map to show north america and south merriman unambiguously surrounded by water, not as an undefined place not identified at all. because, it shows north and south america surrounded by water it is the first map to suggest the existence of the pacific ocean and this is something of a mystery because europeans aren't supposed to have known about the pacific ocean until 1513 when balboa caught sight of it from the mountain. and it is not something i dwell on on the book because i felt the mystery is more fun to leave as a mystery than try to resolve. but it is a great part of the story and not the only part of the story. there is more that is very very, significant about the map. look at africa, this is one of the first printed maps to show the full coastlines of africa. africa and -- had only been circumnavigated in 1497 by the portuguese and the frame at the bottom of the map is broken and it would have been easy to push the frame down a little bit. i think the point is clear, it is a break with tradition, new knowledge and is exciting, possibly to a lot of you more exciting than the

this is really the first map to show north and south america unambiguously surrounded by water, not as some undefined part of asia or some undefined place that really is now identified at all. because it shows north and south america surrounded by water is the first map to show the existence of the pacific ocean and this is something of a mystery because europeans are not supposed with known about the pacific ocean until 1513 when balboa caught sight of it from a mountaintop. so that is something that brings a lot of people back to the map and something peter has written about extensively. is not something i could go on a whole lot in the book because i felt the mystery is almost more fun to leave as a mystery than to try to resolve but it is a great part of the story. it is not the only part of the story. there is more that is very significant about the map. if you look at africa for example this is one of the very first printed maps to show the full coastlines of africa. africa had only been circumnavigated by the portuguese fully in 1947, and maps were only beginning to show all of

host: 200,000 employees worldwide, 71,000 employed in north america. that translates to about 90 plants worldwide. we also read in the "wall street journal" that ford is to begin hiring at new, lower wages. guest: basically, we have a contract with the uaw. we are building a new vehicle in chicago, new people coming into the company. the idea to be competitive is to build things in the u.s., to build them well, otherwise, it will threaten manufacturing. the big story is we will be building a new vehicle in chicago. host: do you see a lot more jobs coming in the future? guest: right now, we need to protect the jobs that we have. we are working on our plan for the next few years, but it is always about being competitive. that is something we are striving to stay on top of. host: first phone call for susan cischke th. caller: my question has to do with the economics. it seems there is too much focus on the price of gas and not enough on the actual cost of the car. i would like to make a suggestion to all the companies. come off with a single seater commut

north america isn't the only continucontinent shivering toni, mark phillips in london faces the temperature of an icebound europe. >> reporter: britain's fabled green and pleasant land is white and cold, the space shot confirms something everybody on the ground knows. britain and the rest of europe are enduring the longest, deepest cold small in three decades and forecasters say temperatures may stay well below freezing for weeks to come. >> the cold and snow have severely disrupted transportation, just today in frankfurt, more than 200 flights were canceled, adding to the hundreds of others that have been canceled each day across the continent, stranding tens of thousands of passengers. >> but more snow is forecast, and more snow is left to compress into ice, even movement on foot becomes a game of chance. >> hostile admissions for fractured bones are up by a third at places. he went straight underneath me and hit my head on the wall and twisted my ankle. >> reporter: the intense and persistent cold has spread services and fears that natural gas reserves may run out. the british government

this is the first map to show north and south america unambiguously surrounded by water. not at some undefined part of asia, or just some undefined place that isn't identified at all. because it shows north and south america surrounded by water, it's really the first map to suggest the existence of the pacific ocean. this is something of mr. guith europeans are supposed to know about the pacific ocean and mountaintop.alboa caught sight so that's something that brings a lot of people back to the map, something that peter has written about extensively. it's not something i'd will on a whole lot in the book because i felt the ministry is almost more fun to leave as a try to resolve the. but it's a great part o story. there's more that is very, very significant about the map. if you look at africa, for example, this is one of their first printed maps of africa that showed a full coastline. africa had 11 circumnavigated by the portuguese pulled in 1497. maps are only beginning to show all of it. the frame at the bottom of the map is broken. it would have been easy to push the f

host: 200,000 employees worldwide, 71,000 employed in north america. that translates to about 90 plants worldwide. we also read in the "wall street journal" that ford is to begin hiring at new, lower wages. guest: basically, we have a contract with the uaw. we are building a new vehicle in chicago, new people coming into the company. the idea to be competitive is to build things in the u.s., to build them well, otherwise, it will threaten manufacturing. the big story is we will be building a new vehicle in chicago. host: do you see a lot more jobs coming in the future? guest: right now, we need to protect the jobs that we have. we are working on our plan for the next few years, but it is always about being competitive. that is something we are striving to stay on top of. host: first phone call for susan cischke th. caller: my question has to do with the economics. it seems there is too much focus on the price of gas and not enough on the actual cost of the car. i would like to make a suggestion to all the companies. come off with a single seater commut

this is really the first map to show north and south america unambiguously surrounded by water. eally isn't identified at all. because it shows north and south america surrounded by water through the first not to suggest the existence of the pacific ocean and this is something of a mystery because europeans are supposed to note about the pacific ocean intel 1513, when balboa caught sight of it from the mountain top. so that's something that brings a lot of people back to the map and something that peter is written about extensively. it's not something that i dwell on it a lot in the book because i felt that the mystery is almost more fun to be missing the street and to try to resolve. but it's a great part of the story. it's not the only part of the story, though. there's more that is very, very significant about the map. if you look at africa, for example, this is one of very first printed box to show the full coastlines in africa. africa comics you think i have only been circumnavigated by the portuguese full and 1497 and maps from the beginning to show all this year the frame

if this is really the first map to show north and south america, unambiguously surrounded by water. ook because i felt the ministry is almost more fun to leave as industry than try to resolve. but it's a great part of the story. it's not the only part of the story. there's more that is very, very significant about the map. if you look at africa for example, this is one of the very first printed maps to show the full coastlines of africa. africa had only been circumnavigated a bit. the frame at the bottom of the map here is broken that it would have been easy just to push the frame down a little bit. i think the point is clear the break with tradition, this is new knowledge and it's exciting. people tend to forget that, but this is a great discovery because it means you can sail from europe around africa and into the indian ocean and beyond. even beyond that fact though is the fact that map shows the full 360 degrees longitude. it's one of the very first to do that as well. the map sprite to this one had tended to leave a certain portion of the globe unmapped, kind of implied on the b

the problem affects about 4.2 million vehicles in north america, europe and china. toyota is a newshour funder. three more americans have been killed in afghanistan. that makes 29 this month. a nato announcement today said the latest fatalities were two u.s. troops and one civilian. there were no details on how they died. six taliban fighters were killed in a seven-hour shootout in the southern city of lashkar gah. militants occupied a vacant building near an army barracks and machine-gunned government offices. it was similar to an assault in kabul two weeks ago. in britain today, former prime minister tony blair made his long-awaited appearance before a british commission investigating the iraq war. >> blair lied, thousands died. >> sreenivasan: blair had to avoid more than 150 protesters outside a london convention hall and chants of "jail tony!" and "blair lied, thousands died." but once he took his seat inside, blair defended his decision to have britain join the u.s. in the 2003 invasion of iraq. >> the primary consideration for me was to send an absolutely pow

morning at the victory temple in bowie, maryland, one of 400 redeemed christian churches of god in north america. today's sermon by pastor bayo adeyokunnu is about money. >> you must have a savings account, no matter how much you are making, and this can come through so many areas: money market, mutual funds, savings accounts, 401(k), amen. >> reporter: congregant theresa norton, a school teacher, used to attend a catholic church. she prefers this church's emphasis on the bible and on practical matters as well. >> i'm really making money because of what the pastor is always telling us. you know, even if you have your job that you're doing, you need to have something by the side. >> reporter: like all of the pastors of the redeemed church, pastor adeyokunnu has great ambitions for his church. >> our goal is to do everything possible to win souls for the kingdom of god. after they are won, then we teach them, we disciple them how to make a living, how to benefit the society, how to make a difference within their community. >> reporter: and the victory temple's goal is to grow. churches in this par

>>hyoungkeun in the developed market, like north america and europe, of course we faced decrease of our sales. but its far less than the industry volume decrease. that helped us. for example, in the us, by the end of may, our sales decreased only 4%. >>the new us site will give kia a foothold in the american market. plus unsurprisingly the state offered millions of dollars in incentives; lots of available land; and strong transport links....including- a railway line. it used to haul cotton - and now it will haul cars. >>martin: west point georgia used to be a textile town, but the last of the textile manufacturers - like the one behind me - have all closed their doors and moved on. at first people here said that they were victims of globalization. but now, with the new kia plant in the works, they say that globalization has come full circle. >>both kia and west point representatives say that people who were trained to work in west points now defunct textile factories can now use those skills to work on the auto assembly line. >> hyoungkeun: senior exec vp, kia motors corporation the glo

and the community enu.community north america and europe are as much a part of this uprising. >> i want to be a conversation here. i happen to figure -- this is one of the most important stories of our time if there is a democracy if ahmadinejad is taken out of power. before we go and talk a little bit, do you think ahmadinejad will be taken out of power if you believe he's a puppet, he's between khomeini and mir hossein mousavi, in the middle but really has no power? >> from the beginning he has not been a player, particularly over the last three months. he's no longer a figure. your concentration, the world attention on this issue is absolutely extraordinary and necessary. because the very unique phenomenon, don, is a nonviolent civil rights movement in the context of a very violent context and the implication of this, given the demographic aspect of this movement, 80% of the population is under the age of 40. 50% of it is under the age of 25. the reason that it has this global resonance is precisely that you have a nonviolent civil rights uprising, mostly charged by young people. >>

i have rights to north america, primarily the great lakes. two things that i'm challenged by -- i'm having a very difficult time raising money. i'm not asking for a handout. all i'm asking is loan me the money; i'll account for it, every dollar, i'll pay it back. secondly -- and i'm willing to risk millions -- 99 percent of my net worth. the second thing is that ge has a patent -- and i believe in patents. i listened to this gentleman back here, and i can truly appreciate what he's going through. but in this instance, ge inherited this patent from enron, and it's created a wall so that they won't let people come in and build turbines in the united states. now, the patent is going to expire very soon. but now they're calling it a royalty but it's really a gate to keep people out. is there any programs -- i've talked to governor strickland, i've talked to sherrod brown, i've talked to lee fisher. this company was identified by the city of akron and donald plusquellic's visionary leadership down in akron. but i want to bring this to the united s

so any road graters that are going to be made in north america will have a north little rock, we hope, tag on them -- at least that's going to be constructed. i say all that to say this, that in the future of our country, we're going to have a census next year and we're about 307, 308 million people and by the middle of the century it looks like we may be pushing somewhere in the neighborhood of half a million folks. well, our transportation system won't handle it. we've got to do things that are different. the obama administration -- we're excited about the innovation that it's looking at in terms of reprioritizing some of the funding that has gone on the past. i'm also chairman of the mayors amtrak advisory council and rail has been my passion for a long time. we have got to look at choices for the future. we have got to look at the investments and how they're going to give us our biggest return on our buck. and right now i think many of us believe around the country and the conference the mayors have been carrying this energy for a long time in terms of investment in rail. the $8 b

think they're saying that the july 1982 or june 12, 1982 disjunction icon gave the largest in north americaever. did we have an impact on those events? >> well, i think he did in a way that would surprise you. one of the things i urge you to do is get a copy of reagan's diaries and read them carefully because one of the things that reagan didn't tell us at the time and didn't tell me. it was a white house correspondent for the "washington post." i didn't fully appreciate that they become in his own mind a bit of a nuclear abolitionist. he was out there in central park with you. my favorite anecdote about this where really came through occurred in 1986. he gave gorbachev a big speech in moscow in january of 1986 calling for the elimination of all nuclear weapons with daytime schedule in charge and are reproduced as in the book. i found this in katayev's files. the speech was immediately transmitted, sent back to washington, translated for reagan and secretary schultz got in his car to race over to the white house to give the presence and guidance about what to think about it. and when he got

the auto maker will shut down production in five plants in north america for a week in february to addresshe problem. for the record, toyota is a newshour funder. the newshour is always online. the newshour is always online. hari sreenivasan, in our newsroom, previews what's there. hari. >> sreenivasan: we have an update on venezuelan president hugo chavez's moves to jump- start the economy by devaluing the currency. that comes from michael shifter of the inter-american dialogue. the start of a series of viewpoints on climate change legislation. judy woodruff begins with peter molinaro of dow chemical company, with more conversations to follow. and get ready to respond to the president's state of the union message tomorrow night. find out how you can submit your own reaction videos to our youtube channel, and your comments to our blog. all that and more is on our web site, newshour.pbs.org. gwen. >> ifill: and that's the newshour for tonight. i'm gwen ifill. >> woodruff: and i'm judy woodruff. we'll see you online, and again here tomorrow evening. thank you and good night. major funding fo

north america president calls it the wave of the future. >> you don't have to go to a car that you find inside of a cereal box sizewise here to get the fuel economy and fund to drive and the safety and all that stuff. we're doing that. >> reporter: over at toyota there's the concept of scale- down version of the prius. toyota isn't sure if it will build the car but if it does the company said it will be more fuel efficient and less expensive than the prius. the tiny hybrid could capture less affluent buyers. >> there are consumers telling us they would like a vehicle a little bit more compact, more in line with a corolla-sized vehicle versus prius which is similar to a camry size vehicle. >> reporter: this dramaticdown sizing reflects an industry and an economy struggling to recover from one of the worst recessions in three decades. two u.s. auto companies, g.m. and chrysler, went bankrupt last year. and it needed a bailout from washington. that brought government leaders like house speaker nancy pelosi to the show floor to see what the industry is trying to do to turn itself around. ev

market opportunities are obviously large in north america, but there is a lot of growth potential in s around the world. asia, latin america, for example. as i mentioned earlier, we will be building the aveo in michigan, the cruise- -- a compact car -- in ohio. we will be making some announcements later today as it relates to the other promoters that we will be designing and building within the company. host: back to policymaking. how do decisions in washington impacter competitiveness worldwide? guest: i would say the bottom line comes down to our responsibility to be -- to make vehicles that stand up to fuel economy. the mission is small cars, compact cars, crossovers. that is something that we are working hard on. we have some large trucks but we also have a category of small cars like the cruise, equinox. we are going to be making investments to meet those fuel economy standards coming at us. we will leverage our global footprint to bring the best technologies to make our vehicles the most efficient. host: what do you think in terms of the government subsidizing the consumer to ge

12, 1982 demonstration in central park is still the largest outdoor assembly of human beings in north americaver. did we have any impact on the event? >> i think that you did in a way that would surprise you. one of the things i urge you to do is get a copy of reagan's diaries and read them carefully because one of the things reagan didn't tell us at the time and didn't tell me i was a white house correspondent for "the washington post," i did not fully appreciate that he had become in his own mind it bidded the nuclear abolitionist. he was out in central park with you and my favorite anecdote with it came to occurred in 1986. gorbachev had just made it big speech in moscow in january of 1986 calling for the elimination of all nuclear weapons with the wonderful charge a time schedule and they reproduce this in the book. i found it in katayev's files. the speech was sent back to washington, translated for reagan and secretary shultz got in his car to raise over to the white house to give the president some guidance on what to think about it in when he got there reagan was already reading it an

i have rights to north america, primarily the great lakes. two things that i'm challenged by -- i'm having a very difficult time raising money. i'm not asking for a handout. all i'm asking is loan me the money; i'll account for it, every dollar, i'll pay it back. secondly -- and i'm willing to risk millions -- 99 percent of my net worth. the second seeing, and listened to this gentleman back here. i truly appreciate what he's going through. but in this instance, d inherited the patent from enron. now they are calling a a roil, but it is really a gate to keep people out. are there any programs? this company was identified. i want to bring this to the united states. this is not about money for me. this is about bringing jobs. he should have a right to work. >> let me respond. >> is there any federal program that can help me? i just want to borrow the money to create this factory and create these jobs. >> i do not know about the particular situation, so i will speak generally to it. if you want to get one of my team your card, they can follow up

services for the aging, american society on aging, the association of jewish aging services of north america, b'nai b'rith international, center for medicare advocacy, the gray panthers, international union, united auto workers, aerospace, u.a.w., military officers association of america, national academy of elder law attorneys, national active retired federal employees' association, national alliance for caregiving, national asia-pacific, national association of area agencies on aging, national association of professional geriatric care managers, national caucus and center on black aged inc., national committee to preserve social security and medicare, national council on aging, national senior citizens law center, the national consumer voice for quality long-term care, owl, voice for midlife and older women, service employees international, seiu, the jewish federations of north america, volunteers of america, wider opportunities for women. i think that letter speaks for itself, madam president, but i do ask that it be printed in the record. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. bau

companies that have a global footprint print, the market opportunities are very large in the u.s., in north americaut there's also a lot of growth potential in markets around the globe, asian pacific, latin america, western europe as examples. so chevrolet actually sells 40% of our volume in the u.s. and 60% outside. and, you know, as i mentioned earlier, we're going to be building the chevrolet in the the husband and build the chevrolet cruise which is a compact car in lordstown, ohio, and we're going to look as many opportunities as possible to build vehicles here in the u.s. i mentioned the battery production in browntowns township michigan and we'll be making some announcements today as it relates to the electric motor -- the electric motors. we're going to be designing and building inside the company. and there will be announcements later on in that front. >> host: back to policymaking, how do the decisions here in washington impact your competitiveness worldwide? >> guest: well, i mean, i would say, you know, the bottom line in terms of, you know, our responsibility to build vehicles that, yo

. >> stahl: it's difficult to imagine that 10,000 years ago, right here in north america, there livedmals that are now the stuff of legends-- mammoths and mastodons, ground sloths and saber-tooth cats. they, and thousands of other species, have vanished from the earth; and today, partly due to the expansion of one species-- ours-- animals are going extinct faster than ever before. the very definition of extinct means "gone forever," but what if that didn't have to be? scientists are making remarkable advances that are bringing us closer than ever before to the possibility of a true animal resurrection. >> oh, my goodness, that's the biggest one! >> stahl: who wouldn't be dazzled by an animal like this, the woolly mammoth... or the saber-tooth tiger... the irish elk... the giant sloth. today, they exist just as bones in museums, alive only in our imaginations, and the recreations of artists and filmmakers. but what if that could change? in the age of dna, we now know that these vanished creatures, like all life on earth, are ultimately nothing more than this, sequences of the four lett

and we might be here with -- [inaudible] north america is the biggest consumer of drugs. >> no question. >> because of the money. it's easier to get to. they're trying to legalize marijuana in mexico. for what? they can't afford it. >> unfortunately, i'm going to let howard say a few, respond to this and say a few more words, but we're out of time. do you want to respond to that? >> well, i just think that we need to consider the foreign policy implications of this drug issue, especially vis-a-vis afghanistan which, i believe, produces 90% of the world's heroin. if the united states can somehow cut down our the world better in afghanistan, mexico and here. so let me end on that. thank you very much. [applause] >> howard campbell is a professor of anthropology at the university of texas at el paso. he's the co-editor of the university of texas press interamerica series. for more information visit utep.edu. >> a name that might be familiar to cable news watchers, farai's just written a new novel, "kiss the sky." why a normal? >> -- novel? >> well, i am someone who's a creature of imaginat

nebraska road graders made in north america will have a north little rock tag on it. and the future of our country -- we will have a current -- census. by the middle of the century of looks like we will be pushing somewhere in the neighborhood of a half a billion folks spirit are tracked -- billion folks. we are excited about the innovation the administration is looking at in terms of reprivatizing funding. . >> thank you, thanks for all your leadership in arkansas. as i said, the president, vice- president and other members of the cabinet will be making some announcements about high-speed rail. there have been some very strong proposals from many different regions around the country on high-speed rail. high-speed rail is coming to america and is coming to america because of the $8 billion, which is a billion times more than we have ever had at dot because of president obama's vision and vice-president biden's vision on this. they have that inserted in the economic recovery plan because they know that is what americans want. i think when you see the role out of the hi

islamic studies and christian-muslim relations and also the president of the islamic society in north americawell, i certainly feel that i'm surrounded by giants today and i'm humbled to be among these great men. you wrote a book about giants. you yourself will be a chapter and addendum to that in the future. i'm grateful to the legacy of what you have done with martin luther king. tonight we're here to remember his legacy but it is important for us to be grateful and to show that appreciation for all of those who made his work successful. because it couldn't have been done alone. i'm very humbled to be here. you know, when we hear you speak about being thrown in jail, for either eating at a lunch counter and willing handed over to the ku klux klan, it is unimaginable to many who did not live through that time. and that's important. it's important for us to grasp that sense of it being unimaginable. because what that points to is that during that time in the middle of the struggle, it would have been unimaginable to many of those people that we would be here today. that we would be living in

i have rights to north america, primarily the great lakes. two things that i'm challenged by -- i'm having a very difficult time raising money. i'm not asking for a handout. all i'm asking is loan me the money; i'll account for it, every dollar, i'll pay it back. secondly -- and i'm willing to risk millions -- 99 percent of my net worth. the second thing is that ge has a patent -- and i believe in patents. i listened to this gentleman back here, and i can truly appreciate what he's going through. but in this instance, ge inherited this patent from enron, and it's created a wall so that they won't let people come in and build turbines in the united states. now, the patent is going to expire very soon. but now they're calling it a royalty but it's really a gate to keep people out. is there any programs -- i've talked to governor strickland, i've talked to sherrod brown, i've talked to lee fisher. . . >> let me respond -- first of all -- >> is there any -- is there any federal programs that can help me -- i just want to borrow the money to creat

i looked at 29 of mental negotiations, mostly from north america and was interested in the dynamics of the negotiations, what gets them started, what carries them forward to conclusion. either that of a model that i adapted from work by gantt chart when and also the late jim lowey who was out of george mason before his death. and essentially was looking at turning points, the changes that occur in the dynamics of a negotiation. in the precipitant of those turning points in particular the roles that might precipitate change in the kind of ysidro sensitive activity that was going on. turning points lead toward agreement or away from agreement and then turn a procedural and substantive consequences. so i was interested in this to see what personal i can apply to the framework but also what it might reveal about in particular the different roles that might be played here it for years when i. it turns out that you get a negotiation started coming to get a ecr process started to collect about it a little bit interprocedural and external roles that make a difference. procedural and external r

commissioners to see what they might have within their jurisdiction because they cover all of north america and if there is something in their files and studies have been done that might give us a sense of the dimensions of this we very much appreciate it. i would like to give you the opportunity to tell me if there's anything you know of, any place you think we should go to find this information. we will be asking you as the chairman and others have suggested asking in writing for this material. we have a chance to think about it. if there's anything you can think of now it would be very helpful. >> let me direct the commissioners, there is a report that came out on july 28th, 2009, regarding the performance of non prime mortgages and a lot of information that would be very useful to the commission. it may not cover, categorized as prime mortgages that are defaulting in record numbers. they have to find additional studies and provide it to you. >> only one other question. i think you mentioned in your statement that a option arms or explosives loans built by wall street? >> the most compli

and north america saying we could make some changes, but there's a bureaucracy about doing it at that we haven't. is that accurate? >> it's not just the bureaucracy, this is again something where the privacy groups have basically tried too back tsa into a corner and say you can't use the machine to look for sophisticated weapons and can't use information to look for terrorists. i agree, the israeli system of looking for terrorists is something we need to be doing more of. we need to transform the way tsa does screenings so they know who they're talking to, who they're screening and they have access to all the information that might make a difference in how they screen that person. right now, the selectee list and the no-fly list, that's 5% of the people we have terrorism information on. the rest of that information we might as well fot-- not have as far as tsa is concerned. >> shannon: should more people be on the no-fly list? >> i don't know the no ply list. >> shannon: about 4,000 or so. >> that's a harsh sanction unless you're sure that's their intent, but more people should be get

she is also president of the islamic society of north america. >> i certainly feel that i am surrounded by giant said day. -- giants today. you wrote a book about giants, and you could be a chapter extended into that in the future. i am grateful to the legacy of what you have done with martin luther king. and tonight we are here to remember his legacy. it is important for us to be grateful and to show that appreciation for all those who made his work successful. because he could not have been done along. i am very humble to be here. you hear about being thrown into jail for sitting at a lunch counter and being handed over to the head of the clue klutz clan --ku klux klan, that is unimaginable. we have to grasp that sense of it being unimaginable. during that time, in the middle of the struggle, it would have been unimaginable to many of those people that we would be here today, that we would be living in a time when not only would whites and blacks be sitting together eating, marion, being the closest of friends, but there would be an african- american running for president of the unite

america. can you tell me basically were you in north or south america or in the southern section? well, actually as an analyst with the cia i worked on every country -- worked on the caribbean, i worked on central america, worked on mexico and south america, the one country and never worked on was cuba. [laughter] that's right. but i was the caribbean analyst for particularly haiti and their dominican republic and jamaica for a while and then i was chief of the indian branch and then i worked on argentina and lived in argentina and also lived in basel. >> you're involved with venezuela? >> yes, to some extent. >> i didn't know that to cover all of south america. >> i was a regional analyst. let me say a few words about hugo taught us and what i am going to say may sound a little radical what most people think of the cia analysts, a few years ago i read a book by a diplomatic historian about latin america, it fellow man named mark, he made an assertion that i actually agree with and he said that ever since the end of the 19th century it up to the present when the united states want

she is also the president of the islamic society of north america. ingrid, we hear you now. >> thank you. i certainly feel that i am surrounded by a judge today. i am humbled to be among these great men. you wrote a book about dance yourself. this wilthere will be an addendo that in the future. i am grateful for what you have done. tonight, we're here to remember the legacy of martin luther king, but it is important to be grateful and to show that appreciation for all those who made his work successful. it could not have been done alone. i'm very humbled to be here. when we hear you speak about being thrown in jail for eating at a lunch counter and being handed over to the head of the cooks clan, it isn't a magic -- it is -- the head of the coup cox clan -- ku klanux klan, is unmanageable. -- it is unimaginable. there would be a woman running for the president of the united states, that there would be a jewish museum in new york that has a place of prominence, and the people of all faiths are coming to it in humility and appreciation. for me, the rel

new york central and hudson river railroad, the growth of new york city into the first city of north america and a major world hub of finance and trade complete with his first grand central station. vanderbilt played a major part in all of these events and more. as stiles writes the commodore's live lets his mark on america's most basic beliefs about equality and opportunity. he started a business as the epitome of the jacksonian ideal the working man desiring only a level playing field to compete against the vested interests. he ended it as a symbol than the quality of monopoly in the gilded age when ameyde americans question for the first time the dangers of gigantic sum in business. he was instrumental in appointing americans with the idea of the modern corporation of enormous depersonalize business entity. win cornelius vanderbilt was a young man americans worked almost exclusively as farmers and small businessmen and what money they saw was mostly tsala coin. corporations were rarity and entities of lummis duration formed complete large public projects such as roads are canals before be

jim campbell, followed by an official from the ford motor co., and the chairman and ceo of bmw north america. "washington journal" take your calls and e-mails live every morning here on c-span. . >> this is 50 minutes. >> good morning everybody. the a pleasure to welcome you here today. this is the first event we are having in our new conference room, and we hope to headache it a good one. i get to say a few words about the bipartisan policy center before we get into the real action. we were founded on the idea that people with significantly different views and who have strong allegiance to different parties could still come together and try to design serious and substantive solution toss address the nation's big challenges. we are not a think tank in the traditional sense. we only study things for a purpose. and when our projects come together, people understand they are going to spend as much time advocate fog a particular solution as constructing it. i think it's fair to say that the project we are launching today will very much test the proposition of bringing people together towards a s

we heard that the auto industry planned to make all the three million cars and trucks here in north american the next three months, up 69% from the first three months of 2009. we also passed a recovery act to pull our economy back from the brink. we cut taxes for 95 percent of working americans, 15 different tax cuts for working families and seven different tax cuts for small businesses, so they can start up and grow and hire. the recovery act was extending and increasing unemployment insurance, and making copra -- cobra available at a cheaper rate so people who lost their jobs could keep their health care. we made the largest investment in infrastructure since the creation of the interstate highway system, putting americans to work rebuilding our roads, bridges and waterways, doing the work america needs done. today, because of the actions we took, the worst of this economic storm has passed. but families like yours and communities like elyria are still reeling from the devastation left in its wake. folks have seen jobs you thought would last forever disappear. you've seen plants close and

in greenock county, 460 jobs saved at very plastics in simpson county, 89 new jobs at as a rock north america distilleries in owensboro and frankfurt, 150 new jobs a safe transit stands in crittenden county, 100 new jobs at dq tee in pikeville, 200 new jobs at presidium inc. in pulaski county, 203 jobs retained a national office furniture in ohio county. folks, the list as you can see goes on and on and it is growing by the day. tomorrow i will be in marion county to announce that we have been able to work with curtis mary sue america to retain 416 jobs and lebanon. [applause] this company is making an 11 million-dollar investment in our state and investment we helped enlisted the help of our new incentive program. together, these job announcements are tangible signs that the economic recovery has begun. and they are the kinds of successes, folks, that we can have when we are aggressive and when we put aside differences to work together. we also made kentucky history this past year by attracting a national research facility that will put this state at the forefront of the push for a domestic

and look at environmental organizations, mostly from the north america, and look at what carries themadopted from work from others, and the turning point, the changes that occur in the dynamics of the negotiation, and the persistence of the turning points, the role that might precipitate change, and the kinds of substance of activity that was going on. -- substantive activity that was going on. i was interested in this to see, first of all, if i could apply the from work, but also, what it might reveal about the different roles that might be played. here is what the -- found out -- here is what i found out -- to get the negotiations started, it is procedural and external roles that make a difference. procedural and external roles. i mention it very clearly in my data. for the purposes of this, and looked back at the cases that were water-related. external walls here are people who are either process experts, like meat eaters, or people who have a -- and influencelike mediato -- like mediators, or people who have an outside influence. i think this is important, because it speaks to the

for the first time the united states is second place in north america in terms of economic freedom. canada is freer. host: is this because of efforts such as the tarp funds that were distributed and the stimulus? guest: that's right. host: that are there others? guest: it was the underlying factor that just went into so many of the other variables. there are ten variables in the index. tarp. that is the government intervention into financial markets to break contracts, to regulate pay, to essentially take the aut motive industry and put it under the protection of the united states government. from one perspective people can say, well, it was something we needed to do. but when we're looking at the index, we're comparing 179 countries against standards and they're all held opt same standard. the united states is on the same as bangladesh and we found that this intervention just contravenes so many of the principles that are in the index that they lost score, significantly in financial freedom, in the use of property rights, the key things that are drivers of economic growth. the cons

commissioners to see what they would have within their jurisdiction, because of course they cover all of north america. and if there is something in their files, if studies have been done that might give us a sense of the dimensions of this that we very much appreciate. i would like to give you each the opportunity to tell me if there's anything you know of or anything that you think anyplace we should go to find this information. please tell us now. we'll be asking you as the chairman and others have suggested will be asking you in writing for this material so you'll have a chance to go back to your offices and think about it. if you can dig up anything out it would be helpful. >> well, let me direct the commissioners now as the staff there is a gal report that came out on july 28 to 2009 regarding the characteristics and performance of nonprime mortgages and there's a lot of information i think would be very useful to the commission enclosed in their. it may not cover, however, pay option arms which are categorized as prime mortgages, which are the ones that are now default to them in record numbers

in the south who run the country are undistrustful of those born and breadth in the north, to the point that america intervened. u.s. troops based in the region have been preparing for new joint patrols. this will bring the armies side by side. top command believes tension in the north is the single biggest threat to long-term stability in iraq. very different issues. (inaudible) >> america and the kurds are on the same side. just as it is with the arab iraqis. it's extremely safe. i'm not wearing a flak jacket yet. the military took off their body armor. but this may not last should the joint patrols backfire and conflict breaks out between the groups. there is much to fight for across the sweeping land. natural fault lines run in every direction. fox news. >> defense secretary robert gates is staying on for at least another year. gates met with president obama before christmas and agreed to keep running the pentagon. mr. obama asked gates to stay on the job shortly after winning the 2008 election. >>> we will find out what almost kept hillary clinton from taking the secretary of state job and repu

louis is part of the islamic society north america according to the justice department is connected withhe muslim brotherhood. we're talking about a guy who is one of these moneylenders was a radical islamist and he is speaking to make people feel better at fort hood about islam. i think we need to build somehow the political correctness is over writing buggy at the common sense that there are factors that drive his behavior and has got to be built into our model. and i am out of time. >> may i? >> yesterday. >> this is a two-way street. we know that we have over 3500 islamic believers serving effectively and faithfully. and so the street runs both ways. >> thank the gentleman. ms. davis? >> thank you, and mr. secretary, admiral clark, thank you for taking on this assignment. secretary west, it's my understanding that prior to this service you were on the walter reed, the group that look at walter reed and independent review group. and it's my understanding and is really picks up on something that admiral clark said as well, that in looking at the care of the mental health professionals

pleased to have for the opening prayer today reverend martin nins minns from the congregation of north americagod, we are your people called by your name, and we assembly together this day to seek your mercy. we gather in the shadow of the disaster in haiti. we remember before you those who have died and pray for those who grieve their loss. we pray for the injured and the homeless. we pray especially for the many children whose lives have been devastated. comfort them, lord. lord, in your mercy, hear our prayer. we gather on this day mindful of another tragedy. we cannot see their faces or hear their cries. but we agree for the millions who have died because of the nightmare of abortion, we pray for them. we pray for those who mourn their untimely end. forgive those who are complicit in their deaths. forgive us, lord, for not doing more to prevent their loss. lord, in your mercy, hear our prayer. we gather to renew our commitment to the protection of every human life. we know your heart. we know your love for every child born or unborn. we marvel that you have made every one in your own image

as evidenced by the minute -- absence of major projects undertaken in north america over the past 10 to 15 years, utilities have found ways to increase utilization of existing facilities to me the man without adding high voltage equivalencies. clearly there is a significant need for increase in transmission capacity. this is amplified as we consider adding more to while i am in full support, i think we need to keep in mind legitimate desires of localities to preserve green spaces and historic sites. my district has one of the most historic landscapes in the mid atlantic's. we have some the most productive farmland in the united states. valley forge, chester county, one of william penn's original three counties. the tradition of preserving the land and being good stewards of the earth has been passed down from generation to generation. we are not against progress, but we want to protect our heritage. having the needed energy to turn on lights and heat water is critically important to the quality of life of every american. however, the natural environment of communities contributes t

because of course they cover all of north america. and if there's something in their files, and studies have been done, that might give us a sense of the dimensions of this. we very much appreciate it. i would like to give you each the opportunity to tell me, if there's anything you know of, or anything that you think any place you think we should go to find this information. please tell us now. we will be asking you, as the chairman and others have suggested, we will be asking you in writing for this material. so you'll have a chance to go back to your offices and think about it, but if there's anything you could think about it would would be very helpful. >> let me direct the commissioners, as well as your staff, there is a gao report that came out on july 28, 2009, regarding the characteristics and performance of nonprime mortgages. and there's a lot of information that i think would be very useful to the commission enclosed in there. it may not cover, however, you pay option arms, which are categorized as prime mortgages which a

>> which related the filibuster attitude, the north american attitude latin america, we're americans. dug in, he has a rifle, don't let them do that. you're americans go get them. go. go. fortunately, once he -- by luck really -- he carries out one ma -- maneuver. by luck, the leading general and head of state die. he ends up being the strong man. can't even speak spanish. he's the strong man in nicaragua. thousands of americans were excited by the success. they start coming down or want to come down to join him. meanwhile, this is a story which completely overturns the whole presumptions about how it played out. with papers i found here. legal papers that his lawyer has here in the manuscript department. his rivals within the company knew he was taking control. they convinced walker to give us the control. and then we'll bring free reinforcements. then vanderbilt realized he was bestrayed. in fact, a friend of walker's went to the agent of the company, who one the guys who ends up bestraying vanderbilt. look your company is going to be destroyed. how do you know? >> wackier is my fri