the reagan administration. rare commodities the people who are essential to government. >> and he has worn a uniform in this country with military service, which is rare. >> but i think what is important of the two up clemons is the political -- what underlies it politically. it mark is right in pointing up at betray us was the obvious guy you think of to be as sharp -- pointing up petraeus as the guy you would think of to be chairman of troy gee spirit if he retired, he would be a political presence in the country and an attack of presidential candidate. this way, -- attractive presidential candidate. this way, petraeus will be a silent on one point. panetta -- cutting the budget is his job. >> the cia has for some time now been paramilitary. i wonder if that will be built up. >> that is exactly what i was talking about. i am assuming it will, and that means less and less oversight. one of the great things about the american military is that it has really help people to certain kinds of standards in warfare. t

spoke with paul craig roberts an economist and former assistant treasury secretary during the reagan administration has yet to say it's not in the media at least a spin on washington's mind for two reasons one. the current director who's now been arrested strauss kahn was a likely. winner of the next french election at least according to polls and rush so much prefers and sort cozy. it's also a modest it's mind that the i.m.f. recently announced to wash the great consternation that within five years the chinese economy will now will have surpassed the american economy. so even though ordinary people don't pay much attention to the i.m.f. what washington was paying attention and it's early strauss kahn was also paying attention to joseph stiglitz. and his policies were being noticed by the banks because strauss kahn was. advocating a return of regulation to have the banks. more carefully regulated so they couldn't produce such crises that poor people have to pay for and this was also. getting attention are you know what you're alluding to i mean why what is the connection between a washington post a

i think oliver north in the reagan administration. is there something about politics vs. business? you want the president to send a signal, but the body politic is the worst example where people at the top or always accountable. >> probably the most vivid illustration where you see it raw power tromping of the legal obligation to tell the truth. it is so serious because the president of the united states and the vice-president, these are the two highest law enforcement officers in the country. what message is sent to everyone involved in the legal system when the president of the united states, after saying i will not tolerate this, when confronted with that in his own administration, looks the other way, does not make them go to jail? it is basically condoning this kind of behavior. there has been a long and storied tradition of in the white house lying to cover up the mistakes of the higher ups. of all places, this is where it has got to stop. the power of the white house is such that when they say -- and they are extending that message, it takes a strong, honest person to stand

my feeling is that in college, especially during the reagan administration, i thought that the democratic party in the united states had essentially vacated the left. and fused i think a little too much with the political right. there had n. my opinion, been insufficient advocacy for people who were left of center. and so that reality, coupled with the fact of the growing environmental crisis and denial that this country was going through and in seeing the inspirational movement of the green party's blossoming in europe, especially germany, i went to germany in the late 1980's. i spent time with the green party of germany in the parliament over there, learned everything i possibly could. came back to california. i was 1 of 20 people who co-founded the green party here in california. i have been a member of the green party, co-founder, for about 20 years and then less than two years ago i decided it was time for me to shift directions and i became a democrat. >> looking back a few years to your campaign for supervisor, what lessons did you learn from that experience? was there anything tha

it's a problem that had its origin in the reagan administration, when the state hospitals were closed and when most of the responsibility for this was sort of delegated down to the counties. it is clearly a big problem for san francisco. we work very hard to manage it. we still provide more mental health services than any other county in the state. we provide more substance abuse services than any other county in the state, by a huge factor. and we clearly realize that there's additional need that needs to be met. no question about it. >> [inaudible]. >> the public health department doesn't work alone on this. and as a fantastic job as they are doing, we're also doing it with the proper level of law enforcement, working very closely with our police department and to make sure, you know, a lot of people aren't making good judgments on the street. you know that. that's part of that whole challenge of mental health. so that's why i've been carrying out support for the community justice center, the community justice courts, get the folks on the street to actually force them to make a deci

two thousand and eight and he invented a vehicle during the time that he was working in the reagan administration that led to the crash of two thousand and eight as he points out right here. more. market. rule in a way it is almost impossible to believe there were almost two million subprime mortgages written in a period. that means somebody had a finance. a couple million homes or moore most of sub prime mortgages. so. why did anybody put their money why would anybody knowing that these be sub prime means that they are not prime. well that goes with that goes back to something called securitization then something called traunch credit rated securitization. that was invented by. people who. were operating in the r.g.c. . and namely it was invented by median or. so you can start with saying that the vehicle that was used to market the subprime mortgages was this kind of securitization. and it was invented by bill c. but he knew how to prevent it from going crazy like the banks just took it serious . one the credit rating agencies. and i guess you can blame me blame those of us who did the r.t.c. t

oberstar: but even a decade after it was enacted, the reagan administration came in and cut the grant program to a loan program. and funding diminished over a period of time. now, we still have 1/3 or more of the nation's streams and lakes that don't meet the standards of the clean water act. we have to advance the cause. that is the big challenge ahead of us. you just don't think of raw sewage in waterways in a developed country, and yet, that's what we have, and not just in pittsburgh, but all over. narrator: pittsburgh is situated at the confluence of the allegheny, monongahela, and ohio rivers. these three rivers are vital for industry, recreation, and drinking water. and each year, billions of gallons of combined sewer overflows discharge directly into those rivers. hecht: we're now having to face the consequences of the choice that was made to put in combined sewer systems. narrator: in 1994, the government adopted a combined sewer overflow policy to reduce csos nationwide. cities with combined sewer overflows now face an enforcement action called a consent decree. under a conse

it was more a day, you know, mobilization to the right of the reagan administration. >> that is one of those things that they say is outside the scope of the book, but i will say in one review that that is the story that really needs to be told, you know, the organization on the right during that era as well. could be. okay, thanks. [applause] >> this event was hosted by books on the square in providence, rhode island

of working people that we don't have in this country for thirty years in america since the reagan administration there's been a steady right wing corporate right wing assault on the work on the rights of working people and you know there was a story in the times the other day about those manufacturing jobs coming back to the midwest in this country but the jobs that are being created or pay one third what the jobs that were sent overseas paid so they have that history of this are our press loves to say it when it's a broad but if you but they don't like this it at home but they're made uncomfortable about it by the mainstream press because if that is sent succeeds it's the threat threat to the corporations for whom they work and to the relationship between the corporate and the corporate powers in the state powers that represent this this sort of tacit consensual seduction that is going to go in this country of the rights and interests of working people very well said we're going to take a quick break and when we come back i'd like to get into. some of the back to the sixty's for a moment if we

reagan to george h.w. bush to president clinton george w. bush and now the obama administration has said we believe the borders of israel and palestine should be based on the nine hundred sixty seven lines with mutually agreed swaps. so that secure and recognized borders are stablished for both states an unusually blunt indorsement of an end to israeli occupation of arab land by u.s. president the idea was immediately rejected by prime minister benjamin netanyahu israel argues peace cannot come at the cost of its security with continued palestinian rocket attacks there is one thing both sides actually agree on when it comes to the u.s. role as mediator it approaches they say is all wrong american policy is built on misconceptions a wrong view of the causes of the conflict and a prescription that doesn't stand up to even the most casual scrutiny of the question is not why don't we have a solution at this point but why on earth should we expect to have a solution with this system as it is their use of money your with the jerusalem project says talk is cheap in the us says it's in

of william and mary and also larry klayman attorney author former federal prosecutor in the reagan administration and founder of the organization's judicial watch and freedom watch dot org colonel wilkerson larry i figure i'll come to welcome to both of you colonel you're on the record as saying that you believe that the war in iraq was in part at least driven by a desire to get oil to change famously said ten percent of the world's oil reserves are there it's cheap oil back in two thousand and one. can you elaborate on that what causes you to believe you know i i'm not sure it was to get a well i'm not sure that's the way to put it i think it was to ensure that one of the greatest reserves of oil known reserves of oil in the world was well protected and i wouldn't say it was to get it into the hands. of chevron royal dutch shell exxon mobil another private companies because they're a lot harder to deal with the national companies like the mexican but as oil and saudi and so it was to stabilize one of the greatest resources in the world in terms of nonrenewable thoughts of fuels incidentally iraq

gates also demonstrated this class by noting that the military buildup during the neo-con reagan administration not mine was no longer relevant here is what he said regarding our current threats related to the former soviet threats and potential adversaries america faces today and down the road are dangerous and daunting for their complexity variety and unpredictability. but as a matter of national survival they do not approach the scale of the soviet military threat that provided the political and strategic rationale for defense expenditures that consumed a significant portion of our economy we're not going to see a return to cold war level defense budgets at least as a share of g.d.p. because america is different thank you robert gates however the real problems are the things robert gates there's not know what to do about or how to deal with this here will be another four year defense review basically a force structure and strategy assessment done by the pentagon the the pentagon will bring all of its accountants analysts and probably a couple of band leaders together and they're going to sit

we're making a media story right here thank you so much that was paul craig roberts former reagan administration official now the united states has reached its credit limit the debt ceiling and what's happening chaos in financial markets the u.s. defaulting on its debt armageddon well not exactly but this may be why the treasury department has employed what timothy geithner has labeled quote unquote extraordinary measures so that the government can pay its bills until august second these include borrowing from the civil service retirement and disability fund and suspending investment in the federal employees retirement system and short borrowing from peter to pay paul and here peter sounds a lot like your average worker but here to talk about the debt ceiling and what this all means is raj joshi he's founder and president of many think this much for being with us now you know i want to ask you as an investor there is a debate going on now that we see you know beyond politicians and with politicians that one side saying if the u.s. doesn't raise the debt ceiling and ben bernanke you would be in a

it was about the by congress in seventy three and from seventy nine hundred three until the reagan administration we built things in this country because we protected our industries we subsidize their industries we had tariffs our borders that was not an original idea to hamilton he took it from the british it was called the king his tutor plan king henry the seventh actually he stole it from the from the dutch and so it's been around for a long time so you know what's happened over the last twenty years thirty years is that the indians and the chinese have picked up basically hamilton's plan and reagan and bush and clinton all abandoned it so that the policies here are directly related to what we're seeing we have no trade policy it's i mean other than you know joining the world trade organization and surrendering our sovereignty to a big national corporate transactional corporation. let's talk about i know india going to the only country where things are kind of going right but i know that you on your show you speak a lot about germany and some of the things that they're doing there. to make su

though i know what you're saying is that there is a history to this that began even before the reagan administration in the eighty's which launched the gun free schools act in the war on drugs that's worked its way into the schools to become the war on drugs in schools and student drug testing we've got. billions of dollars six billion dollars that's been invested by the federal government through the schools programs the department of education and the department of justice that's funded school drug testing the technology that you referred to in your introduction so that began really in the eighty's while budget cuts may be slowing things down at the federal level and much of the policy that gets me in local school districts is done by school boards and i think it's important to remember that schools are as in the research that i did which was over two years of working on this book everyone kept telling me time and again all the research shows calls are and remain one of the safest places for children to be much of the violence that takes place and that happens to kids happens in their own homes an

and then the reagan administration had set their moderates but by this time there is very few. but even he moved along. and the southern fears of the lincoln administration were well founded. and then republic and rhetoric of what they would do when they got into power. they were going to bar the seven years from taking their slaves into the territories and appoint republican postmasters in the south and there was another one in the south like the customs inspectors so from these other prospective they would be squeezed economically and the increasing minority in the government and then you have to from each day as more three states came favor of increasing minority. that is the dilemma of our system of government, is it not? you hear majority rule. that is the essence of democracy but it is much tougher to protect minority rights. had you protect minority rights in me had society with majority rule? but as a minority there lies the respective. the small state of south carolina had disproportionate influence on the south. >> you are absolutely right. south carolina was a relativ

have some ishgz that i think are important that we have different views on, but he was in the reagan administrationf a very conservative state elect and re-elected, by the way. if you ask me is john huntsman qualified to be the republican nominee for the president of the united states, my answer is of course he is. >> you're a former republican national committee chairman at a time when the party had great success. answer the republicans out there -- you know this governor barbour -- who are saying, ah, this field is kind of weak. nobody very strong seemed to be wanting to run on the democratic side, and the same things were said about the democratic field, and then in a year and a half we had president bill clinton. a lot of times until you really get to know people a lot better, and many of these candidates are not very well known, you don't see their strengths and ability. i think by when it counts next spring and summer, we will have a candidate that's tha stacks up very well with barack obama and we'll have a very united republican party. nobody can unite our party like barack obama. >> always

i don't know how we can get stylized former defense secretary during the reagan administration kt mcfarlandted deputy casey mcfar lapped is on the phone. you have been many times. sometimes at risk to yourself. why do you tell us how you are feeling and what you have heard other than this breaking news that you are hearing now on our network? >> geraldo, i was in afghanistan just ten-days ago. spent quite a bit of time with general petraeus. a couple things come very quickly to mind. petraeus et al think they were making great progress on the ground against the taliban. they had two other things they weren't doing well. one is karzai. he is hedging his bets about will the united states leave or not leave? the pakistanis were not going after the taliban in the tribal areas because they wanted to hedge their bets. if osama bin laden enis dead it's a game changer for all of that. the afghanis and pakistanis that were sitting on the fence they are going to jump off that fence and join our side. >> i hope you are right. >> the taliban i think it will be likely they will want to negotiate. i thin

we saw it in the reagan administration, the bush administration, the clinton administration. what sets this apart a little bit is that the size of the debt keeps getting birg bigger and bigger and bigger and so the consequences of playing this game become larger and the wiggle room gets smaller because all of these emergency measures that we're now taking which useded to buy months and months of additional time now buy just a couple months. >> suarez: on one side of the argument people from the administration are promising calamity if august 2 comes and goes with no settlement for this. while some on the other side are saying, well, it's a detail. we'll miss a couple of payments for a couple of days or a couple of weeks but then eventually this will get settled. is the truth somewhere in the middle? >> we don't know. you know, i think robert rubin, the former treasury secretary said it best. he said we don't know what will happen. why would you want to find out? that seems to be, you know, a perspective that certainly all of our former treasury secretaries have. you're wander

the reagan administration softened that a bit saying settlement was not constructed. bill clinton allowed for natural growth and 2004, president bush added the u.s. now recognized the new realities on the ground. at a tense meeting at the white house friday, netanyahu demanded the white house returned to the bush position and flatly rejected a return to the '67 borders. >> these lines indefensible because they don't take into account certain changes that have taken place on the ground, demographic changes that have taken place over the last 44 years. remember, before 1967 israel was all of 90 miles wide. half the width of the washington beltway. >> what we saw friday was an israeli prime minister lecturing the president in public about the course of jewish history. the course of middle east history. barack obama know this material and i have to imagine, just looking at the body language that he would have places he would rather have been. >> obama visited israel before his election but has not returned since becoming president. according to polls there. the number of