he was off in spain for months and months and they parted soon after he was released from spain. >> whatar? >> you know, dates are my nemesis. i think it was 1937. >> did she write about their life together? >> no, and i was extremely lucky that i was able to track her down in the very beginning of my research, shortly before she died. >> what year did you track her down? >> i found her in the london telephone book. i wrote her a letter and then i telephoned her and she very grudgingly said that i could come and visit her. no notes, i was not allowed to take notes. immediately after our conversation, i rushed to the first cafe that i could find and wrote down everything that she had said and i had said. it is something that biographers and writers have to do sometimes. it is not uncommon to be told that you cannot take notes. any writer worth his salt, even by the person that said you cannot take notes, knows that you will make use of that conversation. i went back for a second visit and spent a little longer with her. >> what did she tell you about the marriage and about the man? >> she

this is winding story but he goes off to fight in spain. that should tell a lot about his commitment. it is said it's very hard to determine for sure but it said that he commanded brigade and then division of the republican army in spain and he attained the rank of lieutenant colonel and was in spain he is likely recruited by the nkvd. after his return to mexico in january, 1939, he began work on one of his most important minerals. it's in the stairwell of the mexican obstetricians unit, still there. i went to see it when i was researching the book. it's a fantastic thing. a portrait of the bourgeoisie. it's nothing like it sounds, it is violent and epic. really one of the masterpieces of the 1930's mural art. so this was a major activity for him. however, he was also involved in a different kind of activity on the side. this one sponsored by the nkvd. he was enlisted to lead an armed commando raid on trotsky's home. this took place in the hours before dawn which is about 4 a.m. on may 24, 1940. 20 men dressed in police and military uniform

we're talking by a series countries, something like spain, which is very large. you are talking about a huge amount of debt. it would sink the whole of the european banking system. it would be real armageddon. that is the reason that the dot ecb is going to -- that the ecb is going to fight it. we're talking about insolvency issues, sustainability issues. the prospect of this kind of cataclysm happening in europe is going to force the ecb to continue pumping money into it. the reason i am pessimistic about from a long-term point of view is the size of the imbalances involved and most importantly the amount of international competitiveness that these countries have lost. if you're looking at countries like ireland, portugal, greece, spain, they have lost something like 30% of competitiveness against germany. what they have got to do is not regain the competitiveness against a country that does not believe in inflation. what it means is that you have actually got to get prices and wages falling by 30%, which is then going to complicate their fiscal problem. unfortu

. >>> tonight, police in spain want to know who hid 25 kilos of heroin inside boxes of bananas? a supermarket worker in madrid found a brick of the drugs inside a box of bananas there. the police then inspected all the supermarket's branches and drug sniffing dogs found about 25 packages of heroin. boxes of bananas with shipped to spain from western africa and from ecuador. >>> take a look at this, folks. a volcano erupted today on the french indian ocean island of reunion. not eruption forced the evacuation of several vacation resorts. everyone was able to escape without being hurt. tourists snapped pictures as they waited for a held to want to lift them to safety. the volcano has erupt more than a dozen times in the past three years. back here, the bitter cold, not just here in d.c., heavy snow and frigid temperatures are blasting areas from the north to south florida. the sunshine state, they saw temperatures this morning in the 30s. in boston, as you can see, snow is the main problem there and across the midwest, more snow and temperatures that struggle to reach single digit

and ireland and it happened in spain. we have the first global crisis and i know the term global gets pinned it around a lot, but this is global meaning that a huge share of world gdp by the number of countries has been affected by the crisis that during this on folding of the global crisis we had central banks from all over the world not just the united states, treasury departments, finance ministries, tracking work to see because one of the things we laid out for benchmarks saying this is not the average recession. this brings me to my last point which is where are we. this is not your typical recession. you're typical post war rescission of the united states lasted for laughs than a year. the longest post war recession was 16 months. and so that the as the crisis unfolded, okay, as the crisis unfolded policymakers were looking at some of the benchmarks that were laid out in our analysis, and two statistics i will flag that are shocking in the year we had moved from the american economic association presentation at the

spain is the key one that i'm worried about, and portugal. i think we could really get a full-blown crisis in the eurozone. the second i would refer to is oil. i would just note in passing, and i do not want to delve into politics, but the u.s. is fighting two major wars in the middle east and iran is on its way to nuclear weapons. who knows what could happen in the middle east. you could get a supply disruption. that could be the death knell for the global economy. the third list that i see and in which i notice the federal reserve officials keep talking about is what is happening in the commercial real-estate market. you've got $500 billion of commercial real-estate loans coming due in 2010. if those loans do not roll off, as many of them will not, we will get another leg down in the commercial real-estate market. that will have a damaging impact on the regional banks of the united states. half of their portfolio is in commercial real estate. the last thing we need is to get a credit crunch in with the regional banks, which supply credit to

. >> spain, what say you?hat they subpoenaed, they're thinking of subpoenaing alberto gonzalez as if they had some proprietary sense and going over benicio del toro and cheech marin and quick draw mcgraw. >> and the fact is none of these guys are going to go down there, if that was any more of a kangaroo court, the judge would have a pump. >> bill: personally, if a country like spain is supposed to be an n.a.t.o. alley of ours and the prime minister, there's nothing to be gained from this, they want to make america look bad and the worst thing about it miller, they take the focus off the true evil, al-qaeda and the terrorists. that gets me really angry. >> well, listen, after the madrid train station bombing these guys folded like balsawood beach chair in a cat 5. and the only reason i go if they're out of tobasco. >> bill: saving the best for last, miller chats with the clintons and a music cal tribute to helen thomas ♪ you are so beautiful to me >> don't miss this one, right bab with it. >> as we wrap up the

that's the lesson of spain. what we saw over the last few days and the vacation period is that people were essentially pointing fingers. the american people are not going to respond well to both sides making this a partisan food fight. >> i wonder if, in fact, there's even anecdotal support of president obama given that some of the daily gallup tracking polls, for example, conducted after christmas day showed obama's ratings ticking up. >> well, people look to presidents for strength and leadership at a time of instability and fear. that's what we saw after 9/11. and as long as he doesn't get engaged in this political food fight, he can stay above the fray and be like a commander in chief. that's what people want. the danger is that people at a time when they're very disillusioned with politics in general in washington, see both parties pointing fingers at each other, this dispute about the tsa nominee, that does not encourage people to think well of that political leaders. >> great stuff as always from richard

these economies comprise of the u.s., the uk, portugal island, greece, spain.rry the acronym is an acronym. and all of the eastern european economies. you take them all and put them into a consumption of china. consumption of china is one third. so china alone cannot do the whole adjustment. the consumption is still too small even though it is growing very rapidly. though it does make a difference for the u.s. economy, but it cannot pull the u.s. and all these other countries out of recession. that's the way we see it. [inaudible] >> people have been talking here about the official stimulus and the u.s. bank from that one -- >> there are two leakage as. one i think you cannot get the blessing which is the progression of debt capital into the economy in recent years the emerging markets have played a major part primarily of treachery, especially the last year if all that also mortgage-backed securities less obviously since the crisis. and that has kept interest rates down. as i say, that may have been a mixed blessing and may have contributed to the whole proble

saint-die the countryside is like this and it is fun to think of them in the context, far away from spain and portugal where all the excitement of discovery is happening, in these quiet hills, putting together the first pictures of the world as we know it and this is the mountain top outside of saint-die and my unprovable theory is that he and his colleagues probably hiengd to the mountains and took in the views and had a kind of long view and i think is hard not to feel that this kind of vista would have appealed to them. we know their story, because when they decided to make the map they decided to publish a book, a companion volume to the map and calmed it the introduction to cosmograhy, the title page, and much of the book was a standard recitation of what the cosmos is like and how to do geography and study geometry, but, at the end of the book, after they described the three known parts of the world, they announced the discovery of a fourth part of the world, it is court quoting, these parts, they say, referring back to europe, africa and asia have been more widely explored and the

ireland, spain. and if you start looking at some of the emerging markets crises, you have to look at countries like the ukraine. and iceland used to be an advanced economy before the crisis in now it is lost a huge amount of its income. and so, it is a very uplifting way to and i know. it is not, but it gets worse. the sword of final remarks that i would like to-- i have just touched the tip of the iceberg. there is no way that i can give a flavor because we look at inflation crises as well. we look at currency crashes and before there were modern exchange rates, there were silver based exchange rates and which you could see the government ripped off the public by producing the silver currency to the public so you can see all kinds of crises varieties, but the theme that leaves us preoccupied looking forward is that we have certainly learned a lot on how to respond to such a crisis from the great depression. i think both the monetary policy, the federal reserve and in fiscal policy, the stimulus pack

close body of water and from the european perspective that is depressing because you can sail from spain for example a round africa and into the indian ocean. gold then spices were traveling from the far east overland through muslim occupied territories to europe. europeans were keen to eliminate the middleman in the idea of sailing into the indian ocean was an appealing one. this map suggested can do that. but ptolemy wasn't saying in these maps that he was showing the whole world. he was issuing the world as he knew it and he encouraged his readers to explore the world more fully into update his maps and that is what europeans after they had discovered ptolemy had begun in the age of discovery really started to do in earnest. they revisited a lot of a constructed a hypothetical vision of the far east. they also barry said that the began sailing south along the west coast of africa and in 1489 made it all the way to the southern tip. that raised hopes that they could sail into the indian ocean and that is why we have the cape of good hope. it all of a sudden seen it might be possible to

we're talking about something like spain.which is very large and you talk about the huge amount of debt. so what it would do is it would sink the whole of the european banking system. it would be real armageddon. this is the reason that the ecp is going to fight it and hold its nose despite the fact that we're talking about solvency issues. we're talking about unsustainability issues. the prospect of having this kind of cat schism occurring within europe is going to cause them to continue to pump money until they get tired. the reason that i'm very pessimistic about this is the size of the imbalances that are involved. and most importantly, the amount of international competitiveness that these countries have lost. so, you know, if you are looking at countries like island were portugal, they've lost the competitiveness against germany. they have the regain the competitiveness against the country that doesn't believe in inflation. so what it means is that you have to get prices and waging falling by 30%. which is then going to

spain, all the countries that have had financial crises.we have seen a dramatic increase in indebtedness. >> one of the big debates will be when it should you start at the exit strategy from loose fiscal policy. ireland's budget deficit has already been cut. they are raising taxes and cutting spending. the logic in the u.k. is that in means to be done fast because otherwise investors will freak out. do you think that it is right that policymakers should be thinking about tightening fiscal policy? >> thinking about it, yes, acting on it, no. that is in a nutshell. thinking about it is critical. it is important to have in place for having confidence and to avoid risk considerations getting out of habit. one of the lessons that we should be taking away from the 1930's is that declaring victory too early can be costly. that was also the japanese in 1997. >> thinkin the president said there was a need to focus on the rising debt. >> i don't think that those are contradictory. i think that what carman has said is exactly right. there are people t

in spain, the under 25 is at a whopping 43.8%.employment because of shy job security in that country. but as we see in recent times, over the last couple years the youth unemployment situation in france has led to riots. so it is a dangerous situation if you look at it from that perspective. but growth is back. there is concern over the coming months in 2010 there will be even higher unemployment in the eur o-zone. >> we are getting the urgent wires coming across. wthis is early information crossing the urgent wires. we have no idea why this is happening, but as soon as we find out why they are evacuating union station in d.c., the national desk is work on that. we'll bring it to you coming up on the live desk. how going green is causing a traffic nightmare in some parts of the country. peter doocy is live in evanston, illinois. >> what does it mean when the traffic signal is white? i'll tell you about a dangerous problem that could be facing drivers across the country this winter coming up next. trace: you may have seen the new t

so if it comes to greece and spain of course it is difficult.as was said also has macroeconomic, structural policies especially on the construction sector but they are doing good on banks on the other side we have to say spanish banks are doing very well. so i think the spanish problem is manageable. it is a little bit more difficult for greece because i think greece -- the administration is not in every sense working probably at least if i follow a report eurostat which is monitoring and also the reason administration on delivering data and sometimes have the feeling not even the minister is knowing the data. simply not delivered. so there is a problem. the last remark to that still is this a danger for the zone, yes but i think we also have to keep in mind that the bureau didn't come euro has a growth intact. the stability impact if you look at the hole in spite of the crisis you may see that it worked quite well. it brought down deficits and debt for most of the countries. so i think as long as the confidence also in the overall stability and

. >> it was in the gulf of aden carrying a load of palm oil from indonesia to spain. >> this corridorween the horn of africa and the saudi peninsula is now ground zero with some 200 people being held hostage. pirates in the region have attacked everything from tankers to cruise ships to private yachts. on the biscaglia the 28 crewmembers, 26 from india and two from bangly dish took special precautions when will sailing. >> we planned when to transit the area, what time of day, at what speed. of course, high-speed and taking evasive maneuvers. >> what kind of security measures at that time did you have on the trip. >> we had bashed wire and netting across our decks and on our railing to deter pirates. we had security guards onboard, former sas and other military guys onboard to provide extraville generals to help the crew with evation and defensive responses in the event of an attack. >> the attack on ships, they got to the point from the merchants decided they wanted to start doing something about it. >> they had exmilitary teams onboard, they were unarmed. >> did you wish that they h

spain is supposed to be a nato ally of ours, and the prime minister, socialist -- there is nothing toake america look bad. the worst thing about it is it takes the focus of the true evil, al qaeda and the terrorists. that gets me really angry. >> after the madrid train station bombing, these guys folded like a ball so would beach chair in a cat 5 -- balsa wood beach chair in a cat 5. bill: coming up, miller chats about the clintons in a musical tribute to helen thomas. . bill: and finally, as we wrap up this miller addition, take a look. >> i am so grateful to him for a lifetime of all kinds of experiences. bill: we are debating on the radio factor whether that was an intentional zing or was just an ad lib that happened kind of naturally? >> good for her. i love that kind of stuff. i have said in the past on the show that it hillary wants to zing, she has the right to. she has been cheated on more than a blind woman with a bunch of gypsies. sort of pillow talk in front of the nation, i find it in during. i have grown fonder of hillary clinton -- i find it endearing. you do not always

in spain, and met with foreign counterparts from across europe. it was a rare invitation for united states officials. there were four broad areas of discussion. information sharing, passenger venting, technology, international standards. i was very gratified to see that there exists a broad consensus in working on these four areas of mumbai european counterparts and a clear sense of urgency to take immediate action to strengthen security measures and identify areas of further progress. we signed a joint declaration affirming the commitment. the gathering in spain was the first in a series of meetings around the globe. it was facilitated by the aviation organization, the united nations body. last week i was also pleased to find a similarly strong one in geneva. i met with representatives from more than 20 airlines. the private sector's role in aviation security cannot be overstated. i stressed the importance of working to improve international security standards and heard a strong response a commitment toward common approaches to aviation. i believ

it would is a constant threat by the third reich we will not order oranges from palestine by from spain. this is the undercurrent. wrote it is easy to see this in black-and-white. my challenge of history is to see the complex way that established a very murky picture. >> host: let's go to those complex things. this was not a simple thing. it sounds like there is a lot of moving and shifting and maneuvering in terms of international merchandise. can you share what were the dynamics of the transfer agreement? what is the essence of it? >> guest: it starts off with a jew in germany taking his money and putting it into a blocked account. reich marks are hard to identify. they had dozens of different types of reich marks and values plan of all of the systems it was about 5,000 reich marcs there would be the money put into a blocked account and that fundamentally would be a trustee account and that would be run by the bay in germany. they would sell goods pipes and taxis than palestine lebanon or turkey they had all kinds of commercial distribution. when the money was made available it was de

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you can expect it from europe, there is a lot of talking on a lot of different fronts, germany, spain, belgium reportedly are questioning the effectiveness of full body scanners. they say they're doing enough, they want european-wide regulations, health concerns, even from civil rights groups, complaints about the full body scanners being an invasion of privacy. but in fact in the past couple of days, jane, u.s. officials have been blanketing the european capitols, trying to get everybody on board and we have heard from the head of the department of homeland security, janet napolitano, she said she will be coming to europe, to spain, at the end of the month to really get the momentum going in the direction the u.s. wants. >> greg palkot in london, thanks. jon: the wife of the bomber who killed the seven cia employees says she's proud of her husband. stephanie barok said sher husband was prompted by hate for the united states, outraged by the wars in afghanistan and iraq. the man was a doctor u.s. intelligence identified as a double agent after the attack. the cia attack is expected to

so if it comes to greece and spain of course it is difficult and i think spain of course as arlan said it has economic and lands, very bad structural policy especially on the construction sector but they are doing good on the banks on the other side we have to say the spanish banks are doing very well. so the spanish problem is manageable. it is a little bit more difficult for greece because i think increase, the administration is not in every sense working properly at least if i follow a report from eurostat which is monitoring the greece administration on delivering data and they sometimes have a feeling the minister is not knowing the data. so simply not delivered. so there is a problem. the last remark to that i think still it is a danger for the euros yonah yes but we have to keep in mind that the bureau 27 and the euro zone is a growth in fact, the stability growth pact if you look at the whole history in spite of the crisis you may see that it worked quite well. it brought down deficits and the debt for most of the country's, so i think as long as the confidence also in the over

today secretary napolitano was traveling to spain to me with her european counterparts for discussions how to strengthen international secure aviation security measures here at second, dhs has created a partnership with department of energy and its national laboratories to use their scientific expertise to improve screening technology to airports. third, dhs will move forward to deploying enhanced security screening technologies like advanced imaging technologies and explosive trace detection machines to improve our ability to detect the explosives was on the 25th. fourth, will strengthen the aviation law enforcement including the air marshal service and finally as mentioned earlier, we work with our interagency partners to reevaluate and modify the way terrorist watch list is created including how names are added to the no-fly and select the list. as the president said, there is of course no foolproof solution, but there are many steps we can and are taken today to strengthen international aviation security. we face an adaptive adversary as we get new screening technologies and proced

the third at reich that we will not buy jewish georges from the palace but but fascist oranges from spain. the valencia. this is one of the undercurrents it is easy to see this in black and white my challenge and a four history to see what establishes the murky picture. >> host: but obviously just touching on what you said so far. it is not simple there is a lot of moving and shifting and maneuvering in terms of international merchandise so can you share what were the dynamics and what were the assets? >> it starts off with it starts off with a good jew in germany taking his money and putting it into a blocked account. reich marcs were hard to identify. there were different marcs and there for values but across all of the fictitious and we'll systems there were about 5,000 reich marcs equal to the amount. the jew would put the money into a blocked account. that would be fundamentally a trustee account. and that would be run by a the bank in germany. than they would sell goods and pipes and taxis and palestine in lebanon and turkey. they have all different types of commercial distribution

shining by the government of peru or the party in turkey as partners for negotiation is difficult for spain, peru and turkey respectively than any confession they may be required to make in order to reach an agreement. dubbing the other party as a terrorist organization is regarding them as an illegitimate partner. removing an organization from a terrorist list and making it one side of negotiation is usually a major concession by the party who converse legitimacy. that the legitimatizing side expects in return a major concession by the former terrorist organization. compromise may take place in the way of recognizing the parties in the bargaining. recognize a mortal army is a legitimate party of negotiation may play a transformative role in humanizing the enemy and in acknowledging the enemy as holding legitimate concerns. it calls for empathy in an effort to understand the enemies ease concerns from the enemy points of view. it calls for empathy, not for sympathy, namely identification with the enemy's concern. so this is an element of important -- recognition is an important element of c

later this month, i will travel to spain to be with my european counterparts for what will be the first in a series of meetings with counterparts that i believe will lead to a broad consensus on new international aviation security standards and procedures. these five recommendations are important areas for dhs and other federal agencies to address concerns revealed by the attempted attack. these are changes that will help us prevent another attack from ever advancing as far as the one dead on christmas day. thank you. >> the president talked about advanced technology spreaies. >> we look at security as a system of letters. there are a best screening technology is an explosive detection technology, it is canines and increased use of them, it is increased law enforcement presence both uniformed and undercover, it is that series undercoverlayers that we will add to the security we already have our airports in the wake of this incident. >> you said that 300 additional scanners will be deployed in 2010. was that planned before this event? how many more on top of that and how much will it cos

spain is the key one that i'm worried about, and portugal. i think we could really get a full-blown crisis in the eurozone. the second i would refer to is oil. i would just note in passing, and i do not want to delve into politics, but the u.s. is fighting two major wars in the middle east and iran is on its way to nuclear weapons. who knows what could happen in the middle east. you could get a supply disruption. that could be the death knell for the global economy. the third list that i see and in which i notice the federal reserve officials keep talking about is what is happening in the commercial real-estate market. you've got $500 billion of commercial real-estate loans coming due in 2010. if those loans do not roll off, as many of them will not, we will get another leg down in the commercial real-estate market. that will have a damaging impact on the regional banks of the united states. half of their portfolio is in commercial real estate. the last thing we need is to get a credit crunch in with the regional banks, which supply credit to

the rain in spain falls mainly on the plain. it seems like we have ten million sayings. the january effect is those who sold at the end of last year for tax purposes tend to buy those stocks back at the early part of january he is personally if they remain bullish. we may get that little bounce back because people are buying the stock they sold fof tax purposes. if we get that, it usually sets the tone for the rest of the year. january sort of her times than not, as a matter of fact, almost every year except for a handful of years, as january goes, so goes the s&p for the year. we'll keep an eye on that. we are in positive trading territory. trading positively in europe. oil is above $81 a barrel. gold arc i nice little rebound. it looks like we are set up for a positive open if nothing else. >> let's talk about the unemployment rate as well. we talked so much about this in 2009. we'll have the first nonfarms payroll come out for 2010. >> it will be very interesting. it conditions out on friday. we'll all be looking forward to that all week. last time around, we only had

those individuals were trained or at least planned in germany and spain. some of them got trained here in the united states. so you don't declare war against these countries and say that we have to go in and start bombing pakistan and bombing afghanistan and bombing yemen. they happen to be there. that's true. but they're there because we stimulate them. we follow them to the hands of osama bin laden by us going there and causing people to get some angry, it helps his recruiting efforts. he's written about this. he has said this. he says i want the americans to go over here and bankrupt their country and besides, it will help my recruiting efforts. we're doing exactly what he had planned. >> larry: we'll be right back. by the way, tomorrow night michael chertoff, the former director of homeland security, will be with us. will it shift attention away from health care he reform and other issues? we'll talk about that after the break. >> larry: does all this terror talk shift us away from other things? >> to some extent it is. we're not talking a lot about ho

interior ministers in spain to talk of ways to improve international aviation security following their meeting they held a joint news conference with reporters installing body scanners and issue of privacy dominated the questions during this 50 minute event. >> i want to apologize to all of you for the delay and the start of this press conference. the reason for that is we were having a very in-depth discussion informal council this morning an ongoing to tell you quite briefly about some of the things we concluded and get a number to the vice president of the commission and he can tell what he is taking away from the meeting and then i will give the floor to the secretary napolitano who was kind enough to come to the meeting today and as you know there were two items on the agenda is an informal council for the first time in the council we were discussing a presidency document that we've called the internal security strategy it's something we've been working on for a long time now. members take contributions of the fed and also a number of seminars that were organized and this has fina

believe greece is drifting away argentina style and what are risks of spreading out to portugal and spain, it's. >> the situation of greece is totally different from the argentinian example, for instance, it is for difficult and on the other hand, safer. it is more difficult, because greece is facing a huge deficit. accumulation of deficits, a huge debt. and is more deficit than many other countries because they don't have control of e the one valuable, which is exporting and to deal with the problem without having a possibility to move... makes it more difficult on the fiscal side and the adjustment needed in greece, is bigger than with the same data would be needed from another country where part of the job could be done by adjusting that and it is more difficult and another point of view it is easier because it is a member of the eurozone and so, the constraints on greece are constraints on the markets, and facing the deficit but don't have a constraint of current accounts and are not likely to just collapse overnight because they won't be able to finance an external gap because there

spain reports thick snow in catalonia and heavy rains in italy caused concern over rising water levelsnice is facing exceptionally heavy tides. now meteorologists are predicting the cold weather is set to continue at least through the weekend with more snow expected across much of europe. alex? >> and normally over there, tom, you don't see the sun a lot in winter, but it is one of those just damp, overcast, cold but snow is pretty unusual. >> yeah, you're right about that, alex. what is even more unusual is that it has gone on for so long. we're now in the third week of snowfall and that's something that britain hasn't seen for many, many years. >> yeah. all right, well, tom aspell, hope you got your boots on when you head outside after work. thank you, tom. >>> now to a so-called cell phone brain boost. researchers at the university of south florida say prolonged cell phone use may help reduce and reverse the effect of alzheimer's disease. yeah. joining me now cleveland, ohio, is dr. alan j. learner, director of the memory and cognition center at university hospital case medical cent

. >> reporter: flights from china, spain and the u.s. also landed.he chinese cargo taking six hours to unload because of a shortage of needed equipment. incoming planes began to circle overhead, and by midday, the airport ran out of space on the tarmac and fuel. for a time, all flights from the u.s. to haiti were halted. air shipments of aid resumed later in the day. in washington, president obama called the haiti crisis a moment for american leadership. he announced an initial installment of $100 million in help for the country. >> this will mean more of the lifesaving equipment, food, water and medicine that will be needed. this investment will grow over the coming year as we embark on the long-term recovery from this unimaginable tragedy. >> reporter: the first wave of the u.s. effort involved a detachment of some 100 soldiers from the army's 82nd airborne division. they left fort bragg, north carolina today. their main task is to prepare for the arrival friday of more than 800 other u.s. military personnel. and thousands of additional u.s. troops

spain reports thick snow in cat leona, and heavy rains in italy have risen concerns over water levelsce is facing exceptionally heavy tides. meteorologists predicting the cold weather to continue at least through the weekend with more snow coming across teurope. >> it's the snow that's making the difference in england? >> well, it's the snow and also the fact that it's been going on for three weeks now. i don't think the british have had cold weather lasting this long since the early 1960s, and that's really seemed to have caught the britons unprepared. >> tom aspell in london, thanks. >>> well, a horse takes a stroll and winds up in an icy creek. a look at the rescue coming up. >>> and at the top of the hour, the rise and fall of tiger woods. rd. then let's do more than talk about it. let's turn picturing it into planning it, thinking it over into making it happen. let's say out with the old and in with the new. let's create some wall-to-wall "wow." [ man ] ♪ oh! [ male announcer ] more saving. more doing. that's the power of the home depot. right now, get any carpet installed for ju

published this and then we decided to liberate ourselves after having liberated paris, by going to spainfor a few days of vacation. that is where one day we received a telegram from the reader's digest asking us to write a great story, a big story about a man who was the incarnation of the news-- news been coming out of the war. he was a bullfighter. but what had happened to him, to his family, to the country with this terrible civil war, which had really broken the beautiful land during three years from 1936 to 1939 was really a beautiful new story in a book that we could tell, and we started to research. now we have made it a rule that we would be writers, so for instance we had a need to explain what you feel in front of a ball chasing new at 80 killam meters an hour like a locomotive so you can feel what fear is in the middle of the bull ring. of course we wanted one survivor to write the book. we decided that only one of us would do the experiment so we flip the coin, and the bad luck fell on larry collins, and one day be able greater, one of our friends, gave us in his little porta

committee in charge of getting republicans elected to congress, they came out with a statement today, ken spainthe spokesman, the nrcc's goal has always been to recapture the majority of 2010, independent political analysts and even liberal columnists stated republicans have a very real shot at taking back the majority in 2010. make no mistake about it, we are playing to win. that's been interpreted as a slap at you. >> it is not. it is not. i agree with the statement. it wasn't a slap at me. we're trying to create this diversion and distraction, there is distraction on the republican side. what i agree with the nrcc and others around the country who are looking at these races that we're going to be in play, we're going to fight hard to win the seats and we're going to be competitive all the way to the end. no one is right now declaratively stating that we will win the house back in this november. and if they are saying that, i would like to see the crystal ball they're looking through because there is still a lot of politics to unfold here, a lot of races to be settled on both sides of the pol

host: spain is improving the acceptance of two guantanamo prisoners.on about sending detainees to other countries? guest: we have to look at some of these specific situations. in some cases, they will be transferred from the custody of guantanamo to another prison in another part of the world where they will be held. not released, not necessarily rehabilitated and then released, but simply, in a sense, to be held in different places. with regard to those people that go through these to rehabilitation programs, there is always a risk that some of them will drift back. certainly, it is processed -- promising, and there was some flowback. but on the other hand, some of these people, in some cases former prisoners, become valuable resources for us. host: bryan michael jenkins of the rand corporation. people can read more of your work at your website. in the next segment we look at a course that -- at a case coming up in california. first, an update from c-span radio. >> president obama began the day meeting with senior advisers. later, he speaks to labor l

but we went into cuba and liberated, we liberated them from spain but not from us. and that's our record. our record is sometimes liberating people from other tyrants and then imposing our will on them so the spanish were added cuba in 1898 and the american corporations and american military were in cuba and stayed there for a very long time coming dictatorship after dictatorship supported by the united states. the people knew some of that history. if they knew the history of the american occupation of the philippines they would be very wary of an american occupation of iraq, they would be wary of the idea we are occupying so we can bring democracy to by iraq. we fought a bloody war in the philippines and committed massacres in the philippines and then we occupied the or 50 year. did we bring democracy to the philippines? brought dictatorship after dictatorship and misery to the filipino people about half a million of whom had died in a war that we waged against the filipinos. of course, of the history then in to the 20th-century coming into the marines going again

in fact we did, we liberated the cubans from spain but not from us. our record is sometimes lipreading people from other tyrants and imposing our will on them so that the spanish brought out of cuba in 1898 and american corporations and the american military were in cuba and stayed there for a very long time for could dictatorship after dictatorship after dictatorship supported by the united states. if people knew some of that history, if they knew the history of the american occupation in the philippines, they would be very wary of american occupation of iraq. they would be very wary of the idea, we are occupying the racks of wickham bring democracy to iraq. we fought a bloody war in the philippines who committed massacres in the philippines and then we occupied the philippine islands for 50 years and did we bring democracy to the philippines? we brought dictatorship after dictatorship that misery to the filipino people, the half of million of come had died in the board that we waged against the philippine house. and of course the history then into t

[applause] >> so we have companies from other countries, france, spain, germany and asia in america today looking at facilities. looking at opportunities where our train sets and our infrastructure can be built in america. and it will be. and it'll be using our workers who know how to manufacture. and that will be a real boon, i think, to our economy and send a good message that our people know how to -- you know, how to build trains. and also the infrastructure for that. so we're just at the starting point. but the future is very bright for this. >> yeah. i've got three grandchildren i'll just leave with this. and i know that they'll be in their productive years in the 40s and 50s. and if we don't get started now -- and we appreciate the beginnings, the strong beginnings of the obama administration -- starting now is an absolute essential. and the conference of mayors, as we are in all of our different parts of the country, are ready to be good partners. thank you. >> thank you. yes, sir. [applause] >> mr. secretary, thank you for being here. i was already in line. you've answered a lot

and of course, the same thing happened in spain with a vengeance. and this is, again, one of the saddest group of cartoons in the book are the anti-franco cartoons where pm constantly hopes that the spanish people will overthrow franco at the end of the war, along with the help of the americans. and a few thousand hapless spanish republicans did come in from france, from the north towards the end of the war, and they were all killed. and he did not have the backing either of the spanish communist party, or of the allies. and so they were doomed to being exterminated, which is what happened. so the whole question of the future of europe, was a major theme in the pages of pm and the cartoons of the whole group of cartoons here on hitler's allies. which are very telling. but this was of course not a debate that was taking place in main street u.s.a., and it was not a lot of debate taking place in the press. the "new york times" followed, and this is not the talk of the hearst press and the others who were so far on the other side, that they were at goi

later this month, i will be traveling to spain to meet with my european counterparts for what will be the first in a series of meetings with counterparts that i believe will lead to a broad consensus on new international aviation security standards and procedures. these five recommendations i have just described are important areas where dhs and other federal agencies are moving quickly to address concerns revealed by the attempted attack. added to the intelligence review also under way that john brennan just described, these are changes that will help prevent another attack from ever advancing as far as the one did on christmas day. thank you. >> the president talked about using advanced technologies. this seat intend to start using it across the country -- does he intend to start using it? >> advance screening technology is the magnetometer with which people are so familiar. it is explosives detection technology. it is increased use of canines. it is increased law enforcement presence, both uniformed and undercover. it is a series of layers that we will be adding to the security we

why france and spain should come in the netherlands in a revolution and he was a great triumph of realism i also discovered that benjamin franklin was a wonderful scientist, totally interested in science. in the would've thought people were philistines that they weren't interested in science. you know, we think of msm old dude playing the kite and the pain that those electricity use of the most important kind of experiments of the time and the single fluid. electricity was the most important scientific purity of that. after newton's theory of gravity. and it occurred to me that people in our generation, who are not scientists, sometimes just flinch from science. we would be what franklin called the philistines. we don't keep up with all the advances in science. in fact, we have friends who would never admit to knowing the difference regime hamlet and shakespeare i mean hamlet and macbeth or not though the difference between four shakespeare plays, but they would happily brag almost that they don't know the difference between a gene in a chromosome or uncertainty principle and relativity t