the united states is a different matter. of course where the indigenous people before the europeans arrived in the 16th century. nevertheless, it is possible to trace the origins of the united states from its very first beginning and to show how it evolved, what were its earliest documents, what were the key events that took ways during its formative years and so one? that in itself is a form of uniqueness, unique to the world. but secondly, right from the very start, there was this element of constitutional freedom and political freedom. when the founding fathers came across on the mayflower, already while the mayflower was still afloat in the mid-atlantic, they held their first as it were constitutional meetings, in which they decided certain things they were going to do when they started the colony and massachusetts. so right from the very beginning, there was an element of constitutional freedom in the makeup of america. and that is the second element of uniqueness minutes. there is however a third. although it is true th

first of all, the chinese behavior towards the united states, they killed the copenhagen agreement by themselves, refused to allow, for example, any discussion of emissions standards, even voluntary from the states and showed a lot of symbolic disdain diplomatically toward the united states you would not see from china. we've seen assertiveness from china on currency, trade, cybersecurity, google, on taiwan, dalai lama. we knew about taiwan and the dalai lama that we knew about for months. that's the first thing. the second thing is the united states is going to politicize this relationship from the bottom up. the fact is that you have 10% unemployment in this country. you have 10% growth in china. those two things do not play well together. so there's a consequence the obama administration is going to be forced to take a tougher line. simply because you're going to hear from congress, you're going to hear it from labor in the united states. >> right. david, do you think there is anything different today than there was, say, for example, a year ago, or even two years ago in terms of t

and people have suggested he would like to sort of deal with the united states in a way similar to the way mainland china deals with the united states. the problem is that of course you don't have human rights, very good human rights record in cuba, and at least from the u.s. perspective. and you certainly don't have space elections. and i would say the most powerful organizations in cuba right now are the cuban communist party and still the cuban military. cubin generals have made millions of dollars off of the recent increase in the tourist trade to cuba, and i not sure or i certainly don't think that those groups want to see a normalization of relations with the united states that would in any way threaten their position. but once the castro brothers have gone from the scene, events may very well force their hand or just simply be too powerful for them than to fight. who knows? i don't have any better crystal ball than anybody else but i really do think that there are lots of people who would like to make money in cuba, and that capitalist incentive i think over time will bec

if you look back at american history foreign companies have been investing in the united states since the 1600's. the jamestown colony, the settlement of new england. the railroads. here in the state of michigan you look at the mines. they were funded by foreign money. and so there has been a comfortable relationship. world war one. german companies. world war two, japanese companies. more recently japanese companies and other foreign companies took the brunt when we had recessions in the '80's and now. >> the imbedded acquisition of anheuser-busch would be a great example. as american a brand name as you can find. >> budweiser. it is a belgian company. one of the interesting things that they did right away when they bought budweiser was they said, we are going to consolidate. we don't want to get here and have you think of will be fine. we have to cut jobs. there has been some resentment because of that. there would have been resentment of budweiser as an american-owned company if they had get jobs. >> one of the things that three-year research you have found is the relative treatmen

export nuclear restraint and greater commitment to the nonproliferation from other states in the absence of pragmatic common sense steps on the part of the united states to verifiably reduce the cold war arsenals to bring the end to nuclear testing and reduce the role of nuclear weapons to meet the 21st century realities that we've heard about with the previous speaker. let me stop there. it's time for lunch. i will turn over to libby. >> [inaudible] questions from the audience for the panel? miles. >> miles popper for the nonproliferation studies. question for art oral of monroe. in your presentation you said that there has been a -- russia reemphasized importance of nuclear weapons. i wanted to know you base that on because the recently published russian military doctrine d emphasizes the role of nuclear weapons including tactical nuclear weapons so what is the basis for your assertion? >> i try to follow russian -- i try to follow his russian established policy, russian writings. i try to read the latest statements as in this case, and i think as the media reports those, you get from the same

by whom and where could such data from toyota edr's be read in the united states? for that. >> please, mr. lentz, submit that for the record. >> there is one prototype tool in the united states. >> so whoever wanted to look at that would have to look at that prototype? >> i do not know how accurate that tool is. the standard for edr's comes in september of 2012. >> yes or no -- did nhtsa require toyota in 2006 to conduct a test on electronic throttle components for the 2006 camry? >> would you repeat the question? >> did nhtsa require toyota in 2006 to conduct a test on an electronic throttle component for a 2006 camry? >> i do not know the answer to that. >> please submit the answer for the record. >> if so, did toyota or a third- party conduct the test? >> i do not know the answer. >> if it was conducted by a third party, would you please submit an answer to those questions for the purposes of the record? >> i do not know the answer. but we can get that information for you. >> mr. lentz, our reports on this kind of inquiry generated by toyota for third parties or

the united states, europe, and the international atomic energy commission then gave iran to the end ofecember to accept the deal. in november, the united states was confident that china would take the same position on iran as the other great powers. as usual, obamas top asia adviser on the national security council was wrong about beijing. beijing turned around and said no sanctions for they took sanctions off the table. iran has not been negotiating with the united states in good faith up to now and the chinese had just taken away one reason more for them to talk to us. we should have known that china would not back sanctions. in the middle of october, the chinese premier announced that china would strengthen its already robust commercial ties with iran thereby giving the iranians more means to resist international pressure. china, unfortunately, has become a rent number one supporter. beijing is now a sanctions buster. why are the people in beijing's supporting the iranians? there are many reasons. analysts point to a few of them such as china wanted to secure access to iran's clean-

the united states way back in fourth place moved up to get the bronze medal. >>> as we told you earlier, the united states women's hockey team will play canada for the gold medal later today right here on msnbc. it's the game everyone wanted to see between the two most dominant teams in the world. the head coach of team usa who brought them to the brink of gold has a little experience playing in high pressure olympic hockey games. 30 years ago this week, mark johnson scored two goals in the united states' shocking 4-3 win over the soviet union. perhaps you heard about that game. i sat down with johnson ahead of tonight's big match-up with canada. >> everybody's been looking forward to this game. united states, canada, clearly the two best teams in the world. how did you prevent yourself and your team from looking past sweden and everybody else in this tournament? >> it's one day at a time. it's an old cliche, but you really have to do it in the olympics because it's such a short term. any any given day, especially with the goaltenders, really a lot of teams can beat you. what's our next

i rise today to honor one of the most decorated ships of the united states, the u.s. coast guard cutter ingham. for 52 years, the ingham protected our shoreline. entering serve in 1935, the ingham delivered critical assistance to the united states in world war ii, korea and vietnam. the ingham protected allied ships that were ferrying supplies to great britain during the second world war. with the american flag flying high on her mass, the ingham battled stormy weather, dodged german u boats and eluded enemy aircraft. the ingham also served in the pacific acting as the amphibious flag ship for four of the philippine island invasions. it was aboard the ingham that general mcarthur oversaw the battle of corridor. over 125,000 cubans fled north from the oppressive castro dictatorship. the ingham was instrumental in rescuing many refugees in these makeshift rafts and bringing seven refugee rafts to safety, saving 122 lives. she is the only ship in our history to receive two presidential citations and has been awarded an astounding 14 battle stars and 19 ribbons. the ingham

law. >> on this side of the house, we have always held the intelligence cooperation between the united statesd united kingdom is unique in the world, of events value to both countries, and its destruction would have serious consequences for a national security. i echo the tribute paid to the security services by the foreign secretary in his statement. at the same time, we have consistently argued for full investigations all credible allegations of u.k. complicity in torture and for the government to find a way in this particular case to balance the needs of national security with the need for justice and accountability in our democratic society. we, therefore, welcome the judgment which doubles the principle of control. the alleged treatment of binyam mohamed described in seven paragraphs now released by the foreign office is utterly unacceptable and the alleged trigger described in the u.s. court judgment in december and so dramatically unacceptable that these six, if true, are not only morally you wrong, but harm our efforts to combat terrorists, play into the hands of their propaganda, and

the united states knows this as well. national convention on combat of nuclear terrorism at the u.n. and it was adopted by the u.n. then president putin was the first to sign it. the american president, president bush, was the second. if it was a very important thing that we were pushing together. immediately afterwards, both russia and the united states have launched a new initiative to combat nuclear terrorism. we launched it in 2006 at a summit. the u.s. and russia. by the end of the g8 summit we had all g8 countries on board. in three months ago chairmanship of the u.s. and russia -- under the co-chairmanship of the u.s. and russia, we have 16 countries. we bring together countries that are important in order to build a firewall between nuclear materials and terrorists, denying them access to these materials, denying them transit routes, denying them the knowledge of how to deal with them. it is based not only on the kind of legal instruments that we negotiated for years. it is based on a a responsible stage to get tog

the state of hawaii and outside the state of hawaii. constitutionally, congress has the authority to address the nature of the people of the united states and the people of the hawaiiian islands are a distinctively native community and for many years existed as a sovereign entity from 1826 until 1893, the united states government recognized the kingdom of hawaii as a sovereign and independent nation. . a governing trade, commerce and navigation in the years, 1826, 1842, 1849, 1875, 1877 and yes, even our government, the united states of america was party to these treaties with the sovereign kingdom of hawaii. u.s. missionaries and sugar planters, aided by an unauthorized and use of military forces overthrew the sovereign kingdom of hawaii which was ruled by the queen. in 1993, congress reafffirmed such a travesty when they passed a joint resolution to acknowledge and apologize on behalf of the united states for the illegal and unlawful overthrow of the hawaiian kingdom and for the deprivation of the rights and privileges of the indigenous native hawaiians. the status was never properly addressed by the united states congress and it is w

here is audio of lech walesa giving a speech here through an interpreter in the united states. >> the united states is the only one superpower. today they lead the world. nobody has doubts about that. militarily. they lead economically. but they don't lead morally anymore. the world has no leadership. the united states was always the last ... when something was wrong one could count on the united states. today we lost that hope. >> it is painful to hear that from this man. sometimes the truth hurts but the truth is what we need to hear. he was asked in the interview with a republican gubernatorial candidate in illinois if he felt the united states was moving toward socialism. a little bit like the issue with the banks. this is an indication that it is in that direction, privatizing the entrepreneurs. they are more fragile. >> he says we are moving a little bit and mentioned the tarp bailout as an example, a failed example. and a special inspector general of the tarp program says policymakers have not addressed the fundamental problems that triggers the crisis saying "it is hard to see

state sponsors of terrorism. the islands called -- communist system is not open to negotiation. >> we believe the united states government has to leave behind the policy of putting conditions with cuba to change policies towards cuba. we do not see the united states putting them on other countries, even countries they have differences, the same conditions they are requesting for months. >> at times, both sides can move to the same tune. thousands thought d.c. kool and the gang. cultural exchanges are not. change is not proving easy, for either side. bbc news, havana. >> and uncut diamond the size of a chicken egg has been sold in london for the record price of $35 million, weighing 100 grams. it is the 19th largest ever discovered in has the potential to become one of the world's most foremost gm's once it is cut and polished. it was found in south africa in september. you can catch our headlines at bbc.com/news. >> funding was made possible by the freeman foundation of new york, stowe, vermont, and honolulu. the newman's own foundation. the john d. and catherine t. macarthur foundation. and union bank. >> union bank has

protectionist flag but on the other hand, being open to foreign companies doing business in the united states. also express the concern for the warning unless more work is done 31 not see the continued flow of jobs being created in the united states. are there any particular programs or activities that would really make the united states in welcoming environment that should be for the foreign companies? >> guest: when you have a recession the tendency is to pull and to protect yourself. the stimulus package put through almost one year ago had a very strict by american proficient it was weekend but it has offended canada which is the biggest trade partner. the reaction of let's have by american and require this or that, people look at that and see a lack of sophistication and the idea they will not be will come in. if we can hold down the political rhetoric on both sides, it would probably help the american landscape. one thing i found interesting obama had a jobs summit in allentown pennsylvania and he was photographed of the president shaking hands with workers' outside and they happen to be

for the assessment of current and projected threats to the security of the united states. he global strategic environment today remains marked by a broader grid to similar threats and challenges good as the united states continues to conduct combat information theaters, the nation also faces the threat of terrorist attacks at home. simultaneously, we continue to face with host by other nations growing abilities to challenge our quantitative military superiority in other regions. it is a time that significantly challenges the international system in the department of defense. therefore, our armed forces and the iaea must remain confident of global forces and content. as a 2010 judy are states, the united states faces a complex and uncertain security landscape in which the pace of change continues to accelerate. al qaeda remains the most significant terrorist right to the united states to al qaeda's propaganda, attack planning and support of the taliban and accounting networks continues. the group still pursued chemical, biological, radiological or nuclear materials for attac

fiscal reforms must occur in the united states. d i want to make a couple of comments in terms of this thought of the word populism and words like that. it's really about the center, the middle class who are looking for these reforms. and if you give them the confidence, it will be shared broadly, from my experiences in the midwest, they will follow that lead. but they have to have the assurances. and i much prefer that. i much prefer a credible plan. i much prefer the time it takes to explain that to the center than i look forward to the otherwise irresistible impulse of the government to come knocking at this central bank's door. thank you very much, ladies and gentlemen. [applause] >> with your wildest imagination, if you were writing fiction, you could not make the story up. >> this weekend, ken gormley on "the death of american virtue, clinton vs. starr." >> "washington journal" is next. we'll take your calls. this plorning the white house, president obama delivers remarks on the economy on the one-year anniversary of the signi

going to kidnap her citizens for prosecution of the united states? is a violation of international law and legal visor set up a bit of the table the united states, the dea would not have done that. finally as i alluded to earlier and most recently as the case of the white house port your memos. what happened in that case is that john yoo and law professor from berkeley who as i said was reasonably hakim's new book together with the lawyer for the defense department and the vice president's lawyer adding ten -- am i missing a lawyer? three lawyers decided to call themselves the were council and they got together and they cut out the military lawyers and the state department lawyers and they started writing opinion after opinion saying the united states could do these things like water board and that it wasn't torture. and yet they were not experts at the international conventions on torture. they made up their own conclusions and they fed them to the president. john yoo said in his book war by any other name, the reason they cut out the state departmen

these days. >> again, our hearts go out to the people of chile and we wish you all the best and the united states stands ready to help as you have heard in anyway. jose is the chilean ambassador to the united states. thanks for coming in and taking a couple of minutes and talking to us today. >> thank you very much for your cooperation. >> geraldo: thank you, rick, good job. i have to report this, the u.s. geological survey says a magnitude 4.4 earthquake has just hit, you will never guess, lincoln county, oklahoma. lincoln county, oklahoma. what's next, new jersey? they're everywhere. >> in the united states we have to worry about the new madrid fault because over a century ago. >> geraldo: is that what this is, the missouri. >> no the new madrid fault could literally rip a huge chunk of our infrastructure. >> geraldo: i have been making the comparison between chile's admirable and haiti's incompetent response to the respective earthquakes that hit the two countries but u several points have to be made. haiti as michio said earlier had not experienced an earthquake in over 200 years. chile was a

each of you have been elected president of the united states. you have the power. hington. you can use that power. you can use it for getting your message out. if you were president of the united states, knowing all that you know about iran, its internal politics, what's happening there, knowing what you know about nuclear proliferation, nuclear weapons, what would you do, president? >> i think that the one problem i think that currently there is -- we have limited leverage internally in iran but i think there is based on what they are technically capable of doing, we are able to wait. the question is iran going to make -- is the government this in iran going to make a nuclear bomb? is the government in iran going to last long enough to make a nuclear bomb? if i were president, i would make a declaration that nuclear weapons are no longer a legitimate instrument of national power. than the sole purpose of u.s. nuclear weapons is to respond to nuclear use againsts the united states or its allies, to deter that nuclear use in the first place. i would make concrete ste

the united states is a different matter. of course, there were the indigenous peoples before the european, europeans arrived in the 16th century. nevertheless, it is possible to trace the origins of the united states from its very first beginnings and to show how it evolved, what were its earliest documents, what were the key events that took place during its formative years and so on. that in itself is a form of uniqueness. you anemic to the world. unique to the world. but secondly, right from the very start there was this element of constitutional freedom and political freedom. when the founding fathers came across on the mayflower, already while the mayflower was still afloat in the mid atlantic, they held their first as it were constitutional meeting in which they decided certain things they were going to do when they started the colony in massachusetts. so right from the very beginning there was an element of constitutional freedom in the make-up of america, and that is the second element of uniqueness in it. there is, h

i think the united states has to bare the responsibility of what happens to the united states. but the united states is part of a much larger shift, that's the shift from the west to the east that's been going on for some time. i'm not sure it's irreversible. but it hasn't been reversed for the time periods we are talking about. we talk about democracies here. such as the time in the west, all over the west, all the parliaments, not only the u.s., all of the parliaments are paralyzed. nothing is getting in. look at uk. and so what is happening? what is happening is it seems that the west with all of this progress, somehow their energies were spent. and their kind of drifting back again. but whatever the reason is, it's because -- the shift, the huge shift is from the west to the east with china being the leader . four or five of the u.s. companies are in china. general motors, their profits and general motors sales in china went up 50% in 2009. one the reasons general motors has been saying we're going to make a profit in 2010. china is helping this, not a threat to this, but ce

during that time in the united states who wanted to or some in the united states wanted to enact taxes, tyler and his secretaries of state engaged in secret diplomacy and the texans are very worried about an attack, that mexicans. tyler on his own home send the mexican government assurances that they would be protected by the united states, he moved army troops to the southwestern border, naval vessels to the gulf of mexico, and again and where is the constitution in all of this? or the congress can declare war, raise an army so in the area of foreign policy in that tyler also some believe and came close to being a lawbreaker who. >> their are a few presidents and all of american history who have been denounced so bitterly as herbert hoover. he has been a standing example of what you don't want to be ever since he left the white house. just a few weeks ago when a the sans or running out on the second george bush presidency, if he was asked was he afraid that heat would go down in the history books as another herbert hoover. and yet for all of this denunciation i don't know of anyone wh

that's a badge of courage in the united states. ou heard any of the examiner's questions of the secretary, and i think now yourselves, we're a little disturbed about some things and i am, too. although i'm very sympathetic to the fact that we want to encourage international business. we want to certainly open our markets to your manufacturing from japan or your ownership of manufacturing facilities in the united states. but i thought i heard this morning the secretary say that you had a problem in japan that was detected in '07 and then subsequently the same problem was detected in europe but there was no communication of that problem or the prospect of that problem being contained in american manufactured automobiles or your products being sold in the american market. if that impression that i have is true, that's very troubling to me. i would like you as best you can, and i understand the difference in language, to explain whether or not you're giving the american automobile purchaser, your customer, and the american market the sa

the vast majority of parts are coming from the united states. that is what i mean by this is an american car. >> were the cars that have been recalled produced elsewhere, and that is the problem? or did american workers ---safe because american workers produced it? i do not understand the distinction. the cars that had the problems were shipped from japan, or -- >> what i said -- i said the camera hybrid is an american car, because you bought an american car which is produced here, supplied here, and then -- >> yes. many toyotas are produced here and supplied here. but the worldwide reputation -- sometimes they're produced in japan, sometimes europe. >> that is very true. >> mr. toyoda, i was impressed with your opening marks -- your opening remarks and your being here. i am curious what you are going to do. i am trying in my own questions to get some sense of whether we need to have confidence and where there is still some questions. in your testimony, you say, and i am quoting -- this is page one of your testimony. toyota's priority has traditi

the reason is not just for the united states. na is build agricole plant once a week, it seems like just about. india is doing the same thing because coal is cheap. unless we can franchise that technology so that they are equiped to burn that coal cleanly we're going to have problems no matter what in this country when it comes to the environment. we can make significant profits and create huge jobs just upgrading traditional technologies. then you the whole clean energy sector, which is ready to take off if we provide the kind of capital, the kind of r & d credits that are necessary. this past recession almost killed a lot of our home grown clean energy sectors and the industry will tell you. you talk to the wind industry or the solar industry, if we passed the recovery act and all the support for clean energy, a lot of them would completely go under and we would be feeding leadership to a lot of countries like spain and germany and japan, who are doing a lot more work on it. this is a huge engine for job creation and we have to

i'm wolf blitzer, and we want to welcome our viewers here in the united states and around the world. world. you are in "the situation room." -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> fresh concerns for toyota, and especially for those who drive its vehicles. federal authorities here in the united states have now opened a formal investigation at the breaking problems into toyota's popular prius even as the carmaker steps up efforts to fix the gas pedal problem in a range of models. brian todd has been digging into the range of problems and jessica yellin owns a prius and she is looking at the braking problems that we are now talking about. jessica, tell our viewers here in the united states and around the world what is going on. >> wolf, i noticed this problem almost immediately when i bought the car last year. it was a sensitivity i felt when i was driving in certain parts of the road with my brakes. i have been trying to deal with toyota to resolve this since last year. it has been very frustrating. >> reporter: i love my prius except for this braking problem. here is what happens. s

do you agree that the federal government of the united states should require all manufacturers, includingtoyota, to report all incidents of malfunctions no matter where in the world those occur? not just here in the united states. [ speaking japanese ] [ speaking japanese ] >> translator: i personally believe that realistically there are limitations to the current engineering capability. however, toyota has a challenging spirit to make things better or to correct inadequacies or troubles wherever that may happen. going forward, we'll continue to strive to minimize those troubles as close as possible to zero by examining each individual reported cases, putting them under scrutiny, and making public any findings in that process. and we would like to work together in this industry. >> in all fairness, i would just like a yes or no, should the federal government of the united states require toyota and every other manufacturer to report total malfunctions not just those within the jurisdiction of the united states. yes or no, should we require all information or shouldn't we? what is the posit

i do think that the united states is good at that. ys that we have the majority of those ideas for the last hundred years. not a one-person deal. the products we make are so complex. a new generation of silicone technology takes us four years to development. there is probably 2,000 engineers working on it, $1 billion of r and d goes into it. you're inventing new materials to be used, new structures, new equipment. it's a process of collaborative innovation that to me has the sustainable breakthroughs that are able to advance science. that used to be done in the bell labs of the world. now it's done in the intel labs of the world or the microsoft labs of the world. that is not often as one person as legend would have it. >> in the back there was a question. right there. dan o'conner, ccia. i wonder if i could get mr. otellini's thoughts on the patent system and how the patent reform going through congress and patents playing a critical role in the i.t. industry, there is a lot of talk of how it's hurting or harming, depending which side

china is not the united states of america circa 1986. is not the centennial exposition in philadelphia. we brought to the world a very simple message. markets and democracy, and individuals pursuing their run self interest in the marketplace and expressing themselves at the ballot box, it is the best way for people to build their lives in a noble way so that they can enjoy our reasonable amount of personal security. the chinese people do not see that at all. that is not the united states of 1876 over there. they offer a different model. democracy is not a well embraced concept and asia. acis specializes in one-party governments in one way or the other. they offer the government security and prosperity in exchange for a small price. they control the individual. the control the companies that control the individual. we saw something remarkable this morning. google stood up to china. the question is, why was obama over there on his kneeling pad? why did we have munich replayed in 2009? the answer is, barack obama likes china better than he d

we have six to $800 billion in profits outside the united states too expensive to bring back. why are we not learned the gate again to bring back that type of investment? it is the size of the stimulus outside the united states waiting to find a home. right now finding a home in another country. are the kawai aren't we -- i know the government can't invest that. it's got to go straight in the marketplace in decisions that the companies and hopefully the workers but if any of you have thoughts on why we would not be encouraging bringing back those investments. >> i won't speak from a political view because unless i don't have that i can speak from a mathematical view our largest operation in the world as france where we produce $78 billion a year in that organization generating somewhere between two and injured 50 to $300 million. we've never repatriated the cash because it is a pure cfo, chief financial officer calculation. the only time we will use that cash is one we are able to use the cash to buy assets in the same the nomination. in other words zero denominator. two weeks

the electoral based in the united states of america is under attack. u have the so-called universal voter registration that is floating around out there. the census was brought under the control of rahm emanuel. how are you going to deal with the fact that a representative has introduced an amnesty bill? this is about changing the electoral base of this country. the rules that apply to our political system are being changed right before us. we have talked about the violations of the constitution, so how do we engage them? how do we make sure that this republic, and that is what it is, is here for the next to a hundred years? because that is truly what we are up against -- for the next two hundred years? there is an enemy within an enemy without, and one of the things that you have to realize is that the enemy that is within is using your constitutional liberties, because any time someone is in a mosque on friday, and they are preaching the overthrow of your constitutional government, it is not freedom of religion -- because anytime someone is in a mosqu

had to do at the time, but since the whole point is to try to reduce the terrorist threat to the united states, not increase the terrorist threat to the united states, at this point in time, eight years later, having not really achieving the objectives that we wanted to achieve when we first went into afghanistan, is now high time for the u.s. to leave and let afghanistan be run by the afghans, however imperfect that might be, okay? our only criteria have to be that the government, whichever government is, whether it is the karzai government, whether it is taliban government, that any government in afghanistan not openly provide aid and shelter to al qaeda. and if they decide to do that, we come back and we do this all over again. which by the way is cheaper for those of us who may be worried about the costs. it's cheaper for us to leave than if things get out of hand again, just come back and do it all over again, then it is for us to stay and try to make something work that maybe we can't make work. and so here are the issues. number one, both peter and i have been talking. the taliban is no

these institutions are the very integrity of the united states. and which has received in this complicated problem, in a short period, the watchdog agency had given a clean bill of health. that might be fun to go back and read that now. let's go on to hanks book and. [laughter] when i got this book by dotted a little early. i expected to learn more of the financial crisis than i did but i did not realize i also learned something about how to attract women. [laughter] i realize it is a little late. but haig has a surefire approach which when he took wendy out on their first-aid in boston, i would like to eight hear about it. >> before that, first of all, i am delighted to be here in omaha. this nablus is just like washington. i have been a longtime friend and admirer and he has been a pillar of strength for me during the credit crisis. warren was referring to something in the book. i was not a model of maturity when i was a senior at dartmouth college. we were at the boston pops and when he was not very impressed when i made by program into a paper

but it is jobs, jobs, jobs here in the united states. we're looking to see if the market will turn the tide on that news. christine 3/. >> nicole, joining us for the next hour is jewelace and gentlemen, thank you very much for being with us. anata, first of all, we're seeing this reaction in the stock markets. we've known about these debt problems in europe, greece, spain, portugal. why such a reaction from the equity markets now? >> i think the question to ask is why wasn't there a reaction earlier? i mean, the stock market is always known to react like human beings. they ignore the problem until it stares them in their face. that's exactly what they're doing. >> but it finally hit the markets. >> yes. they were focusing on the liquidity from last year. central banks and the government underwrite every failure. that's what they found on at the time. everybody else could be put on the back burner. this is, again, back to the front burner. that's how they behave. >> andrew, are the debt problems in europe as bad as the markets are making i

this one, between the united states and russia. it would reduce the number of each country's nuclear warheads to around 1500. now, the united states has more than 9,000 nuclear warheads, russia 12,000. they are hoping to sign the deal by the end of march. if they do, it's the first major nuclear arms agreement between the two countries in nearly 20 years. >>> militants set off a roadside bomb today in northwest pakistan, near the border with afghanistan. the attack took place in a district killing at least seven people. the blast leveled a nearby school that had been built with u.s. aid. getting the most attention is three of those killed were american soldiers. they are the first known u.s. military fatalities to occur in the tribal region. th american soldiers were said to be there as part of a program to train the pakistani army, a program they rarely acknowledge. in nearby iraq, there were two more attacks on shiite pilgrims making their way to the holy city for a religious observanao. today's attacks follow one on monday that k

eventually you have to ask is the united states to play? i think it isn't. in answering your question about where to be, as opposed to being in a bubble which i believe we're in in the long term shocked them by looking for the ten-year treasury to come down from 360 to 330 or even 3%. that's going to be the refuge. with the gold price in the short term falling below $1,000, going close to the 900 handle. commodities are out, fixed income, high-grade fixed income is going to come in. eventually a year or so from now the game is going to change again and you're going to change your investment outlook and your positions. >> no doubt about it. we're talking about almost a 10% move on the downside, just from january for some of these indices. the nasdaq down more than 8% in a couple weeks. i want to ask you your thoughts on whether greece is going to be able to get through this. we spoke with the prime minister of greece last week in davos. and he's trying to get his deficit down from 13% of the gdp to 3% of the gdp. listen to what he had to say. i want to get you

you're the ceo of toyota in the united states. o you -- how much authority do you have to solve this problem? can you pretty well call the shots or do you have to ask for authority from headquarters in tokyo? >> well, i'm the chief operating officer for the u.s. from a marketing standpoint, i call the shots. >> marketing standpoint. >> if you're talking about from a defect standpoint or a determination of a recall standpoint, those decisions have been made in japan in the past. >> okay. i'm not saying that's a bad thing. i just want to know -- >> but it's changing. >> i want to know how far you can go if you make a promise today can you deliver on it. >> that is changing. there are a number of different organizations being put into the company that are going to make things much more transparent around the globe, much more transparent with regulators and allow us to have input into defect decisions that in the past were always made in japan. there will be a north american committee that makes defect recommendations now. and there wi

they come into the united states. they conspire to conduct their terrorist attacks. dent of the united states decides that they are not going into the civilian justice system. there will designate them as in many combatants. not only so we can hold them under the laws of war, he instantly devised them to be child -- to be tried by military commission. that example is not something that i actually pulled out of the air. that is something that actually happens. in 1942, eight germans came to the united states sent by the nazis. they landed on long island. in florida, they were quickly captured in june of 1942 by the fbi. they were designated by fdr as in many combatants. -- by enemy combatants. they got their trial not in guantanamo bay -- we are not hung up on the idea that we not only had to give the military commission but we had to look like one -- they were tried in what is now the robert f. kennedy department of justice building. in the middle of that trial, which there was not much delay in those days. it started about four weeks after they were captured, they so

the last part? >> that state common opinion in this country that china. >> i think the united states has to bear the responsibility to what happens of the united states. but the united states as part of a much larger ships, and that's the shift from the west to east has been going on for some time. i'm not sure it's a reversible, but it hasn't been reversed for the kinds of time period we're talking about. you know, we talked about vertical democracy and deficiencies here. is at a time in the west, all over the west, are the parliament, not only the u.s., are the parliament are paralyzed. look at the u.k. and so what is happening? what is happening is it seems that the west, with all this progress, somehow their inner gees were spent and they're kind of drifting back again. but whatever the reason is, the shift, the huge shift is from the west to the east with china being the leader in the ease of the economies that are coming out. but you know, china is helping in this regard, a great deal. i mentioned the 470 of the u.s. companies, 500, are in china. general motors, alcoa, their profits, the reven

states. >> guest: exactly. >> host: the writ has always been applied to the united states and citizens. >> guest: and usually not to the war but that as a whole nother -- >> host: that's a whole nother book. >> guest: because lincoln confronted by the civil war, the city of baltimore is an open revolt so to get the troops and supplies to the capitol they have to pass through maryland in baltimore. lincoln suspended the writ of habeas corpus. the suspension of the rate is actually located in article 1 but it doesn't say who can do it it just says the rich still not be suspended except in cases of -- >> host: it's in the legislative powers -- >> guest: is in the legislative powers of the constitution. >> host: lincoln says i'm going to do it any way and not come for you. but of course it gets to the supreme court. >> guest: bye chance chief justice tawney happens to be in baltimore when this is happening sitting as a circuit judge. the supreme court justice used to ride the circuit id decide lower court so a fellow named john merry men captured by the union army suppl

in the united states, again, president obama recommitted the united states the passing climate legislationwith john kerry and joe lieberman in the united states senate, working with the white house towards finding a conference of agreement. the intention then is for the house of representatives, henry waxman and i, nancy pelosi, then to work with them in order to produce the legislation this year. i believe that that will have a. i believe that bill will be on the president's desk. and the reason i believe it is it's in our national security interest. it's in our long-term economic interest. half of our trade deficit is importing oil, a lot of it from countries that really we should not be sending that capital too. so i think those and their kids are driving us towards resolving this issue in the united states. and i think since mexico is our closest neighbor, then working with them to help produce a hemispheric understandings that can help then i think to create a model for the rest of the world. there is no question though that we will be successful. we don't have an option in the united

has devoted most of his life to understanding markets and change in the world, including in the united states of america. first, a few of my own thoughts. i'm struck by how gloomy everyone is about the fortunes of the united states. i do it myself sometimes. let me offer a small corrective this week. the united states remains the world's most dynamic and productive economy by many measures. it still dominates the world of science and technology with the world's greatest universities and the best research and the most nobel prizes and the largest strobe of patents. a dynamic economy but also a dynamic society. america is the world's only large nation that will grow substanshially in population over the next 40 to 50 years. thanks to immigration, america will stay young, restless and hard working. now, we have big problems, but the biggest one by far, the one to worry about is the growing national debt. it's what is reminding ourselves, however, that this is not a fact of life that we simply have to accept. there are many simple economic measures that would correct the budgetary fix easily. let

the president spoke about that in his state of the union. in terms of specifically that aspect of the cap and trade aspect of it. there are efforts ongoing in the unitedstates between republicans and democrats to come up with an overall energy bill that would help drive this clean energy investment in clean energy economy if the consensus can be reached we want to support that. but this is clearly an issue that republicans and democrats are going to have to do together. it's not something that one party or the other party can do. >> as long as we're ticking off unfinished items on the agenda, financial regulatory reform. it looked until the last couple of days as if that might be an area of actual bipartisan area of action in congress. and the senate, republicans and democrats on the banking committee were working together. but that seems to have broken down now. is that another item that's not going to be passed or is going to have to be passed with democrat votes only? >> we'll see. i think there's a real sense of urgency about that. nobody wants to be placed in the same situation we were. again, no american taxpayer should be in the position they w

by the way, those cross country comparisons consistent within the united states studies suggesting thatery large share-- perhaps as much as 30% of the health care that we pay for in the united states-- doesn't actually improve health outcomes. but the mckinsey study suggests the higher costs here are spread throughout the system. it's partially that we are more intense users of technology, partially that we pay more to doctors but that it's basically spread throughout the entire system. >> rose: and is there judgment about the quality of american health care versus the quality of health care in other societies? >> again, at a sort of simple level, most of the studies suggesting that the quality, if anything, is lower here. what i would say though that at our very best institutions, if you face a complicated medical condition the reason that you see foreigners often traveling to the united states to receive care is that our top medical facilities are the best in the world. the problem is that our top medical facilities often are practicing medicine in much different ways at much differen

the united kingdom. that involves a very close relationship to the united states. ean that we always agree with the united states. i'm pleased to say we agree with the current administration more than some other administrations. but that doesn't meanÑi we agre on everything. i think that's the right way in which to proceed. >> will this case speed up the release and return of mr. sheik which the foreign secretary refers which he is part of my constituency? is there any allegation of torture of mr.Ñi armor? could this be the reason of why the u.s. is reluctant to return him to our country? >> mr. speaker, i don't believe that this case has any baring on theñr chaka armor case. we continue to press the case for the release of mr. armor and continue to do so with all due effort. i know he supports us very strongly in that effort. [captioning performed by natonal captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2010] >> the senate is live 2:350er7b on c-span 2. they may be talking about a proposed jobs bill which democrats have been developing dr

kansas city is smack dap in the center of the united states. in many ways, it is very central in it's thinking. it has a broad base of individuals conservative liberals. it does give awe very important prism on the world. and prism on how people see washington and what is going on there. so it is a real delight for me to be here. and also it brings, i think, a perspective to the open market committee meeting that i do participate in. i want to also just point out that it's obviously by this panel. and i've certainly enjoyed sitting through it, that we are move into an era where the government financial is finally taking center stage, at least that's my observation. fiscal majors taken to bring the economy out of the recession, mounting longer term issues around social security and medicare and other growing demands actually put on the federal government have invited the massive built up of debt both now and as far as the eye can see. the congressional budget office projections have the federal debt reaching unsustainable levels you've heard here