that is in south america and the pacific and africa. if you consider the 409,000 patients, that is like going to the verizon center, packing the house, and then having doctors treat each one of the people in the verizon center 20 times. that is not an insignificant contribution that our people are making. it is not just the aircraft carriers. it is the cruisers and destroyers that are out and about. the forces of our fleet as i like to call them. and they are flexing from the high end of warfare to the low end. they are in the gulf of aden controlling an area that is four times the size of texas against pirates and they are destroyers like the u.s.'s bainbridge which took a sizable detachment of seals aboard, complete with all their equipment, staged a messy, and enabled the perfect save of capt. phillips from the maersk alabama. they are in the middle east providing ballistic missile defense. it is the destroyers that simultaneously for the last couple weeks have been operating off the east and west coast of africa. as part of our afri

i'm an atomic veteran in the south pacific putting up projects after the radioactive soil. i've got a question first i was wondering if you were a co-sponsor for ron paul's federal reserve, which is a pretty big issue if you want to find out a lot more information infoworld.com ann gates like a ponzi scheme with bernie madoff. i appreciate program. thank you. >> guest: to answer the question i am a co-sponsor of that bill. the federal reserve system of course is a private bank. they've been doing some very amazing things lately. i think it is extremely appropriate for the federal government and those of us in congress elected to office to know what the federal reserve is doing, and so i think it is a very good bill that ron paul has. a lot of co-sponsors. that's a basic transparency of the federal reserve is doing things in the up and out than they should be willing to share that information with us because they do control our suwannee supply. there was an article that appeared to weeks ago on a thursday which shows what they have done with the supply of money in the olden

am especially appreciative of the -- for the inclusion of one of the provisions to rename the south pacific scholarship program in honor of one of the distinguished late members of this institution, the late congressman phil bhurton, chairman of the subcommittee on territories and affairs. the late congressman phil burton who served in the u.s. congress from 1964 to 1983 worked every day of his life to ensure that social justice and human dignity for all the people and the people of the pacific are especially grateful for his services. chairman burton was also the driving force in recognizing certain areas in the pacific region which our nation declared as a strategic trust after world war ii. formally known as the trust territories of the pacific islands, chairman burton, in consultation with the department of defense and other federal agencies and key officials of the administration played a pivotal role whereby as a result of these consulting as resulted in the congress approving certain compacts of free association for the republic of the marshall islands, the federal states of micronea

i was in the south pacific. i have a question. first, i was wondering if you were aboard with ron paul's idea of auditing the federal reserve, which is a pretty big issue. if you want more information, go to infowars.com. it is like a giant ponzi scheme run by bernie madoff. guest: i have a co-sponsor of that bill. the federal reserve system ais a private bank. they have been doing some amazing things lately. i think it is extremely a proper for the federal government and those of us in congress to know what the federal reserve is doing. so i think it is a very good bill that ron paul has, with a lot of co-sponsors, and it is basic transparency. the federal reserve is doing things on the up and up, and they should be willing to share that information with us because they do control our money supply. there was an article that appeared two weeks ago on a thursday in the editorial page of "it will street journal" which shows what they have done with m1, which is the supply of money. you go back from 1960, van de graaff

pacific command aor, area of responsibility. i will work hard to keep acronym's down to a minimum. we have the north pole, south pole, alaska, california, and of the east coast of africa. that is the pacific command area of responsibility. it is 50% of the surface of the earth. about 51% of the world's population. we have a number pretty large armies. china. when a responsibility for the eastern part of russia. so china's army, russia's army, north korea's army, india's army, our army, our armed forces. pretty consequential. there is significant economic initiative under way of here. about $1 trillion of our trade comes from countries in our area of responsibility. 20 of the largest ports in the world, 15 of those 20 are in aor. nine of the largest ports and the world are now in the people's republic of china and the busiest port, shanghai, is in our area of responsibility. it is a vibrant, dynamic, living, breathing place in which we have the privilege of working and conducting our business. about a year ago we decided to rewrite our strategy. we've been in the pacific command for decades. the guns have largel

participate in the normandy invasion and eventually then go to the south france invasion and then participate in other invasions like okinawa in the pacific. so that would be fairly common. but among ground troops, most did not redeploy. most spent the summer in occupation in germany. host: we are awaiting the beginning of the speech by president obama. we want to mention that his grand father and great uncle landed on omaha beach. there you see prime minister gordon brown on the left side of the screen and on the right side the french president. we want to thank john mcmannis for being our guest. we are going live to normandy as we await the speech by the president. ♪ ♪ ♪ [applause] >> president obama, your royal high ness, prime minister brown, prime minister harper, distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen, please be seated. it's our privilege to welcome all the visitors joining us today. we extend a special welcome to the d-day and world war ii veterans and their family members in attendance who honor us all with their presence. [applause] today, we commemorate the 65th anniversary of the d-day landings that took place in the early

pacific command aor, area of responsibility. i'll work hard to keep acronyms down to a minimum but it's in our vernacular, as you know. so we have the north pole, we have the south pole. we have alaska, california. we have the east coast of africa. that is the pacific command area of responsibility. it's a -- it's 50% of the surface of the earth for what it's worth, about 51% of the world's population. we've got a number of pretty large armies, china -- we have responsibility for the eastern part of -- some responsibilities for the eastern part of russia so china's army, russia's army, north korea's army, india's army, our army, our armed forces, pretty consequential. there's significant economic activity out here. about $1 trillion, a trillion bucks of our trade comes from countries in our air of responsibility. 20 of the largest ports in the world, 15 of them of those 20, 15 are in aor, 9 of them, 9 of the largest ports in the world are now in the people's republic of china and the world's busiest port in shanghai. it's a dynamic breathing place in which we have the privilege of working and conducting our business. about a year ago, we decided to rewrite our s

pacific, they didn't stop there. they thought in terms of central america and south america so that the whole western hemisphere, north and south america, would be anglo-american in this end. >> you mentioned this what fox. over the years, i have read that it was largely a diversion, that he wasn't significant. would you expand on that? >> historians debate, there is not a uniform interpretation. i think it grows out of the fact that marion was a cantankerous, independent sort, who didn't always work particularly well with the continental army. when green came in and took command of the southern continental army, he had problems with marion. that said, as i tried to argue, the partisan leaders, not just marion, but sumter and others, waged a war that really turned things around, it through the british on the defensive, the british were beleaguered, there attrition rate was really serious through 1780, 1780 one. and the partisan fighters ultimately played a crucial role in saving the american revolution. >> returning to the question of could the british have won the war, what effect do you think it would have been had

pacific northwest was open country. backbeat the appalachian mountain range guarding the interior from south carolina to what only recently have become main, threatened to confine the great american experiment to the atlantic seaboard. the allegiance of the several new trans- montaigne state was unproven, their settlers looked westbound rolling river valleys for the mighty mississippi, not over their shoulders at the mountains that separated them from their political creators. former vice president aaron burr's enigmatic conspiracy of 1805, 1806 to make a nation for himself and others in the region opened by the louisiana purchase had come apart but illustrated the limited control exerted by the east over the last. of the national government over its unsettled territory. a continental nation was so uncertain that president thomas jefferson had deemed it optional quote whether we remain in one confederacy or form into atlantic and mississippi confederacies i believe not very important to the happiness of either part. but coming of the steamboat in 18078 hope for a connectedness but illustrated the lack of it. so they were

pacific. therefore by definition any power that was made by both bodies of water was in an extraordinary position in particular if it had the wherewithal to exploit that. south america for reasons i will not go into a comic can let looks like one continent's but it really is not it is divided and subdivided but north america, is a power native to the atlantic and pacific therefore has the lowest cost of projecting power for the cost of european empire to maintain a a major naval presence in the pacific is extraordinarily high. the cost of the asian power to maintain the atlantic presence is extremely high. but the cost for the united states to maintain both, while high, it is not extraordinary. therefore i would argue north america became particularly with the fall of the soviet union and the end of the centrality conflict in the same way that europe had been the center of gravity for 500 years from 1482 1/3 1991 when the soviets collapsed almost exactly 500 years europe had been the. >> . now to become north america and as it happens, the united states is the dominant power from this century in north america therefore it is the center of gravity. that does