and before the soviet union collapsed. it ended by negotiation in the interest of both parties. then communist rule eroded in the soviet union not because of our pressure, but because of gorbachev's policies. when he saw the party on opposing the reforms come he began to take the party out of control. and once he had done that then the internal contradiction within the soviet union brought it down a. so the people who feel that our pressures or that it was something like a military victory did it all wrong because we didn't bring the soviet union down by external pressure and the soviet union didn't come down because they lost war. it came down because the system itself could not be maintained without force, and when gorbachev took the four south. so when people mixup these things -- and of course they had been been very quick succession. it happened when most people didn't expect them and so they complete this in their mind as if the end of the soviet union was the end of the cold war but that is not the case. >> host: you

the soviet union's problems for internal. and by me trying to change the external policies, we made it possible for gorbachev when he agreed to think of internal reforms. >> host: ronald reagan again common perception is that he came to office determined to launch against the soviet union and he said a lot of things which at the time at least found it rather prerogative. today most people would agree with including probably even russian leaders, but at that time it was quite controversial. yet you are telling in the book is fascinating story about president reagan shortly after the assassination attempt writing out brezhnev to the state department giving it can you tell about that? >> guest: that shows his initial instinct wants to noncontact, to try to deal with the soviet leader's as leaders who were not only communist ideologues but also had the interest of their country at heart if we could explain them. and of course brezhnev turned down that attempt. i'm not sure it was brezhnev, i think it was the foreign minister who s

the soviet union problems were intro. and by trying to change the extra policies we made it possible for gorbachev, when he agreed, to think of an internal reforms. >> host: ronald reagan, the perception is that he came to office determined to launch a whole brigade against the soviet union. and he said a lot of things which, at the time at least, sounded pretty provocative. evil empire stuff, today most people would agree with it. including probably on russian leaders. but at that time it was quite controversial, yet you are telling the book this fascinating story about president reagan shortly after the assassination attempt writing now to brush up against advice of state department. can you tell about that? >> guest: yes. i think that shows his initial instinct wants to reach out to try to make human contact, to try to deal with the soviet leaders as leaders who were not only communist ideologues, but also had the interest of the country at heart, if we could explain them. and, of course, brush and if turned down that a

i think they're going to be under a lot of pressure to get the unions to play ball, to renegotiate theseontracts or break them. probably too hard to break them they'll need them to renegotiate. if they don't taxpayers are going to pick it up. the problem is if they push too hard, these municipalities and states say we need you to play ball they're risking, political, i don't know, armageddon because the unions wield amazing political power and they have to do the tightrope dance. i don't think the guy at the dmv making me wait three hours for my driver's license needs a 5% raise this year, i'm just saying. >> well, the thing is, pat, lots of people didn't get any raises they got their pay cut in the private sector. >> for the last ten years. >> pat, how do you weigh in on this? >> i'm sorry. >> everybody in this country generally over the past decade, i think the issue aside from the union issue, if we're going to point fingers, let's point fingers at our elected officials in municipal levels the past 20 years and basically made unsustainable promises. the biggest issue, the promise unle

the l.a. weekly." it is not a union town. it wanted to be the a non-union alternative to san francisco. with the demographic transformation of los angeles into plurality and to what is a majority latino city, some interesting stuff went on. some very successful campaigns for the fledgling cantors union in loss angeles really is seized the moral imagination -- for the fledgling janitor's union. that is probably the single most striking example of unions taking the type of high ground increasing both their perception of the public and their power. but it led to all kinds of things. it became a cadre of within loss angeles -- within less angeles of this militant activist core of workers, almost all of them immigrants, with the janitor and hotel workers which spearheaded the transformation of los angeles politics. no one walked let alone precinct walks before the transformation. in a broad sense, i will not bore you with details, a lot of the transformation of california to a red, to provoke, to blue -- a red suit purple, to blue has to do with the latino population which was the court. this

virginia stayed in the union at the time of fort sumter. what took them out of the union when abraham lincoln said, we want 75,000 volunteers, your militia and your soldiers in the union to attack the deep south and bring them back to the union, they said we're not going to kill our kinsman. that's how virginia left the union. >> they refused to take sides against the union with the rebels? >> they refused to send their sons to kill their kinfolk. >> to bring back the union? >> kill their kinfolk. >> i think that's a technical point. virginia had slavery and believed in slavery and would have kept it had there not been a civil war. >> wait a minute. there were eight slave states in the union at the time of fort sumter and seven in the confederacy. >> gentlemen, that's not the point. >> the point of the civil war was slavery. >> the point today is bob mcdonnell missed an important opportunity. i'm also a proud great great granddaughter of slaves and we were owned by the phinneys of virginia. that is an american story. there is a broader amer

it was not really about the labor union, but i wound up in the labor union. about the way to get to racial justice and other things was by building workers' movement to inside of another movement. i still believe that to be the case. but a lot of people did not exactly believe that with me. in which case it is my job to got to persuade people that building a social justice movement requires building a labor movement and then all together figuring out how to get it accomplished. i still accept the job. >> well, i joined the labor movement because i realized that us acting as individuals, we have -- our voices are not as strong until we come together collectively. that is what the union movement is about. i hope we can appeal to more young people to start to realize that. it certainly is a big problem that many of you in this audience know, but probably friends or relatives do not. so that is the big challenge we have ahead of us. as their numbers have gone smaller, we needed to reach out and build community alliances. that is where our strength comes in. if we

>> the union army? >> no. e people you're supporting, they tortured and killed africans who were slaves and you're sitting here by saying they invaded. come on, do you even hear how you sound? >> i think i sound perfectly rational. i'm giving you what happened. >> i think you sound delirious when you can't even recognize how they destroyed human beings. this was a -- >> you're giving a perfect reason why this whole era needs a full study. >> but you're not -- i just want to give you an opportunity to respond to what mr. martin said, you do recognize that, you know, slavery was inherently evil and africans who were -- >> i do. i do. i make no defense of slavery. but we live in 2010, we don't live in 1860, where slavery was a world-wide institution. it's a completely different place now. >> and it was wrong then. and the governor's statement, he even said we need to recognize the times people lived in. i'm sorry, sir, i reject evil then and i reject it now. >> we have to leave it there. we appreciate your perspec

part of the european union. 3 million jobs depend on our membership of the european union. half of their trade is with the union. 750,000 businesses -- i am sorry it is not your business -- but 750,000 businesses trade with europe. the idea that we should be isolated and on the margins and not in the mainstream of europe would be a terrible, terrible mistake. i worked with the european leaders through the global financial crisis. i had to persuade them that we had to restructure our banks and they had to restructure their banks. i had to restrict -- i had to persuade them that they had to work with america in the g-20. when we work with america, we are stronger to do with the economy, stronger to deal with international crime, stronger to deal with terrorism. let us never again be an empty chair in europe. >> thank you. david cameron. >> i interest and let people like christopher are frustrated with the european union. one of the reasons people are so angry is that politicians that have given way powers to brussels without asking us, the people, first, people felt particula

i think after the "state of the union" but might have been right before. he went to the republican retreat and actually spoke to and with and took questions from the republicans. now, both sides did an awful lot of posturing. unfortunately the whole program was televised. it probably would have been a little better if they had both the televised part and a portion of the program that was not publicized so that there was some effort to actually engage in debate as opposed to making -- creating sound bites for the camera but if in fact the president continues that effort and is serious about it i think it will help immensely but he didn't can't do it himself. going to take an awful lot of work and conscious effort to break the part san ship that we have in washington that is born of and facilitated by what we in this country have allowed to become a monopoly two party system. that centers around one party being in charge. one party not being in charge one party controlling the leaveers of power and one party not controlling anything except whatever time they

this, when you listened to arney duncan say, what they like about delaware and tennessee, they got the unionuy-in. the establishment, the public education establishment was behind the application of these two states and that's what a lot of the finalists didn't have. states like florida and louisiana did not have the union support of their applications like tennessee and delaware had and i would argue that should be a knock on what those states-- >> so states in this commission were punished if they promoted reforms that were so forward leaning that the unions opposed them, this hurt the state's applications. >> if you want bold reforms you must allow states to cross the unions. because the unions are the ones preventing bold reforms. >> paul: what are the examples from florida and louisiana and let's throw in the district of columbia here because michelle, the superintendent has been in a pitch battle with the teachers in her state, in her district, over teacher tenure. all three of those states are trying to change collective bargaining agreements. >> to allow what? >> well, to allow merit

that's the way the soviet union handled the history they didn't like. >> let me give my answer and then let roland give his answer. my answer is i have relatives who were confederate soldiers, i have relatives who were union soldiers and have relatives buried in the confederate cemeteries in the state of mississippi, i go and visit their graves. that doesn't mean you whitewash what the history was, what the cause was, i think your critics say that's what you're trying to do. >> i think governor mcdonnell was writing a proclamation for our organization. that's the approach he took. he changed it now because of the vitriolic opposition of people like roland. >> roland. >> here's the problem. your organization does not represent all virginians. he is the governor of the commonwealth of virginia, that means whites, african-americans, hispanic, asians, men, women, people who support confederate veterans and those who oppose them. when the governor makes this kind of decision, he has to make it for all the people in that particular state. that is what is so offensive. no right thinking person

they have to do something immediately. >> if the unions don't cave and the courts don't interfe interfere non-union workers be working for less money so union workers can continue to receive the higher hourly wages and cadillac health plan negotiated by the government when they thought the money would never run out? >> we are past the rrubicahn on that. franklin roosevelt said the margin cannot be applied to the public sector. we put to book "municipal doomsday machine." we were 40 years too early but now the bargaining agreements are coming to a head in a difficult financial time and it exposes the difficulty that the states will have to fund the contract. >> put the gap chart on the screen, showing gap, difference between private and public sector. isn't that crazy, charles? that the benefits for government would be so much more fantastic as private sector? >> it's crazy. eight of ten jobs, sectors the government workers make more. we grew up when you worked for government and you make less and get a retirement on the back end. now you get it both ways. the government is getting bigger,

the rare union members and the service sector. host: which one are you in? guest: iapi -- it is called. caller: i want to make it, about the republican blaming the workers -- make a comment. here in michigan, there used to be fact -- 60 factories here and now there are hardly any and there ain't no jobs out there and a lot of people are not on drugs and educated that need jobs. i don't like the lady who made a comment about unions. unions made all of the benefits -- minimum-wage, it hour days, social security and all of this came about by unions. host: thank you. we will move on to bedford, new jersey, maria. caller: i just want to ask his opinion of futility about getting any more training or education when congress and the president are not going to ever did any of the trade agreements. actively we could walk through fire and they will still be indemnified from losses. they make thousands of percent of profit and pay no taxes on it. so unless the american people speak up about these trade agreements, it is just another leech on

the u.s. and soviet union superpowers were nuclear weapons. we could destroy the world not once, twice, but some said seven times over. now, why you need that much power i don't know. but we never had the power to change the world in our own image using military force, nor did the soviet union and look at old problems in the world the middle east in particular. if we could have solved it then we certainly would have. and the idea that we emerge as the sole superpower able to use this great military power now that it was clearly much more than the successors of the soviet union i think it was a great illusion and we talked about a unipolar world and the russians thought we were acting arrogantly as if we were the only power that counted and others said well it won't last forever but there is a unipolar moment. and i say there never was because when the cold war ended particularly when the soviet union collapsed there was no longer a threat, perceived threat out there for the united states to protect others from so our power, our soft power which

not just after the collapse of the soviet union. and the fissile material, the uranium was sitting in those canisters without a single guard on a moscow afternoon. a few weeks later i visited south of moscow. another famous russian nuclear research institute. there are 10 tons of fissile material there. a lot of it are in very small disks, about 2 1/4 of them. they're not numbered. they're not inventoried. you could put a dozen in your pocket and walk out with them. and they were struggling when i was there that day to begin the process of keeping track of those disks. in the year 2000, the doors swung open for me at the institute of applied microbiology, also south of moscow. this laboratory was the scene of some of the most diabolical and bizarre research and genetic engineering carried out in the secret soviet biological weapons program, which i'll talk about briefly today. what really amazed me is i had the ability as a journalist to walk around the big tall central building where these experiments had been done. it's the first t

that's the vicious cycle developing where the unions enrich the democrats and democrats enrich the unionsyou grow the unionized workforce in government. they get more money and then they give that money to -- the democrats give it back with more power. this looks like just again a slice of what is card check with a mustache on. it's card check in disguise, away for unions to get more power. there are more union workers in the government than in private. >> we're getting tired of the lipstick analogy. >> thank you. >> is there anything you find fair? >> these are highly controversial and it's surprise this hasn't gotten more headlines. but in theory there's a positive benefit. they're supposed to -- the contracts go -- it is jobs go to people in the community to sport local community. the people who work there, live there, spend money in the community. the problem is that in a job market like we have, there's people everywhere. in a tight job market, sorry, in a tight job market you can't find enough people. >> what if people living in the communities don't know how who build a high-rise?

ships and the monitor came down the union ironclad, battles to a standstillnd the version is and a story but at that point there was only one ship that could handle the merrimac and if the monitor has simple mechanical breakdown would have been helpless. >> so secretary of war stanton telegraphed vanderbilt and said can you help so he rushed to washington and met with lincoln himself and lincoln said what can you do. he said i will output by largest in ship and bring it down so that probably what will happen is they won't risk the merrimac against it and bottled up in port. that's actually what and of that happening so lincoln said how much will you charge a said its free. within a few days he outfitted with a ram, did various things to protect it from a shot and shell and brought down personally with extraordinary authority from lincoln two personally decide how to be deployed. some the union met with him, they said you can't take it and that's how it worked basically allowing up the merrimac and never did frisket against the vanderbilt. >> it was much faste

and the soviet union and the u.s. and russia. the treaties and experiences we have had thus far have never actually verify the part that goes boom. it has always been the delivery systems. i remember briefing members of congress a few months ago and i realized they did not realize that arms control had never dealt with the part that goes boom. that's how i explain it. there is the part that flies the thing and a part that goes boom. we have destroyed this parts that fly but never dealt with the parts that go boom and he said, you are kidding. i said there are weapons that have been dismantled, it just was not verified and counted. many of the lights when you turn on your lights in your state, the power is supplied from the fuel by that. and he said you are kidding me. >> you are talking to children this way? >> and member of congress. [laughter] >> at some point, when the experience of arms reduction, what it goes further beyond the u.s. and russia, we will be into this new domain of trying to count warheads and verify warheads w

the union disagrees. >> our fire department is not getting less busy. they are also using the fire apparatus of our members to help support the ems system. which is fine. the problem is we do not have the resources to do everything for everybody all the time. >> cartwright would like to see data supporting the theory that the rotating closures have negatively affected public safety. >> we have dedicated and committed members. anytime we get a call, we are going to be there as fast as we can. >> the new budget starts july 1. it is not finalized. cartwright is optimistic it will include money for the fire department to continue doing that. the firefighter who was injured remains in shock trauma tonight but is expected to be ok. kevin cartwright says the department sends their best wishes to him and his family. i am reporting live from west baltimore. >> i hope he makes a speedy recovery. you could not help but feel the dramatic temperature change when you left the house. when will warm temperatures make a return? let us check in with chief meteorologist to

we need to change the european union. you change clubs of which you are a member by getting stuck in and not standing on the side lines and complaining. >> these two guys remind me of my two young boys squabbling at bath time. they are squabbling about whether to have referendums on the european union. what we need is jobs and growth and economic recovery. we work with our partners to get that. the sooner nick realized also we had to work with america and europe to get economic growth in the future the better. i am afraid david is anti-european and nick is anti-american and both are out of touch with reality. >> it is a question of wanting to get things for your country and standing up for your country. one of the things the liberal democrats want to do is actually take away britain's seat on the united nations security council and replace it with a european one. that's one of the things that gives us the ability to punch up our weight in the world. >> nick clegg. >> there is no chance to get a seat in the security council

the teacher's union is stepping in to investigate this matter. the president is expected to be at the school later this morning. megan gilliland, fox 45 early edition. >>> baltimore county police have identified the young mother killed after being struck by a truck. her family is calling her a hero for getting her 2-year-old son out of harm's way. 17-year-old mavi mall done add owe was crossing the street at the entrance of the shopping center. she was pushing her son in a stroller. as they stepped into the sidewalk, a pickup truck hit her. >> the crash investigators don't know why this pickup truck hit this woman. they are checking many things even as far as the vehicle safety itself to see if there was any issues of the vehicle itself. >> the driver did stop to help the mother and child. an investigation is underway. charges could be pending. >>> police are looking for more suspects in a home invasion robbery at towson university. police have already made two arrests after several men broke into a fraternity house on east briewrk schooburke stre

>> the city workers union is negotiating now. they've offered to take early retirement and furlough days. but the crisis would be is if we end these jobs, if we lay off these workers, if we cut benefits because it takes more wages -- >> neil: but stuart, that would only be necessary if unions don't make concessions, right? >> well, in los angeles's case, unions are willing to make concessions. >> neil: the mayor says they're not. he says they're not willing. >> then the mayor is wrong. the mayor is wrong. because in the same "wall street journal" piece you read this morning, i read this morning, it quoted the head of the city workers union saying they've offered furloughs and offered early retirement but this is -- >> neil: these leaders and their comments, you might be right. i'm just saying there's a perception when it comes to big things going on in the country and the big bills that have to be paid that unions have been given a pass. when it comes to healthcare they don't have to pay for a lot. cadillac insurance plans, they'r

the constitution was made for the union, not the union for the constitution. the union began with the articulation of that first principle -- all men are created equal. the rise to an understanding of the rifle and wrongful ways of which humans might be governed -- to the rightful and wrongful ways of which humans might be governed. they will still be true when we reassemble for reagan's symposium next. [applause] >> we shall take that up lost as applause for you -- applause as applause for you, the audience. i would invite all of you, i fyou -- if you have suggestions for topics for next year, please let us know. once the decision has been made , we will solicit ideas for speakers. bear that in mind and let us know. we want to thank our seven outstanding speakers. charles asked to get on an airplane to fly to los angeles. why anybody would want to do that -- [laughter] >> i am insulted by his attack on california. i am leaving. [laughter] >> having worked with each of the symposia, this has been a remarkable group. the chemistry is fantastic. their presentati

we negotiated agreements with the soviet union and the height of the cold war and the soviet union was obligated and for the most part did comply with the provisions of these agreements. so, this agreement will hold. again, both sides, if either side thinks agreement is no longer in its national security interests, all trees have such a clause to say either the u.s. and russia can pull out of the agreement. the united states did that with the anti-ballistic missile treaty under the bush administration in 2002. but again, i think this agreement is so abundantly in the national security interests of the u.s. and russia that it will be in their interest to continue to adhere to it. host: kingston reif from the center of arms control and nonproliferation. he will talk about this issue until 8:30. the numbers will be on your screen. you can tweet us an e-mail us. davenport, iowa, go ahead on our independent line. caller: i am sorry i have to disagree. i had a much older relative who was there in 1963. there were no negotiations. he was at a base in north dakota -- he got the call to put the

the european union has said you have to get coccyx out of these products. the european union has banned -- to get these toxins out of the products. the european union has banned thousands, but ours are still allowed. they have banned mercury, cadmium, flame-retardant, all these toxic chemicals 50 you says is not allowed to be in electronics, but we still allow them -- chemicals but you says is not allowed to be in electronics, but we still allow them. tavis: what is the as the nation for why they are progressive and we are not? -- the explanation for why they are progressive and we are not? >> they have a different relationship to the state. there is a broader social relationship and a sense that it is appropriate for the state to take precautionary action to protect public health, while there is still a hesitation about the state getting involved. we have allowed corporations to dominate the political process. in europe say -- they say, take the chemicals out, and they say i do not know how, and the government says i do not care. here, they say, you do not

i lived at least half of my professional life in the soviet union. i do not remember ever seeing such an outcry of anti-nato, and that-western movements at the grassroot lovell of the russian public as in 1999. the more official propaganda was coming against nato. the more russian people like nato. but that changed dramatically after 1999. then, russia started to judge nato not by the nature of the state's which are native members, whether democratic or not quite democratic, but by the nato actual functions. by the actual operations. the operation in iraq, which was not a new operation, but the united states and a number of nato allies, intervened without

what does he go with the union when he only owns 12% of the work force? nothing. >> this gentleman gets the last one and then you can ask your questions directly. >> did your grandmother had a chance to read the book? >> she read the book and she was like a boy, you didn't put that in their did you? [laughter] but no, it's interesting. she did read the book and her political fault -- my grandmother first of all when she was coming up she didn't have time to think about all of these. when i was freezing 13 kids, that is how many she had i didn't have time to look of the tv. they didn't have tv initially. what her thoughts after the election were interesting because she was always afraid initially that he would be killed like a lot of people that something would happen. but secondly, her -- she didn't have lots of expectations because she wasn't sure -- that is why talk about where he would be able to do. for her it was largely a symbolic thing that this guy would be elected president, and particularly six or seven months into the term because she got to se

the second thing that is equally important is that we are distinctly pro union and there's a chapter in the book we talk about the factory in chicago that went on strike. shortly after barack obama was elected. they made on a sit-down strike because they were not getting their wages, and basically the plant closed, the public windows and doors, and they were not going to give the factory workers their wages. this was mostly latinos but also blacks, latinos and blacks basically band together and in the 1930's style strike and demanded their wages. it was on television, and obama to his credit played a big role in urging them on because he came on television and said he supported the strikers, and one of the things, one of the july of reporting this book is one of the things i discovered is that one of the earliest forms of union organizing was black women on the plantation, sleeve plantations, and they would organize a sit-down strike or just stop work in order to get a sunday of four to be able to visit their relatives on another plantation. and this is one of the four earliest forms

this is "state of the union." >>> a small but significant bit of bipartisanship imploded when word got out that democrats want to front burner immigration. lindsey graham, probably the closest to a republican ally that the president has, had been working with democrats for months on a range of issues including climate change. graham was supposed to be at a bipartisan news conferences tomorrow to talk about the proposal. he's not going now. he's furious. moving forward on immigration in this hurry panic manner is nothing more than a cynical ploy. harry reid sniffed at that accusation saying i understand the tremendous prehe's under from members of his own party not to work with us on either measure. senator menendez and saxby chambliss from georgia. let me speak with you. i spoke with democrats last night, a couple of them said to me, we don't want immigration to come out. is it this particular issue that's helpful to me in my district or in my state? are you onboard with this changeover? >> well, first of all, candy, harry reid said we're going to get to both issues in this session. >>

what i learned when i was there was this: the european union is not perfect. of course not. this is a club that took 15 years to define chocolate. anybody that takes 15 years to define chocolate is efficiency. but what i learned was there are a whole lot of things whether we like it or not or whatever your views on europe and the european union which we simply can't do on our own, we can't deal with international crime which touches and affects every single community in this country on our own. we can't deal with climate change on our own. the weather doesn't stop at the cliffs of done. we can't regulate the wretched banks that got us into trouble in the first place that strawls over countries.

it is going to go into the coffers of the government or into the unions, who have a lot of money as well. i think there is some activity as to the rich people are, verses those who make good money and are inspired by these

union in our country. that's what being part of the european union is about. there are many, many british citizens who want the chance to stay for a period of time in other countrieses in the european union. >> we will have to leave it there. that's the end of our audience questions. it is time for the leaders to make their big pitches for your votes. and with their closing statements. a reminder that you have 1 and a half minutes for this. we start now with gordon brown. >> well, the buck stops here. if you are in the job i am in, you have to take responsibility for the decisions. we talked this evening about afghanistan and the responsibility i take every day making sure that our forces can do the job in afghanistan and can soon bring our forces home. and we have talked today also about security and how we need to be a part of disarmament negotiations so we, britain, do not give up our weapons unless others are prepared to do so and reduce their weaponses as well. and we have talked also about the economy this evening and i have heard a number of people ask q

i said in future, when we do it, there'll be no chefs allowed in from outside the european union. then i talked to some care assistants -- no care assistants come in from outside the european union. we are a tolerant, we are a diverse country, but the controls on migration that i'm introducing and i will see go further are the right controls, the right policy for britain. >> david cameron. >> gerard, what i would say is that immigration is simply too high at the moment. it has been these last ten years, and it does need to come down. i think the pressures that we've put on housing and health and education have been too great. if you look at the --what's happening with immigration, the difference between the amount of people going to live overseas and those coming here, it's been often as high as 200,000. that's equivalent to two million across a decade. it's too much. i want us to bring immigration down so it is in the tens of thousands, not the hundreds of thousands. how would we do that? i think we need to have not just a points system, but also a limit on migration when people a

there were enough of them not to run the business. >> but it was said that you broke the back of the trade unions. >> that was tough and unpleasant fight. >> when it was over, the the unions continue to work in your newspapers? >> no. >> they were union-free newspapers. >> yes. we have an association that we deal with. >> do you feel that it was a better paper after the union wars? >> absolutely. incidently, since that date, not one of our competitors has lost a concession to the unions because they lost their lesson. it was very interesting. it allowed computerization to come in after 20 years. people are better paid there now. but we can change jobs. people's many skills are different. people are happy. they're making good salaries, all of them. but they are extraordinarily automated. >> i want to go back to the interlocking wars. the1vz reason i asked that quen is that someone who works for you, bill o'reilly, was sitting in this seated couple of years ago. >> really? >> yes. [laughter] he was a very good guess. he was a very interesting guest. he was describing his relationship to the world

in fact, the western side of the state stayed loyal to the union. puerto rico also joined the american family as a result of war. >> the house is not in order. the chair: the gentleman's correct. the house is not in order. the gentleman will suspend. members, please take your conversations off the floor. the gentleman from west virginia's recognized. mr. rahall: thank you, mr. chairman. puerto rico also joined the american family as a result of war. in 1898 during the spanish-american war the island was invaded by the united states and was ceded by spain to our country over the treaty of paris. the island's century-long history within the american family has been significant. puerto rico was one of the first areas outside the continental united states where the american flag was raised. to the united states it marked a milestone in our own political development. when once our union of states was comprised of renegade english colonies we then stepped into a role that we previously had fought against. given our own experience would anyone have imagined

i don't know what that makes the president of members states of the european union, i don't think they'derize themselves as governor. we have president sarkozy of france here today having a meeting with president obama. i suppose the closest thing we could imagine the president of france is governor of massachusetts. i think that's probably the closest analogy. but the european union, the new president, herman, the former prime minister of belgium said in his inaugural address, which i'm sure you've all read; right? he said -- he described 2009 and i'm quoting as the first year of global governance with the establishment of the g20 in the middle of the financial crisis. the climate conference in copen haggen is -- copenhagen is the first step. this is the approach of many people who favor moving towards global governance. i think we are entitled to ask one year what is the president's view of american sovereignty? how does he view these issues? and i think we can see already that the president has -- president obama has a very different view of american sovereignty that the long line of

harvey was the proprietor of in several hotels from chicago to los angeles. union station in kansas city missouri is the host of this talk. it's about 50 minutes. >> i want to thank everyone who's been involved in bringing me here to kansas city. it's been a whirlwind two days and now we are here in this building i must say i've spent a lot of time in the last six years in writing the history about fred harvey while fred harvey lived in leavenworth and the company was spread from its peak from cleveland to california. the second floor of kansas city union station was not slowed hub of the fred harvey business everything is all about america they took to people was from kansas city, few. and before this building there was the union depot before it burned down so why have spent a lot of time in your town in my brain over the last few years. i think the easiest way for me to get you into the destroy all of this book and the idea we what we want to do is to for have imagery from the beginning of the book. so who the hell was fred harvey. on the spring night in 1980 to

then he broke the union and he had his own progressive union called the progress of minor.that is a long story. i said i wanted to do to the cold river mountains where the coal miners and the communities and outside people have come together and realize the mountain is unique with the wind and then it can get the almost level fifer level six it can generate almost $1.8 million of tax revenues every year, enough energy for 150,000 homes. more jobs over a 20 year period in the 6,000 acres strip mined the would devastate the community and it will be sustainable for life that the de coal of the cold river mountains only way to last 14 more years we can count the scenes. i said this is the future. the, mr. president, that is the saudi arabia of wind and we are the saudi arabia of solar and we must stop talking of the saudi arabia of coal because the only place we want to keep carbon is in the ground and keep cool in the ground and that is a great way to sequester carbon. [laughter] [applause] but i can't rest tonight and i will finish with this. this microphone we use around her

this is the time for the imf and the european union to act in concert with each other and not allow vanity to disturb and what needs to be a well coordinated, thorough, and rigorous brecker -- approach to the problems in greece. i think reece is taking grave and difficult steps in order to try to regain confidence in the markets in the state of their finances. it would be a betrayal of those efforts if the european union and the imf were to start playing institutional games with each other rather than focusing on the job at hand. as i said earlier, the bigger trend in british politics is from a duopoly -- it is a bit like the arguments i was making earlier about the old cold war ideology. the world has become much more diverse and unpredictable. that is reflected in british politics. 40, 50 years ago, pretty much every body, voted for either left or right. the duopoly was complete. it was a perfectly divided country politically. in the 1951 general election, only 2% of people who voted did not vote for the labor and conservative parties. in local elections last year, 40% of the people did

that was signed shortly before the union fell apart. as a follow-up addendum, former satellite states of the soviet union which had nuclear weapons on their territory at the time that the soviet union fell apart, agreed to sell those weapons back to russia. the weapons of the soviet union in places like ukraine, the stans, other countries, were returned in that manner. host: is this the first treaty between the u.s. and russia? the first nuclear treaty? guest: there was another treaty which was signed with president bush and i believe president clinton. however, the verification provisions are very weak, so i would say this is the most substantive and important treaty with russia. host: providence, rhode island. redfred, good morning. caller: someone said something about the more nuclear weapons you have, the more colorful you are. there was a movie talking about the end of the world where they blew up a bomb and destroy everything, so if a couple of the clear bonds could destroy the world, we should be concerned. we go into other countr

. >> when we came in the union in 1845, one of the issues is we would be able to leave if we decided to do that. my hope is that america and washington in particular pays attention. we got a great union. there's absolutely no reason to dissolve it but if washington continues to thumb their nose at the american people, you know, who knows what may come out of that. >> that's the comment of a mad man. i mean, david corn, there's never been a provision in any state's entry into the union could split when you felt like it. that's what the civil war was. texas could become a number of states, six i believe at the time it chose to do so and wanted more senators, but never leave the union. how did he make that up and get away with it? >> chris, it's not just a matter of getting things wrong. there's an intent here. it's demagoguery. it's saying things to whip up your base, your followers to gain political advantage. we saw back in the 2000s, in the early part of the decade a whole campaign on the bush administration. you know better than anyone else, to use assertions that weren't true to ge

that's why want to lead in the european union. but we're stronger together and we are weaker part. >> and others 3 million reasons why we should be part of the european union and are called jobs for 3 million jobs depend on our membership of the european union good of our trade is with the european union, 750,000 businesses -- i'm sorry it's not yield business as raising a question about the building trade for 750,000 businesses trade with europe good and the idea that we should again be isolated and on the margins are not in the mainstream of europe would be a terrible, terrible mistake. now i worked with the european leaders to the global financial crisis. i had to persuade them that we had to restructure our banks and they had to restructure their banks. i accused persuade them they had to work with america in the g20. when europe and america work together we are so much stronger, stronger to deal with climate change, which is one of my priorities, stronger to do with the economy, started to do your international with internatio

the unions, if i am not mistaken, gave obama $80 million. americans are tired of our representatives being paddled up and down the block for influence. i will take a break and please comment, thank you. guest: you for your question. there is a lot of debate about how much role the unions played in the bankruptcy of chrysler. on the one hand, gm and chrysler had higher costs going into this than most of the makers. ford was able to avoid bankruptcy even though it had the same union contracts that gm and chrysler had. there is some room for questioning what role the union played verses how management manage those liabilities. it is true they face tremendous liabilities from health care for union workers. the majority owner and chrysler -- at chrysler has a health-care trust fund. that trust fund is probably the largest private buyer of health care in the united states with over 1 million people. the only way that health care trust fund survives is the same way the government gets its money back from gm and chrysler with an ipo and being able to

partly because this terrific institution, the european union, which is in part designed to constrain germany and part because the germans are burst beyond the bounds of the constraints. they have problems and they don't begin in kabul. when the president went to europe, looking for support, not for iraq, but for afghanistan, he found that the europeans gave him the same answer they gave george bush. no. we will give you some support. it will be limited support. we will not restructure our national, international policy for this effort. europe and bush misunderstood each other. bush said, i am far more likable in europe. therefore, the europeans will do things for me they wouldn't do for bush. the europeans said we like you've much more than bush because you're not going to ask us to do things that we don't want to do. until he became president, it was a grand love affair. as he became president, the love affair is still there. he probably has higher ratings in europe than the united states, but the ability to craft a coalition that will actively involve itself in the war that obama's

if you're ticked about talk of attacks on consumers, wait till you hear about the union lawsuit against taxpayers. neil's gang tells you all about it, but up next, if you're getting a tax re fund this year, enjoy it. it might be your last. what the head of the irs said he's being forced to do because of the new health care law. ♪ as you can see, this isn't your typical midwestern farm. the reason lies six thousand miles away... in japan, where a producer of specialty eggs needed corn for feed... grown to precise standards. cargill identified the producer's needs, then introduced an illinois farmer to grow the exact corn needed... and developed a system to ship it separately, connecting the farmer with a japanese customer... who was very appreciative. this is how cargill works with customers. >> hello everybody, this is a fox news alert. i'm yuma. the president of poland and some of the country's highest military and civilian lead versus been killed in a fiery plane crash in rush is a this morning. the presidential plane crashing as it came in for a landing through a thick fog, killing a

the full employment bill instead of a union contract. rhee walks out the door or invited to take her elsewhere, what's going to happen with the private funds underwriting these contractually obligated pay raises. they're very worried the taxpayers will be left holding the bag if the funders don't come together correctly. >> that's exactly right. the devil is in the details. the $64 million that is coming from companies like walmart who traditionally have been anti-union and anti-public school, traditional public schools, more in favor of charter schools and what not is one of the big supporters of this, and if it's not certified as bill says, by the cfo, then the union won't even bring it to a vote before their membership. that's the first hurdle to get it certified by nat. i think at the end of the day he will certify at that time money will be there to go for teacher bonuses and ca an example reed gave to me, a first year teacher making $40,000 a year goes to an underperforming school and exceeds expectations that, teacher could go fro