government to release all political prisoners and to put in place economic and political reforms the state department has said that they released of a handful of prisoners does not meet the expectations of the president ok so because listening to the americans god after sixty years they still won't listen to and won't be told what to do kathy what do you think about that i mean this this is a this is really an abomination in foreign policy the only other foreign foreign policy the united states has and i think even gets remotely close is with iran it's just it's psychopathic it's a psychopathic obsession around one of them and it's even worse with cuba because it's just simply longer i mean this what is this embargo really achieved. nothing it hasn't achieved anything i mean it was supposed to help the human rights in cuba and the people are suffering that they haven't and so could there have me to they don't have cheese for their pizzas i mean they don't have the basics in life that make life pleasurable they can't leave the island they're just it's a disaster the government's fine for th

to protect the citizens of this state. that is why i authored that legislation and i fully supported. -- support it. >> true edmondson. >> for nine announced at a press conference that 17 lawyers in my office decided to look at the health care bill and we had determined to a person that in order to reverse it, it would require that the united states supreme court reversed 70 years of precedent on the commerce powers and taxing powers of congress, and our lawyers thought that the chance of that happening was slim to none. it would be an unwise expenditure of state expenses to join in that lawsuit. we told the legislature that under title 74, if they requested us to enter that litigation, we would construe that as a mandatory duty. they chose not to. they chose instead to enter it themselves which is fine. lieutenant governor askins is absolutely correct. we can opt out of medicaid any kind -- any time that we want. we could before the law passed and we can now. but if we do, then we're not responsible for 30% of the cost of

the cubans as their mother writer said are not listening to the united states is not really the issue the issue is that the cuban regime not the cubans is not listening to the cuban people the issue here is a little better more complex i'm sorry let me let me finish my thought the issue here is a little bit more complicated danny than it has been pointed out it is not true is not factually accurate to say that all dissidents support one policy or the other this is this is one of those efforts to try to paint cuba in black and white their dishes as support one policy their dissident who have gone to prison for supporting a u.s. policy finally i don't know of any country in the world and the history of where we're in a political scientists who has changed policy just to deny another government a an excuse that makes no no sense at all finally they embargo all the talk about a nuanced embargo then bargain is very new once that thirty forty years ago was one thing today american companies sand sale hundreds of millions of dollars to cuba if the cuban government were to allow their remitta

the state is probably looking at the whole thing. is it because there are state funds coming in? could we need a local oversight function as well in san francisco? >> the state function is in respective of the funding source that is used to provide services. as a health maintenance organization -- california is the only state that has an organization such as the department of managed health care. it reviews every health plan, their respective of whether it is state dollars, local dollars, or private funding. that is its responsibility. in terms of the oversight of the san francisco community health authority, it is a 19 member board. 14 of its members are appointed by the board of supervisors. it goes through that process on an annual basis. the additional five members of the board are designated positions. there is someone from the health commission, the department of public health, ucss, the department of mental health, and the board of supervisors. so there is significant oversight in terms of the actual appointment of the governing body of the san francisco health plan, which

of think are doing and don't forget the states themselves are divided too. not all states are doing this. some have strong majorities that feel the other way. >> ifill: was that foul? was a whistle blown today, mr. hefman? >> it wasn't a whistle blown. i think arizona got back their midterm example and i think they're already planning. >> ifill: michael hef heffan and steven gonzalez. thank you very much. >> lehrer: still to come on the "newshour": u.s./pakistani relations; the oil in the gulf and a man on a mission. but first, the other news of the day. here's hari sreenivasan in our newsroom. >> sreenivasan: a bus packed with passengers hit a roadside bomb in southern afghanistan today, killing 25 people. 20 others were wounded. the bus was blown up as it drove through nimroz province on a main highway to kabul. meanwhile, nato reported a u.s. service member was killed yesterday in the south. 59 americans have died this month. a record 60 were killed in june. the budget crunch in california is going to hit state workers again. california govern

court if the ruling offends state public policy or the constitution. house version of h.r. 2765, which we passed unanimously in june, 2009, contains three major provisions. first it states that a u.s. court either state or federal shall not enforce a foreign judgment for defamation if the judgment is inconsistent with the first amendment. second, it clarifies that a foreign ruling denying an american citizen due process guarantees will also not be enforced. and third, h.r. 2765 prevents enforcement of foreign rulings that complex with the telecommunications law that protects consumers' rights to criticize misconduct on internet bulletin boards. this version includes essential provisions to deter libel tourists from bringing these suits in the first place. among these is a feature that allows a u.s. citizen who loses a foreign suit to bring a declaratory judgment action in a federal court to determine whether the foreign verdict is repugnant to the constitution or the laws of the united states. mr. speaker, this bipartisan legislation provides appropriat

the data was crucial to this. so a state, for instance, can pass legislation, which we have done in colorado that requires an all-payor data base. so you have a sense going into the data to see what people are paying. now, where the federal government comes in is that's not all that good if you don't have any access to payor information around medicare. so here the federal government has the data base that we need the access to, and why you're going to have to have sort of a shared solutions approach to that. but the starting point has to be for the state to be willing to go in and do the hard work of gathering the data, and then trying to glean from that data where the savings are. your first question was about fmap. that was the short term thing. 30 states have balanced their budget youing that prom. but to solve this over time. if you look back to 1992, no other start of state government spending has increased as rapidly as medicaid. and so it is important for us to get our arms around that. we're not going to do that wit

special agent assigned to the state capital madison. and what was it like in one thousand seven hundred what were the students like what was happening here well the students were. really involved with the the vietnam war there was demonstrations going on and some of them were very violent there was a lot of tear gas lot of broken windows what was the dimia the key demand was to get out of the. but it tiny splinter group of students saw themselves as already at war with the nixon administration. and the nearest target was close at hand the campus army math research center. a research lab funded by the pentagon and housed in the department of physics. at three forty two am on the twenty fourth of august nine hundred seventy an explosion destroyed the army math center. hundreds of f.b.i. agents from all over the united states were sent to wisconsin this was of extreme interest to the white house was that this yellow explosion absolutely it went all the way to the director's desk there was daily contact with the the oval office as to what wa

after the state's -- will he man up and go after these states? guest: he raises a very good and important point. unfortunately, the issue of immigration, every time it comes up is a very difficult one to deal with. it has to deal with race. it deals with fear. it has to deal with promoting that. i think you are hearing on the right and they laughed a lot of political spin and theater when it comes to the issue of immigration. the sad part about the immigration efforts, even on the federal level, when they try to fix the very broken system is that you were trying to get enough votes to pass that it will not really pass reality. the reality is these states are in crisis. you are seeing them pushing back and the -- they are not responding. you can hold some meetings with hispanic leaders and faced based leaders to say you want to get something done. there has been a lot of people in this administration saying this is a downward economy. you were getting a mixed message at best. they're still talking enforcement. they will have to come together and fi

follow in welcome to cross talk i'm here all about does pakistan face the prospect of becoming a failed state the u.s. claims it is an indispensable ally and its so-called war on terror opinions on the ground see the u.s. as part of pakistan's security problems are washington and islamabad really on the same page. to discuss pakistan u.s. relations i'm joined by dan kai human dubai he's the editor of the news service pakistan. beast dot com in washington we have now was he is the director of the south asia center at the atlantic council of the united states and author of crossed swords pakistan its army and wars within and in london we go to anatol lieven the chair of international relations and terrorism studies at king's college london and the author of the upcoming book pakistan a hard country and another member of our crosstalk team on the hunger all right across talk rules in effect gentlemen that means you can jump in anytime you want and until i want to go to you first hillary clinton was in islam about not long ago i had a gift five hundred million dollars for a civilian projects buil

we are called the volunteer state. that goes backo the day that we volunteered for the army, but you did not heaanne in or complaining. -- any wining or complaining. i am proud of what ppened. we need to look about building in flood zones. i learned how talente how resilience, how hard working tennessean are. >> i did not learn that, already knew that. tennessee is an extraordinary group of people. i heard from fema that they had never seen anywhere in this entire nation what they saw in terms of people taking care of people. it is extraordinary what we saw. that is what tennessee is. that is why i cannot wait to serve the state as the 49th governor. there were a lot of pople caught up not having a flood insurance because they were nowhere near a flood plain. we need to reach calibrate that whole equation in tennessee. -- we need to recalibrate the whole equation in tennessee. >> i went to perry cnty two weeks after the flood and sought a peaceful stream that was a raging river and literally took a home down the river a

the supreme court of the united states have not so held. the supreme court has two precedents on this issue, one from 1976 and one from 2005 and they both support what arizona is doing. the court has held that states pay pass laws to discourage illegal immigration within their jurisdiction. and the u.s. courts of appeals, and i've argued many cases around the country on this specific question, have also held that state and local police may make immigration arrests without being preempted by congress. indeed, congress has passed numerous statutes to encourage state and local police to make immigration arrest. so far from usurping federal authority, the arizona law, because it is drafted to be perfectly concurrent with federal authority t actually is not preempted and, indeed, encouraged by federal statute. >> suarez: professor koback, you heard professor gonzalez say that the constitution specifically uses language to assign to itself the authority to regulate these matters. does it? >> yes. and of course the constitution gives congress what'

it is applied on the federal and local, and state levels. it goes like this -- government and its agents have no legal duty to protect it a duty to protect society as a whole, but not the individual. if the federal government abdicates its responsibility to protect the southern borders and all these other issues, financial, that have been going on, the states also can apply the public duty doctor that they have the duty to protect the whole, not the individual. that is what i think arizona ought to do. to declare they're going to opt for the public do the doctrine. they have a duty to protect the whole because the federal government has abdicated its responsibility. host: on the line for democrats out of california, juan. caller: yes cannot comment on the last caller -- i don't know where this guy is coming from, but basically, the federal government has always had jurisdiction over matters having to do with immigration law -- yes, i want to comment on this last caller. in matters they made recently where they announced corporations can contr

it is arguably the largest escalation experienced by a state in the history of the united states. what happened in both of the years i have been governor is we have budget deficits. you really cannot cut education in the middle of the school year. when i became governor, education spending had increased in 47%. there became a point where the resources were so depleted having cut $21 billion during that period of time that inevitably we had even hit the sacred area of education. we ended up cutting $1.4 billion on top of it because we wanted to protect ourselves from and how your gap. it is a bit of a competition between education and health care advocates. we cut health-care $5.5 billion. over the 2.5 years i have been governor, we have cut $42 billion from the state's economy. combined with california, that is $100 billion in those two states along. >> we will get to health care in just a minute, but i am sure you all face the same problem. education is a huge trunk of your budget. you have to deal with the fiscal realities. who else wants to take this on? gov. o'malley? >> we and

ban on affirmative action has meant for the people of california in a majority minority state in a majority minority city you go across the street here to u.c.l.a. three years ago there were less than one hundred black freshman on that campus who were not on athletic scholarship you tell me that you quality you tell me that's what america is supposed to be what you're talking about quote it's pure and simple and you're saying that because there are not as many they have to be beneficiaries of racial discrimination you're saying with how bad the reality of how we don't measure justice we measure justice by treating everybody equal and you're saying we can't treat them equally you have to give them a leg up give them a boost give them extra points on their score that's exactly what you're saying more points from outdoors because of the color of their skin even if they just immigrated yesterday i think the big question here also like both of you mentioned is how do you measure equality is diversity and necessarily. the word that represents equality or is this some other american

live next to the jewish state of israel. i think the palestinians should not be either subject of israel or citizens of israel. they should have their own independent country. we should be assured that this country is not used as a staging ground for iranian-sponsored terrorist attacks on us. and i think this combination of state for the palestinians and security for israel is something that can be brought about in direct negotiations that i propose to start without any preconditions, without any pretext. >> larry: right. >> leaders don't need excuses. they just have to get on with it and i'm prepared to get on with it. >> larry: do you -- you absolutely favor a palestinian state though, right? >> i do. and i want to make sure that it -- that we don't have a repeat of what happened in the other two times that we vacated territory. you know, we left lebanon, every last square inch of it. and iran came in and used it as a staging ground to launch 6,000 rockets on israel's cities. 6,000. we left gaza, last square inch, and iran

when the states cannot handle the situation themselves. and we realize there is great ariation among states' educational achievement, and that again, the united states, on most test scores, fell back behind our competitors and our colleagues, and we are the only country that really does not have national standards. i know this is a tough sell, having been governor. local control is ideology almost. but i think it is an ideology that does not always work and has to be reexamined. on other issues, the states are getting more power. just in today's new york times, the lead of the paper says -- 11 states have passed restrictive laws on abortion, some of which will be tested in the supreme court, no doubt. but the states are very active. it depends on what your favorite issue is. if you do not like with tte federal government is, you do not believe in federalism. if you do not like what the states are doing, you do not believe in it state action. but at its very best, looking up from on high, you say this is a creative tension that may be health

in front of the state building here in san francisco. live in san francisco, nbc bay area news. >>> now for a little historical perspective, in 1798 congress enacted the alien act, allowing the president to deport any immigrant the president considered dangerous to the peace and safety of the united states. that law was never called into use. between 1815 and 1860, 5 million immigrants came to the u.s. in 1862, the homestead act encouraged naturalizing by giving citizens title to 160 acres of land. in 1940 the alien registration act called for immigrants to get registered and fingerprinted. in 19 in52, the immigration and naturalization act pulled multiple immigration laws together under one law. >>> a developing story now from afghanistan. a senior military official says u.s. forces have found the body of the second sailor who has been missing. they have identified him as 25-year-old petty officer third class justin newlove. now, he disappeared with 30-year-old justin mcneely last friday near kabul. soldiers found mcneely dead earlier th

texas is the largest state in terms of wind production in the united states. the algae idea is something people have talked about. one of the big issues we have right now is a story in the "new york times." how do we subsidize the development of fossil fuels? the oil and gas industry? we need to have a new paradigm for how we fund and deal with energy in this country, and we need to have that now. so, the folks down there who are thinking, hey, should i start and algae form -- farm, they know the market will support it. carbon-intensive, global warming activity, we are going to transition added that. the future is in biofuels and solar and wind. the market signal will bring in a venture capitalist. this is how the economy always works. it is important for congress to move forward with legislation now so business people can start investing and investing safely. host: we can read just a little bit from this "new york times" peace. it says that when the -- >> that is in the "new york times" today. guest: we will continue to have this focus on foreign oil. as the i

senate and represent the entire state. both candidates have been running hard for the august 3 vote and now it is time for their first televised debate. 27 ksnt, kshb kansas city, the topeka capital journal and the macpherson sentinel present this debate between congressman jerry moran and congressman todd tiahrt. >> good evening, kelli stegeman. >> i am dr. bob beattie. thank you for joining us on this special night. >> we would like to welcome you to the first televised debate between congress and todd tiahrt and congressman jerry moran. thank you for being here this evening. >> for the next hour, these two senate candidates will field questions from a variety of sources, including 27 news staff, 27 news viewers and co- sponsors of this debate. >> we will also be taking questions from you at home. if you have a question that pertains to both candidates, send your question to the address on your screen. >> in order to cover as much ground as possible, we have asked each canada to keep their answers to 1.5 minutes with 30 s

the state's unemployment rate fell in june to 12.3%. w that's down 1/10 of 1% for may, but far greater than the current national unemployment rate of 9.5%. we take a closer look at the current job outlook in the south bay. >> there's not been a department store in downtown san jose since in 1970s but that changed today. ross opened a new store there, and some see it as a promising economic sign seeing that unemployment is still high in the south bay. >> i got some dress shoes. >> jamie moore took a break from his store to shop at the new store. >> it's going to bring more people downtown and just to help the downtown area and the businesses. >> san jose redevelopment agencs they were aggressive in this downtown area and providing 50 new jobs. >> right now that means a lot to those 50 people that are filling the jobs, and to their family. >> the state's employment devet department reported today the unemployment rate in south bay was 11.4% in june, and less than the 11.7% rate they estimated a year ago. state labour officials say this is

they interviewed school board members around the state. asked them about how did they make this decision. and this is a really agonizing decision. actually kind of heartbreaking reading these descriptions. monica garcia, who's this school board member in l.a., the biggest school district in the state, said we're reaching a point where we're engaging in education malpractice. you know, they're increasing class size, they're cutting the librarians, and now it's actually cutting to the bone. now somebody said you're cutting into the bone. >>. >> belva: well, that brings us to the point of where do we go next in the courts? there are some lawsuits already. >> well, you've got a bunch of community groups, school districts saying that the school financing system in california is broken. we do have prop 98, which was supposed to guarantee a certain percentage of money, that was going to guarantee a stable source of funding, but what's happened is the california budget kupets and down, the general fund goes up and down, we've had all these crises

it is important that the united states government stay vigil and against efforts in the united states who try to secure statements from the u.s. quorpt world. that could be damaging to u.s. interests. host: speak more to the corporate parts. guest: there are companies involved in innovation and come up with new patents and new designs and new polings. it is important that they protect the means by which they came up with these new products. so it is in their interest to protect their corporate interests. and they want to guard against any efforts by foreign companies or foreign agents working on behalf of the government that would try to secure or steal or find out what those corpts secrets are. host: could you say that about the chinese, too? guest: china and russia pose a challenge for the u.s. government and the u.s. corporate community. host: good morning. caller: my question is, why didn't the obama administration do anything to russia, like puts sanctions on them after they attacked georgia for no parent reason? host: in 2008, the situation you are referring to, russian troops i

i'm ther of the united states senate. use] i have the honor today to speak for those members of the united states senate now serving and who have served. i also want to speak for those stf members who are now serving in the united states senate and who have served. 18 years ago i left m home in searchlight, nevada and i needed something to read on the plane. i pulled out of my little library a paper back that i readong ti ago, the adventures of robinson cure russo. i had enjoyed it. i hadn't read it in a long, long time. i came -- [inaudible] i know how much he liked to read and i wanted to impress him that i had read something and, i said i read the adventures of robinson curso. he leaned his bed like so many times. his eyes rolled back toward the heavens. he paused for just a second and then he said, 28 years, two months, and 19 days. in case anyone doesn't. that is how long he was on that island. i was as astonished, i didn't know how long he had been on the island, i just read the book. [laughter] robert byrd knew it t

the state's republican primary is august 24. continuing coverage of the 2010 midterm elections, here on the c-span networks. >> on friday, west virginia governor joe manchin announced that the seat has been filled that was vacated by longtime senator robert byrd. mr. goodwin will have an immediate impact on the senate, starting with extending unemployment benefits. here is the governor's announcement. it is just under 30 minutes. >> you all can sit down, please. >> senator rockefeller, mr. president, first lady, the entire family, the first mom. just a few moments ago i signed the appropriate paperwork with the secretary of state to make this announcement official. robert c. byrd was a giant. he can never be replaced. i have said it can never fill his shoes, we just hope we can follow in his footsteps. i have waited to make this appointment because it is important to do this right. i want to thank the white house. i want to thank majority leader reid. i want to thank especially senator rockefeller in the entire senate for making

manufacturing electric cars within the 48 states of the united states, developing the technology, 100%the parts from factories within the 48 states, taxing any attempt at importation of electric car parts, incredibly taxing, strongly taxing imports on electric car parts from outside the united states. lastly, there is no way in hell that wealthy americans, rich americans, the most well off people in this country are going to be developing and spurring on business and investment in this country by keeping them at a 35% vs. a 39.5% tax bracket. anybody that thinks that wealthy americans are going to be investing in the stock market's, they will take their global vacations, they spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on their families and themselves on vacations. the rich should be taxed at 45%. thank you for cspan. host: we drifted a little from the drilling idea but it gave a segue to ""the new york times." confidence is ebbing. the economic recovery has been helped by the spending and the rich are tightening their belts for the highest income households started spending comparably well

employees not to the current state employees. the only thing would be the roll back and great question to see whether he gets it. >> are you a gambling man? you think we'll get this budget anytime soon? >> i like a little bit of gambling every now and then but the conventional wisdom around here is we have to go into august a little more. we really have to see more of these real world impacts like today community colleges didn't get money they needed. into august you will see the battle lines form and ultimately if the state has to issue ious which could happen at the end of the summer that could be a big trigger. >> it's coming. >> john myers with kqed, thank you so much for your time tonight. good to see you. >> you're welcome. >>> one way government collects money, you drive across the state owned bridge, you pay. ever wonder how much money they take in in a single day? that's tonight's "good question." >>> and for anybody who ever enjoyed toy story or wally or up, your chance to see how that magic happens right here in the bay

does that include the states? >> i think we should go ahead and extend doing away with the estate tax as well. >> if you are anti cap and trade, and opposed to immigration, why do you not vote for republicans? how do you posture where you are different? >> i think that the united states senate needs more common sense. we need more democrats from the heartland so that people in washington understand that people on the main streets of kentucky do not think that washington is working for them. i do not think that we need to raise taxes in a recession. it is a bad deal for kentucky coal. i will always stand up for kentucky's interest. i said that we need to take a chance on health care to i would have voted for health care. i am a democrat because i believe in job security and health security. i believe that we provide opportunities to those who truly need it and i think we are the more inclusive party. i take issue with the premise of your question. there are so many differences between me and rand paul. on how we wou

left in the entire state of colorado. ese are occurrences' all over the country that have just decimated jobs in the natural resource industry and are now desperately needed to help us harvest -- >> if i may and this may be the case in wyoming and colorado the only reason that the sawmill is still going in my district of california the only one that is left is because now when there are these catastrophic forest fires the have to go in and clean out the timber it's fallen on the road and everything. that's the only thing that keeps it open so it used to be the old days the increase the firebricks student of the catastrophic forest fires. of the ten biggest fires in the last hundred years seven of the ten have happened in the last seven years since the creation of the monument so if that doesn't tell you something. >> i've just been reminded of the remaining colorado sawmill has now closed so when you state is occurring all over the country. questions for all of the panelists to marwan and natural resources committee we are