hear or see some other part of it and realized everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harkin welcome to the big picture.

right now, we are visiting with senator tom harkin.urs from fonda iowa. you know where that is. >> absolutely. >> this is john. hey, john. good morning. you are on with your senate, tom harkin. >> good morning, bill. good morning, senator. senator, i am so glad that you touched on the gay marriage thing. it's such a non-issue in fonda. i heard our governor on a different network. we can't say msnbc. >> not saying it, john. >> on a different network and saying that -- that he thought this was going to be such a hot-button issue, he thought right down i-35, that the people on the east were going to be, you know, such anti-high gay marriage and anti-thing. let's be honest senator. you and i know this is all because bob vanderplats needed a job and so they hired him, and they got him on there. they gave him a buzz. he went and ran and got those judges out so he set their hair on fire. you know where i live? i live in steve king's district. >> i am aware. i know where fonda is. >> it's such a non-issue here i don't see anybody saying anythi

hear or see some other part of it and realized everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harkin welcomes a big picture. welcome back to spotlight i'm now going to love and just to remind that my guest on the show today is going to be and up for that well we're talking about belarus about russia's relationship with bella rose let's take a look at what they were like during the last fifteen years here is this report now from spotlights you know there's him either. russia sought good relations with belarus almost immediately after the collapse of the soviet union in one thousand nine to one by the me one nine hundred ninety s. plans for integration included a single currency single citizenship and a common defense policy the first in the series of agreements create in the union between the two countries was signed in one thousand nine hundred six since that time russia's relations with belarus have grown closer than with any other former soviet republic the economic cooperation between the two countries has been considerable when belarus was hit hard by the credit crunch in two tho

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hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harkin welcome to the big picture. that's. during the construction of the motherland. and its upper parts were connected by an elevator fortunately it broke down this meant. would have to walk up and down two hundred steps to inspect its money. only the personnel looking after the monument. a year after the unveiling of the statue the issue of who is going to maintain this huge construction arose for the first time in the soviet union a team of mountain climbers was employed to look after the monument. it's a good one. on the trail. the red ropes descents. to safety risking their lives. check the condition of the motherland calls monument which deteriorated following the collapse of the soviet union nowadays specialists keep an eye on the joints regularly so that the limbs remain firm periodic especially coating is applied to the statue but the solution does not come cheap mountain climbers examine small mocks covering the statue in most cases they're just making a record there are more than

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hear or see some other part of it and realized everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harkin it was a big. imax geyser welcome back to the kaiser report in studio jerald still on tape you're all welcome to the kaiser report great big him max ok joe by the way this is the latest trends journal here it's dynamite as always every single edition has got a fantastic forecast again fantastic comments on what's happening in the world today and people are coming around to your way of thinking a lot of these issues that are gobbling up our civil space and our banking system let me ask you first about m.f. global i see john kors ita still not behind bars but he's bundling for obama raising funds your thoughts what a surprise it's the it's the syndicate that's all it is and nobody from the sin the kids' heads or have a role have you seen a head roll from since the crash of two thousand and eight all the banking crimes that have been committed why should corps on be any different did you see anybody from the merrill lynch mob go under. the goldman sachs gang oh no the five hundred fifty

hear sees some other part of it and realized everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harkin welcome to the big picture. early results of egypt's presidential election suggest the country's next leader will be either an islamist or a top official from the mubarak era the run off though between the muslim brotherhood mohamed morsi and former prime minister ahmed shafik will take place next month but cairo based activists in delhi is iata says many egyptians are already disillusioned with the ballot. there is a general sense of disappointment in the whole country people did not expect that especially knows that eve if you unities did not expect that egyptians will vote for no to evolution the two candidates that have been chosen for the runoff means that all of them belongs to is that evolution so there is a general sense of disappointment of course among the young people which imprisons a majority of the population but now everyone is asking to vote for much if he was involved in beating people in tahrir square the audience that evolution and he was a prime minister is that mu

you don't know i'm tom harkin welcomes a big which. we stop stories on our t.v. letting your moving back and russia's presidential saddle with all eyes now on his plans and policies all the latest wave of discontent with him retaking the top job . radical islamists a day carried out a deadly bombing in the syrian capital in response to the actions of government troops confirming fears that terror groups are fighting on the rebel side. as many as hundreds of thousands of protesters marching against austerity in spain as fresh political turmoil grips risa get ready to unravel a severely weakened euro zone. russian rescue teams join the search for answers in indonesia at the site of a super super jet crash that killed all forty five aboard. seven pm in moscow i matras are bring you today's top stories and a look back at the week's news a new president but a familiar face vladimir putin again sworn into office this week the culmination of russia's tumultuous election period but opposition activism at a historic high the focus is now on how putin will deal with the hu

hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harkin welcomes a big picture. mission . critique a should free store charges free. range month free. three stooges free. old free broadcast clothing videos for your media projects a free media don carty dot com. mascot or this is the kaiser report their end london celebrating other elected officials states there but let's talk about this guy. who's going to be out a big barge floating down the. the senate oh that sounds exactly yes well she is one of the longest serving monarchs technocrats. kleptocrats and we have the unelected j.p. morgan official of tony blair who's been in the news this week leveson inquiry press relations unhealthy says tony blair well the important part of this of course is that at one point during tony blair of j.p. morgan's testimony to the leveson inquiry protester had to be jacked it after getting into the court and calling mr blair or war criminal who had been paid off by j.p. morgan for the iraq war mr blair said on the record that there was no truth in the alle

hear or see some other part of it and realized everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harkin welcomes a big picture. here . but in the alone if out they'll get a real headline for that month. the problem with the mainstream media today is that they're completely disconnected from the viewers and what actually matters to those viewers and so that's why young people don't watch t.v. if they want news they go online and read it but we're trying to take those stories that people actually care about and transfer them back to t.v. .

top democrats kent conrad, chair of the senate budget committee, tom harkin, chair of pensions committeeff bingman chair of the energy resources committee have not talked to the president in months. you question the relationship between the two. it does not seem warm. we know the president met with leadership. but in terms of coordinating the message, that does not seem to be there. >> the most common thing i hear from democrats on the hill is how distant he seems. he doesn't reach out. how he basically has a chilly governing style. i think that's actually something we haven't talked a lot about in terms of the coming campaign. i think it will dim senses the ar door and enthusiasm that certain party leaders bring toward it, not in ways they necessarily intend. it's impossible to feel as passionate about someone who essentially ignores you as it does who reaches out to constantly. >> when he reaches out to you, gives you a to-do list. the president giving congress things he would like to see them get done. >> to a certain degree running against them has prevented him from enacting major p

tom harkin, in charge of the president's top priority on student loans, hasn't talked with the presidenths. jeff bingaman, go-to guy on gas prices, hasn't spoken with the president much since the previous congress. these are all democrats, senator. what's going on? >> well, you know, i met with the president a year and a half ago, and we talked about entitlement reform, and i offered to work with him. in fact, i told him it would help his re-election if he would work with republicans to save social security and save medicare from the trillions of dollars that they're in the hole, and we don't hear anything. i've sent him letter after letter saying i will work with you. i rode on air force one saying i will work with you, but i think they've given up. i think they've taken the year off, they're going to campaign, but nobody's going to do anything. meanwhile, we're borrowing $50,000 a second, it's unsustainable, and where is the president? out on the campaign trail. gregg: right. now, listen, a lot of people say congress is really to blame. in fact, let me quote from politico.com in today'

head of the dccc democratic congressional campaign committee and, also, our interview with senator tom harkinh interviews in studio both up as a free podcast at the billpressshow.com. talking about a big report from the census bureau this week saying we are now on our way to becoming a minority majority nation. by the way, i did find and now i can't find them again, but there are four states that have -- what the hell did i do with that? texas, new mexico, california. >> arizona. >> arizona and the district of columbia are the four states and the district of columbia march minority majority districts or areas. harriet is calling from jacksonville, florida. >> good morning, bill. >> what do you think about this? >> i have two points. first of all i think that no matter how much of a minority of color have become, they will never be treated as poorly as we of color have been treated. my only point is it's only the bigots who are afraid. i think decent people like yourself are not afraid. people are people. people with a brain understand that. >> well, i think it's also people maybe who don't ha

and so, wisely, senator jack reed and senator tom harkin and senator sherrod brown have put in legislationand president obama has been fully, fully supportive and he has talked about this at length on campuses throughout america and in other places throughout america -- and when they put it in, amazingly enough, most of our republican colleagues, places like club for growth and american enterprise institute, said, we're against it, let the students pay 6.8%. that was sort of the 21st century analog of mary antoinette saying, "let them eat cake." because these days, college is much more of a necessity than it ever used to be. even for jobs, you k

a conference committee works on the annual transportation bill, and senator tom harkin talks about studentloans. on "washington journal" tomorrow morning, we will be joined by republican representative jim seals camp, a member of the budget committee. new york times columnist paul krugman will take your questions about his book. also, ben austin will discuss his article on public housing. "washington journal" is live on c-span everyday at 7:00 a.m. eastern. this week, live from london. the ceremony and pageantry of the state opening of parliament. until recently, parliament's official opening was usually held towards the end of the year with changes to their election rules, it has now been moved to the spring. wednesday, queen elizabeth will formally outlined governments priorities for the upcoming year. live coverage starts at 5:30 a.m. eastern on c-span 2. >> housing and urban development secretary shaun donovan outlined in administrations plans to help homeowners refinance their mortgages. he testified before the senate banking housing and urban affairs committee hearing on the state of

in 2006, i worked with senator orrin hatch of utah and tom harken of -- tom harkin to pass the amendment which mandates reporting of adverse effects to the food and drug administration. stands to reason, if there's a drug for sale in the united states, dietary supplement in this case, causes a problem, shouldn't we know about it? if if it's causing a problem in a lot of different places, if the food and drug administration will discover it. since the law took effect in 2007, dietary flement splement add ver event reports submitted to the f.d.a. have increased sevenfold from 368 in 2007 to 2,473 in 2011. the f.d.a. is using these reports as part of a surveillance system to signal potential safety issues and in some cases take regulatory action. mandatory reporting of adverse events was an important step to protect consumer safety, but we wee need to do more to ensure the f.d.a. and consumers have the information they need. madam president, the sad reality of this amendment and this issue is that it takes a tragedy to catch our attention. someone has to be seriously hurt or worse before me

time, as senator harkin said, katie could only receive care through medicaid if she remained in the hospital, even though she was able to receive the care at home. iowa congressman tom tau k*e heard of katie's situation and realized it made no sense to keep a child in the hospital who could be at home with her family. better quality of life as well as saving the taxpayers' money. congressman tauke worked to convince the administration that the system should be changed to allow states to provide medicaid to children receiving care in their homes. ultimately president reagan took up katie's cause, intervening so that katie could receive treatment at home and still be covered under medicaid. this change in policy became known as the katie beckett waivers, and to date more than half a million disabled children have been able to receive care in their home with their families rather than being forced into hospitals and institutions. but katie's story doesn't end there. as katie grew up, as she battled to establish her own place in society as a young american with disabilities, she -- she realized she had an opportunity to serve others who face similar challenges. in her o