and candid with the american public. bottom line is their plan for bigger government, more federal control over our private sector, more regulations and burdensome mandates on the people and on our businesses, it's not working. and we do need to shift gears and change course. it's very noble of president obama to want to stay at the helm and go down with the sinking ship. but i prefer, many americans prefer we start plugging the hole, we start powering up the build pump and start getting rid of this unsustainable debt that is sinking our ship. we don't have to go the way of the titanic. there are things that have to be put in place right now before this ship does sink. we don't have to keep going down the road we're going on today. >> chris: let's talk about the debate. what republicans are saying about what to do next. republicans are sounding a familiar refrain. cut spending, cut taxes. cut regulations. democrats say promote exports, targeted investment and the big spending cuts would actually throw more people out of w

it has been about the desire of the american public to get back to our foundational beliefs and our values, free market enterprise, freedoms for americans to make our own decisions instead of somebody else. at least far away government making the decision for us. so it is not about me. zeroris: on a spectrum of is i'm not running and 100% is i'm in the race where are you now? >> still right in the middle. trying to figure out where the lay of the land will be as the weeks and months go by. >> chris: i want to talk about a don't remembercy. controversy. this week alaska o officials wl release thousand of pages of your e-mails as governor. are you worryd that some of those e-mails can be damaging? >> no, i think every rock in the palin household that could be kicked over and uncovered everything has already been kicked over. i don't think there is anything private in our family. a lot of the e-mails obviously weren't meant for public consumption. they are between staff members and probably between family members jcialtio. i'm sure people will capitalize to go through 25,000 e-mails and take

truly, it has and has been about the desire of the american public to get back to our foundational beliefs and values, free market enterprise, freedoms for americans to make our own decisions. instead of the elite, faraway government making the decisions for us. >> chris: so -- >> not about me... >> chris: on a spectrum where zero is i'm absolutely not running and 100% is i'm in the race, where are you now? give me a a number. >> still right there in the middle, chris, trying to figure out what the lay of the land will be. >> chris: 50? >> as the weeks and months go by. >> chris: i want to talk about a controversy. this week alaska officials as you well know are going to release thousands of pages of your e-mails as governor. are you worried some of those e-mails could be damaging? >> no. because you know, i think every rock in the palin household that could be kicked over and uncovered, is already -- has been kicked over. i don't think there is anything private in our family notes and a lot of the e-mails were not meant for public consumption, they are between of is it a members and proba

who can get the american public back to work? as the experience and the vision to do that, to make that argument. >> i don't want to play devil's advocate but he had the same experience then that he has now and same argument that he has then that he has now. if anything, he has to stand up to a president that is getting the economy moving. but what was the answer that mitt romney gave in the speech today? i read the speech. it was receipt for clee nice and there was no answer other than government spending at 20% gdp in terms of job creation or dealing with dropping housing prices. >> in '08 there were a lot of instances where the messages got muddled and now he has a much clearer message. the american public wants to know who is going to get america back to work and i think he has the answers there. standing in deficits are two of the problems but i also think that he has to look at his experience. that's where he's going to be able to connect in a way that he wasn't able to connect in 2008. he has the experience. the president h

the american people. and that in the narrative of civil liberties, expansion, the american public is typically ahead of the political class as they were most recently. and so you are saying something fascinating. do you think that politicians still are behind the american public on this issue? >> yeah, i think both in terms of culturally on television programming, on people as they become more and more public, they come out of the closet. you understand a nephew, a son, a father is gay. a mother. and that begins to make it very personal. people understand -- people have a personal connection with someone who is a member of the lgbp community and it profoundly changes the dynamic. >> i don't think there's any question anyone who has a relative, a friend and suddenly has that connection suddenly says, wait a minute. my preconceived views have to be wrong. but you make such a deep point, jim. and it wasn't just about same-sex marriage or gay marriage. it's about women's rights, labor rights, the environment. all of these critical movements began in the public. politicians only catch up much later. >> exactly.

. >> host: profs barrel were economic promises made to help sell the war to the american public? >> economic promises? >> 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

public is fed up with the war sixty four percent of the american public and recent poll said that they want the u.s. forces to be begin pulling out but of course the real challenge is to hold the territory when the u.s. leaves and that would fall to the afghan forces but the afghan forces are incompetent and corrupt and now they just don't seem to be better much better after ten years of training so there's one hundred thousand contractors in in private contractors in iraq which equals the number of u.s. forces there what happens with those are off the public radar we concentrate on the people in uniform and that's what this speech was about tonight and certainly the troops are coming out for political reasons so that it's not out of the realm of possibility that they're kind of doing a shell game and replacing the forces the military forces with contractors and former soviet countries have been commemorating those who died in defense of the u.s.s.r. in world war two marking seventy years after the nazi invasion ceremonies have been held across several states

to actually show the american public the effects of climate change. we're literally seeing on the ground right now. great thing about parks, our visitors have repeat visitors. so if you go visit your cousins and you'll see their kids, you know, go over, like, ten years, every time you see them they get another foot taller or whatever, people come back to national parks repeated and we can actually see the change within their visit framework. >> i want to talk about that. >> that's a perfect opportunity for education. the third piece is really mitigation. the national park service, itself, can reduce its own carbon footprint and at the same time demonstrate that to the american public. >> it's hard to imagine the parks have a huge carbon footprint. very small part of the problem. >> we don't, but we can be an exemplar. we can demonstrate how to reduce carbon footprint. >> what are you seeing on the ground right now? what are you doing about it? >> well, for instance, in the sierras, we're seeing a lengthening of the fire seasons. i mean, they start ear

the dodd frank reform law risks hurting american business. what do you say to that complaint? >> i say that transparent markets and well regulated markets benefit the american public and businesses and ultimately help promote jobs. the financial system fails america and the regulatory system failed. but what we know from prior failures out of the depression that well regulated markets help promote the economy. and this market, this swaps market that was so much a part of the crisis and all we need say is aig needs to have some oversight. needs a cop on the beat. needs transparency where people can see where the markets are. i think what we're doing here actually helps business and america. >> one other thing that happened during the financial crisis is we found out some of the derifd derivatives were customize and difficult to read and they were trying to make it more open and standardized and put it on exchanges. can you do that with those kinds of very customized derivatives and if you try to push them there which some of the regulations are trying to push them to, know, becoming like stocks where anybody can trade them, aren't you going to make it harder for pe

i think the american public deserved to hair more about why we were will continue to have troops there after he brings back the or withdraws the 33,000 he talked about earlier this week. people need to understand the conditions on the ground. you talk about war in the united states as a national security issue, but one of things that we don't want to do either as a nation in war is horrible. in one wants to engage in war, but we also don't want to become numb to human suffering all over the world. and i think if you talked to former president clinton, for example, and president bush, the fact that people can watch television and watch the genocide that's happened in sudan and sit back and do nothing as a nation, we are the greatest nation on earth. we have the greatest democracy in the world. how could you look at the women in iraq or afghanistan or iran who are raped as a tool of war, who are not allowed to be he cade. who are forced to dress in clothing that you can't see anything of them because they are second rate citizens? nowhere do we have a democracy that is safe when you can

dissemination of disinformation or what feels like lies to me or clearly taking advantage of the american public. as i said last night, every time a politician says, "the american people are not stupid," they're mocking us. you know, they're banking on our ignorance and apathy. and again, i say we're like ignorance; people are like, "what do you mean? what i mean by ignorance is, you're not given the information. you're not privy to the information. i'm not calling you stupid, you know? but politicians sure bank on your stupidity. they bank on your apathy. that's how political careers are built. what you say is certainly not a salute to the chief executive. it's certainly not a salute, but i also am very diplomatic when i say, i am not building up the democrats. i'm not tearing down the republicans. now, did you do that framing before the war on terrorism? i mean, you're not at all apologetic, but you sort of say, "i'm not liberal. i'm not democrat." i'm liberal. i'm a liberal. but you said a-- it's not apologetic, but you are telling them, "oh, don't applaud that." right, because that implies t

the united states. that is critical. in my public opinion polls here, among the american public in april, asking the public whether they wantstates to take a position of either the public or the government in the arab world, in every single country, 2/3 want to stay out. of those who want the u.s. to intervene, again by a ratio of 5-to-1 or 2-to-1, depending on the country, the u.s. public wants the government to take the side of the people against the side of the government. that is true for every country from syria to saudi arabia. host: you have another comment among the 2/3 -- don't you think we should worry about our own problems? you are on the phone with professor telhami. caller: good morning. what is the meaning of "peace"? how can we have peace when the politician and the christian are singing the same song? host: i didn't mean to cut you off. how do you define "peace"? guest: in terms of the israeli- palestinian conflict -- i am a professor of peace studies in some way -- i will just the finest in the context of the arab- -- define it in the context of the arab-israeli conflict. you have relations that are secure

. >> professor sparrow, were economic promises made to help sell the war to the american public? >> economic promises? um, certainly roosevelt's four freedoms suggested that the american standard of living would be extended to all americans as a consequence of the war. so these forfreedoms were freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom from want, freedom from fear. and roosevelt was very careful to emphasize over and over again as he spoke about the war aims. um, mostly during the war as something that the soldiers deserved to come home to. and they did, in fact, receive that with the servicemen's reea justment act of 1944. but it was also promised as a larger goal of the war and, in fact, was delivered in many ways although, you know, that story's more complicated than what i've just suggested. >> why do you say that? >> well, because the way in which the affluent society came about did not flow directly from roosevelt's plans. muffin of the new deal -- much of the new deal had been dismantled by 1943, public works, work relief, planning. much of what survived was transform

good and yet hopefully they won't alter anything i think they're probably trying to wake up the american public when they put out some of this information especially what are the specific e-mails that you. talking about when you find out that our taxpayer dollars are being used to hire these for you know which then work with the large corporations to bend people and do this massive surveillance and data mining and i should be frustrating for all americans but i guess if these stories don't get brought up enough at least in the media you know the other day we reported of a massive f.b.i. raid in virginia and said for some reason nobody else has talked about that story tony i want to thank you very much for joining us and i feel like we're probably going to be seeing more and more of these cases thank you thank you carol. our fireside fridays coming out and then it's the end of the week so we raise our glasses for happy hour cable news channel actually asked psychics to predict the future of the economy but the media was crazy when bieber got knocked down on the. internet only when there were thr

whoever they are going to do and i don't you know i don't see them trying to actually distort the american public or destroy the things which i think are valuable i think they could do a lot more damage than what they're doing and i don't think they've done that yet hopefully they won't offer anything i think of that probably trying to wake up the american public when they put out some of this information especially without any specific e-mails that you. we're talking about when you find out that our taxpayer dollars are being used to hire these firms you know which then work with the large corporations to then people and do this massive surveillance and data mining that should be frustrating for all americans but i guess that these stories don't get brought up enough least in the media you know the other day we reported of a massive f.b.i. raid in virginia too and some for some reason nobody else has talked about that story tony i want to thank you very much for joining us and i feel like we're probably going to be seeing more and more of these cases thank you if your. or fireside friday is comi

back to the first part we had in this new segment where we talk about what matters most of the american public what matters most the american public is money bottom line it's money wars cost a lot of money high taxes cost a lot of money when you have high taxes and you have wars the republic the the the people on the average. grassroots they're the ones that have to pay for that and they're tired of doing it they've been ten years longest word in history he's the only candidate up there that said yeah it's time to end this these shenanigans but take it let's be honest i mean i've got to bring the fact this is brought up i think this morning in the interview on n.b.c. that. a lot of these ideas people can jump on board with but when you talk about getting government out and you talk about really really cutting back the involvement of government and also includes a lot of social programs and when you have a candidate getting out there and saying the government should make laws about drug use we're not just talking about marijuana i was talking about heroin that is resonate with people you know i

>> and the pentagon papers will finally be revealed to the american public in full. e venezuelan president hugo chavez says he is recovering well after surgery on his pelvis. he did not give a date for his return home, but said he is managing government from his hospital bed. he underwent an operation on friday. he told venezuelan tv he had met with former and current cuban leaders, fidel and raul castro, over the weekend. >> surgery on a knee injury kept him sidelined for some weeks. now he has undergone an emergency operation in cuba for something more serious. an abscess on his pelvis. amid speculation is that his condition is worse than the government has revealed, he called from havana to quash the rumors. >> i am in full control of my faculties. believe me, if i was feeling at all like i had diminished faculties to lead the government, i would be the first person to take a decision. but this is absolutely, absolutely not the case. >> despite his claims that the surgery was a success, his critics have seized on his health as a potential weakness in his armor. he

there is a large percentage of the american public that is hungry for a more sustained and caged discussion about genuine problems and possible solutions. also a very noisy and well-paid segment of the american public that realizes there is nothing to be gained and much more to be gained a shouting louder than the other person to simplify more crudely complicated issues. with that crowd, this book is not well, but what i found some trekking of obama's on analysis he calls for exactly this kind of discussion and admits unlike many fellow democrats he does not think he or his party have the answers to every problem america faces. that was an unexpected turn the book takes in a number of places. i think he is committed to the notion of discourse, a genuinely as a way of finding solutions that don't seem of them. this is a fascinating document to have the and thank you for bringing it forward but an example of how contested discussions of the constitution were write-up until the last minute. and his account of the constitution, obama offers a very incisive reading of james madison who looked ba

is, the american school of public system -- the american public school system, the lower income population is not playing the role they should play. we are not adequately educating these children. the classrooms are too crowded -- that is all over the tv in new york. they blame it all on teachers. i think the youth deserve better. that is what i think. [applause] we have to start not when they are a teenager, but pre-k. [applause] >> you have said what families need to do. as a person in school, we know how much of our children's time is spent in school. we are often the surrogate parents for a length of time, so we have a particular responsibility in schools to get some of this truth out. i just want to throw this out for black history month. we need to ask ourselves, what information is being shared that is worthwhile, that will help young african-americans, and others, understand the nature of the society we live in? many useless activities are engaged in in black history month. i am sorry to say. it is still early. we have a chance to review. but i want to be clear. when you listen to

it is time for the american public, the california public of san francisco to unite with the strike of the workers. president chiu: excuse me, sir. we had general public comment about an hour and a half ago. this is, and with the booker t. washington project. >> that is what i am discussing. president chiu: if you want to speak about the project, go ahead. >> i imagine i get my 60 seconds back. the animal rights, people don't understand the spiritual connection between the two. when we are adults, we get lost and we end up being politicians instead of statesman. i submit to you that all governments should be run by little girls at the age of seven for their hearts and their minds are much closer to heaven. i am peter. i have said it. you are invited to the general strike and a garden party. and all veterans in support of the number one prisoner of war, dr. jeffrey macdonald that blew the whistle on the bush drug dealers, the same people that terminated the life of pat until then, for blowing the whistle on the heroin cartel. the same people that terminated the life of dr. jeffrey macdo

public transportation instead. today is the sixth annual "dump the pump day." the "americanublic transportation association" says public transit saved americans 640 million gallons of fuel in 2009. world markets are reacting to the growing debt problems in greece... and wall street has some new government reports to check this morning. here now is jason brooks with kcbs and cbs moneywatch dot com. jobless claims, housing startsâgreecethere ya go jason brooks from kcbs and cbs moneywatch dot com. thanks. there's nothing like human breast milk to provide nutrients and fight disease. but now scientists in china and south america are producing milk in cloned dairy cows that duplicates human milk. chinese researchers inserted the human genes that have the code for milk production into the d-n-a of dairy cows. argentina recently presented the first transgenic cow, which also produces human- like milk. both countries are racing to market the milk but the reaction here is mixed. 1:01"i'm not happy about that. i still think you should separate animals from people. just because you ca

but the politicians can't figure out a way to make it smaller in a way that the american public finds acceptable and that's at the root of the debt ceiling standoff. any ideas about how they resolve this in the end? >> i think that what a lot of people are saying, we're not seeing leadership in washington. >> that's shocking, right? >> the republicans blame president obama and they have a point in some respects but the truth is congress isn't showing leadership either. not being frank about what the issues are or being selectively frank saying tax the rich is the answer. they are basically sticking to partisan talking points, absolutist talking points, not really working. i use two statistics that remind me why this is an issue. in 2020 the gao predicts we will be spending 89 cents of every tax dollar that comes in on four things, medicare, medicaid and social security and interest. we'll have 11 cents left over to pay for everything we do. >> let me throw this question out to you, david, whatever happened to leadership in washington? used to be that leaders would make decisions and t

the executive director of the american public health association will explain a little bit more. >> the real issue is that we need to recognize that we are in an environment in which we have our range of emerging infectious diseases. we have to have our guard up. >> a dozen remain within the area which emerge? and can it spread across vegetables or human to human? >> it can come through the food system the way you have seen. the real issue is, what is causing the contamination? where we produce our food today, you get food from multiple places. so we can have a range of people infected by this spread out through the whole country because of the way the food distribution system works. >> some people think it is safe the need any raw vegetables at all? >> is important that they identify very quickly what the source of this infection is so that it can give people who could advise as to what to avoid. certainly, they should avoid those suspect vegetables of been identified by health authorities. good hygiene in terms of hand washing and in terms of preparing food. and food that needs to be

the inspector of the american public health association in washington. >> what is causing the contamination? is it a focal point contamination? placesget your food from -- we can have a range of people infected by this. >> some people say is safe to not eat any vegetables at all. >> it can really give people good advice as to what to avoid. they should avoid those suspect vegetables. there should be good hygiene in terms of preparing foods. keep food away from other foods so that there is not cross contamination. >> how worried are people in the united states? >> this is a global world. many of us are traveling all around the world. food that may be infected could, theoretically, be imported into the united states. the authorities are working very quickly. >> a group of computer hackers is claiming they have access to over 1 million passwords from users of the popular website run by the japanese electronics giant sony. rt ofictures.com is pa the ameriacan arm. the company has not commented on any security breach. >> we are still at the stage where this group of hackers have made this claim

and i think at the end of the day, you know, the american public is going to vote on what it feels. the country is headed in the right direction, then obama is in good shape, but a poll a year and a half out, i don't think it's representative. >> jonathan? >> polls are snapshots in time. anyone trying to predict boom or gloom based on polls right now is doing everyone is disservice. >>> i think what we'll have to see what the public says. thanks for your time tonight, alex and jon. that's our show. thanks for watching. "hardball" starts right now.

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

it means that the american public transportation association wants everybody to not put gas in vehiclesblic transportation. we're at the 12th street bart station today. that's because bart has a promotion they say involves a little controversy. bart board president will be along in just a minute with more on that. another reason the american public transit association holds the annual promotion is to remind commuters just how much money and energy we can safe when we use public transit. the association's most recent transit report concluded that a two person household can save $10,000 a year by getting rid of one car. public transportation reducing americans dependents on foreign oil by 4.2 billion-gallons of gas a year and saved 37 million metric tons of carbon emissions a year. thanks for joining us this morning. tell me about this controversial ad that was rejected by gas stations. what is it and why do you think they rejected it? >> it's basically an ad that says dump the pump, take bart. we went to gas stations because this year's focus for dump the pump day is to compare taking ba

the brutality of the tower campaign would soon hit home when the american public began to see the pictures of the casualties and devastation in late december nine hundred forty three the gruesome carnage was so disturbing that some mothers demanded nimitz's resignation what was more striking was not just the heavy casualties but the confusion regarding the burial of hundreds of marines who gave their lives ataru and the actual number of total missing people from this from this battle was five hundred eleven basically it's a very nebulous number there's a huge distance here there is eleven hundred six people asked. at the end of the war when the army came back to doing these people and taken back to the states only three hundred ninety two were brought back to the states there's over well over two hundred fifty probably almost three hundred people on the island today the quartermaster corps of the of the army made a reasonably good effort starting in february of one thousand nine hundred eighty six and winding up in. may of nineteen forty six to find the remains of approximately three hundr

but according to a new bbc poll, the american public remained skeptical. less than 16% are confident the u.s. policies in afghanistan will be successful. more than 50% say they will not, and more than one-third remain unsure. on the front line, soldiers are continuing to fight. now, a series of recordings released by the u.k. minister of defense is offering unique insight into the lives of british troops in afghanistan. you may find some of the images in this report disturbing. >> the men, some little more than boys, are led by their lieutenant. they arrived in 2007. by the end of their six month tour, one will be dead, and many injured, in a summer that changed their lives. he was filming the whole six month tour in what was for many their first taste of battle. >> there is no one there. we knew something was about to happen, but we did not know when. >> he had already seen fighting between the taliban and british troops. they knew that april 13th would be a tough day. the start of their first major operation against the insurgents, just weeks after arrivi