let me also observe that as we begin the 150th celebration of the american civil war, there's an african-american president of the united states named barack obama who was elected with 66 million votes at a time when there were only 19 million african-americans registered to vote in the united states. and i tell people sometimes if all 19 million of us lived in chicago and could vote three times the way they do in chicago, mccain still would've beat us. so obama had to reach across the aisle and find people to vote for him in order for him to get elected president of the united states. he did what harriet tubman did with the underground railroad, what frederick douglass did, the american soldiers did when they joined the union army. they joined to help make this country a better place. so i wanted to say that in the beginning because i think that right there puts a very important opening on how we begin this discussion about the centennial. time has changed in the united states and changed for good reasons, changed for the better, and i think the -- the moral of the universe is long, but it bends toward justice. i want to say

women's network had eight philippine leadership summits and honor the 100 most influential philippine that american women in the united states the golden city of san francisco, where diversity in progress is a way of life. the san francisco bay area filipino-american communities ... milestone, a legacy of innovation, respect, and an unapologetic advocacy for equality. >> representing the philippine a women's network -- and >> may i call the members of the filipino women's network to come on over? this certificate is for all of you. i think most of them are here already. when did the bodies and that the philippine population in the u.s. are filipino women, you can just imagine the contributions to the economy of america and what it is all about. i want to thank abs-cvn, the council general, and the city of san francisco, mayor lee, for this wonderful honor. thank you. [applause] >> this year, our next honoree broke barriers -- tonight, we honor bay area fashion week. >> over 25 designers, 40 models, and the finest designs, celebrating our art means celebrating our story. it is a documented, and as our designers showcase, this

and bill arkin have put together this amazing book, "top secret america -- the rise of the new american security state," and you will be amazed as this conversation unfolds. sit tight, "this is america." >> "this is america" is made possible by the national education association, the nation's largest advocate for children and public education. the american federation of teachers, a union of professionals. the singapore tourism board -- there is something for everyone, singapore airlines -- great way to fly. poongsan corporation, forging a higher global standard. the ctc foundation, afo communications, and the rotondaro family trust. you write in the book, and intelligence community, and you mentioned the national security agency -- 16 different agencies, 1000 federal organizations. that is just mind-blowing. you mentioned a director of national intelligence, and of course we have the department of homeland security. how many security top-secret security clearances do we have floating around the united states? >> we estimated there were about 865000. >> 800,000 people? >> the government has published a

it's mostly a celebration of the american state. i don't think if the people on this commission are so in love with abraham lincoln, or the government that's funding it, i think it's sort of a celebration of itself with regard to the government, the federal government, that's putting all this money behind this celebration. and so and a lot of the people will go along with that, but i think that's unhealthy for society. >> what's your relationship with the commission? >> i'm on the advisory council that was set up by the bicentennial commission. there are i guess about 150 or so of us who are on that. and what i've been doing in the last several months is working with people at the commission -- well, people on the educational committee of the advisory council and with people at howard, and we're going to put on, going to host a conference in april of '09 on race and emancipation in the age of lincoln. so, it's not a lincoln lovefest, but it's the opportunity to look at issues of race and emancipation in the context of the times, in l

i think ireland was the last. 16 years, four american presidents. the last state to recognize. now what happened? we had been recognizing these rebellions. i think it's because the soviets were not -- were not a species of the revolutionary genius americans. they were a whole new genus altogether. all these other republican revolutions, we have one that isn't like us. it's a whole new message contrary to our own. with the same kind of universal aspirations of our own. i think the cold war begins in 1917. interrupted briefly with the war against a more sinister enemy, nazi germany, but quickly, quickly resumed after the war. and the fear of communism was a real fear, that they were threatening the meaning of the united states. and its role in history. >> who owns the principle of revolution? >> exactly. where's the future? i mean, there's a new biography of lincolns stefans. we come back and he says there's where the future is. a lot of intellectuals did buy into that and you have to take that seriously. when kennedy in his inaugural address said we'll pay any price, bear any bur

the americans won't fool around with the russian ships so the russians are keeping us out and that's wonderful. that's one of my dr but you think that's that's what the american public thinks at the state leaves us out of the out of this it has a lot i don't think the americans that i don't think any american wants to intervene in syria they don't understand. anything about it iran though they got the ayatollah and they got a mounting a job and he will always help out the hawks with some insane statement every couple of months he's going to destroy somebody or other and then the americans say we have to get him what is the danger of such rhetoric the danger of such rhetoric is that it leads to another war in the middle east which i think would be a disaster for my country and i think it would be a disaster for the world economy and i think it be a disaster for the world you know i opposed desert storm back in one nine hundred ninety one i opposed even going in and clean and said i'm hussein out of kuwait because i said this will only be the first arab american war and i was right i mean if you talk about islamic wars you had the war desert storm you had the war against afghanistan that

engagement in the crushing of the uprisings is more n-- is more detailed than you stated it. the decision to step out was done with reluctance by american diplomats who were not at all pleased by the pressures from saudi arabia. there's differences of opinion and interpretation there. we can get into that later. for the opposition and so on. three key questions you posed. is it a viable counter part? do we need to wait until the free syrian army is unified before we provide arms and support to the free syrian army and third, what is the impact of militarization on the political dynamics of the uprising and if militarization spreads is it likely to change the communities that have been essential to the support of if regime? i think we read over and over again in the media and we see examples of it on facebook and other locations of the depth and intensity of conflicts within the opposition. we have to be very careful how we read it and we have to be careful not to exaggerate, the extent to which increasingly coherent structures and protest activities are in fact taking hold and are consolidating and beginning to cohere around a narrow se

so you have a tea party argument saying we want to free the american people and the economy from the oppressive state that's a crony capitalist state. you have occupy wall street and the folks down the street here at mcpherson square saying we want to free the people in our government from the influence of corporations and money. they are trying to challenge the two-party duopoly in some ways but it's not likely to engage in any kind of refashioning of american politics that we saw in 1912. so that's why just a little bit of context, about how reading about 1912 is probably infinitely more interesting than talking about 2012. that said, what about president obama's speech is useful and interesting to talk about? i think it's pretty clear that he's -- you know, he made a fairly shrewd move by embracing teddy roosevelt's new nationalism here. i'm going to talk in a minute about how it doesn't reach the levels of t.r.'s original address in many ways. but obama has decided to run as a popular, you know, incomplete steward of the middle class. his theme which is not the new nationalism, it was roosevelt's

republican voters in the american states of michigan and arizona have provided a much-needed boost for the presidential hopeful mitt romney. for one born in michigan, anything less than victory could have been disaster. but it gave him a boost over rick santorum. >> despite the crowd's enthusiasm, he still hasn't won the right to face president obama in november. this was a hard fight in a state that should have been an easy win for romney. he was born and raised in michigan and his father was a governor. >> we didn't win by a lot. but we won by enough, and that's all that counts. >> but rick santorum made a strong run for someone barely taken into consideration at the beginning. >> in a race everyone said, ignore, you have really no chance here, and the people of michigan looked into the hearts of the candidates, and all i have to say is i love you back. [applause] >> there's a sense of relief among romney supporters that he's won this battle. but it's not over yet. next week 10 states in what's -- states vote in what's known as super tuesday. >> the australia government is being call

the united states. for 40 years through eight american administrations and five generations of chinese leaders, china and the united states have worked out an enormous series of problems. of course representing different cultures. and in some respects domestic value systems. there have been occasions of disagreement. but the significant aspect is that the two sides have always found a way to understand the complexities and challenges of the other and that they have moved forward through extraordinary alteration of international events. they have been honest with each other. and they are now entering a new period. never before have so many changes taken place in the world simultaneously. and the relationship between china and the united states is the key element in dealing with the upheavals and opportunities before us. if we work together, common solutions will emerge. if we differ, the world will be forced to choose between conflicting approaches which can only undermine the need for a cooperative relationship. all of us who have dealt with china over extended periods of time are moved by the hospitalit

the hungarian empire all failed. to give you one anecdote that i think expresses american chutzpah, if you will, is daniel webster as secretary of state the austria and hungarian minister in washington complains to him for american segregation and support of the hungarian and the revolution that's taking place in the austrian and hungarian empire. and he says in exact contrary, we the united states take nothing less than full responsibility for all the rebellions that are taking place in europe. and he goes on with this kind of pride in instigating rebellion and then ends his message to the austrian, hungarian minister in washington, besides, compared to the great extent of the united states the austrian, hungarian is but a patch on the earth's surface. i mean, this kind of spread-eagle bombast was very typical of american diplomatic language. we were just considered by many people, of being a really wild, scary kind of country, a dangerous country in the 19th century. >> and webster was a good diplomat. >> that's right. >> when he wasn't holding force. >> he's a conservative man. he's a good wig. he's not somebody that you'd think of

come from chicago and it's like the most crooked state in the union. >> and my favorite state and place i used to own a place wyoming the most beautiful state in americanns are the most beautiful. >> did you say the tetons or something. >> oh, are something. >> dana, i'm trying to get straight about the tetons, but they're actually mountains, i know what you think they are-- >> and my worst state is new jersey and that's just because-- >> i knew you were going to say that. >> nice people there, like eric, for example, case in point, but as soon as you get through the tunnels out of a hahnemann hant and a lot of smells and chemicals and jersey shore and a lot of-- >> and now what it sounds like. >> and i've been to the jersey shore and there's the-- >> sounds like your apartment. >> and what is a-- >> sounds like your apartment. >> favorite state? i would say, home state of pennsylvania and i'm not taking the bait on my least favorite state and i don't want to alienate viewers and my luck i'd be broken down on the road and you said on "the five" you didn't like my state. >> i love pennsylvania, i would tie california where i'm from from pennsylvania. pe

so i think we do have a stereotypical image of the american south prior to the war between the states. that is not correct. myth or reality -- all blacks in the south were slaves. another myth. there were free blacks in the united states. the common perception might be that most of the free blacks lived up north. that's a myth. the majority of free blacks, 53%, lived in the south. myth or reality, only whites in the south owned slaves. well, for one thing, you're excluding the american indian, because they observed slaves. they owned slaves. the other group you're excluding are the free blacks. free blacks in the united states owned slaves. i talk about several free blacks in the book that i found quite fascinating. one is anthony johnson. and tradition was that mr. johnson was owned the first dutch slave ship that landed at jamestown, virginia, in 1619 and he was one of the 20 slaves that were led off the boat in jamestown. by 1623, anthony johnson had worked himself out of slavery and was a free man. and in 1694, anthony johnson won an important court case in virginia, and it set so

for instance, the barber business was almost entirely made up of african-americans prior to the war between the states. so, life was hard. if you were an african-american -- free african-american, whether you were in the north or in the south. >> in your research, did you find a higher incidence of brutality for a lack of a better term? among slave populations per plantation that were larger versus smaller? >> no, i really did not. but common sense tells me the answer to that question is probably yes. the slaves that lived with a slave owner that owned a handful of slaves or one or two slaves, what i found, they were treated as much like family as anybody else. and so, common sense tells me the answer to that question is probably, they were treated better and there was a lack of mistreatment in the smaller slave holding situations. >> john, forgive me if you've been asked this. in your studies, have you found the percentages of black slave owners versus white slave owners? >> i can't really quote to you the percentage. that's a real good question. the question was, what is the percentage of white slav

the united states i would disagree. with james about. so the say the election character of this american is putin i'm afraid is not that simple because of course election campaign everywhere including russia including the united states is a special time and there's an easy way to to get some good support but my feeling is unfortunately the mr putin is jeannine the very very much suspicious united states and this is not because of his called war past as many people in the west used to say this is because of his personal experience with americans with george bush administration into silence and he started to actually as a very much pro western and pro-american guy and he offered to a lot of things to europe and particularly the united states he closed the. russian military for. cuba and vietnam he opened. for terrorism and so and what he got in return from his point that he wouldn't turn very aggressive expansion of american interest in the post so. part of being of this. american rhetoric what you're seeing is actually in his deeds has been a pretty pro american president well pro russia

and by the time we get to the 1960s we have 100 african-american colleges in the united states. we've got tulsa, we've got wilmington, we've got all of these communities become targets for white mobs. because white supremacy says african-americans that no black person can do any better than the poorest white person. that's right. this goes on. now, so our reality in terms of the political and whatever is a little different. now, we're also -- if we can register people to vote without getting they will killed, we can elect the sheriff and the mayor and the city councilman. so by the time barack obama gets elected, by the time barack obama is elected in 2008, i said it was 19 million african-americans registered to vote, there were 405 black mayors in united states too. and these people helped to provide some kind of defense against the violence of people who not only operated under the cover of law but they formed mobs to help burn your house down at night. and they're going to go to jail and end up in one of these jails. so for the african-american community, the reality is a lit

in the united states, the law is pretty clear about internet gambling; it's illegal. but try telling that to millions of americans do it on hundreds of websites to the tune of billions of dollars every day. the fact is, internet gaming is illegal in the united states and, as lesley stahl reported, absolutely thriving. >> in the virtual casinos of the internet, you can bet on anything. spin the wheels on slot machines and roulette... >> 16, red. >> roll the dice in backgammon and craps... [dice rattling] >> 11. >> wager on any sport, or take a seat at partypoker.com. you're playing against real people. ruffneck might be in china, dottie in california. right now, as you watch this story, 70,000 people are gambling on party poker, and that's just one site. >> there'll be more online poker games per day at the end of this year than all of the casinos in the entire world put together. it's a huge business. >> nigel payne runs sportingbet, one of the world's biggest online gambling companies. >> i don't need a hotel. i don't need any croupiers. i don't need any cocktail waitresses. i don't have to comp any drinks. i do

foreign policy might be helping terrorists indirectly i think the united states. american strategists would have to be fools not to see what al qaeda is doing not to ask the question if it's good for al qaeda can it be good for us and not to look at assad and say he may be a ruthless dictator and what he's doing but what comes after him when he falls i think al qaeda does its best work or it works best when it finds a country that is fundamentally a failed state in yemen somalia afghanistan under the taliban and i think in those conditions that's where al qaida can plan and recruit far better than it can when you have a a regime which is a hard line regime running the situation whether it's secular or whether syria torn apart by civil war and that that's i think it seems like a good environment for that i think i think that seriously. syria is really a potential disaster in that we could have there are a proxy war between the sunni and shia all over that region there already have sunni coming in from iraq they already have al qaeda in there apparently the you could have al

by the 1960s, we have 100 african-american colleges in the united states. we've got tulsa, we've got wilmington, and all of these communities become targets for white mobs. because white supremacy says african-americans, that no black person can do any better than the poorest white person. that's right. this goes on. now, so our reality in terms of the political and whatever is a little different. now, we're also operating in a community -- and the reason why i went to holing springs as a civil rights worker is because they were 70% black. if we can get register a few people to vote without getting them killed, we can elect a sheriff and a judge. by the time barack obama gets elected in 2008, there were 19 million african-americans registered to vote, 405 black mayors in the united states too. there were thousands of school board members. and these people helped to provide some kind of defense against the terror, the tyranny, the violence, of people who not only operated under the code of law but also formed up mobs to come burn your house down at night. the

it's amazing in the history of the republic, never has there been such a gaping disconnect between how our own president sees the state of the union and how the americansee the state of the union. he actually believes that we are headed in the right direction. even those with their boots on the ground, their nose to the grind stone, we're headed into the right direction. we can't believe that our economy can't get underway, unless the government gets out of the way. the president wants to raise taxes. so he can redistribute wealth. we want to cut taxes so we can create more wealth. government digging us deeper and deeper into debt, it's not because it taxes too little. it's because it spends too much. we know how to deal with that debt. you cut it, gut it, get rid of it. americans shouldn't have to spend their lives working so hard, so washington can spend easy. he says that he has a jobs plan now. a jobs plan to win the future. wtf, i know. and i'm the idiot. wtf plan. well, he'll invest your money in bullet trains to nowhere but he'll stop boeing from building airplanes anywhere. bankrupt green energy companies, give sweet loans and grant offers, but

. >>> the american state senator whose district includes the national har bar so wanting to build a casinoere. he calls the plan, quote, an assault on local courtesy. the plan was offered last week as a way to generate research few the county. he's the husband of "news 4" anchor paul lan so muse. >>> it will have only one witness. the woman who republicans renoosed to let testify. the congressman refused to lit fluke testify. she was the only woman scheduled to testify. the core of the issue is the decision to require employers affiliated with reliveser lives. it violated religious freedom. president obama has offered a come promieds to have insurers pay for the contraceptive coverage rather than the relimbsly a fill yated. yore nations. >>> heated meets last night during the latest television ad. there's a new advertisement that labls him fake. why? >> because hes a fachlkt income his final debate before next, trm santorum defended his ter yz a and attacked ronlny over his economic policy. >> while i was fighting to safrp the lek terror rats. you were voting for any wa. >> it when dounlt

reporter: the new warning is stronger than previous ones and comes just as hundreds of thousands of americans are about to head to mexico's resort cities for the annual spring break. the stateepartment says americans should defer travel to four entire states and parts of ten others, including the state in which acapulco is located. u.s. officials warn americans going to acapulco and surrounding resort areas to exercise caution and stay within tourist areas. the state department cites the broad daylight-pitched battles between narcotics trafficking groups and the police and military, that have turned into a full-fledged war, creating a sense of lawlessness throughout the country. >> clearly, many years are not safe. many roads are not safe. literally, mexico is out of control. >> reporter: according to the new u.s. warning, 120 americans were killed last year alone in the violence, including a mother and 2 daughters from ft. worth, on christmas eve. and this missionary couple, killed just last week. this obviously doesn't do much for mexico's tourism industry. but the response from the mexican government today was to point out that millions of americans travel there safely e

celebrated in canada of 49 of the 50 states the exception being alaska which decided to forgo groundhog day in favor of marmitt day. >> makes me want to kick alaska out of the union. american state you celebrate groundhog day, alaska. >> many ground hogs contend to be the king of seasonal weather predictions. but if there could be only one pux taowawny phil would be onep. he speaks a language called ground hog ease only the president of the inner circle can understand. >> we're starting to drift outside of fact. >> these are facts. >> they teach you this in pennsylvania grade school. >> think the groundhog day is a dumb point of holiday you have no sense of fun. >> if you don't like groundhog day you're lame and have no sense of fun. >> alaska. take that. have fun, alaska. geez. >>> penguins and gentus got out of their enclosure at the st. louis zoo. the post dispatch was there and the cameras were rolling. >> the penguin jailbreak. >> they were actually let out for a daily enrichment because it's cold, there's snow on the ground and thought let's let them experience some of this. this is their trainer cindy. >> we're bringing a couple of our king penguins and againtos out

nearly twice as large as black-white achievement gap and concludes it's harder to achieve the american dream. >> the state public utilities commission updatedded the status into the pg&e pipeline safety and says it's reviewing records of the testing done after the pipeline catastrophe to make sure all wells pass inspection. the union charged there were unreported flaws, and bad repairs. the commission is also asking for permission to speak to individual pipe fitters to verify information. >> and apple is now the most-valuable company in the world. shares of the company broke above $500 for the first time and it's now around 503 and still, experts say stock price is under valued. >> apple is still cheaper than google or an amazon. when you look at earnings today. the price is crossing 500. >> wall strut street analysts think the target price shurd be around $588 a share. and there is a apple now 17% bigger than the second biggest company in the world, exxon mobile. >> and a northern california university is on the verge of a major medical break through. coming up it could stop sell sal monday nela in its t

americans don't know that religious freedom is protected by the first amendment. 75%. more americans can name the judges on "american idol" than on the supreme court of the united states. what does this mean to us? how did we get here? well, first of all, unless the next generation understands the obligations imposed by the constitution, we are going to have a serious, serious problem. my children can always tell me about their rights, but very rarely tell me about their responsibilities. those responsibilities are critical to our future as a country. the fact of the matter is, if we do not understand the constitution, if our children do not understand the constitution, and appreciate the separation of powers, and appreciate the different roles that are branches of government are meant to play, how are our elected officials opposed to understand? what has happened today in washington? what is happening to our country? what is happening to a saying that we all have heard? i will ask people to raise their hands. do you remember going to school when we all heard the statement, "i don't agree with what to say, but i will defend to the death your right to say it." to do you

. >> the entire story must be told, as lonnie just stated, the story and the struggle of african-americans is part of our history, part of american history, we must tell the whole story and tell it in a way that will give people a sense of hope and optimism by the future. it's just something about the distance that we have come and the progress that's been made in america. >> there is an idea that's been in the making for 100 years, hasn't it. >> i tell you, i feel more than lucky and very blessed that i had to play a little role, just to play a little role and it happens to get us until this morning. it's a very moving moving day really. >> is there something about reconciliation for you? what does reaching this milestone mean? >> it suggests that, yes, we can lay down the burden of race, we can move on and create a sense of community, of what dr. king called the beloved community, because in the final analysis, in america, we're one people. we're one family. we're one house, and that's what this museum is going to show the world that we all live in the same house and that we must live to