the reagan administration also claimed that the death squads were independent groups. >> the argument that the reagan administration made was that these were rogue units. >> we showed him key pages from the yellow book. >> a document like this, i think, confirms that the high command was in fact directing the death squads. and the people in the reagan administration who kept insisting against the evidence that the high command was innocent, were clearly wrong. >> in the 1980s the administration needed congress to sign off on military aid to el salvador. >> security assistance is necessary against all those against the export of subversion by the soviet block cuba and nicaragua. >> the root was in social poverty on the one hand and a political that end was dictatorial. by seeing el salvador as a cold war conflict, president reagan provided the means to conduct the human rights violations that they conducted in. >> did the united states down play the atrocities? >> i can say there's no doubt down (vo) al jazeera america we understand that every news story begins and ends with people. >>

the reagan years. it will come out in a few years. just to see how the transition from the carter administration to the reagan years happen.how they proceed from a general attitude toward this relationship to trying to define specific policy and work it through the government. it's just rivetting material. and to see the interplay of permits. -- personality. so every volume has a form of that. it's a matter of time until we get the stuff out. >> host: if people watching the interview want to access the material? >> guest: history.state.gov. that's what we created inside my office. you'll find 11 different data sets on the different sexual somatic material. you have the history of the department, biography of the secretaries of state, you've got what e with the milestone in american foreign policy. the different individual decisions and themes that evolved over time. and then in addition to all of that, you'll find the digitized foreign relations volumes. and not only are we publishing now a little bit of an addition to an earlier question. publishing everything now in digital form and collectively in hard copy to save on t

walton slogan was made in america because we made things in america you know back before the reagan administration but since we have gone into this insane free trade thing where we just said well we'll let the transnational corporations in the other countries write our trade laws basically nafta calf to shaft to get the whole thing. we have this problem and so frankly mark i mean you can complain about china all day long but it's not china that has created the situation it's us so you need to take your concern to your politicians and tell them let's go back to a protective trade policy a protectionist trade policy like we had from the george washington a ministration to the ronald reagan administration. next up a message we received on our rant line from a viewer in illinois. i just want to say it isn't funny that sirius has dropped off the political map. obama got the job done without foreign one shot sending over one soldier or spending one damn dollar and doesn't get any credit no the republicans would have us on a damn war once again it's a republican or it's democratic policies get the job do

economy strong and stable have not been restored since they started being deconstructed during the reagan administration the so-called reagan revolution and were totally ripped apart at the end of the clinton administration the crash of two thousand and eight was an early warning sign that our response to it has not been adequate why twenty sixteen well it actually could happen sooner could be next week but i'm proposing two thousand and sixteen for the same reason the two thousand and eight happened crash of two thousand a really began in two thousand and six that summer when housing starts dropped thirty four percent began to really seriously unravel it probably should have happened in two thousand and seven but the wouldn't wish it ministration saw it coming and they threw everything they had in to keeping it from happening before the november two thousand and eight elections so that bush wouldn't take the blame for it they were unsuccessful but not for lack of trying the crash happened a half year before the elections and help determine their outcome there's every reason to believe that the obama ad

in the early reagan years and i think that he wanted to but then they stabilized and came down again simply because the federal reserve changed policy so it became clear that the reagan administration could in fact get away in the world the climate that was just being established at that time with the financial. posture that they took. coming up more with james galbraith and what happens in congress refuses to read the reason the debt ceiling we discussed what a u.s. default would entailed and smile all your own mug shot dot com i'm not joking now web site is the publish mug shots and then charge arrestees hundreds of thousands of dollars or just hundreds however much it ends up taking to take the pictures down are now in the spotlight rachel courteous and i discuss how credit card companies could switch off the life of this profitable business that's coming up in today's big deal and as we had to break here's a quick look at some of today's closing numbers. live science technology innovation all the latest developments from around russia we've got the future covered. the players are they play very hard to make outlets to get along here there's a plug in that sax player that hurt r

up in the early reagan years and i t v one eighty two but then they stabilized and came down again simply because the federal reserve changed policy so it became clear that the reagan administration could in fact get away in the world the climate that was just being established at that time with the financial. posture that they took. coming up more with jim and what happens in congress refuses to read the reason the debt ceiling we discussed what a u.s. default would entailed and smile all your own mug shot i'm not joking now websites that publish mug shots and then charge arrestees hundreds of thousands of dollars or just hundreds however much it ends up taking to take the pictures down are now in the spotlight rachel courteous and i discuss how credit card companies which off the life of this profitable business that's coming up in today's big deal and as we had to break here's a quick look at some of today's closing numbers. there's a war on for a piece of the mud yes the government is tolling out some maggot infested pieces of mud pie benefits and the peasant voters are beating each other up trying to grab a slice or two and if that fails then they try to deprive their neighb

in the early reagan years and i think maybe one maybe two but then they stabilized and came down again simply because the federal reserve changed policy so it became clear that the reagan administration could in fact get away in the world the climate that was just being established at that time with the financial. posture that they took. coming up more with james galbraith and what happens in congress refuses to read the reason the debt ceiling we discussed what a u.s. default would entailed and smile all your own mug shot i'm not joking now websites the publish mug shots and then charge arrestees hundreds of thousands of dollars or just hundreds however much it ends up taking to take the pictures down are now in the spotlight rachel courteous and i discuss how credit card companies could switch off the life of this profitable business that's coming up in today's big deal and as we had to break here's a quick look at some of today's closing numbers. the upside to an active campaign had a long time ago where patients are forced battling after a malingerer strike never turned the world's attention to the places that some jobs go a lot of hard times. luck . luck live. play lists. cross-

the early reagan years and i think eighty one eighty two but then they stabilized and came down again simply because the federal reserve changed policy so it became clear that the reagan administration could in fact get away in the world the climate that was just being established at that time with the financial. posture that they took. coming up more with james galbraith. and what happens in congress refuses to read the raise the debt ceiling we discuss what a u.s. default would entail and smile you're on mug shot dot com i'm not joking now websites are published mug shots and then charge arrestees hundreds of thousands of dollars or just hundreds however much that ends up taking to take the pictures down are now in the spotlight rachel perseus and i discuss how credit card companies fits which off the lights of this profitable business that's coming up in today's big deal and as we had to break here's a quick look at some of today's closing numbers. all people are. body has something to show everybody. for sure should live so long on their porch. i mean always in the water. that's whether it's a ballet dancer a ball player. those are things that are curious to see just enjoy. them

productivity from one hundred sixty six to two thousand the way they had from the george washington administration to the ronald reagan administration you'll find this quote in my book crash in two thousand and sixteen that the average american middle class worker would be making one hundred ninety thousand dollars a year at the end of the year and probably working a thirty hour a week remember the jetsons so in fact what happens is as minimum wages go up it's not the prices go up what happens is the corporate profits go down for c.e.o.'s instead of making five hundred times what their workers make it four hundred eighty seven times and their workers make so historically the purpose simply not there it sounds logical and the cons have been trying to sell it to you for a long long time but it simply is not true as minimum wages go up it actually stimulates the economy because minimum wage workers spend all their money and demand is what drives the come. yes that's it for your take my take alive thanks for all your calls if we didn't get your calls and i try to give a try to give us a call back next week and keep the vi

productivity from one hundred sixty six to two thousand the way they had from the george washington administration to the ronald reagan administration you'll find this quote in my book crash in two thousand and sixteen that the average american middle class worker would be making one hundred ninety thousand dollars a year at the end of the year and probably working a thirty hour a week remember the jetsons so in fact what happens is as minimum wages go up it's not the prices go up what happens is the corporate profits go down for c.e.o.'s instead of making five hundred times what their workers make it four hundred eighty seven times and their workers make so historically the the purpose simply not there it sounds logical and the cons have been trying to sell it to you for a long long time but it simply is not true as minimum wages go up it actually stimulates the economy because minimum wage workers spend all their money and demand is what drives the come. yes that's it for your take my take alive thanks for all your calls if we didn't get your calls and i try to give a try to give us a call back next week and keep th

we know that richard nixon cut the deal with the with the with the vietnamese we know the reagan bush administration in one thousand eighty cut the deal with the muslim brotherhood we know who was in the meeting we know the meetings that were in paris we know that we were in madrid and we know all about that in when in fact anybody tried to raise that in any of the major news media etc for example in new york times it's not news that is fit to print it is not fit to print it so they will not reveal that because there is a there is a clique a kind of a governing elite in the united states i know because i ended up i ended up being i was i got the biggest scholarship ever warded to an american to go to harvard college and i came out of a blue cross blue collar setting my father was the first man in our family ever to graduate from high school and so i ended up getting to go to harvard to go to harvard law school where i was there with all these people from all of the major private schools in the private academies that came in there. i see how they train an entire class of people to govern in this coun

we know that richard nixon cut the deal with the with the with the vietnamese we know the reagan bush administration in one thousand nine hundred eighty cut the deal with the muslim brotherhood we know who are. in the meeting we know the meetings were in paris we know the meetings were in madrid we know all about that and when in fact anybody tried to raise that in any of the major news media etc for example in new york times it's not news that is fit to print it is not fit to print and so they will not reveal that because there is a there is a clique a kind of a governing elite in the united states i know because i ended up i ended up being i was i got the biggest scholarship ever warded to an american to go to harvard college and i came out of a blue crab a blue collar setting my father was the first man in our family ever to graduate from high school and so i ended up getting to go to harvard and go to harvard law school where i was there with all these people from all of the major private schools in the private academies that came in there i see how they train an entire class of people to govern

when i was in the reagan administration, reagan was able to use the economic weapon, the price of oilhe russians into a deal. and that's what we could do with iran. but you don't get that deal if you give up the sanctions. >> that's true. if we go with that deal, as the obama administration appears eager to do as you've mentioned, what does that do? does that remove economic sanctions? does it allow them to develop a nuclear weapon and then we end up with a military option? >> well, nobody wants a military option. nobody wants to go to war with iran. some people may have suggested it. if it's a choice between iran getting nukes or having a war with iran or destroying the iran's nuclear site, then maybe the iran military option should be on the table. even secretary kerry said the military option is on the table. think there's a third way between letting them get the bomb and bombing iran, and that is if the united states develops our own energy. if we develop our own oil and natural gas, it does a couple of things. it mean, one, we aren't dependent on the middle east and don't have to

with respect to how we approach an administration when i first got here a couple of years ago we were just beginning to kind of across the pond at the reagan administration coming down the line. we had to figure out how to organize the series. we have a series of processes that you go through. what are the major issues and major crises that they go through red what are the ongoing lines of diplomacy? what are your resources if you are going to publish anything with close to 30 years you have to make sure you have the staff to work on it rapidly enough to meet the statutory requirement. we sat down upfront realizing that rings change once you go into the box and find the archives. we laid out an overall plan for the series that comprise comprised of 46 volumes just through the reagan administration we did 64 for the nixon administration and 30 for the card administration. by the time we are done and typically we make a plan to vector our efforts toward the mainline activity administration and then as i say once you get into the archives you don't want to be so inflexible that you aren't able to respond to what you're finding. these are the

identify those two pieces and one piece of course is public schools we are we have ever since the reagan administration we've been destroying our public schools first reagan was the first president to put a man in charge as secretary of education bill bennett who i had debated at the heritage foundation he put bill bennett as the head of the department of education right after bill bennett had unsuccessfully run for president on the platform of eliminating the department of education nobody had ever been a secretary of education who hated public education before reagan started that and you can see the results not just look at our schools we used to have really good schools in this country so a we need to do that but the other part of it the be part of it is a lot of people are educated by the media they learn what's going on from the news and that's you know and they and they learn how it's going on came to be from the news and what was the last time on any of the news channels including the so-called liberal news channels that you heard an honest discussion for example about free trade policies or the

of the secret relationship between khomeini his son i'm odd islamic republican party in the reagan administration. as part of the deal keeping the hostages longer it's alleged the reagan team promised iran weapons which would be funneled in via israel as well as the unfreezing of certain iranian assets in u.s. banks this wasn't the first time bunny sautter made this claim either in one thousand nine hundred two in fact wrote a letter to a house of representatives task force investigating allegations that the reagan team conspired to keep the hostages longer that letter along with another letter written by the foreign minister of iran that further implicated the reagan team was dismissed by the task force the spy congressional task force is exonerating the reagan team for what would have been high treason allegations of an october surprise have continued to persist a report by the russian government confirmed it sources in the israeli government did too and so too did a former reagan insider barbara honegger and in one thousand a.d. the former defense minister of portugal claimed he had documents

jackson went to syria without the blessing of the reagan administration. >> the reagan administrationaid you shouldn't go. >> reporter: release the american pilot and safe face. >> he allowed the syrian government the opportunity to release me without having to succumb directly to the u.s. government. >> receiving both goodman and -- ronald reagan was compelled to give jackson credit, saying you can't quarrel with success. that turned the spotlight on jackson, created momentum for his 1984 presidential bid and made him a go to as a third party sbeintermediary, he plead be saddam hussein to release foreign nationals before the first gulf war and to release nigeria nigerians. there are others, never acting as part of the government, just a human rights advocate. trained hostage minority fors said third parties like jackson are difficult. >> they can talk to them, they can give them sage, possibly. they can be a sounding board for them. but as far as actual negotiations, there's not much they can do. >> jackson plans to continue his diplomacy whenever his place in the world -- >> so gain

. >> and i need to point out when you are working in the reagan administration, you said you were afraid that you could not come out. not let anybody know that you had a male lover, what has changed since then, and what makes today different than yesterday. >> it's just a change in attitude. it just changes everything, bill clinton announced that at an hrc dinner, in 1994, and that is the way you will change hearts and minds that resonated with me and a lot of gay americans. what is different about them than their parents in. >> they know gay people, they don't care, they are looking at much more important issues like job creation, education, reform. the issue is not important to them. and they are encouraging people. you are 61, part of that free love generation hippies etc., why was that generation so conservative on an issue like this, and yet so liberal in other ways? >> i guess i fault the religious teachings that so many of us grew up with. some more severe than others. so they were taught to hate gay people, if you are gay you are going to held, and this kind of dialog is devastat

oberstar: but even a decade after it was enacted, the reagan administration came in and cut the grant program to a loan program. and funding diminished over a period of time. now, we still have 1/3 or more of the nation's streams and lakes that don't meet the standards of the clean water act. we have to advance the cause. that is the big challenge ahead of us. you just don't think of raw sewage in waterways in a developed country, and yet, that's what we have, and not just in pittsburgh, but all over. narrator: pittsburgh is situated at the confluence of the allegheny, monongahela, and ohio rivers. these three rivers are vital for industry, recreation, and drinking water. and each year, billions of gallons of combined sewer overflows discharge directly into those rivers. hecht: we're now having to face the consequences of the choice that was made to put in combined sewer systems. narrator: in 1994, the government adopted a combined sewer overflow policy to reduce csos nationwide. cities with combined sewer overflows now face an enforcement action called a consent decree. under a conse

the islamic republican party in the reagan administration. as part of the deal today the hostages longer the sleds the reagan team promised iran weapons which would be funneled into israel as all of the un freezing of certainty iranian assets in us banks. this was in the first time bunnies daughter made this claim either. in nineteen ninety two. in ft wrote a letter to a house of representatives taskforce investigating allegations that the reagan team conspired to keep the hostages longer. that letter along with another letter written by the foreign minister be wrong but further implicated the redeem team was dismissed by the taskforce. but congressional task force is exonerated berated him for what would have been a high treason. allegations of an october surprise continue to persist. a report by the russian government confirmed its sources in the israeli government did to answer due to their former reagan insider barber harder in nineteen eighty the former defence minister portugal claimed he had documents with approval of the october surpri

on the court just just to thomas jefferson but in the modern era you said the first bush administration yes ok so under the reagan administration bork was filibustered i mean there were good reasons there were prominent arguments that could go forward to explain why he was the best i think it was a distortion but under the bush administration we went from a we're no longer going to make a principled argument about policy and we're going to go for gutter ball and that's what was done in the clarence thomas confirmation process both so low so in your world the democrats suddenly became political around here clarence thomas political you don't think it had the ring the bar it loring radar intense as i did are you glad clarence thomas was lowering it in you know his nomination after what he'd. been over at the department of education he got confirmed as chairman of the e.e.o.c. he got confirmed as chief on the d.c. circuit court all of us now he's no longer qualified and it turns out he's impeachable turns out all. there are so many conflicts of interest he's been is he has behaved in a way that if he was on any othe

that saddam was using gas but essentially encouraged it and this was during the reagan about this is during the reagan administration so no other country in the world has been exposed to chemical weapons in the manner that iran is not in the last few years and this is definitely a very traumatic experience for the iranians so while on the one hand they're very supportive of the saudi regime view that as being at that critical strategic relationship that they have and at the same time when there are indications that saudi has been using gas it has created a tremendous amount of. conversation some of them very public in iran that indicates that some members of the iranian regime believe that assad was the person behind the attacks and they're certainly not particularly comfortable or how you would at the same time they're opposed to the idea that there would be strikes that would get rid of assad and in his place either some sort of pro-american regime or more likely that syria would fall into the hands of al qaida and and elements controlled by saudi arabia because at the end of the day. from the perspective of these

majority of them were american citizens now of course you know an apology was issued under the reagan administration saying that this was wrong this was racial profiling and so on but it's interesting that it's only in the lead eighty's after japan has you know pretty much been subsumed under the u.s. umbrella in that region and no longer poses any kind of threat but an apology can be issued and it's not a principled and theresa stand because at the same time that this apologies issued chinese are being presented as an enemy and and as a threat in fact the neoconservatives have you know been since the one nine hundred ninety s. talking about the rise of china and the rhetoric that accompanies it is a very graceless sort of anti chinese rhetoric so i think the way to combat this is to have a sense of how the political elite operates why it is that the conseco you know we're off in the middle east because we would like to control the oil in the region and therefore we using these racist stereotypes of arabs of south asians and so on so for the concious such things instead of the rely on these mechanis

the saddam was using gas but essentially encouraged and this was during the reagan about this is during the reagan administration so no other country in the world has been exposed to chemical weapons in the mt of the iran is not in the last few years and this is definitely very traumatic experience for the iranians so while on the one hand they're very supportive of this saudi regime view that as being at that critical strategic relationship that they have and at the same time when there are indications that the saudi has been using gas it has created a tremendous amount of. conversation some of them. very public in iran that indicates that some members of the iranian regime believe that assad was the person behind the attacks and they're certainly not particularly comfortable with at the same time that they're opposed to the idea that there would be strikes that would get rid of assad and in his place either some sort of pro-american regime or more likely that syria would fall into the hands of al qaida and and elements controlled by saudi arabia because at the end of the day. from the perspective of these powe

put him on the court just just to thomas jefferson but in the modern era the first bush administration yes ok so under the reagan administration bork was filibustered i mean there were good reasons there were prominent arguments that could go forward to explain why he was filibustered i think it was a distortion but under the bush administration we went from a we're no longer going to make a principled argument about policy and we're going to go for gutter ball and that's what was done in the clarence thomas confirmation process both so that are both.

majority of them were american citizens now of course you know an apology was issued under the reagan administration saying that this was wrong this was racial profiling and so on but it's interesting that it's only in the lead eighty's after japan has you know pretty much been subsumed under the u.s. umbrella in that region and no longer poses any kind of threat but an apology can be issued and it's not a principled and theresa stand because at the same time that this apologies issued chinese are being presented as an enemy as a and as a threat in fact the neoconservatives have you know been since the one nine hundred ninety s. talking about the rise of china and the rhetoric that accompanies it is a very racist sort of anti chinese rhetoric so i think the way to combat this is to have a sense of how the political elite operates why it is that the conseco you know we're off in the middle east because we would like to control the oil in the region and therefore we using these racist stereotypes of arabs of south asians and so on so for the concious such things instead of the rely on these mechanisms

on the court just just to thomas jefferson but in the modern era you said the first bush administration yes ok so under the reagan administration.

there was a time and he attributes it first to the nixon administration and the reagan administration that there was much more than us and them and we wanted it to be as far away from possible as us as if there is a clear line somehow. but he talks about the post 9/11 qaeda of criminal justice environment as those folks alleged terrorists as the new people we should be afraid of and they are going to put us as far away as possible on the island can't lock them up forever with no end in sight. most haven't even really been before ending sort of meaningful tribunal. but he tells a very personal story about the client that was made and i think that he tells it well because it is easy to relate to this particular client that you move to australia and get married and have children and like many people when they start to have children he became more religious and i thought that is a great way to describe it because that is when suddenly we are back in our church or synagogue and kids have to go to high school. he said they became more religious and wanted to explore perhaps moving back to a

there are a number of people, since the rules got changed in the reagan administration, a genuine revolutionhat set this up. the big changes at the end of the clinton administration that .hil gramm pushed through since then, these people have been unleashed. in the 1920s it was the dupont's, morgan's, and rockefellers. now it is this new bunch. >> how did they gain by the recession? of the biggest fortunes in america over the last century were made during the last great depression. if you are cash rich and everyone is desperately selling everything they have for almost are facingause they tax liens, going out of business, it is an enormous opportunity to get even richer. they are and will benefit from this. >> you have several interesting stories, like joe stack. joe famously flew his plane into the irs and killed one worker. he was a small business person who basically got eaten by the recession. we described him as america's first suicide bomber. ack, the occupy movement, and in some ways, the tea party movement, at least at a grassroots movement, are signs of this growing populist rage of

there was a time he attributes first to the dixon administration the more fiercely through the reaganadministration that we write off people and we wanted them to be from i s but he talks about the post 9/11 criminal-justice environment those people that we should be most afraid of, it is peculiar forever with no end in sight most are not any through a tribunal. but my personal story about the client that you meet he tells it will because in order to relate to this particular client he moved to australia and got married and raise children like many people may be to explore moving back to a religious country like afghanistan and then got swept up with a bunch of arrest and taken a and tortured and then it turns out he was innocent but what it was like it got a happy ending but most of those stories do not. >> i love this story because it did have an unhappy ending that they could resume the life of their family but they are still sitting there. is there really true justice whether there isn't enough resources that they need to adequately represent behalf were like george silberman can