for more on this i'm not joined by the president of the center for constitutional rights michael ratner joining us live anywhere in new york thanks very much indeed for joining us there michael now to be with. us some analysts are saying the vote is largely symbolic but do you think it will have any effect on the future direction of the nato mission in libya we know it's remarkable that there is this much opposition to the war in the united states you know there's no american soldiers really being killed in it so it is surprising that so many members of congress not just republicans but many many democrats voted on a resolution to not authorize the war any longer now it's true they voted also not to cut off funding but there's a lot of opposition going on and the perspective i have and why didn't the president come to congress and the issue is obviously once a war starts you're in the middle of supporting nato when it's all operation it's much harder to cut off the funding but the president didn't go to congress he's constitutionally required to do what he didn't do it and it's really i

i believe what we agreed upon was also that we would look ratner -- look at our overall policy also, so what i am seeing is an annual analysis. we'll get -- we looked at the areas, having changed, and what does that tell us thomas -- what does that tell us? it is a rapidly changing demographic with new housing developments in jamestown. 1147 new units, so we see a rapid change of demographics in that this still means there are students that i believe are underperforming, so also when we were saying we want to monitor itsel about what our student society process is hitting in terms of goals, so when i see some of these guidelines for the review, i wonder about the measures we are using to use student assignment. after we heard you have over a certain percentage of a certain population, it is much more difficult to get over the systemic policies that make it harder for schools to actually have higher achievement. buwe heard from our sandford folks, and i think we heard it from our own research and accountability is curator of we saw a lot of staff on it. -- accountability. we saw a lot

i just did an action directed by brett ratner, i played a maid. i like taking a character i've seen in real life and wearing that suit. and pulling people into thinking that is who i am. with "precious", so many think i am her. it makes me laugh. it really does. ha, i will do. you think i am that i am this. confusionu find that conclusi laughable instead of being offended. >> is a tribute to the talent i did not know i had. yeah, i fool a lot of people and i would get it all the time and people still that might have never seen me on a talk show or anything, expect my voice to sound like her. expect me to be a little dumb. and not so happy and they do not expect me to smile so when i do smile, there is that and it is funny to see their reaction and it changes their minds and lets them realize i am an actress and people are more than one dimensional. tavis: you said something that got my attention. i will ask you to unpack it. there is this notion that many of us have talent we are not aware of. we have a gift. how did you discover you were gifted?

now the head of the center for constitutional rights michael ratner says president obama is staking his political career on the war in libya. the perspective i have and why didn't the president come to congress and the issue is obviously once a war starts you're in the middle of supporting nato when it's all operation it's much harder to cut off the funding but the president didn't go to congress he was constitutionally required to do what it didn't do which and it's really it's an outrageous constitutional violation so what we're seeing here is not just political posturing we're seeing deep resentments around us fighting so many wars at once i think people are saying it's too much it's too expensive what are we just the war machine and i think you're seeing a really strong opposition building to the war what's interesting is that i think obama looks like a real who will use it looks like he made a real mistake to not go to congress to get the authority to go into an illegal war that's contrary to the u.s. constitution and contrary to the war powers resolution which is a statute that wa

the center for constitutional rights michael ratner says that president obama is staking his political career on the war in libya. the perspective i have and why didn't the president come to congress and the issue is obviously once a war starts we're in the middle of supporting nato when it's our operation it's much harder to cover what's running and i think you're seeing are really strong opposition building to the war what's interesting is that i think obama looks like he made a real mistake to go into an illegal war that's contrary to the u.s. constitution and contrary to the war powers resolution which is a statute that was passed by congress a number of years ago and this principally a legal issue oh although it really reflects the underlying discomfort right now with this war and i think there's tremendous discomfort despite their costs are nothing compared to your risk i'm aware. we're not losing soldiers you know i'm getting sick and tired of war. you with r.t. now the former finance minister and hosni mubarak's ouster gyptian government has reportedly found a safe haven in the

ratner, i believe mr.oom was invite today that meeting but was held up at another occasion, at which we discussed the consequences of a general motors failure on the pension system of general motorses and what the impact of that might be on the pension insurance system -- >> what discussion did they have with you relative to the hourly being topped off and not the salary? is. >> none. >> any, any comments, any correspondence that they gave you on that specific question? >> i don't recall any, no. >> okay. ranking member is recognized for an additional five minutes, or a second round, excuse me, of questioning. >> thank you very much, mr. chairman. i just want to say that, well, that the, that the chair's line of inquiry here, um, whether or not the auto task force was running gm, it's an appropriate line of inquiry. you know, the committee has an interest in knowing that. i would have an interest in knowing that because the outcome is so stunning it may give you more credit than, at this point, you apparen

. >> steve ratner, and also if these were gifts and not political contributions then the federal governmenttention. >> you're right. one of the criticisms i have heard repeatedly is here you had the financial meltdown, all these people on wall street implicated in it and made a ton of money and may have misrepresented the quality of their companies. yet the justice department has not spent two and a half years individually investigating all of them. when john edwards was arraigned on friday, there were seven government lawyers present. >> come on. >> seven. >> it's ridiculous. >> the government wanted edwards to agree to a plea deal in which he would serve jail time. he said, absolutely not. i'm not going to jail over this. >> the justice department has done the impossible -- made john edwards sympathetic. >> not quite. >> not quite. >> people want revenge of john edwards. they are angry with john edwards, fine. but don't use our federal resources to do it. >> it's terrible what he did, but the donors knew what the money was being used for. >> the donors gave it to him directly. it didn't a

we will continue the sort of market oriented section with steve ratner and then we are going to move to the political. steve, i want you to china in. you have been on both sides here. what is your outlook? you're optimistic, i guess your former boss thinks there's got to be a deal. >> i think there's going to be a deal because there has to be a deal. i don't believe in the industrial and bernanke said everybody can see this as a good thing or as a positive part of resolving our fiscal crisis to default on our debt or get in the price we are cutting everything else we don't default on our debt which in the corporate world would be the default but the government operates by its own rules. and so, - what you see going on the market is the previous speaker said is a mix of the view that slow growth and is a bigger problem in some ways than the lack of a budget deal as well as the refusal to believe that the government would do such a thing and we do have as i think everybody knows in this room and many better than i some precedent for going down this road in the 90's where we had a simil

ratner and mr. bloom up here as a cc, that this coming from gm officials that this in any way indicates that it was, it was a non-gm officials who were leading the dance. i just want to point that out and, again, i do that because i understand the concerns that my colleagues have, share many of those concerns. i just wanted to correct the record. and i thank the chairman. thank you m. >> and i thank the ranking member. i'm going to allow myself five minutes. mr. bloom, mr. snowbarger, and i think today the most important thing we can understand about this hearing, it's not about democrats or republicans, it's about the american people. and i would think that this hearing is, indeed, essential when we talk about taxpayer dollars being invested. if you could, mr. bloom, there was $50.2 billion in total t.a.r.p. assistance. could you tell me how that was divided up? >> congressman, i'm not familiar with that particular number. there's 49 and a half is the total assistance to gm. i'm familiar with that

we will continue the sort of market oriented section with steve ratner and then we are going to move to the political. steve, i want you to china in. you have been on both sides here. what is your outlook? you're optimistic, i guess your former boss thinks there's got to be a deal. >> i think there's going to be a deal because there has to be a deal. i don't believe in the industrial and bernanke said everybody can see this as a good thing or as a positive part of resolving our fiscal crisis to default on our debt or get in the price we are cutting everything else we don't default on our debt which in the corporate world would be the default but the government operates by its own rules. and so, - what you see going on the market is the previous speaker said is a mix of the view that slow growth and is a bigger problem in some ways than the lack of a budget deal as well as the refusal to believe that the government would do such a thing and we do have as i think everybody knows in this room and many better than i some precedent for going down this road in the 90's where we had a simil