washington state is most trade- dependent state in the nation. our ticket out of this recession is trade. our ports are booming. our exports are up. we know that is where our bread and butter lies. you cannot get that product onto that ship if you cannot get across a bridge or over a highway. that is where state government has to be a good partner, said a good climate, and work well with the business community to make it happen and involve the work with our labour community who oftentimes know the best way to insure efficiency and effectiveness in delivering what state government is responsible to do. >> you said one of the most difficult jobs in the country today is being a governor. do you think the republican party should nominate a candidate for president in 2012 was a former governor? we're talking about john hulsman who spent a lot of time and china. should republicans go that direction? guest: governors like to see governors become president. they know what it is like. let me speak about president obama. my colleagues who are republican wo

and when the funding comes through, it will come through to the state -- from the state controller to thel local toer and they will fund the realignment plan. our sport -- it will become effective on october 1, 2011. my first concern is that it is october 1, 2011, and now here we sit in july, and there is a lot of work to be done. fortunately, with the collaborative partners, which i really want to recognize those agencies that sit on the executive committee and other entities, such as the mayor's office, and other departments such as the office of economic and workforce development, also hsa, and others that do not have an official seat on the committee, yet were critical to create a collaborative realignment plan that joined in this effort wit. there is a listing of all those individuals that helped develop it in the body of the plan. i would like to say a special thank you to them and to recognize the city's spirit of collaboration. i work with the chiefs from across the state. we're in the same place in terms of developing the plans. san francisco has a lot to be proud of we have

mostly nato states that have recognized kosovo or treating them as a minority and the other had states that have not recognized kosovo independence and not treating serves as a minority but are seeing them as having equal rights as all other citizens of serbia but we must remember that the key to the situation in kosovo is really in nato hands they control militarily the entire province so really whatever happens down there is under their control and it's something that they will tolerate or not tolerate and we must also remember what happened yesterday with the burning of the border checkpoint we still don't know who actually did it these were masked men it really could have been any nationality we don't know whether they were serb albanian or french or even american we just still don't know that. this is us here still to come on the program america's burgeoning debt is causing companies to content run. we are people here that have worked here all of their lives in a losing jobs left and right because somebody on top wants to make a buck and pay the cheapest possible way takes to leav

>> we do address a scenario where the state would impose a partial sales tax. under the current version, that would not cause our have sent to go away. under that scenario, we could end up with a sales tax a quarter cent higher than we have been over the last couple of years. one of the amendments to the legislation is to change that so that if there is a 0.75% state sales tax imposed hours would go away. so if the state we imposes a sales tax of 0.5% or less, hours remains in place. our sales tax rate would be no higher than it has been over the past several years. if they impose anything greater than that, hours -- ours would automatically be ascended -- rescinded. chairperson chu: we do have an economic analysis from the controller's office and a report from the budget analyst. >> been rosenfield from the comptroller's office. mr. egan is on a well-earned vacation. i thought i would briefly touch on a couple of the highlights from our report, which we issued yesterday. to start with, just a bit of background on what the sales tax looks like in san francisco.

it is a state within a state. they have their own economy and they had their own businesses and their revolution as it exists in egypt, the uprising as it exists, whatever you want to call it, has not yet focused on what will be that future role of this pebble in the room. the floor is open. yes. direct your question to somebody. push it up on the side, i think. [inaudible] the question is about yemen. when we talk about the arab spring and the uprising -- i would also like to hear little bit more about georgia. that seemed to be a key in the region. >> margot and david white at you say something about jordan and yemen. why would you start on yemen, the uprising of the yemen that has been going on for about a decade. and it has involved people from south yemen that are not too happy about the union of the two yemen's and the short end of the stick that they got. its minorities in the north near the saudi border that have had a revolution going on for several years and the tribal disputes. so there has been a long-

all right i know you hear it everywhere but the united states is one day closer to default the deadline to raise the debt ceiling is tuesday and as it quickly. approaches our country's books are looking officially pathetic to us at least apple as in the maker of i pods and i phones now has more cash on hand than the us has left to pay its bills well they are you kidding i mean maybe washington can ask jobs to pay social security checks next week if lawmakers can't get the money to pay for them and the plans that congress is voting on to rein in the debt well they're looking more delusional by the day they reportedly assume this economy will grow three per cent in their models three percent ok well let's look at the figures that came out today for the economy's growth they are just one point three percent for last quarter and even worse the previous quarter before that was revised to just point four percent the economy barely grew now you don't have to be a mathematician to see that those numbers don't seem to add up and it's looking a little more like washington is really in a dream wor

from slave states. randolph said on the floor of the congress we who belong to that unfortunate portion of this confederacy which is south of the mason-dixon line in the east of the allegheny mountains have to make up our mind to perish or we must resort to the measures we first opposed the british aggression and usurpations to the sort of interesting as early as 1824 in fact earlier already out in the open was the idea of southern independence from the union leader to be called secession. so it was at that point we start seeing this shorthand roof of the mason-dixon line but if you look at the map, you will notice parts of the areas east are north of the mason-dixon line. a delaware goes up a little of the dixon line and what is now west virginia that china was still virginia as a whole can handle sticking at between it and ohio north of the line, and you may be able to see that new hampshire i have a kind of checkerboard color. in new hampshire did not officially abolished slavery until the civil war.

state. further, the bill restricts e.p.a.'s -- e.p.a. from ejecting to mps permits issued by a state. moreover, the bill clarifies that e.p.a. can deal an army corps of engineer act when the state concurs with the veto. these limitations apply only in situations where e.p.a. is attempting to contradict and unilaterally force its own one-size-fits-all policy on a state's water quality program. by limiting such an overreaching by the e.p.a., h.r. 2018 in no way affects e.p.a.'s proper role in reviewing state permits and standards and coordination pollution control efforts between the states. e.p.a. just has to get back to a more collaborative role in its long play as the overseer of the state's implementation of the clean water act. detractors of this legislation claim that the bill only intends to disrupt the complementary roles of e.p.a. and the states on the clean water act and eliminate e.p.a.'s ability to protect water quality and public health in downstream states from actions in upstrea

a state that will be back to work. >> suarez: state lawmakers could sign off on that deal in the next few days. now, how might the debate in washington impact states across the country? it's one of the questions being examined at the national governors association's annual meeting, which kicked off today in salt lake city, utah. and we are joined now by two governors attending the conference, republican scott walker of wisconsin and democrat jack markell of delaware. gentlemen, embedded in all these debates, both in states across the country and in warb ton, there seems to be one overriding question, what is government for? governor markell why don't we start with you? what is government for? >> well, what we really have to do these days is just focus on a handful of key issues. that really means helping put people back to work. government is not going to create the jobs but government has got to create the environment. what businesses are looking for are governments who create great schools but reasonable taxes, great quality of life. a lot of responsiveness. we're also looking obvio

state department gamble with live. good evening it's monday july eighteenth i'm lauren lyster here in washington d.c. you're watching our t.v. well critics call it build a bridge west it's a collection of some of the nation's most powerful men passed us presidents from taft in hoover to reagan and george bush both father and son also business leaders who have attended reportedly include google c.e.o. eric schmidt now they're all gathering for overtreat in the forests shrouded in secrecy it's called bohemian grove and it's the playground of the mohini and club and their annual getaway began over the weekend now on friday we question what a group of some of the most powerful men in the country meeting in secret in the course of california would lead to well past allegations have included heavy drinking sacks but more him. hackle to society and concerning for the protesters who show up to picket are the political deals and policy being hatched undemocratically in private that is the accusation at least of our own christin

effort in the state of california? >> this is a great time to work on the issue of the death penalty. every day we get closer and closer to ending the death penalty in california and across the country and indeed, across the world. several states have into the death penalty in the last four years. most recently, the state of illinois into the death penalty in march of this year. [applause] we are now at the time when 16 states, puerto rico and the district of columbia do not have the death penalty. many more states are addressing this issue, connecticut and montana, colorado, kansas, these are all states that have had bills in their legislature to into the death penalty that have moved through least one house in some cases, both houses. connecticut passed a bill a couple of years ago to end the death penalty that was vetoed by the then republican governor who is no longer in office. this is for states in four years and we expect more on the way. >> this deserves applause. >> we're making progress in california. the sta

it means united states. but who in the united states? mexicans in the united states clacks which mexicans? manly mexican women in the united states. basically what i say is the social cultural mental transformation of mexican migrant women in the united states can be the single most important lever of transformation of mexican culture mentality and everything. why? because mexican women who come to the united states to work illegally that's not the issue of that's not what we said, i'm not interested in those matters. i'm just as mexican as a pretty else is. fight? [laughter] mexican women who come here tend more and more to come alone. they are not coming, they are not being brought to the u.s. by the family and even when they are once they are here they say goodbye and that's it. mexican women who come here, they don't half -- they make their money, they decide what to do with their money, they may send some home, maybe they don't, they may have kids, maybe they don't, they hook up with one guy, they leave that guy, they filled up with

services came to a grinding halt and the state lost millions of dollars in gravity until the state's bars began to run out of beer and cigarettes this week and so today minnesota's good democratic governor mark dayton blinked and now it's that he will accept a republican proposal and instead of taxing millionaires will kill off seven hundred million dollars in payments to public schools millionaires one school kids zero there's a larger picture here that minnesota is going to become part of the more unequal america richer are getting richer the poor are getting poorer b.b.c. have an interesting article interesting story and maybe see online on the b.b.c. do you see the why do americans die younger than it's an interesting question not only do we die younger than britons we do. younger than the french we die younger than many europeans are actually and we die younger than the japanese and actually the outcomes in the united states over the last three decades have been getting worse rather than better they've been getting better more slowly than in other nations so relatively speaking

sales tax ranges from 4-8% in most states. that would seem to be a sizable advantage, so leaving aside target and walmart, what would you say to concerns from states that their small retailers are losing business to companies like overstock or amazon, and then they're no longer available to pay taxes to the state, so that's a net loss on both ends? >> guest: well, i'd have three things to say. first of all, overstock or now o.co has a special division that just supports, and we've had this for a year and a half now, just supports main street retailers and manufacturers, we're doing everything we can for them just as an aside. the main response i would say is taxes, taxes don't come out of a burning bush somewhere. taxes are just the name for the price that a government sets on it services. it's just the price that they're setting on their services, and when anybody raises the price of something, when the plumber raises the price of his services, people buy less of it. and that's what's happening. and we, we consume less of the

quinn from the state of illinois? >> we have innovation council from our state. we have a group plan that has grown to 6000 employees today. we have tried to put all about the datasets in the state of illinois, the information we have about anything online with the city of chicago and cook county as well. we want to inspire this on the grass roots level to innovate this and create. this chaotic group are the ones that will create these changes. how can we expand upon it? >> i think your observation is right. we are finding more and more of the ability where it is where the investment really lies. groupon has clever ideas on how to do that. when i heard the business plan initially, i thought they were kidding me. it actually turned out to be pretty damn interesting. and curious with 12 people starting that company. >> the person that started the idea was a music major at northwestern. he went to a public policy school for three months in chicago. he dropped out. in his first idea fizzled. he did have some capital. the second idea exploded. what i am interested in

of the united states, dr.let's briefly run through how the next hour and a half will unfold. each of our debaters will have six minutes for their opening statements to make their case for and against this motion. and talking of timing, there's going to be a clock on the screen as we have done in the past; when you see it count down to zero join me in a round of applause for the debater speaking and that will ensure that we continue this debate in a timely fashion. after those opening statements, we're going to have our debaters cross-examine each other's views and opinions, and then we're going to bring you, the audience, into the conversation in three ways. we have some notable people in the audience tonight, we have students from the munk school of global affairs here also and finally we have a raft of questions from our own website, facebook and twitter, which i will weave into the conversation. so how did this audience vote, coming into this evening? did you believe the 21st century will belong to china? l

but it's quite shocking to see one nation, one state-- the united states-- having such difficulty getti its act together. and that, it seems to me... when they all agree on the problem they just can't agree on the solution. >> rose: exactly so. but a well-designed democracy has mechanisms for addressing that because people don't agree. that's what happens in democracy. you have parties. your problemit seems to me if i may say so, is that you have an increasingly dysfunctional political system-- both a the federal level, meaning congress-- and in individual stat. think of california. and that's not aecessary feature of a liberal democracy, it's a particular problem of the united states. the problem is no longer george iii. (laughs) you don't need the system of checks and balances which was designed to prevent the return of british tierney is now preventing necessary reform. >> rose: that actually was solved when george washington decided not to seek a third term. >> indeed and, you know, george... i mean prince william, i think, is notn immediate threat to american democracy. >> rose: bu

the plan balances the state budget and pays down much of the state's structural deficit. but governor brown said there's more work to be done. >> californians are going to have to think very hard about what is it that we want from our university, from our police and sheriffs. from our safety net for the most vulnerable. for our children. >> reporter: the budget includes deep spending cuts for california's public universities. it also relies on predictions that the economy and the job market will improve producing higher tax revenues. the governor warned of more tough choices in the coming years. he says he may need to go back to voters to ask for new or higher taxes. david stevenson is going to take a look at why this new budget will mean more inmates in county jails. >>> two state tax increases expire at midnight this evening and republican lawmakers says that good news for california consumers. >> even if they don't know anything about politics they're going to have a little more money in their pocket. >> reporter: the gop lawmakers gathered at a ford dealership. they m

prison there is a prison worker program like this yeah yeah there's in every state in some states that pay people you know twenty three cents an hour in some states they don't pay the worker anything like they do in georgia where prisoners in eight prisons rose up in a prison rebellion last year so it's going on across the nation if you look just at manufacturing there's one hundred and seventy thousand prisoners working in manufacturing in prisons in this country making everything from office chairs to guided missile parts to the solar panels at the u.s. state department so it's a huge problem and it's good to american workers because you cannot outbid somebody making twenty three cents an hour you can't somebody that's working for nothing an hour is all that's working completely for free so is there any other way to solve this other than i don't know decreasing our prison population and reforming the entire drug war that we have going on in this country or what i think decreasing the prison population we have in this country is the most important part you take away the prison labor t

by state. well i guess pigs can fly i agree with newt gingrich not about politics of course but newt is right about the supreme court and progressive should pay attention here's what he said yesterday in iowa. even read the constitution if you read the first quarter the usual reasons. the factors the congress. culture stooge drug running costs the. prompts these numbers. then the lizard issue brings the beast as the british since the. american hostage is the court which is we should. lose since he moves. on this is fair nationally he once believed in the foreign leaders our constitution. this will challenge the american people and this gingrich agrees with our president thomas jefferson and frankly most of the other founders of this country let's break it down first newt's assertion that the congress can pass laws that limit the powers and the behavior of the supreme court constitution in section two of article three which establishes that the judiciary does give the congress the power to defin

, and migration at the state. in this capacity, he supervises u.s. rescue programs in africa, manages u.s. diplomacy with major international partners, and oversees the development of international migration policy. he crazy work for human right watch and has been active duty u.s. naval officer. he recent return from east africa where he worked underground with somali refugees. and we will get shortly to that area. ambassador yamamoto, please proceed. >> thank you very much, chairman, ranking member payne and chairman royce and distinguish goods of this committee. i want to say a special thank you very much to the chairman and to you all for holding this very important hearing. and also for your very kind words for us. the promise of somalia are not isolated and solutions to them are neither easy nor one dimensional. there are signs of progress and improvement to fortify our outlook and encouraged u.s. efforts. most recently and significantly, somali national security forces under the control of the transitional f

first is the state itself. the state is all about power. the state is the ability to concentrate power in the a hierarchy and use it to enforce rules over a particular territory. all right? in the developing world world -d this again is why i think we sometimes take politics for granted. we assume that things will happen. like, you know, long term, i've lived in fairfax county for 20 years. and the potholes always get filled every spring. why? but not in new guinea? there's a hidden social structure that provides the services and does it pretty efficiently, at least many a rich county like fairfax. not so well in the district. it's funny why the differences happen. i think all of the antigovernment activist of which already many, especially in our society, don't understand that if you want a country that doesn't have a strong government that's able to enforce rules, you ought to move to somalia or afghanistan or, you know, a less developed country that actually cannot enforce rules on it's own territory. you know, somalia, if you want to ow

it would be tied to the state sales tax rate. as we have been discussing this proposal, i know i aspens time -- have spent time talking about this with you and the mayor. we have also spent a lot of time talking to our community about what this proposal looks like. we have had a lot of feedback that people would prefer we extend that time to provide a greater sense of certainty about what the sales tax rate will be over that time. essentially, the argument, and we heard this from the small business commission, when i presented it to them, we have heard this from small business stakeholders, the mayor has talked to people on his merchant walks, and you have heard some feedback -- essentially, a longer window where we would extend the time where the state reimposing a sales tax would invalidate hours would provide a greater level of shorty about the sales tax rate. -- sure to -- surety for about the sales tax rate. that has to do with balance about the city certainty about revenues and what the future brings and the policy decision

unilateral action by the soviet union, eisenhower stated, would be forcefully opposed by the united statesand he ordered the navy's sixth fleet stationed in the mediterranean placed on alert. this was election eve. the stresses are taking a toll on the president. after a tense meeting his doctor found the president's blood pressure and elevated and his heartbeat regular. he laid down and developed a headache. after all, he had only eden a dish of carrots and a glass of yogurt since breakfast. the president's agitation, the doctor recorded, was due to what he termed an ultimatum that had been served upon him. i vowed that if he were a dictator he would tell russia if they moved a figure he would drop our entire stock of atomic weapons on. tuesday november 6th was election day. inro's two emily stint even greater turmoil. at a meeting that morning he was somber. our people should be alert. russian planes would inevitably trigger british and french attacks on those air fields. if that happened the fat would be in the fire. he inquired of the chairman of the joint chiefs whether american naval

and the wisconsin state senate. a wisconsin packer, let me just say that thank goodness the nfl is better at reaching compromise than the u.s. congress, but on to this more serious issue. it's really nice to have you here tonight. >> thank you. >> how do you think that this plan to shut down several dmvs will affect the elderly woman who needs to get a voter i.d. or a young man that lives in a rural part of the state. what does it look like on the ground for them? >> well, we in wisconsin used to think that we were the good government state, the clean government state. but it turns out that partisan politics here is like what's happening everywhere else in the country. it's a contact sport. and if the majority party can change the rules of the game to benefit the majority party, they do it. i think that's exactly what's happening with the voter i.d. law. how does somebody who doesn't have a driver's license go to the dmv to get a free i.d. card that has no photo on it? the logic of it, it seems to me, is pretty comp

the united states will not be safe for four more prosperity since the united states disengages with theworld. that is that history teaches us. i.this bush debate was supposed to be at the bush doctrine saw give you information about what the bush doctrine is, how stipulates in how it is grimly into the best of the american tradition. the bush doctrine came out of the heinous attacks of 9/11. there were two premises to the dock turn. wonders in this day and age there are certain types of threats emanating in certain types of actors that can't be dealt with by conventional strategies that can emit or deterring. you need to respond preemptively because force and threat if you wait too long to fight cancer. that is premised on. the second premises in particular the root cause of this dangerous synergy between the spread of radicalism was the culture of tierney in the region. now let's be precise. the bush doctrine does not say that you go to war with somebody if there is tyranny. however our regime imposes a grave threat to you and you do get an award, the remedy for the audience to deal wi

where states do balance but they only have to take care of their state. . mrs. christensen: we would never be able to raise revenue, 2/3 of both bodies. ms. jackson lee: in joplin, missouri, the floods, the tornadoes and let me finish on this, we served on homeland security. we have seen the death of mr. karzai's brother, his very close aide. we have seen pakistani police officers be shot down in a massacre by taliban. this is a very serious climate of terrorism in this world. and the tragedy and backdrop of 9/11, where we had to bail out the airlines and rebuild new york and other places, that is the responsibility of america. that's why there is a federal government. and if we are to play with this through the cap, cut and balance, balanced budget amendment, we will be the tap dance, we will be the losers' club and we will bust the rights of americans that call upon their federal government when they are in need. this is not a time to play with the lives of americans. and i believe that we are ready to compromise, but not to engage in this when we have to

murphy's well stated. canada has already said themselves they can't get that oil out of canada without this pipeline. they can't get it to china unless they build the pipeline. they want to build a pipeline through america, over one of our most important aquifers, threatening our environment, our drinking water so that canada can get some oil to possibly go to china. and canada cannot get it to china without going through the united states. it makes no sense. and the fact is this amendment like the previous amendments are just simply putting the facts, the truth into this particular paper. there's nothing wrong with these facts, nobody disputes the facts. the fact the gentleman agreed in the previous amendment that there have been a dozen leaks of the keystone pipeline. he mentioned that some of them were very small. the average someone 1,000 barrels. so if the keystone pipeline, which was the safest in the world, was not safe, what's wrong with mentioning it in the findings? and the same thing here. what

-- modern state modernity.aybe you can talk about that. it's at the heart of the arguments you're making here. >> guest: this book and others i mentioned here is perhaps the most comprehensive intellectuals of the muslim world taking on this very, very seriously and they get a great deal of respect because they are not turning away from it or giving us easy answers and not putting vails over anything, and it really does come down to the way i see it which is it's very hard to see true muslims being able to do this, but there are some ideas here that are coming to the floor, and i treat these as well in the last part of it that shows some indications that there is in islam in even traditional islam there are plenty of places to go in the theology of it where if you want to do it, you can find that what you want to do in terms of moving towards a more proceed churl, more modern way can be done, and -- >> host: it shrinks and roles and claims of islam vis-a-vis the state. >> guest: the one thing i think is the key

over the norway terror attacks and how islamophobia are carrying out a strategy here in the united states to whip up fear against muslims take a look at the organization people for the american way just released a report of what they are calling the right wing playbook on anti muslim extremists . included in this report is a section titled eight key strategies employed by the right to inflame and sodomite and turn a truth and bigotry into political weapons so once the fear is established once we're all afraid that the muslims are going to take down our airplanes then you have to back it up with research which brings us to the second part of the right wing plan strategy to twist statistics and use fake research to prove the muslim through. its strategy to using fake research especially fake experts of the right wing depends on most to turn us all into fearful zombies right wingers are the only ones depending on fake experts so are the police take for example this guy. walid shoebat was played a five hundred sixty thousand dollars in two thousand and nine to train counterterrorism officials

while the state figures sort of look good on paper, the look very well for the state, but as with most sheriff's department, we do not believe that their projections have much application to what may happen in the county jail. it is nice to know. it has given us an idea of how many people are currently on parole in the area and how many will transfer to post-release community supervision, how many do less than 30 days in the state prison when they get revoked. it is nice to know that stuff, but whether or not those numbers pan out, it is our belief that those numbers are understated. but we will nano. it is something we will monitor closely. certainly, we are aware of the fiscal restraints that the city and county. we want to be part of the solution and not -- and not part of the problem. the other mechanism in the law that helps is this release in lieu of bail. the law allows the sheriff to release in lieu of bail people in on a misdemeanor. it requires that the district attorney's office and the sheriff to come up with rules and regulations to move forward with such a program. that i

state. close. to the republic of north the city where the area is occupied by nature preserve. this time goes to the region where men fly from all over the world. to their self-confidence where young families are not hesitant about having a senior citizen in their family where one man's utopia turns into a real village of the shining sun welcome to the cool. russia. and. wealthy british. markets why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy is a report on our. welcome back to talk about to remind you we're talking about the birth of another sudan. ok mr mesereau like to go to you know when it was mentioned right before i went to the break what about the north north sudan as it will be and their attitude towards the new country to the south can they make or break the possibility of a sovereign state a state that can actually take care of itself with all that oil by the way but nonetheless what cards they play to make or break the new country. well. they certainly have the potential if for example you have full scale warfare breaking out between south sudan and

united states? they have these jeffersonian republicans and will create a puppet regime that is the fear between 80 in sedition act. they are truly frightened. in destroying napoleons and team and once he has no fleet then there is no invasion. but talking about we cannot have a french president meaning jefferson. they were very much at each other's throats and we think our press is rough? [laughter] you do no better, it was just mischa's. they accused washington of being able. he was working for the british government that is the accusation made. it is incredible the distortions and lies washington would shake his head and could not believe it. say would say these awful things said he was so desperate to say he wanted to get out of the political world. >> his cabinet said he was aging before their eyes and one meeting where he cost loudly and i don't think i can say it is because the c-span's. [laughter] but he was deeply disillusioned by what was happening. his last letter is six months before he

in terms of the creation of the state of israel, generally, truman recognized the state of israel in may, i believe, 1948. part of his presidential campaign. and that was really opposed by george marshall who was then his secretary of state. you got to remember george marshall, general george marshall, of eisenhower's midterm and i think there's circumstancetial evidence to believe that people in the state department believed roy henderson is the graduate of my school in southwestern school and a great diplomat who really believed that creation -- the recognition and creation of the state of israel would lead to endless turmoil in the middle east, and he was not wrong. that doesn't mean you can't support that because there's a dramatic and wonderful story for the state of israel. and i'm moved and touched by it. i wish i could answer you bette better. >> did the hungarians expect the americans to come to their aid in 1956? >> there's significant evidence that a lot of hungarians did expect the americans to come to their aid and there was great disillusionment among pro-hungarians and

of states that disagree with that. but that is the only burden on the tax burden on overstock. all we are asking them to do is collect customer sales tax. they collect today they presumably benefit from the utah sales-tax and corporate offices but it's the customers who's fire departments are not being funded because overstock sales tax. >> there is the other issue of how the

to the united states. so the united states doesn't pay itself, what are we going to do? send out a notice that we're -- the united states didn't pay the united states so we're deadbeats now? come on. there is so much political gamesmanship going on and we were sent here to deal with the critical issues of this country and being financially responsible is one of those things. now, i doubt that very many people actually look at the back of their dollar bills and i know they're having more and more trouble getting those dollar bills, but if you look at the back of the dollar bill, on either side, you see the two sides of the united states great seal. that was adopted initially in the first version around the time of the revolution. and the eagle has changed a little bit over the centuries, mainly, basically changed and basically this by 1790. some people think that e pluribus unum, latin meaning out of many one, it's on the light fictsture here, come from all over the world, we come from many and become one.

nationalism within a state in a state's culture and its own view of its place in the world. what happened in the middle east is the nationalism became pan nationalism and it was another way within the region that the idea of the states became undermined so when you would say 30 or 40 years ago talked to someone from damascus and what mengin the nation of syria they would say you can't see that, there's only one nation and that is the arab nation. >> is the iraqi party calling itself the syrian division of the arab baathist party as the boundaries were momentary inventions. >> i asked about iraq because in the book i found more enthusiasm for george w. bush's call to arms in 2003 in the march invasion of iraq than one usually has now, even among people who were supportive of the war who were members of the bush administration. it's typical in my experience of a columnist to find people looking backwards scratching their heads and saying you know, glad it turned out better than people here but we have to be honest given what we now know there were not weapons of mass destructi

the state will transfer services to state governments and local governments. to city and local governments. we have the legislature's proposal to eliminate or condition the redevelopment agencies which is not directly addressed by this measure. there is an overlap. a lot of the economic activities have an impact on our economic climate in the city. within the current state budget, there are a number of figures in the budget and what the state did to balance this budget as i am sure you have heard is rather than actually does make all the cuts that it needed to get to balance, the state made an aggressive assumption about the revenue that will be coming in over the next year but essentially said that if that revenue does not command, there will be triggered some place said that if we don't see the revenue, these cuts will go into effect. despite the fact that the state has passed a budget, we are potentially going to see additional cuts to public safety, child care, other services in the city. i know that the issues of government service are certainly relevant

russia is not the united states. is never going to present to be the united states. the russian empire and the soviet union were not accidental. it bound together economically and politically regions that had a mutual dependence your division of the liberals in russia and the united states was that following the fall of the soviet union they would reorient themselves towards europe, the united states. they fail to understand that these countries cannot compete in any reasonable time frame in europe, the more dependent they became on your of the week became. and also russia as a geopolitical entity. it experienced some terrible wars in its history, and its extremist cautious about expansion of things like nato. it regards made as a military alliance. we regard it as a club of nice people are fairly mismatched about what it is. and as the united states moved into the balkans and nato moved into the baltics, as the orange revolution, the ukraine took off, as the united states became very influential in central asia, the russian saw a second encirclement taking place. so