they are enormously wealthy and averell harriman is a friend and supporter to frances perkins to our whole career. the actually live together in a house in georgetown when social security act was drafted, so mary harriman is beyond a friend. she is actually at points supporting frances perkins because frances perkins remember has a husband who is institutionalized and for whom she has to provide care, so having wealthy free male friends who would help her allows frances perkins to provide for first her husband who has bipolar disorder, and then for daughter who developed it as well. >> could you tell us a little bit about her parents and their influence on her? >> that is very interesting. the question was can you tell us little bit about frances perkins parents and their influence on her? for frances perkins it is not just your parents, it is also the remarkable grandmother that she had. she was not particularly close to mother although her mother seems to have run the house and it will ordered way but her mother was a more conventional women and had difficulty understanding this ver

fdr backed off from national health insurance to save social security. frances perkins achieved almost all of her agenda. she became the most successful social progressive in american history. how did that happen? over the years it has been very difficult to get progressive legislation passed in the united states of the kind they have in europe. there are many obstacles. frances perkins was one of these people that from a very young age found a path through obstacles on the way to get things done. coming here, i first came to washington d.c. as a young reporter for "the washington post" and i did not know who frances perkins was myself. i think i was familiar with the name. i took a tourmobile of the sites of d.c. and one of the things they really stuck it my mind was the huge labor department building named after frances perkins. i thought wow, there aren't many government buildings named after women so i sort of started the way in my mind. as we continue their trip along the mall the tour bus drivers said that he had a joke for us and it was what american wome

say to the president of the united states of america how proud franceto work with you. for the second time this year, this afternoon we will be talking about the ceremonies and the commemoration of the d-day landings but i want to say in the strongest, most sincere terms that never in the history, perhaps, of our two countries the united states and france, have been so close to one another on major issues, major questions. i say to the president that we are determined to help him in his decision to close down -- shut down guantanamo. i told president barack obama to what extent we support his open, outstretched hand initiative to russia, that we improve and endorse this policy. i said to the president that we totally agreed with him. on the israeli and palestinian issue. two states that need to live alongside one another, an israeli state whose security we're very attached to and a secure palestinian state. and to what extent we support american diplomacy when it requested that an end stop, a halt be put to settlements. on the iranian matter, i've said

i have come to speak to you about the future for france. we do not know when the crisis will end. we need to do everything to ensure it will be as soon as possible. but we need to continue to support our economic activity and guarantee the stability of our banking system. we need to detect -- we need to protect our weaker citizens. we need to do everything to avoid that the victims of the crisis become marginalized, people who will no longer be able to insert themselves in our society. exclusion is one of the most serious consequences of a crisis. our efforts would be a lack of responsibility. it would not only put in question our recovery, it would also considerably put at risk our future. the idea, according to which we could forge ahead while leaving some french people behind us is an unfair notion. in addition, according to which we could forge ahead well abandoning some of our neighborhoods is a falsehood. because the crisis would supposedly be overcome at the idea to which we should no longer be concerned of human consequences, that is a dangerous idea. to consider the crises

offshore production has become a problem to france. having a tax system solely based on production and labor is responsible for that. is our goal to push all of our factories to be friends? is our goal to lot -- to no longer have manual workers in our country? this would be a suicide. this would be to waste our best assets. the idea of france without any manual workers is an insane notion. this is a strategic choice i am proposing to you. [applause] and it is on behalf of this strategic choice that defense production and labor that would need to slash our taxes and to rethink bonds. this is in the same spirit that we should go as far as we can on taxing pollution. when we tax pollution, we can decrease the tax on labor and production. this is an environmental stake. this is to promote employment. how to give more value to labor. how to hope that labor will be productive, that our workers find themselves involved in their work and find themselves involved in their company if their efforts are not fairly compensated. work should be fairly

fdr backed off the national health insurance to save social security. frances perkins achieved almost all of her agenda. she became the most successful social progress of an american history. how did that happen? >> over the years it's been very difficult to get progress of legislation passed in the united states like the kind they have in europe. there are many obstacles. frances perkins was one of these people from a very young age found a path through obstacles and a way to get things done. coming here as i first came to washington, d.c. in 1988 as a reporter for "the washington post" and i didn't know who frances perkins was myself and i took a tour of the sites of d.c. and one of the things that stuck in my mind is this huge labor department building named after frances perkins and i thought there are not that many government buildings named after women so i sort of stored away in my mind and in a little while as we continue in the trip along the mall tour bus driver said he had a joke and it was one american woman had the worst child birth experience? a l

france, but also serving the interests of the world. we're very grateful for that. obviously, i also want to make mention of the extraordinary tragedy of the air france plane that we believe may have gone down. we don't know yet what exactly happened, but it is heartbreaking obviously for the families. the american people for their thoughts and prayers. we have already authorized all of our resources to coordinate with the french in trying to discover where the plane went down. and to find as much information as possible. but our deepest condolences to the people of france, most particularly to the families involved. and we are determined to find out what happened and support france in that regard. so with that, i think that we can take a question. >> mr. president, -- excuse me. the journalist is begin without a microphone. >> apparently, you are speaking without a microphone, said the translator cannot hear you. you have a microphone? >> yes, right here. >> sorry. >> he has the microphone. >> you said yesterday that you hope to see significant progress in the middle east by the end of this

to work with barack obama. we work regularly together. he knows that france is a friend of the united states. l issues and hope to continue that. barack obama, welcome. welcome to your family. >> it is wonderful to be back in france, particularly on this day, because this day marks not only the triumph of freedom, but it also marks have the transatlantic alliance has allowed for extraordinary prosperity and security on both sides of the atlantic. the fact that france fully reintegrated into nato this year under president sarkozy's leadership is just one further indication of the degree to which u.s., french cooperation can help to underpin not only security in europe, but also a more secure and prosperous world beyond europe. i very much appreciated president sarkozy's leadership on a whole range of issues. he mentioned a number of them. france's leadership within europe in understanding the need for us to have tough diplomacy with the iranians, to reach out to them, but also insist we cannot afford a nuclear arms race in the middle east. our close collaboration on a whole host of issues with

but jefferson was most sympathetic to france and it took him a long time to become disabused of france. and adams, during that time, exercise a kind of diplomacy that kept the country out of war. this was the end of the 1790s. his administration. jefferson and his party would have gone to war against either france or england. it was touch and go because both of them were stopping american ships on the high seas. and so adams wanted to pursue a policy of getting peace at any cost because he said this nation is in no position to have another war so soon after the revolution. we couldn't sustain another war. so there were different -- that is of the major reason for the breach between them. but jefferson also thought that adams was exercising too much power as president and wanted a strong federal government and he wanted a weak federal government. what jefferson did was, first of all, wrote a letter to thomas thank you had written a book about the french revolution, and jefferson's letter of sympathy for thomas spain got a tended to the introduction of the book when it was published in a

jefferson and his party would have gone to war against either france or england. it was touch and go, because both of them were stopping american ships on the high sea. and adams wanted to pursue a policy of getting peace at any cost because he said, this nation is in no position to have another war so soon after the revolution. we couldn't sustain another war. so there were difference -- that was the major reason for the breach between them. but jefferson also thought that adams was exercising too much power as president and wanted a strong federal government and he wanted a weak federal government. what jefferson did was first of all, wrote a letter to thomas paine, who had written a book about the french revolution, ex tolding the french revolution, an jefferson's letter of sympathy for thomas paine got appended to the introduction of that book when it was published in america, an everyone knew it was a criticism of adams. and the person who really knew it was a criticism of adams was adams, and so that made him very angry. this man of great passion. and then je

[speaking french] were we're going to continue to watch the ceremony in france, where right now french president is making his speech. we want to take your calls and we're watching this video. and the numbers are on your screen. if we'll also be taking calls from families of veterans and veterans of warled war two. -- world war ii. we'll be taking your calls until president obama gets up to make his speech. in addition to president obama and president sarkozy, the prime minister as well as britain's prince charles, presumably all of them will be making speeches today as part of the memorial. the commemoration of the 65th anniversary of d-day. our first call from arlington, virginia. caller: thank you very much. i wanted to just say, number one, that i was delighted that you were playing president sarkozy live. i lived in france. i'm just sorry for the americans listening to this that there was no translation because it was extremely touching to pay tribute. >> tell us about what he said. >> he talked about. he went through a tribute to the canadians and what they had done. he said for

looking ahead, the president next goes to france with stops in normandy, of which the president will mark the 65th anniversary of d-day. the president started his trip and saudi arabia before visiting cairo, where he gave an address to the muslim world. he will show you that speech this sunday at 10:30 eastern. the speech continues to generate action -- continues to generate reaction. we got some analysis this morning on "washington journal." host: let me share with the many of the editorials. they call it the cairo speech. pointing out that words are important. mr. obama was right when he urged leaders to say those words in public, but words are not enough. mr. obama, who has been in office less than six months, has a lot to do to fulfill this mission. guest: what the president is trying to do, he wants to turn the page with the muslim world. once to begin a new dialogue and search for common ground. -- he wants to begin a new dialogue. at the same time, as he said, everything does not change with one speech. but one of his prime objectives is to get a lot of people in different musl

to happen. host: we've got shots up of the normandy cemetery in france. and we will be hearing from president obama as well as the french president and the british prime minister. and we'll go to that as soon as those gentlemen start speaking. first, back to the phones. chris on the line. good morning and welcome. caller: good morning. my respect to all the d-day veterans still with us. my dad was with the army air corps group that went from north africa into france and germany. but a lot of people talking about the russian effort. with our effort to go after the energy resources of germany, the bombings in all cordors, getting them out of north african africa and stuff, didn't that happy and could you expand? thank you. guest: sure. that's a great point. one way the soveyts were hated by the western powers is the strategic bombing campaign that they could concentrate on having their air force just provide close air support for their armies along the eastern front and the campaign to bomb germany abserbs about a million plus german soldiers for antiaircraf

for all of this weekend's programs at times, go to book tv dog or. >> today marks the sixty fifth anniversary of d-day. president obama was in normandy, france to attend the ceremony. joining him was french president nicholas sarkozy. this is just over an hour. >> president obama, your royal highness, prime minister rao, prime minister harbor, presidents are cozy, distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen, please be seated. -- president sarkozy. it is our privilege to welcome all the illustrious visitors joining us today. we extend a special welcome to the d-day and world war ii veterans and family members in attendance to honor us all with their presence. [applause] today we commemorate the 60th anniversary of the d-day landings that took place in the early morning hours of june 6, 1944. today's ceremony will honor the soldiers, sailors, and air man who made the supreme sacrifice so that europe might be liberated. included among those so honored are the 3881 who lost their lives on the day at omaha beach, and the 9387 of our dead who are buried at this cemetery. [speaking french] [speaking french] >> ladies and gentlemen, please tell your

this is part of the reason, by the way, when it comes to north korea and iran that i've said it's not sufficient for the united states or france or other members of the nuclear club simply to say all of you have to stop but we're not going to do anything to change ourselves. i gave a speech in prague in which i said all of us have responsibilities that i am going to be traveling to moscow for a summit to restart significant arms -- nuclear arms reduction negotiations with the russians, that i want to reinvigorate our nonproliferation treaty. i think we should create a stable consensus in which countries who want peaceful -- nuclear power for peaceful civilian use are able to do so. and that our goal collectively is to eliminate proliferation, lock down the loose materials out there, negotiate a whole series of treaties that lower the temperature, and ultimately make nuclear weapons obsolete. now, that's not going to happen in my time, my lifetime. it won't happen in president sarkozy's lifetime that -- but if we start moving on that pathway and other countries can look and say the united states is not just talking the talk but

they're you will there trying to promote international tourism. but the same is true with france and with india and japan, great britain, so many other countries. why are they doing that? they're doing it because it is unbelievably job creating to have international tourism come to your country. on average, an international tourist spends about $4,500 on hotels and cars and tourist attractions and food. so it's unbelievably job creating and boosting of the economy of the host country. but even more important than that, our country needs to do this and we are not because starting in 2000 -- going to 2008, we now have 600,000 fewer visitors in a year from overseas than we had eight years ago. why is that the case? it's because some people feel that we don't want them to visit our country. quite the opposite is true. and so we suggest rather than keep losing economic opportunities from international tourism, let's at least join the discussion and get in the game by promoting tourism to our country. destination international tourism. let's at least get in the game. and so our bill

really been a pretty tight schedule with meetings and speeches and what not, but as he heads off to france tonight, he will be joined over the weekend by his wife, michelle obama, and his two daughters. the majority of the trip from country to country has been more work than play. host: one of the photographs in the washington post this morning, for those who lost their lives on the d-day invasion. a lot of people remember the words of ronald reagan on the 40th anniversary -- will we hear similar words today from this president? caller: i think we will hear similar words. this president -- i expect him to talk about his grandfather and his uncle will be traveling from chicago to be at the enormity event. he will be traveling on a plane with senator dole and mrs. dole. the speech has been written by the president's chief speech writer. it will give a final farewell, perhaps, too many of these veterans. the reason there is a big celebration or commemoration of the 65th anniversary is that, year by year, the number of living veterans of course falls off, so by the 75th, there will be consider

of repression and autocracy and a theological or theocratic nightmare in her country and to flee to france and as all of the adolescents tropes of falling in love, discovering your body and the rest of it but told against the backdrop of this gigantic historic moment. a very moving book and shows you both books together show you the great flexibility of this medium and the great things you can do with comex which i don't pretend to be an expert. taught comex for a long time i have written a comic. it is a terrific medium and reaches to all corners of the world that other literature does not. >> wolf plants are what will you be reading this summer? >> i have the books beginning with the emperor's new clothes. and a very well-known washington lawyer yet was very much involved many years ago with watergate the 9/11 commission, and i want to get through this book because i think he will have good stories to tell about what is going on here in washington over the past several decades. the second book entitled house of cards. this is a book that it basically tells the story of how they collapse

france. open a path to berlin. it made possible the achievements that followed the liberation of europe, the marshall plan, the nato alliance, the shared prosperity and security that flowed from each. so much of the progress that would define the 20 sentry on both sides of the atlantic came down to a battle for a slice of beach only 6 miles long and 2 miles wide. more particularly, it came down to the men who landed here, those who now rest in this place for eternity, and those who were with us here today. perhaps more than any other reason, you, the veterans of that landing, or why we still remember what happened on d-day. you are what we keep coming back. you remind us that in the end, human destiny is not determined by forces beyond our control. you remind us that our future is not shaped by mere chance or circumstance. our history has always been the sum total of the choices made and the actions taken by each individual man and woman. it has always been up to us. you could have done what hitler believed he woul

killing poles so he decided not to take sides and instead he took advantage of a scholarship to go to franceand study art and on the side he studied military engineering because he couldn't go to the military school in paris 'cause he wasn't a french citizen. he audited those classes and learned about all the theories created these incredible military strategies. and while he was there, he did these paintings. this is one of them. and here's another palace that he designed that was meant for the prince but in paris kosciuszko also became obsessed with a new philosophy, an economic philosophy and under those who started it, they had a theory that all wealth comes from the land. and those who own the land are the richest but why are they the richest? they are the richest because the serfss the peasants farm the land and make it more valuable so he came up with this philosophy laissez-faire hands off the serfs so they'll be happier and produce more. well, kosciuszko fell in love with this theory because it had a lot of implications for poland because there were slaves in poland. so when you ret

i used to go to france. is the only american on the board that had some of the most fun political discussions you can imagine. i love them dearly by the way. revi boarding, which is six the year, until my wife told me she no longer wanted to go to paris. alaikum i noticed paris works pretty well. france works pretty well. do you know how much of their energy is nuclear? it is over 70, 80, something like that. i want to tell you i don't understand anything about nuclear power. i don't know any of the physics, i really don't but i know how to make a safe nuclear power plant. it is real simple. if you've got nuclear power facility to make sure the board of directors and officers of the corporation live on the premise and they send their kids to the school on premise. i will assure you it is a. what you want to do is a line incentives, make sure pilots of airplanes don't have parachutes. you don't want them getting off than you riding with the plane for the rest of the trap. it is a lighting as that this and the

killing poles so he decided not to take sides and instead he to get a vantage of a scholarship to go to france and study or ted and on the side he studied military engineering because he couldn't go to the military school in paris because he wasn't a french citizen he audited the glasses and learned about the theories about others and had created these incredible military strategies. and while he was there he did these paintings and this is one of them and here is another palace he designed that was meant for the prince. but in paris, kosciuszko also became obsessed with the new philosophy, economic philosophy called physiocrats see, and under fizzy of proceed those who started it had a theory that all wealth comes from the land and those who own the land are the richest but why are they the richest? they are the richest because the peasants farmed the land to and make it more valuable. so he came up with this philosophy laissez-faire hands of the surf and give them more of the fruit of their labor so they will be happier and produce more. well, kosciuszko fell in love with this theory because

and autocracy and kind of a theological, a theocratic kind of nightmare in her country and fleeing to france, and it's got all the adolescent troaps of falling in love and discovering your body and all the rest of it. but told against the backdrop of this gigantic historic moment. very moving book and shows you both books together show you kind of the great flexibility of this medium and the great things you can do with comics. which i don't pretend to be an expert about ft i've taught comics for a long time, and now i've written a comic, but, man, it's a terrific medium, and it's one that reaches into all corners of the world that other literature doesn't. >> to see more summer reading lists and other program information, visit our web site at booktv.org. >> this summer, book tv >> this summer booktv is asking, what are you reading? >> cnn's wolf blitzer, who will you be reading this summer? >> i've got some books that i hope to read this summer beginning with the emperor's new clothes, a very well-known washington lawyer, he's an old friend of mine. he was very much involved many years ago

be killing poles and decided not to take sides and instead took advantage of a scholarship to go to france, and study art and on the side studied military engineering because he couldn't go to the military school in paris because he was not a french citizen, he audited those classes and learned all of the theories about those who created these incredible military strategies. and while he was there, he did these paintings, this is one of them. and here's another palace that he designed, meant for prins a prince, and in paris, he also became obsessed with the new philosophy and economic philosophy called fizz yok across, and under that, those who started it had a theory that all wealth comes from the land. and those who own the land are this richest, but why are they the richest? they are this richest because the serfs, peasants farm the land and make it more valuable and he came up with this philosophy, laissez faire, hands off the serfs and give them more of the fruits of their labor and they'll be happier, and they'll produce more. well, kosciuszko absolutely fell in love with that theory

prevent somebody from download anything belgium, right next door, and send it over to somebody in france? i mean w the internet so international how do you stop the file sharing? >> guest: i believe what the french legislation is meant to do is to put pressure on local isp providers, and i think that's a message that i think is important, is we really want to see isp providers take some responsibility here, you know? you're providing a service to your customers, but that shouldn't mean you're providing an access point for them to, you know, to steal. you know, to be blunt. and so that's really what, you know, and there are isp providers in each territory, and that's really what i think we'd like to see happen. you know, i think there has to be this kind of responsibility globally. i think this is something we should certainly see in the, you know, in the more advanced democratic countries, you know, when we look at, you know, the other territories around the world, china, for instance, and russia. again, huge, huge challenges in terms of, you know, it used to be the intellectual property

agency is dedicated to air safety any loss is felt by all of us and and there are sympathies go out to air france 447 and 3407 this is my first appearance at a hearing since i was sworn in on june 1st and want to think the committee again for both of your support and your confidence in me. we do have and the ambitious agenda that i discussed with you at the last confirmation and i intend to work very hard to achieve the stated goals we have set forth as a challenge of the faa. since the nineties there has been a requirement of safety that of regional carriers must operate under the same rules and the same level of safety as major airline counterparts and i am proud to say when i was president of the airline pilots association are that the efforts to work with the faa to make those changes. all carriers that operate aircraft today with 10 or more seats are required to meet the same safety standards and are subject to the same level of safety oversight across the boards when the ntsb conducted its hearing last month that i commend the four several issues came to light and they were investigating th

to. recently in france, they enacted something that we could call a three strikes law. if you are at home and download illegally, you get to warnings. the third time you're caught, you're disconnected from the internet. i think that sends a powerful message. i think there was a case recently, one in europe against something called "pirate day. pete -- pirate bay. it was a strong victory against this website. this remains one of the biggest challenges to our industry, and to all creative industries. the fact that millions of people are able to download music and other films and television shows illegally, and traders do not get paid, artists did not get paid. it has created an incredibly difficult environment to struggle through this whole time of transportation. >> what is to prevent somebody from downloading in belgium right next door and send it over to somebody in france? with the internet so international, how you stop the file sharing? >> i believe what the french legislation is meant to do is to put pressure on local isp providers. i think that is a message that is

pay tribute on behalf of france to those of your children who shed their blood on this ground in normandy and who will rest here for eternity. we will never forget them. mr. president, i would also like to say thank you to the remaining survivors of this tragedy, those who are present here today alongside us. i would like to say thank you to all those whose courage allowed us to overcome one of the most barbaric periods of our history. you fought for a cause, a cause that you know deep within yourselves was greater than yourself and greater than your own life. not a single one of you, not a single one of your comrades retreated. we owe our liberty to you. we could cite the names of all these heroes to whom we owe so much, but let us say that france will never, ever forget them. it is on this ground, at this very place, where we see a reinforcement of our unfailing french ship between france and the united states, between france and great britain, beef between france and canada. among these fallen soldiers, there was your grandfather, a sergeant

to the? does france have something simmer to a freedom of information act?>> i had access to everything. 50 euros rule, archival. it's 100 years for censorship. [inaudible] >> he was really good. he really rocks. and you don't just believe everything they write. my late friend richard cobb said the police are writing what they want their superiors to hear so you have to kind of crosscheck everything. and another one went to london. i had british police also. i worked out there. yes, it's all there. it's all there. gets harder in modern period, but now the vichy syndrome now we can find out about collaboration and vichy was before you couldn't because of these types of laws. >> i was wondering if you look into sort of if there was any different reaction his actions as to more normal and arcus action like shooting mccammon or something? >> the debate isn't who you shoot but if you shoot anyone. they said we will organize, we will grow in strength or we will be numerous. those people are influenced. i believe a single spark, that's what the deed was. it will ig

to be a very long, very tough work. without foreign assistance, what reason was possibly there for france to assist america if our objective was to reconcile with great britain? if we declared independence and britain lost, 20% of its population, they were sending 1/3 of their exports to america, and it getting 1/3 of their imports from america, if america

and i have to say what the people called was a francs inquiry was appropriate 25 years ago, but a private, privy council inquiry would not be thought appropriate now. the worst thing of all, surely, would be to replicate all the arguments we have had about iraq was similar arguments about the form an inquiry should take. could i just ask, and i welcome his statement, but could he regarded at and -- as the short process of consultation to carry the whole house with him? >> i have read the letter he has written and i appreciate what he has said about the views of him and other people on this. but the point is answered by the fact of the range of this inquiry goes through eight years. it goes from 2001-2009. what he wanted to be sure of was that all the issues related to iraq would be discussed. we could have had a discussion like francs only into the run-up of the war or the conflict itself or reconstruction. all are big issues. we have an inquiry that covers all these issues. the range of the inquiry is as big as it could be as a result of the decision we made. some of the points he wanted

to their countries. japan is, great britain, italy, turkey, france, you name it. here's a little sample of what's happening out there. this is an advertisement, "sweet secrets from japan," to learn about japan and its culinary arts and traditions, this is an advertisement saying come to japan. come and travel in the country of japan. advertisements from france. picasso, normandy landing, come and see france with the eiffel tower. belgium: travel to belgium where fun is always in fashion, they say. brussels, sophisticated simplicity, the capital of cool. one special reason to visit india in 2009. any time is a good time to visit the land of taj, but there's no time like now. so come to india. and the list goes on and on. ireland, emerald ireland. go where ireland takes you. a beautiful picture of ireland saying come to our country. finally, australia. arrived for an experience to remember. departed with an adventure we'll never forget. come to australia. i tell you all of this and describe the fact that the country of turkey advertises on a golf tournament on televi

the united kingdom and france and the united states. we need to share this experience in order to prevent further cases of tragedy occurring. we will always be at your side. thank you very much. >> thank you. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2009] >> president obama's european trip continues saturday as he travels to paris and to norway for a ceremony marking the anniversary of the d-day invasion. >> coming up next, the joint economic committee examines the results of the latest government unemployment report. "new york times" columnist david brooks talks about the obama administration, and president obama holds a press conference with german chancellor angela merkle. you are watching public affairs on c-span. >> how is c-span funded? the taxpayers. >> i do not really know. >> from public television. >> donations. >> i do not nor the money comes from. >> contributions from donors. >> how c-span funded? 30 years ago, america's cable companies created c-span as a public servic

to clarify. the plutonium that results from the reprocessing and france is not classified as weapons grade. >> okay. >> but that's the reason we don't reprocess it is because jimmy carter said the consequence would be weapons grade plutonium, so the americans are not going to reprocessed. and thereby, he forced the overseas and everybody else was way ahead of us on a technology we developed. >> sir, i would definitely agree that that was the public face of it much in the same way that three mile island was the public face of the demise of the new build in this country. but if you go back and look at the other factors that went into it, you had several attempts to build commercial reprocessing facilities at the time. frankly, the nrc for perhaps good reason to change the rules on them in midstream. by the way, you have to go back and reconfigure. that added precipitously to the cost. simultaneously, the overall economics began to fall out of the bottom, as we saw new plans go by the wayside. and it came to a point where just frankly was not, given that time, especially with ridiculously high interes

now, kosciuszko always wanted to go back to poland and after the american revolution, there was a quasiwore b20 united states and france because much like we have the somali pirates now trying to capture ships and commerce off the horn of africa the french started capturing american ships because they didn't want the americans to do business with the british. so comment jefferson needed someone who knew the french quite well and as kosciuszko was made and on every citizen of france during the french revolution, after the xyz affair jefferson sent kosciuszko back to try and help win the freedom of these american sailors. so, he did go back to paris and did help get the freedom of these soldiers. but while he was there, he also met napoleon bonaparte. napoleon had been running around with all of his different conquests. he had just returned from egypt, where he had stolen a bunch of artifacts and murdered a bunch of the egyptians in doing so and when he got back to paris the first person he wanted to see was kosciuszko. he walked into his room in paris and said i urgently wanted to meet the hero of the north. kosciuszko

advanced in poland, parts of the balkans and the western allies had the same issue once began to advance across france. they had the material but they couldn't get it several hundred miles to the east where it needed to go. so, by the fall of 1944 the germans were able to recover, lick their wounds, set up fret strong defenses and stalemate the war on through the rest of a poor weather fall. a lot of rain, snow, and it was a horrendous winter in 1944 and 1945. that is where you are on the eve of the battle of the bulge in mid december of 1944. host: next up is armed from smyrna, tennessee. caller: good morning. john, i belong to an organization called veterans for pea peace. and in our last meeting there was a man there who spoke. i don't remember his name. but he has a website that is called notalone.com. and it is a website set up for veterans that are suffering from ptsd where they can go and share their stories. and they put everyone's story on the website and they try to help each other out by sharing the stories of war. i just wanted to make you aware of this website. also i have another website

the negotiating process is hard to judge but sarkozy certainly doesn't want to be a wallflower in the process. he wants france to play a role. he alluded to that recently in djibouti commemorating the opening -- i'm sorry, not in jeopardy, the gulf, commemorating the opening of a new french military base in the area. the germans and the russians clearly are not prepared to push the envelope very hard. i don't think they are prepared to commit themselves to very drastic sanctions the kind some would like. and their position from the outside probably will be supported by the chinese who are not a party to the process but who have a role to play and the rule is not insignificant in the long run. this sort of, on durham of issues is complicated by the fact as of now there is no sense of clarity on the side of the five were six, however you count them, regarding what is actually the status of the iranians who nuclear quest. what are they actually seeking right now? the analysis of 2007 hasn't been rejected. a onetime judgment that appears to still be the judgment, that is to say right now there is no convincing ev

. >> i had the honor of paying tribute to those who died in the aftermath as we moved from france to the fall of berlin, and the freedom of your. goes to food and women who died deserves the gratitude of everybody in this house and they will never for be -- be forgotten. i want to represent the british people and the prince of wales. and the results of what those people had done, the sacrifices they made is the europe today which was once divided is free of conflict, and people who once fought that war is what happened between their countries, now know that there is peace and unity in europe. i also agree that people fought for freedom, which means we have a british constitution that we can be proud of. >> let me put it to my friends that if we wish to enhance the standing of parliament in the eyes of our constituents, there is one simple measures that we could take immediately which requires no legislation, that is to resume sittings in september which is something we voted for several years ago and -- how can it be right in a democracy for parliament to give the executives and 80 d

the girl seems to recognize and france, comfort, not unlike a pacifier or security blanket. recently seen her mom slump on the couch after work, she fished the blackberry from a mother's purse and brought it to her. mommy, she asked, will this make you feel better? the same article described another female executive in new jersey whose children have banned the use of the device between dinner and a time. the journal wrote -- to get around their dictates, the mother heights of the gadget and a bathroom where she makes frequent trips before, during, and after dinner. she said, the kids think i have a small the latter. technology is changing life of women around the world as well. we published a story in "washington post" a few years ago of household phones have changed lives of women in saudi arabia. the article describes saudi arabia as "one of the most conservative and religious district decided in the world, where social contact between men and women not related is forbidden." as of the time is article was published come in late 2006, the number of self on users and saudi ev

cleanest fuel, safest fuel if you look statistically, is nuclear energy, and i think try to emulate what's happened in france. we need to -- we need to try to produce as many nuclear power stations as possible. particularly if we want to combat global warming, is really one of the only weapons we have to try to combat global warming, but if we don't move quickly, i think we could see oil creating the sort of second recession just as this recession starts coming out again by oil prices soaring to levels that will -- which would tip the world into another recession. >> does your advocacy of environmental issues and alternative airline fuels and carbon trading make virgin atlantic less competitive and why aren't your competitors following your lead? >> well, i don't necessarily think it makes us less competitive. what we're saying is all profits we make from our dirty businesses will be vested in trying to develop clean fuel and oy mentioned earlier one of the companies we're involved in, givo has developed a fuel and the exciting thing about is it it can be made from sugar, the world is awash with sugar, it's

the allies extended a helping hand to us, to our neighbor france, the united kingdom, but also the united states of america. we need to share this experience in order to prevent other tragic cases from occurring. and we will always be at the side of the americans. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> how is c-span funded? >> private donations? >> i don't really know. >> from public television? >> i don't know where the money comes from. >> federally? >> it comes donars. >> how is c-span funded? 30 years ago america's cable companies created cable. no government mandate, no government money. >> "washington journal" is next. that's followed by live coverage of president obama and other world leaders in normandy france commemorating the 65th anniversary of d-day. >> and coming up on "washington journal," reporter jared allen has written a book on detainee tear gations. -- ininterrogations. and

the allies extended a helping hand to us and to our neighbor, france. and also, the united states of america. we need to prevent further cases of tragedy occurring. we will always be at your side -- to the side of the americans. thank you very much. >> thank you. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2009] >> president obama's european trip continues saturday as he travels to paris and to normandy for a ceremony marking the sixty fifth anniversary of the d-day invasion. you can watch the ceremony beginning at 9:05 a.m. eastern time. coming up next, the joint economic committee examines the results of the latest unemployment report. new york times columnist david brooks talks about the administration -- the obama administration. then, the health and human services secretary testifies. the you're watching public affairs programming on c-span. >> coming up on tomorrow morning's "washington journal." jarrett allen of the hill paper has written about detainee interrogations'. and for the six

with in a way that provides a low-cost, reliable electricity, nuclear power is the proven way to do it. france produces 86% of their energy that would. we are helping india, china produced clean electricity that way. the president himself has said that iran has a right to make electricity from nuclear plants, so why should we not, and united states, pickup this technology that we ourselves invented? the only thing i would like to say is that i attended an exciting announcement a week ago by a major american supplier which plans to build 125 megawatts small reactors. this is by a company that has built most of the small reactors in the world. they are perfectly capable of doing it. that puts a whole new thrust to is. that means that these reactors, if everything works out as proposed, could be made in an american plant, shipped to an american site, and they would produce the amount of electricity that is needed and all the supplies and products would be made in the united states. that is a very exciting development. we are here as members of the republican conference to say we have our real cle

to that habit. and the joe camel advertising campaign was marketed in france to see if it really got kids to be loyal to that brand and in their board room they discussed how important it was to get kids to start smoking at 14 or 15 years of age. because then they would be loyal to that brand, let alone addicted to the product. we later found out how the tobacco industry spent millions and millions of dollars on a phony operation to say that they were studying whether the harm was there from cigarette smoking and what they did was manipulated the media, deceived the american people to argue the science wasn't really there to claim cigarettes was a problem. the science is still out. by the way, we hear this about global warming today. the science isn't -- even though the overwhelming consensus was there from reputable scientists, they tried to make people believe, n't wore -- worry about it. you can continue to smoke. it won't do you harm. and they tried successfully for decades to keep secret the fact that nonsmokers were harmed by simply being in the presence of smokers. i remember the power the tob