of change.it is an immigrant nation make up an excerpt of, "harvest of empire: the untold story of latinos in america." it premieres this week. it is by the award winning journalist and "democracy now!" co-host juan gonzalez. his father of three other books including "news for all the people -- he is the author of three other books including, "news for all people." we are very pleased that he is with us here in the new york studio, not in his usual guest chair, but as -- not in his usual host chair, but as a guest. along with the film's co- director, eduardo lopez. we welcome you both to "democracy now!" >> it is a different perspective on this side of the table. >> you wrote this book years ago, that it came out updated, and now in a film. why have you chosen to go this route? >> it was not really my choice, but the producers came to me several years ago. they have been working on this them for about seven years now? >> ps. >> they came to me several years ago that they were really excited abou

from the tribes of highland new guinea and the chiefdoms of the american northwest, to the kingdoms of the ancient maya, archaeologists trace the evolution of human leadership. theirs is a journey through time seeking clues to the emergence of the state. join us now at the dawn of a civilization to uncover the roots of power, prestige and wealth. in the pyramids and monuments of the ancient maya, workers search for clues to the emergence of a vanished civilization. these are the ruins of the ancient city of copan, honduras. dozens of stone monuments, called stelae, proclaim the power of mighty beings. until experts could read these carved hieroglyphs, most scholars thought these larger-than-life figures represented maya gods. but we now know they are portraits of copan's rulers, with names like butz chan... smoke shell... and the most powerful of all, 18 rabbit. the maya called them "c'ul ahau," or divine lord. the title was inherited. we call them kings since they passed their power to brothers or sons. a dynasty of 16 kings ruled copan for 400 years. how did they first acquire their

all of the victims of that tragedy. one of the ways i think we can honor those who lost their life that terrible day is make sure an attack like that never happens again. to harden our defenses and take into account the hard lessons that we learned that day. among the most important that the attackers exploited was the border security. the hijackers actually tapped through united states border security a. kind total of 68 times. the relative ease with which the terrorists evaded detection by presenting fraudulent documentation, passports, and false statements on visa applications, gave false statements to border officials, and certainly the failure to watch lists known al qaeda operative became missed opportunities to stop those attacks. it's highlighted, certainly the need to close the hole exploited by the 9/11 terrorist by strengthening our border security and visa issuance polcy. curtailing the ability of terrorists to travel to the us us can be one of the most effective counterterrorism denying terrorists freedom t

>> many of them were and actually many of them continue to be and have not gone out of print.o even though that was a specific criterion, so many of them have been translated and carried american ideals across the world. >> i want to ask you about one of the specific book, and that was emily dickinson's book of poetry spent of course emily dickinson is a must-have american poet. but the particular book that we have here in the show is an art book. it's done by cooperative in cuba, and they have reproduced the book of poetry and have also made a facsimile of her house in amherst and the little tree. and it is made out of recycled material. emily dickinson, of course, is a phenomenal poet but we really didn't know about her or discover until the midnight team 50s when we finally were able to see her poems, or read her poems and love her poems and edited in in the way she admits. juli: was doing the editing? >> well, you know, those professional editors, they like to take the pan and make you can for. so for emily of all people, that was an awful constriction. >> books that shape

it can't be allowed to stand that the head of state of one country orders the murder of a citizen of another country who's living in the country he's a citizen of and has committed no crime. it's outrages you. so basically i was told let's just lie low for a few days, be quiet in the countryside, let the diplomats do their work, let the politicians do their work, it will be fixed. then all of us believed that this was a matter of a few days. and ended up being 11 years. but what i'm saying is that when i agreed with them that i should not go home for a few days i thought i was agreeing not to go home for only a few days. in retrospect i think i should have gone home and not gone all these wanderings. >> rose: did the world community of leaders come home for you? >> slowly. i think the victory of this thing that we defend was a victory of ordinary people. the people who really came together with extraordinary sol dare tae was the community of book sellers. above all i think that was the front line. that was where there were bombs and threats and menaces and ordinary people just-- the

of assassinations of moderate muslim clerics. mitt romney officially accepted the republican party's nomination as presidential candidate this week as he did so he slammed his rival barack obama saying his handling of foreign affairs was poor romney said a much tougher stance must be taken toward some countries including russia but critics have questioned much of what was said artie's comments. mitt romney is now officially barack obama's opponent for the white house and he's talking tough throwing rocks well verbal rocks not only the president but also nations at the republican convention where he accepted his nomination mr romney did not fail to once again highlight his any masorti towards russia he criticized the president for not being hard enough in his view on russia when it comes to missile defense mitt romney says under his administration quote mr putin will see less flexibility and more backbone end of quote and of course that adds up to his earlier statements that russia is america's number one geopolitical enemy and th

of u.s. activist rachel corrie by an israeli army bulldozer despite a court's controversial decision to clear the military from any plane. and a black hole at the border a hundred and fifty thousand people slip through the nets of newquay immigration control setting alarm bells ringing that this could be just the tip of the iceberg . the british high court has smashed the hopes and reputation of russia itself exiled bodies but it's all skin has high stakes lawsuit against billionaire compatriot armando but our mortgage was dismissed and one of the most expensive cases in legal history more on that from artie's laura smith. the final verdict in this case found against bodies that is old school which means that he won't receive a cent of the more than five point six billion dollars that he was also going for for a. run up but i want to promote himself was not in court but his old scheme was he a relieved looking very upbeat saying that he had full confidence in the british legal system that was

of the pride of being military of the all the contacts of . military officers which is a little bit forgotten to be. true like to be pathetic. and we have a very organized different kind of military sense even inside. the palace square we have the idea well you know restoration we're going to restore the church to the manger. and you know with a corner starts but our proposal is this church because it's inside the museum will be used only once for the church service says it skewed director of the hermitage museum in st petersburg spotlight will be back shortly after we take a small break so stay with us don't go. more news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images. from the streets of canada. giant corporations rule today. dear mom i'm sorry that i had to do this i've been in so much pain in the past year that i can't take it anymore the stomach and chest pains have been getting worse and no doctor has been able to help me please know that i'll finally be at peace with no more pain i wish i could have had a life with it was

part of that's bain, part of that's the auto industry, part of that's just more of a union kind of tradition. but the reality is that the big anomaly -- and another part, by the way, is that fewer of the white working class in the midwest are evangelical. >> unemployment rates are very low. >> so to be an anomaly on the white working class, it's actually working right now at least in obama's favor. but, look, these are voters, as reihan said, there's very little reason to feel loyalty to either party. neither party has shown that they can deliver positive economic results in their life, and right now the default is at least the republicans won't take my money and give it to people who i think don't deserve it which was, is essentially kind of going back to the neo-80s politics in the welfare and medicare ad. so the republicans are running at about 60% nationally among those voters. but i, you know, look, i think it's going to be very difficult for democrats to ever get back to a point where they're winning most of them. i think the goal is different, it's just to avoid the floor falling out

thousands, tens of thousands of telegraphs. the present-day point of view and the point of view of certain contemporary says rather extraordinary invasion of privacy and it led to the end of the courier of the presidential contender because some of the telegrams that were revealed were really quite embarrassing to him. but what is interesting about this historically as there was little outrage from congress about these dragnet subpoenas. so who is concerned? the marshes were concerned and western union was concerned. the corporation was actually moving these messages. of course the telegraph in this company was dominating the government by commercial providers. see the western union seeking privacy and western union sense of standards in the telegraph should be the same as the standards in the post office. so the government is not necessarily the best guardian of privacy. i think that's a lesson we can take from the history of the 1870s and the 1890s. postcode did samuel morris direct from his invention? >> guest: samuel morris

some discussion of the middle class, a lot of the discussion of the wealthy, but almost nothing of thosef us live in poverty, some 47 million. the highest raw numbers likely in our history and the highest percentage in over 20 years. the figures are worse by race, with black, latino and native americans closer to 30% living in poverty. it's worse by age. kids, the youngest, the most vulnerable, the poorest, over 22% in the country, over 25% of our kids in north carolina live in poverty. and then if you cut that again according to race, in north carolina it seems to me a sort of badge of humiliation, 40% of our children of color live in poverty. numbers that are tough to mention in polite company and out loud, numbers which almost indicate a failure of a commonwealth. the south, though, is worse. the figures are worse, the economic circumstance is worse than the rest of the country. if you look at it by region, according to the census data, about 17% of the south lives in poverty and the other three regions would be between 12% and 15%. uninsured, over 19% of us in the south are uninsured

and i'm sure that i thought about that, of kind of weaving those stories of the people of the time into it. >> what he did very good job. >> thank you. one of the reviews to make light of the fact issue are heavy on the conditional tone. and i wondered if that was something you are conscious of, dissents is speculative prose, maybe this happen. it seems that we don't know for sure. all of those turns of phrase that for you as a writer is evidence of our responsibility with some certainty that such and such happened. did you struggle with this at all in the writing process? >> i did actually. there's a lot less than there was. so i think, you know, i am a journalist and actually when you're writing a book, is quite different from writing a newspaper article that we want to it almost every sentence attribute and say very specifically, i know this, but i don't know that. and also to, i think there was a desire that i had and that i thought the reader would have to put yourself in this person's shoes and to feel and to imagine there's a power in that. i know that i can't know. and there's a

the clanking of chains and the creaking of machinery of punctuated by the shouts of the workman. that afternoon they inspected the gridlocks designed to raise the vessel's 85 feed for a level of the cut. i cannot begin to describe it, franklin roosevelt said. bubbling over with enthusiasm. but two things that impressed him most because of the colossal whole made in the ground and the lock because of the engineering prowess and size. imagine an intricate concrete structure nearly 1 mile long and three or 400 feet wide. double gates is still weighing 700 tons apiece. the rest of his life franklin would grope -- draw inspiration. here he recognized the political boldness of a very high order. a vision that tear to change the world. ever after words somewhere in his memories of the trip would lie his new understanding of presidential power. an understanding that in later years would time and again generate a visionary concepts. sometimes baffled and on occasion infuriates the world with its daring. grant, far-reaching projects like the north sea, the new deal , the tennessee valley a

something of. the longstanding conflict between israel and the palestinians continues with new evidence of children in the front line testimonies of always radio soldiers and a shocking video of how they separated a mother from her daughter in a small put seen in village have taken the strive to a new level of reports now from tel aviv. there were demonstrations as indeed there are weekend now sally which is a palestinian village in footage that was captured on camera these soldiers can be seen going from house to house and physically taking people out of their homes one person was injured at least six people were arrested five of whom were children and there are pictures of the daughters of one woman trying to save their mother as she was manhandled by the soldiers who were or signaling stun grenades now these reports come hot on the heels of another damning conclusion there israeli defense forces has come under fire from its own rank and file an organization known as breaking the silence has publ

we provided hundreds of hours of training. we made sure though that when people got there they recognize that they were going to a government training conference, and he was going to look every bit the way that sounds. and that meant that he was going to be focused and the mission oriented. and people did have business to do there, they needed to, a., not, or b., leave when they were done. >> both of you gentlemen have worked for other government departments, correct? you with the department of treasury and you with the department of justice? >> yes. >> without asking you to rat them out but i guess i'm asking you to rat them out, is there similar type of process in terms of having 50, 60 conferences a year? i will start with you, mr. tangherlini. >> i came from the treasury department but i know from the secretary down we took very strictly our stewardship of taxpayer resources. so certainly in the three years i was there i never saw anything like that. >> mr. milner? >> neither have i. i did not see that at department of jus

so the demonstrations were an expression of a high level of anger and a rejection of what is happening and the u.s. embassy represents the symbol of america as a people and government so people, the demonstrators, had a loud voice and as a government, it's our responsibility as the government of egypt we protected the embassy. we do not condone any attack against any embassies or any guests. this is a part of our principles and culture and what our religion orders us to do. >> rose: so the united states government and egyptian government are friends, not enemies? >> ( translated ): we are not enemies, of course. >> rose: you're our friends? >> ( translated ): for sure we are friends. >> rose: allies? >> the u.s. president said otherwise. >> rose: i know he did. but i'm asking the egyptian president. do you consider the united states an ally? >> ( translated ): this is depending on the definition of an ally. we have a real partnership in the interest and we want to achieve the interest of the world and to participate in many issues-- diplomatic, political, economical-- exchange of exper

of 68. republicans and democrats in the spirit that you're calling for and one of her thought since we are talking about our sponsoring institutions for this really extraordinary conversation, and that is the national archives. i think that the framers of the constitution who would amending their regime, they studied the state constitution and they saw which ones work and didn't. massachusetts put his concentration to a vote so let's put our constitution to a vote. most of the constitutions have three branches of government. let's go at that. most of them have bicameralism, let's go at that. an independent executive works well in massachusetts and new york was build on that so the amendments, many of the bill of rights. george mason u. mentioned. he first gets us virginia's bill of rights and that is a model the model for the federalist bill of rights. the abolition of slavery occurred in various days and then not the federal level so we have to study and what has gone before is? we have his

of the judiciary of course being one of the three branches, and certainly the framers in devising the notion of the separation of power expected there to be tension and interplay among the branches and is there ever as we saw in the health care debate with a one point the leave you with is it's a very changeable kind of situation. sometimes one branches and one branches down. i think in the early guantanamo period right after 2001 when the prison in guantanamo bay was filling up, we have a kind of a clash of the to the institutions that were sort of alpha institutions on steroids at that time. we have the white house claiming huge on reviewable power to do what ever they want at guantanamo and we have the supreme court kind of getting up on its hind legs saying not quite so fast. there are certain norms and due process that apply even in wartime to a situation like this. the executive and congress had to step back a little bit. they pushed back. the supreme court pushed back and there were three rounds of decisions at guantanamo ending four years ago. it's now all dissolve into the lo

first of all, in terms of the impact of money, there was an effort to try to get control of that. supreme court overturned it. so i don't know what the solution to that piece of it is. i would hope, the history of democracy, dealing with problems on the doorstep or on the horizon is not encouraging in this respect. most democracies seem to have to have a crisis before people rise above to do what is the right thing for the country. i think many of us would argue that the crisis is here. it's not on the doorstep and it's certainly not on the horizon but it is here and it is here now. and i think in some ways it's too abstract, and so one of the things that i found in dealing with members of congress, but also in dealing with the public, that specifics in terms of consequences are more compelling than broad generalizations. so the reason that i referred to pilots not being able to fly as often, soldiers not having as many bullets. getting down to the specifics, for example, of what sequestration will mean in the daily lives of americans and in terms of what the federal government de

i know we have one of the editors of the crusader of the time and i remember reading a lot of their articles that basically students were very upset about this segregation they called it but he understood they made concessions and when i talk to the men it is the idea that the very highest level of the college, the interest of people cared about their success. the interested people had faith in them and there was all their books and there was an open door. he had that philosophy for the 2,000 students who were there. many people here feel very close. he was with us last night and he was certainly there last week for clarence thomas. but when i talked father brooks today he wants leaders and felt the college was missing out on being the best institution in this country but not reaching out getting all parts of society. women, black, white, asian. i know that have made great strides in diversity. certainly there has been a very strong generation of leaders of women. there were many other women that were pioneers. one thing that's interesting is there has been great success in terms of what's h

reasons for this one is the increasing of vulnerability and uncertainty of the future of the euro in the bloc it's clear it's been going on for a couple of years now and also the deteriorating economic conditions are still the clear way out of the crisis and secondly and i think importantly for the leaders of that country is that changing the public opinion in bulgaria people they're asking the very same questions that the citizens of credit euro zone countries are asking who else are going to be allowed and for bulgaria's point of view who are we going to be allowed once we join the euro and also the country has been through three years already it was measures cuts in pensions it wages and you know for the last year especially a stereo is almost a key word when discussing the eurozone or the euro and now bulgaria is not the only country it's just the latest in the string of countries lithuania last week the prime minister has said that it will only join the euro when quote unquote europe was ready and of course that is at this point very unclear when the state will be coming and als

of the world. and we work together as one very large network to try to understand how rainforests function and how they're gonna change in the future. narrator: tropical rainforests are believed to be the oldest terrestrial ecosystems on earth. they are home to over 5 million known species of plants, animals, and insects, with millions more yet to be discovered. and trees play an essential role in the diversity of these intricate ecosystems. dr. davies: one famous ecologist said trees in tropical rainforests are like -- he called them the ecosystem engineers. what he meant by that is that they provide the habitat on which all these other organisms depend. so monkeys that live up in canopies of trees go extinct if you take the trees away. ants and termites -- they're gonna be absent if the trees disappear. trees create the structure in forests, and therefore they're central to this whole ecosystem. narrator: although rainforests currently cover only 6% of the planet, they are home to over half of th

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of thousands of hits. people had gone to the web and looked up what newt gingrich was talking about. >> another question -- recently, one of mitt romney's operatives made the statement to reporters when they were pushing him on the claim about welfare. we will keep running that, we will not have our campaign did but -- dictated by fact checkers. probably a lot of news people were shocked by the cynicism they heard coming out of his mouth. jim, you have been around the longest -- did this surprise you? >> i really cannot say that i was. they had kind of behave that way all along. they were certainly not terribly worried enough to change the rhetoric when something is pointed out to them. >> you mean the romney campaign? >> yes. i do not see a lot of evidence of trimming statements back to make a more accurate when they are repeated -- >> i do not know about that. this is -- my take on this, in the context of that question and answer, they were saying that this is the most effective ad. they said, that got f

thank you. >> on behalf of the of the board of directors and people of san francisco, thank you for this creative contribution for making this system work so well. [ applause ] >> thank you. >> next we have a couple of individuals from the transit division, some people refer to as muni. and i would like is to ask mr. john haley to come forward. along with olivero valley and mr. valley has been with us for more than 33 years, 28 of which have been in the cable car division. working for 23 years as an accomplished grip man and if anyone has ridden on cable cars can attest to the fact that doing that for 23 minutes is probably difficult enough for most human beings and so doing it for 23 years is certainly impressive. just an outstanding record with muni and the mta, excellent safety record and no avoidable accidents in last 15 years. past five years he has been working at pal and market turn table as an ambassador assisting patrons, as well as his fellow crewmembers. probably one of the most visible ambassadorial positions we have in mta. he is a great role-model for his colleagues in term

of complaints. i don't think services in the marina were overwhelmed, muni performed well. we can do better like community augments so there are operational things we want to improve on and test out in october. we have anecdotal evidence of certainly neighborhoods, commercial districts, starting with the waterfront ones having increased interest. we don't see sort of upticks in hotel bookings for august. at least in our sort of unscientific sampling. i think part of that is what we will look like next year, august, september and july are the big tourist areas anyway. >> it is hard to measure who came specifically for america's cup year over year. hotel occupancy rates seem to be similar. >> right. for that sector we will have to do thinking about how we measure that. do we do surveys, try to find ways to count people year over year. i mean we want to be able to assign with some specificity this was an america's cup benefit. we have been talking to the organizing committee as part of what they are pu

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she is something of an invalid for most of the rest of the piers. junso comes back and finds his wife in the hospital so he decides not to take a family to new jersey but to stay in the camp and care for his wife. mary and billy and end up leaving to join bill at a factory in cleveland. the only ones left in the camp in 1945 are rio and junso. they finally leave in september of 1943, just a month or two -- i'm sorry, 45 just a month or two before the camp closes and they head back to california to find the cruelest blow. they discover when they get back that the landlord a few months after they had left in 1942, plowed under their rhubarb crop, carted off the building. they are gone. they had nothing left. and the cruelest blow of all, it turns out that the landlord didn't even own the land. he had been collecting rent on the entire family since 1937, but the property had ceded to the state because the landlord hadn't been paying his taxes. the state hadn't come in and taken possession but that landlord had no right to their rent from 1937 all the w

he the tensions in the east of the greed of the. just the first year has announced the who was one of the military. of the. sixty percent of its military forces. it's not the. north korea surround north korea it's about china clearly. the united states is intending to jack up the arms race and the same type of must be said the u.s. is also doing the same thing to russia expanding missile defense throughout the throughout europe and into central asia and clearly the u.s. is looking for trouble now so. it's good to have a company today this is coming up in just a few minutes full of steam one year on occupy wall street markets anniversary with massive action in new york hundreds of arrests serving to attract more attention to the activists of course. now a huge naval war games are underway in the persian gulf though the water is on flying middle eastern flags but those of britain the u.s. and their allies the drill is happening right near the strait of hormuz softer coast of iran as reports pour in that israel is preparing a military

not because of the course of action but because of the failure of the other agencies to provide timely information. this section, title 5, simply sets a more reasonable time frame for federal agencies to get information to the corps so a permit decision can be made in a timely manner. too many of us -- it is strange to see this amendment from those who purport to extol the virtues of big government. sips this amendment makes it clear they don't believe big government is competent enough to reach a decision in a reasonable amount of time. the section of title 5, the language which has already passed in the house in resounding bipartisan majority, will streamline the permit application process and ensure that $220 billion of annual economic activity associated with section 404 activities does not grind to a halt. time is money and this is about jobs. and how long it takes to get permits done and holds up opportunity for jobs. i urge all members to oppose the jackson lee amendment. the chair: the question is on the amendment offered by the gentlelady from texas. so many as are in favor sa

of u.s. taxpayer money thrown into that black hole in the city of london lehman brothers. made off the london whale j.p. morgan london whale m.f. global all of these happened london they couldn't happen elsewhere that's exactly what we've been saying this for months for years now finally people are beginning to realize i think the m.f. global was really that what tripped it off finally they said you know why are all the major bank frauds always in the city of london you know in the city of london of course is the only place in the world in the banking world we can re hypothecate to infinity even in the west which is corrupt you could only read hypothecate one hundred forty percent say underlying marginal full security like the u.s. government treasury bond but in london you can do it infinity you can sell the same bond in london infinite number of times gee i wonder if that could lead to fraud and you know by the way regarding this london disease. and acting as a sort of haven for all sorts o

is accused of safeguarding of the assets of the ousted egyptian regime with the property of key figures in hosni mubarak's inner circle still untouched just by international sanctions. and the long arm of the copyright industry reaches all the way to cambodia with one of the founders of the pirate bay the file sharing site now facing extradition to sweden. in live from moscow this is r t good to have you with us. the european union's or poorest member states bulgaria has shelved the plans had to join the euro zone its prime minister cited the continent's deteriorating financial climate and fears for the euro's future as the reasons behind the single currency snub artie's brussels correspondent us are silly as all the details will kariya is posing the latest blow to the embattled currency you know it has put on hold its long held plans are joining the euro bloc and interesting we build area in contrast to a lot of bigger economies has managed to reduce its budget deficit to two point one percent of its g.d.p. and that is safely within the three percent of rule set by the e.u. a number co

so people can kind of grabs ahold of that. but he made a very -- the current president made a very, very bold statement to the world by saying this place is closed. >> he made a bold statement by saying the testing grounds is closed, made a net of one say no more nuclear weapons -- we have them, we don't want them. but then he did other things as well. for example, kazakhstan has always had a lot of oil, but it has been in the ground and not developed. really did not help the people much at all during the soviet union. so, shortly after kazakhstan became independent, but there was an international calls saying, all right, let's work with the best international companies and develop the oil for the best of the country so you end up with american companies chevron coming in very early on toel dopev a large oil detail. that process of inviting in foreign investors was very early. this was a difficult, unsettled period around much of the former soviet union but kazakhstan stepped out and friends fast and said we will take a differ

and a talk on any of us is an attack on all of us. i want to be part of the solution. i want to protect other people from what happened to my mother. i want to combat hate. not just against sikhs, but against all people. i know that what happened was not an isolated incident. i feared happen again. if you do not stand up and do something. i do not anywhere -- want anyone to suffer what we have suffered. i want to build a world where all people can live, work, and worship in america in peace. despite everything, i still believe in the american dream. in my mother's memory, i ask that you stand up for that dream. with me, today, and in the days to come. thank you for hearing the testimony. >> that testimony was touching. it was such a tribute to your mother, to family, your religion, your community, to the values of this nation. so many things that you said need to be heard, not just in this hearing room, but across this country. i hope that the spirit that you bring will teach all of us to be more tolerant and to fight forms of discrimination wherever we can, whenever w

with their allies but also all of the nerve... of other countries of nervous neighbors. then of course iran's role in syria is part of the whole back drop. i mean, iran stands accused and there's evidence that they've been shipping certainly materiale and supplies if not weapons to the iranians. members of the regime have boasted having iranians there on the ground advising syrian army forces. so iran and what iran is up to is very much on people's minds here. >> ifill: president obama arrived at the u.n. general assembly today. he didn't have anything public on his schedule. what has he been up to? >> warner: not much here at the u.n., gwen, despite all of the international crises, not only iran and syria but the anti-american outburst, violence in the middle east. he is not meeting at all one on one with any leaders, we're told. he declined, as we know, to meet with prime minister netanyahu who doesn't get here until thursday. he denieded the request to meet with the new egyptian president mohammed morsi an and the presit of pakistan and the president of libya. again w

a kind of amazing stuff all day. >> host: you spend a lot of time talking about the kind of situations in kenya. what importance does that to your book? >> guest: it explains a lot about barack obama, senior. and this book is more than just the biography. it's about the places that created him come the people created him starting to generations back and moving through to obama himself. his father in some ways represented the promise and the frustrations of africa and kenya and all the more personal level there's a brilliance in the full and some of the tentative it tribalism. the second largest tried in kenya and the colonial period when the british dominated created this sort of tribalism on the different reserves in the different parts of the country so when they got independence and they got power, there was this unfortunate sort of conflict for power, and basically ever since 1963 they've been dominated by the larger tribes, and barack obama, sr. was a nationalist. he wasn't a tribal list. when he came back to kenya in 1965 and started his career, he suffered and i wanted to get th

to pressure vessels oh no well of course all of b. and solar equipment is old all all of the various labors of controls and pipes and so on although so of course the older the reactor the more chance there is of a problem but then the other problem that there is in france is that a lot of the personnel who work at the reactors now are untrained people who go into eastern europe there's an absolute shortage of trained staff the number of nuclear power stations that there are in france and the number of other nuclear sites that are in france it makes france a actual prime problem. now let's have a look at some other stories making headlines around the world this hour and i welled up a u.s. drone talking hell same by senior member of the local branch of al qaeda has killed at least five alleged militants in eastern yemen this is president hadi requested an investigation into another train strike that resulted in the death of twelve civilians at the weekend time until struggling to suppress militant activity in the country which has incre

validity of the of an election year. i have no delusions that is what attracted a great deal of the media attention the case i'm lucky that almost collected its own. what makes the case so important is federalism is at the heart of our constitution. i will quote justice kennedy on this. he said quote federalism was a unique contribution of the framers to political science and political theory. here he quotes a great judge, henry friendly and a great historian, gordon would. then a continuous come in the service the idea may seem counterintuitive. it is the insight of the framers that freedom is enhanced by creation of two governments, not one. the separation of powers is great, but we really do have that. we borrowed that from some other countries. federalism is the unique contribution and it's fair to say that it was a major theme and accomplishment for chief justice ranker spies to reignite the federally financing and limits on the federal government. but it's also fair to say that many people looked at the rehnquist c

of the possible sentencing and of this case and of entrapment really overall. when you look at previous cases like this almost all of them end up pleading guilty because the prosecution the department of justice at this point has a near perfect record of prosecution in terrorism things juries for the most part has been unwilling to you know express enough empathy to move toward any kind of entrapment defense and at the same time because of mandatory minimum sentences you know men who go to trial are looking at a minimum of thirty five years in prison so you know someone like i will tell you it may choose to take a plea to save himself from that minimum thirty five years in prison and that's what we've seen a lot of cases like this where they end up leading out and getting fifteen years but in some cases you know there's a really good case that's coming up in oregon in january with many mamma does and a homicide and his case goes forward in january and they're arguing entrapment and it's a very similar case that this one the f.b.i. provided all of the means that

so then when i saw that the wiki leaks sort of came out of this very linear tradition of of of anonymity technology is slowly developing over time i saw that you know this is something that can be systematized and replicated so then i went looking for the next wiki leaks and that was a kind of tour of the activist world that took these from bulgaria iceland to paris and and finally to berlin where i met this the the engineer known as the architect who rebuilds wiki leaks mission site and then led a mutiny within weeks and went to form his own group called open leaks what i want to talk to you about some of these other groups that i know that in your book you talk about not just wiki leaks they have it these other organizations that are sort of sprung out of it why do you think though that they haven't had the same impact as making leaks at least that wiki leaks had initially well you know one thing that i try to highlight in the book is that they have in very small cases i spent some time with the bulgarian group called balkan leaks successfully did obtain classified or releases secret d

of the west. with a negotiated settlement the old with the purpose of this exercise is to make sure that there is no competition in the middle east for light water and such is by way of syria iran and other places all these other things are excuses to claim that they care one bit about humanitarian concerns as it is a gross or a rebel fighter say about foreign powers coming in and establishing a no fly zone over syria would significantly help them in their fight against assad's government meanwhile the tactics employed by the opposition on the ground are raising even more questions as artie's lucy coffin all found out. it was another disturbing example of the many atrocities committed throughout the syrian war a truck bomb with homemade explosives headed for a checkpoint to the entrance of syria's largest city. you love us thank you but the men that are loading it aren't assad forces they're one of the many groups fighting under the banner of the free syrian army and their captives said to be a me

stumbled fourteen million of population and this is another sign of that after the pile of calls so certainly the cutoff of diplomatic relations completely with between damascus and ankara led to new speculation new debate about whether or not turkey is crossing the line to our to. help the opposition forces by allowing transfer of arms material etc etc this. leads certainly to a lot of. doubts glory's that this kind of attitude would lead to a backlash. transfer of violence. in lourdes turkey. the revolution in egypt has swept away the decades old dictatorship there but when it comes to sweeping the streets the country's new leadership isn't having so much success the prolong state of flux have followed last year's uprisings lead to monday in matters like basic public services to suffer the turns of garbage now rotting on the streets of the capital of his exam the boy has got the story of revolution or a leftover that's already starting to cause a bit of a stink it took egyptians eighteen days of mass protests to oust hosni mubarak yet in the eighteen in soon month they've encounte

those individuals you had mentioned are not examples of the types of progress of journalism that i think a lot of people are here to talk about and listened of route -- was it about. these guys are kind of villains in a sense of where we want journalism to go. fox news and the daily, who knows where that is going to go, but they are not necessarily public-interested, public radio, public tv, public press minded people. >> that is an opinion that has probably been ill-served in my opinion, having worked in two of those companies and seen the dedication that they give to journalism. everyone has their opinion of fox news, right? rupert also owns "the australian." he owns the "wall street journal." bloomberg sprung from nowhere to create progress of journalism online. i will respectfully disagree on that. >> thinking about california watch, we feature them regularly, and they are doing excellent investigative work. is anyone familiar with those, and can you talk about the success and where you see that going? do you think that we will see more of these kinds of outlets? >> i think that payi

all of this as a result of some anger because of a youtube video, some sort of film that portrayed thephet muhammad in a less than positive way. and it's causing major political ramifications as our viewers by now know. mitt romney just a little while before the president issued a very strong statement himself, condemning these attacks but at the same time the same time condemning the initial statement by the u.s. embassy in cairo which was clearly a misguided statement that went after those who produced these kinds of films. and didn't directly, directly condemn those who attacked the u.s. embassy in cairo. so this is going to cause a lot of political uproar and back and forth between the romney and obama campaigns. i was also struck by the fact that both of these attacks occurred on the 11th anniversary of the 9/11. yesterday when i spoke to mike rodgers, he made it clear that there are elements of al qaeda in libya right now. in fact, in tunisia, as well, and perhaps not coincidental that these attacks on the u.s. embassy in cairo and the u.s. diplomatic mission, the consulate in be

voices of average americans, end of quote. the president's criticism really is about the constitution , so i want to quote from 1976 when the supreme court was less ideologically divided. they had this to say, quote, the concept that government may restrict the speech of some elements of our society and order to enhance the relative voices of others is wholly formed to the first amendment, end of quote. since that time, individuals have exercised their constitutional right to spend unlimited funds on campaign speech so that goes back to 1976. i do not recall anyone on the other side of the aisle complaining in 2004 that george soros was quote drowning out the voices of average americans, end of quote. citizens who meaningfully participate in politics and seek to influence popular opinion often must exercise their freedom of association. there are many organizations who can contribute to public debate from all parts of the political spectrum. media corporations should not be the only corporations using corporate funds to influe

and so this is one of a whole series of things that i kind of put in the category of self-government. the way that we run our own lives responsibly. and this is what has made america strong is the fact that we're good at doing that here in america. >> moderator: that is the end of our question and answer session. it is time for our closing statements. as a reminder the candidates each get two minutes. we're starting with congressman todd akin. akin: you know, america is an absolutely unique and great country. sometimes we forget. we fought two world wars. we annexed no territory, crowned no kings or princes and then we voted to tax ourselves to rebelled our enemies. how often has that happened in worldist. we have the oldest written constitution. when there is tsunami or earthquake we see the gray hull with red, white and blue proudly flying with medical help for people all over the world. this is who we are, we're americans. that is the we have to ask a question, what is the secret of america's greatness? and i would believe that it is pretty well captured by jefferson when he said w

say they are set to return to the streets of manhattan ahead of the first anniversary of the start of the occupy wall street movement. and western sanctions to pressure iran into talks about its nuclear program provoked a little harder than ridicules the country announces oil sales are on the rise. but first julian assange could find himself in the clearest forensic evidence in the swedish sex assault case against him points to the alleged victim's story possibly being untrue there was no trace of julian assad is a d.n.a. on a piece of key evidence submitted to support the allegations assad has always denied the charges are maintained they were trumped up to get him back to get back at him for his weekly leaks activities to distinguish spanish human rights attorney belt and is now heading songes legal team as the whistleblower works to evade extradition to the us is renowned for fighting the most controversial cases says his client did nothing more than exercise his freedom of speech. i do not think mr song is a spy all he did was exercise his right to freedom of information he receiv

are the cause of these kinds of weapons so it's sort of nonsense. to do this we are witnessing. the issue syria's been raised at the annual u.n. general assembly gathering this week has russia called on those who support the rebels to stop sidestepping international law and the long running question of whether iran is trying to develop nuclear weapons was also a heated debate with israel trying to draw up quite literally a case for intervention but important eyes in new york for us. as world leaders gathered for the annual u.n. general assembly international anger over and islamophobia american film was still blazing in the muslim world addressing the world body u.s. president barack obama condemned the video nonetheless defending the right to free speech as president of our country and commander in chief of our military i accept that people are going to call me awful things every day. and i will always defend their right to do so obama also pledged his support for arab spring nations like egypt and libya however when egypt's new president spoke at the un for the first time moha