the navy only gives us so much time to talk to them. because of the demands they have on their training. it is a constant effort. as we talked about in the branches, we encourage that and by evolution, i think we are going to have to have more of a conversation that you are going to have to be a savor before you can become a borrower. i see that taking place right now. >> i would address the in language challenges as well. i think it is necessary to have more information as well as a variety of languages. it is something we try to do where there is on-line material, some banks have gone much further than wells fargo has in terms of offering on-line banking in different languages. it is something we would all like to do. there is big cost to be able to offer that. we do concentrate quite a bit on offering upfront material, education material and language. the junior agent savor club has the entire line of the parent information in spanish. we just introduced spanish language as a positive statement. you can have english or spanish online

and i appreciate your playing the navy hymn and "anchors away."hter] >> yeah. >> my wife and company thought i was kind of 16 inches off the ground about it, which i was. i threw up when i saw the woodstock thing on television. they wanted to update us, i couldn't watch anymore films. and i had been involved in both the security situation trying to improve that which -- [inaudible] after vietnam and the cultural thing. and the cultural poison, as i said, i think is more certainly to destroy this nation, as it has every other which undertook to make the state the decider of rights. when the roman army went from saying, virtue to saying, hail caesar, that was the beginning of the time, binning of the decline of their army and their populace because they came off of even their own gods, such as they were. and let caesar be -- decide what people could do and can't do. now we're not willing. if the creator is going to endow the rights and we are going to use those rights, we have to play according to the creator's rules. those rights were established w

david, first of all, what more can you tell bus the gunning down of this navy commando's family?ell, the operation seemed to be well designed. just hours after the commando was buried with full military honors, a group benefit a desen hit men stormed the house. they broke open the door. they were armed with ak-47s, and assault rifles and shot up the entire family. they left as quickly as they arrived, and prosecutors, mexican prosecutors are now saying that they may have had help from local police in find -- planning their getaway. it looks like a pretty either efficient operation, which shows this cartel run by arturo beltran leyva, is alive and kicking >> how well publicized was the name of this navy commando? >> well, that's a very good question. the name was publicized, and that's unusual in mexico. because normally, the military soldiers, both navy and army that take part ofn these operations, their identities are kept secret. most wear black masks to hide their identities. when they were killed, the government has up until now released their names and honored them as fallen

guest: i have been in the navy a little over a year. the national -- natural progression was to try at the navy out. no regrets. deftly a unique experience. caller: i am a former marine. i have spent time in desert storm, and i know how it is. keep your heads up, keep god, your family, and your country. keep doing your job. we all love you and appreciate what you're doing, and thank you. guest: thank you. thank blake for his service, as well. merry christmas to him and his family. i have your mother on the line. cindy lee potter. mrs. potter, are you on the line? go ahead. caller: hello. we miss you, we love you. guest: i miss you guys, too. i am jealous of my friends back in hawaii right now. caller: hello. this is her father. her brother is with other family members in puget sound. we're wishing her the best of luck and to say safe. just be safe. we leviable -- we love you. host: thank you for that. meghan, go ahead with your final thoughts. guest: thank you. i want to thank everybody for your service. i hope to have a great christmas

thfamily of a navy commando was rdered in the gulf coast town of parais- spanish for "paradise"-- ian of reprisal. gunmen broke into the me of ensign melisedet angulo cÓrdova d gunned down his mother, brother, sisr and an aunt. just hours earlier, they had stood vigil as aulo was buried. he died duri the operation last week that killed arro beltran leyva, head ofne of mexico's large drug cartels. xican president felipe lderon condemned the murders yesterday. >> ( translated ): it also my duty tod to express my most sincere condolces to the family of melquisedet anguloto the navy of mexico, foa horrible attack perprated in the night. >>eporter: the attorney general of the southn mexican statof tabasco said today a group allied to the ltran- leyva cartel carried o the monday murrs. said it was warning to the military: your famies are now targets. his death, beltran leyva wa among the most powerful mexico's drug lord- the self- proclaimed "boss of sses". he had conlidated his position through utal warfare with other drug runners, and withhe mexican governnt. mexico's attornegeneral said

the navy seels are the united states navy's elite commandows and last week we learned that they have captured one of the most wanted terrorists in all of iraq. abed was behind the murder and mutilation of former blackwater u.s.a. security guards in fallujah in the year 2004. this ring leader of this ambush planned the murder of these four americans in fallujah. and these four blackwater security guards, what they were doing was transporting supplies from one place to another. so he had planned an ambush against these individuals. they are ambushed, they are murdered, the bodies of these four murdered americans were then dragged through the streets, burned and hung from a bridge in fallujah. mr. speaker, i've been to that very bridge in the year 2005 and you still have an eerie feeling knowing that four americans were hung there in public view. u.s. military, by the way, has put a plaque on that bridge in honor of those security guards. and so congratulations are in order to the navy s.e.a.l.s. who captured the mastermind behind this ambush and the murder of these four americans. we s

the taliban and the al qaeda came across, killed him, killed his partners and left him for dead. 16 navy s.e.a.l.s came in the

you know, when i went through navy s.e.a.l. training, i was taught in demolition, larry, that there is no dumb question. if you don't understand it, it's not dumb. that's how i've lived my life. i have a lot of questions that the government refuses to answer. >> larry: is the 9/11 story the first show this wednesday? >> no, it's not. the first show will be h.a.r.p. it's about an antenna grouping that we have up in alaska that's supposedly an unclassified research center. if it's unclassified, why wouldn't they let me in? >> larry: that's going to be something. jesse ventura's new show "conspiracy theory." >> clearly they're not being honest, larry. if it was unclassified, i could get in. >> larry: i get you. >> okay. >> larry: the new show debuts wednesday night on trutv. arianna huffington and ben stein will join the party. and they were invited, next. oh yes hi. can you put my grandma on the phone please? thanks. excuse me a sec. another person calling for her grandmother. she thinks it's her soup huh? i'm told she's in the g

todayhe navy us the area to store thballed warships. but over theast several years, many corrations like the cothing company urban outfitters have moved in. last weekhiladelphia's mayor michael nutter with pennsylvia governor ed rendell at hi side announced t opening of a solar panel plant at t navy yard. >> in years to come wh people think about clean energy and sola power ey're going to be thinking bout philadelphia and the philadelphia region. >> the mayor sunds like urban executives across the country wn he talks about 2009'sost politically stylish color green. >>s we look to the navy yard increasingly as a clean energy campus, this is a placehere whether yo have a gedor a ph.d or anything in between there is a jo opportunity foryou as a pat of our larger effort as greenworks, philadphia. >> suarez: hear that? everything between a ged a a ph.d. highly desirable, and tough to do. wh the emphasis on high te, the phs are in good shape. at the university city scnce center. >> it's getting reay cold tomorrow. >> suarez: morrow's inventis

the union navy was off the coast. if he could get to the coast the union navy would help supply his troops. in the meantime they would have to live off of the land. the land between atlanta and savannah. he worked this all out. he sent telegrams before she cut off the telegraph lines to the department of agriculture in washington asking for information on the produce of the farms between atlanta and savannah so he could find out if there was enough to go on and general grant said of him he bones all the time, boning meaning studies. he bones all the time. images, he did. he boned up the produce of georgia so he knew he could do this. then he arranged to send all the tricks he did not need particularly those in poor physical condition back north. he sent them to tennessee by the last trains he let go and he was left with 62,000 troops of which nearly 60,000 were infantry. the rest were calvary. then he arranged to have all the railway lines torn up and to make sure the state torn up between north and south, he had one

guest: i have been in the navy a little over a year. the national -- natural progression was to try at the navy out. no regrets. deftly a unique experience. caller: i am a former marine. i have spent time in desert storm, and i know how it is. keep your heads up, keep god, your family, and your country. keep doing your job. we all love you and appreciate what you're doing, and thank you. guest: thank you. thank blake for his service, as well. merry christmas to him and his family. i have your mother on the line. cindy lee potter. mrs. potter, are you on the line? go ahead. caller: hello. we miss you, we love you. guest: i miss you guys, too. i am jealous of my friends back in hawaii right now. caller: hello. this is her father. her brother is with other family members in puget sound. we're wishing her the best of luck and to say safe. just be safe. we leviable -- we love you. host: thank you for that. meghan, go ahead with your final thoughts. guest: thank you. i want to thank everybody for your service. i hope to have a great christmas

the best was the navy by far.have to go there to get promoted, but it was for somewhere -- you did not have to go there to get promoted, but it was for someç reason the premir of 1988. well, fast-forward to today as the war colleges -- have they fulfilled their main purpose in life? what is the main purpose? well, cousin and snyder mentioned it. it is to create strategists, strategic thinkers. everybody graduates from your school -- everyoneç who graduas from the school will not be a strategic thinker, but they will understand it, hopefully. but i also think that there should be a great deal of rigor. they should study every bit as hard as i did in law school, and of course being a product of the law school, and the case method, i think that might not be a bad idea for battles, campaigns, conflicts, to be studied on a case-by-case basis, and hopefully you do at least some of that. but i question whether you are turning out the strategists, and whether theyç are being recognized and taking care of and put in the

we have three navy s.e.a.l.s on trial right now. how do you say to these troops sent on a mission to kill an al qaeda leader? should they have killed the three people? should they have killed them on the spot so they wouldn't alert the enemy they were going over the hill? would they have been court-martialed by the united states? here we are court-martialing three guys who in operation amber attacked one of the leaders and arrested him, turned him over to the iraqi military. they said they smackeded him in the mouth. and you're court-martialing. it makes no sense. you're the general in charge and you're the ambassador. i talked to the chairman of the joint chiefs and i don't understand why somebody would say this is baloney. >> ambassador watson is recognized for five minutes. >> i want to thank our two witnesses for the service to our country. and the image that you serve to fill abroad. i want to thank you for your experience and wish you well. now, my question goes to the africa africans. in the eight years that we've been involv

he tried to give it to the union navy and giddy and said no the secretary of the navy. he was a little prickly. nobody thought the war would last that long. never going to have this expensive ship it's going to be a white elephant for the navy. he said no so vanderbilt ended up being forced actually against his will to lease it for large sums to the department. >> host: teaching styles on his book the first tycoon and by the way you can go to the book tv website, booktv.org and search defense. you will find all kind of video including that want to take a look at what online. you're favorite best non-fiction book of 2009 year raised dennis in bloomfield hills, michigan. go ahead. >> merry christmas, sir. >> thank you. >> caller: there's a lot of great nonfiction books that cannot and of a book about dred scott. the best this year was and the fed by dr. ron paul. we heard discussion back-and-forth about liberty and that sort of thing on the two parties but i think dr. paul kneal did in terms of the linchpin that's caused so many problems in the federal reserve system. it

stone, united states navy retired, recently passed away. as a result, we are a lesser nation. he was a proud son of illinois not the commonwealth of pennsylvania. my state. but i am compelled to see that the achievements of this remarkable man are forever captured in the record of our proceedings because david stone was my shipmate. regraduated from the united states naval academy in 1974 and served as surface warfare officers for nearly three decades. in the course of those years, i witnessed dave stone consistently offer our nation all of his enormous talent and energy. at the academy, he led navy's basketball team with an unmatched passion and competitive spirit. upon commission as an ensign he went to sea with a work ethic and selflessness that characterized the very best of the graduates of annapolis. with a total commitment to the personal and professional excellence. he never forgot the importance of a sailor's family and he put in countless hours tending to the concerns of a parents, wives, and children who sacrifice so much in offering the loved ones to the naval serv

it is an opportunity for us as the house of representatives to congratulate the navy and the sailors of our ballistic submarine fleet upon the completion of 1,000 missions, that's 1,000 missions of deterrent in protecting our nation. this silent service, the ohio class submarines, the highest of technology, the greatest of sailors and the most stealthy of operations have been in service protecting our nation since the first crews of the u.s.s. ohio in 1982. this is not an easy service. only 5% of all our sailors are qualified to serve in our ballistic submarine fleet. the highest of technology and the advancements that we have seen as a nation are represented in this classification of service also. oftentimes our sailors are on duty for 77 or more straight days, and they come back then to work 35 days of maintenance. it puts a tremendous burden upon them, but once again, these are the highest qualified of individuals that you can find because when they're on the ship they have to have the knowledge of the technology to the most minute of details to be able to service the ship as need

we have three navy s.e.a.l.s on trial right now. how do you say to these troops sent on a mission to kill an al qaeda leader? should they have killed the three people? should they have killed them on the spot so they wouldn't alert the enemy they were going over the hill? would they have been court-martialed by the united states? here we are court-martialing three guys who in operation amber they said they smacked him in the mouth and hit him in the stomach and they are court- martialing him. it makes no sense. you are the general in charge and you are the ambassador. i just do not understand why somebody does not say this is baloney. >> the generagentle lady from california. >> i want to thank our to witnesses for their service to their country and the image that you serve to fuel a broad. i want to thank you for your experience and wish you well. my question goes to the afrikanns. in the eight years we have been involved in war, what is it that is lacking in their government and their experience in their commitment to their own wh

his condors was completely inappropriate and that's the letter that he wrote to his secretary of the navy, robert smith, where he denied all the other allegations including the sally rumors but admitted in that letter to the walker affair that he behavior badly. so that was known as the walker a fair and he ended that. he was young, he was rejected in he knew that he acted inappropriately. yes, ma'am. >> at the end of the day, how much do you think these rumors have actually hurts good jefferson legacy, both release certainly but also how much was he really hurt when he was alive? >> well, obviously he wasn't hurt when he was alive because he was reelected after the 1802 calendar -- callender article. >> so he was elected twice. and i often get asked that question, what does it really matter to his legacy. and i think the loan was the best line about that -- you cannot -- you can never not -- not thomas jefferson off his pedestal but you can scribble graffiti on the statute. and i am here and hopefully my book is here to embrace the graffiti. if you know, i had one young lady asked me whi

it is in the marine budget, but it was in the navy budget.pushed it, and with the pennsylvania and the texas delegation and the report of president clinton, they kept it alive. it was called the tillt-rotor caucus, because it takes off like a helicopter and flies like a plane. president clinton kept it going, then president bush, and now it is in president obama's budget. host: arlene, good morning. caller: i cannot believe what i am hearing now. you are talking about sacrifice? i mean, americans overwhelmingly do not support these wars. i do not know what world you live in, but this country is broken. we are on our knees, in debt up to our next to china. our infrastructure is crumbling. i have been wondering, this health care bill has gone from lukewarm to awful, how long it will be before the president slaps a war tax on. it is nice to see it is in the cards now. when are we going to admit that we cannot keep waving a flag and screaming about loving jesus? we are in real trouble in the world. guest: there are elected representatives -- let'

course, increasing the urgent operational parts that are necessary for our airports as well as our navy and army. i think what he looks at the record of enhanced expenditure and investment in our armed forces, both in scotland and in the rest of the united kingdom, he would know that the government is doing its job. [inaudible] can i ask them also to support about -- >> mr. speaker, it's very strange that the conservative party automatically almost without thinking about it came out against the global financial transaction tax. is now being discussed in all countries in europe that it is being investigated by the international monetary fund. the european union are going to do a report on it as certain people around the world who are esteemed in the academic profession as economies are supporting this. they are interested in one form of tax, and that is the tax avoidance. it's about time, it's about time, it's about time we heard, it's about time we heard whether the deputy chairman of the conservative party after 10 years has honored his promise to pay tax in the united kingdom. >> mr.

he tried to give to the union navy and he said no. and the secretary of the navy said no. he was a little and he didn't link it would last that long. and so vanderbilt ended up being forced actually against as well to lease it for very large sums to the work party. post go tj stiles on his book, the first tycoon. and by the way it will the waco turpitude websites booktv.org and search events. you'll find all kinds of video including that want to take a look. your favorite best nonfiction book of 2009. here's dennis in bloomfield hills, michigan. go ahead. >> caller: merry christmas, sir. there are lot of rate books that came out and i think the very best this year was and the fed by duron paul and at first was a discussion back and forth about the liberty and that sort of thing. but i think that dr. paul nailed it when it was calling so many problems. it's just a wonderful book, very well written. in his humanity comes through now which i recommend it. i wish a merry christmas to you and all the listeners. post go and we covered congressman ron paul talking about this book

we're concerned about the prosecution of the three navy s.e.a.l.s. a lot of people contacted us.they don't think the military is standing behind the young men and women in uniform. they don't think because some terrorist got punched out they should be subjected to a court-martial taking place in this country. i would like the assurance of both of you that if there's no clarity on this we will have clarity, especially in light of the fact that the secretary of state is expressing regret that we're not a party to the rome agreement. ambassador, both of you, are you on record as saying that you're absolutely opposed under any circumstances to men and women in uniform being arrested anywhere in the world and tried before the icc court as a result of their actions in either iraq or afghanistan? >>> congressman, yes. and we will get back with you on the -- we'll get back with you for the record on the very specifics you're talking about. >> general, your answer would be yes also? >> same position, congressman. >> thank you. i yield back. >> time for the gentleman has expired. mr. klein

back in the end of the 19, beginning of the 20th century, much of the export was done by the army and navy, so just across the road here, we have adolphus w. greeley which was a great explores. he went farther north than anybody had been at that time. just down this road is the grave of john wesley powell, who explored the colorado river. he had one arm at the time. he had lost his arm at shiloh in the civil war, but he went on to be a great explores. and two other great things. u.s. geological survey. and another part of arlington just over the hill, the arctic explorers robert peary and his associate, matthew hans who claimed to reach the north pole in 1909. they are here. so the point is arlington is more than just a military cemetery. it is a place for explorers, figures from history, and many other things. >> well, we're on the hill overlooking the city here. what is this tomb on the mound here overlooking the city? >> this is the tomb of a frenchman who served in the american revolution. he stayed on. he was commissioned to design the city of washington. so he came here in 1891, 1892

i took over the anti-terrorism unit for the navy. i have access to much material. while the interagency did not coordinate information -- i believe what occurred was not orchestrated at 9/11. i strongly believe that. the change that 9/11 brought about -- before 9/11 we like our wars over there. with 9/11, we could be damaged at home. i think the president has taken that into account. it is not about right or left. he's making this decision here regardless of political consequences, but is right for this nation. i did not agree with that in iraq because we brought al-qaeda from iraq. i believe that the leaders of the damage us is there and we must eradicate the threat. host: our next call for rep joe sestak. mark supports the president. caller: good morning. let me commend c-span for not putting party lines. on the president's decision, i'm sure he got a real long and hard. his party is questioning him now, but i do think he made the right decision. i know he opposed the war in iraq, but we are still in iraq. we are still maintaining stability. the only thing that b

officials who worked with him said he was a professional and loved his country, yes, a navy man and theicials of the president of the cargo security alliance said that he was front and center on this work. madam speaker, his contributions were immeasurable. he is a great american hero. i pay tribute to this distinguished american edward joseph kelly iii and may you rest in peace. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from florida rise? ms. brown-waite: revise and extend. it is a darn good thing that the credit reporting agencies don't factor in each american's share of the national debt when they calculate an individual's credit scores. if the agencies did, there would be a few eligible borrowers who couldn't get a mortgage or a car loan, think about that. i wonder why they don't include the national debt. perhaps no one seems to think it's real. madam speaker, it is real. last year, america spent $250 billion in interest, payments alone, $250 billion. that's $250 billion a year we cannot invest in america's future. yet, in spite of the situation, congress is pr

i served 11 years in the navy probably. on navy scholarships. stand before you as a devout muslim. most importantly i stand before you as an american. [applause] while i don't have a personal family member that lost their life or sacrificed on 9/11 or on 11/5 at the massacre in texas, i'd share deep feelings with all of them, especially the last 13. they attacked the very ideal of who we are as a country of liberty. these barbarians seek to destroy our country that my family came from syria that to their muslim land would not give them. like all americans on 9/11, my heart sank for the loss of our countrymen, the men and women that gave my family of a god- given right to practice their faith freely here like no so- called muslim nation would do. it was at the hands of muslims this was done, each time i heard that i felt a greater responsibility to act. i promise you, most american muslims, despite relative silence, do feel the burden to claim back our face from these extremists, the vehicle and theological ideology, radical islamism. they are at

that's certainly the case when it comes to army and navy. the two academies will meet for the 110th time in philadelphia. after all we're talking about soldiers that will defend our country. for the first time in years, navy dominance over army will be put to the test. they have locked up a spot in the texas bowl against missouri. the black nights are playing for a chance to play in the eagle bank bowl here in dc so the midding understand that army will have some extra motivation when they take the field tomorrow. >> obviously they got a lot to play for but for us it's army. we want to beat them if they are 12 and 0 or 0 and 12. we are playing for a bowl game or no bowl game. they are rivals. we look forward to this game every year, they do the same thing and it's army week. >> the intensity is high and emotions are high. you just try not to let them get the best of it because it's easy. coaches give you an example. some guys, they forget their own names and stuff. so hopefully that won't happen to me because i got shots to stay calm and sta

a large steamship's and given to the union navy. they said no. he was prickly. they never thought the war would last that long. the ship was expensive. so he ended up being forced against his will to lease it for large sums to the war department. host: t.j. stiles. you confine all kinds of video on our website. your favor nonfiction book of 2009. here is dennis in michigan. caller: merry christmas. there are a lot of nonfiction books the came out. i think the very best this year was "end the debt." or heard discussion about the different parties but i think he melted. this caused so many problems. -- i think heat nailed it. it is a wonderful book. i would highly recommended. and mary christmas to you and all the publicity. host: recovered wrong cawe covel talking about his book. " there were discussions with alan greenspan. i tell the story about the time and most of you would know the story. alan greenspan was get a supporter of a little group of people in the 1960's. he wrote a fantastic article about how bad the debt was and how bad the central bank was and w

we've got these three navy seals on trial right now. how do you say to these troops who are sent on a mission out there to kill an al-qaeda leader, what they should do. should they have killed those three people? should they have shot them right on the spot so they wouldn't alert the enemy that they were coming over the hill? if they had would they have gone to the international court? would they have been court martialed in the united states and we are court martialing three kids who in operation amber attacked one of the leaders and arrested him. turned him over to the iraqi military. they turned him back over. they said he smacked him in the mouth and they hit him in the stomach and you are court martialing. it makes no sense and you're the general in charge and you're the ambassador over there and i talked to the chairman of the joint chiefs the other day. i just do not understand why somebody doesn't say, this is baloney. >> the time of the gentleman is expired. the gentlelady from california, ambassador watson is recognized for 5

in 1893 the american ambassador to the country of hawaii ordered the united states marines off the navyhip. they marched into downtown honolulu. they surrounded the palace and invited the queen to leave. the first example of american regime change. when i went there in 2005 it was than that i realized why in 1905 when the americans on this imperial cruise sale than to honolulu harbor, novated hawiians came to greet them. you can imagine my surprise when i was out there in china. i am walking the streets of china and a stumble upon, i stumble upon the origins of the fortune that supported the life of franklin delano roosevelt. with a name like roosevelt i thought he had inherited roosevelt money but i learned that franklin delano roosevelt's father was a farmer up in the hudson, well off but not wealthy, not wealthy enough to support the lifestyle of franklin delano roosevelt, a town houses in manhattan and yachts and whatever. where did this money come from? i learned in china of that it was the delano fortune that supported franklin delano roosevelt who. the dylan of fortune that was m

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we do not want to minimize the navy's concern about these type things.but we fly carriers on and off the deck. they have the vertical thrust. -- we'd like harriers on and off the deck. they have the vertical price. we think all those things can be fixed in time. >> any indication that they are allowing you to put your ospreys and joint strike fighters -- >> i think that it wants to put the ospreys and joint strike fighter jock aboard ship. collectively for those reasons and others, we're going to find a way to get it done. >> prime minister hatoyama said that he will put off the decision on the futenma this issue until next year. can you tell me how does that affect on moving marines from okinawa to guam? >> the fax said there. we have a new japanese government that is looking at all the treaty or rape -- agreements and obligations of the proceeding government. in this case, with regard to this treaty, we what -- we await their formal notification. we hear about all kinds of churn. there are reports coming out of japan and okinawa about this minister or

. >> you were in the navy. i was in the navy, yes. and my experience as a practicing lawyer have had an impact on the work i've done. there are an awful lot of things that combined affect your view of the law. >> when you're sitting up on the bench looking out at the court during an oral argument, what do you think up there? what do you see that we don't see? >> one thing i often remember is the first time i argued before the court i was really surprised at how close i was to the justices and i think to myself sometimes, he is thinking the same thing. he didn't expect to be quite as close, to have quite an intimate experience as it really is. you are right in a conversation with the people on the other side of the bench and it's a very interesting experience. >> have you been here long enough for the bench itself was straight? >> no. it was -- warren burger made that change a year or two before i got here so since i've been a justice it's always been with the angle on the two sides. but when i was a law clerk it was a straight bench.

corpsmen bradley won a navy cross for his heroism on iwo jima and his son james who will be with us hear tonight learned about his father's heroism and wrote the best-selling book flag of our fathers that was made into a movie by clint eastwood. he also wrote a book titled flyways about marine pilots shot down during world war ii and he is here tonight to talk but his newest book, the imperial cruise about president teddy roosevelt's diplomatic mission to send his secretary of four common william taft to the pacific to negotiate agreements for the united states and the diplomatic missions failed from san francisco july 5, 1905 and the book describes in some detail that it was so revealing and i would say disturbing. the book has been labeled by "the new york times" as one of the 10 best of 2009. roi no he will enjoy a his talk tonight and reading his book can he will be available after the program. please join me in welcoming mr. james bradley. [applause]

is harry humphries, counterterrorism expert and founder of the global studies group and former navy s.e.a.lin new york harvey custom ner. finally in washington jack rice. now is a practicing toernl and journalist as well. janet napolitano was interviewed earlier on cnn's "state of the union." this was her bottom line. watch. >> one thing i'd like to point out is that the system worked. everybody played an important role here. the passengers and crew of the flight took appropriate action. within literally an hour to 90 minutes of the incident occurring, all 128 flights in the air had been notified to take some special measures in a lot of what had occurred on the northwest airlines flight. we instituted new measures on the ground and at screening areas both here in the united states and in europe where this flight originated. so the whole process of making sure that we respond properly, correctly and effectually went very smoothly. >> larry: tom, has she been taken out of context a little here? >> well, i think possibly, larry. you know, she's referring to what happened after the individual

here in los angeles harry humphreys, founder and president of the global studies group and former navyl. peter bergen, what is the suspect's al qaeda connection? >> he received the device in yemen. the second most important place in the world for al qaeda. substantial al qaeda presence there. al qaeda in the arabian peninsula is the name of the group. we have seen a connection to yemen in the ft. hood shooting with the cleric who went on al jazeera recently to explain that major hasan the lead suspect in the ft. hood shooting had asked him if it was okay to kill fellow soldiers. so we have seen yemen is sort of a hot bed of militancy. >> larry: frances, he is claiming ties to al qaeda and talking a lot. what do you make of that? >> that he is talking about is good. what investigators can corroborate. the terrorist ties back to yemen are extensive and long between al qaeda's affiliation with operatives there. our consulate in saudi arabia was attacked and recently the head of the internal security service in saudi arabia, there was an assassination attempt against him emanating out of y

wilson is a former navy flight surgeon. in fact, we serve in the same area of operations in the 1960's. we didn't know each other, but were the same area. as soon as we found that i knew we were in good hands. well, no one knows america's health care system better than doctors. they know the predicament of tens of millions of americans without health insurance is injuries and diseases go without proper treatment. they know the predicament of patients who have coverage, but their health insurance company refuses to pay for procedures or they canceled the policy after they get sick. they know the lives and money that could be saved if we invest in more generously and wellness and disease prevention and i thank you dr. wilson for pointing that out. so i welcome the support of the american medical association, america's doctors have sized up our broken health care system and their prescriptions for a care is to pass the patient protection and affordable care act. specifically, with regard to doctors i want to emphasize that thi

it is in the navy budget.f course, marine corps is in the navy department and in itself would not have the and the marines posted and with the pennsylvania and texas delegation and the support of president clinton's the kept it alive. in fact, what they set up was of the tilt rotor caucus -- it takes off like a helicopter and flies like a plane. it was republicans and democrats and president clinton kept going and president bush kept it going and now it is in president obama's budget. host: clearwater, florida, arlene. caller: i can't believe what i am hearing. you are talking about sacrifice? americans overwhelmingly don't support these wars. i don't know what world you live in but this country is broken. we are on our knees, in debt up to our necks in china and our infrastructure is crumbling. i have been wondering, of this health-care bill has gone from lukewarm to awful, a long it will be president will talk about slapping import tax on us and i see it is in the cards. where are we -- when are we going to

i serve in the navy probably on a navy scholarship. -- proudly on a navy scholarship. also stand before you as a devout muslim. but most importantly, i stand before you as an american. while i do not have the name of a personal family member that lost their lives and gave the ultimate sacrifice on 9/11 or on 11/5 at the massacre in fort hood, i share a deep kinship with all of them, especially the last 13. it is the ideals they attacked -- they attack our nation and they attack the very ideals of who we are as a country of liberty. these barbarians seek to destroy my country my family came from -- syria. that their country is so-called muslim land would not give them. like all americans, none/11, i heart sank -- on 9/11, my heart sank. the -- a country that gave my family the god-given right to practice their faith like no so- called muslim nation would do. each time i learned it was at the hands of muslims that this was done, i felt a greater responsibility to act. because only muslims can defeat this existential threat. and i promise you, i promise you most american

and what are we still having basis, army bases and navy bases and all of these military bases all overn, we need to close them all down and burned all our troops home -- bring all of our troops home and let these other countries to fend for themselves. they want a democracy, let them spend money and let them for their own democracies -- format their own democracies. guest: we are kind of darned if we do and if we don't. there is the ron paul school of lathought that maybe we should e more isolationist and just say we really don't care what you do to each other, but if you do it was, we will come over there and blow you away. i am not trying to over-simplify ron paul's view, but there is a growing discussion about that and it is not a bad discussion to have at all. but i will say that when you disengage with the country, as we did with afghanistan in 1989, what happened? but taliban came in. russia destroyed the existing minority there. when that happens, al qaeda found fertile ground to recruit and train and so forth. what i have to afghanistan, what they said to us is, "are you going

by the way, we have sent over 7000 of these christmas cards to soldiers, airmen, marines, navy personnelho were actually in afghanistan and in iraq. they will have them for christmas. we apartment with a nonprofit company called operation gratitude who puts together care packages for service members. we get thousands of cars here and the schools that brought these cards today include amin elementary school in fort worth, texas, and arundel schools in maryland. schools in bedford, texas, crossroads academy, in elizabethtown, ky, the elcajon high school in california, rural retreat middle school in virginia, and the gratuitous school in kingsville, texas, the south euless middle school in texas. i am going to be one of these cards and i will invite the others to read them as well. here is a nice car from some kids in texas, actually">> happy holidays, that you were working our for our country, we appreciate and you'll be in our hearts this season. i drew an octopus for you because i love them and i am not good at drawing anything else." at this time we will have major general mccaig read h

navy spot so hard to preserve all these years. i don't wear a uniform, i don't wear a uniform, that with every last breath in this body of mine and with all of you and all the people across the country today who could not be here, we continue to stand vigilant. we must continue this work from the moment this rally ends to the office is over there to the people who say they care about they care about the children in one breath and have no trouble spending taxpayers money to abort their babies and the next. that is the message we must send. and to all of these senior citizens here today, i say this. you work hard your entire life and you were promised that you would be cared for in this medicare system. those people who said they said with you are lying all along. they had to be if they vote for this. i am proud to stand with you today and i am saying and great respect closing with this, first they came for the rich and i did not speak out because i was not rich. and then they confiscated the property owners and i did not speak out

i had said no and my assistant said that the secretary of the navy was on the line.i thought i was born to get chewed out -- going to get chewed out. he told me that he understood that i decided against taking big case before the supreme court. he said that they appreciated the attention that i devoted to working at through and to thank you very much. i felt a chill. the office of solicitor general was held in high regard by the federal government. >> the most unpleasant and difficult, by far, in my experience, was conflict. conflict within the justice department. every administration, regardless of who the president is has a schizophrenic elements. i read this in a book where the author talked about the federal laws and police in the office of legal counsel -- the federalism police in the office of legal counsel. you find yourself in the solicitor general's office being more of an echo of john marshall then you do of john c. calhoun. you believe in the national economic union and our federal system. my personal one came in very early. after studying a position, a pa

here in los angeles harry humphreys, founder and president of the global studies group and former navy s.e.a.l. peter bergen, what is the yemen connection? >> well, by the suspect's own account, he received the device in yemen. yemen is probably arguably the second most important place in the world right now for al qaeda, substantial al qaeda presence there. al qaeda in the arabian peninsula is the name of the group. we've seen a connection to yemen in the ft. hood shooting with the cleric who went on al jazeera recently to explain that major hasan the lead suspect in the ft. hood shooting had asked him if it was okay to kill fellow soldiers. so we've seen that yemen is sort of a hotbed of militancy. >> larry: frances, apparently the suspect is claiming ties to al qaeda and talking a lot. what do you make of that? >> well, that he's talking a lot is good news. but the real test will be, what can vergts and intelligence official corroborate? as peter mentions, the terrorist ties back to yemen are extensive and long between al qaeda's affiliation with operatives there. remember, larry, o

we just recently found the navy and marine corps. basically we have to go through entire spools of every x-ray that was done at a hospital to find that one person you want. so this is, we are working on it, but we are getting all the x-rays in. i had one photographer working on it. i now have a team of four photographers capturing these x-rays digitally. after that is done -- and they are doing that on two shifts right now. after that is done, instead of having a ph.d. outline the bones on the x-ray, i'm going to like to see if maybe a draftsman for a master's level person to work on that's so that we can accelerate that. so it started out with a process that would take four years. we have now shrunk it to two years, and i am trying very hard to try to compress it to one year by watching how they do their work, keep adding extra things they think will make them go faster. because ig at the when we are done we one we will have come aa mean that it is accepted by the forensic science community we will have a fabulous identification pro

one person that i really follow is the pilot, he has been spotted -- he was spot indeed 2005 near a navy base out in kern county two times and at least he's been spotted over the border in canada and in mexico, and he speaks spanish and looks american, because he was born in america. do you know anything about what is going on or where his whereabouts are? >> i can't speak to this particular individual, but i can certainly talk to the larger point that you're making, and that is that citizens ultimately have to be the eyes and ears and -- -- guest: our law enforcement authorities have to be right every day 24-7 and that's a huge task. we have tens of thousands of police officers, f.b.i. agents, but still not enough to police a country of 300 million people with a huge number of targets. so the average citizen campaigning in new york city and washington, d.c., if you see something, say something. if you see something suspicious, it's your obligation to report it to authorities. host: next up, mastercard. steven on our line for independents, go ahead. >> i just want to say how can you, i u

war on dg cartels: the killing of a key drug lord-- arto beltran leyva in ahootout with a mexican navy unit. but the mexican war onrugs has en an uphill struggle, with tens of thousands of casuaies, and illegal drugs still flowg, escially in the state of siloa. that is where global pt correspondent yone geyo just returned from a mission wi the mexican army. "global post" is an international news web sit here's his report. >> reporter: dp in the sierra madre mountains. this beautiful lancape in north west mexichides one of the world's biggt drug prucing areas-- the so-called golden triangl a rare opportunity, we join the 94th batlion to see its work fighting drug cartelsere. ttaliocommander general solorzo says it is the only force eqpped for this job. as we fly low, solers watch for cartel snipers, who ha targetedrmy helicopters with machine guns and even cket propelled enades. the soldiers havlocated a marijuana field, whi sticks out because of theright green leaves of the plants. we touch dn and head to the crop. the oops are constantly on guard for enemy fi. in the last 18 month car