they cannot sell to the united states. ear, there were the fifth largest trading partner on this trade along. there is potential -- with respect to the doctors, this is something that is controversial in cuba. many doctors to serve overseas and it could impact the country's health system. one in three cuban doctors are serving overseas. this is something that people are watching very closely. bhost: you say that obama has looked at the policy in cuba. will they be able to improve their relations? guest: we cannot answer that this year. there is issues of cuban- americans wanting to go back and visit their families on the island. it is ambivalent about improving its relationship with the united states. they have been accustomed to operating in an international environment. host: thanks for joining us. we are back tomorrow morning. thanks for joining us on

only the united arab emirates tallied the outright majority view of the united states when obama took to the podium and cairo he was talking to a skeptical arab world and in egypt a clear 70% of the public who the unfavorable opinion of the united states 70 percent of egypt according to poll ratings no single speech could eradicate years of trust he told cairo nor could i answer in the time that i have all of the complex questions that brought us to this point*. of course, obama's outreach too not begin in cairo already in january when week after the inauguration obama chose to address the audience by giving the interview on a satellite television station. already he was speaking of a new partnership based on mutual trust and mutual respect and interest and showed a willingness to criticize america's actions and all too often in the united states it starts by dictating and we don't know all of the factors involved in he had knowledge to the depth of the strains in europe -- relations when there was no reason in america could not restore the same respect in partnership america had with

the united nations has the credibility and capacity to perform that role. the relationship between the united nations and the haitian government should be a consensual, cooperatives relationship that preserves haitian decisions while ensuring the international community is brought to bear on the community. with increased security and recovery role, i believe the haitians would more quickly gather their bearings and begin to rebuild their lives and their country. a top priority must be developing and implementing a plan to resettle temporarily the millions of displaced people for whom port-au-prince has little to offer. adequate food, water, and shelter must be delivered in earnest to these areas. i would also encourage the obama administration to coordinate asian-american volunteers into hometown associations, -- haitian american volunteers into hometown associations link to their former home towns. members can serve as interpreters, support the temporary resettlement of refugees, and provide assistance to haitians evacuated to the united states for medical

-- burn unit on the base of guantanamo, but there is a burn unit at thespital in guantanamo city so of the cubans pull up one day and loaded up the navy commander on the base and a senior state department official took him to guantanamo city and they toured the burn unit there and then they treated them to a big barbecue. a rather interesting -- it was at a hotel that actually a cuban hotel that overlooks the base. the senior state department official said to me he was there at the time and said i turned to the cuban commander and said it with your binoculars you could have watched me shaving this morning. so rather interesting incident. but this is the only place in cuba where face-to-face place the moment -- diplomacy takes place and as the cubans have said it is precisely here that is needed because it is here where our military's confront each other. so according to the cuban government's stated view, that military enclave, guantanamo, is it the exact place where americans and cuban soldiers standing face-to-face and thus the place where serenity and

this attack took place over the united states soil. hink the handling by the fbi is entirely appropriate and i would like to bring to this committee's attention the fact that the fbi has done excellent interrogation in the past. the subcommittee of which senator kyl and i participated have a former fbi agents testified going back to the 1993 new york city bombings, where the interrogation done by the fbi really brought about convictions of a number of people, including the blind sheikh, people who are serving time in prisons in the united states who were part of trials here in the united states. so i believe the handling of mr. abdulmutallab is entirely appropriate, and i think people should understand that. i am concerned about the no-fly list. i believe the definition of who would go on the no-fly list is highly convoluted, takes a philadelphia lawyer to interpret, and i have been told by director blair that it is being reassessed and hopefully will be redone. petn is becoming the expose of the choice. i suspect we are going to have m

i've now been in command of the united states pacific command for about three months. and although i may be new to pay com, i've commanded extensively in the asia-pacific region. consequently during my 36 years of service, i've developed a great respect for this part of the world. in that time i've come to believe that now more than ever it's vital to our national security interests and economic prosperity. in previous tours as now, the emergence of chine in and its military has ban reteen topic of decision in my interaction with regional leaders. of concern the most, reconciling china's declared desire tore a peaceful and stable environment for economic development with a new military capability and capacity that appeared designed to challenge international freedoms of action and potentially enforce influence over regional nations. reconciliation of these two divergent positions can only occur through continuous, frank conversations and mutual actions with a strong and mature military to military relationship. a relationship that does not yet exist between the united s

not the same as the united states. ut i think we should move in the direction of decriminalization. maybe drug by drug, start with marijuana, see what happens. the worst that can happen is we made a mistake and go back. it is a little like the voluntevolst everyone d act repealing alcohol. he was not sure what was going to happen and it worked and the alternative which was keeping prohibition was a disaster. chris: factor in that the president last year said that he was not going to seek to arrest those who use medical marijuana as long as they followed state laws. guest: exactly. and if i understand, the most recent state to have enacted legislation allowing medical marijuana is new jersey certainly with a far more restrictive blueprint than california and i have also heard there are another four or five states that have laws on the ballot for popular initiative or state assemblies this year in the united states. so, when president obama quite rightly says if a state accepts medical marijuana, whatever its legislation

in the united states we have the high-paying jobs here in the united states. host: how can this be done? caller: i am not certain about how you can do this. it seems that corporate america would rather pay the lower costs, then keeping the labor here in the united states. the government may be able to find a way to keep these jobs here in the united states. host: thank you very much. the "richmond times dispatch." they have a report on the comeback of the stock market, and how the seemed unimaginable. that is one take on the economy. baltimore, you are up right now. how are you doing? caller: i would say the number one policy issue for me is afghanistan. and there is the economy and jobs. i have done quite a bit of reading. this is reminding me of vietnam. i think that this is taking so many resources from the country and it will be hard to address any other problem. we are approaching this in the middle east, and this is not helping to solve the problems over there. more money should be devoted to domestic problems. i would like to see a lot done with public t

, approved what we've been depog. 88% of the united nations -- what we've been doing. 88% of the united nations. 2/3 of the haitian americans polled are so concerned they would be willing to move back to haiti temporarily in order to assist reconstruction. i just mention this as sort of basis for first of all it's unprecedented that haitian americans have been happy with the united states responses in the past. and secondly, like-wise of the united nations and it's not immaterial that takes charge but one of the better -- other better. and president preval has not addressed the nation. this may not be his sport, but the fact remains that he is their leader and the haitian government has to be constructed in some form even if the united nations and the united states take control and provide at least these services. this is all preface for asking your judgments politically, what is going to occur? because the common thought is that this has been a disaster, but it will remain a disaster, it will continue to be a disaster because of the lack of political sophistication or abilities or repo

not just the united states. monetary policy was the source of housing increase in the united states, it seems reasonable to expect that international perspective that those houses would have rise as well. is that the case? with the respect of the magnitude of house price increases,economists have found that only a small portion of increase in the housing prices in this decade can be contributed to the housing policy. this can be used in models that make no use of economic theory. to demonstrate this finding in a simple way, i will use a statistical model that summarizes the historical interfaces of the housing model. this model is similar to economists that seek to analyze the evolution of data series over time. the model incorporates seven variables including measures of economic growth, inflation, unemployment and house prices and the federal funds rate, and it's estimated using data from 1997-2002. for our purposes the value of such a model can be used to predict the behavior of any areas studies, assuming th

-- the new unit expect to be up and running? ations that may be willing to work with us on this initiative. third they, at yemen cannot be viewed solely through the prism of an al qaeda problem. the foreign secretary refers to a mixture of issues. çit is an internal conflicts, fuelled by political grievances, poverty, corruption, competition over depleted natural resources, and requires political leadership from the government as well as international assistance these issues -- can he assure us that these issues will all be addressed at the conference in january and will continue to be treated as a priority by his colleagues? will it also focus on the dam and the government's responsibility -- the yemeni's government's responsibility? >> i am confident that the right procedures areç being followedn terms of consular support for british nationals. the yemeni çdiaspora and britan as long standing -- in britain is longstanding. çthere is some need for customr support, but i am assured by the ambassador that is being taken care o

the united nations security force has been working well. i think the americans have done a good job. the government of haiti has asked the united states to manage the flow at the airport. there are 800 to 1000 planes trying to land there. on the day before the earthquake, only 10 or 12 airplanes landed at the airport. now they land more than 100 a day, on a big, one-runway airport. they are managing it well. there are serious, and that food and water needs. part of it is the distribution system does not exist. the government was devastated by the earthquake. the united nations suffered its worst loss of life on a single day in the history of the un . but the airport has become the de facto operations center of this relief effort. and the haitian government is building up offices there so everybody can be in one place and work on a daily basis. the immediate needs -- think about it like this. in the aftermath of the earthquake, you had all these people walking the streets, not knowing how many of their loved ones are living or dead, with only

we should consider an enhanced role for the united nations. the daily operations of the government until the country is stable and less dis-loindicated. this would include the provision of food and shelter. reconstruction activities. budgetary affairs. security. and other aspects of governance vital to the haitian people. the united nations has the credibility and capacity to perform that role. the relationship between the united nations and the haitian government should be a consensual, cooperative arrangement. that preserves haitian participation and decisions while ensuring that the resources and expertise of international community are brought to bear on the daily problems of haiti. if u.n. plays an increased security and recovery role, i believe that haitians would more quickly gather their bearings and begin to rebuild their lives and their country. a top priority must be developing and implementing a plan to resettle temporarily the millions of internally displaced people for whom port-au-prince has little to offer. adequate food, water

the united states welcomes a strong prosperous and successful china. as president obama stated, the relationship between the united states and china will shape the 21st century, which makes it as important as any bilateral relationship in the world. but this development occurs as new challenges emerge. our newest security issues cover a very wide range. these include economics, regional areas of tension, terrorism, proliferation, interview supplies, piracy, the effects of climate change, and disasters both man-made and natural. our increasingly interconnected world and, demand for resources require cooperation and integrated solutions. since the committee's last hearing on this topic, we have seen several significant developments, some positive, other troubling. many are documented in the secretary of defense's annual report on military powers of people's republic of china. on one hand, we have several positive examples of china's contribution to international peace and stability. we are encouraged by china's support for un security council resolution 1

the united states supreme court in the case of citizens united v. federal election commission finally focused on the first amendment and talked about the essence of the first amendment being political speech. we have been distracted so often in other decisions by the court that they have lost in many times their focus on the fact that the first amendment is in essence a protection of our political speech. and today they overruled a previous case where they had wandered from that, and they said to us that congress cannot in fact make choices between preferred speakers and nonpreferred speakers. preferred organizations and nonpreferred organizations. and here is one of the -- one of the occurrence of truth contained in today's majority opinion. -- colonels of truth contained in today's majority opinion. so ingrained in this country's cultures that speakers find ways around campaign finance laws that oftentimes in this body we in the effort to try and cleanse the political system from the possibility of people that might take undo advantage of it render

not the same as the united states. ybe drug by drug, start with marijuana, see what happens. the worst that can happen is we made a mistake and go back. it is a little like the voluntevolst everyone d act repealing alcohol. he was not sure what was going to happen and it worked and the alternative which was keeping prohibition was a disaster. chris: factor in that the president last year said that he was not going to seek to arrest those who use medical marijuana as long as they followed state laws. guest: exactly. and if i understand, the most recent state to have enacted legislation allowing medical marijuana is new jersey certainly with a far more restrictive blueprint than california and i have also heard there are another four or five states that have laws on the ballot for popular initiative or state assemblies this year in the united states. so, when president obama quite rightly says if a state accepts medical marijuana, whatever its legislation says, he is not going to apply federal laws in that state, i think

it is not just that in the united states, is it? -- the debt in the united states, is it? i am not persuaded that the domestic demand is going to rise in china and brazil and, thus, sustain this. if the u.s. is going to grow at a new level, aren't we going to see commodity prices declined? -- commodity prices decline from these current levels? >> do you want to go first, hans? >> why is it happening? let me first say why it is not happening. many people think that this was happening because of export growth, because of peter manipulation of currencies or through other -- because of peter manipulation of currencies or to other factors, such as stimulation in china, for example, these economies were igrowing by exporting. that is a mystery of the data, in my opinion. -- a miss reread of the data coe out in my opinion. i would say that line of thinking is another danger because the trading system as we know it. we talk about protectionism and we talk about limiting the imports. there's a lot of discussion about rethinking export growth, which could also be against the trading

this is the united states of america. is a government for the people, by the people, not to the people. that is the main issue we're losing here. people are unhappy. the news media should do their job instead of trying to push obama's agenda and let everything on republicans. i am just laughing at these democrats that say they're caught off guard. they are not in touch with the people. if they were in touch, they would not be caught off guard. host: i will give you both a final comment. guest: the caller gets to the point that many lawmakers have. this is a wake-up call and they admit that they need to focus on jobs and the economy. i think we will see that especially this week very strongly. guest: completely agree. that is the message that the white house started to send as recently as last week when president barack obama said that he hears the paying. t he pain. host: what are you setting out to cover today? guest: i will look at the house races because there are republicans out there in primary races and are feeling c

an appreciation to the president of the united states who moved swiftly. there was no hesitation on the commitment that president barack obama had. and in fact, he quickly offered his prayers but he acknowledged the devastation, making note of the fact that he had seen collapsed hospitals, crumbled homes, men and women carrying their injured neighbors to the streets and he acknowledged that it was truly heartwrenching. sufficient to make you tremble. and so moving swiftly, he directed his administration to coordinate in an aggressive manner to save lives. and the people of haiti will have the full support of the united states in the urgent efforts to rescue those trapped beneath the rubble and deliver the humanitarian relief and food, he's authorized a usaid and the state and department of defense is working together. he's mobilized a large number of individuals, including our military efforts. i also want to take note that the secretary of homeland security has indicated that our resources, including the united states coast guard and fema of which we have

military alongside the united nations military. the other three will be run strictly by the united nations forces. but each of these sites are set up to feed 15,000 people a day. it will take over one million rations a day to sustain these 15 distribution points. we need to have up to -- over five million rations ready to go in order to kick this off and basically what we're doing, and i think the director of the world food program has laid this out in previous discussions, is, we're flooding the city with food. i mean, food is being delivered right now. but the being delivered pretty much in terms of where we can get to and where we can distribute. it's not being -- there's no distribution points that are set up that are being sustained where every day a family member can depend upon a particular location providing food and water. so these 15 points will be set up, every day we'll feed 15,000 people. if a family member, it will be a female family member comes in, she will get sufficient supplies family to last two weeks. and theref

diplomats ask what is in the interest of the united states. all legitimate questions, but at some level the have to be equal at the table if you want to work out the debate that will give -- that will come up. thank you for having us. and thank you for bringing out general jones to talk about where they are going. >> thank you. >> i wanted to address one issue that was raised by the questions on the afghanistan issue. they have not overcome the difficulty from the civil war in the 1990's. i think that this is often overplayed. i was thrilled that there was one more thing that came out of the last round of elections, that no serious candidate was playing at the cards. i do not agree with the state about the impossibility of an afghan national army. this has been one of the successful highlights with the ability to work effectively together when properly trained, and given a good mission. i think this leads to a larger question. one of the big things about where we are at in afghanistan is that we have been down for so long, it looks like we are

the same goal here. this goal should unite our country, not divided. mr. irman, the remainder of my questions i have for a closed session to. >> thank you, senator mccaskill. we're going to do a quick second round as if we still have time within the generous commitment time you have given us to go in a close session. very briefly, the statements that you made, admiral blair, -- senator carper? for your age you remain very agile. i heard you on the way and moment away. why did you go ahead and after questions? >> thank you very, very much. let me start off by saying i know you but well but the other two i don't know well. appreciate not just your service but your forthright sponsors to us. in my old job, secretary napolitano and i want to check up on my cargill and bowles was to focus on excellence on everything we did. i used to say to my cabinet, the folks on my staff, governor's office, if it isn't appropriate we get better. if it isn't perfect, make it better. by failing -- i had a chance to see literally house, tens of thousands or maybe of hundreds of

as well as with the united nations. support has brought about some improvements in haiti especially in the past three or four years. the economy has begun to grow again. the haitian national police was beginning to be stood up. these don't sound like great achievements, but in the haitian context, they are. and they were very positive. and there was a sense of very guarded optimism that haiti was beginning to move forward finally. but what's needed clearly is a government in haiti that's able to function. that is democratic. and to the extent that it can be. it's important that the haitian people have the wherewithal to be able to elect their own officials. but that these officials be held accountable. that governance be of higher quality. and the international community can help in that regard. >> host: west palm beach, florida, kathleen on our line for democrats. kathleen, are you there? >> caller: yes, i am. >> host: good morning. >> caller: my question is -- my question is, what is the government going to do about t

and more than 2.5 million people in the united states are breast cancer survivors. the largest group of cancer survivors in america. now, as we read through the life and work of nancy goodman brinker, one might think this sounds like an obituary. my friends, rest assured, nancy goodman brinker's contributions to society are far from over. while many might retire, given this long resume of accomplishments, she continues to take on the mantle and fight. since her retirement from public service and on the government, she has returned back as the c.e.o. of the susan g. komen centers, and also was recently named the first ever world health organization's good will ambassador for cancer control. finally i would like to read a quote by our president, barack obama, when he issued the presidential medal of freedom to ms. brinker. he said, and i quote, one of the last things susi komen did before she passed away was ask her sister, nancy, to make her a promise. nancy promised her she would prevent other families battling breast cancer from hurting the way theirs had. what bega

the united states does, britain, france, a few others. he soviet union did or russia now did and withdrew from those in the 1990s. but it really becomes a question of -- a question for the larger powers in the world. and so inherently you're going to have already a stacked deck against anyone who's trying to create equitable international law around basing issues. there's also the issue of the dominance of bilateral law in this regard. every country who agrees to host military forces has signed some sort of status of forces agreement with the country who's military is coming onto their territory unless, of course, they've been conquered. but let's say the majority of countries are in this category. the philippines up until 1991 had -- was home to the naval base and to clark air force base or clark airfield, enormous facilities. when the u.s. pulled out it was discovered that we had over the course of, you know, several decades laid enormous environmental waste to the countryside. there was never a working sewer system at the bases and so t

states and the government raised the rates which is how fiscal stimulus in the united kingdom -- the governor of the bank of england said president obama's proposal is much more serious than the prime minister's. he couldn't think of anyone internationally who was enthusiastic about the prime minister's ideas. the third aspect of banking reform, a growing content that the only sensible banks have the ability and know-how to maintain proper supervision of the banks. the prime minister took that power from the bank of england in 1997 and created a system that failed. given countries like the united states and germany who want their banks to have more responsibility for banking supervision will the government change that policy and adopt that approach as well? >> what america has been doing is dealing with a very fragmented situation of regulation which has no fewer than eight regulators. we have rationalized the system of regulation. the organizations have the right powers within the right framework and that is what the financial services bill and other measures to determine to in shor

it is also important that the united nations and of course the principal provider supplies the united states can work with most affect together to deliver the coordination that is necessary. president obama has explained to me that in addition to the military effort which is massive, 11000 troops have gone in with a few medical hospitals and every other kind of equipment necessary to help people, there is also the civilian effort of usaid which is working very, very hard in the region, and at the same time the work being done by presidents clinton and president bush to coordinate the relief that is being given to people. all these things are designed to ensure there is proper coordination. there are lessons to be learned for the future. we have 1000 group that somebody team ready to go to areas where we attend reconstruction and stabilization is necessary. some of them are in afghanistan at the moment, but the world at some point must come to a decision that first of all, funding has got to be available to move immediately where there is a disaster. secondly, we need a signing up of p

the united states. every individual flying here from anywhere in the world who has an itinerary or passport from nations that are state- sponsors of terrorism or countries of interest, are required to go through enhanced screening. the majority of all other passengers on united states deskbound international flights will go through random enhanced screening. at airports throughout the united states, we have deployed additional airport law enforcement officials, behavior detection officers, air marshals, and explosive- detection canine teams among other methods seen and unseen. i want to express our thanks to the traveling public for their patience with the security measures. i want to thank the department, and security personnel who have been engaged on a day in, day out basis to implement them since christmas. i would like to describe to you five of the recommendations that are included in our report to the president. first, there needs to be an evaluation and modification of the criteria and process us

bill clinton is the special envoy to to the united nations to haiti. the clintons know haiti and they were there when they were younger. he has been there during the recent crisis. we need to look forward rather than going backward and looking at the decisions taken back in the 1990's. we need a comprehensive rebuilding program that must be multilateral in which president clinton will play a part but not be the leader. host: baltimore is next, independent line. caller: the united states jumped an end -- should jump in and help other countries. the united nations should do it and other countries should come in. when something happens, the country that wants to take over instead of the united states should say that we don't need our help guest: i think the approach should be moultrie collateral and we should do more perplexing for a crisis. there will be another earthquake or some money someplace in the world. the united nations should have a command structure that is ready to go into place and work with a number of countries and they can provide differen

and what's interesting is that this occurred throughout the united states. s, that had seen wages, real wages dropping before legalization. saw a really dramatic increase in legalizations. again, during the period of economic downturn. and what we then looked for is that over time, the earnings not only helped native workers, but they, as well as, but as well as helping the undocumented. this is very significant again, this is survey results that would, have been well documented and well studied over the last 20 years. the other interesting feature that happens right after legalization, is actually a major dropoff in undocumented migration. and apprehensions across the border. we've spent billions of dollars trying to achieve these types of numbers. these numbers were achieved with the republican president, and a bipartisan support in congress, bypassing legalization. we saw dramatic downturns right after legalization of obviously the flow of the undocumented that sustained themselves up until about '94, when there was the beginning of an economic recovery. t

that is not the way it used to be. in mack versus united states, the constitution protects us against our better instincts because it helps us so we do not succumb to concentrating power to one government. and that is what this particular bill would do. mr. garrett: i will have an update from the cloakroom on the massachusetts race that the republican candidate brown has won and the democrat has conceded with 5% to 46% votes. thank you. mr. bishop: that is, if i can -- get the time from the the gentleman from new jersey, that is amazing as the potential harm could be to all americans. we have spoken many times about the concept of the general welfare clause which was not an expansion of opportunity for congress but a limitation and i did at one time -- we spoke once on what was the interpretation of the general welfare clause and i got a call saying it was eloquent, but i like all these things the government is doing. and i said you missed our intent. it was not that government can do these things, but which level of government should do th

how are they representing the united states? emocratic leaders? guest: certainly in the early days the cia was doing a lot of that kind of thing. there was a well-known operation to depose leaders, democratic or not, at a lot of that of the early days that aired out in the 1970's and congressional hearings. you are right, there is a lot i know about what the cia is actually doing. it is the cia job, its charter, to go abroad and break the laws of other countries. by doing as be announced, they are breaking laws -- of other nations -- and by doing espionage, they are breaking laws of other nations. it is legal by u.s. law because it is approved by the president. but it is the nature of what they do, to steal the secrets of target governments. host: michigan, mark. help me with the name of your town. caller: it would appear that based on a lot of our recent incidents with fort hood and the letter that the ability to filter is the problem. we spend more time gathering, with the drugs that are inundating the military that -- drones t

does the rise of china means the decline of the united states. yes, it does. in terms of global power. >> that's one down. [laughter] >> should i do them all like that? yes, it does. i mean, you pointed to the classic example of a case where the shift in power did not have disastrous consequences, which was britain and the united states. not it's true of the things were going on, you know, and it's also true there was a particular relationship between britain which i think helped a certain shared historical and cultural and ethnic legacy, which continues to this day. in certain respects. so will it happen with the united states and china? i mean, i worry about it. i do. i don't think -- if it's a military showdown it'll be the last one ever. one has to hope to hell it does not end in a military showdown. will it lead -- i think it will lead to new conflicts and tensions between the united states and china. if you take the last 10 years in the way china has moved into africa, latin america, east asia in new kinds of ways and so on, the air is for conflict betwee

and resolute and we will win the fight against global terrorism. unitedhanistan to deliver peace and security for its people and united in our determination and resolve to do what is right to support all those determined to build a more secure, more prosperous life, free of terrorism. thank you all very much. [applause] [applause] >> we face a long and complex process of recovery and institution building. it must encompass the full range of stakeholders. we must strengthen governments. we must respect the human rights and meet the patient's -- meet the needs of the afghan people. we need an environment where corruption cannot thrive. we must see corruption for what it is. an assault on the integrity of the state and people's well- being. afghans have suffered far too long. if we are to achieve a stable and secure afghanistan, this must be remedied. starting with the electoral process. let me turn now to how the international community can better respond to afghanistan's needs. to train at the afghan security forces so that they can take on this essential

that makes it an older nation than the united states. e problem has been in afghanistan is not a lack of nationhood as an idea, it is that generally speaking it has had a weak central state. there's nothing wrong with that. i'm trying to impose a top down, central state, it is part of our problem here. i think. sort of rhetted it that,ed most popular institution in afghanistan scoring just -- enormously high numbers is the afghan national army, can is obviously our ticket out building that up. when asked which institution do you most admire, 82% say the afghan national army, which is seen as not operating in any ethnic, in any ethnic interest and is seen as, an institution that is really doing -- a -- good work. the cory comment view is afghanistan is too hard or too violent. this is also completely ridiculous. you're like -- more likely to be murdered in the united states in 1991 than killed in the war in afghanistan today. i'm going to elaborate that because it is a surprising finding. the murder rate in the united states in 1991, 24,00

the united stateselcome them here. the 1980's in iran, the sanctions that i experienced there in the home of an iranian who welcome to me in, he sat a pint of milk on the table. when i finished drinking it, he says, yes, you have a big american appetite. you just drink my baby's milk for the week. i think he did it for stock fell you -- shock value. of course, he tried to cram democracy down their throats and asked them to stop growing their own food. that is mainly what the students revolt. we have had two warships off the coast of iran while i was there in defense of the rough. -- in defense of iraq. i'm really afraid that when the iranians get here because they're looking for the freedom and democracy that we will not even have here anymore because of people like you. i do not think freedom is what you want for them. i think you do want democracy. i'm still looking for a book. when i was a student at the university of davis in california, the book "democracy must periodically be eighthbathebathed in blood." host: an

doesn't exist in the united kingdom. buts authorities let him fly the friendly skies anyway. he should not been allowed on that airplane. the american people need to know why this person was allowed to enter the united states with a visa knowing all of these facts. after the failed attack, umar farouk abdulmutallab bragged about 20 more terrorists ready to attack and said they were training in yemen. according to a member of the 9/11 commission, quote, he was singing like a bird and then we charged him in federal court, he got a lawyer and quit talking. instead of turning over the terrorists for interrogation or letting him keep on talking, the administration treated this individual like a two-bit car thief and told him he had a right to remain silent and they got him a lawyer and he quit talking. under the new policy, america has lost the ability to get vital information about al qaeda. america is probably less safe as a result. the bomb could and should have been tried in an military court. as an eneconomy combatant he

it is not just that in the united states, is it? -- the debt in the united states, is it? i am not persuaded that the domestic demand is going to rise in china and brazil and, thus, sustain this. if the u.s. is going to grow at a new level, aren't we going to see commodity prices declined? -- commodity prices decline from these current levels? >> do you want to go first, hans? >> why is it happening? let me first say why it is not happening. many people think that this was happening because of export growth, because of peter manipulation of currencies or through other -- because of peter manipulation of currencies or to other factors, such as stimulation in china, for example, these economies were igrowing by exporting. that is a mystery of the data, in my opinion. -- a miss reread of the data coe out in my opinion. i would say that line of thinking is another danger because the trading system as we know it. we talk about protectionism and we talk about limiting the imports. there's a lot of discussion about rethinking export growth, which could also be against the trading

one that requires diplomacy and one that the united states could not solve alone. he obama administration has worked hard to reach out and on the basis of mutual interest and mutual respect to forge international coalitions. the administration has been working every invigorated alliances across the board and we engage in multilateral fora in concert with counterterrorism for or that in all honesty were neglected for some time and specifically at many u.n. entities, the g8 and the vast range of regional organizations that are eager to engage on counterterrorism issues. the net effect of our work has been manifold. we're increasing the pool of donors for capacity building. we are strengthening the international sense of resolve against terror and we are also strengthening global norms so that countries jointly do a better job to build security together. as december 25 made clear there is still much to figure out and there can be no assurance of a future without real setbacks. december 25th certainly underscore the continuing pair will be faced and the determination of

also in terms of the continued defiance of the united nations. so she was saying we shed in our system and we share the objectives -- >> and all this were about the extent of the threat? >> the analysis was about the threat that saddam hussein posed both to the stability in the region and security in the region and also to the authority of the united nations. and the prime minister was emphasized that the whole way through. and so what came out of -- i'm trying to remember exactly what he said in the press conference afterwards. he talked about leaving iraq to develop wmd and fragrant bleach of the united states resolution does not notch and pretty goes on to say the response to iraq of a calm, measured, insensible and out the options available will be considered. at the same press conference, george bush restates it quote, the policy of my government is the removal of saddam. that was since bill clinton signed the policy of the american administration. >> did the prime minister made clear to him that that wasn't the uk policy? the >> yes, yes. th

in their path on the way back into the united states. but we have since the incident we have had numerous conversations with the ceo's of carriers, the secretary will be meeting with the head of-- in geneva on this trip she is going to today after the hearing with you, and we will be having a discussion with airline carriers as to how we can all work together to improve the security of the system. >> carriers have indicated that information regarding passengers visas dad this is not available in real time when a passenger checks in at the airport. we will actually be taking addresses and other similar problems. >> so, the visa revocations and these are refusals or did nylz are checked prior to boarding an individual. bair check this part of the preflight screening process that is ongoing and has been ongoing for some time. >> okay, so do you think there is an issue with them not having this visa information in real time? >> the state department uploads all of these issuances that it makes to databases that are coming that we share with th

what can the united states do. ave a democratic president, lots of people are incredibly excited about him. 's middle east policies look very familiar to the last regime. so is the united states, what can the united states do about questions of governance in the middle east? because there's a tremendous amount of wealth in the middle east. is a tremendous amount of private capital in the middle east. what can we do so that our president takes a lead, not only vis-À-vis israel and egypt, but also some of these large economic paradigms that are not working so well here recently, and we have a situation in the middle east where young people are not a bomb, young people are not necessary going to become extremists. our concern about this is not just about young people becoming terrorist. and i think it's really important that there are fundamental issues that we have to talk about and not talk about our interest in that question, just because of this notion of suicide bombers. . . i couldn't agree with you more. we've g

so what does the united states ever do about that? i really done know. >> and another disturbing trend for those of us who are from the border and have lived there a long time, something that marks, i think, quite a difference in what's going on today is the growing role of spectacle and the very public use of violence and of terror tactics. >> believe it or not, there are extensive numbers of narco blogs. there are hundreds of youtube videos made by drug cartel people that you can access, go over to the austin public library and you'll see the pictures of members of the cartel. you'll get to hear a nice narco credo in the background. and a lot of times after people are killed in the streets of juarez, let's say, the group that did the killing will put up a banner explaining why they were killed, okay? and threatening the opposite cartel. it's a very scary situation. what you have is sort of the propaganda arm of the drug cartels. they see this as a quasipolitical struggle. they need to control public opinion. so that shows you how pow

every visa applicant who comes into the united states embassy in the fight for a united states visa, his or her name is run against a complete database that includes entries from the fbi, entries from homeland security, entries from the terrorist screening center, entries for dea. we take entries from all these agencies daily and load them into our database and so no one who applies for a visa, no one was issued a visa without a complete scrub against the full interagency database and additionally, there also scrubbed against the complete dhs and fbi fingerprint science of individuals who are concerned with those agencies. so we ran this complete screen. then, anytime someone is moved up so to speak on the screen list for either of our partners within the national security, that information is immediately transferred to us. we then run that new information against our list of issued visas to see if those agencies have obtained new information that they have not been made available to us earlier. and then we found that. and if that phone has moved up on that list, we then moved to revo

the united states does, britain, france, a few others. the soviet union did, and russia now did and they withdrew from those in the 1990's, but it really becomes a question of -- a question for the larger powers in the world and so inherently you are going to have a already stacked deck against anyone who is trying to create equitable international law we are around basing issues. there is also the issue of the dominance of the bilateral law in this regard. every country that agrees to post military forces has signed some sort of status of forces agreement with the country whose military is coming on to their territory unless of cour

you choose to assert your rights under the united states constitution. or sullivan when he sat in that seat made a choice. he could have engaged in the age-old celebrated washington game of finger pointing and the blame game of c.y.a., but he chose to be a man of honor and to take responsibility and to take some professional risk to put himself in professional jeopardy. i understand what you are doing and i celebrate your right to do it but let's be clear about the choice you are making. you are making a choice to limit your legal jeopardy which your attorney has rightly advised you to do but you are taking that route rather than help us understand what for its silliness and absurdity was a real threat to the security of the united states. you could choose not to assert your rights against self-inkrim nation or choose to and let's be clear. you are choosing to limit your legal jeopardy under a right we all celebrate and appreciate as opposed to assist in the open and fair airing of some things that could conceivably save the life of the president of the u

s and the united nations to provide disaster relief and aid in rebuilding. that is why president obama has pledged $100 million in disaster aid and why american personnel are on the scenes saving lives and aiding in the recovery. the "los angeles daily news" reported this week on the california firefighters whose back breaking work gives us all something of which to be proud. i quote from that article. "they were bone weary from digging through the rubble for five hours sunday. losing faith fast. when the cheering began it was like a shot of adrenaline. u.s.a., u.s.a. the large haitian crowd standing in the street yelled as los angeles county fire captain bill moynihan and his search dog rescue team finally freed a young woman trapped under her collapsed hotel for five days. bill said it brought his -- brought him to tears, said the executive director of the search dog foundation." we know there are stories of grief and loss to go alongside such stories of hope. we know that haiti's crisis goes far deeper than the earthquake, but we also know that when our wo

it was a major problem for the united states. another thing they can talk on, afghanistan is a nation [unintelligible] in 1747, the federation was founded. that makes it an older nation than the united states. it is not a lack of nationhood. it is that it has had a weak central state. there is nothing really wrong with that. the central state has been part of our problem. related to that, the most popular institution in afghanistan, scoring these enormous high numbers was the afghan national army. when asked which institution do you most admire, a 82% say the afghan national army. it is seen as an institution that is really doing good work.

but in the united states, those taxes remain high. in fact, there are plans in the obama administration and in other places to cause those taxes to rise even further and new taxes, value add taxes, taxes for health care, taxes for energy, to go up. that will hurt the u.s. score in our index. host: how do wages factor into a country's economic freedom? guest: to the extent that you have flexible labor markets and people can change jobs rapidly, that they can essentially offer their labor at competitive prives, that plays an important role in labor freedom. in those countries where people are free to search the market, to offer their labor to whoever will pay the highest wage, then wages tend to be higher than in those countries that have heavily regulated markets and where people are not free to or relatively not free to move around and offer their labor at the highest bidder rate. so it's very important. and in fact, in a lot of countries, that have what we call inflexible labor markets, a you'venism for repressed marks, that is a majo