still remains foggy. the responsible officials could say, "i have no idea what you're talking about." this is a new era of statecraft. we have to figure out how to bridge that gap between responsibility and the action. >> but that is why i suggested briefly that you could look at the response. if you at least have it in a country, right? you can look at the responsibility as not a failed state, but the opposite of that. it is the country's responsibility to provide rules of the road. and they cannot just say, "oh, i do not know what happened." >> that will have to be the rules of the road. the implications, though, 17% of the computers that attacked were in the united states. with that scenario, if the estonians did not ha

indeed, we are a nation at war. our volunteer force has been stretched by combat that has lasted nearly a decade. we owe it to them. oh to their families to insure that they have the best leadership, the best training, the best equipment, the best benefits, the best health care that we can give them. i pledge to them and i pledge to you that every deployment decision that i make will be mindful of the stresses on our men and women in uniform and on their families. third, i have reached out to former secretaries of defense both democrat and republican. i ask for their advice. to a person, they impressed upon me how important it was to stay focused on the management of the pentagon. this is the biggest enterprise in our government. it requires focus and hands-on management. which is the only way i know how to do business. fourth, i sat down with many of you and have known many of you throughout my career. because i really do believe that congress has to be a partner in this role in the protection of our country, i am

brennan add mid decade designed and built the nation's first national counterterrorism center. following his c.i.a. career, and prior to joining the obama administration, mr. brennan in the private sector was the president and c.e.o. of the analysis corporation and the chairman of the intelligence and national security alliance, an association of public and private sector national security leaders. but for anyone who knows mr. brennan, there is something greater than than the sum of these parts. stated simply, the nation does not have a harder working, more tireless public servant. a person of absolute integrity dedicate to keeping this country safe. it is my pleasure now to present to you john brennan. [applause] >> thank you very much, and good afternoon, everyone. thank you for being here today. and thank you, dean, for your warm welcome and for your decades of service in government, global institutions and here. it is a special pleasure for me to be introduced by john, a friend and colleague of many years and one of our nation's greatest intelligence professionals. while as

i think when the founders of this nation crafted what our nation would be. they considered not only our political rights and freedom as important as those things are. they considered also our economic freedom. they said we wouldn't be lead by a king or central government that told us what to do and how to get paid for it. but instead each choose our life course, not just federal representatives. and by virtue of this, they made it the place on the planet that every entrepreneur and freedom lover wanted to come here. it made us who we are, and our economy outperform from europeans and other. and we are a great nation because of the early pioneers, because of the founders in america. i believe in america, i believe in free enterprise, i believe in capitalism. i believe in the constitution. [applause] i believe in the constitution. by the way when the founders said we would have certain powers at the federal level but preserve at the state level all the powers not giving to the federal. that 10th amendment is one that i think that barack obama hasn't read. i kn

opposed to nation building in afghanistan. listen to manchin. >> the numbers that i have heard and that i have seen has been given to me. we spent 443 billion to date. we're on track to spend another 485 billion. that's almost a trillion dollars. we can ill afford that type of expenditure and have a country that doesn't have an economy, doesn't have an infrastructure and by all accounts have a corrupt leader. you can't continue down this road and think you're going to get success. >> he says another half a trillion dollars between now and the end of 2014. is that money well spent by u.s. taxpayers? >> after the russians left afghanistan, the taliban took over. they took women in soccer stadiums and killed them for sport. they invited bin laden as the honored guest and we looked the other way. they blew up statues of buddha figures and hijackers were given less than a million dollars to kill 3,000 americans. how much money have we spent since -- >> you don't think that hamid karzai and his 300 military and police forces are cap

and to realize what he did for this nation, and he put this nation into debt.ebt so that we could be free. and 100 years later we put ourselves into debt again so that we could remain free as one nation. and he said in world war i and world war ii we put ourselves in debt yet again so that we could preserve the cause of freedom all over the entire world. and you've asked us, mr. president, to come in today and give you more money to put us further into debt so that we can buy ourselves more things. and if that doesn't put into sharp contrast what we are doing as a nation and the moral decisions that we face as a nation, i don't know what does. um, sooner or later, folks, we just have to say no. sooner or later you just have to make the decision -- [applause] have to make the decision to simply stop spending the money. i appreciate everything that y'all did in my race. i know there's some folks from south carolina here, thank you. there we go. for everything that you've done, please, there is no more election, there is no election more important than the 2012 el

deal with in two nations ok so you say you see this gas deal becoming a success and both nations and as you were saying certainly there are some regional implications there puts as we were talking about a few moments ago about a wednesday's meeting of the shanghai cooperation organization in kazakhstan we did see a close collaboration and big proposals put on the table between group members do you think it's possible the c.e.o. could become the economic mover and shaker of the. i hope so and i believe saw now i believe the wall these are at the crossroads historic crossroads or some may say the wall these at the brink of either being subdued war or calming the u.s. nato military intervention in libya now moving into possibly syria or even to iran . russia or china or all of these as see all the lying. we saw that not enough to start us nato military aggression in north african region so i hope saw that as see all russia or china or china or russia leaving leading this new robot moving on to balance of power in the wall soledad they can build a new world order where norm or unilateral

and in the very capital of the nation. oh yeah residents are still fighting the federal government per for voting rights and their representation in congress the residents of the district of columbia have never had the rights that are produced or upon everyone else in this country the limits to their rights stem in part from civil war divisions that steffen only part of and before that. a lot of people never thought of blacks at all but scholars argue though the war may have ended slavery it was far from ending racism with washington d.c.'s large population of newly freed black citizens at the end of the war to limit their influence political elites pushed to curb voting rights for everyone residents are still fighting that legacy today. this is just like the stand up for slavery. and the tea party protests that have swept across the u.s. every energized to rally behind state's rights reminiscent of confederate rhetoric one hundred fifty years ago when you look at philosophically about how they line up in being there even

he did get the united nations. he did talk to the french and the english, but he didn't talk to the people's house, the congress of the united states. and the president did not have the authority to do this. now, the reason i support the kucinich resolution is it sends a clear message to the white house that cannot -- they cannot do this again. they cannot unilaterally go into syria or the ivory coast or any place else without talking to the people who represent the -- the congress who represents the people all across this country. the president should not have done this. and the only legislation that really deals with the problem today is the kucinich resolution, which i co-sponsored. i'm a co-author of it. now, i am going to vote for the boehner resolution because it does send a signal, but it does not solve the problem. the only way to solve the problem is to let the president know you cannot, should no, and will not be able to do this again. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady from florida. the gentleman fr

national security. when i was a little girl i left -- loved to go to work with my daddy. if we passed a used car lot, and they have the sign out front that said "we told to send out." -- "we tote the note." he explained that one to me, and he said baby, don't you ever let anybody tell your note. -- tote your note. apparently, the federal government did not get that message because we have nations like china toteing our note. when you look at our publicly- traded debt, china and owns 25% -- taino owns 25% -- china owns 25% of that publicly traded debt, japan over 20%, the united kingdom 7%, opec owns 5%, and we know who makes up opec -- ecuador, bahrain, iraq, kuwait, algeria, nigeria, libya, and iran. they own 5% of our debt. let's look china alone. every day the u.s. government cuts a $119 million check in interest to the chinese government. was that, they can purchase two joint strike fighters every single week, and at the end of the year, they have enough money left over to buy a shiny aircraft carri

and here's what's coming up tonight on the big picture our nation's pathetic excuse for a health care system grow in north carolina man to rob a bank just so he could receive medical care in jail so what does this say about america the richest nation on meanwhile justice was not served last action discrimination lawsuit filed by over eight million women against wal-mart so why did the nation's highest court side with the retail giant is no case of corporate preferential treatment but a supreme court. you need to know this the libyan war has cost our nation nearly eight hundred million dollars so far and we're likely top top a billion dollars by the in the september and ninety days into the conflict there's still no formal declaration of war from congress so what we throw hundreds of millions of dollars in underclothes war with no clear end game our nation struggles to meet its obligations to americans right here at home and there's no more clear example of our country forsaking its citizens in the case of james richard earlier this month a month of her own was arrested after he tried

[captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2011] >> this weekend on c-span2, "and reckless endangerment" talking about the role that fannie mae and freddie mac. on the "after word" henry kissinger and whether we can have your relationship with china. also, microsoft co-founder paul allen talks about his memoir, "idea man." you can get the scandals in your inbox. >> this weekend on american history tv, more than 20 years after the end the cold war, in new york historical panning -- panel focuses. the civil rights movement and the promise of suburbia. on restoring civil war photographs from charleston, south carolina. that the complete schedule from c-span.org/history. you can sign up for email alerts. >> senators expressed concern for extending the director of the fbi and's t-- fbi's term. congress passed a law limiting the fbi director to one ten-year term. this portion of the hearing is about 50 minutes. " is back tomorrow morning, at 7:00 a.m. eastern time. have a great day. >> good morning, everybody. good morning, di

well this weekend, hundreds of millions of christians will gather to pray for their nations. since its beginning more than 10 years ago, the global day of prayer has changed not only the world, but the church as well. my colleague wendy griffith starts us off. >> lord! >> for reporter: the global day of prayer has been inviting the world's christians to pray together and the church has responded. >> give my people who are called by my name to humble and serve. >> to seek my faith and turn from their wicked ways, then i will hear from heaven and forgive their sins and heal their land. >> praying in open air stadiums, city halls and cathedrals and seeking out the high places on every continent. >> here we are standing today looking out over africa from the highest point. >> crying out to god in repentance and seeking reconciliation. >> asking forgiveness in the way in which charismatics and pentecostals. >> we forgive you. [applause]. >> i come in repenitence and pray you forgive us. >> organizers predict hundreds of christians in more than 200 nations will gather to pray on pe

nation. the united states became the largest creditor nation in the world, and by 25 years later, we have something like 6000 capital ships, the british 600. and as an aside, the canadians were third with around 400. today, we are the largest ever nation in the world, and the chinese are the largest creditor nation. i think we have to think about some very fundamental issues behind military strategy, which is how do we finance all of this. >> so how much war can america afford? how many wars, how long, how deeply can we go without -- >> yeah, without jeopardizing our fundamental security. which is our ability to put out highly expensive technical weapons. we don't do asymmetrical war. we are able to project power because of these enormous cost that we are able to bear, but at some point if we continue to be in debt we are not going to be able to do it so we have to look back, if you're a strategy shift to say, how do i shore up the fundamentals so i can carry on what's going on. that goes not

that's another key national security position. now, in this case, what makes it even more egregious, she is reported unanimously by both the judiciary committee but also by the senate select committee on intelligence, reported unanimously by all republicans and democrats in two key committees. her nomination has been supported by former justice department officials, including former attorney general mukasey who served during the george w. bush administration. now, i have a two-month delay. she should have been confirmed right after she came out of the intelligence and judiciary committee. the national security division has been without her leadership, and they've been without another key member, virginia seitz, another superbly qualified nominee, bipartisan support, who should have been confirmed before the memorial day recess, blocked from confirmation by senate republicans. now after seven weeks of obstruction, we'll finally get to vote on her. and the senate judiciary committee has considered two national security-related bills

serbian nationalism muslims nationalism creation nationalism now and so you want to say that the slowly it was a nationalist country. it was. it didn't happen like this i mean it should have been nationalist before before there were serious there were only two federal so-called communist countries in the europe soviet union and former federal soviet republic of. stark you'll see yes it's exceptionally because after they divorced czechs and slovaks they are living in peace in the same. in harmony in. the european union but in the case of the former soviet union it was a small number of victims but in yugoslavia there were thousands of people killed because of nationalism nationalism is on the first place last time you met a bloody change it was in in a month to do yes it was. i didn't expect some rumors about a journalist i was looking for this or almost while. i was in montenegro. and i find a fare on that nonsense and inspectable i saw one guy. it was rock on luggage he was already hiding was he yes yes did you have a chance to talk to him to communicate with just. he said let's just k

security well the issue there lucy is that when you are working you know with all of these nation. these nations actually give us permission to operate in these territories you know yemen pakistan all of these places have considerable difficulties either through revolution or through you know practically a failed state in the case of pakistan where you still have permission from the local government to do this you know if i were a person you know as you describe of course i'd be angry of course i wouldn't wouldn't like that but the problem is if you you know it's a question of national interest and it's a question of working through each of these particular areas and making sure that we take care of taking eliminating those those folks who are going after us because if we don't eliminate them we're prevent them from doing what they set out to do we're going to have a bigger problem with the world with terrorism right well unfortunately we're out of time but i do have to say that even though these nations may be giving us covert permission to attack on their lands or that they're al

for national isn't it with more. later continues bombing tripoli we've been hearing heavy strikes overnight as well as during the day this week actually the libyan capital has seen the most intensive farai since the beginning of the operation in march with nato targeting gadhafi his compound and command and control centers in an attempt to weakening the embattled colonel and force him out russia actually wants to see khadafi to step down moscow's envoy has visited libya and has met our position leaders here and has also . put off is closest ally and his cousin in cairo and after that has said that both sides have a mutual understanding that military actions is not an option and this conflict should only be resolved through peaceful means. nato allies are in agreement that you must go but the scene is. real simply about how to do that the alliance is general secretary rasmussen and the u.s. defense secretary robert gates are demanding more participation more help from certain members because the reality is that only e

[captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2011] >> house speaker john boehner spoke last night in ashlands, ohio, at a memorial dinner honoring john ash brooke. he discussed republican substantial for job creation and reducing the national debt and took questions from the audience, this is 25 minutes. >> thank you very much. it's hard to stand there and have people applaud me. just a regular guy with a big job. peter, thank you for the introduction and thanks for the great job that you're doing with the ashbrook center. i'm honored to have a chance to speak with all of you tonight at this great event held in honor of a great man and a great ohio ann, john ashbrook. as most of you know, tonight was originally supposed to happen a couple of months ago, but we had to reschedule because i had to be in washington for the final negotiations on the bill to keep the government running and finish last year's budget. so i was supposed to be with all of you that friday night, but instead i spent the day on the phone with president

we thought we knew the nation of we'd fight and die for the nation that we raise our families it is no longer the america we once knew our nation is on a march toward catastrophe and it will not move off this path on its own we must take back control and restore the america that our founding fathers and vision for a book is written fifty years from now asking why average americans like us did nothing as our nation went crazy it's time for all of us to wake up. that's the big picture for tonight for more information on the stories we covered visit our websites tom hartman dot com and archie dot com also check out our youtube agency youtube dot com slash the big picture our t. and youtube dot com slash tom and this entire show is available as a free video podcast on i tunes and don't forget democracy begins with you when you show up tag you're it all sort of a. wealthy british style sign it's time to. market why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy with much stronger for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into kaiser report.

the afghan national police. he has put in place a number of training initiatives that are paying big dividends, not just the lease being literacy in a country where the literacy depending on the statistics varied between 10 and 20%. it's not surprising that many of those who seek to be soldiers are police are illiterate. that alone has given the members of the afghanistan national security forces a different feel about who they are and the role they could potentially play in their country. so that plus many of the initiatives which are under way and gaining purchase now and transaction leave me confident that our end state, which is an afghanistan security force which has both capability and staying power will be successful in the end. it's not just about ntma, all in in the command and partnered with the units in the field have become also vital to the process as well. the professionalization of units as well as the individual preparations of afghan national security police and army troops in the training pipel

[captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2011] graham was a larger than life figure who led a remarkable life of service. whether it was as a soldier in world war ii soar state judge or a u.s. congressman, he served with a strength of character and a love of country that has provided an gample and -- example and inspiration for many people including me. a man of deep faith, graham possessed a again rossity of spirit that extended to all aspects of his life. he was a member of the greatest generation that saved the world from totalitarianism and then came home to build the most prosperous nation the world has ever known. but graham was also an individual who would stand out in any generation. rising from humble roots to help make history. he was born on may 5, 1919. after high school he enrolled at tacks a&m and shortly after pearl harbor he joined the army and earned among other awards the sill var star. even after he was discharged, he continue to serve in the army reserves for a number of years. when he returned from

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the reason i am running is because this nation has become a nation of crises.ve a moral crisis. we have an economic crisis. we have an energy crisis. we have an immigration crisis. most of all, we have an efficiency of -- a deficiency of leadership crisis in the white house, and we are quite a change it. i did not get the memo. one of the reasons that i have been inspired to answer this call has been because the american people that i have talked to and the ones that i have listened to are tired of this national nightmare that we are on right now. this economy is not growing. we have a lot of problems. i do not have time to go through all the things that i would do. let's talk about one of the biggest crises that we have, this economy. what would be one of the first things that i do as president would be to ask the united states congress to give me a bill would contain the following elements in order to boost the economy -- a max 25% tax by all corporations and all individuals, max of 25%. we are the only nation on the planet that has not lowered its top corpor

$14.3 trillion national debt. we've heard that from our civilian and military leaders. consequently our subcommittee has carefully examined the president's $43.5 billion request and we've had to make some hard choices and i congratulate chairman aderholt and mr. price for making those choices. in this context i must say for the record i am concerned about the extent of the reductions to fema's state and local grant programs included in the bill. a lot more could be said. i also recognize that we have already made substantial investments in these important areas for over nine years. mr. chairman, i support the chairman's intent to force the department to make tough decisions on spending. it's imperative at a department with over 230,000 employees and dozens of agencies and directorates under its jurisdiction that they make the hard choices. this bill will ensure that the department is accountable for taxpayers' dollars. we've witnessed the infusions of many millions of taxpayer dollars, we've witnessed over the las

a today's hearing focuses on critical national security issue, protecting the nation's electrical grid from physical and cybersecurity threats and vulnerabilities. threats have increased in recent years and were the subject of several hearings and 110th and 111th congresses. there is evidence that bad actors have conducted cyber probes of u.s. grid systems, and that cyber attacks have been conducted against critical electric infrastructure and other -- in other countries. this past february, a cyber attack dubbed night dragon which is believed to have emanated from china targeted the critical infrastructure of energy and petrochemical companies in the u.s. the night dragon attack was not overly sophisticated, but was nevertheless successful in breaching the computer systems of key assets. this example is one of several, and is the tip of the icebergs, and illustrates that we must be more vigilant in securing the nation's critical energy infrastructure. including the electric grid. beyond potential cyber attacks, the bulk power system remains exposed to physical vulnerabilities and thre

national security. it seems almost quaint now to think that people would spend so much time making that decision. and then of course when the first, when a stay was granted to prevent continued publication, that's when elseburg took the papers to then 40-year-old-- to the "washington post". and eventually 19 newspapers over the whole period of time. >> brown: and did it have an immediate impact in the culture, in the politics of the time? >> well, i think the key thing, jeff, was that this moment came in the midst of this intense hatred between the nixon administration and the media. there were investigations of reporters sources that were being taken before grand juries. spiro agnew, remember him, was giving speeches against the press. you know, his illiterative references to the limousine liberals, the mattering nabo b's of negativism and so on. and in a sense the pentagon papers fell into the laps of the nixon white house it didn't hurt the nixon administration. >> it wasn't really about them. >> it

and the reason that i am running is because this nation has become a nation of crises. we have a moral crisis, we have an economic crisis, we have an entitlement-spending crisis, we have an energy crisis, we have an immigration crisis, and most of all, we have a deficiency of leadership crisis in the white house and we ought to change it. [applause] i did not get the memo. one of the reasons that i have been inspired to answer this call has been because the american people that i have talked to and the ones that i have listened to are tired of this national nightmare we are on right now. this economy is not growing. we have a lot of problems. i do not have time to go through all the things that i would do, so let's talk about one of the biggest crises that we have -- the economy. one of the first things i would do as president would be to ask the united states congress to give me a bill that would contain the following elements in order to boost this economy. number one, a maximum 25% tax by all corporations and all individuals. maximum 25%. [applause] we are the only n

it is a cornerstone of our nation. it is a cornerstone of our social fabric to define marriage as between a man and woman. the co-authore of the marriage? in minnesota. [applause] we cannot be a successful and continue to be a great nation unless we are secure. people will not dream or take risks or deploy capital or invent or do things unless they feel secure. as a nation, we need to remember that the first and most important responsibility of our federal government is to keep this nation safe and secure and our people secure. [applause] let's remember that the individuals and the mindset that perpetuated the horrible acts of september 11, 2001 and killed 3000 or so of our federal citizens, that mind-set still exists and they could have killed 30,000 or 300,000 or 3 million. as soon as they get the capability, they will try. we need to make sure we stand strong and diligent and diligent to make sure those threats are identified and called by name and defeated before they operate against the united states of america. [

[captioning performed by national captioning institute] captioned by the national captioning institute -- www.ncicap.org -- >> we'll learn more about the administration's thoughts on afghanistan when hillary clinton testifies at the senate foreign relations committee. talents summit for intelligence committee questions general david petraeus. he's been nominated as director of the c.i.a. that begins at 2:30 eastern time. still ahead on c-span, "washington journal" is live with your phone calls. and that's followed by live coverage of today's house session. they are scheduled to work on changes to the patent changes to the patent application process and

our schools, our state, our nation?e of the suggestions that come across the table from leaders in our community that you know of would blow your mind. some will stand up and say, we need economic reform. we need to create more jobs. we need to buy american. we need to quit the layoffs. we need equal opportunity for everyone. we need economic reform. and i will raise my hand and say, economic reform is important and it has its place. however, economic reform [no audio] >> we are having some problems with this from new orleans. we will try to fix the problem and bring you back to the very end of this republican leadership conference. coming to you live from c-span. >> and we are going to leave that there, the 2011 republican leadership conference in new orleans. in the straw poll held today, ron paul held the lead among potential candidates. he had 612 votes, followed by jon huntsman who had 382. today's remarks included speeches, including gov. rick perry. you can see remarks tonight starting at about 8:00 p.m. eastern

troops in libya but can a possible exit also be declared for the nation. and the department of homeland security to the greatest job in the world protecting the on from lax protection from an expensive american life. we may be nearing an end game in the libyan war world leaders including secretary of state hillary clinton are meeting in the united arab emirates to discuss how libya could have a democratic future after khadafi news reports out of libya suggest it could offer himself maybe warming up to the idea of leaving power and way to the most recent intensive bombing campaign in tripoli secretary clinton acknowledged today that people close to gadhafi have expressed interest in coming up with a deal for khadafy to step down in libya and go into exile in some undisclosed african nation. today's successful contact group meeting was a powerful statement that our coalition remains united and committed we reaffirmed there is only one way forward for libya attacks against civilians must stop gadhafi must go and the libyan people deserve to determine their ow