thatcher. it was mrs. thatcher no doubt they were after but the bomb went off in the room above and i fell four stories in the hotel. so they dug me out seven hours later from the hotel. and the only reason i survived was really luck. a girder from the hotel came down and stopped the hotel crushing me, stopped the rubble crushing me, and the springs of a bed gave me enough air to keep me going. but it was a pretty horrendous thing. ands there one little story about it which is very interesting. what i didn't know at the time was that the re -- rescuers had to abandon rescuing me at one stage because the roof was going to fall in on them. so they got me out digging in sideways like they dig in for mining. and two very brave men stays up risking their lives to, one, to direct operations, and the other, the doctors told him to keep me talking if they could because i stood a better chance if he could keep me conscious. two years afterwards, his wife rang me up and said he was very seriously ill in hospital and

i would rather be a child of thatcher than a son of brown. >> order. i call tobias ellwood.hank you, mr. speaker. the prime minister will be aware that british citizens affected by the 7/7 bombings were supported by the criminal injuries compensation scheme. however, when such attacks take place abroad, such as in bali, mumbai or sharm el sheikh, no such compensation for things such as prosthesis and long-term care exists. does the prime minister agree that any britons caught up in terrorist attacks deserve our support, no matter where in the world that attack takes place? >> my honorable friend is entirely right to raise that issue. people who are victims of terror, whether at home or overseas, deserve our support, as he says. people might not know, but my honorable friend's brother was tragically killed in the bali bombing-that horrific attack that took place some years ago. we are looking at this very difficult issue of trying to make sure that, when we consider criminal injuries compensation and what has been proposed for injuries overseas, we have a fair and reasonable

then julie mcintosh with us here aboard the becky thatcher.uthor of dethroning the king and it is a pleasure to have you aboard the boat. nice to see you. jack, item going to begin with you. beyond twitter, if you look at a world that is suddenedly connected, that suddenly had the benefit of collective intelligence as a result of the networks that companies like yours have created, what is the implication of a frontier that has the level of connection that twitter starts to scratch is beginnings of? >> i think it's not only connection, but the ability to simplify the tools we use every day. twitter is great to spread the word about the businesses we want to create and square is great to get people in to immediately accepting payments. so, it's not just simplifying tax codes and policies, but also the tools so we can access them and use them immediately. >> and julie, you look at the other end of the spectrum. anheuser-busch, maybe one of the greatest american icons and classic example of profit before people. large corporations make money freq

thatcher. of course, it was mrs. thatcher that they were after, and the bomb went off, and i fell four stories in the hotel, and so, they dug be out seven hours later from the hotel, and the only reason i survived was really luck. a girder from the hotel came down and stopped the hotel crushing me, stop rubble crushing the, and the springs of a bed gave me enough to keep was prettyit amazing. >> is there any lesson from americans looking at 9/11, thinking this will never be over? >> well, i think you have got to have a combination of strong security, you have to do what is best to try to frustrate -- you need very good intelligence and some very brave men. they have usually infiltrated some of these organizations to find out what has gone on, but at the same time, i think the leaders of got to be able to start some sort of dialogue with these people. however evil the overall organization might be, there are some less evil people in it, and some people who could be persuaded. the peaceful path is what is required, and

margaret thatcher gave me an award for bravery a couple of months later. without that award and the publicity that surrounded it, i would never have been selected as a conservative candidate for ec. -- for a safe tory defeat. >> but then you swam the river. >> that was at the age of 61. i guess my career was founded on the river. the river has always had a strange allure for me. i have a flat on the river looking across, further down. ever since i moved in 15 years ago, i said that i was going to swim across that river. you cannot live by the river and a swim to the other side. -- and never have swum to the other side. i kept telling people that i would then it became a joke. one evening, i suddenly thought that now was the night. i waited until what i thought was high tide. i did not realize that high tide is given in greenwich mean time. this was the british summer time. i got the time of the tide it wrong. of course, you want to swim at slack tide when there is no current. swam an hour before the tide turned and a friend came with me. we did not have li

thatcher. it was mrs. thatcher they were after.he bomb went off in the room above and i felt four stories in the hotel. they dug me out seven hours later. the only reason i survived was really locked. occur from the hotel came down and stop the hotel crushing me -- girder came down and stop the rubble from crushing me. a spring mattress came down and gave me air. >> is there anything about americans looking at 9/11 thinking that it will never be over? >> if you have the combination of strong security, new york trying to frustrate, you need very good intelligence and some very brave men, who had infiltrated some of these organizations to find out what is going on. but at the same time, political leaders have got to be able to start some sort of dialogue with these people, because however evil the overall organization might be, there are some less evil people in, who can be persuaded, and what you must not do is drive them all the other way. in all the successful things, there have been some negotiations for the moderate people are g

i'd rather be a child of thatcher than a son of brown. >> order! tobias elwood. >> thank you, mr. speaker. the prime minister will be aware that british citizens -- the prime minister will be aware that british citizens affected by the 77 bombings were part of the compensation scheme when such attacks take abroad such as in mumbai or other places, no such compensation for things like prosthesis and long-term care exist. would the prime minister agree any britains caught up in terrorists attacks deserve our support, no matter where in the world that attack takes place? >> my right honorable friend is right. people may not know this but his own brother was killed in the barley attack that took years ago. we're trying to look at this difficult issue when we look at criminal injuries, compensation and what has been proposed for injuries received overseas that we have a fair and reasonable system, the justice secretary is looking at that and we'll be coming forward with proposals. >> lindsey roy. >> thank you, mr. speaker. the prime minister's government is spending 4 billion pounds fo

all right so british airport authority one of the first enterprises to be privatized by margaret thatcher it becomes and. controlled by private interests a lot of people are saying well the reason why there aren't enough plain d.i.i. serves and there is no ability to deal with this crisis because the private shareholders effectively have bankrupted the b.a.a. so that is just working on a subsistence basis and isn't this one of the problems of privatization as they have got a and entrenched oligarchs just skimming the cream off the top and leaving institutions like the airports not being able to function outside of an absolute very narrow set of you know climate conditions isn't this true basically after that they're being skimmed off the top or the evolution going to respond by saying that the pension funds are invested in these approaches companies who are all in this together and which will suffer together and we should invest in x.'s through is because it hits all of oprah's. bench. disciplines well we are the same argument during the b.p. disaster in the gulf in the united states that

thatcher was more popular than in the nine states. what about that?> [unintelligible] >> what about the current excitement about the sweating? they expect a billion pounds to come to the city. >> i wonder. the government is cutting back and wonder if they will have a more modest wedding. i am not sure that the country is in the mood for something very extravagant. >> what do your constituents think of loyalty? >> they have a lot of respect for the queen. she has been there for over half a century. the younger world is probably less respectful. [unintelligible] in the 21st century, does it encourage an egalitarian society? >> yue ran for leadership in your party and did not get it. any plans in the future to go back for any other job in great britain? >> i love the job i am doing. my campaign had been tested response all around the country. we want to meet the expectations. >> who is your favorite historical figure of all time? >> so many. family tanker. mily.s. -- fami-- >> we are out of time. thanks for joining us. ♪ [captioning performed by national

carry on. [ unintelligible ] >> sean: thatcher pulled back the reins of socialism. >> under thatcher rationing body. you rationed health care. cost analysis. what is your age? what is the procedure you need? you are not going to live longer to get a knee or hip replacement. those are facts. you have to wait a long period of time. health care deteriorated. >> our life expectancy is longer in the u.k.. >> sean: second thing, 490,000 government workers under the new cameron government are going to be fired. >> yes, but that has now changed thanks to the changes in the current economic status. more growth so 90,000 of those jobs aren't going any more. >> sean: okay 400,000 jobs. the original figure was 490. >> i'm not sure on the exact figure. i'm sorry. i'll be quiet. i'll be silent, continue. >> sean: prince charles and camilla parker-bowles in a car. they are gonna raise tuition to the he of $14,000 a year. throwing paint at the car, smashing in the window -- >> this is more complicated. it has to do with the liberal democrats and the coalition government. if -- the problem was the li

thatcher. it was mrs. thatcher no doubt that they were after. but the bomb went off in the room above and i fell four stories in the hotel. so they dug me out seven hours later from the foyer of the hotel. the only reason i survived was really luck. a girder from the hotel came down to stop the hotel and rubble from crushing me, and the springs of the bed gave me enough air to keep going. but it was a pretty horrendous thing. there is one story about it which is very interesting. what i did not know at the time was that the rescuers had to abandon rescuing me because the roof was going to fall in on them. so they got me out digging in sideways like they dig in mining, you know. and two very brave men stayed up, risking their lives, one to direct operations, and the others, the doctors told him to keep me talking because i stood a better chance if he could keep me conscious. two years after words his wife rang me up to say he was seriously ill in the hospital and ised to see me. >> how old were you then? >> guess, i guess i was in my early 1950's

thatcher would have never taken part in them. she would have been told by her advisers that she had everything to lose and nothing to gain. you are in the lead. this election was quite interesting. david cameron was very keen to have them. he was certain he could out debate gordon brown in the elections. that is what he felt. he completely, in my view, underestimated the appeal of nick clegg. the was able to say, "you two keep arguing about it." the polls went up. by the second round, they had a better way of handling them and got it right. it is interesting how it took place. >> the opportunity to watch all three of the debates. they were impressed by the pace of them compared to our debates. let me show you another clip of you speaking. here is another moment for 1988. >> every television owner in this country pays a fee. it is about $100 a year. it is to see the bbc. it is not for the television set. the money goes to the bbc. the rest of the channels or commercial channels and they rely on advertising. -- are commercial chann

the conservatives in the 1980's, margaret thatcher very famously rose it. and for some generations that still has resonance. the prices of things they buy could well go up as a result of that. we should remember that's a 20%. most people in the u.s. don't think in those terms in terms of the sales tax. this is a sales tax on everything except food which is going to be 20% on top of the regular retail price. so people will notice that. they will notice also after the years where a lot of money was going into the n.h.s., they will notice that money is not going into the n.h.s. anymore. the administration -- >> the n.h.s. stands for? >> the national health service which i'm sure many people in america, since they're always told their system is better than the n.h.s., they hear about it all the time. the government has said that not cutting will be a real cut for n.h.s. spending. it will go up slightly in real terms. but for the n.h.s., like in the states is facing enormous pressure from rising cost of drugs, and the aging of the population. that feels like a c

i remember the words of margaret thatcher; consensus is what satisfied everybody but nobody believes in that. normally this is the reality and such kind of organisation is very difficult to make a very specific decision. >>reporter the summit ended with a reinvigorated organisation, and a declaration that will take it in a new direction. >>one that sees greater co-operation and integration between countries that stretch half way round the world, and possibly even a new alliance one that encompasses both the euro-atlantic and the eurasian community. >>kazakhstan is also the current chair of the shanghai co-operation organisation - an alliance of countries that between them cover a quarter of the world's land mass and account for a third of the global population. the organisation held its summit recently in dushanbe, the capital of tajikistan. we were at the event to discover more about an organisation that will grow in importance as the global economic balance shifts to the east. >>reporter: a little-known entity to much of the western world... the shanghai co-operation organization i

brags that he was going to keep the budget down actually increased the budget that was no machines thatcher handbag swinging victory for the united states look it was a dismal failure and people should say and he's spinning it him and clegg of the moment got more spin than a washing machine a cell. line and the british people are waking up to this in the british people are saying no we can't afford we can't pay we won't pay that's what the student protests are about and we're going to see more protests too in this winter of discontent because ordinary folk who say why should we lose forty thousand police officers why should public sector workers be losing their jobs why should meal on wheels on wheels be cut why should help for the elderly why should the arts budget because why should we not have enough money in our coffers but we certainly can find seven billion pounds there'd be no need for these cuts what's the economists argue if we weren't in the year so there'll be no need for the students to be protesting and that's what needs to be discussed and we are seeing lots of protests they s

thatcher is an interesting character. i don't share her politics but it was according for her to dominate all of those guys. she was the nancy pelosi of her time and in more generally, we have an understated leader after the second world war called atlee and he was quiet and understated but the most progressive leader we've ever had and he was the one that brought in free, comprehensive healthcare. host: when you look across the pond at the united states, what do you make of president obama's victory? how to get interested in reading? >> i have always loved reading. i want to write. even now, there is something about the written word. my remaining ambition is to write. >> what was your major? >> history. >> i have always loved history. what part of history was sure favorite? >> i suppose that i'm interested in british history because that was when we move from a rural society. that was the crucible. i found it very fascinating. >> what part of american history have you read? >> there were manufacturers of great wealth. >>

thatcher was in power and impose a much less severe regime of austerity and there was serious turbulence in the streets. we do not know if the cameron government can avoid it. so far, polls show that 60% of the british public, many more than who voted for mr. kamen and his partners in government -- mr. cameron and his partners in government, support it. that is a good sign. but then, the medicine has not been administered. it has been announced, but it has not been taken. we will have to see. just as likely, it will get through this. people will look at what is happening in ireland, in greece, spain, portugal, and italy, and say that it was not a -- that was it not our good fortune that we got a government just-in-time to steer us away from a sovereign debt crisis? and the liberal democrats can march on for another 10 years or 15 years in power. >> you went to school if mcgill university in china. >> i did. you were born here and now you're back here in great britain. is your kit american? >> he was born in the united states. >> i want you to define the difference between a canadian, a b

i remember the words of margaret thatcher; consensus is what satisfied everybody but nobody believes in that. normally this is the reality and such kind of organisation is very difficult to make a very specific decision. >>reporter the summit ended with a reinvigorated organisation, and a declaration that will take it in a new direction. >>one that sees greater co-operation and integration between countries that stretch half way round the world, and possibly even a new alliance one that encompasses both the euro-atlantic and the eurasian community. >>kazakhstan is also the current chair of the shanghai co-operation organisation - an alliance of countries that between them cover a quarter of the world's land mass and account for a third of the global population. the organisation held its summit recently in dushanbe, the capital of tajikistan. we were at the event to discover more about an organisation that will grow in importance as the global economic balance shifts to the east. >>reporter: a little-known entity to much of the western world... the shanghai co-operation organization i

believing in people and limited government and the kinds of things that ronald reagan and margaret thatcher talked about. >> do you expect to stay in washington? >> i don't have definite plans. if i continue to fight, i will spend some time here. arizona will always be home. >> you recognize that staying in washington becomes part of what everybody says happens to former rep is. >> i will not move my family here or become a permanent resident. we will keep our home in arizona. if i continue to come to washington to visit -- this is a great place and it is you need. many americans don't understand how lucky they are. >> you bite records early in the conversation to the tea party. you have been involved with which you think is going? >> i think there are two possibilities. it either becomes an ongoing force in america as part of the political process or there is some risk that if they are not listened to and the powers that be don't hear the cry for change by the tea party people, there is the possibility they become a third party. i think that is a possibility but i am not convinced it would

margaret thatcher gave me an award for bravery a couple of months later. without that award and the publicity that surrounded it, i would never have been selected as a conservative candidate for ec. >> but then you swam the river. >> that was at the age of 61. i guess my career was founded on the river. i have a flat on the river looking across, further down. ever since i moved in 15 years ago, i said that i was going to swim across that river. you cannot live by the river and a swim to the other side. i kept telling people that i would then it became a joke. thoughting, i suddenly that now was the night. i waited until what i thought was high tide. i did not realize that high tide is given in greenwich mean time. this was the british summer time. i got the time of the tide it wrong. swam an hour before the tide turned and a friend came with me. we did not have lifejackets or a boat. there have to be a risk that you would die or it would not be real. we were swept a mile upstream by the kurds. -- the thames. we were in there for about half an hour before w

thatcher was more popular in the u.s. and she was here for a time. >> yes. >> some billion pounds are expected to come to the city because of prince william getting married. >> i do wonder, in a comment when everybody is cutting back, people will have -- in a climate when everybody's cutting back, people will have weddings much more modest. of course, the country will wish them well. >> what do your constituents who voted for you think of royalty? >> the people have a lot of respect for the queen. >> why? >> i think this feeling that she is always on her duty. the younger royals are less. when the queen finally dies and she passes, i think there will be a real debate about the royal family in this country. what would you say? >> we are in the 21st century in a democracy. the type of waunakee that we have is not really appropriate? does that really encourage an egalitarian society? >> you ran for leadership in your party and did not get it. do you have any plans in the future to go back after leadership or any other job in

being able to look across the table and say here's a man or woman i can trust and to quote margaret thatcher famously, can do business with. >> that's a factor. so when you're reading a cable and international press that some ambassador is reporting that you're a material individual or you're flighty or you're not trustworthy, it's sort of... puts that seed of doubt in your mind, can i trust this government i'm dealing with? can i trust this other leader i'm dealing with? and it makes our job a lot harder. that's one piece of it. the other piece of it of course is if i were the intelligence chief of iran,n, these countries really trying to do harm to american interests, i've got a treasure trove there. many of the inner level workings of how america goes about trying to check mate us. >> rose: so you're saying there is material there that people could use? it's not just a question of embarrassment or trust. there's things they could use in the material? like what? tell me how that works. >> well, if you know exactly what the state of a discussion... the state of the appreciation of your coun

many people say, yes, but the economy did so well under the reagan-thatcher type ideas but that begs the question, what's the economy? you see the median wage -- and i keep going back to this because i think if you define an economy from the ground up, as what do most people experience in terms of their wages and their benefits, median wages and benefits, late 40s, '50s, early '60s kept going up as a very remarkable pace and then happened in the late '70s particularly after 1980, stagnation this was not -- >> but a lot of people felt at the end of the '70s what they were experiencing was not very pleasant and they voted for reagan on the basis of that. and you're suggesting here that somehow a system was subverted because of inflation caused by oil. it seems -- is that not an overly simplistic explanation of carter economics. >> is that overly not simplistic? is that just a rhetorical question. >> i'm sorry. >> i don't think it's overly simplistic. you look at the data i think the economy from the standpoint of the average working person was functioning very well except for by the la

in the 1980's, margaret thatcher -- for some generations, is that still has resident.people will be focused on that. we should remember that the 20% -- this is a sales tax on everything but food. it will be 20% on top of the regular retail price. they will notice that money is not going into the in a jazz anymore. the administration -- the national health service. the government has said that they are not cutting -- there will not be a real cut for nhs spending. for the nhs, that feels like a cut. after years for the spending was rising rapidly, it will feel like a cut for everyone else as well. >> if you have a serious operation and you had your choice, would you go to the nhs or would you pick the best hospital in the states? >> i think that there is a strong feeling that the best hospitals are world leaders. my son has a moderate parts issue -- a moderate heart issue. for emergency care, the nhs has extraordinarily high standards. for some other kinds of care, if you want to get your hip replaced, or some parts of cancer treatments, there would be hospitals in the s

thatcher is an interesting character. don't share her politics but it was according for her to dominate all of those guys. she was the nancy pelosi of her time and in more generally, we have an understated leader after the second world war called atlee and he was quiet and understated but the most progressive leader we've ever had and he was the one that brought in free, comprehensive healthcare. host: when you look across the pond at the united states, what do you make of president obama's victory? guest: i thought it was incredible. i thought -- first of all, president obama, to beat the clinton machine is extraordinary and i witnessed it blow by blow. he did what people at the beginning thought he couldn't do, to defeat the most powerful machine in democratic politics, then went on to defeat george w. bush and everything you could think of was thrown at him on the media, rumors running on the internet, yet he drove through and he won and the night he won, the night he gave his speech, even though it was in chicago, i w

in the 1980's, margaret thatcher -- for some generations, is that still has resident. people will be focused on that. we should remember that the 20% -- this is a sales tax on everything but food. it will be 20% on top of the regular retail price. they will notice that money is not going into the in a jazz anymore. the administration -- the national health service. the government has said that they are not cutting -- there will not be a real cut for nhs spending. for the nhs, that feels like a cut. after years for the spending was rising rapidly, it will feel like a cut for everyone else as well. >> if you have a serious operation and you had your choice, would you go to the nhs or would you pick the best hospital in the states? >> i think that there is a strong feeling that the best hospitals are world leaders. my son has a moderate parts issue -- a moderate heart issue. for emergency care, the nhs has extraordinarily high standards. for some other kinds of care, if you want to get your hip replaced, or some parts of cancer treatments, there would be hospitals in the

the conserve tisch in the 1980's, margaret thatcher, increased v.a.t. very sharply in the middle of a recession in the early 1980's and for some generations that has resonance. the price of the things they buy could well go up as a result of that. we should remember that's a 20% -- most people in the u.s. don't think in those terms in terms of a sales tax. this is a sales tax on everything except food which is going to be 20% on top of the regular retailer price. and where a lot of money was going into the n.h.s., they will notice that money is not going into n.h.s. anymore. and the administration -- >> n.h.s. stands for -- >> the national health service which i'm sure many people in america since they're always told that their system is better than the n.h.s. i'm sure they hear about it all the time. but the government has said they're not cutting -- there's not going to be a real cut for n.h.s. spending. it's going to go up slightly in real terms but for the n.h.s. facing enormous pressure for rising cost of drugs and the aging of the population. that

>> i mean, oprah winfrey's on the list, queen elizabeth's on the list, angelina jolie, margaret thatcher >> secretary of state hillary clinton. for the ninth straight year, which i thought was very impressive. taking the top three for the men, george w. bush and bill clinton also rounding out the top three. >> interesting here, not on either top ten list for men or women, no supreme court justice, no current senator or congressman no, athlete, no scientist. >> and no rob nelson. i'm very surprised. >> stunning. >> i mean, what happened? >> where's "the situation"? >> where's "the situation"? >> where's the crew on this tuesday morning? >> mike sorrentino, "the situation." >> halloween show. get your reaction to this, a new study that comes from "the daily mail." more than 60% of women in relationships do not feel comfortable eating in front of their partner, and almost half get shy when undressing, according to research. >> huh. you know -- >> what's your reaction to this, michael? >> let me say this. >> break it down. >> for the first part of it, eating sometimes -- i am kind of weird a

mikhail gorbachev, margaret thatcher, vladimir putin, nelson mandela. impressive doesn't do justice to his resume. he was also very kind to a first-time author when something called "it's getting ugly out there" was published. i have actually known larry king since my days at wnbc television here at new york city when he would occasionally be a guest on my program there "live at 5." he is a class act. he is my friend and i, along with millions of television viewers, are gonna miss him. so, here's the question. what will you remember most about larry king? go to cnn.com/caffertyfile and reminisce with me. suzanne? >> jack, you look pretty good in that shot there. >> i was about six months younger. >> just six months. >> a couple more hairs. >> all right, jack, we look forward to all your comments. >>> don't miss larry's final show, that is tonight, that is live at 9 p.m. eastern. >>> well, it is being called a "tremendous setback for the country's missile defense system." ahead, we will show what you went wrong with a critical test. >>> plus you can the

during the thatcher alone there have been more than 100 million views of broadcast and print measures relating to pool safety campaign. the cpsc is also aggressively continuing efforts to provide relief to homeowners by contaminated drywall. since becoming chairman i personally visited homes in florida and virginia and now the frustration these homeowners are facing. to deal with this, the commission conducted the most extensive investigation in history and i look forward to sharing that with you later on in our question and answer period. finally, we have redouble our efforts to provide rapid response to new and emerging hazard. we have taken aggressive action to release the market for children's products that contain harmful levels of cadmium, and will also be glad to show that in detail with you later. i.t. modernizations in march 2011 will also unveil our new public database on the safety consumer-products which is mandated by the cpsia, the database will provide a powerful source of information for consumers allowed them to quickly determine whether the products they already own