the point i would make is that that benefits scotland. the fact that we are protecting the nhs and nhs spending means that money will be available in scotland as well. the shadow health secretary has now said that health should not be protected, and that the nhs should be cut. that is now, take note, the official position. theeleader of the opposition is nodding -- cutting the nhs is now official labour policy. >> dr. julian lewis. >> number 13, mr. speaker. >> i thank the honorable gentleman for his question. we are conducting a counter- insurgency operation in afghanistan. he asked specifically about the military purpose of routine foot and vehicle patrols in

>> i was still in scotland at that point.the last thing i did on that trip was go to the airport and see them take off in their private u.s. military plane. my colleague, tim farnham, was waiting for them when they arrived. he stood out in front of the rayburn house office building when everyone pulled up, and they were unpacking their bags. they were together for seven or 10 days, staying in the same hotel suite, and they certainly got to know each other better. tim just happened to be there and got a couple of photographs as they arrived. >> you write about trips to jamaica, trips to the galapagos islands. for some reason they all go to the galapagos islands. not all, but some do. australia, the great barrier reef. you don't talk much about those trips. how often did you find them going to afghanistan and iraq and then going off for five days to italy? >> a lot of times people swing through italy when going to afghanistan and iraq. it is either a convenient excuse or a good excuse, and the one trip you mentioned that nancy

the point i would make is that that benefits scotland. the fact that we are protecting the nhs and nhs spending means that money will be available in scotland as well. the shadow health secretary has now said that health should not be protected, and that the nhs should be cut. that is now, take note, the official position. the leader of the opposition is nodding -- cutting the nhs is now official labour policy. >> dr. julian lewis. >> number 13, mr. speaker. >> i thank the honorable gentleman for his question. we are conducting a counter- insurgency operation in afghanistan. he asked specifically about the military purpose of routine foot and vehicle patrols in afghanistan. if you are going to win the counterinsurgency and succeed in what is called "war amongst the people", you have to be among them, protecting them from the insurgents. that is how we are going to create a more stable and peaceful afghanistan, from which we will be able to return, leaving the afghan forces in control. >> dr. julian lewis. >> does the prime minister accept

in the newspaper that the prime minister wants the positive relationship with the a some links in scotland,, wales, and the northern islands, he wants to work in partnership. in the theme, would the minister put to the referendum this often for the wilshire some way? will he come clean with this house and the people oo wales and say if he is in favor of additional power? >> thank you, mr. speaker. first of all, let me be fair and frank. i want to have a genuine respect agenda between the u.k. government and all those administrations. we have always said that there will be a referendum on a sure powers for the welsh assembly. that referendum will take place next year. if the old gentleman shakes his hand, but if he wants the referendum earlier, the last state could have pushed it through earlier. the refereedum will take place. the people of wales must determine the future. as for my view, for someone who spends a lot of time and wells, there is a debate about powers for the assembly. but there's also a debate for people in wales wanting to know how we will make progress on housing, health

what did tyler tell us out of scotland and in summary terrs, when the public understands that they can vote themselves benefits on that day, democracy ceases to exist. here wer we are seeing data that only 47% of the households that 47% of the households zoont pay taxes. 47%. we don't have a number to show us the percentage of individuals. if 47% don't pay federal income tax that tells us we are only 3.0001% away from the majority of american households that don't pay income tax. we are within the emergencyin of error. who can think that the public hasn't figured out that they should game the system. if you are a marginal employee individual, are you belter off to game the system and tap into federal wrelf programs that are out there or go to work every day? if we fall back to the statement made by jimmy carter back in 1976 in iowa as he campaigned for president of the united states, impressed me -- i didn't support him, i want that to be clear, but he impressed, that people who work should live better than those who don't. i don't think he lived by that but it impressed me, the logic

. >> larry: i interviewed an inspector from scotland yard once with and he couldn't believe that anybodye a gun. >> right. >> larry: it was beyond his sense of belief. >> but england, which with used to be completely a nongun culture is becoming more americanized in every way. >> larry: people feel the need. this guy in chicago, who is a street guy, who he did stuff that obama used to do he raised interest in various subjects, wanted a gun because he lives in a neighborhood where he is scared. that is the case that won. >> i can see it in the house, this idea that you can take it in public, this seems insane to me that we should have it wherever we go, because in case there's a criminal who has a gun and he starts firing, you want to have a gun to protect yourself or maybe your children, because what protects children better than crossfire when you think about it? remember "crossfire"? lart show or -- >> yes, talk become the show to. >> larry: you miss "crossfire"? >> no but i miss you already. >> larry: first of all, i will be here for a while w. >> how long? >> larry: well, maximum, no

he took him on trips to russia, scotland, and the south pacific.de sure that his clients showered money on delay's foundation and employed his wife. in return, delay let jack market himself as the man who >> the first time i met jack abramoff was in the majority whip's office at an event. >> jack is one of a kind. he comes in for five minutes, sits down next to somebody who is willing to spend miilions of dollars to lobby washington, minutes. he leaves in five and the guy or the woman thinks that jack's talking to the president, but he's probably playing solitaire on his computer,,and then he comes back in and he's like, sorry about that, but he's got two more minutes. by the way, i need about p250,000 a month. and thhn walks out the door. one of a kind. one of a kind. >> has jack abramoff seen this documentary, and if so, what's his reaction to it? >> i don't know if he's seen it. and now that he's in a halfway house, i'm going to see if i can get him a copy. his lawyer abbe lowell saw it. said he liked it. said there are a few issues he had with

she is married to a two-time indianapolis 500 winner and they live in tennessee and scotland. please welcome ashley judd. [applause] . . >> thank youor tt kind troduction. there is a dil here. do i get to use it? do i need to hide it from you? thank you for the top table and forrganizing this. i have lot ofriends re i wod like to start by saying good afternoon. i am southern, so that means you are supposed to rpond in kd. good aftnoon. >> good aernoon. >> i would likto start by acknowledging my many fends. if b accident i overlooked you, please shout out your name this is the president and i have friends here from the sierra club and the national resources defense council. i have friends from earth just this year -- earth justice here. he is just an e-mail body. he may not exist in real life. there's also a friend who is a writer of exceptional abilities. she wrote what may have been the first cover story on mountaintop coal mining removal. or who else is here? one of the classmates from harvard kennedy school who is a dual degree canada it over at mit. he is a child oo the mo

i am from scotland. i am really messed up. yes. [inaudible] >> how would one participate? >> anybody want to -- >> i do not know how many are you are familiar with the council of europe. is roughly 46 nations and they have undertaken a project to standardize and to draft the convention against counterfeit medicines. they produced the first draft. that will go through a process and go back to the countries four assessment. it has been a topic in terms of the medicine component going back to 2004 at some conferences where the nations that participated said they were somewhat hamstrung. going back to an early point, it is essential to have that task force operation because the knowledge of the drug regulator couple months the knowledge of the police and federal regulators and the customs service. that is kind of a short answer to what is currently underway with regards to the medicine convention. >> they are very active in measuring the effectiveness of to counterfeiting and copyright and other violations. >> i want to add one other thing. this is a trade agreement that is be

although i currently make my home in rural middle tennessee and in scotland, ky calls to me.it is my avalon. took a friend to see my beloved great and pauline's form in lawrence county. she passed away when i was in only the fourth grade, and i had not been to reform since. nevertheless, i had never even driven myself there, but i navigated perfectly to her small place on little cat creek without making a single wrong turn. equally, in college i drove from lexington, ky, and although i had not been there since the second grade, i navigated without turning the wheel wrong. in 2008, after doing a lyover of legal and illegal mountain top removal, in sites, i drove to black blog holler, where my paternal grandmother was raised. i had never been there before. pulling onto blacked log, something ineffable, without word and deeper than memory, from a place so prrmal it transcends thought and conscious actions, i stopped at the foot of a long drive, and although i had ever seen it, i recognized it. i was not surprised when i looked at the mailbox and it said dalton, my grandmother's

there are many foreign banks like the royal bank of scotland salivating at that prospect of them americansiving away their market share. leave it to congress to make a mistake and do this. host: the phone numbers are on the bottom of the screen for our guests, at one time or legislative director for a republican congressional member from florida. he is the director of senate dilutions of heritage action for america. how is that related to the heritage foundation? guest: the heritage foundation has been a 5013c for more than 35 years, a conservative think+ tank mainly focused on limited government, a free economy. things like that, strong national defense. through the years we have been limited to what we could do on capitol hill, having a certain tax exemption. from the healthcare bill with so many groups on the left from unions to environmental groups coalesce around the healthcare bill. we sell a bill that was wildly popular in the real world, but in washington and had a great following -- it was wildly unpopular in the real world. our members are growing every day. they pushed us to get

it shuttles oil from the north sea oil rigs to scotland.e will basically have a pumping capability at the surface connected by a flexible hose down to the riser that continually off lows tankers. the bottom will go back to the wellhead. we might be able to move from a containment cap to a hard cap which is a way to produce everything coming out which means we could take leakage down to almost zero. >> do you have an estimated capacity for that system? >> i do not have it with me but we can make that available. >> thank you. >> next question comes from npr. >> good morning. the ap is reporting that they are moving ships into place to flame of the oil and gas as opposed to recover it. is that part of a plan? >> that is the q 4000 that i mentioned before. it can fire off natural gas and the oil, as well. we are concerned that oil to not hit the water. it will be a combination of transferred to oil ashore and firing off oil and natural gas. >> that explains why bp talks about a 5,000 barrel per day capacity. they keep talking about a different

website a few months ago that you had problems with english fans being attacked when they go to scotlandwatch matches. i was wondering if that was still a problem. thank you, a very much. guest: fans get drunk. fans fight. it happens in all sports. it certainly happens a lot in soccer. i do not think scottish fans beating up english fans is reflective of any broad trend. english fans tend to attract a fair amount of violence, and perpetrate a fair amount of violence historically. host: is it true that this is the most watched sporting event? guest: easily. even in this country, the world cup final france-italy, did a better number on abc than the nba finals did. it is a global game. even in this country even in this country, all lot of people pay attention -- even in this country, a lot of people pay+ attention. host: sean. caller: i think democrats seem to be more open to international soccer, then republicans. particularly, in the south, i hear a lot of animus toward the world cup. it is akin to the hatred of the u.n.. a lot of republicans do not like the united nations, and also, beca