michael ware and nic robertson, cnn's senior international correspondent.ve me your mini analysis of the speech tonight. >> well, you know, i think it did what it was supposed to. i thought it was a good speech in content. there's been a lot of focus on the pullout in 2011. there was a huge caveat which is the withdrawal is going to be conditions based. the transfer of authority to afghan police and army will be conditioned based. right now only one of the 34 provinces in afghanistan is actually under the complete control of the afghan military and police. that number could be two by 2011, it could be ten. who knows. i think the idea that the united states is going to start withdrawing in significant number this 2011, actually it wasn't even in had the speech, even though some people have fastened on that as a fact. there was a big conditionality that was in the speech. >> larry: michael ware, is it going to make a big difference? >> well, depends how they are used, larry. put it this way. as it stands right now, the taliban war machine hasn't even been den

nic robertson joins us on the phone. this suspect is allegedly nigerian.nd procured whatever this incendiary device. what about africa's influence on al qaeda? >> if you look at yemen, you're looking at somalia and countries like this. we know that al qaeda has a footprint in somalia. however, nigeria is on the west coast of africa. but what is interesting about nigeria in particular, when a research group recently researched people's reaction to osama bin laden, the pew research institute did this in nigeria, they got surprisingly high numbers of people saying that they at least supported osama bin laden's ideology. it's not -- it's certainly not a country where al qaeda is known to have a large grouping of people, a large affiliated terror group following it there that supported bin laden. but we do know al qaeda has extended its influence over the northern parts of africa in particular. but i think when you look at this particular case, you may be looking at somebody who's bought into the ideology of al qaeda and is perhaps more representative of the th

. >> larry: nic robertson is outside the suspect's last known address. n nic, what are the authorities looking for in this building? >> reporter: larry, they were looking for anything that might link the suspect to an ongoing terror plot involving other people. what's happened overnight is the police have suspended the operation. they have put this tape up around the area. police officers are securing the building. they say they will continue the search in the morning. however, the fact they suspended it does seem to indicate they don't think they are finding information that leads them to believe there is an ongoing terror plot. in that circumstance one could imagine a lot more police sifting through the evidence working through the night, larry. >> larry: drew griffin, who has been anchoring this all afternoon and will continue after this show goes off, our cnn investigative correspondent, what hits you the most about this, drew? is this something to cause panic? >> well, i don't think you can panic, but i don't think anybody is going to feel good abou

standing by, nic robertson, cnn international correspondent and paul cruikshank. a fellow at the nyu center at law and security. he has contributed to cnn's terrorism coverage including the terrific documentary "in the footsteps of bin laden." paul, what is your take on the events of the last two days? >> reporter: well being we', we seen a serious plot averted that could have killed hundreds of people in the skies, hundreds of more people on the ground. in 2006 here in london around ten individuals plotted a major attack to bring down airliners over the atlantic ocean. this seems a lot like that in many respects. al qaeda has come back to targeting airliners time and time again. we saw 9/11, in '95, an attempt over the pacific of american airline irs. it has the hallmarks of al qaeda. it is too early to tell if it is linked to that terrorist organization, larry. >> larry: nic, how concerned are the british authorities about muslim radicalism in the uk? do they see this suspect as an off/on operator or part of a wider network? >> reporter: they haven't -- we haven

nic robertson is in london where the suspect in the christmas day attempt, and that was a real attempt, attended school. what's the latest on the he investigation in the united kingdom? >> reporter: we're learning about when he was at high school from a teacher there that he was a very, very devout muslim. an interesting point this teacher told us about. there was a debate in the classroom the teacher initiated about the taliban. all the students in the classroom talked against the taliban apart from abdulmutallab. he talked for the taliban. that raised eyebrows for the teacher. the student came here to london. after three years studying here, his parents very concerned he's getting radicalized. they worried about meet pooem he was meeting here who were bad people they believe. from information today we're learning here media reports that we talked down with the british home office here, reporting that say abdulmutallab applied for another student visa to come ba to britain in the past year and was turned down. the british home office won't confirm or deny this report. they won't knock

and in parliamentary hearings after the 1999 war, the british minister of defense, lord george robertson, stated that up until shortly before the nato bombing, up until january 1999, quote, the kla were responsible for more deaths in kosovo than the serb authorities had been. so the image of this is a simple conflict in which it was, you know, the serbs were doing all of the aggression, and the albanians were the victims simply is not accurate, okay? and there's very little doubt, i should add, that one of the objectives of the kla was to ethnically cleanse the serbs something they ultimately achieved, to a significant degree, once they won the war. there was an uptick in fighting in 1997, or i should add shortly after 1997, because of a breakdown in civil order in neighboring republic of albanian. it meant that the arms supplies were open, and there was an enormous supply of weapons into kosovo which abled the kla to begin a major armed insurgency, and really by 1998 full-scale civil war had commenced, and the kla used their well-established technique of attacking civilians and policeme

host: dale robertson? guest: i'll say they do pay tacks but let's just say how much do they pay in taxes, 15% of the income so 85% they're drawing is tax dollars. the big question is the government shouldn't be expanding. i believe the government should be collapsing and getting smaller and smaller. i think incentivize federal workers. stop work for the federal government and give the guys 10% of the savings. that's the way you should do government, down sides but they don't want to because they know they are funding the next campaign. tax dollars ensure should ensure they are being managed frugely. cash for clunkers, for example,. they didn't put a bill through congress. they just magically appeared and all of a sudden they have cash for clunkers. so you can come up with any idea that your cash is about but it's not what -- that's why we have the tea party. no tax sation without representation. caller: my husband was hospitalized recently for fife days, and his bill came to $63,500 and what medicare in th

let's turn next to cnn's nic robertson who's covered too many stories like this one. nic, you a lot of all the coverage we've had tonight, you said something that really stuck with me. we're going to take a break and talk to nic about whether or not this suspect could be tied to other terrorist organizations or could be working on his own. stay with us. new centrum silver ultra men's. a complete multivitamin for men over 50. it has antiodants and vitamin d... to support your prostate and colon. new centrum silver ultra men's. right now 1.2 million people are on sprint mobile broadband. 31 are streaming a sales conference from the road. 154 are tracking shipments on a train. 33 are iming on a ferry. and 1300 are secretly checking email on a vacation. that's happening now. america's most dependable 3g network. bringing you the first and only wireless 4g network. right now get a free 3g/4g device for your laptop. sprint. the now network. deaf, hard-of-hearing and people with speech disabilities access www.sprintrelay.com so, at national, i go right past the counter... an

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you're on with dale robertson of tea party.org. go ahead. caller: the anniversary of george washington. so it's a very historical day in our nation. i'm not so sure -- [no audio] quite a bit of moneyff of these efforts. it's a conglomerate. if you look on the websites. u.s. impact group.org it's a proxy domain that's housed and there's there's a lot of splange to do. they should come forth and admit that there's a lot of special interests and maybe there's one of them and maybe they are being manipulated. but have a good one, sir. guest: i agree there's a lot of people making money from the tea party movement. if we work together i believe most of it should be going back to the local states or chapters. i think there's a l

we have ed henry cnn senior white house correspondent with us from hawaii, and nic robertson senior international correspondent in london to talk about the very latest developments. cnn has obtained photos of the underwear bomb the terror suspect allegedly used to try to bring down flight 253. nic, what do these interesting to say the least photos tell us? >> they tell us this is the way the bombs were hid. i he spent a good part of today with a bomb-making expert that showed me the explosives, the petn, this powder or pastelike explosive and destructive force. what's interesting is we learned this is a very, very stable substance. you can bang it quite hard and wear it for thousands of air miles and don't have to worry about the explosives going off inadvertently. we watched a test today with enough explosives to fill the cap of my pen here, and it blew a huge dent in a tiny piece of aluminum about double thickness of an aircraft skin. the amount of explosives in that underwear enough to smash a hole in the side of an aircraft, larry. >> larry: would all those people have been killed, do you thi

real oppressive and nasty stuff up in the front, and towards the end they begin to give us bill robertson, how the mcdaniels and laybourne, and duke ellington. smack this is the generational divide i think that's going on in our community, i think, because i hear from people in your generation that you guys experienced more racism than our generation did, but we are angrier about racism in the history than you guys are. and are tactics for dealing with it are different. you look at this and you're like, -- >> you don't know how angry we were. all of us were on the picket line. we were pretty damn angry. >> no, i know. now to take anything away from all you did. >> to intellectualize this, we got hope and oppression. but the fact is a book like this generates a kind of compensation that you and i are having right now. >> and a book like this makes it, that hopefully let us not forget. i mean, we constantly talk about not repeating history, and yet we constantly repeat history. whether it's anti-semitism against african-americans, you know. is a constant repetition. and we don't seem to kno

. >> 752 on the central oregon coast >> suarez: roger robertson hosts a local talk radio program. he also sells advertising on the station, giving him a front row seat for the boom years. for him, those years felt like the new normal. >> things were robust; things were building; things were growing; things were prospering; there was no reason to believe that it was going to be anything else, but what we were experiencing. suddenly the real world crept in and came back and woke us all up. >> suarez: lincoln city and communities like it were among the first hit by the great recession and they may be among the last to feel the recovery, says dante chinni, director of the patchwork nation project. >> these places kind of feel the pain first, because the discretionary spending stops here first. i think they also get the benefit of any recovery later. because the discretionary spending is going to come later. and i think this last recession was so deep, even when things turn around people are saving money like they haven't before, and they just feel just more insecure as a whole and tha

michael adams and an attorney carol robertson. they are on the faculty of the barbara jordan-mickey leland school of public affairs at texas university. mr. robertson was named in 2000 to the list of 100 to watch. i ask consent that their entire letter, which is dated october october 25, 2009, be placed in the record following my remarks. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. hatch: let me share here just an excerpt from these two people, and this is -- or from from -- an excerpt by dr. michael adams, ph.d., and carroll g. robinson, esquire, and barbara jordan from the mickey leland school of public affairs, texas southern university. "our reading of the constitution and supreme court precedent could not identify any reasonable basis, expressed or implied, for granting congress the broad, sweeping and unprecedented power that is represented by the individual mandate requirement. in fact, we could not find any court decision, state or federal, that said or implied that the constitution gave congress the power to mandate cit

the real oppressive and nasty stuff up in the front and toward the end they begin to give us bill robertson, hattie mcdaniels, lena horne. >> this is the the generational divide that i think is going on in our community because i hear from people in your generation that you guys experienced more racism than our generation did, but we are angrier about racism and the history than you guys are. and our tactics, our emotional tactics for dealing with it are different. and you look at this and you're like, well -- >> you don't know how awning ri we were -- angry we were. >> no, i know. not to take anything away from -- >> we can intellectualize this, you know, we've got hope, and we've got oppression, but the fact is that a book like this generates a kind of conversation that you and i are having right now. >> right, right, right. >> and a book like this makes it that, hopefully, let us not forget. i mean, we constantly talk about not repeating history, and yet we constantly repeat history. whether it's anti-semitism against african-americans, you know, it's a constant repetition. and we don't

hannity is a lot cheaper pain and talkshow format than having chris john aubin pour in tehran and nic robertson in baghdad and doing a reporter. i still try to have reported news that cnn be the core of it with anderson cooper, aaron brown, and many others. it is cheaper and it's easier to get a solid audience for last by having very strong opinionated talk shows. and that goes not just for cable tv but for the blogosphere as well. and the blog is here, if your pc, if you have those great one-liners, you can get a following just as surely as if you were really courageous and scraped up all of your money and went uncovered what's happening in helmand province now in afghanistan. so that worries me as well. what is the antidote to that? one of the antidote is what i talked about at the beginning of may speech. if we have a system where people could pay for it. most news would still be free, most news would be generic. opinions would be freak as they proliferate on the web. but if people get paid for it easily, you would need a whole lot of people. if one 10th of them, 5 million will pay $2 a mont

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robertson? >> i would continue to encourage you to talk with more independent researchers. i really take issue with dr. insel's statement that all of the evidence says this is not a connection. if you do not look he will not find evidence that does say that. i would encourage you all to talk more with people like dr. lucere, who is seated behind me, dr. boyd haley, i could name a bunch of scientists that you could clean a lot of good information from. >> well, i believe in open inquiry. as i said to a group last night, i do not believe in closed lines are closed doors or closed inquiry. but again, if something has been looked at a scientifically and the vast majority of the scientific community after looking at this says there is no correlation, then you have to move onto something else. but again, i'm always for open inquiry. >> today on c-span, a senate hearing on the national debt with the former congressional budget office director, the former comptroller general, and other -- the formeto discuss ree debt and possible ways to reduce it in the coming years. >> all this b