population really looks at this scenario do they do they you know look at the obama administration or realize that they went back on their word when it comes to an open and transparent administration or has the obama administration really painted whistleblowers as this evil that puts our national security at risk. well you know the obama administration would argue there's no inconsistency with pursuing people who illegally release classified information that if you know of some wrongdoing inside the government there are plenty of things you can do other than release the information publicly you can go to congress you can report through inspectors general the various agencies so there are plenty of avenues open to you so they would argue that it's not inconsistent with their transparency but not every case of leaking is whistle blowing sometimes people are pursuing a personal agenda or trying to advance some sort of a national security issue that they may consider important that perhaps the administration doesn't consider as a war so there are definitely two sets of perspectives here t

administration brought about i'm very concerned about the fact that many of the policies of the obama administration are indistinguishable from the bush administration as far as who i'm going to support in two thousand and twelve that's way down the road a little bit too early to even talk about it ok i want to switch gears very quickly and talk about the fact that last week president obama signed an executive order for indefinite detention at guantanamo bay and to you does that show a clear sign of a good mo is not going anywhere that it's here to stay for a long time and we're still going to be using it well i'm very concerned about that i'm concerned about the fact that president obama made a commitment to close guantanamo and that for whatever reason he is not keeping that commitment but it wasn't only the structure of guantanamo it's work once represented real a departure from basic principles of justice and and and constitutional principles of recourse for those who are kept in detention and so we're at a point where still another administration must be held accountable for its. its violation

but the obama administration and its military advisors have so far resisted that request. and in treaties from members of congress for intervention. nevertheless earlier today the president said there were ongoing talks over an armd response. >> we've got nato, as we speak, consulting in brussels around a wide range of potential options. including potential military options. in response to the vileen... violence that continues to take place inside of libya. >> woodruff: defense secretary robert gates who has warned against a third u.s. intervention in a muslim nation has publicly said imposing a no fly zone amounts to an act of war. gates was asked today during an an unannounced visit to afghanistan about the potential for a military response in libya. >> i think we will have to monitor the situation very closely. we will do whatever the president directs us to do. but i think at this point there is a sense that any action should be the result of an international sanction before anything is done. >> woodruff: russian foreign minister, however, said today his nation would o

civilian system is the best way to handle terrorism but what do you make of the fact that the obama administration tried to get congress on board last year congress was not on board so they decided well you know we want to do it anyway so i'm just going to create my own administrative order here you know they didn't really seem to have too much access i mean that was something that eric holder first floated on meet the press but it really didn't seem to go anywhere i talked to senator leahy's office i guess last month it was and they said that they had not really heard from the administration proposals for how to change something it was dead in the water. but. you know this was just something that fix that was taken. back in back in december it was really started because you know i could name two suspects about the new york times square bomber and the christmas day bomber who both were mirandized obama was really highly criticized for that by the republicans and obama defended that and said that we still got all the information that we needed to from these men and said that he believes in the mira

is moving their direction i think the intent of the obama administration the arms control treaty and other improvements in u.s. russian relations i think is moving the policy but you still have people who talk this way and he does probably he probably was talking about capabilities and in can't but the problem is his mindset is still in the old ways and it's probably somewhat generational yes well that's what i was going to ask i mean why do you suppose when asked you know. directly asked this question i believe from senator from west virginia joe manchin why do you think that he didn't say pakistan or india or iran well i do i just think you know that china and russia traditionally in the cold war were the enemies and they also had the biggest nuclear arsenals and of course by his standards the u.s. would be the biggest enemy of those two countries the biggest mortal threat as senator levin pointed out to him that if you take a standard the other way you know you have to you have to deal with that so if you're talking about capabilities the united states has the most robust nuclear

well, the obama administration could but will are some times it might. >> the gas is out of control. though matter how much money you have or you don't, the price is out of control. >> reporter: a 33-cent per gallon increase the second worse ever. californians are paying much more. $3.93 in. >> i'm paying $4.13. >> beef got to make some -- we've got to make some kind of move right there, foreign policy o foreign trade, something like that. >> worry about the unrest in the middle east has shoved the prices up. now the obama administration is being asked to tap the reserve. >> it's one that we are considering, it's something that only has been done on very rare occasions. there are a bunch of factors that have to be looked at and it is not just the price. >> reporter: some in congress say selling from the reserve could ease things. the obama five station is is -- the obama administration is concerned about taking we will from the reserves. >> when it was tapped in 2005 after hurricane katrina, oil prices dropped%. >> i think -- dropped 9%. >> i think it's time. we need to look into fur

economy is the political price too high for the obama administration. and a middle class movement trying to make its way in america so divided along political and class lines so as the fight for union rights open up wounds that are unlikely to heal. and as the united states deals with problems from labor unrest to skyrocketing well president of our america spending and revenue everyone's talking about it including the infamous a birdie made off with as the whole government is a ponzi scheme. what do we want. out of rolling back support as wal-mart looks to take a bite out of the big apple not everyone is buying into capitalism we're going to take a look at the high cost of cheap food and cheap labor. good evening it's monday february twenty eighth eight pm here in washington d.c. i'm going to soft you're watching our team but if you're driving these days and most americans are a trip to the gas station it's probably pretty painful right now always for your pocket that's because protests in the middle east have had more repercussions than just getting ri

which is why i thought i mean so do you see a split within the obama administration on this bradley manning case well brought obama picks and chooses certain spots to look tough on foreign policy to look for him on immigration to look tough on issues that he's actually. genuinely weak on and bradley manning is the is the you would say michael would say unfortunate victim of this he's the exception that proves the rule in the broad obama i'm weak on foreign policy. play he's been used as a scapegoat he said i would be tough tough for being on bradley manning look out of it look at who we're going to lock down in quantico so i'm not you know i don't know the the specifics of the case i don't know how much they know about what he's done and they may feel he has more information and need to keep them out there like this i don't know this. but i want to listen a little michael's rambling. as he meandered all over the place. just because you don't like the country's foreign policy doesn't mean you can out it to the planet earth does it make you a truthteller that makes you would treat a traitor w

congress has gotten a briefing from the obama administration about the situation in libya, but they're not satisfied, lawmakers said they heard nothing new specifically. they were listening to hear an exit strategy and say they haven't heard that yet. veronica? >> nbc's tracie potts live for us in washington, thank you. >>> pressure is mounting on japan to expand the evacuation zone around its damaged nuclear power plant amid concerns about radiation seeping from the facility. the u.n.'s nuclear agency says radiation in one village 25 miles from the complex is twice the suggested threshold for evacuation. anyone within a 12-mile zone has already been told to leave. meanwhile, the country's emperor and empress made a rare public appearance wednesday trying to comfort the victims of the disaster. >>> now there is new disturbing evidence regarding radiation from japan drifting to the united states. tests of milk samples in spokane, washington, indicate the presence of radioactive iodine from japan's nuclear plant. but the environmental protection agency cautions such findings are expected

victims have been asking the obama administration to reopen that investigation. official that is have recently left the libyan government say he personally oraled thad bombing. also, the united nations has suspended libya from its human rights council. the first time that's err been done, citing gross and systematic human rights violations. that is not permanent, but libya would need to be restored to full status. lynn. >> tracie, thanks so much. >>> the senate is expected to approve a temporarily funding bill later today that will prevent a government shutdown this friday. the measure which also cuts spending by $4 billion passed the house yesterday on a bipartisan vote of 335-91. president obama is expected to sign the two-week extension into law, but democrats still remain steadfastly opposed to a longer republican plan which would cut more than $60 billion through september. now here's a look at some other stories making news early today in america. >>> in washington a natural gas explosion earlier this week was caught on cell phone camera. investigators say

so what's really going on here will host a debate on the issue then did you know that the obama administration made new rules on miranda rights for terrorism suspects they did it in secret but now those documents of come out so will look into yet another obama flip flop and you want to be president well then don't forget to visit israel we'll tell you why this country might be just as important for presidential candidates as say iowa or even new hampshire and speaking of presidential candidates where are they it's only a little over a year away from elections and needless to say the g.o.p. has yet to produce any clear front runner so we'll go over the politicians who have officially entered the race and will say which ones we wish would stay far far away all this and much more in tonight's show but first let's move on to our top story. last week the u.n. security council adopted resolution one nine hundred seventy three which established a no fly zone over libya and authorized all necessary measures to protect civilians from cut off and his forces but seven days later it seems that less and le

use the power at his disposal and more news out of pakistan as the relationship between the obama administration and the i.s.i. continues to deteriorate over the case of raymond davis or discuss his fate and the implications of this could have on the war in afghanistan and calling all fat cat bankers that you've got someone coming after you protests for make wall street pay continue and we're going to talk to a member of the group about their goals and obama has done a one eighty after promising to shut down guantanamo bay when first becoming the president the obama administration has now announced the military tribunals will resume so why the change of heart or to find out and it's international women's day so we'll look at the different ways that people around the world are celebrating and fighting for women's rights we'll have details on all of that and more but first let's move on to our top story. the situation in libya continues to escalate as moammar gadhafi continues to turn airstrikes to try and stine the rebel advances yesterday rumors began circling that could offer he had made an off

government of course this is not unique to the obama administration all u.s. presidents seem to be wary or afraid to speak out what's going on here well first of all. for us protectorates or. the like you put. they are very much the. oiler called the abuse they're very strategic but it's local and so your radio has been installed so it protects the interests of the united states. so. well he bore her me so or rather her real protest all there was there were protests eastern. saudi arabia or merely the she. were being. discriminated against. there were other parts of this protest which were never reported and that's the protest of migrant workers that has in effect a raid in the gulf states. the local population which constitutes perhaps fifty percent of the work force. other than fifty percent of the filipino sri lankans. and people from other arab countries and those people really don't protest because they're scared to be supported their parents are biased by their employers they have very low wages. yet there was a protest in january by pullup you know work

the obama administration says it's being challenged as unconstitutional. boehner now pledges the house will step up to defend it in court. nancy pelosi is criticizing the move as costly. >> and florida's loss is california's rain when it come owes to high speed rail funding. and says this comes after the florida state supreme court upheld a decision to reject the money. scott is the third republican governor elected in november to kill high speed rail projects. >> many people contend it as a good high speed rail idea that can create thousands of johns, other call it wasteful government spending. so which is it? >> this current price tag is about $43 billion for an 800 mile all electric line between bay area ask anaheim. this is the high speed rail authority's animation of how this might look skipping along at a top speed of 220 miles per hour. the rail authority wants the federal government to pay about half of the costs after that, and $10 billion in bonds there is still a $15 kbrinl gap. >> this is crazy. the world over... high speed rails are subsidized

think as has been suggested, it'll be the major policy, antitrust policy challenge of the obama administration, and, you know, that'll have implications going forward as other deals come down the pipe. >> jeff silva, robert bell, thank you for being on the communicators. our discussion will continue. we have representatives from the consumers unions and the communications workers up next. >> as we continue our look at the at&t, t-mobile usa proposed deal, we are now joined on the communicators by debbie goldman of the communication workers of america, and parul desai. if we can start with you, ms. goldman. the cwa has supported this deal, why? >> we think it's good for the consumers and workers. right now we are moving in the wireless industry and into the next generation of wireless technology. and that's going to take both tens of billions of dollars in investment to get us there and it's going to require a lot more spectrum. right now people are aware that on their wonderful mobile divisions that they want to stream video, that they want to get on the internet and search with web pages. in

we'll have the forecast coming up. ,, obama administration. the pentagon says its moving armed >>> all options on the table for dealing with libya yeah, that word from the obama administration today. the pentagon is moving armed forces north region to be prepared. earlier today of the european union raised the pressure on moammar qaddafi. >>> the clock is ticking on capitol hill. the u.s. government will close on friday if there is no budget. lawmakers may pass a short version to buy a few weeks to debate the full spending plan. >>> actor charlie sheen says he is at war with cbs. he made the rounds on competing network tv shows this morning to trash talk the producer of his hit show. now his long-time publicist has quit. we have more on sheen's rants and the fallout. >> reporter: sheen was in rare form this morning candidly giving interviews to network morning news shows and some entertainment website. >> i am on a drug. it's called charlie sheen. it's not available because if you try it once you will die. your face will melt off and your chil

but the obama administration insisted the command of a no drive zone was also part of that deal so even now the picture of command dreams murky and the end goal is still nonexistent joining me to discuss it all is dr rice criminal defense attorney and former cia officer jack thanks so much for joining us tonight like i said it's still hard to tell exactly what's been agreed upon here in nato said that they'll take a man of the no fly zone but that's the part that's all it's already been done the no fly zone has been established i guess you could say that's the easy part what does a no drive zone really mean you know it was are both great questions i mean that's really the problem because if we look at what president obama has done in the past the bottom line here the whole purpose was to get us off of his back he wanted to put these on somebody else's back somebody else's children so they will have to deal with this is let me give you the worst of all worlds the worst of all worlds is that this turns into a group campaign and all of us are more market garvie does not walk away quietly p

will be of very significant display of what the obama administration is really going to do in the antitrust area. i think this is the biggest test the administration has had. it is the first really major purely course of the transaction. and so naturally, a lot of people are looking at it carefully. guest: i would agree with that as well. i think this will have a major impact throughout the whole mobile broadband ecosystem, and on the political end i think as has been suggested, it will be the major policy, antitrust policy challenge of the obama administration. and that will have implications of going forward, as other deals come down the pike. host: jeffrey silva robert bell thank you for being on "the communicators". our discussion continues. we have representatives from unions up next. as we continue our look at the at&t-t-mobile proposed deal, we are joined by debbie goldman and parul desai. ms. goldman the cwa has already come out in support of this deal. why? guest: right now we are moving in the wireless industry into the next generation of wireless technology. and that is going to

the obama administration is considering tapping into the country's emergency oil reserves to ease prices, and consumer nerves. spurred by unrest in the middle east, oil prices rose nearly 2% to above $106 a barrel this morning in asia. and the average price of a gallon of self-serve regular gas hit $3.51. up nearly 33 cents in the past two weeks. the second largest two-week rise ever. susan mcginnis is in washington with details. susan, good morning. >> hey, good morning, joel. yeah, washington is watching higher oil prices, and considering u.s. dependence on foreign oil, it's now looking at a much closer alternative. the white house is considering tapping the nation's oil reserves to try to put a cap on runaway oil prices. >> all matters have to be on the table when you go through -- when you see the difficulty coming out of the economic crisis we're in, and the fragility of it.

obama administration is getting closer to making moves toward reducing troop levels. both is u.s.d afghan governments agree u.s. military should remain involved in afghanistan after the planned end of combat operations in 2014. >>> 4:35 a.m. oakland police have a new clue in a 30-year-old murder mystery investigators have create add forensic rendering of the victim scientists believe he was in his 20s. 6 feet tall, blond hair his burned body with no head no limbs no internal organs was found in a gutter in west oakland his skull and leg bone in a different location. modern dna technology confirmed the bones were from the same man. police are trying to determine his id so they can focus suspect who is may have also killed two other men this vick knew. >> -- victim knew. >>> an armed serial robber has a thing for 711 stores. four stores in concord and walnut creek have been robbed all by a man matching the same description. walnut creek police releasing the photo of the suspect he has robbed at least one store in that city. >>> 4:36 a.m. santa clara valley drivers may be the next to

>> i think a lot of this speaks to the ambivalence the obama administration has had about the war. secretary of state hillary clinton is one of the people who pushed for the intervention. i think you showed secretary of defense robert gates who has for weeks now been saying, we're already in two wars in iraq and in afghanistan, we need to be careful here about defining the mission. he was very, very cautious. i think part of the reason you saw secretary of state clinton out there is because after the arab league voted to invite this no-fly zone and invite this assault, she was the one out there hearing from all these diplomats and all these different country the british, the french, who said the united states has to lead on this. she's sort of the first port of call for the rest of the world. gwen: secretary clinton is also the one ho said before the president did that gaddafi should go. but regime change is not the goal here. how do they justify that? >> >> there are two halves to the administration's policy and the administration is -- administration is pretending there's not a c

rather implausibly he argued that he was compelled to fllow this recommendation of the obama administration to send $150 billion -- $150 million a year to brazilian cotton farmers for four years because the president told him to do it. well, that's a very selective invocation of the president. i must say no more persuasive than flip wilson having innoked the devil as having made him -- invoked the devil as having him made him do it. $150illion -- the argument by the way was that weave to send $150 million to the cotton farmers because otherwise we would be in trouble with the world trade organization. but we could have saved that $150 million to the brazilians by not sending $150 million to american cotton farmers. that would include american cotton farmers who get more than $250,000 a year.

nearly two years ago, the obama administration undertook a series of reviews to update and upgrade our defense plans. we conducted the alphabet soup of reviews. the npr, the nuclear posture review. the bmdr, ballistic missile defense review. the spr, space policy review. and the qdr, the quadrennial defense review. the state department for the first time embarked on its own state characterize on the ddr, the quau drennel dren diplomacy review. one of the reasons that i accepted this job is that i wanted to support the obama administration's efforts to get our defense policies right. in the ballistic missile defense review we set forth a new approach to missile defense that i've been working on as a member of congress. then as now, i want our missile defenses to be both operationally effective and cost-effective. president obama added a third component that i also agree with. they must be able to adapt to new threats. i know that there's been a lot of partisan debate over our approach. but as a former politician i know as well as anyone policy details often get lost in the media coverag

earlier this week on that but then there are much larger issues if you ask me of the back of the obama administration who criticize the bush administration for invoking state secrets privilege is in the court room has done it many times the obama administration which promised to be the most open and transparent administration is waging a full on war against whistleblowers those are the things that people are going to remember if you ask me i would necessarily personally call it a full on war i do think it's unfortunate were a lot of things have gone with with those specific types of. gaining a guy before trying him when you know i didn't you know this isn't just a matter for us you know it is extremely important all agree with you there it is when it comes to transparency and revealing who is having influence in our government this president has used the bully pulpit of the white house and the state of the union address actually which is never been done before to address specific detailed issues in certain cases and then really ignored others so of course they fulfilled fewer foyer requests for freed

the obama administration sees it differently, obviously. the line out of the white house today is that a humanitarian crisis has been averted because we got involved. that's what they would say to you, richard haass. >> i know that argument. i can't role history back. of course, it's conceivable that that's the case, but i simply don't see it that way. this is a civil war. and in civil war when people take up arms against the government, they have to expect they're putting themselves at great risk. but this was not something, tavis, that was shaping up in my way say like rwanda. this wasn't a war in which one ethnic group was out to commit genocide against another. this was not iraq where you had all sorts of sectarian violence between and among sunni, shiah, and kurds. rather this was something that was narrower, it was political. in that sense again, it was a civil war, so i do not believe that it was the intention of the government of gaddafi, and this is not to defend that government, but i do not believe it was their intention to essen

however awarding intervention in libya might seem pretty obama administration it's the us that will suffer if there is a military strike that's the view of the russian senator and middle east expert mccallum our galaad is that if you coming up in about twenty minutes time here's a pretty. good when america is in the world and two very difficult wars in islamic world against and iraq. and the decision to get into another war in spite of either in the short or long will be serious damage for the image of president obama i don't think for him for domestic consumption so to speak it will be a wise decision. trends forecaster gerald celente says it's not support for the libyan people but interest in the country's vast oil fields that's driving us rhetoric and action. the only reason they're interested with libya is about that you oil we hear anybody screaming and yelling about all those people last week that were killed in the ivory coast were the superior i guess cocoa was that that you know much of a national priority they will try anything but we already heard hillary clinton say that they'r

however already military intervention in libya might seem for the obama administration it's the us that will suffer if they use a military strike that's the view of russian senator and middle east expert. his interview coming up in the next hour here's a sneak peek. today when america is and while the very difficult wars in islamic world are going to iraq. the decision to get into another war in spite of either it is short or long will be serious damage for the in the president obama i don't think for him for domestic consumption so to speak which will be a wise decision. trends forecaster gerald celente says it's not support for the libyan people but interest in their country's vast oil fields that's driving us rhetoric and action. the only reason they're interested in libya is back to you oil we hear anybody screaming and yelling about all those people last week that were killed in the ivory coast. and i guess code was that that you know much of a national priority they'll try anything but we already heard hillary clinton say that they're willing to do anything for anybody in libya th

tonight let me introduce you all to a crack but it's clearly emerged within the obama administration a breakdown in unity and what i see as a lack of leadership for months now on this show we've been talking about the inhumane treatment of bradley manning the army private accused of leaking classified documents to wiki leaks now manning has been held in solitary confinement for months for the past week he's been forced to strip naked every night and now for the first time manning himself has spoken out writing an eleven page letter that was released by his lawyer in this letter he describes not only the embarrassment that he feels by being forced to stand for parade in the nude but how he's been left to languish under the un duly harsh conditions of his custody and how he feels that he's being subjected to what he calls unlawful pretrial on it and you know what he's not alone in saying that it's a lawful the u.n. has launched an inquiry amnesty international is protesting the government's actions and anybody out there who knows this simple life in america you're innocent until proven

now obama administration is talking about tapping the u.s. what impact that would have on gas prices so we talked the drivers out here who said it sounds like a good idea, this truly is a last resort and something needs to be done because things just aren't affordable. >> the issue of the reserves is one we are considering, only done and has been done on very rare occasions a bunch of factors that have to be looked at and it is just not the price. >> >> i am like i can't afford this. >> that is generally what we heard from drivers out here many saying that it is time to tap that strategic oil reserve. enough to keep the u.s. running on oil for 5 months without imparting any new oil. a very controversial position. >> it is getting scary i am pushing $60 to fill a honda now. that is no fun. kristin thanks. >>> heavy fighting in libya driving oil prices higher this morning. prices rose above $106 a barrel in asia today, forces loyal to libyan leader moammar gadhafi launched a new air strike against opposition forces. >>> 6:32 a.m. back in the ba

is there any doubt in your mind that guantanamo bay will not close the obama administration unfortunately i would like to see it close unfortunately i don't even know if we can leave that at the feet of the administration only because congress in some respects is tied to president's hands i was at a symposium not long ago where the white house's are for national security recommitted the administration to its pledge to close guantanamo but if i were to project forward and put on my betters i don't think it's likely that the facility will close only because we can't try to detainees here and then we go to other countries and say hey do you want to try them their response to us as well you will take them or should we and i think that congress is really it's interesting congress in most cases is very willing like the courts to bow to the executive and allow executive abuse the one time congress has a chance to do something helpful you know they actually outflank the executive on expanding that i could have you know the one time the white house tried to give it back congress says no you have t

the obama administration. wherever the standard of freedom and iependence has been our shall be uncurled - unfuer led. she is the champion and indicator only of her own. thank you very much/ . [applause] >> next, live your phone calls. then se seal richards. then former senate. >> as the >> for me the data comes first. i don't decide that i'm going to talk about a subject and then go out and look for data. i really do search for data first and see if there's something interesting and kind of agrees with an opinion that i have or kind of confirms something or surprises me and i think would surprise my readers. >> q&a tonight on c-span. >> this morning "washington post" reporter perry bacon. and the washington bureau chief for al-jazeera discuss the latest military actions against libya. then former united nations ambassador thomas pickering talks about u.s. efforts in

government is now grappling ninety percent of us mortgages but with new proposals from the obama administration the message by obama seems to be clear and that is that this country could no longer afford to prop up the middle class parties lauren lyster explains more. the american dream. to be everybody home and provide for your family so we thought about the way picket fence it's that traditional vision of homeownership central to living the dream so many people these days we live in the faberge which is turned into a nightmare for millions of americans who've lost their homes to foreclosure or are facing it now people like retired corrections officers contract she didn't want to show her face because of this it's a horrible thought to be facing foreclosure you have a family you have children and you try to keep things stabilize for them but she feels helpless in the fight against losing their home if that you wish and she's in because of a dispute with the banks over the terms of her adjustable rate mortgage i do feel like this i right the should be my right to remain in my home i've been her

mortgages but with new proposals on the table by the obama administration the message seems clear but this country could no longer afford to prop up the middle class archies lawrence lister explains more on the story of. the american dream you know you better have a good year our program could be a bar room and provide for your family so we spoke about the way ticket and its traditional vision of homeownership central to living the dream like the many people we live in the faberge which is turned into a nightmare for millions of americans who've lost their homes to foreclosure. or our faith in it now people like retired corrections officer saw she didn't want to show her face because of this horrible problem to be facing foreclosure you have a family you have your children we try to keep things stabilize for them but she feels helpless in the fight against losing their home i think she's in because of a dispute with the banks over the terms of her adjustable rate mortgage i do feel like it's a right the it should be my right to remain in my home i've been here for nearly twenty years

well i don't think that the obama administration is going to frame it as competition but it's very clear china became the biggest foreign investor in latin america last year and the way that the obama administration has framed this trip is really about opening up new markets and expanding the u.s. presence in markets in brazil we have to keep in mind that we in the united states because of i think republican opposition were not able to do a stimulus program that would have been adequate to jumpstart our economy given the crash experience and so because of that the obama administration has announced a policy of doubling exports twenty fifteen and what that means really is that we're sort of asking the rest of the world that bail us out because we weren't able to do it the most sickly and brazil they see is an emerging market and a place like to help us do that so the entire framing of the administration around the strip really has been around trying to place more u.s. products in markets in brazil and i think from the brazilian point of view it's a little striking because they actually we