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the united states for building this relationship as well as broad political support in the indian polity for building this relationship. as far as aid to pakistan is concerned, we certainly share the objective of the united states that we should, you know, help to stabilize afghanistan and pakistan and move them in the direction of both stability and modernization so there's a shared objective that we have with the united states. as to how best we can pursue the achievement of this objective, well, we support the flow of assistance to pakistan, particularly, economic assistance, which we think is essential at this stage given the very precarious state of pakistan's economy. security assistance, we feel, should be focused more specifically on building counterinsurgency capabilities rather than, you know, conventional defense equipment or provision of conventional defense equipment and, of course, we think that the pursuit of the objectives that we share would certainly be easier if there are benchmarks to ensure that the assistance is linked to deliverables on the ground and that there is

for more information, you can reach out to politi politicalprosecution.org. go to info@politicalprosecution.org. i would give a phone number out. 706-951-2671. i offer myself a discussion on the economy and employment and world financial markets and later, a director and producer talks about a film, shouting fire, stories from the edge of free speech. that is live at 7:00 a.m. eastern here on c-span. >> conservation was a battle. there were two sides. just like they are now. >> historian douglas brinkley on teddy roosevelt and his role in the early days of the conservation movement. >> he is not what we would call by modern terms a holistic -- he believed in hunting. he did not believe in hunting to make a species extinct. he cared about butterflies and wild flowers. he wanted to make sure we had a place for that in modern society. sunday part to with the -- with the douglas brinkley on the wilderness warrior. sunday night at 8. download the c-span podcast and watch part one of our interview with the douglas brinkley. how c-span funded? >> it is publicly fund

we want racial equality in the american polity, blacks free to form coalitions and choose candidates in the same manner as other citizens. but how do we know when we have realized that aim? i tried in "whose votes count" to grapple with racial equality in american politics, how we know it when we see it and i try once again in voting rights and wrongs. it's not simply an updated version of my earlier work. it's a continuation of the same argument of additional new material from the last two decades. yes, there is continuity. but they also differ the two works in important respects. my thinking has changed over time. in "whose votes count" i did not argue as many charged that ballots in black hands simple enfranchisement would have suffice to create true political equality. while the framers of the 1965 act had expected southern resistance to enfranchisement. imagine keeping blacks away from the polls. they had not anticipated states like mississippi try to keep blacks out of elected office by changing the rules of the political game. i understand then and i believe more -- believe mo

host: as we're jumping around here, talking about polity in the -- policy in the middle east, what's your take on what's going on in iran and what the president is doing. guest: it's thrilling, what's going on in iran. what's telling about it is, running up to the election, tweetering -- i don't know what the verb is tweeting was important. when the ayatollah khomeini came back in 1979, he was using cassettes, simple audio cassettes were an instrument of revolution. the world moves. 30 years later, we have the internet, cell phone, satellite dishes, all of this. tyrannies have always depended on the modern age in sealing their populations off from outside influences, socializing, nationalizing if you will, the cornsness of the people. it's impossible, nowadays. simply impossible. furthermore, the median age in iran is 25. half the country is under 25 years old. they are not going to be governed indefinitely bied me neevel -- medieval clerics, it's not going to happen. what we're seeing here is something akin to what happened in the philippines when marcos called an election under int

temporary measure to give blacks what ucla law professor daniel lowenstein calls a jump start in po politi. a jump start is one thing, but the guy who comes and charges up your car when the battery is dead, he doesn't stay there trailing behind you, with a cable stuck as you drive down the freeway. he let's it go. it's time to let race-driven districting go the way of those jumper cables. america is better off with increasing the number of black officials who gained office in large part due to the deliberate drawing of majority-minority constituencies, but black politics has come of age and black politicians can protect their turf, fight for their interests, and successfully compete even for the presidency. today, most southern states have higher registration rates than those outside the region and over 900 blacks hold office, public office in mississippi alone. covered and non-covered states in the south are almost indistinguishable by the measure of african-americans elected to state legislatures. massive disenfranchisement is ancient history, as unlikely to return as segregated water fo

it was not fdr's polities that brought us out of the great depression. if it did, would you like to stay in it for 11 years? the only thing that brought us out of the depression was world war ii. it was not the policies of spending. it was a war that brought us out. by the way, the economy was still not good. the stock market did not recover for 26 years. do we want to see wall street not recover for 26 years? i do not think that is the policy we want. i believe that the stimulus bill that the president brought us was the wrong prescription. it is mortgaging our children's future, running up their credit- card. we are getting the fruits of it, supposedly, and running up their credit card. they will have to pay higher taxes in the future. when you add interest to the stimulus bill, it is over $1 trillion. the following week, they brought spending bills to us that increased last year's spending bills by 8%. shortly after that, the president brought us his budget, and that was the scariest thing i've ever seen come to washington d.c. if you take all the deb

some get to the american polity of medicine is any mandate either individual or employe year and the reason for that is not just because it is a mandate which is a bad idea in the first place but it's because when congress mandates something wittman dates is the definition of health coverage, health insurance. what would qualify as health insurance and again we see from the house bill all of the dynamic things out there in the marketplace like savings accounts and medical savings accounts and deductible catastrophic plans, all of those will not only be on available they will be illegal and that's why a mandate would be for american medicine and finally ceding the definition of quality of the federal government through the healthy choice administration or the comparative effectiveness research council. whatever it is if it isn't patients and their families and making the decision out what treatment administered at that weight in time for that individual and the unique patient than the quality of an american health care plummet's for each individual not just in this room and this city