and outside groups, including the national rifle association. for more we're joined by andrew feinstein who is author of, "the shadow world: inside the global arms trade." member of the anc parliament in south africa. welcome to "democracy now!" i want ask you about nelson mandela before we start talking about this. >> it is a difficult time for all south africans, for many people in the world. i think at his age, into his 90's, when someone spends this amount of time in the hospital, quite legitimately there is going to be concerned. he is certainly frail. but at the moment, supposedly in good spirits according to the south african president. at this point we can only hope. >> let's talk about what is happening at the united nations right now and then we will talk about congress. a very unusual yesterday president obama beseeching congress, at shaming them, trying to get them to pass gun- control. meanwhile down the road at the u.n., the united states plays a different role in the international arms treaty, the first ever that has not yet been s

council. >> china is supporting this in the united nations. how significant is that? >> china is one of the biggest losers in the last couple of months. we are operating under the assumption that china can influence north korea. north korea has become a liability for chinese foreign security policy in the region. >> you mentioned before the isolation of north korea. does this make the nation feel cornered and under pressure to take some sort of action? >> strange as it may sound, i think it is more a sign of weakness than strength, and it illustrates how isolated the leadership is and how much it has to rest on the power of the military class in north korea. >> thank you very much for that analysis. >> frantic diplomatic efforts are under way to secure the efforts of 21 united nations peacekeepers taken hostage by a syrian rebel group. they are being held in golan heights where there were put on a mission to monitor the syrian border area. >> they have been ordered to treat them as enemy prisoners. >> the rebels purportedly posted this video on

neither of these outcomes will occur by relying on the national labor relations board. the unions are quite explicit, he goes on to describe a successful campaign a waged to bankrupt the nonunion crews restore, family feuds that used operate, to shutdown 9 inoperative businesses if they can't persuade them to go on with neutrality and carjack. in the 1990s they were convinced the national labor relations board wasn't going to be the entity that would help him do that and i'm wondering if you have any thoughts on what the national labor relations board is proposing in their attempts to change the rules and how that will impact businesses like you and the employees who might not be persuaded of the need to purchase union services? >> it is actually pretty simple. during these corporate campaigns the death by a thousand cuts is designed to get the employer to cave and sign a neutrality agreement and right now they need more tools to get employers to cave especially after the won against the seiu because some people have learned, national right to work, we got them in the ba

>> yeah, i wanted to comment on operatability within the california national guard. they worked really well within the framework that we established with cal fire and then beyond that throughout the national guard and the army, all of our aviators train to the same standards so really we're able to integrate any aircrew from any state, any component, into our program at any time because we're operating you noah cording you know, according to the same standards. back in 2008 we had a very large fire event here in california and we aircraft from 22 states responding to that. there is capability to respond within the national guard alone and we have started developing relationships with our title 10 partners, we do similar academics every year like they do so i think that helps generate interoperatability amongst the title 10 and title 32 assets within the state as well. >> well, i don't know about you all but i feel pretty comfortable going into this fire season. it sounds like we have a pretty integrated group not only within the military capability you but state and l

we report from near the great hall of the people in beijing. >> reporter: a spokesperson for the national people's congress met reporters one day before its opening on tuesday. but she did not announce the country's annual defense budget. that's usually done the day before the congress. >> translator: the defense budget will be announced after discussion and approval by the national people's congress. strengthening of national defense is to protect the nation's safety and peace. not to pose a threat to other countries. >> reporter: china's defense budget has grown by double digits nearly every year for over two decades. monday's announcement drew close attention, observers say china left out the budget that the country's military buildup threatened the international community. the annual congress brings together about 3,000 people, provincial leaders, legal officials and military observers gather to hear speeches and to cast votes. they will discuss policies and problems the country needs to tackle in the coming year. ♪ the congress is china's parliament, given top authority under the con

the california national guard as mentioned is the largest in the nation under 54 states and territories. we're the largest by far. and we have a broad spectrum of capabilities that range from on the low end manpower where we can deploy troops for either security missions or firefighting hand crew missions all the way up to the high end where we have a wing, we also have space station systems we can employ and support civil authorities at the direction of the governor. we're the experienced national guard force. we do some sort of civil support emergency response system every three days in california. we support the governor, mainly law enforcement and the fire services here in the state. we tend to do more emergency missions every year than any of the 53 states and territories combined. so, we have quite a bit of experience. with that experience has come a wealth of relationship building that's key to success and any disaster response is being able to work with the inter agency. we're in a unique position because in addition to my federal responsibilities for commanding both the army an

and is in high demand across the nation. to talk about his book "taps on the walls" poems from the hanoi hilton" give a welcome to major general borling. [applause] >> that was a pretty good introduction. are you wondering if this guy will be any good or not. [laughter] thank you for coming. you had a flight line those of the patriot writers of washington to make sure we don't forget. as is a new tradition for town hall please stand as the present the colors the knobs of top turner a late. >> i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america into the republic for which it stands , one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all. retire the colors thank you very much. i was commenting on the introduction and was gracious enough when people do the recitation of credentials all of the verbal thunderbolts tend to leave me speechless almost. [laughter] tonight to we will explore together subjects are reverting to me and if any are of importance to you. i will start with the white house we have peopl

germany ranks 30th and is in the top quarter of countries surveyed. african nations are among the least happy. a german parliamentary group is examining weather to include happiness in germany's gdp calculation, making it more of -- more than a summary of exports. >> many people are now working on it. >> the tiny himalayan kingdom of bhutan is already doing that. the right to happiness is even written into the constitution of the buddhist country. the government releases its gross national happiness index every year. >> written in the constitution. >> that's right. it is important to be hiking in the himalayas to get a feeling of happiness, but let's spread it around. when we come back at the top of the hour, we will have more news. and in our next bulletin, we will have the latest report from cyprus and from the president of the united states and his visit to israel. stay with us for that. >> until then. captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org--

we talk about the league of nations, the concert of nations. the united of nations. it has been the central preoccupation even obsession for politics for 400 years. it's been the central and pivotal and core institution of western and ultimately global licks. left side no question of the primary actor in politics for the last 400 years has been the nation state. it's a special rule for the last 400 years has been as a gawrn or it and protecter of policy. it's impossible to think about social contract theory, represent institutions and think about democracy without thinking about independent nation state inside of which democracy is nestled and flour riched. we know in the 21st century democracy is in cry spins i won't -- crisis i won't waste you trying to persuade of you. i think there are few people who think differently not just here but in the western world. even in those parts of the world that are yearning for democracy and seeking it. we see after libya or syria, or afghanistan or iraq or somalia, we see how difficult it is to secure democracy today in the conte

clear that the united nations and the security council particular is interested only in maintaining thecurrent balance of world germany and isn't interested in independent nations acquiring you brought it on themselves even in the face of the lack of any kind of peace treaty which is of the fault of the united states government notably north koreans who've been pursuing peace ever since the armistice agreement was signed all we can expect is that the united nations will continue to bully north korea which is effectively what's happening to all of those that really just shown sure they don't like the fact that north korea is asserting itself in world politics and who is not really playing word games with nobody they're not practicing preparing with other countries therefore on their own for self-defense and that's off that's on auction it's an option they have so for the united states to think that they can continue to provoke the d.p. r. k. without any kind of consequence obviously american journalist putting his foot down and saying that's not going to be able to continue without some

ambassador to the united nations. >> a look at congress this week. the house returns tuesday at noon eastern on the agenda, a bill that prohibits the health and human service department from granting waivers to states for work reporters for welfare recipients also work on a measure aimed at streamlining several job training and retraining programs. watch the house live on c-span. the senate returns today at 2:00 p.m. eastern with votes scheduled at 5:30 on two judicial nominations. later in the week, a debate on a deal to fund the federal government for the rest of the current fiscal year. funding runs out march 27th. the house has already passed the resolution. follow the senate live on c-span2. president obama will make several trips to capitol hill this week to meet with lawmakers from both parties. tuesday, he will meet with senate democrats, wednesday, house republicans, and then on. day, he will meet first with senate republicans and he will later with house democrats. >> we cannot look back years from now and wonder why we did nothing in the fa

it's happened at the state level but never at the national level. >> do you think it could happen, and -- do you think anti-semitism to the extent that it exists or has evaporated, which i think is the case, do you think that would -- or would it be a plus? for example, the mayor of new york. >> right. >> the mayor of new york would make a terrific president, despite the fact that he thinks so strong sel about coca-cola, whatever. >> he wouldn't carry new york city. >> he's not against obama. obama would carry new york city against him. whose ticket is he go going to run on? >> i don't know about that. >> look -- >> the mayor of new york spent $100 million and beat an unknown fellow from harlem by five points. he is going to bet obama in new york? >> he was unknown. >> on the gun issue. and that's -- >> he's doing a terrific job across the board. >> as mayor. >> you see he what he has narrowed the debt of new york to? >> he's done a fabulous job with new york, no question. >> he's an extraordinary man. he also acquired a personal fortune. >> absolutely. >> he's got great ideas, extreme

with respect to cal fire, we are the third largest fire department in the nation and the largest in california with over 7,000 uniformed employees. we also have the largest aerial fire fighting nreed in the world. so typically when a large disaster type fire occurs, we are usually rendering aid, not asking for aid. so when we get into a situation when we get to that level, what we call mega fires is the new term we're using, we're reach a certain draw down level or certain criteria, we reach out to our military coordinators, hence our agreement with the third nraet and the one map locally in san francisco under ir cal fire prides itself on a statistic that we contain 97 percent of all wild fires in california with 10 acres or less and we do this with an aggressive report of incidents, even with a 911 call of smoepk with land, air and ground attack. once fires become to a large enough scale we call mue tour aid, california lass a great mue tour aid system. i think it's looked at nationally because we have souch excellent cooperation with our cooperating agencies. once it reaches that point, the

the national archives didn't know. and so president kennedy, president johnson and president nixon assumed that the tapes they were making would belong to them. well, when president nixon cut a deal with the overseer of the national archives to try to get back the tapes so he could destroy them within five years, congress intervened and passed a special law. the nixon library is the only library governed by the materials preservation act of 1974. that law stipulated, first of all, that we members of the public had the right to get any information about abusive government power. but also protected the tapes. president nixon, former now, president nixon then sued, and there was a long struggle. it took years and, in fact, only now are the tapes coming out. i mean, when i was there, we released about 630 hours. there's another big dump of important material coming out, i hope, this year. it's taken years for this stuff to come out, and that's because of richard nixon and his, and his estate. so they did not want these tape

the fed did, with its latest beige book survey of economic conditions around the nation, and steve liesman gives us a closer look at what the central bank found. >> reporter: the consumer is troubled, according to the federal reserve's latest beige book. the beige book is a collection of economic anecdotes from the fed's 12 districts around the country, and it helps policy-makers figure out beyond the data what's really going on in the u.s. economy. what they found was a mixed picture on consumers. they are still spending on autos and tourism and services, but retail is struggling. according to the beige book, retail sales were better in only five district and flat to weaker in seven. the districts said retailers complained of higher payroll taxes, which went up this year, high gasoline prices and government spending cutbacks. one positive piece of news, residential real estate. according to the beige book it was up in most districts with strengthening home prices and falling inventories. new home construction also increased. labor markets were described as somewhat better, but hiring was

the country's national debt is huge. corruption and cronyism are rife, and the justice system is weak, despite years of pressure from brussels for reforms. many here share the mood of the adriatic fisherman -- they fear competition from western europe and say zagreb does not protect the interests of the little people, but it is traditions like old-fashioned fishing that attract tourists. this restaurant owner says niche markets are croatia's strength. >> i think our future lies in exclusive tourism like golf and conventions and less in mass tourism. >> he is looking forward to july 1 when croatia is expected to join the eu. he says a wave of foreign investment can only do the country good. >> the european commission says croatia is ready to become the e you's 28 member. some people, though, as we heard in that report, doubt this. we asked our correspondent in brussels. >> yes, somebody told a cruel joke today, they said croatia still wanted to join the eu like a swimmer swimming toward the titanic as it is sinking. the se

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of arkansas, the national a.c.l.u. and the center for reproductive rights plan to file a lawsuit, i'm told sooner rather than later, possibly within the next two to four weeks. >> sreenivasan: can you put this in context of legislation happening in other states? >> yesterday on the same day that the arkansas house voted to enact the 12 week law a federal court judge in idaho struck down a 2011 law that banned abortions at the 20-week stage and similar litigation is going on in arizona and in georgia. >> suarez: we've seen-- or at least reported-- that folks who are in the anti-abortion camp see that this isn't the best strategy. >> that's right, that's right. the council for the national right to life has said that the 12-week law probably would not but upheld in court but we continue to see these kind of bills filed. >> sreenivasan: what about these other maneuvers that are happening in other states. we've got waiting periods in some states. required ultrasounds in others. parental notification is this part of a larger

response, we've developed a very sophisticated common operating picture that has become to be the national standard by using both the doctrine that we have in the military and in the army for the way the commander wants to see the battle field or in this case see the disaster by defining information requirements and then putting out requests for information down to our subordinate units and to our adjacent units or inter agency partners whether in law enforcement or fire or emergency management to bring in and collect all that information to a central node and our emergency center that filters the information i need to make decisions. now, our common operating picture, we developed initially based on military platforms. but we've migrate it had to a web-based solution that is open to all of our inter agency partners. it's on the dot-gov domain, it's password protected but it's not on our military proprietary systems. so, we can share the common operating picture that we have with cal ema and we've developed the ability to import data from every allied organization whether it's usgs, the la

the nation is ready for marriage equality. lieve that marrying the person you love is a constitutional right entitled to all americans, 81% of 18 to 29-year-olds support marriage equality. [cheers and applause] today i have the pleasure of working with young people in states like kansas and florida and georgia and texas. the younger generation in this country has an ingrained sense of justice and a passion for righting wrong policies. they are growing more intolerant of discrimination of any sort and are supporting marriage equality in their states and nationally. marriage is beautiful. marriage is hard. marriage is a journey. it is never perfect, but somehow it remains magical. in its context people try to be a little bit better, a little bit sweeter, a little less selfish, a little more loving and a little more trusting. marriage is a challenge to ourselves to be a better person for the people we love. why would anyone ever deny someone else the experience of that magic? thank you. [cheers and applause] >> what a great date s

a fake populist heat shield that was called the national smokers alliance. was to keep the industry itself out of the news and out of the discussion, so it didn't just seem like a fight between one side that cared about your health and another side that wanted to make as much money as it could off of the process of killing you. so it wouldn't seem like it was the industry itself fighting the regulation of smoking and tobacco. the companies bankrolled this heat shield. they bankrolled this morton downey jr. thing, this national smokers alliance. you can see the fine print there, right? funded by brown & williamson cigarette sales. the national smokers alliance made sure that whenever a town someplace thought about restricting smoking in restaurants and bars, officials in that town would suddenly get flooded with protest postcards, stop the ban in houston, or stop the ban in portland, maine or stop the ban in monongahela county west virginia. they all got the same cards, mass produced for any place and every place overnight. clearly trying to look local trying

the u.s. and european nations. they may also be looking to secure future markets by offering assistance to developing countries with growth potential. brics delegates are to work out the plan for the next scheduled meeting for september but challenges remain. the officials have yet to agree on details. these include the contribution ratio among the brics and which development areas to focus on. china is increasing its ties with developing nations as part of its strategy to strengthen its position in the international community. we have the diplomatic agenda. >> reporter: the merging economy may be scaling back. there are various reasons for this. the financial crisis and the european debt have given emer emerging economies a shared grievance. both programs started in advance nations. emerging economies want tolessen their exposure. the country she has just visited a rich in natural resources. chinese leaders have pursued closer ties with africa in recent years and she is expected to reenforce that strategy. it's not

the national hispanic leadership agenda is the most important national latino coalition. we have 34 of the most important latino organizations in the nation. we come together to debate and agree on the priorities for the latino community. one of the top priorities for our community is immigration reform. we health and working for a long time to make sure we have a solid strategy in the nation. this is a particular moment of the importance for the community and for the nation to make sure we have immigration reform. to makeited a long time sure we take the right steps in the right direction. this is the year of a militia reform. today, we have a great campaign we are launching. the name of the campaign is the team knows united for immigration reform. it is an important campaign. we have been working for a number of months for paul's -- with all sides of the aisles. we will do strategic polarizations all of the nation. this will be presented today. we are happy to be here and we look forward to working with all of the coalitions and with everybody to make sure the immigratio

on the nation, and even internationally. so there's a really keen awareness that you always have to be fixing the system. things corrode, they rust. they get to where you turn them on and nothing happens. but it is so totally used in every nook and cranny, that making any accommodation to shut it down, to do something to it, is very difficult. narrator: two massive underground tunnels, called simply tunnel 1 and tunnel 2, provide most of the city's water supply. they run hundreds of feet below manhattan, far deeper than the subways. built at the beginning of the 20th century, they are concrete-lined and bored through solid rock. they could last centuries. but the mechanical equipment within them will not. engineers in the 1950s discovered rust on the tunnel's valves. there were concerns that if they closed the valves for tunnel inspections, they may never open again, leaving new york city without water. so they chose to keep them open. as a result, there has not been significant inspection, maintenance, or repair of the tunn

they're doing so much for us in the nation's capital. send them some money, not much to monday. north korea drawing up plans for nuclear attacks against the -nited states. the "a-team" with the latest propaganda from the hermit kingdom. prices at the pump are falling, but that could change after the epa slam's new regulations on refiners. a road rage incident turns bloody. one man faces serious jail time. "dobbs law" on the cas lou: breaking news. the former superintendent of the atlanta public schools ended nearly three dozen other educators tonight indicted in what is believed to be the biggest cheating scandal in our country's history. former superintendent beverly hall faces several charges, including racketeering, making false statements and theft. she denies the allegations. state investigations that began in 2011 fell nearly 180 atlanta educators gave answers to students or changed answers on standardized tests in order to improve scores. teachers to try to report the cheating scandals face retaliation fring what investigators des

behold smiles so wide they stretch across the face of an entire nation. behold...the islands of the bahamas. >>> university college of london is a fancy, very good public university in london, in england. most people call it ucl. and ucl has the advantage of being right in the heart of london. it is in the historic bloomsbury district in central lon. it's a big school. it has undergraduate programs and graduate programs, really good medical school. and ucl, the university college of london, also has this. his name is jeremy bentham and he lives in a cupboard at the school. ucl is very proud they have jeremy bentham preserved in a cupboard. which you can tell in part because they made this amazing website showing him up close. if you mouse over jeremy bentham you can swing him around and check him out by all angles. and if you so desire, if you are that kind of person, you can click on the link on the left there that takes you to jeremy bentham's preserved head. i know, deciding if and where to go to school is a hard choice, but how many schools can offer y

they seem to be making those decisions knowing that the eyes of the nation, to a certain degree, are upon them. it has helped that gabby giffords' husband mark kelly was among those who testified. he testified in favor of the universal background checks bill. vice president biden personally contacted legislators in colorado to talk to them about the national importance of these bills that they are considering. right now it is still going on in colorado. it is likely to continue into the wee hours, if not into tomorrow. we are joined live right now from just outside the senate chamber by colorado senate president john morse, democrat of colorado springs. thank you for being here. it's really nice to have you here. >> you're welcome. my pleasure. >> i understand this has been a trying day, a long day, and that in that work is still under way. by the end of the night tonight, or by the time you guys stop, what do you think will have happened today in the senate? do you think you'll get to all seven bills? >> i do think we'll get to all seven bills. and i think we'll pass most of them. i

maybe we can talk about how is the national guard and dod resources and capabilities integrated into the command and control at the fire and also the supporting ops centers whether it be the gac or other centers down there. maybe our military personnel can talk about that, or ray. >> it's important to note that we are the supporting effort to cal fire and we get called in when they are basically out of assets. we are working for cal fire, they are the incident commanders, we follow their coordination, typically we're the last ones in and the first ones out. we do have an on-going relationship with cal fire, i'm in contact with cal fire all the time. we have good situational awareness what's going on in the state of california. they normally put us in an alert stat us so we're prepared to respond in an attack mode. i don't often work with chief chaney in southern california, about a month ago we had 9 aircraft at our peak working fires throughout northern california if that answers your question. >> any other responses? >> i wanted to touch -- can you hear me now? i wanted to touch on

this. >> was no "human-rights effort that the nation has mixed a priorities and to look at the david against the goliaths of trust is. the poor people's campaign was designed to get the nation right side up but it was only possible for those new joint sclc that spring after he received a pro -- applause he had an answer questions not to mention the vastly different ways the president thought about poverty. after goodyear as the others asked to want support or demands to include the whole ball of wax? characteristically the other was more pointed arguing if king wanted to confer he must understand that quebec it is a two-way street that the non black representation of policy-making and with their issue. but they repeated the concerns and captivated the room with table rattling defense one of the land grant struggle of guadeloupe and the destruction of violence and armed self-defense. "whites bring their own crimes they're not afraid of violence. the liberty bell cracked in rebellion against the betrayal against the country. he concluded by asking about abernathy's standing in for dr.

the united nations security council has not shouldered its responsibilities. and we've tried many times to put that right. our resolutions have been vetoed, and we have been working in the last month since mr. brahimi's last briefing to the council to find a new common way forward in the security council. again, we will discuss this with the russians in the coming hours, but this has not emerged in a month of discussions behind the scenes in new york. so we all have to ask ourself toes given that situation, are we going to hold our policy completely static, or are we going to show we are prepared to change as the situation deteriorates? reluctantly, perhaps. cautiously, at all times. and i target we must be prepared to show that increased level of support for the opposition and that it has to take practical form if we're to exert any pressure on the regime and, indeed, on russia as well to successfully negotiate about this. and the parameters of what we're talking about are, i hope, clearly set out in the statement i've given because they are set out clearly in

he is a $1.6 million state in the company. >> the national intelligence agency? they had no response, just of the authors are not biased, which is hard to believe given these connections. >> the former head of the central intelligence agency? >> exactly. former director of the cia was a study author here and is on the board of the only company in the u.s. to receive permits to export lng from the lower 48 states. again, the study thelng exports on fairly -- a fairly thin basis of evidence and did not disclose this connection, which is really, again, quite outrageous. >> i want to leave it there and we will continue to follow the confirmation hearings that will take place april 9. justin elliott, propublica reporter and kevin connor, thank you for being with us. justin wrote, "drilling deeper: the wealth of business connections for obama's energy pick." and kevin connor wrote, "industry partner or industry puppet? how mit's influential study of fracking was authored, funded, and released by oil and gas industry insiders." we will have a link on democracynow.org. t

andthe work of the center fort the other national security center law school, basically this is what we have been looking at for 12 years. legale been looking at a paradigms', the legal authorizations and space between law and war. i thought it was time to have a conversation that we probably should have been having all along. what is the future of warfare for the united states? where is the law involved and not involve? who is the enemy? who is the enemy going to be five, 10 years from now? where is the battlefield beginning and ending? it is a clue about where we i think we are all going in where we will be a year from now we have our next conference. one thing to point out today at the outset is that lawyers have been unusually involved in the war on terror. if it was the case with the bush administration, is more so the case with the obama administration. lawyers are the spokespersons. they are behind the scenes and in front of the cameras. obama hasn't employed his lawyers to explain what he's doing to the nation, why he has -- why he is doing it, and to try to make interface bet

the country's national debt is huge. corruption and cronyism are rife, and the justice system is weak, despite years of pressure from brussels for reforms. many here share the mood of the adriatic fisherman -- they fear competition from western europe and say zagreb does not protect the interests of the little people, but it is traditions like old-fashioned fishing that attract tourists. this restaurant owner says niche markets are croatia's strength. >> i think our future lies in exclusive tourism like golf and conventions and less in mass tourism. >> he is looking forward to july 1 when croatia is expected to join the eu. he says a wave of foreign investment can only do the country good. >> the european commission says croatia is ready to become the e you's 28 member. some people, though, as we heard in that report, doubt this. we asked our correspondent in brussels. >> yes, somebody told a cruel joke today, they said croatia still wanted to join the eu like a swimmer swimming toward the titanic as it is sinking. the se

you're offering a solutions for the nation. again, let's hear a clip from that prayer breakfast, a solution to health care. >> when the person is born, give them a birth certificate and electronic medical record and a health savings account, to which money can be contributed, pretax from the time you're born to the time you die. when you die, you can pass it on to your family members so that when you're 85 years old and you got six diseases, you're not trying to spend up everything. you're happy to pass it on and there is nobody talking about death panels. >> why do you think our leaders today are not coming up with reasonable solutions that show common sense to approaching this problem? >> because everybody has their ego tied up in their solution. and therefore, they can't really recognize a good solution when they hear it, because they've already put theirs out and it's got to be the one. you know, we need to get over the big egos. the bible says by humility and fear of the lord, that's where success comes from. we got to stop

. >> he has declined to talk about serious issues behind the gates of the california national guard. l david baldwin goes on the offensive when we return. >>> in recent months we've heard members of the california national guard describe what they call a toxic hidden culture. some accuse the highest ranking officer of ignoring the problems. for months general david baldwin has avoided questions. in recent weeks we met general baldwin before a public appearance in san francisco. this time he was unable to avoid our camera and our questions. >> general baldwin? tony kovaleski do you have a few minutes to talk to us? members of his leadership team have said that general david baldwin has a great story to tell. >> like to have your answer to questions. >> but for some unknown reason he has avoided our request to sit down for 15 minutes and answer accusations raised by more than two dozen members of his guard. >> i can tell you the culture and the 129 rescue wing is toxic in my opinion. and i recently let the general know that. >> i'm angry because they don't think it's significant enough

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china's outgoing premier announces record government spending at the opening of the national people's congress. >> one of the world's most important, show's opening in geneva with vw introducing its new concept car. >> and in world soccer, the champions league finals. the chinese premier has made his final address to the national people's congress as the country prepares for a transition of power. >> he listed what had been achieved for the past 10 years and set ambitious targets for the next decade including boosting economic growth, tackling corruption and addressing economic inequalities. >> the change in leadership in china's communist party takes place once every 10 years. president hu jintao will also step down. >> for the last time, the chinese president opened a session of the national peepers -- peoples conference. xi jinping is set to take over as president. it is also outgoing leader wen jiabao's last conference. >> this year's economic growth target of around 7.5% is necessary and appropriate, and we need to work hard to achieve it. >> sustaining strong growth of the last