applause] a reasonable system of diplomatic consequences must be available to the secretary of state and the president of the united states so no country may engage in the repeated violation of its treaty obligations without meaningful we view. in conclusion, and i appreciate the extraordinary amount of time this issue has been given by this committee, and i will tell you that as the prior committee hearings and commissioned hearings have made incredible impacts on the operation of domestic law in the united states, and so i congratulate the chairman and the members of this subcommittee for spending the time that they have. you're already aware that two of my clients, david goldman and mike call elias provided testimony today. i'm not the only family lawyer working to be sure children are protected, and i wringed when earlier there was a moment or two of concern about the motivation of lawyers, but i need to say that the american bar association family law section and international sections in particular have been asked by the president of the aba at the request of congressman smith to review the legislation that h

holds true here if the united states. leaves afghanistan that will convince pakistan and its military. to continue its support for the taliban because they will see the taliban. future of afghanistan so what it's needed now for washington to do is to show an enduring commitment to afghanistan because to succeed in afghanistan means that pakistan also will change its calculus from supporting the taliban instead of that it was the. legitimate ways to have strategic tell also influence in the country ok if i go back to islam and so i guess it's all about who controls afghanistan not the afghans themselves are never mentioned in all this if it's going to come from islamabad or it's going to be washington ok and they have their puppet there is karzai that they want to support so i mean what is the vision from the pakistani establishment with how do they want to see the americans leave destabilizing the country even more. you know the pakistani establishment. has clearly shown his preference for the establishment of a trade corr

it's scary for the united states in many ways. even if two or three of the cases turn out good, egypt and tunisia develop into real democracies, yemen could sink into a state of chaos and it's already got al qaeda there and it could be that this becomes another breeding ground for terrorism and radicalism. so you want to pay attention to six or seven simultaneous crises. >> rose: do you believe the united states is in decline? >> well, i think that we have dug ourselves into a deep hole. we've been parties like there was no tomorrow for the last 20, 30 years. it's taken a lot of effort to get us into this situation of the biggest global debtor and it's going to take a long time to work our way out of it. and our relative power has declined without question. just look at the booming economies in the world and it's not europe, not the united states it's brazil. india, china, the rest of asia. so there's no question. and i think americans shouldn't be surprised. this 20-year period from 1989 to 2009 when twerp big hegemonic power is a

." >> osama bin laden will never again threaten the united states of america. gwen: but nearly two weeks later, the fallout from the death of public enemy number one continues, especially in afghanistan and pakistan. >> pakistan is not the birthplace of al qaeda, we did not invite osama bin laden to pakistan or even to afghanistan. gwen: as the u.s. braces for retaliation we learn more about what bin laden planned and what happens next in south is asia and the middle east. on the domestic campaign trail, more candidates join the republican fray. >> i'm newt gingrich and i'm announcing my candidacy for president of the united states because i believe we can return america to hope and opportunity. >> there is an old saying, three's a charm. gwen: and others edge toward the ring. how long can the democratic president capitalize on the g.o.p.'s uncertainty? covering the week, nancy youssef of mcclatchy newspapers, david sanger of "the new york times," dan balz of "the washington post," and john dickerson of "slate" magazine and cbs news. >> award-winning reporting a

god whoever borders the united states of america. that's right president obama the leader of the united states of america addressed the wait a minute that's that's not obama that's the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu no i'm sorry all of that wild applause must have really thrown me off track so let's try this whole thing again the israeli prime minister's speech today had all of the trappings of a state of the union address by an american president with soaring approval ratings in fact netanyahu got twenty nine standing ovations from lawmakers compared with just twenty five the president obama god turned his january speech to congress now some critics are actually warning that this is an indication of something more than just congressional support for israel some go as far say that the israeli prime minister in fact wields more influence over the u.s. congress that american president now one such critic was a former alaska senator and he actually ran for presidential office in two thousand and eight his name is michael bell

right so it's not that simple but we did hear some tough talk on democracy and much much more the united states opposes the use of violence and repression against the people of the reach. the united states supports a set of universal rights and these rights include free speech the freedom of peaceful assembly the freedom of religion equality for men and women under the rule of law and the right to choose your own leaders a lot of people today talking about this speech including a group of muslims not too far from here in the state of virginia artie's kalen ford sat down with them during the speech and found the president's words are ones we've heard before. president barack obama months his new his plan for peace development and democracy in the middle east from washington so we face a historic opportunity we have the chance to show that america values the dignity of the street vendor in tunisia more than the raw power of the. there must be no doubt that the united states of america welcomes change that advances self-determination and opportunity. but across the potomac here many in the arab co

will reward those countries that follow the first two rules but we have to also remember the united states does not have the same interest in every single country for example if you take the gulf state the united states is going to have to take an entirely different approach because of our interest because our concern about about iran hence our policy and relation with it with back rain it's somewhat different so we are much easier going with bacharan than we doing so save for in libya or in syria at this point that is we have to distinguish here between american national interests in various arab countries and there's no question about it that our conduct and our reaction to each country is depending on the level of interest in each of these countries and there i was one other point i want to mention when it comes for example to the gulf and regardless of the factors behind has a majority of shiite the majority of population in the gulf is sunni and they are terrified for example of what iran is up to the united states doesn't have a choice but to support the current regime throughout the

for the program that's you in california so i'll go to you first here how is the standing of the united states in the region now and visa ve around because for the last thirty years the united states is just been at odds with the islamic republic almost to the point of fanaticism and we see these these revolutions are revolts being played out in north africa and other parts of the region which you know we don't know if they're going to be anti-american but it's clearly they're not going to be as pro-american as the dictators that have fallen is that to iran's advantage or is it really and i'm secular to question. good morning thanks for having me on your show and to be frank with you i are not certain that i would call them revolutionaries in the region and i am very apprehensive of the term the arab spring because that was first applied to the two thousand and five comments made by various reporters thinking that after the illegal invasion of iraq the democracy oprah western democracy would follow and is now being applied to the uprisings in various countries in the region and how is uprising

on the one hand and the united states on the other hand. o, we are looking forward to welcoming the president. the relationship between ireland and the united states is profound and so many ways. so many people in this country have a connection with ireland. we ourselves have 35, maybe 40 million people but there are statistics that show the figure could be up to 100 million people that shares some connection with ireland. in a way it is a lot bigger than the ireland i represent. [laughter] so, you can understand why it's very important for us nobody but the united states who have made such a contribution to this country and whose role and place in society has given us the credential in the very special place and special contributions they've made along with other communities here in the united states or the generations. so, we as arabs to with ireland for the nostalgic part there is a hard edge to the relationship and ireland and the united states have a very substantial relationship on the economic front in the recent times plea a huge par

how violent they place the united states really isn't. according to the justice department, the homicide rate declined in the united states from a spike of 10-point for per 100,000 in 1991, the 6.1 in 2000, the lowest rate since 1967. by comparison, according to the world health organization, the homicide rates in france, germany and great britain, same year in 2000, were .6, .8, and .9 respectively. children in the united states were far more likely to be shot and killed than their counterparts in other industrial nations. the homicide rate is 16 times higher for american children. as alarmed as such numbers may be, the united states homicide rate involving -- it is the last its homicide rate involving handguns that makes the united states stand apart internationally. in 1996, for example, handguns were used to murder 30 people in great britain. 106 in canada, 15 in japan, and 9390 in the united states. the cdc, centers for disease control, reports the rate of firearms death, the number of americans shot to death per 100,000, as having be

what does the united states stand for? the united states really stands for liberty and democracy and justice and the rule of law, come out and say that unequivocally. >> charlie: can you say that at the same time and people point out you may believe in that but you're not taking sides or you're not engaged by what's going on in bahrain where you have a battle between sunni and shia? >> the united states should make it clear that it is for the self determination and democracy and freedom of all people whether they're in burma or bosnia or -- if you look back over the years people said if we change this, indonesia or philippines or the shah -- if you change anything, it's going to be a big problem. in fact, democracy has worked well for most people in the world where they achieve democracy, and a democratic bahrain, a democratic saudi arabia, a democratic syria is in the best interest of those people, of the nonarabs around them, the israelis, turks and those around them, there is absolutely no doubt about it, transitions ar

in the united states. police used tear gas in clubs to disperse protesters then president richard nixon called in the military robert klotz was a police captain a day later the eighty second airborne came in and helicopters. and i was assigned as allies on with the commanding general of the eighty second airborne and paratroopers landed at the national monument. but protesters wouldn't backgammon people trying everything to end the war and nothing would end it and so this was like one of the last ditch efforts and in a sense it was almost like an indian tribal sort of like you know the image of may day was sitting bull sitting bull was you know part of a massacre so for us it was that last stand the last stand of dignity no. trying to end the war. and and we willing to abandon people willing to you know put their lives on the line to do that. by eight am on may third police had arrested more than two thousand people we had made plans as to where we were going to keep prisoners when they were arrested and yo

tonight the ambassador of pakistan to the unite states, husain haqqani thanks about osama bin laden. >> there will be an inquiry, we will get to the bottom of it, how did it happen. we are to reassure the people the united states that pakistan as a nation did not look upon osama bin laden favorly. my embassy is getting threatening phone calls. they're sending e-mails saying, instead of recognizing what pack stop has contributed the failure is being pointed out. >> charlie: also on the killing of osama bin laden, the national intelligence at the beginning of the obama administration. >> we have osamabin laden dead, we have our troops being pulled out of iraq. if things go right which afghanistan which i think we will know pretty soon, that we are able to support a government there that can do the job, then i think we have a chance here to have an entirely different mid east in which we have a policy, in which we have a set of countries we can work with, we can follow our values and not have to deal with these unsavory governments. so there's a real opportunity there. >> charlie: pakist

there's a lot of resentment over the fact for decades the united states was a very close partner of hosniarak providing him with billions of dollars in economic and military aid. it was only at the very last minute that the united states dropped him like a hot potato and threw in support for the revolution. you have decades of passions of resentment that have finally been freed with the fall of these regimes. and therefore, a lot of that passion resentment and anger is being focused at the united states and no fault of his own necessarily because he's only been in office for just over two years, but at barack obama himself, john. >> it was striking listening to the president. he noted the arab spring began where you are in tunisia and that the united states wanted to help and candid in expressing sometimes strategic interests like bahrain, might get in the way of the long-term goal. i was struck, he did not mention one country where you visited several time and such an important player, not one mention of saudi arabia. did that strike you? >> it did. relationwi saudi arabia wanted to see

it involves the president of the united states. we're being told by a white house official that the president will make a statement at 10:30. president barack obama will make a statement at 10:30. but the official did not say what that statement would be about. again, this is very unusual to happen at 10:30 on a sunday night. we don't know what the information is, but cnn is being told by a white house official that the president will speak at 10:30, make a statement, we'll carry it live. as soon as we get more information about exactly what the president is speaking on, we're going to bring it to you live, so don't go anywhere. at the bottom of the hour, president barack obama making a live statement. >>> other breaking news tonight as well, this time it's out of missouri. an appeal to the u.s. supreme court has failed to stop a proposal to blow up a major levee. that might save the town of cairo, illinois, but it would flood thousands of acres of missouri farmland. the decision to blast a two-mile hole in the levee now rests with

it is not just the united states. it is also the tks who a believe will be hosting an opposition conference. turkey is the closest country to that regime perhaps other than iran. this shows that there is a consensus among not only allies of the united states, but also countries like turkey and so on that his regime needs to go away. >> i just want to add very quickly, one quick point on this. i think to the extent that there is a strategy involving, clearly as the president has not moved entirely to the position that bashar al-assad has to go, the implications of the sanctions and the way he is speaking should be clear. but, if they are clear, why not a stated? but that is neither here nor there. to the point i would like to make is, the one hope they would have, and hopefully the turks and others are working behind the scenes on this, is that the community as a whole may not prefer to jump off the cliff that bashar al-assad and his family is leading them toward. so, if they were to get rid of bashar al-assad, then per

outside of the united states and brought into the united states.tleman would yield. >> i would be happy to yield. let me return my time in yield to mr. smith. >> perhaps they do have some of them. ramsey yousef. >> i will be happy to yield in a second. we do have some that were captured outside of the united states and brought in here. so okay maybe it is 25, 5100 whatever it is. not 300. there are two points being made. one is that we can in fact convict international terrorists and two weekend house the men three we can bring them from the u.s. and from outside of the u.s.. finally on a constitutional point that mr. forbes brought up i don't really want is to appear to be desperately afraid of our constitution, and ramsey yousef and all these other people yes they have the constitutional right. constitutional rights do not stop people from being convicted and being locked up. >> would the gentleman yield? >> that is what they did in this case. >> would the gentleman yield? >> let me yield to mr. turner and then i would the glad to yield. >> i was

that seem to be you and yourself included that say that the bigger the bigger disaster is that the united states keeps spending this much and keeps raising the debt ceiling so to defend no i'm actually not at all you're not ok so i don't see any problem with the united states raising the debt ceiling where i think i've differed with perhaps some of the disaster people i said that in a worst case scenario if you actually had a situation where the government had to default on its debt which would be a very bad scenario we have financial crisis worse than we had in two thousand and eight the economy would still be there at the end of the day countries go through financial crisis you don't want to do that but we would be there at the end of the day what i've always point out to people is what would not be there is wall street j.p. morgan citigroup goldman sachs they would be out of business which is why it's not going to happen because they if we actually got to the point where this was a conceivable possibility we're well away from that now but if we actually got to the point where that was a reali

doesn't matter what he said because as you mentioned money talks the united states has given more aid to israel than any other foreign country just one hundred eighty five i think it's three billion dollars a year is the annual average that seems to say the united states will support israel and does no matter what's said publicly is that the case well that's been a problem because israel suffers from a moral hazard it doesn't have to weigh the consequences for itself in the long term when it makes a decision in the present in the shorter so it has made a whole series of decisions including putting all these settlements into what. is left of palestinian territory. and thereby making it almost physically impossible to have a two state solution the alternative to a two state solution is some sort of a party that is second class citizenship and israel proper for its population and no rights whatsoever for palestinians under occupation that's not acceptable to anybody it is seems acceptable to some people that are complicit in the united states and also they see it very differently. and is

fukushima radiation every three months rainwater is now being monitored or only every month in the united states so they're actually downgrading the monitoring levels in the united states and the the yearly in the three months absolutely the f.d.a. has made the announcement last week that they're not going to monitor to know and salmon for radioactivity of the pacific amazing absolutely amazing progress or thanks again thanks for the group for doing spreading the word of this disaster is forced to pan to reconsider its future in nuclear power they've reversed their decision to have nuclear account for half of all their energy production instead they're going to rely on renewable sources like solar for that half germany two is ditching nuclear power with plans to close their last nuclear plant by twenty twenty and jumping head first into solar power and energy source from which they leave the world at the moment meanwhile here in the u.s. we're still using expensive and dirty nuclear and dirty coal and imported oil and natural gas from fracking which pollutes wells and groundwater with no plans t

criminals comes from the united states. me tell you that in the four years of my administration, we have seized more than 100,000 weapons. 60,000 of them are assault weapons, and 85,000 of the total weapons we seize were sold in the american territory, mainly in the gun shops on the border. so after the assault-weapons ban extinguish in 2004, we started to see tremendous increase in the power of the criminals due to this easier access to the american witness. so that's a very important thing where we need the support of the american government and the american congress and we have not yet, and that is important because those weapons are aiming today, against mexican innocents, mexican people and mexican authorities, but nobody can say will never happen that those weapons aim against american citizens. >> charlie: look at the demand side of drugs. your pred seder, vicente -- your predecessor, vicente fox said if the united states legalized drugs, i think he principally met marijuana it would dry up revenues and the cartels wo

that's very dangerous in the united states. so much at stake and on the table now. >> alan, do you believe as jack does the terror threat level of the united states may have to be elevated? we may all have to be watching more closely in wake of death of osama bin laden bin, that if he really does become this martyr figure and it does sort of motivate some of these crazy people to try to create harm here? >> i think that's right. i think not much we can do about that among some fa nat cal followers he will be -- fanatical followers he will be seen as a martyr. we'll want to blame his death upon american assassins and this is going to be a period of great danger. i also agree with jack this is a period of extraordinary upheaval in the middle east. it reminds me a bit of the period at the very end of the 1980s, the great upheaval that led to the end of the soviet empire and liberation of eastern europe. george h.w. bush deserves a lot of credit, you know. communism ended. the satellite states were liberated without really anyone fi

boston built the first modern sewer system in the united states. ours was completed between 1877 and 1884. with this wonderful new sewer system, we were taking our filth and moving it out to the ocean. of course, all of this was untreated. in the 1960s, we were still pumping all of our sewage out to moon island, untreated. we would get swimmers here, never knowing, in the middle of summer, why you would have a cold. well, we were swimming in diluted sewage. melosi: the major way to deal with pollution, at least until early into the 20th century, was through the process of dilution. the assumption was that the capacity of rivers and streams, and even the seas, allowed for certain levels of pollution that eventually would purify themself. as we get later into the 20th century, it becomes clear that the volumes of waste made dilution unworkable as a single solution. and so treatment became the ways in which we deal with pollution. narrator: to protect public health, starting in the 1950s and '60s, there was a push to put in wastewater treatment plants

and here i think he took a timid step in the right direction by, in effect, publicly stating on behalf of the united states that the two-state solution has to be based on the '67 lines with eqtable aps of land. but en after that it became very timid and in effect kind of passed the really difficult problems-- such as jerusalem and the settlements-- to direct negotiations quote/unquote, between the two parties. whereas we know from years and years of experience that they cannot reach an agreement on these issues on their own. so i think he missed an opportunity here to really modernizworld public opinion. the moderate majorities in israel and on the palestinian side, the moderate majority of the american jewish community and almost every state in the world on behalf of a comprehensive framework within which then the problem would be resolved by direct negotiations. >> i want to return to the portion of the speech that dealt with the israeli/palestinian issue in a moment. but let's start with a first half of the spee, first two-thirdsf the speech, really which was about the arab spring. and i think pr

gone it's on the fulvia remains and could be well in its way to becoming the permanent state of the human rights record of the united states is that the truth or to be so much in here is now some food for thought there are more than forty four million people on food stamps and one out of every american children one out of every four american children is also on food stamps one in four has a lot of children whose parents cannot afford to feed them in this country this non third world country is one of those factoids that nations stop and think and our friend the business insider of actually come up with fifty of these points to help paint a more clear picture of the state of the economy ready for another one the number of low income jobs in the us has ridden has risen steadily over the past thirty years and they now account for forty one percent of all jobs in the united states and here we just saw mcdonald's hire fifty thousand new workers that doesn't demonstrate the point i don't know what will but i want to break this down and for more earlier i spoke with max for audible senior analyst at green cross capital. th

not just in the united states. because the truth of the matter is that while the united states doesn't have any obligation to, um, oversee or make particular comments about these matters, it's in our interest to do so. we have, as a country, tremendous legal expertise and resources. and so i think if we can look at ways in which we can also influence the hague conference to either take more actions or initiate new discussions that might not have been had or continue to help progress their -- i shouldn't say their agenda, but issues that we think are important such as oversight and how that oversight then is turned into actionable review that can improve the hague system as a whole. i think that's a useful role for the united states to play. although the convention is over 30 years old, a myriad of interpretation issues are also evidenced in u.s. case law and other countries. the fact that nations and courts interpret the language of the convention differently has dramatic effects on these cases and often results in

the united states is trying to manage a very complicated exit strategy from afghanistan. e la thing it wts now a full blown confrtation with pakist that would disrupt that the united states has made assumpons about pakistan not being cooperativen certainly taliban, slosz in al qaeda. it's not absolutely shocking to consider the psibity that pakistani intelligence might have known about bin laden's location. so i think the u.s., too, has reasons to muddle through, at least for now. got a lot of its plate in affidavits. >> i think it's interesting to watch the official pakistani reaction today. i was hold that the pakistanis asked last night if president obama could please make his statement quickly and that's why he made the statement just before midnight at this unusual time. the kistanis wanted their population to wake up to an american statement that this operation inside pakistani territory has been to take out osama bin laden not an operation against pakistanis. they thought this was more defensible. and they promised u.s. officials that they would try to mitigate paki

and now with the word that, not only has he been killed, but the united states has his body. and that, i think, will be the key thing in all of this. that the united states, the special operations forces and congratulations to them this evening, was able, not only to reach out into pakistan, into the tribal areas, where we're assuming this incident took place, and to not only kill osama bin laden, but to retrieve his body. that will be an incredibly significant moral blow to the militants and will show that the united states wasn't kidding when it launched this war on terrorism. it wasn't a joke, it wasn't a myth, that the united states did have the power to carry out an effective operation on the ground. and that's what so many people were doubting after the war in iraq, after the war in afgh afghanist afghanistan, after the war in afghanistan was renewed again. people were worried that the united states didn't have the capability and it was simply a myth. i think after they produce a body and say this is what we have accomplished, many people in the arab world, particularly,

and they are, i think, the most dangerous to the united states. they are the most dangerous not because they are more powerful than the united states, nor because they are supported by all muslims, they are most dangerous -- they are the most dangerous gulf origin, that the elite has uniformly refused to accept reality. from the first bush to clinton to george w. bush to barack obama, americans have been told that they're at war because al-qaeda and its allies are motivated by hatred for our liberty, way of life, and democratic institutions. this is a palpable, lethal lie. we are being attacked because of our elite half century record of relentless intervention in the muslim world. it is in the cumulative impact the 50 years of interventionism that we find the main motivation of america's islamist enemies as well as the principal organizational glue that provides a modicum of units of the creation. it's to be found in their perception of u.s. foreign policy is an attack on the u.s. religion and its followers. this is a view that is held not only by

god forever bless the united states of america. that's right president barack obama the leader of the united states of america addressed the oh i'm sorry it wasn't president obama that is the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu my bad you see all that wild applause must have really just throw me off my game so let's try this again the israeli prime minister's speech they had all of the trappings of a state of the union address by a president to live soaring approval ratings in fact netanyahu got twenty nine standing ovations from lawmakers compare that with the twenty five president obama god during his death in january speech now earlier i spoke with jeremy scahill he's a national security correspondent for the nation magazine and i first asked kerry for his thoughts on netanyahu is goober welcome reception in congress take a look. he had at least thirty or forty standing ovations depending on who you ask for warmer reception than president obama has received certainly from the republicans but you could argue also from the de

the united states much more needs to be done. mr. hairman, ranking members, members of the committee, the u.s. can and should play a role in advising and assisting pakistan in order to prevent the rise of terrorism that could attack the homeland. but i believe it's in pakistan's own interest to undertake the difficult policy changes that would allow it to focus on all terrorist groups operating inside its borders. we must insist on an honest dialogue and reward honesty with honesty. we must follow a two-pronged policy hope and change the social economic and helping pakistan set up a broad-based counterinsurgency operation. they invested signature infrastructure projects will become a lasting reminder of u.s. assistance. the largest single potential in my view for improving pakistan's security and economy is the normalization within india, a person that's now beginning to show signs of revival. to give you an idea, increase trade between these two countries rising from about 2 billion here to between 40 and 100 linear would radically a

it is not just the united states. it is also the turks who a believe will be hosting an opposition conference. turkey is the closest country to that regime perhaps other than iran. this shows that the is a consensus among not only allies of the united states, but also countries like tkey and so on that his regime needs to go away. >> i just want to add very quickly, one quick point on this. i think to the extent that ther is a strategy involving, clearly as the president has not moved entirely to the position that bashar al-assad has to go, the implications of the sanctions and the way he is speaking should be clear. but, if they are clear, why not a stated? but that is neither here nor there. to the point i would like to make is, the one hope they would have, and hopefully the turks and others are working behind the scenes on this, is that the community as a whole may not prefer to jump off the cliff that bashar al-ass and his family is leading them toward. so, if they were to get rid of bashar al-assad, then perhaps

americans this year so i guess it's kind of a rhetorical question what is the state of the middle class particularly in the united states well i think that there is an issue but it's also possible to overstate the issue we should remember that you know being the middle is a relative term means being between the people are very poor and very rich but in fact the absolute level of the middle class their ability to have a home to send their kids to college is still much higher than it's ever been they're still living a prairie comparable lifestyle compared to a huge fraction of the world compared to people just a generation earlier and so on and so forth so i would shouldn't overstate the case at the same time there certainly are issues but the question is what should one do about it what policies should what a time to change to address those issues and i think that's the hard question that we need to think about it's interesting samuel i'm going to you in washington in light of what we just heard there should we just have a new definition of the middle class because there doesn't seem to be a lot in the middle of t

that somehow finding the right distance not just from the united states but finding the right distance from china was something that was the most important strategic choice of facing japan today. getting it right, not just with the united states but getting it right with china as well was requiring -- would require both military and economic readjustments that we tried to -- we tried to get at. and we redimensioned a bit at the last third of the paper. and given the relative power shift that's taking place between the united states and china, the maintaining the distance with the united states while closing it with china seems to make grand strategic sense for japan. these policies and these efforts as we've already seen have not been particularly well coordinated, however. most u.s. and japanese policymakers -- the alliance managers continue to appreciate and elevate really the importance of the bilateral alliance at exactly the moment when china, as i said, has become a little more assertive diplomatically and that alliance drift was halted and then again after the 3/11 crises, it lo

they will all tell you how much the united states still depens on pakistan. you saw secretary gates using those words saying the pakistan military has been humiliated and they were able to go in with impunity and that was to show they get it. they understand that. you heard them talking about the head of pakistan's military by saying this man is not just a peer, he is a friend. they are telling me you still need to get the supplies to the troops in afghanistan through pakistan. if we are going to go after the leaders on the pakistani side, we still need pakistan's cooperation. >> what is striking is you just mentioned a key point. these guys have to deal minute by minute, hour by hour, day by day with the ups and downs. they were not only speaking a cautionary word to those in congress, but the president himself, top officials at the white house said they think somebody in pakistan was involved. it's interesting to see a cabinet secretary essentially sending a message to fellow people who serve in the d main station. >> exactly. this mission is over. it's done

in the united states? art of a report that said it would have been difficult in finding a country to except his remains. guest: the saudis would not taken back. i thought it was an unusual decision to bury him at csea. as i think about it, i think now it was a good idea. now people will say, they buried him at sea and he really is not dead. host: the suspect there will be pictures coming forward? guest: i think they may have to release pictures to satisfy people in the united states. i don't think it's a good idea. a lot depends on how he looks, in a sense. when a man dies, if he looks composed and calm in his death, it is a tradition in the muslim world that he was truly fighting in god's way. if he is shot and messed up, maybe it would be good to use the pictures because it might be not seen as fighting in god's way. it does not advance the game at all. it kind of satisfies a lot of people to see the actual evidence. host: let's go next to mississippi. good morning. caller: am i on? you are doing a great

the bottom line from the president of the united states, we don't trot this stuff out as trophies. that's it. the commander in chief has spoken. he's made the big decision based on national security interests. president obama said today that the united states government will not release the death photos of osama bin laden. the president broke the news on a taped interview with "60 minutes" to air sunday. interviewer steve croft. they did it this afternoon. >> did you see the pictures? >> yes. >> what was your reaction when you saw them? >> it was him. >> why won't you release them? >> you know, we discussed this internally. keep in mind that we are absolutely certain this was him. we've done dna sampling and testing. and so there is no doubt that we killed osama bin laden. it is important for us to make sure that very graphic photos of somebody who was shot in the head are not floating around as an incitement to additional violence, as a propaganda tool. you know, that's not who we are. >> so did the president make the right call? here he is rendering judgment that it would inflame

building and housing what about those that say that we're already seeing in place in the united states they're just not calling the rising commodity prices food prices oil prices isn't is that inflation well it's inflation in the sectors has little to do with united states because you're seeing that in europe china japan everywhere so the idea that it's a u.s. problem is just misunderstanding the markets you just have to look that's happening everywhere it's something that's it's as dean baker co-director of the center for economic and policy research and all the u.s. government gets to raise the debt ceiling to continue borrowing more money whether the u.s. can pay off that debt are not average americans are not so lucky and wait until you see the lengths that debt collectors are going to in some cases criminal to get americans to pay up our cheeseman a fortnight that story. imagine a call coming to your home alone you pick up and a stranger demands your money and threatens your life they had said that so you know we live we know your wife is not going to get away with this before the

these keep the united states away from what they further should be doing. they have weakened rather than strengthened cab mary. they failed to unite it on the grounds that an 18-hour curfew may breach the european convention on human rights. the u.s. should be especially wary of the eu's political agenda in this regard because it's the way the eu spends money inside the united states to savor its political causes. they vangsed among observes, the statute of the criminal although court. the closing of guantanamo bay and u.s. recommendation of policies. after 9/11, they tried to walk in solidarity, but since then, it's been marked as much by confrontation has it has by cooperation. the eu has attempted to frustrate several counter-terrorism policies, the trucking program which is also known as the smith agreement and u.s. ren additions. in terms of the piano and a greet, and they have duchb it on a fill rit ration. . they should stop this involvement and approve the deal from 2007, the program is essentially for day watch spen. a swift lead canceled by the --