i didn't mention the cabinet fire because i'm going to try to focus on the speech. but that gives an important component to the story kind of the way. but it is an important part obviously. the jimmy carter gives a speech undulated teen, follows up with local speeches on the same thing and i am smart what he wants to do an energy policy. he's also been told this is going on that he needs to basically fire his entire cabinet. jimmy carter decides to follow as it eyes and is the biggest mistake he ever made. he remembers it that way in his memoirs he says they handled the cabinet firing in a horrible way. i didn't do myself any good. he is essentially admitting to the fact he's made an enormous the state. the way up or train the book is jimmy carter opens up the window of opportunity for two days. that's when phone numbers go up and everythingis looking really, really good. and it's almost as one set of observers pointed out, rolls the rock up the hill comes down and goes even further down. so by that point in time, once he fires the cabinet and does it sloppily, that

all the cabinets are ago materials. this is another sustainable material. it's a renewable product. >> how about the flooring? >> the flooring is a low voc non-vinyl tile. it has none of the detriments of vinyl. we have the recycling area where paper, glass and aluminum. >> compost. >> i will show i some of the office and how we operate. this is our composting is down here. all our cleaning products are green certified products. we are running out of space for our bike racks. we used to be like 3 riders. now we are 4, and 5. more and more people are riding to work. that's one of the commitments we have within our office >> somebody whispered to me that marvin johnson was recently named city and county bike commuter of the year. we are proud to have marvin to the office. we have a dish washer when is an energy star. part of being green. we are not using paper plates or styrofoam cups much minimal paper towels. so if you look in the cabinets, we have lots of bowels and plates and regular flat wear. we run the dish washer because that's part for the environment

we are also told that the president witched the venue from the oval office to the cabinet room and turned off the air conditioning. no, i made that up. it is getting weirder and weirder. who is better at understanding the dynamics that building who is wendall. what can we expect of the powwow? >> the president and we are not sure that the participants haven't arrived yet. but the pool of reporters that take pictures in the start of the meeting weren't invited in the meeting yet. the president instructed them to come here with plan or plans to extend the debt ceiling for 2012 to 13. it must last until 2013. house peeker john boehner aids said he's coming here with the demand that spending be cut more than the debt ceiling is raised. that is his only bottom line. it would take in the range of 2.4 trillion to extend the debt sealing through 2013 and the democrats and republicans were no where near that when boehner walked out of the talks for the second time. boehner had wanted to raise the debt ceiling to next spring and the president said the fight is not going to get easier with the 2012

the cabinet secretary has said there was no breach of the ministerial code. i have set out every single meeting since the last election. no. the right honorable gentleman published a list this morning but it does not go back to the last election. and indeed when are we going to see the transparency from tony blair and from gordon brown? second, second, second issue -- second issue, his questions about andy gillison. >> order, the house is getting overexcited again. i'm glad it's calmed down and we want to listen to what the prime minister to say. >> and he asks questions about andy coulson, no one has raised a single question about his conduct at number 10 downing street and there was only one party with a news national executive with a cloud in his head sitting in his office. third question, the questions he raising about my chief of staff edward luellen. is he honestly saying when it comes to the proposed meeting with the john yates is the leader of the opposition suggesting that he knows better than the chairman of the home secretary than the cabinet secre

ahead for you this hour a new egypt with the same old problems as the reshuffle cabinet sworn in we as well you. still calling for change but. just imagine this piece is about four and a half billion years old like the earth space rocks but it's a passion for cosmic collecting or just pursuit of profit will be explored on the beach about spreading in central russia. so he's expecting progress on his bid to join the e.u. and the rest of war crimes suspect go on how to teach that had been a key hurdle on the road to membership still needed clearing how to try to be extradited to the hague on saturday ports now from the capital well great. was pick up on and very much looks to the west the public opinion actually does differ quite significantly now the last time i was in vogue right at the end of last year i spoke to the deputy prime minister head as to why they're still such a government drive to this membership and he said that they really see this as a chance the serbian people to have a normal life well the people here in serbia only have to look at what's happening right now increase

she had this mischievous look in her eyes and she said i have always wanted to dance on the cabinet room table. in a way mrs. ford was tap dancing on the images of all the gray suit who is sat around that table. and it is vintage betty ford. >> betty ford, through the lens and the words of david hume kennerly. that's our broadcast for this monday night. thank you for being here. i'm brian williams. we hope to see you right back here tomorrow evening. good night. innebib gb whitre bg ,ws a pstterot a a akr.a.b.t. atoustbr sn tceghvier halt. sit ilt s i happening as we speak. the civic center station its closed. thank you for joining us on our 6:00 newscast. we bring it up now. the height of rush hour. this is causing havoc for commuters. why the protest. once again the protest at civic

i'm very happy to discuss this with him, with other party leaders, with the attorney general and the cabinet secretary to make sure we get this right and that lessons are learned from what has become a disgraceful episode. >> dave miliband. >> let me say to the prime minister that i'm encouraged that he does recognize the need for a full public inquiry into what happened. now, he's right to say that this can only be fully completed after the police investigation has taken its course. however, as he said in his answer, that may take some years. it is possible as i think he implied for the prime minister to start the process now so can i make some suggestions in that context. he should immediately appoint a senior figure, potentially a judge to lead this inquiry. make clear it will have the power to call witnesses under oath. and establish clear terms of reference covering a number of key issues. the culture and practices of the industry, the nature of regulation, which is absolutely crucial and also the relationship between the police and the media. i wonder whether he can -- i wonder whether

the number of women in elected positions like governor, lieutenant governor and the cabinet post has decline steadily over the past decade. after rising for 30 years. senator kirsten jill i brand wants to think about it, as does democratic congresswoman kathy hochul who watched that special election in new york city. well, both of you are pathfinders in different way, so i want to start with the senator. it seems -- it's very hard to figure this thing out. it seems like there was a projection there, a projectile moving in one direction and you're saying it's leveled off and you want to do something about it? >> absolutely, chris. what i want to do is get more women off the sidelines, to get them engaged, so they're voting more, running for office more. the reality is decisions are being made every day about issues they fundamentally care about. these are issues where if their voices were heard, i think the decisions that would be reached would be better decisions. >> do you think when you ran for office you'll run again and again, and i think you have a great future. everybody knows t

and people who are in the bar appointees but what's most at the moment the cabinet doesn't really have that much talent the real power rests with the supreme council of the forces which is headed by field marshal to tonally who was you know a twenty year ally and close friend of barak he's the guy that you know general petraeus for example america would come and make when he was when he was in egypt as. it's not just a matter of who's in charge in terms of freedom of speech is not yet really being enacted there is a plug hole there's more than one boat in jail for criticizing the military. fortunately we just seem to have lost connection there with our guest that was austin machall speaking to also from cairo a journalist and blogger speaking to us about the crowd for the now back on cairo's tahrir square. a similar show of on rest in neighboring israel public squares and now a sea of demonstrators camping out calling for social justice as prime minister netanyahu to go bigger protests planned for saturday will palestinian israeli journalist as bruce says the similarities with egypt ar

compromise on the spending cuts a talks got underway an hour ago in the cabinet room in the white house and reporters given a brief picture session and none of the participants said anything. unless they get a deal we don't expect to hear from them. boehner gave up when the president demanded 400 billion in additional revenue and agreed on a 800 dollar figure. he said it was trying to negotiate with a bowl of jello. officials concede that asked for more an they had settlod a two trillion . since the eventual deficit plan needs to be bipartisan why should the white house veto when they will not vote to raise the debt ceiling. boehner may propose a short term extedges to take it into next spring. it would be unfortunate if the president veted it based because in the words of one it was not ideal for his reelection campaign. >> thank you for the update . with the stakes so high. treasury secretary tim githener is sitting down with chris wallace on fox news sunday. check your local listings for the time and channel. >> if you were a member of congress would you vote to raise the debt ceilin

international now we know that the reshuffles brought in new blood into the cabinet but there's still a hangover isn't there from what many in the country would call a rather dark past so will it actually bring any change the change that so many people called for. i don't just sort of shuffle in fact had disappointed many of the egyptian people because they were waiting for very specific government the people who have better priority as the focus of the revolution this is to clean the body of egypt from the possibility unfortunately this government is coming to patch up and pacifying the portions of the society and public opinion and in fact the myth of the council spent six months now without any major achievement so i'm afraid that the people are getting very tired and the are getting also very hopeless so i don't know what they are going to do after that is if they knew what evolution against the image of council as it had been before i get a small box themselves that people are flocking now about it so now you know that mubarak left and the british army somehow succeeded him and h

to me, that language suggest that there will be more cabinets, and i guess the concern that i have is that i have always thought that with hundreds of cabinets, which really need to understand what the cumulative impact is, and that is what an eir will do. in the public rights of way. i have had a lot of questions around whether there are -- whether there are alternatives that we simply have not analyzed, so, first, let me ask dpw. is it your opinion that this represents the future of hundreds of boxes that we can see? >> from the review of this memorandum of understanding, it appears that at&t is reducing the numbers based on the secret clearance from 700 and some odd down to 495 -- based on the sea " -- the ceqa clearance. >> john, from the city attorney's office. maybe i can handle this one, through the chair. the ceqa review that they did was for 726 boxes. the letter that we receive from at&t agrees that there will be an initial rollout -- an initial rollout that would be limited to 495 and there would be an additional process to install additional boxes up to what was reviewed u

president sharply warned him not to call his bluff said "i'll see you tomorrow" and walked out of the cabinet room. >> no. look. at the end of the meeting after we'd already met for a couple of hours, what i said to the group was what i think the american people feel, which is we have a responsibility to do the right thing. we shouldn't be overly partisan. we shouldn't be posturing. we should solve problems. >> well, whichever account rings true to you, today's meeting was the first to deal largely with revenue. we got late insight in a moment from jessica yellin and dploer yeah borger. but keeping them honest tonight, there's in polling you should know about that may surprise you showing what americans really think about raising taxes to close the budget gap. here's what republicans have been saying for a long time that americans think. >> right now this economy is ailing. and we don't believe, nor do i think the american people believe, that raising taxes is the answer. >> american people understand that tax hikes destroy jobs. >> i think what the american people appreciate is that you don'

place the facility is give dpw a by-year plan for the cities they are thinking of, designs of the cabinets, the identified locations that are not on public rights of way in a documented attempt to enter into an agreement with owners to place those facilities there, and they also document an attempt to place facilities underground if that is feasible and that they explain -- export locations. this is the directors working order. supervisor wiener: right, and as you're going through it, if you could talk about how the departments are coordinating or if it is just dpw or others you are inviting others. >> ok, i will. i thought i would just summarize first. so those are the basic requirements. one of the things that we pay attention to is better not unreasonably affect the character of the streetscape, the footprint, the finishes are appropriate, landscaped screening, and that there are other requests that not obstruct other existing or future facilities, that it meets certain placement criteria and that there are public notices. it also has a provision which i will describe in a bit, and i th

it's now in the cabinet room, which you'll recognize, because that's where all the other meeting were. no explanation on the room change. but president obama will be there along with vice president joe biden. they'll be seated in two chairs, and then according to the white house, the president will be sitting next to house speaker john boehner and the minority leader, nancy pelosi. on the vice president's side will be harry reid and senate minority leader mcconnell. we heard yesterday from house speaker john boehner. he said in a letter that he was going to now negotiate instead with senate leaders. that he'd given up on negotiating with president obama. and basically saying that you know what, congress is going to figure this out. the president, t.j., sort of said, not so fast. call aulg of these congressional leaders here to the white house and he said he wants an explanation on how they're going to stop the u.s. government from defaulting. he also reiterated his demand that there be no short-term solution. here's what he said last night. >> we have now run out of time. i've told sp

the cabinet's disapproval rating is up 11 points. when the prime minister should leave office, 38% said immediately and 28% said by the end of august. more than 60% want him to gol soon. the poll found that 13. 6% support the democrats. 23.4% is up 2.3 points. we asked about the prime minister's plummeting rate. >> 16%. why have the ratings fell so low? >> people simply do not support naoto kan anymore. but they have grown fed up of kan's flops on reconstruction and the nuclear policies. he has announces policies off the top of his head. for example, the government is under pressure to compile unified policy on stress tests for nuclear reactors after the prime minister abruptly announced them. kan's announcement caused confusion and tension because it contradicted an earlier order to restart reactors in southwestern japan. 66% of people questioned in the poll have criticized kan's decision. >> the recent resignation of governments reconstruction minister after nine days after his took office was still fresh in our minds. is that one

coulson was director of communications, the cabinet secretary was alerted to evidence of illegal phone hacking, covert surveillance and hostile media briefing directed against a senior official in the government service, what action, if any, was taken to investigate what appears to have been disgraceful and illegal conduct close to the heart of government? >> well, i have to look very closely what the honorable gentleman says but the point i've made and i've never seen any evidence to go against it is that in the period that andy coulson worked at number 10 downing street as head of communications that there was no complaint about the way he did his job. now, i fully accept -- i take responsibility for employing him. i take responsibility for that decision. and i've laid out very clearly today what i think of that now and all that has been learned and you have to learn these lessons if you're going to go on and get things right for the future. i would say in my defense is the time he spent in do you think street, he did not behave in a way that anyone felt was inappropriate. and that i

backed government of late prime minister's son so hariri when several of its members withdrew from the cabinet and defiance of the investigation suspicion of involvement of these us nation has also fallen on shiite syria one of hezbollah's the key allies and patrons on the syria to deny disconnection with the killing the accusation led to mass protests that ended syria's decades long military presence in the country syria like libya is part of an alliance and that the violence is very wide it begins in iran some elements in iraq government are part of a syrian regime here's what law in lebanon on how mosques in gaza. some experts warn that if syria becomes too embroiled in the investigation and they'll break of sectarian violence in lebanon will be almost unavoidable and especially alarming prospect given the spike in the sunni shake clashes of the arab spring presently lebanese authorities have less than a month to execute their arrest warrants and hezbollah leader hassan nasrallah has sworn retribution for anyone who tries to do this. on a cross talk r.t. . ok how i'd like to go to you first

putting economic pressure on greece's well we will continue to challenge we're going to show the cabinet decision which. the lawyers here believe that in the legal order we will be turning it in court we will be showing it up again especially when there is no understand. before a little bit better what it would be like to be i mean. can i get out into open field which is right in front of us from the court where we are. to. go with the. access. that was out of superior american activists to organize to that area his experiences i think reports. the french arena is awaiting the return of dominique strauss kahn after his house arrest in york was lifted the former i.m.f. chief has been released after reports that his. hotel maid died in the u.s. attack. this list of sexual assault allegations was a french woman on wednesday night sixteenth in the world tension candidate for the french presidency before the start of the chambers from georgetown university believes the media played a substantial rolling stones denies he fits this paradigm of you know villain victim you know the victim being t

. >> a lot of it had to do with perhaps putting a woman in the cabinet. >> you won that one? >> yes. and i'm working on another. >> there was also a lighter side to mrs. ford. >> she had a really funny, funny senseability. kind of a mischievous quality. there's a famous quote, barefoot, dancing -- famous photograph of her barefoot, dancing on the cabinet table. to painkillers prescribed for a pinched nerve and arthritis. she began drinking heavily after her husband lost the 1976 election to jimmy carter. >> my family came to me with an intervention. helped me see the light. and said they wanted to help. >> betty entered rehab in 1978. once again openly discussed her problem in public. she received thousands of letters in support and opened the betty ford center in california, four years later. in her later years she cherished the time she went with her husband until his death in december 2006. mrs. ford is survived by her children, michael, john, steven and susan as well as numerous grandchildren and great grandchildren. in los angeles, anita vogel, fox news. >> reporter: if

i do not know if any view in the cabinet that i represent believes we are ready to negotiate with gaddafi. the key issue is that we need the military to change. the reason that everybody is clamoring for a political solution is because so far on the military side we have not done as well. in less we do that -- unless we do that, the rest of the world will need to find a solution to this conflict. >> the rebels have not met all of the international community's expectations. there are reports of looting in the last place they captured. when rebels levin, government supporters flee, terrified. -- when rebels moved in, government supporters lee, terrified. they leave -- when rebels move in, government supporters fulle, terrified. they leave ghost towns. they are accused of abusing prisoners. people who stayed in the towns were working with the army, one rebel said. the houses they rob were once the army used. people who were beaten were working with the gaddafi brigades. the rebels would still like us to think of them as they think of themselves, the good guys. these men were crushed by colon

and people who have the power point but what's most at the moment the cabinet doesn't really have that much talent the real power writers rests the supreme council of the forces which is headed by field marshal time totally who was you know a twenty year ally and close friend or partner he's the guy you know general petraeus for example from america were telling me when he was when he was in egypt there's. not just a matter of who's in charge in terms of freedom of speech is not yet really being enacted perry. has more than one program in jail for criticizing the military. unfortunately we just seem to have lost connection there with our guest that was austin markel speaking to us from cairo a journalist and blogger speaking to us about the crowds are now back on cairo's tahrir square. a similar show of unrest in neighboring israel public squares in our sea of demonstrators camping out calling for social justice and prime minister netanyahu to go i think a protest planned for saturday will come a senior israeli journalist. says the similarities with egypt are clear. two thirds of the p

if she wants me to turn up and not just tell you what we discussed in the cabinet, but lay out the full detail of the waste her government was responsible for, name the day. >> malcolm bruce. >> thank you, mr. speaker. following the prime minister question for me three and a half years ago, the predecessor for the member set up pilot schemes to provide sign language support for deaf parents and the children. these have now been completed and a huge success. will he meet the del -- delegations to discuss how it can be extended to all parents across the united kingdom? >> we do a lot to support languages, signing is incredibly important. these schemes have been important. i looked at what he asked, and i'll arrange the meeting to see how he can take it forward. >> mr. robinson, my question to the prime minister concerns the rail program and the contractors escape concerns. he will be aware throughout the house and with 20,000 manufacturing jobs at risk, as rightfully should be. can the prime minister confirm that no contract has been signed and that indeed no contract can be signed until

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the cabinet and the prime minister now are selected by the king and they also want more freedoms. what we saw today was the pro reform ghdemonstration setting t there were loyalest individuals who were around the area. the police were there saying that they were trying to keep these two groups apart. they have clashed in the past. as the demonstrators reached their final staging ground, all of a sudden we saw the riot police charging in, beating them back, using their riot shields, using batons, kicking and punching them as well. we saw a number of individuals wounded being carried away. one thing is also clear and that is that these demonstrators are growing increasingly frustrated with the slow pace of reforms that have been promised with bu haven't materialized. >> more demonstrations and more deadly violence. the question many are asking is are we going to see demonstrations every friday or is this building, spreading to a point where perhaps the regime might actually be in danger? >> activists say and video posted to youtube appears to show syrian security force uses gunfire

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the cabinet secretary has said there was no breach of the ministerial code.eard, you heard the evidence of rebecca wade yesterday saying there was not one single inappropriate conversation when it comes to setting out meeting with newscorp operation i've set out every single meeting since last election. so the gentleman published a list this morning but it does not go back to the last election. indeed when will we ethe transparency from tony blair and gordon brown. second, second, second issue -- the second issue, his questions about andy colson. >> order. house is getting over excited again. i'm glad it's calmed down. we want to listen to what the prime minister has to say. >> he asked questions about andy colson. let me remind him of this point. no one has raised question about his conduct at number 10 downing street. let's make this point. there's only today one party leader with news international executive with a cloud in his head sitting in his office. third question, the questions he raises about my chief of staff. is he honestly saying when it comes t

the cabinet secretary said it was right. the question is why.ause it would be -- because the prime minister was compromised by his relationship. therefore could not be told anything at all about an investigation concerning a member of his own staff. he was ham strung by a conflict of interest. mr. speaker, mr. speaker, the prime minister shouldn't have had to rely on briefings from his chief of staff. here was a major investigation, published by leading global newspaper about the prime minister's director of communication. mr. speaker, mr. wallace wasn't mentioned in the article, because of the associations he has and the publication of the article. what did the prime minister do? he did nothing. mr. speaker, mr. speaker, given "the new york times" evidence, the public will rightly have expected very loud alarm bells to ring in the prime minister's mind. apparently, he did nothing. then in october, the prime minister's chief of staff was approached again by the guardian about the serious evidence they had about his behavior. once more, nothing w