but california the country's most populace state, is turning to technology to meet the ever-growing need for water. the story from san diego. >> we live in a world of water. oceans give us food and a place to play. but the irony is the sea can't give us what we need most, the water to drink. that's the promise of desalinization comes in. taking the salt out of saltwater. >> we have the world's largest reservoir at our doorstep. >> in carlsbad, california, hope for a future lies in the largest desalinization plant in the western hemisphere. when it's completed in 2016, it will provide 300,000 people with fresh drinking water. peter mclagen says it's time to drop our straw into the pacific ocean. >> the problem is we have two-thirds of the rainfall in the northern part of the state and two-thirds of the population in the southern part. the disconnect between supply and demand. desalinization has become affordable. >> an 8% rate hike, the san diego water authority which last agreed to buy po poseidon's product. >> large desalinization plants are operating in the middle east but the west is

and when you're going after the big ceo that's really a populace message unions are trying to propagate like gary b. said and the billions gary keeps quoting about mcdonald's, but the fact is mcdonald's has issued statement after statement they do to the adjust or recommend or set the wages for the franchises. those franchises are done by mom and pops that are these guys' neighbors out there. they work on razor thin margins. nine out of ten employees when talking about walmart, become the posterchild of this, have come from entry-level positions. there's a reason those are entry-level posositions. only 5% of fast food employees work for that minimum wage. this is not about minimum wage. this is 100% about union membership. >> and tracy, when they say to just raise the minimum wage, just because, i mean, there should be a reason behind this? >> right. where's the merit? where's the rational behind it? you and i know if they raise the rate less people will have these jobs or as we were talking about more part timers. no ones getting health care. the thing trickles down and becomes a total

most observers say conservatives and anti-immigrant populace most likely will run the next government. violence has erupted in the philippines, at least six people killed, dozens injured, after muslim rebels launched an attack. >> the piece had only returned to the island after decades of conflict. the president has announced the violence and appealed for help. >> gunfire on the streets. explosions. residents flee the fighting. suddenly, the important port city in the southwestern philippines and finds himself in a state of emergency. soldiers put up barricades as they try to steer the civilian population to safety in churches and schools. >> we are not used to this kind of violence here. i am afraid. >> most of the 800,000 residents are christians, but overall, this part of the southern philippines is muslim, as are the rebels, who are fighting for independence. on monday, hundreds of fighters came ashore from a small flotilla and vessels. the philippine government is currently negotiating a wider autonomy agreement with a nation rebel group, but several breakaway militant groups are

narrator: there are also mixed signals from the local slovak populace. ( speaking slovak ) translatori have a cousin who emigrated to the united states. his children were born in america, and so they are american. when one is born in a country, one takes the nationality of that country, no? so why are the hungarians who were born in slovakia not slovaks? they were born in slovakia, they are slovaks, and that's the end of it! independent slovakia made many hungarians nervous within slovakia. they felt better in a bigger czechoslovak state, where they felt that the government in prague, which was the government for czechoslovakia-- they would be treated more fairly in that kind of government. in a newly independent slovakia, they felt like they were a minority in a country where the dominant people, now the slovaks, had historical grievances against them and they didn't have the czechs anymore to appeal to. narrator: during the communist era, the totalitarian system tried to deal with nationality problems by denying them. but they never went away. in a country in the process of adapting

it's helpful when it happens based on foundations and principles that are widely accepted by the populace and have some historical roots and frankly that's been missing and deprived of the people of the arab world for generations we hope that that can be grown in time but it's not going to happen overnight ok joe george where is that deprivation come from. i don't i don't see it i am it i suppose i see is how do you arabia increasingly. using again it's the islamism to topple regimes and to exert human the over the rest of the middle east and i think that is a very bad thing because i think the very people that the saudis sponsor the worst elements in the middle east they are the most extreme the most dangerous elements and these are the people that saudi arabia is using in order to. far more civilized far more. advanced states and therefore the ultimate outcome has to be something that is very dangerous so we call the spring. is in the sea that you know with the cannibals the other that are running rampant in syria. i think want to go to jason. i think an alternative reality and i think

helpful when it happens based on the foundations and principles that are widely accepted by the populace and have some historical roots and frankly that's been missing and deprived of the people of the arab world for generations we hope that that can be grown in time but it's not going to happen overnight ok joe george where is that deprivation come from. i don't i don't see it i am it i suppose i see is. increasingly. using it again it's the islamism to topple regimes and to exert human the over the rest of the middle east and i think that is a very bad thing because i think the very people that the saudis sponsor the worst elements in the middle east they are the most extreme the most dangerous elements and these are the people that saudi arabia is using in order to. far more civilized far more. advanced states and therefore the ultimate outcome has to be something that is very dangerous so we call the spring. is the sea that you know with the cannibals the other that are running rampant in syria. i think want to go to jason. i think and an alternative reality and i think we'll be clos

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always spies to life for years more to the internet than there's going to the world but the german populace doesn't seem to care much. christian deputy head of the branch of the alternative for germany party dr schmidt thank you very much indeed for your time. your welcome. wonton i was really going on in the european and global economy watch the latest episode of the kaiser report later today where moxon stacey take a look at what's behind the great uncertainty in the modern day financial system but here's a preview. the collapse of lehman was a market signal that sits should have alerted the government and everyone participating in these markets that their massive reform was needed but instead they interpreted that market saying well as a way to make the situation much worse again i made the comparison to theocratic fanatical religious extremists who misread their fundamentalist texts and everything they read suggest that they should blow themselves up and other people same thing as lloyd blankfein and warren buffet everything they read says i should blow everything up i should commit mas

not only against the immigrants it's against all people against against everybody and there if the populace was last week maybe you me or somebody else can be next way so that's why i want to protest and we want to stop. getting even bigger your president your country's president sworn to quote the storm is approaching what does he mean by that. yes. what does he mean by that. when he. as the quote to say the storm is approaching does it mean that there's more violence still to come. and more violence from from mayor from everybody. thank you for being on the program though we had a few communication problems tonight we do appreciate your time thank you for being on the international. thank you very much for next tonight a tiny revelent of the british empire in the middle of the atlantic ascension island used to be home to barely a thousand people even led to in numbers are now in jeopardy why this remote island that comes up on the map just there in a second is six hundred kilometers from africa it's twenty two hundred kilometers from brazil this story please but a safe haven for mariners

waste of everyone's mind absolutely i think the trauma that was experienced by the economy by the populace by the society associated with how great the decline was how severe the debt burden at the time was i think that still to some degree feeds this aversion to greater debt within the society and also in the top echelons of power as the a look around the sea that still a lot of the developed world does and come forward with tremendous. some ounce of that and probably this is still going to be a significant constraint the speed of work in the developed world and the speed of work we quite frankly of the world economy as a whole so cordingley i think going forward perhaps as investors have a more differentiated view in terms of their preferences they will seek out those countries that have a stronger balance sheet and is precisely in this category one of the best solvent balance sheets in the world this is this is what putin likes this is for him it's it shows that you know rush is is a stable country it has its. books balanced it's not it indebted country because i think as you pointed ou

strategically important the assad government isn't isolated the assad government has a very large populace support the assad government was winning the war in syria the opponents the armed groups who actually get all their guns from saudi arabia and qatar and turkey they can't win the war the only way they could win the war is to try and western intervention was. did they need to do for that they needed to have somebody say the syrian government crossed the red line why would the assad government winning the war having a broad base of popular support having international allies do the one thing the one very thing that would automatically draw in u.s. and perhaps nato intervention the one thing that would cause them to lose the war we think that this is a staged provocation the united states government before it was trying to carry out regime change against assad through the agency of civil war they're now using direct military intervention saying no boots on the ground that's a terrible thing to tell the american people it's so worth it we must bomb syria but we want to make sure the syria

could you comment about the problem of the populace getting behind the war in england? america was never behind the war in vietnam like they were with growth were to. -- world war ii. and to keeping the enemy from each other, the south vietnamese looks less same to the american soldiers. >> there are some parallels. those that i know that their influence but it was very difficult but it is one of the reasons the british never restored soon go government to the areas it conquered because they read never certain who was on their side. there is a lot of similarities. essentials become the this but to defeat. there are other examples like the 1930's and seems the key what about what of the loyalist officers in to the initial reluctance to recruit american loyalists in to the british army? how did that defect for the war effort? >> those who were most submissive of their abilities i think one of the major defects to realize how many troops were involved one biography is not in here but i talk about all lots is general gage. married to an american in had been in america for 2

tremors rocked the area, destroying buildings and horrifying the populace.he volcanic storm of 79 a.d. turned day into night. the havoc continued on august the 25th as red hot mud surged down from vesuvius. pulsing sporadically throughout the day, the avalanches covered herculaneum in 80 feet of debris. the deadly gasses in their wake killed thousands on contact. this scene from a 1935 feature film captures the terrifying last moments of thousands of the city's residents -- helpless in the path of nature at its most lethal. imperial villas, noble homes and tradesmen's houses, theatres, taverns and bakeries lay dormant, as if asleep, for 17 centuries. the bourbon royal family, rulers of naples, led the discovery of pompeii, herculaneum, and the roman presence on the bay of naples in the 18th century. they ordered excavations and had the most elegant finds removed to their palace. word of the mysterious roman cities trapped in time spread throughout europe intrigued by the classical age. travelers added pompeii as a vital stop on their grand tour. sir william

the american populace has not come back. the forbes 400, which just came out, showed aggregate wealth of $2 trillion.0 of $2 trillion.to the median income is in the same place in terms of real purchasing power. has not changed. inequality is getting wider. the rich are doing extraordinarily well. this is profit margins are terrific compared to the record, historically. is this returns on equity are terrific. a great many people in our the bottom 20en %, 24 million households -- 20 %, 24 million households, live on $22,000. -- an economyeed that is delivering $50,000 on gdp. how to havelearned everyone share in the bounty we have. >> do you think we just have to grow out of it? >> we are growing. if you think about it, people are still unhappy with two percent a year. the population rose one percent a year. 20% gainrs, that is a in gdp per capita. that is not bad in a generation. the question is how it gets distributed. this system works. 19 30.orn in i was conceived in 19 -- i was born in 1930. i was conceived in 1929. after

the idea that this law which forced him to do something trigger something in the american populace. this case was not just that your constitution. it was about the people. the people in various social movements, the tea party and other groups had a divergence, and it was not just on policy grounds. there were not say we don't like this. they said we don't like this because it violates the constitution. people protesting st. overturned we need to enforce the constitution. this law potentially engendered such a strong constitutional response, backlash even that i don't think anyone anticipated. and also the litmus test for where the american people are with respect to the constitution that is the highfalutin ideas, but the actual story of this case is fascinating, and i will run through it to make sure we have enough time for our distinguished panel to speak. the mandate is actually quite old. our good friends at heritage, some of you might recall in 1993 a former president of cabo sent a letter saying, hey, this is unconstitutional. it was actually an advantage, stuart butler invente

indonesia, the world's most populace muslim nation was selected to host the three-week event in jakartathe government switch venues at the last minutes forring organizers to relocate to the island of bali. >> this sends a message to the world that we are not strong enough as a country. >> protesters have denounced the pageant as pornography and a whore contest insisting it's an offense to all muslims. >> we considered it would exploits a woman. >> in an attempt to appease religious concerns, the pageant scrapped the swimsuit competition replacing it with beachalwear. but it would appear not all such contests are vehemently opposes. just three weeks ago, it hosted a contest crowning miss nigeria with is the award. >> the difference of this event to another pageant, obviously this is not the pageant. this is the international event to appreciate the young and talented muslim would many. >> while indonesia tries to present an image of tolerance, the influence of hard liners is growing in this country and critics say the government is only fueling the problem, caving in to this small but ve

and rape unfortunately has been used as a weapon by a sect arian militia to make sure the populace leaveshe country in hoards. >> thanks for being with us. >> thank you for having me. >> our live coverage sins in just 15 minutes on aljazeera. for latest updates coming out of that country, go to aljazeera.com. >> japan's nuclear watchdog is considering dumping radioactive water into the pacific ocean. today, the chief regulator said the con testimony nation in the water would be removed. radiation levels at that site are 18 times higher than once thought. that is enough to kill a person within hours. the new leak at the plant was discovered nearly two weeks ago. >> the developments are monitored from coke yo. what else do the regulators say today? >> the japan regulation authority said there are no indications of new leaks apart from the one discovered two weeks ago. the water levels remain the same. they discovered some droplets on a pipe linking to several containers containing these highly radiated water, but say that pipe has been radar. they wouldn't describe it as a leak, but minor s

the idea the law, which forces people to do something, triggers something in the american populace. it wasn't about the pure constitution. not just the -- it was also about the people. the people in very social movement such as the tea party and other groups had an aver jensen to the law. it wasn't just policy grounds. saying we don't like it because we think it's going destroy our economy. we don't like it because it violates the constitution. we will protesting not too far from here with signs saying overturn the law. with signs saying we need enforce a constitution. this law, unintelligence nay engendered such a constitutional response. a backlash even. i don't think anyone anticipated. and the law also a lit mous -- litmus test where the american people are. it's the idea. the actual story of the case is fascinating. i will run through an abbreviated and make sure we have time for the distinguished panel to speak. the mandates actually are good friends at heritage protoes posed in the late '80s. ed crane former president of cato sent a letter say it's unconstitutional. it was ac

concerned, not only the patients i was taking care of, but the effect it was having on the vietnamese populace. i ran a clinic for the vietnamese while i was there trying to help them along the way as well. >> you applied to 13 medical schools, 12 said no. the university of virginia said yes. >> thank goodness. >> you talk often about your being a c student, d student, all that. at 32, you discover you're dyslexic. how do you get to the university of virginia? i don't know why they picked me to be honest with you. i'm glad they did. they treated me very well. gave me a great education. >> you've gone on to run the cleveland clinic. how many patients a year? >> multiple millions. >> did plenty of operations as cardiologist. go back to the education part of this. why did those 12 turn you down? >> frankly, i went to williams college. i heard a story of taking french. i never heard a word of french spoken in my life until i went to college. i thought, well, i better learn how to speak french, the language. so i found out that i couldn't do french at all. i first day walked in and everybody was sa

jesse helms was one of the leaders of a grand white populace that came to grow in the '50s and '60s and on really through the '80s. and that kind of hateful language is a kind of language that we're seeing -- they want to cut the snap program so people can go down to having to eat on $3.50 a day. so these kinds of policies are playing themselves out. look, we can't legislate how someone feels in their hearts. we cannot legislate how someone feels about their brothers and sisters. but what we can legislate is how that plays itself out in public policy. and jesse helms showed a strong propensity to keep people from the voting booth, to keep people from fair housing, to keep people from meaningful employment. he showed a strong propensity to violating a woman's personal and privacy rights. and ted cruz shows that very, very same propensity. >> that is why you've got to fight them. they're always there, and you've got to fight them. you know, dana, jesse helms said this about social security. "nothing more than doles and handouts." governor rick perry today on social security, "it's a ponzi

it's helpful when it happens based on foundations and principles that are widely accepted by the populace and have some historical roots and frankly that's been missing and deprived of the people of the arab world for generations we hope that that can be grown in time but it's not going to happen overnight ok job george where is that deprivation come from. i don't i don't see it i am it i suppose i see is. increasingly. using it again it's the islamism to topple regimes and to exert human the over the rest of the middle east and i think that is a very bad thing because i think the very people that the saudis sponsor all the worst elements in the middle east they are the most extreme the most dangerous elements and these are the people that saudi arabia is using in order to. far more civilized far more. advanced states and therefore the ultimate outcome has to be something that is very dangerous so we call the spring. is in the sea that you know with the cannibals the other that are running rampant in syria. i think want to go to jason. i think and an alternative reality and i think maybe

money for concentration, have recidivism practices in place, and fm thing to be applied to the adult populace let's be clear about this, and mayor nutter speaks to this much more forcefully than i do, is that we have to understand that there can be no toleration for the kinds of shootings on the streets of our cities, and that we know in new orleans, for example, that at least 5% of our population, 691 young men, belong in 38 innings, are causing trouble for themselves and everybody else. we are not soft on them. to stop your we have "let's reduction strategy where we bring the minute and we tell them -- we know who you are , just to prove that two of them, we show them your picture, and we tell them they know everybody around them, and the be visitedsues will by the multiagency gang unit that is made up of dea, atf, fbi, nopd, and everybody else. you have got to stop. and if you shoot somebody, at the mayor said, you have got to go. now, that is today. but at the drumbeat of death continues, as the title wave moves on, we have young people being born into the same culture of violence. so aga

now i don't matter of fact our leverage in the election is quite candid like go top of the voting populacego down all citizens deserve the right to vote it's as simple as that the only time you should lose your right to vote if you renounce your citizenship abandon the political community until then everyone regardless of their skin color their economic status whether they're a student or a senior citizen everyone should be encouraged to vote voting rights for prisoners next felons or just the logical next step and the best way to ensure this is by passing a constitutional amendment establishing an affirmative right to vote for every american citizen it's as simple as that. and that's the way it is then i thursday september fifth two thousand and thirteen don't forget democracy begins with you get out there get active tag or. wealthy british style. is no time to. market why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy with max cons or a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune in to conjure reports . i know c.n.n. m s n b c fox news have taken some nuts la

remember, wolf, this guy was -- we think this guy got elected across the great populace of iran because moderate thinker. he's very close to the supreme leader. the supreme leader picked him to get on the ballot to run. he wasn't elected. he was selected. so what i think we're seeing here is somebody who is trying to buy more time unless they absolutely want to change that thought pattern of many of us, they have to actually do something, having speeches, talking about what we might do and starting to negotiate, meetings to have negotiations for other meetings is not going to stop their program to develop a nuclear weapon. if they started with those very basic steps up front, i think we could get somewhere. i'm not sure we're going to see that. >> do you have a problem with the fact that the secretary of state john kerry will be meeting with the iranian foreign minister thursday when the five permanent members of the u.n. security council plus germany, they have this meeting with the iranians, apparently there will be a one-on-one between kerry and the iranian foreign minister. >> you k

think the obamacare law inned aer have dentally awakened a sleeping giant among the american pop populace. people have a natural yearn forking the constitution. thsa of people turn up on capitol hill to march again the federal law. it was remarkable. a lot we don't really see much of the tea party now, i say it's dormant slumbering, perhaps. it can be reawakened. we know it's lurking within the american people. it might be the most important lesson going forward we hear could keep fighting and keep talking about the constitution and keep talking about the constitution and make sure the discussion is ongoing. because when something big comes along like obamacare, we have the foundation. we have the framers, we have the army ready to roll. it's no accident that randy and others will mobilize quickly. we have the institutions here for when these things happen. all of you here are members of that movement in one fashion or another. at least you are here. everyone here recognizes this. i think going forward we should keep in mind. ilya, am i good on time? >> yeah. >> i will see the rest of my

it's a diverse set of issues, big state, fifth most populace in the country.g to be driving around in a bus. >> an rv. we have an rv we've had wrapped. we will be hitting 20 cancer in nine days. >> so tell me, you have a background in urban planning and public policy when you say there's these diversion things. what do you have for the core planned for urban part, we'll talk about the other. philadelphia has had economic crisis. what have you learned from allentown you will put into play. >> allin town is a great story, like every other rust belt city in the northeast and midwest. we were on the verge of collapse when i came in eight years ago. our economy was failing. we didn't have jobs, economic growth. we were really on the brink of bankruptcy. in eight years we turned that around. we now have a solid fiscal foundation to build upon. we turn multi-million dollar deficits, we solved our pension problem through aw "newsweek" solution we came up with. we're the only municipality in the state that has a fully funded pen, maybe one of the few in the country. we

a war-weary populace is not going to be moved by those images.e" played out. the way the president gave kerry a big push. kerry gave a huge speech that politicians argue was persuasive with the drumbeat of war. no matter how you slice and dice it, people are opposed. the trouble is, you now have this unholy alliance because the conservatives, who have wanted to "defeat" the president see this vote in congress as that political defeat. but the progressives who don't want to go to war ends up being on the same side. the challenge for the president -- i call it a politics of swagger. the way in which that red line was drawn and the consequence of that have left him literally between a rock and a hard place. >> seems to me the fundamental issue really is a credibility issue. we've seen this video and variations of this video. american people are well aware of the horror. but the credibility issue, the negligible one, was the responsibility of the regime or was it subterfuge by the rebels. >> do you buy that? do you really -- >> i think a lot of peopl

progress made there is not being shared by the general russian populace.ave themeeting should theme of growth. how can we grow the world economy? you mentioned trade. trade is very important. more trade between countries. more competition, better products, consumers and businesses benefit. will benefit. jobs will benefit. trade is terrific. there has been talk about a trade arrangement. countriesny of these should be looking at lower marginal tax rate reform. all across the world, i would like to see flat tax reform. lower the rates, which create incentives, and get rid of unnecessary loopholes, crony is loopholes that the government doles out to business. loopholes that the government doles out to business. europe has lower corporate tax rates than the u.s. that is our bad. the u.s. has got to be much more competitive on this. some onident has talked this, but has not spent a lot of time on it. these are things that should be worked out in a bipartisan way with republicans who are prepared to embrace it. we need growth. need open markets, incentives, grow

and author and president of college for women, she studies economic stratification of the american populace status of african-american anemia particular. have a ph.d. from m.i.t. at 26. she's a bad woman. [applause] to tie it all up for us and talk about the economic implication of a potential detroit bankruptcy. the reverend. >> thank you, michael. when he askses women speak lets you sit in a -- >> that's right. >> mo of the other people of course. my brother john conyers. i'm going tell you who understands economics. >> that's right! >> i don't know when he introdpiewses hr40 to simply study the impact of slavery on african-american people to simply study. all the people who have no sense it was a reparation bill. had he said it's only 22 members of the congressional black caucus sign that legislation. which means everybody -- >> come on now! [applause] >> one might essentially apply to the situation with the emergency manager. i'm not going there. i'm honored to be here. i'm not from detroit. i've been there a number of times. .. or even 50% african-american that has not been subject to

from tijuana into san diego, and it would take you a matter of minutes to blend in with the local populaceewhere in the middle of the desert, maybe not so easy. what they're saying is where they have been fence is now a very highly populated areas like san diego, yuma, southwest arizona, some of the border towns along texas that yes, it is absolutely valuable, it helps in those areas, but once you start getting into the desert, what you see is maybe some posts with little barb wire in between, a lot of places, vehicle barriers, they call them normandie barriers on a triangular bars that are set up to stop vehicles, but people can easily cross or sign over it. there is a lot of different types of fencing that they use. if you are highly populated city, i mean, san diego has double, triple layer fencing, and cars patrolling all over the place, watched towers, lighting, and in those areas, it is proven to be very effective. what they don't think is effective is building that kind of fence in the middle of a desert, and the bottom of a deep mountain ravine. a lot of them think that what we hav

those that are unavailable to the local populace. think they have actually the purpose and operating style of an embassy and other agencies, and some agencies have brought that absolutely backwards. we do not, we do not demand that people come to see us in our homes. we go to their homes and we go to the foreign ministry, we go to the ministry of education and we visit the journalists. our people go out all the time. but if there is a crisis brewing in a country that comes up overnight, what we need is a place that our diplomats can, in effect, hunker down and and those are the new embassy compounds that we have been building with this money. this includes the additional armored vehicles that will continue to allow us to have a faith-based. >> we have changed, we have to work with host governments. have we implemented any new procedures because they have some responsibility for security as well. especially how we mitigate this ongoing conflict or instability. >> work very closely and that is one of the principal responsibilities of a

we remain, whether we like it or not, after a decade of war and a war weary populace, we remain the indispensableink events in syria have demonstrated that so powerfully, joe. you have to ask, why did bashar al assad, after using chemical weapons, despite the warning from president obama that this was a red line, go ahead and do it, apparently on a massive scale that killed nearly 1500 people? and the answer has to be that he saw this president as weak and unable, unwilling to enforce his will and he was joined in that by russia. syria's ally. russia doesn't take obama's word seriously at all. he was joined in that by some of our allies in the gulf. one worries the iranians have this feeling. i hate to be in the position of arguing that you need to use military action for credibility reasons, that sounds like the cold war, but in this case, we're seeing the consequences of that kind of credibility of american power slip out of the system and it's dangerous. >> cokie roberts, the president said assad must go like he said mubarak must go, like he said gadhafi must go and then, of course, he, quote,

the american populace has not come back. the forbes 400, which just came out, showed aggregate wealth of the forbes 400 of $2 trillion. $300 billion to $2 trillion. the median income is in the same place in terms of real purchasing power. since 1989, it has not changed. inequality is getting wider. the rich are doing extraordinarily well. this is profit margins are terrific compared to the record, historically. is this returns on equity are terrific. a great many people in our country -- taken the bottom 20 %, 24 million households -- 20%, 24 million households, live on $22,000. we have any, need -- an economy that is delivering $50,000 on gdp. we have not learned how to have everyone share in the bounty we have. >> do you think we just have to grow out of it? >> we are growing. if you think about it, people are still unhappy with two percent a year. the population rose one percent a year. in 20 years, that is a 20% gain in gdp per capita. that is not bad in a generation. the question is how it gets distributed. this system

but yet now it's there, it's widely supported by the populace as a whole even though there are critics of it. but you need an especially clever and resourceful politician who knew all the levers to pull, and that's who johnson was, and that's what you see so brilliantly laid out if caro's last book. >> host: and mr. steele says that he is currently reading "the passage of power" by robert caro, national book award finalist this year. from east hampton, connecticut, beth, you're on booktv on c-span2 with james steele and donald barlett. >> guest: hi. i'm very glad to hear you guys talking, and i'll put you guys on my list of books to read. i've also read a book by naomi klein called "shock doctrine" which talks about particularly in south africa that point in south africa where they did everything except for handle or take over the economics of the country, and it's caused them problems there. um, i've also wanted to talk william black. he's a professor at university of missouri, economics i believe and/or law, and when he speaks, it's very clear and very understandable, his economical

israel was worried that would lobsein israeli scuds on cities, they equipped their entire civilian populaceh gas masks. the chemical weapons convention obligates its members to provide this very type of assistance. the international community and our own congress may be struggling with what should be done about this, but this is truly the no-brainer thing to do, to take the military advantage of using chemical weapons away. putin,nd yet vladimir who will be with the president summit,k at the g-20 called the idea that president assad would use chemical weapons is, in his own words, utter nonsense. i'm not sure that russia's hands are entirely clean. in the 1990's, the people who were in charge of russia's chemical weapons program were providing technical assistance in chemical weapons to the russians. this is documented in "state secrets." why would i believe the author? he was inside russia's chemical weapons program for 26 years. he is also the man who blew the whistle on russia's ultrasecret program, which is the next generation of chemical warfare agents. the world, including western age