steve shows how, state-by-state, union by janine, politician by politicians, the new new left gain power over public finances. there so many choice nuggets in the book that our restrained myself to a few favorites. one involves the california nurses union, kind and caring people, right? no. you will see nurses the same way again after you read how their union, angry at governor schwarzenegger, flu and add blitz over his house, trillion out of state, spent $1000 in attack ads, and then join the teamsters. [laughter] and nurses and the teamsters, i do know, sounds like a biker's group to me. [laughter] the chapter on steve's home state has a tony soprano ring to it. the mob the lack to jersey. that would be the government mob that took a low tax state to one of the highest, and yet has chronic budget crisis, even in the boom times. a bad case of the blue state blues, steve writes, on the road to the next california. until chris christie entered the picture. steve tells the story of the community development block grants, over $100 billion spent in 30 years, a horrible record of failure, ye

united states. these officers are under the 18 -- the a.g. but this does not stop regular officers, does it? >> our position is not that there not often -- that they are not authorized, but that the state mandates it. if one looks at 10-be -- it is true, an agreement is not required for state officers to cooperate. the pertinent an important language is "cooperate with the attorney general." 11 sovereign utilizes its law enforcement officers to assist -- when one sovereign utilizes its law enforcement officers to assist the second sovereign, there is an understanding that whose laws are being enforced will take the lead. the officers of the arizona are assisting the second sovereign, the united states. that that is all very well as to subsection b. -- >> that is all very well as to subsection b. it does not say to communicate when the attorney general wants you to communicate or cooperate. this is a right under the fed rule statute for the local people to communicate with the attorney general. >> no

or any state in the country. it is incumbent upon us to raise the bar and get other people to join in. if that happens, i have no doubt we will be successful. >> luis from puerto rico took over with a lot of challenge, and the political tradition at least in recent years was the other way. he came in as a reform-minded governor and leader and was able to enact significant changes in the face of a lot of opposition, current and past. give us a couple of lessons learned that these governors might benefit from with your experience in puerto rico. >> thank you, and i congratulate everyone here for the tremendous success this november. indeed, we will be facing tremendous challenges. from my own experience, what i can tell you is what you're going to do, do it quickly. commit a kid immediately with all stakeholders -- communicate immediately with all stakeholders. go as far as you need to go in year one. and then, once you are done, for example, reducing expenses, because many of you have tremendous budget gaps, and i

we state that. but again, i think it's important, having devolved police justice, it's very important we see two colleagues, you must try and make the best decisions you can with the budget you have. and a lot your resources accordingly and come back to us that there is a real problem. i think having devolved, we should try and stand on their shoulder the entire time. i think it's quite important if that's the case. >> they see how they allocate the money they're giving. it's their decision how much they are given. the select committee was in ireland just last week and the assistant commissioner deckard said in spite of the difficulties they've got company gets an absolute category assurance that there would be no less for the border area in the republic. and we did that same guarantee for northern ireland. >> yes, i believe we can. it's a very important area i don't want to mislead you in anyway. i i believe we can. that's a question we asked in the national security council. that's a discussion we

to-- rival to the united states. >> is that acceptable to the united states that you know? >> i think to the united states we have today, absolutely. i any it's hillary clinton was sitting here she would say that is exactly what we want. >> a partnership with europe. >> yes. >> rose: we're not a senior partner, we're both -- >> well, let's leave that, as vague. senior, whatever, they will economies of equal size. they are massive. >> rose: but the growth rate of the united states economy is a bit higher expectation than the growth rate of the european economy. >> you know what, and also in military power there is no comparison. so it's going to be doing slightly different things. but maybe when it comes to afghanistan or pakistan actually the civilian side is at least as important as what the military can do. >> rose: and tell me what it is that europe is prepared to do in pakistan and afghanistan. >> well, europe gives more than half the official development aid in the whole world. and in civil kwan reconstruction as in the balance begans-- balkans, on january dam ree type

beyond the legislation that's in place in a state, i think it's very important that the state dmvs have an effort to make that legislation known to the physicians, to the law enforcement, to the public, whoever. because you can have that legislation and even some of the dmv people we talked with did not know what the legislation was in their state. but you can have that unless they know about it then it really doesn't make a big difference there. so that's where we're sort of in trying to encourage some things like full reporting, makeup forum for reporting. readily available from a dmv website. having that information available. and on that form state what the legal requirements or what it is so that people can readily find this information and feel confident when they're feeling out the form. and this goes for family members, law enforcement, whatever. >> can i make the comment. i believe at last count from a g.a.o. report that came out two years ago, i think there were nine states that had requirements that physicians report unfit drivers or driver who they have concerns about to the

of state student who is are united states students are not eligible.gal immigrants are not available for state or federal financial aid. is this a fair ruling for student who is have lived here for a long time and worked hard, or is it an outrageous advantage to illegal immigrants here illegally? we have chris coback. he was elected earlier this month to serve as the secretary of state of kansas as win of the chief architects of the controversial arizona law targeted at illegal immigrants. brant willoks is from the league of the united latin-american citizens or lula. >> we will be seeking review in the united states supreme court. the history of this is an interesting one. congress in 1996 pass ad law to say no state can give tuition to illegal aliens unless they want to give rates to every ugs citizens. they were looking at california and trying to prevent that from spreading to other states. a number of universities had started doing this. so we come to this position 14 years later where the california supreme court has misinterpreted the federal st

i'm not sure that the united states is so weak i think the united states or the administration is putting itself in a weak position we are really facing our files and i think it's about the fos i read a column written by a gun kids who use the word bribery it is really so ridiculous when you watch what's going on the content people but ask yourself who is here the superpower and who is the other one is today is as isolated in the world as never before is the pending on the united states as never before not only only korean military but above all politically is what has me crazy or tweets about this unfortunately is not enough and is we need so so the united states and this could have been used really to prove molds a set of events to push israel to get out of the occupied territories this could have been done by a devoted administration american administration unfortunately barack obama is falling to any trip that mr anthony i was putting in front of him two years will wasted already for nothing and i don't see any perspective perspective for the future fortunately so alan dershowitz we d

to state law. they were dealing with an administrative application. >> if judge ferguson analyze the congressional intent whether to punish employees as a condition of bonding them out, why isn't that general premise what the intent of congress was, applicable not only with dhs but when the state does it? >> there were no police followers to begin with. >> we are dealing now with the intent of congress. if the intent of congress is found to be black by judge ferguson just because it is in one room or another room, it doesn't stop it from being black. >> i was trying to address your question that even if you agree with me which you were not sure you did, whether you were bound by that opinion and my answer would be i don't think you are because he did not address the specifics before you. he did not address the subject of the presumption against pre-emption or the police powers of the state and i think he was wrong with all due respect. and we take a three people president to take legislative histor

which is a communist state wants the u.s. fleet to be in its waters to basically protect against china and therefore the americans can't do everything so therefore they will see europe if you like as a staging post as a place to gather intelligence as a place of people who can advise them and so on but not many troops will be stationed in europe because you don't need them you love people in europe but gradually they will come around to the view that india is their friend and india would like to see china contained so therefore south east south asia and south east asian east asia those are the areas of the future if you look ten years ahead. europe will perhaps be of minor importance but again as a staging post as a place we gather intelligence but no longer a great military significance or strategic importance to the united states ok i'm pretty much know where you stand on things what does nato need russia more than russia needs nato because we see him going on right now it a lot of it has to do with afghanistan anti-terrori

will the governor's plan to sell off state-owned buildings help fix the state's budget woes or create long-term losses? and a conversation with oakland mayor-elect jean quan about what's next for oakland. mayor-elect jean quan about what's next for oakland. coming up next. captioning by vitac, underwritten by fireman's fund ♪ >> belva: good evening, and welcome to "this week in northern california." i'm belva davis. and joining me tonight on our news panel are josh richman, political and legal affairs reporter with the "oakland tribune." scott shafer, host of "the california report" on kqed public radio. and lisa krieger, higher education writer for the "san jose mercury news." lisa, is raising tuition the only option for the regents? is that why this is happening? >> financing higher education is shockingly simple. you either get the money from the state or you get it from the students. it's not coming from the state, they're hitting up the students. now, the other side of the balance sheet, of course, is expenses. and they're saying -- this week's crisis, unlike every crisis in prev

at florida state on top. late in the fourth quarter, after the florida state touchdown, maryland down by seven, driving. danny o'brien makes the mistake, picked off. moody turns this into pick six, 97 yards, touchdown florida state. florida state wins. maryland's hopes to goad the championship game die. >>> virginia tech going into the game with eight trip to the acc championship game on the line, pulling against miami. down the sidelines, 43 yards. fourth quarter, tide. williams on the keri, through the middle. he breaks it. the hokies take the lead. taylor says let's close this out, i am tired of this. he does it himself. the mice run into the end zone. virginia tech is going to the acc championship game. >>> virginia-boston college, uva with the ball. 10-3, virginia. a 17-12, boston college and at the fourth. lining up for the field goal. he misses the chip shot. they would need those points. two seconds left in the game, va., last ditch try to win the game, under pressure, he escaped somehow and throws th

how about the united states? i'm interested in a number comparison with 50. >> the u.s., having a longer history in space and a much larger budget, has probably put up something i think on the order of 500 satellites. >> who are -- are those satellites that china has in space, are they civilian or military or dual use? >> they're very much dual use. china's space program at this point is mostly oriented spacect recently, very recently. >> uh-huh. >> will you describe the spacecraft? accelerated from >> the manned capsule is probably capable to our gemini series. it's the second manned launch. it's longer, wider and heavier than the soyuz and it's in fact quite a bit more capable than the soyuz. >> is it as big as a standard public bus? >> it is about 25 feet long. so i have to admit, i'm not sure how long a bus is. >> what about the interior of the vessel? >> it's quite cramped. and some of the video we've seen so far put out by the chinese suggest that much accelerated from w module is crd indeed. last night the

follow him welcome to cross talk i'm peter lavelle the welfare state is dead long live the welfare state the idea of western style the welfare state has few supporters during these hard times but few are willing to demand less and pay more for government services the system is broken and bankrupt with almost no one taking responsibility. to. discuss the prospects of the welfare state i'm joined by peter taylor goopy in canterbury he's professor at the university of kent in dusseldorf we go to god for steingart he's an international bestselling author and the editor in chief of handel's blog and in boston we go to lawrence call to love he's professor at boston university and another member of our crosstalk team on the hunger all right gentlemen cross talk rules in effect means you can jump in anytime you want well i've done many cross talk programs gentlemen but i've never come across a topic of it is so last loved in the world especially in the western world and that is the welfare state so gentlemen the welfare state once the pride and glory of western democracies has it become a curse

the real state of the union essays on united states the angry american our commentary on social rage. hobbies, travel in the form of ussr, the mideast and europe. paul, jeffrey sarrabin. >> the statistics that i gave from this quite remarkable 5,500 were recapped. do you believe that t historical account as given by at least two of the gospel writers of the christmas the angels announcing to mary. >> no, i'm not a theologian. >> do you think it's not treating as historical jesus' true history? >> well, i'm a histo historian t know how much historical evidence there is for this. we don't know the historical evidence his yuns go by. >> well,, the row monocatholic church council said you don't have to accept it in it full littoral teerality. >> sure i do. these statistics are from your article. it's on the question of is religion very important to you. 60% of americans say religion is very important to them. 30% that of the irish, 30%, 27% of italians, 20% of germans, and 10% of french say that religion is very important to them. does that kiss appoint disappoi? >> it's welsh. in the net

one conspiring to kill united states nationals two conspiring to kill united states officers and employees three conspiring to use and acquire anti-aircraft missiles and for conspiring to provide material support to the fark what's interesting to note and to underscore is that during this press conference the us attorney and the head of the da continued to paint a picture of victor boot one of the most dangerous men in the world a man who sides with violence who sides with the war who sides against the united states they were for a time as a so-called merchant of death and then at the end of their press conference they want to remind everyone that victor boot remains innocent until proven guilty and assuring the press that he will receive a fair trials were questioning how that could take place after he's already painted in the press and in the international media as a man who promotes violence and promotes war so a lot of wondering whether or not this trial will in fact be fair for mr victor boot. roma gypsies are facing growing prejudice across europe some e.u. countries blame the roma f

john rydell reports tonight, state lawmakers are getting input on how the state can control the pension liability. >> in this economic downturn, thousands of state employees have had to do without. they have been denied pay raise and had to endure countless furloughs. >> ask the committee to consider. >> head of maryland's retirement and pension system said the workers can still count on a pension and health benefits. >> benefits that are currently being received by retirees are contractual right of the retire. >> state's pension fund has more than $25 billion in assets. that's up $11 billion from 18 months ago when the stock market collapsed. but retirement executive director said that the state still needs to increase the yearly contributions, otherwise the pension's unfunded liability will continue to grow. >> we have a tremendous liability with our teachers and our state employees, and the others in our system. >> some lawmakers say that the state should consider a major overhaul of its pension system. they say new state workers should be enrolled in a defined contribution system us

men. -- states men. the fourth issue i will address is the role of women in saudi arabia. he wrote last spring a wonderful article that has a great title. it was called, saudi arabia -- the second sex and the third rail. the women's issue is the third rail of saudi politics. touch it and risk being burned. let me offer a couple of thoughts. in her interview with king abdallah in 2005, barbara walters noted that the king was surrounded by women in his life, all were making a difference. she wintertime an effort to the national family safety center -- she spends her time and effort. in the brief time that i have spent in saudi arabia, i have been hugely impressed by the academic performance of saudi's young women. 60% of the college student in saudia arabia are women. areof last year's graduates women. the new campus currently is under construction down by the airports will eventually enrolled over 40,000 women. to put this in perspective, in 1965, the literacy rate of women in saudi arabia was about 5%. a

to the states. it is helpful that you have done that and hopefully will talk about it in more detail. the courts promise to play a role here. our next speaker will cover the court's role. >> i am the moderate on this panel. an unaccustomed role. it is right up there on the list, in addition to the defects that have been mentioned, one area that has not received enough attention is the very high marginal tax rates that the subsidy design creates for millions of americans of low and middle income. where they are going to effectively for every dollar of a race that will get, they will keep 30 cents of it. when the subsidy withdrawal is factored in, we have been increasingly worried about declining social mobility. this is not a step in the right direction. i agree with the other things the mentioned. it is striking that the difference between the spending cuts and the spending increases in the bill, the main difference being that the spending cuts are fake and the spending increases are real. in short,

industrialized state in the west to protect the wealth of rich people because in the united states over the last few decades it seems to be exactly that to protect their wealth because they've certainly gotten very very rich over the last decade. well it's sort of been in the last two or three years that they've they've been bailing out wall street which is totally outrageous i cannot believe that taxpayers are letting them get away with it i can't believe that anybody would let them get away with it it's happening in the u.k. as well as not just happening in in america i'm afraid it's happening a lot of places but it too. was a point i would have to point out that a lot of the money which mr which the government has been spending in the last two or three years has been going to the middle class i mean forty percent of it went to preserve the jobs of bureaucrats at the state levels around the country now you may be in favor of bureaucrats or you may not but that's it's hard to say that bureaucrats are but the rich in wall street that you just call so called of the many people many peopl

well you will hear an entirely different story the story is the united states is essentially on its own why do we have to have a budget that basically and mounts to the combined defense budgets of the rest of the wall isn't that really there is time for the united states to give notice to its allies including the west europeans saying look you know intent here is not right now but in ten years you're going to be on your own so nato certainly is in a very precarious situation there are many missions that it could undertake there are many pressing causes that cry out for action but it's not entirely sure what nato can really do and whether the united states will be still in nato ten years hence when you think about that martin in london ok i mean you're just kind of put it very flat out there i mean what is the use of it i mean irrespective of your opinion about the war in afghanistan the american led war i mean nato is in a shambles i mean it is absolutely in a shambles and it's going to say it has a new vision for for the for its existence of reason to exist beyond article five of s

from state to state. what else has really been the big eye opener for you in. >> actually, i'm not sure we've really gone the depths yet. we're still getting basic information. our data shows markets are highly concentrated. we kind of now that before. now i can see how concentrated they are. it will help as we sort of move forward and there are questions about, is this change going to destabilize or that change? we can look some of this up now and see, wow, that's destabilizing your market share, you only cover 150 people. so you know, that i think, just getting it i think has been the interesting part for me. the denial data, there's been a lot of interest in the denial and uprate data. one of the things i guess that's been fun for me is how difficult it is to capture this, that we really do need to think carefully about creating measures. we thought we created kind of a careful measure. some of the carriers have come back and said, well, i know, i went through your training but that's not how i reporte

how about the united states? i'm interested in a number comparison with 50. >> the u.s., having a longer history in space and a much larger budget, has probably put up something i think on the order of 500 satellites. >> who are -- are those satellites that china has in space, are they civilian or military or dual use? >> they're very much dual use. china's space program at this point is mostly oriented spacect recently, very recently. >> uh-huh. >> will you describe the spacecraft? accelerated from >> the manned capsule is probably capable to our gemini series. it's the second manned launch. it's longer, wider and heavier than the soyuz and it's in fact quite a bit more capable than the soyuz. >> is it as big as a standard public bus? >> it is about 25 feet long. so i have to admit, i'm not sure how long a bus is. >> what about the interior of the vessel? >> it's quite cramped. and some of the video we've seen so far put out by the chinese suggest that much accelerated from w module is crd indeed. last night the

>> in that circumstance, the state is regulating its own state law enforcement. if the state wants to say -- >> not necessarily. if the national center has outstanding warrants from the state of california, that is not an arizona crime. >> that's the information the officer might find from the ncic, but in terms of pursuing the ncic the difference is the state singled out immigration saying pursue immigration in the way you don't pursue any other state responsibility. >> there's no interest in seeing the illegal aliens should be removed? >> the state certainly has an interest in that, but it's important to focus on the fact that the incutter between the local law enforcement officer may be on the street or in the school with a student who's been in a fight and the officer may have some suspicion that the student in school might be unlawfully present. all the sudden this law requires that that i accident be pursued. the state cannot remove or prosecute the person. it is an intake for ultimate federal enforcement of the law. >> but the state can deliver an illegal

san jose state university's philippine owe club traveled to cal state fuller ton for friendship games, a competition among california university and college club. the goal was to take home the spirit pride, unity and friendship trophy. but the club also competed for the overall prize of friendship games champion. annie rig or is live on campus to show how it worked out. >> the team brought home two huge trophies. this one just over nine feet tall is for the spirit pride friendship and unity category. this one is for the games themselves. the spartans came home from the 20th annual friendship games. >> the day started out cold and wet but that didn't stop the spartans and the other schools from cheering their hearts out. friendship games coordinator says this year's event will be one to remember. >> the most people we have ever had. the most vendors. the highest profile performance we have ever had. so this is one that really set the bar for the next generation. >> the team for this year's spar tans was zombies and the weather made it easier to look the part. the spartans zombies dance

as i mentioned, we operate in every state represented here today and all 50 states of the united states with substantial investment and employment. the issue that the united states has today it seems to me is not nearly as complicated as a lot of people want to make it. the creation of wealth is a feature over the last 200 years of invention and innovation, entrepreneurship, engineering, cheap energy, growing markets. and those ingredients are what happens created the most prosperous society in the history of the world. a government can help in terms of having safety and security of the rule of law, infrastructure, education, but at the end of the day, the wealth that all of us benefit from today over the past two centuries were created by the private sector. and if you go down that list of activities that have created our national wealth and grade what government has done over the past 30 or 40 years, i think you would have to say that in every one of those areas, we have almost optimally constrained our ability to grow. ... >> i will give this to governor barbour, and maybe he can pas

of the role of the states. they have a huge role in terms of implementation of medicaid and othethings. you may see a bubbling up from states about the concerns of the regulatory requirements that could be dictated, to the extent that they have the flexibility to make changes. to the extent they feel they do not have the flexibility, if the issues get ripe enough, you could see these surgical strikes, targeted attempts to make changes to the exchanges. i remind folks, again, the leading republican house alternative, there was a form of the changes there. so it is not necessarily a democratic idea, but the details are very different. >> there are two states today with exchanges, massachusetts and utah. they are very different. one is a more regulatory approach, one is more passive. that is the question, going forward. which model? since it is a state-by-state decision, i do not see this being related to the federal level. >> we will see some guidance based on press reports and other things in the coming weeks fr

states. 68% of the foreclosures are in the state of florida. is that correct? >> of the 23 judicial states in bank of america's portfolio of the foreclosures, over close to 60% are in florida. >> and 70% of the foreclosures nationwide are in the nonjudicial 27 states are nonjudicial states. and of course in the nonjudicial the burden is on the homeowner as opposed -- and simplify and this, looking at attorney general probably rolling his eyes to make the broad sweeping statement but as i read basically the burden shifts in a nonjudicial and judicial state, and correct me, tom, if i'm wrong but on the nonjudicial, the burden is on the homeowner to make the case they've not been able to make a payment and so forth where as the judicial the burden is more on the surface inside of the equation. am i supply and that? is their anything i should draw from the statistics that 70% of the forclosures are on the nonjudicial? the there's something about that equation that places the burden on homeowners

in the state of texas. we think we can cut that substantially, help our colleagues in washington, d.c. balance the budget up there and substantially help with us our budgetary issues here if they will just trust the states to do what the states that are bound into others actually was letting the states being the laboratories of innovation. >> chris: would you do the same with social security? end social security as a federal program? >> let us work on medicaid and while we are doing that they can have the discussion on how to our social security program on better and more solid footing. >> when you say a ponzi scheme, the fact is it is just a demographic fact, when social security started in the 1930s and i forget the exact numbers but there was 7 or 8 workers for every one retiree. happens now because of the baby boom there are more retirees and fewer workers out there. not a ponzi scheme in the sense of bernie mad off. >> probably even would make mr. ponsi feel bad if he was still alive. it is a ponzi sch

seats in state senates, and 543 seats in the state houses. there is still some accounting to do. while we recently had an election on sunday in brazil and they counted the votes in five hours reaching california takes five weeks. there is something wrong with this picture, but they have not got the final tally. they have one more state legislative seats than any election since 1928. they won more than the local political experts have predicted. republicans need five seats. they won 15. they needed for seats in the house and got 13 in ohio. they needed 13 and ended up getting 20. they needed 12 in the minnesota senate, 21 in the house and got 16 and 5, and i understand republicans have never had a majority and the minnesota senate -- in the minnesota senate prior to this. the republicans gained 22 seats in the main house and 122 in new hampshire. new hampshire has the nation's largest state legislature. this will have important consequences in politics and could have important consequences in public policy. this means the republicans will have

why is state spending up? , to of it comes from the federal government mandating -- how much of it comes from the federal government mandates? how much of it is because people took on the spending patterns they could not maintain during boom times when the spending went down? >> well -- [laughter] i think ray said it. our whole tax and budget system was essentially established before medicaid became the biggest driver of state budgets. and one of the things that has been fascinating for me to observe in new york is that nobody 's behavior changed. everybody assumed that the fairy godmother would descend with a solution. we have 650 school districts, everyone of them as a transportation commissioner, but some do not even have a school bus. [laughter] it is all politics. everybody wants their boy junior to get on the school basketball team or star in the school play and nobody wants to give up the power to confer jurisdiction to broader authorities. it is the most inefficient system in the world and we cannot af

state hillary clinton has urged the senate to ratify a landmark nuclear deal with russia and republicans have dealt a blow to the a bomb of ministration by stalling its progress in. european finance ministers start work on a possible aid package for debt stricken ireland in an effort to restore confidence in the eurozone a joint e.u. i.m.f. commission will be sent to the country to prepare a bailout plan. to bring it up to date for the moment the news continues in less inhofe an hour from now in the meantime nato is poised for a crucial summit in lisbon this weekend to map out missile defense strategy in afghanistan and the entire role of the alliance well up next join prevailing cross-talk for a debate on the future of the organization. in . the low end welcome to cross talk i'm peter lavelle with nato as members of the north atlantic treaty organization meet in lisbon this military alliance is in search of a mission can nato remain relevant facing twenty first century security threats. and. to discuss the role of nato today i'm joined by hugo lucas in boston he's a professor of interna

states. never say "never" but we are speaking to a philosophy of governance and an approach to politics and with a he needs to do to unite the country. >> greta: he made a one-term presidency and made a statement. what could any next president do that is different in terms of stopping the grossly divided atmosphere? >> you have to govern with the perspective that it's not who wins and who loses. it's how we benefit the greater good. if we force the compromise on healthcare. if we focus on the private sector job creation or done a deal on taxes earlier. we'd be better off. we had hyperpartisan culture. i blame the democrats and republicans and i think pat does, too. we fundamentally need a president to stand above politics for us to achief with a we need to as a society. >> greta: doug, thank you. >> thank you so much, greta. >> greta: president obama did blame himself for something. what is it? we tell you. then dick morris goes on the record. plus, another illegal immigration d immigration d

the people of our state said fine, now go do it for the state. they want us to get our house in order. i think the governor hit right on the head. it is not about this year or next year. it is about the future of the united states and the future of our states. >> i think my good friend the governor of missouri should come in here and say a few things. >> i think these new governors represent 29 you opportunities across our country to put it decision makers in place that can make a difference for people. my only comment is this is basically a job that is to jobs at the same time. your the ceo of an organization, but also governor. you have to embrace and love your state and its history, enjoy its great diversity, and i think that is part of the real fun of this job, whether it is governor richard getting an opportunity to fly fish and some of the most outstanding places or governor gregoire having an opportunity to have a wide range of rain gear. [laughter] it is especially important to have a view of where our states are going. that part of this

state. this was a. period where people like ryan crocker look back at a golden age -- as a golden age where these were productive talks. members of al-qaida were turned over and extradited, understandings were reached and it is a pity that that ended with a u.s. invasion of iraq. i don't know if we can get back to that but certainly you can include iran in the various multilateral discussions that will be held. we should do that. >> thank you, barbara. we now opened the floor to questions. who would like to start? please wait for the microphone and please identify yourself for the record, thank you. >> i am with the national foreign trade council. [inaudible] >> if i may just repeat the question for our television viewers -- what about the war in iraq decks >> i did not go into iraq in this brief period that might be a topic for a second one. everyone has always said that the iranians got a lot of influence when we got rid of saddam and that is true. the iranians are tearing their hair out a

in this state, we had a state statue applied with a write in campaign, for several others including for taylor in 1998 and it was a different standard. we want the law applied fairly and we do not have subjective standard being applied in 15 different ways. we think it is important that state law be followed. >> critics will say this is sour grapes. give us details on what you found that pushed you to file suit. >> it is not sour grapes. two months ago the senator announced a write in campaign. at the beginning of the campaign she spent hundreds of thousands advertising that people that wanted to write her name in needed to do it right and an ad was a spelling beacon test and she passed out thousands of wristbands and she knew the standard, and a day ago, the division of election issued out a new standard, one that does not follow state law and we are asking the courts to say, look, the state legislature imposed a standard and it needs to be the same standard we applied before in alaska and we should not change the rules as we go just because an incumbent senator is in the process of tr

it's not it's not up to the united states. since nine hundred forty five we have what is called a global financial architecture based on the britain woods institution those institutions back to the u.s. dollar the u.s. dollar was supposed to be backed up by convertible currency and know that it was dead in the one nine hundred seventy is that gave rise to the g. eight the death of the brits would compromise and the nixon devaluation no the two thousand and eight crisis is leading to the g twenty we should not be looking at the g twenty let's look at what will happen to the u.s. dollar is the u.s. banking system solvent can the u.s. restructure and reenergizes economy and if we look at china let's look at what chinese doing in relationship to what is called currency swaps currencies for us with russia with turkey with african countries with brazil we're looking to the diminishing of the dollar so when the g eight weeks whether it's consensus are not the i.m.f. and the dollar is yesterday's news there could be a compromise of on

but you just stated pakistanis are the biggest victim of terrorism. among others, the assassin of benazir bhutto, and of course others in the other networks that are responsible for the very attacks that have built so many pakistanis that you just mentioned. so of course we can understand as americans that there would be an upfront but one might expect that that outrage might be tempered by the understanding that as you put pakistan doesn't capacities of the jerome strikes, yes, they sometimes have collateral damage among the tribesmen buttonhole they are targeted at a jamdat going after these terrorists like the tool of massoud and others to reading the secretary clinton confronted in her visit these fantastic and preposterous conspiracy theories that find such welcome in pakistan that these obama attacks that you have diluted two that are somehow the work of the cia or american security firms, which is absolutely the most preposterous notion and the fact that even some media, elite media folks in pakistan perpetrate because frankly it's incomprehens

there was not a single state university in pennsylvania which there are more than 17, penn state has many campuses. there's also a pennsylvania state system which has 15. not a single one of them. not one guarantees students ferrite of academic freedom, to hear two sides to question. there are wonderful academic freedom is particularly at penn state's. which said in so many words but teacher is obligated not to indoctrinate their students but to give them the materials that would allow them to fend for themselves but it was in the employee handbook students are not employees. their professors. the pennsylvania whatever it is higher education system in 17 schools had as part of the union contract students are not members of the teachers' unions so students didn't have it. a administrators came and with a straight face said we have all these protections in place and there are no complaints. at penn state said we only had 13 complete. immediately the democratic legislators jumped on gibson armstrong and republicans and said 80,000 students and only 13 complaints. after the hearings were