roosevelt's for a labor jobs title away harry truman had to say back in one nine hundred forty eight about the democrats' pro-labor policy is to say when all the democratic party is the people's party and the republican party is the party of special interests and it always has been and always will be. wages and salaries in this country. chris from twenty nine billion dollars in nineteen thirty three some more than one hundred twenty eight billion dollars and nineteen far to seven. that's labor. and labor never had but one friend in politics another the democratic party and frank monday rolls out. the total actually and thomas increased less than forty billion dollars in nineteen thirty three two hundred and three billion dollars and nineteen forty seven the greatest in all the history of the world. better pick up then spread to zero up people because it's the business of the democratic party that lead to people get up areas where they scott walker in wisconsin just flipped out right and in one hundred fifty six this is what the republican party's platform under the leadership of glid

and that truman didn't and donovan complained later on in truman heard about it and never forgot it.it turns out it was an old wives tale, didn't happen. trumans unit wasn't there that day. there was a supplying artillery cover but for some reason it got repeated and gets mentioned kind of tangentially and anthony k. brown's book but i want to all the records at the truman library all the world war i records to peace were truman was and where donovan was, and they were not together during that battle. the george strong, georgia d. strong who is head of the army g2, the intelligence section was one of donovan's most implacable enemies. he was known as george v because his kind of interest me. but he was a warrior scholar, very learned person but he was -- you despise donovan, and donovan hated george v, too. and i think that animosity build the minute the oss was formed. i don't know how much it was any world war i connection there. as far as colonel eddy, colonel andy who headed up donovan, a lot of his warfare, he was a world war i hero, got his leg shot off and had rows of ribbons.

truman's unit wasn't there that day. it wasn't supplying artillery cover but for some reason this got repeated and gets mentioned kind of tangentially and anthony cave brown's but i went throughout the records that they german library to peace where chairman was and where donovan was and they weren't together during that battle. george strong, george b. strong who was head of army g2 the intelligence section was one of donovan's most implacable enemies. he is known as george the fifth is he is an imperialist that he was actually warrior scholar. he absolutely despise donovan and fought him the whole time and donovan hated george the fifth too. i think that animosity built the minute the oss was born but i don't know how much there was any world war i connection. is far as colonel eddie, of course colonel eddie who headed up a lot of his covert action and warfare operations leading up to the torch invasion, he was a world war i hero who got his leg shot off and had rows of -- when he met george patton. at one point patton

how serious that was read now know that is in the truman diaries. on the other hand, there is a great chance for 1953 at the inauguration, eisenhower did not get out of the car to go to the white house and harry was very offended by that. it was not an easy relationship although the book says they reconciled years later quite a bit but it was fairly tense partly because truman later in the oral history alleged ike wanted to come back and mary his driver in europe and divorce mamie eisenhower and had written george marshall about that and truman had taken those letters from the state department and destroy those. one scholar i know thinks truman made that up. i am not qualified i am not an expert. i am sorry. >> i heard said docked had made a statement years later that nasser told him because we did not back our allies united states could not be trusted so they became allies with the soviets. is that true? >> i cannot dispute that. i know a lot about a little and a lot about what i talk to about. i could not dispute that. i think there is still work

as you said, truman went out lowest in the polls in american history up to that point, or maybe sincet he's now considered one of the great presidents. so many, many years later, you historians went back and said, "oh, he wasn't so bad after all." >> that's absolutely right. and so, you know, with historians, i always say what is the impact going to be? i don't know. ask me in 30 years. judge sk me in 40 years and then we'll really know what this movement means. >> lehrer: okay garks michael beschloss, thank you very much. >> pleasure. >> thanks gim. >> woodruff: still to come on the "newshour": u.s. pakistan relations after bin laden; budget talks aimed at cutting deficits; a new prison for a california town and an exhibit of vintage medical posters. but first, the other news of the day. here's hari sreenivasan. >> sreenivasan: iraq has suffered its second major bombing this week. at least 20 police officers were killed today at a police station in hillah, a mostly shi-ite city about 60 miles south of baghdad. the bomber rammed a car packed with explosives into a barrier, as police w

he calls dean acheson, secretary of state for truman, out of retirement.nd that shows he wants to protect his right flank. acheson was a hawk toward the soviet union, and the people running the desk for berlin, for germany also, by and large, were hawks. have to be tough, have to stand up to them. on the other side were people like arthur schlessinger, tommy thompson who really thought engagement was the only way to go. and you see this tension in kennedy. but the hawkish elements of domestic politics both for kruschev and for kennedy were dominant. and the reason for that was kennedy barely won, and he was more hawkish as a campaigner than richard nixon. and kruschev wanted to hold on to power. so even though their personal instincts would have been to get along, the domestic politics was pushing them to more of a confrontation. >> now, you point out at the very beginning president kennedy misinterpreted a speech that kruschev has made. could you tell us something about that, and then again whey do you think that kennedy chose that particular interpretati

he was the doctor to celebrities, to tennessee williams to truman capote.nd he was shooting him up with a mixture of enzymes and steroids and amphetamines, to keep him alert, to keep him from depression but if you look at the side effect of these things, the side effects are mood swings. the side effects are nervousness, anxiety. >> uh-huh. >> you know, he did show mood swings at the end of the summit. he did show nervousness and anxiety. these are national security consequences with these sorts of shots. we'll never know how it affected him but when you think about vienna, the 67-year-old soviet peasant might have been in healthier shape than the 43-year-old handsome american. >> yeah, and i should interject -- i mean, nowadays in the united states, we expect that we have the right to know as much as possible about the health and personal lives of our presidents. as you point out in the book, i mean, if people had realized that this was going on, i mean, there was so much that was completely hidden from the public eye and yet it had world, you know, histor

they did not go on the basis of truman's pledge, it put that in law. the un charter would be implemented by the u.s. participation act of 1945. it is that these agreements should be subject to the approval of congress by joint resolution. i have in my paper the background of what happened to woodrow and wilson, the league of nations, the got into fights over reservations having to do with war power. wilson knew there was nothing objectionable to the lodge, reservation on war. he got into a personal dispute. as the newspaper says, he strangled his own child. everybody in the un charter new white the united states did not join the league of nations. we want to make it very clear that congress only has the as we all know, five years later, truman goes to war, never comes to congress for authority. dean acheson, secretary of state, said that truman had done his "utmost to uphold the sanctity of the charter of the united nations and the rule law ." in fact, truman violated his own pledge that he had made five years earlier. i am sure some you remember what

can you even imagine mamie eisenhower or bess truman on a horse? is one of the reasons i can't imagine that is like my own grandmothers who were of that generation, i never saw my grandmothers wear trousers. they always wore tresses. so even just to see a first lady in riding clothes and to be as athletic -- and she was an excellent rider and e questions try yen -- to be up on horseback was certainly different. this horse, by the way, was given to her by the president of pakistan when she made a trip there in 962. she -- 1962. she made a semiofficial trip some of you might recall to pakistan and india in 962, and she was a huge hit there. she loved this horse, and many of the paragraphs you see of her during her time in the white house and out on her farm shah he rented and then built a farmhouse right at the end of the presidency in northern virginia. so oftentimes when you see her riding, she's riding this horse, the pack tanny president's gift to her. he was very grateful to her. she had thrown for him an amazing state dinner in the springtime a

there's a lot going on in the whole system and that was harry truman, you know, was one of the people who got us into this mess, and now we're in it in a much greater extent. >> we have calls for you, let's get to the public and involve them with this. a viewer watching from new york. you're on with sally pipes. go ahead, please. >> caller: yes, i just wanted to ask the question that you posed to her when she sat down initially which was what does she think is actually wrong with health care, what can she do to come up with that answer, not so much about the health care reform act is saying. >> well, as i said, we want affordable, accessible quality care and how do we get there? instead of increasing the role of government through subsidies, taxes, controls on insurance companies, we need to change the tax code that we talked about empowering doctors and patients. we need to get states to do medical malpractice reforms. the cost of defensive medicine in this country today is about $210 billion according to price waterhouse cooper. the president said, you know, doctors are, you know, d

back and talk about rewriting history republicans and try to write walsh the presidencies of harry truman and dwight eisenhower set the record straight and stealing to. organize conversations of the great minds i'm joined by an icon of television journalism his resume includes being a founding organizer of the peace corps a press secretary for president lyndon johnson decades of reporting for both print and television outlets the most famous project was bill moyers journal weekly television show that was one of the highest rated public affairs programs around public television in two thousand and seven to two thousand and ten as many as two million viewers tuned in to hear what he had to say every single week and his accomplishments have not gone unnoticed as a recipient of more than thirty emmy awards and nine peabody awards as well as a slew of other arms and this month he released his latest book bill moyers journal the conversation continues. you can when he has something to say listen that's why i am honored to be joined from new york tonight by none other than bill moyers bill welco

that was harry truman. you know, it was one the people that also got us into this mess. now, of course, we are in it in a much greater extent. >> host: we got calls. let's begin with the viewer in rochester, new york. >> caller: yes, i just wanted to ask a question that you posed to her when she sat down initially. which was what does she think is actually wrong with health care? what can she do? come up with that answer, not so much dispatch what the health care reform act is saying. >> guest: well, i mean, you know, as i said, we want affordable, accessible, quality care. how do we get there? instead of increasing the role of government on taxes and insurance companies, need to do a few things, such as changing the tax code that we talked about, empowering doctors and patients. we need to get stating to do medical malpractice reform, the cost of defensive medicine in this country today is about $210 billion according to price water housecooper. they said doctors are doing all of the tests because they want to line their pockets with money. that is not the case. they ar

harry truman did the singing. >> did you ever do this? president bush. president bush and you rent a piano? >> i don't think he would appreciate my singing. president bush and i would talk a huge amount about history. he was -- very avid reader of history. the image that was presented of him in america and around the world is quite different from his real-life where he read -- talk to you about history books, he read about european history. when i we brought him to down sting and had a dinner for him and we discuss who'd he would like to have invited, you might have thought he would have wanted some of the celebrities. he wanted a group of historians so he could talk to them about american and british history and enjoyed that evening. >> given events as they have been unfolding in the middle east in particular, do you think president bush's legacy will improve over time. obviously he was a very unpopular president. both in his own country and britain. >> there is a big decision that was made in 2001. and really we are seeing it played through with the de

leadership to enforce this well this is going to occurring since one nine hundred fifty when harry truman was the first president to run a large under cleared war and so people have sort of gotten used to it that's one problem the second problem is if you're congress man or woman you know you don't want to be tagged with responsibility for the success or failure of this if there's that is about as taking responsibility yes why do you think that what's what's your evidence that well because people want to take credit if it goes well the praise the president or if it goes well badly they can criticize him but if you have a vote on a declaration of war anything sort of authorization for that they have to go on record as either opposing it or supporting it and therefore you know they can get blamed by their constituents one way or the other so just like the president take responsibility and we'll you know we'll be kidded serves on the side and say he did a great job or he didn't do a good job yet and you know the constitution of course has always been important it is what this country was fou

he did at least go to congress is this a new precedent if it is i mean the precedent that harry truman's the war powers was an act was in fourth and it came after vietnam when they discussed it with lyndon johnson and nixon so yes clinton did that's exactly what happened but i think obama is in new territory since he's not going to get funding special funding approved like bill clinton did so he's well he's gone farther than the clinton and of course george bush for all his failings he did get congressional authorization for afghanistan and iraq and he was the champion of executive power but obama has really gone further in this case than bush ever went a couple things on that why is he getting a free pass they don't feel like we're seeing that much about it or criticism and what does this say about a president that campaigned on a not getting involved militarily when you were attacked and then u.s. wars and stalling the law i mean he had a sound bite that we played at the beginning of the show where he said that we will be ruled by law we will no longer violate the constitutional law th

kennedy brings dean acheson, secretary of state for harry truman, president truman, back into his administration partly to protect his hawkish flank because acheson is beloved by the hawks. and as a great man of history himself. so acheson does the initial review for berlin and for nato but kennedy is always on the fence. am i going to go down in history-- and he wanted to go down in history, he'd made clear he thought he could be a great president like abraham lincoln and franklin delano roosevelt. but he was afraid because they went down in history through war and in the 1960s that meant nuclear war. so don't u do you go down in history by making peace with the soviets or going to war with the soviets? and he tries to strad this will line until after 1961 through the cuban missile crisis it's not possible any longer. he has to stand up to kruschev. >> rose: kennedy and kruschev were... what was it that made kennedy feel like he'd been beaten up. >> it was a two day summit in vienna. if you rewind a bit it was the first year that television played such a role in politics. 1960 you had the first

he calls dean atchison, secretary of state for truman out of retirement. and that shows he wants to protect his right fang. atchison was a hof towards the soviet union. and the people running the desk for berlin and germany also were hawks. you have to be tough. and others were arthur schlesinger, avril harriman and tommy thompson who thought engagement was the only way to go. and you see this tension in kennedy but the hawkish elements of domestic politics both for khrushchev and for kennedy were dominant. and the reason kennedy barely won and he was more hawkish as a campaigner than nixon and khrushchev wanted to hold onto power. so even though their personal instincts would have been to get along and find some accommodation, the domestic politics was pushing them to more of a confrontation. >> host: you point out at the very beginning president kennedy in your view misinterpreted a speech khrushchev has made. >> guest: yeah, i mean, i think, angela, the most significant finding of this book, and this is after six years of research looking at documents,

how about bess truman? let's stop and think of those three immediate predecessors to jacqueline kennedy. those ladies, when they left office, were all in their 60s. jacqueline ken by was -- kennedy was 31 when she came to the white house to be first lady. there had not been young children in the white house since the teddy roosevelt era in the early 1900s, and they weren't as young as young caroline who was only 3 when her parents entered the white house, and john jr. had just been born between the election and the inauguration, the only time that's ever happened in the history of the first ladies. can you even imagine mamie eisenhower or bess truman on a horse? one of the reasons i can't imagine that is because like my own grandmothers who were of that generation, i never saw my grandmothers wear trousers. they always wore dresses. so even just to see a first lady in riding clothes and to be as athletic as -- and she was an excellent rider and e questions trend -- to be up on horseback in itself was differ

delegate to the united nations by president truman. is as terminal in the creation of this document from one of the most important of the 20th-century. universal declaration of human rights. we would not have that document if it would not have been for elena's genius. the other political players of the united nations. so, let me conclude by saying that i personally think it makes the case that eleanor's ability to turn the relative passive role of first lady into a vibrant one of activism stems, in part, from the close relationship she has with the people who are outside of the normal aristocratic circles of an upper-class woman. these people, there are others as well. the female newspaper reporters that she knew, women like ruby black. of course louis howe, who unfortunately died in 1936, they all help per transform a position she did not really want, a job of first lady, and make it into a position of importance in the american presidency. and in that spirit acting she inspires us all to see the possibilities within our own lives for

i wasn't an adams scholar, 0 or a truman scholar, or a brooklyn bridge scholar. if i knew all about it, i wouldn't want to write the book. because to me, the pull is the adventure of it, learning. i think about how much i am going to learn by taking on this subject. i want to be surprised. i want to make discoveries. not just some collection of letters in some place you would expect to find them. i want to make a discovery that makes you go oh, that is how it worked. that is the reward. >> the name of the book is "the greater journey: americans in paris." our guest has been david mccullough, and we thank you. >> thanks, brian. i love to have a conversation with you, and i might write another book just on the chance that i get to come back, and we can talk about it. >> it's a deal. >> for a d.v.d. copy of this program, call 1-877-662-7726. for free transcripts or give us your comments about this program, visit us at qanda.org. >> joins next week on "q & a" for part two of our conversation with david mccullough on his latest work, "the greater journey: americans in

the vice president you refer to win originally going on was harry truman. he had no idea about the nuclear weapon until he became president. the part -- person who told him was nanavar bush. >> host: why name it area 51? explain. >> guest: that is the subject of a great debate. even my named sources say that is just a squadron they came up with fred according to my source at the end, the reason it is named that because in 1951 the original equipment and remains of the crash came there. >> host: have you been called a conspiracy theorist? and that has been cast so why it also includes investigative reporters. do you get thrown and with those? >> guest: i will let you decide. but i have been accused definitely of being part of a government conspiracy to hide aliens because my theory does not push the idea that aliens visited earth. did get a letter from the a group in the u.k. furious with me last week when my book first published. they said even we don't believe you. [laughter] >> host: en the truth is still out there. why does area 51 not show up 10 the wik

. >> it was pad day you will be an important man in the church and a truman of the stig mat thea and christ. and jamie and i were talking before. the heart of the man is not just accomplishments, but true humility. i love it was mentioned several times he he prayed for hours every day, as if to say i can do nothing without god behind me. >> and pope benedict brought up the humility aspect of pope john paul ii, something he set an example on. how important is that to the work that he did, and the example he set? >> the look at a situation like this, you have literally millions of people who will make all sorts of requests, if you don't know who you really are as god's first you can get so easily lost. john paul ii never did. and one of the ways he showed his humility, everybody who met him said you became the most important to him when you're with him and recognize i'm going to deal with the god in you, jamie, and eric i'll talk to you next, and that's what is part of what made him a great man. >> the you prayed with him several times, what was it lining. >> in prayer, very intense, n

how about bess truman? let's stop and think of those three immediate predecessors to jacqueline kennedy. those ladies when they left office were all in their 60s. jacqueline kennedy was 31 when she came to the white house to be first lady. .. >> to see a first lady in riding clothes and to be as athletic as she, to be up on horse back in itself was just different certainly from again the three predecessors. this horse was named sadar given to her by the president of pakistan when she made a trip there in 1962, a semiofficial trip. some of you might recall to pakistan and india in 1961. she was a huge hit there. she loved this horse, and many of the photographs you see of her from that time on during her time in the white house and out on her farm that she rented, and then built a farmhouse right at the end of the presidency, so oftentimes when she's riding, she's riding this horse, the pakistani president's gift to her. she had thrown for him and amazing state dinner in the springtime and early summer of 19

he calls dean afterrenson, secretary of state of truman out of retirement.wants to protect the right flank. he was a hawk towards the soviet leader and the people running the desk were hawks, have to be tough and stand up to him. on the other side were author and the extent to the russian tommy thompson who thought engagement was the only way to go, and you see this tension in kennedy, but the hawkish elements of domestic politics, both were dominant, and the reason was kennedy barely won and was more hawkish in the campaign than richard nixon. even though their personal instincts would have been to get along and find some accommodation, the domestic politics was pushing them to more of a confrontation. >> host: you point out at the very beginning, president kennedy in your view misinterpreted a speech that kruschev made. tell us about that and why did he choose that interpretation of the speech? >> guest: yeah, i mean, i think, angela, the most significant finding of this book, and this is after six years of research looking at documents really thinking abo

truman. and barbara siskin isn't that interesting? i wouldn't know. i wasn't born been. so she had a good time with it, it really warmed up both of the bushes it george bush by the way walked to one side of the river and he showed a toy chest were all the kids kept their toys when they came to the white house. it was just very humanizing. when she became first lady, mrs. bush selected anna perez who had had a long history already working on capitol hill to be her press secretary, and she gave her this advice. she said to her, if i said it, i said it. which meant if i said something, do me a favor, don't interpret what i'm saying. i meant it. and if someone needs to interpret it, i will be the one to do it, but please don't do it for me. and that's an interesting approach to first lady press relations. you know, many first ladies have many people who will spend things -- spend things in the way they wanted them. mrs. bush felt very strong she is going to represent herself. there were no regular press conferences, but your press opportunities. mrs. bush got along well with

truman did the singing. >> did you ever do this when president bush and you ever around a piano? >> i don't think he would have appreciated my singing talents. but president bush and i used to talk a huge amount about history. he was a very avid reader of the history. the image presented of him in america and around the world was quite different from his real life, where he read -- he would that you can to you about history books. he had read american history, european history. and when we brought him to downing street and we had a dinner for him, we discussed who he would like to have invited. and you might have thought he would have wanted celebrities or something. he wanted a group of historians to talk to them about american and british history. and he enjoyed that evening. >> given events as they have been unfolding in the middle east in particular, do you think that president bush's legacy will improve over time? obviously, he was a very unpopular president both in his own country and here in britain. >> i think there was a big decision made in 2001, and really we're seeing

they did not go on the basis of truman's pledge, it put that in law. the un charter would be implemented by the u.s. participation act of 1945. it is that these agreements should be subject tthe approval of congress by join resolution. i have in my paper the background of what happened to woodrow and wilson, the league of nations, the got into fights over reservations having to do with war power. wilson knew there was nothing objectionable to the lodge, reservation on war. he got into a personal dispute. as the newspaper says, he strangled his own child. everybody in the un charter new ite the united states did not join the league of nations. we want to make it very clear that congress only has the as we all know, five years later, truman goes to war, never comes to congress for authority. dean acheson, secretary of state, said that truman had done his "utmost to uphold the sanctity of the charter of the united nations and the rule law ." in fact, truman violated his own pledge that he had made five years earlier. i am sure some you rememberhat he was

leaving mary's things are not local favorite packing by disposing of eric paul and straight since harry truman evil to put up much resistance against the fourth seed scored losing in straight sets murray clearly a class above him or the six will see a chance to victory for your old man places italian looking loser on the bully. three more russians involved in first run are actually on tuesday will be leaving paris early after losing to germany's foreign myron for science to me treetops all of us from belgium. he took it to the limits of eligible long. losing five. movie on the whole ball in a volcanic eruption in iceland could him also in his primes trip to london for the champions league final with manchester united on may twenty eighth when the catalans are considering trying to enter the u.k. later that day instead of thursday as was originally planned head coach what they always say is he's ready to change the schedule to avoid serious weather delays. will be a rematch of the two thousand and nine decider in rome the boss wants to know whether the same man in charge. you sleep in today wit

caller: no, i said truman. host: truman. caller: the united states.try right there on land they got from the palestinians. host: do you think the israelis have a right to have a country there alongside a palestinian state? caller: well, they are there. and if they are going to stay there, they are going to have to be more responsive than what they have been. i don't know that netanyahu really wants peace. it stirs it up more. it's kind of like we do. we in america, we believe in a chance and all that kind of stuff, and i glue up, i was born in 1933 and went through everything after that. and the united states government has controlled us through being afraid the russians were coming. host: that's a little bit off topic, new orleans. we'll stay with the issue here on the middle east. to sylvia in california. as we wait to hear from prime minister netanyahu and speaker boehner up here in the speaker's balcony. that's the setup here. go ahead, sylvia. caller: thank you for having me. i think that his speech was dynamic. he expressed himself very strong a

and go boils over and falls on its president truman did that make groups on both fronts in the un resolution with branches in libya. women's all floridians are accused of turning a blind eye to russia in their criminality all four chords clear the terroristic of swaddling chechens if their country. for safety is off the cuff so long before she went nuclear reactors. all criticized for letting evacuees the barricades the radiation the day. and the closing bell both the russian markets in a slightly down as it can drive up oil continues its decline and join us for business in around twenty minutes time. this is a line from it with me on this have is now. being shown a victory day hijacked by nationalists in ukraine with nazi salutes their type of veterans who fought to free them from invasion sixty six years ago. reports on how it's just one possible paul writes. holiday for millions escalated brawl for some unlike most of the post soviet region on may the ninth of this ukrainian city became a vicious display of new analysis and. several thousand activists from radical nationalist parties book

anybody since the korean war and the all the responding to the repeated attacks from the so that every truman only and solar cycle in north korea and it research. is not out of character. or interest nobody north korea threatens nobody both countries while he always relations with america in the last aggregate of what about russia hasn't invaded the country since afghanistan that has proved it's been no threat whatsoever so why is this as suspicion this feeling of suspicion still in the united states can explain why that is then as you claim. well i don't think there's any fear the fears are real america in fear spears threats to pursue the imperial policy in america literally as a permanent war. based on war if one a war is not a war and you know it's hard to imagine america was a war with russia to be there would be insane for me to do. to encroach in world war you a little bit and things. will look at the way a world war one b. and we're going to get saxony and they're going from one contributing at all to look pretty soon the world was a war when you start doing dangerous things and peopl

for goes to the political culture because this is not a novelty with president obama we had harry truman his early is the korean war who insisted that the war was a police action and he did not obtain any congressional authorization for war that ended up killing over thirty thousand americans in a car greater number who were injured we had president clinton who then began a war over bosnia serbia he went to congress tried to get an authorization couldn't get a new he said well i just won't call it war so this is a longstanding problem so if you're trying to assign culpability truly the american culture that is embrace this psychology of empire the united states is exceptional meaning it doesn't have to comply with any laws in any international regime of legality that all other countries must comply with and i think even the into. the auctioneer vastly understated the egregiousness of the violations president obama said when he was on campaign that if a president initiated war without congressional authorization it was flouting the constitution and his running mate joe biden said it wasn'

pakistan and the united states for answers on these questions jordan thomas joins me now he's the truman national security project fellow and professor at american university's school of international service and author of the book terrorism and national security reform jordan welcome thanks for having me on the show dr tara who we all heard him call the above was pakistan hiding bin laden. it looks that way at least to the extent that some people in pakistan knew that he was there probably it's too early to know that for sure and i can't make a definitive conclusion on that point but. this has been. a very troubling issue for the u.s. for years the role of pakistan in supporting the taliban and possibly having ties with al qaida it looks like and it's very troubling if they were if some members of the pakistani military were knowingly hiding from police shaikh mohammad the guy who planned not all of them previously worked for i.s.i. the pakistani intelligence service as i wired i mean this is all the stuff it's in the nine eleven commission report it's not like this is conspiracy stuff.

half of their members twenty six out of fifty two getting the boot the midterms you know what harry truman said holds true when voters have a choice between a republican or democrat who acts like a republican to choose the republican every time so it's time to put to rest this idea that acting like a republican wins elections for democrats it doesn't it's time to fire all of blue dog political consultants right. exactly turns out that most of the blue dogs weren't playing politics at all when they were acting like republicans they were simply training for their next job after congress their next job as a corporate lobbyist nearly a third of the blue dogs who were kicked out of office last year walked right through that door on capitol hill and got a lobbying gig on k. street. stephanie herseth sandlin from south dakota the chair of the blue dog caucus took a job with a lobbying firm olson frank we determined bowed matts that's according to its website lobbies on behalf of drug health care and energy companies not so coincidentally as a congresswoman stephanie herseth sandlin voted against

in fact, truman violated his own pledge that he had made five years earlier. i am sure some you remember what he was asked. i think you know what he said. he said he would call it a police action. secretary of state madeleine albright was asked by a student, how can the president go to war against iraq without authorization from congress? she said you have to understand the terms. this is not war. it is military operations. they all make it very clear that for some reason, war they know is congressional, and they will call it anything other, humanitarian intervention. it was released on april 1. you can delay it by a day or two. i don't know why you have to go out on april fools' day with a legal analysis. one of the things i have not seen by any legal analysis yet that obama was justified in using military force against libya, because after the security council passed the resolution and libya did not comply with this in full, then obama had to use military force against libya because otherwise, the credibility and reputation of the security council would be d

the united states is a tremendous help and gives tremendous strength to my country, and since harry trumanas looked to american presidents to stand by as we meet the unfolding challenges of a changing world. yesterday president obama spoke about his ironclad commitment to israel's security. he rightly said that our security cooperation is unprecedented. he spoke of that commitment in front of apec, he spoke about it to speeches heard throughout the arab world and he has backed those words with deeds. i know these are tough economic times so i want to thank the president and congress for providing israel with vital assistance so that israel can defend itself by itself. [applause] i want to thank you all for supporting the missile defense system. [applause] a few weeks ago there was in gaza fired eight rockets at our cities. now, these rockets never reached their targets. iron dome intercepted them in mid air. [applause] for the first time, a missile defense system worked in combat. that's a precedent in military history, and i want to say thank you america. america and israel are cooperatin