i wish i spoke the languages if you want to go to portugal, don't worry about it. have a good time. >> you travel with an open mind and an open heart. and that's perhaps more important than speaking the language. >> much more important. if you're going there to learn instead of judge. >> okay. how do you balance your relatively positive impressions of iran for them to develop nuclear weapons by seeming volatile leaders. >> i would try to arrange it they wouldn't have volatile leaders where they could elect a moderates. everyone else has nukes and why can't they have nukes. well, they are threatened by us. if i was president, i'd probably wouldn't let them have nukes but i don't want to let that get in the way with my endeavor to understand these people and get to know them and let us travel as ambassadors of good will so we can let them understand us better and we can understand them better and, again, it's driven by fear. they're afraid of us. they want nukes. >> and this is the last question. thank you so much for all your peace efforts. did you try to go to the

>> guest: oh, at the caesar park hotel and golfing resort in central portugal. see, the bilderberg, as the conspiracy theorists always told me, always meet once a year in a five-star hotel with golfing facilities. but there -- they may play golf when they're there, but they're not there to play golf, i was told. c-span: you spent some time with ian paisley. who is he? >> guest: ian paisley is the man who -- many people say, is the man who you could pinpoint as being most responsible for keeping the troubles in northern ireland going these past 30 years. he's a fiery, brimstone preacher and politician. he leads the dup, the democratic unionist party, in northern ireland. "say no. say no to" -- he's the -- he's the man who says no. and when the good friday agreement was being mooted around the table at stormont castle, ian paisley showed his opposition to it by going to cameroon to preach the -- preach to the sinners. that's what he did. and i -- and i went with him. so -- so that was an odd week in cameroon, where ian paisley basically bullied everybody to make u

. >> in terms of the portuguese, portugal has been quite involved in trying to resolve the guantanamo bay issue. is this something the president intends to discuss? >> a good,. >> [unintelligible] >> not as far as i know. in terms of the agreement on exchanges of information, we welcome the agreement and think it will be a step towards helping build cooperation of the united states and europe and tried to unwind the situation we find ourselves in. >> i believe he has been in australia. >> what can you tell us about the canadians? >> i did not have any information on that. >> are you planning on building another center there? >> i just happen to know that is one of the stops on the two were. >> did you have an extradition treaty with portugal right now? >> we have a statement on this. as far as i know, the bilateral starts in 15 minutes. >> are you going to host an africa conference at the end of the month? is this something that secretary clinton would attend? >> this is the g-eight? >> [unintelligible] >> there is a meeting at the end of the month. i am not announcing the secretary's

every time i try to learn a few words and then i go to portugal and latvia and i can't even remember my own area code. [laughter] >> i make kind of a big deal that i'm a monoglot. my whole work has been try to encourage americans to travel boldly even if you don't speak the language and i'm able to go to europe and write guide books and have tours and have a good time with my family on vacation speaking the world's linguistic common denominator. that's the language you can be lazy. if a greek meets a norwegian in the alps how do you think they communicate. english. what greek speaks norwegian? now my son speaks fluent italian right now and i'm envious. my whole deal is if you want to go to portugal and you don't know how to speak the language, don't worry about it. have a good time. >> you travel with an open mind and a open heart and that's more important than speaking a language. >> much more important is your attitude if you go there to learn not judge. >> how do you balance iran? their drive for nuclear weapons by volatile leaders? >> i would try to arrange it so they don't have

this is the cristiano ronaldo from portugal. led him to two titles two seasons ago in the premiership, and the champions league. is he worth it? >> they will pay $131 million for the right to sign ronaldo. keep that in mind. he now has to agree personal terms. real madrid are on a spending spree. they're spending all kinds of money. is he worth it? i don't think any player is worth that kind of money. certainly he can change a game for you. he's a very talented player. he's going to be fitting in on a very talented team. there is no question that real madrid are going to be much better with him? but $131 million? i don't think so. >> you got to love tommy. >> tommy worldwide celebrity. he gets mobbed everywhere he goes around the world. true story. as part of the deal, part of the money may go to the player himself and any agent involved in the deal. but that's $136 million english pounds in the transfer fees to go to kaka. you can see, fourth larngest transfer fees in history. >> you get your name on that thing, it's the greate

i think spain said that i think portugal has said that. i think there has been a lot of progress on this issue. some of it may not quite be getting out there to everybody. >> on health care, the president made it a point -- while he maintains it is still not his choice, would you say that he has an appreciation for the possibility that it is increasing? do you think it is totally up in there? >> the president said last night that it is the wrong way for us to go. he believes it is not the best way to do it. the president has outlined $950 billion in savings that he believes is a better way to go about it. part of the question was explaining what had been proposed in the campaign and what congress was talking about. but i think he is very clear about what he thinks is the best way to do it. >> [unintelligible] on any level, should we be looking for increased -- on the health-care debate? can you talk about -- >> there are a series of issues that the first lady

they cannot talk to the german chancellor or the french president or people in spain or portugal -- it is only -- she said she would not offer the hand of friendship to those opposed to the lisbon tree -- treaty. only the check form supports it. >> more from the british house of commons can be seen on c- span2, and each sunday night at 9:00 p.m. eastern here on c- span. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2009] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] coming next, the future of conservative politics. after that, "q&a" with governor mitch daniels from indiana, and after that, prime minister gordon brown. there is the federally mandated transition to digital television coming next week, and we will get a staff report on how the fcc has prepared people for the change with weta -- weta's manager and others. "the communicators" on c-span2. a meeting was held last week in washington, and they discussed the obama administration. now, a portion of their discussion on strategies for a political comeback. this is 45 minutes. , at the same time we see repeated momus

the international mission in afghanistan, the middle east, and the upcoming 2010 nato summit in portugal. they will talk about instances of ratification for our bilateral legal assistance and expedition trees. i think we have a separate statement explaining that agreement. later on this afternoon, the secretary met with foreign minister ahmet of turkey. she is looking forward to hosting the foreign minister in his first visit to washington as foreign minister. they'll discuss the jiechi to partnership between our two countries -- the strategic partnership between our two countries. this will include counter- terrorism cooperation, turkey's yeu bid, and developments in the middle east, around, and north korea -- iran and north korea. she will meet with a member of the republic of korea, an important ally of the united states. they'll be discussing the upcoming summit between president of the united states and the president of the republic of korea. it will clearly talk about the current situation in north korea and the u.s.-korea alignment -- alliance. as the president mentioned this morn

they cannot talk to the german chancellor or the french president or people in spain or portugal -- it is only -- she said she would not offer the hand of friendship to those opposed to the lisbon tree -- treaty. only the check form supports it. more from the british house of commons can be seen on c- span2, and each sunday night at 9:00 p.m >> coming up next, a couple of forums on the future of conservative politics. then from minnesota, oral argument on the election recount the queen nor coleman and al franken. after that, a debate between candidates for president in iran. >> tomorrow on "washington journal," michael crittenden discusses the obama administration's approach to executive pay. the president and ceo of the alliance of automobile manufacturers talks about federal assistance to the auto industry and the government's 60% stake in general motors. stephen aftergood looks at the possibility of a center to speed up the classification of government documents. >> with a federally men -- with the federally mandated transition to digital television, we will get a look at how viewer

seen similar plants in china, japan, korea, brazil, great britain, spain, france, italy, austria, portugal, romania, and slovakia, mr. president. slovakia. but the united states has not yet acted on a program that has been effective around the world when we have some many small businesses right now whose futures are hanging in the balance. this is something supported by business and labor. and of course, the auto dealers. i am also pleased that it is now supported by the sierra club. we know that from environmental standpoint, there is more they can do. in terms of the environment, this is a win. cars and trucks sold under this will be more fuel efficient and cleaner than a car or truck it replaces. that is a fact. this bill will save 133 gallons of gasoline per vehicle per year. it will reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 1.4 5 million metric tons. models in 1998 or earlier will account for 25% of the cars driven, but 75% of the tailpipe emissions. if we can get vehicles that are worth $4,500 or less off the road, they can no longer pollutes, and people buy a vehicle that is 22 miles a gal

poorer than portugal would join the european union, porridge and greece when it joined. and one reason the european union worked so well is that the european union understood when it was creating conditions that they had to subsidize those countries initially to bring the standard of living up to a certain level. the cost of doing that and the european union would be enormous. and then there are all the cultural and religious problems that make the headlines of whether europe thinks turkey is really a european nation, and this raises questions about islam. it is a very dicey -- host: bruce stokes rights and " the national journal." we have another 15 minutes for bruce stokes. your reaction to a peace and "the financial times." optimism is not enough for global recovery. last week, the green shoots shriveled and south korea, china, and germany, exports were declining once again. and the u.s., the federal reserve is beige book said economic conditions remained weak or deteriorated further from the period of mid april through may. and as an analysis as -- global industrial

children are likely two times to die as children in spain, portugal or slovania.

similar plans and china got in japan, korea, brazil, great britain, spain, france, italy, austria, portugal, romania and slovakia, mr. president, slovakia. but the united states hasn't yet acted on a program that has been effective for bell world when we have so many small businesses right now who literally whose futures are hanging in the balance. this is something supported by business and labor by the u.s. chamber of commerce and national association of manufacturers and of course autodialers and i also very pleased that it is now supported by the sierra club. we know that from an environmental standpoint there is always more that we can do. but we know that this move cells in the right direction. in terms of the environment this is a win with every single new car that is sold. every car under this program will be more efficient, will be cleaned in a car or truck it replaces and that is a fact. this bill will save 133 gallons of gasoline per vehicle per year and reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 1.45 million metric tons. in 2010 vehicles, model year 1998 or earlier will account for 25%

seen similar plans in china, japan, korea, brazil, great britain, spain, france, italy, austria, portugal, romania, and slo slovokia, mr. president. slovokia. but the united states has not yet acted on a program that has been effective around the world when we have so many small businesses right now literally whose futures are hanging in the balance. this is something supported by business and labor, by the u.s. chamber of commerce and the national association of manufacturers and, of course, the auto dealers. i'm also very, very pleased that it is now supported by the sierra club. we know that from an environmental standpoint, there's always more we can do. but we know that this moves us in the right treks. in terms of the environment, this is a win with everything single -- with every single new car that is sold. every new car or truck sold under this program will be more fuel efficient, will be cleaner than a car or truck it replaces. and that is a fact. this bill will save 133 gallons of gasoline per vehicle per year. and reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 1.45 million metric tons. in

nuclear program, but if you transpose that onto another country, say luxembourg or what have you, portugal, you don't, simply don't have that kind of concern because the threat of the iranian nuclear program emanates not from the technology, but it 'em mates -- emanates from the regime that will ultimately wield it. we're concerned over the intentions of this regime, its involvement in international terrorism, its continued, continued source of instability for iraq, for afghanistan, and so i think what's happening within iran now is certainly a hopeful sign. it may not be a hopeful sign for very long, but i think it's an opportunity to refocus on the center of gravity in this whole debait. >> so what does the president do? >> i think right now the most important thing the president can do and he's done so at least to some extent is try to create that empty political space within iran so there is an opportunity for opposition forces to organize, and a part of that has to do with the fact that he has to articulate to the eye rape yang regime -- iranian regime a deal, any other deal is not un

the u.k., japan, china, korea, italy, spain, portugal, malaysia, austria, romainea, lucksomberg, even slovakia, auto sales have increased by some 18%. madam speaker, this is a very good bill. it's one that has bipartisan support. it's time to put american jobs first and begin to move this process forward. we have -- we know we have a majority in this house for this bill. the question is, do we have 2/3? i'd like to think that we do. this is it. we're not going to have another bill. it's not going back to rules. we need to pass this. i yield back the balance of my time of those two minutes. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves the balance of his time. the gentlewoman from ohio is recognize. ms. sutton: at this time, it's my honor to yield one minute to the gentleman from ohio, mr. boccieri. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. boccieri: this bill is about putting america first. we heard this all through the last campaign about how we need to invest in america, we need to protect american jobs. congresswoman betty sutton has stood up for am