if you're going to go through the un in the hope of getting an agree un position, by definition, the issue of legality would fall away. >> and that is what we did? >> if you look at conditions now, so called conditions, we failed miserably on one, trying to track down the arab-israel dispute. things almost wanted to reverse rather than going forward. -- went into reverse rather than going forward. do you want me to take each condition one by one? >> did they agree to publish the root? -- roughte -- route? >> let's be frank about it. the american statement of the fourth of april in which, at the time when the israeli defense force was in towns creating damage and casualties, the americans called for israel's early withdrawal. that made life infinitely easier for tony blair when he came to crawford and had to do a joint press conference with the president. i think it could have revealed a rather large split between blair and bush. that was the high point of british influence. no sooner had the statement, demanding the early withdrawal of idea forces from west bank, that a major politic

win but majority was un-young, un-black, un-poor. how badly? we know but just bear with me on two statistics. democrats won 50% of the vote to only twice since 1970. that was jimmy carter 1976 and obama's 2008. not clinton, truman, not jfk and if you go back further on the fdr, lbj, carter and obama exceeded the 50% mark. i think they're real majority the un-young, un-black, un-poor majority worked well for the republican party. it worked well because democrats succeeded. think of that for a moment. the new deal was geared to a nation that was 1/3 ill clad or ill housed or ill nourished. there was work to do and that was successful. by 1980 we had a relatively prosperous middle-class suburban country that was not worried about what government ought to be doing for them, but saw themselves as the proprietors of government that taxed too much thomas been too much and put on the green eye shades of government. of course, ronald reagan is such a good example of that journey from the new deal democrat as he was to expounding a reagan revolution park

moynihan expressed the design of racism is a resolution in the un, really passionate and tough. this is unbalanced, too one-sided, it will not help the peace process. instead of saying this is a moral and political outrage of the first water, more gingerly and dissenting from it. >> would have liked to seen it stronger? >> absolutely. i would have liked to see, yes, something comparable to the response that moynihan who is in our ambassador to the un made to fundamental to america's success historically, when america's success when came to me to have been built on constructive criticism, revisionism and mercilessly systematic reform and adaptation. how does resisting change translate into success for a country that has been built on constant reform? [applause] >> well, some changes are good and some changes are bad. it's not self-evident that change is necessarily good. [applause] >> the conservative view, despite what liberals like to believe, is not even philosophically opposed to reform, or adaptation. on the contrary. the patron saint as you might say of conservatism, burke,

they call medicare unpatriotic and un-american. they were wrong again. they said it would mean the rationing of health care. they were wrong. they made the same arguments they have been making for 74 years, and they are still wrong. in 1965, the champion of my conservative friends, ronald reagan, issued a 19-minute long, l.p. -- for those of us who still remember that, a long-playing vinyl recording at the time. it's passed on. they're like antiques now. it was entitled "ronald reagan speaks out against socialized medicine." it featured an impassioned 2,000-word speech intended to get people to write to their congressman against the idea of medicare that was beginning to make its way through the congress. that was 1965. it was referred to as operation coffee cup, something of a precursor to today's tea parties. in his recorded message against medicare, ronald reagan said -- quote -- "one of the traditional methods of imposing socialism on people has been by way of medicine. sound familiar? sound familiar in the year 2009, in the debates we've heard here

if you're going to go through the un in the hope of getting an agree un position, by definition, thet conditions now, so called conditions, we failed miserably on one, trying to track down the arab-israel dispute. things almost wanted to reverse rather than going forward. -- went into reverse rather than going forward. do you want me to take each condition one by one? >> did they agree to publish the root? -- roughte -- route? >> let's be frank about it. the american statement of the fourth of april in which, at the time when the israeli defense force was in towns creating damage and casualties, the americans called for israel's early withdrawal. that made life infinitely easier for tony blair when he came to crawford and had to do a joint press conference with the president. i think it could have revealed a rather large split between blair and bush. that was the high point of british influence. no sooner had the statement, demanding the early withdrawal of idea forces from west bank, that a major political operation was launched to reverse the nature of the call. colin powell had be

the un climate panel showed us what that would be, they call that scenario b. let's assume we go down that path. at the past were we looking at much less carbon dioxide. it will give much less global warming, much less see rise. but of course it's also a center where we'll will be less richer in the future. we will still be much richer but instead of $73000 per person and 2100, we will only on average have about $50000. that's still a great number. it's not like we're going to be poor house or anything. let's try to take a look at what that would actually mean. we would live the future, yes, with slightly less richness that would also leave with slightly less see rise. yes, with lower emissions we would see the lowest sea level rise. the curious outcome is at least for the multis. and some of these other countries, they would action in the lose very those other because it pays so well to protect much of their driving. by the curious point is even in our goodwill of trying to help by choosing as an arrow will get less richer also have less emissions and therefor

briefing telegram that in principle, the british american science agreed that we should exhaust the uns. what the americans to understand by exhausting resources and what we understand may prove not to be the same. there is a very great risk that this will lead to the complete fractureing of the security council, which i say is what happened. there was a very brief hope, and some disappointment, that after 1441, war might be avoided because the pressure on saddam was extreme. he faced the security council. the unity was more apparent than real. there were all kinds of differences on national interest. then came saddam's weapons declaration the set -- and delivered on december the seventh. including the state department, it was, that is it. he is bullshitting us. this is it. a few weeks later, bush gives his state of the union speech. for me, it was quite clearly a summons to war. america, the chosen people, all that stuff that is very common in america, alien to europeans, there is no way that the president can wind back from this and last, after some of that, he is removed -- saddam h

the un should throw the red flag and call it time out. if it takes a year or two to get to the bottom of the climate gate scandal, so be it. they relied on these scientists justifiably in my opinion. it is time for us to get real scientific information which has been fairly and vigorously peer reviewed rather than have the united nations and its scientific agencies end up being a huge propaganda organ for a preconceived notion. >> i am a warmer, fuzzier texas version of sensenbrenner. yesterday i bought a new car -- a new used car. if the climate change bill passed the house with a lot in the year 2015 i would have gone out and bought a new 560. and i hopped on a plane to fly to washington d.c. last night. if we fast-forward to 2015 we have this 85% reduction, i would not have been able to get on the airplane because it uses fossil fuels and we wouldn't be allowed to burn fossil fuels. i would have gotten on an all electric train. i guess powered by electricity generated by wind or nuclear power and it would have taken me three or four da

south dakota senator john une. >> this is not over yet. they may have 60 ves today, but it a long ways from the finish line. and the american peoplare going to he the opportunity to weigh in when ery one of our senators goes home ovethe holidays andears directly from them. >> reporr: at the white house this aftnoon, president obama said he's delaying his plaed holiday in hawaii, as he aits nate action. >> i will not leavuntil my friends in the senate have mpleted their work. my attitude is if they're king thessacrifices to provide healthare to all americans, the least i can do is pride enuragement and last minute help in the meantime, democrs >>eporter: in the meantime, democrats defended the dealmang they had to use to coral the 60 voteshey needed, for passage, the chaman of the health committ iowa senator m harkin said: "the principl of this bill oveides everything." >> sreenivan: tomorrow night on the newshour jilehrer will have an ierview. republicans have picd up another voten the u.s. house. freshman democrat parker griffith of alaba

here as well as mality and all ese other things we've been talking about >> for the president of e unedates, there is always politicst work, that's what it means to be the prident. so of courseou're right. and that onlcontributes to the kind of intellectual incerence of the speech. the estion, i think, which the verend forbes brought out is e we actually going to see a practical result from this? for politics it's the sciee of the praccal. is can be incoherent at some high lev, if a high level at which th speech was pitched. is iactually going to issue in a practical reading of that needle of finding those o sides and finding a y between them? i'm t sure. and i don't ink so. i think the speech actlly promis concrete action which is going to be incohert as reflective of the inciples, e incoherent principles expressed in the sech. >> lehrer: do yoagree with that, reverendorbes? incoherent action is pbably ing to follow an incoherent speech? >>ell, my thinking is that with respect to president ama, he's the guyho knows how to tack his way. so hs headed, i believe, towards a re just and dem

it is par un cspan's american icons collection, a three-disc set. it is one of many items available at c-span.org/store. >> tonight, expending broadbent to a underserved areas of the country. -- expanding broadbent 282 underserved areas of the country. >> this thursday, a day of tribute to the u.s. and world leaders including the dali lama, ted kennedy, ronald reagan, walter cronkite, colin powell, and robert byrd. new year's day, a look at what is ahead for the new year. russian prime minister vladimir putin discusses his future from his annual call-in program. austan goolsbee on the global economy. the creator of the segue and a founder of "a guitar hero." plus, the art of political cartooning. about one in every 110 children have autism. that according to the latest estimate from the centers for disease control and prevention. the study was based on medical and school records of nearly 2800 children throughout the the national institute of mental health testified over the summer. other witnesses include the parents of autistic children. this is a

and in many ways un-american. this was brought home to me early in my first term in congress.i a family nursery in texas, three nurseries, the parents had created it and built it up, two to three kids were working in it and they sat down with pen and paper and they showed me the value of their nursery. talked about the death tax. and worked it through and bottom line was that if they could take out enough insurance on their parents' deaths and because they are out of debt f. they could go back to the bank and borrow enough money, they might be able to pay their death tax bill. think of what they are saying. if we can make enough money off our parents' death and we can borrow enough money, the government might let us keep our family business. the government might let us keep our family business. that's why the death tax is wrong and that's why it is in many cases if not all simply un-american. today we have a bill that is the result of hard work by my friend from north dakota, mr. pomeroy. but i object because i believe we can do better. some say that this -- tend of the day if

and they will be led by the secretary generals of the un and nato.greed with president karzai that this conference will deliver a new compact between afghanistan and the international community based on priorities that he has outlined. first, security, we expect nations to announce troop deployment building on the total of 140,000 troops promised in 2010. and i hope the london conference will also be able to set out the next stage in a longer-term plan, the balance between alliance forces and afghan forces changing as their armed forces rise from 90000 afghan army and defense forces, to 135,000 next year, possibly 175,000 later. and of course, on the future numbers, also of the police intelligence services and local security initiatives in afghanistan. secondly, in london nato and isaf partners must set out a program for the transfer of lead responsibly from coalition to afghan forces and agreed a set of conditions and criteria to astonish the eligibility of provinces and districts for transfer. and i hope we can agree in london that the process begi

and they will be led by the secretary generals of the un and nato. i agreed with president karzai that this conference will deliver a new compact between afghanistan and the international community based on priorities that he has outlined. first, security, we expect nations to announce troop deployment building on the total of 140,000 troops promised in 2010. and i hope the london conference will also be able to set out the next stage in a longer-term plan, the balance between alliance forces and afghan forces changing as their armed forces rise from 90000 afghan army and defense forces, to 135,000 next year, possibly 175,000 later. and of course, on the future numbers, also of the police intelligence services and local security initiatives in afghanistan. secondly, in london nato and isaf partners must set out a program for the transfer of lead responsibly from coalition to afghan forces and agreed a set of conditions and criteria to astonish the eligibility of provinces and districts for transfer. and i hope we can agree in london that the process

this morning he met the un secretary-general; this afternoon he will address the assembly. endorse what the right honorable about these fallen soldiers and our thoughts will be very much with their families. but may i turn to the home front and other families who will be desperately worried that their own loved ones might not be home for christmas because of the cabin crew british airways strike. whilst it's been good news this morning that british airways now be talking. can i have an assurance with the deputy prime minister that she will use her considerable influence with the trade unions to ensure this damaging strike is called off as soon as possible? >> i think both the prime minister and the transport secretary has said that they, like i'm sure everyone in the whole house, will want to see there not be a strike taking place. this is important not just for those who have got travel plans over christmas to go abroad to see their families or to have their families joining them he. it's also important for the long-term future of b.a. and i hope when the talks take place

i just came back yesterday afternoon after attending the un chn copenhagen. saturday morning in copenhagen, in fact, i had a press conference, in copenhagen. today i am pleased to answer some questions you may have. last time i did not have much time to answer questions. i have also a council briefing at 10:00 on very important african issues. the conference was a success. among the conference citizens, the copenhagen court marks a significant step for. it commits countries -- to 2 degrees celsius. it also says that they will examine the agreement in 2015. i understand that the ipcc will try tomç release the fifth assessment report in 2014. w3the accord includes mediation targets by developing countries( and midterm mediation actions by developing countries. again, this is an advance. third, countries have agreed on the importance of acting to reduce the emissions from deforestation and forest degradation. this means that we have finally brought the source ofçó nearly 5 of global emissions into the emerging climate regime. çt(the court agrees to provide com

there will be led by the secretary general of the un. i agree with president karzai that this will deliver a new compact based on priorities that he has outlined. first, security, we expect nations to announce troop deployments building on a total of 140,000 troops promised in 2010. i hope the london conference will be able to the set up the forces that are changing as armed forces rise from 90,000 afghan army defense forces to 135,000 next year and possibly 175,000 later. secondly, in london, nato partners will set up a program for the transfer of leading responsibility and an agreed set of conditions to establish the eligibility of provinces and districts. i hope that we can agree that the program began. london must commit financial backing for afghan lead result. london must provide comprehensive support to the afghan economy to offer them a greater stake in the future of their country. this includes providing afghans with alternatives to poppy in the insurgency. reaffirming the role of the women and announce and stronger civil court

talking people who go to these un events domino prost global regulation will come out of it and they will even propose global coordination but to dance your specific question what would curbing emissions do? it would break apart the coalition for greenhouse gases because some businesses like caterpillar which manufactures in the u.s., we already have the environmental regulations if you put current regulations on top and also on china, then all of a sudden, you can make the field more between u.s. manufacturers and car manufacturers but then with mickey and alcoa, they just want domestic. then you see the manufacturers as support a cap-and-trade but we did assuming we would lobby china and india to restrain their e missions. but the growing countries, imagine if you were dirt-poor four years while western europe his burning coal, getting rich and building skyscrapers parker is just 32 trickle and then the u.n. says and by the way that cheap energy? you cannot do that it a more. you will not stand for that if you are the third world. i think if we will get anything, the rich countries

this is the a1gp scenario for the un climate panel. there's a range and again, i'm one of the points i tried to make the range in the lower end, lower than what we are seeing here than we expect us to do less if it's going to be high, then we should do more. but it's still in the range of that topic and that's why i'm going because it gives a much better and easy way to have a conversation about what we should do. the total cost of global warming is not trivial. it's estimated around 15 -- sorry, $16 trillion. that's a huge amount of money. let's make sure we get this right. on the other hand, we also need to get a sense of proportion. this is by no means the all the fine issue of the 21st century. the 21st century does not work is about $3 quadrillion. so global warming is about half a percentage point of the problem of climate change. it's a problem but it is not the end of the world. we will get back to that. so what i think we need to do is say yes this is happening. it is a serious problem. it is one of the problems will have in t

the united states is now paying its bills to the un.committees, and exceeding important conventions. international standards are again respected. torture is forbidden. the president is doing what he can to close guantÁnamo. human rights and international law are guiding principles. this is why this years laureate has earned the praise of leaders and international institutions, new opportunity has been created. your majesties, mr. president, your royal highnesses, ladies and gentlemen, the world free from nuclear weapons, and arms control negotiations, under obama's leadership, the united nations security council gave its unanimous support to the reason of the world without nuclear weapons. the new administration has reconsidered the deployment and eastern europe or the planned antimissile defense, and is instead looking at other unilateral options to secure the region. this has contributed to an improved atmosphere in the negotiations of strategic nuclear weapons between the united states and the russian federation. a new agreement betw

and un agrees that one of the keys to successful counterinsurgency is a dense population of troops to protect the civilian population. the figures to tell a final store that soon there will be 20000 u.s. forces responsible for some 30 percent of the population. under 10000 british troops responsible for some 70%. let me just ask them to begin. how quickly does he think is vital issue can be sorted out to have an effective counterinsurgency throughout southern afghanistan? >> thank you, mr. speaker i am grateful you raises these questions. we are part of the coalition that these decisions are made as part of the coalition to these decisions are made in him and with the americans and the other forces were there. yes, you decide to to thicken in certain areas at just the americas have laid the priority for the next few months and years on training afghan forces. that is what we are also going to do. i would say to him, we have an afghan army of about 90000 of you will go up over the next year to about 135,000. it will have to go higher than that for afghanistan to be able to sustain its

had decided not to request un authority because the bush a administration had made a decision that they did not want to a knowledge the right of the united nations to make decisions, and as a result, the resolution was passed with great fervor and unanimously. every member of the security council stood and cast votes, they did not just raise their hands. what they asked for was a level of international corp. going after the money, police cooperation, but it did not authorize the use of force and was not taken under the terms of a chapter 7 of the charter, if required if you are going to have a war. host: seek moving forward to present day, the british are currently conducting an iraq war in korea, and are expecting to hear from tony blair and others. what do you hope to learn from that? >> i think the british decision is very important, to go forward. it is something we need to do in this country, and the efforts of president obama describing it to look forward has been translated into not taking seriously the accountability of the violations of u.s., domestic, and international law tha

when the disaster happened in 1986, there was an international fund under un name -- u.n. auspices to help relocate the 200,000 people in the chernobyl region who are displaced for health reasons and had to be read located three kuwait was a major contributor to that fund, and the fund managers delegated kuwait to the minister -- to administer it. kuwait has been in to the nuclear issue since then. and research to the kuwait institute for science and the kuwait university and elsewhere, they have come up with the equivalent of double hulled vessels. after the spells of the exxon valdez, the notion that if holes of great oil tankers can have double hulls, the first when can take the blow of an accidental iceberg or a mine, but the ship would sit right because it had a second hole. their view on this is that that is worth looking at, if you are concerned about the contagion and the radiation possible effects from the chernobyl-like disaster. i have sat with the meetings where they have discussed this, and the kuwaitis are the most alarmed at those meetings because there have

technically there were voted off in manhattan when they lost their seats on the security council. 1971 the un and other political powers decided to recognize beijing instead of tie one as the capital of china and then they lost their seats on the security council that led the government to conclude that the americans will be abandoning us, we better have nuclear weapons to do with a huge chinese model with on the of me man so taiwan embarked on a serious nuclear weapons program and they had very good scientific staff and a lot of money. and then have 250 pounds of plutonium but at the end of the cold war is the active u.s. involvement they leaned on the tide one-- to convince them it is not a good idea. it does not do any good that is why all of these relationships that is what convince them to quit. we bought the plutonium is now in the u.s. energy stocks and it sees being the embryonic nuclear power. the other place is south africa they've had nuclear weapons and the south african nuclear program started interestingly enough in this plan because e and 1974, the portuguese dictatorships the

it is not un controversy. -- the issue is not without controversy.h of it that gorbachev picks up on it. in a conversation with baker, he is trying to come up with structures for post-cold war era. -- for post-cold war europe. he said they could have an e-7 with the security council. baker said it would not work. gorbachev asked about pushing russia in nato. baker said that was in the realm of fantasy and let's get in the realm of reality. it does come up. it is never taken seriously in the west. baker later says in public that if russia embraces democracy and free markets, we should include it. what comes out in the book on nato expansion is that i concede two of cases for nato expansion but they lead to two different and points. -- two different endpoints. nato helps new democracies. it provides them with security. i find that to be justified. there are calls for people for that to happen. it should have gone further. you could say that nato is a military alliance. in that case, it is expanded. you will take on eastern europe and have new liabiliti

themselves so their rhetoric and a shield they throw up, calling people out of touch, calling people un-americanle different. the american people are not different. they are unique in that they are a cross-section of many attitudes and many experiences and all they are looking for in their leadership is to appreciate that their neighborhood is different than another. the want to go create something that allows both of us to achieve what we want. it is give-and-take. the arrogance of unbridled power that has us at the press economy. our situation is simple, as a party. we cannot force the democrats to listen to the american people but we can certainly help the american people lived there voice of. up to be heard by those in washington. i am announcing today this launch of lake national "listen to me" effort. we want washington to do something different for once and that is listen to the american people. we will be deploying staff to six states to help lift the people's voices in north dakota, nebraska, virginia, arkansas, louisiana, and connecticut. we are focusing on senators who have not made i

indiscriminate, but it is also demonstrated to strike with great discrimination against targets like the un headquarters in baghdad and one month ago against the deputy minister of the interior in saudi arabia. we see its reach in the united states today both direct and indirect. the afghan american arrested by the fbi in the colorado demonstrated the direct connection. what happened in fort hood it demonstrated the indirect connection of the narrative and ideology of the global islamic jihad. today the only sustained, significant pressure on the core of qaeda comes from between 30,000-60,000 feet in the air from the grounds of predators and reapers. -- from the drones. the have proven highly successful against a limited range of targets in a limited geography. and have to some extent, and it is hard to know if you are not a member of al qaeda, disrupted. they are a tactic and not a strategy. it is like attacking one bee at a time. it is ironic. eight years after torah borrow, osama bin lawton is the voice we hear -- eight years after tora bora, bin laden is the voice we hear. he could be i

i think that with the prefix "un" in front of limited. that has a lot of meetings here, doesn't it? we don't want to give any more sovereignty, our personal liberty, our personal sovereignty, over to this federal government. i drink they have enough. ny more sovereignty. see any more sovereignty to the u.n.. [cheering] we want to get back to what the other founders gave us in the first place. that is a gift. it is a gift that as we saw some years ago and mother from cuba to occur little five-year-old son, get on a little boat, get on and enter to, rated 90 miles of shore infested water for the privilege of coming to this great free country. we know what we have is precious, don't we? its precious. 233 years ago it was purchased for us so that we could stand here today and hold up don't tread on me flags. that's our gift. [cheers and applause] that's our gift, freedom is our gift. but it's a gift that is sent free. and as we are coming to this wonderful time of the holiday season, whether you are celebrating the gift of flights with, cut or whether you're celebrating merry christmas,

. >> did that officer understand that it could be un-rejected on the web?>> that is part of what we will learn in the right to review, which software, which version, and what version was on the various computers that actually touched this document. >> so, we do not know. >> i do not know yet. >> i would take it that you talked to the chief information officer? >> yes, and they're looking at all the versions of the software tsa computers and they are going through that inventory now with the goal being that we will ultimately have the same software on all computers and everybody will be properly trained to that software pa. >> is there a software presently being used by tsa that cannot be rejected? >> yes, sir, there is. >> have we made that software available to everyone who is doing postings on the web for tsa? >> yes, sir, we have, and we're going back and making sure that everyone who is using this offer is properly trained and nose, again, how to properly use that software. had this software been properly used, it would have worked on this document. we

have described a world to pick up for yourself which sounds like picking up where you left off in the unexcept in very different circumstances. that was working closely with the political leaders that you found iran to who may or may have not agreed with what the uk or the americans doing but five -- tried to find a negotiated with through. was this a particular application of the skills you brought to baghdad? >> you tend to use the skills you have home over the years instead of inventing new ones. working with a superpower that likes to do things its own way and with the tough decisions being taken by a closed circuit of americans and working with reality, those two things, the brits probably work as well with the americans as anybody does in an international situation. the americans were extremely generous to us in terms of integrating us into the system in the cpa. i was in an office within ambassador bremer's area of the republican palace. his office was at one end of a complex and our joint private office, which you might call a third room, was between us and i was in sitcoms the d

and she -- she considered it a slap in the face when the timing is government was recognized by the un, and when nixon went over. did you have a question in the back there? i guess not. >> what about the family now in the u.s., what are they up to? >> i don't really know. i met one young woman who runs some wonderful chinese restaurant in new york. i don't really know. of course, she never had children. and i've only met one or two of his relatives. >> i'm not sure if you said during your talk emma did you go to china while you are writing the book? >> yes. >> and so did you have the opportunity to speak with just common people to get their vie views? >> i don't speak chinese. >> i meant with interpreters. >> no, i went over as a normal tourist, and in order to get into certain places that i wanted to see, i pretended that i was really crazy about the communist sister. >> i am just curious. i lived in china for two years, and even close friends that i have there, i could never get them to talk to me about the people you are talking about, about anyone on any level, other than -- eight

try and keep it to 10 minutes, and we will restart about five un after a love and -- at 5 after 11.[captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2009] >> coming up, the next several hours will look at climate change. first, and update on the fact of greenhouse gas submissions. following that, the opening of the u.n. climate change conference in denmark. >> the commander of u.s. forces in afghanistan and the u.s. ambassador to afghanistan will testify in two hearings tomorrow on afghanistan strategy. in the morning we will hear from the armed services committee live at 9:30 a.m. on c-span 3. also on the testimony from the armed services committee. we will take testimony from the foreign relations committees. >> greenhouse gas emissions pose a threat to public health according to lisa jackson. that clears the way for the epa to regulate certain emissions even if congress does not act. this is about half an hour. >> good afternoon, and special hello to those on line and on the phone. the scientific community, the business com

the very american taxpayers they are dumping are the uns ones that subsidize those incredible tax amounts i would say to my friends over there, i have to say, those over there defending the status quo on behalf of health insurance companies and executives that are receiving these multi-million dollar compensation packages, you know, it took nine of them at one time, so it is a tough lift to be able to defend these executive compensations for insurance company executives, or otherwise nine of them wouldn't have been down here trying to shift the conversation to something else. , that the american people do understand that that is out of balance and that here we are with an opportunity to provide these insurance companies ven more customers, we just simply want to be reassured that we are not through taxpayers' dollars subsidizing these enormous executive amounts, compensation amounts, and more importantly that the savings that come from that are going to go into the medicare trust fund to shore it up. so i just -- i appreciate everyone's debate and their efforts to come to the floor today

. >> host: then you have a couple of terrific chapters about health care and very un common datasets. here we are trying to fix something in washington doing health care reform. trying to get the votes from max baucus, what did you originally believed about the health care system? >> i think, not that much. the data that i have the we have looked at on health care on very specific parts of the problem they are not quite right. what it one economist was say based on the data that health care is a market where there is a huge disconnect between the people who are paying and the choices made. when i go to the store and i want to buy it oranges are apples, they cost me $0.50 on the margin. if i want to buy a car, i pay for it. if we want to rationalize the health care system, the stronger we can make the connection between what people buy and what they pay will be the answer. and a #2 it competes with the insurance component of health care. if you pay on the margin you don't have insurance. i am not saying you should let the economist run the world but it will be one where they had insura

now that he has resigned as the un representative, he will stay on ivy league until march. is retiring after that and we will have to appoint in my view a full representative from iceland and one from nato. and i talked to the general secretary of nato this afternoon. so there will be a human appointment and it will also be a natal appointment. i think it's important to recognize that all these interest must be represented, but there must be greater coronation pier as far as afghanistan generally is concerned, i hope that members of the house will feel that the measures are being taken in to deal with ied's are important in protecting our troops, but also in destroying the morale of the taliban. i have to say that when i was in afghanistan yesterday, it was reported to me that 1500 ied's had been detected and dismantled by the expertise of our forces, and particularly the engineers who do such important work. and if we can continue to diffuse and dismantle, and therefore disable these ied, that would reduce the state of tragedy that@r@'"@ @ @ @ @ @ @ tissot that the agreed

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a huge sto blasted nearly two thirds of the uned states with ice, snow d heavy rain.blamed for least a dozen deaths. anthe commander behind the troop surge in iq-- general david petraeus-- warnethe war in afghanian will get harder, before it getsasier. the "newshour" conties now online. for a previeof what's there this evening oour new web site, back to ha sreenivasan in our newoom. hari? >> sreenivasan: on our webite today: how coulhealth care reform afct you? all week we'll ask exper to weigh in on the realife impacts of the diffent proposals now onapitol hill. earlier today, i intervied amy walter of "t hotline" about the politics othe health care push. and we talkeabout one of the nners in yesterday's primary race in massachuses. it sets the ste for a special eltion to fill the senate seat that was occupied byhe late edward kennedy. that's on r new blog of news and insight, "e rundown." and on jeffrey bwn's "art beat" blog, you can find his full interview with pianist richard glazier plus his performance of "embreable you." as always, ware at wshour.pbs.org. gwen?

they were for some people on the left that said we should have this go through the un and have osama handed over to international court. that was not the feeling of the mainstream. they just never thought this would work. they thought they would have to go to troops. they thought it would be a half a million troops. when it worked to their credit. the scholars said holy moely. these guys discern credit for the strategy. they are paying off these people and doing special ops. how much it seemed to be a smashing success. there was a widespread applauds when it didn't seem to work. >> i can remember going to nyu for a series i can't imagine an american president going back to the taliban. that was treated with a lot of hostility. the other response to 9/11. i think someone in the earlier said al gore might have gone into afghanistan, he would have fought the war in iraq. i still believe that those two wars were fundamentally different. i've been keeping a list. >> this is for bill. i wish you would explain who are some of these people who expand more. then we are going to take the north

in the house of representatives, but i think it gets to the point in this presentation is that it is un unfortunate that we good to the police in our political system that we have to contract out our legislative process to a commission. i think it's sad. i think it's unfortunate, but it comes back to the partisanship that i believe has developed and i don't disagree with lee. there was a time when it was much more partisan, going back, but over the last few years this partisanship has grown rather dramatically and i want to try to the panel last night that margaret, that you were on out there, what's caused all this? and what's caused all this? and i guess political scientists have looked at this,çó but i fi that growing income, inquality, immigration, technology, and in margaret's words last night,Ñi democracization of the media. and the interconnectedness between campaign costs and lobbyists campaign and -- bad lobbyist here -- and it has been observed that most americans will sacrifice for a larger public good, but few will sacrifice for a competing group and we have a lot of competi

got passed over because, you know, stu spencer and rog morton and others were runing it so he ends un you know, running reagan's campaign but this was a great acquisition in the eyes of the national media because they didn't know much about this guy reagan from california even after all his careers in hollywood and the ge lecture circuit is, you know, 3,000 miles is a long way, a long distance telephone call. you don't have the internet or cable television or talk radio, you didn't have cell phones. so it's a big country. and most of those guys are 3,000 miles away. so the guy they do know, john sears who has got all this national political experience, he's going to run reagan's campaign. well, that really impresses the national media. but reagan comes close as we all know he in 1976. some say because john got him close. some say because john messed up in new york and in ohio and in new jersey and other primaries. but there wasn't a good acceptable backup, which is why it took so long to fire john in 1980 because there wasn't anybody of john's stature. and the other thing weighing on

interlock lar in a number of debates in international relations, including what it means to be living in a unelar international system. he is editor and chief of the journal security studies as well. so our first speaker will be mary elease serti. so i will hand it over to you. >> thank you very much. as john just said, i've just come out with this book, 1989, so i've got so many details and only 15 minutes in which to tell them. i will try to restrain myself and i will be happy to take questions. this book is an international history of 1989. it builds on an early exceptional work, the best study of u.s. foreign policy in this period. i had the advantage of more sources having written this book more recently, so i had the opportunity to go to russia, poland, to germany, britain, and france and look at their documents on german unification as well as look at the materials in james bakers' collection and also in the bush library, which is also thanks, he chose to foot nothe his books, they were not available at the time but as a result of the his decision to feet note them it's been possible fo

there were more flags than the un plaza on this one.d nothing to do with reading the flags. if you had seen it timothy mcveigh with his books and his tirades against janet reno, those lives. his neighbors knew he was unstable. they knew he was going into a phase where he might get dangerous. well, the psychiatrists who were practicing with this doctor had notes in his file. they were tracking his web activity. if he had been a black nationalist or with the ira, somebody should have said, " well, wait a minute." that is not profiling but intelligence defense. there was a complete failure here and they will use racial profiling. they are going to go to another extreme. this discussion needs to say what would have happened here. [applause] >> cynthia, he brought up the issue of mistrust as one of the unfortunate reality is that we have to deal with as a consequence of fort hood. how you deal with that as a litigator? what are some of these strategies that you use in rebuilding trust and countering the mistrust of others? >> i wanted to sta

we have a friend is at a un agency, they said they gave the court midst said it would not make a mistake. we took flak from both sides. -- gave the coordinate's so it would not be a mistake. >> we will wrap up today's presentation. any final word beyond that? i would like to to what you all for being here and ask you if you have not had the opportunity on the way and if you could lead a business card so that we can continue to inform you on the programming and let you know when our next activities will be scheduled. also to let you know that all of our activities, both those in the past and those upcoming are listed on our website. particularly those of you who were interested in the human question, we have pulled transcription -- the yemen question, we have transcripts from our policymakers conference up on our website and information about our other programs. we also want to thank c-span for being here today to take this program. i am told it will be rebroadcast this evening at some point and perhaps in the wee small hours of the morning, as well. we hope that you might take a chance o

there is a un resolution. it has been neglected and now we are trying to say how do we get what was the source of the problem for 9/11? it came from afghanistan, we got our eye off the ball by going into iraq to early and ended up neglecting afghanistan. if we want to take afghanistan away from being a source of training for al qaeda, if we want to get some stability in that region, if we want to stop the taliban momentum, it is not just we in the u.s., iswe as 43 nations -- it is we as 43 nations to come together. i am predicting there will be several thousand troops committed by nato to this operation. host: john roberts interviewing the secretary of state, saying she is pleased with the effort by nato. the count of troops will be 7000 additional troops from nato. guest: that is what consultation does. whenever it consulted with nato that much before. -- we never consulted with nato that much before. we never really consulted with them. when you do, you get some degree of consensus. when you do that you make

it is ironic that most people who write about washington and the media do not really un >> guest: you know, i believe that i do understand that. i spent time in government at the justice department, the international trade commissioner private practice. i've, unfortunately, learned the seedy underbelly of washington, and this book is really my life story. it's what i learned along the way, how we got into the crisis that we're in today. it's a combination of three successive administrations that have failed the american people, and we're now in a severe economic depression, i believe it is a depression, and internationally, the world's in chaos. so it's clear that something's gone wrong, and what's gone wrong is the club in washington has not served the american people. it's, it's served itself. and that's what this book is about. >> host: why hasn't the club in washington, to use your term, changed through elections and such? >> guest: you know, the book people think i'm talking about prostitutes, and the book opens up with a little vignette about the washington police about 10-15 ye

he wants to be the un- greenspan. he thinks greenspan has created a federal reserve is going to much like the vatican, everybody else is kind of irrelevant. he promises to try to elevate the institution the other mems of the policy committee and to de- emphasize the role of the individual of the chairman as assemble for the fed. and for the first year that's about what he did. and then things start to get pretty different than he anticipated. i think and i describe in the book that bernanke, and he admits this, was off the mark. both he and hank policy understood we had a housing problem. but they thought it was in their word contained. they didn't think that was a cancer that was going to endanger the entire financial system and the whole u.s. economy. and it took him a while to figure out his diagnosis was wrong. in january 2008, he catches a. he cuts interest rates dramatically by one and have put that there is this remarkable bear stearns episode where we have an institution that is not supervised by the federal r

clementine summit in denmark, and then later common -- remarks at buckner un climate change summit in. from lincoln's early years to his life in the white house and his relevance today, abraham lincoln, in hard cover of your favorite bookseller and now in digital audio, available wherever digital audio is sold. >> the senate banking committee voted today on the nomination of sen chairman ben bernanke for a second term. senator who bernie sanders says he plans to loan -- to put all hold on ben bernanke. >> today we meet in executive session to conduct a nomination. there are four nominations pending before the committee, mr. ben bernanke, the undersecretary for transportation, cameras the to be -- marissa for the u.s. department of treasury and the assistant treasury for public affairs. we have a public forum. let me ask the vice of my colleagues. -- the vice of my colleagues. -- advice of my colleagues. unless someone would like to object, i would like to move those three and then move to the ben bernanke nomination. if anyone know would like to comment one way or the other? i would m

senator has called for the inquiry into un climate change research.i has investigated the impact of global warming with personal expeditions to the north and south and took a monthlong tour of the antarctic that and he made a four day trek to the arctic north pole and in 2006 he also founded the prince albert ii foundation to support system will projects on climate change and renewable energies contacting these come at a loss of biodiversity and improving universal access but don't among the many honors prince albert has won the teddy roosevelt battle for his work on environmental conservation action. a passion for nature runs through their grimaldi family. according to our archives his great great grandfather spoke here nearly one century ago in 1913 about his oceanography studies for "the washington post" reported prince albert i it was the first ruler to deliver a message to the press of the united states 34 miss -- fema's organization and also wrote prince albert i demi's poor's scientists can reach that years in the brains of the public and we co

as a clear and present danger, there is a very strong un argument for confronting sadam hussain because he had not lived up to the commitments of 687 which is the cease-fire of the 1999 war. he had not, he threw out the as directors effectively at to that end of 1998 and we know and we do still though this from the iraq survey group, he had the means and the will to concoct weapons of mass destruction at a later date even if he did not have them at the time. there was a british interest to confront him and we should have done it in 1999 and we could not because of the french and the russians would not allow the security council to do it. that is our was coming from. it would not damage the british interest if we had gone into iraq with your numbers. it would have hurt it if we actively opposed when americans were planning. and we could have done more on issues that somebody may have regarded as minor all the o if i said anything more that would be insane. >> i want to make sure i got it right to. one more question is about the aftermath planning but for someone to check to any of my col