'm reirating the president's clear commitment in the clearest terms possible thathe's not raising tas on those w make less than $250,000 a year. >> ill: othe-- notably t billion dollar cash for clunkers progra, which quickly n out of money. senate democrats promised today t join the house in adding anher $2 billion to the program by the end of the wee >> ifl: next, are mortgage ompanies following through o the government's pledge toelp homwners in trouble? that s the focus of a new report iued by the obama ministration today. it laid out the itial results of a program to entice bas to reduce foreclosure the response the banks varied considerably. special coespondent jeffrey kaye h the story from los angeles. >> reporter: fromhe beginning it semed like an bitious plan. >> by making these investmen in foreclure prevention today, will save orselves the costs of feclosure tomorro reporter: a 75 billion dollar program announced by the president in february aed toead off home foreclosures. the governmen would partner with banks t rduce montly payments for as many as 4 milliont-risk borrower

i think peoplere a little alarmed thatthe fed exposed itsf as having so muchower and they fear thathe fed has bailedut wall street at e expense of main street and the eason bernanke went on tv is he's trying to make the opposite ase. he's trng to say, "i had to save wall stet cause it was thenly way to protect in stree" >> brown: t me ask you before you go, when you write this book, do you now sitting here today feel more sanguine abt our ability to prent something like this in the future? >> i thk we've learned some lessons but i think o of the leons is it's very hard to predict the ups and dns of the markets and to a lrge extent ths was a failure of imagination. people didn't imagine th so muh of the financial syst cou be built onuch a fragile foundation, and is made me a lot less confiden that we can control e markets or s the future clearly. >> brown: the bo is "in fed we trust." david wesll, thank u very much. >> you're welcome >> lehrer: oour web site david fally tonight, the medal o freedom ceremonyt the white hous judy woodruff h that. ( applause ) >> wdruff: retired archbisho

ted kennedyame along at the time thathe civil rights movement was at its heht.as tre to see this cil- rights legislation moved throug in my opinion, into law. he was a ghter for civil rights than d he remained all the way through. one thing people do not member, it was the behind-the- scenes keedy who was really interested in the people. forxample, during the vietnam r when they were talking abo bringing hom -- getti out of vietm at the end. there was a closed-door briefing and theeneral was taing about how ty were going do thispeaking in rms of uts that wod be moved between t pipeline to t them outf there. kennedy saidwait a minut general, we are not talki about units or pipelines. we're talking about people that was the kennedy gnature. he really saw the people behind th numbers. >> in 1968 he was somewhat ambivale of the war. after 1968 h was very much against it. his political slls were the nate willot be the same without him, wilit? >> yeah, and one of the great rength that he had was highlighted in most of th memorial's paid to him. he ha sick -- a great s

especially now thathe's got a littleit of good news i expect he'll be ampe up over the next cole weeks. >> john, how much edit can he take for thisgood newsand will he ad should h? >> its verydifficult,martha, as you know, to tie cause nd effe in economic plills -- policy but the way works is you get the lame on the doside. certainly when the market was down an the job piture poor for much of this yer he wa gettinghammered by he republicans. ouide economists, mark zandi, or example, say the stimulus has had e fect, that t unempyment picture woulbe worse ifot for i and you certainly haveven is in this cash for clunkers progr which congress hasow extended tht ia very discreet waythat's terribly bome doctor welcome for the admistration has gsed the sale of a quarter million cars. th've now doubled the fundng for it an thatpromises to make peopl feel positive and possibly prvide an actal bot over the next few weeks. >>hey said we ould have o mo than 8% uemployment if they pass the ecover act, which they did an now ats-- it's .4%. whe do we go frm here? >> that's a good eality ceck. it quit

should we be concernedhat the curity suation there is deteriorating now thathe u.s. troops have pulled ba and get ready to pull ou >> martin, these are tragic events especially if th people who e killed and their families but bottom line to your question is, no. these events are iolated acts of terrism. admiedly repeated isolated acts of terrorism buthey're not hang any strategic effect. >> who do we think is beind this? almost certainly al qaeda a iraq. >> and tir purpose? >> their purpose is to, first, try to reignite t civil war betwn the sunnis and the shia in iraq, and also to demonstre their relance,ta they're still a player in iraq. >> a why would they want to retrigr a civil war, as y ll it? >> well, al qaeda, which a radical sun muslim organizati, doesn't like the shia. they think that they a muslim apostas. ev worse know that the christians. and they would love for the iri suis to rise up against them, overthrow the sh government, and reestabli a sunni caliphe in iraq. that's not going to happ but that's the aim. >> there w perior, not that long ago tt you

thathe problem was that you had deal and israel ma additional demands. is that true? >> you have good deal of pof in what you said wead agreed on at let a number of the prisoners. but at o point in time, iael ded certain terms and conditions that imded progress. that is in addition to external interventions. were doing an effort and e germans are willing to join has and we do welcome them in ordeto secure that. the deal was to take care of chalet a release a number of prisoners and when thisis done will hand ov chalet over. we are still following this intelligence organizatn's working on tt and we still have hope to concle this on a good note. >> chaie: do you think it's likely to happen soon? >> i c't say that cerinly. because deing with others takes time. for instancehen we are doing some reconciliatio at the 11t ho, you'll find a new dierence, you'll findew terms d conditio. an we received hamas deletions, we receivedhe -- and thprocess is on and we still have great hope we will conclu this successfully successfull >> charlie: it also said you wanted to bng togethe

a former commandern israel's army told me thathe treatment is routine his experiences haunt him >> someone is blindfold and handcuffedas probay done something ally bad. they will kick him sometimes. >> palestinia youngsts are tried in israel's miliry courts. th did not want to film, but israel says hanothing to hide. >> if they thw a stoneor molov cocktail, it is aeadly weap. every week, we find a 14-year- o or 16-year-old carrying a dely weapon. we have no choice but to find them, arrest em, and hope that they will not turn to this. >> he has not slept properly nce the soldiers came. humanitarian are calling on the ternational community to investigate what th say israel's abus of children ghts. >> stay with us, if you can, on baitlah mehsud -- bbc world news. comi up,oan sharks preying on t port. >> firs in south korea the have been dramic scenes full protesting workers. staff have bee resisting ms job losses. they want to cut more than a thd of the work force. whave the latest on the industri dispute, just south of the capital. >> it began as dispute over job cuts, but this tued into thi

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first, north korea wantso reach out to south korea, raisg hopes thathe tension between the two countries is easing. it is unclear wheth the south will aow the trs to resume. >> tightly controll and managed, this is tourism d north kore-style. until they came to a stop st year, these fledgling trips across one of the wrld's most heavily fortified rders were both popular with curious south korean visitors and a vaable source oforeign currency fo the isolated communt state. theews that north kea is ready to rpen the borr came ter a visit to pyongyangrom a prominent south korean businessoman. her company has invested heily in tra and tourism. last year, south korea brought home the dy of one of its tizens from e north korean special tourism zone. the 52-year-old hadeen shot dead by guards. the south has long argued that the turist trips wi remain suspended untilt gets a satisfactory explanation for her death. north korea says it also wants to resume the reunions of vided families which have al stoppedmid the worseng elations with its soutrn neighbor. it may be a sign tha the nort is softenin

toll, you sa today that you're seeing gns thathe housingmarket is stabilizing. can you elaborate on the trends that you're seeing. >> about six months ago we woulsee the averageuyer about 8 to 10 times and prably the onl questi that was bei asked was can y giveme a few more dollarsn incentives. can you knock five or $10,000 more off therice of ts home. otherwise, don't think i'll bable to buy. whereas now we see the client buying after five or six visits andeing concerned after e first couple to establish the price with can i get the garden roo can i get -- can i put an add-on f a musk om. can i ve a mother-in-law suite develod in nnection with the home. we're now back to primary interest of the home itself as opped to being concerned onlyith the price. >>ow you also mentioned today that y're seeing people are realizinghat this is a buyer's market is that transting in a new ders and actual contracts? mean what is, c you expect for toll brhers this fl? >> where i seet in the fall is onl to extrapolate as wld you san say if things continue than t demand will conti

the united states is in mournin but itis democra to agree thathe most. d by the president. >> he is one othe most accomplished americans er to serve our democcy. his etraordinary life on this earth has come ton end. >> d the vi president also grew tearful. >> so many of his those embraced m. they know he made them tter. >> he s the yngest ofthe kennedy clan, aich catholic clan that became a political nasty. he was in t shadow of his glamous old brothers -- first jfkho wa assassinated, and bobby w murdered, too. the last survivingrother spoke at the funeral. >> he was a good and decent man who saw wrong and tried to right it, saw sufferinand tried healt, saw war, tried to stop it. >> there arelready questions -- he wasuspendedfrom harvard focheating. then came chappaquick. he drove off a bridge after a late-night party, leaving his passenger, a young woman, to own in his car. he d not report e cident for nine hours. >> i regarde as inexcusab the fact that i did not repo the accident tohe police immediately. >> his presidential hopes were intatters, tales

well, if you think thathe test, you know measures whher or not children know the standards and are yteaching the standards, then everyone shod be teaching to the te to a certain extent. reporter: to ree, teaching to the test means doing better job oflanning, aching and measuring. traditionally teaers create lesson plans bore wring tes. bu now at ron brownnd here at shaw middle school, that's reveed. >we start by writi the test. then we teach and we assess themased on the test that we wrote at the very beginning. >> porter: brian betts is the princal at shaw. >> we're identifyi right away what i is tha stents should know and be ale to do. so i we follow that model, then yes, test score are going to be it. that's going to be our measurent of whether or not they mastered the materl. rrz to help teachers, has added mh and reading coaches at many schools, on the theory thatractice makes perfect, here at shaw teachers try out their lessons in front of coeagues. >my essential question is, howould we app this law in our daily lives. and if we rn to the next pa... >> reporter: ree has also ad

involved in a drug tde and this goes tonother point and problem in afgnistan right now,hichmyq is thathe taliba is more deeply invved inrug traffickinand drug trade was initially nates recent to and military operations ha found. and that's going to mean mre rest both in afghanisn and in kistan. >> and( united statess doing a total look, agai at the military option. >> aside of what has happened on th political side of things, you're hring interestin words coming fro admir mullen, head of the joint chiefs, saying the r's not going well. talking about mae needing mre troops. general mcchryst on the groun inafghanistan is -- called for studies fromthink-tanks and others, testing at we are ing there military. ishis the right policy? it very unusual, i would say, for military leader to question what they are doing. my suspicion is tha not only the military b people in the white housare starting to y, do we need a policy revw on opposion and strategy a presence in afghanisn? >> and this is a bi thing, not t ofdo we needore troops, do we need to alter the strategy? we're talking out, do w stay

there iconcern thathe death toll cld grow hugely.t least 13 have died in japan up to million peoe have been evuated along e east coast of cna. taiwan is the worst affected. we have a report from our coespondent on the scene in just a moment. first, another crespondent has is. >> in taiwa they are still searching. scor of people went missing wh the typhoon spt across the island. manyere simply washed away. the srmumped 2.5 meters of rain. it was a record. they have not seen flds like this and have a centur hundreds arehought tobe trapped remote villages. their homes a farmland have been damaged. in some cases, they have been destroyed. this man ss he has seen dead bodies sliding dn the side of the mountain into the rive below. china hs also beenattered. the eastern province has be soed for more than a day no the athorities say that hundreds of villages hav flooded. the storm damage hasffected millns of chinese. some of the hundreds of thousands who have been k=n6wevacuated have been taken t safety. the decisn to move them looks like i

companies, everybody is in short, no preconditions, exclusions, etc., and there will be amended so thathe young who are uninsured and healthy will have to pay and subsidize the old. >> whatharles describes cannot happen, because the insurance companies have cut a deal here, and there is no way that they can take in everybody without some give on th other side, and the democrats know that and the white house knows that. there will be a health care reform bill, but what is at stake is the public plan, and s charles said, that is very close to having fallen away already. >> insurance companies will be compensated by having a mandate with the young paying into insurers and that will subsidize the payment for the uninsured and the old. p >> sunday's your mind is not right. you think about what is going on back home, i could be drinking a beer right now, i did i join the army, people shooting at me, what am i doing here? and other days you are like, i am going to take that guy's ass. >> good question, what is he doing there? the next head of the british army says that the u.k. will be committed

now, reports suggest thathe man convicted of its chestration may be freed.egrahi may be releed. >> ty are appalled. h idea was to apply for compassionate rease, a the appeal ds not have to be droppe for compaionately, so i am que taken aback by ts change. >> it comes mor than two çdecades afterç bomb tore the airplane apart in the skies over lockerbie. after years, libya agreed to lease two suspects for trial in april 1998. scottish court was convenedn the therlands,and in january 2001, two judg found merahi guiy. others, like jam,hose daughter wa kild,believes he should never have bn found guilty. the scottish governmtnsists theyave not put pressure on megrahi to drop hiappeal, but they thought it would help bring new information to life. it remains unsolved crime. bbc news. >> ok, and broken. >> see the nenfold. go to bbc news/news for "bbc world news" online. it is easy. clichere to collect the one- nute news story. you can read the news heaines, gethe top stories fm around the globe, and clicko play video reports. discover morabout the subjects that re

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. >> you ha the blue dogs digging in their heels, you have howard de saying thathe public oion pass to be there howould l handle is? >> hwould not haveeld public meetings. giving the oppositioa chance to ce and waved sis and talk out socialismnd death pane. heworked with congrs but he got medicare tough congress in 1965. it w the last of thereat society. he got considerablbipartisan suort. >> the other thing he did was unt votes. this is but omaas got to do. starts out with clearly0 votes the sate. althe republicansill vote against him. with the public option in, and pbably without apublic option. he has kent crad, of who will go somewhere else, scorce will not suort the public option. where does h -- or says he wi not support the public opti. where does he get the fift60 vo? has got to dohe math, and if they haveot done that, that is awfully surising. >> why does obama court the reblicans any way? >> he i not courtin republica. are you kiing? iall the argumts are within the democrats. the left democra want the puic optio and thelue dogs are about the cost of the program. the reblicans

there has long been conrn that the man was in fact a convenient scapegoat, thathe real perpetrors are still at large.3 correspondent, front gardener. >> it's the story that won't quite go away, britain's worst ever terrorist attack still has me unanswere qutions. e lobber biverdict lef an uncomfortable taste in t mouth, jus one convicd of all of those deaths. so the doubters qstion will more seen yor libyans shouldn't have alsostood trial. other suspect that libya may have takenhe rap forn atrocity perhaps committed by others. so was justice done inhe trial of the lockerbie bbing. the trial in the negligenterlands looked at a vast amount o evidence. n am flight 103 was instakingly rebuilt from the wreckage. this was a forensic investation conducted to extremelhigh standards but ba in 1981, libya was not the only country with a gdge against america. five mons before lkerbie, this u.s. warship st down an iranirbus over theulf killinall 29 passengers. the u.s. navy sid its radar mistook it for an attacng war plane. iran never acpted this blowing a u.s airliner in renge would have anbviou

therefore, we ar very happy thathe police and the -- people are doi their jand let us see what it ces out. >>eporter: the court also heard police will submit evidce phone calls de between somef the suspects and othersoverse. "latelal pirates hav releasia pat hav rease said a germa containership and i crew. the ship was captured 4 miles off ofhe coast of somalia and the crew were heldor rans . well, yesterda thewners of the ip paid the pates almost $3 million. we have more on tis tonight from gmany's deutsche welle. >> reporter: after mnths of iting the owner othe -- can finely breathe a sigh o relief. all of the crew members are in good hlth and doing well >> translator: iwas an almost unbearable me for the crew and theiramilies. i think none of cs imagine how stressf the situation must have been for them. >> reporter: the cw was held in captivity with little to eat or drink a no medicine. according to media reports, the pites carried out mock executions of their hoages. the gern government has expressed relief at their re >> tnslator: once they arrive in mombasa, the crew, including

now the hope was thathe eater fighti will provide greer security in the long terp. and so the offensive that has been under y over the past few weeks should hopeful lead to security in t longer term. >> and i want to ask you about ts bombing that took place in western afghistan. th is an area that we haven't tradionally seen been very violent. is that part of the signal coming from the talan. >> yeah, i think that the meagis that nowhere is safe. so traditionally, t west a th north have been saer than the south and e east where the violence is quite heavy. but really even in e north, more recent we've seen brart attacks. and so i think the taban message is that you know the afghan government can't prove security awhere in the country and the internional tops really cat prevent tis from happening. >>s we mentioned the vote is august 20th. and you're goingo be in afghanista >> right. >> to be in an election observer. what will you be look for ring the ting? andhat is the best that we can pe for from that process? right, imean it'll be qute challenging for internional

the case at mrketsare growing and while the prlems of dru abus are not nearly the same high levels thathe united stat hasexperienced for years now, th do seem to be growing, and inmanycases, the countries are unequipped to de with it as a health problem, and that's another asct of th reform is to put more fus on dealing with the drug abus issue as a public health crisis. >> and with only about 20 seconds left, what impact do you ink this wiave on the larger w on drugs in mexico and in the u.s.? >> well, i tnk in the lonr run it's going to continue to lp push the sift towards a more nuance se of policies abt how to deal with drug use. by not criminalizing everyast personnd being able to focus resources with more public suppt on the real problems, which are crime and violence. in the mium and ev short term with regard to mecan trafficking into the u.s., the big questi is, wat is the u.s. goingo do t address i drug demd? and i thinkhat's a legitimate question for mexicans who kn morehan anybody else howhat ha affecd them. >>ohn walsh, thanks very mu for talking with us tonight. >> thanks, a

it reinforcethe idea thathe only way to campaignnd mak a splash is on telision.lol races you have to buy the time. and it's gone crazy. the amount of money i costs to ld office in t united states or even run for oice in the united ates based upo the fact it has toe on levision is obscene. vis: so are you happy with whatou have bequeatd my generation or do you o us an apoly? >> aery big apology. the amount of money, and it all touched off that night the amountf money thagoes into television campaignings scene. tavis: tl me - take me back o 1960 -- i had the pleasure of talking to you about this befo and i know you've been asked about it 1,001 times a take me back to that debat and telle since that was t first one that waselevised, what made the difference that night? >> jack kennedy's persona. nixon walked in, he banged his knee on the car cominn, he had an infection, he wasn't well, 'd been cpaigning all day, jackennedy had been studying up all day. jack kennedy walkedn and looked like a harvard undergraduate. no one hadeen a president like that. he was a matin i

one of the reasons thathe civil waracked off is becse th cut a deal whthe sui awakening cosels. they're not tending tm. >> whore not teing them, the iraqgovernment. >> t maliki gornment isn't buu.s. is the big dender of the sunnis that the point. sunni extremistsho basically lost their base supporrs p and trying to geon iniatives, atta back and provoekt soonis again and unless the shii-dominate government tend thesunnis. yo have a really serious problem that it could reigte. >> do you awthat deption? >> everythg that carla saids true but it doesn't answer estion that you raised i have two id, 8 and 5. we have two occutions the at 8 d 5. at some poin raises nations d kids. the queson is when t let them go and wlk on their o is going to be critical. and the queion thatarla raises is, yes, it's difficult to let them be on their own and we dot really think they' going to beble to handle their problems, butwe're also not going to be able to be there rer and so thers t righ questis to be debating and just how much -- e questi is, wh are the cos and risks of staiing are thgreater know

anall thetems thathe present wants. this is main concern. not to renew or not to renew. i'm not thinking about that now. >> charlie: when will you decide? >> i would like ask a question. when can you deci when the esident is now? yocan? you c't. we have to see. >> charlie: but they have books now called egypt aft mubara books. >> it is a large country and w havetability here. we enjoy stability. we have a peanent cotitution. it has been amend for a numr of times. i recall that once you asked in onef your intviews, is th the president being elected only by e parliamenteans some sort of incomple democracy. at the se moment, that momt i was ready t propose amendments to the constition de amended4 articlehat was unpredented. this is in the interestf stability, in the interest of insuring peoe about future. its not small cotry on which we take decisions jt like that. it is stable cntry and it will rein a stable one after mubarak and ter the man who comes aft mubarak. >> charlie: saking of that, there are those who believe that you would like for your son gamalo come after you

. >> law thathe hurricane made la. let's look out onto the caribbean. tropical storm cannoanna has wif only 35 m.p.h. and there is no circular motion of that storm. the more of this storm is bill. it is a full-blown hurricane. it will curve to the north and will perhaps be more of a threat to bermuda than here in the atlantic coast region. we will talk more about that and our own tropical weather coming up in just a minute. >> in the ongoing political battle over health care reform, conservatives are pleased that many democrats are concerned. we have the latest from washington. president barack obama did not mention the public auction today. >> no one is one to take away your benefits. and that is the plain and simple truth. for benefits for the uninsured, the president had fought for government insurance until he appeared to give up. >> whether we have it or don't have it is not the entirety of health care reform. this is just one sliver of it. >> one's lover? whether we have it or not? conservatives are celebrating. >> people in this country do not wa

. >> i'm hope thath legislature will turn to it and turn to it soon. if they send me a bill, i will sign it. >> still it's unclear if state leader also go along. whoever fills the seat will have to vou not to run in the special election. >> and, lisa, whenever there is an election for the state, there will be obviously many people interested in running to replace senator kennedy. speculation has focused on his widow vicky and his son joe but people close to the family have dismissed both of those options saying that they are not considering a run. >> do you know when -- i know you said it's unknown at this.. do you know how soon they may make the decision? time is running out. we are just about on the door step here. >> right. they are being very noncomittal. the ball has to be moved significantly forward for them to even take the step to begin this. and so they -- it's all in the stage of negotiation right now, heavy lobbying, heavy negotiation. something will have to be resolved quickly for the decision to be made. >> jessica yellin reporting from wa

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. >> you rush these budgets thath are a foot high and nobody hase any idea what is in them and nobody has read them.ody >> 14-pounds it was. >> yeah, and it gets rushed through without any clearitt deliberation and debate and then these kinds of things happen and i think that is whas happened to the patriot act.int remember, there was no realr ts debate about that, it was so quick after 9/11 that it was introduced that people felt the intimidated by the administration. >> glenn: people felt intimidated, that soundwow.sow familiar. but now in 2009 it is totally o cool to jam through $787 billion stimulus bill, a cap and trade energy bill that nobody really debated and oh, yeah, a complete overhaul of the entire healthcare industry in six months, all while then s president is filling america's themes with the huge thousand-page bills, czars that are actual communists and gets coverage from john conyers who has had the audacity to say con this it with a straight face. >> i love the members that get raig up and say read the bill.p what good is reading the bill if it's a thousand-pages and

i mean, the point is thathe sea level has been rising for 12,000 years. and it has nothing to do with global warmi. >> rose: nothing? >> it's a separate problem. mean-- >> rose: does globalwarming contribute to? >> probably. but we don't knohow much. and it certainly not-- the main problemhen you're dealing with ridesg ocean-- iean, we know it's been gng on for 1200 years. wean it hasvery little to do with human aivities. so it will be great-- it wi be a terrible mistake to thi you lved the problem of th rising ocean when yore only dealinwith climate. >>ose: what else need you do? >> well, we don't know. it's-- we don't know theauses. it's absd to imagine that you can treat a diseaseithout doing a diagnosis. if you're a scienti, you don't jump to, conclusis. >> rose: right but here's what some people s. they say if climate warmst, say, the curnt rate for the next 100 years, the diffence in clite will be as dramatic asthe difference the end of the ice age. >> i think that's extmely unlikely, but of course don't know. certaiy there's no that he was that tha

. >> ros it's whether it interests u, is thathe test? >> yes. >> rose: is it chalnging and interesting you? >> yes, an science to me is justome, and it's just like-- ke painting pictures or anything ee. >> rose: two men of science,s can varm and freeman dys coming up. captioning sponsored by rose communicatis caioning sponsored by rose communications from our studios in new rk ty, this is charlie rose. >>ose: harold varmus is here. in 1989, he was awarded t the nobel prize in medice along withis collaborator jay michael bishop. since 2,000 heeb presidt of the morial sloan cancer center here in new york. he was recently appointed co-chair of president barack obama's cncil vaser on sciee and tecology. his new book is call"the art and politics of science." heeb is a frienof this broadcast and has been othis program many times and i am ways pleased toave him back the thisable. >>hank you. >> ros i say that becauseere is the interesting thing, of all the times you ha been on here byeading this book, i found owl all of these tngs that i didn't

buspersonally, and he spoke th great admiration and appreciation about at had been achieved, and said thathenited states was now ready interact a spirit of openness with sudan. ut of course, he couldn't continue along thoslines. >> report: you feel, then, th the failure to follow through on those promises wa entirely d to the weakness of thunited states government. were thereny actions by the sudaneseovernment that ctributed to that, as well? >> ( translate ): we were asked to sign peace agreement to have the punishments remed-- signed and they have not be removed. we thinthat t most recent speal envoy's efforts, general gratio and the new direction e u.s. administration is taking to change the picies of the previous admistration, with the complete cooperatio beeen us and the u.s. special envo we will normalize relations with the u.s. >> nartor: with only dim prospects for his immediate arrest and appearan before the international crinal court in the gue, president al-bashir faces a more immeate trial in sudan itself. national electns are due to be held next april,nd if he ands, the presiden

different points of concer and disput among republans and, to a large extent, indepeents, it's a concern thathe federal governme is simply overreaching at a time that the country cannoafford it. within th democrat party, i think there is an intern debate over the cost o the pgram with bludogdemocrats being concerned about that and how it's financed, and over whether there is a public option, because many on t left of the decratic party feel that heal care reformsn't wo it if there is - if there is not a public option, and i think blue dogs a indendents are concerned about govement getting th directly involved in the delivery of health care. >> cynthia, y're saying tt this is what barak obama was elected to do. >> absolutely, tis is abolutely what he was electe tdo and one of the most interestinghings about the opponents who say that they do't want gornment more involved in halth care is that many of the critics sayi that are micare recipients. edicare is a government-run, old-fashioned canadian-li single-payor system, and so to listen toome of the critics at town hall meetings -- the very angry

this is one common interptation of him mow is e ki of left wg resionism thathe sufficient that'srue isllthe stuff abou feeding the poor. and he may have bn big on feedinthe poor, tt's possle. >> rose: bute was in sence... you were going to say. i think he was a fire and brimstone apocalypticreacher if you want... judgmenday is coming. that paris clear in th gospels. but i think thatas much more the coref his message and i think they was jewish apocalyptic preache he wasalking to fellow israelitis. he wasn't. i don't think he was interest in spreading the goel to the nations. i think he was a local apocalyptic preacher with fiery rhoric and that's what mohammed was in e days when he was a street preachern mecca. now, unlikejesus, mohammed actually acquires power before he gets killed. his moment, unlike jesus's, actuallyucceeds in tting power beforenyone kills him. so then you see a secd mohammed in medina who becomes a statesman and a warrior and all of thapart of the koran is... stands in star contrast with the jesus... even t jesusthat i think really existed, just because he has remain

i've found thathe media, most of the pple that are in the medihave a world ew that's left of cter. that one thing i've foundout. >> rose: a world view? that has to do wit u.s. engagement around the wod? >> wel no, no. just their view of the world, theiview of politics. you don'tind a lot of people that are pro-life in national medi you don't nd a lot of people who ha bumper stickersn their car that talk about the second amendment. and i always.... >> rose: you like to bear arms, don't you? (laughs) >> can youot... do i n look like a hunte to you? i've ner fired a gun. i can say not only have i never fired a g innger, i've never fired a gun. but you know the thing is, though.... >> rose: you've never lookedt the whitof their es, have you? >> no, i haven't. but i explained,hough, to my conservative friends, it's just theature of where th media is. >> rose: okay, but if... >> if three networks and thewo or three major newspapers were in manhatta, kansa, instead of manhattan, new york, well, they'drobably be more acclimated to a redtate world view. that'sot the case. >> rose: and the m

the problem is thathe ectric supply is erratic around hee, and the's no esel to run the pumps. no diesel inone of the world's most energy-ri natns. a few field have benefitted here alongsi sloped canals that getater through gravity. butousef, a nearby farmer says many growers have been burned trying to plan dry sson crs. >> thereere times bfore whe people were mobilized, activity took off ve well. but unfortunately somewhere in the middle there was a scarcty of food. some pele lose whatever they might ha put into place. >> reporr: other farmers say they've been crippledy soaring costs of fertilizer, seeds and especially diesel fuel. >> we used to get five gallons of diesel. now it is 180. >> ithe province cabir has seen nothi but losses. since buying a thousand acres the early 1970s. >>0, th is 80 years ago. >> the aim was togo into meck nizedarming using trackers, et cetera. but as you can see they ar here lying idl 19 was the last time we cultivatedthe whole farm. >> hesays th the government has done little to assure farmers recer theirosts let alone make a profit. >> tre sho

appeal to me personally, andou can make change from congress and you c just see it just tis ast week, thathe typef ings that we wanted to do, both o/9 us, but it's his presidey, is the pce you can most impact people lives, leave your thmb print, ere they can improvtheir lives and he that most immediate impt is from th white house. and altugh i gave something up psonally for my career and ao personally, i think --. >> re: in chicago. >> yes, that the whteouse washe place to make that mt immediate change. and i cannot thi of a better person to work fo andelp him seehrough his agenda than president oma. >> rose: you seem to be different. >> nass's becse i'm fully mecated. (laughte >> rose: on what? >> sleep, sleep drivation. >> rose: sleep drivation. 's co. you em to be hot. >>h-huh. >> rose: he is from the left. you seem to be from the center. you're a different religions. you have different educational backgrous. you hav wanted different things in your life. >> wel first of all, let me go atheremise, a little. first of all, we do share a lot in common. >> rose: chigo, politics. >> chicago, th

i also think thathe oth part of our funding that profoundly difrent is we exist because the people inur communities want us to exi. and people come tother. they make contributions large and small. and that's wt creates a plic televisn stations a stations like this i think so many people holdack from ming contributns becae they feel that their litt contribution couldn't possibly mea anything but you d them all up and that's what made plic broadsting -- you know, if you take public broaasting stations across the untry, of which weta is o of our flagship statio, the number of people that are members o public televisi ations is reall quite extraordinary. in ct, we're the larst membership organization in this country a so ihink that ere are a lot ofeople that have seen th light, that undetand that this kind of contributions very important toeep this stationstrong. but tre are a few peopl that >> if you're already a contributor o weta, plee know how muche appreciate your support. it's because of you that we are not only ae to stain this service but also to coinue to grow. t "newshour" is a

. >> by that i mean thathe cultures of nbc universal a newscorp aredeally suited to theimission, buthulu's mission is very diffent, which by saying th it necessitates a very diffent culture. we all f coach clas we eat popcorn corn. like we have cardboard bes that hold up our monitors. very ver frugal. that is nded forhe culre. thother thing is everybody at hulu ian owner inulu. that is soifferent tn the cultur in traditnal media. but that culture.. >> rose: hows everybody in hulu an owner? meaning all your partners are owners? all the people that provide the contt are owners? >>o. >> rose: youmean the people who work at...so your team from... >> my assistants an owner in hulu. anthat's the way it should be. becae if we're fortunate to create upside and to create value fo hulu, i think everybody at hu should particate in that upde. >> rose: what's the pr xaer son betwn the percenta of ownership of your assista and your percentage of ownerip? >> it's different. but no unlike, for example, if yore at google or amazon or what not. clearly it's not all the same in terms ... with regards t

hand googleas also figured out, i thk, and have suggested at least in someplaces that i have read thathe socia netwking is not the advertising vehicle th thought it might be. >> right. >> rose: it's not a place. people whoengaged -- who are using social network are not sort of likely to look at the ads. >> i thk that is right. and yoknow, twier may be more le that. but there's this informatiol component to twitterhat makes it a little bit less like a pure soci communication tool. ihink social communications areeally hard to monetize. information-seeking activities are mu ezer -- easier to monize. google beinthe ultimate exampl twit certicate somewhe inetween because of the fact tt i get my dad's tweets but i also get -- also wl do searches and find o what people are saying about the latest iphone. >> ro: right. > rose: i'm in washington th rahm emanuel just da afr the novemr election. presidentlect barack obama med him to behis chief of staff. it is one of the st powful positions in the american government. he is no stranger t washington. he sved as asenior advisor to presidentill inton

>> well, first, there is a w to structure these encounterin whicyou increase the likelihood thathe personwho is there to speak for th congress, in this se senator mccaskill, actuallis able to controthe microphone. and in parin this structure, in the rooms of some of the member as they talk to audiences is set up for nfrontation because the memb is standing the in the same environment, lookingace to face wh all these individuals. and once you get into at range and cameras me in, you can hear the shoutg out at the same moment you hear the meer's voice. and as a rult, the member doesn't control thenvironment. she'controlling the vironment. but more important, she, across the last week, s held a number of foms in which she's d a chance to explain in dep at lger... in longer periods than ts, the substance of the various pieces of legislion and debunk minformation. that's the way democracy shouldork. and that the attacks areoming om both the left and the rig is an importt realization. there's been a tendency news to feature those that are cong from the right without dicating there's substantial

the security of the nation is not thathe ramparts alone he wrote.secuty also lies in the value of our freedom institutions. a cantankerous press, an obstinate press, ubiquitous press must be suffered by those in authority and order to preserve even greater values of freedom expression and the right people to know. think about those phrases, cantankerous, obstinate, suffering by those in authority. that is language usually considered the path-- pathway to success and prosperity in journalism today or most other walks of lifeut he knew what he was talking about when he was saying in effect the press has totick its neck out to be willing to take some risktself to protect everything. the decision they handed down applied only to the newspapers directly but it really does apply to all media and to all citizens. it helps to rend journalists as to what their rights are in covering the news. just as important, curt fine's word help to remind viewers and readers of what they ever right to expect from a journalist who served them. thank you for your attention

also we kn thathe vaccine isn't going to be available until october.here's a lag between now and when school's getting back and when the vaccine will really be available. i worry that with multiple messages coming out of the federal government and this lag and because it's not a killer virus, that there may be some complacency on the part of some people. >> looking at pregnant women, parents of young children, children under the age of 4. >>he federal goverent came out and said pregnant women jump to the top of the list. regardless of what trimester you are in or if you're a brand new parent, you are most vulnerable. >> some of the deaths, hasn't this virus unlike the normal flu targeted more young adults? >> yes. unlike the regular flu that gets people at both extreme ends of the chronological spectrum and the infied, the average age infection with h1n1 is 19. average age of hospitalization is 37. because the young people in this country have no natural immunity and that's the concern. >> who's going to college now? 19, 20-somethings. >> the immunizat

states in the wake he horrificun20 ,09, 2009, as hh on metro's redas ht be become alarmingly clear t thathe current management is unleo safely ateoin min thero metrail mand metrobus tipee emst ntion the petition notes es n blnt man aaiai establish and maintain a culture af syafet and, as the public em ostlstoalcan s aysme the f erfeou fsystemsyalls on catoe's shoulders.st sfinall ctlase im himdha failedt inhc agnddfoomhcg nd transparent about the current state of the system. for mr. catoe's part when asked about remaining at his post, he has repeatedly said he wants to focus on finding the cause of the june accident, implementing changes that are recommended and continuing to earn the confidence of metro riders. catoe was named the nation's 2009 top public transportation manager by the american public transportation association for making outstandin contributions to the public transportation n industry. the metro board of directors has indicated they are confident in catoe's ability to lead. some of the people who signed this online petition are calling for catoe's removal. they touched on