the american people by and large trusted the bush administration. not to say there aren't some americans to distrusted, but most trusted him. he was there to tell a handful of lies that helped get us into the war. >> host: john mearsheimer, we often hear about the special relationship between the u.s. and england. given the special status of the relationship, are there lies told between these two nations as well? bill clinton perricos. >> guest: i looked very carefully at the relationship. and then i know a great deal about the bush bellaire relationship because both of them were involved in dragging their countries into war against iraq in march of 2003. i think in both cases, but the case of tony blair and the case of george w. bush, there is evidence that they told a handful of wise to the public. there is no evidence that they told lies to each other. in paris, they worked and enhanced to drag the added states and britain into the war. >> host: did you read this before we. ♪ >> guest: i began on the book a long time ago. i got a call who was them

it is to protect the american people. that nominee so far has been professor elizabeth warren, who has acted as an advisor. the cfpb has earned praise from the banking community for working to simplify and approve mortgage disclosure forms. this consumer protection board will protect the american people from predatory lending, from foreclosures, from excessive rates on your credit card. yet republicans in the senate in the other body want to make ridiculous accusations to hold the hostage position and take this individual into a hostage position and to suggest that she could not counsel with a state attorney general to help that state attorney general fight against mortgage foreclosures. when have you forbidden a federal representative, a federal representative of the united states government from talking to the states to be helpful? what is the purpose of the federal government other than to be helpful? it is time to stop the charade and stand with the american people. get someone working on that consumer board to protect

by and large the american press did not report a great deal about the japanese americans. people outside the west coast didn't know or care much about the japanese americans, until the government moved them, and then people figured, where there's smoke there must be fire. the government must know what at it doing. and so for the balance of the war years, the press was fairly negative, until the exploits of the japanese american soldiers of the 442nd, in combination with the government efforts to present a positive public image to japanese americans to aid in resettlement of people getting out of camps, began to change the minds of newspapers. but there lots of important newspapers, like the denver post, which remained solidly antijapanese during the entire war period. >> so we had no courageous commentators who were standing up for them. >> not at the outset. the only national figures who really spoke out against executive order 9066 were the writer, pearl s. buck, and the socialist party leader, norman thomas. >> did earl warren, who was instrumental on the supreme court a

this is the american agenda. this is the agenda about the future and it is so much an important part of dealing with the deficit. there's not an economist out there that tells us we can deal with the deficit unless we get people back to work. the people we want to get back to work is the american middle class, the american middle class needs to be rebuilt along with our manufacturing base and we can do it with a set of policies that we're putting forth here. we ask for the -- for our republican colleagues to join us on these smart pieces of legislation. mr. cicilline, this is your night, you've led us in this, i yield back my remaining time for your closure. mr. cicilline: i thank the gentleman from california for your leadership on this and your participation tonight aid -- and i thank the gentlelady from hawaii and beam and texas for joining us as well. rhode island was the birth place of the industrial revolution. when you look at the role manufacturing played in the early days of our country's economy, of the

the president has got to hear from the american people. he has got to hear they will not accept decimating medicare, medicaid, pell grants, the environment in order to give tax breaks to the wealthy. the president has to stand up for the millions of americans who have seen their homes, jobs, and their savings vanish instead of the millionaires that have never had it so good. mr. president, it is my belief that if the american people make that demand of the president and tell the president not to yield on this issue, we can win this budget struggle. if people would like to, and i hope they would, we have a letter to the president which i'm going to read in a moment on my website, and also as i mentioned earlier, they can contact the white house districtly by going strawght to the white house website and sending a message, and if hundreds of thousands of people do that, the president, i hope, will have the strength and the determination to say to the republicans, sorry, we are not going to balance the budget on the weak and the vulnerable. no

the second is his use of american history. he was accustomed to dealing with the constitution and he has written if it has affected the ratings of the fellow constitutional law specialist. and those are the two principal concerns along the way i develop how they see american democracy and see the constitution and how he thinks we should be operating as a democracy in the 21st century. >> as we open the discussion and o then the matters, i want to ask you as one who works in the 18th century and materials that grow more obscure, here you are, writing about democracy and all of a sudden coming here you are to write about a contemporary figure, the question is one of the major themes in this series, what does the historian bring? what in particular or specifically does the historian bring to the assessment and evaluation and interpretation of the intellectual biography of a political figure? what do we add to that? >> i could do two things on that score. first, to place barack obama himself in the history of late 20th century inte

[applause] >> and i would answer that actually one, you know, i think the arab-american, the muslim-americans are faced with the question whether we wanted to be integrated or assimilated, and, you know, that's a political corruption and because our system lives on fears, i mean, if we are assimilated, we would be accepted by the larger american community, but if we're integrated and keep our culture in the american society, but kept our, you know, our identity as an ish from a -- arab from a different world, that could be presenting a danger to the larger american community. i think that was where the question needs to be answered, and even that question is generational. people who are third generation, we don't answer it, you know, a different way, and third generation have their own answer. >> we're running short, but i want to say real quick what our research found. i don't need to go back to 9/11, but just to go back to the current arab uprising. post-9/11, there was this big identity question. are we arab, muslim, arab, muslim. there was a point of discussion. all the sudden you see the

constitutionally proper procedure of making the case to the recently the american scene and all the listening with ministers to go on the record it's going to lesley go ahead leslie going to london yeah yeah i mean i find it a little bit surprising that a legal scholar would be willing to put all military interventions in the category of war without defining it when you're being very careful about how you define the war powers act if you're going to define the war powers act and keep very carefully and certainly for a term you've got to differentiate between different types of war i mean i think we are the war powers act is significant here but we're getting away from some of the really crucial questions about this intervention and to say that the united states people are backing away from it because it hasn't been authorized by congress i think is not right if there's a turn it's because of what's happening on the ground it's because khadafi so in power because it's gone on for as long as it has and because there's a problem between the goal of protecting civilians and regime chang

for the general welfare. american historical experience always combined individual efforts with neighborly cooperation for the common good. we often think of american development in terms of rugged individualism and indeed individualism was important especially in the earliest days of colonial america. if you word a rugged, tough be personal strong individual you probably died. but think of those days of nineteenth century america. bond -- bar and raising was the neighborly operation. removing huge sums from farmland. there was a rugged individualism that was consistent fraternal cooperation. otherwise there would not be survival. working people could live in decent housing, for higher education for their children, and leisure to labor and rest secure in old age were the conscience goals of the roosevelt revolution and all were achieved. roosevelt understood that a healthy democracy demanded social and economic justice if it were to survive. this was especially so in the 20th century world of fascism and communism whe

the american people know the american people never supported it in the first place at least according to opinion polls and that's why the constitution has this procedure that says before you go to war make sure you get the people to support it as shown by of a declaration of war in congress when you american people would never support this intermediate limited kind of intervention that is being done. the way nato is is tied somebody's hands behind its back the american public tends to be in favor of wars that america goes into when and the president would have had to go to the people and say here is our plan here's what we're going to do and instead we get an invite we get the attack on the libyan army the khadafi dictatorships illegitimate armed forces but without a rationale really explain to the american people or without putting i think you're being unfair at the and a good way you when you got democracy the way a democracy wins wars is by winning public support from that at home first when you have public support behind you then you have the support to stay in over the long term

this is one of the magic moment in american history. in the next 18 months, because obama will fail in practice and in radicalism, we are in a position where we can say that reason the practice failed is because the radicalism is hopeless. you think that people would have figured out the socialism does not work. as margaret thatcher wants said it is the problem with socialism is you run out of other people's money to spend. [applause] we need to be prepared to go to the country both with principles of freedom, principles of american and sectionalism, principles of national safety, and with very practical steps of the proposals would grow out of those principles. it is that combination that will enable us to have one of the great decisive elections and in the process to educate two generations of americans who the school systems have failed to educate. [applause] margaret thatcher said you win the argument first and then you win the votes. you need to have an argument. some people in politics find this confusing. i just wrote a new book.

the reason is most americans agree with us on the issues.f we can get those kind of numbers now -- we can get those kind of numbers now, but we have to run our party in a way that 60% of the people feel like they're welcome, they get a chance, their vote is needed, and appreciated. [applause] >> part of the greatness of the tea party activity of the last couple of years is that on like the ross perot phenomenon, or the george wallace phenomenon, they did not go often have a third party. they realize if you're going to have a more conservative president, somebody who was to take the country in the direction they want to go, it has to be in the republican party. [applause] >> and if you split the conservative vote, that is the best thing for the left. the left is dying for the tea party, or the whatever party to be a third party. barack obama has worn out three sets of kneepads down on his knees praying for the tea party to become a third party, because he cannot lose if we split the conservative vote. we all love mississippi. one of our favor

let's leave them to the safe harbor of american renewal and the shores of american exceptional ism. let's anchor them in the future of good jobs and a country founded on great ideas. restore the notion of a government of the people, for the people, by the people. if we do not do it, who will? if not now, when? there is no greater goal, no more crucial time than right now to take and make their stance to restore our economy, our family, our country. i happen to know that we can and i know that you will. god bless you and thank you all for being out -- for being out here today and god bless the united states of america. this >> says retired lieutenant colonel steve russell spoke to that conference for just over 10 minutes. >> ladies and gentlemen, please welcome steve russell, author of "these values." [applause] >> i had the privilege of commanding a force that captured said on his name. -- saddam hussein. thank you. thank you. among the soldiers that were serving with us that night was ian and michael. ian discovered the for tidbits -- orchards and michael was a battle captain. littl

>>> from washington, "the mclaughlin group," the american original. for over two decades, the sh >>> issue one, iraq is back! over 100 peopop wounded, over 20 killed this week in a deadly attack in a crowded market in central baghdad. bodies were strewn everywhere. the war in iraq just ended its eighth year, now the second longest war in u.s. history, second only to the afghantan nfli. he's isa iraq war r human toll, u.s. military. killed, 4421 american soldiers. injured, amputeed, wounded, mentally ill -- 31,922 americans. the u.s. military is still there, the number of u.s. troops in iraq now just short of 50,000. roughly the population of biloxi, mississippi. the u.s. military in iraq had been scheduled to leave iraq by december 31, 2011. secretary gates now says he wants them to stay. and he is trying to figure outs how he can get the iraqi government to "ask" the u.s. to stay in iraq. >> the iraq and we are talking about some kind of residual american presence in terms of helping them with beyond december of 2011. >> some believe that we are sinki

the british hated the americans. and they had no interests, whatsoever, to assist their former colonies. and some might be the amount of meat that the british that rendered their character incapable of incivilization. [laughter] >> what do you do like this, you go on a garden tour. washington had his aversion to britain had to admit that they created the best gardens and they must have looked rather odd pair walking together through these gardens because you have thomas jefferson all tall, thin gangly, all dressed up in french silk and kind of powdered hair, towering him 7 inches over john adams. a bit more round, a bit more stout. but despite their differences -- and there's actually one scene compared to a candlestick and a cannonball. but despite their differences, they both absolutely adored gardens. and they were both gardeners and maybe in a slightly different way so you have john adams who's very much a hands-on gardener who loved getting his hands dirty, who -- whenever he's away from his garden, which is in q

let's leave them to the safe harbor of american renewal and the shores of american exceptional ism. let's anchor them in the future of good jobs and a country founded on great ideas. restore the notion of a government of the people, for the people, by the people. if we do not do it, who will? if not now, when? there is no greater goal, no more crucial time than right now to take and make their stance to restore our economy, our family, our country. i happen to know that we can and i know that you will. god bless you and thank you all for being out -- for being out here today and god bless the united states of america. >> steve russell who commanded the unit who killed some who say spoke for just over two minutes. >> ladies and gentlemen, please welcome steve russell, author of "we got him." [applause] among the soldiers that were serving with us that night was in an unmarked. -- ian and mark. mark coordinated information as a battle captain for the first brigade of the fourth infantry division. little did these two soldiers know that, when they were roommates at west point, that they

he was the first african-american general in the army and was going to announce that roosevelt was creating this training program for african americans in tuskegee, alabama. i found a memo where he figured out when the press deadline would be for the weekly black newspapers on the last day before the 1940 election and he released this press announcement that roosevelt was doing all these things for african-americans just hours before that deadline so he guaranteed the top headline on every black newspaper in the united states on the day of the election was going to be roosevelt create programs for blacks, promotes first black general, all these things. very astute political. there are moral reasons for doing this. there are political reasons for doing this. you don't have to be too much of the senate to believe roosevelt did this more for political reasons than for anything else but he did create the program and tuskegee. that created some divisions within the african-american community. the naacp had been lobbying all along for the creation of integrated flight training. it is easy to get

the pledge is not to americans for tax reform, it's the the voters of their state and the american peopled people hold them responsible. george herbert walker bush, bush 41 had a fairly reasonablely successful presidency. he ended the cold war without a lot of blood on the floor. >> stephen: absolutely. >> got iraq out of kuwait without occupying the place for the next 12 years and he had one small problem and this is that he raised taxes when he promised he wouldn't. and he lost his job. >> stephen: did he sign this? >> he did, indeed, yeah. >> stephen: did you wave this bloody shirt during that campaign to bring that guy down? >> i didn't need to. the american people did. >> stephen: did you show the american people the shirt? (laughter) did you distribute this to everyone in america? how do they get this? >> the media lets people know and voters know. so we share the pledge, obviously. since you took the pledge three years ago when you were looking to possibly run for president.... >> stephen: looking to run a run? i ran for president, sir. (laughter) and it was only... (cheers and app

i mean the american president seems to be more worried about the war which t.v. stars divorcing which t.v. star more than anything you know so we on our team will get right down to it with lots of fun founder jim rogers will talk about everything from u.s. debt to the prospect of q e three china and more. build or brewer gets the elite group said to perhaps carve out the world and once again their meeting and new on the attendance list this year the mainstream media so what's it all about we'll speak with our teams laura and i for an on the ground look plus we'll try to peek at what's on the agenda behind those closed doors. and introducing the newest russian voice in america coming to airwaves near you will give you a behind the scenes look at the voice of russia america. good evening it's thursday june ninth i'm lauren lyster coming to you from here in washington d.c. you're watching our t.v. now as the u.s. government remains deadlocked over the budget and the debt the credit ratings agency fitch is that of u.s. lawmakers can't agree to raise the debt ceiling

and it's not the american way. i have proposed searching through the tax code to find wasteful tax subsidies and eliminate unnecessary giveaways. this year is the right moment to start, and, no, not just one program should be singled out. we should set a series of standards and test each tax program against those standards on whether they create jobs, whether they make a stronger economy, whether they take america forward, and whether or not that $126 million spent in this category or that is more important to the nation than other cuts that we might be enter tank. those are the tests that need to be applied in a thoughtful and thorough manner. it is time not to wall off the programs for the wealth economy and well-connected while attacking programs that make working america go forward in a stronger fashion. thank you, mr. president. the presiding officer: under the previous order, the leadership time is reserved. under the previous order, the senate will be in a period of morning business until 12:00 noon with sena

we in the african-american community have no time to waste. i am going to stand up with a bold stance. the black press needs to sit down with whomever is running this ship pier that does not know -- this ship here that does not know about oversight. anything other than that would be in dignity. here you have a department head saying it is an oversight. there has been an oversight on the african-american community for 40 years. my name is ace and i'm on the case. i have been here at silly call for 20 years and i have experienced the indignity of the african-american community. in the media, particularly. i meeting today with the city and county. i am in the city hall and now they are trying to get rid of me, y'all. but i done made history. never, ever has there been an african-american organization here. [tone] supervisor campos: next speaker, please. >> i'm the publish -- the publisher of the "west portal monthly" newspaper and the chair of the san francisco neighborhood association newspaper. if you have any questions regarding some of the nei

we need to get the pride of american history, the teaching of the constitution, the american flag, andof allegiance back in our schools. [cheers and applause] we have to stop this political correctness and coddling of islamic terrorists. these radicals want to kill us, and it cannot be tolerated. we cannot allow islamic banks or courts in our country, and we must fully support israel as the only democracy and ally we have in the middle east. i would never issue of building permit for a mosque on sacred american soil, stained with the blood of innocent citizens by a terrorist attack. [applause] we must secure our borders, and no more live service. i worked in u.s. special operations command on terror. we have everything coming through this border, not just people wanting to pick strawberries where i live. we have to stop rewarding people for being here illegally. we need to realize that led the world know that being in this country is a privilege and not our right. americans that paid the ultimate price, but just because you show up does not mean we owe you anything. if you want to be h

i spoke to the american people about what we would do. i said there would be no troops on the ground. i said that we would not be carrying the lion's share of this operation. but as members of nato, we would be supportive of it, because it's been our national security interest and also because it's the right thing to do. we have done exactly what i said we would do. we have not put any boots on the ground, and our allies who historically we have complained aren't willing to carry enough of the load when it comes to nato operations, have carried a big load when it comes to these nato operations, and as a consequence, we've perfected thousands of people in lib yea. we have not seen a single u.s. casualty. there are no risks of additional escalation. this operation is limited in time and in scope. so i said to the american people, here's our narrow mission. we have carried out that narrow mission with exemplary progress. we've had 10 hearings on it and sent reams of information about what the operations are. i've had all the members of congre

i mean the american president seems to be more worried about the work which t.v. star is divorcing which t.v. star more than anything you know not here we will get right down to it with on some fun founder jim rogers will talk everything from us debt to the prospect of q e three china and more. builder girls of the elite group said to perhaps the world is once again meeting so what's it all about we'll try to people what's on the agenda behind those closed doors. and introducing the newest russian voice in america and we take airwaves near you will give you a behind the scenes look at the voice of russia america. and just because we're asking all the hard hitting questions artie's still labeled as anti-american but is it really ends a american to try to get to the truth so wide that the war on r.t.e. . evening it's thursday june ninth eight pm here in washington d.c. i'm lauren lyster you're watching our team now as the u.s. government remains deadlocked over the budget and the nation's debt the credit rating agency fitch has said if lawmakers can agree to raise t

investment with the americans is harmful. on balance, we should not allow china to invest in the u.s. there are people who believe that, i get e-mails from them all the time. i'm thankful this is not a position represented in the u.s. congress. we deal with congress all the time, they have problems, they have objections, they get angry, they don't think chinese investment is a net negative for the united states. there are people who hold this position. i welcome questions from them. it's not a serious position in the policy debate. and i'm thankful for that. now, the fourth position, and i don't know whether the ambassador wants to be associated with the position or not, but it's very respectable. and i want to argue a little bit against dan here, even though this is not my view. >> move over. >> this is the reciprocity position. reciprocity is the foundation of the w-2. the idea that reciprocity represents protectionism, anything can be aligned or misused. reciprocity is an entirely different position to take. there's variety

he has cast a shadow over the other african americans the risk of but more generally beyond just the world of african-americans, but just a shadow over anyone who has thought about african-american identity. part of the idea's going back to the canine and engaging to block -- dubois political thought, if we arrive at some of the assumptions and our own thinking about many of these issues. >> in the west 113 years are so, what practical effect has dubois had? where is his lineage? >> of course he was one of the great inspiration's of the civilized movement. i think it is well known that john mearsheimer is deaf. i used that, roger wilkinson. the announcement of du bois as an epigraph. and he says there, you know, there is one thinker whose double overshadows both the movement happening here today is du bois. so real connection in between not only what is going on the level of contemporary writers. there is thinking about these issues, is used to my income having to do with identity, conflicts in the aftermath of segregation, the aftermath of obama, but also the voice has had an enormou

he has collaborated with the most diverse american theater venues, from large mainstream houses to the most experimental venues to african american ethnic cally specific theaters reaching extraordinarily diverse audiences. from here to japan, his acclaimed sisters, maximoto premiered in 2005. in the last couple years he worked with camposanto on a fist of roses on male violence and an orchestral composition. many of his plays are collected in month more cherry blossoms published by washington press. among his awards are the civil liberties public education fund and lila wallace reader's digest award. phillip is also a respected independent film maker whose film recently premiered at sundance, but we're here to talk about his upcoming production, after the war. a jazz-infused drama set in post-war san francisco japan town in 1948 which chronicles the return of japanese americans into the internment -- from the internment camp. sharing this evening is chloe veltman. chloe was born in london and received a master's degree with distinction in conjunction with harvard university and the mos

both of critical importance to the american public. with regard to fiscal responsibility, h.r. 2017 provides $40.6 billion in discretionary funding or almost $3 billion or 7% below the request and $1.1 billion or 3% below the fiscal year 2011 level. as for national security, all of our frontline personnel including border patrol agents, c.b.p. officers, i.c.e. agents and coast guard military personnel are funded to sustain their forces and meet mission objectives. obviously we wish we could do more in this legislation but i think this is a very important start, we should move this process forward. furthermore, this bill, 2017, does not shy away from oversight to ensure the federal government is a good steward of the american public's tax dollars. for instance, the transportation security administration, t.s.a., will be required to cap their full time screeners and generate plan to improve the integration of screening technology and the deployment of its existing work force. having served on the authorizing committee for six years, i ver

people the will of the american people all the taxpayers that actually bailed out wall street we're just not powerful enough when it comes to you know to fighting for our interests here in washington d.c. i also want to ask you to since the federal reserve decided to finally do a little investigation in a little number crunching as to what these banks really should be charging in these debit card swiping fees i mean forty four cents versus twelve cents that is a huge difference how come nobody really looked into that before retailers are going complaining for a while but there's not much that they could do about it i mean you know the banks will keep raising the fee and raising the fee but u.s. has the highest way to get any kind. in the world and you know the only your only option if you're a retailer is to just not take credit cards and that's not very effective so this is something that they've actually wanted to do for a long time and it's finally come to fruition now have we heard any any threats now the wall street actually lost the battle after spending tens of millions of do

the american federation of teachers, a union of professionals. poongsan corporation, forging a higher global standard. the rotondaro family trust. the ctc foundation. afo communications. and the american life tv network. >> tell me a little bit about the relationship between kurdistan and the u.s. military over the last number of years. >> it is a relationship that is growing and i think a strengthening, even though we have not had large u.s. military bases in kurdistan. there is a great appreciation from the u.s. military to the role of the kurds in operation iraqi freedom. we were the only real indigenous force, organized force that fought side-by-side with the americans during iraqi freedom and suffered the second-highest number of casualties. we pride ourselves on the fact we fought alongside the americans to fight for our country and build a future for ourselves and i think that appreciation is evident throughout the security establishment in the united states. there is also a strong, robust counter-terrorism cooperation between kurdish speci

the greatness of the american spirit. er one day i was in my office serving as governor toward the end of my term. we got a call from the airport. they said that a soldier's body was being returned to our state, coming in on a u.s. air flight but that the family had not been able to be notified in time to get there to receive the body and the family had asked if i would come to the airport to receive the body. of course i said yes and we drove over to the airport. the police guard took me out on the tarmac and the jet came in and the people disembarked in the luggage came down the conveyor. finally, the casket came down the conveyor. the state troopers who were there with me all saluted. i put my hand on my heart. happened to glance up at the terminal. there was a big wall of glass at the terminal in boston. the people coming off the plane had seen all the cop cars so they lined up to see what was going on. people walking down all saw the people against the glass of a pulled in behind them. it was a huge crowd up there. ev

the intent is that it will be used to protect the american public from e. coli. this is something we have to do. our primary responsibility as the people's representative is to protect the health and safety of american families and current funding level for the f.d.a. puts these at risk. food-borne knilness account for 100,000 hospitalizations and 100,000 deaths. one in every six americans become sick from the very food they eat each year. specific to e. coli, well over 200,000 sicknesses every year are because of this food-borne back terial sickness and a serious outbreak is also very real. in europe, we are witnessing such a lethal outbreak. in germany, hundreds have been infected and thousands have become sick. just this morning, a two-year-old boy died from kidney failure as a result of e coli poisoning which was from raw bean sprouts. the fatal outbreak could happen here. in many ways we have been extraordinarily lucky that it has not happened more often. in recent years, all types of food have been contaminated from flute loops to spa getty-o's s. and we pas

of a the highest cadre of officers were white. everybody else was african-american made to the trains run on time and wic proving they could do theunct job. the argument all along from the pragmatic side was ifum given the chance to prove we we can do the job we will have to do the job and the country will have to change as as result.resu roughly 500 of the pilots that a graduated went to serve overseas. most famously is they flew fighter escorts for the american bombing missions into central europe againstrt the axis powers. fop at the very end of the war, there was at a press story that was quoted by the army air force that the 3,302nd fighter group made entirely of african american pilots had never lost a bomber under their protection. it is not sure it is a mythology but when historian at the air force historical research agency in alabama has proven conclusivelyre use of the documents in their pro collection and that there were some bombers lost while the tuskegee flew escorts. that has been an argument that has played out over the last couple years and one at-

you might even say that they powered the american dream. today, because of the massive debt burden our nation is accumulating, those opportunities are vanishing before our very eyes. not just for our children and grandchildren, but for current generations as well. the evidence is all around us. the jobs report issued by the u.s. department of labor last week was a punch in the gut, a sobering reality check. unemployment is now 9.1%, creeping upward again, with only 54,000 jobs created last month. the stimulus spending bill enacted in 2009 was supposed to keep unemployment from rising above 8% and was going to create millions of new private-sector jobs immediately. it didn't happen. i would submit to you tonight that the reason we are continuing to struggle economically is because we've been placing too much trust in government programs and not enough trust in our people. [applause] it's the american people who have always been the real driving force behind our economy. the reality is the bigger the government gets, the smaller the american p

>>> from washington, "the mclaughlin group," the american original. for over two decades, the >>> issue one, pawlenty's matter. he's got high hopes! ! ♪ >> let's grow the economy by 5%, instead of the anemic 2% currently in vision. >> the announced republican presidential candidate, tim how pawlenty has high hopes for the u.s. economy. he wants it to grow by 5%, $700 billion growth per year. this week, governor pawlenty unveiled his economic plan to get that 5% growth. one, cut corporate taxes. from 35% to 15%, permitting more capital for investment and for hiring. two, create two tax brackets, 10% bracket for family incomes up to $100,000, 25% for all other incomes. three, eliminate three existing taxes -- on capital gains, on dividends, and on inheon inheritances. thus yielding more spending money. four, balance federal budgets, with a constitutional amendment requiring that budgets carry no deficit. question, how can tim pawlenty combine cutting taxes and balancing the budget? i ask you, pat. >> do you it, john, with 5% growth a year, which throws o

humiliation in vietnam was the primary focus of american policy. in the 1990s we saw the stirring rhetoric and the commitment to the people of afghanistan of the 1980s evaporate as the country descended into civil war and the rise of the taliban. when the u.s. invaded and occupied afghanistan in 2001, we shook our heads at the irony as the u.s. followed the old soviet union into the very same quagmire it had used to envelope its enemy. but with the obama administration's decision, we knew that the process we had speculated about some 30 years ago had finally been completed. there were two main reasons for naming our new book "crossing zero." one is that zero line is the name given to the door rand line separating -- durand line separating afghanistan from pakistan. it's also a line that the u.s. has fought on both sides of since the 1980s. the other is that given its history zero line is an inescapable metaphor for the turning point which the united states finds itself at at the beginning of the second decade of the 20th century. it's clearly define

the vietnam war is the american war. late 1950's, 1975. for most vietnamese the war began at the latest in 1946. many would argue at the beginning of the century of the french first came to take control of vietnam. try to think back as early as the 1890's in the coming of french rule and to talk about anti colonialism, the french war, the american war and to talk of the war for memory of vietnam since the war is over. >> host: have the vietnamese perspective been lost from time? >> guest: not in vietnam. other places in the world. the american war in vietnam is the most talked-about topic. there are thousands of books and articles. and that is just the world. if you think of, and television and radio. it is the kind of topic where americans can really turn around the doing some about the war. that literature is largely about the nature of the market involvement. very little attention, and faster on to the kind of realities of the vietnamese, whether it is high policy or whether it is to lure experience in the war often at the doorstep. surp

at that time, john adams is the american minister in london, and thomas jefferson is the american ministerris and in the spring of 86 adumbrates to jefferson and asks him to join him in london to assist him with the trade negotiations with the british. but they had no luck. the british peace to the americans and had no interest whatsoever to assist their former colonies. they were so rude jefferson speculated it might be the amount of meat consumed by the british and this is what jefferson says that when the character is susceptible of civilization. [laughter] so what would you do in a moment like this? go on a garden tour, what else? because jefferson despite his aversions towards the british had to admit they had created the best gardens and they must have looked a rather odd pair working together through the gardens because you have thomas jefferson all tall, thin, dressed up and french and it curled up here, covering almost 7 inches over john adams, a bit more stout. but despite the differences, and one being compared to a candlestick and a cannon ball, but despite their differences, t

the american cause is not about imposing a will. it is about an idea. nsion of that idea and these times we have to engage in these that threaten this great land and the ideal for who we are. in closing, president ronald wilson reagan said it so bravely, and he took it from the new testament, matthew, chapter five we talked about america being a shining city that sits upon a hill. back in florida congressional district 22 which i the honor to represent, there are a couple places lighthouse point in jupiter hill where we still have a light houses. and think about how lighthouses have always stood to guide the ship in troubling times so that they do not crash upon rocks. that is our american cause, and what it has meant for the rest of the world is that we are a lighthouse which stands to bring those distressed ships of state into safe harbor. and if that light that is the united states of america where to go outcome if the light that is the american cause of freedom, of liberty, the pursuit of happiness, the respect of the individual were to go out, in th

but the american people do not want that. they do not want to continue do this road of $14.6 trillion, maybe $16 trillion after we raise the debt ceiling, without a significant commitment in law what we will do about reducing spending and overall cutting down of the debt. host: of the bipartisan talks going on with is president joe biden, what you want to come out of that so that you are a yes vote to raise the debt ceiling? guest: we've talked about a number of scenarios. the idea of a balanced budget amendment is one that i would like to see. the likelihood of that is not very strong. quite honestly, there are many states that may not want a balanced budget amendment. particularly if they get all larger share of the federal government largess into their state coffers. and it takes 75 of -- 75% of the states. we do not have time to wait for that. those who say that we will have caps on spending as a percentage of gdp, bringing it back down 18%, said that into law and make it triggered that makes us cut spending if we go above

>> is adjusted the american standard of living would be extended to all americans some of these four free sputum -- freedom of speech and freedom of the year but once it is a promise of the american standard of living that he was careful to emphasize over and over but mostly during the war something the soldiers deserve to come home to but it was also as a larger goal and that is more complicated >> host: why do say that? >> the affluent society came about did not slow it was dismantled by 1943. but much of what survived was transformed by war. arbitration became the heart of labor relations which was not the case from the late 1930's. but that affluence and global power the hybrid of what survived the new deal from the second world war and that agencies that were erected to carry on the cold war. >> host: you teach at the university of chicago? >> those civil war modern u.s. history emphasis on politics but broadly construed to include cultural and social aspects as well as high diplomacy. >> host: in the history department? >> guest: i am. >> host: what is your new book about? >> gu