in the soviet union, they shrug it off. and if they get lucky, they're able to buy this or that, it's good fortune. but you wouldn't begin to see irritation like you would in the united states. >> have you seen any change in the russian people since the wall came down? >> they had a taste of freedom. there's still a certain resignation. and they probably accept what's imposed on them much more readily than americans. but i am so glad americans don't have that trait. we do get mad, thank goodness. we get mad, and we fight back. and we have a political system that allows us to say we don't like the way we're going, and we're americans and this is a government of the people, by the people, for the people. and we say, "we're the people," and we really start asserting it. and there's still a difference. the russians don't quite believe it, but one thing i do think is universal is the entrepreneurial spirit. and it's not just about making money. i agree with what i said then. if you're resigned, in any society, it's not just becau

war came around, he tried to give is largest which cost nearly $1 million, he tried to give it to the union navy and they said no. he was in little. nobody thought the war with less cell lung. it is going to beat a white elephant for the navy and he said no. submanderville ended up being forced a actually against his will to seize it for very large sums, a complicated story that we will have the free market people shaking their heads because he really was a crazy result. but, then the merrimack came steaming out of norfolk harbor, sings of the union ships then of course we all know the monitored came down and union ironclad battles them to a standstill in the standard version as the end of the story but at that point there was only one ship that could handle the merrimack for

he rose to lead ukraine to the european union. things have been brought in the ukraine -- bras in ukraine. -- rough in ukraine. even though they had experienced a real political difficulties -- experienced real political difficulties, they have decided to decide their own destiny. they may decide to move ahead with the european union. >> here is more from our 20- year-old interview. >> if i was going to lead by as the soviet government from a financial point of view, what they can do to take part, i would tell them to put their money where their mouth is. i think that the soviet union's only claim to credibility with western financial types is to provide collateral behind a currency. in fact, i think it would be a rather brilliant coup on their part to come out with a currency. they have mythical currencies, not that they do not exist, but bankers is get round when they think of soviet gold reserves -- bankers eyes it round when they think of soviet gold reserves. >> what has happened to their gold and the ruble in the past 20 year

i was turning working mostlyó7ú the soviet union. husband and i live on a farm, just the right distance from washington, about an hour and 20 mounts. my personality is to just hideaway in my little-ons office in my xouter. >> we are going to show some of the past interview we did. before we did that, let's go  through some basics. where were you born? >> los angeles. where did you go to school? >> in the value. i'm really kind of the classic valley girl of los angeles. >> what kind of a family was it? >> great family. five kids. mom, very traditional, wonderful, stayed at home. i thought it was sort of glam rows that my dad went out the door with a broef case. >> i know you got a phd from the university of ut? >> 1981. i went two years to ucla, i left home, wednesday police officer portland state university, which i quickly found out when you are paying for college yourself, i started working. that's when i got serious. from then on i was a very serious student. i was offered a job at payne web shall that took me to stalt lake city

the union should get involved. and that's why your husband paid dues all through the years. >> caller: right. >> and the union should be his and his fellow retirees advocates in dealing with the pension administrator for messing up and coming up with a reasonable way for that money to be recouped over time. >> caller: right. >> i would like for you to double back with me nancy, once you've talked to the union. and if the union is not of help to you and the other retirees, i would like to see what i might be able to do to be of help. >>> lola, what's happened, lola? >> caller: well, to make a long story short, there was this young man that my daughter knew and he ended up homeless, gave us a sad story. we brought him to our home. and to give him a place to live. settled up on the rent. and he was working, not too long after that. the transmission went out on his car. and i felt sorry for him, because he did not have a way to work. well, i had just got the transmission fixed in my truck, and i told him he could use m

i wonder not to put the whole burden of the over yet union. k at the american, cia's help inputting the shaw in the power in iran. that's a successful regime change but you have a reverse of that creating problems with anty american regime in iran 30-years after the original regime change success is one of the things that the c cia was prouded of. even beyond that do we want refilm change or should regime reform. we want specific results. there's certain things we want like áhe elimination of poverty or effective governments or do we necessarily need the elections that are so easy? or competitive political structure? what will we demand from china as it's been as a successful country over the last 30-years. >> now you have the last word. >> okay. briefly, bruce cummins question about what have been the consequences of exaggeration. i can some. consequences of exaggerated was a massive military expenditure. rods said the psáu of money the united states has spend on purchase every thing in the united states except the land. only 5.25% percent of

the soviet union drew on his quick correctly, there was a sense of the soviet union was not capable of keeping up with the american technological advance. not just in a military respect. it also has to consumer technology and creating the kind of technology that makes of this society that people would really want to live in. the problem is that as we move into the 2000's and after 9/11, its emphasis on technology became narrower and narrower, and it really came to me that if one employed at the american technological advance, military and civilian terms and best possible way, one could achieve a result of the was will not be possible to achieve. that one could push history along by using the technological edge. and both of these cases, both in afghanistan and iraq, it turned out to be wrong. for two reasons. one is with regard to warheads. said warfare that was encountered, first in iraq and in increasingly now in afghanistan, simply cannot be dealt with by using technological means. you can have a high-tech military, but when you move into those areas, in the south and eastern parts o

recognized the soviet union. it doesn't say we approve of every aspect of it, but we respect it as a sovereign nation. 1930s, among other things there is a purge trial. the reign of terror in the soviet union putting the revolutionaries stalin's own peers go on trial. that's what kessler is running out in darkness at noon. 1939, stalin makes a pact with hitler and hitler instantly invades poland. so they are both together and we are watching most on the other side, but watching. 1941, hitler invaded russia. suddenly soviet russia switches from an enemy to perhaps an ally, becomes an ally. we are allies in world war ii. these great conferences setting how europe will be after the war. we are working with russia in this period and then after the war, from 45 on the world war ii is over. the cold war is beginning. we are beginning to realize russia is not the kind of ally we would imagine. the point is, the u.s. the only relationship, flip-flops a lot. and americans are going through this trying to figure out what th

for the help of the union. that tells you something about the public attitude. about the vigor with which those campaigns are conducted. host: good morning. >> i have beautiful kurtens and throw rugs that when he was alive he knew how to buy quality. instead of quantity. and i still get compliments on what i have in my home and they want to know where i got it. i notice in the last years wal-mart has gone down to quantity and it's junk. it falls apart and their crafts department. it's gone for all intents and purposes. and sfavers the food, i get better deals at my grocery stores with buy one and get one free and couponning, and they delete, things you buy all the time are deleted, and it just got so aggravated. and i also had to return four toasters all through the summer, and i'm tired of buying junk. so i've been going to smaller stores and another thing sam walton bought stuff made in the u.s.a. you got quality. >> i admire the woman from gaphny, south carolina, that's the way i think americans should shop.

there was indeed a kind of my eve attitude toward the soviet union. it had to be in some way confronted in a way that got a public head of steam behind it. everything that i'm talking about, you realize, with exception of -- with the exception of the later part of chamber's history is pre-mccarthy. that is these were among the things that changed people's minds. trey certain extent in this country but even more in france. i mean, the impact of darkness at noon and its french translation and the debate that came up around it. the impact of the kravchenko trial and then the copy trial that followed in which a french journalist brought a case against. these really did have a serious impact on public opinion. my publisher's first wanted to call this book the subtitle for books that caused the cold war. that is way over the top. there was going to be called war for all of the political reasons that kennan and others saw. but i'm trying to show that there is a genuine literary dimension and these books play their role. the books had to be very widely read an

but, then the merrimack came steaming out of norfolk harbor, sings of the union ships then of course all know the monitored came down and union ironclad battles them to a standstill in the standard version as the end of the story but at that point there was only one ship that could handle the merrimack for code had a simple mechanical breakdown of the bin helpless. so secretary of war stanton telegraphed vanderbilt and said can you help, so he rush to washington and met with lincoln himself. lincoln said what can you do? he said i will take my largesse steamship and bring it down so-- he said probably what will happen is they won't risk the merrimack against it. they will bottle it up in court and that is actually what ended up happening so lincoln said how much you going to charge? free, i am giving it to use it within a few days, he did various things to protect it from shot in shell and brought it down personally with extraordinary authority from lincoln to personally decide which should be officered in deployed. and lenni met with union personnel, naval personnel, you know eeyore

and the soviet union. i do not like the whole attitude that the carter administration had in vienna, where he said that president brezhnev and i bring the same dreams and have the same aspirations for the world, which is absolutely false. >> presidents do look into souls and see all sorts of things. [laughter] >> one of the contributions of the reagan administration, and i think it was a contribution of the kennedy administration, too, was that they saw the soviet union realistic terms, not that they saw the same dreams and had the same aspirations for the world, but they had a different basic philosophy of whether the state predominates over the individual, or the individual determines the fate of the state and elects his and her own leaders, and that we, the people, preside in a political system. i think that to realistic presidents of the postwar era were john f. kennedy and ronald reagan. reagan by and large de legitimize the soviet union, a tremendous difference between what kennedy and kissinger had d

the next. in 1864, union general david hunter came through charles town with his army. it happened that andrew hunter was david hunter's first cousin, but they supported different sides of the conflict. general hunter was an abolitionist, and andrew hunter was a defender of slavery and illegal visor to robert e. lee. when general hunter at arrived and charles town he ordered his men to burn andrew hunter's house to the ground. they did so on july 17, 1864, ignoring the protest of andrew hunter's wife and the other family members who occupied it. the civil war has often been described as a war of brothers against brothers. and charles town at least it was also a war of first cousins against first cousins. three of the attorneys who helped brown and charles town for court-appointed attorneys. three others were attorneys of the brown's own choosing. all of the attorneys worked under significant handicaps however, because they didn't sympathize with brown, others because the very severe time constraints imposed on them by the court. at the outset, the presiding magistrate of

union? guest: the largest pilots' union in the world. caller: how long have you been airline pilot? airlines guest: pilot for 32 years and pilot -- airline -- caller: when ronald reagan busted the unions -- guest: i was on strike for continental airlines. i live in those days of the strike, one that was determined to be illegal and we have also seen what happened since, that the profession has recovered. they are represented and have become a strong union in their own right. this country moves forward by recognizing its mistakes, just like my profession does. host: arlene of the democrats' line. good morning. caller: my statement is physicians have different agencies that report on them as far as safety. and the mistakes that they make, so that the public can be informed about what doctor they are seeing and what kind of medicine. because airline pilots are responsible for so many lives in 1 second, but there is no agency reporting any plan and flight, and the customer can look up that pilot and find out of the one to travel with them. if they had some problems, maybe we choose not

let's do one on the soviet union. p of people in and dick cheney loved it so much that that -- he would say to get them to round up the usual suspects. they included two terrific cia people. they would be much more frank in these discussions than in the sanitized memos. there is a virtue to getting down to the people who know what they're talking about. a lot of academics -- one of the things that came out of these was just how much the strengths of these central forces in the soviet republics and the strength of dissatisfaction within russia. the point is, overtime and somewhat ahead of the curve, i believe, we understood there what is -- there was an enormous desire for change. one point where i believe this help it the right conclusion was when the failed coup happened in the soviet union. the early reaction -- the early morning reaction if you look at bush's press conference in kennebunkport, it was more in the spirit of we may have to work with these guys. if you have to work with them, they will have to work with

union? guest: the largest pilots' union in the world. caller: how long have you been airline pilot? airlines guest: pilot for 32 years and pilot -- airline -- caller: when ronald reagan busted the unions -- guest: i was on strike for continental airlines. i live in those days of the strike, one that was determined to be illegal and we have also seen what happened since, that the profession has recovered. they are represented and have become a strong union in their own right. this country moves forward by recognizing its mistakes, just like my profession does. host: arlene of the democrats' line. good morning. caller: my statement is physicians have different agencies that report on them as far as safety. and the mistakes that they make, so that the public can be informed about what doctor they are seeing and what kind of medicine. because airline pilots are responsible for so many lives in 1 second, but there is no agency reporting any plan and flight, and the customer can look up that pilot and find out of the one to travel with them. if they had some problems, maybe we choose not

the level of unionization went down. ople could not bargain anymore and all the parts fit between productivity rises and wages went to the top and% or 2% in the country. -- the top 1% or 2% in the country. we need to deregulate the economy, do a lot of things at we are talking about with the regulation and also give people a better way to bargain so they can get a better share, or a more fair share of what they produce. change the tax laws. change the trade laws. make a concerted effort to produce things in this country. we produce fewer than 50% of the things necessary for national security in this country right now. not luxury items, things necessary for national security. what we are doing is mortgaging, if you will, the future away. our generation is leaving the country to the young people 18- 34 in this country with less opportunity than what we received. and quite frankly, we ought to be ashamed about that and we ought to do everything we can to get this country back to where those children, those young workers have

the union jack will be taken down on the victoria tower when the queen arrived. [trumpets playing] the lord great chamberlain has welcomed the queen and duke of edinburgh and the heralds are making their way into the royal gallery. in a very distant age, they were really royal messengers. today they're in charge of all the records and creation of new arms. the lord privy seal, the lord president, and jack straw, the lord chancellor. the earl marshal, the duke of norfolk, and the queen preparing for yet another state opening. they turned to go in to the robing room. the imperial state crown will be ready. she is wearing the georgiae iv diadem. so as they make their way through the royal gallery, very soon we will see another first. a new speaker of the house of commons, john burke out, will be taking part in his state opening -- john bercow, will be taking part in his first day opening. i spoke to him about the importance of what is happening today. >> i think the event is important. i think it does have merit. of how parliament ought to be and what its constituti

the cold war against the soviet union. the cold war. the cold war against the soviet union. are we got a similar time, but the time of some form of conflict -- are we not in a similar time? the time of some form of conflict? how do we have bill ourselves domestically? ? there is some sort of a conflict or struggle with terrorism that is done in the name of islam. i'm not particularly wild about the metaphor that suggests that military instruments, soldiers, battlefields -- none of those things seem to be right. one is for people that have made a career choice to be terrorists. we have got to stop them. the best analogy i am able to think of is disease. attack it where you can. you've got to build recovery mechanisms. we're likely to see another -- that is part of what we have to do. we have to go after terrorists in the country's -- counties. that is easier said than done as we see every day with pakistan. pakistan is a painful reminder. the bigger challenge is to get to people before they make a career choice. we want to somehow interrupted the recruiting chain because there

for the soviet union we had one answer. for the united states, with a three, because the air force and navy could not agree so we have the air force of view, the navy view, an average of the two, meaning our pretense is with the soviet answer better than winning the american was kind of strange. my favorite example which most of you sensibly forgotten, hope you all have forgotten -- some of you may also have forgotten the long-range cruise missiles and pershing ii's in europe. we know because the germans said the requirement that there had to date -- germany would take some but i had to be another european country that would take some, and england didn't count. england was not european enough. what we really -- did realize was the italians were easy. the italian communist party was in favor of doing it. we did not know that. that is an intelligence problem basically of a whole might have an interest in what you were wanting to do, or who might have an interest in stopping it. to be fair to my original answer, my disdain for

the talks. he had urged union members to vote on a contract proposal. are scheduled. >>> take a look at this. this is what hit washington state. the season's first big snowstorm. this heavy snowfall shut down several highways and caused problems for drivers. but not everyone was complaining. >> just moved here from texas and we don't get snow in texas at all. so, we're planning on coming skiing and sledding. we just wanted to bring the kids out to play. >> looks like a lot of fun. for some the first big sheet of white is a reason to celebrate. >>> while we're talking about snow in the west, we also have serious weather we're talking about in the southeast. let's check in with meteorologist reynolds wolf for the latest on that. >> we're keeping a sharp eye on this storm, this is hurricane ida, category 1 storm. it's gusting to 115, moving between the yucatan peninsula and parts of cuba, expected to move into the gulf of mexico. the latest path we have shows the storm actually veering to the north, gaining strength, becoming a category 2 hurricane, then m

the union is demanding an audit to make sure pension fnds are secure and it says it will not start talks if a national health care overhaul plan is paed. ed rendell had been negotiating the talks, had urged union members to vote on a contract proposal. no new talks a s are scheduled. >>> a shooting at a bar near a resort town killed one and left three injured. it happened nair vail, colorado. witnesses say a man was being escorted out of a bar when he pulled a gun and just started shooting. he went back inside the bar, fired several more shots. police arrested a 63-year-old man in the case. >>> we are getting new information now about the people who were wounded in the ft. hood massacre. a texas surgeon says more of them are doing better. 42 people were injured in the shooting at the army post in texas thursday. an official says 16 of them and the suspected gunman with still hospitalized. >> all evidence at this point indicates that the suspect, allegedly, acted alone in the actual shootings at the readiness center on 5 november. we have seen no evidence whatsoever to date of any friendl

on the other hand, if you go to a credit union and open an account, you become an owner of the creditnion, and everything they do and everything they offer, is so that you get a better deal on loans, savings and checking. so -- by the time we're done today, i hope that everybody will raise their hands and say they're a credit union member. >> all right. specialist greg frye is right here. and he has a question about something that i have seen on the commercials again and again. >> clark, what is the best way to invest in gold? >> other than turning in your wife's jewelry and stuff like that? >> first, any of those ads you see on tv from all of these people who buy your jewelry and all that? run away. run away, not to them. second, buying gold is tough. because when you buy actual gold, you have to pay a commission to buy it, you have to pay a commission to sell it. and then let's say you put real money into gold. let's say you take all your savings and you put it into gold. gold is something people want to steal. so then you got to pay to lock it up. so -- then anything i like about b

the talks. he had urged union members to vote on a contract proposal.o new talks are scheduled. >>> a shooting at a bar near a resort town killed one man and left three other injured. it happened last night near vale, colorado. a man was being escorted out of the bar when he pulled a gun and started shooting. he went back inside the bar and fired several more shots. police arrested a 63-year-old man in the case. >>> we are getting new information now about the people who were wounded in the ft. hood massacre. a texas sergeant says more of them are doing better. 42 people were injured in the shooting at the army post in texas yesterday. an army official says 16 of them and the suspected gunman are still hospitalized. >> all evidence, at this point, indicates that the suspect allegedly acted alone in the actual shootings at the readiness center on 5 november. we have seen no evidence whatsoever to date of any friendly fire occurrences during the gunfight between ft. hood law enforcement and the alleged suspect. >> major nidal malik hasan is not on a venti

and lyndon johnson finds out this man lived in the soviet union. he was somehow connected with the cubans. so he, what johnson is so afraid of as he's speaking back to washington about to try to assemble a government for the first time is that he's going to be pressured into a war with the soviet union. weather also acted alone or acted as part of a conspiracy lyndon johnson is afraid that there is going to be such a public backlash against a man who once lived in the soviet union and pledged out fidel castro that he's going to be forced into a war get johnson remember had been in washington a long time. he remembered the days of joseph mccarthy and wondered what the assassination, whether austal was a part of a conspiracy or not his sample biography and the facts of his life could produce the same result which is tremendous public outpouring and desire to go to an war with cuba or the soviet union. over here. wheat for the microphone there. >> as far as the continuity of the executive authority wasn't lyndon johnson in the house of representatives

lyndon johnson find that this man lived in the soviet union, that he was somehow connected with the cubans. so johnson is so afraid of, speeding back to washington, about to try to assemble a government for the first time, if he's going to be pressured into a war with the soviet union. whether oswald acted alone or whether he acted as part of a conspiracy, lyndon johnson is afraid that there's going to be such a public backlash against the man who once lived in the soviet union, that he's going to be forced into a war. and johnson have been around washington for a long time, remember this days of joseph mccarthy. whether oswald was part of a conspiracy or not, simple biography. the fact that his life could produce the same result, which is tremendous public outpouring and desire to go to war with cuba or with the soviet union. yes, over here? >> as far as the continuity, wasn't lyndon johnson in the house of representatives on april 12, 1945, an experienced the unpreparedness of the present takeover power, what i want to ask you regarding that is, just put the words together, sadly, for pr

after his state of the union address he called leaders of the industry and said because you guys represent such a large share of our industrial capacity, we were making three million cars a year during the depression, you represent such a large share of industrial capacity, we will rely heavily on you to meet these production goals. these arms reduction goals. they said mr. president, we will do everything we can but it will be a stretch. you don't understand, we are going to ban the sale of private automobiles in the united states. that is what happened at the beginning of april 1942 until the end of 1944, there were no cars in the united states and we exceeded every one of those arms production goals. we produce not 60,000 planes but 229,000 planes. fighters, bombers, troop transports, cargo transports. it is extraordinary. i was in seattle last friday. airplane country. the idea of producing 229,000 planes is even today intimidating. but the importance of this example is that it did not take decades to restructure the u.s. industrial economy. it did not take years. we did it in a matter

when she does so, the sovereign standard will be unfurled, and the union flag will be tan down. ♪ >> gray chamberlain has welcomed the queen and the duke, and the heralds of arms now making their way into the royal gallery. the heralds in a distant age were royal messengers. today they are in charge of the new arms. you see the lord speaker, the lord president, and the lord chancellor. there we have on the left, the earl marshall, and the lord gray chamberlain, and the queen, preparing for yet another state opening. they turn to go into the reasonning room, where the imperial state crown will be ready. she is wearing the george the fourth die democrat, but she will be wearing the state crown in the procession into the house of lords. so, as the heralds make their way through the royal gallery, let's think that very soon we will see another first because the new speaker will be taking part in the state opening as he processes to the commons. he is just five months into the job after being elected in june. i spoke to him about the important tabs of what is happening today. >> i think t

you can do the same thing about the unions. but number one michael blease thought where there's life there's hope and based on experience keep in mind our state legislature did give the mayor the control of the system and did we knew that so they are not just saying no, and our unions did work with us. today we have performance pay based on schools which to me always made more sense than based on individual teachers simply because when kids go from one cluster to another it's hard to identify who is really providing the service said to me i always thought at the school of politics more sense. the teachers teach the equivalent of 25 days more year. they have gotten a lot of increase in pay but they also changed a lot of the work rules and i think it's fair to say the progress we have made that shul has made and dennis has made and our students and teachers and for what is made has been done with the unions. brandywine barbara, no matter what the press wants to make that big fights, she and i got together every few weeks for break

because of the profound change in the soviet union and indeed other changes. ople have mentioned that the the profound change with the eend of apartheid which was coming in south africa and a variety of other things. and central to this, to the administration was the question of russia. because i think in general, the administration came into office thinking foreign policy -- although important -- would be a secondary consideration. but i think they also saw that there was an opportunity. and one of the themes of the paper that i've done is that sometimes crises of the opportunity are more difficult to deal with than the crises of challenge. 34 of you have probably been exposed to these talents. if you look at the way people make money or choices, they are most interest d n preserving preserving as well. but it was clearly a recognition she's the -- the foreign challenge the administration would face, and that it was very much in the united states' sfwroast try to sthape future. the objectivity was russia that would be internally democratic, economically succes

you can do the same thing about the unions. but number one michael blease thought where there's life there's hope and based on experience keep in mind our state legislature did give the mayor the control of the system and did we knew that so they are not just saying no, and our unions did work with us. today we have performance pay based on schools which to me always made more sense than based on individual teachers simply because when kids go from one cluster to another it's hard to identify who is really providing the service said to me i always thought at the school of politics more sense. the teachers teach the equivalent of 25 days more year. they have gotten a lot of increase in pay but they also changed a lot of the work rules and i think it's fair to say the progress we have made that shul has made and dennis has made and our students and teachers and for what is made has been done with the unions. brandywine barbara, no matter what the press wants to make that big fights, she and i got together every few weeks for break

given that commitment, i acknowledge that the players union in the past has not done its best. we will do better. to men like john mackey and brent boyd, to men like mr., and the families like mike webster and underwater, and to those organizations that stand with us, i commit and we commit this is our primary mission. we will not fail them. i will not fail them. but myself and the current and retired players of the national football league are committed to getting this right. i was elected by the board of player representatives in march of this year. since that time we've taken the following steps to address this issue. in may 2009, we created the nfl players concussion and traumatic brain injury committee. it addressed two critical issues -- that diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of concussions and tv guide and active players, and the long term, cumulative effects of tv guide in nfl players -- and tbi in active players. how these conditions can be reduced for eliminated. this committee will act as a superconductor of current and future studies and is charged -- to get the

can you seriously imagine sitting in 1950 either as citizen or as an officialq and saying the soviet union monopoly of communist party power in all the countries including some that wereç not occupied.ñr czechoslovakia was not occupied in 1948. it has a huge -- we sapblg straighted the capability of the army. but say it is all in our imagination. i have read problems ofxd communism and some say the war will be a revolutionary war. second, the domestic problem is inverted. it is for better or for worse and some degree to worse easily to build domestic support to spend money on defense.çç the least of theç problemw3 is convincing people that the defense budget is too small -- i'm sorry -- that it is easy to convince people that the defense budget needs whatever we have asked for. it is hard to convince people that the budget for roads or schools or the environment or pensions or healthcareu is bigr enough. it is not true to say thatçóç person of the 1990's was a desperate effort to conjure up nonexisting threats to justify what was a shrinking defense budget almost all of that period o

the union should be his and his fellow retiree's advocates in dealing with the pension administratorp and coming up with a reasonable way for that money to be recouped. i would like for you to double back with me once you've talked to the union, and if the union is not of help to you, and the other retires, i would like to see what i might be able to do to be of help. >>> lola what's happened? >> caller: to make a long story short, there was this young man that my daughter knew and he ended up homeless gave us a sad story. he brought him to our home to give him a place to live settled up on the rent and he was working not too long after that the transmission went out on his car. i felt sorry for him because he did not have a way to work. i had just got the transmission fixed in my truck and i told him he could use my truck as long as he promised me one thing he would never drink and drive my truck. well needless to say, he wrecked my truck he did over $3,000 worth of damage to it, and got a dwi thrown in jail, and my truck was impounded. well, he paid about half of it and once i move

the european union's naval force said guards on the ship fired back and turned them away this morning. remember, pirates took the ship's captain richard phillips hostage for five days in april before he was freed. >>> elizabeth smart's father said he's willing to forgive wanda barzee. she apologized to elizabeth yesterday. a u.s. attorney also said she agreed to cooperate against heavy estranged husband also charged in the case. >>> the space shuttle "atlantis" is closing in on the international space station. the shuttle will pose for the cameras for a final check to make sure there's no damage. "atlantis" will will there for a week to unload spare parts. >>> those are some of the headlines. i'm robin meade. morning sunshine. >>> new this morning, president obama saying that we should not be afraid of putting 9/11 suspects on trial. he talked to ed henry of our sister network cnn. the suspected 9/11 mastermind and four others will be tried in new york. many republicans oppose it, saying that it puts the city in dang danger. >> i think this notion that somehow we have to be fearful th

you are now talking with the european union, japan, canada, and others. y question is, what about the united states? would you be interested in a free trade negotiation with the united states, but to kill lee cents, in the absence thereof, if you complete trade agreements with all your major partners, you will be discriminating against the united states and it might make it more difficult to carry out the type of relationship we all want? >> there is no easy answer to your question. i do recognize the great affects of free trade agreements. to your question, would we like to have a free trade agreement with the united states? let me say, my first preference is that the multilateral trading system itself should evolve in the direction where there is a reduced role portrayed distortion represented by terra barriers. is it jerez -- tariff barriers. we cannot have arrangements like the european union has. for historic reasons we are not able to have a union of the type that exists in some other parts of the world. our first preference would be that the multila

the transit union went on strike last night after the world series. that means to subways, buses, trolleys in the city. transit officials said their offer was competitive. >>> the airlines are loading out another round of surcharges just in time for holiday travel. now you can pony up an extra $40 on top of the base fare. they want to make as much as they can on the days people are flying to make up for empty seats on other days. the travel industry says last year it was good to wait till the last minute, but this year, just the reverse. buy as soon as you can, they say. >>> nearly half of u.s.'s kids could be on food stamps sometime during their childhood. 90% of african-american kids and 37% of white kids may get food stamps by the age of 20. the recession could push those alarming numbers even higher. the study appears in the magazine of pediatrics medicine. >>> you'll recall last month the pilots of a northwest airlines plane overshot minneapolis by 150 miles, saying they were on their laptops when it occurred. the chairman of the senate aviation

. >> i have known him for 25 years, u-at uc davis and i spend so much time at berkeley with the union of concerned scientists, i know him very well and we five years ago met and decided we wanted to write a book like this, and, we did and like i say, got together very few times and wrote it all virtually, basically on, you know, the computer, back and forth, back and forth, and he now is on the california resources board poised to be able to really help regulate these policies in california, which we both argue, there is a chapter on california in the book, is ahead of the game in terms of pushing innovation and certainly, california is ahead of the u.s. in terms of thinking ahead. the u.s. has been much slower, as a nation, compared to definitely all of the western european nations, much slower to innovate and much slower than california. >> and forward by governor schwarzenegger. >> yes. >> what does he say? >> governor schwarzenegger has been... it has been nice to get it to be a bipartisan message, for many years we talked about having the environment and the economy not being em

the opinion of the state department cuba with the political economic and military backing of the soviet union has provided widespread support for armed violence and terrorism in the western hemisphere. cuba maintains close to 40,000 troops in various countries in africa and the middle east and support hostile foreign policy. therefore we think there's an adequate basis under the due process clause of the fifth amendment to sustain the president's decision to restrict travel. general mccaffrey, are we faced with the same conditions today? >> are there still 40,000 cuban troops all over the world? >> my take on the island right now is it is one of the poorest places on the face of the earth in my time in the military. >> the time from the gentleman from arizona has expired. >> just before questions i want to this bill something that is then brought up a number of times here. a deskmen said that people want to go to cuba. i believe mr. cason mentioned the tourists go there for rum, sex and what leveler else, there are a list of pejorative send i have heard from others as well that seem to indica

the destruction of the confederate ironclad merrimack and the safeguarding of the union's gold shipments both of which played a seminal role in winning the civil war and the birth of the modern corporation. the consolidation of the great new york rail lines, the growth of new york city into the first city of america and the major world hub of finance and trade complete with its first grand central station. vendor build played a major part jor part in all of these events and more his life left its mark. he started in business at the very epitome of a jacksonian ideal. the working man does wearing only a level playing field. he ended it as a symbol of inequality of monopoly in the gilded age, when he made americans question the dangers of gigantism in business. he was instrumental in acquainting americans with the very idea of the modern corporation. when the cornelius vanderbilt was a young man americans worked almost exclusively as farmers and small businessmen. what money they saw was mostly solid calling. corporations or a rarity. entities or a limited duration. by the time vanderbilt

the lawn. when they arrived at union station on a train from canada, president and mrs. roosevelt went and greeted them at the train station. then they had a parade back to the white house. they said a half million people lined the streets of washington to see the king and queen of england on the first visit by the -- probably our most famous royal neighbors and relatives. there was a grand dinner at the white house. the first one held beneath this portrait of abraham lincoln which had just been given to the white house by the lincoln family in 1939. the animal heads were long gone. they were kicked out of the white house in the early 1920's. the king toasted to friendship between the united states and great britain. and a world of peace. two months later world war ii broke out in europe and peace was gone for a while. so were state visits to the united states. but that visit in 1939 was perhaps most famous for the fact that president and mrs. roosevelt took the king and queen to their home at hyde park new york and had a picnic for them. nobody remembers what was served

assemble a government for the first time is that he is going to be pressured into a war with the soviet union. whether oswald acted alone or whether he acted as part of a conspiracy, lyndon johnson is afraid that there's going to be such a public backlash against the man who once lived in the soviet union, that he is going to be forced into a war. johnson had been around washington for a long time to remember the days of joseph mccarthy. and he worried, with his assassination, whether oswald was a part of the dispersion or not, his simple biography and the fact that his life could produce the same result, which is tremendous public outpouring and desire to go to war with cuba or with the soviet union. over here. >> as far as the continuity of the executive authority, was a traitor and a house of representatives on april 12, 1945 expense they also unprepared to death of a present and takeover of power during the second world war going on, and this is a tradition of american history. regarding that is, just put the worst that, sadly, for president had been assassinated. several others, other th

the most recent one, 10.2%. how many are union members? guest: probably 20%. have a lot in some areas where the unemployment rate is higher tree in@@@@ we haven't a rate nationwide of about 10.2%. if you take those the aren't working, or those that would like to work more, the numbers are much higher. in the way host: of those numbers, the afl-cio has developed a five. plan. tell us what is in your proposal. guest: 1 to emphasize this, one, this is a short-term job creation. in the long term, there were many other things. this is to get jobs created right now. we think that this 5 step plan can create 2 million jobs in the next year or so. the first thing we have to do is to extend unemployment benefits through assistance and health care assistance. the program is set to expire on december 31 of this year. if we do not extend it, a lot of people -- the unemployment rates will shoot up. the second thing we need to do is invest in our infrastructure. putting people back to work to create in the infrastructure that we need to be sufficient. we have a $3 trillion i

signatures were needed if a third party candidate would appear on every ballot in every state of the union. coupled with the early filing deadlines the republicans and democrats from the ballot by definition but when you submit petitions they have to be presented weeks or months in advance of the time prior to the printing of the ballots. this imposes serious expense and difficulty is for people outside of the duopoly. third-party candidates are viewed as boilers out to deny the democrats and republicans their right -- rightful offices. witnesses and ralph nader who was an appropriately blamed for denying the inventor of the internet to the presidency. in truth, the ballot clutter has never occurred and after all, even crazy people who want to be on the ballot have some rights under the constitution. what has been sold to the american public as a good government measure is simply a way to eliminate political competition at the ballot box there are other rules that demopublicans have passed it to eliminate challengers. the sore loser law prevent those who lost a primary from running as an i

the union is not commenting. >>> the health care bill that passed the house may not be popular with a lot of people. but some parts of it are. new this morning, a cnn/opinion research poll shows americans are evenly split over a rule that would require health insurance for all americans. and they're strongly against using public funds for abortion. that's something conservative democrats insisted upon before supporting the bill. the first photos are circulating from levi johnston's new "playgirl" pictorial. please, let's not and say we did. we'll see if he really did drop his levis. oh, levi. y8%%%%%%%%%%% >>> already this year the number of soldiers who committed suicide is at an all-time high. the army vice chief of staff says that so far 211 soldiers have taken their own lives but he says that in recent months not as many have committed suicide and it could show that the army's prevention programs are working. >>> just in this morning, somali pirates attacked "the maersk alabama" again. they fired automatic weapons at the ship. remember it was hijacked in april. pirates t

, spent a fortune and lost thousand to hold communism at bay, and fought a civil war to preserve the union, it's a citizens obligation to draw on the humanities to words that contain worrying implications. there is afterall a difference between holding a particular tax or spending or health care view, and asserts that american supports another approach or is a member of a different political party is an advocate that income passes gulags in concentration camps. one twined the ideas. the other enemies. the poet walt whitman once described america as an athletic democracy. what we meant was our politics was rugged and vigorous in spirited. nativism, anti-scot lick, and of course toleration of hue degradation, and indentured servitude hallmarked much of america's thought. indeed, violence was part of 19th century political manners. a vice president shot and dead our greatest secretary of treasury for suggests he was dispickable in a duel in which they were fired causing alexander hamilton to fire skyward. moments later, aaron indicated hamilton assessment of his character, beamers lousily gun

the cold war against the soviet union. are we got a similar time, but the time of some form of conflict -- are we not in a similar time? the time of some form of conflict? how do we have bill ourselves domestically? ? there is some sort of a conflict or struggle with terrorism that is done in the name of islam. i'm not particularly wild about the metaphor that suggests that military instruments, soldiers, battlefields -- none of those things seem to be right. one is for people that have made a career choice to be terrorists. we have got to stop them. the best analogy i am able to think of is disease. attack it where you can. you've got to build recovery mechanisms. we're likely to see another -- that is part of what we have to do. we have to go after terrorists in the country's -- counties. that is easier said than done as we see every day with pakistan. pakistan is a painful reminder. the bigger challenge is to get to people before they make a career choice. we want to somehow interrupted the recruiting chain because there

the cold war against the soviet union. are we got a similar time, but the time of some form of conflict -- are we not in a similar time? the time of some form of conflict? how do we have bill ourselves domestically? ? there is some sort of a conflict or struggle with terrorism that is done in the name of islam. i'm not particularly wild about the metaphor that suggests that military instruments, soldiers, battlefields -- none of those things seem to be right. one is for people that have made a career choice to be terrorists. we have got to stop them. the best analogy i am able to think of is disease. attack it where you can. you've got to build recovery mechanisms. we're likely to see another -- that is part of what we have to do. we have to go after terrorists in the country's -- counties. that is easier said than done as we see every day with pakistan. pakistan is a painful reminder. the bigger challenge is to get to people before they make a career choice. we want to somehow interrupted the recruiting chain because there