member of the atlantic council for the support of this series. i'm also delighted with the turnout today which says a lot as well about the popularity of the series now. admiral, i do have to mention one thing. some people ask me why is the atlantic council floating its boat in the pacific? the answer is pretty simple. it's a matter of history. it's a matter of mission. and it's a matter of reality. there was before the war a very famous ambassador by the name of u. alexis johnson, quite legendary ambassador to japan. after the war when the atlantic council was founded he was one of the founders. he and dean atchison another one of the founders were very clear that the world was round. and that the atlantic council had to recognize that much earlier than most transatlantic organizations. so that's the history. number two, there's the mission. the mission of the atlantic council's renewing the atlantic community for 21st century global challenges. it's why we've had a long successful asian program for many years directed by ban and garrett. recent

it is the flagship program for the atlantic council. i want to thank saab, a.b., and the board member of the atlantic canceled for their support of this series. i am also delighted with the turnout today which says a lot as well about the popularity of this. admiral, i have to mention one thing. some people ask me, why is the atlantic council floating its boat in the pacific? the answer is pretty simple, it is a matter of history, michigan, and reality. before the war, there was a famous ambassador by the name of hugh alexis johnson, a legendary ambassador to japan. he was one of the founders, and he and dean atchison were very clear that the world is round and the atlantic off the right to recognize that much earlier than most trans-atlantic organizations. so that is the history. number two, there is the mission of renewing the atlantic community for 21st century global challenges. it is what we have long had a successful asia program for many years. recently opened up a south asia center and are launching a center for partnership. this

system was of course, the north atlantic. you ever controlled the north atlantic controlled europe's access to the world whoever controlled europe's access to the world could shape the empire and of course, over hundreds of years spaniards dutch and british fought for control. of the north atlantic but in 1980 an extraordinary event happened in human history for the first time ever trans-pacific trade equaled transatlantic trade is somewhere around 1980. it is hard to pinpoint but that was an extraordinary event that we all experience but think what it means for it means at that point* not only was europe no longer the pivot of the global system, nor was the north atlantic by itself the key to global power. there were two keys, the atlantic and in the pacific. therefore by definition any power that was made by both bodies of water was in an extraordinary position in particular if it had the wherewithal to exploit that. south america for reasons i will not go into a comic can let looks like one continent's but it really is not

a year later he set another record crossing the atlantic in his virgin atlantic flyer. not only the first hot air balloon to cross the atlantic, but also the largest ever at 2.3 million cubic feet. clearly, this is a man who likes challenge, whether it's in business or in sport. and while many would be satisfied after being knighted by the queen of england for services to entrepreneurship, he has not. sir richard branson, founder of a pint sized record business in 1970 now rules an empire that rivals the gross domestic product of many small countries. whether it is virgin cola, investing in alternative green technologies, space tourism, or running one of the hippest airlines in the sky, he has been. and although the european press has skewered him for having lost and i worked water and 1.5 billion pounds in the last year or 171,000 british pounds an hour, he continues to be optimistic. who in this room would promise all of his or her airline profit, if you actually own an airline, to the breakthrough discovery of an alternative fuel for the airline industry. only one per

we got through the atlantic wall. not very far. the british were supposed to get to cannes on d-day. they didn't get there until july, but they got through the atlantic wall. the americans at omaha were supposed to get seven or eight kilometers inland. they got less than a kilometer inland, but they got through the atlantic wall. germany put such a tremendous effort into the thing, and it didn't hold up the allies for even a morning. we paid a price, 10,000 casualties, but we got through. c-span: how did you decide what went into this book? was it hard? >> guest: i sat down with the transcripts of all 1,300 interviews and read them through. c-span: how many pages? >> guest: some of them 50 pages, some of them only 10. the average would be 20 pages. c-span: you read them all. >> guest: i read them all through, and in that first serious read-through -- because i had been collecting them and reading them as i went along -- at that first serious read-through i put maybe half of them aside. what i was looking for was phraseology or anecd

this man is a pillar of the atlantic council. he provides me and the rest of our leadership strategic advice as well as sound legal advice. i am still free and have not yet been incarcerated because of this advice. i am grateful for your service, walt. [applause] [applause] >> thank you. it is a great honor to be asked to introduce that roe keating. he has that kind of resume that mere mortals only dream of. he graduated from the naval academy in 1971. shortly thereafter, began a distinguished career as a legal aviator. the most impressive thing is not the stress on his sleeve or the stars, if he were wearing a slightly different uniform, but it is that he is carried out 1200 arrested landings on aircraft carriers. he was the did the commander in thewing during the first gulf war, and he was the commander during visiting gulf war. in between, like all senior military officers, he has to do the additional penance, working in washington and a variety of jobs. i have had the honor and pleasure of working with him when he was the depu

so in the next few minutes, somebody comes in and wants to buy a ticket across the atlantic, you know, what's the best airline flying across the atlantic? well, virgin atlantic wins all the awards as best airlines but is it likely that travel agent will recommend virgin atlantic? for their very survival, they have to say i would recommend you fly british airways/american airlines because they've got to get up to that 80% of the market share next year. so it goes on. so american and british are driving out the remnants of the competition. i mean, it is preposterous that competition authorities can even consider allowing these two airlines to merge. i mentioned coke and pepsi. who would imagine coke and pepsi being allowed to merge? it's the exact equivalent if you look at their market share. it is preposterous that it can be allowed but the frightening thing in america is that it can be done on political reasons. it doesn't necessarily have to be done on pure analytical competition reasons. this is going to go to the department of transportation, not necessarily the department of justi

to what only recently have become main, threatened to confine the great american experiment to the atlantic seaboard. the allegiance of the several new trans- montaigne state was unproven, their settlers looked westbound rolling river valleys for the mighty mississippi, not over their shoulders at the mountains that separated them from their political creators. former vice president aaron burr's enigmatic conspiracy of 1805, 1806 to make a nation for himself and others in the region opened by the louisiana purchase had come apart but illustrated the limited control exerted by the east over the last. of the national government over its unsettled territory. a continental nation was so uncertain that president thomas jefferson had deemed it optional quote whether we remain in one confederacy or form into atlantic and mississippi confederacies i believe not very important to the happiness of either part. but coming of the steamboat in 18078 hope for a connectedness but illustrated the lack of it. so they were both on the hudson and mississippi rivers but no true navigation between them. the war

augustine and palm beach on the atlantic coast. also, the darling national wildlife refuge, he was a cartoonist, but the national wildlife refuge is spectacular. roosevelt created the national forest in florida that links the atlantic to the gulf. if you look on a map you will see the big green swath of natural forest. that is a heavy manatee area he preserved. >> i've been interviewing you 15 years. how do you remember all this? >> i love history. you know that about me. i have a good memory, i guess, for things when i get into something. >> photographic memory? >> i don't know. but my enthusiasm is so high that when i find documents, i'm very excited about it and i'm able to incorporate all that because i like this. this really opened my eyes. before i wrote this book i was going to parks and i was not thinking about the back story of how we got this system. we're always looking for good news in america. i will give you a good news story. look at our incredible park system we have in this country of wildlife refuges, national park

this was hitler's great chance to win the war -- stop them in june of 1944 on the atlantic coast, then he can move 11 panzer divisions to the east. eleven panzer divisions might well have swung the balance on the eastern front, or they might have had another effect. they might have led stalin to conclude, "those blankety-blank capitalists. they're up to their old tricks. they're going to fight till the last red army soldier. to hell with that. i'm going to cut a deal with my friend adolph again, just like we did in 1939. we'll divide eastern europe between us." that wouldn't have lasted. sooner or later they would have clashed, but the democracies wouldn't have been in on it anymore. c-span: i want to ask you a question, and i don't know that this is fair to you, but of all the 1,380 accounts and the 500 that you did -- oral histories -- the first question is, are they all stored somewhere? >> guest: oh, yes, absolutely. they're in the eisenhower center at the university of new orleans, and they'll be a part of the national d-day museum when we get it built. that's what they're there f

city and was taking control of the american in fields, a driver as an accounting houses across the atlantic the words new york were becoming equivalent to economic opportunity for laborers, speculators and pro industrialists alike. and yet until this fine morning new york was no more assured of becoming the empire state and west virginia, pennsylvania or even ohio, south carolina or to one way. nor was the nation assured of becoming the global empire it remains. nikkei-225 the u.s. were so plural and few, not a single nation state but sought a states were a constitution limited federal government and as late as 1865 walt whitman and proclaimed with verbal plurality, the united states with a useful political stuff most needed poets, as opposed to needs poets. abraham lincoln declaring the union as getty. change the back -- at gettysburg changed the verbiage. in a sea to shining sea continental nation the paychecks are still a dream, the land was harassed and access to and control was limited. the louisiana territory had been purchased two decades earlier but remained mostly on organized. mex

so much of the progress that would define the 20 sentry on both sides of the atlantic came down to a battle for a slice of beach only 6 miles long and 2 miles wide. more particularly, it came down to the men who landed here, those who now rest in this place for eternity, and those who were with us here today. perhaps more than any other reason, you, the veterans of that landing, or why we still remember what happened on d-day. you are what we keep coming back. you remind us that in the end, human destiny is not determined by forces beyond our control. you remind us that our future is not shaped by mere chance or circumstance. our history has always been the sum total of the choices made and the actions taken by each individual man and woman. it has always been up to us. you could have done what hitler believed he would do when you arrived here. in the face of a merciless assault from these cliffs, you could have idled the boats offshore, met a garage of tracer bullets that split the night sky -- and mirage of bullets. you could have hidden in the hedgerows or waited behind the sea wal

during the years of the conquest, thousands of them were shipped across the atlantic. than of half died on the way. sometimes when rations ran low, they were killed for food. sometimes the ship sank in hurricanes taking the horses to a howing and watery grave, along with slaves who had been kidnapped to africa and kind to one another in the ship' galleys. often the ships were the calm midway between 30 to 35 degrees north and south of the equator, the barometric pressure often increased and the hot dry breezes called the westerlies stopped blowing the procession of proud owe defiant galleons would come to a halt. their massive sails limp in the blistering sun and the cargo, man an animal alike, slowly going mad. at that point, it was time to lighten the load. the horses were removed from their slings and taken above deck. at long last, they saw light and could move freely. although they were still hobbled by their weak legs, and they probably faltered as the conquistadors urged them to the gangplank. perhaps as they faltered, they took in the periphery and gazed across

universities, florida atlanta university, is developing technology where they can put turbines in the atlantic ocean and capture that energy. i don't know if this is going to work long term, but that's the kind of american ingenuity we are looking for. we as a government and private sector, our scientists, our entrepreneurs, work together to capture that and build on that. of course there's the environment. we all understand that. and there is something going on in the world on climate. people can have different opinions. i think most scientists agree there's something going on. whatever we can do in the united states and around the world provide leadership to reduce the impact of co-2 and other things, it's good for all of us. i live in a coastal area. some of the most beautiful areas in the world. we are very sensitive to the hurricane activity, rise of the atlantic ocean, things like that. i think we all understand there is an environmental issue statement. . what are re-we doing in washington? some groups are coming forward to work on this in a very productive way to make sure that the uni

transatlantic alliance has allowed for extraordinary prosperity and security on both sides of the atlanticegrated into nato this year under president sarkozy's leadership is just one further indication of the degree to which u.s., french cooperation can help to underpin not only security in europe, but also a more secure and prosperous world beyond europe. i very much appreciated president sarkozy's leadership on a whole range of issues. he mentioned a number of them. france's leadership within europe in understanding the need for us to have tough diplomacy with the iranians, to reach out to them, but also insist we cannot afford a nuclear arms race in the middle east. our close collaboration on a whole host of issues with russia. france's willingness to accept a guantanamo detainee, but more broadly to help us as we want to deal with the terrorist threat, but do so in a way consistent with our values and ideals. the assistance that all nato allies as well as others are providing in helping to bring about a more peaceful and democratic afghanistan. on all of these issues, president sarkozy

-- hoes to the south atlantic leede league out of high school. they can handle the south atlantic league a year out of the draft. " when told of these comments, xavier avery was delighted that andy took notice of his and l.j.'s progress. >> it made me feel a lot better, you know. it makes you feel good. it makes me feel like somebody is thinking about me and it means that i'm doing something positive. >> it's great. to show that the hard work that me and xavier put in. it's starting to pay off a little bit. you can't get too head over heels right now. you still got to keep working and keep grinding. baseball is a grind. day in and day out, you have to bring the same thing. can't get too high. can't get too low. it's great he mentioned t our goal is still to get to the major leagues one day. >> l.j. hoes hitting .238 and aavery .280. both have speed. hoes with eight stolen bases and avery with 20. matt hobgood is in baltimore. he arrived just recently now. he's been taking a physical all day today. orioles should announce on saturday the official s

and roosevelt created the national forest in florida that links the atlantic to the gulf. if you look on the map, you see a green swatch of national forest and that's an area he reserved. >> i have been interviewing you, and how do you know about all of this? >> i love history, and you know brian, i have micromemory. >> photographic? >> i don't know if it's that, but my enthusiasm is high, and i incorporate that. this opened my eyes and i wrote the book to the parks, and not thinking of the back story of how we got the system. we are looking for good news in america, i will give you a good news story. look at park system, and national parks and forest. and we did that right and now have an obligation to maintain it properly. >> how do you when do you your research keep track of it all? what is your system? >> well, latest historian steve ambrose told me abandon knowledge on your own peril. and things happen day-by-day, and you get in danger to switch around dates. and writing wise i stay chronological. and then i get the dates of all the saved. and the date he declared som

the russians are going to be on the atlantic ocean. d-d d-day, june 6, 1944, the war had been going on for several years and most americans don't know the barbarossa. that was the story of the russian efforts in world war ii. . without a doubt. but nobody talks about that. you know, we went in in north africa and then mired down in italy, and it's just not -- the facts aren't given. basically, the russians had already defeated the germans. >> thanks for your call. tell us a little more about that. >> first, i'd like to thank john for his service and for calling in. i think that's made the show today. i'm really pleased to hear from them. now, as to the question or comment that we just had, i would take issue with this caller. if the germans had been defeated by the summer of 1944, then they would have been defeated. in other words, if it was over the soviets would have been in berlin and they would not have wanted the normandy invasion to occur. what the evidence shows is that all the way up into the invasion, stalin was lobbying for th

international legal framework, for dealing with terrorism, that i think is important on both sides of the atlantic. [speaking italian] >> we spoke about afghanistan and pakistan, or italy has been a critical part of the coalition that is trying to assist afghanistan to make certain that this is not a safe haven for terrorism. [speaking italian] >> we had an extensive discussion about my interest, in pursuing non proliferation, as an important agenda for all people, and given that i will be visiting russia before in visit italy, he was able to offer some insight and how to approach the reduction in nuclear arsenals, and hopefully this will be a topic at the summit. [speaking foreign language] >> in addition to discussing the general situation in the world economy, we also spoke about the specific issue of security and how the g8 nations can assist people who are desperate in poverty, to make certain that they are not falling deeper into poverty and this will be a major issue of the summit. [speaking italian] >> overall i am very grateful for his leadership and is consistent friendship -- is consist

he had a heck of a year in the atlantic coast conference in wins and era. he had a personal record against duke in 99. takes a couple of steps. one down in the 11th. i think that's about all willy taveras has. macdougal in his 9thyear in the major leagues. phillips grounded to right, grounded to second. >> rob: he's still -- >> johnny: leaves the ball club in that category. phillips 0-1. nix is next. hernandez after him. >> rob: 17 homers in 06; 30 homers 07. >> johnny: macdougal delivers, a swing and a foul. mike had terrific years with kansas city. 68 games he pitched in 2003. came back a couple of years later, did the same thing. 54 with the white sox two years ago. he racked up 144 innings with kansas city in omaha before he got to the big leagues. 1-2. fouled off the plate at his foot. left hander getting ready in the nationals bullpen. this ballgame began four hours five minutes ago. >> rob: the first 8 1/2 innings took 2 1/2 hours. >> johnny: this is the 10th time in all the home games there's been rain which has forced delays in nationals games games

that sensibility does seem to unite people in the arab world from the atlantic to the gulf when it comes to issues like iraq and palestine. host: we are monitoring aljazeera now. is this what most of the world is now seeing? this is what we are getting right now? is there one version around the world or is it different here in united states? guest: what we are seeing here is international aljazeera. there are obviously two strands. there is one in arabic which is broadcast on satellite and you can see whether you have -- where you have set alight in any part of the world. you have aljazeera english which is broadcast on cable and it is still trying to put itself on cable on a large scale here in united states. incidentally, if i may do it quick and fort up as your english, as joof july 1, it will be on cable in the washington, d.c., area. these are two different strands. in many ways they represent two slightly different perspectives on the world. out the serb -- aljazeera arabic is catering to a specifically arab audience. in the middle east and elsewhere. al jazeera english has a broad

that does basically seem to unite people in the arab world from the atlantic to the gulf when it comes to issues between iraq and palestine. this is what we're getting right now. this is al jazeera. is there one version around the world? is it different here than elsewhere? guest: we are seeing al jazeera international or al jazeera english. there are two strands. there is one in arabic that is broadcast on satellite. you can see that i set like anywhere in the world. there is al jazeera english that is broadcast on cable. it is still trying to put itself on cable on a large scale here in the united states. as of the first of july, they are going to beat on cable -- they are going to be on cable in the washington, d.c., area. these are two different strands. in many ways, they represent slightly different perspectives on the world. al jazeera arabic as the bulk of its audience in the middle east. it caters to be specifically arab audience in the middle east and elsewhere. al jazeera english has a broader perspective. it is broadcast in english. it addresses so many different audiences

the funding and very specifically, of course, i have an interest in our faa technical center, the atlanticty airport, which mr. overknows i'm very fond of saying is the premiere facility in the world for aviation research and development for safety and security. i'm just curious whether they might be in line for any rehabilitation funding for the labs or any other facilities there? >> first, thanks for and congratulations i look forward to working with you as well. candidly, i don't know the specific breakdown. but i certainly can get that information to you. i share your view and i recently visited one of our technical centers. we'll call on them for some of the advancements we're making right now. we have a lot of new technology that we're trying to deploy. the technical center is the birthplace of much of that technology so i share your view and i'll go to the you that information. >> appreciate you're getting back to me. and again, look forward to working with you this thank you mr. bozeman and thank you mr. overstarr. and now, mr. defazio, chair of our transit and highway subcommittee

later, and admiral speaking on the atlantic council. u.s. pacific commander includes conversation on the north korean missile testing at 5:30 eastern on c-span. >> file sharing has wreaked havoc on our business. >> tonight on "the communicators" copyright policy with the chairman of universal music publishing group. >> one of the goal is to have the isp's take more responsibility of the service they are providing and make sure they're not just providing an entree into intellectual property for free. >> the chairman of universal music publishing group tonight at 8:00 eastern on "the communicators" on c-span2. >> now more from this morning's "washington journal." peter brooks is a national security fellow at the heritage foundation, there is a report looking at the commission of prevention of weapons of mass destruction proliferation and terrorism. this commission was put together in 2008. guest: i am not a member of this commission. it is -- headed by bob graham. in the standard commission has been extended. they have been extended for a few m

the others. there were 600 miles of milestones near atlantic city and the middle of illinois. then that sent him on the end of upping colorado then he kept going until he reached california. he thought it would take two years but that was 30 years ago. he is not finished the start with ordinary film now using digital cameras he was inspired by a book of george stewart who taught at university of california who did a book, it is called u.s. 40 published i think and 57. he photographed about 100 sites along highway 40 coast-to-coast and made two trips to do that and francs of the book and wanted to do it photographic project so he took it up. what he has left now instead of just an ordinary black-and-white photograph the is using a digital camera and taking 360-degree views. he started reproducing his photographs then began extending. so now with computers he can give you sort of a time machine you can watch as computer and you will start off with a photograph taken by george stewart sometime after world war ii then you can see things morph into the views that frank has taken it

offshore and they have gone from 10 billion-barrels of reserve to 90 billion-barrels of reserve in the atlantic. we have the largest supply of colon the planet. and the article in the "wall street journal" is fundamentally foolish because the fact is, at the right price we have more coal than saudi arabia has oil and it is an enormous potential asset. we have biofuels in ethanol in growing abundance, new breakthroughs in hydrogen, electric engines, solar. america today in energy is artificially weakened by bad government policies which favor imports over american energy. and let me assert clearly and simply. bowing to the saudi king is not an energy policy. [applause] for national security, for the national economy, we should keep the money here. we should keep the economy here. american people agree that we need an american energy policy. gree. we launched a petition drive of drill here, drawn-out, payless. it 79 percent of the american people agree that both for economic reasons and national security, we should develop american energy, and that it is a key to our future. the american people r

offshore, and they have gone from 10 billion barrels reserve to 90 billion barrels of reserves in the atlantic. kohl on the planet -- we have the largest supply of coal in the planet. that is an enormous potential asset. we have by officials and ethanol, new breakthroughs in hydrogen, wind, and solar. america today is artificially weakened by bad government policies, which favor imports over american energy. dowling to the saudi king is not an energy policy. [applause] for national security, for the national economy, we should keep the money here. the next grade building boom ought to be in denver, not to buy. the american people agree. we launched a petition drive of drill here, drawn-out, payless. it 79 percent of the american people agree that both for economic reasons and national security, we should develop american energy, and that it is a key to our future. the american people reject an american energy tax. this is an energy tax. every american at every level will pay it, and it will export jobs to china. [applause] the american people reject an environmental protection agency which is

generators, remote control ability, telephone relations -- telephones and the gaps in service across the atlantic coast. we have to unify technology and standard operating procedure to ensure the best response. every resident must have access on cellular phones. these need a system of nat -- national opera ability. we are in desperate need of the help of the congress to make certain of a reliable response and everyday needs. hopefully we can cure this during this session before the next problem occurs. we are grateful for your support of this legislation and your sponsorship of the bill and your ability to deliver on dedicated federal funding for louisiana this year. thank you for this opportunity. >> i really appreciate the content of your testimony, and the thoughtfulness going into this. i would like to start with a question about this chart, the national shelter system. this was probably in your testimony in detail, but can you explain -- these are the only official read cross shelters? would you describe this as school buildings or most of them as church buildings, or places where people wor

later, admiral timothy keating will speak at the atlantic council, the topics include north korea's most recent nuclear and missile testing. live coverage of that at 5:30 p.m. eastern or hear on c-span. also earlier today, at the supreme court released its opinion in the case involving a promotional for new haven firefighters was rejected because very few minorities would receive promotions. white firefighters alleged that a bidding the exam at unfairly denies them promotion. the supreme court side -- sided with the firefighters in the 5-4 decision, overturning a lower- court decision. tonight you can hear a portion of the oral arguments before the second circuit court of appeals. that argument took place in december of 2007. we will have that tonight at 8 eastern here on c-span and on line. you can see transcripts and read about reaction coming to the supreme court decision. hillary clinton to address the situation and honduras, iran and iraq at today state department meeting. she said the ouster of the president of honduras over the weekend is a coup, and expressed confidence in the ab

national forest in florida that links the atlantic to the gulf. if you look on map, you'll see the big green swatch of national forests. that's a heavy manatee area that he preserved also. >> i've been interviewing you for 15 years at a minimum. how do you remember all this? >> i love history. you know that, brian, about me. i just love it. i have a good memory, i guess, for things -- i have a micromemory. when i get into something. >> photographic memory? >> i don't know if it's that. but my enthusiasm is so high that when i find do you means, i'm very excited about it and i'm able to incorporate all that. i like being -- this really opened my eyes. i had been going before i wrote this book to these parks. though i wasn't thinking about the back story of how we got the system. we're always looking for good news in america. i'll give you a good news story. look at our incredible park system we've got in this country of wildlife refuges. we get that right. now we have an obligation to maintain it properly. >> i know you remember this, because i tal

at 5:30 p.m., and admiral speaking at the atlantic council. the topics include north korea's most recent nuclear and missile testing. that's at 5:30 eastern on c- span. >> file sharing has wreaked havoc on our business. >> tonight, on "the communicators" digital music and publishing. >> one of the goals of my industry is to have the isp's take more responsibility for the service they're providing and make sure they're not providing a huge on trade to intellectual property for free. >> the chairman of universal music publishing group, tonight at 8:00 eastern on "the communicator's" on c-span2. >> in just a moment, we will go to more of today's's "washington journal" but, bernard madoff has been sentenced to 150 years. he spoke of his own behalf at the sentencing, the judge sentenced him to 150 years. that was a recommendation as one of the harsher lengths of sentencing. again, bernard madoff is sentenced to 150 years. we will have more on that as time allows and the news develops. we will have that for you here on c-span. a topic on this morning

regard to the 313, my perspective is, is one of having been a fleet commander in the pacific and the atlantic. seeing the demands and the needs and the opportunities that exist, and then being in a position that i am in, i am in now and seeing what the combatant commanders are asking for, that, to me, that four of 313 is still a valid number. that doesn't mean that it is not going to be a challenging process to get this. but i believe lcs is key. the fact that we have reverted to a more predictable cost ship in the ddd-51, will help us increase not just the numbers slightly there. but, also, give us the capability that we need. yes, sir. >> with 2 s csi. -- 21 csi, we have seen as the nation the cost of a hot war, and the cost in terms of people, and blood and treasure. can you talk a little bit, is the key to it looking at the benefits of deterrence and how you put a price tag on that. >> absolutely. i think that there is no question that it is -- it is not -- and it's not just a cost issue, either. i mean, the need to do everything that we can to prevent war is more than a dollar value. it

i rise today to draw attention to an event that is going on across the atlantic ocean and how it impacts thousands of good-paying family-wage jobs right here in the united states. madam president, as some of my colleagues know, the paris air show kicked off this week. the air show showcases many impressive displays of aviation, technology, and innovation. but there's something else that's going to be on display at this year's air show: the fruits of some 30-plus years of direct cash advances and illegal subsidies to the european aerospace company airbecause. foairbus, the european government who created airbus to specifically compete with the united states have aggressively funded, protected, and promoted their venture. since 1969, the european governments of france, germany, spain, and u.k., have supported airbus' commercial aircraft development with over $15 billion in launch aid. those are high-risk loans at no or low interest with repayment contingent on the commercial success of the aircraft. now, according to the ustr the amount of launch aid airbus has received during the lifetime

that was the year that hitler ordered his top field marshall to fortify the atlantic wall against a seaboard invasion. from the tip of norway to southern france, the nazis lined steep cliffs with machine guns and artillery. low lying areas were flooded to block passage, sharpnd poles awaited paratroopers. mines were laid on the beaches beneath the water. and by the time of the invasion, half a million germans waited for the allies along the coast between holland and northern france. at dawn, on june 6, the allies came. the best chance for victory had been for the british world air corps to take out the guns on the cliffs while air borne divisions parachuted behind enemy lines. but all did not go according to plan. paratroopers landed miles from their marks, while the fog and clouds prevented allied planes from destroying the guns on the cliffs. so when the ships landed here on omaha, the an unimagined he will awaited the men. many never made it out of the boats. and yet, despite all of this, one by one, the allied forces made their way to shore. here, and at utah and juneo. golden sword. the

we have seen on both sides of the atlantic some progress in stabilizing the economy, but we are far from done in the work that is required. i mentioned it to her that in the united states we are working diligently to strengthen financial regulations to insure that a crisis like this does not happen again. it will be very important to coordinate between europe and the united states as we move to strengthen our financial regulatory systems. we affirm that we are not going to be gauged in protectionism. -- we will not engage in protectionism. we have to make sure we will keep our borders open and companies can move back and forth between the united states and european in providing goods and services to our respective countries. i am very pleased to see the resolution of the opel situation here. we are very sympathetic towards each other. it is not easy to help also companies restructure and not always popular. -- it is not easy to help car companies restructure. but it is the right thing to do. i am hopeful that not only are we going to see these companies to stabilize, but also that they w

the funding, and very specifically of course i have an interest in our faa technical center at the atlanticty airport which mr. oberstar knows i am very fond of saying is the premier facility in the world for aviation research and development for safety and security. and i'm just curious whether they might be in line for any rehabilitation funding for the labs or any of the other facilities there. >> first, thank you for the congratulations. i look forward to working with you as well. candidly, i don't know the specific breakdown, but i surely could get that information to you. i share your view on the technical center. i have recently visited one of our technical centers. we're going to be calling on them for some of the advancements we are make in right now. we have a lot of new technology that we are trying to deploy, and the technical center is the birthplace of much of that technology. so i share your view and i will certainly get you that information. >> okay. appreciate you getting back to me, and began looking for to working with you. thank you, mr. boozman. and thank you mr. oberst

pacific region live from the atlantic council, 5:30 eastern on c-span. earlier today, the supreme court released a find of -- a 5-4 opinion in favor of white firefighters in new haven, conn., overturning a lower-court ruling that had been endorsed by supreme court nominee sonja -- sonia sotomayor. you can hear a portion of the oral argument tonight. that is the second court of appeals that took place in 2007. we will have that tonight at 8:00 eastern. a live look at the white house briefing room. the white house briefing is scheduled to begin momentarily. we will again for just a moment. it appears it may be ready to start. we will look again for just a moment. the white house press briefing coming up momentarily. while we wait, and looked at this morning's court "washington journal." financial times." she hopes for a v-shaped recovery. the u.s. economy will feel a substantial boost from the obama administration's emergency spending package over the next few months. christina rohmer has warned against tightening monetary and fiscal policy before career is

keating speaking at the atlantic council. the topics include north korea's most recent missile testing. live coverage at 5:30 p.m. eastern on c-span. earlier today the supreme court released its opinion in the connecticut firefighters case. it involved a promotion exam for firefighters that was rejected because very few minorities would receive promotions under it. a group of white firefighters wanted the exam abandoned. supreme court sided with the white firefighters, overturning a lower-court ruling that had been endorsed by the supreme court nominee sotomayor. tonight at 8 eastern, you can hear a portion of the oral argument from the case that took place in december of 2007. >> from a conference on u.s. indian relations, defense and security issues including india and pakistan nuclear programs. it runs one hour 5 minutes. >> good morning. thank you for coming to the american enterprise institute and welcome to our program on the future of indian relations. i am gary schmidt, a resident scholar sure -- scholar here and i run