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

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

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

, 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 tellectual 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 t

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

it means more stable nations and fewer threats to our national security. working to eliminate food and security across the globe for innovation, hard work, and partnerships will provide incredible economic benefits and natural resource enhancements to developing and developed countries alike. it will increase political stability in conflict and poverty-stricken areas and with countries around the world in our global community on a path to future prosperity. agriculture's role goes beyond feeding and clothing to the world. producers are increasingly being called on to provide renewable sources of energy as well. in the united states, we are looking to biofuels in particular to help confront the challenge is providing adequate sustainable energy supplies generating economic growth in rural communities and mitigating the impact of climate change. in some cases, the symbols can be met by biofuel production in the rest of the world. as the fao project has shown, by a energy production and use in the developing world is not automatically good or bad. instead, wh

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

as better life index to determine what the happiest nations of the planet are the u.s. didn't even crack the top ten were not even in the top ten of happiest countries in the world the study examined quality of life things like health education housing the environment jobs community work life balance between the two and income to figure out what truly makes the nation happy so let's take a look at the five top happiest nations in the world all the way happier than we are here in the united states and as you'll see for a good reason at number five the netherlands ninety one percent of the people living in the netherlands say that they're satisfied with their lives the highest ranking anywhere in the world that might be because the dutch citizen spend an average seventy percent of their days not working but instead on personal care leisure activities eating and sleeping sixteen hours a day or so i do you spend every day doing this or. that number for australia seventy one percent of the citizens in the land down under trust their political institutions here in the u.s. on

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

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

there are european nations, developed wealthy nations just across the mediterranean. why do they have to have america come nearly 4,000 miles to do it? and it's not just libya. this is defining. are we going to go forward with a situation in which america undertakes to defend everybody in the world everywhere even when they are not greatly threatened as is the case with nato or with missile defenses against nonexistent missile threats from iran, or do we say that we will bear our fair share but not more? we have got to stop subsidizing the rest of the world. particularly now. and when members from the appropriations committee come up and tell us, you got to go and do this, but let's cut police in massachusetts, let's cut housing in ohio, let's cut transportation in california, we cannot reduce our deficit in a way that allows us to maintain any concern for the quality of life here if we continue to spend money promiscuously over there. let's go beyond that. we're not just talking about libya. what about the paradox in afghanistan where we will spend $100 billion a yea

[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

there are european nations, developed wealthy nations just across the mediterranean. why do they have to have america come nearly 4,000 miles to do it? and it not just libya. this is defining. are we going to go forward with a situation in which america undertakes to defend everybody in the world everywhere even when they are not greatly threatened as is the case with nato or with missile defenses against nonexistent missile threats from iran, or do we say that we will bear our fair share but not more? we have got to stop subsidizing the rest of the world. particularly now. and when members from the appropriations committee come up and tell us, you got to go and do this, but let's cut police in massachusetts, let's cut housing in ohio, let's cut transportation in california, we cannoteduce our deficit in a way that allows us to maintain any concern for the quality of life here if we continue to spend money promiscuously over there. let's go beyond that. we're not just talking about libya. what about the paradox in afghanistan where we will spend $100 billion a year an

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

nation we love.n the diisscussions are now havinf never libya afghanistan go right to the heart of this broader debate. and this is where we see the real practical impact of the in decisions all of us in public life must make them be for.etable we are all trying to define r america's interest and role in the world to separate that whict we can and must do from that which is beyond our capacity and our benefit to try to accomplish.ed approach while striving for a t balancedr approach at america's interesteo to brad and as for that reason and very can turn about both the president's position on guinness and in the house is pending on a libya. i agree with the president butsc thanks especially to the sacrifice and courage of our and fighting men and women, we are this progress is real andur remarkable, but as our out, it commanders on the ground i'll point out, it is also fragile and reversible. our commandersls also say that what will be decisive is the fading season next year, the sum warmer spring an

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

[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

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

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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. [

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

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

so how could the natural scenery be used as a reflection of the strong nation? but what they called the national wonder and asking those two pay so they could show the world the singular landscaped other that some bumbling englishmen would represent. [laughter] and previous generations of the untamed landscape the hostile environment now became the object of national pride. they began to plant america's landscape. until then they concentrated on historical moments i was a lawyer thomas cole and others as nature becomes the object of national time. what does it mean today? i think if you go to mount vernon and you see the shrubberies entirely planted the native species and john adams and quincey are in the same sense. summers 1796 adams was redesigning his garden because he was approaching and tuesday in his life that washington was considering to retire and office of president himself because that is a picture of his farm. but they had several plows and acres and only around 500 acres but nevertheless very much inspired by what he has seen on the guardian tour.

at the request of the transitional national council the gulf -- national council, the gulf council and the arab league. where is the united nations in this equation? if an authorization resolution had been put forward in february i might have been able to support it. i understand the mission, but in the intervening period, conditions have changed significantly on the ground in libya within nato, with our nato partners and here in the u.s. decisive action with congressional authorization at the outset might have solved this problem quickly. but now we have drifted into an apparently open-ended commitment with goals that remain only vaguely defined, and that is at the heart of the problem, mr. speaker. the president asserted, quote, these strikes will be limited in their nature, duration and scope, end quote. well, it is now day 97. 97 of our involvement of u.s. armed forces in hostilities regarding libya, yet, gaddafi still clings to power and the opposition appears to be no closer to a decisive victory. command for the military operation has been transferred to nato. yet, the constrain

then the president of the national association of manufacturers and a look at nation-building efforts in afghanistan with the center for a new american security. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2011] host: on this thursday morning, a couple of the major national newspapers are reporting the governor of texas, rick perry, may now have his eyes on the white house. another says the governor thinks there is a void in the current field of candidates. new whispers of a perry bid is one of the headlines. we want to get your reaction to the news this morning. the news this morning. news this morning, texas gov. rick perry may be warming to the idea for running for president. here is one of the ideas anin " the wall street journal." the piece by neil king says that for months now the governor has told potential donors and potential higher ups he has no interest in running for the white house for 2012, but over the past two weeks political advisor say he has changed his tune on a possible presidential campaign. there is

america, it is time to focus on nation building here at home. in this effort, we draw inspiration from our fellow americans who have sacrificed so much on our behalf. to our troops, our veterans, and their families, i speak for all americanwhen i say that we will keep our sacred trust with you and provide you with the care and benefits and opportunity that you deserve. i met some of these patriotic americans at fort campbell a while back. i spoke to the 101st airborne that has fought to turn the tide in afghanistan and to the team that took out osama bin laden. standing in front of a model of bin laden's compound, the navy seal who led that effort paid tribute to those who had been lost, brothers and sisters in arms whose names are now written on base where's our troops stand guard overseas and on headstones in quiet cornerrers of our country where their memory will never be forgotten. this officer, like so many others i've met on bases in baghdad and bagram, and at walter reed and bethesda naval hospital, spoke with humility about how his unit

deal between two nations ok so you say you see this gas deal becoming a success between both nations and as you were saying certainly there are some regional implications there puts as we were talking about a few moments. 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 that the s c o could become the economic mover and shaker of the world. 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 of these at the brink of either being subdued or all the calming the u.s. nato military intervention in libya now moving into possibly syria or even to iran if russia or china or all of these as see all the alliance we saw there are not enough to stop the u.s. led nato military aggression in north african region so i hope saw that as see all russia china china russia leaving leading this new global moving on to balance the power in the wall and saw that they can build a new wor

four, au nations should expel from their own nations any diplomat who are pro-gaddafi. five, au nations should put their support behind the anti- gaddafi rebels. question, presenting our demands to the african union, was secretary clinton speaking to a receptive audience or hostile audience? >> not a receptive audience. they were not big for this intervention in the first place. gaddafi has spread a lot of money around to these countries. i expect the au to dump him just as soon as he is dead or fled from the country. >> another reason for her going and visiting with the au in africa? how many secretary of states have taken the continent seriously? >> she's done something necessary, she's really established a lot of personal relationships and really been in their homes and in their place and their countries, and really done that. that's not what the president has done and she has filled that gap. and it's a very, very important gap. >> the chinese are a 53-nations in africa, the chinese now have full diplomatic relations with 48 of those. 48. >> and they got enormous in

serbian nationalism muslims nationalism creation nationalism now i'm sure you want to say that that the former yugoslavia it was a nationalist country. it was. it didn't happen like this i mean it should have been nationalist before before the war was there there were only two federal so-called communist countries in the europe soviet union and former federal soviet republic. for. yes it's exception because after they divorced czechs and slovaks they are living in peace in the center of your life in harmony in. the european union but in the case of 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 it was in montenegro really yes it was. i didn't expect. rumors about i'm a journalist i was looking for this rumors while. i was in montenegro. and i find some cafe on the mountains and uninspected i saw one guy. it was rocking luggage he was already hiding was he yes yes did you have a chance to talk to him to communicate with just. his head let's jus

we thought we knew the nation of we 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 envisioned and 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 tell marvin dot com of r g dot com also check out our youtube pages at youtube dot com slash the big picture our take on you tube dot com slash tom and this entire show is available as a free video podcast on i tunes and don't forget to mark receive begins with you when you show up. your it will see them.

of islam for the 12 years he was a member of the nation. marable gives a full picture of the level of four that malcolm planned to travel the country to speak thee are the new insights that is based on the archives. >> host: zaheer ali are there still some archives not available? >> guest: yes. thousands of pages of fbi documents in new york police department documents in his research dr. marable u.s over 6,000 pages of material from the freedom of information act request and last month the fbi put on the website a new batch of files on malcolm x. there is still much more to be known about what our government knew about malcolm and how involved they were in the organization in. one interesting thing we found is malcolm, the first page of his fbi file began 1950 while he was in prison. he had just come from islam but had written a president from president truman protesting the korean war so based on that letter the fbi began the first file. another interesting insight how deeply embedded the fbi was into all organizations, 1954 malcolm trave

however, our first national priority is national security. and to protect our national security, we must protect our major transformers from cascading destruction. to that end, i've introduced the shield act, which differs primarily from your discussion dlast in three areas. unlike the grid act, which i commend this committee deeply for passing last year, the shield act authorizes ferc to promulgate standards necessary to protect our electricity infrastructure against both natural and manmade electromagnetic pulse events if the standards developed by the ero are inadequate to protect national security. the shield act additionally requires automated hardware-based solutions rather than procedural and operational safety measures alone. and the shield act does not contain sign other security provisions leaving the conflicting approaches to that extremely important issue among the members of the senate in particular to be debated in a separate bill. automated hardware, mr. chairman, is particularly important when one considers the shortcomings of

and in the very capital of the nation. the. residents are still fighting the federal government for full voting rights and the 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 it's definitely part of and before that. 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. is a large population of newly freed black citizens at the end of the war to limit their influence political elites push to curb voting rights for everyone residents are still fighting that lie. today. this is fabulous just like not feel so i know you. and the tea party protests that have swept across the u.s. have really energized the rally behind states' rights reminiscent of confederate rhetoric one hundred fifty years ago when you look at philosophically of how they line up and indeed there are even gene

and well above the national average of 366,000. does the prime minister agree with me that the option outlined on water affordability suggesting a government subsidy around 50 pounds per household in the southwest would go a long way to write this unfairness of? >> this issue of excessive water bills in the southwest has been an issue for many, many years and i'm proud of the fact that within a year it is this government that has decided to grip it. we are determined to lower water bills in the southwest. we pledged that in the budget. we will set out our proposals which will be published in november. >> the crisis at southern cross has raised fears about the viability of the sector. so will the prime minister inject some urgency into his governments renewal of companies that provide care services? we need a belt to stop the elderly abuse about the place they called home. >> i think the honorable gentleman makes an excellent important point and many of us, myself included, have care homes in our constituencies run by southern cross

treasury secretary tim geithner america is also feeling the pressure from other nations to consider another option in winning the war against drugs legalization and the drowning of a california man has shed light on the negative consequences of state budget cuts how many more people have to die before lawmakers get the message. you need to know this stranger is secretary tim geithner received an interesting letter recently from europe's top financial regulator markel michel barnier european commissioner overseeing finance and a letter to geithner expressing concern over how our nation angles outrageous executive bonuses in the banking business a letter read i think you agree with me that bankers bonuses is a matter that continues to cause public outrage it is better right is key to restoring our citizens' confidence in the financial system and all of them a leather confidence in the public authorities regulating the financial institutions last year wall street dished out over twenty billion dollars or. the british would say twenty thousand million dollars in bonuses but in europe things are

[captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2010] the speaker pro tempore: the house will be in order. the chair lays before the house a communication from the speaker. the clerk: the speaker's room, washington, d.c., june 2, 2011. i -- i hereby appoint the honorable lynn westmoreland to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. signed, john a. boehner, speaker of the house of representatives. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to the order of the house of january 5, 2011, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour debate. the chair will alternate recognition between the parties with each party limited to one hour and each member other than the majority and minority leaders and the minority whip limited to five minutes each but in no event shall debate continue beyond 11:50 a.m. the chair recognizes the gentleman from south carolina, mr. wilson, for five minutes. mr. wilson: thank you, mr. speaker. thank you, mr. speaker. mr. speaker, on tuesday night the p

national security.n i was a little girl i left 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." he explained that one to me, and he said baby, don't you ever let anybody tell 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% 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 carrier. by sailing to tap our -- by failing to tap our spending, we are tapping our children's