, central and south america.ecause they're very difficult to find right now. they're a solitary cat. they're not a social cat like a lion. they're a solitary cat. and one that really represents the jungle -- >> larry: they're also beautiful. >> the jaguar, for example, in south america, central me, the ocelot's the next one down. this is a tamber. which kind this here? >> a geoffroy. >> larry: what's that? >> a tal vind a little primate. see the meal worms? the tamarind is a very endangered little creature in some parts of the world. their babies don't even weigh as big as the end of your finger. they're very social creatures. a golden lion tamer, it has a beautiful head on it. beautiful big head. they're also great -- these are great pollinators. these animals are like birds. they pollinate from tree to tree. they're a little creature that also has lost a lot of its habitat in the rainforest as well. many, many types of tamarins. >> larry: this is full grown? >> this is full grown. there's some that are smaller

this larry is one that came over from south america.ought them into this country in southern florida. there are poison glands right back there. >> get it away from me! get it off of me! >> larry: it's okay. >> it's a toad. it's a toad. >> larry: it's okay. >> i don't like toads either. >> larry: you're okay. he didn't bite you. get it out of here. that's historic, folks. bring on the cockroaches. >> put that on larry's jacket. that's what i do. that's a nice one there. don't let him get in your hair because he'll lay eggs. >> larry: he will lay eggs? >> well, she. no, he's the male. let him go down your shirt. he's gone now. >> larry: where is he? he went down my shirt? get him out of my shirt. >> reach down in there. don't be bashful. get the thing before he gets -- you got him? oh, good. >> larry: imagine if i went home with that. >> your wife wouldn't like you. >> larry: cockroaches, they are unusual, right? >> they say they could survive nuclear attacks. this is the mad gas scar hissing cockroach. hear it? [ hissing ] >> i put these

i cannot like the idea about south america. what about central america? i am talking to you like this because i want to write to tomorrow. [laughter] and i will point this out to you. you may know for a fact i don't just fall. i act. >> good. >> thank you very much. >> thank you. i think you are making a very important observation. i want to remind you that in the first year of this administration, president obama went to guyana and he made statements about the importance of africa -- went to ghana and made statements about the importance of africa to this administration. secretary clinton spent 11 days in africa covering six countries. probably more than the previous administration had spent in the duration. and she went to talk to the women in the refugee camps, and she met with different groups, and and she addressed some of the relief intractable problems that africa faces, most of which are mired in poverty. and from that perspective, if we look it two initiatives that this administration is putting ford -- they are very much linked with trying to ad

lots of south america and latin america. europe is having a hard time, but they questioned this person said is, what happened to capitalism? this talk of regulation, the bailouts, there is a fear about where america is headed. you see that reflected in our major companies who don't like uncertainty about health-care reform and energy policy. i have spoken to ceo's who say where is the impetus for economic growth? this is a point of tension as the administration is trying to jump-start the private sector to create jobs. i think one of the trends on the policy side is there is a question about the role of government with regard to the economy worldwide. a lot of that is looking at the u.s. and wondering what is happening. >> the outside world always looks to america, particularly at this time. we heard from peter about elections in iraq and brazil. you will be taking up with your own campaigns. are there any lessons you can pick up from other campaigns that have just been fought and around the world? >> if you look at south am

each other they did not have nuclear weapons programs and signed the treaty which made all of south america a nuclear-free zone. two more states marching down the nuclear path. there is also what i would call three paranoid states that started down the nuclear path and why they started in why they quit is important. taiwan's started down the path from 1971. why did they do that? because they were voted off of the ireland. but technically there were voted off in manhattan when they lost their seats on the security council. 1971 the un and other political powers decided to recognize beijing instead of tie one as the capital of china and then they lost their seats on the security council that led the government to conclude that the americans will be abandoning us, we better have nuclear weapons to do with a huge chinese model with on the of me man so taiwan embarked on a serious nuclear weapons program and they had very good scientific staff and a lot of money. and then have 250 pounds of plutonium but at the end of the cold war is the active u.s. involvement they leaned on the tide one-- to c

lots of south america and latin america, things look up. europe is having a hard time and the united states is having a hard time. but the question, this person said, is what happened to capitalism. you know, this talk of regulation, that the bailouts and whatnot, there's just a real fear about where america is headed in this regard. you see that reflected in some of our major companies, too, who don't like the uncertainty about health care reform, don't like the uncertainty about energy policy, about tax policy. i've spoken to c.e.o.'s who say, hey, where is the impetus for economic growth? we don't see it in the united states. there's no real impetus for investment. this is a real point of contention right now, as the administration is trying to get the private sector jump-started to create jobs again, get consumers spending again. so i think one of the trends -- and adam spoke to the politics. but on the policy side there's a real question about role of government, effectiveness of government with regard to the economy worldwide, and a l

one was south america but the other area was in north asia.he area of northern china, the russian empire, korea, manchuria. he thought it was key for the future oameric b to have americs big stick out their in northern asia but he was frustrated because congress would not provide him the troops to wield his big stick. knowing that he could not get american troops out there, he looks for a surrogate. he looked at the japanese and he said, the japanese soldiers are the most dashing fighters in the world. he had his cabinet -- demonstrated jiggetts to hold some that the practice three times a week. the broad u.s. army generals into the white house and stage matches and gave lectures about how japan is a rising rates and there's someone to be trusted. roosevelt was told by his secretary of state that he would never get a treaty through congress that would allow him to ally with japan in north asia. so, he wrote secretly, you know the senate is not a good body for making treaties. i will make a wise foreign policy on my own. so in the summer of 190

as a little kid, i grew up hearing about africa and south america in the news every night. all these places. it is very different when you are in a country like america, where you actually can give the news every night and don't -- i am not saying it is a bad thing. america is so complex and sits at the center of so much that happens, you can have sophisticated conversations about this world just about america. it is a matter of where you are. in canada, we were forced to look outward. and that was a really wonderful experience for someone who wanted to go into business and the professionally curious. >> i will not stay on this, but your by george washington and thomas jefferson. you hear about in canada? >> john mcdonald, the man who made independence to the canadian federation. but you hear about lots of other -- you hear about english kings. all my memories of childhood history are completely -- i would hear about the founder of debate in independence -- a jamaican independence. >> because of your mom. >> it was always up there. >> since we last talked, a man and barack o

not that much happened of consequence grid i grew up hearing about africa and south america in the newsry night. it is very different when you're in a country like america where you actually can't give the news every night and they will talk about america. america is so large and complex and if so at the center of what happens in the world, you cannot have a sophisticated conversation about this world that is about america. to as a matter of where you are. -- it is a matter where you are. in canada, we were forced to look outward. that is a wonderful experience of someone who wants to go into the business of being professionally curious. >> you hear about the founding fathers in this country. who do you hear about in canada? >> sir john macdonald is the man who found -- who brought the -- canadian confederacy. you hear about english kings. my memories of childhood history -- i would hear about the founder of jamaica independence. >> because of my mother. >> my father talk about henry viii to us. cáx>> since we last talked, bark obama became president of united states and he is like you

think that we should be honored and pleased that the process that we had to go through, i am from south america, but i went to medical school there. but in those days here, jews couldn't go because there were quotas. and let me tell you something else. in the last few days, i met with a very good friend who is a professor at the nazarene university, and he was saying, he is from israel, said he thought in the 1967 war but he didn't find for the policies that government of israel is applied to the west bank. [applause] >> you know, if you read certain sociologists who share your admiration for the universities, and my fellow intellectuals, you will find that one of the things they say is that when young people come to college, they have their assumptions and the ones they brought from home, shaken up, and they learn to look at it critically. and this is often applied to both jewish professors and jewish students. but the plain truth of the matter is that most jewish kids nowadays come to college already having liberal ideas and assumptions. and rather than being taught to question them, they are

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he looked back to south america where he saw a hemorrhaging of roman catholics into evangelical protestants and pentecostal churches and the ones who were staying in the catholic church were embracing of liberation theology, something he wasn't too fond of either, so that, didn't look too well. he looked at america and saw catholics organizing lay groups and demanding some kind of voice in their church here. that was in something that he could stomach too easily. so looking all around the world it didn't look like a particularly promising future for the catholic church. he had to make a decision in the decision he apparently has made it which i wish he had not, however, is a kind of circling of the wagons and a clamping down. also apparently an effort to rally in to the catholic church elements in other churches who would agree with this meador this tactic, this tactic of circling the christian wagons against all of the antagonists and i think that probably had to do the invitation to disgruntled and anglicans to come into a kind of side door and into the catholic church. i don't think very

lots of south america and latin america. europe is having a hard time, but they questioned this person said is, what happened to capitalism? this talk of regulation, the bailouts, there is a fear about where america is headed. you see that reflected in our major companies who don't like uncertainty about health-care reform and energy policy. i have spoken to ceo's who say where is the impetus for economic growth? this is a point of tension as the administration is trying to jump-start the private sector to create jobs. i think one of the trends on the policy side is there is a question about the role of government with regard to the economy worldwide. a lot of that is looking at the u.s. and wondering what is happening. >> the outside world always looks to america, particularly at this time. we heard from peter about elections in iraq and brazil. you will be taking up with your own campaigns. are there any lessons you can pick up from other campaigns that have just been fought and around the world? >> if you look at south am

in the case of this negative they wanted precious ore and found in mexico, south america.in the case of the french they wanted fer and pelts and found that. but they weren't -- they had no tendency to settle. british were content to settle here perhaps because they came from across the island. i don't know the reason that they were truly settlers. and the reason the french were willing to give it up for such a small price and get rid napoleon had it up to here his army led by his brother-in-law was slaughtered by an uprising of haitians, and jefferson was threatening and madison was secretary of state so he actually made the threat there were rumors the spanish were going to retroceded the territory to the french. they actually had done in but we didn't know about it. those rumors set off other rumors that napoleon was going to send tens of thousands of troops over here to put up a barrier on the appalachians to keep americans from moving west and then settle louisiana. madison said he could announce that he would have 200,000 citizens soldiers on the mississippi before na

and ice in the mountains for the drinking water and agricultural water, places like california, south america, europe, and most significant in terms of the number of people affected in the himalayas, you know, 40 percent of all the people who live on this planet now get 50 percent of their drinking water and agricultural water from the seasonal melting of the snow's and the eyes in the himalayas. and the seven great rivers of the ganges, the river and yellow river in china, they all originate in the same field of ice in the himalayas. and that ice is melting that snow is melting. in some of those areas, the flows in friezes temporary, but when it is gone then the flows are shut off. and as the ice melts in those large chunks of ice, masses of ice in greenland and west antarctica, which is the most moldable part of antarctica, each one of those areas of ice is equivalent to an increase in sea level of six to 7 meters, or 20 feet or so. we have already seen the beginnings of sea level rise, slowly at first, but it is now accelerating you can't get those large masses of ice become destabilized,

lots of south america and latin america, things look up. europe is having a hard time and the united states is having a hard time. but the question, this person said, is what happened to capitalism. you know, this talk of regulation, that the bailouts and whatnot, there's just a real fear about where america is headed in this regard. you see that reflected in some of our major companies, too, who don't like the uncertainty about health care reform, don't like the uncertainty about energy policy, about tax policy. i've spoken to c.e.o.'s who say, hey, where is the impetus for economic growth? we don't see it in the united states. there's no real impetus for investment. this is a real point of contention right now, as the administration is trying to get the private sector jump-started to create jobs again, get consumers spending again. so i think one of the trends -- and adam spoke to the politics. but on the policy side there's a real question about role of government, effectiveness of government with regard to the economy worldwide, and a l

the couple also admits they are smuggling and underage girls from south america for prostitution. not only do the employees not report human trafficking and sex slaves, they provided by some house successfully cover-up such an end -- such an operation from the authorities. acorn has had dozens of its employees convicted of voter registration fraud and numerous elections. there are many different third party organizations batting cage in voter registration, but there is only one with a record of that kind of criminal activity, an obvious sign of problems within the organization itself. one former acorn employees said that there is no quality control on purpose. such voter registration fraud is a criminal violation of federal law, punishable by up to five years in federal prison. this criminal activity also interferes with the ability of regular voters to participate in the election. acorn has a habit, as the secretary has pointed out, of dumping huge numbers of voter registration forms on local election officials just before the deadline for voter registration for upcoming election

lots of south america and latin america, things look up.urope is having a hard time and the united states is having a hard time. but the question, this person said, is what happened to capitalism. you know, this talk of regulation, that the bailouts and whatnot, there's just a real fear about where america is headed in this regard. you see that reflected in some of our major companies, too, who don't like the uncertainty about health care reform, don't like the uncertainty about energy policy, about tax policy. i've spoken to c.e.o.'s who say, hey, where is the impetus for economic growth? we don't see it in the united states. there's no real impetus for investment. this is a real point of contention right now, as the administration is trying to get the private sector jump-started to create jobs again, get consumers spending again. so i think one of the trends -- and adam spoke to the politics. but on the policy side there's a real question about role of government, effectiveness of government with regard to the economy worldwide, and a lot

a lot of south america and latin america things are looking up.europe and united states is having a hard time. but the question this person said is what happened to capitalism? this talk of regulation that the bailouts and whatnot, there is a fear about where america is headed. and you see that reflection in our companies who don't like the uncertainty about energy policy and tax policy. i have spoken to c.e.o.'s asking where the -- is the impetus of private growth. i think that one of the trends and adam spoke to the politics but on the policy side there is a real question of role of government and effectiveness of government regarding the economy worldwide. >> it's certainly true that the outside world always looks to america and perhaps now.'xñ and america looks to the outside world. we heard from peter about the elections in iraq and brazil and elsewhere. you will be taken up with your own campaigns here, are there any lessons you think you can pick up from trends around the world? >> i think if you look at south america, maybe there is a less

our 800 military bases worldwide and expanding south america presents -- a $700 billion more funding through congress with no real opposition -- we have imperialists wars we regularly wage to support our industrial base. we have exported the jobs from the manufacturing base of working americans. we have plantation capitalism where few people prosper greatly. everyone else works very, very hard. i have heard 7-8 to obama who i believe is doing his best to work with right-wing extremist in both parties. wars that do not and. guest: i think on the awar side, to put the money in perspective, even though we're spending a lot of money in afghanistan and iraq, if you add up all we're spending on those two wars, it is still less proportionally than what was spent in the 1980's. far less than was spent in the 1950's and 1960's. in terms of both iraq and afghanistan -- let me be careful here -- on the money side, we spent in those two places is proportional" we spend every three weeks on world war ii. we were able to finance world toii with government debt that was paid at 2.5% or 3%. people

. >> if you look at south america, maybe there's a lesson there. i know we saw the bolivian elections. take a look at what happened in your guy last week and the election of -- of a traditionally leftist one-time terrorist gorilla individual who then remade himself committed to the voters of that country, that he saw himself in the -- in the fashion of governing like in brazil, not like chavez in venezuela and i don't think anyone was surprised at the outcome of that election and contrary to maybe some of the trends in europe and elsewhere. . . economic standpoint that will recognize human rights and the defense of those rights, i do think those are some themes that perhaps can produce a somewhat different way. somewhat different way. again, very much grounded, we like to call in virginia the common-sense conservative outlook that started way back with the founders of 18th century servants of jefferson, madison and the rest. i do think you may see a trend again, deliverables spawned by adherence to these market-based principles of a limited governm

this is a story that touches on south america as well as on north america. we have a common background. we have a common history. his family has been mexico. there are even boundaries between countries that have been defined differently. that is what the united states is. their countries of immigrants with strong, indigenous populations. and they have the right to be at the table. this is what we want to do. do want to share our experiences and see how we can work better together to be able to ultimately empower. that is what this is all about. thank you. >> up next, a public hearing on the safety of public transportation. after that, efforts to protect diplomats and embassies around the world. and then q&a. but richard newell, head of the u.s. energy administration announced projections. live coverage tomorrow at 9:30 p.m. eastern on c-span 3. >> and now, a senate hearing on public transportation safety and plans to play a bigger role in rail systems. witnesses include barbara mikulski. this is about 1.5 hours. >> this hearing of the banking subcommittee wi

it is having an hiv positive muppet in south america to deal with the children that are stigmatized by their fellow children. this is a way of teaching kids through will modeling and television that you can be friends with someone and play with them, not necessarily get sick. it breaks the culture of silence around aids in a country like south africa. we have been working with palestinians. that to do a press conference with the palestinian prime minister in november. he opened up a new studio for our palestinian version of the show in which we're promoting role models for young boys, so they have all models other than rock-throwing older kids. they can become a teacher, a doctor, or other role models to look up to. in egypt, a focus on girls' education or the female population is largely illiterate. they have become a children's store in egypt. they will tell you. there of 150 million children under the age of 6, think about that. these kids are now being able to benefit from teh hindi show produced in delhi. these are local puppeteers, local educators, local musicians, local educator

the couple also admits they are smuggling and underage girls from south america for prostitution. not only do the employees not report human trafficking and sex slaves, they provided by some house successfully cover-up such an end -- such an operation from the authorities. acorn has had dozens of its employees convicted of voter registration fraud and numerous elections. there are many different third party organizations batting cage in voter registration, but there is only one with a record of that kind of criminal activity, an obvious sign of problems within the organization itself. one former acorn employees said that there is no quality control on purpose. such voter registration fraud is a criminal violation of federal law, punishable by up to five years in federal prison. this criminal activity also interferes with the ability of regular voters to participate in the election. acorn has a habit, as the secretary has pointed out, of dumping huge numbers of voter registration forms on local election officials just before the deadline for voter registration for upcoming election

it is having an hiv positive muppet in south america to deal with the children that are stigmatized by their fellow children. this is a way of teaching kids through will modeling and television that you can be friends with someone and play with them, not necessarily get sick. it breaks the culture of silence around aids in a country like south africa. we have been working with palestinians. that to do a press conference with the palestinian prime minister in november. he opened up a new studio for our palestinian version of the show in which we're promoting role models for young boys, so they have all models other than rock-throwing older kids. they can become a teacher, a doctor, or other role models to look up to. in egypt, a focus on girls' education or the female population is largely illiterate. they have become a children's store in egypt. they will tell you. there of 150 million children under the age of 6, think about that. these kids are now being able to benefit from teh hindi show produced in delhi. these are local puppeteers, local educators, local musicians, local educator

if this course of america -- if this were south america, even cambodia we could walk away from more easily than the middle east. there are always these conspiracy rumors about unocal and so on. there is gas up in the central asian region, but afghanistan is a resource for country. -- is a resource poor country. host: garrett from massachusetts. caller: i was wondering three or writing for the "washington post" -- through your writing for the "washington post" you know if there is a technological of vantagadvantage to try to ger outcome in afghanistan? guest: on the question of technology, the answer is, unfortunately, i do not think so. the job i really doing right now is writing the history of the last 50 years of american military operations since world war ii. one of the things that you see is a constantly looking for technological solutions. we are very technological and we like the idea of fixes through technology. the problem is that our problems are not technological. they are human. in fact, we have spent at least $10 billion in the military on finding technological answers to road

. >> if you look at south america, maybe there's a lesson there. i know we saw the bolivian elections. take a look at what happened in your guy last week and the election of -- of a traditionally leftist one-time terrorist gorilla individual who then remade himself committed to

the couple also admits they are smuggling and underage girls from south america for prostitution.do the employees not report human trafficking and sex slaves, they provided by some house successfully cover-up such an end -- such an operation from the authorities. acorn has had dozens of its employees convicted of voter registration fraud and numerous elections. there are many different third party organizations batting cage in voter registration, but there is only one with a record of that kind of criminal activity, an obvious sign of problems within the organization itself. one former acorn employees said that there is no quality control on purpose. such voter registration fraud is a criminal violation of federal law, punishable by up to five years in federal prison. this criminal activity also interferes with the ability of regular voters to participate in the election. acorn has a habit, as the secretary has pointed out, of dumping huge numbers of voter registration forms on local election officials just before the deadline for voter registration for upcoming elections. so whil

it is having an hiv positive muppet in south america to deal with the children that are stigmatized by their fellow children. this is a way of teaching kids through will modeling and television that you can be friends with someone and play with them, not necessarily get sick. it breaks the culture of silence around aids in a country like south africa. we have been working with palestinians. that to do a press conference with the palestinian prime minister in november. he opened up a new studio for our palestinian version of the show in which we're promoting role models for young boys, so they have all models other than rock-throwing older kids. they can become a teacher, a doctor, or other role models to look up to. in egypt, a focus on girls' education or the female population is largely illiterate. they have become a children's store in egypt. they will tell you. there of 150 million children under the age of 6, think about that. these kids are now being able to benefit from teh hindi show produced in delhi. these are local puppeteers, local educators, local musicians, local educator

our 800 military bases worldwide and expanding south america presents -- a $700 billion more fundingt zipped through congress with no real opposition -- we have imperialists wars we regularly wage to support our industrial base. we have exported the jobs from the manufacturing base of working americans. we have plantation capitalism where few people prosper greatly. everyone else works very, very hard. i have heard 7-8 trillion dollars of debt was passed along to obama who i believe is doing his best to work with right-wing extremist in both parties. wars that do not and. guest: i think on the awar side, to put the money in perspective, even though we're spending a lot of money in afghanistan and iraq, if you add up all we're spending on those two wars, it is still less proportionally than what was spent in the 1980's. far less than was spent in the 1950's and 1960's. in terms of both iraq and afghanistan -- let me be careful here -- on the money side, we spent in those two places is proportional" we spend every three weeks on world war ii. we were able to finance world toii with go

. >> talking about that, there are versions that say the assistant secretary will go to south americanext week. do you have confirmation about that? >> i don't. i wouldn't be surprised. i know that he is trying to make -- make these kinds of trips in the western hemisphere. if he does have these plans, i'm sure he'll be able to share the details. >> we know that yesterday was a meeting in montae vee day owe -- in montevideo, and if these countries proclaim they're not going to accept the elections, do you think that hillary's -- hillary clinton's message today was a response to this? >> you know, i would discourage you from seeing it as a direct response, any one event. i think it's restating our p -- helping the people of honduras to move beyond this and helping the -- helping the various political actors in the area implement the accord. it was a way for us to reiterate our support for the efforts of president arias and president mart nellie and i think also -- president martinelli and also what president lobo said in his press conference yesterday. i think it's more a response to t

we could send our product to south america and have it made there. we have stayed in utah more out of patriotism than money, but if this bill passes, the impact on us in small business will be sufficiently great that we will leave utah, we will leave america, we will take all of these jobs and go overseas. well, that was that one discussion with the one caller. every other caller talked about the health care bill and said don't pass it. every other caller was opposed. there was only the one that made comments in favor of it, comments which i think i was able to -- to dissuade him on. every other one came up. do you want to talk about afghanistan? no, we want to talk about health care and we're opposed to this bill. do you want to talk about some other aspects of what's going on in washington? no, we want to talk about health care and we're opposed to this bill. over and over and over again. the only other subject that came up that i can recall with any regularity, there were several calls that talked about cap-and-trade and expressed their opposition

in brazil we have a spike, south africa, north america is like so i agree. the tax laws. you made a point of the policies in december. whitey think they are introduced in december? that is exactly right. i think the recommended systems are wonderful and potentially promising. it's a huge area of research. look like the pandora and so forth. maybe someday it will be possible. and there also are wish lists, less subtle thing so i agree that is a fascinating thing to think about people on the psychologist, psychologists it is true they ask questions and devious ways. they are allowed to lobby in their experiments. but what i did, you know, use the same methodology for the gift and the own good, so whatever why is it is equally for the gift and the of goods, so i argument would be it's weird but on the other hand i can different set out because it's the same methodology for growth. i to the point i'm not too worried. gift cards you don't like to read a lot of people don't like them. i think actually the only appropriate when you have no idea. if you do know someone and what t

if this course of america -- if this were south america, even cambodia we could walk away from more easilythan the middle east. there are always these conspiracy rumors about unocal and so on. there is gas up in the central asian region, but afghanistan is a resource for country. -- is a resource poor country. host: garrett from massachusetts. caller: i was wondering three or writing for the "washington post" -- through your writing for the "washington post" you know if there is a technological of vantagadvantage to try to ger outcome in afghanistan? guest: on the question of technology, the answer is, unfortunately, i do not think so. the job i really doing right now is writing the history of the last 50 years of american military operations since world war ii. one of the things that you see is a constantly looking for technological solutions. we are very technological and we like the idea of fixes through technology. the problem is that our problems are not technological. they are human. in fact, we have spent at least $10 billion in the military on finding technological answers to roads

if this were south america, even if it were vietnam we could walk away from vietnam. the americans shrugged it off. it's harder to walk away from the middle east precisely because of oil. i don't think the afghan war, though, to speak to your question, has a lot to do with oil. there's always these conspiracy rumors, but from what i've seen afghanistan is not exporting a lot of oil and gas. there is gas up in the central asian region, but afghanistan is a very resource-poor country. it actually would solve a lot of our problems if someone would find a lot of natural gas and oil there. >> host: kerry on the democrats' line. >> caller: yes, i'd like to know, i'm familiar with your job as a reporter for the pentagon for "the washington post", and i was wondering through that experience do you know of any way that the, the u.s. military forces could better use their technological advantage such as with the drones and stuff and the, you know, modern technology or they could use that as an advantage to help them try to get better outcome in afghanistan? >> host: mr. ricks?

can we imagine going down to pay the people in mexico and central and south america not to raise cocoa or not to raise the tree that produces cocaine. or convince them not to raise marijuana crops? can we convince them not to convert the product that is are now smuggled in from china or shipped directly into the united states into methamphetamines because there's something that pays better? it will always find its way to the market. we need to raise the cost of transaction f we raise the cost of transaction, that means i got these poppies, they will blossom. it's the nature of a poppy. they are easy to see from the air. we have poppies in places where we don't go with our military and we are looking perhaps as much as 90% of the poppies raised in afghanistan which is someplace 2/3 or more of the world production of poppies taking place down there we are going to send reinforcements. i applaud the president for finally making the decision after three months of, what shall i say, floating trial balloons and deliberating and having discussions at the white house and deliberations when the

onset of iraq and discontent with president bush's approach to foreign policy, we saw america's numbers really go southand there was -- not only concern about president bush, it extended into the broader question of worry about america's unchecked and unrivaled power. now with president obama, some of those numbers have gone back down. but there still is a continuing concern about the exercise of american power. and you could see the way it began to play out as president obama announced more troops for afghanistan and the backlash that began to create. that's going to be with us as a consequence of this decade. people around the world worry about the way the united states conducts itself in dealing with its problems, dealing with terrorism. >> final thoughts. >> i think the flip side of that is, you know, what americans think our future is in the world. there self ree indication that many more americans than in 2000 now think that ultimately within three decades or so, china will be the most powerful nation on earth, not the united states. if that happens, that is going to have all sorts of consequence

they were on happy again because during the civil war they had hoped that the two americas would split and that the south would be a separate nation that the americans would be less of a commercial rival to the british and that the south could get coffin for its textile industries cheap from the south because the south had no industry and could send cotton for exchange of manufactured goods. they almost went to war with the united states early in that civil war and the fall of 1861 and the americans stopped a british real ship, the trend on it was carrying to british -- was carrying to confederate emissaries to england and france. they were looking for recognition as a nation from france and england and the british called it kidnapping on the high seas and there was talk of war and they began recruiting trips to go to canada to fight the united states and it took a lot of effort on the part of lincoln and on the part of queen victoria's husband, prince albert to stop it. prince albert i had written a biography by the way of prince albert and another victoria. prince albert was on his deathbed dying proba

kennedy envision add better america -- envisioned a better america where, as he said every america north south, east, west, young old will have decent, quality health care as a fundamental right and not a privilege. this is a historic moment in our national life. we have a chance to finally complete the work that a respected republican president called for over a century ago. quality health care for all has always been needed in america but never more than now. the finish line is clearly in sight. the momentum and the energy are with us and it is our obligation to seize this historic moment. every member of this body is aware of the valiant fight senator kennedy waged for his own health during the last 15 months of his life. many of you saw him after receiving radiation an chemotherapy in the morning in boston walk into this chamber that he loved to cast a deciding vote in the afternoon on the issue he proudly called the cause of his life. while being treated at mass general hospital, senator kennedy met a woman named karen list. her daughter, emily, was one of many patients receiving the simi

america. cambodia and thailand have programs, and officials from south africa and china have contacted mexico to investigate. for her part sixta orcasitas says the short term benefits, like putting food on the table are as important as her hopes for the future. >> ( translated ): the money we get from them helps a lot, right when we run out of money, money comes in and we can buy the things we need to get by. >> suarez: even with the programs successes, health advocates point out that conditional cash programs are just one piece in the complex equation needed to end poverty. >> brown: finally tonight, a report on mental health care in india, a population of more than a billion people and a handful of professional care givers. it comes from our partners at globalpost, an international news website. the reporter is mark scheffler. ♪ >> this man has a problem. he's convinced an evil spirit is trying to strangle him. so he's come to a town about an hour and a half outside deli. here on the grounds of a temple he found someone he hopes can help him, a wild-eyed faith healer that claims to be chann

america, that we are all the same people. and i think for me one of the greatest benefits is being able to travel. and i went to the south african traditional music awards, and watching this huge production. they had the green carpet, you. really, really big. i got to see so many different traditional dance and so forth, and i mean, i could have easily been in the caribbean. i could've been in america saying the lindy hop in the 20. i could've seen the green stepping. and so i think that really, it's up to us. if we are aware of our history and we are aware that there is a lie, you know, that someone else is claiming our history. you know, it's so big and kind of like, i don't want to say to me things, but you know, it's our -- it is our responsibility to really make sure that we are the ones who preserve our history. and if this isn't enough then we have to do more books. and promote john henrik clarke and not be afraid of tokamak because malcolm x was just a very young man. a lot people don't know this. he was just in his 20s when he took on a huge responsibility here key was in his '20s. people say he went to the midd

south of the capital, islamabad. >> ( translated ): there were four foreign people in the house, and we thought they were from americahe owner of the house also lives outside of the country. he came here recently and somebody called the police that foreigners were living here now. >> brown: u.s. officials believe the five men, aged 19 to 25, are the same individuals reported missing by their families more than a week ago in the washington, d.c. area. yesterday, the head of the council on american-islamic relations said the families contacted his organization and the fbi. they'd found a farewell video from the young men with scenes of war and demands that muslims be defended. >> i recall the video is about eleven minutes and it's like a farewell, and they did not specify what they would be doing, but just hearing and seeing videos similar on the internet, it just made me uncomfortable. >> brown: in norway today, president obama declined to comment on the arrests. instead, he said "twisted ideologies" could affect young people in the united states, especially via the internet. and back in pakistan, police said they are

south of the capital, lamabad. >> ( translated ): the were four forei people in the hoe, and we thought they were from america.owner of the house also lives outside of theountry. he came here recently and somebody called the lice that foreigners were living he now. >> brown: u.s. oicials believe the five men, aged 1to 25, are the me individuals reported missing byheir families more than a wk ago in the washgton, d.c. area. yesterday, the head of t councion american-islamic relations id the families contacted s organization and the fbi. they'dound a farewell video om the young men with scenes of war and demandshat muslims be defended. >> i recall the deo is about eleven minutes andt's like a farewell, and they didot specify what thewould be doing, but just heing and seei videos similar on the internet, it just made me uncomforble. >> brown: in nway today, presidt obama declined to commenon the arrests. instead, he saidtwisted ideoloes" could affect young people in the united stas, especially via the internet. and ba in pakistan, police said they are still trng to learn morebout the men and ether they'd establis

america. look no further than south korea and colombiaer for great examples of preferences done right. ugh successful preference programs, both allies now stand ready to enter into permanent trade agreements with the united states of america. the failure to pass pending free trade agreements like those with korea and colombia is costing america thousands of jobs and billions of dollars. president obama did recently speak about how growing exports creates jobs. i hope that congress will soon prepare these agreements for consideration. because not only do these agreements create jobs, but business relationships and partnerships and friendships, it creates opportunities for cultural exchanges and the opportunities to help our friends across the global educate each other and educate us. it also even affects our national security and our environment. i'm disappointed we could not extend these preference programs beyond just one year, they are too important to our partner countries to let them expire. so i urge all of my colleagues to support this extension of a preference program and i yield

hearing from the constituents of my congressional district in south florida on how we can bring back economic growth and ensure that americagain be the land of opportunity that i knew when i first came to this country almost five decades ago. thank you, mr. speaker, for the time and it's time to get our economy back on track. thank you. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman yields the balance of her time. the chair recognizes the gentleman from virginia, mr. connelly, is recognized for five minutes. mr. connelly: thank you, mr. speaker. and i'm intrigued to hear my good friend from florida talk about deficits as if the republican party when it was in majority and controlling the white house had nothing to do with creating record deficits after inheriting record surpluses. mr. speaker, as we continue in the past economic recovery and as we continue to focus on putting millions of americans back to work, we must reduce long-term deficits, i agree. the actions we have taken to spur economic job growth will be for not if our economic health is in peril by budget deficits. i stand here in favor of a significant tool for defi

state in america has republican control of the governors appeared legislature, that's kansas. 49 other states had mir or total democratic control of the state governments. there's states in the south that don't even have elected republicans in office. that is how bad it days. and only 18% of the american people claim allegiance to the party and only 11% of the voters under 30 clean allegiance to the republican party. so, regan looks at the landscape and says we can do better than this. so, he goes out and starts giving speeches about the new republican party that he envisioned, the republican party envisioned cannot be the party of the corporate board room, it cannot be the part of the country club. it's got to be the party of the individual, not the state. it's got to be the party of the man on the street, the homemaker, the shopkeeper, the entrepreneur but it cannot be the party that it's been the last 30 years because this isn't working. while the entrenched remaining eletes of the republican party don't like this. who is this maverick populace coming out of california to tell us how to run our party? he was just a democrat of 15, 18 years ago and so one thing i learned is how

america. it is a bill consistent with the same laws that apply in his state of south carolina and my state of illinois and most other states across the nation. i wish that we were not had this paternalistic position in relation to the district of columbia. i'd rather this city had home rule, had its own members of congress, could make its own decisions. that's my goal. i'd like to see that happen. in the meantime, i think we should treat the people who live here fairly, give them a chance to deal with their significant problems, acknowledge success, as we just reported in the public schools, and try to help them where we can. this is in fact great city, and the capital of a great nation. i think the mayor does a good job here. i reserve the balance of my time. mr. enzi: mr. president, what's the time situation? the presiding officer: the senator from wyoming, eight minutes, 26 seconds. mr. enzi: i thank the president. the presiding officer: democrats, seven minutes, 30 seconds. mr. enzi: mr. president, i rise to discuss a new report on senator reid's health care reform bill. this kind of fits