and you disagree with a nation state you want to see that your mind will i don't the nation state is actually the cornerstone of democracy within any country when you have a nation state that's what works best because the e.u. has undermined the nation state and because german economic policy has been imposed on countries where it doesn't fit such as italy greece and as you know well and of course spain then we see economic harm and we see konami damage really the the answer is to return powers to nation state not destroy it as you want ok david jump in where you say look david please. i mean. going in opposite direction and arguing that the european union should cease to exist altogether and it should break up into its component parts but the point then is where does it all end where does all end but do you then germany to come to its component parts to just escalate its component parts and where does the end of the u.k. jew have england boiled down to to its ancient came to you know you cannot apply blanket rules on this and all robert's comments are very specific to the southern eu

and with regards to health care wa, we did in massachusetts is a model for the nation, state-by-state. >> stephen: yes, mitt romney's health-care plan is just like his positions, the details change state-by-state. (laughter) now-- folks, you know me-- you watch this show, you know me. as a stanch conservative i condemn any help can who-- republican who distances himself from everything he has said on the campaign trail. but it worked so [bleep] it. (laughter) besides, i mean the arguments-- (cheers and applause) the arguments, the arguments hardly mattered. what counts is body language, right megan kelly. >> it was an interesting dimic to see mitt romney looking mostly over at president obama when he was making his point. and president obama choosing to look mostly at jim lehrer or looking down. and what message do the viewers at home pick up on that. >> governor romney's body language was pretty good and that expression on his face which was an expression, those of white house follow him was familiar w as kind of a half smile, not a smirk-- . >> stephen: yes, brit, mitt had a confide

it was the sixth and largest state in the nation to approve this. one decade later, we have full voting rights in the united states. helping newly enfranchised women, a new political movement was founded. >> starting in the 1920's, it was a movement created by the suffragettes moving forward to getting the right to vote. all of the suffragettes were interested in educating the new voters. >> non-partisan, not endorsing candidates >> -- endorsing candidates, getting the right to vote and one they have their voice heard. >> the 100th anniversary of women's suffrage is taking place throughout the state. bancroft library is having an exhibit that highlights the women's suffrage movement, chronicling what happened in california, bringing women the right to vote. >> how long does this mean going on? >> the week of the 20th. people do not realize that women were allowed to vote as early as the 1920's. in the library collection we have a manuscript from the end of december, possibly longer. >> in commemoration of 100 years of voting in california. 100 years

the united states denied any such involvement in a carefully worded at the same time -- worded statement to the united nations. >> the united states has created no aggression against cuba. >> this was fertile ground for soviet integration. u.s. aerial reconnaissance photos showed approximately 40 soviet offensive nuclear weapons being set up and manned by an estimated 22,000 soviet troops. >> in 1962 there was a missile soviet gap. the soviet union could not afford to build new ones. the solution was to put short range and medium range missiles right in our backyard. the whole world literally was watching to see what president john kennedy would do. >> had kennedy done what the joint chiefs of staff wanted to do which was to invade, that there would have immediately been a nuclear war and it would have started on so called tactical level. at that point in the fall of 1962 them -- then certainly would have spread to all right out nuclear war. >> reporter: president kennedy went on television to announce to the world that america was holding the soviet union on whatever might happen in cuba. >> within the past

to a certain extent, the power had been concentrated in the nation-state.atter and old fashion traditional corporations, they have been made less relevant by these individuals who control tens of billions of dollars creative create google facebook, they as individuals are usurping the power that used to be found within other structures. >> yes, i think that's absolutely right. i think people in this sort of very, very top layer are increasingly able to slip the bonds of the nation's fate. they are able to say, you know what, if i don't like the tax system here i'm going to somewhere else. that is actually real, that makes the political response to this phenomenon very complicate good the negotiating relationship between these individuals and nation-state cities have changed. rupert murdoch is void of national identity and his ability to control media and money makes aim a supremely powerful person regardless of where he is or geographically centered. >> exactly right. it's not just him. but there are many people like that. the owner of british newspapers, h

state. but the lestin wanted their own state, too. after world war ii, the united nationsroposed dividing palestine into a jewish state with slightly more than half the land, and a palestinian state with 45%. jerusalem and bethlehem were to have special status under united nations jurisdiction. in 1948, the pace quickened. at midnight on may 14, the british withdrew. so that was the end of the british mandate. upon their withdrawal, israel proclaimed statehood. narrator: the jews celebrated. but the arabs were two-thirds of the population and owned more than half the land. they rejected the plan and began fighting. in the war that followed, the jews prevailed, enlarging their territory, but only able to capture the western half of jerusalem. they made their first capital in tel aviv. jerusalem became a divided city. the boundary drawn between west and east jerusalem was called the "green line," and that's what highway number one is still called today. east jerusalem was then part of jordan, and it contained the jews' holiest sites, including their ancient temple, destroyed

sent by the state department, sending them to the white house situation. the pentagon, the fbi, the director of nationalelligence, the state department -- known almost that entire group said this is wrong. we have to help them, these are americans being killed. >> no, they were all busy doing the cover-up. the initial distribution was how many of those three or 400 people forwarded those e-mails. because i spent six years working in the situation. it went somewhere. i went to the national security adviser, and even went to the president. they have a little bit of an explanation. who knew it and what do they know, and was the president involved. we knew that the president had a meeting within that period of time. were they planning to cover up then? >> it is impossible to extract the politics from all of this. but irrespective of the politics, how in the world can the american people be asked for this demonstration are ending. and for that matter, tolerated congress tolerate a congress that is inert on this issue. we deserve answers on a timely basis, and it is inexcusable and absolutely deplorable that

it was also known as the first country to ignite the nation state of south sudan. but let me be frank. sudan has not receive the support it deserves. it is now high time for international effort to rally in support of sudan and work on settling differences between sudan and its neighbor south sudan to resolve all outstanding issues. mr. president, the success of the difficult transitional phase the somali people have come through by electing his excellently muhammed shaikh mahmoud as the presidency is a positive step after a difficult time. i call upon the united nations to continue supporting the efforts made by the somali government and to fend off those who seek to hinder the efforts and to achieve stability within public institutions and achieve the aspirations of the somali people for a better future. mr. president, the principles of justice and righteousness are linked to achieving stability and security in the world, particularly the middle east. over many years, some have wrongfully sought to achieve stability through oppression and tyranny. some of us, alas

we examine the nation's emotional state in the nation's new segment "please for the love of god, make it stop." controversy once again tonight. vice presidential candidate paul ryan at a campaign stop in georgia -- kidding he was in ohio. is there another state other than (bleep) ohio? not in october there isn't. [ laughter ] ryan seen here in photos he for some reason signed a release for -- [ laughter ] -- or perhaps these are outtakes from his real world audition tape. anyhoo he was campaigning when he decided to volunteer at a homeless shelter. one little problem. >> according to the charity's president the candidate was washing pans that were already cleaned. and only after the patrons had left the place. [ laughter ] >> jon: do you know how hard it is to make volunteering at a homeless shelter look like a negative thing and how dead inside does a national presidential campaign make you that you could be handed clean dishes and instead of saying, you know these are clean right, you go, where is my scrubby sponge. there's more. >> as we understand it now there were dirty dishes le

the national rates -- maybe the swing state polls are right, obama is well ahead and the national polls up. the other possibility is there are two elections going on in the country. what we see nationally in the eight or ten critical battleground states and then there's what's going on in the battleground states. the political science research said there won't be much difference. there won't be much of a difference. we have one example. i wanted to point to this. there is one example in recent presidential history that suggests there can be two different elections. this is 1980. this is 24 years ago. this is bush versus dukakis. that is a coast to coast, just a -- >> beautiful thing. >> betsy loves that. that is a great republican landslide. but look at that in the middle of the country. iowa, minnesota, wisconsin, three states in the middle of a republican landslide that were stubbornly resistant. what's interesting is in the mid 1980s there was the farm economy which basically collapsed in the midwest. what you had was a much worse economic environment in those states and the rest of

national product now is over eight hundred billion dollars a year but that gross national product if we judge the united states of america by that that gross national product counts air pollution and cigarette advertising and ambulance to clear our highways of carnage it counts special ops car doors and the jails of the people who break. it counts of the destruction of the redwood and a lot of our natural wonder and chaotic sprawl it counts. and accounts nuclear warheads and armored cars for the police to fight the riots in our cities. that count with women's rights and sex night and the television programs which brought by violence in order to sell toys to watch children. get the gross national product does not allow for the health of our children the quality of their education or the joy of their play it does not include the beauty about poetry about the strength of our marriages the intelligence of our public debate for the integrity of our public officials it measures neither all we have in our coverage either our wisdom know our learning needs or our compassion not of ocean to our country it measures ever

the nation's forecasters stated that sandy is a it ugly halloween surprise. om north carolina up to new england. given the fact that this is a long storm we expected to have significant impacts. it is still a mystery as to where it will actually hit. >> this is the worst timing for a storm. the storm itself will be bad but i am worrying about ane should be lessons that we plan again. >> the storm is already impact in the presidential race and the forecast, it may have made rom a cancel. >> police are not allowing one into the water and you could see how the winds is picking up. the coast guard is discouraging anyone to be and the u.s. hurricanee center stated that all of this rain drenched haiti and it warned that it may have a life-threatening flubfloods and mud slides. >> decision 2012 is less than two weeks away. both sides of the presidential campaign is in full swing. >> president of obamas camp is remaining, about the economy. republican presiden mitt romney stated that means declining take-home pay. americans are ready for change. >> a reminder that kro

so if you look at the key states, national polls mean nothing to me. nothing. look at the key states you'll see why mitt romney's strategy of economic gloom and doom is failing. >> ann, oil bring you in -- >> there's republican policies in place in virginia and wisconsin and ohio. >> absolutely. they are all republican governors who are out there saying look at our state. we're doing pretty well. >> let me get in here, danny there has been a conflict on how the republicans will handle those key states that have an unemployment rate that's below the national average trying to give the credit to the republican governor by skirt ago round the president and that's not been successful. you mentioned polls. we know this is about math. we know the lucky number. when you look at colorado and nevada, for example, right now they are neck an neck as we pointed out in our new poll. in nevada the president is holding on to the lead. governor romney needs ohio. he has boots on the ground and he's been on the ground. why do you believe he's not been able to break the fever of

but not just for this, but everybody's already setting this this morning, the local impact, the state impact, the national impact, and indeed the international impact. and i represent a region that is 50 million people. california, arizona, nevada, hawaii, it's a three territories and three countries in the pacific. and i could tell you that i have moved around my region. i've been working with the hiv/aids and other communities throughout our region. do you know how many people have said to me, i got my information through san francisco? (applause) >> that is something to be really proud of. you know, i'll tell you a little bit of a personal story as we -- i move on. imagine september 16th, 1991, your young 29 year old, gay man living in washington, d.c., fulfilling your dream to be a lobbyist. and your physician calls. hi, sam. hi, herb. imagine i had hair, i had very curly hair. [laughter] >> and bill wilson has pictures of it and i know he's here. and he said, herb, i think you ought to come to my office. and i said, why? and he said, because, you know, you had some tests recently. i know, i had the f

structural forms to balkanize countries and to on the mind of the nation state and have them broken up into their constituent that's going to the constituents are going to scream it's going to strike unleashed ethnic tensions and we're going to strasburg sorry that's the biggest cry by overheard story you talk about one percent of g.d.p. . per cent i'm very sorry. no escape routes have been left for the people of libya's bani walid they fled the assault on their homeland only to find themselves stranded in the desert the former bastion of the toppled regime has seen civilians deaths and devastation across weeks as pro-government militia vow to clear the area of gadhafi loyalists who reports also suggest that the attackers are backed by mercenaries from turkey and qatar are caught up with libya's red cross representative who says people there are afraid of further persecution. but there are many displaced people who have been trying to get something with these either using the new routes but many others have been using this or that and found truth and have been stuck there as well becau

elected without a single electoral votes without the slave states and own the for border states and they are merely a handful. for the first time in nation's history to be taking over the executive branch of the national government. in the south major institution is the republicans' determination into a unit to win a national election without southern support republicans condemned the south as undemocratic. even un-american. with this party on the threshold for those who practice the gospel and newspaper columns the crisis for the south was at hand. from the hatred of evil republicans to fill the southern air. this is not the first time. there have been several disputes. 2.specifically, first, the constitutional convention to do with the admission of missouri as of slave state -- state midges much more than the state of louisiana from domestic guerrilla to the rocky mountains it was settled by the missouri compromise. then the nullification encounter mercy it was already settled by compromise than late 1840's the future of slavery the territory from mexico and mexican war settled by the compromise of 1850. precedent and tradition in place

laws which commit their electors to vote for whichever candidate wins the national popular vote even if that candidate lost the state electoral college vote those nine states that have passed national popular vote laws include california maryland and illinois accounting for one hundred thirty two electoral votes among them nearly half of the two hundred seventy needed in the electoral college to win the white house if this trend continues and enough states sign up their combined electoral college votes to add up to two hundred seventy and the electoral college dies just like that so far only blue states are on board with this idea but red states mostly because their power brokers want to keep cheap labor they still prefer the electoral college but look at the polls heading into this election where there's a chance that president obama could lose the popular vote yet win the electoral college come out and stay president if that happens maybe some red states will jump on board with this idea for more information on this go to national popular vote dot com. and that's the way it is tonight on the big picture wednesday

the national state game 1, 3-2. >> i was able to send it to the right. >> finally getting some really good pitchers. >> the nationals and cardinals in game two. this two first pitch at 4:37 today. >> gop presidential nominee mitt romney will deliver a major speech at virginia military institute in lexington. he proposes that the u.s. be more assertive in syria and tighten sanctions on iran. he's expected to paint president obama as a weak leader. president obama doing more campaigning in california today. he appeared last night at a celebrity fund-raiser in los angeles. he pokes fun and is less than stellar debate departmentperformance. >> they are incredible professionals and great friends and they perform flawlessly night after night. i cannot always say the same. [laughter] >> stars last night included george clooney, stevie wonder, jon bon jovi, and katie perry. >> there's a new poll on gay marriage and gambling in maryland. >> . let's go to > >> this comes from our radio partners at wtop. it has to do with maryland and question 6 which is the civil marriage protection act. the po