joining us, ian swanson, the news editor. if you would paint a broad brush, why is this agreement important to the united states? guest: this is the biggest trade agreement the u.s. has seen since the north american free trade agreement. a have a $1 trillion at g.d.p. and this agreement could lead to tens of thousands of new u.s. jobs and would cut tariffs from products from the u.s. and south korea. it could lead to billions of dollars in increased trade between the two countries effecting a wide variety of industries. host: $87 billion as the number that comes up. in exports to south korea, machinery, medical instruments, and organic chemicals. to the nature of those supplies going to south korea change because of this deal? guest: there are a bunch of u.s. industries that could benefit. there are some agricultural products that could see the tariffs go down and as a result could see increased production, like frozen orange juice or potatoes. there are things like that that are important to california, florida, or idaho. th

than a single cent thank you for helping us make sense of that with campaigner for its action david swanson now foreign dignitary was in town today also speaking about the war in libya russian foreign minister sergey lavrov he toured our studios yesterday and today he met with u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton now among the hot issues they also discussed behind closed doors the anti-missile defense shield and the middle east crisis now despite a reset in relations between the u.s. and russia missile defense has remained a sticking point and the prof spoke about what it will take to build better trust when it comes to this issue. this is the importance. of. mutually acceptable solutions on missile defense. it's we have noted that president obama. has. just confirmed he is ridden as to reach understanding together with mr blair's version of to reach an understanding of common policy and creating a strong political framework which was a little star practical cooperation in this important sphere. now also u.s. adoptions of russian children has been a source of tension between the country'

a single thank you for helping us make sense of this that with campaigner for great action david swanson now speaking of media we spoke a little bit about it where is it all heading in the united kingdom we've seen rupert murdoch papers tabloid shutting down for no holds barred tactics of hacking and the us you could argue the alternatives to needed it still struggling for money is cutting costs and becoming increasingly reliant on publicists for information and correspondent r t r t correspondent christine preside found that the press are leaving the rank and hordes to join us with this is. the person with the final version of this little commission to look at your. newspapers like the seattle post intelligencer the rocky mountain news and hundreds more have now become relics from the past. last budgets that starts the presses at newsrooms nationwide. and mass layoffs through media have meant for fewer journalists to investigate policy and procedure we're losing the sense of accountability in government and business in our. life lives if we lose journalists who are now asking questions

campaigner for various action david swanson and a lot of foreign dignitaries always visit washington but today we are taking special note a special visitor mind you did talk about war in libya russian foreign minister sergey lavrov is in town and while you toured our studios yesterday today he met with u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton now among the hot issues they talked about behind closed doors the anti-missile defense shield and the middle east crisis now in a press conference that followed the meeting live rough and clinton said visa issues and adoption were also discussed and here's what the foreign minister had to say about america's checkered past and what it will take to build better trust for future adoption relations. we will we will go with the words she was that she sort of implementing this it remains and this will help us get rid of that era's tense that you have seen emerging quite rightfully in the public opinion connected to the existence of russian children who were adopted and then there are . now earlier in the day lavrov met u.s. president obama behind clo

eric swanson and robert pender. the late mr. freddy roberto. president chiu: is there any more business in front of this board? at this time, we are adjourned.

eric swanson and robert pender. the late mr. freddy roberto. president chiu: is there any more business in front of this board? at this time, we are adjourned. >> the public wants to access particular information about your house or neighborhood we point them to gis. gis is a combination of maps and data. not a graphic you see on a screen. you get the traffic for the streets the number of crimes for a police district in a period of time. if the idea of combining the different layerce of information and stacking them on top of each other to present to the public. >> other types of gis are web based mapping systems. like google earth, yahoo maps. microsoft. those are examples of on line mapping systems that can be used to find businesses or get driving directions or check on traffic conditions. all digital maps. >> gis is used in the city of san francisco to better support what departments do. >> you imagine all the various elements of a city including parcels and the critical infrastructure where the storm drains are. the city access like the tr

eric swanson and robert pender. the late mr. freddy roberto. president chiu: is there any more business in front of this board? at this time, we are adjourned. >> the san francisco cons tri of flowers in golden gate park is now showing a new exhibit that changes the way we see the plants around us. amy stewart's best-selling book, "wicked plants" is the inspiration behind the new exhibit that takes us to the dark side of the plant world. >> i am amy stewart. i am the arthur of "wicked plants," the weeds that killed lincoln's mother and other botanical atrocities. with the screens fly trap, that is kind of where everybody went initially, you mean like that? i kind of thought, well, all it does is eat up bugs. that is not very wicked. so what? by wicked, what i mean is that they are poisonous, dangerous, deadly or immoral or maybe illegal or offensive or awful in some way. i am in the profession of going around and interviewing botanists, horticulturalists and plant scientists. they all seem to have some little plant tucked away in the corner of

eric swanson and robert pender. the late mr. freddy roberto. president chiu: is there any more business in front of this board? at this time, we are adjourned. i'm the president of friends of mclaren park. it is one of the oldest neighborhood community park groups in san francisco. i give a lot of tours through the park. during those tours, a lot of the folks in the group will think of the park as very scary. it has a lot of hills, there's a lot of dense groves. once you get towards the center of the park you really lose your orientation. you are very much in a remote area. there are a lot of trees that shield your view from the urban setting. you would simply see different groves that gives you a sense of freedom, of being outdoors, not being burdened by the worries of city life. john mclaren had said that golden gate park was too far away. he proposed that we have a park in the south end of the city. the campaign slogan was, people need this open space. one of the things that had to open is there were a lot of people who did a homestead here,

eric swanson and robert pender. the late mr. freddy roberto. president chiu: is there any more business in front of this board? at this time, we are adjourned. >> thank you very much for coming this morning and welcome to the rededication of the reservoir. we are happy to be here today. this represents one of the milestones in our project. we are happy to share this with you. this reservoir has been empty the last two years and today, you will hear the sound of water rushing to fill it again. it makes the city safer, provides water for customers, for firefighters, for after an earthquake. we will be updating our systems. this was originally built in 1885. 125 years old. it takes care of a good part of san francisco, places lower than this. it is an incredibly important part of our system in san francisco. it was a $39 million project and it came in under budget. we are doing it effectively and efficiently. we do appreciate the folks who worked on it. it is part of the $4.6 billion water system improvement program. this is about a half with poin

prosecutors say james swanson made a number of phone calls to federal offices and said he'd shoot theobamas. the secret service arrested him and did not find weapons in his portland home. a judge ordered him to take a mental health evaluation. >>> one of the 13 people injured in a january shooting that tried to take the life of congresswoman gabrielle giffords is back to work now. 65-year-old ron barber is the district director of the congresswoman's tucson office. he was hit in the cheek and the thigh during the shooting at a tucson grocery store that killed six people and wounded giffords. barber will work part time while he continues his recovery. >>> for the second straight major, golf fans will have to root for someone other than tiger woods. woods announced yesterday he will miss the british open, which starts next week. he is still nursing a knee and achilles injury he sustained at the masters. woods tried to play in the players championship back in may but dropped out after nine holes. woods said in a statement he is only going back when he is 100% ready but that he is, quote,

montana governor toured the spill area to do, observing the clean jut and promising landowners like jim swanson he'll keep after exxonmobil to get rid of the oil. >> this cleanup is done when the state of montana says it done and i promise you this i'll be on this like smell on skunk until it's done. >> reporter: along another part of the river bank, bob castleberry showed us his flooded home and his land wreaking of crude oil. >> when we bought it it was a dream home and we wanted to stay here forever. >> reporter: now the house will be torn down and bob and his wife will have to rebuild on higher ground. the oil stain on the side of his garage is the high watermark from the flooding. bob said he was shocked when he first looked out at the smelly water surrounding his house. >> i shined the spotlight and the river was black with crude oil, just black with crude oil. >> reporter: in spite of promises by the governor and exxonmobil to get the spill cleaned up, no one yet knows how long that will take. and exxon says the oil extends at least 25 miles downstream, although it could go much farther

dust moving through the city of phoenix in arizona sand storms like this happen during the region swanson season which is underway there are over a desert land and can reach thousands of feet into the air spurred by strong winds the dance cloud dramatically reduced visibility grounding flights at a major airport and leaving thousands without electricity. activist or remaining are campaigning for unification with neighboring moldova by next year the say there restoring justice because the two countries work is stored you know it is our. reports but motives maybe not quite so pure. photo exhibitions to bradley's in both progressed and creation now since two thousand and nine some movements in romania have been complaining to win back what they see as their land. since april it's been impossible to miss colorful stickers like that in towns and cities across romania bessarabia is romania they say believing that the land which is now the sovereign state of republic of moldova must again be under book arrest control and indeed it was until the nineteenth century which saw it pass hands several

. >> adds a swanson no, i don't know how far your biography goes, if you encountered this stage play, i need your uncle. i guess we had the good fortune of having it. it's been about 15 years. its critiques uncle tom's cabin very provocative. i thought more. actually is should have been targeted at this stage play rather than those novels. that was kind of might ultimate idea. but they were, the brochure listed all of the stage productions and things. i wondered if you had encountered it and what you thought of it. >> well, i've seen i ain't your uncle which i think comes out first in 1990 or late 1980's, one of those. is the 1990's. yap. it's really great. you know, you can say all kinds of things about that. all these transformations and answers to of pathans cabin over time, that is kind of a radical, not radical, but just very forceful critique of the stereotype. i believe top seed becomes a subversive character in that play interesting sub. i think that the evolution of thomas's character. in a way top seed becomes todaye modern rap singer or rebellious rock grow urban street sma

that is correct gloria swanson.uption level we know the tawdry tabloid stuff. >> of course. >> bill: important stuff we are not sure. >> like which university ken starr works at. >> bill: steve doocy leads with one to go maccallum. >> this is true. >> bill: question number five ted kennedy got a slap on wrist i might have the death of mary jo in the chap quit that incident. >> i made repeated efforts to save mary jo by diving in the murky current succeeded in only increasing my state of utter exhaustion and alarm. >> bill: a bit sceptic call of that but mary jo and some other women who had been at the party the night of the accident had been workers on who's political campaign? this is it let's see if maccallum can tie. cards up, please. let's go. yes. maccallum ties. a lucky guess. >> it wasn't a lucky guess. i knew they were in massachusetts. >> bill: three and a half minutes to get the card up. >> why is it a lucky guess if i get it right. >> bill: no. i noticed the card wasn't up quickly. >> i didn't want him to

prosecutors say james swanson made a number of phone calls to federal offices and said he'd shoot theamas. the secret service arrested him and did not find weapons in his portland apartment. a judge ordered him to take a mental health evaluation. >>> the new chief of the international monetary fund will face the media for the first time today. she's bound to get some tough questions. christine lagarde officially took the helm of the imf yesterday following the resignation of dominique strauss-kahn. besides repairing the organization's image, lagarde also faces the huge economic crisis in greece and the impression among developing nations that the imf is more willing to help western countries. lagarde is the former finance minister of france and the first woman to head the imf. >>> meanwhile, her predecessors is facing new sexual assault gaacseded tempd rape. kristen bannion filed a formal complaint which accuses strauss-kahn of grabbing her in a 2003 interview and attempting to wrestle her to the ground. strauss-kahn was released from house arrest on friday after prosecutors admitted

also, ian swanson on the pending free-trade agreement with south korea. "washington journal" begins at 7:00. >> this weekend, early american history professor christina snyder on first encounters between native americans, europeans, and africans in the new world. he recalls his childhood in an internment camp and idaho and how is part examines issues of ethnicity, race, and the japanese-american experience. it the complete schedule at c- span.org/history. >> is everything you know about the ok corral wrong? jeff guinn tells a different story. charles hill looks at the long war of islamism against the international state system. former mexican foreign minister talks about the challenges facing our southern neighbor. look for the complete schedule at booktv.org. >> you are watching c-span. every morning, it is "washington journal." watch live coverage of the u.s. house. supreme court arguments. on the weekends, you can see our signature interview programs. you can also watch our programming any time at c- span.org. >> david cameron fielded questions from re

swanson avoided a second trial by pleading guilty to first- degree murder for the second clerk's death. >>> 7. it's capture number -- 7:23. it's capture number six for the bear, known as 6131, he made an appearance in east brunswick. wildlife experts say he's looking for love in all of the wrong places. they train tranquilized the bear, moved him to a while life reserve. >>> 7:4. if you just -- 7:24. if he would just listen to sal -- sal will tell him where to go. >> look what the crash on the bay bridge did to the toll plaza backup. you can see that traffic is gonna be back backed up here coming up to the toll plaza to the 8880 overcrossing. now that the -- 0 overcrossing. now that the accident is cleared, you should be in better shape than you are. if you are driving on 880 southbound to northbound, that traffic is moving along nicely. getting pussier, but 7 does track in it -- 87 does have traffic in it. let's go to steve. >>> sunshine for many already. it will be a warm to hot day. temperatures maybe even slightly warmer. a little bit more of a north win. some fog is holding on alo

just a few weeks ago, i met with the owner of swanson bark in longview and basically, his business moves material for the forest products industry including biomass for energy producers. the first problem we have encountered and he has seen with regard to some of these regulations, we have a very strict rule that is on hold but if implemented, they would cost the forest products industry alone $5 billion to $7 billion and that is not hiring or expanding their business, but costs with complying with federal government rules. thousands of manufacturing in industrial facilities across this country use incinerators meaning they have to spend more money not to hire more people but to comply with federal government rules. instead of stepping on the air hose of employers, i have co-sponsored legislation and a solution that would allow the e.p.a. to allow the rule more reasonable. makes common sense, right? and it would help the industry of biomass and the jobs that would come with it. the gentleman from south carolina pointed out the energy exploration solutions that we passed here off this hou

attorney general madigan knows not just the federal level but the state level with attorney general swanson and last january she and i join together and talked about the consumer fraud lawsuit against a company that fraudulently charged thousands of minnesotans for services that they neither authorized or used. the company which is called t. -- cheap to dial-up charged consumers in minnesota for long-distance service fees and you know how many people actually use that service mr. chairman? nine people. nine people of the 2567 that were charged. it is just one example of an process that has cost consumers and businesses millions if not aliens of dollars. i will never forget the consumers that were standing there with us and they were -- i think one was -- they were a lutheran minister and his wife and of course she had checked the bill every tiny detail and was able to discover that charge which is not something i would do. and so it is very hard for consumers to notice these charges because so often they can be $10, $15, $20, $5, amounts that they would not armor lien notice on a larger bil

host: ian swanson is our guest, part of a three- day series. we took a look at south korea. we will look at the agreement for monday, for the u.s. and panama. thank you. guest: thanks for having me. host: we will look at what is going on as far as current negotiations and what that might do going into the 2012 elections. bruce cohen has come up with what he calls -- bruce cooke has come up with what he called the 1% solution. we will talk with him about his findings. we will talk with vicki needham about the pending free-trade agreement between the u.s. and colombia. we will see you at 7:00 tomorrow morning. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2011] >> we will return to our regular programming at about 25 minutes, but we wanted to spend some time talking about betty ford. her efforts did when her the presidential award of freedom. she was a powerful advocate of women's rights and helped reduce the social stigma surrounding addiction. back in 1997, mrs. ford spoke at the richard nixon library in california