we have people, a roomful of people here to participate. we have so many others who could not get here. they're great to have tickets parking their cars. they cannot speak their piece. this legislation is anti- homeless. it criminalizes poverty. it is defined by folks who have money to keep their money while folks to do not have money are pushed to the edge and beyond. we're going to face budget cuts this year. more public spaces are going to be closed. where are people going to go? there aren't decriminalized for taking a nap. -- they are going to be carmen ddecriminalized for taking a na. these are problems we can address in conversation. not through legislation that criminalizes the poor. thank you. supervisor wiener: let me call the three main -- remaining cards. those are the last cards i have. if you are intending to speak and have not been called, please fill out a yellow card. >> i am opposed to this legislation. i am queer, i was born and raised in the caster. my parents live there and i still live in the district. i currently work

sometimes there is people i do not like, sometimes they're people like. that their version -- this is part of the beauty of living in the neighborhood. including the smoking issue in this legislation -- this seems almost duplicitous. you have an anti-free speech legislation and on the other hand -- and hand you have anti- smoking but the station and you're putting them together. i think that it's disingenuous. a number of people have highlighted experience of there being a lot of noise and violence and i'm not sure how many people are in the area. all that comes from the bars. there are not real people in the plan is being wyland. people are filling up from the bottom. thank you. supervisor wiener: let me call some more names before get to the next speaker. favre's diane, michael -- [read ing names] ellen collins, rev. glenda hope. nan, susan englander, dylan cook, bill wilson. if you wish to speak and your name has not been called, please fill out a yellow card. next speaker. >> i have a question. if this legislation passes, and i go up to the park and i

people are jealous, hitting on other people. we are a bunch of haters on all the folks who have money. up to me about the issue. that is the argument -- i literally saw it on the news tonight. mitt romney used that phrase, that it is envy on the part of many americans against those who happen to be well-off. >> it is war. it is a class war that has been perpetrated by the rich on to everybody else. that is a class war. it is one they started. the mistake they made, to deal with the racial card of this, is there but has been on the next of people of color -- their boot has been on the necks of people of color since we began. this was a nation founded on genocide and built on the backs of slaves. [applause] we started with a racial problem. we tried to actually eliminate one entire race, and then we used another to build this country actually quite quickly into a world power. this country never would have had the wealth that it had had it not had slavery for a couple of hundred years. [applause] if it had had to pay people -- if t

in the age of internet do people really have to live in big cities you know people don't have to live in big cities but there's a very interesting phenomenon which we see in the united states and that's there are certain cities that were shrinking that are growing and are san francisco washington new york these are cities which actually have a kind of cultural life for them it turns out people want to be with other people so i don't i people can work anywhere but they still want to be with other people says blair will be director of canon institute for advanced gresham's the spotlight will be back shortly after we take a break so stay with us we'll tell you can do this interview in the. white stream cascading from on the slopes to you is miss moments. but this beauty brings deaths at a speed of more than two hundred kilometers. the steps of a launch. this is our time. to reclaim the american dream and reaffirm that fundamental truth that out of many we are one that one we breathe the we hope. to me the american dream is to live in peace and prosperity and freedom and a government unde

in the age of internet do people really have to live in big cities you know people don't have to live in big cities but there's a very interesting phenomenon which we see in the united states and that's certain cities that were shrinking that are growing and are san francisco washington new york these are cities which actually have a kind of cultural life through the returns are people want to be with other people so i don't people can work anywhere but they still want to be with other people says blair the director of kind of the institute for advanced gresham's spotlight will be back shortly after we take a break so stay with us we'll continue this interview in there. i had a family i lived in a fairly nice community wasn't which was an upscale it was just like you know archie bunker's society ok then they started showing up here what happened was my company decided i could get cheap labor and they got rid of us. legally legally. every morning we have to go to work and you know we have to pay our bills and we have to do it and that's just the american dream and if you want the ameri

people are not working. and we know what it takes to put people back to work. he said some of those things last night. lowering corporate taxes, lowering regulations, opening up all of the above in energy. cracking down on china. he just doesn't do any of those things and if i'm president, i will do those things and i'll get you back to work. thank you. >> all three of these folks sound great and i agree. i would just add that health savings account, which i introduced 20 years ago with john kasich is really the fundamental reform of getting consumers back involved in the health care system. the problem with the answers from congressman gingrich and governor romney is that, well, they didn't always say what they're saying. governor romney was the author of romney care, which is a top down government-run health care system which, read an article today, has 15 different items directly in common with obama care. everything from the increase in the medicaid program, not just that government is going to mandate you buy something that's a condition of breathing, mand

the poor people out. you have to keep places for poor people. poor people do not like living in poor places. [laughter] can we talk very seriously about that? [applause] why aren't we thinking about different ways to say, we are not going to abolish capitalism tomorrow. but we can come up with ways to create opportunity in our inner cities, in the port areas, in the rural areas that need that support and help move them out of poverty, so we are not talking about them like this thing that is demonized and criminalize. but actually allowing them to move into the american dream. [applause] there is a lot of stuff -- >> there is a lot of support for people moving out of poverty. in most states, to fill out a food stamp application, it is 13 pages. it is easier to get a gun. can you imagine being a single mother going into the food stamp outreach office while you are working and having to rush through filling out a food stamp application? we cannot even seem to organize around the simplification of a of a form

it's people. people connecting with people. it's one thing to talk about something in the abstract and it's another thing to actually figure out how to do it in real time with all sorts of things happening at once. and it's tricky. so what i'm going to do -- first of all, i want to say by reference people ask me what recovery is about, and basically what i've decided now is it starts as a sprint and it ends as a marathon. only when you're sprinting you don't realize it's a marathon. and that's probably a good thing. so you get worn out too soon. but really the sprint part of it is really the emergency response and the immediate aftermath. i say a couple things about that and community engagement with the business community and then the marathon part is really the long-term recovery and i'll say about that and vision santa cruz. so in santa cruz what happened that cloud of yellow dust was actually about a million square feet of the downtown with a third of it collapsing, essentially, or near collapse and a third of it probably o

younger people. years ago. came into power first as prime minister and later the president russia was haunted by the legacy of the collapse of the soviet union it had all out war in the north caucuses and this war was spreading into russian mainland these problems have been solved during the years no new generation of people they care about absolute a different problem the magnitude of the problems have totally changed they care more about the. ethnical issues about their authenticity and basically this is the fact that pushes people into the streets. and now on to one of the stories that has been making the headlines during the past year mass protests swept across greece where angry crowds clashed with police over government austerity measures the country remains under intense pressure from the european union and the international monetary fund to make savings cuts to qualify for desperately needed bailout money our correspondent sara firth witnessed the worsening crisis in greece in two thousand an

people who are 10 years under are now adults. i am now seeing these people. i like to think i am of the last generation remembers what it was like before the internet. i have siblings who are about 20 years younger than me and they would not have any memory of what the world was like before that. there is a transition that is going on. i feel like i am part of that transition. we do not know what the world looks like in 10 years. for those who are older, i do not know what to say except take from it what you can that does interest. you are clearly interested in wikipedia. you followed these things. you get something from it. some may be a little bit overwhelming. it may also be amusing. i think people from the older generation are never going to understand it as well as those who grew up with it. both sides have interesting perspectives to add. i think they look forward to seeing all of that as part of the record. both generations need to read what the other experience was in order to get a bigger picture. >> what did your parents do? >> my father is a mechan

from the american people.want to do that so they can continue to grow government. but the answer for america is not to grow government, it is to shrink government. we've been going over the last 20, 30, 40 years, government keeps growing at a faster rate relative to inflation. we've got to stop the extraordinary spending in this country. that's why i put out a plan that reduces government spending, i cut -- i cut programs, a whole series of programs, by the way the number one cut is obama care. that saves $95 billion a year. just as rick indicated, return to states a whole series of programs, food stamps, housing vouchers, medicaid and set how much goes to them. and finally with regard to entitlement, i do not want to change medicare and social security for current retirees. but for younger people coming up, they have to recognize that in the future, higher income people will receive less payments than the premium support program. >> governor huntsman, who knows more about the american economy? you, in answer

people die in america because people die in america." you can't argue with that logic because you can't argue with that logic. but clearly, folks, there is still a problem with all these people dying. which is why i'm issuing a wag of my finger at dead people. [laughter] for disrespecting the sanctity of life by choosing to be dead. hey, i got nothing against dead people. i come from a long line of dead people. hell, some of my best friends are dead. but when it comes to health, the dead need to take some personal responsibility. as santorum continued, people make poor decisions with respect to their health and their health care, and they don't go to the emergency room or they don't go to the doctor when they need to. yet if you're dying of cancer, it's your own fault for not going to the doctor, and if you can't go to the doctor because you don't have insurance, then it's your own fault for not having a job. and if you don't have a job because you're dying of cancer, get yourself to a doctor. what is wrong with you? other... [cheering a

too many people are under water. that is holding the economy back because these people can't pay their mortgages. you say, how do we do this? i asked the same question. how do we do this in washington? only talks about balancing the budget. on the talks about cutting government spending. we can't, and that's why i'm so scared. i am out right scared. we are paralyzed from doing the right thing. once we do the right thing we can begin to address the budget, the long-term budget problem. i wanted to say one are two more things. the long-term budget problem is a health care problem. it is not a social security problem. it is a health care problem. it is not specifically a medicare problem. it is a health care system problem because with one to drive medicare and medicaid costs of, rapidly rising health care costs. in the next two years medicare and social security will not be a problem for our budget. the deficit is going to be created by those things i've just talked about. we can correct that ten year budget balance by

some people won't. some people will never be the same. like that thing with katrina, some people are really good but you can tell just under the surface that they are a wreck. give them space, try to be professional, try to comfort them if you can, but some people won't let you. and don't take it personal. that's the main thing, just don't take it personal. sometimes people just can't be helped. they are not mad at you, they don't hate you, you are trying to help them. they probably understand that, but they have suffered a terrific loss and some people you can't help. but try. you got to try anyway. that's kind of why we're here, we want to try. some other feels, disorientation, physical or emotional numbness, loss of trust or abandonment, cranky. i would be. if i had to go shave in the marina medal school, my cat ran away, i'd be pissed. team behavior, be calm. you don't want to be excited and crazed. be systematic, demonstrate by example. if you are calm and cool and under control, people will see you are there to help. if you act like

you have people dead here people injured here and people who are missed.s wanted is accountability. as a result there will be a thorough investigation. in the investigation should they determine that he was negligence to the degree that people died he will in fact be prosecuted. there will also be the issue, judge, as to whether or not he abandoned ship. there is a saying a captain goes down with the ship and as a result of that you should be the last one off. in the event that the investigation reveals that he was negligence to the extent that people died and he abandoned ship before everyone else got off you can expect a prosecution. >> the whole idea of somebody abandoning ship is crazy. mark, what we have got here is we have a cruise ship, state of the art. $280 million. ten stories high. i mean the titanic was 100 years ago. how does this happen? >> i guess in a nut shell it just got too close to the shore and no one really knows why they did that. they were so close to the shore and they know that reef is there and i guess that is going to be the que

that's 37% of people just deciding in the past few days. in december, 18% of people decided. and 44% had their minds made up. gloria borger, last time around in 2008 you pointed out that 60% of people made up their minds a long time ago. but in the past few days right before the caucuses in 2008, it was actually slightly lower and still huckabee got a surge. what do you interpret from this? >> first of all, i think this reflects the volatility of the race. if i were in the mitt romney campaign and i would look at the numbers before december and in december, i would say, okay, that's good. because if these people are turning out early, they probably are part of that solid group that was for mitt romney. so maybe the mitt romney people are looking at that and saying great. on the other hand, if you're with rick santorum and you see that 12% of the people decided today, okay, i'm the last one to surge, this has got to be good for me. >> right. >> then in the last few days that could be good for me, too. so the santorum campaign can look at this and say, you know what? maybe we'v

people come to this country. my grandfather came to this country because he wanted to come to a country that respected him, and a country that respects you is a country that lives by the laws that they have. and the first act when they come to this country is to disobey a law is no a particularly welcome way to enter this country. i've said from the very beginning, we have to have a country that not only do you respect the law when you come here, but respect the law when you stay here and people have come to this country illegally, have broken the law repeatedly. ful unless you're here on trust fund, working ill locally, probably stolen someone social security number illegally. it's not just one thing you've done wrong, a lot of things. as a result of that, i believe people should not be able to stay here, and so i think we need to enforce the law at the border, secure the border. secondly, we need to have employer enforce finance, everify and we need to have not only employer sanction gut people found working he

people have called for democracy in egypt this is the result when people call for democracy they may not always this realize that the electorate has a very different vision of how they would like their society is run then in other places such as western europe we have islamist hardline parties coming to power and it's going to be an earthquake for both egypt and for the region the muslim brotherhood has been preparing for this moment for decades they have a very thought out detailed agenda for how they wish egypt to look like and it's a very different egypt from what we've known until now it's going to be a much more religious conservative place and much more hostile to the west meanwhile in neighboring libya around two hundred protesters stormed the building of the national transitional council's headquarters in the city of benghazi crowds have protested the slow pace the country was moving towards door democracy protesters threw stones and metal bars out of the building breaking windows and damaging the car of the m.t.c. chairman abdul hundreds of young men many of whom were wounde

even the people who supported the citizens united decision and there were a lot of people among the tea partiers who did that they did that because they believed that companies were practicing free speech by supporting one or the other candidate or one or the other policy what they didn't realize is that that's not exact that's not what goes on these companies give money to both sides because purely because they hope to influence whoever wins so it's not an ideological start it's not an ideological contest it's just an attempt to influence the outcome right now great wonderful reporting as always the rolling stones mantei even joining us from new jersey thanks so much thank you. so how does the general public feel about that too close for comfort relationship between money and politics we are in washington after all but these are all important things to think about when deciding who to vote for whatever your state's primary is so we want to get a sense of what people are talking about on the streets so artie's own adriano said i went out to the streets of d.c. and talk to some of the pe

people apart.es used words that push people apart. cornell often uses words that push people apart. that's not how you solve the problem. >> ari, i don't know what words i've used to push people apart. actually, i'm a little offended by that. >> saying newt's using code words. calling herman cain racist. >> i never called herman cain a racist. i did say he was bigoted. we'll come back and show the tape i didn't call him a racist. if you look at what he said and history behind that, we can't ignore that history. if newt gingrich had simply said poor people, he didn't say poor people, he pointed to black people and said black people. he was doing that on purpose. if he had said poor people, i had no problem with it. >> i think the issue here was he referred to the president as food stamp president and that sparked the sensitivity. >> he called black people out for wanting demanding not welfare checks but jobs, so there's a whole line of things right here we can call him into question about. i'm not t

rich people ran for office. most of the people who run for office are rich people. it's the exception people who -- >> i was watching the golden globes, which i love because they are sitting around drinking. we like them all. they look like ordinary people. >> i suspect the rich are watching your show tonight as well. there may be some people at that 15%. romney is blessed that his opponent, president obama, is also a wealthy man. but the difference where this is going to stick with voters is the corporations are people formulation. not only that he's wealthy, but he's looking out for wealthy people like him. it's easy to puncture. >> you know who watches this show, people who work hard and get home in the evening and want something that's big picture and they can think about. and also some retirees who have worked hard over their lives. your disdain for them -- i'm just kidding. >> newt gingrich joked about romney's 15% tax rate with reporters. let's watch newt going in for the kill. >> we'll find out if it's really 15%. and second, i think that we ought to rename

that somehow people are envious, they are jealous, hating on people. we are a bunch of haters on all the folk who have none. what do you make of that argument? >> it is not envy. it is a war. it is a class war. perpetrated by the rich on to everybody else. that is the class war. it is one that they started. the mistake they have made to deal with the racial part of this is their boot has been on the necks of people of color since we began. this is a nation founded on genocide. and built on the back of slafse. all right? -- slaves, all right? so we started with a racial problem. we wanted to try to eliminate one entire race and that we used another race to build this country quite quickly as a new country into a world power. this country would never have had the wealth that it had had it not had slavery for a couple hundred years. they actually had to pay people to build america, you know, we might just be at that point in utah where we're joining the two rails together maybe at this point right now. i think here is what i find really interesting. you k

adults were hard working people, good people, and i always come back to that word, just good people.made do with what they had. you rarely heard anybody complain. in the evenings they were knitting nets or working in a garden or working on an old house or a motor that wasn't doing right, repairing something. they lived off the water and off the land. so what we saw here in this world was sufl -- self-sufficiency and decency and goodness and kindness. the only glimpse i saw and remember of the outside world were the blimps going over or the old planes that would be going against the hunter air force base, we were in their landing pattern. for us as children, and we proudly remember this, heaven was hearing that put, -- putt, putt, putt of the ice cream man coming down pinpoint road. [laughter] boy, there was another memory i always had, and that was claiming the dasher. [laughter] you had died and gone to heaven. and then other people who had not churned would try to inflict themselves on you. [laughter] so you really wore a shirt so you had all that ice cream. that was absolutely hea

higher benefits for lower income people, lower benefits for higher-income people. and making a premium support program in head care and social security a slightly higher retirement age. you balance those two programs. by the way, the third major entitlement, medicaid you send back to the state. and the fourth new new entitlement of obamacare you repeal that andjélw finally gett right. >> speaker gingrich. speaker gingrich, the plan you endorsed, you suggest younger workers should be allowed to put their tax money into private accounts rather than into the government program. but that plan also said if those private accounts don't pay out as much as the government program would, washington should cut a check to make up the difference. is that really a free market outcome if the government guarantees the outcome? >> it is, as a historian, a fact-based model that has galveston, texas and the entire country of chile as testing grounds. chile has done this. the guy that created it, they have done it for over 30 years. first of all, it's totally voluntary. if you want to

people. been going over the last 20 or 30, 40 years, government is growing faster. we have to stop the extraordinary spending in the country. i put out a plan that reduces spending and cut a whole series of programs, and the number one to cut is obama care, and that saves $95 billion a year. and just as rick indicated, return to states a whole series of programs, food stamps and set how much goes to them, and in the entitlement reform area, i do not want to change things for current retirees, and for younger people coming up, higher income people will receive less payments. >> who knows more about the american economy? you seem uncomfortable from a moment earlier when everybody said they would reject a 10 to 1 ratio of cuts for new taxes. >> it was a silly format. they asked us to raise hands and we did not get a chance to talk about it. i put a tax reform on the table and it calls for what everybody needs to be done, and everybody knows about it. it weighs down the tax code to the tune of 1

the people. you know as i've been here i've been coming here for twenty years you know i started with making a movie with. a few years ago when i was like fifteen years ago and from that day i got hooked and i'm always happy to come back to promote movies and and now to show my photographer work. back in eighty seven. before doing that and get a film you've played. check of split thomas on stage what what was the row of russian culture russian theatre. for me it was it was a major major thing i think i went the other day to museum of those things. and i i think him because it's because of takeoff that i became an actor. after reading the novels and the theater and. stanislaw ski's books. gave me the you know the sense of what was being an actor and that from that day i decided i was fifteen years old and from that i decided to become an actor and yes and so it's really it's a brush. that really give me the input you know you know. especially maybe. for the americans at least stanislav the people

people were very grateful. i think they saw in me someone who can take it to barack obama in the debate, hold him accountable and whistling particular when i was questioning ron paul on his dangerous policies on allowing a nuclear iran, that turned a light switch on for a lot of voters across iowa and people who weren't decided decided. and we have a lot of people who are going to come on tuesday night who are undecided and what they have seen in me is a champion who is stand up for them. in particular, they see that of all of the candidates in the race i'm the only one with current national security experience. our next president will be tested almost immediately. look at what it happening in the strait of hormuz right now with iran. i'm prepared to be able to meet that challenge. that is what our next president will have to do. >> chris: but don't you have a business disadvantage. your rivals are spending millions in campaign. you have not run a single tv commercial since iowa in ames back in august until tod

thin people are very ambivalent. within the same week i would hear people denounce a politician as arrogant because she won't do what the voters in her district want and secondly denounce that same politician or a similar one as a demagogue because she's following the voters and not standing up for principle. >> rose: come back to all of those things. are there any great regrets or that r they ambitions unfulfilled. >> yeah, i have one. substantively. and i don't mean to be too grandiose but i remember reading about lyndon johnson and woodrow wilson, both men with a passion for domestic social reform. both men who wanted to make this a less unfair society. who wanted to fight for social justice and economic fairness and in bothases they were dworted by wars. lyndon johnson began the great society and did important things. medicare, the civil rights act. then bogged down in the vietnam war. woodrow wilson, of course, shortly into his term was consumed with the european war which he ultimately had to get into. on a les

it could happen and some people might believe him and some people might not.ook what is happening with this country. you know i love what i'm doing. it would rather not run. i wish obama would be a great president. hasn't worked out that way. they have to be able to win. they're going to have to be able to win. we can't go through four more years of obama. >> greta: assume one of them is nominee and the nominee can't win against president obama. do you jump in at that point? >> i have to make my own determination and i would have to see who it is. i probably would come out and endorse somebody in the not too distant future and i'm not going to endorse and then run. >> greta: you say you are going to endorse or run? >> i will only consider running if that person doesn't win. in the meantime, i can't do anything until as you know, may. i have the apprentice and you are not allowed in my opinion a stupid law, you can't run if you have a show. you are allowed to go on shows and fly on air force one and do all the things but not to have a show. i don't know why the

a lot of them were people who, you look on your people that worked with me a feel of money to. byron dorgan about $75,000. senator campbell who chaired the committee claims he doesn't remember now i read in the but the exact data that we had breakfast at the restaurant which doesn't exist anymore where i handed him a bunch of checks he was the chairman of the committee and told me our clients would do very well in front of his committee and so i am thinking they ask me these terrific questions insulting, nasty questions and i am pleading the fifth to every one of them and got so bad senator mccain who is my greatest actually was the one who said senators i think we better stop this we are harassing this witness. well, no kidding. so they stopped and i got to leave but it was a terrific experience as a unfortunately this whole thing has been. >> host: one of the things that really seems to stick in your mind is the way in which you were pilloried for wearing a hat. the image of you wearing a hat as you exited i believe that hearing. >> guest: it was when i plead guilty in court.

more people.ise. i'm going to stand and defend capitalism throughout the country throughout this campaign. we're going to hit it hard president obama and point it out that it's capitalism and freedom that makes america strong. >> senator santorum, join the conversation, specifically to the initial question from bain, what should the federal government be doing? if you share the speaker's concern about governor romney's tenure at pain? >> i believe in capitalism, too. i believe in capitalism for everybody, not necessarily high finance, but that works for the men and women of the country who are paddling alone in america. we have an unemployment rate two and a half times, and the nment party, he wants to make them more empty, give them more food stamps, give them more medicaid. i was talking to an official who was telling me that the state of alabama was fined because they're not signing up enough people for the medicaid program. this is the economy that barack obama has visited on working men and w

a lot of low income people, a lot of young people and old people. some yuppies. it's a very eclectic group. >> woodruff: we remember that term. david, what about the independent voter? we are so focused covering this, these caucuses on the republican party. we've made some mention of the democrats but there is a big chunk of the electorate in the state self-identified independents. >> the romney people think that's their people. the romney people feel that's their people. a lot of them, it's important to remember that they still could be won over. a lot of people going to these caucuses and each candidate has a speaker. a lot of people sometimes as much as 30% are still to be won over. those people i suppose especially. that's also worth emphasizing because there are two events here. there's the results which you'll learn about. then there's the speeches after the results which is are even more important. barack obama after the iowa caulk caucuses really got to broadcast. you get to tell the country what just happened. jimmy carter did not win the iowa caucus in

yet, we have people in the business who are really good, decent, thoughtful people.we have people in the business who are really creeps. we have people in the business who are very successful based on their energy, talent, and commitment, and we have those in the business tremendously successful based on pure luck, and it's troubling when people make these grand generalizations about celebrities about what they do, don't do, and what they should do. they are people like everybody else. >> and they are exposed more than other people. >> indeed. >> i know in your book, steven, you have a wonderful quote from tom hayden who was married to jane fonda and the mentor who worried out loud that when people attach themselves to celebrities, you are getting them as fans rather than as citizens. he was arguing against celebrities 37 >> no, he was arguing both ways. he was stumped because we were talking about if celebrity politics good or bad for democracy? that's really the question we want to be getting at here, not left and right, and i agree. those distinctions have created

these are brave people. they are trained people and courageous people.they would not be dramatically more capable. they might be more capable by a factor of three to one or four to one, what 300 to one. when the teams arrived, particularly in the north, the people they were dealing with fighting the russians and the taliban -- they got the fight. they have been doing it their lifetime. initially, they were puzzled by these very small teams, who pulled out sat phones. the pulled out capabilities that went into space and then down somewhere. they began pulling back visual imagery from overhead. all sorts of things that began to come to bear so that the person at the point had the support of the entire nation. one of the stories i was told by the deputy commander in that period was that when they first began meeting with the northern alliance, the northern alliance said, "we will ride in the morning." i scared of them and said, "what do you mean?" they said, "we are going on horseback. it turned out the special forces field uniforms have a very large in see

a lot of people are writing me. at the end of this process, are you going to be able to resolve these differences. there is going to be one winner. a lot of people are concerned, there is too much heat. do you feel that strongly that newt can't be the candidate? >> i do feel very voluntary strongly that i should be the candidate. think we would be making a mistake if we choose newt. i think it's important for people people to remember not just the beginning of the responsibility for leading our party, but the contract of america is a great dheesmt. we picked up the house under his vision. but then he was in four years and during that four years it was chaotic in the house and at the end of the four years, his approval rating was down to 18%. we lost the race for to the white house. we stored an historic defeat in the house. he had to line from congress in disgrace. he was charged about ethics violations. had to pay $300,000 fee associated with that. people need to understand the rest of the story. my view, give him

the big economy which people doing. should be pumping more money to pumping more money even pumping millions and billions in trillions and on the good western cities in new york to ask people that would go about fixing the struggling global economy. orthodox christians worldwide are celebrating christmas day for the julian calendar where but he was celebrate the birth of. christ thirteen days off the west and russia has also marks the end of a forty day fast around two hundred million people for the eastern tradition one of the oldest christian countries georgian questions began the day with midnight mass . in bosnia serbs carried branches to be as part of that christmas ritual. to warm the community with valve and remove religious intolerance parties appeared on a midnight mass across the say the cathedral and mosque. both adults christians celebrating christmas and here in russia that was ushered in with a traditional service here at the christ the say because the jewel in the center of the russian capital now that se

these are people that are not being heard.is what is wrong with our political system, and you are helping people to raise their voice and be heard in this country. tavis: i appreciate that. i want to start with what i think is the seminal text on poverty, on ending poverty, your book, "the end of poverty." i have read two or three times. i want to start asking what you make of where we are now be so deep poverty in america, as far out inplan you laid 2005. >> i said that in our generation we could in poverty worldwide. we can end it certainly in america, with all the technology and means, if we were not so selfish in our politics. this would not even be a challenge. we can also in poverty worldwide in the very poorest places, the villages of africa or the hills of central america. we see powerful progress in some places, but not in the united states right now. in the u.s., it is backsliding. we are not going forward, whereas in other parts of the world, there is a lot of progress in raising party. >> you say if we were not so

people are tired of the wars. 70 percent of the american people want us out of afghanistan. it is bankrupting us and we spent four trillion in that war. these issues strike a cord with the people and more than four years ago . a lot more than 20 or 30 years ago, the evidence is loud and clearr that government is failing in what they are doing for us. and that's why people are looking for different answers. >> chris: on the other hand, congressman, in the final two days, it shows evidence of a slide and santorum passes you and you fall into third. what can you do about that slide, sir? >> guest: i think the dye has been cast. and the ups and downs of the other candidates have been characteric. they belong to the status quo. people who make a commitment to the campaign for liberty and the constitution, limited government and going after the feds. once they put it together how liberty and free markets and a sound foreign policy come together, they don't desert. our numbers are not going to go down. the number of people are not leaving us. the others come and go. the numbers wil

let's take advantage of an embarcadero that most people beyond just these events -- moves people beyond just these events. we have to make sure that the event day is really wonderful and shows the potential and takes us on to an embarcadero that is a great-great straight for breaking. a great street -- a street we have been talking about compulsory. looking at the parking map you see that we have the civic center that is in a prominent location. people will buy canned park there. how we get them up the street matters. polk street is key. we want to make sure we can take people on the shared paychex upholstery. you will hear us talk more about trials and moving people. it is a bicycle priorities straight. accomplishments i.n.s. -- van ness. we love the idea of combining that. the team is talking about this. when i walk up to sign there are many choices. let's give people some good information and they will what can buy. >> our next two speakers. >> board of directors, i was in auckland where tehe last america's cup was. i reviewed the environmental impact reports. very familiar with ceqa

people need jobs.re running around the world spending trillions of dollars in the name of security. quite honestly, i do not feel any more secure than i did before 9/11. it is time to stop spending the money overseas and spend it here at home. i think that is why his message is resonating with the people. host: duncan is on the line for democrats calling from georgia. caller: i had a couple of comments. i think santorum might be the guy that comes through this thing for the republicans down the road. he is surging now. i noticed something about him. he seems to be very charismatic and articulate. he has a demeanor about himself resonates with you. i just have this feeling that he may come through and surprise a lot of people down the road. host: we have you listed as a democrat. you are calling in on the republican line. if he is the nominee, would you be tempted to vote for him? caller: not likely. president obama is my man. he has done good things for this country. i think given the opportunity, he w

doing something about the environment just people with brains are in positions of power. so it seems like with the system that's currently in place for how world leaders get elected it might be time for solutions to come from someplace. talking about that while a russian tanker carrying an emergency fuel delivery is making its way through thick ice towards the alaskan city of nome a severe storm has left the community of about thirty five hundred people cut off with not enough fuel to last through the harsh winter the renda set out in december and is now less than two hundred nautical miles from its destination accompanied by coast guard icebreaker it is carrying more than three point eight million liters of petroleum the unprecedented emission is due to reach nome by monday morning. and if you like our news coverage here on t.v. make sure to visit our website at r t dot com waiting for you there right now. dinosaur life rushes to get its own very own version of a drastic part where fossils that may get a new lease on life. and we find out the consequences as the u.s. fre

there is no help for people. people are mentally ill -- hello?ost: are you able to capture in statistics and do people report on the amounts of prescription medication they take? guest: they do and we collect that in the national health and nutrition survey. we had some special reports on that. when they come out, there is a great deal of attention to the increasing level of prescriptions that are being written in the u.s. host: for children and adults? guest: i would have to go back and look but i would think it is across the board. it is certainly true for adults. i cannot say based on the statistics whether that is bad. this may be entirely appropriate but there is no question that there is a tremendous dependence particularly on people 65 and older. a level of legitimate, legal drug use is very high. the research to back that up, you can look at that and say the positive effects that has had on health status. if a warrant for the range of drugs that are available, we would not have the control blood pressure host: that caller was concerned ab

he's going to keep killing the people, but the people will never stop.e kills someone, he kills a member of a family, the whole family is going to come out. he kills friend. all his friends will start coming out. there's 40% of the population going out right now. how are they going to stop? he's done so many crimes in this city, and no one is going to stop. no one is going to live -- he's raped women. he's sent security to rape women, kidnap women and children. we got three bodies today tortured to death. >> danny, we have seen in these protests, unfortunately, people we have spoken to not survive and we end up doing stories on them not surviving. they've come on like you are now. do you think that you're going to survive the fighting, survive fighting the regime? >> i hope i do. i'm just one of the people. nothing else. i'm just one of these people who is asking for freedom. i hope i live to see the end of it, but if i don't, i've lost more than 30 of my friends now. so if i don't survive it, it's just my luck. but i'm not going to stop fighting for it.

get people watching but the way i see it. mitt romney won iowa he's headed for a landslide victory in new hampshire he's probably going to win south carolina right he's probably going to win florida. i've read that no other not incumbent republican has ever pulled off a sweep like that. convince me that this race is not over no i don't think it's inevitable i think it's likely i think you're right in the point in the fact that it's that it's a likely win for romney but i don't think it's an inevitable win for romney now you saw for instance we go back to rick perry and immediately following the i would results he said you know what i'm going to rethink my campaign and the moment michele bachmann drops out the very moment bachmann drops out there's a tweet and saying onward to south carolina you just don't want to be the first guy you know who clearly i think is part of that but also he's on of he's on opportunity and all of these candidates to really it's come down to the conventional wisdom is and i think it's the correct wi

make -- 250 million people happy to make 50 million people happy.industries much smaller than that. we are not going to wipe a $300 billion insurance industry. we had to bring them along to make this feasible. it led to a realization by many of a single payer system that was not happening in the in the near term, but that we could move to a system that is feasible and get us to the goal of universal health care, george. -- a universal health-care coverage. >> that is very good. on a lot of us care about that. one of the issues i you brought up that is really important -- you said it was a two-headed alligator. you mentioned you were working on the access issues, but really, there's also the cost control. in massachusetts, you did not bite on that bullet, but you did in the national. what has to be done to make that successful? >> health control is really hard. i think the book is that it was like having to go over two hills. the first hill is scientific, which are frankly, there are a lot of good ideas out there. we do not know how to bend the so-ca